On the inside

Food suppliesAn OCC instructor is urging eateries to take food stamps.

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Throwing manQuarterback Kody Whitaker sets a school passing record.

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Film festThe Frida Cinema to offer a showcase of student work .

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Costa Mesa, California

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Cops pull guns in lot

Cheers to OC’s hidden cocktail gems

A feeling of freedom

THEATRIC SCOLDING

Photo by Bonnie Merrick

Shen Te, played by Stacy Gunarian, is scolded by the carpenter, played by Daiki Matsuura, for failing to pay for the previous shop owners’ construction dur-ing Sunday’s performance of “Good Person of Setzuan” in the Drama Lab Theatre. The production is about a former prostitute trying to prove she is a good person. Students can see the play Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 4.

Costa Mesa is one of Orange County’s hotspots when it comes to the nightlife and entertainment scene.

With all the focus on popular nightclubs in and around the OC, party-goers tend to think less about the beauty of its hidden gems.

Located at 1695 Irvine Ave.,

La Cave Steakhouse offers a unique approach to the under-ground bar scene with its dark red leather booths, dim lighting and low-ceilinged dining room.

The old school feel that La Cave offers is what makes it undeniably one of the city’s most sacred spots. Walking through the entrance and down a narrow stairway into what feels like a basement gives it a very 1960s vibe.

What proves to put La Cave over the top is the live music that is hosted almost every night of the week. Nestled in the back corner of the restaurant is a se-cluded, dark room with a small bar and dance loor. Whether one is into deep house, Frank Sinatra

or old school hip-hop, La Cave will always offer something to make it a memorable night.

Pitire Artisan Pizza, located on 17th St. between Santa Ana and Tustin, also holds an exclu-sive Costa Mesa secret.

Park in the rear and walk to the wooden gate that seems to lead to the back of the kitchen. Make sure no one is watching, open it and sneak in. You’ve just found Pie Society, one of the smallest and coolest bars in Orange County with incredible artisanal cocktails and a dark speakeasy vibe.

Opened only three years ago, Pie Society still has the locals only feel to it. The small, dark, wood-paneled room and vintage

furniture gives it the perfect speakeasy setting.

Pie Society is open from 5p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through Sun-

day. This might be the kind of place you don’t tell your friends

After years of life getting in the way of her dream, one student takes to the air.

BY SEMAZA AZHAKSTAFF WRITER

Photo courtesy of Stanley Harriman

Soraya Eftekhari gets ready to take off during a flying lesson. After years of hardship, she’s now an OCC aviation major.

When Soraya Eft-ekhari climbs into the single engine

plane and rolls down the runway, she says she can feel her past being left behind.

And Eftekhari has a lot she’d like to forget, starting with her childhood in Iran.

She was jailed twice during the Iranian revolution that began in 1979 and was forced to wear the hijab everywhere she went.

She could be stopped and frisked by police at any time, so to avoid confrontation with the authorities Eftekhari dressed like a boy to ride her bike around town.

When she was confronted, she wasn’t afraid to yell profanities at them in English.

“When I was 16 (in Iran), a girl on our street told me she wanted to be a pilot. That was the irst time I had ever heard of it. I thought to myself, ‘wow that’s so cool,’” Eftekhari said. “After that moment I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was her

dream but then it became mine.”Eftekhari is an Orange Coast

College student who loves to ly. Born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, Eftekhari speaks three languages -- English, Persian and French -- and is no stranger to adapting quickly to a new environment.

She came to the U.S. 24 years ago with the aspiration of study-ing to become a pilot in San Fran-cisco. Becoming accustomed to the new culture of America and pursuing her dreams of lying wasn’t easy for Eftekhari, so to embark on her journey, she decided her irst step was to save money.

Six years later she moved to New York yearning to get a job working for the United Nations and, after nine months of per-sistence, knocking at the door practically every day, the U.N. gave her a job as a research as-sociate at the Situation Center of Peacekeeping Operations where she worked for eight years.

Eftekhari is a full-time avia-

tion sciences major and works for the Global Engagement Center at OCC. She also works at Tango Rose, a fashion boutique on Balboa Island.

When she came to OCC she was thrilled at the selection of exciting programs, she said. Although she started her studies in interior design, she eventually reconnected with her love for aviation.

“When I walked by the Avi-ation Science department my heart stopped. I knew I had to make a change in that direction,” Eftekhari said.

So she said.And she hasn’t been grounded

since.She said that since she was

a child she has been strong. Through the ups and downs of life, she’s used her wings to keep her ambitions high.

“The world is beautiful from up there,” Eftekhari said of her days in the air. “I feel so grateful that I’m inally up there doing it. It gives me a sense of freedom.”

Secret places to take in a drink and some music abound in CM.

BY CHEYENNE MCCARTYPHOTO EDITOR

Photo courtesy of Kitsch Bar

Kitsch Bar is one of several secret drinking establishments in Costa Mesa that bring the cool back to partying.

See BARS Page 6

The Costa Mesa Police De-partment responded in minutes with guns drawn when a man on campus began screaming that he had a gun in his backpack last week.

According to John Farmer, chief of Campus Safety, cam-pus oficers heard the unknown man yelling and screaming and behaving erratically about 8:30 p.m. at the north end of the Adams Avenue Parking Lot and called police for backup.

“Campus Safety told students on campus to get back and the police arrived within three min-utes of being called,” Farmer said. “Oficers tried to keep the students away.”

One student reported seeing a police oficer in the parking lot with a semi-automatic weapon and several police cars parked nearby.

Students reported hearing a helicopter over the campus and one witness took to Twitter to report what was happening.

Farmer conirmed that police drew their weapons because the suspect was shouting about hav-ing a gun in his backpack and it was an unknown situation.

Police were able to take the man into custody and he un-armed.

Costa Mesa police say his mother came and picked him up after he was questioned.

By 9:30 p.m. the helicopter had left the area and police cars were also starting to leave.

Classes were not interrupted and no announcements were made to students.

Farmer said it is important to note that the Costa Mesa police arrived on campus within three minutes of being called - a re-sponse time that is impressive.

“Anytime we have had to call the police in these situations they have been able to get to campus in minutes,” Farmer said.

He added that discussions about arming campus oficers is ongoing but the police response time is important to note.

Man yells that he has a weapon in his bag but none are found.

BY ZACH BOETTOSOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Hitting a wallA collision was reported on

Nov. 5 at 9:45 p.m. involving a car and a wall at the Coast Community College District, located across the Street from Orange Coast College at 1370 Adams Ave..

According to John Farmer, chief of Campus Safety, ofi-cers were called to the scene after a Nissan Pathinder drove through a wall that separated the district ofices and Camden Apartments.

The SUV had a non-student man and woman and, accord-ing to Farmer, the woman was allegedly learning to drive when the accident occurred.

The vehicle had signiicant damage to the front passenger window and a broken front bumper but no injuries were reported, Farmer said.

Both the district and the apartment management were contacted by oficers because they didn’t know who owned the wall, he added.

Pain in the chestMedical aid was needed on

Wednesday for a women ex-periencing chest pains at 7:25 p.m. in the Chemistry building room 118.

According to Farmer, an oficer was dispatched to the scene and found the female

student on her back in the classroom.

The woman allegedly had low blood sugar and was tak-ing no medication. She said she was getting cold and had sharp pains in her chest, Farm-er said.

Farmer said paramedics were called and they trans-fered her to Kaiser Hospital in Irvine. No new information was available.

Wailing womanAn information report was

iled concerning student be-havior on Tuesday at 6:50 p.m. on the third loor of Watson Hall.

According to Farmer, a fe-male student was crying in the building prompting oficers to be called. The victim said she had been crying because she was upset over family prob-lems at home, he added.

The oficers asked her if she was hurting herself and she said no and that she could stay with her sister, Farmer said.

Officers gave the student information for the Student Health Center and the Costa Mesa Police Department for any counseling she may want or need.

Campus NOVEMBER 16, 20162CRIMEBLOTTER

— The Crime Blotter was com-

piled by Clayton Spivey from

Campus Safety reports.

Photo by Cheyenne McCarty

Antoine D, a 20-year-old science major, finesses his slackline in front of the Fine Arts building on Monday.

SLACK SKILLS

Hope for the homelessOCC instructor finds a way to offer restaurant food to the hungry.

BY MARIAM ZAGUBSTAFF WRITER

Orange Coast College coach to OCC’s Speech and Debate team, Mohammed Aly, created a coalition to help implement the Restaurant Meals Program in Or-ange County which is expected to begin at the end of this year.

The Restaurant Meals Program is an optional part of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assis-tance Program, formerly known as the food stamps. In California, SNAP is known as CalFresh.

The Restaurant Meals Program will allow food stamp users who cannot prepare or store food, such as the elderly, homeless, or disabled, to use food stamps at participating restaurants.

“It’s going to positively impact businesses. It’s going to increase employment. It’s going to lead to a safer, healthier community overall. People are going to be

able to access public restrooms and wash their hands, feel more humanized and be in a social environment. It’s going to lead to less outbreaks of communicable diseases. So it will positively impact the community overall,” Aly, also an OCC alum, said.

Those who have no addresses can get food stamps by using the addresses of shelters such as the OC Catholic Worker Isaiah House, a soup kitchen as well as a mail distribution center for par-ticipating homeless individuals. The Social Services Agency of OC also tells the homeless they

can get their mail at a nearby SSA ofice.

SSA estimates say that the OC Restaurant Meals Program will positively affect about 18,000 individuals across the county.

Aly, who was part of OCC’s Speech and Debate Team while he was a student at OCC, said he wanted to start a food line, essen-tially a makeshift soup kitchen, in Costa Mesa when he was here and planned to fundraise on campus for it.

He added that he wanted to have the food line at Lions Park

See HOMELESS Page 6

Features 3NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Finding love in the dating market

I know a girl my age who seems to have the perfect boy-friend.

She’s training to be a nurse and her boyfriend is an Air Force pilot trainee.

Both their families spend long hours with each other and they glide around on jet skis in Laughlin. She’s found the one.

They’re each other’s first love and she’s never experi-enced another relationship be-sides with him.

In a conversation I had with a family member about rela-tionships, we were curious as to why some people get lucky and hit the jackpot in the first round and why others endure relationship flop after flop like a lost fish out of water.

One route might be the young puppy love you might find in high school. These couples will completely im-merse themselves in the new-ly found feelings of love. The girl that I know falls into this group.

These people never real-ly experience heartbreak or loneliness. They always have a date to go on and never have to look for something to do on Valentine’s Day.

The second bunch of people search for their soulmates like Christopher Columbus seek-ing land.

They know there’s some-thing waiting out in the world for them. They’re patient at times yet eager to finally get the gratifying sensation of an undiscovered experience.

I realized I was in the pup-py love group years ago and thought I had it all figured out until the relationship came to a screeching halt. Now, I’m

onboard with Columbus and his crew.

There are benefits to being monogamous. You always have a shoulder to cry on and a workout partner. The rela-tionship develops and can be-come a beautiful experience.

A disadvantage that occurs with being with only one per-son is like only eating straw-berry ice cream. You might never try mint chip and rain-bow sherbet or that weird cot-ton candy flavor no one buys because you’re too comfort-able with what you already

have.Sticking with the same fla-

vor is safe and there’s no dis-appointment but trying new options can broaden horizons.

Some people are also built with specific characteristics and it’s what makes them who they are. I question if the woman I know in the puppy love category would be able to handle rejection.

Could she handle the griev-ing and mourning process that comes with losing her boy-friend?

On the other side of the bed

is someone who finds them-selves in multiple relation-ships and can, in turn, learn from their breakups.

Each person presents a dif-ferent personality with differ-ent traits. Learning what you like and what you don’t find attractive can become an ad-vantage.

In addition, another benefit to this learning process—re-flection—can be an eye open-ing journey that narrows what you really are searching for.

At times, this group men-tally takes hits like a boxer

that takes a strong right hook. They fall and get knocked down, still getting back up in hope that courage will allow them to love again.

These two subdivisions of companionship are no great-er or less than each other. They’re simply groups in which anyone at any age or stage in life can encounter.

The love of a companion is a bliss brought to many, how-ever the love developed for yourself is a love permanently embedded and can withstand any and all heartbreak.

Some spend days, months even years looking for their soulmate here on Earth. Others simply look up to the stars for their zodiac compatibility.

The zodiac contains 12 signs which fall into one of the four elements: earth, water, air or ire.

Earth signs, or Taurus, Virgo and Capricorns, are more prac-tical than the others and are the most easygoing of the signs but at times can be very stubborn.

Water signs, or Scorpios, Pi-sces and Cancers, are known for being the most intuitive, sensi-tive as well as huge romantics.

Air signs, or Aquarius, Gemi-nis and Libras, are constantly in their heads analyzing situations because they’re thinking so much can come off as detached to others.

Fire signs, or Aries, Sagittarius and Leos, are lively spontaneous spirits and would be the irst to do something without thinking twice -- or even once.

You are going to have a high rate of compatibility if you are dating someone that has the same element as yourself. For example, a Virgo and a Taurus make great partners because they understand each other emotion-ally. A Virgo is just the person that a Taurus needs to help them achieve their goals since Virgos inds a sense of joy when they help others.

Today astrology is viewed broadly through sun signs. Your sun sign determines characteris-tics of your personality. Your sun sign is determined through what month you are born in. Constel-lations are constantly moving through the galaxy which means you have a sign for every planet including the moon.

BY SEMAZA AZHAK STAFF WRITER

Cartoon by Mariam Zagub

Maybe it’s just all in the stars

Love yourself, the rest will follow.

BY SARAH HERNANDEZFEATURES EDITOR

It’s the time of the year that I dust off my snowboard gear, renew my pass and head to the nearest mountain, as all of Cali-fornia’s ski and snowboard resorts are expected to be open by next week.

As a kid, my most cherished family trips were the ones that pointed me in the direction of snow.

Snowboarding is my addiction. Nothing else I have ever experi-enced compares to that feeling of getting off that irst lift of the day and strapping my boots in.

It’s like being involved in a long-distance relationship. You only get to enjoy it for a few months out of the year and the rest of your time is spent wishing it were still around.

I started snowboarding at 4. Since then, it has been the tough-est relationship that I have ever been invested in. It’s broken my heart and mended the pieces per-fectly back together on so many occasions over the last 16 years.

After having pretty much every possible thing go wrong for me over my snowboarding career, there has always been something that keeps me forever coming back.

As we all know, California is not the prime winter sport destina-tion in the country. You may won-der then, why I live at the beach? I ask myself the same thing.

Every season extreme anxious-ness overwhelms me as I remem-ber to check the snow reports on a

daily basis, praying to those snow gods that I know are up there.

For a quick day trip or an easy getaway with friends, I choose Big Bear Mountain. It’s only about a two-hour drive from Or-ange County and prices are within budget. Mammoth Mountain is the place to go for more of a vacation experience, although it’s pretty pricey. Some of the best snow I’ve ridden in California was at Mammoth and Lake Tahoe.

It’s almost impossible to de-scribe the feeling of getting off of the mountain after a long adventurous day, sitting by the ire thawing my limbs in a cab-in as the snow falls. There is something so magical about it.

Those 4 a.m. drives to Mam-moth in the backseat of my dad’s truck and waking up to the sunrise over the Sierra Nevada are the most vivid and comforting memories I have of being a child.

I may be a born and raised Orange County girl but my heart is up in the mountains.

Another type of love affairRomance takes on a new look when one reporter hits the slopes.

BY CHEYENNE MCCARTYPHOTO EDITOR

See ZODIAC Page 6

Cheyenne McCarty

The Orange Coast College Film Club will host the Next Genera-tion of Filmmakers Festival at the Frida Cinema in downtown Santa Ana Dec. 16 to Dec. 18.

The non-proit art house theatre offers classic ilm screenings such as “Pulp Fiction,” “The Exorcist” and “V for Vendetta.” It also branches out to screen foreign and independent ilms such as “Coffee and Cigarettes,” “Train to Busan” and “Belladonna of Sadness.”

“I like to call it a museum of cinema. Movie theatres don’t work like museums anymore in the sense that a curator chooses the art that goes up,” said Logan Crow, founder and director of the Frida Cinema.

According to Crow, most the-atres simply play what is sent out from the studios, the mainstream movies, whereas at the Frida what goes on screen is carefully chosen.

The Next Generation of Film-makers is a group comprised of OCC students that reach out beyond the school to create ilms and expose them to the public. This will be the fourth year

NGF hosts the event at the Frida Cinema

Emilio Rivera, 20-year-old OCC student majoring in ilm and English visits the Frida weekly.

“The Frida is reasonably priced and showcases movies you don’t see at any other theatre, unlike big chain theatres that play main-stream ilms,” said Rivera.

The Next Generation of Film-makers Festival will be screening short ilms created by OCC stu-dents and other college students in a variety of genres such as animated shorts, LGBT films, comedy and drama.

The festival aims to give stu-dents the opportunity to promote their work by showcasing their ilms. Students are also eligible for awards such as best director, best editing, best director of photog-raphy and best costume designer.

The Frida also partners with oth-er non-proit community groups.

“Our mission is to enrich, connect and educate communi-ties through the art of cinema,” Crow said.

“Thelma and Louise,” a 90’s classic was recently screened with WISEPlace, a non-proit in Santa Ana that provides housing and

services for women in abusive relationships and abusive homes.

“It’s not just about the movies that I would see that were ex-perimental or culty, it was about the people I was watching them with and feeling this common language,” Crow said.

The Frida Cinema welcomes the community to experience cinema through an intimate lens and screens a cult horror ilm ev-ery Friday at 11 p.m. Viewers can also sing and dance along to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on the second Friday of every month at midnight. Family-friendly matinee ilms are shown every Sunday at 11 a.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $1 for children.

Films at the Frida are pro-grammed internally and booked by integrating requests from the community through social media, feedback and the theatre’s board. You can request a screening for a ilm by emailing The Frida or by going on their website.

“I’ve always wanted to have an art house in a community that doesn’t have it but is culturally rich and artistically passionate, which is deinitely what down-town Santa Ana is,” Crow said.

Orange Coast College’s pre-miere of “The Good Person of Setzuan” made up for any missteps by delivering a thought provoking inquisition into what it means to be good.

The play, adapted from Bertolt Brecht’s work by the same name, is the irst installment of the col-lege’s new series entitled OCC Theater for Social Justice. Direct-ed by Tom Bruno and performed by actors from the Theatre Arts department, “The Good Person of Setzuan” was centered around God’s search for a truly good person and one woman’s journey to become one -- despite her pro-fession as a prostitute.

One line, which is uttered with anguish by the aforementioned prostitute named Shen Te and played by Stacy Gunarian, per-fectly illustrated both the moral of the story and the motivation of the new series.

“Oh miserable people! Your brother is hurt and you close your eyes! He screams in pain and you are silent,” Gunarian said.

That was the through line of a play that largely relied on the timeless message along with a handful of character’s consum-mately impassioned portrayals. It left me convinced of their sincerity and pain, many OCC’s student stars gave a performance past their years.

Of course, one could not speak of the play without discussing the prostitute herself. Gunarian as Shen Te was the personiication of the struggle between selless-ness and selishness that rendered the audience speechless. Setting aside the stumbling of a few lines along the way, Gunarian embod-

ied her character and made me feel that she was worthy of being called the good person.

Returning to the stage, much to my delight after I had wit-nessed his equally invigorating performance in last semester’s “Putnam Spelling Bee,” was Talon Stradley playing Wang the water-seller. Stradley’s ex-uberantly distressed version of Wang as he strained to prove to the Gods that Shen Te was truly a good person was one of the brightest spotlights of the play.

Perhaps the one that shined the brightest was Raymon Villa who played Shen Te’s love interest and source of conflict, unem-ployed pilot Sun Yang. Villa’s

presence was known at every moment he graced the stage with it. He, more than anyone else, made me live through his journey to ind what was really important—love or money.

The actors, as many bright spots as there were, could not have achieved such a perfor-mance without the help of the man behind the scenes.

Director Tom Bruno, once again, had a vision that I could see plainly and poignantly played out on stage. One of the more inspired choices was to connect the cast and the audience by breaking the fourth wall. Bruno achieved this by having occa-sional scene direction pumped

throughout the theater and the off-stage actors actually being visible in the wings.

With Bruno’s direction also came the talent of the crew. Set designer David Scaglione con-structed a moveable stage that allowed for seamless transitions. The lighting was, as always, the unexpected MVP of the night as Rick Golson helped paint the perfect picture with both color and mood.

The cast and crew came to-gether to erect what was a per-formance worthy of a good rep-utation. More so, the question of what it means to be a good person was assuredly a good enough reason for anyone to see it.

arts & Culture NOVEMBER 16, 20164

Theatre

Campus Events

For information on most campus events,

call (714) 432-5880.

Dance

Concerts

“OCC Chamber Sing-ers and Chorale,” Sat-urday: Under the direc-tion of Eliza Rubenstein, choirs and vocal sololists will perform a program of old favorites and new discoveries. In the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Curtain 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10.

“Studio Hour,” Dec. 7:

This end-of semester infor-mal presentation of OCC dance classes will offer a wide variety of dance styles including ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, tap, Middle Eastern, African, lamenco and latin. In Robert B. Moore Theatre. Curtain 7 p.m. Tickets $6.

“An Old-Fashioned

Christmas Melodrama

and Ice Cream Social,” Dec. 9 to Dec. 11 and Dec.

16 to 18: Directed by Rick Golson. Boo the villain, cheer the hero and enjoy a free ice cream treat in our annual holiday melodrama and sing-a-long. In Drama Lab Theatre. Curtain at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 10, 11, 17 and 18 and also 7 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16 and 17. Tickets $9 at the door, $7 in advance.

Welcomingtransfer students

for Spring 2017

‘The Good Person’ feels goodOCC student actors deliver a performance to remember.

BY CLAYTON SPIVEYEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Photo by Bonnie Merrick

Theatre Arts department actors deliver a scene from Sunday night’s performance of “The Good Person of Setzuan.”

If you go

What: “The Good Person of

Setzuan”

Where:

Drama Lab Theatre

When:

Friday and Saturday at 7:30

p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Cost:

$8 in advance or $10 at the

door

Info:

occtickets.com or

call (714) 432-5880.

A theatre for the peopleBY SEMAZA AZHAKSTAFF WRITER

“F- - - ing wetback!”

Those two words were the first my Spanish boy-friend had shouted at him the day after Donald J . Trump , along with his hateful rhetoric, won the White House.

America made a choice on Nov. 8 and that choice was to make Trump the next President of the United States. Almost im-mediately, the American public made their disgust clear by taking to the streets to protest the new president-elect.

For his allies, Trump’s victory was a victory for the working class man. For mostly everyone else, Trump’s win was a win for racism.

The Trump campaign was built upon a xenophobic attitude that pitted Americans against outsiders and touted supremacy. Whether it was by coincidence or by design, that American-su-periority was bastardized and distorted into the supremacy of white America.

By no means do I believe all of the nearly 60 million people that voted for Trump are racist. Nor do I think the majority of them are. I do, however, believe Trump’s candidacy was a catalyst

for a very vocal and very racist minority.

The woman who screamed those hateful words at my boy-friend that day was a prime exam-ple of this scary fact. She, who I don’t think is a stretch to label as a racist, just saw racism declared beitting of the White House so therefore it was for her as well.

There was a reason that nobody in the professional polling world saw Trump winning the election. Voters didn’t want to admit they were voting for him and the rea-son is clear. They were afraid of being labeled a racist, misogynist and everything in between.

That is exactly why Trump’s victory is so utterly troubling. It isn’t his policies that will have the biggest impact on America. The most damaging thing to come out of his win is the degree to which his rhetoric has and will continue to reshape American culture.

While it may be an unpopular opinion, I don’t label Trump a racist. I do, however, blame his ambiguous policies as the ave-nue through which people could justify their own hate.

Thankfully, it appears people are actively trying to reject that hate. Protests against Trump’s presidency are happening from coast to coast in New York, California, Texas and states in between.

Sure, the protests will ultimate-ly amount to nothing. They’re also destructive and unproduc-

tive. Trump was democratically elected and nothing will change that.

However, the silver lining can’t be ignored. These people are actively horriied at the thought of someone they deem racist and sexist. The blanket condemnation of such behavior is, no matter who you supported, a good thing.

Trump, along with the country, will have to move past the rheto-ric and focus on recovering from the nastiest campaign in recent memory.

We as a country may have to do the unthinkable and be the ones to lead the man who is supposed to lead us. We will, perhaps more than ever, need to be the ones to set the example and prove we are united and not divided.

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And Yo19, political science

“Being grateful for my family and friends.”

“Making honey roasted ham and homemade cranberry sauce.”

“Sitting around the table eating with my family.”

“Prepar ing the turkey wi th my family.”

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“What’s your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?”

There is a chart circulating online that breaks down how mil-lennials voted on Election Day and the numbers are astonishing. If the electoral college would have followed the way millenni-als voted, Hillary Clinton would have won with an overwhelming 504 votes over President-elect Donald Trump’s 23 votes.

Early data compiled by the United States Election Project shows that 46.6 percent of the U.S. population did not vote in the 2016 presidential election. The turnout of youth voters is slightly better at 50 percent.

With themes of student voter apathy echoing throughout Or-ange Coast College, the Coast Report Editorial Staff can’t help but wonder what kind of change could have been enacted in this election had there been a more dominant turnout by millennials.

Many young people have taken to the streets to protest the results of the election. The pro-tests have become steadily more popular across college campuses. The ongoing debate however is whether the people showing out in force for post-election activ-ism showed that same force in the voting booths.

The way the data is stacked suggests they did not.

Prior to the primary election, millennials passionately em-braced Senator Bernie Sanders in a style that felt reminiscent to President Barack Obama’s

support in the 2008 presidential election. Perhaps then, it was in the primaries when Sanders lost to Clinton that youth voters began to feel disenfranchised, developing a sense of apathy going into the election that mat-tered most.

It may have also been the common theme that this presi-dential race was nothing more than electing the lesser of two evils that kept young voters home on Nov. 8. Neither of the bipartisan candidates ran perfect campaigns and it seems to have convinced many young Ameri-cans that this election was not worthy of their vote.

So why if those voters did not demonstrate their force on Election Day do they feel that now is the time to do so through protest? Perhaps it’s because as Americans, it’s our constitution-al right. Perhaps there is no other way to cope with the feelings this election has left so many millennials with. Perhaps it is a desperate last-ditch attempt for change.

One thing is for certain - to affect change in an election, you must irst be present. Do the most patriotic thing you can do - vote. Take your future and your country into your own hands through the only way you can - again, vote. Maybe next time around the dismal feeling will evaporate in lieu of positive change.

A silent majorityEDITORIAL

Voices of Change

Sure, Thanksgiving is sup-posed to be about everyone

you love and everything you are thankful for. I put food in the latter.

F o r m e , T h a n k s g i v i n g wouldn’t be Thanksgiving with-out the food that comes along with it. I spend every single day being thankful for my family, friends and freedom. I desper-ately wish I could say the same about the food I eat on that day.

You can put me in the cate-gory of weirdos who don’t list stufing, turkey or pumpkin pie as the food I can’t live without. In an opinion that would make any m o t h e r proud and any veg-etable-shy kid squirm, m y f a v o r - i t e Thanksgiving food is and always will be green bean casserole.

For the uninitiated, green bean casserole is a majestic mix of contrast. French cut green beans, creamy mushroom soup and crispy fried onions make for a delectably indulgent vegeta-ble dish that even the most inicky should get behind.

Growing up, this was the one dish my mother let me make before I graduated to more culinarily dificult tasks. It was one of the connective tissues that got me involved in the process.

My family and I always follow rather strict holiday rules when it comes to what we eat.

Thanksgiving is turkey and Christmas is ham. Christmas is never turkey and Thanksgiving is never ham. Green bean casserole will always be the one and only

thing to blur those lines.The only reason is because

it’s what I see as comfort food perfection. Creamy, crunchy, salty and savory— I’m getting hungry already.

As a young girl I remem-ber Thanksgiving dinner.

I would save my appetite by not eating anything all day so that I could feast on all the wonderful food my family would bring from across California. We would often meet at my grand-

mother’s house in the Inland Empire or my tia’s house up

in the mountains. After eating our weight

in food we would then decide who got to take the leftovers. This was

generally the most chal-lenging part of the evening.

Often resentments over who got more of what would linger through the year until the next Thanksgiving. The most prized of the leftovers were grandma’s homemade tamales.

Mygrandmother was a very pe-tite Mexican-American woman w h o lived alone in a small

house with no air conditioning.

She would s p e n d w e e k s preparing

these trays of tamales leading up to Thanksgiving din-ner literally slaving

away in a hot kitchen. Every year she would make more tamales than the last. Her freezer would be packed with the little corn husk wrapped delicacies which she would later transfer to large metal trays she then loaded into her truck and hauled up the

mountains. Each year she would say, never again and each year she would bring more tamales.

For weeks her kitchen was a mouthwatering furnace. Shred-ded pork, chicken, beef and chil-ies with cheese, encased in a generous layer of masa harina, protect-ed by corn husks. She would season and mix the masa harina dough with a little bit of lard, pounding out the corn meal into a lat layer. The meat, chicken and green chilies with cheese she cooked in large metal pots and pans until tender and juicy.

Grandma’s tamales were sim-ple and perfect, like only grand-ma could make. I think her tamales were the real reason why my family got together.

P umpkin pie is, historical-ly and currently, a major

dessert item for Thanksgiving Day, and is my absolute favorite Thanksgiving food.

For me, pumpkin pie symbol-izes the fall season and every-thing that comes with it. Not only is it imperative that me and my family have pumpkin pie on the table for Thanksgiving but we typically will have pumpkin pie all throughout the fall.

Once fall hits, pumpkin pie can be found in our house at least three times throughout the season.

What’s great about pumpkin pie is that it can be paired with all kinds of other desserts and spices. Pumpkin pie goes great with cinnamon or ginger. I’ve yet to try it with Cajun but I’m sure even pumpkin pie can work it in.

Pumpkin pie tastes great with fresh whipped cream, crème fraiche or plain old vanilla ice cream, though I prefer using one of the irst two and that’s just be-cause ice cream is a bit too sweet.

What’s impressive about pumpkin pie is

its versatility when it comes to making it. Pumpkin pie can be put in tarts, turnovers, puff pastries, brûlée,

quiches and even pop tarts. Although,

personally, most of that sounds kind of gross.For those students who (some-

how) haven’t tried pumpkin pie yet, I implore you to do so this Thanksgiving. Unless of course you are, unfortunately, allergic.

Fun fact: did you know that Costco sells over a million pumpkin pies on the week of Thanksgiving. That’s where I normally get my pumpkin pies. I forgot to mention that I know nothing about baking outside of what comes in a box.

I h ave charming memo-ries of what Thanksgiving

brought into my life since I was a little girl.

Like many other American families, mine cooks an ab-surdly large turkey and a sweet honey glazed ham accessorized with pineapple rings.

Over the past sever al years there’s a new dish that’s been placed next to French’s green bean casserole—creamed corn.

My mom started this tradition and it’s not just any old canned creamed corn you ind in a gro-

cery store. The recipe originates from Summit House restaurant in Fullerton.

Every year she mixes the ingredients together until the thickness is just right, then pours the creamy goodness into a white pumpkin-shaped dish. Its then topped with grated par-mesan and baked until golden brown and bubbly.

It’s the perfect edible com-panion for borderline dry turkey and compliments the marshmal-low yams harmoniously.

Thanksgiving traditions play a large role within the realm of holidays celebrated by my fam-ily and the food often ends up piled high onto a plastic plate.

It’s a well-planned holiday where everyone pitches in.

Some dishes come out de-licious and are second scoop worthy and some of the pot-

luck dishes are store bought.

One store-bought Tur-k e y D a y

side dish that comes from the

same store every year is pull-apart dinner rolls from Stater Brothers. It’s their own brand of dinner rolls that are stacked high in racks for customers.

The rolls are light beige, slightly bigger than a golf ball and are the perfect sized roll for making tiny mashed potato ham sandwiches.

No other roll stands the puff of time like this Thanksgiving grocery store staple.

Still, no matter what is brought to the table, the memories that are created with my family are irreplaceable.

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The Orange Coast College women’s soccer team closed out regular season play with a dominant 3-0 win over the Golden West College Rustlers in front of a home crowd at Dick Tucker Field Thursday night.

The Pirates put on an impres-sive show outshooting their Orange Empire Conference rivals 14-5. OCC spent the game bringing lots of offen-

sive pressure, never leaving the Rustler side of the ield for long.

In the 69th minute, an error by Golden West goalkeeper Brooke Riddle gave the Pirates an oppor-tunity to give their 1-0 lead some insurance. Riddle carried a clear-ing ball outside of the 18-yard box, which allowed for that rare opportunity in soccer known as the free-kick. OCC sophomore standout Jordan Moore capital-ized on the opportunity and ired a shot past Riddle’s head to bring the score to 2-0.

OCC’s irst goal came in the 18th minute when sophomore

Sydnee Busby fed teammate Emily Malec a pass and Malec knocked it back, sending both the ball and Riddle into the goal.

In the 89th minute, freshman Illiana Casteneda found team-mate Sam Oliver open amidst a heavy Rustler defense. Oliver found her footing and bested Riddle to bring the Pirates up 3-0.

Coast goalkeeper Tara Tellez recorded two saves and earned her eighth shutout of the season.

The win improved OCC’s overall record to 13-5-3 and conference record to 10-4-2,

placing them in good standing for Monday’s playoff seeding.

“I’m excited about the play-offs and how we’re playing. It’s a good time to be playing good soccer,” head coach Kevin Smith said.

The win ended regular season on a high note for the Pirates. With very few injuries plaguing the team, Smith said he feels conident taking them into the playoffs.

The Pirates next game will be Saturday against an opponent to be announced.

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OCC football quarterback Kody Whitaker ended the season with a new school record for career passing yards with 4,079, surpassing Jared Flint who threw for 4,003 in 1998-99. Whitaker also becomes the first player in school history with over 4,000 yards of total offense - 4,117 - compared with Flint’s two-year total of 3,716 yards.

The Orange Coast College football team wrapped up the 2016 season with a 28-21 road loss to Saddleback College on Saturday night.

Kody Whitaker threw for 241 yards and a touchdown on 22-of-43 passing, while Derrick Hunt rushed for 145 yards and a TD on season-high 31 carries for the Pirates (3-7, 1-4 in Southern Conference). James Rutledge was OCC's top pass-catcher with six receptions for 104 yards, while Joey Cox added six catches for 51 yards and a touchdown.

The season inale ends the OCC career of several soph-omores on this year’s squad, including Whitaker, who set a new school record for career passing yards with 4,079, sur-passing Jared Flint’s 1998-99 total of 4,003.

Whitaker also becomes the first OCC player in school history with over 4,000 yards of total offense, inishing his career with 4,117, topping Flint’s two-year total of 3,716.

For the Gauchos (9-1, 4-1), Nick Robinson threw for 245 yards and two TDs on 15-of-22 passing, while running back Edward Vander rushed for 183 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries.

Remy Wasserbach caught a team-best five passes for 90 yards.

Saddleback got on the score-board first when Robinson hooked up with Marvin Mar-shall on a 16-yard touchdown, capping off a six-play, 70-yard scoring drive for a 7-0 lead for the Gauchos.

OCC evened the score at 7 after grinding out a 13-play, 75-yard drive that took nearly seven minutes to complete. Hunt plowed in from a yard out on fourth down to bring the Pirates even with the Gauchos late in the irst quarter.

After the Coast defense forced a Saddleback punt, the Pirates again found the end zone when Whitaker hooked up with Cox on a 16-yard TD con-nection, putting OCC up, 14-7, early in the second quarter.

Coast had another long drive (10 plays, 40 yards), but the Pirates stalled on the Saddle-back 36-yard line and just six plays later, Saddleback tied the game at 14 on a 9-yard TD run by Marshall.

Saddleback took possession on the opening drive of the third quarter and wasted no time as Robinson connected with Deondre Moore on a 69-yard TD pass on the irst play from scrimmage, putting the Gauchos back out in front, 21-14.

It remained 21-14 until mid-way through the fourth quarter, when Edward Vander capped off a nine-play, 83-yard drive for the Gauchos with a 9-yard TD run, giving the hosts a 28-14 advantage.

A 1-yard TD run by Whitaker with 1:15 left in the game gave the Pirates a inal shot at eve-ning the game, but the ensuing onside kick bounced out of bounds, giving Saddleback the ball and the win.

Pirates fall in finaleSophomore QB Whitaker sets a school record for career passing.

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in Costa Mesa, which had a homeless population, however, the assistant city manager of Costa Mesa at the time, Tom Hatch, told him not to do it because food lines will attract homeless individuals to Costa Mesa.

“It’s called NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard), which is a men-tality that is a barrier to helping people,” Aly said.

According to a report by the ACLU of Southern California, 33 out of 34 cities in Orange County have laws to criminalize homelessness, such as bans on sleeping in public and bans on carrying camping materials or food and storage.

“So to answer your question of why do I care about this program, how could I not?” Aly said.

After graduating from OCC, Aly transferred to the University of California, San Diego where he got his bachelor’s degree in sociology. He graduated law school from the University of San Diego and is awaiting the results of his bar exam.

“Now that I’m back in Orange

County, I plan on working with the students on this campus and giving them the opportunity to help others, the way I did when I was a student here,” Aly said.

One of the students he coaches at OCC, Rebecca Whitehead, is involved with Planned Parent-hood on campus which is con-sidering hosting an event to raise awareness of how poverty affects homeless individuals especially when it comes to menstrual hy-giene products.

“This event is really important because Orange County has a huge female homeless popu-lation that goes unnoticed. It’s ridiculous that women don’t have access to menstrual hygiene products and that they are at higher risk for rape and sexual assault that is more likely to go unreported,” Whitehead said.

The Restaurant Meals Pro-gram Coalition is working with the Orange County Food Access Coalition, Orange County Food Bank, ACLU of Southern Cali-fornia, National Lawyers Guild Chapter and many more to bring this coalition’s goals to fruition.

“We need to learn where the government overlooks a problem

by speaking to the people that are affected by a social problem,” Aly said.

Orange County’s new social care coordinator, Susan Price, has unveiled her assessment of alleviating homelessness in Orange County and said she is in full support of the implemen-tation of the Restaurant Meals Program.

Aly said that the day after the election, and now that the Restaurant Meals Program Coa-lition is close to achieving their goals, he started the Poverty Alleviation Coalition to compare Susan Price’s assessment and the ACLU report to see where there is agreement and where advo-cates need to push the county to align with their goals.

Aly is currently working full time to address the issue of Or-ange County’s growing homeless population and is calling on ev-eryone in Orange County, espe-cially OCC students to join him in this ight with whatever skills and resources they can bring.

“It’s crucial to do what you can with what you have and where you are. That’s a lesson. That’s what I had to do,” Aly said.

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about just so you can keep it your little secret.

Nestled away in a strip mall on Baker Street is a place called Kitsch Bar. With the only exte-rior signage being a glowing K above the front door, you have to know that it’s there. Kitsch Bar

is a hip, well-hidden lounge with a trendy, unpretentious ambiance and handcrafted cocktails.

This already affordable bar offers happy hour until 9 p.m. and DJs spin nightly, offering everything from hip-hop to disco punk to chill. Not to mention, the restroom walls are covered with shirtless pictures of David

Beckham and Victoria’s Secret models.

The hanging chandeliers and black walls give it a low-key, cozy vibe that will keep you coming back for more. Kitsch Bar is the place to go for a semi-classy night out that can guaran-tee you a good time minus the crowd of drunken idiots.

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When looking at compati-bility, the four most important elements to determine your best match would be your sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars signs.

You can find what signs your planets are in by using a birth chart calculator anywhere

online. Once you put in all of your

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The moon controls your emo-tions. Therefore, if your moon was in a water sign this would make you more sensitive.

Mercury is the planet of

communication. This planet de-termines how you communicate internally and with others.

Venus is the planet of love and indicates what you want out of a relationship and how you express your love to others.

Mars is the planet of passion, sex, and anger. If your Mars is a ire element this would make you more hot-headed and im-pulsive.