Members of the Orange Coast College Republicans club, along with members of the Orange County Republican Party, plan to present a list of demands to the Coast Community College Dis-trict Board of Trustees tonight, including that the board rescind Olga Cox’s Faculty Member of the Year award.

Cox was awarded the honor earlier this semester after a vid-eotape of her making disparaging remarks about then just elected President Donald Trump went viral in December. Caleb O’Neil, the student who videotaped her without consent, approached OCC president Dennis Harkins about the incident and when no action was taken took the tape to the college Republicans.

Former Republicans club pres-ident Joshua Recalde-Martinez posted the video online and Cox was forced to leave the state be-cause of threats. She returned to the classroom this semester.

A move to sanction O’Neil with suspension was overturned by the district.

Recalde-Martinez has also filed three Public Records Act

requests, asking more than 20 instructors and administrators at the college and the district office to hand over public and private emails that pertain to a variety of topics. (See related story this page)

On a bulleted list of goals from the Republicans club, students are asking that the board “amend col-lege policies to protect students from discrimination as a result of their political affiliation and ideological beliefs,” as well as “provide students with the ability to report faculty, staff and other students for violating prospective amended policies.”

The college Republicans also intend to ask for an easy way to complain about faculty, staff and students on campus.

“We’d also like their (sic) to

be a readily available reporting button on student’s (sic) home pages where students can send in reports and complaints about faculty, staff, and fellow students. This is to ensure that an easily accessible method for reporting is available to all students, just as one exists for faculty and staff,” Recalde-Martinez wrote in a pre-pared statement.

The club also wants the board to rescind Cox’s Faculty Member of the Year award and open the award nomination process to all professors.

“The action on the part of a committee of only 10 people to make Olga the Faculty Member of the Year is one which is not only insensitive but one that is irresponsible,” Recalde-Martinez said in his statement.

Letitia Clark, the district’s di-rector of public affairs, marketing and public relations, said the dis-trict board of trustees has no au-thority over OCC’s faculty mem-ber of the year award.

“She (Cox) is at this point ac-cepting the award so it sounds like they’re (the Republicans club) making a request to the faculty committee and whoever else is on the committee at OCC because it’s not a board decision who’s faculty member of the year,” Clark said.

The Republican Party of Or-ange County sent a media adviso-ry to its members requesting they “stand with the Orange Coast College Republicans” and attend tonight’s meeting.

Julian Babbitt, executive di-rector of the Orange County Re-

publicans, said the party sent out a press release to alert the public about what the college’s Republi-cans club is doing.

“We support and echo the ob-jectives of what they are trying to accomplish at the meeting tomor-row,” Babbitt said when reached Tuesday.

Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Fred M. Whita-ker called for support of the OCC club in a statement he released.

“The College Republicans need support in their effort to ensure that conservative students receive equal treatment on cam-pus and have the ability to report discrimination they experience,” the statement said.

The meeting is tonight at 5 p.m. in the CCCD offices, 1370 Adams Ave. in Costa Mesa.

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Artistic socialHonor Society to host casting mixer and scripting contest.

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OCC looks at the environment

BY MARGHERITA BEALE, STAFF WRITER

It’s April and that means it’s Earth month.

Orange Coast College will host its 12th annual Green Coast Day

with a focus on environmental aware-ness on April 19 in the Quad. There will be a short presentation and awards cer-emony in the Robert B. Moore Theatre before an array of green-themed vendors and exhibitors take over the Quad.

“The point of Green Coast Day is to not only make students aware of what’s going on in the environment but it’s also to bring the community together and help them realize that there is something you can do to help the environment,” Kat Sotoodeh, a 21-year-old communi-cations major and vice president of the Honors Student Council said.

The keynote speaker will be Felicia Vargo-Johnson, who started the annual Green Coast Day tradition 12 years

ago by planting a tree, which has since been torn down due to construction, near the Robert B. Moore Theatre. Her presentation will focus on environmental engagement and plastic pollution.

“Felicia was the one that started it, completely on her own. It was her idea. It wasn’t an honors program idea or any-thing like that. It ended up growing into that but she’s the sole reason why this is here today and why we’ve continued it for so long,” Stephanie Eichman, a 20-year-old political science major, pres-ident of Omega Psi Sigma and student coordinator of Green Coast Day said.

The Garrison Fellows Awards will be held following Vargo-Johnson’s presentation. The awards are an annual recognition of academic achievement and leadership for the top student in each department or division.

Vendors and exhibitors related to sus-

tainability will be in the Quad from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Some of these participants will include the OCC Recycling Center, Horticulture club, CalTrans District 12, BikeWays and Food Riders.

“We want to promote student clubs and organizations to come out and be there and talk to other students. We just want to bring students together with the community,” Kadi Ali, a 20-year-old communications major and president of the Honors Student Council said.

The theme of the day is going to center around student engagement and environmental awareness.

“It’s going to be about how one person can make a difference,” Eichman said. “It’s kind of a focus on how you, as a sin-gle individual, can make a difference on the environment. That you don’t have to be part of a larger group, or part of some agency or anything like that, in order to

make a difference. You can actually do it on your own.”

Mike Carey, architectural technology instructor and the Environmental Sus-tainability Coordinator, will host a walk-through of the OCC Recycling Center.

“Not a lot of people know where [the recycling center] is or what it does but it’s actually one of the biggest revenue generators for our campus,” Ali said.

According to Eichman, most people don’t realize the impact they have on the environment because we live in a place where we don’t have to see the direct impacts of what we are doing to the environment. Eichman said she hopes the event will help spread awareness to OCC and the community about the reality of our situation.

“It’s very important, especially since

Demands aimed at district OCC Republicans plan to ask officials to rescind Olga Cox’s award.

Earth will be highlighted on campus this month.

Orange Coast College is about to get a little greener with the help of a new program aimed at promoting sus-

tainability.In an effort to broaden student’s hori-

zons in green careers, OCC is working with a program called Energize Colleges to create internships and energy projects on campus and in the community.

“I’ve always been passionate about sustainability. It’s really pushed me to get involved and push others to get involved in sustainability as well,” said Tristian Trevino, the Energize College fellow for OCC.

Working with Trevino as the staff lead at OCC is Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Mike Carey. Carey, who is

an architectural technology instructor, also oversees the recycling program at OCC.

According to Carey a textbook defi-nition of sustainability is “meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future gen-erations to meet their needs.”

Energize Colleges aims to promote such sustainability, Trevino said.

The program originated from a green corporation called Strategic Energy Innovations, or SEI. According to the program’s mission statement, it was launched to “advance energy and sustain-ability education and workforce devel-opment through experiential learning.”

That experience, according to Trevino, is what he is here to provide.

“I have been getting the word out,” Trevino said. “I’ve been working on finding project partners who will really give students valuable experience.”

According to Trevino, internships will include hands-on experience through projects that cover a variety of fields.

Specifically, Trevino said, through the program he is looking to guide stu-dents on eight career pathways — all of which are considered green industries. Among them are energy engineering, environmental controls technology, solar, installation and maintenance. They also focus on energy auditing, energy and en-vironmental management, energy storage and architecture.

One of the existing projects that Trevi-no is trying to get students involved with

is the new recycling program. He did say, however, that there were no definite project partners at this time and has been working on nailing some down since he came to OCC on March 1.

While Trevino is heading up the pro-gram, Carey was actually the man who got OCC’s foot in the door.

According to both Trevino and Carey, SEI spoke at the California Higher Ed-ucation Sustainability Conference and sparked Carey’s interest in the program. It was after hearing the presentation that Carey approached them

“Energize Colleges was primarily involved with colleges in northern Cali-fornia,” Carey said. “They were looking

New sustainability program aims to provide internships.

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Faculty and administrators at Orange Coast College and the Coast Community College District are preparing to release their public and private emails to a student who requested them under the California Public Re-cords Act, but there is confusion about exactly what needs to be included.

The last of three public records requests came in mid-March from student and former OCC Republicans president Joshua Recalde-Martinez and asked for all email communication regard-ing the videotaping of Olga Perez Stable Cox.

According to Gary Hoffman, a part-time English instructor who was included in the most recent request but not the others, many on the list didn’t know what they had to send. Hoffman said people are sending personal emails that don’t need to be turned over.

“Somebody in the (first) re-quest must have sent (unneces-sary emails) over even though they didn’t have to,” Hoffman said about why he was included in the third records request.

While some of the names listed on the request attended a general counsel meeting with the district’s attorney Jack Lipton for advice just before spring break, some instructors on the list are saying the process is still confus-ing— especially when it comes to

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BY ISABELLLA BALANDRAN AND DEVIN MICHAELSSTAFF WRITERS

The Student Government of Orange Coast College will be holding its annual student senate elections starting April 17 to April 21.

There are currently 12 stu-dents running for the nine seats available. Student senators are responsible for administering a

budget of over a million dollars.“Student senators allocate mon-

ies, vote on student selected issues and act as the standing legislative branch at OCC,” Karen Caspa, student senate president said. “They vote on pressing issues and act as representatives for the student body.”

The SGOCC elections will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on April 17 outside the Literature and Lan-

guages building and then outside Starbucks on April 18. On April 19 and April 20 elections will be held in the Quad. A barbecue will be held on either April 19 or 20, and offer students free hot dogs, ice cream, chips and candy. Two HydroFlasks will be raffled off as well.

Students may cast up to nine votes in person or online at oc-cvotes.com.

Joy rideTwo maintenance carts

were stolen from the main-tenance yard on Saturday around 7 p.m., John Farmer, chief of Campus Safety said.

The next morning Costa Mesa police found one of the carts parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant and contact-ed Campus Safety to remove it. The cart was undamaged, says Farmer.

Security camera footage shows two unidentified sub-jects jumping over the main-tenance yard gate, starting the carts, forcing the gate open and driving away.

Used to abuseAn individual under the

influence of a controlled substance was found uncon-scious in the men’s restroom in the science building on March 29.

When asked by a Cam-pus Safety officer to exit the handicap stall, the male nonstudent rapidly flushed the toilet several times. The subject was lethargic and a tourniquet commonly used for intravenous drugs was found nearby on the floor, Farmer said.

Costa Mesa police took him into custody upon learn-ing of an outstanding felony warrant for his arrest.

Stolen devicesAccording to Farmer, a

male individual reported that over $950 worth of elec-tronics was stolen from his vehicle during the OCC swap meet on March 25. When he returned to his car the victim noticed his rear door was open and two boxes full of dozens of cellphones, tab-lets and device screens were missing.

Surveillance cameras cap-tured two unidentified sub-jects opening the victim’s trunk then entering a parked tan Toyota Corolla and leav-ing. Though he claimed he locked his car, it did not seem to be tampered with.

Side-swipedA male student reported his

cellphone was stolen from his vehicle in the Adams Avenue Parking Lot on March 20 between 9:35 and 11 a.m. The student left the phone in his car and hurried to class, forgetting whether or not he locked the doors. There are no suspects and no cameras in that area of the parking lot, Farmer said.

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— The Crime Blotter was com-piled by Winston Payne from Campus Safety reports.

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Orange Coast College’s Pi Tau Epsilon Honors Society, is hosting a casting mixer and a screenwrit-ing competition for creatives to connect with one another and exercise their writing skills.

Pi Tau Epsilon Honors Society is the nation’s first two-year col-lege visual arts honors society and the OCC chapter will be holding both events for free.

The casting mixer will be held on Monday from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the back of the Art Center in the Art Center Parking Lot.

“It’s not everyday students have an opportunity to come out of an event with a client or a business partner,” Enzo Flores, 19, the pres-ident and founder of PTE Honors Society and a film major said.

This is not OCC’s first casting mixer. In the past, the film club has been in charge of the casting mixer. But this year the honors society is striving to make this event more inclusive of all visual arts majors, extending from the scope of film.

The majors included in the casting mixer are film, fashion, interior design, architecture, art, illustration, marketing, theater, music, journalism, digital media arts and design. The event is open for all students, non-students and alumni.

“We’re mainly looking for peo-ple who are passionate about their field of study inside visual arts,” Flores said.

There will be many activities for visual artists, such as free head-shots for actors and networking activities.

One networking activity will consist of people putting their contact information on a card, and posting it on a board. Other people can save the posted contact infor-mation for future projects.

“The most important aspect of the film or visual arts industries is networking. It’s important to know the right people,” Kyle Clayton, 20, the vice president and co-founder of PTE Honors Society and a screenwriting major said.

Another important aspect of visual arts besides networking is the practice of competing and submitting work on a deadline.

The PTE Honors Society is also hosting a screenwriting com-petition. The submission window opened March 22 and will stay

open until April 21.The rules are that the script must

be 10 pages or less and must be structured around the template “A person wakes up in an unfamiliar location with no memory of how they got there.”

It is free to enter in this contest and there are no qualifications other than the writer submitting must be an OCC student.

Although there is no cost to enter, there are prizes. First place wins two Universal Studios pass-es, second place wins two Regal Cinema movie passes and third place wins a Starbucks gift card. The winners will be announced via email once all the submissions have been read and judged.

The judges for the contest are anonymous industry professionals, faculty and staff. For more infor-mation and to send submissions email ptesociety@gmail.com.

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See Jane Go, a Laguna Hills-based company, aims to provide a comfortable ride-hail service to women of Southern California as an alternative to Uber and Lyft.

Since September, See Jane Go has recruited women of all backgrounds to offer women a safe and reliable mode of transportation from exclusively female drivers.

According to the founders, their intentions are not to char-acterize men as dangerous but rather to ensure the safety of female passengers and encour-age them to be aware of their surroundings.

“Personally I am more com-fortable driving with females,” Monica Gogue, a 44-year-old See Jane Go driver said. “I don’t have a problem with men at all, I just believe See Jane Go offers the safest option for women who are skeptical about getting in cars with random men and I’ve had so many people tell me that.”

In recent years, Uber and Lyft have dominated the ride-hail service industry. Despite the con-venience aspect these companies offer, many women have found themselves in uncomfortable sit-uations with drivers due to a lack of thorough background checks and driver monitoring.

According to Gogue, the ap-plication and training process for the women-driven company is extensive in order to ensure that drivers are qualified and reliable.

The application process begins with an online registration and the company conducts thorough background checks that take about three weeks, she said.

“Once you are accepted, each driver is assigned a mentor who checks in and talks to you consistently,” she said. “I know

for a fact services like Uber are way less attentive and too easy to apply for.”

Some students at Orange Coast College feel a female-powered ride-hail service such as See Jane Go would help eliminate the stress women often face in a so-ciety that leaves them no choice but to be conscious of men and their surroundings.

“For some reason I always feel uncomfortable with male Uber or Lyft drivers, especially at night,” Estefania Mendoza, an 18-year-old liberal arts major said. “I think having something like this would be such a great option for us girls. I feel like it has always been like that since I was little. Society has made it really easy for us to feel ner-vous around strangers and men because we always hear stories about services like Uber and Lyft on the news.”

According to Gogue, See Jane Go currently provides ride ser-vices to women of Orange Coun-ty and parts of LA County, and are expanding to other regions. While the company intends to grow, drivers such as Gogue feel the locality of See Jane Go allows for efficient communi-cation between the drivers and headquarters.

“I speak with one of our found-ers, Savannah Jordan, all the time and every driver has weekly meetings with their mentors as well as the company executives. We are constantly communicat-ing with each other,” Gogue said. “Companies like Uber and Lyft

have so many employees, which is great, but because of that they don’t keep close contact with all of the drivers and its nearly impossible to ensure they are all appropriately doing their jobs. At See Jane Go, making our pas-sengers feel safe and comfortable comes first.”

Whether women have person-ally experienced uncomfortable situations with male drivers or not, the need to keep women safe is undeniable.

“I have never had a bad en-counter with an Uber, Lyft or taxi driver, but I know of peo-ple who have,” Julia Arjona, a 23-year-old forensic science major said. “I actually have a friend that was kidnapped by a male taxi driver in Brazil. They found her and she was OK, but scary situations like that do happen. I would definitely prefer women drivers.”

See Jane Go was founded by Savannah Jordan and her father William Jordan in 2016 when the two became skeptical of the idea of unknown male drivers. The service operates similarly to Uber and Lyft as far payments and overall concept. According to Gogue, male passengers are welcome as long as they are accompanied and vouched for by a female.

“I believe See Jane Go’s mis-sion is to make female hail-riders and drivers to feel comfortable in their surroundings,” Gogue said. “Us being moms and women, we will get you where you need to go safely.”

Looking for a new wand? May-be some chrysanthemum flowers or mandrake root?

How about some azurite and malachite or blue chalcedony?

You can find all this — and so much more — in a shop hidden inside an industrial park on Grand Avenue in Santa Ana.

Called The Dragon and the Rose, the store is filled with col-orful crystals, books, oils, incense and alter supplies for those who practice the new age religion of Wicca that began in 1959. In addi-tion to items, the shop offers drum circles, workshops, classes on witchcraft, rituals and craft nights.

It’s also a place where an eclec-tic circle of witches gathers.

“Anyone is allowed to join as long as they come with an open mind and an open heart. We usu-ally help each other with problems because we’re like family. We like to think of this place as a temple and their sanctuary,” Addie Vel-asquez, manager of The Dragon and the Rose and a teacher of witchcraft said.

Modern Wicca, established around 1959, draws from an-cient pagan practices and rituals. Because there isn’t a written record of the practices, academ-ics point to Gerald Gardner, an author and anthropologist, as the father of the modern religion because he wrote several books on witchcraft.

While people tend to think of witchcraft as evil, Velasquez said the opposite is actually true. The only rule is that they do not harm others.

“The important thing is that as this is a modern religion, born in a

modern Western country, it has the values of modern Westerners. The values of modern Westerners are individualism, freedom to practice as you choose, no authority above you, no official doctrine that forces you to stick to a certain way and very, very few moral mandates. The only moral mandate is harm nobody. Do what you want, but harm nobody,” Golden West Col-lege anthropology instructor Kaine Fini said.

According to Velasquez, Wicca is about kindness and service.

“For me, Wicca means be-ing able to connect with others regardless of their background, being kind to others no matter what. Spiritually, it means being of service. And of course freedom. Here, there are people that enter Wicca and find they are able to be what they want within it,” Velas-quez said.

Among the hundreds of prac-titioners in Orange County is one Orange Coast College student who uses witchcraft in her everyday life.

Sara Kassouf, a 21-year-old art major, said she and her family use witchcraft but are not Wiccan. She said that her upbringing, followed by living in Morocco for a brief period of time, helped her find her inner witch.

“I believe that witchcraft is just a method of obtaining your own personal power by combining the elements and channeling your higher self,” Kassouf said. “I don’t believe in karma. I think it’s another spiritual dogma. I choose not to rely on universal power or karma or God. I take full respon-sibility for what I do. I would like to live heaven on earth. Heaven on earth for me is seeing my creations come to life and seeing my power and the relief after the difficulty,” Kassouf said.

Although there are probably millions of people practicing Wic-ca worldwide, most people don’t know much about the religion and see them as users of witchcraft and

devil worshippers. But Fini counters that image.“Wiccans are not, as you know,

devil worshippers. They don’t even believe in the devil or a Christian god, or for that matter an Islamic god or a Jewish god. They don’t believe in that so they don’t worship anything close to Satan,” Fini said.

One of the more famous witches in Orange County said she began practicing witchcraft in 1982 and became Wiccan 10 years later. She is now “out-of-the-broom-closet” and has been in a coven for almost 20 years.

“About that time is when I recognized that the people that

I’m spending all my time with were actually Wiccan. You know the whole ‘like attracts like’ kind of thing. That’s how I fell into it, so to speak. When I found it felt like coming home,” Yvonne Conway-Williams, an ordained elder high priestess of Wicca and co-founder of United Pagans of Color, said.

Conway-Williams said that witchcraft feels more intuitive for her. At one point in her life, when she stopped doing witch-craft, she said she felt something was missing from her life. She says that in her personal beliefs she is guided by spirit and tries not to force it.

“My personal practice is more in vein with what’s considered traditional witchcraft. So I do a lot more of the crafty type things, dealing with actual spell work, and connecting with the ances-tors, and things that could also perhaps be itching upon what some might consider Shamanism,” Conway-Williams said.

Despite the time she puts into her spirituality, she is also a lead-ing figure in Wicca across the nation. Ten years ago, she success-fully fought to have the pentacle as an option on government-issued tombstones. The OC register, where Conway-Williams had her first job, wrote a front page article

on it.“When friends started calling

me and saying I was on the front page I kind of panicked. Being public amongst your community is one thing, being completely public in a community known for being conservative is a little more nerve-racking,” Conway-Williams said.

She also began meetups for pagans and witches in Orange County to keep this community thriving. This year will be 15 years since Conway-Williams began running the Orange County Pagan and Orange County Witches meet-ups, which were the world’s largest groups when they first began.

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arts & Culture APRIL 5, 20174Campus Events

For information on most campus events,

call (714) 432-5880.

Campus

Theatre“Too Much Light Makes

the Baby Go Blind,” Sat-urday, Sunday and April 15: OCC Student Repertory will be performing one of the longest plays in Chicago history. The REP will present 30 two minute plays chosen and performed in random order with an interactive audience. For mature au-diences only. 7:30pm. $5 advance, $7 at the door.

“Ready to transfer to UC?” Tuesday: A workshop to help students optimize their opportunities to be accepted into Universities, the work-shop will go over transferring requirements, academic plan-ning and preparation for your major. In Watson Hall room 262. Free.

“Spring Plant Sale,” April 14, 21, 28: Horticulture stu-dents will be selling the plants they have planted from seed. In the Horticulture garden from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

So your April isn’t looking too lit but you’ve got some time on your hands to make this spring one to remember. Luckily we are in Southern California, the place to be in spring and we have the biggest festival in the world in our back yard – Coachella Festival of Music and Arts. You may not have the funds for the $400 bracelet to get in but because people come from all over the world to see how we’re living – there is so much to do outside of Coachella. So if you’re looking for something

fun - here’s a list of stuff to do in the Coachella Valley if you’re not going to the festival.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has drawn countless music fans under the guise of a unique experience that finds attendees in an effervescent desert abyss of colors, lights and pulsating music since its 1999 origins.

Coachella has long been re-vered as a slightly tamer version of its grittier older brother Burn-ing Man. The pulse of Coachella has always been one of sheer intensity but in recent years it has begun to twist and curl to fit a more mainstream mold.

Although this year’s lineup

boasts of Radiohead’s third turn as a headliner, the spotlight is being shared with an unlikely Coachella hero with Lady Gaga. Gaga stepped in, to replace original headliner Beyoncé, who had to withdraw due to her pregnancy.

While both women are un-deniable music icons, they are pop icons and not the obvious choices for what originated as a rock festival. This move is indic-ative of a shift in the heartbeat of Coachella.

After its 2008 lineup failed to sell out, Coachella’s 2009 line-up seemed to make an obvious change, abandoning the indie feel of its origins and pandering to a more general crowd with the likes of Paul McCartney as a headliner. The following years saw larger hip hop moguls join in the party with everyone from modern-day icons Jay-Z and Kanye West to hip-hop OGs Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

The inclusion of these names broadened the market for festi-val attendees but it also seemed to enable festival organizers to abandon the organic free spirit of Coachella and began to man-ufacture Bohemian lifestyle.

Coachella was once a sweat and dirt-filled trek to the desert spent missing showers and grab-bing street dogs off the rickety food carts provided by local food vendors. Combined with out-rageous VIP packages ranging anywhere from $900 for tickets to $7,500 for lodging, the ruse of roughing it has been replaced by the unobtainable mirage of glamping.

With brand-name restaurants setting up shop and huge cloth-ing companies like H&M releas-ing official Coachella collec-tions, the focus no longer seems to be on the music or the art but instead on how easiest to bleed dry the wallets of well-wishing free spirits.

Make Coachella great againFrom dusty fields to VIP packages, Coachella goes mainstream for good.BY SARA TEALSPORTS EDITOR

+ Desert X: free art installations around the Coachella Valley + Desert Gold Day Party: Ace Hotel+ Adidas Do Over Day Party: Ace Hotel + Vestal Village Day Party: Location TBA

+ Pandora Indio Invasion by TMOBILE: Cree Estate

FridaySuperStar: TRAVIS SCOTT

New Name: DENZEL CURRY

Can’t Miss: MAC MILLER

PLUR: DILLON FRANCIS

Indie: MAC DEMARCO

SundaySuper Star: KENDRICK LAMAR

New Name: LIL UZI VERT

Can’t Miss: KAYTRANADA

PLUR: WHAT SO NOT

Indie: JUSTICE

SaturdaySuperStar: FUTURE

New Name: THUNDERCAT

Can’t Miss: SCHOOLBOY Q

PLUR: DJ SNAKE

Indie: TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB

What to do if you’re not at Coachella

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The youth football team I played for, the South Orange County Patriots, officially ter-minated its existence one month ago.

A program that once had 12 teams and supported thousands of kids for over 20 years has now disappeared, mostly due to changing demographics.

While playing for the Patriots, the values my teammates and I learned set a standard that we hold dear to this day.

No one desired to be the star or got upset when touchdowns were scored by other players. Each of us had one job on every play, whether it was a lineman making a block or a receiver running a route.

In turn, this gave us a deep love for the game, because of the success we could achieve when working as a team.

“Playing for the Patriots taught me structure, hard work and competition, but also my love for sports that I continue to have today and will have for the rest of my life,” then-quarterback and defensive end Rex Pflueger said.

Pflueger now plays guard for the Notre Dame men’s basketball team.

The adoration we showed towards football would’ve never existed had it not been for the coaching staff. A few of our coaches were full time police officers, but most had sons on the team.

Some would say that’s a red flag. Parents are constantly in the youth sports spotlight for the wrong reasons. When those types of parents become coaches, subjectivity is at a premium.

We didn’t know it at the time, but our coaches were as authori-tative and imposing as they were rational and supportive. I think those are the most important qualities a coach should possess, finding the perfect balance be-tween discipline and enjoyment.

Our head coach Kevin Murphy instilled this philosophy through-out the team. He knew what was important, and tried his best to eliminate the aspects of youth sports that hindered player de-velopment.

“Coach Murphy has been one of the most influential men in my life. He taught me how be tough and work together as a group.” said Jay Schuyler, who is about to begin his second season playing baseball at the University of San Diego. Schuyler played quarterback and wide receiver.

Murphy was instrumental in molding us into young men whether we liked it or not.

“He [Murphy] would make us run until we threw up, and make us do leg lifts until we couldn’t feel our abs, but he sure cared about us and I think he would have done anything for us,” said Luke Williams, the team speed-ster, who now finds himself playing baseball in the Philadel-phia Phillies organization.

Murphy made sure every kid got in the game and every player had an important role in helping the team.

Outside of football, our team had plenty of opportunities to have fun and form life-long re-lationships.

“Some of my favorite memo-ries were the weekly Friday night

feasts where we would have a potluck dinner with our whole football team before the high school games,” said Williams.

Traveling to cities like Comp-ton and Inglewood gave us ex-posure to parts of Southern Cali-fornia that were unfamiliar to us. It also introduced us to some of our parents’ favorite rock and roll legends. Ozzy Osborne’s “Crazy Train” was our anthem.

“For road games, we would carpool. I always remember get-ting in coach’s car and blasting music the whole ride up to our games,” Williams said.

Some of the players from our team have maintained incredible success in football.

USC quarterback Sam Dar-nold, University of Arizona linebacker Corey Selinski, and Nebraska quarterback Patrick O’Brien all played for this Pa-triots team.

Overall, nine different players from this team went on to play division one or professional sports. An astonishing feat to say the least.

Other players have gone to col-lege and found what they loved, whether that’s producing music or enlisting in the military.

Regardless the path, the unity we possessed at such a young age gave us hope. When life got chal-lenging, we learned that working hard and loving those around you is what’s most important.

Football became more than just a game. It provided us the oppor-tunity to get into arguments, deal with failure and persist through adversity.

Most importantly, football gave us independence and taught us to never give up.

The phrase our coach used the most was, “Play to the whistle!” In life, we won’t stop until we hear ours.

Play to the whistleLife lessons are often learned through youth sports.

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we do use a lot of our resources in comparison to other countries. We do it without even thinking about it and if we have a day to bring awareness to it and how you can make a difference and do something, people are going

to listen, because this is our planet,” Sotoodeh said. “It’s not just a thing to which we can do whatever we want and not think there’s going to be any conse-quences.”

The event is being organized by the Honors Student Council, which is advised by Teresa A. Scarbrough, office coordinator

of the Honors Program. Green Coast Day will take

place on April 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Quad. A pre-sentation will be held from 11 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. in the Robert B. Moore Theater. Following the presentation, the Garrison Fellows Awards will take place from 11:25 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.

EMAILS: Request from OCC student lacks clarity.

turning over private emails.After a recent decision in the

City of San Jose v. Superior Court of California, public employees’ private correspondence is subject to California Public Records Act requests. Hoffman’s wife and fellow OCC English instructor Glynis Hoffman was also named on the request.

She said those included in the request only have to send over personal emails that contained the flagged words if it was for business or school related matters and not subject to all general emails. Personal emails, emails with students and those that don’t pertain to public business don’t need to be handed over.

Recalde-Martinez issued his request asking for information concerning the OCC Repub-licans, the faculty union, the Planned Parenthood and Feminist clubs along with keywords such as recording policies, academic freedom, criminal investigation

and secret surveillance. While the deadline to comply

was on March 26, executive director of OCC’s Foundation Doug Bennett said that the 10 days to adhere to the request only meant that the district had to ac-knowledge that they received the request and intended on following through with it. He clarified that the emails themselves didn’t have to be turned over yet and that they were given a reasonable amount of time to do so — not 10 days.

“I’m sure Josh (Recalde-Mar-tinez) told you it was 10 days,” Bennett said. “But Josh doesn’t always give accurate information when he talks to the press.”

Thuy Nguyen, executive as-sistant to OCC President Dennis Harkins, said she is handling the request for those involved at OCC and will be handing them off to the district board’s secretary Jane Burton.

“Our campus is still in the pro-cess of gathering the requested documents,” Nguyen said via email. “The documents will be

routed to the board office once they’re ready.”

According to Glynis Hoffman, her inclusion in the request could have been motivated by a formal grievance she sent regarding Edwina Recalde — Recalde-Mar-tinez’s mother who works in OCC’s Human Resources depart-ment. Glynis Hoffman said that she expressed concern over Ed-wina Recalde serving as the OCC Republicans club faculty adviser and the prospect of working with her in the English department since it’s in the middle of hiring.

“My department doesn’t want to work with her,” Glynis Hoff-man said.

While both Glynis and Gary Hoffman said they are planning on complying with the request, Gary Hoffman said the motivations behind the request don’t seem to adhere to what he thinks the CPRA is intended for.

“They are just trying to drag dirt up for their own selfish and monetary reasons,” Gary Hoff-man said.

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partner with colleges in SoCal and I was as interested in doing that.”

Now that Energize Colleges

is at OCC, Trevino and Carey hope that is will give students valuable experience that can lead to careers in the sustain-ability industry.

According to Carey, the pro-gram is aiming to help students

at local high schools as well as OCC.

For Carey, programs like En-ergize Colleges are invaluable.

“The interns will get actual living knowledge,” Carey said. “ It’s like a living laboratory.”

“Financial Aid Aware-ness Day,” April 15: Fi-nancial Aid hosts an event to announce that it is not too late to apply for finan-cial aid and staff will be on site helping students fill out FASFA forms. In the Quad at 10 a.m. Free

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The ocean may be full of mysteries but one thing is for sure — com-mercial fishing industries are providing tuna for poke bowls and are selling at a rapid rate with unsustain-able price tags.

Poke bowls are all the rage and becoming a serious problem as fast casual restaurants serving tuna are popping up all over Southern California

Some restaurants compile these dishes with healthy vegetables, crunchy condiments and sauces to compliment the fish. However, what some people might not know is that most tuna used in the U.S. and the rest of the world is that it is overfished, driven by an industry’s greed for money and devastating the oceans.

In the tuna industry, profits are the main goal regardless of unsus-tainability and negligent fishing practices.

Just like tuna, commercial fish-erman set out packs relying on costly fishing technology and tracking migration patterns. Fish-erman hunt for these valuable fish and snatch them from their natural habitats only to be sliced and smashed against tongues and dipped in soy sauce for tuna lovers to indulge in.

Customers who are ordering tuna are often unconscious or un-aware of the type of tuna they’re actually chewing.

There are several types of tuna species but the most common type that is found in poke shops is the Yellowfin tuna, also known as Ahi tuna, and officially categorized as overfished. The second most commonly used type is the Blue-fin tuna, which is categorized as endangered.

Despite tuna being overfished and endangered, the industry will not stop fishing. According to reports collected by the PEW Charitable Trusts in 2016, total tuna fishing was estimated at $42 billion dollars to the worldwide economy.

A profitable fish it is indeed

but more importantly it is a key species to help balance the food chain in the ocean’s ecosystem.

As appealing and delicious as these fish may be, it’s crucial to be aware of the devastating loops tuna must go through to land on your plates.

On another note, there’s a term in the fishing industry called by-catch and it occurs when commer-cial sized fishing boats catch other species of fish and marine animals that are not intended to be caught.

The process involves casting out enormous nets which stretch out for miles to reel in the big bucks.

Imagine millions of animals including sharks, dolphins and even turtles ferociously flapping their fins, attempting to escape an economic death net but unable to escape the fishing trawls.

In addition to bycatch, sharks that are unable to escape the nets are often robbed of their fins and thrown back into the ocean left to die.

This is often done because many countries have strict laws and bans against the direct fishing of sharks,

so when caught “unintentionally” their fins become another prof-itable product that can be sold. Thankfully California made it illegal to possess or sell shark fins in 2011.

According to National Geo-graphic “an estimated 40 million sharks are killed yearly for their fins. They add to the devastating global fish catch: nearly 100 mil-lion tons.”

Sharks are, if not, the most im-portant species to maintaining a stable ocean ecosystem and with sharks also being jeopardized for the sake of a lunch is ignorant

on customers and the fishing industry.

Tuna has been clearly over-fished and for what? For sky rocketing profits and to sit pretty in round plastic poke bowls with condiments.

Additionally, unsustainable fishing practices have taken over sustainable fishing practices like the pole fishing business who are unable to compete with commer-cial operations.

If fish is your thing become aware of the kind of seafood you eat check out seafood-watch.org.

My mother wakes up most mornings ever since the elec-tion, in panic and with ag-onizing fear that one day she’ll run out of luck and be separated from the family.

She wakes up in disillusion and with the upmost feeling of disap-pointment because regardless of her legal status, she’s lived her life as an ideal “American” citizen.

Every morning she remembers everything that is on the line. She drives through the bustling streets of her city, looking in every which direction, as if she was a prisoner on the loose.

She looks back on the days she would force her body to not give up while working day-long shifts for less than half the minimum wage. However, regardless of the emotional abuse and pain she went through for being undocu-mented, she fought through.

From the day my parents arrived to the U.S. in hopes of achieving the American Dream, it was instilled in me that my country was one to be immense-ly proud of. Here in the land of opportunity and progress, they prospered and grew from nothing to something.

Here they made a successful life and provided unconditionally for me and my siblings. This country in which I was born in never failed me. That is until now.

My country has decided to give up on the battles that it had fought for so long. It’s given up on the battles for equality, individualism, expression and will.

It’s entered a grey area that for so long was so well defined.

In the 19 years of my existence, I can never recall a moment my family feared for their future in the country or a time when my transgender friend feared for her life.

My generation is supposed to be responsible for the progress this country has made. We were proud and responsible for how accepting, forgiving and open minded we had become. But now? Now my country is letting fear, hate and resentment take the lead.

The endless riots and hate crimes aren’t something our country should be experiencing at such a developed time in our history.

But that’s exactly the problem, our society is going backwards on the progress it’s made. It’s as if history is repeating itself into those times of interpersonal violence.

Kids shouldn’t be fearing for their futures, our families shouldn’t be getting separated so suddenly and our society as a

whole shouldn’t be as divided as it is now.

I’d like to be believe that one day, my children will be fortunate enough to live their years in the country that I once knew. I hope that they will have a country that will fight for every right, every preference and ideology an indi-vidual can have. In one that will accept diversity for what it is and will continuously fight for peace and union.

I am the daughter of undocu-mented parents. And that label defines me.

I yearn for a time in our country where those that are undocument-ed are given a chance to live in peace and be fearless.

I will continue to hope for a day when my mother can purchase her own home, perhaps open her own business and feel like something more than just a statistic. For a day when she could be recognized in one way or another for her pos-itive contribution to this country.

Until then, my mother along with millions of others will con-tinue to live in fear and will be just that, a statistic.

Neil Gor-such wasn’t Democrats’ first choice but he may be their best. G o r s u c h , P r e s i d e n t Donald J . T r u m p ’ s nominee to replace the late Jus-tice Antonin Scalia on the Su-preme Court of the United States,

successfully cleared the Senate judiciary committee on Monday. The Democrats also successfully secured the requisite 41 votes to filibuster him just like the Repub-licans did to Barack Obama’s last nominee Merrick Garland.

My plea to them is that they don’t. I’m asking Senate Demo-crats to be the bigger people and turn the other cheek, hard as it may be.

At the very least, Gorsuch is a

good man. He is man that has ded-icated his life to bringing justice to his community and his country.

Congress agreed on this very fact when they confirmed him to his last post in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been fair in his rulings despite his political leanings. That, I would argue, is perhaps the most important qualifi-cation aside from experience itself.

Sure, Democrats may hem and haw at the fact that Gorsuch is an

approximation of the Scalia-level conservatism. However, that point of contention should rightfully fall by the wayside since he was nom-inated by a Republican president.

What did they expect? I expect-ed much worse. Knowing Trump, who any real conservative knows is a terrible bastardization of what conservatism is, he could have nominated someone truly radical. He could have chosen a potential justice that wasn’t just radically

opposed to Democrats’ sensibil-ities but opposed to American sensibilities altogether.

Gorsuch isn’t that person. He’ll be a champion of conservatism but not at the cost of the Constitution and Supreme Court’s credibility. That is someone I can sign off on.

— Totally Trumped is a week-ly column in print and online tackling the Trump Adminis-tration: the good, the bad and the ugly.

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In no uncertain terms, Olga Perez Stable Cox should not have been named Faculty Member of the Year for Or-ange Coast College.

Less than a week ago, OCC selected Cox for the honor and she accepted. According to the Coast Report Editorial Board, both Cox and those who nominated and voted for her made a categorically irresponsible decision.

We as editors are not seek-ing to yet again beat the horse that has been bludgeoned to death for months on end. This stance is not a condemnation of Cox’s past actions but in-stead a condemnation of the decision to pour gasoline on a fire that had almost, finally, been extinguished.

Cox, whether you agree with her comments or not, has been the epicenter of controversy and turmoil that has brought severe scrutiny and backlash aimed at not just herself but at OCC altogeth-er. According the Editorial Board, this should’ve been disqualifying.

Are we criticizing her mer-its as an instructor? No. What we are criticizing is the lack of foresight by OCC in giving her this high honor amid her involvement in such a fiery controversy.

Caleb O’Neil, the student who filmed Cox, violated the law with his actions but it was Cox’s words that brought so much ire to OCC both on-line and in media across the country. Choosing Cox does nothing but damage the col-lege’s reputation that much

more — unnecessarily so.OCC and the faculty union

stood with Cox. They held rallies and issued statements giving her their full support. That was perfectly appropri-ate and should have ended there.

Unfortunately for OCC, it didn’t.

We urge our readers and the faculty to look at the argu-ments used to attack both her and the college. They have labeled OCC as an institution that cares more about their liberal professors and less about their students’ voices.

While we at the Coast Re-port don’t agree with that label, Cox becoming Faculty Member of the Year rein-forces it.

If simply giving Cox this title added fuel to a fire, the manner in which OCC gave it is an explosion. Normally, faculty at OCC votes for the title after nominations are made. This time, in what seems like an attempt to circumvent the process to hand Cox the title, a select committee made the decision.

Clearly, those in the com-mittee are trying to make a point. We, however, want them to realize the point they were trying to make isn’t worth the damage it will most certainly do.

Simply put: The Coast Re-port Editorial Board believes that the Faculty Member of the Year should be someone who uplifts OCC and hasn’t done something, intentionally or not, to damage it. Cox isn’t that person.

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Usual SuspectsThe Los Angeles Dodgers’ core

contingent from last season’s National League West winning squad will be revamped in 2017.

Clayton Kershaw is expected to continue his dominance and will be seeking his fourth Cy Young Award.

Last season’s reigning National League rookie of the year Corey Seager will be in the conversa-tion for MVP once again come October.

With a supporting cast of Adri-an Gonzalez, Joc Pederson, Yasiel Puig, Justin Turner and veteran newcomer Logan Forsythe, this Dodgers lineup will be its most potent in years.

Dark HorseKeep an eye on left

fielder Andrew Toles who is entering his second season with the Dodgers. He had 105 at-bats last season with an im-pressive .315 batting average.

Toles will likely be the first choice left fielder for the Dodg-ers after having an impressive spring training.

He is known for his speed and instinct while running the bases but has sneaky offensive power that adds to his already impres-sive bat speed.

For the FutureJulio Urias, a 20-year-old

pitcher from Mexico, was hurled into the Dodgers’ rotation in 2016 after the bullpen sustained injuries.

He instantly proved to man-ager Dave Roberts that he be-longed, ending last season with

a 4-0 record, 1.34 ERA and 33 strikeouts in his last eight ap-pearances.

Although Urias won’t start the season with the Dodgers, his youth and experience in the minor leagues will benefit him once he solidifies his place in the Dodgers’ starting rotation.

Problem SolvingThe lack of star talent in the

back end of the Dodgers bullpen will provide several difficulties as the season wears on.

Nevertheless, closer Kenley Jansen is poised for another quality season and the addition of former San Francisco G i a n t s c l o s e r Sergio

R o m o w i l l prove to be valu-a b l e i n tight games.

T h i s t e a m i s a rg u a b l y the mos t balanced in all of baseball. In 2016, the Dodgers set an MLB record for having 28 dif-ferent players on the disabled list but still managed to make the National League Champion-ship Series.

The only thing keeping the

Dodgers from a 2017 World Series title is their notoriously dreadful pitching late in the postseason.

Final Record93-69, National League West

Division Winners for a 5th con-secutive season.

Making Playoffs?The Dodgers will beat the Chi-

cago Cubs in the NLCS, going on to win the World Series for the first time since 1988, beating

the Boston Red Sox.

Usual SuspectsAfter a disappointing 2017

campaign for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the locker room saw itself go through a major makeover.

With veterans being shipped out the door,

two time-MVP Mike Trout will be once again asked to car-ry the load.

His dynamic bat and sure

g l o v e

make for a wel-coming attrac-tion for fans. Fol lowed by power bat Al-bert Pujols,and key offseason ac-quisitions in Ben Revere, Luis Val-

buena and Cameron Maybin, Trout will have a strong cast

to help him out.With the tough division

the Angels find themselves in, expect them to be competing for

a wild card spot.

Dark HorseOne player to watch out

for this season is 19-year-old outfielder Jahmai Jones,

who is entering his third season in the minors since being drafted.

Jones had a stellar 2016 campaign in the

minors, which saw him hit .302 with

20 stolen bases. His strikeout rate of only 16% combined with 26 walks shows just how advanced his eye is at the plate, especially at such a young age.

Combine that with an excep-tional glove and Jones may be ready to help the big league club for the 2017 season.

For the FutureTyler Skaggs, a 25-year-old

California native, will be a key young piece to the Angels ball club for the upcoming season.

In what was a limited 2016 due to a wretched Tommy-John surgery, Skaggs came back for ten starts in which he hurled a career low 4.17 ERA. Skaggs’ ability to give the Angels a lively young arm in their starting rotation could prove to be potent in their quest to return to success.

Problem SolvingAfter a season that saw the An-

gels finish tenth overall in pitching, the offseason focus was on pitch-ing and there was an immense shift of balance.

They brought in quality bats but left the rotation in the hands of injury risked pitchers in Skaggs and Garrett Richards, as well as up and down pitcher Jesse Chavez.

Expect the Angels to put up more runs but give up more as well.

Final Record86-76, achieving the 2nd Amer-

ican League wild card.

Making Playoffs?Yes, however it will be short

lived. They will find themselves on the road in the dreaded wild card playoff game playing at the grand Yankee Stadium. The An-gels’ youth and lack of big game pitchers will prove detrimental.

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