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CSU Application Workshop

Students who are applying to CSUs can attend a workshop that will in-clude a walk through on how to fill out the detailed information in the ap-plication. The workshop will be today from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Music 204. For more information, call 310-660-3593, ext. 3408.

Cal Poly Pomona “Preview Day” Tour

The transfer center will host a tour of Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday. There will be sessions on admission require-ments, study abroad opportunities, and academic majors. Students who want to attend the tour must pay a $5 refundable deposit. For more infor-mation, call 310-660-3593 ext. 3408.

UC Irvine “Transfer Track” Tour

The transfer center will host a tour of UC Irvine on Saturday. The tour will have sessions on academic majors, fi-nancial aid, and campus life. Students who want to attend the tour are re-quired to pay a $5 refundable deposit. For more information, call 310-660-3593 ext. 3408.

Homecoming Rally

The homecoming rally will have pep squad routines, a club banner con-test, introduction of the Homecom-ing queen and king candidates, and presentation of the football team. The rally will be on Tuesday at 1 p.m. For more information, call 310-660-3593, ext. 3394.

How to Start Business While Attending College

Students who want to learn how to further their entrepreneurial endeav-ors can attend this business-starting workshop on Tuesday from 3 to 5 p.m. in the DIstance Education Center. For more information, call 310-660-3593, ext. 3408.

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Humanitarian aid group i-ACT will be hosting an activism education event Monday on the Library Lawn from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to raise awareness on the genocide in western Sudan, Breanna Von Stein, student services specialist, said.

Camp Darfur, a mock refugee-like camp, is one of the many projects started by i-ACT that travels the coun-try providing individuals with the edu-cation as well as the tools necessary to take immediate action if they wish, according to iactivism.org

“Gabriel Stauring [co-founder] was looking for a way to create an event that gave the people here a feel for be-ing in a refugee camp, the vastness of it in a tent city,” Katie-Jay Scott, di-rector of community programming for i-ACT, said. “The first Camp Dar-fur was a week-long event that had 15 tents where there were movies that were shown, people slept in the tents all week, ate refugee rations and food that they were given by the World Food Program.”

Founded in 2005 as a portion of Stop Genocide Now, the South Bay-based i-ACT activist group, has since branched off on its own focusing on “interactive activism” to convey their message in an easy to understand for-mat and claims to be “the only group from the United States that consis-tently returns to the Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad,” according to iactivism.org.

“We invited them to come to cam-pus for the Social Justice Fair initial-ly,” Von Stein said. “It’s different be-cause it’s interactive and educational, not just a workshop but they can ac-tually walk through an exhibit that’s more beneficial to the students.”

Started by Robert DeWitz, 24, psy-

chology major, and working with the Student Services Center, the Social Justice Program, which hosted the fair last spring, aims to encourage students to participate and offers them the op-portunity to take action by bringing organizations like Camp Darfur and Every 9 Seconds to campus.

“The best way, in my experience, to address student’s apathy is to re-ally connect the students to the issue,” DeWitz said. “Most of our events that we’ve done have been centered around [the idea of] ‘This the issue, this is what’s been done so far, this is what other students have done, and this is what you can do.’”

This event will feature information-al presentations in multiple tents, each one telling the history of genocide, including the events that occurred in the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur accompanied with photos, timelines, and inspiring stories from survivors, Scott said.

“We use multimedia and offer a way to connect people to the issues through social media, though vid-eos, through taking action, and try to empower them with the community that they’re experts on, whether it’s a school or club that they’re a part of,” Scott said.

Scott emphasized that Camp Dar-fur focuses on engaging people on a personal level, not measuring their success by how many emails they col-lect, but by raising awareness and in-spiring real action.

“For us, if we can inspire one per-son who takes it to the next level and ends up majoring in international rela-tions or ends up contacting their con-gressman and goes and visits them, sometimes those stories and that type of action has more impact than be-ing able to collect 100 signatures on a piece of paper,” Scott said.

Humanitarian aid group seeks student help to take action

Public support for marijuana initiative at record high

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9.5million Californians participating in today’s drill

18.2million people around the world participating in today’s drill

4.2million people in Los Angeles and Orange counties participating in today’s drill

Photo illustration by Thomas Schmit

Data from the Great California ShakeOut

oMatthew SimonSports Editor

Ever wonder what to do when the ground beneath you starts to shake and things start toppling in front of you?

In an effort to answer this question, EC will be taking part in the sixth annual Great California ShakeOut today at 10:17 a.m.

“People need to know what to do during an earthquake,” Mark Benthien, Director for Outreach at the Southern California Earth-quake Center said. “A lot of people still don’t. They think they need to run outside and do the wrong thing that can get them injured.”

The event has more than 9.5 million participants in California alone and more than 24 million participants globally, according to shakeout.org.

“I really wouldn’t know what to do,” Jacob Villalobos, 19, psy-chology major, said. “So, to know the college cares is cool especially since California always has earthquakes.”

The first ShakeOut was held in 2008, an effort by emergency managers and scientists to inform the public about earthquake preparedness.

“Social science research said that when people talk prepared about earth-quake preparedness they’re more likely to get prepared,” Benthien said.

Getting the world prepared for a major earthquake is the main goal of theShakeOut and being able to act quickly when an earthquake strikes is

the best way to be safe if one occurs at a moment’s notice, according to ShakeOut.org.

The event has been every third Thursday in October since the first ShakeOut took place five years ago.“We settled on a formula,” Lance Webster, ShakeOut media

consultant said. “So people could plan a long time in advance. It’s as simple as that. The time of the

ShakeOut is the same time as the date. It’s forconvenience so people remember.”

According to ShakeOut.org, the ShakeOutdrill isn’t predicting an earthquake to

occur, though because many areasof the world are seismically

it’s not impossible.“It never hurts to practice

more just in case something did

happen,” JasonSmith, 22, business major,

said.

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Rigo BonillaManaging Editor

Marijuana and hemp supporters will have their chance to make California the third state in the union to legalize cannabis by signing a recently created ini-tiative.

“An initiative allows people who have a shared concern to get that concern onto the ballot,” Lance Widman, professor of political science, said. “You have a coalition of interest groups that favor an issue, so what they’re going to have to do is collect the re-quired signatures (50,000) of registered voters to get it on the November 2014 ballot.”

The California cannabis hemp initiative aims to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for people over 21 years of age, allow farmers to make materials and products from hemp and hemp seed, and limit jobs from testing for marijuana metabolites, accord-ing to cchi.org, the official site for the initiative.

Proposition 215 allowed medical use in Califor-nia, and many cities and counties have passed ordi-nances making marijuana the lowest priority for law

enforcement, but marijuana may have finally gath-ered enough support to be legalized outright, like in Colorado and Washington.

“A slim majority of adults (52%) say marijuana use should be legalized—a record high and the first time support has been above 50 percent. A larger majority of likely voters (60%) favor legalization. Democrats (64%), independents (60%), and men (57%) are more likely than Republicans (45%) and women (47%) to favor legalization,” according to research by the Pub-lic Policy Institute of California.

While support for legalization is higher than ever, it is still only about half of California’s population, and anti-marijuana activists are making their voices heard.

“The most important thing people need to know is that marijuana is harmful and that it’s different than alcohol,” Scott Chipman, an activist with Citizens Against the Legalization of Marijuana (CALMca.org), said. “This is a fight for the human mind. It’s mind altering, highly toxic, remains in the body for up to a month, and is highly addictive.”

Chipman said long-term marijuana use can cause

serious health problems. “The incidents of testicular cancer, paranoia,

schizophrenia and depression are significantly high-er among marijuana users. THC (the psychoactive chemical in marijuana) affects the brain and how the brain sends messages,” he added.

Chipman said that marijuana use also has detri-mental societal implications.

“People who use marijuana are less social. There’s a certain percentage of the population that’s already on the edge of sanity already. They have a tendency towards mental illness. Jared Laughner, the guy who shot Gabrielle Giffords? Pot user. The Boston bomb-er? Pot user. The Colorado theater shooter? Pot user. Trayvon Martin? Pot user. I don’t think its coinciden-tal. Pot distorts your perception of reality. It messes with your ability to reason. It pushes people toward being anti-social,” he added.

Michael Braun, psychology professor, said that in a place like L.A., all it takes is money to find drugs, regardless of if they’re legal or illegal.

“I think the hope of some people is that we can take care of some major problems with a simple solu-

tion,” Braun said. “If people just don’t drink alcohol, or if people just don’t have marijuana, we won’t have X number of problems, and that’s just not true.”

In the case of heinous acts like the Boston Mara-thon bombings, Braun says that every situation needs to be looked at individually.

“When people get involved with destructive acts, it usually has a more complex origin, not just the fact that they’re using a drug at the time,” Braun added. “One thing that’s very important about human nature is being careful not to look for over-simplified expla-nations.”

For more information about what changes the ini-tiative will attempt to make, visit CCHI2014.org.

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series that will go in depth about the legalization of mari-juana.

For the first time, more than 50 percent of people support the legalization of marijuana

2 El Camino College Union October 17, 2013newsPOLICE BEATBy Chris Guzman

Revolver and semi-automatic found in trunk

Oct. 10, 1:30 p.m.—On the lower level of Lot F, officers ob-served four students inside a car with smoky windows. One of the officers observed a small amount of marijuana on the console. Upon conducting a search, they found a loaded .22 revolver and a .280 semi-automatic in the trunk. The driver was arrested for possessing two firearms on a college campus.

Students caught with marijuana

Oct. 7, 9:55 a.m.—Cadets were doing a patrol check by Lot F. They noticed a marijuana smell coming from one of the vehicles parked there. Upon checking, they discovered three students inside smoking with a small amount in the lap of the driver. The driver was issued a citation and directed to the Dean of Student Develop-ment.

Person walking around with pants around ankles

Oct. 6, 8 a.m.—Officers re-sponded a distress call by the north side of the library. There were complaints that a male non-student had no shoes, no shirt, and pants down to his an-kles as he was walking around. He admitted to having psycho-logical disorders when asked. A trespassing notice was issued. Bike stolen near Chemis-try Building

Oct. 3, 6:20 p.m.—Officers re-sponded to a theft call. A student locked his bike on the bike rack on the east side of the Chemistry Building around 5 p.m. When he returned, his bike was gone.

Gilberto Castro/ UnionThe current Murdock stadium. The new stadium, to be completed in 2019, will have a rubberized track, a training facility, and a better positioning of the stands that will allow spectators to get a clearer view of the field.

High hopes for new stadium

EC takes home 17 JACC awards

Chris GuzmanStaff Writer

High expectations remain for El Camino’s new Murdock Stadium, which is expected to be completed in 2019.

“As long as I’ve been here we have never really had a good facility for track and field,” Tom Brown, direc-tor of facilities, said. “We’re giving the sporting venues what they need to succeed.”

The stadium will offer better usage of its utilities by converging a rubber-ized track around the field and build-ing a new training facility and field house inside.

With the new design, there will be an artificial turf for runners, a regulat-ed soccer field, and better positioning of the stands, Brown said.

“This (the design of the new stadi-um) definitely serves as a convenience to our viewers. On the old track, trees were in the way and you couldn’t re-ally see it,” he said.

The idea of the new layout is to get

fans as close to the game as possible. Everyone wants to sit at the fifty-yard line, so we kept that in mind when building the new facility, Brown add-ed.

“The men and women’s locker room will be end to end, and the train-ing facilities will be in the middle of the two. Right now, ladies walk to the P.E. South Building to change, now it gives them their own locker room,” Brown said.

“The old Murdock Stadium has ramps (to be ADA compliant) now that don’t meet the regulated code that we need to have,” Brown said.

Other than being a more efficient sports complex, it’s simply going be something nice to enjoy and be a part of, he added.

The biggest thing is moderniza-tion, John Featherstone, football coach, said.

“A new feature of the stadium is there’s going be a section towards the back of the stadium where the wood-en bleachers are now, Featherstone added. “It’s going to be a small hill

grassy area with trees and stuff, where if you’re watching the game you can barbecue and stuff, it’s going to be real nice.”

“We played when this place was sold out at one point, with new fea-tures and less seats, the concentration of the the audience will be more fo-cused towards the center along side the field, as to a rounded dome seat-ing,” Featherstone said.

The stands will be higher and pushed back at least twenty yards to make room for the track, Featherstone added. Aside from the enthusiasm and effort to make a great place for ath-letes to perform, students are excited to hear about what awaits them in 2019.

“We got one of the best stadiums of all community colleges,” Michael Thompson, 19, wide receiver, said. “I can’t wait for the next one.”

The Warriors’ last home game in Murdock Stadium before playoffs be-gin will be Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.

Angela YimStaff Writer

The Union Online and Warrior Life Magazine were awarded General Excellence by the Journalism Asso-ciation of Community Colleges this past weekend at the Southern California conference, a two-day event at Cal State University of Fullerton.

“I was just really excited to go for the overall expe-rience and to meet with all the professorial journalists,” Nadia Basich, staff writer, said.

Along with the general awards, Union staff writers at-tained individual awards including three from on-the-spot competitions bringing the total to 17 awards.

Matthew Simon, sports editor, placed first in sports writing, third in layout, and received honorable mention for copy editing.

“Going into JACC, I didn’t really have any expecta-tions,” Simon said. “This semester I’ve just been really fo-cused on taking sports seriously and blowing up photos.”

“Even now, I think, man, I could have done something different,” Simon said regarding the news layout. “I de-cided to go off a newspaper that’s in Virginia called The Virginian Pilot. They tend to feature a story above the flag -- which I think really helped me in terms of getting noticed by the judges.”

Immediately following the news layout was the sports competition that required Simon, competing in both fields, to run across the Fullerton campus.

“I literally had to go run just to get there in time,” Si-mon said. “The game went for about three hours, then we get back and I really was not into it to be completely hon-est. I just threw everything together, hoped that my lead would carry me and it did.”

This year’s keynote speaker was Elyse Peterson, El Camino adjunct journalism instructor, who presented an hour long testimony about the physical and emotional journey to becoming a journalist.

“I loved and felt honored to be able to speak as the keynote speaker for JACC,” Peterson said. “I’ve gotten a couple emails already of people thanking me for speaking because they felt motivated to keep going and they were kind of feeling struggling -- I know that, I’ve been there. I feel grateful if I could add any inspiration or help anyone to pursue their dreams -- because I know it’s out there.”

“It was a really good learning experience, I was excited to see Elyse Peterson because I have a lot of the same interests as her,” Basich said. “I felt so motivated and in-spired.”

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Performing the “dragon walk” is Martin Reyes, 21, an EC nursing student. Instructor Danielle Roman stresses the development of muscular strength and endurance in her climbing techniques.

Between a rock and a fun place

For the 21 students enrolled in Danielle Roman’s intro to indoor rock climbing class, the pinnacle of success can be mea-

sured by a 30-foot wall. Reaching the top is a tall order, but an attainable one through the practice of climbing techniques and develop-ing sound fitness.

Roman’s class meets Monday and Wednesday afternoons at Hangar 18, a Hawthorne-based climbing gym. Students come together for four hours a week during the eight-week course.

Ninety percent of the students are begin-ners and come from diverse majors, in-cluding political science, nursing, finance, psychology and animation, Roman said.

“The class not only provides basic climb-ing techniques, but also a great workout to develop muscular strength and endurance,” Roman, who has a masters in kinesiology and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, said.”

Each lesson begins with 30 minutes of “dynamic stretching,” principles infused with yoga and circuit training.

Climbing gear for the course includes rope and rock-climbing shoes. Students pay a $6.75 fee per class for use of the gym, a harness and shoes. Roman said she gives a pre and post-fitness assessment, specific to rock climbing. There is also belay test, in-class assignments and a final exam.

Upon completing the course, students have an opportunity to climb outside. Ro-man said she often takes her students to a local spot in Malibu.

“I love teaching this class because the students get so close (to each other). The camaraderie is one of a kind,” she said.

Roman has been an adjunct instructor at EC since 2001. Her intro to rock climbing class is listed under physical education 47. She can be reached through Hangar 18 at 310-973-3388.

Hangar 18 offers 12,500 feet of climbing terrain for climbers as young as age 3. There are various payment packages, from a one-day pass to a one-month membership fee.

Christian Olivas, 23, psychology major, scales a rock at the gym utilizing the hand and foot holds. Students climb according to color-coded routes. Hangar 18 offers a class membership during the semester, so students can climb any time of the day.

Photos and story by Kimberly Keeler,

Union Photographer

Danielle Roman, MS, leads her class in a yoga exercise. Students from left are; Martin Reyes, 31, nursing; Lauren Martinez, 17, biology (partially obscured behind Roman); Kaylah Davis, 21, political science; Mellanie Johnson, 23, animation; and Jodee Jimenez, 25, kinesiology.

Legalization of marijuana is a sticky situation for California res-idents. On one side of the debate are people claiming that marijua-na will cure cancer, regrow hair on your head, and magically usher in a golden age of peace and pros-perity for California. On the other side, you have people claiming that marijuana will cause cancer, make you pull your hair out, and turn our state into an apocalyptic wasteland with children eating their parents and blowing up in-nocents. Now, both sides can’t be true, but how can your average, non-pot-smoking voter know who is right?

The truth is that while both sides of the argument have cases of wild exaggeration, there are good points to consider for both sides.

While marijuana and its chemi-cal components have shown some interesting results in areas such as cancer treatment, the truth is that because of the current laws, conducting the necessary amount of research to finally prove one way or another that cannabis can cure cancer just hasn’t been fea-sible. In addition, marijuana usage does definitely affect short term memory, hand-eye coordination, and perception, so it’s definitely not something a person should be doing while operating heavy ma-chinery or watching a young child in the pool.

However, many of the facts “proving” that marijuana is evil are wrong or taken out of context. For all the claims that marijuana is a toxic substance, there has never been a recorded instance of anyone having died of an overdose from marijuana. The claims that “The incidents of testicular can-cer, paranoia, schizophrenia and depression are significantly higher among marijuana users,” actually make sense though, since marijua-na is actually used to treat issues such as depression, paranoia and cancers. It’s a bit like saying that “incidents of heartburn are signif-icantly higher in people who fre-quently use Pepto-bismol.” Fur-thermore, many people already afflicted with conditions such as

schizophrenia or anti-social be-haviors often resort to marijuana, alcohol, and other substances in order to “cope” with their prob-lems, instead of having them caused by marijuana.

As for claims that marijuana is a “gateway” drug that causes peo-ple to seek out and use other ille-gal drugs, it’s partially true. How-ever, it’s not because there’s some mysterious compound in mari-

juana that causes people to seek out other drugs, but because, hav-ing once seen that marijuana isn’t the dangerous, evil substance that causes you to murder your loved ones in their sleep that groups like

D.A.R.E. made it out to be, it can become hard to blindly trust that all other illegal substances are re-ally “bad for you”. It’s a shame, because there really are many sub-stances out there that will kill or ruin your life, and we’d all be less likely to question the credibility of those threats if marijuana were simply made legal.

In the end, it’s important that you take the time to do some re-search and determine for yourself how you feel about marijuana. Do consider however, that of the many problems that can be lain at the feet of marijuana, many of those problems would actually be solved by legalization. Once legalized, it will be possible to regulate and tax marijuana. Instead of gener-ating obscene amounts of money for criminal groups who are es-sentially modern day boot-leggers who are free to sell to whomever they please, it can instead generate money for the state of California while still staying out of the hands of children. After all, ask any high school student whether it’s easier to get ahold of weed or alcohol, and they’ll almost always answer with the illegal drug.See related article on Page 1

Illustration by Eugene Chang

The Issue• Marijuana has the poten-

tial to both cause harm and bring benefits to California

Our Stand• If we want to be able to

take advantage of mari-juana’s benefits without suffering the harmful consequences, it needs to be properly regulated, controlled, and taxed.

4 El Camino College Union October 17, 2013EDITORIAL

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Vol. 67, No. 5October 17, 2013

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UNIONEL CAMINO COLLEGE

The right and wrong of it is cloudy

It’s time to shake up the Great ShakeoutWhen you hear the alarm, you

drop to the ground, crawl under your desk, and sit still for about a minute with a bored expression on your face. After that, you gather with your classmates in a (mostly) orderly line while an administra-tor in an ugly orange vest walks about with a bullhorn shouting or-ders to the milling student body. Then, just as quickly as it began, the drill is over, and you (hope-

fully) wander back to class. For the last several years, this

has been the “Great Shakeout” drill at EC. Sure, it’s quick, sim-ple, and knowing how to evacu-ate from your classroom in an orderly fashion is a good thing. However, it’s also almost identical to the drills students in the ‘50s practiced in case of a nuclear at-tack. While it’s granted that hid-ing under your desk stands a much

better chance of protecting you from falling debris than it does a nuclear blast, it’s really only the very first baby-step toward disas-ter preparedness.

For instance, evacuating out of your classroom is all well and good, but what should a student do next? For all of the constant drill-ing to evacuate, wouldn’t it be nice to at least get a handout discussing simple but important topics such

as contacting loved ones in the middle of a disaster setting, when cell towers or other lines of com-munication could be disabled? If a massive earthquake strikes, how should you try to get back to your home, when roads, buses, and tax-is will all be wishful thinking?

Or what about steps to take before a disaster strikes? Sure, everyone knows that having emer-gency supplies is a good thing, but

what’s really vital, and what will just slow you down? Having water is a good thing, but how much do you need to realistically hold out until emergency services can be restored?

It’s not like finding all this in-formation would be hard; in fact, most of it is all ready available on the Great Shakeout website, at http://shakeout.org/california/resources/. Considering that every

semester EC uses thousands of pieces of paper to survey students on topics ranging from economic status to teacher competence, would printing out handouts for teachers to distribute to their classes really be all that absurd?

California is long past over-due for another earthquake, and it’s time we start taking the extra steps needed to prepare ourselves for the worst.

“Love like ours is never free. We’ve got to face some agony for the ecstasy,” Smokey Robinson once sang.

There were feverish highs and painful lows. When people said it wasn’t going anywhere, I didn’t listen. You played with my emo-tions sometimes, but what could I do? Loving you is all i know. Eventually you made me proud, but now, it could all be over any day. C’mon Dodgers.

As i write this, the Dodgers trail the National League cham-pionship series to the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2.

The fans have taken turns in the cellar and the penthouse, leg-endary Dodger announcer Vin Scully said during game 5.

After an agonizing game 4 loss, I didn’t really feel like talking to anyone. I felt downright crummy all night and the next morning.

Why would anyone put them-selves through this?

Half-way through the season, I

set a picture of Juan Uribe as my desktop wallpaper in the news-room despite two groan-filled dismal years as a Dodger. But the guy plays defense and is a team leader.

Uribe hit a heroic game win-ning home run to end the series against Atlanta. Vindication. Ec-stasy.

After a six-month season of 162 games, the Atlanta Braves’ season was over with one swing of the bat. Braves fans sat stunned in Atlanta while i danced around my living room.

Now the Dodgers will have to be perfect to make it to the fall classic and avoid the same fate as the rest of the 28 teams in the ma-jor leagues.

Being a fan is a strange love, and as Amy Winehouse once sang, “love is a losing game.”

Only one city out of 30 will fin-ish the season happy and satisfied. The Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908. Some

faithful Cubs fans have lived long lives and died without experienc-ing the ultimate victory.

Vin Scully shared a story about old time Brooklyn Dodger Pee Wee Reese speaking with Jackie Robinson, “the one thing I don’t understand, Jackie, is why after all these years in the game, it hasn’t driven me crazy,” Reese said.

The game can drive fans nuts just as easily as players, but the game goes on, because just like in life, things could change forever on any given day.

So, I hope I can experience the Dodgers being crowned champi-ons of the world like I have with my Lakers (five glorious times). But if not, I’ll utter the dreaded words of every fan, “wait till next year.”

COMMENTARY

Rigo Bonilla Managing Editor

After two years of working on the Union, we’ve finally done something I told myself I would never let happen on the school pa-per; we’re running an article on marijuana.

Now, when I told myself all that time ago that I’d never have a hand in articles about marijuana, it wasn’t a matter of supporting one side or the other. Frankly, I have friends and family on both sides of the argument, and I could probably argue for either point of view with my eyes closed.

The reason I said we would never run a marijuana article was pretty simple; it was too easy. Anyone who’s ever taken a public speaking class here at EC knows that the marijuana bandwagon is generally one of the first issues students leap for when searching for a topic. It’s a topic that most students are more than familiar with, and if they had the choice, many of our writers would have fought each other for the chance

to write an article on the topic of “Mary Jane.” It would have filled a chunk of space on a page, but ultimately it wouldn’t have told anyone anything they didn’t all ready know or couldn’t easily find out on their own. Instead, I’ve al-ways thought it’d be a better use of space and creativity to focus on topics that haven’t been covered ad nauseam.

However, with campaigns for both sides of the debate now ramping themselves up in antici-pation of the 2014 ballot, marijua-na is big news. Support in Califor-nia for cannabis is at an all time high, and there’s a real chance that our state could join Wash-ington and Colorado in legaliz-ing the sticky green substance for recreational use. Not only that, the effects of actual legalization will be far-reaching and hard to anticipate. For instance, since the legalization of cannabis in Wash-ington and Colorado, the num-ber of pet deaths caused by THC

overdose in those states have now sky-rocketed.

It’s for these serious consid-erations that I finally agreed to run a “weed article.” In fact, my staff convinced me we should do a whole series of them. So please understand that we’re doing this for more than the chance to use marijuana puns, and stay tuned for our next issue, when we’ll have an article on the potential consequences and changes for the campus if recreational marijuana is legalized.

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Funny puns, serious topic

Thomas Schmit Editor-in-Chief

Over the weekend, a few of the Union staffers headed down to Fullerton to attend the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC), a two-day event at California State Uinverstiy at Fullerton.

The Titan Student Union building overflowed with students from all over southern California; from San Diego to all the way up to Bakersfield. JACC put together a somewhat unconventional schedule filled with workshops and competitions, encircled by a vast network of experienced and credible people in the industry we call journalism.

As a first time attendee, it was a bit overwhelming and a lot to take in. Participating in timed (one hour) on-the-spot competitions is not an everyday ordeal for JACC virgins; furiously focusing on a strong lead in a room full of bloodthirsty journalism students is not for the faint of heart -- one would need a mental machete to get through it.

A sea of students from other schools flooded the hallways in herds, howling in large packs like hungry animals, and there we stood -- the mighty 8 of us, ready to prove quality’s superiority to quantity.

As Leonidas said to the Spartans, “In the end a [man’s] true strength is the warrior next to him. So give respect and honor to him, and it will be returned to you.” We were the El Camino 300. What started off as a joking referencee, prevailed to be true as the day went on. EC staffers stood by one another, shared insights, shared encouragements and literally cheered each other on. What was observed from enemy lines was gossip, silence, and at times, tears.

This year’s keynote speaker was EC’s very own Elyse Peterson, professor of

journalism, fearlessly inspirational, experienced, and a favored professor among students on campus.

“How much are you worth, how much are your dreams worth?” Peterson said. This was the theme of her hour-long presentation, along with the mantra for her life and the essence of her lectures. It was a personal win for me, as her

student this semester — as she duly noted during the Q&A (blush).

It was exciting to not only be able to envision myself in her footsteps but having that bit of personal connection that made my eyes tear up as she openly described her hardships, and how she not only overcame them but detailed just how excruciatingly heartbreaking it was at times that physical pain and hunger was

overpowered by internal emotional warfare.

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you,” a quote that I referenced in my column earlier during the semes-ter. Peterson was the source and my inspiration for the piece and if you at-tended JACC, or have heard her stories, you’d understand why.

All in all, JACC was an enriching experience, one that certainly has changed many lives.

Alec Maslowsky, 21, computer science major and president of the Astronomy club, invites all EC students to go to their meetings every Thursday at 1 p. m. in the Planetarium where the astronomy club is able to view the night sky and also host movie nights.

What is Astronomy?

Astronomy is the science of observing what is outside of our planet, so it also has a big part to do with astrophysics because this is one of the main two sciences that we have in our club. We have in our club physics people who want to get down to the degree physics and understand things like dark matter or dark energy and why the universe expanding. And there is also the astronomy side which is more an observational thing; it’s more looking what is up in sky and cataloging and understanding what makes two objects different, and how those objects are related to other objects, so it’s a little bit more observation than the astrophysics. Both of fields are very similar.

What students can students expect in the Astronomy Club?

If they come to our meetings, they will find a lot of discussions about astronomy related topics. We cover news in the first half and then we tend to focus to some certain of topic discussion, so we either discuss it with the students or sometimes we have a professor come and do some type of a formal question and answer, and other times we bring in other professors to do more formal type of presentation in a particular topic, or we would bring a guess speaker to do the same thing.

What kind of activities does the Astronomy club participate in?

As a club, we do astronomy trips. We normally going.

Sometimes we have official field trips, but we also have small unofficial trips that we just go through the weekend. We go to good spots for astronomy like White Mountains, Yosemite National Park and Red Rock Canyon, so it’s a pretty good variety. We also do local astronomy nights, so we take our telescopes and go to a relatively dark spot around the area like P.V. or something. Normally our trips are also set around when the moon is not in new moon face, so it’s not bright and ruining our view.

Can any student be part of the astronomy Club?

Yeah, any student can be part of this club. We try to make sure that we are not very technical, so every time we talk about stuff at a meeting, we like to assume that people don’t know what we are talking about. We don’t start with the assumption that everyone understands exactly what I’m talking about if I bring up a topic. We try to give a nice introduction of the basics. Locally, in astronomy a lot of it can be done conceptually, so you don’t really have to understand the math, and a lot of it you can explain from a conceptual point of what is happening and what is occurring.

What is the mission of the Astronomy Club?

Our main mission is probably to promote not only astronomy, astronomical literacy, but science literacy in general. We like to focus on that and also, it’s just to give everyone at school access to astronomy so they can actually can see the objects in the sky and do these kinds of things because a lot of people look at the sky, but they don’t really see it with a powerful telescope. If you ask them what kind of telescope they use, they might say a telescope from K Mart and things like that. Those show you almost nothing out there, they are basically binoculars. If people are going on a trip with us, they will be able to look in large telescopes. In fact, almost all of the telescopes we own personally are larger than the ones you use in the observatory because the observatory is pretty old, so the telescope set up is more for historical purposes now. They are good telescopes but the ones up there are eight inches and my telescope is 17 and half inches. Our smallest telescope is eight inches.

Angela YimUnion Columnist

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How do you play a physical sport like football without being physical? No hitting a defenseless reciever. No hitting with the crown of your helmet. No hitting a quarter-back below the waist.

The newest rule change,0 which is for both offensive and defensive players: no tackling with crown of your helmet and no lowering using your helmet to run over a defender.

They might as well start playing flag football or two-hand-touch. Linebackers, defensive backs, and lineman across the NFL are trying to play a game that requires them to read and react at an ridiculous amount of speed. How can these players be expected to run at full speed and have presence of mind to think “hmm, I should slow down and just hug this guy until he falls down?”

It’s understandable that the NFL is trying to protect players from concussions and prevent players from getting severe brain damage after retirement, but all players know exactly what their getting into when they start playing a physical, brutal but entertaining game of football.

It’s not like someone is holding a gun to these players head saying “you better sign this contract to play football”.

Although these rules changes are meant for all players, this era of football is definetly turning into an offensive minded league. The rule change is made to help these offensive players to continue making jaw-dropping plays and most importantly keep them safe.

Now that the NFL is studying hits to the knees, there is a possibility that the competition committee will make a recommendation for owners to vote for the disallowance of “hitting a defenseless receiver below the knees.”

If this rule is implemented, it will make it nearly impossible for players to tackle or block a player “correctly”. It will make tackling almost as impossible as putting a

thread into a needle on the first try. Without heavy hits, its just body builders wearing track suits.

Maybe these rules are OK for kids, but not at the college or NFL level. In the words of Hotep and Huy from “The Prince of Egypt,” “you’re playing with big boys now.”

“The human body was not created or built to play football,” Harry Carson, a former New York Giants linebacker, said.

As it has done for issues like global warm-ing or smoking, scientific literature is slowly changing the topic of debate for football.

Even the most hardline fans can no longer

ignore the compelling link between playing in the NFL and dementia, Alzheimer’s, or substance abuse later in life. These days, the conversation has effectively shifted from “Does it happen?” to “What should we do about it?”

Of the people who argue “nothing,” two vocal positions have emerged: the idea that penalizing hits delivered with the crown of the helmet would “emasculate” and irrevo-cably change the nature of football, and the idea that the status quo is justified by player consent (now that players are educated about what might await them.)

The first argument, “that’s how it’s always been and we shouldn’t change it,” has never been treated kindly by history nor hindsight.

The problem for professional football, then, is that new information has been uncovered and the game is not what it once was.

Fans could once cheer for every big hit in good conscience. Ignorance was bliss. They should now reconcile with the fact that in 20 years, the invincible juggernauts of today may have trouble recognizing the faces of loved ones or remembering their own names.

Football has changed as well. Players move faster and hit harder. As evidenced by the thousands of former players who joined together to sue the NFL for concussion damages last August, the introduction of newer protective equipment hasn’t been enough to offset the increased physicality of football. It’s only right then, that policies adjust to reflect the changing nature of the game.

The second argument, that players know what they’re getting themselves into and should be allowed to sign the risk of life-long injuries for an exorbitant salary, is also highly faulty.

As a society, we allow regulations to intercede against consent to be harmed. You may dislike wearing a seatbelt in a car and consent to the risks of not buckling in, but the law will still oblige you to wear one.Illustration by Eugene Chang

Hard hits have and should always be a part of football

As with everything in life, times/rules change

UP FOR DEBATE

Are the NFL’s new rules good for the game?

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A’haj Grant, 19,kinesiology

“I like the helmet to helmet rule. I only approve of it because of the safety. For the most part, the rules are cool, but some rules are just unnecessary.”

Nia Battle, 19,English

“I don’t think the sport is getting weak. I believe that players should be able to hit as hard as they used to, but it should be the owner’s responsibility to make sure their health is good. No matter how much the athlete is paid, they’re playing for the team.”

Wesley Harris, 25,physical education

“From a football players perspective, no, they’re not good, but overall i think it is safe for all players just because of long term health.”

Timothy Maxie, 19,physical education

“Without the rule, players can get hurt and get a concussion -- especially the quarterback.”

Warriors of journalism

CAmPUs viEwPOinTs

CAmPUs CORnERBy Lorenzo Gutierrez

Column

Eric HseihStaff writer

Sam TedlaStaff writer

By Trent Ledford

Ezera Joseph, 19,Kinesiology

“The new NFL rule is good for the safety of the players because it prevents injuries.

Angela YimStaff Writer

Victor Raphael’s ‘ILLUMINA-TION: From Digital to Sub-lime,’ which explores the

vastness of space and time, opened its doors Oct. 7 at EC’s art gallery.

“When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, so for me my art is a way to explore outer space,” Raphael said. “It’s just something that I’m always interested in. It re-ally gives us a perspective on us human beings here on earth and how fragile our condition is.”

In his art, Raphael challenges traditional disciplines by blending photographic and painterly tech-niques with digital work.

“Through both the digital ma-nipulation of image and color, and the use of metal leaf as a source of light within the visual plane, Raphael literally illuminates areas of his photographs,” according to a press release by Susanna Meiers, EC art gallery curator. “His work is simultaneously abstract and re-alistic, sensual and spiritual, very old and very new.”

“Artists like Jackson Pol-lock created fields of color as he dripped [paint] and made these spatial things in abstraction,” Ra-

phael said. “I’m using that as an inspiration but doing it a little dif-ferently, a little different process and a little different result.”

Along with his collection of solo work throughout the years, Raphael showcases his collabo-rated works with four other artists: David Jordan Williams, Bill Aron, Jean-Pierre Hebert, and Clayton Spada.

“When Victor and I met we no-ticed right away that we had many similar interests and influences, in particular a real love of all things science, the universe and the un-known,” according to an email from Williams. “The body of imagery that developed with the

‘Unexplained Phenomena’ proj-ect was produced very effortlessly and we continue to have conversa-tions related to some way of com-municating a new idea and where in the imagination or the world it might take place.”

This end result was well-re-ceived by viewers who attended the gallery.

“I loved how he somehow in-corporated [metal] into the pic-tures of water. I never even thought of how metallic water would look. I thought that was really cool how he found nature in something that seems unnatural,” Nicole Juillerat, 20, English major, said.

“The gold, it really stuck out

and popped. One of my favorites was the map,” Michelle Imamura, 19, finance and economics major, said. “Most maps highlight land. This time, the gold was the water so it popped out.”

Still other exhibit-goers appre-ciated the emotive response gener-ated by Raphael’s work.

“It was creative but sad at the same time,” Hyunji Noh, 16, com-munication major, said. “My fa-vorite one is called Early Morn-ing Light. It’s like a pathway with gold. I felt really sad, but it in-spired me. I felt like the message was even in a dull place, there is gold.”

Rigo BonillaManaging Editort

“Captain Phillips,” features Tom Hanks opposite Barkhad Abdi, who plays captain of the Somali pirates, tells the story of the MV Maersk Alabama, a U.S. cargo vessel that was hi-jacked in 2009.

While Hanks holds his stan-dard as a top notch actor, the film doesn’t have its heart in the right place.

An alternate title could have easily been: “The Four Stoog-es.” Four Somali knuckleheads who thought it would be a swell idea to get on a little fishing boat and hijack a massive Ameri-can freight ship.

The plot quickly de-volves into a giant episode of “World’s Dumbest Crim-inals.” Four starving Soma-lis against the girth of the United States Navy: bets, anyone?

To add to the predictable plot, the movie clearly speaks from an American’s point of view. Attempts to add a layer of depth by contrasting the strug-gling U.S. economy with the pretty much non-existent Soma-lian economy fall flat. In what may be the weakest comparison to grace cinema, Captain Phil-lips claims that 50 people fight for each available job in Amer-ica. Shortly after, a convenient 50 Somalis compete for a spot on the pirate crew.

An opportunity to create an interesting dynamic between Hanks and Abdi is ruined by the screenwriter’s disinterest. The

film rarely gets past portraying the pirates as one-track-minded, greedy goons.

There are flashes of human-ity in the pirate crew, but overall it’s just a big “Captain Phillips” party. As if showing a human side of the pirates was hast-ily scribbled on a to-do list, but no one got around to it. It is a missed opportunity that would have added a lot more depth to the movie.

Additionally, in most mov-ies the “bad guy” inevitably loses. That’s just their role. But great movies make the audience understand why they feel com-pelled to act that way.

I n s t e a d , “Captain Phil-lips” ends up being a big, oily muscle flex by the U.S. Navy. The moral of the story: “It doesn’t matter who you are, don’t mess with us.”

Stylistically, the sets add to the feel of the movie. Contrasting the wide open ocean with a cramped sweaty space creates tension where tension is needed.

Some scenes give off a claustrophobic effect that re-ally bring the film to a climactic boiling point.

Viewers will notice Hanks takes a little too much spotlight when giving Abdi some shine would have strengthened the movie. But hey, it is Tom frig-gin’ Hanks.

All in all, “Captain Phillips” wasn’t bad, but it certainly got in its own way to being great.

Movie Review

Eric Hsieh/ UnionWesley Obatake, 19, undecided, works on a head study, carefully building muscles on top of a skull.

A sculptor for all seasonsEric HsiehArts Editor

Ask a historian to name a Re-naissance man, and they’ll likely go back 600 years to choose a artist like da Vinci, Michelan-gelo, or Alberti.

Now ask someone in EC’s life sculpture class the same question, and while they only have to look as far as their class-mates, Wesley Obatake, 19, unde-cided, is purportedly also a great a sculptor.

“When he started in my bronze class, we spent a day get-ting introduced to wax,” Russell McMillin, art professor, said.

“He molded this perfect minia-ture apple that he shined up, and it’s actually very difficult to get wax smooth. Everyone else was stuck over how sticky or gooey the wax was.”

Dig a little into Obatake’s background and it becomes ap-parent that sculpting, while one of his talents, is hardly his first.

“My father’s a jeweler and I started working for him since I was 10 or 11 years old,” Obatake said. “Since then he’s taught me a lot about jewelry, sculpture, and graphic design.”

McMillin agrees that

Obatake’s background is a sig-nificant contributor to his success.

“He comes from a skills-based family, which I think is an advan-tage,” he said. “He has the hand-eye coordination and experience using machinery. He knows that measuring is important, that cut-ting something right the first time is important.”

While his classmates have noticed his meticulous nature, they’ve also recognized an artis-tic clarity behind the basic skills.

“You can always tell [Obatake] has an idea in his head that he’s working on,” Carol Erilane, 60, who takes fine arts classes, said.

“He has a good thought process behind it. It’s not random. When he gets an idea about how he’s go-ing to morph a sculpture he’s not casual about what he does.”

Descriptions of Obatake rare-ly stop there. As willing as those around him are to praise his ar-tistic technique, many are equally impressed with his character.

“He stands out because he’s very diligent and very helpful,” Erilane said. “He keeps his head low, but he’s always working on something and always ready to help other people out.”

That sort of diligent, focused work has led McMillin to nomi-nate Obatake for an internship at Honda.

“I think he would be a great fit because he has a broad set of technical skills but he also has those soft skills which make him really easy to work with,” McMil-lin said.

So where does Obatake go from here? Honestly, he says, he’s very conflicted about deciding a future career.

“I’m interested in so many dif-ferent things. I really don’t know what I’ll end up in,” Obatake said.

“I’ve always been interested in English and Chemistry. I have a lot of things I want to do.

Whatever he ends up pursuing, however, his instructors and peers already know what is in store for him.

“People like Wesley are going to succeed no matter what school they’re at, no matter what teacher they have, no matter what life throws at them,” McMillin said.

arts

Eric Hsieh/ UnionVictor raphael pauses to answer a student’s questions after the artist’s lecture Oct. 15 for the new exhibit ‘ILLUMINatION: From Digital to sublime’.

El Camino College Union

On the sceneErin Logan

Art

Phantasms

EC professor Jason Davidson will present his speech “Phan-tasms” which asks the question: “Can we communicate with the dead?” Davidson will talk about the history and demonstrate the methods of the Spiritualist Move-ment, as well as explain how these techniques are still in use today. The event will be in Marsee Au-ditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. and tickets are $15. Call 1-800-832-ARTS for more information.

Film

Natural wonders

EC will be screening “More of America’s Amazing Places: American Natural Wonders” which is narrated by Bob Deloss and is part of its Discovery World Travel Series. The film will be shown on Oct. 21 in Marsee Au-ditorium at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $7 and can be purchased in person at the Marsee box office Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Dance

Bollywood dance

Shamala Moorty and collaborators present “an evening of dance, theater, multimedia, and audience interaction” while taking their viewers on an exploration of Shyamala’s South Asian heritage. The performance will take place Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in Marsee Auditorium. Tickets will be $18 and can be ordered by calling 1-800-832-ARTS.

Music

Society of Music Recitals

Each semester, EC’s Society of Music club organizes a stu-dent recital. The event serves as a venue for EC music students to perform in as well as a fundraiser for the club. This fall, it will take placet Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. in Haag Recital Hall. For additional infor-mation on this event, contact Pat-rick Schulz, the club advisor at: pshulz@elcamino.edu

Flute, piano, cello

The trio of Patricia Maki, Lois Roberts, and Catherine Biagini will be performing in Marsee Auditorium on Oct. 27. They will perform pieces by Lotti, Poulenc, Ravel, Piazzolla, and Dutilleux. The performance will start at 3 p.m. and tickets will be $15. For those interested in attending, tick-ets can be purchased beforehand at the box office located in Mar-see Auditorium Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Jazz and dance

EC’s Jazz One Band and Jazz Two Big Band will perform in Haag Recital Hall on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be sold for $10. For more information on this event contact Chris Mello or Da-vid Sills at: cmello@elcamino.edu or dsills@elcamino.edu.

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‘Captain Phillips’ gets hijacked by poor writing

“the plot quickly devolves into a giant episode of

‘World’s Dumbest criminals.’ ”

Lucy in the sky with gold leafEC’s newest art exhibit features ornate, gilded images of outer space.

October 17, 2013 El Camino College Union 7sports

Warriors see red in shutout

Freshman Kyrian Nwabueze of Warriors men's soccer team is one of the leading players in scoring goals in the state.

He is a great scorer on offense, who may be able to play at the pro-fessional level in soccer.

Coming out of Leuzinger High School, Class of 2011, Kyrian now plays for the the Warriors, and also competes in the Los Angeles Premier Soccer League.

He has played for the Los An-geles Misioneros FC team since Fall 2012.

All three goals scored in the Warriors first two games were scored by Kyrian, as they tied against both Chaffey College and San Bernandino Valley College.

Nwabueze has scored nine goals this season, and also as-sisted his teammates plenty going into the season.

He creates problems for most defenses the Warriors play against.

With his speed and scoring ability, he’s able to create space for his teammates to make an oppor-tunity to make a play on offense.

"During this season, I want to score as much as possible my goal is to at least get 25 goals," Nwabueze said. "In the game, I like to dominate with my speed, strength, and staying in control."

With Nwabueze on the team, he improves the Warriors’ offense, and coach John Britton feels that Kyrian made a wise choice com-ing to El Camino College.

"It's great to have him on the team, and he was a highly sought after recruit," said Britton. "He is scoring the majority of our goals, and is taking most of the scoring chances, which has been leading to good results."

Assistant coach Ever Mora-taya feels that Kyrian is growing to earn leadership on and off the field.

"He's still a freshman, and still has more things to work on," said Morataya.

The power striker was a key factor taking the Misioneros team through the playoffs, and making their way to the finals defeating Vargas Tires during the 2012 sea-son.

During the 2013 season in the league, Nwa only scored one goal, but proved to be a premier player

creating opportunities to score anytime he had possession of the ball on offense.

Kyrian is a prospect to watch for in the near future as he takes his journey to possibly playing professional sports.

He will look to continue is im-pressive play when the team trav-els to East LA college tomorrow.

After coming off two dramatic come-from-behind victories, the El Camino football team was sent crashing back down to Earth with a 28-0 loss at the hands of Bakers-field College last Saturday.

The Warriors entered the night with a four game win streak, but clearly struggled offensively last week against Harbor and the mis-cues only got worse against the Renegades.

“You try to get the kids to un-derstand the rivalry and that Ba-kersfield is going to come out ready to play,” coach John Feath-erstone said. “But they outplayed us and out-toughed us and de-served to win.”

The offense struggled to find any consistency throughout the night. Going 4 for 13 on third downs and amassing a mere 71 yards through the air.

The opening drive of the game summed up the night perfectly. The Warriors marched 73 yards down the field and had a third-and-goal on the Renegade 3-yard line before sophomore running back Jose Serrano was stopped for no gain.

Featherstone decided to go for it on fourth-and goal but freshman running back Kendell Sparks was stopped on the line and the War-riors were forced to turn it over on downs.

“We didn’t put the offense in that good of a position to score,” sophomore defensive back Kaelyn Henderson said. “We have a new quarterback and have to give him confidence with a short field.”

Freshman quarterback Aaron Shockey never really looked com-fortable in the pocket and strug-gled through the air as he went 8 for 18, 69 yards and one intercep-tion. The Warriors turned the ball over three times all of which were

interceptions.“Shockey was pretty good last

game and he had a good week of practice,” Featherstone said. “To-night he didn’t do the things he’s capable of doing. But you still need your receivers to make plays

when the ball is thrown to you.”Despite the offensive struggles,

the running game had another strong showing with 205 yards on the ground. Sparks had 17 carries for 76 yards and freshman running back Raphael Lawson-Gayle, who

returned from a leg injury, had seven carries for 70 yards.

The defense had another strong showing but could only do so much. They held the Renegades to only 101 passing yards but al-lowed 251 yards on the ground.

Coupled with costly turnovers, the Renegades were able to take ad-vantage and score.

“We just broke down after a while,” sophomore linebacker Kristopher Bass said. “We tried to do too much and they just came

out and beat us.”The Warriors will not have

much time to dwell on this loss. They must focus and regroup as they prepare to host the No. 1 ranked team in the state, Riverside City College on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Charles Ryder / UnionSophomore wide receiver Ross Stribling runs for a first down during the Warriors 28-0 loss against Bakersfield College last Saturday.

Brian CamachoStaff Writer

Nwabuezescores on all levels

Gilberto Castro / UnionFreshman utility player Miguel Mendoza takes a shot at goal. The Warriors would go on to lose 19-4.

Offense sputters in 19-4 lossMarquis ParkerStaff Writer

Charles Ryder / UnionFreshman forward Kyrian Nwabueze runs his way down the field.

Marquis ParkerStaff Writer

Depsite a hard fought game the men’s water polo team was un-able to contain Long Beach City College’s offense, losing the game 19-4.

The Warriors battled during the first half of play, but weren’t able to sustain it in the third quarter Long Beach City College broke away scoring six goals to one.

"Long Beach is one of the top teams in the state," freshman util-ity Jonathan Diaz said. "We kind of felt that loss coming."

The men were out of wind dur-ing the fourth quarter, as they

couldn't score a goal, in which their opponents took advantage scoring five unanswered goals.

"Right now we are having trouble figuring out where we should be out there on defense and offense," coach Corey Stan-bury said.

Due to the illness most key players on the Warriors’ team were out, it has taken a toll during practices as they are still working on their chemistry.

"We are going to work more on our intensity throughout the entire game," Diaz said. "The first half we played well, but we began to get tired and they started to score more."

Warriors sophomore utility

player Adam Rudow and sopho-more 2-meter Ashton De Rojas were the only Warriors to score a goal with two each.

Rudow now has 27 points for the season, and De Rojas has 10 of his own.

Devin Sanchez and Diaz led the Warriors defensively, totaling four steals each, which now gives both of them a total of 60 and 18 for the season.

Goalie Tanner Castro showed his skills on defense recording eight saves, and now has 50 total blocks going into their next game.

The Warriors now face one of the top five teams in the state Oct. 23 when they host Cerritos Com-munity College.

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Warriors schedule

Football: Saturday oct. 19 vs Riverside City College 6 p.m. Men’S SoCCeR: tomorrow at east los angeles 2 p.m.

WoMen’SSoCCeR: tomorrow at east los angeles4 p.m.

WoMen’S Volleyball:tomorrow at los angeles trade tech7 p.m.

WoMen’S WateR polo:tomorrow atCitrus College

CRoSS CountRy:tomorrow at Mt. San antonio Invitational

Football: Warriors 0 (4-2), Bakersfield College 28 Men’S SoCCeR: Warriors 3 (3-4-4), l.a. Harbor College 4 WoMen’S SoCCeR: Warriors 1 (0-9-2), l.a. Harbor College 3

WoMen’S Volleyball: Warriors 3 (10-3), Cerritos College 0

Men’SWateR polo: Warriors 4 (2-10),long beach City 19

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Warriors scoreBoard

Nunez on the ballin 4-2 victory

With only a mere glimpse of the goal forward Andy Nunez launched a rocket shot passed the goalie leav-ing him no chance to block it.

The goal capped off a 4-1 victory over visiting El Camino College Compton Center last friday.

"I was thinking that if I didn’t score our team would have gotten impatient and would have started slacking off during the game," Andy Nunez said.

The team has had some close games and could easily have a better record.

"This is not the way we wanted to start the sea-son but it’s better than being oh and four," freshman defender Carlos Perez said.

The Warriors were able to use their high octance offense to give them a good cushion in the game.

"I feel like it is great,” freshman midfielder Brand-don Cando said. “Little by little we seem to gain more and more chemistry with each other on the field.”

A goal from El Camino Compton Center put the Warriors down 1-0.

"We started off with good momentum until Compton got the goal," sophomore midfielder Angel Lomeli said.

An early goal by Nunez gave the warriors the lead after they had tied the game 1-1.

"I just wanted to put our team back on track by scoring," Nunez said.

The team looked very confident and comfortable after knowing they had the lead.

"We attacked with different options,” Lomeli said. “Every player was looking for the open space that created gaps for us to score the goals.”

The coaches took the same approach to this game making no changes from the previous games.

"We played the same style as the other games and this time we took advantage," coach John Britton said.

One area the team will work on moving forward is practicing its finishing touches which have been a thorn in its side.

"We will have to take advantage in our next game," Britton said.

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After losing five consecutive games the women’s soccer team was able to tie against El Camino Compton Center 0-0 last Friday.

"The goalkeeper was rarely in trou-ble throughout the whole game," coach John Britton said.

Warriors had more possession throughout the whole game, but weren’t able to score their first goal of the se-aon.

"They had better possession of the ball," said Britton.

The team played better overall, but weren’t able to put the ball in the back of the net.

The women had plenty of opportu-nities to score, but just weren’t able to capitalize on those chances.

"The game changed momentum when one of my teammates had a re-ally close chance to score," sophomore midfielder Kendall Scott said.

After the missed opportunity the team wasn’t able to get anything going

and had to settle for the tie.The Warriors now sit with a 0-9-2

record after falling to the Los Angeles

Harbor College Seahawks on Tuesday 3-1.

Charles Ryder / UnionMidfielder Kendall Collard takes a shot on goal for the Warriors against Compton.

First place in the South Coast Confer-ence.

That is where the El Camino women’s volleyball team stands half way through the season.

The Warriors continued their incredible hot-streak as they traveled to Cerritos Col-lege last Friday and defeated the Falcons 3-0 (25-14, 25-22, 25-15).

The Warriors are playing like one of the best teams in the conference and rightfully so. They have not lost a single set since Sept. 20 and have swept five consecutive matches since then.

“That’s not really our goal; to not lose sets,” sophomore setter SueKalena Ta-fao said. “It’s the result of our small term goals like keeping the ball in play and no errors.”

Despite the lack of size and season-ending injury to sophomore outside hitter Nicole Echeverri, the team continues to impress with strong performances week in and week out.

The team has come together at the per-fect time and is firing on all cylinders. Speed has become a huge asset to the War-riors and they are taking full advantage of it with excellent ball movement from all sides.

“Speed has made up for our lack height,” freshman outside hitter Laynie Thompson said. “Picking up balls that typically no other team would get.”

Limiting the turnovers also played a huge role in this win for the Warriors. Committing as few mistakes as possible, keeping the ball in play and allowing the Falcons to defeat themselves.

“We’ve been really big on limiting un-forced errors on our side,” coach Le Val-ley Pattison said. “We have to put the ball away when we have the opportunity.”

The score was tied 9-9 in the first set before the Warriors ran off 11 of the next 12 points to take a commanding 20-10 lead and put the set away.

The Warriors found themselves down often in the second set and the match boiled down to a 20-22 deficit before they rattled off five-straight points to win the set.

After that all the momentum was on the Warrior side and they never looked back with a 25-15 victory in the final set.

Tafao led the team with 11 kills along with freshman middle blocker Kimberly Haney who registered 8 kills.

The Warriors will look to continue their hot streak against Harbor College on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at El Camino before heading over to L.A. Trade Tech on Friday, Oct. 18.

“It helps keep our team motivated see-ing us up at number one,” Tafao said. “Ev-ery other team is out to get you so we just try to stay focused on our game.”

Staff WriterBrian Camacho

Missed chanceslead to tie

Charles Ryder / UnionFreshman forward Andy Nunez attempts a header that narrowly misses. The Warriors went on to win 4-2 last Friday.

Hot streak continues with another sweep