October 16, 2014 Volume 88, Issue 5 Published Since 1927 lbccviking.com • facebook.com/lbccvikingnews • @lbccvikingnews/twitter • @lbccvikingnews/instagram Women’s soccer last-minute goal brings win PAGE 9 BACKSTAGE Quake drill set today, Oct. 16 Review panel hears employee complaints By Arieel Alcaraz Contributing Writer LBCC will practice its Great California Shakeout today, urs- day, Oct.16, at 10:16 a.m. Students will follow their pro- fessor’s directions to drop, take cover and hold on. Evacuation drills will occur in Buildings MM, JJ and II at the PCC and Buildings E, F and G the LAC. According to the Great Cali- fornia Shakeout website, millions of people worldwide will practice on the same day. Aaron Cortez, 19, a plastic surgeon major, was not aware of the shakeout drill but said that it is good practice: “Yeah, it’s good because nobody is prepared for it and practicing is good.” When an earthquake occurs experts recommend that people drop to the ground, take cover by getting under a sturdy desk or ta- ble and hold on to protect them- selves from loose items falling off the table or desk. Another student at LBCC, So- vannah Phang, 20, a biology ma- jor, is aware of the shakeout. It’s good to be prepared for it. We need to be prepared usually because we need water and food and we can run out.” Phang said, “In high school you learn once a year. e teacher would tell us and we hide under our desk.” More information is available at lbcc.edu or Shakeout.org/Cali- fornia. TYISHA ALI/VIKING Actresses Vercylanne Bustos, left, and Alexandra Carmel apply makeup in the dressing room min- utes before performing in the performing arts program’s version of “The Laramie Project” on Tues- day, Oct. 7, in the Auditorium. Story and more photos on page 12. By Andre Barajas Staff Writer Employees of LBCC expressed concern to the accreditation team at LAC on Tuesday, Oct. 7. e external evaluation team provides an independent, peer review of the college. e team uses the accreditation standards to prepare a report for the college that analyzes the adequacy of its resources, the effectiveness of its procedures, its evidence of stu- dent achievement and stu- dent learning, as stated in the mission statement. Accreditation chair Henry Shannon opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and inviting the LBCC community to speak on its behalf. e most heavily discussed issue of the meeting centered on morale. e topic arose when the president of the faculty union and teacher Lynn Shaw addressed the lack of respect faculty receive from administration. Profound distrust, lack of re- spect and ridicule were just some of the words Shaw mentioned during her address. An employee survey was ad- ministered on Survey Gizmo from Oct. 14-25, 2013. e survey reported that 16 percent of employees said admin- istrators were honest with them. Also, 64 percent said it is not safe to say what they think. And, 15 percent said LBCC President Eloy Oakley worked effectively with college groups. In response to the growing criticism Oakley said, “Adminis- tration is working with the facul- ty union and Academic Senate,” deemed necessary to maintain the schools’ quality of education. Mandatory budget cuts that occurred during the four years of recession in California affected teacher salaries, however, “sala- ries will increase without a doubt, it is just a matter of time,” Oakley said. Steps have been taken in re- sponse to these concerns includ- ing the employment of 42 new teachers and 25 more next year, restored sabbatical need, profes- sional development training and an $80,000 innovation fund avail- able for a number of departments to utilize for good educational ideas. It is unlikely that teachers’ sal- aries will increase significantly in the next year, however, money is flowing into the system as school revenue begins to slowly increase, so will teacher salary in the fu- ture, Oakley said. Shannon, a strong advocate for community colleges and orator for the role of the Com- munity College locally, state- wide and nationally, referred to LBCC as a “quality institu- tion.” e goal of the meeting was not to negotiate and the ac- creditation team cannot resolve issues between both parties, eval- uating, is the primary role the team has, Shannon said. Anthropology teacher Adrian Novotny recommended pay rais- es and administrative supports, study. Novotny said teachers have not received a raise in seven years. Teachers have also faced a 2 per- cent pay cut to satisfy budget cuts. Breast cancer affects women, men By Eliza De La Flor Contributing Writer While many students are aware that October is designated as breast cancer awareness month, they may not know how to check themselves for early warning signs of the disease. Breast exams are offered by Student Health Services on both campuses. Students are also taught how to perform self-checks to facilitate early detection of any lumps or irregularities. Kinesiology major Deanna Lidyoff, 44, said she did not know health services offered the ex- ams. She said it was wise for any student to take advantage of the service and to learn how to check themselves. Lidyoff said a popular per- ception is, "When you're young, you're invincible, nothing's ever going to be wrong with you." Marianne Palacios, the only nurse practitioner who works at both campuses, echoed Lidyoff 's thoughts when she shared more information on breast cancer. She said students should fa- miliarize themselves with self- checks early, because although the baseline for regular breast ex- ams is 35, there are cases when it strikes earlier. She said an area where aware- ness is lacking is breast cancer in men. She said her father was di- agnosed with breast cancer. Al- though it usually doesn't affect men until they are in their 50s or 60s, she said she would like to see more awareness for men on cam- pus. Palacios and nurse practi- tioner Tina Cassar both said self- checks, "Can't start too young." Male student Ronel V. Abella, 19, a psychology major, said he was taught self-checks in health classes in junior high and high school. He said it was a positive to have the services available on campus. Abella said, "I think they're finding the cure." Health services are in A1010 at the LAC and the TO trailer at the PCC. IN THIS ISSUE - Voting guide Page 4 - Cardboard box day at PCC Page 6 - Football team undefeated Page 8 “LBCC teachers have not received a pay raise in seven years.” -Adrian Novotny Anthropolgy teacher
Transcript
October 16, 2014 Volume 88, Issue 5 Published Since 1927
LBCC will practice its Great California Shakeout today, Thurs-day, Oct.16, at 10:16 a.m.
Students will follow their pro-fessor’s directions to drop, take cover and hold on. Evacuation drills will occur in Buildings MM, JJ and II at the PCC and Buildings E, F and G the LAC.
According to the Great Cali-fornia Shakeout website, millions of people worldwide will practice on the same day.
Aaron Cortez, 19, a plastic surgeon major, was not aware of the shakeout drill but said that it is good practice: “Yeah, it’s good because nobody is prepared for it and practicing is good.”
When an earthquake occurs experts recommend that people drop to the ground, take cover by getting under a sturdy desk or ta-ble and hold on to protect them-selves from loose items falling off the table or desk.
Another student at LBCC, So-vannah Phang, 20, a biology ma-jor, is aware of the shakeout.
It’s good to be prepared for it. We need to be prepared usually because we need water and food and we can run out.”
Phang said, “In high school you learn once a year. The teacher would tell us and we hide under our desk.”
More information is available at lbcc.edu or Shakeout.org/Cali-fornia.
Tyisha ali/VikingActresses Vercylanne Bustos, left, and Alexandra Carmel apply makeup in the dressing room min-utes before performing in the performing arts program’s version of “The Laramie Project” on Tues-day, Oct. 7, in the Auditorium. Story and more photos on page 12.
By Andre BarajasStaff Writer
Employees of LBCC expressed concern to the accreditation team at LAC on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
The external evaluation team provides an independent, peer review of the college. The team uses the accreditation standards to prepare a report for the college that analyzes the adequacy of its resources, the effectiveness of its procedures, its evidence of stu-dent achievement and stu-dent learning, as stated in the mission statement.
Accreditation chair Henry Shannon opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and inviting the LBCC community to speak on its behalf.
The most heavily discussed issue of the meeting centered on morale.
The topic arose when the president of the faculty union and teacher Lynn Shaw addressed the lack of respect faculty receive from administration.
Profound distrust, lack of re-spect and ridicule were just some of the words Shaw mentioned during her address.
An employee survey was ad-ministered on Survey Gizmo from Oct. 14-25, 2013.
The survey reported that 16 percent of employees said admin-istrators were honest with them. Also, 64 percent said it is not safe to say what they think. And, 15 percent said LBCC President Eloy Oakley worked effectively with college groups.
In response to the growing criticism Oakley said, “Adminis-tration is working with the facul-
ty union and Academic Senate,” deemed necessary to maintain the schools’ quality of education.
Mandatory budget cuts that occurred during the four years of recession in California affected teacher salaries, however, “sala-ries will increase without a doubt, it is just a matter of time,” Oakley said.
Steps have been taken in re-sponse to these concerns includ-ing the employment of 42 new teachers and 25 more next year,
restored sabbatical need, profes-sional development training and an $80,000 innovation fund avail-able for a number of departments to utilize for good educational ideas.
It is unlikely that teachers’ sal-aries will increase significantly in the next year, however, money is flowing into the system as school revenue begins to slowly increase, so will teacher salary in the fu-ture, Oakley said.
Shannon, a strong advocate for community colleges and orator for the role of the Com-munity College locally, state-wide and nationally, referred to LBCC as a “quality institu-tion.”
The goal of the meeting was not to negotiate and the ac-creditation team cannot resolve issues between both parties, eval-uating, is the primary role the team has, Shannon said.
Anthropology teacher Adrian Novotny recommended pay rais-es and administrative supports, study.
Novotny said teachers have not received a raise in seven years. Teachers have also faced a 2 per-cent pay cut to satisfy budget cuts.
Breast cancer affects women, menBy Eliza De La FlorContributing Writer
While many students are aware that October is designated as breast cancer awareness month, they may not know how to check themselves for early warning signs of the disease.
Breast exams are offered by Student Health Services on both campuses. Students are also taught how to perform self-checks to facilitate early detection of any lumps or irregularities.
Kinesiology major Deanna Lidyoff, 44, said she did not know health services offered the ex-ams. She said it was wise for any student to take advantage of the service and to learn how to check themselves.
Lidyoff said a popular per-ception is, "When you're young, you're invincible, nothing's ever going to be wrong with you."
Marianne Palacios, the only nurse practitioner who works at both campuses, echoed Lidyoff 's thoughts when she shared more information on breast cancer.
She said students should fa-miliarize themselves with self-checks early, because although the baseline for regular breast ex-ams is 35, there are cases when it strikes earlier.
She said an area where aware-ness is lacking is breast cancer in men. She said her father was di-agnosed with breast cancer. Al-though it usually doesn't affect men until they are in their 50s or 60s, she said she would like to see more awareness for men on cam-pus.
Palacios and nurse practi-tioner Tina Cassar both said self-checks, "Can't start too young."
Male student Ronel V. Abella, 19, a psychology major, said he was taught self-checks in health classes in junior high and high school. He said it was a positive to have the services available on campus.
Abella said, "I think they're finding the cure."
Health services are in A1010 at the LAC and the TO trailer at the PCC.
IN THIS ISSUE- Voting guidePage 4
- Cardboard box day at PCCPage 6
- Football team undefeatedPage 8
“LBCC teachers have not received a pay raise in seven years.”
-Adrian NovotnyAnthropolgy teacher
Brittany LieBerman/Viking
PLATTER OF DISSENT: LBCC union President Lynn Shaw delivers 97 postcards to President Eloy Oakley written by full-time teachers Wednesday, Oct. 15. Written on the postcards are the salary re-quests of full-time facutly, who have been at odds with the presi-dent and the Board since February.
NEWS2 October 16, 2014
Full-time teachers, counselors, librarians lobby president and Board.By Brittany LiebermanEditor-in-chief
After months of negotiations between the LBCC Board of Trustees and full-time teachers, counselors and librarians, con-cerning a pay raise on or before Monday, Oct. 20, Associate Vice President of Human Resources Cindy Vyskocil said.
The two parties will conduct a ne got i at i on meeting be-fore Monday’s mediation, on Friday, Oct. 17.
F a c u l t y union pres-ident Lynn Shaw said if a deal is not reached by bargaining or with a mediator, a fact-finder will be brought in. “I am cautiously opti-mistic, I really want to get a good deal,” Shaw said.
Anthropology teacher Adri-an Novotny said full-time faculty are asking for fair compensation. “Morale at the college is incred-ibly low because our salary is ranked 67th out of 72 Communi-ty Colleges in California,” Novot-
ny said. The Board filed for an im-
passe, which haults all negoti-ations between the two parties, shortly after full-time faculty vot-ed down an offer on June 18.
No one has talked of a faculty strike, but some faculty are ready to put an end to the lengthy pro-cess.
Bob Maxell, a math and en-gineer teacher and the full-time faculty chief negotiator, said, “Professors do a lot of extra, vol-untarily things around campus that we are not required to do. Some may choose to stop doing those things, which would essen-
tially bring the campus to a screeching halt.”
A May 5 report gath-ered from longbeachc-ca.org states LAC union representative Patricia Alex-
ander asked, “Why the full-time faculty is expected by adminis-tration to give up some of their rights of long standing in order to keep up with inflation by obtain-ing a cost of living increase?”
Maxell said, “There are good people on both sides working to-wards an agreement, but there are larger factors at play. We hope to come to a negotiated, not mediat-ed agreement.”
Union, college differ on pay Nursing building project beginsBy Elisa CastilloContributing writer
Students of the LBCC nurs-ing program gathered in front of Building C on Thursday, Oct. 2 , along with President Eloy Oakley for the renovation commence-ment ceremony.
The building is scheduled for renovations after 45 years. The project is expected to be complet-ed in 2016. The renovations in-clude state-of-the-art technology meant to enhance the learning ex-perience for all current and future nursing students. The budget for renovations was capped at $11.65 million.
“That’s a lot of money, but I know it’s going to look amazing,” said Cristal Velasquez, 23, an LBCC student waiting to be ad-mitted into the nursing program.
Students who were at the com-mencement ceremony were en-thusiastic about sharing their ex-citement. “I’m on the waiting list to be accepted into the program, but this just makes me more excit-ed to be accepted,” Velasquez said.
“There are good people on both sides working towards an agreement, but there are larg-er factors at play. We hope to come to a negotiated, not mediated agreement.””
- Bob MaxellFull-time faculty chief negotiator
7th annual event has waiting list. By Andre BarajasStaff Writer
A free event for students, the annual Beverly O’Neill student leadership conference, will be hosted at the LAC in T1200 on Friday, Oct. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Presented by the office of Student Life and the Associat-ed Student Body, the conference will be the seventh annual gath-ering that will allow students to network and cultivate skills based on leadership, social change, transfer suc-cess, financial literacy and c o m mu n i t y organizing.
ASB Pres-ident Lokilani Hunt said, “It’s a great opportunity for students to network with professionals that are established in their fields.”
Although the conference is full, students may inquire about attending by applying at:
b t . l y / L E A D E R _ 2 0 1 4 or in person at the LAC in E118 and the PCC EE102. Student Life coordinator Maya Cardenes explained how the event is organized based on stu-
dents’ majors. In other words, when the stu-
dent registers and reports their intended major, they are assigned to specific workshops and panels closely related.
Suzanne Perucci, 20, a busi-ness administration major, has at-tended the conference twice and plans to attend a third time.
“I’m glad I did it. It was a great learning experience. Every year that I attend, I can feel my networking skills strengthening. I always advise students to attend even if they have once before,” Pe-rucci said.
The workshops are designed for students seeking guid-ance and ad-vice for the field of study they are pur-suing.
K e y n o t e speaker, for-
mer LBCC student and current UCLA student Jaemmie Canas, has overcome adversity and will be speaking about those obstacles during the conference, in addi-tion to other unique speakers.
The conference is named ater O’Neil, former LBCC presiddent and Long Beach mayor. Students may contact the Student Life of-fice for more information at (562) 938-4978.
Leader skills will be shared at conference
“It’s a great opportunity for students to network with pro-fessionals that are established in their fields.”
-Lokilani HuntASB President
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By Paul IngvaldsenStaff Writer
The lights dimmed Friday night, Oct. 10, in the LAC plan-etarium as students leaned back in theatre seats and looked at the sparkling dome above, resisting the urge to fall into the night time sky.
Assistant astronomy profes-sors Shimonee Kadakia and Amy Fredericks told the enthralled audience about comets, as one appeared and began to go into an orbit above the students.
Kadakia said, “Comets and Asteroids are different. Asteroids are formed close to the sun in an environment too hot for ice. Comets are formed in deep space where there is water everywhere, including being found as ice on comets. The word comet in Greek means ‘Hair.’ In going toward the sun it grows a tail of ice crystals.”
NASA has prepared a mis-sion to land on Comet Philae. The comet orbits from between Mars and Jupiter, regularly passing through the solar system. Dubbed the “Rosetta Mission,” the Ameri-can spacecraft followed a compli-cated course to reach the comet, using gravity to accelerate as the craft rounded planets in close passes and orbital turns.
“The Rosetta Mission is based upon the Rosetta Stone,” Kada-kia said. “Discovered by anthro-pologists, this stone contains the secret to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics.”
Fredericks added, “Scientists believe comets are old and gen-erally unchanged since the for-mation of the earth and may hold secrets about our own existence as humans on planet earth.
“Comets are slowly shrinking and never growing,” Kadakia said. “They come from deep space as a
product of the creation of the uni-verse, 4.6 million years ago.”
NASA scientists have rigged the lander to be able to charge its batteries with solar power, extending life expectancy to well over two years, during which time it will analyze the comet’s compo-sition.
Fredericks invited the audi-ence to observe another celestial phenomenon in October.
“Come to the planetarium on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. To see a partial solar eclipse of the sun by the moon. We will have solar glassed. Be careful. The glasses reduce 99.999 percent of the light that comes to you. It’s dangerous to look at the sun with-out protection.”
The next show will be on Sat-urday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.
Offering free admission, the professors invited all students to attend and bring guests.
By AnaMarie RamirezStaff Writer
The president of the Long Beach NAACP, a CEO, a school principal, a community volunteer and a Chase Bank officer will be inducted into the LBCC Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 31.
As part of Homecoming, ev-ery Fall semester the alumni Hall of Fame welcomes outstanding former students who have been nominated by colleagues, friends and family.
The criteria needed for quali-fication into the Hall of Fame are 10 years out of college, accom-plished a local, state or national level of success in their careers and fulfilled community services.
The five inductees this year are Naomi Rainey-Pierson, edu-cator and president of the Long
Beach NAACP; Robert Ellis, re-tired Long Beach Unified School District principal and assistant director of personnel; Maria Co-chran, a community volunteer; Donald Cochran, a retired se-nior loan officer from JP Morgan Chase Bank; and James Callahan, chairman, president and CEO of Nautilus International Holding Company.
They will be honored and in-ducted by LBCC President Eloy Oakley starting at noon in T1200 at the LAC. They will receive a framed certificate with a lapel pin and their stories will be told on a video.
Tickets are $60, which in-cludes a luncheon. People may contact Nancy Yoho at (562) 938-4203 or email her at [email protected] to purchase a ticket.
LBCC Hall of Fame to induct 5 alumni
By Andre BarajasStaff Writer
President Oakley is asking the LBCC community to consid-er helping families impacted by the Boles and King brush fires in Northern California.
The King Fire in El Dorado has claimed 12 injuries, destroyed 12 single residences and 68 other minor structures, as reported by the Cal.gov Fire website.
Fire crews continue to remove hazardous trees, chip brush and road debris to make roads safer for public travel.
A team of specialists contin-ue to work on emergency stabi-lization measures. Burned area emergency response is a rapid as-sessment of burned watersheds to identify imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety, according to the website.
The Boles Fire in Siskiyou
has destroyed 150 residential and eight commercial properties and caused one injury.
Communities, including Sis-kiyou College students and em-ployees have lost a lot in the fires.
Firefighters will continue overhauling work within the fire perimeter. Excess resources are being released and made available for other incidents as necessary.
Some organizations are taking donations that will help the com-
munities impacted by the two fires.
The American Red Cross is accepting donations at redcross.org that will help the communi-ties.
The Community Disaster Re-lief Fund established by the Shas-ta Regional Community Foun-dation is accepting donations at shastaarcf.org.
The Sacramento Region Com-munity Foundation is accepting
checks mailed to the SRCF/King Fire Fund, 955 University Ave., Suite A, Sacramento, CA 95825.
In a letter to the LBCC com-munity, Oakley expressed his gratitude to the people contribut-ing to the cause and encouraged others to support their efforts.
For more information people may contact the LBCC Office of Community Relations and Mar-keting at (562) 938-4353.
Students can help families affected by fires
Comets star at night
VOTING GUIDE4 October 16, 2014
Rock the vote:Politics can be a headache.According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, young adults aged 18-24 vote less often than all other age groups. Over half of the LBCC student population, 62 percent, were aged 19-24 in Fall 2013, ac-cording to lbcc.edu.
California voters will be faced with six propositions on the mid-term elections ballot Tuesday, Nov. 4.
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and her team com-piled an official voter information guide as a “useful tool for learn-ing about what is on your ballot
and how this election works.” The guide was mailed to registered voters in September.
The Viking compiled this page as a breakdown of each proposi-tion using the guide and gov-ernment website voterguide.sos.ca.gov to help educate the LBCC community before hitting the vot-ing booths in November.
We encourage people to re-search each proposition further on their own; facts provided be-low are the bare bones of very de-tailed bills.
We have been very careful to exclude opinions and include
only facts provided by the U.S. government and the guide pro-vided by the California Secretary of State.
More information about the Nov. 4 election is available at voterguide.sos.ca.gov in 10 lan-guages.
The full text of each proposi-tion is available at leginfo.legisla-ture.ca.gov.
People may register to vote at registertovote.ca.gov. Monday, Oct. 20 is the last day to register.
Happy voting!
Prop. 46:Drug and alcohol testing of doctors. Medical neg-ligence lawsuits.
WHAT IT MEANS:For doctors: Drug and
alcohol testing of doctors. Tests will be sent to the Cal-ifornia Medical Board.
Requires doctors to re-port other doctors suspect-ed of using drugs or alcohol while on duty.
Requires doctors to re-port other doctors engag-ing in medical negligence.
For patients: Increases the current $250,000 cap to $1.1 million for pain and suffering damages in med-ical negligence lawsuits to account for inflation.
This prop also requires health care providers to check databases before pre-scribing certain drugs to a patient for the first time.
MONEY TALK:Overall health spending
in California would change by:
-Increase direct medical malpractice spending
-Cost of alcohol and drug testing.
-Raising the cap would “likely increase total health care spending by 0.1 to 0.5 percent.”
*Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System: accord-ing to oag.ca.gov C.U.R.E.S. is a prescription drug mon-itoring database of con-trolled substance drugs dis-pensed in California.
Prop. 2:State budget stabilizationaccount.
WHAT IT MEANS:Prop. 2 is nicknamed
the rainy day fund because it requires an annual trans-fer of general fund revenues to a *budget stabilization account, of which half will be used to help pay off state debts. California’s current debts total “around $300 billion.”
Requires an annual transfer of 1.5 percent of general fund revenues to the budget stabilization ac-count.
MONEY TALK:-No laws relate to re-
serves for schools and Community Colleges. If Prop. 2 passes, money would go into a new state reserve for schools and Community Colleges “in some years” when capital gains are strong.
-A cap, or a maximum budget, would be set for the amount of reserves K-14 school districts can keep at a local level “in some years.”
-State money is saved instead of being spent on public programs.
*Budget stabilization ac-count: According the guide, the account acts as Califor-nia’s savings account, half of which is used specifically to pay off state debt.
Prop. 48: Indian gaming.
WHAT IT MEANS:The measure would:-Allow North Fork tribe
to construct and operate a new casino in Madera County. Any state or local government agency that as-sists in the construction of the casino would be exempt from certain state environ-mental regulations.
-Prevent the Wiyot tribe from conducting gaming on their tribal lands near Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge
If not passed:-The Wiyot would be
free to negotiate a new agreement with the state for gaming activities on its land.
-North Fork would not be allowed to build a new casino unless a new agree-ment was approved by the state.
MONEY TALK:The North Fork would
make payments to the state of California, totaling $1.5 million annually over the life of the agreement.
Madera Country would “likely receive between $16 million and $35 million in one-time payments from North Fork.
Prop. 45: Health care insurance and rate changes.
WHAT IT MEANS:Requires any changes
to health insurance rates, or charges associated with health insurance, must be approved by California’s Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones before taking effect*.
Full disclosure, judicial review and public notice of health insurance rate changes would be provided.
“Prohibits health, auto and homeowners insurers from determining policy eligibility or rates based on lack of prior coverage or credit history.”
MONEY TALK:Additional costs for the
California Department of Insurance for:
-Reviewing and approv-ing health insurance rates
-Conducting public hearings on proposed rates
The net cost would be “in the low millions of dol-lars per year, but could be higher in some years.”
*Employer large group health plans (40 percent of Californians) are exempt
from the proposition.
Prop. 47:
Reducing criminal sen-tences.
WHAT IT MEANS:The proposition is
known as the “safe neigh-borhoods and schools act” according to the legisla-ture’s text.
The proposition would reduce penalties for cer-tain offenders convicted of “non-serious” or “non-vi-olent” drug and property crimes.
The proposition would also allow certain offenders who have been convicted of such crimes to apply for re-duced sentences*.
RECRUITING: Martin Martinez Saldana, 19, a political science ma-jor, shares a few laughs in LAC’s Front Quad with fellow members of the LBCC social service organization the Men of Aztlan. They were recruiting students interested in making a positive impact in the community of Long Beach on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
By Donielle Lyles andKanika SiengContributing Writers
Whether it’s a solo session or in a group, studying is one of our most important tasks.
LBCC has several go-to spots where students can study. Using a 5-star rating system, students were surveyed about the most popular areas to dedicate them-selves to schoolwork.
One of the most popular plac-es for small groups to study is in a Library study room. With a 4-star rating, rooms are equipped with whiteboards and students get two hours to do their work.
Sophomore Kiara Wilson said, “I’m more of a loner and I love reading with no background noise, so the Library is the best place for me. I can get all of my homework done and extra read-ing as well in peace.”
Students searching for that comfortable environment to study at, or simply smooth out their study plan, hoping to get a better grade, “A Study of Study Spots” at http://bit.ly/1ssfvyy on lbcc.edu will help students dis-cover where they can perch and get down to business.
Students looking for some-thing outdoors can consider the PCC horticulture gardens or the LAC Front Quad.
By Richard MejiaManaging EditorandJason GastrichCopy Editor
About 20 tables of volun-teer information were offered to LBCC students at the Viking Vol-unteer Resource Fair, at the LAC, on Wednesday, Oct. 8. The Front Quad became the focal point of the LAC as students gathered around the many tents and booths for the annual event.
As noon approached, many organizations provided students with usable information that var-ied from how and when to donate blood to the benefits of joining a campus club or group.
Shortly before the approach-ing the steps, near the walk-way bend, stood a highly-energetic man, with shimmering sunglasses and a beaten up straw hat.
His name is Bobby Quattle-baum and he is a former educator and a current student at LBCC. Quattlebaum was once a middle school science teacher at Andrew Carnegie Middle School in Car-son, but soon realized that was not his life destiny.
Quattlebaum said, “I loved teaching the kids and I know I was doing a great service, but I just didn’t feel comfortable know-ing that was going to be my life.”
In 2012, Quattlebaum decided to quit his teaching career, only four years removed from graduate school and his initial teaching job.
“I had a little bit of money saved up, I decided to give myself three months to figure out what the heck I wanted to do. It was either that or I’d be broke and I would move back in with my folks.”
To speed up the process, he enrolled into LBCC within a week of his decision to quit teaching and he attempted to take multi-ple courses from various depart-ments.
It was not until he took a weightlifting class taught by Pro-fessor Barbara Jackson, in which he felt a calling.
Quattlebaum said, “It was great class, but there were a lot of students who used it as a substi-tute to actually going to the gym, so many were out of shape. Help-ing them perform basic exercises and encouraging them to push was really uplifting.”
Shortly after his first semester, Quattlebaum applied to become a personal trainer at L.A. Fitness. Since the company was only hir-ing a receptionist at the time, he took the job seeing it as a way to get into the company.
“It was cool job,” said Quattle-baum, “But after a few months of working, my boss approached me to become an off-site representa-tive. “
His job would require him to attend conventions and fairs to push people to join L.A. Fitness, however, he had something dif-ferent in mind.
Quattlebaum stated, “I started looking for health fairs exclusive
to local colleges. I just thought maybe there were people like me who didn’t know what they want-ed in life or students who gener-ally struggled with health like in Jackson’s class who needed a bet-ter outlet.”
Quattlebaum now focuses on helping students signing up to a gym that will better their health, and is attending LBCC as he
works towards his communica-tions major, to become a motiva-tional speaker.
Mone’t William, 21, a junior international studies and linguis-tics major filled out paperwork to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Long Beach. She said, “It’s a good experience to have; a good example.”
Students find study spots at LAC, PCC
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Tiny hands were allowed safety scissors while adults used box cutters for the thicker cardboard.
Peek-a-boo! The center’s designated watchman kept an eye on his peers during the day’s events.
Kids think, play inside the box
Preschoolers at the child development center work together to build spaceships, submarines, pirate ships and big-rig trucks out of donated cardboard on national cardboard box day, Friday, Oct. 10. Cardboard box day promotes child creativity as helps to development team work skills, center manager Stacey Smith-Clark said.
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Murphey, age 5, and his mom Tara Thomas, build a rocket ship controlled with a handmade iPad controller.
Thomas, age 5, celebrated cardboard box day with his customized astronaut helmet.Peek-a-boo! The center’s designated watchman kept an eye on his peers during the day’s events.
Kids think, play inside the box
Story and Photos by Brittany Lieberman Editor in Chief
About 100 kids played under sun-covers, while listening to children’s music and playing in sandboxes. Stacey Smith-Clark spent her sandbox years in the LBCC Child Development Center, only to become the center’s manager years later.
The center received cardboard donations from the LBCC Library, Campus Store and facilities department. Smith-Clark said the college “goes above and beyond in providing resources for proper child development.”
“The media has us believing that academia
is more important than creativity for children this age. It’s important we provide open-ended projects they can fail at and learn to do things differently next time. We are so lucky to be in this environment.”
Smith-Clark said she discovered Cardboard box day on a social-media site in 2013 and wanted to bring it to LBCC.
Jasmine Mamon, 26, a child development major, said, “This is my first semester so far and the center does a lot to promote creativity. These kids are smart.”
Nia, 4 years old, sang songs about pizza and drove her handmade submarine into the sandbox. “Only girls allowed!” Nia said.
Preschoolers at the child development center work together to build spaceships, submarines, pirate ships and big-rig trucks out of donated cardboard on national cardboard box day, Friday, Oct. 10. Cardboard box day promotes child creativity as helps to development team work skills, center manager Stacey Smith-Clark said.
LBCC climbs national ranks with 41-38 win, still undefeated.
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Vikes beat Mt. SAC, now ranked 4th
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GETTING LOUD: Uncle of Viking freshman defensive lineman Eop Utuone cheers on his nephew with a home-made megaphone.
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RUNNING AWAY: Sophomore wide receiver Josiah Blandin breaks away from Mountie defenders in the first quarter. The Vikings upset second-ranked Mt. SAC, 41-38, on Saturday, Oct. 4, and are now ranked second in the state.
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BREAKING FREE: Freshman running back Anterio Bateman runs in the go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes of the game.
By Richard Mejia Managing Editor
In one of the most highly an-ticipated games in LBCC history, the nationally eighth-ranked Vi-king football team managed to upset the second-best team in the nation Mt. San Antonio, 41-38, on Saturday, Oct. 4.
The game was decided when Mt. SAC sophomore quarterback Justin Alo led the Mounties to the Viking 31-yard line to have the place-kicker attempt a game-ty-ing 48-yard field goal with 39 sec-onds remaining.
In a game driven by offense, it was the special teams unit that came up big as the field goal was blocked, sealing the game for the Vikings.
After the 31-21 victory over Alan Hancock on Saturday, Oct.11, and the Vikings now rank fourth in the nation and also stand as the second-best team in the state. The overall team record now stands at 6-0 with a 2-0 re-cord in conference play.
Veterans Stadium was the site of the momentous game as LBCC and Mt. SAC lived up to their billing as offensive juggernauts. Mt. SAC began the game with a seemingly slow drive, racking up very minimal yardage through in-termediate passing routes and running calls that led to few gains. However, on a third-and-10 with only 1 min-ute into the game, Alo connect-ed with his sophomore wide-out Christopher Gilchrist on a 75-yard touchdown pass.
In response, the Vikings marched down the field on an 11-play drive that was capped off by freshman running back Anterio Bateman as he scampered his way into the end zone from four yards out.
The first half of the game was
GAME LEADERS*
Passing Brock Dale Comp. Yards TD 9-15 97 1
Receiving Josiah BlandinRec. Yards TD 7 152 1
Rushing Anterio BatemanAtt. Yards TD 15 85 1
Defensive Jason FaoTackles Sack INT 8 1.5 0
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not the norm for Mt. SAC as the Mounties scored a season-low 14 points.
The Viking defense stepped up in the second quarter and shut out the Mounties, allowing LBCC to take a 26-14 halftime lead.
The Vikings controlled the game on offense as they began the second half. LBCC scored at-will the previous two quarters and mi-nus a few miscues late in the sec-ond quarter, the team was rolling. Mt. SAC came roaring back in the third quarter as the Mounties de-
livered 24 unanswered points on their way to 38-26 lead early in the final quarter.
Early in the third however, Viking sophomore quarterback Kenny Potter threw an intercep-tion that went for a touchdown. It was on that play that Potter suffered an undisclosed injury to his left arm as he went to tackle the defender. Backup quarterback Brock Dale filled in for Potter and
played the remainder of the game. Dale said, “You always have
to be ready for an opportunity like this and I most certainly was. I’m just happy that were able to pull out this big team win.”
The game seemed out of hand with the Vikings down by 12 and having lost their star quarterback while not being able to get any-thing going on offense. Unfazed by the newly placed pressure, the Dale-led Vikings answered the call as they scored 15 unanswered points to take the lead late in the
game. Following a Bateman
touchdown pass from Dale, the sophomore quarterback found soph-omore tight end Clayton
Granch in the back of the end zone for the 2-point conversion and a 41-38 lead with 1:49 re-maining in the game.
Granch said, “Not a lot of JU-CO’s have two starting-caliber quarterbacks, but we’re blessed to have two great ones. Even though Kenny (Potter) and Brock (Dale) play differently, the team is in god hands with either guy in the po-sition.”
“You always have to be ready for an opportu-nity like this and I most certainly was.”
-Brock Dale Sophomore quarterback
Men’s soccer team struggles against rival Cerritos. By Christian Mosqueda and Will Ranos Contributing Writers
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WINNING STRONG: Sophomore attacker Bronson Reich scrambles for the ball in the Vikings’ 10-2 victory over Cerritos. The team now boasts an overall record of 10-2 and looks to improve it in the Riverside Mini Tournament on Friday, Oct. 17.
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Easy win over Cerritos leads to 12-5 recordVikes stay undefeated in conference play. By Darel James Staff Writer
LBCC men’s water polo team defeated the host Cerritos Fal-cons, 12-5, on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
The win for the Vikings left the athletes and coach-es satisfied and with an overall re-cord of 10-2 and a South Coast Con-ference mark of 2-0.
“We went out and played a strong game, this was a confer-ence match so it feels good to get a win against a rival team,” Viking coach Chris Oeding said.
He also said the Vikings have room for improvement and he looks forward to seeing the team evolve into a solid squad.
The team returned from a 12-10 exhibition loss against Pep-perdine University, a game the Vikings
played to build up their strength for regular Community College opponents.
Regardless of the previous defeat, the Vikings say they are focusing on understanding their teammates
and looking forward to a suc-cessful season.
Attack-er Jack El-l i n t h o r p e said, “I con-sider the win a step-pingstone.
The more we play, the better we learn to work to-
gether. We’re still a somewhat young team, so it’s matter of fig-uring each
other out.” Player said they are now look-
ing forward to their next games at the Riverside Tournament on
Friday, Oct. 10 at Riverside City College.
Women defeat East L.A.
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GOING IN HARD: Sophomore miidfielder Hayley Gonzales slides for a header in a 3-2 victory against East L.A. on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
3-2 victory sparks three-game winning streak for Vikings. By Jason Gastrich Copy Editor
LBCC’s women’s soccer team beat East Los Angeles, 3-2, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, evening their re-cord at 3-3-3.
Sophomore forward Brenda Reyes scored the game-winning goal in the 76th minute. Fellow sophomore midfielder Hayley Gonzales took advantage of a free kick about 30 yards from the east goal to set up the scoring oppor-tunity.
Gonzales said, “We played well together (and) worked hard as a team.” When talking about her soccer future, she said, “I
I want to play at another col-lege or university in California because I want to stay close to my family.”
With her game-winning assist, Gonzales earned just one point in the stat book, but her presence in the midfield kept East L.A. off bal-ance and gave the Viking offense chances to score throughout the game.
Reyes scored the first goal in the 9th minute. Julissa Gutierrez earned the assist from a corner kick. Players said they worked hard on corners and free kicks at practice.
Reyes said, “The weakness that we as a team exploited was on set pieces (balls in the air).”
East L.A. sophomore forward Blakely Ficenec responded in the 17th minute. Placing a low, driven shot in the most difficult place to defend, she found the upper left
“V”. Although it looks more like a “L”, each goal has an upper “V” in the corner.
Reyes collected a loose ball and scored an unassisted second goal one minute into the second half.
“I definitely want to transfer to a 4-year with playing soccer. Currently, I have in mind several schools: Loyola Marymount Uni-versity, Chapman University, Ha-waii State University, Texas A&M University, Arizona State Univer-sity and others. I am hoping for a full-ride scholarship,” Reyes said.
LBCC head coach Sean Reeves said, “This team is one of the best I have worked with at this school. All the players have in-credible heart, positive attitudes, amazing work ethic and endless drive on top of their all around soccer skills.”
After several warn-ings for yelling at the officials, East L.A.’s assistant coach Rich-ard Coria received a yellow card from head referee John Bogdanoff in the 69th minute. Referring to the line judge on the other side of the field, Bogdanoff reprimanded him, “You can’t yell at him either.”
Although it couldn’t spark a comeback, East L.A. freshman forward Carla Quijada scored the Huskies’ second goal three min-utes later with about 11 minutes left in the game.
Reyes said, “I was overjoyed about the game (because) I got the hat trick and (we got) an im-portant win.”
This was East L.A.’s first con-ference loss, tying LBCC’s confer-ence record at 2-1. They will meet again on Halloween, Friday, Oct. 31, in East L.A.
Unbeaten at home this sea-son, the LBCC women will try to extend their home winning streak against Mt. San Antonio on Friday, Oct. 17. With a 3-0-1 record at home, the Vikings have scored 10 goals and allowed four.
Vikings lose late, 2-1
The LBCC Viking men’s soc-cer team lost to South Coast con-ference rival Cerritos Falcons, 2-1, on Friday, Oct. 3, at Viking Field.
Cerritos got on the board in the first half with a 21st minute goal by forward Sebastian Velas-quez. The second goal came just four minutes later when the mid-fielder Jose Ochoa jammed the ball past the LBCC keeper Rafael Arroyo.
The Falcons controlled a ma-jority of the possession and domi-nated in the midfield.
The Vikings seemed perplexed for much of the 90 minutes, sim-ply kicking the ball out of danger without keeping possession. The moves allowed Cerritos to double
its chances at goal as the Fal-cons outshot their opponents 26 to 9, according to Viking men’s soccer statistics.
Javier Perez, a student fan, said at halftime, “Cerritos is just clearly the better team. They’re better coordinated and are put-ting their passes together. They are just two steps ahead of the Long Beach guys.”
The Viking’s tactics seemed set on playing long balls to their forwards in hope of catching the visiting team off guard. The strat-egy paid off when in the 76th min-ute, LBCC forward Jose Garcia netted a superb penalty kick that gave the Vikings a consolation goal. With the loss, Long Beach’s record drops to 2-3-3 overall and 0-2 in conference play.
When talking about if he wanted to continue to watch games, Perez said, “Win or lose (have to) support our school. When they win, we win. We’re all in this together.”
The Vikings’ next game is at Mt. San Antonio on Friday, Oct. 7.
Men’s cross country: Soph-omore Omar Torres finished in first among 152 competitors in the 4-mile run at the Brubaker In-vitational in Irvine Regional Park on Friday, Oct. 10. Torres’ compe-tition-best time of 20:29.0 was 20 seconds faster than the next run-ner. The Vikings compete again Friday, Oct. 17, at the Mt. SAC Invitational.
Women’s cross country: The Vikings competed in their fifth meet of the season Friday, Oct. 10, at the Brubaker Invitational in Irvine Regional Park. Freshman Alex Ceballos once again led the team as she finished a team-best 31st among 96 runners. LBCC competes again Friday, Oct. 17, at the Mt. SAC Invitational.
Women’s volleyball: The Vi-kings split their conference games as they lost to Mt. San Antonio, 3-0, on Wednesday Oct. 8, and managed to defeat Los Angeles. Harbor, 3-0, on Friday, Oct. 10. The team now stands at 5-7 over-all with a 2-1 South Coast Confer-ence record. The team plays again on Friday, Oct. 17 at Pasadena.
Women’s water polo: The Vikings defeated rival Cerritos, 14-5, on Wednesday, Oct. 8. The team now has an overall record of 11-5 and a South Coast Confer-ence record of 3-1. The Vikings play again on Friday, Oct. 17, at the Riverside Mini Tournament, where they will take on Riverside and American River.
“I consider the win a stepping-stone. The more we play, the bet-ter we learn to work together.”
Limited services on Friday:Specialists are unavailable, front desk is open for questions only from noon - 4:30 p.m.
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Students (from left) Sam Delgado, 22, Vanessa Pena, 28, William Courduff, 23 and Desiree Sanchez, 19, practice their signing skills in the courtyard of the T Building on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for their sign lan-guage class with teacher Marvie Roberts.
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Friday, Oct.13 Viking Vlon-teer Applications are due by 4 pm. LAC E116/ PCC EE102
Thursday, Oct. 30 Viking time sheets are due in the Viking Volunteer Center by 4 pm. LAC E116/ PCC EE102
Saturday, Oct. 26annual beach walk and health fair- come supoort “Childrens Clinic” in Long Beach. Sign up for shifts at LAC room E116
Sunday, Oct. 26 farm to table dinner and fundraiseremail culinary director if intrested at [email protected].
Women’s soccer Friday, Oct. 17 at 4pmMen’s water polo Satur-day, Oct. 18 at 1:30 pmWomen’s water polo Fri-day, Oct. 18 at noonWomen’s soccer Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m.Women’s vollyball Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6 pmMen’s soccer Friday, Oct. 24 at 4pmWomen’s soccer Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 4 pm
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What should the ASB Cabinet spend funds on?
Anthony EdAmE, 24, criminAl justicE mAjor
“Supplies for the students in the theatre and arts building.”
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“More resources for students. Have more places to be able to study and more computers.”
chris ross, 17, businEss mAjor
“The music program needs more mics and equipment.”
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“We need more lab equip-ment for biology majors.”
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“Books are really expensive. Help us buy books.”
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“They keep building new buildings but what we need is to update our existing classrooms with new desks.”
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Editor in chief: Brittany LiebermanManaging editor: Richard MejiaCityStyle editor: William MartinSports editor: Richard MejiaOpinion editor: Ana Maria RamirezCalendar editor: Carlee RodriguezCopy editor: Jason GastrichStaff: Tyisha Ali, Andre Barajas, Kimberly Belcher,Darel James Paul Ingvaldsen, Student Assistant: Charles Hall Adviser: Patrick McKeanAdvertising Manager: Michal OlszewskiPhoto and Online adviser: Chris ViolaRetired photo adviser: Jim Truitt
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Longing for Viking traditionBy Paul Ingvaldsen Staff Writer
When LBCC was founded in 1927, the no-tion was: “Out of a semi-arid desert with nothing but tar pits and m a r s h e s , snakes and toads, coyotes and rabbits, we Vikings have cre-ated a garden oasis.
It is here we will impart to our children the tools their ancestors have found to be indispensable.”
Viking culture has heroes and students founded clubs bearing their names: Odin, god of Val-halla, Thor, Odin’s son. Vidar and Tillsmen, brothers of Thor and Tong, captured slave of the Vi-kings.
We carved secret words in their bark and put club names on trees in the quad. Thor’s tree was closest to the auditorium. You could see Thor carved in old En-glish on the arm-like branch.
Odin’s name was written like an elven rune, a clear golden thread down the trunk of the tree
just to the south. Then Vidar and Tillsmen, slowly fading. One day Tong’s tree was suddenly plucked up and flung away. Nobody knows where. Teens and Twenties (TNT) and Entre Nous.
They did fundraisers in hon-or of their legacies and donated benches for students to rest upon in the shade of our trees. All the trees are ripped up like Tong’s now. The benches are nowhere to be found.
We see no sign of the proud Viking warrior and explorer in the new construction and no re-spect for LBCC’s Viking heritage.
Most telling is the new place-ment of the flag, which is virtual-ly invisible from the street unless you are in the parking structure.
Many students are veterans returning from a hot war. We have abundant stories of how brave men and women have sacrificed for the flag of our country. Having no flag is like having no god.
There is no abiding standard of perfection by which students may guide our lives. Where the flag should be, someone has de-cided we need a cactus.
Besides being tone deaf to the culture enshrined in our college,
the new construction looks like the place is designed by Orange County’s Irvine Co. Gone are ac-tual trees and flowers.
The new design is tasteless chaparral with what are supposed to be rivers of rocks and unex-plained depressions in campus grasses that seem to be just wait-ing for somebody to roll into, or maybe lots of rain to make a pond.
So far with California weath-er we could barely make a slip-n-slide. Worst are the benches. Granite slabs sitting in the open without any shade: what genius decided this is what we need, Pha-raoh?
Maybe we can torture some slaves in the hot sun or bring the culinary class out and fry some eggs at noon, but as reasonable seat for a normal college student, these chunks of rock are stone-age stupid. No club in its right mind would donate a bench like this.
We should be honoring the legacy that made us great. LBCC needs a respectable statue of a Viking, not just a cute cartoon character and turning our campus into a semi-arid desert again is a mistake.
University applications in-crease every semester.
Studnets are being turned away by the thousands due to lack of funding and space limitations.
LBCC administration should have chosen to be a part of the Community Colleges Bachelor Degree Pilot Program, which al-lows 15 Community Colleges in California to issue bachelor de-grees to it’s students.
President Eloy Oakley stated that LBCC will not be part of the pilot program, scheduled to start in 2017, for a number of reasons.
He said the bill was structure for Community Colleges that serve rural areas that do not have a Cal State University or UC near-
by. There are 50 Community Col-
leges across the U.S. that offer bachelor’s degrees. California’s Community Colleges should be part of that group to curb the amount of students and costs of earning the degree.
Today’s competitive workforce requires some type of collegiate degree, otherwise the chances of obtaining a higher or even mod-erate paying job are slim.
Research has shown that peo-ple with bachelor degrees will earn more in their lifetime than those with only a high school di-ploma.
LBCC caters to a lower in-come bracket of students than
Orange County and some parts of Los Angeles. Choosing to be part of the program would have served as an additional ladder to success for the community.
An education is by far the best investment anyone can do for themselves.
It is worth all the struggles that you may go through to get educated as the accomplishment will allow you to live a better life and provide more for your family.
The Viking believes knowl-edge is power. The College should take every chance it gets to im-prove upon and expand educa-tional opportunities for it’s stu-dents.
PAul ingvAldsEn/viking
FIRED UP: The members of LBCC “The Laramie Project” have a little fun in the dressing room lounge.
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A glimpse into ‘The Laramie Project’
Photos and Story By Tyisha AliStaff Writer
A play about Matthew Shepard, a ho-mosexual man with HIV who was found beaten and left hanging for his life on a fence near Laramie, Wyo., in 1998 was per-formed Tuesday, Oct. 7.
The 8 p.m. play in the LBCC Auditori-um was presented by the theater program for its last show 16 years after Shepard’s death.
“The Laramie Project,” written by Mois-es Kaufman, also was presented Sept. 25-28 and Oct. 2-5.
As an act of kindness, the theater pro-
gram decided to perform the last showing of the play to collect donations in honor of “The Laramie Project” and Shepard. The donations were given to the LGBTQ center in Long Beach.
The play was written in moments that h ig h l ig ht-ed how the hate crime affected the entire com-munity. The c o v e r a g e of the tri-al forced a small com-munity and an entire country to evaluate its morals and how people treat one an-other based on cultured differences. In the play, Shepard was a target. The two men who killed him targeted him because of his size and because of his sexual preference. The drug addicts who killed him thought
that he would be easy to rob, then the situ-ation went another way.
The director of the production, Sarah Underwood Saviano, used her cast to cap-ture the reactions and emotions of the com-munity in Laramie during that time and
allowed them to b r i n g t h o s e f e e l i n g into to-d a y ’ s world.
S a -v i a n o
said, “I chose to do this play for a couple of reasons. One being that it is timeless is-sue. These things are still happening today. There is still a sense of danger today.”
With delicate details that helped bring the story to life, Saviano knew the play would create shock and bring awareness
to people unaware of the issues. The floor of the stage was set with an Indian head test pattern that was used in films from the 1960’s to create a sense of shock. The light-ing and the sound set the mood perfectly with the moments captured in every act.
Stage manager Marc Steele, 45, a the-ater production and stage management major, said he was honored to be a part of the screening because he remembers the case and how it affected life for him and many other people.
Steele said, “This play affects me in a lot of ways personally. That could have been me. At the time I was 29 years old and he (Shepard) was 21, I was only I few years older. I’m gay and I am HIV positive and so was Matt.”
Actor Rory Kennedy, 22, theatre arts major, said, “The big message of ‘Live and let live’ means you go ahead and live you life the way you want to.”
“This play affects me in a lot of ways personally. That could have been me. At the time I was 29 years old and he was 21. I’m gay and I am HIV positive and so was Matt.”
-Marc SteeleStage management major
LBCC theatre program remembers Matthew Shepard 16 years after his death.
PREP: Stage manager Marc Steele, top, and crew members adjust the lighting placement for the per-formance in the LBCC Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
MIRROR IMAGES: Actors Jefferey Benion, left, Rory Kennedy, center, and Ryan Ashmore apply their makeup in preparation for their last curtain call.
