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Fighting cancerone duck at a time
Darius Porter, former Irvine Valley Col-lege Lasers basketball player, was killed Monday evening after he was hit by on-coming traffic on the northbound lane of the Santa Ana Freeway.
Lt. Jeffrey Hallock, spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, said in an email the “case is still under in-vestigation and they have yet to determine ‘accident’ or ‘suicide.’”
The coroner’s report stated that he was struck by multiple vehicles and killed at 6:47 p.m.
First-hand witness Kenneth Bennett told Mission Viejo Patch that he had seen
Porter hurl himself in front of the first ve-hicle, then pulled over and tried unsuccess-fully to convince Porter to stay at the scene. Porter then ran, with a head injury, toward Burlington Coat Factory and the witness lost him.
According to OCSD he then ran onto the Santa Ana Freeway onramp at Avery Parkway.
Porter played forward as a freshman for IVC last season. Porter attended Temescal Canyon High School in Lake Elsinore, Ca-lif. IVC recruited him from the basketball program, but he chose to go to another school up North, according to IVC Men’s Basketball Coach Jerry Hernandez. He eventually moved to San Clemente where
he had relatives and made his way to IVC.Hernandez released a statement the
morning of Oct. 24.“On behalf of Irvine Valley College, we
want to express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Darius Porter. The Irvine Valley family was deeply sad-dened to hear the news of his death. Dari-us will truly be missed. In the year that he was part of our program, we knew him as a great teammate and friend. We have of-fered counseling support, if needed, to our players during this tough time. Again, our heartfelt sympathy and prayers go out to everyone who knew, cared for and loved Darius. We are sorry for their loss.”
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Eleven-year-old Gabe Sipos and his plush duck named Connor have been in can-cer remission since 2003. Gabe named his duck after
Connor Hunley, a childhood friend who he met in Monroe Carell Children’s hospital at Vanderbuilt University. Connor taught Gabe playful things like how to shoot wa-ter at the nurses using a syringe.
Gabe and Connor had both been di-agnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer. Gabe’s cancer was focused in his sinus cavity, Connor’s in his blad-der. The two boys gravitated towards each other right away and became great friends.
“Gabe was only one when he was diag-nosed with cancer,” said Lu Sipos, mother and founder of non-profit organization, Gabe’s My Heart. “We all had a hard time understanding what was happening.”
The malignant tumor resting on Gabe’s brain was crushing his optic nerve, leav-ing Lu and Gabe’s father Rob feeling lost.
Lu wanted help her baby boy feel more comfortable after the discovery of the tu-mor. A simple stuffed animal duck would soon be the start of something much big-ger than she thought.
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• deep belly buttons to place in feeding tube • a chemotherapy port used to explain and show
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BrIeFsIVC Veteran’s Day ceremony
Irvine Valley College will hold a commemoration cere-mony next week for Veteran’s day.
The event will occur on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. at the Student Services Center Lobby.
South Orange County Com-munity College District Trustee James R. Wright will be a guest speaker at the event. According to his biography on the SOC-CCD website, Wright was a
colonel in the United States Air Force for 27 years, also serving as commander of the Air Force Academy Preparatory School
Halloween double-feature
The Saddleback College As-sociated Student Government will be hosting a special, dou-ble-feature Halloween movie night on Oct. 30 in the Quad.
The first film to be shown will be the 1993 Disney movie, “Hocus Pocus.” The second film in the double feature will be the 2004 British comedy movie, “Shaun of the Dead.”
The first movie will begin at 6 p.m. The first 75 ASB Stamp Holders will receive free food.
“the recent tragedy
of losing my cousin to cancer, makes me
realize that people don’t get as involved until it hits home.”
- Iman moujtahed
Chelsea JarrellLife Editor
Kristen WilcoxIPad Editor
By the numbers
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$10 FOr AruBBer duCk
1 chemo duck
The chemo ducks are used to comfort the children and to go through cancer treatment with the children.
Various body parts on the duck mimic human parts, allowing processes to be done on the duck before the child:
Courtesy of Lu Sipos
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Comments:CampusWhat had been your mostcreative Halloween costume?
“I would say my most creative costumes were last year. I dressed up as a tourist and a chubaka for different parties.“-Garrett SpatherS, 18, aerospace engineering
“My most creative Halloween costume was Gnomeo, from Gnomeo and Juliet. The movie is a spinoff of Romeo and Juliet except with gnomes. It was all homemade basically just fabric.”-FraNCISCO CaSteLLO, 30, mechanical
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“I was in the fifth-grade and I was a genie. I got glittery sneakers and put on a loud genie belt. I also got to show my belly button which was a big deal in the fifth-grade.“-parISh jeNNINGS, 18, computer science (Left)
“It’s between Nikki Minaj and Lady Gaga. Actually Lady Gaga was the most creative. I got a gift bag and turned it into a dress. I did some things like put bows in my hair. I was doing a Lady Gaga Christmas theme.”-LaUreN reeD, 18, undecided (Right)
Costume-less at a costume party
Aladdin asked if I wish to see the genie in a bottle hoisted to his hip. The invitation was declined for endeavors like force feeding my face with chips from the table near the angel-devil couple openly kissing on the couch.
In my perfect world, every man would come dressed to Halloween parties as Frank Sinatra—whisking gals away to the dance floor while humming tunes like, “I’ve Got the World on a String,” or strap a beard to his face with a button-up Colonial suit as worn by Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President and General of the Civil
War. After all, pantaloon pants, genie lamps and chest hairs never impressed women such as a Union general with a loaded gun.
Standing in the middle of a parade of red cups, retired beer cans, a high-heeled Tequila Girl and her straw sombrero, the Joker’s smeared smile, and sexy Dorothy—feels unsettling.
Unfortunately, there are no Sinatras or war hero-turned-presidents to be found.
Besides the angel-devil still sucking face on the couch, the scariest thing about Halloween parties isn’t being without a costume. It’s finding a costume that’s sexy, yet screams self-worth.
Efforts must be made by both sexes to maintain mystery in this generation of bunny ears and thigh-high fishnets.
Divert from the skimpy blue dress and red slippers. Follow the Yellow Brick Road to where men and women dress up
as classy, reputable figures on Halloween night.
Halloween could potentially be a day of high dignity. Women must find the inner Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth Catherine the Great as opposed to any slutty abomination of health care professionals and comic book characters.
Imagine ghosts bowing down to their majesties as they trot into Halloween bashes, ghouls trembling at the sight of lacking sleaze.
After assessing my fellow shot-taking peers, there are far worse things than being costume-less at a costume party—like accepting Aladdin’s invitation or dancing with the Joker who doesn’t know the first thing about humming a love tune.
Sneaking spyware into Web and social media will eventually backfire on parents
Social media, being an outlet for 81 percent of teens (aged 12-17) ac-cording to the Pew Internet & Amer-ican Life Project, has caused parents to resort to programs which allow them to rifle through their child’s In-ternet activity.
Although maintaining children’s safety online is important, the tools being used to do so are becoming a “Big Brother” figure in the lives of those impacted by it.
The monitoring website uKnowK-ids.com was created in 2009 to allow parents to follow most, if not all, so-cial media posts, likes, tweets, etc. This website pulls all of the social media information and activity onto an “easy to understand” dashboard that translates slang for the parents among other tools, according to uKnowKids.com.
It doesn’t stop there, however. The site also offers a variety of tools that allow parents to receive text conver-
sations and more from their teen’s iPhone or Android smart-phone.
These tools are aimed to be helpful in protecting children from bullying and possible dangerous situations, however, it is more of a trust issue than a concern for safety.
Being able to se-cretly access all of this information can also create a barrier between the parents and children. The parents may view information that, although not dan-gerous to the child, may show they are depressed or go-ing through a fight with friends. When given that informa-
tion, it becomes a whole new game of whether or not they should
approach the subject and risk damaging the trust
between one another. This could cause a sense of uncom-fortable realization for the children if brought up, or cause a feeling of uselessness in the parents if not talk-ed about.
Damages in trust can linger in a relationship be-tween parents and children, and may even result in the child shutting the parents out even more.
The main ar-gument to support this new program-ming, or rather
more advanced form of the program-ming, is that is protects children from cyberbullying or receiving inappro-priate messages/pictures. However, rather than having to become an al-most co-user of their kids social me-dia, parents could be teaching their teens safer ways to use the Internet.
Social media programs, such as Facebook and Instagram, offer safe-ty features that would help to prevent your teen from having their private information viewed by those who shouldn’t have access to it.
If there is a big enough concern about the social networking itself, maybe the parents should consider keeping their children from using it. At least that would be less intrusive than an over-analyzing program hav-ing access to all of their conversa-tions.
Chelsea JarrellLife Editor
Kaylee JohnstonNews Editor
Media is not to blame for adolescent rebellion
For the first few years of their lives, children look to their parents for guidance. They follow their values and mimic their behavior. As a child grows, they start to ques-tion those values and veer from parental influence to that of their peers and the media.
Some parents begin to blame celebrities and the me-dia for their child’s change in behavior, but they should be reevaluating the connection they have with them and lead a dialogue about what those behaviors shown by the media impact their family. Individu-al celebrities should not have to alter their behavior to fit someone else’s ideals.
According to everydaylife.globalpost.com, “As a parent, you can influence your child by helping him determine what makes a good celebrity role model. Discuss the con-sequences of the poor choic-es that a particular celebrity made, such as jail time or hefty fines.”
Exploited affairs, night club appearances and ques-tionable fashion choices bring judgmental eyes to young ce-lebrities, but even more so to ex-child stars who are often blamed for the bad influence they have on their young fans.
Celebrity lives are con-stantly on display for the pub-lic whether it’s on TV or in the tabloids, like Miley Cyrus’ performance on the Video Mu-sic Awards or the drug-relat-ed death of “Glee” star Cory Monteith where children and teens will inevitably see them.
However, these celebrities should be able to grow up and have the same freedom
to express themselves as the average person, and not be accountable for the kids who might decide to follow them.
Celebrities are human just like anyone else. They may rebel as they struggle to fig-ure out who they are, but they shouldn’t be held to the mis-takes they make at any given moment in time. Everyone makes mistakes and many times these young stars come out of the rebellion years later and turn their lives around.
Not all examples that young celebs set are bad either. For example 21-year-old Selena Gomez tells young fans during her concerts to respect them-selves and it’s ok to be who they are, though she is most remembered for her public re-lationship with Justin Beiber that ended badly.
Star of the CW’s hit show “The Vampire Diaries,” Ian Somerhalder, used his fame to start his IS Foundation. Ac-cording to his website, “The
IS Foundation aims to em-power, educate and collabo-rate with people and projects to positively impact the planet and its creatures.”
Though some stars, like Monteith, don’t make it past their poor decisions, there are stars who have moved past their early-life errors. One of those success stories is Back-street Boys member Nick Carter, who struggled with drug addiction throughout his young life, but sought help through rehab and now works everyday to stay sober. He told Fox 411 that he’s been sober on and off for 7 years.
Parents should focus their children’s attention on the positive things that celebs do and talk to them about how they are not perfect. They make mistakes, but also use their status to do good deeds.
Parents should focus on the positive aspects of media rather than the negative
Melanie RobertsEditor-in-Chief
At Halloween time, there are far more freightening things than ghosts and ghouls
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Another View III, Los An-geles Printmaking Society’s 21st National Juried Satellite Exhibit, opened in the Saddle-back College art gallery on Oct. 22 to artists, students, staff and visitors at the artists’ reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The show features a variety of prints, from etchings to litho-graphs to woodcuts, that were specifically chosen by judges Vinita Voogd, Rick Reese (both printmaking instructors) and art gallery director Bob Rickerson. These judges filtered through 1,200 artworks from all over the country to find the 48 pieces shown in exhibit.
Rickerson was pleased with the outcome of the show and the selection of the images.
“I wasn’t disappointed by any, but I was surprised by quite a few on how they looked,” Rickerson said. “I think the quality is very strong and it’s affordable.”
The two other judges, Voogd and Reese, were delighted by the scale of some of the pieces when they came to the gallery.
“It was really interesting and
now that we’re looking at some of the artwork, and we thought [“In the Bark”] would be a 6 to 8 inch piece and we’re so excit-ed about the scale,” Voogd said. “For this show we weren’t only looking at the content, but we were also looking at printmak-ing, but that wasn’t our main focus.”
Reese said, “We were look-ing for different approaches to printmaking, because some people are going to be real-ly traditional with a piece and some people may be more con-temporary. But our main focus was to find the most quality prints we could.”
Bart McHenry, dean of fine arts and technology said he thought it was an exciting in-stallation for the gallery.
“It really shows the breadth of art that can be created in printmaking,” McHenry said. “It’s also honoring that we can display the work of so many different university professors from around the nation and give them the opportunity to display their work.”
In addition to the university professors, one former Saddle-back student, Nathan Catlin, and one current student, Mariko Ishii, an art major, presented works at the exhibit as well. Ishii said she takes printmaking classes at Saddleback and has been working with this art form for over 20 years. Her piece, “Puddles,” was displayed in the
show.Another artist, Gail Jacobs,
said she chose three recent pieces to submit to the exhib-it and “Screen,” completed in 2012, was chosen.
“I like that it has images that are a little bit new for me, as well as ones that I work with more frequently,” Jacobs said. “I draw a lot out of my imagi-nation and my landscape mate-rial and use some ancient text. I sort of take it all apart and put it back together.”
Student visitors Jennifer Waters, a 20-year-old art major and Emilee West, an 18-year old art major both were drawn to “Hilo” by Michael Marshall.
“I love the vibrant colors of this one, they kind of just jump off the page,” Waters said. “The black and white part almost looks like music notes.”
West said, “I like the con-trasting between the black and the white. It makes everything pop. I think that it can relate to everybody in a different way.”
Four pieces were sold at the reception, including Karla Hackenmiller’s “Liminal Spi-ral,” bought by Voogd’s hus-band, Maarten.
West said it reminded him of a famous 14th Century print-maker, Albrecht Dürer.
The exhibit will be dis-played in the gallery until Nov. 15.
Exhibit
Art here until Nov. 15
PHOTOS By ANIBAL SANTOSAbove: Gallery group photo shoot- Drawing and Print-making Instructor Rick Reese (far left), former Saddleback College Drawing Instructor Bill Riley (left), Printmaking Instructor Vinita Voogd (cen-ter) Gallery Director Bob Rickerson (far back) Histo-ry of Architecture Professor Irini Vallera Rickerson (right) Maarten Voogd (far right).
Right: Jennifer Waters, a 20-year-old art major (right) and Emilee West, an 18-year-old art major, admire one of the many prints in the show.
Melanie RobeRtsEditor-in-ChiEf
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society brings wood-based art to Saddleback College
The Department of Theater Arts at Saddle-back College will be opening a new show next week in the McKinney Theatre.
“Metamorphoses—A Play” will be opening on Nov. 7 at 7:30. The adaptation of the clas-sic poem by Greek writer Ovid is described on the Fine Arts department website as, “…deep-ly moving and humorous, weaving familiar Greek mythology into a stunning exploration of love, loss, memory, imagination and the power to adapt and endure.”
The play first opened on Broadway in Feb-ruary 2002.
That year, it was nominated for three Tony
Awards, with writer and director Mary Zim-merman receiving the Tony for Best Direction of a Play.
“Metamorphoses—A Play” will be running at the McKinney Theatre from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m., and from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets will cost $15 for the general public, while students and seniors can get in for $10.
For more information on upcoming shows and to purchase tickets, go to the Fine Arts de-partment website at saddleback.edu/arts
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4“I wanted to make a pal for him. I got little
hospital pajamas to fit his duck. I can’t stitch, but I took home some chemotherapy port and sewed it to his chest.” Lu said. “I didn’t know what a fantastic teaching tool it would be. Gabe started practicing things with his duck.”
Soon after, Lu founded the Gabe’s My Heart Foundation which connects children cancer patients with Chemo Ducks, replicas of Gabe’s stuffed animal duck wearing the same hospital pajamas and chemotherapy port.
Ducks come with an in-struction book, workbook, DVD and online activi-ties that assist in edu-cating families about the processes of can-cer treatment while also helping children feel more comfortable throughout the process as their ducks may receive the same treatments as them.
“The amount of ducks we give away vary year to year from about three thousand to five thousand,” Lu said. “The year Gabe was asked to play in the movie, Country Strong—that was a big year for us.” The 2010 movie was filmed in Nashville, Ten-nessee where the Sipos family resides.
“My end goal would be for Chemo Duck to be a mascot for children with cancer,” Lu said. The ducks are in about 150 hospitals now but the foundation would like this number to grow. “We would love for the ducks to be in all hospitals with pediatric oncology.”
Typically the foundation receives corporate
sponsorship or does a lot of the fundraising themselves. Lu was pleasantly surprised when she found out Saddleback College is hosting the Pluck a Duck Fundraiser with proceeds planned to give Chemo Ducks to the children being treat-ed at the Childrens Hospital of Orange County.
“Someone must’ve taken it upon themselves to host this event to
raise funds,” Lu said. “When I found out, I was blown away.”
Connor Hunley passed away the day following his tenth birth-
day. Connor is still very much alive in the hearts and minds of Gabe’s
family. Although Gabe can no longer talk to Connor, the duck serves as a memory of a friend who was willing to take Gabe—under his wing.
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Iman Moujtahed lost her 11-year-old cousin, Aranza Garza, to cancer
earlier this year.Moujtahed recalls Garza’s
strength, which lasted even un-til her death on July 27 in Mex-ico City.
“I don’t want to die, but if I do, I hope I have done every-thing that I could to help the people that I was supposed to here on earth,” Garza told her family before her death.
Inspired to help others af-fected by cancer, Moujtahed, the 22-year-old Saddleback College ASG events committee officer of community service, started promoting Pluck-A-Duck, a fundraiser for children with cancer.
“The recent tragedy of los-ing my cousin to cancer, makes me realize that people don’t get as involved until it hits home,”
Moujtahed said.Moujtahed goes to Saddle-
back College classrooms ex-plaining how buying ducks can make a difference to children who have cancer and are going through treatment.
“The first time I went to a classroom, it was my speech class and right then and there, I sold a duck,” Moujtahed said. “It starts to becomes social pressure, but in a good way and I will even buy ducks out of pocket and collect money lat-er,” she said.
Pluck-A-Duck was started to provide these children with a stuffed animal that they can interact with in order to cope with the scary moments of hav-ing to go through chemothera-py or radiation treatment.
Saddleback isn’t the only place that Moujtahed spreads the word about the program. She also goes to places in her community to raise awareness.
Moujtahed’s explains post-ing Pluck-A-Duck flyers at
Starbucks and other neighbor-ing spots with passion stems from a letter written by her un-cle after his daughter died.
“Dear friends and family,My daughter finally left her
cancer and went to heaven. She had 19 chemotherapies, four operations and more then 30 stays at the hospital, almost a 100 bags of transfusions and lots of medicines.
She was also given mental therapy, spiritual therapy, natu-ral and home remedies, special diets, alternative medicine, ra-diation, blood analysis, oxygen tanks and so many other things that she left behind.
She left her horrible distress behind and everyday that she is missing, everyday she is re-membered.
- Fernando Garza.”In Mexico, Garza’s family
has gotten involved in local charities, providing a way for way the family to cope with the loss of Garza.
Kristen Wilcox
Hernandez had formed a relationship with Porter when Porter chose to attend IVC. Porter opened up to Hernandez about his personal life and his struggles, Hernandez said.
“At the end of the season he was struggling academically, financially, and he kind of decid-ed, ‘Hey, coach, I want to play basketball and go to school but it’s just been challenging financial-ly to support myself,’ and he chose not to come back,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez said he did not see signs of suicide but was always concerned when Porter would leave campus.
“Socially, athletically and personally he inter-acted comfortably like any other team member. I was concerned when his grades started to fall and he started to show signs of losing his con-fidence a little bit,” Hernandez said. “We’d try to remind Darius, ‘Hey, you’re only a freshman, you still have another year,’ but we could kind of see signs he was losing his self-esteem.”
Men’s basketball team manager Andrea Gon-zales also said she did not see signs.
“I didn’t think it would have gotten this far,” Gonzales said. “I didn’t, honestly didn’t see signs. I haven’t hung out with him probably for a month and a half or so but I didn’t think it was that bad whatever it was. I was surprised.”
Gonzales was a close friend of Porter’s.“I was actually collecting the balls and one of
my teammates told me and I just went numb and then I ran outside of the gym and just started cry-ing,” Gonzales said. “I didn’t know what to do. I was really shocked and it just even up to now it’s unreal. It’s just unreal.”
Gonzales remembers Porter as a light-hearted friend who always had good times together.
“He was hilarious. We had great times. Every time we hung out we would always just laugh,” Gonzales said. “Even today and yesterday I
would break out into laughter just thinking of funny times we’ve had just hanging out. Wheth-er it was eating Mongolian barbecue down by Saddleback or just hanging out at the mall or something. I’m just going to miss him a lot.”
Hernandez believed in Porter’s athletic capa-bilities.
“Darius was very athletic,” Hernandez said. “I think had he been able to stay on academically and emotionally stayed on track and didn’t have all the other variables in his life, and been able to take care of himself financially, then he would have been a scholarship player, capable of per-haps division two. His potential was great.”
Porter appeared in six games for the Lasers. He shot 2-4 from the field, and made five of six free throw attempts.
“We knew that emotionally and socially and whatever other aspects he had, he had some prob-lems with,” Hernandez said. “But we thought he had done a little bit of outside work and going to some organizations to help him deal with some of those. It wasn’t an issue so much for us because he was stable, but we could always tell what was going in his personal life because for us, we don’t have dorms we’re a commuter school. When he left here he was juggling a lot of things and we were disappointed he didn’t come back but we understood. He was kind enough to share some of his problems with us and we were open to help him get back into school and be able to be here this year but apparently there was just too many obstacles.”
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Children of the Nations (COTN) is reaching out to meet the needs of orphaned and destitute children. Their vision is to teach children how to transform the society and nation, in which they live, said the Director of Laguna Niguel’s COTN Chapter, Sara Booth.
COTN reaches over 35,000 children in developing coun-tries. Village partnership pro-grams have been established for impoverished parents and caregivers that need assistance in education, medical care and daily nutrition.
“Our Orange area office sent 1.3 million meals to Africa last
year alone, including the Do-minican Republican and Hai-ti. Applied Medical is a huge supporter who donates medical supplies,” Booth said.
Booth said that sponsoring a child is the most important way to get involved. For more in-formation visit cotn.org.
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Saddleback student Iman Moujtahed suffered the loss of her 11-year-old cousin to cancer. The tragedy has inspired her to promote the Pluck-A-Duck fundraiser to provide a little bit of hope to other children who have cancer.
Rubber ducks will be attending the Big Pluck on Nov. 5
Brief: Children of the Nations
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