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El Camino College

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Are pets more than just companions?

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Today is the last day to donate blood

Today is the last day to donate blood at the Blood Mobile from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Activities Center East Lounge. The drive is sponsored by the Inter-Club Council and will benefi t the American Red Cross.

Cal Poly Pomona will host a tour for students

There will be a Cal Poly Pomona tour from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. Interested students who want to sign up or want more information, may contact the Transfer Center, 310-660-3593, ext. 3408.

Arizona State University will be on campus

There will be an Arizona State University workshop from 11 a..m. to 12 p.m on Oct. 20. Interested stu-dents, who want to sign up may con-tact the Transfer Center, 310-660-3593, ext. 3408.

UC Irvine will be hosting a campus tour for students

There will be a UC Irvine campus tour from 8 a..m. to 3 p.m on Oct. 21. Interested students, who want to sign up or want more information, may contact the Transfer Center, 310-660-3593, ext. 3408.

Dream Act to help those students in need of aidAndrew LimNews Editor

Mexican-born Jesus Gonza-lez, 20, architecture major, came to the U.S. as a sophomore in high school.

After graduating from high school, he needed to work full time to have the opportunity for more education.

Working more than 40 hours a week while taking 15 units a semester took a toll on his body, causing him to lose a lot of sleep.

Last Saturday, he breathed a sigh of relief when he found out the Dream Act was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

“I was surprised and excited, so I don’t have to work as much as I have been,” Gonzalez said. “Financial aid is going to be the reason why I’m going to still be in school.”

The Dream Act, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2013, will allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition as well as have opportunities to get Cal grants and different private scholarships.

According to the offi cial

AB540 website, AB540 stu-dents, or undocumented stu-dents, are students who have at-tended a California high school for three years, have graduated from a California high school, and have the intent to apply for U.S. residency.

“I’m very proud of Califor-

nia because (these) students are being hit the most with tuition increases,” René Lozano, advis-er of the AB540 Club Dreamers, said.

“We need to invest in our fu-ture students,” he added.

Hortense Cooper, director of fi nancial aid and scholarships, said the Dream Act will cost roughly $23 million to $40 mil-lion annually.

She added that more than

2,500 undocumented students will be affected by the Dream Act.

“This is huge for Califor-nia,” Sue Oda-Omori, Transfer Center Coordinator, said. “It’s going to help students who want to pursue higher degrees. There will be more of an educated population here. It’s going to help California as a whole.”

Some controversy has start-ed stirring as some students on campus do not like the Dream Act.

“I don’t have anything against illegal immigrants, but I feel like those opportunities should be reserved for citizens,” Nathan Breman, 17, psychology major, said.

However, Michelle Arthur, enrollment services director, said that although this law will open the door to more people to get fi nancial aid, it will not af-fect those who already receive aid.

“It seems like a great oppor-tunity for students who are here due to no fault of their own,” Ar-thur said. “It will help the aca-demically talented to continue their education.

EC prepares for ShakeOutAryn HicksStaff Writer

The big earthquake is on its way.According to the Sciencedaily website, Cali-

fornia has more than a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake within the next 30 years, which is about the size of the earth-quake that hit Haiti last year.

In addition, more than 220,000 people died with about 1.5 million people becoming homeless in Haiti.

To prepare for this big earthquake, EC will be participating in The Great California ShakeOut next Thursday.

The Great California ShakeOut is a statewide earthquake drill that will inform the public about being prepared for an earthquake. According to The Great California ShakeOut website, it is the largest earthquake drill ever.

“(At 10:20 a.m) Sirens will go off and every-one is to duck, cover and hold on,” Rocky Bonura, director of safety and health, said.

When the “shaking stops” students will be es-corted out by a emergency building leader that will take them to a safety zone. When the safety

leaders declare the buildings are safe, students will be allowed back into the building, Bonura said.

Last year, 7.9 million Californians participated in this event, according to the offi cial California ShakeOut website.

EC has been participating in the ShakeOut for the last three years, Bonura said.

According to the Shakeout website, the goal of this drill is to practice how to protect not only ourselves, but our family, friends and coworkers; its goal also is for everyone to be prepared and to prevent disasters from being catastrophes.

“It is always better to be prepared than to have chaos,” Jill Diaz, 22, nursing major, said.

For those EC students who are not prepared for an earthquake, Bonura suggest to get under some-thing sturdy.

Although Bonura feels confi dent that students know what to do, some students disagree.

“I don’t think I am prepared, I will probably panic,” Julie Gonzalez, 21, sociology major, said.

For more information, interested people can visit the Great California ShakeOut website for tips on earthquake preparedness.

“Students should plan ahead and not wait until it happens,” William Lagos, 19, math major, said.

Students learn dance steps

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Jasmine Hormati, 19, biology major, and her dance partner get better acquainted with each other as they learn new steps in the social and ballroom dance class which is offered on campus every Friday.

“Financial aid is go-ing to be the reason why I’m going to still be in

school.”

—Jesus Gonzalez, 20, architecture major

Career and Majors Fair to bring awareness about different fi eldsDeAnna CallowayStaff Writer

Students who are looking for direc-tion have the opportunity to do some window shopping for different careers and fi elds next week.

The Career and Majors Fair will take place Wednesdy from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Schauerman Library lawn to expose students to jobs as well as give them insight into a variety of majors.

“This will be a one-stop shop for students because there will be employ-ers looking for student workers and stu-dents can learn about different majors and talk to counselors about their ma-jors,” Van Nguyen, adjunct counselor

and career adviser, said. The Career and Majors Fair will

benefi t students because it will provide students with an opportunity to network with people, Nguyen said.

Many companies are going to be here including the FBI, the Los Angeles Unifi ed School District, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Depart-ment, the California Department of Transportation, Apple Inc., CBS Radio and Victoria’s Secret.

“We’ve combined the intern and career expo due to budget and staffi ng, therefore making it different from the others we’ve had, and also this will include employers offering season-al jobs,” Nguyen said.

Students do not have to register be-forehand. It is open to alumni as well as the community, and more information is posted on the EC website.

“We highly recommend that stu-

dents bring their resumes, dress pro-fessionally and be prepared to be in-terviewed,” Nguyen said. “If students don’t know how to form a resume, there

are templates online they can use and there’s also a link on the EC website un-der counseling.”

The purpose of the fair is to provide students with an opportunity to work in

their fi eld and fi nd out what they are interested in Nguyen said.

“I’m a philosophy major and I already have a job, so I’m set. But I think that the fair does help students. It’s just sad that we don’t hear too much about them,” Kenneth Garrett,

20, philosophy major, said. While some students found the fair

to be benefi cial, others did not know about the fair and thought there should

be more publicity about the fair. “I think that students benefi t more if

we had more guest speakers on campus for our majors,” Giovan Serrano, 18, criminal justice major, said. “But the fairs need to have more promotion. It’s cool that they have these fairs though.”

Nguyen said that EC is encouraging students to go to the fair to gain a direc-tion on which fi eld to go to.

“A lot of students are not aware of the programs that EC has to offer, so we encourage students to attend and get an idea of who will hire them. Any oppor-tunity to network and meet people is a start,” Nguyen said. “Even though there are restraints on the budget, we still of-fer great resources for students.”

October 13, 2011 / El Camino College Union2 NEWS

—Andrew Lim

POLICEBEAT

Unlicensed driver pulled over by offi cers

Oct. 6 10:53 a.m.—Offi cers pulled over a car driving along Manhattan Beach Boulevard. The driver didn’t have a li-cense. The driver was given a citation for driving without a license and the vehicle was towed for 30 days.

Two students were involved in a collision

Oct. 5, 10:30 a.m.—Offi cers reported to Lot H concern-ing a traffi c collision. A male student backed out and col-lided into the rear of another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle exited, but had no license or insurance. The two students exchanged infor-mation and the male student agreed to pay for damages.

1994 Honda gets stolen from Parking lot L

Oct. 4, 9:40 p.m.— Offi cers spoke to a female student who said she had her 1994 Honda stolen from Parking Lot L. She parked it at 6:30 p.m. and returned to the lot at 9:15 p.m to fi nd the vehicle missing. A stolen vehicle report was completed and fi led.

Rise in gas prices to help with educationAshley Marie PattersonCo-Opinion Editor

At fi rst glance, increasing oil prices might seem like a bad idea.

However, with initiative measure 1481, which would implement a 15 percent tax increase on gas in California, a large chunk of that would go towards education fund-ing including community colleges.

“We introduced the measure in May,” Peter Mathews, state coordinator of Res-cue Education California, said. “There are 27 states in the U.S. that have this tax. Alaska, for example, has this tax and each resident gets a rebate check. We are going by the Texas state model, that would give the tax money strictly towards education,” he added.

The tax would fund 48 percent to com-munity colleges, 11 percent to California state universities, and 11 percent to Uni-versity of California.

Mathews said that community colleges

would receive about $1.5 billion while the Cal states and the UC’s would receive $350 million.

According to the Rescue Education California website, more than $3 billion would be raised due to California being one of the largest producers of oil in the nation.

However, the signature count to try to implement this measure, fell short of the required 504,760 by the Sept. 30 deadline. But, Mathews added that he already had a second plan and a revised measure.

“We already have the revised measure written,” he said. “That way, we have more time to get signatures, to get the proper funding and endorsements we need, so it would be ready by the next election bal-lot.”

Mathews added that he has gotten an encouraging response from the students and the education system, but not from the oil companies.

“The students are very supportive,” he

said. “We are already endorsed by the Cal State Universities Student Association and the University of California Student Asso-ciation. The Community Colleges Associ-ation donated about seven thousand dollars to print the initiative.

“The head of the Western States Petro-leum Association, Anita Mangels, said that the initiative would raise gas prices and jobs would be lost. However, that does not make any sense because would be fund-ing education to the point that more jobs would be available,” he added.

Michael Winter, automotive major, said that any type of extra revenue would benefi t the educational system. However, he added that he was concerned about gas prices increasing. Christian Ortiz, criminal justice major, also thought that this mea-sure might cause a lot of controversy.

“If this will help us not lose classes and sections, then I’m for it,” Ortiz said. “But gas is too expensive to go up in price even more.”

The division of the tax among educa-tion is a smart way to help out all education all around, Winter added, but as long as it does not hurt the wallets of individuals.

Randy Firestone, social science pro-fessor, is an avid supporter of the measure, stating that he collected 282 signatures from his students.

“Although we did not get a lot of sig-natures here, we are hoping that the second time around we will be able to promote more on campus and gain the signatures we need,” Firestone said.

Firestone also said students can help out any way possible.

“We always need the support of the students. The students are the ones we are here for,” Firestone said.

“They can set up tables, pass out fl iers, collect signatures from students on cam-pus. We have already begun to promote the revised initiative, and our new plan that begins with gaining the support of the teachers unions,” he added.

New Reading Success Center open to students Natalie SripongkosolStaff Writer

44 million adults in the U.S. can’t read well enough to read a simple story to a child, accord-ing to The Literacy Company website which helps people with obtaining reading skills.

The new Reading Success Center has been implemented on EC to help people with home-work as well as to reinforce stu-dents with reading skills.

Students like Quadre Single-tary, 18, photography major, are utilizing the new Reading Suc-cess Center to help them with their homework needs.

“It’s my fi rst year in college, so coming here’s very helpful,” Singletary major, said. “I’m in

here every morning, since the fi rst day of school.”

The center, which fi rst opened its doors in the Schauer-man Library East Basement at the beginning of this semester, celebrated with an open house last Tuesday.

“The reading faculty saw a defi nite need for this service,” Sheryl Kunisaki, Reading Suc-cess Center Coordinator and ESL instructor, said.

“We have a great Writing Center, but we found that a lot of students could use a little bit of extra help reading before the writing,” she added.

Funding for the Reading Success Center came from the federal Title V Graduation Initia-tive Project grant.

The grant was awarded to EC as part of the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.

But Kunisaki said that the free drop-in tutoring, available at the center from 9 a.m. to 2

p.m. Monday through Thursday, is aimed at serving a diverse ar-ray of students and in any class for which they need reading as-sistance.

“It doesn’t have to be a read-ing class—somebody might come here with a history book— we help students implement strategies for textbook reading,” Kunisaki said.

Students of all reading lev-els, not just those with introduc-tory reading skills, are also en-couraged to utilize the Reading Success Center, tutor Amanda Edwards said.

“It can really help anyone,” Edwards said. “It’s for good readers who want to read better.”

Jaxon Smith, 20, general studies major, who plans to trans-

fer to UCLA as a Spanish-Portu-guese major, said he will use the center to “help with evaluating Mark Twain’s ‘Pudd’nhead Wil-son’, to write a good essay,” for his English 1C class.

In addition to tutoring, the Reading Success Center offers instruction on use of supplemen-tal software like Total Reader, which aids in reading compre-hension, as well as Ultimate Speed Reader, which improves reading speed.

“What’s nice about having a reading center is, so often the skill of reading text and evaluat-ing it at a college level is kind of overlooked because, really, there’s so much to teach and learn in just one writing class,” Edwards said.

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Talent shows, nail polish and dress up aren’t just for children anymore. Dressing a pet seems to be a continuing fashion trend, one that started with Paris Hilton’s mini Chihuahua in her small Channel purse, and has spawned into trendy dog boutiques and organic bakeries meant just for dogs.

Many students and professors believe treating your pet like it’s part of the family is what you’re supposed to do, and dressing it up or taking it to lunch is nothing unusual. A pet can be the perfect companion, and some believe they deserve nothing less.

“Dressing up a pet is just adding a personal touch. It’s showing you care for them,” Tracey Romero, 20, biology major, said. “I personally own two birds and I used to own a cat. With my cat, I al-ways dressed him up just to keep him warm. I know he was a house cat, but it was cute to watch him strut around in his little sweater.”

According to a new study published in the Jour-nal of Personality and Social Psychology, pets offer the same emotional benefi ts as human friendships.

Miami University administered a questionnaire to 217 people and found that participants with pets, particularly dogs, had an “increased sense of be-longing, self-esteem and a meaningful existence.” The work implies people perceive their pets as be-ing able to fulfi ll social needs.

Researchers then had students write about their pets and reported that writing about their pets was as

therapeutic as writing about their friends.“After my grandma died, all I had left was my

two cats,” Nicole Johnson, 18, nursing major, said. “I felt like my cats fi lled that empty void in my life and these were my grandmothers cats, which made them even more special.”

Jeanne Bellemin, zoology professor, said she also believes that pets can build responsibility for students. She said that not only do students build a strong emotional connection with their pets, they also have to learn how to take care of them.

“Having pets, like a dog, is a precursor to having kids,” Bellemin said. “Life is so full of responsibili-ties as you get older and having a pet can allow stu-dents to appreciate that that’s just how life is.”

The biology department has its own pets that live on campus, and Bellemin said, students had the chance to name many of the animals.

“We have a corn snake and tortoises that are en-dangered,” Bellemin said. “We put a piece of paper outside of their cages and had a contest to decide their names. A lot of students gave their suggestions and took interest in it and I think that’s indicative to how people really feel about their pets.”

Some students like to keep their pets by their side and Nina Pennington, 19, zoology major, said it helps to make her feel complete.

“My friends think I’m crazy because I literally take my dog everywhere,” Pennington said. “Rust is his name because he has brown and black spots that

reminded us of rust spots on a drain pipe. It’s kind of funny every time I think about why we named him that, but I can’t see myself without him.”

However, some students believe placing your pet in shows and dressing a pet like it’s a real person is just too much.

“The dog is not an accessory and will not get a lot of exercise if it’s in a purse or something,” Cait-lyn Davis, 19, liberal arts major, said.

She loves all three of her dogs, but she said she believes that dressing ani-mals up is just taking it a little too far.

“I own three dogs, a Chihuahua, Cockapoo and an American Eskimo,” Davis said. “I think dogs are defi nitely a part of the family but you don’t want to spoil the dog.”

Many students choose to rescue their animals. Joleen McCellan, animal science major, said she has a dog and a cat, but the animals she rescued are near and dear to her because they add a special touch.

Eric Sanders, 20, ac-counting major, owns a bearded dragon named Spike.

He said owning an exotic pet takes patience since it won’t necessarily

play like a dog, but that’s it’s just as good to watch it in its natural habitat.

“He sleeps on this really big branch in his cage and it’s so cool,” Sanders said. “It defi nitely lifts my spirits to see him. I admit it, I stand in front of the tank and talk to him and feed him crickets.”

Regardless of what type of animal a student or instructor owns, or whether they decide to dress them up or not, most pet owners love their animals.

“When you care about pets, you care about the environment and pets give people so much love,” Bellemin said. “I think pets and people go together.”

pets are positive for people

Having the ability to attend college is only but a dream for some people.

However with the newly signed Dream Act by Gov. Jerry Brown this past Satur-day, it is now going to be easier for stu-dents who are non-citizens to obtain fi nan-cial aid to further their education.

The reason that some people don’t agree with the Dream Act passing is because they don’t feel that it is right for students who are citizens to not receive funding while those who are undocumented, do.

In this day in age were an education is extremely important to one’s success, non-citizen students who has been attend-ing school all their lives should be able to receive funding and grants to further their education.

If not, what is to become of them if they do not further their education? Who are we or anyone to say that someone cannot go to college and cannot get help for an educa-tion?

It has been said that undocumented stu-dents who will be qualifying for fi nancial aid will have to work just as hard as a citi-zen student and to study and learn about the U.S. government.

Now, let’s be clear. How many students born and raised in

the U.S. would actually know anything about the U.S. government?

Exactly. Not that many.Just because non-citizen students will

be receiving fi nancial aid, does not mean

that it will affect students who currently receive any funding.

This will not take away from anyone at all. So if that is what is worrying some stu-dents, have no fear. One won’t be losing anything.

In the end, the State of California will be more educated, the President of the United States as well as past presidents keep stating in speeches that education is important. It is, no one is arguing that, but let’s start showing it.

While it is tough for students who were born in the U.S. to receive fi nancial aid due to the fact that either their parent’s or themselves make too much money, some students do receive fee waivers.

Fee waivers are in no way grants, but they waive fees that a student has, for ex-ample parking permits and class dues.

We are in a time where we strive for the equality of all people, after all we are sup-posed to be the land of the free.

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Students should be better prepared for earthquakes

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My name is Mary L. Kretzmar, and I have worked at EC for the Special Resource Center since 1993, as a supporter for students pursuing their majors. I am also a note taker.

The information I document from the in-structors lecture helps assist students in achiev-ing their goal of passing their class. This brings them closer to their degree. I feel I am an im-portant link in a student’s educational chain.

I have always enjoyed having a job where I support others. This is why I am participating in the AIDS Walk Los Angeles, organized by AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).

In the same year I began working for EC, a dear friend of mine had been diagnosed with HIV. HIV is a disease that attacks your immune system, causing the body to no longer be able to fi ght off illnesses. My friend died of com-plications on Jan. 14, 1995. She left her legacy in the form of her children. HIV can be trans-mitted from one person to another by infected blood, semen, vaginal fl uids breast milk, and pre-ejaculate fl uid.

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ourselves with knowl-edge. Through technol-ogy, and the Internet, we can learn so much more about how to prevent this disease from spread-ing. Go to APLA.org and get the facts, along with knowing the services that

APLA provides. Students can participate in educating the public about HIV and AIDS by visiting www.AidsWalk.net. (The next AIDS walk is Sunday).

The Health Center has helpful workshops, services, and handouts/fl yers about various dis-eases, including HIV and AIDS.

HIV and AIDS are incurable. The best thing we can do is stay educated and support those who have lost loved ones from the disease.

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There are more ways to be well-prepared for an earthquake than ducking for cover.

Drop, cover and hold on! Living in California, one never knows when the next

earthquake can strike. That is why it is very important to be well-prepared and

know what to do. As most students know, EC always participates in the

yearly ShakeOut. However, many think that their isn’t as much to do in

order to be well prepared. But really? Is that all we need in order to be safe? Will a

little desk help save the lives?But while many know what to do, or at least think what

do, does anyone really know how to be well prepared?So far, we have been fortunate enough to not have a

catastrohic earthquake like other countries have. The best thing one can do is learn from these past unfor-

tunate earthquakes and be well-equiped and ready. The fi rst thing one does after an earthquake is evacuate

and go outside. Stay away from buildings. But what if you are in a moving vehicle?

The educational site for budding seismologists says that “If you’re in a car, stop the car and stay inside the car until the earthquake stops.”

One should also stay away from trees and anything that can possibly hit one’s vehicle.

However, there are more tips that one can use.According to the Earthquake and Education Resources

website, one of their tips is to mark everything that you can in order to avoid it during an earthquake.

The biggest mistake that people do is that they go under-neath tables to take cover when they are not even aware if what they are under is any safe.

Also, students and people in general, should be well-

prepared and have a safety kit.Also, many times earthquakes happen at night. They are

very unpredictable, we all know that. But don’t use matches, candles, or any kind of fl ames.

One never knows when their is any broken lines or gas leakes. It is also very smart for Californian’s to carry around fi rst-aid kits.

Anything from band-aids, sanatizer, water, tape, food like granola bars and food that has long shelf life and gauz-es should be carried in a small pouch.

Don’t forget about your pets. One should always have pet-friendly carriers and have food and water for their pets as well.

The truth is that while many people can read and know how to prepare for an earthquake, many still won’t. There is no excuse for not being prepared. When and if the time comes, everyone should be well-equipped because we nev-er know how big or small it can be.

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Facebook was once a social network to host photos, keep close contact with friends and family, while stay-ing private to the cyber public. Now, this has changed.

When signing onto Facebook, there are a few new features that may be confusing.

There a sidebar that updates every minute with us-er’s names and icons showing what they posted on their wall or other users’ walls.

There is also a new feature called ‘lists’ where users can categorize friends and family into groups. This is useful for group announcements and invites.

Now, status updates are tagged with locations; us-ers will know in what city and state that status was up-dated. This feature can be turned off because it invades privacy.

Why should people have to know where you are ev-ery single time you post a status?

Another feature, that resembles that of Twitter, is the subscription feature. Users can ‘follow’ others pages like an online blog to keep with daily posts, if they are not friends.

Facebook has privacy settings but do they work? In order to be completely private on Facebook, users have the option to block others.

However, the privacy settings lack control because non-friends can still see what other users have posted through other’s pages. There is a lack of barrier.

Online safety is very important and promoted in-ternationally. Unfortunately, Facebook is a contradic-tion, mapping out everyone’s lives online for anyone to view. It’s not safe at all.

In addition to the new sidebar and features, the pictures in the status feed are bigger than what they were before and of lower quality. Because they are so

large, the pictures become discol-ored, stretched and awkward.

It is understandable that Face-book is also competing with many other social networks but Facebook is too open. It’s an ac-cident waiting to happen. Face-book’s lack of privacy can lead to cyberbullying, online predators

and attackers. It is not kid-safe.According to an article posted on the Los Angeles

Times website, on March 24, 2010, Alexis Pilkington, 17, a high school student from Suffolk County, N.Y., received harassing messages and wall posts on her Facebook page. These messages caused her to commit suicide because she was emotionally battered by other students on Facebook.

This is a type of problem Facebook users face when using the updated version. Less privacy and loopholes in the security settings can open the gateway to cyber-bullying, harassment, and predators.

The L.A. Times stresses the importance of under-standing technology and the websites that are used fre-quently by their children and students.

The new Facebook is like an open yellow pages ly-ing on the side of a street corner where anyone can ac-cess it.

Privacy on Facebook was once at the hands of the individual. Now, privacy is a matter that the Web de-cides.

Sign-up on Facebook and kiss privacy goodbye!

Facebook is not as safe as it may seem

Tayani DavisStaff Writer

COMMENTARYRaising awareness for HIV and AIDS

OPINION 5October 13, 2011 / El Camino College Union

Are pet owners going too far with their pets? Pets don’t need to be pampered

so much.

Every pet deserves some appreciation.

Laura Welsh is the adviser of the writing club. With 33 ac-tive members, the club meets in the Humanities Building, Room 307 every other Tues-day from 1 to 1:50 p.m.

Who is the president?We don’t really have a presi-dent or a vice president. There are four students who are basically in control. Their names are Khloe Gross, Julia Fleming, Michael Trinidid and Gabriel Villareal.

Why have you chosen to be the adviser for the writing club?Because they asked me to and I could not let them down. A lot of the members were in my English 1B course.

How does the club contrib-ute to the campus and the community?There are a lot of creative students and this club is an outlet for them. It is a place where they can share their in-terests and ideas.

When was the writing club founded?I believe this is the fi rst year EC has a writing club.

Does the writing club have any upcoming events?Yes. Most of the members are taking part in a writing com-petition. They are asked to write an entire novel in one month.

What are the requirements to join the club?Students must have interest in creative writing and be ready to come up with all sorts of different writing activities.

What goes on in the club meetings?Every meeting all the mem-bers come up with a writing activity and start writing a story. Everyone helps out by saying a line or two.

What kind of members join your club?A lot of enthusiastic students who are extremely creative with many writing ideas. Most of them are English ma-jors.

Why should students who enjoy writing join the club?Students get constructive, supportive critique on current writing activities in a safe environment from a quali-fi ed adviser and from fellow group members, regardless of what type of genre the writ-ing activity is.

Laura WelshAdviser

Writing Club

A 52-carat $1.8 million dog collar…. enough said. These days, pet owners are starting to get ridiculous with merchandise for their pets.

They purchase almost everything for them, whether it is a mink fur coat for a dog that costs $725 or a Hello Kitty crystal doghouse that costs $31,660.

According to the International Pet Product News website, pet industry spend-ing topped $48 billion in 2010, increasing from $45.53 billion in 2009.

Even with the rising prices in gas and the economy being anything but excep-tional, it hasn’t seemed to stop pet owners from purchasing for their pets.

Maybe this is one of the reasons why we can’t get out of the recession that has plagued for us for the past couple of years; Americans are spending too much on their pets.

Unfortunately, clothes and jewelry are not the only things that the owners have spent a lot of money on.

There is also food that seems to be sold at outrageous prices, some of it claiming to be gourmet and organic; some of it is even more expensive than food we humans eat.

Like a pan-seared duck with brown rice. Or roasted turkey with squash, pota-toes and salmon.

That almost resembles a menu fi t for a human being, except it’s not. It’s food items that dogs actually eat.

What happened to the days of just feeding dogs, regular dog food like normal dog biscuits and other dog treats? It’s not like their pets are going to love their own-ers any less if they do feed them regular food.

Aside from the jewelry and food, some owners have even had some lavish parties for their pets.

According to the International Pet Product News website, 9 percent of dog owners and 4 percent of cat owners have had a holiday or birthday party for their pets.

In recent days, parties have been much more common for pets, resulting in a lot of websites, including, www.petbirthdayp-arty.com which helps the pet owners with

getting party supplies and apparel. It is understood that people want pets

so that they can have a companion. And owners want to make sure that pets don’t get stressed out.

However, there is no need to go over the top by purchasing all these luxuries for the pets. They will still equally love their owners. Just allow pets to be pets and let them live!

Pets are an important part of some people’s lives. Dogs are known to be a man’s best friend. They are loyal to their owners, guard their home, let them know when there is danger near or when some-thing isn’t right.

And it is only appropriate to spoil and show them the appreciation that they deserve. Even if it means lavishing them with fancy clothes and boots for their

little paws. While some people think that “dressing” a pet is enough with a simple collar, other owners like to step it up a notch and turn it into an entire ensemble. Who wouldn’t mind a dapper- looking pet?

Nowadays, there are services for own-ers to take their pets, from dog hotels, to cat day spas, cats and dogs can indulge in a pawdecure any day of the week.

According to the WebMD website, re-search has shown that people living with pets provide certain health benefi ts, such as low blood pressure and decrease anxi-ety.

So while pets give comfort and com-pany to their owners, why not allow the owner to give to their pets as well? Some people say that dressing animals up in cos-tumes or clothes is unnecessary.

But many pet owners see their pets as a part of their family. So why would anyone allow their dog, a member of the family, to roam around without any clothes? One wouldn’t let a family member run around naked, would they? Although some argue that it isn’t the same, who is to say? It all depends on the person. And for those people who say that dogs don’t like to be dressed, how would they know?

Another argument is that owners take it too far with their pet’s fashion. However, a simple sweater or a raincoat is all right. When a dog or cat cannot walk because of all the accessories that it is carrying on them, that is a different story.

Other people see dogs as their chil-dren. For whatever reason, some couples don’t have any children, they use the same love to care for their pets.

If a pet is abused, it gets a lot of nega-tive attention from people and no one is arguing that it shouldn’t. But if an owner is spoiling a pet with clothes and fancy purses to be carried around in, than it also shouldn’t be argued about.

Instead of being concerned with how owners decide to dress their pets, one should be concerned with the amount of pets that are abused each day.

Because in the end, it is always better to have a pet extremely loved rather than neglected.

I was 6 years old when I fi rst heard the word cancer. I was devastated when I learned it had taken the life of my grandmother. Whom I never got the chance to meet. Fourteen years later, people are still dying all around me because of cancer.

I believe students our age think because we are young and somewhat fi t that we aren’t capable of having cancer.

I am sure most of us may have realized from the over-abundance of pink products lining store shelves recently that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The goal of all of those pink products is for three reasons: to raise awareness about breast cancer, to encourage wom-en to get tested for it and to raise much needed funds for breast cancer research.

So is it working? Fortunately, the answer is yes. Stud-ies show that more women get screened for breast cancer in October and November than at any other time of the year.

Maybe it’s just the fi rst opportunity that women have to make a doctor’s appointment once their children go back to school. Maybe it’s due to a desire to get health issues taken care of before the start of the New Year. Or maybe it’s all of those pink ribbons staring back at them from their cans of soup and boxes of pasta. Whether it is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month or not, young

female students should constantly be aware and realize it is a com-mon and serious disease to have.

Yes, according to the Ameri-can Cancer Society (ACS) 77 percent of breast cancer patients are 65 years and older. Howev-er, did you know the disease of-ten strikes children and younger adults as well? Imagine how iso-lating the experience would be for a young woman, since it is not common.

A friend of my family was diagnosed with breast can-cer at the age of 21. She said none of her friends had gone through what she had and how recurrence is a real con-cern.

A recent study showed that young breast cancer pa-tients are likely to experience post cancer worry, in part because they are likely to have fewer peers with serious illness and fi nd cancer more stressful.

Did you know that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women? I would encourage women to start get-ting regular examinations starting at a young age. Accord-ing to the lifescript website an early detection through

regular examinations is crucial.It also mentions that women should begin doing

monthly self-exams at age 20 and ask their doctors to do clinical exams at least every three years. By age 40, wom-en should have annual mammograms and breast exams by a physician, in addition to monthly self-exams.

Although breast cancer might not be prevented, early detection and prompt treatment can signifi cantly increase a woman’s chances of surviving breast cancer. According to the ACS, more than 90 percent of women whose breast cancer is found at an early stage will survive.

When women learn at a young age about the risks and benefi ts of detecting breast cancer early, they are more likely to follow the recommendations regarding clinical exams and mammograms.

Young women also need to understand their risk fac-tors and be able to discuss breast health with their health care providers.

We should remember how lucky we are to be part of a generation where there is support all around us whether it is emotionally, medically, or fi nancially.

Hopefully, one day all those pink ribbon labels and pink coffee cups become something of the past. But in the meantime, don’t forget to get yourself in to the doctor for a screening.

Eman ElshiyabCo-Opinion Editor

Cancer is a serious issue, better not to avoid it COLUMN

Lady Rios, 18, liberal studies major

Ben Yanuaria, 17,fi tness major

CAMPUS VIEWPOINTS By Diane Vay

Are pet owners going too far with their pets?

UP FOR DEBATE CAMPUSCORNER

Illustration by Diane Vay

—Eman Elshiyab

Andrew LimNews Editor

Viridiana Vaca-RiosEditor-in-Chief

Mulena Varnado, 20, sociology major

“No. Some people don’t have children, so pets are a replace-ment. I think that it’s pretty cool when people dress their pets up.”

Jose Perez, 19, undecided major

“Yes. I think animals should be free and have their own personal space. People who dress up their pets are just trying to show off.”

Kei Nishimura, 22, business administration major

“No. I used to think it was ridicu-lous, but now I have my own pet and I think they look much cuter all dressed up in outfi ts.”

Andrew Cuaron, 20, computer animation major

“Yes. I own two dogs that I treat as human beings but I don’t dress them up. There are boundaries in how we should treat our pets.”

“No. I don’t think that there is anything wrong with dressing up pets. I actually think that the clothes are pretty cute.”

“Yes. I think that it’s weird when I see pets get dressed up. Animals aren’t meant to be dressed up like dolls or people.”

ON THE SCENE

Theater

Student One-Act Plays at the Campus Theatre

The Student One-Act Plays will debut tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Campus The-atre. Directed and performed by students, a single act from four different plays will be performed through Saturday. Tickets are $10. For more in-formation, interested persons may call 800-832-ARTS.

Music

International concert pianist performs at EC

Di Wu, pianist, will make her Los Angeles recital de-but tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Marsee Auditorium where she will perform music from Eu-ropean composers Debussy, Ravel and Gounod-Liszt. Tickets are $26. For more in-formation, interested persons may call 800-832-ARTS.

Film

Travel Cinema Series

From its history of can-nibalistic wartime rituals to becoming a tourist-friendly island nation, Fiji’s past and present are explored in the travel fi lm, “The Real World of Fiji.” The fi lm will be shown in Marsee Auditorium at 3 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. on Monday. Tickets are avail-able for $7. For more infor-mation, interested persons may call 800-832-ARTS.

—Natalie Sripongkosol

6 ARTS October 13, 2011 / El Camino College Union

Sheila Broussard

Staff Writer

A series of diverse plays will take stage tomorrow night in an evening made up of both student directors and performers.

The Student One-Act Plays presents four, one-act plays with the help of faculty advisers Ron-ald Scarlata, theatre professor and William Georges, associate theatre professor.

Opening tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Campus Theatre, the play bill will be comprised of: “Small World,” written by Tracey Scott Wilson, directed by Marqueta Floyd, 23, theatre ma-jor; “Mike’s Case,” written by Christopher Schoggen, directed by Michael Yarbro, theatre ma-jor; “Portrait Of A Madonna,” written by Tennesse Williams, directed by Genah Redding, 22, theatre major, and “The Right To Remain,” written by Mela-nie Marnich, directed by Briana Burnside, 21, theatre major.

“We had fun putting the pro-ductions together,” Floyd said.

“Small World” is a com-

edy about three couples going through the motions of dating but with the expectation of be-coming serious with one another.

“Finding a cast who could share my vision was the hardest part of the production,” Floyd said.

In the next act, “Mike’s Case” is a story about a 16-year-old male who fi nds himself in an awkward position in life and is trying to understand what might be wrong.

“I wanted to choose a story that the students could relate to,” Yabro said.

“Portrait of a Madonna” is a story about a woman who is plagued by her past and has since lost touch with reality.

“Everything has come to-gether really well,” Redding said.

In the fi nal act, “The Right to Remain,” tells a story about a man who has betrayed his wife. Tension consumes the entire family as they work through the problem.

“Ron Scarlata has worked hard at making this happen for us,” Floyd said.

Singer wins fourth place in Las VegasViridiana Vaca-RiosEditor-in-Chief

Walking onto the stage, he nervously looks at the faces of the people sitting in the audi-ence in front of him. As he posi-tions himself in the middle, the lights go off, making the room pitch black and leaving nothing but a single dim light refl ecting on him. Waiting for his cue, he fi nds the confi dence within and belts out a tune.

Juan Daniel Lopez, 19, mu-sic major, said that singing on stage as part of the 42nd Street cast, is one of his most memo-rable experiences.

“I was playing Julian Marsh, he sings at the very end so the director told me to sing in the dark and there was a single light on me. It was so cool that I was singing in the dark and at the end, the director told me to turn off the light and it was a very exhilarating moment for me,” he said.

Singing since age 13, Lo-pez said that it wasn’t until high school were he really be-gan singing on stage, as he was part of the choir after meeting a

group of new friends.Switching lunch tables, Lo-

pez was introduced to a group of men who had one thing in com-mon, singing.

After developing a strong interest in singing, Lopez be-came a part of a barbershop mu-sic group—an acappella style group—consisting of about 40 men who traveled to Las Vegas to perform in The Really Big Quartet Competition.

“We had only rehearsed two times, considering everyone in the group lived in different ar-

eas,” he said. “We were pretty nervous, but

we were confi dent in ourselves. We were going up against these groups who had been around for a long time and we ended up winning fourth place.”

Lopez’s mentor, Noel White said that he is a “stand-up guy.”

“Juan Lopez has grown greatly as a singer,” White said.

Although Lopez loves to sing, there is one aspect of it that

he has a hard time getting used to, he said.

“I get nervous,” he said. But Lopez will always re-

member the advice a classmate once gave him, “being nervous is a beautiful thing because it re-minds you that you are alive and is also a reminder that we live for those moments.”

His music professor, Joanna Nachef, who has been working with Lopez for two years, said he is a solid singer who has a won-derful future ahead of him.

“He is one of the most dili-gent and disciplined students with great talent,” Nashef said. “He has amazing focus.”

Although Lopez fi nds great excitement in winning as well as singing, he said he fi nds the most pleasure in creating and performing music.

“A lot of people can relate to the music that I create and most break into tears when I sing,” he said. “To have someone be so moved and who can directly re-late to singing, is what inspires me.

“I can sing myself happy on any given day,” Lopez said. “I really enjoy it.”

STAR RISING

Vanessa Adams / UnionDirected by Genah Redding, 22, theatre major, the cast from “Portrait of a Madonna” rehearse their lines before the play’s debut in the Student One-Act Plays opening tomorrow.

Performing as a baritone, Juan Daniel Lopez, 19, music major, harmonizes his voice in barbershop music.David Ward / Union

Student One-Act Plays debut in Campus Theatre

Sabrina Ibarra, Zachary Schell and Lorne Stevenson run through a scene from the play, “The Right to Remain.”

Vanessa Adams / Union Vanessa Adams / Union

The cast of “Small World” receives direction from Ronald Scarlata, theatre professor, during rehearsals.

SPORTS 7October 13, 2011 / El Camino College Union

Warriors sweep away Long Beach CityShane UttonStaff Writer

Kaitlyn Edward goes for the kill against Long Beach City College. The Warriors swept LBCC, 3-0.

Jennifer Oh /Union

—Shane Utton

In the Warriors’ third conference game, they beat Long Beach City Col-lege for three straight victories with the scores 25-14, 25-23, and 25-19.

Coach Le Valley Pattison has been emphasizing passing the ball and it’s been working for the Warriors.

Setter Sarah McFadden has been playing well and has been the center of the Warriors offense.

“Sarah has done a fi ne job balancing the offense so far. She has really gotten every hitter involved,” Pattison said. “This week should be much more of a challenge with Cerritos and Pasadena, Pattison said.

The fi rst game was dictated by out-side hitters Katie Childs, Lauren Ed-wards and middle blockers Tulia Barnes.

They all played well in the biggest win of the night against Long Beach, 25-13.

“They’re a good team, they hit the open shots. I was telling everybody on the court that we have to fi ght, if they get momentum, they can come back and win,” Barnes said.

Game two was a nail-biter.The crowd at Long Beach was loud

and got the Long Beach team excited. The Vikings started off up 7-3, but

the Warriors fought back to make it 17-17.

From that point there were four lead

changes, but the women fought back and played well down the stretch with strong play from libero Keely Stevenson and Mcfadden winning 25-23.

“We lacked communication and our passing was really off. We started to fi g-ure it out and play as team,” McFadden

In game three, there was no looking back as the Warriors played with a dif-ferent focus and determination.

This game was back and fourth in the beginning with three leads changes before the Warriors took control over the game after the score being tied up at 11-11 and won 25-19.

Middle blocker Nigeria Owens and Kaityln Edwards played well for the Warriors.

“Nigeria and I at practice yesterday worked on hitting a bunch of balls and I think that helped on offence tonight and as a team we played well on defense,” Kaitlyn Edwards said.

Lauren Edwards had 14 kills and seven digs, Kaitlyn Edwards had 10 kills and three digs.

Following those two, Childs had seven kills and fi ve digs, Owens had seven digs, two blocks and two digs, Stevenson had 16 digs, and Mcfadden had 51 assists.

The Warriors will look to continue winning when Pasadena City College comes to campus tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Men’s soccer team ties in cross-town match up against SeahawksJorge CamarilloStaff Writer

The men’s soccer team hasn’t had many scoring opportunities this season, but last Friday Chris Marckstadt changed that for the Warriors.

On the team’s fi rst scoring opportunity on Friday, Marckstadt scored on a header in the 18th minute to give EC a 1-0 lead over Los Angeles Harbor College.

“It was a pretty good goal, and it was a outside shot from Michael Tostada-More-no, (midfi elder). I scored on a header and I was at the right place at the right time,” Marckstadt, forward, said.

Marckstadt’s goal in the early going stands as EC most memorable play against the Seahawks.

“The goal from Chris Marckstadt, it

was a nice goal and a great header and it kept us in the lead for 75 minutes of the game,” assistant coach Ever Morotoya said.

It wasn’t enough as the Warriors gave up the tying goal to Akwafei Ajeakwa of the Seahawks in the 79th minute, as EC settled for a 1-1 tie on the road on Friday.

“Obviously, Chris scoring the goal, (defender) Ben Turnbull had a really good game, Tostada-Moreno, (midfi elder), played real hard, the whole team played well for about 80 minutes of the game,” Morotoya said.

The Warriors will look to fi nish off their scoring chances and give themselves a chance to win more games.

“Trying to score more goals on offense and work on fi nishing we are creating a lot

of chances, but not fi nishing,” Morotoya said.

The Warriors played a good game and were more organized with their play on Friday against Harbor.

“We attacked more and we were more organized on defense and we created chances, when we went up and we were organized in the back and created more defense to create more offense,” Morotoya said.

The team had the lead for 79 minutes of the game, but gave up a goal late in the game which added another tie to its record.

“We did pretty well up until the 79th minute of the game, we stayed organized and knocked the ball around,” Morotoya said. “We allowed a silly goal and our de-fense broke down.”

Players said they thought they got off to a good start on Friday against the Se-ahawks, despite tying them 1-1.

“It was a close match. We need to get a little more physical to improve, but over-all it wasn’t a bad outcome,” Ben Turnbull said.

The Warriors’ next game is tomorrow, when they travel to Monterey Park to take on East Los Angeles College at 2 p.m.

“We are going to ELAC and try and take it to them, play some offense over there and hopefully get a good result,” Mo-rotoya said.

The Warriors will look to create more scoring opportunities and come away with a win against the Husky’s tomorrow.

“If we fi nish our chances and stay or-ganized we will be good,” Morotoya said.

ON DECK

Women’s Volleyball

Friday at 6 p.m. vs. Pasadena City CollegeWednesday at 7 p.m. at L.A Trade Tech CollegeFriday Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. vs. Mt. San Antonio College

Football

Tomorrow Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. vs College of The CanyonsSaturday Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. at Cerritos

Women’s Water Polo

Friday and Saturday at 7 a.m. at Citrus College (tournament)Wednesday at 3 p.m. at

Los Angeles Trade Tech

Men’s Soccer

Tomorrow at 2 p.m. at East L.A. CollegeTuesday at 2 p.m. at Long Beach City College

Women’s Water Polo

Friday and Saturday at Citrus College TournamentWednesday at 3 p.m. at L.A. Trade Tech College

Women’s Soccer

Friday at 4 p.m. at

East L.A. CollegeTuesday at 4 p.m. at Long Beach City College

8 SPORTS October 13, 2011 / El Camino College Union

Warriors Itchel Guzman goes for a kick against Harbor College. The women’s soccer team ended up winning the game, 1-0 when the visited Los Angeles Harbor College last Friday.

Sylwia M. Ozdzynski /Union

Sylwia M. Ozdzynski /Union

Warriors Alondra Johnson, was named Northern Conference player of the week after rushing for 169 yards and one touchdown Oct. 1 against Palomar College. The Warriors won the game, 28-23.

Water polo teams sink in lossesThe men’s and women’s water polo teams lose in last week’s matches.

Matt Simon

Sports Editor

The women’s water polo team lost three straight games after win-ning its fi rst game in the Ventura Tournament.

The women’s team is still im-proving every week since and is still waiting for one of its best offensive threats.

At last week’s Ventura Tour-nament, the women were able to squeeze out a 8-6 victory against Santa Ana.

In the match, leading-scorer for the team, Kirstie Wand, had two goals. Along with Wand, Ariel Car-rillo, Alexandra Jett and Katlyn Van-nieuwenhuyse all found the back of the net twice.

In the next matches the offense for the women’s team was nonexis-tent.

“Four out of the last fi ve teams we played are ranked in the top 10 in the state,” Corey Stanbury, coach, said. “They are really good and some of the teams have really large and very strong players.”

In the team’s second match against Fullerton, it lost 16-3 and the team was outscored 7-1 in the sec-ond quarter.

In the third match, the team found itself in the same place as they lost 21-5 against Merced College.

However, in a match which had the Warriors fi nishing in fourth place, Stanbury found some bright spots during the tournament.

“Shanese Douglas was able to block two penalty shots which was outstanding, and Kirstie Wand cre-ated a lot of scoring opportunities,” Stanbury said. “Those two were con-stants throughout the weekend.”

For the men’s water polo team this season has been diffi cult.

In its recent match against Cer-ritos the men lost the match, 18-6.

The Warriors were outscored 8-1 in the fi rst quarter which caused the team trouble.

“Cerritos was a lot faster and stronger than we were and that’s one of the reasons they are ranked in the top 10 in the state,” Stanbury said.

Despite the loss, Stephen Sor-bom, goalie, had 12 saves. This was one of his highest totals for the entire season.

“We were able to do a pretty good job getting some extra men situations,” Stanbury said. “Sorbom and Alec Ortiz both had a really good game and were both outstand-ing out of the bunch.”

The team will be looking to change its luck at the Citrus Tourna-ment this weekend.

Running back Alondra Johnson has been named Northern Conference player of the weekAnthoni AlviraUnion Correspondent

Alondra Johnson, was named Northern Conference Play-er of the Week due to his superior performance on Oct. 1 at Palomar.

Coach John Featherstone has proclaimed Johnson as the “silent leader” of the team.

“He’s a quiet guy and I like that,” John Featherstone, coach, said. “He leads by example and is really humble.”

Johnson had 23 carries, 169 yards and one touchdown for the Warriors on Saturday, including his 53 yard run that set up the game winning touchdown.

Johnson, sophomore, out of Chino Hills High School, has proven himself with the last game and his training season has never missed a practice.

Featherstone has more than enough confi dence with his player’s ability. “Alondra is just a guy that has a great motor, never gets tired, never wants to get out of the game, there’s no question he’s a scholarship guy,” he said.

Johnson leads the team in rushing yards with a total of 322 yards and has a total of fi ve touchdowns in fi ve games.

The stress and pressure of the game may seem bad to oth-ers but Johnson disagrees.

“I love the pressure, it makes you feel alive.” Feather-stone said that Johnson is not the biggest player out there, but his determination more than makes up for it, having never missed a practice and showing leadership through his actions.

“We have lifting sessions during the winter and summer sessions for the guys and Alondra didn’t miss a single day,”

Featherstone said. “That’s just the type of guy he is, he works hard and it shows on the fi eld. He didn’t get many touches the beginning of the season, but as soon as he got going he just got better and better.”

His father, Alondra Johnson, was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League for 15 years after be-ing an All-American for El Camino in 1985.

“I told him that if you just keep working hard and do what you need to do, you will never have to worry about someone being better than you,” the elder Johnson said. “He’s always done well in everything he does, even in school he does well in his classes.”

The younger Johnson is lucky enough to have his father on the fi eld while he coaches the linebackers for the Warriors.

“It’s pretty cool to be out there with him, it was a little different, but it’s something most people can’t say they had the privilege to do,” Johnson’s father said.

“He’s a little incredible hulk out there,” Featherstone said.

The younger Johnson has been compared to Maurice Jones-Drew of the Jacksonville Jaguars by his father.

“He’s shifty and small like him and he can defi nitely catch the ball just as well as he does,” the elder Johnson said.

The younger Johnson will look to continue his season Saturday against College of The Canyons.

“I love football, I don’t feel I’m doing anything special, I’m just doing my job,” the younger Johnson said. “There’s nothing better than going out there and getting the job done. I love to play.”

Warriors beat Harbor College in 1-0 shutoutSergio ReynosoStaff Writer

With a scorless game in the 59th minute, Itchel Guzman lined up for a free kick.

Guzman lined up the shot and took a deep breath.

She took her approach and kicked the ball right passed the goalie for the eventual game-winner.

“I tried not to think about the pressure because I knew it was a good chance for us,” Guzman said. “I was watching the goalie most of the game and I knew if I just placed the free kick, I could score.”

Coming off a loss to Cerritos on Tuesday, 3-0, the Warriors (8-1-2) were determined to bounce back and get back to their winning ways.

“Tuesday was rough, but our coach Jaymie said it matters how you bounce back, and we did, center midfi elder Becca Maier said. “We showed that not every team can be perfect, but we will never give up.”

The team was able to pick up the pace in the second half to get the victory.

“I believe we played really well, just missed

a lot of shots towards the goal, outside midfi elder Vanessa Reid said. It was a great a great way to bounce back from a big loss Tuesday”.

“After the loss on Tuesday, we knew we had to work harder and get back on a good track,” Yen-nifer Baca said.

The Warriors looked to improve on some mis-takes that they made on Tuesday.

“We were controlling most of the game, but we seemed slow however, we got most of our passes right,” Guzman said. “I think our defense is getting better and not making unnecessary fouls.”

The Warriors will get back to practice and con-tinue to work on their game.

“Every game we grow and learn as a team,” Maier said. “I feel like we are a strong team, but we could have more communication, also work more on passing quicker and more effectively.”

The team will be looking to continue to domi-nate as it has done all season and get back to its winning ways.

“We just need to make sure that we get the ball in the back of the net,” Reid said.

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The Warriors Kiara Palma, #10, goes for the ball in last Friday’s game vs. Harbor College. The Warriors won the game, 1-0, at L.A. Harbor College.