Orange Coast College UPDATE Volume 4, Issue 5 February 7, 2018

Calendar . Feb. 8 — Opening Reception, Jim DeFrance: A Retrospective Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, 5 p.m. . Feb. 8 — Lunar New Year Celebration Multicultural Center, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. . Feb. 8 — Opening Reception, Helix2: Sculptures by Eric Johnson Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, 5 p.m. . Feb. 9 — Baseball vs Mt. Sac Wendell Pickens Field, 2 p.m. . Feb. 9 — Women’s Basketball vs Santa Ana Peterson Gymnasium, 5 p.m. . Feb. 9 — Men’s Basketball vs Fullerton Peterson Gymnasium, 7 p.m. . Feb. 10 & 11 — The 24-Hour Play Festival … Again! Drama Lab Studio, 7:30 p.m. . Feb. 13 — Club Rush & Student Services Fair OCC Campus Quad, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. . Feb. 14 — Softball vs Santa Ana Coast Dance Team Defends Title, Picks Up One Softball Complex, 3 p.m. More at UDA National Championship . Feb. 15 — Spring Flex Day OCC Campus, 8 a.m. range Coast College’s nationally ranked dance team took home two first-place trophies at until 4 p.m. the Universal Dance Association Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship in O . Feb. 20 — Eyes of Freedom Orlando, Fla. on Jan. 14, defending their title in the Open Pom division and earning the top spot in Opening Ceremony the Jazz division. Student Center Lounge, Noon The UDA National Championship — held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex — is the . Feb. 23 & 24 — Opera largest and most prestigious collegiate cheer and dance competition in the country. As the only Magnifica, Sing to Love community college to advance to UDA’s dance national championships, OCC’s 14-member team Music Recital Room, 7 p.m. bested dancers from every four-year university in the Open Division, including University of San . Feb. 24 & 25 — Opera Diego, University of Indianapolis, and Northwest Missouri State University. Magnifica, Sing to Love These latest wins bring the OCC dance team’s national title count to more than 20 since the Music Recital Room, 3 p.m. team began competing 22 years ago. “Winning the Collegiate National Dance championships . March 10 — Invitational is amazing,” says Coast dance coach and choreographer Dan Sapp. “Winning two divisions is a Dance Concert rarity, and winning back to back in one division is phenomenal. But winning as the only community Robert B. Moore Theatre, college against all universities in the competition is extraordinary.” 7:30 p.m.

2701 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa, California • (714) 432-5072 Orange Coast College Orange Coast College Welcomes New Doyle Officially Opens Doors to Arts Pavilion Director Tyler Pirates’ Cove Food Pantry Stallings CC kicked off the New Year with the grand opening of Oits Pirates’ Cove food pantry on Jan. 22. Members of the fter an extensive search, Orange Coast College is pleased media and the general public, in addition to faculty and staff, Ato announce that Tyler Stallings has been appointed attended the event, which was sponsored by Whole Foods. director of the College’s Frank. M. Pirates’ Cove expands on the College’s previous food pantry Doyle Arts Pavilion in with more fresh food options and a workspace intended to Costa Mesa. help students connect with representatives from community programs. Stallings — who will be the first full-time “The idea behind the Cove is that it could be a one-stop gallery director at the location for students who need immediate help, such as those Doyle Arts Pavilion in experiencing food insecurity or homelessness,” says OCC seven years — comes Student Equity program coordinator Maricela Sandoval. “In to Coast from the addition to building a larger food storage area, we’ve created University of California, a space where representatives from our partner organizations, Riverside, where he such as CalFresh, can meet with students to see if they quality held various roles for aid.” including interim OCC has partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank Orange executive director of County to stock Pirates Cove, as well as student clubs and UCR ARTSblock, and honor societies who have contributed through food drives, artistic director at the such as the OCC Food Riders club. Culver Center of the The College also received one-time funding to set up the Cove Arts. through the California Community College Chancellor’s office Prior to his role at UC via a program titled “Hunger Free Campus,” which seeks to Riverside, Stallings cut address nutritional deficiencies among college students. his teeth in the Orange “We have been so fortunate to partner with some amazing County arts world as organizations, including local nonprofit Second Harvest OC, the chief curator at the which is providing the majority of the food in our pantry and Laguna Art Museum has loaned us a refrigerator so that we can give students and as director of access to fresh food items,” says Sandoval. “Right now, we programs at the are hoping the Cove will serve as a hub for access to basic Huntington Beach Art needs, so that students who are trying to better their lives Center. “In essence my through education don’t have to worry about hunger on top of professional curatorial everything else they might be challenged with.” career was really built in Orange County,” says Stallings. “It’s a great opportunity to be able to come back.” The Pirates’ Cove is located in OCC’s Journalism building, on the northwest side of campus. OCC’s 3,400-square-foot gallery includes exhibition space and a project gallery, and hosts several shows each year, in addition to hosting special events, performances, films, installations and more. Last fall’s Arts Pavilion schedule saw a breadth of dynamic exhibits, including “ˌterəˈfərmə” a survey of work by noted Los Angeles artist, Kim Abeles, and “Ken Marchionno: 300 Miles, The Oomaka Tokatakiyaa,” multimedia documentary project highlighting a yearly pilgrimage undertaken by members of the Lakota tribes in North and South Dakota. “I’ve always had an awareness [of the Doyle Arts Pavilion] — it’s just such a beautiful space,” Stallings says. “One of the things I’ve been really impressed with is the reputation of the Visual and Performing Arts Division, and how it really stays abreast of what’s new.”

2 I Orange Coast College • UPDATE to give presentations, lead field trips, and more. “Students are going to be the backbone of the Planetarium, and I OCC Hires Planetarium think they’ll learn just as much as they teach,” he says. Manager Scott Mitchell Mitchell lives in Costa Mesa with his cat, Apollo. ith construction Wentering its final phase, Orange OCC Launches Redesigned Coast College has announced the hiring App in Continuing Effort to of Scott Mitchell as its Planetarium Improve Communication on manager. Campus Mitchell, who started s the Spring 2018 gets under way, Orange Coast College at OCC just after the Ahas launched a new and improved mobile app that will New Year, comes help students, faculty and staff stay more connected to Coast from the on campus. University of Maine, where he worked at the Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium and The app — which is available on Apple and Android devices — Observatory, part of the school’s recently constructed Emera includes features like a schedule planning tool, message board, Astronomy Center. While there, he worked as both acting calendar of events, news, and interactive map. director from 2014-2015 while he was an undergraduate In recent years, OCC has made strides to improve student, and as assistant director once a permanent director communication between different constituency groups was hired and while he continued his studies as a graduate on campus, including its “5 Things to Know” notification student pursuing a master’s degree in engineering physics. system on all employee computers campus wide, a weekly The Jordan Planetarium underwent a large renovation newsletter updating faculty while Mitchell was there, with the construction of a new and staff on important digital planetarium completed in 2014. Having had firsthand news, announcements, and experience in the construction of a planetarium, Mitchell events, and updated website already has an idea of what he hopes to accomplish at OCC. and portal intranet design. The College also surveys “The OCC Planetarium will serve three major groups: the first employees each year to is the K-12 school system, and we’re working really hard to gauge campus climate, integrate our content with the next generation of science and has plans to launch standards so that it can fit into schools’ curriculum easily,” a news blog in the near Mitchell says. “There’s also the public — we’re going to host future to complement its ‘public nights’ where anyone can purchase a ticket to see a communication strategy. show. And then, of course there’s the OCC community.” To learn more about how to Mitchell has plans to invite instructors at OCC to develop download OCC’s app, visit programs that utilize the unique features that the planetarium www.occ.campusapp.com has to offer, such as an immersion theater and Science on a Sphere National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration globe. “We would like professors to be able to show their students things in the planetarium that they wouldn’t be able to see fivethings otherwise,” he explains. “A lot of people think a planetarium is to know... just a tool for astronomy but it can do so much more than that. 1 Starting this semester, OCC has implemented evening hours for several essential services It’s really a very powerful visualization tool for many subjects, on campus, including financial aid, adult education, counseling and more. including marine biology, graphic design, chemistry, and The College has launched a re-designed mobile app, allowing faculty, staff and students to 2 theater, just to name a few.” stay more connected on campus. 3 Show your colleagues you care by sending them a “Coastgram” this Valentine’s Day! All OCC’s Planetarium — scheduled to open in September of profits will go toward student scholarships. this year — will serve as a premiere science center in Orange In a continuing effort toward compliance with federal requirements for financial aid, the 4 College asks that faculty update their rosters to reflect no-show or dropped students no County, offering the community access to state-of-the-art later than Feb. 11. technology that no other local facility has, such as a Foucault 5 Two exhibits open at the Doyle Arts Pavilion this week: “Jim DeFrance: A Retrospective” pendulum, which demonstrates the rotation of the earth. and "He ix2: Sculptures by Eric Johnson."

“There are only so many of these facilities in the world,” Give feedback Mitchell says. Students at OCC also will play a large role in helping to run the Planetarium; Mitchell has plans to hire student workers

UPDATE • Orange Coast College I 3 Dietetic Professor Beth Blake Wins Outstanding Educator Award ollege faculty and clinical educators from across the CWestern United States recognized Orange Coast College dietetic technician professor Beth Blake last month for her work as a teacher of nutrition and dietetics. The Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors (NDEP) named Blake its Outstanding Educator of the Year for the Western Region. The group, which advocates for and Kupaa Harrison added 20 points and eight rebounds for the empowers dietetics educators, Pirates. Lloyd Wright added 13 points, while Robert Nixon includes members who work in came off the bench and knocked down 10 points and grabbed community colleges, hospitals, seven rebounds. community nutrition agencies, For the Hawks, Rodney Henderson, the state’s third-highest and private industry. scoring player, scored 32 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, “Nutrition and dietetics is while Antoine Jenkins added 28 points and eight assists. a profession of dedicated, The win, combined with Fullerton’s win at Saddleback on enthusiastic, and very intelligent Friday night, keeps the Pirates a game up on the Hornets with practitioners,” Blake says. “I’m constantly impressed by the three games remaining. OCC will host Fullerton on Friday night work being done by my peers. So I feel very humbled to be at 7 p.m. after playing at Saddleback on Wednesday night recognized by them as I know we are all working hard to shape (7 p.m.). the future of nutrition and dietetics.” It was a game that epitomized the Pirates’ incredible run Blake was a driving force behind the creation of the recently that’s seen them win eight conference games in a row and opened Pirates’ Cove food pantry on OCC’s campus. She is a 15-of-17 games overall. Both teams exchanged leads 18 times member of the Nutrition Advisory Board at Second Harvest throughout the night, but in the end, it was the Pirates who Food Bank of Orange County, and helped to facilitate a corralled the FINAL lead of the night. partnership between the organization and Orange Coast College. Leading 42-36 at the half, Coast came out strong and built up an 11-point advantage early in the second half. “Several years ago I gave an informal survey to one of my nutrition classes at OCC. I was shocked to see how many But Jenkins, who scored 21 of his 28 points in the second half students reported not having enough money to buy food, and OT, came alive for the Hawks, who hit 7-of-14 from 3-point or [who were] skipping meals because they could not afford range over the final 25 minutes. them. At that moment I vowed to do something to help SCC went on a 25-14 run over a 10-minute stretch of the the situation.” second half to get even with OCC at 63 and from there, it was a back-and-forth slugfest all the way down to the final whistle. A Shaun Maeder 3-pointer with 4:43 left pushed SCC’s lead up Davis’ Monster Night Propels to 73-68 before back-to-back treys by Harrison and Leonard Pirates Past Hawks in OT Stallings put the Pirates back in front, 74-73. With the game tied at 84, Robert Nixon took a nice pass from he never-say-die Orange Coast College men’s basketball Davis and scored with 23 seconds remaining to put OCC up by Tteam kept its dream season rolling with a 96-91 overtime two, but the Hawks forced overtime when Jenkins worked the win over visiting Santiago Canyon on Friday night inside the clock, used a nice screen and drove to the lane uncontested to Peterson Gym. tie the game at 86. In a matchup of two of the top teams in Southern California, A pair of layups by Harrison early in the OT helped give OCC the Pirates (17-7, 8-1 in Orange Empire Conference) rode the a 90-87 lead before a pair of Jenkins’ free throws with 2:44 big shoulders of center Joshua Davis, who dominated down remaining brought the Hawks to within a point at 90-89. low with a season-best 35 points and 19 rebounds against the Hawks (17-8, 4-5). Davis was 16-of-25 from the floor and But that would be as close as Santiago Canyon would get the used 12 offensive rebounds for several second-chance points rest of the night as the Pirate defense clamped down and held throughout the game. the Hawks scoreless over the next 2:30 of OT, going 0-for-4 with a turnover over their next five possessions. From there, Coast went 6-of-8 from the foul line down the stretch to pull away and preserve the hard-fought win. 4 I Orange Coast College • UPDATE