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Junior dance major Tawny Andersson performs a dance solo to the song “Let Me Be Your Star” during the opening night of Chapman’s American Celebration Friday in Memorial Hall. Ticket prices
for Gala Night the following evening began at $2,000 per person. Saturday’s event, which raised $2.2 million for scholarships consisted of a song and dance show followed by a dinner on
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Senior dance majors Allison Burke (left) and Mandy Dray (right) perform to the song “Be Italian” during the opening night of Chapman’s American Celebration Friday in Memorial Hall.
AmCel surpasses
fundraising goal
Igor Bosilkovski | Staff Writer
More than 700 donors dressed in black
tie attire gathered for the 32nd annual
American Celebration (AmCel) Gala Saturday night. The event raised more than
$2.2 million for the Chapman Scholarship
Fund, surpassing the $2 million goal and
setting an AmCel fundraising record.
About 85 percent of Chapman students
receive some sort of financial assistance
from the school, according to the official
event program.
The event consisted of an hour-long
Broadway-style song and dance show followed by a dinner in a tent on Memorial
lawn.
The leading showman of the night was
President Jim Doti, who danced and sang
to “Hello Doti,” a play on “Hello Dolly,” in
a flashy outfit complete with a floor-length
turquoise cape, with his dance partner
and prominent Chapman donor Julianne
Argyros.
“AmCel has become such an inextricable
part of the school. I think it really defines
Chapman spirit,” Doti said. “When you see
100 students on stage, one can’t help but
be totally enthusiastic about this university.”
Ticket prices for AmCel ranged from
$2,000 for an individual ticket to $100,000
for two premium tables that seated 20.
The stage in Memorial Hall was packed
with about 100 dancers, singers and actors
from the College of Performing Arts who
performed songs ranging from “California
Dreamin’” and “Don’t Stop Believing” to
Disney tunes and opera.
Katie Gossen, a junior dance major, said
there was a rigorous training schedule
leading up to the event.
“We [the dancers] prepared for two
weeks, from 6 to 10 p.m. every night,”
Gossen said. “The first week we were in
the studio working on the staging and
choreographing, and the second week we
practiced it on the stage.”
Gossen said she was happy about the
audience’s response.
“The best thing about being on stage is
getting to exhibit your work to an audi-
ence who appreciates it and who seem to
be having as much fun watching as we
have dancing,” Gossen said.
The Lifetime Achievement in the
Arts Award this year was given to three
members of the Bridges family for their
accomplishments in television and film
acting. Beau Bridges, whose son Zeke is a
sophomore film studies major at Chapman, accepted the award on behalf of his
brother, Jeff Bridges, and late father, Lloyd
Bridges.
“This is such a special evening for my
family and I am really humbled by this
wonderful acknowledgement,” Bridges
said.
Donors Suki and Randall McCardle were
also presented with the Citizen of the Year
award. McCardle is a Chapman graduate
and longtime supporter of the university.
“This award is very important to me
because it makes me feel like a closer
member of the Chapman family,” Randall
McCardle said.
On stage, Doti announced a $15 million
gift from couple Harry and Diane Rinker
that will fund Chapman’s new health science campus in Irvine and the school will
be named after them.
The sixth largest donation to Chapman
will be used to support pharmacy, physical
therapy and physician’s assistant graduate
programs.
“I’ve been on the board since 1976 and
when I came on, it was just about three or
four wooden buildings. I couldn’t believe
it, they were completely broke and we
couldn’t even pay the gardeners,” Harry
Rinker said. “I’ve seen what Jim Doti and
his team have done in making this among
the finest young universities in the country and I am so honored to be even a small
part of it.”
President Jim Doti, channeling Elvis, accompanied by Julianne Argyros, performs a rendition of
“Hello Dolly” at American Celebration Friday night.
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Sophomore vocal performance major Michael Hamilton sings a solo from the song “La
Boheme” during Friday night’s American Celebration.
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Oct. 22
A male student was intoxicated
in Sandhu Residence Hall and
received a conduct referral after he
caused a disturbance.
An unknown suspect(s) took
property from a student’s vehicle,
which was parked in the Barrera
Parking Structure. The report was
forwarded to OPD.
Public Safety responded to a call
from an RA in Sandhu Residence
Hall reporting the smell of marijuana. The student(s) involved were
referred to conduct.
AMANDA NORRIS Art Director
Chapman’s newest dorm building was recently approved and will be constructed across from Dodge College, at the corner of West Palm Avenue and North Cypress Street. The expected budget and completion date have not yet been determined.
Planning to begin for new dorms
Melanie Kocher |Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees recently approved the planning of a 400-bed dormitory, to be built on the corner of West
Palm Avenue and North Cypress Street,
across the street from Dodge College of
Film and Media Arts.
The City of Orange must approve
the plans before Chapman can begin
construction, said Paul Sitkoff, City of
Orange media relations representative.
Kris Olsen, vice president of campus
planning and operations, said that this
new project is “another great opportunity
to enhance the campus community.”
Many students have complained about
the shortage of on-campus housing as
enrollment steadily increases each year.
This is the first proposed housing
project since the university announced
that construction of the Filmmakers’
Village, which is across the street from
the proposed location of the new dorm
was suspended due to the discovery of
chemicals on the site last year.
The location was chosen for a variety of
reasons, Olsen wrote in an email.
“The west side of campus has more
feasible opportunities for new structures
than the main campus,” Olsen wrote. “It
[also] allows us the opportunity to build
new dorm rooms without taking any
existing dorm rooms offline.”
During the construction of Glass Hall
and Sandhu Hall, Chapman’s two newest dorm buildings that opened in 2004
and 2009, the surrounding dorms were
required to shut down for certain periods
of time.
But while the construction of the new
building promises to have less of an impact on the existing campus, the suggested location will bring a few consequences
for the community.
The proposed location of the new dorm
is currently the site of the weekly Orange
Farmer’s Market, held every Saturday
morning.
Olsen wrote that Chapman would try to
make any “accommodation possible and
reasonable to find a new home for the
farmer’s market on CU property.”
There are several homes across the
street from the Cypress lot, though Chapman owns most of them. Erin Mason,
who lives across the street from the Cypress lot, said the news of the new dorm
would not impact her family.
“We’re only here for another year,” Mason said. “They’re in a transition phase,
bringing in students to live here, so whatever happens, happens.”
Olsen wrote that while it was too early
to comment on the construction schedule
or the budget of the building, the school
is now entering the schematic design
phase, the results of which will then be
submitted to the city planning department.
Sitkoff said that as far as he knew, the
university hasn’t submitted any plans to
the city’s planning department. Once the
plans are delivered, the city would need
to ensure the dorm building is up to the
city’s building code and bring it to the
city council members for their input.
Oct. 24
A student reported his phone stolen from Glass Residence Hall and
the report was forwarded to Orange Police Department (OPD).
Oct. 31
A bicycle was stolen from outside
Bertea Hall and the report was
forwarded to OPD.
An RA in South Morlan referred
students to conduct after finding
them in possession of alcohol in
the dorms.
Nov. 1
In the early hours of Friday, OPD
requested Public Safety officers to
repond to an intoxicated, argumentative male student found
in the bushes on the 100 block
of Walnut Avenue. The student
received a conduct referral.
Disability studies minor approved for 2014 catalog
Sean Stroh | Assistant News Editor
In response to student interest and
demand, the Undergraduate Academic
Council (UAC) of the faculty senate
approved a proposed disability studies
minor Oct. 25.
The minor will apply to the 2014-15
academic catalog and require a total of 21
credits.
Arthur Blaser, a professor of political
science who was one of the authors of the
new minor, said the study of disability
can serve as a useful life tool.
“A lot of us may have a friend or family
member who is disabled or may become
disabled, which makes this type of field
an area that lot of people should have
interest in,” Blaser said.
Due to the lack of a minor in this
particular area of study, some students
resorted to self-designing a disability
studies minor, Blaser said.
Sarai Urzua, junior integrated educational studies and Spanish double major,
is among those who decided to self-design the minor.
“I created this minor because it’s one of
my passions,” Urzua said. “I have a disability and felt the need to not only learn
about my culture but also disabilities in
general and the history of it.”
Urzua said that the new minor would
allow students to be educated on a minority group often left marginalized by
society.
“The creation of the minor gives other
students on campus a chance to learn
about a culture that is often underrepresented in history texts and to educate
themselves about disability awareness,
law, history, etiquette and social accep-
tance,” Urzua said. “I would have declared
it as my minor if it was available right
away.”
The UAC oversees general education
requirements, library resources, the
creation of new undergraduate programs,
majors or minors and long range academic planning, said Jason Bennett, associate professor of athletic training and
UAC chair.
“Any new program proposal, whether
it be a new major or minor, comes to us,”
Bennett said. “We actually do quite a bit
of work as far as looking at the courses,
making sure they meet the objectives
of the minor or major as well as the
academic policy and procedures of the
university.”
Bennett said the process of approving a
new minor is relatively easier than introducing a new major to the school.
“Minors are not as complicated because
a new major has a lot of budgetary implications,” Bennett said.
Susan Gabel, director of the Ph.D Program in the College of Educational Studies and a world-renowned scholar in the
area of disability studies, said the study of
disabilities is relatively new.
“Disability studies is one of the most
exciting new fields of scholarship that
has emerged in the last 40 years,” Gabel
said. “Rather than viewing disability as an
individual problem, it examines disability
within broader historical, philosophical,
social and cultural contexts.”
Gabel said by understanding disability
in these contexts, students can change the
way they perceive people with a disability.
“They can shape what we understand
as disability and how we respond to it or
people we label as having a disability,”
Gabel said.
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New program
groups first
year students
by major
The Fenestra pilot program launched
last year to help residents transition
easily to their first year in college, but
students have dissenting opinions
about its effectiveness.
Lauren Holzer | Staff Writer
This fall, first year students were assigned a living environment through the
Fenestra Pilot Program, which grouped
them with other students from their majors to help ease the transition to college.
Fenestra, meaning ‘window’ in Latin,
was the theme of orientation week this
year.
Joseph Koluder, residential education
coordinator, said the university tries
to connect new students with student
organizations and opportunities at the
beginning of the academic year.
“With Fenestra, we aim to highlight opportunities that will encourage students
to explore and engage in their academic
identities early on in their college careers,” Koluder wrote in an email.
In the 2009-10 academic year, residents
were assigned to a certain hall based on
their freshman foundation course (FFC).
“Since FFCs are not based on a student’s major, this did not create the
kind of close-knit communities in the
residence halls that traditional livinglearning communities tend to foster,”
Koluder wrote.
Koluder said a team of Student Affairs professionals and faculty members
discussed the Fenestra initiative that then
helped launch the pilot program during
the 2012-13 academic year.
The intent was to make it simple for
residents to study together and build a
stronger community within each school,
but students have mixed reactions to
their housing assignments.
Olivia Siegel, freshman undeclared student, said being on a floor with students
who are also undeclared has made her
transition into Chapman a lot easier.
“It’s really nice because there is a really
diverse group of kids that are all interested in different things,” Siegel said. “It’s
not like I’m surrounded by all biology
majors at all times.”
For students with declared majors, like
sophomore creative producing major
Brian Emrani, there was too much of the
same.
“Even though it was great to be on
a floor with only film students, it was
hard to make friends outside my major,”
Emrani said. “I would interact with them
in my class and then I would also see
them in my hall. There was no room for
diversity.”
Koluder said the pilot program showed
that students on Fenestra floors had
above average grade point averages in
their first year, tied to a higher percentage of students matriculating to their
second year on campus.
“We received great feedback from focus
groups conducted at the end of the pilot
program with students highlighting aspects of personal and academic growth,”
Koluder wrote.
Koluder said the Office of Orientation
and First Year Programs supported Fenestra by hosting dinners for each school
during orientation week, helping first
year students connect with professors,
administrators and advisors before the
semester started.
WordTheatre closes the curtain
Igor Bosilkovski | Staff Writer
For the third time this semester, Chapman will host a WordTheatre event in the
Fish Interfaith Center, tonight at 7 p.m.
At tonight’s event, the literary works of
acclaimed Los Angeles authors Percival
Everett and Danzy Senna will be read by actors Danielle Panabaker and Bob Wisdom,
and junior screen acting major Donathan
Walters.
In a press release dated Oct. 21, Mary
Platt, director of communications and
media relations, announced that the actors
reading in this event would be Wisdom,
Larisa Oleynik from “Hawaii Five-O” and
Edi Gathegi from “Twilight.” Platt released
a new statement Oct. 25 that Panabaker
would replace Oleynik and Gathegi.
Platt said she did not know the reason
behind this change as WordTheatre is in
charge of all casting decisions, but she said
it could probably be attributed to scheduling conflicts.
“WordTheatre did my stories back in
March, and Cedering Fox, the creator of
WordTheatre, offered to bring WordTheatre
down to Chapman,” Richard Bausch, author
and Chapman professor wrote in an email.
“As for the actors, Cedering Fox chooses
them, and directs the performances.”
Panabaker is known for acting in films
such as “Friday the 13th” and “Mr. Brooks,”
while Wisdom has starred in shows like
“Prison Break” and “The Wire.”
Walters said that Nina LeNoir, the head of
the theatre department, asked him if he was
interested in reading at the event.
“I will be reading ‘The Appropriation of
the Cultures’ by Percival Everett,” Walters
said. “It is a very interesting story about 13
pages long, a narrative piece about cultural
boundaries and dealing with racial barriers.”
Walters said he was busy practicing his
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Actors Danielle Panabaker, left, of “Mad Men” and “Friday the 13th” fame, and Bob Wisdom of
“The Wire” will take the stage tonight at Chapman’s final WordTheatre performance.
reading of the story.
“I have a meeting with Cedering Fox
through Skype and she will hear my reading and see where I am with my interpretation,” Walters said.
Platt said there have been between 300
and 350 people each time at the first two
events and the high interest is due to the
way the stories are told.
“I think it brings something special to a
story to hear a very good actor read it,” Platt
said. “It almost brings you back to your parents reading bedtime stories, when you just
close your eyes and you are brought into a
whole imaginary world.”
Platt said she has read disturbing statistics on how many people don’t read books
anymore.
“A lot of times I hear from students how
they have to read this or that book for a
class and they don’t really want to,” Platt
said.“I think having to read books for class
sometimes turns people off from reading
for enjoyment, and this event brings back
reading for pure pleasure.”
Admission is $20 general, $10 for Chapman faculty and staff and free for current
Chapman students.
SGA senator censured for absences
Sean Stroh | Assistant News Editor
Jenny Kim
Wilkinson College senator Jenny Kim
was censured for exceeding the number
of allowed absences during a Student
Government Association (SGA) meeting
Friday.
Eighteen senators voted for the censure
and three abstained.
A senator receives one point for every
missed meeting or designated office hour
time and half a point for each tardy.
When a total of three points are accumu-
lated, a senator is eligible for a censure.
Kim missed three campus inclusion
committee meetings.
“I take full responsibility and I promise to do better,” Kim, junior sociology
major, said at the meeting.
Lord Ryan Lizardo, speaker of the
senate and senior integrated educational
studies major, said that he hopes to see
no more censures for the rest of the year.
“It’s not something we strive for and it’s
not okay,” Lizardo said at the meeting.
“This is a great learning experience but I
don’t want to see this in the future.”
Early action deadline extended due to technical issues
Sean Stroh | Assistant News Editor
Due to ongoing technical problems
related to a new version of the online
Common Application, Chapman decided
to delay the Nov. 1 early action deadline
by four days.
Dozens of colleges across the country
facing a similar problem also made the
decision to extend the deadline in order to
accommodate all interested applicants.
Some schools, such as Harvard University and Brown University, decided not to
extend their early action deadlines.
Marcela Mejia-Martinez, director of
undergraduate admission, said that while
the majority of Chapman applicants have
not experienced any issues, the Office of
Admissions wanted to ensure that every
interested student had a chance to apply.
“Our application numbers are up from
last year and we are finding that most
students are successful in submitting their
application but we wanted to lessen the
anxiety that many students are feeling,”
Mejia-Martinez said. “We wanted to give
students the opportunity to work through
technical issues over the weekend since
the deadline is on a Friday and give them a
bit more time to work out the problems.”
Mejia-Martinez said that Chapman
received 4,332 early action applications for
the class of 2017.
The Common Application is used by 517
colleges and universities, with more than
175 schools offering it as the only means
of applying.
The Common Application released a
statement via email regarding the technical issues Oct. 18.
“The last few days have comprised the
most difficult period in The Common
Application’s nearly 40 years of service to
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the education community,” Aba Blankson,
director of communications of The Common Application, wrote in the email. “All
of us who work with and for The Common
Application--from the Board of Directors
to the staff to our technology partners at
Hobsons--understand the significance of
this moment, both for the college application process and for the reputation of the
association itself.”
Mejia-Martinez said that most of the
calls regarding any issues with the Common Application have not been from
student applicants.
“We get daily calls about glitches being
experienced with the application but we
are hearing more from the high schools
than we are from students,” Mejia-Martinez said. “The majority of the students
running into glitches with the application
are having browser issues, but not every
glitch is the same.”
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Summit Entertainment
Hailee Steinfeld and Asa Butterfield star in “Ender’s Game,” released Nov. 1.
“Ender’s Game” not worth a ticket
Old Friends Records
Hellogoodbye released its studio album “Everything Is Debatable,” Oct. 29.
Hellogoodbye says hello to folk genre
Hannah Darbourne | Features Editor
Hellogoodbye has emerged not as
the synthetic, bubbly pop artists we
remember, but as the folk-enthused
songwriters we always wanted.
There is no debate: “Everything Is
Debatable,” released Oct. 28, is good.
Really good.
Three years later and the Huntington Beach-based band has returned
following its album, “Would It Kill
You?” released in 2010 with the wellknown song, “Here (In Your Arms).”
The album was produced by the
brilliantly talented minds of Paramore-linked Carlos De La Garzaoe,
Joe Chiccarelli, who has worked with
The Strokes and Hellogoodbye lead
vocalist Forrest Kline.
Over the instrumental noise are
lyrics that seem to be written by
sincere hearts.
“Swear You’re In Love” encourages
bravery with a wanted lover after
midnight drinks with lyrics like “if
you’re in love, just swear you’re in
love.” Sunsets rising and setting are
compared to relationships in “The
Magic Hour Is Now,” and “I Don’t
Worry (As Much As I Should),”
focuses on the reality behind being
lucky.
“Just Don’t Let Go Just Don’t,” and
“(Everything Is) Debatable,” steal the
attention in the album. With catchy
lyrics, low drumming and echoing
vocals, the songs shoot shivers down
the spine and tapping into any resting foot.
Smooth and slightly raspy vocals
by Forrest Kline make it easy to slip
into a love affair with this album.
With variety in each song, his voice
manages to carry listeners through
the album with ease.
With sounds similar to Vampire
Weekend, Panic! at the Disco and
Fleet Foxes, this album will not disappoint.
It’s easy to listen to, calming to the
soul and a breath of fresh, raw artist
and producer talent.
Hellogoodbye has managed to
grasp attention for its new artist
style. With ten songs, “Everything Is
Debatable,” provides much-needed
bliss.
Katie Metzger | Editor-in-Chief
The future may belong to the
children, but in the recently released
movie “Ender’s Game,” one child
holds the fate of the world in his
hands.
The sci-fi thriller film adaptation of
the 1985 best-selling book is a visual
spectacle, though its sleek special effects gloss over the moral and ethical
questions raised in the source material.
Screenplays adapted from great
books can usually be expected to
at least be good, but director and
writer Gavin Hood (“X-Men Origins:
Wolverine”) doesn’t do justice to the
characters and their dilemmas.
Asa Butterfield (“Hugo”) stars as
Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a child with
a talent for military strategy who is
sent to an advanced battle school
in space to prepare for an invasion
from the Formics, an insectoid alien
species. Along the way, he deals with
questions about what makes a good
leader, how to handle the pressure of
being a genius, and what amount of
sacrifice is justified in military victory.
As it stands, “Ender’s Game” feels
like it takes place in a world far away
and very different from our own,
though the production team attempted to modernize it with commentary
on drone warfare and video game
culture.
The production company, Summit
Entertainment, probably hopes it will
be a big-budget, big-profit franchise
to fill the teen-fantasy void left by its
“Twilight” series, but its first foray
could have been much stronger.
The book has been called unfilmable, and for good reason. Most of
the action in the novel does take place
inside Ender’s head, and it takes years
to play out.
The book skips forward quickly as
Ender is promoted from Battle School
to Command School, though the transitions in the film due to its accelerated pace are jarring. It concludes in
a final battle with the future of Earth
at stake, and in an intellectual if not
completely unexpected twist for those
who haven’t read the book.
The supporting cast of child actors,
which includes Hailee Steinfeld and
Moises Arias, is admirable, but Harrison Ford and Viola Davis are onedimensional as Ender’s adult commanders, who struggle to keep control
over their prodigy.
Orson Scott Card, the author of
“Ender’s Game” and co-producer of
the film, warned fans not to expect a
completely faithful adaptation, but
that the changes he made serve the
plot development.
“We care all the more about whether
he wins – and we worry that he might
not want to,” he said.
This film probably won’t win over
new fans for the franchise, no matter
how much it may want to.
“Best Man Down”
Released Nov. 8.
Calendar This week at Chapman
Magnolia Pictures
Monday
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Tuesday
Who is the Middle Diwali: Hindu Festival
of Lights
Class?
Student Union
10 a.m.
Fish Interfaith Center
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
Taste of Aloha
Spring Awakening
UPB Open Mic with
Improv Inc.
Beckman 107
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Waltmar Theatre
7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Student Union
9 p.m. - 11 p.m.
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SoCal students dress for sweater weather
Jenna Linden | Staff Writer
The thermometer outside reads 70
degrees. Southern California native
Karly Kenyon throws on a pair of shorts
and accompanies them with ankle
boots and a thin knit sweater.
It is her ideal outfit to brace for the
regional winter weather.
“We don’t have to wear super bulky
snow clothes that sometimes are less
attractive,” Kenyon said. “We get to be
cozy, but still wear whatever we want
for the weather.”
With Southern California winter
temperatures ranging anywhere from
45 to 75 degrees, Chapman students
like Kenyon dress the part by layering
and pairing winter and summer attire.
For them, winter clothes are a fashion
statement rather than a seasonal necessity.
“Ideally, I’d wear a light sweater from
Brandy Melville, a light jacket over for
wind or waterproofness, jeans and tall
boots, maybe a scarf if it’s cold enough,”
Kenyon said. “But usually I just wear
scarfs if I like them.”
Lauren Miller, storeowner of Laurenly Boutique in Old Towne Orange,
said weather is an issue she takes into
consideration when ordering fall or
winter lines because she knows heavyduty clothing sported in other states
isn’t practical during warm, California
winters.
“It’s all about incorporating your
summer clothes with fun winter pieces,”
Miller said.
Miller said her favorite way to dress
for the cool season is playing with different layers and lengths.
“A great way to look good while still
dressing for cooler weather is to wear
a fun knit sweater over a pair of shorts
with short booties,” Miller said. “We
definitely do sell sweaters and leather
jackets, but nothing too heavy, not like
in New York.”
Freshman business major Hali
Prineas is from Bellevue, Washington,
where winter means heavy snow and
cold temperatures. She said she didn’t
know what to expect from Southern
California weather, but now is regretting the cool clothing she brought.
“I brought a few light sweaters, and a
basic leather jacket and army jacket, but
I definitely wish I would have brought
warmer clothes,” Prineas said.
But Miller said although she sometimes orders heavier fashion for colder
days, it is usually not useful.
“Sometimes we get in faux fur jackets
or vests, and even though it’s hot to
wear them, I would pair them with a
short dress and heels to keep it cool,”
Miller said.
Senior television and broadcast journalism major Zak Frio said he rarely
ever wears a heavy jacket.
“I have a heavy duty jacket in my
closet that I used to wear at home in
New Jersey,” Frio said. “I’ve only once
worn it here when I went skiing in Big
Bear, but I’d never wear it to class or
out. It would be too hot.”
Sophomore television and broadcast
journalism major Mallory Leonard
came to Chapman from the colder
Utah mountains.
“I knew it would never be as cold in
Southern California as back home, so I
didn’t bring my winter coat, hardly any
of my long sleeve shirts or any scarfs
and hats,” Leonard said. “I don’t really
miss bundling up. I still wear sweaters
and boots, but I just don’t have to wear
as many layers or as heavy of jackets.”
RACHEL FECHSER Staff Photographer
Hail Prineas, a freshman business major (left), and Sabrina Herman, a sophomore business
major (right), dress in a blend of summer and winter clothing.
Chapman grads cozy up to onesie market
Lauren Holzer | Staff Writer
Brian Bell was walking the streets
of London when he spotted an adult
onesie priced at $250 in a storefront.
With it, he saw an opportunity to
bring the European trend to the U.S.,
and decided to challenge himself
with a new project.
He would manufacture his own.
“Hopefully people will wake up
and put it on, and if they need to
walk their dog, or grab a cup of coffee
somewhere, they will feel comfortable wearing [a onesie] out,” he said.
Bell and Colin Lupe, both Chapman film production graduates
of 2013, along with Bell’s brother,
Andrew Bell, founded OneZip Wear,
which specializes in adult onesies
that sell for $65 each. So far, Bell has
sold more than 100 onesies since
launching in September.
Bell started by enrolling in a Chapman entrepreneurship class. There,
he presented his idea of marketing
onesies to people who want to be
comfortable and stylish.
“This class consisted of pitching
ideas and coming up with made-up
business models,” Bell said. “I walked
into class one day with six different
samples and my teacher said, ‘Brian,
you don’t have to go so far with this
project.’ But I told him I was here to
start a company.”
Bell said he often wears his onesie
in public to market the brand.
“I just flew to Boston last night
and wore my American flag onesie
Courtesy OneZip Wear
Colin Lupe and David Markun, film production graduates ‘13, dress in “OneZip Wear” onesies.
on the plane,” Bell said. “Within five
minutes of being in the airport, I was
approached by three different groups
of people that asked me where I got it
and where they could order them.”
Bell and his team will sell onesies at
the SnowGlobe Music Festival in Lake
Tahoe during New Years and at the
SnowBall Music Festival in Colorado
March 2014.
“People that go to these music festivals love to stand out and be different,
and like our website says, OneZips are
for the individual who loves comfort,
practicality and versatility while having fun,” Bell said. “We hope to get as
popular as Spirit Hoods did within
the music festival world.”
Bell said sales started close to
home.
“So far, our sales are mostly from
friends and family because we haven’t
put any money into marketing yet,”
Bell said. “We are seeing some sales
from people that we don’t know,
which is very good.”
Of the four styles available, the best
seller for men is the American flagthemed The Patriot, and The Classic
for women, a gray onesie with white
trimming, Bell said.
Lupe, as OneZip Wear president,
creates the creative content for the
company including the website and
pictures.
“Chapman gave me the opportunity
to meet a diverse group of talented
young people,” Lupe said. “Brian
came to me the summer after graduation with the opportunity for me to
be creative, and I couldn’t pass it up.”
Haya Kaylani, sophomore peace
studies major, said she doesn’t own a
onesie but would definitely buy it for
the humor.
“A lot of adults buy onesies for that
reason, because it’s funny for adults
to wear something that is so obviously meant for children.”
But Bell said he knew from the start
that some people might be hesitant to
buy the onesies, so the company will
target certain markets.
“We want to venture into fraternity
and sorority custom sales,” Bell said.
“Each of them will be able to get
individual letters and logos designed
on them.”
But Bell won’t stop after that, he
said.
“We are also looking into creating
T-shirts and hoodies and winter hats
so we can build our brand image and
be more than just a onesie company,”
Bell said. “We are taking everything
one step at a time.”
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FEATURES
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Chapman’s Internet: too
accessible for hackers?
Anjelica Price | Staff Writer
Sydney Murdock was studying in the library when she
noticed a long list of other students’ names on her MacBook. They were also on Chapman’s wireless network, and
if she hadn’t previously created a password, they would
have had access to her iTunes library and documents.
“Playlists are like reading someone’s diary,” said Murdock,
a sophomore peace studies major. “I know I have music
that I listen to when I’m alone, and I don’t necessarily want
other people listening to it.”
The Chapman Office of Legal Affairs sent an email Aug.
29 stating that users are responsible for safeguarding their
account passwords. The email also warned that misuse of
the network may result in loss of computing privileges,
disciplinary actions and could constitute as theft under the
California law.
Chapman’s network can be accessed anywhere on
campus and is unsecured, meaning there is no password
required to join. Students like Murdock have added passwords to their laptops to prevent others from viewing their
music and documents while on the same network.
The Chapman Information Systems and Technology
service desk has implemented precautions and safeguards
to ensure confidentiality of the university’s data, including
monitoring of suspected malicious activity and detecting
the transmission of malware, wrote director of information
security Todd Plesco in an email.
The unsecured wireless network is a courtesy to those
who may have a brief stay at Chapman, but still has certain
risks, Plesco wrote.
“It is like sending a postcard instead of putting your
message in a sealed envelope,” Plesco wrote. “The risk for
exposure is greater.”
Any clear text information sent through an open wireless network may be subject to being read by applications
such as a packet sniffer, a program that can see all information passing through the network, Plesco wrote.
If hackers install a virus or other malware on a computer, they can see everything on the drive, regardless of
what network the computer is connected to, said undergraduate computer science major David Tyler.
“Without anything installed on the computer, the only
information transferred over the network, such as internet
browsing, might be able to be seen,” Tyler said.
But having an unsecured network makes it easier for
them to install those programs, he said.
“Once these attackers get that password they have complete [access] to your accounts,” he said.
But William Minnear, a sophomore computer science
major and a Chapman Information Systems and Technology service desk employee, said he has not yet spoken with
a hacked student.
“We don’t get anyone coming to the desk asking about
problems with wireless security,” Minnear said.
For those concerned about security, Plesco said there are
a variety of safety measures that can be taken to prevent
hacking and identity theft, including using secure sessions
on web browsers and keeping passwords safe.
Tyler said using a network anywhere always poses a risk.
“Using any wireless network sends information over
the air,” he said. “Regardless of how you connect, there will
always be a chance of someone listening into that data.”
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The panther
Opinions
EDITORIAL
Defying car
culture, one
bus at a time
T
he Chapman
student
without
a car walks away
with a particular
college experience. We may
not know the
daily toil of
parking, but we
are intimately in
touch with Safe
Mark Pampanin
Ride boundaries,
Opinions Editor
walking-distance
eateries and the
feeling of being stranded in suburbia without a way home.
Perhaps most of all, we are aware of the
privileged car culture that gives us sympathetic looks when we admit we walk to
class, and the raised eyebrow at mention of
taking a public bus.
At Chapman, the air of pretension can
be as choking and inescapable as the smog
emitted from our car-driving neighbors.
But after I had worn out my shoes and
the generosity of my driving friends, I decided I had little choice but to give Orange
County’s public bus system a try.
What I discovered with the Orange
County Transportation Authority (OCTA)
was a competent transportation system
with busses that can take you to Disneyland, train stations, malls and movie
theaters, all for $2 per ride and easily navigated with Google Maps. In other words,
it should have us questioning our unshakable car culture.
When I boarded the 83 bus traveling
from downtown Santa Ana to the local
train station, first I felt the cool refreshment of air conditioning. Then I felt
embarrassment. As I sat down in a clean,
modern bus that somehow managed to
escape the smell inherent to Boston and
New York busses, I realized the only thing
that had kept me from using this public
service was me.
Chapman privilege had tricked me into
thinking I was somehow too good for
OCTA, but once I unbound myself from
these false pretensions, I found it a lot
easier to get around. Not only could I take
the bus to cut my walking time in half,
but suddenly, I could go to the movies
whenever I wanted, and visit friends across
town, across the county or even in Los
Angeles.
Many bus lines route to Metrolink train
stations, which for less than $15, will take
you to San Juan Capistrano or the San
Clemente coast in about a half hour, and
downtown LA in 50 minutes.
Traffic jams do not exist on the train, nor
do exit closures or reckless drivers. Instead
of sitting behind the wheel in morning
traffic, imagine being able to read the
newspaper or do a homework assignment
in the 50-minute trip downtown, with a
view vastly preferable to Interstate 5. The
stress-free consistency of the commute is
enough to make anyone question his or
her automotive allegiance.
Once I began using Orange County’s
public transportation regularly, I discovered something else – I finally felt like I
live here. Public transportation is the lifeblood of any city, and nothing teaches you
more about a city and its people than riding the bus. Escaping the Chapman bubble
and its cultural sameness, I quickly learned
more about the destinations around Orange and the people who live here.
Contrary to popular belief, a car doesn’t
stop you from enjoying what’s around you
– pretense does. It may not always be easy,
and from time to time public commuters
may wish we were members of the Orange
County car culture. But though the bus
may be the road less traveled, it can still get
you to class in half the time.
Illustration by Michael Lue
New housing policy is a major misstep
The Panther Editorial Board
Chapman invests a sizable amount of time and
money in each freshman class, from coordinating
extensive orientation events, requiring students to
take a freshman foundation course and providing a
positive on-campus housing experience.
One recent effort, made by the Office of Housing and Residence Life, is to house students by
their major. This classifies dormitories by fields of
academia so science majors live with other science
majors, film production students with other film
production students and so on.
However, this homogenized housing effort compartmentalizes students too quickly into their respective schools, denying the intellectual cross-pollination inherent to universities. It defines students’
social lives not by their personality or character, but
by their major.
Inherent to the meaning of university is the
concept of “uni”: the one, the body or the whole.
Universities have never been just collections of
buildings, students and scholars, but single bodies
of learners and an intellectual marketplace where
ideas are born and shared across all fields of study.
With the implementation of this housing system,
Chapman has ruptured the possibility for that connection and out-of-classroom learning. The variety
of majors is what makes the university experience
so enriching. Living in the dorms freshman year
should be an exciting time for students to meet
people they may not otherwise know, and learn
things they wouldn’t in their classrooms.
All students, especially freshman, have social and
personal needs beyond the classroom. After spending all day in class, students should have a dormitory that gives them an opportunity to be defined
by more than their major, and allows them the relief
of being out of their school, not surrounded by it.
The decision to house students by major has been
defended as helpful to their studying: with neighbors and roommates in the same school, freshmen
can find study partners. However, this is a solution
to a problem that doesn’t exist. Chapman should
give students more credit — freshmen want to pass
their classes, and the conventional ways of finding
study partners in class and through social media are
still effective.
Retention rates cannot be held as a benefit of
the new system either. According to Chapman’s
in-house research, there was minimal change in
retention rates between the freshmen entering last
year, who were housed by major, and the freshmen
entering in 2011, when they were not housed by
major.
The new policy does more harm than good for
freshmen students. Not only does it accomplish
little for studying or retention, but it also denies students access to the intellectual and social spectrum
of the Chapman student body.
The Office of Housing and Residence life should
return to a housing system that allows for dormitories of diverse majors, offering a more holistic and
enriching freshman year.
Go to page 4 to read “New program groups freshmen by major.”
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Managing Editor
Kelsey Kloss
News Editor
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Features Editor
Hannah Darbourne
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Assistant News Editor
Sean Stroh
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Copy Editor
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Guest Columns
Ratings vs. respect: tragedy-driven news
Avery Bissett
Freshman peace studies
major
Every parent has his or
her method of
raising a child,
but there is
one common
truth that every
human agrees
upon. The foremost responsibility of a parent is to protect
his or her child.
Nothing supersedes this.
Well, nothing except the
media’s greed
and America’s
obsession with tragedy.
If you don’t believe me, just look at the
coverage of the school shooting in Sparks,
Nevada, from Oct. 21. Turn on the TV
or open a newspaper, and you will find
reporters interviewing children who have
just been through hell.
This is tantamount to child abuse. No
psychiatrist will claim that these inter-
views are beneficial and the majority will
agree that they only hurt these children.
The media has forgotten its obligation to
provide responsible reporting for the betterment of society. How will little Johnny
telling millions of Americans about how
he watched his teacher and best friend be
killed prevent future tragedies or benefit
society? Their “reporting” sensationalizes these horrible acts, and America has
roared in approval of this travesty.
These media extravaganzas are just macabre entertainment. Look no further than
the TV ratings. On the night of the Sandy
Hook massacre, CNN’s “The Situation
Room” was the second most watched show
on cable, on a Friday night no less.
Some may argue that the child consented
to this interview. This is a delusional halftruth. Because a child is still immature and
not fully developed, he cannot consent to
an interview that will be seen by millions.
It is ludicrous to think a child can somehow consent to being interviewed in front
of millions of viewers when he cannot
watch an R-rated movie or even consent to
having his own picture taken in school.
To these terrible parents who recklessly
use their own children, I have one thing to
say: do your job by protecting your child.
We can blame the media all we want,
but this is the fault of each and every
American. The media is only supplying
the “infotainment” that America demands.
We have deemed this acceptable in our
perverse obsession with tragedy. These
horrible tragedies and their killers deserve
obscurity and ignominy. Instead, we have
rewarded the killers and media with millions of viewers and climbing ratings.
I challenge these news anchors and socalled reporters to stop exploiting these
tragedies. If they are half as competent
as they claim, there is no need to bring a
traumatized, crying child onto your show.
More importantly, we must show the media we are not interested in their exploitation of victims. Every American has an
obligation to boycott reckless reporting.
It’s time to get off the couch (literally), or
at least watch something that doesn’t exploit tragedy and it’s young victims.
Are TV ratings worth the price of further injuring these children?
Don’t write off the Leatherby Libraries
You may think
of your library
as nothing but
a place full of
books or a place
to study, hang
out and get coffee. However, the
library has more
to offer students
than just a quiet
space.
The library
offers a myriad
Essraa Nawar
of services and
Assistant to the Dean research opportunities to
for Communications, help students
Leatherby Libraries
reach their full
potential — it is
also a collection
of artifacts, exhibits and events, as well as an
open exhibit space for students. The Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special
Collections & Archives provides access to
unique collections: rare books, manuscripts,
maps, art and artifacts as well as materials
about the history of the university and the
Chapman family on the fourth floor. Stop
by to see some of its treasures and learn how
the librarians can support your learning
through primary research materials.
The Leatherby Libraries is also a hidden
art museum, with walls and display cases
filled with museum-worthy artwork. Among
Disney and toy collections, underwater photography and turtle collections, you will find
something to look at on each floor.
Students, faculty and researchers consistently praise the library for its attention
to the visual arts, on gallery walls, in permanent installations and in display cases
throughout the building.
The Leatherby Libraries are distinctive
because of the focus on the integration of art
and exhibitions to bring to life the content of
the collection. When you get a chance, pick
up a hard copy of the “Discover the treasures!” document at the reference desk and
have fun exploring your library.
The library offers many events and activities for every interest. From author meetings
and book signings, to revolutionary art of
Latin America, Mexican-American women
in softball, banned books and Sikhs in the
Great War, you’re bound to find an activity
that suits your fancy.
Each school, college or department has its
own subject liaison librarian, and our Leatherby librarians are always ready to lend a
research hand. Subject liaison librarians offer
individual research consultations to help students with assignments, projects and papers.
The library also has an open exhibit space
and student art is always wanted. Our library
prides itself on sharing its generous physical
space and open environment with our academic family and our community.
Have you ever studied inside the Italian
Heritage Archive group study room? At
Leatherby Libraries, we want to provide students with enhanced learning and discovery.
Half of our group study rooms are themed
and have wonderful and inspiring stories
and art inside them.
Along with the library’s website and the
digital media screen located on the first floor,
it also has a Facebook page on which students, faculty, researchers and other Chapman employees can keep up to date with the
latest news, pictures, events and activities
happening at the Leatherby Libraries.
Be our friend on: https://www.facebook.
com/LeatherbyLibraries.
Staff Column
Understanding the fracking problem
Hydraulic
fracturing is not
a well-known
subject in the
aloof American
culture.
It is a problem that affects
our environment and wildlife, but also one
that could eventually threaten
the human race
and change the
Jenna Linden
way we view
Staff writer
Earth.
Hydraulic
fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, is the process in which natural gas is
extracted from underground. This extraction is a cheaper way to warm houses and
fuel engines, but it is toxic for ecosystems
and further endangers wildlife.
Fracking involves blasting water and
hydrofluid into the Earth’s crust, which
causes mini blasts that force the crust to
fracture and release gas. In the meantime,
water is poisoned, wildlife diminishes and
people suffer.
With fracking, half of the hyrdofluid is
left to seep into the earth. This lethal liquid
is penetrating the fresh underground aquifers that supply water to everyone near the
fracturing area. Water in homes can be lit
on fire straight out of the tap. Last June,
The Economist covered a Duke University study that tested 141 private drinking
wells in areas with about 5,000 surrounding fracking wells, and concluded that
four out of five wells contained methane.
In the instance that one of these wells
malfunctions, gas can be seen bubbling up
out of streams. This was the case in Rifle,
Colorado, when a gas leak put millions
of cubic feet of gas into the atmosphere.
Some of the gas leaked into streams,
which fish absorbed into their fragile
membranes. Many birds and rodents were
found dead from inhaling the gas.
I have an immense concern for this
problem because I am from Aspen, Colorado, a place where nature is an influential part of life. I grew up hiking through
meadows with wildflowers and fertile
fauna. I’ve skied some of the world’s most
famous powder. I’ve seen trout lay eggs
and fawns take their first steps. I hope that
my children and their children can experience those delicacies of nature as well.
In high school, my volleyball team
would travel for games, far into the depths
of natural gas and oil country in Western
Colorado. I remember looking out of the
bus window at night as we headed back
into the mountains and seeing fields of
lights from fracking wells. In those towns,
the fountain drinking water was so foul we
were told to bring our own.
When the gas companies tried to start
drilling in and around my town, all hell
broke loose. There were petitions, meetings, protests and commissions. We all
knew if the gas companies won, we would
be losing fresh water and our environment.
Recently, my father told me we had
won the battle over fracking near my
hometown. I am relieved, but fracking is a
problem elsewhere in the country. Pennsylvania has been hit hard and the western
slope of Colorado and parts of Wyoming
are turning into deserted gas lands.
We endanger our future by continuing
to live in a concrete jungle of ignorance.
Fracking is just one of the many environmental challenges our generation will face,
and to surmount them, we need to make a
more conscious effort to keep the environment in mind.
-- Compiled by Katie Whaley and
Max Aixala
What advice do you
have for prospective
Chapman students?
“Be flexible with your major and
don’t be close-minded with other
majors.”
- Devon Bloss, sophomore
environmental studies
major
“Take the night off from studying
and have some fun, because it’ll
only get harder as you get older.”
- Roxana Nouri, sophomore
biology major
“Push your comfort zone and
don’t settle into a groove.”
- Jeremy Feck, junior
biochemistry major
“Try and know your major as much
as possible and prepare for it.”
- Rachel Hemsley, freshman
screenwriting major
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SPORTS
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Panthers defeat La Verne, staying second in SCIAC
Jessica Yi | Staff Writer
Chapman football dominated the La
Verne Leopards on the road Saturday
in a 45-7 win, recovering from its first
loss of the season against Redlands last
week and holding on to its second place
conference standing.
“We were very disappointed about
last week’s loss. As a result we worked
hard in practice and just focused on the
little things,” said junior defensive back
Osayande Aikhionbare. “Not making
mistakes, not committing stupid penalties—we just played a smart football
game and did not shoot ourselves in the
foot as we did against Redlands.”
Chapman (6-1, 4-1 SCIAC) scored
24 points in the first half of the game,
with junior quarterback Michael Lahey
having his best day as a starter, completing 23 of 32 passes for a career-high 364
yards and equaling a career-high three
touchdowns.
A scoring drive with about four minutes left in the second quarter ended
with an 80-yard strike to senior wide receiver Robin Harris and a 24-yard field
goal by junior kicker Markus Trujillo.
Harris finished with a season-high 124
yards, with four receptions.
Chapman continued to dominate La
Verne in the second half with two more
touchdowns by junior running back
Cody Chapple and another by freshman
defensive back Conner Larkin.
Chapman’s defense allowed only one
touchdown from the Leopards (3-4, 2-3
SCIAC) with 2:24 minutes left in the
second half. The Panthers’ pass defense
broke up four passes and had a pair of
interceptions – both of which led to
touchdown drives for the Chapman offense.
“We could have either put our heads
down and acted like the season was over
or we could come out and make a state-
LARRY NEWMAN Chapman Athletics
Junior running back Cody Chapple (20) runs the ball down the field against La Verne Saturday afternoon. The Panthers beat the Leopards 45-7.
ment that we are the top team in the
conference,” Trujillo said. “Everyone did
their job and we came out with a great
win.”
Trujillo has not missed a field goal
attempt this season, as all five of his
attempts have made it through the
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uprights.
Chapman will go on to face the Claremont Colleges at home 7 p.m. Saturday.
If Chapman wins one more game, it will
clinch its best overall record since 1996
(7-2).
“We just need to stay focused,” said
senior linebacker Wade Minshew.
“Claremont is a team that will always
play their hardest and not make many
mistakes, but if we just play our game
and not overlook them, we should have
no problems coming out with a victory.”
SPORTS
The Panther
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT
6. What do you think is the most important thing that helps a team be successful?
James Vigeant is not only a senior member on the men’s water polo team, but
is also the captain on the men’s swim team. Vigeant led the water polo team in
Wednesday’s game against Occidental, scoring three goals over the span of three
minutes.
Team camaraderie. If you have a team of pros, but they can’t work together, then
that team won’t be successful. Playing together is huge because each movement
affects another player, especially in team sports like water polo, and you always
have to be doing what is best for the entire team.
1. What other sports did you play as a kid?
I was a big basketball player when I was younger. I played up until my junior
year of high school when I realized I needed to drop it in order to focus more on
water polo.
7. What do you think is the most challenging part of playing your sport?
Not drowning. I mean that’s obvious, but you always have to be swimming and
moving, and that’s hard.
8. Who would you say is your biggest fan?
2. How did you end up choosing Chapman?
My sister. She’s actually the assistant coach of the swim team here so she’s always
near the pool, taking pictures, cheering and yelling, “That’s my brother!” But
she’s my sister so I can always put up with it. My brother is also one of my biggest
fans. He is a freshman at University of California, Davis, and he plays water polo
there too, so he kind of looks up to me.
My sister and her husband are both alumni. I fell in love with the setting of
Chapman, the amazing swim facility and the school in general.
3. What is your pregame meal of choice?
Before games I usually eat just like an apple or an orange, because if I got hit in
the stomach or something, I would throw up anything I ate. But after games,
the parents plan meals for us. The other day we had fried chicken, pasta, salad,
Vitaminwater and of course candy, since it was close to Halloween.
4. What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you as an
athlete?
When I was really little, probably six or seven, my basketball team was playing
a game. When my coach finally put me in, I stole the ball from a player on the
other team and I dribbled down and made a basket. I was wondering why I was
the only one running around and cheering afterwards, and then my coach put
his hand on his head and told me it was the other team’s hoop.
Name: James Vigeant
Year: Senior
Sport: Water polo
Position: Utility
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5. What was your biggest success as an athlete?
9. If you didn’t play water polo, where do you think you would spend most of
your free time?
I would probably spend a lot more time watching TV. Also, not too many people
know this about me, but I like to paint so I would definitely do that a lot more
often. I just don’t really have time right now to ever pull out a canvas and start
actually painting anything.
10. What do you hope to achieve in the future in regards to water polo?
I don’t plan on going professional or anything like that, so after this year
I’m most likely done playing. I do want to get more people involved in the
sport, especially youth, so I coach some pre-high school-aged kids to help
get them ready to play more competitively. I really want to spread the sport
and make it more widely known.
My senior year of high school I was named League MVP and Section MVP.
Compiled by Natalie Welch
Soccer goes on to postseason play despite losses
Jessica Yi | Staff Writer
Despite a rough end to its regular
season, the men’s soccer team will go
on to postseason play, competing in
the SCIAC championships this week
against the top three teams in the conference.
The Panthers, fifth in the Southern
California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) standings, suffered
losses against the Whittier Poets and
Redlands Bulldogs on the road in their
last two games of the regular season.
Typically, the top four teams in the
conference compete for the SCIAC
championship but because Redlands is
ineligible due to self-imposed sanctions, Chapman will have the opportunity to continue playing in the postseason.
“We have a lot of time before our
first playoff game so it’s essential
that we use this time to get everyone
healthy,” said sophomore midfielder
Boston Kimmel. “We need to tighten
up at the back and make sure we don’t
get scored on first. I’m confident that
our offense will take care of itself.”
In Wednesday’s game against Redlands (12-4, 12-4 SCIAC), the Bulldogs
scored within the first 13 minutes
of play, pushing the Panthers (11-72, 9-6-1 SCIAC) to strengthen their
defense. Chapman allowed only eight
shots on goal in the game. However,
Redlands went on to score another goal
at 26 minutes.
“We gave up two goals off corner
kicks which should never have happened and we couldn’t recover from
that,” said sophomore forward Karam
Gill. “We can’t give those goals up.”
In the second half, Redlands scored
one more goal at the 48-minute mark,
bringing the score to 3-0. Soon after,
Chapman freshman midfielder Sam
Rudich scored the Panther’s only goal
on a penalty shot.
On Monday, the Poets (11-7-1, 105-1 SCIAC) started the scoring early,
taking advantage of Chapman’s lapse
in defense and leaving them with a 0-2
disadvantage at the end of the first half.
Whittier scored with a through ball
assist at six minutes followed by another shot that went in after hitting the
crossbar in the 19th minute.
In the second half, Whittier’s offense
scored again against the Panthers in the
74th minute, shooting past sophomore
goalkeeper Nick Berardi.
The men’s soccer team will travel to
Claremont Wednesday at 7 p.m. for
the SCIAC post-season tournament
semifinal.
“I believe that going to the playoffs is
a testament to our performance,” said
senior forward Nick Echeverry. “It’s a
step forward for our program in the
SCIAC league.”
LARRY NEWMAN Chapman Athletics
Freshman midfielder Sam Rudich attempts to keep possession against Redlands Wednesday.
Rudich scored the only goal in Chapman’s 3-1 loss.
Conference
Standings
*Top five teams are listed
MEN’S water polo:
SCIAC
ALL
1. Whittier
2. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
3. Chapman
4. Pomona-Pitzer
5. Redlands
5-1
4-1
4-1
4-1
3-2
15-12
12-9
7-6
7-19
14-13
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL:
SCIAC
ALL
1. Cal Lutheran
2. Pomona-Pitzer
3. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4. Occidental
5. Chapman
16-0
12-4
11-5
10-6
10-6
28-1
20-7
23-5
17-10
17-11
MEN’S SOCCER:
1. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
2. Redlands
3. Whittier
4. Cal Lutheran
5. Chapman
SCIAC
ALL
12-3-1
12-4
10-5-1
9-5-2
9-6-1
14-5-1
12-4
11-7-1
11-6-2
11-7-2
football:
SCIAC
ALL
1. Redlands
2. Chapman
3. Occidental
4. Cal Lutheran
5. La Verne
5-0
4-1
3-2
3-2
2-3
5-2
6-1
4-3
3-4
3-4
WOMEN’S SOCCER:
SCIAC
ALL
1. Cal Lutheran
2. Pomona-Pitzer
3. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4. Chapman
5. La Verne
12-2
11-3
7-5-2
7-7
6-7-1
16-4
13-3-1
8-8-3
10-9-1
9-10-1
SPORTS
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DEV MEHTA Senior Photographer
Senior forward Camy Jun (2) dribbles down the field past a La Verne defender during Saturday night’s 3-1 home win. This was Jun’s first game back since recovering from an ACL injury.
Women clinch a spot in conference playoffs
After being neck and neck in SCIAC standings last week, Chapman women’s soccer beat out Redlands and La Verne to earn a spot in postseason play.
Michael Ambrose | Staff Writer
Women’s soccer was able to cling to
fourth place in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in the final week of the
regular season, guaranteeing the team a
spot in the postseason tournament.
After losing to California Lutheran
3-0 Wednesday, Chapman beat La
Verne 3-1 Saturday for the bid to play
in the postseason.
“We wanted it more than they did,”
said senior forward Val Sobol. “This
win proves that we belong.”
Though Chapman (10-9-1, 7-7
SCIAC) eventually pulled away in its
victory over the La Verne Leopards
(9-10-1, 6-7-1 SCIAC), neither team
scored in the first half.
Sophomore midfielder Haley Fedden
kicked off the scoring for Chapman in
the 57th minute.
Chapman extended its lead to 3-0 on
goals by junior midfielder Olivia Do
and freshman midfielder Katie Bell,
before La Verne scored its lone goal in
the 89th minute.
Chapman’s offense was effective
against La Verne, amassing 10 shots on
goal compared to La Verne’s five.
“Our offense worked really hard,”
Sobol said. “We played with tenacity
and it paid off.”
Freshman goalie Kristin Kleinow
played all 90 minutes for the Panthers,
allowing the one goal, but recording
four saves.
“I think we are on track for where we
needed to be,” said head coach Courtney Calderon. “We had a good week of
practice. Wanting it more than them
was the difference.”
Earlier in the week, Chapman suffered a 3-0 drubbing at the hands of
SCIAC-leading Cal Lu (16-4, 12-2
SCIAC).
Though the Panthers allowed a goal
halfway through the first half, they
stayed without another goal until the
72nd minute.
Chapman’s offense failed to score but
not due to lack of opportunity, as the
Scoreboard
Women’s Volleyball
Occidental 3
Pomona-Pitzer 3
Cal Lutheran 3
Women’s Soccer
Chapman 3
Cal Lutheran 3
Redlands 3
Whittier 3
Women’s Soccer
Chapman 1
Chapman 0
Men’s Water polo
La Verne 1
Chapman 0
Football
Chapman 45
Upcoming Games
Men’s Soccer
Chapman 2
Chapman 1
Chapman 2
Concordia 15
Chapman 17
Chapman 9
Occidental 10
Men’s Basketball
La Verne 7
UC Irvine 89
team registered 10 shots on goal to Cal
Lu’s 19.
Kleinow was in the net again and
gave up all three goals, but amassed
seven saves.
“We just made lots of silly mistakes,”
Sobol said. “It wasn’t like their goals
were that great, they were just off our
mistakes. We are looking forward to
playing them again.”
Chapman will travel to Cal Lu for the
first round of SCIAC tournament play.
The game will be Wednesday at 4 p.m.
“We need to fix a couple of things
that need fixing, and if we can do that
in practice we will give ourselves the
best chance to win,” Calderon said.
11/7 @ Cal Lutheran 7 p.m.
SCIAC Tournament Semifinal
11/6 @ Claremont 7 p.m.
Women’s Volleyball
Men’s Water polo
SCIAC Tournament Semifinal
SCIAC Tournament Semifinal
11/7 @ Cal Lutheran 7:30 p.m.
Football
11/9 vs. Claremont 7 p.m.
Chapman 61
Men’s Soccer
11/6 @ Pomona-Pitzer 4 p.m.
11/9 vs. Whittier 11 a.m.
11/9 vs. Stanford 2 p.m.