Subject: Orange Coast College

• OCC Excommunicates the Pledge

  In a meeting on Wednesday night, Orange Coast College student trustees voted to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings, citing an incompatibility between nationwide submission to God and justice for all. Student trustee Jason Bell explained his position to Reuters: "That [under God] part is sort of offensive to me. I am an atheist and a socialist, and if you know your history, you know that 'under God' was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideol

  November 10, 2006

• Think for Yourselves, Young Folks, so Long as You Think Like Me

  You know what's funny? We ask our young adults to throw themselves into the youth versions of established adult institutions—your governmental bodies, your newspapers, etc.—but when the kids dare express dissent or themselves in a way that rubs the ruling class the wrong way, the adult overlords crack down on the kids. Case in point: the Orange Coast College student government. For whatever reason, the student body officers decided they would no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance be

  December 4, 2006

• Orange Coast College's Student-Run Restaurant is Open

  A week late in posting, but better late than never: Orange Coast College's Captain's Table, the restaurant that functions as a lab and training class for the school's culinary students, is now open for the Fall Semester. Actually, their inaugural lunch was last week. I've been to a few of these in the past and it's always been fun (if only because you're really rooting for these kids to do well). And although some of the themes are better than others (the French lesson theme was much better t

  September 25, 2008

• Taxing Education

  November 25, 1999

• The 1999 Okies

  February 17, 2000

• Cry of the Yuppie

  April 12, 2001

• Shakespeare-a-go-go

  August 8, 2002

• Citizen of the Week!

  Attending college isn't always easy or cheap. Far too many schools are little more than glorified profit centers. But is it too much to ask professors to refrain from bilking students, too? I ask this question to Patrick C. Coaty, a political science associate professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Coaty operated a shameless, self-enriching scheme until recently. He required his students to purchase two textbooks he'd written. That part isn't unreasonable. But because Coaty had 51

  October 22, 2008

• Rohrabacher: No Need to Make Gays "Comfortable" About Selves

  The full quote from Dana Rohrabacher at an Oct. 21 debate at Orange Coast College, where our favorite far-out, far-right Republican congressman out of Surf City explained his support for the anti-same-sex-marriage initiative, Prop. 8: "I would suggest we not change the definition of marriage in order to make a small number of people comfortable about themselves." For the full context, watch the clip.

  October 28, 2008

• O.C.C.'s Captain's Table Starts Up Their $12 Lunch Lab This Week

  It's back to school for the kids at Orange Coast College, which includes its culinary students, and we all know what that means: Orange Coast College's Captain's Table, the restaurant that functions as a lab and training class for the aspiring chefs, will be open for the Spring Semester. As I've mentioned last year, I've been to a few of these and it's always fun.  You can't help but root for these up-and-comers, no matter if they screw-up. And of course, the food is a bargain for t

  February 23, 2009

• Trapped

  December 14, 2000

• [Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15

  August 7, 2008

• Whipped Cream & Other Delights

  January 23, 2003

• Film

  March 24, 2005

• The Death of Vivian Bearing

  April 22, 2004

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Psycho

  March 1, 2007

• OCC Goes Greek

  This campus production of Amphitryon 38 is an ambitious diversion, but hardly an instant classic

  July 5, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Graduate
  

  June 14, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Searchers

  April 19, 2007

• Back To School

  August 26, 2004

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

  March 15, 2007

• Back to Cool

  September 2, 1999

• The Lovable Loser

  June 15, 2006

• Special Screenings

  April 6, 2006

• Special Screenings

  March 16, 2006

• Bees, Snitches and Micks

  March 9, 2006

• Grub Guide

  February 16, 2006

• The Little Pages That Could

  August 4, 2005

• Girls Gone Not So Wild

  February 3, 2005

• This Week in College Chowing

  August 26, 2004

• Supersize This

  March 25, 2004

• Robot-Sex Fun

  March 11, 2004

• Fast Forward

  December 4, 2003

• Last Picture Show

  August 28, 2003

• Sarmale Sentiments

  June 5, 2003

• In New Spaces, No One Can Hear You Scream

  May 8, 2003

• Letters

  May 8, 2003

• Red Ken

  April 10, 2003

• T

  October 24, 2002

• Hick Mocking

  December 13, 2001

• Letters

  December 13, 2001

• Daahk, Veddy, Veddy Daahk

  July 26, 2001

• He Shelves Sea Shells By the Seashore

  July 5, 2001

• Letters

  May 24, 2001

• Twin Peeks

  July 6, 2000

• Beach Fest 99, with a whole bunch of bands and a good, bloody fistfight

  May 27, 1999

• Great Bands of the County, Unite!

  May 20, 1999

• Give It the Old College Guide*

  September 10, 1998

• To Do Tonight - 6/23

  Groundbreaking of new Westminster Police Department Building, 5:30 p.m.Groundbreaking is one way to describe something revolutionary, something iconic. It's also a way to describe literally breaking the ground before building a structure, like say, the new Westminster Police Department Building. Will this, too, be revolutionary and iconic? Only time will tell.Westminster Civic Center, 8200 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CA; 714-898-3311Spare the Air Contest: Skintight Sunrise; Media Drone; Ora

  June 23, 2009

• OCC Actor-Turned-Filmmaker's "Patriotic Anti-War Mystery" Debuts

   Still the Drums, "a patriotic anti-war mystery" from Orange Coast College theater actor-turned-North Hollywood-based-film-stage-television actor and now filmmaker Talbot Perry Simons, makes its world premiere Saturday, Aug. 1, at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival Los Angeles 2009 (try fitting that on a marquee!).The fictional drama follows four childhood friends through to their Marines service in Vietnam and beyond. When the remains of one of them who had be

  July 24, 2009