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A thousand cranes of hope

3Feature: Naser Baig

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Origami cranes have long been thought of as a symbol of peace, unity, happiness, and love. To fold even one takes an incredible amount of patience, and psychology major and pre-med student Kimberly Policarpio has undertaken a project to fold one thousand of them. According to Japanese legend, the crane is

considered a holy creature. It is said to live for a thousand years and making one thousand paper cranes will get you a wish. “Usually in Japanese culture if you make a thousand cranes your wish will come true. I’m close to four hundred right now,” Policarpio said. While most people would choose to keep the paper cranes and make a wish themselves, Policarpio plans to send them to a band in Korea called B.A.P. (Best

Absolute Perfect). “They inspire me and they’re really important to me. They’re doing a lot of projects for charity work currently. It’s not a lot, but I hope that it would inspire them to keep doing what they’re doing,” Policarpio said. Policarpio’s friend, Marithony Tan, is also a supporter of B.A.P. and what they stand for.“They are my inspiration and heroes. Their leader donates money each month for kids, not only in Africa,

Kimberly Policarpio holds a selection of the cranes she folded. She is nearly half way to her goal of 1,000 cranes folded by October this year.

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President Jowel Laguerre, surrounded by SCC governing board members and leaders of the campus, announces Solano’s removal from accreditation sanctions.

Accreditation ‘warning’ lifted:

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For the second time in three years, the organization which oversees accrediting standards for community colleges has removed Solano Community College from all accreditation sanctions. With SCC governing board members present and leaders of campus constituent groups flanking him, SCC superintendent/president Jowel Laguerre announced in a Monday morning press conference that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges recently removed SCC from ‘warning’ status and reaffirmed the

college’s accreditation. ACCJC accreditation is recognition that a community college is following certain institutional criteria; ranging from effective college planning to creating and retaining a stable budget. Almost three years ago to the day, during the spring of 2011, Laguerre announced in a similar press conference that the ACCJC cleared SCC of any accreditation deficiencies. This good news was soon checked as a follow-up ACCJC visit to the district in the fall of 2011 found minor accreditation issues. The ACCJC found nine issues with SCC. Three of the issues were widespread enough to force ACCJC to place Solano

on “warning: Improvement in planning; attending to Student Learning Outcomes and assessment, and providing more equitable services to the Vacaville and Vallejo Centers in comparison to the Fairfield Campus.” These accreditation issues caused SCC to placed on ‘warning’ status – the lowest form of accreditation sanctions – during the spring of 2012, which was continued in 2013. “A warning is issued when the Commission finds that an institution has pursued a course of action which deviates from the Commission’s eligibility criteria, standards of accreditation, or policy to an extent that raises a concern

regarding the ability of the institution to meet accreditation standards,” according to an SCC district report citing ACCJC standards. During a recent press conference announcing the latest chapter in the SCC accreditation chronicle, Laguerre acknowledged SCC earned the recent warning status. “By no means am I saying we did not deserve the sanctions,” Laguerre said. “We earned the marks we received.” Finding ACCJC accreditation approval has proved challenging for SCC during the past six years. In 2008, ACCJC placed SCC on

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Feb. 12Themed Basketball“Coaches vs. Cancer” Solano vs. MarinWomen at 5:30Men at 7:30

Feb. 13Last day to file pass/no pass option

Single’s Awareness WeekMr. Falcon PageantTheater Building 12006 P.M.

“How to Study Smart” workshop12:30-1:30 p.m. Vallejo campus, room 129

Feb. 14Valentine’s DayPresident’s Day-No Classes

Feb. 17President’s Holiday-No Classes

Feb. 18Faculty Day-No Classes

Feb. 19“Code Crash Course” Intro to Computer Pro-graming Workshop12:30pm - 2:30pmBuilding 1400 Rm. 1421

FA Internet Cafe Work-shop Vacaville Center4:00 P.M.- 6:00 P.M.

Planned Parenthood Ex-press Clinic12:30 P.M. 3:30 P.M.Building 1400 Rm. 1409

Feb. 20Last Day to File for Pass/No Pass Option

Last Day to Drop with No Course or Grade Recorded

Feb. 21Typing Test Certificates2:30 P.M.Building 500 Rm. 502

Feb. 22African Americans andRole of Church10 a.m. room 626 &Tuskegee Airmen11 a.m. room 626

Feb. 23Anger Management11am in room 626

Find Your Roots6:00PM-9:00PMroom 501

Feb. 27Veteran’s and Active Duty Student Success Workshop VA Voc Rehab Services & SCC Connection Bldg 1400 Room 142 12pm to 1pm & 5pm to 6pm

March 20 Last day to petition for degree or certificate Submit petitions to office of admissions and recordsInfo: [email protected]

March 30Last day to drop with a “W”Classes can be dropped on My.solano.eduand Admissions and Re-cords office

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OPINION

Let’s get togetherSingle Awareness day (SAD) was created as an al-ternate holiday for people with no significant other or special someone. This day is celebrated February 15th instead of February 14th and traditionally people wear green.

According to the Singles Awareness Day website the holiday involves singles celebrating together through an exchang-ing of gifts, or having get-togethers with their single friends. This pseudo holiday gives singles an opportunity to celebrate from being left out of the traditional Valentine’s Day celebrations.

Renee Green, president of a local Vacaville singles church group, knows the pressure that Valentine’s Day places on singles. Green who has been single for 10 years now formed the group because it was a way for many of the church members to

not only meet people but do group activities as well.

“I have never heard of Single Awareness Day but I feel it seems like a positive alternative to Valentine’s Day. Many of our church members get together throughout the year and do many activi-ties and functions. For us every day is really single awareness.”

A recent Harris Poll find-ings from an online sur-vey of 2,278 U.S. adults between January 17 and 22, 2013, conducted by

Harris Interactive, showed that one in four (24%) men say they would rather have a root canal than be single on Valentine’s Day, compared with only 16% of women.

Really guys? A root canal? This is a current reflec-tion of the pressure that society places on people to be in relationships. Even Facebook is jumping on the SAD bandwagon. Currently facebook has 10,000 fans 14,470 likes to its singles page.

I have been single for 7 years now and I actu-ally enjoy my status. Will I eventually become involved in a relation-ship? I might one day, but not because society deems me a pariah if I am not. So kudos to Singles Awareness Day, two of my friends and I are actually going to Round Table for dinner, because I am definitely a cheap date.

Across the country every Feb. 14 has us exchanging flowers, candy and gifts among our loved ones. I

started hating Valentine’s Day back in the third

grade when my classmate Kenneth Cole threw my

hand-made card, with the lace hearts, in the garbage. So my top ten reasons for

hating Valentine’s Day are:

10.Those chalky tast-ing conversational

hearts that retailers pose every year as candy.

9.The fact that retail stores put up those

heart-shaped boxes before your local Boy Scout troop has even picked up your Christmas tree.

8.You bought Valentine gifts and haven’t even

paid off the Christmas debt yet.

7.Valentine’s dayDay has spawned, “Singles

Awareness Day.” This is the day single folks get together and date themselves and pretend it’s okay.

6.Valentine’s Day has caused many break-

ups. Some people break up before Valentine’s Day so they don’t have to buy their “snookums” a gift. Then we have people who break up on Valentine’s Day because they didn’t remember and “have no gift.”

5.Valentine’s Day can cause some awkward-

ness at the workplace. I

mean, do you say “Happy Valentine’s Day” to co-workers? If it is a male co-worker is that harassment? A come-on?

4.It should be renamed “Hallmark Day,”

because they seem to be the real winners.

3.Nancy Schimelpfening from depression.com

says that Valentine’s Day is a day to remember just how lonely you are. You know that thought will helps the depression, right?

2.People who you didn’t remember were your

Facebook and Twitter “friends” suddenly send you a million-and-one posts and tweets professing their undying love for you as a friend.

1.Some people will come up to you and

say, “Happy VD day.”

Is Singles Awareness Day a fitting alternative to Valentine’s Day?

10 things to hate about Valentine’s Day

By Deborah Graham

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campus conversation

If you can go on a date with any celebrity, who would it be? Where would you go?

“Vin Disiel. I would make him take me to a dinner cruise.”

-Clarissa OlaesCosmetology

“I’d probably go with Jennifer Beals to San Francisco for the night.”

-Tyler ChilsonMechanincal Engineering

“Jensen Ackles from Supernatu-ral. We could do anything just sit and talk. Wouldn’t have to do anything in particular. I just want to look at him.”

-Tracy SchneiderEnglish Teacher

“I would say Paul Walker and he would take me to Brazil.”

-Emilse SalazarPsychology

“I’d take Melanie Iglesias. I’d take her to the beach in LA and then go to dinner with her. We’ll see where the night takes us.”

-Pierre Cineas,Solano Swim Team

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Valentine’s Day MessagesWords of love from one SSC student to another

Arthur Jackson, you are an awesome and powerful human being, never ever

change. Know that you are loved always. –Anonymous

To miss A’s cosmetology class, Happy Valentine’s Day you all rock loud

100%--Anonymous

I promise to love you –Luke

Blonde, blue eyes, 5’5”, she does math, I have math class before you. I don’t

know your name but when I saw you a song came to my mind, the song describes perfectly what I want to say, the song is called “Just The Way You Are”. I know your class is at 1:50 p.m. on Fridays. –Anonymous

Hello everyone hope you have a happy Valentine’s Day! And to my single

friends, you’re time will come. I love you all! –Carissa Demasi

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my won-derful friends! Special message and

much love to Hayley Green, Naama Rios, Yava Echols, Leandra Rivera, and Dagmar Kuta. You ladies are the future of every-thing awesome. –Z

To: Japanese GokuWill you be my valentine again? I love

you 4 ever & evers –From Chichi

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my Forever 21 co-workers here at Solano.

–Love Candace Earls

Happy Valentine my friend. –To Carlo

To my wife Yvette, I love you for just being you. –Love, Phyllis

To mesa counselor Amy, you is the bomb! Happy Valentine’s Day

To ASSC press you are so hot!! Wow! Singles week, hit me up! LoL (wink

wink)

I know I am not black, or the ideal look-ing man you desire. I know you consider

me as a brother because you’re comfortable with our relationship going that far. As you have said I am not your type, but I love you regardless. I would love if God would change your heart, but even if he never does I will always love you. –Ariel

Happy Valentine’s Day Victoria, thank you for the past six wonderful years, I

love you!! –Glen

Happy Valentine’s Day –Freedom Evans

He Got Game’s are red, Space Jams are blue, you may love shoes but I love

you!!-To: Space Jam Boy From: Olympic 7 Girl

To: Thomas TrujilloYou’re a great person. Thanks for be-

ing a great friend. Hope you have a happy Valentine’s Day.From: Gilda B.

To: George,Thanks for all of your help. Hope you

have a happy Valentine’s Day.From: Gilda B.

You don’t know but I’m in one of your classes. This might be unusual to you

because I am a homosexual (a lesbian to be specific). I want to get to know you, but I get intimidated of how hot you are. I just want to let you know that you’re beautiful and I hope you’re always happy.-Your secret admirer

To Solano FalconsWe Love you!

From ASSC

Happy Valentine’s Day Ashanta. I love you momma now till forever.

From the love of your life.

Ms. Kirbride thank you for your help to aid me to improve my math.

From Meow

Hey Latonya, Happy Valentine’s Day. You are dear to my heart and I love

you!-Mommy

Hello Lateisha, Ronald, Latoya, Marchea, and all four of my grand-

sons and my one granddaughter who will be here in April. Happy Valentine’s Day. Love Mommy

Happy second Valentine’s Day to us, dearest! I’m the happiest and luckiest

girl to have such a sweet valentine. –Love, Aly Bee Kay

“Education is our passport to the fu-ture, for tomorrow belongs to those

who prepare for it today.” –Malcom XMy message to Solano Campus by CJ Dennis

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FEATURES

Roughly two years ago, Robin Schwartz, the executive assistant for DeVille En-terprises and her team decided to buy the Clark Theater located in downtown Vacaville. Opened in 1925 and closed about 25 years ago, the theater has been an eyesore surrounded by nice stores and restaurants and now it’s getting new life.

According to Richard Brammer and his recent article for the Vacaville Reporter the 2-million dollar-plus refurbished movie theater “likely will transform downtown Vacaville.”

With two successful soft openings over the past few weeks, the Theater DeVille will officially open to the public over Valentine’s Day weekend and, accord-ing to the Deville’s Facebook page, their grand opening will feature Mary Wilson of the Supremes.

The theater will offer mostly live music, but will also offer comedy shows and movies, Schwartz says. The theater will also be available for rent for ban-quets, parties, and speakers. Schwartz said that they “are not having events everyday but very soon hope to be open daily.”

Tickets to many of the events will be sold prior to the events. Schwartz says that they have already completed hiring and are fully staffed with what she believes to be “a strong team.” But they are accepting resumes via email at [email protected].

Jobs available for hire include bar-backs, bartenders, ushers, cashiers, dif-ferent levels of chef’s, production team, and management team. The theater is on many social networks including Facebook, twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and their own website devillevacaville.com, which has links to all their social media and is located at: 308 Main Street in Vacaville.

Deville theater opening promises to bring jobs and culture to downtown VacavilleJustin Johnson Staff Writer [email protected]

West Texas Street in downtown Fairfield has become home of some of the best-kept secrets when it comes to great food. Nestled amid the trendy fashion stores and downtown courthouse scene is Evelyn’s Big Italian Piz-zeria and Ristorante; home of the 32-inch Big Gun Pizza.

The restaurant is the brainchild New York natives Ev-elyn and Piero Tropeano. Their restaurant reminded me of many of the authentic Italian restaurants in New York City. My three friends and I ate in their newly remod-eled outside seating area. The seating was spacious and the decor had some lovely black wrought iron chairs and Italian themed awnings.

The service was excellent. I love the fact it is an open kitchen, and as we were standing in line to order, we could actually watch the food being prepared. We were quoted a 10-minute wait and that was close to the time our food arrived. This was amazing considering the line that snaked out the door.

The food was inexpensive for the quantity we received. We ordered the 26-inch Big Italian with pepperoni, and two side salads. We were not warned about the size of the pizzas, so were surprised at the size of the slices. They were the as big as a nine-inch plate. I felt like I was in New York, I could actually “bend” the pizza and have the grease form a small puddle dripping on my plate. This is how we do it back home. When they brought out my friends’ side salads, everything was fresh. The lettuce was crisp with chunks of tomatoes, and big crunchy croutons. I likes that the dressing was on the side and not drenched over it.

Even though there were four of us, one slice each filled us up. My friends couldn’t finish the salad and I couldn’t finish it either. I will definitely come back to this restau-rant again. The owner actually went around to each table making sure everything was okay. Not too many restau-rants do this. This restaurant gets 4 out of 5 stars.

Pizzeria serves up big delightsDeborah GrahamOnline [email protected]

One of Evelyn’s famously large slices

The theater’s newly renovated sign

The “College-vice” seriesBy: Jonathan Beserra

The Solano Community College student government is still accept-ing applications for four elected positions: president, vice president, student trustee and legislative advocate.

The president of the Associated Students of Solano College student government serves as the chair dur-ing the ASSC student government meetings.

The vice president is the chair of the Inter-Club Council, a meeting of student club representatives. The vice president also serves as chair during the absence of the president during the ASSC student govern-ment meetings. The president and vice president must campaign on the same ticket. The student trustee represents

students on the district governing board and the legislative advocate tracks state and federal legislation pertaining to SCC and other Cali-fornia community colleges.Students with a minimum 2.3 GPA and enrolled in at least six units are eligible to seek election to these positions. Students must maintain these requirements while in office.

The declaration of candidacy period closes February 21 at 5 p.m. Applications can be obtained from the Student Development Office in the 1400 building on the main campus.

For more information, contact Jose Ballesteros, interim-director of student development and MESA at [email protected] or 707-864-7000 ext. 7839.

Student governmentseeks board officers

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On a dreary and wet Friday morning recently, in a non-descript room on the main campus, Solano

Community College student Naser Baig is hard at work. While many SCC students leave immediately after their respective classes end for the day, especially on Fridays, Baig remains on campus to assist with the operations of the student government, working from the ASSC student government workroom in the 1400 building.

Baig, 38, is a computer science major in his third year at SCC and has spent almost the same amount of time as a member of the student government. “I have had a meandering path [in life],” Baig said on his decision to attend SCC. “I was going through a really difficult part of my life so I was looking to start things up again – reconnect with the world.” During his second semester at SCC, Baig had some free time on Tuesdays so he decided to join the student government. That decision would change Baig’s life forever. Baig, during his third semester on student government, chaired the student election committee for the annual student government election. Due to procedural errors in the election, the election results were tossed out by the student government senate, causing the formation of the Select Interim Committee. Baig chaired the SIC through the summer and early parts of the fall 2012 semester while new elections in the fall took place. “It (the SIC) was an educational exercise,” Baig said. I was so proud of my committee. We met over the summer – no one was here but we were meeting.”

Baig credits the mentorship of SCC political science professor Joel Powell who assisted the committee during the tenure of the SIC. “Dr. Powell definitely inspires me,” Baig said. “He has that effect on all of his students because he is very passionate about teaching.”

“Naser has one of the keenest intellects that I have ever seen in a student,” Powell said. “(SCC) students are lucky to have Naser (in student government).” Powell said that he was happy to be seen as a mentor to Baig during the summer of 2012 but SCC community service officer David Brannen provided a lot of help to both of them. While Baig said the whole experience with the SIC was

humbling, he remained in student government after elections were held during the fall semester to elect the ASSC leadership.

With Baig’s help, during the fall 2012 semester, the student government began the first of several bone marrow

drives in partnership with the Asian American Donor Program. The first drive was organized to find a bone marrow match for SCC student Kyle Lu. Despite their efforts, a match was not found and Lu subsequently passed away in January 2013. AADP outreach coordinator Thi Ly has worked several times with Baig over the two years.

“I’m so proud that I’m a part of AADP,” Baig said. Thi does good work, she is an incredibly positive person who deals with difficult situations and she always has this huge smile on her face.” “He has been instrumental in getting support from student government and the rest of the campus community,” Ly said. “With Naser’s help, we found two (bone marrow) matches during the first campaign.”

Ly and Baig have already been in communication for this semester’s bone marrow drive. “He is one of the most important people at SCC,” Ly said. While Baig devotes much of his time to ASSC, he has maintained a job on campus as an assistant web programmer to SCC webmaster Scott Ota. “He definitely cares about students,” Ota said. “I think highly of him.”

Ota maintains that he could never do the type of work he does without the vital work from student assistants, especially from Baig. “He’s quite a student.”

“I see a lot of potential in student government,” Baig said. “The more I learn about things like shared governance, the protections that are built in for student rights in the California Education Code, the more I feel the students have been granted a tremendous amount of power (with student government).”

Baig said that he feels a major ‘brain-drain’ occurs every semester as new students join student government and veteran student leaders leave. To combat this, Baig chairs the procedural review committee in hopes the committee will establish a handbook for new senators–a playbook/cheat sheet of the pertinent information all student leaders should possess. “Lack of continuity is a huge problem with the ASSC,” Baig said. “It’s terrible. Every semester the reset button is pressed.” As Baig seeks a solution to the ‘brain-drain’ he is also working with SCC professors and a fellow student for an upcoming summer trip to Haiti to develop composting toilets, which allow the conversion of human waste into fertilizer. “I want to commend these guys for their vision, their passion, their commitment, and for their guts,” said SCC professor Jim DeKloe in an e-mail.

While Baig has much on his plate, he hopes to transfer to the University of California, Berkeley or the University of California, Davis in a year.

Yet Baig said he will be forever grateful for his experiences at SCC, whether good or bad. “Being here (SCC) has made my life a lot richer,” Baig said. “Solano saved my life.”

John GliddenStaff Writer/Copy Editor

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Student leader touted as exemplary

Governing board representatice for ASSC - Naser Baig

Broken Bells’ “After the Disco,”flexes superb musicianship

“After the Disco” may be only the second album from Bro-ken Bells collaborators James Mercer and Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, but seperately the two artists have a lengthy and impressive discography from which they’ve drawn on this scintilating sophomore album.

Mercer who is well known as the songsmith and driving force behind The Shins, keeps in pace with rest of his efforts as he has crafted yet another album full of playful and pensive songs, over which Burton has added many subtle and stunning textures.

The album title is enough to tell listeners just what they’re in store for. Mercer and Burton string together a number of influences - past and present - to weave a tapestry of tunes that are both current and timeless. A bulk of the songs utilize the sounds of the seventies and the disco genre as a whole, with-out sounding contrived or dated.

The album’s lead single, “Holding on for Life,” has the group combining Bee Gee’s falsettos and synthesizers with hints

of Latin music to create an entrancing song, which is both a danceloor doozy and in-your-head pop gold. “No Matter What You’re Told,” contains a Black Keys-esque stomp and twang which couples with their other influences in a startlingly com-plimentary manner. One thing fans of Mercer’s various musical incarnations have come to expect, are well-crafted tunes which exude a certain pop-giddiness. While Burton - more well known via his Danger Mouse pseudonym - has become renound for his high-caliber production skills and his pinache for full-bodied soundscapes and flourishes, which he has bequeathed on some of today’s biggest acts. This effort excels on both ends.

This album is compact yet simultaneously expansive, contain-ing enough meat in its bulk and margines to satiate the most meandering of hipster palletes. An album that can coddle listeners with cooes from the cradle on one track and sling psychedelic sidewinders on another - which is everything you can hope for.

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warning. By 2009, Solano was placed on ‘show cause,’ the most severe accreditation sanction. An institution in ‘show cause’ must demonstrate why they should retain accreditation. If the institution fails to do so ACCJC accreditation will be lost. While in ‘show cause,’ an institution must complete a preliminary closure plan. City College of San Francisco is experiencing its own accreditation issues: the ACCJC revoked CCSF’s accreditation after the college failed to show why it should retain ACCJC accreditation. Solano was able to show cause on why the district should keep its accreditation. Subsequently, the ACCJC moved SCC to ‘probation,’ a step above ‘show cause’ and one step below ‘warning.’

During the recent press conference, Laguerre stated that the college cannot “rest on our laurels,” and must “continue to meet the requirements of each of our former nine recommendations and maintain the ACCJC standards.” SCC English professor and accreditation coordinator Annette Dambrosio echoed Laguerre’s comments after the press conference. “What we have to do is maintain the accreditation standards,” Dambrosio said. “Maintain and exceed the standards.” According to the ACCJC letter, SCC must submit an institutional midterm report in the fall of 2014. This is an opportunity for the district to demonstrate that it is progressing with ACCJC standards.

Policarpio fulfills wish with 1,000 cranesbut everywhere in the world to get a better life. They’re truly amazing people,” Tan said. A perfect example of the power of unity and hope that the making of origami cranes can provide is 17-year-old Calista Frederick-Jaskiewicz, founder and CEO of Origami Salami and Folding for Good’s global fold-in initiative “Operation Sandy Hook: Peace.” “Our initiative to send paper cranes to Sandy Hook in the wake of the school murders there netted over 10 thousand cranes, donated and mailed to Pennsylvania, from folders in 13 countries. Thousands of people folded cranes. Many contained handwritten messages of hope and consolation,” said Frederick-Jaskiewicz. Frederick-Jaskiewicz has been folding origami since she was a kid. She originally founded Origami Salami when she was 12 and has been folding for charity and organizations ever since. “The repetitious folding of cranes as a mental discipline in an effort to do good is as satisfying as it is productive. It is a

physical representation of your hopes and wishes of support for the recipient. A profound act of kindness,” said Frederick-Jaskiewicz Policarpio has been folding the cranes since January and hopes to have them completed, stringed together, and delivered to B.A.P. by Oct. 22, one thousand days after the band debuted. “I think the hardest part is staying with it. At first I had a roll going but when school started I didn’t have as much time as I did before. I feel like I’m falling behind a bit,” Policarpio said. Tan has seen firsthand the drive and determination Policarpio possesses to finish making the thousand cranes and believes she will complete the project on time because of her determination. “I know she can successfully finish it. She works really hard day and night to complete this project.” Tan said. “I get inspired by a lot of things and Kim is one of them. She can get through anything because she has a strong heart.”

Policarpio displays her nearly 400 paper cranes, made in a variety of colors.Dagmar Kuta / Tempest

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Carlo MarzanSports Editor

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Coming off two close wins against Alameda (104-103) and Napa College (88-84), the Solano Com-munity College men’s basketball team looked to take another vic-tory against Mendocino College Feb. 5. It was a battle of the birds as the Solano Falcons proved superior over the Mendocino Eagles in an

exciting and strong victory, taking the game 101-69.For the first half of the game, Solano moved the ball and fol-lowed up on those plays with both strong 3-pointers and solid lay-ups.“I thought in the first half we shot really well, we did a really good job of spacing the floor and attacking the rim” said SCC head coach John Nagle.The Solano Falcons ended the first half with a 51-30 lead.

SCC forward/center Tahron Mor-rison scored the first points of the second half with an impressive dunk on a fast break play.“I think it was more about the energy part of it. I just wanted to give our team a big boost of energy so we could keep our lead going” Morrison said.Not to be outdone, SCC guard Donovan Smith also saw the perfect opportunity to make his own highlights by also performing a dunk on another fast break play.

“I’ve been wanting that dunk my whole life, so to finally get that dunk, it’s like . . . a loss for words” Smith said. “I was just happy”Riding off the energy and hype off the two dunks, Solano fur-thered their lead in the second half of the game, scoring 50 points. “It was really good win for us; it was the first commanding win that we’ve gotten and it’s really nice to get that win as a team

because the last few games have been really close and nail bitters” said SCC guard Ryan Sandhi. “I just think we’re starting to gel together more as a team.”“It’s great to see them get out and be aggressive and go play. It was really exciting. That’s just the end result of team defense and those guys just got out and threw it down, it was fun” Nagle said.Solano’s next home game will be on Feb. 21 against Contra Costa at 7:30 p.m. in the 1700 building.

Solano soars over Mendocino 101-69

Solano clutches a win over DVCCarlo Marzan

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Exhaustion and fatigue. That is what the Solano Community College men’s baseball team experienced in their home opener on Feb. 1 against the Diablo Valley College Vikings. In a game which was de-cided in the last inning, the Solano Falcons came out with the victory over the DVC Vikings, 10-6.

The Solano Falcon’s strug-gled in the early innings. SCC starting pitcher Dylan Dumapay gave up too many balls which gave the Vikings a 0-2 lead. By the second inning, Dumapay was able to adjust and stop DVC from scoring; allow-ing Solano to storm back in the bottom of the second inning 3-2. “I started off a little shaky, but I settled down after the first inning” Dumapay said. “I just told myself that I just needed to get my pitches

over and not worry about what else was happening before that.”MVP of the game Nick Perez played a crucial part in helping the Falcon’s out, hitting 2 RBIs and 5 ABs the whole game. Solano furthered their lead in the fourth inning by adding five runs and giving them an 8-2 lead.“The fourth inning, where we scored at least 4-5 runs, I think that was a momen-tum changer right there. I think that was a key in-

ning” Perez said.In a long and winded game, both teams were tiring out from keeping each other from getting to the home plate in the sixth inning. However, the Vikings were slowly coming back by scoring in the seventh and eighth innings. By the ninth inning, Solano held onto a narrow 10-6 lead. With a chance to shut the Vikings out and finish the game, the Solano Falcons pitcher David Fer-nandez came in and threw

a shutout ninth inning, ending the game 10-6.“It’s great to get that first win as a team. I think we needed it because it gives up motivation for the next game” Perez said.“David Fernandez swung the ball really well. He came in and threw a shout down inning in the ninth, which was key for us after we struggled in the seventh and eighth inning” said head coach Scott Stover.Stover admitted that the SCC relief pitchers need to

work on throwing strikes for future games.“We didn’t get as many bunts down as we’d like to,” Stover said.The Solano Falcon’s are currently 1-1 for their season after losing their game on Feb. 6 against San Mateo.Solano’s next home base-ball game is on Thursday, Feb. 13 against West Valley

College at 2:00 p.m.

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Solano Falcon Donovan Smith dunks the ball while Medocino Eagle Christopher Ket-ter looks on at Solano Community College on Feb. 5, 2014.

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Solano Falcon Daniel Badger dribbles the ball during final minutes of the second half on Feb. 5, 2014 at Solano Com-munity College.

“I’ve been wanting that dunk my whole life” - Donovan Smith

Battle of the birds: Solano Falcons triumphant over Mendocino Eagles

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SPORTSSCC women’s basketball racks up another win

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The Solano Community College women’s basketball team furthered their win streak Feb. 5 when they defeated the Mendocino Eagles 91-68. The lady Falcon’s kept their undefeated record of 13-0 for the season intact. Solano played defense well mixing steals and fast breaks together. Yet, SCC struggled to convert those plays into points. SCC’s Denisha Lundy played both ends of the court, playing strong defensively while scoring 16 points alongside Taylor Hamilton who scored 17 points and three steals. Together, the tandem helped give Solano a 45-29 halftime lead. “I thought we got off to a decent start, but at the same time, as the first half went on, we were pretty sloppy” said SCC head coach Matt Borchert. “We had 12 turnovers in the first half, very uncharacteristic for us, and we gave up too many of-fensive rebounds.” In the second half, Solano seemed to not be communicating as well as they usually do and gave up the ball and allowed the Mendocino Eagles to make several uncontested shots.“I think that it wasn’t our best game. I don’t know what was wrong,

but we weren’t playing as we used to” said SCC starting guard Nikki Andaya.“Well, we didn’t play our best, but every win is a good win” said SCC guard/forward Ariel Clay. “We didn’t come out as intense as we wanted to, we kind of made some bad decisions, mistakes, thinks like that, we weren’t as focused as we should have been, but we got together and put out the win so that’s fine.”Clay scored 11 points with seven re-bounds, six of which were defensive and helped push Solano’s win.“It was in the category of ‘we won, but we didn’t play very well’. That kind of leaves a sour taste in your mouth, so that’s kind of how we felt tonight; happy that we won but I didn’t think we got better tonight, that’s disappointing” Borchert said.Borchert said he looks to fine tune SCC rebounding and shooting for the remainder of the season.“You have to keep getting better in February or your season’s going to end real quick when you get to post season. We’ve got to learn that” Borchert said.the SCC women’s basketball team is currently at 9-0 record for the confer-ence league.Solano’s next home game will be on Feb. 21 against Contra Costa at 5:30

p.m. in the 1700 building.

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Solano Falcon Necole White dribbles the ball while Mendocino Eagle’s Jaylen Wilson and Elisa Vargas try to block her path to the basket on Feb. 5, 2014 at Solano Commu-nity College.

“You have to keep getting better in February or your season’s going to end real quick when you get to post season. We’ve got to learn that”- Matt Borchert, Basketball Coach