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Issue 2
Santa Ana, California
December 5, 2015
Halloween On 10th Street
Seniors Chloe Clark (CM), Grace Durham (MT), Sarah Edmunds (ACT), Tamar Rubin (ACT), Dan Shields
(VA), and Bella Urbani (ACT)
Photo courtesy of: Cheryl Walsh/alt-senior.com
Becky Lee
Staff Writer
If not known for the
arts, OCSA has to be
known for its festivities
on Halloween. A flash
mob dances along to
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” choreographed by
Mr. Garritano; costume
contests are held; class-
es are cut 10 minutes to
make the celebration of
Halloween longer; and
everywhere—even in the
school hallways—is a costume runway. It’s just a
good time for everyone.
People of all ages—
babies of teachers who
haven’t reached the
age of one, toddlers and
husbands and wives of
teachers—come to see
if the myths of OCSA
Halloween are true. No,
OCSA does not follow
the all-black, cat ear
hairband, and washable
marker whisker attire that
many public school kids
proudly wear.
The students of this
school wear costumes
ranging from a child Maleficent, a vending machine that actually gives
out candy, an inflatable
Sriracha sauce bottle,
jellyfish, to the entire cast
of Super Mario. But the
one group that impressed
everyone was the Mystery
Machine crew from everyone’s beloved childhood TV show: “Scooby-Doo.”
Seniors Chloe Clark
(CM), Grace Durham
(MT), Sarah Edmunds
(ACT), Tamar Rubin (ACT),
Dan Shields (VA), and Bella Urbani (ACT) won the
prize of Overall Best Costume in this year’s Halloween costume contest,
dressing up as the cast of
“Scooby-Doo.”
Urbani, who dressed up
as Scooby, had planned
for this year’s Halloween
group contest ever since
the beginning of the
school year. The group
did not approve at first,
because of the cost, but
they eventually decided
to do it. But after officially agreeing upon the
costume, they had to
decide: who gets to dress
up as who?
“It kind of made sense
who got the role. Chloe
was going to be Shaggy—well, because Chloe
is Shaggy—and Grace
wanted Velma. It all
worked out,” Rubin said.
The rest was simple. Urbani as Scooby, Clark as
Shaggy, Edmunds as the
Scooby Snacks, Durham
as Daphne, Shields as
Freddy, and Rubin as
Velma.
The captivating group
appeared on many
Snapchat Stories that
day, showing the Mystery
Machine gang acting
full out on behalf of their
characters.
There were occasional cries of “Jinkies!” and
Velma frantically searching for her glasses on 10th
Street, and Scooby was
periodically seen driving
the Mystery Machine. But
how did the van get pass
the OCSA boundaries?
With the enthusiastic
approval of Dr. Wallace, the students safely
placed the van onto 10th
Street early in the morning, after much preparation.
“Dan spent hours painting the van with Chloe
and they worked on it
after school. Chloe even
worked on it during her
late start block because
the paint chipped off,
so a lot of preparation
went into the van,” Rubin
stated.
But their hard work
paid off when Halloween arrived. The Mystery
Machine gang claimed
the Overall Best Costume
Award and was flooded
with compliments, pictures, and videos that
they and this school will
never forget.
And with that, another
successful day of Halloween at OCSA has gone
by, and another year of
preparation for the next is
here to come.
school will impact student
population at nearby
schools due to the closure
of Jefferson, affect other
arts programs at local
schools, and negatively
impact Latino students.
“It’s not going to be
a school as diverse as
Jefferson,” Perla Davis,
whose niece attends
Jefferson, told the paper.
“It’ll bring in more students from all over San
Diego County ... It seems
like it’ll benefit people
outside of Oceanside, not
inside.”
According to Jefferson’s latest School Accountability Report Card
(SARC), the school serves
a Hispanic and Latino student population of 74.6
percent with the overall
Hispanic population of
Oceanside at 35.9 percent in the 2010 census.
Santa Ana’s Hispanic
population was 78.2
percent in the 2010 census, while according to
OCSA’s latest academic
profile, this campus serves
a Hispanic population of
24 percent.
OCSA senior Jeremy
Garcia (ACT) said,“When
it comes to who’s in my
academic classes and
conservatory classes I’m
usually, as a Hispanic,
one of the minorities.
Especially in conservatory
as a performer.”
In addition, CSArts-SDC
will have audition requirements similar to OCSA’s
and a policy that students maintain a 2.0 GPA,
which makes the school
seem selective to certain
families.
But Dr. Opacic thinks
the partnership with
OUSD will “provide arts instruction for their students
throughout the District so
that their students have
exposure, and training in
the Arts not only at the Elementary Arts Magnet School
but throughout the District.”
Opacic believes the biggest
outreach will be the arts elementary school run by OUSD.
“We will oversee the arts
instruction, so we will have an
opportunity to provide up to
six years of arts instruction for
those students prior to them
applying to the new Arts Charter School,” said Opacic.
“In addition, we will create
programs similar to Camp
OCSA and the Gluck Community performance program we
have here.”
Acting senior Garcia believes progress towards diversity at OCSA and CSArts-SDC
can be achieved by being
more involved in their communities.
“[CSArts-SDC] need to find
their own outlets for involvement. I know here at OCSA
we get our students involved
in Day of the Dead in Santa
Ana.”
Sister School Delayed by
Community Opposition
Jack Murphy
Co-Editor-in-Chief
The opening of OCSA’s
new sister school, California School of the Arts-San
Diego County (CSArtsSDC)has been delayed
until the 2017-2018 sc