Why Did C.M.C. Hire Assistant Coach Coberly?

Morgan Coberly Bonita High School's volleyball coach on Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Watchara Phomicinda/Sports)

From Pasadena Star News:

LA VERNE - A Bonita High School volleyball coach left his job at the district amid allegations he behaved inappropriately with a player, officials said Thursday.

William Brinegar, Bonita Unified School District assistant superintendent of human resource development, confirmed that Morgan Coberly, who was the varsity girls' coach for more than five years, was no longer an employee with the district.

He declined to comment further.

Coberly and Bonita High officials did not return phone calls Thursday.

Police and school officials previously said an investigation started two weeks ago was prompted by a complaint.

Coberly is listed as an assistant girls volleyball coach for the combined athletics department of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Scripps colleges. He is also listed as a coach with La Verne-based Club West Volleyball, a private travel team.

Officials with Club West and the Claremont colleges could not be reached for comment Thursday.

The La Verne Police Department has declined to provide details surrounding the allegations.

From SGVTribune.com:

Coberly is in his third year as an assistant girls volleyball coach for the combined athletics department of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Scripps colleges. He is also listed as a coach with Club West Volleyball, a private league based in La Verne.

Officials at Club West said Wednesday the club is conducting its own internal investigation. Two different men who answered phone calls refused to identify themselves or comment further.

Michael Sutton, athletic director at the Claremont Colleges, said he was unaware of any investigation into Coberly.

"I hope it's not true," Sutton said. "There have been no issues in the past to make us concerned."

Coberly's page at CMSAthletics.org is down. That's not a good sign.

Memo to AARC: U.S. Internment of Japanese Families Is Not Equal to Treatment of Muslim Terrorists

Pomona College's AARC (Asian American Resource Center) is sponsoring a pilgrimage to Manzanar, one of the Japanese internment camps during WWII with the Manzanar Committee. Though it is unclear at this moment as to whether or not the flyer was written by AARC or simply sponsored by them, it is the group that dispensed this flyer.

In the event's promotional material, it is suggested that the round up and forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals is somehow comparable with the imprisonment of 1,200 men of Middle Eastern decent who have been interned since 9-11.
The flyer reads,

World War II: 120,000 Individuals of Japanese Descent Sent to Internment Camps

2001: 1,200 Men Perceived to Be of Middle Eastern Descent Detained and Jailed

History Repeats Itself.

Get Informed.

Get Involved.

Manzanar Pilgrimage.

Manzanar was one of the Japanese relocation camps during WWII. There will be a day-long event remembering Manzanar and its legacy, and also discussing current parallels in American policy.

Sponsored by the AARC [CJ note: Pomona’s Asian American Resource Center]

FMI: PKimes@gmail.com

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0627-03.htm

http://www.manzanarcommittee.org/manzhistory.html

As if the entire forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans and nationals within the United States isn't disgusting enough, Pomona's AARC suggests that the there are "current parallels in American policy" in the U.S. detention of an estimated 1200 men of "middle Eastern descent." (Where they get the number of 1200 men is anyone's guess...)

In so doing, AARC implies that the detention of men picked up on the battlefield is one in the same with the detention of whole families by the U.S. military during the Second World War.

This comparison is not entirely new. As early as 2003, Bush administration opponents cited the case of terrorist, Yaser Esam Hamdi, a former U.S. citizen who was picked up fighting against U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance forces in days following 9/11 in the same breath as the Japanese internment.

Sue Embrey, 79, who lived in the Manzanar camp with her family for 17 months and is chairwoman of the Manzanar Committee is quoted in that very Boston Globe article. Even she concedes, "You can't say it's exactly what happened to us, but it's wrong."

But that doesn’t stop her promotional material from saying “history repeats itself.” (I guess when you need to bring tourists on their “pilgrimage” you bend the truth.) What a pity.

The Americans of Japanese descent and peaceful Japanese nationals deserve better than half truths about an ugly chapter in the West Coast's history. Claremont students deserve better than the politicization of American history.

The Vacuousness of VOX

Charles Johnson recently alerted me to the "Condom Carnival" taking place this weekend at Pomona's Walker Beach, sponsored by VOX. VOX is a student mouthpiece for Planned Parenthood operating on the Claremont Colleges. If the event's flier (pictured right) is any indication, there is much for denizens of the Claremont Colleges to be concerned about.

The basic concept for the event is troubling in its juxtaposition of two elements that should never mix: condoms and carnivals. A carnival is typically an event meant to entertain children. But sex and condoms should be the domain of mature adults. The implicit message that VOX is sending is that you can mix children and sex and expect a "safe" and "happy" outcome. VOX's "Condom Carnival" encourages a childish approach to sex and declares that sexual intercourse shall now be as common and inconsequential as cotton candy and merry-go-rounds. The mark of the pervert is the destruction of the basic categories of human beings: male and female, adult and child. This is not surprising coming from VOX--they are a mouthpiece for Planned Parenthood, which has recently been documented covering up statutory rape.

Not only is this message demeaning and infantilizing to college students who deserve to be treated like mature adults, but it is dangerously cavalier and irreverent. VOX's actions say: sex = Six Flags. No big deal. I want to eat lunch with you, I want to the movies with you, I want to play tennis with you, I want to have sex with you. No big deal, all in the same breath. It is no wonder that UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossmer can lament, "We are losing the war on sexually transmitted diseases and depression on campus." The VOX-Planned Parenthood dogma that places all faith and security in a piece of rubber has been tried and failed. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's own research arm, reports that over 50% of women who submit to abortions used a contraceptive. The fruits of the VOX-Planned Parenthood model are more sickness and more sadness.

Meanwhile, VOX received at least $1350 in club funding from 5C student governments this year. It is almost certain that the "Condom Carnival," as other VOX activities, is being paid for with 5C money. Pomona ponied-up $600 this year alone, the most of any of the 5Cs. Pomona also sponsors an advocacy internship with Planned Parenthood's local arm in Los Angeles. This is the same Planned Parenthood that was founded on eugenic principles and implements them to this day in its practical policies.

It is no wonder that VOX, the Planned Parenthood mouthpiece, has since the start of this year refused to debate Live Action publicly. With a background as sordid as theirs, who would want to lay the facts on the table?

Environmentalists Can't Do Math

We already know that they only like certain kinds of science that fit their agenda, but apparently they also pick and choose results when it comes to math. Or maybe schoolin' ain't their first priority.

In my last post, I pointed out how badly the traceless day reduced the number of people at Collins dining hall that evening. I was actually using the very numbers that the Environmental Crusaders were reporting.

I also noted that the reduction per person was about 5%, while they report a reduction of 15% (so they inflated the data by 3 times). I'm not surprised to tell you that I am right.

They say that 113 lbs. of food were leftover for 656 people the first night. If you convert this to ounces, then the average "waste per person" is 2.76 oz. They were close, reporting 2.7 oz., but I would have rounded up.

But on the second number they were way off. They report 81.6 lbs. for 501 people, which gives us an average "waste per person" of about 2.61 oz.--even though they report it to be 2.3 oz.

So this means the difference was only 1.5 oz., not 4 oz. as they said--and yes, this means the percentage jump was about 5%.

Now 5% is hardly a number to write home about, in fact it could very easily reflect natural fluctuations in how much waste people generate daily. This is why you'd need to do the experiment over many evenings to report anything of substance (and for the love of God, don't do that).

And of course, the difference could have been made up because all the people who actually wanted to eat a lot of food decided to stay away from Collins that evening.

You can't but help feel a little bit of pity for the Crusaders. The apocalypse is near, and nobody cares.