DELTACOLLEGIATE
Volume 88 • Issue 1
STUDENT RUN SINCE '61
January 26, 2021
Begin your new year with a PSI of relief! Pg 2 Remembering President Joe Biden’s visit to Delta College in 2010 Pg. 3
Can the Pistons make a comeback? Pg. 4 Photo by Pixabay
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Begin your new year with a PSI of relief! Haeley Huggard Managing Editor @HaeleyHuggard
SAGINAW — Despite COVID-19 still hanging around, one of the best ways to get out and about is going for a drive. Car rides are a great way to escape and go sightseeing while still maintaining some level of comfort and personal space. But when trips get a little too long it can (for some) leave passengers feeling motion sickness (also known as car sickness). This is where a set of PSI Bands can come in handy.
What is motion sickness? Motion sickness is an illness that is caused by motion that happens during travel. This doesn’t just apply to cars. Motion sickness can happen if you’re traveling by boat, air, or car.
What the heck is a PSI Band and what does it have to do with travel? A PSI Band (also known as SeaBands) is a small bracelet with an acupressure button that wraps around your wrist and applies pressure to
Why our planet will outlast us
your P6 (Nei Guan) acupressure point, found on your wrist. Most bands come in a pack of two and for them to work properly you must apply one to each wrist. And yes, PSI Bands do come in a variety of colors!
More info on what the P6 pressure point does... The P6 pressure point is commonly used to help relieve upset stomach, motion sickness, nausea and even headaches. It’s also been cited in many different research studies that when stimulated the Nei Guan pressure point alleviates vomiting in pregnancy, post-operative nausea, and hiccups!
Symptoms to watch out for when it comes to motion sickness. Symptoms of motion sickness are typically pretty easy to selfdiagnose. Some symptoms can include fatigue, dizziness, nausea, headache, or vomiting. If you’re anything like me and get motion sick when traveling but don’t want to take medication for it, a PSI Band might be a good way to go. They are relatively inexpensive, come in quite a few different colors, and are reusable.
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PSI Bands sitting in the sunlight in Saginaw, MI. January 21, 2021.
Illustration by Sadie Shepherd Kelvin Butler Reporter @KelvinButler19
UNIVERSITY CENTER — All of this “Earth day” and “save the environment” stuff is not for the betterment of this planet. It’s just us trying to delay our inevitable ending, which will probably be over a resource war. We all know that humans are selfish by nature, we just go into a war over a threatening tweet or a little disrespectful banter back and forth between world leaders. In times where people will kill someone for their religious beliefs, race, political beliefs etc. how in the hell will we become one in the act of saving the earth? Just like a lot of the demands in this world it sounds like a fantasy world. Thus, the world is at least screwed if you want to change things from the top (the government) because that was bought out a long time ago. Earth will always be good, it has been stated that 99 to
99.9 percent of all the life that has been on this planet has gone extinct. So all of this work saving these near extinct animals and hunting is literally humans playing god. Which never ends well, when has playing with Mother Nature ever ended well? Just how the earth rebuilt itself after the dinosaurs met their day; the same will happen when humans do. If the robots or cockroaches are the next species to inhabit the earth in terms of majority, the earth will always be good. As if the earth wants to be cooler or hotter on certain days. Volcanic eruptions are a beautiful thing in the sense that after the lava destroys all the life around it, when it’s all done the lava forms a new piece of land; which is how some of the islands on the earth were formed. With the ending of one life, a new life will begin and the whole cycle will repeat itself. I do appreciate the environmental protection we’re doing, but it’s only to prolong the human species not to save earth.
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Remembering President Joe Biden’s visit to Delta College in 2010 Jordan Green Editor-in-Chief @Jordan_Green6
UNIVERSITY CENTER — Nearly 11 years ago President Joe Biden visited Delta College as Vice President to speak about Delta College’s role in education and training in Mid-Michigan as the American economy worked to end the 2008 recession. On Feb. 16, 2010, Vice President Biden at the time spoke to a group of invited guests in a chemical processing lab at Delta College. Biden highlighted The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was the first fiscal stimulus bill passed by former President Barack Obama in February of 2009. Delta College and the Saginaw area caught the Vice President's attention with the introduction of the accelerated chemical
processing program. The fastpaced program trains workers for 16 weeks and at the end of the program, those students and workers can look for local jobs at Dow Chemical, Dow Corning and Hemlock semiconductor Group. “Today’s students are tomorrow's innovators,” Vice President Biden told the attendees as he praised Delta College for their outstanding educational opportunities with Mid-Michigan. President of Delta College, Dr. Jean Goodnow attributed the chemical processing program and the continued partnership of the local chemical plants to the region's recent economic growth at the time. Despite the second in command visiting our humble campus, the $787 billion dollar Government stimulus was met with some criticism. In a Feb. 26, 2010 issue of the Delta Collegiate, former staff writer Betzi Sawchuck reported that Biden was greeted by picketers who
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Vice President Joe Biden talks about the Recovery Act at Delta College where students are being trained for jobs in the solar industry, outside Saginaw, Michigan. February 16, 2010. shared the same theme of telling Biden and the Obama administration that the government needs to stop spending “our” money. Sawchuck wrote that the picketers also claimed
that “future generations will inherit current deficits.” Even as picketers stood outside Delta College, the picketing remained lighthearted.
Dr. Jean Goodnow bids her adieu to Delta College Jordan Green Editor-in-Chief @Jordan_Green6 UNIVERSITY CENTER — As Kamala Harris prepared to step into the role of the nation's first female Vice President, 624 miles away, Delta College’s first female President, Dr. Jean Goodnow announced her retirement at a regular Board of Trustees meeting on Jan. 12. Goodnow was appointed in 2005 as the college’s fourth president, and will finish her duties in August 2021. The early announcement was to ensure the Board had adequate time to find a fit candidate. Over the course of her sixteen years as acting president, Goodnow has implemented numerous sustainability projects that have gained national attention and top 10 honors. Under Goodnow’s leadership, Delta College has also been recognized for its attention to student success, technology and veteran resources and providing a stateof-the-art campus at affordable prices. Nationally, Goodnow previously served as
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President Goodnow's portrait greets students in the halls of Delta. University Center, MI. January 21, 2021. a Board Chair for the League for Innovation in the Community College, she is still a current Board Member. She is also a member of the STEM Higher Education Council and served on the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Statewide, Goodnow is former Treasurer of the Michigan Community College Association and serves on the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance Board of Directors, Field Neurosciences Institute Board of Directors and Great Lakes Bay Regional Trails Committee. Though her dedication and hard work, Dr. Jean Goodnow has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Shirley Gordon Phi Theta Kappa National Award, the Community College Alliance Leadership Award, The Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from the Delta College Black Faculty and Staff Association and the Governance Award from Delta College’s American Association of University Professors. While Goodnow leaves an everlasting mark on Delta College, Mid-Michigan and anyone who has ever crossed paths with her, Goodnow was born in Iowa and second eldest of seven children. She was the first of her family to attend college and has earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, Master of Arts Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education Administration from the University of Iowa.
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Can the Pistons make a comeback? Kelvin Butler Reporter @KelvinButler19 UNIVERSITY CENTER — With all the changes the Detroit Pistons and the world have faced this past year, heading into this year, it’s understandable that the Pistons record is what it is. Seeing how the NBA teams are playing a 72 game season. I think the Pistons will finish around 21-51 this season. But there are some bright spots on the team starting Small Forward, Jeremi Grant. For him this 2020-2021 season will be a development year. Since it’ll be his first year being the man on a team and so far he’s responding to that challenge well. Then there’s Josh Jackson, Shooting Guard, who’s having a career season so far. After his disappointing experience on the Phoenix Suns, so here’s to hoping he can develop into the lottery pick player he was supposed to be. As far as the veterans, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose are having good seasons. If they can show teams that stay healthy, they can become a couple of valuable trade assets for playoff teams. Thus potentially giving the Pistons another talented young player or some draft capital. Then as far as the Head Coach Dwane Casey goes, it’s really a difficult situation he’s in. Unless the team has faith that he’ll develop the young team into a potential playoff team and eventually a championship team, they should keep him. But if they keep on hovering around the tenth or ninth seed in the East they need to move on from him. Since patience is running low for the once respected franchise.
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