Farm Education Day
Children’s Art Day
The agriculture department and Farm Bureau welcomed 1,500 elementary children.
Kylix Art Club sponsors day of teaching children art projects.
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Xtreme Challenge Awards
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Tennis Matches Up Saints tennis teams are victorious despite tough weekend and strong winds.
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• A MASCOT SEARCH is currently open for submission on ideas for a school mascot. SCCC/ATS will remain the Saints. Anyone interested can submit an idea. Those wanting an idea considered should submit a name for a mascot, a short story on why it should represent the college, and his or her name and phone number. Submissions will be taken through May 1. For questions, contact Roy Allen at roy.allen@sccc.edu.
• FINAL DEADLINE for ordering graduation caps and gowns is Friday. No orders will be placed after that date. • HELP JAPAN by saving your pennies and making a donation. SIFE is sponsoring the fundraiser, and will be taking donations from noon to 5 p.m. April 10 outside Wal-Mart. • SPRING BRUNCH will be at 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. April 17 in the Student Union. Admission costs $6 per person and includes food and entertainment by student and faculty performers. • SPRING FIESTA will be from 1-4 p.m. April 10 on the main campus. Activities, games, competitions and concessions will be available for the community. • CAR SHOW is 1-5 p.m. April 10 at the ATS campus. Sign up to participate by calling 620417-1154. A $20 registration fee includes two lunch tickets and will benefit student scholarships. • GRADUATE ASSESSMENT testing is at 1:30 p.m. April 7 and 9 a.m. April 9. Day classes are cancelled Thursday so students can concentrate on the assessments. All sophomores are required to participate and must sign up in advance by turning in the sign-up sheet they received in the mail or contacting Alaina Rice, administrative assistant to the dean of instruction. Graduates are to meet in the hallway in front of the library Thursday or Room A168 Saturday. • TRAVELING EXHIBIT is featured in the library during the month of April called “A Photographic Narrative: Indians of Kansas.” • SECOND ANNUAL POETRY NIGHT will be at 7 p.m. on April 14 in the SCCC/ATS Humanities Building Band Room. The event coincides with National Poetry Month and Seward students will read poetry and perform vocal/guitar music selections. The event is free and everyone who is interested is invited to attend.
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Nursing students began the phonathon fundraiser on Monday evening. Front row, Mariana Gonzalez and Caitlyn Brown make phone calls. Back row, Shawna Wiebe, Sandra O’Toole, Sarah Martin and Kanadi Paden. Other clubs to be involved include SGA, SIFE, cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, HALO, tennis, PTK, Crusader, baseball, softball and ATS.
Phonathon goal set to raise $33,000 for scholarships Li zul y Monarrez Crusader staff The phonathon goal of $33,000 plays off the college’s ranking from the Washington Monthly, which places SCCC/ATS No. 33 in the top 50 list for best national community colleges in the nation. The annual phonathon to raise money for scholarships started Monday, and will conclude Friday. “Our goal last year was $20,000, and we raised $36,000. This year we set our goal to $33,000. I am a little nervous because, as of now, not as many people signed up compared to last year,” Dean of Student Services Celeste Donovan said. “But whatever money we raise is good,” Donovan added. Tammy Doll, director of development, also added, “Last year’s phonathon was very successful, so I’m really excited to see how this one goes.” Clubs and organizations volunteered to participate, including nursing, Student Government Association, Students In Free Enterprise, cheerleading, volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, Hispanic American Leadership Organization, tennis, Phi Theta Kappa, Crusader, baseball, softball, and, joining this year for the first time, the tech school and high school students that at-
tend ATS. Prizes for students are a 32-inch flat screen TV, 8 GB iPod Touch, $150 Wal-Mart gift card, two digital cameras, 20 large pizzas, $300 Visa gift card, $500 cash for the club or organization that raises the most, and prize drawings will be awarded every shift. Faculty and staff will also be able to participate anytime during the week. The prizes for faculty and staff include one day off for any faculty or staff member who raises at least $1,000, half a day off of work for closest to $1,000, third place receives VIP parking for a year, fourth place receives a GPS, and fifth place receives four passes to steak night. Participants are challenged to each raise at least $100 of pledges and will receive plastic beaded necklaces for each pledge, to show how many pledges they’ve received. Also, once students reach $100, they will get a cookie. Organizers will provide candy bars, bubble gum and other fun items to make the experience more exciting for the participants. Participants will be given a list of alumni to call to request pledges for scholarships, and they can bring their own list if they wish to. “When students participate, they appreciate their scholarship money a lot more,” Donovan said.
Student poets and musicians will have the chance to show their talent to the school and community at the second annual Poetry Coffee House at 7 p.m. April 14 in the Shank Humanities Building band room. SCCC/ATS students will be featured, reading their original poetry and playing acoustic guitar. The first, second and third place winners of the high school poetry contest, sponsored by the English department, will also read their winning poems. The event coincides with National Poetry Month. Admission is free to anyone who would like to listen to the poetry readings and musical numbers. Hot coffee, flavored iced coffee, tea and a variety of snacks will be served. English instructors Janice Northerns and Bill McGlothing are hosting the event. They felt it would give an opportunity for students to perform their unique talents. “It was something we wanted to do for a while,” Northerns said. “There are lots of athletic events, but we wanted to draw in students with other interests like writing and reading.” It’s also a new event for those in the community to have the chance to experience live poetry readings. “There are few opportunities to listen to poetry,” McGlothing said. “We tapped into an audience that’s been there, who have an appetite for good writing.” After last year’s success, they knew it would become an annual event. “Everyone that came seemed to have a great time, and we got tons of positive feedback,”
Making students believe that the chair in which they are sitting on has a mind of its own, or that they are mathematicians incapable of counting to 10 were a few of the tricks performed by mentalist Brian Imbus March 29 at the Showcase Theater. Imbus began the performance by talking about his goal of the night: to entertain the audience, and to turn nonbelievers into believers. And entertain he did. Laughter and astonishment sprung throughout the performance. The tasks which Imbus was able to do were beyond belief. He was able to read the minds of audience members, and guess the words selected by students Natalie Cano and Britny Hintergardt from a 180-page book. To the surprise of Cano and Hin-
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Northerns said. “It was awful weather, but there were still around 60 people there.” Both have high hopes for this year’s Poetry Night as well. “I hope everything goes as well as last year, because it was perfect last year,” Northerns said. “We had a great crowd, the students did a wonderful job of reading, and the music was great.” They are still recruiting student writers who would like to read their original poetry. “It gives writers a chance to go public, to be heard,” McGlothing said. “It’s fine to read a poem, but the whole experience is to hear it.” Many of the readers will also be published in the Telolith, the school’s art and literature magazine, published every spring. Featured SCCC/ATS student poets include Chris Bobeda, Gwen Friesen, Samantha Gillespie, Dana Loewen, Alexander Olinger, Jose Rodriguez, and Caitlin Workman. Poems by these students appeared in last year’s Telolith or are slated for publication in the upcoming issue. Original acoustic guitar music and vocals will be provided by Bobeda and Lindy Kowalchuk. McGlothing and Northerns will also read. Both are published poets and have read their poems at numerous conferences and events. Any students who would like to participate in the Poetry Coffee House should talk to either Northerns or McGlothing. All are welcome to attend the relaxing evening of poetry, music, coffee and snacks. “I hope we get a good audience with open ears, eyes and minds for a different kind of night out,” McGlothing said.
Title V grant leads to new corrosion technology program Zach Carpenter Crusader staff
This corrosion technology simulation demonstrates cathodic protection, which is the process of sacrificing one material to protect another. This simulates a process that breaks down water into hydrogen and oxide.
Using the Title V grant of $3.25 million received last year, the college has made considerable progress since October on the new Corrosion Technology program with the hiring on of Corrosion Technology specialist William Worley. Worley has worked to adapt the Corrosion Technology curriculum from the curriculum used at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. Kilgore College and the University of Akron in Ohio are the two leading colleges specializing in corrosion technology courses, and Seward County will join in teaching the courses. Plans for renovations to the Tech School to accommodate the new program have gone to bid. The addition to the Tech School that will house classrooms and
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Mentalist reads minds, hypnotizes, entertains Raul Lemus Crusader staff
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Live poetry, music to be performed by Seward students
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tergardt, as well as audience, Imbus said he used body behavior to deduct that the words chosen were jackhammer and photographer. “It’s surprising how he figured out the words the girls picked out with barely just looking at them,” Marycarmen Perez said. Imbus put his abilities of mindreading to further use with audience members. With eyes taped shut by six strips of tape, blindfolded and a piece of tape over his nose, Imbus appeared to be able to deduct the thoughts of the audience members who had written down their thoughts. The thoughts ranged from family members, four-digit area codes, and questions about life. Student Fabiola Fraire described her first impression of the act as being “fake, but as it continued I thought it was amazing when he was, in a way, reading people’s
minds.” Conny Hernandez described the act as “freaky, but fun.” From mind-reading, Imbus moved to hypnotism. Michelle Duford and Sydney Cicchetti volunteered to be hypnotized and entertain the audience. Highlights of this act included Duford being a highly intelligent mathematician who was unable to count to 10 due to not remembering the number seven. Cicchetti was made to believe that the chair in which she was sitting was being rude to her, as well as being unable to remember her name even when offered money for it. “I liked everything about the show. This was the first time I came to a performance. Hopefully I can come next time the college has another hypnotist,” Fraire said. The show concluded with Imbus’ final act, which left people mysti-
fied. According to Imbus, two nights before the performance he had a dream. In this dream he saw the model, color, and license plate number the audience members would describe. He wrote down this premonition, and placed it inside a pocket in his wallet. Two volunteers retrieved the paper from the wallet, which Imbus had not touched during the performance, and read it to the audience; to the bewilderment of everyone present what the audience had described, Imbus had dreamed two nights before. Francis Brown, director of the academic achievement center, said she was left wondering about the authenticity and reality of the acts performed by Imbus. The next day, the topic of conversation was the idea that perhaps Brian Imbus does have mental reading capabilities.
workshops for students enrolled in the program will be in the auto body building. The program will also feature an outdoor lab where students will get hands-on training working on pipelines used to simulate corrosion scenarios. The program is in the process of getting approval from the Kansas Board of Regents. Corrosion technology is a far reaching field which includes energy, infrastructure, transportation systems, national security, and more. On average, corrosion techs start out with an annual salary of $60,000 per year, and with more experience, yearly salary is around $99,000. The Corrosion Tech program is the first of the three high demand programs to be created by the college over a five-year time line.
Mentalist Brian Imbus gives students Sydney Cicchetti and Michelle Duford commands while they are under hypnosis. Imbus performed tricks of reading people’s minds as well as hypnotism.
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