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Lady Saints Dig Pink for Breast Cancer awareness. —Page 1B
Year 41, No. 4
Instructor has work published Morgan Al l aman Editor in Chief
Seward medical lab technician program coordinator and instructor Dr. Suzanne Campbell’s dissertation was published in the Clinical Laboratory Science Journal this summer, with part two set to publish and part three due for submission this month. Campbell’s dissertation focused on woman who start out as clinical laboratory scientists who are now higher education administration in a university setting. Director of marketing JR Doney believes that the publication of Campbell’s dissertation is one of the best ways to get SCCC/ ATS’s name out there. “The publication of Suzanne Campbell’s dissertation is a testament to the outstanding level of instruction provided to students by instructors at SCCC/ATS and Allied Health,” Doney said. “There is no greater way to market this college than through the accomplishments of our students and our teachers.” Campbell considers this topic to be a unique circumstance. “These women that I interviewed are deans of Allied Health in a university setting,” Campbell said. “The majority of people who hold those positions have a background in nursing, because the nursing programs would be a large academic component of that. So it’s a unique situation that there are a handful of woman who are actually from the clinical laboratory background and have worked their way up to a dean’s position.” Campbell used her research for her dissertation to help her decided what she wanted to accomplish after earning her Ph.D. “When I decided to go back to school to earn my Ph.D, I did that with two goals in mind; one of which was to either move to administration at the community college level, or to transition from a two-year institution to a four-year university,” Campbell said. “And so I felt like talking to women who have already, quote, ‘been there done that’ as far as the transition from becoming a clinical laboratory scientist to a higher education administrator, might give me some insights on what I need to be doing to make that happen.” In order to get her dissertation published, Campbell had to follow author guidelines from the journal. First, she submitted the manuscript for review. At that point, it underwent a peer review where she had to make minor revisions. Last, her dissertation was resubmitted to the publisher and then published.
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Magician impresses Seward students Dei si Barboza Crusader staff
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Eduardo Muñoz pushes a drill on Daniel Martin’s temple. He chose from three fully charged power drills and the one he chose became uncharged for the trick.
Crusader photo/ Alfredo Anaya
Magician Daniel Martin performs a trick using a rootbeer bottle that he pushed through student Todd Glime’s stomach. It was after he asked the student to name a drink which was Mountain Dew.
Magician Daniel Martin may have started off the show by stating that he doesn’t sing or dance and that he does one thing only, magic, but he did more than that. He had most of the audience on the edge of their seats with his tricks and had them laughing as well. At times, his tricks weren’t to amaze the audience but to make them laugh. For one trick, he wanted the audience to see a trick from his point of view. He picked a Seward freshman, Victor Rodriguez, from the audience and brought him up to the stage. As Rodriguez sat down, Martin decided Rodriguez needed to look the part of a magician as Martin placed an oversized wizard hat on Rodriguez. Next, Martin had Rodriguez hold a roll of toilet paper as Martin crumpled up a ball of it and placed it in his fist and asked which hand it was in. Martin then quickly threw the ball over Rodriguez’s head, and he guessed wrong. The more times Martin repeated this trick, the ball of toilet paper got bigger and bigger until Rodriguez realized what was going on. However, this wasn’t the only trick up Martin’s sleeve as he removed the hat off of Rodriguez’s head the audience went wild with laughter as under the hat was a toilet plunger. Martin asked Rodriguez if he had a Facebook, and he replied, “Yeah, why?” Martin answered back, “I hope you like your new display picture.” “I felt flabbergasted,” Rodriguez said, after the show. “He was funny, down to earth and he would make jokes with us.” For another act, Martin had three power drills on stage and two batteries were charged and the other was drained. He placed the batteries in a bag and shuffled them around. He asked three people from the audience to put a battery on whichever drill they wanted to. He tested one drill on a box and it worked. He then picked a volunteer, Eduardo Munoz, to place a drill on Martin’s temple as he had the other one on a box. Martin asked Munoz to press the trigger at the same time he did and “magically” Munoz’s drill was dead. “I was excited and at the same time a little nervous,” Munoz said. “He’s a pretty good magician; everything was good and everybody enjoyed the show.” With a stunt that involved catching a paint ball in his mouth, escaping a straight jacket while listening to a crazy ex-girlfriend’s voicemail, and ending the show with a video of his “crib,” the show was definitely college orientated. “I try to do different things because no one wants a cookie cutter show,” Martin said. Throughout the show, Martin kept track of the items guessed by students. He asked one student to name a drink, Mountain Dew. He asked another student to pick a card, he picked the seven of hearts. He had another student choose a model of a car from the Blue Book, Land Rover. He had a couple of students add up the numbers in their license plates, the total 5342972. He had a DVD with his appearance of MTV Cribs on it and every item he had kept track of from the Showcase Theater stage showed up on the pre-recorded video. At the end of the show Martin shared with the audience his bucket list, which included to be on TV, which he accomplished; to be on MTV Cribs, which he said he recently shot; and to receive a standing ovation. At the end, Martin got his last wish granted when the crowd stood up and clapped. “I get to go all around the world and you guys, in a little small town in Kansas, were a lot of fun,” Martin said.
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Scarlett Buchman poses for a picture at the 2009 Crusader photo booth.
Trick-or-Treat Street invites participants Anti goné Lowery Crusader Staff
With Halloween less than a week away, the clubs and students at Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School are preparing for this year’s Trick-or-Treat Street, which will be from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Trick-or-Treat Street was designed to get the community involved with the college and give kids a safe place to trick-or-treat. “Every year people show up and have fun. I don’t think it’s going to be a disappointment,” Student Government president Edgar Rosales said. Trick-or-Treat Street is held in various places at the college, which include the Student Union, hallways, classrooms, the outside haunted hayride and the dorms giving all who come a variety of places to have fun and receive candy. Because there are many people from the community who come to enjoy Trick-or-Treat Street, the clubs are required to fill out a club participation form stating the club’s name, the desired location of the club’s booth and the activity the club will be doing for the children. The forms were turned in to Wade Lyon, the director of student activities. “I think it is a good activity for the community to come and enjoy,” Lyon said. “It allows people who don’t get a chance to come down to the college to see it.” Not only are the clubs able to participate in the event, but so are the students in the dorms. The dorms are decorated and students are able to participate by giving away candy outside of their dorm rooms, directing traffic outside of the dorms, and can also help on the haunted hayride. KoKo Davis, director of the Student Living Center, is a big contributor to Trick-or-Treat Street, spreading the details of the event in the dorms and helping to provide those who would like to participate with candy and buckets. “I like the idea of giving the kids a fun and safe environment to trick-or-treat. I like that my dormies step up to make it happen,” Davis said. Clubs participating in Trickor-Treat Street will welcome the community’s children to campus for candy and Halloween fun.
Breast cancer affects Seward student’s life Cancer seemed foreign, almost unreal, to him, until his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. One young man describes living through a disease that took his mother’s life.
Al fredo Anaya Crusader staff
Hearing the word cancer as a young boy never really seemed to phase me. I didn’t know what cancer really was, or how people even got it. I was sure it was a disease and it was bad but never really thought I would have to deal with it. My journey with having a family member with cancer started when I was 9. My mom had gone to the doctor for a checkup because she wasn’t feeling normal; they did a complete check up and found a malignant cancer growth in her breast. I wasn’t sure how to feel. I was scared that my mom had to have surgery for something they told her the day before, and yet I was hopeful that this surgery would make everything better again. My mother’s cancer wasn’t just a small thing. As later discovered, it was moving very fast and she had to have her entire breast removed. This along with chemotherapy treatments really started to scare me. Some days my mom
wouldn’t even eat or talk. She would sleep for The first part of this journey was done. My days because the chemotherapy was so strong. mom was OK, and things returned to normal These days would for a few more years. I scare me like no was a fifth grader, my other. older sister was in Would my mom sophomore in high ever be OK? Would school, and my little she die from this brother was in kindertherapy that’s supgarten. My mom conposed to cure the tinued to go to constant disease? checkups to track any My mom howevchanges or to see if er was a fighter. they discovered any She beat cancer and new cancer cells, but even though her she was fine. self- image was a Aside from the Courtesy photo little changed from checkups, they discovall of this, she re- Ashley, Anahy and Anthony Anaya enjoy a ered a whole new surmained as strong as moment spent together. Family support is one of prise. My mom was ever. She had trou- the things that held the family together through pregnant. This made ble feeling femi- tough times. me happy because a nine and pretty with no hair, but she wore wigs little brother or sister would be amazing, but to help her out with that. My mom in my eyes yet there were so many risks with my mom was as pretty as ever, with or without hair. having this baby. We all wondered if it was
even a good choice to have the baby, because we didn’t know what effects the chemotherapy could have on an infant. The doctors said it was fine after all and the baby would be normal. She had the baby, a beautiful little baby girl named Ashley who looked just like her. My mom loved her new baby girl. It was like a gift from God after all the things she had been put through. And still things continued to be fine, and at the checkups they told her things were fine. Life was beginning to look up. Things continued to be good for another two years. One day, however we received a call. My grandfather had been in a serious car crash, and he was on the verge of dying. My dad had to fly back to Mexico to help out his family through this situation. My mom was strong and kept us all together for this whole month. My grandfather passed away, and my dad was feeling down along with the rest of us. But death was something that I felt I could never really deal with, so I just cried a bit and forgot.
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