February 8 2012
King and Queen Candidates Candidates take on a rosy attitude for homecoming week activities. Candidates are, back row, Oscar DonJuan, Darrell Magwire, Benito Rivera, Preston Myers and Rafael Sanchez. In the front row, Kaela Krueger, Erica Fowler and Nakita Martinez. Not pictured, Morgan Wills and Jena Eder.
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LaFreniere draws from multiple interests in life Tonya Loewen Crusader staff Crusader photo/Heidy Molina
International student Oladele Togbeola receives a airbrush tattoo in the Student Union during one of the Homecoming Week activities.
Poker, kings, and queens
Crowning tops off 2012 homecoming activities Tonya Loewen Crusader staff The Seward County Community College/Area Technical School homecoming ceremony for 2012 will be after the Lady Saints basketball game on Feb. 11. The queen candidates are Kaela Krueger, Morgan Wills, Nakita Martinez, Erica Fowler and Jena Eder. King candidates are Benito Rivera, Rafael Sanchez, Preston Myers, Oscar DonJuan and Darrell Magwire. final The Hypnotist Show round of voting for homeFeb. 8 coming king 8 p.m. and queen will Theater take place on Texas Hold ’Em Feb. 8-10 from Feb. 10 9 a.m. to noon in front of the 7:30 p.m. Student Union library. Basketball vs. These candidates were sePratt lected from a Feb. 11 s ch o o l -wi de Womens 6 p.m. vote and were Men’s 8 p.m. nominated by Green House school clubs and organizaCoronation tions. Feb. 11 Other queen After Lady nominees were Saints game S h e l b y Green House Hansen, Celestina Padilla, Maria Perez, Giselle Arredondo, Reanna Tumlinson, Yahaida Zubia, Eva Loewen, Genesis Luevano, Dariya Dashutina, Kelsey Cook and Maria Vasquez. Other king nominees were Maverick Elam, Levi Adams, Sam Decker, Blake Bowen, Rafael Raw, Luis Almanza, Laercio Lobo, Jose Pando and Aaron Richie. The Student Government Association is sponsoring a variety of events during homecoming week. Director of Student Activities, Wade Lyon, said, “I hope
everyone participates in homecoming. It’s free for students to participate in the activities, and the voting is student choice.” On Feb. 6, there was Funny Tees in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Feb. 7, the Saints Bookstore offered free donuts starting at 7:45 a.m. along with the weekly free coffee Tuesdays. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., there was Totally Tattoos in the Student Union. Tonight, there will be a Mentalist and Hypnotist show by Brian Imbus at 8 p.m. in the theater. On Feb. 9, the Intramural Dodge Ball League will start in the gym at 7:30 p.m. On Feb. 10, Texas Hold ’Em Tournament will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union, awarding approximately $1,000 in prizes to the winners. On Feb. 11, the women’s basketball game against the Pratt Beavers will begin at 6 p.m. Homecoming coronation will follow the Lady Saints game. The men’s game will start at 8 p.m. The Saints Bookstore held a homecoming T-shirt design contest for students from Jan. 11-25. Lady Saints Ashlynn Knoll and Kayla Thomas came up with the winning design, and were rewarded with $100 and 10 free T-shirts with their design. Lyon says there will be limited free shirts in his office, which is located in Room SU118, for those attending the homecoming game. Students and the community are invited to attend the SCCC/ATS homecoming game, where a special 3D homecoming issue will be distributed by the Crusader student newspaper.
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From playing guitar to glass blowing, Hope LaFreniere can do it all. This Seward sophomore loves art, and her creativity really shows. LaFreniere can play a mean guitar piece, sculpt beautiful pottery, make blown glass, sings and is a photographer. Making beautiful things out of nothing is what LaFreniere loves to do, and has been doing it for quite a while. LaFreniere started playing guitar when her grandfather gave her a cheap acoustic guitar as a present at age 12, not thinking she would stick to it. As LaFreniere started learning how to play it, her love for the instrument grew and has been growing for the eight years since. Les Claypool, renowned bassist, is LaFreniere’s musical hero. She aspires to be able to play like Claypool sometime in the near future, and listens to his music for inspiration. LaFreniere also makes pottery and blown glass. She started with just making pottery, and then decided to try glass blowing also. While she enjoys making both, LaFreniere says they require very different techniques. “With pottery, you make a plan for what you’re going to make and it usually turns out like that. When blowing glass, you basically make it up as you go and hope it turns out good,” said LaFreniere. LaFreniere has approximately 10 to 15 glass pieces made, although she cannot remember exactly how many. She loves giving them to her friends and family as gifts, and gave one of her newest pieces to her mother. Another art medium that LaFreniere uses is photography. She enjoys capturing the beauty of everyday life through her lens and being able to do it with friends. Her subjects often include her several dogs. LaFreniere is also a singer, and is in the upcoming SCCC musical “Once on this Island” as the character Erzulie, the goddess of love. The musical will be LaFreniere’s first time in a stage performance, and she is looking forward to the experience. “Once on this Island” will show from March 29-31 in the SCCC Theater. “Hope is very talented and has a great personality. She’s usually backstage, so this is a very different setting for her to be up front in the musical,” said stage manager and student assistant Tyconda Millsap. Although she graduated from Liberal High School and is currently a student at Seward, LaFreniere just transferred back to her hometown from Hays, where she was a student at Fort
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Hays State University. LaFreniere says that she enjoyed the school and will miss the friends she made there. The reason why she left Fort Hays is because of the climate. While not too much north of Liberal, the winter was unbearably cold for LaFreniere. “When they told us to be sure to cover our faces and everything because we could get frostbite in a few minutes outside, I knew I couldn’t handle it anymore,” said LaFreniere. The many warm days in the past few weeks in Liberal have affirmed LaFreniere’s decision for a more comfortable temperature change, and proof that she made the right decision. LaFreniere currently is pursuing a general arts degree, although is planning on majoring in broadcasting in the future. Her plans are to either transfer to West Texas A&M University next fall majoring in broadcasting or to work in broadcasting in Oklahoma City, Okla., and pay off her student loans before continuing school.
One of LaFreniere’s newest blown glass pieces started as a vase, but broke. LaFreniere reshaped it into a gravy boat as a gift for her mother.
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Crusader photo/Tonya Loewen
Hope LaFreniere plays some songs on her bass guitar, which she has owned for about two years.
A few of the latest blown glass pieces that LaFreniere made this year.
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Thanks to a new alert system implemented at Seward County Community College this week, students and faculty will now receive emergency alerts straight to their phones or emails. Messages regarding campus closings due to weather or emergencies can now be sent immediately. “This new alert system is more effective and better than the old system that we had implemented,” said Celeste Donovan, dean of students. The previous system consisted of paging the phones located on campus and sending out emails in case of a campus emergency. RAVE, the system that Seward has partnered with, is an instant alert system designed to send the messages to students and faculty.
“The system provides immediate awareness to people in a form that they are comfortable with,” Donovan said. This new alert system comes at no cost to those who are registered with SCCC, and signing up is rather simple. The system became operational Monday, so all one has to do is log on to the myCampus portal and click on the RAVE icon. After clicking on the on RAVE icon, students and faculty must submit to the terms and agreement located on the second page in order to be able to receive messages. Students and faculty will then have to choose what form they would like to be notified, either by text message or email, and multiple phone numbers or email addresses can be added. It is important that contact information be kept up to date. Some service providers may charge a per-text fee for the emergency alerts
through text messages. Text messages and emails are not the only way students and faculty can be informed. Alerts will also be broadcast on the monitors in the hallways, on SCCC’s local Channel 17 and posted on the college’s website. “Hopefully all we have to use it for is snow,” said Doug Browne, multimedia director at SCCC. The alert system will allow administrators to send messages to the entire campus when needed. The RAVE alert system will be implemented during weather closing and emergencies on campus. “Students (and faculty) should receive alerts within minutes after it is broadcast,” Browne said. The RAVE alert system also sends a message multiple times in case it is not received the first time.