November 19 2012
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Year 44, No. 5
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SCCC/ATS student and Kylix member Jesus Villalobos helps and instructs children with their paper quilts.
Kylix hosts Children’s Art Day Jose Medrano Editor
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Krystal Zubia paints a whirilgig during Children’s Art Day hosted by Kylix. Children from the community attended and used their skills to create different projects. More pictures at Facebook.com/crusadernews
Paint, pieces of paper, glitter and markers littered the tables where children created their crafts in the Shank Humanities Building’s art studios during a Children’s Art Day fundraiser Nov. 17. Members of Kylix, the art club at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School, helped and supervised children making different crafts. About 26 children were in attendance at the event and were
The gears of the Clockwork Dragon
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SCCC student co-authors fantasy book Cami S tahl y Crusader staff “The Clockwork Dragon” is a book about a legion of demons who inhabit a golden dragon and eagerly wait for someone to let them out. The book is written by Lynn Donovan, Pauline Creeden and Jennette Mbewe. Donovan is a student at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School. This painter and writer said she enjoys going to Seward. She started taking college courses after encouraging her sister, LeeAnn Bryan, to get out of the house and take classes. Donovan has been working on novels since the beginning of the year. So far, Donovan has written three novel length mauscripts since January. She hopes to publish them soon. That’s how Donovan got connected to the Crystie group online. That is also how she met Pauline Creeden and Jennette Mhewe. Mhewe is another author like Donovan, and Creeden is the publisher who owns the publishing company Altwit Press. Creeden put out invitations to the co-authors to write 5,000 words or less based on “The Clockwork Dragon.” The title of the book is derived from the fact that the dragon has gears like a clock, and one must turn a key to activate the mechanisms. The plot is based on the premise that once someone turns the key on the outside, the demon comes out and the person goes inside the dragon, locked inside forever. The Clockwork Dragon travels through different periods, luring people to open it. “As the third author and publisher of ‘The Clockwork Dragon,’ I see things from a little different angle. I did my best to
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Lynn Donovan, a student at SCCC/ATS, sits next to one of her paintings and displays on a tablet the book she help co-author . Donovan helped write “The Clockwork Dragon,” which was written by three authors.
make sure elements in the stories agree enough with each other so that they each fit the theme,” Creeden said. Donovan told Creeden she would like to submit a story and ended up submitting four. One is a collaboration between Donovan and Mhewe. “ Pauline approached us, Jennette and I, in March,” Donovan said. “We then started submitting stories to Pauline in April. They were due by the end of September.” Donovan said she started sketching out a story and then put it away because she was working and taking care of four children. “It was in January. I picked writing back up and by June I had three full length manuscripts drafted. In March and April, I had started writing short stories, because of Pauline,” Donovan said. Mbewe is the other link to help making this story. She along with Donovan, has written some books of her own. “I wrote ‘A Mermaid’s Desire’ back in July, and ‘Lost at Sea’ in October, two weeks before the release. That was unnerving,” Mbewe said.
“When the publisher put out a call for submissions back in spring, I actually wasn’t going to write anything at first. But then a month or so later the idea for ‘A Mermaid’s Desire’ came to me,” Mbewe said. “I asked the publisher what they thought, and they said go for it. ‘Lost at Sea’ was the same way, except I wanted to show how the Clockwork Dragon ended up at the bottom of the sea.” Mbewe collaborated with Donovan on “Bloody Fairy.” “It really is her brain child,” Mbewe said. “It was a great experience to work together despite only doing so through emails.” Mbewe started writin seriously in 2003 and said she comitted almost every single newbie mistake there is to make. “Since then I’ve been rewriting, editing, reading books, blogs, magazines on writing and the publishing industry.” There’s a myriad of ways to getting published, but in the end, someone has to write their best, keep on improving and tell a really good story, according to Mbewe. nContinued on page 2
split into four groups who would rotate projects. The cost for attendance per child was $15. The children in attendance were in first through fifth grades. Kenny Ruiz, a 9-year-old from McDermott Elementary, has attended Children’s Art Day before and said, “It’s fun to do art and to make friends.” The children expressed their art skills on whirligigs, paper quilts, a winter night scene and Native American satchel painting. “The Christmas art is really fun,” said Ruiz, who made his winter night scene Christmas re-
lated. The funds raised from Children’s Art Day will go toward a trip Kylix is taking next semester, according to Kylix sponsor Susan Copas. The club typically hosts a Children’s Art Day once every semester as a fundraising activity. Kylix’s annual arts and craft sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Shank Humanities Building. More pictures from Children’s Art can be viewed on the Crusaders Facebook page, Facebook.com/crusadernews.
SIFE changes to Enactus Dawn S house Crusader staff Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE, a program that helps university students create community projects, has changed its name to Enactus. According to Tona Rowett, Enactus vice-president of global branding, the word is a combination of three words: Entrepreneurial, action and us. “The old name spoke to the fact that we are students, however we are now more than students and encompass a wide variety of people and organizations,” Rowett said. “We needed a name that encompassed our mission and many other types of things.” According to Rowett, the group is currently in 39 countries and the name,” speaks to a more global society of entrepreneurs.” Ana Hernandez, a senior management and environmental studies major and president of Ozarks’ Enactus chapter, expressed optimism about the future of the long-standing organization. “I believe what SIFE wanted to do is reaffirm their commitment to entrepreneurial action. An entrepreneur is an individual that creates capital through innova-
SIFE Students in Free Enterprise has this new logo and has changed its name to Enactus which stands for “Entrepreneurial, action and us.” tion, creativity and risk. That’s what we did in SIFE, and what we’ll continue to do in Enactus,” Hernandez said. “Each year, all over the world, members of SIFE create over 1,000 new projects to creatively address needs in their communities,” Hernandez added. “Entrepreneurship is what SIFE is about, which is why the name change makes sense. It just refocuses the attention on entrepreneurial action.” The name is the only thing that has changed. The local chapter’s operations will remain the same.
Livestock judging coach steps down Jose Medrano Editor Livestock judging coach and agriculture instructor Brett Crow will be stepping down from his position at the end of this semester. Since February of 2009, Crow has been coaching the livestock judging team at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School. Mississippi State University offered Crow a position earlier this semester to coach its livestock judging team, and he accepted it. “It’s close to home,” Crow said. “My wife and I grew up in Alabama, so we’ll only be three hours away from home.” Crow’s wife Karen, business division/public and alumni relations secretary and Enactus (formerly SIFE) co-club sponsor will also be leaving SCCC/ATS. “Liberal is the first place that we’ve called home since we got married. It’s sad to leave but it’ll be a good opportunity to work on my master’s, and we’ll be closer our families,” Karen Crow said.
College president Duane Dunn stated the following on Brett Crow’s departure. “I really hate to see Brett go. He has done an amazing job, but he has a great opportunity and we encourage our employees to take those opportunities.” Although he is leaving, Crow and administration officials at SCCC/ATS are looking for a replacement to fill the livestock judging coach opening. “I’ve worked really hard to spread the word among people I know and the circles that I’m in contact with. We should have someone lined up to coach the team before I’m gone,” Crow said. He has also arranged a transition period for the team. “I worked out a deal with Mississippi State where I can come back up during the spring semester to help the sophomores on the team and help the new coach transition into their position.” Brett and Karen Crow will move to Mississippi during Christmas break. Brett Crow will continue to coach the livestock judging team until the end of this semester.