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The Independent Student Voice of Mt. Hood Community College
March 7, 2014
Volume 49 Issue 20
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Crocus flowers bloomed in the flower beds in the Main Mall on Tuesday.
Hospitality, tourism program raises thousands by Katelyn Hilsenbeck The Advocate Far East met the Pacific Northwest on Feb. 22 at the 23rd Annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction, staged by the MHCC Hospitality and Tourism program. This annual event culminates a nine-month planning process by program students during a series of classes. The fundraiser supports five scholarships of $500 for students in the program, subsidizes an annual field trip and helps pay for program supplies, said Court Carrier, longtime program director. The exact tally for the event is not yet calculated, but Carrier said the group earned more than $10,000. Each of 91 attendees, including Mt. Hood alumni and community supports, paid $70 for the dinner, held at the University Place Hotel in downtown Portland. The food was prepared by two guest executive chefs, John and Caprial Pence. Carrier called the food “remarkable” and quipped that “I think I fell in love with my dessert.” He said at one point during the night, the chefs and culinary students were too organized and had delivered items too smoothly: “People were going to be done (eating) before we wanted them to be,” he said.
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Firewalls MHCC students earn recognition for next generation training by Greg Leonov The Advocate Students in MHCC’s Cyber Security and Networking program have been accredited by Palo Alto Networks for finishing a class on next generation firewalls – marking a first for the U.S., the program’s leader said. “This is an accreditation that shows that our students know how to install and implement a next generation firewall,” said Wayne Machuca, program head and instructor for the class last fall. The recognition from Palo Alto Networks came on Feb. 18. Mt. Hood’s link to the firm owes to a
connection with Jens Mache, an instructor at Portland’s Lewis & Clark College hoping to create a course at that campus. Mache would invite Mt. Hood to join the process. “He was the bridge that brought this together,” said Machuca. He said the partnership is part of broader collaboration Mt. Hood is doing “with colleges like Lewis and Clark… across the West Coast, and even in other parts of the country” to build the Cyber Security and Networking program, now in its second year of existence. The first cohort of Mt. Hood students will graduate in the spring. Palo Alto let Machuca know it was committed to create its own Palo Alto
Networks Academy, he said. “They asked us if we’d be willing to participate. As it turns out, we are the first community college in the United States to have a class get through the (Academy). And, as an acknowledgement, the students in the class were able to take an accreditation test and a lot of them passed. Machuca explained what a new firewall can provide: “an easier method in not only determining what kind of traffic is coming through your network, but it can also take types of traffic and split it up.” Paul Morris, an instructor in the MHCC networking program who will teach the class in the spring said the key point is looking beyond standard firewall features. “We deal with ports, and that’s a very important thing,” he said.
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