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HutchCC softball pitcher, Brynne Stockman shares her love for softball along with challenges she and her family face at home.
The HutchCC theatre department performed the musical “American Idiot” based on two of Green Day’s hit albums. The student voice of Hutchinson Community College
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Astronaut Capt. Scott Kelly inspires crowd By Merissa Anderson Collegain Editor
On April 17, one of the largest crowds the Dillon Lecture Series has ever seen, more than 4,000 people, gathered to listen to astronaut Capt. Scott Kelly, as he inspired the crowd with his speech and reminded them that “the sky is not the limit”. From the second Kelly stepped on stage to a standing ovation, he told the story of how he transformed himself from class-skipping college student to a beloved and historic astronaut with nearly six million current twitter followers. “When I was a kid growing up, I was a really, really bad student,” Kelly said, speaking to the hundreds of elementary to high school students from surrounding school districts. “I wanted to do anything else besides be a student.” Kelly told of his difficulties with ADD and ADHD throughout his primary schooling before explaining that these issues continued to plague him in his first years of college. “I was still struggling,” Kelly said. “I couldn’t pay attention. I couldn’t study. Eventually, I’m not even going to
class anymore.” But one book from his campus bookstore transformed his life. “One day, I’m wandering across campus and happen to go into the bookstore to buy gum or something, and I see this book on the shelf,” Kelly said. “I was interested enough that I took my gum money, purchased the book, went back to my dorm room and laid there for the next three days on my unmade dorm room bed and read the stories.” The book was “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe which told of how astronauts during earlier space travel reached their success. “If I could just become a better student, maybe I could one day become an astronaut,” Kelly said. And he did. The rest of Kelly’s speech followed his adventures and mishaps that he experienced during his more than 500 days in space, while the crowd, packed shoulder-to-shoulder, listened intently on. Although a career as an astronaut requires intense focus and drive to study, Kelly certainly kept his humor throughout his travels, and he sprinkled his speech with
Merissa Anderson/Collegian Editor Capt. Scott Kelly, the astronaut who spent a year in space gives the 150th Dillon Lecture Series speech to a full crowd on April 17. More than 4,000 people came to listen to the man who transfromed himself from a college slacker to the astronaut who inspired many to live their dream and keep working hard to reach their goals. plenty of jokes to keep the crowd entertained and smiling. “If we can dream it, we can do it,” Kelly said. “If we have a plan, if we’re willing to take the the risks and make mistakes, if we focus on the things we can control and ignore what we can’t, if we test the status-quo and if we work as a team, because teamwork makes the dream work, and if we do that, then the sky is definitely not the limit.”
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In his speech, Capt. Kelly reminds the crowd what it’s like to live his dream.
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After his lecture, Kelly gives final advice to reach further than the stars.
Over 4,000 people attended Capt. Scott Kelly’s Dillon Lecture, one of the largest attendances since the lecture’s beginnings in the 1980s.
Honors program students thrive with leadership from Ryan Diehl By Pablo Sanchez Staff Writer
Facebook Courtesy Photo Honors students, under the direction of Ryan Diehl, team up with the Student Goverment Association to help clean up HutchCC campus as a part of RASK, Random Acts of Selfless Kindness, which is a program also led by Diehl.
The Hutchinson Community College Honor’s Project is still going strong, nearly 25 years after its birth. Ryan Diehl, HutchCC Curriculum and Program Improvement Coordinator, is the Honor’s Project Coordinator. “The Honor’s Project dates back to the inception of the honor’s program,
back in 1993 and 1994, and some of the students talked about how it’s a requirement of their scholarship,” Diehl said. “It’s tied to the Presidential, Presidential Gold and the Honors Merriment Scholarship.” Diehl said a lot of the students are in the ED15H honors success seminar, and during the fall semester, students brainstorm different topics, and some students have majors that they want to go into.
Other students explore different fields, and Diehl’s role is to help them find a faculty mentor. “They get together and start working in the spring, and what happens in the spring time, their very first assignment is to complete a proposal agreement with their faculty mentor,” Diehl said. “Then the honors sub committee reviews all the proposals, and then we offer feedback. We either approve them or approve
them with some changes that need to be made, or we say ‘you need to come up with a better topic.’ “A majority of the time, it’s either approved or approved with a few changes. The only ones we rejected are projects they aren’t complicated. We try to look for creativity or some contributions to the field. It’s not something you go about and read a Wikipedia entry.” See Honors, Page 3
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Have you felt any earthquakes recently?
April 21 — HCC Enrollment Day 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. April 24 — SOFTBALL vs. Bethany College JV (Doubleheader), Fun Valley at 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. April 24 —Instrumental and Vocal Jazz Ensembles: Jazz Showcase, B.J. Warner Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
“I was driving when it happened Saturday, and when I got home my TV fell over.”
“Yes, I was playing Fortnite when I felt one happening.”
“I have felt several earthquakes since I’m from Cali. I felt one here Saturday and started laughing.”
“Yes, I have, I was watching a horror movie with my mom at the time.”
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