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Garden City Community College Student Magazine Fall 2010 | Vol. 20 | Issue 1
BreakawayGarden City Community College Student Magazine Fall 2010 | Vol. 20 | Issue 1
College is not only about studying. Students have fun, meet new people and get involved with yearly traditions and unique activities hosted every month on campus.
Get a inside look on gender attractions of what she has to say about him and what he has to say about her.
The borders of his country aren’t enough to con-tain him for the love of the sport.
Sacrificing for Goals
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Chemistry outside the classroom
9Sharing myspace
Living in the dorms is a experience that most college students get to know very well. Sharing the same tight space causes roommates to grow close to one another, as long as the fumes from dirty socks don't cause a quarantine lock down.
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Over the Limit
Classic cars and new rides are ad-mired from their interior to their exterior.
Important college life advice from a know-it-all professional platypus impersonator.
Good things do not happen to good people, good people make good things happen.
Notes make music. For these two stu-dents, music exposes feelings and ex-plains what words can't.
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Many people are on campus, but who are they really? I’m hoping to un-cover students' stories. I will capture unique photos and bring my creativ-ity to this “Exposed” issue. I have many responsibilities not only in the com-munity, but also at the college and I am proud that being involved in the Break-away magazine is one of them. With my artistic experience and skills, I will develop an interesting magazine full of beautiful photography that will capture everyone’s attention. Enjoy.
I'm starting off the year being the editor-in-chief. With many story top-ics to choose from, we decided to go with our reader's opinions. The Breakaway staff is diverse this year, we are all majoring in different ar-eas and this makes the writing style distinct. Throughout the process of writing my articles I came to know all sorts of different people, they have exposed themselves to this publica-tion and taken the time to explain the parts of a car or the feeling of winning the homecoming crown.
Cristy Figueroa
Jesus Lozoya
The Breakaway is now on its 20th volume. I will be bringing stories that are interesting to read, in this edition I exposed student life. My articles are about living on campus, doing what you love, and expressing why it’s im-portant to be an active student. Stu-dent participation is at a low, so the college is starting to cut programs that have low participation. So, if you can write, design, or take pictures consider joining us. Who knows, maybe you’ll find something you love to do.
Gabby Stoutwriterphotography editor
editor-in-chief
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Our first issue of the Breakaway is named “Exposed”. The reasoning be-hind the name is that we want to uncov-er some of the not so-obvious aspects in college. In this issue we have a touch of everything from life in the dorms, to a profile about a member of the soccer team, to what attracts people to one another. As a staff we wanted to bring more in-depth stories, captivating pho-tography and awesome graphics. If you have an idea about a great story or topic please let us know.
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Left: The Broncbuster football team teaches children basic exer-cises routines during Buddy Day, Aug. 22.Above: Reese McGraw, right hand pitcher, tags out a Colby Commu-nity College runner, during the baseball scrimmage Sept. 1.
Oscar Arteaga, Garden City, gives
popsicles to students, during the His-
panic American Leadership Organi-
zation campus fiesta, Sept. 17. HALO
had a turn out of approximately 150
students. Jacqueline Aldana, Zumba
instructor, performed various dances
with HALO members. Aldana gave
prizes to students who danced with
the group. Students also had the op-
portunity to choose from a variety of
Mexican food.
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Playing our partGCCC plays hard, from football to ping-pong, we expose how being active is a
great representationof what this community college is and how it reaches futuregenerations.
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Above: Philip Hoke, theater director, debuts the year with “The Crucible.” The play started Oct. 14, with a free ad-missions college student night. From left: Carly Chrastie, Mathew Elias, Chase Lumley, Veronica Diaz, Phil Hoke, Trevor Green and Nancy Wright act out the opening scene.Below: Students enjoy the Mind Trip-ping show, hosted by SGA in the cafete-ria, Oct. 7. Mind readers asked students to lie and then exposed how they are not good liars.
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Below: Concentrating on his game, Alberto Checa, Miami, Fla., plays ping-pong at the Beth Tedrow Student center.
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People having a laugh at the Mind Tripping show
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Above: (from left) Erik Lozano, Audree
Roth, Daniel Gutierrez, Marlene Rivera,
Marc Najera, Lenna Kim, Ryan Morales,
Gabby Stout and Maurice Couch stand
as the 2010 Homecoming nominees,
after two rounds of voting. The first
round was between all nominees from
the clubs and organizations on campus.
The homecoming finalists were mem-
bers of the art club, HALO, SGA, PTK,
choir and BSU.
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The cheer team at the bonf ire
Right: The cheer team performs vari-ous stunts at the bonfire, Sept. 30. The night was cold, the firefighters fired up the story-high pile of wood, mak-ing a 12-foot radius of heat around the fire. Below: Students observe the bonfire and prepare for the announcement of the homecoming finalist at the disc jockey booth. SGA continued the event with a hot dog eating contest.
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Left: Daniel Gutierrez, HALO presi-
dent and Marlene Rivera, HALO
member, are named Homecoming
royalty, Oct. 2. GCCC Interim Presi-
dent, Joseph Emmons, crowned both
students.Above: Manuela Vigil, HALO sponsor,
congratulates Rivera for her Home-
coming crown.
Far left: Alex Marquez, yell leader,
and fellow students prepare to eat
hot dogs. Marquez was confident
when he started after a small delay
he continue and won.
Left: SGA members Ashley Nielsen
and Mariah Brielle setup the tables
the hot dog eating contest. Each plate
was set with five hot dogs along with
ketchup and mustard for the contes-
tants to dress their hot dogs.
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A Gatorade bottle sprouting flowers is the only splash of color visible in the men’s hall of the dorms. A yellow Post-It on the wall above the five flower’s states, “Please don’t touch these flowers, they add char-acter to the hallway.” Excited profanity’s echo down the hall, followed by laughter and banging doors. Two security cameras watch everything to make sure nothing gets too far out of hand.
“It’s boring, so we start pulling pranks,” Jason Stokes, England, said. Stokes lives in the dorms with his room-mate Robert Vickers, Ireland. Both are attending GCCC on a soccer scholar-ship. Stokes was recently a victim of a rather surprising prank.
“They shaved my hair off. I had more hair like this guy,” Stokes said, gesturing to Vickers. “They shaved it when I was sleeping.”
Stokes wasn’t too upset about the whole ordeal, he thought it was a funny prank.
Living on campus offers the ability to socialize and meet new friends.
“It’s fun,” Lauren Groth, Dodge City, said. “I like it because I’ve made a lot of friends living on campus and you get to know everybody, rather than not living on campus.”
Fighting seems to be inevitable when living with people. Resolving problems are handled differently with everyone. Jarwand Rhevbottom and his roommate Andre Phillips along with basketball
teammate, Bryce Shippers, resolve argu-ments in a different way.
“We fight to the death,” Rhevbottom, Garden City, said laughing.
Females have a less violent way of fix-ing problems, “I talk to her about it and vice versa and we fix it,” Groth said.
Every college has something people aren’t happy with. Paying fines for break-ing rules is a part of adulthood.
“It’s boring, but the worst thing is the cafeteria food. The fines are also bad. Maybe the girls are the best, maybe. Cur-few is the worst,” Phillips, Liberal, said.
Curfews aren’t the only problems in the dorms.
“Some people in other rooms are loud, Stokes said, “but we just go to the student center and play ping pong and eat at the Bistro.”
Living on campus can be fun and stress-ful at times. Roommates can become life-long friends, or arguments can get out of hand. Roommates might bring over the opposite sex till all hours of the night. Stu-dents may find learning to deal with others make working a real job a lot easier. Cam-pus life can change people in many ways, possibly resulting in creating stronger men and women. Most importantly, meeting new people and making friends helps with importantlife skills.
Roommates have to share everything from books and pencils to privacy and sometimes those awkward “you-know-what” moments.
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“Biggest turn off is when a girl talks about their past re-lationships excessively,” -Dustin Hopkins, Scott City.
“Well my biggest turn-on would be a gorgeous smile and a good sense of humor. The turn-off would be, well in a guy there is plenty, but it would be cockiness it is a major turn-off,” -Cristina Segovia, Garden City.
“A turn-on is someone that is sweet and a turn-off would have to be stuck up people,” -Carlos Gutierrez, Ulysses.
During chemistry class, students learn that certain elements such as two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom are attract-ed to each other. The same concept applies to real-life rela-tionships. All attractions create different bonds that can be either positive or negative.
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“Personality, because it tells a lot about the per-son it shows what they are made of and their at-titude,” -Sole Peña, Garden City.
“Physical and personality. I can’t pick one,” -Tyler Haney, Ulysses.
If there was something you could change about the special someone, what would it be?
“Something I could change, would be the personality and how guys act, or just make him a better person, but I know it is impossible to change the typical guy. What can I say? Men will be men, their actions speak for themselves,” -Cristina Segovia, Garden City.
“Yes, to raise a family. I look at them and wonder if they would make a good mother,” -Matt Ellis, Ulysses.
“I would change his toes, they look like they belong on E.T.,” -Kystal Martinez, Garden City.
“Yes, that’s a big part of life. No room for fail-ures,” -Alice Richmeier, Garden City.
“Yes, I mean at first it is difficult to look at it right away, but maybe if the relationship get serious those as-pects come handy,” -Cristina Segovia, Garden City.
When you see someone do you look at him or her as if they have good aspects to raise a family or have a good future?
What attracts you the most, the physical, personality or material?
“Out of physical, personality and material the biggest attraction would have to include a little bit of everything. I mean, at first it is physical. You have to be attracted, then once you know his personality, a little sense of humor doesn’t hurt, and well material is no biggie until marriage comes along,” -Cristina Segivia, Garden City.
“If there is something I could change it would be that they have goals and dreams,” -Alice Richmeier, Garden City.
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GCCC soccer player Anthony Lourenco, center mid-fielder, gets ready for practice at Memorial Stadium.
Relocating from Canada to the U.S. was a difficult deci-sion for this student, but he couldn’t refuse the given opportunities along with the love of his sport.
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AgilityPractice is over, they huddle and
scream, BUSTERS. The team members have their hands around other team members. Jason Stokes slowly goes be-hind Anthony Lourenco and tries to de-pant him, luckily Lourenco was able to grab enough of his shorts, and didn’t show too much. Sadly, for another team member who was dancing to “Teach me how to dougie,” with his headphones on, was unable to notice Stokes and did not have Lourenco’s luck.
Anthony Lourenco is a 17-year-old freshman, originally from Canada, who currently attends GCCC. He plays cen-ter midfield on the soccer team. Lourenco started playing soccer and hockey at the age of five in the local community center. Once he turned 12, he began to play com-petitive and was placed in premier soccer for his age group. At the age of 14, soccer turned to be his most passionate sport, leaving hockey behind.
“I love being a part of the soccer team
at Garden City Community College be-cause it provides more opportunities and good competition, but I cannot believe it, I am so far away from home, so young. I’m glad that the soccer team makes me feel like I belong here and they have helped me adjust to the culture change. I just en-joy being with the guys because they are fun,” Lourenco, said.
It’s hard to get to the top and the Bust-ers are definitely trying hard to be the best they can be. The team is becoming stron-ger by preparing mentally, transforming weaknesses to strengths, having good nu-trition, getting enough rest and taking ad-vantage of the time they have to practice. The soccer team has put in a lot of effort. They have won 14 games and only lost three games for the season.
“A downside to soccer would be travel-ing really far because the team’s energy de-creases. Also, they hate not knowing the other soccer field’s condition, how intimi-dating the crowd can be and how compet-
itive the opposing players are,” Stephen Gorton, head soccer coach, said.
Gorton has been coaching soccer at GCCC for four years and is happy to have a team that loves to play together on the field and stay close friends off the field.
“I see a lot of potential in each player. They seem very devoted to the sport,” Gorton, said.
A couple of losses are not going to stop the Busters from reaching the top.
“The season is going well and I feel like the team is ready for nationals,” Abimael Downing, Garden City, said.
The soccer team stays working together no matter what happens.
“We do not give up when we lose, we become more motivated and never want to experience a loss again,” Lourenco said. “Garden City Community College can probably get me anywhere in furthering my career and I know that it is making me a better player.”
Lourenco is taking general education and he plans to continue and major in physical therapy. He will stay in GCCC for two years, not only for soccer, but also for his career. After the two years are over, Lourenco strives to go to a division one school for soccer. When he earns his degree and finishes school, he plans to go back to Canada. Lourenco does not know for sure if he will stay in Canada, but he will definitely go visit.
“For others, I would say not to give up on their dreams,” Lourenco said. “We only live once, and we have to have fun, but also know our limit. Do not let little things stress you. Try to do what you want to do in life and know that being involved can get you very far. Coming from Canada was very hard, but with good outcomes. I hope to accomplish all my goals and be able to look back at all the things that I have done.”
Sophomores on the Broncbuster’s soccer team gather for a quick prayer about future expectations over their upcoming game versus Pratt’s Beavers. The soc-cer team continued practice during fall break, resulting in a victory game for GCCC with a score of 4-0.
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These cars are used for more than transportation. Their owners prize them like trophies and showcasethem whenever they can.
Overthe limit
Typically cars are driven to school, work or simply cruised around in. Car aficionados get in a vehicle to check out the interior. They also look over the car’s paint job. Car enthusiasts change the paint style, the rims, engine, and even how the gas is pumped into the engine. Restorers and classic car lovers take a non-functional vehicle, and restore it.
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carwash soap and paint, cars have gathered to show off what are they made of at the Finney County Exhi-bition Building, once a year for the past 10 years. In a far corner of the show area a ‘70 Chevelle super sport
is parked. This car was remodeled completely, from the tires to the paint. The interior was restored and most of the car still has its original parts.
Don Warfield, the owner of the Chevelle, has been a passionate car lover since 1982, when he attended his fist car show.
Warfield enjoys his weekend job as car restorer. “It is very seldom that someone has a job that they really enjoy like that,” Warfield, Garden City, said. “Most people have jobs that they don’t really enjoy every-day, and I’m lucky enough where I do what I like to do.”
Some of the cars Warfield has restored include a ’59 Corvet, ‘57 Chevies, fiberglass kit cars ‘41 Willys Coupe, Firebird convertibles and more.
Warfield’s collector car is a Ch-evelle. After he bought it in 1983, he stored it in a barn for 10 years. During those years he did not have enough money to fix the entire car
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Lizette Nuñez, Garden City, cleans her Avalanche after driving through the car wash at 8 a.m. The cleaning and early wake up paid off, Nuñez won best-in-show, SUV category, at the “Straight from the Road” car show, Sept. 19.
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Focal Pointat once. He had numerous jobs to save money to buy car parts. It got to the point that he had to work three jobs to sustain his family, and did not have enough time for his hobbies. He would save money, buy a part and put it on the car, work again, get some money and buy another part. Warfield took seven and a half years to finish his Chevelle. The car has been completed since 2005.
“Some of these guys have the money and can go and buy all the parts and they have a car in a year or less. Average time is six months to a year, it just depends on how de-tailed or what they put in their car,” Warfield said.
One testimony of Warfield’s job is that he helped Brian Bradfield start the restoration of his car. Bradfield owns a 1972 SS Chevelle 454.
“I found it in a old barn in Missis-sippi, I bought it from some old lady,” Bradfield said. “The motor was gone,
and hood was gone too. I had this car since 2005 and have been fixing it till last year. I finished with the car, some pieces are from the shelf, but others are from motors I found and from there, I rebuilt the Chevelle motor.”
GCCC freshman Diego Lozano, Garden City, has a 2000 Civic SI. “I have all bolts on modifications, skunk mega two exhaust, intake OBX mani-fold, carbon fiber hood, mega head-ers, block auto body, tune DCU, low-ering kit, lips all around it, the basics,” he said.
Lozano has worked on this car for four years. “It is a work in progress and still is, I actually started to put the parts in this last summer, maybe three months or so,” Lozano said. “I still plan to repaint it and have the in-terior done again. I also want to put a full boat engine and have a turbo in it, those are my goals.”
Students at the car show have more modern cars with modifications like
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Facts in FocusPopularity doesn’t
come easy. TheT-model Ford was the most
popular car in history, ac-counting for 55 percent of world automobiles in 1916.
Today people get tickets for going 30 mph downtown. Back in 1904, Harry My-ers Dayton, Ohio,
got the first ticket for speed-ing at 14 mph downtown.
Can you imagine every-one having a car, even your 3-year-old brother? During 2007, the Cen-sus counted 301 million people, at the same time
the department of transpor-tation reported 254 million passenger vehicles registered.
How much would you pay for a car? The most ex-pensive car in the U.S. in 2010 cost $2.21 mil-lion for a Trevitas. Only three of these cars were
produced this year.
For more car facts visit:
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“This car defines me,” he said. “I will describe it as my best taste in a car.”
Allen has put in rims, headlights, taillights, intake, body spacer, tuner, exhaust, and LED lights.
“Pretty much all the bolts and little stuff,” Allen said. “I also have changed the grill a chain piece that goes in the middle of the bumper, is like a bum-per lip.”
Show cars cost a great amount of time and money, this is a hobby that is not affordable for everyone. “I have invested 100 hours and $3,000 in my car,” Allen said. “It became a hobby and is so much fun now that I get to add my own details to the car.” Allen also wants to turbo it and redo the en-tire motor.
The 10th annual “Straight from the Streets” car show, at the Finney County Exhibition Building, gathered more than 60 cars and trucks. Dur-ing the event, the car aficionados and pros have the chance to meet and in-terchange ideas. Ideas include ways of painting, process of chroming car parts, hydraulic combinations and interior design. Window tint, nitro-gen and neon lighting are some other modifications that car owners have to change, depending on the state they come from and what is legal.
The Exhibition Building was packed with cars from every category like classics, imports, low riders, sports cars, SUVs, trucks and hydraulics that compete for a trophy. There was a disc jockey playing the latest hits and a stand with all kinds of food, includ-ing Mexican snacks like churros with hot sauce and imported candy.
For teens, the car show offered action, with contests and challenge courses. If successfully conquered, money and certificates were awarded by businesses, which were donated for the event.
The vehicles gathered more than 200 people per hour who visited the show. Many of the visitors were aficionados to the cars. Young teens were drooling at the “hot rides” and referred to the cars: “did you check that hot ride it was cool,” “check that out” and “damn,” were the words Cristhian Araiza and friends, Ken-neth Henderson Middle School stu-dents, said.
“I love to do the car show every year. From year-to-year we have more and more response from the community and that is great. This started 10 years ago and has grown a lot since the year before and the year before that. I wold like to get to the point where we have to host the show outside, because the cars could not fit in the building,” Nuñez said.
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Aaron Allen, Garden City, shows his car with open hood for people to check the modifications he has done. He is part of the Revolution team, this team is formed by show car own-ers. He show cased his car during the “Straight from the Street” car show at the Finney County Exhibition Build-ing on Sept. 19.
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Music is more than black notes on white pages. For these individu-als music is an expression of who they want to be.
Walking into the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building, music hits guests right away. It could be the sounds of the choir singing or the band play-ing. The sound of recordings can be heard while sitting at the round tables set in front of the glass wall of the building entrance.
“Music is an elemental force in everyone’s life whether they know it or not,” James McAllister, band director, said. “Music can help you express anything whether it be how you are feeling, to what you can’t say with words. Basically you have so many different ways of expressing yourself, there is no definite way and you have so many unique styles.”
Music lets people be who they want to be. “It gives me a way to express myself. It gives me the feeling of escaping, and just happiness,” Krisha Baker, Garden City, said.
Baker is a music major who is very passionate about music. “It lets me be ‘me.’ There’s no defi-nite way to do things, so I can always do some-thing new and unusual.”
Everything about music makes it special. It comes in so many different ways that everyone can find something they love. Cara Shrimplin, Garden City said, “ I like all types of music, different ar-rangements and different variations of songs.”
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Music major Krisha Baker, Garden City, creates music on the computers in the keyboarding lab in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building.
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With no music in the world, no one would know how to express themselves.
“Without music in the world, people would be lost,” McAllister said. “Music is an essential part in me. I don’t know where I would be without music in my life.”
Music helps everyone be who he or she wants to be in life.
“Music isn’t a hobby in my life, it is my life,” Baker said. “Music helped me be-come who I am today. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have music. I can as-sume it wouldn’t be good. I used music in the toughest times of my life and also the most joyful. If I didn’t have music, who knows where I would be?” Shrimplin said.
Anyone is free do anything with music to express themselves. “It’s just a way of ex-
pressing yourself with no one judging you. I would probably go insane without music in my life, life would be very boring and there would be nothing but books.”
Everyone wants to do good at what they love. Going far in music is what most people only dream about.
“There are so many frontiers that have yet to be explored. There are so many mil-lions of more possibilities. I want to write my own songs and hopefully be able to perform them one day. I always wanted to be a famous singer, and I look up to cer-tain people who have made their dreams come true, like Taylor Swift,” Baker said. “Although I’m majoring in education I want to have music as a hobby in my life, always,” Shrimplin said.
Music is important in everyone’s life. It helps express feelings and says what words can’t. Anyone can sing a song about any-thing or pick up an instrument and play a happy or sad tune. Music helps people learn things about themselves they didn’t know they had in them. It’s a way of show-ing how times and feelings have changed over the years. It shows growth. Hard work and determination help create and polish a great musician.
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Cara Shrimplin, Garden City, and Krisha Baker, Garden City, review “The Awakening” for concert choir Oct. 14 in the halls of the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building.
“Music is an elemental force in everyone’s life whether they know it or not.”
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Cara Shrimplin, Garden City, plays classical songs on the piano in a Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building practice room. Shrimplin has played the piano for nine years and has made music a hobby, since she is an education major.
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Sometimes there are rocks on the path to success, but these three studentsrefused to allow those rocks to stop them.
SURRENDERRefusing to
Erik Lozano, third from the left, cheers and yells with members of the Hispanic American Leader-ship Organization during the 84th Annual Comunity Fiesta parade on Sept. 11. The parade marched down Main Street and began at 10 a.m. “Este es mi Pueblo,” was the theme for this year’s Fiesta. Fol-lowing the parade was entertain-ment at Stevens’ Park and a dance at the Finney County Exhibition Building.
for erik lozano, attending GCCC has been a great experience, but it has also had its barriers that have been difficult to overcome. He started at-tending GCCC in august of 2009 and began working toward his GeD in the adult Center.
“everyone in the GeD program helped me in the best way possible, which impulsed me to continue my academic career. My transition adviser, Nora Salazar, helped me plan my approaches that I would use to begin college,” erik lozano, Garden City, said.
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lozano’s college life began, but life out-side also kept going and there were many situations that he could not avoid nor con-trol. His family started going through harsh economic situations that obviously affected his concentration in class. Other personal situations were presented that also affected his emotional state.
“Obviously everyone is different when it comes to approaching problems. I simply could not deal with some situations, but if it were not for the great friends and family I have, I would of not been able to be where I am today,” lozano said.
even though lozano walks to school ev-eryday, he manages to be present in his class-es on time and keeps his grades up. It has
been difficult for him at times, but he knows that it is all worth it.
“I personally have gone through some ill-nesses that have made me miss a few days of classes, and obviously have affected my class work. Those situations might of happened, but I am determined and I know I cannot quit,” lozano said.
lozano completed his GeD in May 2010 while he was also taking college courses. He is currently continuing with his education at GCCC and is also involved in many organi-zations such as HalO, art club, yell leading and he was a homecoming candidate.
“I am a proud buster knowing that this is just the beginning of many more achieve-ments I will accomplish. all that I do to make
it to the end, no matter if I walk and feel ill or inconvenient things come up I will feel better looking in front of the goal, graduat-ing from Garden City Community College and transferring to a four year university to study architecture. This will be victory and I will be standing next to many others who have experienced a difficult road for success,” lozano said.Alejandro Molina
alejandro Molina was born in brigh-ton, Colo. when he turned two years old his parents were going through some harsh times and had to move back to Mexico. after spending 14 years in balleza, Chihua-hua, Mexico, Molina’s family received their residential papers and were able to live in the United States. Molina was in the middle of his sophomore year in Mexico, but the fam-ily needed to move to the U.S. Molina and his family didn’t go back to Colorado, they decided to reside in Johnson City.
Molina began his junior year in kan-sas, but didn’t know any english at all. He was placed in english as a second language (eSl) classes during his junior and senior year of high school.
“The eSl classes helped me a lot, and mostly all the english I learned was at school, interacting with friends and family,” alejandro Molina, Garden City, said. “It was hard for me to leave everything behind and start all over again. It was hard finding new friends because I did not know how to main-tain a conversation with somebody.”
Molina managed to pass his junior year with a 4.0 grade point average. when he be-came a senior, he decided to join the football team. The football team would always train before school started, but then Molina was forced to quit due to back problems.
“I went for a check-up to the doctor’s of-fice to see what was going on with my back and the doctor told me that I would no lon-ger be able to play football because a wrong move would permanently damage my back,” Molina said.
Molina was no longer playing sports, but he was putting hard effort into his courses.
Alejandro Molina, Garden City, checks the oil from a tractor during a John Deere course, Oct. 22. He is currently in the John Deere Tech program and he has to learn many of the mechanic terms, which can be a challenge sometimes, but he will not give up.
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Fabiola Hutto, Garden City, studies for KANCO college skills class, Oct.11. Proj-ect KANCO is a College Assistance Migrant Program that provides students with a successful college completion .
During school, Molina’s most challenging class was government, he would do all his assignments, but was afraid of raising his hand and having to explain certain things to the teacher in front of everyone because he did not wan to be judged by peers.
“I disliked having to do presentations during class because my diction was not perfect. The first time I had to present, I was terrified, but after I finished my pre-sentation, I felt good and more confident towards myself,” Molina said.
built with confidence, Molina started going out with friends and began being more involved in school, and that is how he began learning most of his english. Two months before Molina graduated high school, he got a job at Golden rule Incor-porated, which is a John Deere Tech dealer at Johnson City.
“I loved it so much, I decided to be a John Deere technician or a diesel mechan-ic,” Molina said.
after graduating from Stanton County High School, Molina moved to Garden City to attend college. as a freshman, it is still difficult for Molina.
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“I usually get help from advisers and professors, since I am not shy anymore and do ask many questions. I will finish the John Deere Tech program as an excel-lent student. In the future I will continue my education and study in the business area,” Molina said. Fabiola Hutto
fabiola Hutto returned home from work after a 14-hour shift to discover that her three children were gone. Hutto was about to get a divorce, and her husband decided to take their children to South Carolina without her permission.
“It took me two months to get my two oldest children back,” fabiola Hutto, Gar-den City, said.
“because he is the father and there was not a court order at the time, he could le-gally take them out of the state without my knowledge or consent. It was the worst thing he could have done to me.”
Hutto struggled, but managed to get enough money to go to South Carolina to obtain her children. Upon arrival, she was informed by her husband that she would not take all the children back with her.
“I called the police department and they informed me that he had as much right as I did to have the children with him, until we could get a judge to rule on it. It was trau-matizing,” Hutto said.
Hutto did not give up, she began to work harder and started saving money to hire an attorney. It took two months, but she was able and file for divorce and obtain custody of all her children.
“My ex refuses to pay child support, so I currently have two jobs,” Hutto said. “In a weird way, he was the reason that I decided to start school. I had tried in the past, but he was against me coming to school, so he would do everything he could to make it hard on me, so I dropped out. because of the fact that he does not provide for the children, I decided to go to college so my children can have a better life.”
Hutto is now the mother of four chil-dren. She is taking 15 credit hours at GCCC, has two jobs, is the Girl Scouts troop leader and also a volunteer in many of the community events.
“It sounds like a lot for a single mom to handle and is it, but I enjoy it. My children inspire me to keep strong and keep going,” Hutto said.
Getting a divorce was difficult for Hut-to, but she said that after 11 years of mental and verbal abuse she had to call it quits for her own sanity and for her children. She did not want to send the wrong message to her children.
“I went through a lot, but I learned that if you work hard you get what you work for,” Hutto said. Somebody came to my door one day and told me about the Mi-grant Program, and that is how everything got started. I feel like I had to go through ev-erything I went through in order for me to be where I am at now. Now, I am in college and I am so excited.”
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Wake upin the mornin’
CollegeCollege life in TV and movies portrays
one big party. College in real life, however, is
much more than that. It’s what you make it.
Students at this lovely college in this lovely town of Garden City, Kansas, no sarcasm intended, don’t show enough school spirit. When-
ever I go to a event hosted by the col-lege, I’m excited to see all the people
who will be there. The event comes and only a handful of students show
up. Disappointment on the faces of the people in charge of the event can break hearts. Oh, by the way, did you
know that your heart is the size of your fist? Yet, the event is still a good time and anyone can meet new friends. I wish more people would go to support their college. College is about meeting new people and making friends. If someone doesn’t go to any events then that’s less friends they will make. Sucks to be them. College events are actually a lot of fun. You see classmates you thought would never be seen outside
Studentfeeling like a
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of class having the time of their life, living it up, laughing and talking to friends.
So, I was reading this book called “You Suck” the other day and in the book the chick was being all random. It was good. Read it. Anyway-
More people need to go out for teams. Last year the forensics team had four women on the team. The team had three people signed up to participate this year, but since there were less then last year, the college decided to cancel the program, making many people angry. Many people being me and the two other people signed up. Money was also a problem, but that’s not the point.
Many students think that college is about parties and sleeping, but that’s not what college is about at all. Sure sleeping is good and the occasional party once in a while is nice, but actually doing some-thing worthwhile is great. Going out for a play or participating in the choir or band, or going out for a sport are even better options. I wish we had a quidditch team
here. Just saying.Making money is also a good thing to
do in college. Many people are done with classes by noon everyday, meaning they can go out and get a job, and employers usually hire people if they can work more. The traditional college aged student start-ing out is usually 18-19, and employers usually hire people in that age group. If you are use to sitting on your bottom and hav-ing everything handed to you, then maybe a job is a good thing to find. Learn to pro-vide for yourself.
College means you can live on your own, or with friends, or a loved one, or with a Smurf, or do a super smart thing and live with strangers, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that unless a thorough background check has been given. Some people live with their family until they are ready to live on their own. Living on your own means you can do whatever you want and finally “bean” adult and make adult decisions about everything. An example of that would be walking around in the same
underwear that hasn’t been washed for three days, or the greatest thing ever imag-ined would be drinking milk straight out of the carton. Even better would be drink-ing milk with a pink crazy straw straight out of the carton.
Imagine being able to make what you want for dinner, and not what your annoy-ing siblings want to eat. Note, Hamburger Helper five days in a row can get annoying. Usually college meals consist of Ramen, Pop-tarts, Hot Pockets, sometimes cereal, with luck. Speaking of luck, I love Lucky Charms, but I digress. College students eat a lot of easy foods that can be made fast with minimal mess to clean up. It’s your life to live, so pick the path you want to take down the long road that is life. That kind of sounded like a brochure. Did you realize I said the word “college” 14 times in this edition of Random Gab?
I’m kind of hungry.
“Cheeto’s make my fingers smell good.”-Gabby Stout, Perry the Platypus impersonator
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