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VOL. 18, NO. 12 MARCH 14, 2013 EGC3MEDIA.COM GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Jacqueline Majalca [email protected]The Academic Excellence Challenge Team nished 17th in the nation with a 6-5 record. ey competed in the National Academic Quiz Tournament, hosted in St. Louis, Mo. this past weekend. “We had a better record then any other Kansas team has ever had at national tournament,” said Kay Davis, sponsor of AEC Team and Science and Math Director. e AEC Team nished above Johnson County, 4-7 and Dodge City, 3-8. ey were the other two teams from Kansas and they nished 19th and 21st. “e competition was a lot of fun, I rather disappointed we didn’t get higher,” said Lawrence LaMastres one of the ve students that attend the competition. Even though the team obtained 17th place, Ben Hutchinson was disappointed. “I was hoping to finish at least on 16th place because we did that last year,” Hutchinson said. e AEC Team still has the Regional Kansas Sunower League tournament on April 5 and 6 that will be hosted at KSU Salina. e team is expecting to get rst or at least ranked in the top three. According to Davis, the team is concentrating on their weak areas, which are literature, music composition and geography. Ben Hutchinson, Mo Mora, Robin Dassey, Joshua Welch, and Lawrence LaMastres, were the five students that participated in the competition. ese young men represented GCCC in a fabulous manner. “It was really a lot of fun on Friday and Saturday, but I also enjoyed the competition, it was kind of good to see some of the other teams from all cross the nation.” Said Welch. e students also had the opportunity to experience other things rather then the competition. According to Davis, students were able to do some educational activities such as visiting the Da Vinci Exhibition, City Museum, and the Gateway Arch. “So it’s always good to do some educational things on top from the work of the tournament,” said Davis. Scan for bonus coverage at egc3media.com Benjamin Hutchinson, Josh Welch, Juarez, math instructor, Lawrence Lamastres and Kay Davis, AECT sponsor, are photographed standing by an equation representing they are No. 17 in the nation. Members Moises Mora and Robin Roland, not photographed. Enamel artwork to be featured in Mercer Gallery page 3 NEXT PRINT ISSUE — April 4, 2013 Silhouette The SCENE Journalists unite in New York page 6 SPORTS Lady Busters fall to Cowley page 5 Jesus Lozoya [email protected]see MOBILE LAB pg. 4 Since the U.S. Congress did not act to reduce the federal decit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, sequestration was triggered. Authorized in the Budget Control Act of August 2011, which mandated automatic across-the- board cuts, sequestration is mandating cuts to federal programs across the country, and some of those programs will have a direct impact the college and its students. e sequester’s original Jan. 2 implementation was delayed for two months, until March 1, as part of the scal cli deal reached earlier this year. College President Herbert J. Swender, Ph.D., said that it is dicult to understand how to operate without a budget at the federal level. “You always are hopeful that your federal government can deliver a budget like every state is required to do, like every college must do,” Swender said. “We could not operate this college without a budget. Is not a Republican or Democratic issue, I think it is a national issue. We need to have a budget to work from. It’s dicult, hard to understand how we can operate, we cannot operate our personal lives, the college, or the state without a budget. Without a formalized budget, it is dicult to understand federal spending.” Those areas directly impacted by the sequestration include U.S. Department of Education student aid and grant programs, such as Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Federal Work-Study, TRIO, GEAR UP, Title III-A, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Predominantly Black Institutions, and others. e U.S. Department of Labor’s Workforce Investment Act also will be aected, as will grant programs in other agencies, such as the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation. “e sequester will not aect the current awarded year 2013, well except for one, effective March 1, the origination fee on student loans has changed. However, they have not enforced it. e origination fee in student loans is going from 1 to 1.05 and on the parent loan is going from 4 to 4.2, we really don’t have many people that get parent loans,” said Kathleen Blau, director of nancial aid. The Department’s Federal Student Aid Sequestration impacts community, campus budget Academic Excellence Challenge Team ranked 17th in the nation Jesus Lozoya [email protected]see BUDGET CUTS pg. 3 After a day of the Mobile Lab arriving, the Meat Judging Team went into the new classroom to help set up tables and see the state-of-the-art addition to their program. The mobile lab will provide training for up-to 30 students on the road. JESUS LOZOYA | SILHOUETTE Students and faculty will transition from a traditional classroom to a state- of-the-art, $539,000 customized mobile trailer. Since its arrival on March 4, students and instructors in the Food Science and ServSafe program have been learning how to use the mobile lab. To demonstrate the process of opening and shutting down the mobile lab, a representative from Featherlite, the company that assembled the mobile classroom, was on hand the day the lab was delivered. “I think it’s really nice, I think it’s a lot bigger than I thought it would be. It’s going to be cool when we can get it up and running and actually use it for different educational purposes rather than just coming in and looking at it,” said Sarah Lightner a student from Garden City in the Food Science program. e 53-foot mobile lab expands to approximately 920 feet to accommodate a meat smoker, a packager, refrigeration for safe meat transporting, cutting tables, interactive whiteboards, laptop computers, carts, and computer hardware and software, allowing them to literally take the classroom wherever they go. “I think that this gives us an option to take instruction out to people who couldn’t necessarily come here because they are not close enough,” said Deanna Mann, director of institutional research and accreditation. Mann, who helped write the grant that funded the purchase of the mobile lab, said the college is working to develop training contacts. “Part of the grant is getting out there and seeing what the business needs and how ServSafe can help them,” Mann said. “Overtime it could accommodate an infinite number [of students].” According to Mann, the college estimates it will be able to serve 400 students by the end of the grant, and the mobile lab will be housed on campus after the end of the grant but will continue to be used to train students. e mobile classroom, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program Grant (TAACCCT), was made possible by the TRAC- 7 consortium, a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant from the U.S. Labor Department, which was coordinated by Washburn University. Swender said competition for the grant was very intense and they are very fortunate to receive the grant. “Garden City Community College was the recipient, in the consortium of Mobile Lab; training on wheels Deanna Mann, director of institutional research and accreditation I think that this gives us an option to take instruction out to people who couldn’t necessarily come here because they are not close enough. New addition to extend services to community Minor effects on the FROOHJH·V ÀVFDO \HDU
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VOL. 18, NO. 12 MARCH 14, 2013 EGC3MEDIA.COM GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Academic Excellence Challenge Team !nished 17th in the nation with a 6-5 record. "ey competed in the National Academic Quiz Tournament, hosted in St. Louis, Mo. this past weekend.
“We had a better record then any other Kansas team has ever had at national tournament,” said Kay Davis, sponsor of AEC Team and Science and Math Director.
"e AEC Team !nished above Johnson County, 4-7 and Dodge City, 3-8. "ey were the other two teams from Kansas and they !nished 19th and 21st.
“"e competition was a lot of fun, I rather disappointed we didn’t get higher,” said Lawrence LaMastres one of the !ve students that attend the competition.
Even though the team obtained 17th place, Ben Hutchinson was disappointed.
“I was hoping to finish at least on 16th place because we did that last year,” Hutchinson said.
"e AEC Team still has the Regional Kansas Sun#ower League tournament on
April 5 and 6 that will be hosted at KSU Salina. "e team is expecting to get !rst or at least ranked in the top three.
According to Davis, the team is concentrating on their weak areas, which are literature, music composition and geography.
Ben Hutchinson, Mo Mora, Robin Dassey, Joshua Welch, and Lawrence
LaMastres, were the five students that participated in the competition. "ese young men represented GCCC in a fabulous manner.
“It was really a lot of fun on Friday and Saturday, but I also enjoyed the competition, it was kind of good to see some of the other teams from all cross the nation.” Said Welch.
"e students also had the opportunity to experience other things rather then the competition. According to Davis, students were able to do some educational activities such as visiting the Da Vinci Exhibition, City Museum, and the Gateway Arch. “So it’s always good to do some educational things on top from the work of the tournament,” said Davis.
Scan for bonus coverage at egc3media.com
Benjamin Hutchinson, Josh Welch, Juarez, math instructor, Lawrence Lamastres and Kay Davis, AECT sponsor, are photographed standing by an equation representing they are No. 17 in the nation.Members Moises Mora and Robin Roland, not photographed.
Enamel artwork to
be featured in Mercer
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Since the U.S. Congress did not act to reduce the federal de!cit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, sequestration was triggered. Authorized in the Budget Control Act of August 2011, which mandated automatic across-the-board cuts, sequestration is mandating cuts to federal programs across the country, and some of those programs will have a direct impact the college and its students. "e sequester’s original Jan. 2 implementation was delayed for two months, until March 1, as part of the !scal cli$ deal reached earlier this year.
College President Herbert J. Swender, Ph.D., said that it is di%cult to understand how to operate without a budget at the federal level.
“You always are hopeful that your federal government can deliver a budget like every state is required to do, like every college must do,” Swender said. “We could not operate this college without a budget. Is not a Republican or Democratic issue, I think it is a national issue. We need to have a budget to work from. It’s di%cult, hard to understand how we can operate, we cannot operate our personal lives, the college, or the state without a budget. Without a formalized budget, it is di%cult to understand federal spending.”
Those areas directly impacted by the sequestration include U.S. Department of Education student aid and grant programs, such as Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Federal Work-Study, TRIO, GEAR UP, Title III-A, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Predominantly Black Institutions, and others. "e U.S. Department of Labor’s Workforce Investment Act also will be a$ected, as will grant programs in other agencies, such as the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation.
“"e sequester will not a$ect the current awarded year 2013, well except for one, effective March 1, the origination fee on student loans has changed. However, they have not enforced it. "e origination fee in student loans is going from 1 to 1.05 and on the parent loan is going from 4 to 4.2, we really don’t have many people that get parent loans,” said Kathleen Blau, director of !nancial aid.
The Department’s Federal Student Aid
Sequestration impacts community, campus budget
Academic Excellence Challenge Team ranked 17th in the nation
After a day of the Mobile Lab arriving, the Meat Judging Team went into the new classroom to help set up tables and see the state-of-the-art addition to their program. The mobile lab will provide training for up-to 30 students on the road.
JESUS LOZOYA | SILHOUETTE
Students and faculty will transition from a traditional classroom to a state-of-the-art, $539,000 customized mobile trailer. Since its arrival on March 4, students and instructors in the Food Science and ServSafe program have been learning how to use the mobile lab. To demonstrate the process of opening and shutting down the mobile lab, a representative from Featherlite, the company that assembled the mobile classroom, was on hand the day the lab was delivered.
“I think it’s really nice, I think it’s a lot bigger than I thought it would be. It’s going to be cool when we can get it up and running and actually use it for different educational purposes rather than just coming in and looking at it,” said Sarah Lightner a student from Garden City in the Food Science program.
"e 53-foot mobile lab expands to approximately 920 feet to accommodate a meat smoker, a packager, refrigeration for safe meat transporting, cutting tables, interactive whiteboards, laptop computers, carts, and computer hardware and software, allowing them to literally take the classroom wherever they go.
“I think that this gives us an option to take instruction out to people who couldn’t necessarily come here because t h e y a r e n o t close enough,” s a i d D e a n n a Mann, director of institutional r e s e a r c h a n d accreditation.
Mann, who helped write the grant that funded the purchase of the mobile lab, said the college is working to develop training contacts.
“Part of the grant is getting out there and seeing what the business needs and how ServSafe can help them,” Mann said. “Overtime it could accommodate an infinite number [of students].” According to Mann, the college estimates
it will be able to serve 400 students by the end of the grant, and the mobile lab will be housed on campus after the end of the grant but will continue to be used to train students.
"e mobile classroom, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program Grant (TAACCCT), was made possible by the TRAC-
7 consortium, a T r a d e A d j u s t m e n t A s s i s t a n c e C o m m u n i t y Co l l ege and Career Training Gr a n t f r o m the U.S. Labor Depar tment , w h i c h w a s c o o r d i n a t e d by Washburn
University.Swender said competition for the
grant was very intense and they are very fortunate to receive the grant.
“Garden City Community College was the recipient, in the consortium of
Mobile Lab; training on wheels
Deanna Mann, director of institutional research and accreditation
I think that this gives us an option to take instruction
out to people who couldn’t necessarily come here because
they are not close enough.
New addition to extend services to community
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Last Friday, the GCCC student body joined the “Harlem Shake” phenomenon when a video shot by the college admission’s department and edited by GC3 Student Media made its way to YouTube.
A quick search for “Harlem Shake” on YouTube yesterday returned more than 13 million results.
The “Harlem Shake” meme began on Feb. 2, 2013, when several parodies of DizastaMusic’s video were uploaded by YouTubers. !e dance itself is de"ned by Urban Dictionary as “An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.”
!e original “Harlem Shake” by Baauer was uploaded to YouTube Aug. 23, 2012. !e phenomenon has spread with various groups using the meme to further their own team bonding initiatives.
With a duration no more than 30 seconds and a basic premise, the video is easy to make and takes on its own personality with the characters that are featured.
Originally a dance move introduced more than 30 years ago by a man from Rucker Park in New York, “Harlem Shake” was Alberto Boyce’s, also known as AI B, dance move that he called the “drunken shake” or “alcoholic shake.”
Its popularity peaked in 1981 during half time at pickup basketball games. He said the moves reminded him of how mummies moved and it was in#uenced by the Egyptians.
Al B’s movements outside of con"nes of Harlem and New York City and began to be known as the “Harlem Shake.”
And within a matter of a few short weeks, the movement has swept across GCCC.
OPINION | 2 SILHOUETTE MARCH 14, 2013 Quotable“Sweet April showers do spring May !owers.” - Thomas Tusser
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“Things I would do to stay in focus would have to be going to the library and doing my homework everyday that way I don’t fall behind”.Lucero Cisneros, Garden City
“Well this is my last semester here in the college, so I’m just going to continue to work hard .”Chace Lumley,Sublette, Kan.
“Give my self time for sleep , become even more organized study hard for big projects”.Leah Staats, Garden City.
“My plans to stay in focused are to use more of the tutors, and study hard.” Aaryn Sharp Austin ,Texas.
“Don’t stop studying. Look over old notes and read ahead in the books and just go out and take some breaks.”Maria Perez, Garden City
“My plan is to move in the library that way I can get my homework done.” Chris Hall, Palm Beach, Fla.
“Being in a sport keeps me in focus, I have to make classes and school my priority, so I’m always trying my best to stay focused”. Brenden Lewis, Garden City
“Baseball is what keeps me going , if I don’t get good grades I wont be able to play or even transfer to another college without a good G.P.A .”Rocky Desantis, Broom!eld, Colo.
“I plan to make a schedule, stick to it and hopefully stay focused long enough until classes are over”. Contessa Caraballo, Leavenworth, Kan.
“I’m in the soccer team so for me I have to get good grades or I lose my scholarship so that keeps me in focus in my class.” Alex Ortiz, Santa Fe N.M.
I’m not sure what to think about the dance. It is a song and apparently anything can be a song now.
I’m not a big fan of the Harlem Shake, I think it is just another fad that will die down after awhile.
During halftime of the March 5 women’s basketball game, student fans joined the GCCC mascot Billy Buster to dance their version of the popular Harlem Shake. The video is online at http://goo.gl/lfZuB.
I thought the dance was fun at !rst but now that it plays every-where, it is just annoying
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It is "nally here, the time we have been waiting for since we came back from winter break. Tomorrow marks the beginning of spring break for many students. While we don’t deny the break is welcomed and needed, we are issuing a caution alert.
Sure, we have the next 10 days free of classes; however, we are only midway through the semester. We need to remember how hard we’ve worked to get to this point and the work that remains when we return. Bottom line, we can’t a$ord to slack o$.
Rather than letting spring break disrupt our focus, we issue a challenge to our peers to make the most of this time to refocus their e$orts. Sure, with the weather warming up and so many other distractions coming along with that, it is easy to get distracted.
Even faculty admit to having a case of spring fever. However, they have the discipline to remain focused and share some insight.
“Regardless of having homework or assignments, staying in their routine, getting up and being productive is key to being successful,” said Kyle Chaput, art instructor.
Our opinion editor Luis Reyes said he’s learned that it’s up to him to make his own success and to do that, he says his philosophy is simple.
“Staying focused, is staying organized,” Reyes said.Faculty agree. !e number one way to stay focused is to
keep organized. Know when things are due and schedule a time and place to get it done. If it is done in advance, there is more time to do the fun things. Instead of agonizing over sitting in the library “trying” to get some work done, take a "ve minute breather, walk around outside and then return to your work. It not only clears your head, the little bit of exercise raises endorphins and will improve your attitude.
With last weekend’s time change comes longer days and possibly a need to adjust schedules.
“After the time change, everybody should look at their schedules and prioritize their time,” said Jesus Lozoya, co-editor in chief.
While the author is unknown, the sentiment is worth repeating, “Some people dream of success...while others wake up and work hard at it.”
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CAUTION: Don’t let spring ‘break’ your focus, goals
Garden City Community College Business and Community Education Department are offering short-term courses in QuickBooks Pro 2011 Fundamentals and QuickBooks Pro 2011 Advanced. !e fundamental level course will be o"ered April 16, 18 and 23 from 6-8:30 p.m. !e course will show people in medium-size and small businesses how to keep their #nancial books easily and accurately, as well as ways to use the popular program to manage customer or vendor records, and handle banking transactions.
!e advanced course will be o"ered 6-8:30 p.m. May 2, 7
and 9. Participants will be able to build on knowledge from the fundamental course by learning how to manage physical inventory, sales tax and payroll, as well as handle asset, liability and equity accounts. !e total cost of this course will cost $135 per person. Information and registration are available at 620-276-9647, [email protected] or on the second $oor of the GCCC Student and Community Services Center. Information is also available under the Business and Community tab on the home page of the GCCC website, www.gcccks.edu. Classes will take place only with su%cient enrollment.
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MARCH 14GCCC Concert Band performance, 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium, Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building, featuring classic and contemporary selections. Free admission.MARCH 18!22GCCC Spring Break. No daytime or evening classes March 18-22. Campus o!ces open March 18-20 and closed March 21-22. All classes and regular o!ce and facility hours resume March 25.
Phi Theta Kappa members and advisors brought home over fifteen awards and recognitions, including the Most Improved Chapter Award at the 2013 Phi !eta Kappa Kansas Regional Convention. !e regional convention is held to recognize Phi !eta Kappa organizations across the Kansas region.
Eleven Phi Theta Kappa members including Luis Salazar, Joshua Welch, Colby Bienacki, and Robin Dassy were all recognized and awarded at the convention. Salazar was elected to represent the Kansas Region as the vice
president of the Western District. !is is the #fth year that GCCC has had a member on the regional o%cer team. Welch, Bienacki and Dassy were all recognized as level 5 members, which is the highest level of recognition for a member. Welch also received honorable mention for the Distinguished Chapter O%ce award.
Adding to the list, the GCCC chapter Alpha Xi Upsilon received the top award for the most improved chapter and was recognized as a Five Star Level Chapter through the Five Star Chapter
Development Plan. !e Alpha Xi Upsilon chapter also received honorable mention for the College Project Award, received recognition for the Honors in Action Award and won the Sister Chapter Award with Independence Community College.
PTK advisors Winsom Lamb and Lachele Greathouse were also awarded for their hard work with the chapter and received the Horizon Award. !e Horizon Award is awarded to active chapter advisors who have been advising for less than #ve years. !e convention was held in Hutchinson last Saturday.
(FSA) o%ce has begun developing the processes necessary to implement the higher loan fees mandated by sequester. One step is informing borrowers of the increased fee percentage so they have the opportunity to cancel or reduce their loan. FSA plans to send email (and where necessary, paper) noti#cations to student and parent borrowers who have a Direct Loan where the #rst disbursement occurs during the period of the sequestration. !e noti#cation will advise borrowers of the increased loan fee percentage and advise them that if they wish to cancel or reduce the amount of the loan they should contact the #nancial aid o%ce at their school according to David A. Bergeron, Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
“!ere is still money, the Pell grants still coming, the student loans are coming, there is a small fee that is going to be about a dollar di"erence in each disbursement, but for the whole year is two dollars, obviously, it does not matter if it [student] is freshman or sophomore is about a dollar di"erence in each disbursement. But that’s the biggest e"ect that there is right now, about one dollar on each loan disbursement net value,” Blau said.
!e campus-based programs are fully funded at the start of the award year. !erefore, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) programs for Award Year 2012-2013 were fully funded in Federal #scal year 2012 and are una"ected by the sequester.
“FSEOG is suppose to get cut by 5 percent it had actually given us an increase, overall we might end up with a tiny little more money for next year than we had last year and the prediction for our work study is that they will not going to get cut, in some schools it will,” Blau said. “It was suppose to be a 5.1 percent cut of work study and SCOG, but the predictions that we have seen of our school is that we are not going to be cut from our work study.”
Martha Lisk, director of Student Services, said they are not going to have any further reduction for the 2013 year, as the grant was refunded on August 2010 for the 2010-2011 year.
“In 2011 and 2012 and 2013 has been budgeted 3 percent below what the original grant was written for. !ey are now talking about 2013-14 that there is going to be a 5 percent cut, so that will be an 8 percent cut to our budget,” Lisk said.
Lisk said the difference between what the program has this year and next year is $13,764 less and what they have lost in the #rst cut was $8,810 and all together is a reduction of $22,574, with no reduction on the services or the students that they are serving.
!e Mercer Gallery welcomes three artists with the opening of “Enamel Diversity”. !e three
women whose work is displayed reside in Wichita, Kan., and have all been involved with the Wichita Center for the Arts. Linda Gerbert began her exploration of enameling after attending her #rst class in the late 1960’s. She has taken her talents and taught
enameling and silversmithing classes for close to 15 years. Her inspiration comes from nature shown either through texture, pattern, or other design elements. !e second artist in show is Jennifer Walterscheid. Her art mediums include painting, enameling,
and wire and beadwork. Her accomplishments include gallery displays around the Wichita area and awards for her work with enamel. !e theme of her work tends to center around her Christian faith. !e #nal artist in show is Susan de Wit. She uses many mediums
including copper enamel, clay, glass, and felted #ber. She loves any art that takes heat to create. She has made Legacy Murals with school children for them to come back to after graduation and truly believes that art can inspire social change.
Registration for Electrical Safety and Workplace Practices course is available for enrollment through April 5. The course is designed to help participants identify and classify electrical hazards and apply techniques and procedures for safe work practices. !e class is at 8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 13 and costs $299 per person. !e fee covers the cost of the NFPA 70E handbook for the course. Topics include electrical principles, hazard prevention, arc blast and $ash, selecting $ash protection PPE, lockout tag out, grounding and more. According to class coordinator, Jean Warta director of continuing education, the course o"ers those who take it a better understanding of construction as well as a potential for certi#cation. “More and more employers in construction are
requiring a course on electrical safety, it seems natural that we help the community by o"ering it here.” !e course meets the mandates of training as prescribed in NFPA 70E, Chapter 1, Article 110.6. Participants should be able to read one-line diagrams, understand how to take voltage measurements, identify which system parts are intended to carry voltage or current, and be familiar with construction and operation of the equipment currently used. Class will only take place with su%cient enrollment, however Warta says eight have already enrolled with 10 being the minimum number of participants. Deadline for registration is April 5. For more Information regarding course, contact 620-276-9647, [email protected] or go to the top $oor of the GCCC Student and Community Services Center.
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MOBILE LAB continued from pg. 1community colleges—TRAC-7, we went together and we received, as a state of Kansas 20 million dollars from that, and Garden City got $1.7 [million] of that,” said Herbert J. Swender, Ph.D. College President. “!at is where you saw that new mobile classroom, after it was funded by the Department of Labor.”
Swender explained that anyone dealing with food or the handling of food in the public sector has to have an endorsed ServSafe certification. The program is going to be taken to the on site vendors and will provide on site certi"cation.
In response to the growing need for credentialed personnel in the food safety industry, GCCC is starting its own food safety and inspection program with the $1.7 million share of the grant and is expanding the capacity of the Food and Animal Science Program with enhanced facilities and a curriculum that includes stackable credentials.
“!is is very important because now local businesses do not have to travel to Topeka or travel somewhere else to get certification. This mandate [ServSafe] came out in the last two years from the department of Agriculture…” said Swender. “… [the mobile lab] is part of the opportunity and mission we have to help local businesses. !is is a good example of the college stepping up and doing that.”
The grant program is intended to collaborate with the six other Kansas community colleges in the TRAC-7
consortium in its efforts to provide workers with training in the inspection of restaurants, meat packing, and food processing plants as well as providing academic credentials.
“It gives us basically all the advantages of campus out on the road. It’ll be very beneficial to our program. I think it’s
really good, I think they did an excellent job. It’s very nice, de"nitely well worth the money. We’ll put it to good use,” added Clinton Alexander, Ph.D., Animal Science instructor.
According to Alexander, the food safety industry demands operators and employees in restaurants, cafeterias, and related
facilities to have a better understanding of food safety requirements.
!e mobile lab will come into play by traveling anywhere in Kansas, as well as neighboring states, to provide academic and industry-recognized credentials needed in the food safety workforce and to train workers with the necessary skills.
Herbert Swender, Ph.D., President of GCCC at the arrival of the mobile lab. When the lab is up and running, classroom will travel anywhere in Kansas and neighboring states to train students and workers necessary skill sets for employment.
Ten years ago when James McAllister arrived at GCCC, he became a part of the Jazz Festival. !e event was originated by Bruce Spiller, former director of bands, more than 20 years ago.
Now, the Jazz Festival has become known as an event that gives every band a chance to perform and the opportunity to work with top-notch musicians. McAllister, Ph.D. GCCC director of bands said it isn’t about competition - nobody is being ranked, judged or rated against one another - rather it is an opportunity to learn more about Jazz and receive feedback.
“!e Jazz Festival was successful this year, with "ve middle schools and "ve high schools attending,” McAllister said.
!is year’s Jazz Festival concert featured !e Southwest Kansas All-Star Big Band. It took place March 11 in the auditorium of
the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. !ere were 14 musicians from all over southwest Kansas Monday evening, including two special guests. !e special guests were Keith Mallory on drum set and Dr. Todd Wilkinson on saxophone.
Wilkinson has conducted Honors Jazz Bands throughout the Midwest and has worked as a clinician/adjudicator in Washington, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Texas, Colorado, and Missouri. He is now the Director of Jazz Studies and Instructor of Saxophone at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kan. Wilkinson holds three degrees, which include a Bachelors of Music in Jazz Performance from Arizona State University, a Master of Arts in Music !eory and Composition from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Doctorate of Arts in Saxophone Performance from the University of Kansas.
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Band members of the Jazz Festival included participants of !ve middle schools and !ve high school instructors.
James McAllister, Ph.D. conducting the jazz festival that was hosted at the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. The festival showcased 14 musicians from the southwestern region of Kansas.
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Alaura Sharp, the head coach for the Broncbuster women’s basketball team is every bit of the word proud after !nishing the season with an overall record of 29-4 and a conference record of 13-3. "e Lady Broncbuster’s !nished second in the conference and finished at the number 13 spot in the NJCAA poll. "e lady Broncbuster’s lost to Cowley County in the Region VI semi!nal game with a score of 52-68 knocking them out of
the tournament. “I am extremely proud of our season. Not just proud of our team and all that they have accomplished on the basketball court, but I am proud of how they have handled themselves in the community and in the classroom.” said Sharp “"ey are a very special group and they have made me a better person and coach.” Now that the women’s basketball season is over Coach Sharp is already working on recruitment for the upcoming season, she says “We have a lot of recruiting to do for next year. We
had a very sophomore dominant roster so we will hit the recruiting trail very hard and reload for another great season.” In closing Sharp started “"ere is nothing more that our team or sta# could have done for this year. We reached our potential as a team and that is the ultimate goal.” This team was a powerhouse team for GCCC. "ey played well this year and although lost in the semi!nal’s of the Region VI tournament still left a mark on the history of the school.
"e GCCC men’s golf team placed second at the OPSU invitational tournament on March 12, hosted at home course Bu#allo Dunes.
Although the team hasn’t got to practice much this season due to weather conditions the team is still on their way to having a great season. Garden City !nished 6 strokes behind the winner of the tournament Bethany College who shot 305.
Will Paulsell placed second as an individual; along with him tied and !nishing in the 6th position was Zach Dunlap and Trey Fankhouser both shooting a 157. Matthew LeGrange 9 position.
After a short conversation with Trey Fankhouser one could say that as a golfer for the GCCC team that him and the rest of the team has high hopes for the remainder of the season. Fankhouser said “We are looking good for this season.” With the weather looking up hopefully the team can get out on the course and improve their game to bring home some !rst position endings for the remainder of the season.
After having games moved from Pratt to Garden City on March 2-3 the lady Broncbuster softball team came out with a weekend record of 1-3.
"ey won the !rst game against Pratt 4-1 and lost the second to Lamar with a !nal score of 0-8. On Sunday Garden City came out against Lamar and lost 3-8 and also lost to Pratt with a nail biter !nishing at 7-9.
“Overall I think o#ensively we didn’t do our job very well and we had a lot of runners left on bases. We just need to do a better job of scoring our runners. We get them on base but we need to get them in.” Said Softball Head Coach Rebecca Holland; “We just need to !ne tune a few things and capitalize on our o#ense and work a little bit better defensively.”
Although the Lady Broncbuster’s lost to Pratt and Lamar they turned around on March 6 and beat Colby in both games played. "e girls ended their day with a 2-0 record by winning the !rst game at 7-6 and the second at 6-5.
“I thought we did a good job of coming back and not giving up. We trailed 6-1 in the !rst game and I believe we were tied in the second and I felt we did a really good job of not giving up and battling back to get the wins.” said Holland.
On March 12 the girls traveled to Altus, Okla. to face Western Oklahoma State College and lost both games with the scores being set at 0-5 and 3-7.
“I think we had opportunities to win both games, but never felt like we were attacking the game.” Said Holland, “We have to do a better job believing in ourselves and knowing we can compete with anybody.”
The Lady Broncbuster’s next game is vs. Barton County in Great Bend, Kan. on March 16 and March 22 vs. Seward County, also on their home !eld.
In closing Holland said “We are working on a lot of di#erent things in practice and will continue to get better and compete for a conference and region title.”
With that kind of attitude one should expect great things from the girls in their upcoming games.
“I thought our start versus NWOSU was very good,” said head coach Chris Finnegan. “I was pleased with the way we handled our business on the road and our execution on the !eld.”
Finnegan said he thought Iowa Western was a very good !rst series of games for the young Buster baseball team.
“I thought we learned a lot about our team,” Finnegan said. “During the four game set we had plenty opportunities to win the series but IWCC came through with some big pitches and clutch hitting to win the series three to one.”
"e Broncbuster’s then headed to Rose State where they lost their three game series 3-8, 4-7, and 7-11.
“At Rose State we had plenty of opportunities during game one to win,” Finnegan said. “We left a plethora of base runners in scoring position. Game two was the same story and with game three we could not put the dagger in the dragon to win. We found out how much more we need to prepare mentally for our next weekend.”
After having a three-game streak of losses against Rose State, the Broncbuster baseball team then played Longview winning 2-4 games with an even split.
“Saturday I was very pleased with how we came out to play. We worked on the !eld all week to get the !eld ready and we came out
like we were shot out of a cannon. On Sunday, our attitude and e#ort – two things we can control – was what caught us napping. Longview is a very good club that chipped away all weekend and they earned the split,” said Finnegan.
Next up was the game against McCook which had been canceled and rescheduled due to weather complications.
“McCook was another day of us not controlling our attitude and e#ort,” Finnegan said. “McCook $at out played us and wanted to win more than we did. "ey came ready to play while we went through the motions.”
"e Broncbuster’s lost the game 2-5. "is last weekend the baseball team hosted Hutchinson CC and won 3-4 games.
“Winning should always make you want to get up in the morning and keep getting better. We were very fortunate that we walked away with winning 3-4 from the games against Hutchinson.” "e team’s next game was also a win against La Junta, Colo. "e team ended the game with a score of 6-5.
“We got o# the bus like a lazy team, BP was terrible, and pre-game was very average; then they proved me wrong by jumping out to a 4-0 lead and adding to it. We got a great start from TJ Clapper, we committed zero errors, and our bats stayed consisted. Otero is a tough place to play at and I thought in the end we did what we were supposed to do,” said Finnegan.
"e team has a record of 8-10 with more games to be played this weekend.
File photo, Brittney Maxwell, Wichita, Kan. during the game against Norhtwest Tech. The Lady Busters went on to win against Northwest 75-39.
Matt LeGrange, Guymon, Okla. during the OPSU Tournament.To see more photos of the BroncBuster Golf Team visit eGC3Media.com
No. 9 Kallie Hoover, Edgewater, Colo. during the game against Lamar, Colo. despite their e!ort, the Lady Busters lost the game 3-8.
No. 11, Bradley Spires, right handed pitcher for the Busters during the game against Longview. The Busters split 2-4.
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Representing the publications of GC3 Media, students attended the College Media Association’s spring media conference in New York City.
Attendees of the trip were Harley Torres and Adrian McElroy from the Silhouette newspaper and !omas Mendoza, Arely Ortiz, Samantha Trejo, and Jacqueline Majalca from Breakaway magazine.
!e students sold advertising for the student publication organization called GC3 Media. Advertising revenue gained by the students were used to o"set their expenses.
More than 1,400 student journalists, media advisers and faculty converge in New York to learn more about their industry by attending some of the 320 sessions scheduled over the course of three days lead by faculty and industry professionals. The primary focus is to develop and hone skills that will help them as college journalists that quite possibly will lead them to a career.
Ortiz and Trejo, attended a session about making typefaces from scratch.
“!e presenters gave a situation where a specialty font would be needed, like a hotdog shaped one,” says Ortiz. “!ey showed us how to make it, rather than try and work with what fonts we could #nd online. It was a great exercise in creativity.”
The event also serves as a way for
students to network with other student journalists as well as connecting with the professionals in media.
McElroy attended the conference not knowing exactly what his role in journalism was.
“!is trip was life changing and opened my eyes up to a much bigger world than what has been placed in front of me. Although I am not 100 percent sure what I would like to do as a career after college, I do know that I want to be a part of a communications team.”
Along with the opportunity to network with professionals, student journalists were able to share their publications and personal portfolios with professionals and receive critiques.
Torres had the opportunity to get a photo critique from professional photographer John Mantel. “I didn’t get a favorable response from him but it pushes me and my photography to get better.”
In addition to the sessions and keynotes, attendees were also allowed to go on media tours of big name corporations in New York. Mendoza, along with other attendees toured the Viacom tower.
“We met with the director of Human Resources Andrea Sabia who shared with us what the interns do. You get hands on experience about what your career in Viacom could be,” Said Mendoza “It was a once in a lifetime experience.” Mendoza plans to apply for an internship at Viacom.
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