Dana LoewenEditor

The community, students andteachers gathered for a relaxingevening of poetry and coffeeApril 14 in the Shank Humani-ties Building.

Eight Seward students readtheir original poetry for the annu-al Poetry Coffee House. Thesestudents were Samantha Gille-spie, Caitlin Workman, Alexan-der Olinger, Kirsten Morris,Nancy Baez, Gwen Friesen,Dana Loewen and Jose Ro-driguez.

Morris had read her poetry forher high school English class be-fore, but it was her first time par-ticipating in Poetry Night. Afterher experience this year, sheplans on participating next yearalso.

“It felt kind of natural,” saidMorris. “I was just expressingemotion that people feel on adaily basis. Actually, I’m work-ing on new poetry for next yearas we speak.”

The three high school poetrycontest winners were announcedand read their winning poems forthe audience. English instructorsJanice Northerns and Bill Mc-Glothing, who hosted the event,also read some of their originalpoetry to conclude the evening.

“I was pleased with the read-ers; I think they did an excellentjob,” McGlothing said. “Somehad never read before and that’sa hard thing to do. I was alsopleased with listeners; it was anexcellent crowd for poetry read-ing. They listened well, which isall a poet can ask for and not al-ways what a poet gets.”

Northerns is already lookingforward to next year and plan-ning new additions to the event.

“The high school poetry con-test turned out to be a good addi-tion, so we’ll continue that.”Northerns said.

She and McGlothing also an-nounced at the end of the nightthat they would like to do a “po-etry slam” next year and askedthe audience for a topic. Thetopic chosen was “procrastina-tion” and Northerns and Mc-Glothing promised not to disap-point next year.

Some of the readers also haveor will have their poetry pub-lished in the newest addition ofthe Telolith, the college’s litera-ture and art magazine.

These include Friesen, Gille-spie, Loewen, Olinger, Ro-driguez and Workman.

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Original poetry shared at annual poetry coffee house

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• SPRING CONCERT featuringthe SCCC/ATS concert band,Singing Saints concert choir andthe Sound Express show choirwill be at 7 p.m. tonight at theShowcase Theatre. Seward stu-dents can receive a free ticket,otherwise tickets are $2. Moneyraised will go towards musicscholarships.

• ATHLETIC BANQUET willtake place at 6 p.m. on Friday,April 29 in the SCCC/ATS gym-nasium. All athletes, cheerlead-ers, dancers, managers and train-ers will be recognized and hon-ored for their contribution to theathletic program at SCCC. Tick-ets are required to attend thebanquet.

• GRADUATION will begin at10 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 atthe SCCC/ATS gymnasium.

•TRiO GRAD. BANQUET willbe from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday,May 6 in Room SW229 C&D.

•FLOWERS are being sold forgraduation by Phi Theta Kappa.Orders are due by Friday, April29 to Debbie Stafford in RoomA151 and will be ready to bepicked up during the afternoonof May 13 or the morning ofMay 14. The cost is $20 for halfa dozen, or $25 for a dozen.

•A WORKSHOP for metal artworks hosted by SusanRinger-Koons will be at 10 a.m.on Tuesday, May 3 in RoomH121 in the Shank HumanitiesBuilding.

•DORMPALOOZA will start ataround 6 p.m. on Thursday, May5 behind the Student LivingCenter. Prizes will be given outto individual winners of thePhonathon and games will beavailable for students.

•MASCOT SEARCH submis-sion ideas will be taken inthrough May 1. Contact RoyAllen at roy.allen@sccc.eduwith any questions.

Kansas State regent to speak at graduationContributed to Crusader

Gary Sherrer, chair of theKansas Board of Regents, willbe the featured speaker at the2011 graduation ceremony at 10a.m., Saturday, May 14 at the Se-ward County Community Col-lege gym.

In 2007, Gov. Kathleen Sebe-lius appointed Sherrer of Over-land Park to theKansas Board ofRegents. He hasserved as theChair of theBoard’s Academ-ic Affairs Com-mittee and as theChair of the StateUniversity Ad-missions TaskForce.

Sherrer previ-ously served asKansas’ 45thLieutenant Gov-ernor. He was ap-pointed LieutenantGovernor in 1996,the first individual in the state’shistory to be appointed to the po-sition, was subsequently electedin 1998, and served until 2003.Sherrer was the longest-servingLieutenant Governor in Kansashistory.

Sherrer began his professionalcareer as a public school teacher,specializing in speech and de-

bate, and then spent the majorityof his career in banking. Heserved as the Secretary of theKansas Department of Com-merce from 1995-2002, is a pastChairman of the National Asso-ciation of Lieutenant Governors,and received the Carl PerkinsHumanitarian Award in 2000 forhis contributions to the advance-ment of career and technical ed-

ucation. His civic in-

volvement in-cludes servingon the LibertyM e m o r i a lBoard of Gov-ernors and as aJohnson Coun-ty CommunityCollege Foun-dation Boardmember.

Sherrer hasbeen involvedin leadershiptraining and de-

velopment formore than 25 years

and was a founder of the Leader-ship Kansas program. Sherrerearned a bachelor’s degree fromEmporia State University andhas received ESU’s Award ofExcellence and DistinguishedAlumni Award.

He has two grown childrenand enjoys playing tennis in hisfree time.

Sherrer

Lizuly Monarrez

Crusader staff

This year’s phonathon to raise scholarshipmoney for Seward County Community CollegeArea Technical School raised more than $27,000.

Members of various clubs and organizations oncampus called alumni, family and friends for do-nations. Each pledge varied from $5 to $100 or

more, depending on the providers’ wish.Although the original goal was to raise $33,000,

students, especially the nursing leadership classwho won this year with a total of $8,329, feel verypleased with their accomplishment.

Elizabeth Mercado, a student in the nursingleadership class said, “It felt good and satisfyingto have helped the school and our nursing depart-ment with the $500 we won. We get a catered meal

with the money and the remainder is in a fund forour nursing department.”

Like last year, nursing and baseball fought forfirst place, but the baseball team came in secondplace this year, with a total of $7,538.

“We did well, despite the fact that we had fewerstudents calling,” Tammy Doll, director of devel-opment, said. “In order to raise more, more stu-dents have to call, with a lot more calling times.

We will make changes to try to improve nextyear.”

The individual prizes, which include a 32-inchflat screen TV, 8 GB iPod Touch, $150 Wal-Martgift card, two digital cameras, 20 large pizzas,$300 Visa gift card and $500 cash for the club ororganization that raised the most, will be an-nounced and rewarded at the “Dormpalooza” onThursday, May 5 at around 6 p.m.

Alfredo AnayaEditor

Dennis Sander, who has 20years of experience in higher ed-ucation in finance administra-tion, is a candidate for the deanof finance position to take overafter current Dean of Adminis-trative Services, TommyWilliams, retires this summer.

Although there were original-ly four candidates who appliedfor the position, two have with-drawn their applications due topersonal issues and the third can-didate did conduct a phone inter-view with theadministrativeteam.

Sanders visit-ed the Sewardcampus on April14 and met withseveral instruc-tors and staff ofthe college whilealso discussingwhat he wouldlike to accom-plish as dean offinance.

Sanders is cur-rently the vice-president of fiscalaffairs at St. Grego-ry’s University in Shawnee,Okla., and has had experience incommunity college settings as hehas worked at Northeastern Ju-nior College in Sterling, Colo.,and at the North Central KansasVocational Technical School inBeloit.

Sanders, who is familiar withthe southwest Kansas area, be-lieves that the quality of educa-tion at Seward stands out.

“First of all, I am very im-pressed with the professionalism

and the up-to-date academicsand quality of instruction and ac-tivities,” Sander said. “I’m fa-miliar with Liberal, I grew up inDodge City, so I like the area.”

Sander has a BA from St.Mary of the Plains, an MBAfrom the University of NotreDame and has also completedcoursework at the WashburnUniversity School of Law inTopeka. According to Sander, hisdepth of experience in higher ed-ucation is one of the best quali-ties he brings to the position.

“I’ve been working with stu-dents my whole career; it’s been

more than 20years, and in factI have a daugh-ter who is in col-lege right now,”Sander said.

Sander decid-ed to apply forthis position be-cause he enjoysthe area, as he isfamiliar with itand was raisednearby.

“It’s close tohome. I havefamily in Dodge

City and in thearea,” Sander said.

“Mostly I’m a native of the areaso I guess as a result I’m, as theysay, a ‘home-grown’ boy.”

Sanders also stated he has afew goals he would like to meetand accomplish if he is hired forthe position.

“No. 1 is to maintain the excel-lence that’s been established,”Sander said. “To maintain thestandard of excellence first andforemost and from that point Ihope that I can help achieve thegoals of the strategic plan.”

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Deisi BarbozaOnline editor

An ad produced by SewardCounty Community Collegestudents will be showing in themovie theatres in Liberal andGuymon. The ad will promotethe Computer InformationsSystem program on campus.

“Mindy ( H o l d e r )and I arethinking ofways to hita larger au-dience forour class-es. Wem a i n l ywanted toadvert isel o c a l l y ,and weknow a lot of people in smalltowns go to Guymon for themovie theater and we decidedLiberal as well,” CIS instructorRusty Tuman said.

Tuman also credited studentsAndrew Augerot and RobertSprenkle as the main contribu-tors to the ad.

“It is students like Andrewand Robert that make promot-ing our program easier because

of their motivation,” Tumansaid.

The character in the ads isnamed Leon. Work began onthe ad last spring and is now fi-nally finished. Augerot said heknew most of what needed tobe done for the ad, but said thatto make it look like someonewas walking was the most dif-

ficult task. The pro-

grams used tocreate the adwere Maya,P h o t o s h o pand After Ef-fects.

H o w e v e r ,this isn’t theonly projectthe CIS pro-gram has foradvertising.

“We are hoping to kick off anew advertising plan. We haveother projects in the works,”Tuman said.

One other project CIS is hop-ing to do is get a TV in the hall-way to show current and paststudent work.

“We want it to be student-runand show student work and anynews from CIS,” Tuman said.

The firststep inmaking amodel inMaya is awire frame.

The second step inmaking amodel in Mayais smooth shading the figure gray toadd depth. The third step,shown at left,is to add texture andcolor. Once thisis done, the animator canrig the figure tomove.

CIS program creates visual advertisement display

Phonathon individual prizes to be awarded at Dormpalooza event

Crusader photo/Dana Loewen

Janice Northerns, English instructor, hands the second place award of the area-wide high school poetrycontest during Poetry Night to Khannah Wetmore, of Dodge City. The first place winner was Ananda Cole-man, from Liberal, and in third place was Robbi Lewis, also from Liberal. An honorable mention was alsogiven to Liberal student Alexandria Bowen. The students also go to perform their poetry for the audience.

Community joins students and faculty forthe annual Spring Fiesta & Car Show.

Many a ctivities were available including Zumba and face painting.

Seward graduate teaches abroadSCCC graduate experiences life asa teacher in South Korea.

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Cowboy Round Up

Jim Gray, a sixth generation Kansascowboy, talks toan audience abouthis heritage andconcludes the Lunchin the Library seriesfor the year.

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The official student newspaper of Seward County Community College/Area

Technical School is published bi-monthly by journalism students during the reg-

ular college year, except on school holidays and during examination periods.

One copy of each issue is distributed free to each student, faculty and staff mem-

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cents each.

Letters to the editor will be considered for publication if they are signed and the

authenticity of the writer’s signature is verified. The staff reserves the right to

edit for length. Opinions voiced in letters and editorials are not necessarily those

of Seward County Community College/Area Technical School or the Crusader.

Staff editorials are decided on and written by members of the editorial board:

Alfredo Anaya, Dana Loewen, Octavio Rodriguez, and Deisi Barboza.

Advertising is accepted. Rates are $4 per column inch or $4.80 pci for color

ads. Insert rates are $50 per thousand. Classified ads are free to SCCC students,

faculty and staff; classified rates for all others are $4 per ad, limit of 20 words.

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port was filed for theft at theArea Technical School. An in-structor had an iPod touch takenwithout permission. No sus-pects. Still under investigation.

March 6 — An incident re-port was filed for criminal dam-age at the Student Living Center.Suspects damaged property be-longing to SCCC by super glu-ing various items to schoolproperty causing approximately$3,000 in damages. Fines is-sued to suspects who confessedto the damages.

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Dana LoewenEditor

The Crusader staff won a Gold MedalistAward and 23 individual awards at theKansas Associated Collegiate Press stateconvention April 17-18 in Hutchinson.Editor Alfredo Anaya won the Journalist ofthe Year award.

Co-editors Anaya and Dana Loewen, en-tertainment editor Octavio Rodriguez, on-line editor Deisi Barboza, sports editorIvan Gaytan and staff members JeanetteContreras, Raul Lemus, Heidy Molina andLizuly Monarrez represented the Crusaderat the conference.

“It was great to bring back the gold andthe number of individual awards was im-pressive,” Anita Reed, Crusader adviser,said. “I wasn’t really surprised because Ifelt the students did great work this year.”

KACP received 1,823 entries this year.More than 200 students were in attendance,from 23 colleges.

The first day of the conference includedthe copy editing contest, dinner, and thefirst award ceremony. A session for thosenot participating in the copy editing con-test was given by Liberal resident andnewspaper editor, Earl Watt.

Monday, students got to choose fromeight classes on journalism topics duringthe three breakout sessions. Sessions wereabout journalism topics including careertips, design and photography.

The keynote address was given by LarryHatteberg, a broadcast journalist fromKAKE-TV in Wichita. Hatteberg has beenworking for KAKE for 41 years, and is

one of the most well-known and honoredjournalists in Kansas. Hatteberg spoke onthe importance of story-telling and how tolet subjects tell their stories. He also spokeabout his experiences with BTK strangler,Dennis Rader, and how he was able to bethe first one to speak to Rader about hismurders, even with the competition fromreporters worldwide as the story gained in-ternational renown.

The conference concluded with lunch andthe final award ceremony, where remainingindividual awards were given and the Jour-nalist of the Year awards and All-Kansasawards presented.

This marked the first time since 2001that the Crusader has won the gold award.The Crusader has won seven silvers andtwo bronze medals during those years, soachieving the gold was rewarding for the2010-2011 staffs.

“These kinds of contests are always sub-jective, so you can never be totally sure,but I went in feeling this year we had a re-ally good shot at gold,” Reed said.

One of the judges wrote on the Crusad-er’s critique form, “Overall, I think theCrusader is an absolutely fantastic publi-cation. Your photography is captivatingand your writing is strong.Your hard workshows through greatly.”

Anaya won the Collegiate Journalist ofthe Year award this year in the two-yearnewspaper category.

“It was something I didn’t really expectto win because it seemed like a tough com-petition,” Anaya said. “I am very happy Idid win. It pays off for all the long produc-

tion nights we’ve had. I really appreciateall the help from our adviser Anita Reedand my fellow editor, Dana Loewen.”

Anaya also won four individual awards,first in feature writing, second in editorialwriting, second in feature photography andhonorable mention in illustration.

Loewen won second in copy editing,second in series writing, third in front pagedesign and honorable mention in headlinewriting.

Barboza and Molina won honorablemention in editorial writing.

Monarrez won first in series writing.Gaytan won honorable mention in

sports column writing. Current Crusader staff not in attendance

who won individual awards include Natal-ie Cano with honorable mention in col-umn writing, Reanna Tumlinson with sec-ond place in review writing and Omar Rioswith honorable mention in single ad de-sign.

Former Crusader editor-in-chief MorganAllaman won third in illustration and hon-orable mention in sports feature writing.She also won second in illustration withRios and second in special section with thespring 2010 staff.

Former sports editor Rustin Watt wonfirst in infographics and second in interiorpage design.

Other former Crusader staff who wonawards include Miguel Campano with firstin news photography, Campano and Alla-man with third in photo essay andJonathan Yowell with second in sportsphotography.

Crusader gets gold at KACP

TRiO group experiences Oklahoma City cultureReanna TumlinsonCrusader staff

TRiO went to Oklahoma Cityon a cultural trip to expose stu-dents to different cultural settingson April 15-16.

TRiO took 12 students andthree sponsors.

Robert Herbig, Student Sup-port Services academic and careeradviser, was one of the sponsorsthat went on the trip.

“Awesome, I always enjoy tak-ing students places,” Herbigsaid.

They left in two vans at 9a.m. on April 15 and arrived atthe Hampton Inn that afternoon.After arriving at the hotel, stu-dents were able to explore Brick-town, the scenic entertainmentdistrict in downtown OklahomaCity, on their own.

After a couple of hours inBricktown, students met in thelobby of the hotel to go eat atZios, an Italian restaurant. After

eating they went to The Alu-minum Show. The AluminumShow is a performance that com-bines movement, dance, visualtheater, and plenty of humor. Theshow uses recovered materialsfrom industrial factories that arere-used to make the set, cos-tumes, and to interact with theaudience.

The next day, the group wentto the Oklahoma City NationalMemorial & Museum. Theyspent a couple of hours theretouring the museum and thenwere given time in the gift shop.Rhonda Kinser, director of SSS,then drew for giveaways from thegift shop.

The Memorial Museum was alearning experience for many ofthe students.

“The news doesn’t really tellyou. It was like discovering itfirst hand,” Misty Ortivez, aSCCC/ATS student who wenton the trip said.

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The Crusader staffbrought home 23individual awardsand won a Gold

Medalist award fromthe Kansas Associated

Collegiate Press stateconvention inHutchinson,April 17-18.

Editor Alfredo Anayawon Collegiate

Journalist of theYear. Editor Dana

Loewen won secondplace in the on-site

copy editing contest.Other staff membersinclude, front row,Heidy Molina, DeisiBarboza, Jeanette

Contreras and LizulyMonarrez and, backrow, Raul Lemus,Octavio Rodriguezand Ivan Gaytan.

Crusader photo/Anita Reed

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TRiO members travelled to Oklahoma City to experience a new setting.Front row, Steffy Thottasseril, Rhonda Kinser, Daisy Tapia; secondrow, Michael Mages, Reanna Tumlinson, Janette Vargas, MariaVazquez, Samantha Brown, Dung Nguyen; back row, Zach Carpenter,Baba Fletcher, Algelica Castillo, Misty Ortivez and Robert Herbig.

FEATUREThursday, April 28, 2011 CRUSADER 3

From fat to fitOctavio RodriguezEntertainment editor

I have not forgotten the day I wokeup for school and a new pair of jeansdidn’t fit me right. The door to myroom was open just a crack, withenough light poking through so Icould see my stomach. That was it,I thought. I was done with fast food,junk food and soda. I went runningthat night and noticed how badly outof shape I was. I could barely do anentire lap around the track, but I did-n’t let it discourage me.

Running was a nightmare in thebeginning. Gasping for air every fewfeet and sweating up a storm wasn’texactly what I imagined the road tofitness would be like. To this day Irecall long nights spent runningwith MP3 in hand, ready to pummelthe track. Once I looked back on it,my health had been deteriorating.

Breathing had become harder, walk-ing started hurting my feet terribly,and I was sore all the time. Diet andexercise changed all of that for me.

Weight had never really been aproblem for me, besides a few peo-ple calling me fat, which I justshrugged off by saying I was a grow-ing boy. I also shrugged off theweight scales and pretended like Iwas fine. As a child I had been verythin, up until around middle school.My mom even called me “flaco”which is spanish for skinny. Butwhen I went and weighed myself, inmiddle school I couldn’t believe thescale said I was 230 pounds.

After that first night of running, Iwent running every single night.Slowly but surely, I got better. Aftera few months, I started noticing howdifferent I looked in pictures, howloosely my jeans started fitting me.My self confidence also grew. The

following year, I talked to more peo-ple, became more active in schoolclubs, and even started dating myfirst girlfriend.

Fast food was extremely tempt-ing, I had been eating it at least twoto three times a week prior to start-ing a healthy diet and exercising. Iloved all of it. McDonald’s, BurgerKing, Taco Bell, you name it. But Iknew I had to get it out of me. Junkfood as well. Which I ate at least onebag of Hot Cheetos a day, and Idrank soda in excess. But I had tostop letting it poison my body.

After I stopped consuming all ofthat, my weight changed drastically.Without fast food, I exercised betterand just felt better all around. By theend of summer that year, peoplewere making assumptions that I hadbecome anorexic, but that was notthe case. I loved food too much.People that I hadn’t seen all summer

couldn’t even believe it was me, I

was down to 165 pounds.

To this day I have not given up

running, which I try to balance with

weight lifting at the Wellness Cen-

ter, and trying not to eat fast food.

The last time I ate a McDonald’s

cheeseburger was three years ago

now, and I don’t plan on eating one

anytime soon. I am now a healthy

and comfortable 175 pounds. I en-

courage others to just put down the

burger, spit the pop out of their

mouths, and to stop saying, “I’ll do

it tomorrow,” and just do it now.

There’s no one to blame but your-

self, and no one to congratulate but

yourself once you do it. Get up, get

out, and get fit. I’m not one to advo-

cate anorexia, but as super model

Kate Moss once said, “Nothing

tastes as good as skinny feels.”

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Rodriguez, back row, third from left, at a friend’s birthday party, was close to his heav-iest weight at this time, deciding to start losing weight a few months after the photowas taken.

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Rodriguez and his friend, Darryl Lam, stand to-gether for a photo. This was after he decided tobecome healthier by dieting and exercising.Courtesy photo

Posing for the camera at a local McDonald’srestaurant. Rodriguez refused to eat anythingthere that night due to his healthy diet.

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Rodriguez and his friend Jesus Guinto duringwinter, a few weeks after beginning his weight-loss process.

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Rodriguez now runs regularly, but prefers traditional running over treadmill running any day. He also continues to lift weights at the SCCC/ATS WellnessCenter and tries to eat healthy every day. He also despises running for anyone else, which explains why he made the choice to quit running track.

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Seward’s library director has been elected president of the Collegeand Universities Libraries Section, an academic section of the KansasLibraries Association.

Matthew Pannkuk was chosen by peersat a conference on April 6 and won, narrow-ly, by one vote.

“It was unexpected to be asked to run andwinning by one vote was a shock. Thebiggest reason for the shock was becauseI’ve only been in a Kansas academic libraryfor a year and a half,” Pannkuk said.

Pannkuk will be president-elect for ayear, president for a year, and past presidentfor a year. His responsibilities will be help-ing organize CULS business, such as con-ferences and other meetings.

“Basically, I hope to continue doing theduties my predecessors have done and hope-fully bring positive attention to Kansascommunity colleges and to Seward County,” Pannkuk said.

There are two major conferences. One for CULS members onlyand one for KLA. Pannkuk will also be in charge of getting papersthat are presented at conferences published.

There hasn’t been a CULS president from Seward County before. “I think it’s great that he is president,” Margaret Thompson, library

technician, said.

Library directorelected president

Cosmetology studentsto enter competition

Crusader photo/Alfredo Anaya

Activity at the recent Celebrity Livestock auction shows, from Left, Brett Crow, ag instructor, Corey Wilkins, SCCC freshman livestock judgingteam member, Jena Eder, SCCC freshman livestock judging team member, Jett Eder, SCCC livestock judging team alumnus who served as a"celebrity" judge, and Sam Rucker, SCCC livestock judging team alumnus who also served as a "celebrity" judge. Rucker points and gives hisopinion on how the sheep class should have been placed. The Celebrity Livestock auction raises funds for the ag department.

Reanna TumlinsonCrusader staff

Twenty-five cosmetology stu-dents will be going toHutchinson for a hair and nailcompetition on May 9.

There will be four categorieswhich include Long Hair Designand Makeup, Cut and Color,Artificial Nails and 3D Nail Art.Each participant has to bring amodel to work on during thecompetition.

Nidely Perez, a student at thecosmetology school, will partic-ipate in the Long Hair Designand Makeup category.

“I think I am going to do anexcellent job, and I’m going totry really hard. At the end of theday as long as I like my updo,that’s what counts,” Perez said.

The competition will be at

Sydney Hairdressing College and

33 cosmetology schools have

been invited. This competition is

one of two that the cosmetology

students go to yearly.

“We usually participate in two

competitions every year. This

one is an individual competition,

and the other one is a team com-

petition that we go to in

November,” Sheila Scheib, cos-

metology instructor and coordi-

nator, said.

Tara Martinez will also be

competing in the Long Hair

Design and Makeup. She has

been to one other competition.

“I attended the competition in

Dodge in November,” said

Martinez.

Zachary CarpenterCrusader staff

The 59th annual GasCompressor Institute drew 549attendees April 19-20 at theLiberal Activity Center building.

This year, the conference fea-tured open viewing of exhibits toregistered attendees.

“We were pleased because at-tendance was up from last year,”Dale Reed, associate dean of edu-cational services, said.

The numbers were higher thisyear, as final conference totals in-dicated 536 people had pre-regis-tered, with 549 in actual atten-dance, 70 students came, plus130 free walk-ins, 47 hosts, 10guests, 158 participants, with237 vendors and 15 speakers.

Vendors in attendance for thisyear’s conference includedKimray Inc. who specialize inmanufacturing, sales and distrib-ution for the energy industry, in-cluding oil and gas production

and pipeline needs; Reynolds-French & Company, who spe-cializes in on-site repairs ofcrankshafts, casting repairs, fieldmachining and flywheel locks;and Stewart and Stevenson ofLiberal, who provide natural gascompression services and parts.

Classes for this year’s confer-ence were tailored according tostudent evaluations that weregiven last year. Each year, thecourse’s curriculum undergoesmodifications as those who at-

tended classes give their feedback

on what classes were effective

and helpful, as opposed to those

classes that weren’t.

“Almost every year classes

change,” Petroleum Industry

Education committee member,

Don Ukens, said.

With the changing needs of the

industry, classes are fitted to meet

the needs of the industry by train-

ing attendants how to meet those

needs.

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Gas Compressor Institute hosts 549

As the school semesterwinds down and I watch myfellow students prepare to grad-uate, contemplating taking onthe world, it reminds me ofwhen I first graduated fromSCCC seven years ago. I,too, was going to take on theworld and make big waves.

Looking back, I recall mytime working for the Crusaderand how I used to love to writecolumns. I felt it was the op-portunity to speak my mind.But looking back, the columnsI wrote didn’t mean anything.For example, I once wroteabout which color I would be

if I was a color. The topic real-ly speaks for itself.

Way back when, I wanted tochange the world and thought Iwas making an impact for thebetter. I was speaking mymind and representing my fel-low students. I was making adifference in the world, or so Ithought.

However, it would taketransferring to a university towake me from my dream -- Iwas not making the impact Ihad imagined.

Once arriving at the univer-sity, I switched majors to his-tory. I realized before I couldappreciate what was happeningaround me, I had to study thepast and how those eventswould shape the current cli-mate.

The more I studied the past,the more I cared about whatwas happening in the world,but perhaps being more in-formed has been a double-edgesword.

I realized solving the world’sproblems is not easy (andsometimes involves a lot of ar-rogance). People and countrieshave been trying to solve otherpeople’s problems for cen-turies. I had this realization

studying the colonization ofother cultures and countries byWestern countries. However,studying the Holocaust for awhole semester taught me thatsometimes a person just has tohelp.

I do not envy the world lead-ers. The little knowledge I nowpossess taught me there is afine line between being arro-gant and letting tragedy strike.

Lately, walking aroundSCCC as a returned non-tradi-tional student and watchingmy young fellow students, Iam aware of how world-wearyI have become in the last 10years. I thought I was going tosave the world and make a dif-ference. Now I wouldn’t evenknow where to start.

Sometimes, I am tempted tothrow away my dreams ofearning a doctorate degree andfinally truly pursue those of-fers I receive from the PeaceCorps. They did call me justlast week. n Connie Whiteley, who

still has hopes of changing theworld, can be reached at Whitley@crusadernews.com

This April 5 I participated in

TOMS’ One Day Without Shoesfor the first time. TOMS is a for-profit shoe company that givesaway a pair of shoes to a child inneed for every pair bought. Theconcept is refered to as the “Onefor One” movement.

One Day Without Shoes isabout raising awareness of chil-dren’s need for shoes in develop-ing nations, by choosing to notwear shoes for one day. The ideais that people will be curious toknow why I’m walking aroundbarefoot and I can tell them aboutthe need and about TOMS, whichwill lead them to action, chang-ing the world one pair of shoes at

a time.I went barefoot the entire day,

except for when in the cafeteriaand in the auto-mechanics shopwhere I had to meet someone foran interview. I got plenty of bare-foot walking in, because I wasbusy doing several interviewsthroughout the day for lastissue’s news stories.

I was grateful for a sunny, butnot too warm day. I’m not surewhich would be worse, freezingcold, or burning hot sidewalks.Even as comfortable as theweather was, I wouldn’t say itwas very painful, but I definitelynoticed my feet more. When Iwear my shoes all day, my feetjust sort of live inside their nicelittle protected home. When Iwas barefoot, I noticed the differ-ence between walking on carpetor linoleum, or between side-walks the sun had warmed orwere cool in the shade. Walkingacross the street and in the park-ing lot were the worst becausethe surface was much more roughand uneven than anywhere else.

However, I made a point not tocomplain about it or even out-wardly show my discomfort as Iwalked across the road. I feltguilty because any amount ofdiscomfort I felt during that oneday is nothing compared to what

many people face every day. In

many developing countries, chil-

dren must walk barefoot miles to

school, clean water and medical

help. They suffer from cuts, in-

fections and even diseases that

can be easily prevented with a

pair of shoes. Unfortunately,

many of those children have

never owned a pair of shoes in

their life. Something we so often

take for granted would mean the

opportunity for education and

better health, which can lead to

the improvement of a whole vil-

lage or community.

Participating in One Day With-

out Shoes forced me to think of

what it would be like to not be

able to afford such a simple ne-

cessity as shoes. Hopefully, it led

others to also want to do some-

thing about it. It’s good to know

even a poor college student like

me can do something to help

change the world as simple as

buying a pair of TOMS shoes.

Hebrews 13:16 says, “And do not

forget to do good and to share

with others, for with such sacri-

fices God is pleased.”

n Dana Loewen, when notwalking barefoot through life,

can be reached at Loewen@cru-

sadernews.com

OPINION

Dana Loewen

Editor

STUDENT LIFE — STUDENT LIFE —

STUDENT LIFE —

Day without shoes to help raise awareness, leads to new insight

Returning student re-evaluatesold goals of changing the world

The idea of being utterly alone injectsfear into my world. It is not that solitudescares me; on the contrary, sometimes Iwelcome it and embrace it. However, theidea of being in total darkness, and with-out sound is more terrifying than a

nightmare. However, some parts of menever leave me; they always accompanyme wherever I go. Sound is one of theitems that have never left me since theday I was born.

Even in my room alone, the constanthum of the computer or the sometimeserratic sound of the AC starting alwaysbring me a sense of peace that I am notalways aware of.

Unlike the sounds mentioned beforewhich are created without a purpose, butto annoy the listener, the sound of musichas a purpose. Music at times feels likean addiction which sweetens my gloomydays or happiest.

Music is able to affect emotions of theaudience. Some songs can make uslaugh, cry, or release all the stress of along day, dissipating into nothing. Aslisteners we associate the lyrics, tempo,or sound of a song to basic emotionsthat we as humans have.

These emotions most times are pro-

jected to us through the medium ofmusic. Throughout a song, it is possi-ble to seize a small glimpse of astranger, or perhaps, not so much astranger as we become accustomed to thefears, dreams and even resentment of anartist.

Perhaps this is why humanity be-comes so attached to singers and bands.These artists become a part of us. Wait-ing for the next album to come out orgoing to a concert brings emotions of a3-year-old for some.

Music and sound know no social, lan-guage, age, or economic barriers.

In this era, music is everywhere, itmay be in different languages around theworld but it has the same emotions thatI and the rest of humanity know.Thesame noise be it traffic, or the chattingof thousands of individuals that the cityof New York is home to will be thesame to other major cities in the world.Music also knows no age; the composi-

tions of Beethoven and Bach are stillheard by the new generation even afterthe hundreds of years from their creation.

The Beatles brings back the youth thatsome people have already lost, as wellas those who still have it. We are drawnto the world of noise, from the slowtempo of country music to the hard beatof screamo, everyone in some way orforms wishes to seek it.

There are a myriad of possibilitieswhy we seek music, sometimes whenwe are bored, frustrated, or just plainwish to listen to it for no clear goal.

One thing is for certain, music sur-faces the deep emotions that are in us,and perhaps it is human nature to seekit. Or sometimes it just helps me studyor release all the stress built throughoutthe day.

Historians say that perhaps music isa universal language as every societythat has existed on Earth has developedthis form of sound.

I have learned that it is ok to appreci-

ate sound, regardless of what form it is

in.

Even the ambient sound that is con-

stantly in my room and is annoying to

me at times, keeps the fear of being

alone at bay. It also makes me feel at

home.

Those who have the ability to hear

may appreciate it since it is taken for

granted. There are those who are deaf and

are unable to hear the world of sound. Be

it noise or music, it helps us in many

forms.

The music we listen to sometimes

even inspires the brain to fabricate ideas

that at the beginning seemed impossible

to create.

n Raul Lemus, who enjoys the

sounds around him, can be reached at

Lemus@crusadernews.com

Raul Lemus

Crusader

Staff

Presence of music leads to different perception of surroundings

Q: Do you procrastinate?What distracts you?

How do you get focused?Daniel Johnson Haida ZubiaChelsea Droste

“Yes, I do procrastinate.

Usually I get distracted

by being on the com-

puter on Facebook and

watching YouTube

videos.

I try to exit out of every-

thing on the computer.”

“Sometimes. Work and

usually my child and

people being at my

house.

I just mentally focus and

tune out everything

around me.”

“Yes, all the time.

Facebook, TV and

Angry Birds.

I do homework or study

during a break while

I’m at school because I

feel more focused

when I am at school.”

OUR VIEW —

Procrastination needs overcome by focus to finish strongProcrastination—a 15 letter word most stu-

dents are well acquainted with. According to aUniversity at Buffalo study an estimated 90 per-cent of college students procrastinate.

We’ve all heard the saying “Don’t put offuntil tomorrow what you can do today.” ButFacebook, text messaging, funny YouTubevideos, videogames and television are all prettygood distractions from getting away from thathomework assignment students know theyshould be doing, but would rather not.

The last few weeks of school are the homestretch. Summer is around the corner, and forsome, plans start to fill up the mind more thanthey should. However, the last few weeks ofschool also means there are several term papers,projects and finals that still have to be complet-ed and account for a large portion of grades inmost courses. Generally procrastination takesplace when students feel overloaded or stressedout by a particular assignment, but there areways to beat procrastination.

•Split up particularly large and daunting as-signments into several small reasonable por-tions. Teachers do assign important papers orprojects at least two weeks in advance, and iftime is allotted wisely that gives students plen-ty of time to complete the assignment and stillhave some time to check it over. It’s also moreencouraging to have more time to work on anassignment for several days instead of expect-ing to have a large flow of ideas the night be-

fore it is due.•Don’t get intimidated. A long paper or

difficult project might scare students when theythink about possible mistakes or problems thatthey may face. But if ti me is wasted worryingabout mistakes that haven’t even made yet,there will be less time to fix them.

•Find a comfortable starting point. Forsome people writing the beginning of a papermay be the hardest thing ever. Start at a pointwhere ideas can flow, jump to easier steps ormake an outline of what needs to be accom-plished. Get what you find easy out of the way,and then difficult parts won’t seem as bad.

•S tay focused. Turn off all the electronicdistractions, and get to work. It’s just as sim-ple as it sounds. The time spent using thesetools to avoid homework can be time saved.Staying connected to the outside world mayseem like a constant necessity, but sometimesthinking space is all one really needs to finisha task.

We hope some of these tips come in handy assemester finals and many projects for class willbe due within the next weeks. Remember thatthings are easier to do if you just start themnow instead of wasting time dreading some-thing you would rather not be doing.

Summer is just around the corner, but thereare still a couple speed bumps on the road be-fore the finish line.

Connie Whiteley

Crusader

Staff

I’ll do myhomework andstudy later...

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6 Thursday, April 28, 2011CRUSADER FEATURE

Alfredo AnayaEditor

Syllabus handouts given in classes atSeward County Community College/ AreaTechnical School state students should notbring their children to class. For studentShaunell Mecum and her son, KaelobMecum, this rule doesn’t apply.

Shaunell recalls a particularly out of theordinary instance when she was in class withher son Kaelob and something in the syl-labus became a comedic moment.

“We have survey of art history together andMs. (Susan) Copas was reading the syllabus,and in the syllabus it tells you that if youhave children the college suggests that youdon’t bring them to class,” Shaunell said.“And everybody started laughing becauseKaelob was in the class.”

Shaunell, a hairstylist for 17 years, tookthe initiative to return to Seward to completeher education after she talkedwith her mom Marsha, whoalso made the choice to goback to school in order to com-plete her bachelor’s degree and encouragement from her son.

“I always told her for thelongest time because she’sbeen a hairstylist for so manyyears, ‘You should go back toschool because you’re reallysmart so you should do something,’ and shewas questioning it for a long time, but,yeah, I’m glad she came back. It’s really coolfor her,” Kaelob said.

For Kaelob it never seemed like it wouldbe something that would bother him, be-cause Shaunell started with online classesand he knew he probably wouldn’t see her

around school for a while. However, after shewas done with the online portion of her edu-cation, Shaunell returned to school atSeward.

Kaelob was unsure about having his momaround school with him originally. “I wascool with that. I encouraged her to go backbut I found out she was going to have someclasses with me, I was like, ‘man…’,”Kaelob said.

The first time they found out they had aclass together, they both decided for one ofthem to change out of it, because theythought it would be a distracting, awkwardexperience. However, this semester themother and son duo have a couple of classestogether and have even made light of the sit-uation by starting a friendly competition tosee who can get the highest grades in classes.

“We’re usually pretty cool in class. She’sa cool mom, I guess,” Kaelobsaid. “We’ve always been real-ly close, because it’s been justher and me for the longesttime, so I don’t know if it’smade us closer but maybe toreus apart a little bit because ofour competition.”

Jeff Goodrum, who is a closefamily friend and has knownthe Mecums since he was infourth grade, has class with the

mother and son and enjoys watching themintereact in a classroom setting.

“I have them both in an algebra class, andshe picks on him in class and brings up em-barrassing stories and dawgs him everychance she gets,” Goodrum said.

Along with the competition, having class-es together with her son, Shaunell has

learned to see things from his perspectivebetter.

“I can understand a little bit better whathe’s dealing with as far as college and hisclasses and his course load,” Shaunell said.“I think like before I just didn’t think it wasthat big of a deal, like it shouldn’t be thathard to handle, but now I realize it is a trueeffort.”

Shaunell and Kaelob have always had aclose relationship. She has raised him as asingle mother, and he has helped her in manysituations when it came to raise his twoyounger siblings, Ky and Jia.

“I’ve been a single mom as long as I’vehad Kaelob, so it’s been a struggle as far asgetting by, but it has helped us work as ateam,” Shaunell said. “He’s great. He’shelped me with the kids so I can work, Ithink for him that’s like the biggest sacrifice.That he’s had to sacrifice a little bit of hischildhood to help me.”

At the end of this semester, Kaelob willmove to Manhattan to attend school atKansas State University, where he will con-tinue to major in biology. Shaunell willhave three classes left to take at Seward to re-ceive her associate degree, and will continueher education through the 2+2 program fromFort Hays State University.

Kaelob will miss having his mom aroundto keep him on track and will also miss thefriendly competitions they’ve had on gettinghigher grades than each other this semester.

“Not having her to bug me telling me toget up for class probably is going to be a lit-tle difficult,” he said “For her it’ll probablybe difficult because she won’t be able to getall the answers from me, just playing,”Kaelob said, with a laugh.

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I’ve been a single mom as long

as I’ve had Kaelob soit’s been a struggle asfar as getting by, butit has helped us workas a team. —Shaunell Mecum

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SCCC graduate and former Crusaderstaff member, Jared Duncan, made themove to teach abroad in South Koreain September 2010.

“I was young, without any commit-ments or obligations in America, so Isaid, ‘Why not?,’ Duncan said.

The former SCCC student current-ly lives in Gimhae, a town about 20miles from the southern coast ofSouth Korea, with a population of500,000.

“Everyone here considers it a smalltown, which, coming from Liberal,makes me laugh every time I hear it,”Duncan said.

Duncan, who received a bachelor ofscience in journalism from theUniversity of Kansas in 2008, said heteaches several classes during the day.

“I teach different grades throughoutthe day. I start with kindergarten at 1p.m. and the classes get progressivelyolder each hour until my adult conver-sation class at 8 p.m.,” Duncan said.“The subject for each class is Englishreading, listening and comprehension.They’re all at different levels. Mostclasses deal with grammar or vocabu-lary. For example, in one class rightnow I’m teaching the English namesof other countries and their landmarks,and in another class I’m teaching base-ball rules and plays.”

Teaching the English language tostudents who speak another is an im-mense obstacle to overcome, Duncansaid.

“The biggest challenge is definitelythe language barrier,” Duncan said.“The students are still learningEnglish, so a lot of times, it’s justsome strange man in the front of theclassroom speaking gibberish. Thatmakes learning a little difficult, butachievable.”

Duncan said that in the classroom,

being able to only speak English alsomakes discipline hard to maintain.

“The bigger problem is that becausethe children don’t understand every-thing I say, it’s almost impossible tocommand respect in the classroom,”Duncan said. “Not that I command alot of respect from English speakersin the first place. The effect is that thebad students keep disrupting class andstall the learning process. I will say,though, that once you’ve been here fora little while, you can establish a rap-port with them and find out whatworks and doesn’t work. It just seemslike it takes an eternity to reach thatpoint.”

While teaching English in a foreigncountry provides plenty of challenges,that’s not the most difficult part ofliving abroad.

“The biggest challenge livingabroad is being away from family andfriends,” Duncan said. “Luckily,though, modern technology has madeit a lot easier to stay in touch.”

The language barrier has also pro-vided Duncan with plenty of life ex-periences, he said.

“The Korean word for “smart” is“tok-tok” and the word for “fat” is“toong-toong,” Duncan said. “If yousay them fast enough with no Koreanaccent, they sound about the same.So, one day, when I was trying to im-press a Korean with my languageskills, I attempted to say that I wasvery smart, but instead said that I wasvery fat. The worst part is that she did-n’t disagree. She just said, “Oh, OK.”

The language difference has helpedhim to meet new people, Duncansaid.

“I think the funniest thing has beenrandom encounters with Koreanstrangers,” Duncan said. “In order tobecome successful, many people haveto learn English and pass a lot oftests. So they spend years trying tolearn English perfectly, and are under-

standably eager to practice it with anative speaker. So, many times on thesubway, or on the street, there will bemen in three-piece suits coming up tome and saying hello just because I’ma foreigner. I’ve had one guy say,“Hello. Are you American? I don’tspeak English,” and then walk away.Another man on the street said,“Welcome to Korea!” after I had beenhere for six months. The strangest oneis probably when a man starting hisown business started a conversationwith me while I was showering at thegym. It was more than a little awk-ward.”

Duncan, though, quickly pointedout his primary experience with liv-ing abroad has been an easy experi-ence.

“There has been very little adjust-ment on my part,” he said. “Besides afew minor differences, and obviously,the language, Korea is essentially thesame as America. I think the biggestthing is that I’m actively trying tolearn how to speak another language.I had always been interested in learn-ing a different language, but now it’sout of necessity.”

Living abroad in a country whosenative language is not English, manypeople would assume would be diffi-cult, but Duncan said that is not thecase.

“It’s actually a lot easier than youwould think, he said. “There are someinstances where language can be aproblem, but for the most part, Iknow enough Korean and Koreansknow enough English that it’s usual-ly pretty easy to overcome.Sometimes, I love it. If I’m having abad day, I can completely ignoreeveryone around me and don’t have tolisten to any inane or obnoxious con-versations. Panhandlers and peoplehanding out religious pamphlets don’teven bother with me. That’s fantas-tic.”

One of the biggest differences, he

said, is the scenery.

“Like I said, culture is almost the

same with a few differences. I think

the biggest shock here is the scenery,”

Duncan said. “I’m surrounded by

mountains on all sides, which is a big

shift from Kansas. Also, there are

very few buildings that are less than

eight-floors high. The land area of

South Korea is smaller than the state

of Kansas, but the population is 48

million, so everything is built up-

wards. I’ve probably ridden more ele-

vators in my seven months here than

I have before in my life.”

Duncan explained his reason for

teaching abroad this past school year

and the requirement for teaching

abroad.

“I decided to teach abroad because I

wanted to be a teacher, but found my-

self without any qualifications,”

Duncan said. “Then, I saw an adver-

tisement for this opportunity, and it

sounded like a great experience. I had

never been outside of the USA before,

and when I read about it, my interest

was sparked. There are a number of re-

cruiters who take applications from

English speakers all over the world,

and then pass along the information

to English academies overseas. So, I

submitted a resume and a photo of

myself, which was put up on a web-

site that academy directors can

browse. You just have to be a native

English speaker, have a bachelor’s de-

gree and a clean police record.”

Duncan also offered tips for others

who wish to one day teach abroad.

“Just keep an open mind,” he said.

“And learn how to count that curren-

cy in that particular language.”

Courtesy photo

SCCC graduate Jared Duncan gets a kiss on the cheek from the birthday girl, a kindergarten student he teaches. Also pictured are a fellowteacher and a Korean co-teacher he works with. Duncan moved to South Korea in September 2010 to teach English. The event pictured abovewas a combination birthday party and a celebration of the Lunar New Year, which is why Duncan and the student are wearing traditional Koreanclothes called “hanboks.”

SCCC graduate teaches abroad in South Korea

The Korean Connection7FEATURE

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SOUTH

KOREA

JAPAN

NORTH

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Courtesy photos

Above, Jared Duncan, SCCC graduate who now teaches English in South Korea, plays with his kindergarten students.Duncan learned about teaching abroad through PeopleRecruit.com, a website that recruits English speakers to teachEnglish as a second language in Korea. There’s a high demand from students of all ages to learn English from a nativeEnglish speaker, regardless of experience in teaching.Top left, Duncan and three other English teachers sing karaoke in the song room or “norae-bong.” Bottom left, Duncan enjoys his down time with two Korean friends, out on the town. Duncan had never been out of theUnited States before going to Korea, and knew no Korean.

The “trigrams” in thefour corners of the flagrepresent the elementsmetal, fire, earth andwater.

South Korea’s populationis about 50 million.

The Korean pe

ninsula

is surrounded

by about

3,000 volcanic

islands.

Korea is a crowdedcountry, with 1,256 citizens per square mile.

Korea’s currency

is called the “won.”

One US dollar is

equal to about

1077.55 won.

Korea is 14 hoursahead of the local timezone. When it’s noonon Thursday inKansas, it’s 2 a.m. onFriday in Korea.

8 Thursday, April 28, 2011CRUSADER TRAVEL

HALO — Chicago, Ill.,

Crusader — Louisville, Ky.,

TRiO — Oklahoma City, Okla.,

Nursing — Wichita

SIFE — Rogers, Ark.,

We gave a 20 minute presentation on our long list of

projects we completed during the fall and spring semesters.

We earned second runner up. It was a great trip! The

whole team had tons of fun. –Poe Castillo, SIFE president.

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capital, and go to different

museums. We all just wanted

to have some fun before finals.

-Karem Gallo, KYLIX president.

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In conjunction with the 150th birthday ofKansas, the campus library concluded the Spring2011 Lunch Series with “Kansas Cattle Towns:Jim Gray.”

Matthew Pannkuk, director of the library, intro-duced “The Cowboy” to the assembled audience atthe library. “The Cowboy,” Jim Gray, is a sixthgeneration Kansas cowboy, who strives to main-tain the Kansas cowboy heritage. Gray publishedhis book titled, “Desperate Seed: Ellsworth,Kansas, on the Violent Frontier,” in 2009, and cur-rently writes “The Way West,” a weekly columnwhich is published in Kansas newspapers. Also, heis a member of the Kansas Humanities CouncilSpeaker Bureau since 2010.

Gray also co-founded the Cockeyed Old WestBand of Yahoos [C. O. W. B. O. Y.] Society in1996. This society, like its co-founder, strives topreserve the Kansas heritage and history. In the bi-monthly Kansas Cowboy newspaper, the societybrings stories relating to the Wild West as well ascurrent events that may be of interests to those whoappreciate the cowboy heritage ( They publish stuffrelating to things that are currently happening, thenewspaper also mixes the past and the present in itspublications).

According to a news release by the campus li-brary, Gray’s childhood involved growing up aroundcowboys. The stories of his elders sparked an inter-est in him that lead to the further study of theKansas history. “Studying the people and events inthose old towns brought the whole era to life,”Gray said.

No Devolucion is the sixthalbum from New Jersey post-hardcore outfit, Thursday. Alreadywell-known for their breed ofpost-rock and hardcore punk

f u s i o n ,along withb r o o d i n glyrics, thisalbum shouldnot come as acomplete sur-prise to old fansof the band,though they alsotoy with newsounds and pop-pier hooks inthis album, try-ing to tread awayfrom their post-hardcore roots.

The albumkicks off with“Fast to the End”which fea-tures bassdives and in-credible tech-nicality from

bassist Tim Payne, pummelingdrums brought by Tucker Rule,

and blazing guitars from TomKeeley and Steve Pedulla, whichis completely familiar territoryfor the group.

“No Answers” is when thenewly added elements begin toshine, beginning with an al-

most Kanye West style soundingsynthesizer brought byAndrew Everding, later ac-companied by lead singerGeoff Rickly’s voice and brilliantlyrics, remarking “I can hear theocean when I say your name/Inthe yellow hem of the sea's blueskirt/You're the last asleep on aone-way train/Its been eight yearsif it's been a day.” Rickly’s influ-ence from poetry is an obviousin this track, and the entirealbum.

“Magnets Caught in aMetal Heart” is another trackwhich finds the band experi-menting with an absolutely gi-

gantic, almost anthemic cho-rus, and some new-waveesque guitar playing from

Keeley and Steve Pedulla, fusedwith the beautiful melodicbasslines and surprising drum-ming. Rickly also brings the

lyrical magic once again withlines like “She spins magneticrings around the dark violet heartof God/She's a magneticfield/Shower of sparks/Whenshe comes on.” It is definite-ly one of the best tracks the

band has recorded to date. Theinfluence from new wavebands like Joy Division re-ally show on it as well.

“Empty Glass” another stand-out track, featuring little percus-sion and mostly synth andRickly’s once again broodinglyrics and voice, it is the bandsclosest attempt at going full onpost-rock mode.

“A Gun in the First Act” fea-tures absolutely explosive drums

and loud-fast guitars, what onewould expect from the band.“Millimeter has everything a

Thursday song should have,but with an over-distorted bass,which gives the song a mean,pissed off feeling.

The album closer, “StayTrue,” is one of the only songsfrom the band that one would beable to call a ballad. Much emo-tion is displayed within the song,

not just from Rickly, but fromthe rest of the band as well.

In all, the album isn’t some-thing that is completely a huge

surprise from the band,thoughi t

b u i l d son theirp r ev i o u sstyles andhas somen e w e rstyles forthe band.Though itmight notwin themover anyn e wfans , eventhought ithas the ca-pability to,it is plenty

enought oplease

die-hardfans of theband.

Radiohead is one of thebiggest names in rock music, soany news or releases from theband is usually hyped by themedia and fans. The King ofLimbs is the eighth studioalbum by the alt-rock band, andis a major departure from theband’s last outing, “InRainbows.”

The album is an experimentalstep away from a lot of their pre-vious efforts, such as “OkComputer” and “The Bends”though the band does use effectsthat they have used on past re-leases, the effects are used pro-fusely on this album.

There were only four tracks inthis release that really stood out,and those were “Morning Mr.Magpie,” “Lotus Flower,”“Codex” and “Bloom.” Thealbum just seems to carry onand on, even though it’s only aneight track release.

The songs just create this bor-ing, dull palette of grey. Someof the best guitarists within themusic industry are in the band,

and guitars are used only slight-ly. Lead singer Thom Yorke’scrooning isn’t as appealing asany of the past releases, andsometimes is unrecognizable.

Throughout the album, onecannot help but feel a bit cheat-ed. “In Rainbows” was mostcertainly a masterpiece and aninstant classic, but this albumcomes up a bit bland. Drumloops and synths, while thisisn’t the first time the band usesthem, are used repeatedly onsongs, without a slight bit ofchange, which becomes irrita-

ble, sometimes even making thesongs sound similar and boring.The song structures are also outof place, and will at times es-trange listeners. Again, it’s notsomething the band hasn’t donebefore, but not as impressivelythis time around.

People think the band is fullof genius, but it doesn’t makethem incapable of sucking attimes, and this is one releasethat just does not live up to theamount of hype it received. Thealbum at times even feels likeit’s a chore to listen to.

The band has always beenabout change in their sound, butthis is such a far departure that ithas divided both the fans andpress’ opinions on the album.Some call the album a stroke ofgenius, others call it bland and acomplete bore. Radiohead couldstill be one of the best bands inmodern rock music, but thisalbum is just a huge letdown.Hopefully the band uses past re-leases as reference for improve-ment in the future.

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When watching reality televi-sion, I usually do it to make funof dumb people or to feel some-what normal with my hectic life.This was not the case at all whenI started watching an episode ofTLC’s “Extreme Couponing.”

“Extreme Couponing” justsent me on a rollercoaster ofemotions. I felt shocked at howpeople could get out of a storepaying only a mere fraction ofwhat would originally ring up tobe hundreds of dollars at retailprice.

I was even more shocked whenI found out there were couponsyou could exchange at a store,that would even send you a rebaterate back, so in turn you end upmaking money for buying theirproduct. Where had all these se-

cret discoveries been all my life?Being thrifty is something we

can all learn a lesson in, and clip-ping coupons out of the Sundaypaper is something we should allat least try once.

But these people definitely dogo to the extreme. Devotingmore than 30 hours a week toclip coupons is just kind ofridiculous, even when you aresaving so much money. Perhapsthey should be on TLC’s “MyStrange Addiction”?

Also, I was really puzzled as towhy anybody would ever need 50containers of mustard. I mean,unless you own a hot dog standthere’s really no plausible reasonfor the purchasing of 50 contain-ers of mustard in one grocery-shopping trip, even if mustard is

a non-perishable food item.After I was done being puzzled,

I became a little disgusted duringthe commercial break becauseTLC shamelessly decided to plugin a commercial for their otherhit reality TV show, “Hoarding:Buried Alive.”

So where does one exactlydraw the line between being ahoarder and being a savvy shop-per?

Yeah, saving money is alwaysnice but it’s not ok to condemn agroup of people for being un-healthy collectors of garbage andpraising another group of peoplefor being savvy shoppers whospend fractions on tons of sup-plies they didn’t really need insuch large quantities in the firstplace.

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The SCCC/ATS MusicDepartment will host the annualSpring Concert tonight at 7 p.m,featuring a Sound Express ShowChoir, the Singing Saints Choir,and the concert band.

The band and choirs will per-form songs ranging from classicsongs like “What a WonderfulWorld” by George Veiss and BobThiele, to more modern songs

like “Fields of Gold’” by Stingand “Bad Romance” by LadyGaga.

They will also perform songsfrom musicals such as LesMiserables, and Sweeney Todd.

Magda Silva will direct bothchoirs, with Becky Robison asher accompanist, while DarinWorkman will direct the Saintsconcert band.

Diana Askew and Trina Fosdickare in charge of the lighting, andJulie Bunell will handle thechoreography.

The performance will be pro-fessionally taped. The show willtake place a the SCCC/ATSShowcase Theatre. Students getin free with Student I.D., andgeneral admission is $2.

Spring Concert performance tonight

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After finishing third at theRegion VI Tournament lastweekend, the Seward CountySaints tennis team has qualifiedto go to Plano, Texas, in Mayto compete in the NJCAA tour-nament for a national champi-onship.

The Saints will go with one oftheir deepest lineups in recentmemory.

The Saints had already punchedtheir ticket at regionals after oneday of competition but wouldmake a push for the top spot inthe region on day two beforefalling just short to Cowley andJohnson County who both fin-ished 3 points ahead of theSaints.

Laercio Lobo got things start-ed for the Saints in No. 1 singlesand defeated Hesston’s DavidTedme 6-1, 6-1 in his first roundmatchup but fell 6-1, 6-3 inround two to Zack Evenden ofCowley and then 6-3, 6-2 in thethird place match to DahrenRamdin of Johnson County tofinish in fourth place with 1point.

Seward’s No. 2 singles playerNathan Nelmes beat Joan Vailsof Cowley 6-2, 7-6 in a firstround match before dropping thetitle bout 6-4, 6-3 to BernardoCoehieo of Barton to finish in

second place with 2 points forthe Saints.

Felipe Cruz also won his firstround matchup 6-4, 6-1 over NeiDos Santos of Cowley but fell toNiklas Sparr of Johnson Countyin the finals in a hard fought 7-5,7-6 decision to put him second inthe tournament.

Johnson County’s Maksin Filbeat the Saints Raphael Machadoin round one of the No. 4 singlesbracket 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, butMachado recovered to pick up1.5 points for Seward with a 6-4,6-2 win over Victor Miranda ofBarton in the third place match.

After winning the first set ofhis No. 5 singles bracket match6-4 over Harry Lee of JohnsonCounty, Cristiano Mendes saw7-5 and 6-4 scores go in the di-rection of Lee to bump him intothe 3rd place match where he beatAustin Loucks of Hesston hand-ily 6-1, 6-2 to finish in 3rd placewith 1.5 points. Looking togive Seward at least one regionchampion in singles play, LucasIzkovitz took the court in No. 6singles and defeated Luke Millerof Hesston in the first round butfell short of winning the title ina 6-3, 7-5 loss to Dave Chera ofCowley to finish in second place,good for 2 points.

In doubles play, the Saints cap-tured 6.5 of 9 total availablepoints.

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Last spring, Saints tennisplayer Laercio Lobo struggled ininterviews as he spoke littleEnglish; this year, Lobo easesinto interviews and is very confi-dent about both his speech andthe Saints tennis team.

Lobo’s journey to Sewardstarted with a simple dream.

“I had a dream to come to theU.S.,” Lobo said.

Although he had this dream,the support for it wasn’t there.“They told me I didn’t have themoney as my family was verypoor and I never studied Englishbefore,” Lobo said.

However, Lobo has nowproven his critics wrong as he isattending Seward and has mas-tered English in a year’s time.

Lobo claims overcoming hiscritics is due to advice his fatheralways gave him.

“I lost my dad two years agoand he always told me don’t lis-ten to those people,” Lobo said.“He told me just do your best.”

Lobo credits the help of hisfriends for his success at Sewardsince he arrived here from Brazil.Last summer he worked for col-lege maintenance with fellowstudent Modoulamin Badjie.

“I worked with ML, and every-

day he taught me new words,”Lobo said.

“When the Brazilians stay here,they stay together and all theyspeak is Portuguese,” Badjiesaid.

Badjie’s English lessons withLobo were very casual as it wasjust with conversations.

“Only the two of us workedmaintenance in the summer. Iwould correct him whenever hemade a mistake,” Badjie said.

Badjie added that his correc-tions never bothered Lobo.

“He always wanted to work onhis English,” Badjie said, “Hewants to do almost everythingfor his education and future. He’sa great guy.”

This year, Lobo has taken onthe title as captain for the men’stennis team. “It’s been an easyyear because my captains havebeen very good,” tennis coachDarin Workman said. Coachingis something that has come nat-urally to Lobo. He hopes it willbenefit him in the future. “I’dlike to teach tennis one day;that’s my goal,” Lobo said.

This summer Lobo and histeammate Nathan Nelmes will bestarting a business. “My mateand I got the idea just to makemoney for school. We come upwith being tennis coaches andhandymen,” Lobo said.

Crusader photo/Alfredo Anaya

Sydney Cicchetti and Leah Sitter take a few minutes to chill together after softball practice with some poses for the camera. Both softballplayers have set school records and will graduate from Seward this May. The Lady Saints team is 35-11 overall and 9-5 in conference, withregular season play ending Friday with games at Colby. The Region VI softball tournament will start May 7-8 in Wichita.

Softball stars shine at Seward

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Laercio Lobo practices hitting at the Seward County CommunityCollege tennis courts this week. Lobo has learned English since hecame to the United States from his homeland of Brazil.

Lobo builds confidence in English, Saints tennis

SC Saints tennis teamadvances to nationals

Roy Al lenSports information

The Lady Saints tennis teamhas qualified for the NJCAANational Tournament for thesixth consecutive season with athird place finish at last week-end’s Region VI Tournament.

Seward finished in a secondplace tie with Johnson Countywith 18.5 total points but lostthe tie-breaker to officially finishthird.

The team advances to Tucsonas the 12th ranked team in thecountry. The tournament is May6-13 with pairings yet to be an-nounced.

Lindy Kowalchuk led Sewardwith 6 total points on theRegion VI weekend, winning herNo. 6 singles bracket as well asher No. 3 doubles bracket withpartner Marcela Abrantes whiletwo other Lady Saints singles

players and both of the other dou-bles pairs finished second in thetournament.

In No. 1 singles play, the LadySaints Dariya Dashutina pickedup 1.5 points after dropping heropening match 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 toHaley Craig of Johnson Countybut coming back win the thirdplace match over Barton’s HannaUkhal 6-0, 6-0.

Fanny Benincasa earned 2points for Seward in No. 2 sin-gles with a 6-0, 6-0 win overUkhal in her first match beforefalling in the title match 6-1, 6-2 to Zsofia Biro of Cowley.

Kauana Goncalves reboundednicely from a 6-0, 6-2 loss toMarijana Gjorgjevska of JCCCby winning her third place matchin No. 3 singles 6-0, 6-1 overKarlsa Kaiser of Barton to pickup 1.5 points for Seward.

Salitza Abrantes would followin Goncalves’ shoes as she

dropped her first match in the No.4 singles bracket in a hard fought7-6, 2-6, 7-6 decision to BrittneyBerryman of Cowley before tak-ing home third place with a 6-2,6-3 win over Ashley Goudey ofBarton in her final match of thetournament.

Marcela Abrantes knocked offLiz Walters of Johnson County,6-0, 6-1 in her first roundmatchup but would fall 6-2, 6-0to Mariah Vargas of Cowley inthe championship match to pickup 2 points for Seward in No. 5singles.

Kowalchuk won a gruelingthree-hour match againstCatherine Callitti of JohnsonCounty 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in their firstround matchup before playingand winning another marathonmatch 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 in the cham-pionship match against ShelbyCornejo of Cowley to becrowned Region VI Champion in

No. 6 singles. The Lady Saints would fare

well in doubles play where theduos of Dashutina/Benincasa,Goncalves/S. Abrantes, and M.Abrantes/Kowalchuk all wontheir first round matches and hadthe chance to play for the regionchampionships.

The No. 1 doubles team ofDahutina and Benincasa beatCraig/Cooper from JohnsonCounty 6-2, 6-3 in the first roundbefore falling 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 in thechampionship match toDavinia/Biro of Cowley to finishas runners-up with 2 points.

In No. 2 doubles S.Abrantes/Goncalves finished asrunners-up with 2 points.

M. Abrantes/Kowalchuk tookdown their first round opponentsbefore wrapping up a win in thechampionship match to becomeRegion VI Champions in No. 3doubles.

HH SitterCicchetti

Lady Saints tennis team heads to nationals ranked No. 12

H Has 53 career stolen bases, with 31

stolen bases this season, also a record.

HHolds first place for all-time in career

stolen bases at SCCC/ATS.

H .418 batting average would put Sitter

at sixth place in school history for a

single season if the season ended today.

H NJCAA National Pitcher of the Week

HHas 41 career wins (3rd all-time at SC)

H.880 winning percentage is the

best in a single season in school history.

HHer 41-9 career record, .820 winning per-

centage,is the best in school history and her

1.51 career ERA has her 2nd all-time.

Heidy Molina Crusader staff

Canada natives Leah Sitterand Sydney Cicchetti only knewof each other before coming toSeward County CommunityCollege.

Neither one of them thoughtthat they would ever play on thesame team.

“I did play against her,” Sittersaid of Cicchetti. “It’s reallysuch a small world.”

Both Sitter and Cicchetti havewon awards and recognitionsduring their time at Seward.

Cicchetti, who has 22 winsand only three losses this sea-son, has won KJCCC Pitcherof the Week a record eight timesout of 11 and was even theNJCAA National Pitcher of theWeek. Her season winning per-centage is the best in schoolhistory.

Sitter broke the all-time careerstolen bases record with 53, and31 of those set this season’sschool record.

Sitter and Cicchetti have noset routine before a game. “It’sthe fire to win,” Cicchetti said.

According to Sitter andCicchetti, softball is a mentalgame. “You have to get a certain

mindset before you go out onthe field,” Cicchetti said.

According to Sitter, if playersare not focused, “you’re notgoing to do a good job.”

Both Cicchetti and Sitteragree that in order to do well ina game you have to start prepar-ing the night before. “You’llfind yourself probably dreamingabout the game,” Sitter said.

Before a game, the team willtalk about the goals that theyhope to reach for that game.“Usually I say that I will doanything to get on base to helpthe team out,” Sitter said.

Both Sitter and Cicchetti feelthat they could not have done aswell as they have if they didn’thave the support of their team-mates.

“Your teammates totally helpyou out to get those stats,”Cicchetti said. “I wouldn’t havegotten National Player of theWeek without my teammatesbehind me. It only shows howgood of a team I have behindme.”

The softball team has becomea second family to Sitter andCicchetti. “We’ve been througha lot as a team,” Sitter said. “Itreally bonded us together.”

Unlike some students atSeward, Sitter and Cicchetti areonly allowed to go back hometo visit during the Christmasbreak and the summer.

During the other holidays oreven for a weekend away fromcampus, another teammate orroommate might take Sitter andCicchetti home with them.

“It really helps having all thegirls there when you’re home-sick,” Sitter said. “Everyonewill be there for anyone if weever need anything.”

Cicchetti and her family havealways been involved in soft-ball.

“My dad was my coach for thelongest time,” Cicchetti said. “Iwas born playing the sport.”

Cicchetti has a role modelthat she looks up to in thesport. “I have a home townpitcher. Her name is LaurenBay,” Cicchetti said. “She hasbeen my idol for years; she stillis.”

Although Cicchetti plans oncontinuing with her educationto obtain her psychology de-gree, if she got the opportunityto coach a softball team, shewould leave school. “Thatwould be the ideal job for me,”

Cicchetii said. “Although, inCanada, it would be very diffi-cult to get a coaching job.”

Sitter has had to give upbeing able experience manymilestones with her youngersister while being at Seward.

“I missed her 16th birthday,her first boyfriend, her wholegraduating year,” Sitter said.“I’ll be there for her graduation.”

Distance has played a role inSitter and her sister’s relation-ship. “I really do think that ac-tually living here has broughtus closer together,” Sitter said.“We talk about things that wewouldn’t have talked about be-fore.” Sitter stays in close touchwith her family. According toSitter, they talk and text eachother every day.

In their spare time, Sitter andCicchetti like to enjoy a littledown time and hang out withthe team.

Upon graduation, Sitter andCicchetti hope to transfer to afour-year university, but haveyet to decide what university itwill be. Both women hope tocontinue being involved in soft-ball and hopefully still get toplay on the same team.

College holdscontest insearchof afacefor theSaints

Ivan GaytanSports editor

Saints went up against theClarendon Bulldogs and theHutchinson Blue Dragons lastweek, April 13 through 20.

The Saints’ first game wasagainst the Bulldogs at BrentGould field, since this was aJayhawk Conference game thatwould determine who is the topteam.

As the game began both teamswere missing chances to scorewithin the first inning. TheBulldogs then started scoring inthe bottom of the second inningwhile they began to score in thefirst four pitches.

The Bulldogs began to take thelead in the fourth inning with thescore of 1-0.

The Saints then gave it all theyhad in the last remaining inningswith players including JordanDallalio, J.T. Bean and CarlosDorado. The Saints left witha vic-tory. The final score was 7-1 andfrom there they began their win-ning streak.

On April 16 and 17 The Saintsgo up against the Jayhawk Westchampionship rivals theHutchinson Blue Dragons. Hutchended the season for the saints lastyear. This year the Saints cameprepared and ready to play whenthey have a double header againstthe Blue Dragons and takinghome four victories against Hutchand keeping a six strike winningstreak.

Saint Logan Hall scored in thefirst three innings. Hutch foughtback but didnt get a victory at theend of the day. The Saints leftwith a victory and two games intheir streak with the ending scoreof 7-3.

The second game against Hutchgot very close to winning but theSaints held them back with onepoint away and the score was 10-9 and the Saints walked awaywith the third victory in theirstreak.

April 17 the third game againstHutch wasn’t looking good forthe Saints when the Blue Dragonsscored first and had loaded basesand also a 2-0 lead in the third in-

ning. Dallalio and Bean get twohits and got the Saints back in thegame 4th, 5th and 6th innings.

Pulley began to strike out play-ers from Hutch ending the score3-2 and Saints walk away with afourth victory in their streak.

Later that day, Hutch gotcrushed by the Saints. The Saintsgot an easy win after getting a 5-0 lead against Hutch. The BlueDragons did not catch up to theSaints and they kept scoring.Eventually the Saints walked

away with a fifth win of their

streak with the score of 10-0

On Saturday afternoon the

Seward county Saints won the

Jayhawk West championship in

the Region VI Tournament.

Friday and Saturday was the

double header up against the

Beavers of Pratt at Stantion Field

on April 22. The Saints beat Pratt

with the score of 5-3 in the first

game and on the second game the

Saints continued their streak and

beat Pratt again with the score of

10-9.

The second day the Saints

played Pratt for the third time but

didnt get as lucky. The Beavers

beat the Saints with the ending

score of 4-0.

On the second game the Saints

beat the Beavers 11-5 and won the

Jayhawk championship.

On Wednesday, April 27 the

Saints went to Clarendon, Texas

and on May 7-9 the Region VI

Sub Regions start for the Saints.

They will be playing in Liberal at

Brent Gould field.

CRUSADER 11Thursday, April 28, 2011 SPORTS

Season Notes:

• 4/16 Coach

McSpadden was

recognized for

his 1000th career

win before the

afternoon home

game.

•4/17 Blue

Dragons were

slayed by the

Saints.

• 4/20

sophomores

played their last

regular season

home game

against

Clarendon with

sophomore

recognition

ceremonies .

• 4/22 The Saints

won the Jayhawk

Conference

games against

Pratt.

• 4/22 Saints go

on a nine game

win streak before

winning the

Jayhawk West

conference.

• 5/7 Saints will

play for the sub-

regionals in a

home game at

Brent Gould Field.

Winning streak leads to conference championship

Saints sign to move on

Future Lady Saints players sign tojoin women’s basketball team

Jeremy Jones, an NJCAA All-American pointguard for the Seward County Saints, signed to bea Kansas State University Wildcat for next year.Jones, who was recruiting by Division I teamslike South Florida, Arizona State and Houston.Instead he decided to stay in Kansas to go to K-State.

Jones was the Jayhawk West MVP this seasonafter averaging nearly 19 points and five assistsper game for the conference champion Saints whofinished just one game short of the NJCAANational Tournament title game.

After taking home the NJCAA Freshman of theYear in her first season in Liberal and leading herteam back to the NJCAA National Tournamentagain in her sophomore campaign, Seward CountyLady Saints tennis player Fanny Benincasa hassigned her letter of intent for next year and she willplay at Durham, N.C., for the Eagles of NorthCarolina Central University. Starting in the fallof 2011, Benincasa will play for the Division IEagles who compete in the Mid-Eastern AthleticConference.

Jeremy Jones Fanny Benincasa

Ivan GaytanSports editor

As the 2011 basketball seasonends, the 2012 basketball seasonhas some new faces in the Greenhouse. The Seward County LadySaints have five new Lady saintssigned on for the next season.These players have high expecta-tions, according to the coaches.Some of these players are fromsurrounding areas includingSatanta and Elkhart and some ofthem are from Liberal.

These players include: PaytonFlemming A 5-foot-9 wing

player from Elkhart who hashigh expectations as a freshmannext season. During her seniorseason she averaged 20 pointsand eight rebounds per gamewhile being named an HonorableMention All-State performer.

Quecia Parker A 5-foot-5guard from Leavenworth that ledthe Sunflower League in assiststhis season. She averaged 5points and 6 assists per game asa senior and was an All-Conference player.

Charmaine Burns A 5-foot-8 guard from Leavenworth andwas her counties Player of the

Year this season. This seasonshe averaged 15 points and six re-bounds per game to go alongwith 5 steals per contest.

Kelsey Blair A 5-foot-7guard from Satanta who hasscored almost 1,200 points dur-ing her high school career.During her senior year she led herteam to an 18-4 record and aver-aged 14 points and four steals pergame.

LaTonya Gooden A 5-foot-10 forward from Liberal that willjoin the Lady Saints after takinga year off from basketball.

New mascot for the Saints

Ivan GaytanSports editor

S e w a r dC o u n t yC o m m u n i t yCollege is theHome of theSaints, or is it?

SCCC/ATS issponsoring a contest tofind a new mascot for theSaints. The name will ac-tually remain the Saints,but according to some, theSaint doesn’t have a face inthe form of a mascot.

Contest submissions for anew mascot idea will be openuntil May 1.

Promoters say there are no re-striction as to who can enter thiscontest and, all ideas will be consid-ered. The winner will get, of course,recognition, plaques to be hung inboth of the SCCC/ATS main build-ings, a gift certificate from theSaints Bookstore, first input onthe mascot’s costume design andtwo reserved seat season tickets for2011-12 basketball games at theGreen House.

All entrants have to do is submitan image and the name of theirmascot idea and write a story onwhy it should represent the school.

Those interested in submittingshould include their name andphone number. All mascot entriesmust be turned in to Roy Allen atBox 1137, Liberal, KS, 67905, or inthe sports information office by May1. If anyone has questions, they mayemail roy.allen@sccc.edu.

Courtesy photo/Miguel Campano

In a baseball game April 17, Brittain Ibbotson, makes a diving slide into home plate in a game the Saints won against Hutchinson while teammates Willy Gustin and JT Bean watch.

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Courtesy photo/Miguel Campano

Dr. Duane Dunn congratulates Coach Galen McSpadden in a surpriseceremony at Brent Gould Field April 16. McSpadden receives recogni-tion for his 1000th win. McSpadden is joined on the diamond by iswife, children and grandchildren.

Courtesy photos/SCCC athletics

12 Thursday, April 28, 2011CRUSADER SPRING FIESTA

Raul Lemus

Crusader staff

The sunlight streameddown on the children andadults that clustered aroundthe booths, games and inflat-ables. Music from theZumba booth could be heardin the background, with thelaughter of the kids runningthroughout the grass on the

Seward campus. The ex-otic hair colors ofblue, green andbright orange

brought an interest-ing contrast to the nat-ural hair colors of peo-

ple present. The SpringFiesta April 10 saw

booths set up by campusclubs of Hispanic AmericanLeadership Organization, cos-metology, Kylix Club, PhiTheta Kappa, and others.Frances Brown, director ofacademic achievement center,said that the Spring Fiesta

was a success and it wasthanks to the organization ef-forts of Kylee Harrison, ad-missions coordinator, andmembers of the committee,as well as the clubs whowere part of the activities.

“It was my first time at theSpring Fiesta, but I think itwas successful. We had a fewpeople come to the campus,so that was good,” Harrisonsaid.

Margarita Trejo, a memberof HALO, aided in the activi-ties of the day. “There is a lotof laughter from the kids,they seem to be enjoying thefiesta,” Trejo said.

Another activity whichwas hosted by the college onApril 10 was the CustomCar Show, which also tookplace on campus at the AreaTechnical School.

The car show hosted acompetition for the cars indisplay, food was also served.SCCC student Jesus Beceril,

who attended the CustomCar Show enjoyed the at-mosphere.

“The car show was prettycool. I was shocked that peo-ple could do so many uniquemodifications to their cars,”Beceril said. “There wereabout 100 people at the carshow looking at the displays,and the food was reallygood.”

The winners for this year’sCustom Car Show were:•First Place in PickupDivision - Omar Corral ofLiberal•First Place in the CarDivision - Kim Chaloupekof Liberal•First Place in Street RodDivision - Kelly Headrick ofTurpin, Okla. 0•First Place in MotorcycleDivision - Bill Wesley ofLiberal•Peoples Choice Winner -James Mondgold of Liberal.

SpringSpringFiestaFiesta

Car ShowCar Show& &

Zumba students, from both day and night classes, perform a dance routine led by Zumba Instructor, Kristen Schnittker, during the Spring Fiesta on April 10. The dance routines performed were simple enough soany audience member could participate in the dance if they were interested. Zumba is offered as a fitness course at SCCC and involves dancing workout routines to different styles of international and Latin music.

International student Fanny Benincasa looks at a French flag painted on her face by Kylix member KaremGallo. Kylix members painted a variety of face designs, including international flags, plants and animals.

Jaden Moore, Lincoln Almond, Daniel Almond, Brock Benenett and Erica Arnold play loteria, aHispanic version of bingo, at the TRiO booth at the Spring Fiesta. Children won prizes for participat-ing and enjoyed the friendly competition.

Adriana Vazquez prepares to be spun on a ride at the Spring Fiesta. Many studentsand older children enjoyed this ride because it provided a thrill.

Student Alex Richards gets his hair spray painted red by cosmo studentTara Martinez. Cosmetology students spray painted hair and also paintednails at the Spring Fiesta.

Photos by Alfredo AnayaPhotos by Alfredo Anaya

Car Show revs up community involvement