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MOST WINS, FEWEST LOSSES, TRANSFERS TO DIVISION I & II PROGRAMS, THE LADY BUSTERS DOMINATE GCCC ATHLETIC HEADLINES
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NYCStudents discover dream careers just a plane ticket away
Miles may separate you, but having a fulfilling long-distance relationship is possible
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11 Passion for the game.
Womans basketball Head Coach, Alaura
Sharp, talks about her love of the game and
how she ultilzes it to give her players drive.
04 Free to Love.
What begin as a newsroom
conversation lead to an investigation into our sexual curiosity.
075 Way to keep it hot.
While miles may separate you,
following these five keys will make having
a long-distance relationship not only
possible, but also fulfilling.
09 GC3 & NYC.
Student’s of GC3 Media embark on a once in a life time experience as they explore their futures at
NYC.
19 Expanding Horizons
Classroom of the future looks to
enhance GCCC’s food safety program.
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15 Pint Size Spirit.
Garden City’s Junior Cheer Squad dazzles
Buster fans during halftime basketball
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EDITOR’S LETTEREDITOR IN CHIEF•THOMAS MENDOZA BUSINESS MANAGER•SYNTHIA PRESTON CREATIVE DIRECTOR•SAMANTHA TREJOCOPY EDITOR•GERARDO APARICIO PHOTO EDITOR•JACQUELINE MAJALCA PHOTOGRAPHER•ROSAURA MARTINEZ WRITER & DESIGNER•ARELY ORTIZ
Funding for Breakaway magazine comes from student fees. Content published in the magazine does not necessarily represent the views of the college or college personnel. The Breakaway magazine is a designated public forum. It is not to be construed as a promotional item published by college personnel. Student editors make all content decisions. Faculty adviser is Laura York Guy. Letters to the editor are welcome and may be sent to Breakaway magazine, 801 Campus Drive, Garden City, KS 67846 or via e-mail to [email protected]. Volume 22, Issue 2 of the Breakaway was produced by Garden City Community College’s Breakaway staff and printed by The Garden City Telegram. The press run was 2,000. The 22-page magazine was designed on Macintosh computers using Adobe Creative Suites 5.5.
I was fearful for the start of the spring semester. I didn’t know what I had gotten myself into, I was enrolled in 16 credit hours, working full time, and managing the Break-away. This is my first semester being editor in chief and it has been quite the experience to say the least. From long nights in the lab, to being able to visit the city that never sleeps. These experiences have opened my eyes to multiple opportunities.I am excited for the students, staff and faculty to read this issue of Breakaway. We as team have worked hard to bring you features that relate not only to the campus but also the community. This issue is meant to celebrate achievements and obstacles and to change our outlook on life.I’m sad to see the semester ending. I have grown to love the staff as if they where my brothers and sisters. We have been together for the past two-year working long days and nights. Although I will miss them next year, I am glad to see them graduate and follow their dreams in life.
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It began as a conversation in our newsroom. We’re college students, studying journalism at that. We’re curious by nature. The topic was sexual orientation. We started with a question: “Gay, straight, lesbian, bi…do these labels matter?”
“I believe everyone has their own styles, preferences and whatever happiness they want to pursue, they should be free to do so,” Har-ley Torres, sophomore from Ulysses, said.
For our editor in chief, Thomas Mendoza, the question is personal.
“I’m gay,” Mendoza said. “Some people might pick up this magazine, read that state-ment and go ‘What? He’s gay?’ and I don’t re-ally care. Everyone should be treated equally. You shouldn’t judge people on their sexual orientation, their race or what they drive, who they date or anything. If you’re going to do that, are we going to go as far as to judge them on their height, shoe size, hair color, or any of what is really just superficial?”
Mendoza said he thinks the idea of having labels is annoying.
“Straight people aren’t expected to walk into a room and proclaim their sexual orien-tation, so what’s the big deal? There are more
Story by Arely Ortiz Photos by Jesus Lozoya Design by Thomas Mendoza
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politicians and celebrities who are com-ing out, so I think that eventually it won’t be such a big deal. People are being more open to it.”
Mendoza said he doesn’t particularly care if people know that he is gay, but if he’s asked he doesn’t have a problem tell-ing them.
“Really, what is the point of bringing it up? Is it because someone is just curious and they want to know? Or do they want to know because they are? Or is it because they are simply curious?” Mendoza said. “It’s the way people ask that make it un-comfortable or a non-issue.”
Prisma Alcantar, Garden City, said she has been out for several years and with-in time she has learned that it only gets easier.
“I am very open about my sexual pref-erence, I am gay,” Alcantar said.
Raised by a single mother and had an absentee father, Alcantar, 22, said she thinks her upbringing played a significant role on her sexual orientation because she doesn’t associate men as being part of a successful relationship.
“I just don’t think men are necessary because I’ve never had one around,” she said. “I think my childhood had a lot to do with it because my dad was never around.”
She said that there wasn’t really one defining moment when she realized she was gay.
“I wouldn’t say that I’ve felt like I’ve been gay my whole life,” she said. “My mom thought it was just a phase and thought I was going to get over it, but ob-viously I didn’t.” With the support of her mom and friends, Alcantar said she feels accepted.
“My friends were also very understand-ing, they weren’t like, ‘oh I don’t want
to be your friend anymore or anything, which made it easier for me,” she said. “My friend helped me by introducing me to others. She would say, ‘Hey, this is my friend, Prisma and she’s gay,’” Alcantar re-calls. “At first it was awkward, but then gradually as I saw others accept me for me, I was comfortable with it.”
After she realized she was being accept-ed by those closest to her, she started to be more open about her sexual orientation.
Alcantar said she dated a girl whose parents didn’t accept homosexuals. She said she was not allowed at her then-girl-friend’s house nor was she allowed to go
to the family’s gatherings. “For Christmas one year her parents
told her that she was allowed to go to the party, but that I was not welcomed there,” Alcantar said.
Alcantar said her then-girlfriend de-cided to stay with her so that they could spend Christmas together instead of hav-ing to go to her parent’s house.
By the time Easter rolled around Al-cantar’s former girlfriend’s family began to accept their relationship.
“It got to a point where her mom was texting me all the time and was continu-ously asking when was I going to go over to visit,” Alcantar said.
While one can be comfortable being themselves with those who are closest to them, society can pose another set of challenges.
For Alcantar, the city one lives in plays a role in how accepting one feels.
“For example if I walk around Garden City holding another girl’s hand, I am go-ing to have people starring at me left and right,” she said. “I went down to Texas for the summer and I lived in Houston and it was just a normal thing. No one looked twice.”
Her visit to Houston helped her see there are places where she actually feels accepted for who she is.
“You just gotta accept that not every-one is going to accept you,” Alcantar said.
For softball athlete and Garden City native Mekayla Aguiniga and her girl-friend Miquela Baca having a public rela-tionship is normal for them.
“Me and Mekayla were walking hold-ing hands here on campus and I clearly remember a guy saying, ‘Who are those two girls holding hands?’ as if he had never seen gay couples before,” Baca said.
Sometimes Aguiniga and Baca said liv-
ing in Garden City makes it harder for them to be open about their relationship because some people tend to be more judgmental. However, Baca said she has saw more openly gay couples last fall, which made it more comfortable to be open herself.
“People are having no choice but to ac-cept homosexuals here on campus because gays are now being more open about their sexual orientation,” Baca said.
Acceptance hasn’t always been easy for either Baca or Aguiniga.
In fact, Aguiniga was a freshman in high school before she admitted her pref-erence to herself. She secretly dated a girl during high school and kept it hidden for a couple of years before she was ready to tell her parents and friends about her situ-ation.
“When I told my parents about it my dad was very chill about it. He didn’t re-ally say anything but my mom was not really for it, but she didn’t disown me or anything,” Aguiniga said. “My friends were very cool about it, they weren’t like ‘Oh, I’m not going to be your friend any-more,’ which was very nice.”
Aguiniga said that opening up made
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her feel a lot better because she no longer had to hide anything.
“I am very open about it now and I learned to not care about what others think,” Aguiniga said.
Baca, a former resident of Albuquer-que, N.M., said she realized she was inter-ested in girls ever since she was in middle school.
“I’ve known I was gay ever since I was very little, my first kiss was actually a girl,” Baca recalls. “I also have cousins that are gay and I think that made it eas-ier for me.”
While some students are coming out to their parents, other students are the parents of children who’ve come out.
For Synthia Preston, who is a non-traditional student and mother of three, learning that her daughter was gay wasn’t really a surprise.
“I just always had a feeling so one day I just asked her,” Preston, 51, said. Preston said finally learning the truth has made her feel like she’s closer to her daughter.
“With the way I was raised and the beliefs I was taught, being gay was mor-ally wrong, but she is my daughter and no matter what decisions and what she does in her life, I will always love her,” she said. “I’m not to judge anybody because that’s morally wrong as well. My job as a parent is to love and support her no matter what she does.”
Being secure in an openly same-sex
relationship is easier when the people in
the relationship are secure with who
they are. For Miquela Baca (left) and
Mekayla Aguiniga, having the freedom
to be themselves makes them both
happier and healthier.
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Breakingcharacter
Thao Nguyen who enjoys talking on the phone every day with her boyfriend An Nguyen who is in Japan.
If couples really love one another, then the geographic distance between them can be overcome. It’s not un-common to find students on campus who are in rela-
tionships with others who live in other cities, states, and even countries. Although difficult, long-distance relation-ships can also be successful. Those who have been in these kinds of relationships and have figured out how to make them work shared what keeps their relationships going. Here are five ways to make a long-distance relationship meaningful:
“Long-distance relationships do work if there is love, honesty, and trust to each other,” says Craell Mahinay, Syr-acuse, Kan., who is in a long distance relationship for the past two years with her boyfriend who lives in Dominican Republic. Mahinay says that her boyfriend is the only one who she trusts and the one that knows all her secrets. “He has given me a lot of confidence and he is the one I can lean on,” Mahinay says.
Mahinay said it is important to be honest with partners and try to be open and say whatever comes to mind. Do not hide anything from one another. If partners have hon-esty and trust in each other, couples can keep problems away, such as infidelities and lies.
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Thao Nguyen who enjoys talking on the phone every day with her boyfriend An Nguyen who is in Japan.
Arely Navarrete, Sharon Springs, Kan., who was in a long-distance relationship says, “If there is love in a long-distance relationship, this kind of relationship can work because love can conquer everything.”
Navarrete says if partners really care and love one an-other they will not make any excuses by not giving the time that partners deserve. She said that sometimes part-ners make many excuses and do not show affection to their sweethearts.
Navarrete said she showed her partner that she really was committed to him. “I tried my best, I showed him that I really cared about him, I messaged him, I Facebooked him,” Navarrete says.
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Love does not matter if the person that you love is near you or far away. Couples need to show the partners that they are aware in each other.
“Try to listen to your partner when he or she has prob-lems, communicate with your partner every day if you can, and do not listen to anyone, except your loved one,” Nguyen recommends to those couples who are in the simi-lar situations as her. Be attentive to your loved one; show him/her that you really care about him/her.
“I always show attention to my boyfriend by calling him everyday and asking him how he is,” Nguyen says. She also added, “I always support him in anything.”
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Craell Mahinay talks via Skype with her boyfriend Andy Garcia who is in the Dominican Republic.
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“Believe in your love and do not care of what other peo-ple think,” Nguyen says.
Nguyen said that people are going to say things to make the couple think that long-distance relationships do not work.
“Couples need to believe in each other because if there is no confidence in each other then the relationship will not last for a long time,” Nguyen says. A relationship is made up of two people and does not include others who try to butt in. People who are not in this situation do not know how this relationships work, until they are in one.
“I think long-distance relationships are not as fulfilling as a normal relationship, but it can be work by doing stuff like normal ones,” Mahinay says.
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Communication is a key for couples who are in a long-distance relationship. Dating her boyfriend for a little more than four years, Thao Nguyen, Garden City, says that while she does not necessarily like dating long-distance re-lationship, she does it because she does not have a choice.
“I do it because I love my boyfriend very much and if you love the person, you need to understand what the situ-ation is,” Nguyen says.
Nguyen said she regularly talks with her boyfriend.“I always call my boyfriend to wake him up so he can go
to school,” Nguyen says.Partners may live in different time zones, but that
shouldn’t get in their way. Nguyen and her boyfriend still communicate everyday, even thought, there is a 14 hours time difference between them.
Although, is not easy to have a long-distance relation-ship, Mahinay says that she talks and texts on the phone with her boyfriend every day. Mahinay and her boyfriend also see each other through Skype.
“I am always in contact with my boyfriend almost all day, until I go to bed,” Mahinay says.
Mahinay said that they also dance, eat, and download the same movies while they are via Skype.
To maintain the relationship couples must have fre-quent communication with their loved one. Communica-tion provides a bond by knowing what the partner is doing or what partner thinks in each other.
Frequent Contact Make a Commitment
Believe and Have Faith
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The sounds of the streets echoed off the concrete and rebar struc-tures that seemed to enclose and captivate our attention into the city.
“Being from a small town and seeing New York on tele-vision to actually experiencing New York is a whole dif-ferent thing it made me realize that there are more op-portunities out there,” said Jacqueline Majalca.
Laura Guy, GC3 media adviser, has been to New York with students before and said she believes the trip shows students they are only a plane ticket from achieving their dream careers.
Thomas Mendoza, Adrian McElroy, Harley Torres, Sa-mantha Trejo, Jacqueline Majalca and Arely Ortiz repre-sented GC3 Media at College Media Association’s Spring National College Media convention. Trip expenses were off-set through the advertising sales the students earned.
“Selling ads wasn’t the easy part of my job, but I was deter-mined because I knew it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience to visit the media capital of the world,” says Thomas Mendoza.
The trip offers the students a chance to network and gain job experience that is unavailable outside of the big apple.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to meet students from all around the country and get ideas from their opera-tions. It was an even greater experience to hear from profession-als like Jason Wagenheim, Vice President and Publisher of Teen Vogue,” Samantha Trejo said.
GC3 Media is one of many student organizations that get to take trips outside of the state.
Academic Excellence Chal-lenge Team, Art Club, the Buster Athletics teams and their athletic trainers, HALO, Meats Team, Phi Theta Kappa, and Student Government Association. ¬¬
The memories and experiences given in New York bustle and echo throughout the lives and thoughts of GC3 Media. “This trip is meant to show students that if they try, they can work in the media capital of the world,” Guy said. “I hope the experi-ence inspires them to continue studying and working so that they can achieve their goals.”
Keynote speaker Jason Wa-genheim, Vice President and Publisher of Teen Vouge Maga-zine, speaks to aspiring college journalist at the 2013 College Media Association Convention.
Design and Photos by Thomas Mendoza
Written by Harley Torres
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Taking advantage of being at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Communication instructor, Laura Guy give an im-promptu communication lector while students view “The Death of Socrates” by artist Jacques-Louis David.
GC3 Media students stop to take one last picture in Time Square.
GC3 Media Staff poses with Willie Geist, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe after his keynote session at CMA.
Three members from different Viacom brands spoke to a group of aspiring journalist and shared how they got from college to their careers.
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Written by Adrian McElroyDesigned by Samantha TrejoPhotos by Jacqueline Majalca & Rosaura Martinez
PassionFor The GameWomen’s basketball Head Coach, Alaura Sharp, talks about her love of the game and how she ul-tilzes it to give her players drive.
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Passion is definitely one thing that women’s basketball Head Coach Alaura Sharp has for this fast paced and
intense game. “I am a very passionate person any-
ways, but I have such a passion for the game. My passion comes from how much I have learned and how much the game has given to me. Basketball has taken me all over the country and has given me the opportunity to build relationships with my student athletes and the ability to be able to have this relationship is very spe-cial. The relationships you build with your teammates are great and there really just isn’t any other relationship like it. Basket-ball teaches you so many life lessons and gives you so many different opportunities to be successful. You can really use the game to learn how to do a lot of different things. Obviously it has given me a career that I am very passionate about and again I love the relationships with the players in that I am able to teach them some life skills,” Sharp said.
One could see the passion and drive in her eyes that she has for this game. The Lady Broncbuster’s finished last season in the semi finals of the region tournament with a record of 21-12.
“Our season ended in the semis and it was a little bit of a surprise to people that we finished in second place. We made it to the semis and we had a 12-point lead, but then lost
the lead and I think that the loss left bitter taste in our players mouth because as we started to have success through-out the conference last season, they started to get
confident and have expectations of them-selves; We didn’t have a lot of expecta-tions because we were a young team going into the sea-son and we had different expecta-tions going into the post season. It was; let’s work re-ally hard and get better throughout the course of the season and lets see how far we can go. Unfortunately we lost in the semis and that ended our season,” Sharp said. “So carrying that into this sea-son we knew that we had a very solid core group to build our team around.”
This year the Lady Broncbuster’s had five of their six, power house girl’s return. Those girls are Deni Jacobs, Tamara “Jumper” Jones, Brittany Maxwell, Ni-cole Young, and Mikell Chinn. Jasmine Christmas also played major minutes
for us last year but red-shirtted this year,” Sharp said.
“We wanted to win the con-ference and we wanted to win the region and we want to
make a national tourna-ment appearance and that really changes the path that you take,” Sharp
said. This year the Lady Broncbuster’s
went undefeated in their non-con-
ference season and ended up getting into the rankings in the third week of the sea-
son. “Getting into the rankings the third
week of our season was really important and we have done everything we could to stay in the rankings. We actually dropped out once and found ourselves back in and so I feel good about where we have been,” Sharp said
This year’s team actually set the school record for most regular season wins. Not only did they set a record for most regular season wins, the Lady Broncbuster’s also won at Seward county for the first time since 1992. Along with the win at Seward also came a win against the number one nationally ranked Hutchinson.
“We have had a little bit of adversity and some roster changes this year, but if there is one thing that these girls have learned it’s how to deal with this adver-sity. You can really go one of two ways; you can either come together as a group and be better for it or break apart and go the wrong way and from that point on
“Our season ended in the semis and it
was a little bit of a surprise to people
that we finished in second place,”
Coach Alaura Sharp said.
The GCCC womens baskebtall team huddle up for a team photo . The team had great chem-istry this season and ended with a final record of 29-4. Photo Courtsey Adam Shimplin
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With Jerry Jones
Ross MillerTony Hill
Donette Brown
our team has really stepped up to the challenge. They have come together and somehow we made up for the lack of two starters with twenty-five points per game and a lot of rebounding those players had.” Sharp said, “the team didn’t care who they had playing with them. All they cared about was the group of play-
ers on the team and that if they bought in and they all worked hard and went to battle each and every day they would succeed. We have really leaned on that core value and it has been really fun to watch them grow and watch them meet those challenges. We refuse to lose.”
Photo by Jacqueline Majalca
GCCC womens basketball team and students react to a foul, during a tie game against the undefeated Hutchison Blue Dragons.
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Breakdown
Brooklyn McGraw, Savannah Garcia, and Sydney Nanniga members of the Gold team ages 7 to 11 of the Junior Cheer Squad during their halftime performance at the GCCC women’s basketball game vs. Northwest Tech, where the whole team of the Junior Cheer Squad got recognized for their first place of the America’s Best competition in Denver.
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If you attended the women’s home basketball games, chances are you were treated to a halftime performance filled with spunk, glitter and energy; the same kind of energy of typical little girls.
That entertainment is the Garden City Junior Cheer Squad, which placed 1st at the America’s Best Cheer Competition in Denver.
“I’m really proud of the group,” said Brayley Frazier, 10 years old, one of the 26 girls that make up the JCS.
This year was their second year in the competition and they were the only group, besides Dodge City Community College, representing Kansas in the competition.
“The first year on competition was kind of scary because I wasn’t used to it,” said Frazier, “But this year I was ready for it.”
Frazier has been a member of the cheer squad for three years since her mother started the JCS. She has been cheering since then and recalls her experience on the team has been awesome.
Frazier got the chance to compete in a trio, which took first place as well.
Brooklyn McGraw, 8 years old, who is also a member of the squad, said that she decided to join because her mother was a cheerleader when she was younger; which inspired her to follow in her footsteps.
“I love to perform in front of people,” McGraw said. Competing on a stage in front of thousands can sometimes
be intimidating, but the girls from the JCS proved that even though they are pint size they are huge when it comes to talent.
“I think it’s really big for Garden City because we don’t have anything here like that and so I think its an opportunity for the girls,” said Stacy Carr, mother of one of the girls and a commu-nication instructor at GCCC.
The idea of forming the squad started with the girls’ clinic, hosted by the Garden City High School cheerleaders. Coach
GARDEN CITY’S JUNIOR CHEER SQUAD DAZZLESBUSTER FANS DURING HALFTIME BASKETBALL GAMES.
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Hayley Frazier thought that since the girls had so much fun cheering, it would be a great opportunity for them to continue cheering. So she decided to form the Garden City Junior Cheer Squad.
“I’m just a mom that wanted to give the girls an opportunity to do something fun,” said Coach Frazier.
Coach Frazier decided to ask the college Coach Tegan Mat-thews for volunteers and got the Garden City Community College cheerleaders involved. They were the ones who ran the practices for the first two years. Not only did they become the JCS’s teachers. They also became an inspiration and role models for the squad. With the support of the GCCC cheerleaders, the help from coach Matthews, and from Hilary White a choreog-rapher from Dallas, the JCS earned the title of “America’s Best” this year.
“Last year we went and got third place, but this year we were ready to take first and that’s what we did,” said Kayla Peña, as-sistant coach of the squad and current GCCC student.
Peña was involved with the JCS her freshmen year because she was a former GCCC cheerleader. For personal issues, Peña didn’t continue to cheer for her sophomore year at the college, but continued to be involved with the JCS.
“We been really blessed to have Kayla Peña as my assistance
because she is so talented in so many ways and she’s great at working with the girls,” said coach Frazier, “She also knew the insight and techniques which obviously I was just learning.”
The group started as an entertainment group that partici-pated in the YMCA Super Saturday for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade boys tackle football. During Super Saturday the girls where able to perform as sideline cheerleaders.
“Participating in the Super Saturday, gives the girls an op-portunity to actually get the feel of what it would be like to be a Cheerleader,” said coach Frazier. Not only do they get to experience having a great time, they also decide if they want to continue cheering for another year. Fortunately, the group grew giving them the opportunity to divide into two groups, the glitz, which is the younger girls age from 4 to 6 and the gold, which is the older girls age from 7 to 11. The split helped because last year the routines had to be structured to where the 5 years old could do the routine and also the 11 years old. Carr said that she hopes for the team to grow even more, “Like I said they’re doing really good.”
Coach Frazier hopes to keep the connection with the college cheerleader team and also try to get the community involve as well.
Kamdyn Carr, daughter of GCCC communication instructor Stacey Carr and her husband Casey; Bekah Garcia members of the Glitz team ages 4 to 6 performing during halftime at the GCCC women’s basketball game vs. Northwest Tech.
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Kamdyn Carr, daughter of GCCC communication instructor Stacey Carr and her husband Casey; Bekah Garcia members of the Glitz team ages 4 to 6 performing during halftime at the GCCC women’s basketball game vs. Northwest Tech.
Gretchen Deines and Kartina Nickell lifts Bekah Garcia to form a pyramid during their halftime performance at the GCCC women’s basketballgame vs. Northwest Tech.
The Gold team ages 7 to 11 of the Junior Cheer Squad poses after their performance at the GCCC women’sbasketball game vs. Northwest Tech.
The Glitz team ages 4 to 6 of the Junior Cheer Squad poses after their performance at the women’s GCCC basketball game vs. Northwest Tech.
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Not long ago schools were just a small, one room classroom. Throughout history classrooms expanded its course toward a bigger, better future. Students don’t necessary have to go to the 21st century classrooms; the classroom will come to the student.
A 53-foot mobile classroom was presented to Garden City Community College on March 4 and then had a dedication ceremony March 28 on campus. The mobile classroom is an opportunity for students to learn the skills for food inspection services and to train employees in food sanitation and safety training in preparing and serving food.
“It give us basically all the advantages of campus out on the road. It’ll be very ben-eficial to our program,” Clint Alexander, PhD., animal science instructor, said.
The benefits of this mobile classroom will benefit anyone
who handles food in the public sector. Two years ago the De-partment of Agricultural mandated that food handlers need a ServSafe certification. Food handlers are operators and employ-ees in restaurants, cafeterias, and related facilities.
“This is very important, because now local business do no have to travel to Topeka or travel somewhere else to get certifica-tion,” Herbert J. Swender, PhD. College President, said.
This 21st century classroom will not only benefit local busi-nesses it will provide an opportunity for all of Kansas and the surrounding states in need of providing skills for the women and men.
“We get to expand our campus which is really cool, so we can talk to other people in different cities and try to convince then what Garden City is going to do,” Sarah Lightner, a student from Garden City in the Food Science program.
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Classroom of the future looks to enhance GCCC’s food safety program.
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1. Students during the dedication ceremony of the mobile lab. 2. A perspective of the mobile lab from the outside.3. Computers that will be available to the participants of the ServSafe classes and other certification courses of-fered through the mobile lab. 4. Community members and faculty during the presenta-tion of the mobile lab. 5. Kansas Secretary of Agriculture, Dale A. Rodman, ad-
dressing the crowd during the presentation of the mobile classroom. 6. The inside of the mobile classroom when empty. The col-lege estimates it will be able to serve 400 students by the end of the grant.7. President Herbert J. Swender P.h.D speaks during the presentation of the mobile classroom to the college com-munity.
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