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September 11CRUSADERCRUSADERCutting intothe big 4-0Dignitaries gather ata 40th Anniversaryhamburger cook outto recreate the open-ing of the college onSept. 2 of 1969.

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Morgan AllamanEditor in Chief

SCCC Development Foundation will host the 15th annual Schol-arship Auction at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Seward County Event Cen-ter located at the fairgrounds.“Reflections of the past” is the theme, in honor of the college and

the foundations 40th anniversary.Director of Development Tammy Doll sets the standards high for

this year’s auction.“We always try to do better than we did the year before, and last

year was our best ever. We had almost 500 people in attendance andwe raised over $40,000,” Doll said. “I would love it if we could sur-pass those totals because that means that we have more money forstudent scholarships.”The presidential scholars, one group of students out of the many

students who receive scholarships earned from the auction, will behelping with the event.“We have to dress according to the theme so we will be dressing

up like we’re from the past,” presidential scholar Will Rector said.The Scholarship Auction will be divided into two parts. The first

part of the night will consist of the silent auction, dinner, entertain-ment and a chance to enter the Lucky Draw and 50/50 drawings. Thelive auction, called by former Liberal native Mike Gatlin, will takeup the second part of the night.With a $1 donation, a ticket can be bought for the 50/50 drawing.

At the end of the evening, a winner will be drawn and the totalmoney earned during the 50/50 drawing will be split with the win-ner.Doll has seen the gratitude the 50/50 drawing can bring.“Last year, the person who won the 50/50 drawing was so excited

because she said that meant that they could go on a honeymoon,”Doll said. “I don’t remember the exact amount but it was a goodpot.”The Lucky Draw places 10-12 items on a table. People can give

$5 donations for a ticket and then put their ticket in the jar of an ob-ject they are interested in and a ticket will be drawn for each item atthe end of the night to determine a winner.Anew addition to the live auction is a PowerPoint provided by the

college’s multimedia director Doug Browne that will be displayedon two different screens showing a picture of the item being auc-tioned.Hillary Anderson, a former Seward County choir student and a

current employee in the admissions office, is coordinating a groupof choir members who have attended the college in the past and willprovide the evening’s entertainment to go along with the theme.The menu will consist of beef brisket by National Beef, pulled

pork sandwiches donated by Seaboard, shrimp and dessert bar withchocolate fountain. Great Western Dining will cook everything.Doll believes raising more money is crucial with the increase in

enrollment.“The more we raise the more we give, and we have increased en-

rollment at the college this year, so we have a greater need for stu-dent scholarships,” Doll said. “We’ve got to raise more money tohelp more students.”Tickets will be sold up until the Thursday before the auction and

must be purchased in advance.

Scholarship Auction tomirror past 40 years

Petar Jankovic is a professionalclassical guitarist who willperform a concert Sept. 21

at SCCC/ATS.The classical guitarist’s concert will be at 7

p.m. Sept. 21 in the Showcase Theater. Admis-sion is free but free-will donations are encour-aged and will go toward the DevelopmentFoundation for Seward County CommunityCollege/Area Technical School scholarships.Jankovic’s concert will center around Span-

ish music, which he says is one of his favoritesand he is excited to play at the college.“I’ve never been there, but I have played

shows in Oklahoma before,” Jankovic said ofhis upcoming trip to Liberal, which will presenthim approximately 15 hours of driving from In-diana.“Sometimes I choose to drive because it’s

easier and you’re touring, so you have to be onthe road and I can enjoy all the scenery.”Jankovic is originally from Belgrade, Yu-

goslavia (now Serbia), and he began his musiccareer early.“I started when I was 7 years old. We start

music education the same time as elementaryschool,” Jankovic said. “Then I went on to col-lege.”Jankovic earned his master’s degree at Indi-

ana University in the Jacobs School of Musicand was offered a teaching position after finish-ing grad school.“This is one of the top places in music, there

are probably others on the East Coast or NewYork but it’s the place you want to be, one of thetop places in classical music,” Jankovic said.Jankovic was brought to the SCCC/ATS by

the music department along with the help of stu-dent services.

“It’s important to not only bring culture to thecampus but anytime you can get a professionalto come to Liberal is a great thing,” music in-structor DarinWorkman said.“I’m very excited because, coming from a

college town to southwest Kansas, I started tomiss watching pros live. Here you have to go toDallas and Denver to see something like this,”Workman said.Jankovic will also host a Guitar Master Class

at 2 p.m. on Sept. 21 inRoom H148.Jankovic, who still

teaches at IndianaUniversity, finds greatjoy in both perform-ing and teaching.“These two things

feed one another andboth are equally im-portant,” Jankovicsaid. “You need twodifferent approach-es, teaching is ver-balizing, explain-ing, and it helps mebecause when Iverbalize some-thing it helps mebetter understand.But performinghelps me teach mystudents, they areboth integral.”Those interest-

ed can find moreinformation onJankovic online atw w w . p e t a r -jankovic.net.

Petar Jankovic

Guitarist brings classical stringvenue to campus performance

Crusader photo/ Morgan Allaman

Student worker Angie Saythany displays a few of the items donated by companies andemployees supporting the college and student scholarships.

Enrollment sees 35 percent increaseRustin WattSports editor

As of Sept. 9, last year, the totalnumber of students attending Se-ward County Community Collegeand Area Technical School was1,384 students. The number has in-creased in one year by 35 percent,with the total student count now at1,864.The number is liable to fluctuate

slightly with the college not quite atthe certification date yet.With the number of students up

35 percent, the total number of cred-it hours currently taken atSCCC/ATS has increased by 30 per-cent.Dean of Student Services Celeste

Donovan believes the economy hassomething to do with an increase inenrollment.“Part, I believe, is do to the cur-

rent economy situation,” Donovansaid. “Our campaign “Go Green

Save Green” showed the compari-son of costs between Seward andother four-year universities and theamount of money one could save byattending SCCC/ATS was a bigcontribution as well.”The marketing department at Se-

ward County played a role in deliv-ering the Go Green Save Greencampaign to prospective students.“It’s an exciting time,” Donovan

said. “We sent out a lot of marketingfrom admissions, and we are seeingall the hard work pay off.”The costs are definitely lower at-

tending two-year college comparedto a four-year university across theboard, but Seward County presentsa lot more opportunities to its stu-dent compared to most communitycolleges in the state.Of the 1,864 students at Seward,

58 percent are women and 42 per-cent are men.Nearly 85 percent of the students

are from Kansas, with 34 interna-

tional students. The rest are out-of-state students and many athletesfrom out-of-state.Forty-three percent of the total

number of students are between theages of 18 and 23.According to Donovan, about 95

percent of the freshman who gavetheir reason for attending SewardCounty indicated one of three cate-gories.Students attended SCCC/ATS be-

cause it is more affordable, in closeproximity to home, and had careerprograms many were aiming for.These were the three key themes fornew incumbents to Seward County.The 35 percent increase in a sin-

gle year will be something to keepan eye on in the continuing develop-ment of SCCC/ATS.“Recruiting was done by the

school as a whole with everyonedoing their part, and now everyonecan take a share in the success,”Donovan said.

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New college admissions coor-dinator Morgan Richmeier is inher office advising students, get-ting ready for recruiting roadtrips and looking forward tosports at Seward.She began her job on July 31

and replaced Jess Murphy, whoresigned to be a paraprofessionalfor the Plains school district.Molly Belt also resigned to be aparaprofessional for MacArthurElementary School, and the de-partment has a freeze on hiringand her position has yet to befilled. Both are working to earn their

teaching certificate’s through theNewman program.People at the college played a

role in Richmeier’s decision to

accept the admissions coordina-tor job.“A big reason why I decided to

apply for the job is because ofthe people,” Richmeier said.“They were all so nice to me andmade me feel welcome. I havealso wanted to be around collegestudents, and I was excited whenAlli and Wade Lyon told meabout the opening.”Richmeier has shown to be a

good fit in the office.“I’ve been most impressed

with Morgan’s ability to reallylisten to each individual she ad-vises,” J.R. Doney, Director ofMarketing, said. “She goesabove and beyond to meet thestudents’ needs and she brings agreat attitude and initiative to theAdmissions Office.”Hillary Anderson, admissions

office secretary, adds, “She is

very upbeat, and is eager to re-cruit new students to the col-lege.”Although

Richmeierhas not got-ten to expe-rience mucho fSCCC/ATSlife yet, sheis lookingforward to it.“I’m real-

ly lookingforward tobeing able togo to all thegames forthe sportsteams, and to be around the at-mosphere that comes with col-lege life again,” Richmeier said.

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The Seward County Commu-nity College/Area TechnicalSchool Board of Trustees metTuesday to discuss enrollment,the foundation auction and on-line learning.The college learned that enroll-

ment is up 35 percent and thatthe number of students takingonline classes through EduKanhas also doubled.Dr. Mark Sarver, the new di-

rector of EduKan, told the boardhow “absolutely visionary” theywere when they agreed to moveforward with EduKan. Many ofthe SCCC/ATS board memberswere on the board when the sixwestern Kansas community col-leges decided to form EduKan,an online community that offersgeneral education courses anddegrees online. “Ten years agowe were cutting edge,” he said.

“Now there are many institutionsdoing what we are doing. Weneed to figure out now how to becutting edge again.” EduKan has moved off the

Barton County Community Col-lege campus, Sarver said. Theconsortium is in the process ofdesigning a new logo and web-site. “It really is a very uniquesituation working with a consor-tium,” Sarver said.“One of the largest increases

on campus this fall is throughEduKan classes,” Cynthia Rapp,dean of instruction, said. “That’sa sign of the times and it’s impor-tant that we continue to be strongin those areas.”The college presented the

board with a new calendar, out-lining program reviews for bothacademic and non-academicareas.Dr. Duane Dunn, SCCC/ATS

president, told the board we need

to look at all areas of campus tosee how the college can be im-proved.Future program reviews for

academic programs will includeenrollment trends, transfer re-quirements and ex-pectations of careerand technical educa-tion programs.The board accept-

ed the program re-view for the Busi-ness AdministrativeTechnology Programwith the next formal reviewschedule in five years. The col-lege has already combined thecourses and competencies fromthe technical school with the cur-riculum offered in office occupa-tions at the college and changedthe name. The faculty will devel-op a plan for tracking programgraduates and collecting data,improve marketing of the pro-

gram, and develop relationshipswith area school counselors,business teachers, and adminis-trators using venues like XtremeChallenge. Gina Palmgren, business ad-

ministrative technol-ogy program instruc-tor who was previ-ously employed bySouthwest KansasTechnical School,told the board that ithas been great for thestudents in her pro-

gram to be a part of the commu-nity college. Students have farmore advantages, especially ifthey want to transfer to a four-year college or university.The college continues to use

the state post-secondary educa-tion improvement bond fund(PEI) for deferred maintenanceprojects on campus. The boarddirected the administration to so-

licit bids to make improvementsto the parking lots at the areatechnical school. The concreteparking lots will includedrainage and fire lanes.Board chair Jo Ann Sharp

commented on the 40th anniver-sary kick-off activities and ex-pressed appreciation to thosewho attended.Trustee Marvin Chance Jr.,

provided a report on the upcom-ing KACCT meeting. The agen-da will include developing leg-islative proposals for the 2010legislative session and address-ing the budgetary reductions instate aid.In other action, the board• Accepted the resignation of

Mike Paden, natural gas technol-ogy instructor, effective Sept. 16;• Recognized the team of Evan

Winchester, Shelia Scheib,Suzanne Campbell and DenicePaden as the members of the Pro-

fessional Welfare Committee ofthe SCCC/ATS Professional Em-ployees Association;• Approved the modification to

Policy 101 Mission, Philosophy,Purpose and to Policy 106 Pub-lic Records;• Accepted for first reading an

identity theft policy, and• Selected Sharon Hobble as

the voting delegate at the upcom-ing Association of CommunityCollege Trustees Annual Com-munity College Leadership Con-gress and Dustin Ormiston, as al-ternate.The college will hold a come

and go brunch on Sunday, Sept.13 in the student union/cafeteriawith student performances and abuffet menu. The next board meeting is Oct.

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Board of trustees meets to discuss EduKan program

Dacee KentnerCrusader staff

The Seward County Commu-nity College/ Area TechnicalSchool board of trustees accept-ed the resignation of MikePaden, SCCC/ ATS Natural GasTechnology Instructor, Tuesdayat its regular meeting. Paden was hired in July to help

develop the natural gas programrecently added by the college.The board will look to replace

Paden starting next week. Untila new instructor is hired, the pro-gram’s advisory board will con-tinue with the development ofthe natural gas program.“The job is fine. I just don’t

like the area,” Paden comment-ed on his resignation. “I was of-fered a chance to move to west-ern Colorado where I will bedoing what I’ve done my wholelife.”Paden’s resignation will be ef-

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Chris Perez goes through the food line to pick up some pizza and hot wings at a TRiO meet andgreet for college students. TRiO programs help students overcome class, social and cultural bar-riers to be successful in higher education. The meet and greet luncheon was to inform studentsof services available this semester.

Morgan AllamanEditor in Chief

During their first day on the job as life-guards at Adventure Bay, longtime Se-ward CountyWellness Center employeesand current students, Cassandra Tuls andSayde McVey saved a little girl’s life.A 6-year-old girl was floating on her

back in the 3-foot deep swimming areaat the newly opened Adventure Baywater park when Tuls noticed waterbrushing over the girl’s face and imme-diately jumped in to save her. As theyoung swimmer was pulled out of thepool she went unconscious. Tuls thencalled McVey over and together the col-lege students gave the young girl two-person CPR.After a total of four breathsand 60 compressions, the girl coughedup water.The scene was tense as onlookers

watched their every move.“Her Grandpa was standing right be-

hind us when we were doing chest com-pressions and I kept telling her to wakeup, wake up, wake up,” McVey said. “Iwas just hoping everything turned out al-right because he was right behind uswatching.”Tuls had mixed feelings over being a

hero.“I was scared at first and really happy

and glad that I was able to be there and

Sayde was able to help me, but I feelgood,” Tuls said. “I’m blessed to havebeen able to have been there and havesaved her.”McVey remains modest about the situ-

ation.“I don’t really consider myself a hero,”

McVey said. “I was just doing what I wassupposed to do.”Both Tuls and McVey were trained by

the college’s Director of Aquatics andWellness Kelly Cook and were requiredto take a 32-hour certification program.The program requires everything fromendurance swimming to actually havingto save people.Cook is glad he trained students who

took their line of duty seriously.“In this business, it’s hard, especially

here at the college, to take this job seri-ously. We save people every semester,but we’ve never had a near drowning,”Cook said. “I’ve worked here for nineyears and I always tell them just becauseyou came in today doesn’t mean thatsomething’s not going to happen.”Cook also believes that employees like

Tuls and McVey are helping to changethe stereotype set for lifeguards.“A lot of people have misconceptions

that lifeguards are just there to get tan in-stead of do their job, but we take it pret-ty seriously,” Cook said.

NEWS CRUSADER 3Friday, September 11, 2009

Zach CarpenterCrusader staff

Anew sheriff is in town. Or at leasta new technical school director.After Ed Poley retired last year as

technical school director, Dr. BudSm i t h s o nhas steppedin as newSCCC/AreaTechn i ca lSchooldirector.“I think its

a great op-portunity,”Sm i t h s o nsaid of hisnew role.“ T h e ymerged thecommunitycollege and

the tech school a couple years ago,and that’s just like the best of bothworlds. You got the technical side ofpeople who can build things, andthen you got the college side of peo-ple who are able to help the peoplebuild.”

Smithson is passionate about serv-ing the needs of the community, see-ing the school succeed, growing andbuilding new programs, and drawingcompanies and start-up-businessesinto Liberal’s economic base.As director of the SCCC/ Area

Technical School, Smithson’s mainfocus and duty is to maintain goodclasses for students by staying cur-rent with information on availablejobs, helping students over the hur-dles of admissions, studies, testingand curriculum challenges, whilehelping manage the business of theschool itself.He is currently residing in the

dorms at Hale Court as a dorm par-ent. One of his goals is helping thestudents at Hale Court and the Stu-dent Living Center, as well as thecommuting students, in making thetransitions they need to for adjustingto college life.Smithson is interacting with stu-

dents not only in the academic field,but also in extra-curricular activitieswith the drama department.Smithson has been cast in the role

of the Cowardly Lion in the college’supcoming play, the “Wizard of Oz”.

Alison Chambers, who is thedrama director and speech instructorat SCCC, has enjoyed working withSmithson.“Bud is a blast! He’s so much fun.

He always has a really great attitude,and he’s setting the example for howthe students should behave in re-hearsal.”She said Smithson is always there

to step in when a need is present. Hehas a passion for the community ofLiberal and he goes about it all witha great sense of humor.Smithson was born into a military

family overseas in Germany, wherehis father was serving in the Navy.He and his family did not come to theUnited States until Smithson and hissiblings were almost out of highschool.He graduated from high school in

Oklahoma, and from there went on toOklahoma State University. Aftercompleting his education at OSUproceeded into the administrativefield for 25 years. Smithson is notmarried, and he has two children. Hisdaughter is attending Wichita StateUniversity and his son is a drafter inTulsa, Okla.

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In recognition of the 40th Anniversary of the college, which opened for classes in 1969, and the start of the Crusader thesame year, current editors and staff have taken up the task of recreating photos from the past 40 years. Here, photogra-pher Logan Green recreates a current photo of a student sleeping in the library using a 1980s photo as the model.

Kylix art clubmember Karem

Gallo paints sun-flowers for the

set of the “Wizardof Oz” productionin the Showcase

Theater. The“Wizard of Oz”

will open on Oct.7, 8 and 9. TheKylix art club is

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Making attempts to be organized doesn’t alwaysmean people are going to stay on track with dailyschedules.Just because I have most of my daily routinesprogrammed on my ever-ready blackberry phone,from when I can fit in study time to when I have to

work, doesn’t mean thatschedule always gets fol-lowed. Procrastination anddistractions, such as readingabout recent Chupacabrasightings on the internet,sometimes interfere withthings I know I need to bedoing instead of things I wantto be doing.College is a time for fun,socializing, and enjoying thetime without the parentsaround, but that also makes itdifficult because your time isall left up for you to plan out.

Nobody is going around constantly nagging youto do your homework, get up for class or cleanyour room. It’s finally all up to you.This is a tough transition for many who are liv-ing away from home for the first time in theirlives. Trying to find a good balance betweenschool, work and a social life may seem frustrat-ing at times, especially when you get distractedby random little things; however, with properself-discipline and good time management, bal-ancing your daily tasks will become easier.Thinking about how things will affect you laterinstead of what you will gain from doing some-thing now is a hard thing to do. I admit that Iwould rather sit around being lazy watching TVon a weekend like most normal folks, but I also

have to realize that can’t become a usual routine;especially when I have homework due within thenext couple of weeks and a pile of laundry to wash.Ultimately, we can’t always say that our lives aregoing to be dictated by the plans we make and theschedules we would like to adhere to becausewe’re all human and things don’t always end uphappening like we hope they do.But one thing we can do is make things easier forourselves by working on that paper or that math as-signment and just stay away from that oh-so-entic-ing story about our favorite mythical creature andsave that for later when we know we actually havetime to do the things we want to be doing.

OPINION4 Friday, September 11, 2009CRUSADER

I admit I have a problem.I’m addicted to buying CDs. Now, it’s not a“bad” addiction, but believe me, I get a certainsense of happiness that downloading an album justdoesn’t give me.I spend nearly an hour looking though the clear-

ance bin at Hastings to find my favorites and new

artists and search dozens of websites for hard tofind albums. Then once I find that special CD it’slike Christmas, unwrapping the plastic and finallyhaving a physical copy of that album I’ve beenlooking for.Of course I take good care of my collection. Acouple of weeks ago my collection wasn’t as orga-nized as it should be, so I pulled all my CDs outand I was overwhelmed by how many CDs I have.I didn’t know where to start, but once I was fin-ished I had one thing on my mind. I have to buymore.I do also admit I’m quite impulsive when I’m atthe store. I mean I know it was 97 cents but did Ireally have to buy an S Club 7 CD? Online is a dif-ferent story. I do my research before making a pur-chase. I search on Google shopping and read re-

views on sites to make sure I’mnot only getting a good deal butalso know that the site is trustedand safe.EBay is another great place toshop. You can get better deals onthere than most other sites. Plus,I like to talk to the seller beforebuying the items so I know if Iwill get a good deal.Once I wanted to buy two CDsand a perfume that one seller hadup for auction. The price was fair,but the shipping was too much forme. I asked the seller if he wouldsend the items together to cutdown on the shipping, but he re-

fused to. Luckily, I found someone else sell-ing the same CDs I wanted and that sellerwas a lot nicer. She offered me free shippingif I bought six CDs, so then I got more CDsfor nearly the same price. The perfume how-ever I didn’t care much for anymore.Other great things to look at is when theseller makes a mistake. Instead of beingupset when the seller messes up my order, Ilook at the benefits. Inform the seller aboutthe mix up and, most of the time, they notonly correct the error, they may send yousomething extra to make up for it. That’show I managed to get a free single. After all,eBay is like a marketplace you hunt to huntfor the best deal and negotiate with the sell-er.

So, you’re chillin’ at home one evening andyou suddenly realize you are in desperateneed of Blue Bunny ice cream. What do youdo?You make aWal-Mart run.When you arrive, you are delighted to finda parking spot close to the doors. You spend afew minutes test-running carts to find one thatdoesn’t veer sharply to the left or squeak orbump. Finally you settle for the cart that onlyturns right. (You figure you can just do a 360when you need to go left.)First, you see the card aisle and rememberyour parents’ anniversary is coming up andyou should get them a card while you’rethinking about it. After listening to about 20music cards you buy the stupidest one you canfind and move on.Some comfy looking pants catch your eye,so a pair or two enter your cart, followed by abox of Lucky Charms, paper towels (on sale),and chips. That should do it for now.Just before you get in line, you rememberyou are almost out of shaving cream. You runback to the Health and Beauty section to grabit, while picking up some toothpaste on theway.

You get back to thecheck-out lines and re-alize there’s only oneline open. It has twopeople with three cartsfull in it. That’s OK;you’ll brave the selfcheck-out line.You wait patientlybehind the woman whofeeds dollar bills one byone into the machine topay for her $20 pur-chase. She finally getsdone, so you scan inyour items, only gettingyelled at by the ma-chine three times, payand grab your bags.You walk across thestore to the doors youcame in, only to realizethey are now locked.

Now you have to walk back across to theother doors. The old lady at the door says,“Have a nice day!” and you walk out.You are only disoriented for a few secondsbefore you remember you parked your car bythe other doors. You find your car, put yourbags in, leave your shopping cart in some-one’s parking space. (You hate that, but every-body does it and you figure it is your way ofretribution for the self check-out lines.)You put your stuff away when you get backhome, collapse on the couch, and turn on theTV. You give off a relieving sigh, then realizeyou never got your ice cream.

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Traveling is a requirement for most Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School stu-dents . Some students have traveled across the country to attend Seward. Some have traveled across thestate. Others travel everyday to Liberal for class.For most of us, college travel means hours of driving. Long, boring trips on straight, flat pavement.What do you do to pass the time?In 2007, the top contributing factor of traffic accidents in Kansas were caused due to drivers whofailed to give their full attention to the road, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation. Themajority of these accidents occurred during the daylight hours, in good weather conditions and wherethe road is straight and level.So what are Kansas drivers doing while driving?The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted a study in 2006 on cell phone usewhile driving.According to the study, cell phone use is the number one distraction to drivers on the roadtoday. The study also found that drivers between the ages of 18 and 20 are four times more likely tohave a crash due to cell phone use.In Kansas the only legislation on cell phones is for novice drivers. All other drivers are free to chat,text, check the weather, send pictures, etc., while driving with their cells.Safe driving is important. As students, sometimes we are less than attentive when driving. Betweentexting our friends and changing the tunes on our MP3, we seem to be too involved in the world off theroad. Each time you put yourself behind the wheel of a vehicle, you are putting yourself in a position ofresponsibility. The lives of everyone on or near a road are now in your hands.The Crusader staff wants to remind students that even the smallest distractions while driving can lead

to serious accidents.Put your cell phone away, turn the radio down and remind your friends to buckle up!

Feelin’ the ice cream blues

I don't understand a lot of things. How to man-age my money is one of those things, and from thelook of things, hey, neither does our country. Sowhy is it then that there is never really any soundeconomic advice that is presented to everyone atsome point in their lives?I've lived in Liberal all of my life, so I've hadpretty much the same school standards for the last19 years. I have to take so many hours of english,so many hours of science, and so many hours ofmath. Why? I don't want to be a scientist. I'm notgoing to give lectures or teach English. And a ca-reer in math? Be serious.I do, however, plan on having money at somepoint in my life. So how about a class that can teachme ways to handle it better?For instance, everyone that is going to or went toLiberal High School was required to take a govern-ment class their senior year. So how about a classon the economy and how it works?The best part of this idea is that it benefits every-body, or at least everybody that is willing to pay at-tention in the class instead of doing any of the nu-merous distracting activities that a student can en-gage in while in class.Let's be honest, if students were told that theywere going to have to take a class that would ex-

plain to them the basicprinciples of the economyand ways that they canmanage their money andassets, who would say noto that?If there already is aclass like this, then eitherI simply have not heardabout it, or it is being keptsecret for some unknownreason. If there isn't, how-ever, then I think it is inthe best interest of the stu-dents that there be a classthat fulfills these rolls.One has to wonder, if aclass like this were re-quired in schools acrossthe country, would we asa nation be in less of a fi-nancial crisis than we cur-rently are? Would we stillhave people maxing outcredit cards to pay offtheir other credit cards?Would people still bespending money that they

can't afford to spend?It could honestly be argued either way, but I liketo think that people would wise up to the way thatthe system works if they were required to study itbefore they were out making large financial deci-sions on their own.Or maybe I'm just sour that I can't hold on to mymoney for the life of me.

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ENTERTAINMENT 5Friday, September 11, 2009 CRUSADER

Wendy HernandezCrusader staff

From the delicateness of making pottery tothe roughness of working on the farm, IsaacFuentes loves to work with his hands, has manytalents and possesses a love for school.Fuentes first came to the college in 2006, but

left in 2007 to pursue career in massage thera-py at the Body and Soul Therapeutic School ofMassage. He has worked on the farm, as a con-struction worker, in the oilfield, now does mas-sage therapy, and still loves to make pottery andsculptures.Now Fuentes is pursuing a career in educa-

tion, one of his many passions, and says hecan’t get enough of school and loves to teachothers. He is on his way a double major in ESLand education, and is going to transfer toKansas State University, after he gets his asso-ciates degree at Seward County. After graduat-ing there, he would like to move to Chicago andpursue his career there as an art instructor.Fuentes has a major role as the TinMan in the

“Wizard of Oz” production to be performed oncampus Oct. 6-9. He is excited knowing thatthis is going to be the first time for SewardCounty Community College/ Area TechnicalSchool to ever feature this production.

He believes that he has to do a good job, con-sidering this is the Land of Oz. Even though hetook over the role from an understudy position,Fuentes said he has already learned the dancemoves he has to perform and all the songs hewill sing, but is nervous about his lines.Fuentes said he loves to act, with the oppor-

tunity get on stage and be someone else.“You forget about all your cares and worries

in this world,” Fuentes said. “You get to be adifferent person and just act the part.”He also likes to read because he can play the

perfect role in his mind and make everythingperfect in contrast to movies, because moviesare not always what is expected or a role mightnot be well played. His favorite books are fan-tasy and horror.Fuentes also likes to restore cars. He has a

current project working on an “oldie” in hisgarage.Isaac is part of the Kylix Art Club. He also

volunteers for AWANA, a church program tohelp kids find God.“I’m a big man of faith,” Fuentes said.In some ways, he needs to be a man of faith,

seeing as how one of his pastimes is cliff div-ing at Two Buttes, Colo. He enjoys camping,playing the guitar and having cookouts.

Dana LoewenCrusader staff

“The Wizard of Oz” will showOct. 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m. in theShowcase Theater as part of Liber-al’s Oz-Fest weekend. This is thefirst time for the college to performthe “Wizard.”“It’s a celebration of the first great

American fairy tale, right here inbeautiful Kansas.” said Bud Smith-son, the Cowardly Lion.“It’s going to make history,” said

Isaac Fuentes, the Tin Man. “Every-one has fun and laughs together. Ilove performing!”Logan Green is The Scarecrow.“People should come to the play

because we have a good mix of peo-ple with a lot of flavor, talent, andpersonality,” Green said. “At first Iwas reluctant to try out, but it will bewell worth it.”Tiffany Prater has the lead role of

Dorothy. “When I tried out I didn’texpect to get Dorothy. I thought I’d

be a munchkin because I’m short,”Prater said with a laugh. “It was abig shocker when I found out. Thisis way out of my comfort zone.”“My favorite song is ‘Somewhere

over the Rainbow’ because it tellsher (Dorothy’s) story so well. It’ssimple, yet it tells so much. Herworld had no color; the most excit-ing thing in her life was a rainbow,”Prater added.Technical school director Smith-

son has his favorite parts, too.“My favorite scene is the end,

when you realize you have every-thing you need. The courage, heart,and hope is already inside of you.What you need is within you,”Smithson said. “The most excitingpart of being in the play is everyoneworking together. We’re all differentfrom each other but it takes all ofus.”“Everyone has worked really

hard. It’s going to be great,” saidPrater.

Fuentes crafts life to hismold

Logan GreenCrusader staff

Seward County Community CollegeArea Technical School hasenjoyed many years of the college art People’s ChoiceAwards.The People’s ChoiceAwards allow people from the communi-

ty to come and vote on their favorite piece of artwork in three cat-egories: 3-dimensional design, 2-dimensional design and photog-raphy.This spring, Raegan Broadie won with an ink drawing, Mor-

ganAllaman won with two photographs tied for first and T.J. Rat-zlaff won with a 3-D representation of a guitar.Ratzlaff’s piece is composed of walnut wood, copper and brass,

and was designed to be a guitar pick box. One ofAllaman’s pieceswas taken in NewYork City from the Empire State Building, andthe second was a black and white still life photo. Brodie’s win-ning piece was created with a technique known as ink blotting.Ratzlaff takes continuing education classes from SCCC/ATS.

Allaman is a full time student and is currently the Editor-in-Chieffor the Crusader. Broadie is currently attending Concordia Uni-versity.Art instructor Susan Copas, who manages the People’s Choice

Awards, was pleased with the turn out to the reception, “Therewere a good number of people who voted this year.”One thing that stood out to Copas was the comments she got

from people. “People that came to the exhibit told me that theyhad a particularly hard time choosing just one art work to votefor,” Copas said.Bill McGlothing, an English instructor at SCCC/ATS, added,

“My favorite part is seeing the amazing colors, as well as the va-riety, individuality and the personality that’s expressed in all theart works on the walls.”The event usually has a good turn out, and people enjoy seeing

the beauty and decoration that the People’s ChoiceAwards bringto the halls of the Shank Humanities Building.

People select favorite art pieces

Crusader photo/ Alfredo Anaya

Tiffany Prater, Logan Green, Bud Smithson and Issac Fuentes rehearse for the upcoming “Wizard of Oz” mu-sical. Prater will play Dorothy, Green will play the Scarecrow, Smithson will play the Cowardly Lion, andFuentes will play the role of the Tin Man. One of the performances directed by Alison Chambers will have aspecial visitor, one of the original Munchkins from the Hollywood movie.

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The Wizard of OzOctober 7,8,9

7:30 p.m.Showcase TheaterTicketswill go onsale Sept. 14 andmaybepurchasedin theHumanitiesoffice or by calling620-417-1451.

SCCC/ ATS studentswill recieve a freeticketwith a current

ID.

T.J. Ratzlaffwon first placein the 3-D divi-sion of thePeople’sChoiceAwards, Rea-gan Broadiewas first in the2-D divisionand MorganAllaman placedfirst in thephotographydivision. Alla-man had twophotos thattied for first.Her other piecewas a photo ofNew York Cityfrom the Em-pire StateBuilding.

‘Wizard of Oz’ comesback home to Liberal

6 Friday, September 11, 2009CRUSADER SPORTS

Lady Saints begin conference play

Antigoné LoweryCrusader staff

Coming from Dumas, Texas, to Liberal as afreshman in 2008, sophomore Lindsey Millerhas become an asset to the Lady Saints volley-ball team.As a freshman, Miller finished third out of the

team with 347 kills on the floor, fourth with 410digs and 25 aces and second overall with a .938passing percentage.Miller described her freshman year as "an

emotional rollercoaster," but was able to getthrough it with the help and support of headcoach Bret Laullen and assistant coach AlanaRowland."Moving away from home was a big step for

me, as it is for most, but it was also very excit-ing,” Miller said. “Coach Luallen and CoachRowland taught me to be who I am and helpedme to open up and mature as a player, and as aperson. Most importantly, they helped me withthe transition by making me feel at home here."Having learned a lot during her freshman year,

Miller is still working hard as a sophomore inorder to end her career at Seward County on agood note."My sophomore year is full of goals as a team,

and as a person,” Miller said. “As a team, Iwould like for us to win conference, region anda trip to Nationals in Iowa. As an individualbeing a Sophomore, I want to be a positive rolemodel for the new players, and help them withthe transition also. I want to continue to be aleader andmost of all be a good captain to them."As the team captain, Miller also credits her

teammates for her success. "On and off the courtour team this year is very close knit and getsalong great," Miller said.

Miller and the Lady Saint's volleyball teamcontinue to work hard on the court and are cur-rently 10-1 after their loss to PrattAug. 29. Theirnext home match will be Sep.16 in the Green-house.Miller has many off the field interests her

biggest being the great outdoors.Miller is a rare woman that enjoys riding four-

wheelers and dirtbikes.She credits this to most of her friends being

guys when she was in Dumas. Her love of sportsdoesn’t end at volleyball and motorcross. Millerloves to to watch sports like football and basket-ball as well.Moving away from home was an obstacle for

Miller to overcome but she is glad she chose Se-ward County.“The successful volleyball team, nice people,

smaller town it just seemed the perfect fit,”Miller said.Amanda Savage,Miller’s teammate and room-

mate had many things to say about Miller.“She can make any situation a funny one,”

Savage said. “She is really easy going on and offthe court. If someone is having a tough timeshe’s always there to pick them up. She doesn’tlet little things get to her either.”Miller shares many similar enjoyment as many

women do off the court. She enjoys watchingTree Hill andArmyWives.As far as her future goes she seems unsure on

the continuation of her volleyball career.“If I do decide to continue on in volleyball I

think I would like to transfer to SouthwesternOklahoma State University.Savage had one more thing to say about her

roommate, Miller, “She’s messy I’m not goingto lie.” Miller quickly countered, “She is too.”

— Rustin Watt contributed to this story.

Roy AllenSports information

The Seward County Lady Saints Volleyballteam opened up their conference schedule againstGarden City. Similar to how they began last sea-son’s conference play they quickly disposed ofthe Busters in straight sets to move to 11-1 on theseason.Seward got off to somewhat of a slow start in

the match falling behind 5-1 but bounced backthanks in part to Diana Castrillon’s serving mas-tery to take a 13-9 lead. The Seward sophomoredished up 4 straight aces and 7 straight points togive Seward a lead they would not give up for therest of the night.When Castrillon wasn’t on the serving line

chalking up points for the green and white, shewas at the net where she recorded 11 kills on thenight.Seward took game one 25-16 and after a

lengthy stay for Lindsey Miller with the ball inher hand serving and a pair of Stacie Carverblocks, the Lady Saints led 13-1 early in gamenumber two.The two teams would trade points the rest of the

way but Seward’s sizeable lead allowed prevent-ed Garden form closing any gap as the LadySaints cruised home with a 25-12 win.A trio of Kelen Ricardo kills early in the third

game pushed Seward County out to an 8-3 lead.Castrillon stepped back to serve, Garden City

leaned back on their heels as her powerful servespropelled Seward to six straight points to givethem an 13-4 lead.As the Lady Saints emptied their bench Garden

would get within breathing room at 19-12 butwould got no closer as the match ended on a Cas-trillon ace at 25-14.In the victory Castrillon ended up with 8 aces

to go along with her 11 kills while Ricardo fin-ished with 7 kills, 5 digs, and a pair of blocks onthe evening.Lindsey Miller and Amanda Savage again

headed the Lady Saints defensive attack as Millerended with 12 digs and Savage 9.Stacie Carver drew the start in the middle for

Seward and responded well with a team high 4blocks on the night.Maddy Taylor and TarynWesterman continued

to play well at the setter position and dished out19 and 6 assists respectively.The win moves Seward County to 11-1 overall

on the season going into Saturday’s big JayhawkWest Conference matchup with Hutchinson in theSports Arena.The Blue Dragons were ranked 13th in the lat-

est NJCAApoll but despite a hot start and 4 winsover top 25 opponents Seward is nowhere to befound.They will have a chance to make some noise in

the next 7 days however as after their date with#13 Hutchinson they will return home to face #11Pratt for the second time this year.

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Lindsey Miller goes airborne to put one over the net in the Lady Saintsscrimmage with OPSU Aug. 26.

Will RectorNews editor

The Saints baseball team hasstarted its preparations for thespring season and a run at theJayhawk Conference Champi-onship as well as the RegionVI Championship by begin-ning their fall baseball season.Fall baseball is mostly used

to build team chemistry andprepare for the spring season,but it is also used as a chancefor walk-on players to makethe team.The Saints have played

scrimmages against DodgeCity Community College,Lamar Community College,and Garden City CommunityCollege already this fall.The baseball team returns 11

players from last year and havebrought in two transfer sopho-mores. Former Liberal Red-skin, Layne Greeson, is alsotrying to make a comeback tothe diamond this year andwalk-on as a sophomore.Coach Galen McSpadden

has brought in 13 freshmen toaid the team for the upcomingseason.The Saints went 37-22 last

season with an 18-14 record inthe JayhawkWest.They made it to the Region

VI championship game againstthe Cowley Community Col-lege Tigers and lost two reallyclose games ending their sea-son.The Saints will be in action

again this weekend here inLiberal with Luna CommunityCollege coming on Saturday,and Clarendon College onSunday. Both scrimmages willbe at Brent Gould Field.

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SPORTS 7Friday, September 11, 2009 CRUSADER

Will RectorNews editor

I’m predicting it right now. Some people maycall me crazy because Kansas has the toughestconference schedule, with having to face Okla-homa, Texas Tech, and Texas in the same season.The Jayhawks will breeze through their non-conference schedule with the same ease that theydisplayed in beating Northern Colorado 49-3 intheir season opener.Once the non-conference schedule is over,Kansas will have to face Iowa State in their con-ference opener, and Colorado the followingweek. These two teams should not show muchmore competition than the non-conference teamsdue to the fact that Iowa State and Colorado arepredicted to be at the bottom of the Big 12 Northstandings.Kansas will then have to play Oklahoma onOct. 24, but the Jayhawks should be undefeatedwhen the Sooners roll into Lawrence. The Soon-ers, who lost to BYU in their first game of theseason, have lost their star tight end JermaineGresham for the season, and Sam Bradford isnursing a shoulder injury that will not be some-thing that he can recover from quickly. Kansasshould beat Oklahoma due to the injuries, butalso this year’s Oklahoma team does not lookanything like the dominating team that they werelast season.After defeating Oklahoma, Kansas will have totravel to Lubbock, Texas, to face a Texas Techteam that has lost Graham Harrell and MichaelCrabtree to the professional football ranks.Tech’s defense will not be able to stop the pow-erful offense that Kansas brings. The Jayhawkswill leave Lubbock with a convincing victory.

Kansas will then travel to Manhattan for theSunflower Showdown rivalry game with theKansas State Wildcats. Although there is muchbuzz in the Little Apple about Coach Bill Snyderbeing back in control of theWildcats, this seasonwill be much of the same as the last few for theWildcats. Kansas will win the Governor’s Cupand will head back to Lawrence to prepare fortheir toughest Big 12 North test, the NebraskaCornhuskers.Nebraska has been predicted to be the champi-ons of the north, and they are looking to be toughin Head Coach Bo Pelini’s second year. The Jay-hawks will battle with the Cornhuskers, but willcome out victorious by a fourth quarter touch-down pass from Todd Reesing to DezmonBriscoe.Kansas will then travel toAustin, Texas to bat-tle the Texas Longhorns and Colt McCoy. Thisis the only game on their schedule that I thinkthey will lose. Texas looks too solid across theboard, but Kansas will not just lay down. Theywill put up at least 30 points on the scoreboardand give a respectable showing against the toughLonghorns.After losing to the Longhorns, the Jayhawkswill wrap up their Big 12 conference scheduleand their regular season by putting a beating onthe Missouri Tigers in the Border War. TheTigers are not close to the same team that theyhave been the last two seasons by losing ChaseDaniel and Jeremy Maclin, but quarterbackBlaine Gabbert has shown some promise.The Jayhawks will have a rematch with Texasin the Big 12 Championship game, win or lose,Kansas will be playing in a BCS Bowl in Janu-ary.

Kansas will win the Big 12north in ’09 gridiron seasonRustin Watt

Sports editor

The key to success in athlet-ics comes down to commitmentand determination. When anathlete commits they have tocommit themselves in the broadspectrum not just in an athleticsense.On the field and court lieshand-in-hand with off the courtinvolving school and communi-ty. Most, not all, athletes at two-year colleges could not meetacademic requirements to go onto a Division I school and re-ceive a scholarship or wereoverlooked and feel they haveto work themselves up the lad-der.I know, having been a jucoathlete myself.An athlete can have all the tal-ent in the world, but if they’restuck in a junior college be-cause they can’t get over a 2.0GPA, they’re not going to moveon, period.These athletes need to con-centrate on academics. Whywould players who were re-cruited by a D-I school, but hadto go the juco route becausethey didn’t meet academic re-quirements, not work to bettertheir situation?Why let it come to that?Why

not do assignments, why notstudy, with mandatory studyhalls and such a small studentto teacher ratio, there is no ex-cuse for failure.The two-year college routegives an aspiring athlete everyopportunity to get straight.Where I played, football coach-es patrolled the hallways whilewe were in classes. If a playerwas wearing a hat, sleeping ornot following the coach’sacronym S.L.A.N.T. ,which ourhead coach instilled in us in ourown private orientation forfootball players, they would be

taken out in the hallway to doupdowns, floorwaxers, rippedor any form of punishment theysaw fit for the day.The acronym stood for theproper way to be a student inthe classroom. S-sit up, L-leanforward, A-ask questions, N-nod your head and T-track yourteacher.Punishment came but also re-wards to those who excelled inthe classroom. If playersweren’t taking care of theirbusiness by not going to theirtutors and began to fail classes,they were sent home.A running back who I playedwith prior to coming to Seward,backed up Mike Hart fromMichigan University. He losthis D1 scholarship because hedid not meet academic require-ments. He transferred down andthen was kicked out at our ju-nior college summer camp be-cause he was late to class threetimes. Opportunity lost.Students who had difficultiesin class were asked to meetwith their instructor once aweek to get help or one-on-one-help from other sources.I’m sure things are similar forathletes here. They are givenevery opportunity to succeed,but why do some seem tochoose failure?Many student athletes aspireto move on to a higher level. In-stead they squander theirchance at becoming a betterstudent and athlete for nightafter night of partying.You want to move on butyou’re going to get drunk fournights a week, not do yourhomework, not pay attention inclass, get in off the field troubleand argue with teachers thatyou’ll lose a scholarship if youdon’t meet the junior collegeacademic requirements whenyou should strive to meet thosehigher level requirements.

If you’re given every oppor-tunity for success, why blow it?I’ve seen it, here and where Iplayed before returning heredue to an injury, all the talent inthe world gone to waste be-cause getting effed up becomespriority No. 1—before schooland athletics.Doing those things is easy,anyone can do that, the oppor-tunities are everywhere, there’salways a party in the dorms orsomeone’s garage. Why go andpunish yourself, not just yourbody, but your opportunity.I saw a running back whotransferred in from FloridaState University, phenomenalathlete, got sent home duringour summer camp for sellingdrugs and thinking he was bet-ter than everyone else.I’ve seen around Seward, ath-letes smoking outside, alcoholconfiscated. Not only that butstudents are careless enough toput their partying pictures onFacebook. Yet, many timesthese things aren’t even lookedat as a big deal. I’ve heard ofstudent athletes arguing withtheir teachers, when they arethe problem, doing extra curric-ulars that kept them from suc-cess before and think that theycan get a different result now.The worst thing is for an in-structor to give in to these de-mands to allow them to get spe-cial privileges, I’ve seen thishappen too. Failure is the besttool for learning.'I’m gonna get mine' is thementality a student athleteshould have. Schoolwork maynot be fun, but it’s going to getyou where you want to be.Those who come and do theirwork on and off the field, theyare usually the ones to move onto the big show. They see thebig picture, they come in deter-mined and commit themselves.

Lack of commitment leads tofamiliar, continuting failure

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TennisLeft, Christian Romanzini,a member of the men’stennis team at Seward

County, works to return aball at practice.

Right, Antigoné Lowery,women’s tennis star at

Seward County, works tosend a ball back acrossher body at practice.

Both men’s and women’steams are at Wichita

State University currentlyfor an invitational tourna-ment they will compete inthroughout the weekend.Crusader photos/Landry Mastellar

What’s Coming Up

Sept. 12• Softball at Dodge CityTournament.• Baseball vs. Luna

• Volleyball at Hutchinson

Sept. 13• Softball at Dodge City

Tournament•Baseball vs. Clarendon

Sept. 16• Softball at Pratt• Volleyball vs. Pratt

Sept. 18• Volleyball at Northeast-ern Tournament

Sept. 19• Volleyball at Northeast-ern Tournament

• Baseball at UNMTour-nament

•Softball at OPSU Tourna-ment

Sept. 19• Baseball at UNMTour-

nament• Softball vs. Canyon Heat

Sept. 22• Volleyball at Colby

Sept. 23• Baseball at Garden City

8 Friday, September 11, 2009CRUSADER 40 & FORWARD

A group at the 40th anniversary celebration looks through a 1969 copy of the Southwest Daily Times announcing the birth of a new junior college. From left,former faculty member Vern Jantz, who taught math to the first class of students; Laverne (Patterson) Ashlock, a student who was in the first class in 1969and now lives in Yukon, Okla.; Paul Boles, who was a member of the first board of trustees; and Charles Brownlee, a math and physics instructor when thecollege opened its doors. Brownlee would later become division chair and even serve as athletic director for a time. Left, Lila Hagaman sits at a table duringthe cookout. She was employed as the first secretary in 1967 two years before the college opened. Behind her is Reba Smothermon, the daughter of Al ShankSr. Shank served on the USD 480 board that started the plans for SCCJC and pushed the state for approval.

Sharing a laugh during 40th anniversary reunion visits are Tammy Doll, direc-tor of development; Gerald Harris, former dean of student services; Board ofTrustees member Jo Ann Sharp, and Steve Hecox, director of nursing.

Wade Lyon, director of student activi-ties, and Celeste Donovan, dean of stu-dent services, cook hamburgers and hotdogs for those at the 40th celebrationbarbecue.

The 40th anniversary cookout took place on Sept. 2 at the EpworthBuilding, where classes began Sept. 2, 1969. A ribbon cutting cer-emony at what is now the Epworth Allied Health building revisitedthe opening day of the college. Several students from that firstclass were in attendance.

Photos by Alfredo Anaya

College president Duane Dunn speaks about changesand the role of the college in the community through-out the last 40 years. He was joined by and longtimecollege supporter Paul Boles. Jo Ann Sharp andDonna Shank also spoke about the college and itsplace in the community and the state.

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