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May 3 - The LAST DAY todrop a class and receive a“W” on a transcript. Stu-dents who are failing arestrongly urged to drop ortalk to their advisers be-fore dropping a course.

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May 2 - 7 p.m. in theShowcase Theatre. Tick-ets are $3 and are free forstudents with their IDs.Tickets can be purchasedin the Humanities office.

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PhonathonDials It Up

Cheree TurleyCrusader staff

For the third year in a row, thestudents and staff of SewardCounty Community College/Area Technical School have ex-ceeded goals set to raise fundsfor the scholarship pool. Thisyear’s goal was set at $35,000.Students and staff met and beatthat goal by more than $1000with pledges at $36,581.

The Phonathon team with thehighest amount raised was thebaseball team, and they will re-ceive $500 for their team to re-ward their efforts.

The top amount raised by astaff member was more than$2,500 and it was raised by theircoach, Galen McSpadden. ThePhonathon is only one aspect offundraising for the scholarshipfund.

Each club and participating or-ganization was given a list ofalumni and names of alumni

who had also participated in thatclub or organization. The alumniwere told that the purpose of thePhonathon was to raise funds forthe scholarship pool, which areawarded to assist students atSCCC/ATS so they can receivethe education that the donor oncereceived himself or herself.

Celeste Donovan, dean of stu-dent services, stated that the win-ners will be announced May 2.Once participants calling in thePhonathon reached certainamounts of donations, they wereawarded with funny glasses,hats, candy, glow-in-the-darkcups and strands of beads. Alongwith the fun items that wereawarded at the time of thephonathon, participants also hadthe opportunity to win items forthe highest amounts raised.

Some of the items that wereawarded were a 42-inch flatscreen television, an iPad mini,an American Express Gift Card,a Nintendo Wii, Visa gift cards

and Pizza Hut pizza. The awardsfor faculty and staff that partici-pated were their choice of a dayoff from work, a night at theHampton in Dodge City, VIPparking for the rest of the semes-ter, a $50 gift card from theChamber of Commerce or fourpasses to steak night.

The clubs and organizationsthat participated in this year’sPhonathon were baseball, soft-ball, men’s and women’s basket-ball, Phi Theta Kappa, KappaBeta Delta, Enactus, HispanicAmerican Leadership Organiza-tion, Student Government Asso-ciation, presidential scholars,volleyball, sports medicine,cheer and dance, Students forTransportation, InternationalStudents Organization, Studentsfor Manufacturing, nursing stu-dents, Sigma Chi Chi, fine artsdepartment, Pathways, agricul-ture students, resident assistants,tennis and various instructorsand staff.

Scholarship fund gets a boost from alumni

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May 10 - Capping andpinning will take placefor the nursing programin the Green House at7:30 p.m.

May 11- Commence-ment will take place inthe Green House at 10a.m. Graduates are re-quired to be in the Stu-dent Union in cap andgown by 9:45 a.m. Com-mencement practice willbe May 10 at 3 p.m. stu-dents who are graduatingmust attend.

Saints BaseballMay 4 - The Saints willplay Independence atBrent Gould Field as partof the Region VI tourna-ment. The game will bebegin at 1 p.m.

Rented TextbooksMay 17 - The last daythat the Saints Bookstorewill take books that wererented. Late fees will becharged if a book is notreturned by that time.Students can also sellback their textbooks dur-ing textbook buyback.

Jose MedranoEditor

Foam, hamburgers and lavapits all took part in this year’sDorm-A-Palooza. Student Lifehosted the annual event a massof activities and awards were onhand this year at the Dorm-A-Palooza.

Dorm-A-Palooza took placebehind the Student Living Cen-ter Tuesday night. The eventsbegan with a cookout dinnerconsisting of hamburgers, hotdogs, egg salad, cookies andbrownies.

Students could play on the dif-ferent inflatables that range froma bungee jump, knight jousting,giant slide to a mountain climb.

“It was a good turnout, we hada lot of students out this year,”said Wade Lyon, director of Stu-dent Life.

Hot weather did deter somestudents from participating in theevent. The high for Tuesday was94 degrees. “We plan it out in ad-vance, because the weather is sounpredictable this time of yearthat’s why we didn’t use watergames this year,” Lyon said.

After the activities the annualPhonathon and Student Lifeawards ensued. “I really want tothank all of the groups that par-ticipated this year,” Dean of Stu-dent Services Celeste Donovansaid to students that attended theevent.

The Saints baseball teamraised the most money with atotal of $10,955. Johnny Griffith,a member of the Saints team,raised $1,770, making him thestudent who raised the mostmoney during the Phonathon.Griffith was awarded a iPad minifor his top student award. Otherprizes were awarded to studentswho participated in thePhonathon.

The annual Student Life werealso award at Dorm-A-Palooza.Students picked the winners by

filling out surveys and writing incandidates.

Jasmine Bryant and KeenanHall received the EinsteinAward, for most likely to attendclass. The Ms. Clean award wasreceived by Janel Tammen andMadison McLain for having thecleanest room.

Rachel Shockley received theLysol Award for having thesmelliest room. Tyler Wieden-feld was awarded the ScienceExperiment Award for havingthe funkiest fridge.

Stephanie Mark and BrandonRix received the Most Likely toSucceed Award. The GlamourAward, for being the bestdressed, was awarded to ReneBoaldin and Quentin Purtue.

Anete Kirsteine and Rix wereconsidered to be the most like-able students on campus andwere awarded the CongenialityAward. The Trash Can Award,for most likely to be on trashduty, went to Sadie Cates.

The Grammy Award for mostlikely to cause drama wasawarded to Chole Davis andGriffith. The Adam Sandler wentto two-time winner ThaddeusSmith and Mason Marshall, forbeing able to make people laugh.

TJ Looney received the Dare-devil Award. The Sleeping Beau-ty Award was awarded to Ric-quia Jones and Brent Bezio forbeing the most likely not to be inclass. The Punk’d or Best PrankAward was awarded to BrittneySharkey.

SLC director Jacy Sautter re-ceived the Friendliest StaffMember award. A write in awardfor Cutest Couple was awardedto Bailey McFerren and AustinSchroader.

Pictures of Dorm-A-Paloozacan be found on the Crusader’sFacebook, Facebook.com/Cru-saderNews.

Crusader photo/Jakub Stephanovic

The Saints baseball team was awarded a $500 check for raising the most funds as a group for Phonathon, $10,955. Johnny Griffith raised themost individually totaling $1,770. The team won the Jayhawk West Title earlier this weekend and has won the conference 10 times since 2000.

Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Sophomore Blanca Richard plays in the “lava pit” at Dorm-A-Palooza.

Crusader photo/Jakub Stepanovic

Saints basketball player Edson Avila enjoys the bubbles from the foammachine that was to create foam for the Foam Dance Party.

Bouquet SaleMay 11 - Phi ThetaKappa will be selling rosebouquets during com-mencement. A halfdozen will be $25 and afull dozen will be $30.Pre-order bouquets willbe $20 for a half dozenand $25 for a full. Bou-quets can be pre-orderedby contacting DebbieStafford at 620-417-1455.

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A new dean was recently hiredand will begin working on cam-pus this summer. The new dean,Janese Thatcher-Buzzell was se-lected from a large pool of can-didates to be the dean of careerand technology education. Be-fore being hired, Thatcher had toundergo a rigorous process of in-terviews and background checks.The search for a new dean start-ed in early January and ended inApril.

According to the president ofSeward County Community Col-lege/ Area Technical School,Duane Dunn three top candidatesfor the position were chosen tobe interviewed by several groupsand met teachers, students, deans

and the board of trustees. The process helped interview-

ers get to know the candidates,but also for the candidates to geta feel for how things work atSCCC/ATS. Although the ulti-mate decision of who to hire rest-ed in the hands of the deans, theinput from the many interviewswere taken into consideration.Thatcher was chosen partiallydue to her experience in techni-cal and agricultural fields andalso her interpersonal skills.

Darren Workman, music de-partment head, interviewedThatcher and the other candi-dates expressed his excitementfor Thatcher to join theSCCC/ATS staff specifically be-cause of her interesting educa-tional background and work ex-perience.

Thatcher has experience andtraining in many fields. She hasa bachelor’s in horticulture, amaster’s in plant pathology and aPh.D. in educational administra-tion. In addition, Thatcher is acertified aviation mechanic andhas experience teaching corro-sion technology, hydraulics,electrical systems, flight sys-tems, and was one of the first fe-male high school agricultureteachers in the state of Georgia.Thatcher has also run several ofher own businesses in the pastand has experience in finance.Thatcher will be leaving her po-sition as the manager of aviationand education at the Minn. De-partment of transportation andwill be joining SCCC/ATS as theDean of career and technologyeducation.

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Enactus is a community of stu-dents, business leaders and acad-emics all over the world, whichapply business concepts to de-velop community outreach pro-jects and shape a better, moresustainable world. In the UnitedStates alone, there are 535 activeteams of Enactus. One of them isbased in Seward County Com-munity College/ Area TechnicalSchool.

The SCCC/ATS Enactus teamwent to the Regional Competi-tion in Dallas April 9-12. There,the teams have the chance toshow their collective impact oftheir community outreach ef-forts.

Lisa Kennedy, the co-sponsorof the club with Bert Luallen,said, “We went as an observinggroup.” The club had the chanceto meet teams from other col-leges and universities and ex-change their experiences withthem about different businesses

and ideas. Furthermore, now theclub members know what the re-gionals look like and what theyhave to expect next semesterwhen they go there again.

The regionals were the mainreason why Enactus went to Dal-las, but they also did otherthings. For instance, they went tothe Dallas Museum of Art, whichcurrently has an art collection ofthe artist Marc Chagall.

Another highlight of their tripwas the “Fashion Group Interna-tional’s 45th Annual Dallas Ca-reer Day” in the Dallas WorldTrade Centre.

The event included a fullschedule of speakers, discus-sions and seminars for the stu-dents. The students got useful in-formation from the fashion sceneabout marketing and design.

In addition they could join thehighlight of these event: the fash-ion show. There, young designerfrom different colleges and uni-versities had the chance to pre-sent their clothes and get awardsand scholarships for their work.

The clothes were presented byprofessional models.

Also on the trip, the Enactusteam visited Oklahoma City tosee the Oklahoma City NationalMemorial. The memorial honorsthe victims, survivors, rescuers,and all who were affected by theOklahoma City bombing onApril 19, 1995.

After some informative days,the group got in their vans andhit to road back to Liberal.

Currently the Enactus club ofSeward County Community Col-lege/ Area Technical School has15 active members. But in the fu-ture, everybody who takes thebusiness market seminar class iswelcome to join the club. Thegoals of the club are to unify thecollege to the community andfocus on environment, educationand finance. Their next big pro-ject will be to encourage peopleno not waste water.

Next semester they will go tothe National Competition inKansas City.

Enactus observes regional contest

SCCC/ATS student ManuelBustillos of Hugoton, left, celebrates afterwinning his GoldMedal in the SkillsUSA KansasChampionshipsfor architectural drafting. Bustillosearned the right togo to Kansas CityJune 24-28 tocompete in theNational Championships.

Courtesy photo/Steve Merz

SkillsUSA drafting student grabs the gold

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Troy Bowles has been an algebra instructor forthe last 12 years at Seward County CommunityCollege/ Area Technical School, but after this se-mester he is retiring.

This graduate of Northwestern Oklahoma StateUniversity landed his first teaching job in the mid-’70s at the high school in Forgan, Okla., where hetaught math and coached girls basketball for fouryears before becoming principal of the school for16 years.

Soon, Bowles would have an opportunity to goback into teaching and took a job at the highschool in Beaver, Okla. There he taught socialstudies and again coached girls basketball.

Bowles said that he has felt very blessed that hewas able to coach talented players before retiringafter 10 years. Bowles was honored to be elected

intothe Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame in Lindsay,Okla.

Restless and eager to get back to teaching,Bowles was looking at both SCCC/ATS and Lib-eral High School for teaching positions when aformer student contacted him. Todd Carter hadbeen a student of Bowles when Carter attendedForgan High School.

Then, in 1983, Bowles hired Carter as a scienceteacher at Forgan. Now, Todd Carter was divi-sion chair of the math and science department atSCCC/ATS, and it was his turn to do the hiring.

Carter hired Bowles to make the transition teach-ing algebra to college students. “Every place I go,I run into former students,” Bowles said.

While Bowles attributes his retiring decision tothe long drive from Beaver, Okla., and expense ofgasoline as well as the piles of paperwork associ-ated with teaching, he says he really doesn’t haveanything planned to do with his time.

Bowles has been married to Donna Cassinghamfor 23 years and has five children, 10 grandchil-dren, and three great-grandchildren.

“I’ll will get to spend more time with family, Isuppose,” Bowles said, “but I really hope I get toplay more golf.”

Even though students may be accustomed to thegruff bark of “NO!” when a problem is incorrect-ly solved, Bowles says that it is the students hewill miss the most. “I have thoroughly enjoyedthis teaching experience more than any of theother schools.”

Cinthia SernaOnline editor

This year instructor Janice Williams is readyto take a change in her life and retire from Se-ward County Community College/Area Tech-nical School. Williams is currently the Com-puter Information System instructor in thebusiness division.

Williams has been working at SCCC/ATSfor 14 years. Even though she did not earn adegree in teaching, she was lured into a teach-ing job.

“I was looking for a job, and I thought wellI’ll see about this,” Williams said. Driven intothe educational field by her college adviserWilliams never thought she would ever teach.

Williams lives in Texas county, Okla. andwas not looking to live far away from home,deciding Liberal was a good place to be. In thefall of 1999, Williams was hired to work at Se-ward County Community College/Area Tech-nical School. “I had no idea I would be hired

so quickly and like the job so much,” she said. “There have been some students that have

truly motivated me,” Williams said. Accord-ing to her being a part of a school for so longcan have a lasting impression on people.Williams learned from her students to alwaysgive them attention and not to let them slipaway.

When asked what kind of advice she wouldgive aspiring teachers, she said, “Vocalizeyour expectation from your students and don’tback away from them. Most students are verycapable but won’t work up to their potential

unless you let them know that you want themto push themselves more.”

In 14 years, Williams has learned a lotabout the educational world. She has also seenhow things can change in a school so quickly.Technology, kids, customs and teaching pat-terns all grow into something different eachyear. “Students are overall savvier about tech-nology. Sometimes that is overconfidence andthey may know how to use the latest gadgetbut they don’t know what’s behind all thistechnology and how we got it,” said Williamsin response to change in the school.

When she retires, her plans are to moveback to Texas County and work on their farmwith her son. “My son and I are partners onour farm, so I consider this a semi-retirement,being that I will be putting a lot of hours at ourfarm,” she said.

Williams has learned and taught a lot to herstudents, and SCCC/ATS will be letting go ofanother of their long-time employees.

Troy Bowles

“Every place I go, I run into

former students.”

—Troy Bowles

Crusader photo/ Dawn Shouse

Troy Bowles retires after 12 years of teaching alge-bra at SCCC/ATS.

Janice Williams

Cathie McGhee

Tonya LoewenEditor

The Epworth Allied Health Education Cen-ter will lose a part of itself at the end of theschool year — an employee who has workedat Allied Health since it opened.

Cathie McGhee has been employed as acustodian and maintenance worker at AlliedHealth since 1983. McGhee says she chose towork for Seward County Community Col-lege/Area Technical School because sheknew it would be a good place to begin and itwould leave time on the weekends to be withher children.

Since beginning work at the Allied Healthbuilding, McGhee has filled many positions,from landscaping to maintenance to cleaning,

as well as working on the main Seward cam-pus. “You name it, I’ve done it,” McGheesaid.

By working at the same place for 30 years,McGhee has seen many changes. She’s beenemployed under three bosses and five Sewardpresidents. The Allied Health Departmentbegan the surgical technology and respiratorytherapy courses and several instructors havechanged positions, come, and left.

“I’ve enjoyed it, and I’ve been able to see

a lot of students come and go and pursue theirdreams,” McGhee said.

McGhee is retiring because of sickness, andlooks forward to having time to rest and seefamily.

“I’ve been here for 30 years, and you justknow when it’s time to go,” said McGhee.

She says she’ll miss working at Seward, butneeds to go. “This is my home away fromhome. The college has been good for me,”said McGhee. “They’ve treated me very well.They’ve treated me like family.”

“We won’t be able to find someone like herwhen she leaves. She gave more than 110 per-cent,” said Diane Heires, Allied Health secre-tary. “We’re so going to miss her.” Heires isnot only a coworker but also a friend, and en-joys spending time with McGhee.

Williams shares experiences as an instructor

Epworth employee McGhee retires after30 years of helping maintain the college

“You name it,

I’ve done it.”

—Cathie McGhee

Crusader photo/Tonya Loewen

Cathie McGhee is currently an employee at the Allied Health build-ing. After 30 years of working, she is ready to retire.

Bowles reflects on career in education

Crusader photo/Matthew Adkins

Janice Williams retires after 14 years of teaching computerinformation system classes at SCCC/ATS.

“Most students are very capable but

won’t work up to their potential unless

you let them know that you want them to

push themselves more.”

—Janice Williams

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4 Thursday, May 2, 2013CRUSADER OPINION

—OUR VIEW

—OUR VIEW

The world is evolving in a mannerthat could not be predicted. Technol-ogy is becoming increasingly preva-lent in day to day life.

With the growing use of electron-ics comes scrutiny as to whether in-tegrating technology into everyone’slife is going to improve society.

The most scrutinized facet of tech-nology today is probably videogames. Do video games serve anypurpose but to entertain, and do theycause any sort of harm to society?The main people asking these ques-tions are members of the media, psy-chologists and politicians.

The only consequence of playingvideo games that doesn’t need exten-sive research to show is that videogames can be a waste of time andconstantly playing them can be un-healthy.

Nearly everyone plays videogames, whether it’s Angry Birds ona mobile device, solitaire on a com-

puter or the latest first person shoot-er.

Most casual gamers won’t playmore than maybe an hour a day.However, real problems arise whenan individual plays an irresponsibleamount of video games.

Obvious health concerns arise likeobesity and bad eye sight, but alsoresponsibilities are shirked and gen-eral laziness sets in. It’s no differentfrom watching too much television.

However, despite the health con-cerns and perhaps lost income thatcan come with gaming, it’s not en-tirely just for fun. Research hasshown a link between gaming andspatial cognition, depth perceptionand critical thinking skills.

In 2011, researchers at the Univer-sity of Washington developed avideo game that allowed gamers tosolve a real world problem. Gamerswere successful where scientists andengineers were not by replicating a

protein structure related to HIV. Sim-ilar experiments are occurring rightnow involving genetics. Videogames do serve a purpose after all.

Occasionally video games get verynegative attention, particularly whensomeone who plays video gamescommits a violent crime.

However, the attention to videogames in times following a tragedyis unjust, distracting from the real is-sues or exaggerated. In the past,music and television were focused inplace of video games.

In truth, it’s much easier to blamesomething simple like violence inmovies or games to be the underly-ing factors in a mass shooting.

Video games as well as societyshould be scrutinized for the relativeacceptance of violence. However, itis unwise to immediately blame vio-lent behavior on video games.

If video games were really desen-sitizing as let on by broadcast news,

then the fact that the most popularconsole games are first person shoot-ers would place most teenage maleson the FBI watch list.

An important thing to note when-ever a violence occurs and there’ssupposedly a link to video games,music, television etc. is that violentacts have taken place for thousandsof years.

The 24-hour news cycle justmakes it more obvious that violenceis prevalent in society.

If video games are consumed by amature audience then there need notbe excessive worry about their ef-fects.

Children should not be allowed toplay games which are not suitable,but it’s ultimately up to the parents todecide what is and is not suitable.

Just like almost anything else,video games can be harmful ifplayed too much and too often.

Gaming endures unjustified scrutiny

There are two kinds of people

in this world, those who know

how to say GIF and those who

don’t. It is pronounced JIF, yes

like the peanut butter, not with a

hard G sound. But before I get

started on debating why the word

GIF is pronounced JIF I’ll give

some background on perhaps

one of the greatest things on the

Internet.

GIFs are what make the Inter-

net go round. A GIF is an image

file format that contains multiple

images on a loop that make it

look like a small movie clip, and

are a staple of entertainment on

the Internet. Websites like Buz-

zFeed, Reddit and Tumblr blogs

have amassed collections that are

worth visiting.

There has been a small debate

going on within the technologi-

cal community about how to pro-

nounce the word GIF. The origi-

nal coders for the file format,

Bob Berry and Steve Wilhite,

have stated that the word is pro-

nounced with a “soft g” sound.

The creators even wrote “Oh, in-

cidentally, it's pronounced ‘JIF’,”

on the code so people wouldn’t

confuse the pronunciation.

Most people who use the hard

G believe they are right because

no one ever taught them the

proper pronunciation of the

word. GIF creators, website edi-

tors and tech geeks mainly agree.

So here I am stating that the

proper way is to say “JIF” when

saying the word GIF.

For some people that is not

enough. “But it stands for Graph-

ics Interchange Format,” so they

say, but don’t be fooled. Al-

though the G does stand for

“Graphics” when a G is followed

by an e, i or y sometimes a word

will have a j sound. Examples of

said sound are giraffe, genuine,

giant, gin and so forth. Yes there

are some words that do have the

hard G sound, but GIF is not one

of them.

“Oh, well, it’s just a word,”

some may say. People have the

right and freedom to say it how-

ever they’d like, but you say

“tomahto” I’ll say tomato—and

look at you weird.

Gosegetsjiffed

Jose Medrano

Editor

[email protected]

A screenshot takenin April from the

SCCC/ATS websitefeatures an uncred-ited photo by Cru-sader editor Jose

Medrano. Eventhough Medrano isa student at the col-

lege he maintainsintellectual rights to

the photo andusing it without

permission is plagiarism.

In our last issue, the Crusader pub-lished an editorial concerning plagiarism.Ironically, in the following weeks, thestaff discovered two more cases of pla-giarism. Plagiarism is not only limited toessays or pieces of writing, photos can beplagiarized also.

A photo taken by Crusader photograph-er Jakub Stepanovic had been used by aforeign sports website without his con-sent.

Another image that was shot by editorJose Medrano was found on the SewardCounty Community College/Area Tech-nical School website. Both cases showthat plagiarism runs rampant even outsideof the student-based academic world.

It is not that the staff dislikes otherssharing our work, but when a picture is

taken without consent or proper compen-sation, then it becomes an issue. Plagia-rism is a serious issue and people shouldknow better than to take from studentswho work diligently, passionately, and forno reimbursement.

To those who have plagiarized our ma-terial, please stop. This is not the firsttime that photographs have been usedwithout permission. All you have to do isask. We freely share our work with thecollege, clubs and students, but we’re get-ting tired of it just being taken. In the fu-ture, our policies on sharing photos willbe more controlled.

The Crusader staff likes sharing anduploading pictures onto Facebook andonline. But we don’t like our work to bestolen.

Portuguese news siteGloboesporte wrote astory about theSCCC/ATS volleyballteam. Included in thestory were severalpictures taken by Cru-sader photographerJakub Stepanovic.Regardless of howthe images were pro-cured, this is still aprime example ofjournalistic plagia-rism.

Everywhere we look, someoneis plagiarizing our work online

When I wasthe traditionalage of attendingcollege, my storywas no differentthan the 17 yearold Americangirl who found

herself in love and married, right out of highschool, with no real skills, and a baby by the timeshe was 20 years old.

The television production classes that I took atAmarillo Community College were a jump start toa television job in Phoenix, Ariz.

I had a wonderful illustrious and award winningcareer in television news and met many fine anddedicated professionals who taught me a lot aboutdedication and perseverance.

After many years of working for the localPhoenix television stations, I decided to go intobusiness for myself.

I have to admit that while I am a skilled photog-rapher, the scales of balance are left wanting when

it comes to business practices. It was time to returnto college.

My last failed business venture brought me hereto Liberal. I was to record video of the new tech-nology in enhanced oil production.

After about six months, the company that hiredme paid me for the work I did, but were not readyto go public with their technology. They put anyfurther video production on hold until further no-tice.

I was depressed and unemployed. I couldn’t helpthe feeling though, that if I had just a little more ed-ucation in business, maybe I wouldn’t have foundmyself in this situation. I enrolled to get a businessdegree at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School.

Returning to college was very intimidating tome. Not only was I immediately aware of the agedifference between myself and the mass majorityof students, but I also noticed the quickness withwhich most could recall information that I hadn’tthought about in years, if ever.

After my first day, I thought I was going to need

to take some kind of vitamin or eat organ meat toget my brain to function as quickly as the tradition-al student’s brains.

As the weeks have passed, it has been a challengeto study all the information the instructors laid onand my appreciation for the stress of a college stu-dent has reached new heights. Both non-traditionaland traditional students have basically the samephysical and schedule demands and the entire ex-perience, so far, has been a meticulous exercise intime management.

I cannot imagine having to go to college withoutthe dedication and perseverance skills that life hastaught me, but still I believed that the younger stu-dents had the advantage.

It wasn’t until first semester mid-term grades,when I realized that both traditional and non-tradi-tional students have advantages. In class after mid-terms, a traditional student asked for my results andI happily responded with the grade of an “A.”

“You are a straight A student, right?” “Yes, so far,” I replied. “Do you think the non-traditional students are

setting the bar too high for the rest of us?” sheasked earnestly.

Suddenly, I realized that “non-traditional” wasjust a polite way of saying, “old.”

I had to think a moment before responding, “No,I don’t think that, but I do think non-traditional stu-dents know how to keep their love lives from inter-fering with their studies.”

“Oh,” she sighed as she sunk back into her chair.Many of the traditional students have been much

more helpful than that young co-ed, by offering tostudy with me and by showing me the way to class-rooms. My favorite student friends are the oneswho share their experiences and ideas with me.

Now, I am about to finish my first year. I havedone well. I have learned a lot. I have built newfriendships, and in doing so, realized that I am partof this community. But most of all, I am learningabout business. Now, non-traditional and tradition-al students can have one more thing in common; alittle confidence that all the learning taking placeright now will help tip the scales for a little morebalance.

Non traditional: It’s just a nice way to say ‘old’Dawn Shouse

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This year at the annual sports banquetin the Green House the Saints AthleticsHall of Fame inducted three new mem-bers: Charles Brownlee, Brent Gouldand Tony Slaughter.

Brownlee has worked for the athleticdepartment as a coach, bus driver andathletic director. Brownlee and his wifeestablished a scholarship, the BrownleeScience and Math Endowment Fund.

Brownlee talked to the audienceabout his memories and knowingGould. Gould died in 2002; he hadturned 100 years old two months beforehis death.

Gould’s granddaughter, Ginny Wylie,stood in for Gould and talked about hergrandfather.

“He loved his Seward County base-ball. He never missed a baseball game,”Wylie said.

Gould was a Saints Booster Club life-time member and attended as manySaints and Lady Saints games as he

could. The baseball field at Seward County

Community College/ Area TechnicalSchool is named after Gould.

Slaughter was a Saints basketballplayer and holds the all-time leadingscoring with 1,589.

“When I first came here, me and ateammate of mine, we stepped off theplane and the first thing we saw weretumbleweeds flying,” Slaughter saidabout his arrival in Liberal.

Saints student-athletes and coacheswere also recognized at the banquet fortheir work throughout the 2012-2013year. The cheerleading and Saintsationsdance team, athletic trainers, LadySaints volleyball team, Saints baseballteam, Lady Saints basketball team,Saints basketball team and the LadySaints Softball team were all recog-nized.

“I think the banners are what reallymake this the Green House,” saidSCCC/ATS president Duane Dunn.Dunn also spoke to the athletes about

the success and recognition the pro-grams have had.

The Wade Johnstone Award wasawarded to sophomore Saints baseballplayer Deven Nelson for his accom-plishments off the field. Lady Saintsbasketball player Kelsey Blair receivedthe Jamie Talbert Award. The nomineesfor the W.A. Shuffleberger award werealso announced at the banquet.

The Lady Saint nominees for theShuffleberger award are volleyballplayer Jasmine Bryant, softball playerStephanie Mark and volleyball playerBailey McFerren.

Johnny Griffin, Justin Pena and Gar-rett Smith were the male nominees forthe Shuffleberger award. The awardswill be given at the end of the semesterand are based on GPA.

Plaques of the inductees can be foundat the Saints Athletics Hall of Fame.The Hall of Fame is located next to theAll-American room in front of the con-cession stands on the second floor of theStudent Union building.

Sports Banquet 2013

Saints Hall of Fame inducts three new members


Lady Saints volleyball players pose with 2013 Hall of Fame inductee Charles Brownlee and his wife Evelyn after the annual ath-letic banquet in the Green House.

Crusader photo/ Jose Medrano

Tony Slaughter was inducted into the Saints Athletics Hall of Fame due to his basket-ball accomplishments. Slaughter holds the all time leading scoring with 1,589 point.

Crusader photo/ Jose Medrano

Brent Gould, who “never missed a baseball game,” has been inducted into the hall offame of the 2013 class.

Giseelle Arredondo

Crusader staff

Charles Brownlee was inducted into the Hall ofFame Class of 2013 at the Saints Athletics banquet.Brownlee was recognized for having gifted SewardCounty Community College with service for morethan 40 years of his life.

He served as a track coach, bus driver, teacher,athletic director and of course, as an incredibleSaints fanatic.

Brownlee was an original member of the facultyfor the college in 1969. He helped start the college.Then, when he got involved in athletics, he helpedas a part-time athletic director. At the time, it wasonly a part-time job.

“It was a long time ago, 1980-1981,” Brownleesaid. Over the years, Brownlee grew most attachedto women’s basketball and he traveled with them alot.

“There’s a number of years we did not miss anygames at home or away,” Brownlee said, “I just en-joyed athletics and we followed the team for yearsand years, and after I retired, I continued to follow.”

For the 2012-2013 season, Brownlee and hiswife, Evelyn, attended all the home games, but did

not travel to any away games because of Brownlee’srecent diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The Brownlees became such huge fans of the bas-ketball teams that they earned their names on theback of their favorite seats in the Green House, per-manently reserved just for them.

He also “taught real classes,” he said. Brownleeserved as a chair for the math and science division,and he’d teach physics and science occasionally.

Returning to Seward for the athletic banquet April19 and joining Brownlee in the Hall of Fame was

former Saints basketball player Tony Slaughter. “I had Tony in class many years ago,” Brownlee

said. “ It was very good. Pretty good. I’ve seen a lotof basketball players.”

Brownlee and his wife have established the Sci-ence and Math Endowment Fund for student schol-arships. Preference is given to a Lady Saints basket-ball player. “This year, the scholarship was given toBridgett Gramble,” Brownlee said.

Brownlee served on the Saints Athletics Hall ofFame committee and was for many years a memberof the board of directors for the Saints Booster Club.

The Brownlees have also traditionally been Boost-er parents and currently host Shanise Brooks andJanel Tammen. The Brownlees once hosted VaidaZagurskyté from Lithuania, a member of the LadySaints basketball team who lived with them for twoand a half years.

“Neat person,” Brownlee said, remembering theplayer from the 2002 National Championship team.“We still are in touch with a lot of the girls off andon.”

Bronwlee’s favorite memories are “going on theChristmas trips, of course. That was California,Nevada, Arizona, and the national tournaments andnational championship games. That was a lot offun.”

Brownlee service spans four decadesServing Seward from the start

“I just enjoyed athleticsand we followed theteam for years andyears, and after I re-tired, I continued to follow.”

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The Saints tennis team qualified for nationals thisyear after placing third in the Region VI tourna-ment. This will be the fourth year in a row that theSaints tennis team will attend the NJCAA tourna-ment.

“Our region is tough, but it helped us get readyfor the national,” said Jerry Thor, head coach forthe Saints tennis teams. The Saints third-place fin-ish in the regional tournament secured them a spotin the NJCAA tournament this month.

Five teams played in the Region VI tournamentwith Cowley taking first and Johnson County fin-ishing second. Hesston and Barton were also in at-tendance and finished fourth and fifth respectively.Sophomores Justin Pena and Donnersson Pennaeach placed third in the No. 1 and No. 2 match ups.

Spartak Rahachou of Johnson County defeatedPena in his first match, but Pena beat Samuel Arau-

jo of Barton to take third place in No. 1 singles. Freshman player Luke Robertson placed second

in No. 4 singles. Robertson lost the first placematch against Ryan Hoverson of Cowley.

Other Saints who placed in singles match upwere Daniel Alonte, Josh Hamilton and AdrianAmado. Alonte finished third in No. 3 singles,Hamilton also finished in third in No. 5 singles andAmado was in fourth place for No. 6 singles.

On the doubles match-up Pena and Robertsonteamed up to play No. 1. They placed second afterloosing to Cowley’s No. 1 doubles team. In No. 2and No. 3 singles the Saints placed third and fourth.

Overall the Saints are 59-85 in individual match-es. “I think we exceed most people’s expectations.It’s been an interesting year and we hope to do wellat the tournament,” Thor said about the 2012-2013season.

The team will travel to Plano, Texas, next weekto play in the NJCAA National Tournament May12.

Saints tennis heads to NJCAA tournament

Lady Saints struggle with lastgames of the regular seasonJose MedranoEditor

The Lady Saints played theirlast home game of the seasonSunday against Otero, andplayed No. 1 Butler on Monday.The Lady Saints played fourgames in two days and went 1-3,only beating Otero 4-3.

After a four-game winningstreak, the Lady Saints facedOtero at home Sunday. It wasalso sophomore recognition atthe softball field. The LadySaints were down or tied for amajority of the game, but in theseventh inning Lady SaintRachel Shockley pulled a doubleand a walk-off win of 4-3.

The second game followed the

pattern of the first game for thefirst couple of innings. In thethird, Otero took a solid lead 4-2and did not let it go. The LadySaints did not score again untilthe seventh and errors had givenOtero a few more runs by thattime. The Lady Saints lost 9-4and faced Colby the next day.

The first match against Butlerwas lost 7-1. The Lady Saintsonly run came from Shockleywho was driven home byStephanie Mark in the sixth in-ning.

Although Butler won the firstmatch, the Lady Saints gave But-ler a hard time in the second.Butler took an early lead in thefirst two innings, 2-0. The LadySaints scored three runs in the

third innings and gave them theirfirst and only lead of the matchup, 3-2. Butler scored five runsand the Lady Saints only manageto drive one making the score 7-4 going into the sixth inning.Due to a home run Butlerstacked another two more runs tomake the game 9-4 going intothe seventh. The Lady Saintsmanaged to get two more runs,but it wasn’t enough and theylost 9-6.

The Lady Saints regular sea-son ends with a record of 31-24and finished second in the Jay-hawk West. The Lady Saints willplay Garden on Saturday to startoff the Region VI tournament inWichita.


Becky Allen hits a fly ball down the center during the Lady Saints first match against Otero on Sunday. Thefirst game was won 4-3 but they lost the second 9-4. The Lady Saints will begin regional play this weekend.

Crusader photo/Celestina Padilla

Four sophomore Saints basketball players, Leslee Smith, Jabari Peters, Kaheem Ransom and Edson Avilaall signed with Division I universities last month. Smith signed with the University of Nebraska, Peters andRansom with Sam Houston State University and Avila signed with the University of Oklahoma.

Crusader photo/Dawn Shouse

Saints third baseman sophomore Johnny Griffith displays his Ceritificate of Appointment from West Point.Griffith is believed to be the first NJCAA transfer player to sign with the United States Military Academy atWest Point and play for the Black Knights, according to college sources.

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Jose MedranoEditor

In a dim lit band room filledwith coffee, hors d'oeuvres andmusic, the winners of annualPoetry Coffeehouse Readingread their poems to a smallgathering of guests.

The winners for the highschool scholarship were Kristi-na Simpson of Elkhart, BrendanGiesick of Sublette and StestonElam of Hardesty, Okla. Thescholarship category receivedmore than 38 entries from areahigh school students. Simpsonplaced first for her poem“Peaceful,” winning a $100scholarship to Seward CountyCommunity College/AreaTechnical School and othergifts. Giesick placed second andElam finished in third.

In the open category, poetsfrom the community and sur-rounding area submitted theirwork. The three that placedwere Rachel Coleman of Liber-al, Barbara Damron of Liberaland Lavern Thomas of Liberal.Coleman’s “My husband buysa knife” was awarded first in theopen category. She received$25, gift certificates and otherrewards. Damron placed secondwith her poem “4 Sons: A Lim-erick” and Thomas finished inthird for her poem “The ButtonBox.”

The poetry reading also fea-tured students from SCCC/ATSand honorable mentions whoread their poems to the crowd.Azuzena Juarez was a studentwho read her poem at the cof-feehouse.

Music was provided by DarinWorkman and Juan Carlos Con-

treras. Contreras performed onthe piano and sang during an in-termission. The event broughttogether a crowd of more than20 people.

According to event coordina-tors they expect a greaterturnout next year and encouragethe college’s student body tosubmit poems.

“We only had two submis-sions from college students,”said co-coordinator of the con-test Janice Northerns. A total of52 entries were submitted in theopen category. The contest willinclude a open category againnext year. According to North-erns, students should begin toprepare their poems for nextyear’s Poetry Coffeehouse.

More pictures of the eventcan be found on the Crusader’sFacebook page atfacebook.com/crusadernews.

Poetry Students, contest winners read aloud poems

of their own creation at the Coffeehouse

C ffeehouse atthe

Spring Concert 2013

Photos by Jose Medrano

Morgan RileyEntertainment editor

For the Spring Concert, the bandand choir will be performing inSCCC/ATS Showcase Theatre,Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. It is freefor all students who show their IDs,For others, tickets are $3. All theprofit sales from tickets will begiven to the SCCC/ATS Foundationfor the Lori Geis Memorial Fund.Geis was a former vocal music in-structor who died this year.

The choir will be singing Offen-bach, an opera, Kander and Ebb,music theatre, Call Me Maybe, and

Payphone. Magda Silva says theytried to mash up the modern musicwith opera style and theatre music.

Darin Workman, the band direc-tor, says they will be playing songsfrom different famous movies, andthey will be using multi-media forthe concert. The crowd will be infor a big surprise because of Work-man’s song choices.

Students can get tickets by pick-ing them in the Humanities office.They must show their ID in order toget their free ticket. Photos of theevent can be found on the Crusad-er’s Facebook page after the event,Facebook.com/CrusaderNews.

May 2, 20137 p.m. SCCC/ATS Showcase TheatreTickets $3 (Free for students with ID)

Purchase tickets at Humanities Office

Band and choir prepare for performance

News BriefsDrama Club

The drama club has puttogether a contest. Thefaculty with the mostmoney receives bakedgoods for their classesand the faculty with theleast amount has to weara costume for a day. Allproceeds benefit thedrama club.

May 9-14 Student Art Ex-hibit starts at 8 a.m.-4:30p.m. in the HumanitiesBuilding.

Art Exhibit

May 11 The acting classperforms “Never the Sin-ner,” at 7:30 p.m. in theSCCC/ATS ShowcaseTheatre.

Acting Class

May 14 The Telolith re-ception 12:30-2:30 p.m.in room H101.

Telolith

Choir from the winter concert

Band from the winter concert

Alex Mages, a student at SCCC,was invited to recite poetry duringthe Poetry Coffeehouse.

Octavio Rodriguez, a student at SCCC, was invited to recite po-etry during the Poetry Coffeehouse. Cake pops on a stick at the Poetry Coffeehouse.

Kristina Simpson, Brendan Giesick, Steston Elam, and Rebecca Helton receive awards fromthe Poetry contest at the Coffeehouse.

The location of the poetry coffeehouse was the SCCC/ATS music room. The room was decorated to cre-ate the right mood using lamps that looked like real candles.

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Jose Medrano

Editor

Spring fiesta was hosted April 21 this year in thecourtyard. The event drew a crowd of more than 250people to Seward County Community College/AreaTechnical School according to event coordinators. Theannual car show and an alumni reunion for the technicalschool’s 45th anniversary took place April 13 at thetechnical school.

Children, families and people from the community in-teracted with the clubs and organizations at the college.From bouncy houses to snow cones the event was runby students and faculty who volunteered.

“Our club is proud to contribute to the community,”said Gregory Leung, president of the International Stu-dent Organization.

Some other clubs and organizations that were in-volved included Saints Promoting Education Careers,Kylix, Phi Theta Kappa, Hispanic American LeadershipOrganization, cosmetology students, the drama club,student ambassadors, Sigma Chi Chi, the choir and theadmissions department.

The groups had different booths and activities set upthat children could participate in. Families would stopby every booth and receive a stamp on a card in order toclaim a prize when they were finished.

“We had a lot of fun with the children that raced in our

three legged race,” Leung said.

Some other activities included face painting done by

Kylix, hair and nails performed by the cosmetology stu-

dents and a tug-of-war hosted by Sigma Chi Chi.

The technical school hosted the car show. People from

the around the community brought in there vehicles to

show off and compete. There were antique cars from the

1930s, classic American muscle cars from the 60s and

more modern cars. Alongside the car show Kylix per-

formed some face painting at the event and there were

bouncy houses for children to play in.

The car show and Spring Fiesta were open to the gen-

eral public and are expected to be hosted next year.

Car show and spring fiesta draw crowds


Cosmo student Gabrielle Costilla paints a tattoo on student Daichi Ozawa at the cosmo booth.


Cosmetology students paint the hair and nails of children. It was one of the most visited booths.


People from Liberal and the local area communities entered their automobiles into the annual car show. The car show was hosted the same day as an alumni event celebrating the 45th anniversary of the area technical school. Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Alexis Lavielle paints on a childs face at the Kylix booth during Spring Fiesta. Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Children race in a sack race hosted by SCCC/ATS’s Hispanic American Leadership Organization. It was one of the booths at Spring Fiesta where chil-dren could win prizes, toys and candy. More than 10 clubs participated and had booths. For more pictures go to Facebook.com/Crusadernews .


Members of the community view the different cars at the annual car show hosted at the area technical school April 13.


Drama club member Juan Carlos Contreras teaches and plays theatre based games with children during Spring Fiesta.


SCCC/ATS students Jonathon Zamora and Daniel Valles perform during a Sunday Brunch hosted in the Student Union April 21.


Saints basketball player Jabari Peters and other SCCC/ATS students dance to Zumba. Zumba instructor Lydia Augustine lead the break-out Zumba dance session in the ampitheater during Spring Fiesta April 21.

Seward spring time taken with style

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The Crusader received the coveted All-Kansas Award and a Gold Medalist Award inthe two-year newspaper overall division atthe Kansas Collegiate Media conventionApril 14-15 in Wichita. The Crusader is thestudent newspaper of Seward County Com-munity College/Area Technical School.

Crusader editor Jose Medrano was namedthe Kansas two-year newspaper Journalist ofthe Year. In addition, the first-place award fortwo-year online newspapers went to the Cru-saderNews.com staff, led by online editorCinthia Serna and past online editor RaulLemus.

The Crusader staff received 25 individualawards, including eight first-place awards,four second-place awards, seven third-placeawards and six honorable mentions. The on-site copy-editing contest recognized Crusad-er news editor Matthew Adkins as the first-place winner. In a sweep of the special sec-tions category, the Crusader staff claimed thefirst, second and third-place awards for issuesproduced in February 2013, August 2012 andMay 2012.

The All-Kansas award is the top overallaward available at the KCM state competi-tion. “It is so difficult to win the All-Kansas,”said Anita Reed, journalism instructor andCrusader adviser. “It’s kind of like that goldring on the merry-go-round — we havethought we were within reaching distanceseveral times in the last few years, but we justhaven’t been able to grab hold. This year, theCrusader staff brought home the prize, and Iam so proud of them for the talent and dedi-cation that it took to receive that recognitionas an All-Kansas staff.”

The Crusader editors and staff memberswere also enthusiastic about winning the topaward.

“Winning the All-Kansas award was amaz-ing. It has been 12 years since the Crusaderlast received an All-Kansas award. I don’t

like to brag much, but there were high expec-tations going in for our staff, and we deliv-ered,” Medrano said.

Reed and 11 members of the Crusader staffattended the convention. Editors Jose Medra-no and Tonya Loewen, news editor MatthewAdkins, sports editor Sandy Alfaro, entertain-ment editor Morgan Riley, and staff writersand photographers Celestina Padilla, FabiPena, Dawn Shouse, Jakub Stepanovic,Giseelle Arredondo, and Julia Frey represent-ed the Crusader at the convention.

The convention began April 14 with an As-sociated Press style editing contest, breakoutsessions, publication critiques and an awardsceremony. Staff members attended more ses-sions the morning of April 15. The sessionswere on topics such as newspaper design,editing tips and sales and marketing.

The convention ended Monday afternoonwith the final awards ceremony, where theCrusader received the All-Kansas Award,Gold Medalist Award and Kansas two-yearNewspaper Journalist of the Year Award,which came with a plaque and $250. Thewinner must be nominated by a faculty ad-viser and submit a portfolio of work, a re-sume, cover letter, and two additional lettersof reference to be considered as a KJOYnominee.

“It was a great honor to win Kansas Jour-nalist of the Year, and I couldn’t have re-ceived the award without the help of the staffthat I have now. But personally, I know Ishouldn’t be, but I’m prouder of winning firstplace in photo essays. It was a 3 a.m. energy

drink filled project on a print night,” Medra-no said.

That first-place photo essay award wasearned by Medrano, Stepanovic, Adkins,Riley, Padilla, and Cheree Turley for PancakeDay coverage. Medrano also took first placein sports feature writing, second place innews photography, third place in columnwriting, front page design and infographicscategories, and honorable mention in featurewriting, infographics and news writing cate-gories.

Loewen received first place in illustration,second place in infographics, third place inseries writing and honorable mention inheadline writing, infographics and interiorpage design.

Adkins received first place in copy-editingand honorable mention in infographics. “Itwas easier than editing an actual newspaperbecause I knew that there would be mistakes.The only real preparation I had was my ex-perience editing for the Crusader,” Adkinssaid of his on-site copy-editing honor. “I wassurprised because I was one of the first onesdone with the test and I prepared less thanothers who didn’t even place in the contest.”

Stepanovic received first place in both il-lustration and sports photography and honor-able mention in interior page design. Frey re-ceived a first-place award in sports columnwriting. Shouse received third place for mul-timedia storytelling. Staff member JordanLong received second place for illustrationand third place for single ad design.

Previous members of the Crusader also re-ceived awards, since the contest entries spanfrom February 2012 through February 2013.Morgan Wills received first place for serieswriting and Levi Adams received third placefor series writing.

“I’m so proud that all of our hard work andlate nights were worth it. Not only do we getrecognized on campus, but we also win na-tional and state awards in most of the cate-gories that we enter,” Loewen said.

Crusader staff wins top KansasCollegiate Media award for 2013

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Seward County Community College journalism instructor and Crusader adviser Anita Reed, left, joins award-winning members of the Crusader student newspaper staff following the Kansas CollegiateMedia convention in Wichita April 14-15. From left, front, editor Jose Medrano with his Journalist of the Year award, sports editor Sandy Alfaro; editor Tonya Loewen holding the All-Kansas Award;staff member Fabi Peña, and ad manager Celestina Padilla. Back, staff photographer Jakub Stepanovic, staff member Julia Frey, entertainment editor Morgan Riley, staff videographer Dawn Shouse,staff member Giseelle Arredondo and news editor Matthew Adkins. For more photos, see Facebook.com/CrusaderNews.

All-Kansas

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Journalist of the Year

Jose Medrano

Overall

Gold Medal

Copy Editing

First place: Matthew Adkins

Column Writing

Third place: Jose Medrano

Feature Writing

Honorable mention: Jose

Medrano

Front Page Design


Headline Writing

Honorable mention: Tonya

Loewen

Infographics

Second place: Tonya Loewen



Loewen


Medrano and Matthew Adkins

Illustration

First place: Tonya Loewen and

Jakub Stepanovic

Second place: Jordan Long

Interior Page Design


Loewen and Jakub Stepanovic

Multimedia Storytelling

Third place: Dawn Shouse

News Photography

Second place: Jose Medrano

News Writing


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Online

First place: Crusader Staff

Photo Essay

First place: Jose Medrano,

Jakub Stepanovic, Morgan Riley,

Matthew Adkins, Cheree Turley

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Series Writing

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Tonya Loewen

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Third place: Jordan Long

Special Section

First place: Crusader Staff

Second place: Crusader Staff

Third place: Crusader Staff

Sports Column

First place: Julia Frey

Sports Feature Writing

First place: Jose Medrano

Sports Photography

First place: Jakub Stepanovic

C R U SAD E R AWAR D S

“It is so difficult to win the All-Kansas. It’s kind

of like that gold ring on the merry-go-round —

we have thought we were within reaching

distance several times in the last few years,

but we just haven’t been able to grab hold.”

—Anita Reed

journalism instructor and Crusader adviser

year 44 issue 11

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