THE GRIZZLY
Butler Community College / Spring 2015
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table of contents Issue 4 / Volume 20 / Butler Community College
4&5: last dance
Get the scoop on what’s happening with the Butler Dance Team
6&7: still on ice
Professor Mac Thompson has a hobby that will surprise you
8&9: surfin’ the web
Online learning is a bit different than your typical face-toface class. How do your instructors feel about them?
10 &11: tornado alley
Twisting terrors likely to visit El Dorado
12&13: pride or prejudice?
Openly gay Butler student praises acceptance at Butler Community College
14&15: accepting differences
How do you handle accepting someone with completely different views than you?
16&17: foreign 1-1
Carolina Lozano hopes to be a Spanish speaking news anchor
18&19: locked up
Butler student walks alongside inmates at the El Dorado Correctional Facility
20 &21: sweet spot
Suite 120 downtown has something spectacular going on
22&23: online, all the time
It’s no secret that social media is a major part of everyone’s life nowadays. Here’s what we think about it.
24&25: different beat, awesome treat Butler drumline is a new thing here at school, and it’s been quite a site
26&27: emergency
Find out what a typical day for EMS students consists of
28 &29: and they were off
Season wrap up for the Butler track team
30&31: diamonds are everyone’s best friends An overlook of baseball and softball
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SAVE THE LAST Butler Cuts Dance Team
During the half time of the men’s game, the dance team prepares for a turn. This photo was taken at the last performance of the Butler dance team.
It’s audition day at Butler. Every nerve is firing, your arms and legs begin to tremble, your face begins to pale and your palms begin to sweat… In front of you, the people who will determine the course of the next two years of your life sit with their eyes zeroed in on you. For some, everything relies on that single audition. For some, that scholarship is their only shot at college. Your objective as an activity scholarship auditioner? Prove to Butler that you and your select skills are worth their time and investment, and try not to throw up in the process. Butler freshmen Dance Team members auditioned with the intent to dance for two years here, investing their time and future into the program. However, the Dean’s office has made the decision to cut the Dance Team, a decision they have been talking about for about 1 ½ years. No other departments were considered for the cut in the Fine Arts division. In recent years, no academic programs have been cut, but other types of programs have. “In 2013, we underwent a whole reorganization for budget reasons,” says Dean Jay Moorman of the Fine Arts & Communication Division. The reorganization included cutting back the Cooperative, or Co-Op, Education program significantly, by eliminating three or
four faculty members. “The Dance Team was only performing at home men’s basketball and home football games, with one competition and performance a year. It doesn’t really get out there and is not in the public eye as much,” Moorman says. The Dance Team cost Butler $70,000. “It was a tough decision, but we let it go on too long,” Moorman says. Kristine Anderson, Lead Instructor of Dance, Ballet, Jazz, Modern and Dance Team, could not be contacted for an interview. Sophomore dancer Carrie Bright is transferring to WSU next semester. “Kristine is the best dance teacher they will ever see come through this school. I’ve grown not only as a dancer, but as a person… She’s not just a dance coach, she’s a life coach. She’s there for anyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the dance team or not, she’s there for you. Kris is the kind of person that comes along once in a blue moon: a true kindhearted, selfless person. Kris is a great person and they are making a huge mistake. That’s even worse of a decision than cutting the team,” Bright says. Sophomore dancer Brooklyn Hamilton is also transferring to WSU next semester. “Kris puts everything as a life lesson... I know for sure that I’ve grown as a person, too. Being little, coming to the games, watching them perform, and then myself being on the Butler Dance Team... And then, all of a sudden being cut? I kind of feel like they’re not thinking about us,” Hamilton says. Freshman dancer Kenzi Gannaway will being staying after the cut. “When they did make the decision, it was already so late in the semester that there were some schools that I thought about auditioning for that aren’t holding auditions anymore,” Gannaway says. “It’s too late... They didn’t give us enough time to prepare for this, so we’re basically stuck here. It’s cool to come and develop a family here with dance… I just want them to understand that they took away the one thing I really had and trapped me here. They took away my ability to show something to someone very important that won’t be here for very long.” “Not all of us are dance majors, but Kenzi is. This is her life. They didn’t even give time for the freshmen to find another school to dance for. They didn’t give them enough notice to figure something out,” Bright says. Activity scholarship recipients sign a two-year contract. So, how does this affect the freshmen dancers still on scholarship next year? “We will honor that commitment to them. We will cover their books and tuition. We have talked to them individually and in groups. This only affects about three or four girls on the team, because 10 to 15 of them are done,” Moorman says. “They’re making it sound like it’s a privilege to us that they are honoring our scholarship… They have to, it’s in our contract. They don’t have a choice,” Gannaway says. “We still have three dance studios… We don’t want them to be empty. We still have 20 dance classes, so dance will not be going away… Only the Dance Team,” Moorman says. “Vocal Music and Dance will become combined into one department,” Moorman says. The Dance Team is cut, but a drumline is being added into the same division, after a trash can-line was a big hit at one of the home basketball games. “The drumline is not a replacement for the Dance Team. You want to put your energies where you can… It’s a stronger program,” Moorman says. “People [the community] have talked, but there’s no money for that. This affects the dancers and the potential students. There will be other scholarship opportunities, but dance isn’t one of them,” he says. “I just think they are so many other things they could do besides cut the dance team and they don’t even realize how many people they are truly hurting by doing this,” Bright says.
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Cleanin’ Freeze BREAKING ICE WITH MAC THOMPSON When you were younger, people probably started asking the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Some of you may have answered with “an astronaut” or “a ballerina,” while others may have answered “a doctor” or “the president.” As you grow older, you may find yourself answering differently when prompted the same question. But what happens to the dreams of being an astronaut, a ballerina, a doctor or the president? Do they get put away in a box somewhere with the rest of the things from your childhood? Or are those dreams still just as real as the ones you have now? English Professor Mac Thompson grew up wanting to be a hockey player. He grew up in a small village called St. Eustache, which is located in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The biggest influence on hockey in Thompson’s life came from his grandfather, who gave him his first pair of skates on Christmas Day. His grandfather used to take him and his younger brother out skating on the ice and his grandfather would tell them that if they complained, they would have to stop skating and go home. The National Hockey League team the Montreal Canadiens was his favorite at that time. Thompson’s hero was hockey player Guy Lafleur, number 10 for the Canadiens. “In my mind, nobody could ever be as good as he was,” Thompson says. Then, at 6 years old, Thompson started playing hockey. He played street hockey with his younger brother and other kids in the neighborhood, including Eddie Belfour. Belfour was one year younger than Thompson, in Thompson’s brother’s class, and went on to play professional hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, the highest award in hockey, with Belfour on their team. Thompson played in the club hockey league at Wichita State for 10 years. “I love hockey because it’s rough and fun. It’s fast and aggressive. Hockey is ritualized combat, controlled violence,” he says. “I played defense.” Thompson has had stitches inside of his lip and has been punched a few times, but has been fortunate enough to not be missing any teeth like most hockey players. In college, Thompson studied French Literature; however, life had other plans. “I studied French and Spanish. There is no master’s degree in French around here. You’d have to go up to KU; I had a baby already. I couldn’t pull up stakes and split for Lawrence,” he says. “Doors opened for me. Coincidences happened and I met the right people. Before I knew it, I was shaking hands with somebody who could get me in to study for a master’s in English. It must’ve been the time, because things opened up for me. And there I was, working towards a master’s in English,” he says. Thompson took a couple of classes at the University of Colorado in Boulder before he started taking classes at
Butler, around 20 years ago. “I took English 101 with Freda Briggs, who is still teaching here. I took English 102 with Troy Nordman, he’s the Associate Dean over at Andover right now,” he says.“Butler had a good reputation at that time--it was ‘BuCo JuCo.’” “It was convenient and they were friendly--admissions, advising, and all that stuff. As opposed to other schools,” he says.Then, Thompson transferred over to WSU and got his degrees there, while he played hockey. “One day, I’d still love to study French Literature. But you can’t do it around here. So, that must not be for this time of life,” he says. Thompson became a teacher in 2006. “Turns out, I’m good at it,” he says. He taught at the Wichita Indo-Chinese Center before he came to Butler, where he taught English as a second language. “I taught English at a school called Kamsel. They teach guys who are in halfway house; they help people who dropped out of high school get their GED. [Kamsel] goes out to get federal grants to help disadvantaged and poor people. I used to teach classes at night. I would have a lot of adults who came from South and Central America, who had no papers,” he says. “Kamsel won’t ask you for any ID or green card… I felt like I was getting the chance to help people who can’t be helped within our system, because they’re undocumented immigrants… So many of them are hard working and they want to participate in society, but there are just so many barriers in their way,” he says. “It’s really a shame the way we treat those people,” he says. “That was a very rewarding experience,” he says. He started working at Butler about five years ago. “At Butler, people are just friendly. And that’s attractive. It’s part of what’s so cool about working here… Butler is really nice,” he says. But what happened to the man who lived and breathed hockey? He says that he was too small and not quick enough for professional hockey. “I don’t play so much hockey anymore. I’m older and slower,” Thompson says. Thompson has a second job working at the Wichita Ice Center driving the Zamboni, where he has been working Sundays at for the past 10 years. He also is “Coach Mac” a couple of nights a week for his son’s eight-and-under hockey team, The Wichita Warriors. He still roots for the French-Canadiens from Montreal. When he was younger, like most of us, Thompson was asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The same young boy from Canada that answered “a hockey player” to the question is still very much alive as the successful, English-teaching, Zambonidriving, hockey-coaching, father-of-two. Thompson’s love for hockey is still just as real as his love for the English language.
Mac Thompson, English Professor, cleans the ice off with a Zamboni in-between youth hockey games at the Wichita Ice Center.
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FACE-TO-ECAF THE DOUBLE LIFE OF SANDY DERRY
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the material. “She teaches at a lot slower pace because she really wants us to get it. “That really helped me going into college algebra,” Carter says. Out of her current classes, her favorite one to teach in class is statistics. “It’s not as ‘math-y.’ It’s more about concepts and there are a lot more ways you can see it being used,” Derry says. Since it is her first semester to teach statistics online, she is not completely sure how she feels about teaching it that way. “My favorite class to teach online is trig, because I just usually have a lot of good students in that class. “They’re usually better students who are going on to calculus afterwards.” Derry has been teaching for 22 years, and 14 of those have been with Butler. She has been an online teacher for ten years. “I enjoy having a mix of both types of classes. “I like the interaction with students in class, but sometimes I get to know online students just as well,” Derry says. She has some online students who will ask a lot of questions through email, or even stop by her office. For Derry, the hardest part about being an online teacher is not being able to read her students’ faces. “If they aren’t understanding something, I can’t see that ‘deer in the headlights’ look. I don’t know if they understand it until I grade their papers,” Derry says. Derry does give students a chance to
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correct their mistakes on papers if they turn it in the night before it’s due. She assigns a large portion of the assignments on MyMathLab.com, which has lots of learning tools for students. The questions are graded automatically, and students are given the option to redo a similar problem as many times as they need. The only problem is that sometimes students figure out how to guess, and they will get a good grade even though they don’t thoroughly understand it. On written assignments, Derry can see their work and see where they are messing up and what they need help on. The tests for her online classes are sent to the proctored testing labs to eliminate the chance of students cheating their way through the class. Derry feels that the online students and students in her face-to-face classes do end up getting about the same grades. “I would say there is more of a gap with the online students’ grades. They usually either do really well, or really bad, depending on the amount of work they put into the class,” Derry says. “The most difficult thing about online classes is that students get in over their head. They don’t realize the amount of time it will take,” Derry says. However, Derry has discovered that those who put in the effort online can do just as well learning math as students in face-toface classes.
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There are so many students who choose to take courses online, and math teacher Sandy Derry is one of the many instructors who take on the responsibility of helping those students succeed. Derry first became an online teacher when she was asked to fill in a class because there was no teacher for it. “At first, I was very skeptical,” Derry says. She simply thought that it would be very tough for someone to learn math through an online class. However, being an online teacher grew on her. Derry enjoys teaching her online classes as well as her face-to-face classes. This semester, she has a total of seven classes, four of them being online, and the other three being face-to-face. One of her favorite perks about the online classes is that she gets to spend more time with her family. Even though the online classes give her flexibility in her schedule, they do require a lot of her time. Derry says that she spent more time on her online classes, because she has to make sure to keep up with grading and answering questions at any time. Right now, she teaches college algebra, statistics and trigonometry. She has taught other classes in previous semesters, such as intermediate algebra. Sophomore Angela Carter took that class with Derry, and felt that Derry was very good at helping her students understand
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IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN CASE YOU’RE IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. MAKE SURE YOU’RE PREPARED; DOWNLOAD A WEATHER APP ON YOUR PHONE TO ALERT YOU AT ALL TIMES!
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if YOU’RE in the DORMS ... head towards the welcome center and down to the basement!
IF YOU’RE AROUND TOWN... go to any of the following; the ymca, city hall basement or senior center!
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if YOU’RE in the VILLAS ... make your way to the first floor, in the west stairwell, and down to the basement.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are becoming more prominent in today’s society. According to an openly gay Butler student, Butler is a place where anyone is accepted and loved for who they are.
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there are more than 8 million adults in the U.S. who are There are lesbian, gay, or bisexual As many as 6 million American children and adults have an LGBT parent
nearly 700,000 transgender individuals in the U.S.
46% of the adult population is against gay marriage because of religious beliefs
53% of Americans Believe same sex marriages should be recognized by young americans, law as valid
democrats, and those who don’t attend church are most in favor
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Sophomore Matthew Kenyon flourishes after transferring from high school to Butler Darah Howe
Darah Howe population of the United States have reported that they have engaged in some sort of sexual encounter with people of the opposite sex, and, there are nearly 700,000 individuals in the United States that are transgender. One of our very own Butler students, sophomore Matthew Kenyon, is a man that is openly gay who has flourished while attending Butler. “High school was hard,” Kenyon says. “I didn’t know who I was. In college, I accepted myself and found out that it was okay to be different from the norm and most people were accepting.” Numbers do not lie. The number of people who identify themselves as LGBT will continue to rise in years to come. Though it is a touchy subject to discuss, Kenyon believes that anyone can be successful if they just put their mind to it. “I am currently the student chair of the Butler Food Pantry, as well as a member of the Grizzly Ambassadors. I can also proudly report that I have managed to maintain an almost perfect GPA while at Butler,” Kenyon says. Life can be tough for someone who identifies themselves as LGBT but it can also be tough for those who do not identify as LGBT to understand those who do. Just like most things, it is hard to comprehend if you cannot relate. That is why Kenyon urges people to just be kind and not say anything if they do not have anything nice to say. “A person’s happiness comes first,” Kenyon says. “We (gay people) are not like the ones you see on TV. We are people first.” Butler does a good job at accepting people who are different. They have different clubs and organizations, aside from sports, that include people of all different types. “I would recommend Butler to other people,” Kenyon says. “My favorite part of Butler is its sense of family. People actually care for one another here.”
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Growing up requires a lot. Whether it is learning something new, understanding a different concept, or transitioning from sitting in the same classrooms all day to the freedom of college life. It takes patience and time to get used to a new and different situation. One of the biggest topics that can take everyone a long time to adjust to, and learn about, is relationships. In elementary school, you have the typical boy, girl crushes that involved being chased around the playground, writing notes, and punching each other whenever the teacher isn’t looking. Then you go to middle school, and those innocent notes turn into text messages. The chasing on the playground and punching each other transitions into hanging out after school, your first kiss, and all the after school dances. Then high school hits, and there is a completely different sense of relationships. They become more serious as the freedom to drive is introduced. The kissing and hanging out around your parents turns into unsupervised freedom of being able to participate in activities we most definitely don’t tell our parents about. What happens, though, if all of these wonderful, exciting, nerve-wracking events take place between two people of the opposite sex? It is an uncomfortable topic for some, a real-life one for others, and for a few others, it is a situation that they will not even speak or hear of. With the changing times, however, it is a topic that is discussed almost daily among the social network outlets. Even more recently, it has become a topic discussed on the news as well. According to the Williams Institute from UCLA, there are more than 8 million adults in the United States who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). In total, there are 9 million who identify themselves as LGBT in America alone. An estimated 19 million people (8.2%) of the
Carolina Loera-Lozano is on a Mass Communication Scholarship focusing on radio and television. She’s a radio DJ for 88.1 The Grizz and is vice president of HALO, where she recently went to a conference in Chicago to meet Anabel Monge.
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Cami Bremyer She’s lived all over the country but Butler freshman, Carolina Loera Lozano, knows exactly where she wants to be in life. From Mexico to Idaho and now to Kansas, Lozano is a Mass Communications major and currently works as a DJ for the Butler radio station. “I just started my radio show this semester, ‘Latino Boom,’” says Lozano. “I play Spanish music but also some English music, too. It’s a fun experience I enjoy a lot.” Lozano’s radio show can be heard on 88.1 FM The Grizz every Thursday night from 8-10 p.m. Lozano has also appeared in a commercial that airs on the Univision Kansas channel. “I worked at this one store for about a month and the guy asked if me I wanted to do a commercial for this new Western store that just opened at the mall,” says Lozano. “I had never done one before so I decided to try it out.” Lozano wrote the script and did the commercial in Spanish. “It was a cool experience just because I’ve never done something like that. Now whenever I go to church I have the older Latino ladies asking if I’m the girl on the commercial,” says Lozano. Lozano is also vice president for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) for the El Dorado Butler campus. The organization is geared to form an
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understanding and appreciation for Latino customs and traditions. They also strive to strengthen the recognition of Latinos, provide professional opportunities and many other advantages. Butler HALO currently has around 25 students between the El Dorado and Andover campuses. She recently was chosen to go to a HALO conference in Chicago where she met many popular Hispanic figures. The conference was held at the Sheraton Hotel on Feb. 12 and lasted four days. “It’s a conference in Chicago for Hispanic organizations from all around the United States and they take Hispanic leaders and motivate us,” says Lozano. “They tell us that we can be where they are and they encourage us to be strong Hispanics and help prepare us.” Many workshops and motivational speakers were present for students to attend and listen to. “At the conference I met Anabel Monge who is a news anchor for Telemundo,” says Lozano. “It was great meeting with her and seeing where I want to be.” Lozano’s goal is to be a news anchor for Univision or Telemundo.
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student visits el dorado correctional facility and walks alongside inmates It was a beautiful March morning with an estimated high of 70 degrees and I was standing in a line where I was required to remove my jacket, cellphone, and anything metal that was on my person. Those items were then examined by an X-ray machine as I walked through a metal detector. After those examinations, I walked up to a correctional officer where my left wrist was stamped with some sort of code in invisible ink. Next, I was walking through an electric, metal door that echoed as it slammed shut behind me. The invisible ink on my arm was then examined by another correctional officer and I was then walking through another one of those cold, thick, heavy, metal teal doors. The next thing I was required to do was walk up to a window that I could not see through, and hold my ID up to a hole that was big enough to put the barrel of a gun through, where yet another correctional officer checked out who I was. After the woman said “thank you” I followed Lead Investigator Castle into the gymnasium of the El Dorado Correctional Facility, the prison here in El Dorado. There were about 20 eyes on me that belonged to men in denim jumpsuits that were wearing white tennis shoes and taking a break from their workouts to take a look at today’s visitor. I continued to hold my head up high and not make too much eye contact as Castle showed me around the prison. After the gymnasium walk through, Castle then lead me to the infirmary lobby of the EDCF. There stood about 15 men in line waiting to be seen by Dr. Cannon. I witnessed an inmate walk in to see the doctor where not even two minutes later he was sent out of the examining room and back to his cellblock. When we were done at the medical office, we took a walk outside and went to the general population pod. In order to get over to GP, we walked through the grounds area where the inmates were allowed one hour outside each day. Men in red hoodies over their denim jumpsuits walked by; some stared, some smiled, and some muttered words under their breath. Entering GP was definitely an experience of a lifetime. I walked down a narrow hallway where prisoners stood on both sides, just watching me walk by. I was then at a desk that sat in the middle of the pods, with four chambers connected to it. From the desk, a correctional officer can watch each and every one of the prisoners that are in GP. When we walked into one of the pods, there were about 30 rooms, 15 upstairs, and 15 downstairs. One inmate was showering, there was a wall covering his bottom half, but other than that he didn’t have any privacy. A few of the inmates were talking on the phone, one on the computer where he checked his prison bank account balances, and others were just sitting at the tables staring at the visitors that came to see how they lived. Castle then took me to meet the Special Task Force officers
of the prison. These men, and a few women, have been trained to stop violence from breaking out at the prison. Every once in awhile, gang fights break out, inmates refuse to leave their cells, and some inmates attempt to harm an officer, and these are instances where STF officers are required. The officers showed us how their tase shields, taser guns, and pepper sprays were used on inmates. Another item that Officer Maddox showed us were extra restraining handcuffs that were actually invented by an inmate at another prison. Detective Castle works in the Reception and Diagnostic (RDU) cell house where any inmate offender in Kansas goes through. Offenders that do go through RDU have a history of violent behavior in county jails and are then sent to prison. Detective Castle pressed the button of the intercom where a woman who sat in an upstairs, see-through bulletproof room, opened another one of those heavy metal doors that allowed us into the E Cell House of the El Dorado Correctional Facility. When we walked through those giant doors and into the E Cell House, there were men in red jumpsuits with white undershirts that had been stained pink from being washed with the red jumpsuits. Some of them wore solid white tennis shoes while others wore black Crocs. A few of them were sitting at tables in the cell house while others who were in solitary confinement walked up to their wired off windows, and stood there staring at us as we stood and listened to Castle explain how things worked there. Some of the inmates in E Cell House were considered violent and or in trouble for having bad behavior while they were in GP. Those men who were being punished for their bad behavior, spend time in solitary confinement. We’re not talking living alongside BTK, but being locked away in their cell for a certain amount of time while in E Cell House. Those men are in cells that have chutes sticking out of them. This makes it so that correctional officers have no contact with the prisoners whatsoever. When it comes time for their meals, the officer slides the inmates’ trays into the chutes, closes the chute, and pushes the tray forward to the inmates. This is repeated once the inmates finish their dinners. One offender that was in E Cell House had been in solitary for over a month and had a whole other month to go. Being able to walk out of the prison after being there for a few short hours felt pretty nice. A part of me was almost relieved because the overwhelming feeling of confinement that is unavoidable while walking through the prison… I was able to walk out of there and thinking of some of those men being in there for as long as they live is a terrifying feeling. The prison tour was pretty sweet, but being able to walk out of there after a few hours was even sweeter.
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Joyce Parker, owner of Sweet 120, stands proudly in front of her gourmet chocolate shop. The shop also has many small gift items.
These are some of the many delectable treats available at Sweet 120. They also sell lots of small gifts, such as wine glasses and accessories.
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Parker has many ties to BCC though, including several employees who attend Butler, as well as her two sons who formerly attended the school to play baseball. Parker’s chocolate shop got its ironic name “Sweet 120” because it is located in Suite 120. Originally, Parker had thought about having another “Sweet Granada” as her supplier does in Emporia. However, the Emporia shop was named that because it is located near the Historic Granada Theater. Parker decided to go with something that was different and special to this location. She has very close ties with Sweet Granada though, as she gets most of her chocolate from the shop in Emporia, co-owned by Kim Redeker and Toni Bowling. Parker has been working with them since she opened, although she does dip her own chocolate strawberries fresh in the morning for special orders. They really specialize in gifts at the shop. “We have coffee mugs, wine accessories, homemade fudge, chocolate popcorn and gummy worms. And we do gift baskets, balloons, and deliveries,” says Parker. The shop is open on Monday through Friday from the hours of 10-6, and on Saturdays from 10-5. “The community has really embraced gourmet chocolate,” says Parker. Next time you’re at Brew Co for your morning coffee, take a quick look in the back at this local chocolate shop and get yourself something sweet.
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There are many different shops you can visit in Downtown El Dorado, but some of them are harder to find than others. Sweet 120 is one of those places. It is located on 142 N. Main in Suite 120. It is in the same building as Brew Co Coffeehouse and Dilly Deli. Joyce Parker is the owner of the gourmet chocolate shop, and co-owns the deli with Kaytlan Berry, the owner of the coffee shop. Parker and Berry collaborate a lot for marketing and events, as well as staff scheduling. Along with their shops, the building is home to a State Farm office and a salon called B Fabulous. Parker feels that they have a good building rapport. Parker first got the idea to open Sweet 120 when she was working in the back of Beyond Napa, a wine store that she formerly managed in the building. She happened to overhear a group of ladies saying “This building needs chocolate.” Parker decided to make it happen in September of 2010. She received a lot of encouragement from family and friends, as well as community organizations. In particular, she received help from the Kansas Small Business Development Center through WSU and the National Main Street Center, which helps keep downtown areas vital. She got a business loan with no interest through this organization. She got help to write her business plan for this Main Street funding through WSU.
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SWEET 120
A SWEET HOLE IN THE WALL
MEDI@ OBSESSED SOCIAL MEDIA BECOMING 2ND NATURE TO OUR GENERATION
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Hannah Howe
Your parents warned you about the dangers of the Internet when you were younger, not knowing that in a few years’ time it would slowly take over your every day life. The Internet has been around since 1992 and is growing into something people cannot live without. According to Internet Society, Myspace started Aug. 1, 2003. Facebook started Feb.4, 2002 but then opened on Sept. 26, 2006 to people 13 and up with a valid e-mail address. Twitter started March 21, 2006. Instagram started in 2012. It became a lot easier for new users to join all social media by the use of cell phones. Cell phones now are able to use the Internet without being connected to WiFi. By June of 2007, MySpace had reached 114,147,000 unique visitors and was by far the largest social networking site in the world. However, by 2008, the tides changed and MySpace began losing popularity as Facebook began to overtake it. As of October 2011, over 250 million used accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, which accounted for 33 percent of all Facebook traffic (Brand Driven digital. Online. Internet). Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day. On Feb. 27, 2013, Instagram announced 100 million active users, only 2 1/2 years after the launch of the app. As of Sept. 9, 2013, the company has announced a total of more than 150 million monthly active users (Brand Driven digital. Online. Internet). According to Janice Wood (a long-term writer and editor of various publications), women college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their cell phones, while men students spend nearly eight hours. “As cell phone functions increase, addictions to this seemingly indispensable piece of technology become an increasingly realistic possibility,” James Roberts, Ph.D., said (Ben H.
Williams Professor of Marketing in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business). Some functions, like Instagram, are associated with cell phone addiction. Students reported spending most of the time texting, with an average of 94.6 minutes a day. That was followed by sending emails 48.5 minutes, checking Facebook 38.6 minutes, surfing the Internet 34.4 minutes, and listening to music 26.9 minutes (Brand Driven digital. Online. Internet). The difference between women and men is that men tend to use social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to follow sports, catch up on the news or, as explained by Roberts, to “waste time”; while females may be more inclined to use cell phones for social reasons, such as texting or emails to build relationships and have deeper conversations.
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Working on placing a Weatherstrip seal in the drum to help with the sound of it is sophomore Dirk Petersen. He helps prepare the drums for the fall semester on Mondays. “It is super exciting to get Butler’s first drumline off the ground,” Petersen says.
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President Krull, Dean Moorman, Valerie Mack and more, this wouldn’t be possible. It’s an expensive endeavor for them, already costing $7,000 just in the equipment. With that they were able to buy two marching snares, along with harnesses, two sets of tenor drums, four bass drums as well as the stands that go with them. “I’ve been very impressed with the support from our administration in wanting to get this started,” Martinez says. They have found ways to help save some money, though. To help stop the drums from ringing forever once you hit them, they lined the inside of the drums in Weatherstrip Seals. That saved a big chunk of money while still giving them the sound they needed to have the best drums possible. “We look forward to having this up and running in the fall,” Martinez says. He hopes to have the drumline starting a couple weeks before the fall semester starts. He wants to have the people come out and have a little camp started up to get some practice and show the students what the drumline is about. Be on the lookout for the drumline, because he hopes to include them in different school activities, and help bring more of a college experience for the students here. Having a drumline here will help some students go on to four year colleges and more. With the experience here it will look really good for them as they apply to other colleges. It will give them an opportunity to carry on what they have done in high school into college, and meet new people that share a common interest. The drumline is opening up many doors for the fall to come.
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Drum roll please…because this is the start of a drumline coming to Butler in the fall of 2015. “I’m very excited for the opportunity,” music instructor Brett Martinez says. “The students were very excited about this when I talked to them.” Getting the students excited and wanting to do this was the start to it all. Needing students interested in it is what will get it going. Martinez has worked with Butler only since the fall of 2014. He wanted to make the halftime shows have a little something more, though, when he saw it. There he got the idea of creating a drumline. “Just add another aspect to what we have at Butler,” Martinez says. Still, he didn’t want to take away from the football or anything else, just make it more. It takes a bit to get the program going, though. They have ordered the drums and are preparing them for the fall already. People that are interested in the drumline meet in the band room on Mondays at 2 p.m. to help out and prepare the equipment. They are thinking of putting some money towards buying uniforms as well for the members, so they will look more like a group. Having the group opens the door for more high school students. “It would also give our percussion students an opportunity to continue marching percussion if that’s something that they enjoyed in high school,” Martinez says. This will give students another opportunity for a spot with a scholarship on the band. Making it another class for them to pick up as well as other options you have when you are on the band scholarship. This all being possible with the help of others. “Our staff and administration has been very supportive,” Martinez says. They would need the support, though. Without
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EMERGENCY MEDICA
AL TECHNICIAN Cami Bremyer
Jeb Burress
Bri Torres
Starting in the early ’80s, Butler has offered Emergency Medical Technician classes. To get into the program students have to be at least 17 years old, must have all of their immunizations up to date, and must pass a background check. The EMT class is a semester long class which is offered in the Fall and Spring semesters. During the course, students become familiar with about 95 percent of all of the equipment they will come in contact with in the field. Students are also tested on all of the equipment they have. Also during the course, there are some weekends that the Life Team comes and shows the students the helicopter and the landing zone. The Butler County Sheriff’s Department comes as well to do a presentation about the different situations they come in contact with, along with the Jaws of Life and other extraction tools. On these days the students will have to go out on five or six simulated calls. For each of the calls they have 30 minutes to run the call. In the classrooms they have basic simulators, so these clinical days are very important. Students get the opportunity to do their ER clinical at Susan B. Allen Hospital, Wesley Medical Center and Via Christi along with riding with the Butler and Sedgwick County EMS. When the students are in the ER they work on evaluation and patient care, and when they are with the EMS they also work on patient care, but act as if they are one of the members on the crew. So in both situations the students are not just standing by and watching, they are participating using the skills they have learned in the classroom. Following the class, students have to pass a skilled practical exam along with the national written exam. State and nationwide, the percentage of students passing is about 64 percent and here at Butler it is between 75-77 percent. Although to become a firefighter you also have to be an EMT. According to Jeb Burress, EMT professor, “In the last two semesters for the first time we have seen the higher number of our EMT students taking it to go into EMS and other medical fields such as PA, RN programs and Medical school. A smaller percentage for the first time in over 10 years is taking it to go into Firefighting.”
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Photos to the left. The many events that the EMT students participated in during the previous semesters. Emergency Medical Technician students go through a semester of in class and hands-on traning in order to prepare for the national registry.
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Ed Bailey
Ed Bailey
The Lady Grizzlies went 24-6 in the regular season plus going 13-3 in conference play, good for the third seed in the Region VI tournament. In the course of the season, Coach Mike Helmer hit the 150 win mark in his seventh season. Sophomore Ashley Gibson became one of the four Grizzlies to exceed the 1,000-point mark in their career. She reached this achievement on February 25 against Dodge City on sophomore night. Before the first round of Region VI she had 1,008 points. She then scored 14 during the first round game against Colby and reached 1,022 points. She passed current assistant coach Abby Fawcett, who had 991 points in her career as a Grizzly. Another huge milestone reached by the Lady Grizzlies was snapping an 18-game losing streak at Seward County. The No. 7 Seward County Saints have only lost a total of 20 games in the Greenhouse. The win was the first for Butler under head coach Mike Helmer against a top 10-ranked team. The Greenhouse is one of the toughest places to win in junior college.
his town The Butler track team has carried over their success at indoor track into early success in the outdoor season. In the few meets that they have had this spring, the Grizzlies have set numerous records, had national qualifiers and many first place finishers. They started their season at the Butch Reynolds Invitational in El Dorado. They were led by Cross Country and Indoor Track All-American Kenny Chumba, from Eldoret, Kenya, who set a meet record in the 1500 meter run and national qualifying time of 4:07.38. The men’s and women’s team set six meet records and had 11 first place finishes. The teams then traveled to Shawnee, Okla for the Oklahoma Baptist Invitational on April 24. The men’s team had four first place finishes, all of those were on the men’s side. Sophomore triple jumper Arsenije Savic, from Bekgrade, Serbia, won that event with a jump 14.24 meters. The rest of the first place finishers were all freshmen. Mohammed Abubakar, from Ghana, won the long jump in 7.10 meters. Lamarion Arnold, from Montgomery, Ala, won the 200 meter dash in 21.42 seconds and Donovan Ayers, from St. Louis, won the 400 meters with a time 53.49 seconds. Freshman Danae Bina, from Marion, is a three sport athlete (volleyball, softball and track) who is vaulting for the team and placed second to fellow volleyball and track teammate Rachael Buzanowski, from Pompeys Pillar, Mont, in the pole vault at the Butch Reynolds Invitational. “The teams have heart and they are competing well… we are training and attempting to get over injuries and then we are trying to make sure that the teams peak at nationals,” Butler Track Coach Ryan Turner says.
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baseball
Ed Bailey
Jessica Knoblauch
When you think of baseball, one of the main players that comes to mind is the pitcher. Marcus Washburn is a 5-foot-11-inch lefthanded pitcher for the Grizzlies. Washburn is from Chandler, Okla. During his high school years he lettered four years in baseball, two years in football, and one year in basketball. He plans on returning to Butler after this season but says that he hopes to transfer to Oklahoma State after he is done here. But he adds that he would be okay with going to any Division 1 school. Washburn says his favorite thing about Butler is his teammates. “Without this team I wouldn’t be able to last at this school,” he says. He hopes to keep improving on his skills this season and become a conference starter. When asked what his goals for the team were, he says, “My goal for the team is to make it to Grand Junction (home of the juco World Series) and win!” Washburn hopes to keep improving as a player and continue to help his team. You can watch Washburn and the rest of the Grizzly baseball team when they play at McDonald Stadium here in El Dorado. Their schedule can be found online at butlercc.edu under the athletics tab.
diamonds Cami Bremyer
Ed Bailey
Ed Bailey
The Grizzly softball team is rounding the bases and heading for home going into final part of the season. At press time the Grizzlies had lost just three times in the last 21 games after starting the season off slowly. Butler is currently third in the Jayhawk West Conference behind Barton and Seward. They have a chance to move up a few spots because they play four of the next six against these two teams. In a recent game against North Central Texas, they employed a steady rate of scoring and hitting with two doubles and two triples en route to a 10-0 thrashing and 5 inning run rule in the second game of the BUCO Bash. Against Garden City, Butler unleashed an offensive and defensive display, winning 8-0. Megan Wurts, freshman, hit two doubles and a triple. Morgan Heckhart, freshman, also hit two doubles along with three RBIs. Sophomore Monica Islava had a double, a home run and three RBIs. The Grizzlies have a tough road ahead and Butler Softball Coach, Doug Chance, says, “We just need to keep focused as we finish out the season.” Sophomore Monica Islava is leading the team in batting average with .465, home runs (10), RBIs (40) and tied in hits with 46. Sophomore Aujanae McCoy is leading the team in stolen bases with 37. Freshman pitcher, Jenny Hittinger, has pitched 103.1 innings, has a 10-6 record and a 4.12 earned run average (ERA). Fellow freshman Kaelah McMullin leads the team in strikeouts (70), so far this season. There are four players that have not had an error this season and they are freshman catcher, Alley Knopp, outfielder Wurts, fellow outfielder, sophomore A’Liyah Rogers and freshman pitcher Hittinger. “The bats are finally coming alive,” Chance said.
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MONICA ISLAVA
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