THE GRIZZLY
Butler Community College / Winter 2015
GENERATION
LIKE changing majors
PGS. 10&11
DEALING WITHPGS. 28&29 DIFFICULT TEACHERS
PGS. 12-17
THE NEW LOOK ON OUTLOOK
THE PIPELINE SWITCH // PGS. 20&21
WHAT’S COOKIN’?
PGS. 4&5
the millenNial generation the most diverse 3% MIXED 59 % WHITE
4% ASIAN 18% HISPANIC 14% BLACK
OUR DIFFERENCES 25 % OF US DON’T HAVE A RELIGION
4 / 10 OF OUR GENERATION HAS A TATTOO
1 / 5 OF OUR GENERATION IS MARRIED (THIS IS HALF THE AMOUNT OF OUR PARENTS GENERATION AT OUR AGE!)
40% OF US ARE IN COLLEGE (RECORD HIGH FOR OUR AGE GROUP IN ANY GENERATION!)
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table of contents Issue 3 / Volume 20 / Butler Community College
4&5: whatcha got cookin’?
Get the in depth scoop on what’s going on in our Culinary Arts kitchen
6&7: wake up in the mornin’ feelin’ like.. This student has a routine most of us would not kill for
8&9: a new home
An international student gives us her opinion on being overseas
10 &11: switcheroo
We’ve all done it... Here’s the 411 on how to switch your major(s)
12&13: generation like
Today’s generation is one that relies heavily on technology and here’s what we found about that
14&15: our generation: by us A student’s view on today’s generation
16&17: our generation: by the world The world’s views on today’s generation
18&19: el dorado hot spots
Bored in El Dorado? Here are a few places you can go to overcome that boredom
20 &21: the new pipeline
Butler revamped its e-mail website and had a few bumps along the way
22&23: striking new feature
Grizzly Bowl is open for business and looking better than ever
24&25: f is for fun friday
SGA puts on Fun Fridays every month. Find out next month’s plans
26&27: heavyweight master
Cesely Omli spends a majority of her time in the weight room
28 &29: difficult teachers
How do you deal with the teacher from your worst nightmare?
30&31: ballin’
An overlook on the Men’s and Women’s basketball teams
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A CUT ABOVE The rEst Cami Bremyer
Kayla Duarte
Justice Bidwell
behind the scenes of the hospitality management and the culinary arts programs
As a human being, one of our basic physiological needs is food. We all get hungry. However, for some Butler students, that hunger is not always for the food itself, but also to create it. The Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts programs are two of the newest programs offered here at Butler. The center for the programs is located in Wichita at the Boston Recreation Center. “We are located just south of Kellogg, off of Woodlawn: 6655 East Zimmerly Street,” Chef John W. Michael, Lead Instructor of the Culinary Arts program, says. The Culinary Arts program did not officially start until the fall 2013 semester; however, Michael has been teaching culinary classes since the fall of 2012. “I was brought on originally to teach the Culinary classes that already existed in the Hospitality program. Shortly after my hiring, the school decided to make Culinary Arts its own department and asked me to be the lead and to design the Culinary Arts curriculum,” Michael says. “The Hospitality Program has been in existence at Butler since the 1980s,” Tiffani Price, Lead Instructor of the Hospitality and Restaurant Management program, says. “It has shown significant growth, beginning in about 2008. The curriculum and program has been enhanced with the addition of the Culinary Program.” Price has been employed at Butler for 14 years. “I was a Butler Headliner and student here nearly 20 years ago. It has been a part of my life it seems forever,” Price says. In the two programs combined, Price says they have about 130 students. “Many are here to get both degrees,” Michael says. Students in the Culinary Arts program will learn things like how to prepare dishes from all around the world, how to make food healthier, and how to prepare food safely. In addition to learning how to cook the food, students will also learn how to manage different aspects of food service operations and how to plan menus for their future restaurants. “We try to prepare the students for anything they might be likely to find in the industry. In Professional Culinary Skills 1 alone, we fabricate whole chickens, whole salmon, beef tenderloins, racks of ribs, as well as making all of the mother sauces and all the major cooking processes of proteins, vegetables and starches,” Michael says. Students in Hospitality Management will learn marketing and operations to prepare them for careers in Hotel,
Motel and Restaurant Management, with two specialized tracks in the program emphasizing Hotel and Restaurant Management. Along with these careers, students will also be prepared to work in Event and Convention Planning, and Hotel and Restaurant Operations. All students have a four semester requirement of Work-Based Learning, which allows them to practice the skills they learned in the classroom in the workplace. At minimum, students will graduate with 600 hours of work-related experience in the field. “Customer service and a passion for the Hospitality/Service Industry are the number one skills that employers are looking for. Our students are introduced to all aspects of the Hospitality Industry. They will also be able to recognize and incorporate key cost formulas and decipher daily management reports and accounting principles that can help determine a business’s financial success,” Price says. “The Hospitality and Tourism Industry is vast. There are multiple positions in hotels, resorts, restaurant, catering, country clubs, meeting planning and event planning.” Both Michael and Price fell in love with
food and the food industry at young ages. “My first job, at 15, was at a Mexican Restaurant called Don Pablo’s. They were opening a new location by the Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville, Texas. My best friend and I walked up to the trailer and filled out an application. We were hired on the spot for cashier and hostess positions. I fell in love with the industry on my first night in the restaurant,” Price says. “I grew up with two very strong male role models in the kitchen, my father and grandfather. Both of them were great cooks with a real appreciation for good food and fine dining. When I first started working in restaurants at 12-years-old, I loved the pace of the work, it’s never boring, and loved all the free great food I got to try,” Michael says. With Hospitality as one of the fastest growing fields and the demand for chefs high, it’s no wonder why people come to Butler. “My students already come with a passion for food and an interest for the industry. It’s our job to supply them with the requisite skills and knowledge to succeed as cooks and chefs in the kitchens of Wichita and beyond,” Michael says.
A culinary student slices an onion in preparation to make a soup. The kitchen the students use is in the Boston Center located in Wichita.
G S N E I N N I R T O OU M R Establishing a morning routine in college is one of many ways to be successful in everyday life. College can be stressful, time consuming and unpredictable at times, but by establishing a positive morning routine to start off the day you can make all the difference in the world. Whether it is a hot cup of coffee with creamer or a 7 a.m. shower, college students learn how to manage their mornings with just the right wake up calls. Some students
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enjoy an early morning workout, while others enjoy sleeping in until 15 minutes before class. Whatever the routine might be, students find their routine and make it a part of their everyday life. “I like to wake up, take a shower, start coffee, watch the news and then go to class,” says freshman Steve Heinen, from Howard. “I usually wake up at 6 a.m. or 6:30 a.m., depending on if I have 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. class that day.” Some students even find themselves working or picking up extra shifts before classes to start off their mornings. “I work at the YMCA, so I have to be at work by 4:30 a.m. I usually wake up at 4:10 a.m., get dressed then pack a breakfast,” says Tarynn Perez, freshman from Oxford. “I get off usually 30 minutes before class to go home, change clothes, pack my book bag and if I have a long class day then I pack a lunch before I go.” Many students find themselves turning to coffee to help get them up in the mornings and to help them have a little more energy throughout the day. “I enjoy coffee the most in the mornings. It wakes me up and is something I always look forward to,” says Heinen. Some students are born and raised early risers, while other students find themselves struggling just to get out of bed for their 9 a.m. class. Some parents raised their kids as early risers and made sure they were up at a decent time. “I’ve spent my whole life waking up early and doing chores. In doing so, it makes you think better to be up and active before you get to class,” says Heinen. Waking up and getting an early start to your day can increase a person’s mood and productivity for the day. Waking up early adds more
hours to the day and ultimately produces a better attitude that lasts the whole day. “I’ve actually become more of a morning person because I feel much more productive when I work early. I see the types of people that show up at the YMCA early to get their workouts done and I enjoy being around those types of people,” says Perez. “Don’t get me wrong, I love my sleep and waking up is the hardest part, but once I’m awake I’m good to go!” Now waking up early can have its ups and downs. Staying up late working on homework or studying for a test until the early morning, then turning around and trying to wake up at a decent time, can be a struggle. “I advise you to get a coffee maker with a timer and set the time when you want to wake up so it will automatically start making coffee for you. Then put an alarm clock next to it and set it around the time when the coffee should be done,” says Heinen. “That way you can turn off your alarm clock and your coffee is right there and ready.” Not every morning is going to be easy, especially the first few mornings of a new routine. It can also take some time before you’re an expert early bird. “Adjusting takes time and at first you’ll be tired and worn out. But as the time passes, your energy levels will increase and you won’t even realize that you spend 18 out of the 24 hours awake,” says Perez. Having a distinct morning routine and sticking to it, might be just what a student needs to survive the ultimate college experience. They play a major role in how a person’s day might unfold. Unfortunately, not every sunrise is beautiful and not everyone likes coffee, but creating a morning routine and sticking to it can result in more energy and a positive outlook on the day, which might just be what it takes to get out of bed. “Just do it. The more of an early riser you are and the more you do throughout the day, the more productive you will become as well, along with having more energy,” says Perez.
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Sophomore Rachel (Eunju) Seo talks about the negatives, positives of being an international student here in the united states Some people dread having a job; imagine not being able to have one. Sophomore Eunju (Rachel) Seo struggles with not being able to work in the United States. Seo is originally from Namwon, South Korea. In South Korea, her high school has certain rules. In order to go to school, you have to live in the dorms or you can take the GED and graduate, and then try to figure out what you want to do. The school also has a program where the students can study abroad. “The part of the program at my school was to go to different countries to learn about other cultures and different languages,” Seo says. “I thought that would be a good idea to experience a whole different culture. I want to see new people, meet new people, and learn a new culture.” Seo talked to her parents and decided that she was going to come to the United States, and had to apply to become a foreign exchange student. “I have a F-1 student visa. Which means I can only study and not work,” says Seo. Seo has been in the United States for about five years. “I was only supposed to be in America for six months, but I wanted to stay here another six months because it was getting more fun. And after I ended up graduating I could have gone back to Korea, but I don’t like the education in Korea,” Seo says. “It’s so much studying and the pressure you have from every person
is hard to take. In Korea, school starts at 8 a.m. and ends around 9-9:30 p.m. and I was living at the dorm so I felt more pressure that other people were studying and I would not be.” Seo didn’t realize when she enrolled in college that most of the other students would want to be independent and considered adults by their parents. “It is completely different in the South Korean culture. With me being in America I constantly feel bad because I can’t work, and when I decided to stay in America for longer than six months it gets harder and harder because I can’t get a job to work for the money I need,” Seo says. Seo is a math tutor at Butler and that pays for all of her books and only part of her out of state tuition. She doesn’t get a regular paycheck because all the money she is earning through tutoring students is paying for part of her school. “I feel like I am doing something that is helping my parents. I also have been able to get involved with people and use my English speaking skills,” Seo says. Seo plans to finish going to school here in the United States and after she gets her graduate degree she will apply to be able to work here. “After I graduate from a university I am going to apply to get a working visa. You have to get permission from either the company or the school to prove that I am able to work,” Seo says.
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Change. It’s something that’s going to have to happen for you, and it tends to happen a lot for students here. Changes in maturity, friends, knowledge, and then there is the one some people tend to try to avoid. That would be changing your major. It shouldn’t be something that you should avoid and there is the help of the advisors to aid in making the best decision for you. Advisor Gary Royse says some students may change between five and ten times sometimes, it all really depends. So it is common for a student to walk into advisors with questions about changing majors. “At least 50 percent of our students change their major at some point in time, between when they start and when they finish their programs,” Royse says. Some may be minor changes that students make from a certain type of medical field. On the other hand, it could be major to going from restaurant management to automotive mechanics. “We deal with the whole spectrum of changes. Most generally aren’t quite that dramatic, but we certainly deal with ones that aren’t major changes,” Royse says. Typically, they tend to be smaller changes to deal with. Similar to Blaine Hedges from Valley Center, as he has decided on different things since attending Butler, but all of them have been within the medical field. “I’ve just been really indecisive, like I haven’t really put a crosshair on what I wanted to do,” Hedges says. “So I kind of just took courses to figure out what I wanted to do” When thinking about changing your major, the first thing would be to talk to an advisor, to see how it would impact your financial aid and your scholarships that you have. It may be affected if you attend school
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more than two years as some of the things change. Also, with the transferability of the credits, it may change going to a 4-year school. “We don’t discourage students from changing their majors. We want students to be in the major that they want to be in,” Royse says. You have to think about how it will impact things like financial aid, but still not go into a degree that you won’t enjoy just because you are worried about financial aid being affected. “They need to understand all the different areas that it might impact, and make good decisions based on how it might impact them,” Royse says. When Hedges narrowed down to what he decided on doing, which is Sonography, he finally started to knock out the classes that were going to go towards his major. The way he looks at the other classes was that they aren’t a waste of time, though. “Even if the experiences that you get from the class don’t apply to what you end up having, I mean it’s still experience nonetheless,” Hedges says. While here he has obtained a position as an RA which pays for his housing and half the meals. This helps him put more money towards schooling. Hedges plans on attending Newman after he gets done with the semester. Having gone through changing up the game plan, he knows that the change may seem difficult but it wasn’t a waste. “Just keep looking. If you’re into something, and it ends up not being what you want, then change it, that’s alright,” Hedges says. College is full of experiences and change, and even though change is scary for some people, it is good when it comes to dealing with your major and what you plan on doing with the rest of your life. It tends to happen for the majority of students.
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80% of college students nationwide change their major at least once before graduating.
“our generation, which is more connected than it has ever been through the internet with social media spanning across the world, that “A great thing is that we’ve begun this when we work whole idea of ‘just be yourself.’ And together, I personally think it’s terrific. Our we can make generation’s role models are looking to good things inspire people to be themselves.” happen.”
what do you think about our generation?
“I think that there are going to be some wonderful things coming out of our generation, and I am excited to see what those are.”
“ One of the best things to come from our generation “Our would be that we are generation is much better becoming more open minded. than past Equal rights towards same generations. We have a sex couples is becoming more popular.” lot of people that care for one another.”
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ABOUT OUR GENERATION, FROM OUR GENERATION.
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STUDENTS Cami Bremyer
Darah Howe
Disciplined. A word I would choose not to use when it comes to describing today’s academic generation. Yeah, there are athletes, fine arts students, or other types of students in every class that spend a majority of their time working towards being the best that they can be. However, when it comes to classes, most students are not working to their full potential. When I talk to my parents and grandparents about their time in school, I am amazed at some of the things they had to do that I take for granted every day. For example, a mechanical pencil wasn’t even thought of when my parents were in high school. They had to get up every once in a while to sharpen their pencil. Today, all we have to do is pull a lead holder out of our backpacks and continue on with taking notes… if that’s even what we’re doing. Every Monday and Wednesday, my classmates and I sit in our desks in biology lecture while our teacher thoroughly explains the chapters we will be tested over. Rather than handwriting each and everything down that our teacher says, my classmates and I fill in the blank spaces in a study guide that she herself took the time to type up and print off for us. Some days, I sit there listening and at the end of class, walk up to the board to take a picture of the notes she wrote up for us. Here comes that disciplined word again. My parents and grandparents took notes like nobody’s business when they were in school. Today, we can sometimes get away with not lifting a single finger until we press the capture button on our phones while leaving class. Online classes are another thing of the recent future that my grandparents think is crazy. Most students who have taken online classes are no stranger to browsing Google while taking
a quiz or test. I also can’t tell you the last time I actually picked up a physical dictionary to look up a word I didn’t know. Instead, dictionary.com is where I look to. Not everything about today’s generation is negative, however. Today, there is a class for pretty much everything a person can think of. Which is why sometimes the word disciplined could not be used. When my parents were younger, there were the traditional classes that everyone had to take, and they didn’t get to choose from a broad range of classes. So, today, most of us take classes that interest us which makes it a little easier for us to study and gives us a reason to work hard. If it comes easy to us and we find it interesting, we don’t necessarily have to sit in class taking an insane amount of notes. Technology is a major reason that our generation is the way it is. The generation before us has changed because of it as well. Some classes only require you to meet up once a week for a short lecture, while the whole rest of the class is online. Teachers don’t necessarily have to work as hard just as students don’t have to. Most of the time, online quizzes are graded on the spot, pleasing our need for immediate gratification. There are also a few teachers who are completely okay with students being on their phones during classes. Yes, I’m aware that it’s “our grade not their’s” but where did respect go? Teachers are taking their time to explain things to students who don’t listen to a single word that their teacher says. It’s just a weird time. When did we get to the time where our phones are more important than education?
“I think our generation is extremely dependent on technology. The world has changed and there is less appreciation for the little things in life. We have become so impaired to the world around us. I feel like if we were to do little things for other people, the world would be a better place.�
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“I believe every generation has its pros and cons. No generation is better than another. Each generation has had its problems and achievements. One of the best things to come from our generation would be that we are becoming more open minded. Equal rights towards same sex couples is becoming more popular. One of the cons would be that we are dependent on technology. More interaction is taken place over social media than face to face. We are still a young generation; I’m excited to see what we all can do in the future.�
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picture online and it can be seen by virtually everyone out there. Our generation has become numb to putting our entire lives online, something I’m not sure is the best. We come from a history of working hard and doing what you need to do to get the job done. I mean we do live in America (‘MERICA!). But our generation wasn’t all brought up on those foundations. We have the means to be the smartest, most well-rounded generation out there, but we’re falling a little short. We’ve grown up in a society where cheating on tests is the norm, where paying someone to write your paper is easier than ever and where you can take a class online and pass with flying colors, without ever opening a book. Its things like that, that make me worry about us as a generation. Have we prepared ourselves for the future? Or are we cheating our way through things only to get to the real world and realize we’re not ready. We’re young and stupid and we make mistakes, but it’s our time now; to grow up, to make a difference. We’ve seen it all. From war to same sex marriage to legalization of marijuana, we’ve grown up in a changing culture whose ideas are broader and broader every day. For us to be a part of that, we’ve got to make a stance. We’ve got to change the negativity we have and channel it into the strengths each of us have. We are a strong generation. A generation that can change so many things for the better. We just have to find it in ourselves first.
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We are, statistically, the most diverse generation out there. We are the first generation to have the technology to do almost anything we want in a blink of an eye, not to mention we can do it all on a phone that’s no bigger than your hand. We have the highest number of college students throughout history and we are, in my opinion, the first generation, in a long time, that’s going to see major changes throughout our life-time. We are what they call “Generation Like.” Technology; something we’ve grown up on that no other past generation has. It’s absolutely crazy how many things we have open to us with technology. We’ve got the power of knowledge at our fingertips. Anything and everything you need to know, or don’t, is on the internet. You can buy practically anything you could need and have it shipped to you in a matter of days. You can connect with everything you could ever need through the internet, but everything has two sides. We’ve also grown up with the worst forms of bullying. Attacking each other through tweets and statuses seen by, literally, EVERYONE on the internet. Granted, every generation has had their struggles with being bullied, but we are the first to have it all spread out on the internet. We all have had our embarrassing moments, falling down the stairs or the time you peed your pants from laughing so hard, but now it’s not just those around us who hear about these ultimate fails, it’s the entire world. We share a
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division has ever done. It was the most intense because it impacted the whole institution at the same time,” says John Irvin, director of technical help desk services. In fact, they broke some records, including the highest number of ticketed calls they had in one month. Ticketed calls are the calls they were able to take, and record for the day. Since they were taking so many calls, it was impossible to even keep up with. However, the amount they were able to get recorded in one month was 4,246, beating out the old number of 3,064. This number isn’t even including the number of walk-ins they had helped in the office. According to many, people working at the Help Desk were great to help students and faculty out with this problem. Walking students through the process would take them only about 5-10 minutes. A long call might be 15 minutes. Although the process was pretty simple and straightforward, they still had to deal with some upset people. This was mostly due to the time people had to wait on hold. Christina Byram, the associate director of network and unified communications, says that the longest hold time she had was 25 minutes, while the shortest was about two minutes. Many times people would just leave a voicemail. The 2 GB voicemail box, which could hold roughly 175 voicemails, was filled every day. “We called everyone back and there were a couple of voicemails from angry people where I thought ‘Oh, this is not going to be a fun call’ and then they actually turned out to be super nice,” says Byram. “Once we explain the situation, a lot
of the time people are just happy to hear back from us,” says Irvin. This required many long hours for those working. Not only did they work long hours, but there were many additional people working. On a normal day, there are usually only two people answering calls. During this intense project, they had up to 11 people answering calls at one time. They contracted former Technology Enrichment Cooperative Employees (TEC-Es), as well as anyone who could help. One former TEC-E, Krystal Hatvick, explained her experience with having some pretty angry people on the other end of the phone, but also some insanely happy people. “Some people were overjoyed to be back into their account,” says Hatvick. One man told her that he was so happy he could marry her. Another said “If I looked half as good as I sound, we should be dating.” Not only did they contract former TEC-Es to help out, they also trained all of student services. “We explained the process to them the same as how we would explain to students, and enabled them to pass it on to others,” says Irvin. The more people who could help, the faster this process could move along. In fact, by Friday of the first week back, they had already helped 8,444 of the approximate 9,700 students and faculty who are a part of Butler. At this point, things had started to finally slow back down for the Butler Help Desk. Instead of 11 people taking calls, only three or four were taking calls at this time. “It is getting slower. We’re excited. We can reclaim our sanity,” says Irvin.
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As students returned to school this semester, things were pretty routine. They enrolled for their classes, got their books, and attended the first day back with a sleepy face and a new notebook. However, one minor problem affected every single student and faculty member at Butler. This problem caused the Butler Help Desk to receive over 10,000 phone calls in one 24-hour period. In conjunction with the Butler email being linked to Office 365, the Pipeline passwords for all accounts were required to be reset. Before break, mailers and emails were sent out to bring awareness of the situation to students and faculty. This included a temporary password for them to reset the Pipeline password. This temporary password was necessary for the process. Many people did not see the mailers or the email, and once they realized they needed to see the email, they were unable to because they couldn’t get on to Pipeline. Since a vast majority of students did not know their temporary password, they had to call the Butler Help Desk, or come in and see them in the 200 building. In fact, some students who did see the mailer and temporary password still had trouble. Sophomore Ashley Bain says, “I tried the password so many times. I tried using different browsers and different computers. It just wouldn’t work, so I called the Help Desk.” Although students must change their password every three months, it is usually not a big issue for the Help Desk since the temporary password is not required to do so. The normal password changes occur at different times for students as well. “This was the biggest undertaking our
Darah Howe
El Dorado Bowling Alley Rolls Again Thursday, Jan. 1, El Dorado was bowled over by the opening of Grizzly Bowl. Wade Wilkinson, Butler alumnus, is the new owner of Grizzly Bowl. For the first time since 2004, the bowling alley is being remodeled to keep up with the times. Grizzly Bowl manager, as well as El Dorado’s high school bowling coach, Holly Harber, spent a lot of her time helping with the remodel. The bowling alley had been closed since December of 2013. “When I heard someone bought the bowling alley and decided that they wanted to redo it, I wanted to be a part of that,” Harber says. “Lots and lots of work.” The Grizzly Bowl will be handicapped accessible. “We have had some comments on Facebook on the Grizzly page stating, that ‘hey I can come bowl in a wheelchair and I haven’t been able to bowl in years.’ So we have already gotten positive feedback on the ramp,” Harber says. Bowling is a sport people can do at all ages. “There isn’t an age where people can’t bowl. The youngest we have is about six years old and our oldest on the senior bowling league was born in 1926,” Harber says. In hopes of the new name, Grizzly Bowl, Harber is excited to see what the connection to the college will be. “It will give the college students something to do. We will have it available not too far away, so if the kids don’t have transportation they can come down, maybe get away,” Harber says. El Dorado High School’s bowling team as well as Circle High School’s bowling team has a bowling alley to call home, instead of traveling to Augusta to bowl. “Augusta is very nice but the kids are excited to have a place where they can be comfortable with again,” Harber says. The construction that is being done will allow the community to come and have a good time. They will have an open bar and a mini restaurant with extra seating. “I think it has needed an overdue for so long. When I found a postcard from 1962, the bowling alley looked the same. Other than the paint, everything about it looked exactly the same as it did in 1962,” Harber says. The plan to remodel the bowling alley will hopefully keep it from going back under and having to close again. They plan to have a college night for bowling which happened last year only for a dollar, but prices for college night will be raised. Harber really wants to have a college league. That is why she wants to continue college night at the bowling alley. “I worked in this bowling alley for eight years before it closed down. So I am familiar with the bowlers and how the leagues work and how they are set up and ran,” Harbar says. “Thursday nights used to be $1 bowling but there will changes to that in hopes of a college league starting.” The Grizzly Bowl will not be limited to the tan lanes and white lights. Every Friday and Saturday nights there will be cosmic. “Just upgrading and modernizing it will help tremendously. And more security here than the past,”
says Harber. Before the bowling alley previously closed down, Harber said that there were issues with break-ins and security. According to Harber, the Grizzly Bowl has a security system and cameras in hopes that it will help the bowling alley stay in business. “It closed down simply because there was not much money coming in. We were cheaper than anywhere else around. You go to Wichita and the prices were way higher than what we offer here. It was taking its toll on what we were able to put in,” Harber says. The prices will be raised but will still be cheaper than anywhere else, according to Harber. Logically, they need prices to rise so they can pay off the remodeling and to keep it up and running longer. Even some of the patrons here wouldn’t mind paying more if we could keep it open, Harber says.
BEFORE
The photo on the left is a snapshot of the bowling alley before its renovations. The photo on the right is what the bowling alley currently looks like.
they see me
r llin’ Bri Torres
Hannah Howe
Bret Belvill / Hannah Howe / Bri Torres
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AFTER
Fri. March 6 Urban Air 7 p.m. B.O.A. Spring Fling Tuesday April 14 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. B.O.E. Spring Fling Thursday April 16 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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Fun Fridays SGA
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Darah Howe
Audra Anderson
Once a month the Student Government Association holds an event called Fun Friday. What is Fun Friday you ask? Fun Friday is an event held one Friday out of each month for students to take a break from the their everyday lives. Fun Friday is not something that is new to Butler but has been around and practiced by the past SGA representatives. Miguel Swann and his officers simply enhanced and pushed harder to ensure student participation. “It gives the students the opportunity to let their hair down and just have a good ol’ time,” says Swann. Fun Friday is great because everyone is welcome to come and join the fun, whether you’re full or part-time, freshman or sophomore, or from the BOE, BOA, Rose Hill or McConnell campuses. The SGA has had as many people as 80 to 100 come this semester. Swann says his favorite thing about Fun Friday is to see students getting involved and the joy and satisfaction on their faces from having a good time.
Brittany Earley
“If that’s all we accomplish from Fun Fridays, then I said we have done the student body justice,” says Swann. His least favorite part would have to be having the evenings and fun times come to an end. Depending on the season, Fun Fridays involve anything that seems fun. On previous Fridays, the SGA has done everything from handing out movie tickets, ice skating, bowling, haunted houses and pumpkin patches. “This semester we are adding a bit more of child’s play to it to remind students that the little things can make you just as or more happy than the big flashy events,” Swann says. Be on the look out for the Fun Friday flyers around campus so you can come and join the fun time!
Above: Students at a Fun Friday event. Fun Friday brings together Butler students and friends in hopes of creating happy college memories. Left: Two students prepare to get ready to bowl at SGA’s Bowling Fun Friday. Other Fun Friday events have included movies and ice-skating.
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DO
YOU EVEN
LIFT? Cami Bremyer
Sesley Omli, Brookville, continues her love of lifting. Omli started her powerlifting career when she was a sophomore in high school. “I decided to compete when my coach saw that I might be able to take out some state records in my weight class,” Omli says. When she started as a sophomore, her first competition was State where she won Bench, Squat, Clean
and overall. Omli also broke all the past records in her weight class. “Junior and senior year I did the same thing, winning each event and re-breaking my own records. I also went to a meet in Clay Center both of these years, winning each event and winning overall best girl lifter there as well,” Omli says. Currently, she has joined an Olympic weightlifting team. In this style of lifting,
Bri Torres
basically every day, even if it’s lightweight,” Omli says. Omli’s coach tries to have a competition for her team once a month. January 31, her team hosted their first competition at the Poliquin Headquarters, where she placed third in her weight class overall and first as a junior in her weight class. “In Olympic lifting, there are the two lifts; snatch and clean and jerk. Girls compete before the boys, and snatches are before the clean and jerks. It’s nothing too fancy, just a platform and judges,” Omli says. But, it’s not just the competitions and awards that keep her going back to the weight room. “I stuck with lifting in general because I love the focus and the mentality required to lift heavy, also I love the challenge of getting better each day. It’s an amazing feeling to see progress and improvements. I absolutely love it,” Omli says.
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she competes in snatch, clean and jerk. She is lifting for Team BFS (Bigger Faster Stronger), which is a team out of Rhode Island. “My high school lifting coach submitted a story on me to the Bigger Faster Stronger Magazine, and the editor was impressed by my lifting numbers. So he asked if I was interested in competing. The editor of BFS, Kim Goss, is now my coach,” Omli says. Since her team is out of Rhode Island, she has to practice a lot on her own. Omli’s coach gives her 5-6 workouts and no matter what she does, she normally takes Sundays off. “I have warm-up I do every day before I begin. Next, I usually have a stretch or lift to focus on mobility such as an overhead squat with a narrow grip to help with my shoulders and back muscles. Then, every other day, I clean and jerk, and on the opposite days I snatch. I also squat
Karim Ghonem
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE
TEACHERS YOU NEVER WANTED Cami Bremyer Every student at one point in their life, gets stuck with a difficult teacher. Whether it’s 7th grade English or College Algebra, difficult teachers are part of the process. So what exactly does it mean to be “difficult”? “Webster describes difficult as hard to understand...hard to deal with or get on with. Therefore, if the definition of a difficult teacher is one who is hard to understand, hard to deal with or get on with, I hope I don’t fit that definition,” says Bob Peterson, Theatre and Speech Professor at BCC. Some people might agree with Webster and think of a difficult teacher as someone hard to get along with, while others might think hard teachers are the ones who give too much homework and give hard assignments. “I think a difficult teacher is someone whose class is difficult,” says Minneapolis freshman Shaylen Laws. “But I’ve also dealt with the teachers who I didn’t get along with, which didn’t make the class any easier. I think difficult teachers can be described in many different ways.” No one is alone when it comes to dealing with a difficult teacher. Students at some points in their lives were given a difficult teacher and didn’t know how to handle it. “Ever since about fifth grade, I’ve had difficult teachers,” says Abbie Lyon, freshman from Emporia.
Bret Belvill So why are some teachers thought to be “difficult”? “I think teachers who set standards and expect students to meet them do so because they are interested in the student. Those teachers want their students (here comes the cliché) to be the best that they can be,” says Peterson. “I hope I am a teacher who has high standards in the classroom, has integrity in the classroom and expects 100 percent from the students.” Many students don’t know how to deal with these difficult teachers and find themselves in a tough situation. So what is the best way to deal with these teachers? “First things first, understand that these teachers see potential in their students. They see the great possibility that each student has for success. They push you to succeed and look forward to seeing you do great things,” says Laws. One way to deal with classes that you’re struggling with is to get some help. Whether it’s struggling to get along or struggling on problem number 13, talking to another adult about your situation or asking a tutor for help on an assignment, could make a huge difference in your success. “If you’re dealing with a difficult teacher, get help. If not from them, get a tutor or someone that’s doing well in the class to help you. That will make it easier,” says Abbie
Lyon, Emporia freshman. Also, understanding your teacher and his/her expectations of you will drastically help how you define the term “difficult.” All teachers set rules and standards in the classroom and without following the guidelines, you might be facing a very long semester. “The best way to succeed in my class is by arriving on time with a positive attitude, investing time and energy in each assignment and by laughing at my jokes (that was a joke),” says Peterson. Do difficult environments produce success or stress? Some students believe their success came from having that difficult teacher to push them beyond what they thought possible. Others argue that maybe their reason for getting bad grades was because of having too tough of a teacher. “I can definitely say that my success has came from those tough teachers I’ve had growing up,” says Laws. “I’ve learned responsibility and expectations from having difficult teachers.” At the end of the day, success is what’s being strived for by both student and teacher. Students want success and teachers want to see their students succeed. Relationships amongst teachers and their students can be rough and stressful but having a certain difficult teacher may be something each student becomes thankful for long after problem 13.
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THE HOOP D Cami Bremyer
Kayla Duarte
alie divine
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.
ashley gibson
women’s basketball
DREAMS Cami Bremyer
Kayla Duarte
tyler darrah
The Butler’s men’s basketball team has had some ups and downs throughout the history of the program, but none of the highs equaled what happened this year. Butler started their season undefeated in cross-league play before the winter break, then continued that run to a 22-0 win streak. Before the trip to Garden City, the Grizzlies were on the second-longest streak in program history, and the longest in the poll era. Butler took two losses in the regular season, both coming on the road against strong teams. The first came against Garden City, and the second to Barton. Butler won at least one game against every opponent they faced this season, taking down rival Hutchinson in both meetings between ranked teams. All the hard work came to fruition on Wednesday, Feb. 25, when the Grizzlies took down the Dodge City Conquistadors at home on Sophomore Night. After the game, the Grizzlies were able to celebrate in front of their home fans as they cut down the nets after they clinched the Jayhawk West Conference Title, the first time since 2010. The most prolific of the Butler Grizzly players this season was sophomore transfer Kyle Steward, who averaged 13 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. Chris Howell, freshman, was an incredible weapon for the Grizzlies coming off the bench, with 11 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Rounding out the double-digit scorers for the Grizzlies was Jacolby Harris, freshman, who averaged 10.9 points per game, and Lamar Wofford, sophomore, who averaged 10.3 points per game and also added 7.4 rebounds per game. Head Coach Mike Bargen was extremely happy with the Grizzlies’ performance on the year, saying that with as much talent that is in the Jayhawk West Conference, it really says something to sit atop the leaderboards.
men’s basketball
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