The Campus Ledger - Vol. 35, Issue 1

VOL 35 ISSUE 01 AUG 23 2012

OFFICIAL STUDENT-RUN PUBLICATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OVERLAND PARK, KS

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Student senate president-elect steps down

Vacated presidency to be taken over by vice president

By JON PARTON

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wista Sherzada has stepped down from the office of Student Senate president. Bruna Iacuzzi, the senate vice president, agreed to take over the position.

This marks the second consecutive year an elected president has resigned from office before the start of the semester. Last year, Presidentelect Corey Paris opted to vacate the position after deciding to attend another college.

Sherzada could not be reached for comment. In an interview with The Campus Ledger last semester, Sherzada said she was excited to be the new president.

Mindy Kinnaman, Student Senate adviser, said she received Sherzada’s resignation a few weeks before the start of the

semester.

Kinnaman said Sherzada’s resignation is not unusual.

“It’s actually quite common for officers to step down,” Kinnaman said. “We usually have at least one officer every year that has to, for some reason or another, resign from the Senate.”

In the event that the president resigns, the Student Senate’s constitution states that the vice-president has the option to step up and assume responsibilities of the presidency.

If the vice president chooses not to accept, nominations will be accepted for the position with the stipulation that nominees be previously-elected Executive Board members.

According to Kinnaman, the office of vice president will be available to existing Student Senate officers. If more than one officer is nominated for the office, or if no officers are Applications for Student Senate will be accepted until Aug. 29. Elections will be held Sept. 4 through 6. The Ledger will offer candidates a questionnaire and will post responses online.

nominated, a new election will be held to determine who will take over as the new vicepresident.

“Everything is spelled out in

NEWS BRIEFS IMPROVEMENTS COMING TO BASEBALL FIELD The Board of Trustees approved a $1.375 million budget for improvements to the baseball stadium at their July meeting, with an additional $250,000 to go to stadium lighting.

Improvements will include installation of synthetic turf, dugouts and fencing.

PARAMEDIC PROGRAM RECEIVES PERFECT RATING The Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Sciences Services Professions (CoAEMSP) cited no violations or areas of weakness in their annual review of the college’s paramedic program, according to the college’s InfoList.

The program is now entering its 25th year.

CONSTRUCTION NEEDED ON SCI BUILDING OVER SUMMER The college called in mudjackers in July to repair the northern corner of the SCI building, which had begun to sink into the ground.

More information is available in an article online at http://www.campusledger.com.

ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM STUDENT NEWS CENTER Early Monday, an unidentified male attempted to steal some notebook computers from an office in the Student News Center.

An eyewitness described the man as an athletically built AfricanAmerican, approximately 5’10” tall.

More information is available on the Campus Ledger’s website.

AUDITIONS FOR FALL MUSIC & THEATRE PRODUCTIONS Auditions for “Because He Can,” directed by Beate Pettigrew, and “The Mystery of Edward Drood,” directed by Chris McCoy and Ron Stinson, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27 and Tuesday, Aug. 28.

For more information, contact Beate Pettigrew at bpettigr@jccc.edu.

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the Student Senate constitution,” Kinnaman said.

Iacuzzi said she was initially startled by the news, as she was in Italy at the time she heard about Sherzada stepping down.

“Well, I was surprised,” Iacuzzi said. “I was really excited to work with Awista. I didn’t expect it.”

Iacuzzi said she hopes to accomplish a lot during her tenure in order to help the student body.

“We are excited to continue things like trick-or-treat for kids, and ‘JCCC Gives,’” Iacuzzi said.

“We had a successful town hall meeting on the smoking ban last semester and we hope to have more of them this year.”

Iacuzzi also said that she hopes to help inform students

about safety and services the college provides.

“I want to let the students how we can help them,” Iacuzzi said. “I want to promote security at the college, to let students know how to be safe. For instance, I want students to know that campus security is willing to walk them out to their cars at night.”

Although Iacuzzi did not expect to start off the semester as president, she said she is excited and ready to start.

“I really care about Johnson County,” Iacuzzi said. “I wasn’t expecting her to step down but I’m ready to do it.”

CONTACT JON PARTON, MANAGING EDITOR, AT JPARTON@JCCC.EDU.

POLICE BRIEFS INDECENT EXPOSURE INCIDENT IN MAY Campus police were dispatched to the LIB east parking lot after receiving a report of a man exposing himself in public May 5. The suspect was spotted allegedly urinating between parked cars. He was described as being 50 to 60 years old, with grey or silver hair wearing a maroon shirt and khaki pants.

DISTURBANCE IN SC TESTING FACILITY Campus police were called to the Student Center testing facility in response to a reported disturbance involving a student May 15. The student was upset because he was not allowed his allotted time for an exam.

Police determined that the student was tardy for the exam and the student was allowed to finish as long as he cooperated with the testing staff and stopped arguing.

DISTURBANCE IN THE LIBRARY Campus police were dispatched to the Billington Library after receiving a report of a disruptive female talking loudly to herself June 9. The woman was asked to leave because she was disturbing other patrons of the library. When asked for her name and student ID, the woman made an obscene gesture to the officer. She was then escorted off campus.

COMPUTER PORNOGRAPHY An employee at the Billington Library reported a man looking at computer pornography June 14. Campus police contacted the man, who said he was doing research about the mores regarding sexuality. The man was not a student or teacher at the college. He was advised to do his research at home.

COMPILED BY JON PARTON, JPARTON@JCCC.EDU

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NEWS 3

New policy in progress New social media policy will address a large range of subjects

By JON PARTON

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committee at the college is drafting a new social media policy, expected to be finalized during the semester.

A writing committee was set up in 2010 to create guidelines on how the school should handle social media. The school is one of many that have had to implement social media guidelines for students and faculty in recent years.

According to Patrick Lafferty, assistant professor, Computer Interactive Media and committee member, the guidelines were created after four nursing students were expelled for posting pictures of themselves with an anonymous woman’s placenta on Facebook.

One of the students, Doyle Byrnes, successfully sued the college in federal court.

“It’s a good idea for an institution to implement a social media policy,” Lafferty said.

The process itself has been worked on for two years. Lafferty said that it has been difficult creating a policy that accounts for privacy, freedom of speech, and changing technology.

With the abundance of social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, Lafferty said it is important to account for all of them. Although the policy is likely to be released this semester,

Lafferty said the process has taken two years.

“We never actually completed a policy,” Lafferty said. “It’s important to write it with future considerations.”

According to Tanya Wilson, general counsel for the school, the current guidelines mostly make reference to existing policies already in place. She said there is no guaranteed timetable for the new policy, but she believes it should be completed within a couple of months.

“It’s not unusual for a policy to be updated,” Wilson said. “But it’s important to make the policy flexible.”

Wilson said the writing committee is made up of ten college employees. She was unable to comment on the specifics of the policy because it is still being drafted.

The current social media guidelines posted on the college’s website state that the use of profane or harassing language will not be tolerated on any collegehosted sites. They also prohibit students, faculty and staff to act as official representatives of the school without authorization.

Peter Belk, program director, Admissions, has been a part of the writing committee for the past

two years. He said although the original agreement was written two years ago, there were many issues the guidelines did not address.

“We had to merge things together,” he said.

Belk said it is important that the final policy address issues such as violent language and libelous content.

“Let’s say you were to harass or threaten someone online,” he said. “If you’re a student and a staff member, do we fire you or expel you?”

Illustration by Sara Scherba

CONTACT JON PARTON, MANAGING EDITOR, AT JPARTON@JCCC.EDU.

MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA

Brandon Droge is the new social media manager for the school, a position that did not exist before this year.

Droge is a former student of the college and played for the school`s baseball team for two years. After leaving the college, Droge pursued a journalism degree at the University of West Florida thanks to a baseball scholarship.

“Unfortunately, I got hurt,” Droge said.

“So I came back up to Wichita and Newman University.”

As social media manager, Droge will be

working for the admissions office. Although he is not currently involved in drafting the new social media policy, Droge said that he wants to use social media to get students more involved with the school and build up exposure.

“I run one of the Facebook pages,” Droge said. “My goal this year is to get 10,000 likes and we already have 6,000, so we`re off to a good start.

Compiled by Jon Parton, jparton@jccc.edu

SIFE food pantry open for fall

Vice president hopes to change location

By TABI SECOR

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he Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) food pantry is still up and running after two years of successfully providing food to the campus community.

The college’s SIFE organization started the food pantry in OCB 272 after they won a contest sponsored by Campbell’s Soup Company. Colleges from all over the country participated and had to show how they would best utilize the food pantry. The college’s chapter won a grant for winning the competition.

“There were instances,” Lynn Richards, SIFE adviser, said. “For example, Food Services were finding that people didn’t have

money to buy lunch.”

Richards said that he had students who previously inquired about places they might be able to get food.

“We determined there was a need,” said Richards.

In Johnson County, one in five full time employees makes $30,000 or less per year. And, between 2008 and 2010, the median income declined by 7 percent. The statistics, compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau and released in a report by the United Community Services of Johnson County also showed that nearly 40,000 people lived in poverty in Johnson County in 2010.

Richards said SIFE understands money is tight, and they want to be able to help.

Students involved with SIFE stock the food pantry and the school also receives money from the grant. The food pantry collected more than 5,000 pounds of food last year.

Even though there is no one around in the summer to replenish the pantry, people have been taking advantage the last few months.

“I know for a fact that people have come in and gotten food,” Richards said.

According to Stacey Allison, SIFE vice president, the pantry

will be open for the fall.

“We want people to use it,” Allison said. “Anyone can go in.

We don’t have any qualifications.

We do ask that people sign their first name, and list how many people they’re buying for. That way we can keep track of how many people are using the pantry.”

One of SIFE’s goals for the pantry is to move it so that it will be more accessible to students.

Right now it shares the space with adjunct professors.

“We would love to move it,” Allison said. “We just need someone to find the space for us. We would be able to utilize the pantry better if it were more

accessible and in a bigger space.”

Along with re-opening the pantry, SIFE is preparing to put donation bins back up. There will be four or five them, spread across numerous campus buildings, including GEB. “Our purpose is to provide food for people in need,” Richards said. “I want people to know that it’s there.”

If you would like to join SIFE, volunteer for the food pantry or donate, contact Lynn Richards at hrichards@jccc.edu or at ext.

4695.

CONTACT TABI SECOR, NEWS EDITOR, AT TSECOR@JCCC.EDU.

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Changes to faculty contract now in effect

Faculty members now required to share in healthcare costs

By DAVID HURTADO

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odifications to the faculty contract are finalized after a lengthy negotiating period. At their June meeting the Board of Trustees approved the changes, now in effect until July 30, 2015.

Foremost among the changes was the decision to raise base salary by 2 percent the first year and 2.5 percent for years 2 and 3. Base salary for years 2 and 3 will build upon the base salary after the two percent raise for the first year.

Jeff Anderson, counselor and former Faculty Association president, said the research conducted by the bargaining team prior to contract negotiations showed the cost of living increased in Johnson County by almost 3 percent this year.

“When you receive a salary increase of 2 percent, you are not keeping up with the cost of living increases,” he said.

“In years 2 and 3 of the contract, we agreed to a 2.5 percent increase but we will also be paying more for our health insurance, so that reduces the 2.5 percent increase to a lower percentage. If the cost of living increases in Johnson County continues to climb at a 3 percent annual rate; you can see where this is going.”

Don Perkins, executive director, Budget and Auxiliary Services, said the negotiating team settled on the salary increases.

Another major amendment was the decision to require faculty members to begin paying for part of their medical insurance.

In the past, the college has fully covered rising healthcare costs. Under the new changes, the college will fully cover health insurance premiums for the first year of the contract but will require faculty members to share in the cost during

the second year.

Becky Centlivre, executive director, Human Resources, said she doesn’t believe the healthcare changes will have any negative bearing on retirees, who do not have representation in the Faculty Association.

“I don’t think it’s going to impact them that much,” Centlivre said. “When you retire, [the government] takes money out of Social Security to pay for Medicare. I think them paying for part of their Medicare right now will be similar to paying for it when they turn 65.”

Centlivre said she believes the contract will be helpful in retaining faculty due to the cafeteria plan the college has.

A cafeteria plan is a type of benefit that allows employees to choose between different kinds of benefits, similar to choosing between various food options in a cafeteria.

“I don’t think it will hurt at all, because our cafeteria plan is very unique,” she said. “A lot of schools don’t have a cafeteria plan. I think as long as we have that, we are extremely competitive in the market place.”

Anderson said he was disappointed with how the contract turned out.

“It’s safe to say that the 3-year contract we agreed to will not be keeping us up with the cost of living in Johnson County,” Anderson said. “The vote passed with a high percentage approval but we also had over 100 faculty members who didn’t vote.”

Another change was the decision to lower the qualifying time to receive medical leave from six months to three months, making it available to new faculty members sooner, said Deborah Williams, Faculty Association president.

“As new faculty come who might be of reproductive age

or family-minded, that happens to be a benefit that could be important to retaining and recruiting faculty at this institution,” she said.

The flex dollar benefit will also be frozen for the duration of the contract. The flex dollar benefit contribution is a benefit that allows faculty members to allocate percentages of their paycheck toward different kinds of insurance.

Faculty members can also store the percentages in a structured retirement program.

Centlivre said the flex dollar benefit was frozen because faculty members who did not use all of their benefit dollars could cash the remainder in, which was not the intent of the benefit.

The Master Agreement between the college and the Faculty Association is expected to be finalized “pretty soon,” according to Anderson. Human Resources employees are currently touching up on the language of the agreement, which finalizes the changes agreed upon in negotiation.

Centlivre said the agreements in the contract are in practice. The finalized agreement only applies to full-time employees with contracts signed post-July 1.

“We have agreement on all the major points,” Perkins said. “When you come out with the final version, you want every word to be as correct as possible. The Board has approved and the faculty has approved.”

CONTACT DAVID HURTADO, FEATURES EDITOR, AT DHURTADO@JCCC.EDU.

JON PARTON, MANAGING EDITOR, CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ARTICLE.

Wolfgang Puck visit starts off new culinary series

Night of food raises thousands of dollars

By TABI SECOR

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amed chef Wolfgang Puck will be visiting the college for a special night of food on Saturday, Aug. 25.

The event, “Spice! with Wolfgang Puck,” will be held in honor of Marc Valiani, a chef who worked under Puck. Valiani also worked in the Kansas City area as executive chef of PB&J Restaurants. He died of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) in 2011.

The dinner will be hosted by the college’s foundation.

“We are the charitable arm of the college, so we can accept donations for the college,” said Kate Allen, executive director, Institutional Advancement.

Tickets to the event ranged from $2,500 to $25,000. So far, 210 tickets have been sold through the Foundation, making the event essentially sold out.

“We had to be careful with our price point, to make sure that we raise as much as we could and still fill the room,” Allen said.

The money raised from the event will go to three different areas. One-third will go to the new Hospitality & Culinary Academy, one-third will go to chef apprenticeship scholarships, and one-third will go to The Marc Valiani Foundation.

Kaymie Valiani, Marc Valiani’s wife, approached the college when she moved back to the area.

She wanted to help raise money for culinary scholarships.

“She decided she wanted to do a fundraiser for the culinary building, scholarships for hospitality, because Marc was really one of the chefs that liked to teach the young chefs, and for ALS,” said Lindy Robinson, dean, Business.

The dinner will be held in the Capitol Federal Conference Room in the Regnier Center. Allen said that some individual tickets have been sold, but most have come through outside entities such as local hospitals, banks and Farmland Foods.

“In many cases, it’s the first time we’ve received donations from those companies, so that’s a really great new relationship that we’ve been able to start because of the event,” Allen said.

Students will also be involved with the event. There will be 17 apprentices from the college’s culinary program who will help assist Wolfgang’s crew of six chefs and a pastry chef. Two chefs from the college’s culinary program, Eddie Adel and Felix Sturmer, will also assist. Students will also work in the front of the room with guests.

“This is a very heavily student involved event,” said Sturmer.

“They want as many students as possible.”

Robinson said this kind of event is very important to students in the culinary program.

“I think it’s great for them to be able to work with crews of this caliber,” she said. “Right now Wolfgang Puck owns the most prestigious restaurant in [Los Angeles] called CUT. There is a level of chefs out there that are really renowned, so for our students to be able to work with their crews is just fabulous.”

Puck’s visit will signal the first of the ‘Spice!’ series, which will feature chefs of the same caliber.

“This is the beginning,” Robinson said. “We are hoping this will be an ongoing, annual event.”

Sturmer said that the menu will be extensive. It is being mirrored after the dinner Puck prepared for the 2012 Governor’s Ball, the annual dinner held after the Academy Awards. A few of the items from the five-course menu include lobster, Colorado rack of lamb and a carving station serving Snake River Farms ribeye, heirloom tomato salad and roasted garlic potato puree.

Puck has built a food empire that includes Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Catering, and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. CONTACT TABI SECOR, NEWS EDITOR, AT TSECOR@JCCC.EDU.

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Go: a game of man versus himself

Ancient Chinese board game spurs new club on campus

By NATALIE GOODWIN

By JAMES RUSSELL

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By JAMES RUSSELL

Student John Bonfilio plays a game of Go in the school cafeteria. Bonfilio is in the process of trying to get an official Go club started on campus.

Photo by Daniel DeZamacona

here is a world where combat can be handled within the realm of manners and etiquette; where man can remain humble and have a magnanimous spirit during battle.

A world exists where conflict is gently controlled by balance and harmony, not by aggression and greed. This is the province of the game ‘Go.’ John Bonfilio, junior, and Brian Weddle, sophomore, have been playing Go for several years. Both are actively involved in sponsoring a Go club on campus and teaching the game by volunteering at Harmony Middle School in the Blue Valley school district.

“We are trying to spread word and interest in the game in a more scholastic fashion,” Bonfilio said.

At the college’s Japan Festival last fall, Bonfilio and Weddle said they were approached by Blue Valley Schools to bring the game to their multicultural festival that October. Both men continue to teach Go at Harmony Middle School on a regular basis.

Go is a board game generally played by two players or teams of players. It is played with white and black stones with the goal of obtaining the larger territory using a wide variety of configurations and possibilities.

According to Bonfilio, the

game originated in China during the Zhou Dynasty more than 2500 years ago when it was called weiqi.

Games can take anywhere from 20 to 90 minutes to finish, or longer for tournament games.

The men’s objective is to get schools to treat Go clubs like chess clubs. They began volunteering at Harmony Middle School to bring the children a game that encourages a more benevolent, self-controlled way of managing conflict.

Bonfilio said that one of his motives to play and teach Go is that he enjoys how the game “promotes growing from losses, learning from and investing in your failures.”

Weddle discussed the aspects of the game, saying it “does a tremendous job of getting in touch with yourself.”

“Everybody hungers for knowledge, so they try to learn from as many sources as possible,” he said.

Bonfilio and Weddle are in full swing of the process required to found an official Go club here at the college. In need of just a few more petition signatures and after completion of the club’s constitution, they are eager to have the club made official by sometime in September.

Gina Egan, adjunct associate professor, Science, has agreed to

sponsor the new club as faculty adviser. Egan has been playing Go with her daughter for almost a year.

“The strategy and critical thinking that must occur to play is on a whole other level,” Egan said.

“It can provide the opportunity to exercise and stretch the mind in ways that few other pursuits can.”

She has high hopes that Bonfilio and Weddle are successful in their club and that it generates a lot of interest.

Bonfilio and Weddle both believe that the Go club will be a great benefit to the student body as a club that teaches a game of humanity and peace.

“Go helps in developing friendships in group immersed activities, where we learn together and play together,” Bonfilio said.

“Along with constant discussion, focused and abstract thinking, Go helps develop better study habits and better students.”

For more information on the game or Go Club, follow Bonfilio and Weddle on Facebook at ‘Four Dragons Go Club’ or contact Bonfilio directly at john.bonfilio@gmail.com.

CONTACT NATALIE GOODWIN, REPORTING CORRESPONDENT, AT NGOODWI1@JCCC.EDU.

A new beginning

After 31 years, future of college now in hands of new photographer

By JAMES RUSSELL

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he office is sparsely decorated, the space of a woman who is still in the process of moving in.

Ghosts of the office’s last tenant still linger in the two rooms that comprise it: jerry-rigged lighting assemblies; a large, faded photograph of men shoveling snow; bits-and-bobs that hide in the shadowed recesses of the studio portion of the office.

This is a place pleasantly haunted by Bret Gustafson, who chronicled the history of the college for 31 years. But the chronicling of its future rests in the hands of the woman sitting behind the desk of LIB 142.

At the age of 15, Susan McSpadden, the college’s new ad-

ministrative photographer, needed an elective for high school.

“I chose Photography, and haven’t put a camera down since,” she said. “I was a shy, introverted kid and photography was a way for me to express myself differently and to put myself into situations that I wasn’t confident enough to get into on my own.”

Born the daughter of a career Army man in Ft. Knox, Ky., McSpadden life was one characterized by change. Moving every two to three years until she graduated high school, it was not easy to consider anyplace home.

In 1988 she entered the University of Kansas to pursue her degree in photojournalism, and

graduated in 1994 with many of her core classes taken here at the college. So where does she consider home?

“I claim Kansas City,” she said.

“I’ve been here since ’94.”

After graduation McSpadden entered the professional world as a photographer and photo editor for The Kansas City Star, a job that would span eight years and play a large part in molding a young, timid girl into a woman confident in herself and her abilities.

But feeling the change in her confidence and skills wasn’t enough for McSpadden: she wanted to see it in action. She CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

Susan McSpadden poses with a collection of vintage cameras she found in her new office after becoming the college`s new administrative photographer on May 29.

Photo by Kelly Daniels

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Rebranding efforts become increasingly visible, tangible on campus Body by MACKENZIE CLARK

Rehashing rebranding

JAN. 27 2011

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he rebranding process that began just over a year and a half ago is nowhere near complete, but the results are quickly sprouting on campus in bright shades of yellow, green and blue.

Students and faculty returning to the college’s online homepage to finalize enrollment or update syllabi earlier this month likely noticed the longstanding maroon has been replaced by deep shades of Bondi blue. The circular sunflower with a single open petal has made way for a modernized, semicircular logo in vibrant colors.

It all boils down to administrators’ goals of bringing the look of the college into a new era and elaborating upon a new message.

“Part of the message is [the college] is a first choice school,” said Julie Haas, associate vice president, Marketing Communications. “It’s a change in position and we needed a change in look, too, that spoke more to where we were in the 21st century than where we were in the middle of the 20th.”

The Board of Trustees’ Jan. 27, 2011 unanimous vote to budget $120,500 for a rebranding study through Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Inc. That July, BernsteinRein presented their findings.

Research the company conducted with current and prospective students, faculty and various community members cited some positive aspects of the college: for example, affordability, quality and accessibility. Some negative aspects they found were parking, lack of school spirit

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and outdated technology.

The Board of Trustees This preliminary research allowed unanimously approves $120,500 budget for a Bernstein-Rein to proceed and create rebranding study through more than 70 initial designs, which were Bernstein-Rein then narrowed to three and presented Advertising, Inc. to focus groups in November of 2011.

The most successful of the three was a diversity-inspired logo similar to the new one in use campus-wide.

The study also tested three potential mascots: the Cavaliers, the Bison, and the Golden Eagles. Research showed that the bison was the “overwhelming favorite” of the focus groups, but the reactions of Bernstein-Rein presents community members led administrators an evaluation of student, to discard that idea. faculty and community perceptions and attitudes “The bison thing just never really toward the college. flew, both from our students, from our staff, I think even all of us,” said Terry Bernstein-Rein proposes Calaway, college president. “We felt that an early version of the new the Cavalier, just like the Jayhawk for KU, sunflower logo. The study is meaningful to all of us.” suggests changing the There was also a problem with mascot from the Cavalier the proposed logo: it was missing the to the Bison. open petal.

“The whole concept behind the open petal is that the college always has valued and had a focus around innovation and open ideas, and open discussion around open ideas,” Calaway said.

Months of tweaking and finalizing produced the logo in use today.

“There’s a limit to how fast you can ach department is responsible for rolling we were part of it.” go,” Haas said. “It was a slow process.” out the changes of rebranding as their Tyler Cundith, director, Sports Information, Haas said campus literature was the budgets allow, and in Athletics that will doesn’t think the color change will affect easiest to replace, as it is replaced yearly happen over the course of four to six years. recruiting efforts. He said color is not the anyway. As for the rest of the campus, Carl Heinrich, athletic director, said new college’s main selling point. Other factors however, the process is slower. team uniforms are ordered in a cycle, with two draw athletes to come here. of six teams receiving new uniforms each year.

“If we were aqua and pink, you know, it Some of the teams will still wear maroon and might have an effect on us,” he said. “Maroon gold until they are scheduled to purchase new and gold were strong colors and so are navy uniforms. and gold.”

A wholesale change of all uniforms, Heinrich said the college was the only Heinrich estimated, would cost $250,000 to school in the region using the colors $280,000. maroon and gold but several nearby schools, This year the women’s basketball and including Highland Community College and softball teams will be the first to replace their Independence Community College, use navy maroon in accordance with the new athletic and gold. colors, navy and gold. Benjamin Conrad, head “It’ll be interesting,” he said. coach of women’s basketball, said he is not at He would also like to increase attendance all concerned about the new colors’ effect on at games, making them more family- and the players. student-oriented events.

“The new kids won’t have a clue,” Conrad “If a little kid comes out and gets an said. “They’ve never worn our old colors. But autograph from one of our players, and that our returners will be like the rest of us and will player goes on and signs a pro contract, you’re take some adjustment.” developing a bond and an interest in the Heinrich shares Conrad’s point of view. community in following that athlete that we “[Returning players] are going to wonder have here,” Heinrich said. why,” he said. “The positive thing is they’re Heinrich’s hope may become a Above: The new logo is now in use campus-wide. Image courtesy Julie Haas, Marketing Communicapart of that change, and then 10 years from reality with another new addition of the tions now they can take pride in the fact that yeah, rebranding efforts.

Cover: One of the women`s locker rooms has been remodeled. The carpet includes the new `JC` logo, a trademark of the Athetlic department. Photo by Tasha Cook

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AUG. 2012

The new half-sunflower logo is in use on campus literature and the Bookstore is in the process of purchasing merchandise featuring the new logo and colors.

SPRING 2012

Administrators acknowledge feedback from students and faculty and decide against changing the college’s mascot.

SEP. 2012

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The women’s basketball and softball teams will receive uniforms in the new colors.

Auditions for the new mascot will be held.

Men’s basketball and baseball teams will receive new uniforms in navy and gold.

Cavalier Comrade on his way O ne reason Bernstein-Rein suggested changing the mascot from the Cavaliers to the Bison was because awareness was “relatively low, with many participants unable to accurately identify a cavalier,” their study said.

So for the first time, the college will have an actual mascot who will attend athletic events and other college functions.

“When the decision was made not to become the Bisons, to remain the Cavaliers, we decided we need to promote it,” said Pam Vassar, assistant dean, Student Life.

“Because so many people seem to not know what our mascot was, or school colors, […] instead of change it to something else maybe we can just all work to promote it in a bigger, more broad way on campus.”

Vassar said two companies presented bids for the design of the mascot. She said the one they selected was nicer and much less expensive at $6,075 for the outfit

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and a flag.

“I think especially after the rebranding, changing our colors and everything, we want to make sure that it gets out there to the students and the community that we’re the Cavaliers and we’re proud of it,” said Amy Sellers, dance team coach.

The Cavalier has yet to be named, but Sellers’ idea is to have students suggest names. Once the names are narrowed down to the top five, students can vote on their favorite.

Sellers and a committee of judges will hold auditions for the part in midSeptember. They are looking for someone who can pump up the judges and excite the audience.

Vassar said the college’s Cavalier mascot will look unique compared to other Cavalier mascots – and, in her opinion, better.

If you wish to audition, contact Amy Sellers at akseller@jccc.edu for more information.

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Track and Cross Country athletes will receive new uniforms.

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The proposed design for the new Cavalier mascot. Images courtesy Ryan Floy, Procurement Services

he college’s previous logo was easy to print in one color, but the new, multicolored logo is a bit more of a challenge to print on merchandise such as t-shirts and coffee mugs.

“It’s designed to be a full color logo more so than just a one-color outline,” said Steve Rhodes, manager, Bookstore. “It loses some of its power when you go to a one-color print.”

Rhodes said a four-color print is more expensive to produce because the items must go through screen printers four times. It will also be challenging to coordinate a solid color background shade that looks good with all the colors in the logo.

Rhodes said the added expense of more colors could increase prices of items by $2 to $6, but he hopes it won’t have a negative effect on sales.

“Navy blue is a popular color, so we think that it’s a color that most everybody can wear,” Rhodes said. “So I think it has a broader appeal than the burgundy.”

One new t-shirt available in the Bookstore is in solid white with the petal logo emblazoned on the left breast. Other new merchandise is still in progress.

CONTACT MACKENZIE CLARK, EDITOR-INCHIEF, AT MCLARK68@JCCC.EDU.

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of the desk which dominates the room are not the usual separate chairs reserved for visitors, but instead two movie theatre style seats bolted to a carpeted piece of what is presumably wood. This is a place that resonates with a personality yet to be fully realized.

But it is the woman behind that desk that is the room’s most distinctive feature.

“One of the coolest things about photography, when I started out and even now, is just the ability to capture the essence of a person and capture their personality through an image,” McSpadden said. “The passion and the challenge is still there to capture people at their best and to really show off emotion… capturing that peak moment that really tells the story of the event.”

Administrative photographer is a job that demands not only time and dedication, but also passion.

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Julie Haas, assistant vice president, Marketing Communications, said McSpadden possesses the traits necessary for the position.

“Susan’s skills are exemplary,” Haas said. “We think she is a wonderful addition to the marketing communications staff.”

Taking over for someone that has been such a huge part of this institution’s history are shoes seemingly hard to fill – Gustafson wore those shoes for over 30 years – but as will always be the case with the passing of time, things must change and batons must be passed. This particular baton seems to be in good hands.

“At the end of my career, at the end of my life, I hope that people who knew me and worked with me will say, ‘She always did it well,’” McSpadden said.

CONTACT JAMES RUSSELL, SPORTS COLUMNIST, AT JRUSSE24@JCCC.EDU.

GABRIELLE FITZGERALD Advertising Manager Circulation Manager gfitzge1@jccc.edu 913-469-8500 ext. 3193

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Hidden hunger

STAFF EDITORIAL

Poverty is here and on the rise

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ohnson County has a reputation that many residents of the metro area could confirm without skipping a beat: privileged, well-off, and oblivious to the world outside the cozy bubble of suburbia.

These generalizations are not entirely unfounded, as Johnson County continues to lead the Kansas City metro area in median household income at $73,733, according to data collected by the United States Census Bureau.

With such a generous figure of wealth, it may come as a surprise to hear that poverty not only exists in this area, but it’s on the rise. In fact, from 2000 to 2010, numbers from United Community Services of Johnson County show the poverty rate rose 134 percent -- the largest increase in poverty among neighboring suburban counties.

It’s easy to believe poverty couldn’t possibly be an issue when cruising around campus and immediately surrounding areas.

But it’s these generalizations that

make it even more difficult for those living in Johnson County to seek help when they need it, or to even find assistance when they do seek it out.

The resources are available if you know where to look, but often times this information does not make it to the young adult demographic. Jokes about ramen noodles and ketchup sandwiches run rampant about the college lifestyle, but for many in the metro, including our own students, it isn’t a joke. It’s a reality.

In November 2011, members of the student association Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) addressed this need on campus by establishing a food pantry in OCB 272. The pantry is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is available to any student, no questions asked. In addition to food items, personal care and baby items are also accepted for donation at the pantry.

With such a great resource

available to students, how many have actually been taking advantage of it? Representatives of the pantry have estimated about ten students visit each week. This number seems small, but the reason is most likely due to lack of promotion rather than a lack of need.

How can we help? We can start by sharing our abundance with those who must wonder if they’ll have enough money for textbooks after buying diapers and food for their toddler. Or ponder, once again, heading to the dollar menu instead of the kitchen for dinner after a long day in class.

Even if we have no goods to give, we can give the gift of our time and compassion by volunteering to staff the food pantry, or actively make rounds to gather donations.

But perhaps the most important and easiest way to help is by simply spreading the word of the college food pantry and dispelling the Johnson County daydream.

Column: The new America

BY JON PARTON

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or much of our country’s history, manufacturing jobs have provided a way for unskilled workers to advance to the ranks of the middle class.

With an unemployment rate of more than eight percent, we Americans have to face reality.

We have to encourage the workforce to seek out training in community colleges, technical schools, and other programs.

The rights of workers are being crushed by the competing workforce in East Asia and South America. Not only do companies save money by exporting these jobs, they marginalize the jobs that still exist in our country.

Although a global market is nothing new, the openness

of modern trade has made it possible for companies to minimize their costs in all aspects of production. Raw materials can be purchased from South America, formed into components in Europe, assembled by workers in Asia and shipped globally at a much cheaper expense than to do it all in one country. Those manufacturing jobs have left the United States, and the grim reality is that they are never coming back.

Our country has jobs.

Unfortunately, we don’t have enough people with sufficient training to take those jobs. On the scale of the global economy, America must reform itself to be the heart of science and technology.

A high school diploma doesn’t cut it anymore. Our workforce must consist of engineers and programmers rather than laborers. Americans can no longer rely on the same jobs as our forefathers. There is no factory, there is no warehouse; there is only technology and the people who know how to use it.

Politicians would have you believe that they can somehow reduce taxes to create jobs. We don’t need to create jobs; we

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need to educate the populace in order to fill already existing positions that require training.

Instead of talking about tax breaks for businesses, we need to talk about how we can make it easier for people to go back to school to receive training.

As Americans, we have to tell ourselves that it’s not OK to just have a high school diploma or GED anymore.

Technology and business demands are rapidly changing.

Unless we’re willing to pursue education, unless we’re willing to encourage the next generation to pursue education, we will find ourselves to be inconsequential in the global market.

Science, technology, engineering, and math are at the core of the training Americans need in order to compete with the global workforce. Our country needs to take a place of leadership when it comes to creating and training highly skilled workers in the global market.

If we want to continue to prosper, we can’t put faith in our elected officials. We have to start putting faith in ourselves.

CONTACT JON PARTON, MANAGING EDITOR, AT JPARTON@JCCC.EDU.

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BY MACKENZIE CLARK

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elcome to The Campus Ledger 2012-2013. As The Ledger’s editor-in-chief, I want to explain my intentions for your campus newspaper.

Our job is to report facts accurately and track down stories we believe will be pertinent to the student body. Of course, this means that we need your feedback. If we’re missing something that you feel we ought to cover, please let me know.

We are not a public relations outlet of the college. We intend to report on both positive and negative decisions the administration make.

Our job is to hold those in power accountable for their actions, which you will see frequently in upcoming issues.

We are also expanding our online

coverage. You can expect to see more breaking news and frequent online-exclusive articles.

The website is still under construction but we have made great strides in the past couple of weeks.

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At The Campus Ledger, we fully believe in our rights of freedom of speech and press and intend to utilize them to their fullest extent.

My colleagues in the Student News Center and I are in the process of drafting a resolution that we hope all college administrators and the Board of Trustees will agree to sign. This resolution will confirm that they believe in our freedom to operate as an entirely student-run publication and that they will not attempt to censor us at any time.

As always, we will be willing to accept criticism and advice.

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The Ledger will report on the outcome of this resolution in coming issues.

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Before school even started, the student athletes were already hard at work practicing for the upcoming season.

Photos by Daniel De Zamacona and Tasha Cook

Women’s soccer freshman Elizabeth Ulrich weaves around cones during practice Aug. 7.

Women’s cross-country runners finish practice on the outside track Aug. 3.

Soccer sophomore Erik Rodriguez-Gonzales kicks a ball during practice the morning of Aug. 3.

Volleyball sophomore Sara Slater hits a ball at practice Aug. 14.

Soccer freshmen Toby Dominguez (left) and Joseph Tayani (right) compete during practice Aug. 3.

Cross-country runners Sam Yoakum (left), Kudus Yared (middle-left), Solomon Abera (middle-right) and Kamp Wiebe jog on the outside track Aug. 3.

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“We’re gonna beat the hell outta you!”

By JAMES RUSSELL

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can still smell the sulfuric aroma of the fireworks as they drifted down in smoking trails from the dark night sky that crowned Arrowhead Stadium.

It was Monday night, Sept.

13, 2010, and the Kansas City

Chiefs were set to face off on the national stage against the San Diego Chargers. I had never been as pumped for the beginning of a football season as I was that night.

I had never experienced such a certainty that one single event was about to signal the beginning of something historic as when I listened to the reverberating echo of over 75,000 people roaring “Chiefs!” at the final word of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The very marrow in my bones resonated with the knowledge that I was witnessing the start of something amazing.

And I did.

A playoff game in Arrowhead stadium. Six players selected and five participating in the Pro Bowl.

A new energy in Kansas City – a skin-tingling sensation that let you know the city was alive with what could be.

Enter 2011: A ridiculous,

money-driven strike decimated any type of offseason. Injury ridden pre- and regular seasons took from the Chiefs Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry, and Tony Moeaki within a matter of three consecutive weeks at the very beginning of the year – as well as Matt Cassel with still seven weeks to go. A local media that gave up on all that was red and gold as soon as things turned sour.

For one of the most historic teams in the NFL – and a fan base just as legendary – we reacted badly to these events. Many fans bought into the media hype and forgot about injuries, coaching issues, and a multitude of problems that could never have been accounted for prior to the 2011 season. Matt Cassel sucked.

Our receivers didn’t care. Our rookies weren’t superstars. And such has been the sentiment up until shortly before the time that

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tudent Kelly Barnes hopes to help push her boyfriend, a local athlete, from regional to national racing by supporting him in his roles as a student and lifelong racer.

When Barnes first met Bryce Roberts, she quickly learned he had a growing passion for the racing pastime.

“He’s been [racing] for five years,” Barnes said. “I just caught the last year and a half.”

Roberts, a stock car racer from Spring Hill, started racing soon after getting his first car from his parents. Starting out on smaller tracks, Roberts recalled how difficult it was to race go-karts with his dad.

“It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be,” Roberts said. “That challenge makes you want to step up.”

Roberts’ parents later purchased one of his previous cars for transportation, but he had future plans for it.

“As I grew older, it became more a part of my life,” Roberts said. “I took it off the streets and put it on the track.”

Barnes makes sure he never

drives without repairs.

“I would wash his tires, help change air pressure and set up the scales,” she said. “Now that he moved up to bigger cars I really don’t do anything except scrape mud.”

With repairs made, there’s still a lot for Roberts to keep track of while racing. A radio helps maintain contact between race officials and the racers, and cars are divided into Hobby Stock, Pure Stock, A-Mod and B-Mod classes.

Depending on the class amount, about 40 cars race around dirt tracks as fast as possible each race. Even with other obstacles like mud, other racers and weather, nothing comes close to racing for Roberts.

“It’s just you and the car versus everybody else out there,” Roberts said. “It’s a feeling I haven’t been able to replicate anywhere else.”

Heartland Park of Topeka hosts many of the stock car races Roberts enters. Motorcycle and drag racing are also available.

Roberts recalls his first car for races.

“It was just a regular car,” he said. “As soon as I got it, that rebel boyhood thing, tearing around [the track] started then.”

A minimum stockcar weight of 3,300 and some specific parts are required to race. There is a chance to win prizes like car parts or sponsorship winnings.

Eager racers may sense a lot of opportunity from upcoming events, but Roberts has advice for those new to stock car racing.

“Do your homework,” Roberts said. “Go to the races and meet people.”

No matter where Roberts places on each track, he’ll have one supporter until the finish line.

“He would like to go big, to NASCAR,” Barnes said. “As long as he’s happy, he should go for it.”

Roberts intends to enroll at the college in spring and join Barnes in pursuing educational goals while balancing his racing career.

CONTACT ADAM LIGNELL, STAFF REPORTER, AT ALIGNELL@JCCC.EDU.

I find myself sitting and writing these words.

But 2011 was a fluke. No one could have anticipated what was to befall the Chiefs via injury so early. Yet we still fell two field goals away from a second playoff berth. Four of our top-rated players gone, three of them backto-back by the time we finished our second game, and yet we were still in the race up until the last moment.

After such a disappointing season, this is a team that is about to live up to the fireworks launched that Monday night nearly two years ago. We have created one of the best defenses in the entire NFL, forged an offensive line that protects the quarterback and allows time for those breathtaking plays that we’ve been waiting for and we’ve put together a coaching staff that has learned from recent mistakes and will build on them.

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SPORTS COLUMN With these things in place Matt Cassel, like it or not, is about to succeed in a way that will leave analysts questioning how they could have possibly missed it.

The Chiefs are about to amaze the world - be it this season or next and once they do, we will again be a dynasty in the NFL, the rightful heirs to a throne we have long vacated.

Get ready, Chiefs fans. Soon the tang of fireworks will once again tinge the air. This time, however, it will not merely be above Arrowhead. It will rain down upon all of Kansas City as we celebrate that which has eluded us for so long.

Lombardi is on his way.

CONTACT JAMES RUSSELL, SPORTS COLUMNIST, AT JRUSSE24@JCCC.EDU.

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