Cowboy Round Up Jim Gray, a sixth generation Kansas cowboy, talks to an audience about his heritage and concludes the Lunch in the Library series for the year. — Page 9
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Spring Fiesta & Car Show
Community joins students and faculty for the annual Spring Fiesta & Car Show. Many activities were available including Zumba and face painting. — Page 12
Seward graduate teaches abroad SCCC graduate experiences life as a teacher in South Korea. — Page 7
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• SPRING CONCERT featuring the SCCC/ATS concert band, Singing Saints concert choir and the Sound Express show choir will be at 7 p.m. tonight at the Showcase Theatre. Seward students can receive a free ticket, otherwise tickets are $2. Money raised will go towards music scholarships.
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• GRADUATION will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 at the SCCC/ATS gymnasium.
Janice Northerns, English instructor, hands the second place award of the area-wide high school poetry contest during Poetry Night to Khannah Wetmore, of Dodge City. The first place winner was Ananda Coleman, from Liberal, and in third place was Robbi Lewis, also from Liberal. An honorable mention was also given to Liberal student Alexandria Bowen. The students also go to perform their poetry for the audience.
•A WORKSHOP for metal artworks hosted by Susan Ringer-Koons will be at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 3 in Room H121 in the Shank Humanities Building. •DORMPALOOZA will start at around 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 5 behind the Student Living Center. Prizes will be given out to individual winners of the Phonathon and games will be available for students. •MASCOT SEARCH submission ideas will be taken in through May 1. Contact Roy Allen at roy.allen@sccc.edu with any questions.
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and the up-to-date academics and quality of instruction and activities,” Sander said. “I’m faDennis Sander, who has 20 miliar with Liberal, I grew up in years of experience in higher ed- Dodge City, so I like the area.” ucation in finance administraSander has a BA from St. tion, is a candidate for the dean Mary of the Plains, an MBA of finance position to take over from the University of Notre after current Dean of Adminis- Dame and has also completed trative Services, Tommy coursework at the Washburn Williams, retires this summer. University School of Law in Although there were original- Topeka. According to Sander, his ly four candidates who applied depth of experience in higher edfor the position, two have with- ucation is one of the best qualidrawn their applications due to ties he brings to the position. personal issues and the third can“I’ve been working with studidate did conduct a phone inter- dents my whole career; it’s been view with the more than 20 administrative years, and in fact team. I have a daughSanders visitter who is in coled the Seward lege right now,” campus on April Sander said. 14 and met with Sander decidseveral instruced to apply for tors and staff of this position bethe college while cause he enjoys also discussing the area, as he is what he would familiar with it like to accomand was raised plish as dean of nearby. finance. “It’s close to Sanders is curhome. I have rently the vicefamily in Dodge president of fiscal City and in the Sander affairs at St. Gregoarea,” Sander said. ry’s University in Shawnee, “Mostly I’m a native of the area Okla., and has had experience in so I guess as a result I’m, as they community college settings as he say, a ‘home-grown’ boy.” has worked at Northeastern JuSanders also stated he has a nior College in Sterling, Colo., few goals he would like to meet and at the North Central Kansas and accomplish if he is hired for Vocational Technical School in the position. Beloit. “No. 1 is to maintain the excelSanders, who is familiar with lence that’s been established,” the southwest Kansas area, be- Sander said. “To maintain the lieves that the quality of educa- standard of excellence first and tion at Seward stands out. foremost and from that point I “First of all, I am very im- hope that I can help achieve the pressed with the professionalism goals of the strategic plan.”
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• ATHLETIC BANQUET will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 29 in the SCCC/ATS gymnasium. All athletes, cheerleaders, dancers, managers and trainers will be recognized and honored for their contribution to the athletic program at SCCC. Tickets are required to attend the banquet.
•FLOWERS are being sold for graduation by Phi Theta Kappa. Orders are due by Friday, April 29 to Debbie Stafford in Room A151 and will be ready to be picked up during the afternoon of May 13 or the morning of May 14. The cost is $20 for half a dozen, or $25 for a dozen.
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•TRiO GRAD. BANQUET will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 6 in Room SW229 C&D.
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Original poetry shared at annual poetry coffee house Dana Loewen Editor The community, students and teachers gathered for a relaxing evening of poetry and coffee April 14 in the Shank Humanities Building. Eight Seward students read their original poetry for the annual Poetry Coffee House. These students were Samantha Gillespie, Caitlin Workman, Alexander Olinger, Kirsten Morris, Nancy Baez, Gwen Friesen, Dana Loewen and Jose Rodriguez. Morris had read her poetry for her high school English class before, but it was her first time participating in Poetry Night. After her experience this year, she plans on participating next year also.
“It felt kind of natural,” said Morris. “I was just expressing emotion that people feel on a daily basis. Actually, I’m working on new poetry for next year as we speak.” The three high school poetry contest winners were announced and read their winning poems for the audience. English instructors Janice Northerns and Bill McGlothing, who hosted the event, also read some of their original poetry to conclude the evening. “I was pleased with the readers; I think they did an excellent job,” McGlothing said. “Some had never read before and that’s a hard thing to do. I was also pleased with listeners; it was an excellent crowd for poetry reading. They listened well, which is all a poet can ask for and not always what a poet gets.”
Northerns is already looking forward to next year and planning new additions to the event. “The high school poetry contest turned out to be a good addition, so we’ll continue that.” Northerns said. She and McGlothing also announced at the end of the night that they would like to do a “poetry slam” next year and asked the audience for a topic. The topic chosen was “procrastination” and Northerns and McGlothing promised not to disappoint next year. Some of the readers also have or will have their poetry published in the newest addition of the Telolith, the college’s literature and art magazine. These include Friesen, Gillespie, Loewen, Olinger, Rodriguez and Workman.
Kansas State regent to speak at graduation bate, and then spent the majority of his career in banking. He Gary Sherrer, chair of the served as the Secretary of the Kansas Board of Regents, will Kansas Department of Combe the featured speaker at the merce from 1995-2002, is a past 2011 graduation ceremony at 10 Chairman of the National Assoa.m., Saturday, May 14 at the Se- ciation of Lieutenant Governors, ward County Community Col- and received the Carl Perkins lege gym. Humanitarian Award in 2000 for In 2007, Gov. Kathleen Sebe- his contributions to the advancelius appointed Sherrer of Over- ment of career and technical edland Park to the ucation. Kansas Board of His civic inRegents. He has volvement inserved as the cludes serving Chair of the on the Liberty Memorial Board’s AcademBoard of Govic Affairs Committee and as the ernors and as a Chair of the State Johnson CounUniversity Adty Community missions Task College FounForce. dation Board Sherrer previmember. ously served as Sherrer has Kansas’ 45th been involved Lieutenant Govin leadership ernor. He was aptraining and depointed Lieutenant velopment for Sherrer Governor in 1996, more than 25 years the first individual in the state’s and was a founder of the Leaderhistory to be appointed to the po- ship Kansas program. Sherrer sition, was subsequently elected earned a bachelor’s degree from in 1998, and served until 2003. Emporia State University and Sherrer was the longest-serving has received ESU’s Award of Lieutenant Governor in Kansas Excellence and Distinguished history. Alumni Award. Sherrer began his professional He has two grown children career as a public school teacher, and enjoys playing tennis in his specializing in speech and de- free time.
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CIS program creates visual advertisement display Dei si Barboza Online editor An ad produced by Seward County Community College students will be showing in the movie theatres in Liberal and Guymon. The ad will promote the Computer Informations System program on campus. “Mindy (Holder) and I are thinking of ways to hit a larger audience for our classes. We mainly wanted to advertise l o c a l l y, and we know a lot of people in small towns go to Guymon for the movie theater and we decided Liberal as well,” CIS instructor Rusty Tuman said. Tuman also credited students Andrew Augerot and Robert Sprenkle as the main contributors to the ad. “It is students like Andrew and Robert that make promoting our program easier because
of their motivation,” Tuman said. The character in the ads is named Leon. Work began on the ad last spring and is now finally finished. Augerot said he knew most of what needed to be done for the ad, but said that to make it look like someone was walking was the most difficult task. The programs used to create the ad were Maya, Photoshop and After Effects. H o w e v e r, this isn’t the only project the CIS program has for advertising. “We are hoping to kick off a new advertising plan. We have other projects in the works,” Tuman said. One other project CIS is hoping to do is get a TV in the hallway to show current and past student work. “We want it to be student-run and show student work and any news from CIS,” Tuman said.
The first step in making a model in Maya is a wire frame.
The second step in making a model in Maya is smooth shading the figure gray to add depth. The third step, shown at left, is to add texture and color. Once this is done, the animator can rig the figure to move.
Phonathon individual prizes to be awarded at Dormpalooza event Li zul y Monarrez Crusader staff This year’s phonathon to raise scholarship money for Seward County Community College Area Technical School raised more than $27,000. Members of various clubs and organizations on campus called alumni, family and friends for donations. Each pledge varied from $5 to $100 or
more, depending on the providers’ wish. Although the original goal was to raise $33,000, students, especially the nursing leadership class who won this year with a total of $8,329, feel very pleased with their accomplishment. Elizabeth Mercado, a student in the nursing leadership class said, “It felt good and satisfying to have helped the school and our nursing department with the $500 we won. We get a catered meal
with the money and the remainder is in a fund for our nursing department.” Like last year, nursing and baseball fought for first place, but the baseball team came in second place this year, with a total of $7,538. “We did well, despite the fact that we had fewer students calling,” Tammy Doll, director of development, said. “In order to raise more, more students have to call, with a lot more calling times.
We will make changes to try to improve next year.” The individual prizes, which include a 32-inch flat screen TV, 8 GB iPod Touch, $150 Wal-Mart gift card, two digital cameras, 20 large pizzas, $300 Visa gift card and $500 cash for the club or organization that raised the most, will be announced and rewarded at the “Dormpalooza” on Thursday, May 5 at around 6 p.m.