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Basketball players showcased their skills for the upcoming season on Saints Basketball Preview Night. — Page 2B - 3B
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Zombies, mummies, and superhero costumes were a common sight on Halloween on the college campus. — Pages 4-5
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Crusader brings home awards from the National College Media Convention. –Page 8
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News Briefs THANKSGIVING DINNER will be hosted by Great Western Dining at the campus cafeteria from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at the campus cafeteria. It is free for SCCC/ATS faculty, staff, and students.
Students are encouraged to meet with their respective advisers for a degree check. Students within nine credit hours from degree requirements can still “walk” at the Spring 2012 Commencement. For more information, students should see an adviser.
CAMPUS will be closed from Nov. 23 - 27 for Thanksgiving break. PHI THETA KAPPA induction ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20. The ceremony will be at the Technical School Student Union. SCCC/ATS STUDENTS Marco Herrera, Emmanuel Garcia, Odulia Covarrubias, Selene Perez, and Dalia Camacho will be attending the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students on Nov. 3 - 13 in St. Louis, Mo. D.J. ETZLER, from the livestock judging team, placed third in sheep at the State Fair of Texas competition in Dallas, eighth in cattle and 10th overall at the Tulsa State Fair. The freshman livestock team placed third in sheep and sixth overall and Kaylee Pelfrey placed fourth in cattle at the Dallas competition. Freshmen team includes Etzler, Pelfrey, Shanon Robinson, Aaron Richie, Rochelle St. Amand and Lindsay Bulk. SIGMA CHI CHI members Nestor Daniel Carrasco, Maria Anahi Vazquez, and Jose Pando won third place in a Crime Scene Investigation competition the end of October. GRADUATION applications and a $15 fee are due by Dec. 2 at the registrars office. Applications can be printed online at www.sccc.edu - current students graduation information.
TWO ATS students, Jeremy Mendenhall and Zach Hibbert, have been elected to the Skills USA Kansas state officer team. They also won the promotional bulletin board contest at the SkillUSA Fall Leadership Conference in Hesston. MISS LIBERAL PAGEANT will be Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, at 2 p.m. Contestants should begin preparations for the event. For more information, call Lu Haynes at 620-624-9153, cell phone 629-5450, or email at haynes@swko.net. NEW SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE has been imposed by the SCCC/ATS scholarships committee in order to encourage students and staff to submit requirered information for applications to be processed by the start of the fall semester. The “Consideration Deadline” is July 15 for requirered documentation. For more information contact the office of student financial aid.
KAPPA BETA DELTA inducted eight new members in October. Patricia Tovilla and Estanislao Tovilla received Honorary Membership Awards. Kappa Beta Delta honors business majors around the country.
Alexander Chaffin uses breath to give shape to a glass piece in the LHS glassblowing studio used by SCCC/ATS students. Also, Pat Knott gives shape to a glass gather. The gloryhole, at left, is used for reheating the molten glass, a glass furnace keeps glass heated continuously.
GLASSBLOWING:
Playing with fire Raul Lemus Online editor Glassblower – or gaffer– Gary Marsh teaches students art skills near 3,000 degree heat caused by glass-melting furnaces. Student hands give shape to fragile works of art at the glassblowing studio. Marsh, adjunct instructor at Seward, has worked with glassblowing for 18 years, nine teaching at Liberal High School. He teaches art classes to high school students, and glassblowing and photography to SCCC/ATS students at night. According to Marsh, Liberal High School is the only high school in the state with a glassblowing program. Seward is the only two-year college in the state of Kansas that offers glassblowing, and Emporia State University is the only fouryear college with glassblowing. “I like how you can create art out of human breath,” Marsh said. Hanging from a metal tube, the molten glass is given its first shape by blowing a bubble throughout the blowpipe. Further shaping is done with the aid of human breath, hand tools –such as wooden blocks and metal pliers– and at times gravity. Glassblowing is not so different from other types of art, even though the glass itself is never touched with bare
hands. The shape is given with hand tools and the creativity of the glassblower. the Centering molten glass on the blow pipe is crucial for the outcome of the glass piece. Like a juggler, glassblowers keep the piece centered, and away from the clutches of gravity. This is a rapid process from beginning to end, as glass cools down rapidly and once the glass warms past a certain temperature, the piece cannot be shaped. Throughout the use of a gloryhole, a furnace used to reheat glass, the glass is kept at a malleable temperature. This process is repeated several times. Marsh says that he likes how it takes approximately 40 minutes to create a glass piece. However, the time to create a glass batch takes much longer. Glass is created from silica sand. Molten temperatures liquefy the quartz sand, then a clearing agent is applied and crystal clear glass is created. The glass is kept at a constant temperature throughout the school year in gas furnaces. “It is like playing with fire, but you create pieces of art,” SCCC/ATS student
Fabiola Fraire, said. Fraire has been in glassblowing classes for two years. “You can create piece after piece in the same way, but the final piece will always be different in color, shape, or how light is reflected,” Fraire said. Glassblowing is different from other art types as it is quite dangerous due to fire and the high temperatures of the molten glass. Personal safety and awareness of other students working at the glassblowing studio are important. Students usually work in pairs, as at times two sets of hands are required. Glassblowing students traveled to Oklahoma City in October, in order to learn more about the craft of glassblowing. Students saw the making of glass ornaments, bases and paperweights at Blue Sage Glass Studio. They also visited the private glass studio of Toby McGee. McGee creates sculptures of glass, with unique techniques to create impressions on the glass surface. Glassblowing is offered in the spring semester; however, enrollment is limited.
Saints Krueger cheers her way onto NCA staff Morgan Wi l l s Crusader staff The Saints cheerleader met the music, crowd, and the cheers with confidence as weeks of practice took over and the talented Seward County athlete flew through the air landing safely as she transitioned to the next sequence. Kaela Krueger, and her teammates on the cheer and dance squads, opened their season for public consumption at Basketball Preview Night Oct. 25. Krueger, who is no stranger to cheer, tumbling, or pressure, began honing her love of cheer at the age of 6 by taking gymnastics and dance lessons. She later cheered at TNT Tumbling, South Middle School and Liberal High School. After a few years of attending cheer camp, she started to entertain the idea of what it would be like to become a staff member at a summer camp. Following her senior year of cheer camp, Krueger received an invitation from the Universal Cheer Association to tryout and possibly fulfill those aspirations. The National Cheerleading Association and the Universal Cheer Association are the top cheer and
dance summer camp programs in America. They host hundreds of cheer camps throughout the nation every summer. To be a member of one of these renowned associations is considered an honor. Krueger’s mom Kae Krueger, said her daughter has always wanted to be an NCA cheerleader. “She would probably like to be a cheerleader the rest of her life,” Kae said. “It is her favorite thing to do in the world.” Kae also recognized Scarlette Diseker as a major influence in her daughter’s life. “She encouraging Kaela to stay focused on her goals, and was a great role model and inspiration as she was growing up,” Kae said. Diseker began coaching Kaela when she was 12 years old. “To watch her progress through her middle and high school years and then to see her all the way through Seward and probably beyond was the biggest thing for me,” Diseker said. “She could have chosen to go anywhere and for Kaela to stay with me meant a lot, Not only is cheerleading something that Kaela has a good time doing, we have always known that it would also be a way for her to earn her
education.” The tryout process for UCA began in March; Kaela and approximately 50 other cheerleaders traveled to Kansas City for an open tryout; all with the same hope of becoming a “staffer.” She went to the tryout with the notion that she would be competing with material they had been told to learn beforehand; however, when they arrived that material was thrown out, and she was asked to learn and tryout with an entirely new dance and cheer. “It was pretty nerve-wracking,” Kaela said. “We thought we were going to tryout with something we had prepared for, and instead we had to learn something completely different and tryout with it on the spot.” Her ability to learn material quickly was helpful in the tryout process, as was her tumbling and stunting capabilities. Although, there were some with no tumbling skill, there were others who had cheered at the university level, which added to the intensity of the competition. Though Kaela said she was thankful for the opportunity to be a part of the UCA staff; however, she couldn’t shake her dream of being a part of the NCA program,
and eventually she decided to audition with them as well. She went through a series of video auditions for NCA, and qualified to be an instructor at both associations. In the end Kaela choose to follow her heart by join the NCA staff. In the weeks following her acceptance on to the NCA staff, she spent many hours memorizing material from DVDs of dances, cheers, and chants she would be required to teach at camps later in the year. Finally, in the last week of May, Kaela flew to Chicago for a staff meeting where she was trained on the proper technique and procedures for being an NCA instructor. Kaela worked at six camps primarily in the Kansas area. Her parents were a bit nervous about the traveling Kaela would be doing on her own, but they bought her a new car with GPS in hopes that it would prevent her for getting lost. “We were a little nervous, but it wasn’t too bad,” Kae said. “The first year they keep you close to home.” The furthest commute Kaela made was the five hour drive to n See Krueger, Page 2
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Kaela Krueger and teammate Ann Nguyen pose for a picture before they performed their routine for Basketball Preview Night.
“She would probably like to be a cheerleader the rest of her life, it is her favorite thing to do in the world.” — Kae Krueger