Nov. 9 Issue of the Crusader

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November 9

Basketball Preview Treat Street

2011

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

Courtesy photo

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


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