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Volume 26, Issue 6

Tuesday November 19, 2013

Celebrating our Veterans and our Freedom Written by Rachel Padro

Shape Up As You Pig Out: Local Fitness Memberships for a Discounted Price Written by Cindy Torres As the holiday feasts are quickly approaching, now would be a great time to take advantage of all the nearby gym memberships that, for us broke college students, include student discounts! Here are some local gyms and fitness centers to consider: Fitness 19: Conveniently located within less than a mile from Front Range, Fitness 19 offers a $17.99 basic membership which includes access to their state-of-the-art cardio equipment and offers personal training sessions, so members can focus on meeting specific goals with one on one instruction given by certified professionals.

Lakeshore Athletic Club: This club is amongst the premier athletic clubs in the Front Range area, as it offers a multitude of amenities including an NBA basketball court, indoor rock

Photos by Rachel Padro

climbing, fitness and training classes, and more.

Normally, the enrollment fee and monthly

students. We got lucky to have such a beautiful

membership cost is $99, but with proper

to make the United States of America a country of

day to celebrate our nation and all those that

identification, students can enjoy Lakeshore’s

freedom and opportunity.

have fought for us and continue to fight for our

many services for a low price of $50 per month.

FRCC proudly honored those who have served

On Veterans Day morning, November 11, 2013, the Veterans Club hosted a ceremony at the

freedom.”

FRCC Veteran Services Coordinator Ashley

303 CrossFit: Located only a few blocks north

Nielson said, “This is the reason that I do my job.

of the Front Range campus, 303 CrossFit adopts

To honor the men and women who have served

the strength and conditioning practices of police

were played as FRCC faculty and students saluted

our country. I feel like this is my way to give

academies, military special operation units, and

our flag, and those who have lived and died for

back, and it’s a very rewarding career.”

other elite athletes worldwide. Stop by their

flag pole near Entrance 2.

The pledge of allegiance was said and bagpipes

the liberties we enjoy.

FRCC Student Services Faculty Vicki Fox

The day was complete with free patriotic cupcakes for FRCC students, American flags, and

said, “It’s really an honor to be able to work with

yellow ribbons to celebrate a nation and life of

the Front Range Community College veteran

freedom, earned with the service of so many.

gym for a free introductory class, and in the future for a 15% student discount.

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New Ziggi’s Coffee

Upcoming Events

Written by Carlos Escamilla

Written by Cindy Torres Ice skating at Orchard Town Square: It’s that time of year again, November 15 marks the annual opening of the Orchard Town Center’s iceless ice skating rink.

Hours vary, so be sure to check out the Orchard Town Center’s website for exact times and dates (www.theorchardtowncenter.com/ eventscalendar).

Photos by Carlos Escamilla

In February 2013,Westminster became the home of the first independently licensed Ziggi’s Coffeehouse, thanks to owner Rona Linnenburger. There are currently four Ziggi’s locations in Longmont from the original owners, Brandon and Camrin Knudsen, and Linnenburger is hoping to find the same success and community outreach that the Knudsen’s have.

The Westminster shop is open Monday through Friday from 6 am to 7 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm. Free Wi-Fi is available and so is plenty of lounging space for studying alone or in groups. The rich wood of the bar and large couches add to an atmosphere that is comfortable and well suited for academic

sensibilities. Local artists provide the surrounding artwork, with new artists being featured every two months.

The menu is an especially important feature of all of the Ziggi’s Coffeehouses, featuring local vendors to ensure support of Colorado small business. Denver-based Coda Coffee is served, which was recently named “Best Macro Roaster” by Roaster Magazine. Boulder-based Outrageous Baking provides the bread, cookies, and cupcakes; which are all glutenfree.

With dietary needs in mind, Ziggi’s offers soy, almond, and rice milk options in their drinks. They also offer 34 different flavored syrups with sugar-free available for all flavors.

The myriad syrup options allow for

a wide-range of frozen coffee drinks and fruit smoothies, all of which can receive added proteins. The gelato bar alone is worth honorable mention as it is incredibly difficult to find gelato in Westminster.

Regular patrons receive stamp cards that go toward free drinks.

You’ll get stamps depending on if you get specialty drinks or drip coffee; they also have double-stamp Tuesdays! So head on in to Ziggi’s!

They are located at 3013 W 104th Avenue, across the parking lot from Lodo’s.

The Front Page highly recommends Ziggi’s Coffee and encourages our peers to stop in and take advantage of the coupons found in this and past issues for 50% off of a drink.

Considering Black Friday Written by Charlie Groen In 2010, I had the experience of braving the retail wilderness in an attempt to score on the infamous Black Friday deals. Clearly, I was not camped out in front of a WalMart in the middle of the night of my own accord, family had dragged me there. The “line” to get inside was nothing more than a seething throng of bloodthirsty lunatics, climbing over one another to be the first inside the store. Once inside, and completely free of any gunshot or knife wounds, I had the chance to look at some of the deals present in the store. As promised, there were “SALE” signs

plastered on every inch of the store, causing me to wonder if this is what actually held up the walls. On closer inspection of these prices, I noticed something interesting about what people were fighting one another for: these prices were no lower than earlier in the year. Indeed, the 32” Panasonic selling for $200 is cheap when compared to yesterday’s $350 price tag, but compared to prices previous to the holiday season, there was no savings at all.

Granted, there are hundreds of sales on Black Friday, and due to the last-minute nature of humans,

low prices in May do nothing to help a mother who hasn’t yet bought a gift that is due in December. On average, over $11 billion (that’s billion) are spent solely during Black Friday, and according to the Wall Street Journal a growth of 3.1 percent. For those readers who are not mathematically inclined, 3.1 percent of $11 billion comes out to $341 million in extra sales this year when compared to last year. The numbers speak for themselves, and the sales and excitement make Black Friday difficult to resist for shoppers that consider themselves savvy.

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Resume workshop: Do you have a resume that needs some touching up? Be sure to stop by the College Hill Library on Monday, November 18 between 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for assistance from Round Robin, an experienced Human Resources advisor who has seen the most common resume mistakes and will prevent you from repeating them.

Volunteers needed: The city of Westminster is looking for volunteers available to shovel snow from walkways of senior and/or disabled citizens.

Volunteers will be matched with a waiting list of seniors/disabled citizens requesting a “Snowbuster” (thats you!) who can shovel the snow from their driveway no later than noon of the second day following a measurable snowfall. For more information, please contact Marina Miller at mcmiller@cityofwestminster.us.

Attention Creative Students!

‘Howl, FRCC, Westminster campus’ art and literary magazine is now accepting submissions of art and written creative work (visual art, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction) for Volume Three of the magazine. Please send electronic copies of your work to Randy.Russell@frontrange.edu or Tino.Gomez@frontrange.edu with your name, contact info. (phone number, email) and a brief bio.

November 19, 2013

The Importance of Classroom Involvement Written by Carlos Escamilla About a month into this semester, I was sitting in geography class waiting for someone to answer a question.

My professor had asked a simple question that would have only taken a moment to answer. I was not allowed to answer as I am one of the few people in the class who consistently answer questions and she wanted to hear from someone else. The professor got a little frustrated and implored those that weren’t participating to become involved in their education.

Her speech made me consider my own circumstances and made me reflect on the importance of active participation in developing a well-rounded education.

I have not always been a good student. In high school, I was very close to repeating my senior year.

Teachers in my high school had to be focused on getting every detail of the lesson explained during class so there wasn’t time for discussion or reflection of the material. The process quickly became tedious for me so I would just stop going to class. After deciding to attend college, I had my bad high school experiences weighing on me: “What happens when I get bored in class again?”

By the time my first semester at Front Range started, I had not stepped foot in a traditional classroom in almost eight years. The first few months I was understandably intimidated; I’m an introvert and I generally prefer to observe social situations rather than initiate them, at least until I get comfortable.

However, I quickly realized that a college classroom is not a normal social situation. Its atmosphere is very specific and is not necessarily dictated by normative social hierarchies and cues. The college classroom is the place where the highest priority should be placed on discussion of ideas, worldviews, and experiences.

In the tradition of Aristotle, I don’t believe there can be effective inquiry

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without observation and investigation into various truths that are presented through communication. What is the point of being able to articulate and rationalize if we’re not going to share ideas that will expand knowledge?

Constructivists would agree: they believe that learning is achieved through active engagement in the learning process. According to John Dewey, “Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at hand, seeking and finding his own solution (not in isolation but in correspondence with the teacher and other pupils) does one learn.” Constructivists argue that we learn by adding new information to past experiences and construct our own “subjective representations of objective reality.” I’ve noticed in my short college career that this process works particularly well with andragogy since we as adults already arrive in our courses with a wealth of experiences and personal lessons.

Relating information in classrooms to past experiences helps us connect new information to what we already know.

How does Constructivist Theory relate to participating in class? Well, our own experiences may shed light on plenty of information presented during lectures and readings; but imagine if you could instantly expand your bank of experiences, hence creating the opportunity to absorb more information. That’s what happens when you have a community of engaged learners.

I’m not sure how often a classroom setting brings out the dormant extrovert in a person, but that’s what has happened to me. I have developed into a student that Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky would be proud of. His Social Development Theory is based on the notion that “consciousness and cognition are the end product of socialization and social behavior.”

Bringing Constructivism and Social Development together, when you have an environment of open discussion

where knowledge is supplemented by sharing experiences and establishing mutual understanding, you’ll create something very special.

Why? Here’s the thing: Educators are fallible. I know that’s hard to digest but it’s true. Not every subject, book, PowerPoint, lecture, or lesson, will ever be able to truly encapsulate every bit of knowledge that our professors have accumulated. Not every bit of their understanding will be able to spotlight the comprehension we have gained through our personal experiences. Have you ever sat down and had a conversation with a professor? I highly recommend it; even if the conversation isn’t about the subject he or she teaches, the discussion has so much potential to become absolutely fascinating and entertaining. However, I enjoy it more when that kind of interaction makes its way into the classroom so that multiple voices and personalities can be on display. Having fun, to me, is an integral part of learning and can make the difference between getting a mediocre grade or an exceptional one.

The classroom is a place that fosters our sense of friendly competition, and the competition is actually improved when there are more people engaged in conversation and participate in class. Participation is intrinsically linked with innovation, which is intrinsically linked with communication. The trifecta is maintained by creativity, the process of making the abstract real; which begs the question: Is a thought real until it is communicated? So do yourself a favor: Become involved in your development. It doesn’t matter what the subject is; answer questions, ask questions, begin the dialogue that will drastically improve your personal journey in education. You’ll be amazed at the kind of friends you make, the connections you create, and the GPA that you’ll end the semester with.

Hot Headlines Written by Rachel Padro Colorado—A man allegedly pepper sprayed a woman and stole her pet monkey. The woman was traveling from out of state to sell the Capuchin, when the man who intended to buy it sprayed her and made away with it. He evidently really wanted a pet monkey.

Though it is illegal in Colorado to own a primate, the woman has not been charged with a crime.

Canada—A female traveler attempted to smuggle an amount of cocaine across the border worth anywhere from $274,000 to $340,000, according to NBC. She hid the cocaine in three pumpkins.

Los Angeles—Michelle Pfeiffer recently revealed that upon first moving to Los Angeles she became part of a cult. She didn’t realize what it was until she began to work on a film about cults, and while interviewing an ex-cultist, realized that she was in one.

UK—A British woman found deadly spiders while eating a banana. Consi Taylor noticed a white blotch on the fruit, which was actually an egg sack. Spiders, “Where hatching on the table, scurrying around on my carpet,” she told The Sun. They spiders were Brazilian Wandering Spiders, which the Guinness Book of World Records lists as the most venomous in the world. Her family was forced to evacuate.

Virginia—A woman named Jessica Black had her son wear a KKK costume for Halloween because, “It’s a family tradition.”

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Applying the Past to the Present—Spotlight on the History Department Written by Rachel Padro FRCC History Faculty Merle Funk shares that if he could get a hold of the student body and tell them one thing about the history department, he would say, “History is fun! For sure history allows us to understand and engage the past, but it’s more than that. If you are able to get a glimpse of individual people’s very real lives and learn from them, it’s that much more engaging and practical.”

For students who are wary of history as a subject, Funk says, “I like

it when history is tangible, and so do students. Sometimes it helps students to see ‘history classes’ as ‘humanity classes.’”

Some of the history department’s interesting classes include History 201—American History from first Native American contact to the Reconstruction, and History 202— American History from the Civil War to the present day. Both are excellent for developing perspective on the basis and structure of modern day

America, and relating the struggles and victories of individuals through the ages to our own lives and perspectives. These specific classes are great springboards into other classes that study the framework of America, such as political science classes, but all of the history classes are great for insight into humanity.

As for those who already love history and are considering the major, Funk says, “It would be good if they like teaching—teaching is a strong

option for History majors. But I would definitely say that history can further many other career options. One of my favorite professors in college said to me that history can be applied across the board. He was a big proponent of double majors, such as Business and History, because history gives you a skill set needed for other occupations.

For example, the research skills developed in history classes could prepare you to be an analyst, or to go into business.”

For those interested in teaching, Funk advises you try to make history come to life, particularly by delving into what historical events meant for individuals. Any kind of history can be interesting if you put it in the right perspective. “When I was at Creighton University doing my masters I took Russian History. My favorite professor was that stream-of-consciousness sort of teacher, but we all loved him. I just remember hearing fabulous stories come to life in his class, to where you felt like you knew these historical people.”

Funk’s favorite parts of his history classes are, “I think the historical visits, when we can see places where actual events took place, and the class gets to experience a bond they don’t always get in the classroom. It’s fun to do that.” One optional trip Funk’s classes had this semester was the opportunity to see Twelve Years a Slave come to life on the movie screen.

To summarize the history department, Funk says that the classes at FRCC “Give you an awareness of the times, and through that we discover how to respond and relate to events happening around us… Come take a class, because it’s fun!”

Are you planning to take a below-100 level math, reading, or English class spring semester?

If so, please contact April Lewandowski (April.

Lewandowski@frontrange.edu) in the English and Communication department or an advisor because there have been changes to these courses!

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A Jesuit Education at Regis University’s College for Professional Studies

By Carlos Escamilla Regis University was founded in 1877 and is the only Jesuit Catholic university in the Rocky Mountain West. According to their website, the Regis mission is “to educate men and women of all ages to make a positive impact in a rapidly-changing global society. We encourage our students to seek truth, live purposeful lives and continually examine and attempt to answer the question: ‘How ought we to live?’” As a Jesuit university, Regis is inspired by the vision of St. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Society of Jesus in 1541; “Jesuits desire to love and serve God in all things as companions of Jesus. We embrace the Catholic Church’s worldwide mission of spreading a faith that promotes justice.”

Regis University is made up of three colleges: Regis College, Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions, and College for Professional Studies (CPS). This article will focus on CPS since it is the largest of the three and has a transfer

program specifically designed for community college students.

CPS is made up of four schools: Business & Management, Humanities & Social Sciences, Computer & Information Sciences, and Education.

With the guaranteed transfer of any associate’s degree from FRCC, CPS has 18 bachelor’s and 13 master’s degree options. Be aware that in order to transfer an Associates of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree, a student must complete the Technical Occupational Specialty (TOS) credits before applying to Regis.

There are six CPS locations in Colorado: North Denver (Lowell), Denver Tech Center, Colorado Springs, Loveland, Broomfield, and Thornton; as well as the 350 courses offered online.

Financial aid is available to students, with three specific scholarships awarded specifically to transfer students. The Community College Scholarship is worth up to

$5,000 and is renewable for a second year. The Provost Scholarship is awarded to one student and is worth up to $9,000 and is renewable for a second year. Finally, the Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship is awarded to up to 10 Phi Theta Kappa members, is worth up to $2,500, and is renewable for a second year. The specific criteria for all of the scholarships available are found at http://www.regis.edu/ CPS/Transfer/Financial-Aid/TransferScholarships.aspx.

An average full-time (12-credit) semester will cost a student between $5,220 and $5,520 and is dependent upon whether the credits are taken in the classroom or online. Classroombased courses cost $435.00 per credit and Online-based courses cost $460.00 per credit. To save money, students are encouraged to take advantage of the Associate’s to Bachelor’s Program that Regis offers transfer students. Under this program, a student is allowed to transfer up to 75% of his or her bachelor’s

degree credits from FRCC. As told

by Regis University Admissions Liaison Margaret C. Holtz, “Regis University has MANY options for transfer students but the best reason to consider CPS is that we transfer up to 98 credits from the community college which provides an opportunity to save money, remain at a college with which students are familiar and receive a bachelor’s degree from a Top-ranked Jesuit University!”

The program is very enticing for someone who is intent on completing his or her education at Regis. If you are interested: complete the application, pay the $50 nonrefundable application fee, submit the written personal statement (guidelines are found in the application page of the website), and have your transcripts sent to Regis’ Admissions office. For additional information, visit http:// www.regis.edu/CPS/Transfer/co-frcc. aspx, or contact Holtz at mholtz@ regis.edu.

Dancing to Success Written by Rachel Padro Dance Floor Theory, an Altitude Leadership training, was held on Saturday November 9, at the Westminster DoubleTree Hotel.

Speaker Tom Krieglstein of Swift Kick, enlightened participants of a theory that centers upon how great dance floor interaction is one where connections are made, and how campuses with successful student relations can be approached in the same way.

When asked how Dance Floor Theory started, Krieglstein shared, “A speaker came to my campus, and he was so inspiring that I said ‘I want to do that’. I won an academic award for Phi Theta Kappa, so I got to go speak for other Phi Theta Kappa groups, and that got me started. And I was an involved student leader so I knew the

inner workings of being one. So take all three of those together and add in years of the frustration of trying to figure things out, and then I hit on Dance Floor Theory.”

When asked what he would share with the FRCC student body, Krieglstein shared the quote, “…An overnight success is ten years in the making.”

Krieglstein started his first business when he was still in college. He grew his business to $1.5 million in annual sales. Swift Kick is his second company, and he has utilized it to travel all over the world to share a theory that helps students make a shift on campus, since greater involvement on campus is shown to equal greater academic success, and ultimately

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greater career success. In 2007, 2008, and 2009, Swift Kick received the title of #1 College Speaker from colleges over the country.

This event was a great opportunity for students to enjoy themselves and improve their relationship and leadership skills by learning to create dance-floor-like connections, through fun and engagement. All attendees received points for the Altitude Program, a Dance floor Theory t-shirt, and a free box lunch.

Margaret Pearson from the Larimer Campus summed up why she came to Dance Floor Theory. “As far as I know, running a club is like a dance, with rotating members and involvement on campus. So I’m here to better learn how to accomplish that dance.”

Dance Floor Theory was an inspiring event that has FRCC student leaders dancing their way to success.

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Just a Thought... Non-Traditional in a Traditional World Written by Jenn Roark At sixteen, I was kicked out of my house. I arrived home to find my worldly possessions in a box that was the kind of box that I couldn’t pick up because my arms weren’t long enough to wrap around, so I grabbed it with both hands and drug it out to my 1980 Toyota Tercel (lovingly referred to as the “Hooptie”). I was able to find a room to rent and eventually graduated high school, in spite of multiple barriers. After high school, I did what I thought I was supposed to do: go to college. It didn’t take long before I flunked out of Portland State University because, well frankly, I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. I didn’t know that as a firstyear student, you weren’t supposed to take two foreign languages at the same time (French and Russian) while taking chemistry. I had grand notions of being a translator for the CIA. My romantic notions of being a spy and swept off my feet by some other spy were quickly squelched because I failed all of my classes, with the exception of French. I dropped out and moved to San Diego. After being “irresponsible” for a while, I tried college again a couple of times, but it never worked. Eventually, I would quit going to classes.

It didn’t work, not because I wasn’t smart enough or couldn’t do it. It didn’t work because I didn’t know how to make it work. I didn’t come from a family where you went to college. I came from a single-parent household, where staying out of jail was considered a success. None of my older siblings graduated high school. I didn’t have, what Pierre Bourdieu calls, the cultural capital to succeed. Cultural capital is the assets you receive from your agents of socialization: family, school, peers, and work. I didn’t have anyone to suggest that taking two foreign languages and two science courses, or working two jobs while attending school was setting me up for failure. I also didn’t have anyone telling me the basics of college success: go to class, do your readings, visit your instructor, and take control of your education.

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I have an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a Masters of Social Work (from the same college I flunked out of), and I am finishing my PhD in Sociology. I am academically successful because I began to understand success in college is different for non-traditional students.

finish my PhD, I have a medical doctor, a therapist, an energist, a writing coach, a stats adviser, a dissertation adviser, other graduate students, and my family to support me. I am not alone. If you are alone, go to the writing center or get a study group together and create a community.

You can Google how to be successful in college, but what you won’t get is the validation that being non-traditional in a system that is set up to be traditional is difficult. The system isn’t set up for your success if you are a first generation student, a student of color, a student with disability, a student with children, or any other type of student that doesn’t fit the mold of students with college educated parents attending college right out of high school. Here are my top ten tips to succeed in college as a non-traditional student:

5. Do not take an individual experience as a global experience.

A bad grade on an exam doesn’t mean you are a bad student or you don’t belong here, it means you didn’t take the test well or didn’t prepare – it is that simple.

1. Put yourself first. This may seem selfish. However, if you are nontradition, you may be engaged in a tug-of-war between family and school. If family wins, you won’t have school to help you and your family. You have to create clear boundaries that allow you time to study because investing in school is investing in your family.

7. Be your biggest supporter, not your biggest critic. When you don’t fit the mold, you feel like you are sitting outside, making it easier for criticism. You deserve to be here because you are here.

2. School is work. If you did poorly at work, you would be fired. Yes, work produces money that allows us to live, but you are here because you want something more than your current work. Working and going to school is working two jobs. Plan to work the appropriate hours. Always carry a book with you and read. Schedule classes that give you a break in between and use that time to study and work.

3. Find your space. Humans are creatures of habit. Find your special spot that you know is where the magic happens (studying, writing, and reading).

Then go there!

4. Ask for help. As non-traditional students we are taught to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. No one does it by him- or herself. To

6. Be realistic about yourself. If you are a procrastinator, plan it! If you know you work best when it is last minute, plan to write all night long (take a nap in the day). If you know you work best when organized, take the time to organize.

8. It is a marathon, not a sprint. You train differently for a marathon than you do for a sprint. Education takes time. Pace yourself, take fewer classes; take only one hard course a semester.

9. Keep trying. I failed three times at college before succeeding. If you fail this semester, keep trying until it sticks. It doesn’t matter how you get there, just as long as you arrive.

10. Have fun. Education can be really fun and sometimes it can suck. I always tried to find one thing to take away from a class and apply it to my life. (Mitosis rocks!)

Ultimately, being non-traditional is way cooler than being traditional because you have a double consciousness about education (W.E.B. Dubois). You have the ability to see college as traditionals do and also, how non-traditionals do. You have the secret knowledge, now just go out and develop it.

GSA Builds Community Strength at FRCC Written By Charlie Groen In every community, there are massive rifts between people created by stereotypes and misconceptions.

There has been significant progress within the last sixty years, from the Civil Rights movement to the current push for equality between genders and sexualities. At FRCC in particular, the Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) is leading the charge for raising awareness and promoting equality for every person in our community. The GSA is new to the school; it is still in the process of recruiting members and electing leaders, but word is spreading quickly. Alana McCoy, Financial Aid Advisor and faculty sponsor to the group discussed the GSA’s growth and membership goals; “We encourage anyone who is interested in creating a safe space and engaging in empowerment programming for members of marginalized genders and sexualities to participate in our meetings and/or activities.”

The movement for equality is less about a community being forced to accept groups that they consider “uncommon,” but celebrating the differences that define it. Via email, McCoy described the GSA’s flexible motto, “...we are open to shaping our motto and philosophy based on what the members of our club decide we will pursue as goals and values.

In general, the students who have met previously have talked about the desire to build a safe space on campus for all students.” There is no more noble pursuit than celebrating, rather than ignoring, the differences that define the members of our community and creating a feeling of comfort among those who might feel cast out by the society they live in. The GSA is working to create this environment,

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GSA Builds Community Strength at FRCC Continued from Page 7 in which the differences of gender and sexuality are not only accepted, but looked past as nothing more significant than the type of jeans a person is wearing.

McCoy described the goals of the GSA with confidence in students to participate and help make changes in their community.

She says, “We… hope to promote awareness of LGBTIQQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, and Allies) histories and to celebrate the richness of our diverse identities.

We also value coalition building amongst student-led groups who are exploring the complexities of intersecting marginalities and actively working to expose and redress privilege and oppression dynamics in our school and society.”

to create an environment where students will thrive in and hold themselves in high esteem.”

Alana McCoy and the GSA welcome any students interested in taking part in the shaping of their community and being a member of an inclusionary student group. The GSA meets every Thursday from 12:00-1:00 in the Front Page Newspaper Office in the Student Life Hall.

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Considering Black Friday Continued from Page 2 The power of advertising is incredible when in the proper hands.

Every Black Friday, the news is filled with injury and death reports for shoppers. There are actual injury/ death reports for shopping, and yet the sales and madness continue. It could be said that there are two types of people: those who attend Black Friday sales, and those who do not.

Incidentally, both of these groups think the other is insane, for either subjecting themselves to the crowds or for staying home when there are such low prices to be taken advantage of.

Of course for the smart shopper who may be trained in kung fu, Black Friday deals can indeed

offer low prices on items that may soon skyrocket. Black Friday often coincides with the release of highly anticipated items (Tickle-Me-Elmo TMX), for which the supply will soon drop, but the demand will force the prices to ridiculous levels.

In the end, there are sound arguments for both sides of the Black Friday dilemma. Like arguing religion and politics, there is no convincing one group to reconsider its opinion.

The best advice a person can offer to a shopper is this: leave your weapons at home, shop safe, and remember that a sale-driven suburban soccer mom is just as dangerous as any crazed bull.

Stay out of her way.

Even neglecting the benefits of positively shaping the community around them, the GSA offers the opportunity to create a network and welcoming environment within itself. Every student at FRCC can benefit from this sense of closeness. McCoy said, “We are at our strongest when we have communities that are welcoming, that challenge us to strive for equity and justice for marginalized and vulnerable populations, and that uphold the inherent human dignity of all people. We hope

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