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OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Sept. 2016
Get Well Soon
MSJC students and faculty initiate proposal to provide Health Services Centers on the Menifee and San Jacinto campuses
VOL. IV ISSUE I
Pokémon GO Bringing MSJC Students Together By: Kyle Selby
By: Jamee Menez In April of 2016, Student Services emailed a survey to all MSJC students. This survey was composed of six questions asking whether or not students would want, or even benefit from, a Health Services Center on both the Menifee Valley campus and the San Jacinto campus. When asked if they would be willing to pay a small, semesterly fee of just $14-19 dollars for the usage of the center, 87% of MSJC students were strongly in favor. Currently, Mt. San Jacinto College does not have any form of a Student Health Center available on their San Jacinto, Menifee, Temecula, or Banning campuses. Out of 113 community colleges in California, MSJC is one of 13 who do not offer basic health services on campus, like yearround psychological health counseling (CCC Student Mental Health). However,
if the exciting proposal for the Health Centers goes through, students will be able to have access to services such as trained counselors, stress workshops, sexual health clinics, a vaccination center, and much more. The leading forces behind the addition of the centers include Krystal Murillo, student, MSJC professors of Psychology, Richard Kandus and Anjeanette Oberg, MSJC’s Vice President of Student Services, Bill Vincent, and many more students and faculty. The taskforce has joined together under the common goal of seeing MSJC’s Health Services Centers be built on the San Jacinto and Menifee campuses.
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It’s everywhere. It’s inescapable. Everywhere you go, there is bound to be a Pokémon trainer nearby, glued to their phone screens, trying to catch a Charmander or a Pikachu. Developers, Niantic, launched Pokémon GO on July 6 in several countries including America, and it captivated the world almost immediately. The game uses GPS-tracking technology and camera from the player’s smart phone to track, capture, and battle Pokémon in real-world locations, where catching their favorite pocket monsters has never been easier. The app has beat out popular mobile games like Candy Crush, Draw Something, and Slither. io in terms of daily active users, and is being called the biggest US mobile game ever. In a recent study, the game even beat out Twitter’s daily user activity by a 5-million-user difference.
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