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Volume 44 | Issue 12

Tech fee is raised to $40 for 10 credits Emily Norton

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SAP updates expectations Corbin Bronsh

The Communicator Federal financial aid has updated its Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) rules, which could cause students to lose financial aid if they do not meet minimum requirements. A CCS-wide memo sent by CCS Chancellor Christine Johnson stated the requirements needed in order to qualify and keep financial aid are: maintaining a 2.0 grade point average every quarter, completing a minimum number of credits per quarter based on whether full time or part time, and completing a degree within a maximum time frame determined by the length of that specific program. According to the memo: “Your SAP is evaluated at the end of every quarter - whether or not you receive financial aid. Financial aid staff must look at your grade point average, how quickly you are completing the classes in your major and the number of classes you attempt versus the number you complete.” The new regulations take effect immediately, but the Chancellor worries that students may not change negative behaviors as quickly. “My main concern is that students won’t read all the regulations and that some students won’t take these rules seriously,” Johnson said. “These are going to be high stakes for students and their education.” The regulations also bring some

SFCC’s technology plan has been approved by student government for 2013-2014, and is awaiting approval by the Board of Trustees. Each year, SFCC creates a technology plan which starts with input from students and various department faculty in order to determine their technology needs for the year. These needs are then prioritized by student government and administration officials, and voted on. The technology fee that each student pays quarterly with tuition accounts for about 25 percent of funds going into the technology plan budget, according to the SFCC website. “We’ve been able to purchase some really helpful equipment for our students enrolled in Physical Therapy programs,” Marie Cole, Physical Therapy Program Director, said. “The equipment we purchase helps prepare students for careers in physical therapy.” The tech fee has provided SFCC with part of the resources needed to improve technology in classrooms for student use. The cost per student

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Service and Activity fees on the rise Chandler George

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is determined by how many credits a student is taking and is $4 per credit for the first 10 credits for a maximum of $40 per quarter, per student. “I don’t mind paying a tech fee,” Paige Eckhaus, first year SFCC student, said. “As long as I’m getting my money’s worth in classroom equipment that I might be using, I don’t mind paying extra.” A committee of student government and staff members meet annually to determine where the money will be spent. The money is only spent on student needs. Faculty technology needs are addressed separately. “The idea is that students pay into something that will benefit them,” Laura Lee, Vice President of Student Services, said. “The students are represented by student government and their approved tech plan is then sent to the Board of Trustees for final approval. The technology fee covers all technological equipment that may be needed for classroom activities. The requests vary based on student needs and classes offered. Computers, wiring, monitors, and software programs are among the majority of items ap-

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Rumor had it that there would be a 30 percent tuition increase for all students next year. This would be a high increase in tuition. “Tuition is not going to increase the fall quarter of 2013,” Vice President of SFCC, Darren Pitcher, said. Even though tuition is not raising, the college is in the process of raising Service and Activity fees. There are many things that the S&A fees cover for students. “This money supports clubs, sports, new technology, new buildings, bus passes for students, work study, et cetera,” Heather Mckenzie WaitE, Director of Student Funded Programs at SFCC said. The list keeps going since many services and activities need money. In order to keep the ball rolling there has to be enough funding for all of these things. One thing that is on the mind of the people on the board is S&A Fees | Page 2

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Faculty and counseling department team-up Shawn Peterson

The Communicator Now students with less than 30 credits can be put on the right path to graduation with the help of the new Faculty Advising Program. Faculty advising is a joint program with the faculty and counselors at SFCC to assist students in finding a major and heading down the path to graduation. If a student is under 30 credits they are assigned a faculty advisor. The duties of the counselors are to advise the faculty members about the students they are seeing. For example, they will inform them if

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proved by student government in the 2013-2014 plan. 2013-2014 plan. “Last year we were able to upgrade our Vectra Genisys machine, which does ultrasound and electrical stimulus of muscles,” Cole said. “A new machine is about $4000, so we are very grateful to have the funds to upgrade this equipment.” All departments receive technology funding, however the funding is distributed based on need and not department alone. Students can be proactive in deciding which departments receive the most funding by participating in annual surveys. “We have tech surveys every year in the Fall, and we email out the link to students all over campus,” Lee said. “We want to hear their voices on what we can improve on campus when it comes to the technology they are using in the classroom.” The Board of Trustees will be voting on the pre-approved 2013-2014 technology plan on June 18.

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concerns from faculty. “What frustrates me is that there was abuse under the old system,” George Suttle, an SFCC history teacher said. “But I think that sometimes when you try and fix one problem you create another. “These new regulations don’t take into account hard classes;

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voting for the students. If they don’t make an increase in the Service and Activity fees, clubs, sports teams, improvements in technology and other resources for students may be limited. “For example, Choral Club will be limited to where the travel and athletics will take a major deficit,” Club representative, Rockford Radke said Radke said that the schools have made an effort to maintain a three percent increase. “In years past a three percent increase is what we shoot for keeping the students’ best interest in mind, this is the minimum,” Radke said. What effect could this have on

a student has any special needs or goals. “We’re doing this to keep students engaged in their college success,” President of SFCC Janet Gullickson said. The main goal of faculty advising is to get students onto the path of graduation. “We want students to understand what they need to do to graduate, and the path to graduation,” Gullickson said. This program was not the first attempt by SFCC to improve the counseling and advising system for the students. “We have tried a few things over the years to improve advising,”Vice

News president of SFCC Jim Minkler said. “These efforts have always fallen short of making much of a difference because we kept going back to the same impossible formula, have the counselors do it and those instructional faculty who volunteer.” Minkler explained that faculty involvement will solve a big problem with the advising system. “The real problem is that we lacked the involvement of many of our faculty and a definition of what we meant by the word advising,” Minkler said. Faculty insight is a key part of this new program and a key part in assisting the students. “We know the requirements, we know what students need to graduate especially if you’re going to transfer versus one person trying to know different areas,” said Janet Barson, a Geology Instructor in the Science Department.

Shawn Peterson | Editor Faculty advising came about because the old counseling system was too small or too limited to benefit the students and so some that needed help were left out. “In essence, all most students were getting was help with scheduling for classes, not true academic consulting resulting in good student developmental planning,” Minkler said. “Although SFCC has engaged in such things as arena and cadre advising in the past, the number of faculty who participated was rather small. “A lot of great advising has occurred in many of the career technical programs and some isolated pockets in liberal arts transfer, but many students who could have really benefitted from faculty advising were not able to experience it or had to wait in long lines trying to get in to see a counselor.”

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I have students who have done very well for themselves with a 1.9 or 1.8 but won’t be able to get financial aid.” The grade aspect isn’t the only worry teachers have but also students who are having to define their major at a young age. “A lot of students don’t know who they are or what they want to major in and colleges should encourage exploration,” Suttle said. “Instead of finding some-

thing they actually want to do as a career, students will most likely just ask where the money is.” Students who depend on financial aid are also expressing concerns with the new regulations. “I just treat financial aid like it’s my paycheck and in return I’m supposed to work hard and get good grades,” Sarah DavisHood an SFCC student said. “If I lost financial for some reason I’d

number of students that attend SFCC, posed a 10 to 15 percent increase,” SCC, or I.E.L? Associated Student Lecture Program“A major domino effect. Students mer Alicia Villa said. that are here With a 10 to 15 on scholarship percent increase “Students that are here may lose some this would put on scholarship may lose of it and could SFCC and the other easily transfer,” some of it and could easily colleges in a posiRadke said. tion of security in transfer.” On March the sense that clubs -Rockford Radke wouldn’t suffer ninth there was IRL CLub Rep. an ASG meeting many budget cuts. where the main topic was Service This was voted on and the governand Activity fees. The student govern- ments came to an agreement at a 7.5 ments of SCC, SFCC and I.E.L were percent increase. This cuts the Serin attendance and represented by vice and Activity fees from $893,000 three students, a faculty member and to $843,100 which is a $49,900 an administrator. deficit. “I.E.L and SCC proposed a zero to It is now up to the Board of Trustthree percent increase in Service and ees to determine a final decision on Activity fees and we (SFCC) prothe budget.

be really screwed. If a student doesn’t meet these requirements that doesn’t necessarily mean the end for receiving financial aid. “Students have two opportunities to appeal if they fall below the line,” Johnson said. “These rules will also apply to every college student in every state. “We have never seen anything like this before, but its all about the budget.”

The 3 M’s: Maintain a 2.0 GPA, complete a degree in the Maximum time frame, and complete a Minimum number of credits per quarter

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The Communicator staff got into a fairly heated debate over the memo from Chancellor Johnson that outlined the new enforcements to students on Financial aid. While most agreed that college was hard work, many of us disagreed as to what the consequences should be for students who might fail a class for reasons outside just being a “slacker.” Some students are concerned that, despite hard work, if something happens there may not be the cushion of understanding there has been in the past from financial aid. Students are also required to define their major with little wiggle room for change if they decide

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they want to switch long-term careers, which many students do within their first year of college. All students are expected to have a defined goal for their graduation progress called a Student Action Plan (SAP) by the end of each quarter. The new enforcements are not coming from the college alone. CCS could face heavy federal fines based on the amount of student loan debt accrued by students who go to school, and either drop out or can’t get a job after graduation. Colleges that aren’t successful in graduating students that eventually pay off their debts could have their funding sanctioned. Many of us have struggled for various reasons during our time here at the college, whether on a personal or academic level. In this issue, Corey McDermott and Ana Sorci discuss their opinions about the new enforcements and how it affects them.

Stop whining and start working harder

You go through high school in stories. Because I was sick, I was researching what you want to be, unable to do stories and attend interand spend your whole senior year views so now I am busting my butt researching what you would like to get the required number of stories to go to college for, if you want to into the paper so I can still pass the attend class. I am also working hard to pass college. my Math class, which hasn’t been Then easy. when I’m not complaining or freaking college out about this. I knew that going actually into college I would have to work starts, hard to pass, and I’m having to work students even harder to keep up. College isn’t discover something you can attend at your they leisure and expect to be successful. have You work hard and go to class. no idea Even if you have kids who might what get sick and cause you to miss they school, that’s not an excuse to fail would a class. You chose to attend colAna like to lege and participate and just like Sorci study everyone else, you will have to so they go through their first year work harder to do it. You’re a single “undecided.” Now there’s a new mother? I’m sorry, if you can’t attend rule that students need to know school everyday then maybe you what their degree is before enrollneed to do online classes or maybe ing and must maintain a 2.0 GPA college isn’t right for you. to receive and You get sick keep financial like me all the “If you just want to get a aid, and students financial aid check... and time? I don’t are freaking out feel sorry for then screw off your education you. You have about it. Whether it’s then no one will feel sorry for to attend class kids or sickness the days you you when you fail.” or even to go -Ana Sorci can, and keep Sidelines Editor in contact screw around, missing homewith your work or something else, students advisors and work extra hard to not tend to blame the school. I say they fail. need to stop being such cry-babies. If you just want to get a financial I’m 19 years-old, and I’ve had a aid check, spend it, and then screw very weak immune system since I off your education, then no one will was little. I get one sickness, and feel sorry for you when you fail and can catch another one on top of have to pay all of that money back. that, and pretty soon I’m in the People like that shouldn’t even be hospital. At the end of March and allowed to be here, because they’re throughout April of this year, I had just taking money from people who two viruses that compounded and will work hard for their education. attacked my immune system and Stop complaining about these put me in the hospital. It took me new rules being unfair; you knew out of work and school. I had to exactly what you were getting into wear a mask if I was able to get out when you enrolled in college. If you of bed and go to the store. can’t stick it out and work hard, then I am the Sports editor for SFCC college is not for you and you need newspaper, and like everyone else to go elsewhere and figure your life in the class I have to do my share out.

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A Special Good-bye from students leaving The Communicator I was Focus Editor, Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief, its been a pleasure and I wish future staff the best. -Randy Breedlove Being on staff at The Communicator has been such a rich experience for me. I have enjoyed the creative group process immensely. I will miss the creative chaos that is news production. -Jennifer Bridges In my year on staff I have served as News Editor, Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief. The best part of my job, and the part I will carry with me, is the people. I will miss all of my Communicator family and wish them all the best. -Sarah Dyer During my time on the paper, the amount of energy, passion, and creativity I witnessed from my fellow staff members inspired me. I can say without a doubt that choosing to be a part of this staff was by far the best decision I have made during my college years. -Colten Cain

Students need more help from advisors to succeed in school Students who are struggling in college might start losing the money they need to pay for tuition and books if they dip below a 2.0 GPA. For all students, a Student AcaCorey demic

two academic probations despite trying to pass my classes by working hard, I think it’s wrong to leave students constantly hanging in the balance with their GPA alone. Financial aid shouldn’t have absolute control over someones education. If someone barely makes it to class because of car problems, they shouldn’t be discouraged but helped. It’s better to uplift them and talk about what is keeping them from doing their work & getting to class on time, and come up with solutions that will help them do better. That’s what advisors are here for. Education should be for everyone McDermott who wants an education, it shouldn’t be just for the privileged. If someone wants an education, they should grab progress(SAP) will be evaluated at it. A less than stellar GPA shouldn’t the end of each quarter that is supposed to outline their progress toward be a deterrent to higher learning for graduation. Students who receive those who are struggling. financial aid will be scrutinized based The whole point of financial aid is to help students who otherwise on their GPA and if it goes below a 2.0, they will be cut off by financial would not be able to afford a good education get one. If we start to limit aid. Keep in mind that a 1.6-2.0 GPA is considered a C average. the funding for people who just need Financial Aid is taking a route that extra help overcoming life’s obstacles, most of the stuthen we are going “A less than stellar GPA dents might not against the very like, especially shouldn’t be a deterrent to purpose of finanwhen students cial aid. higher learning for those are trying their Students hardest to pass shouldn’t feel who are struggling.” their classes. like they can’t -Corey McDermott When students Photography ask for help, or miss a class, for that they’ll be whatever reason - whether it’s being punished if they suck at math or have a parent, working a job, needing a hard time with writing assignments. help with homework, or they can’t Instructors don’t always want to listen, focus properly - it’s a sign that they people just don’t care, and it’s wrong are struggling, not slacking. These - that isn’t what education is about. students need help, and taking away The school should focus more on their financial aid is not helping them helping students achieve success, become better students. rather than penalizing and punishing As someone who has been through them when they struggle.

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Choir, Orchestra and Jazz: SFCC Music Concert Series Darian Selby

The Communicator Spokane Falls Community College’s Music Department will end Spring Quarter with free concerts for SFCC students. Starting June 3, the Community Band will begin the concert series followed by the Orchestra June 10, Choir June 11 and Jazz Night June 13. These will take place in the Music Auditorium in building 15 on the SFCC campus. Community Band, Orchestra and Jazz Night start at 7:30 p.m. and Choir starts at 7 p.m. “The music department presents four concerts every quarter: Community Band, Orchestra, Choral Music and Jazz Night which includes the jazz ensemble and two jazz combos,” Instructor and Department Chair of the Music Drama and Recording Arts, Gerald Krumbholz said. With only one concert for all groups each quarter, they have only nine and a half weeks to prepare and perform a large amount of mu-

sic for this quarter’s events. Performances to see over the concert series: “Animal Crackers” by Eric Whitacre, the women’s choir singing “Johnny Said No” and “Regretting What I Said,” the men’s choir will be singing “Ode To Tobacco.” “That song is in Old English and really extols the virtues of how this tobacco makes them feel really really good and relieves them from pain, so I’m pretty sure its not the tobacco we find in Winston’s cigarettes,” Instructor for the Music Drama and Recording Arts Nathan Lansing said. There will be a combination of composers Gary Jules and Tears For Fears version of “Mad World” performed by the men’s choir. Emily Ferguson won a gold medal in her division in the music festival competition and will be featured in the concert. There will be four Barber Shop pieces sung. Vocal jazz will be performing “One Of Billie’s Belts” by Johnny Parker and “Blue Skies” by Urban Berlin. There are three drumming pieces that will be featured including a joint piece

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From left to right: Robert Keyes, Dylan Ward, Mark Rupert, Zack Jordan and Kevin Woods called “Miamba Ma Milima” which is in Swahili vocals and African drums accompanying. They will also perform a piece by Olivier Messiaen. “That is one of the hardest four part homophonic pieces I’ve ever done,” Lansing said. Every other year the music group(s) use the funding they get as a club to travel to Carnegie Hall or the Lincoln Center performing their best works.

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“If you want to sing, the Falls is the place to do it,” Lansing said. Bonnie Brunt is funding the concerts this year and is supervising the faculty members who teach in the Music Department. “The quality of these concerts is very high and I believe there are a lot of people who would enjoy them greatly who just don’t know about them or have never attended to realize how fantastic they are,” Brunt said.

Conert Band June 3, 7p.m. Orchestra June 10, 7p.m. Choir June 11, 7p.m. Jazz Night June 13, 7p.m. source: spokanefalls.edu

Grab a chair at Chairs Coffee House Andrew Vanhoff

The Communicator The locally owned and operated Chairs Coffee House serves organic coffee from a Spokane roaster. Chairs, located at 113 West Indiana, opened two years ago and strives to provide an optimal coffee environment. Chairs employee Brian Freeland said that Chairs’ main ideal is commitment to the community. “We like to have a quality relationship with the consumers,” Freeland said. According to Freeland, the main goal Chairs strives for is satisfying the consumer with top-notch service. “A lot of people are sort of watered down in their coffee experience,” Freeland said. Freeland thinks consumers are becoming accustomed to the “fast food” version of coffee. He said that Chairs tries to bring back the social aspect to the coffee business. “It’s very local and community oriented,” Freeland said. Freeland says that Chairs strives to be the ideal third alternative, the place customers want to be when they’re not at home or at work, while simultaneously providing their em-

ployees with a love for coffee. Employee Melissa Bresemann says that one of her favorite things about Chairs is the wide range of people who make up both the patrons and the staff of the business. “Chairs itself is a very vibrant and eclectic environment and staff,” Bresemann said. “Our first summer was hard because a lot of our business comes from students,” Chairs patron Dorian Karahalios says he appreciates the use of a local roaster. “Every month they do a featured roast, which is pretty cool,” Karahalios said. Karahalios, who usually visits Chairs once or twice a week, says that his only critique of the Chairs experience is the object the coffee house is named after. Chairs regular Haylie Hennessy, who visits the coffee house three to four times a week, says that she particularly likes Chairs’ atmosphere. “It’s nice and open,” Hennessy said. “It’s calming for a break in the middle of my day, it’s nice and relaxed.” The owners of Chairs are currently in the process of opening up another shop. They intend to have the new location open by this summer.

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Geoff Lang and Scott Doughty will perform a film noir syle one act play for the festival. Featured Plays “A Man Walks Into a Bar” Niko Sotolongo “Cerebral Contention” Platon Hogan “A Working Title” Alica Pierce “My Hero” Scott Doughty “De Civitate Dei” Patrick Ashcroft “Road of Dreams” Tonya Strong “A Very Old Lie” Jennie Oliver “A Reckoning for Roaches” Hazel Bean “One Night Stand”

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Chairs has a mix and match style, with multiple eclectic seating options

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One Act Play Festival at SFCC Darian Selby

The Communicator The SFCC Drama Department is introducing the One Act Play Festival to the SFCC campus in June. At 7:30 p.m. June 13 and 14, the Spartan Theater will be hosting the One Act Play festival where students will be acting by themselves on stage as part of a benefit for the drama department. “This is once in a lifetime opportunity to see the first performances of newly written plays,” student and festival organizer Tonya Strong said. “These are innovative and they express the depth of human emotions through storytelling.” The new festival has a total of nine different shows that each run about 15 minutes. The performances both nights will last about two hours, which includes two seven minute intermissions. The majority of the actors are SFCC students but there are some community members who will be acting in them as well. “These plays are innovative, and they express the depth of human emotions through storytelling,”

Strong said. All the shows are directed and written by SFCC students except for one written by Theater Instructor Scott Doughty. “These plays are inventive and range far and wide with their plots. Some of them are fantasy, dramatic, comedic, or have a mix of dramatic and comedic elements,” SFCC student and actress Jennie Oliver said. “I think what has been so interesting about this project is that each show uniquely represents something about the playwright themselves, their imagination, their life experience, and what kind of story they want to tell.” The writers for the event started writing their stories eight months ago. With the end of spring quarter approaching, their final drafts will come to life at the festival, which leaves some sad to say goodbye with graduation coming. “It’s almost unreal,” Oliver said. “It’s a wonderful way to end the season, especially for those of us AFA students who are graduating. “It’s an excellent and especially emotional way to say goodbye.”

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A poll issued to the student body asked them to rank the best and worst bathrooms on campus. Four criteria for the bathrooms were established: cleanliness, maintence, enviromental friendliness and toilet paper quality.We tallied the votes, and it was close, but only one can win the game of thrones.

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voted the cleanest and most pleasant

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Library Bathroom Cleanliness 3.5

Maintenance 3.75

Environmental Friendliness 4.12

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Cleanliness 3.9

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voted least accommodating Building 5 Bathroom

Cleanliness 1.87

Maintenance 2.43

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The maintenance and janitorial staffs fight the Battle of the Bathrooms every day, facing dangers untold and hardships unnumbered. We at The Communicator offer one piece of advice to students who want clean, well-kept bathrooms: if you wouldn’t do something at home in your own bathroom, you probably shouldn’t do it here either.

Janet Gullickson showcasing her private bathroom. Her cabinet still has a note left from “Jimmy” the guy who installed it which reads: “Have a nice day, Jimmy.”

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Playing with Fire

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Meadow Frank, bartender and manager at PJ’s Bar and Grill, opened the May 24 firedancing performance held in PJ’s beer garden. For more photos of this performance by the Visual Vortex Spin Collective visit communicatoronline.org

Did You Know?: Poi, often used in fire dancing, is a Maori word meaning “ball on a string.”

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Jerry O’Neal to retire after 45 years at SFCC Lyssa Davis

The Communicator After teaching at SFCC since 1968, Anthropology instructor Jerry O’Neal plans to retire after fall quarter of 2013. O’Neal graduated from the University of Montana with a BA in Polyscience and an MA in Anthropology. He said that the person hired to replace him will likely have a PhD, and that there are somewhere in the realm of 70 to 80 applicants to fill the position. “When I was in school, an MA was considered a teaching degree,” O’Neal said.”I wrote a thesis for it. A PhD was considered more of a research degree,” O’Neal has the unusual distinction of having outlived a building here at SFCC; he has on his desk a photograph of him ceremonially breaking ground before the erection of the Social Sciences building. The building is now demolished, and was replaced by Sn’wy’mn, building 24. His classes include Introduction

to Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Indians of North America and Stone Age Survival. The latter class is relatively unique, with hands-on learning of prehistoric skills like flintknapping and firestarting. “I don’t know if the class will go on once I retire. One would think in the hiring of an anthropologist you look at their academic credentials,” O’Neal said. “someone that might have the skills to teach (Stone Age Survival) might not be paramount to hiring, so I’m billing this quarter as the last of the Spiders,” Former SFCC student Gwen Blodgett took several of O’Neal’s classes. “I first took his Cultural Anthropology class in 1993; after that I took Physical Anthropology and Stone Age Survival,” Blodgett said. “The classes I took from O’Neal instilled in me a lifelong love for Anthropology, and I later went on to take more classes elsewhere. “Out of all the teachers that I’ve had, he’s one of my favorites, and I’ve had a lot of teachers.”

Sierra Schleufer, graduate of SFCC, took all of the classes taught by O’Neal that were available, and continues to drop in on the Stone Age class. She appreciated O’Neal’s teaching style as well as his knowledge on the subject. “I felt like he was one of the few teachers that wanted to teach you,” Schleufer said. “something instead of using someone else’s rulebook,” O’Neal, though he is retiring, said he may teach in an occasional capacity in the future, but that he did not plan on becoming a college instructor again. “I love the academic world. The best thing about (SFCC) is that there have been ups and downs, but the one thing this place has done is let me teach,” O’Neal said. “Some interpret my strictness, or emphasis on academics, as that I don’t like them but I really want them to go on and succeed. “I think it’s time to leave,” O’Neal said, “You don’t want to be the oldest and last dog to leave. It’s time to let someone else into the job and move on.”

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Rachel Fahlgren lines up an atlatl dart she made in Stone Age Survival; instructor Jerry O’Neal watches.

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Malik Martin, founder of Art World Revolution, designs and sells t-shirts and currently attends SFCC.

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The Communicator In 2007, SFCC student Malik Martin started designing and selling t-shirts as part of a marketing class. Since then, his business has become his main focus in life. Martin first came up with the idea of making and selling t-shirts as part of a project in a marketing class taught by the late Mary Ann Sanger. Since starting out, Martin studied in Texas for several years taking almost every business class possible in order to improve his own business, Art World Revolution, which works under the name of T-Shirt Design Pros. Martin defines his clothing company’s style as a way to stand out. “(Our style) is like a revolution of art,” said Martin. “(You can) be revolutionary, turn the system upside down.” Martin said that he has always been into wearing bold clothing. “I was into fashion and styling growing up,” Martin said. “It was a way to make a statement.” Martin said he thinks most people misinterpret business as simply a way to make money. He says marketing is mainly a way to solve problems that society has. “The basis to marketing is solving problems,” Martin said. “We’re here to help.” When first starting out, Martin sold Bigfoot t-shirts on campus to raise money to feed 80 families for a thanksgiving meal. He says he feels that too many people are complacent with the way things are. “A lot of people are missing compassion,” Martin said, “To have empathy and be compelled to do something about it is compassion.” Martin says he feels that making shirts that make a statement is a way of strengthening people. “It’s a way to empower other people and unite them,” Martin said.

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The Communicator If you are looking for research in the SFCC library that’s hard to find, like a book or internet articles and you don’t know who to talk to, Jeff Davis, the library tech is your guy. His duties as a library technician include supervising the circulation desk, checking in and checking out books, laptops, maintaining stacks, supervising work study students, maintaining periodicals, and maintaining the reserve videos for students. However, working at the library was not Davis’ dream career when he was younger. “My first dream was to be a stand up comedian,” Davis said. “After I had children I wanted to be an educator because you get to

stand up and make people laugh all day long.” Jeff is well known by the students and staff at SFCC. “He has a good report with the students,” Brian Vanderveen, an information desk clerk in SFCC’s library said. According to Davis he does his job because he loves to see students succeed, and providing excellent customer service is his favorite part of the experience. “Being at a desk or public counter like I am, I represent SFCC on the front lines,” Davis said.“I was hired to create a more customer service based circulation desk.” Davis specializes in things such as customer service because he has a background in sales, but he doesn’t have any preferred customers.

“I enjoy everybody equally because everyone brings a different personality to my day, and sometimes you get really fun people,” Davis said. He has never thought about working anywhere else during his time serving the students of SFCC, saying it’s the students themselves that keep him going. “Every time I think about working somewhere else I think about the students and how much I can learn from them,” Davis said. “Working here was the first time I’ve worked in a community college environment.” His educational background helps him serve the students in the best way possible. “My education is diverse so it helps me find resources for students,” Davis said.

Library Building 2 Hours of Operation: Monday Wednesday 7:15 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday Friday 7:15 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday noon - 4:00 p.m. Source: http://library. spokanefalls.edu

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Library technician, Jeff Davis, checks out a book at the library to a student at SFCC.

Did You Know?: more than 1,700 public libraries in the US were built between 1881 and 1919. Source: http://www.history-magazine.com/libraries.html

idelines S Indoor rock climbing vs. outdoor rock climbing

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Everyday customers climb daily at Wild Walls to strengthen their skills and have fun with family and friends.

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The Communicator As the school year draws closer to its end, climbers like Soren Stime and KJ Stime are picking up where they left off last summer. Wild Walls in downtown Spokane is a place where climbing enthusiasts of all skill levels can come to have fun and maybe try to hone their skills. “It’s fun to be up high,” high school freshman, Soren said. “The best part is jumping down once you finally get to the top.” “There’s a place on the centennial

trail called Minnehaha,” Soren said. “It’ll probably be more challenging than the rock walls here, because it’s, you know, actual rock climbing.” Wild Walls is one of the few indoor rock climbing facilities in Spokane. Climbers at Wild Walls can choose from a variety of courses, with names like “The Wave,” “The Goldfish” and “The Corridor.” “I like rock climbing because it’s a good workout, it’s very fun, and I get to spend time with my little brother,” KJ, a Harvard student said. “My favorite aspect of rock climbing is when you keep trying and trying

to go a difficult route, and then you finally get to the top. It’s a great feeling.” In the sport of outdoor rock climbing, the goal is to successfully climb to a designated target, like the top of a cliff or rock face, then make it back to the starting point without falling from the rock. While climbing, harnesses and belaying devices prevent climbers from plunging to the ground. “Lots of times people come here to train before they go climb outside,” a Wild Walls employee, Noah Peller, said. “But even then, they mostly

come to have a blast, get a workout, spend time with their friends, etc.” Christopher Adams, another employee and regular climber, climbs outdoors more often than indoors. “I mostly climb outdoors with friends,” Adams said. “I climb at Deep Creek, over by Seven Mile, and then up at Marcus and Metaline Falls, which are limestone, so they’re pretty sweet.” If he could change just one thing about the indoor rock walls, Adams would make them bigger. “It’d be cool for the indoor courses to be about three times as tall as they are now,” Adams said. “At some outdoor sites, you climb to 55 feet and you’re just getting started.” According to Adams, climbing outdoors is more complicated due to the variety of climbing terrains. “The most difficult aspect of climbing outdoors is you have to have a wide variety of techniques. You have to kinda have a skill set banked away to use with different surfaces,” Adams said. “You learn by repetition, by seeing what you are doing wrong and what you are doing right. It’s gradual.” Friends of Adams got him into the sport five years ago and he has been climbing regularly since then. “What I like most about rock climbing is that when you are climbing, you get to be in beautiful places,” Adams said. “It’s good for people who like to be outside, and to enjoy the physical aspect, the mental aspect, and even the social aspect, with friends.”

Wild Walls Location 202 west second street in Spokane, next to Laser Quest Hours 10am-10pm mon-sat 10am-7pm sun. Passes Day Pass (Adults) $15.00 Youth Day Pass $10.00 Membership Passes Monthly Membership $45.00 + tax Source: http://wildwalls.com/

Budget cuts might cause harm to future sports

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Track and Field men’s hurdling team race during a track meet for first.

Ana Sorci

The Communicator On May 7th of 2013, students of SFCC held an ASG meeting at 1:30 in the afternoon about trying to balance budgets. At this meeting the student body discussed how SFCC, SCC, Athletics, IEL as well as other clubs had to come up with a compromise on budget cuts. “Club budgets can be severely impacted,” student body, Rockford Radke said.

Sports scholarships were one concern to the Sport program. NWAACC colleges get full tuition while Washington colleges are given only 40 percent of tuition. “The reason for the difference is because Washington has so many talented athletes that we try to distribute the money out equally,” Athletic Director, M. Athletic Commissioner and PE Dean KenBurris said. “Everyone is equally unhappy,” There was a debate between SFCC and SCC about how much to cut.

SFCC and Athletics were pushing a 10 percent to 15 percent increase while SCC and IEL were pushing a 0% to 3%. “If we allowed a zero percent to three percent budget cut, we’d be pushing a $138,000 deficit and rumor has it that a sport would most likely be cut,” Burris said. On Thursday, May 10th of 2013, students of SFCC, SCC and IEL came up with a solution. Athletics brought it to everyone’s attention that budget cuts should be 7.5 percent. The problem with that decision is some service and activity (S&A) fees would have to be cut. Throughout the year, Student Government and Athletics work on the budget and try to figure out how to make things work. SFCC, SCC, IEL and Athletics are 24 percent lower than the legislature wants. “We don’t want our budget to be like other colleges and Universities. So we raise it enough to where we are still below but not as much,” Burris said. About 95 percent of colleges raise their S&A fees to the max while colleges of Spokane haven’t and probably never will. Instead of $138,000 budget cut, SFCC, SCC, IEL and Athletics decided to have a $54,000 cut. “The $54,000 budget cut is not sustainable, it’s only short term for the time being and will hold out for the year,” Burris said, “I don’t think this year cuts will affect Sports Scholarships. At least they shouldn’t.

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Long jumper from Rangel College jumps for a mark.

SFCC track results Men’s Event Champions

Monday - Day 1 3000m Steeple: Brad Prettyman, Clackamas 10000m Run: Daniel Issa, Spokane Long Jump: Wes Bailey, Spokane Pole Vault: Zach Olivera, Lane Discus: Durran Bates, Spokane Hammer: Kevin Stanley, Spokane

Women’s Event Champions

Monday - Day 1 10000m Run: Rachel Cundy, Everett 3000m Steeple: Catie Arrigoni, Everett Long Jump: Shaneesa Applegate, Lane High Jump: Elizabeth Venzon, Clackamas Pole Vault: Anna Jensen, Lane Shot Put: Leah Wilson, Lane Javelin: Tiffany Forbito, Clackamas

Did You Know?: “Smearing” is putting your foot against the wall or the rock with no support. Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Sports/Mountain-Rock-Climbing-11989.html

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Thank You

Pictured Left : Two veterans, Erica Matney and Melanie Eller, place flags in honor of those who died in service to our nation. These flags were a part of a fundraiser benefit for the Veteran’s Club at SFCC. Bottom Left : Battlefield Cross, used to represent those who have fallen in combat. This photo was taken at the WA State Veterens Cemetery in Medical Lake. Bottom Right : This display is located in the yard of Bob and Vicki Horton at 2603 W. LaCrosse. Bob is a veteran honoring the fallen with this memorial.

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“What brings us together is the camaraderie. We’re like a family. We bond because of shared experiences, things that only we have in common with each other.” Christina Holt - Veterans Resource Center

Memorial Day : Originally Decoration Day was officially recognized on May 5, 1868, just 3 days after the Civil War ended, by Maj. Gen. John A. Logan. In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress. Source: www.va.gov

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Excerpt from, “Asleep”

Quick Facts about the U.S. Armed Forces:

“ ... Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars, High-pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making, Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead, And these winds’ scimitars, -Or whether yet his thin and sodden head Confuses more and more with the low mould, His hair being one with the grey grass Of finished fields, and wire-scrags rusty-old, Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass! He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold, Than we who wake, and waking say Alas!”

There are

21.8 million veterans in the U.S.

50,000 service members have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

6,700

service members have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are notes in “Taps”, a tune played on a bugle in the evening and at funerals.

There are rifle volleys fired over a grave during interment.

Wilfred Owen

Did You Know?: As of 2013, there are between 350 - 400 veterans and active duty armed forces members on the SFCC campus. Source: Veteran’s Resource Center

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