There are many wonderful scholarship opportunities

Lewis and Clark When we got to the Boiler House everything was working just as it should. We separated and went around walls the sounds became slightly louder. Then suddenly they stopped all together, total silence. We figthe roof. Suddenly all of our lights went out and wouldn’t come back on, then everything went silent as we noClassic Ghost Stories singularly to all of the buildings to check the vents, but they all were open with cold air blowing through. Then we thought that maybe something had happened in the heating tunnels under ured that we were only ten feet away when the sound stopped so we tapped each other and quickly turned on our lights. When the lights came on there was nothing there, right then the sounds ticed something happen. Out of the pitch-black darkness there was total silence for [what] seemed forever. Then a pinpoint of light appeared on the floor and grew bigger and bigger, until it formed the college, maybe a cavecame back, but this time into a young girl in a night in or something. All five of they were farther down the gown. She was standing on us went to the Boiler House tunnel. We then thought a brick and using a rock and entered the tunnels that whoever it was we evito pick away at the roof of with our flashlights. When dently had them on the run, the tunnel, there were no we opened the door to the but why didn’t they leave the sounds coming from anytunnel a gust of warm air hit tunnel? We turned off our thing. We stood there and us, at least the sections unlights and sneaked on ahead, stared at this white-blue der the Boiler House [were] when we got to where we glowing ghost for an eterniworking, so we entered. In thought that we were close ty until there came another the tunnel there were pipes, to the sounds they stopped, figure walking up the tunnel wires, and brick, and a noso we turned on our lights, behind us. We could only ticeable warm wind blowing but nothing was there. We see it through the corners through on past us into the were starting to get fed up of our eyes because we were darkness down the tunnel. with this joke, so this time too scared to turn around. we walked straight down to One by one we felt this icy The tunnel system stretched Hatheway and still found coldness [envelop] us as it out between all of the buildnothing. Then we heard the passed through our bodies ings and connected like a sounds again behind us at and walked to the girl. The spider’s web. While we were the other end of the tunnel second ghost was the shape in the tunnel getting orgawhere we had come from. of an old lady, standing tall nized, we suddenly heard heading straight for the girl. the sound of crumbling We then walked straight to bricks, dirt hitting the floor, the Boiler House with lights The lady attacked the girl coughing and a picking on, this time nobody was and strangled her. The sight sound emanating from the going to get past us. The was horrendous to look at, tunnel that went to Hathesounds were coming from we were witnessing a murway. Our first reaction was the middle of the tunnel just der. The ghosts didn’t even that somebody was down as in the beginning. When notice us, while they perthere tearing out the tunwe got to the middle of the formed their grisly task. Afnel, maybe a bunch of kids, tunnel the sight that we saw ter the old lady killed the cause the top of the tunnel puzzled us more [than] it girl the two ghosts vanished. was only four feet from the scared us. There in the midThen for a few seconds surface. So, we turned off air in the top of the tunnel the sound came back and our lights and started sneakwere pieces of brick and dirt echoed throughout the tuning down the tunnel thinkfalling into a pile, but there nel twelve times like a giant ing that maybe we could was no pick to make it fall. bell in an ancient church. I scare whoever it was. As we There were only the sounds looked at my watch, it was made our way feeling along of coughing, dirt hitting the one minute past midnight, the cool wet cement brick floor, and the pick hitting Halloween.”

50 Reasons to Love Lewis and Clark Community College By Ashtyn Britt abritt@lc.edu

1. It was originally an all-girls college. 2. L&C is committed to diversity and acceptance. 3. There are many different programs for different kinds of students. 4. There are about nine different locations overall that contribute to earning degrees through L&C. 5. Because of L&C’s 2+2 programs, people can get their

Bachelor’s Degrees at community college prices. 6. They allow early start programs for high school kids to earn college credit while still in high school. 7. Students can work at the school, such as for The Bridge

Newspaper! 8. L&C’s College for Life program is very dedicated to their students. 9. The professors genuinely care about all of their students. 10. There is a dental clinic on campus where students can get their teeth cleaned and help dental students get great practice! 11. There is a family health clinic on campus willing to help you if you’re sick. 12. There are many online classes offered as well for students with tight schedules. 13. The environment is welcoming to non-traditional students as well as traditional! 14. There are many wonderful scholarship opportunities for students! 15. 7KHWXLWLRQUDWHLVLQFUHGLEO\IDLUDQGVLJQLƓFDQWO\ cheaper than traditional 4-year institutions! 16. The Sustainability Department is very dedicated to keeping L&C environmentally conscious! 17. There is a STEP program to help students get books easier! 18. There is a Green Pass program to help students get easier access to local bus passes! 19. There is a student snack pantry where hungry students can get something to eat! 20. The Student Government Association is working to get a Hygiene Pantry started so that students may have access to necessary hygiene products! 21. There are many clubs and organizations on campus that help contribute to student life nearly every day. 22. L&C is dedicated to recognizing students who greatly contribute every year with an awards ceremony.

23. The State Supreme Court has hosted oral arguments at L&C. 24. Ivanka Trump and Rodney Davis have visited

L&C to congratulate us on our efforts. 25. Fareed Zakaria of CNN has visited L&C to inspire the students. 26. Every February, L&C hosts an Underground

Railroad tour to properly honor history. 27. Blazer, the L&C mascot, is always fun to have around. 28. The L&C Media Department makes its best effort to keep the entire community properly informed at all times. 29. L&C has a wonderful and inclusive library with beautiful stained glass windows. 30. L&C has many beautiful buildings, some of which can be rented out to the local community for events such as banquets or even weddings. 31. Every year, L&C has a beautiful garden show for the entire community to come and enjoy. 32. L&C will display student art shows to encourage the more creative students on campus! 33. L&C has a working gym and pool available for student’s use in order to stay healthy.