Issue 100 - October 2014 - Somerset Community College

A Student Publication For Somerset Community College
October 2014
Volume 15, Number 2
SGA Leader
Award winner
Dino Melgoza
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Asst. Prof.
Jeff
McFadden
rocks on!
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
•••
Chautauqua
Series
•Casey Center
October 23
6:00 p.m.
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SCC News and Viewpoints Since 2000
Fall festivals
underway
at all SCC
locations
The McCreary Center Heritage Festival kicked off
the International Festival events on Wednesday, October 15. Festivities are being held on all SCC locations
during October.
Thursday, October 16, Somerset Campus held the
Family Farming: Feeding the World event.
Festivals will also be held on Thursday, October
23, at the Casey Center, Clinton Center, Russell Center, and Laurel Campus.
•Clinton Center
October 21
1:00 p.m.
Right, students watch a fire-breathing exhibit by
John Fryman at the McCreary Center Heritage Festival.
Photo by Rebecca Meadows
State-of-the-art theatre hopeful for SCC
•Heritage photos
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WHAT’S
INSIDE
Pg. 5
Donation
Boxes
Pg. 8
Workout
Fashions
Pg. 11
Happy
Halloween
Fine Arts
Center
Predicted
for SCC
Pg. 13 Building a
Webpage,
Part 2
For the Students, by the Students
By Flaura Seals
While it may be in the most
premature of stages right now,
talk around campus is that a
Humanity and Fine Arts Center
is coming to
Somerset Community
College.
“We
definitely plan to
raise funds for
a new architectural structure,”
says Dr. Jo
Marshall, the
college president.
In addition
Dr. Jo
to the arts and
humanities
programs, the facility will reportedly house the culinary arts
program, as well as offices for
involved faculty.
The building will also feature
a state-of-the-art theatre for stage
and film productions.
The project is still in its embryonic stage, however. In fact,
$500,000 must be raised by way
of private supporters and donations before the
state of Kentucky will issue
bond payments
previously approved for SCC
in the amount of
$150,000 to fund
the planning and
eventual
construction of the
new center
“At that time,
Marshall we will meet
with all the faculty and staff of
the college and engage in architectural planning,” said Dr.Marshall. “We would welcome any
ideas for additional arts pro-
“byHopefully,
the 2016
session, plans
will be
passed.
”
See ‘Theatre’ page 6
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Opinion
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Comments, Opinions & Letters
I am NO feminist! And I am PROUD of it!
During the ‘60s and ‘70s the world experienced many changes and movements. One
of the biggest was the American Feminist
Movement.
Children up until this point had been
accustomed to a mom at home preparing
breakfast before school and awaiting their
return with a pre-dinner snack in hand.
On the outside, it seemed glorious and
dignified. Nicely pressed clothes layered
upon the entire family. Elegant dinners
served at a family dinner table nightly. And a
beautifully dressed lady with perfectly piled
hair, cherry red lips and boisterous eyes.
Her appearance would soon fade into the
duties of housework and homework.
The women had watched the man leave
home every morning to attend work, to build
a career. He would return in the evening to
sit in front of a television and share none of
the home duties he left her to attend to.
Enter Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and
other heroines of Feminism, and before long
the dutiful housewives had become raging,
jealous-of-the-man, wanting-more women.
A change was soon to come.
Today the scenes in any neighborhood
tell a very different story.
Most often you will see a family scurrying out the door, LATE.
Follow the car with backpack straps flapping in the wind, and you’re likely to find
its first stop to be at the closest convenient
store.
The children will likely roll out and waddle inside for their first meal of the day, a
candy bar and soda.
Mom’s drive to school now merely pre- this.
cedes her race to punch the time clock.
Never did we ask for men to share part of
The average mom’s day now includes our work; we only asked to be equal to men.
working a job in which her wages still vary So we took on jobs outside the home, many
from that of men, despite the Federal Law of them previously held only by men, even
Equal Pay Act of 1963. In 2013 a survey as we kept our previous responsibilities of
showed that there still remains a gender maintaining homes and nurturing children.
wage gap of 22 cents.
How many homes, children and neighWhile mom works her 22-cents-less- borhoods have suffered as a result of the
an-hour job, she’s also working to organize Feminist Movement?
Left-winger and pubthe rest of her life, often
lic health spokeswoman
with a million phone
Diane Abbott contends
calls: Who will be home
that Feminism is partly to
for dinner? What will we
blame for the breakdown
eat? Do I need to stop at
of the family. She says
the grocery store? And,
that major issues facing
OMG, who’s picking up
society “stem from family
Susie from cheer, Bobby
Managing Editor
breakdown.”
from b-ball, and Cindy
I can understand the
from tutoring?
The thought of all these things sometimes want to do better and be better as a woman.
weighs so heavily on the mother’s mind that I can understand wanting a career and edushe loses her way at work and her job per- cation, or I wouldn’t be here at this college.
formance sometimes reflects such.
What I do not understand is how as womMom now heads to the dozens of places en and mothers we cannot realize at some
extent our feminist wants are causing added
that being a mom requires her stop.
Follow the car ride home and you’re like- stress on our children.
ly to see a familiar trend. Fast food.
I believe it is very important to teach our
Mom is tired and overwhelmed and still children to be independent and to take care
has a million things on the list left to do: of themselves, yet it is important that we rebaths, homework, housework, laundry, and member to raise our children as well.
Today most children are raised based
so on.
on the principles and scenarios they view
Women’s lives are busier than ever.
(One thing that hasn’t changed? The man on social media platforms or worse, reality
of the house still comes home to sit in front television.
A survey in 2012 showed children age
of the television.)
The sad truth is that we women asked for 2-11 spent 24 hours a week or 3 ½ hours a
Letter to the Editor
Example of ‘bad journalism’
Dear Editor,
I sat down in the Laurel Learning Commons and picked up a copy
of The Bridge Volume 15, Number
1. As I was looking through the
articles, I noticed the B.A.T Club
photo and the caption below which
said, “Timothy Grills and another
student promote the B.A.T Club
(Books, Articles, and Technology)
for the Learning Commons.” I am
that other student and my name is
Shawna McAnally, and I am the
President of the B.A.T Club. I do
not appreciate being called “another student.” Who ever wrote this
article could have easily contacted
one of us and asked for my name.
This is bad journalism and research should have been done first
before this photo was published.
Sincerely,
Shawna McAnally
President of the B.A.T. Club
Letter writer Shawna McAnally, right, sat with Timothy Grills, left,
at a recent B.A.T. Club event. The Bridge failed to identify Ms.
McAnally when the photo ran in the September issue. We regret
the oversight.- Ed.
By
Amanda
Patterson
day watching television.
The number one excuse from parents
questioned for the survey was that they
didn’t have time to sit down with their children, leaving the television to serve as a
babysitter.
From the beginning of time women have
been the bearer of children. Whether it is
by divine intention or chance that a woman
would also be the primary nurturer is a question that will never be answered. It just is.
Over time, we women have lost appreciation for the great job we were awarded
thousands of years ago, the job that only we
are equipped for—motherhood.
There is no shame in being a stay-athome mother.
I do not want to be “equal” to any man. I
value the burden and blessing of being able
to bear children and more so the fact that
men can’t.
Consider me old fashioned or even anti-feminist, but we are not equal to men. We
were never designed to be. Our greatest job
was designed for us during our creation.
It is the hardest, lowest-paying job in the
world, if you value pay in money.
While the feminists rally for their 22
cents, I will rally for more hugs and kisses.
I will rally for smarter, healthier children
raised by mothers who are willing to take
a back seat to men in the business world
because we realize our future depends on
our youth and the type of women who raise
them.
And to all the mothers working and raising their children, keep up the hard work!
The Bridge
A Student Publication for
Somerset Community College
October 2014 • Volume 15, Number 2
“The Bridge” is distributed to all SCC campuses and
is available on the web as a PDF file on SCC’s website:
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News Editor: Jesse Sellers
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Opinion
theBridge—October 2014
Online courses taking over a college near you!
Welcome! Welcome to the 21st century,
where you can shop online, fall in love online, and even get an education online. You
heard me, 100 percent of your education at
the collegiate level can be obtained by never
leaving your house.
I know what you’re thinking, “Did my
DOCTOR get his degree online?!?” Thankfully, that is not (yet) possible in that particular profession, but it is all too true for so
many others. One-third of students enrolled
in college across the United States take at
least one online course, and many are in programs or at schools where online is the only
option.
Online courses are taking over college
campuses. So is all the buzz about online
courses positive?
Most students enrolling in online classes only see the positive side to this new advance in the educational world. What could
be the bad in getting your degree from the
comfort of your own couch?
As a SCC student in her first year, I was
encouraged to take online courses. As I was
told about all the good online classes did, I
had a sparkle in my eye, much like a young
child on Christmas morning. I heard every
positive thing about online classes that my
sweet advisor had to say.
I was hooked, and I started my first year
of college 65% online, trying out the hybrid formed his only face-to-face Intro to Busiclasses and taking two completely online. ness course, in which I am enrolled, that
This left me with only two classes which most business classes will not meet face to
met face to face each week.
face next semester that my opinion soured
As the first and second weeks of the fall completely. Being a business major, this
semester went on, everything was going news did not sit well with me, nor did it with
great. Online classes seemed to be God’s the twenty-plus students sitting in class with
gift to every lazy college student, and let’s me.
face it, we are all pretty lazy. But when that
Ask yourself, what were some of the biggest draws to attend comthird week came along—
munity college? I could
BOOM—I had my first
almost guarantee that
test in a fully online
small class size and perclass.
sonal relationships with
I had done my work
professors would make
as instructed and felt
that list.
ready for my test. Once
Most online courses
I clicked the button, I
can have up to 45 stuwas exposed to raw maStaff Writer
terial that I had not been
dents in each, making it
taught, hidden definidifficult on professors to
tions and concepts that were never actual- know who exactly is emailing them quesly spoken. I managed to squeak by and re- tions. In the end, online courses leave proceived a passing grade on the test.
fessors to only know students by an ID numThe sparkle that was once in my eye was ber and having no personal relationship with
diminished by this first test. The glow of their students. Is this what we signed up for?
The online option has proven to be helpgreatness that online classes once had was
ful for classes which aren’t directly related
darkened.
One bad online experience in a gener- to one’s major. For example, simple online
al-education class was not going to confirm computer classes, such as CIT 105, would
my outlook as a whole for online courses. be beneficial to healthcare majors, who
It wasn’t until my business professor in- wouldn’t be as concerned about this course.
By
Kirsten
Wilburn
But is the online option best for classes in
one’s major? Obtaining a degree in a major
is the starting point to a career. If all your
classes were online, would you be as prepared as a student who was in class? Would
employers prefer applicants who have taken
courses in class, rather than online?
Online tests seem like a dream come true,
being able to copy and paste each and every question into a search engine, receiving
your answer in a matter of seconds. What
is that really teaching us? We learn how to
use basic computer tools, but we sure aren’t
learning the course content like we would if
we were in class.
Having classes that actually meet faceto-face encourages more study time, which
returns with a higher grade for students.
When there isn’t an option to “cheat”—or
as many students see it, “using their resources”—more learning will take place.
Yay or nay, it doesn’t seem to matter. At
SCC, the number of online classes is on the
rise, and the number of face-to-face classes
is dwindling. If the trend holds, online classes will soon overtake face-to-face.
So call your local congressman, write enraged letters to the SCC Board of Trustees,
and grab your pitchforks and torches, if you
may. The only way to change the future of
online classes is to take action now.
A spiritual autobiography: How I became a sister in the Lord
I would say that a form of reli- my mother tried to make up for
gion has been in my world off and everything that had gone so horrion throughout my life—early on, bly wrong by putting church into
every corner of our lives as often
mostly off.
Mine is a life that started out as she could. Maybe that was just
pretty rocky. I was adopted into a her way of personally dealing with
horrible home at the tender age of the pain and anguish in her own
three months. An abusive father; a life. Either way, we started attendhumble, loving but naive mother; ing a little white church down a
and three terrified older brothers back country road, set just off the
hill—Happy
came with the
Jack
Pentenew family. For
costal Church.
over eight years
We were there
nightmares
every time the
came to life inside the walls
doors
were
of our home,
opened: Sunday mornings,
nightmares that
Sunday nights,
still leave me
Staff Writer
Thursday
speaking
the
nights, and on
name of Jesus
aloud in the middle of the night the occasion of revival, every sinsometimes. If anyone needed reli- gle night of the week.
gion, it was my brothers, my famiAt first and for many years folly, this world and me.
lowing, my brother and I didn’t
After my father was finally im- like it. The sermons, the laying
prisoned for his horrible crimes on of hands in prayer that always
against a family he was supposed led to shouts, dancing, and womto love, I went to therapy. But all en screaming, and the people we
therapy ever did was leave me would see get slain in the spirit,
feeling embarrassed and bitter. It causing them to faint in the floor—
was religion—or should I say put- all these things would leave me
ting my trust in God—that begin wide-eyed and a bit freaked out.
to chip away the hate and the fear And church took so long! To me
and replace it with forgiveness and as a child, church was the longest
love.
event ever, and I dreaded it.
A form of religion was introWith this new found religion
duced full bloom after my parents of my mother’s (it hadn’t become
divorced. Looking back, I think mine... yet) came all these new
By
Flaura
Seals
strict rules that would sometime
leave even my mother questioning
and sad. I have a memory of her
crying at our home because the ladies of the church had caused her
to feel condemned over her short,
shoulder length hair. This form of
Pentecostals still lived by older
laws that required women to wear
waist-length hair and ankle-length
skirts. Because of pain in her
shoulders and arms from arthritis
mom had a hard time fixing her
long hair after the years and had
inevitably cut it. It was easier for
her to take care of but apparently
the ones who had hurt her over
it hadn’t taken the time to understand, only the time to judge.
This old-school Pentecostal
church served communion on a
regular basis. I loved communion
time. There was just something
about that one tiny shot of grape
juice (to replace the wine) to me
as a kid that left me thirsting for
more. Even though as a child I
didn’t fully know or understand
what it symbolically meant to take
the drink of juice or the tidbit of
cracker that represented the unleavened bread, but I still couldn’t
wait to grab my seat at the front in
anticipation.
It was at Happy Jack that I
first developed my relationship
with the Lord on my knees at a
wooden bench altar. I was around
the still-innocent age of eleven or
twelve. Kneeling there, I bowed
my head in prayer like I had seen
so many others do. I cried and said
“Lord, forgive me,” but I didn’t really know what I had to tell Him
that I was sorry for, so I just talked
to Him. A few weeks after that, the
pastor, Ralph Reynolds, covered
my mouth with a wash cloth and
dipped me under the current of the
Rockcastle River, in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost. I remember my
mother being in a leg cast, standing there on the rivers bank, taking pictures and crying with joy as
ladies around her sang, “Shall We
Gather At The River?” I had become a sister in the Lord.
I attended that church until I
was eighteen years old because I
had to, in accordance to my mother’s rules of the house. On the day
I turned eighteen, not only did I
move out but sadly and immediately I quit church. In my mind,
my mother’s strict reign and rule
was overbearing, and the world
was waiting for me. It would take
years for me to miss mother and
church.
Another memory and the last
memory I have of Happy Jack
was from five years ago, when
I returned there with my mother
and my daughter. It was the first
time I had walked through those
doors since I had left as a liberated teen. Now my mother was
dying of cancer.
She was so proud to show her
family off. I can still see her sitting
in the front on stage, playing her
guitar and singing. As fate would
have it, communion was held that
night. As I washed my mother’s
feet (foot-washing was also another part of the communion service),
tears ran down my face. I will never forget that day because it was
the last time I was ever in church
with my mother. She would die a
year later.
Years of adulthood and motherhood have passed for me since
then, and many different churches
have seen my face. It was as if I
was unknowingly searching for a
home, for a church where I finally felt like I belonged. Religion,
family, and Happy Jack had more
of an impact on me than I had
known.
I’ve come to believe, however,
that the name on the door of the
church I attend is not my religion,
but only a support group of sorts,
made up of people who believe
the same as I. The relationship
that I have with my God, my daily
talks with Him when we’re alone
together, the faith I have that He is
my rock and the cause of the miracles and blessings in my life, the
way I run to Him, cling to Him,
cry to Him because He has been
the only father I’ve ever known—
that’s my religion.
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Campus News
Terror, quarantine, death...
Ebola has killed over 3,000
people since its re-discovery in
March of 2014. The World Health
Organization (WHO) warns of
the death of thousands more to
come in mere weeks from the rapid spread of the deadly virus. The
failure to contain the virus; however, seems to be the catch.
Stories of extreme and tragic
loss abound across Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Senegal—families ripped apart
by sickness and death, loved ones
burned to ash in mounds with
hundreds of others. In August,
the United Nations’ health agency
called the outbreak an “international public health emergency.”
The main problem is containment. The CDC states that the Ebola virus spreads “through direct
contact (through broken skin or
mucous membranes).” The deadly disease begins with high fever,
headache, joint and muscle aches,
sore throat, weakness, stomach
pain, and lack of appetite.
If not aggressively treated, Ebola victims then experience hem-
It’s... Ebola
orrhaging, vomiting, diarrhea, runny nose, skin rash, and impaired
function of the liver and kidneys.
Currently, Ebola has a 90 percent
mortality rate.
Such a catastrophic plague demands the support of every able
body.
It is for the families affected by
this epidemic that collections will
be set out at SCC for all willing
participants and generous passers-by to donate necessary goods
to help contain the Ebola virus.
SCC will be setting out West
Africa Collection Boxes to collect
supplies to aid the regions fighting
Ebola. Beginning October 13th,
boxes will be placed at various
locations across Pulaski, Russell,
Casey, Laurel, Clinton, and McCreary counties. Below are just a
few of the locations the boxes will
be placed. Supplies can also be left
at any Somerset Community College Campus or Center. Monetary
donations can be made online at
_www.americares.org_.
Once the items are collected
and sorted, the Highway to Help
“Drop Box” Collection Box locations:
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Walmart
Kroger Grocery
Marathon Gas Station (Russell Spgs) Kmart
Little Peoples Day Care
Save-A-Lot Grocery
Sweet Beans N’ Things
Mighty Dollar
Russell Springs Police Station
Jamestown Library
The Rock
Valero Gas Station (Russell Spgs)
True Value
The Fruit Market (Russell Spgs)
(Waiting on approval from 2 hospitals)
and 3 Trees Church
• Supplies to be collected (All new, unopened, unused):
• Latex/ Non-Latex Gloves (all shapes/ sizes)
• Canned Food/ Non Perishables
• Face Masks
• New Full Bed Sheets
• Lysol Wipes
• Protective Personal Wear/ Body Suits
• Disinfectants • Lab Coats
• Sanitizers
• Mats/ Beds
• Tissue/ Paper
• All Hygiene Items
• All New/ Unused Medical Supplies
• Stethoscopes
Volunteers, which is a “Help program that assists charities and
non-profit organizations with
their shipping needs” (uship), will
transport the supplies to the Global
Health Ministries of Minneapolis,
MN from Somerset Community
College, Somerset, KY. The Global Health Ministries is a volunteer-based organization comprised
of many volunteers who “(share
their) abundant resources to impact the lives of disadvantaged
children and adults in other parts
of the world Direct involvement
by individuals and congregations
in Christ’s healing ministry ‘Helping the Hands that Heal’”(GHM).
To find out more about GHM
please visit: ghm.org or Call: (763)
586-9590.
We would appreciate any and
all donations or assistance in the
effort to fight this Ebola virus.
Thank You for you support!
Somerset Community College
808 Monticello Street
Somerset, Kentucky 42501
Phone: (606) 679-8501
Look for painted Drop Box Collection Boxes at various locations at SCC
Pictured below are members
from the Upward program
along with delegate Rebbecca
French, who made boxes to fill
with supplies needed to help in
the fight against Ebola.
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Campus News
theBridge—October 2014
Campus sexual violence: Impacts and Answers
“I am your student advocate and I am here to help you.” —Tracy Casada
By Amanda Patterson
More than 50 students, faculty, and staff
attended “Campus Sexual Violence: Impacts and Answers,” the most recent edition of SoapBox, SCC’s panel discussion
series, on September 24.
Sponsored by ‘Speak Up, Somerset!,”
SCC’s speech and debate club, the panel
discussion featured Tracy Casada, Dean
of Student Affairs; Dr. Don Whitehead,
counselor at Bethany House Abuse Shelter
in Somerset; Kelly Barnes, Associate Professor of Psychology; and Heather HurtMcAninch, Victim Advocate for Adanta
Resource Center.
It is said that at least 1 in 5 women report experiencing some type of sexual violence or abuse while in college. However,
only 12% of students who experience sexual violence or abuse report it.
SCC is addressing that issue by partnering with Everfi to provide an online training course to educate students about sexual
abuse and violence.
Several students in attendance raised a
hand to verify they had taken the course,
called Haven.
“I am your student advocate and I am
here to help you,” said Casada, who is also
SCC’s Title IX Coordinator. “I am not only
for Somerset Campus, but all campus and
centers. I am here to help you through any
process.”
Dr. Whitehead operates the Bethany
House Abuse Shelter. The shelter serves
the Lake Cumberland Area, covering 10
counties. Bethany House provides shelter,
food, clothes, counseling, and other services to men, women, and children who are
affected by abuse.
Whitehead said that one way of better
protecting women at SCC and other state
colleges is to support an expansion of the
laws concerning Emergency Protective Or-
Theatre
continued from page 1
grams to be included. We hope to
expand programs we already have
and make opportunities as well as
space for new ones.”
Steve Cleberg, the coordinator of the theatre program here at
SCC, says he definitely wants to
be involved in the planning of the
new theatre that will be in the performance arts area.
“I anticipate it will be a very
modern, very techno-savvy theatre, with digital technology and
LED lighting,” Cleberg said.
“Hopefully, this new center will
revive our music program and
give students more access to all of
our arts.”
Marshall pointed to the new
theatre as an essential feature of
the new center.
“Our theatre program has been
ders (EPOs).
Currently, state law lists those who are
eligible for an Emergency Protection Order
(EPO) as:
• a current or former spouse;
• a parent or step-parent;
• your child or step-child;
• a grandparent;
• a boyfriend / girlfriend who you currently or formerly live(d) with “as a
couple;”
• a boyfriend / girlfriend who you have
a child with (regardless of whether you
ever lived together);
Those in a dating relationship with
someone they have never lived with and do
not have a child with are not eligible for
an EPO.
“The Kentucky Senate is why we do not
have a dating protection order,” Whitehead
said. “Some of those we treat at the Bethany House do not qualify as needing protection, and that is something we need to
change.”
Whitehead provided a recent example to
illustrate the problem.
“A young woman we service at Bethany House recently met a young man, and
they had a few dates before the woman was
abused by the man in front of her child,”
said Dr. Whitehead as he shook his head
with a look of disgust on his face. “The
child was in such a state of fear she urinated on herself.”
Unfortunately, due to the current law
the mother could not file for an EPO. Dr.
Whitehead urged everyone in the room to
contact the senate and help advocate for a
change.
Kelly Barnes stated that the figure we so
often hear, that 20% of women in college
will be victims of sexual abuse or violence,
does not take into account the number of
males who are victimized.
for many years recognized as a top
notch program,” she said. “Steve
and students have received many
awards for the programs they’ve
put on and I would be delighted to
see them have a better venue for
their performances.”
The new student fee of four
dollars per credit hour that was
implemented just this fall will pay
one-fourth of the total price of the
planning for this new project.
“When planning is finished we
will go to legislature to seek funding, and we are currently receiving
positive feedback,” Dr. Marshall
said. “Hopefully, by the 2016 session plans will be passed.”
It’s not known yet where exactly on Somerset campus the
building will be located because
plans are in such early stages.
“There are areas being looked
at right now on campus,” Marshall said, “but right now the focus is more on raising funds.”
“Very rarely do we hear about males as
the victim. Does anyone know the number
one reason?” Barnes asked the audience.
“Embarrassment.”
Barnes went on to say how in society
we have a biased view on sexual abuse and
violence, especially when it comes to the
thought of men being the victim.
Adanta Resource Center is a Community Health Center that provides a number of
services to the Lake Cumberland area.
Hurt-McAninch was on the panel to discuss some of the services Adanta offers.
“We are basically here to provide a helping hand and shoulder to lean on for the
victims,” she said. “We provide services in
our office, in the hospital room, in the court
room, really anywhere the client needs us.”
Adanta not only provides services for
the victim, but for the abuser as well.
“We need to remember that we must
treat the abuser as well, they need help
also,” Hurt-McAninch said. “A lot of times
we find the abuser stems from past childhood abuse.”
Statistics show that one in four women
will be a victim of domestic violence in
her lifetime. In the United State, 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault
by an intimate partner every year. It is the
leading cause of injury to women between
the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States
– more than car accidents, muggings and
rapes combined.
“We are very fortunate to have these services in our area to be able to refer students
to,” said Casada. “I want students to know
if they are experiencing any level of abuse
either on campus or at home, we can provide resources to help.”
Only 10% complete training
By Amanda Patterson
Less than 10% of SCC
students completed the first
section of Haven, a two-part
a sexual assault and domestic violence training course
for college students.
The course is being offered for the first time across
all 16 KCTCS colleges.
“SCC takes this issue
very seriously and will take
appropriate action to ensure
our students have a safe college community,” said Tracy Casada, Dean of Student
Affairs.
SCC
has
partnered
with the Lexington, Kentucky-based company Everfi, which offers the plat-
form Haven. Everfi offers
many different programs to
colleges and schools from
K-12 to help assist students
in several areas, such as finances, digital education,
and substance abuse.
Colleges and universities around the country are
turning to Haven and similar programs to help meet
new federal guidelines. On
March 7, 2013,President
Barack Obama signed into
law the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE)
Act, legislation designed to
combat sex discrimination
in education, and to help
students, faculty and staff
recognize and help prevent
sexual abuse and violence.
Despite the low completion rate of the first section
of Haven, Casada is encouraged by the attention the
training program is receiving.
“We are very pleased
with the support of our
faculty,” said Mrs. Casada.
“Quiet a few offered bonus
points for the completion of
the course.”
The second part of the
course will available for students to complete before the
end of the fall semester.
The course is not mandated this year, but Mrs.
Casada feels it will be mandatory soon.
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So why the jogging pants today? Did you just come from
the gym and didn’t have time to
change before class? Or did you
just roll out of bed? As it turns
out, maybe now you won’t have to
worry about looking so lazy.
According
to
Glamour
magazine,
workout
clothes are now
becoming a fashion trend. I cringe
at the thought, but
if Glamour says so,
then it’s a go.
Women are feeling very self-confident in the way
jogging
pants,
yoga pants, and
other
types
of
workout pants are
making them feel,
body-conscious
wise. They are even
pairing the workout
pants with heels
and wearing them
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My mind is blown.
My opinion, at least throw on a
pair of nice blue jeans. We’ve all
made this fashion mistake though,
I am sure. I am guilty of it too, of
course. I look back on my teen-
age years and cringe about what I
thought was stylish.
Workout clothes have also been
on the runway at fashion week. If
it’s done on the runway, I guess it
can’t be wrong. I still prefer blue
jeans, though.
Another
note:
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ahead. Sport them.
Glamour says “it’s a
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Glamour is my bible, so I’m on board.
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Stereotypes...
Stereotypes are a source of
division among students
Stereotypes affect everybody Unlearning them requires being
of every race, color, or status. around diversity.”
Most of the time people can’t help
But we have to protect ourbut stereotype other people—or selves because we all know that
one person who really lives a stecan they?
The Merriam-Webster Dictio- reotype. Some stereotypes could
nary defines “stereotype” as, “to be threatening to our self-identity
believe unfairly that all people and possibly our environmental
or things with a
stability.
particular charBut then, do
acteristic are the
we really have
same.”
time to worry
Stereotyping
about all this?
at SCC affects
Wasn’t it Jesus
everyone in our
that said, “Ye
campus
comwithout sin, cast
Staff Writer
munity.
Some
the first stone”?
students
feel
We’re
all
that stereotyping causes divisions guilty of being human. We’re all
amongst the student body.
out here on planet Earth, strugJohn Simpson, a student at the gling to survive—some not so
Somerset Campus, said, “Stereo- much—but we’re all living life for
types keep you from getting to the first time.
know people on a personal level.
Think of all the ways we diPeople put up a wall towards ste- vide ourselves, as humans: rich,
reotypes.”
poor, gay, lesbian, black, white,
So, what’s so different between Hispanic, Afghan, Indian, Native
me and you? Sure, we’ve lived American, Chinese, European, fat,
through different experiences that skinny, short, tall, smart, dumb.
led us to this point in time in our Why do we humans focus on the
lives, but other than that, what’s simplistic things, when there is a
the difference?
world of worlds to prosper in?
“I think I stereotype people
We could learn so much and
myself,” student Kyle Miller said. accomplish great things if we just
“We all do it to an extent. Most looked past the simple divisions
stereotypes are unwarranted and that we’ve been conditioned to
taught to respond to ignorance. see.
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Dominic
Rodriguez
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By Samantha Couch
Every year around this time,
kids get excited and work really
hard to make themselves look really mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky.
Some adults get just as excited about the opportunity to dress
up—both themselves and their
homes.
Johnna Atkinson-Bigelow is
just such a person.
Bigelow, a long-time professor of communication at SCC, is
known for organizing fun Halloween events both at the college and
at her home, where her family really gets into the fun.
Her family’s Halloween celebrations began in October of 1997
when they moved into their current home.
“When I was a kid, I loved
trick-or-treating at houses that
would play spooky music, and I
couldn’t wait to do the same when
I had a house of my own,” she said.
She tried to add to the decorations and atmosphere each
year. Eventually, her house started drawing local attention. It was
even the subject of a Commonwealth Journal article in 2012 titled “Bigeloween.”
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Happy Halloween!
Bigelow, an advisor for the Phi
Theta Kappa, will bring her ghoulish touch to the honor society’s
most popular annual event. Along
with co-advisors Margo Hamm,
Julie Howe, and Chelsie Wolfe,
she is organizing the “Monster
Bash” Halloween party for students and their children on October 20th and 23rd.
Laurel Campus, south, will
hold a Monster Bash on Monday,
Oct. 20, in rooms 200 and 201
from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. The Somerset Campus will hold its Monster
Bash in Meece Hall on Thursday,
Oct. 23, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Each “Bash” will feature a costume contest and a carved pumpkin contest. The Monster Bash is
a kid-friendly event and free of
charge.
Bigelow is a ghoul with a goal,
and that goal has been entertaining
children at Halloween, whether
at the Monster Bashes or at her
home.
Visiting her home has become
a “family Halloween tradition” for
many people in the community.
Over the years, she and her family
have “attracted quite the crowd,”
she said.
“I think the best thing about
what we do is the anonymity of just
providing some wonderful childhood memories for generations of
kids,” Bigelow said. “They may
not have any idea of our names,
but years from now, they’ll be
talking about that crazy house on
Crab Orchard St. that scared them
to death every Halloween!”
Bigelow, a fan of haunted
houses and scary movies, said
that she and her family—husband Brad, daughter Brynlee,
and son Braden—try to mix up
the “scare-factor” each year, “so
to explain what we might do this
year would ruin it.”
Trick-Or-Treat times in your area
Somerset Campus AreaOctober 31st, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Laurel Campus AreaOctober 31st, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Russell Center AreaOctober 31st, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Clinton Center AreaOctober 31st, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Casey Center AreaOctober 31st, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
McCreary Center AreaOctober 31st, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Dates and times are subject to change- check local listings
Learning Commons on SCC’s
Somerset Campus Host
The Learning
Commons on
SCC’s Somerset
Campus finds
itself to be more
than a little
“haunted” this
month. As a
result, the
“Madame X,
Librarienne of
Mystery”
column is not
available for this
issue. Look for it
in the November
edition of
The Bridge.
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Every coin has two sides
By Flaura Seals
We pass them daily in the halls.
We sit in on their classroom lectures of knowledge as they mold
and shape the minds of tomorrow.
Then we take their exams and
move on to the next semester and
the next set of educators.
But we never really get to know
much more about our instructors
than their names. Why is that? Because we don’t have to.
But it turns out that most of
them, like us, actually have their
own lives outside of campus. And
those lives can have some pretty
interesting stories to them.
Take Assistant Professor Jeff
McFadden, for example. Based
at the Laurel Campus, he teaches
history as a member of SCC’s Division of Humanities, Fine Arts &
Social Sciences.
One would never guess that
when he isn’t lecturing on the
ghosts and glories of the Civil War
that he can sometimes be found
playing lead guitar for a band
called The Grand Jury, picking
mostly classic rock and blues.
McFadden, who has been a
member of The Grand Jury off and
on since he was fourteen, says he
received his first guitar when he
was only six years old.
“It’s a great outlet, definitely
helps me to relieve stress and has
always allowed me to express myself, even as a child,” McFadden
said. “I have always had a deep
love for both history and music.”
Crediting artists like Jimi Hendrix and The Allman Brothers as
life-long musical inspirations, McFadden took guitar lessons for a
little over a year beginning when
he was nine years old.
Jeff McFadden
“I had learned the basics, the
chords, what I needed to know to
play,” he said, “but I moved on
because [my teacher] wouldn’t let
me play rock-n-roll.
“I wanted to learn electric.”
McFadden can also recount
the moment when he knew that
playing for The Grand Jury, which
has opened for artists like Molly Hatchet, The Marshall Tucker
Band, and Robin Tower, would
most likely be a side gig and not
his career.
“We were in Nashville, trying to make it, sitting in a music
shop when this guy came in off the
streets,” he said. “He was obviously homeless, but he picked up this
guitar and started shredding it. He
was incredibly talented.
“I told my buddy, ‘If he’s that
good and starving, we’ll never
make it.’ I went home and went to
college.”
McFadden says that while he
rarely gets applause in the classroom, he still finds it very much
fulfilling.
“There’s no feeling in the
world like playing,” he said.
“You lock in with other musicians and you’re creating music
together, very much in sync, and
Jeff McFadden, assistant professor, rocks out at Thursday Night
Live held in London, Kentucky.
running on your subconscious
mind.
“The same thing happens in
the classroom when I get lost in
the history—both are creative
outlets for me.”
Gibberish Vault: Is it ‘story telling’ or story ‘showing?’
Last time in the Gibberish vault, we began a two- armored man unsheathes his sword. The man in cloth
part issue named “Show and Tell.” In part one, we collects herbs as his partner guards him. The hermit
were told a story, now, we’ll be shown. Now, for the offers up his knife to the armored man and says lightly
something not understandable to the pair.
second installment of “Show and Tell”:
They look at him quizzically and the hermit peaceIn a hovel placed on a small island next to a great
land lived a young man, a hermit. Trees were sparse fully moves towards the patch, gathers some of the
but plant life was bountiful on the island, and the sun grassy fibrous tissue and begins to process it in his
was nearly directly overhead while the hermit was ly- mortar and pestle that was stored away in his satchel.
ing curled on a make shift bed, snoring loudly.
Stirring and crushing vigorously, the finely clothed
Light finally reaching his face through a hole in man begins observing the hermit’s odd alchemical
the roof of the primitive hovel wakes him. He looks process and lets loose yet another series of incoherent
around at the various bottles sursounds towards the hermit. From
rounding him, littering nearly evunderneath his cloak, the finally
ery surface in his home. Some of
dressed man pulls a book and quill,
them filled with differently colored
and from his pocket, an inkwell and
liquids, some empty, waiting to be
begins to strenuously take down
filled.
notes while constantly staring at the
hermit.
The hermit rises to his feet and
The hermit finishes his poultice,
stretches and then reaches for a pale
Staff Writer
and offers it to the two. Looking at
of water that sits beside his pack,
each other, they speak in muffled
and the door. With cupped hands he
drinks from the bucket and splashes his face, bringing voices and accept the gift. The armored man then runs
life to his eyes. Grabbing the satchel that hangs near- his sword through the hermit and collects his satchby, he inhales deeply and sets out.
el. The two then leave the forest and the dead hermit,
Venturing into the nearby wooded area, the hermit board a boat, and return to headquarters on the mainsteps lightly as he looks at the ground. He passes up land.
There, the finely clothed man inspects the elixir
all sorts of shrubbery and many flowers until finally
he stops and glares at a patch of unusually colorful created by the hermit, and eventually opens the homeherbs. He approaches slowly, but as he draws close made glass bottle. His nose resembles bellows as he
to the cluster of curious chickweeds, two armed men draws in a putrid smell and he quickly covers his face
with his hand. He begins coughing and gagging as his
cross his path.
One of the men is armored, wearing a steel hat and arm soon falls to his side. The curious aristocrat colshirt, while the other is dressed in fine cloth attire that lapses over, lifeless, and his armored friend is the first
can only be found in the mainland. The armored man to discover his body.
Thus ends the “show” portion of the Gibberish
stares violently at the hermit while the softer-looking
Vault, and of the story about the devious hermit and
man peers confused at the patch of plants.
The hermit takes several steps backwards as the the tricky nature of alchemy. Until next time...
By
Matt
Olmstead
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Campus News
Building a webpage: Part 2
By Jesse Sellers
We learned how to obtain our
website name and hosting options
in the last article. We will now turn
our attention to building our home
page. A home page is simply the
“landing” space where people go
to when they type your website
name in their browser.
There are many options to
consider when building the page.
Whether there will be photos or
how your links will be displayed
are only a couple things to think
about. Once you get the basic
idea of what you want the page to
look like, you will need to decide
what software you want to build
it. There are a multitude of different software ideas to choose from.
Whether you use the site builder
that routinely comes with the hosting space or proprietary software
like Adobe’s Dreamweaver software or Coffee Cup, the end results can be very similar.
One thing about Dreamweaver
is it has significant features and
tools that will allow even those
with little experience to build a
webpage that is not only pleasing
to look at but very functional as
well. Once you install your chosen software, take a little time to
get familiar with the features and
functions that come with it.
I realize it will be difficult to
explain this process precisely without visual aid, so I will touch on
the main parts of building a page
and then put a couple images that
will cover the process of building a
webpage in Dreamweaver in better
detail.
When you begin to build your
home page, the first thing to do is
create a new page and save it as index.html. This is critical and your
site will not function if the page
is named anything other than “index”, whether its extension is php,
css, or html makes no difference.
The next step is to apply a background image to your site. This
image will then be the canvas on
which you will build the remainder of the site. Once you have your
background image in place, you
can go on to insert your tables and
images. The most important part
of inserting material is positioning
the header and footer correctly.
When inserting the main tables
to hold your header, I think it is
important to note the table must
be centered on the page, this will
allow for proper centering in any
browser and any video configura-
Club participation
By April Robinson
When many—if not most—students are handed a flyer promoting
a campus club or organization, the
typical response is “I didn’t even
know we had clubs.”
Many students are oblivious to
the fact that there are other things
to do at SCC besides attending
class. Even those who are aware
of the various clubs available are
not necessarily taking part.
What is the reason for the lack
of participation?
According to Julie Howe, sponsor of the B.A.T. Club (Books, Articles, and Technology), for many
students, it is simply a matter of
priorities.
“A lot of students are commuters and have families at home,”
Howe said. “They don’t have a lot
of time to spend on extra things
outside of classes.”
Roberta Barbalace, sponsor of
the Creative Writing Club, agrees.
“We don’t have any student interest,” Barbalace said. “We need
a more campus-feel of things, like
how the Creative Writing Clubs
hosts its meetings at Starbucks.
It gives it a college-like atmosphere.”
There are currently more than
two dozen active clubs at SCC,
according to the SGA. Could there
be too many clubs? Are students
simply overwhelmed at the number of options?
Neither Howe nor Barbalace think that is the case. In fact,
Barbalace believes there are not
enough clubs available on the
Laurel Campus.
Laurel student Amanda Ellison
is interested in joining clubs, including the Anime Club.
“Most of the clubs I wanted to
join were on the Somerset Campus only,” Ellison said. “I live in
London.”
While faculty are encouraged
to sponsor clubs as a way to serve
the campus community, both
Howe and Barbalace say they
work as sponsors because they are
passionate about their clubs, not
for a “career boost.”
They do caution students about
the time commitment involved in
club membership.
“A negative [about club membership] would be that there isn’t
enough time for it all,” Howe said.
“But the paybacks are so good that
it makes up for it.”
Barbalace agrees: “a negative
would be that some of the students
get so involved with clubs that
they actually forget about their
classes. However, there are a lot
more positives.”
tion. Once your table is set, you
may import the image you have
decided to use as your header. This
process is followed when inserting
the footer as well.
After you have established a
working header and footer, you
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may insert the body of the page,
which contains the bulk of your
main content, between the header
and footer. This is where you will
put your links as well, whether it is
links to any other pages you may
have or even links to other sites.
Once all the material is inserted you must save and upload
your page to the host server we
discussed in the previous article.
Once uploaded, your page is then
visible to the general public and
they can interact with it.
Screenshot in Dreamweaver of www.thebridgenewsonline.com during the building phase.
Laurel
Campus
celebrates
Constitution
Day
By Samantha Couch
On the 17th of September, the
227th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution was celebrated at the Laurel North campus.
Constitution Day, an event
hosted by SCC history instructor
Jeffery McFadden, was attended
by a small crowd of faculty, staff
and students.
The gathering began with a
short video titled “Liberty!” McFadden showed episode 6, “Are
We to Be a Nation?” which focuses on the period between 1783
and 1788. This film explores the
context of the writing of the Constitution and the divisive issues the
new nation faced after winning independence.
After the film, a short discussion and question-and-answer session was held.
History instructor Melinda Allen, who also spoke at the event,
said that she is a fan of the selected
video and of Alexander Hamilton,
a nationalist and one of the 39 delegates who signed the Constitution
in 1787.
McCreary Center delegate, Rebecca Meadows, above center, recently hosted a blood drive.
Pumpkin Carving Contest
Oct. 23 at East End Gallery
The East End Gallery is holding its 2014 Pumpkin Carving
Contest at the annual “Monster
Bash” on the Somerset Campus on
October 23.
Participants are responsible for
the transportation of their pumpkins to and from the event (Please
do not mail pumpkins). Entries
should be accompanied by a piece
of paper with the name of the
pumpkin, the carver’s name and
contact information. Children under the age of 16 should have adult
supervision when carving. Only
one entry per person.
The Monster Bash will be held
on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 5:307:00 p.m. in the Meece Auditorium. Judging starts at 6 p.m.
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Heritage Fest 2014
SCC McCreary Center
Campus News
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Dowell as McDowell in the Kentucky
Chautauqua Series at Laurel Campus
By Flaura Seals
When L. Henry Dowell, an
established author and internationally known playwright from
central Kentucky, was brought to
the podium by Laurel SGA student delegate Samantha Rookard
on Oct. 14, he was set to give a
performance lecture as historical
frontier surgeon Dr. Ephraim McDowell from the 1800’s.
In full character and period
dress—suit, tails, and ruffles—he
spoke of arriving by horse and
buggy, and immediately captured
the attention of a full audience of
SCC students and faculty at the
Laurel Campus.
Dowell gave an informative
and moving representation of Dr.
McDowell, a frontier doctor in
Kentucky and Virginia primarily during the first two decades of
the 19th century. Dr. McDowell is
known historically for performing
the world’s first abominable surgery by removing a twenty-two
pound ovarian tumor from a
46-year-old Kentucky woman.
As a young man, Dr. McDowell studied with surgeon John Bell
in Scotland and went on to marry Sarah Shelby, the daughter of
the first governor of Kentucky.
Together, they had six children.
When he returned to Danville in
1795, Dr. McDowell began his
own medical practice and was
known as a country doctor who
would take chickens as payment
from customers who were too
poor to pay the medical fees.
The highlight of McDowell’s medical career came when
he met a lady named Jane Todd
Crawford, from Green County,
who was believed to be pregnant
and seriously overdue. McDowell
discovered she had been misdiagnosed. In fact, instead of being
pregnant, she was suffering with a
large ovarian tumor.
“Young doctors, there will
come a day when you will have to
give of yourself to help another,”
said the actor Dowell in character
as Dr.McDowell. He then recounted telling lady Crawford that to
attempt to remove the tumor by
way of operation was predicted
by all of his colleagues to lead to
her death. But, he told her, if she
were prepared to die at worst case
scenario and willing to trust him,
he could safely remove the lump
from her at his home in Danville.
They both understood that this was
an unheard-of, never-before-done
experiment.
Dr. McDowell performed the
surgery on Christmas day, and patient Crawford sang gospel hymns
and quoted Bible scripture instead
of choosing alcohol anesthesia,
until she literally passed out from
the pain.
The good doctor had a prayer
scribbled on a piece of paper
tucked in his pocket, which he
was well known for, during the
operation—which turned out to
be a success. In less than a month,
Crawford was home and recovered.
Chautauqua performance of Abraham Lincoln
Laurel delegate, Samantha Rookard, introduced Chautauqua performance of Dr. Ephraim McDowell
on Wednesday, October 15.
SCC’s McCreary Center hosted two Chautauqua series
performances during their Heritage Fest held on
Wednesday, October 15. Above, Mark Twain performs.
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Campus News
International Flag display
By Amanda Patterson
68 flags are on display in the
Rogers Student Commons on the
Somerset Campus. The display
represents the various heritages
of our students, faculty, staff and
members of the community.
The International Flag Display
came about as a result of an initiative recommended by the SCC
Diversity Initiatives team several
years ago.
The display has gained the support of many, including one of our
KCTCS vice presidents who financially supported this effort.
“The flags we see represent students, faculty, and staff who have
graced our campuses and centers,”
said Elaine Wilson, Director of
Cultural Diversity. “All cultures
are welcome at SCC. These flags
go a long way toward providing
we have open arms for all!”
SCC student and Multicultural Club President, Dino Melgoza,
was surprised when arriving in
Somerset to find his connection to
his heritage.
“I have made more connections
with my culture and the people of
Mexico since coming to Somerset
Community College than when I
lived in Texas or California. Who
knew?” said Melgoza. “Seeing the
flag of my people, the flag of Mex-
ico, above in the cafeteria of the
Student Commons, is a reminder
to me that our proud heritage is
alive and strong in Somerset Kentucky.”
Each year, the college sends
out a call for flags that are not on
display, but represent the heritage
of a member of the SCC family or
the community.
So far, there have been requests
for the following flags to be added: Cambodia, Saint Lucia and the
Comanche Nation.
If the flag representing your
heritage is not displayed, please
contact Mrs. Wilson at [email protected].
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Pictured
to the
right,
Julio Ortiz,
third
year
student,
looks at
the flag
display
seen
hanging in
The Grill
which represents his
Mexican
heritage.
Photo by Amanda Patterson
SCC’s Somerset Campus International Festival Schedule
Thursday, October 16, 2014 • Family Farming: Feeding the World
Time
Student
Commons
Community Room
Student
Commons
Grill
Outside
on Stage
Meece
Auditorium
Student Commons
Corridor Exhibit all day unless specified
Learning
Commons
9:00
Cosmetology Fashion
Display – All Day
Stoner Hall: East End
Gallery Student Council
AKA Art Club – will host
the volunteers from Peace
Craft
Parade of Nations –
Bagpipers, students,
flags;
Emcee Jon Burlew
8:30 – Flag bearers will
collect flags and line up
for parade.
EF – Study Abroad
– Liz Correll
All Day: Anime Club
Wayne County Homemakers – Breads and
coffee from Baxter’s
9:30
10:30
11:30
1:30
2:30
Ecuador exhibit
– Freya Munsee
Indoor Gardening: Sustainable Living: Chad and
Rachel Tipton
Celtic Music
– Robert Tincher
“World Hunger, Family
Farming and NGOs”
Presentation
– James Taylor
(Non-governmental
organizations)
Monticello Elementary
Waynetonian Choir
BIG MARACAS - from
Lexington
Sustainability Network
– Jim Embry - Lexington
Presentation on
Bangladesh
- Jahurul Karim
Native American Display –
Nechalae Williams
The Philippines
– Dr. Cecelia Ramilo
NOTE: in case of rain
Meece Hall, Room 138
All Day: Peacecraft –
One World Gifts
10-12 Pulaski County
Homemakers – Cookies
and Tea
10:30 Thailand –
Tong Tong
NOTE: in case of rainMeece Hall Room 138
Water Purification Demo
– Norrie Wake
11:10 Update on Uganda
– Ronald Kaluya
NOTE: in case of rainMeece Hall Room 138
International Lunch –
prepared and served by
the SCC Culinary Arts
Program.
Tai Chi – Martial Arts
Club and PTA Students
Bocci (Italian Game) PTA
Students
12:15 – 1:20
Chopstick Relay
– Dr. Mike Searcy
Life in New Zealand
– Keith and Glenna
Adams
Pulaski County
Extension Agency:
The Whole Canning
Process
– Edith Lovett
Kim Toby’s House of
Cards Club - Exhibit
A Place Called
Paradise:
Peruvian Presentation –
PowerPoint
– Bill Phelps
LC Conference Room:
Origami Demo
– Natalie Winstead