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SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE/ AREA TECHNICAL SCHOOL

February 12

CrusaderAntigoné LoweryCrusader staff

Members of the college and of thecommunity recently pulled together andraised $5,000 in donations to go to stu-dent Regine Beauchard’s family inHaiti.Beauchard’s family home was devas-

tated in the Jan. 12 earthquake, but herfamily’s hope and desire to help othershas remained.SIFE, along with help and donations

from First Christian Church Disciples ofChrist and National Beef, held afundraiser to raise money for theBeauchard’s family home and churchwhere her father, Mara, is a pastor.The fundraiser was held at FCC on

Jan. 31 from noon to 2 p.m. The $5,000in donations that was raised was put intoa bank account set up for Regine and her

family by FCC atFirst NationalBank.SIFE members

helped prepare andserve food at thefundraiser. Contri-butions were madeby National Beef.

SIFE memberPoe Castillo, alongwith students Sha-ley Thomas andTasha Duvall, waslargely involved insetting up thefundraiser, as wellas being a part of it.

“I know Regine personally, and she isa great friend of mine. I feel that the

event was a great success to helpBeauchard’s family. I just wish we couldhelp all of Haiti,” Castillo said.Although Beauchard is not with her

family in Haiti, she has appreciated theencouragement and help from membersof the college and everyone who helpedto raise money for her family’s homeand church.“The luncheon was a great turn out. I

didn’t expect that many people. Everylittle bit counts, that’s why eventuallywe came up with this amount. Thisamount will give a great push to con-structing a new single building, and I’mso thankful for everyone’s support andgenerosity.”The money raised for Beauchard’s

family was made available to them theday after the fundraiser.

SIFE raises $5,000 for student’s family in Haiti

The public is invited to acome and go brunch at 11:30a.m.- to 1 p.m., Feb. 21, in thecollege Student Union.The cost is $6 per person and

entertainment will be providedby the Seward County students.

Public invited tobrunch at college

Liberal preparesfor Pancake DayTuesday, Feb. 16 there will be

no classes at the college to cele-brate International Pancake day.To learn more about Pancake

Day, see page 6.

Students interested in trans-ferring to Fort Hays State Uni-versity, Kansas State Universityor the University of Kansas maysign up in the administration of-fice for a college visit.March 5 at 10:30 a.m. is the

FHSU college visit, and stu-dents wishing to attend willleave at 7 a.m. that morning.The sign up deadline for FHSUis Feb. 19.The KSU and KU college

visit will be combined into onetrip April 15-16. Students willleave at 7 a.m. the 15 and gethome by 7 p.m. the 16. The signup deadline for the KSU andKU visit is April 2, and a $20fee plus meals will be charged.

College visits scheduledfor FHSU, KSU and KU

Skills USA will sell carna-tions for $5 in front of the SaintsBookstore today.Carnations will be white with

red or solid red and have aValentine sucker and card at-tached.Proceeds will help fund the

Skills USA trip to state contestinApril.

Skills USA sellscarnations

Musher visits SC

College library hostsexhibit for FebruaryKansans of African Descent:

Selected Portraits, the travelingexhibit, has made its way to thecollege library for the month ofFebruary.Well-known people of

African descent who havecalled Kansas home are featuredin this exhibit, which is free tothe public.

The spring 2010 Phi ThetaKappa induction ceremony fornew members is scheduled for 2p.m. Feb. 21 in SW229.In order to be eligible to be in-

vited to join PTK, students mustbe enrolled in 12 credit hoursand have a 3.5 GPA.Contact Debbie Stafford at

debbie.stafford@sccc.edu or417-1106 for more information.

PTK plans inductionceremony for spring

Graduation gownssold February onlyGraduation robe orders will

be taken from Feb. 1 to Feb. 29in the Saints Bookstore.A graduation charge of $36

plus tax for associate degreecandidates and $31 plus tax forcertificate of completion candi-dates is due when placing robeorders.

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SIFE members Nancy Arredondo and Josie Avalos help RegineBeauchard prepare food for Haiti benefit dinner Jan. 31.

Joseph HoffmanCrusader staff

A rural issues conference on Sustaining ourRural Communities will showcase the highly es-teemed keynote speaker Dr. Lowell Catlett amongother experts during sessions Feb. 18 and 19. Theconference is hosted by the agriculture departmentat Seward County Community College/Area Tech-nical School and will be in the student activitiesbuilding.The conference, which begins with registration

at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 18, will cover estate planning,retirement investment, being a successful landlord,career opportunities, alternative energy sources,commodity trends and outlook and Highway 54and 83 upgrades.Catlett, a regent’s professor/dean and chief ad-

ministrative officer at New Mexico State Univer-sity's College of Agriculture, Consumer and Envi-ronmental Sciences, will speak at the banquetThursday evening, Feb. 18.Seward agriculture department instructor Evan

Winchester is coordinator of the rural issues con-ference and is excited about Catlett’s being part ofthe program.“Dr. Catlett is easily the best speaker I have ever

heard,” Winchester said.As a futurist, Catlett’s knowledge of technolo-

gies and implications on life and work is addressedin his presentations. He was named the 2007 Out-standing Alumni at West Texas A&M University.He works nationally and internationally with cor-porations and organizations as well as the U.S. de-partments of agriculture, labor, interior, defense,education, energy and theWorld Bank.Full registration for the Liberal conference is

$30, which includes the Thursday evening dinnerand Friday lunch. Registration for the Thursdayevening dinner and keynote speaker is $20. Stu-dent registration is $15. Registration without mealsis available at the door for $15.Those wishing to register for the conference may

contact Winchester at 620-417-1353 or evan.win-chester@sccc.edu.Mike Irwin, director of the Kansas Farm Bureau

Legal Foundation, is the Friday luncheon speaker.A native of Goodland, he has an extensive back-ground in commercial and civil litigation and pub-lic administration.Platinum sponsors are Pioneer Seed—Bill

Hatcher and Rock Ormiston; KSCB radio; FirstNational Bank of Liberal and Hugoton; andSeaboard Foods. Gold sponsors are Great WesternDining and Farm Credit of Southwest Kansas.Meal and conference sponsors are Bank of BeaverCity, Seward County FarmBureauAssociation andThe Community Bank.� Some information in this story was from a

SCCC/ATS news release.

Iditarod dog musher KarenLand will be in the library atnoon Feb. 17.Land will be joined by her

sled dog Borage, and togetherthey will give a dog mushingpresentation.

Ag brings ruralissues to campus

SC celebrates Kansas’sbelated birthday todayDeisi BarbozaOnline editor

Kansas Day activities sponsored by Sigma ChiChi, Seward County Historical Museum, KansasCorp member Lacy Gracia and USD 480 werecanceled due to weather issues on Jan. 29. Theevent has been rescheduled for today from 8:30a.m. to 1:30 p.m.The events are being attended by eight fourth-

grade classes. Activities for the students include a“Jeopardy-like” game about Kansas history andtours around the Coronado Museum. The studentswill also participate in an essay competition enti-tled “What I learned about Kansas history.” Topcontestants will win prizes such as family moviepasses, college basketball tickets, T-shirts and otherprizes.Students attending are MarioArmendariz, Corey

Clark, Carlos Enriquez, Aaron Gibler, Mark Har-tle, Keaton Kliner, Dominique Lee, Dustin Little,Andrew Mains, Francisco Moreno, Jaime Peralta,Adam Regier, Enrique Rodriguez, Janette Vargasand Christian Valenzuela.

Dana LoewenNews Editor

Haiti is the poorest country in the westernhemisphere with 4/5 of the population underthe poverty level.Isaac Fuentes, Cindy Handley and Kim

Thomas took separate missions trips to Haitibefore the recent earthquakes.Seward student Isaac Fuentes went to Haiti

July 4 of last year and was there for five days.He went with 11 other people from his church,the First Southern Baptist Church, including anelectrician, a mechanic and a constructionworker.Their project was to construct the walls on

the second story of the orphanage, which theyhad already sent money to for pouring the ce-ment to make the ceiling of the first floor andfloor of the second floor.Fuentes decided to go to Haiti when he heard

about the trip in church. “The Lord kind of toldme it’s time to do something for someone else,”Fuentes said.“It’s a really good experience to see what’s

outside this country,” Fuentes said. “We’re sosheltered here.”The population is what surprised him the

most when he got to Haiti.“There’s a huge amount of people, and

they’re all poor,” Fuentes said. “What we con-sider poor is abundant wealth compared tothem. In what we’d call a small room, a familywould live there with no bathroom. The kids

beg on the streets, and the parents work for adollar a day.”Fuentes also visited the ravine.“It was trash, and they just built their homes

on top of it, because they had no where else togo,” Fuentes said.“It makes you think of what you have, and it

really humbles you,” Fuentes said.“But they were the happiest kids I’ve ever

seen,” Fuentes said. “In the face of so muchsadness, they still praise God. It’s really incred-ible.”After hearing about the earthquake, Fuentes

was “concerned for my new friends wonderingif they were taken by the Lord or were OK.”“It was a long two days that we didn’t get

news from them, and even then we didn’t hearfrom all of them. One of the teachers who Imade good friends with, I just found out twoweeks ago that he was OK,” Fuentes said. “Wedid lose one orphan named Peterson.”The orphanage the group helped build sur-

vived the quakes.“Amazingly!” Fuentes said. “Thanks to the

Lord, it was built well enough. The Lord musthave been guiding our hands on that day be-cause we were all rookies. I was surprised itlived through the earthquake, and not just anearthquake but an earthquake with some prettymighty aftershocks.”Fuentes wants to go back and plans to return

in July. The orphanage was planned to be threestories tall, so they will be finishing up the ceil-ing and third floor.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Port-au-Prince,Haiti, on Jan. 12. Since then, people from all over theworld have reached out to this impoverished country.

Haiti has been all over the news lately, but the country wasin trouble even before the whole world heard about it.

HaitiHaition a Missionon a Mission

•The mission assists a growing net-work of 335 primary schools servingover 65,000 Haitian children.

•All of the schools associat-ed with BHM are connect-

ed with local church-es and offer educa-tion to communi-ties where no otherschool exists.•Each of them

offers a strongChristian educa-tion for 6 grades.BMH provided

262,000 schoolbooks last year.•More than

600,000 mealsper year are givenaway to feed stu-dents.•There are

more than 1,500teachers andover 280 direc-tors currentlyworking at theschools.•Yearly, over

1,200 teachersare trainedthrough theteacher trainingprogram.

One of the leading Haiti Mis-sions, Baptist Haiti Mission,has been working to improveHaiti conditions since 1943.

SC reflects on missions work in Haiti

• See Missions page 3

Dr. Duane Dunn accepts the mayor’s pancake flipping chal-lenge, two students halftime entertainers compete for MissLiberal and the whole drama class runs for recognition.

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NEWS2 Friday, February 12, 2010CRUSADER

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In the last Crusader edition, I explained the basic conceptsabout how to invest in the stock market. Now I will give yousome tips to successfully invest, choose the right companies,and make the right decisions. There are eight basic tips that Iconsider essential to getting good results investing in thestock market, they are as follows:1. Understand and follow the market factors. Markets can-not rise or fall forever, they are affected byseveral factors, such as economic factors(inflation, exchange rate, stage in the busi-ness cycle, etc.), political decisions, interna-tional factors (wars, trade barriers, etc.), andobviously everything that happens insidethe company boundaries (change in themanagement team, a new product).2. Develop your strategy by defining yourlong term goals, how much money you wantto invest, investing time and risk tolerance.3. Invest for the long term. In the shortterm, stocks tend to be volatile, reacting toevery single news item published about theeconomy, the market, and the company. Bepatient and focus on a company’s funda-mental performance. In time the market will recognize andproperly value the good companies.4. Choosing well known companies reduces your risk. It ishard for a big corporation to fail, so buy well known compa-nies when they are cheap to safely get a good price. Withweaker companies, buying cheap can be dangerous becausethere is a good chance that the company will fail. A good wayto do that is to invest in companies that are part of the DowJones Industrial Average, which includes 30 big companiesrepresenting the various parts of our economy. Some of thesecompanies are IBM, Microsoft, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca-

Cola, Disney, General Electric, AT&T, McDonald’s, Wal-Mart stores and Pfizer.5. Diversify your portfolio. No personal investment strate-gy is complete without diversification. It helps you to reduceyour risk because when one sector in the economy goes badother sectors may have better results.6. Use what you already know. You can use everything you

know to achieve the best results. As an em-ployee or competitor in a field, you are ableto understand how a specific factor can affectyour investment. Also as a consumer you areconducting research all the time, you knowwhat products you are buying and probablyhave a pretty good idea what your friends andfamily are buying, possibly it is a trend afootand you might see it long before Wall Streetdoes.7. Conduct research about the companiesthat you intend to buy. Look for relevant in-formation such as company and industrynews, the company’s financial statements, ifthere is buy back and/or employees are buy-ing its stock, who the managers are, what the

trends are for the industry.8. Study, Study and Study. The more you study about in-vestments and related themes, the better results you will getin your investments. There are a couple of classes that youcan take at Seward that will help you to become a better in-vestor: Introduction to Business will give you the basicknowledge about companies, Macroeconomics helps you tounderstand the economic factors that might affect yourstocks, Financial Accounting II will teach you how to ana-lyze the companies’ financial statements and Personal Fi-nance explains how to put everything together.

“There areeight basictips that Iconsideressential

to getting good resultsinvesting in the stock market.”

—Carlos Souza

Jan. 8 — The Seward County Com-munity College/ Area Technical Schoolsecurity department received a report ofa stolen cell phone from a locker roomin the SCCC Wellness Center, 1801 N.Kansas. Two suspects were named inthe incident and the phone was recov-ered several days later. The victim de-clined to prosecute; however, sanctionsthrough SCCC administration on thetwo suspects are pending. Thestolen/recovered phone was valued at$500.Jan. 11 — The SCCC/ATS securitydepartment received a report of an at-tempted auto theft and criminal damageto a vehicle that had been parked in theparking lot of the Area TechnicalSchool, 2215 N. Kansas Ave. The sus-pect(s) damaged the steering column inorder to hot-wire the vehicle and makean unsuccessful attempt to drive the ve-hicle off of the lot. The incident is stillunder investigation. Jan. 15 — The SCCC/ATS securitydepartment received a report of a stolendigital camera from the Student Union,located in the SCCC Activities Build-ing, 1801 N. Kansas Ave. A suspect wasnamed in the incident and eventually thecamera was recovered several dayslater. The victim declined to prosecute;however, disciplinary action on the sus-pect is pending. The stolen/recoveredcamera was valued at $500.Jan. 19 — The SCCC/ATS securitydepartment received a report of the pos-session of an illegal substance in theStudent Living Center, 1801 N. Kansas

Ave. After investigating the incident,the illegal substance was located andconfiscated. The information concern-ing the incident and the suspect was for-warded to SCCC/ATS administrationfor disciplinary review. Sanctions weresubsequently issued to the suspect; how-ever, the type of sanctions that were is-sued are confidential. Jan. 29 — The SCCC/ATS securitydepartment received a report of a hit-and-run accident involving a pickup anda wooden fence located in front of theStudent Living Center, 1801 1/2 N.Kansas Ave. The accident resulted inapproximately $50 worth of damage tothe fence and the driver of the run vehi-cle was located a short time after the ac-cident. All of the information concern-ing the accident was forwarded toSCCC administration for disciplinaryreview. The results of the disciplinaryreview are still pending. As of Jan. 1, the SCCC/ATS securitydepartment had investigated six separateincidents, involving several underagesuspects, who were in possession of al-coholic beverages while on campusproperty. The information concerningeach of these incidents was forwarded toSCCC administration and to the direc-tor of SCCC housing for disciplinary re-view. Several of the suspects have beenissued disciplinary sanctions and someof the incidents are still under discipli-nary review.

Stolen item recovered; thefts, drugs investigated

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Bill McGlothing, Glenda Shepard, Dinora Isidoro, Debbie Stafford and Christian Valen-zula at the Lunch ’n’ Learn which took place in the library Feb. 1-4. The project wasdesigned to let students meet their instructors and take advantage of tutor servicesprovided by TRiO. A total of 53 different students attended at least one of the days.

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NEWS CRUSADER 3Friday, February 12, 2010

Antigoné LoweryCrusader staff

Voting for the 2010 homecoming king and queen is scheduled forFeb. 15-17 in front of the library. Homecoming at the college is spon-sored by the Student Government Association, which has set theagenda for the week’s activities.

Wednesday:At 7 p.m. in the Student Living Center game roomthere will be a blacklight pingpong tournament with money prizes.Student wishing to participate in Friday’s poker tournament mustregister by Feb. 17 in SU118. Thursday: From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,there will be a Totally Tattoos booth in the union.

Friday: At 7:30 p.m., a Texas Hold ’em poker tournament willoffer electronic prizes such as a TV , iPod Touch and Flip cam-corders. Saturday: The women’s basketball game against DodgeCity Community College starts at 6 p.m., with coronation betweenthe women’s and men’s games. A dance will follow the mens game.The top five finalists for the women are Brianna Lucero, Jessica

Palacios, Jordan Eder, Lily Torres and Jasmine Mitchell.Long Vo, Will Rector, Saul Rico, Edgar Rosales and Layne Gree-

son are the top five men finalists.

Voting for homecoming royalty next week

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The Seward County Community College/ AreaTechnical School nursing program acheived a 100percent program pass rate for first time candidatestaking the National Council Licensure Examinationfor the Practical Nurse, according to notificationfrom the Kansas State Board of Nursing of the li-censure results for the 2009 graduates.TheAssociate Degree Nursing program pass rate

for first time candidates taking the National Coun-

cil Licensure Examination for the Registered Nursewas 95.65 percent, the Kansas average pass ratewas 85.14 percent, and the national average passrate was 85.95 percent. The pass rate over the pastfive years for the college’s ADN graduates is 95percent.For the fifth year in a row, the Practical Nursing

program pass rate for first time candidates takingthe National Council Licensure Examination forthe Practical Nurse was 100. The Kansas averagepass rate was 93.30 percent, and the national aver-

age pass rate was 91.24 percent. The PracticalNursing program had its first graduating class in1979, and there have been 17 graduating classeswith 100 percent pass rate on the NCLEX-PNexam.“I am very proud of our graduates and the hard

work necessary to achieve these results,” said SteveHecox, director of nursing. “Our nursing facultyare very dedicated individuals who strive to pro-vide the best learning experiences possible for thestudents. We certainly appreciate the support of the

administration and Board of Trustees as well as thesupport provided by the employees of SouthwestMedical Center, our medical community, and otherclinical affiliates located in Liberal and in the sur-rounding communities.”Full-time nursing faculty members at SCCC/ATS

include Nancy Bansemer, Sandra Brisendine, VedaKing, Tracey Stuckey-Gardner, Diane Miller, andSteve Hecox.Contact Steve Hecox at steve.hecox@sccc.ed for

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Cindy Handley poses with a Haitian child during her mission trip to Haiti. Handley wentto help a missionary who has a school and orphanage. Handley taught teachers in Haitiand worked with their students.

“I’m looking forward to what good we can do downthere,” Fuentes said.According to Fuentes, what Haiti needs most right

now is prayer. He also would encourage people to do-nate to a good charity. “If you feel compelled, lend ahand,” Fuentes said.“What do you do for people who had nothing and lost

everything?” Fuentes said.Cindy Handley, biology instructor, traveled to Haiti

along with her pastor’s wife during spring break inMarch of last year. They went to help a missionary, whohas a school and orphanage, by teaching teachers andworking with their students.The thing that stood out the most to her was the

poverty. They visited a ravine with a creek wheregarbage was piled and covered the ground. Small hutswere crowded all along the ravine. Goats, pigs andchickens were tied up alongside the huts.Nurses visit at least once a week and help, and there’s

also a feeding project for the children. “If they can getthem early, it helps with their brain development,” Han-dley, who teaches nutrition at SCCC/ATS, said.Education is the No. 1 thing they need, according to

Handley, who referred to the saying, “Give a man a fishand he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eatfor life.”She was devastated when she heard about the earth-

quakes. “I was very concerned for my friends and thechildren,” Handley said.“The Christian ministries help,” Handley said.

“There’s a lot of good people doing good things.”Handley would like to go back this summer with her

church, if possible. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to be-cause I have a class,” Handley said. “Last time I wasable to get to the Internet and contact home. So if I wasable to use the Internet, I could use EduKan to do theclass, but I don’t know about how the Internet and elec-tricity is now.”Kim Thomas, Seward business instructor, went to

Haiti during spring break in March of 2008. She wentwith her husband, son and seven others fromWichitawith InterFaith Ministries. She helped set up a comput-er lab in the school.What surprised her most was how truly poor they

were.

“They were literally starving to death,” Thomas said.The most memorable part of Haiti for Thomas was

the sweet spirits of the Haitian people. Their groupwould feed them every day. Thomas gave a boy a bowlof food, and instead of digging in, he first made sure itwas OK from his teachers, then shared it with his threefriends before eating it himself.“They were so giving and caring for each other,”

Thomas said.Thomas was shocked and saddened to hear about the

earthquakes.“I kept asking, why?” Thomas said. “How could this

happen to a country that is already so poor and with somany needs already. It didn’t seem quite fair, but Iguess earthquakes never are.”Thomas believes what Haiti needs most is to be edu-

cated on how to become self-sufficient.“They need to change the trends of their economy to

show growth,” Thomas, who teaches economics class-es at SCCC/ATS, said.According to Thomas, they need to be taught to use

positive trade to help the economy and learn to helpthemselves.“First they need to be healed from the devastation, of

course,” Thomas said. “They need medical care at thepresent moment, but once they are over that, they needto know how to turn themselves around.”

-Dana Loewen

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Seward student Isaac Fuentes helped build the picturedorphanage during a mission trip to Haiti in July.

Missions: Seward in Haiti• continued from page 1

OPINION4 Friday, February 12, 2010CRUSADER

The Student Government Associ-ation promotes different eventsaround campus each year to provideentertainment for the students whoattend Seward County CommunityCollege. In the last month theyhave promoted two events, the Mis-sion Improvable act and the laser tagactivity. These two events werescheduled for the students, and theevents didn’t receive as much atten-dance as they should have. Whyaren’t students attending these eventsthat are for their own entertainment?SGA spent about $3000 on theseevents. Students need to take advan-tage of these small events becauseone day they may be gone. Toooften the words, “There is nothingto do here. I’m so bored,” are uttered.If there is nothing to do, studentsshould have packed the auditoriumfor the improv act, and should havehad continuous flow through thelaser tag activity. Failure to attendthe events that are plannedandsched-

uled by SGA for the students bene-fit could possibly disappear becauseof the lack of student participation.The Mission Improvable perfor-mance was well liked by the stu-dents in attendance and the laser tagevent had a lot of hardwork put intoit to set up the different obstacles sothat it had an arcade feel. The stu-dents cannot take the sole blame forthe lack of attendance at theseevents, however; because part ofSGA scheduling the events is topromote the events around campusto make students aware of themgoing on. SGA puts up small pro-motional posters, but they aren’tvisibly distinguishing enough forstudents to point them out. Also,the number of posters around cam-pus is not noticeable enough for stu-dents to constantly be reminded ofwhen an event is. The events needbetter promotion which should leadto better student attendance.

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Q DidyouattendeitherMissionImprovorLaserTag?Whyorwhynot?

“Umm...no. I never evenknew about it. What is it?”

Monica Macias“What? I had no clue

that was even going on.”

Ismael Bouziane“I’m not a big fan of comedy;

it’s not really my thing. Lazertag, I don’t have very manyfriends so I didn’t have any-body to go with.”

“I attended lazer tag. It was alot of fun and very competi-tive! The best part of it all wasthat I got to play against myfriends. I even got a rug burnon my knee.”

“Yes, I went to both of them,Lazer tag was really fun! Theygot a lot of people to play so itgot pretty intense. Mission Im-prov was entertaining, eventhough I got yelled at for beingon my phone.”

“No, I didn’t go to lazer tagbecause I was working in thetraining room.And what’s Mis-sion Improv? Oh, yeah. I thinkI had cheer practice at the timeit was going on.”

“What is that? You see, sincewe’re over here (Vo-Tech), wefeel like we’re never aware ofthe things that are going on overthere (SCCC). We rarely get in-formed of the activities theschool is offering.”

“We didn’t get to attend either one. But we didhear from one of our friends who went to lazertag and said he had fun.”

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At the comedy night improv on campus recently, a comedian interacts with students in attendance.The Showcase Theatre was only about half full, though, with many students missing the experience.

What are my grades at the moment? I wouldn’thappen to know off the top of my head. I guess Ican go around the campus to each teacher and askthem myself, right? Sounds like a total waste oftime.Then I remember my friends and I had a conver-

sation about how we miss PowerSchool. BasicallyPowerSchool was a sweet little Web site that let us

check our grades in high school whenever wewanted. That’s right. No having to go to teacher’soffices and wait for them to start their system up.At first I thought, “I’m so glad we don’t have that.I like not being in the know.” Then I realized howstupid I sounded.When I first came to college it was a little odd

getting used to not being in the know all the timeas I spent my junior and senior years of high schoolon PowerSchool, but with my horrible grades myfirst semester of college, I kind of didn’t want toknow. Sometimes I don’t want to know my grades,but how annoying is it to go to the teacher’s officeand ask for your grade and missing assignments?It’s much more convenient to check your grades atyour own discretion on your own time wheneveryou feel like it. Like at the end of the semester I had

a hold on my records, and Idid not know what I had inany class.Yeah, you can check your

grades on your personalrecords, unless you have ahold on them. It’s so annoy-ing that you can’t check evenlast semester’s grades. It’slike, yeah, thanks for remind-ing me I’m broke, SewardCounty Community College/Area Technical School, yourlast 10 invoices just wentright by me.So please, administration,

if you weren’t already on it,

can we please get a nifty little system that lets uscheck our grades online whenever we want? I hateto sound like a child, but other colleges have them,some with even better systems than PowerSchool.At Kansas University they have Blackboard. It’sa web content management system similar toWebCT in fact Blackboard owned WebCT andjust merged the system. One other really handything about Blackboard is that they have a phoneapplication so people can use it on their phone. Soif someone forgot to post something they can justget on their phone.I got used to not being in the know, but now it

bothers me a lot. Is something like Blackboard orPowerSchool impossible to get on this campus?Or is everyone else just perfectly content in bliss-ful ignorance?

“I gotused to

not beingin the

know, butnow it

bothersme a lot.”

Rodriguez@crusadernews.com

Jose RodriguezEntertainment editor

Throughout our lives, we have all had our fair shareof friends, whether it be those we meet at the PlayPlace at McDonald’s, classmates, people we knowfrom church, and, at times, even family members.Over the years, friends come and go, but the ones thatstay throughout not only help define who you be-come, but also give you some of the best memories.As time passes, it is hard to believe I have been

graduated from high school for two years. It is so hardto begin to wrap my head around it; however, thefriends I have met along the way have made theseyears great.Whether it is playing tag at 1 a.m. in the middle of

main street, getting pulled over for car surfing, or justhanging out and talking, I have become a better per-son due to the people I have met in my life.One of the most memorable occurrences happened

in December of last year, the day before finals. Mycousin Seth and I decided to road trip to Dallas, Texas,and attend a concert which featured two of our fa-vorite bands, Underoath andAugust Burns Red.The concert was epic, but as most things in life go,

the journey to our destination is what made the tripand lack of sleep worthwhile. Two hours into our trip,we discovered that we had left the tickets back at ourhouse, so we rushed back to Hooker, Okla., grabbedthe tickets, and sped off towards Weatherford, Okla.,to meet with our cousin Jason and his wife Mandi toeat.In our hurry, I didn’t even realize how fast I was dri-

ving. A sheriff caught me going 81 in a 65, and we

were rewarded with a $250 ticket. After playing somegames in Weatherford, we continued to OklahomaCity, where we ended up spending the night aftermeeting with some friends at Texas Roadhouse,where we were issued sippy cups for spilling a drink.The next day we left Oklahoma City after saying

our goodbyes and travelled on to see the show. Fiftymiles from Dallas, we decided it was time I studied,so Seth started asking me questions about my macro-economics final when we noticed two girls in a ChevyCavalier driving next two us.Being the daring people we are, we wrote our num-

bers on the back of my study guide and wove in andout of rush hour traffic to relay our numbers to thesetwo very attractive young ladies.After driving beside them and holding up the paper

for them to see, I drove away to dodge a semi, havingno hopes of them calling us. We just laughed and saidit was fun anyway.However, the phone did ring, and to even more sur-

prise, these girls invited us to meet them at Hootersbefore they went to work, saying that we were someof the most outgoing people they had ever seen andthey couldn’t pass up meeting us.After exchanging names and saying our goodbyes

there, we left the parking lot and drove the rest of theway to the House of Blues in downtown Dallas. Afterthe four hours of the most electrifying sets I haveseen, and a few extra T-shirts, we left for Liberal.Departure time from Dallas was at 11:45 p.m., with

a final looming at 9 a.m.Our journey proved to be a long and tiring one back,

but I made it just in time for my morning final.Whether it be someone you have known all your

life, or someone you meet on the Interstate, the peo-ple that you meet and experiences you enjoy can im-pact your life — and make for some pretty great sto-ries.

Editor’s Note: Formerinternational SCCC/ATSstudent Sanela Dejonovicwas recently moved by aChristiane Amanpour re-port to write the com-ments below. CNN con-tacted Dejonovic for per-mission to post her wordswith a video (link atright). Dejonovic notifiedthe Crusader, and wethought readers mightenjoy this dialogue.This video is inspira-

tional for every decenthuman being from allover the world who is inprocess of learning and persuading a toler-ance, the most valued screening which sepa-rates good from bad; Also, is educative en-couragement for those who have a hard timeto accept the change, not just the change in apolitical aspect, or environmental area, but thechange that accrued in people, and shows inchoices they make. All that come with thetime, leaded by the circumstances we all hadbeen thru.I am Christian Orthodox from Eastern Eu-

rope (Serbia), and I have been a college stu-dent in US starting with 2006. In our Englishclass, we had to watch and take the final overthe documentary about 9.11.Two of mine great friends and teammates,

who areAmerican Muslims, have been takingthe same class.And we all have the same feelings of horror,

pain and failure over the very same tragic.After any war or terror attack there is a longprocess of healing which contains so much un-

fairness toward thosewho don’t deserve it(in this matter justrandom, peacefulMuslims).And yes, this

comes from me, aSerbian, whosecountry had beenfought in the War inBosnia (also causedby issue the Muslimsvs. non Muslimspopulation); Yes, thiscomes from me, aSerbian whose coun-try still fighting thenumerous political

and diplomatic battles over the Kosovo issue(again caused by the Muslim vs. non Muslimtheme); And Yes this is me, Christian Ortho-dox who had been welcomed in the warmMuslims home (the home of my two friendsmentioned above) during the holidays awayfrom my own home.At the end, none of us should close the eyes

and waste the right to teach, to spread the mat-ter of tolerance. Media, journalists or individ-uals, we can all together prevent the stereotyp-ing and the spread of fear because this is ourway of peaceful fighting for the better, for theright.I thank You Mrs. Christiane, and I thank

wholeAmanpour team for doing that daily, byengaging and informing about the most vari-ous issues, because I am one of those youngpeople who wants to be a part of better world,full of tolerance.

— Sanela Dejonovic

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/04/my-mothers-daughter/

Comments collected by Lizuly Monarrez

Hoffman@crusadernews.com

Joseph HoffmanCrusader staff

ENTERTAINMENT CRUSADER 5Friday, February 12, 2010

Music | Joseph Hoffman

Television | Jose Rodriguez

New York duo createshappy music for sad days

Bad writing, stale premisekill promising show

Grand — the sophomore albumfrom Brooklyn, New York’sspunky new wave duet Matt andKim — is a pleasure to listen to.The duet's raw electronic synthand drum sound is surprisinglyfilling and rarely sounds like it isonly two people creating thischeery synth pop.The album's most notable tracks

are “Daylight,” “Good Ol' FashionNightmare,” “Lessons Learned,”“Don't Slow Down” and “I'll TakeUs Home.”

Matt and Kim have an uncanny ability to make the listener smilethrough Matt's creative staccato keyboard hooks, and Kim’s relent-less drumming, even on the gloomiest of days. Next time you’re feel-ing blue, or it’s just a cloudy day and you need some cheer, pop inGrand, and commence smiling. Grand receives a 4 out of 5 rating.

Every year I am reminded that pretty people have problems nomatter what their profession may be. Doctors have them on “Grey’sAnatomy,” teens who sing have them on “Glee,” now first yearlawyers have them onABC’s new show “The Deep End.”“The Deep End” is about a group of first year lawyers at the fake

prestigious law firm Sterling, Huddle, Oppenheim, & Craft. Eachcharacter is immediately pigeonholed into his or her role. We havethe sensitive Dylan Hewitt, played byMatt Long; Liam Priory is thephilandering foreigner played by Ben Lawson. Leah Pipes playsBeth Branford, a lawyer’s daughter who takes the job at the firmeven though it is her father’s rival firm. TinaMajorino asAddy Fish-er, the nervous overachiever and Mehcad Brooks as Malcom Ben-nett, the token ethnic person. As Beth states in the first episode, firstyears are “expected to perform flawlessly but barely worth the part-ner’s time.”Their boss is Cliff Huddle played by Billy Zane. (Cal from “Ti-

tanic,” remember him?) He is nicknamed the “prince of darkness”for being the boss no one wants to deal with. And since it’s a showabout lawyers, of course we will see crazy court cases involvingmarijuana busts, representing the harasser in a sexual harassmentlawsuit and, wait for it, Beth has to go against her own father incourt. How scandalous, right? I bet you almost didn’t see that onecoming.The show’s previews looked really interesting, so I decided to set

my DVR to record it. The show ended up being a big disappoint-ment and a total cliche. The writing wasn’t the best, the jokesweren’t delivered with a zing and the actors don’t really have anychemistry together. I don’t think the show will have a very long run.Mediocre ratings and bad reviews aren’t helping the case either. Itwill be another casualty that is the cruel world of prime time televi-sion. The first episode wasn’t the best, but, to their credit, it has got-ten a little better in the following episodes. One thing we will walkaway from this show is that pretty people will always have nice jobsand serious problems. The show airs onABC at 7 p.m. central time.

The Deep End

Matt and Kim

Crusader photo/ Will Rector

Students participate in Trivia Night hosted by the library. The event was supposed to go along with Kansas Day but was postponeduntil Feb. 2 because of the snow storm that also canceled school Jan. 29. Pictured, from left, are Morgan Skomal, Sumr Robinett,Kendra Spresser, Valerie Marquez, library technician Emery Swagerty, who acted as the game show host, Jacob Anderson andAdolfo Cardoza. The game pitted men against women, with the men’s team winning and receiving prizes of Braum’s gift cards.

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Tennis player Nathan Helms, of Australia, hides behind some barrels in the laser tag course as he prepares for ambush on an opponent.

Adriann D’Amico aims at player in the opposing team duringthe laser tag event. Only a few female students took part in lasertag.

Michael Alger and Quay Grant team up to shoot unsuspecting play-ers from the other team with their laser tag guns. The laser tagcourse was set up in the upstairs conference rooms of the studentunion and included charging stations for both teams, and obsta-cles to hide behind.

TrivialPursuit

The Student Government Association hosted a laser tag event upstairs in the student union Feb. 2. Justin Hernandez holds his laser taggun out as he gets close to a charging station in the laser tag course. Both teams had charging stations for the laser guns.

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In past years, the college has invitedprofessional poetry readers to perform.But this year the Seward County Com-munity College/Area Technical Schoolart department is bringing it all home.

English in-structors Jan-ice Northernsand Bill Mc-Glothing haveteamed up topresent a Poet-ry Night.P o e t r y

Night is, asMcGlothingstates, “an op-portunity forwriters to read

their work in public to an audience thatcame to listen.”Poetry Night will be at 7 p.m. Feb.

25, in Room H148 in the humanitiesbuilding.The area will be decorated by Kylix

Art Club to give it an atmosphere con-

ducive to poetry. Coffee and dessertswill also be served.Although two published poets will be

performing, the emphasis is on thework of students wishing to expressthemselves via the use of linguistic elo-quence.People are invited to hear poems that

are at a college level of contemplationand structure.The Poetry Night will also feature

live music to enhance the experience,according to McGlothing.The event is intended to offer enter-

tainment, atmosphere and the expres-sion of the readers.Poetry lovers often feel that poetry is

a powerful thing that, if supported, canchange the world as we know it.If poetry really is “the spontaneous

overflow of powerful feelings fromemotions recollected in tranquility,” asWilliam Wordsworth says, then sup-porting poetry is to support the writerin his or her right to feel.The night offers a chance for students

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Dr. Duane Dunn accepted the Liberal mayor’s chal-lenge and decided to compete in the Pancake Day flip-ping contest and raise money for student scholarships.Mayor Joe Denoyer challenged a few members of

the community including Joyce Hibler, chair of countycommissioners, Norm Lambert, CEO of SouthwestMedical Center, and others to join him this year in thePancake Flipping Contest which will take place Satur-day Feb. 13.“I agreed to participate as a way of promoting our

college to the community and I thought it would be funto compete with the mayor, county commissioner and

others,” Dunn said. “It's supposed to be just a funevent, but I thought it might be a way toalso raise some scholarship funds for stu-dents here at SCCC/ATS.”Dunn has raised more than $200 col-

lected from pledges received from em-ployees of the college that will go toward stu-dent scholarships. This is the first year Dunn hascompeted in the pancake flipping contest, but he iswilling to do it again next year if possible.“I've only tried to do the flipping once at a Cham-

ber of Commerce breakfast, and I wasn't very good,but I think it'll be a fun event. I hope more people willtake up the challenge in order to raise scholarshipfunds.” Dunn said.

Jordan Eder is asophomore and hasbeen on the President’sHonor Roll each se-mester, has beenawarded a PresidentialScholarship and is thesecretary of Phi TetaKappa. She is the co-captain of the Saintscheer squad. Eder’splatform is “EducatingAmerica in agricul-ture,” and for her talentshe will play a flutesolo to a song called“Fairytale.”

Sheniece Morton is asophomore majoring inpre-med. She is a mem-ber of the Sainsationsdance team from whichshe has receivedawards. Morton is em-ployed by North Sub-way, but also works asan AVID tutor for Lib-eral High School andWest Middle School.Morton’s platform is“college expenses”, andfor her talent she willsing “My Girl.”

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It’s the day before Lent. A woman is cooking pancakes inorder to use up the last of her cooking fats which she can nolonger use once Lent begins, and the church bell rings. Thewoman slips on her headscarf and runs to church, with herskillet, containing the morning’s pancakes, still in hand andapron still on. To many, this incident in Olney, England, is meaningless,

but to the Liberal folk, this fluke is the basis of our town hol-iday, Pancake Day. Every year on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the begin-

ning of Lent, Liberal competes against Olney, England, in a415-yard women’s race. The women, required to wear head-scarves, dresses and aprons, start out by flipping their pan-cakes at the beginning of the race and must flip their pan-cakes again at the end of the race to prove she didn’t looseher flapjacks. The winner of the race then receives a “kiss of

peace” from the Olney consulate, and gets to makethe call to England to talk to the winner of theOlney race and compare times.This “friendly” competition began in 1950

when the Liberal Junior Chamber of Com-merce president saw a picture of Olney’s Pan-cake Day race started in 1445 in a magazine,and he contacted the Vicar of St. Peter andSt. Paul’s church in Olney to challengethem to a race, and thus, the birth of Liber-al’s Pancake Day.Other Pancake Day activities include

pancake cooking, eating and flippingcontests; a Miss Liberal scholarshippageant; a talent show; pancake breakfast;parade and races for all ages and gender.To learn more about Pancake day, go to

www.pancakeday.net.

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Seward students Jimmy Ortizand Megan Parmenter are final-ist competing in the Pro-Am

Divison of the Pancake Day Tal-ent Show.The Pancake Day Talent show

is set to take place at 7:30 p.m.Feb. 15 at the Liberal High

School Auditorium.There are 25contestants competing in thecompetition for a trophies andcash prizes in the five catagoriesof tiny tot, intermediate, junior,

senior and pro-am. The last three years of the

competition an average of$2,700 have been awarded tothe winner.

Two Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School students will be vying for the title of Miss Liberal Feb. 14. Sophomores Sheniece Morton and Jordan Eder join seven other contestants. The competition has been around since Pancake Day

started in 1950 but used to be referred to as a beauty contest. Last year’s winner was Beth Rohloff, a former SCCC/ ATS student. In thepast, up to $9,050 has been awarded for scholarships in the pageant. Contestants win scholarship money and get a chance to represent Liberal in the Miss Kansas pageant. The event takes place at 2 p.m. Sunday in the James Maskus Auditorium inside Liberal High School. Those interested may buy ad-

vance tickets for $7 at First National Bank, Sunflower Bank and Rick’s Hair Design. Tickets will be $8 at the door. For questions, callLu Haynes at 620-624-9153 or 629-5450.

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Seward instructor, students stack races

Pancake Day Schedule

Alfredo AnayaCrusader Staff

Seward students and an instructorhave made up the short stack of racersfor the International Pancake Day Racein Liberal Tuesday. Seward students currently entered in

the International Pancake Day Race areDevon Box, Brooke Davies, MikaylaKnudsen, Heather Grant and TandileeFletcher.Joining the students on the race track

which begins in front of the library andwinds west on 4th and south on Lincolnwill be first-year Seward drama instruc-tor Alison Chambers. “ My entire acting class is running to-

gether. We decided to make somethingof a challenge out of it. We'll race to-gether and promote acting at SCCC. I'mreally proud of them for putting them-selves out there,” Chambers said.“I think it’s great, it’s one of the

unique things in our community that ourstaff and students are involved in. It’s agreat connection between the communi-ty and the college, so I’m glad they arerunning,” SCCC/ATS president Dr.

Duane Dunn said.Chambers, Box, Davies, Grant and

Fletcher are all competing in the Interna-tional Pancake Day Race for the firsttime. Knudsen has competed in the racetwice before, in 2008 and 2009. Traditionally, the race is a competition

between the women of Olney, Englandand Liberal. Last year’s internationalrace winner was Liberal’s Tasha Galle-gos. Gallegos won with a time of 57.5seconds, breaking the previous recordtime of 58.1 seconds set in 2001.“No, I don’t really expect to break the

record I’m kind of just doing it for thefun. We’d thought it would be fun just toget out there and participate. But overallit is more for the fun than for winning,”Box said.In the Men’s Pacer Race, Seward

County Community College studentswho are signed up are Saul Rico,Valentin Borunda, Aaron Schaffer andEusabio Lopez. Lopez came in first lastyear, Rico came in second and Borundahas also competed in the race before.This will be Schaffer’s first year compet-ing.

President flips for scholarships

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Friday, February 12, 2010CrusaderSEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE/ AREA TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Seward wins big overPratt, aims to end regularseason on a good note

Crusader photo/Rustin Watt

Megan Lassley drives baseline on a Lady Beaver defender in Wednesday night’s contest with Pratt at the Green House. The Lady Saints took thecontest 99-69 to move to 24-2 on the season and atop the Jayhawk Conference at 11-1. Lassley scored 10 points on the night with three steals.

Saints fall short to Pratt,lose 3 of last 5 games

Rustin WattSports editor

The Lady Saints continueddomination of the Jayhawk Westwith a 99-69 win over the PrattLady Beavers Wednesday night.The Lady Saints came out of

the gate on fire and pressured theLady Beavers with their full courtdefense and jumped up 18-2 earlyon.By the time the Lady Beavers

reached 10 points, Seward hadnearly tripled their score with a28-10 lead.Seward continued to pressure

Pratt into turning the ball overand went into half followingthree Rachel Barnes’ buckets up51-30.The Lady Saints were able to

get layup opportunities the firsthalf off of its press.“Our press was really effective

in the first half,” Lady Saintshead coach Toby Wynn said. “Sowe got a lot of turnovers andlayups off the press and someeasy opportunities.”Pratt’s Phylicia Freeman was

the only thing going for the LadyBeavers nearly all night.Freeman heated up in the secondhalf. She didn’t lead a comebacksurge by any means, but she dis-played why she is one of themost dominant scorers in theconference.“She played well and is one of

the best players in the confer-ence,” Wynn said. “And as far asbeing able to score, she’s reallyathletic and she can make a vari-ety of shots. She can score insideand she can shoot the three, she’sjust a really tough matchup. Wetried tonight to put someone big-ger on her defensively, but it did-n’t really work effectively.”Freeman scored26 for the Lady

Beavers, but 26 was not quiteenough.Seward continued to dominate

offensively in the second halfwith nearly every Saint in thepoints column.The Lady Saints continued to

pressure but Freeman and theLady Beavers were able to beat

the press for some easy basketsof their own.Seward continued to score in

transition as they forced 26 Prattturnovers to go home with a 30-point 99-69 win.Barnes once again led Seward

as she dropped 34 points on theLady Beavers along with sevenrebounds. Morgan Skomalstepped up and reached double-digits with 15 points. NadiaRosario was good for 11 andMegan Lassley scored 10.Sewardwill begin its final-four

stretch Saturday going on theroad to face the always toughCloud County.“It willl be tough; it’s never

easy to go up to Cloud andwin,”Wynn said. “We know it’s goingto be a tough challenge for us,andwe’re going to have to go upthere physically and mentallyready for a tough challenge intheir environment.”Seward returns to the Green

House Feb. 20, to take on DodgeCity for Think Pink BreastCancer Awareness Night.Feb. 24, Seward will travel to

Garden before finishing the regu-lar season Feb., 27, at the GreenHouse versus Butler.Seward sits at the top of the

conference with an x on theirback with many teams hungryfor higher seeds come regionaltime.“We just have to take them one

game at a time,” Wynn said.“That is what we have done allyear long. We just focus on thenext opponent and do our best toget ready for them and go fromthere. We have to stay focusedand not overlook anybody. Wewant to build momentum andplay our best basketball of theseason as we get here down tothe end. Right now, offensively,we seem to be playing well thelast six out of seven games.Defensively, we have got to con-tinue to get better andkeep work-ing together and our teamdefense.We’re just trying to buildmomentum up to head into theregion tournament.”

Rustin WattSports editor

The Saints fell down to Prattearly Wednesday night then wereunable to makeup the deficit in a76-67 loss to the Beavers.From the tipoff the Beavers

showed they were serious, sprint-ing to a 12-2 lead over Sewardaround six minutes into thegame.The Beavers stretched their lead

to as much as 11 in the first halfof play. The Saints chipped itdown to a seven-point game witha Tony Smith three prior to thehalftime buzzer andwent into thelocker room down, 33-26.Seward came out the second

half rejuvenated and cut theBeaver lead to 2, 33-31 afterback-to-back Marcus James put-backs.Pratt got back on track and

went on a run that left the Saintsdown 51-37. Seward was able tofight back but gave away easypoints with sloppy defense.Pratt had reached the double-

bonus with near nine minutes toplay.Seward gave the Beavers 36

opportunities from the charitystripe on the night, Pratt wasable to sink 22.

Both teams soon reached thedouble-bonus and it turned into afree throw shooting contest.Seward got it down to a four-

point game, 69-65 with a littleover a minute on the clock.When it was most crucial the

Saints were unable to get a holdon defense without fouling andputting the Beavers at the line.There the Beavers got comfort-

able again and escaped the GreenHouse with a 76-67 win.Last time the two played, the

Saints overcame a 10-point half-time deficit to come back andbeat the Beavers.Onemajor difference in the two

contests was shooting. In thefirst contest, the Saints shot 41percent from three-point range, inWednesday night’s contest theSaints were 3-27 and 11 percentfrom behind the arc.“We shot 12 percent from 3 in

the last game shot 11 percentfrom three this game,” Saintshead coach Bryan Zollinger said.“You’re not going to win manygames if you can’t make shots.”Seward outrebounded the

Beavers but had a tough timecapitalizing.Seward shot 36 percent from

the field on the night and had a

tough time shutting down Prattwhen it was crucial.Despite the loss, Latiq Agard

battled in the paint for a double-double with 20 points and 13boards. Marcus James playedtough as well with 10 points andseven rebounds.“They were battling,”

Zollinger said. “But it takes awhole team to win, and a wholeteam to lose.”The Saints aim to end its

shooting slump Saturday atCloud to build some momentumto end the regular season and gointo the regional tournament.“I think our guys are trying to

give effort and fight anddo that ,”Zollinger said. “But we’re stillmaking a lot of turnovers. Weforced20, but we gave up 19, andwe’re not shooting the ball well.So until we get a handle on that,we’re not going to win manyball games. You can play greatdefense all you want, but if youcan’t make a shot, it’s still 0-0.”Zollinger hopes for his Saints

to round out the season playingbetter defense, protecting theball, and knocking down shots.Sewardwill return to the Green

House Feb., 20, to take onGarden City.

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Isaiah Thaw dives for a steal in the final two minutes of the Saints battle with Pratt. Seward fell 76-67.

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Coats led the Lady Saints soft-ball team in all major hittingstatistical categories last season,andwas a second team All-West-ern Jayhawk conference selec-tion. She hits well and has allthe tools to lead the team.

Reyes had the third highestAVG for the Lady Saints lastyear batting .397 and scored themost runs with 54. Also, hadthe third most RBIs last seasonwith 40. She gets on base andscores runs, but is also good atknocking in runs.

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Saints baseball have three named as top in nationWill RectorCrusader staff

Three Saints have been named as some of the best players in the nation in this year’sCollegiate Baseball Magazine college preview issue. Kelby Tomlinson, Luke Campbell,and JaredWagner all received recognition in the magazine.Tomlinson was named as one of the top 25 shortstops in the NJCAA for the 2010 sea-

son. Tomlinson batted .274 last season and posted a .900 fielding percentage in 40 gamesplayed. Tomlinson signed an early letter of intent in the fall to play with the Texas TechRed Raiders next season.

Campbell was listed as one of the nations top 35 outfielders and was the top bomberfor the Saints last season as he hit 11 homeruns and knocked in a team high 57 RBIs. Inaddition Campbell posted a .362 batting average, a team high .687 slugging percentage,and a 1.106 OPS that ranked second on the team.Wagner was named as one of the top 50 right-handed pitchers in the nation after com-

ing out of the bullpen last season. Wagner posted a 3-0 record with one save, and struckout 12 in his 19 and one-third innings of work.The Saints were supposed to begin their action this weekend at home, but due to the

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ably less impressive than the current day photo taken of Saints player Billy Ninemire atBrent Gould Field on the Seward campus. The Brent Gould baseball field has been im-proved from the old days. Dugouts are dug out, not ground level as they were at Fair-grounds Park. The SCCC fields have bleachers that bring fans closer to the action and fanscan watch the games on a well groomed field taken care of by staff and student-athletes.

Seniors win at shootoutWill RectorCrusader staff

At the annual Senior Shootoutsponsored by the admissions of-fice, two area seniors won schol-arships.Branden Elliot of Turpin,

Okla., and Marco Valencia ofKeyes, Okla., were the winnersof the scholarships.Caitlin Matile of Holcomb,

and Caleb Crawford of Tex-homa, Okla., were the runner-ups receiving the gift certificates.The Senior Shootout is an

event for area seniors to have ashot at two $100 scholarshipsand two $20 gift certificates tothe Saints Bookstore.Five seniors were randomly

selected at each halftime to shootin knock-out style format to de-termine the winners.

Twenty-eight participantsshowed up for the event and 22signed up for their shot at win-ning the money. The other sixparticipants were not eligible tocompete due to conflicting eligi-bility rules for possible scholar-ships that they could receive.“It was a good turn-out,” Mor-

gan Richmeier, admissions coor-dinater, said. “It was nice to seethe seniors show up along withtheir families and friends toshare the experience with them,and to help us pack the Green-house to support our Saints ath-letes.”“Next year we are going to get

more students to participate,”Richmeier said. “We would liketo be able to give more than 10students the chance to shoot forthe scholarships.”

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Somber faced, always intense, always battling, andalways wanting more. Marky Nolen, 6-2, outreboundssome of the biggest players in the conference. Under-sized but with a killer instinct, Nolen never backsdown, why?“That’s easy,” Nolen said. “I just hate losing.”The Saints basketball team has had a successful sea-

son so far, with its latest win coming against ColbyCommunity College, putting them at 19-7.Returning sophomores Robert Sigala, Marcus

James, Jon Tassin, Tony Smith, and Latiq Agard havestepped up to the challenge of performing well thisseason, but so have many of the freshman.Marquell “Marky” Nolen, a freshman from Wichi-

ta, has been a contributor to the Saints success this

season.Nolen’s work-ethic on and off the court has made

him a noticeable standout on the team and comple-ments his drive to improve.“Marky is a leader through his tremendous effort

level. He is not always a real vocal guy but his effortspeaks for itself,” said Head Coach Bryan Zollinger.Nolen also compliments his coaches. “On the court

they push us a lot and in the weight room to becomebetter players,” he said.Nolen’s dedication to become a better player is also

acknowledged by his teammates.“Marky is one of the hardest working guys on the

team, his work ethic in practice rubs off on everybody.He wants everybody to reach their full potential andpushes us all to work hard,” said freshman IsaiahThaw.

From his experience this season as a freshman,Nolen has also learned how to express his emotionsthrough his performance rather than vocally.“I’ve learned how to control my emotions under-

pressure, and to keep my composure and focus,” saidNolen, who has faced some very aggressive players.Coach Zollinger has also commended Nolen’s im-

provement in attitude while playing.“Marky has matured emotionally over the season.

He is much better at handling adverse situations thanhe was early in the year,” Zollinger said. Nolen’s hard work-ethic has resulted in some excel-

lent performances this season that have not gone un-noticed by his teammates and coaches. “He has been one of the best rebounders on the team

as well as one of the best defenders. Marky also has apassion to win and he works his hardest everyday,”

Thaw said.Coach Zollinger also acknowledged Nolen’s perfor-

mances this season. “Marky has contributed a lot of toughness, competi-

tive drive, defense, rebounding and quite a bit of scor-ing,” Zollinger said.Nolen’s success has also made him recent KJCCC

Player of the Week due to excellent performancesagainst teams like Dodge City Community College,when Nolen scored 20 points with 6 rebounds. TheSaints still had a loss of 88-75 to Dodge on Jan. 24.Nolen’s hard work and excellent performances has

placed him third on the team for scoring, with an av-erage of 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.Nolen and the Saints will continue their quest to-

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The Seward cheerleaders are always goinggreen, cheering for the green teams in theGreen House. They are in constant preparationfor their stunts on game night. TheSCCC/ATS cheerleading squad is an importantpart of the athletics department.With passion and spirit, this group of stu-

dent-athletes brings excitement to every game.The beauty of the women who are membersof this squad, and the strength of the men arethe perfect combination of lifting power andsweet movements.It’s not easy to be a cheerleader; the physical

training is hard. From early afternoon to latenight, the whole squad is training.Many days, they work out at 3 in the after-

noon in the weight room. Then, three nights aweek, they practice for three hours to learn rou-tines and maintain their skills.This week, the squad is practicing special

stunts for homecoming.Working out, or just practicing their rou-

tines, the everyday life of a cheerleader is chal-lenging. They have to maintain their academicgrades to stay in the squad.Also, they usually have to sacrifice time

with their friends and family to balance school,cheerleading and other college activities.The team is coached by Scarlette Diseker.“We are in constant preparation to entertain

all of the audience during game nights,”Diseker said.According to Diseker, the squad is getting

ready to learn new stunts, which she felt wouldimpress everybody. New stunts will be pre-sented at the homecoming game Feb. 20.Members of the 2009-2010 squadare Kristen

Alexandria Schnittker, Jordan Eder, StephanieBoaldin, Jeanette Contreras, Stefani Croy,Katie Hart, Ashley Martinez, Wendy Ramirez,Jessica Snodgrass, Jennifer Thach, Long Vo,Luis Rios, Tung Nguyen, Tate Cain, JeffGoodrum, Mingo Aranda, Kaelob Mecum,Carlos Ivan Enriquez, Jaime Mejia, VictorRodriguez, Edgard Rosales and Pedro Ruiz.

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