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Laramie County Community College<br />
Vol. 47 No. 1 February 11, 2013 Cheyenne, Wyoming<br />
Single copies free<br />
wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />
<strong>Am</strong> I <strong>glowing</strong>?<br />
Antique lights to be replaced<br />
Campus news—Page 5<br />
<strong>Stop</strong> <strong>digging</strong><br />
Hynds location problematic<br />
Opinion—Page 10<br />
<strong>Tastes</strong> <strong>like…art</strong><br />
Comfort zones left for gallery<br />
A&E—Page 19<br />
<strong>Winning</strong> <strong>streak</strong><br />
Basketball nears tournament<br />
Sports—Page 29
2<br />
February<br />
Wingspan<br />
11 Last day to withdraw without recieving a “W.”<br />
11<br />
Résumé drop-in, 10 a.m., Career Center, Student Services<br />
Building, Room 119.<br />
11<br />
ESOL orientation, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Career & Technical Building,<br />
Room 122.<br />
11–12<br />
ABE/GED orientation, 10 a.m.,–7 p.m., Career & Technical<br />
Building, Room 112.<br />
12 Spring club rush, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., student lounge.<br />
13 Deadline to turn in graduation application.<br />
13<br />
Blood Drive, Surgical technology student club, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.,<br />
student lounge.<br />
14<br />
Résumé drop-in, 1–3 p.m., Career Center, Student Services<br />
Building, Room 119.<br />
14<br />
Nursing program info session, 5:30–6:30 p.m., Health Science<br />
Building, Room 113.<br />
16<br />
Men’s basketball vs. Northeastern Junior College, 4 p.m.,<br />
LCCC gym.<br />
18<br />
ABE/GED orientation, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Career & Technical<br />
Building, Room 112.<br />
20<br />
Trustees’ business meeting, 7 p.m., Petersen Board Room,<br />
Administration Building .<br />
21<br />
Career fair, technical professions, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., student<br />
lounge.<br />
23 Men’s basketball vs. Lamar CC, 4 p.m., LCCC gym.<br />
25<br />
ESOL orientation, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Career & Technical Building,<br />
Room 122.<br />
25<br />
Career skills orientation, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Career & Technical<br />
Building, Room 112.<br />
28<br />
Career fair, Business & Computer Technology, 1–3 p.m.,<br />
student lounge.<br />
March<br />
2<br />
Collegiate DECA chapter competition, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.,<br />
Business Building.<br />
2–6 Men’s basketball at Region IX Tourney.<br />
4<br />
4–28<br />
6<br />
“Incidental Theatre: The Vignettes” reception, 7 p.m., Esther<br />
and John Clay Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building.<br />
“The Vignettes,” Esther and John Clay Art Gallery, Fine Arts<br />
Building.<br />
Trsustees’ Study Session, 7 p.m., Petersen Board Room,<br />
Administration Building.<br />
9 Lenten Concert, 1 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, free.<br />
11<br />
12<br />
“Moral and ethical decision making,” Dr. Jeffrey Wigand,<br />
7 p.m., Union Pacific Centennial Room, Center for Conferences<br />
and Institutes.<br />
“Pulse of Africa” Wind Symphony concert, 7 p.m., Cheyenne<br />
Civic center, free.<br />
18–24 Spring Break.<br />
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Wingspan, contact Alicia Hurley at 778-1304 or e-mail, wingspan@lccc.wy.edu.<br />
campus news<br />
February 11, 2013<br />
wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />
Obituary<br />
Longest serving teacher dies<br />
The most senior serving faculty<br />
member at Laramie County<br />
Community College, Anne Wolff,<br />
of Cheyenne, died Jan. 28. A<br />
memorial services will be held<br />
at 3 p.m. in the LCCC Center<br />
for Conference and Institutes,<br />
Room on March 28.<br />
She was born on March 9,<br />
1949, in Jacksonville, Fla., and<br />
had lived in Cheyenne since<br />
1973.<br />
Anne taught 12,000 students<br />
during more than 40 years. She<br />
received her bachelor’s degree<br />
from Murray State University<br />
in Kentucky and two master’s<br />
degrees from the University of<br />
Wyoming. Wolff was active in 4H<br />
and Girl Scouts, was the regional<br />
director for the Laramie County<br />
School District Science Fair, was<br />
a multiple winner of the LCCC<br />
Teacher of the Year award, and,<br />
most importantly, was a devoted<br />
mother whose passions were<br />
education, travelling and her<br />
family.<br />
“Anne Wolff’s mark on the LCCC campus as<br />
well as the local community has been immense<br />
for the past four decades,” Rosalind Schliske,<br />
friend and colleague, said. “When she joined<br />
LCCC, we had been at our location on College<br />
Drive for two years, and our enrollment was exploding.<br />
So Anne was part of that generation of<br />
LCCC faculty and staff who fearlessly initiated<br />
new classes and programs to increase student<br />
opportunities and worked tirelessly on committees<br />
to improve the college. Right before winter<br />
break, Anne and I shared a long conversation in<br />
which she said how excited she<br />
was to retire in May of this year.<br />
And then in true Anne Wolff<br />
fashion, she told me she would<br />
continue to teach part time,<br />
however. Even in retirement<br />
Anne didn’t want to break her<br />
connection to this institution<br />
and its students. Because of her<br />
nearly lifelong service, she never<br />
will.”<br />
Dr. Joe Schaffer, LCCC<br />
president, added: “Anne was<br />
our longest tenured faculty<br />
member, teaching microbiology<br />
and zoology here at LCCC<br />
since 1973. During the course<br />
of her tenure at LCCC she has<br />
helped transform the lives of<br />
hundreds, perhaps thousands,<br />
of our students. Judging by the<br />
stories I have already heard<br />
about Anne, it is clear she has<br />
also touched and changed many<br />
of our faculty and staff lives as<br />
Anne Wolff<br />
well. Her contributions to LCCC,<br />
Cheyenne and Wyoming will<br />
endure, even though we now must say goodbye<br />
to our friend.”<br />
“Anne was a great instructor, and she will be<br />
missed by all her students,” said Henry Derr,<br />
retired LCCC instructor.<br />
She is survived by two daughters, Sarah<br />
Wolff, of Tucson and Cheyenne, and Shana<br />
Wolff, of Cheyenne; her mother, Nelle Tyrell,<br />
of DeLand, Fla.; and a brother, McHenry<br />
Holbrook, of Daytona Beach, Fla. Wolff was preceded<br />
in death by her father, John Holbrook.<br />
Those who wish may contribute to the LCCC<br />
Foundation.
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campus news<br />
ond issue would pass<br />
ith educated community<br />
Board discusses need to inform voters<br />
By Jennifer Stogsdill<br />
Co-editor<br />
A survey consultant said if<br />
Laramie County Community<br />
College asked for a bond election<br />
to finance construction<br />
on campus, the college would<br />
need to educate the public<br />
about the need and the cost.<br />
At the Feb. 6 LCCC Board<br />
of Trustees’ study session, the<br />
board discussed the results<br />
of a survey about a proposed<br />
bond election for the university/student<br />
center and flex-tech<br />
building.<br />
The survey to residents<br />
with landlines and cellphones<br />
was conducted by Keith<br />
Frederick of FrederickPolls<br />
from Arlington, Va., who called<br />
in to the board meeting to<br />
review the survey results with<br />
the trustees.<br />
Frederick said the 300<br />
people who were surveyed<br />
were most likely to vote in the<br />
actual election, and margin<br />
of error was 5.6 percent. The<br />
summary of findings from<br />
the survey found the mood<br />
was very supportive of a bond<br />
1607 Capitol Ave.<br />
307-634-2576<br />
measure, but problems existed<br />
with the legal language of the<br />
potential bond ballot. The<br />
survey showed more voted no<br />
(48 percent) than yes (42 percent)<br />
on a more legally termed<br />
ballot, but when asked about<br />
the concept of a $20 million<br />
bond for a flex-tech center and<br />
student services building, with<br />
these being detailed, and with<br />
the tax increase broken down<br />
monthly, more voted yes (63<br />
percent) than no (32 percent).<br />
Frederick said the atmosphere<br />
to hold a special bond<br />
election was positive because<br />
the survey showed the community<br />
viewed the economy<br />
and the taxing situation as<br />
good and LCCC was viewed<br />
favorably. He added though to<br />
have a successful election, the<br />
college would have to educate<br />
the community about the<br />
issue.<br />
The board discussed<br />
whether the college should<br />
wait for the general election<br />
in 2014, but Frederick and<br />
Todd Bishop from Kaiser and<br />
Co. said it was uncertain if<br />
the community and economy<br />
“Like” us on Facebook<br />
and be entered to win a<br />
would be this positive in two<br />
years. The board is considering<br />
a special, off-year election<br />
this fall.<br />
Trustee Don Erickson<br />
pointed out it would take a lot<br />
of work to fully educate the<br />
community about the election<br />
and what it means for the<br />
college and the community in<br />
the six months before a special<br />
election.<br />
Overall, Frederick said the<br />
response seemed positive regarding<br />
the bond, but his summary<br />
said if the election were<br />
held today, LCCC would lose<br />
the election mostly because of<br />
the wording.<br />
“This bond referendum<br />
should win but will likely<br />
fail unless the electorate can<br />
be educated on specifics of<br />
LCCC’s successful track record,<br />
the community value and<br />
return on investment and the<br />
honest impact of this temporary<br />
tax increase,” Frederick<br />
said.<br />
Following the meeting, the<br />
board went into an executive<br />
session to discuss personnel<br />
matters.<br />
For more LCCC Board of Trustees’ study session stories about the Hynds<br />
Capitol Core letter of intent amendment and the welding pilot program, visit<br />
http://wingspan.lccc.wy.edu/.<br />
$20 gift card to the<br />
Paramount Cafe.<br />
www.facebook.com/Cafeparamount<br />
By Derek Hoffman<br />
A&E Writer<br />
An opportunity for students<br />
looking to improve themselves<br />
and plan their lives will happen<br />
in February. Laramie County<br />
Community College will host two<br />
career fairs on Feb. 21 and 28.<br />
Targeting students who are about<br />
to graduate.<br />
Cheryl Collins, program assistant<br />
in Advising and Career<br />
Services said, “That is not the<br />
only focus for these career fairs.”<br />
Students who haven’t decided on a<br />
degree, or have decided on one can<br />
use this as an opportunity to see<br />
what the people who are hiring in<br />
these companies are looking for in<br />
their future employees.<br />
In addition it is easy for undergraduates<br />
to change their majors if<br />
they discover what they were looking<br />
into isn’t what they thought it<br />
would be, or perhaps they might<br />
not be the type of person who<br />
would be interested in that particular<br />
job.<br />
Some of the businesses represented<br />
at the Career Fairs will<br />
come ready to accept applications<br />
from those students who are nearly<br />
ready to graduate. So students<br />
should bring copies of their<br />
résumé, both professional and<br />
personal references, and maybe<br />
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Community called to rise<br />
against violence Feb. 14<br />
Char Lessenger<br />
Graphics Editor<br />
The global strike aimed at<br />
violence against women will<br />
come to Cheyenne. At 10 a.m. on<br />
Thursday, Feb. 14, beginning at<br />
the Depot Plaza, V-day Cheyenne<br />
will gather women and those who<br />
love them to start the dance to the<br />
Capitol and demand an end to<br />
violence against women.<br />
After spending some time<br />
listening to speakers rally for violence<br />
against women, the group<br />
will reconvene at Laramie County<br />
Community college for another<br />
demonstration.<br />
However, this event isn’t just<br />
for the people of Cheyenne.<br />
Women, men and children will<br />
be joining together on this day all<br />
over the world in an effort to stop<br />
violence against women.<br />
V-Day Cheyenne coordinators<br />
want the world to see the<br />
collective strength of Cheyenne,<br />
according to Shelly Montgomery,<br />
a V-Day Cheyenne coordinator.<br />
The website explained One<br />
Billion Rising is a revolution, an<br />
invitation to dance, a call to men<br />
and women to refuse to participate<br />
in the status quo until rape<br />
and rape culture ends, but, most<br />
importantly, it is a refusal to accept<br />
violence against women.<br />
For more information<br />
visit www.facebook.com/<br />
OneBillionRisingCheyenne or<br />
call Shelly Montgomery at 307-<br />
630–9547.<br />
College to host pair of career fairs<br />
some copies of their unofficial<br />
transcripts.<br />
Also Collins said students<br />
should dress as if they were going<br />
for an interview, because they just<br />
might be.<br />
Students needing help with<br />
building their résumés can attend<br />
the Career Center résumé workshops<br />
on Tuesday, Feb. 8, from<br />
noon–2:15 p.m. Drop-in help is<br />
available at the Career Center on<br />
Feb. 11 from 10 a.m.–noon and<br />
Feb. 14 from 1 p.m.–3 p.m.<br />
The first fair will focus on technical<br />
professions, and the second<br />
fair will focus more on business<br />
and computer technology.<br />
Some of the companies attending<br />
the first fair will be Brown<br />
Company (Torrington), Correll<br />
Refrigeration Inc., Fat Boys Tire<br />
and Auto, Great Lakes Airlines,<br />
Laramie County Fire District No. 2,<br />
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 192<br />
JATC, state of Wyoming, and Volt<br />
Workforce Solutions. More could<br />
still be added because the fairs are<br />
still open until Friday, Feb. 10.<br />
Some of the companies represented<br />
at the second job fair will<br />
be Allstate Insurance Co., Cellular<br />
Plus/Verizon Wireless, Christie<br />
Technology, College Pro Painters,<br />
Dillard’s, Great Lake Airlines and<br />
Home Depot.<br />
Correction:<br />
Wingspan would like to apologize for the following error in the<br />
December issue. Tammie Keney’s name was misspelled in the Bucket<br />
List feature story of the Apocalypse section.
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Wingspan<br />
By Kasey M. Orr and<br />
Jennifer Stogsdill<br />
Co-Editors<br />
The president of Laramie County Community College<br />
told the Board of Trustees that he will merge two academic<br />
divisions at the college.<br />
During the business meeting of the Board of Trustees<br />
Jan. 23 President Dr. Joe Schaffer advised the board that<br />
he had informed the College Council that, as part of the<br />
greater reorganization currently in progress, the Career<br />
and Technical Education (CTE) Division will be folded<br />
into the Division of Business, Agriculture and Computer<br />
Technology. This new division will be called the School<br />
of Business, Agriculture and Technical Studies.<br />
President Schaffer explained to the board that<br />
this overall reorganization would also provide a more<br />
uniform system of describing, defining and organizing<br />
faculty leadership positions.<br />
“We need to establish a more formalized mechanism<br />
for identifying and directing faculty leadership,” the<br />
president explained. “Across our academic areas we use<br />
different terminology, different definitions… it’s just<br />
good business to define what we mean by faculty leadership.”<br />
In other news, the board unanimously approved the<br />
following items:<br />
Digital message signage system bought<br />
The purchase of a factory-new digital message signage<br />
system for $47,090.70 from current fund monies to<br />
implement a digital signage system at LCCC.<br />
The board discussed the digital signage at its Jan. 4<br />
special business meeting. Chad Marley, chief technology<br />
officer, said for now eight digital signs will be put on<br />
campus in the Student Services Building, residence halls<br />
and Center for Conferences and Institutes. The digital<br />
signs will be used to share information with the campus.<br />
Lisa Murphy, interim associate vice president of institutional<br />
advancement, said the public relations office<br />
will coordinate the screens and put up information in<br />
case of an emergency. Marley said eventually the Albany<br />
County Campus could be included. Murphy said for now<br />
the college will start with eight and then added a few<br />
more each year as money becomes available because of<br />
the budget. She added the college would need to have<br />
about 20 total eventually.<br />
campus news<br />
Marley said the screens will be 42-inch TVs that will<br />
be mounted on the wall and will have a wireless communication<br />
device. Each is estimated to cost $2,700.<br />
Murphy said separate divisions on the campus can add<br />
their own information and become involved with this,<br />
but it depends on the division and who wants to do it.<br />
She added that Student Services wants to handle its own<br />
information.<br />
Murphy also said that in an emergency, PR and<br />
security can override all screens to broadcast emergency<br />
information to everybody.<br />
Judy Hay, vice president of student services, said bulletin<br />
boards can be messy and usually have old information,<br />
with the digital screens, information can be offered<br />
more quickly. Student Services will have three screens;<br />
one will be in the welcome area, and Hay said that one<br />
will probably be just a TV for entertainment while students<br />
wait. She said another one will go near student records<br />
to be used mainly as a distraction for other people<br />
in line to give the person being waited on privacy.<br />
At the suggestion of Trustee Ed Mosher, LCCC will get<br />
one interactive kiosk-type screen and seven of the noninteractive<br />
screens to see how the interactive screens<br />
work at the college. The addition of the kiosk added<br />
about $4,000 to the original proposal.<br />
At the Jan. 4 meeting there was also discussion about<br />
the two outside marquees at the entrances to campus.<br />
Murphy said they will eventually need to be addressed<br />
because replacement parts no longer are available.<br />
President Schaffer said the college will have to look<br />
further into finding a way to fix the external signage of<br />
the campus.<br />
Career & Technical addition planned<br />
The planning of a 2,000-square-foot addition to the<br />
northeast side of the Career and Technical Building and<br />
authorized the president to carry out all aspects of the<br />
project and to outline the curriculum for a pilot program<br />
that will run for two years to be brought to the Wyoming<br />
Community College Commission for approval.<br />
At the Jan. 4 meeting, Tim Macnamara, director of<br />
physical plant, and Stan Torvik, vice president of workforce<br />
and community development, discussed the proposal<br />
to turn two free-standing walls into a standalone<br />
2,000-square-foot building. The space would be used<br />
for expanding the wind energy program, the welding<br />
program and the process technology program. Torvik<br />
said five refineries are in the state that need experienced<br />
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President tells of divisional merger, organization changes<br />
UW commuters sought<br />
By Dani Kakalecik<br />
Campus Editor<br />
The Laramie County Community College Student Government<br />
Association was visited at its meeting on Jan. 22 by a student, who voiced<br />
her concerns about public transportation.<br />
Carole Webb said she believed LCCC should provide a bus that runs<br />
from the LCCC campus to the University of Wyoming campus. The senators<br />
discussed ideas about how to obtain feedback from students on the<br />
issue and the possibility of a survey.<br />
Senator applications will be available for those interested in becoming<br />
a part of the organization next semester. Also, the senators will push to<br />
get those applications included in the acceptance package and possibly<br />
even the new student orientation package to get students interested and<br />
involved in SGA earlier.<br />
SGA is also organizing “Ask a Senator Day.” Students who participate<br />
in “Ask a Senator Day” may throw a pie at the face of a senator. SGA is also<br />
examining the possibility of relocating the bookstore and remodeling the<br />
student lounge.<br />
workers, and experienced welders are always needed, so<br />
these programs are needed immediately.<br />
This space will house the re-established certificate<br />
and degree program in welding until the Flex-Tech<br />
Building is built. The college will need to go to the WCCC<br />
for approval, but if it is approved, construction could be<br />
completed by mid-August 2013, and the welding program<br />
could start by the fall 2013 semester.<br />
P-card program implemented<br />
The implementation of a purchasing card or “P-Card”<br />
program. This program works with a bank to streamline<br />
and reduce accounting paperwork with the procurement<br />
process for the college. The P-Card is used for purchasing<br />
through various venders who accept Visa cards.<br />
Then a single bill statement is sent from the bank to the<br />
college, while the bank itself (in this case UMB Bank)<br />
will make the payments to the individual vendors.<br />
President’s housing allowance hiked<br />
<strong>Am</strong>endment No. 2 to the president’s employment<br />
contract, which extends the period of his housing allowance<br />
for the president and his family, who are currently<br />
in a house owned by the college. This extension provides<br />
time for the Schaffer family to finish construction of<br />
their new home before moving out of the current one.<br />
Strategic Planning Committee formed<br />
A new committee named the Strategic Planning<br />
Committee was formed during the meeting. Headed<br />
by Chairwoman Carol Merrell, the committee will work<br />
with Schaffer and a number of other members from<br />
College Council to create an overall strategic plan that<br />
will align with that of the Wyoming Community College<br />
Commission. Trustees Ed Mosher and Bill Dubois asked<br />
to join the chairwoman to represent the trustees on this<br />
committee. Chairman Merrell added that when she has<br />
participated in this kind of committee, she found “the<br />
biggest joy” was “to really find out what is happening in<br />
this college at that level.”<br />
The president of the Student Government<br />
Association, Mike Wondrash, brought a student body<br />
concern to the attention of the board, citing that as the<br />
days become colder, the 30-foot bubble between campus<br />
doors and smokers has gradually reduced. President<br />
Schaffer stated simply and confidently, “We’ll take care<br />
of it.”<br />
Following the meeting, the trustees went into executive<br />
session to discuss several personnel matters.
February 11, 2013<br />
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By Kasey M. Orr<br />
Co-editor<br />
Driving down the packed column of<br />
parked cars in the lot north of Laramie<br />
County Community College, you search<br />
desperately for a spot with only minutes<br />
to get to class. Your heart leaps, and you<br />
can hardly believe your luck when you<br />
think you see an open space near the<br />
front of the row.<br />
Then your heart breaks just as quickly<br />
as you realize the parking space is taken<br />
by an ugly, gray concrete cylinder in a<br />
muddy hole.<br />
What is this? Why is it here? How is this<br />
possibly helpful?<br />
The answer is “streetlights.” The answer<br />
is “light and safety.”<br />
The answer is that earlier in 2012<br />
a company called Security Risk<br />
Management Consultants, Inc. conducted<br />
a security assessment of the campus<br />
and found the illumination of campus<br />
areas at night was severely below par.<br />
This same assessment led to the placement<br />
of security cameras throughout<br />
the college. Currently, 57 new, state-<br />
campus news<br />
of-the-art, LED (light-emitting diode)<br />
streetlamps will increase the overall<br />
illumination of public areas on campus<br />
at night, bringing them up to the national<br />
standard. These lamps are taller and<br />
more powerful than the old lights and are<br />
designed to shine more light toward the<br />
ground where it is needed, rather than<br />
the old sphere designs, which cast just<br />
as much light uselessly toward the sky as<br />
they did toward the parking lot and also<br />
caused more glare for those driving.<br />
Another reason for discarding the existing<br />
lights is many still hold the original<br />
mercury vapor bulbs, which the FDA<br />
claimed can be a public health concern<br />
because of the danger of ultraviolet<br />
radiation burns to the eyes and face if the<br />
outer part of the bulbs were ever damaged.<br />
Because these original fixtures were<br />
installed when the college was first<br />
built, that is yet another reason for their<br />
replacement.<br />
The LED lights save energy and shine<br />
brighter by sending light in one direction,<br />
in this case down on the walkways<br />
and parking lots. The U.S. Department of<br />
Energy said a residential-used LED-style<br />
light can last 25 times longer and use 75<br />
percent less energy than a standard incandescent<br />
light. The result is a brighter,<br />
more energy-efficient, cost-effective and<br />
safer environment walk after dark.<br />
Of the five areas that the Security Risk<br />
Management Consultants Inc. assessment<br />
outlined, the budget was approved,<br />
for the time being, for a contract designed<br />
to complete the minimum coverage<br />
of only four of those areas, said Tim<br />
MacNamara, Physical Plant Director.<br />
The Administration Building’s and<br />
Center for Conferences and Institutes’<br />
parking lot as well as the one by Auto/<br />
Diesel, along the Tom Bauman Loop<br />
Road, the north parking lot and the eastwest<br />
walkway from the Arp Building to<br />
Fine Arts Building are being provided<br />
with the new lighting under this plan. The<br />
final area remaining in need, according<br />
to the assessment, is the mall walkway<br />
between the LCCC buildings.<br />
MacNamara estimated approximately<br />
75 percent of the work is now complete,<br />
with all 57 lights expected to be in place<br />
by the end of the spring semester.<br />
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New lamps to let light shine on campus<br />
Kasey M. Orr<br />
Old lights less efficient:<br />
These older fixtures were<br />
installed when the college<br />
was built. Some still contain<br />
the original mercury vapor<br />
bulbs.
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Wingspan<br />
By Allie Hurley<br />
Feature Editor<br />
YoungBill EagleChild RunningFisher<br />
A Blackfeet Indian from north central Montana,<br />
YoungBill EagleChild RunningFisher has been in law<br />
enforcement for 18 years. He began his career in Atlanta,<br />
Ga., in Dekalb County, which is one of the toughest areas<br />
to work in the metro Atlanta area.<br />
Then he worked his way up to a federal agency command<br />
with Department of Homeland Security-Federal<br />
Emergency Management Agency. There, he commanded<br />
a 12-person emergency response team covering Region<br />
6, which is the entire southeastern United States.<br />
He also had a unique experience working with some<br />
of the biggest events and disasters in the nation’s history.<br />
“I first got involved in FEMA back in 2001 with the<br />
9/11 terrorist attacks all the way through Hurricanes<br />
Katrina and Rita and Ike to name a few,” RunningFisher<br />
said.<br />
He was an officer assigned to guard the state of<br />
Wyoming Disability Determination Service building<br />
and is a former chief of police with the Bureau of Indian<br />
Affairs at King Mountain.<br />
He comes from a long line of law enforcement officers<br />
as his great-great-grandfather was the first captain<br />
of the Indian police with the BIA, and it has passed on<br />
from father to son for the past 124 years.<br />
RunningFisher has degrees in business, criminal<br />
justice and emergency management. Since June 2011,<br />
Runningfisher has been a part-time campus safety officer<br />
at Laramie County Community College.<br />
Bob Atkinson<br />
spent 20 years in California as a<br />
deputy sheriff. He’s been an adjunct<br />
instructor at a police academy and<br />
spent 10 years at a high school for<br />
campus safety. Atkinson has also had<br />
20 years’ experience in the Marine<br />
Corps and received a Purple Heart.<br />
Because of California’s high<br />
costs, Atkinson moved to Wyoming.<br />
He spoke with Laramie County<br />
Community College’s security<br />
campus news<br />
director at the time and was hired on the spot, and he<br />
has served two years. Atkinson was also a full-time campus<br />
safety officer, serving as interim director.<br />
“If anyone has any questions, concerns and safety<br />
ideas, they should come and see me. I’d be happy to<br />
listen,” Adkinson said. He wants students to feel comfortable<br />
coming to school and have someone protecting<br />
them. He enjoys the students at LCCC including his son<br />
who “should major in ESPN.” So far Atkinson has had a<br />
good experience at LCCC.<br />
Jeff Graham<br />
has been a part-time safety officer for five years.<br />
He has a master’s of rehabilitation counseling from<br />
Utah State University. At the University of Wyoming, he<br />
received a bachelor of arts in social science and administration<br />
of justice. Graham is a certified rehabilitation<br />
counselor and served on the Governor’s Council on<br />
Developmental Disabilities.<br />
February 11, 2013<br />
wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />
Super troopers: Campus cops have prime experience<br />
Bob Atkinson<br />
Aliie Hurley<br />
On patrol:<br />
Campus safety and security officers Jeff<br />
Graham, left, and YoungBull EagleChild<br />
RunningFisher patrol campus.<br />
Who ya gonna call?<br />
For Campus Security, call 630-0866 or 630-0645.<br />
There are three shifts with two officers working:<br />
midnight to 8 a.m.; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 4 p.m. to<br />
midnight.<br />
Graham is the deputy administrator for the Disability<br />
Determination Services, having worked for the state of<br />
Wyoming for 19 years.<br />
He served in the military for five years, two with the<br />
Wyoming Air National Guard as a security specialist and<br />
three on active duty with the Army as a military intelligence<br />
analyst.<br />
As a safety officer, Graham is responsible for the<br />
safety of students, faculty, staff and others who come to<br />
the campus for various purposes. He said he is responsible<br />
for ensuring that property is not damaged or stolen<br />
and ensuring that facilities are safe for public use.<br />
Graham said his objective is to be highly visible and<br />
accessible to all individuals on campus. He can be found<br />
patrolling the campus on foot or in a vehicle.<br />
While on the job, Graham said he enjoyed speaking<br />
with people and is curious about what brought them to<br />
LCCC.<br />
“I enjoy hearing successful outcomes from students<br />
who have worked and studied diligently to receive high<br />
marks in their courses, discussing what courses they<br />
enjoy and those courses that are challenging,” Graham<br />
said. “I also enjoy speaking with the faculty members.”<br />
Graham also said he has grieved the loss of students<br />
who have committed suicide. “These students had so<br />
much to offer but chose to end their lives prematurely,”<br />
he said.<br />
Not only is Graham a graduate from LCCC, but it’s<br />
where he and his wife met. Graham called LCCC special,<br />
and it’s where he plans to send his children.<br />
Graham has been married for 21 years and has four<br />
teenagers. He enjoys running and reading.<br />
He wants students to know he is friendly and approachable<br />
and is available to assist them, especially in<br />
a time of crisis.<br />
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February 11, 2013<br />
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Dec. 1<br />
Suspicious incident<br />
A student in the Residence<br />
Hall parking lot reported that<br />
someone tampered with a 1994<br />
Acura and the air was let out of<br />
the tires. There was no suspect<br />
information.<br />
Dec. 3<br />
Informational report<br />
A student in the Residence<br />
Hall reported he had been a<br />
victim of battery. Campus Safety<br />
and the Laramie County Sheriff’s<br />
Department were contacted;<br />
afterward the student who filed<br />
said he was confused, and it<br />
didn’t happen.<br />
Dec. 3<br />
Assault<br />
Supplemental to the<br />
Informational report, the<br />
student who claimed he was a<br />
victim of assault, changed his<br />
mind and named a suspect.<br />
The suspect was identified to<br />
Body Image and<br />
Disordered Eating<br />
101<br />
Feel pressured to be<br />
thin or “need” to have the<br />
perfect body? Obsess<br />
about weight or dieting?<br />
Please join a presentation<br />
on Body Image. Call<br />
778-4397<br />
to reserve a space!<br />
Tuesday, Feb. 26<br />
Noon–1 p.m., CCC 179<br />
Thursday, Feb. 28<br />
5–6 p.m., CCC 178<br />
Sponsored by Counseling<br />
and Campus Wellness<br />
the Laramie County Sheriff’s<br />
Department, who took a report<br />
and submitted it to the district<br />
attorney. The case is pending<br />
and is in the hands of the district<br />
attorney’s office.<br />
Dec. 6<br />
Theft<br />
In the Residence Hall, a<br />
student reported someone<br />
stole a wrist watch, valued at<br />
$300. The theft was reported to<br />
the Laramie County Sheriff’s<br />
Department, who has received<br />
suspect information and has<br />
started a case.<br />
Dec. 7<br />
Theft<br />
In an office in Center for<br />
Conferences and Institutes, the<br />
reporting party said $130 cash<br />
was left in a file cabinet during<br />
three days, and on Dec. 10 the<br />
$130 was missing. There is no<br />
suspect information.<br />
Contact Eirin Grimes in Counseling and Campus Wellness<br />
CCC 129, 307-778-4397<br />
campus news<br />
February 24 – March 2, 2013<br />
NEDAwareness<br />
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week<br />
Movie Screening:<br />
Killing Us Softly 4<br />
“…Jean Kilbourne<br />
uncovers a steady<br />
stream of sexist and<br />
misogynistic images and<br />
messages...and a<br />
restrictive code of<br />
femininity that works<br />
to undermine girls and<br />
women in the real<br />
world….”<br />
Wednesday, Feb. 27<br />
11 a.m.–2 p.m.<br />
Student Lounge<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Campus Activities Board<br />
Dec. 11<br />
Theft<br />
A student in the Residence<br />
Hall reported three pairs of blue<br />
denim jeans, two T-shirts and<br />
assorted socks, estimated at<br />
about $150 total, were stolen.<br />
The student had left the clothing<br />
in the Residence Hall washer for<br />
about 14–15 hours unattended.<br />
There was no suspect information.<br />
Dec. 14<br />
Minor in alcohol possession<br />
A resident adviser conducting<br />
checks for the winter break<br />
Residence Hall checkout walked<br />
into a room and found an<br />
abundance of alcohol bottles<br />
on a table in the room. Campus<br />
Safety was contacted, and then<br />
the Laramie County Sheriff’s<br />
Department was contacted. The<br />
two minors in the room in possession<br />
of alcohol were issued<br />
a notice to appear in court for<br />
minors in possession of alcohol<br />
(from the Laramie County<br />
Sheriff’s Department).<br />
Dec. 19<br />
Found property<br />
A woman’s black handbag<br />
was found in a Fine Arts<br />
Building classroom. The owner<br />
was identified by information<br />
found in the bag, and Campus<br />
Smashing Scales<br />
Event: Weight<br />
does not define us!<br />
Students will be given the<br />
opportunity to take a<br />
sledgehammer to a<br />
bathroom scale in an<br />
interactive effort to<br />
reinforce the idea that<br />
weight does not define the<br />
person—what is important<br />
is overall health and<br />
individuality!<br />
Thursday, Feb. 28<br />
Noon–1:30 p.m.<br />
Outside the cafeteria<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Active Minds<br />
Safety contacted her. The next<br />
day the bag was returned.<br />
Dec. 29<br />
Theft<br />
In the PE department locker<br />
room, a student left $95 in cash<br />
in a wallet in an unlocked locker<br />
and left the room unattended<br />
between 3-4 p.m. When the<br />
student returned, the money<br />
was missing from wallet. There<br />
was no suspect information.<br />
The Laramie County Sheriff’s<br />
Department was contacted and<br />
took a report.<br />
Jan. 9<br />
Found property<br />
In the Ludden Library, a<br />
woman’s brown wallet was<br />
found. The owner of the wallet<br />
was identified from information<br />
found in the wallet. The owner<br />
was contacted, and the wallet<br />
was returned.<br />
Jan. 9<br />
Found property<br />
In Student Services, a small,<br />
multicolored clutch purse that<br />
contained $925 in cash was<br />
found. The owner was identified<br />
from information found in the<br />
purse. The owner was contacted,<br />
and the purse was returned.<br />
Love the Genes<br />
You’re In!<br />
Denim Jeans Drive<br />
Take out those old pair<br />
of jeans you have tucked<br />
away in the back of your<br />
closet (You know...the<br />
ones you keep hoping you<br />
will fit into someday.), and<br />
get rid of them. Donate<br />
them through March 1 for<br />
a chance to win a gift card.<br />
Jeans will be donated to a<br />
local charity.<br />
Feb. 25–March 1<br />
8 a.m.–5 p.m., CCC 129<br />
Sponsored by Counseling<br />
and Campus Wellness<br />
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Jan. 22<br />
Found property<br />
A credit card was found in<br />
Parking Lot E. The owner was<br />
contacted through student<br />
records information, and the<br />
credit card was returned.<br />
Jan. 24<br />
Found property<br />
A brown and purple purse<br />
was found in a Health Science<br />
classroom. The owner was identified<br />
from information found<br />
in the purse. The owner was<br />
contacted, and the purse was<br />
returned.<br />
Jan. 26<br />
Suspected drug possession<br />
In the Residence Hall, a<br />
resident adviser reported smelling<br />
marijuana in a dorm room.<br />
Campus Safety was contacted,<br />
and then the Laramie County<br />
Sheriff’s Department was<br />
contacted, and the dorm room<br />
was entered, and the residents<br />
were talked to. The residents<br />
were not under the influence<br />
at the time. The individuals in<br />
the dorm room stated they had<br />
been smoking earlier but not<br />
on school property. They also<br />
were not in possession of any<br />
marijuana.<br />
¾ See Security, Page 13<br />
“Real Beauty”<br />
Display<br />
Students will have the<br />
opportunity to participate<br />
in a large display<br />
of “Real Beauty”<br />
on LCCC’s campus. This<br />
visual demonstration will<br />
compare/contrast the<br />
difference between what<br />
media tells us is<br />
beautiful and what<br />
normal beauty looks like.<br />
Feb. 25–March 1<br />
Student Lounge<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Certified Peer Educators<br />
NationalEatingDisorders.org
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Wingspan<br />
Vice President<br />
Judy Hay Vice President<br />
started Sept. 10, 2012<br />
campus news<br />
Ext. 1217<br />
Michelle Kallhoff Executive Assistant Ext. 1302<br />
Campus Living & Learning<br />
Jenny Rigg Campus Living and Learning Dean Ext. 4326<br />
Zeke Sorenson Administrative Assistant Ext. 1119<br />
Danielle Saulsberry Student Involvement and<br />
Leadership Specialist<br />
Ext. 1630<br />
Counseling<br />
Eirin Grimes Counselor Ext. 1150<br />
Crystal Corbin Counselor<br />
Ext. 1261<br />
• will bring health and wellness activities<br />
to students<br />
• will work with local resources in the<br />
health care community<br />
Lynn Scott Counselor, part time Ext. 1295<br />
Residence Hall<br />
Jason Ostrowski Residential Living Director and Judicial Affairs Ext. 1798<br />
Karen Wentroble<br />
Athletics<br />
Administrative Assistant Ext. 2498<br />
Jason Ficca Athletic Director/Men’s Basketball Coach Ext. 1181<br />
Kim Castaneda Administrative Assistant Ext. 1373<br />
Gregg Boughton Athletic Trainer Ext. 1314<br />
David Browder Rodeo Head Coach Ext. 1260<br />
Vacant Women’s Volleyball Head Coach Ext. 1305<br />
Jim Gardner Women’s Soccer Head Coach Ext. 4393<br />
Vince Gibson Men’s Soccer Head Coach/Sports Information<br />
Specialist<br />
Ext. 1194<br />
DeWayne Salisbury Assistant Basketball Coach Ext. 1323<br />
Enrollment Services<br />
Admissions<br />
Holly Allison Director of Admissions Ext. 1117<br />
Lenora Munoz Assistant Ext. 1212<br />
Vacant Admissions Representative Ext. 1297<br />
Sarah Hannes E-Recruiting/Web Specialist Ext. 1178<br />
Josh Nishswonger Admissions Representative Ext. 4370<br />
Switchboard<br />
February 11, 2013<br />
wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />
Winds of change blow through student services<br />
As part of the campuswide reorganization<br />
changes have been made in all areas<br />
of student services at Laramie County<br />
Community College.<br />
Three nonacademic support<br />
services—Disability Services, SAGE TRiO<br />
and the Testing Center—are moving to<br />
student services. Currently, searches are<br />
Here is a guide to who is who and how to reach them<br />
on their way for the new positions of director<br />
of athletics and campus recreation<br />
and student services business analyst.<br />
Further, student services is working<br />
on developing a new advising model on<br />
campus and will request funding for it,<br />
Judy Hay, vice president of student services,<br />
said. The future model will concen-<br />
trate on giving new students an adviser<br />
who will stay with them throughout their<br />
college careers. Professional advisers<br />
would be brought to campus, step-bystep,<br />
and added to the advising force in<br />
order to fulfill this vision.<br />
“This holistic advising model would be<br />
implemented in spring 2014,” Hay said.<br />
Helen Clark Switchboard Operator Ext. 0<br />
Judy Williams Switchboard Operator Ext. 0<br />
Advising & Career Services<br />
Chrissy Renfro Director of Advising & Career Services Ext. 1310<br />
Advising<br />
Dianne Luark Adviser Ext. 1693<br />
Ali McCown Adviser Ext. 4354<br />
Ginny Ruckman Adviser Ext. 1130<br />
DeWayne Saulsberry Adviser Ext. 1323<br />
Career Services<br />
Cheryl Collins Program Assistant Ext. 1132<br />
Transitional Services<br />
The changes in Campus Living and<br />
Learning will work to enhance wellness<br />
on campus for students, and enhance<br />
LCCC’s multicultural and international<br />
student experience.<br />
The goal with the campus-wide<br />
reorganization is to make the students’<br />
experience a great one at LCCC, Hay said.<br />
Allen Price Transitional Services Manager Ext. 1288<br />
Financial Aid<br />
Rodney Dunn Interim Financial Aid Director Ext. 1218<br />
Heather Jones Assistant Financial Aid Director Ext. 1186<br />
Sarah Gossman Technician Ext. 4317<br />
Michelle Massey Technician Ext. 1276<br />
Vito Milatzo Technician Ext. 1299<br />
Marnie Ott Technician Ext. 4396<br />
Lacey Shandera Technician Ext. 1156<br />
Student Records<br />
Stacy Maestas Registrar Ext. 1240<br />
Bettina Wheeler Records Specialist Ext. 4334<br />
Mary Aragon Records Specialist Ext. 1388<br />
Jennifer Follett Records Specialist<br />
Ext. 1241<br />
• go-to person for some intradepartmental<br />
integration<br />
• moved from a part-time position<br />
to full-time<br />
Clara Bunning Records Specialist, part time Ext. 1695<br />
Matt Hooley Records Specialist,<br />
international student process<br />
Ext. 4348
February 11, 2013<br />
wingspan.lccc.wy.edu<br />
By Kasey M. Orr<br />
Co-editor<br />
The seat in the office of the vice president of academic<br />
affairs has found a new owner as Laramie County<br />
Community College added Dr. Jose Fierro to its staff.<br />
Fierro will move to LCCC from Jacksonville, Fla.,<br />
where he has lived and worked for the past nine years as<br />
an academic dean and director for the center of eLearning<br />
at Florida State College.<br />
During that time Fierro has worked with traditional,<br />
online and hybrid curriculum building as well as has<br />
taught biology, anatomy and physiology, public health<br />
and more.<br />
He said he is eager to apply his knowledge to improve<br />
distance learning opportunities at LCCC. Now that the<br />
divisions of career and technical education and business,<br />
agriculture and computer technology will be<br />
joined as the new school of business, agriculture and<br />
technical studies.<br />
President Dr. Joe Schaffer has said changes and<br />
reorganizations will take place. With the redefinition and<br />
amalgamation of two whole divisions comes the task<br />
of designing curriculum for both credit and noncredit<br />
programs respectively. This will be among the projects<br />
to tackle when Fierro joins the staff on Feb. 18. The new<br />
VP said he looked forward to joining LCCC, citing an<br />
campus news<br />
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of e-learning with new VP<br />
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He said he is very willing and open to listening<br />
to everyone about the needs and expectations of those<br />
involved and affected by the academic programs at the<br />
college.<br />
Fierro said he also looked forward to the recreational<br />
opportunities of the Cheyenne community and Rocky<br />
Mountain environment as a whole.<br />
“I’m looking into buying a mountain bike…very<br />
interested in trying that,” Fierro said.<br />
He enjoys endurance sports and is active in swimming,<br />
biking and trains heavily in running. Fierro also<br />
competes in triathlons.<br />
Though born in Madison, Wis., Fierro was raised in<br />
Bogota, the Columbian capital. He earned a doctorate in<br />
higher education leadership from Arizona’s Northcentral<br />
University and earned a master of science in management<br />
and administration of educational programs from<br />
Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<br />
Planning to ease into his new role, Fierro said he believed<br />
showing up to a completely new college in a new<br />
community with too many predetermined plans is not<br />
constructive. Rather, he said he felt the job was first to<br />
learn as much as he could from actually being a part of<br />
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College<br />
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Cheyenne, Wyo. 82007<br />
Have you heard the saying, “There are no<br />
short cuts to any place worth going”?<br />
Wingspan believes that saying applies to the<br />
college’s involvement in the Hynds Capitol Core<br />
Project to build student housing downtown and<br />
the student survey conducted in late fall 2012 to<br />
justify further examination.<br />
The Laramie County Community College<br />
Board of Trustees decided at its Oct. 17 business<br />
meeting to undertake a survey to gauge student<br />
interest in downtown living. Furthermore, the<br />
board agreed to sign a letter of intent between<br />
the college and Wyoming Community Media,<br />
doing business as the Hynds Capitol Core<br />
Project (HCC), giving LCCC time to conduct a<br />
feasibility study.<br />
The HCC plan includes renovating the<br />
historic Hynds building on 16th Street and<br />
the “hole,” created by a fire that destroyed the<br />
adjacent building, in order to provide business<br />
spaces and apartments.<br />
The plan calls for 65 units, which would<br />
range from studio to two-bedroom apartments.<br />
The rent would run from $530 to $708 a month,<br />
according to the Hynds Capitol Core Project<br />
feasibility study.<br />
Wingspan believes the survey was fraught<br />
with problems.<br />
This survey was rushed at the end of the fall<br />
semester because of the letter of intent in order<br />
to compile results for the Jan. 4 board retreat.<br />
The survey was posted on EaglesEye with a<br />
flashing announcement, and students were<br />
stopped in the student lounge to take the survey.<br />
If a student answered he were uninterested<br />
in off-campus housing—the first question—he<br />
was unable to continue with the survey.<br />
Unfortunately, the survey lacked merit<br />
considering the timeframe to conduct and<br />
compile it, the sample used and the questions<br />
asked. Further, given the number of responses<br />
(379 students of approximately 6,000 annually),<br />
it has been called a mere snapshot of the entire<br />
LCCC student body.<br />
Wingspan believes the trustees are being<br />
rushed into making decisions about the Hynds<br />
building based on an unscientific survey in<br />
which the questions were vague and incomplete.<br />
Additionally, students were uninformed<br />
of an alternative housing option already in the<br />
works that might have radically changed the<br />
way in which they answered the survey.<br />
Wingspan takes issue with the simplified way<br />
the survey question of living downtown was<br />
asked. The question should have been geared<br />
specifically toward the Hynds Capitol Core<br />
Project on 16th Street, not generalized to downtown.<br />
The difference between busy 16th Street<br />
and 22nd Street by the Capitol complex is more<br />
opinion<br />
than six blocks. It is light years away from bars<br />
and trash in the street to a lovely residential area.<br />
In retrospect, the answers might have been<br />
different if students had known what part of<br />
downtown was in question.<br />
Additionally, the survey was worded so<br />
broadly that students might have thought a<br />
new dorm was proposed instead of a renovated<br />
apartment building.<br />
Not all questions were posed in a productive,<br />
clear way, which leaves too many questions<br />
unanswered.<br />
The Hynds building is situated in an area of<br />
Cheyenne that comes with certain risk factors,<br />
bars and transients being two of them.<br />
“According to a report from the police department,<br />
from February to July 2012, 47 percent<br />
of public intoxication citations were issued<br />
to transient people downtown, compared to<br />
35 percent in 2011,” an article from the Feb.<br />
3 Wyoming Tribune Eagle stated. The article<br />
also said “drunken behavior in proximity to<br />
downtown businesses, like people leaving beer<br />
bottles on the ground or urinating in public<br />
streets” is a problem.<br />
According to the state of Wyoming Sex<br />
Offender Registry, on Feb. 5, 90 sex offenders<br />
were registered within one mile of the Hynds<br />
building.<br />
Is this really where the college wants students<br />
to live?<br />
Parking is another important issue. There’s<br />
no guarantee that the multi-tiered parking<br />
structure at 16th Street and Carey Avenue would<br />
even be available to students. Also, it isn’t the<br />
safest place at all hours. It is doubtful the college<br />
would be able to provide adequate security<br />
for students in the Hynds building.<br />
Common amenities are another missing part<br />
of the equation. College students cannot afford<br />
to eat daily at the pricey restaurants downtown,<br />
and no grocery stores are in sight except for<br />
the oriental market, which is still eight blocks<br />
away…one way…in good weather.<br />
Further, the economics for students just<br />
don’t make sense. Currently, the lowest cost<br />
a student living on campus incurs is $3,328 a<br />
semester, which includes housing, high-speed<br />
Internet access, expanded basic cable TV,<br />
telephone access, electricity, heat, water and<br />
trash service as well as an “all you can eat” meal<br />
plan. For the same four months, for housing<br />
alone a student is projected to pay $2,120 at the<br />
downtown location. A student could not afford<br />
a fraction of the services offered through the<br />
residence hall for the $1,108 difference.<br />
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We are certain students who answered this<br />
survey imagined the downtown area in question<br />
to be more cosmopolitan than it is. This<br />
is downtown Cheyenne. It isn’t New York City.<br />
It isn’t even Fort Collins. There is not a cultural<br />
melting pot. We just cannot see how living<br />
downtown will enrich students’ lives.<br />
The real question is why not wait or take<br />
a look at another, better option like the<br />
Sweetgrass project?<br />
Do you remember the Heinz catsup saying,<br />
“Good things come to those who wait”?<br />
Wingspan believes that to be situated<br />
directly across from the college, the Sweetgrass<br />
project would bring the community out to the<br />
college, a criticism we all know has been leveled<br />
at LCCC since it was built in the early 1970s.<br />
With access to retail and grocery stores, restaurants,<br />
a church and a park, residential areas,<br />
which would include student housing, would<br />
avoid the dangers associated with downtown<br />
Cheyenne. The proximity to the college gives<br />
students access to services LCCC provides.<br />
Parking and transportation would be less of an<br />
issue.<br />
Even in the survey students mentioned the<br />
Sweetgrass project because of its proximity to<br />
the campus and the services it provides.<br />
One student commented: “Do not sink<br />
money into the hole—you are being bamboozled!<br />
Off-campus housing may be a good idea<br />
but not this project…the development across<br />
College Drive would be much better.”<br />
Indeed the Lummis Sweetgrass development<br />
serves LCCC with a win-win situation without<br />
the headaches the Hynds project already bring.<br />
Overall, it makes more sense for the college<br />
because LCCC wouldn’t have financial commitments.<br />
Have you heard the saying, “Fools rush in,<br />
where wise men never go”?<br />
Wingspan believes the Hynds building has<br />
been stagnant for decades—long before the<br />
fire—and no one else is rushing in to purchase<br />
and renovate it. We simply do not understand<br />
from where the sense of urgency has originated.<br />
The college is moving forward with focus<br />
groups of students to collect more data on<br />
student interest and concerns about living<br />
downtown. Administrators need to ensure that<br />
more care is taken in preparation for these<br />
focus groups than was evident in the original<br />
survey.<br />
A thousand clichés could communicate the<br />
need to move cautiously. LCCC needs to obtain<br />
better data and to watch how these two projects<br />
progress.<br />
Have you heard the old saying, “If you find<br />
yourself in a hole, stop <strong>digging</strong>.”
February 11, 2013<br />
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All my<br />
life I grew up<br />
with my mom<br />
saying I could<br />
be anything I<br />
wanted to be,<br />
so as I became<br />
older, I never<br />
really con-<br />
sidered having a “real job.” I wanted to<br />
travel; I wanted to play music; I wanted<br />
to act; I wanted to have the flexibility to<br />
do anything I wanted.<br />
As I got closer to graduating high<br />
school and attending college, I wasn’t<br />
quite sure the direction I was heading.<br />
I knew I would go to college because<br />
I had scholarships to Laramie County<br />
Community College, but I really didn’t<br />
know what to study.<br />
I knew I couldn’t do anything in the<br />
medical field. I knew I didn’t want to do<br />
anything with agriculture, and I knew I<br />
wasn’t cut out for teaching.<br />
So the question was “what would I do<br />
with my life?” I knew I loved music and<br />
other sorts of art, especially photography.<br />
I wasn’t overly excited to go through<br />
another few years of college and still be<br />
in Cheyenne.<br />
After some thinking, I decided to go<br />
into journalism, so I went into the mass<br />
media program to work toward that. My<br />
thought process was this: Get a journalism<br />
degree and then freelance write and<br />
photograph music while playing in a<br />
band and traveling. That way I would<br />
have the flexibility to be artistic and musical<br />
as much as I wanted. I thought this<br />
was a great life plan.<br />
My mom totally supported me in following<br />
my dreams, but what surprised<br />
me was all the people who said, “Oh, you<br />
will never get a job that way,” and “You<br />
will end up starving,” etc.<br />
opinion<br />
OK, yes, I know it’s hard to get a job as<br />
a musician, and freelancing takes a lot of<br />
work, but so does becoming a doctor or<br />
lawyer. Granted those jobs have a pretty<br />
guaranteed future and are well-paying,<br />
but a lot of schooling, effort and work go<br />
into those jobs. Probably about as much<br />
work as it would be to become a successful<br />
musician. It just seems those jobs are<br />
considered “real jobs” whereas a lot of<br />
people seem to view artistic careers, like<br />
being a musician or photographer as, I<br />
don’t know, “fake jobs.”<br />
Now I see where parents want their<br />
children to be successful and have a<br />
future, and, yes, jobs in the medical field<br />
are very stable, but if you are going into<br />
a career just because everyone around<br />
you is saying you will never make it doing<br />
something that you love and are inspired<br />
to do, I think those are the wrong<br />
reasons.<br />
If you work hard at what you want,<br />
you can achieve anything. Yes, becoming<br />
a musician takes lots of time and work.<br />
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Jennifer<br />
Stogsdill<br />
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commentary<br />
I survived the fall semester<br />
and earned pretty good<br />
grades. After tying things up<br />
at the Wingspan office, I drove<br />
off. Right? Right!<br />
Well, and then someone<br />
had to rain on my parade.<br />
On Dec. 21 I received a letter from Laramie County<br />
Community College; here I was thinking this is no big<br />
deal, probably just the confirmation for spring signup<br />
and what the next school year will cost. Boy, was I<br />
wrong.<br />
The letter said:<br />
“Dear Susann,<br />
As of end of fall semester 2012, please be advised that<br />
your attempted LCCC credits and, if applicable, transfer<br />
credits, have exceeded the maximum number of credits<br />
allowed for federal financial aid eligibility for your<br />
degree program. Therefore, in accordance with federal<br />
regulations, you are no longer eligible for any federal<br />
financial aid for future semesters at LCCC. This includes<br />
all federal grants, loans, and work-study.<br />
“If you believe there are mitigating circumstances<br />
which prevented you from meeting the requirements,<br />
you may file an appeal. You may contact the Financial<br />
Aid Office for an appeal form or you may obtain the<br />
form from our website by clicking on ‘Forms’ and then<br />
printing the Satisfactory Progress Appeal form.…”<br />
Wait a minute; are they saying I am not making<br />
satisfactory progress with my degree? Uhm, so actually<br />
finishing a two-year college degree in two years is<br />
unsatisfactory academic progress? I am sorry, but I<br />
don’t get it.<br />
As it turned out, the credits that put me over the<br />
limit were from my degree from Germany (45 credits,<br />
which count as electives) and some extra credits<br />
from the summer. Well, OK, I guess, but to me this still<br />
didn’t make sense.<br />
So I called to find out what the heck this was about<br />
and why in the world I received this letter in late<br />
December, after communicating with the registrar and<br />
the financial aid offices most of the fall semester.<br />
The nice woman on the phone told me I was over my<br />
allowed credit limit. Well, duh, I captured that so far, and<br />
I need to file an appeal, Duh, again. Oh, and the sooner<br />
I could get that in the better because in two hours the<br />
office would be closed for winter break and wouldn’t<br />
reopen until Jan. 2. Really? Isn’t that just a nice way to<br />
ruin someone’s Christmas break?<br />
I rushed to campus and got all the forms, oh, and<br />
I needed my adviser to sign some paperwork before<br />
turning it in. (Faculty had been gone for days.) As it<br />
happened my adviser, Roz, was on campus, and she<br />
even helped me write the letter of appeal because quite<br />
frankly all the words that came to my mind probably<br />
would have gotten me kicked out of college.<br />
My response read somewhere along the line of:<br />
“I have not missed one single semester and am actually<br />
on track to finish my degree in two years. My GPA is<br />
respectable. While it may look as if I have a lot of credits,<br />
four out the 45 elective credits (from my German<br />
degree) only apply to my degree, and most of the other<br />
credits apply to my second major in multimedia and my<br />
certificate in Web page design. Further I am involved<br />
with campus life because I am the online editor of<br />
Wingspan.”<br />
I handed everything in just in time, and then the<br />
waiting game started. Because I am not good at waiting<br />
and this entire experience had left a rather sour taste<br />
You must practice; you must get out<br />
there; you must write, create and record<br />
music; you must tour. But becoming a<br />
doctor also takes a lot of work and time,<br />
schooling, practicing and degrees.<br />
Maybe I am wrong for wanting to<br />
follow my crazy dreams, and maybe I will<br />
end up unsuccessful and in a cardboard<br />
box and will have to find a different<br />
career path, but at least I will try to make<br />
it. The way I see it, many successful<br />
musicians and freelance photojournalists<br />
exist, so why can I not be one of them? I<br />
guess I won’t know until I try.<br />
I do know I would much rather work<br />
hard at what I really love and be poor<br />
than work just as hard at what I despise<br />
and be really rich. I believe whatever you<br />
work hard at, you can achieve. I think it’s<br />
dumb when parents force their children<br />
to do what they don’t want to do.<br />
Following your dreams and being happy<br />
are much more important than doing<br />
what would make other people happy.<br />
Student records ‘Scrooge’ steals winter break<br />
in my mouth, I started calling the financial aid office as<br />
soon as it reopened. Oh, yes, I called almost every single<br />
day.<br />
The responses were not very satisfying, considering<br />
they went from: “It is with the appeal board,” to “The<br />
appeal board has not looked at it yet,” to “The appeal<br />
board is looking at it now” and, my personal most<br />
disliked answer, “You will get an answer in a couple of<br />
days.” What in the world kind of answer is “in a couple<br />
of days”? Even my 4-year old daughter knows this isn’t a<br />
satisfactory answer for someone waiting to see what the<br />
next step is. I kindly reminded one financial aid worker<br />
that early registration payment was due the first day<br />
of classes, and nonpayment could result in my being<br />
dropped from my classes. What was the response? Well,<br />
then you need to contact accounting to make sure they<br />
know what is going on! Excuse me? All this was out of<br />
my power, and you want me to contact accounting?<br />
How about you contact them and tell them what the<br />
holdup is?<br />
It got to the point where I felt like financial aid was<br />
screening my number because there was always a busy<br />
sign or no one responded. But, hey, I am who I am, and I<br />
have sunk my teeth into this, so I kept calling and, once<br />
the semester started, going by every single day. Until,<br />
oh, joy, my appeal was approved, and I had to sign the<br />
satisfactory progress agreement.<br />
The waiting for my tuition to be paid and receiving<br />
money for books weren’t joyful either, but at least I<br />
finally got there.<br />
Here, I would like to say, I am not holding anyone<br />
working in the Financial Aid Office responsible for any<br />
of this, but you also have to see it from the students’ perspective.<br />
Having to wait to see if you actually can afford<br />
to go to college, while the answers constantly changed<br />
from the people who should know, doesn’t exactly instill<br />
confidence in the office that is supposed to help us in<br />
our college experience.
12<br />
Wingspan<br />
By Susann Robbins<br />
Online Editor<br />
The seven community colleges,<br />
the Wyoming Community<br />
College Commission and<br />
the Wyoming Association of<br />
Community College Trustees<br />
(WACCT) are monitoring 11 bills<br />
in this year’s 40-day session of<br />
the Wyoming Legislature, which<br />
started in January.<br />
Dr. Joe Schaffer, Laramie<br />
County Community College<br />
president, highlighted seven<br />
bills at the Jan. 23 board business<br />
meeting.<br />
HB 105: Citizens and Students<br />
Self-Defense Act<br />
“Basically, if in the state of<br />
Wyoming you have a concealedcarry-weapons<br />
permit, this bill<br />
will allow you to actually carry a<br />
gun on college campus and into<br />
schools without having to notify<br />
the corresponding authorities,”<br />
Schaffer said.<br />
In general, the seven community<br />
college presidents support<br />
every citizen’s right to bear<br />
arms; however, this bill raises<br />
concerns across all colleges<br />
about how to keep students safe<br />
from a new series of unknown<br />
variables. Schaffer said he encouraged<br />
community members<br />
with concerns about the bill to<br />
reach out to their senators and<br />
representatives.<br />
Trustees Don Erickson and<br />
Ed Mosher agreed with the<br />
president’s concern, and Mosher<br />
said more information about<br />
what the bill entails is needed<br />
before it will be approved by the<br />
Legislature.<br />
Trustee Dr. Kevin Kilty, on<br />
the other hand, disagreed with<br />
president’s concerns. “There<br />
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Online Editor<br />
are many things that could be<br />
happening on campus which<br />
you don’t know about, and I<br />
honestly do not believe this<br />
bill injects new fear rather than<br />
adding to the fear,” Kilty said.<br />
“Considering recent events, like<br />
the Casper College attack, you<br />
never really know what is going<br />
on, and you don’t need a gun to<br />
hurt others.”<br />
HB 163: Adjunct<br />
Professor Incentives<br />
“Essentially, this bill creates<br />
a loan program for high school<br />
teachers interested in taking<br />
part in concurrent enrollment,”<br />
Schaffer said. HB 163 would<br />
be funded by a budget appropriation<br />
of $100,000 and would<br />
be readily available for public<br />
school teachers who want to<br />
further their education. “I think<br />
this is a good thing, and it will<br />
strengthen the concurrent<br />
enrollment force within the<br />
Wyoming public school and college<br />
system,” Schaffer added.<br />
HB 165: Remedial<br />
Classes Tuition Fees<br />
“This bill means that any<br />
Wyoming high school graduate<br />
that comes to the university or<br />
any of the community colleges<br />
and needs a remedial course”<br />
must be provided “tuition and<br />
student fee free,” Schaffer said.<br />
If passed, this bill would cut $1.4<br />
million of the WCCC budget for<br />
the colleges. Further, Schaffer<br />
added it would force everyone<br />
involved with college education<br />
to rethink remedial education<br />
because it doesn’t work.<br />
“Maybe this bill should be<br />
supported just for the simple<br />
reason of forcing change in<br />
remedial education in the state<br />
At this year’s 62nd Wyoming Legislature the most<br />
important item for the seven community colleges is<br />
the budget for which the governor has proposed an 8<br />
percent cut for fiscal year 2014 across the board for all<br />
institutions within the state.<br />
“The Wyoming Community College Commission<br />
(WCCC) as an institution will have to take in an 8 percent<br />
budget cut, and the seven community colleges will<br />
see a 6 percent budget cut,” Dr. Jim Rose, executive director<br />
of WCCC, said. Further, this spells out a cut of $1.3<br />
news<br />
of Wyoming,” Schaffer said.<br />
At LCCC a lot of programs<br />
generate money beyond the<br />
cost it takes to run the program,<br />
and the leftover funds are used<br />
to subsidize programs that cost<br />
more than the revenues they<br />
generate, trustee Kilty pointed<br />
out. “We would focus better to<br />
get remedial students to operate<br />
on a college level,” Kilty said.<br />
“As a result we would do more<br />
good to the Southeast Wyoming<br />
workforce to have a larger, welleducated<br />
workforce available.”<br />
HB 166 and HB 177: Hathaway<br />
Student Scholarship Program<br />
and Hathaway Success<br />
Curriculum<br />
HB 166, if passed, would<br />
increase the amount available<br />
for Hathaway scholarships<br />
recipients, Schaffer said. “I am<br />
really excited about the extension<br />
of the Hathaway Success<br />
Curriculum,” Schaffer said.<br />
Including foreign language, fine<br />
million to the budget of Laramie County Community<br />
College, Dr. Joe Schaffer, LCCC president, added.<br />
Other budget items that have been brought before<br />
the governor are as follows: Enrollment Growth Funding<br />
(a one-time funding), $854,747 has been denied by the<br />
governor and rejected as an amendment by the Joint<br />
Appropriations Committee (JAC); WPTV Maintenance<br />
Allowance (Wyoming Public Television), $117,670<br />
approved by the governor, and Capital Construction<br />
Authorization (for six projects), $37,611,568 approved by<br />
the governor.<br />
The enrollment growth funding would have been<br />
applied to Eastern Wyoming College, Northwest College,<br />
and performing arts, and careervocational<br />
education into the<br />
curriculum would open up new<br />
programs for students in their<br />
college careers.<br />
SF 77: Community<br />
College Construction<br />
“This is rather benign bill<br />
as it shifts the management of<br />
community college construction<br />
projects from the WCCC to<br />
the Construction Management<br />
Division of the Department<br />
of Administration and<br />
Information,” Schaffer said. The<br />
real challenge will come when<br />
trying to start construction<br />
projects because it adds another<br />
step of bureaucracy, he said.<br />
SF 121: Career and Technical<br />
Training Grants<br />
This bill has been brought to<br />
the Legislature for the third time.<br />
“This bill will create a grant program<br />
for adults to get a degree in<br />
a program that the department<br />
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Eleven bills on radar of colleges<br />
Bill tracking sheet (as Feb. 6, 2013)<br />
Bill Where is it?<br />
HB 105 Passed House; sent to Senate Education Committee<br />
HB 163 Passed House; sent to Senate Education Committee<br />
HB 165 Failed introduction to House Committee of the Whole<br />
HB 166 and HB 177 166 passed House; sent to Senate Education<br />
Committee<br />
177 passed House; placed on Senate general file<br />
SF 77 Passed Senate; sent to House Appropriations<br />
Committee<br />
SF 121 Failed third Senate reading<br />
HB 52 Passed House; placed on Senate general file<br />
HB 54 Passed House; Senate passed to Committee of the<br />
Whole<br />
HB 173 Failed introduction to House Committee of the Whole<br />
SF 128 Failed introduction to Senate Committee of the Whole<br />
of workforce services identifies<br />
as fast-growing and high-paying<br />
in Wyoming,” Schaffer said.<br />
The WCCC, WACCT and the<br />
seven college presidents broadly<br />
support this bill. Payments from<br />
the $500,000 grant would go<br />
directly to the training providers,<br />
and grantees would be required<br />
to work in Wyoming in the trade<br />
for which they received training<br />
for an agreed upon amount of<br />
time.<br />
Other bills being monitored:<br />
HB52, Workplace<br />
Safety Incentives<br />
The state workers’ compensation<br />
division will have to offer<br />
an up to 10 percent discount<br />
off rates for employers that participate<br />
in the state’s workplace<br />
safety contract program. WACCT<br />
supports the bill.<br />
HB54: High School<br />
Equivalency Certificate<br />
This bill deals with the<br />
privatization of the General<br />
Education Degree by creating a<br />
different method by which the<br />
WCCC administers the tests.<br />
WACCT supports this bill.<br />
HB 173: Community College<br />
Police Officer Retirement<br />
This bill would allow community<br />
college officers to<br />
participate in the law enforcement<br />
plan under the Wyoming<br />
Retirement Act.<br />
SF 128: Bidder Qualification –<br />
Community Colleges<br />
Community colleges will be<br />
added to the list of state agencies<br />
and commissions who can<br />
determine the qualifications and<br />
responsibilities of bidders on<br />
contracts for construction.<br />
Budget cuts across colleges; LCCC positions safe<br />
Western Wyoming Community College and LCCC.<br />
“Nobody can really predict where the budget will<br />
go. All we can do is keep the impact minimal to our<br />
students,” Schaffer said. Savings will have to be found<br />
internally for the priorities of the college. Further, the<br />
college will look at course offerings and their enrollment.<br />
Currently, too many choices are offered, and<br />
some of these can easily be reduced without affecting<br />
the learning environment of the students, the president<br />
said. “There won’t be any reduction in positions, and we<br />
will be looking at getting more students through federal<br />
aid into the LCCC workforce,” he said.
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Jan. 25<br />
Found property<br />
A credit card was turned<br />
in to Campus Safety, who was<br />
unable to contact the owner, so<br />
the issuing credit union advised<br />
to destroy credit card because it<br />
was already reported lost.<br />
Jan. 25<br />
Found property<br />
A multicolored clutch purse<br />
was turned in to Campus Safety.<br />
The owner was identified from<br />
information found inside the<br />
purse. Campus Safety attempted<br />
to contact the owner, but the<br />
phone number found in the<br />
purse was unused. The owner<br />
was never contacted.<br />
Jan. 28<br />
Found property<br />
A custodian reported finding<br />
a brown wallet in a Fine Arts<br />
Building classroom. The owner<br />
was identified from information<br />
found in the wallet. The owner<br />
was contacted, and the wallet<br />
was returned.<br />
Jan. 30<br />
Vehicle accident<br />
In Parking Lot B, there was an<br />
anonymous report that a blue<br />
Nissan backed into a tan Nissan,<br />
causing damage to the rear<br />
bumper of the tan Nissan. The<br />
owners were contacted, and they<br />
exchanged names, addressed<br />
and insurance information.<br />
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Governor addresses<br />
legislative concerns<br />
By Jennifer Stogsdill<br />
Co-editor<br />
Wyoming’s governor<br />
expressed the importance of<br />
keeping young people in the<br />
state at a news conference Jan.<br />
28.<br />
“We are a stable state,<br />
and we should act like one,”<br />
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead<br />
said. He said Wyoming has a<br />
good opportunity to diversify<br />
its economy especially with<br />
technology. Mead also said<br />
lawmakers need to work to<br />
keep young people working in<br />
Wyoming.<br />
Budget cuts, education,<br />
gay marriage and Medicare<br />
were some of the other topics<br />
brought up during a news<br />
conference with Mead at the<br />
Wyoming Press Association<br />
convention.<br />
Mead began by outlining<br />
the main topics and updates<br />
of the Legislature, after which<br />
he took questions from a room<br />
of newspaper representatives<br />
from around the state.<br />
Mead discussed mostly the<br />
budget for this session and<br />
where cuts were made and<br />
why. Mead said Wyoming has<br />
a tradition of being fiscally<br />
conservative. He said he didn’t<br />
want just to make cuts right<br />
off the top; he wanted to take<br />
a closer look at the 6.5 percent<br />
average cut. Mead also said<br />
cuts shouldn’t be looked at<br />
separately from revenue and<br />
the budget should be built on<br />
what is anticipated. He said<br />
the budget should be based on<br />
what the state has. He added<br />
the government can spend<br />
the money it has, but the state<br />
needs basic infrastructure.<br />
Mead said there is always<br />
a need for water, roads<br />
and power, and Wyoming<br />
must have a plan for adding<br />
transportation construction.<br />
He also said lawmakers are<br />
working on making cuts at<br />
the Wyoming Department of<br />
Transportation, but officials<br />
cannot continually cut the<br />
same item over and over.<br />
“If we have an issue, we<br />
should take care of it,” Mead<br />
said.<br />
Mead also said the cuts in<br />
the budget he decided were<br />
the best for the state because<br />
if the cuts do not happen now,<br />
then future cuts will be much<br />
worse.<br />
Mead also talked about<br />
the state’s savings. Mead said<br />
he would like to build up the<br />
“rainy day” fund to about $3<br />
billion.<br />
Mead said if the state<br />
invests now, there will be a<br />
possibility of 100 percent<br />
reimbursement. But as time<br />
goes on and it waits, there will<br />
be less reimbursement for the<br />
state. Mead said he asked the<br />
Legislature to look closer at the<br />
budget for a year and to allow<br />
flexibility.<br />
Mead also discussed the<br />
fuel taxes as one of the ways<br />
the state may address needs<br />
for transportation construction.<br />
He said, “No one likes<br />
taxes,” but the state needs to<br />
take a look at who pays the<br />
bills. He said the residents of<br />
Wyoming are not paying for<br />
services, and they need to<br />
recognize who is paying.<br />
Mead also discussed the<br />
issue of education in the<br />
Legislature. He said Wyoming<br />
seems to be spending as much<br />
on education as any other<br />
state, but there seems to be<br />
no change, and he said he<br />
thought it was because the<br />
right topics were not being<br />
discussed. Mead said he, the<br />
superintendent of schools<br />
and the Legislature all need<br />
to be on the same page and<br />
look more closely at what<br />
they are doing and what else<br />
needs to be done to get on the<br />
right path. Mead also touched<br />
on the issue of Medicare in<br />
Wyoming. He said the state<br />
will start with a federal exchange<br />
program to see how<br />
that works for the state and<br />
then see if Wyoming wants to<br />
go into an insurance exchange<br />
program permanently.<br />
Mead also said gay marriage<br />
in Wyoming could<br />
become a possibility in the<br />
future.<br />
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By Mathew McKay<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
One of the first programs<br />
offered at Laramie County<br />
Community College dating to<br />
the 1970s could be reinstated as<br />
early as next fall in addition to<br />
other changes within the area of<br />
technical fields.<br />
After dropping the welding<br />
program just more than 10<br />
years ago, LCCC officials are<br />
hard at work targeting this fall<br />
as the opening semester for the<br />
welding program. Doug Cook,<br />
dean of the Career and Technical<br />
Education Center said that during<br />
the last three to four years<br />
the demand has increased for<br />
students training in this technical<br />
field and even more demand<br />
for special area trainees overall.<br />
LCCC President Dr. Joe<br />
Schaffer said: “The technology<br />
has changed so much that now<br />
to enter into the field of welding<br />
it isn’t one of those things where<br />
I can recruit people off the<br />
street. They are now looking for<br />
people who come out of specific<br />
programs that teach it.”<br />
After starting the process<br />
just more than a year ago by<br />
looking at other programs in the<br />
state and assembling groups<br />
of people with knowledge of<br />
the field for an advisory board,<br />
LCCC officials moved the basic<br />
idea of adding the program<br />
through several boards including<br />
the Academic Standards<br />
Committee and the deans’<br />
Learning Leadership Team, also<br />
known as the LLT.<br />
Cook explained the program<br />
is a long way from being finished;<br />
however, after the LCCC<br />
trustees recently took the first<br />
step in accepting the program<br />
of study as a curriculum on Jan.<br />
21, they accepted the proposal<br />
to expand the facilities. The<br />
board will further review the<br />
curriculum after the scheduled<br />
February study session.<br />
Meanwhile, the program<br />
being currently modeled<br />
after the Northern Wyoming<br />
Community College district’s<br />
welding program seems to be<br />
on its way. NWCC is one of six<br />
community colleges in Wyoming<br />
with a welding program.<br />
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In addition<br />
to the process<br />
of setting a<br />
curriculum,<br />
LCCC has hired<br />
an architect to<br />
design of space<br />
after agreeing a<br />
2,000-squarefeet<br />
addition is needed to the<br />
Career and Technical Center<br />
Building. The addition will cost<br />
about $329,000.<br />
At this point if and when the<br />
welding program gets under<br />
way, the first welding class will<br />
likely be limited to 12–15 students<br />
based on the space and instructors<br />
available in the startup<br />
of the program. It is predicted<br />
to grow quickly though as new<br />
space becomes available at the<br />
Flex Tech Building, also being<br />
proposed for construction.<br />
The second change<br />
currently being explored<br />
is the installment of a<br />
process technology program<br />
focused on the jobs<br />
and industries associated<br />
primarily with oil refineries<br />
and other types of<br />
industries that use some type of<br />
technology to refine materials.<br />
Cook said the program is in<br />
its beginning stages of planning<br />
and has been strongly pushed by<br />
a state interest in improving the<br />
safety records at current refineries<br />
with addition to stabilizing<br />
and providing a highly skilled<br />
work force.<br />
The board is considering<br />
a brand-new Flex Technology<br />
Building of about 54,000 square<br />
feet to create space for the<br />
industrial technology expansion<br />
and welding. Now, it is expected<br />
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2,000 square feet to be added to tech<br />
More than $300,000 will go<br />
to making more room<br />
in the Technical Center.<br />
to be built by late 2016 or early<br />
2017.<br />
The final step to developing<br />
this program will be to hire<br />
professors specialized in certain<br />
areas and to hire part-time<br />
workers to help teach specialized<br />
fields. President Schaffer<br />
said the overall budget for the<br />
enlargement will likely come<br />
from the one mill levy, which<br />
consists of accumulated taxes<br />
collected from Laramie County<br />
and the Work Force Division. In<br />
addition, the project will be built<br />
into next year’s budget.<br />
If for some reason the idea<br />
of adding either program isn’t<br />
realized, Schaffer said the board<br />
of trustees and the campus staff<br />
have plenty of other items on<br />
the agenda that they will first<br />
have to sort through to figure<br />
out which direction to head.
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WCCC increases tuition for fall<br />
By Susann Robbins<br />
Online Editor<br />
Tuition at all seven Wyoming<br />
community colleges will go from<br />
$75 to $79 a credit hour in fall 2013.<br />
“This is another 5 percent<br />
increase, but the Wyoming<br />
Community College Commission<br />
(WCCC) stands true to its goal<br />
of no dramatic increase,” Dr. Jim<br />
Rose, executive director of the<br />
WCCC, said. However, Laramie<br />
County Community College’s president,<br />
Dr. Joe Schaffer, said, “Seeing<br />
another tuition increase was rather<br />
a disappointment.”<br />
While there was opposition to<br />
increasing the tuition once again,<br />
the decision to keep the tuition<br />
cap, “the flat spot at 12 credits,”<br />
was unanimous.<br />
Discussion about the tuition<br />
increase and where to set it also<br />
brought the commissioners to<br />
re-evaluate the matrix system<br />
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Other concerns were voiced<br />
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Wyoming is the only state in the<br />
nation that doesn’t provide needbased<br />
aid; the Hathaway scholarships<br />
are merit-based and unavailable<br />
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Another issue of concern was<br />
student fees are all over the map<br />
for the seven Wyoming community<br />
colleges. Rose stressed the WCCC<br />
has no influence over the student<br />
fees each college charges. “This is<br />
something the colleges have to take<br />
a further look at,” Rose said.<br />
Schaffer said, “LCCC has already<br />
started to take a look at the student<br />
fees and evaluate them.” Currently,<br />
LCCC is working on re-evaluating<br />
the student fees, where do they go,<br />
how they are applied and whether<br />
they are needed.<br />
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Students dropped for nonpayment<br />
By Allie Hurley<br />
Features Editor<br />
Laramie County Community College students who<br />
have not made any payments for their schooling received<br />
an email on Jan. 22 warning them that they have a week to<br />
make payments or make a payment plan.<br />
Students who received the emails were on a master<br />
list. Carol Hoglund, vice president of administration and<br />
finance; Sabrina Lane, accounting compliance supervisor,<br />
and Pam DeMartin, assistant to the director of accounting<br />
services, were part of a team who reviewed the master<br />
list and removed any students who receive financial aid or<br />
other payment plans. Next, the list was reviewed by student<br />
records staff and students who were left on were dropped.<br />
Dropping students for nonpayment hasn’t occurred<br />
since 2009. The process returned when the accounting office<br />
at LCCC had the option to make a new master list at the<br />
beginning of fall semester 2012. Hoglund said dropping a<br />
student will take him off the class roster and make room for<br />
students who are on a waiting list. Lane added it’s common<br />
to see students who don’t make any payments not come to<br />
class. It’s hard to determine if this will have any effect on<br />
enrollment; however, LCCC officials would like to make sure<br />
each seat is filled and any student who desires to learn has<br />
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By Allie Hurley<br />
Features Editor<br />
Laramie County Community College<br />
is surrounded by open land…a lot of open<br />
land.<br />
This property belongs to the Lummis<br />
Livestock Co. whose family was among those<br />
who donated the land upon which LCCC was<br />
built in the early 1970s and may continue to be<br />
part of the college’s future.<br />
For LCCC is being kept in mind during the<br />
Lummis Livestock Co.’s proposal to build a new<br />
community development across the street from<br />
LCCC.<br />
“I graduated from LCCC and had a wonderful<br />
experience,” Del Lummis said. “I hold the<br />
college near and dear to my heart.”<br />
The Lummis Livestock Co. has named its<br />
2,000-acre development Sweetgrass and will<br />
include commercial buildings, recreational<br />
access, single and multi-family houses<br />
and apartments, and a resort lodge.<br />
Putting community in community college<br />
Lummis said he hoped this development will<br />
complement the city, county and LCCC.<br />
LCCC would be a part of the Sweetgrass<br />
project if students used its housing. An offcampus<br />
housing facility would be provided for<br />
students and would be built across the street<br />
from LCCC’s main entrance.<br />
However, the housing would not be provided<br />
through the college. The company’s research<br />
has determined an apartment building setting<br />
to be the best kind of facility to serve students<br />
best.<br />
At its very beginning stages, the Sweetgrass<br />
project has passed the Laramie County<br />
Planning Commission, and it’s currently awaiting<br />
a February meeting with the Board of Public<br />
Utilities to get water and sewer permits.<br />
Lummis said he had hoped construction<br />
would start this calendar year, but it looked as if<br />
it may start in 2014 at the earliest.<br />
The Lummis Livestock Co. understands<br />
Cheyenne’s population is steadily increasing because<br />
of major employers including Wyoming’s<br />
By Allie Hurley<br />
Features Editor<br />
Even a small community like Cheyenne offers different styles<br />
of living arrangements, so students from Laramie County<br />
Community College recently surveyed were asked whether<br />
the Hynds Building in downtown Cheyenne was a favorable.<br />
On March 6, the LCCC Board of Trustees at a<br />
study session will decide whether to pursue<br />
the downtown housing.<br />
The Hynds Building became an<br />
option when the Hynds Capitol<br />
Core Project group proposed<br />
student housing<br />
to LCCC officials<br />
last fall. The<br />
group<br />
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center.<br />
The Sweetgrass community would include<br />
many areas for gathers and celebrations such<br />
as mini-parks, shelters and courtyards. A village<br />
center with retail stores and restaurants would<br />
be the focal point of Sweetgrass, so the community<br />
would have nearby services and goods. An<br />
18-hole public golf course, horse trails and lakes<br />
and ponds would be part of the recreational<br />
activities.<br />
A 25-acre neighborhood park will be another<br />
recreational area for the community to<br />
be built along College Drive adjacent to Allison<br />
Draw.<br />
The goals and characteristics for the<br />
Sweetgrass project include embracing the<br />
ranch’s natural features and short grass prairie;<br />
a community committed to lifestyle and quality<br />
of life; to be a “place for everyone”; a variety of<br />
recreational activities; open spaces; an emphasis<br />
on sustainability and “environmental<br />
stewardship.”<br />
making the proposal was Alan O’Hashi, businessman; Glen Garrett,<br />
architect, and Jim Weaver, real estate agent.<br />
The trustees wanted to get students’ opinion about off-campus<br />
housing, especially living downtown.<br />
Throughout November and December, an online survey was posted<br />
for students to take. “The survey was available during Thanksgiving<br />
break until the last week of fall semester classes. During finals week,<br />
the survey was analyzed,” said Ann Murray, LCCC manager of institutional<br />
research.<br />
The survey was promoted by sending emails to all students enrolled<br />
at LCCC for the fall semester, and booths were set up in the student<br />
lounge as well in the residence halls. The survey was online because it<br />
would be easier to access and read the data. Murray added the survey<br />
was aimed more toward second- or more-year students who have<br />
already been on campus.<br />
Some 379 surveys were submitted. Of those taking the survey, 24.66<br />
percent lived on campus and 26.27 percent lived off campus in a house.<br />
In other demographics, 75.21 percent chose single as their relationship<br />
status; 74.26 percent of survey takers were full-time students;<br />
43.85 percent were 18- to 20-years-old, and 71.31 percent were female.<br />
The first question asked the student if he would be interested in<br />
off-campus apartments provided by LCCC. If the student answered<br />
“no,” he skipped to question No. 6. About 76.19<br />
percent said “yes” to the first question.<br />
The next questioned asked the student to<br />
LCCC’s President Dr. Joe Schaffer said the<br />
development was in progress since 2009. It<br />
was put on delay because of the economy but<br />
was brought back up in fall 2012. The development<br />
is supposed to be upscale and nice, which<br />
might improve south Cheyenne. This development<br />
might also bring LCCC from the perception<br />
it is on the edge of Cheyenne to being part<br />
of the city. Schaffer also said this development<br />
would bring an extension of utilities and retail<br />
stores to benefit students.<br />
This development could take 50 years and<br />
would be built in phases. The first phase would<br />
be made up of 200 acres. It would include a village<br />
center, a commercial area with coffeeshops<br />
and stores, and a multi-family and single- family<br />
component.<br />
Lummis said he hoped to make Sweetgrass<br />
compatible with LCCC. Throughout this process,<br />
the company will accept any comments.<br />
Anyone interested may contact Bruce Downing,<br />
consulting planner, at rbdowing@gmail.com or<br />
307-579-4066.<br />
College trustees study student survey<br />
College gauges students’ interest in off-campus living<br />
Design by Kasey M. Orr<br />
rank the four choices<br />
for off-campus living with his most<br />
favorable choice as No. 1 and his least<br />
choice as No. 4. One- to two-bedroom apartments<br />
were the first and second choices chosen by the majority of<br />
survey takers.<br />
About 84.70 percent chose an all-inclusive bill over having<br />
separate bills for utilities, phone, Internet, etc.<br />
Grocery shopping and health care were very important to<br />
students as well as being able to get to those places.<br />
Surveyed students would prefer to live closer to these businesses,<br />
which would help determine where off-campus housing should be<br />
located.<br />
When selecting apartment-style living, students thought having<br />
a gym and fitness center was very important. Study space, 24-hour<br />
maintenance and package acceptance were also very important.<br />
Students didn’t express much need of a meeting room; however, this<br />
room could help students with group projects.<br />
A shared laundry facility was somewhat important, but students<br />
would rather have washer and dryer hookups in each unit. Students<br />
also picked having a dishwasher and a furnished apartment as being<br />
very important.<br />
Easy parking, bus transportation or being within walking distance<br />
from the college were also very important to students, but not a playground.<br />
Some other features students would like to have pets—small or large—<br />
just anything other than a fish. Reliable Internet service was also important.<br />
Other factors that came with off-campus housing were cooking and<br />
eating. Students wouldn’t mind having a meal plan for meals on campus,<br />
a small convenience store or a coffee bar. However, most students would<br />
prefer having their own kitchens to cook their own food.<br />
A concern about off-campus living was an increase of criminal activity.<br />
The college already has rules students must follow, and if they don’t, college<br />
security officers enforce them. What would be the rules and regulations<br />
for off-campus housing and would any type of security be available?<br />
Murray said because the information from the survey has been<br />
collected and analyzed, the next research step is to invite students to<br />
participate in focus groups. These groups will discuss more information<br />
about what students need in order to live downtown and other questions<br />
students have.
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By Cassie Kelley<br />
Assistant Online Editor<br />
Last year, the<br />
Children’s Discovery<br />
Center under new<br />
management opened<br />
its doors to academic<br />
programs and<br />
students at Laramie<br />
County Community<br />
College.<br />
Carrie Westling,<br />
manager of the<br />
Children’s Discovery<br />
Center, said her vision<br />
was to have the CDC<br />
as a center for learning<br />
for not only the children<br />
but also LCCC<br />
students and faculty.<br />
This was a newer goal<br />
that Westling said<br />
she hoped to achieve<br />
by making everyone<br />
more aware of the<br />
CDC and the possibilities<br />
it has to offer.<br />
Several academic<br />
programs have already<br />
started to take<br />
advantage of the<br />
opportunities the<br />
CDC can provide.<br />
Nursing, dental hygiene,<br />
education and<br />
psychology programs<br />
have opportunities to<br />
observe and work with<br />
children. This provides<br />
a real-life, hands-on<br />
experience for students.<br />
It also provides<br />
a learning experience<br />
for the children.<br />
Brad Becker, a<br />
freshman in music<br />
education at LCCC,<br />
teaches children about<br />
music and musical<br />
instruments. Through<br />
the CDC program he<br />
is able to create lesson<br />
plans for the children.<br />
Becker said, “It’s a very<br />
challenging job, keeping<br />
them engaged,<br />
because with that age<br />
group it’s very hard<br />
to keep these kids<br />
engaged for more than<br />
five, 10 minutes.”<br />
Depending on the<br />
age group, he teaches<br />
anything from music<br />
therapy; singing and<br />
playing for the children,<br />
to teaching basic<br />
music theory; reading<br />
sheet music and identifying<br />
rhythm.<br />
He was inspired to<br />
go into music education<br />
by his high school<br />
band director Tim<br />
Mattis in Ohio. “For<br />
me, it is an honor and<br />
a privilege to be able<br />
to educate and inspire<br />
kids this early,” he<br />
said, noting it not only<br />
helps him in his future<br />
career but also the<br />
youngsters.<br />
Being thrown into<br />
the mix now helps direct<br />
what he is learning<br />
and how he will<br />
teach in the future.<br />
Being able to be a part<br />
of the CDC and working<br />
with the children<br />
just gives him more<br />
years of experience<br />
to become a better<br />
teacher in his career.<br />
The CDC also<br />
employs students as<br />
teachers and substitutes<br />
and is available<br />
for all students.<br />
Westling said of the<br />
facility in the Arp<br />
Building, “we are lucky<br />
to be housed inside<br />
the school.” This gives<br />
children opportunities<br />
that other facilities<br />
don’t. Children work<br />
with students learning<br />
about different aspects<br />
of life and have<br />
an opportunity to see<br />
where they will be in<br />
their future.<br />
The CDC has open<br />
enrollment throughout<br />
the year as long<br />
campus news<br />
Children’s Discovery Center<br />
as room is available.<br />
This gives students<br />
and employees a place<br />
for their children to go<br />
while they are in class<br />
or at work. Children<br />
from the ages of 6<br />
weeks to 5 years are<br />
accepted into the program,<br />
which is open to<br />
the entire community.<br />
This gives LCCC<br />
the chance to provide<br />
a service to the community<br />
while students<br />
receive credits and<br />
real-life experience<br />
vital in many fields<br />
after graduation.<br />
The CDC is<br />
licensed through the<br />
Wyoming Division of<br />
Family Services and<br />
is accredited with the<br />
National Association<br />
for the Education of<br />
Young Children and<br />
child and adult care<br />
food program. The<br />
CDC has adjunct<br />
teachers and mentors<br />
who work closely with<br />
the children.<br />
Westling said she<br />
invites anyone who is<br />
interested in discovering<br />
more about the<br />
CDC to visit her office,<br />
Room 155 in the Arp<br />
Building for a tour or<br />
email her at cwestlin@<br />
lccc.wy.edu.<br />
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Children provide learning experiences for students<br />
“It’s a very challenging job,<br />
keeping them engaged,<br />
because with that age it’s<br />
very hard to keep these<br />
kids engaged for more than<br />
five, 10 minutes.”<br />
Brad Becker<br />
Freshman, music education<br />
Cassie Kelley<br />
Inspiring little minds:<br />
Brad Becker expands the minds of the children at the CDC<br />
through music.
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‘Tasting Boundaries’ smashes expectations<br />
By Aaron Boyd<br />
Multimedia Editor<br />
They say most people learn<br />
best hands-on. Could that apply to<br />
other facets of life? Experiencing<br />
art for example? Could being<br />
hands-on with a piece of artwork<br />
help inspire those who feel as if<br />
they don’t really understand it.<br />
That is just what the new art show<br />
at Laramie County Community<br />
College might show.<br />
“Tasting Boundaries” is coming<br />
to the Esther and John Clay<br />
Fine Arts Gallery in the Fine Arts<br />
Building and features the work<br />
of Lea Zoltowski Ertz. The show<br />
is described as a multimedia<br />
social experience. Participants<br />
are encouraged to get out of their<br />
comfort zones and interact with<br />
the artwork and one another.<br />
They will also be able to pick up<br />
and manipulate artwork as well as<br />
possibly win a piece for a souvenir.<br />
Ertz is described as a multimedia<br />
sculpture experience artist.<br />
Specializing in large sculpture<br />
artwork, Ertz has had her artwork<br />
featured all over the world from<br />
China to England. She has even<br />
taught art at Montana State<br />
University. Now living in Boulder,<br />
Colo., she works as a full-time<br />
studio artist.<br />
“It’s exciting work,” Matt West,<br />
LCCC art instructor and a part of<br />
the committee to bring artist to<br />
LCCC, said. “The show will give<br />
students the opportunity to see<br />
how an artist works.”<br />
Ertz’s artwork is on display<br />
through Feb. 22. A reception will<br />
be held on Jan. 31 at noon where<br />
attendees can meet the artist, see<br />
how some of the sculptures are<br />
made and even participate.<br />
Cassie Kelley<br />
Throw it on the ground!<br />
At the gallery attendees can pay a small fee either to take<br />
a small sculpture home or smash it on the ground.<br />
Aaron Boyd<br />
Wonders to behold:<br />
Attendees at the “Tasting Boundaries” art gallery view large sculptures created<br />
by Lea Zoltowiski Ertz.<br />
The Low Down: “Tasting Boundaries” interactive art gallery • Where: Esther and John Clay gallery • When: Gallery open through Feb. 22 • Admission: Free<br />
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‘Hansel and Gretel’ takes<br />
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By Matt Rooney<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Anyone who likes happiness would think a movie<br />
that involves candy houses, lots of leather, Hawkeye and<br />
buckets of blood would be a campy thrill ride, inducing<br />
plenty of bubble gum smiles. But soon after watching<br />
“Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” that thought would<br />
be as stupid as entering a van with a creepy bloke inside<br />
who offered candy…wait, that’s not right…or is it?<br />
Though the similarities between the old and new<br />
cautionary tales for children are astounding, this movie<br />
was a different take on the Grimm tale about two<br />
children lost in the woods who get captured by a witch<br />
in a house made of candy. In this version, they brutally<br />
murder the witch without hesitation and turn it into a<br />
profession.<br />
It was considered a “new take” on an “old classic,” but<br />
really anything would be. It could be a complex drama<br />
in which they become activists who boycott Snickers<br />
or even a fun teen comedy. I could not stop thinking of<br />
ways it can be “fresh.”<br />
Now the best part about writing this review was all<br />
the problems fall under the same roof and had the same<br />
effect: A movie with this kind of title has zero creativity<br />
or spark, and I could not stop thinking of ways it could.<br />
Everything from the story about witches stealing<br />
children for a cult gathering, the name of the event (the<br />
Blood Moon Gathering) to the costumes, dialog, plot<br />
points and cleavage were ripped from other horror/action<br />
films and an 11-year-old boy’s wet dream.<br />
Sitting there, my brain focused less on the screen and<br />
more on all the aspects that could’ve made the movie<br />
betters: less leather, less high-tech weaponry, more<br />
humor, scarier witches, less ancillary-but-still –stickaround<br />
characters, maybe more of a Western vibe. I<br />
could not stop thinking of ways it could’ve been better.<br />
This was all on top of the fact the two leads, Hansel<br />
(Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton), who<br />
were both game, were just too doltish to be likable. They<br />
were horrible at their job as I watched them get beat up<br />
even fighting one witch. Even any sort of deductive reasoning<br />
was whittled to blunt a statement. Jeff Goldblum<br />
in “Independence Day” even started somewhere. He<br />
couldn’t not stop thinking of ways to kill aliens.<br />
Like any bad movie review, this could go on forever.<br />
Just know there were no bubble gum smiles, too much<br />
leather, hardly any candy houses, and I really wished<br />
Hansel would just pick up a bow. It’s funny how cautionary<br />
tales for kids can easily become ones for adults.<br />
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As a 9-year-old living on a foreign military base after 9/11,<br />
the idea that Osama Bin Laden could be hiding anywhere<br />
sort of freaked me out. I used to stare at the bushes across<br />
the street and picture a bearded face poking out, noticing me<br />
and then returning into hiding. Of course, this was a childish<br />
reaction to something so serious, but after witnessing the<br />
frustrating, seemingly hopeless actions of the characters in<br />
Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” I realized those were<br />
the good old days.<br />
The movie began with CIA agent Dan (Jason Clarke) using<br />
unfortunately well-known methods of torture on a suspect in<br />
the most engaging and controversial openings of any movie<br />
this season. The struggle with the big issue at hand was set<br />
forth: Finding Osama Bin Laden would not be done easily. I<br />
can safely say throwing a washcloth at my face will now be<br />
the easiest way to get me to shriek.<br />
One or two more scenes of this nature continued to throw<br />
wood on the fire of this consciousness that may make a few<br />
viewers uncomfortable but, in context proved these tactics<br />
might be ineffective. They were no doubt controversial in<br />
many people’s eyes, but, much like “Zodiac,” the grace and<br />
suspense of research proved to more compelling.<br />
These sequences were more interesting not only by their<br />
aggression and deepening of the story but also the reactions<br />
and methods of lead character Maya (Jessica Chastain), who<br />
stood firm and uncomfortable in the background and later<br />
led the charge. Played to perfection, Maya was the workaholic<br />
on par with a cop sent in to infiltrate a mob unit. Living off<br />
junk food, she was a ghost, had very few friends, appeared<br />
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By Matt Rooney<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
During my senior year of high<br />
school I saw a video about a child in<br />
late 1700s’ France known as “The Wolf<br />
Boy,” a wild child who had lived in<br />
the forest for years until he was found<br />
and given to a scientist. Said scientist<br />
proceeded to reintegrate the child into<br />
society by teaching him to speak, eat,<br />
wear people clothes, etc. He was successful,<br />
and the child went on to live a<br />
normal life.<br />
That was the easy way. Had I been<br />
the scientist and were looking after<br />
wild children like the ones in “Mama,”<br />
who brought with them serious,<br />
demonic baggage, I would’ve strapped<br />
a sack of cherries to their backs and<br />
wished them the merriest of farewells<br />
back into the woods.<br />
However, Jessica Chastain—who<br />
played Annabel—was given this task<br />
when her boyfriend found his nieces<br />
who lived environmentally institutionalized<br />
in their own in a log cabin…or<br />
have they? Very soon after they arrived<br />
at the home, weird occurrences begin<br />
that are attributed to the ghostly figure<br />
known to the children as “Mama.”<br />
‘Mama’ was<br />
consistently creepy,<br />
suspenseful and<br />
jolting.<br />
As far as modern horror goes,<br />
“Mama” was consistently creepy,<br />
suspenseful and jolting, thanks to the<br />
dark-colored palette and the overall<br />
appearance and presence of Mama<br />
herself. Anyone who had to go to therapy<br />
for “The Ring” will most likely go<br />
through rehab after seeing the demon<br />
contort and crawl.<br />
Despite how much it succeeded in<br />
scaring the audience, the movie’s plot<br />
was far too misguided to ignore. The<br />
focus on Mama’s backstory exposed far<br />
too much of the villain. “Jaws” wasn’t<br />
about the shark’s reasons for coming to<br />
<strong>Am</strong>ity, and “Poltergeist” wasn’t about<br />
one out-of-luck ghost’s attempt to<br />
make it on TV.<br />
No matter the constant story problems,<br />
“Mama” knew how to creep out<br />
the audience by acknowledging that<br />
the space around us, what we cannot<br />
see, was what’s terrifying. Though<br />
much like “The Wolf Boy,” a simpler<br />
story of moving forward in life would’ve<br />
been more engaging, but “Mama” was<br />
good enough to quench the thirst of<br />
fear and gave us one more thing to be<br />
afraid of: coming across an unusual<br />
number of cherry cores in a secluded<br />
area.<br />
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ not so childish<br />
strong and confident on the outside and in front of colleagues<br />
but worn down and innocent underneath. She broke<br />
down at times as the acts of torture and hunting seemed<br />
aimless, but only in dark corners where no one could see her.<br />
Crybabies don’t catch terrorists.<br />
The film can easily seem tedious regarding all the interrogations<br />
and suspect theories, but that’s part of it. To think<br />
the act of finding this man and unraveling the pieces of the<br />
puzzle would be easy, for one just needs to look into the<br />
eyes of any one of the characters. It was amazing how many<br />
people can become insomniacs all doing the same thing.<br />
However, the last 20 minutes during the raid on Bin<br />
Laden’s hideout was what everyone was hoping to see. Much<br />
like “The Hurt Locker,” Bigelow proved she knew exactly how<br />
to create an action sequence both with characters and with<br />
guns. She traded in gun battles for intensity and suspense as<br />
it shifted between first-person night vision goggles and standard<br />
style. Mixed with attention to detail, the film showed<br />
actors demonstrating professionalism, exceeded only by<br />
actual Navy Seals, and immersing the audience into what it<br />
was actually like to be a part of it. Fans of well-made movies<br />
and “Call of Duty” will be thrilled.<br />
As with any movie of this sort, the facts always come into<br />
question. How much of what I just saw actually happened?<br />
According to Bigelow, Maya, as well as the events, are all<br />
true, with names and dialog fictionalized. Whether this is all<br />
true, what made the movie work was dramatic and intense<br />
handling of the film with all the frustration and a decade of<br />
dedication draining all it could from everyone involved.<br />
Just watch the end as Maya boards a plane after the raid,<br />
the long road behind her and an empty hanger in front. The<br />
pilot asked, “where to?” responded by silence and tears.<br />
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Stomp your feet to African beat<br />
Concentrating hard:<br />
Percussionists Roland Henderson and Jenny Michaud focus<br />
hard to perform for the “Pulse of Africa” concert.<br />
Ba-dum tiss:<br />
Percussionist hands move rapidly for the Africa-themed songs to be performed<br />
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Cheyenne Civic Center.<br />
A one, two, three, four:<br />
Gary Hall directs the LCCC Wind Symphony at one of the band’s<br />
evening rehearsals that includes students and community members.<br />
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The Ludden Library<br />
at Laramie County<br />
Community College is<br />
sporting several new features<br />
and a new position.<br />
Karen Lange, library<br />
director, has been collaborating<br />
with librarian Maggie<br />
Swanger, who has spearheaded<br />
the development of<br />
a new feature scheduled to<br />
go online in mid-February.<br />
This new feature is supposed<br />
to help in video<br />
streaming and increase<br />
students’ online efficiency.<br />
Also, the feature will<br />
still allow for messaging<br />
between students and librarians,<br />
which should give<br />
feedback, a feature Lange<br />
is looking forward to. The<br />
feature will be available not<br />
only within the boundaries<br />
of LCCC but at all times to<br />
students off campus.<br />
The debut of the feature<br />
will be met with online tutorials<br />
for students who will<br />
need help in taking advantage<br />
of the new feature, and<br />
for online help, “Libguides”<br />
will be made available.<br />
Though the feature will have<br />
tutorials, it is designed to be<br />
easier to manage and make<br />
searching more narrow and<br />
resourceful. Also, the feature<br />
improves organization and<br />
provides a more fluent access<br />
to data.<br />
The new feature, funded<br />
by the Wyoming Legislature<br />
through the Wyoming<br />
Community College<br />
Commission, is available at<br />
community colleges all over<br />
Wyoming and is still being<br />
tested.<br />
In other news at the<br />
Ludden Library, librarian<br />
Meghan Kelly with support<br />
from LCCC faculty<br />
and a partnership with the<br />
Cheyenne Interfaith Council<br />
has applied for a Muslim<br />
Journeys Bookshelf grant<br />
that includes a collection<br />
of 25 books, four DVDs<br />
and other programming<br />
resources to build public<br />
awareness about Muslim<br />
beliefs and practices.<br />
Also announced at the<br />
Ludden Library is the filling<br />
of a new position with a<br />
newly appointed librarian,<br />
Teresa Authier, who started<br />
her employment at LCCC<br />
in 1994, then moved to<br />
full-time in 1996. Authier<br />
was put on this particular<br />
path when she applied<br />
for a scholarship for the<br />
Institute of Library Services<br />
while attending the<br />
University of North Texas.<br />
Authier had been working<br />
in interlibrary loan, and<br />
now she works in library<br />
instruction, which she said<br />
is “a big step up.”<br />
Now with four librarians,<br />
Authier said she believed<br />
that the library will improve<br />
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Managing the virtual stacks:<br />
The newest librarian for the college, Teresa<br />
Authier, is part of an effort to offer yet another<br />
method of contacting the library: texting.<br />
efficiency and outreach for<br />
students who seek it.<br />
Authier said Lange had<br />
been pushing for the new<br />
position for the last three<br />
to four years. Authier said<br />
she was “ready for a new<br />
challenge” and will be able<br />
to focus more attention on<br />
students. Authier also emphasized<br />
the support by the<br />
faculty for her to be hired in<br />
the new position.<br />
Authier and Lange are<br />
also moving forward on<br />
a new alternative form of<br />
communication between<br />
students and librarians,<br />
which is texting. This is<br />
thought to be a more convenient<br />
and comfortable way<br />
for students to seek help<br />
from librarians at all times.<br />
It is hoped the new texting<br />
program will be ready for<br />
students by this summer.
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By Jose Manuel Jaimes<br />
A&E Writer<br />
The Laramie County Community College’s<br />
director of advising and career services Chrissy<br />
Renfro’s passion for the Emerging Leaders<br />
Program and her desire to publish inspired her<br />
to write an article that was carried in Academic<br />
Advising Today. Renfro, who also serves on<br />
the National Academic Advising Association’s<br />
Publications Advisory Board, wrote a piece,<br />
“Emerging Leaders Program—Past, Present, and<br />
Future,” that spoke of the exceptional success of<br />
the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP).<br />
The article explained how the program set<br />
out to expand diversity of representation in<br />
the NACADA, an organization with more than<br />
11,000 members. The mentor-mentee program<br />
is in its fifth year and accepts 10 new program<br />
members every year.<br />
Accepting applications<br />
in the spring,<br />
the program is open<br />
to those who are<br />
interested in professional<br />
adviser services<br />
and pairs emerging<br />
leaders with mentors<br />
who have experience<br />
in NACADA and academic<br />
advising.<br />
Renfro, an active<br />
member of the<br />
program, said she felt<br />
By Ryan DeVries<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
A caring group of Laramie County Community<br />
College students are working to erase the stigma surrounding<br />
mental health issues.<br />
A staggering statistic on the Active Minds’ website<br />
revealed that 44 percent of college students felt so<br />
depressed within the last year that it was difficult to<br />
function. Because college can be stressful, Active Minds<br />
aim to help students through difficult times. Jennifer<br />
Miller, president of LCCC in Active Minds, explained that<br />
there is no better time for an organization like Active<br />
Minds because of the recent shootings in Aurora, Colo.,<br />
and Newtown, Conn., which are both being attributed to<br />
mental illness.<br />
Active Minds is focusing on changing the stigma<br />
of mental health not just around campus but also the<br />
around the community. Changing this negative connotation<br />
of mental illness will be the key to helping<br />
troubled individuals who are prone to violence, Miller<br />
said.<br />
Why would someone want to be part of Active<br />
Minds though? Any Active Minds member will tell you<br />
it supports a good cause. The organization runs all of its<br />
events to support others who may be having a hard time<br />
whether they are struggling from severe depression or<br />
simple test anxiety.<br />
With nearly 20 members currently participating and<br />
50 enrolled in Active Minds, the club is as big as it has<br />
ever been on campus. Through past events like last<br />
year’s Mud Run, a 5K run followed by a quarter mile of<br />
mud-filled obstacles, the club is starting to be recognized.<br />
Last year, renowned speakers made an appearance<br />
at the organization’s biggest event to talk about<br />
their battles with mental illness. Yet Miller explained that<br />
fun events are a good way to get the word out about the<br />
organization in the process of supporting a noble cause.<br />
The Active Minds’ cause started 10 years ago when<br />
Alison Malmon faced a tragic event. The University of<br />
Pennsylvania student lost her only brother, Brian, to<br />
suicide during her freshman year. The death came as a<br />
surprise because he appeared to be a happy individual<br />
throughout his life. Brian was diagnosed with schizoaffective<br />
disorder nearly a year before his<br />
death. Despite his diagnosis, he kept<br />
his symptoms concealed from every-<br />
the purpose of writing such an article was to<br />
“fulfill my part in the program.” Renfro also said<br />
she hoped to write more articles because what<br />
inspired her to write the article was her desire<br />
to publish.<br />
Renfro’s mentor suggested she try expanding<br />
her abilities with the NACADA’s outreach tools.<br />
Renfro’s 13 years of experience at LCCC influenced<br />
the article in the sense that she wanted to<br />
represent community college advisers. Also, she<br />
said she felt it was important to write the article<br />
“to show LCCC advisers are leaders.”<br />
Renfro’s involvement in the ELP advocates<br />
advising at community colleges. The article was<br />
met with positive feedback, and unlike Renfro’s<br />
admission of nervousness for her previous<br />
articles, she said the feeling of being nationally<br />
published “feels fun.”<br />
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Group aims to change issue stigma<br />
Active Minds works to change how mental illness is viewed<br />
Advising director published nationally<br />
Article created out of passion for ELP program<br />
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one in fear of the negative connotations associated with<br />
mental illness.<br />
Since the death of her brother, Malmon was looking<br />
to affiliate with an organization on campus in order to<br />
help others in need. No such organization existed, so<br />
she founded her own, which came to be known as Active<br />
Minds.<br />
Since its beginning, Active Minds has become a<br />
nationwide organization. With 391 chapters spanning<br />
around the country, Active Minds has become quite<br />
popular among students.<br />
Some students might wonder why Active Minds is so<br />
prevalent. “As a society we have a lot of mental health<br />
issues, and all it takes is one voice to make a difference,”<br />
Miller said.<br />
Students can join by contacting the group’s adviser<br />
Luanne Gearhart, psychology instructor, at lgearhar@<br />
lccc.wy.edu or by phone at 432-1666. Students can also<br />
meet with the group every Tuesday from 10–11 a.m. in<br />
Arp building 168.
February 11, 2013<br />
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Kasey M. Orr<br />
And so to support our contention:<br />
LCCC’s Alyx Reed, left, and Skeeter Yasko quickly share notes as a member of the<br />
opposing team attempts to counter their arguments and win points. They will stand up<br />
next and strategically disprove everything said, playing defense and offense all at once.<br />
campus news Wingspan 25<br />
College hosts<br />
largest speech<br />
tournament<br />
By Mandy Neely<br />
Entertainment Editor<br />
The Laramie County Community College’s<br />
speech team competed on Feb. 1–3 in three-day<br />
tournaments on its home turf. The tournaments<br />
were co-hosted with Hastings College, and 18<br />
schools attended, making this the largest tournament<br />
event held at LCCC.<br />
The debate team consisting of Alyx Reed and<br />
Skeeter Yasko placed eighth of 20 teams, advancing<br />
to the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, they were<br />
beaten in the first round of the quarterfinals.<br />
However, of 40 individual speakers, the two<br />
placed 10th and 11th.<br />
One of the many topics Reed and Yasko saw<br />
in competition was “Should the United States<br />
increase its presence in Syria?” which Reed and<br />
Yasko were against. “It was our easiest topic. With<br />
the information we found, we just slaughtered the<br />
opposition,” Yasko said.<br />
Megan Kraushaar, another member of the<br />
speech team, placed fifth in the LCCC poetry<br />
portion and second in the Hastings College poetry<br />
portion of the tournament.
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Lumosity.com proves useful in tricking training<br />
Your brain is important right? Well, duh. So that<br />
must mean that keeping the health of your brain<br />
in check is important.<br />
If someone told you a device exists that helps you become<br />
smarter just by playing games, would you believe<br />
her? I’m that girl telling you that Lumosity.com is the<br />
way to go when it comes to improving or maintaining<br />
the brain’s health. Because, let’s face it, even after three<br />
days of training, even I learned how to shark the system.<br />
Lumosity.com is a website with lots of features to<br />
improve your brain’s function. It does more than offer<br />
games to play. It also records your brain performance<br />
index (BPI), the measurement Lumosity.com uses to<br />
track your cognitive performance and improvement.<br />
All the features offered on the free<br />
side of Lumosity.com are<br />
the uncomplicated tools needed<br />
to improve brain health.<br />
However, there are pros and cons to this website.<br />
Lumosity.com categorizes the areas in which it can<br />
help improve your BPI. These categories are memory,<br />
attention, speed, flexibility and problem solving. When<br />
you start your brain training, Lumosity.com asks you<br />
which of those areas you would like to improve. You can<br />
pick one or all of them.<br />
After you have told Lumosity.com what areas of your<br />
brain you want to improve, it starts you off with games<br />
that address each category. The games change each day<br />
you train.<br />
For instance, Luminosity.com started me with three<br />
memory games that helped with speed and attention.<br />
On my second day of training it gave me two memory<br />
games that helped improve attention and flexibility as<br />
well as a problem solving game.<br />
Each day, the training program or games are different.Luminosity.com<br />
also gives users information on<br />
which categories your training games address. It offers<br />
recommendations and scores from when the user previously<br />
played the game.<br />
graphics editor<br />
Char Lessenger<br />
When the user has finished playing a game, the<br />
website gives a statistics page for that game, addressing<br />
reaction time, accuracy, total number correct and points<br />
earned followed by the overall score, the game BPI, the<br />
user’s top scores and how many Lumosity points the<br />
user has earned.<br />
Lumosity points are a measurement of how much<br />
and how well the user has trained. It also gives recommendations<br />
from other Lumosity trainers and saves the<br />
statistics for later reference.<br />
Lumosity also offers a brain profile. What the brain<br />
profile boils down to is a sum of the user’s activity. It<br />
includes overall BPI, the BPI a user has earned for each<br />
category, Lumosity points, the user’s best brain areas<br />
and a small graph of your training history improvement<br />
over time. It’s a very simple page of statistics.<br />
The downside of Lumosity.com is it’s not a totally free<br />
site. In order to unlock all its features,<br />
you would have to pay a monthly,<br />
yearly, semiannual or even a lifetime<br />
fee. Lumosity.com leads users to<br />
believe that unlocking these features<br />
is necessary, which really isn’t true.<br />
Users can get all the brain training and<br />
improvement needed without paying<br />
for the extra services.<br />
At first look, every game Lumosity<br />
offers is locked unless paid for. This<br />
fact was initially frustrating, but I<br />
found that all the games offered for free<br />
editor’s<br />
commentary<br />
during training were the same games the site had locked<br />
under the games tab.<br />
This epiphany, I guess you could say, was my “stickit-to-the-man”<br />
moment. I realized that users can play all<br />
those games that are locked through the training games<br />
it gives you each day for free. You just have to be patient.<br />
This actually turns out to be a good thing because instead<br />
of being overwhelmed with all the games, you can<br />
choose to play or not to play, or to pay or not to pay for,<br />
Lumosity chooses those games for you in your day-today<br />
training. Only patience is required to play each of<br />
the locked games it unlocks for you in your free training.<br />
The other slightly unpleasant downfall was<br />
Luminosity.com doesn’t have a mobile app for Android.<br />
The site has one for Apple products so outrageously<br />
expensive, I don’t even want to talk about it. Because<br />
Android’s market share is much higher than Apple’s, it<br />
should be a “no-brainer” to have an Android app, which<br />
should come free to subscribers to Luminosity.com<br />
whether they pay for Lumosity’s services.<br />
Overall, the pros outweigh the cons on the unrestricted<br />
side of Lumosity.com. Don’t buy into paying for these<br />
services because, the “extras” are unnecessary. This<br />
easily navigated site provides statistics to “maul” over, if<br />
you’re curious.<br />
All the features offered on the free side of Lumosity.<br />
com are the uncomplicated and rudimentary tools<br />
needed to improve brain health. I know this because<br />
after just three days of training with the free side of<br />
Lumosity.com, I figured out how to trick the system and<br />
get all I need for free. Thank you, Lumosity.com.<br />
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Books, books, books!<br />
Delta Kappa Gamma wants your books!<br />
DKG, an international society of women in<br />
education, will collect books for its 30th annual<br />
Used Book Sale. For the past three years,<br />
proceeds have helped support educational programs<br />
in the Children’s Village at the Cheyenne<br />
Botanic Garden, provided scholarships for<br />
college students and professional development<br />
grants to current educators.<br />
The collecting will start Feb. 1 and end Feb.<br />
24. Collection boxes are situated at all Cheyenne<br />
grocery stores including Wal-Mart and Natural<br />
Grocers. DKG will also collect: books on tape,<br />
CDs, DVDs, videos, games, puzzles and textbooks.<br />
DKG will pick up large quantities of books<br />
within a 10-mile radius of Cheyenne for anyone<br />
unable to deliver them. For pickup, call 639-<br />
2940 or 632-0209. Leave a message if no one<br />
answers.<br />
The book sale will be held during the first<br />
weekend in March at the former Dinneen<br />
Buick-Pontiac Building on the corner of Pioneer<br />
Avenue and 18th Street. The sale will be from 8<br />
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 2, and from 9<br />
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 3.<br />
Any books not sold will be donated to community<br />
organizations. Anyone interested in<br />
leftover books should call 634-6066.<br />
Drop in, create résumé<br />
Any students interested in creating their own<br />
résumés are welcome to the Laramie County<br />
Community College’s Career Center “résumé<br />
drop-in.” Students who have already created<br />
their résumés are also invited for critiquing and<br />
helpful tips.<br />
The drop-in will be available from 9 a.m.–11<br />
p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5. The Career Center is<br />
located inside Student Services Building, Room<br />
119. Sessions will continue at 1-3 p.m. on Feb.<br />
6; 10 a.m.–noon on Feb. 11 and end 1–3 p.m. on<br />
Feb. 14.<br />
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1311 Ashford Dr. (o Terry Ranch Rd.)<br />
307-630-6513<br />
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campus news<br />
Donate blood; save life<br />
The Surgical Technology Student Club at<br />
Laramie County Community College is joining<br />
United Blood Services to sponsor a blood drive<br />
from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in<br />
the student lounge.<br />
Students and employees can schedule an appointment<br />
at http://www.unitedbloodservices.<br />
org. Walk-ins are always welcome<br />
Join campus clubs<br />
Spring semester Club Rush will be held<br />
Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the student lounge at 11<br />
a.m.–1 p.m. Club Rush offers new and returning<br />
students at Laramie County Community<br />
College the chance to learn about and join<br />
campus clubs. Whether students are interested<br />
in agriculture, anime, Skills USA or theatre, a<br />
club for them.<br />
Journalists win awards<br />
Four journalists with connections to the<br />
mass media/multimedia department at<br />
Laramie County Community were honored at<br />
the Wyoming Press Association’s 114th annual<br />
winter convention Jan. 18–19 in Cheyenne.<br />
Cara Eastwood Baldwin, photography<br />
adjunct instructor, won nine awards in the<br />
Associates’ Group contest for her work as editor<br />
of WREN magazine, a publication of the<br />
Wyoming Rural Electric Association. The awards<br />
were as follows: first places, page layout and<br />
design; information campaign; second place,<br />
feature photography; third places, page layout<br />
and design; feature writing; feature photography;<br />
photo page/story; honorable mentions,<br />
overall publication photography; magazine<br />
article writing.<br />
Bree Anderson, former Wingspan staffer,<br />
won first place for a photo page/story for her<br />
work with the Wyoming Business Council.<br />
In the WPA Pacemaker contest, a former<br />
Wingspan sports editor, won for his work for<br />
both the Glenrock Independent, a small weekly,<br />
and the Douglas Budget, a large weekly. In the<br />
small weekly category, he took first places in<br />
sports news and sports feature and honorable<br />
mention for sports feature. In the large weekly<br />
category, Tucker won first places in sports news<br />
and sports feature and second place in sports<br />
photography.<br />
A former Wingspan co-editor, Kiah Wilkins<br />
Staley, took first place in information graphics<br />
for her work with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.<br />
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Clubwise Block and Bridle<br />
By Dani Kakalecik<br />
Campus Editor<br />
Wingspan 27<br />
Judging teams preparing<br />
for spring season schedule<br />
When: The club meets on the first Thursday of every month.<br />
Who:<br />
Fees:<br />
Contact:<br />
Officers:<br />
Purposes:<br />
By Dani Kakalecik<br />
Campus Editor<br />
Two competitive teams in the agriculture area are preparing for spring<br />
season competition.<br />
The Laramie County Community College competitive horse judging<br />
team just finished its season in December, taking seventh place out of 19<br />
teams in Oklahoma City. This semester the members are taking time to<br />
rebuild their team to compete in their spring event in April.<br />
Wayne Miller, equine studies instructor, said all his students who<br />
participate on the team are doing very well and looking forward to their<br />
upcoming event this spring.<br />
Bryan Wilson, agriculture instructor, said the livestock judging team is<br />
also taking this early part of the spring semester to rebuild the competitive<br />
team. The team competed in Denver in January, but only one student<br />
participated in the competition.<br />
The team also competed in the Colorado State University’s mock livestock<br />
judging contest as well as Casper College’s mock contest and will<br />
compete in Nebraska for their next event in February.<br />
The team needs more involvement to be competitive in its events.<br />
Wilson said one member who stands out is Tanner Nauta, who is also the<br />
president of the Block and Bridle Club.<br />
Both coaches said they felt the judging teams give students a productive<br />
way to be actively involved and stay in school. Anyone can compete<br />
on these teams, so if you are an interested in judging horses or livestock,<br />
drop by the Ag Building.<br />
Anyone who is majoring in agriculture or has a general<br />
interest in agriculture regardless of his major.<br />
A $10 fee pays national Block and Bridle Club fees for four<br />
years.<br />
Ron Pulse, agriculture instructor and Block and Bridle advisor,<br />
may be contacted at rpulse@lccc.wy.edu or by phone<br />
307-778-1192<br />
Tanner Nauta, president; Ty Walter, vice president; Brandy<br />
Brown, treasurer; Chad Briggs, collegiate horseman’s<br />
representative; Cole Smith, public relations officer; Tycee<br />
Mohler, student adviser; Kylie Foster, livestock judging<br />
representative; Katelin Malm, livestock show team representative;<br />
Joslyn Steele, secretary; Shannon Smith, horse<br />
judging representative; Taylor Hodden, ranch horse team<br />
representative.<br />
Block and Bridle is a club that brings together students<br />
who have an interest in agriculture, like the Student<br />
Government Association for the ag department.<br />
Coming up, the club will host Wyoming FFA’s state convention,<br />
Wyoming Rodeo Association rodeo, the Laramie<br />
County Community College pig sale and its spring barbe-<br />
FYI: cue and awards. Pulse said he believes Block and Bridle<br />
Club is instrumental in reducing the dropout rates among<br />
agricultural students by giving them a common goal and<br />
constructive activities in which to participate.<br />
Contact Wingspan at 778-1304 or wingspan@lccc.wy.edu to feature your<br />
club.
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Anthony and Barbara<br />
Andrikopoulos were nominated<br />
for the Wyoming<br />
Association of Community<br />
College Trustees<br />
2012–2013 Foundation<br />
Volunteer of the Year<br />
Award. They have donated<br />
money to Laramie County<br />
Community College for<br />
more than 16 years, and<br />
their goal is to support<br />
students who have difficulty<br />
in the college experience.<br />
A push of this goal<br />
has been that Anthony<br />
was told by his high school<br />
principal that he was<br />
not college material and<br />
would just be wasting<br />
his time. He proved his<br />
principal wrong though<br />
when he graduated from<br />
the University of Wyoming<br />
before having a career in<br />
the oil and gas industry.<br />
The couple has given<br />
an incredible amount to<br />
the college, from scholarships,<br />
to working on the<br />
LCCC Foundation Board.<br />
They also took the lead in<br />
the Matching the Spirit<br />
Campaign in 2004 that<br />
raised $31.5 million for<br />
colleges in the state of<br />
Wyoming. In addition to<br />
helping LCCC, they also<br />
donate to other programs<br />
in Cheyenne such as<br />
the Cheyenne Regional<br />
Medical Center, the Old<br />
West Museum and the<br />
Botanic Gardens.<br />
Melissa Gallant<br />
was nominated for the<br />
Wyoming Association<br />
of Community College<br />
Trustees 2012–2013<br />
Classified Employee of the<br />
Year Award. She is the program<br />
assistant in facilities<br />
and events at Laramie<br />
County Community<br />
College. She reserves<br />
rooms for events as well<br />
as appropriately sets up<br />
for the events, ensuring<br />
the event has everything it<br />
might need.<br />
She will set up an<br />
event as if it were her<br />
own, according to her<br />
nomination. She thinks<br />
of ideas that her customers<br />
might not think of<br />
and takes extra jobs into<br />
her own hands. She will<br />
also accept criticism to<br />
ensure the job was done<br />
at its best. Gallant is very<br />
friendly and understanding,<br />
which makes working<br />
with her more enjoyable,<br />
her nomination continued.<br />
Gallant has been a<br />
representative on LCCC’s<br />
staff council since 2008,<br />
serving as president from<br />
2009–2011. During those<br />
two years, Gallant had to<br />
represent the staff and<br />
present its point of view<br />
to the LCCC Board of<br />
Trustees during a leadership<br />
crisis.<br />
Besides creating<br />
campus events, Gallant<br />
has also served on the<br />
campus news<br />
Food Service Committee,<br />
Security Committee and<br />
College Council. She is<br />
also active with LCCC’s<br />
Career Fair. She also helps<br />
with the accommodations<br />
for the WACCT meeting<br />
and the Wyoming<br />
Community College<br />
Commission meeting at<br />
LCCC. Gallant is one of<br />
two employees on the<br />
LCCC Foundation Board<br />
of Directors.<br />
Gallant is very active<br />
in the Cheyenne community<br />
by coaching and<br />
mentoring girls on her<br />
daughter’s softball league<br />
and boys from her son’s<br />
baseball and hockey<br />
teams. She has received a<br />
Partnership Recognition<br />
Award from the IRS and<br />
an award of excellence<br />
from the Wyoming State<br />
Archive Division. She’s<br />
received plaques for her<br />
continuing contributions<br />
to two annual high school<br />
speech meets and from<br />
the Wyoming Air National<br />
Guard.<br />
Greg Thomas was<br />
nominated for the<br />
Wyoming Association<br />
of Community College<br />
Trustees 2012–2013 Board<br />
Member of the Year<br />
Award. Thomas served<br />
on the LCCC Board of<br />
Trustees from 2004–2012.<br />
Since then he has been<br />
very active on the board<br />
by serving as vice chair,<br />
treasurer and chair in<br />
2012. Being an original<br />
member of the trustees’<br />
Facilities and Finance<br />
Committee for three years<br />
helped Thomas improve<br />
the board and helped<br />
it develop a more open<br />
environment. Thomas has<br />
served on several committees<br />
that have helped<br />
him develop and improve<br />
many LCCC plans and<br />
decisions. Thomas has<br />
also used his leadership<br />
skills in the Kiwanis<br />
Club, Laramie County<br />
Republican Party and<br />
Cheyenne District Boy<br />
Scouts of <strong>Am</strong>erica in order<br />
to be more involved in the<br />
Cheyenne community.<br />
Thomas’ nomination<br />
said Thomas understands<br />
how important education<br />
is as well as how important<br />
its delivery method is<br />
for the success of students<br />
and the community.<br />
Thomas also knows how<br />
important it is for the<br />
community to have the<br />
opportunity to invest in<br />
the future. He keeps these<br />
ideas in mind when making<br />
decisions, his nomination<br />
noted.<br />
Dr. <strong>Am</strong>i Wangeline<br />
was nominated for the<br />
Wyoming Association<br />
of Community College<br />
Trustees 2012–2013<br />
Faculty of the Year Award.<br />
She has taught biology<br />
at LCCC since 2008.<br />
Wangeline has been<br />
developing a scientific<br />
research project since she<br />
started working at LCCC.<br />
This will help students<br />
get research experience,<br />
which is hard to find in a<br />
community college. This<br />
project gives students the<br />
ability to show off their<br />
education that students<br />
from other colleges don’t<br />
have. She devotes a lot of<br />
time and effort to ensure<br />
her students are prepared<br />
to continue with biology<br />
at a four-year school. She<br />
strives to make a two-year<br />
experience as nurturing as<br />
a four-year experience.<br />
Wangeline was an<br />
active member of the<br />
LCCC Faculty Senate<br />
and other organizations<br />
that helped her develop<br />
models and programs to<br />
better educate students<br />
everywhere. She’s been<br />
a part of workshops put<br />
on by the Council on<br />
Undergraduate Research.<br />
She pushes her students<br />
to achieve their<br />
goals and has mentored<br />
several student scientist<br />
groups with Planting<br />
Science through the<br />
Botanical Society of<br />
<strong>Am</strong>erica. She’s also a<br />
part of the National<br />
Association of Biology<br />
Teachers and received<br />
the Faculty Teaching<br />
Excellence Award in 2011<br />
from LCCC.<br />
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Six WACCT nominees represent LCCC<br />
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He is the outreach coordinator<br />
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Community College’s<br />
Student Government<br />
Association, captain of<br />
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a friendly smile on his<br />
face, Ifeanyichukwu is<br />
well-known and well-liked<br />
around the LCCC campus,<br />
his nomination noted.<br />
He is also the chairperson<br />
of the Food Service<br />
Committee in SGA. He<br />
has helped improve the<br />
climate of the dining<br />
hall as well as changed<br />
dining hall hours to<br />
serve students’ needs.<br />
Ifeanyichukwu has also<br />
had an input on improving<br />
the quality of food<br />
being served.<br />
Next year, He will<br />
attend Southern<br />
Mississippi University<br />
on a basketball scholarship.<br />
Ifeanyichukwu said<br />
he believed his college<br />
education and basketball<br />
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YoutHful<br />
Determination<br />
Eagles<br />
post 18–7<br />
record<br />
as regional<br />
tourney<br />
nears<br />
Working hard<br />
Hockey is only part of it<br />
By Matt Humphrey<br />
Sports Editor<br />
The Laramie County Community College<br />
men’s basketball team is having a good<br />
second semester, as the 18–7 (8–4 south<br />
subregion) Golden Eagles are heading<br />
into the home stretch of their season in good<br />
position for the regional tournament.<br />
The men’s basketball head coach, Jason<br />
Ficca, was extremely optimistic about this year’s<br />
team. “We’re one of the top two or three teams<br />
in the region,” Ficca said.<br />
The team was tested in January, playing six<br />
games, including five-straight, on the road. “It’s<br />
a tough way to start the second semester,” Ficca<br />
said.<br />
But strong play at home and a talented roster<br />
have put the team in place for the best possible<br />
seeding in the post-season. “There have been<br />
good contributions from multiple guys,” he<br />
said.<br />
The team boasts players who are ranked<br />
statistically in the National Junior College<br />
Athletic Association’s Division I as of Feb. 5. Big<br />
man Ude Ifeanyichukwu is second best in the<br />
division in blocked shots at 4.6 a game, which<br />
is also good enough to make him the top shot<br />
blocker in Region IX. Ifeanyichukwu is also<br />
eighth in the region in rebounds, bringing down<br />
7.7 a game.<br />
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¾ See Basketball, Page 32<br />
Dan Herring<br />
Flyin’ high:<br />
Freshman Patrick<br />
Stephens tries<br />
to dunk the ball<br />
against North<br />
Platte Community<br />
College on Feb. 5.<br />
They’re back!<br />
Intramurals make a comeback<br />
Dan Herring<br />
Eye on the prize:<br />
Sophomore Julian Chiera drives past a defender in the<br />
team’s 73–64 victory over North Platte Community College.<br />
Sports—Page 31<br />
Movin’ on up<br />
Volleyball coach leaves for Division I job<br />
Sports—Page 32
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Shootouts<br />
put I back<br />
in team sports<br />
Playoff overtime in sports can be one<br />
of the most thrilling, uplifting events,<br />
or it can be absolutely soul-crushing.<br />
There is one thing, though, that can be even<br />
worse…shootouts.<br />
I am very familiar with shootouts, and I<br />
sports editor<br />
am still not entirely sure I’m sold on the idea.<br />
They have been in soccer for years and have<br />
even decided World Cup matches. Hockey<br />
has followed suit and seen many Olympic<br />
and other international tournaments be<br />
decided, or nearly decided, via the shootout.<br />
For Laramie County Community College,<br />
however, the shootout brought about the end<br />
of what was an otherwise fantastic men’s soccer<br />
season.<br />
The Golden Eagles’ men’s soccer team was<br />
13–4–1, with an 11–1–1 record in Region IX.<br />
With high hopes for winning it all, the team<br />
saw an early exit when they lost to Western Wyoming Community<br />
Matt Humphrey<br />
sports editor’s<br />
commentary<br />
College in a shootout following a 1–1 tie. It was an undesirable end to<br />
a phenomenal season. In team sports, such as soccer and hockey, the<br />
shootout in some ways feels like a cheap gimmick, especially in the<br />
playoffs.<br />
Hockey and soccer are both team sports, in which all the players<br />
work together to move the puck or ball around the playing surface with<br />
the goal of getting past the defenders. But the shootout takes away that<br />
team aspect. It forces players into a situation to use a skill set not entirely<br />
necessary for regulation play. It takes away the team aspect from<br />
the game and puts it all on the individual. It rewards not necessarily the<br />
hardest working team, but the one with the best shootout ability.<br />
A scenario that does not exist but illustrates the point just as well is if<br />
in football, rather than having overtime, they would kick the ball to<br />
one person and only have one defensive player on the field. It would<br />
be only those two on the field. While that scenario sounds absolutely<br />
absurd, it is much the same idea as in hockey and soccer.<br />
This is not to say I am entirely against shootouts because I do see<br />
some reasoning behind them. In the National Hockey League, for<br />
example, they use shootouts only to decide regular season games, and<br />
then, only if nobody scores during the five-minute 4-on-4 overtime<br />
period they play. This is done to facilitate the quick turnaround that<br />
many of these teams must make, as often times, immediately following<br />
a game, they must head to the airport for home, or to another game.<br />
It also keeps the games at a reasonable length. It gives the fans some<br />
incredible highlight reel footage. In the playoffs, though, the NHL plays<br />
continuous sudden death overtime until one team scores. That is the<br />
way playoff contests should be decided.<br />
The reasoning behind shootouts in collegiate sports, and youth<br />
sports, especially to decide state or national championships, is not<br />
entirely related to the game itself but because of the management of<br />
the playing surface. Many tournaments, including the one that LCCC<br />
lost, have multiple games scheduled that all must be played. If they<br />
did adopt continuous overtime, it could be a disaster if a team headed<br />
into double or triple overtime and then had to play another one or two<br />
games after that. Games could end up not starting until almost 11 p.m.<br />
in some cases.<br />
For that reason alone, the shootout will probably always be a part of<br />
big tournaments, but it still does not make the case for it to be the only<br />
way. Team games should be won by the team, not the individual.<br />
sports<br />
By Matt Humphrey<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Playing junior<br />
hockey and working<br />
full time is tough, but<br />
Cheyenne Stampede<br />
forward Ryan Carroll<br />
is up to the task.<br />
The winger for the<br />
Cheyenne Stampede<br />
junior A hockey team<br />
spends his weekends<br />
battling on the ice in<br />
the Western States<br />
Hockey League, and<br />
his weekdays working<br />
at Laramie County<br />
Community College<br />
as a part of the outdoor<br />
maintenance<br />
crew.<br />
The 20-year-old<br />
winger is playing in<br />
his second season for<br />
the Stampede and<br />
has also worked both<br />
years at LCCC. His father<br />
had connections<br />
with some members<br />
of the grounds crew,<br />
and the Colorado<br />
Springs’ native immediately<br />
took up<br />
the job. “I like it. My<br />
boss is unbelievable,”<br />
Carroll said, explaining<br />
LCCC has been<br />
extremely generous<br />
in allowing him to<br />
take the time off when<br />
needed.<br />
Carroll described<br />
junior hockey as<br />
a blast. “It’s pretty<br />
much your job to play<br />
hockey,” he said. “It’s a<br />
good learning experience.”<br />
He also said it<br />
has helped his development<br />
as a player.<br />
Junior hockey can be<br />
a stepping stone for<br />
players who want to<br />
take the next step following<br />
youth hockey,<br />
but before college.<br />
Many college teams<br />
look at players in the<br />
WSHL, and Carroll<br />
said he has been<br />
looked at by several<br />
teams interested in<br />
signing him for next<br />
season. He mentioned<br />
Colorado State<br />
University as a college<br />
where he would want<br />
to attend and play.<br />
Carroll said he<br />
chose to play for the<br />
upstart Stampede<br />
last year because of<br />
proximity to his home<br />
and family. He is also<br />
able to return home<br />
easily on some vacations<br />
because he is<br />
only a few hours away.<br />
Not all players on the<br />
team are afforded this<br />
luxury, as several of<br />
the players hail from<br />
European countries<br />
such as Sweden,<br />
Switzerland and the<br />
Czech Republic.<br />
Carroll was described<br />
by Stampede<br />
General Manager<br />
Mark Lantz as “one of<br />
the hardest workers<br />
on our team.” He also<br />
noted that Carroll<br />
was one ofthe most<br />
deserving player on<br />
the team.<br />
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Wheeling down<br />
the ice:<br />
Ryan Carroll, left,<br />
looks to jump into<br />
the play during<br />
the Cheyenne<br />
Stampede’s<br />
home series<br />
against the<br />
Arizona<br />
Redhawks during<br />
the weekend of<br />
Nov. 16–18.<br />
Courtesy<br />
of Kevin Mallory/<br />
Cheyennestampede.<br />
com<br />
Local junior hockey player<br />
exhibits strong work ethic<br />
Carroll has amassed<br />
an impressive stat<br />
sheet as well. In his<br />
two years with the<br />
Stampede, he has<br />
played in 74 games,<br />
scoring 28 goals and<br />
dishing out 38 assists<br />
for 66 points total.<br />
Last year, Carroll<br />
was not just an<br />
employee at LCCC,<br />
but also a student,<br />
taking “Pre-<br />
Calculus Algebra/<br />
Trigonometry.” He<br />
said he would consider<br />
attending LCCC,<br />
but it doesn’t have a<br />
college hockey team.<br />
Carroll and the<br />
Stampede are in the<br />
final push of the season<br />
and are turning<br />
heads as they look to<br />
acquire home ice for<br />
the playoffs.
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sports<br />
Riders ranked third in region<br />
By Cassie Kelley<br />
Assistant Online Editor<br />
The Laramie County<br />
Community College equestrian<br />
team placed one and two<br />
in Lincoln, Neb., for the last<br />
Western shows of the regular<br />
season Feb. 2–3.<br />
The University of Nebraska<br />
hosted two Western shows,<br />
and the LCCC team placed<br />
second overall in the first show<br />
and third overall in the second<br />
show.<br />
This put the Western team<br />
third in the region for the<br />
2012-13 season.<br />
By Cassie Kelley<br />
Assistant Online Editor<br />
Though the Laramie County Community<br />
College equestrian team is between shows, the<br />
competitors are anything but bored.<br />
With riding practice daily at noon and jumping<br />
practice at 3 p.m. on Fridays, the team is<br />
busy preparing for its upcoming shows.<br />
This is Kelsey LoSasso’s first year with the<br />
equestrian team as part of the Western division,<br />
but she has been riding horses for about<br />
11 years. She has ridden in two Western shows,<br />
placing sixth and second in Nebraska and first at<br />
the LCCC competition. She said she felt that so<br />
far the competitions have gone well and looked<br />
forwarding to upcoming Western events.<br />
Morgan Carmichael, who rides hunt seat for<br />
the equestrian team, marks her first year with<br />
LCCC, having previously been at the University<br />
of Wyoming. Recovering from an ankle injury,<br />
Carmichael said this riding season was still going<br />
better than previous years.<br />
She has previously earned fifth in fences<br />
and flatwork at the University of Colorado. She<br />
earned fourth in jumping and fifth in flatwork<br />
at UW. She said she enjoyed jumping more than<br />
flatwork and has been riding horses for several<br />
years.<br />
She looked forward to competing in future<br />
shows as she was close to pointing up into the<br />
open level division, which is the highest level<br />
of riding. Riders are placed into divisions based<br />
on their riding ability. They must earn points to<br />
move up in the divisions by placing in the top<br />
six.<br />
Being a part of the equestrian team is about<br />
more than just riding horses. A day in the life of<br />
Emily Hamilton, who rides intermediate hunt<br />
seat for the equestrian team, highlights what<br />
being a part of the team means.<br />
As a full-time student applying for the radiography<br />
programing, she must maintain a 2.5 GPA<br />
and log at least two hours of study hall a week.<br />
As part of the team, she also must log at<br />
least two hours of exercise and take a couple of<br />
Individually, Kayla Fisk<br />
placed first in reining and<br />
fourth in open horsemanship<br />
and was reserved high point<br />
rider in the first show.<br />
Also, Kelsey Jenkins placed<br />
fourth and second in novice<br />
horsemanship; Brittany<br />
DeMartin placed fourth and<br />
sixth in novice horsemanship;<br />
<strong>Am</strong>anda Heller placed first<br />
and fifth in intermediate II<br />
horsemanship; Jesse Johnson<br />
placed second and third in<br />
intermediate I horsemanship;<br />
Kelsey LoSasso placed first in<br />
intermediate I horsemanship;<br />
Lily Crawford placed second<br />
in intermediate I horsemanship,<br />
and Emily Smith placed<br />
first and second in beginner<br />
horsemanship.<br />
Six qualify for regionals<br />
At the end of the regular<br />
show season, six riders, Fisk,<br />
Jenkins, DeMartin, Johnson,<br />
Adrian Parman and Candice<br />
Lahners, qualified for the<br />
Western regional competition.<br />
These riders must place in<br />
the top two positions in their<br />
respective classed to enable<br />
them to ride in the Western<br />
semifinals in Syracuse, N.Y.<br />
Equestrian squad antes up<br />
physical education classes to keep her in shape.<br />
Riding horses, especially hunt seat and jumping,<br />
requires leg strength.<br />
The team practices riding for at least an hour<br />
five days a week. Each person on the team takes<br />
turns feeding and mucking out stalls at 7 a.m.<br />
and 4:30 p.m. everyday.<br />
Hamilton said, “Feed crew isn’t the funniest<br />
part of being on the equestrian team, but it is<br />
something that needs to be done, and if it wasn’t<br />
for the horses, we wouldn’t be able to practice.”<br />
Hamilton is also a part of the Block and Bridle<br />
Club.<br />
<strong>Am</strong>anda Heller, also a sophomore, majoring<br />
in equine training and management at LCCC,<br />
is in her second year riding for the equestrian<br />
team. She rides walk/trot/canter for English and<br />
intermediate II in Western.<br />
Heller takes Pilates classes at the college to<br />
stay in shape. She has been around horses her<br />
entire life, so cleaning stalls and feeding horses<br />
are just another day for her.<br />
“It takes a lot of practice to prepare for a<br />
show. You can’t just show up and win every<br />
class,” she said.<br />
In order to do well, team members practice as<br />
much as they can on as many different horses as<br />
they can. Heller said college work and the team<br />
can take up a lot of time, but schoolwork always<br />
comes first because if she doesn’t keep up her<br />
grades, then she cannot be on the team.<br />
Heller is also on the horse judging team and a<br />
part of the Block and Bridle Club.<br />
The equestrian team members do not ride<br />
on their own horses, and it is not required that<br />
they own a horse. Part of the competition is<br />
being able to ride any horse drawn. They do not<br />
have time to practice with the horse before they<br />
compete but hope for a good draw and ride the<br />
best they can.<br />
The team prepares for shows by riding as<br />
much as they can on as many different horses<br />
that they can. They work hard to keep in shape<br />
and keep good grades so that they can compete<br />
at shows and support the other riders on the<br />
team.<br />
By Dimitri<br />
Sofias<br />
Online Sports Editor<br />
For many years<br />
at Laramie County<br />
Community College<br />
students had the<br />
option to participate<br />
in intramurals, but<br />
they were discontinued<br />
along with all<br />
the varsity sports in<br />
1992.<br />
Intramurals<br />
have recently made<br />
a “comeback” to<br />
the LCCC campus.<br />
Two years ago,<br />
students wanted<br />
more activities in<br />
the PE Building<br />
on campus. These<br />
students and the<br />
Student Government<br />
Association (SGA)<br />
took this issue<br />
to the new president<br />
of LCCC, and<br />
intramurals were<br />
“reborn.” The new<br />
intramural program<br />
is being spearheaded<br />
by Vince Gibson.<br />
Gibson was the<br />
intramural coordinator<br />
at the College<br />
of Southern Idaho,<br />
and he is also the<br />
men’s soccer coach<br />
at LCCC.<br />
Some might wonder<br />
what benefits<br />
intramurals add to<br />
the college experience.<br />
Why should<br />
the college spend<br />
time and resources<br />
on them? On such<br />
a small campus<br />
they are a way to be<br />
social, Gibson noted.<br />
Meeting new people<br />
and developing<br />
friendships are a fundamental<br />
part of the<br />
college experience.<br />
Interacting with<br />
peers and athletes<br />
can be beneficial to<br />
being a well-rounded<br />
college student, he<br />
said.<br />
A difference<br />
between intramurals<br />
and classes is students<br />
don’t receive<br />
grades. Gibson said<br />
he hoped that eventually<br />
the intramural<br />
program would<br />
bring coaching and<br />
refereeing classes<br />
to LCCC for anyone<br />
wanting to gain<br />
experience in those<br />
areas.<br />
Different intramural<br />
sports are<br />
offered depending<br />
on the time of year.<br />
This past fall semester<br />
basketball, both<br />
men’s and co-ed,<br />
were offered along<br />
with co-ed volleyball.<br />
The men’s basketball<br />
championship win-<br />
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After 20 years,<br />
they’re back<br />
ners was Too Short<br />
Too Skinny, and the<br />
co-ed winner was<br />
Gangnam Style. The<br />
volleyball champion<br />
was GEUnited.<br />
The beginning of<br />
this spring semester<br />
will have three different<br />
sports available<br />
for students: flag<br />
football, indoor<br />
soccer and later on a<br />
racquetball tournament.<br />
Students may<br />
form their own<br />
teams or be placed<br />
on a team who needs<br />
players. Additional<br />
information for<br />
intramurals can be<br />
found http://lccc.<br />
wy.edu/athletics/<br />
intramurals.<br />
Additional<br />
questions can be<br />
answered by Gibson,<br />
intramural sports coordinator,<br />
in person<br />
at the PE Building,<br />
Room 129 or email<br />
at vgibson@lccc.<br />
wy.edu.<br />
Later in the semester<br />
a dodge ball<br />
league and ultimate<br />
Frisbee will be<br />
offered.<br />
Information<br />
about those will<br />
come in later updates<br />
on intramural<br />
activities.<br />
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Buckner<br />
moves<br />
forward<br />
By Matt<br />
Humphrey<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Laramie County<br />
Community College is not<br />
just a stepping stone for<br />
students to head to bigger<br />
and better things, but also<br />
for athletic coaches.<br />
Darren Buckner is one<br />
such coach, who has<br />
moved on from LCCC<br />
to pursue an assistant<br />
volleyball coaching job<br />
at Eastern Washington<br />
University effective Jan.<br />
14.<br />
Athletic Director Jason<br />
Ficca commented on<br />
Buckner’s leaving that<br />
both Buckner and the<br />
previous head coach<br />
both came and made the<br />
volleyball program better.<br />
“Our last two coaches<br />
have done a great job.<br />
They left the program better<br />
than when they found<br />
it,” he said. Ficca also<br />
noted the success the volleyball<br />
team has had, and<br />
they are only a few years<br />
away from competing at a<br />
national level.<br />
Buckner coached at<br />
LCCC for two years, during<br />
which he amassed a<br />
35-27 record, giving the<br />
team consecutive winning<br />
seasons. While Buckner<br />
has certainly left a void<br />
in his departure, the<br />
process of finding a new<br />
coach has already begun.<br />
Ficca said it is a priority<br />
to keep the returning<br />
players at LCCC, and that<br />
the sophomores are still<br />
receiving the recruitment<br />
opportunities that<br />
they would have prior to<br />
Buckner’s departure.<br />
“We want coaches who<br />
are motivated,” he said.<br />
Ficca said the search will<br />
be intense, but he has<br />
confidence in the team<br />
finding a new coach, one<br />
who can take LCCC volleyball<br />
to the next level.<br />
Teammate Deshon Portley’s<br />
19.3 points a game makes him<br />
the 22nd-best scorer in Division<br />
I, fourth in Region IX and the<br />
Eagles’ leading scorer.<br />
The Golden Eagles’ seventh<br />
consecutive home victory came<br />
while delivering the first loss to<br />
current south subregion leader<br />
North Platte in six games. The<br />
Eagles put up 50 points in the<br />
second half to mount a massive<br />
comeback and take the game<br />
with a 73–64 victory. The victory<br />
solidified LCCC’s place in the<br />
league as a strong contender and<br />
a fierce home opponent. Portley,<br />
Julian Chiera, Ifeanyichukwu,<br />
and Germaine Decoste all posted<br />
double-digit points, at 18, 16, 13<br />
and 14 respectively. The game<br />
also boosted LCCC’s home record<br />
to 12–2.<br />
sports<br />
Over the top:<br />
Deshon Portley leaps over Eastern Wyoming College’s Jason McClellan to make the point.<br />
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The last time LCCC played the<br />
North Platte Community College<br />
Knights on Jan. 23 did not go the<br />
Eagles’ way though as they lost<br />
54–64 in a tough road matchup.<br />
The team won its sixth<br />
home game in a row on Feb.<br />
2 against Eastern Wyoming<br />
College by a score of 76–66.<br />
Chiera scored 24 points in<br />
the game, and Ifeanyichukwu<br />
pulled down a double-double<br />
with 12 points and 12 rebounds.<br />
Ifeanyichuckwu also blocked<br />
four shots in the contest. The<br />
Eagles had not lost at home<br />
since Dec. 4, when Trinidad<br />
State Junior College beat them in<br />
triple-overtime 114–115.<br />
The Golden Eagles won<br />
their second home game of the<br />
spring semester by a score of<br />
74–68 against Western Nebraska<br />
Community College (WNCC)<br />
on Jan. 31. The Golden Eagles<br />
showed a strong second-half<br />
performance, coming back from<br />
a three-point deficit at the half.<br />
They stormed off to score 48<br />
points for the victory.<br />
Prior to returning home, the<br />
Eagles battled through a twowin,<br />
three-loss road trip.<br />
In the final game of the<br />
road trip, the Eagles headed to<br />
McCook, Neb., where the team<br />
outscored McCook Community<br />
College 47–35 in the second half<br />
of its 82–70 win on Jan. 26. The<br />
teams engaged in a back-andforth<br />
battle in the first half before<br />
the Eagles ran off with the game<br />
in the second.<br />
The team was led by Portley and<br />
Emory Bennett, who had 25 and<br />
19 points respectively.<br />
LCCC showed the team had a<br />
strong resolve in its 82–72 victory<br />
over Lamar Community College<br />
on Jan. 19. Portley and Chiera<br />
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Kasey M. Orr<br />
Basketball battle breaks winning <strong>streak</strong><br />
put up 17 points each. Patrick<br />
Stephens also put up 15 points<br />
for the Eagles. The 10-point<br />
win stopped the 16–9 Lamar’s<br />
five-game winning <strong>streak</strong>. Lamar<br />
is in second place in the south<br />
subregion with eight wins and<br />
three losses.<br />
The Eagles have four remaining<br />
games before the Region IX<br />
tournament. The team will be on<br />
the road Feb. 12 against WNCC,<br />
at home against Northeastern<br />
Junior College on Feb. 16, visiting<br />
Otero Junior College on Feb.<br />
21, and closing at home against<br />
Lamar Community College.<br />
The Region IX Tournament<br />
will be played March 2–6. The location<br />
has not yet been decided.<br />
The tournament will be played<br />
on the home court of the team<br />
that has the best record in Region<br />
IX’s north subregion.