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CCS Chancellor Christine Johnson has chosen SFCC’s new president. Ja-net Gullickson takes the position on July 1.

Gullickson is currently District Academic Services Officer of CCS, and in the past worked with the Con-sulting Staff for the Strategic Planning Accessibility Sub-committee at the Colorado Department of Higher Edu-cation. She was also the Chief Out-reach and Client Relations Officer at CollegeInvest and the Executive Director at the Denver Scholarship Foundation.

She received her doctorate from The University of Minnesota, as well as a Master of Science at South Da-kota State University and a Bachelor of Science at The University of South Dakota.

She moved from Colorado to Spo-kane in 2010.

“Colorado hasn’t funded higher education at nearly the level The State of Washington has,” Gullickson said. “The State of Washington has done fabulous things in areas that Colorado doesn’t have the money for.

“A lot of the faculty at commu-nity colleges in Colorado are part time, we’re very lucky and blessed in Washington to have full time fac-ulty who are dedicated completely to teaching.”

In a time of budget cuts, some speculate about how long Washing-ton will be able to keep this track re-cord up.

“Spokane Falls has done a great job dealing with the budget crisis al-ready,” Gullickson said. “It has made good decisions in terms of not cutting

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SFCC’s peer tutoring program is facing the possibility of severe cuts to its hours of availability and subjects offered next year.

These cuts would be due to the sun-setting of the $3 million Title 3 grant which has funded the program for the past five years.

In the current state of funding if additional funding isn’t received soon, Heather Keast, Title III Activity Director, said that they would most likely only be able to offer three subjects, each for 3-4 hours per day.

“We obviously couldn’t predict five years ago that the economy would crumble around us,” Keast said. “Our plan for sustaining tutoring, when we started the grant, was to use the dollars gained by retaining students to pay for peer tutoring and more.

“With budgets being slashed as they have been ... the money we are generating through students who persist and succeed has had to go back to sustain our course offerings and student services so that students have the most opportunities to earn their degrees and certificates.”

Given the current state of budgets, Keast said that she and others are exploring alternative funding methods in order to maintain the peer tutoring program in as much of its current state as possible.

“In these strapped times there are very few, or no, sources of campus funding when you look at everyone’s budgets,” Keast said. “And unfortunately, very few Work Study students qualify as tutors, so we have to find the funding to cover their wages.”

Bonnie Brunt is one of the few Spanish instructors at

The Student Technology Fee Com-mittee has a budget of $880,000 to spend on technology improvements for the campus, but that budget has proved to be unable to meet all the requests that have been made.

The Tech Fee Committee is com-piled of nine voting positions: five Associated Student Government (ASG) members, two faculty, and two administrative votes. All proceeds of

the quarterly fee go directly into the Tech Fee fund. The committee then applies this guideline before approv-ing requests: all expenditures must directly benefit student education through the use of technology.

The quarterly Tech Fee is $4 per credit, with a maximum fee of $40

After initial submissions, depart-ments making requests were asked to verify their needs to the committee. Some were deemed more necessary than others by the committee, and this was made especially true when

the limits of available funds were clarified.

“We have to be careful,” said Vice President of Learning Jim Minkler. “A lot goes into consideration includ-ing discounts, taxes, set up, etc; and sometimes we can figure out what the frills are.”

Among the requests was to build a mobile computer lab project with laptops. Along with other equipment and storage, the project would have

Tech FeeBreakdown

$880,000Amount in tech

fee

9,465Students

paying a tech fee

9Committe positions

decide how money is used

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Committee discusses tech fee proposals SFCC peer-tutoring program may be ending

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Gullickson is preparing to take over for Pam Praeger the SFCC presidental position in July.

While discussing the SFCC tech fee, Vice President of Learning Jim Minkler said a lot of consideration goes into where the tech fee is spent; discounts, taxes and set up, etc.

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An SFCC student feels he was discriminated against after a re-cent encounter with security.

Last week in the Student Union Building, Donny Schrock was told by a security officer to button his shirt.

Schrock prefers to wear his shirt only half buttoned, leaving his upper chest exposed. He was asked to button his shirt while walking through the SUB.

“I have no problem complying with a dress code if there’s a dress code,” Schrock said. “...but there’s not.

“They said that I’m distract-ing people from their learning and making them uncomfortable.”

Schrock said he has seen girls around campus wearing reveal-ing outfits, but they had not got-ten any attention from security.

SFCC does not have a dress code,

but teachers have the author-ity in class to judge what is ap-propriate attire and what is not.

Carolyn Stephens, head of the Fine Arts department, said that sometimes there is a specific safe-ty issue with someone’s attire.

“There are times when the expo-sure of skin could endanger you, like if we were pouring hot metals,” Ste-

phens said. “I’ve taught on and off for more than 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever had an is-sue with some-one’s dress.”

Schrock said that he was confronted in the SUB, not in a classroom environment.

“From the campus safety per-spective, we would generally not try to get involved in that kind of interaction,” said Kenneth De-Mello, head of campus safety. “That’s a classroom management issue, not a campus safety issue.

Security does address complaints from students on a case by case basis.

“We don’t want people to do

Student feels discriminated things that are disruptive to the educational environment for our community members,” DeMel-lo said. That’s where we step in.”

According to Schrock, none of his teachers have voiced any con-cerns with the way he dresses.

A recent email sent to multiple staff members and The Communi-cator’s email explained how the situation was ultimately handled:

“The AAG said if the attire does not rise to the level of a ‘criminal’ indecent exposure or lewdness, it would be difficult to enforce a stu-dent code of conduct ‘disruption’ violation. The term the AAG used for an attire issue to rise to the level of a student code of conduct disruption violation, it would have to be a ‘sub-stantial’ disruption. Multiple com-plaints of a person’s attire does not qualify as a ‘substantial’ disruption.”

This does not mean students can walk around in the nude. As long as they are not disrupting the learning of others and follow their teachers’ classroom guide-lines, there won’t be an issue.

“I’m very happy with the out-come of the situation,” Schrock said.

“I have no problem complying with a dress code if there’s a dress code.”

-Donny SchrockSFCC student

across the board, but making strategic cuts and keeping a lot of money where the students are...in the classroom. “I would seek continuing that.”Gullickson said she would like to think of ways to be more efficient if we can. “There might be services we won’t be able to offer going for-ward if the budget gets worse,” Gullickson said. “We avoided a se-vere budget cut this year; I don’t know if that’s going to continue. “We have to be very wise and strategic.” Gullickson was one of the five can-didates from all over the country cho-sen to run for president of SFCC. John-son said it was a very difficult decision. “Each of the 5 candidates were well qualified in terms of academic credentials, varied experience and knowledge of community college trends and practices,” Johnson said.

“Janet displays a depth of experi-ence and knowledge of national and statewide trends in education. “She has already done so much for the school.” Johnson said she’s confi-dent that Gullickson will build on the good work that has been done at SFCC and take us to new levels of quality and service. “The leadership transition always brings change simply because it’s a new person, a new personality.”Current SFCC president, Pam Praeger, prepares to step down on June 30. “I’ll be completing my 35th year in this community college dis-trict,” Praeger said. “I’ve decided it’s a good time to retire; I’ll be just a few months from Medicare. “As long as they keep funding it!” Praeger said she’s confident Gullickson will carry on the tra-dition of helping students meet their educational goals at SFCC. “She knows our system now, having been here almost 2 years,” Praeger said. “She’s had presidential experience before. “You can’t be in this office and think ‘I’m not going to be here next year, so who cares what happens?’”

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been priced at $38,220.01. It was eventually eliminated on the basis that the Human Ser-vices department could meet their needs with better schedul-ing of the current computer labs.

“(Human Services) is happy to give up that computer lab project,” said education instructor Sandy Ross. “It would have cost a lot of money and many departments have cut back, but we also need a com-puter lab to do our instruction.”

Some cuts were made by find-ing other funding sources. The Vi-sual and Performing Arts Department

SFCC. Brunt said that she re-lies on the presence of peer tu-tors to a large degree, and that she wouldn’t have the time to dedicate to each student who needs the tu-toring without the peer tutors.

“We have tutoring in Spanish and it makes a huge difference,” Brunt said. “I have a student who is now in Spanish III who has struggled her whole way through, and has relied on the tutors consistently every quarter.

“It’s made the whole difference with her being able to pass and do well.”

Andrew Fleiger is a student at SFCC who has consistently utilized peer tu-tors throughout his first year at SFCC. Fleiger said that he couldn’t see why peer tutoring wouldn’t receive proper funding from the college.

“Peer tutoring is honestly one of the most useful resources on this campus,” Fleiger said. “I feel like I’ve received a significantly better grade in more than one class thanks to the peer tutors.

“Out of all the things we fund as a college, I think the peer tutors

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originally requested $135,496.05 to fund the Performing Arts Auditorium Lighting Project, with which they would install a new state-of-the-art lighting system into the auditorium.

“The biggest thing we can do for student learning is to get the technology into the hands of stu-dents,” said Dan Wenger, Dean of Visual and Performing Arts.

$70,000 of that request was able to be funded by Repairs and Minor Im-provements because of the tech fee gap, and the remainder of the cost is expected to be split between Tech Fee and AS and IRP Carryforward.

“(Tech Fee Committee) sees that departments make many requests knowing they may have to give them up,” said ASG President Maria Del-ane. “We work to fulfill all of these re-quests within the limits of the budget because they all fulfill student needs.”

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are one of the most worthwhile.” Despite funding being scarce, ac-

cording to Keast, there is no lack of effort to continue trying to find funds. Keast said that with over 10,000 student visits to peer tu-tors over the past five years the satisfaction rate has been over-whelming and that that’s not some-thing that she is keen on losing.

“We have currently secured the college’s funding for a coor-dinator, who will be working on several other success initiatives, and some administrative sup-port for that person,” Keast said. “We are also seeking the Associ-ated Student Government’s support.

“Just as we believe that student clubs, child care assistance and cam-pus safety are vital to students’ suc-cess, we feel tutoring is as well, and therefore the student government should consider how they might want to continue their support.”

Courses with peer

tutors available:

Accounting

Anatomy & Physiology

Astronomy

Biology,

Chemistry

Economics

French

Geology

Geography

Japanese

Logic

Math

Music Theory

Physics

Political Sci-ence

Psycology

Sociology

Spanish

Statistics

Writing

Source: Spokan-

efalls.edu

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Meet the ASG presidential candidates1) What are your plans to improve the school if you should take office?

2) What leadership skills do you have that you can bring to the table?

3) How do you plan to fix the com-munication problem?

Ethan Erickson

Guadalupe Mejia

Alfred La Pier

“I plan to get more students involved in clubs, get more tutoring for students, promote diversity and pro-mote more culture around campus. I want to get students more oppor-tunities to get off campus learning. I want them to share their culture with other students. I want students to get involved in clubs, or ASG or any other events that go on here.”

“Coming from a troubled lifestyle and having great knowledge of cul-ture, I think, makes me a pretty well rounded person and I believe I am qualified for ASG President”

“I want to reach out by advertis-ing better, with flyers, posters, and updating the website.”

“Well, my plans are to update the school’s website and reduce the cost of textbooks in subjects like math.Unless there is some huge discovery in the world of math, I don’t feel that we need to have students get new math books when there is no differ-ence from the old book.”

“Well I’m a running start student, I’ve been involved with student gov-ernment for two quarters as well as being representative for the Alliance Club. I’m also the Frontman in my band ‘Where I Left Off’ as well as being active in the charity work for Inland Babies.”

“I also plan to open up ASG In-formation Booth to reach out to students and to show them that ASG isn’t a private club. I also want to abolish the stereotype that ASG is a private club...it’s not! I want to make it more open to students so they can get involved.”

“I also plan to fix the smoking issues around campus and have the Falls Cafe open later for students who stay at the school longer for classes.I want to communicate with the stu-dents and do what they want to do and I want to help the students here, and if I can’t help them then I’ll find someone who can help them.”

I’m the current V.P. for Red Nations Student Associations and as V.P. of Red Nations I’m involved with all the clubs activities. The biggest activity being the powwow that we put on every year.”

“I plan to create a survey for stu-dents so I can do what the students want to do.”

Candidates for

Academic Vice-

President:

Kim JonesCorey Haskins

Candidate for

Activities Vice-

President:

Mari baerman

Where to vote:

Voting booths open in the

SUBMay 7-11

The lighting system in the SFCC auditorium is about to undergo a $135,000 overhaul, with joint fund-ing from the Tech Fee budget, the Repairs and Minor Improvements budget, and the Associated Student Government Carryforward Fund.

Dan Wenger, the dean of visual and performing arts, said that this overhaul is long overdue for multiple reasons, with the primary concern being that of continued maintenance.

“We do have lights that will flick-er, lights that will dim, bulbs that will blow out and circuits that will trip,” Wenger said. “We can no longer even purchase the replacement parts, because the rack is 26 years old.

“That’s the primary impe-tus behind a replacement.”

The company which won the bid to design the new lighting sys-tem is Silhouette Lights & Stag-ing. George Lathrop, the presi-dent of the company, said that they always enjoy updating old systems, and that the new system will be completely state of the art.

“This will be the most sophisti-

cated system installed in Washing-ton schools at the college level,” Lathrop said. “Regional schools are equipped with basic dim-ming and conventional fixtures.

“A few have LEDs and some have robotic fixtures but this is the most comprehensive system to date.”

Following the installation of these lights, Wenger said that the plan go-ing forward would be to set up a 15 -c red i t certificate for stage l i g h t i n g .

“We’ll have to phase it and roll with things a little bit to see how things go,” Wenger said. “We’ll be hiring a lighting technician for the new lighting system, and we can hire that person to also do work-shops to teach our students in the-ater, interior design, and audio engi-neering how to use the equipment.

“From there, we go to a 15-cred-it certificate, and students who want to get a certificate in lighting on top of their degree, they could

Auditorium to receive state-of-the-art lightingtake that three quarter sequence.”

Nicholas Johnson, the stage man-ager of the Spartan Playhouse, said that having a state of the art facility is essential in more than one way.

“Having state of the art facilities and other great features that other teaching institutions have is what we need to continue to be a great and re-spected college,” Johnson said. “Not

only does it give us a po-t e n t i a l new pro-gram and the best

lighting system in the area, but it also makes us more green.

“The difference in the consump-tion in energy of the lamps used here, which are high pressure sodi-um lights, verses the proposed LEDs can be nearly a tenth of the energy consumption, while their lifespan is also nearly ten times as long.”

One of the key elements of the new lighting setup, Wenger said, is the visualizer. The visual-izer is a software program that al-

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“This will be the most sophisticated system installed in Washington schools at the college level.”

-George LathropPresident of Silhouette Lights & Staging

lows for virtual renderings of nearly any stage venue a student might want to virtually interact with.

“The visualizer lets students use the board we have to virtually run any lighting system they want to,” Wenger said. “The hardware the students are using is the real thing they’d be using in industry.

“The only difference is that they’re controlling a virtu-al world with the visualizer.”

Itemized list of ex-pences:Fixtures: $29,455

Rack: $62,805

Cyclorama: $1,826

Movers: $16,120

Dan Wenger, Dean, supports the lighting project

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Orthot-ics and

Prothetic Techinician Programs

by distance

0 mi: Spokane Falls Com-munity Col-

lege: Spokane, Washington

1,388 mi: Cen-tury College: White Bear

Lake, Minne-sota

1,759 mi: Francis Tuttle,

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1,812 mi: Oklahoma

State Universi-ty: Okmulgee,

Oklahoma

1,828 mi: Joliet Junior College: Joilet, Illinois

1,953 mi: Baker College of Flint: Flint,

Michigan

Source: National

Commision on Or-

thotic and Prosthetic

Education

T.C. Peterson, President of the Ser-vice-Learning Club, spent two years pushing for a trip down to Louisiana in order to assist the disaster victims of the Mississippi Delta and finally got this done during spring break

The Service-Learning Club spent their spring break visiting Houma, La. tutoring third and fourth grade students who are victims of multiple catastrophic disasters that have hit the Mississippi River Delta. This trip included tutoring at Pointe Aux Chenes Elementary, after-school tutoring at Hope Extreme, dinner and dancing and living with a local Cajun family.

The students being tutored were practicing in preparation for their LEAP state exams, exams similar to the WASL that Washington uses. The Service-Learning Club worked with 163 students during their time down in Louisiana, students who have experienced five different disasters during their lives.

“The third and fourth grade students were able to learn grammar and correct pronunciation through their teaching to our international

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college students,” said Eunice Stime, Program Coordinator for the Service-Learning Center department. “We were a sounding board for them, so that they could practice confidence and concept.”

After the club was done tutoring the students, they were treated to a tour of the Grand Isle, swimming in the Gulf of Mexico and a private fishing boat tour of native sacred grounds and bayous by a Native American Cajun fisherman. The club was also offered private Cajun dance lessons and dined daily on local seafood in the area.

“For me, it’s more like the whole experience in general just because there isn’t really just one thing you can single out about a trip like this just because we did so many dif-ferent things while we were there,” said T.C. Peterson, club president. “And I mean, just a really interesting experience that you don’t get to do very much when you immerse your-self in somebody else’s culture and do as many things as you can while you’re there.”

During the trip, they were given an evaluation by Louisiana Uni-versity Marine Consortium. The evaluation was to observe and learn

how farming practices in the United States along with permanently chan-neling the Mississippi River contrib-utes to the marine dead zone.

“(The area affected by the oil spill) is very little,” Stime said. “They were majorly hit by the oil spill but the dissolvant put on on [the oil] is the main problem.”

Because of the channeling, much of the delta’s land is disappearing and the Cajun culture is being pres-sured to leave the area.

When the club arrived back in Spokane, they all had learned a lot of about the Cajun culture, the ma-

rine dead zone, how people down in the Mississippi Delta are affected by the disasters that have hit the area and how resilient the people are.

T.C. Peterson will be leaving his position as President of the club after Spring Quarter. Darlene Rickett has expressed interest in taking a trip down to Hawaii to work with the native culture as they are one of the poorest cultures in the United States, but would like to pursue a follow-up trip to Louisiana in the next year or two in order to con-tinue helping the area out.

Mississippi River Delta:

5,000: The number of years ago

the delta was formed.

15 to 20: Number of

miles the delta has caused the

coastline of south Louisi-

ana to advance gulfward.

61: aproximate percentage of the total land

area in the delta basin

that is coastal marshes.

5: percent of the original

delta land area from 1932

would remain intact in 50

years.

Source: LAcoast.gov

Prosthetics program providing careers

Club tutors disastor victims

One of six programs in the U.S., the SFCC Prosthetics and Orthotics students start restoring the ability to walk and grasp to people in need right out after school.

When the program started in 1986, it was the second of its kind and there was an immediate waiting period to enter it. With the nearest program in Minnesota, SFCC has nearly dominated the western half of the states. Students come from all over the country, even abroad for a structured method to teach the profession as opposed to apprentice-ships.

“Everybody who desires a job in Prosthetics and Orthotics finds one, they just have to move away from Spokane,” said Clayton Wright, Pros-thetics instructor. “We have saturated the local marketplace.

“In the 2-year interim, their lives change and sometimes they find they can’t leave Spokane.”

The program follows a basic outline, with each year a stand alone certificate in either orthotics or pros-thetics. First an intro to tools and ma-terials, safety, anatomy and medical terminology, specific terminology, basic fabrication, and then more and more complex fabrication after that.

“We cannot provide devices to the general public, so we break down each device and reuse as much as we can and save the best for lab

examples,” said Wright.Students interested in the program

need a good work ethic, fine motor skills and the ability to manipulate materials.

“That’s the currency of the profes-sion,” said Wright.

“Different places may have their preference for types of material,” said Bernard Hewey, Orthotics instructor. “But the processes are the same as they would use in the field.”

“The practitioner would give us tracings of the patient and then we could correct the lines to make the brace,” said Cameron Andersen, stu-dent of the Orthotics and Prosthetics program.

The brace made from the trac-ings is aluminum with a leather cuff around the calf. Then the brace gets anchored into a shoe, which the students learn how to tear down and rebuild.

“The traditional orthotic device, right out of Forrest Gump, is still used today,” said Hewey.

Though sometimes newer materi-als are incorporated, like thermo-plastics, which help with chang-ing the strength and weight of the devices.

“These plastics have certain characteristics, one of which is aggressively sticking to itself so we can form it over the plaster mold,” Hewey said.

The plaster mold is taken of the shape of an amputated limb in the case of prosthetics making. Carbon graphite, the same material used in fishing poles, is layered in with the other materials for spots needing extra strength while staying light. The layers are compressed and compounded by long plastic sleeves hooked up to vacuums to stay tight.

“It’s like sucking the air out of food, like Foodsavers,” said Hewey.

To get patterns either a colored fabric is layered in plastic and saturated with resin to harden, or a special inked paper is used on ther-moplastic to fuse the pigment.

“The degree of difficulty (for stu-dents) is attaching the components,” said Hewey.

The technician is responsible for the initial alignment, but it’s the practitioner who deals with patients, directly taking measurements and doing final adjustments.

“Feet are probably the biggest vari-able, there are hundreds of different kinds of feet,” said Hewey. “All feet are categorized by the activity level of the patient.

“From the J-shaped prosthetics you see athletes have, so a simple foot to fill a shoe.”

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Did You Know?: The construction of the new space dome at SFCC has attracted attention from local media outlets such as The Inlander, The Spokesman-Review and local construction magazines.

Between classes is a logical time to get some studying done, although SFCC may not be the preferred place by some to get that studying taken care of. Many places offer free WIFI which is needed to access SFCCs Angel or research an assignment on Google.

“As far as students that come here and study, around 150 at any given time a day,” said Jeff Davis from the SFCC library. The usual study place for students other than the many other small areas to make camp and take care of homework.

In the library students who may not own a computer or have WIFI at home go to do research and homework. Students take advan-tage of the WIFI and have set up to take care of work.

“Actually, quite a few more people cycle through here,” Davis said.

Still this leaves room for the fact that students actually go to other places, not just the SFCC campus to study or get a password from the library to use the free WIFI.

“On an average weekday we get five to ten but on the weekends we get a lot more,” said Forza

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Coming construction projects from summer to fall are expected to relieve space maintenance is-sues and classroom space shortages.

The stadium is to undergo a ma-jor remodel over the summer. That remodel includes new artificial field turf, lighting, classrooms inside the stadium and even team locker rooms.

District Athletic Director Ken Burrus said this project had been in the works for several years.

Campus updates“We budget ourselves to be

very frugal with the department’s money,” Burrus said. “We’ve been going under budget for sev-eral years to save for this project.”

Burrus said that while the depart-ment and Associated Student Gov-ernment (ASG) are contributing to some of the remodel the state is pay-ing for the majority of the cost. Capi-tal Projects, and the combined con-tributions amount to over $2 million. By the end of the project the campus will have a stadium worthy of student teams as well as community uses.

“An artificial turf field with lights is a gold mine, we will be able to rent out to the community,” said Burrus.

In comparison, District Facilities Construction Manager Cheryl Groth said that the new classroom build-ing would be considered a “growth” capital project, meaning it will fill the need for more classroom space.

“The Administrative offices and Campus IT Data and Voice communications hub, currently housed in Building 1, will also be located in the new Classroom Building,” Groth said in an email.

Construction facts:

The construction bid is open to contractors on Wednesday, April 18th.

The building will be roughly

where the former

Building 8 stood.

It will house general classes, including

English classes and Computer

courses.

The building will be

occupied in fall quarter

2013.

Construction will start this

spring.

Source: Dennis

Dunham, Director of

Capitol Projects and

Cheryl Groth, District

Facilities Construction

Manager.

Construction of this new build-ing will start Fall 2012 and is ex-pected to be occupied by Fall 2013. District Director of Fa-cilities Dennis Dunham said this project would be funded by State Capital Projects, which is paid into from the State General Fund.

“The total project cost will be around $15 million, $10 million of that going to construction of the Classroom Building,” Groth said. “There is also an additional cost for taking Building 1 down after the Classroom Building is in place.”

Coffee Company’s Erin Stockton. Not only is this a weekday place to relax and work for students, considering WIFI is expensive and at Forza it is free. Their atmosphere and service has received praise for its environment by reviews on google maps.

“We get a lot of people from downtown, a lot of which are nurs-ing students, and also the falls,” Stockton said. The eastern down-town campus is popular for getting nursing degrees.

“We don’t see too many students from SFCC,” said Tierney Vogler batista at Cafe Delicio on Monroe. “We see only see a couple regu-lars.”

“We have a group of five or so from Whitworth that come here regularly during the week,” Vogler said. Atmosphere and space really has a large determination on where these students choose to hang out.

Scattered as far as northern Spo-kane is a large coffee shop known as The Service Station.

“On the weekdays more than a third of the people in here are col-lege students” Nathan Mead said. Nearby is whitworth college which is most of their customers.

“I see some from Eastern, from Whitworth and quite a few from The Falls,” Mead said, considering the distance from The Falls is quite large compared to other places.

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I’m the old man in the corner when it comes to social media, but I’m working my way out even if it kills me. It just might.I didn’t start as a big fan of Facebook, or spend my time reading Reddit threads. I’m not cool enough to have been hanging out on 4chan before the posers showed up. I’ve tried to read Twitter conversations, and some-how despite building my own PC I find the formatting incomprehensible.

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Jackson Colby As the technology revolution makes its way across the globe, many unsuspected victims are left casualties of the war.Technology has been advancing at a rapid rate for centuries. With each year that goes by, the technological advances in society increase rapidly. But who are the victims? The people who be-come psychologically dependant on this destructive, invasive technology.

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Clayton Kraft None of this matters much now, when I seem like a stubborn old man to my friends and peers; and it sure as hell won’t matter in ten years when people’s kids will grow up more ingrained in social media than I am now. When people ask you to be your friend it means a different thing than it used to, and I used to get a lot of blank stares when I told them I wasn’t on Facebook. Apparently this is roughly the equivalent of telling them to go screw themselves.


Jackson Colby Just as European settlers introduced alcohol to vulnerable Natives who had never experienced it before, Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new poison to a vulnerable population of first world teenagers and young adults.Facebook claimed 800 million members in September of last year, according to mashable.com. Facebook hopes to reach one billion members by August, 2012. That is just about one seventh of the entire world’s population. Keep in mind the billions of people living in third world countries, in dire poverty who have never even seen a computer.


Clayton Kraft Navigating social media, I suspect, will be a lot like being savvy with email. It used to be a luxury for employers, something they could expect from hiring younger workers but not necessary. Try to get a job where you tell them you can’t use email in 2012, I dare you. As college kids exiting education with more student debt and worse job prospects than arguably almost any other, getting a job is not an optional point.


Jackson Colby According to mashable.com, Facebook’s growth in the U.S. and U.K. has slowed down. That’s good, considering 49 percent of America’s population is on Facebook and 47 percent of The United Kingdom’s is.Facebook is not discouraged. They are expecting India and Brazil to hop on board the train. Ac-cording to mashable.com, 3 percent of India’s population is on Facebook, as well as 16 percent of Brazil’s. India and Brazil are both sizable countries with populations comparable to the U.S.A.Mark Zuckerberg is losing no sleep on his mattress made of billion dollar bills, knowing that Face-book is banking on these populations (that are gaining ready access to computers in recent years) hopping on the Facebook bandwagon.


Clayton Kraft I have to fight for that job with every tool at my disposal be it education, smarts, social media or anything else. Companies have whole positions dedicated to looking up your online life to see if you are a screwup (via drunk or naked party pictures perhaps), so don’t you think it seems almost as weird when you don’t exist?


Jackson Colby Facebook has harmed the youth. People used to know each other’s phone num-bers, and actually talk on the phone. People were still able to mingle, meet people, organize events and socialize without internet access whatsoever. People used to have a group of friends that they were actually friends with, instead of thousands of “friends” on Facebook.


Clayton Kraft You can complain about how missing real life is pointless or stupid, or how much you hate anything-ville, but none of it stops the march of progress. The guys who refused to use horseless carriages because they were loud and stupid probably had a better shot than we do, standing in the way of the internet giants. We can complain and moan, stamp our feet all we want, but with 49 percent of Americans already on Facebook, we’re just sitting in the corner throwing a fit. Well guess what? The corner doesn’t have jobs in it. That’s why I’ve got a Facebook now, and I even use it a little despite dragging my feet.

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Jackson Colby Do strangers really care about you? Where did this self righteous idea that everyone cares what you’re doing every waking moment originate? Why do people feel the need to update their “status” several times a day?This all leads to disconnectedness. If you’re constantly going online and telling people what you’re doing.. then you’re actually not doing anything except sitting in front of a computer. Go out and enjoy life.

1 hour ago via college newspaper : Like Clayton Kraft It’s easier to talk with friends from home, easier to find out about parties, and easier to get ahold of interviews for the stories I write. That’s what the horseless carrige guys hated too; it’s better than the old way of doing things. So if you’ve spent the last few years com-plaining about things, take a little trip out of the corner, the weather is actually nice.


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Social networking has put the fate of musicians in their own hands. The old ways of breaking into the business are long gone and for good reason.

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Randy Breedlove When I can pull up a website and find out more about you than I could after spending ten minutes with you in person something is wrong.


Ashley Hiruko Growing up, the idea of being famous always appealed to me, as it does to most people. Playing pretend with a karaoke machine and microphone in hand, the dream didn’t seem so far fetched. As I matured, reality sunk in. The possibility of me breaking into the music business seemed further and further from having a chance of happening.


Randy Breedlove It seems like social interaction is shifting more and more onto the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy being online, checking up on my favorite webcomics and things of the like. I do use social media websites like Facebook, however as they become more integrated into web-sites across the web I find it harder and harder to maintain privacy. Everywhere I go there are ads based on my web searches, likes and places I’ve been tagged at.


Ashley Hiruko Myspace and Facebook have really changed all of this. Social media sites have become the new way to market yourself.With a bit of money for some equipment and software, an album can be created from home.Entertainers and artists no longer have to fulfill the cliche of a struggling artist by moving to LA in order to get the chance of a record exec. discovering them from thousands doing the same.


Randy Breedlove According to Google’s privacy policy “We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads.”Personalized web surfing and customized searches, Facebook along with social media outlets like Twitter are following the trend by advancing the plugins used to collect information.


Ashley Hiruko Before Myspace, an artist was very much dependent on a record label discovering them, marketing them and essentially doing everything but the actual performing for them. Because of the new music business model, artists are now expected to write their own music, market themselves and have a large and growing fanbase before they receive any attention at all from any record companies.


Randy Breedlove The integration of Facebook into major websites means that as you surf the web you never leave Facebook. Never leaving Facebook means that your other activities on the web are always being monitored.Facebook plans on introducing a toolbar called Facebook Connect 2.0 which will have features such as like and share. Currently Facebook uses a plugin which allows other Facebook users to leave comments and show likes connected to a partner website’s Facebook page.


Ashley Hiruko In an article written on economist.com it stated that, “A&R (artist and repritoire) executives increasingly expect acts to have built a self-sustaining, if modest, business before they offer them a recording contract.” The new music model has also eliminated the need for scouting agents.Ingrid Michaelson was discovered via myspace and is one example of just how unnecessary record label scouting agents have become. Michaelson was discovered through her myspace profile which showcased her music for free.


Randy Breedlove With the current plugin Facebook receives a limited amount of information, basi-cally where you go, but not what you do on a website. Connect 2.0 would be able to provide much more information about where you go and what you do on the internet.This kind of integration makes me think of Facebook as similar to AOL; one platform where you get everything.

1 hour ago via college newspaper : Like Ashley Hiruko Musicians are not only judged by their amount of talent but by the number of viral followers they’ve obtained through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. With all of this easy to do independent marketing also comes a downside, competition. Now all artists of any skill level are on the same competing level when it comes to getting discovered.


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Ashley Hiruko Musicians have to do more than just sit around and wait to be discovered, they have to set themselves apart from everyone else. Simply mimicking your favorite artist may have worked in the past, but what once worked will no longer suffice. Musicians wanting to break into the business have advantages with technology in aiding them with being proactive but they have to come prepared to set themselves apart from the millions of others with the same goal in mind: success.


Randy Breedlove With the current plugin Facebook receives a limited amount of information, basi-cally where you go, but not what you do on a website. Connect 2.0 would be able to provide much more information about where you go and what you do on the internet.This kind of integration makes me think of Facebook as similar to AOL; one platform where you get everything.


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“They’re hott,” is all James Ber-tis, an SFCC music student, had to say about the SFCC Women’s Barbershop singers.

Music at SFCC is available for students who wish to play instru-ments, record or sing, whether they prefer to individually or in a group.

One group that is on the rise at SFCC is Barbershop Quartets.

Gerald Krumboltz, a 19 year member of the Barbershop Har-mony Society, and chairman of the SFCC Music Department, has been introducing this art form to students at SFCC for the past two years. Krumboltz has been able to get a few groups together here at the falls. The boys group are called The Tone Thugs, and a girls chorus group called Ear Candy.

“I’m a barbershopper myself,” Krumboltz said. “Wherever I’ve taught, even before SFCC I’ve tried to introduce young people to this

art form.” Barbershop music was extreme-

ly popular in the early 1900s, and has been fading away since the 1920s.

Barbershop music is tradition-ally sung in a quartet with the alto singing, the lead vocals, and a tenor, bass and baritone in the background. This is different from a traditional choir that has the soprano as the top vocal. Also unlike a normal choir, barbershop music doesn’t typically mix genders in the group.

You either have an all men’s group or all women’s group. It is very uncommon to find mixed gender groups even though one can find a mixed group every now and then. The music that barber-shoppers sing are popular tunes of the time, and occasionally one can find a group performing some gospel tunes. There is usually dancing involved with barbershop performances.

Camrin Costello, a member of the women’s barbershop chorus,

Ear Candy, joined the group dur-ing Winter Quarter. In addition to singing, she has taken on the role as the group’s choreographer creating all the dance moves for Ear Candy and taking it up a notch for their performances.

“I get inspiration for the dances by watching 50’s and 60’s doo wop groups on YouTube. I see

what they do and I incor-porate it into what we do,” Costello said. “It’s fun and the girls are really good at what they do.”

The women’s barbershop pro-gram has grown rapidly this year going from two separate groups during Fall Quarter to an entire chorus this Spring Quarter. Ear Candy consists of 16 singers.

“The group has grown a lot,” Krumbultz said. “Students come to hear us and they say ‘hey that looks like fun I think I’d like to do it.’”

The girls of Ear Candy had noth-ing but good things to say about the Barbershop Chorus. “The atmosphere is very energetic and

lively, and Dr. Krumbultz is fantas-tic,” Rachelle McIntire, a singer in the chorus said. “He does a great job.”

Kristen Bennett another singer in the barbershop chorus also had positive things to say about the group.

“It’s kind of the class you go to just to forget about your home-work and whatever else is going on,” Bennett said. “You just have fun, and we’re all friends. The only problem we have is we laugh too much which I guess isn’t a bad problem to have.”

The students of the barbershop groups practice on their own time, and don’t receive a college credit for singing in the group. Two groups of girls from the chorus went to compete in the Rising Star Competition in Houston, Texas last Fall Quarter, and one of the groups plan to compete in the competition again this fall in Denver, Colo.

You can see the girls perform at the SFCC Choral Concert this Spring Quarter June 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the SFCC Music Cen-ter. Anyone who wishes to sing barbershop music is welcome to sit in on a practice.

“It’s the kind of class you go to just to forget about your homework and whatever else is going on,”

-Kristen BennettSinger in the Ear Candy Quartet

With a season of summer block-busters approaching, it seems that more and more films will advertise themselves as 3D. That is a lie. For a truly 3 dimensional experience, one need not look too far away from the local theatre. The presen-tation is real and right in front of them.

There are many productions coming up in the Spokane area, including right here at SFCC. From musicals to dramas and every-where in between, the possibili-ties are endless. The Firth J Chew Studio at Spokane Civic Theatre is currently presenting “Premiere” by Dale Wasserman. Opening May 4, this comedic farce will run until June 3.

“Imagine that a new Shakespeare

play was discovered, or maybe it wasn’t,” Director Wes Deitrick said, describing the show. “It’s a comedy about deception on the grandest scale.”

Spokane Civic Theatre is fortu-nate enough to have two stages and the larger main stage will be presenting the classic “Annie”. This show spawned such songs as “Hard Knock Life” and “Tomor-row”. This production is even set to use a real dog on the stage appro-priately enough the dogs name is Sandy (as is the character she will be playing).

Slightly across town, Interplayers is in production of a comedy of its own. “Taking Steps” by Alan Ayck-bourn is about love, the loss of that love and how a man copes with it. Interplayers artistic director Reed McColm plays Roland Crab.

“He thinks he is buying her this

manor house,The Pines, where we have set the play,” said McColm. “He finds out that very night she’s leaving him and that affects him greatly. He takes to his bed and be-comes very upset, drinks too much, takes too many sleeping pills and hilarity ensues.”

“Taking Steps” will run until May 20 at Interplayers, which is located downtown at Howard and 2nd street. It is possible that an average student may not have time to investigate these shows, so, the SFCC Revelers Drama department has a solution for that right on campus. In a co-production with Spokane Children’s Theatre they will be presenting the production “Narnia”.

Based upon the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, this musical experience has been adapted for the stage and the SFCC Revelers are up for the challenge.

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Spokane’s youth and commu-nity at large gained an invaluable resource when Jim and Joanne Becker moved to town. Jim and Joanne have turned their lifelong passion for teaching theatre into a real asset for Spokane’s children and local acting community. After retiring from successful teach-ing careers in Fresno, Calif. the couple bought out an old cos-tume shop, which they planned on cultivating in their retirement years.

At that time the Beckers de-cided to move back to the Pacific Northwest where they both grew up. The three towns that they considered were Seattle, Spokane and Ashland, Ore. In June 2006 Jim and Joanne purchased a com-mercially zoned Victorian home in Spokane’s North Central neigh-borhood and quickly set up shop in what is now known as The Lion’s Share.

The Lion’s Share is the actualization of the Becker’s lifelong dream of teaching values to youth through the art of theatre. Every year the Lion’s Share puts on five dinner theatre productions in addition to offering personalized parties, costume rentals, and performing and visual art classes.

Each summer the Lion’s Share hosts children’s acting camps where kids can come and learn not only to act but also how to create and produce a play from start to finish including costumes, props, and make-up keeping their audience in mind both before and after the performances.

“The thing about Jim and Joanne is that they are just so full of life. They really are passion-ate about theatre and that gets through to the kids,” said Kirsten Angell, mother of three whose children have participated in the Lion’s Share programs. “To have teachers that are so incredibly inspired by their work and so into passing on this art-form. It’s

infectious.” Angell also commented on the

Becker’s ability to reach each child that they teach in a per-sonal way by saying that, “They take every kid at the level where they are at. They cast kids where they’re comfortable and make it fun for them, so it can really be a confidence booster. Jim and Joanne are super tuned into these kids.”

When asked why they particu-larly enjoy teaching theatre to young children in the community the couple was quick to answer. “One of the reasons we like working with the very young is because it’s fun to raise them up in theatre,” said Joanne. “We’re really value oriented, we want to instill values in young actors,” said Jim.

In addition to all this both Jim and Joanne Becker teach in the Communications department at SFCC. “They teach so amazingly

well because they bring their theatre into the commu-nications class,” said Kirstin Angell. Another way that they support the Drama Depart-ment at SFCC is by

periodically providing props and costumes for performances held at the Spartan Theatre. In the up-coming production of Narnia the Musical, the Lion’s Share provid-ed the use of the White Witch’s sleigh. “Their impact is that they are helping build bridges in the community,” said Bill Marlow, Director of Drama at SFCC.

“My 12 year old daughter took art classes with Joanne,” said Cornina Little, local mother and owner of The Little Garden Café on Northwest Blvd. in Spokane. “It really helped change her whole mood around and helped bring her out of her shell. I feel like Joanne just lets you be who you are and sees the best in you.”

The Beckers also support various organizations in Spokane including the Garfield Apple pro-gram and the Christian Youth The-atre. They are founding members of the Inland Northwest Perform-ing Arts Council and participate in the First Friday Art shows.

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Jim and Joanne Becker pose in full costume outside of The Lion Share.

Simply Dance Studio offers many types of dances

The Instructors at Simply Dance Studio have dedicated their Fri-day night schedule to West Coast Swing. Lessons begin at 7 p.m. After 8 p.m. Simply Dance Studio offers West Coast Swing dancing until 11 p.m. The event is called “Friday Night Swing Dig”.

Occasionally, people lapse into episodes of awkward hip gyrat-ing and arm flailing to the sound of a tasty beat. It isn’t always as easy to make dancing look good. Simply Dance is open to newcomers, where no skill level is required.

Owner of Simply Dance Studio and prolific dance instructor Mari-anna di Lorenzo, has carefully crafted the atmosphere of her studio to invite newcomers and keep them coming back for the experience.

“The lessons will be structured so that anyone may join in and have fun,” Lorenzo said. “That means if you have never danced before in your life you will be able to participate.

“And for the more experienced dancer technique will be covered so that everyone can learn and enjoy themselves.”

Lorenzo’s approach has fos-

tered a very satisfied clientele, such as dancer Corey Siksika.

“Now, I can’t remember the name of the instructor, she’s the owner of the studio as well, (Marianna) but she was awe-some,” Siksika said. “She had a full house, more girls than guys, and she started off the class with teaching the basic step, and the couple’s basic,”

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Siksika spoke highly of the les-son, but spoke of the dance afterwards with a heightened tone.

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dancer Ria Bertone also began as a student at Simply Dance.

“I attended their first West Coast Swing night events that are held the second and fourth Friday of each month,” said Bertone. “We have great seating, enough dance space, and nice people.”

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Did You Know?: The rules of chess have evolved over the centuries. The queen used to be a rela-tively weak piece, but now it’s the most powerful piece on the board.

When we think of sports, we think of fast movement and physical exer-tion. With most sports this is indeed the truth.

Sometimes we find exceptions to this rule. Chess is one exception, it does however involve strategy and can be quite competitive . It uses the most powerful part of your body that you possess. This powerful part, as you may have guessed , is your brain.

“Chess keeps your mind going,” said Tyler Deatherage, a former student at SFCC. “It’s a mentally de-manding game. You definitely have to stay sharp.” Like most sports and games , you benefit from practice. Unless you’re a genius you can’t expect to be great right off the bat. Just as a marathon runner , did not start their running career with a 26.2 mile run. You probably are not going to beat a more experienced opponent on the first games that you play. “The first game I had played with my friend , he took me out in three moves,” Deatherage said. “It’s definitely a mind game. “

In any sport, be it team or indi-vidual, it’s always beneficial to have a game plan. To have a game plan, you must think ahead. In chess, like other games, a game plan is

essential and when needed the plan can be revised. Consider a football team. They go into into a game with a plan of action. Depending on how the game progresses, the game plan will probably change or evolve. If their defence is letting the other team continue to pass to the same receiver and get one first down after another, they will have to change their coverage. Just as you would in chess, change and try to adapt when your opponent keeps beating you in the first couple of moves.

“Chess is a lot like life, you have to plan ahead.” said Jessica Anistasi, a student at Carrington College. “As

for it being a sport, I don’t know if I would say that but it is competitive ”

There are some competitions that are mostly about endurance. Competitions such as marathons or Ironman require a lot of time and endurance. A chess game can take days and sometimes weeks. The endurance needed in chess is not so much physical as it is mental.

So the question remains, is chess a sport, or is it just a board game? The Chess Federation seeks to be recog-nized by the International Olympic Committee according to an article in the New York Times.

In fast or speed chess, like many

sports, the games are timed. The player has a short amount of time in which to make their move. “It looks like it gets pretty intense when they play timed games,” said Nathan Contos, an SFCC student who has been playing for about a year. “I think it sharpens my problem solv-ing skills.”

Another comparison is with rock climbing. Before you start a climb you must visualize your moves. In chess you also have to think many moves ahead. In both pre planning is essential for success.

So sport or just a game, one can’t deny the many similarities. It may defy the conventional notions of a sport, but it doesn’t rule out the pos-sibility.

A normal strongman work-out at a gym might consist of lift-ing heavy weights, but at Cross-Fit Spokane a normal strongman workout is flipping massive 250-300 pound tires and lifting solid marble stones of huge weights.

Amongst other things they do as part of the strongman workout is farmer carries and there are other ex-ercises they do with odd objects such as pulling tires. Sam Kureh, a 23 year-old strongman class participant, does

intense workouts like a farmer’s carry.“A farmer’s carry is where

you take a dumbbell in each hand and you walk with it for a certain distance,” Kureh said.

Michael Gary opened up Crossfit Spokane in 2006 because it went with his philosophies for strength and conditioning. “The most successful part of owning the business is get-ting people to move around again,” Gary said. “Also getting them out of the old mindset of biceps and triceps and your traditional weightlifting and actually moving and feeling better

and not just trying to look better.”Gary has not only had good times

but also hard times while owning and operating the business. “The hardest part about owning the busi-ness is learning how to success-fully run it,” Gary said. “I’m a great coach and trainer but I am still learning the business side of it.”

CrossFit Spokane has nine class-es and all of them are tradition-al crossfit classes. On Fridays at 5:30pm there is a strongman class.

“A benefit of having a strongman class is that it brings the community

together and lifting odd objects trans-lates better to the real world,” Gary said.

Cole Holman, a 25 year-old strongman class participant, likes the feeling after a strongman work-out. “My favorite part about the class is that I feel stronger after I am done with a workout,” Holman said.

Sometimes CrossFit Spokane sends a team of athletes to compete in competitions around the state. “We sometimes have competitions with other crossfit affiliates around Washington,” Gary said. “Also we send a team to regionals which is in Puyallup in about a month.”

Eric Suentes, a 21 year-old strong-man class participant, says the hardest thing strongman related is the med-ley. “The medley consists of 3 to 5 different strongman exercises,” Suen-tes said. “Some examples are farmer’s walk, tire flips, tire pulls, and stones.”

There are different types of plans you can buy when you workout at the gym. .

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Tyler Deatherage enjoys a game with his friend on their balcony.

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Toughguys

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Chess Champions The classical line of World Chess Champions began

with Wilhelm Steinitz’s defeat of Johannes

Zukertort in their 1886 match. Since that time, the World Championship has typically been contested in a match between the current champion and a challenger, though

tournaments have been used on occasion for

various reasons..

Mindgames

Strong man workouts

Yoke walk: Walking

with a frame designed to be carried across

a person’s shoulders with

equal loads suspended

from each end for a distance.

.Farmers walk:

Walking with equal weight in each hand, like a dumbbell for

a distance.Tire flipping

Flipping a big tire like

a tractor tire over and over for a specified

distance.Tire pull

Pulling a rope that is tied to a tire for a specified distanceStones

Picking up large stones and placing

them on raised platforms

World Chess

Champions:

Viswanathan Anand - India - 2007-present

Vladimir Kramnik -

Russia - 2006-2007

Vladimir Kramnik -

Russia - 2000-2006

Garry Kasparov -

Russia - 1985-2000

Anatoly Karpov - Russia - 1975-1985

Bobby Fischer - USA - 1972-

1975

Boris Spassky - Russia - 1969-1972

Tigran Petrosian -

Russia - 1963-1969

Did You Know?: Fastpitch was a medal sport in the 1996 Olympic Games, which was won by the United States in front of record-setting crowds Source: angelfire.com

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At WGU Washington, Ken advances through his program by demonstrating competency in degree subject matter rather by logging hours in a classroom. He balances school and a full-

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“As a nonprofit, the cost was right,” Ken says of the flat-rate tuition, less than $6,000 a year for most programs. “Well within my budget. And the program also includes industry certifications. I can apply the skills I’m learning on the job.”

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Spokane softball has had a tough time getting clutch-plays when they need them recently. They’ve been able to dominate on defense, but struggled recently with timely scores. “We’ve been out-hitting people and playing better defense,” Janet Skaife, Head Coach of the softball team, said. “But we’re just not

getting the timely hit. Three of our losses have come by one run.” Lauren Stewart, who is among 14 of Spokane’s new softball players, said it’s just been a stroke of bad luck. “All I see is a team that has given this season their all and gotten some bad luck,” Stewart said. “We have improved since the beginning of the year and we have devoted so much of our time and energy into this team, and unfortunately we have just been unlucky in our recent games, but we have fought hard in every game.” Stewart, who has been playing for

12 years, also mentioned that the team has grown very close to each other.“We faced the challenge of being a very young team,” Regin Gallagher, a sophomore at SFCC, said. “Since the majority of our girls are fresh-men, it was their first time facing college level softball which is much different than high school ball.” “We traveled to Hawaii during the preseason and played six really good games,” Skaife said. “Three really good teams: Chaminade, Hawaii Pacific University (and BYU Hawaii).” This year, one team has consis-tently given Spokane a hard time.“(We’ve) had a tough time against Walla Walla,” Skaife said. “They got us all four last year, and they got us all four this year. The losses were pretty ugly.” “I do believe we will make it to the playoffs,” Gallagher said. “We have the offense, defense, and mindset to take us there. “All we need to do is take control of games and play Spokane Softball and you will see us at (the) NWAACC (tour-nament).” Spokane softball finishes the regular season this Saturday, May 12, against Big Bend, at SFCC. The first game starts at noon. It is also Sophomore Night, meaning this will be the last time sophomores will play for SFCC. If Spokane wins this next game, their regular season record will be 16 wins and 12 losses. Win or lose they will still be in 4th place.

Lindsey Walchli winds up for a pitch during last Friday’s game at SFCC

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SFCC Softball team continues to struggle but still maintains high hopes for the post season.

OptimisticPlayers

2012 Playoff stand-ings

1st Wenatchee Valley. With

23 wins and 2 losses 2nd

Walla Walla with 22 wins and 4 losses

3rd Treasure Val-

ley with 17 wins and 9

losses4th

Spokane with 15 wins and

12 losses5th

Big Bend with 9 wins and 18

losses6th

Blue Moun-tain with 6

wins and 18 losses7th

Columbia Ba-sin with 6 wins and 20 losses

8th Yakima Valley

with 5 wins and 21 losses

Source:

CCS Athletics

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