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• RUSSIAN GROUP who vis-ited Seward County CommunityCollege Friday Sept. 23. washosted by the Liberal Rotaryclub as part of the internationaldistrict exchange program. This is a program which sends arepresentative group of people tovisit a foreign country in an ef-fort to promote cultural under-standing and peace. The groupwill be in America for 3.5 weeksparticularly the Southwest re-gion of Kansas. While in Liberal, they visitedDorothy’s House, The Mid-America Air Museum. Team Leader Svetlana Chel-nokova said, “I feel the boys andgirls in America should feel veryluck. They have so many oppor-tunities available to them.”
•A TEACHER WORKSHOPthis Wednesday brought areateachers to campus. Forty-oneteachers representing 22 schoolsattended this year. SCCC hashosted this workshop for morethan 10 years. Math and science teachers from
middle school to high school areinvited to participate at no cost.It is an opportunity for teachersto learn new ways of teaching.
•VISIT OPSU Any studentwanting to go must sign up byOct. 21 in Room AA150 withschool counselor Star L. Triscor-nia. Students will be leaving at 8a.m. and be back by 2 p.m. Nov4. They will need to providetheir own lunch money.
•SEWARD PRES is where fol-lowers can find college Presi-dent Dr. Duane Dunn on Twitter.Login through mycampus on theSCCC website, under OfficialNews from SCCC/ATS and seethat SCCC/ATS President Dunnhas now joined Twitter. He isstaying up to date with socialnetworking like Twitter and alsoFacebook.
•BLACKOUT NIGHT is at 6:30p.m Wednesday at the GreenHouse. Support the Lady Saintsvolleyball by wearing blackclothing that night. Lady Saintswill be selling official SewardCounty blackout shirts through-out the day Wednesday for $12each. Contact Roy Allen [email protected] for ques-tions or to make a shirt purchase.
•BRISKET SALE The SaintsBooster Club will be sellingbriskets. They will be availableat the Saints basketball previewnight Tuesday, Oct. 25. Billy’sMexican Grill & Q will besmoking the briskets. Brisketswill be selling at $40 each. Con-tact Galen McSpadden to makepurchases at [email protected] or call (620) 417-1550.
•RONALD RADFORD will beperforming his soul-stirringmusic for the community, play-ing the flamenco guitar at 7:30p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 at theSCCC/ATS Showcase Theatre.Tickets available at Baker ArtsCenter, 624 N Pershing Ave. orby calling (620)624-2810. Tick-ets will also be sold at the door.
•FINANCIAL AID refunds arein. The checks are available inthe business office ready for stu-dents to come by and pick themup.
•DAVID CARILLO, sopho-more, was the first place winnerof the CrusaderNews.complanking contest. Freshman An-drew Wolford was the secondplace winner.
•KICKBALL INTRAMURALsign-ups are due on Friday. Formore information contact WadeLyon at 620-417-1064 or [email protected].
Heidy MolinaEditor
Years of dedication have ledPamela Perkins to receive theProfessional Board Staff Mem-ber award.
Perkins has been working forSeward County CommunityCollege for 20 years.
Perkins started at the collegeas an administrative assistant tothe dean of instruction and hassince been the ad-ministrative assis-tant to presidentsince 1995.
There are five re-gions, one of thembeing the Westernregion, and Perkinswas chosen as theregion winner ofthe ProfessionalBoard Staff Mem-ber Award.
In order to re-ceive the award,Perkins will haveto travel to Amaril-lo, Texas, in October.While there, a win-ner will be chosen from the re-gional winners for the nationalaward.
Perkins was in Wichita whenshe was notified that she was theaward winner for the Western re-gion.
Perkins spent 51 days in Wi-chita with her husband, who washospitalized due to health prob-lems.
“It was nice thing to hear amideverything that was going on,”
Perkins said. College president Duane Dunn
nominated Perkins for the awardby the Seward County Commu-nity College/ Area TechnicalSchool Committee Board in latespring. “I can’t think of a moredeserving person,” Dunn said. “Iwas glad to nominate her.”
In order to receive the award,Perkins had to be a member ofthe Professional Board Staff Net-work. On the PBSN, Perkins has
served as presi-dent, vice presi-dent, and secre-tary.
While she waspresident, Perkinsbecame involvedwith eBay. ThePBSN did nothave a gavel, andPerkins decidedshe would fixthat.
Perkins pur-chased a “beauti-ful rosewoodgavel” from eBay
and passed it on atthe end of her presidential termin San Diego, Calif.
Besides purchasing the neces-sary gavel, Perkins also was in-volved in drafting an informa-tional brochure because thePBSN did not have one. Perkinswas also the one who started ablog for the PBSN.
Perkins is involved in SaintsEducational Support Staff,which is the organization oncampus, a local level similar toPBSN.
Megan S painEntertainment editor
Liliana and Federico BernabeJr., aren’t the only married cou-ple on the Seward campus, butthey do have an unexpected twistin their story: when they metface-to-face for the first time,they had been dating for nearlyseven months.
Liliana and Federico, betterknown as Lily and Junior, met inJuly 2009 on an online datingwebsite. They talked through thewebsite for a few days, beforeJunior finally asked Lily for herphone number.
“Right off the bat, we both felta connection that made us feellike we knew each other fromour childhood days,” Lily re-membered.
After texting each other dayand night, they found out thatthey were both from Arvin,Calif., although Junior’s familyhad moved to Liberal while Lilystill resided in the small Califor-nia town.
On Aug. 23, 2009, Junior offi-cially asked Lily out, but she toldhim she needed time to considerthe distance and if they would beable to make it work. Five dayslater, he had an answer: Lily toldhim yes.
In March 2010, Junior and hisfather and brother traveled fromLiberal, to Arvin, Calif. (a trip of1,172 miles) to meet Lily for thefirst time.
As Lily waited for her
boyfriend to arrive, her friendskept fueling her doubts. Theythought that Junior would not beanything like he appeared to be,or worse he wouldn’t show up atall.
Eventually, Junior arrived andthe couple hugged. “When wehugged, everything felt so per-fect,” Lily said.
Finally, after nearly eightmonths of continuously speakingeither via text message or com-puter, the couple went on theirfirst date.
Junior remembers that he saton the same side with Lily in thebooth of the restaurant they wentto, because he didn’t want to beaway from her for one second.
After a three hour first date, Ju-nior had to return to Liberal withhis father and brother. Aftermeeting for the first time, Lilyand Junior kept planning whenthey would see each other again.However, Junior had a certainquestion to ask Lily.
On December 13, 2010, Juniorproposed to Lily over the phone.Though she was initiallyshocked, eventually she an-swered and told him that yes, shewould marry him.
Junior’s parents made the planto once again travel to Californiaso that he could officially ask forLily’s hand in marriage.
Junior and his family arrivedon Jan. 6, but Liliana had yet totell her parents that her boyfriendwas going to be in town.
Right before he and his family
arrived, about 30 minutes before,Lily finally told her parents thather boyfriend was going to comevisit her. They all talked for sev-eral minutes and that’s when heofficially asked her to marryhim.
Liliana recalls her parentsbeing shocked. They couldn’tbelieve Junior had actually comeall that way to propose to Lily.
Although Lily’s parents triedto convince Lily to wait a couplemonths to be married, Lilianawas stubborn and didn’t want towait to be married.
On the following morning,Jan. 7, 2011, Lily and Juniorwere married in Bakersfield,Calif.
“As soon as I got home withmy parents, I started packing,”Lily said. On Jan. 8, Lily, Junior,and his parents headed back toLiberal.
Lily and Junior will celebratetheir eight month anniversary onOct. 8. They currently live withJunior’s parents and they areboth majoring in business ad-ministration.
In the future, they plan totransfer to Fort Hays State Uni-versity. Once they have graduat-ed from Fort Hays, they wouldlike to start a family of their own.
“The best thing about beingmarried for us would be that wecould count on each other when-ever we need someone,” Lilianasaid. “Doesn’t matter what it is;we always have one another.”
Crusader photo/Megan Spain-Crusader illustration/Jose Medrano
Lily and Junior Bernabe pose on campus while texting. The couple is one of the growing number of marriedcouples who have met online. The couple will celebrate their eight month anniversary in October.
Online couple finds link to true love
Celestina Padi l laNews editor
The Seward County Livestock JudgingTeam traveled to El Dorado, Kan. andOmaha, Neb. for competitions.
The contest in El Dorado was hosted byButler Community College, and includedapproximately 550 participants. Due tothe large amount of competition, theSCCC/ATS Judging Team was unable toplace in the competition.
The Stock Show in Omaha, Neb. wasthe event the team attended on Sunday.The Show was called A.K.Sarben, and in-cluded more than 300 contestants. Thougha smaller contest, the same level of com-petition was evident.
There were about 80 contestants in thesophomore division, and Seward sopho-more Corey Wilkins placed as the 7th highindividual overall.
“I was glad I was in the top 10,” Wilkinscommented. “After the contest it's prettynerve wracking,” Wilkins said. “I'm usu-ally impatient to see how I did."
Freshmen placed third in Reasons andalso in Sheep. They came out of the com-petition fourth overall.
Freshman Lindsay Bulk placed fifth inthe swine division.
“The competition was really competi-tive all weekend long, but I was happywith my personal success, and more im-portantly the freshmen teams success,"
Bulk said.In preparation for competition, the team
goes over reasons with teammates andAgriculture Instructor-Livestock JudgingCoach, Brett Crow.
"He tells us what we could do different-ly, or what we are doing a good job of,"Wilkins said.
The members of the judging team alsoreview terms, and reasons together inorder to prep for contests.
The team members have clicked be-cause of the similar interests they have,and how much time they spend together.
A typical event for the team consists ofgetting up early in the morning, going tojudge 12 classes, giving reasons, and wait-
ing for the results. These events usually
end at around 4 or 5 in the evening.
Most people don’t know that freshmen
and sophomores compete at different time
intervals throughout the year.
Freshmen start in September and con-
tinue to mid-October. Then they have a
break and start anew around Thanksgiv-
ing. Then they compete from January to
February.
Sophomores begin in August, and their
last national contest is in Houston, Texas,
right before spring break. After that they
begin their fundraisers for the program.
Perkins receives Western region award
Seward County Communitywill be receiving a $4 milliondollar STEM grant. A STEMgrant is used toward Science,Technology, Engineering andMath.
The grant is a classified as acompetitive grant with moneyavailable at the federal level.
“We found out we were eligi-ble in April,” college PresidentDr. Duane Dunn said. “We
worked on it quite a while.” Dunn was notified by Sen.
Jerry Moran’s office last weekthat the grant had been approved.
“We are still waiting on thewritten notification,” Dunn said.“We anticipate that this week ornext week we’ll get the officialone.”
The funds will be spread outthrough a five year period withabout $800,000 per grant year.
The money will be used to-wards building a couple ofgreenhouses for the agriculturedepartment which will be thefirst project, then new class addi-tions will come afterwards.
The first project that will beset into place is the sustainableagriculture; with a program thatwill focus on soil, water andplant growth.
Another program that will be
brought in due to the grant willbe food safety.
That program will allow forlab testing of food products. Thiswill not be implemented untilthe third year of the grant term.
The grant also allows for atransfer specialist to be broughtto the college.
The transfer specialist will beable to assist students transfer-ing to the university level.
“This will help our counselorsand advisers,” Dunn said.
Also, the math and physicslabs will be able to have im-provements because of the grant.
The grant requires students totransfer into a bachelor’s degreeand hopefully return with newideas and new careers to betterimprove the southwest Kansasarea.
Livestock judging team prepares for upcoming competitions
Crusader photo/ Sandy Alfaro
Blanca Richard watches as a tattoo artist works on her temporarytattoo at an SGA event Monday.
SCCC/ATS to receive a $4 million STEM grant
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Seward County CommunityCollege/Area Technical Schooloffers scholarships and opportu-nities for students to gain finan-cial aid.
Two of these programs, theAmbassador Program and thePresidential Scholarship, requireelite credentials.
The Ambassador Program is asystem where a student is nomi-nated by a college supervisor torepresent the college at publicevents.
The Ambassadors are the repre-sentatives of the college; theygive tours to prospective stu-dents and work at various events,such as the Foundation Auctionand the SIFE Haunted House.“The Ambassador program offers
a good opportunity for studentsto gain leadership skills outsideof the classroom,” said Admis-sions Secretary Jacy Sautter.Along with developing theirleadership skills, the Ambas-sadors are compensated with anhourly wage and they are encour-aged to add all events they attendto their professional resumes.
The Presidential Scholarshipsare awarded to a recommended se-nior from each area high school.To be eligible for the scholar-ship, the senior must have a 3.0GPA. In exchange for being se-lected as a Presidential Scholar-ship recipient, the students re-ceive tuition plus books. If thestudent has a GPA above 2.5 andis selected as a student tourguide, the scholarship encom-passes tuition, books, and fees.
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The Liberal Chamber of Commerce andlocal radio station KSCB combined effortson Sept. 17 and sponsored the Duck Festi-val and chili cook-off.
The festival was at Blue Bonnet Park andconsisted of the 10th Annual Duck Raceand the KSCB Chili Cook-off. Besides thetwo main events, there were activities andentertainment for all ages including a dunktank, tricycle races, and bowling. In addi-tion, several information booths were setup by different groups, including the Lib-eral Memorial Library staff.
The chili cook-off was open to anyonewho wanted to participate. Several localfire departments were some of the maincontenders in the event competing in theFirefighters Chili Challenge. The proceedsfrom the day’s events went to Big Broth-ers, Big Sisters, and Whirlwind CareerCounseling and Guidance Center for Veter-ans.
The 10th Annual Duck Race had almost3,000 competitors. In celebration of the10th anniversary of the races, $10,010 wasgiven to 10 lucky winners of the race.Nathan McAffrey won first place, and the10th place last chance winner was BennyNix.
Chamber of Commerce and KSCBteam up for Duck Race, cook-off
Crusader photo/ Megan Spain
The Liberal Fire Department took a creativeapproach to their chili booth in the cook-off.
Crusader photo/ Matthew Adkins
Students from Liberal HighSchool volunteered to helpset up the festivities.
Crusader photo/Megan Spain
More than 2,900 ducks competed in the race, but there couldonly be 10 winners, making the odds 290 to 1.
Ambassador and Presidentialprograms promote leadership
S andro JuarezCrusader staff
The college business club,Students in Free Enterprise, wonsecond place and Best Presenta-tion awards in the chili cook-offat Blue Bonnet Park Sept. 17.
“It was fun, I wanted us to bein first place, we’ll try nextyear,” freshman Jessica Fowlersaid. The first-place overall win-ner was the American Cancer So-ciety.
Sophomore Frankie Mendezdressed as a creepy clown for thecook-off.
Lee, a member of SIFE said.The club participated to get peo-ple excited as to what SIFE wasgoing to do this year.
“We talked about this year’scommunity project and what weplan on doing for SIFE,” AmberBond said.
Lee added also that they are dis-cussing a Haunted House forHalloween.
Winning Best Presentation andsecond-place for best chili was agood outcome for SIFE, who hadentered the chili cook-off for thefirst time.
SIFE takes prizes in chili cook-off
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At least $45,000 was raised at the annual party auc-tion, trumping the all-time record of $43,000; a di-rect result of the contributions and hard work of thecommunity, staff and students at Seward CountyCommunity College. The evening drew a livelycrowd of 467 people to the Seward County EventCenter on Sept 17.
Those attending appeared to be having a great timechatting and laughing with friends and acquaintanceswhile also enjoying the entertainment as well as theMediterranean atmosphere and cuisine.
Auction bidding was spirited and most were im-pressed by the quality and variety of items available.In addition to community members, teachers and stu-dents from the college volunteered their assistance tomake this year’s event a success. Students played anotable role at this year’s auction.
Presidential scholars and ambassadors volunteeredtheir time as well as students who participated as partof the evening’s entertainment. Presidential scholarand Ambassador Rene Boaldin was decked out inGreek goddess attire purchased especially for the oc-casion, and played the role of an Vanna White whiledisplaying a necklace and earrings from Staats Jewel-ers valued at over $1,000.
“It’s really cool that so many people are willing tohelp provide scholarships to students at SCCC, saidBoaldin. “I was not expecting this, and I will defi-nitely help out again next year.” President DuaneDunn also expressed his appreciation for the student’sinvolvement. “All the students out here really helpedus. They were impressive and encouraged bidding andserved as a reminder that all of this effort benefits ourstudents.”
The number of people who stayed after dinner andthe silent auction to participate in the live auctionwas impressive to event coordinator Tammy Doll.The donation which brought the most money was“View from the Top,” which entailed a 30 minute ride
in a TS-11 fighter jet and was donated by LyddonAero Center, Inc. The item brought a winning bid of$2,000 dollars, double its starting price.
The date for the Annual Party Auction is set a yearin advance to give people the ability to block theircalendars, and many did just that. The auctioneer forthe event, Mike Gatlin Owner and Operator of GatlinAuction, was raised in Liberal, but moved to Col-orado 6 years ago, although he still considers Liberalhome. In the 17 year history of the event, Gatlin hasmissed only two, and he and his wife look forward toit every year. “It is a good time,” Gatlin said, “we getto participate, raise funds for the school and enjoyseeing all of our neighbors and friends at the sametime. It’s always nice to come home, and we willback next year.”
Gatlin was also impressed with both attendance andparticipation from members of the community, “Ithought it went very well,” he said. Bid prices weregood, and I thought we had the best auction of thelast three years.”
Dr. Gerald Harris, Dean of Services at the collegefrom 2000-05, traveled from Fairview, Colorado tobe a part of the festivities. He also served the Liberalschool district for many years. Harris attends the auc-tion to renew old friendships, but also to honor hisson-in-law who was killed in an auto accident. “Weestablished a scholarship in his name. “Even thoughfamily circumstances had us move back to live inOklahoma after his death, we retain wonderful mem-ories and friendships from our five year in SewardCounty, and we wouldn’t miss attending this eventfor anything.”
Event organizer and Director of DevelopmentTammy Doll breathed a sigh of relief upon the suc-cessful conclusion of the evening, “It is a lot ofwork, but a lot of fun. I am very relieved that wemade more money than we ever have before. Thankyou,” she said “to everyone who helped, it is definite-ly a group effort to make it a success.”
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Dean of Student Services, CelesteDonovan, with Presidential schol-ar Nikolas Mihelic.
Presidential scholar Shelby Hansenshows a painting at the auction.
Above: SCCCP r e s i d e n t i a lscholar RenéBoaldin adver-tising items dur-ing the auction.
Right: A jazz en-semble, includ-ing some Se-ward Countystudents, pro-vided entertain-ment at the auc-tion throughoutthe evening.
Photos by Heidy Molina
Andrea Yoxall, Director ofPublic and Alumni Relations,was in charge of the evening.
Mediterranean Nights auctionconcludes, exceeding expectations
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OPINION4 Tuesday, September 27, 2011CRUSADER
As I struggled to get throughthe first issues of The Crusader,I realized that I never reallythought about all the work thatgoes in to getting a project done.
All the late nights, the scram-bling to produce an award win-ning paper didn’t really sink inuntil I became the editor.
I became well aware of all thetime that is put into having apaper out and ready to go for thestudent body.
Not many people know thatsometimes the staff is here untilthe wee hours of the morning toensure that the students get aquality paper.
In today’s society we don’t re-ally understand that the finishedwork we see is not even the halfof what the person or people incharge had to go through to pro-duce the finish product that youare seeing.
I’m almost positive that un-less a student was involved in theparty auction that they couldn’ttell me all the hours that wereput in to making the event a suc-cess.
None of us know how muchwork an athlete puts in to mak-ing sure that his or her team havea good game.
I always hear students saying
that they are not involved in anactivity or in a club because theyare just too busy. What doesbusy really mean? Everyone hasa different definition for the wordor state of being busy. Everyonefeels that what they have goingon is more important than what-ever someone else is doing.
Yet, there are people who stillfind the way to help out withclubs or volunteer for projectsbeing used. Instead of peoplecriticizing a finished work orcomplaining about somethingnot being done correctly, stu-dents should realize that whatyou see is definitely not whatyou get.
The complications that lead tohaving a successful finishedproduct are often ignored by theaudience that it was provided for.
We as a society need to be lesscritical and more supportive as towhat our peers do. I don’t knowhow many times I have heard mymother say “Well just how longdoes it take to create a newspa-per. What’s so hard about it thatis takes up 85 percent of yourtime?”
She didn’t understand theprocess until I showed her justhow everything worked. In orderfor her to understand I had toshow her the behind the scenes.Sometimes it’s not possibly toshow the inner workings of aproject.
If all of us were able to justtake a breather from our so called“busy” schedule we might beable to appreciate everything thatis going on around us, especial-ly here at the college.
Start appreciating the finished product
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In the February 2011 issueof The Crusader, it wasbrought to the student body’sattention a matter of renovat-ing the Area Technical Schoolstudent union. Time flies andan update to this matter isstill past due.
Changes to the AreaTechnical School are stillpending; there is no clear an-swer as to why. However, ren-ovations are still in the mindsof Student GovernmentAssociation members and rep-resentatives.
SGA met at the ATS stu-dent union on Feb. 28 andmembers debated a number ofideas. Ideas consisted of re-painting the walls, renovatingthe seating, bringing in a newping-pong table, and otherchanges. The main idea of in-stalling computers at the ATSstudent union was turneddown, after a SGA membermentioned that a new lab wasinstalled on the ATS premis-es with brand new computers.
“There are two open labs
here (main campus), one atthe library and another at thestudent union,” Ed Hall, com-puter tech. support, said.“They have several labs at thetechnical (school), Colvindoes use one of the labs overthere. Another two are forclasses, but one is multi-use.”
The ATS does not havecomputers open to the public,unlike the main campuswhere visitors can use a“Guest” username and pass-word; the ATS computers alsohave a policy of availabilityas their main purpose is forclassroom use.
“If it is available studentsare allowed to use them.”Mark Merihew, director of in-formation technology, said inregards to policy use of com-puters.
After some discussion,Wade Lyon, director of studentsupport services and sponsorof SGA, advised SGA mem-bers of the idea of carrying outa poll at the Area Technicalschool in which students
could provide input intochanges they thought werenecessary or important. Aplan could then be formulatedwith the input from studentsand changes made. The Feb.28 SGA meeting concludedwith a consensus of bringingATS student participationinto the renovations by creat-ing a poll.
“I have not heard muchfrom them,” Lyon said sevenmonths later. “I think theywant a new ping pong table,and to take the hockey tableover there.”
Lyon mentioned the lack ofrepresentation by the ATSstudent body. But he hopes tochange this in the next fewweeks, with the up-comingofficers elections forSkillsUSA.
They are selecting officersfor SkillsUSA, so that offi-cers can come to the SGAmeetings, Lyon said.
Progress is moving slowly,but surely, in the renovatingof a small part of the
SCCC/ATS campus. A num-ber of changes may be seen assoon as in October for theATS union.
Lyon said that dorm equip-ment requires some updates,and that those will be takencare of as soon as possible.That at the same time it maybe possible to look into ATSstudent union equipment thatmay need renovating.
The February article endedwith the following wordsfrom Student GovernmentAssociation President VictorRodriguez.
“I want students from theTechnical school to feel partof the Saints tradition,”Rodriguez said. “We are nolonger two separate institu-tions, but one. We are a bigfamily now.”
The views that Rodriguezshared 7 months ago have notchanged.
“I do feel that the schoolsare still as one. There is a lotof work to do in order to uniteboth.”
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With the passing of the 10thanniversary of 9/11, it is safe tosay that most of the people ofmy generation were witnesses ofthe destruction of the World TradeCenter; however, it is also safeto assume that a majority of peo-ple in my age group have notheard of the event that first shookthe World Trade Center.
The truck bomb that explodedunderneath the North Tower, thistragedy happened in Feb. 26,1993. When a truck bomb wasdriven into the basement parkingof the tower.
At 12:17 pm, the bomb ex-ploded with enough force tomake a 98 ft wide radius blast inthe parking lot. This explosioncaused six deaths and injuredmore than one thousand people.
This attack was financed by thesame person who was consideredthe “Architect of 9/11”: KhaledSheikh Mohammed.
The attack was planned and ex-ecuted by the following conspir-ators: Ramzi Yourself, MahmudAbouhalima, MohammadSalameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, AbdulRahman Yasin and Ahmad .
So, my question is can a“small” event like the 1993 at-tack be truely forgotten due to a“large event” like the terrorist at-tack on Sept. 11, 2001? Does itovershadow the tragedy from1993 and make it virtually non-existent to the population?
A simple example, whichwould compare to this event,would be taking the same examtwice.
At first, you took the examand received a failing grade.Many days later, after tediousstudying, you took the sameexam again and received an excel-lent grade. Another question thatI ask is this “ Why didn’tAmerica learn from this mis-take?”
From this “small” event, thecountry could have upgraded se-curity, made new protocols aboutair travel, and infiltrated the con-spirator group that attacked thetower that day.
However, on the bigger pic-ture, it seems that we brushed theevent aside and moved on withour regular routine. For me, thisis why the first attack has beenalmost forgotten in the minds ofmy generation and it didn’t makean impact in our society.
This event was not as destruc-tive, or immensely tragic as9/11, but was nonetheless anevent that should have signaledwarning signs for future eventsto come, such as that of the 9/11attacks.
As many people may alreadyknow, over the last week a greattragedy occurred.
Friends and family, neighborsand strangers, and people fromall around the world have beenpersonally affected by somethingso great that I feel it would be in-considerate to not address it. I’mtalking, of course, about thechanges that have recently beenmade to Facebook.
How could Mark Zuckerbergand the people at Facebook dothis to their loyal user base? Itpains me to think that they arecrazy enough to believe that theyhave the right to make changesin an attempt to stay competitiveto their currently free service.
I shudder to even write this allthe while knowing that only afew mouse clicks and keystrokesaway is a website that now con-
tains optional features that Idon’t want to use.
I, like many others, am dis-gusted by the fact that Facebookis blatantly attempting to copyGoogle’s G+ service by allow-ing users to sort their friendsinto different groups and share
things selectively based uponthose groups.
The only obvious solution tothis blatant disregard toFacebook’s user base is to com-pletely abandon ship and changeall of my information over toG+, where they are doing theexact same thing.
Honestly, what good hasFacebook ever done for anyone?All it really has ever allowed meto do was keep in contact withmy friends and family, distin-guish between which of myfriends have good grammar andwhich ones type like they’re sixyears old, and to realize that thereis an unfortunately high numberof people that will literally be-lieve anything they read on theinternet.
I think it’s safe to say that weshould all give up on Facebookbecause we’re afraid of change,and change to a new system en-tirely. It makes sense if you don’tthink about it too hard.
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Artificial intelligence tryto make people obsolete
Did you know that it cost 10
dollars to have an article written
by artificial intelligence?
Narrative Science is a technol-
ogy firm based in Chicago, Ill.
and has conducted a little more
than a decade of research. When
people hear the term “artificial in-
telligence,” they think of some-thing with no emotion or per-sonality. Much like a robot.
“WISCONSIN appears to bein the driver’s seat en route to awin, as it leads 51-10 after thethird quarter. Wisconsin added toits lead when Russel Wilson
found Jacob Pendersen for aneight-yard touchdown to makethe score 44-3…,” written by theartificial intelligence.
That piece has personality andis not monotone like what mostpeople would think of “artificialintelligence”. Will jobs in mediathat humans do be replaced by ar-tificial life? Narrative science isnow beginning to take some ofthese applications.
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Tonya LoewenCrusader staff
It was finally the day to find out who mycollege roommate was. I was excited andnervous while opening the envelope thatheld the name of the person I would mostlikely spend the next year with. So manythoughts were running through my head,such as “Will we get along?” and “Will wehave anything in common?” I quicklyskimmed through the paper until I found thepart at the bottom that said my roommate’sname and number, then looked at the nameagain. It couldn’t be right, could it? Myroommate had the same last name as me,spelled the same and everything.
I don’t know if it was a little joke fromthe people assigning rooms or just that wehad similar answers to the room question-naire. All I know is that my roommate and Ihave the same last name – my name isTonya Loewen and hers is Eva Loewen.When I tell people this, they always ask,“Are you related?” As tempting as it is to
say “Yes, we are related,” we aren’t relatedand didn’t meet until move-in day. Eva hadthe same feelings when she found out mylast name, and said “My parents were reallyrelieved that my roommate was someonewho had something in common with me andnot a total stranger, even if it was just ourlast name.”
Bill McGlothing, SCCC English instruc-tor, also experienced the interesting connec-tion between my roommate and I. “Whenmy colleague Anita Reed told me that Iwould have Dana Loewen’s little sister inclass, I was immediately curious and eager tomeet her. As I looked at my class rosters andsaw the name Eva Loewen, I focused onlyon the last name. I mentioned to Anita laterthat Dana and Eva didn’t look alike, and shetold me that Tonya was the sister, not Eva.”The next time he saw my roommate inclass, she told him how she was Dana’s sis-ter’s roommate.
Hope and serenity are words that bring asense of peace and tranquility, and the firstnames of SCCC roommates Hope Unruh
and Serenity Johnson. Hope Unruh’s firstroommate left school, so she was assigned anew roommate. Hope didn’t know that shewould get her new roommate while at homeduring the weekend, so coming back to herroom with a strange person sleeping in itwas a shock. Serenity Johnson was livingwith a resident assistant and was movedwhen there was an open bed in Hope’s room.Both girls were worried at what kind of per-son their new roommate would be, but soonbecame very close friends. Part of their bondis because of their names. They thought itwas comical when introducing each other,since both names are similar and have calm-ing meanings. “I think it is a good sign thatwe became roommates since we both havemeaningful names. It was a really good co-incidence,” said Hope Unruh.
These interesting roommate pairsmight’ve been an accident, but they broughtstrong friendships between roommates thatare unforgettable.
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‘An Inspector Calls’ to be performed Oct. 6-8
“Contagion” brings to the bigscreen what would happen if anunknown pathogenic germ/virusstarted spreading throughouthuman contact.
Globalization increased theamount of time it would take fora virus to spread. In the 17thcentury, a ship voyage from Eu-rope to the Americas took an av-erage of 57 days. Today, a Boe-ing 747 takes about 6 hours, 15minutes to travel from Englandto New York. It would take lessthan 24 hours for an infectedhost to travel around the worldinfecting people, the unknowingpeople spreading the disease intotheir families and continuing anunstoppable chain reaction.
Produced by Steven Soder-bergh, “Contagion” brings tolife a thriller that shows thegood side of humanity and thebad. As fear begins to spread, so-ciety breaks down, looting,fights, and the mishap of theweak become a common resur-gence. But not for everyone, Dr.Erin Mears, a doctor working forthe U.S. Center for DiseaseControl, portrayed by KateWinslet, puts herself in dangerin order to control the globaloutbreak. Dr. Erin was not theonly one showing the good ofhumanity, but a number of othercharacters as well, such as themothers aiding the dying vic-tims of the outbreak.
The film also shows the con-cept of isolation, as the best pro-tection method was to not comeinto contact with others. As itwas said in the film: “The aver-age person touches their facethree to five times every wakingminute.” Every time an individ-ual touches his or her face, thechances of becoming infected in-creases.
From two infected carriers tofour, from four to 16, and thebeginning of a chain reactionculminating in billions of in-fected people. The virus that
causes the outbreak in the film,MEV-1, was a created from thevirulent properties of H5N1,most commonly known asavian flu.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie.The acting was good; MattDamon and Kate Winslet weretwo of my favorite actors fromthe film. Also, the film’s scripttheme—while al-readyused be-fore—kept meon theedge ofmy seatwonder-ing whatwouldhappennext.
“Con-tagion” isbound toleaveviewerswith anawarenessof minis-cule carri-ers ofdeath, un-noticedby the naked eyed, and presenton almost all surfaces on Earth.
Do not fear, however; not allgerms are pathogenic. As mymicrobiology instructor said,germs are an essential part of life– the non-pathogenic germ, thatis.
I left the movie theater awareof every surfaced I came intocontact, like the door knob, thewater fountain, the car, and thecrowded hallway where it wasnext to impossible to not bumpinto people.
Who knows the millions ofgerms that I came into contactduring that eight minute exit,the good thing is: “I’m stillhere, alive and free of MEV-1.”
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“Historically, this is alwaysthe scariest part of the process,”said a composed Alison BridgetChambers of this stage of re-hearsals. Don’t worry too muchthough; Chambers and her youngcast have been relentlesslypreparing for the opening perfor-mance of “An Inspector Calls”and they don’t plan to slow downuntil the final performance onOct 8.
Rehearsals are progressing,sets and costumes are complete,and the lines performed with a so-phisticated British accent are real-ly coming together.
“Things are going as good as
they possibly could rehearsalwise,” commented Daniel High-tower. Coming down the homestretch, the rookie actor feels veryconfident about himself, and hisfellow cast members.
Suffice to say, things are goingunusually well. But the road towhere they are now was not al-ways a smooth one; there were a
few minor speed bumps. Thebiggest of all was the loss of sev-eral understudies who dropped notonly the play, but the class as awhole.
“I don’t take it personal; it hap-pens in every show,” Chamberssaid, shrugging off the comment.
“We were struggling a little bitat first, but we had great confi-
dence and pulled it together. We’lldo great,” actress Mayra Vasquezstated confidently.
With the most difficult phasesand transitions in the past, itlooks like a straight shot to thewire from here.
“It’s going to go great, if itgoes as planned,” said MabelyGuzman Gonzalez.
Performances start Oct. 6 andwill run until Oct. 8; an addition-al performance may be added onOct, 9.
Tickets are on sale in the hu-manities office for $6 and $8 dol-lars and are free to SCCC/ATSstudents with a valid student ID.
For additional ticket informa-tion call, 417-1451.
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Roommates Hope Unruh and Serenity Johnson pose for a photo.At right, roommates Tonya and Eva Loewen present shirts printedwith their identical last names.
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Pumping up to Rihanna’smusic before a game is a ritualsophomore Courtney Geesingdoes to prep for a volleyballgame. Having recently beennamed KJCCC player of theweek, maybe jamming out toRihanna is working for her.
Geesing was named the KansasJayhawk Community CollegeConference player of the week forSept. 12-18 this year. She com-mented that acquiring such recog-nition for her hard work wasnice. “Everyone has those thingsthey love to do, and that (volley-ball) is my passion,” she said.
Geesing played volleyball forthe first time in seventh grade,and has played since. Though shedid not initially want to play inhigh school, she tried out on herfreshmen year and made varsity.
Since then volleyball becameher passion. “I look forward todoing it everyday and accom-plishing stuff everyday.”
Her goal is to keep improvingin order to reach her full poten-tial.
A natural athlete, Geesingloves all sports. Baseball, basket-ball, football, outdoor and watersports are all things she enjoys.Though she has certainly earned
her skills through hard work, shealso has natural ability, and in-herited talent. Her family hasmany athletes, ranging from hergrandfather who played pro base-
ball, to her dad and uncle whoplayed college baseball and hersiblings who are also sportslovers.
Geesing is from Montrose,Colo., and she says that beingvery family oriented and 11 hoursfrom home is hard.
She loves to spend time withher family and dog when she vis-its home, and she misses themountains and sports she wouldparticipate in while there.
Off court she spends leisuretime watching movies and beinga “rugged tomboy,” as she de-scribed herself.
She loves boating, four wheel-ing, and simply being outdoors.She said she really likes English,and has a keen interest in sci-ences, like anatomy.
Volleyball does take up muchof her time, but she said, “I loveall sports, I wish I could playlike three sports, but that wouldbe tough.”
Recognition of her work keepscoming.
As of Monday, it was con-firmed that Geesing would re-ceive the title of Player of theWeek, yet again.
The Lady Saints made acomeback from two close firstmatches Wednedsay nightagainst the Hutchinson Drag-ons. The Lady Saints managedto pull ahead and win the series3-2. The Lady Saints also traveled
to Torrington, Wyo., this pastweekend for the Wyo-BraskaShootout tournament, where theLady Saints played four teamsand went 2-2.
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Courtney Geesing perpares for a serve from the opposing team dur-ing the Lady Saints match against the Hutchinson Blue Dragons.
The Lady Saints will host “Black-out Night” for fans to wear blackon Wednesday Sept. 28 duringtheir home match against Bar-ton, starting at 6:30 p.m.
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The Saints 2011-2012 volley-ball team not only will count onthe support of new freshmenplayers but also the addition of anew assistant volleyball coach,Michelle Hayes.
Hayes has already started train-ing and coaching the girls andwill continue with the LadySaints the upcoming 2012-2013volleyball season.
Born Sept. 5, 1987, in Pick-ens, S. C., Hayes spent her highschool years participating insports, including shot put intrack, basketball and volleyball.
“I’ve always loved sports.That’s always been my passion,and, although I do like basket-ball, I was better at volleyball,”
Hayes said.Following high school, Hayes
attended Southern Wesleyan Uni-versity where she majored inrecreation and leisure services,not leaving behind her involve-ment in volleyball.
Hayes then coached as the as-sistant coach at CentralMethodist University in Fayette,Mo., for two years. Hearingabout the volleyball program atSCCC/ATS, Hayes moved toLiberal.
Hayes said, “The people (atSCCC) are really nice. Theyhelp you out whenever you needanything. The volleyball teamreally loves the sport and it’s re-ally great to see their passion forthe game, and they’re just a real-ly great group of girls.”
After the volleyball season isover, Hayes plans to continue re-cruiting by traveling to club vol-leyball tournaments and encour-aging players to come to Seward.So far, her biggest goal for thisyear is to go to nationals and pre-pare well for next year.
“I expect us honestly to be thefirst in our conference and hope-fully win region. We really wanta shot to go to nationals, and Iknow it’d be a great experiencefor the girls. We need to recruitso that we can get the best play-ers in case we get to nationals,we can compete and have achance at winning” Hayes said.
One of the main lessons thatHayes wants to get through tothe women is for them to takeadvantage of this time in their
lives in which they can play in a
competitive sport, because they
won’t always have that chance.
“I try to tell them to give it all
they have and to just not second
guess everything but to play like
it’s their last,” Hayes said.
When Hayes is not coaching
the Saints, she is playing on the
city co-ed volleyball team. Hayes
also loves to watch several
sports, her favorite teams being
the Atlanta Braves, the Boston
Red Sox, and the Colts.
The volleyball players also are
enthused to have Hayes as their
new assistant volleyball coach.
They describe her as the perfect
“Southern belle” who has a
wicked accent and a positive atti-
tude.
Saying Hello to HayesLady Saints welcome new assistant coach
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Coach Hayes makes a point with the Lady Saints during a time out.
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The Saints tennis team trav-eled to Shawnee, Okla., this pastweekend.
The Saints competed in threedifferent tennis tournamentmatches against regional juniorcolleges and universities.
The men’s tennis team facedand beat last season’s fifth place
finisher in the NJCAA tennistournament, Seminole StateCollege.
The men’s Saints team went3-0, winning all their matches,while the Lady Saints had arather rough streak, going 0-3.
Later this week, the Saintstennis team will travel to Okla-homa City on Sept. 30 to com-pete in the ITA Regional Cham-pionships.
Saints tennis team travelsto regional championship
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A Hall of Fame is headed toSeward. The Hall should featurethe best of Seward County athlet-ics history.
Seward County Sports Infor-mation Director Roy Allen ex-plained, “Seward County has by-laws in place now, which shouldallow the first Hall of Fame Ban-quet to be held April 20, 2012.”
We’ve been working on this
since, really, the end of last year.All of this was put into place to-wards the end of the summer.”
The Hall will be a physicaldisplay and will be held in one oftwo locations.
“The committee is workingon it. The display will either beon the west side of the gym,where the old concession standsare, or on the northeast side,where the current concessionstands are.
“Plans are to have a plaque for
each inductee, organized byclass.”
The Hall isn't exclusively forSeward players, either.
“Players, coaches, administra-tors, boosters, entire teams, orany athletic supporters may beincluded in the Hall of Fame.”
Besides having the likes ofeventual NBA and NFL playersattending, Seward has also hadthree NJCAA coaches of the yearand a national championshipteam.
“This is a long time overdue,
what with Seward’s long history
of athletic excellence.”
Committee members will
nominate the Hall’s first mem-
bers Jan. 7, 2012, during the first
home basketball game of the sea-
son.
For more information, head to
scccsaints.com, where users can
also nominate an athlete of their
choice.
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Crusader staff
“Soccer is targeted to come toSeward within the next twoyears. Depending on how soonwe can get the facilities and howour finances look, that is the tar-geted time period,” said SewardCounty Athletic Director/HeadBaseball Coach Galen McSpad-den.
Talk of a men’s soccer programcoming to the college has beencirculating Liberal for a fewyears. The Liberal High Schoolboys soccer program has been acontender for the Kansas statetitle every year since its start,taking home runner-up duringthe 2003, 2005. and 2010 sea-sons. The Redskins have takenfirst in the Western Athletic Con-ference 10 years in a row (from2001-2010.)
Seward freshman Socorro Mar-
tinez played soccer for the Red-skins every year of high school.
“I think the whole soccer teamwould play here [at Seward] ifthey could. I have a lot of friendsthat played for the highschool. Because theyweren’t able toplay at some ofthe biggerschools, theyjust get jobsand startworking herein Liberal. Ijust wonderwhy they’re tak-ing so long tobring it into town; Ithink it should’ve beenhere a long time ago.”
Athletic Director McSpaddenwants the Seward soccer programdone right.
“I want a program that can beadministered properly. That
means we need the funds and fa-cilities to be able to competewithin the conference, the region,and be able to compete for the na-tional title. We would need to
find athletes who arevery grounded and
trained in thesport — find
those whoknow andlove the his-tory of soc-cer.”
G a r d e nCity Com-
munity Col-lege recently
shut down its soc-cer program. Some
wonder if that is a bad sign orjust a good opportunity for a soc-cer program at Seward CountyCommunity College.
“It’s a two-sided coin,” Mc-Spadden continued. “On the pos-
itive side, there would be one lessschool we would have to com-pete against in our conference.On the negative side, there werereasons that Garden terminatedthat program, whether it was be-cause of problems with playerson or off the field, improper doc-umentation, or whatever.”
A new NJCAA rule will onlyallow 25 percent of a team’s in-ternational players to be onscholarship.
“It will affect the tennis pro-gram, and I could see it affectinga soccer program. Some com-munities have found it difficultto provide documentation forplayers,” McSpadden explained.
Martinez thinks the new pro-gram will do well when it ar-rives.
“We have talent here, in andaround Liberal. If I could play, Iwould. Of course I would.”
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Soccer at Seward
Well, it’s that time of theyear again.
Football is back.Specifically, NFL is back.My team, the Kansas City
Chiefs, are back, better thanever. At least, they were sup-posed to be better. After an 0-3 start to the season, I’m notso sure.
The Chiefs only lost threestarters from last season: out-side linebacker Mike Vrabel re-turned to Ohio State to coach,left guard Willie Roaf was re-leased because he “cost toomuch,” and nose tackle KevinSmith was lost in free agencyto the Tennessee Titans.
Besides those three, this is
the same team that surprisedthe league last year by takingfirst in the AFCWest.
The Chiefs evengained talent in theDraft. Talent wasdrafted in playerssuch as: JonathanBaldwin, receiverfrom Pittsburgh,Rodney Hudson,offensive linemanfrom Florida State,and Justin Hous-ton, outside line-backer from Georgia(first round talent drafted in thethird round.)
Then the lockout finally
ended, and the players andcoaches finally started training
camp in early Au-gust.
The preseasonstarted, and theChiefs did not winany games. Thatwas fine though;they didn’t do wellin the preseasonlast year, and theystill won the divi-sion.
But after thefirst preseasongame against
Tampa, everything started togo downhill. Rookie JonathanBaldwin got into a fight with
team leader Thomas Jones andbroke his thumb.
Really? Jones has arms thesize of boulders. Who wouldpick a fight with this guy?
Baldwin has not played yetthis season.
Then, the Chiefs lost outsidelinebacker Brandon Siler for theyear to a torn Achilles heel.
Tight end Tony Moeaki torehis ACL.
Strong safety Eric Berry torehis ACL.
Running back JamaalCharles tore his ACL.
All out for the season.It’s a good thing football is
only a sport.
Athletic Director McSpadden expects program within two years
Hall of Fame coming to Seward athletics
After winning division last year, Kansas City struggles early
Robert S anchez
Crusader staff
After returning from a two-daytournament in Albuquerque,N.M., the Saints have onlyeight games left in their off sea-son fall scrimmages, includingan alumni game.
The Saints will face off atBrent Gould field against Claren-don for 21 straight innings start-ing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday,Sept. 28, . and at noon againstLamar, Colo., on Saturday, Oct.1.
Seward pitching is led by two;one right hander, Gavin Glanzand one left hander, Keegan
Hucul, and the team has six pos-sible strong pitchers ready tostart if they need to.
They have a strong outfieldheaded by sophomores, but aftera few minor injuries and the lossof Jake Barrios to LSU, theycould use some help on the in-field.
“They still have a little moredepth in positions than they didlast year, though, especially onthe mound,” head coach GalenMcSpadden said.
Once the scrimmages are over,the team plans on beginning theindoor weight training, condi-tioning, swimming, rolling andhitting off-season program.
Baseball nears end, as offseasonapproaches Oct. 22 alumni game
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Drawingsby Zach
Carpenterdepict hisversion ofcharactersfrom “Soul
Hunters.”
ENTERTAINMENT8 Tuesday, September 27, 2011CRUSADER
Seward student publishes bookMegan S painCrusader staff
A stack of dark paperback bookssits in the Saints Bookstore, freshlyprinted by an Oklahoma publishingcompany. Their pages are crisp andtheir spines don’t bear the tell-talesigns of repeated reading — yet. Atfirst glance, these books appear to bejust like any other. Upon closer in-spection, a name printed on theshiny covers reveals what makesthem so different: these books werewritten by Seward CountyCommunity College student ZachCarpenter.
Carpenter’s book, “Soul Hunters”,revolves around detective MickJohnson, who finds himself takingon the roles of both the hunter andthe hunted as he attempts to trackdown those who destroyed his child-hood. Filled with action, adrenaline,and monsters, “Soul Hunters” is ahorror novel with a Christian twist.
Carpenter began writing “SoulHunters” when he was 17, but he’sbeen writing since he was 13 yearsold. He cites his inspirations as TedDekker and Frank Peretti, twothriller/supernatural Christian novel-ists. He’s not limited to authors,however; he lists several differenttypes of media as influences.
“I started getting into movies likeUnderworld and video games like
Resident Evil and Silent Hill,”Carpenter said, going on to namebands like As I Lay Dying, AugustBurns Red, and Devil Wears Prada.
He’s always been interested in thehorror genre and has a theory aboutwhere that interest originates. “Mymom went to a haunted house whenshe was pregnant with me beforeHalloween. I guess maybe thatmight have been when it started,”Carpenter said.
He admits that being a publishedauthor isn’t all fun and games.“Writing the book is the fun andeasy part,” he explained. “It’s theselling it part that can be a chal-lenge.” He has been forced to take onresponsibilities and learn key pointsof business, which can be over-whelming at time because he’s newat it.
He plans on setting up book sign-ings in the area to spark interest inthe series. “Right now, it’s just amatter of communicating with thepeople. I’m trying to set things upwith them because everybody’sbusy,” Carpenter explained.
Carpenter does not have a definitedate set in stone for a book signing,but he’s working on it. As of now,the first “Soul Hunters” book can bepurchased at the Saints Bookstore oron the Tate Publishing website.
The book will be available for
larger chains (such as Wal-Mart,Hastings, Barnes and Noble, andAmazon.com) to order on Nov. 8.
Carpenter is currently working onthe second book in the “SoulHunters” series and expects to be fin-ished in either spring or summer of2012. The book will follow thesame characters introduced in thefirst novel and a third book will fol-low.
Carpenter envisions seven “SoulHunters” books altogether: three inthe initial series, a follow up bookto the first three, and then a separateprequel series that would introducethe ancestors of the characters in thefirst “Soul Hunters” book.
In the future, Carpenter would liketo shift to his music career. Ideally,Carpenter would like to move awayfrom Liberal and settle into a townthat has an active music scene so hecould become more involved withmusic and collaborate with otherartists. Carpenter plans to use therevenue from his book series to givehim enough time to focus on music.
“I can write from anywhere,”Carpenter explained. “As long as Ihave a laptop and flash drive, I couldwrite out my story ideas sitting in ahotel room before a show.”
For now, Carpenter sits in classand does homework, just like anyother college student.
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Zach Carpenter donated a copy of his newly published book, “SoulHunters,” to the SCCC/ATS library in August. Library director MatthewPannkuk accepts as library technician Emery Swagerty looks on.
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Authorizationof Zach Carpenter
Bringing a book to life
S andy AlfaroCrusader staff
Lidia Hook-Gray is a realtor, alocal historian, and now an author.
Hook-Gray recently published apictorial book titled “Liberal andSeward County,” composed ofphotographs, historical maps, andjournals relevant to the SewardCounty area and nearby areas likethe Oklahoma Panhandle. Shewill have a book signing on Oct.9 from 11 a.m. to noon in theSCCC cafeteria. The signing willbe part of the Sunday brunchserved that day, and all of the com-munity is invited to attend.
Although Hook-Gray had beencollecting historical documentsfor many years, she was contactedby Arcadia Publishing inNovember 2010 to turn her hobbyinto her first book.
Hook-Gray was hesitant whenthey first told her about the oppor-
tunity because she was new to thebook publishing world. She rec-ognized that there were many un-used photographs with great sto-ries behind them — stories thatno one would know about unlessshe published them.
She agreed to become the authorof “Liberal and Seward County”and had fun with the project.Arcadia Publishing then quicklysent her the outline of what sheneeded to do.
She began her work inNovember 2010 and worked upuntil February 2011, when thebook was completed.
Many of the photographs sheowns are used in the book, as wellas a few from the Seward CountyHistorical Society. Hook-Gray isvery satisfied with her completedbook and the process she wentthrough to have it published.
“It was a brand new experience,”Hook-Gray said.
1. Finish the initial manuscript. It took Carpenter two
years to submit “Soul Hunters” to a publishing company. He
completely rewrote the first draft of his book before submitting
it, because he wasn’t satisfied with what he had written.
2. Submit book to publishing companies. “Soul
Hunters” was submitted to two companies, but Carpenter only
heard back from Tate Publishing. He shrugged the experience
off, happy with his partnership with Tate Publishing.
3. Sign contracts. Once Tate Publishing accepted
Carpenter’s manuscript, they sent him two contracts: one for him
to read through and annotate and one to sign and return to them.
5. Storyline and character development. Though
“Soul Hunters” only went through this step a few times, it varies
from author to author. The storyline and character development
are checked and suggestions are taken into consideration.
6. Cover design. Carpenter met with an artist and together
they brainstormed ideas for a cover. Eventually, they settled
upon the image that is now the cover to “Soul Hunters.”
7. Marketing begins. A marketing representative was as-
signed to Carpenter and they began to talk about promotional
items like posters.
4. Copy editing. The manuscript’s punctuation and gram-
mar errors were corrected.
Hook-Gray to sign booksat campus event Oct. 9
Courtesy photo/Phillip Lee
Lidia Hook-Gray presents her book at a signing at theMemorial Library.
A staged robbery photo was chosen by Arcadia Publishingto grace the cover of Hook-Gray’s “Liberal and SewardCounty.”
