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Upcoming EventsSaturday, October 15

9 a.m. Upward Bound Saturday Academy1 p.m. Soccer vs. Covenant College

Sunday, October 16

2 p.m. BEST Robotics Demo Day

Monday, October 17

Midpoint Direct Loan Disbursement

Tuesday, October 18

4 p.m. Wallace State Volleyball vs. Southern Union6 p.m. Wallace State Volleyball vs. Gadsden State

Thursday, October 20

3 p.m. Soccer vs. Faulkner University4 p.m. Volleyball vs. Brevard6 p.m. Volleyball vs. Jeff Davis

Monday, October 24

Financial Aid 60% Drop Date8:30 a.m. Work Keys Testing

Friday, October 28

GED Testing

Saturday, October 29

BEST Robotics Competition

Thursday, November 3 - Sunday, November 6

“Guys and Dolls” presented by the Wallace State The-atre Department, BLH TheatreThrusday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sundayat 2 p.m.

Thursday, November 10

5:30 p.m. Women's Basketball vs. NE Miss College7:30 p.m. Men's Basketball vs. NE Miss College

Friday, November 11

College Closed for Veteran’s Day

Wallace State

Newspaper

StaffSTAFF MEMBERS

Anna Parrish Hasten Taylor

Athena Bingham Alyssa White

Laura Smith Christopher Chapman

Kaylen Kennedy Aaron Gutierrez

Andrew Hill

Participation

The newspaper always welcomes new staff members. It is sponsored by the Wallace

State Communications and Marketing Department and the Wallace State Art Department.

If you are interested in participating, please contact: Kristen Holmes. Ph: 256-352-8118,

Burrow Center Museum, kristen.holmes@wallacestate.edu; Russell Moore, Ph: 256-352-

8443, Burrow Center, Room 210, russell.moore @wallacestate.edu; or Adrian Scott, 256-

352-8145, adrian.scott@wallacestate.edu, Burrow Center, Room 219. Meetings are held

in the Graphic Arts Classroom on the 2nd floor of the Burrow Center on Wednesdays at 3

p.m.Mission

It is the mission of the Wallace State newspaper to inform the Wallace State student body

of campus news and events.

Submissions and Suggestions

If you have a story idea or would like to make a submission to the Wallace State newspa-

per, please send an e-mail to newspaper@wallacestate.edu. All submissions must include

the author’s name and contact information.

It is the policy of the Alabama State Board of Education and Wallace State Community

College, a postsecondary institution under its control, that no person shall, on the

grounds of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability or age, be excluded from

participation in, be denied benefit of, or be subjected to discrimination under any pro-

gram, activity or employment.Wallace State Community College is accredited by the

Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866

Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097. Ph: 404-679-4501).

Editorial by Christopher Chapman

On April 27, Wallace State and

Hanceville were ravaged with high winds

and heavy rain. Many buildings were dam-

aged on the outside and when the rains

came, it was only a matter of time before

the inside of the buildings were damaged as

well. School officials immediately went to

work in the recovery process, repairing as

much damage as possible so that students

and faculty alike could resume classes for

final exams.

It is now four months later and most of

the repairs are complete. However, on Sept.

5-6, Hurricane Lee worked its way up from

the Gulf of Mexico into the Southeastern

U.S., including North Alabama, where it

dumped vast amounts of excess water into

clogged drains, causing flooding and wind

damage.

The initial days of September produced

more rain than usual and since then it has

rained several times.

At Wallace State, the sixth floor of the

library was flooded after the constant rain in

early September and all classes that nor-

mally meet on the sixth floor were directed

to the basement auditorium; however, this

lasted only two days.

The cleanup is still in progress, but

classes have resumed.

Because of the flooding, the smell of

mildew and stale air is strong and very un-

comfortable to breathe at the library, the

floor tiles are buckled, and there is still

water dripping from the ceiling.

Wallace State’s “Clean Air Policy”

flyer is taped to a bookshelf just inside the

door, but it is very interesting to notice that

it does not mention mildew or stale air in re-

gards to the protocol.

Inhaling bad air is just as harmful as

breathing in second hand smoke and is

known to cause sickness. One would think

that the room would have been ventilated

better.

Wallace State faculty and maintenance

are working very hard to repair the damaged

building.

Obviously, no one can control the ef-

fects of Mother Nature, and you expect

there to be a few leaks here and there to

contend with.

The question I pose is the following: Is

there not another room on campus that the

sixth floor classes can use, because the pol-

luted air could be harming the students?

In conclusion, while traversing the

grounds and buildings all students are re-

minded to be aware of all caution signs,

trash cans for catching water and all other

areas that could possibly result in an acci-

dent.

Disclaimer: Opinions submitted by stu-

dents to this paper, if accepted, do not re-

flect the opinion of the college or of The

Mane Issue. If anyone finds an unsafe con-

dition, please call 256-352-8000.

“Clean Air Policy”should involve morethan Tobacco Smoke

Front cover designed by: Laura Smith

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,

and the Wallace State Nursing Department is working to

raise awareness about breast cancer and early detection

methods.

Since NBCAM began

in 1985, mammography

rates have more than dou-

bled for women age 50 and

older and breast cancer

deaths have declined.

This is exciting

progress, but there are still

women who do not take ad-

vantage of early detection at

all and others who do not

get screening mammograms

and clinical breast exams at

regular intervals.

Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammo-

grams than younger women, even though breast cancer risk

increases with age.

Hispanic women have fewer mammograms than Cau-

casian women and African American women.

Women below poverty level are less likely than women at

higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past

two years. Mammography use has increased for all groups

except American Indians and Alaska Natives.

“If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early

detection methods – mammography plus clinical breast

exam – breast cancer death rates would drop much further,

up to 30 percent,” says WSCC Director of the Nursing De-

partment, Deborah Hoover, NP, MSN, RN.

“The key to mammography screening is that it be done

routinely – once is not enough,” she said.

For more information about NBCAM, please visit

www.nbcam.org. For additional information, please call

one of the following toll-free numbers: American Cancer

Society, (800) 227-2345, National Cancer Institute (NCI),

(800) 4-CANCER, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organiza-

tion, (800) 221-2141. Locally: Please call 256-352-8195

Sandra Lusk, BSN, RN @ WSCC for information or a

speaker on Breast Cancer.

The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month program

is dedicated to increasing public knowledge about the im-

portance of early detection of breast cancer. Fifteen national

public service organizations, professional associations, and

government agencies comprise the Board of Sponsors, who

work together to ensure that the NBCAM message is heard

by thousands of women and their families.

WSCC RECOGNIZES NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH