2+2 - Washburn University, Topeka, will hold a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 27 in the ICC Fireside Room to explain its 2+2 PLAN Partnership with ICc.

PARALEGAL - Anyone interested in taking a paralegal course listed in the ICC 2000-2002 catalog should contact Althea Cook, coordinator of extended instruction, as soon as possible so classes can be scheduled. Five people are needed to schedule a class. Ms. Cook’s ICC extension is 4258.

COMPETITION DAY - The annual ICC High School Competition day for 2002 has been scheduled for March 5.

CLOSING - Dillons Supermarket in Independence will be shut down sometime before the end of the year, Dillons’ management announced this week. Dillons is the second grocery store to close in Independence since Wal-Mart opened its supercenter in July 2000.

FACT FINDING -- The fact-finding session of negotiations between the ICC Faculty Association and ICC Board of Trustees representatives is scheduled for 1 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Board Room of the ICC Administration Building. The session is open to the public.

POETS - The Eighth Annual Chautauqua Hills Cowboy Poet Gathering will be held Saturday starting at 7 p.m. in the Gregg Theater, Sedan. Admission will be $4.

FOCUS GROUPS - ICC held the first of a series of focus groups last week to gather community input about educational offerings at the college. The next focus group will be held Tuesday in Cherryvale.

UNEMPLOYMENT - The nation’s unemployment rate jumped to 5.4 percent in October, up from 4.9 in September. That was the largest one -month increase in 21 years.

By Mandy Smith, Buccaneer Editor, and Trish JuAire, Buccaneer Assistant Editor

After advisement day Oct. 30, the campus buzzed about the changes made for this semester.

The setup was completely different from past advisement days which required students to meet with advisors in offices and get schedules in the Student Union. This semester ICC held its fall advisement and assessment day in the ICC Fieldhouse. Students set up appointments with their advisors and met in the gymnasium. After being advised, students could obtain their schedules in the Heritage Room, in the lobby of the fieldhouse. Also different, sophomores were required to take a writing sample before enrolling in their classes.

We at The Buccaneer talked to students and faculty around campus and got their opinions of the new advisement day.

Several freshmen, experiencing their first advisement day, felt that it was handled well. Brian Hight and Mandy Shobe, freshmen from Cherryvale, liked how they could set up an appointment with their advisors and meet with them. They also felt the advisement day was well planned and organized. Some freshmen, however, complained of waiting in long lines.

Ryan Wade, freshman from Caney, liked advisement day. "I was there for half an hour and didn’t have anything else to do the rest of the day," he said.

Many sophomores did not like the new advisement day and preferred meeting in advisors’ offices. Generally, the sophomores didn’t mind having to take the writing sample and felt it was rather easy.

Travis Dunham, sophomore from Independence, didn’t like the gym setting because it was loud

and everyone was talking. He also didn’t like waiting in line.

Leah Lawrence, sophomore from Fredonia, felt the planning was unorganized and she didn’t like waiting in lines.

Tanya Howell, sophomore from Texas, and Ashley Appelhans, sophomore from Fredonia, expressed similar feelings and said that advisement day was better last year.

Kandice McLaughlin, sophomore from Cherryvale, said that the new advisement day was weird and looked like something students would see at a large university. She said that she liked it.

After visiting with several advisors about advisement day, there seemed to be a common feeling among the majority. They were disappointed in the new system of using the gym. The prevailing reason seemed to be the lack of privacy. Most of the advisors asked felt that privacy for the student was a key element that was lost.

Although all agreed that advisement day was necessary, they felt that the old way of having the student come to the advisor’s office was better. It allowed the student to ask questions without others overhearing and without possibly offending an instructor by comments regarding their teaching methods and/or classes.

Keeping advisement in the offices also means not having to move all the files, paperwork, and university catalogs some advisors use when helping students choose classes. Some advisors keep a variety of university catalogs in their offices. The gym setting didn’t allow for having all of these books handy, which caused some delays in getting the student enrolled.

Another drawback mentioned about the gym setting was the distracting atmosphere. It was hard to stay focused on the student of the moment, when other conversations between students or students and advisors could be heard. Having so many people in such close proximity made it difficult to concentrate. Most of the advisors said it was hard to keep on schedule with everything going on around them.

A couple of advisors liked the gym setting. They felt that it was good to have other instructors so close, making it easy to ask them questions about a class. These advisors also liked the gym because it allowed them to get the students through faster. They felt it was easier to have the students lined up and ready to go, instead of having them come by the offices. They thought the offices made it easier to visit, making the appointments take longer than necessary.

One very important thing that all of the advisors said was that they were not responsible for how advisement was conducted, only that advisement occurred. They also stressed how important advisement day was to the success of the students.

By Mandy Smith, Buccaneer Editor

Marcus Whitmore	Anthony Chambers	Marcus Walker

Student-athletes are very busy individuals, rarely finding time for themselves. When they are not in the classroom, they are on the field or court practicing their athletic skills.

Three ICC student-athletes have added an extra activity to their already busy lives - volunteering to help elementary school students succeed.

Marcus Walker, an ICC basketball player from Kansas City, Marcus Whitmore, ICC football player from Laurens, S.C., and Anthony Chambers, ICC football player from Houston, Tex., travel to Lincoln Elementary School in Independence to tutor younger students. For half an hour once a week, the guys help kids with their reading as a part of the H.O.S.T.S. (Helping One Student to Succeed) program.

The H.O.S.T.S. program is a reading program designed to help elementary school aged students improve their reading skills. Volunteers, or mentors, are assigned to a certain student and come once a week to listen to their student read. Volunteers also help the student with his language arts. The volunteers build a bond with their student and provide extra encouragement for the student.

The three students were approached by Mrs. Thompson to help with the program. They are volunteering their time and are not graded for anything. They just have the pride of knowing they are helping to make a difference in a child’s life.

Marcus Walker enjoys working with the kids at Lincoln. "It’s fun

and they (the kids) are funny. Little kids are the most honest people. They say anything."

Marcus Whitmore also likes working with kids. "It’s fun," he said. "It reminds me of when we were younger and of things we did. It reminds me of what its like to look up to people."

Anthony Chambers thinks its a good idea to work with little kids. "I think it’s important to be a good role model for kids," he said. "When the kids get older, I want them to say ‘I want to be like this guy’. I think its good to be a leader."

Over the past two months, Americans have been proclaiming pride in their country and are thankful to be living in a country with so many freedoms. The opposite is displayed on TV screens during nearly every evening newscast, showing the strict Taliban regime ruling over Afghanistan. Americans know the United States is attacking Afghanistan in reaction to the Twin Towers terrorist acts supposedly done by the Taliban, but are not aware of how the group started or what its beliefs are.

Time magazine said the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in an effort to spread communism in 1979. The U.S. entered the conflict to help Afghanistan by supporting the mujahedin, or holy warriors. The mujahedin was made up of diverse Afghan tribes and Muslim volunteers who felt the war against the Soviet Union was God’s order to defend the Islam traditions. Among the Muslim volunteers involved was a young man named Osama bin Laden.

The conflict ended in 1989 with the Soviet Union losing. The U.S. went home and forgot about

Afghanistan. Internal conflict still continued in Afghanistan. Conflicts were between the Pashtuns, an ethnic group that represents the majority of the Afghanistan population, and the ethnic minority groups. The groups bombed one another’s villages and robbed and killed civilians. Time magazine said many Afghans felt the U.S. had betrayed them by going home.

In 1994 a man named Mullah Mohammed Omar believed God was calling him to save the country from the warlords. Omar gathered a group including Afghans and uneducated men from refugee camps and religious schools in Pakistan to form the Taliban. Taliban means "students of Islam." The Taliban started out as a group to promote peace, law, order, and pure Islam religion in Afghanistan, but turned into an extremist organization that believed faithlessness should lead to punishment, some as severe as stonings or executions. Afghans joined the Taliban hoping to end the wars with other tribes.

In 1996, after receiving orders from the U.S., Osama bin Laden was banned from Sudan. He sought refuge in Afghanistan. Bin Laden, the son of a Saudi Arabian billionaire construction magnate, has inherited hundreds of millions of dollars. He offered a portion of his family fortune to fund the Taliban efforts to take over Kabul, the Afghanistan capital, in exchange for a home in the country. In September 1996, with $3 million from bin Laden, the Taliban captured Kabul. They have been present there ever since.

While Americans feel the Taliban rules are tyrannical and oppressive, Taliban leaders believe they are just following Islamic laws. According to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan or RAWA website, restrictions placed on Afghans by the Taliban might come as a shock to most Americans. Some of the restrictions are

Afghans are banned from listening to music, watching movies, television, and videos, and using the

Internet.

Citizens with non-Islamic names are ordered to change to Islamic ones.

Certain haircuts are forced upon Afghanistan youth.

A "no turban, no education" law requires all boy students to wear turbans.

Afghan men must wear Islamic clothes, a cap, and untrimmed beards.

All people are ordered to attend mosque prayer sessions five times a day. Coverts from the Islamic religion subject themselves to execution.

Non-Muslim minorities must wear a badge or yellow cloth on their clothes to distinguish from the Muslim majority, like the Nazi treatment of Jews during World War II.

Additional restrictions are placed on Afghan women, according to the RAWA website.

Women are banned from work outside the home. A few women are exempt to be doctors and nurses in Kabul hospitals, but are allowed to treat women only.

Women are not allowed outside the home without a close male relative and are not allowed to make contact with male shopkeepers, doctors, or non-family members.

Studying at schools and universities is also banned.

Women are not even allowed to play sports or ride cycles. Women are required to wear long veils to cover them head to toe.

No cosmetics, bright colored clothes, high-heeled shoes, or flared pants are allowed. Violations of dress codes could result in public whippings or verbal abuse.

Loud laughter is banned because women should not be heard.

All windows are painted in homes so women cannot be seen from the outside.

According to Time, the once peaceful Taliban changed its beliefs from the traditional Islam beliefs to a radical form. Under the radical form, the Taliban deemed women "biologically, religiously, and prophetically" inferior to men. It also changed to punish faithless citizens severely with amputation, stoning, and execution. Basically, the new beliefs trap the Afghans in their home country.

ICC’s annual Silent Auction will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Student Union.

The ICC classified staff, sponsors of the auction, is looking for donations for the auction as well as items to sell.

There will be a new "Kids Corner" this year, and the auction will be open to the public for the first time. The addition of the "Kids Corner" should "give the kids a place to shop for Christmas for the family while their parents shop and browse the auction," said Janice McDermott, classified staff spokesperson for the auction.

This year’s proceeds will not only go to the women’s home for battered women at Christmas and at Easter, but will also be used to set up a scholarship for some lucky student.

"We also want to continue our support of Independence Community College with a gift for the campus," Ms. McDermott said. "Our goals are high and we need all the help we can get."

If you would like to donate items for the auction, contact Ms. McDermott in the Business Office, or call ICC extension 4272.

Here is a list of some of the items that have been donated in the past: Craft items, baked goods, wood working projects, sewing projects, and specialty items.

By Trish JuAire, Buccaneer Assistant Editor

The William Inge Theatre Festival Foundation and Independence Community College hired Peter Ellenstein as the new director of the festival Aug. 20.

Mr. Ellenstein replaces Jill Warford, who had been the director for nine years. Ms. Warford resigned last April.

Mr. Ellenstein left Los Angeles, where he was the producing director of the L. A. Repertory Company for seven years. Mr. Ellenstein has worked in film, television and the professional theatre in a number of positions for 20 years. He has been an actor, director and producer. He has won nominations and awards for all genre (styles) of theatre.

Mr. Ellenstein has taught acting, directing, voice, Shakespeare and musical theatre professionally, as well as teaching at the high school and collegiate level.

He earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Minnesota State University. He is serving on the Governing Council of the Association of Theatre for Higher Education.

Although the William Inge Festival does not take place until April, Mr. Ellenstein is working very hard to make sure that 20 years of tradition is upheld. According to Mr. Ellenstein, "For four days in April the tiny town of Independence, Kansas becomes the theatrical center of the universe." He plans to build on that and make the Inge festival a unique experience for the professionals who attend, as well as the locals.

As a full-time position, instead of part-time as it has been in the past, Mr. Ellenstein will be expanding the involvement in the community, high schools, and area colleges. He will also be creating a year-round play development program, for aspiring playwrights.

The Inge Festival is scheduled for April 17-20. This year’s honored playwright will be Herb Gardner, author of a number of award winning plays, including A Thousand Clowns and I’m Not Rappaport.

The Festival; also presents the New Voices in American Theatre, Kansas Citizen of the Arts, and the Margaret Goheen awards.

By Trish JuAire, Buccaneer Assistant Editor

Now that advisement day is behind you and you have what is left, if anything, of your pell grant, you are probably wondering how you will be able to pay for the classes you enrolled in for next spring.

Think scholarships. Not just ICC scholarships, but outside scholarships as well. There are thousands of scholarships available, all you have to do is look for them. And the time to look is now. The deadlines for most of these scholarships is upon us.

The first step to finding the money is at your fingertips. It is the computer keyboard. MSN Search shows more than 2000 matches for the word scholarships. Dogpile found nearly 50 matches for the same search. Yahoo Search had 691 web-site matches for keyword "scholarships". Google’s results showed several hundred thousand matches, but that includes any reference to the word scholarship, even in a magazine article.

The web-sites that appeared on each of the four search engines used were www.scholarships.com , www.4scholarship.com , and www.scholarship-page.com . Some of the on-line services require a fee. Most only require the dedication to go through the necessary work to get the money. Some of these scholarships will be for the next fall semester.

One scholarship that I found was from Tylenol. There are 510 scholarships available. 10 are for $10,000 and the remaining 500 are for $5,000. There is an application that must be filled out and the applicant/student must write an essay. This is only one example. There are scholarships that require the applicant to submit a poem. There are some that are specific to a major field of study. There are some that are for a specific college. There were four major universities listed on page one of the Yahoo search site.

By Trish JuAire, Buccaneer Assistant Editor

Several years ago, during a family vacation, a family was stranded in a Colorado motel. The father, mother and two children were without an open restaurant. Fortune smiled on them, for although they didn’t have a stove or microwave in their motel room, they did have an automatic drip coffee-maker. Out of necessity, the father (David Aikins, ICC science and math instructor) developed several recipes using the coffee-maker. One of these recipes is for Pasta Alfredo.

This simple recipe requires a drip coffee-maker, a medium sized bowl and coffee filters as utensils. The ingredients needed are one package, any type, of small pasta, one can condensed mushroom soup, ½ cup of parmesan cheese, and one package frozen vegetables.

Place a filter into the filter basket. Fill the basket half-full with pasta. Fill the coffee pot (carafe) with water, pour into coffee-maker and turn on. When the water has run through, take the pasta out of the basket and put it in the carafe to finish cooking and remain hot. You may need to repeat this process a couple of times to cook enough pasta. When the pasta has finished cooking, drain the water, add the can of mushroom soup and stir. Add the parmesan cheese and salt and pepper to taste. Stir until mixture is heated through. Place in the bowl so the carafe can be used to cook the vegetables.

Place the vegetables in the filter basket with a new coffee filter. Fill the carafe with water, pour into the coffee-maker, and run it through. When the water is finished, take the vegetables out of the filter basket and put into the carafe to finish cooking. When hot, drain off water, add to pasta and eat.

This recipe will serve about four people (or one glutton) and the cost is around $5.

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By Jutaporn Gib Chaipornkaew, Buccaneer Writer

ICC’s fall semester is more than half over.

For freshman international students, many who are away from home for the first time, there were a lot of adjustments top be made.

A lot of those adjustments came as a result of differences in culture, language, lifestyle, and for some, simply growing up and being away from home.

How are they doing? How are they adjusting? Here’s what we found out:

Iryna Kushniruk, Ukraine " I like Independence. It’s a nice town. It is not very big. The people here are very hospitable and helpful. Everybody is smiling . It seems like they have no problems at all. I like that!"

Dilyara Suleymanova, a freshman from Russia who is majoring in mass communication, said "I am originally from a big city, and I was not sure if I could enjoy living in a small town, but right now I really do like it. I feel comfortable in this small world where people care about each other. I am glad that I am experiencing life in America. Being in a smaller town, I was told, is real America"

" When I was told that I was going to the USA, I was overwhelmed. It was my dream and it is going to be true, but I didn’t expect that I would live in a small town like Independence. So I was kind of shocked when I come to Independence, Kansas, " said Irene Platonenko, a freshman from Kasakhastan, a country that border Afganistan.

For me, (Jutaporn Gib Chaipornkaew) first of all, when I knew that I got a scholarship for studying in USA, I imagined myself studying in a big city. But when I knew that I had to go to Independence, Kansas, I had no idea about this town at all. I thought that’s fine with me.

"When I arrived here, to be honest, I was shocked , because it is such a small town. Actually I come from a big city. However, it is not that bad, because people here are so nice and friendly. I think living in a small town like Independence is a secure place for me, so that I have nothing to worry about. I am certain that I will gain a lot of experiences from living here. I am kind of like it!"

There will be a free concert in the William Inge Theatre, Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The ICC music department will present the annual pops concert with the BlueNote Band and Trends performing. Trends is under the direction of Ruth Hanke. The BlueNote Band is under the direction of Dan Frizane.

Trends will perform The Music of MGM, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, S’Wonderful, and It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing. There will also be two audience participation dance numbers.

The BlueNote Band will perform music from Broadway, the big-band era, blues, Latin, and a patriotic medley. The songs will be I Don’t Know How to Love Him from "Jesus Christ Superstar", a medley from "Oliver", the theme from "Fiddler on the Roof", Caravan by Duke Ellington, Miss T-Ball Queen, This One’s for the Children by New Kids on the Block, Butterball, Everything is Beautiful and Fancy Pants. The patriotic medley will be I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy and You’re a Grand Old Flag.

ICC’s Beta Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has elected to participate in Operation Christmas Child.

This project requires chapter members to fill shoe boxes full of useful items that will be sent to children in Third World countries. For many of these children, the boxes will be the only presents they receive.

If you would like to help Beta Omega members with filling the boxes, you may choose items from the following list and bring them to either Chapter sponsors Karen Roush or Brenda Thomason’s office by Monday.

The gifts have to fit in a shoe box. They might include: small toys - matchbox cars, crayons, tennis balls, stuffed animals, yo-yos, harmonica, kazoo, etc.

Also, school supplies - pencils with sharpeners, pens small pocket size notepads, etc.

Hygiene items - (no liquid) tooth paste, tooth brushes, washcloths, soap, etc.