ICC News Notes
FUNDING - According to notes from the
President’s Cabinet, state funding for ICC has been reduced about 7.9
percent, and additional cuts are pending now and over the next three
years.
PIRATE CAMP - ICC Student Services will sponsor a Pirate Camp for third,
fourth and fifth graders March 18 and 19. Volunteers to work one-hour
blocks during the camp are needed. If interested, contact Dixie
Schierlman, Dean of Student Services.
CLOSING - The Kmart Corporation has set March 21 as the day it will
close the Independence Kmart Store. An estimated 100 employees will lose
their jobs. Across the country, Kmart is closing some 280 stores. The
corporation is working under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
GOVERNOR - Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, 54, became Kansas’ 44th governor
Jan. 13 when she took the oath of office and gave her inaugural address.
Ms. Sebelius won the governor’s post when she defeated Republican Tim
Shallenburger in the Nov. 5 election.
GRADUATION - Ninety students received degrees or certificates of
completion Dec. 14 at Coffeyville Community College’s end-of-semester
graduation ceremonies in Gilmer K. Nellis Hall. Featured speaker was W.S.
“Bud” Smith, student affairs associate vice president at Texas A&M
University.
BANKRUPTCY - Bankruptcies in Kansas hit a record number last year when
14,977 Kansas individuals and businesses filed for bankruptcy. In 2001,
some 13,940 bankruptcy cases were filed in the state.
The 32nd Annual High School
Invitational Competition Day will be held March 4 in the classrooms of
ICC. Some 33 High schools from Southeast Kansas and Oklahoma have been
invited to participate. Students will compete in 83 academic contests,
including photo-journalism, art, drafting, English, foreign languages,
human ecology, journalistic writing, math and science,
office/distributive education, psychology, public speaking, social
science, music, theatre, poetry and some others. There will be no
regular ICC day classes that day.
The Sound of Music will be performed in
the Inge Theatre for the Theatre Department’smajor spring production. It
will be March 6, 7 and 8 under the direction of Ruth Hanke, ICC vocal
instructor and chair of the department.
Mark Winslow, physics instructor, has
been building an observatory on the east side of the campus of ICC since
last October. It will be completed in about a week in time for the
astrology club to start its existence.
Cédric Ganné, the foreign languages
instructor, is sponsoring a games club through the Multi Cultural
Student Organization (MSO). Students will play chess, cards and other
board games. MSO also will host a series of speakers for Black History
Month in February, is sponsoring a lunch meeting today in the Fireside
Room in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The All Kansas Academic Team is brought
by ICC’s Beta Omega chapter of the national honor society, Phi Theta
Kappa, is sponsoring a contest for PTK students enter this contest to
represent ICC, writing detailed essays to compete for All USA Team. This
year Timothy Trisdale and Daniel Williams are the winners and were
chosen from ICC to be All Kansas Team Member. They received scholarship
and had honorary lunch in Topeka, and now the students are waiting for
the results of All USA Team.
Spring break will start be March 17
through 21. Classes will not be held and offices will be closed during
that time.
Student advisement day is scheduled for
April 2. All students are expected to meet with their advisors on that
day, and plan their schedules for next semester.
The last day to withdraw from night and
Saturday classes will be April 16, and April 18 for day classes.
ICC’s student Recital will be held in
Inge Theatre April 28. The show, free and open to anyone, highlights the
musical talents of ICC students.
One of the biggest spring happenings at ICC is William Inge Theatre
Festival. The festival was founded by Margaret Goheen, former ICC
theatre instructor. This year’s Inge Festival will be held April 9
through 12. The Festival is named after William Inge, ICC graduate who
was born in Independence and became one of the nation’s most famous
playwright. He was probably best known for the plays Picnic and Dark at
the Top of the Stair.
All festival events are free for ICC students. There are will be various
workshops on writing, auditioning, plays, directing, acting with
professionals from Los Angeles, Calif., and New York, N.Y., who come to
teach. The festival ends with a tribute to a famous playwright. This
year, Ramuel Linney will be awarded the William Inge Theatre Festival’s
2003 Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award..
The Southeast Kansas Community College
Art Exhibit will take place at the Independence Historical Museum on
April 11 through April 18.
On April 27, an ICC Band and Vocal Concert will be held in Inge Theatre
at 3 p.m.
The 24th Annual Anna Award Plays will
be held April 25 and 26 in the Inge Theater. Students compete by
selecting short plays they want to direct. The student directors also
select the students for cast. Gary Mitchell, English and theatre
instructor who coordinates the plays, says there are going to be at
least six to eight plays this year.
Final Exams for night classes will
begin May 1, while finals for day classes start May 5. ICC’s 79th
graduation will be held in Field House May 10 starting at 10 a.m.
ICC Trustee Bruce Fairbank,
Talks About Likes, Dislikes
By Amy Fairbank, Buccaneer Staff Writer
 Bruce Fairbank was appointed to the Independence Community College
Board of Trustees last July to replace Jack Reddick, board member who
resigned because he moved out of the district.
Mr. Fairbank, a Pittsburg State University Graduate with a BSBA in
accounting and economics, is the executive director of Mid-America
Certified Development, a part of the Business and Technology Institute
at Pittsburg State University. He recently was elected president of the
Kansas Association of Certified Development Companies.
He became a candidate for the vacancy on the Board of Trustees because he
had time to get involved with something beside family and work. When
asked why he ran, Mr. Fairbank said he felt ICC was something he could
get involved in and that he would have something to offer.
Mr. Fairbank comes from a family based in education. His father was head
guidance counselor at Independence High School for 35 years, while his
mother was librarian at Cherryvale High School until 1996. Mr. Fairbank
knows the difference between education and business. At the same time he
understands that ICC is a business as well as an institute of higher
learning.
He brings a tremendous amount of business experience to the board, along
with knowledge of what does and does not work at different colleges. He
is also able to use his knowledge to look at different markets to see
potential ways to increase enrollment.
Mr. Fairbank feels ICC provides adequate higher education at a lower
price. He likes that ICC gives people who don’t know what they want to
do after high school a place to pick up helpful workplace skills. He
also likes that the college gives people who plan to transfer to
four-year colleges a place to get their basic classes out of the way for
less than what it would cost them at a four-year college. Mr. Fairbank
likes the addition of the new dorms. He feels they bring a truer sense
of college life to the campus.
Mr. Fairbank likes the technology being embraced at ICC, such as Black
Board, and that student accounts are available on-line. He would like to
see more teachers at ICC use Black Board as a way to help students get
extra help and information outside of class. While he finds the student
accounts being available on-line helpful, he feels there is still room
for improvement. Such things as the fact that users aren’t able to back
click make the student account pages somewhat irritating.
One area Mr. Fairbank feels could be improved upon is the ICC web site.
The college web site has been designed to work specifically with
Microsoft Internet Explorer. The fact that the site isn’t compatible for
more browsers cuts down its usefulness. He also feels the on-line
enrollment could be improved as well.
Mr. Fairbank would like to see more training programs, like the Early
Childhood Development program, be instituted at ICC. Training programs
such as that are useful in helping people in returning to work and
aiding people in switching jobs.
Another area Mr. Fairbank feels could be improved is helping students
transferring to four-year colleges. He feels students could use more
guidance in what classes transfer to which colleges so that the students
don’t have to retake classes after transferring.
Mr. Fairbank was impressed to learn there is such a large number (27) of
foreign students attending school at ICC. He feels it is good not only
for the students at ICC, but for the community as well to be exposed to
all of the different cultures. It adds to the college experience,
meeting people not only from all over Kansas and the U.S., but from all
over the rest of the world as well.
While Mr. Fairbank has only been on the board a short time, he has
enjoyed his time. He looks forward to continuing as a trustee and hopes
to be able to be a part of bringing more programs like Early Childhood
Development to ICC.
ICC’s BIG CALENDAR
JANUARY --
24 - ICC Council of Chairs meeting, 2 p.m. , President Judith Hansen’s
office.
25-The Little Angel (Children’s folk ballet of Korea), 7:30 p.m., Bowlus
Fine Arts Center.
27 - Feb. 2 - Tulsa Boat, Sport and Travel Show, Expo Square, Expo
Center, 21 St. & S. Pittsburg Ave.
31- ICC Academic Council Meeting, Noon, Fireside Room. • “Zorro’s Back
in Town,” Theater Bartlesville production at Bartlesville, Okla.,
Community Center, 8 p.m.
FEBRUARY--
1 - Chinese New Year
1, 7, 8-“Zorro’s Back in Town,” Theater Bartlesville production at
Bartlesville, Okla., Community Center, 8 p.m.
2-Groundhog Day.
5-Southeast Kansas Day on the Hill, Topeka. • Anniversary of the U.S.
Constitution.
7-9-National Rod & Custom Car Show, Expo Square, Expo Center, 21 St. &
S. Pittsburg Ave.
11-16-Kansas City Theatre League presents Miss Saigon. Kansas City, Mo.,
Music Hall.
12-Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday.
12-16-Kansas Sports, Boat & Travel Show, Kansas Coliseum, Wichita.
14-Valentine’s Day. • ICC Trends Valentine dinner open to the public at
the Prairie Royal Ball Room (above John’s Kitchen).
16-Iola Area Symphony Orchestra, 3 p.m., Memorial Hall Auditorium,
Independence.
17-President’s Day.
18-22-Miss Saigon, Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
22-George Washington’s Birthday.
24 - Flag Day.
MARCH--
4 - High School Competition Day at ICC. (No morning classes)
5-Ash Wednesday.
6-7-8-ICC Theater Department presents The Sound of Music, 7 p.m.,
William Inge Theatre on campus.
12-Fine Arts is hosting the High school Music Choral/Instrumental
Workshop. ICC students will be needed to help direct traffic and run the
taping of performances.
APRIL--
9-12th William Inge Theatre Festival
11-18th SEK Community College Art Exhibit at the Independence Historical
Museum.
25, 26-Twenty-Fourth Annual Anna Award Plays, 7:30 p.m., William Inge
Theatre, ICC
28-ICC student recital, 7 p.m., William Inge Theatre, ICC
In Sports
JANUARY --
25 - ICC at Allen County Community College, Iola. Women at 6, Men at 8
p.m.
27 - Fort Scott Community College at ICC. Women at 6, Men at 8 p.m.
29 - Neosho County Community College at ICC. Women at 6, Men at 8 p.m.
FEBRUARY --
1 - Highland Community College at ICC. Women at 6, Men at 8 p.m.
5 - ICC at Labette Community College, Parsons. Women at 6, Men at 8.
8 - ICC at Cowley County Community College, Arkansas City. Women at 6,
Men at 8 p.m.
-- MAIN SPRING 2003 ICC
CALENDAR --
March 15-23 - Spring break. (No classes)
April 2 - Advisement/ Assessment Day. (No day classes)
April 16 - Last day to withdraw from night and Saturday classes.
April 18 - Last day to withdraw from day classes.
May 1-7 - Final exams for night and Saturday classes.
May 5-7 - Final exams for day classes.
May 7 - End of Spring Semester.
May 10 - ICC Graduation. Field House.
May 12-13 - Faculty preparation Day.
President Hansen, Spring
Welcome
By Ene Tuylieva, Buccaneer Editor
ICC’s Spring Semester -- with a
total of 84 class days -- is going to be busy. More than 25 events,
ranging from theater and the William Inge Festival, to four major
sports, to a high school compeition day, and to the classroom, are
planned.
This semester -- ICC’s 158th in a 79-year history of fall and spring
semesters -- also brings new students, as well as the “veteran”
second-semester freshman and third and fourth-semester sophomores.
“We have old freshmen, and this semester we have several new freshmen,”
said ICC President Judith Hansen, “so I urge sophomores and old timers
to greet new freshmen and make them feel like at home.”
Dr. Hansen also told The Buccaneer to pass along the message that
“students should get involved in one of the many clubs on campus.”
“I would like the students to try the clubs,” she said, “and I encourage
them to think about the new clubs as well as the older clubs, because
college is all about trying out new things.”
Dr. Hansen said she is proud to see a big increase in enrollment this
spring semester.
Dixie Schierlman, dean of student services, issued a welcome to
students.
“Welcome back to returning students and new students,” she said.
“ICC is gearing up for an exciting spring semester with basketball,
track, softball, baseball, Black History Month events, Phi Theta Kappa,
MSO events, Theatre Department plays and concerts, Academic Team
competitions, Pirate Kid’s Camp, and Commencement. Have a great
semester!” she said. Ray Rothgeb, dean of instruction, also issued a
welcome to students.
“Welcome to ICC!” he said. “It is my pleasure to extend a hearty welcome
to all returning and new students. Your choice of ICC as a place to
continue your education will pay great dividends in the future.
“You are investing your time and talent and should expect a return on
your investment. The amount of that dividend will depend partly on how
dedicated and involved you are in your studies and activities at ICC.
“This is your college and your time, make the most of it. Exercise and
practice responsibility, and get involved. You’ll be glad you did,”
Mr. Rothgeb said.
During this semester, for the first time in many years, students with
children will be able to bring their children to the campus for child
care while they are in classes. A new child care center is under
construction and should be ready by the end of this month. The director
of the center is Vicki Dozier.
Catherine Rowe, an Oklahoman with a doctorate who has taught in various
schools and universities, was just hired to be the Education and Early
Childhood Education instructor. She replaces Jeanine Thompson, ICC
instructor who retired last year as the college’s Master Teacher of the
Year.
The library staff is ready to assist students and staff with research
and information needs. Staff who would like to bring the class to the
library for a tour or to do a research as a group are asked to let the
library staff know in advance. The entire ICC family has access to the
library catalog through the ICC web page at Indycc.edu.
Students can access library information from any computer on campus.
Interlibrary loans are also possible for staff and students through the
ICC library to acquire materials from a number of libraries across the
state. The lending library doesn’t charge a fee for this material. The
library is a part of Consortia with Allen County, Neosho County,
Labette, Coffeyville, Butler County, Fort Scott, and Cowley County.
Library hours for this semester are: Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m. till
9 p.m. On Fridays library works from 7:30 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. The
library is not open Saturdays or Sundays. However, if the library is
needed for a Saturday class, the appropriate arrangements can be made.
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
ICC’s Academic Council meets the first and the third Fridays of each
month, and the ICC Council of Chairs meets each second and fourth Friday
at 2 p.m. in President Hansen’s office.
Sports News
In sports, the ICC men’s and women’s
basketball teams are participating in the very strong, nationally
recognized Jayhawk Basketball Conference. The teams usually play Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday nights. Home games in the ICC Field House are
scheduled for 6 p.m. (Ladies first), Jan. 27 and 29, and February 1, 12,
19 and 22. The men play at 8 p.m.
The ICC tennis team, nationally ranked and featuring a number of
international players, will play a regular schedule this spring. Their
home matches are played at the Ken Brown Courts in Riverside Park. The
team is coached by Brad Daugherty.
The baseball team, under new head
coach Jon Olson, and the lady’s softball team, under coach Jamie Klein,
play a full spring schedule in their respective Jayhawk conferences
against other Kansas community college teams.
The baseball team this month completed construction of a new fence at
Emerson Field (just north from the college on 10th) where they play
their home games. The Lady Pirates softball team play their home games
behind Emerson Field at Volunteer Field. Both teams are expected to show
big improvements this year, and according to early reports are loaded
with talent.
An ICC full-court, five-on-five Intramural Basketball League was
scheduled to begin Wednesday (Jan. 20) and continue through Feb. 24.
Games will be on Monday and Thursday nights after 9:30 p.m. in the ICC
Field House.
ICC’s cheerleaders, yellleaders
and dance team members trained students from the Lincoln, Eisenhower and
Washington elementary schools to present halftime cheerleading shows
Jan. 11 in the Field House. Members of the ICC Cheerleaders include
Chelsea Hawkins, Sarah Hines, Brooke Bohr, Russell Swisher, Jacob
Friend, Jared Gorman, Ryan Gillchrest, Jennifer Beurskens, Elise Fink,
Melanie Vidrickson, and Andrew Whittley.The young cheerleaders working
with dancer Tara Olson.
Are You Homesick?
By Ene Tuylieva, Buccaneer Editor
Every year thousands of students
arrive at colleges and universities across the United States.
It’s a time of excitement and enthusiasm. In the minds of many the young
men and women, it is a time that represents, and is for many, the
beginning of freedom, and independence leading to a totally new world
with new people and lifestyles.
Some students adjust well. They find new friends, they get involved, and
they set aside their high schools and hometown lifestyles. Most students
are very excited in the beginning, but later, and sometimes sooner, they
start missing their family and friends. They get homesick.
We decided to ask some ICC students about homesickness, and found that
most of them go through it in one form or another.
Memory Kent, a sophomore from Independence says: “My family is always
here with and for me, but if I leave them next year, I know I’ll feel
homesick. Being on my own, we usually don’t feel safe or right in an
environment that we’re not used to.”
Zach Skinner (Z Skin), sophomore from Manhattan who lives in
Coffeyville, says: “I’ve been away from my family for about a year. For
me homesickness is being apart from family and friends; being away from
the places that I like to go. I also get homesick when I’m stressed out,
sitting home at weekends wishing I could be outside, being bored, or
when I drive for a long time. I feel outlandish and out of place. That’s
when I need my friends; I play video games, occasionally go to clubs or
go to bed. Everyone gets homesick, but once you get home you get sick of
home. It’s like catch 22.”
Dionne Prince, freshman from
Milwaukee, Wisc., moved away from her family this year. The things that
make her homesick most are changes in food and the community.
Milwaukee is a city of 940,164 people with many more activities than
Independence. Moving away from her family didn’t bother her, the other
changes did. The only problem she is dealing with now is money, which
appears to be a problem for most students.
“We just have to get over it. We have to move on and take care of
ourselves,” she says.
Jawaan Ballard, freshman from Houston, Texas, says he misses the whole
atmosphere of being home.
“Anytime I have nothing to do brings thoughts of home. Also, it bothers
me when people who come back from home share that with me and I haven’t
been able to go home. That causes homesick.
“When I get that I try not to think about home in a best way. I try not
to call home, don’t want to hear about the news and the fun they have
there.”
Jawaan is sharing his room with Clifford Jingles, who is also from
Houston. “We talk about home once in a while. But the best way to avoid
being homesick is to not to think about home.”
Mario Mejia, Richmond, Calif., says: “We get homesick when we are not in
the area we’ve been accustomed to for a long periods of time. It’s hard
not to be able to see your family and hang out with the friends you grew
up with.” It’s the first time for Mario to be away from home, and the
Christmas break was his first trip home since he got to Kansas last
summer. “It’s still nice and I’m so glad that I met so many new friends
from all over the U.S., even the places where I’ve never been.”
Students do get homesick. Many overcome it by visiting their family
regularly. Most ICC students live no more than 150 miles from
Independence.
How do our international students feel? They don’t get to go back and
visit their families for a year or even two.
Risa Kanai, international student from Japan, says she feels homesick
once in a while. This is her first time in the U.S. She misses Japanese
food the most.
“I feel homesick usually at nights. That’s when I feel like going back
home. The only way to overcome it is to wait. I miss my bathtub too, as
we only have showers in dorms.”
Yasuhiro Homma says: “I usually feel lonely when there’s a need to talk
and nobody is around. I try to keep myself busy, get away from the
thoughts about home, and try to enjoy something fun.”
Jong Yong Lee, another student from Japan, says: “I miss the food. I go
to the oriental shops in Kansas City, Wichita or Tulsa. I cook a lot. I
like cooking.”
Sabuhi Sardarli, sophomore from Azerbaijan, says: “Homesickness is when
you can’t do things you were so used to doing with your family,
especially during holidays and traditional celebrations.
“ I try to get together with the students who are form the same part of
the world as I am, and share similar values of culture, and celebrate
our holidays and do things we do in our country. I also get homesick
when I’m sick.”
Susan Porter, international student adviser, who is the one who shares
the problems and the joy of the foreign students, says: “Kids often feel
homesick when they are sick and overwhelmed with things. Parents are
always safe; they are always on your side. That’s why I let them hang
out in my office. I encourage them to have fun and get involved in
things; get to know new foreign friends, as well as American. I also
like to listen to them, that helps them a lot.”
Do You Always Do the “Right
Thing?”
The right thing to do is always the right thing to
do.
Yeah, yeah, I know, this seems like a platitude so obvious only a
complete idiot would find anything revealing or of value in it. I
thought the same thing when my uncle shared it with me a few months ago.
“What does he think I am, five years old again?”
After my sense of insult cooled, I began to realize this was indeed a
very profound statement.
Most of our moral quandaries are not that complex. The issue of right
and wrong is usually fairly simple. What leads us to believe we are
faced with a baffling moral choice is our love of convenience. A
clear-cut, either/or question becomes infinitely more complex when the
third element of convenience is added.
Instead of considering what the right thing to do is, we ask ourselves
what is the most convenient. The question begins to break down into a
matter of percentages.
“What percent of the more convenient wrong can I deal with, yet still
have the appearance of having made the right choice?” When I shared this
concept with my friend Paul, that the right thing to do is always the
right thing to, he immediately agreed to its profundity.
Take for example that great American tradition, the road trip. The right
choice is before you leave to check your vehicle over. Make sure the
tires are good, the fluids are full, the muffler isn’t falling off. The
wrong choice is to simply jump in the vehicle and go. Sure, it much more
romantic and convenient to choose the latter. But if halfway through the
trip your tires blow or the motor burns up, all shades of convenience
disappear and the romance is long gone.
It wasn’t always that the choices facing us were terribly complex; we
were simply reluctant to do the right thing because it was inconvenient.
Evaluating our lives in terms of convenience rather than absolute right
or wrong made it nearly impossible to discern what the “right” choice
was.
The actual dilemma at hand is not discerning right from wrong, but
mustering the huevos to do the right thing. Because it seems doing the
right thing, more often than not, is the inconvenient thing. Swallowing
your pride to tell someone you’re sorry. Performing your job with
competence. Or just the basics of putting others before yourself as we
learned in kindergarten. Hold the door for others. Don’t cut in line.
Wait your turn.
We could avoid many of these hard decisions by a little forethought.
There is a proverb that says you don’t build a tower before you count
the cost.
Not many sights are as depressing as an abandoned construction site. It
usually looks something like this: crumbling foundations, weeds, dirt,
rotting building material.
It is Langston Hughes’ “Dream Deferred” visualized. Drying up like a
raisin in the sun; festering like a sore, running; stinking like rotten
meat; sagging under its own heavy load. Much of the moral messes in our
lives are towers we started building without counting the cost.
Though it is a simple concept, it is a profound and very challenging one
to live by. It is also liberating, as it frees us from the complex
“percentage system,” but like all liberty, also entails a healthy
measure of responsibility. In order to be free from the “percentage
system” we must be willing to accept the responsibility of discerning
between right and wrong and choosing accordingly.
Letters to the Editor
“I discovered something one week-end that I wanted
to share with everybody, this is why I send this note to The Buccaneer.
I had to fence my pasture with an extra wire, because I bought a
miniature donkey to keep company to my mare. I was surprised to find out
that the brand of the barbed wire that I bought was gaucho. The question
is why is it gaucho and what does gaucho mean anyway.
Here is the explanation: the barbed wire was invented in Argentina, this
South American country that has so much cattle in the great pampa (the
huge plain in Argentina) At the beginning of the 19th century, the
ranchers there (estancieros) needed to fence their properties and that
is how was the barbed wire invented.
This is not really an explanation for why is the brand of the barbed
wire “gaucho”. Well, actually, the gauchos are cow-boys from Argentina.
They do the exact same job and had almost the exact same culture as the
cow-boys in this country. Their life has always been around horses and
cattle. Like the cow-boys, they have spent their life gathering cattle,
riding horses and trailed cows, bulls, other horses, etc.
That is why the brand of the barbed wire is gaucho. It is related to the
country of the invention of this material and to the fact that it helps
keeping cattle in a pasture. That was my discovery of the week-end.”
Cédric Ganné, ICC language instructor
Cosmetology Raising Funds for Trip to
Chicago
ICC Cosmetology students are selling cookie dough, jewelry and candles
to earn money to attend an International Beauty Show next March in
Chicago. The students are also doing what they do best, offering a
variety of cosmetic services to the public. With that they earn extra
money, and gain valuable experience.
ICC Cosmetology instructor Deborah Cussimanio is in her second year as
an instructor in the ICC program in Independence’s Arco Building.
Mrs. Cussimanio says “there are approximately 10 to 20 men or women per
class.” Classes start in August and in January. The school is located at
200 Arco Place, in the Arco Building lower level. The school offers all
aspects of cosmetology to the public. They offer: manicures, pedicures
and artificial nail services which is called Oncology. They also offer
hair coloring, perms, cuts of all kinds, waxing, facials and scalp
treatments. The students only use the best professional products
available and they retail them for your personal needs. Walk-Ins are
welcome anytime.
Iwon Adamson is the floor manager of the ICC Cosmetology Department..
Iwon assists and directs the abilities of the students while they are
assisting their customers. Iwon also runs the business portion of the
department, which is self sustaining. The students are required to take
nine weeks in the classroom before they can enter the floor to assist
customers, they also have to take a written and practical examination.
John Favero Has Seen Changes in 41 Years as an ICC Instructor
By Luke Kern, Buccaneer Staff
Writer
 Through the 41 years that John Favero,
mathematics instructor, has worked here, he has seen a lot of changes in ICC, from moving to another building to the looks and personalities of
the students.
Mr. Favero worked at Erie High School before he started at ICC in 1962.
When Mr. Favero started working at ICC it was connected to the high
school and was named the Independence Junior College. In Mr. Favero’s
first three years he taught senior high school math as well as college
level courses.
He has seen many changes in ICC. Some major changes were technological,
“The people of math have gone from a slide ruler to a calculator,” he
said.
Mr. Favero says students have a lot more activities now than before. For
the most part, he says, students used to be just students. Now many are
students who also work, or are employees who are also students. Being a
student is not always the prime function.
Mr. Favero also sees a lot more adults coming back to school for more
training, as the number of job openings is decreasing. He also thinks
that the average age of a typical ICC student has risen. There were not
that many “non-traditional” students -- in the 1960s.
Mr. Favero has also seen changes in his students.
The dress today is more casual, and pretty much anything goes now, he
said. When he started teaching, students basically wore jeans and a nice
shirt. But today, students wear a lot of different styles, including
sweat pants and cargo pants, items students would not have worn to class
20 or 30 years ago. Also he has noticed that clothes have gotten a lot
baggier and that students wear hats in school. When he started working
at ICC, hats were always taken off as a sign of respect. He has also
seen many changes in hairstyles, ranging from flat-tops to Afros, to
long hair to no hair.
He said that in his 41 years he never experienced any difficulties with
his students that could not be worked out. Mr. Favero said “I am real
fortunate to have a lot of good people.”
The only bad thing that Mr. Favero has noticed about the change in
students in general is that more seem to have a problem with drugs. Back
when he started working, students had more of a problem with alcohol. He
also says that there are a lot of young people having children. He said
“that was not quite the case when I first came here.”
When asked about what positive qualities he sees in ICC, Mr. Favero said
“the staff is dedicated to providing the best education to their
students.”
ICC also provides a variety of courses for the students so they can get
as many classes as possible before heading to a larger university. Mr.
Favero thinks that the transferring process is relatively easy for
students that go to a larger college after ICC. Also, the classes taken
at ICC can be transferred to other community colleges fairly easy.
Another good quality of ICC is that there is tutoring available for
free. Mr. Favero says that his math students who are having trouble take
advantage of that free tutoring and it is “really great”.
At ICC students can also talk to their teachers after class or in their
offices, something that is sometimes hard to do in bigger universities.
There is also a lot more contact between student and teacher in the
classroom with the smaller class sizes that ICC provides.
Mr. Favero thinks that there are some aspects of ICC that could use some
work.
He thinks that there should be more classrooms and additional programs
for people. Maybe a program to help senior citizens or a retraining
program for people who need more training for their job.
Mr. Favero thinks that ICC could use a few more full-time faculty
members.
Mr. Favero could have retired by now, but he doesn’t want to. “I don’t
have any hobbies that would keep me busy, but I found that teaching is
now my hobby,” he said. He would like to teach a few more years before
he retires.
The Quarter Horse Story
By Cédric Ganné, ICC Language Instructor
After reviewing some horses from different
places on the planet, let us have a
look at the most North-American
Horse, the one that helped build the USA and that is used very commonly
for pleasure and also for working, on the big ranches in the West: the
Quarter Horse.
First of all, we need to explain why this horse is called Quarter Horse.
We already know that there was no horses in America when the Europeans
came, 500 years ago. There was no more horses in North America than in
South America and the first horses putting their hooves on the continent
did it in the Caribbean islands, in Venezuela and especially in Mexico.
It is important to remember that Mexico city was discovered by the
Europeans (Cortés and his men) in 1519. It was also the first time that
the Europeans went inland in America and it was the first time that some
horses traveled inside the continent. Obviously, from Mexico city, the
“white men” went North and discovered the Southern part of the nowadays
USA during the 16th and especially the 17th century. Then, it is easy to
understand that the horses entered the country that way. Nevertheless,
in North America, there was a wave of people coming from England, and
colonizing the country (which is the reason why we speak English in this
country). And these people from England brought their very fine
Thoroughbred (the English Pure Blood Horse).
People started organizing races in Rhode Island between Horses coming
from South, from Mexico (so, from Spain) and horses coming from England.
The usual length of the races was a quarter of a mile, in the main
street of the cities. Then, these horses became popular, and were
adopted for their great speed (actually, their capacity of accelerating)
and their good behavior. So, the horses from Mexico and from England
were bred, and that was how the real Quarter Horses were born.
Their adaptation to work in the plains with the settlers, their
long-distance skills evolving under the saddles of wild outlaws and
especially cowboys, these horses became a specialty in the country.
Their numerous abilities improved until the point that the Quarter Horse
is nowadays one of the most polyvalent horse on earth. It is used in
rodeos, on ranches as cattle horses, in jumping (even though very few),
and different pleasure horsemanship disciplines. Actually, the image of
the Quarter Horse is really related to the cowboy, his life and his work
and it is true that the cowboys actually used the Quarter Horse very
much, and still nowadays, this horse is the most commonly used on
ranches.
The registry started for the Quarter Horse in 1940: that is when the
Quarter Horse became an official breed, and since then, this horse has
never quit being exported all over the world. You can find a Quarter
Horse on any continent, registered and well-bred. The multi-purpose of
this horse, the fact that it is usually a good and calm horse makes it
an ideal first horse to ride or a good companion for professionals or
competitors in different sports. American horsemanship exists all around
the planet and is especially developing in Europe, and the Quarter
Horses are important for this kind of riding. The rodeos are also
popular in other places and not only in North America; there too, it is
important to have a Quarter Horse.
Actually, there are as many different types of Quarter Horses as there
are disciplines in which they are used. We could not describe and say
for sure what a Quarter Horse looks like. Usually, though, their height
is around 15 or 15.2 hands. They are not very light horses without being
really stocky. They are muscular and calm. The color can also be
different from a horse to an other. Here is what
http://www.american-quarter-horses.org
tells us about this animal “the horse is stocky, stands about 15.2 hands
high. American Quarter Horses have only limited white markings on the
face and on the legs below the knees. There are also 13 other recognized
colors of American Quarter Horses including the most common color of
sorrel (reddish brown). The others colors are black, brown, buckskin,
bay, chestnut, gray, palomino, grullo, dun, red dun, red roan and blue
roan.”
Some of these horses are very “cowy”: they can follow and get any cow,
and won’t let her escape if they have to take her apart of the bunch;
this is what the cowboys want in their Quarter Horse and this is also
the kind of horses that compete in cutting. Some are more speedy and
agile so they compete very well in barrel races and others. Some of them
are very light and very fine, they compete in disciplines like reigning,
etc. This is the particularity of this horse: many different horses
belong to this breed.
The Quarter Horse allows one other blood to enter in the genetics of the
breed: the thoroughbred. If any horse has one parent who is recognized
as a Quarter Horse, and the other one is a Thoroughbred, the horse will
be able to be registered as a Quarter Horse. So he can be only half
Quarter Horse… But, the parent Quarter Horse can already be only half
Quarter Horse, so the colt will be only a quarter of a Quarter Horse,
etc. So, actually, some horses have very few Quarter Horse blood in
their veins, but are still registered as Quarter Horses. Some can be
almost completely Thoroughbred, and be recognized as Quarter Horses.
This politic of amelioration of the breed gave, nowadays, as a result
that some of them look more like Thoroughbred more than Quarter Horses.
And some of them are more Thoroughbred anyway. So if you see a very
long-legged, light, fine horse, with a very high head, pointy hears,
don’t bet that it is not a Quarter Horse, you could loose your bet (at
least don’t bet your horse or even your ranch, as the cowboys or gauchos
could do in the past …).
Racing horse at the beginning, this horse helped the people to build
this country, going West with the settlers, working with the cowboys,
traveling with the army and fighting in wars. Nowadays, in a world where
people forget more and more about horses and work more with machines
than animals, the Quarter Horse is still present and play a great role
in the economy of the country, on the ranches, and competing in games
(part of the economy of our country is based on games and
entertainment). If you ever look for a horse to buy, it is also very
likely that you find a Quarter Horse in your way. There would be not
many reasons not to buy it.
Next time, we will have a look at the Thoroughbred on which the national
horse is based, and who is a direct cousin, very closely related to the
Quarter Horse. Until then, keep your cinch tight…
Cédric Ganné.
Medical Aide Course Starting
A special Certified Medical Aide course will be
offered through Independence Community College in Neodesha, beginning
Tuesday.
The six-credit hour course will be instructed by Toni Barnhart, RN FNP,
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6 to 9 pm at the Neodesha Health Care
Center. The class will continue through May 13.
For more information about this or any of ICC’s other Allied Health
course offerings, call 620-332-1420 or visit ICC’s Downtown Learning
Center located on the third floor of Independence Corporate Offices.
ICC Instructor Gary Mitchell’s 2003 Fiji Book Drive is underway.
If you
have any books that would be appropriate for high-school or
primary-school level students (including pre-schoolers), contact Mr.
Mitchell at ICC (331-4100, ext 4231)
The books need to be in good shape. They can be softcover or hardcover,
fiction or nonfiction.
All of the books collected are shipped to libraries in
Fiji.
Independence Lincoln Elementary School fourth graders this year have
donated two big boxes full of books, individuals have contributed books,
and the ICC Library is making some rejected books available to the Fiji
libraries. ICC’s Phi Theta Kappa also sponsors a book drive. Mr.
Mitchell sends thanks to all who have donated books and money to the
effort (money is needed to ship the books), and welcomes all donations
for the Fiji libraries.
Two
Initiated Into Delta Psi Omega
Gary
Mitchell, Independence Community College theatre instructor, has
announced that two ICC students were initiated into Delta Psi Omega, an
international honorary dramatic fraternity, Dec. 16 on the stage of the
William Inge Theatre. Each student was required to perform a
tongue-twister in character as part of their initiation.
Inducted
into the fraternity were Kelly Duke and Marisa Fritzemeier. They earned
points for the outstanding work they have done in theatre for the past
year. Duke was in “Little Mary Sunshine” and “Our Town.” Fritzemeier was
also in those two productions plus “Over the River and Through the
Woods” and the summer dinner theatre production. She served as assistant
director for the children’s theatre production in August.
The ceremony was conducted by Nichole Horan, Kandice McLaughlin and Adam
Harris. Mr. Mitchell, Delta Psi Omega faculty sponsor; Ray Rothgeb, Dean
of Instruction, and Brandon Porritt also attended.
Delta Psi Omega has more
than 200 chapters at community colleges in the U.S. and in Canada. The
purpose of the fraternity is to honor students who have distinguished
themselves in community college theatre programs.
Sas See's Snow!
AN EXCITED 18-year-old Sasiporn Kaoromaitree,
ICC freshman from Taiwan, plays in the snow for the first time in her
life. “It’s neat,” she said, “and it’s so soft. It’s different than I
thought it would be.” Eight inches of snow hit the ICC campus Dec. 4,
causing a number of students to miss classes and the cancellation of
some night classes. (Buccaneer photos by Luke Kern)
ICC Student Basketball
League Forming
By Jason Miller
Buccaneer Staff
Writer
Grab your
Chuck Taylors and Air Force Ones, it is intramural basketball season.
Ladies this league
is co-ed so come out and show the men what you can do. In fact,
don’t think this is just a league for the big football players; all
students are encouraged to participate in the league. Though
basketball players are eligible for the league, they won’t be playing
since it is in season, as directed by their coach. But if the
basketball team wants to be involved in the league they can referee and
help keep the games clean.
Other refs will be
students in the rules and officiating class. Player in the league also
will referee some of the games.
(NOTE: Don’t worry!
The baseball team is not playing in the league, so there is no need to
fear being hurt by their physical play.)
The league starts
soon so get your teams together and sign up. Remember all students
are eligible, and this is for a credit. This will be one of the most fun
classes in the history of Independence academics. There are no
books to buy, so start working on your jumpers. After the regular season
there will be a playoff to determine a champion. There are no cash
prizes, cars, or NBA contracts for the winners. But the champions
won’t leave the class with nothing. They will receive a shirt that
they can wear proudly to show that they were champions.
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