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Alfredo AnayaCrusader staff

Hearing the word cancer as a young boynever really seemed to phase me. I didn’tknow what cancer really was, or how peopleeven got it. I was sure it was a disease and itwas bad but never really thought I would haveto deal with it.My journey with having a family member

with cancer started when I was 9.My mom had gone to the doctor for a check-

up because she wasn’t feeling normal; they dida complete check up and found a malignantcancer growth in her breast. I wasn’t sure howto feel. I was scared that my mom had to havesurgery for something they told her the day be-fore, and yet I was hopeful that this surgerywould make everything better again. Mymother’s cancer wasn’t just a small thing. Aslater discovered, it was moving very fast andshe had to have her entire breast removed. Thisalong with chemotherapy treatments reallystarted to scare me. Some days my mom

wouldn’t even eat or talk. She would sleep fordays because the chemotherapy was so strong.These days wouldscare me like noother.Would my mom

ever be OK?Wouldshe die from thistherapy that’s sup-posed to cure thedisease?My mom howev-

er was a fighter.She beat cancer andeven though herself- image was alittle changed fromall of this, she re-mained as strong asever. She had trou-ble feeling femi-nine and pretty with no hair, but she wore wigsto help her out with that. My mom in my eyeswas as pretty as ever, with or without hair.

The first part of this journey was done. Mymom was OK, and things returned to normal

for a few more years. Iwas a fifth grader, myolder sister was insophomore in highschool, and my littlebrother was in kinder-garten. My mom con-tinued to go to constantcheckups to track anychanges or to see ifthey discovered anynew cancer cells, butshe was fine.Aside from the

checkups, they discov-ered a whole new sur-prise. My mom waspregnant. This mademe happy because a

little brother or sister would be amazing, butyet there were so many risks with my momhaving this baby. We all wondered if it was

even a good choice to have the baby, becausewe didn’t know what effects the chemothera-py could have on an infant. The doctors said itwas fine after all and the baby would be nor-mal.She had the baby, a beautiful little baby girl

named Ashley who looked just like her. Mymom loved her new baby girl. It was like a giftfrom God after all the things she had been putthrough. And still things continued to be fine,and at the checkups they told her things werefine. Life was beginning to look up.Things continued to be good for another two

years. One day, however we received a call.My grandfather had been in a serious car

crash, and he was on the verge of dying. Mydad had to fly back to Mexico to help out hisfamily through this situation. My mom wasstrong and kept us all together for this wholemonth. My grandfather passed away, and mydad was feeling down along with the rest of us.But death was something that I felt I couldnever really deal with, so I just cried a bit andforgot.

Cancer seemed foreign, almost unreal, to him, until his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.One young man describes living through a disease that took his mother’s life.

Breast cancer affects Seward student’s life

Deisi BarbozaCrusader staff

Magician Daniel Martin may have started offthe show by stating that he doesn’t sing or danceand that he does one thing only, magic, but hedid more than that. He had most of the audienceon the edge of their seats with his tricks and hadthem laughing as well.At times, his tricks weren’t to amaze the audi-

ence but to make them laugh. For one trick, hewanted the audience to see a trick from his pointof view. He picked a Seward freshman, VictorRodriguez, from the audience and brought himup to the stage. As Rodriguez sat down, Martindecided Rodriguez needed to look the part of amagician as Martin placed an oversized wizardhat on Rodriguez.Next, Martin had Rodriguez hold a roll of toi-

let paper as Martin crumpled up a ball of it andplaced it in his fist and asked which hand it wasin. Martin then quickly threw the ball over Ro-driguez’s head, and he guessed wrong.The more times Martin repeated this trick, the

ball of toilet paper got bigger and bigger untilRodriguez realized what was going on.However, this wasn’t the only trick up Mar-

tin’s sleeve as he removed the hat off of Ro-driguez’s head the audience went wild withlaughter as under the hat was a toilet plunger.Martin asked Rodriguez if he had a Facebook,and he replied, “Yeah, why?” Martin answeredback, “I hope you like your new display pic-ture.”“I felt flabbergasted,” Rodriguez said, after the

show. “He was funny, down to earth and hewould make jokes with us.”For another act, Martin had three power drills

on stage and two batteries were charged and theother was drained. He placed the batteries in abag and shuffled them around. He asked threepeople from the audience to put a battery onwhichever drill they wanted to. He tested onedrill on a box and it worked. He then picked avolunteer, Eduardo Munoz, to place a drill onMartin’s temple as he had the other one on abox.Martin asked Munoz to press the trigger at the

same time he did and “magically” Munoz’s drillwas dead. “I was excited and at the same time alittle nervous,” Munoz said. “He’s a pretty goodmagician; everything was good and everybodyenjoyed the show.”With a stunt that involved catching a paint ball

in his mouth, escaping a straight jacket while lis-tening to a crazy ex-girlfriend’s voicemail, andending the show with a video of his “crib,” theshow was definitely college orientated. “I try todo different things because no one wants a cook-ie cutter show,” Martin said.Throughout the show, Martin kept track of the

items guessed by students. He asked one studentto name a drink, Mountain Dew. He asked an-other student to pick a card, he picked the sevenof hearts. He had another student choose amodel of a car from the Blue Book, Land Rover.He had a couple of students add up the numbersin their license plates, the total 5342972.He had a DVD with his appearance of MTV

Cribs on it and every item he had kept track offrom the Showcase Theater stage showed up onthe pre-recorded video.At the end of the showMartin shared with the

audience his bucket list, which included to be onTV, which he accomplished; to be on MTVCribs, which he said he recently shot; and to re-ceive a standing ovation.At the end, Martin got his last wish granted

when the crowd stood up and clapped.“I get to go all around the world and you guys,

in a little small town in Kansas, were a lot offun,” Martin said.

Magician impressesSeward students

Crusader photo/ Alfredo Anaya

Eduardo Muñoz pushes a drill on Daniel Martin’s temple. He chose from threefully charged power drills and the one he chose became uncharged for the trick.

Antigoné LoweryCrusader Staff

With Halloween less than aweek away, the clubs and stu-dents at Seward County Com-munity College/ Area TechnicalSchool are preparing for thisyear’s Trick-or-Treat Street,which will be from 6:30 p.m.until 8:30 p.m. Thursday.Trick-or-Treat Street was de-

signed to get the community in-volved with the college and givekids a safe place to trick-or-treat.“Every year people show up

and have fun. I don’t think it’sgoing to be a disappointment,”Student Government presidentEdgar Rosales said.Trick-or-Treat Street is held in

various places at the college,which include the StudentUnion, hallways, classrooms, theoutside haunted hayride and thedorms giving all who come a va-riety of places to have fun andreceive candy.Because there are many peo-

ple from the community whocome to enjoy Trick-or-TreatStreet, the clubs are required tofill out a club participation formstating the club’s name, the de-sired location of the club’s boothand the activity the club will bedoing for the children.The forms were turned in to

Wade Lyon, the director of stu-dent activities.“I think it is a good activity for

the community to come andenjoy,” Lyon said. “It allowspeople who don’t get a chance tocome down to the college to seeit.”Not only are the clubs able to

participate in the event, but soare the students in the dorms.The dorms are decorated and

students are able to participateby giving away candy outside oftheir dorm rooms, directing traf-fic outside of the dorms, and canalso help on the haunted hayride.KoKo Davis, director of the

Student Living Center, is a bigcontributor to Trick-or-TreatStreet, spreading the details ofthe event in the dorms and help-ing to provide those who wouldlike to participate with candyand buckets.“I like the idea of giving the

kids a fun and safe environmentto trick-or-treat. I like that mydormies step up to make it hap-pen,” Davis said.Clubs participating in Trick-

or-Treat Street will welcome thecommunity’s children to campusfor candy and Halloween fun.

Trick-or-TreatStreet invitesparticipants

Crusader photo/ Alfredo Anaya

Magician Daniel Martin performs a trick using a rootbeer bottle that he pushedthrough student Todd Glime’s stomach. It was after he asked the student to namea drink which was Mountain Dew.

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Scarlett Buchman poses for apicture at the 2009 Crusaderphoto booth.

Instructorhas workpublished

October is breast cancer awareness month.

Morgan AllamanEditor in Chief

Seward medical lab techni-cian program coordinator andinstructor Dr. Suzanne Camp-bell’s dissertation was pub-lished in the Clinical Laborato-ry Science Journal this summer,with part two set to publish andpart three due for submissionthis month.Campbell’s dissertation fo-

cused on woman who start outas clinical laboratory scientistswho are now higher educationadministration in a universitysetting.Director of marketing JR

Doney believes that the publica-tion of Campbell’s dissertationis one of the best ways to getSCCC/ATS’s name out there.“The publication of Suzanne

Campbell’s dissertation is a tes-tament to the outstanding levelof instruction provided to stu-dents by instructors atSCCC/ATS andAllied Health,”Doney said. “There is nogreater way to market this col-lege than through the accom-plishments of our students andour teachers.”Campbell considers this topic

to be a unique circumstance.“These women that I inter-

viewed are deans of AlliedHealth in a university setting,”Campbell said. “The majorityof people who hold those posi-tions have a background innursing, because the nursingprograms would be a large aca-demic component of that. So it’sa unique situation that there area handful of woman who are ac-tually from the clinical labora-tory background and haveworked their way up to a dean’sposition.”Campbell used her research

for her dissertation to help herdecided what she wanted to ac-complish after earning herPh.D.“When I decided to go back

to school to earn my Ph.D, I didthat with two goals in mind; oneof which was to either move toadministration at the communi-ty college level, or to transitionfrom a two-year institution to afour-year university,” Campbellsaid. “And so I felt like talkingto women who have already,quote, ‘been there done that’ asfar as the transition from be-coming a clinical laboratory sci-entist to a higher education ad-ministrator, might give mesome insights on what I need tobe doing to make that happen.”In order to get her dissertation

published, Campbell had to fol-low author guidelines from thejournal. First, she submitted themanuscript for review. At thatpoint, it underwent a peer re-view where she had to makeminor revisions. Last, her dis-sertation was resubmitted to thepublisher and then published.

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Ashley, Anahy and Anthony Anaya enjoy amoment spent together. Family support is one ofthe things that held the family together throughtough times.

• See Campbell page 3

• See Breast Cancer page 3

CRUS DERCRUS DERThink PinkLady Saints DigPink for BreastCancer awareness.

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SCCC/ ATS medical students help out at the Health Fair.—Page 2

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partment was summoned to theSCCCAcademic Building, 1801N. Kansas Ave., in reference to areport of criminal damage toschool property. No suspectswere named in the incident and itstill remains under investigation.The damages were estimated atapproximately $50.n No new reports have been

filed since Oct. 19.

Deisi BarbozaCrusader staff

Saints Bookstore is taking partin a survey during the month ofOctober.This survey is being taken at 20

colleges nation wide includingSeward County Community Col-lege/ Area Technical School.Students on campus may take

the survey at studentwatch.org orthey can stop by the bookstoreand take it on the laptop at thecounter.If a student chose to take it at

the bookstore, they can get freehot chocolate or a cappuccino.

According to Saints Bookstoredirector Jerri Lynn Lyddon, thefeedback will help the bookstorebetter service students.Benefits for students taking the

survey are prizes and having theirvoices being heard. The Nation-al Association of College Storeswill be giving out $500 to onestudent nation wide and $100 toone student here at the college.Bookstore will also be donating

iPod speakers, a DVD player and$100 gift certificate.Lyddon also stated that there is

no cost just five minutes of thestudent’s time. Students haveuntil Oct. 30 to do the survey.

Saints Bookstoreconducts survey

Alfredo AnayaCrusader staff

Seward students joined the effort to provide services at thehealth fair on Oct. 17 at the Seward CountyActivity Center.The medical students did a range of tasks from taking

blood pressures to talking to members of the communityabout important health issues. The health fair was busy.Between 500 to 600 members of the community attended

to receive services and tests including flu shots (for seasonflu only), breast exams and urinary analysis testing.The health fair provided these services for a fee of only $35

which would normally be up to $700 up to $900.Seward students helped at the health fair for a variety of

reasons.“I helped with this event because it was a requirement for

part of the class, it helps with taking blood pressure, and italso helps with dealing with people,” medical assistant stu-dent Lilia Pando said.While some students dealt with hands-on work, other stu-

dents talked to members of the community and handed out‘vials of life’which resembled giant prescription bottles butare to store medical information.“Vials of life are kind of like a medical tag; they are also

handy but they are more detailed,” nursing student AshleyLimbrocker said “ They can easily be stored in a refrigera-tor or easy to find place in case of an emergency.”The students arrived at the health fair at 8 a.m. that morn-

ing to set up but didn’t except people to be waiting whenthey arrived.“This health fair was busier than I thought it would be, but

I think it’s a both a good thing for the community and for ourstudents,” nursing instructor Sandy Brisendine said.The students who volunteered for the health fair have been

working on the services they provided since early in the se-mester.“We prepared with working with blood pressure sinceAu-

gust. We also practiced with taking blood pressure, pulse andrespiration,” Pando said.The health fair was an event that the students definitely en-

joyed helping with, whether it was mandatory or not, andeven though it was hard work and there were a lot of people,the students got an opportunity to work with the community.“I would like to help out with more events like this. I’m a

big people person and this was more interactive. We got todeal with different personalities and different kinds of peo-ple,” Limbocker said.The Student Nursing Association have other events

planned out for the future, including getting a Relay for Lifeteam together and running a coat drive. The coats collectedwill be donated to the Stepping Stone shelter and to anyonewho might be in need of a coat.

Allied Health students assistwith community Health Fair

Crusader photo/Alfredo Anaya

Lilia Pando wraps a patient’s arm with a sphygmomanometer to take the patient’s blood pressure at the recent Health Fair. TheHealth Fair offered services to the community such as flu shots, breast exams, urinary analysis, blood pressure, blood tests,bone density, visual acuity and field of vision, and hearing screening.

Crusader photo/Devon Box

Students take a tour of the West Texas A&M University campus inCanyon, Texas, and receive information on the different programs and fa-cilities that the campus offers. TRiO was the sponsor for the visit.

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The month continued and my dad cameback, my mom missed him along with therest of us and we were all happy to be to-gether as a family.My mom was almost done with her

checkups, and, after her last couple, she nolonger had to even think of herself as a can-cer patient in checkups but rather as a can-cer survivor. However, God doesn’t alwaysagree with the plans we have made up.My mom came home that day looking

sad. We wondered what the doctor had toldher, but she didn’t want to tell us. My dadwent with her to the next checkup and askedthe doctor to tell him what was wrong. Thedoctor told my mom that the cancer cameback and that it was now in her liver andthere was no cure.She had two weeks or maybe a month to

live. We couldn’t accept this as a reality. Mymom couldn’t be dying. She was fine justthe other day. She began getting some treat-ment, and her health did begin to deterio-rate, and then it hit us as a reality. My mommight die, but why? I thought God had putus all through enough at that point. I didn’twant to deal with anything more.We continued to have faith and prayed for

mymom to be healthy again.Wewent to theMayo Clinic in Nebraska to see if they coulddo anything for her. The doctors there saidthe same thing. There was no cure for this,she just had to be strong and live out the restof her days. I couldn’t believe this.

I cried a lot, even though I hated my momseeing me cry.She saw me crying and looked at me in

that doctor’s office and told with a smile,“Don’t worry son. They don’t know whatthey’re talking about. I’m not going to die.”And I believed her, because she was my

mom, and my mom never lied to me.Things only kept getting worse from

there.My mom’s sisters decided they wanted to

take her to Mexico to try and get her med-ical help there. So they did.My mom went to Mexico, but her health

was at a point where she couldn’t even walkanymore. My mom stayed in bed the wholetime in an unconscious state.My dad and us kids all flew toMexico im-

mediately, because even though we still hadhope, we wanted to be close to the most spe-cial person in our lives.My mom was still alive when we got

there, sleeping, breathing heavily with pain.It hurt me so much to see my poor mom likethat. I just wanted everything to end,whether for the better or the worse.Things ended soon.My older sister promised to my mom that

she would look after her kids if anything badhappened to her. Soon after, my mom tookher last breath surrounded by us all. It wassad, yet I was a little relieved that my momwasn’t dealing with all the pain anymore.

Dana LoewenCrusader staff

From homecoming queen to embalmingfamous people, current Seward student Mar-ilyn Eddleman has experienced a variety ofthings in her life.She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, but

was raised in Hot Springs, Ark., where sheconsiders home. She is the youngest of foursiblings.“In high school I was very active,” Eddle-

man said. Her activities included class presi-dent, student council president, homecomingqueen and drill team. She was also a girl’sstate representative, which was an honorgiven to only two girls in her class of 500 torepresent her school.When she was a sophomore in high

school, she trained with a fifth degree blackbelt. “I competed in Miss TeenArkansaslightweight bodybuilding and won it in1986.”She later went into banking and worked at

a small bank where she got held at gunpoint— twice.“The first time I got held at gunpoint, I

thought it was a joke,” Eddleman said. “Hecame in and said ‘gimme all your hundreds.’I thought it was just a customer, playingwith me.

The second time, it was a little more seri-ous. He jumped the counter and held the gunin my side. The boss was in the back sothere was just three of us. The gun waspoked in my ribcage and I remember think-ing, ‘Don’t go off when Susie comes aroundthe corner.’That was scary. I wasn’t laugh-ing that time.”After five or six years, she decided to go

to Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Ser-vice in Houston, Texas, because her dad hadbeen a mortician.“I’ve grown up in a funeral home,” she

said. “Half of my family are morticians; mydad, my brother and myself.”She graduated from mortuary school in

November 1998, and remained in Houston,Texas, where she worked for George H.Lewis.“That’s the funeral home where we buried

all of the rich and the famous,” said Eddle-man. “Howard Hughes, Anna NicoleSmith’s old man, Howard J. Marshall. Thatwas kind of fun.”She stayed in Houston for about 12 years.“I’ve done a lot as far as jobs,” Eddleman

said. She used her bodybuilding experienceto be a personal trainer for women. She’salso worked as a clerical and a meat-cutter.“I’ve met all kinds of people,” she said.

She dated Chris Worley, the drummer from

Jackyl, a ’90s rock band.Presently, Marilyn and her husband,

Bryan, live in Hugoton. They moved toKansas for Bryan’s job as an X-ray/CT tech-nician.She explained how it’s hard to find a job

as a mortician in rural areas because they’reusually family businesses, and it only takes acouple people to run a funeral home.Also,there are not too many deaths in smalltowns. That’s why she decided to go back toschool and go into nursing. She plans toapply to the RN program at Seward CountyCommunity College/ Area Technical Schoolin December and hopes to get in.“The most important thing to me is my

family,” said Eddleman. “My family and mydog.” She has two pets, a nine-year-old catnamed Mammie and a bull terrier namedMustang Sally. She has no children but has a10-year-old stepdaughter named Savannahwho lives in Hot Springs, Ark.She misses her family, especially her fa-

ther, now that she has to live away fromthem.The most important life lesson she has

learned is to accept people the way they areand not try to change them.

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Current Seward student Marilyn Eddleman poses in front of the mountains of Anchorage, Alaska. Eddle-man is taking courses at SCCC/ATS and hopes to be accepted to the registered nursing program.

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Marilyn Eddleman with her husband Bryan and stepdaughter Savannah. Marilyn is seven years older thanher husband. Her stepdaughter is now 10 years old and lives in Hot Springs, Ark.

MarilynEddleman

with her bullterrier

MustangSally. She

has nochildren,

only her dogand a cat

namedMammie.

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From experiencingbank robberies

to embalming bodiesto bodybuilding,Seward student

Marilyn Eddlemanlives an eventful life.

Funeral director buries past for nursing

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Marilyn Eddleman with her dad Frank who is a mortician. Heis the reason she became a funeral director and embalmer.

“My motto is,‘Every dayabove groundis a goodone.’”

— MarilynEddleman

“My dissertation was probably the final product of six months of intense work, but probably two years lead-ing up to that,” Campbell said. “So, the fact that there is a readership that might find that interesting to them sothat it might be published is just a good feeling.”Campbell has been impressed with the number of

downloads her dissertation has seen in the three and ahalf years that it has been available.“The last count that I got is that it’s been down-

loaded 483 times, which I feel good about,” Campbellsaid.Director of Nursing/Allied Health Division Chair

Steve Hecox is proud of the work that Campbell hasdone.“Research is very important, and we all utilize re-

search and the data from that research. And thenSuzanne has actually gone and preformed that andpublished it,” Hecox said. “It takes a lot of initiativeon her part to do the research and then not only that,but to take the time and the effort to go through what’snecessary to have that published. That speaks a lotabout Suzanne and her dedication to education.”Students who wish to view Campbell’s dissertation

should visithttp://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsedaddiss/1.Campbell thinks that without the support of SCCC/

ATS the publication of her work would not be possi-ble.“I would just like to express my appreciation to

SCCC/ ATS administration for their support while Iwas completing the doctorate. The college has a sab-batical leave policy, so I actually did take a one semes-ter sabbatical leave so I could do my research,” Camp-bell said. “The opportunity to do that would not have been possible had it not been for support from the institu-tion and the administration.”Hecox appreciates Campbell’s dedication to her work.“I would just say that Suzanne is and continues to be a very important part of our division,” Hecox said. “She

has a lot of knowledge, and she works well with people. It’s just a pleasure to work with Dr. Campbell.”

Campbell

Campbell: Instructorhas work published

Breast Cancer: Student’slife changed forever

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Crusader photo/ Antigoné Lowery

Freshman Morgan Skomal and Katie Hart work together with a student from Butler County Community College to plant trees in Greensburg.

Antigoné LoweryCrusader staff

Seward County studentsworked alongside Pratt, Butler,and Fort Hays students to help inGreensburg for the NationalCommunity Service Day Satur-day, Oct. 24.Students Katie Hart and Lacy

Garcia represent the college asKansas Corps Volunteer CampusLeaders for the 2009-2010school year, and met with otherstudent representatives in Prattthe day before the rest of studentvolunteers headed up to Greens-burg in order to talk about futureservice projects.I joined this group for the

Greensburg volunteer project,and we were able to assist the

community by planting trees,painting, cutting weeds, andother various forms of service.The small town of Greensburg

continues to undergo reconstruc-tion since it was hit by a tornadoMay 4, 2007, destroying 95 per-cent of the town.The town has formed a Long-

Term Recovery Plan with an aimto make it “better, stronger, [and]greener,” by rebuilding the townin a safer and more sustainableway.While many of the houses are

new, they come with very little inthe front yards. During our timein Greensburg, we helped plantfive trees for one of the familiesin the town, and also for a futurebed and breakfast home.

It was not only a rewardingand fun experience for me, butalso for other students who rep-resented the college.“I enjoyed planting the trees

for the families; it was rewardingand a good learning experience,”said freshman NancyArredondo.“I would do it again because itfelt good to help people, and Iknow that I would want peopleto help me if I were in that situa-tion.”Dean of Student Services Ce-

leste Donovan also accompaniedour group and assisted helping.“I got to know students a little

bit better,” said Donovan, whoalso liked the variety of studentswho showed up from variousclubs at the college.

Donovan also mentioned herappreciation for the students whoattended and gave up a day oftheir weekend to help out inGreensburg.“Anytime we volunteer for the

good of something better, itmakes us better people,” Dono-van said.Giving up my Saturday to help

the community was more thanjust work, but a gratifying privi-lege.There will be more volunteer

opportunities for students led byHart and Garcia, who will belooking for volunteers to assistthem in various Kansas commu-nity service projects throughoutthe year.

Students travel to Greensburg forNational Community Service Day

First placepumpkincreated byAddison Ley

Second placepumpkincreated byKatie Hart

Third placepumpkincreated byEdgar Rosales

Crusader photos/Alfredo Anaya

Six students entered pumpkins in the Student Government Association’s pumpkin carving contest Monday in the Student Union. First place paid place $75, second place $50, and third place $25 to the winners below.

Will RectorNews editor

Jordan Eder and ShaleyThomas have been selected tojoin the All-Kansas AcademicTeam, with a chance to competefor the 2010 USA Today All-USACommunity CollegeAcad-emic Team.The selections are limited, but

Eder and Thomas made the cutand were both ecstatic afterbeing selected.“I thought that it was awe-

some. I was extremely honoredto receive such an award,”Thomas said after finding outabout the selection.“I was totally shocked and sur-

prised,” Eder said of being se-lected.The two students are selected

through Phi Theta Kappa to rep-resent Seward County at theAll-

Kansas Academic Team awardsFeb. 18, 2010, in Topeka.The criteria required to be met

for the selection included acade-mic rigor, grade point average,involvement in campus andcommunity activities anddemonstration of outstandingmoral character.The selections are made to

honor outstanding students froma variety of backgrounds anddisciplines to serve as represen-tatives. Eder and Thomas willnow be able to compete nation-ally for scholarships.“It will open up so many op-

portunities, especially scholar-ships,” Thomas said. “It will alsolook great on my resumé.”“It helps a lot to know that

hard work really does pay off. Ihope to represent Seward to thebest of my abilities,” Thomassaid.

Jordan EderShaley Thomas

past present

Photo re-creation/Logan Green

Emery Swagerty as an SCCC student in the 1980 Trumpeteer year-book, and Swagerty today as the SCCC/ ATS library technician. Thesephoto re-creations are to recognize the college’s 40th anniversary.

Seward studentsselected All-Kansas

OPINION CRUSADER 5Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Q What do youthink of thehealth careissue? Serena Erpelding

“The American system isn’t verygood, and a lot of people don’t have

any health carebecause it’s just not available.”

Saul Gonzalez“America’s health care needs togive out more. There’s a lot ofpeople out there that apply for itand some of them that don’t even

get any.”

Maricela Alverado“It is vital to everybody, and we need it.I don’t think everybody gets enough

money for healthcare, and I think that somany people are unfortunate and don’thave the income to actually pay their

hospital bills.”

Health care reform is a huge issue on our na-tion’s forefront.

President Barack Obama has voiced that hewould like to see a single payer, government runhealth care system, but that system has provedbelow par for patient and doctor alike in Canada.

Dr. Bob Sager, a local physician, is a Canada na-tive and worked under their socialized system, sin-gle payer, ran by the government, for 25 years.

“The primary difference between here and thereis you have one set of rules for everybody’s healthcare, as to what they can have,” Sager said. “Nodeductibles, no premiums, payed for by taxationonly. The government runs the whole system andmakes all the decisions, they also control the bud-get...In 25 years of working there, my fee for a sim-ple office visit started at $5.11 in 1972 and when Ileft in 1997, I got $10, what’s that tell you aboutsocialized medicine. The biggest affect is that thegovernment is controlling the money, they’re con-trolling the supply then of what’s available inhealth care. About two years before I left they an-nounced they wanted to cut the budgets to all hos-pitals in the province by 20 percent in one year andit was up to the hospital to figure out which serviceto cut to save the 20 percent. In effect the govern-ment is becoming the final decision maker foreverything that is available in health care. Where,how much, etc., and that is not a nice thing to workin.”

Needless to say, Sager is not a fan of the system,

which is why he works in American. Sager wenton to say that it would take up to a year for patientsto get hip replacements and up to a year to get acataract fixed. He also said that if that system is im-plemented here, he will be looking into retirement.

The current plan working through our Congressis estimated to cost around $816 billion. Now isdefinitely not the time.

Government expansion leads to less freedom andtakes control away from the people.

Does this mean health care needs be left alone?No. Health care needs reform but the governmentdoesn’t need to be the one to take control—we are,the people.

Gathering together for peaceable assembly has-n’t seemed to do the job with all the tea partieslooked down upon by our congressman like speak-er Nancy Pelosi.

Holding signs won’t do the job. We as studentsare now the voters of our country. A new genera-tion of voters can have an impact and can make adifference. We need to be voters that seek re-founders ofAmerica.

We need to vote on people that will do their jobsas Congressman as they are outlined in the Consti-tution. We don’t need politicians that want to bringhome the bacon and spend money.We need to voteon politicians that deliver our message and keepgovernment small.

One thing mentioned and ignored by Congresswas lowering state line laws so that insurance com-

panies can compete across state lines.This would allow insurance companies to com-

pete across state lines. Most times when business-es compete, they lower prices and provide moreoptions. This would cost little to nothing andwould keep the government out of pocket books.

Despite other measures the president and manyof his colleagues believe every citizen must havehealth insurance or face fines.

One thing every citizen has is the right to chooseif they want health insurance, forcing people tohave health insurance is not anywhere in our Con-stitution.

It is funny to think that the government needs tobe the one to take control when 83 million peopleinAmerica already benefit from some form of gov-ernment health care. Almost 30 percent of ourcountry is under government health care now, andmore will fix everything?

Obama has said that nearly 46 million Ameri-cans are uninsured. Are there, really?

Of those 46, about 10 million are illegal aliens,so we can check them off. About 18 million ofthose uninsured have an income of more than$50,000 a year, and more than half of those havean income of $75,000 or more according to cen-sus.gov, enough money to own some form of in-surance if it were a high priority. Then of what’sleft, nearly 14 million qualify for some form ofgovernment insurance and just haven’t applied yetaccording to the Blue Cross and Blue ShieldAsso-

ciation.So the true size of the group of chron-

ically uninsured is about 3 percent of thepopulation, also according to the BlueCross and Blue Shield Association.Three percent is not worth giving thegovernment more control, and moretax dollars.

This issue could change a lotof things in America. Governmentexpanding to own the automobileindustries and banks, now mov-ing to health care, what will benext?

This is where we can make adifference. The 2010 electionsare approaching, and what wemust do is research our candi-dates.

Thomas Jefferson oncesaid, “The least governedare the best governed.”

Jefferson was afounding father and weneed to rock the vote thisyear to find new Jefferso-nians and begin to makean impact as a new gen-eration of voters, nowmay be a more vitaltime than any other.

A new generation of voters facing health care need to make an impact

Rustin Watt has been named the NFL MVPtoday.

Now, he doesn’t play in the NFL, but he has adream to play in the NFL someday.

I know there are plenty of other guys that want toplay in the NFL, but we’re going to give the MVPaward to him because he dreams of playing in theNFL.

How ridiculous does that sound? Giving a mostvaluable player award to somebody who doesn’teven play professional football, but because hedreams of playing in the NFL, he gets the award.

This, to me, is way to similar to what the NobelPeace Prize committee did with giving President

Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.The Nobel Committee claimed that they chose

President Obama because his motivation to reducenuclear arms, ease the tensions withthe Muslims, and stress diplomacy andcooperation than unilateralism.

Now Nobel Committee, are you try-ing to say to me that Bush wasn’t mo-tivated to reduce nuclear arms? Hewasn’t trying to ease tensions withMuslims? Didn’t Bush try to use diplo-macy and cooperation with Iraq beforewe went searching through the coun-try?

Yes, Bush did go to war withAfghanistan and Iraq, but if you werewalking down the street just as normalas everyday and someone snuck up onyou and punched you in the face, youwould try to defend yourself, right?

Bush did what he had to do to pro-tect our nation, and if he hadn’t, we might not havethe freedom to do as we please right now.

That Obama had good intentions were not the

only reasons that the committee claimed Obamadeserved the award.

According to the Fox News Web site, Thorbjo-ern Jagland said, “...Obama capturedthe world’s attention and has given itspeople hope for a better future.”

If I read that quote right, the NobelCommittee is giving President Obamathe award for giving the people of theworld hope.

Hope?I am sure there is a scientist who is

hoping to find a cure for cancer. I amsure there is a scientist who is hopingto find a cure for AIDS. Why aren’tthese people getting awards for givinghope to victims of a disease that takeslives everyday?

Once again I must say the NobelCommittee dropped the ball. Theygave away an award for something

that hasn’t even happened yet. President Obamahasn’t achieved peace, he has merely given theworld’s people hope for peace.

It’s a wonder that he was even eligible to receivethe award given that the nomination cutoff date isFeb. 1 and President Obama took office on Jan. 20.That means President Obama was in office for 11days before the cutoff date and he was nominatedfor the Nobel Peace Prize.

YOU HAVE GOTTO BE KIDDING ME!What did the man do in those 11 days to deserve

an award of this stature? Can someone please tellme what I am missing, or is it yet another thing toglorify Obama as the world’s savior when he hasDONE NOTHING?

I’m sorry, Obama supporters, but let’s not go rid-ing golden chariots intoWashington to give Obamathe greatest-person-to-ever-live-award.

The man has done nothing so far to prove that heis deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, or any otheraward for that matter.

This is a chance for those who feel the same as Ido to speak their minds and bring all the support-ers of Obama back to Earth and open up their eyesto realize the man hasn’t done anything yet.

Rector@crusadernews.comWill RectorNews editor

Awards should be given for real achievements not hope

If there’s one thing taken for granted, it’slove. People don’t appreciate it enough andsome misuse it. I’m sorry Facebook lovers,but I doubt that you love your significantother of two and a half weeks like your stat-ues tell me you do.

Real love is a special thing.More often than not, true, eternal love

seems almost unreal to me. When love is acommon word used in the first year of mar-riage and 10 years later the couple is filingfor divorce, I get disgusted with love. Whenit’s thrown around and misused like that it’sno wonder that the divorce rate is the way it

is; people use love on their infatuation andthen trick themselves into believing that’stheir one and only.

According to www.di-vorcemag.com, which I’m sadto know exists, only 65 percentof the 10 percent of the popula-tion who got married in 2000made it to their 10th anniver-sary. Ugh.

There is one story that makesme believe in eternal lovethough, and that’s the story ofmy great grandma and grandpa.

As I’m told, back in the day,upon seeing my great grandmaFayeMarie for the first time, mygreat grandpa Albus told hisbest friend, “That’s the girl I’mgoing to marry,” and he did.

Once they married they trav-eled with their touring county band, FayeMarie on banjo and Albus with vocals andpercussion. During one particular bar perfor-

mance, a drunken crowd member decided toattack Albus. Faye Marie ran over and

smashed her favorite banjo over theguys head to protect my greatgrandpa. I also heard they dancedthe polka so beautifully that there’sno way they weren’t made for eachother.

Years later, when Albus passedaway, my grandmother was devas-tated. She still went on with thedaily chores, but one could alwaystell she felt something was missingin her life. After she passed away acouple of years ago someone toldthe story of how she passed at herfuneral. They said as she sat in herrocking chair, she looked towardthe ceiling and just said, “Albus.He’s here for me.”

Something about that just makesmy heart jump. It makes me think love ispossible in life and possibly even after deatheven if it’s misused a time or two.

Allaman@crusadernews.comMorgan AllamanEditor in chief

“Moreoften thannot, true,eternal

love seemsalmost

unreal tome.”

“They gaveaway anaward forsomethingthat hasn’t

evenhappenedyet.”

Rethink the overuse of the word love

Letters to the editor will be considered forpublication if they are signed and authenticityis verified. We reserve the right to edit forlength. Submit letters at editor@cru-

sadernews.com, mail to Box 1137, Liberal, KS 67901, or bring bythe Crusader office inAA131.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Everyone has different sides to themselves.I for one have a competitive nature.

As I have progressed into the college daysmuch of that competitiveness has beentrapped inside of me.

Through high school I had many differentways to get it out. One being sports.

I was a four sport athlete through my HighSchool years. I played football, basketball,ran track and even worked my way around agolf course.

Going from four sports to no sports hasbeen a difficult change. Being asmall child and playing sportsup to their high school or Col-lege years, many may not real-ize how much they relied onthose activities for many years.

To help cope with this changeI have taken an interest in pokerespecially Texas Hold 'em.

It offers many unique chal-lenges that you find nowhereelse. From looking into an op-posing players eyes to try andfigure out what cards they haveto bluffing your way into a bigwin.

Card games offer a way outinto the competitive world. Assome of you may have seen ontv.

ESPN usually shows the World Series ofPoker (WSOP). It consists of manydifferent card games, such as, TexasHold 'Em, Omaha, Stud, 5 CardDraw, and Razz, all of them offer adifferent type of strategy to thegame. They are alike in many ways,but also very different.

The "Main Event" is the mostwatched event during the WSOP.

Thousands of people enter, andover the last few years the winner ofthe main event has gotten well over$1 million in winnings along with achampionship bracelet.

Striving to be the best and havethe largest chip count at the tableshas been a great way for my com-petitive side to excel. It is a game ofstrategy, skill, risk and luck.

May the best cards win.

“Lookinginto anopposingplayers

eyes to tryand figureout whatcards theyhave...”

Hugg@crusadernews.comTaylor HuggCrusader staff

Rodriguez@crusadernews.comJose RodriguezEntertainment editor

Poker is one way to keep competitivenessStudent finds a way to stay competitive without playing sports

“...themostannoying thing

since thatsphinx Leona

Lewis...”

Personal checks apersonal nuisance

You are at the store and youhave been waiting your turn tocheck out patiently. The personin front of you is about to payand you think you will be out ofthere in five minutes...but waitthey are paying with a personalcheck.

Personal checks are quite pos-sibly the most annoying thingsince that sphinx Leona Lewisthey hold up the line because thecashier has to see if the check isreal and ask for a driver’s lis-cence. Honestly isn’t it time toget rid of such an archaic pay-ment method?

I am a cashier at a grocerystore and checks hold up the line.Even while many stores havetried to speed up the process bygiving the customers options toleave their checks blank it stilltakes time to stamp “VOID” allover the check and by the timeit’s done I have a huge line.

Many businesses have stoppedtaking personal checks and cou-ple of grocery stores in Califor-nia and Arizona are trying outthe no checks approach. I don’tblame them at all because theybounce and the store is the one

who has to pay for the check.I guess it could be conveinient

to pay bills or something but it’stime to upgrade. What’s wrongwith debit cards? You can stillhave that little book that keepstrack of your balance and youaren’t holding up the line. Youcan lose debit cards as easliy asyou do a checkbook so that does-n’t convince me on the “con-veinence” of checks.

Usually it is older people whopay with personal checks andthey take their sweet time fillingout every little detail but it drivesme crazy when a younger personhas personal checks. I just wantto tell them “girl you need to getyourself a debit card.”

Technology is changing, youcan have your balance sent toyour phone and do most of yourbanking online. Many peoplehave those trendy phones thathave the ability to go online sowhat is the need for the papertrail?

I think for the most part checkwriting is dying out but hopeful-ly one day we will live in a worldfree of checks with kittens andPrecious Moments angels.

6 CRUSADER ENTERTAINMENT Tuesday, October 27, 2009

It’s almost guaranteed that you’ve never heard of B. Reith before.And that you’ll mispronounce his name. It’s not Reith as in Keith;it’s Rith, with a long i.“Now Is Not Forever” is B. Reith’s first full-length album release

and he’s beginning to get some recognition. The music video for hissingle “Go On” from “The Forecast EP” has been played inAmeri-can Eagle stores. B. Reith was discovered by TobyMac, a well-known Christian artist. Toby was so impressed with Reith that he

signed him onto his record com-pany, Gotee Records.On the title of his album Reith

says, “One of the theme’s that’sbeen coming out is dealing withthe confusing part of life, and em-bracing it and saying ‘life ishard.’ There’s more of a broken-ness in some of the songs, be-cause that’s just where I’ve beenat.” That brokenness comes out in“I Know” but it also shows hope,“I know life may not always gothe way we planned it…But I

know the One who’s in control, and that He made you, won’t leaveyou, forsake you nor deceive you.”One of my favorite songs on the album is “Just For You.” It’s a

slow, intimate love song to God that really shows his impressiverange. Another favorite “The Comeback Kid” is a more upbeat hip-hop/pop song with a lighter message about getting right back everytime we get knocked down and not giving in to the critics that re-peats, “keep comin’ back fo’more.”B. Reith’s musical style doesn’t easily fit into any one genre. It’s a

mix of hip-hop, pop and soul. As insane as that sounds, it reallyworks. It’s what makes it so unique, interesting and real. Like Reithsays, “It’s one of those things you have to get into and uncover it; onthe surface it really doesn’t make sense to try to sum up.”B. Reith is a talented song-writer, singer, and rapper. I’d recom-

mend his music to anyone. If you want to find out more about him,check out his video blog at something2remember.tv.He is just naturally gifted from God, vocally and his lyrics, when

they hit tape, they sort of just ease into your heart.”

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Movie | Alfredo Anaya

‘Wild Things’ maxes outimagination, creativityWhere the Wild Things Are“Where the Wild Things Are” was one of my favorite books as a

child. So I was interested to see if the film version did justice to thechildren’s book by Maurice Sendak, and it definitely portrayed it ina very different light. The film, which was directed by Spike Jonze,

did a good job of extending the10 sentence children’s bookinto a 102 minute film.“Where the Wild Things

Are” focused on the life of ayoung boy known as Max.Max is part of a single parentfamily and often feels neglect-ed by his mother and older sis-ter. Max, like the typicalyoungster he is, attempts todraw attention to himself bybeing a rowdy playful childand constantly disobeying hismother in his wolf costume.After a bad day, Max and his

mother get into an argumentwhich results in him biting herand running away into thenight. This launches Max into

the adventure of sailing through the seas to an undiscovered worldinhabited by bizarre, yet friendly monsters and ultimately becomingtheir king.Max has a rocky stay in this unknown world. He becomes good

friends with all the monsters and relates with them in many differentways. The monsters enjoy being rowdy and playful much like Maxand give him his much needed share of attention he lacked at home.The monsters are all very loyal to King Max but the mix of child-like behaviors leads to trouble in paradise. Max is discovered to notreally be a king, but just an average little boy. The monsters, howev-er, like Max and understand that he is not part of their world. Theydecide to make Max the first king they don’t eat and he returns homesafely.Although the movie is rated PG, it is an enjoyable film for all ages.

It had an array of aesthetically pleasing scenes and funny momentsthat can be appreciated by any movie-goer. The movie brought thebook to life with emotions ranging from anger, to sadness and reallymade a batch of monsters likeable and funny.Overall, this movie is probably a better feel good spend compared

to watching one of those lame horror movies that Hollywood isputting out now.

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Founder Sam Greenspanhas the motto that “Top 10lists are for cowards,” sohe gives readers 11 wittythoughts on an assortmentof topics. Regular featuresinclude items such as NFLpicks, where he relies ondifferent forms to predictthe winner of a game suchas his parents’ dog, videogames and “battle of themascots.” Greenspanalso remains close to hisfan base by answering11 e-mails, comments,and tweets every week.

For the funniest pictures on the ‘net, there’s The Chive. This blogposts a wide arrangement of pictures from photobombs (everydayphotos ruined by mischievous people in the background), fake mo-tivational posters and they also spotlight modern art work too sonot only is one getting a couple of laughs but also brushing up onsome culture.

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Cracked.com requires a little more reading than photoblog sites,but usually it is worth it. The site claims to beAmerica’s only humorand video site since 1958.For the most part, the site comprises of “Top 5” or whatever num-

ber goes with the article. The articles are all usually funny, enter-taining and pertain to very odd subjects like “6 Movie Heroes (thatsucked at their job).”They also sponsor Photoshop contests like “If Schools Told the

Truth” and “If Video GamesWere Realistic” giving the readers thechance to be funny and the chance to win $50 and Internet fame.

Many ridiculous people one Facebook and the answer to them isLamebook.Lamebook is a Web site where people submit funny statuses and

wall posts people post on their Facebook profiles.To submit just take a screenshot of the the status or post and e-

mail the picture to Lamebook. They will blur out the profile pictureand last name to keep the person’s privacy, so send away. Just off her succesful debut as a director of “Wizard of Oz,” Ali-

son Chambers is going to direct “Little Women” for the local the-ater troupe the Rainbow Players.The production will be performed Dec. 10, 11 and 12.See crusadernews.com for more information on cast members

and ticket prices.

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College students get bored while on the computer.No one ever really wants to do homework, and Face-book is only entertaining for so long. But where cancollege students go to really waste time?

Compiled here is a list of fun andentertaining Web sites to hold ontoour generation’s short attention spanand can also give a bit of wisdom.

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CLUBS 7Tuesday, October 27, 2009 CRUSADER

Dacee KentnerCrusader staff

Seward County CommunityCollege/ Area TechnicalSchool’s Hispanic AmericanLeadership Organization recent-ly returned from the third annualMidwest HALO Encuentro inManhattan. Nine SCCC/ ATSstudents were able to attend theconference.“The students really enjoyed

this conference. Several of lastyear’s students were there, andthey all were able to visit togeth-er,” HALO sponsor FrancesBrown said.This year’s conference started

out with breakfast. The studentswere then introduced to KansasState University president KirkSchulz and multicultural directorMirna Chavez.This year’s theme was ‘Lati-

nos/Latinas making strides inKansas higher education.’ The

guest speaker was University ofNew Mexico Professor Dr. TeyDiana Rebolledo.“I really enjoyed the speaker

that we had,” HALO vice presi-dent Jessica Palacios said. “Sheshared her life experiences andstruggles and told us to keep ourheads up and keep going no mat-ter what the circumstances.”After the speaker, students en-

joyed mariachi music and KSUfolk dancers.Former SCCC/ ATS students

and current KSU students EdlinOrtiz and Arturo Nunez partici-pated as folk dancers, while thegroup Mariachi Campanas deAmerica entertained the crowdagain this year.Students who participated on

this trip include Palacios, MirnaBonilla, Sandra Bonilla, KeniaMendez, Sugely Mendez, Lizu-ly Monarrez, Vivianna Ortiz,Yolanda Perez and HALO presi-dent Anna Garcia.

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Phi Theta Kappa is collectingchildren’s books now throughNov. 30 to donate to local shel-ters and Big Brothers Big Sis-ters. The books should be new chil-

dren’s books or used children’sbooks in good condition. Collection boxes have been set

up in college buildings includingcosmetology, the technicalschool, and Epworth AlliedHealth Center. Collection boxes have also

been set up around town at Lib-eral elementary schools and in-termediate schools and KSCBradio station. PTK expects to collect at least

20 books, but has hopes of gath-ering a lot more.Rather than holding a toy or

Halloween costume collection,PTK sponsor Debbie Staffordsaid the organization believesthat a book collection is some-thing that helps provide knowl-

edge to those who can’t affordbooks and that books are the keyto an education, and in the longrun success. Another event that Phi Theta

Kappa takes part in to better thecommunity is a biannual high-way cleanup which is done oncein the fall of a semester and oncein the spring. Rain cancelled the honor soci-

ety members’ plans of doinghighway cleanup Sunday, but analternate date will be set. Phi Theta Kappa keeps a two

mile stretch on Highway 54clean by picking up trash andmaking the area look clean. One of the goals of Phi Theta

Kappa is to keep the communityand our environment a cleanplace. While cleaning an area on the

highway might not sound like afun task, Stafford said PTKmembers always attempt to havea good time by having competi-tions on who can gather up moretrash.

PTK book collection begins

Crusader photo/ Taylor Hugg

Long Vo plays pong with goggles on during an activity outside the dormsto promote alcohol awareness. The purpose of the activity was to showthe contrast between performing sober and drunk via use of the goggles.

Crusader photo/ Taylor Hugg

Landon Harp and Shaley Thomas participate in a sim-ulated drinking and driving activity. The activity usedgoggles to simulate the experience and difficulty ofdriving while under the influence of alcohol.

Crusader photo/ Jose Rodriguez

Caleb Crane decorates for Alcohol Awareness month for his psychology class taught by Debbie Stafford by posting “bricks” on thewall with compelling stories of alcohol abuse told by SCCC/ ATS students. The decoration theme was “just another brick in the wall.”

Activities increase students’alcohol awareness at college

Crusader photo/ Morgan Allaman

Mannequins were place around the college with statistics andsayings warning students about the dangers of alcohol abuse.

By Zachary CarpenterCrusader staff

Students and faculty of Se-ward participated in CollegiateAlcohol Awareness activitieslast week. “I think the whole National

Collegiate Alcohol Awarenessweek was very succesful thisyear,” commented CelesteDonovan, dean of students.“There were over 60 studentswho participated in the com-petitive games over at thedorms on Monday night.” Games were played for cash

prizes, and then on Wednesday

more then 70 students took theE-Chug accessment, an onlinesurvey to create awareness ofstudents’ own personal and orfamily risk patterns. “One of the questions dealt

with how much money they(students) spent every year onalcohol,which I think was aneye opener for a lot of studentsto determine the financial im-pact,” Debbie Stafford, coun-selor and coordinator of stu-dent development said.Stafford’s general psychologyclass promoted NCAAW byplacing flyers and mannequinsall over campus.

Crusader photo/ Logan Green

Pathways member Chris Bobeda sells baked goods to students andstaff in the academics building. The science club bake sale proceedswill go toward a recycling project and a spring trip.

Crusader photo/ Morgan Allaman

Omar Rios, Taija Stegman and Jeanette Contreras roast marshmal-lows for S’mores at a Kylix art club meeting Thursday.

Campus Messengers forChrist will collect items to put inshoeboxes for Operation Christ-mas Child. Items such as stuffedtoys, hygiene products, hardcandy and school suppies wouldbe appropriate. Students whowish to donate items should doso by Nov. 10, because CMCmembers will wrap the boxes at

its Nov. 15 meeting. A donationof $7 is reccomended for ship-ping and handling, and this year,if paid online, people can tracktheir donation to see where itwill be sent.For more gift item ideas or

more information on OperationChristmas Child go towww.samaritianspurse.org.

Student Nurses Associationwill have its next meeting atnoon Nov. 2. RN and flightnurse Melinda Amerin will bethe guest speaker. The meeting is open to the

public andwill be at the LifeTeam Midwest headquarters,just south of Liberal Airport ter-minal.

Skills USA southwest districtofficers went to Hesston to at-tend classes and elect state offi-cers. Those officers were: district

president Jonathan Yowell, vicepresident Matthew Olson, secre-tary Bill Beck, treasurer AlishaStarkey and reporter JasminMitchell, parliamentarian CoryBransgrave and historian Bran-

don Bruner. Yowell was elected as a

Kansas state officer, and after of-ficer training he will be chosenfor a particular office.Bransgrove and Starkey won a

red ribbon on their bulletinboard, Olson won a blue ribbonon his prepared speech on theSkills Creed with the topic of“The American Way of Life,”

and Mitchell won a white ribbonfor twittering.Bruener and Yowell participat-

ed in the salute to the nation’ssoldiers, posting the colors andoffering a verbal tribute.Skills USA sponsor Sybil

Wagner instructed a class on theopening and closing ceremonyand the college Skills USA mem-bers assisted by performing.

On Nov. 13 Pathways willhost a Rock Band tournamentfrom 7 p.m. -11:10 p.m. in theStudent Union. Pathways alsoplans to work with SIFE, PhiTheta Kappa and Student Nurs-es Association to get a recyclingprogram going.

The Saints Promoting Educa-tion Careers will conduct aschool supply drive through theend of October. Students may donate pencils,

glue, scissors, rulers, crayons,markers, notebook paper, chil-dren’s books and similar sup-plies for local elementaryschools.Collection boxes are in the hu-

manities office, administrationand business offices and library.

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INFOPAGE 8Tuesday, October 27, 2009 CRUSADER

Dacee KentnerCrusader staff

From the downtown Tucker Theatre to the Great WesternDrive-In to the former Southgate Twin, Liberal has seen a vari-ety of movie theaters over the years. The new Southgate 6 willopen its doors on Nov. 19 for a midnight showing of the secondedition of the “Twilight saga: NewMoon.”The newly remodeled theater will open with four fully reno-

vated screens, new restrooms, a party room for birthdays, an ar-cade and lower ticket and concession prices. The theater willopen its fifth screen on Nov. 25. The sixth screen will open afterThanksgiving.“When you go inside, you won’t recognize the place,” cur-

rent theater employee Rick Yearick explained.The Southgate 4 was sold in April to Brian Mitchell of

Mitchell Theatres. Former owners Yearick, Earl Watt andWilliam Ecton continued to run the theater until August whenit was closed for remodeling.“We wanted the theater to expand in 2005 when we bought

it, but the building was still owned by the mall. After startingnegotiations with the mall owners, the mall was sold and nego-tiations started back over,” Watt said. “The mall was then soldagain and so the process was difficult, constantly dealing withnew owners and new negotiations.”After having several people look at buying the theater, Watt

and fellow business partners felt comfortable withMitchell pur-chasing the theater. During negotiations, Mitchell was able tobuy the theater and the building separate from the mall, allow-ing the building expansion to occur.“We wanted Liberal to have a newly remodeled theater, but

we wanted the right partnership with the right people,”Watt said. “We felt Mitchell had proven histrack record as a business man in South-west Kansas. We felt comfortablehe’d do the right thing.”Mitchell, an

Elkhart resi-d e n t ,

owns and operates the Northridge 8 in Guymon, Okla., and theChisholm Trail 8 in Newton. Liberal residents will see manysimilarities between the Southgate 6 and the Northridge 8.“Mitchell Theatres looks forward to being a part of Liberal,”

Mitchell said. “We know people have quit going to the movies,but when they get a nice, first-class theater, they’ll want to comeback.”Earlier versions of the Southgate included the Southgate Twin

which was opened in 1978 by Commonwealth Theatres. InAu-gust of 1986, two more screens were added to the theater as itsname evolved to the Southgate 4.“When that remodeling occurred, the theater was kept open,

and it became a real mess,” former theater manager Steve Reedsaid.Over the years the theater has seen many updates in equip-

ment. Hard tickets changed to computerized tickets and digitalsound and stereo was added.The Southgate 6 will open with new surround sound, stadi-

um seating, and a digital projector for 3-D movies.A tentative list of movies has been released including “Planet

51,” “The Blind Side,” “Twilight,” “AChristmas Carol” in 3-Dand possibly some older films like “Saw VI,” “Paranormal Ac-tivity” and “Couples Retreat.” “Twilight” tickets will be avail-able to purchase in advance on the Northridge 8 Web site andpossibly at the Southgate 6 in November.Admission price is $5

with a student ID.

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Southgate 4 opened August 1986.

Southgate Twin opened in February 1978.

The Great Western Drive-In opened in 1949and showed movies until it closed in 1987.

The Tucker Theater opened in the late1920s. Liberal also had other theaters: ThePlaza which opened in the 1920s and ThePhotoplay which opened in the 1900s.

This change machine was used atthe Tucker Theater.

Crusader photo/ Alfredo Anaya

Southgate 6 is currently under construction, but plans to open Nov. 19. For more information on Southgate 6, visit theWeb site at http://www.southgate6.com/.

SPORTSSection B • Page 1

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE/AREA TECHNICAL SCHOOLCRUSADER

Rustin WattSports editor

It was Dig Pink Night at the GreenHouseWednesday, Sept. 12, in memory ofbreast cancer awareness. The night beganwith a first serve by Liberal resident, andtwo-time cancer survivor, Jo Velasquez.

Seward sported pink camouflage jer-seys, the crowd had many fans decked outin pink, and the Lady Saints were in a bat-tle with Jayhawk West opponent HutchCommunity College.The Lady Saints took set one of the

matchup 25-17, but the Lady Blue Dragonstook the next three consecutive sets 26-24,26-24, and 25-20 to deal the Lady Saintstheir sixth loss of the season.

Despite the loss Dig Pink Night was ex-citing event for one woman.“It’s just I don’t know how to explain it

it’s just an awesome feeling,” Velasquezsaid of all the support on the evening.Velasquez received the pink and white

game ball that was used in the contest andautographed by both teams at the closingof the night.The loss will drop the Saints in the na-

tional polls as they sat inside the Top 10 atNo. 9 before the loss to No. 17 Hutch.The Lady Saints moved to 22-6 on the

season and 8-1 in conference play.The loss set the Lady Saints back, but a

two-time cancer survivor had this to say tothe Lady Saints when dealt a set back.“I suggest keep fighting,” Velasquez

said. “You just have to fight it, you can’tever give back. It’s just something that youhave to believe with your heart that youcan overcome, and you can beat it. Youcan. It’s doable. Twice in my life I beat it.”The Saints then set up to travel to West

Plains, Mo. for a tournament that Fridayand Saturday and took on three top-ten op-ponents in No. 8Miami-Dade College, No.3 Missouri State-West Plains, and No.5IowaWestern before playing unranked op-ponent Lake Land College.The Lady Saints have struggled with

some of the higher ranked teams in the na-tion but look to fight and bounce back fromthe Hutch loss. Seward still sits one gameup in the JayhawkWestern division.

Lady Saints support breast cancer awareness

Crusader photo/Rustin Watt

SOCK IT TO ME The Lady Saints wore pink socks and attire forbreast cancer awareness during Dig Pink Night at the Green House.

Crusader photo/Rustin Watt

I’M A SURVIVOR Two-time-cancer survivor Jo Velasquez receivesthe pink gameball that was used on Dig Pink Night from Seward’sSports Information director Roy Allen. Both teams autographedthe ball before it was presented to Velasquez.

SPIRIT FINGERSThe Lady Saintscelebrate following apoint scored on DigPink Night. The LadySaints wore pink cam-ouflage jerseys tohonor breast cancerawareness.Seward came into thecontest No. 9 in thenation facing No. 17Hutchinson. The LadySaints fell to the LadyBlue Dragons threesets to one.

SET IT OFFSophomore TarynWesterman sets a ballfor a teammate duringDig Pink Night’smatchup with the LadyBlue Dragons ofHutchinsonCommunity College.

at the Green House

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Saints Basketball Schedule

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The Seward County Saintswalk into this season with a tar-get on the back as the preseasonNo. 5 team in the nation. The Saints return a strong classof sophomores that put up nearly70 percent of last season’s scor-ing. Tony Smith, Latiq Agard, JonTassin, Marcus James and RobertSigala all return this season. Agard was the Saints leadingscorer last season until a knee in-jury ended his season.Donte McCarter will be astrong addition to the lineup thisseason. McCarter averaged 16points a game at Pitt CommunityCollege in Texas. Other newcomers includeKevin Livingston from LiberalHigh School, Milos Keselj fromBelgrade Serbia, SashaDoroshkov out of Bila Tserkva,Ukraine, Chris Chaney from Lib-eral, Alex Sturanovic, anotherSerbian, Marky Nolen out of Wi-chita, Spencer Moore from Tope-ka, and Isaiah Thaw from New-ton. Key losses to the Saints lineupare Thijin Moses and MarquezPatterson. Patterson will be red-shirted this season. Tony Smith received somerecognition being named to anall-American team this offseasonafter averaging 14 points5.9 as-sists, and 2.2 steals a game lastseason. The Saints finished third in thenation two years ago and were arimmed out layup away from an-

other overtime, in a 72-70 loss toCowley Community Colleg. Themiss ended Seward’s season andshot at a regional championshipgame.This season the Saints wantmore.The Saints finished last season23-9 and finished unranked. Thisseason the expectations are highand Tassin believes the Saints areready to live up to the expecta-tions.“We’re a lot hungrier,” Tassinsaid.A lot of experience will be astrength to the Saints this season. “It’s very important if you lookback at teams that have experi-enced players in their programs,older kids, they tend to havegood seasons,” Saints head coachBryan Zollinger said. All five returners were big con-tributors last season and willlead the way this season. “That’s no secret that experi-ence is an important ingredient,”Zollinger said. “Those guys willbe called on this season with ex-perience from a year ago to pro-vide leadership for the freshmen.Those older guys have been inthose situations so they shouldrespond better than they did ayear ago.” The Saints have already playedother preseason national rankedteams this offseason. Oct. 9-10 the Saints took partin the Dallas Jamboree. TheSaints played No. 2 MidlandTexas, No.19 South Plains Texas,San Jacinto from Houston andNorth Nevaro, Texas as well.

Zollinger saw some positivethings and also where they haveroom for improvement as theseason progresses. “I thought we played with a lotof intensity on the defensive sideof the floor,” Zollinger said. “Ithought our execution on the of-fensive side of the ball was a lit-tle off, which, first off, it is earlyin season and, two, we’ve put alot more time in on the defensiveside of the ball than on offense.So we may not be as good offen-sively early in season, luckily, wehave a lot of guys with experi-ence and offensive talent so werehoping we can score off of ourdefense. We need our defense toscore points for us as we polishand get better offensively as theseason goes.” The Saints also have playedLamar, Garden City, andTrinidad State in Garden City. The Saints face a tough confer-ence this season with Hutch se-lected to finish No. 2 in the con-ference on media day. Also, Gar-den City had a national tourna-ment berth last season. The Saints will be the most ex-perienced team returning morethan any other team in the con-ference. Preseason polls have the Saintsat No. 5, but a strong finish is themost important.“It’s nice to have people thinkyour doing a good job,”Zollinger said. “Expectations arebetter than apathy, but it doesn’treally mean anything, what real-ly matters is where you sit at theend of the year.”

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November 6-7

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November 12-14

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Saints head coach Brian Zollinger coaches up the team following practice. Under Zollinger the Saintsfinished third in the nation his first season and were two points away from the regional championshipgame last season.

Crusader photo/Rustin Watt

Saints freshman Kevin Livingston works his way down the sideline as sophomore Latiq Agard works togain ground during a defensive drill at the Saints practice. Agard will return to the Saints lineup this sea-son as a knee injury ended his season early last year.

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The Seward County Community College Saintsand Lady Saints basketball teams will host thefifth annual Saints Bookstore Basketball BenefitNight at 6:30 p.m on Tuesday, at the Green Houseon the campus of SCCC/ATS. Admission to the event is free. Donations will

be accepted at the door and at the concession standwith all proceeds going to support the Big Broth-ers/Big Sisters of Haskell, Stevens, and SewardCounties. The night will officially begin at 5:45 p.m. with

both basketball teams signing autographs inSW229 C&D (upstairs conference rooms) for thepublic to attend. Free posters of the men’s and women’s basket-

ball teams will be handed out and the public canhave the Saints and Lady Saints autograph theirposters. The public will also get a chance to meet the

cheerleading team and dance team before the startof the benefit night in the gym.The Basketball Benefit Night will showcase the

Seward County Saints and Lady Saints basketballteams as they will be introduced and both teams

will scrimmage for 12 minutes at the end of thenight.The cheerleaders and Saintsations dance team

will also be introduced and perform their first rou-tine of the school year.A free-throw contest with Saints coaches Bryan

Zollinger and Ryan Stock vs. Lady Saints’ coachesToby Wynn and Penny Jones will take place.The Saints and Lady Saints will square off in a

team three-point contest and dribble relay contestas well as a game of PIG. Also come with camera’s ready as there will be

a slam dunk contest between four high-flying

Saints players. Free Saints Basketball T-shirts will be thrown

out throughout the night, thanks to the SaintsBookstore. Starting at around 5:00 anyone who purchases a

brisket from the Booster Club brisket sale can alsopick up their brisket from the dock right outsidethe gym. The Saints and Lady Saints will officially open

their seasons Nov. 6, hosting the Pepsi Classic atthe Green House.

Basketball debuts with preview night at the Green House

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The Seward Lady Saints basketball team has been preparing for theupcoming 2009-2010 regular season.The Lady Saints have played in three scrimmages the last month.Plenty of good things can be said about how the Lady Saints are

preparing for this season.“It has been pretty new for everyone with practice,” said Penny

Jones. “We have picked up the tempo and the intensity in the last cou-ple of weeks.”One strong point for the Lady Saints best this year is the team

speed.“Our biggest strength is speed,” Jones said. “We will outscore a lot

of opponents by beating them up and down the court.”The strength of speed alone will give the Lady Saints a huge ad-

vantage over the opposition.Although the team has many strengths, there are still a few areas

that need work.“We need to improve on communicating with each other,” Jones

said.The Lady Saints will be seen in action Tuesday when they will

scrimmage at Preview Night. This will be the first chance for thehome fans to come out and see what this year’s team will look like,and it will be the first time to show support for the team.The Lady Saints will be looking to improve on their 28-6 season

from last year, and to advance past the Region VI Tournament andget a berth in the NJCAA National Tournament.

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Skomal is a 5-10 guard out ofHaven. Skomal was a four-time-all-conference playerand a second-team-all-stater.

Spresser is a 5-6 guard fromDresden. She averaged near20 points, six assists, and sixrebounds a game. She wasalso an all-state selection.

4B Tuesday, October 27, 2009CRUSADER SPORTS

Antigoné LoweryCrusader staff

Recent NJCAA Players oftheWeek LaKendra Sanders andfreshman Sheina Fernandeshave more in common thanjust tall statures. They are bothimpressive players on the vol-leyball court for the LadySaints.Sanders, a 6-0 sophomore

from Lewisville, Texas, fin-ished her freshman year at Se-ward with 375 kills and 181blocks, earning a spot on theSecond All-Conference andSecondAll-Region teams.Fernandes, a 5-10 native

from Porto Alegre, Brazil, hashelped the Lady Saints as amiddle hitter this season, be-coming a huge contributor tothe team and earning the title of

Player of the Week along withSanders.Both Sanders and Fernandes

have pulled together with theirteammates in order to performon the court this season, buthave also set goals for them-selves.“I hope we win regionals and

go to nationals,” Fernandessaid. “I also want to keep mygrades up.”Her teammate agrees.Sanders also hopes to make it

to nationals as a sophomorethis season, and to maintain ahigh GPA before she transfersto a university.Both players recognized their

teammates and their coaches,assistant Alana Rowland andhead coach Bert Luallen.“My teammates help me in

practice and I can help them,

too, because I have played for10 years,” Fernandes said. “Mycoaches are so nice. They helpme in my classes and with myEnglish.”Sanders also compliments

her teammates for their supportduring the season. She saidthey help her by “having fun involleyball,” and her coacheshave helped by giving her guid-ance on how she can improveher skills.Coach Rowland hadmuch to

say about the recognition ofthese NJCAA Players of theWeek.“Both of our players worked

very hard early on. They are ouronly two true middle hitters, soboth of them are getting a lotof playing time; there’s no‘time off’ for them,” Rowlandsaid of Fernandes and Sanders.

“I feel both ladies deserved tobe Players of the Week simplybecause they were doing theirjob at the right time,” Rowlandsaid.“I hope that both young

ladies will continue to workhard and keep the ‘big picture’in mind. The team set the goalon the first day of practice to goto the national tournament.LaKendra and Sheina are notvery vocal on the court, butthey let their game andskills dothe talking and we know theywant to accomplish that goal.”The Lady Saints will meet

Barton County Wednesday inGreat Bend, continuing playwith the goal of reaching thenational tournament.

Daunting duo killers on court

The No. 14Lady Saints

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Crusader photos/Landry Mastellar

Sheina Fernandes and LaKendra Sanders pictured together in the Green House. Both have been Jayhawk Players of theweek and continue to help lead the No. 14 Saints to reach a national tournament berth.

LaKendra Sanders

Sheina Fernandes

Rustin WattSports editor

Since the Lady Saints first confer-ence loss at Dig Pink night versusHutch, the Lady Saints have strug-gled with ranked opponents.The Friday following Dig Pink

night, the Lady Saints traveled toWest Plains, Mo. , where they facedsome of the toughest teams in thenation.Seward took on No. 7 Miami-

Dade, No. 8Missouri State, and No.6 IowaWestern.The Saints lost to all three ranked

opponents, but did compete wellagainst the No. 7 team in the nation,Miami-Dade, winning one set andlosing three by a total of nine points.Seward then defeated Lake Land

College to escape the tournamentwith a win before traveling to PrattWednesday.In a tight Jayhawk West — with

Hutch on the division leading LadySaints heels — Seward did whatthey had to do to stay atop the divi-sion, and that was defeat the LadyBeavers.Seward took down the Lady

Beavers in four sets to revenge thefirst loss of the season dealt to themearlier by Pratt.Seward sits one game up in the

western division over Hutch andtwo games up over Barton, whothey will play Wednesday night inGreat Bend.The Lady Saints will go into the

matchup with a 9-1 conferencerecord, 24-9 on the season.

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