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Now students at Oregon State University-Cascades can get

career experience while giving free counseling to the community.

OSU-Cascades is now providing free mental health counseling to the public in Bend and La Pine. As part of the Masters of Science in Counseling program, students can earn direct client hours through an internship at the clinic.

“It’s a win-win situation,” said clinical mental health counseling student Alvin Becker. “It gives people access to counseling who might not otherwise afford it, and it gives students experience that could be expensive.”

In alternative settings, students earning hours toward their counseling licenses could be expected to pay as much as $100 an hour, according to Becker.

See COUNSELING, page 3

PROGRAMS:OSU-Cascades offers free counseling to the public while training students Scott Greenstone

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Oregon State University-Cascades has provided student parents financial

help toward childcare for the past five years and this year will be dis-tributing $21,700 to qualifying ap-plicants. The student-implemented program has helped many parents out from under the crushing weight of paying for child care in that time, according to Andrew Davis, co-ordinator of Student Life at OSU-Cascades.

“It’s not uncommon for child-care to be $1,000 a month,” Davis said. “It can be extremely expen-sive.”

To help tip the scales in favor of students, OSU-Cascades takes stu-dent fee money and puts it into the Associated Students of Cascades Campus’ system. ASCC then dis-tributes the money based on how many children and other factors, according to Kent Vernon, ASCC Programs Director, who manages the fund.

See CHILDCARE, page 5

Scott GreenstoneThe Broadside

Over 1,300 Central Oregon Community College and Oregon State University-

Cascades students participated in a survey to discuss what issues they would like to see pushed at a state level.

The surveys, which held issues deemed most important by the Or-egon Student Association and the Oregon Community College Stu-dent Association, was circulated via class visits throughout October.

Kurt Killinger, director of leg-islative affairs with the Associated Students of Central Oregon Com-munity College, spearheaded the survey at COCC.

“We’ve penetrated much deeper into the campus than I expected,”

Killinger said. “It was very refresh-ing…[to see] how cooperative all the students were in giving their opinions. It was very rewarding.”

OSA runs a survey like this one every other year when state con-gress is in its short session. The is-sues students survey favorably will be the ones OSA and OCCSA pur-sue most strongly in lobbying next year during the long session.

Killinger and COCC student Ariel Jasper, along with help from staff mem-bers of OSA, have been running the campaign since classes began, vis-iting an average of

five classes every day, according to Jasper.

Jasper worked with OSA in the record Vote OR Vote campaign last year that registered 1,857 students at COCC to vote. She wasn’t sur-prised at the response.

“I expected us to crush our goals,” Jasper said.

Jasper is currently a board member on OCCSA and OCCSA’s liason to OSA. She believes COCC’s student voice will be growing this year.

“COCC is very open and students are starting to recognize that they do have a voice,” Jasper said. “We can’t have a base of student activism if

we don’t have a base of students.”As the survey numbers have

now surpassed the goal, Killinger is transferring their remaining sched-uled visits into a vote campaign like last year’s Vote OR Vote.

“We’ll be running a soft cam-paign,” Killinger said. “It won’t be nearly as intense. I’m still a student, I’m still a single dad.”

Part of the reason Killinger is changing the purpose of the remain-ing class visits is so that his team doesn’t have to burden instructors with multiple class visits.

“I want to thank all faculty for all the time in class as it is critically important for student voice to be heard, especially since these issues directly impact our students,” Kill-inger said.

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Surveyed students choose legislative issues

BEND FILM: PARENTING:Childcare subsidy provides help for OSU-Cascades students

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▲ Killinger led the survey team, visiting an average of 5 classes a day.

A spoonful of London helps the studying go down

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Criminal Justice students vs. SWAT teamPage 7

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tor and clinical coordinator for OSU-Cascades, also sees the value of the new program.

“It’s a great opportunity for faculty to get a sense of our students’ needs and the com-munity’s needs,” Reece said.

“What’s key in our pro-fession is establishing that relationship,” Reece said.

At the clinic, students are allowed one-on-one sessions with clients while faculty and peers observe, either through a one-way mirror or on video re-cordings. This allows for direct supervision as well as learning through observation and sug-gestion, according to Reece.

“[The program] gives the students the ability to evalu-ate progress with supervi-sors,” said student counselor Terese Thompson, “to see if they’ve met their goals.”

The client interaction takes students beyond what can

be learned in the classroom.“I understood theory and

the academic side,” Becker said. “It was when I got to be in with a client that I was really able to see how it was applied.”

Clients are made aware of the observation and often feel like they are “giving something back” by helping the students learn, according to Thompson.

In fact, the clinic has seen the number of intakes double since summer term.

“The word is getting around,” Thompson said. “It’s a testament to our students.”

Reece and Thomp-son are hopeful that this growth will continue, but both remain focused on the current circumstances.

“Right now we are just looking to sustain where we are at,” Reese said, “where we can provide ser-vices to the community.”

The clinic does not do

diagnosis or prescriptions, but can refer patients to other resources, according to Thompson and Becker.

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Counseling, from Page1

▲ OSU-Cascades Master of Science in counseling student Terese Thompson and clinical co-ordinator Ryan Reece carry out a mock intake session at the free counseling clinic at the OSU-Cascades Graduate and Research Center in Bend.

Darwin Ikard | The Broadside

“Depending on what you qualify for,” Vernon said, “we can give you any-

where from $50 to $300 a term. We can’t pay for all of it, but we can really help.”

Wendy Castillo, president of ASCC and a recipient of the subsidy, said that whatever she is given is significant.

Castillo was told about the childcare subsidy by a classmate.

“I tried at one point paying for all my child-care,” Castillo said. “I couldn’t afford it.”

Castillo has a three-year-old daugh-ter at home and is completing her bach-elor’s degree in business administration.

“A lot of the students here are non-tra-ditional students, trying to fulfill the finan-cial obligations of childcare while trying to get a bachelor’s degree,” Castillo said.

The subsidy has not only allowed Castillo to keep coming to OSU-Cascades: It’s im-proved her college experience immensely.

“I feel that I can just take a deep

breath,” Castillo said. “I’m very thank-ful [for the subsidy]. It helps me focus and relieves my stress. It balances me.”

The subsidy has never reached its limit before, and Vernon wants to get the word out about student aid.

“We always have mon-ey left over,” Vernon said.

Students wanting to receive aid can get applications from the ASCC office, Cascades Hall 105C.

(contact:[email protected])

The OSU Cascades free mental health clinic now is accept-ing anyone ages 14 and up.

Register by calling 541-322-2047 or by visiting the OSU-Cascades web site at OSUcascades.edu/free-counseling

Childcare, from page 1

COCC vet tech program

Brightside and college partner for new construction, programMolly SvendsenThe Broadside

Students in the veterinarian tech-nology program at Central Or-egon Community College will

now have a way to gain hands-on experience as part of their training.

The COCC program is working on a partnership that would allow their stu-dents to learn skills while helping the Redmond Brightside animal shelter, according to Lynn Russell, director of the veterinarian technician program.

“Partnering with a non-profit like Brightside opens up tremendous pos-sibilities for both our students and the animals there. The more kind and com-passionate handling and interaction these animals can get the better,” Russell said. “Our students benefit by experiencing

a large variety of species, breeds, tem-peraments, behavior issues, health is-sues and all the stories behind them.”

Most other Veterinarian tech pro-grams don’t require students to go out-

side of campus to have hands-on learn-ing experience, according to Russell.

“We came up with this idea be-cause it was a perfect fit in many ways,” Russell said. “COCC sup-ports collaborative efforts in the com-munity. This partnership involves co-operation and collaboration among many different community interests.”

Russell calls the partnership a “win-win” situation for both Bright-side and the vet tech program.

“This is an exciting opportunity to bring a lot of good to a lot of animals and people, never forgetting our pri-mary goal of training excellent vet-erinary technicians,” Russell said.

To start this project, COCC will purchase a building directly behind Brightside where they hope to create a mock veterinarian facility, accord-ing Rich Brecke, project coordinator.

There will be two phases of re-modeling done on the building. The first rudimentary stage will get the facility to a functional level.

“The remodeling required is not ex-tensive; it is very minimal,” Brecke said. “As soon as the land and build-ing is acquired we can start that phase... It won’t be a long project, perhaps just a matter of months to get it ready.”

The second phase will be a one million dollar development to get the building fully equipped as a veterinarian facility.

“The second phase is dependent on funding,” Brecke said. “The first phase will get the building to functionality.”

To raise money for the second phase, the program will rely on grants and donations, according to Russell.

Russell hopes the students will be able to be in this facility by January 2014.

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▲ Kent Vernon, programs coordina-tor with ASCC, is in charge of the childcare subsidy fund at OSU-Cascades.

Photos submitted by ASCC

▲ ASCC President Wendy Castillo

I feel that I can just take a deep breath,” Cas-tillo said. “I’m very thankful [for the subsidy]. It helps me focus and relieves my stress.

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OSU-Cascades hires Ricketts as diversity coordinator

Molly SvendsenThe Broadside

A crucial part of student success is learning about diversity, accord-ing to Gina Ricketts. Ricketts

is Oregon State University-Cascades new diversity coordinator and is also the Native American program director at Central Oregon Community College.

“We live and work in a diverse world with different ethnicities, cultures, and religions, so it is imperative that we teach students about diversity,” Ricketts said.

Ricketts is the first diversity coor-dinator OSU-Cascades has hired, ac-cording to Christine Coffin, director of communications at OSU-Cascades.

“Growing university diversity is something that is everyone’s responsi-bility, but it’s nice to have one person leading the charge,” Coffin said. “As the number of students increases, the need for positions in this area also increases.”

Ricketts will continue work-ing at COCC as well as OSU-Cascades and believes the com-bination is “a perfect mixture.”

“The institutional and commu-nity knowledge through her involve-ment at COCC will be an asset to this position,” Coffin said. “Rick-etts was certainly well-qualified.”

The diversity coordinator posi-tion will focus on the “bigger pic-ture” of diversity, according to Coffin.

“The focus will be on community building, developing education and training for staff, and ultimately cre-ating and promoting a welcoming en-vironment on campus,” Coffin said.

Creating a welcoming environment is one of Ricketts’ goals for both positions.

“What I hope we can accomplish is creating a school where students of color can enter a classroom and know their history is there,” Rick-

etts said. “A campus where every-one regardless of cultural or any other diversity can feel welcome.”

When Ricketts attended Univer-sity of Oregon in the 1980s, there were no classes specifically dis-cussing Native American culture.

“It was a very isolating experi-ence. There were no literature or history classes specifically focus-ing on the Native American culture.”

For Ricketts, the job ap-peals not just to her profession-al goals, but also her beliefs.

“In the Native American community, students who receive education have a sense of responsibility to bring that back to the community,” Ricketts said. “That responsibility is what motivates me.”


▲ Gina Ricketts, the new OSU-Cascades diversity coordinator, will be doing double duty at both campuses.Steven Schultz | The Broadside

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▲ The Boyle Education Center remodel to add a new computer lab and classroom is now complete. The drop-in computer lab is located in room 159 in Boyle.Steven Shultz | The Broadside

OPINION:

The on-campus effect of off-campus threatsLos Angeles TimesThe following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, Sept. 6:

Before the advent of the Internet, it made sense for schools to disci-pline students only for what they

said and did when they were on school property. But it's now possible for a student to disrupt the learning environ-ment by pecking out threats on his home computer or on the telephone he carries on the school bus. Should administrators be able to hold students accountable for misbehavior on this virtual campus?

We think so, and so does the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled last week that public schools may punish conduct that poses a risk of substantial disruption even if the conduct takes place

off school property. The ruling upheld the 90-day expulsion imposed on a high school student in Minden, Nev., who used MySpace to send instant messages that threatened classmates and mentioned the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech.

Landon Wynar argued that his tempo-rary expulsion from Douglas High School violated both his free-speech rights and his constitutional right to due process. In a landmark 1969 case, the Supreme Court rightly ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But that same decision allowed adminis-trators to sanction student expression that was reasonably likely to create "substan-tial disruption of or material interference with school activities" or violate "the rights of other students to be secure and to

be let alone."It's an understatement to say that

Wynar's messages satisfied that legal test. He wrote that "its pretty simple / I have a sweet gun / my neighbor is giving me 500 rounds ... I've watched these kinds of movies so I know how NOT to go wrong." He indicated that he would "only kill the people I hate" including "the blacks / and mexicans / halfbreeds / atheists / french / gays / liberals." (Wynar told school of-ficials the messages were jokes.)

The more difficult question for the court was whether school administrators could punish Wynar for messages he typed at his home. Acknowledging that some federal judges have expressed a different opinion, Judge M. Margaret McKeown concluded that "when faced with an iden-tifiable threat of school violence, schools

may take disciplinary action in response to off-campus speech expression" consis-tent with rules announced by the Supreme Court.

That's a sensible conclusion. Students do have free-speech rights, even in the classroom, and the courts are right to intervene when administrators overreact to a student's exercise of that right, whether it's an antiwar black armband, a T-shirt op-posing gay marriage or a "boobie bracelet" worn to express solidarity with breast cancer patients. But when a student seems to target vulnerable classmates, nothing in the Constitution prevents administrators from taking action, whether he tapped out his message in a school computer lab or in the solitude of his bedroom.

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featuresMolly SvendsenThe Broadside

In spring term, students will have an opportunity to live in London for ten weeks while

earning college credit.The London study abroad

program offered to Central Or-egon Community College stu-

dents through Oregon Interna-tional Education Consortium will take place spring 2014. This program rotates every spring with the study abroad program in Barcelona.

Typically, study abroad pro-grams don’t take place until a student’s junior or senior year. OIEC gives students the option

of studying abroad within the first two years of their degree, according to Jon Bouknight, COCC speech professor and coordinator for the OIEC program at COCC.

“During this time, students are still figuring out ca-reer options, and often times studying abroad can influ-ence that decision,” Jon Bouknight said. “One of the main

reasons students enroll at OIEC is because the classes they take are guaranteed toward a degree.”

One professor from COCC typically goes with the students on the study abroad program to teach a class for students there. Jon Bouknight went on the 2002 London study abroad trip to be one of the group’s professors for the term. His wife, Lisa Goetz-Bouknight, transitional writing instructor at COCC and their then ten year-old daughter went with him.

“London changed our daugh-ter’s life. Just to see the culture, the history and the general per-spective of actually being there was amazing,” Lisa Goetz-Bouknight said. “London is the most exciting city I’ve ever been to. London is a sort of magical place.”

Students going to London will not only earn college credit but will also have access to the theater district, museums, cathe-

drals, and historical sites such as Oxford and Stonehenge.

“London is an exciting place, you never know what you’ll find there,” Lisa Goetz-Bouknight said. “London has a way of mak-ing the antiquities of history seem like new.”

Students will have four days in class followed by three days off so they have ample time to explore the city, according to Jon Bouknight.

“A lot of the activities there are free to encourage a variety of people to come,” Jon Bouknight said.

Jon Bouknight hopes to see interest in the study abroad pro-grams continue to increase.

“Generally I think there is a big advantage to spending time in another college,” Jon Bouk-night said. “It’s a great opportu-nity for students to learn about themselves.”


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Students in the EMT program have a large employment field after graduation. The

over 20-year-old EMT program makes changes to keep students ed-ucated at the current industry stan-dard, according to Brian Bubak.

Bubak is an assistant professor of Emergency Medical Services at Central Oregon Community Col-lege. This program has been open since the 1980s, and students who complete the program earn an As-sociates of Arts and Science in EMS.

The program at COCC is unique to others in the state in the way material is presented to students through a combined class and lab course.

EMT programs are mandated by state and federal standards, but the way material is taught is deter-mined by the individual program, according to Brian Bubak, assistant professor of EMS.

“Our program wasn’t designed that way by accident; there is an equal amount of time spent be-tween lab skills and class time,” Bubak said. “Having a strong base of knowledge is critical, but those skills also have to be made rel-evant.”

This combination helps to pro-duce better prepared students after

they graduate from the program, ac-cording to Nick Sphatt, director of the COCC EMT program.

“Our goal for the paramedic program is to prepare students to go out into the job force after completing our program,” Sphatt said. “A lot of being successful in this field comes with experience, but students also have to have the base of knowledge. Then the experience will take them to the next level.”

It is anticipated that the field will grow between 20 and 40 per-cent due to the baby boomer gen-eration, according to Sphatt.

“People aren’t going to stop getting hurt or sick,” Bubak said. “The reality is, older people get sick more often so we are seeing a bigger demand for services that may not come in the form of tra-ditional emergency services.”

In Redmond, a community paramedic health prevention pro-gram has already been established to assist the population with gen-eral health care so they don’t have to rely on emergency services, ac-cording to Bubak.

“This field will be affected by recent health care changes because the biggest problem is lack of access to health care,” Bubak said. “Anything we can do to get health care available will help us. Then we can focus on true emergencies after we try to keep people healthy.”

Working on an ambulance is one of many options for trained EMTs, explained Bubak.

“We have paramedics work-ing in urgent care clinics and industrial environments, natu-ral resource companies, and all those places want to have trained medical staff,” Bubak said. “Job opportunities for this field go way beyond working on an am-bulance.”

Changes to health care legis-lation isn’t the only factor that will change the EMT field, ac-cording to Bubak.

“Technology is changing ev-eryday and it is always bringing changes to this field,” Bubak said. “Take the EKG machine. It started as a simple piece of equipment and has changed to give us many more diagnostic tools.”

With the many changes com-ing to this field, this is a good time for students to complete this program, according to Bubak.

“We are definitely taking steps to make ours one of the top programs in the state,

Bubak said. “This is a very exciting time to be involved in this field.”

The program at COCC strives to educate students in the most current standards of the industry, according to Sphatt.

“I do believe we do a very good job preparing and train-ing our students in the highest standards and technological advances this industry offers,” Sphatt said.


▲ Lisa Goetz-Bouknight punt-boating with students in Cambridge. ▲ Students can take in the

sights while taking a full term of classes in London

Technology and health care legislation change the face of COCC’s EMT program

Photos submitted by Jon Bouknight

Photo from www.mctcampus.com▲ Ronnie Ikeler, regional EMS specialist for Hospital Corporation of America, demonstrates an advanced training mannequin in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23, 2010. The mannequin allows EMTs and paramedics to practice treating patients in the cramped space of an ambulance.



If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like being hunted by police, you may want to sign

up for the next Special Weapons And Tactics training exercise.

The local SWAT team draws role players for training from volunteer Central Oregon Community College students, and on Oct. 7 and 8, many Criminal Justice students got to see what being a criminal or hostage was like.

This program has been involving COCC students as volunteers for the past five years, according to Kathy McCabe, criminal justice instructor at COCC.

“Anytime there are training programs that are enhanced by role playing, we are asked if there are students who would volunteer,” McCabe said.

Students who chose to participate spent either one or two days role playing as either a criminal or a hostage in mock scenarios.

“It gives students hands-on learning experience,” McCabe said. “The tactical aspect enhances what Criminal Justice students learn in their classes. They get to see the techniques in action.”

McCabe said she has received positive feedback from nearly every student who volunteered through the program.

“They love it,” McCabe said. “They tell me to make sure to keep them in mind when another opportunity comes up so they can participate again.”

Criminal Justice student Julian Jacinto participated as a volunteer during the training on Oct. 7 and 8 and said it was “a great learning experience.”

Volunteers were assigned to different scenarios they were to role play. Jacinto

played the part of a prison gang member who was holding a group hostage.

“It was what I would imagine a real-life scene of the same situation would be like,” Jacinto said. “By the time we got to the second go-around the volunteers really got a handle on their roles and started having a lot of fun,” Jacinto said.

Jacinto hopes to one day go into the law enforcement field and said volunteering with the program “really gave valuable insight the career.”

“Being a part of the training made you feel like you were a part of something,” Jacinto said. “I would absolutely do it again. It was a great experience that more students should sign up for.”

Volunteering during the training was a way for students to give back to the community, according to McCabe.

“Service to the community is what the criminal justice group is all about,” McCabe said. “This was a way for students to be able to give back to the community.”

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For over 30 years, The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholars Program has been bringing

some of the world’s most influential minds to Central Oregon. The program was established in 1985 by the former owner of the Bend Bulletin, Robert W. Chandler, in honor of his wife, Nancy. Since that time the program continues the tradition of hosting great thinkers to the Bend community.

“Nancy would throw dinner parties for guests and people around the community,” said Jim Weaver, director of the Central Oregon Community College Foundation. “That was the idea of the endowment and the Visiting Scholars Program.”

The program is funded in part by an endowment left by the Chandler family which is managed by the COCC Foundation. Funding also comes from local sponsorships as well as pledges by both the Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College and the Associated Students of Cascades Campus, according to program director Karen Aylward.

After becoming program director in 2005, Aylward said she has seen the program flourish due to creative marketing and collaboration with various organizations. Since 2005, Aylward has brought over 90 speakers to COCC and the Bend

community, often providing free admission to students and staff.

“I have to be a bit more of an opportunist,” Aylward said. “[I] write grants, make pitches, knock on doors. 50 percent of my time is spent raising money.”

Aylward brings a background that spans continents to her position, giving her a knowledge and appreciation for diverse guests.

“I’ve lived all over the world,” Aylward said. “I get very excited about the international speakers.”

This background has resulted in world renowned scholars like Arun Gandhi, participants of the 1961 Freedom Rides, Sister Helen Prejean, and Nontombi Naomi Tutu, the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, all visiting Central Oregon.

“I want to bring the types of opportunities that you would expect at U of O or OSU to Bend,” Aylward said. “It takes you beyond the classroom. It can give you that extra spark towards your career.”

Events during the 2013-2014 academic year include the Muslim Journeys series, a conversation and workshop with author and physician Dr. Ira Byock, and the annual season of nonviolence discussion with lawyer and film-maker Dawn Porter.

“It’s an opportunity to expand our awareness,” Weaver said. “You are exposed to words and concepts you would not have heard and seen otherwise.”


▲Kathy McCabe said that participating students tell her to keep them in mind when SWAT needs volunteers for other trainings. “They love it,” McCabe said.

Students volunteer in SWAT training exercise

▲ Students taking part in the SWAT training excercise at Bend High roleplayed as hostages and criminals

Visiting Scholars program: “Extra spark” toward degree

▲Karen Aylward has been the director of the Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholars Program since 2005.

Photos submitted by Kathy McCabe

Darwin Ikard|the Broadside

Bend Film “worth the entry fee”In four days, the Bend Film Festival showed 82 movies ranging from short films, to documentaries

and feature length films. This past April, Movie Maker Magazine listed the Bend Film Festival as one of the best independent film festivals to enter in its annual article “Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.” The Bend

Film Festival of-fers prizes

for category winners including cash awards up to $5,000 and a Bend Film Festival statue.

But to the filmmakers, what makes the Bend event a unique gem is the fact that even after ten years of entertaining filmmakers and audiences, it has stayed true to the roots of filmmaking and the festival itself:

In the eyes of the filmmakers, the stories told during the Bend festival are not the typical, “formulaic” stories that have begun to “plague” movie theaters throughout the United States. Instead, each story is a tool to provide a different perspective on life, love, and logic, weaving dreams and reality together on the big screen.

“The festival does a great job organizing and creating a cohesive event with films that go well together,” said Mia Faith Renaud, executive producer of The Morning After, a romantic comedy David Renaud directed and entered into the Bend Film Festival this year.


Emily Frances KaleiThe Broadside

During the second weekend of October, Bend transforms from an outdoor-recreation paradise into a cultural mecca for filmmakers.

Filmmakers gathered at Drake Restaurant for a filmmaker meet-and-greet. David Renaud, and his wife Mia Faith Renaud, Harrison Givens, and Chris Voss all discussed the metamorphosis each of them had to make to remain in the filmmaking industry.

The filmmakers discussed how Bend Film Festival breaks the modern movie mold by shifting the spot-light away from profit margins and ticket sales, and directs the attention back to the foundation of film-making: telling a story that is entertaining and inspiring. In today’s modern times where movies seem to require everything from pyro techniques to digitized special effects in order to succeed, the idea that less is more seems “foolish.”

However, according to the filmmakers, the Bend festival stands out from others because it is incredibly

MAKING AUDIENCES CARE:The Bend Film Festival concludes its 10th anniversary with a vast array of independent films


“Bend attracts a great quality of film… it’s about having an audience, and the audience in Bend is hungry.”

--Mia Faith Renaud, Executive Producer of

The Morning After

Starting a conversationThe Bend festival provides one of the nec-

essary components to being a successful film festival: an audi-ence.

“Bend attracts a great quality of film… it’s about hav-ing an audience, and the audience in Bend is hungry,” said Mia Faith Renaud.

Harrison Givens, writer and producer of the film There is No God and We All Die Alone said: “If you tell people what to think in a film, you aren’t entertaining… a good piece of art starts a conversation.”

Whether the story was about geriatric gorillas at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio in the short Past Their Prime, or processing the transformation of a child becoming a care-taker toward the end of their parent’s life in the film Obit, the audience was singing nothing but praise for the Bend Film Festival.

Sean Creane, a film enthusiast from California, trav-elled to Bend to enjoy the event the day before the festi-val opened.

“If you want to revitalize someone,” Creane said, “you need to pull them away from the world and take them to a film festival.”


“If you want to revitalize someone ... pull them away from the world and take them to a film festival.”

--Sean Creane

Title shots taken from www.bendfilm.org

Photos by Vera Holiday | The Broadside


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Top 5 things you need to learn in community college

How to manage a budget: When you graduate from college you’ll most likely have student loans to pay off. Balancing that with other expenses can be a challenge. To get help learning how to balance a budget, take an academic success class or talk to an advisor in the CAP center.

Time management: Between work, classes, and homework, college is the perfect time to learn to manage your time. Time management is a skill that will benefit you well beyond your college career. To learn to better balance your time, take a time management class at COCC or get tips from an advisor in the CAP center.

How to write: Whether you’re in business, nursing or firefighting, you’re going to need to know how to write professionally and communicate clearly, or at least more clearly than the other person who’s trying to get the job. Once you’ve met your prerequisites, hone your skills by working as an assistant with ASCOCC or a reporter at The Broadside.

How to speak in front of a crowd: If you take charge in a situation where you have to present something to a group, you’ll become that much more irreplaceable to your future manager. Learning to talk in front of a group improves your one-on-one communication with people as well. If you want to get better at public speaking beyond taking classes, become a student ambassador or join one of the local chapters of Toastmasters.

How to get scholarships and internships: Internships lead to jobs, jobs lead to careers, and careers are supposed to make you happy. So if you want to be happy, learn how to get free money and (hopefully) free internships. COCC pays for SALT, which is an online service that’s free for COCC students and helps find scholarships tailored specifically to you. Ask advisors at the CAP center for resources on internships.

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Location:Franklin Crossing, 550 NW Franklin in downtown Bend Date/Time:Friday, 10/4/2013 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Opening reception 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4; exhibit continues through Oct. 28

Free; public is welcome

Info: 541-383-7510

Art faculty exhibits multi-mediums

Caroline NashThe Broadside

On Oct. 24, students will have the opportunity to experience a different

culture without the cost of a plane ticket.

Central Oregon Community College’s multicultural department and Barber Library will be presenting the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. This is a series of three events aimed at informing people about the culture and faith of Muslims.

These events will bring in speakers from different colleges and backgrounds, including Dr. Amy Harper, Associate Professor of Anthropology and chair of World Languages and Cultures at COCC. For the second event, Harper will be showing the movie “Under One Sky,” and will lead a discussion after the film.

“I think that part of the intent of this grant was to increase the awareness of the diversity of what being Muslim means to make it more familiar to [the student body],” Harper said.

These events started to come together earlier this year when Tina Hovekamp, Interim Library Director, discovered

a grant hosted through The National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant provided a collection of 25 books and three movies all centered on the Arab and Muslim culture are on display at Barber Library and can be checked out by students and community members interested in learning more.

In return for this collection, COCC had to be willing to provide some educational programs on the same subject manner, according to Karen Roth, director of multicultural activities.These events started spring 2013 and will continue through the fall term.The previous programs had a large

turnout, and Hovekamp hopes to see attendance continue to increase.

These events give students a way to learn about and gain perspective of other cultures, according to Roth.

“Because of the stereotypes we as a society have, we have misconceptions about people from the Middle East and Arab world,” Roth said. “This is a way to try give ourselves a different perspective on Islam.”


Program pierces Muslim culture veilSpiritual Companions on a Journey to the Beautiful: Muslim Pathways of Faith and Practice•Location:COCC, Campus Center Building, Wille Hall•Date/Time:Thursday, 10/24/2013 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

“Under One Sky: Arab Women in North American Talk About the Hijab” Film and Discussion with Dr. Amy Harper•Location:Bend Campus, Campus Center Building, Wille Hall•Date/Time:Tuesday, 11/5/2013 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Performing Islam, Performing America: Reflections and Reconciliations from a Muslim American•Location:COCC, Campus Center Building, Wille Hall•Date/Time:Thursday, 11/14/2013 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

▲ Born in the Skies, by Avlis Leumas, copic markers on BFK paper

Noah Hughes|the Broadside

▲ Lake,by Bill Hoppe, Prisma Color on rolled BFK paper Courtney Damon|the Broadside

Courtney Damon|the BroadsideCourtney Damon|the Broadside

Noah Hughes|the Broadside▲ Winter Water, Frozen on White/Fire, Volcanic Rock, by Pat Clark, drawing/painting on linen

▲ Milanese Boys, by Paula Bullwinkel, silver gelatin print

▲ Escalator Man, by Bill Cravis


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Kafkaesque recipes, or just food that’s orange and green. Our stipulations are simply that it be party-minded,

Halloween-minded, and edible. Email recipes to [email protected] or

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Is there a phantom in Pinckney? Poltergeist in the locker rooms? Apparition at a branch campus? We know we have a ghost in the newsroom, but what about the rest of the school? Submit your

COCC-centered urban legends to [email protected] or post them

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clubs & sportsGaming club booting up at COCC Instruments of Latin

America gets COCC crowd dancing

Scott GreenstoneThe Broadside

Students on campus on Friday, Oct. 18, were treated to a con-cert and discourse on Latin American music. Dr. Freddy O. Vilches and two bandmates played over 30 different instru-

ments in an hour of performance at Central Oregon Community College while Vilches talked about different music from different regions of Latin America.

Vilches, who teaches at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, played with percussionist Adalberto Dominguez and saxophonist Adrian Baxter. During the course of the performance, Vilches had the crowd tapping to different beats from across Latin America.


Photos by Noah Hughes|the Broadside

▲ Adalberto Dominguez grew up in Mexico and went to school at Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura. Here he plays the congo drums.

▲ Adrian Baxter plays the flute. He played saxophone with the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies of Zoot Suit Riot fame from 1993-1996.

▲ Visiting spectators Janet Whitney and Walter Rivas dance to the music.

▲ Dr. Freddy O. Vilches demonstrates the guitar.

Students interested in the club can contact Dawsen Conway by email at [email protected] or Jacob Agatucci at [email protected].

Photos by Jeremy Pierce|the Broadside▲ Cabinet member Siobean Walker-Sands▲ Brad Harder adjust his cards in a game of Weiß Shwarz, a German card game.

▲Jobe Ritchie plays a game of Super Street Fighter IV against a club mate.

▲Cabinet member Jobe Ritchie

▲Cabinet member Dawsen Conway

▲ Faculty advisor Dr. Tony Russell

Courtney DamonThe Broadside

To Dawsen Conway, gam-ing isn’t a lonely hobby-it’s a way to get involved

his community.Conway is a student at Cen-

tral Oregon Community College

and president of the new COCC gaming club. The club had its first meeting on Oct. 11 where members discussed the structure and goals of the club and what games are of common interest among students.

The goal of the club is to have a place where all types of gam-ers, from tabletop to video gam-ers, can come together to play, enjoy, criticize, and hopefully learn something about gaming,

according to Jacob Agatucci, co-advisor for the club and COCC writing professor.

An avid gamer himself, Ag-atucci hopes to help guide the club by getting guest speakers from the gaming world and set-ting up donations and fundrais-ers to buy games for the club to use.

“I think it would be great for the students to meet real game developers, designers, and [get

to see] the industry itself,” Agatucci said. “Kids today al-ways seem so interested in that field.”

Conway was driven to start the club because of his interest in it, but also because of the de-sire to have a place where stu-dents could come together with a common interest of gaming.

The club is open for every-one and an inclusive, welcom-ing environment is something

Conway would like to culti-vate within the club.

“The main goal of this club is to bring students into gam-ing together, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orien-tation,” Conway said. “I hope to promote a positive image of the culture that comes with gaming. Also, to just have fun.”

(Contact: [email protected])

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