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October 10, 2012 | www.TheBroadsideOnline.com | Vol. 61, Issue 2

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IndexA&E 8 & 9Campus Word 2Clubs & Sports 14Crossword/Sudoku 13Editorials 2Features 6-7, 10-11Incident Report 4 & 5News 3

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Discover where to geek out in Central Oregon

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Corrections

In the October 3 issue of the Broadside the voter registration goal for the Vote or Vote was incor-rectly reported. The goal at the time of print was 1200 voter registration cards. The Broadside regrets the error.

The rugby photo on page was miscredited. The photo was taken by Ian Smythe.

Cedar GoslinThe Broadside

Central Oregon Commu-nity College is the only community college in

Oregon that gives student fees directly to the student govern-ment, according to Taran Un-derdal, advisor of COCC’s stu-dent government.

“We’re pro-student that way,” said Underdal.

At other colleges funding for student organizations, in-cluding student governments, is determined by employees of the college. At COCC, the Associated Students of Cen-tral Oregon Community Col-lege receive student fees that are part of COCC’s tuition costs, and they are responsible for de-ciding how that money will be spent and what clubs it will fun. After the ASCOCC drafts their budget, it is presented to a bud-get committee to be approved or altered.

The student fee system used by COCC’s student government is similar to what would be used at a university, according to Un-derdal. She believes that giving funding directly to the stu-dent government benefits the student body more because they’ll know what students need and want.

“I believe if the administra-tion had it, it would be more college initiatives, not student initiatives,” said Underdal.

Fee Committee, page 4

Your money: who’scontrolling it?

COCC staff display their creative side

Not your mother’s poetry

Art professor Natasha Bacca takes Mr. Potato Head to a new level. Check out more eccentric art pieces from COCC staff.

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OSU-Cascades professor unearths expansion

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Living on a student’s budget doesn’t mean it’s

GAME OVER

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Ron Reuter instructs his Soil 408 class.

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Photos by Ian Smythe | The Broadside

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We asked four students on campus what is the weirdest class you have taken, and why was it weird?

Anna Quesenberry | The Broadside

I would probably say Holistic Wellness. It was a little off the beaten path.’’

-Rachel Brooks

They’ve all been business classes so they haven’t been real odd, probably the sociology class I’m taking. It’s different.’’

-Dustin Guilbert

My chemistry class is probably going to be the weirdest. You get to see how stuff mixes together to make something different.’’ -Kim Hawkins

I guess that would be my study skills class, it was kind of like a talking session.’’

-William Holm

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Anna QuesenberryThe Broadside

Students aspiring to travel the world and make a dif-ference don’t have to wait

until after they graduate to get their passport stamped.

Central Oregon Community College, in conjunction with the Oregon International Education Consortium, is sending a group of students on a three week trip to Peru, where they will take part in community service work while earning up to 12 credits.

“It’s a great opportunity for students to be able to travel and get credits for a reasonable price,” said Ken Ruettgers, COCC sociology professor.

The Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College has set aside a scholar-ship fund to aid students who wish to take part in the study abroad program.

“We’re in the middle of creat-ing a sub-committee of ASCOCC that will determine the applica-tion process,” said ASCOCC’s Director of Student Organi-zations, Kelly Huskey.

The scholarship will be awarded based off the student’s financial need and applicants are required to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher.

The cultural and language immersion will give students a unique learning experience and the service component opens up the opportunity for students to help the less fortunate, said Ruettgers.

The trip is slated for the first week of Aug. 2013. The courses being offered include two so-ciology courses, as well as a Spanish course.

Students will “have a real experience with the language within a culture,” said Ruettgers.

Ruettgers and fellow Sociol-ogy Professor, Tom Barry, will be joining students on the trip to Peru and plan to tailor the so-ciology course toward cultural emersion.

Although, the trip is not strict-ly for sociology majors.

“Almost everybody could benefit from sociology credits,” said Ruettgers.

Studying abroad and “service learning” are excellent resume builders and distinguish job and intern applicants, according to Ruettgers.

“Employers are going to see this person is doing some ser-vice to others and are going to want [to hire] that kind of per-son,” said Ruettgers.

In the Spring of 2011 Ruett-gers attended a presentation by University of Oregon students after they had completed a study

In Aguas Calientes, Peru, local children join in a school parade down the community’s busiest alley.

Study abroad program gives students opportunity to make a difference

Lauren HamlinThe Broadside

Johanna Olson, Exercise Phys-iology Lab coordinator, was unable to return to Central

Oregon Community College this fall because of a relapse of her brain tumor.

The COCC board of directors have started a fundraiser to as-sist Olson with her medical bills, according to COCC President Jim Middleton. Since the fund started, COCC staff have stepped forward to donate and help sup-port Olson.

“Now she’s at the point where she can’t work anymore, so we’re trying to do everything we can to help,” said Julie Downing, direc-tor of the Exercise Physiology Lab.

To contribute to the fund, the board of directors, members of the executive team and Middle-ton have pledged a combined total of $1,145, according to Mid-dleton.

The money Olson receives from the fund goes towards in-surance costs, medical bills and living expenses.

“The majority of that goes to-wards medical expenses. So re-

ally the money goes to help me survive,” said Olson. “It’s hard to accept help sometimes, but it’s necessary.”

Olson also receives finan-cial contributions through the support website savejohannas-brain.com, which is run by her brother-in-law, sister-in-law and herself.

“It has been very helpful and right now I’m okay financially, but next month I’ll have nothing, so it’s daunting,” said Olson. The funds she receives from donors help to relieve that stress.

Olson has been fighting her brain tumor for 15 years and has undergone three surgeries. In Sept. 2011, after a surgery to remove the returning tumor, Ol-son took a five month leave of absence from COCC. She was able to return in Jan. 2012, but the tumor returned again in July 2012.

“There is no cure for brain tumors, and I have been told to think of it as a chronic illness that we will manage over time,” said Olson in her blog at savejohan-nasbrain.com.

Olson has begun a new treat-ment and is now taking the drug Avastin, which is made to slow

the growth of cancer cells and cut off the tumor’s food supplies.

Despite the setbacks, Olson remains positive about her life and still does what she loves most; she’s still running. She ran in the Medtronic Twin Cit-ies Marathon in her home state of Minnesota Oct. 7, something she set out to do and signed up for in May 2012.

“I needed a goal because things were so hard,” said Ol-son. “So it definitely has helped me because I feel best when I’m running or exercising.”

Contributions to the COCC fundraiser for Olson can made can be directly taken to any Bank of the Cascades branch, or taken to Kevin Kimball, COCC’s chief financial director who will make the deposits.

Anyone can make a donation for the benefit of Olson, accord-ing to Downing.

“It can be staff or students or anyone who would like to make a contribution,” said Downing. Contributions by check can be made out to COCC for the Ben-efit of Johanna Olson.

(Contact: [email protected])

Community raises funds for COCC faculty member

abroad program that included service learning. He was wowed by the impression two weeks im-mersed in a different culture had made on the U of O students.

Ruettgers was so moved by the student testimonies that he decided to bring the same op-portunity to COCC students.

“Students should have the choice to study abroad. That kind of life experience is priceless,” said Huskey.

Part of the lure to studying abroad is entering a culture with different customs and traditions.

“The lifestyle is not American, that’s for sure,” said Ruettgers. “I think that gives students a bigger picture of who they are and of the world.”

The OIEC consists of Chemeketa, Central Oregon, Clackamas, Mount Hood, Port-land, Linn-Benton, and Rogue Community Colleges. Any stu-dent from the seven communi-ty colleges can take part in the study abroad program. Those students will then travel, work and live together for the course of the trip, giving students from

Central Oregon a chance to make connections with other students from around the state.

In Peru, students will be mak-ing a positive impact on the lives of others and will get the chance to visit the ancient Incan city, Machu Piccu, which is consid-ered to be one the wonders of the world. Ruettgers hopes the trip will offer students the per-spective that, “wow there is a world beyond America.”


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Johanna Olson competeing in the 2008 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships

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Fee Committee, from page 1

Oregon State University- Cascades also gives student fee money directly to stu-dents, but the money is not controlled by the student gov-ernment. At OSU-Cascades, student fee money is issued to a separate body of five to seven students that form the student fee committee.

Every group that spends student dollars, including the Associated Students of Cascades Campus, submits their proposals to the student fee committee. Since they are not granting funds requests or managing money them-selves (outside their own budget), the role of ASCC is to pay attention to the needs of students, come up with solutions, and request the funding to provide those so-lutions, according to ASCC Advisor Andrew Davis.

“It keeps both areas very clean,” said Davis. “You don’t have a group that’s coming up with solutions then fund-ing them, which I think is just good practice.”

The existence of the student fee committee prevents ASCC from focusing funding on things that appeal to their own person-al interests, according to Davis.

“There’s a conflict of in-terest when a group of seven

students look at the campus, decides what they need, and then funds those needs,” said Davis.

Aside from preventing con-flict of interest, Davis said the student fee approach helps by creating a system of checks and balances, similar to the House and Senate of the United

States government, as well as just putting more eyes on every issue.

The checks and balances system for the ASCOCC comes in the form of the budget com-mittee, according to Underdal.

“The budget committee is our form of a student fee com-mittee,” said Underdal.

There’s a conflict of interest when a group of seven students look at a campus, decides what they need, and then

funds those needs.”Andrew DavisASCC advisor

Though they control the student fee funds and manage requests from other student organization, the ASCOCC does not decide on the money allocated to their own budget. Their budget is decided by the previous council members, as well as the salary of the six in-coming council members.

Underdal believes that the student fee system used by

ASCOCC gives students the experience they need in man-aging a budget and learning to prioritize funds. In 2011, the system was reviewed and the college decided that the sys-tem worked well for students and should stay in place.


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Students performing hands-on medical practice on artificial body parts.


features

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 3(MCT)

If you are in college, or you recently graduated, or one of your children is in either

of those categories, then last week’s news from the Pew Re-search Center won’t surprise you.

The center reported on Wednesday that a record one in five U.S. households owed stu-dent debt in 2010. That’s more than double the share from just 20 years ago. The number is likely to rise when the last couple of years’ numbers are known.

Unfortunately, the one-in-five statistic isn’t the worst fig-ure in the study. It’s this: The amount of student loan debt,

as a percentage of household income, is hitting the poor the hardest.

Unless you’re Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and you write off half of the country as lazy and entitled, this is truly devastat-ing for the future growth of the country’s economy.

It’s a double whammy of bad economic news. First, it’s a sign that fewer people can afford the best path to climb from one economic class to another. Second, it sends a signal to businesses that fewer Americans will have disposable income to spend, limiting demand for goods and services.

According to Pew, families in the lowest of five U.S. income brackets who are paying for college for themselves or their

children now owe 24 cents for every $1 of income on student loan debt. These are people who make less than $21,044 a year. The graduates who are fortunate enough to get a job owe nearly a quarter of their income to debt before they can buy food, clothing and trans-portation.

And the parents who are trying to make sure their chil-dren have better opportuni-ties than they did?

They’re stuck. They’re the housing bubble waiting to re-peat itself, with the nation’s poor and middle class unable to invest, leaving businesses less likely to grow.

The same Pew study shows that the nation’s wealthy see their children as having the same opportunities they did. They, too, are increasing their

student loan debt, doubling it as a percentage of their overall income.

This is the statistic that makes Mr. Romney’s now in-famous “47 percent” speech so damning: The wealthy, too, see a college education as a smart way to improve future income opportuni-ties. They are also depending on the government to help them reach their goals. But as a percentage of income, the wealthiest fifth of Americans are only spending 2 cents of every $1 on debt, up from 1 cent in 2007. That’s couch cushion money.

Every class of Americans rich, poor, middle class should have the opportunity to obtain a college degree, whether that degree comes from St. Louis Community College or Har-

vard University. The No. 1 key to restarting the nation’s economic engine is to devel-op the workforce of the 21st Century.

A recent Brookings Institute study reinforced the work of other researchers, identifying the very real gaps between the high-tech jobs that are fueling the economy and the shortage of workers with the proper ed-ucation to fill those jobs.

If getting ahead is the Amer-ican dream, and education is the key to getting ahead, an en-tire class of Americans is being priced out of the dream.

America succeeds when its middle class is vibrant and has money to spend. When those in the middle fifth of income in the U.S.people making around the country’s median income of $50,054, are paying 12 cents of every $1 they earn on student loan debt, there is not enough money left over to invest in the country’s future. In 2007, according to Pew, that num-ber was a more manageable 7 cents on the dollar.

Americans take on this debt not because they feel en-titled to anything, but because they’re willing to sacrifice for their families. The student loan bubble can’t grow much more before it bursts.

The nation’s leaders every-one from the president and Congress to state lawmakers and university trustees must make a firmer commitment to making college affordable. Take some air out of the bub-ble. Give students and par-ents some breathing room.


Massive student loan debt weighs heavy on working poor

$ M o n e y S a v e r s $

Videogames can be an excellent way for COCC students to escape the pressures of college, but it may become difficult to shell out $60 for a game.

Gamers on a budget can find ways to save on gaming.

· Buy pre-owned games

· Trade-in old games

· Invest in rental subscription with roommates

· Shop on Craigslist

· Demo games before buy

· Wait for new releases to come down in price

· Sign up for store rewards programs

· Befriend store employee to get insider info on deals

· Dust off your original game system & revisit the classics

· Try a Free-to-Play game

· Peruse the top 25 free game appsAnna Quesenberry


Be a gamer without going broke


Kathryn EngThe Broadside

On Sept. 19, at the annual Oregon State Univer-sity and OSU-Cascades

award ceremony dinner in Cor-vallis professor Ron Reuter was awarded the 2012 Elizabeth P. Richie Distinguished Professor Award. He was also awarded with the Maybelle Clark Mac-Donald Professorship for teach-ing Excellence in Forestry. As a result, the OSU Cascades natu-ral resources department will be granted an extra ten thou-sand dollars in operating funds, according to Reuter.

Reuter foresees a future expansion for OSU Cascades’ natural resources program, with the added component of a “field school” where stu-dents will have more practical, hands-on training in an out-door environment.

OSU Cascades’ plan to be-come a four year university is exciting news for Reuter, be-cause it allows more growth for the natural resources program.

Since the program is “multidis-ciplinary” the other programs will need to be in place before the program will have its nec-essary components, according to Reuter.

Reuter began teaching at OSU Cascades in 2003, just two years after the campus was founded.

Reuter earned his bachelor’s in environmental resources management at Pennsylvania State University, and obtained his Master’s at University of Idaho. He holds a PhD in soil science from the University of Minnesota and completed postdoctoral work with the EPA in North Carolina.

“I knew I wanted to be a teacher after taking a soil science class,” said Reuter.

Reuter credits his “lovely wife Jennifer” for making his deep learning path possible, by agreeing to move all over the U.S. throughout the course of his education. He had promised they would eventually return to the Northwest, said Reuter.

Reuter’s ability to recognize his students’ differing learning styles and tailor his teaching

method around each individ-ual, distinguishes him as an educator. He customizes his lectures by employing multi-ple teaching methods to adapt to each learner.

Students interested in the natural resources program may want to get involved in the natural resources club.

“Because we will have stu-dents in NR for four years, now the time is ripe for forming a tenable joint COCC/OSUCC NR and Sustainability Club,” said Reuter.


OSU-Cascades professor’s accomplishments mean expansion for the natural resources department

Central Oregon convicts get opportunities to further educationJoshua AgeeThe Broadside

Deer Ridge Correctional Institute convicts have the opportunity to

turn their lives around. Since its first class in 2009 the weld-ing program offered at DRCI is working to change the lives of its students for the better.

“Education during incar-ceration provides inmates the foundation needed to work in a skilled trade once they’ve completed their sentencing and are released back into so-ciety,” said COCC Sociology Professor Tom Barry.

Welding students attend class five days a week in a 2,500 square foot shop, built to resemble the manufactur-ing technology program at COCC's Redmond campus. Many of the equipment cages and storage facilities were built by students of the pro-gram.

“Students currently earn a 45 credit, one year certifi-cate from the college, which includes both writing & math courses,” according to the website.

Funding exists for 10 in-mates per year to take part in DRCI’s welding program. There are over 200 enrolled in a range of other curricula of-

fered, including: adult basic education, a GED program and non-violent communica-tion programs.

The welding shop that took nearly one year to create, has state of the art equipment which allow students to learn basic and advanced techniques including: shield metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding and flux core arc welding.

“The welding program is self paced and very outcome

focused,” according to Deer Ridge website. “It is designed to prepare graduates for em-ployment in an industry in which they should be able to expect continuous employ-ment and job security.”

Cody Yeager is DRCI’s edu-cational director and plays a key role in coordinating the program. State, prison and college efforts must be care-fully synchronized for the pro-gram to function, according to Yeager.

“Students are carefully se-lected and must meet strin-gent standards of conduct and educational requirements.” according to DRCI’s website.

"Every state prison con-tracts with a nearby commu-nity college." said Yeager "In the Portland area you have PCC [Portland Community College], working with the nearest institution, and all the different colleges have a spe-cialized program to offer, ours is welding."

The goal of the program is to prepare students for suc-cess after they are released, according to DRCI’s mission statement. The classes at Deer Ridge are likely to accomplish that goal, according to Barry, because education programs in prison can help give prison-ers a sense of worth.

“Education can provide employment,” said Barry. “This can give prisoners a goal once they are released and the credentials to attain that goal, this means that they are less likely to be re-incarcerated because they are reintegrated into an institution.”

Welding is a useful skill for the students to learn, accord-ing to Yeager, because there are many jobs available in the manufacturing industry and welding is in high demand.

The program enrolls 10 stu-dents every 6-8 months and has a 97 percent placement rate, meaning 97 percent of participants get welding re-lated employment and are not incarcerated again.

“By teaching the students a skilled trade during incarcera-tion, the program allows for student convicts to become more productive members of society and the job market,” stated Yeager.


Photos by Patrick Ilyer | The Broadside

Professor Ron Reuter

Professor Ron Reuter Teach Soil 408 At OSU-Cascades to student (right) Ryan Foster, Kim Leuthold, (left) Viri Serna, Eddie Cleance.

Photo by Nick Thomas | The Broadside

Deer Ridge correctional welding students made this steel bench for COCC’s new Madras Campus

Photos by Patrick Ilyer | The Broadside


Where the wild geeks are

By Scott Greenstone and William James

Library game nights attract board gamers of all ages

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On the second Saturday of every month, students can settle an untouched island or influence pre-World War I poli-tics at Library Game Night.

Library Game Nights are starting up once again at the Bend Public Library, where the doors open to tabletop game lovers every second Saturday of the month. Bend citizen Mark Gage, who is provided the space by the library for these events, said that one goal is to encourage people to come out and make friends.

“It’s pretty hard to play a board game by yourself,” said Gage. “Board games are a very social experience.”

The majority of game night goers are fans of games designed in Europe, which Gage loans out among the board gaming

community. ‘Euro-games’ such

as Settlers of Catan, Agricola and Kingdom Builder are designed to have a shorter play-

ing time than most American games, and a more economic or political objective as opposed to a military-style objective like most of their American counterparts.

“There’s a little less focus on destruction of your opponent,” said Gage.

While Euro-games dominate the play-ing field at the game nights, players can bring any game they want.

“Just about every board game we have is for age three to age 60,” said Gage. “Ev-erything from Clue to Candy-Land is wel-come.”

If board games are not what players seek, Gage said that card games are also welcome.

“At any time, we’ll have two or three card games going on during one of these,” said Gage.

On Sept. 13 the game night attracted 40-50 people. The next event will be at the Bend Public Library on Oct. 13 at 6 p.m.

(Contact:[email protected]) Ian Lusby | The Broadside

Two characters clash in battle.

Ray Carter | The Broadside

Multi role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons involve dice, players characters, non-player Characters on Maps.

Submitted by Mark Gage


Where the wild geeks are

By Scott Greenstone and William James

Wabi Sabi Wig Walk

Hardcore gamers gather at Main Phase Gaming

Finding players to dominate at your game of choice isn’t hard at Main Phase Gaming. The Bend store is also a hub for fans of nearly any mainstream board or trading card game.

Pokemon player? Go on Saturday morn-ings. Magic: The Gathering lover? Check out Wednesday and Friday nights. Fan of Settlers of Catan, Yu-Gi-Oh! or Dungeons and Drag-ons? Drop in on Sunday afternoons.

Fans of Magic: The Gathering can also pay to join leagues and win store credit and new cards. Main Phase Gaming is currently host-ing the Central Oregon Magic Decathlon, a 10-week tournament to name the best Magic player in Central Oregon.


Fans of card games like Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon can test their skills at Wabi Sabi in downtown Bend.

Behind the Japanese store are rooms painted with mu-rals featuring Totorro and Godzilla, where students with a love for anime and man-ga meet after school to talk about their favorite Japanese shows, play Japanese card games, and munch on Japa-nese snacks.

While the majority of play-ers play Yu-Gi-Oh!, a trading card game originating in Ja-pan, the group is open to all card game and board game enthusiasts.

College students who come to this event have de-veloped a mentoring rela-tionship with the students in high school or middle school. New initiates to Yu-Gi-Oh! have been playing for only weeks, while some, such as Brad Harter, have been play-ing for ten years.

“I would love for more peo-ple to know about this club,” Harter said. “I’d love the op-portunity to duel other players with different decks.”

Wabi Sabi’s commitment the anime and manga com-munity doesn’t end with Game

Day. Wabi Sabi also hosts co-splay nights and the Wig Walk, events where students come dressed as their favorite char-acters from anime.

Students who don’t mind spending their afternoons slapping down Deep Sea Divas

and discussing dragon decks can find their perfect niche at Wabi Sabi. Game days are Tuesday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m.


Card game fans find connection at Wabi Sabi



Wabi Sabi owner Barb Campbell and wigwalkers pose near the Deschutes River.

Ian Smythe | The Broadside

In another dimension these warriors battle to find out who is the master of Dungeons and Dragons!

Ian Lusby | The Broadside

Brad Harter (top left) leads group in Yu-Gi-Oh duels at Wabi sabi in downtown Bend.


Ian Lusby | The Broadside



Kelly AveryThe Broadside

If you think poetry is what we had to read in middle school, welcome to the

21st century. Buddy Wake-field is not your average poncy poet.

Buddy’s performance was non-stop energy and emo-tion. Buddy keeps command of the room with a constant stream of poetry, stories and brilliant intermissions of im-provisational heckling back at the audience. All while continually playing, dancing and fidgeting with some-thing on stage.

Buddy is a two-time In-dividual World Poetry Slam Champion. In 2004, with the support of producer Norman Lear, Buddy went to Rotterdam, Netherlands to compete for the title against other national champions in seven European countries. He was able to take the title again in 2005. His works are translated into Dutch.

Buddy has recently been signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righ-teous Babe Records, so if you have not seen Buddy perform you will have a chance to ex-perience his brilliant works. Buddy has also been featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and is performing in the next series of TED Talks.

Born in Shreveport, LA, raised in Baytown, TX, Buddy has now settled in the Pacific

Northwest claiming Seattle, WA as home. A true Renais-sance man, Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam, a lum-berjack in Norway, a street vendor in Spain, a team lead-er in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider and a triathlete. You can learn more about Buddy Wakefield and see samples of his work on his website http://buddywakefield.com. Buddy’s appeal reaches be-yond just poets and touches every modern thinking per-son still trying to maintain a sense of humor.


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Photos by Ian Smythe | The Broadside

Buddy Wakefield performing at the Hitchcock Auditorium Oct. 3.Event hosted by The Nature of Words.


COCC Staff ART Exhibit

▲ Ian Smythe| The Broadside

“Home” by Dawn Emerson

▲ Ian Lusby | The Broadside

“Bird Series Homage to Morris Graves (Trapped)” by Margaret Rattle

▲ Ian Lusby| The Broadside

“Sweet Potato Head Muffins” by Natasha Bacca


“Lotus Blossoms in Bangkok” by Leslie Minor

Ian Smythe| The Broadside

“Dream Tree” by Sam Fisch►


“Spider Lily in Singapore” by Leslie Minor


“Wavelengths” by Bill Hoppe


“Nostalgia” by Bill Cravis

COCC’s finest display an array of talents at the Staff Art Show. 10/4. pinckney hall.

The faculty art exhibit runs October 4 through November 2 Wednesday through Saturday

from 1-4pm in the Gallery at the Pinckney Center.

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