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Sarah SandersEditor in Chief

With program cuts still in contention, Provost Stephanie Shanblatt held an open forum in Dart Au-ditorium April 13.

The discussion began with one parent who had concerns about whether or not her daughter, a cu-linary arts major, would be able to take the three class-es she needs before gradu-ation.

“We did make a com-mitment at the time we an-nounced the recommenda-tions that students who are in programs would have at least until May 2012,” Shanblatt said.

“Nothing would end at the end of this semester or the end of summer,” Shanblatt added. “We have pledged to work with each student so that we can cre-ate a plan for each student, figure out what is best for them and what we need to offer next fall and spring to

ensure students have what they need in order to grad-uate.”

In attendance were sev-eral faculty members and students from the avia-tion flight program. The provost told attendees the $700,000 flight hanger lo-cated in Mason was pur-chased for the aviation maintenance program, which is also up for elimi-nation but will most likely not be cut.

The discussion also cov-ered topics such as the clos-ing of the Gannon Building pool and what that space will be used for. The pro-vost confirmed there are no future plans for that space.

Another topic of con-versation was the culinary program, which is up for elimination due to inad-equate facilities and inad-equate funds to rehabilitate these facilities.

The provost described the actions needed in order

See Provost, page 3

Provost discusses cuts with students

Tough crowd: Provost Stephanie Shanblatt talks to stu-dents and staff at an open forum meeting April 13.

Photo by Michael Caterina

Say goodbye to steamNathan Wilson News Editor

The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) began a massive project April 11 to replace water and steam distribution systems on LCC’s main campus.

According to an LCC press re-lease, the project is estimated to cost $2 million --”the most significant in-frastructure update since the college opened in 1957.”

Mark Nixon, the communica-tions director of BWL, explained BWL has been planning the up-grade for years and “it is becom-ing very apparent that something needs to be done.

“We have water mains that date back, believe it or not, to the 1890s,” Nixon said. “And steam lines which have … steadily leaked over the past several years, they go back to the early decades of the 1900s.”

In fact, LCC’s Theater Department erected a sculpture of a volcano over one of the steam lines leaking west of the Gannon Building, giving the illu-sion of an active volcano.

“We still have, we believe, in some places of Lansing, water mains that are made of wood,” Nixon said. “I’m

not sure what this 1890 water main is made of, and I’m not sure we will know until we actually begin to dig it up.”

Barriers have been constructed around the excavation site, imped-

ing traffic near the Gannon Building. According to an LCC press release,

Washington Avenue will be closed during the project from Saginaw to

See BWL, page 3

Photo by Michael CaterinaCampus craters: The Board of Water and Light is replacing the water and steam distribution system on LCC’s main campus.

Going green: Earth Day discussionShauna StockenStaff Writer

In preparation for Earth Day April 22, LCC held a Political In-volvement & Public Service dis-cussion for all students, staff, fac-ulty and community members to attend.

Panel members from different companies met April 18 in the

Gannon Building gym to discuss how they have made a positive impact on the planet.

Maggie Fields, an employee for the Michigan Department of En-vironment Quality, discussed her feelings on Earth Day and how people can get involved.

“Earth Day for most of us is thought of only as our impact on the environment. It’s about the

water we drink, bathe in, the earth our children play on, it’s the water used to both personally and com-mercially fish with,” Fields said.

According to Fields, there are three steps to helping the planet: voice, action and money.

“Write a letter to the editor, to a company or college. Encourage

See Earth Day, page 3

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The staff of The Lookout took home 11 awards, including two first-place certificates, from the Michigan Communi-ty College Press Association’s annual journalism conference April 9.

This year’s event was held at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. A total of nine community colleges from around the state participated.

During the conference, Look-out staff members attended workshops on topics such as photography, headline writ-ing, sports writing and copy editing. The students learned valuable tips from experts from The Detroit News, The De-troit Free Press, AnnArbor.com and USA Today.

The day concluded with an awards luncheon hosted by Jim Wojcik of CMU’s journal-ism department.

Michael Caterina, photo editor and page designer for The Lookout, won five awards in the MCCPA competition, including first place for “front-page design.”

“Receiving that first-place award kind of validated a lot of the hard work that I did,” Caterina said. “There have been times when I’ve set up the front page and I’ve spent

an hour looking at it and I think, ‘This doesn’t work,’ so I have to re-do it.

“I take a lot of pride in de-signing the front page,” Ca-terina continued. “To know we have the best-looking front page of all the community college papers in Michigan makes me feel good.”

Dominick Mastrangelo, sports editor for The Look-out, earned first place in the “sports column” category for a pair of columns titled, “Vick makes me sick” and “Shape up, Sparty.”

“I think those were the best two columns that I’ve written for The Lookout,” Mastrangelo said. “The (Michael) Vick col-umn was very controversial and highly debated here. But I felt strongly about what I said in the column and I’ll still stick to it today.

“We had a lot of letters sent to the paper about it and we published those,” Mastrange-lo continued. “It really created a dialogue and I think that’s what good sports writing is about – getting people to talk.”

Mastrangelo said his other column, about the MSU men’s basketball team, was written “when I realized that all hope was pretty much lost for Izzo

and the gang.”Larry Hook, adviser of The

Lookout, said he is proud of his 2010-11 staff.

“We’ve had a great staff this year and the fact that we won 11 awards in a wide variety of categories is testimony to that,” Hook said. “We won awards in feature writing, sports writing, photography, page design, ad building, car-toon drawing. … This year’s staff is definitely talented and well-rounded.”

Hook said the staff earned valuable “real-world” journal-ism experience in the past nine months covering events such as Coach Bob Every’s dismiss-al, proposed program cuts, a late-night water main break and a bomb scare.

In addition to the two first-place awards mentioned above, the other MCCPA awards earned by The Lookout in the MCCPA competition were as follows:

Michael Caterina – second place for “sports news photo,”

second place for “inside page layout,” third place for “news photo” and honorable mention for “feature photo.”

Zach Bellingar – second place for “sports column” and third place for “sports cover-age.”

LeBaron Rodgers – second place for “cartoon.”

Nathan Wilson – honorable mention for “feature story.”

Kelly Lehtonen – honorable mention for “student created ad.”

The Lookout wins 11 MCCPA awards

Photo by Larry HookWinning: News Editor Nathan Wilson, left, and Sports Editor Dominick Mastrangelo show off their awards at the MCCPA conference April 9 at Central Michigan University.

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Nathan WilsonNews Editor

LCC counselors host-ed the seventh Substance Abuse Awareness Day April 13 in the Arts and Science Building.

Curlada Eure-Harris, an LCC career counselor, explained the event sup-ports drug prevention and lets students know counselors are available.

“We make ourselves available because lots of times people don’t know we’re here in the Support Services Department,” Eure-Harris said.

LCC is also offering an anonymous online

screening for drug use, eating disorders, depres-sion and post traumatic stress disorder at http://www.mentalhealthscreen-ing.org/screening/Wel-come.aspx.

“I hear about drink-ing more than anything else,” Eure-Harris said. “When I get the personal issues, I hear mostly they (students) are having problems with alcohol.”

Literature from vari-ous agencies was distrib-uted from the booth to students passing by.

According to the Na-tional Institute on Alco-hol Abuse and Alcohol-ism (NIAAA), several

signs of a drinking prob-lem include: drinking when alone, angry or sad; arriving late to work for drinking; forgetting what happened after drinking.

“More human be-ings are medicated and they’re struggling with the balancing, the chang-ing, the adjusting to the different medications, or the lack thereof,” said Eure-Harris.

“When they know that talking through an issue and getting at the root cause of some of their problems can make them healthier, they are less prone to be medi-

cated or they’re needing less medication. So in that sense, seeking medi-cation can be an abuse. Over medication can be an abuse, even it’s just … over the counter.”

LCC can also link stu-dents to resources in the community if they are experiencing a chronic issue with alcohol or drugs.

Additionally, students can call 2-1-1 to link to human resources in the Central Michigan area.

For more information about LCC counseling

services, visit GB 204 or call (517) 483-1924.

Students educated about substance abuse

Spreading knowledge: LCC counselor Monica Del Castil-lio, left, speaks with English major Olena Chunyak during the Substance Awareness Day April 13.


companies to use green products and make alter-native changes,” Fields said.

“Action is all about what a person is doing to contribute.”

Fields said it is not just about donating money, it’s about buying green products, or products with less packaging that release fewer emissions to transport.

Lindsay Huddleston II, who is a Public Af-fairs and Government Relations employee for Walmart, donated re-freshments and reusable bags made out of water

bottles for all who at-tended.

“Walmart participated in Earth Day two years ago near the Capitol and this year we really kept LCC in mind when partic-ipating,” Huddleston said.

“The light-emitting di-ode (LED) lighting and freezer cases at Walmart are good examples of products that have pack-ages decreased by 18 percent.

"That is the equivalent of planting 26,000 acres of trees or taking 18,000 cars off the road,” Hud-dleston said.

To promote Earth Day

2011, posters were hung around LCC’s campus and flyers were made to encourage attendance.

De’Onte Autman, a member of the Student Leadership, said he was disappointed with the lack of attendance for such an important event.

Throughout the event, the audience totaled no more than 20 people.

“There has to be a bet-ter way that my self and the Students for Political Involvement and Public Services can get more people involved. We will try harder next year," said Autman.

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to maintain a viable culi-nary program would be to build a new state of the art kitchen from the ground up, something the college cannot afford at this time.

Student Leader Antonio Manning closed the discus-sion with this statement:

“The information is out there, as far as what the college is doing. The col-lege can do a little bit better

job. I’m surprised there is not more students here at the meetings.

“That is a little disap-pointing to me as a student leader. We are all passion-ate about our programs … moving forward we all need to let the process work. Time, energy and ef-fort was put into this.

“I think that these deci-sions are going to hurt peo-

ple; they are going to affect lives and change lives. I think we need to let the process work, keep com-ing to these forums and let your voice be heard,” Man-ning said.

“It is deplorable that there aren’t students here. There is no excuse. If this is important to you, you would be here to make your voice heard.”

Madison Avenue. Lane and street closures began April 11 and will contin-ue through May 15.

Nixon likened the pro-cess for replacing buried pipelines (pipe bursting) to arthroscopic surgery.

“Rather than having this huge incision that could be six or eight inch-es, you have just a couple little incisions and they

kind of work underneath the skin and muscle,” Nixon said. “And that’s kind of what we’re doing on the pipelines. We’re just not tearing up the whole thing, it’s only a couple places.”

According to Nixon, the water main upgrade is estimated to be com-plete in mid May. The steam line, which will be

more complicated, is es-timated to finish in mid September.

“Spring and summer are going to be frankly in a mess along the mall,” he said. “But the upside is, when you’re all done, everybody in LCC will have a much better de-pendable and reliable in-frastructure to serve the campus.”

Green gathering: Panel member and LCC instructor Sean Huberty addresses other pan-el members during the Earth Day discussion April 18.


The Lookout staff has become like a family to me.

It’s a very strange family that is lovably eccentric and forced to share a 20 x 20 foot office (roughly guesstimated). Hell, The Lookout office has practically become a second home for me, in which I shall eat, sleep and most likely die within.

Anyway, the friend-ships I’ve formed here may be the first true friends I’ve found in years.

I’ve met a few in-teresting people since I’ve arrived at LCC during my first few years, but I learned

they were either jeal-ous of the fact that I pass my classes, or they turned out to be freaks.

I almost consid-ered that my deci-sion to enroll at LCC was a mistake when I learned that criminal justice was not for me, and my academic path came screeching to a devastating halt.

In the midst of my despair, I met the The Lookout staff and came to realize had I not taken classes here, I would have missed out on some awesome friendships.

So I just want to ex-press my thanks to my friends; this year would have been dis-appointing and ago-nizingly monotonous if I didn’t have fun coworkers to see ev-eryday.

I hope I can see most of you again during the summer or next year. If you aren’t coming back next year, you better visit me!

Or else.


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IN BRIEFNEWS

— Infallible Rhetoric —

Auf wiedersehen

News editor Nathan Wilson and The Lookout staff were awarded a Certificate of Appreciation and Participation March 20 by LCC’s American Marketing Asso-ciation for the article supporting MI Fu-ture: Art, a Powerful Tool for Peace.

The article appeared in The Lookout’s Issue 13 on March 28.

The newspaper also received a Cer-tificate of Participation and Appreciation March 13 for supporting the Artists as Peacemakers Exhibit.

The second annual Eco Scholars Day will be held at LCC’s West Campus April 29 from noon to 3 p.m.

Students will have an opportunity to present on topics such as the environ-ment and sustainability. Presentations can take the form of an informative poster, interactive workshop or a for-mal paper.

The event is open to all students and LCC faculty. If you have any questions, contact Kathleen Shell at [email protected] or 483-9711.

LCC’s Computer Information Tech-nologies Program and the Capital Area IT Council will present the LCC IT Ca-reer Fair April 27 from 2 to 6 P.M. on the Gannon Building second floor.

The annual fair will feature IT em-ployers from Lansing, institutions of-fering IT transfer programs and LCC Career and Employment Services.

Sessions will feature topics on trends and careers in Mobile Application De-velopment and in demand careers in Software Testing. Students can also dis-cuss job opportunities and internships with employers.

The Lookout grabs awards Eco Scholars Day to be heldat West Campus April 29

LCC presents IT Fair April 27The Michigan Department of Transpor-tation (MDOT) will hold a public meeting April 28 from noon to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. MDOT has invited the general public to the Administration Building Board Room to discuss reconstructing the M-43 (Saginaw Street) bridge over the Grand River in Lansing in 2012.

The project also involves changing Sagi-naw Street from the current five lanes to four lanes between Washington Avenue and North Cedar Street and improving Lansing’s River Trail. Construction is ex-pected to start in spring 2012 and involves a full closure of Saginaw Street at the bridge with a detour posted.

MDOT hosts meeting to discuss 2012 bridge replacement

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Shauna StockenStaff Writer

Spring is not the only thing in the air this month. With May quickly ap-proaching, so are final ex-ams at LCC.

Whether or not a stu-dent is prepared, the end of the semester is only weeks away. LCC’s media room, Tutoring Center and Writing Center can help prepare students for their finals.

Media rooms are lo-cated in the TLC building. They offer students a quiet place to work alone or with a group of students. Each room has a desk and two computers.

Toby Bates, a theater major who is currently enrolled in 18.5 credits at LCC, said he appreciates the atmosphere in the li-brary.

“I study alone, I get a social media room; the ones that look like a prison

room and I study for hours by myself,” Bates said.

LCC also offers servic-es that can help with any writing assignment or tutoring services for sub-jects that do not include writing.

The Tutoring Center is located in A&S 103.

Tracy Wickens, a full-time freshman at LCC, said extra studying will help her chances of trans-ferring to a four-year uni-versity.

“If I do well now (on exams) I’ll have a bet-ter chance of getting into Michigan State Univer-sity,” Wickens said.

The Writing Center is located in A&S 251, next to the Kennedy Cafe.

Dave Utrata, a current LCC student and a tutor in the Writing Center for the past two years, said the Writing Center is a help-ful tool. He said the center consists of tutors who are all current college students

from LCC, MSU and Cen-tral Michigan University.

“I like when someone comes back and says they did well in the class; I like feeling I have helped someone succeed,” Utrata said. “But success all starts with the effort a person puts into their own work.”

During spring semester the hours of operation for both the Tutoring Center and the Writing Center change. Check LCC’s web-site for service times.

Professor Todd Leahy, who teaches U.S. His-tory to 1877 at LCC’s East Campus, said, “There are too many people who have questions but don’t ask. I can see it on stu-dents’ faces when they want to say something but don’t.

“If you are afraid, peo-ple will think you are stu-pid. Ask (questions) after class. Your grade is too important not to know something.”

The finals countdown; where to study on campus

Shauna StockenStaff Writer

Newman Club organized an event instructed by members of the Catholic religion at LCC, to promote positive communica-tion about sensitive topics.

Steve Yaich is president and facilitator of the Newman Club.

“I want juice in a topic like abor-tion or war that we (the group) can legitimately and respectfully rebuttal about.,” Yaich said

Richard Freedberg serves as adviser to the Newman Club.

“It’s not just a religious-based club but a club for any-one to discuss on any topic,” Freedberg said.

Newman Club meets the first and third Tuesday of the month in A&S 165 from 5 to 6 p.m.

The club will be meeting for the last time in the Spring Se-mester May 3.

Yaich said he saw a need for people to communicate their opinions and formed Newman Club to give people an effective way to do so.

“I try to run the club more like a town meeting so that everyone gets a voice,” Yaich said.

Theresa Michaels, who is awaiting acceptance to the Pre-Nursing Program at LCC for the upcoming Fall Semester, at-tended a meeting April 15 with a friend from out of town.

“I think it’s so unique to actu-ally have dialogue with other people. It’s hard to find that in such an original way,” Mi-chaels said.

“We try to communicate about things that are hard to commu-nicate about,” Yaich said.

A kickoff event to introduce Newman Club was scheduled in

the Kennedy Café, but was can-celed due to inclement weather. According to Yaich; the New-man Club will seek new mem-bers for Fall Semester 2011.

Newman Club takes on tough topics

Photo by Courtney BakerReal talk: Newman Club members discuss issues ranging from war to abortion during a meeting April 20.


SPORTS6Green shatters steeple chase markDominick Mastrangelo Sports Editor

After an impressive showing at the Spartan Invitational, the LCC track and field clubs had a lot to feel good about heading into their next two meets.

“We started off the season exactly how we wanted to,” LCC Coach Chuck Block said as he prepared his runners for their next meet at Ferris State University. “We’re go-ing to try and keep as much momentum as we can.”

Momentum was not hard to find for LCC in Big Rapids, as the Stars executed argu-ably their best perfor-mance of the year, and in record fashion.

Sophomore Ellory Green set a new school record in the 3,000-me-ter steeple chase at the Bulldog Invitational April 9 Green’s time of 11:22 broke the old record of 11:49 by 27

seconds and quali-fied her to compete in the NJCAA National Championship meet in Hutchison, Kan., in May.

“This is just so excit-ing,” Green said after the meet. “I knew I had a good (race) time, but who knew I broke a school record?”

Also qualifying for the national meet was Jennifer Snelgrove from Grand Ledge and Randi Smith from De-Witt in the 1,500 meter and Ashley Hamilton form Charlotte in the 800-meter.

Block said he is con-fident all the runners who qualified for the National Meet will represent LCC won-derfully.

The Stars next com-peted at the North-wood Open April 16.

“Northwood is going to be tough,” sopho-more runner Aaron King said at a prac-tice before the meet. “I hear the weather is not

supposed to be great, but I’m sure we will be fine.”

King was right as the men stole the show for LCC on a blustery day in northeast Michigan.

Sophomore runner Kevin Barry recorded the best performance of the day for the Stars. Barry ran a time of 15:50 in the men’s 5,000-meter run, plac-ing fifth out of 25.

“This is the best I’ve felt about any run so far this year,” Barry said. “I really felt light out there, especially at the end.”

Green was a stand-out for the Stars once again, placing first in the women’s 3,000-me-ter steeple chase for the second meet in a row.

“Everything feels great right now,” Green said after anoth-er strong performance. “We’re all doing awe-some, and I can’t see any signs of us slowing down.”

Play ball: ‘Nuts open seasonDominick MastrangeloSports Editor

Opening Day came much later for the Lan-sing Lugnuts than they expected.

The ‘Nuts hosted the Dayton Dragons in a three-game homestand April 15 to 17 after hav-ing their first three home games versus West Michigan postponed due to unplayable field con-ditions at Cooley Law School Stadium.

Lansing won the first game against Dayton 8-6, thanks to solid hitting and a stingy bullpen. Lugnuts Manager Mike Redmond said he is excited about what he saw out of his team on its first night in the home ballpark.

“We’ve got some really special guys playing ball here,” Redmond said af-ter game one of the series. “These guys are hungry, they want to get to the big show. You can just tell by the way they’re playing.”

Redmond, a former Major League catcher is in his first year as the Lugnuts manager. He won a World Series Championship with the Florida Marlins in 2003 before signing with the Minnesota Twins in 2005. He batted .398 vs. the De-troit Tigers over his five years in Minnesota. Red-

mond said he believes t h e r e

are sev-eral current Lugnut players who have Major League capability.

Lansing middle in-fielder Oliver Domin-guez is one of the names Redmond mentioned as a player to watch closely this summer.

Dominguez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, was 5- for- 7 in the homestand vs. Dayton and had a career minor lrague batting average of .327 as of April 18.

“Lansing seems like a great place to play base-ball,” Dominguez said. “It’s a little cold for me, but the fans are really nice.”

Dominguez, like many of the current Lugnut players, has spent some time in the Toronto Blue Jays farm system.

The Lugnuts are a Single A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays and have been in Lansing since 1996.

East Lansing resident

Jared Coyne has been a Lugnuts season ticket holder since 2001 and at-tended each game of the three-game series vs. Day-ton.

“My wife and I love coming to the games,” Coyne said. “It’s awesome to get to see some guys play here and then get to the Major Leagues.”

Former Lugnuts who have graduated to the Ma-jor Leagues include Corey Patterson, Carlos Marmol, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Zambrano.

Lansing outfielder Mar-cus Brisker has spent the last three years with vari-ous minor league teams.

“I’ve learned a lot since getting drafted in 2008,” Brisker said. “I can hon-estly say Lansing is my fa-vorite place to play so far.”

Game two of the series vs. Dayton was rained out on April 16, so a pair of seven-inning games was played April 17. The Lug-nuts won the first game 8-4 and lost the second 9-8.

The Lugnuts will play a total of 61 home games this year with promotions scheduled for many of those nights.

“It’s going to be a fun summer,” Redmond said. “We’ve got some good players, some great fans, and bunch of nice weather ahead of us. It’s going to be a blast.”

Photo courtesy of Ike Lea, RunMichigan.comRecord pace: Ellory Green makes her way through the water during the 3,000-meter steeple chase at the Northwood Invitational. Green set an LCC school record with a time of 11:22 at the Ferris State University meet.


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Dominick MastrangeloSports Editor

In one of the highest scoring games that any current LCC baseball player has played in their career, the Stars defeated Kellogg Community College April 14, 23-19.

All nine players in the LCC batting order hit safely at least twice in the game. Freshman infielder and leadoff man Dylan Betcher was the Star who burned the brightest for LCC, driving a career-high seven runs.

“I was getting balls to hit all day,” Betcher said. “It’s really nice to get to bat around like that. I would call it emo-tional hitting.”

The Stars entered the game with an overall record of 4-17 and a team bat-ting average of .217.

LCC next hosted Henry Ford Com-munity College April 17 in a double-header at Westside Park in Lansing. Lansing won the first game 6-5 and won the second 6-2 to improve their re-cord to 6-17.

The Stars won both the games thanks to some solid pitching by freshmen pitchers Grant Householder and Eric Davis. The LCC pitching staff only al-lowed 10 hits in both games as LCC

won its first doubleheader of the year. “The win against Kellogg was really

motivating,” Davis said. “It’s a lot easier to toss when your team has some mo-mentum going.”

The Stars were scheduled to play another doubleheader vs. Grand Rapids Community College at home April 26 before taking to the road to face St. Clair County Community College April 28.

Dominick MastrangeloSports Editor

Lansing Community College student Alex Martinez placed fifth overall in the 2011 ABA Illinois Open Men Body Building competition in Chicago April 9.

Martinez also took home awards in the “Novice” category after competing against body builders from all over the Midwest region. Marti-nez competed in muscle mass, grip strength and posing competitions.

Martinez said he feels this was an accomplish-ment of a lifetime.

“When they called my name, I couldn’t stop smiling,” Martinez said. “It feels really good to see all my training final-ly pay off.”

Martinez said he has been dieting since De-cember of 2010 and still follows a strict workout schedule.

“I work a little bit ev-ery day. It just becomes habit after a while,” Mar-tinez said.

A little bit for Martinez is an hour on the treadmill each day followed by 100 crunches and 100 sit-ups.

“It gets more intense the closer I get to com-petition. I want to be in the best shape possible when I go to compete,” Martinez said.

Jeff Buchin serves as mentor and coach

to Martinez. He spoke highly of his student’s work ethic.

“He’s a real warrior. He deserves every accolade he gets,” Buchin said.

Buchin – a former body builder himself – teaches several weight training classes at LCC. He says he enjoys seeing LCC students succeed.

“We’ve got some real hard workers in these

classes,” Buchin said. “Alex is just one example of the talent we have.”

Martinez was scheduled to next compete on April 16 in Flushing, Mich., in a physique contest.

“I’m a little nervous for the competition (in Flushing),” Martinez ad-mitted. “I’ve got some really great support and training, though. I’m sure I’ll be just fine.”


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Student brings home body building awards


Photos by Michael Caterina

Pop out: LCC sophomore Nick Kissane catches a foul ball during LCC’s double-header against Kellogg CC April 14.

Flexin’: LCC student Alex Martinez strikes one of the pos-es that helped him place fifth overall at the 2011 ABA Illinois Open men Body Building competition in Chicago April 9.

Two up, two down; baseball moves on

Swing for the fences: LCC freshman Logan Penwell takes a cut at a pitch during LCC’s doubleheader against Kellogg Community College April 14.

“I played it right down to the stone because it is part of the community that I truly enjoy and love,” Nick said.

And just as the com-munity in the story came together to pro-vide food for everyone, so did the community of Lansing.

According to Nick, “We raised, I believe it was, 214 pounds of canned goods today during the event and $71 in monetary dona-tions as well.”

On top of that, the 70 gallons left over from the event were donat-ed to the Volunteers of America, which is a pretty hefty contribu-tion. In fact, Nick said, “The VoA stated to-day that with what we dropped off it would feed close to 500 peo-ple over the next two days.”

Aggie Mae’s Bakery, founded by LCC culi-nary program graduate Neva Austin, provided the event’s bread, cook-ies and deserts.

However, The Stone Soup benefit was only one chapter of the LCC Library’s National Li-brary Week celebration. Events also featured during the week were

Lansing Lives Through the Lens, LCC Story-Corps and a career workshop series.

According to Mead-ows, Lansing Lives Through the Lens was a collaborative, com-munity-driven pho-tography project and contest.

Originally, the con-test was supposed to conclude during the week, but “We queried the participants, and they want us to extend the deadline, so we will be extending the deadline to May 6 for

anyone who wants to participate,” Meadows said.

Any and all photogra-phers can submit their photos to the Lansing Lives by the Lens Flickr

group at http://www.f l ickr.com/groups/ lan -sing-through-the-lens/.

The top 40 photos will be compiled into a book, and “Every-body who is represent-

ed in the book will get a copy,” according to Meadows. The Library will also permanent-ly store a copy on its shelves.

LCC StoryCorps was another creative project sponsored as part of its celebration.

“(StoryCorps) is a na-tional oral history proj-ect,” wsaid. “There’s booths in large cities like Boston, New York, you know, places where we don’t live, and you can go in with a loved one or a friend or a member of the commu-nity and do a 40 minute interview with the per-son.”

The Library wasn’t able to connect with the national version this year, so it held its own project, and the recorded interviews are now stored on its shelves.

Finally, the career workshop series cov-ered the topics of re-sume building, career choosing, using social media professionally and upgrading job skills.

“The theme of Na-tional Library Week this year was ‘Cre-ate Your own Story at Your Library,’” Mead-ows said.

“We took that as cap-turing the history of our community, visu-ally, orally or creating a new story by investing in your own career path or helping other ‘close the book’ hunger.”

And as we’re finish-ing the last pages of the semester, it feels good to know the Li-brary will be there for anything from commu-nity service to research help to a quiet place to study for finals.

Lee RumlerA&E Editor

The first-ever Capital City Film Festival (CCFF) came to Downtown Lan-sing April 14 through 17 to showcase the art of film.

Not only was this the first-ever CCFF, but it was actually the first film festival ever held in Lan-sing, according to LCC TV Station Manager and co-founder of the CCFF Nicole Sclefani.

The four-day festival kicked off Thursday, April 14 at Troppo with a genu-ine Red Carpet event. The event, in Sclefani’s words, “gave the film-makers and fans a chance to mingle.”

After the party, the fes-tival moved to Dart Audi-torium for its first premier. They chose Dart for open-ing night, Sclefani said, “Because it’s a beautiful auditorium, and it holds a lot of people. ... And it’s got an amazing projector.”

Friday night moved the party to the Lansing Center, where an exhibit room was converted into a theater. Friday’s event fea-tured the ‘Made in Michi-

gan’ series.The Temple in Old Town

held Saturday’s event.“We did our student

showcase there during the day and at night we did a ‘Brew and View’ – like a John Hughes, ‘80s kind of night,” Sclefani said.

The student showcase also acted as a competi-tion. CCFF gave awards to the makers of the best films in various catego-ries.

“We gave away almost $7,000 in prizes and gifts,” Sclefani said. “Our student films were probably some of the best in the festival.”

Sunday’s events began at the LCC 3D Theater and ended at the Washington Street Armory.

“We really tried to hit up every part of Downtown Lansing, and make it a real festival,” Sclefani said.

The different films covered just about every genre independent films can.

“We had feature films, theme films, made in Michigan films, which were a big hit, and also global films and docu-mentaries,” Sclefani said.

While centered around the films, the festival was more than just a few movies played on big screens. “It was films, music, film-maker panels – it was really

an overall celebration,” Sclefani said.

And don’t forget the after-parties.

Sclefani said: “Every night ended with a party or some type of musical

act, which were just as diverse as the films.”

“The main reason we did this was because having this film festival is kind of like hosting an art gallery in Old Town,” Sclefani said.

“We’re hoping the film festival is introduc-ing another art form to be shown off,” she said. “And also, making films is so accessible – you can make a movie on your

phone if you wanted to and post it up and be-come a film-maker.”

After Sclefani ex-pressed how grateful she was for all the help from volunteers, many of whom were students, she stated that CCFF will come to Lansing again next year.

“Early fall we will be opening up for submis-sions, so get your films ready.”


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Ladleing it up: LCC culinary professor Chef Nick prepares a bowl of chicken noodle soup during the stone soup event April 15.

Red Carpet rolled out for film fest

Photos by Michael CaterinaStar Struck: Okemos film director Sam Zeller, left, is in-terviewed outside of Troppo during the Red Carpet event for the Capital City Film Festival April 14. A special cake, above, was made for the opening event.


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Because my boss (Sarah Sanders) wouldn’t let me review Avril Lavigne’s Goodbye Lullaby, which is awesome, by the way, I decided to look at one of my childhood favorite’s latest releases.

Sum 41 was actually the first punk band I listened to, and All Killer, No Filler is and will probably remain one of my favorite albums of all time.

Like most fans, I was originally a little put off by Underclass Hero – because it was different, and differ-ent is bad – but after a few weeks of listening, I grew to love it.

This is the same expe-rience I’m having with Screaming Bloody Mur-der. Hopefully. I haven’t finished making up my mind, but it’s heading in that direction.

Upon the day of the CD’s release, I ran to Best Buy, threw it in my car, and immediately decided

the vocals were too quiet.Being a singer myself,

I recognized my opinion was biased, but the shift of emphasis from vocals breaking out of power chords and punk blasts to a fuller, more symphonic, harmonious melody em-phasized Sum 41’s musical growth – in my opinion.

This can be a little alienating, though, for people who decipher mu-sic’s meaning primarily through lyrics rather than a fully-encompassing mu-sical breakdown, which is pretty much every non-musician in America.

But, after a couple of lis-tens and a couple of refer-ences to the lyrics, I delved into the album and got re-ally depressed.

Seriously, the final song begins with “There’s noth-ing left to say / ‘Cause you don’t want to try / And I don’t want the pain.” Please, Deryck Whibley, could you get any more depressing?

Songs like “Blood in my Eyes,” “Screaming Bloody

Murder” and “Crash” all leave a depressed, angry weight in listeners’ hearts as they explore the futil-ity of social and personal struggles.

Personally, I would have liked to see each song’s ideas fleshed out a bit more – possibly in longer songs or in separate songs dealing with the same is-sues; however, this isn’t a concept album, so I won’t hold that against it.

All in all, Screaming Bloody Murder is a solid release. I’m a little up-set with other reviewers’ reception (It’s generally been pretty low), but I suppose not everybody is into the more musical side of music.

Kaitlin LutzAssociate Editor

The film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged hit select theaters April 15.

Many of Rand’s devout readers and fans who pushed to have Atlas Shrugged shown in their city might have been let down by this low-budget film.

Atlas Shrugged is the first of a three part se-ries, which is an effort to fit all of the contents of the book into an on-screen film.

I had heard many people talk about ex-pecting this to be a great film based off their love for the book. That, however, is al-most never the case.

I have rarely seen a movie adaptation of a novel that is just as great as, or better than the novel.

The story is set in the year 2015. The price of oil has continued to rise and war in the Middle East has gotten worse.

Dagney Taggart, played by Taylor Schil-ling, is a strong businesswoman trying to save her family business, Taggart Trans-continental, after a terrible railway acci-dent.

Her brother, James Taggart, played by Matthew Marsden, is not very apt to take charge of the situation; instead, he seeks

advice from his friends down in Washing-ton, who are only concerned about their own political agendas.

Dagney finds a company run by Hank Rearden, played by Grant Bowler, who has developed a new metal alloy to rebuild her family’s railway. This leads to trouble with the National Science Department deeming

it as unsafe.As the story unfolds,

“Who is John Galt?” is a question that looms over the entire movie, as prominent business-men suddenly disap-pear.

The entire movie lagged on and on without much in-trigue and what seemed like words read from a script. And right as the mov-ie began to pick up and seem to become

interesting it came to a halt.I have to say if I had read the book be-

fore seeing this movie, I might have ap-preciated it more or possibly understood it better, but that shouldn’t be necessary.

Despite the fact that I was a little disap-pointed in this film adaptation, I will prob-ably watch the series as they come out to see how the story ends. And possibly read the book somewhere in there, because I would definitely recommend reading At-las Shrugged in order to better understand the movie adaptation.

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Although the normal schooling semesters are coming with a close, the LCC Performing Arts Department still runs strong over the summer semester.

LCC’s annual “Un-der the Stars” Summer Festival is coming back running from June 15 through July 28.

According to Melissa Kaplan, production co-ordinator for the Per-forming Arts Depart-ment, “Our Summer Stage Under the Stars Festival is a free festival of performing arts’ mu-sic theatre and dance.”

“We call it Under the Stars because it is typi-cally performed in our outdoor amphitheatre on campus, which is ab-solutely beautiful,” Ka-plan explained. “How-ever, this year, we’ll have to create the stars inside because it’s going to be

in Dart Auditorium due to the Board of Water and Light work that’s happening on Washing-ton Mall.”

The Summer Stage will kick off with the mu-sical play The Ballade of Robyn Hood, a brand new play written by John Da-vis and directed by John Lennox.

“Our John has been in touch with John Davis, (who) is writing this new play, and it’s a version with music,” Kaplan said. “It is the tradition-al story of Robin Hood who steals from the rich to give to the poor, but it has a troubadour who plays a lute or a mando-lin and leads in and out of the scenes.”

Featuring a large musical ensemble, per-formances will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, June 15 through 18 and Sun-day, June 19 at 2 p.m.

The next performance will be Keep on the Sunny

Side: The Songs and Story of the Original Carter Fam-ily, written by Douglas Pote and directed by Andy Callis. The musi-cal will run Wednesday through Saturday, June 29 through July 2, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, July 3, at 2 p.m.

“(Keep on the Sunny Side) is along the lines of the musicals we’ve done the past two summers ... in which the actors are musicians,” Kaplan said. “It’s got a lot of wonder-ful music that people will recognize when they hear it.”

Thirdly, the second semester studio class, directed by Deborah Keller, is set to perform Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman Wednesday through Saturday, July 20 through 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 24 at 2 p.m.

According to Kaplan, Connie Curran-Oesterle

See Summer, page 11

Atlas lagged behind

Screaming a new tune

Spend some time ‘Under the Stars’ this summer


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—Shouting a Nuance—

Campus EventsI guess at one point

I wanted to change the world. But after a while I think I figured out that wasn’t what I really wanted.

The revelation was a lit-tle heart-breaking. I can’t imagine what I would have done if I hadn’t re-alized it until I’d already wasted half my life away. I think it was better in the end.

Really, I just want ev-eryone to be happy. I don’t care how it happens. I don’t care if I’m involved in it. But once everyone’s happy, I’ll be content.

See, the problem is I don’t think people know how to be happy. It’s like cold sores. Everyone has the disease and no one’s figured out how to cure it.

But I can tell you the cure isn’t an injection of lique-fied capital into the blood-stream. Nor is it an excess of material goods piled on your property.

Billion dollar paychecks aren’t tickets to the good life. And fast cars and big houses don’t force people

to feel.I remember the greatest

times and experiences in my life, and when I take all of them into consideration, truly the only similarities I can find are experience and expression.

Whether it be an event, opinion, knowledge or emotion, I live to experi-ence and express.

A search for truth? May-be. But something more fundamental. Something deeper, at the core of my humanity craves not to consume and destroy but to observe, create and rec-reate; and if this craving serves a purpose, even the purpose itself subserves my condition.

I define my life with the

time I kill, because the only time I’m profoundly and obviously free to live, un-constrained by obligations, is when I kill time.

I used to watch TV or play games, solitary fun. But as I grew, I displaced the value from items and actions to friendship, fam-ily and solitude. Each is wondrous. Each is finite.

I’ve been lonely. I’ve been depressed. I’ve been two steps away from suicide on three occasions – only stopped by luck or chance.

But I’ve also been in love. I’ve been wondrous-ly happy, beyond linguis-tic expression. And I’ve fallen asleep with a smile on my face every night for half a year.

I think I’m coming to the point past cynicism – not a point of barely surviving but a point of barely un-derstanding, barely living, grasping at the fringes of truth and hope revolution-aries hold but never feel.

I met my favorite ex again yesterday, and she asked me how I was doing.

I shouted a nuance.

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and Roberta Otten are also involved in teach-ing the class.

The play itself was inspired by the Roman Poet Ovid’s Metamor-phoses and is usually staged as a series of vi-gnettes, short impres-sionistic scenes, and fo-cuses less on traditional storytelling.

“In addition to those three major productions, we also have a jazz con-

cert that will be on Fri-day, July 8, and that is going to be featuring out LCC Faculty Jazz Quar-tet,” Kaplan said.

This concert will be the only performance outside of Dart. Kaplan said they were hoping to perform in the Mica Gal-lery in Old Town, but they have yet to formal-ly reserve the location.

Finally, the festival will close with the sixth

annual collaborative dance concert, the C/d Project. A joint effort between LCC and Hap-pendance. The dancers will perform Wednes-day and Thursday, July 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m., again, in Dart Audito-rium.

“This features original choreography by a va-riety of choreographers all performed by a dance company,” Kaplan said.

“It gives the commu-nity an opportunity to hear a little bit from the choreographers about what inspired that cho-reographer to create the dance.”

All events will be free, but the times, dates and locations are subject to change.

For more info, check out http://www.lcc.edu/c m a / e v e n t s / S u m m e r -Stage.aspx.

Larry HookAdviser

Need a fun break from studying for fi-nals?

The Student Life Of-fice at LCC will host the 11th annual Spring Fling Wednesday, May 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second floor of the Gannon Building.

“It’s an event to pro-mote the end of the ac-ademic year,” Student Life Office Manager Renee VanDeventer said. “Students will have a lot of fun, and we give away a lot of free gifts to encourage students to partici-pate.”

Those who attend will have the opportu-nity to participate in a whirlwind “dumpster diving” contest to pro-mote recycling. The dumpster dive is spon-sored by the LCC Sus-tainability Committee.

Members of many LCC registered student organizations will of-fer information, recruit new members and raise funds at tables located in the Gannon Building.

Campus Dining per-sonnel will be on hand selling hot dogs, potato chips and beverages.

For more information on the event, contact Student Life at 517-483-1285.

Spring Fling: a fun break from finals

Lanswingers Vocal Jazz/Pop Ensemble Concert

Community Dance Project Auditions

Lansing Concert Band’s First Young Artist Competition Concert

LCC Guitar Ensemble Concert

Experimentainment Concert

Improv! Show

Percussion Ensemble and LCC Concert Choir Concert

Contemporary Realism Studio Theatre Performance

War at Home

Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Dart Auditorium Free

Friday, April 29, at 6 p.m. in Dart Au-ditorium - $35 for project participationor Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m.Happendance Studios - $35 for project participation

Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Dart Auditorium Free

Sunday, May 1, at 3 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, GB 168 Free

Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m.Location TBA Free

Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.MICA Gallery, 1210 N. Turner St. Free

Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m.Dart Auditorium Free

Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, at 8 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, GB 168 Free

Saturday, May 7, at 8 p.m. at Dart Auditorium Free

Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Black Box Theatre, GB 168 Free

Friday, May 13, at 7 p.m. and Satur-day, May 14, at 2 and 4:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, GB 168 Free

For updates, check out http://lcc.edu/cma/events/.

Dumpster dive: The 2011 Spring Fling will feature the third annual “dumpster dive” to promote recycling.

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James Tennant Jr. An Ordinary Life

LeBaron Rodgers Desktop Blues

Embarking my snapshot journalism career this year has been a struggle, most-ly because I never watched the news.

I, like many of my fellow American friends, have found that our news stations can be depressing and even scary.

For the longest time I let this get in the way of my becoming an in-formed citizen of this country and a voter who knew what she was really voting for.

Amongst various circles of compan-ionship I have posed questions aimed at discovering why so many people I know refuse to watch the news and instead fill their minds with the nonsense that is real-ity TV.

Unanimously they have all told me, watching the news is depressing.

I fear for them, for to be uninformed is su-premely more infan-tile than even the basis of why they choose to not participate in na-tional discussion.

I can understand your downhearted-ness when it comes to our 24-hour news cycles. I can better un-derstand rational rea-sons such as American news is thwarted with propaganda—thank you, capitalism.

However, to not watch the news be-cause you find its sub-jects boring or worse, depressing, is extreme-

ly malproductive.This year will pass

regardless of where you are left at the end of it. The news will continue with or with-out you but this coun-try, being founded with democratic prin-ciples, needs its peo-ple to keep its voice in tune with the voice of the 300 million people that live within it.

This country needs its media to give voice to those people and challenge its adminis-tration, holding them accountable for the actions taken which impact us, even those too depressed to know what’s happening.

One can understand the viewpoint that what happens on the news has little to no effect on our daily lives. I would chal-lenge you all to par-ticipate, subsequently making this ideology false.

I can’t believe it’s been an entire school year since I wrote my first column for issue one of volume 52 of The Lookout.

Looking back on my second year as an em-ployee here, I can say I have learned a lot.

Designing half the pages in the paper is not the easiest task, but with the help of a great staff providing premium content, it got done — and done well, I think.

I couldn’t count the number of hours I sat at my desk designing the front page of the past 15 issues of the The Lookout, but every one was worth it, I can tell you that.

Getting recognition for it felt great, too. Winning first place in the “front-page de-sign” category in the Michigan Community College Press Associa-tion competition this year was a great ac-complishment for me and I couldn’t be hap-pier. That means The Lookout has the best looking front page of any community col-

lege newspaper in Michigan. Fa-Lip.

But even without an award I still loved ev-ery minute of it.

I grew as a writer this year as well.

I never dreamed of writing anything that anyone else would read. But about 10 col-umns and a few news/feature stories later, I think I am fumbling my way through it al-right.

Talk about a news-worthy year, too! So many things happened this year; from water mains breaking right in front of campus, a coaching legend be-ing fired and programs being cut. I am glad I could be here to help bring all the news we could to you this year.

I want to extend a

thank you to you, our readers. Thank you for picking up our paper and flipping through it while you’re waiting for class to start. And thank you for looking at our online editions thousands of times this year.

Thank you for an-swering my questions while I stood in the Gannon Building hall with my camera asking everyone that walked by for our student per-spectives. I got some great answers from y’all and had fun learn-ing how you felt about each issue.

Also I want to thank everyone who I worked with this year in The Lookout office. Larry, Kaitlin, Sarah, Domi-nick, Zach, Shauna, Nathan, Lee and my office partner, Kelly.

It’s been a great year and I’m glad I got to spend it working and getting to know all of you. You guys made this year fully-flipped out.

Thanks for the great year, LCC. I can’t wait to see what happens next!

The time has come for our last issue of the school year and inevi-tably so. I guess this is farewell, at least for now.

In anticipation and preparation for writing this farewell column, I took the liberty of re-searching some famous farewell speeches.

In most of these speeches appropriate thanks were given.

So I would like to start by thanking any student, faculty mem-ber, or passerby who happened to read my humble column.

And thanks to all those I have worked with these last two se-mesters. Sure there were times when we didn’t agree or times when we needed to step outside of the office to get some air, but we always man-aged to put aside our differences and get the paper done and out to our readers.

What comes next in a farewell speech is a walk

down memory lane. This is where the speak-er proceeds to reminisce about the fond memo-ries they have had over a certain period of time.

Deadline Fridays af-ter we finish the pa-per are probably what I remember the most because everyone is working to get the pa-per done. When Larry, our adviser, puts the last page on the board, a flood of relief and accomplishment just rushes through me.

To end the speech come some final thoughts and words of wisdom.

I have learned a lot about the people I work

with this past year. How they react under pressure, and then how they respond when Lar-ry tells them they did a good job.

It’s hard not to sound cliché when I am writ-ing a column that is cliché in and of itself being a farewell for the semester. So I am just going to lay it on thick, go all out, and jump in the deep end here.

The question, “Would you go back and change anything?” is some-thing people always seem to ask about most situations in life. And so I asked myself the same question.

I mean, yeah, I get upset when I make little and sometimes big mis-takes, but it’s all a learn-ing process. And that is what working at The Lookout has been for me. So the answer would be no.

Always remember, “Failure is a blessing in disguise,” Relient K.


OPINION13—Everyone should read George Orwell—

— The Collected Klutz—

— Fully flippin’ it —

Lookout lessons learned

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We at The Lookout would like to think that we have accomplished quite a bit these last two semesters serving you … the community of LCC.

It has, however, become apparent to us that we were only able to do so (and remarkably well we might add) because of some valuable and down-right heartwarming guidance. Enter our adviser: Lawrence O. Hook.

He is the man with a plan, the keep-er of the budget and the always loom-ing presence of great journalism here at The Lookout.

A former LCC student himself, Hook has been the adviser of the newspaper for the last seven years.

Professionally speaking, we have never met a more solid and reliable individual. Personally speaking, we can say the same.

There truly is no correct place to be-gin. A father of three, an avid sports fan and a man of high self-respect, Hook is an example to us all.

While we may not all want to be journalists when we grow up, we all want to be good people. Hook can teach us about both of those things.

We’ll be honest; he can be one tough cookie. The AP stylebook (the univer-sal book of media law) was first intro-duced to us by this man; he likes to re-mind us of its contents … on occasion.

He is an excellent copy editor — nothing gets passed him, trust us. He has provided us with opportunities to travel all over the state and learn about what it is to be a good journalist and a professional citizen.

While politics might not be his cup of tea, don’t you dare say anything nega-tive about his Detroit Tigers, or you’ll be handing in applications at McDonald’s.

He communicates with all of us wonderfully, his office door is always open and we are confident we can al-ways go to him for anything.

He is the glue that holds this fam-ily together, and while we may not “need” him to produce our publica-tion, we know for a fact the experience of working at the school newspaper would not be the same without him.

He has a special place in all of our hearts and, whether we like to or not, always will. Thanks for everything Lar-Bear. It’s been awesome.

Hook, line and thinker

Dear Sarah,

I empathize with your efforts to defend science. One of my favorite quotes on the evolution debate goes as follows “Geology shows that fos-sils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species representing changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species and evolution is the explanation that threads it all together.”

I think one of the best evidences of Evolution is regularly ignored: “ERVs (Endogenous Retroviruses) are random viral insertions into the DNA which are inherited, so how is it that species can share these?

Either this shows a common ancestor or it shows a deceptive Creator.” If one truly wanted to dismantle evolution, the method is simple. Find a Squir-rel fossil in Cambrian rock.

Indeed, find any modern mammal in Cambrian rock, evolution could nev-er explain this. Yet It has never been done. Instead we find a specific fossil sequence in which species periodically appear and then abruptly disappear. If all modern animals were created in the same moment as all extinct ani-mals, we would not find their remains in the sequence that we do. To insist otherwise is denial.

Jamie Wonnacott,LCC student

Dear Nathan and Sarah,

I was rather disappointed with the response I saw in The Lookout regarding the story about the evolution controversy. The biggest misconception I see is that evolution ex-plains how life was created. Evolution does not describe how life came to be. There are competing theories because the genesis of life is much more difficult to figure out than the “origin of species.”

The theory of evolution explains why there are so many different species and is a foun-dation on which modern biology stands because there is so much evidence supporting it. In other words, Creationism does not explain how life functions, just where it came from; evolution does not explain where it came from, but explains how it functions.

My favorite oversimplification of the difference between science and creationism is this: A scientist will say “Here are the facts, what conclusions can we draw from them?” whereas a creationist will say “Here is the conclusion, what facts can we find to support it?”

Obviously, books have been written on this topic, which quite frankly is one of the dumbest controversies in our society. This is 2011 and we’re still arguing over ancient mythology like this? We may as well be arguing over the validity of atomic theory vs. magic. Have you ever seen an atom?

Nicolas Soria,LCC Student

Students voice opinions on evolutionIn response to Evolution: ‘Still Science’ on page 14 of Issue 13

Letters to the Editor

The Lookout is the independent, biweekly student newspaper of LCC. All opinion/editorial articles are the sole opinion of the writer and may not reflect the views of the staff, students, faculty and college as a whole. Opinion/editorial articles may or may not be located exclusively on editorial pages and may appear on news, sports and arts & entertainment pages.

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Library’s stone soup sale feeds hungry

Photos by Michael Caterina

Rockin’ soup: The stone in the soup comes from a book by Marcia Brown, called Stone Soup.

Serving smiles: Chef Nick, right, hands Natalie Wissner a cup of chicken noodle soup during the Stone Soup Fund-raiser April 15.

Feeding a crowd: Chef Nick and LCC culinary students prepared 120 gallons of soup to serve to guests in exchange for a non-perishable food donation or cash donation for the Stone Soup Fundraiser April 15. Aggie Mae’s Bakery do-nated many different kinds of bread for guests to enjoy with their soup. The fundraiser was part of LCC’s participation in National Library Week. The proceeds benefited the Greater Lansing Food Bank and extra soup was donated to the Volunteers of America.

Contributing: Shaleka Bryant unloads a cartful of dona-tions from LCC’s Student Services to the Stone Soup Fund-raiser April 15.

Satisfying soup: Aurora, 2, reaches for a spoonful of soup while John Jester feeds Lavinia, 1, during the Stone Soup Fundraiser.


In celebration of Na-tional Library Week, stu-dents, faculty and com-munity members came to the LCC Library April 15 for a Stone Soup Fun-draiser.

The purpose was to raise funds and donate

canned goods for the Greater Lansing Food Bank and enjoy a nice, hearty bowl of stone soup.

Yes, that’s soup. With stones in it.

“It’s from the old chil-dren’s tale, the story of Stone Soup,” LCC Culi-nary Arts Professor Chef Nick explained. “There’s one stone in each of the

pots of soup.”Library Communications

Manager Victoria Mead-ows said the event has be-come an LCC tradition.

“We’ve been partnering with (Chef Nick) for like 10 years on other projects, and he actually started this initiative in the commu-nity,” “It’s a great way to raise awareness of hunger

and collect donations and feed people all at once.”

The stones themselves came from Lake Michi-gan, according to Chef Nick, and the community connection those stones have is an integral piece of the story for the fundrais-ing benefit.

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