Alfredo AnayaEditor

After working at Seward for 32years, Dean of AdministrativeServices Tom E. Williams willretire after this semester.

“I’m like that pair of pajamaseveryone has worn out but isn’tready to be thrown away,”Williams said about his decisionto retire even though he’s beenworking for the college for solong.

Williams started working at Se-ward in the fall of 1979 as a fulltime faculty member. A positionopened up in 1990 for a fiscal of-ficer, which he worked as until1995 when he took over the posi-tion of dean of administrative ser-vices.

After working at Seward for 32years, Williams has quite a fewaccomplishments he says he isproud to have been able to com-plete at Seward. Like in 1981,when the college was able to getits first microcomputers, and alsowhen he was the Phi ThetaKappa sponsor and Seward hadthe national president of PTK forthe chapter, and in 1995, the pas-sage of the bond issue for campusexpansion.

“Probably a real broad thingI’m proud of is just the great peo-ple I’ve had the opportunity towork with over the years,”Williams said.

According to Williams, all ofthe success the college has beenable to achieve over the years is

also due to the contributions bythe board of trustees.

“This college has been blessedwith the most stable board oftrustees within the state ofKansas and even the nation,”Williams said. “We’ve alwayshad a president who was pro-stu-dent and progressive.”

Even though Williams hasmany accomplishments to beproud of, he decided it was timeto for somebody else to comeover and take over the position sohe can enjoy time with family.

“My mother died a year and ahalf ago, my step-father is 93 andhe still has good health, and Iwant to spend more time withhim,” Williams said. “It’s timefor somebody else to come overhere and take over the position.”

Williams also looks forward tohaving time to spend on hobbieshe loves and being able to havetime for himself.

“I hope to have time to com-plete more projects around thehouse. I’m an avid coin andstamp collector, and I want towork on that,” Williams said. “Iwant to become a kid again, getout all my trains sets and be ableplay with those.”

The administrative peersWilliams has worked with havealso noted the success he has hadin his position at Seward whilestill having a sense of humor andbeing approachable.

“He is the best in his positionof all the community colleges inKansas. He is making sure we are

doing well in budgets, financingand that kind of stuff,” said Deanof Instruction Cynthia Rapp, whohas worked with Williams for 17years.

“He’s a great guy to work with,he has a super sense of humorand we can talk about just any-thing, even if we don’t agree.He’s real open and willing to talkabout things.”

Rapp also joked about howWilliams always enjoys playingpractical jokes on her and givingher a hard time when her favoriteteam loses.

“He loves to play practicaltricks on me because I am a Jay-hawks fan,” Rapp said. “He likesto play tricks on me when theJayhawks lose a basketball game.He likes to rub it in.”

Celeste Donovan, dean of stu-dent services, who has workedwith Williams for four years, hasalso enjoyed his personality andworking with him.

“Tommy makes it a real joy toget up and come to work every-day,” Donovan said.

One of the best memoriesDonovan recalls of Williams was

when he ranin the Pan-cake DayRace along-side DaleReed in orderto raisemoney fors t u d e n tscholarships.

“A coupleyears ago Italked him and

Dale Reed into running in thePancake Day Race and theydressed up as ladies, and theyraised quite a lot of money forscholarships,” Donovan said.

Through the years, Donovansaid she has been able to becomea close friend of Williams andthinks the college won’t be thesame without him.

“He’s just a really unique, gen-uine person. Because he’s beenhere so long it’s going to be hardto find someone to fill his shoes.He will truly be missed by ourcollege community,” Donovansaid. “And even though he won’tbe working here he will alwaysbe a dear friend to me.”

Even with his decision to retireWilliams will continue to appre-ciate the people he’s had thechance to work with at Seward.

“Even though I’ll be retired,I’ll be an avid supporter ofSCCC,” Williams said. “As far asa place of employment, youwon’t find a better place with asgood of people as there is at Se-ward.”

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to raise money forscholarships will beApril 5-7, 9-10. Studentswill be calling alumni,friends, family and mem-bers of the local com-munity. Anyone wish-ing to make a pledgeearly should call theSCCC/ATS Foundation of-fice at 417-1131 or go online ,at alumni.sccc.edu/donationsto pay by credit card.

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The Seward County home-coming queen candidates fir2011 are Janette Vargas, BrandiColvin, Ashley Martinez,Marycarmen Perez and JeanetteContreras.

King candidates are LuisPauyac, Saul Landeros, VictorRodriguez, Omar Rios and Car-los Ruiz.

The final round of voting willtake place from 9 a.m. to noonFeb. 9-11 to noon in front of the

library.These final 10 candidates

emerged from club nominationsand a school-wide vote. Theother nominees were LizulyMonarrez, Dana Loewen, EthanAdams, Deisi Barboza, AlfredoAnaya, Karem Gallo, AdriannaVazquez, Ricky Rodriquez, Ya-haida Zubia, Brandon Ridge,Blanca Richard, Fanny Benin-casa, Rogelio Alvarez, MarioArmendariz, Kauna Goncalves,and Iago Goncalves.

Homecoming week featuresevents for SCCC/ATS students

from voting Feb. 9-11 to danc-ing on Feb. 12. A schedule ofevents follows.

On Feb. 8, the Saints Book-store will offer free donutsalong with the weekly free cof-fee Tuesdays. Mad Chad Tay-lor will perform at 8 p.m. in theShowcase Theater.

Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,SGA will sponsor the making offree funny T-shirts. Studentswill be able to have a picturetaken and placed on a T-shirt.

On Feb. 10, the first night ofthe intramural dodgeball tour-

nament will be at 7:30 p.m. inthe gym.

On Feb. 11, a Texas Hold-’em Poker Night will be at 7:30p.m. in the Student Union. Stu-dents wishing to participateneed to sign up with Wade Lyonby Feb. 10. Approximately$1,000 worth of prizes will beawarded that night to the win-ners.

On Feb. 12 the Saints Chal-lenge/Old School Run willbegin at 1:33 p.m. and 2:33 p.m.in between the Student Unionand the Student Living Center.

Registration will begin at 1 p.m.in the Student Union. For moreinformation, see Sports, page 7.

Homecoming coronation ofthe king and queen will be an-nounced before the Saints bas-ketball game. The cheer squadand Saintsensation dance teamwill perform.

A homecoming dance willfollow the men’s game from 10p.m. to 1 a.m. in the StudentUnion. Glow-in-the-dark paintwill be abundant at the dance.

All homecoming events arefree to SCCC/ATS students.

Crusader file photo

Tommy Williams runs alongside Associate Dean of AdministrativeServices Dale Reed during the Pancake Day races in 2009 to raisemoney for scholarships.

Dana LoewenEditor

The Board of Trustees found anew member to replace Jo AnnSharp, who resigned Nov. 1,2010. The new member, RickBrenneman, was sworn in Dec.9, 2010.

Brenneman has lived in Liber-al for the past 11 years, where hehas been the owner and directorof Brenneman Funeral Homealong with his wife, MelissaBrenneman. Rick Brennemanwas born in Newton, and hasalso lived in Casper, Wyo. andHutchinson before moving to

Liberal to buy the funeral home.Brenneman attended both

Kansas City Community Collegeand Central Kansas VocationalSchool to get his two-year de-gree. He feels this will help himwith his position on the Board ofTrustees, since he has experiencein both a community college andtechnical school.

Other connections with Se-ward County Community Col-lege/ Area Technical School arethat he and his wife have beenthe host family for a basketballplayer in the past, and his wife ison the college’s FoundationBoard.

“I felt we had a strong connec-tion, so I wanted to see how Icould help or develop the

school,” Brenneman said.Brenneman believes SCCC/

ATS has a strong foundation. Hehas seen that the instructors andfaculty have a priority of devel-oping ways to help students inthe best ways they can. He hasalso noticed that instructors atATS have a great interest in thecommunity and really want tohelp their students.

“The students I’ve talked tohave been very impressed withthe instructors and have enjoyedthe one-on-one attention,” Bren-neman said.

He’s also been impressed withthe structure and administration

staff.“The trustees and Dr. (Duane)

Dunn have done a lot of goodwork and made it easy for me tocome on board,” Brennemansaid.

During his time as a trustee,Brenneman would like to see thecollege grow and to continue todevelop and look at programs.He would also like to see thecampus become a little moreuser-friendly and easier to navi-gate for both students and thepublic.

The position Brenneman is fill-ing will be up for election inApril.

Brenneman

Williams’ retirement brings memories, hopes for future plans“

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• FASFA ASSISTANCE willtake place from 2 through 4 p.m.Sunday, Feb. 13 in theSCCC/ATS library as part of theCollege Goal Sunday program,which helps ensure that studentsget the help they need when fill-ing out papers for financial aid.College Goal Sunday is open toall college-bound students re-gardless of age. Four prospectivestudents will also have an oppor-tunity to win a $500 scholarship.

For more information, contactDonna Fisher at 620-417-1111 ordonna.fisher@sccc.edu.

• VALENTINE’S BRUNCH

will take place 11 a.m. through1:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 at the Se-ward Community College/AreaTechnical School cafeteria. Theevent is open to the public and is$6 per person.

• LUNCH AND LEARN

TRiO meetings will be at 12:30p.m. today in the library, thenWednesday from 11-noon andThursday at 12:30 p.m.

• LA MEXICANA RADIO

will set up their equipment in thetechnical school cafeteria from11 a.m. through 1 p.m. on Feb.14 and will have students fromdifferent programs on the airtalking about their classes. Theywill also have their TDT trailerwith the new banner out front.Food service will be cooking.

• WASHBURN LAW Officeof Admissions will host an on-line Diversity Chat Feb. 15 from4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students inter-ested in pursuing a degree in laware invited to participate.

The Diversity Chat can be ac-cessed from anywhere. The linkto join the Chat will be availableat http://www.washburnlaw.eduon the day of the Chat.

rusadersCAutumn brings the heat Take a shot at the citizen’s game

Mad Chad TaylorLadySaints point guardAutumnMillertalks

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— Page 6

Information on the process towards citizenship with personal

experiences isdiscussed.

— Page 5

A chain saw juggler performs for campusat 8 p.m. in the

Showcase Theater.For photos, see

the HomecomingSpecial Sectionthis Friday.

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Two students from SewardCounty CommunityCollege/Area Technical Schooljoin the 49 community collegescholars being recognized for aca-demic accomplishments thismonth.

Kelsey Darnell, an accountingmajor from Liberal, and GwenFriesen, a liberal arts major fromMoscow, were selected for 2011All-Kansas Academic Team andwill be among those recognizedat an award ceremony Feb. 18 inTopeka.

Representing the 19 Kansascommunity colleges, the 2011All-Kansas Academic Teammembers are sponsored by theinternational headquarters of PhiTheta Kappa international honorsociety, the Kansas Associationof Community College Trusteesand the Kansas Council of Com-munity College Presidents andthe Coca-Cola Scholars Founda-tion.

Each is also a nominee for the2011 All-USA Academic Team,sponsored by USA Today, PhiTheta Kappa and the AmericanAssociation of Community Col-leges. Kelsey Darnell

Darnell, who graduated formLiberal High school in 2009,was involved in Campus Mes-

sengers for Christ, Kappa BetaDelta and Phi Theta Kappa,where she served as president lastfall.

She transferred to Kansas StateUniversity this spring to majorin accounting. Gwen Friesen

Friesen grew up in Inman andmoved with her family toMoscow in 1996.

She graduated from AmericanSchool – Correspondence, Lans-ing, Ill., in May 1997.

She is a member of Phi ThetaKappa and has had several piecespublished in “Telolith,” theSCCC/ATS art and literary mag-azine.

She has been a junior sewingleader for her church sewinggroup.

This May she will graduatefrom SCCC/ATS with an asso-ciates degree with an emphasis inelementary education.

She plans to stay in Kansas tofinish her education.

Phi Theta Kappa is the honorsociety for students attending

community and two-year col-leges. The criteria used in mak-ing the choice on which studentswould represent colleges in theAll-Kansas Academic Team in-cluded academic rigor, grade pointaverage, involvement in campusand community activities, anddemonstration of outstandingmoral character.

The Kansas program is an af-filiate of the All-USA AcademicTeam program, and the Kansasstudents are nominees for the na-tional honor.

Each student will receive aproclamation issued by the gov-ernor of Kansas, an educationalstipend, and an academic medal-lion.

About 500 U.S. communitycollege students will compete forplaces on the first, second andthird national teams.

First team members each re-ceive $2,500 stipends, and willbe featured in USA Today alongwith second and third team mem-bers.

Team members are also pre-sented with medallions AmongKansans selected for nationalhonors since the annual recogni-tion program began are DonnaShank, SCCC/ATS first team,1995 and Brandon Sutton,SCCC/ATS second team, 1996.

Heidy MolinaCrusader Staff

Katy Redd, behavioral scienceinstructor, will be traveling toChicago, Ill., to be a part of theaudience of the Oprah Show Feb.16. Redd had been trying to gettickets for the show for over ayear.

“Some people have been wait-ing for 15 years to get tickets,”Redd said.

To get the tickets to the showRedd had a 24-hour window on

the Oprah website to click onthe date she wanted to attend.

“I would just click all of thedates that showed up,” Redd said.

Previously, Redd had gottentickets to see Oprah at Oprah'sAfter-Oscar party at the KodakTheater in Hollywood, Ca.,Redd and a friend had arrived atthe Kodak Theater early and itwas already full.

“We sat in the back and shewas like a spot on the stage,”Redd said. “A lot of people gottickets to that so it wasn’t any-

thing special.”Oprah has been on the air for

25 years. This season is the lastseason of the show.

All-Kansas Academic Team to be recognized Darnell, Friesen chosen to represent Seward County Community College/ATS

Darnell Friesen

Plane talk in the library

Crusader photo/Alfredo Anaya

Historian Ann Birney portrays aviator Amelia Earhart, telling the audience about her plan to fly acrossthe Pacific Ocean. Birney’s performance was Feb. 7 and is part of “Lunch in the Library” series.

SCCC/ATS Security ReportJan. 28 — A report of criminal damage

was filed at the ATS cafeteria. Unknown per-son(s) used pool sticks to poke holes in theceiling tiles and light above the pool table.No suspects. Damages estimated at $120.

How to report an on-campus crime:Crimes can be reported anonymously or confidentially

online at http://www.sccc.edu/security_department/report-crime/index.html. Important Emergency Numbers toknow: Liberal Police, ambulance, or fire — 9-911. Secu-rity office, security escort — (620) 417-1181. Security cellphone — 629-0670. 24/7 contact number — 482-3756.

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NEWSTuesday, February 8, 2011 CRUSADER 3

Alison Owens:

World TravelerAlison Owens:

World Traveler

Courtesy photo/Alison OwensAssistant volleyball coach and Spanish instructor Alison Owens poses at Yohualichan, Mexico. Owens has also traveled to Australia, Hawaii and Europe, but likes Mexico the most.

Owen’s buswas pulled

over by gun-toting drug cartel members in

Mexico in thesummer of

2008. All themen in thebus were

searched fordrugs beforecontinuingtheir trip. Atright, Owensstands by a

Scottish bagpiper atEdinburgh,Scotland.

Courtesy photos/Alison Owens

Connie WhiteleyCrusader staff

Spanish instructor and assistant vol-leyball coach Alison Owens traveledacross Mexico and Europe while incollege and went to Australia andHawaii in high school.

“I would say that my recommenda-tion to all people is be willing to takea risk and step out their comfort zoneand into someone else’s so that theycan appreciate and understand others’culture and way of life,” said Owens.

Owens, who is originally fromHugoton, played volleyball for SCCCfor two years before transfering in2008 to the University of Kansas,where she studied Spanish.

Owens said she decided to take ad-vantage of the numerous study abroadprograms the university offered. Shestudied abroad in Mexico in the sum-mer of 2008 and in fall of 2008 inSpain. Both places offered courses shewanted to take, she said. She alsotaught in Mexico in the summer of2010.

“I applied for the trip to Mexicofirst, then I decided I might as well goto Spain while I am at it,” Owenssaid. “So I went to Mexico first in thesummer of 2008. I stayed there for twomonths, and I absolutely loved it. Itraveled all over Mexico. I was inPuebla, and I traveled all over placewhile I was there, mostly the south.”

According to Owens, the experi-ences she had while traveling and liv-ing in those Spanish-speaking cul-tures made her a better Spanishteacher.

“Being able to live in the culturethat I studied sets me apart from a lotof students who studied Spanish,”Owens said. “Language is part of aculture and if you are not going to beenveloped in it, you really don’t learnthe language. You may know gram-mar and how to read and write, but asfar as feeling it and living it, you don’tdo that until you are actually literallyrolled up in a culture.”

While studying abroad in Mexicofor the summer of 2008, Owens saidshe had one of her scariest experiences.

She, along with other students,mostly American, were taking a week-end trip on a commercial bus when itwas pulled over by people dressed infull camouflage carrying guns.

“They pulled our bus over, and I wasjust reading,” Owens said. “I didn’t re-alize we were pulled over for a specif-ic reason. I thought were just stopped

at a stoplight or a toll booth. All of asudden I look up and there is a manstanding beside me, and he is a bigman with a huge gun and in camo, andhe is looking at me. I was so scared,but I didn’t want to show it, so as Iwas looking up at him I said, ‘Hi,What do I need to do?’ and he waslike, ‘Just sit, the men need to getoff.’”

“They were searching all of the menand everything because apparentlythey were drug cartel people lookingfor a commercial bus that was sup-posed to be coming through withdrugs, and they were going to bejumping the bus basically,” Owenssaid. “So it was really kind of freaky.You hear about all of that stuff butyou don’t ever really go through.”

However, the experience did not ruinMexico for her, she said.

“People are kind of shocked when Isay my favorite place is Mexico,” shesaid. “Mostly because of the cultureand the people. It is a very warm, lov-ing culture. They’re just comfortingpeople. They take you in like you aretheir family.”

Her adventures continued in Spainthat fall.

“I traveled all over Europe while Iwas there,” she said. “I went to Eng-land, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Ger-many, France, Italy, and Portugal and,of course, all over Spain. So I wasmostly just traveling all over the placetrying to do my homework for myclass while I was on airplanes andbuses, but it was a lot of fun.”

One adventure is labeled as her cra-ziest experience.

The assistant volleyball coach saidat one point she and a friend had takena weekend trip to Scotland to visit an-other friend. With no direct flight fromScotland to Spain they had to patch to-gether flights to get to Scotland.

They managed to get there with a lotof country hopping, she said, but leav-ing Scotland was more difficult.

The crazy experience started whentaking the bus to the airport. They toldthe bus driver to drop them off at theairport but did not say which one, andhe did not know.

He dropped them off at an airport,and they had four hours until theirflight, she said. They slept and wokeup with an hour to spare, so they de-cided to check in early. However therewas no line for their flight.

Owens said it turned out they werein the local airport and needed to be inthe international airport, which was

about an hour away away. Owens saidin order to try and make their flightthey took a cab that cost them 70pounds, the equivalent of $140, in-stead of the 3 pound bus fare.

It was important that they make itback because they were trying to getback for school on Monday, and it wasSunday.

She said they reached the right air-port only to find out that flight hadbeen delayed until noon.

Eventually they arrived in London,where they would get a flight to Por-tugal, which she said eased her stressbecause she knew how to get to Spainfrom there through the buses.

However, they ended up sitting onthe runway for an hour because some-one did not turn in his or her ticket.

She realized they were not going tomake it to the bus in time.

Owens said in the end, she managedto tell the attendant that she had over-heard the people behind her but thatthey didn’t understand English, so theattendant needed to find someone totranslate Portuguese for her. Owensended up translating in Portuguese thatsomeone didn’t turn in their ticket andcouldn’t leave until they did. She saidafter she said that an old man in theback held up his ticket.

However, she said, due to the delay,they had to spend the night in an air-port in Portugal. The airport was newand all glass, and it was cold since itwas November, Owens said. Finallyshe went to the restroom and found outthat it was small and warm, so theyslept there.

They did not make it back for classand had to explain why they missed,she said.

Owens has “a lot of fun and interest-ing stories” like that one but also hassome tips to share with other would-be travelers.

“The No. 1 safety tip I could give islearn the language,” Owens said. “Themost important thing is to learn lan-guage and culture. You are walkinginto their home.”

She said it is a must for travelers tolearn how the host people do things.

“They appreciate when you try. Ifnot, they don’t want anything to dowith you,” the Lady Saints assistantvolleyball coach explained.

Owens said she knows there will bemore trips in her future.

“Not planned, but there will beplenty,” she said. “I like to explore andmeet new people.”

Instructor shares international experiences

4 Tuesday, February 8, 2011CRUSADER OPINION

Last year, I would have said Iwouldn’t ever use Twitter.Although I understood what it is,it’s like Facebook, but you canonly update your status, but Ididn’t see the point in me usingit since it’s not popular in thisarea.

This year, I am always tweet-ing, why? First of all it’s simple,there’s no annoying notificationsabout fish, farms and mafias, andmost importantly the latest newsright on my timeline.

I decided in July that I shouldgive it a try before writing it offas something really vain. I’msure nobody cares what I had forlunch or that I’m on my way tothe college. For that reason Idon’t tweet about that.

Twitter doesn’t have to beabout what you do every singlesecond. I see it more as servicethat keeps me up to date with thenews that interest me the most.

After creating an account onemust decide whom to follow.Now I am a big soccer fan, so amajority of accounts that I fol-low are soccer related. I like thatif I don’t have the time to watcha match I can always log intoTwitter via my smart phone andfollow the match live.

Many teams have official twit-ter accounts were they live blogthe matches. If a team doesn’thave an official account, don’tworry because there’s alwayssome obsessive fan or journalistwho will live blog the matches.

A lot of times these are the ac-counts with the better insight. Ithink you can apply this to anysport.

Another good thing about twit-ter is that you can browse thoughinterest under the ‘Find People’tab. Maybe sports aren’t yourthing but there are accounts like

BreakingNews which supplystory links to, oddly enough,breaking news stories. Alsocheck out the lists BreakingNewshas for more specific news oncertain events such as the protestin Egypt.

Twitter doesn’t have to be allabout hard news either; it can befun and amusing.

OMGFacts and the other spin-offs since as OMGFactsCelebsand OMGFactsAnimals are greatexamples accounts with good in-formation that doesn’t have to beas depressing as the news can be.

Many celebrities are also partof the Twitterverse. Just makesure the verified check is by theirname so you know it’s the realdeal, or go to their official web-site and look for a link toTwitter. These are the users wereally want to know where theyhad lunch, right? Well maybe notalways, but you can always get agood laugh at what Kanye Westis tweeting.

It doesn’t hurt to tweet at acelebrity at least once because ifyou’re lucky they just might an-swer back. I’m sure it reallywouldn’t make Rihanna’s day ifyou told her how much you loveher music, but for a lesser knownor indie artist it might. Trust meI’ve done it before.

There are also pretty good ap-plications for Twitter if you missall the bells and whistles ofFacebook. There’s no Farmville,which might be a good thing,but there’s TwitLonger, TweetCloud, and photo sharing siteslike the classic TwitPic and thenewer and growing in popularityYFrog. TwitLonger is great forthose moments when what youwant to say just doesn’t seem tofit 140 characters. Tweet Cloudwill generate a cloud of yourmost used words on Twitter.

The main moral in this col-umn is don’t write off somethingas something that won’t benefityou before you actually try it; Iused to think I didn’t need aTwitter since I already useFacebook, and hardly anyoneuses Twitter in this area anyway.

What I found out was Twitterfor me isn’t to keep in contractwith people, it’s to keep up withthe latest information that mat-ters the most to me.

n Deisi Barboza can be fol-lowed on Twitter or she can alsobe reached at Barboza@cru-sadernews.com.

One of the traits that bothersme the most about myself ishow nostalgic I am. Some daysall I want to do is listen tomusic from my childhood andI’m not even embarrassed toadmit I will occasionally listento some old Disney music. Notthe Miley Cyrus junk theDisney crowd of today is listen-ing to, but the good stuff fromthe movies I grew up with.

As I listened to “Colors of theWind” from Pocahontas, I could-n’t help but think that the lyricsapply to our society so well.Well, not all the lyrics because Idon’t have any heron or otterfriends, and sadly I’ve never seenthe wolf cry to the blue cornmoon, or asked a grinning bob-cat why he grinned.

There is so much that we donot communicate to each otherand to people of other culturesso we consider them “ignorantsavages” and we don’t get toknow the person.

“You think the only peoplewho are people, are the peoplewho look and think like you.” Imean I don’t want to point anyfingers (tea party) but seriously,who doesn’t the tea party hate?

Well honestly, I think wegravitate towards people who are

more like us, but then when youstart hating on others for thingsthey cannot help it is not a goodlook.

Also the message of environ-mentalism “the earth is just adead thing you can claim.” Idon’t really care for the GoGreen movement, but some ofthe environmental disasterscaused by people are horrible. Idon’t know how many picturesI’ve seen of animals covered inblack gold or polar bears tryingto stay alive on a piece of icethat will not support them.“Will we ever know how highthe sycamore can grow? If wecut it down then we will neverknow,” which is why everythingis so expensive now. What isgoing to happen when we runout of oil? It isn’t a renewableresource, yet people use it uplike you can just bury your deadcat in your back yard and oil willcome in a year.

Maybe if we all just ranaround the forest (or semi-aridgrassland), and took in all theriches all around us then wewould appreciate the Earth andeverything it has to offer us. I dorefuse to taste the sun sweetberries of the Earth because theyare probably organic and over-priced.

I guess you really do learn alot from Disney movies. Ormaybe the message was alwaysthere but now that I’m older Iunderstand it. I know I definite-ly understand all the subliminalmessaging that is in the Disneymovies.

We all need to remember thatwhether we may be white orcopper skinned, we are theworld, the children, the future,and those who paint with all thecolors of the wind.

n Jose Rodriguez, who enjoyspainting with the colors of thewind, can be reached atRodriguez@crusadernews.com.

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This past weekend I experienced somethingthat I know will not be the last time, racism.I was even more shocked because it wasn’tout in the street or in some store. It was atchurch.

You would think that church is the oneplace on this earth where you don’t have tothink about what race you belong to or whatcolor of skin you have. Well, at least I did.

Turns out I was wrong. I have never felt soinsulted before.

Then I realized that we as humans areracists against anything or anyone that wefeel aren’t part of what we consider to be nor-mal. We tend to believe that our view is bet-ter than that of our peers. I have seen onmany occasions that we are even racistagainst our own race.

How many times do you hear Caucasianscall one another “white trash” or Hispanicscall one another “beaner” or “wetback”. Iknow sometimes these people are just play-ing around with each other, but other timesthese names are meant or said in a hurtfulway. Even if it doesn’t bother the personwhom the comment was directed at, it justmight bother the person sitting beside them.

Seriously, we are supposed to be an ad-vance species, yet I believe we are so igno-rant in the understanding of the different racesthat make up the culture that we have today.

America is the “melting pot” of the world,but yet sometimes it can also be like a strain-er, making sure that every race knows exact-ly who they belong with or where they camefrom.

In our generation and those that follow usI’ve noticed that, although some are proud ofthe race they were born into, some tend to say“Oh, I’m not Mexican, my parents are, butI’m not. I’m American.” Is that really neces-sary? Or how about the Hispanic that canclearly speaks Spanish, but tells everyonethey can’t.

I’m not saying that every person denounceshis or her race. There are some who are proudof the different races that make them up.

Nobody is truly American because whatdoes it mean to be American? Must you havea certain trait in order to be American? Everyperson that lives in the United States hasfamily ancestors that came from a differentcountry.

We need to learn to get along with one an-other. Just because I’m Hispanic and you arewhite, asian, or black doesn’t mean we haveto be racist towards one another. After all, weall come from different parts of the world thatmake us essential to the new culture that isbeing created.

n Heidy Molina,who believes all racesshould learn to accept one another, can bereached at Molina@crusadernews.com.

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Homecoming, a tradition gen-erally common in the Americanfootball world, also is a part ofthe basketball tradition here atSeward County CommunityCollege. Homecoming is takingplace on Feb. 12 this year withmany events like a TexasHold’em Poker Night plannedfor students to become involvedas part of the event.

Liberal isn’t a town wheremuch happens, and there aren’tmany events for students to do.Many complain, yet still don’ttake advantage of the events thatare provided to them by theschool and the community.Students may fear being consid-ered “dorks” for becoming in-volved with school events suchas homecoming, but they

should learn to look past thatand get their friends involved aswell so they don’t become ostra-cized and it becomes more funfor all of them.

Having pride in your schoolisn’t something that many cansay they do. However, Sewardwas ranked No. 33 in the col-leges of the nation by“Washington Monthly” thisyear, and that’s something thatall students who attend Sewardshould be proud of because itshows that the school we are at-tending is nationally recognizedfor the success it provides to itsstudents.

Besides, some of the moneyyou’re already spending to attendthe college, is being used tomake these events happen. You

might as well get the most ofyour money’s worth as you canby taking advantage of anyevents or contests made avail-able to you.

The college spends a lot oftime and money planning eventsfor times like Welcome weekand Homecoming week. Thereare social events such as thedance; chances for students toget free stuff, such as free fun T-shirts, or free donuts; entertain-ment brought in of performerswho do shows across the coun-try, like Mad Chad Taylor; andcompetitive events, like thepoker night, dodgeball, or therun. Everyone should be able tofind at least one event theywould like to participate in.Instead of doing nothing with

your friends, convince them to

go with you to an event. The

more people that go, the more

fun it will be.

Students have the choice to

complain ab out being bored be-

cause they have nothing to do

other than the typical nights of

bowling and going to the

movies, or they can chose to do

something about it and take part

in the events the school choses

to provide for them.

So this week we encourage

you to at least find one event

you and your friends can all par-

ticipate in and opt. for the sensi-

ble solution to your woes of

boredom.

Will you be participating inany homecoming activities?Why or why not?

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I have my dress already !

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OPINION 5Tuesday, February 8, 2011 CRUSADER

Deisi BarbozaOnline editor

“Why does the flag have 13 stripes? Why does the flag have 50stars?” These aren’t questions typical little girls ask their dads,but as my dad hoped to become a United States citizen, he wouldmake me help him study for the Naturalization test.

My dad did not complete the process, but he does intend to be-come a U.S. citizen after he turns 50. Applicants 50 or older whohave been permanent residents of the United States for 20 or moreyears are able to take the test in their native language.

I don’t blame or think badly of my dad for this. He has alwaysworked long hours at National Beef and had three kids to raise. Iappreciate him putting my siblings and me first.

I’ve lived in the United States since I was 6 months old, yet itwasn’t until I was 16 that I could consider myself American.That’s when I renounced my Mexican citizenship and became aU.S. citizen.

I will admit it was easy for me, but seeing my mom and mysister go through the process, I know it’s not as easy for every-one else as it was for me.

My dad worked in a dairy farm in Louisiana where his employ-er at the time handed him a card about the Immigration Reformand Control Act or 1986, which he qualified for. Yet it wasn’tuntil 1990 that he became resident.

When I was 6 months old, my mom, sister and I came to theU.S. to live with my dad. We settled in Liberal as my dad start-ed working for National Beef.

My own journey in becoming a citizen first started by becom-ing a permanent resident,

I was 8 at the time and I don’t remember much. I do remem-ber the drive to Kansas City, which when you’re 8, feels like for-ever. I recall sitting in an office with my family while a strangewoman looked through various pictures of my family from mysister’s first communion and my birthday.

I didn’t realize at the time she was going through the picturesas proof that we are a family. Almost a year and a half after thatinterview in 2000, my mom, sister, and I became U.S. residents.

Fast forward to when I was 16. My mom was preparing to be-come a citizen. She took English classes for three months andstudied for the Naturalization test for nearly six months. A monthafter submitting her application, she had an appointment inWichita for her interview.

In her interview they greeted her, asked about theweather, and asked her 10 questions all in English.“They told me right away I passed,” my mom said.“I was very content and happy.”

Another month later she went back to Wichitafor the ceremony where she traded in her residen-cy card for a certificate stating she was now a nat-uralized U.S. citizen. After one becomes a U.S. citizen heor she can file an application for children that are youngerthan 18 to become citizens as well.

A week after her ceremony it was my turn; however myprocess would be a lot easier. I’d helped my mom withall the questions and the oath, so I was confident that Iwould have no problems passing. To my dismay, all thatwas required of me was to sign my name in several dif-ferent documents and to recite the oath.

I know I am extremely fortunate to have become aUnited States citizen so easily, yet I know how lengthyand complex the process is.

My sister who was older than 18 at the time my mombecame a citizen, became a citizen herself in 2009 whileattending the University of New Orleans. She sharedwith me that it’s better to do this while one is inschool.

“The application goes by better if they see you are an activemember of society and continuing your education,” she said.

Since my sister is fluent in English and with U.S. historyand government still in her mind from high school, she did notstruggle with the interview. My family and I went to NewOrleans for her ceremony. Since I didn’t get to go to my mom’sthis was my first time witnessing it. “The ceremony was thebest part, you met all sorts or people. We’re all different agesand races but in the end we were all the same because we allwanted to be American.”

Each member of my family had a different way of becominga U.S. citizen. My younger brother became a U.S. citizen bybirth. My mom had to learn English and took the naturaliza-tion test. I became one though my mom. My sister decided itthe best time for her to do it was while still in school.

None of us would be here today living in the U.S. if my dadhadn’t gotten his residency though the Immigration Reform andControl Act of 1986.

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Student recollects on family’sjourney to US citizenship

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“Ya somos mas de aqui que de aya.” We are morefrom here (U.S.), than from over there (Mexico).

These are words that I will never forget my parentsrepeatedly saying to everybody after they successfullyreceived their citizenship, a saying they are more thanproud of overstating.

Out of 10 brothers and sisters in my dad’s family, sixhave become citizens. Out of four sisters and onebrother in my mom’s family, all have fortunately be-come citizens.

Simply said, obtaining citizenship sounds like pass-ing your DMV test and proudly receiving the privilegeto drive your dad’s worn out station wagon. It’s a loteasier said than done. It has taken all of them years ofwork, a lot of money, and plenty of patience. Fromgaining citizenship through marriage or, like my oldersister, from my parents becoming citizens, it has allbeen a long process, and thankfully, all worth the has-sle.

There are certain requirements that have to be met be-fore a resident can even be considered to become a citi-zen. Months, and even years of anticipation haveplayed a role in each of my family members’ natural-ization process and hoping and praying for the besthave equally been contributed to each.

Of course, the random “OK”, niece, quiz me,” or thephone call from work, “Has my citizenship appoint-

ment come in the mail yet?” questions were always ex-pected from each, and I, willingly yet sometimes force-fully, helped them with whatever I was able to helpwith.

Each of them can only explain the anticipation andanxiety of becoming naturalized and the concern theymight not be accurately completing the process. Theprocess is sometimes confusing, long and costs a lotof money.

Depending on where and when the application isfiled, the time frame between sending in the completedapplication and the interview to become a U.S. citizencan vary from five months to more than two years.

Although there isn’t much to do to speed up theprocess between the application and interview, theColvin Learning Adult Center located at 1801 N.Kansas Ave., offers citizenship preparation classes thatwill help individuals for the interview at the USCISoffice. They offer help with U.S. history and govern-ment and the civic freedom as a citizen. There is a $50fee for materials.

All of my aunts and uncles have attended these class-es at the Colvin Center and have been more thanpleased with the help and motivation offered there.They have been truly encouraged not to give up, aseach of them went through the process to obtain citi-zenship.

After the long process with time so significant andthe outcome so precious, it is no wonder my parentssay, “Ya somos mas de aqui que de aya.”

• Submit your complete application- Obtain 2 approved passport-sized photos.- Collect all required supporting documents.- Mail your application package to the correct U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration Services along with anupdated charge of $595.00

• Get Fingerprinted- You receive and acknowledgement letter from the

USCIS that they received your application.- Go to the fingerprinting location specified in the

letter from the USCIS on the scheduled date and timeto get your fingerprints taken.

- Send any additional documents to the USCIS thatthey may have requested in the letter.

• Attend USCIS Interview & Take Tests- Receive an interview appointment letter from the

USCIS.

- Go to the interview location specified in the letterfrom the USCIS on thescheduled date and time for the interview.- Answer interview questions about your application

and background.- Take the English & Civics Test.- Await a decision from the USCIS. .

• Take the Oath to Become a U.S. Citizen- Receive a ceremony date letter from the USCIS.- Check in at the ceremony location specified in the

letter.- Return your Permanent Resident Card.- Answer questions about what you have done since

your interview.- Take the Oath of Allegiance.- Receive your Certificate of Naturalization.

Colvin Center offers citizenship guidance

Immigration Reform and ControlAct of 1986 granted amnesty to cer-tain seasonal agricultural illegal im-

migrants and illegal immigrantswho entered the United States be-

fore January 1, 1982 and hadresided there continuously. It also

made it illegal to knowingly hire orrecruit unauthorized immigrants.

The United States of America has been known as the land of immigrants. How doesan immigrant to the U.S. become a citizen? The first step to become a U.S. citizen is tomeet the eligibility requirements.• Be 18 or older.• Be a permanent resident (green card holder) for at leastfive years.• Have lived within the state, or USCIS district with ju-risdiction over the applicant’s place of residence, for atleast three months prior to the date of filing the appli-cation.• Have continuous residence in the United States as apermanent resident for at least five years immediatelypreceding the date of the filing the application.• Be physically present in the United States for at least30 months out of the five years immediately preceding

the date of filing the application.• Reside continuously within the United States from thedate of application for naturalization up to the time ofnaturalization.• Be able to read, write and speak English and haveknowledge and an understanding of U.S. history andgovernment (civics).• Be a person of good moral character, attached to theprinciples of the Constitution of the United States, andwell disposed to the good order and happiness of theUnited States during all relevant periods under the law.

After meeting requirements, one can start the process to becoming a U.S. citizen

—Information from uscis.gov

$50 fee for materials to takeclasses at theColvin Center

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The Lady Saints defeated Colby Mondaynight 72-57 to claim their first road win inconference play this season.

Ashlynn Knoll led the way for the LadySaints with a career high 27 points and 11 re-bounds. Joining Knoll with an unconven-tional double-double at Colby was HannahRotolo with 11 points and 12 assists.

The win puts the Lady Saints overall recordat 16-9 and the Jayhawk West conferencerecord at 6-5. On Wednesday, the Lady Saintscontinue Jayhawk West play on the road atPratt. The tip-off is at 6 p.m.

Seward v. Great Bend, 53-59 lossThe Seward County Lady Saints met Bar-

ton County Community College in GreatBend Saturday, but couldn’t overcome theroad blues that had plagued the team untiltheir first road win Monday against Colby.

Seward lost 53-59 to the Barton Cougars. In somewhat of a repeat from the Hutchin-

son loss on Wednesday, Seward led Bartonnearly all of the first half and 12 minutes intothe second half but turnovers let the lead slipaway.

As the game came to a close, a couple ofbig shots late by the Cougars would provethe difference, according to sports informa-tion director Roy Allen. Barton came out ontop to send the Lady Saints to .500 in con-ference action. Seward finished the gamewith 24 turnovers while shooting just 31 per-cent overall in the game.

Hannah Rotolo was the only Lady Saint toreach double figures as she finished with 10points in her return to Barton where she hadplayed her freshman season.

Hanna Bognar had a rocking nine blocks inthe game for Seward to climb to No. 4 in theNJCAA rankings in that category.

The 5-5 after this game put the Sewardwomen fifth in the conference and a full twogames out of reaching the coveted fourth spotneeded to host a Region VI playoff game.

The Lady Cougars’ win against Sewardmarked seven wins in their last eight games.

Seward v. Hutchinson, 59-62 lossThe Lady Saints met No. 14 Hutchinson

Feb. 2, hoping to avenge an earlier loss tothe Lady Blue Dragons. However, the LadySaints gave up a 16-point lead in the secondhalf and lost 59-62 with a 3-pointer that

could have tied the game in the air at the finalbuzzer.

The Lady Saints went into the locker roomat halftime leading 32-23. Early in the sec-ond half, Seward jumped ahead 40-24, andfans thought this one was in the win column.

Turnovers and missed opportunities tooktheir toll, however. With 21 total turnovers,many in the crucial final minutes, the LadySaints left the door open for a Hutch victory.The Lady Saints shot 38 percent from thefield.

Lady Saints Hanna Bognar had six points,five blocks and pulled down five defensive re-bounds, but she was in foul trouble early andonly played 18 minutes total before foulingout in the final minute of the game.

Ashlynn Knoll scored 23 points andgrabbed 10 rebounds to lead the Lady Saintseffort.

Hutchinson’s Jackie Patterson, No. 42,piled on 24 points, including 15 points fromthe free throw line. Hutchinson made 23 of34 free throws, while the Lady Saints hit 17of 25 from the charity stripe.

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Autumn Miller has a bubbly per-sonality and a contagious smile,which makes sense as the currentLady Saints point guard was acheerleader through junior high.

She’s dealt with athletic in-juries and success, all whilecontinuing to strive for im-provement, and remaininghumble.

Miller, who is originallyfrom Louisville, Ky., attend-ed high school at Sacred Heart

Academy where she was aMcDonald’s All-Americannominee for averaging 14points, seven steals, sevenassists and six rebounds pergame as a junior in 2009.

Miller also stated that one of herbest memories of high school waswinning the Louisville Internation-al Tournament, which is a basket-ball tournament of different teamsfrom Kentucky.

Although Miller dabbled in thecheerleading side of sports, she hasbeen playing basketball since shewas 4 years old, and a major con-tributor in Autumn’s move fromcheering to shooting baskets was

her father, Nick Miller.“She cheered for Rajon Rondo,

who is from Louisville and playsfor the Boston Celtics, and that kindof led her into wanting to play Di-vision I basketball and ultimatelyplaying for the WNBA,” NickMiller said.

Autumn has always been close toher father and feels like he under-stands what she is going throughnow as he also played basketball forFrank Phillips in Borger, Texas.

“I would say I look up to mydad,” Autumn said. “Just knowinghe’s been through everything I’vebeen through and he’s taught me toalways follow my dreams.”

Autumn was being recruited byDivision I schools, but ended up atSeward after she tore her ACL hersenior year of high school, and lostsome scholarship offers due to theinjury.

“That experience made her morehumble and, even though she didn’tplay her senior year, she played 100points away from 1,000 and was anAll-American nominee,” her dadsaid. “I was proud of the way shebounced back from a torn ACL andshe motivated other kids she knewwho also had sports injuries.”

Autumn was told that the best

choice she could make was to attenda junior college, and then she couldbe reconsidered for more Division Ischolarships.

However, she said she really en-joys the competition she’s been get-ting playing for the Lady Saints.

“It has been a very competitiveseason here,” Autumn said.

Autumn has proven to be an im-portant part of the Lady Saints teamas she has 61 assists, and has aver-aged seven points per game and con-tinues to strive for improvement inboth performance and leadershipskills.

“With our team, I’ve struggledwith being a leader a little bit, but Iwant to get stronger and just contin-ue getting better, ” Autumn said.

Autumns’s teammates have takennote of her caring personality andthe way she’s willing to help.

“She’s a sweetheart. She’s alwaystaking care of us girls on the team,or always doing things for some-body,” Lady Saint forward KelseyWillson said.

Her teammates have also takennote of her improvement through-out this season.

“In stressful situations she’s a lotbetter at directing the team as apoint guard and understanding what

needs to be done in order to win,”Willson said. “Next year I see herbeing more confident in herself, andshe will only get better.”

Although Autumn has a laid-back personality while off the court,she knows when she’s on the court,it’s all about staying focused inorder to win.

“When I’m off the court, I like tohave fun and joke around, but whenI’m on the court, it’s all laughsaside. You come ready to play,” Au-tumn said.

“I’m also different because off thecourt, I’m kind of laid-back, but onthe court I am intense and cheerfulwhen my teammates make a play orsomething intense happens in thegame. I get pumped.”

As far as her goals after Seward,she would like to continue playingthe game she loves, although she isnot sure where she is attending yet.

“I would love to go to a DivisionI school to play basketball. I wantto continue majoring in finance, andsomeday I want to be a stockbro-ker,” the Lady Saints point guardsaid. “I would love to attend aschool close to home but yet farenough away.”

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The Saints lost to Colby 63-70 in a game many peoplethought might be a pushover.

Seward perhaps took their op-ponent too lightly becauseColby was last in the conference-while Seward was in first place.

Colby is now 3 wins and 8losses in the Jayhawk West, andSeward has 9 wins and 2 losses.

Seward had a bad night of mis-cues and Colby took advantage.But Seward still holds on to thetop rank in conference with a twogame lead over Hutchinson andCloud County.

A decision is still out onMarky Nolen on whether or nothe will be playing or be suspend-ed for the next game.

Nolen continued his double-double streak with a 15 pointsand 14 rebounds and pushed it upto 8 games straight.

It was a poor shooting nightfor both teams. Seward just shot38 percent from the field and 13percent from deep. The brightspot in the game was the freethrow line with 76 percent.

Colby had 37 percent shootingand 32 percent from deep andfrom the free throw line 65 per-cent.

The Saints are scheduled toplay at Pratt this Wednesday.

The No. 8 HutchinsonBlue Dragons and No. 16 SewardCounty Saints squared offWednesday night in the GreenHouse.

Hutch jumped to a one pointhalftime lead but it was Sewardwho took control in the final 20minutes of the contest, using a9-1 run in the middle of a 51point half to come out with an86-76 win in front of a homecrowd.

Early in the game, PhilHawkins would slash to the laneand find Irvin Hollinger with apass which resulted in a threepoint play to put the Saints up 7-4 but Hutch came with a 13-0run to go up 17-7.

The Saints broke the scoringdrought with a layup from Dav-eon Boardingham.

A long jumper from JeremyJones cut the Hutch lead to 6.The two offenses picked it up outof the timeout as Hutch’s StuartSullivan hit a trio of three-point-ers sandwiched around Sewardbuckets from Nolen and MarkeeMazyck to make it a 26-15Hutchinson lead with eight min-utes left in the half.

The Saints made a first half runas Nolen hit a three pointer. Se-ward hit five free throws and gota finish inside from Boardinghamto make it a 26-25 game in favorof Hutchinson with 4:19 remain-ing in the first half. The finalfour minutes of the period theywent back and forth before thehorn sounded. Hutch went to thelocker rooms up 36-35.

As the second half started, theSaints quickly took control asBoardingham hit a pair of freethrows to give them a one pointlead, and then Marquez Patterson

got a steal and a score to givethem a three point lead.

Hutchinson went on a quick 6-0 run to get a three point lead butPatterson hit a three to tie it upat 44 with 16:14 to go in thegame. Seward outscored Hutch8-3 in the next two minutes andwould have their largest lead ofthe game at 52-47 with 14 min-utes remaining.

Boardingham dunked overDylan Frantz and was fouledwhere he completed the threepoint play to put the home teamup 64-55. Hutch was scorelessfor nearly three minutes as Se-ward built their lead to 12 at the7:26 mark.

Rafriel Guthrie got a steal andthrew a half court alley-oop toJones who slammed it in. Se-ward would go on to take thegame 86-76.

Five Saints reached double fig-ures in the win as Jones andGuthrie each had 16 points apiece. Jones added 7 assists andGuthrie grabbed 7 rebounds inthe win.

Boardingham scored 14 pointsand had 7 rebounds. Pattersonfinished with 11 points, 4 as-sists, and 3 steals. Nolen record-ed hisa sixth straight game witha double-double that night. Hehad 12 points and 10 rebounds.

The Saints outreboundedHutchinson 40-38 and forced 21Blue Dragon turnovers.

Portions of this story was writ-ten by and some information pro-vided by SCCC/ATS sports in-formation director Roy Allen.

Reanna TumlinsonCrusader staff

The Saints Challenge/ OldSchool Run, which will takeplace on the SCCC/ATS cam-pus, is the fourth race of the Yel-low Brick Road Runner Series.

As one of the college activi-ties recognizing the “Washing-ton Monthly” selection ofSCCC/ATS as the No. 33 com-munity college in the nation,races will begin at 1:33 p.m. and2:33 p.m. on Feb. 12. Theywill start in between the StudentLiving Center and the StudentUnion. Registration will bebegin at 1 p.m. in the StudentUnion.

The entry fee will be $20 forone race and $25 for both races.There will be a $5 discount forSouth West Fun Time Runnersmembers and SCCC/ATS stu-dents and employees.

There will be a 5K and a 1.5Krace. The 5K race will begin be-tween the Student Living Centerand the Student Union. Runnerswill run to the Epworth Build-ing and back.

The 1.5K prediction run/walkrace will begin in the same placebut the route has not been decid-ed yet.

Medals will be given to thetop five in the 1.5K predictionrun/walk race. In the 5K race,medals will be given to the topman and woman for each agegroup. All participants will re-ceive a T-shirt after completingthe race.

The swimming pool lockerrooms and showers will beavailable until 3:30 p.m. Partic-ipants should bring their owntowels.

Dr. Duane Dunn, college pres-ident, plans to participate in the1.5K prediction run/walk race.He is offering a challenge toanyone who wishes to partici-pate to donate $10 to theSCCC/ATS Foundation and tryto predict his finish time. Theperson closest to Dunn’s timewill win a prize. For more infor-mation contact Emery Swagertyat emery.swagerty@sccc.edu orcall him at 417-1162 or 655-7063.

Saints startbaseball season

Joseph HoffmanCrusader staff

Each year a certain day comesaround when citizens attend anevent half-naked covered in bodypaint, and drink enough beer toshame even the barley fieldsthemselves.

Those that decide to stay homeinvite friends, relatives, andmaybe even a stranger to partakein a night full of shouting, glut-tony, and every so often a goodjoke. To many it is a religion, toothers it is just a great day towatch some very athletic menpummel each other for 60 min-utes to earn the nation’s respectand honor, and a shiny new Ca-maro.

It is known as the Super Bowl,and Sunday night the mammothof a game did not disappoint.

Sunday night 111 millionviewers saw the Green Bay Pack-ers reign victorious over thePittsburgh Steelers in SuperBowl XLV, which was not justknown for the action on the field,but also the surrounding eventsincluding a Bill O’Reilly inter-view with President BarackObama, Christina Aguillera’sverse malfunction of the Nation-al Anthem, the half-time show’saudio malfunctions (or singingimpairment), new and excitingmovie trailers, and plenty ofcommercials which became thehot topic of Monday.

Each Super Bowl is broadcastto millions of viewers, many ofwhom have no claim to a certainteam, but choose one to cheer on

through the night. However, thisyear’s game included two of themost renowned teams in NFLhistory. The Pittsburgh Steelershold the most Super Bowl titlesof any team with six, and on theother side, the Green Bay Packershold four Super Bowl titlesthemselves, and also have moreNFL championships of any otherteam in the history of the NFLwith 13.

The Packers were the first teamto win a Super Bowl in 1966against the Kansas City Chiefs.Throughout the years, threePackers quarterbacks have led theteam to a championship includ-ing Bart Starr, Brett Favre, andAaron Rodgers.

Rodgers claimed the title ofMVP Sunday night, and is thefourth NFL quarterback in histo-ry to throw more than 300 yards,with three touchdowns, and nointerceptions.

“Everyone knew the Packerswere going to take it home. I am

so stoked for the new ‘Transform-ers’ movie for sure,” SCCC/ATSTadd Fulton said of the game andmovie trailers.

Although many were excitedfor the Packers win, some werejust as disappointed in the Steel-ers performance.

“The Steelers’ play was disap-pointing. To me it seemed likethey thought they were playingin a pre-season game, definitelynot the Super Bowl,” studentChelsea Droste said, also sidingwith the main complaint fromSCCC students of SundayNight’s showdown, which hadnothing to do with the actualgame on the field.

It was about the technicalproblems of the half-time showperformed by The Black EyedPeas.

“Although halftime was awe-some visually, it sounded ab-solutely terrible,” Droste said.The Black Eyed Peas were sur-rounded by dancers who lookedlike they were transported fromthe latest “Tron” film as theyglowed and flashed along withthe beat of the Peas greatest hitscompilation. Slash and Usheralso made an appearance.

Student Austin Parnell had agood night and enjoyed watchingthe Packers win.

“I was going for Green Bay.They made me a little nervous atthe end, but it ended up workingout by winning.”

This year’s Super Bowl wasfilled with emotion, but it endedup being a good night to watchfootball.

Old SchoolRun part ofhomecoming events Feb. 12

Crusader photo/Alfredo Anaya

Jeremy Jones drives past a Hutchinson player at a home game Feb. 2 that saw the No. 16 Saints capture a win from the No. 8 HutchinsonBlue Dragons. The nationally ranked teams battled to a 86-76 finish atthe Green House. Jones ended the night with 16 points and 7 assists.

Raul LemusCrusader staff

In spite of freezingtemperatures, the Saints crowdturnout for the home game onthe 33rd day of the year was inthe vicinity of 1,150, accord-ing to Roy Allen, collegesports information specialist.

Temperatures heated insidethe Green House for the homegames and a celebration forSCCC/ATS receiving the No.33 spot in the “WashingtonMonthly” magazine list of thetop community colleges inthe nation.

The purpose of this celebra-tion was aimed at informingthe community of the recogni-tion. About 650 collegeswere considered, in which the“Washington Monthly” statedthat “sometimes communitycolleges are undermined” whenin reality they are near thelevel of universities.

“It has been put out there,but not enough,” Allen said,regarding the No. 33 ranking.

At 33 minutes into eachgame, autographed balls bythe Seward basketball teamswere thrown to the crowd, thesame at the 33rd point of eachgame. Also, tickets ending onthe number 33 received free T-shirts.

“Fans responded really wellto the autographed basket-balls,” Allen said.

Adan Lomas, a senior at Ty-

rone High School andSeward County fan, said,

“I really liked the balls thatwere thrown. Seward is a re-

ally cool college.” Seward County student

Maegen Rider was alreadyaware of the No. 33 ranking.

“I personally did knowabout the award; however, Iwas not aware that we werecelebrating being 33 in the na-tion at the home game,” shesaid.

Increasing awareness waspart of the aim of the event.

“With the turnout of peoplewe got at the game, we got themessage out there. The out-come was really good; it wentbetter than planned,” Allen,planner of the event, said.

“That” Liberal Band per-formed throughout the game.

During halftime, Dance Im-ages dance teams perfomed.The Seward cheer teams andSaintsation dancers also addedspirit to the night.

“We are going to try keep-ng the message out there,”Allen said. This may pleasefans.

“I hope they keep throwingprizes to the crowd in futuregames,” Lomas said. He hadtried to catch an autographedball for his little cousin.

The Lady Saints lost 59-62, while the men’s teamended the celebration with a86-76 win over Hutchinson.

33rd Day of Year eventbrings 1,150 to games

Ren Watt plays withan autographedSaints ball.

— Crusader photo/Raul Lemus

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Anthony Hopkins, Collin O’Donoghue, and Alice Braga starin the new supernatural thriller,“The Rite,” which is based ontrue events, and is directed byMikael Håfström.

After using the seminary torun away from his troubled past,Michael Kovak (Donoghue) issent to Rome to study the ritualof exorcism under an unortho-dox, but highly effective priestnamed Father Lucas Trevant,(Hopkins.) Michael, at everyturn, is challenging the topic ofdemonic possession, thinkingthe answer to the victim’s prob-lems lies in psychology.

“It’s not the devil. She’s a very

sick girl. She doesn’t need apriest, she needs a shrink.”Michael says after witnessing ademon manifest in a 16-year-oldgirl.

Through struggles with hisown faith, and accompanied by abeautiful reporter named Ange-line (Braga), young Michael ismet with the reality that his sci-entific, realistic world view is al-ways trying to thwart - thatdemons really do exist.

The portayal of the demonical-ly possessed in the film is trulychilling in the sense that it issubtle. The usual hollywoodgimics like possessed peopleclimbing on walls, eyes chang-ing color, etc. are not in themovie. Neither do the possessedburn when they are touched by

holy water or crucifixes and orrosaries. I would not exactlylabel this movie as another “hor-ror” movie. The film has a few“grab-the-arm-of-your-chair,”moments, but it is not overdone.The film is very character basedand emotionally driven. The em-phasis of the film’s message isthat the battle between good andevil does in fact rage on everyday, and only a solid faith in Godcan truly overcome demonicforces. Hopkin’s character, FatherLucas says to Michael in themovie, “The interesting thingabout skeptics...is that we are al-ways looking for proof. Thequestion is, what on earth wouldwe do if we found it?”

This movie is one worth see-ing.

Film challenges faith and psyche

Octavio RodriguezEntertainment Editor

Angel Rodriguez is hard tomiss. He has very defining fea-tures about him, but the mostprominent is his long black hair,which also gives him an almostNative American look. He was,understandably, the mascot forthe Liberal High School Red-skins his senior year, an experi-ence he described as “exhilirat-ing.”

This year, he has one of theleading roles in the musical“West Side Story.” He is theleader of the Puerto Rican gangthe Sharks.

Waiting to interview the local“West Side Story” actor was likewaiting for a celebrity, with somany people and things to gothrough to finally get that inter-view. The events kept me waitingfor five hours total.

The interview was plagued byunfortunate events. On his wayto the musical rehearsal, he felloff of his motorcycle because ofa leak in his engine. Right beforethe rehearsal ended for good, hewas involved in another accidentin which he impaled his hand ona stage prop. He was rushed tothe emergency room, where I layin wait for him yet again. Whilewaiting in the lobby, I was grow-ing anxious. I was extremelyeager to interview this intriguingindividual.

Rodriguez lived in El Pasountil his parents decided to moveto Liberal his senior year of highschool. He moved back to El

Paso to live with family after hisparents died in an unfortunateevent, which made him open hiseyes.

“After I saw the passing of myparents, I saw it as a stop to thefighting between them. AlthoughI lost everything I had, I tried tosee it as though I had to live mylife to the fullest because theyhadn’t.”

He eventually decided to returnto Liberal. “Everyone here was sohelpful when my parents passed.I fell in love with the place. Ithink it’s one of the reasons I re-turned to Liberal. It’s not just thepeople or the place, it’s every-thing.”

He has wanted to pursue actingthroughout his entire life, but inhigh school it seemed as thoughhe had lost hope. That is, until hewas accidentally enrolled into anadvanced acting class.

“I actually hated it with a pas-sion, but I grew to love it. Myvery first show was the ‘Wizardof Oz,’ and I played one of thebackground characters. That’swhen I decided ‘You know what?I can actually do this.’” He alsoplayed football in high schooluntil he received an injury to hisknee. Afterwards, he entered in aballet class. “I learned to livewith the knee injury. Andthroughout ballet I fell more inlove with theatre and acting and Ijust became confident about fol-lowing my dreams.”

One of the most outstandingcharacteristics of Angel’s is howhumourous he is.

“What can I say? He’s Angel.

He and I are good friends and it’sgreat being his enemy in the mu-sical. He’s just a fun guy to workwith.” said Brian Francis, a goodfriend of Rodriguez.

Rodriguez went on to tell abouthow his humorous side some-times gets in the way with whathe tries to accomplish. “Some-times I’m a little too playful. Al-though I do believe it is essentialto being great at what you do, itgets in the way of the person I’mtruly trying to be.”

Rodriguez says his life’s defin-ing achievement so far was grow-ing out his hair. “After freshmanyear, I decided to try finding outwho I am. I decided to grow it outand it was one of the funnestthings I have done.”

“Angel is a hardworking stu-dent. His role is a great challengeand he leads in such a suddenway,” said Lauren Peck, one ofthe musical’s directors.

Responsibilty seems to play ahuge role in Rodriguez’s life.Many of his peers look up to himas though he were their olderbrother.

“He’s most definitely like anolder brother to me and he eventreats me like I am his youngersister by giving me rides homefrom rehearsal. He is an extreme-ly talented individual and I can al-ways look to him for advice,”said Flor Parral, a Liberal HighSchool student playing one of thelead roles, Maria, in the musical.

Rodriguez believes that theonly things he has to losethrough achieving his dreams isdefinitely his family.

“Although I want to keep closeto them, I know that one day wewon’t be together at all, I want tocherish the moments I have withthem, because I have learned thatany moment could be the last.”Angel hopes to pursue acting inthe future and maybe even delveinto music.

He can be seen performing in“West Side Story” at 7:30 p.m.on Feb 17, 18 and 19 in theJames Maskus Auditorium atLiberal High School, with amatinee showing at 2 p.m. onFeb. 20.

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PerformersOrlando Galvan andAngel Rodriguezwaiting fortheir directions onthe set of“West SideStory.” Themusical is a combined effort in conjunctionwithSCCC/ATS’sdrama department,Liberal HighSchool, andthe communityof Liberal.Crusader photo/Octavio Rodriguez

Angel’s passion for acting grows despite trials