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thelookoutLansing Community College’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1959

Volume 53, Issue 9www.lcc.edu/lookout

Jan. 23 - Feb. 5, 2012

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Nathan WilsonAssociate Editor

LCC’s American Marketing Association (AMA) is jump-starting spring semester with the Gift of Life campus challenge from Jan. 12 to Feb. 23.

The challenge is part of the year-long organ donation campaign known as AMA Saves Lives.

Faith Hancock, fund-raiser chair for AMA, explained while both

competitions overlap, AMA Saves Lives is de-signed to spread aware-ness about organ dona-tion.

“The Gift of Life goal really is to get people registered (as donors),” Hancock said. “For AMA Saves Lives, we’re trying to educate and spread awareness.”

She added she wants LCC to be recognized as the state winner for re-cruiting as many organ donors as possible.

Hancock explained

the importance of AMA Saves Lives and Gift of Life because Michi-gan organ donor laws changed regarding reg-istration. Signing the back of one’s license is no longer sufficient to be enrolled in the donor registry.

Applicants must sign up online to receive a red heart sticker for their license or to be reissued a new license with the heart imprinted.

Kayla Pierce, chair for AMA Saves Lives,

said people can register through amasaveslives.com.

Pierce explained that AMA chapters across America compete through AMA Saves Lives in a number of ways, includ-ing Facebook posts and more.

“We have video com-petitions, we have a YouTube channel and we have a bunch of videos for AMA Saves Lives,” Pierce said.

See AMA, page 2

AMA ushers in spring with the Gift of Life

College to change its strategic plan

Shooting from the arch

Dominick MastrangeloEditor in Chief

Lansing Community College is tentatively set to change its stra-tegic plan by fall 2012 because of a change in the criteria for accredi-tation from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

Jim Luke, a full-time faculty member and Strategic Challenges Project Leader at LCC, said the HLC is plac-ing a much greater em-phasis on the process by which an institution

creates a plan. He said emphasis is also geared toward the needs of the institution that created it.

“These are really, real-ly different times,” Luke said. “A lot of schools won’t exist five years from now. It’s our job to make sure that doesn’t happen to LCC.”

So the question be-comes: What changes does LCC need to make to better serve a chang-ing community?

“That’s where things get interesting,” Luke said. “Everyone thinks

they know the answer to that question.”

Things have been in-teresting, to say the least.

Over the past several months, there has been a great deal of criti-cism about the way the LCC administration has spent the college’s mon-ey.

Faculty and staff pick-eted outside LCC’s Ad-ministration Building Nov. 21 to criticize the recent program cuts by the college over the past several months.

See Strategic, page 2

Guard Cameron Sanchez leads the Stars in field goal percent-age from behind the 3-point line this season. Sanchez shot 5-for-5 from 3-point range in the Stars’ victory over Jack-son Jan. 14.

Photo by Courtney Baker

AMA mem-ber Cedar

Neeley, left, speaks

with an interested applicant about the

AMA Saves Lives ini-

tiative.


“Probably nobody understands all of the challenges (this college faces) in great detail,” Luke said. “That’s why we need a lot of input from as many people as possible.”

Senior Vice Presi-dent and LCC Provost Stephanie Shanblatt has been working closely with Luke on the project.

“The list of challeng-es (this college faces) is not necessarily com-plete,” Shanblatt said. “We’re really taking a different approach to strategic planning.

“There are some ma-

jor changes that have happened in higher education, the econ-

omy and such … we need to address these things because they are challenges to our vitality as an institu-tion.”

As for the picketing outside LCC’s Admin-istration Building last November, Shanblatt shared she “didn’t re-ally know what that accomplishes.”

Luke and Shanblatt both said they hope to have the major-ity of discussion with the LCC public com-pleted by spring break 2012, and a new stra-tegic plan created and

proposed to the LCC Board of Trustees by fall 2012.

Individuals can learn more about how they

can make their voic-es heard by visiting http://web.lcc.edu/strat-egy/ and making com-ments on that site.

“I think we’ve got an opportunity here to come with a plan that really pulls a lot of things together,”

Luke said. “Our goal is to help LCC become a leader and an innova-tor. I’m sure we’ll be able to do that.”

Jan. 23 - Feb. 5, 2012www.lcc.edu/lookout

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StrategicContinued from page 1

Helping those who help out

Students from the LCC Fire Science program assist a classmate in removing his car from a ditch after the student was forced off the road by icy conditions.


AMAContinued from page 1

“So any video views we get credit for.”

Jennifer Tislerics, the special events and partnerships coordina-tor for Gift of Life, is scheduled to speak in GB 134 on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m.

According to Pierce,

LCC-AMA was in the top three spots in all categories last year. AMA also promoted the organ donation campaign during its Marketing Week from Jan. 17 to 20.

“And we’re partici-pating in the health fair that’s coming up for Feb-ruary,” Hancock said.

NEWS3 Jan. 23 - Feb. 5, 2012www.lcc.edu/lookout

IN BRIEFNEWSNathan Wilson

Associate Editor

The Oracle Collabo-ration Suite (OCS) is reaching its end of life as a software product at LCC. The college plans to evaluate proposed solutions to replace it.

According to Chris Bennett, the director of Information Secu-rity and Infrastructure Support at LCC, the college has been using Oracle for eight years to manage voicemail, cal-endars and document storage.

“The Oracle Collabo-ration Suite has diffi-culties with the newer upgrades that have been coming out for Mi-crosoft Windows desk-tops,” Bennett said. “So as that software keeps changing … we are find-ing that there are prob-lems that we run into.”

Some of these prob-lems include difficulty accessing files or calen-dar entry mistakes, he said.

“That’s why we’re looking to move up to a product that is … going

to take advantage of the newer ways that people communicate now, with more instant messag-ing, more ability to col-laborate amongst them-selves,” Bennett added.

“We’ve created a re-quest for proposals and sent that out,” said LCC Chief Information Offi-cer Kevin Bubb.

“We basically identi-fied what we consider to be our requirements for email, calendar, file-work spaces, conferenc-ing, instant messaging and voicemail … We’re looking for any vendor

who has a solution to respond to us.”

Bubb said he is hop-ing for a software solu-tion with a more mod-ern, user-friendly web interface and improved voicemail and mobile device integration.

According to Bennett, a committee composed of employees from In-formation Technology Services, administrative offices and the LCC Li-brary evaluated pro-posed solutions to re-place Oracle.

However, Bubb said LCC was unable to ac-

cept any of the pro-posals received, thus canceling the software presentations scheduled for the week of Jan. 17.

“None of (the ven-dors) provided an in-tegrated solution for all the things we were looking for,” Bubb said. “So there wasn’t any-thing for us to do demos on later in the month.

“The team is still look-ing at some other alter-natives or maybe some things we can do with some existing products … increasing some li-censes on products and so forth.”

Bubb said he would like to have a new sys-tem as soon as pos-sible after a selection is proposed to the LCC Board of Trustees for approval.

“We would get mov-ing forward on the project fairly quickly,” Bubb said. “There are so many components to this that we would have to figure out a timeline.

“The hope would be that we have the bulk of the work done during next year.”

LCC rids software program

LCC’s “Start Here – Get There” visits are continuing through 2012 with a visit to Western Michigan University Feb. 3.

The visit will give current LCC students an opportunity to experience a piece of WMU’s campus life and atmo-sphere.

Participants will receive a tour, information on the ad-missions process and lunch at one of the college’s dining areas.

To register, visit the Student Life Office in GB 230 with a $5 deposit to hold your space. For more information, call Student Life at 517-483-1285.

LCC students can ‘Start Here – Get There’

With the beginning of the spring semester, the LCC counselors would like to extend an invitation to assist students with personal, academic and ca-reer concerns through counseling, advocacy and mentoring.

Visit the LCC Counseling website for information on counseling services and resources at http://www.lcc.edu/counseling/. Schedule an appointment with a counselor by calling 517-483-1924 or by stopping by Support Services in GB 204.

The LCC tutors would like to remind students they’re here to help. To reserve a free appointment, call 517-483-1206 or stop by A&S 103.

Tutors are available to help students understand how to use Angel, including how to retrieve messages from your instructor and classmates, print out your syllabus, use the drop box and much more.

Counselors support LCC students

Tutoring is available on LCC’s campus

Photo Illustration by Courtney BakerLCC is dropping its long-used Oracle Collaboration Suite due to inadequacies with modern software. At this time the LCC IT Department is reviewing potential solutions.


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5 SPORTS

Cagers win five straightDominick Mastrangelo Editor in Chief

With a 6-10 season re-cord Jan. 8, the Lansing Community College men’s basketball team returned from semester break with a sizeable task in front of it.

The Stars had to defeat 12-2 Muskegon Community College at home to further their chances of turning their season around.

“Any mistakes we’ve made last semester we have to put behind us,” LCC coach Mike Ingram said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence now. It’s going to be a matter of executing. The first task is beating Muskegon.”

Ingram didn’t even have to take his coat off.

The Stars trounced Muskegon 89-79 Jan. 9 to keep their team morale at a maximum and for the moment, their postseason hopes alive.

Freshman guard Skyelar Moore’s spearheaded the Stars offense. He scored 26 points including a perfect five-for-five from 3-point range, to seal the victory for the Stars.

“They were giving me that (long range) shot all day,” Moore said. “I had to take it every time.”

Sophomore guard Nate Duhon added 23 points, three rebounds and three assists in the LCC victory. Duhon said the Star winning streak was not going anywhere.

“We knew we were capable of a victory like this all year. It’s all about executing the fundamentals,” Duhon said.

With just two days to prepare for an important road game at Ancilla College in Indiana, Ingram and the Stars focused on their strengths rather than their weaknesses in practice.

Bingo.The Stars increased their

winning streak with a hard-fought victory over Ancilla, 76-72, Jan. 11.

Of the 23 field goals the Stars made in the game, 11 of them were from three-point range.

“It took me awhile to figure out what these guys were best at,” Ingram said after returning home. “In years past, I haven’t had the kind of guys that can shoot the ball like that. I’ve got those guys now for sure.”

The Stars returned home Jan. 14 to face Jackson Community College and won again, this time 104-89.

It was the first time the Stars had scored over 100 points this season.

Duhon was among five Stars who scored in double figures, leading the team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and two assists.

“It’s all good right now,” Duhon said. “We’ve just got to keep doing what we do best.”

The Stars had a week off and were scheduled to play Jan. 21 at home vs. Lake Michigan College.

Check issue 10 of The Lookout for results from The Stars upcoming games.

Guard Nate Duhon in ac-tion against JCC Jan. 14.



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Lady cagers top Ancilla;fall to Muskegon, JacksonBen DoaneSports Writer

After posting the best fall semester record in recent memory, the LCC women’s basketball team had a lot to boast about as it entered the spring se-mester.

The Stars were 10-2, rid-ing a four-game winning streak, and seemingly could not be stopped. Re-ality was about to set in.

The Stars played host to Muskegon Community College Jan. 9 and lost 65-53.

Foul trouble plagued the Stars in the loss. A to-tal of five Stars had at least three fouls by the time the final buzzer had sounded.

Muskegon shot 57 per-cent from the free-throw line and held a sturdy lead the entire game.

“Once we started foul-ing like we did, the game got out of hand,” LCC Coach Earvin Brunson said. “Our intensity level dropped in the second half.”

It was the worst loss

LCC had been handed all season. The Stars had no time to wallow in self pity however, as they had a date with the Chargers of Ancilla College just two days later.

At Ancilla Jan. 11, the Stars earned a narrow 67-65 victory. The win improved LCC’s overall record to 11-3.

Next, the Stars looked to make up the Muskegon hosted Jackson Commu-nity College Jan. 14.

Gannon was not friend-ly to the women again

as they came up short in a shootout with the Jets, 108-98.

“It was an up-tempo game,” Brunson said. “Usually if you score as many points as we did, you’re going to come out on top.”

The Stars (11-4) were scheduled to take on Lake Michigan College on Saturday, Jan. 21, still in search of their first home victory of spring semes-ter.

Dominick Mastrangelo contributed to this report.

LCC Fresh-man Lakia Clark frantically calls time-out in the second half of the Stars’ 108-98 loss to Jackson Communi-ty College Jan. 14.


Only seven more months until I turn 21 years old, a milestone and the legal drinking age.

For most of my youth, I found myself count-ing down the years and months until I was old enough to legally par-take in an activity on which the government had placed an age re-quirement.

For years I was de-pendent on my par-ents and older friends in high school to drive me everywhere before I had my own license. I was also dependent on my mom to sit through horror movies with me in theaters until I turned 18 years old.

Laws that dictate age requirements on smok-ing cigarettes, driving a vehicle, the consenting age for sex and even town curfews are all justified in protecting America’s youth from harm.

But do all age re-quirements fit the activ-ity they are placed on?

Does it make sense


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—Stocken Speaks —

Countdown to freedom

that the government allows a 16-year-old in the state of Michigan the right to consent to something as serious as sex, but that same 16 year old is not “ma-ture” enough to watch such grown-up mate-rial in movies until they reach the age of 18?

Rated “R” movies are also given their rating for violent content, but in this modern genera-tion, anything violent that can be seen in a movie can be watched online or on late televi-sion.

A 16-year-old can get behind the wheel of a vehicle and kill another person.

The government trusts the ability of such a young driver over a

16-year-old’s mental capability to watch a rated “R” movie, and to differentiate fact from fiction.

Changing the age re-quirements and laws might upset some peo-ple while making oth-ers happy.

I understand chang-ing and forming laws are not a simple mat-ter, especially when it comes to drinking alco-hol, voting and joining the military.

However with differ-ent beliefs and maturity levels of people span-ning across such a wide scale, it doesn’t seem right that everyone is placed on the same level.

In the long run, in-creasing the age re-quirement on con-senting one’s body or driving a vehicle may do more good than harm, as would lower-ing the age requirement on buying a ticket to a “R” film or being al-lowed to enter a bar af-ter dark to watch a local band.


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Shauna StockenA&E Editor

With the audition process complete, practice is now un-derway for the spring dance concert at LCC, American Spirit.

LCC has performed an an-nual spring dance concert since the early 1970s, accord-ing to D’onna Jacot, a begin-ning and intermediate tap in-structor.

Jacot has worked at LCC since 1978.

Vickie Diebold is the direc-tor of American Spirit, dance faculty member at LCC and the head of LCC’s dance de-partment.

Diebold has developed this year’s theme for the concert, a duty she has performed for the past four years.

This year’s theme takes audience members through different aspects of what it means to be an American citi-zen.

“Back in September when I was thinking about a theme, there was a lot of media cov-erage on 9/11,” Diebold said. “I wanted to do a piece on what it meant to be an Ameri-can. I feel like sometimes we

get so caught up with all the negativity in the news that we forget about all the posi-tive aspects of this country.”

Auditions for American Spirit were held Jan. 14-15. Successful auditionees must register for a dance repertory and techniques class, as well as meet for various rehearsal times with their choreogra-pher before the concert.

This year’s concert has a diverse range of dancers in-cluding LCC students, high

school students, alumni and a dancer in her 60s.

“Last year’s concert was fantastic,” Diebold said. “This year’s concert is heavi-er, but I’m excited to see how everything goes.”

American Spirit will be held in Dart Auditorium Thursday, April 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 7 at 2 p.m.

Diebold said she hopes at-tendees will leave American Spirit feeling prideful about being an American.

Dance captures the American Spirit

Dancers rehearse for the spring dance concert Seasons. Sea-sons was directed by Vickie Diebold who also developed the concert theme for this coming spring.

File photo by Michael Caterina

For two weeks, LCC’s Performing Arts Department is featuring an off-Broadway musical.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change explores relation-ships, love and marriage among other topics, making this musical ideal for the Valentine’s season.

From falling in love, marriage and having children to having loved and lost, the musical pays tribute to it all with a comical approach.

The musical runs Feb. 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. with a special Valentine’s performance Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the LCC Black Box Theatre before the performance in GB 168, where the musical will be performed, or in advance by calling (517)-483-1012.

Tickets cost $10 for the public and $5 for seniors.

LCC Performing Arts Department entertains for Valentine’s season

IN BRIEFArts & Entertainment

Middle of the Mitten Four (MOTM4) is a concert that celebrates the anniversary of the Record Lounge in East Lansing.

The Record Lounge is a record store committed to lo-cal and independent music and businesses.

The fourth annual showcase will take place with a two-day celebration.

Day one of the celebration takes place at the Metro-space in East Lansing Feb. 3 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Day two of the celebration takes place at The Loft in Downtown Lansing Feb. 4 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.

MOTM4 showcases local talent throughout the night, including new and returning talent.

Tickets for MOTM4 can be purchased before the event from the Record Lounge for $10 or at the door of either venue for $12.

Tickets are valid for entry for both nights.

Annual concert supports local record lounge

Kaitlin LutzStaff Writer

Fork in the Road is a quaint eatery that offers many staples of a diner, but with a twist.

Fork in the Road is located at 2012 W. Sagi-naw St., which is where Saginaw and Oakland diverge.

The diner just re-cently moved from its food truck called Trailer Park’d in Old Town to its new location where customers can now stay warm while they eat.

The diner’s goal is to use ingredients from lo-cal resources in the food they make.

Now let’s get to what is probably most impor-tant: how the food tastes.

First, their chicken noodle soup is spectacu-lar. It’s definitely not like the soup that comes in a can. It is 100 times better.

For starters, the noo-dles are homemade, the flavor was phenomenal and unlike most chicken noodle soups, there was no shortage of chicken.

It was quite possibly the best chicken noodle soup I have ever had.

Another staple on their menu is the grilled cheese sandwich. Again not your average grilled cheese; so much better.

The sandwich is made up of two different cheeses — cheddar and chevre, which is like a goat cheese — an arugula pesto and bacon. The end product is yummo, (as Rachel Ray would say).

Now I’m not one to

usually try new things, especially if I don’t know what they are. So when I saw the weird-looking cheese, I didn’t exactly jump at taking a bite of the sandwich. But I’m glad I did because it was great.

Some of the menu items are a little pricy, but not outrageous. A bowl of soup was about $4.50 and the grilled cheese is $8. It is all lo-cally sourced so know that you’re helping local businesses.

If you’re looking for someplace new, differ-ent and delicious to eat, I would definitely recom-mend Fork in the Road.


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This week’s puzzle is sponsored by:

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Photo courtesy of Benjamin David Photog-raphy

Fork in the Road serves a variety of diner style food with a twist.

Stop at the Fork in the Road

Photo courtesy of westchestermagazine.com

Lee RumlerStaff Writer

(Funny coincidence: I’m actually writing this story at The Fork in the Road.)

Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my favorite characters.

Smart, sexy, and more than a little insane, I can’t help but think of him as a less badass (but more fa-mous) version of myself.

On top of that, the first Sherlock Holmes to feature Robert Downey Jr. happened to be my favorite movie of 2009 – one of the few to stand out the year after The Dark Knight hit the-aters.

So, needless to say, I was fairly excited when I heard Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was coming out. In fact, I believe my exact quote was, “If that movie has Moriarty in it, I might have to pull a Paul Reu-bens.”

Now, I don’t even want to hear people comparing the movie to the book: No cinematic picture can capture the same detail as a book – especially one as well written as the classic – because a movie is only two hours long.

However, this fact did not keep Sherlock Holmes from being awesome.

One of my favorite as-pects of the first movie was the fight scenes – specifically, the method in which Holmes would plan out a perfect attack/defense strategy in slow motion, rewind, and execute the attack flaw-lessly.

Featuring nearly twice as many action scenes as the first movie, A Game of Shadows has brought

this style of fighting back with vengeance.

But admittedly, I’m still a little torn on how I feel about the extra em-phasis on action: while the excess of explosions, breaking bones and bro-ken teeth definitely ap-pealed to my masculine side, I couldn’t help but notice it detract from the on-screen detective work.

In fact, one of my big-

gest complaints about the movie was the lack of detective work. Between the action scenes and character development, the movie just didn’t have time for it.

Which is a shame since Sherlock Holmes is a gosh-darn detective.

All in all, Sherlock Hol-mes: A Game of Shadows was a pretty good mov-ie, and definitely worth seeing.

Holmes impresses againRobert Downey Jr., left, and Jude Law star in the sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

The news has been awash with nothing but Republican campaign trails over the past few weeks as we head into national primaries.

I’ve had the chance to scrutinize every can-didate. I've watched al-most each one surge to the top of the polls and then plummet.

That is, except for the only electable can-didate who can defeat Barack Obama in 2012: Mitt Romney.

Frankly, I’m fed up with Republicans in denial of this obvious truth, flipping back and forth between one weak candidate to the next (ahem, Rick San-torum, Rick Perry, Ron Paul.)

No matter how much you may adore Ron Paul, he will fail to win the nomination for his radical views, end of discussion.

Santorum’s support will slip among inde-pendents for his out-landish views from comparing homosex-uality to incest and

supporting the idea of states banning contra-ception.

I haven’t heard much out of him besides his peculiar obsession with family values and anointing himself the “Jesus candidate.” A theocracy is not going to restore this econo-my, Rick, and you’re not Jesus.

And then there’s Newt Gingrich, argu-ably the best debater, also the least disci-plined and tempera-mental candidate. In fact, he seems to be running purely for spite against Romney, accusing him of being a “liar” and “predator,” even suggesting that he, Perry, and Santo-

rum should gang up on him.

Considering all of this, Romney is easily the best candidate for his governing skills and business experi-ence. He advocates a stronger military (not shrinking it like Obama is intent on doing). He supports repealing Obamacare and cul-tivating business, not crushing it with taxes and regulation.

I’m ready to see some actual leadership in the White House, not a “campaigner in chief” who bulldozes his agenda through Con-gress and blames ev-erything on banks and corporations.

We probably wouldn’t be in the same situation we are in today had Republi-cans nominated Rom-ney during the 2008 election instead of a weak candidate like John McCain.

Hopefully, they bear this in mind going for-ward and don’t make the same mistake twice.


OPINION10— ‘I am invincible!’ —

Can you afford four more years?It's 2 a.m. the night

before this column is due, and I can't help but wonder what pos-sessed me to come back to The Lookout.

To be honest, when I left The Lookout last year, I wasn’t plan-ning on coming back – not even for free-lance work. But hey, time and circumstanc-es change plans and opinions, and some-how, last semester, I found myself writing a story or two an is-sue.

And now, one se-mester of freelancing and listening to Domi-nick begging me to come back later, I’ve returned.

It’s a smaller po-sition, with less re-sponsibility; nonethe-less, I’m back, writing piercing reviews and rambling semi-philo-sophical essays I clev-erly disguise as col-umns.

But I still can't be-lieve I'm back.

When I left last year, I was convinced jour-nalism was ruining my creative writing skills and devouring the time I’d use for other more important pursuits.

In all honesty, I'm not sure why I thought that anymore. Last year, my writing skills flourished under Larry’s tutelage and my fellow staff members’ critique and criticism.

And since then, I've yet to pursue a damn thing, because, well, I'm lazy.

It's good to be back, though.

I've definitely missed the staff: Kai-

tlin’s adorable naivety, Dominick’s unrelent-ing hysteria and Na-than’s unchanging lev-elheadedness haunted me like a hometown left behind.

And now we have a few new, interesting faces around the of-fice.

Courtney has taken Mike's throne, and from what I under-stand, Amber is show-ing great promise as a staff writer.

Of course, the new situation brings new challenges: This is my second job now, on top of school full time, which puts my free time at a new low since high school.

And with my mo-rale and motivation at all-time lows since the start of college, that might actually become a problem.

But who knows?What I do know is

that I won't regret the decision to come back. Of that, I'm certain.

— Shouting a Nuance —

Back in black and white

The notion of college, in re-cent years, has taken a vast turn from the word necessity, into the words hardly neces-sary.

This semester, enrollment at LCC has dropped. We as a staff believe this is partly due to students recognizing col-lege as unnecessary.

Long gone are the days where an individual needed a college degree to get a high paying job.

We as a staff are beginning to realize the job market is slowly turning back the clock in the hiring department.

No graduate is guaranteed a job.

The only difference in a col-lege graduate and someone who didn’t go to college is as follows: College debt and a fancy piece of paper.

With no job and no real world experience, it is hard for an employer to want to

hire anyone Don’t get us wrong. For

many people college is neces-sary.

We are just simply express-ing that we have found a trend.

Students are now begin-ning to recognize that in the real job world, experience is starting to once again become more important than qualifi-cation.


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— In Our Own Words —

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Courtney BakerDominick Mastrangelo Nathan Wilson

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The difference between necessity and necessary

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