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Cast released for fall play

Cast released for fall play

October 8, 2014
Auditions for the fall play “The Dining Room” wrapped up Thursday in the Showcase Theatre.
ilyAIMY acoustic band guitar players performs at one of their gigs. 
Courtesy photo

SCCC to host acoustic band

October 8, 2014
ilyAIMY, an acoustic grunge band, will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Seward County Community College Showcase Theatre. A masters class will take place at 4 p.m. in the college band room.

Food Service director wins $5,000 at Liberal Duck Race

October 8, 2014
Jerry Odle, Food Service director, won the 13th annual Duck Race and $5,000 with lucky duck No. 2123, on Saturday, Sept. 27.

Remodeling planned to transform jet to STEM learning center

October 8, 2014
A Fed Ex jet donated to the Liberal Mid-America Air Museum Foundation is being reconstructed into a STEM classroom. STEM includes the education of science, technology, engineering and math for students from kindergarten, middle school, high school and college. The Fed Ex donation program has donated more than 60 jets for educational purposes, often to aviation maintenance technology programs.
Family anchored on love not citizenship

Family anchored on love not citizenship

October 8, 2014
Married for five years, Nina and Andy Highfill have gone through the first steps of process in applying for citizenship through a marriage between an immigrant and an American citizen.
Tania Valenzuela

College may not be for everyone

October 8, 2014
All our lives, we are expected to attend college by our teachers, parents and other family members. What some don’t take into consideration is whether college is right for every person.

Taking life for granted: Student’s view on suicide

October 8, 2014
When suicide is brought up an entire wave of emotions go over me. To me there is no reason people should ever want to take their own lives.
Daisy Torres

Costumes beginning to cut themselves short

October 8, 2014
With Halloween approaching fast, the pressure of finding a good costume grows more and more, and in my search for the perfect costume, I have come to find a rather disappointing experience.
Jose Medrano is a former Crusader editor who is currently on staff aiding the staff as an editor emeritus. He is a senior from University of Kansas who is currently taking a break from school to prepare and plan for his future goals while having a mini existential crisis, because picking direction to go in with your life is rather hard. Under his leadership the Crusader won two national awards, an All-Kansas, a gold medal and a first place online award. He also received Kansas Journalist of the Year from Kansas Collegiate Media in 2013 and was a paid reporter for the University Daily Kansan at KU.

Students lack knowledge concerning current events

October 8, 2014
College students are often perceived by older generations as lacking in a field of current events. The Crusader conducted a survey of 92 Seward County Community College/Area Technical School students dealing with subjects on politics, entertainment and sports to understand what levels of knowledge students have concerning current events.
On Manufacturing Day Friday, Antolin Ortiz, a sophomore student at Seward, demonstrates Computer-aided design (CAD) for the architecture. Keith Evans, a high school student, is interested in the drafting.  According to Evans, he plans to enroll in SCCC/ATS to study drafting technology after he graduates. 
Crusader photo/Sachie Shiba

Showcasing opportunities for students

October 8, 2014
Manufacturing Day drew people from all over Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma to the Area Technical School Oct. 3, with estimates of about 400 attending from area high schools, the college and industry. Manufacturing Day is training for diverse environments, even ranging from the equipment used in welding to the medical field.

Enrollment numbers increase for Fall 2014

October 8, 2014
Fall 2014 enrollment numbers indicate an increase over last fall in both number of students and credit hours enrolled, according to a college news release.
SCCC/ATS Security Badge

2014 Clery Act Reports Filed

October 8, 2014
Each year across the nation, the Department of Education requires colleges to file campus security and crime statistics information.
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