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Free Independently student-run since 1969 | prospectusnews.com Jan. 25, 2017 Vol. 12, No. 2 Photo by Greg Gancarz | The Prospectus Education | Parkland Homework Club Center for Academic Success Become a mentor or tutor to local elementary students celebrates 10-year anniversary Page 2 Greg Gancarz since its founding, and grades and not just a place for students from class so we’re sort Staff Writer some even before it was place to fi nd help when to study or get their of like the secondary Education | located in room D120. struggling. He says it homework done because line of defense. It Michigan Public Schools in The Center for Omar Adawi, one of is an all-around “one- “if they need help, they should be important for Danger of Closing Academic Success, the CAS heads, has been stop shop” for students’ can get it right away.” students to make it to located in room D120, tutoring at Parkland learning needs. Often times, those class and try and get the 38 schools in Detroit and celebrates its 10th since 1993, when the According to Sue offering tutoring or best understanding they other urban communi- anniversary this year, center was little more Jones, another CAS general assistance can,” Castellon says. ties might close due to having offi cially opened than a peer tutoring veteran and the current are student workers When even the tutors underperformance in the fall of 2006. organization in a small head of the math lab, like Ashley Bumpus, get stumped, most said CAS offers a wide room in the C-wing. student success stories who has been a CAS they give a shout out Page 2 variety of tutoring and It took two location are one of the big things employee since the to “The King of the instruction. It gives changes before the she takes away from her fall semester of 2014. Sciences” Adawi, who students access to both CAS, then known as the work in the center. Bumpus says it’s a great they say is always there Community | student and faculty “Cooperative Learning “Students really place for students to be, with the right answer. This year’s Black History tutors that can help with Center,” fi nally wound should come on in. We’ll whether you’re getting For those interested Month theme is “Moving subjects such as writing up in D120 in 2002. Four adapt to what they need. tutored or are the one in a tutoring position, Forward” composition, chemistry, years later Adawi and It’s painless,” she said. doing the tutoring. Bassel Abu Jabal, a mathematics, and more. other staff formed a “The need for this “I see familiar faces new CAS tutor, strongly Read about on-campus Students can also make task force that added kind of place is so all the time and a lot recommends taking events open to the com- use of private study additional tutoring massive, I’m not at all of students are in the advantage if a position munity rooms and numerous departments and surprised it’s grown as same boat I was, so I is offered. computers with Internet offi cially founded CAS. big as it has,” she says. can relate to them and “It’s great for Page 3 access. “[It’s] a common In addition to help them out,” Bumpus résumés and it’s a good CAS is free for all mistake for students to numerous new says. review for yourself Parkland students, wait too long before they computer programs and Alan Castellon, who’s for material that you Politics | as long as they are seek help,” Adawi says, tools added in recent been a CAS tutor for wouldn’t normally Trump’s ‘running war’ with currently enrolled recommending that years, CAS also employs over three semesters, remember. I’m really the media in classes. A login at students come down as around 20 peer tutors says the center is a big excited to start working the main entrance is soon as possible. year-round, according help, but the real key to here,” Jabal states. The batt le continues into required to gain access. According to Adawi, to Tracey Hickox, the student success is to not Getting a tutoring his presidency Many of the faculty CAS is an excellent CAS director. procrastinate. position is not an easy tutors have been place for students to get According to Hickox, “We help students task, however. Student Page 4 helping students at CAS help maintaining good the center is an effi cient grasp the lessons SEE ANNIVERSARY PAGE 4 Student theatre production “Kazam!” opens Feb. 9 EvyJo Compton it ties in with Parkland’s “As the audience, you character had already twist to the way the play Department. As a Staff Writer anniversary,” Bean said. get introduced to all the been blown up or eaten is performed. student production, it “I don’t usually script it possible characters… by a shark.’” “During intermission, is directed by theatre “Kazam!,” a musical out. I usually sit down and then…the show “Kazam!” is set in we ask the audience to major Tyler Cook. mystery production at a computer and start starts to go on its the not so distant past, fi ll out a ‘Who Done It’ In addition, all the written by Kerry Bean, typing.” journey,” he said. “I try as part of Parkland’s card which they use to technical aspects of the a communications The play is a twist to write these shows 50th anniversary. guess the murderer,” show are being designed professor at Parkland, on the old style of so that, yes, you know Bean says this creates he said. “We are always and run by students. and put on by students melodramas, with who the victim is, but unique struggles for the asking… the actors “In many respects, premiers Feb. 9 at neither the actors nor when you get to the characters. to step in and out of the whole theater Parkland’s theatre. the audience knowing end, the culprit could “Why can’t they use character. We’ve even department is involved “‘Kazam!’ was who the murderer is. still be almost any of their cellphones? Well, incorporated the stage in this. I wrote “Kazam!” commissioned by the With many plot twists the other characters. it’s 1967,” he said. “It’s crew into the play.” but Tyler Cook gets Parkland Theatre and layered comedy, the Keeping that in mind, the way the world was Bean notes the actual creative independence. to fi t the Secondstory unfolds itself until I sometimes have to like [in] Austin Powers production of the play It’s his show, too. And Stage space and for the fi nal moments when employ some pretty when he travels to get is being done by many Tyler Cook has many the annual Student the murderer is fi nally wild plot devices: ‘I his mojo back.” of the students and Production. In addition, revealed. could have sworn that Bean has also taken a staff of the Theatre SEE KAZAM! 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Many The Homework Club meets school’s problem with literacy. students get very comfortable twice a week, every Monday It gives the elementary school with their mentors and begin and Wednesday from 3–4 p.m.. students a safe space to learn “look[ing] forward” to the Volunteers are encouraged to and progress after school club meetings, partially come twice a week, but are ends. because of this individual only required to commit once Brian Nudelman, an English attention. a week. professor at Parkland, is the “Parkland students work It works on a very organizer of the homework one on one with the Garden organized, strict schedule club. Hill students,” explains to maximize the amount of “The kids that we work with Nudelman. time spent helping Garden at Garden Hills are at least The club is convenient Hills students. The school a grade level below where for Parkland students as dismisses at 3 p.m., after they’re supposed to be,” well, with Garden Hills which the students meet at the Nudelman said. “Sometimes Elementary School being less club where they begin with Homework Club Logo two or three grade levels.” than two miles away from the 15 minutes of “mindfulness,” He emphasizes the Parkland campus. which Nudelman describes the volunteer helping the also pass a background check importance of volunteers in “It’s an easy way for as a time after the long school Garden Hills student with through the elementary solving the problem Garden Parkland students to do day where “both tutors, and any homework they have.