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New law bans From TEDx to Hallofest. unsolicited nude Check the backpage photos pg 2 for our favorite photos from the season. TheVikingGrayson College November 2019 Volume 12, Issue 3 What international students want you to know... -Lily Omenukor, Student takes. If I can say your name For some international right, I expect the same students, studying abroad too.” can be challenging and For Fatima Abdou from complex. The most common Mali, the major challenges difficulties are applying for a at Grayson were dietary. “In visa, gathering my home country, I am used documentation, keeping up to our local foods. Since I with college classes, using secured admission to study the English language, and in this school, food has adjusting to dietary needs. become one of my major According to Brad McClenny, challenges. Our food is the International Students completely different from Advisor at Grayson College, the various kinds of food in there are different types of the western world,” Abdou international students at said. “Here in the school, Grayson depending on the the food smells and tastes type of visa they are issued. differently from what am Some of the students apply used to in my country. I find as non-immigrants. They live International students pose with faculty during last year’s International Day it hard to eat. Each time I in the States or outside the (Photo provided by Ana Ferreria) try, it gives me stomach country and get an education into English), official documentation different from Nigeria, where I came problems because it’s still through sports scholarships showing a TOEFL (Test of English as a from,” said Okoro. “Everything is done new to my system. It will such as men’s basketball and Foreign Language) score of 600, a valid online, which seems new to me and is take some time before my baseball or women’s passport for six months, an application hard for me to master. I wrote with pen system will accept it.” basketball or softball. fee of $100, an affidavit of financial and paper and not computers in Nigerian Abdou added, “Most of the Some of the international support of $16,500 USD, a health English. At the moment, I have started dishes served in the students come to Grayson certificate and medical insurance learning how to type and how to work cafeteria are prepared with College sponsored by their coverage. with the computer.” pork. As a practicing parents. Most of these According to McClenney, the students Understanding English words and Muslim, I do not eat pork. international students are have to enroll in 12 credit hours and earn pronunciation was a big issue to This has made it hard for issued an F-1 visa, which has a minimum of a 2.0 GPA to maintain their Moumouduwa Kimbala, a Kenyan me to select what to eat in zero duration, meaning no status as an international student. international student majoring in the cafeteria.” expiration date. Rebecca Okoro, a Nigerian international Nursing. “On my first day at Grayson According to McClenny, “When applying at Grayson student at Grayson College, said, “As an College, I registered in school. Many “The challenges Grayson College, the [international] international student coming from a students walked up to me and spoke to international students face student needs to apply and different background, I found it difficult me, but because I could barely at the beginning of their submit all the required to catch up with my course mates in class understand them, I kept nodding my first semester can improve documentation. Once the during lectures because of the way the head with a smile on my face,” she by getting involved in school approves the forms, course is taught and the language and recalled. “The other students were campus activities and an I-20 and acceptance letter accent used.” She added that it took time unable to pronounce my name, utilizing the resources to will be issued to the student. to understand what the professor was Moumouduwa. I have zero-tolerance for adapt to their new lives.” Then, a checklist will be sent saying in class because of the way he people messing up my name. If it was an Don’t struggle alone–learn to the student,” McClenny spoke and the illustrations he shared in exam or game that needs to be won to how to reach out, he explained. The list includes class. get a million dollars, they will go the suggests to them. official transcripts (translated “Grayson College is completely extra mile to get it right. An effort is all it Two OER Microgrants Awarded, Colonel Dale Howard to speak at Rememberance Ceremony Two More Stipends Available -Wayne Ryon, Financial Aid Advisor -Todd Ellis, Director of Teaching and Learning Grayson College Teaching and Successful applicants will work Learning is offering two Open with Library Information Services Educational Resources support staff and the Director of Teaching stipends for the 2019-2020 school and Learning during the year to year. The purpose of the stipends identify and review potential OER is to assist faculty in textbook texts for a spring, summer or fall examination and course adoption 2020 adoption. The grant recipient of OER for spring or fall 2020 will notify Todd Ellis in writing that classes. they have selected a textbook. In the summer of 2019 Sarah Include the textbook name and Garrett applied for and was publisher. awarded a microgrant to adopt an Part II, Adapt. Grant recipients OER textbook for 8 sections of will then create and adapt a Speech that impacted 200 Canvas sandbox OER course or students. Estimated student class shell in which the textbook The Wall of Honor is current on display in the Student Life Center (photo by editor.) savings this fall is $14,000. Michael will be used. They will then receive Join us November 11th at Officer to the U.S. Department of Dill received and is working on a the remaining $1500. Note, the 11:00am on the second floor of Homeland Security, retiring again grant in the form of release-time. course does not have to be the Life Center by the Veteran’s in 2007. He will be creating an OER lab designed around the textbook, Hub for our Veteran’s Day Colonel Howard was awarded manual for Microbiology. although that is a common Remembrance Ceremony with the Legion of Merit Medal, two Full-time and adjunct faculty are pedagogical practice. guest speaker Colonel Dale Bronze Star Medals, the encouraged to apply. The $2000 A link to the application and Howard, Perrin Air Force Base Department of Defense Joint stipend is divided into two parts: additional information can be Museum. Meritorious Service Medal, the Part I, Adopt. Selected applicants found at https://www.smore. Colonel Dale Howard served in Republic of Slovenia Silver Star will receive a $500 stipend for com/1vbxm. the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf Medal, as well as several other academic year 2019-20. War and the Kosovo Campaign. personal and unit campaign Colonel Howard retired with thirty medals, ribbons and badges. He is years of commissioned service in currently retired and lives in Could climate change affect 1998. He was recalled to active Sherman, Texas with his wife Sally, duty after the terrorist attack of a retired U.S. Air Force Chief North Texas agriculture? 9/11; served as Senior Strategic Master Sergeant. - Luisa Perez, Student Analyst for Counter Terrorism for Reception will follow after the Over the past few decades, North Texas’ climate has changed the U.S. Department of Defense ceremony, beginning at 11:30am dramatically, which can be summarized in two words: floods and for the Army and Military Liaison with a veteran meet and greet. excessive humidity. The annual temperature of North Texas has risen about one degree Fahrenheit since the first half of the 20th century. The increment in temperature and unpredictable natural disasters Want to See Your Work In The Viking? such as floods, droughts, continuous rain, and wildfires are, We are now accepting stories, poems, comics and photos! unfortunately, something North Texas will experience more, which can lead to economic and health problems, stated Barbara Mayes, Send your work to our editor, Storm Anderson at climatologist and meteorologist from North Texas. [email protected] (Continued on page 5) Remember, anyone can contribute! Please recycle this paper! Page 2 Technology November 2019 Please Recycle This Paper! door groups, which are social Advertising? Social media is your new best friend networks for a neighborhood - Trey Connelly, Student or community. Imagine scrolling through social someone’s phone and send when deciding whether they Sometimes people may not media and seeing a picture of a messages to it later about a should advertise over like the service provider they delicious cheeseburger: the particular item businesses may television. have, ask what their friends sesame-seed bun, crisp lettuce, have on sale or something similar, “I think [television advertising] are using, and then switch melted cheese, and the tender he explained. If they can ever have would cost too much and not over to McCarley’s business. patty. That image was an anybody register an email address, reach enough people,” both He explained how marketing advertisement created by an then businesses can send out mass Latimer and McCarley claimed. is dependent on what type of employee for the sole purpose emails of sales that they may have McCarley explained how business is being run. “Our of bringing customers in to eat at going on. television would broadcast to business is all about rapid their restaurant. Advertising Advertising this way may the other side of Paris, Texas.