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The Independent Voice of Salt Lake Community College FREE Wednesday APRIL 6, 2011 The Issue 12/Spring '11 GLOBEVisit us online at slccglobelink.com Visual Art of Dance Bryanna Boyle Staff Reporter April 8 and 9 Salt Lake Community College will present their annual spring concert. “Visual Art of Dance” will be held at Grand Theatre located at 1575 South State Street in Salt Lake City starting at 7:30 p.m. The concert will combine live performances coordinated with both art images and film along with a wide variety of dances inspired by visual art pieces. “Visual Art of Dance” will include more than just the best of SLCC’s student choreographer’s SLCC HOSTS work this year. There will also be work presented by SLCC dance faculty along with Stephen Brown, director of SB Dance, flamenco dancer Solange Gomez, TRANSGENDER Natosha Washington and Roxanne Duennebeil. “Including community professionals in our performance is an exciting way to fulfill our mission FORUM as a community college,” Company Director and Associate Professor of Photo by Toni Tippetts SLCC hosted a transgender forum last Tuesday in the Student Center of the Taylorsville Redwood Dance/Continued on page A3 Discusses Campus. The purpose of the forum was to help develop an understanding of the transgender lifestyle and discuss diversity in the community. transgender humanities teacher told me about under this topic he talked about Following the panel’s it,” Samantha Ison, Health Science how society dictates what men and presentation, a question and answer student said. women should be like. period took place. The panel took lifestyle and The forum began with a “Society says that men should turns commenting on the questions presentation by Jonathan Stowers have short hair, and women should asked. One question that was asked diversity about sexuality. Stowers is a faculty have long hair,” Stowers said. was about transitioning, which is physically changing sexes and taking hormones. Each member of the David Bell Coloring Outside the Lines panel talked about what they feared community Staff Reporter most about making the transition. For information on club “It makes me happy to help other catching Salt Lake Community College meetings, please contact the people to understand,” Robinson students were invited to attend a Club President Tyler Clark at said. waves in transgender forum last Tuesday [email protected] The panel was also asked what the in the Student Event Center of the most important part of transitioning provo Taylorsville Redwood Campus. was, and they also talked about The purpose of the forum was to member at the college, he teaches He went on to talk about sexual dating and relationships and A4 help develop an understanding of Spanish, LGBT studies, (lesbian, orientation, sexual identification and relationships with children. the transgender lifestyle and discuss gay, bi-sexual, trans-sexual) and practice, of which he said were all “I’m here because I was asked, and diversity in the community. literature. He began his presentation a matter of choice. On the topic of I think that awareness is important,” The forum had a good turnout, by talking about a man named Alfred inherent feelings and attraction, he Ian said. with about 40 people in attendance. Kinsey, who was an Entomologist said that no one is able to explain “I was asked to do it, so I said that Students were in attendance for and performed studies on sexuality how they work. I would help,” Schwaar said. different reasons, some were there in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A panel was also in attendance, Coloring Outside the Lines, for a humanities extra credit, some “Kinsey started the sexual Katelyn Schwaar, former SLCC SLCC’s Gay/Straight Alliance club, were there out of curiosity. revolution,” Stowers said. student, Jenifer Robinson, current sponsored the forum. “I’m here for extra credit for my Stowers informed the audience SLCC Nursing student, and Dallas There is also an institute that humanities class,” Crystal Caldwell, about Kinsey’s 1948 studies and Ian, another former SLCC student. addresses the subject; their web site opinion Nursing student said. 1953 studies. He talked about a list They told their personal stories of is kinseyinstitute.org. “I find this interesting, my of things, which include; gender, changing sexes. the philosophy Voice lessons and SLCC Women’s Day Event of tech A6 American Idol secrets Bryanna Boyle telling their life story of how they Staff Reporter got to where they are now. John Fisihetau Considering the theme, it was Staff Reporter Six different women from appropriate that the event’s first very different walks of life were speaker was Santana Martinez - a Carmen Rasmussen Herbert (she’s married now), who took sixth at the Salt Lake Community professional storyteller. Martinez overall in American Idol 10 years ago, had a personal voice lesson with College Women’s Day Event last told stories - very different stories, her voice teacher, Dean Kaelin, on Monday of last week at Salt Lake Wednesday. Hosted by Deidre which had very different morals Community College. Tyler, the event was held in the ranging from what women want Scales and arpeggios - along with other vocal techniques - filled the Student Center in room 221-223 to how important loyalty to family well-attended Student Event Center as Rasmussen and Kaelin taught and featured speakers Santana can be. and explained her experiences getting to and competing in Hollywood. Martinez, Sade Turner, Sabina Sade Turner, another speaker, Kaelin, a voice teacher for potential pop and rock artists, has been Zunguze, Kris Marchini and talked of her life and how she came teaching vocal training in Utah for 30 years. From his own vocal woes Mojdeh Sakaki. from a small town to be a successful arts& as a teenager, screaming to find the pitches he wanted, he has become It may have been expected by lawyer in Salt Lake City. a valuable asset to pop stars like Rasmussen, who worked with Kaelin some to have a mostly female Another speaker had a entertainment during her debut on American Idol. audience - but this was not the case. completely different story to share; In explaining the desires of pop singers, Kaelin first presented a The audience was very mixed and she told the story of her life. Her jane background for how any voice should be used properly. it was hard to tell whether or not name is Sabina Zunguze and she “Your voice works like a piano,” he said. “You need to get used to there were more men or women in successfully moved from Africa eyre using your voice how it’s supposed to be used.” attendance. to become a businesswomen. Kaelin added that most singers want to learn how to “hook up” low The theme of the event was She told how it is rare for women A8 storytelling; be it literal story Voice/Continued on page A3 telling of ancient stories or just Women/Continued on page A3 A2 The GLOBE Wednesday, April 6, 2011 STUDENT EVENTS WED/6 THURS/7 FRI/8 SLCC PICS 12pm-6pm American Indian Film 12pm-6pm 2011 SLCC Student Art and Lecture Series: 2011 SLCC Student Art Showcase @ TR Cam- 2pm-4pm Showcase. pus, Science & Industry @ TR Campus, Tech- Building Atrium. nology Building, Room 1pm-2pm 203. SLCC SOAP Club American Indian Film 6pm-8pm Meeting @ TR Cam- and Lecture Series: @ SC Campus, East pus, SEC, Senate 2pm-4pm Foyer. Chambers. @ TR Campus, Tech- nology Building, Room 12pm-6pm 7:30pm-9pm 203. 2011 SLCC Student Art Visual Art of Dance 6pm-8pm Showcase. Performance: SLCC @ SC Campus, East Dance Company @ SC Foyer. 7:30pm-9:30pm Campus, The Grand Crimes of the Heart @ Theatre. SC Campus, Little The- ater (W 252 2nd floor). Sat/9 MON/11 TUE/12 7:30pm-9pm 12pm-6pm 10am-12pm Visual Art of Dance 2011 SLCC Student Art SLCC Bible Study @ Performance: SLCC Showcase. TR Campus, SEC, up- Photo provided by Tyler Anderson Dance Company @ SC stairs in the Multicultur- Campus, The Grand 2pm-3pm al Conference Room. Theatre. SLCC Astronomical Society Weekly Mtg. @ 12pm-6pm 9:30pm-12am Science & Indulstry Bd, 2011 SLCC Student Art Masquerade Ball @ Room 358. Showcase. 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