Parkland College Prospectus 2015 The rP ospectus 9-16-2015 Prospectus, September 16, 2015 Parkland College Zach Trueblood Matthew .D Moss Peter Floess Jacob Kenter See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2015 Open access to this Animation is brought to you by Parkland College's institutional repository, SPARK: Scholarship at Parkland. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Parkland College, Zach Trueblood, Matthew D. Moss, Peter Floess, Jacob Kenter, and Bill Kirby WEDNESDAY September 16, 2015 thePROSPECTUS Volume 9, Number 4 News | Lifestyle | Opinions | Sports | Entertainment | Wildfi re Humans of Parkland Book Review Baseball Ellnora California wildfi re Student Christian Waggoner Writer Peter Floess Coach, team reputation Ellnora Festival incinerates homes. tells about fi nding a creative reviews Jacksonland. reasons transfer players celebrates iconic outlet. choose Parkland. instrument. Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 7 Page 8 Many perks to surg tech profession Zach Trueblood is very challenging. The Staff Writer concepts we’re teaching are some things that most people Parkland’s Surgical don’t think about in their Technology program has a everyday life. So it’s always 100 percent employment a really good feeling when placement rate for those you see them get it and have students that actually seek them understand what you’re employment. In fact, the teaching,” Masters said. amount of jobs has often Carolyn Ragsdale is outnumbered the amount of the Surgical Technology students graduating from the Program Director. She’s program. also a Certifi ed Surgical Job security is just one of Technologist and fulltime the numerous perks to the faculty at Parkland. She’s profession. been teaching at Parkland “I like the fast paced, since 1989 and in the director never know what’s going on, position since 2010. change-up,” said second year Ragsdale teaches a full surgical technology student course load, oversees Brittany Dahlman. contractual obligations with Surgical technologists play the hospitals they work with, a pivotal role in the surgery makes sure students are process. The assistance compliant with the rigorous of a surgical technologist screening process, and is is needed to aid surgeons in charge of the outside and maintain the general accreditation. cleanliness of the operating Ragsdale started at Illinois room. State in the nursing program. Dahlman put it bluntly- She wasn’t crazy about it and surgical technologists are shifted to surgical technology the “sterile freaks” of the as she loved the idea of always operating room. They are not thinking on your feet. there only to hand vital medical According to Ragsdale, instruments to doctors. They the job is never redundant. are there to make sure the It changes with every environment and the surgery single patient and it can be are completely sterile which challenging for students but Photo courtesy of Surgical Technology | Parkland College in turn keeps patients safe is ultimately the reason that Students in the Surgical Technology program assist in a practice surgery during class. from infections. many are drawn to the fi eld. This program received the annual Merit Award from the National Board of Surgical Becky Masters, who “When they graduate Technology and Surgical Assisting in 2013-14 for its 100 percent graduate pass rate. is a Certifi ed Surgicalfrom the program, they Technologist and a full-time are prepared to go into any is a second year surgical but it was in an uncontrolled injuries via the response faculty member who teaches operating room in the United technology student alongside environment. I wanted to be role. Now he wants to be in surgical technology classes, States. They are ready to be Dahlman. They both able to see all the grossness the action and assisting with obtained her certifi cation employed. Some choose to remarked on their enjoyment altogether in a more surgeries. at Parkland. She noted the continue their education but of the more gruesome aspects controlled environment,” Dahlman had somewhat rewarding challenges of the they don’t have to,” Ragsdale of the career. Christopher said. of a medical background as program and the profession. said. “The job I had before this I Christopher is a former “Surgical technology Charles Christopher could see some gross aspects fi refi ghter and had seen many SEE TECH PAGE 5 Speech and Debate Team off ers benefi cial skills Matt hew Moss use in every aspect of her life. Staff Writer With her major, she is looking to become a criminal defense attorney. Parkland’s Speech and Debate She believes that the skills she learns Team seeks to improve students’ from speech and debate, including the critical thinking and speaking skills, acting skills, will help her in the legal which can help them both inside and arena. outside of the classroom. Team membership comes with the Brian Cafarelli, one of the team’s perk of a scholarship, which pays for two coaches and a communications all of the next year’s class expenses instructor at Parkland, says making except textbooks. the team the best that he can is his The team competes at various goal. tournaments throughout the country. “Our business is trying to The team has travelled to national make perfection,” Cafarelli said. competitions in Oregon, North “Improvement is a process of losses. Carolina, and Pennsylvania, among We try to bank those losses and others. improve on them.” The team placed second at last year’s Cafarelli believes the speech and national tournament. Eric Miller, a debate team is something every Photo by Brian Cafarelli | Parkland College former member of the speech and Parkland student should join. Left to right: Nick Scott , Ethan Young, Mario Flemming and Eric debate team, brought home a fi rst- He says the public speaking prowess Miller stand with their awards after the Illinois Intercollegiate place award in public narrative. garnered from the experience can be Forensics Association State Tournament on Saturday, March 7, 2015. In these national tournaments, two- applied to many different career paths year schools like Parkland square and open up unique opportunities. Parkland, has had an interest in me,” Addams said. “It’s bettering my off against four-year universities. Being good at public speaking is speech and debate since before her acting skills.” Cafarelli doesn’t think competitors not a requirement to join the team. high school days. An aspiring actress, It is not only acting skills that from four-year schools have an Learning is part of the experience and she was attracted to her high school’s Addams wants to gain from her advantage over Parkland students. improvement is the only expectation. speech team by the connections she experiences in speech and debate. “Everyone competes equally,” Anna Addams, a fi rst-year criminal drew between speech and acting. She also seeks to improve herself as a justice education student here at “Speech is a competitive acting for person and acquire skills that she can SEE SPEECH PAGE 5 Sponsored by Fact or Fiction A young hedgehog is called a kitt en. 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Students California wildfire incinerates homes can apply earlier for college aid Josh Lederman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Aspiring college students will be able to apply for federal financial aid three months earlier than now and submit a previous year’s tax return, changes aimed at helping more people pay for school, the White House said Sunday. Under the current system, Photo by Elaine Thompson | AP Photo students planning to start school A wildfire burns across a hillside in Middletown, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015. Two of California’s fastest-burning in the fall of 2017 must wait until wildfires in decades overtook several Northern California towns, killing at least one person and destroying hundreds January of that year to fill out of homes and businesses. the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The new system Ellen Knickmeyer raced out of her house with the family resources. will let them complete the form Olga R. Rodriguez dog, blankets and mementos. Four Brown had already declared a as early as October 2016, the Associated Press hours later, she could see the flames state of emergency for the separate month that marks the traditional from where she sought shelter. 111-square-mile wildfire about 70 start to the college application MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) “We said, ‘OK, this thing’s a beast,” miles southeast of Sacramento that season. — An explosive wildfire burned Molini, 53, said. has turned the grassy, tree-studded The government uses that largely unchecked Monday after Whole blocks of houses were burned Sierra Nevada foothills an eerie white. form to determine eligibility incinerating homes, apartment blocks in parts of the town of more than 1,000 Mark Ghilarducci, director of the for Pell Grants and federally and hundreds of other buildings as it residents that lies about 20 miles north Governor’s Office of Emergency backed student loans. The White raced through rural communities in of the famed Napa Valley. On the west Services, said this summer’s fires are House said requiring applicants Northern California’s Lake County, side of town, house after house was the most volatile he has seen in 30 to wait until January slows down leaving at least one person dead and burned to their foundations, with only years of emergency response work.