Insi e Trac Lehigh Carbon Community College, Sclmecksville, P A November 2000 Inside If You Build It, Will They Come? This Edition LCCC Set to Begin Reviews .................. pg. 6 ' Construction of New Sports .................... pg. 7 Student Union Campus By Andy Hall Round up ............... pg. 8 Center will be "more than a lounge," Exam Construction for the new student commented Mussleman. Schedule.............. ... 8 union is slated to begin in late She hopes the center will be a place November or early December. The where students can gather, share and $1.7 miJlion dollar project is expected exchange ideas. to be completed by Fall 2001. The construction of the student T he elaborate 6,500 square foot center is the second part of a building is going to be the remodeling project that began back in /he; f{01'\/. V01'\l 5 ~deY "hearthstone of the college" Robin 1989. As a result of this project, a new LCCC'}' NeMJ py~ Mussleman, Dean of Students, said. cafeteria was built. It was initiated by The plan of the student center is to a group of students, who established a When I enrolled in "get in your face with activities," 3.00 a credit activity fee. This money the three-week Senior Executives in Mussleman also said. The placement was placed in an account for the State And Local renovations. This money, along with of the building makes it impossible to Government avoid. matching money from the state, are program at the , The building will be constructed going to the construction of the Kennedy School of Government last year, I between the Science Technology Student Union. was unsure of what to expect. The marketing Building and the Administration The staff and faculty hope that the brochure outlined the program as an Building. The bridge will run through strategic placement of the building . opportunity to leam innovative ays .of the building. will render it unavoidable. Given the managing the real-world challenges and Ramp and an elevator will make current situation with student crises of government. While that purpose the center accessible to all. activities here on campus, it will be a alone was appealing to my desire to enhance The steps that are currently in place long hard road to success for the my effectiveness as a leader in tJle Pennsylvania House of Representatives, tbere will be used to create a natural grand Student Center. was one sentence within the text that During construction, students will stand for the center, in the hopes that particularly caught my attention: "The performances, such as student poetry lose access to the breezeway under the program has been designed to challenge readings, student bands, and other bridge. assumptions and broaden perspectives." I various programs, will be held there. had reached that point in my career when it The center will house many lounges. Also Look for These Cbanges was time to evaluate my role in the An internet lounge, where students community and to determine what I wanted can sit in comfortable chairs and plug Kiosks: Machines where students will to do with the rest of my life. I realized then into the internet; regular lounges (like be able to access financial aid, that this program could provide the the lounges in the ST Building); an art grades, schedules, and be able opportunity to seek new insight and direction. lounge, which will house works by to register for classes. Needless to say, I gained much more from those three weeks than I could have ever students, and a lounge with a "view imagined. It wasn't, however, the often-intense from the bridge." However, the Web Access: Students will be able to register for classes, view .discussion of real-life case studies or the their schedules, and obtai! extensive study of leadership methods that ultimately became a life-changing experience grades on-line. for me. It was what I learned as a result of the opportunity to interact with other people from across the country and even the world. They had experienced many of the same challenges and goals and, although they were in various stages of their careers and lives, were struggling with the same desire to accomplish more and to gain greater enrichment for thcmselve both personally and professionally. The onJy other time I had been impacted in tbi manner occurred when , enroDed as an LCCC student thirty year ago. Like many of you, I was unclear as to what I thought r could achieve with my life. While I had aspirations Rear vie' of Student t Jnion. Front view of Student Uoion. (Continued on Page 4) -- - Inside Track 2 I I I Campus Security and You I By: Kevin Miles, Chief of Securit)! I I I While at L.c.c.c., I want all of your I experiences to be safe. To do this, there I are a few simple guideline, or policies, that I you must adhere to. These are as follows: I 1. NEVER leave valuables unattended. It only takes a few seconds for your belongings to disappear. 2. Please obtain a parking sticker/permit for your vehicle. This is for your benefit. This Back row, Piotrek Roman, Erica Sasaki, Ruth Caicedo, Malgozata Przyziokiewicz, Marina Perbetsky, sticker is the ONLY way that we Ansuya Chowdhury, Vassilka Toneva, Alpita Patel, Kai Kircher, Kima Pate~ Mina Ougazzaden, Bounis can track you down in case there is Hadid, Aissatou Fal~ Ruth MuniDa, Abeer Alamhouj. Front row: Viviane Hochleitner, John Salama, a problem with your vehicle. (i.e. Shyue-wei. Uziel Beltran, Maria Luiza Monteiro, and Nawal Arfaji. lights are left on, someone hit it I The ESL Students ofLCCC approached Cu1tuIal Differences on their third participation in the Faculty while it was parked in the lot, etc.) I Development. This year, the stndents presented how body language, values and customs diffC?r from one I __________________ ~ ____ ~ ____ ~~ _____________ ~. 3. Please park in the designated and I culture to another, and their importance to the communication process~ appropriate parking spaces while I on campus. DO NOT park in staff I space&nots; reservedVrestricted I Pearl Harbor: spaces; yellow safety zones; or I I The story of a survivor sidewalks, lawns and restricted I roadways. 4. Please obey all traffic patterns and By Jonathan Martnick signs while driving on campus. 5. Remember that the speed limit on th campus is 15 m.p.h. On December 7 , 1941, an To help war efforts, nylon and event occurred that was as aluminum were used sparingly: air raid As you can see, there are only five unforgettable as it was wardens would make sure everyone simple policies that will make your time at followed protocol. This included L.C.C.C. much more enjoyable. If you horrible. painting all of the windows black so follow these policies, I can assure you a additional bombings would not take safer and more enjoyable time at L.c.c.c. .Pearl Harbor, located near Honolulu, place. If the bombers could not see signs I Hawaii, was bombed without warning by· of life, they would not bomb. ------------------------~I the Japanese. This is the personal The Japanese who lived on the island I account of my grandmother, a survivor were shocked and appalled at what their I I. ofthe bombing. home country had done. Some I Florencia Ongais was bom in 1929 on apologized for being Japanese. My I the Oloa sugar plantation, located on the grandmother considers some of these I I island of Hawaii. She remembers Japanese to be among her dearest IN here cOO aclu\t5 90 fO( IcleM I December ih, 1941, even though she friends. whell they feel 05 fru5trotecl 05 \c1cl5T I was a mere 12 years old. Her father, a Not everyone on the island had my www.connectforkids.org I I locomotive operator for the plantation, grandmother's good intentions. Racism I was enjoying his breakfast when a was an all too real side effect of the feverish warning broke through the bombing. Japanese were suspected of airwaves of his radio. Pearl Harbor was being spies, and were shipped to the under attack! A split second after the mainland states under the guise of .- - -- -- ~-- - --- - - - - ------- warning, a shudder rippled through the relocation. In reality, the Japanese were Trisb' s International Cafe ground. sent to concentration camps, where they Two of my grandmother'S sisters, who were interrogated and treated harshly. Trish's Intemational Cafe has finished its had m. rried soldiers stationed in Pearl The Japanese earned their freedom agenda with a presentation about France. Harbor, were miraculously spared, as from the guilt of Pearl Harbor by This semester, we had Coffee Houses about was the entir e Ongais family. forming Hawaii's own 44211d battalion. Iran with Rana Fazli and Hengameh I After the bombmg, Hawaii was placed They fought valiantly for the sake of Montazeri, Russia with Marina Perbetsky I under Martial Law. A curfew was freedom. and Yulya Farach, Germany with Kai I imp sed and strictly enforced, gas masks This account is the story of my Kircher, Kuwait with Abeer Alarnhouji, and I I were distributed, and ea~h resident was grandmother, a survivor of the Pearl France with Mina Ougazzaden. I given a registration number. To this day Harbor bombing that occurred almost 60 Congratulations to all the students for their I my grandmother can remember her exact years ago. excellent job. The agenda for next semester I I number. At the anniversary of this grim day is set to go wi th Bulgaria, Brazil, Jordan, I Everyone was immunized and given approaches, let us remember the The Dominican Republic, Senegal, among I gas masks to guard against whatever innocents who died, and the sOildiers others.