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Table of Contents Students help Katrina victims during Spring Break SBCTC completes assessment of CME Entrepreneurship Program highlighted in online magazine Faculty collaborate and publish ESL/healthcare textbook Nursing student gets scholarship Shoreline CC student wins engineering student paper competition CIS interns provide service to college community PAST Issues of Net News:
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April 28, 2006 KUDOS Students, faculty, staff and community members
help Katrina victims during break A number of faculty and students have shared some of their experiences and thoughts since their return home. Student Peter Smith could not believe the destruction at the site where the levy broke. "There, everything was literally flattened for four square blocks in front of the levy." Smith, along with the rest of the group, was shocked at how little had been done since Katrina. Faculty member DuValle Daniel wondered how they could have ever relied on that levy for protection. On a positive note, however, the volunteers were impressed with the acceptance and appreciation given them by those who had lost everything. The group participated in a march downtown where they heard New Orleanians express rage that the government had done so little, if anything for them, and actually prevented them from leaving. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were two of those who spoke at the rally. What did they take away from the experience? "The knowledge that so many volunteers were willing to sacrifice their blood, sweat and tears for other people in need," says Smith. Sintayehu Tekle says that what he experienced he will have to live with for the rest of his life. "For the time I was there, I felt the devastation the people were going through. I felt that I was in a third world country; the smell, houses destroyed and some the streets were like ghost towns." He was struck by the expressions on the faces of the residents — "from the look on their faces they didn't even look like they had been harmed. They hide it so well that they don't show." "For me, I was just overwhelmed with the level of destruction," says faculty member Linda Warren. "I also felt angry that the government has done so little to help, both during the hurricane and flood and now." She was amazed, however, at the grassroots volunteers who had left their jobs to volunteer for six months, and for some, a year. "We met a construction worker, medical students, a specialist in environmental clean-up, an herbalist -- all giving of their time."
Daniel was struck by the numbers nailed to the devastated houses and inquired what they meant -- one set of numbers indicated the organization that had checked out the house; the other, how many bodies were found inside. "That was a sobering moment for all of us." Daniel asked a teenager if he and his friends talked much about Katrina; the response was "we like to pretend like it didn't happen." The young man was wearing a school uniform and when asked what school he attended, he said, "The YMCA." His school was destroyed. In addition to the toxic conditions and poverty, another difficult reality for Daniel was that racism was still alive and well in New Orleans. The SCC team consisted of 14 students, (Candice Choate, Meichih Chang, Helen Amelesom, Ndey Caesay, Derrick Drungo, Azmara Oesta, Meron Tewoodemedhin, Kataryzna Mroz, Sintayenu Tekle, Yeming Fong, Robei Fiwi, Dung Nguy and Marisa Lauferz), two faculty (Duvalle Daniel and Linda Warren), one classified staff member, Lilly Plummer, and two community members have also joined the Shoreline team. Claudette Thomas was the volunteer community organizer who went to New Orleans prior to the SCC trip and made all the arrangements and contacts for the team. She also worked with the team in New Orleans. Her impressions are many and do not paint a pretty picture of how color and privilege continue to survive and support the U.S. economy. The Journal Newspaper will feature the Shoreline CC Katrina trip, including photos by part-time photography and videography student, Dung Nguy.
SBCTC completes assessment of CME The CME is an alliance of employers, industry associations, educators,
community-based organizations, government, and labor— all working together
with both public and private funds, to support manufacturing in the State of
Washington. The partners support the industry through the development of
training programs and other resources to produce an effective, highly
skilled manufacturing workforce.
Faculty collaborate and publish ESL/healthcare textbook "When we first developed the ESL 091 course (Anatomy & Physiology for ESL), we searched and searched for an A&P book that was readable for students at this level. There really were none. We decided to write our own, and incorporated language skills, study skills and culture notes along with the content," says Penn. The textbook is designed in a workbook format. Penn says that she and Hanson have seen an increase in the amount of content they can cover in a week's time since the text was introduced three weeks ago. Students say the book is easy to understand.
Shoreline CC student wins engineering student paper competition
CIS interns provide
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The 19-member "Katrina Team" of SCC students, faculty, staff and
community members came home from New Orleans with newfound understanding and
empathy for those who experience great loss. The diverse team was
organized by the SCC Rebel Alliance Club, the Black Student Union, and the
Hip Hop Club. The team worked with Common Ground, a non-profit
organization that was formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to
provide immediate and long-term aid along the Gulf Coast. The SCC team
helped gut, clean and repair houses and delivered food, water and clothing
to the residents of New Orleans who continue to suffer the effects of
Katrina. They worked in Tyvek suits with goggles and respirators to protect
them from the toxic mold.
The hard work and commitment of the SCC group did not go unnoticed.
The family who they were helping made lunch for the team every day -- red
beans and rice, BBQ chicken, and turkey necks and rice. They visited
with "Ernest" and "Pat" each day, using the neighbor's porch as their porch
was filled with dust and debris.
Faculty members
Judy Penn (left) and Elizabeth Hanson (right) collaborated on a new textbook entitled, "Anatomy and Physiology for English
Language Learners," which was recently published by Longman. The
textbook is designed for use
in content-based ESL instruction courses, as well as self-study. Target
students are ESL students who are planning a career in healthcare. It is
written at the high-intermediate level of English. I
Nursing student
Ijeoma Ezeokeke has been awarded the Associate Scholarship
from the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Association. The
scholarship provides $1000 for tuition costs. Criteria
included a GPA of 3.0 or higher, have to be of African American
heritage and have to be enrolled in an accredited nursing program.
Ezeokeke has to go through an oral Interview process and provide an
essay on why you decided to pursue a career in nursing.
Ezeokeke plans to graduate next fall.
