June 22, 2009

The DigestWhat’s Happening at KVCC

What’s below in this edition

$$$ Task Force (Pages 1/2) In the finals (Page 10) Wind Academy (Pages 2/3) KAFI ‘kamps’ (Pages 10/11) Digistar 4 (Pages 3-5) Local resorts (Pages 11/12) Arena advocate (Page 5) Volt drives (Page 12) Japan bound (Pages 5-7) Your planet (Pages 13-15) Lively web sites (Page 7) Interns placed (Pages 15/16) Rare moment (Page 7) Better teaching (Pages 16/17) Baseball (Page 8) ‘Jump to Japan’ (Pages 17/18) Skeeter alert (Page 8) Wind camp (Pages 18/19) Camp 9-1-1 (Pages 8/9) E-mail advice (Page 19) Slim and trim (Page 9) Lake winners (Pages 19/20) Diversity speaker (Page 10) And Finally (Pages 20/21)

☻☻☻☻☻☻Plotting the college’s financial future

How KVCC will cope with the continuing economic and financial doldrums facing the state of Michigan and its citizens will be in the crosshairs of a proactive study group whose members are across-the-board representatives of the college community.

Similar to how an organization takes a futuristic look at dealing with emergency and breach-of-security situations, this group will take a look at the college’s financial strengths and challenges, and “develop a plan for what our performance should be during a financial disaster,” stated President Marilyn Schlack.

“In order to have a realistic financial-disaster plan, scenarios must be understood prior to such an occurrence,” she said. “These scenarios must be realistic and rehearsed.”

The study group includes: Lauren Beresford, director of operations at the M-TEC Geology instructor Deb Bryant Grant Chandler, dean of instruction at the Arcadia Commons Campus. Jim DeHaven, vice president for economic and business development Lori Evans, manager of the Student Service Center Gina Fischer, operations manager at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum

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Tony Ide, manager of custodial services Economics instructor Philipp Jonas English instructor Mike Keller Steve Walman and Ron Young, both members of the business faculty.Schlack will chair the task force, while DeHaven and Young will serve as co-vice

chairs. Steve Cannell and Patricia Niewoonder will work in staff roles for the task force “and consideration will be given for additional support if needed,” she said.

The group will meet throughout the summer and fall with a draft plan ready by early 2010. The college will be updated and minutes of meetings will be posted on the KVCC Intranet.Wind academy is hoped-for major step for industry in state

When Kalamazoo Valley Community College became the first in the nation to establish a training center for technicians who will work on utility-sized turbines clustered on wind farms, it brought Michigan a step closer to becoming the Midwest manufacturing mecca for this form of alternative energy.

That’s the belief of James DeHaven, vice president for economic and business development at KVCC.

Beginning in October, the college’s Wind Energy Center will launch a 26-week training academy, based on skill standards established in Germany, for technicians to gain entry-level employment working on the giants of the wind-energy industry.

Ever since the non-credit academy initiative was announced in late February, response and inquiries have been “phenomenal,” according to Cindy Buckley, executive director of training at the college’s Michigan Technical Education Center (M-TEC).

Because of the national exposure, some 430 people in just about every state of the union – including one from Great Britain who learned of the training opportunity through a Reuters dispatch -- inquired about gaining entry in the inaugural academy. The fee is $12,000.

“I don’t see this as simply training wind technicians to travel to the far corners of the earth to apply their skills,” DeHaven said. “With its manufacturing workforce and infrastructure, Michigan is poised to become a major player in the wind-energy industry.

“It is a complex road to travel involving all kinds of cooperation and collaboration,” DeHaven said, “but Michigan must seize this moment to maximize its potential for wind-energy production, and to encourage OEMs (original equipment manufacturer) to produce component parts and assemble the turbines right here in Michigan.”

Weaning the large field of applicants down to a class of 15 will be “highly competitive,” Buckley said. The first step is to complete the written application, which may be downloaded at this web site – www.kvcc.edu/training. These applications can be mailed or faxed to the M-TEC, or dropped off personally.

An algebra test is also part of the screening process, along with the results of a medical examination and documented work experience in technical fields. Early on in the application process, the applicants will be screened for an ability to work in tight quarters and whether they are capable of working at great heights.

“We have received many inquiries from people who are excited about renewable forms of energy,” Buckley said, “and from technical workers who are in a career-

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transition mode because of layoffs and downsizing. All seem to share an excitement the technology and the prospects of traveling around the world.”

“Companies are already calling us to find out how they can meet our graduates,” DeHaven said, “and we haven’t even begun to train them yet.”

That’s because the wind-energy industry is growing rapidly around the world. Between 1,500 and 2,400 new technicians are needed annually to support this increase.

A recently published study by the U. S. Department of Energy identified the feasibility and potential rewards the United States would gain by pursuing the goal to generate 20 percent of the nation’s energy through wind by the year 2030. This speaks to employment opportunities as well.

The KVCC Wind Turbine Technician Academy is certified by Bildungszentrum fur Erneuerebare Energien (BZEE). Its English equivalent is “Renewable Energy Education Center.”

“This utility-grade training under the BZEE certification will be the first by any college or university in the United States,” DeHaven said.

“The unique training model,” he said, “allows graduates to earn two career credentials. Participants will complete the classroom content associated with pre-employment, electrician-apprenticeship programs, along with wind-turbine-technician competencies.

“The last three weeks,” DeHaven said, “will be spent in a practicum experience on a wind farm as a requirement for the wind-turbine-technician certification.”

Located in Husam, Germany, and founded in 2000, BZEE was created and supported by major wind-turbine manufacturers, component makers, and enterprises that provide operation and maintenance services. As wind-energy production increased throughout Europe, the need for high-quality, industry-driven standards emerged.

BZEE has become the leading trainer for wind-turbine technicians across Europe. “Graduates of the new academy,” DeHaven said, “will have the opportunity to earn individual certification through the BZEE and become a part of an international labor pool.”

To position itself to become the first college in the United States to obtain BZEE certification credentials, KVCC hired two instructors – one a mechanical specialist and the other an electronics specialist – to travel to Germany for six weeks of training in Husam this spring.

Tom Sutton, who had been serving as an instructional manager in the KVCC Automotive Academy, switched over to be the wind-energy academy’s mechanical instructor while Greg Meeuwsen, a graduate of the KVCC program in electrical technology, will serve as the electrical instructor.

DeHaven reported that U. S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) and U. S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) are championing a request for a $2.5 million federal grant that would allow KVCC to purchase additional training equipment. That would allow the academy to double up on training sessions and increase the number of graduates each year.

Planetarium update on horizon this summerThe next generation of planetarium experiences is scheduled to sit down on the

Kalamazoo landscape when Digistar 4 Laser arrives at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum in the fall.

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As with its predecessor Digistar II, which was among the attractions when the downtown-Kalamazoo museum opened its doors in February of 1996, the newest $1.3 million version will be among the handful in operation around the world with its first public programs slated for Saturday, Sept. 19.

“According to my research,” said planetarium coordinator Eric Schreur, “this new Digistar system will be one of a dozen digital planetariums in the world that use a laser beam to cover the full screen with video imagery. It becomes even rarer when considering the interactive features that we have – probably one of six in the world. And we certainly will be among the smallest venues to have a Digistar 4 Laser.”

To prepare for the installation, the planetarium will stage its last show for the public at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Installation and staff training will begin on the following Monday. When the new Digistar 4 is ready to strut its stuff for the public on Sept. 19, all of the shows will be free that day.

“The Digistar 4 opens a whole new world of educational possibilities for Southwest Michigan,” said museum director Patrick Norris. “Full-dome, full-color digital video images take visitors to the depths of space and back in time.”

Digistar is the trademark name for the computer-projection system of Evans & Sutherland based in Salt Lake City. It uses digital-graphics technology to create three-dimensional scenes on the 109-seat Kalamazoo planetarium’s 50-foot dome.

“There are two differences between the new system and the older one,” said Schreur, who has been presenting and producing planetarium shows in Kalamazoo since his days as a museum volunteer in 1969. “First, and most apparent to the audience, will be the change in projection technology. The Digistar II was a black-and-white video display projected on the dome through a fish-eye lens.

“It was supplemented,” he said, “by four video projectors fixed on different parts of the screen, dozens of slide projectors, and dozens of special-effect projectors – all very functional and all very exciting.

“The Digistar 4 Laser is a single projector that will do the work of all of those in the earlier system,” said Schreur, who has held his current position at the museum since 1985. “It fills the dome with images projected by a colored laser beam.”

Schreur said the second difference will be out of the view of audiences and be behind the scenes where the shows are created. New computer software is used to assemble electronic images and digital audio into shows. “Gone forever are the slide films and recording tapes used in the past,” he said.

The museum’s inventory of planetarium offerings has grown to more than 50 shows since the opening 14 years ago. Schreur is in the process of upgrading the best of them – about 15 -- to be Digistar 4 Laser ready when the planetarium theater goes back into action in September.

The purchase price includes five programs produced by Evans & Sutherland for the updated planetarium. They are “Ice Worlds,” “Invaders of Mars,” “New Horizons,” “Secrets of the Sun,” and “Stars of the Pharaohs.” Two others – “Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” and one featuring the music of U2 – are being purchased from another source.

After a feasibility study by community leaders, Kalamazoo Valley Community College in July of 1991 assumed the governance of the Kalamazoo Public Museum.

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Voters in the college's 10 K-12 school districts also approved a charter millage to fund the museum's operations in perpetuity. Part of its annual budgeting process is to build up a capital-improvement fund for such projects as the Digistar 4 Laser.

In response to that mandate from voters, community leaders launched a $20-million capital campaign to build a new museum in downtown Kalamazoo. Since its opening, the museum has attracted 1.5 million visitors.

It was possible with the Digistar II "to fly" the audience to any of the 9,000 stars in its data base and look back to this solar system from their locations in the universe. Schreur reports the new data base is much larger and the “trips” are no longer limited to stars or black-and-white experiences.

“It will be safe to say,” Schreur said, “that people in Southwest Michigan would have to travel great distances to get the same experience that we will be able to offer beginning in September.”

Doherty part of group pushing for downtown arenaIf an 8,000-seat arena for athletic and entertainment purposes is in the future of

downtown Kalamazoo, KVCC’s Steve Doherty will have a role in that proposal becoming reality.

The college’s director of development and executive director of the KVCC Foundation is a member of Suite Idea Inc., a nonprofit economic-development organization formed in January of 2008.

Its mission is “to build an effective partnership among business, education, foundations and the public sector, to pursue new opportunities for growth and development, specifically including but not limited to efforts to develop a new downtown arena facility.”

The proposal is now before the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners, which could schedule a November vote on a financing plan.

One of the keys to success would be decisions by the Kalamazoo Wings and Western Michigan University to play their home hockey and basketball games at the downtown arena, which would be located on a nine-acre site bounded by Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo Avenue, Rose Street and Michigan Avenue.

In addition to his connection to KVCC, Doherty was selected because of his 20-year-plus career with the Kalamazoo Wings.

Other Suite Idea members with KVCC links are Jeff Eckert and Jason Novotny of the architectural firm of Eckert Wordell, and Ken Miller, currently chairman of the WMU Board of Trustees and a former member of the KVCC Foundation board.

The arena is envisioned as one of seven “transformation” projects for downtown Kalamazoo. Another is the development of the four historic buildings on East Michigan Avenue that are adjacent to the college’s Center for New Media. It would include retail outlets at the ground level and residential units on the upper floors.

Japan in future of KVCC studentAlison Walker, a KVCC student from Mendon, has been awarded a $5,000

scholarship from the U. S. State Department, to spend part of the 2009-10 academic year studying in Japan.

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Beginning in September, the major in international studies will use her Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities.

Walker was one of 22 Michigan-based students to qualify for the study-abroad experience. In all, 865 students received Gilmans across the nation, the majority of them attending four-year universities.

The Michigan delegation of recipients will be studying in Chile, China, Spain, Ghana, Great Britain, Finland, The Czech Republic, Uganda, Peru, Japan, Russia, Australia, Costa Rica, France, Germany and India.

They are enrolled in Albion College, Alma College, Aquinas College, Central Michigan University, Easter Michigan University, Finlandia University, Grand Valley State University, Kalamazoo College, Michigan State University, Northern Michigan University, Spelman College in Georgia, Spring Arbor University, the University of Michigan, Valparaiso University in Indiana, and Western Michigan University. The three from WMU are Sara Daniels, William Spalla and Tharyn Taylor.

Sponsored by the department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, this congressionally funded program is administered by the Institute of International Education through its Southern Regional Center in Houston, Texas. Since its inception, 4,728 scholarships have been awarded to students participating in study-abroad programs.

The Gilman Scholarship Program seeks to diversify the kinds of students who study abroad and the countries and regions where they go. Specifically, the program offers scholarships for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in education abroad.

It is named for U. S. Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-New York) who served in Congress for three decades. During World War II, he was in the Army Air Corps and flew 35 missions over Japan. He received a bachelor’s from the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 and later added a law degree.

An assistant attorney general in his home state, he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1967. Five years later, he was off to Washington to begin a 30-year congressional stint. He chaired the House Committee on International Relations.

Gilman served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations, serving under Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick in 1981. He was a member of the Ukraine Famine Commission, a member of the U.S., European, Canadian and Mexican Interparliamentary conferences, and a congressional adviser to the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference. He was co-chair of the Committee on Irish Affairs and participated on the International Task Force on Narcotics..

During the 1970s, Gilman became closely identified with the issue of prisoners of war and military personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia. He served on the Select Congressional Committee on that problem, and was only one of two members of Congress to vote in opposition to closing the book on the POW/MIA situation.

As the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Gilman consistently advocated stronger ties with India as a counterweight against Chinese influence in the region, particularly in Pakistan. In recognition of his contribution to furthering American ties with India, he was awarded that country's second highest civilian honor. He is one of

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only 12 foreigners, and one of only three Americans not of Indian origin, to receive the award.

He retired in 2003. At the time of his retirement, Gilman was the oldest sitting representative in the U.S. House. On March 28, 2008, Gilman participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gilman Center for International Education in his hometown of Middletown, N. Y. on the campus of SUNY Orange, also known as Orange County Community College.

Making web sites jump out at youBecause web sites that only look back at you are not the future of that mode of

information interaction, KVCC’s Center for New Media has launched a course that integrates animation and video into the process.

Debuting with the summer semester and scheduled to be taught in two sections in the fall, “Video Production” shows students – both majors and those who are interested in how it can be done – how to animate and add life to a web site.

“It introduces the principles of video production through a hands-on approach,” says Grant Chandler, dean of instruction at KVCC’s Arcadia Commons Campus.

“The three-credit course focuses on the basics of using a video camera, of using editing software, and on developing skills as a storyteller,” he said.

As they learn the fundamentals of movie making, he said, student will create videos in the form of PSAs (public-service announcement), music videos and other productions that will give them the basis of “a strong demo reel.”

The instructor is Aubrey Hardaway, who graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Chicago in 2000 where she also gained some classroom experience as an instructor in video and animation courses.

That led to a five-year stint as an art teacher at Kalamazoo’s Montessori School on Howard Street.

A part-time instructor at KVCC before joining the full-time faculty in the fall of 2008, Hardaway has guided workshops for young animators as part of Kalamazoo Animation Festival International academies in the summer.

A pair of art classes and one in graphic design are listed as pre-requisites for majors, but those can be waived for the nontraditional enrollee who wants to take the course for enrichment or professional-development purposes. Chandler said enrollees are also exposed to scriptwriting, using lights to set a production’s tone, gaining familiarity with a video camera, the editing process in a time-based format, audio recorders, storyboarding, teamwork, setting up for a production and tearing it down, and the lexicon of the entire process.

“The idea,” Chandler said, “is to teach how to animate a web site. The college believes there is a huge market for skilled people who can do this, and for those who have the ability to produce educational and training videos that can be added to a web site.”

For more information about dates, time and location of the class, call 373-7920.

Once in 1,000 This won’t happen again for 1,000 years, according to the museum’s Tom Dietz.At five minutes and six seconds after 4 a.m. on July 8, setting up this anomaly:04:05:06 07/08/09.

Baseball movies and the real deal

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The Kalamazoo Valley Museum and the Kalamazoo Kings, the local franchise in the Frontier League, is co-hosting “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” on Saturday (June 20).

Tickets for $10 include lunch, a movie pass and admission to the Kings game.Here’s the schedule of events:11:30 a.m. Enjoy a pizza lunch and meet players from the Kalamazoo Kings

1:30 p.m. Movie: "Everyone’s Hero" 3:15 p.m. Movie: "Rookie of the Year" 7:05 p.m. Kalamazoo Kings vs. Florence Freedom at Homer Stryker Field

Individual tickets: $3 for the movies, $5 the Kings gameLittle Leaguers are encouraged to come in their uniforms and bring souvenirs for

the players to sign. Tickets are available at the museum or by calling (269) 373-7990. Additional

movie pass and Kings tickets available. "Everyone's Hero" is an animated comedy-adventure of a young boy's 1,000-mile

journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project's theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film's originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.

"Rookie of the Year" is a 1993 film about a 12-year-old Chicago boy who gets to help his favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, when his broken arm heals in such a way to allow him to throw pitches as fast as 103 mph. . He becomes a rookie pitching sensation, but learns that fame and a Major League Baseball career have costs.

False alarm for skeeter killerWell, as you may recall, we started a recent “And finally. . .” installment with the

caveat that it might be an urban legend or Internet myth.And thanks to one of The Digest’s information-thirsty readers, Sue Visser, the

claim that Listerine was a form of capital punishment and sudden death for mosquitoes “stinks.”

She forwarded an item from the “Rumor Has It” site of Snopes.com that duly reported this:

“Spraying Listerine around your home or outdoor areas isn’t an all-purpose mosquito preventive. It my kill some mosquitoes on which it is directly sprayed, but it won’t serve to keep knocking mosquitoes dead for hours and hours afterward. It may also have limited effectiveness as a mosquito repellant, but you get what you pay for.”

Meaning, official skeeter-killing products are more effective for longer periods of time than solutions concocted from commercial household products intended for completely different purposes.

In other words, those who buy Listerine for its intended purpose would be better off breathing on a mosquito prior to using the mouthwash than spraying the stuff directly on the critter. New camp targets safety, health for 9, 10, 11 year olds

Healthy living, preventing injuries, dodging dangerous situations, and safety issues are the learning goals for a pair of free one-day camps for children 9 through 11 at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum this summer.

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Sponsored by Life EMS Ambulance Service and open to 25 at each session, “Camp 9-1-1” will convene on Tuesday, July 14, and again on Tuesday, July 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register, call (269) 373-3116.Among the potential topics will be:

• Traffic and bicycle safety• First aid• Home safety• Self-defense • Reacting to an abduction attempt• Internet safety• Basics of CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation)• Fire-prevention advice• Water safety• Avoiding tobacco products• What to know about dogsAssisting EMS Ambulance Service in providing the instructions are the

Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department, the Michigan State Police, members of local fire departments, Prevention Works Inc., the Kalamazoo County Safe Kids Coalition, the American Heart Association, and Sanchin-Ryu Okinawan Karate.

Keeping track of the participants during each one-day camp will be team leaders who are EMT (emergency medical technology) students, or who are chosen by EMS Ambulance Service from high schools, colleges and youth organizations.

For more information, contact Kimberly Caton of Life EMS Ambulance at (269) 373-3104.

A summer full of exercise, wellness opportunitiesNow that you’ve pared off a few pounds so that you look good in your bermudas

and swimming togs, you can stay that way through the summer because of a full regimen of drop-in exercise opportunities.

Here is the lineup for faculty, staff and enrolled students:Monday – swimming from 7 to 8:30 a.m.; yoga from 11 to 11:55 a.m.Tuesday – swimming from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; pilates from 11 to 11:55 a.m.;

and body sculpting from noon to 12:55.Wednesday – swimming from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Thursday – swimming from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and body sculpting from

noon to 12:55 p.m.Except for the obvious site for swimming, these exercise opportunities will be

based in Room 6040 in the Student Commons. Shelia Rupert will be leading the pilates sessions, Lu Cannon and Sheri Shon will

be sharing body sculpting, and Mark Duval is the yoga meister. Duval has taught forms of yoga since 1989 at the Kalamazoo Center for Healing

Arts and the Portage YMCA. He served as president of the Michigan Yoga Association from 1998 to 2002.

In offering three styles of yoga to participants, Duval will help KVCC’ers build their core strength, improve their flexibility, reduce stress, improve balance, slow the aging process, and speed up recovery from injuries.

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Last broadcast for Diversity Conference speakerThe remarks and commentaries of the two main speakers at KVCC's sixth annual

Diversity Conference were booked for televising by the Public Media Network this month.

Jane Tallim, co-executive director of the Media Awareness Network, spoke about the clout of the media in shaping perceptions while David Pilgrim, chief diversity officer at Ferris State University, enlightened a packed audience in Dale Lake Auditorium about the not-so-subtle messages that enhance negative stereotyping.

The final showing of Tallim's presentation on PMN's Channel 22 on the Charter Communications system is Sunday (June 21) at 9 p.m.

The four showings of Pilgrim's presentation are over.Tallim discussed the influence of the media in shaping a person’s thoughts,

feelings and behaviors about members of both genders, gays and lesbians, racial and cultural groups and persons with disabilities. Wind Energy Center in line for magazine’s state award

KVCC’s foray into the arena of alternative-energy production via its Wind Energy Center based at the M-TEC has been included in the first round of finalists for Michigan Business Review magazine’s annual Innovation Michigan awards for 2009.

Expanding the event to include entries from across the state, magazine staff members weaned the field to 38 finalists.

Innovation Michigan winners will be announced during the exposition and awards event schedule for Thursday, July 16, at Grand Valley State University's Pew Campus in Grand Rapids from 5 to 9 p.m. The exposition will include displays of finalists' innovations.

Camps for future animators, video-game designersElementary, middle-school and high-school students who were energized by the

creative medium of animation that was showcased at the fifth Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (KAFI) and by the lure of video games can sign up for “do-it-yourself” workshops this summer.

Designed for interests and skills of children as young as 9 and through the upper teens, the 13 KAFI Academy workshops will all be held in the KVCC Center for New Media in downtown Kalamazoo beginning Monday (June 22).

Costs for the multi-day series of instructions and hands-on activities range from $150 to $275.

Here’s the summer-camp schedule: ● Audio Lab – June 22-25, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 9 and up. This will teach the

skills to manipulate audio, create podcasts and make music.● Graphic Novel and Comic Art Foundations I – June 22-25 from 1 to 5 p.m.,

ages 13 and up. Students will develop characters, create storylines and prepare ideas for production.

● Graphic Novel and Comic Art Production II – June 29-July 2, from 1 to 5 p.m., ages 13 and up.

● Character and Comic Lab – June 29-July 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 9 and up. This workshop will take a look at what makes a good video game, movie and comic strip, with participants giving life to their imaginations.

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● Introduction to Video Game Development – June 29-July 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., for ages 14 and up.

● Guerilla Filmmaking – July 6-9, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., ages 11 and up. Learning the basics of shooting and editing for the screen.

● Squash and Stretch Lab: The Magic of the Bouncing Ball – July 6-9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 9 and up. Participants will learn how animation works and how to create it starting with the basics.

● Animation I: Fundamentals – July 13-16, noon to 5 p.m., ages 14 and up.● Animation II: Production – July 20-23, noon to 5 p.m., ages 14 and up.● Animation III: Putting It Together – July 27-30, noon to 5 p.m., ages 14 and

up.● Claymation Creation Lab – July 13-16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 9 and up.

Participants will learn how to construct characters in clay and animate them. ● Stop Motion Lab – July 20-23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ages 9 and up. For

young animators who like to “think out of the box” and explore different modes and forms of animation.

● Filmmaking: The Cutting-Room Floor – July 27-30, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., ages 11 and up. This session explores advanced shooting, lighting and editing skills.

All of the workshops are project-based, and each participant will leave with a finished product to take home.

The week-long workshops are structured to allow participants to continue their efforts at home if they have the required computer software.

For more information and details about each workshop, or to register, call (269) 373-7934 or go to the KAFI web site at www.gokafi.com and click on “events” and “summer academy.”

Sharing the instructional duties will be: Tom Ludwig, who teaches film and video production in the Education for the

Arts program. Aubrey Jewel Hardaway, a full-time instructor of animation at the Center for

New Media and a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. Kenjji Marshall, who has taught cartooning and caricature at the College for

Creative Studies in Detroit and has had his work featured in the New York Times and the Japan Times.

Joe Sparks, a faculty member at the Center for New Media and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design in computer animation.

John Wagner, a major in digital cinema at Northern Michigan University who manages the technology lab for Education for the Arts.

Famed local resorts featured in museum’s TV showKalamazoo County’s heyday as a hotbed of summer resorts, amusement parks,

fairs and festivals is the June installment of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s TV show.Featuring Tom Dietz, the curator of research at the museum, the episode will

chronicle the major attractions from 1850 through 1950 and will be aired by the Public Media Network (formerly the Community Access Center) on Channel 22 on the Charter cable system at 7 p.m. on Sundays, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. on Fridays, and 11 a.m. on Saturdays.

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A century ago, Gull Lake was filled with resorts, dance halls, hotels, and vacation cottages for rent. Steamboats offered relaxing cruises, often with bands providing musical entertainment in the evening. Dietz will trace some of the early enterprises, including 25-cent rides on the steamboat Michigan.

Vacationers were transported on the interurban light-rail system from both Kalamazoo and Battle Creek and by 1905 more than a dozen resorts lined Gull Lake.

Automobiles as well as the interurban, while providing more people with access to Gull Lake, hastened the end of the public resorts. The construction of private homes replaced both the resorts and cottage associations that offered vacation rentals.

Sherman Lake offered another option for those looking for summer relaxation. In the 1930s, Jesse Graine of Kalamazoo and George Hill of Battle Creek opened Silver Beach for African-Americans on the north shore near today’s public-access site.

In southern Kalamazoo County, Indian Lake was also the site of summer resorts beginning in the 1890s with Lemon Park that in time had its own stop on the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad.

Lemon Park remained popular until the 1940s as did Adams Park and Munn’s Knoll that opened in the early 20th century.

Within what are now the city limits of Kalamazoo, Woods Lake offered summer recreational opportunities. Oakwood Park was a full amusement attraction with a roller coaster, skating rink, dance hall, penny arcade, concession stand, and band shell.

Originally known as Lake View, it opened on July 5, 1893, and for more than 30 years Oakwood Park was the “Coney Island” of Kalamazoo.

The Oakland Avenue street-car line brought visitors to the entrance on Parkview Avenue. During the park’s heyday, street cars arrived and departed every 10 minutes. Extra cars were added for special events.

In July 1912, for example, the traveling “Pilbeam’s Great Historical Show” staged a re-creation of the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac for five consecutive nights.

The show was so popular that the Orcutt Post of the Grand Army of the Republic changed its annual picnic date so that members could attend the program. Oakwood Park closed in 1925.

Electric-powered vehicles on display As many as five vehicles powered by electricity will be on display as part of the

monthly meeting of the Electric Automobile Association of Michigan slated for Saturday (June 20) at the Western Michigan University College of Engineering Parkview Campus.

While members of the public are invited to sit in on the association’s business meeting that will be held at 2 p.m. in Room D-201 and be hosted by Paul Pancella, chairman of Western's Physics Department, that will be followed by “show and tell on a nearby parking lot with about five electric vehicles expected,” according to Steve Gerike, computing support technician at the Arcadia Commons Campus.

The association actively converts automobiles to run on an electric motor and battery pack with some vehicles being hybrids. “

We are not waiting for the major auto companies to do this,” Gerike said. “Some members are not building, but simply supporting and promoting the process. If you have any interest in alternative energy, you are invited to attend.”

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Exploring your planet at the museum You can spend about five hours on a Sunday afternoon with the menagerie of

amazing creatures and life forms that share this planet called Earth.This summer’s free showings of documentaries at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum

will offer the 12 episodes of David Attenborough’s “The Living Planet” beginning on Sunday, June 21.

The triple-headers will be shown on four Sundays through Aug. 16 in the museum’s Mary Jane Stryker Theater at 1:30, 3 and 4 p.m., respectively.

Called the “ultimate guided tour of planet earth” and led by one of the world's foremost natural scientists, the series takes viewers into a hibernating bear's den, wading with piranhas, and crawling across glaciers as complicated concepts are explained simply.

The opening segments on June 21 are “The Building of the Earth” (at 1:30 p.m.), “The Frozen Earth” (at 3 p.m.), and “The Northern Forests” (at 4 p.m.)

"The Building of the Earth” explains the enormous forces that have shaped the planet and serves as an introduction to the diverse plant and animal life, including humankind, that have adapted to varying physical and biological conditions above and beneath the land and the sea.

Viewers gain a global perspective on the earth sciences and a number of associated ecological concepts. This episode begins in the world’s deepest valley: that of the Kali Gandaki River in the Himalayas. Its temperatures range from those of the tropics in its lower reaches to that of the poles higher up, which shows how creatures become adapted to living in certain environments.

The higher that Attenborough travels, the more bleak and mountainous is the terrain, and the more suited to it are the animals that live there. However, such adaptations are comparatively recent. These mountains were formed from the sea bed some 65 million years ago.

To show the force of nature responsible for this, Attenborough stands in front of an erupting volcano in Iceland. The Icelandic volcanoes represent the northern end of a fissure that is mostly underwater and runs down one side of the globe, forming volcanic islands en route where it is above sea level.

It is such activity, known as plate tectonics, from deep within the Earth that pulled apart Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean. Footage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 shows what decimation it caused. However, this pales in comparison to the destruction caused by Krakatoa in 1883, which Attenborough relates in detail. When such pressure beneath the Earth shifts, it results in hot springs and caverns — which themselves support life.

"The Frozen World" describes the inhospitable habitats of snow and ice. Mount Rainier in America is an example of such a place: there is no vegetation, therefore no herbivores and thus no carnivores.

However, beneath its frosty surface, algae grow and some insects, such as ladybirds visit the slopes. Africa’s mountains are permanently snow-covered, and beneath peaks such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, there are communities of plants and animals.

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However, they endure extremes of temperature within 24 hours like no other. At night they are in danger of freezing solid, and during the day they may be robbed of moisture. Lobelias combat this by either producing pectin or insulating themselves with an abundance of leaves analogous to a fur coat.

The Andes run the length of South America and are surrounded by the altiplano. On these high plains, there is a large and varied population of animals.

Antarctica is bigger than the whole of Europe and is for the most part devoid of life. However, its shores and waters are fertile and are home to fur seals, their main food (krill), and several species of penguin.

By contrast, because of its connection to more temperate regions, the Arctic has been colonized by a large variety of species. They include arctic foxes, polar bears, lemmings, snowy owls, and the region’s most powerful hunter, the Inuit. It is also a temporary home to migratory animals, such as the caribou and snow goose.

The 4 p.m. feature, "The Northern Forests,” examines the northern coniferous forests, beginning in northern Norway, 500 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. There is only just enough light for the pine trees to survive, but it is extremely cold during the winter.

Pine-cone seeds provide one of the few foods available in winter, and large herbivores such as moose must also rely on their fat reserves. However, there are predators, including lynxes, wolverines and eagle owls.

The coniferous forest grows in a belt right around the globe, some 1,900 kilometers across at its widest. On each continent, many migratory animals arrive in the spring, and even more during the summer.

In years when the vole population is high, the numbers of their main predator, the owls, increase correspondingly and spread out. Further south, the warmer climate sees the pine trees give way to broad-leaved species, such as the oak and beech.

More birds occupy the forest canopy during the summer than at any other time of year, feeding on a myriad of insects. At the onset of winter, many animals in these forests hibernate, and in America, Attenborough uncovers the den of a black bear, which can be asleep for six months at a time.

Further south, Attenborough shows the effects of forest fires, which are not so destructive as they appear — the areas affected rejuvenate themselves within a couple of months, with more flowers than before.

"Our planet, the Earth, is, as far as we know, unique in the universe,” Attenborough said in the opening segment. “It contains life. Even in its most barren stretches, there are animals. Around the equator, where those two essentials for life -- sunshine and moisture -- are most abundant, great forests grow. And here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers that we still have not even named all the different species.

“Animals and plants, insects and birds, mammals and man live together in intimate and complex communities, each dependent on one another,” he said. “Two-thirds of the surface of this unique planet is covered by water, and it was here indeed that life began. From the oceans, it has spread even to the summits of the highest mountains as animals and plants have responded to the changing face of the Earth."

Here’s the remainder of the showings:July 12 – “Jungle,” “Seas of Grass,” and “The Baking Deserts.”

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July 26 – “The Sky Above,” “Sweet Fresh Water,” and “The Margins of the Land.”

Aug. 16 – “Worlds Apart,” “The Open Ocean,” and “New Worlds.”

New internship venture placing studentsKVCC’s Community Partners Internship Program, launched in January, is

continuing to place students in workforce-development positions this summer and into the fall. .

Funded for a three-year period by the KVCC Foundation, the $100,000 project seeks to place at least 55 students over a three-year period with enterprises interested in a grow-your-own-workforce alliance.

The bulk of the grant funds is being used to pay up to 50 percent of the wages for each intern, with the companies they work for providing the balance. The program will last through December of 2011.

Salary terms are established on a case-by-case basis and agreed upon prior to the commencement of the internship. The pay can range from the minimum wage of $7.40 to $12 per hour.

An internship usually lasts 15 weeks, but students can apply at any time and be assigned year round.

The latest placements are: Brittany Neilson, an accounting intern at the ISAAC offices at 412 E.

Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. The Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community seeks to build a “more just community.” Neilson will be filling in for the organization’s accountant, a former KVCC intern herself, who is in India for 10 weeks.

Luis Rodriquez (business administration) and Bethani Bradshaw (graphic design) are assigned to Front Door Promotions.

Lindsay Richie (administrative assistant) and Kassidy Adamson (marketing) are interning at the Allegan Area Chamber of Commerce.

Jennifer Hoffman, an accounting and business major, is at Option Energy, 5985 W. Main St. in Oshtemo Township.

Lois Brinson-Ropes, the internship coordinator for the center’s Student Employment Services unit, said the initiative is targeting enterprises involved in bio-medical services, alternative energy, and the digital arts, but companies involved in other sectors of the regional economy are also invited to take part.

“We see this internship program as the college’s wish to join forces with Southwest Michigan employers to produce and retain a highly talented and trained workforce,” Vandenberg said.

For many enterprises -- and not just those in emerging businesses -- the No. 1 factor for achieving success is finding the right people to fit the right jobs.  Internships are tried-and-true ways to “grow your own” and identify prospects with high potential.           

It’s the classic win-win equation:  great experience for those who are selected as interns and a no-strings-attached arrangement on the part of the employer because internships are basically akin to temporary jobs.           

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The employer gets essentially a low-cost look at a potential permanent employee who could either be somebody who would not be a good fit or somebody who has “the right stuff” to be a future leader.           

In order to find that out, interns -- while supervised and operating within a structured work environment – can be given enough autonomy and enough leeway to determine their own direction. 

That allows the employer to evaluate the person’s judgment, how he or she works with other people, and work habits.  Few one-on-one interviews provide those types of measurements.

KVCC students can apply when they have achieved the skills and education required by the company offering the internship, and when they have completed 50 percent of the course work in their respective majors.

They will also be required to complete pre-employment-skills training provided by the center’s Student Employment Services.

This training will include resume writing, effective cover letters, interviewing skills, professional attire, personal hygiene, promptness and dependability, communication skills, and non-verbal behavior.

Each company can request an intern based on the area of study, skills needed, duties expected, hours of work, and when the person is needed on the job. Each will select an intern based on the organization’s existing hiring methods and criteria.

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, nearly 70 percent of interns receive full-time positions from their employers. This ratio has increased 13 percent since 2001.

Faculty focus on ways to teach more effectivelyKVCC faculty members will continue the initiative to identify and utilize the best-

teaching practices in the fall semester. On the heels of discussing Ken Bain’s book on “What the Best College Teachers

Do,” instructors will have the opportunity to listen to the author on Thursday, Sept. 3, as part of the fall semester’s Faculty Seminar Days. He will conduct a workshop that will begin an exploration of the following questions related to teaching and, in particular, to teaching in a community college:

1. What do the best teachers know and understand?2. How do the best teachers prepare to teach?3. What do they expect of students?4. What do they do when they teach?5. How do they treat students? 6. How do they check their progress, evaluate their efforts?Bain will also meet with those faculty members who participated in the book-

group discussion of “What the Best College Teachers Do” during the last academic year.Those who have not read the book as yet can do so over the summer and take part

in a discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 8:45 a.m. in Room 128 in Anna Whitten Hall. During the 2009-2010 academic year, these book will be discussed at the fall- and

winter-semester Faculty Seminar Days: “Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching” by Julie Vargas, (Pat

Cherpas, discussion leader)

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“Honored but Invisible” by W. Norton Grubb and Associates (Jan White, discussion Leader)

Discussions will take place during the roundtable break-out session at 1:30 p.m. in 128 Whitten Hall and 10:45 to noon in the Student Commons Forum on the Texas Township Campus. Contact Bill deDie at extension 4128 or Cynthia Schauer at extension 4051 for other suggestions.

These discussions are sponsored by the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Retention and support the college’s managing-enrollment initiative. Data from this initiative provide evidence that the most vital contributions of faculty to student retention are dynamic classrooms and a vigorous curriculum.

‘Jump to Japan’ into its four-month stay“Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture through Popular Art” – with one of those

forms of creativity being animation – has begun a four-month stay at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.

Jointly developed by the Minnesota Children’s Museum and The Children’s Museum in Seattle, “Jump to Japan” showcases that nation’s amazing culture through activities based on animation, manga (comics), woodblock prints and traditional scrolls.

The exhibit, which will be in Kalamazoo through Sept. 7, is the result of a collaboration with the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka and the movie studio that produced the animated film, “My Neighbor Totoro.” The animator, Hayao Miyazaki, won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Japanese animation and manga have become very popular among American youth as illustrated by the broad acceptance of the phenomenon known as Pokemon.

But the three-part exhibit is designed to entertain people of all ages. In addition to creating their own manga drawings and animation at a pair of art stations, visitors can take off their shoes and step into a traditional tatami room for a tea party, try on a kimono and other traditional Japanese clothing, and play the ancient card game known as katura.

They’ll learn the fundamentals of woodblock printing and how the Japanese tell stories through scrolls. They’ll shop at a Japanese store and learn to use that nation’s coin of the realm.

The four art forms are linked in a variety of ways. In “Jump to Japan,” the dominant link between animation, manga and woodblock prints is that they all are -- or were -- popular art forms. And from them, visitors can experience the complexity of Japanese culture (traditional and contemporary, rural and urban, and realistic and fantasy).

Through scenes and characters from “My Neighbor Totoro,” visitors will explore how animated films are brainstormed, designed and created, and try their hand at the magic of making one-dimensional images come to life.

“My Neighbor Totoro” is full of fantasy, joy and adventure. Set in 1950s Japan, the family film tells of two girls and their friendship with the magical Totoro, who can be seen only by children who love him.

Adults and children can match background paintings from the animated film to photos in two “picture scroll” windows. By juxtaposing artistic renderings with corresponding photos, they discover how an animator’s inspiration comes from real places, things and events.

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“Jump to Japan” offers the chance to choose from a variety of backgrounds, foreground elements, cultural icons and characters to create animation.

One section explores the prevalence and influence of manga in Japanese culture. Shelves hold a variety of manga books and magazines for browsing.

Everyone in Japan reads manga; the average person can read 16 pages of per minute.

An oversized “book” shows how manga is read differently than comics in the United States. Puzzles demonstrate how manga is read -- right to left and top to bottom.

Visitors can sit at a light table and create manga by choosing elements from transparencies featuring faces, eyes, hair and bodies drawn manga-style.

Inside the manga shop, visitors role-play customer and shopkeeper at a sales counter using authentic Japanese objects.

At the cashier’s counter, visitors use Japanese money, hear and say basic Japanese words and numbers and incorporate Japanese words into dramatic play. They can push the buttons on a sound box and hear a voice say the number in Japanese.

Another feature is to take a trip to Japan without leaving Kalamazoo. Visitors can move a shinkansen (bullet train) along a track embedded in a map of Japan and into slots corresponding to locations. Backlit photos depict the place or activity and location name.

Japan’s people, places and things are depicted in nine woodblock prints that relate to Japanese clothing, festivals, foods, children’s games and stories.

Visitors can enter a Japanese home modeled after details shown in the woodblock prints and learn how these art forms are made.

An ancient picture scroll is complemented by a panel containing “seek-and-find” questions that call attention to details in the scroll.

Visitors see similarities between ancient scrolls, woodblock prints and the contemporary art forms of manga and animation.

Wind energy focus of summer campBuilding a scale-model wind turbine will be the capstone project at two summer

camps for youths ranging in age from 12 to 16.Slated to be held at KVCC’s Texas Township Campus, the first session will run

from July 13-16 and the second is Aug. 3-6. The fee is $235.Guiding both camps, which will be in action from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on each of the

four days, will be Trevor Stefanick, a physics instructor at KVCC who has a background in theater and is working on a master’s in astrophysics.

Among the camp activities will be learning about testing for wind speeds, what makes an effective, energy-producing blade for a wind turbine, the state’s wind resources, what are the best locations, how to use the electricity produced by a wind turbine, and the keys to installing an effective unit.

The campers will also hear from one of the KVCC instructors who spent six weeks in Germany being trained on the manufacturing, components and electrical technology that go into producing and operating the giant turbines clustered on wind farms. He and a fellow instructor will begin the college’s national training academy for these units in October.

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Camp participants, who will number 15 for each session, will also tour and inspect the 145-foot, 50-kilowatt wind turbine now in operation at the west end of the Texas Township Campus.

To register or to receive more information, call the college’s Wind Energy Center based in the M-TEC of KVCC at 353-1253or visit this web site: www.windenergycenter.kvcc.edu.

Stefanick, a 1997 graduate of Vicksburg High School, worked as a stagehand for Miller Auditorium productions at Western Michigan University for a decade, was involved in Whole Art Theater shows for two years, and created a historical character for performances at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. He has bachelor degrees in theater and physics from WMU.

Warning: E-mail can be L-mail, as in libel Surfing the Internet and the worldwide webs of the planet can be as invigorating

for the mind as riding Hawaii's Bonzai Pipeline is for the body, but there is potential for peril in what you communicate.

E-mail is publishing and broadcasting in the broadest definitions of those terms. As such, E-mail is subject to the laws of libel that restrain newspapers and television news. In other words, the E in e-mail can stand for “evidence.”

When you communicate via E-mail, it just doesn't zip out into cyber space and is lost forever. It can be captured, saved, printed, and distributed to somebody who may not like what you are communicating.

Case in point:When a surfing college professor learned via E-mail that a group of colleagues

were bound for London and were looking for reasonable housing while there, he read some of the suggestions coming in from all over the world. He E-mailed his comments, urging them not to stay at a certain hostelry for various reasons. When that hostelry read the assessment, it contacted a law firm that demanded an E-mail apology, or else.

What this all means goes back to what your parents used to advise: If you can't say something nice about somebody or something, don't say anything at all. . .especially

via E-mail. And, if you don’t want to see it in print, don’t keyboard it on to your screen. Lake Award recipients named

The 2009 recipients of the Dale B. Lake Presidential Award for athletic, academic and leadership achievement are Katelyn Bryce and Evan Supernant.

Bryce, a 2006 graduate of Watervliet High School, recorded a 3.96 grade-point average for 67 credit hours in earning an associate of arts from KVCC. She plans to seek a bachelor’s in secondary education certification at Western Michigan University.

The daughter of Curt and Kim Bryce was selected as a team captain for this season’s women’s softball team. Batting .430, she earned first-team, all-conference honors while becoming the squad’s most valuable player. She had four doubles, five triples, and four home runs on this year’s 29-17 squad. Bryce also won the Alfie Award for outstanding attitude while attending KVCC because she knew “what’s it all about.”

In addition to earning academic all-conference and all-state recognition, the plaudits keep coming as she recently received “Distinguished Academic All American” honors from the National Junior College Athletic Association.

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Coach Mike Clark calls her “the best worker I have had at KVCC.” She hit from the left side this season for the first time ever, causing Coach Clark to comment, “Four home runs from a ‘slapper’ is unheard of.”

She has worked construction jobs in the summer and also picks pickles in the migrant fields. “She is a great person with a huge heart,” and she “would do anything for a teammate,” Clark said. “She is the perfect athlete to coach.”

Supernant is a two-year baseball player at KVCC, serving as team captain for the 2009 season and playing a major role in the outfield on the 30-25 Cougar squad.

As a freshman, he only went to the plate 15 times, hitting .333. Like his female counterpart, his on-the-field improvement in his sophomore season was remarkable with 90 at-bats and a .303 average.

The academic all-conference and all-state standout compiled a 3.54 grade-point average, taking courses in organic chemistry and physiology to prepare for a career in the sciences.

The son of Michael and Marcia Supernant is a 2007 graduate of Bay City All Saints Central High School where he participated in football as well as baseball. Counting a biology class he took at Delta College, he has completed 58 hours of college work.

He received the Alfie Award as a freshman and was voted “Most Improved Player” by his teammates this season. Coach Bernie Vallier remarked that “Evan never complained. When you think of respect, class, and perseverance, Evan Supernant comes to mind. As a coach, I am privileged to have young men like Evan as Cougars. ”

“These two young people cap another great year for Cougar athletics,” said KVCC athletic director Dick Shilts. “Katelyn and Evan exemplify all that is good in college athletics. We join with friends and family in congratulating them and wishing them continued successes.”

Each recipient will be presented with a plaque signifying this honor, and their names will be engraved on a large plaque that features the names of previous winners. The plaque is currently on display in the KVCC athletic office.

This award is a yearly endeavor that honors KVCC’s founding president, Dale B. Lake. It salutes outstanding student-athletes at KVCC. Exceptional academic achievement, outstanding athletic contribution, and evidence of uncommon leadership and character are among the criteria.

And finally. . . How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question

tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator is the wrong answer.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.

The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend, except one. Which animal does not attend?

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The elephant – because it is in the refrigerator and you just put him in there. This tests your memory.

There is a river you must cross but it is infested with crocodiles and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it? You jump into the river and swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the animal meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90 percent of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers.

Andersen Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a 4 year old.

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