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Editorial:
It's been a wild year
Living Arts:
With the 2010-2011 MHCC school year coming to a close, let's take a look at some of the Living Arts events worth remembering.
In the fall we saw what cosmetology can do with a mannequin head when they delivered Halloween-designed heads on platter to faculty and students around campus as part of an Image Makers Club fundraiser.
With fishnets and singing Transylvanians, the "Rocky Horror Show" was the highlight of the theater department over winter term.
While "Rocky Horror" was happening on campus, the music department took their shows out of town. Genesis performed as part of the Jazz Education
Network conference in New Orleans in January and the Jazz Band made a trip to Kaoshiung, Taiwan, as part of a Chinese New Year's Festival.
The Student Activities Board chose spring term to throw their biggest parties, with Diversity Week, Spring Fest and the upcoming Beach Bash.
Many other exciting things happened this year, from KMHD2 moving to FM radio, the planetarium running shows every first Monday of each month and both the Fireplace Gallery and the Visual Arts Gallery providing students with something beautiful to look at every day of the year.
And we can't forget the latest highlight of the journalism department: Venture magazine is available for free right now at newsstands around campus.
News:
Looking back at a year of MHCC news, one word comes to mind: Contract. The year-long negotiations and potential of a strike dominated the year, the conversations of almost every student, and often the front page of The Advocate.
Often cloaked by the contract drama were several other big things that happened on campus this year.
To top the list, Larry Collins-Morgan showed us that a president can fulfill campaign promises, as he helped to coordinate a work-study program through Public Safety for criminal justice majors that would benefit the community.
Collins-Morgan and his ASG posse not only gave MHCC students a voice but they strived to have those voices listened to by the hierarchy of administration.
We also saw MHCC sweep the nation as the forensics team did a phenomenal job winning a multitude of tournaments, as well as bringing the national forensics tournament here, the first time the competition has been held at a community college.
The academic year was sprinkled with several campus evacuations and closures due to electrical outages, weird weather patterns featuring snow at the end of February, toy bombs and false fire alarms.
It's been a chaotic and very newsworthy year and, as with every year, The Advocate staff did its best to bring it all front and center to keep readers informed — and we had a blast doing it.
Sports:
With this year's sports ending for the summer, MHCC student-athletes and coaches can leave knowing they went out with a bang.
Spring – The softball team pulled off the impossible. With only 11 players, head coach Meadow McWhorter and her troops won the school's third consecutive NWAACC championship at Delta Park. Head baseball coach Bryan
Donohue and his baseball tried to match the success of the softball team, but came up two games short. Instead, the team finished in third place. Not bad considering they missed the postseason a year ago for the first time in 16 years.
Track and field joined in on the festivities and had their share of the cake.
Both the men's and the women's team finished in fourth place at the NWAACC Championships in Spokane, Wash. The team saw 15 NWAACC All-American honors. The top three finishers in each event receive the honors.
Winter – The men's basketball team didn't bring home hardware in their showing at the NWAACC Championships at the Toyota Center in the Tri-Cities.
However, they only lose two sophomores and are considered one of the top teams in the NWAACCs. The Lady Saints basketball team had their fair share of troubles. Not only did they finish in fifth place in the South, but they also lost their head coach Larry Davis. The team is still looking for a new head coach.
Fall – Volleyball head coach Chelsie Speer and her volleyball team came up short in the NWAACC championship match. For the second year in a row, the team finished in second place. The cross country team, led by head coach Matt Hart, had their ups and downs. Their top finisher at NWAACCs was freshman Tahir Chakiso, who finished the 8K NWAACC Championship in tenth place with a time of 26:36.94.
From The Advocate staff:
The Advocate would like to dedicate this final issue of the academic school year to our beloved adviser Bob Watkins. It is with heavy hearts and many tears that we say goodbye to a man who has been there, for 28 years, looking over the shoulder of many cub journalists to ensure The Advocate maintained its credibility in the eyes of readers.
He will no longer be here to tell us a photo needs a 0.5 stroke, help us generate hard news leads, answer those difficult questions whose answers lie in the gray instead of the black or white. We are unable to imagine what it will be like without Bob.
Bob isn't just an adviser or just an instructor. He is the definition of a mentor. He does not hesitate to offer assistance when he sees a student struggling academically or personally. He has this way of getting people to realize what mistake they made without actually pointing it out to them. When they do realize what they did, Bob's face will light up and he will smile in a congratulatory manner as if he was saying he knew they could do it.
He shows pride in the work his students have done no matter what the outcome. Some journalists are self critics who are harder on themselves than on anyone else. Bob can see this in someone and knows just how much and when to give them encouragement.
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