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Volume 38 Issue 6
November 21, 2000
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Mark Your Calendar
SPOTLIGHT
 Downtown
Mesa will celebrate its second annual “A Merry Main Street!” event 5:30
to 9 p .m. Dec. 1 on Main Street between Country Club and Center streets.
It will feature Santa Claus’ arrival on a historic Mesa fire engine, a
diverse array of holiday music and entertainment, a children’s play area
filled with 50 tons of snow, and Mesa Mayor Keno Hawker throwing the switch
to activate the downtown area’s award-winning holiday light display. For
information, call (480) 644-2351.
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Winter Adopt-A-Family
The Winter Holiday Adopt-A-Family program benefits MCC students
and their families who are in need of assistance.
Nominate a student or encourage students who you know might be in
need to apply. Faculty/staff nominations of students are due to
Nora Aguilar in the Student Activities Department by Nov. 27 and
all self nominations and applications are due Dec. 4. For information
and applications, call Aguilar at (480) 461-7277.
Gourmet Brunch
The Banner Health Foundation of Arizona will host “Savor the Flavor,”
a gourmet brunch featuring dishes from more than a dozen of the
top restaurants and chefs in the Valley and live entertainment by
local jazz performer Margo Reed, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 26 at the
Conference Center in the Chaparral Suites Hotel at 5001 N. Scottsdale
Road, located at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Chaparral.
Tickets are $50 per person, children 12 and under are $15, and children
5 and under are free. Proceeds benefit heart patients and Banner
Health Arizona cardiology programs. For tickets, call (602) 495-6359.
Diabetes Prevention
The Community Health Advocate Certificate Program (CHA) will have
a reception 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Kirk Center’s Kiva Room.
The diabetes prevention and education program was developed by Maricopa
Community Colleges Foundation in conjunction with the Native American
Community Health Center, Inc. (NACHC) and received a three year
grant from the St. Luke’s Charitable Health Trust. For information,
call (480) 461-7154.
University Admission Information
Meetings providing information on competency requirements for
admission to ASU, NAU, or U of A will be 10 and 11:30 a.m., Nov.
28 and 1:30 and 3 p.m., Dec. 7 in the Kirk Center’s Maricopa Room.
Sign up at the MCC Transfer Center to attend one of the meetings.
For information, call (480) 461-7452.
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THEATER |
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‘A Christmas Carol’
Actors Theatre of Phoenix will be performing Charles Dickens’
“A Christmas Carol,” adapted by Michael Grady and Producing artistic
director Matthew Wiener with music and lyrics by Alan Ruch.
Performances will be Dec. 2 through Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. Tuesdays through
Saturdays and 2 p.m. matinees on Sundays at the Herberger Theater,
222 E. Monroe, located between Second and Third streets, in Phoenix.
Ticket prices range from $25 to $38. For information and tickets,
call (602) 252-8497.
‘The Laundry’
MCC’s winter play, “The Laundry,” directed by Beverly Byrd,
will be 8 p.m. Dec. 7 through 9 and 2 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Theatre
Outback.
Tickets are $5 for MCC students; $7 for MCC faculty, staff, alumni
or students under 18; and $8 for the general public. All tickets
must be reserved. The Box Office, TH1, is open 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. For tickets and information, call (480) 461-7170.
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FILM
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Film Festival
The SunBurst Resort Scottsdale Independent Film Fest, hosted
by Emanuel Levy, a senior film critic for Variety magazine, will
be held at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 7380 E. Second St.,
in Scottsdale.
The 7 p.m., Nov. 27 portion of the festival will include a showing
of Everything Put Together (1999) with director/writer Marc Forster
in attendance.
The 6:30 p.m., Dec. 11 portion will include a tribute to director
Robert Altman who will receive a Scottsdale Film Achievement Award
and one of his movies, Nashville (1975), will be shown. Altman’s
75th birthday and Nashville’s 25th anniversary will be celebrated
as well.
Tickets will be sold at $10 or $6 for students. The evening offers
an introduction by Levy and the writer or director, a 35mm screening
of the film, and an interview and question-and-answer session with
the writer or director afterward. For tickets, call (480) 994-2787
or visit tickets.com or call
them at 1-888-464-2468. The center’s box office is open 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
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MUSIC |
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Jazz Concert
The ASU Jazz Repertory Band will be performing 7:30 p.m. , Nov.
21 in the Katzin Concert Hall, 40 E. Gammage Parkway, located in
ASU’s Music Building at the corner of Mill Avenue and Gammage Parkway
directly north of the Gammage Auditorium, in Tempe. For information,
call Mary Brennan at (480) 965-3587.
Holiday Concert
ASU’s Holiday Concert with University Symphony Orchestra and University
Choirs will be 3:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at Gammage Auditorium, Gammage Parkway
and Mill Avenue, on ASU Main Campus, in Tempe. Tickets are $6. For
tickets and information, call (480) 965-3434.
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Debate Tournament
Speech and Debate tournaments will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Dec. 1 through
3. The Dec. 1 event will be in the Student Union Building at Glendale
Community College, 6000 W. Olive, located at the northwest corner
of 59th Avenue and Olive.
The Dec. 2 and 3 events will be in the Language and Literature buildings
on the ASU main campus in Tempe.
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AWARDS |
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Journalist Honored
Journalist Cokie Roberts will be honored at the Walter Cronkite
Award for Excellence in Journalism and Telecommunication Luncheon
beginning at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 21 at The Phoenician, 6000 E. Camelback
Road in Scottsdale. For information and reservations, call (480)
965-5179.
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Information provided by MCC College Safety
Oct. 30
Between Oct. 11 and Oct. 30, a Panasonic 27 inch television valued
at $580, was stolen from the LA Building.
A female student fainted while working out in MCC’s
Fitness Center. Paramedics were called. She was advised to seek
private medical assistance and she agreed to do so.
Oct. 31
Mesa police arrested an MCC student as the result of an apparent
Halloween prank. Police said he was reported to have pointed a toy
gun at some people near Dobson High School. Using a license plate
number provided by someone at the school, police traced him to MCC
and charged him with disorderly conduct.
Nov. 2
A contractor doing work at MCC accidentally backed his truck into
a fence, south of the welding area. Damage is estimated to be $100.
Nov. 4
Mesa police are investigating the theft of an unknown amount of
valuables from a visiting team’s locker room at MCC during a football
game that evening.
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Speech/debate team wins awards
MCC Speech/debate members travel all over
the country competin against colleges and universities during the
August through April season.
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