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Volume 39, Issue 10
February 12, 2002

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Professor gets 'A' in Rock

By T.A. Matthews
Mesa Legend

Where do you think your English teacher is on a Saturday night?

Perhaps in his study, sipping a room temperature snifter of Brandy, warming his feet next to a roaring fire and reading Hawthorne or Shakespeare?

However, if your professor is Tim Florschuetz, your best bet is the Big Fish Pub.

Florschuetz has been teaching English at MCC for 11 years. In his spare time he is better known for his bass playing in a band called Super Sternal Notch or S.S.N.

The band itself has been around for five years; Florschuetz has been with them just under a year. They got their start in Boston opening for bands like Fuel and Van Halen.

Their sound is similar to Creed and Drowning Pool, with White Zombie "karate action."

The band name comes from suprasternal notch, the medical term for that big hole right below the Adam’s apple and right above the sternum.

The real story with S.S.N. can only be discovered after talking to Florschuetz. Aside from being director of the writing center at MCC., Florschuetz finds time to play in a local band (which can be grueling at times) and help out with teaching novice musicians the art of recording at MCC.

"A lot of the public doesn’t even know that our campus offers a two year recording degree," Florschuetz said. He went on to say that "being a teacher is a great opportunity to network among students."

He often sees the same people in class, as in the studio. "S.S.N. provides aspiring sound engineers the chance to get a hands-on perspective of music and receive helpful hints on how to harness the raw sound of live music."

Florschuetz is following in the footsteps of other rockers/teachers such as Sting and Gene Simmons.

Every student prays for a rock n’ roll teacher. With Florshuetz, many prayers have been answered.