Mesa Legend - HOME- MCC's online connection for news, sports and entertainment


Volume 41, Issue 14. Today is .

May 4, 2004

Student elections ‘a mess'
Sheila Snodgrass
Mesa Legend

“It was a mess,” is how Associated Students of Mesa Community College Satellite Commissioner Scott Jaffa described the recent ASMCC elections that took place April 14.
Greg Reents, director of student leadership, said he is happy with the turnout of voters and that things went well for the most part.
Related Stories:
Election Results and Legend's View about the ASMCC

Death kindles family support
Mike Helm
Mesa Legend

An argument earlier this month ended in the shooting death of an MCC student, police said.
Mesa police arrested Jason Biggs, 20, on suspicion of shooting 19-year-old Marco Torres Jr. during an argument at Central Christian Church, 933 N Lindsay Rd., said Mesa Police Sgt. Ruben Quesada. Torres had gone to the church with his brother to confront Biggs, Quesada said.

Prisoner of camps felt betrayed
Lee Kauftheil
Mesa Legend

Mas Inoshita, an 84-year-old, first-generation Japanese-American, who is a WWII veteran and spent time in a Japanese interment camp, was invited to talk to MCC students and faculty by Wendera Phung and the Asian Pacific Islander’s Club for Asian Awareness Week.
Inoshita has been sharing his story with students from fifth grade and above for over 20 years.
When speaking about the experiences of his family and other Japanese-American citizens at the time, he compared it to the wrongs he sees that the American government has done to African-Americans and Native Americans. Inoshita said he sees the treatment of these three groups of people as the great injustices and unfulfilled promises made by America.

Maricopa marches in effort to curb domestic violence
Francesca van der Feltz
Mesa Legend

Dan Smith Mesa Legend

Particpants in the Walk to End Domestic Violence.

Thousands of men, women and children – including 29 participants from Maricopa Community Colleges – traveled a three-mile circuit around Wesley Bolin Plaza in downtown Phoenix April 24, in the second annual Walk to End Domestic Violence.
The representatives from Maricopa joined the rest of the 3,800 participants in the walk.
“We had a good time,” said Delia “Dee Dee” Tapson, captain of Maricopa Community Colleges’ team and a district representative for the Women’s Leadership Group, which organized the community colleges’ participation.
Employers Against Domestic Violence created the event to promote awareness and raise funds through entry fees and pledges that go to various organizations working to end domestic violence and to help victims.