Eye in sky captures car theft
Ramon Nunez
Mesa Legend

College Safety officer, John Poe, monitors all of the activity taking place in MCC’s parking lots utilizing video taken from security cameras placed on campus. A car theft suspect was seen on camera peering into vehicles in the campus parking lot adjacent to the MCC football stadium.

Photo by David Jimenez Mesa Legend

On Sept. 20, a silver van was stolen from the Mesa Community College campus parking lot by an unknown suspect.
The owner of the van, a woman, was running late to a class and had left her keys and bag in the vehicle prior to it being stolen.
The suspect was seen wandering through the lot and peering into vehicles by MCC security cameras.
Although not yet fully identified, the suspect is described as a heavyset Caucasian or Hispanic male.
The information has been turned over to the Mesa Police Department.
This is the first of two vehicles stolen this semester from the Mesa campus thus far; the second being a Jeep Cherokee, which was stolen, Sept. 27, just before 10:00 p.m., by the MCC football stadium.
Three males in a silver, two-door car were caught breaking a window and driving off in the Jeep on camera.

Young women connect with technology

Dominique Ramirez
Mesa Legend

On Sept. 24, women corporate executives from various areas of the Information Technology fields convened at MCC’s downtown Business and Industry Institute, to give young women in Phoenix and surrounding areas a look at future opportunities in the IT field.
Cisco Operating Systems, Boeing, and Honeywell, along with the cities of Mesa and Phoenix, were among the many companies presenting to seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade girls. These girls were targeted as the main focus group in hopes of being led into the IT job market.
The girls were led at a vigorous pace through lecture and demonstration rooms to get a hands-on experience with tech information, secrets, internet danger, real world solutions and more. The objective was to give these girls a mental picture of the field and to assuage any apprehension that they might have to engineering and information systems.

Popularity up in holistic care
Jennifer Wagner
Mesa Legend

Casey Ferguson Mesa Legend

The increasing popularity of holistic medicine has caused many schools like the Arizona School of Massage Therapy to focus more on hoilistic care.

The medicine field isn’t depending on modern technology to cure illness anymore. With the resurgence of holistic medicine, the popularity of holistic practices and schools is increasing.
Dr. Bruce Franklin of Lubitz of Community Health Care Clinic, defines holistic as “an approach to treatment and health that deals with the bodies entity rather than treating isolated symptoms.”

Political events influence student views
Leilani Sesate
Mesa Legend

Photo by Desiree McDonald Mesa Legend

Michael Man (left), secretary of MCC Democrats Club, and member, Dennis MacIntyre (right), look on as a student registers to vote.

For those interested in politics and where the United States is headed in the future, two exciting events took place on Thursday September 30. The first was the Center for Global Tolerance and Engagement Conference. The other was NBC’s news coverage of voter registration and students’ perspectives regarding the presidential debates.
The forum on America’s involvement in the United Nations was presented by the Center for Global Tolerance and Engagement, a non-profit organization formed by the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at MCC.

Casey Ferguson Mesa Legend

Students took time out of their schedules to pay homage to those women and children who lost their lives in domestic violence disputes. The sillouettes represented all the lives that were lost.

Gridders stampede road foes

MCC spirit is willing but students weak

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
-Elbert Hubbard