October 12, 2004

News

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.

Students reap benefits of working on campus
Zahid Arab
Mesa Legend

Mesa Community College students are utilizing employment opportunities on campus to provide an avenue for academic success, in contrast to their counterparts who seek jobs off campus.
By working on campus, MCC students are extended many amenities that can make earning an income and maintaining good grades synonymous. Through work-study programs, students who are in need of financial assistance can voluntarily choose if they would like to seek a campus position.
Studio Recording major Justin Miller, who is one of those who wanted to work on campus, is currently employed in the Center for Service-Learning. Miller states that his position has become very resourceful. “Part of my work study is to be able to do assignments when I don’t have anything else to do.” Instead of dealing with homework late at night, his campus position provides him with the avenue to do his coursework, as well as encourage him to be successful with a requirement to maintain a certain GPA level.

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.”
“When a patient has a problem, you need to address the patient’s body and lifestyle. Then, look at the symptom,” according to Dr. Lubitz.
After the patient’s body and lifestyle has been assessed, there is a good chance the source of the ache, pain or illness has already been found, according to holistic believers.
Lubitz believes that tradition has virtually narrowed focus to overlook the entity of the being.

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. This organization has held many lectures and discussions about terrorism, religion and the media. Faculty members volunteer their time to recruit speakers and also participate in events.
Dr. David Yount participated in the Forum on Thursday along with Lynn Alred, a member of United Families International, a chartered organization with credentials to participate in discussions with the UN.

Food price hikes go unnoticed
Leilani Sesate
Mesa Legend

Rebecca Straughmatt Mesa Legend

Students can find find a variety of new food at the Thunderbird Cafe. While prices of different items did jump about a nickel or a dime, most students didn’t seem to notice.

The Thunderbird Café has recently raised the prices on some food items, but students should not feel the impact since prices have gone up only a nickel or dime, with the exception of salad and pizza prices, which rose fifty cents or more.
Students may be pleasantly surprised to find a new variety of items to choose from. Also, the new chefs are quite sharp in terms of their culinary skills. Marcus Campbell, for instance, has been an employee at Thunderbird Café for 2 months and an MCC student for three years. The old standbys like fries and onion rings are available and for the early birds, the breakfast menu offers eggs, pancakes, and burritos.
Items like fountain drinks range from a dollar and fifteen cents to a dollar sixty-five; these beverage prices are not at all exorbitant and still give cheap hot spots like Taco Bell, a little competition.

Foreign language studies help career opportunities
Miranda Thompson
Contributing Writer

Extensive proficiency in a foreign language is an important requirement for the completion of several degree programs at Mesa Community College.
The university a student is looking to transfer to determines the requirements for foreign language; some degree programs require none at all.
Students who choose to major in the Liberal Arts or Social and Behavioral Sciences will find themselves taking as many as four semesters of a foreign language or up to the 202 level in order to meet Arizona State University requirements.
Students, who are majoring in Business or engineering, are not always required to take a foreign language.
“You (would) think that someone who is working on a business major would need a foreign language since we are in a rapidly growing, if not already international commerce,” said Jess Pruitt, a student at Mesa Community College.
“With the arts, you are learning a foreign language to understand the beauty in the structure of the language rather than the actual practicality that the business degree would entail.