The Associated Students of Mesa Community College rocked the student courtyard with their annual Fall Bash. On Nov. 1 the spirit of Homecoming was in the air. Band Saul Kaye drew students to the festivities and food. Students were invited to visit the booths of many active student clubs, make posters to be hung at the football game...
MCC President Larry Christiansen offered no apologies for failing to report alleged crimes he knew about in 2003. Christiansen became aware of the alleged embezzlement in the athletic department in 2003 after an audit...
Probable cause found in embezzlement probe
In 2003, campus safety Officer Lynn Bray began an investigation into the disappearance of nearly $5,000 in MCC athletic department travel funds. What Bray found led to an intensive audit of MCC funds that discovered about $7,800 in team travel cash and $1,900 in football game concessions missing. There was another $14,000 in cash...
In recent weeks, the East Valley Tribune has brought to light instances of employees mishandling college funds at MCC, specifically within the athletic department. In 2003, Elena Manuel, secretary of the athletic department, was trusted to count and balance cash dispersed to former coach David Rice. After a trip, the total...
Festivities, blessing mark Red Mtn.’s fifth anniversaryMCC’s Red Mountain celebrated its fifth anniversary on Oct. 19. Five years ago, the open desert in East Mesa was turned into the now Red Mountain campus. With top-of-the-line technology and its various academic programs, the Red Mountain campus continues to build itself as a point of technological and academic interest...
Locks of Love: Donating more than just hair
Mesa Community College student Christina Haase arranged for haircutters from Toni and Guy hair salon to come to the Southern and Dobson campus to cut hair for the Locks of Love organization last Wednesday. The hair-a-thon took place at MCC’s Kirk Center in the Navajo Room. “It was actually a pretty big turn out,” Celeste Wyrick...
Animals find refuge in local humane shelter
Volunteering is very enriching for everyone involved. One particular organization that deserves some extra attention and needs volunteers is Friends for Life. Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary is non-profit, volunteer-run, no-kill organization that focuses on controlling animal population through programs focusing on spaying and neutering...
Community gathers to fill Empty Bowls
Empty Bowls celebrated its second year at MCC to honor World Hunger Day. The Empty Bowl is a nation wide event that originated in Michigan in the 1980s by two art instructors. Empty Bowls was designed to provide aid to and increase awareness of, the needy and the homeless. All the money earned at the event was donated ...
“Le Movement” makes debut at Theatre Outback
Paul A. Elsner’s play Le Movement was performed exquisitely by MCC alumni and staff. Elsner’s 1984 script has survived and evolved with time to be pertinent to today’s environment. The play begins in the year 2000 in San Antonio, where Elsner’s main character Everyman, is giving a terrific speech to the American Association of Community...
MCC, EVIT team up to start culinary arts program
It’s 17 years in the making and the first of its kind for MCC. After a long developmental struggle, the OK has been given for the creation of a comprehensive Culinary Arts program – a program that promises to offer students an inexpensive and rapid route to one of the most talked-about careers in the job market...