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The debate over armed guards in schools has been inescapable since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Since 1996, there have been 54 shootings in America that have been considered mass school shootings, which is an average of three per year. MCCC's Security Chief Bill Myers thinks it is important to have armed security.
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When she was 15, Theresa Flores' life was changed forever when she became one of the 300,000 child and teen victims of human trafficking in the United States.
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Everybody has seen them. Election Day comes around, and yard after yard springs political signs like dandelions.
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A former MCCC student is running for the Michigan House of Representatives.
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Former MCCC history professor Jim DeVries is running for the college’s Board of Trustees, facing two longtime board members, Michael Meyers and Marjorie Kreps, in the Nov. 6 election.
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The Whitman Center is starting fall semester without a director. Sandy Kosmyna, director of the Whitman Center for seven years, resigned over the summer to take a position with the University of Toledo.
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Lindquist is a life-time resident of Monroe County. She’s married, has two children and a grandchild. She loves to read, exercise – particularly running, and is an avid deer hunter with a gun or bow. She loves all of these things, but what she is most passionate about is nursing.
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How is MCCC doing integrating technology into the classroom? Interviews with humanities professors suggest that they are, overall, accepting of technology in the classroom. But is this a positive trend?
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College students face their own version of stress, so why shouldn’t it have a name of its own? How about: “Student Study Stress Syndrome.”
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There is so much new technology in the world that older types of entertainment seem to have fallen in the cracks. Professor Cheryl Johnston is hoping to help reignite students interest in reading. On Monday April 23, Professor Johnston handed out books around campus to celebrate World Book Night. She is handing out the book Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton.
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MCCC student Justin Alcorn spent his weekend as a human paintball target for the local charity T.H.A.N.K.S. Inc. at its annual Winterfest fundraiser. Splatz Paintball combines the fun of an arcade with real guns and moving targets (i.e, poor college kids in need of employment), Splatz calls itself Monroe's only human arcade.
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University of Michigan has the "Diag" and we have the, well, what do we have?
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DJ Zarza could go on to become the next Skrillex, but for now he is just a student who enjoys spinning for his fellow classmates.
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Two members f the MCCC staff —Penny Bodell and Vicky Lavelle — won recent "Enriching Lives Performance Awards." Bodell, who is the administrative assistant to the V.P. of Student and Information Services, won the September- October award. Lavelle, who is a technician in the Culinary Arts Program, won the November- December award.
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Felice Moorman is a new addition to MCCC's faculty, teaching Early Childhood Development. It will blend her love of children with her love for working with future teachers.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement, since its inception in September, has come to a crossroads. Andre Damon of the Word Socialist Web Site, in a public forum titled, "Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: Equality And The Fight For Socialism," spoke to a small crowd at MCCC about what socialism means and how it applies to the Occupy movement's goals.
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Mark Bergmooser started teaching Tae Kwon Do at MCCC in 1998 and has been teaching it year round ever since. "I love it now more than I ever have," Bergmooser said.
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MCCC's Chernobyl survivor is a healthy (thankfully) 38-year old Dean's List student, and my husband, Michael Mayzlin. I would imagine that he is the only Chernobyl survivor in all of southeast Michigan.
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Tragedy offers perspective on "clean energy"
The push for "clean energy" in the United States has never been greater than in the last few years. Our dependence on foreign countries for energy supplies and volatile price fluctuations have caused American citizens to consider other alternatives.
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On a fateful day last August, Mary Lyons' love of helping others played a role in earning her the Life Saving award given by the Monroe Community Ambulance. For the past two years, Lyons has served as the MCCC Administrative Assistant for Events/Reservations.
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In a season filled with frustration for the Robotics Club, every member shared Tim Rodenbeck's thoughts: "In the end, it was worth it."
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Student reactions were mixed as discussions started to whirl around the campus about how MCCC increased the tuition for the 2011-2012 year.
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Sudan-native Abubakar was forced to lie in a pit of bodies – some dead, some alive. The extensive physical torture he had undergone left the innocent civilian as close to death as the bodies he lay beside. The idea of death no longer feared him but comforted him.
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Not much else can put the edge on a resume like a study abroad program – but there are so many options. One option, run through the MCCC International Studies program, is the study abroad trip every two years, which includes three weeks overseas and three weeks in class on campus for six college credits.
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Radiation spreading, 6 to 9 moths before problem to be resolved
An earthquake, tsunami, nuclear crisis, and more than 400 aftershock quakes over 5.0 magnitude – now Japan, and the world, face yet another danger: radiation.
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MCCC students frustrated by full parking lots
With MCCC's growth in the last decade, finding a parking spot has become a challenge.
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College staff witnesses strange activity on campus
If you have ever been in the halls of the L building and felt like someone was watching you, don't be so quick to shrug that feeling off.
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Although most African American movements were born in the South, there is one city here in Michigan that remains crucially important to black history.
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Next fall, MCCC plans to add classes that focus on the growing industry of alternative energies. New professor Clifton Brown has been recruited to lead the way.
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The hopeful cry of democracy pierced across the Egyptian sand on Feb. 11, sending a dust storm that has shaken the corrupt and rallied the suppressed.
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MCCC student balances school, motherhood
Jodie Campbell didn't want to be another statistic.
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The spirit and history of the Library of Congress rolled into town for a visit aboard a traveling exhibition dubbed, "The Gateway to Knowledge" earlier this month.
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Atem, one of the 27,000 "lost boys of Sudan," was invited by the Newman Club to speak at MCCC about his survival of the Darfur genocide and the Sudanese Second Civil War.
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Penelope Dunn is prepared for her first school year as MCCC’s new criminal justice professor.
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Twelve of the fifteen public universities in Michigan cost more than the national average for similarly ranked schools, according to a recent analysis by Bridge Magazine. The three schools that aren't currently above the average are U of M's Flint and Dearborn branches, and Wayne State.
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Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, received a huge surge in attention in March 2012, when a 20-minute video went viral on YouTube entitled KONY2012. The film, produced by film maker Jason Russell, from the campaign group Invisible Children, Inc., was created to draw attention to Kony in an effort to increase US involvement of the issue.
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