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SCCC hosted the annual ath-letics banquet in the Green Houseon April 20. This year the Ath-letics Hall of Fame was unveiled.

The banquet began with an un-veiling of the wall. There werefive inductees in the first class ofthe Hall of Fame: the 2002 LadySaints Basketball team, LadySaints basketball Head CoachJim Littell, Saints baseball play-er Cory Patton, Lady Saints bas-ketball player Kim Ortega, andSaints baseball Head CoachGalen McSpadden.

After the unveiling, the awardsceremony began. Current SCCCathletes, booster club members,fans, board members and hall offame inductees attended the cere-mony.

Athletes received awards fortheir work in both academics andathletics.

The Saints cheer and danceteams, as well as the athletictrainers and the Saints volleyballteam, received recognition fortheir work this past year.

Lady Saints basketball player

Kayla Thomas was awarded theTalbert Award teammates.

Saints baseball player SamPack was awarded the JohnstoneAward by his teammates.

Saints basketball player De-verell Biggs received recognitionfor his NJCAA All-Americaaward.

Coaches announced wheresome players would be headingto continue their college career.

Lady Saints volleyball playerCourtney Geesing will be play-ing for Southern Arkansas Uni-versity next year.

Lady Saints basketball playerKelsey Wilson will be heading tothe University of Texas-Arling-ton.

Biggs will be playing for theUniversity of Nebraska next sea-son.

During the ceremony, basket-ball Head Coach Bryan Zollingerreceived a “Hard Hat” award fromjournalist Earl Watt for hisachievements with the Saintsbasketball program.

Zollinger was named KBCACoach of the Year earlier thismonth.

The nominees for the W.A.

Shuffleburg academic award wereannounced.

Lady Saints nominated for theShuffleburg Award are: basketballplayer Kayla Thompson, volley-ball player Courtney Geesing andvolleyball player Daiane Souza.

Saints nominated for the Shuf-fleburg Award are baseball playerSam Pack, tennis player FelipeCruz and tennis player LucasIzkovitz. The Shuffleburg awardwill be awarded after the end ofthe semester.

After the awards, the Hall ofFame inductees: Cory Patton,the ’02 Lady Saints, Jim Littell,Kim Ortega, and Galen McSpad-den gave speeches. The inducteesalso received awards for their ac-complishments.

“We’re really proud of all ofour athletes,” McSpadden said tothe audience during his speech.

McSpadden has been at Sewardfor over three decades. Under Mc-Spadden, the Saints have won 14Jayhawk West conference titlesand have won more than 1,000games.

Kim Ortega is part of the 2002Lady Saints Basketball teamhave won the NJCAA champi-

onship. Ortega is also the most decorat-

ed Lady Saint in SCCC athletics. “I’ve never be so honored to be

a part of something so special,”Ortega said.

The Seward Athletics Hall ofFame display wall is located nextto the Athletic offices, in front ofthe concessions stand.

Plaques are mounted on theHall of Fame for each of the in-ductees.

Legends return to unveil hall of fame

Crusader photo/ Jose Medrano

Sam Pack, sophomore, receivesthe Johnstone Award from headbaseball coach Galen McSpad-den.

Heidy MolinaEditor

After the tornado devastated thetown of Joplin, Mo., in May2011, Jim Kirkland wanted to dosomething to help the people andworkers in the aftermath of thestorm. Kirkland, a current studentin the corrosion technology pro-gram at the Area TechnicalSchool, looks back on the deci-sions from that time that havechanged his life.

He went to his pastor, search-ing for a way to help. “I wish Ihad a way to give back and help

these people,” Kirkland told hispreacher, Larry Watson of theFirst Christian Church of Tex-homa.Watson responded bytelling Kirkland that the Biblesays to use our strengths and ask-ing Kirkland what he was good atdoing.

“Well, I can cook barbecue,”said Kirkland, who, along withhis wife Adrienne owns Duke’sBBQ and Catering. With that ideain mind, Kirkland, along withWatson, began the Power ofThree.

The purpose of the Power ofThree is to serve 1,000 meals a

day three times a day for threedays and three weekends to thepeople who are affected by a dis-aster and the workers who helpclean up the damage.

The Power of Three uses theBible verse “Though one may beoverpowered, two can defendthemselves. A cord of threestrands is not quickly broken.(Ecclesiastes 4:12 NIV)”. Thestrands in this organization in-clude Kirkland, Watson, and othervolunteers.

“The Power of Three camefrom utilizing our strengths,”Kirkland said. According to Kirk-

land, the Power of Three is madepossible not only by the peoplewho volunteer, but also by thecontributers. Kirkland stressesthat the Power of Three goes into help distribute food but neverexpects contributions from vic-tims or workers. If others are in-terested in contributing, they cango to http://www.powerx3.org.

Kirkland and Power of Threerecently mobilized again after thetornado that occurred in Wood-ward, Okla. When the tornado hitWoodward April 14, Kirklandsaid that he knew that they weregoing to help out. “It’s close

enough to home; we’re twohours away,” he said. “ We’regoing to go help.”

“We felt like there was a needin Woodward. That’s why we ac-tivated,” Kirkland said. On thefirst day they were there, thegroup served more than 600 sand-wiches.

According to Kirkland, the dif-ference between the tornadoeswas “just the shear size.”

When the Power of Three ar-rived in Woodward they wereamazed to see how the peoplejust stepped up to clean up thedamage.

Kirkland would like to see thePower of Three be a lifelong mis-sion that could be activated whereever they are needed as a collabo-rative group.

“We don’t really help with therebuilding,” Kirkland said. “Welike to help the first responders.”

Kirkland wants the people whohelp during the time of disaster toknow that Power of Three is onboard to help them even as theyhelp others in disaster situations.

Kirkland is originally fromKeyes, Okla., but currently livesin Texhoma with his wife andchild.

Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Inductees unveil the Saints Athletic Hall of Fame before the athletic banquet on April 20. There were a total of five inductees to the hall of fame.For more photos see page 7.

Tornadoes prompt action from Power of 3 servers

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Volunteer Bryan Matzek distributes food and water to the workers helping clean up after the tornado struck Woodward Okla. earlier this month.

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Jim Kirkland prepares the food that will be handed out to the people inWoodward in side the concession truck.

Dale Reed has been connectedto Seward County CommunityCollege for much of his adultlife, from a college freshmanwho played basketball to a retir-ing dean of outreach.

This month, Reed, who hasworked for the college since1983, announced his early retire-ment, and the Board of Trusteesexpressed their thanks to him forhis nearly three decades of work.

“Dale has a great history andpassion for SCCC/ATS and willbe missed,” said Dr. DuaneDunn, college president. “He’swell known with our area highschools and his work with busi-ness and industry has developeda lot of contacts for us for cus-tomized training and industryprograms.”

Reed arrived at Seward fromhis hometown of Little River in1969 to play on the first-everbasketball team of a new collegeknown as Seward County Com-munity Junior College.

Since then, he has seen a seriesof firsts, including being a mem-ber of the first graduating classin 1971. He was the first one tosuggest the college mascotshould be the Saints.

He has, in fact, been an activeparticipant in building the histo-ry of the college.

“His college experience hasstarted and progressed with ourcollege,” Dunn said. “Whensomeone with that history andexperience leaves it creates a voidthat can’t be replaced.”

After graduating, he pursued acareer in coaching at the highschool level, and remained inbasketball until 1983.

In 1983, he became headmen’s basketball coach for hisalma mater SCCC, a position heheld for 13 years.

He became the business andindustry director in 1996. Laterhe served as business and indus-try coordinator and associate deanof educational services. He iscurrently the dean of outreach.

“Dale’s retirement is a loss forthe college but I’m happy forhim that he’s able to spend timewith his family,” Dunn said.

Reed to retire after29-year career at SC

Arrives in Liberalto attend SCCJCand play basketball

Graduates with thefirst graduatingclass at SCCJC.

Serves as Liberalcity commissionerand mayor

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Staff editorials are decided on and written by membersof the editorial board: Heidy Molina, Celestina Padilla,Megan Spain, Raul Lemus, and Levi Adams.

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Crusader reporters/photographers

Apri l 2 A report was takenfor damage to a vehicle in theeast parking lot of campus. Onestudent ran into another student’scar with his knee causing a dentto the vehicle. Students ex-changed insurance information.No injuries.

Apri l 2 A report was takenfor damage to property in theSLC Dorms. A student shot outa window in the dorms with aBB gun causing about $200worth of damage. Student wasfined, ordered to do communityservice, and pay restitution forthe broken window.

Apri l 4 A report was takenin reference to a battery call atthe Area Technical School be-tween two female students.Both females admitted to hittingeach other over a verbal alterca-tion. Both students refused totestify. No injuries. Both indi-viduals released to a supervisingadult.

April 10 A report was takenat the Area Technical School dueto a small fire in the Diesel Techprogram. An instructor poured asmall amount of gas into a car-buretor and when the key wasturned to start the vehicle, thecarburetor backfired and ignited

the gas. The fire was quickly ex-tinguished by a student with afire extinguisher. No injuries.No damages.

Apri l 12 An accident reportwas taken. The accident in-volved a student opening thedoor of their car and hitting thecar next to it causing a dent tothe door. Damage estimated atless than $1000. No injuries.Students exchanged insurance in-formation.

April 13 A report was takenin reference to an injury to a stu-dent in the Auto I program. Stu-dent and instructor both state thestudent was applying floor dry toa spill under a lift and when hestood up he hit his head on thevehicle lift causing a bleedinglaceration to his head. Studentwas taken to hospital by his sis-ter where he received three sta-ples. Student is ok and back inclass.

Apri l 15 A report was takenfor Minor in possession of alco-hol. Four students were caughtin a dorm room at the SLC roomdrinking alcohol. Alcohol con-fiscated. Fines issued.

There were no more reportedincidents.

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Selene Perez, freshman, prepares to donate blood at the recent blooddrive. The overall goal was to reach 40 pints of blood. A the end of thedrive 47 pints were collected.

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Carla DeVellen, Natasha Ming, and Jasmin Mitchell received scholar-ships from the Soroptomist Group. Devellen and Ming received a$500 scholarship from the group and Mitchell received the CynthiaSallaska $1000 scholarship.

• GRADUATION will be at 10

a.m. on Saturday May 12 in the

Gym. Students are asked to be

there by 9:15 a.m. • GRADUATION PRACTICE

will be on Friday May 11 in the

gym. Students need to be there

at 3 p.m.

• PHI THETA KAPPA will be

selling roses at graduation. The

cost of the roses are $25 for a

dozen and $20 for half a dozen.

For more information contact

Debbie Stafford at 620-417-

1455.

• STUDENTS that need their

medallion for their tassels may

pick them up at the bookstore.

• SOUTHWEST SYMPHONY

SOCIETY presets Mozart and

Munchies in the SCCC/ATS

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a free will donation. For more

information call 620-629-0203.

• SPRING CONCERT is May 3

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Crusader wins silver overall, 31 individual KACP awa rds Jose Medrano

Crusader staff

The Crusader staff received aSilver Medalist Award for overallnewspaper and won 31 individualawards at the Kansas AssociatedCollegiate Press conventionApril 15-16 in Salina.

The individual awards includedsix first-place awards, eight sec-ond place awards, seven in thirdplace and 10 honorable men-tions.

“The one thing that stood outto me was that the Crusaderplaced in 19 out of the 22 cate-gories,” Anita Reed, adviser ofthe Crusader, said.

Twenty colleges from acrossKansas and 191 students and ad-visers registered for the conven-tion that had a total of 1,773 en-tries submitted to this year’s con-tests. Of those entries, 516 werein the two-year college newspa-per category.

Reed and seven members of theCrusader staff attended the con-vention. Editor-in-chief HeidyMolina, sports editor LeviAdams, news editor CelestinaPadilla and staff writers MatthewAdkins, Sandy Alfaro, TonyaLoewen and Jose Medrano repre-sented the Crusader at the con-vention.

The convention started Sundayafternoon with workshops, anAP style contest, publication cri-tiques and an awards ceremony.

On Monday, staff members at-tended workshops in the morn-ing. The workshops ranged fromjournalism job tips and writingtips, to suggestions for Consti-tution Day First Amendmentfood gatherings.

The convention ended Mondaywith the final awards ceremony,

where the Crusader received a sil-ver medalist award.

“It was impressive to take somany awards, but with suchstrong talent on the staff it wasexpected,” Reed said.

Crusader sports editor LeviAdam placed first in the AP Stylecontest. “I was surprised to winfirst because there were a lot ofpeople in the contest, and I havenever been in a AP style contestbefore,” Adams said. Adams alsoreceived a second place in serieswriting, and a third place insports column writing.

Crusader staff writer Sandy Al-faro received the followingawards: first place in feature writ-ing, second place in infographicdesign and an honorable mentionin sports writing.

Crusader staff writer MatthewAdkins received an honorablemention in the AP style contest.

The Crusader’s online editor

Raul Lemus received five awards.A first place was awarded toLemus in feature photography.Lemus received two secondplaces one in headline writingand another in front page design.Two honorable mentions werealso awarded to Lemus in featurewriting and editorial writing.

Crusader staff writer TonyaLoewen received two third places,one for copy-editing and anotherfor interior page layout. Loewenalso received an honorable men-tion for sports writing.

Editor-in-chief Heidy Molinareceived a first place in news pho-tography and a second place in ed-itorial writing. “The staff thisyear was very talented and pas-sionate about the stories theywrote, and the awards helpedprove it,” Molina said.

Crusader staff writer JoseMedrano received two awards, anhonorable mention in sports

writing and an honorable men-tion in sports photography.

Crusader staff writer MorganWills received three awards, firstplace in sports feature writing,second place in sports featurewriting and third place in featurephotography.

Because the contest entriesspan from February of 2011through February of 2012, previ-ous members of the Crusaderalso won awards.

Alfredo Anaya, one of lastyear’s co-editors, was awarded athird place for infographic design;Chandler Brockett received a sec-ond place for sports column writ-ing and Connie Whiteley was aawarded a first place for serieswriting.

Jose Rodriguez placed secondin single ad design, and MiguelCampano received an honorablemention in sports photography.

Octavio Rodriguez receivedthree awards: third place for car-toon illustration, third place inreview writing and an honorablemention in illustration.

An honorable mention wasgiven to Alfredo Anaya, ConnieWhiteley, Heidy Molina andLizuly Monarrez in the photoessay category.

“The only thing that was trulydisappointing to me was that theCrusader did not place in the spe-cial section category,” Reed said.The Crusader produced specialsections this year ranging fromsports to a 3D homecomingissue.

In addition to the KACPawards, the Crusader was notifiedby the American Scholastic PressAssociation that the staff hadbeen presented a first place awardby the national organization ear-lier this month.

Crusader photo

Levi Adams won first in the on-site copy editing-contest at the KansasAssociated Collegiate Press convention in Salina last week. TonyaLoewen won third, and Matthew Adkins received an honorable men-tion. Seward students claimed three of the five awards in the contest.

Crusader photo

Crusader staff members showcase their 31 individual awards by spelling out SCCC following the final awards ceremony at the Kansas Associat-ed Collegiate Press convention in Salina. In addition to a strong showing in the individual awards, in which the staff placed in 19 of 22 total cate-gories, the staff also won a Silver Medalist Award in the overall competition. Shown above are Crusader staff members Matthew Adkins, LeviAdams, Jose Medrano, Heidy Molina, Celestina Padilla, Tonya Loewen and Sandy Alfaro.

Kappa Beta Delta club attendsinstruction business meeting

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Crusader staff

A new place to get help withmath classes is available. As apart of the STEM grant, ScienceTechnology Engineering andMath, SCCC is required to pro-vide a math lab.

Math lab, similar to a readinglab, is meant to be a place wherestudents attending any level ofmath classes can get help withtheir course work.

Currently, the math lab is inroom A159 and is open all day,but by the 2012 fall semester itis expected to be part of the li-brary.

Derric Moore is the currentmath lab instructor and facilita-tor. His job involves helpingstudents with their math skills

outside of class as well as raisingthe awareness of STEM fields.

“Part of what’s included in theSTEM grant is that we’re goingto start recruiting more STEMmajors,” Moore said.

In addition to a math lab, thegrant calls for a transfer coordina-tor specifically for STEM ma-jors.

The current STEM transfer co-ordinator is Jolie Griffin. Grif-fin’s job is to help STEM ma-jors transfer to schools that haveSTEM programs.

“Most students will attendother colleges because those haveSTEM program,” Moore says.“So the purpose of this is tobridge that gap and students cango ahead and be ready to transferinto the programs at other col-leges.”

Levi Adams

Crusader staff

Kappa Beta Delta, the honorsociety for business students atSeward County CommunityCollege, met at the LiberalCountry Club on Thursday,April 12, 2012, for a businessdinner etiquette meeting.

The hosts were Nick and LisaHatcher, local business people.

During the dinner, the hosts

went over business dinner setting

etiquette and interview setting

etiquette.

Some things to remember in

these types of settings are:

• Start from the outside.

• Build bridges with utensils.

• Cut each bite of food.

• Unfold napkin in lap.

• Do not sit until hosts sit.

• Butter each slice of bread sep-

arately.

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Kappa Beta Delta members and sponsors pose for a picture with hostsNick and Lisa Hatcher at a business dinner session. Back, Levi Adams,Melissa Sander, Corey Wilkins, Nick Hatcher and Lisa Hatcher. Middlerow, Gina Palmgren , Iago Goncalves, Alyssa Amerin, Sherry Farrell, Sa-vannah Salley, Mitchell Foster, Rochelle St. Amand, president EvaLoewen and Tanya Dowell. Front, Kayley Pelfrey, Sandra Munoz Poletti,Ana Ramirez, Shanon Robinson, Lindsay Bulk

Math lab offers studentshelp with course work

Crusader photo/Levi Adams

The student club, Kappa Beta Delta, attends an instructional businessdinner hosted by Nick and Lisa Hatcher. The main purpose was toteach the club members proper etiquette in a business dinner.

Crusader photo/Matthew Adkins

Derric Moore, math lab instructor, reviews upper level math in orderto be prepared to help students attending calculus. Math lab is cur-rently focused towards trigonometry and classes of lower difficulty.

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One day, while he was sittingon the couch watching televi-sion, Jeremy Olson decided hewanted to do something betterwith his life, so he decided tojoin the United States Military.

Eight years and two tours later,Olson is currently taking classesat Seward County CommunityCollege/Area Technical school.Because of Olson’s service to thecountry, he now has his futureschooling paid for, courtesy ofUncle Sam, and his current plansare to get an associate’s degreefrom Seward County, then gofrom there.

When asked about his service,in the military, Olson simply re-sponded, “It was a great opportu-nity.”

A great opportunity becauseOlson helped the Iraqi citizens,and he could see what all helpwas done, just by noticing thechanges that occurred during histime in the Middle East.

Olson completed two toursduring his eight years of service.Olson’s first tour was in Balad,Iraq, which is a city about 50miles north of Baghdad, the na-tion’s capital. Balad currentlycontains several Army, Air Forceand Navy Bases. Olson alsoserved in Kuwait, for his secondtour. Kuwait is a very smallcountry, bordering the southeastcorner of Iraq; it also sandwiched

by the Gulf of Oman to the Eastand Saudi Arabia to the South.

Olson served a total of eightyears. He began his military ca-reer in September 2005 and endedit earlier this year, January 2012.

During his tours, Olson servedon a convoy escort team. Thisteam, of course, would assist anddefend convoys, usually consist-ing of trucks, on cross countrytreks. On Olson’s first tour, heran all escort positions.

On his second tour, however,Olson was strictly a scout,which meant he would stay wayahead of the convoy, makingsure everything looked ok upahead. Olson says he enjoyedbeing a scout because he could“...be by himself, away fromeveryone else in the team.”

Olson’s only advice to poten-tial military prospects: “Don’ttake things to seriously becausethe drill sergeants are just goingthrough procedure.”

Iraq veteran comes toSCCC after military

For more pictures of the Spring Fiesta, look on theCrusader Facebook page.

Crusader photo/ Heidy Molina

Daniel Carasco, sophomore, demostrates to the children how to throw the ball accu-rately for the ball toss game during Spring Fiesta. Spring Fiesta was on Sunday.

Crusader photo/ Heidy Molina

SCCC Saints Hanna Bognar, Ashlynn Knoll, Corieon Pearson, Brice Jenkins, and Edson Avila dance along with Zumba instructor, Lydia Augustine.

Crusader photo/ Heidy Molina

Saints baskeball player Edson Avila takes part in acompetitive two-legged race with several children.

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Megan S painEntertainment editor

A massive installment of tileson the back of the ampitheater isa project planned to be workedon for the next 10 to 15 years atSeward County CommunityCollege/Area Technical School.

Each tile will feature a uniquedesign hand painted by a graduating SCCC/ATS student.

“It’s a way for them to leavetheir mark,” SCCC/ATS 3D instructor Dustin Farmer explained.

The idea started as a collaboration between Farmer,college president Dr. DuaneDunn, director of development

Tammy Doll, and art instructorSusan Copas.

Even though the project isonly now beginning to accepttiles from graduates, it’s an ideathat has been thrown aroundsince before Farmer began teach-ing at SCCC/ATS.

“The original idea was handdecorated tiles, with sections forspecific graduating years,”Farmer said.

Farmer then explained thatthey will not begin installation of the tiles untilthey have a few years worth oftiles collected.

Graduating students who areinterested in contributing theirtiles to the wall may do so by

contacting Farmer. The best times for decorating tilesare Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.or Tuesday and Thursday nightsfrom 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Students may also work withFarmer to set up a time between11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Someone will be in the artroom to help graduating stu-dents with the creation of their tiles.

Students are encouraged to fin-ish their tiles before final weekof school ends and before theyleave SCCC/ATS.

Courtesy Illustration/Dustin Farmer

A concept drawing of the ampitheater wall envisions the completed project. Above, individual tilescreated by students. Graduating students can create and submit their tiles until the last week of school.

S andy AlfaroCrusader staff

From dancing in Germanyto traveling all across Europe,sophomore Maria Muehlfeldnow gets ready to sing at Se-ward County CommunityCollege/Area TechnicalSchool.

Muehlfeld has been in-volved in multiple activitiesin the time she has attendedSCCC. She is a singer for theSCCC choir and has beenpracticing three to four timesa week for a concert April 29with the Southwest Sympho-ny as well as for the SpringConcert May 3.

Muehlfeld says she is very

excited for these concerts. “We’ve worked on Mozart

pieces which are really hard tolearn because it is all inLatin,” Muehlfeld said. She ishoping her hard work showsin the concerts.

Aside from being in choir,Muehlfeld is also vice presi-dent of leadership of PhiTheta Kappa. PTK takes upmost of her time, along withtutoring multiple subjects,such as math, English, andreading and writing skills.

Being an international stu-dent also brought Muehlfeldto be a part of the Internation-al Student Organization.

Muehlfeld was born inBerlin, Germany, and has

been traveling with her par-ents, Henri and Angelika, andyounger sister LuisaMuehlfeld, across Europe eversince she was a child.

Muehlfeld came as a foreignexchange student to Tyrone,Okla., in 2006. Donovan andJennifer Smith and their twosons were Muehlfeld’s hostfamily for the first year shewas in the United States. Sheattended Tyrone High Schoolfrom 2006-2007.

“After the first six months,people couldn’t even tell Iwas from Germany,”Muehlfeld said. Learning theEnglish language was diffi-cult for Muehlfeld, but nowshe speaks it fluently.

“It was so hard. I wouldonly smile if I saw otherssmiling, thinking whateverthey were saying was funny.”

After finishing the year atTHS, Muehlfeld went back toGermany, where she got herdegree as a foreign languagecorrespondent.

Muehlfeld chose Seward be-cause it was a school she wasfamiliar with after living inthe surrounding area. She willbe graduating with an associ-ates in science degree in May.She plans to pursue her careerin the business field, possiblyinternational business.Muehlfeld plans to attendCameron University in Law-ton, Okla..

If all goes Muehlfeld’s way,her desire is for her family andhost family meet for the firsttime at her graduation fromCameron University.

Muehlfeld thanks PTKsponsor Debbie Stafford, ad-vising coordinator PatsyFisher, Alaina Rice, and Eng-lish instructor Janice North-erns for being a big help dur-ing her time at SCCC.

What she likes the mostabout SCCC is the relation-ships that can be made withstudents and instructors.

“Seward is so much morestudent-teacher oriented, it’svery easy to stay in contact,”Muehlfeld said.

Muehlfeld multitasks with many interests at SCCC/ATS

Maria Muehlfeld

SPORTS6 Tuesday, April 24, 2012CRUSADER

Saints win 12, lose 3 in April

Saints, Lady Saints tennis

Courtney Geesing

Volleyball

Southern Arkan.

Magnolia, Arkan.

Daiane Souza

Volleyball

SW Okla. State

Weatherford, Okla.Hanna Bognar

Women’s Basketball

Armstrong Atlantic St.

Savannah, Ga.

Willy Gustin

Baseball

Regis Univ.

Denver, Colo.

Aislen Karney

Volleyball

CSU-Pueblo

Pueblo, Colo.

Gavin Glands

Baseball

Oral Roberts

Tulsa, Okla.

Deverell Biggs

Men’s Basketball

Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebra.

Ashlynn Knoll

Women’s Basketball

Kansas State

Manhattan, Kan.

Kelsey Wilson

Women’s Basketball

UT-Arlington

Arlington, Texas

Jose Medrano

Crusader staff

April has been a strongmonth for the Saints baseballteam, with only two lossessince the month began. TheSaints started off the first weekof April with a double-headeragainst Garden City, at BrentGould field.

The Saints lost the firstmatch, 6-2, and won the secondmatch against Garden City, 12-7. The Saints played Clarendonon April 4 and lost, 5-2. To fin-ish off the first week of April,the Saints baseball team facedHutchinson in a four-game se-ries on April 6-7.

The Saints won the first twomatches against Hutchinson, 3-1 and 7-0. Hutchinson went onand won the third match, 5-4.The Saints won the final match

against Hutchinson, 9-1.The baseball team played on

Brent Gould field againstClarendon on April 11 and won,6-5. The Saints faced Pratt for afour- game home meet on April15-16.

The Saints buried Pratt andwon all four matches: 7-4, 6-4,2-0, 8-7. The Saints ended thesecond week of April with aloss to Seminole State, 14-10.

The Saints baseball teamplayed a double-header againstRedlands and Rose State thispast Monday, April 23. TheSaints won against Redlands,10-9, and also won againstRose State, 9-7. The baseballteam played Clarendon today atBrent Gould field. The Saintswon, 15-14.

The Saints are now 30-22,and 19-9 in the Jayhawk West.

Levi Adams

Sports editor

The Lady Saints tennis teamgot third place at the Region VItennis tournament. The tourna-ment, which was located in Wi-chita lasted three days, fromThursday thur Saturday.

During the Lady Saints timein Wichita, the team managed toqualify four players for the na-

tional tournament: DariyaDashutina placed first in No. 1singles; Leticia Monteiro placedsecond in No. 5 singles; KurstieZepeda placed second in No. 6singles; Leticia Monteiro andCaitlin Workman placed secondat No. 3 doubles.

The Saints team also placedthird at the tournament. FelipeCruz placed second in No. 2 sin-gles.

Levi Adams

Sports editor

The Lady Saints softball teamstarted the season with a 4-0record and never looked back.

The Lady Saints played a dou-bleheader on April 18, at homeagainst Garden City; Sewardswept the doubleheader, 6-1 6-3.

A doubleheader was played inGreat Bend on Friday. The LadySaints played Barton, winningthe games, 11-0 and 5-1.

The Lady Saints played a dou-ble-header against Lamar todayin Lamar, Colo. The Lady Saintswon game one, 8-7, and lostgame two, 4-3.

Only one conference game isyet to be played, against Colby,at Colby on Friday.

The team will travel to Wichi-ta to start play in the Region VItournament on May 5-6.

Softball sets winning pace

Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Lady Saints softball player Christina Wrightpractices hitting at practice.

Crusader photo/Jose Medrano

Leticia Monteiro steps up to the net while Katiuska Adarmes sets up to serve.

Crusader illustration/Levi Adams

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SPORTS CRUSADER 7Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Crusader photos/ Jose Medrano

Saints Athletic Hall of Fame inductees Cory Patton, Galen McSpadden, Jim Littell, Kim Ortega and part of the 2002 Lady Saints basketballteam stand in front of their Hall of Fame plaques. The inductees attended a unveiling of the Hall of Fame and the annual athletics banquet.

Cory Patton Jim Littell Kim Ortega Galen McSpaddenCory Patton played for the

Saints baseball team during2000-2002 seasons. Patton hitan astonishing 31 home runs inthe Saints ’02 season. Pattonalso received several awards forhis ’02 season. Patton wasnamed Jayhawk West Confer-ence MVP, NJCAA All-Ameri-can, ABCA player of the yearand led in the NJCAA with anRBI of 120. Patton was award-ed a NJCAA Student-Athlete ofthe Year Award in 2002. Pattonalso holds several records inSaints baseball history.

Jim Littell coached the LadySaints basketball team for 14seasons. Under Littell, the LadySaints won the NJCAA nationalchampionship in 2002, had aperfect season of 38-0 andbrought home nine JayhawkWest titles. Littell has a NJCAACoach of Year award for the ’02season and a WBCA Coach ofthe Year award. Littell has re-ceived nine Jayhawk West Coachof the Year awards. Littell is theonly coach in Seward’s history,so far, to have won a NJCAAchampionship.

Kim Ortega played as a guardfor the Lady Saints basketballteam during the 2000-2002 sea-sons. Ortega played 72 gamesfor the Lady Saints with only asingle game loss. Ortega playeda key role in the 2002 LadySaints’ championship season.In the 2002 season, Ortega wasawarded with NJCAA NationalPlayer of the Year, NJCAATournament MVP, NJCAA All-American, Jayhawk West MVPand the WBCA Player of theYear.

Galen McSpadden has beencoaching the Saints baseball teamfor 30 years. During his time atSCCC, McSpadden has wonmore than 1,000 games, broughthome 14 Jayhawk West titles andcoached the Saints to two JUCOworld series. Also, McSpaddenhas received the Jayhawk WestCoach of the Year award fivetimes. McSpadden has been in-ducted into the NJCAA BaseballHall of Fame and into the KansasBaseball Hall of Fame.

2002 Lady Saints Basketball TeamThe 2002 Lady Saints basketball team is the only team in SCCC history, so far, that has won a NJCAA national championship. The 2002

Lady Saints basketball team had a perfect season of 38-0. The team has a Jayhawk West Conference title and a Region VI tournament title.

Green house welcomes back legends

Head basketball coach Bryan Zollinger receives a Hard Hat awardfor his accomplishments with the basketball team. Zollinger re-ceived a Coach of the Year award from the KBCA earlier this month.

The inductees unveil the wall before the banquet. Plaques aremounted on the wall that contain the achievements of the inductees.The Hall of Fame wall is located in front of the concession stand.

Jim Littell speaks to the audience at the annual athletic banquet.Littell coached the Lady Saints basketball team for 14 seasons.Littell now serves as women’s head coach at OSU.

NEWS8 Tuesday, April 24, 2012CRUSADER

Talking TrashPart 2 :Looking behind the scenes

Involvement in recycling iseveryone’s business, but FrankHolman, solid waste sanitationsuperintendent at the LiberalRecycling Center, makes it hisbusiness every day.

Holman has been an employeeof the city for 25 years and hasobserved the recycling center asit has evolved. He recently led asmall tour for the college, ex-plaining the inner workings.

The Liberal Recycling Centercollects newspaper, computerpaper, and lined paper, cardboard,plastic bottles, milk cartons, twoliter bottles, aluminum andglass.

It is helpful to city workerswhen correct preparation is taken

because they manually move thecontents of the bins into a pick-up bed to transport it inside thecenter. Therefore, all lids andcontents should be removed fromrecyclables. Also, boxing news-papers rather than discardingthem loosely into the bins helpsto make the process faster andmore efficient. Obviously, unre-lated items such as tires, and ani-mal remains, and candles arefrowned upon.

To get involved in Liberal’s re-cycling program, people can col-lect recyclables, properly preparethe products, transport them tothe recycling center, and placethem in the correct bins. Fromthis point, the city takes respon-

sibility. The items are transported in-

side the recycling center. If theitem is a plastic it usually sitsinside the building until there isenough accumulated to make abale. A bale consists of approxi-mately 18 5x5x5 foot boxes.Once there is enough of the sameproduct, it is fed onto the eleva-tor, which dumps it into a vault.Inside the vault, the products arepressed and bundled by longmetal ties. Then a hydraulicpressurized door opens and thebale is pushed out and onto a jackor fork lift. The bale is movedover to another storage sight,where it sits until enough baleshave been accumulated to justify

semi load. A full semi is approximately

36 bales of cardboard or 45,000pounds. By mixing different re-cyclables together on the sameload, the city usually averagesabout 40,000 pounds per truck.Cardboard is the most generatedproduct, on average there isenough to process four bales inone day. It takes several weeksto create a bale of aluminum, andabout five to six years to accu-mulate a semi load of bales.

“Last time we shipped out alu-minum,” Holman said, “weraised $30,000. We need morecoming in.” Holman challengedthe public to step up efforts withrecycling aluminum.

The Liberal Recycling Centerships to three companies, one inHutchinson and two in Wichita,which takes all of the city’s alu-minum products.

McDonald’s is supportive, ac-cording to Holman.

“They get involved; they eventake the time to fold their boxeswhile others who don’t care willjust throw a whole box in. Ifother business were willing tobreak their own boxes as well,and bring them to us it would cuttheir costs on garbage, and itwould add to our productivity.No one has ever been turnedaway. Bring all you got.”

Holman also addressed therumor that, occasionally, items

placed in the recycling bins arenot recycled. Holman explainedthat when this happens recy-clable products inside the binshave become contaminated. Forexample, if there is oil on thecardboard, or there has been rain,or there are maintenance issues,any of these could cause a backup in production and recyclablesmay have to be treated as waste.

“Citizens need to realize thatthrowing away potentially recy-clable item is wasteful,” Holmansaid. “The truth about recyclingand what goes on at the LiberalRecycling Center should be told,and education on the subjectmust begin at the grade schoollevel.”

Transportpersonally collected recyclables to therecycling center.

The city collectsthe recyclablesuntil there isenough for abale.

With enough ofthe same productfor a bale the citysends it up the elevator to bepressed andbaled.

The city collectsthe bales untilthey have collected enoughfor a truck load.Plastic bottlescan sit for up tosix years.

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Saints baseball player Jonny Griffith and Biology Instructor Jared Haas recycle computer paper and newspaper after learning about process behind the sense.

Crusader photosand story

by Morgan Wills

Sophomore Kristyn Campbell follows “Billy the Bottle” as he journeys to his next life

Eighteen boxes must be accumulated to create one bale. It cantake five to six years to fill one truck load with bales before it isefficient to ship.

Frank Holman discusses what takes place before and after the communities recyablesare baled at the Liberal recycling center located west of Liberal High School and Eastof Mid-America Air Museum. Each shipment must be at least 40,000 pounds. Liberalhas three drop off sites, two located in Wichita and one in Hutchinson. The last ship-

ment brought in $30,000. Holman urges the public to increase participation especially withaluminum which is currently the most profitable.

Plastic bottles must be stored until there is enough for one bale.

The elevator presses all recyclables in preparation for shipment.

Supervisor shares story of Liberal Recycling Center operations