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2Editorial: A look at alternative spring break activities 3 ASG and Public Safety team up

for smoking policy survey 5 Revived science club hosts weekly meetings, trips to OMSI

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Gresham, OregonMt. Hood Community College

by John TkebuchavaThe Advocate

The MHCC administration is looking for your ideas for balancing the 2012-13 budget.

A presentation on an online interactive tool titled, “How would you balance the budget for Mt. Hood Community College?” was made Wednesday at the dis-trict board meeting.

The application, presented by Bill Farver, vice presi-dent of administrative services, gives students, faculty, staff and any other interested parties a chance to balance the MHCC budget, which faces a $5.5 million budget defi cit in 2012-13.

Users can chose from proposals such as “Increase Current Parking Fee,” “Increase Tuition,” “Diversity Resource Center” (hiring a center coordinator) and “In-crease College Services Fee,” choosing which to pass or not pass to balance the budget.

The board also approved the Head Start program

budget and approved three innovation fund proposals.Among the innovation proposals presented and ap-

proved include the “AVID” (Advancement Via Individ-ual Determination) program, a Jenzebar “Higher Reach” service contract and an increase in service level of the “College Now” program.

AVID, which will cost $216,695 a year to maintain, is a postsecondary program that aims to increase learn-ing, completion and success of students by preparing them with the skills necessary to be successful in a post-secondary environment. According to the proposal, the AVID program will feature an AVID coordinator, an AVID center within the Learning Success Center and AVID-trained tutors who will work with students.

The Jenzebar Higher Reach is an online catalog, reg-istration and payment system to be implemented for MHCC’s non-credit and open enrollment programs. The estimated cost of Higher Reach for the fi scal year of July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013 is $57,960, which includes a fi rst-year license and implementation costs. Future costs

for the service, which depends on the number of online registrations, are estimated between $14,000 and $23,000 per year.

The College Now/Dual Credit is a program that works with high school students to offer dual credit op-portunities for district high school students. According to the proposal, costs for the increase in service level are an estimated $34,678.

After the innovation fund proposals were approved, the 2012-13 sabbatical requests were approved, whose funding requests go toward the replacement costs in-volved with hiring a part-time faculty member to cover classes typically taught by the faculty member during the “sabbatical” period.

Lastly, interim president Michael Hay made his monthly report and in his winter term enrollment up-date, reported that the FTE (full-time equivalent) stu-dent enrollment was down 2.6 percent and that the un-duplicated head count is also down 3.6 percent.

The next board meeting is scheduled for April 11.

Board seeks campus-wide help to eliminate budget de� cit

The fi nal push to exams

For test preparation and tips, see story

on page 3.

Photos by Kayla Tatum, Riley Hinds and John Tkebuchava/� e Advocate

Top le� : Students relax with massages during the Stress Relief Event hosted by SAB Tuesday. Top Right: Je� rey Frerris, a second year student, studies for next week’s � nals. Bottom: Students band together in Tutoring Center above the Library.

For a full schedule of

fi nal exams, see

page 8.

Next week is fi nals week and while most students will be focused on studying, a few will be daydreaming about the vacation that follows.

Students must keep focused, though, because while spring break can be a time of hard-earned and well-deserved relaxation, there is still a term to go before the 2011-12 school year comes to conclusion. The hangover resulting from enjoying the temptations of spring break can be devastating to a col-lege education.

This said, the editors of The Advocate would like to offer this good idea/bad idea guide for the upcoming break

Do: Stay on the West Coast. There are plenty of adventures available in our own backyard. Treat yourself to a meal at one of Portland’s hip dining establishments, such as The Country Cat on 7937 SE Stark St.. Sports lovers could fi nd time to make it up to the mountain to ski or snowshoe. You can rent snowshoes from Mountain Tracks located in Government Camp on Mt. Hood. Or take a trip to the coast and possibly fl y a kite. The Kite Company, 407 SW Coast Highway, Newport, sells several kite styles from dragon kite to stunt kites. The prevailing winds that come off the Pacifi c Ocean make Oregon’s coast a premier kite-fl ying destination.

Don’t: Go to South Beach. Screw LeBron. Forget MTV. Getting drunk and or stoned will only destroy what little storage room is left in your brain after what you’ve already done to yourself during St. Patty’s Day week-end. And it doesn’t matter what your mother’s cousin’s ex-best friend from Troutdale said, a Girls Gone Wild credit does not look good on your resume.

Do: Get some sleep. If you happen to be anything like the editorial board

of The Advocate, then you probably take a full course load and work part-time as well. With all that plus the addition of a semblance of a social life, sleep seems to be the most easily sacrifi ced. Therefore, take some time to get your full night’s rest. Say, seven to nine hours or so. Your body and mind will thank you.

Don’t: Pick up any unnecessary body art. Spring break leads to the mis-conception that steady sun is only a few weeks away, which leads many folks to try and spice up their skin-swag. That being said, stay away from tattoo and piercing shops, especially when not entirely sober. No one wants to see that particular mistake on your bicep, bro. Or that lovely tramp-stamp, miss. Or the septum piercing that makes you look like livestock, silly hipster.

Do: Plan ahead for next term. Look, The Advocate knows that school is likely the next to last thing you want to be thinking about during break, right after how to get rid of the tribal tattoo from last year’s spring break. However, just making sure you have all your supplies in order, a valid park-ing permit and your textbooks, or at least the money and fortitude to han-dle the Bookstore, can only benefi t you. Plus, you get the added perk of that warm, sort of smug feeling you get when you’ve been productive. You know the feeling — embrace it.

Thus, The Advocate wishes you a happy, and hopefully productive spring break. Have some fun, get some sleep, make a little extra dough and even start next term all planned out. Just remember: Anything south of Eu-gene = bad; stupid body art = bad; and Girls Gone Wild = bad.

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Editorial

by Wally ShrinerMHCC Biology Instructor

As we struggle to adapt to the abrupt shift in civic time, you, like I, may harbor a complaint of the lost hour or a lament about the shifting sands of time. And maybe your gentle whine escalates to a curse against the political powers that meddle with reality, a grudge against those who mess with the natural order of things. It’s an understandable stance, for time seems so real to our modern minds, a fi nite resource defi ned and confi rmed by each ticking second. Yet beyond our re-active certainty, an attempt to defi ne time may falter. Ask any physicist, and she will tell you, “A second is only a second on our earth.” Time’s duration is only

consistent for objects moving together through space.

Indeed, if pressed, the same physicist may turn philosophical and posit that “time is simply that which allows the per-ception of change.” To that cosmic view, the biologist will add evidence from the living world. The seconds of our day mean nothing to the creatures living far from light, deep in an ocean trench or in the darkness of a subterranean pool. Time to these creatures is perceived by changes in food availability, is triggered by the random appearance of fl oating detritus and measured against the slow machinery of protein synthesis and the clockwork of cell division. Equally far from our notion of temporal reality are those whose time-piece is accelerated, whose life cycle be-

gins and ends in mere moments. For all creatures, whether in the fast

lane or the slow, the cycles of moon and sun, ebb and fl ow, are all that matter, not the rotation of hands on a clock. And while we may feel liberated from the ties of earth--waking as we do before dawn, il-luminating our world with electric lights--we are bound to the meter of the cosmos too. For better or worse, on days such as this, our ancient past reminds us that we too are linked to a natural rhythm. Our free-running cycle is just over 24 hours, entrained by light to the length of day at our latitude, shifting forward with chang-ing conditions, with changing patterns of season. And therein lies the rub. We shift forward, not back, and so this legislative mandate to “spring ahead,” leaves us be-

hind, wreaks havoc with our systems, goes counter to our natural way. Just as surely as if we had fl own a thousand miles east, this fi rst workday after the end of day-light savings time fi nds us muddled and lagged. We are, inescapably, prisoners of our past, tied to our ancestors, pulled by cycles deep and ancient, beyond the infl u-ence of presidents, senators, judges or po-litical decrees. We ride with the other pas-sengers, speeding through space, held on a planet spinning and rotating, experienc-ing a world full of change and perceived by creatures large and small, in their own way, on their own time.

Wally Shriner is an MHCC biology in-structor and is a Natural Resources Technol-ogy program faculty adviser. Eye on Nature is his monthly column.

Spring break options include using or abusing the break. What will you do?

Eye on Nature: March brings a time change, natural life cycles must go on

Campus parking lots are full of illiterate meat geysersby Mike Mata

The Advocate

Road rage. It affects many drivers and nearly

always gets the better of those it af-fl icts. Lately, it’s been a symptom of an epidemic sweeping the MHCC parking lots.

Road rage is characterized by shaking fi sts, gesticulating hands,

shouting voices, raising blood pressures, popping neck veins, swearing like a sailor, etc. It involves a minority of drivers who can never get where they are going fast enough raging at the majority of Portland drivers who seem to never get within ten mph of any speed limit any-where.

However, the road rage on campus is primarily di-rected at drivers who can’t seem to read a sign properly or pedestrians who have zero to no common sense. Here are a few driving examples:

The main entrance to the campus has a sign for on-coming traffi c that allows turns without stopping. Near-

ly every morning, I fi nd myself stopped because someone can’t read. Good thing they’re going to school, I guess.

The stop sign in front of the Early Childhood Center is frequently ignored. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen Public Safety issue a citation for someone running the sign. The sign says stop — so stop. The sign is there for a reason, morons.

The yield sign by the turn-around in front of the foun-tain. It says clearly on the sign “YIELD.” At the risk of being over-obvious, that means if you see pedestrians, stop. If not, then full-speed ahead. Do we have that cleared up now?

How does one combat this full-fl edged ignorance? In-stitutionalized driving courses. Simply put: Introduction to Driving like a Competent Human Being followed by Driving with a Purpose 101. If these meat geysers are go-ing to be on campus anyway, we might as well give them something practical to learn.

Let’s not forget that the aforementioned meat geysers are also contributing to the road rage on campus. Chief among the pedestrian offenses is their annoying—and disturbingly— frequent insistence upon walking in the lanes. Campus is full of crosswalks and sidewalks. It

might be that the college fi nds them aesthetically pleas-ing, but more likely, they’re for pedestrian use. A key example is that pedestrians seem to love walking in the same entrance with the no-stop-turns sign. Let it be known that there are no sidewalks or crosswalks here while they are plentiful on the left-hand side of the lane. These are also known as the pedestrian entrances. Novel!

All joking aside, though, these are rather annoying problems that don’t get any better as people get more fa-miliar with the campus parking lot. In fact, as this is my second year at MHCC, things are worse this term than in any of my previous four terms. So, how do we com-bat these problems? I advocate for a more bold approach to honking at slow or brain-dead drivers and a policy of nudging pedestrians that get in the way of cars when not in a designated crosswalk. I’m not saying run anyone over, but give them a little lovin’ so they’ll learn their les-son. After getting a few passive-aggressive calf bruises, they should fi gure it out.

So, my fellow Saints, here’s to a more enlightened ap-proach to the parking lots. A parting note to drivers — pay attention to the signs — and to pedestrians — use some damn common sense.

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by Jeff HannigThe Advocate

Some MHCC students may be planning to lock them-selves in their room with a reading lamp, a case of Red Bull and their books to prepare for fi nal exams. Learning Services Coordinator Larry Gilius says they may want to rethink their game-plan.

“One of the biggest mistakes students make during fi -nals week is not taking care of themselves physically. It’s important to get good sleep, to exercise, to eat a health-ful diet and to avoid caffeine, which affects concentration and memory,” Gilius said.

To further help students, the MHCC Learning Success Center (LSC) will be open for drop-in tutoring during fi -nals week until 4 p.m. Wednesday.

If you haven’t been taking advantage of the Student Success Seminars that the LSC puts on, Gilius advises students to use the drop-in tutoring, where specifi c classes are covered including help with writing papers. He also recommended using the on-line tutoring services through the MHCC website: www.mhcc.edu/tutorstogo.

“Reach out, get the help. Don’t try to do it yourself,” said Gilius, adding that students rarely will rise above

their understanding of the material if they don’t.Finals week can be stressful but, according to Gilius, it

doesn’t have to be. “Don’t think of studying as something you do in a

day,” he said.Gilius recommends students make an appointment

with a learning specialist; the meetings are one hour long and, in the past, many instructors on campus have re-warded students with extra credit for doing so.

Stephanie English, an Allied Health learning special-ist in math and science who leads the seminar “Steps to Successful Test Taking,” recommends the following:

— Before the test, know how you’ll be tested. Under-standing how you’ll be tested means knowing if the test

will consist of true/false, multiple choice, matching or es-say. Practice as you’ll be tested

—During the test, preview the whole test before you start. Budget your time, understand the directions, an-swer the easy questions fi rst. Try to answer all the ques-tions and check your answers.

—After the test, do a post-exam analysis.In her seminar, English also offers tips for avoiding

test anxiety. Butterfl ies are normal, she said, and recom-mended to prepare well in advance, get enough sleep, eat well before the test and arrive early.

The LSC puts on Student Success Seminars through-out the semester to help students stay ahead of the curve and go into fi nals week feeling prepared and confi dent, says Gilius.

Some seminars that will be offered next term are “Vi-sual and Hands on Learning,” “Reading Textbooks,” “Goal Setting/How to Attain Them,” “Take Control of Your Time,” “Yes, You Can Do Math,” “Using Note Cards to Exam Success” and “Study Smarter, Not Harder.”

Students can fi nd the complete lists of the information necessary to attend a seminar at the LSC or posted at the bottom of the stairwell just beyond the turnstiles in the college library.

by Kylie RogersThe Advocate

Results of MHCC’s campus-wide smoking survey — designed to help determine whether to maintain or mod-ify the current policy — will be available during spring term, according to parking enforcement Public Safety Offi cer and ASG Director of Public Safety and Campus Sustainability Melanie Snider.

MHCC is currently a 100 percent tobacco-free cam-pus.

As of last week Snider, who is heading the survey, said there had been 35 surveys submitted.

There is no end date of the smoking survey. Snider said she just wants the results available by spring term.

The survey was based on collaborated suggestions from faculty, ASG and other students, according to Snid-er. There was no formal committee formed to create the nine questions.

Gale Blessing, director of institutional safety and security, said, ”Since it’s still out for people to provide

input, there’s been no change in our particular policy. What (Snider is) hoping to do, just based on my conver-sation, is to use that information to make recommenda-tions to management.

“At this point, there are obviously several options. One of them is to maintain our current policy, which means no smoking on campus anywhere. A second one is to modify and allow smoking maybe in some desig-nated areas,” said Blessing about possible changes to the current smoking policy.

The current policy has a three-step system. The fi rst violation is a written warning and education that MHCC is a tobacco-free campus. The second violation is a $15 citation and the third results in disciplinary action.

According to Blessing, it is rare to fi nd the same per-son in violation three times.

Blessing said the college has been examining Portland Community College’s (PCC) smoking policy as a model, adding that it may or may not work for the Mt. Hood campus.

PCC has “evolved” from a smoking to non-smoking,

to a modifi ed campus, Blessing said.PCC’s Sylvania campus offers good neighbor zones,

designated areas on the outer perimeters of campus where smokers are allowed to smoke.

Any smokers found outside the good neighbor zone are subject to a $50 fi ne and the fi ne increases to $75 if the smoker is found in a wooded area.

“It would be nice to have as much participation among all the students and faculty,” said Snider.

As for distribution of the survey results, Snider and Blessing agreed that the information would get to stu-dents.

Asked how, Snider said, “Barney will take care of that for me. I’ll give it to my director of communications and she will distribute it.”

Campus smoking survey results may be used to modify tobacco policy

Cramming for � nals? MHCC tutors give advice on ways to studyPhoto by John Tkebuchava/� e Advocate

Students study in the Learning Success Center (LSC) a week before � nals. � e LSC is available all term and will be open for drop-in tutoring during � nals week until 4 p.m. Wednesday.

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www.surveymonkey.com/s/S2T7FWKTake the smoking policy survey:

• Don’t forget to get enough sleep, excercise regularly, eat healthy, and avoid caffeine.

• Know the format of the test, and practice in that format (i.e. short essay, multiple choice, etc.)

• Drop in to the LSC to get tutoring help in specifi c classes including writing papers.

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On Campus

Your weekly reason to stand up and hit the streets

March 19-23

April 2

March 26-30

April 5A reception for the Visual Art Gallery’s “Annual Regional High School Show & Culture Shapers” will be held in the Visual Art Gallery from 5-8 p.m. The show opens April 2 and runs until April 26. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. For more information, contact Lynn Horn at 503-491-7309.

The MHCC Planetarium presents “The Greatest Hits of the Greatest Telescopes” in the MHCC Planetarium Sky Theater. There will be showings at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Admission is $2 and MHCC students get in free with I.D.

Finals week — Check the calendar on page eight for the class schedule.

No school – Spring break. Read page two for ways you can entertain yourself while on vacation.

April 6-7Celebrate surviving the fi rst week of spring term with craft beer, wine and gourmet cheese at the 18th Annual Spring Beer & Wine Festival at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., Portland. Admission is free for the fi rst 1,000 visitors each day; after that, admission ranges from $5 for general to $50 for admission for two with two wine glasses or plastic mugs and 20 tokens. Beer may only be purchased with tokens. Minors accompanied by an adult are permitted until 7 p.m. each day. The event runs from noon until 11 p.m. both days. For more information, visit www.springbeerfest.com.

Former chemist showcases exhibit in Fireplace Gallery

Photo by Riley Hinds/� e Advocate

by Kayla TatumThe Advocate

MHCC’s Fireplace Art Gallery is showcasing 15 pieces of art

from Art Institute of Chicago graduate and former chemist, Da-vid Reager.

Reager’s solo exhibit, “Process and Substance,” will be on dis-play until March 29.

Reager studied chemistry at Purdue University. He worked fi ve years in research, then “I decided that it wasn’t for me so I took classes at the Art Institute in Chicago,” said Reager.

After graduating Reager moved to Los Angeles and has “been doing art ever since.” After moving from Los Angeles to Portland in 1990, Reager started showcasing his art in various galleries around Portland.

Reager incorporates his knowledge of chemistry into his art. “I use solutions to treat my background,” he said.

A second-year MHCC student Jan Angtaguibao observed Re-ager’s art and said, “Usually I see painting stuff, but I never seen anything like this before.”

Angtaguibao is from the Phillipines and said Reager’s art is different. “(In the Phillipines) I only saw painting and stuff,” he

added. “(Reager’s color choice) matches the structure he has.”Samantha Ordonez, fi rst-year MHCC student, also observed

Reager’s art and said, “What I really like about (the art pieces) is that they have a really clear focal point.” She added, “He put thought on the color choices.”

Reager said the colors in his art “make me happy. They’re more subtle.” He said he wants everyone to have their own per-spective on how they view his art.

Reager said fi nishing his art “sometimes can come together real fast. Sometimes it takes me two or three weeks to fi nish a piece.”

His recent work uses “varying thicknesses of hydrocal [a type of plaster] (that) are broken, shaped and painted for an even greater relief.”

Reager enjoys making his art. “For me the experience of mak-ing art is in itself the motive,” he said.

MHCC’s Fireplace gallery will continue to showcase Reagers art until March 29th. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Fridays 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For more information about the Fireplace Gallery contact Pam Kuretich at pam.kuretich@mhcc.edu or call 503-491-7260.

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David Reager’s art piece titled “Cascade” hangs in the Fireplace Gallery in the College Center on campus.

David Reager’s piece titled “Night Journey” is a two part selection that hangs on the wall for all eyes to see in the Fireplace Gallery inside of the College Center. It will be available for viewing until March 29. Gallery hours are Monday-� ursday 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

‘Process and Substance’ is on display until March 29

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Limited space is still available for end of term pottery workshop

by Jeff HannigThe Advocate

After a yearlong hiatus, MHCC has a science club once more.

With the intention of keeping with two activi-ties scheduled per week, the Mad Scientist Club is determined to be an active club on campus, said club president Jeremy Likens.

Members of the group and 31 other MHCC stu-dents visited OMSI to see the exhibit, Bodyworks, in the fi rst week of March. And because of the ef-forts of the Mad Scientists, Laird Sheldahl, anatomy and physiology instructor at MHCC, accompanied the group to the museum to provide additional in-sight and be of service to the group in any way he could.

Having a guest speaker at every event is a fea-ture of the club that Likens said he is determined to make permanent. At this week’s Extreme Cave Diving video presentation on Tuesday, Likens con-tacted and convinced the only certifi ed science diver in the state to come watch and lecture with the club.

Today, the club will be investigating physics in Room 2515 from 3-6 p.m.

The club’s meetings will follow the following

format: Tuesdays will have a lecture or a video and Friday will have a lab-based activity.

On Tuesday, the club will meet for NOVA: Rid-dles of the Sphinx, from 5-7 p.m. in Room 1600.

“The goal is for the two activities to link up,” said Likens, who is motivated to make the Mad Scientists Club a club that provides events students can get into.

Future events include another trip to OMSI for Astronomy Day, a focus on the Audubon Soci-

ety, and Nova: the Pluto Files. Activities for next month are scheduled

and information can be found at Facebook: MHCC Mad Scientists, Twitter: @MHMad-

Scientists and Likens encourages stu-dents to drop in for a meeting, every

Wednesday at noon in room 2556.

Mad Scientists to meet on campus weekly

‘21 Jump Street’ adaptation leaves audience arrested with laughter

by Leah EmuraThe Advocate

Jack Troy, a potter, writer, and teacher, will be coming to MHCC March 23 and 24 for a lecture and workshop on pottery.

A free slide show and lecture will take place on Friday at 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Visual Arts Gallery, followed by a day of demonstrations on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, there will be a break for lunch.

A 2012 National Council on Education for the Ceram-

ics Arts (NCECA) Excellence in Teaching Award recipi-ent, Troy has taught more than 185 workshops, many of which are hands on and involve fi rings (a process involv-ing fi re and heat for the hardening or glazing of ceram-ics).

“Teaching helped me keep learning and gave me a ringside seat at the art arena, where people amaze them-selves and others by using clay to make their dreams (and occasionally their nightmares) come true” stated Troy on his website, www.jacktroy.net. “In my workshops I of-ten include a... talk, drawing from the 20,000-year heri-

tage of potters to relate our own quest for meaningful pots to some of the accomplishments of earlier ceramists” he continued.

The fee to attend the workshop on Saturday is $60 for non- MHCC students and $45 for MHCC students and Oregon Potters Association members.

Reservations for Saturday are required. As of Mon-day only fi fteen spots are available. Reservations can be made by contacting Lynn Horn at lynn.horn@mhcc.edu or by calling (503) 491-7309. No parking pass is required for this event.

by Kylie RogersThe Advocate

Full of laughs and complete nonsense, “21 Jump Street,” is currently known as the ‘80s television show to launch John-ny Depp’s career and will now be known as a movie that keeps everyone laughing throughout.

Channing Tatum stars as Jenko and Jonah Hill as Schmidt and the two combine to make a great comedic team of poorly performing cops.

The movie opens with the two of them in high school - Jenko following the role of the stereotypical dopey jock and Schmidt as the nerdy loser.

Fast forward to present day and both of them are struggling in the police academy on their way to become offi cers. Real-izing they can help each other out, Jenko trains Schmidt in athletics and Schmidt brings up the failing Jenko to average grades.

Like I said, they don’t per-form their cop duties well, even as bicycle cops, and are moved to another department to work on 21 Jump Street, a revival of a cancelled ‘80s program, with other youthful appearing cops to help bust crime in high schools.

The goal of the two cops is to serve undercover as

brothers living in Schmidt’s family home to infi ltrate a synthetic drug ring and prevent it from expanding from the local high school.

This presents problems for Schmidt who apparently hasn’t spent much time at home in the past few years and has to deal with his family and family acquain-

tances and prevent them from blowing his cover. It also doesn’t help that the high school prin-ciple isn’t in on the plot and ends up switching their fake identities.

One of my favorite aspects about this movie is how it blatantly pokes fun at so many movie stereotypes - from explo-sions, to racial slurs, the hierarchies in high school and the fact high school students in movies look like they’re 40, they’re all included.

And while a lot of the jokes were entirely inap-propriate, it was never of-fensive. The jokes fl owed really well with what was happening in the movie and they were funny. I can’t think of any mov-ies within the past six months that have made me laugh as hard as I did with the one. I defi nitely recommend seeing it.

“21 Jump Street,” is rated “R” for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drink-ing and some violence.

It opens nationwide today, so check your local the-ater for show times.

Illustration by Yuca Kosugi/� e Advocate

Web photoJenko and Schmidt move from park patrol to the revived 80s program, 21 Jump Street.

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1. File your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) online for faster processing (fafsa.gov). 2. Check MyMHCC regularly for your application status and turn in required documents promptly. 3. If you missed deadlines, financial aid will not be available until after the start of the term. 4. Students are served first-come, first-served for fairness - do not ask for exceptions unless the College made a clear error in your file completion date. This will help us serve you and all students faster!

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Student fee budget moves to next

approval stageTurnout for the student

forum to discuss the student fee budget was above average this year, according Nathan Harris, the Associated Student Government director of fi nance.

The student fee budget consists of revenues taken from student fees and fundraising by the MHCC co-curricular and athletic groups.

The proposed 2012-13 budget is $1,330,899, which is $300,000 more than the 2011-12 budget of $964,700, which goes toward funding the co-curricular and athletic programs.

One of the items within the budget is the proposed Diversity Resource Center, a center devoted to “establish a vibrant community space on campus devoted to encouraging fellowship, nurturing ideas, sharing resources and above all promoting diversity,” as stated in the proposal’s mission statement.

The 2012-13 budget includes $30,000 toward the proposed diversity center.

Harris said that while last year only one or two students participated in the forums, this year “there was a great turnout.”

On the fi rst day of the student forum, Harris said about two students showed up. On the second day, four or so students came and participated actively in the forum, he said.

“We really wanted to do more to promote the

event,” said Harris, adding that ASG offi cials placed posters throughout campus to help get the word out

for the student forums.“This is stuff students

need to know about,” he said.With the conclusion of

the student forums, the 2012-13 student fee budget will now make its way to the ASG

Executive Cabinet for the approval.

The ASG Executive Cabinet will meet today from 1-3 p.m., with the consideration of the student fee budget on the agenda.

Harris said it is very likely the budget will be approved.

If approved by the executive cabinet, the budget will go on to the Student Senate, which will meet next Thursday from 2-4 p.m. in the Council Chambers.

FedEx sponsors MHCC job fair

This year’s Career and Job Fair will be held on Tuesday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the MHCC gymnasium.

MHCC’s Career Planning and Counseling Center, Worksource Portland Metro East, Gresham Chamber of Commerce, and MHCC’s 2012 corporate sponsor FedEx Ground of Troutdale will be sponsoring the fair.

“Last year’s Career and Job Fair saw over 2,200 job seekers. Students, faculty and the entire MHCC community are invited to this free event,” said Christy Weigel, interim career and academic group advising coordinator.

“Many employers come

to this event specifi cally hoping to speak with MHCC students,” said Weigel. “(It is) encouraged for students at any point in their college education to attend to see what a job fair is like and what to expect.”

School is open during break

Spring Term starts April 2 although the campus will be open for advising, registration and general preparation for the new term.

The bookstore will also be open over the break. Drinks, microwave items and coffee will be for sale but the coffee bar will be closed. The bookstore will also be open March 31 to help students acquire textbooks.

The Vista Dining Center and St. Helens Bistro will be closed for spring break starting Friday, March 23, through March 30.

Although the dining centers will be closed to the public, Chartwells will be available for catering locally in Gresham.

“We request fi ve business days notifi cation on catering hours. This will allow us enough time to place orders for product and to schedule staff,” said Carrie Bailey, director of

dining, in a notice on Tuesday.The catering menu can be

found on dining services under student services on the MHCC home page. To place an order, e-mail chartwells@mhcc.edu.

FastTrack available for summer term

MHCC will offer Summer FastTrack 2012 classes again this year.

Summer FastTrack offers general education and career classes that can be paired to save students time. “Take a bundle of classes. Save a bundle of time” is the program’s theme and the college is encouraging students to make good use of their time.

Detailed information about the Summer FastTrack program will be available in the Summer 2012 schedule, which will go online March 30. Students who take advantage of the program may enter a drawing to win an iPad.

For more information about the Summer FastTrack program 2012, contact Ursula Irwin, associate vice president of instruction, at ursula.irwin@mhcc.edu.

News Briefs

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sports 7“My program is one where we are training through the � rst couple of meets.”

Matt Hart, head track and � eld coach

Track team takes home seven first-place marks

by Chanel HillThe Advocate

The Saints softball team started its 2012 season by going 2-1 over the weekend in pre-season ac-tion.

The Saints split games Saturday with the Walla Walla Warriors. They won the fi rst game 1-0 behind freshman pitcher Rhianna Russell, who pitched scoreless six innings and held the Warriors to three hits.

Game two saw the Saints jump to an early 2-0 run lead after three innings. Each team scored in the fourth inning to bring the score to 3-1 going into the fi fth inning. Despite the lead, the Saints were unable to get their bats going; the Warriors made a steady comeback, scoring runs in the fi fth, sixth and seventh innings to edge the Saints 4-3.

On Sunday, the Saints faced the Columbia Basin Hawks. Their bats came out strong in the fi rst in-ning and the Saints scored three runs. The Hawks remained scoreless until they picked up a run in the fourth but they were unable to catch the Saints, who picked up three more runs to close out the Hawks 6-3.

The Saints, coming off a record-breaking season

where they won the NWAACC championship for the third consecutive season, head into this season with a freshman-dominated roster. “We want them to compete,” said head coach Meadow McWhorter, “and have a competitive approach in everything they do. With us being so young, I expect several of them to step up and be leaders.”

With the departure of ace pitchers Kayla An-derson and Chelsea Schriber, sophomore Ashley Devincenzi will get her chance on the mound. This is a position change for Devincenzi as she was be-hind the plate as catcher last season. “I am excited to watch Devincenzi as she takes on her new role in the circle,” said McWhorter

The Saints are fourth in the Southern Region with a 4-3 record and despite the three-peat cham-pionship, McWhorter said her goal for the team is improvement, not wins.

“Our main goal is to get better everyday. These girls want the opportunity to make their own his-tory in the Mt. Hood softball program,” said Mc-Whorter.

The Saints will head to Vancouver, Wash., this weekend to compete in the South Inter-Region Tournament. Check the NWAACCs website for tournament results and coverage.

Sophomore Amy Kegler (le� ) and freshman Molly Scoles, shown competing earlier this month in the women’s 4x100m at the Ice Breaker opener.

Upcoming Games

March 17 South Inter-Region Vancouver, Wash. 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.

March 18South Inter-Region Vancouver, Wash. 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

March 24West Inter-Region Centralia, Wash. 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

March 25West Inter-Region Centralia, Wash. 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Softball

Baseball

March 16 Treasure Valley Bend 10 a.m. March 16 Pierce Bend3:30 p.m.

March 17Edmonds CC Bend 10 a.m.

March 17 Wenatchee Valley Bend 3:30 p.m.

Photo contributed by Matt Hart

by John TkebuchavaThe Advocate

Hosting their fi rst home meet of the season, the MHCC track and fi eld team placed fi rst in seven events Saturday at the Saints Open.

Key performances on the women’s side led to three fi rst-place fi nishes, including notable performances by sophomore Amy Kegler, who placed second in the women’s 100-meter dash (12.85). Sophomore Terra Zod-row, who otherwise had a per-fect showing at the meet, trailed just behind in third place (13.03). Freshman Molly Scoles placed second in the 200 meters (26.51) and also placed second in the 400 meters in 59.90.

Zodrow won three events, including the 100-meter hurdles (15.37), the 400-meter hurdles (1:06) and the long jump (5.14 meters).

Other standout performanc-es on the women’s side include a third-place fi nish in the 1500 meters by sophomore Gabri-ela Diaz (4:55), freshman Mariah Delepierre’s third-place fi nish in the triple jump (9.70 meters). Freshmen Tori Dixson and Kai-tlin Doyle, who were neck and neck at the opening meet, once again led the women throwers, placing second and third, re-spectively, in the shot put with throws of 11.12 meters and 10.76 meters.

On the men’s side, freshman Douglas Sudberry placed fi rst in the 100 meters (11.16) and freshman Zechariah McLaurin won the long jump (6.64 me-ters). Sophomore Robert Hanke placed second in the 400-meter hurdles (34.33) and freshman Jacob Troupe placed third in the high jump (1.80 meters). Fresh-man Chris Un placed third in the triple jump (13.09 meters) and sophomore Tyler Callahan placed second in the javelin (59.91 meters).

Freshman thrower Jon Law-son, who is proving to be an in-valuable member of the men’s team in the last two meets, placed won the discus, with a throw of 43.41 meters, and also won the shot put (14.53 meters). He was second in the hammer throw (51.53 meters).

“Yeah, we had some great early season marks,” said head track and fi eld coach Matt Hart. “We had some promising per-formances in the men’s and women’s sprints, jumps, dis-tances and throws,” adding that they had “an increase in perfor-mances all across the track and

fi eld.” With Clackamas Community

College (who placed second at the 2011 NWAACCs in both men’s and women’s competi-tion) in the mix, it would seem like the Saints Open would be a good meet to gauge where the team stacks up in the confer-ence. But Hart said he wasn’t looking to count his chickens be-fore they hatch.

“It’s really too early to get a very good feel for where the teams are at right now. My program is one where we are training through the fi rst couple meets so the marks aren’t neces-

sarily representative of where we will be later in the season,” he said.

Ineligible athletes could be another reason Hart is wary to weigh his team.

“Other teams have similar programs, plus with students waiting to get eligible, which also makes it hard to ascertain the strength of some teams,” he said.

Asked when the ineligible athletes might compete, Hart said, “Assuming the ineligible athletes become eligible, the fi rst meet they could compete in would be the Willamette In-vite at the end of spring break, if the eligibility reports are run in time.”

In the case that athletes would still be ineligible come spring term, Hart said bluntly, “If they do not pass winter term, they are done (for the season). In order to be eligible to com-pete in the spring, they must have been full-time students and have passed at least 12 cred-its in the winter.”

Asked if the athletes would be able to become eligible at any point during the season, Harts only response was a grim one, “They will not be eligible to compete for the college. The only thing they can do is com-pete unattached at meets that al-low them to register.”

Contrary to the schedule posted on the MHCC website, Hart said the team will not be competing Saturday in the Pa-cifi c Preview meet, but will be competing Sunday at the Or-egon Preview meet, which is for qualifi ed athletes only.

“I am hoping to get as many athletes qualifi ed for the Oregon Preview as possible but the real-ity is that only a few will make the cut,” said Hart.

The Oregon Preview meet will be held at the University of Oregon at Hayward Field.

Saints softball shows promise in pre-season action

For additional baseball and softball games over the break, check www.nwaacc.org for times.

by John TkebuchavaThe Advocate

After donating over 10,000 hours of community service in the past decade, the SEED program (Scholarships of Education and Economic De-velopment, formerly known as CASS) marked its 10-year anniversary last month.

The program consists of nearly 40 students from various communities from Central America and the Ca-ribbean including the Domin-ican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.

According to Interna-tional Scholarship Programs Coordinator, Nikki Gillis, who coordinates SEED, “The SEED program is an interna-tional development program that offers scholarships to young leaders from rural and indig-enous communities from Central America and the Caribbean.”

The scholarship provides SEED students with housing and an MHCC education for two years. While here they study English as a second language and earn a certifi cate in environ-mental technology, according to Gillis.

In addition to their studies, SEED students participate in a variety of community service events and put in dozens of com-munity service hours every year.

“They do a lot of community service. They do service projects

all over the community and work with local government agencies and non-profi t groups as well as campus clubs. Each student com-pletes 20-30 hours of community service each term. Some of them are cultural exchanges where they share folklore dance and of-fer cultural presentations about their countries,” Gillis said.

Some of the organizations SEED works with include the City of Troutdale, Friends of Trees, ReTree International and Metro regional government.

“A lot of them (projects) are focused on restoration projects, so removing invasive species or planting native plants, trail maintenance, park improve-

ments,” she Gillis.One particular annual project

managed by SEED has become the staple of the program for a decade.

The project involves main-taining the Beaver Creek water-shed, which is a 60-acre creek managed by Metro Regional Government and runs through MHCC’s Gresham campus.

“For the last 10 years, our stu-dents have been doing monthly work back there (on Beaver Creek) to restore the natural area and improve the beaver creek water quality and water shed,” said Gillis.

The students have also plant-ed 10,000 native trees and shrubs

in the Beaver Creek area.“There’s a story to be told if

you walk through Beaver Creek. There are trees that were planted in 2003 that are now 20 feet tall, and there’s trees that were plant-ed in 2004 and 2005 and (2006). And this year these small, tiny shrubs this group planted, if they’re well taken care for by fu-ture generations of our students and others who want to volun-teer down there, soon enough those will be 20 feet tall,” said Gillis.

The SEED students’ work in the community is prefaced by the work they did to earn their scholarships.

“They’re (the students) from

rural communities where those (higher education) op-portunities are not available, which is why they’ve gotten a scholarship to come here,” said Gillis.

Gillis added that when many of the students try to pursue education in their home countries, they must overcome numerous diffi -culties including having to travel or live in another town just to fi nish high school.

“These students have al-ready overcome signifi cant obstacles to fi nish their high school education and dem-onstrated leadership quali-ties and commitment to their home country that put them in a position to get selected into the program,” said Gil-lis.

Once they fi nish, Gil-lis said the SEED students have made a commitment to return to their countries in order to bring their acquired knowledge back to their home countries and com-munities.

“For me, it’s a bonus that the focus of this program is natural resources, because I’m defi nitely passionate about contributing to a healthy environment but also contributing to the students learning so they can take that back with them to their coun-tries,” said Gillis.

For more information on the SEED program, contact Nikki Gillis at nikki.gillis@mhcc.eduor at 503-491-7505.

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SEED program celebrates 10 years of community service

� e SEED program has worked to restore, improve and maintain the beaver creek water shed over the last decade.Photo taken from MHCC website

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