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CULTURE...........................5

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Nov. 18, 2010 - Dec. 1, 2010 spokanefalls.edu/communicator Volume 42 | Issue 3

SFCC parking fine citations have doubled in total from $15 to $30 and moving violations will now be $40.

The citations have changed due to a decision made by the CCS district wide committee. All changes were in effect beginning of fall quarter.

Nov. 11 is a day most take to relax without concerning themselves about school or work, but for the men and women who serve and protect America, this day means something more.

Last week SFCC military veterans gathered together in the SUB Lounge to honor each other with patriotic songs, history, and stories of their service. People were given the opportunity to talk with the veterans about their experi-ences over seas and with the Military through the event ‘Surviving War Zones’.

“To me [Veterans Day] is a solemn recognition,” Joseph Cooney, a retired Air Force Veteran and first quarter stu-dent, said. “A lot of times people say, ‘Happy Veterans Day,’ to you, but to me it’s not a happy occasion.

“I have friends who are veterans of World War II, The Korean Conflict, The Vietnam conflict and I always like to thank those guys and I like to thank the people that are still out there now.”

Also known as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, Veterans Day occurs on Nov. 11 each year to mark the

According to Rachel Burgess, stu-dent security lieutenant, part of the reason parking tickets have been changed to $30 is due to the fact when the security office issues a tick-et they check the license plate to see to whom the car belongs.

If a car isn’t registered with the ca-shier's office, the school looks it up with the state vehicle registry--some-thing for which, the state charges a fee.

The fine increase helps offset the

signing of the Armistice that ended World War I in 1918.“Veterans day is a great celebration, but I’ve lost a lot

of friends,”John Monroe, a history instructor at SFCC who has served in The Marine Corps and Air Force, said. “It’s a great thing to try to celebrate what these people have given.”

Generally, the minimum amount of time required to serve after joining the Military is two years.

“At first I joined to get out of trouble...but after being in the Air Force I actually enjoyed it,” Cooney said. “I couldn’t think of doing anything else with my life.

“I’ve been all over the world and I love history so I’ve been able to go where the history is a 1,000 years old, rather than 100 or 200 as it is here in America.”

The Military offers benefits and experiences such as travel, learning job and life skills, getting payed educa-tion and learning about other cultures.

According to Cooney, he is very thankful to the ben-efits that he has gotten through the Military and that his college is paid for as he pursues a degree in elementary education.

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Instructor John Monroe served in The Marine Corps and Air Force and now teaches history at SFCC.

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Campus veterans recount wartime stories

Security cites state registry fee as partial cause for ticket price increase

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cost incurred by the school when it must query the state database to dis-cover for whom they must write the ticket.

“I got a ticket last quarter for pull-ing forward in a parking spot,” Vickie Daniels, SFCC student said.

“I thought it was kind of ridicu-lous, and now how the fines are go-ing up is just insane to me.”

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2 Did you know?: The U.S.A. Military’s nuclear stockpile was estimated at 9,400 in 2009.

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Spokane Transit Authority (STA) will be cutting routes in and out of Spokane.

“As goes the economy so does STA,” Susan Meyer, Chief Executive Officer of STA, said. “Sales tax has been dramatically low; lower than what we predicted, so measures have to be taken.”

Sales tax helps fund STA however, sales tax funding was 19 million dol-lars less than what was predicted for 2010.

Last month, fixed route service was cut by 3 percent. A 7 percent reduc-tion is proposed for 2011. The Spo-kane City Council met Oct. 19, and discussed this topic.

“It is important to inform the peo-ple of this issue because it affects many lives,” Richard Rush, Spokane City Council member said. “We want to provide quality service where we deliver it.”

As many as 1 million riders will be

affected. The number of people who work for STA will be reduced as well as the number of buses being used, in order for the agency to save money in a struggling economy.

“This is really a very difficult thing to do,” Meyer said. “We want people to know that we understand the im-pact it has, and if we didn’t have any financial problems we wouldn’t need to reduce services.”

Service in Liberty Lake will be cut

off completely. Also a number of oth-er routes that will be cut are; the 41 Latah, the 62 Medical Lake and the 67 Medical Lake.

“In the future we intend to go back into Medical Lake,” Meyer said.

Inside Spokane the following routes are proposed to be cut; 30 Francis, 31 Garland, 42 Maple and many more. Riders in the affected areas will be notified, but there are many things they can do to inform themselves.

“Position yourselves near the trans-portation that you need,” Rush said.

Meyer will be traveling to public neighborhoods to inform people of the changes that are proposed and that will occur. She will be accompa-nied by Karl Otterstrom, the Director of Planning for STA. Final decisions on proposed routes will not be made until March of 2011 and the changes on fixed routes will not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2011.

STA cuts routes to save

money

Deby Dixon| The CommunicatorSpokane City bus crosses The Washington Street Bridge on route to the STA bus plaza, a transportation hub.

“I got to go some good places: Italy, Greece, Korea,” Monroe said. “Greece was may favorite place.

“You have to watch out too because [the people in Greece] want you to eat seven or eight times a day and you can get pretty chunky.”

From training to combat, people in service face many

challenges. Monroe said the most challenging time in his career

was during the Tet Offensive, a series of campaigns launched by the North Vietnamese in 1968.

“They bombed at the base I was at and I thought it was the end of everything,” Monroe said. “This place just went up and [I was] very scared to death.”

In the U.S., as of 2008 there are 118.6 million citizens who are considered fit for duty. Of that, 59.41 million are women and 59.19 million are men.

“There are a lot of challenges,” Cooney said. “There are times when you get woken up in the middle of the night and get relocated to a different part of the world for different things.

“We went to sleep one night we thought we were go-ing home and we were woke up a couple hours later and we were going to Turkey.”

In 2008 there were 23.2 million military veterans in the United States according to the information provided by the SFCC veterans club.

“You go to combat and you don’t think that there is anything wrong with you but your mom and dad didn’t bring you up to go and kill people,” Monroe said. “You get into combat and you’re not the same.

“I thought I was the same guy, but it took quite a while for me to go get help and talk to someone.”

There is a day set aside to honor the people that have willingly watched over America every day of their ser-vice.

“I like to thank the people that are still out there now,” Cooney said. “For the sacrifices they’re doing because I understand what the sacrifice is.

“You miss birthdays, anniversaries and ultimately you miss family because when you come home families aren’t there... For me it’s an opportunity to say thank you to the people and I think that this community does it pretty well compared to some others I’ve been around.”

War:Veterans tell of war challenges and sacrifices

The “Silent Table” is a tradition that is meant to represent prisoners of war or those missing in action.


-vices at CCS was performed in 1985. The CCS taskforce included 20 members: three faculty from SCC, two from SFCC, one from IEL, four classified staff, three students, three parking/security personnel, one capital analyst, three administrators, and the chief financial officer.

“The members of the task force would conduct surveys throughout campuses but the surveys were not conduct-ed as initially planned, according to Linda McDermott, Taskforce Facilitator 2009-10. They used data from exist-ing documents and secondary data sources.”

The taskforce members used a brainstorming process in order to gain a perspective about the parking services at CCS. Items discussed in the process were: sustainabil-ity, fees and fines, and the need to develop new parking spaces for students an faculty.

Citations given will be reduced by 25 percent if paid within three business days of the citation date. Students and faculty will have 14 days to appeal a citation or pay for it. If a student is without a parking pass, they are able to get daily parking passes for two dollars a day.

This year, a consultant has been hired by CCS to devel-op a ten-year parking maintenance, repair, and improve-ments plan that will give students more parking spaces.

The SFCC 2010-11 school year parking lots mainte-nance amounted in a total of $141,400.

The taskforce will reconvene in 2010-2011 to discuss more changes in parking on campus.

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Correction

The Communicator does not like to make mistakes, but when we do, we correct them promptly. In some copies of Issue 42.2, the picture corresponding with the article “City buses to increase rates by 20 percent” had an incorrect cutline. The student in the photo is named Josh Watkins.

STA prices

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$45: Adult monthly pass

$22.50: Senior monthly pass (65+ or

disabled)

$34: Student monthly pass

There are 2,500 bus stops in the STA service

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Citations will be reduced by 26 percent if paid within three business days

THE ROLEOF WOMEN

Nov. 18 - Dec. 1, 2010 erspectivesP

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KAITLIN ALLEN | Editor

Geoff Lang | The Communicator

Career, family equally important

Women now have a

freedom to choose if and what career they have and if and when they get married andhave children. But when they choose to do both, it is expected that they be able to do it all. There is still a pressure on women to be able to balance all of these things. A woman should be able to be successful at work, get the kids to soccer practice on time and have a home cooked meal on the table, all with a smile on her face. This is what I want for my future, and yet it is old fashioned and not exactly realistic. According to a 2009 U.S. De-partment of Labor report, in 1950 of the women during their prime career and family years, ages 16 - 44, roughly 40 percent were in the workforce. By 2015 it is projected that the women in those same age groups roughly 75 percent of them will be working. Even though I want to have a suc-cessful career, I define success as a balance between career and family. Essentially I want to have my cake

SarahRadmer

and eat it too. I am at a point now in my early 20’s that my career is top priority. I am in college pursuing a 4-year degree hoping to have a successful professional career. However within 5 to 10 years I want to focus on establishing a family. I have a vision of the white picket fence with a husband, kids and cute dog for my future. According to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau, the average age for a woman to marry in 1900 was 22 and in 2003 that age had risen by only three years to age 25. Get-ting married after 30 feels old. But for me, a college diploma comes before a marriage certificate. In a study conducted by Cath-erine Mosher from Duke University Medical School, men prioritized re-lationships over success 10 percent more than women did. The women of this generation have been en-couraged to be successful on their own more so than past generations. Growing up I was always encour-aged to marry late, focus on career and wait for kids. I don’t know that this is necessarily the path I will take but it certainly has influenced my decision to pursue a career and focus on school for the time being.

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn't have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don't have what it takes.’”

-Clare Boothe LuceU.S. Congresswoman

“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing..”

-Gloria SteinemAmerican feminist, journalist, and political activist

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

-Joan Baez, Los Angeles Times, 1974Musician and activist

By The Numbers: In 58.9 percent of married-couple households with children, both the parents are employed.Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Nov. 18 - Dec. 1, 2010 PERSPECTIVES The Communicator

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KaitlinAllen

Marital success is determined by commitment, not age

Women have more free-dom now to choose whether or not they get

married, have kids or focus on their career. Despite this, women still juggle the same responsibili-ties at home. 40.8 percent of women over the age of 16 were employed in 1970, compared to 56.2 in 2008, ac-cording to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). Women have been making more of an appearance in the work-force, but they are still the ones who do most of the things at home: the same things women did before they were present in the corporate world. Time-use surveys by the BLS show that women still carry the bigger load of chores, household duties and child care and get less personal time than men, even though in 58.9 percent of married-couple households with children, both the parents are employed. Despite the fact that women are taking up even more responsibili-ties, they are also presented with more freedoms. Like the freedom to choose what they want to do with their life. Women are not only accepted in the higher education and working worlds, they are ex-pected to be there. Because of this, women have more choices now than ever. They just need to remember that it will take more juggling in order to be able to balance their priorities.

WendyGaskill

About a month ago, I got married

at the ripe old age of 19. I can’t even begin to name the number of people who told me I was crazy for committing to someone so early in my life. The same people told me I should focus on school and my career, rather than throwing away my future to become a wife. “A spouse just ties you down,” one friend said. “Keeping you from doing what you want to do.”

Three years ago, at the age of 29, I

had my tubes tied. I would have had it done much sooner, but doctors don’t like to sterilize young women who have yet to bear chil-dren. I heard “are you sure?” more times than I could count in the month leading up to my surgery. I had never been more sure of anything in my life, ever. I have big plans for my life. None of which include raising a family. I want to be able to pack up and move from city to city and not have to worry about the effects it would have on my family. I plan to measure my success on a global level, and I feel like a family would only slow me down. These days it seems like I’m surrounded by women who have succumb to the baby-pocalypse. A condition to which I am proud to be immune. But what bothers me the most is when women have babies that they aren’t ready for. According to a study released on Nov. 4 by the Census Bureau, one in four mothers with a recent birth were in poverty in 2008. The study also shows that more women are waiting until they have a Bachelor’s Degree to have their first child, but that 41.8 percent of babies born in 2008 were to mothers with a high school diploma or less.

Decision to have children should not be made lightly

Poll results from The Communicator Online are unscientific and current as of Nov 17.

WOMEN, hOW dO yOu dEFiNE succEss iN yOuR liFE?

A) Having a career - 13%B) Raising a family - 26%C) Both - 44%D) Other - 17%

Po l l R e s u l t sMEN, hOW dO yOu dEFiNE succEss iN yOuR liFE?

A) Having a careerB) Raising a familyC) BothD) Other

Visit us at spokanefalls.edu/communciator to vote on this poll.

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Some people, myself included, might argue that this is contributing to the dumbing down of America. I often like to rant about how things would be different if I ran the country. One of the first things I would do, would be to put birth control in the drinking water. Anyone wanting to have a baby would have to go through an application process that would involve a psychiatric evalua-tion, a parenting competency test and an income requirement. But don’t worry. No one in their right mind would ever let me be in charge. I just can’t get on board with people who think that a woman’s purpose in life is to spawn. I can get everything I want out of my life with-out adding to the over-population of the world. Mankind is not going to fade into extinction if people stop breeding indiscriminately.

To me, marriage does not mean I’ll be tied down and held back from my life; being married means I am finally beginning the journey of a lifetime. ust because I am getting married young doesn’t mean I’ll be held back from school and a career. When my husband and I finally do decide to start a family, I will step away from my career and put the energy into my children. When my children leave home, I will continue pursuing my passion in journalism. People also ask how I know for sure this man is the right one for me...how can I possibly know at 19? The median age for a woman’s first marriage is 25, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median age for women getting a divorce is 30. Ap-parently waiting a few more years to

get married isn’t doing anyone any good. The outcome of your marriage has nothing at all to do with age or situation and everything to do with commitment. According to a survey conducted by the National Fatherhood Initiative, 62 percent of ex-wives and ex-husbands said they wished their ex-spouse had worked harder to save the marriage. Lack of commitment was also listed as the number one reason for divorce. When I said “I do”, I meant it. For life. I am committed to putting time, effort and lots of work into my mar-riage and making my relationship with my husband work. Marriage is a huge commitment, and I fully realize that whether other people think I do or not.

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Nov. 18 - Dec. 1, 2010 Tucker Clarry | Editor

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Hipster

Tucker ClarryThe Communicator

BeliefsThe Hipster Code is pretty

easy to interpret. If it’s been done before, abandon it. If it’s been abandoned, adore it. Hipsters believe in recycling. Originally they turned to analog once the masses flocked to digital music, now they have adapted to the hybrid. A USB record player that lets them indulge in both earthly pleasures.

Another belief one must follow in this subculture is the instinctual defense to despise anyone not already in your circle of friends. That means the constant name calling and the labeling of a loner and vagabond as a hipster.

Diet

Disregarding the establishment’s so called “food pyramid,” hipsters often search for food that feeds their lunacy. Ditching water for Pabst Blue Ribbon and local coffee huts, hipsters are often dehydrated, sickly look-ing creatures. Most of their money is spent on food, which is bought at numerous whole foods grocery stores. Fashion

These clothes are made to look like the subject went on a spree at Value Village, spending $30 on a t-shirt that appears to be worth $2. The cloth draped over their svelte body usually promotes their interests. Be it what books they read or ironic “mainstream” icons

Geoff Lang | The Communicator

that were relevant when they were children (see: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Vanilla Ice).

Often females will decide to dress a little more unique, combining a hodge-podge of different cul-tures. A common female hipster will be found wear-ing a poly-cotton top that billows into their flannel short skirt, which drapes over their black leggings that are tucked into their polished leather cowboy boots, topped off with a tweed fedora. This looks exactly as it sounds. Interests in the arts

If there is anything that a hipster splurges on, it is their interest in their selected music scene. Hipsters often will illegally download music but give the caveat

that, “if it is of any quality, I will totally buy their record.” This is occasionally true. More often than not the hipster will download more music they can possibly listen to, but will gladly showcase these albums on the cover flow they play during their house parties.

A hipster, when not spending money on food or clothes, will be

found in their natural habitat of small venue concerts. These concerts are more-or-less to be seen rather than to actively watch the bands that are performing.

Bands that play woozy sludge metal or ambient KORG synth presets usually create the background noise as males wearing wayfarers search for mates in similarly clad ladies and amateur critics critique the bands personal brand (charisma, clothes and gimmick) while drowning out the music that they are discussing.

With this knowledge, you will be able to enter the crowd of hipsters and enjoy some of the quality inde-pendent music that they do. Editor’s Note: This is a satirical column written by none-other but a hipster.

A guide on the lifestyle of a hipster

Hipsters often will illegally download music but give the caveat that, “if it is of any quality, I will totally buy their record.”

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“If it’s been done before, abandon it. If it’s been abandoned, adore it. Hipsters believe in recycling.”

-Tucker Clarry

Nov. 18 - Dec. 1 2010 Culture The Communicator

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Brianna RollinsThe Communicator

The SFCC Community Orchestra offers a collabora-tive experience to the diverse groups of the school.

The orchestra is a combination of music majors, non-music majors, and community members. It is a full orchestra, complete with string, wind, and percussion sections. They are a club as well as a class.

It is a small task to get into the orchestra. And once in be prepared to play the real works, they do not play the same watered down works you played in high school.

“Most people know if they can handle the music as soon as they look at it,” Potter said. “The class is a training orchestra, we focus a lot on standard orchestral repertoire.”

They cannot preform in the auditorium, due to the construction on the new music building. For the time being, they frequently preform in the SUB. Their next

performances will be on Nov. 22 in the SUB, Mar. 14 in the music auditorium, and Jun. 6 in the music audito-rium. All performances will be at 7:30 p.m.

“My favorite thing for the orchestra will be all the room we have to preform and practice,” Potter said.

The orchestra plays classical music, and occasion-ally plays some newer classical as well. They almost never render any other genres.

While Hannah Beggs has only been playing with the SFCC Community Or-chestra for only a quarter, she has been playing the violin for 14 years.

Being in the orchestra has allowed Beggs to meet many people; she has worked with faculty at Eastern, Wash-ington State, Whitworth, and with world renowned musicians.

“I am pulling double duty at the with the SFCC Com-munity Orchestra and the Coeur d’ Alene Symphony,” Beggs said, “I love playing the violin.”

The Community Orchestra has a wide range in age

among their performers. They will commonly have Run-ning Start students and community members who are well into retirement.

“I love having the older, more experienced people around and I often have the best conversations with them,“ Beggs said. “I can only think of one lasting

friendship that I still hold precious to this day.”

Chelcee Zollman also new to the SFCC Community Orchestra has been playing for eight years.

“I love orchestra because they have many instruments playing to create one sound,” Zollman said.

Not only is Zollman in the orchestra she also highland dances, is an in-

structor of highland dance, and coaches for the Shadle Park High School JV highland dance team. Not to mention she plays in pipeband, for her church worship team, and is a Christian leader for her youth group.

“This class is my stress reliever. The one class that makes me feel better and relaxed,” Zollman said.

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“I love orchestra because they have many instruments playing to create one sound.”

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One out of two full-time col-lege students drink alcohol on binges or abuse drugs at least once a month according to a study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

Rebecca Mortensen is a nurs-ing major at SFCC who on average drinks four to five times a month and consumes five to seven drinks on those occasions. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) binge drink-ing is drinking five or more drinks for men or four or more drinks for women during a two hour period. This can lead to increased risk of health problems such as liver dis-ease or unintentional injuries. A standard drink is equal to 13.7 grams (0.6 ounces) of pure alcohol according the the CDC. Gener-ally, this amount of pure alcohol is found in 12-ounces of beer or a “shot” of 80-proof distilled spirits or liquor.

According to Mortensen, the most she’s spent on alcohol was $60 in one night.

“When I know that I’m going to go out on the weekend I try to set aside some money,” Mortensen said. “I’ll eat lunch at home for the week.

“I wont eat out and save that money for the weekend.”

Chelsea Coon, SFCC student, said she’s witnessed friends becoming violent and making stupid deci-sions due to the amount of alcohol consumed.

“One of my friends, when he drinks he gets really violent,” Coon said. “He got out of hand and punched a door.

“He doesn’t know when to stop drinking and people don’t like him coming to any parties because of how he gets when he drinks.”

According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the three leading causes of death for 15 to 24 year-olds are automobile crashes, homicides and suicides, alcohol is a leading factor in all three.

Coon said she has felt pressured by peers to drink and do drugs.

“I’ve been pressured by friends or whoever is at the party, but I

know my limit and when to stop,” Coon said. “I don’t drink that much anymore since none of my friends

really drink.”Kaydee Steele is

a Chemical Depen-dency instructor here at SFCC.

“Our society, our media glorifies drinking,” Steele said. “It’s become this right of pas-

sage for college students to drink.”According to Steele, if people

binge drink it doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a chemical dependency.

“There’s a difference between

somebody saying that you have a problem and being clinically chemically dependent,” Steele said. “If you’re putting yourself in danger or have reoccurring legal problems then you might be chemically dependent.”

Steele said to determine if some-one has a chemical dependency they have to take a clinical assess-ment.

Carlos Santos is a fourth quarter SFCC student studying education.

“I drink on occasion but it’s not a main priority of mine to drink,” Santos said. “I put my family and work first and there are other, more important things for me to do other than drink.”


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The students who lost their lives in such massacres as Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, and Northern Il-linois University could have been warned that there was a person(s) on campus with a loaded firearm, and per-haps they would still be with their loved ones today.

That is exactly the idea behind the new Emergency Alert System now provided by CCS and surround-ing communication. The system is able to send emergency messages through cellular phones, text messages, emails, and Voice over the inter-net. This new program falls under the Spokane Community Emergency Notification System.

“Last week a college in Texas had a shooter threat,” first quarter student Paige Gill said. “Emergencies happen all the time; this 30 second sign up helps all of us keep

informed in times of crisis. “What other reason is there not to do it, other than pure

laziness?” This new measure was put into effect in August of

2008. Students and staff are encouraged to visit ccs.spokane.edu and double click the link “CCS Alerts: Sign Up For Emergency Alerts.” Students and staff will then be prompted to enter their email address, cellular phone number, and their cell phone provider. They are also asked how the participant wants to be notified, and for what area of Spokane.

This system will also inform students and staff of snow outs, school closures, and general weather conditions that will impact both the students and campus. Under the Spokane Emergency System students and staff may also receive text messages from police for their help solving crimes or find missing persons.

SFCC student Lizzy Grace, 19 said she likes the idea of the text alerts as long as they don’t send unnecessary text messages.

“I don’t pay for my text messages just to have them wasted on spam,” Grace said. “This idea could save our lives.”

Binge drinking

Binge drinking is more com-mon in men

51 percent of binge drink-ers are 18 to 20-years-old

1.5 billion epi-sodes of binge drinking among

people 18 years or older occur annually

Source: Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Free alerts notify students of emergencies

“It’s become this right of passage for college students to drink.”

-Kaydee SteeleChemical Dependency

instructor

CCS alerts send messages through text, email, phone calls

90 percent of the alcohol consumed by youth under the age of 21 in the United States is in the form of binge drinking.

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When to say when: Binge Drinking, a right of passage for college students

Did You Know?: 75 percent of the alcohol consumed in the U.S. by adults over 21 is in the form of binge drinking. Source: cdc.gov

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Imagine passing through a crowded hall with students rushing to their next classes, students who refuse to look you in the eyes or smile at you. What would it be like to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and see the world through different eyes?

Tanner Bancroft is a SFCC student enrolled in the sign language interpreter program. Banccroft has Spina bifida, a birth defect that caused Bancroft to loose all feeling below the waist, he now uses a wheel chair to get around.

According to the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, almost one in five people have a disability and almost one out of every seven people has an activity limitation or difficulty executing an activ-ity.

Bancrofts day begins early in the morning.“I get up and like most people I go to the bathroom

and then feed my dog,” Bancroft said. “After that I shower and then I get myself ready for class at 8:30.”

According to Bancroft he uses the public bus system as his form of transportation to and from school.

“I was waiting at the bus stop and was in line before everyone else and they decided to get in front of me instead of waiting for me to board,” Bancroft said. “The bus driver usually wont do anything.

“There are few that will let me on first and tell other people to wait.”


The student health clinic provides health care to students of SFCC with little to no cost.

The student health center was first opened in 2006 and is contracted and run by Washington State Uni-versity. The clinic is open to students from SFCC and SCC.

The clinic provides services in-cluding diagnosis and management of minor illness and injury, inter-val management of stable chronic illness, simple diagnostic testing including urinalysis and pregnancy

testing, clearance for return to school or work, TB testing, health promotion services and referrals

The number of uninsured Americans rose from 4.3 million in 2008 to a record high 50.7 million in 2009. According to stateuniversi-ty.com nearly one third of all Ameri-cans between the ages of 18 and 24 years old lack health insurance.

Linda Ward is one of six ad-

vanced Registered Nurse Practitio-ners that provides health care to students.

“I think that not enough students know about the clinic,” Ward said. “We get students all the time that say they wished they had known about the clinic

last year.”869,000 people are without

health care in Washington state according to the Physicians for a National Health Program.

Beginning Fall of 2009 the clinic was supported by student funds. Students voted to tax themselves and pay a quarterly fee to help keep the clinic open.

In the 2008 - 2009 school year the clinic serviced 1,396 students. This number jumped to 1,946 dur-ing the 2009 - 2010 school year.

Under the new health care reform, adults 25 and younger can now be insured under a parent’s insurance provider as long as they aren’t married.

According to a new report from the commonwealth fund, over the next three years, about 1 million un-insured young adults are expected to join their parents’ policies.

During Spring of 2010, 52 percent of the visits made to the clinic were for urgent care, 29 percent of the visits were for TB tests, 11 percent for physicals, and 8 percent for Im-munizations.

“We’re not here to provide primary care or to replace physi-cians,” Ward said. “ We’re here to do urgent care or treat minor acute illness.”

According to Ward, another purpose of the clinic is to provide a clinical site or practice site for some of the health science programs at SCC.

Andrea Daymude, 27, is a Medi-cal assistant student at SCC.

“I think working in the clinic is a good way to learn,” Daymude said. “I definitely feel more prepared.”

According to Candy Howard, Certified Medical Assistant, the clinic serves on average 28 patients a day and has an average wait time of 15 minutes.

“A lot of the times students come in for one thing and we find some-thing else that needs to be treated.” Ward said. “Its really a great oppor-tunity to serve students and to get them back into class.”

Clinic provides health care with little cost

Deby

Through my eyesStudent with Spina Bifida seeks to be treated with respect, understanding

“A lot of the time students come in for one thing and we find something else that needs to be treated.”

-Candy Howard Certified Medical Assistant


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CCS Health Clinic

52 per-cent of visits

made to the clinic were for urgent care

29 percent of the visits to the clinic were

for TB tests

1,396 stu-dents received service at the clinic in the 2008-2009 school year

1 million uninsured

young adults are expected to join their par-ents’ policies

869,000 people are with-out health care in Washington

state

Source: SCC Health Clinic, Com-

monwealth fund, Physicians for a National Health

Program.


Bancroft, enjoys anything related to the theatre.

Student Al Ghambi Obaid demonstrates his ailment to Candy Howard, CMA Certified Medical Assistant. Obaid is from Saudi Arabia and does not speak English. He was accompanied by an interpreter.

After his bus ride Bancroft heads for his first class of the day.

“Part of me feels alone walking down the hall to class,” Bancroft said. “I wonder who am I going to en-counter today that is going to make some rude remark.

“I’m afraid of their prejudgements of what I can and

can’t do when I believe I can do anything.”According to Bancroft, after class he usually hangs

out with people who are accepting of him, finishes his homework, then returns home to his dog.

“I get stares all the time from people,” Bancroft said. “I say: ‘Is there something wrong with me; is there some-thing on my face that I don’t see?

“Prejudgements have caused me to build up anger towards people.”

Dorian Nabors is a SFCC administrative secretary stu-dent who said she feels uncomfortable around physically disabled people.

“I get nervous around physically disabled people because I don’t want to make them angry or make them think that I feel sorry for them,” Nabors said. “I want to open doors every chance I get but I’ve been told that they don’t want the help.”

Danielle Pulham, psychology instructor at SFCC, said that people tend to avoid things that are unfamiliar to them.

“We tend to socialize with individuals who are more similar to us than those who are unsimilar,” Pulham said. “As human beings, we have the need to belong and feel accepted.

“You feel isolated when you’re not a part of the group.”According to Pulham, human beings tend to evaluate

themselves in the eyes of others.Bancroft attends church, and according to him, even

there he has witnessed apprehensive behaviour. “At one point at my old church, I approached an

elderly woman and she said for a while she was trying to avoid me because she was afraid of the chair,” Bancroft said. “It hurts, but then I realize they’re more afraid of what they don’t understand.

“The only thing we can do is educate people, get the knowledge out there, and help them to learn about dis-abilities.”

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Japanese writing covers the wall, suspended paper lanterns and fans hang from the ceiling, pho-tos of students casually doing the “peace” sign are posted, and Hello Kitty nick knacks are on a comput-er desk. This is Yaska Huff’s office.

Huff, a Japanese Instructor here on campus, was born in Osaka Japan and later moved out of Japan and to Tennessee at the age of 28 when urged by her mother.

“My mother went to Hawaii and she told me I had to see the world, I had to get off this tiny island,” she said. “I wanted to see the world besides Japan.”

According to Huff, she enjoyed being in charge but never thought about teaching until people told

her she was good at it and the op-portunity appeared for her to teach.

Huff enjoys country and folk music,and also originally attended SCC, majoring in horticulture. She later received an A.A. degree from SFCC and went on to receive her Masters degree from Gonzaga University.

“I was an international student when I attended SFCC,” Huff said. “Even if you are from a different country, you can still succeed.”

Huff, who has been teaching at SFCC for a total of 15 years, first started teaching computers to se-nior citizens and later heard about the Japanese position and applied.

“When I was here the instructors were very helpful so I wanted to come back and help,” Huff said. “The classes are smaller so instruc-

tors bond with their students and become friends.”

Huff who enjoys backpacking, camping, yoga, and has a deep infatuation with her dogs is also the advisor for the Japanese club and the Anime club here on SFCC campus.

“She’s really silly, makes all the students feel welcome and makes the students laugh,” said Carly Woodward, Anime club member and running start student. “You can ask her anything about Japan and she’ll give you a straight answer, even if it’s weird.”

According to Huff, she doesn’t plan on moving back to Japan any time soon.

“Maybe when I’m old but not right now,” Huff said. “I have my job and my family here.”

Japanese phrases

Ohayo

Goodmorning

Kon-nichi-wa

Good after noon/Hello

Sayonara

Good bye/ See you later

Oyasumina-sai

Good night

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Japanese instructor brings culture to the classroom

Yaska Huff has been teaching at SFCC for a total of 16 years.

idelinesNov. 18 - Dec. 1, 2010 CLarissa Stoddard | EditorS

Did You Know?: In speed-skating events racers reach speeds as high as 30 miles per hour. Source: encyclopedia.com

Clarissa StoddardThe Communicator

Iceskatingisanactivitythatmanyassociatewithwintersports. Thereareiceskatingrinksonlyopenduringwintermonths,therearealsorinksopentheentireyear. TheEaglesIcearenaisopenallyearandtheIcePalace,inRiverfrontPark,isopenfromnowuntilFeb.27,2011.Bothicerinkshavebeenopensince1974;theIcePalacewasconstructedforExpo‘74. TheIcePalaceisanoutdoorrinkandEaglesisindoor.TheIcePalacehasnewimprovementsandnowhasindoorseatingaswellasoutdoor. MarissaEvanslikesiceskating,exceptthecold. “IamnotverygoodbutIenjoyitwheneverIgo,”Evanssaid. TheEaglesarenaisclosedforma-jorholidays,althoughtheIcePalaceisopenextrahoursonholidays. Forthoseinterestedinlearningtoiceskate,therearelessonsatbothrinksforallages.AttheIcePalace,thereareclassesforagesfouranduporaparentandtot/home-schoolclassesforagesthreeandup.Thenextses-sionforthefourandupagegroupisJanuary15;theparentandtotlessonsstartJanuary11.Lessonsforallcosts

$59.00andParentandtotlessonscost$39.00.ThelessonsofferedatEaglesareLearn-to-Skateforagesfiveandup.Pre-schoolclassesareMondaysandWednesdaysfrom1-2pmorTuesdaysandThursdaysfrom10amto11am.Atthepre-schoolclasses,ahelmetisrequested.BothlessonsatEaglescost$75.00. PhillipBrowndoesnoticeskateasmuchashegoesrollerskating. “Idon’treallylikeiceskating.I’mnotverygoodatit,”Brownsaid. “Icanrollerskatemuchbetter,Idon’tfalldownasmuch.” AttheIcePalace,notonlyaretherespecialdaysthathaveextraskatinghours,therearedayswhenitcostslesstoskate.Two-DollarTuesdayis$2.00admissionwiththe$3.25skaterental.Wednesdaynightfrom7pmto8:30pmis$1.00,Col-legenight(Wednesday)isalso$1.00withID.ThereisalsoaLunchBunch(withskates),Wednesdayfrom11amto2pmwithapriceof$4.50.Formorediscountdays,gotospokan-eriverfrontpark.com. Bothrinkscanberentedandhaveparties.TheIcePalacecanberentedduringnon-publichours.Thecostis$175anhourwithskaterental$2.75perperson.ThereisalsoanIMAXandiceskatingpartypack.AttheEaglesrink,therearethreepartyoptionsrangingfrom$12perpersonto$7perperson.Themoremoneya

personneedstopay,themorethingsareofferedfortheparty. Evenifyoudon’twanttobecomeaworldfamousfigureskatersomeday,learningtoiceskateisabenefi-cialsportthatcanhelpinmanyothersports. CorbinFanaraiceskatesandrollerskates. “I’monThePrettyDeadliesRollerDerbyteamandiceskatingisalotlikerollerskating.”Fanarasaid. “Iceskatingworksmanyofthesamemusclegroupsasrollerskatingandworksdifferentonestoo,itisfuntopretendtobeaproevenifyouarenotverygood.”

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Winterisdrawingnear.Snow-boardersandskiersarebeginingtobuyseasonpasses. Allofthemountainsinthearea

aredifferentinseveralwaysfromelevation,toamountofruns,passprices,tothecommunity.SomeofthemostvisitedmountainsaroundSpokaneareMt.Spokane,49De-greesNorthandSilverMountain.

MtSpokaneis2,000feetineleva-tion,49DegreesNorthis1,851feetandSilveris2,200.Mt.Spo-kanehasfivechairsleadingto45runs,49hassixliftswith75runs,Silverhomessixliftswith73trails.Seasonticketsare$369atMt.Spokane,$475at49Degreesand$329atSilverMt. TylerOrlowskisnowboardsatMt.Spokane. “Ilikehowit’sclose,firstofall,”Orlowskisaid.“Icanalwaysgoupwithmyfriends,andifnot,Ial-waysseepeopleIknowupthere.”Orlowskienjoysthesmaller,morepersonablecommunityandmoun-tain. “It’snotahugemountainsoyoucandomanyrunswithgoodsnow,”Orlowskisaid.“Ialsolovethechilly,beautifultreesandter-rainpark.” CameronEckersleyisaseasonpassholderat49DegreesNorth. “WhatIlikemostabout49isall


The Ice Palace in Riverfront Park is recognized as one of the best outdoor skating rinks in the nation.

Slipping and sliding around SpokaneIce skating can cost as little as $2 on student skate night

the‘freshies’,(freshsnow),theygetallwinterlong,”Eckersleysaid.“Ialwayshaveagoodtimebecauseofit.” Eckersleyalsogoesfortheterrainpark,greatfoodandcommunity. “Iliketoshredtheparkwithmybros,”Eckersleysaid. AngeloCorneliusskisandsnow-boardsatSilverMountainandhegoesforboththesnowandthecommunity. “IlikeSilverMountainbecausethesnowseemslikeit’smoresuit-ableforsnowsportson,”Corneliussaid.“Thisiswhatsetsthemoun-tainapartfromeveryother.” Corneliustakesprideinsnow-boardingandskiingwithafriendlycommunity. “Ilikethattheserviceisfastandfriendly,”Corneliussaid.“Thereareplentyofhillsforawiderangeofskiersandboarders,whetherthey’refirsttimersorprofession-als.”

Mt. Spokane Silver Mountain 49 Degrees North

2000 ft2200 ft

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All places to ski or snowbord are opening soon for winter weather fun.

Coming down the mountain

Spokane Snowfall

Three snowiest winters

1949-50: 93.5”

2007-08: 89.5”

1974-75: 89.0”

Most snowfall in

one day

11/04/1973: 9.0”

10/22/1957: 5.9”

11/04/1994: 5.2”Source: wrh.noaa.gov

Ice Skating

Ice PalaceEvening Hours Tues. - Thurs. 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Fri. - Sat. 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cost Adult $4.50, Youth, Seniors, Military $3.50, Skate rental $3.25

EaglesHours Open Mon. - Sun. Open skate times change weeklyCost Adult $5.50 Youth, Seniors $4.50 Skate rental $1.50

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By the numbers: 120 is the average number of lights, bulbs, and flashers in a modern pinball machine.Source: bmigaming.com

With games like Ms. Pac Man, Tekken Tag, and NBA Jam Extreme the SFCC recreational center looks more like an arcade Museum. These games serve a useful purpose though, they help keep the rec. center open for students to enjoy. Along with 13 arcade games the rec. center also has seven pool tables, an air hockey table, ping pong and a bowling alley. It also offers a television in the back so students can bring their own video game systems and play what they would like. The rec. center is self sufficient making $1421 last fall quarter, $810 of that coming from the arcade games and $611 coming from the pool tables. “Pool is honestly our biggest draw,” Heather McKen-zie, Director of Student Funded Programs said. SFCC contracts through a company called Bullseye. Bullseye supplies all the arcade games, pool tables, and pool sticks. Any upkeep that is needed on the games or pool tables is taken care of by Bullseye. The rec. center gets to keep 49 percent of all the money that the games and pool tables earn. All the money made goes right back into the rec. center. Not all students that use the rec. center share the same enthusiasm about the arcade games available.

“Xbox games have better quality and you can do more with them,” SFCC student Jared McShane said. “And you don’t have to pay 50 cents every time you die. “They should cut their losses and get more televisions for gamers.” If the arcade games in the rec. center were replaced with televisions the money to keep it open would have to come from somewhere else. “The arcade games pay for the rec. center,” Mckenzie said. “We would be losing money.” Heather McKenzie takes care of ordering of all the games that go into the rec. center. All the games come from student requests. “If a student requests a game, we will get it,” McKen-zie said. “We had Dance Dance Revolution and it got very little play so we pulled it. “If games get a lot of play we will keep it.” With its old games and worn pool tables the rec. center is still bustling with activity every day its open. It serves as a place for students to go and relax with friends. “It’s a lot of fun,” SFCC student Elijah Rivers said. “You can play pool, go bowling,and play arcade games.

Rec. center provides mix of old-school, new entertainment

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With over a dozen games, rec. center provides entertainment, profit

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an amazing device,” Beatie said. In some ski or snowboarding boots Hotronics can be used where the boot is heated on the inside and a battery pack is kept on the outside. Gloves are also used with the Hotronics device. Running shoes have came along way not only in design but how they are beneficial to a workout. The new Nike Plus is a shoe that holds a sensor under the padding to help record data. The sensor ranges from 19 to 20 dollars and is compatible with most Apple products such as the iPhone or iTouch. “There is an application on the I phone and through headphones, it tells you things like how far you have ran and how many calories you may have burned,” Keith Wiggen said, 29, Sports Town employee said. “Another shoe I have that may benefit some one’s work out is the Tone Sketcher,” Wiggen said. “This shoe is made with really soft material and this makes the leg and butt muscles work harder then a normal shoe would.” Clothing and footwear has been designed to assist people in various ways and this will continue for many

years to come. “I love the outdoors and have been on the moun-tains ever since i was young, Beatie said. “I’m excited to see what’s in store for us in the next 5 to 10 years or so.”

The Rec Center Arcade Games: Golden Tee 2K, Tekken Tag, Bug Buck Hunter 2006, NBA Jam extreme, Ms. Pacman, Maximum Force, Cruis’n worldOther Rec offerings: Mousin’ Around pinball, 7 pool tables, Ping pong table, Air hockey table, Bowling alley, Television for video game consoles

Fabric Facts

Cotton, linen, silk, and wool are natural fabrics and polyester, rayon, nylon, and acrylic are man-made materials.

The GORE-TEX material was used by snowboarders for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

KEVLAR is the material used in bullet-proof vests and it is five times strongr than steel.

Some sports clothing has anti-microbial technology that traps bacteria and releases it during a wash cycle

SFCC student, Adam Arguello, 28, wants to major in the production of music for video games.

It is essential to keep dry, warm or cool, and com-fortable in our clothing especially in the outdoors. Whether it’s fabrics or wiring, a lot more goes into our clothing then most people think. Down is a common and natural fiber that is used in most coats to help keep warm and has been used for years. Today, there are over 100 different materials used both organic and synthetic to not only help keep warm, but dry and air ventilated as well. GORE-TEX and Polartec are examples of efficient modern outdoor wear. “GORE- TEX, I find, is the best material for clothing out there,” Jesse Horracks, 31, an REI employee said. “It is wind and waterproof and very durable.” GORE-TEX features hard shell and soft shell jackets used for different weather conditions. “The material is breathable meaning the material has micro pores that doesn’t allow water but allows vapor from within to escape so when you sweat it sort of breathes out,” Horracks said. Polartec has a moisture transport system to help keep the body dry and to help regulate temperature. Fine fibers pick up moisture in the inner layer and spreads the moisture to the thick outer layer which has more surface area helping the dampness evaporate. Odor blockers or antimicrobial is used on some of the clothing to help extinguish odors that tend to stay into the material. Further beyond fabrics, electronics and wiring is in-volved today in clothing weather it be to heat the body, power an I Pod, or initiate a GPS tracking device. “The Zeal Trenscend Goggle is a high tech, world’s first GPS enabled goggle with heads up data display,” Mark Beatie, 50, an outdoors man said. “These goggles can track speed, altitude, distance, location, and more;

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Ryan Norstadt, motorcycle mechanic inquires about ski supplies with The Shop owner Ricky Krieger.

Don’t sweat itSynthetic materials used in sports clothing to maintain body temperature and to keep out, release perspiration.

Source: akapparel.com

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In 1979, the first portable music player, The Sony Walkman, was launched, and it forever changed the way we listen to music. The Walkman was created by Nobutashi Kihara, for Sony founder, Akio Morita. “This is the product that will satisfy these young people who want to listen to music all day,” Morita said. “If we put a playback only-headphone stereo like this on the market, it’ll be a hit.” It was a hit, and over 220 million, and 300 different models of the Walkman have been produced. In mid-October of this year, Sony announced that they are retiring the cassette-based Walkman and will no longer produce it in Japan, although China will still produce it to be distributed in the U.S. “We sell maybe one Walkman and two portable CD players a month,” Keith Mooney, 27, a Radio Shack employee said. “They haven't been as popular since the memory-based devices came out.” The Walkman was also the father of the long-forgot-ten mixtape, a compilation of favorite songs. The first Compact Disc-based Walkman, called the Discman, was released in 1984. It gained popularity with consumers because of the better sound quality and the ease of playback. Discmans were at the height of popularity in the 90’s,

especially after ESP (electronic skip protection) was invented, making the experience of CD players much more enjoyable. But by the late 90’s with the invention of MP3, the Discman foresaw its last years living in the dusty drawer with its cassette- based cousin. In 1987, The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany began research on MP3 and in 1989, received a pat-ent. MP3 stands for MPEG audio layer III and it is a compressed file of music, with little or no sacrifice of sound quality. MP3 files began to appear on the Internet, but the first portable player wasn’t introduced until the late 90’s. The first commercially-released MP3 player was the MPMAN F10, launched in 1998. It had only about 32 megabytes of storage, which might equal to about one CD. In October 2001, the iPod was released by apple. The first generation of iPod used Toshiba’s 1.8” hard drive and it sold well due to the high storage capacity. At the time, it had 5 gigabytes of memory.

“The Discman used to be my go-to toy, but now i use an iPod,” SFCC running start student, Brooklyn Hodge, 16, said. “I can plug it into my car, headphones or loud speak-ers, its smaller and very convenient to take anywhere.” Itunes is a file management program for the iPod and is only compatible with the ipod. To down-load, it costs $0.99 for the songs, and $1.99 for the videos. The iPod offers dozens more feature such as Apps, download-able books and movies, and there is also an iPhone which is basically a cellphone and iPod in one.

Portable music evolves

Listening to portable music devices on the go has come far since the tape player

1979 1984

“The iPod sells obviously much more than others be-cause of all the different features it offers, and because of the Apple name brand,” Connor Keogh, 21, a Radio Shack employee said. With all of the advancement music has made in the past, it will only be a matter of time before new futur-istic devices are invented that will make the iPod look like an ancient relic.

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1998 2001Cassette-based Walkman Disc-based Walkman “Discman” Digital MP3 player Apple iPod

Honorable mentions

Panasonic Plunger- 1971-Portable eight track player that came in blue, red, and mustard yellow. Ran on four D-cell batteries

Sony MZ1 minidisc player- 1992-storage disc-based device. Stored up to 74 minutes of digitized auto

Source: 8trackheaven.com, minidiscplayers.org

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