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The p 0 L E IVI I C December 14, 1994 Volume 4 Issue 4 _Art students get hot Pg.8 I The Alpena Con1n1un1-. College New grade of toilet paper Pg.5 Should we be afraid? BY SHAWN DEMPSEY PoUJMICEDtroll. Alpena resident.~ are NOT being stalked by a serial rapist, says Thad Taylor, director of public safety, in a recent news release. The news release was issued in response to numerous telephone calls received by the police department from citizens hearing rumors of several rapes being reported in the city. On two separate occasions, a woman was approached by a maJe subject late at night in a bar parking lot, and Taylor feels the rumors may have stemmed from these complaint~. In both incidents, the male subject made a suggestive comment to the woman, but the woman was able to get into her car and drive away. Both incidents are under investigation, and the police de- partment is not certain that the same male subject is respon- sible. The rum0F has made some people thr~:mghout the commu- nity more safety conscious in recent weeks. According to ACC student Jennifer Weinkauf, who is a sales associate at JC Penney, employees were told to walk to their cars in groups. On cam- pus, English Instructor Sonya Titus was warned to be careful because she was told there was a rape behind the Natural Re- source Center. ACC student Deb Haske even had an instructor leave class to walk her to her car. "I was very uncomfortable walking out alone to my car where the parking lot was not well lit," she explained, "and there was no one around who I knew." Even Taylor's wife came home and asked him why he had not told her about the police of- ficer turned serial rapist who was terrorizing Alpena. While Taylor believes Al- pena is a relatively safe place, he adds, "You can't say we're immune from anything; anything can happen anywhere, and any- thing can happen here." Taylor assures that if these crimes were happening, they would be reported in the local media. Regardless, it is recom- mended that citizens, especially females, take the following pre- cautions when walking to their vehicJes during nighttime hours: One of the things Rogg would like to accomplish with the Foundation is to establish an alumni association so graduates can contribute to ACC. ■Park your vehicle in a well lighted, well traveled area. ■Check the interior of your vehicle prior to getting into your vehicle. ■Get your keys in hand be- fore getting to your vehicle. ■Lock aJI doors once inside your vehicle. ■ Be aware of your surround- ings as you walk to your vehicle. ■Ask someone to walk with you to your vehicle. ()uchl Financial aid cut Pg.3 Photo by Jennifer Weinkauf Julie Smigelsk.i asks the community what it CARES about. Alpena CARES BY SHAWN DEMPSEY PoUM[C EvrroR Alpena citizens have spo- ken, and they are concerned about jobs, youth activities, and the environment. Thanks to CARES and a $65,000 grant, they can do something about it. The Alpena area was one of six in Michigan chosen to par- ticipate in CARES, Communities Accessing Resources to Engage in Service. This is a new project designed to test the effectiveness of a collaborative, community- based planning proce.5s for national and community service programs. The grant is to focus on community needs. The four member committee, Vernie Nethercut, Julie Smigelski, Charles Wiesen, and Lucas Pfeiffenberger, asked different groups how they would like to see the money spent and a total 642 people responded. Twelve of the 19' groups surveyed named jobs as number one or two on their list of con- cerm, followed by youth activities with eight votes and environment with seven. Somt' of the ;:.-rnup~ ::p- proached mclude the A!pena Community College Leadership Class, the Alpena High School Wildcat staff, the Alpena Law- yers Auxiliary, and the Senior Citizen's Center. In addition, a public forum was held at ACC and a survey wa.~ published in The Alpena News. Other first and second Photo by Jennifer Weinkauf Cathy Rogg, ACC's new Fpundation director, choices on the list of concerns Photo by Jennifer Weinkauf include families, health, early is already up to her elbows in work. Rogg named Foundation head ACC second year art student Joan Rings prepares a painting of sunflowers for An Evening With The Arls held on Friday, Dec. 16, at EAC. See story on page 9. "Grant" continued on page 2 BY Toon PRICH STAPP WR!T/!11 Alpena Community College has a new foundation director, and her name is Catherine Rogg. Rogg, a Central Michigan Uni- versity graduate, has held such positions as the liaison for the governing board at Oakland Uni- versity and the executive assistant for the Community Foundation For NortheastMichi- gan. While at Oak.land Univer- sity (1986-1993), Rogg served on various committees, one of these being the inaugural com- mittee for the university president. Last year, Rogg handled the day to day activities for the Community Foundation. Originally from Sault St. Marie, Rogg, her two-year-old son, and her husband, Jeff, who is a clerk in the 26th Circuit Court, decided to move to Al- pena because Rogg staled, "It's really beautiful here." Rogg, whose interests in- clude theatre costume design, has worked for four years at St. Dunstan's Guild of Cranbrook, a community theatre. Some of the plays she's worked on are: My Fair Lady, Death Trap, and Dracula. When asked what she plans to accomplish with the Founda- tion, Rogg said, "I hope to do four things: first, I want the Foundation to become more vis- ible in the community; second, i want to increase its awarene.~s around the school and the com- munity; thirdly, l would like to raise the endowment so that pro- grams around the college can be enhanced; finally, I want to es- tablish an alumni association so that graduates from ACC who Ground breaking between the Natural Resource Center and Besser Tec:hnical Center began before the snow fell. want to contribute back to the college can." She is also planning a spe- cial event for the spring or summer of '95. The Foundation is a non- Leadership class produces Youth Activity Guide profit organization dedicated to -------- financially supporting the col- Br KATIE ZBYTOWSKI lege. "By sound investment of '.::5'::c~:..' '"".'.'c::"'c:.'----- the institution's private~ifts, the Remember all those years future programs and se vices at when kids complained that there the college can be e anced, tt was nothing to do in the area? Rogg" contin~ed on page i Now that problem has been solved thanks to the Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Seminar. story on page 2. After identifying a need for youth activities and a new class format, an Alpena County Youth Activity Guide has been the cla.'!s's semester project. Many hours of vigorous labor on the part of the class has allowed the Guide to be ready for distribu- tion in The information, however, was in very rough form. "fThis is] a tough project," said Instructor Dave Eger. "Sev- eral other institutions have run up against a wall and become frustrated by it." For the past 15 weeks, members of the Leader-early Feb- ruary. Within the first sever a 1 meetings of the Leader- ship team, better pub- licity of already ex- istingyouth activities was identi- fied as the biggest problem Having the Guide available will enable ship team have bef?n compiling, editing, veri- fying, and re-editing the gathered in- fo rm ation. The YouthAc- tivity Guide is currently comprised of over a hun- dred activities parents to make better informed decisions regarding their children's social and physical development. - Janice Nowicki available to area youth, . facing the area. Some basic in- formation dealing with youth needs and activities had already been compiled by the Alpena Rotary Club with help from the Alpena Youth Volunteer Corps. kindergarten through 12th grade. In addition, inspirational poems, pictures, and quotations will be "Leadership" continued on page 2.