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Alpena Community College September 30, 1987 WHERE CAN THE SMOKERS - Act. No. 198 Public Acts of 1986 Approved by the Governor July 15, 1986 Filed with the Secretary of State July 17, 1986 If you are a smoker, this has changed your life. In great ways and small, broad and narrow. You are a danger: to yourself, to your loved ones, your friends, your co-workers, the population of this state. Everyone. Act. No. 198 is an amendment to Act. No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, approved by the legislature and duly signed by the governor. It is law, and it affects u a . Part 126. Smoking in Public Sec. 12601. (I) As used in this part: (a) "Educational facility" means a building owned, leased of under the control of a public school system, college, or · university. ( .•. ) (h) "Smoking" means the carrying, by a person, of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other lighted smoking device. Sec. 12603. (l)Except as otherwise provided in this part or in rules promulgated under this part, an individual shall not smoke in a public place or at a meeting of a public body, except in a designated smoking area. Sec. 12607. Th~ state or local governmental agency or the person who owns or operates a public place shall, c.t a minimum, do both of the following in order to pre en making: a post signs which state that smoking in that public place is prohibited except in designated smoking areas, pursuant to this part. (b) Arrange seating to provide, as nearly as practicable, a smoke-free area. And - thIS they have done. Notices are placed seemingly casually above the door handle on almost every entrance to every building on campus. SMOKING is NOT Permitted in thi"s Building "Designated smoking areas" is not too hard to figure out, especially as you sidestep those using them OUTSIDE each building. This is the best way, surely. Proper ventilation, no doubt. Can not really get more venti lated than that. Proper non-smoking areas provided too. Some considerable effort went into determining ebestcourse of action, the policy ACC would pursue. Discussions were scheduled into meetings. The issue was placed on agendas. Letters were written. Petitions were filed. Concrete Students _DeSign ·Patio: As I took iny routine stroll of nearby suggestion· box. But Funding, for the most part came the grounds at ACC an intriguing wouldn't you know someone beat from the buildings and grounds question sent me into deep me to it. committee and with a total contemplation, The question Bob Eller and his concrete expense of $400 there is no doubt was: What would make this class students are presently going that the new patio will give the campus more enjoyable and better through the stages of constructing campus a newer and fresher look. looking? The answer was clear the patio, drawing ever closer to When . speaking of the design and simple: a new patio. making my idea a reality. Eller is and placement procedures Eller My mind's eye fantasized a heading the operations, and seems stated that ".There have beert no patio equipped with picnic tables, positive for the patio to be problems at all yet and hopefully benches, and flowering plant life, completed in the spring. we will not run into any." Eller the perfect environment for The concrete st udents also admitted that he was hopeful activities ranging from intense themselves have taken to get to the benches and picnic study to plain relaxation. The idea responsibility for the designing of tables on the patio before the snow was brilliant, or so it seemed, and the patio and also for the laying of comes but it looked like he would I decided to take this plan to a the foundation, a task that took have to wait until spring time to two days pf work, as Eller noted. add the final touches. L to R - Kerry Jorgenson, Kevin Sylvester, Bubba Matteson, Jim McFalda, Ryan Keller, Al Kennedy, Larry Philippi, Jeff Konczak, Don Pletz, Mike Hamp, Jeff Kowalski, Pete Alexander, Randy Balog, Da.ri Rome!. Not Pictured - David Bendig, Torn Perkins . v-,...,_ f'k, .,,t,, t: ,--e_ --N Polls_ were taken. Outside they went, apparently to stay. There has been some' general grumbling, but nothing serious, yet. It is still nice outside, though. The weather is relatively pleasant, the sun shines :;ome of the time. The perfect solution; in reality, the only solution. The school does not have anyplace suitable to put the smokers at . inside the bu.ildings. INSIDE Editorial Opinions- Museum Internship pg.2 pg.3 pg. 4. Provides Employment ACC's new program, Contracting With Business and Industry, is a one year, eight credit, non-tran.sferrable internship which helps students take college courses, be trained in practical job skills, and perhaps obtain future employment, all in one. It began in Bay De Noc ten years ago, with a group of people who needed jobs, but either did not want or need an actual degree. It is very new here at ACC - offered for the first time this semester - but Director Michael Wawro says that it has been good: there have been seven people enrollled for this semester, and 54 inquiries, with 39 actual applications. The program itself is an internship where area businesses are sub-contracted trainers for the college. The students are not employees of the company; they are not paid for working or training, but are given eight hours of credit for 16 hours of trainim ar their job site. .., · The student chooses an area and ;is assigned a business to work for: ie, if a student indicates he or she is interested in Furniture Sales, Mr. Wawro would assign him or her a work site, and help to choose six-eight credit hours of classes related to that area, possibly Retailing or Applied Accounting. If a work site is requested by the student, internship can be arranged, and if a two- or four-year student enrolls, the Internship Program will work the schedule and hours to fit the individual. Mike Wawro invites everyone who would like to know more about the program or to sign up for jt to stop by his office in the Center for Economic Expansion, next to Room 108, in BTC, Ext 267.