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ACC IN A TECHNO- LOGICAL RACE .... PAGE 2 ACC'S TRI BUTE TO OB MARLEY. ... PAGE 4 EXTREME HOBBIES .... PAGE S x, ~ i LUMBERJACK'S SPORTS. IN HIGH GEAR .... PAGE 7-8 TOURNAMENT TIM (NCAA) .... PAGE 8 CREATIVE SECTION: SHOWCASE PAGE 9 KAISER PAUL SPEAKS HIS MINO .... PAGE 11 PHOTO STORY. ... PAGE 12 LPENA OMM N TY OLLEGE CH 20 1 Leadership class traveling to Haiti -- SARA ASHFORD Staff Writer This May eleven students and one instructor from Alpena Community College will be heading to the city ofMontrouis, Haiti. They will be staying for eleven days to re-construct a school. The leadership class has been busy singing, baking, collecting bottles, working concession stands, filing out grants and scholarships, and speaking at organizations and businesses all over the area. They need to raise $17,000 to make this trip possible. "This money would cover the plane tickets over, housing for the entire trip (May 4-15), supplies for the building, items for the children of Haiti, food, and medical precautions." stated Erin Fleming a member of the Leadership Class: There are eleven members of the class: Erin Fleming'. Cristie Newbert, Melissa Pettit, Aubry Dziesinski, Jesi Hartman, Heidi Williams, Thane Domrase, Joshua Kumrits, Jocelyn Haske, Trisha Tanner, and Remi Charoth. These students along with their advisor, Matthew Dunkel, are planning on leaving May 4, 2001. The genesis of this Haiti trip begins with a very special lady named, Ann Hume, a nurse at Alcona Health Center. Hume began going to Haiti in 1994, because she felt that is where she was led to be. Hume committed to this type of service when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Back: Erin Flemming, Remi Clharoth, Aubrey Dziesinski, Josh Kumrits, Heidi Williams, Jesi Hartman, advisor Matt Duncke I. Front: Trisha Tanner, Melissa Pettit, Christie Newbert, Jocelyn Haske, and Thane Domrase. Just five days before she was him to be fitted with a hook to scheduledforsurge1y,Humetold make use of his arm. The boy, God that if he let her live she · Kesmy,hasnowreturnedtoHaiti, would do His work. -She·is ~ow .(knd is attending a schobl a cancer survivor and highly sponsored by a Christian involved in mission work. organization called YW AM The leadership class fi st (Youth WithAMission). load all of their belonging (which will be carried in large totes), into the back of a pick-up truck, piling in themselves and off they will go. The roads are rough, and Montrouis is a very remote village. The students will then carry their belongings across a river and up a hill before actually reaching the village. They will be staying together at a mission called Bon Samaritan, here they will be eating, living, and going to the market just like all the Haitian people. When asked about apprehension due to the p~litical atmosphere in Haiti Hume said," Haiti has always been at political unrest. I have not encountered any problems in all the times that I have gone." The Leadership Class is holding a Spaghetti Dinner. on March 10, 2001 from 5-9 p.rn. at the conference room in the Center building. Tickets are needed to attend, and donations will be accepted. For more information of how you can help the leadership class and Haiti contact a member of the Leadership Class or Mr. Dunkel. The class will be announcing drop . off spot~ where you c&n donate supplies'for the children of Haiti in the very near future. heard about Ann Hume after Hume will be taking two reading an article in the Bay City groups over to Haiti prior to the Times talking about what arrival of the Leadership Class. motivates Hume to do mission Tho·se groups are going to be work. Hume has introduced tearing down the old schoolhouse several people to Haiti, including so that the building site will be a family, John and Dawn Ashford ready to start construction in May. and their son Michael, which are The leadership group will be the currently living there for nine seventhgroupthatAnnHumehas months of the year. taken to Haiti, and she is very Dead Latin language brought to life at ACC Hume has also brought back excited both for the people of to the United States a young Haiti and for the leadership Haitian boy who had his arms students. amputated ( after having a seizure The students will be getting a and falling into the fire his family real feel for the county. After was cooking on). Hume helped getting off at the airport they will ERIC BENAC Staff Writer the words doesn't specify the meaning of the sentence. It can be confusing to somebody taught English as a first language. "Twenty years ago, most people believed it was difficult. But it was mainly the teaching methods," replied Brinckman. Are there any prerequisites'.? Financially stable school year predicted Pop Quiz: Which nation is Latin spoke in? If you said Latin America, you're wrong. If you said Rome, you're still wrong. The answer is: Latin is spoke nowhere, it's a dead language. And has been since the fall of ancient Rome. Yet ACC is opening up a new Latin class next semester. Why? According to Phillips :ano Brinckman, anybody can take it, as long as they're interested. Tina Williams Features Editor Despite recent attention given to the prop'osed smaller State aid for colleges and universities across • Michigan, Alpena Community College President, Dr . Newport, projects a financially stable 2001-2002 school year. According to Newport, "funding for community colleges sits on a three-legged stool," which consists of property taxes (18 percent); tuition (28-29 percent) and state aid (52 percent). All three "legs" will see Contest Winners The staff of The Lumberjack would like to thank the entire ACC Community. The response to the "Name This Paper" contest was tremen- dous. Due to the number of entries, choosing one winning ame was difficult. However, the vast majority of entries included "Lumberjack" in the title, so the choice became clear. Our goals for finding a new name were simple: find a name that would last; and more importantly, find a name that everyone involved with ACC, past and present, could associate with. From administrators to maintenance to faculty to students, we are all "Lumberjacks" and, in part, we always will be. For more information on our new name, please see Jocelyn Haske' s editorial on page 6. changes in the upcoming year but will roughly equal to an estimated 2-3 percent increa~e in the school's overall budget. Newport said, "a little bit of the illlknown is the property tax." The closing of local businesses such as Fletcher Paper and Stage take money away from the assessed valuation of the college's district but ACC is still projecting an increase in funding from taxes alone. Tuition costs are also expected to modestly increase. The increase is expected to be approximately 21/2 to 3 percent. As it is compared to the other 27 community colleges in Michigan, ACC stays within a 5 percent radius of the average costs . Newport assures we will never see a huge jump in tuition at any onetime. The largest percentage of fonding is what the school is always most concerned about The economy is slowing which, as indicated by Gov. John Engler' s recent proposal, will result in less state appropriated money to most state funded organizations including colleges, universities, and heajthcare providers. , According to the president, over the past several years ACC state aid increases have ranged from about 3 percent to as much as 7 percent. Engler's proposed a 2-3.5 percent increase for 2001-2002. This is a considerably lower increase than ACC received this year, but the college has practiced estimating future finances by using the low end of the spectrum. No figures are final to this date. President Newport wili be visiting Lansing many times this spring to testify before various committees about why we deserve more money. Newport said it is realistic to expect as much as a 4 percent increase when the proposal is finalized by the state legislature. "Latin is an important source of much of our vocabulary. Half on the languages in the world, have derived from Latin, " continued Phillips. " In fact, English is Latin based. Learning Latin can help us learn more about our language. According to Roger Phillips , an English professor at ACC there has been an "increase in the interest of Latin", lately The teacher of the class will be Michael Brinckrnan, a part time instructor. His interest in Latin was slow to develop. " I took Latin in high school," he said, "I hated it." But when he took it in college, he had a revelation. "I wanted to simplify the teaching of the language, so that many people could learn it." But how hard is the language to learn? According to Phillips, and Brinckman, the structure of Latin is not difficult to grasp at all. "It' s mathematical," said Phillips," in that the placement of But, what ifl'm not interested in languages? What if I'm a biology major? Why would I need to know Latin? "Most of our knowledge culture is based in Latin. Scientific terms are Latin," was Phillips reply." It basically expands our capacity of though. We believe that thought comes from languag~ : and that knowing more language . increases your thinking abiliti~s,'~ said Phillips. , ' . The class will be offered fall semester of2001, M-TH, 1 :45- 2: 10. Latin II will be offered spring semester 2002, at the same time. When asked what he thought the size of the class would be, Brinckman stated, "Maximum capacity is expected. First come, first serve b~sis. Several dual enrolled students are also expected." Neither Phillips nor Brinkman knew of no scholarships in the Latin field of study.