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The Criminal Justice n·ahs a hachelor Pg. 2 Round: 2 long s. Bo•em g.S Broadway comes to ACT Pg. 7 The Alpena Comnaunity College e-,spaper, 666 .lohnson St-eel'. Alpena. Ml 49707 October 26, 1994 Volume 4 Issue 2 Administration to ee new places and . differe t ces BY TODD PRICE STAFF WRITER I Come second semester, there will be three new faces at Alpena Community. College; an assistant dean in The Learning Center, a director of the Talent Search Program, and a new dean to handle academic affairs. The assistant dean of The Learning Center and Talent Search director are replacement positions, while the dean of aca- demic affairs position was created due to reorganizational activities which brought all of the instructional activities under one position. The assistant dean for The Learning Center will be taking over the special population and TRIO programs. The TRIO pro- grams are three federal programs that provide supplemental assis- tance to students who are economically or educationally disadvantaged. The assistant dean search has been limited down to three people and the interviews were just completed on the week of October ~rd. The Talent Search director's position has been lim- ited down to three candidates who will be brought onto cam- pus in the upcoming weeks and will then be brought before the selection panel. This replacement position will also be in charge of student support services. The Dean of Academic Af- fairs, will be a partial replacement for Dr. Sheila Wil- liams who resigned last summer, and will be in charge of all credit related instructional activities. There are also three finalists who are being interviewed for this position and will be on campus in the upcoming weeks. Max Lindsay, who has switched over from Assistant Dean of Students to Dean of Stu- dent Affairs, Financial Aid, and Admissions, has had to take up e registrar's functions and also e respo ibilities of Athletic irector. Thomas Bowman and rank McCourt, who held those ositions before, will both go on erforming their other duties at e college. While the enrollment at CC is down 2.8 percent credit ours from last year, head count nrollment is still the same. 1'This is due to four things," Ex- utive Dean Curt Davis stated. 'First, Alpena High School had ts smallest graduating class ever. econd, When the air force base ·n Oscoda closed we lost a great umber of students there. Thirdly, when the economy is trong, people tend to decrease eir study load. Finally, for the t six to seven years we've een training employees for busi- esses, and they've achieved the oals they were looking for.'.' "Restructuring" continued on page 5 Alpena Community College's $8.2 million construction project, due to break ground next month, will forever change this view of the ACC landscape. The Polemic will cover these developments as they occur. Board passes the BY SHAWN DEMPSEY POLEMIC EDITOR When the Budget Review Board distributed $24,000 in stu- dent activities fees on Oct. 8, it found that an untimely resigna- tion last year had a surprisingly pleasant effect on several cam- pus clubs this year - about. $5,000 dollars worth of pleas- ant effects. The Intramural Sports Pro- gram simply did not spend all And the new Student Senate members are,,, By Katie Zbytowski Staff Writer The Student Senate results are in, and according to Jeff Blumenthal, the Senate adviser, the race was very close. Of 164 ballots cast., only 102 were valid, because of incorrect or a complete lack of Social Security numbers. Despite this,, ACC's new freshman representatives are Amy Maschke with 38 votes, Brenda Wilmot with 34, and Rexann Wise winning 28 votes . Daniel Marquardt with 35 votes, Gloria Haske with 21, · and Shannon Bauer with 20 total votes, have filled .the sophomore positions. Amy Sansom almost c.aptured a sophomore seat with 19 votes . t $ ~ of its money due to Director Jeff Duncan's resignation in the middle of last year, says Dean of Student Affairs Max Lindsay. The $5,000 balance in the Intra- mural account, plus the $24,000 in student activities fees, created increases in most clubs' funds. The money was distributed as follows: Intramurals, $1,056 (plus a balance of $5,109); The Polemic, $9,374; Student Activ- ity Board, $9,000; ' Phi Theta Kappa, $1,500 (plus a balance of $120); Student Nurses Asso- c1at1on, $770; Society for Creative Anachronisms, $600; Student Senate, $200; and the Presidential Leadership Group, $1,500 (first year request). Last year, $24,000 was dis- tributed as follows: Intramurals, $7,000; Student Activity Board, $7 ,OOO;The Polemic, $5,820; ACC Players, $1,200; Phi Theta Kappa, $1,000; Student Nurses Association, $680; Society for Creative Anachronisms, $300 ucks (first year request); Student Sen- ate, $200; and the Besser Tech Association $800. The ACC Players Club and the Besser Tech Association did not submit budget requests this year. A new group, the Presi- dential Leadership Group, uses its funding to send ten students to a leadership camp for a week each summer. Participants are sought ' from various campus clubs and activities and must be returning students. The activity funds are dis- persed once a year by a board comprised of faculty, adminis- trators and students and are open to all student groups. Eight groups requested $36,729, while . last year nine groups requested $38,382. No extra emergency ·fund money will be available since all the funds were distributed, and clubs are to plan their ac- tiviyes carefully. Photo by Jennifer Weinkauf Instructor Jim Miesen's new book, 40 Years, will be available in the ACC college library and bookstore. '40 Years' is a lot of histo,y By Jason Skiba Staff Writer Forty years is a long time, just ask English instructor, Jim Miesen. Miesen's book, 40 Years, a compilation of the history and events at Alpena Community College up to the present, has just been published and is now ready for the public's perusal. Miesen was commissioned by Dr. Donald Newport, ACC's current president, to write the history for the college in 1990. The book was finished by July 1, 1992, and was then sent to a printer for publication. · It was a problem to finally get the book published. "Be- lieve me," says Miesen," it went all over the nati9n and back before it was finally printed!" Miesfn believes Newport asked him to write the history, "bfause until now there w~ no publication of the col- lege h'istoty and because he (Newport) wanted it written while there was still someone here who had the background with the college." Miesen's background certainly qualifies him for the job. He started teaching at Alpena High School in 1961 and started teaching at ACC in 1966. Miesen's philosophy was to create a book which could be "read" in three different ways: (1) Visually-the pictures through- out the book are small stories in themselves; (2) Human Interest (Emotional) - the side bars on many of the pages in the publica- tion have quotes, recalls, and anecdotal quips about various events; and (3) Comprehensive - for people who read the book cover to cover. "It was good to experience what my students experience as writers. All teachers should go back and review what they teach to their students from a student's perspective. The pro- cess of recursiveness and getting readers applies as much to me as to any freshmen writer," says Miesen. Research for the book was an extensive job. First, came interviews. He interviewed as many people as he could for- mally and informally, in groups and separately. Second, he went to the college records, things such as board minutes from old meetings. Lastly, he went to the Alpena News, where a vast amount of information from the book came from. "It was a great satisfaction that I was able to contribute this to the history of the college," concludes Miesen. "It's gratifying to know I can leave something concrete behind me when I retire from the college." Photo courtesy of Carlene Przykucki Dr. Elbridge Dunckel assists Mary Miller at Computers for the Faint-Hearted, a session of ACC's A College Day for Women held on campus Saturday, Oct. 22. Please see story Ofl page 2.