The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

The BloekMaken Pg. 3A ABUSE P0.4A rat .6 ' The Alpena Community College ne'W'spaper. 666 Johnson Sleet. Alpena. Ml 49707 Novemher 15, 1995 Concrete Tech Wi BY KILE RONDEAU ing in a concrete/rubber com- STAFF WRITER posite, could enhance the ------------ physical properties in com- After a competitive evaluation of 87 proposals, the State of California Integrated Waste Management Board has awarded one of ten Research and Development contracts to Alpena Community College's Concrete Technology Pro- gram. "Our Concrete Tech pro- posal was the only one outside of California to win an award this year," said Robert Eller, Concrete Techonolgy in- structor. The focus of the compe- tition was to propose new technologies which could eliminate the growing number of waste tires by creating novel rubber products. Con- crete Tech's winning proposal is an experimental process which will make ground waste rubber compatible with concrete. Using ground-up rubber tires in concrete, result- parison to normal concrete. Concrete Tech in con- junction with Coalition Technologies of Midland, Michigan, will conduct a re- search program to test skin-sulfonated tire rubber in masonry and concrete. Completion of these tests will prove or disprove the concept. The · first step toward future commercialization of this project is research. "With the amount of available landfill space in the United States decreasing, al- ternative recycling methods must be developed," said Eller. "The creation of new products from recycled mate- rials opens the door to huge new business opportunities." According to Eller, a ma- . jor concern facing the U.S. is the disposal of old tires. Rub- ber from used tires has zero or negative value. If this re- s Grant search project is proven suc- cessful, commercialization of this process could rid the United States of virtually all used rubber tires. If only two percent of the novel rubber High Perfor- mance Concrete Additive were added to the 400,000,000 tons of concrete poured annu- ally in the U.S., 8,000,000 tons of waste rubber ( one billion tires) could be used each year. "Commercialization of the Coalition Technologies, Ltd. (CTL) sulfonation process for the production of High Performance Concrete Addi- tive could eliminate tires, create business, and a substan- tial amount of employment for companies worldwide," Eller said. The current project will continue for approximately 12 months. The project will fo- cus on three major objectives. "Tires" , continued on page 2 olume S I sue 2 Opening 'IJay •95 _____ Puorns Bv KILE RONDEAU Titus to retire after 30 years at ACC BYLYNLY STAFF WRITER Keith Titus is one of Alpena'.s more colorful citi- zens. In December, he will retire after 30 years of teach- ing at Alpena Community College to move to Holland, Michigan. For the last ten years, Titus has taught primarily Speech. "The last ten years have b~en the best for me," Titus said. Titus has also taught the- atre courses and related speech classes. He says he's taught ten to thirteen differ- ent courses that just dtsappeared over the years, Keith Titus, long time speech instructor, plans to retire at the end of the fall term to pursue a Divinity degree. which has made his decision to move easier. The first five years he was at ACC, from 1965 through 1970, Titus was man- aging director at the Alpena Civic Theatre. Titus has written plays that were produced at Thun- der Bay Theatre which he helped found in December of 1967. TBT began as a summer non'..profit theatre sponsored by ACC. After 1970, TBT closed down, and it was not re-opened until 1976, when Titus helped revived it. From 1976 until 1982, the theatre was housed at ACT, moving into their current building on Second Avenue in 1983. In 1988, Titus pulled out of the theatre, turning it over to the capable hands of its di- rectors. His latest project was a one-man show called "Finale." It opened November 1 at ACT. Titus sang, read poetry, and reminisced. Titus has a weekly col- umn that started in September in the Alpena News, in which he talks about his memories of living in Alpena. · About his memories of Alpena and those he has left out of his weekly column, Titus laughs and says, "My image doesn't need any tar- nishing. The community knows me quite well!" From 1974 - 1980, Titus was a three-term Alpena County Commissioner. He also served as President of Northeast Michigan's Council of Governments for two terms. In 1994, Titus ran for the 37th District State Senate seat, but withdrew before the elec- tion. In 1984, Titus was ar- rested for protesting nuclear weapons on the Wurtsmith Air Force Base. The AFB barred Titus from teaching at "Titus" Continued on page 2 Billy Vogt, second year Concrete Technology student, sifts a handful of ground-up rubber, the raw material of a new project to test the use of waste rubber tires as an ingredient in concrete blocks. Block pictured above is one of the first samples of this new technology. ACC prepares for Accreditation BY HOLLY MACE STAFF WRITER In 1998, consultants from the North Central Association will be evaluating Alpena Community College for reaccredidation. According to Curt Davis, Executive Dean of ACC, accredidation is essentially a self and peer review of the col- lege. There are certain criteria that have to be met: (1) "The institution has clear and publicly stated purposes consistent with its mission and appropriate to an institution of higher education." Davis said this would include long and short term goals for the institution, appropriate decision-making processes, and efforts to keep the public informed of the institution's goals through catalogs and pamphlets. (2) "The institution has effectively organized the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to accomplish its purposes." In other words, Davis said, the institution should have adequate learning resources to support its academic programs. It also looks at the qualifications of the faculty and staff. (3) "The institution is accomplishing its educational and other purposes." Davis explained that the institution is required to have educational programs that are appropriate for its level of edu- cation. There should be student services that support the purposes of the institution. The staff and faculty should con- tribute to the effectiveness of the institution. (4) "The institution can continue to accomplish its pur- poses and strengthen its educational effectiveness." The institution should have a resource base (financial, physical, and human) to prepare for the future. It should also have adequate resources to support its plans for strengthen- ing both the institution itself as well as its programs. (5) "The institution demonstrates integrity in its practices and relationships." The institution is to have publications that describe its operations and programs. The institution is to have ethical and responsible relationships with other institutions. Once these standards are met, then every so often the institution is reaccredited. This is the case here at ACC "Accredidation" continued on page 2 Construction of the new Student/Community/Business Learning Center is moving indoors for the winter.