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ALPENA COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Volume_ 1 Issue 10 Committees to launch quiet/noisy campaign The Faculty Administrative Davis and Rich Laiviay, the transport students to tne ~ec- Committee held a special meet- publicity committee headed by retary of State to register, the ing to settle important issues Dean Williams, and the register- setting up of a phoning system which face it this semester. ed voter's contact committee to contact and remind voters Dr. Donnelly qtiickly •dismiss- headed by Vernie Nethercutt. of the importance of this elec- ed previous business: the code These three committees will tion, and the publication of a of conduct procedure, Booster's be getting ready to launch a brochure about the millage to scholarship new grade point "quiet/noisy•· campaign as soon inform the public what ACC . average. approval of the desin- as the K-12 election is done in does for the community now 11itecl smoking areas, and the February. They wish to s9pport and what it hopes to accornp- acad emic renewal procedure, to the effort being made by the lish in the future if the millage get on to the most pressing K-12 school system to reach passes. issue, the forming of commit- theiJ.- goal of a new millage ---------,----- tees to cover the campaign for election and will start their Max Li ndsay (upper left) and ACC Presi- - denc; Or. Charles Donnelly discuss plans · the upcoming millage election. own campaign as soon as this for quiet/noisy campaign. election is done. Three committees were Some strategies which the formed, the stude-nt registration committees discussed were the committee headed by Dean- use of the college's busses to Center reveals 94% placed Witt ■ wins How do you win a $ 1000 scholarship? With an idea, sponsorship, hard work. and ingenuity, that's how. ACC student Charles Witt undertook such a project last year and is enjoying the fruits of his labor this year in the form of a $1000 scholar- ship awarded to him by The Michigah United Conservation Clubs. scholarship in an .Industrial Application." The paper was submitted to MUCC and was -entered into the one mon_th · competition with other enteries from all over Michigan. Witt found out late last June that his paper was select- ed for the scholarship. He has used the money to finance his- education at ACC. He is . presently enrolled in the pre- engineering courses. Witt started the .paper which would eventually win him the scholarship in high school. Mr. William DesChamps1 his high school science teacher, gave him the . idea to enter a state wide con- _ i test sponsored by the Mich- igan United Conservation Clubs. Witt sent the MUCC a brief summary of what he hoped to achieve with his study, and MUCC accepted it for the competition. ACC student, Charles Witt Witt then spent six months going through any document- ed material he could find on his subject of wood combus- tion as well as interviewing people who already used the wood combustion methods. He then set about writing a 17 page report on "The Economic and Enviromental Impacts of Wood Combustion Witt-had also included in his paper a theory for Besser Tech to convert over · to a wood combustion energy saving system. According to Witt "The system he · developed would cost_ about $200,000 to - convert. but would create 12 new jobs for the community and will end up saving $2½ million for the company." The results of a follow-up survey compiled by the Job Placement Center at ACC were revealed last week. Of last years graduates, 7 SJ.- responded to the survey. The survey took into consi~era- t ion each program at the college- certificate and associate's Inside Editorials Homecoming Court Sports page ' pg 2 pg 3 pg4 degree-and asked the graduates whether they had found employ- ment, what their average monthly salaries were, and if they are con- tinuing their _education. Those employed were asked if · the job was in a field related to their major, and also, what the geographic location of their job' was; NE Michigan in, or out of state. The average percentage of respondents placed by the school was nearly 94%,Graduates were considered placed if they were employed, continuing their educa- tion, or unemployed by choice. Although the percentage of students placed directly through the placement office was not revealed, Doris Feys, Job Place- ment Coordinator, stated, "The momentum is definitely there. (Placement Director) Fran:k McCourt has really pushed it through this year. Emphasizing that one. of the most important priorities .was to have a total effort by the college to place students in their chosen fields, Feys said, "More com- munication in general is need- ed ... The two new deans (of In- structions, Davis, and Williams) have helped. They've shown more ·interest." The results ot the 106 placement survey are as tollows: t. """"'""' IUI. IMTA .. OC. IVS.let. 'fOIC'Unm.it - .... ... 4aDCMft•Alfla--. ....... ! ....... . - -~ f f I 4111 - - . 2.: .. ,.,, . . - - ,. ) ' t. ..... - II r.. i.i 1 1 ' ,1 ,:: - - .. - , ... ,.., '-'• ••oan:twrt 11 1 J&clll.TAU,U -OHS Ill JJ M tt 1• sn .. , _ TOT,u1 """""' > I ·------ ---., - .,. ....... .Jl ...... re.'i1«/t.'i rnntinu~d h11 i