Honored to serve
 Ann Michels
Editor-in-Chief
Melissa Swarts, from Coldwater, MI, realized a need in her community and created a menu planning cooking class, and presentation by obtaining outside grant money to make a class happen. She has been offered grant money to provide five more classes and an internship with Michigan State University Extension.
Another Coldwater resident, Joshua Englehart, lost his brother to Cystic Fibrosis. To memorialize his brother by bringing awareness and funds to the Cystic Fibrosis Organization, Englehart and his family created a flag football game with a concession stand and bake sale, hopeful to turn it into an annual event. They were able to fund-raiser over $4000, and Englehart was the regional winner of the Great Strides award.
Heart and Soul Awards were given to Tammy Phillips (Veteran Advocate), Keeton Foley (Haven of Rest), Hallie Adams (ATP and LINKS programs), Alexandra Guebara (American Red Cross), Martha Smith (Haven of Rest), Rebekah Daly (KidCare America), Cassidy Kerr (Marion E. Burch Adult Day Care Centers), and Stephanie Mastin (Albion Schools).
“It is an honor to celebrate the tremendous accomplishments that our students have been able to achieve while serving in our community,” said Kate DeGraaf, Service Learning Manager at KCC. “These students are a wonderful example of KCC’s commitment to give back to our community through service.”
 Back Row: (left to right)Martha Smith, Tammy Phillips, Dr. Dennis Bona, Stephanie Mastin, Stevie Simmons—Front Row: (left to right) Rebekah Daly, Alexandra Guebara, and Keeton Foley
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Largest number of students inducted
 Lacy Janousek
Assistant Editor
Lacy Janousek
Assistant Editor
There were 106 students inducted into the Alpha Nu Eta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at the Spring 2013 induction ceremony.
Academic Advising Secretary Holly Van Dam was excited about induction.
“This is the biggest number that we have had,” Van Dam said. “It was amazing that we were able to go ahead and get the students excited about join Phi Theta Kappa.”
Phi Theta Kappa is an invitation only honors society. Students have who at least 12 credit hours and have a GPA of 3.5 or better are eligible for invitation.
For more information about Phi Theta Kappa at Kellogg Community College, please call 269-965-4124 or e-mail alphanueta@kellogg.edu.
Current officers, advisors, and new inductees.
photo by Simon Thalmann
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Magic faerie pixie dust, or how librarians really do that stuff
 Kelly Frost
Librarian
It happens almost once a day. A panicked student rushes to the Information Desk with a crisis, a question, a problem. Usually after a few questions, clicks, or searches we can pull up the information, double space the paper, or find the book. And many a grateful student will ask, “How’d you do that?” I often smile and suggest that I have a magic wand. Of course, even though the work we do seems like magic sometimes, it’s mostly a matter of listening, asking the right questions, and being able to think outside of the box. It also helps that we work with similar programs and questions every day.
Most of us also have advanced degrees in information science, which means we’ve spent extra time learning to research and think about all the issues surrounding information. Understanding how information is organized and collected often gives us a leg up when it comes to finding answers to your questions.
And in case youhaven’t noticed,we actually sit at the InformationDesk just waiting for you and your questions. Even if you can’t make it to the information desk, you can call us, message us on Facebook, or chat with a helpful librarian 24/7 via the Research Help Now chat box on the library website: www.kellogg.edu/library
No question is too small, too routine, or too basic. Recently, I helped a student double space a paper, and then she asked me to help her do a search on Google, since she’d never used it before. Every question offers me the chance to use mymagical abilities. Finding information is my job, and I love it.
I also love a good challenge. One of my favorite memories as a librarian started with the question, “I’m looking for a book, and it has a black cover…” After some good listening and some further questions, I finally found The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (and discovered an author I really liked). The truth is, librarians really do like finding that kind of stuff, and there is a certain kind of magic that happens when we find that book, article, or answer to a seemingly random question.
Unlike real magicians who won’t share their secrets, we librarians want to share our magical talents with you. So instead of just doing things for you, we believe in teaching you to do them for yourself, so you can experience a bit of the magic of discovery for yourself. That’s the reason we take the time to show you how to search our catalog or open up one of our databases. Our mission is to make you information literate so that you can find, evaluate, and use information.
That’s the truest form of magic we can offer, and we’re more than happy to share.
~Kelly Frost likes people.
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Feeney and Graham’s "Big Adventure"
Lacy Janousek
Assistant Editor
English Professor Pam Feeney never loved creative writing. She has always loved the structure, the ease, the research behind academic writing. About a year ago, she found out she would be a grandmother for the first time and her loathing of creative writing softened a little as she began to write a journey for what she thought would be twin grandsons.knew he would bring another community-level connection to the story.
“For an artist living in Battle Creek, it is hard enough to find work let alone find work doing something you want to do,” Graham said. “However, this last summer I was blessed with an opportunity to illustrate a book for one of the finest woman I have ever met.”
Graham and Feeney began collaborating ideas for the drawings.“There are little things I wanted in there that I child reading it wouldn’t know, but I do,” Feeney explained as
she pointed out a church located by where the twin girls’ parents live in New York. Skimming through the pages, Feeney explained other landmarks located throughout the area they reside.
Taking her suggestions for the illustrations, Graham began working spring of 2012 and much into December. Upon completion Feeney noticed Graham had a different vision than she would have drawn, but she was more than satisfied with his work.
Once the drawings and writings were completed, Feeney visited a 2 Moon Press, a vanity publisher on Michigan Avenue in Marshall. 2 Moon Press charged Feeney $2,000 to print her first book, a price Feeney was glad included free posting on Amazon.com.
Feeney explained that 2 Moon Press was impressed by Graham’s work on Big Adventure they offered him a job illustrating other books and novels authors bring in without an illustrator already designated.
“I know that working with Ms. Feeney was not only a blessing,” Thomas said. “But an experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.”
Her experience has been one she enjoyed so much, she has drafted a second book and began thinking of a third. The third will be based on an experience from Feeney’s own childhood.
“There is so many levels of wonderful with his book,” Feeney said.
“I can’t pay for their college tuition,” Feeney said of her grandchildren. “But I can give them this legacy to cherish.”
Peaches and Posey’s Big Adventure is available on Amazon.com.
~Lacy Janousek loves adventures.
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Summer student aid
 Thomas Losey
Staff Writer
Don’t throw away free money! If students are eligible for financial aid throughout the year, the summer semester is no exception, provided that they haven’t used their full allocation earlier in the year. According to Pernell “Batman” Gibson of the financial aid office, the application process for obtaining summer financial aid is the same FAFSA process used for the fall and spring semesters. Simply apply online and wait for the confirmation e-mail.
For those who need a refresher, to obtain student aid, a student must fill out a FAFSA application at fafsa.ed.gov. An applicant will need a few documents and pieces of data, such as a Social Security number, W-2 forms and tax information, and parents’ tax information, unless the applicant student is deemed an “independent student.” According to Fastweb, a website dedicated to financial aid, students who do not need their parents’ tax or financial information have to meet certain criteria: they must be either 24 years old, married, have legal dependents other than a spouse, be a military veteran, orphaned, emancipated, or have filed for a change of status with the school. Applicants will also need the Federal School Code for the school that they are applying to. Kellogg Community College’s Federal School Code is 002276.
The process for applying for aid can look intimidating and somewhat daunting, but it does not have to be so. Apply online, wait for an e-mail, fill out any forms that the office requests of you, and there should be no problems. If there are problems, well, that’s why the Financial Aid office has Batman on their side, and he can come to the rescue in even the toughest of cases.
~Thomas Losey is a full-time student thanks to the Federal Pell Grant, the SEOG, and the William D. Ford loan program.
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Community service through Siena Heights
Doug Goodnough
Guest Writer
Siena Heights University (SHU) will offer the Community Services major on the campus of Kellogg Community College beginning this fall. Students who are interested in working in human and social service fields can broaden their education with this new bachelor’s degree program.
“We know the field of the helping professions is constantly changing,” said Dr. James Sam, coordinator of the Community Services program at SHU. “With the evolving role of federal and state programs, we must adapt curriculum content to meet the needs of today’s job market. This program provides a solid framework and lays the groundwork that prepares students to continue with master’s degree programs in counseling and social work.”
This degree prepares students for a variety of career opportunities in diverse social service agencies as well as in non-profit, for-profit, faith-based and government programs.
In particular, KCC students majoring in the Human Services Administration Associate of Arts program can readily transfer their HUSE credits to SHU. Siena Heights, which has offered classes on the KCC campus since 1992, allows up to 90 semester hours of transfer credit toward its 120 semester hour bachelor’s degree requirement. Evening, weekend and online courses have been offered on the Kellogg Community College campus to meet the needs of working adults.
For more information about the Community Services program, call SHU @ KCC Assistant Director Linda Tafolla at 269-965-3931, extension 2950 or 2952. Or email her at ltafolla@sienaheights.edu. More information is also available by visiting www.sienaheights.edu/communityservices.
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"The Invisible War"
 Kari Gremore
Staff Writer
The Binda Theater held a screening of The Invisible War, an Academy award nominated documentary on April 16 to increase awareness on sexual assault in the military. The film, written and directed by Kirby Dick, showcases the epidemic of rape of both male and female soldiers within all branches of the U.S Military. The documentary interviews different men and women from various walks of life who have been raped or sexually assaulted.
According to the documentary, over 20% of female veterans have been sexually assaulted. That is approximately a half of a million women per year. Many of these cases, however, are thrown out and the perpetrators of these crimes are never brought to justice. The Supreme Court ruled that rape is an “occupational hazard of the military.”
There is a glimmer of hope, however. Upon seeing the documentary, Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, took action and directed military commanders to hand over all sexual assault investigations to a higher ranking colonel.
To learn more, please visit notinvisible.com.
~Kari is in her last semester.
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Student art show 2013
 Best of Show Award
Joan Wetherill, Untitled, Pigmented Inkjet Print (digital photograph)
 Instructor Recognition Award
Elizabeth Stafford, Untitled#3, Pigmented Inkjet Print, (digital photo graph)
 Ceramics
Best of Media Category
Nathan Vaccaro, Prize Fight
Honorable Mention
Sheila Virgil, Anger
 Drawing
Best of Media Category
Thomas Graham, Kadin, Charcoal
Honorable Mention
Morgan Paul, Untitled, Sharpie Drawing
Kathy Seifert, Pets, Pen and Ink
 2-D mixed-media
Best of Media Category
Dia Massey, Hopes, Dreams & Reality, Pen and Ink with Gelatin Silver Print
Honorable Mention
Kelly McNees, The Hawk and the Rose, Pencil & Watercolor
Megan Ward, Octopus, Ink & Colored Pencil
Sculpture and 3-D mixed-media
Best of Media Category Paul Edwards, Bull Rider, Steel, Brass and Boot
Honorable Mention
Joseph McIntosh, T-Rex, Metal Parts Assemblage
Black and White Photography
Best of Media Category Taylor McCoy, Alzheimer’s, Gelatin Silver Print
Honorable Mentions
Paul Edwards, Reminiscing, Toned Gela tin Silver Print
Digital Media
Best of Media Category
Pam Sikora, Untitled, Pigmented Ink jet Print
Honorable Mentions
James Schoder, Snowy Day, Pimented Inkjet Print
Linda Helton, Warrior Faces, Pigmented Inkjet Print
Renee Elkins, Tybee Life Guard, Pigment ed Inkjet Print
 Alternative Photography / Printmaking
Best of Media Category
Elizabeth Cook, Swallowtail, VanDyke Print
Honorable Mentions
Kenzi Rombaugh, Self-portrait, Litho graphic Print / Mordançage
 Animation / Video 4-D
Best of Media Category Stephen Richmond, Hellform, Final Cut Pro
Honorable Mention
Matthew Dillinger, Pissing Contest: The Movie, Final Cut Pro
Scholarships
Bryan R. Thomas Memorial Scholarship —Elizabeth Cook
Battle Creek Society of Artists Scholarship—Paul Edwards
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Color is complicated!
 Thomas Graham
Staff Writer
In elementary school, I learned that I did not see color the way other children did and was labeled color blind among other things. I could never figure out why my teacher would hold up two blue crayons and ask which one was blue? In junior high, I remember drawing a picture of Bugs Bunny and everyone asked, “Why is he teal?” After that, I did my best to avoid using color in my drawings and focused more on values and line work of my pictures. In high school, I began to study black and white photographs. I found beauty in the way the images could convey the different tonal ranges without using color.
Upon arriving at KCC, I learned to study the negative space around the subject instead of the subject itself. This allowed me to see the subject for what it was instead of drawing a preconceived subject from my head.
Before coming to KCC, most of the work I had done was in graphite. My habit of reaching for a pencil to draw a picture was quickly broken when my instructor, Vicki VanAmeyden, opened my eyes to the world of charcoal. Although drawing with charcoal was a foreign concept to me, I would quickly fall in love with how the new medium flows with no effort at all. I simply make a line and pull the medium anywhere I please. Throughout VanAmeyden's class, I would learn to use many different types of new mediums; however, none would leave as bold of a mark on me as charcoal.
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Mosaic winners
Dakota Roberts
Staff Writer
Mosaic poetry awards were recently judged by poet Lynn Pattison. After reviewing some very talented poetry, Pattison awarded The Envelope by Brian Noell with the 1st place prize. Coming in 2nd with Pangaea was Tiffany Thatcher and rounding out the podium was Taylor Thompson with Just to be a Lady.
Backing up the poetry awards, Mosaic’s prose section also had some stiff competition. Taking the grand prize was Tonya Hilliker with The Holes, the Buckets, and the Green Beans. Adelle Pouliot took home silver with Filthy Snow on the Curbside. Anthony Allred with Death Penalty wrapped up the 3rd position.
~Dakota Roberts is a sports writer, obviously.
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