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Staff Members

Editor-in-Chief

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Copy Editor

Kayla Banzet

Design Editor

Gordon Cave

Managing Editor

Megan Mahurin

Sports Media

Katie Rohr

Staff Writers

Alaina Cohen

Kayla Clarke

Leah Emmart

Emily Kindel

Daniela Morales

Amanda Peters

Adviser

Michael Swan

Student Workers
Out of State Students
Compromise Roommate
Weird Interest
College Insomnia
Look Up to
Phobias
Student Profiles

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Fall 2010
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Emily Kindel
Staff Writer
Daniela Morales
Staff Writer

Are you living on campus and looking
for a part-time job? Butler provides
an array of on campus jobs, that
makes it so you don't have to waste
gas money. A student can easily
walk to their destination within five

minutes. Campus jobs are the best and usually don't have to work on

choice for students who live in the weekends unlike most other jobs

dorms or apartments. Jobs include around El Dorado. Students can

custodial, resident assistant, lunch apply for an on campus job at the

duties, secretarial and child care. Hubbard Center or online at the

Students get to pick their hours Butler homepage.

missions

Freshman, Kyle Walter, works five days
a week for three hours. The job includes
giving tours to new students, filing papers,
and answering phone calls. "I like doing
tours because I get to meet new people,"
says Walter.

Bria Sweany and Margrett Waymire can
be found on campus helping people out
at all times. "I like planning parties and
talking to people so I thought I would
get a scholarship for doing what I like to
do," says Sweany.

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Librarian

Sophomore, Antone Townsend, plays
the role as a librarian. "I help students
find books and to use the library more
efficiantly," Townsend says.

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Freshman, Beth Zoglmann, helps the
kids with art, circle time, and painting.
"I've been working with kids for three
years and I love it. I'm going to do it
when I'm older but with Special Ed,"
she says.

Lunch Lady

Freshman, Taylor Thompson, serves
food to students four days a week.
"My Godmother is the manager, so
it all worked out and I love talking to
people and I've got to know everyone
on campus," Thompson says.

Fall 2010

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Staff Writer

tudents come from different regions of the United States of America to come to Butler Community
College. Many Kansans wonder "Why Kansas?" Students arrived to BCC on August 21. Expectations
were either reached or weren't. Many things have set students off, culture shocks have been talked
about, and how the opposite sex reacts together.

When deciding where to
go, Richard Wilhite, freshman,
didn't think about coming to
Butler.

"I wasn't cleared on time
because my school didn't send my
transcript on time, so I couldn't
get into a Dl school," Wilhite says.

Not being cleared didn't
stop him from pursing his goal to
run track and field.

"I contacted coach Jeff
Becker and told him my situation
and he told me he had one more
spot open," Wilhite says." So I took
the spot."

Wilhite had many oppor-
tunities to go to bigger schools like
Arkansas, Arizona and Florida.

"I really want to go to Ar-
kansas after Butler. So hopefully
that happens next time around,"
Wilhite says.

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When Dominique Ander-
son, freshman, was asked "Why
Kansas?," she had a weird face ex-
pression, then continued to look
at the sky and wondered "Why
Kansas?"

"I came to Kansas because
I like running and Butler has a
good track team," Anderson says.

Not being able to go home
takes a toll on students who can't
go home every other weekend.
The weeks get long and boring.

"It's so different in Kan-
sas, my friends and I have to en-
tertain each other on the week-
ends," Anderson says. "One day
we went and sprayed doors with
silly string."

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There are many reasons
to come to Butler, but it seems
like sports is one of the main rea-
sons why Chris Williams, fresh-
man, came.

"I have a track scholar-
ship," Williams says.

Coming to a community
college makes it easier to get to
the place you have in mind.

"I really wanted to go to
Michigan, but the coach up there
told me about Butler," Williams
says.

Many things are different
from Kansas compared to Michi-
gan.

"The culture is so differ-
ent here from back home. The
way people dress to the way they
talk. It's still a little hard to get
used to," Williams says.

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The main success formula
for college is to go to class and do
your best in the classroom aspect
of it, but there are students who
have a full-time job.

"Football and baseball
take a big part of my time," Khiry
Mcquay says. "I had to learn how
to balance school and my sports."

When having to be so far
away from your comfort zone you
start missing the things that are
most important to you.

"I miss being back at
home with my family. It's hard to
be hundreds of miles away from
them," Mcquay says.

Fall 2010

Did you drink all

my milk?

Alaina Cohen
Staff Writer

Kayla Clarke
Staff Writer

oing from
living at

home with
parents to
living with
a total stranger can be
a bit overwhelming for
new college students.
For freshman roomies
Bethanie Tharman from
Wabaunsee and Ashley
Nilles from Andale,
this was exactly their
thoughts.

"Before we moved
in I had no idea what she
looked like or sounded
like. I didn't think she
even had a cell phone, it
freaked me out," Tharman
says. Much to Tharman's
surprise, Nilles though the
same thing.

"When I saw her
purple hair I was like 'oh
my gosh what I have gotten
myself into?'" Nilles says.

The girls texted
each other before they
met and talked about
decoration, food and
cleaning arrangements.

"We both are really
laid-back so it was easy to

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get along," Nilles says.

Nilles and Tharman
are both on scholarships
for tutoring the athletes
and were able to move in a
week early.

"When picking

sides we didn't fight at all,
it was great" Tharman says.

The girls are very
respectful of each other
by being quiet while each
other's sleeping and giving
each other enough space.
Although the girls do enjoy
spending time together
watching "Tom and Jerry"
and "Family Guy" everyday
from 10-11 p.m.

Ethan Kraai from
Delta, Chase Haines from
Stillwater and Caesar
Brown from Wamego are all
three freshman roommates
with a completely different
story.

"We are all on
the basketball team and
we don't really hang
out much," Brown says.
"When I first saw Ethan I
thought he was a big dude
and pretty chill and Chase

seemed goofy," Brown says.

Like the girls, the
boys had no problem living
together.

"We buy our own
food and we texted each
other before meeting. I
thought my roommates
were cool dudes," Haines
says.

The boys have
sections of the room that
they share, including the
dresser and desk. Although
all the boys thought of each
other as cool, Kraai thought
a bit different about one of
his roommates.

"I thought Ceasar
was pretty cool. I thought
Chase was extremely goofy
in his cowboy boots," Kraai
says.

So college may not
all be fun and games and
having a roommate isn't
necessarily all that bad, but
finding a roomy or roomies
that will watch "Tom and
Jerry" with you and laugh
at your goofy cowboys
boots makes the experience
of sharing a space all that
much better.

"I honestly didn't

think she even had a

cell phone"

"When I first saw

her I was like OMG!

purple hair! what

have I got myself

into?" '

Bethanie Tharman, Ashley Nills,
Wabaunsee Wichita

Freshman Freshman

"I thought Caesar
was pretty cool
& Chase was ex-
tremely goofy"

Ethan Kraai,
Delta, Colo

Freshman

'I thought my
roommates were
cool dudes"

I thought Ethan
was a big dude &
pretty chill & Chase
seemed goofy"

Lanes Caesar Brown

Stillwater, Okla., Wamego
Freshman Freshman

All Photos by Kayla Clarke

Fall 2010

Weird

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Story and Photos by:
Amanda Peters

Staff Writer

We all have that
one thing that
makes us a little
different from
everyone else,
that one quirky habit that most
people would think is weird or
odd. But because of that it makes
you who you are. And for that you
should not change. It does not hurt
to have something a little different
than everyone else. As long as you
enjoy doing it, it should not matter
what everyone else thinks.

"I only wear a pair of socks
once. I never wear the same pair
again. When I'm done with a pair
of socks I give them away to the
(Salvation Army)," says Crystal Rose,
Herrington sophomore.

Some people will do the
same thing over and over again and
it will never get old to them. But

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to other people just thinking about
that would bore them.

"Everything I own is purple
from my phone, computer, key
chain," says Cat Crawford, Winfield,
freshman.

In some situations, when
people continue to overdo their
habit it becomes an obsession
more then an interest. But they
do not notice it has gotten out of
control until someone else points
that out. But even then when they
are told about what they are doing
and how other people might be
viewing them, they continue to do
it. Because they enjoy it and do not
care what other people say about
what they are interested in.

Everyone has their own
taste in things, which makes us who
we are as an individual. If everyone
was supposed to be the same then
life would be a little, okay, life would
just be boring all together.

But when you toss some-
thing out of the loop into the
picture it makes life a whole lot
more interesting.

Not saying that common
interests like collecting baseball cards
are boring, it's just there are so many
people that do that same hobby.

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is purple from my
phone, computer,
key chain/
-Cat Crawford

Just try something out of
the box that is something fun and
crazy, but also kind of off-the-wall,
and unique.

It is just different from the
people who view them. For those
people they probably do it to take
stress out or to calm their nerves.
But for whatever reason they do it
for, you should not judge them for
liking what they do.

So, if you have this urge to
start something new, well then, go
for it.

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It is 10:30 p.m., time for bed.
You lie down, close your eyes
and wait for the sleep to come
and take you. ..but it never does.
Everyone has something like
this happen at least once. But people
diagnosed with sleeping disorders
experience this almost every night.
According to www.ehealthmd.com,
things such as a full schedule, working
long hours and jet lag can cause a
person to stay up late at night. Several
different people at Butler Community
College suffer from sleep disorders.

Jeremiah Gaston, Wichita
sophomore, has been diagnosed with
insomnia for 14 years. The longest
Gaston has stayed awake was three
days straight. When Gaston is awake
late at night he keeps himself busy
with his sketches of drawings and
books. "I will sketch animals, pets,
people or I will copy another picture,
such as book covers," says Gaston.

Brandon Sweatman, Pomona
sophomore, has been diagnosed with
insomnia since 2009. "I sleep in all
day until 1 p.m., and then I'm up all
night," says Sweatman. What helps

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Sweatman's insomnia so he can
sleep at night is sleeping pills such
as Ambien and Ibuprofen PM.

Unlike Kylie, for Jaime Sproul,
Augusta freshman also at El Dorado,
pain medication helps Sproul sleep.

"I didn't know I needed
Lortab, I just happened to take one,
one night before I went to bed for
my back pain, and it helped me
sleep for a really long time," says
Sproul.

The
longest Sproul
has ever stayed
awake was for 74
to 75 hours. "It
affects my college
life, because

sometimes I will
be so exhausted
by lack of sleep
that I can't get
focused on my
school work and
my grades end
up dropping."

Sproul doesn't suffer all the
time from insomnia, just when she is
under times of stress and emotional

distress.

Another sleep disorder
other than insomnia is called sleep
apnea. Sleepapneaiswhenaperson
stops breathing for a moment in

the middle
of the night
when they
are sleeping.
Dr. Keith
West, Radio-
TV instructor
at Butler, was
diagnosed
with sleep
apnea two
years ago.
He has been
struggling
with it for
about eight
years now.

When West was being
diagnosed, the doctor told him
he would first stop breathing a
minute, and then have restful
sleep or REM (Rapid Eye Moment)

"There is
usually a solution
to why you can't
fall asleep. It
could be because
you are stressed
or worried about
something/'

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West was attached to a
machine called a CPAP (Continuous
Positive Airway Pressure) that
helped him breathe during the
diagnosis.

The CPAP lightly forces air
into the lungs to help the person
to keep breathing. Along with
his sleep apnea, he developed
blackouts and heart palpitations.
West believes that since both his
parents and his cousin also have
sleep apnea that heredity can play
a part in it as well.

One Sunday morning when
West was preaching in Oxford, Kan.
he couldn't remember exactly what
book in the Bible he was preaching

about. He had trouble with
memory loss and trouble thinking.
"I remember that the verse was in
there, I just couldn't think of what
book of the Bible it was in," says
West.

West still deals with memory
loss when he is preaching. "I need
to go back and relearn it," says Dr.
West. What helps him relearn when
he has memory problems during his
sermon is going back over his notes
and study aids.

West still struggles with
sleep apnea on a daily basis. He
uses the CPAP anytime that he

needs it whether it's falling asleepr-
in front of his TV, going to sleep at
night, falling asleep in his chair in his
office, or when he is traveling. West
says the CPAP has made a huge
difference by helping him with his
breathing, memory and blackouts
and would recommend it to anyone
who struggles with sleep apnea.

Fall 2010

Role Mod

According to dictionary.com:
role model-a person
regarded by others,
especially younger people,
as a good example to
follow. Does that ring a bell and sound
like someone you look up to?

When things get hard you need
someone to talk to. That's when you
go to a leader or role model. Someone
you are not scared to let your emotion
run wild with. Where you just blurt
things out without thinking. We're
not talking about your best friend, but
someone who may or may not be an
older adult.

Who's your role model? Do
you remember how you met your role
model? Many people's role model
might even be their own parents.
Because they have lived with them and
know how hard they work. Plus their

parents have been along with them them our own way. But when you

for the ride when things hit rock go talk to someone it really helps in

bottom. the long run. Most likely more then

It's never good to hold you think. Because when someone

things in because that could lead to holds it in they could end up bursting

depression, which may cause bigger things out when they don't mean

and worse

problems.

When

someone

struggles

with

depression

it's never

good. That's

when

you need

someone to lean on, who won't

judge you for your problems. And

won't question you about the issue

or issues.

"I look up to Clint
Eastwood, because
he kind of started
nowhere and now
he is a successful
director"

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to and end up hurting
someone's feelings.
What qualities do
you think make a good
role model? It varies
from person to person.
Overall someone is
going to want someone
who is honest and
trustworthy. Who wants
someone that can't be

honest and likes to lie all the time?
Or how about someone with

a good sense of humor, and who

knows how to have a good time?

Why would you want to look up to

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The word phobia originated
in the Greek language
and meant "fear." When
someone experiences

a phobia they get
this overwhelming emotion of
irrationality, intensity and a persistent
worry of certain situations or objects.
The main reason why people
with this disorder cannot overcome
it is because of their unreasonable
desire to avoid whatever is causing
them to become so scared of
something.

For example, a person who
was attacked by a dog. The occurrence
of that would have enough of an
impact on this certain person that
they would develop a fear of that dog
or in some cases an irrational fear of
all dogs.

A major portion of the

American population is afraid of
public speaking which if it is severe
enough could inhibit all social
involvement.

According to an American
study by the National Institute
of Mental Health they found
that between 8.5% and 18.1% of
Americans suffered from phobias.

Broken down by age and
gender, the study found that phobias
were the most common mental illness
among women in all age groups and
second most among men older than
25.

Kendra Dettman, Burlingame
freshman, has a fear of drowning
which can be associated with
necrophobia.

"My fear of drowning came
when I tried scuba diving. The whole
mask and the limited air I had to use

to breathe freaked me out, it was
basically me being claustrophobic
under water," says Dettman.

There are methods of
treatment out there for phobias but
the proposed benefits vary from
person to person.

According to helpguide.org,
the most frequent used treatment
for phobias is a type of cognitive-
behavioral therapy called systematic
desensitization or exposure therapy.
The NIMH says about 75% of people
are able to overcome their phobias
through cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Top w Phobias

1. Arachnophobia: The fear 4. Agoraphobia: The fear of 8. Carcinophobia: The fear of

of spiders. There is no escape
from these eight-legged
beasts. They are everywhere.

2. Social Phobia: The fear of
social situations. This is more
than simple shyness.

3. Aerophobia: The fear of
flying. In a plane, obviously.

inescapable situations. For
example, confined to your
own home.

5. Claustrophobia: The fear of
confined spaces.

6. Acrophobia: The fear of
heights. This is often confused
with vertigo which is merely a
dizzy or spinning sensation.

7. Emetophobia: The fear of
vomit.

cancer. A carcinophobe will
believe he has cancer because
he touched someone else with
the disease.

9. Brontophobia: The fear of
thunderstorms.

10. Necrophobia: The fear of

death.

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who we are

Korey Johnson

Age: 19

I am from Clearwater. I am
undecided on my major. A
weird fact about me is I like
eating peanut butter, banan-
as, and jelly together.

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Community College

Michael Toon

Age: 20

I am from Wichita. I am a
part-time sophomore at
Butler, but only attend
school one day a week. Ev-
ery other day I am traveling
around the U.S. racing my
motorcycle.

Ashley McQuarry

Age: 19

I am from Newton, and am
a sophomore at Butler. I
am told I have a laugh that
breaks the sound barrier.

Teresa Hanson

Megan Burns

Age: 19

I am from Dighton, and I am
a sophomore at Butler. I love
antiques. I collect old books,
and film cameras.

Nicola Dickinson

Age: 21

I am from England, and a

sophomore at Butler. The

only weird thing I can think

of is that I eat ranch with

everything.

Fall 2010

Behind the Athletes

ne stories that break, the athletic stereotype

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sually
when ap-
proaching
someone
you don't
know your first instinct
is to stereotype them
by their appearance
or status. In the life of
an athlete, this tends
to happen quite often.
Many athletes are de-
fined by their peers as
sports minded, arrogant
jocks, who get easy As
just because they play
a sport. But this state-
ment, my friends, is
many times wrong at
Butler.

The truth is
there is a huge support

group behind the ath-
letes at Butler Commu-
nity College. People that
know how many athletes
really are. These people
know that they are not
just passed along and
instead of holding them
on a high pedestal they
constantly push them to
succeed.

These people
'Behind the Athletes' are
teachers, coaches, advis-
ers and tutors. When the
athletes aren't hitting
home runs or scoring
goals, many times they
are with these people
working on their futures.

Some athletes are
told every day they won't

make it in life and won't
have a future. However,
these people that stand
behind them tell them dif-
ferently. They teach them
to step away from all the
stereotypes that have
been pegged onto them.

With the help from
these people, athletes can
accomplish great success
here and after Butler. But
exactly who are these
people? What do they
do specifically to change
these young women's and
men's lives?

Take a look 'Be-
hind the Athlete' and
break through the stereo-
type with these astonish-
ing people's stories.

Destiny Curtis: Tutor

School can be
tough, especially when
you're an athlete being
told that you'll never pass.
The Athletic Academic Co-
ordinator has put together
a band of tutors to help
these athletes put those
words of discouragment in
the past.

Destiny Curtis,
sophomore, is one out of
13 tutors that work with
the Butler Athletic Depart-
ment. She has worked with
athletes for almost 2 1/2
years now. She takes pride
in helping Butler athletes.

Originally, Curtis
didn't plan on being a
tutor. She was more inter-
ested in being a baseball
manager.

"I wanted to be a
baseball manager but it
was Shannon (Hurt, the
coordinator) who told me
about tutoring. She said
it was one of the hardest
jobs on campus. That mo-
tivated me to be a tutor,"

says Curtis.

Curtis works with
mostly football but other
tutors work with a variety
of sports.

Curtis has a trick
when working with the
Grizzly football players.

"You have to find
out who they are and
actually get to know them.
Sometimes when work-
ing with them they can be
stubborn but you've gotta
look past it and find out
who they are," says Curtis.

She also points out
mistakes that some tutors
don't realize they are do-
ing.

"I've seen some tu-
tors who do get frustrated
sometimes and treat the
athletes like little kids,"
Curtis says.

Not every college
has this program. Many
athletes never see the nec-
essary help that they need.

"If it wasn't for
this program a lot of these

athletes wouldn't be able
to go to Divsion 1 schools.
Not only are we tutors
but we act as mentors to
make sure they stay on
track," says Curtis.

Thinking back to
the stereotyped athlete
many students believe
that athletes are just
passed along in their
classes. Some may even
think that the faculty is
giving them an easy A.

Curtis says this
idea is false.

"There are no ex-
cuses for the athletes. We
make it harder for them,
not easier. Not only are
the tutors pushing them,
so is the faculty," says
Curtis.

Curtis and her fel-
low group of tutors help
break past the athletic
stereotype.

"We pressure
them to work hard. They
just don't get passed
along."

Fall 2010

Shannon Hurt: Athletic Academic Coordinator

There is an old say-
ing, "Behind every great
man, there is a greater
woman." The same goes
for our athletic depart-
ment. Behind every great
athletic team, there is a
greater woman. Her name
is Shannon Hurt.

Hurt is the Butler
Athletic Academic Coordi-
nator. She is in charge of
scheduling classes, coun-
seling and placing tutors
with the athletes. She's
been at Butler for five
years now and has a his-
tory in tutoring.

"I tutored in college
at Butler, Wichita State
and Louisiana State in all
academics," says Hurt.

She originally went
to school to be a kindergar-
ten teacher but decided to
work with college students
because she had a pas-
sion for it. She enjoyed the
reward "to see people suc-
ceed."

"My goal is to make
them better people in soci-
ety," says Hurt.

Working with the
athletes here at Butler can
have its pros and cons. A
huge problem that Hurt
and the department have
is the stereotype that some
students cast upon the ath-
letes. Many students see
them as intimidating.

Another con is
previous education. Not
all, but some athletes have
been passed along or have
been given good grades so
they are allowed to play
their sport in high school.
This causes problems when
they enter college.

"I tell them I'm
going to push you academi-
cally. Not do the work for
you. It makes me angry
when these kids were
just passed along in high
school. It really is a disser-
vice to the athlete," says
Hurt.

There is a new law
in junior college sports that
you cannot play a sport un-
less you have a high school
diploma. Before, students
did not have to finish high
school to play for a juco
school and they could still
achieve a college degree.
This is now being stopped
so more athletes will try to
gain a diploma.

Working with these
young men and women
isn't completely negative.
Hurt finds a lot of positive
things in the department.

"I love the relation-
ships that I build with the
students. You see them
learn and grow a lot. A lot
of them are intimidated
by college so I try to get
past that barrier. I also love
watching them play their
sports and of course seeing
them go on past Butler,"
says Hurt.

Hurt is not alone in
trying to see these ath-

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Community Colleqc

letes succeed. She has tons
of support from faculty,
coaches and the tutors that
work under her. She tries to
have faculty respect her and
what she is doing, even if
they don't think it is neces-
sary.

"A great deal of
faculty is great about get-
ting back to me. I wouldn't
say they're against me, I
just don't think they under-
stand how important this is.
Coaches also work with me
and completely understand
this program and what has
to be done," says Hurt.

Along with faculty
and coaches, there are 13
student tutors. They sit
down with the athletes and
have one on one tutor-
ing. Hurt works around the
tutors' schedules and the
athletes' schedules and
practices. Each team has a
different type of tutoring.

"With football and
basketball we do one on

one or group tutoring.
There is a maximum of
three in a group. Volley-
ball and softball have a
study time and can ask for
help during that time. We
try to stress to our ath-
letes that they need to go
to teachers during office
hours," Hurt says.

With this program,
Hurt sees many successes.
The ones who are pre-
pared for college and be-
come leaders to the other
athletes are always a suc-
cess for Hurt. Those who
rise above the stereotype
and being put down are
also a success.

"We have people
tell them you aren't going
to make it and they prove
them wrong. They work
hard. This group is a team,
a unit," says Hurt.

Hurt tries to teach
them to be good in the
classroom and Butler is
the only one in the confer-

ence to have this program.

Many athletes that
have gone through this
program have found aid in
some way. Whether it be in
their education or later in
life.

Students need
to see past the athletic
stereotype to understand
this.

Hurt wants people
to understand that each
one of these athletes is a
person.

"If you give them
a chance and get to know
who they are then you will
want to help them," says
Hurt.

The people behind
them want to see them be
academically amazing and
find joy in seeing them do
so.

Hurt says, "When you
walk away and you know
you taught someone some-
thing it's a reward and you
know you've done good."

Kayla Clarke Alaina Cohen Megan Mahurin
Staff Writer Staff Writer Managing Editor

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Band geeks? I think not.
Butler Community
College pep band rocks
the house. Before
students can make
some noise, newcomers must first
have high school band experience
or have the consent of the instructor
to participate.

Membership
in the pep band
is conditioned

primarily on the
instrumental needs of
the ensemble. Effort
is made to recruit
as many interested
players as possible
while maintaining a
balanced ensemble.
Students are required
to attend all sporting
events and music
rehearsals, just like
most scholarships.

"The pep

band is such an
important part of
our community"

says Kevin Pickerall,
Butler adjunct facility
member.

"We are pretty much
the cheerleaders for
Butler" says Pickerall.

Pickerall is the head
manager at Blockbuster in El Dorado
and" plays trumpet in the college
band and also helps direct. The
pep band plays at numerous home
football and basketball games for
the college.

"We motivated the crowd
and provide spirit as well as
entertainment," John Templin says.
Templin is the pep band director. He
had also taught at the college for 33

years and retired back in 2002 but
still continues to direct the band.

"I was brought up with
music. My grandfather played the
violin, my grandmother played
guitar and my mother taught me to
play the piano and the organ. I just
love music," Templin says.

Before the band can toot
their horn the band practices
diligently. Band practices are once
a week on Wednesdays from 1-2
p.m. in the 700 building. Students
not only get to play the music but
get to pick out the music selections.

"I'll buy some musicto listen
to. I don't know how many CDs that
the publisher sends me, but I picked
out the ones I like and narrow them
down and let the band vote
on what songs they want to
play. I also wrote a couple
of songs for the band,"
Templin says.

Templin will buy the
music from the publisher
and then narrow the
songs that the band plays
from there. He also says
that his songs were never
played in the band, though.
Surprisingly, most Butler
students don't know that
the band plays not only
at football and basketball
games but also for the
Riverfest in downtown

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Community Colleae

El Dorado and have done numerous

kids events and played at the Jayhawk

Conference playoffs and bowl games.

While the band is at the college games

they "cheer" on the team while yelling "defense" in harmony

At the end of each year students are expected to be familiar

with and execute all music in pep band repertoire in terms of

accuracy, rhythm, phrasing, intonation, dynamics and tempo.

"This year, I feel that the pep band is very spirited. They
do an excellent job entertaining the crowd as well as playing
the music," Templin says.

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Fall 2010

Story/Photos by
Emily Kindel
Staff Writer

Lang'at has little time to himself
due to his arrau or tasks to ao

each da

Lang'at is
training for
the World
Championship
in 2011 and
the Olympics
in 2012.

Student and Athlete by Day

and Security by Night

For a person who has run
competitively in high
school, Benson Lang'at,
freshman from Kenya,
has impressed many
coaches, by setting many records
at Butler during his first semester in
spring 2010.

Lang'at was born in
Kapsabet, Riftvalley, a place where
many world-known middle distance
runners come from. However, he
never even considered running
for a career. Instead he played

Student

Even with his busy
schedule, Lang'at takes
21 credit hours of
schooling even though
he is only required to
have 12 hours. He is
taking classes from
physics to accounting
in order to finish his
work in Economics.

basketball, soccer and rugby for
Kericho Tea High School.

Lang'at's spark for running
came from a neighbor named Elijah
Lang'at. Elijah greatly helped him
in pursuing running by giving him
new Nike shoes, taking him to big
races and telling him to never stop
running.

Moving to the United States
to train with his Uncle Ben Kurgat,
Lang'at decided to move to Butler
for a running scholarship.

Some of his many awards

include placing second in indoor
nationals for the 1,000 meters, two
times indoor ail-American, two time
outdoor all-American, Academic all-
American and honorable mention
for Region 6.

"Butler has been like a
home away from home for me. The
students, instructors, workers and
all of the Butler community are
amazing people. Butler has helped
me achieve my dreams," Lang'at
says.

Butler has been like a home away
from home for me. The students,
instructers, workers and all of the
Butler community are amazing
people. Butler has helped me
achieve my dreams/' Lang'at says.

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Community College

Chaos

With all of the chaos going on
in Lang'at's life it is a necessity
that he always has a schedule.
"If I forget to do one thing on
my schedule then my whole
day is messed up, and it takes
awhile to make up everything
that I missed," Lang'at says.

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Runner

Lang'at's Uncle, Ben Kurgat,
manager of Global MBIO Club
based in North Carolina, is the
person who finally convinced him
to move to the United States of
America to train for running. He
trained with his uncle for two
months before making his way to
Kansas. "I just want to build my
foundation before I go to a four
year college with a good running
program," Lang'at says.

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Security

Lang'at works 20 hours a week as security for the
West dorms. He used to patrol the campus, but
for right now he is just signing people in as they
come into West. "I work to save up money so I
can send it to my family in Kenya. One-hundred
dollars here is equal to 7,800 shillings in Kenya,"
Lang'at says.

Fall 2010

arships:

what a re you signing o'ntp3

Kayla Banzet Megan Mahurin
Copy Editor Managing Editor

Earning a scholarship
is not only an
accomplishment but a
goal for most students.
Scholarships bring aid
to scholars during college and
places ease on students' wallets.
All the student has to do is read
the Butler scholarship contract,
agree to the terms and sign their
name on the dotted line.

But how many students
actually read the agreement?

and school.

Even though students sign
this agreement there are still cases
where the rules and expectations
are broken. Larry Patton is the
Dean of the Humanities and Fine
Arts Department. He oversees
the scholarship students of the
department and that they follow
their agreement.

"For music theatre and
dance they are expected to take
certain classes and there are

When a
student is
offered a
scholarship
at Butler

"Students need

to remembertneu[rfld

certain
events
they are

to attend.
They are

are representing expected

i C-2 to meet

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our scnoo

Community College they are
given a scholarship agreement
form. In this form there

are rules and expectations that
the student is agreeing to follow
for that academic year. Once they
sign this form they are making a
promise to their adviser, dean

requirements. There has been a
case where students have refused
to do what they are told to by
an adviser and this has lead to
problems with their scholarship/'
says Patton.

Outside of class time
some students seem to put
this agreement to the back of
their minds. They may go to a
party and drink or take explicit

pictures. Putting these pictures
on the Internet has gotten some
students in quite a bit of trouble.

Some students may feel
like they are being censored too
much by getting in trouble for
stuff they put on the Internet.
Patton thinks otherwise.

"I don't think they are
being censored at all. Students
need to remember they are
representing our school and
that they need to follow Butler's
policies," he says.

Bad behavior is not the
only way a scholarship student
could lose their scholarship.
A problem that almost every
student has is that pesky G.P.A.

"You need to pass a
minimum of 12 hours with a 2.0.
You must be enrolled in 15 credit
hours while on scholarship," says
Patton.

Although scholarship

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"Ourg°a' 's

to make our
students be
sucessrul."

students may get their scholarship
taken away or be put on probation,
they do get a chance to redeem
themselves. A student could even
gain their scholarship back.

"Taking a class in
intersession and passing will allow
a student to be eligible for their
scholarship/' Patton says.

Patton wants to remind
students of just a few things about
their agreement.

"You should go to class
every time the class meets. Try

to be academically successful and
meet the requirements that are
in the scholarship you've signed.
Remember etiquette at events
and remember the dress code.
Remember you are representing
Butler/' he says.

The faculty at Butler is not

trying to be the bad guys when it
comes to scholarships. They just
want students to remember what
they are signing onto.

Patton wants students to
do well while at Butler.

Patton says, "Our goal is to
make our students be successful."

Students On Scholarship

378

Academic
Athletic

Total number of
Butler Students
on Scholarship:

791

Fall 2010

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Megan Mahurin Alaina Cohen

Managing Editor Staff Writer

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Network.

In the movie, "The Social Net-
work/' director David Fincher
and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
recreate the moment in which
Facebook was invented. The
movie takes viewers through the
perspectives of a couple of brilliant
college students who each claim
that Facebook was their idea. The
movie is based on the book, The
Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mez-
rich.

In the middle of the chaos
are Mark Zuckenberg, played by
Jesse Eisenberg, a super-smart Har-
vard student who created a website
that redefined our social web and
Eduardo Saverin, portrayed by An-

drew Garfield, who once
was Zuckerberg's best
friend and provided the
foundation money for the
company to expand. Nap-
ster inventor Sean Parker,
Justin Timberlake, brought
Facebook to Silicon Val-
ley's capitalists; and the
Winklevoss twins, Armie
Hammer and Josh Pence,
Zuckenberg's classmates,
sue him for stealing their
idea and ownership of it.

Zuckerberg moves the com-
pany's base of operation to Palo
Alto, at Parker's suggestion, while
Saverin remains in New York seek-
ing advertising support. When
Saverin visits from New York, he is

angered to find that Parker is living
at the house and making business
decisions for Facebook. After an ar-
gument with Zuckerberg, Saverin
freezes the company's bank ac-

count and returns to New York.

The plot line continues
with the Winklevoss twins com-
peting in the Henely Royal Regat-
ta and becoming outraged when
they find out that Facebook has
expanded to a number of univer-
sities. Then they decide to sue.
Saverin discovers that the deal
he signed with Parker's investors
allows them to dilute his share of
the company from a third to less
than one-tenth of one percent,
while maintaining the ownership
percentage of all other parties.
He confronts Zuckerberg and
then proceeds to tell him that he
is going to sue him.

The framing device
throughout the film shows Mark
testifying in depositions in two
lawsuits: one filed by the Win-
klevoss twins, and the other filed
by Saverin.

"The Social Network"
started out with a fast-talking
Zuckenberg that was very hard
to understand. His sentences
skipped from one subject to the
next. It took me awhile to figure
out that the men were replaying

past events, talking to their lawyers
about how Facebook got started
and who first came up with the
idea.

The film is rated PG 13 but
I would not recommend the film to
teens under 17. There was quite a
bit of drug references, sexual innu-
endos and cussing.

As time went on, the movie
began to become increasingly better
and more intriguing. Although this
movie was two hours long it didn't
give enough time to unveil the en-
tire Facebook story or lawsuit that
wen
a I o n gl
with itj
neve i
knew!

the entire story of how the Face-
book phenomenon got started
which was really interesting to me.
I never realized how many lawsuits
were taken out on Zuckenberg. The
movie skipped back and forth and
was oftentimes hard to follow. "The
Social Network" has become one
my favorite movies. Overall, "The
Social Network" was a three out of
four stars.

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Fall 2010

Lady Grizzlies

Amir Peyton
Sports Media

Last season the Lady
Grizzlies were 26-13 in
volleyball and fell short in
the playoffs. This year the
women are playing with
a chip on their
shoulder. As of
now, the Lady
Grizzlies are 25-
10. All of their
losses have been
from ranked

teams. Butler
has only lost two
games in their
division.

In the
beginning of
the year, Butler
came in with
little experience
but Brittany

Brown, El Dorado

sophomore, and Amanda Newlin,
Clearwater sophomore, carried
the team on their shouulders and
helped the team get through this
tough season. The Lady Grizzlies
have a good supporting cast that
includes Lindsey Williams, Valley
Center sophomore, Kayla Zoglman,
Goddard sophomore, Nicole Lund,
Wichita sophomore, Danielle
Riemann, El Dorado sophomore,
and Katy Spink, Andover freshman.
The Lady Grizzlies grew as a
team through the regular season.
Now they can show what they

have learned in the playoffs. When
asked about the women's overall
season performance, Head Coach
Rick Younger says, "We are right
on track. This year we had a hard

season has been very succcessful.
We are looking forward to winning
our next matches."

"This season

has been very

successful."

Coach Rick Younger

Community College
34"

Great Year

for Grizzly Football

Chad Hogan
Sports Media

Looking at this year's
schedule for the sixth
ranked Butler Grizzlies
football team it wasn't
going to be a walk in the
park with four ranked opponents
in the top 20 teams in the NJCAA
preseason poll. The hardest part of
the schedule for Butler was playing
the fourth ranked
Navarro Bulldogs
and then the third
ranked Fort Scott
Greyhounds for the
first two games of
the season, then
the 18th ranked
Coffeyville Red

Ravens, and the 11th
ranked Hutchinson
Blue Dragons in the
last two games of the
season.

Luckily some
key players from
last year such as
star wide receiver
Marcus Kennard,
Lawton, Okla. sophomore and
monster defensive end Cornelius
Carradine, Cincinnati sophomore,
came back to play for the purple
and gold. The biggest junior college
pickup of the season, quarterback
Zach Mettenberger, Watkinsville
Ga., sophomore, would help the
Grizzly's cause for greatness.

The team that beat Butler
twice last year, once in the regular
season and then in the Region VI
finals, was the next team on the list
andthatteam wasthe numberthree

ranked Fort Scott Greyhounds. The
Greyhounds played in the National
Championship last year but lost to
Blinn College and now had to play
a Butler team looking for revenge.
The Grizzlies were looking for just
that and looked like real Grizzly
bears chasing around scared
campers. The Grizzlies mauled the

completions and five touchdowns
with some serious help from
Kennard, who caught five passes for
127 yards and three touchdowns.

The last game of the regular
season ended up being the most
hyped with the number one ranked
Grizzlies taking on the number two
ranked Hutchinson Blue Dragons at
Galen Blackmore. Coming into this
game it seemed like it was the most
evenly matched game that has ever
been played in football. Before
the Butler game, Hutch's defense

had only allowed one touchdown
pass, had 11 interceptions and only
allowed 507 yards passing. That
matched up against Mettenberger
who had passed for 23 touchdowns,
1,820 yards and only three
interceptions. Butler leaned onto
their good run defense this season
where teams averaged 43 carries a
game against them
and only a 2.6 yard
i rush average. They
had to stay strong
against a tough run
gamethat had rushed
for 1,873 yards and
28 touchdowns

with a 5.5 yard rush
average.

Butler didn't care
how good of a match-
up it was because
they decided to shut
out the Blue Dragons
28-0, taking the
Region VI title and
holding on to that
number one overall
ranking in the NJCAA poll to end the
regular season.

This season could become
a season to remember not only
if the Grizzlies win the National
Championship for the seventh time
but also for the players who could
become Grizzly greats.

Fall 2010

Cross Country Runs to Success

Michael Bauer
Sports Media

Change of leadership
has been the term to
describe this year's
Butler men's and
women's cross-country
teams. Former coach Kirk Hunter
ended his ten
years as the
cross-country
coach and

departed for
Wichita State.
Hisreplacement
was Jeff Becker
from New

Mexico Junior
College.

The
leadership roles
have also

changed on the
teams as well. This year Benson
Langat, freshman from Kenya, has
consistently led the men's team so
far this season. Langat says Kenya
is different from Kansas but he is
enjoying life here nevertheless.

"I think Kansas is a little
different from where I come
from, like the weather, it's
different, but I like all the people
in Kansas and everybody and I
enjoy being at Butler."

The men's team has
worked their way up in the NJCAA
polls where they currently sit at
a tenth place ranking.

The women's team sits at
a 14th ranking in the polls and has
had their fair share of success this
season too.

Elida Burciaga, sophomore
from Corpus Christi, Texas, has been
the leader of the Lady Grizzlies
and has enjoyed a record-breaking
season. One of those included
moving uptosixth placeonthe Butler

all-time list for

fastest 5-K runners,

which came at

the Emporia State

Invitational on Oct.

The season started

off with a trip to

Cowley College

where both teams

finished second

behind a very

powerful Cowley

County cross-

country team.

Wichita State's Invitational
was next on the schedule. The
men placed third while the women
were fifth among NJCAA and NAIA
competition.

Grizzly to run a 6K.

Running at Jones Park at the
Emporia Invitational, four runners
from both teams ended up setting
personal records that day. Along
with Burciaga's fast 5-K time,
Kate Brunner,

sophomore
from Haysville,
would set a
personal record
day with 20:52.
Freshman, Martha
Avila, Wichita,
finished 138th
and freshman,
Jill McPherron,
Wichita, crossed
the line at 172nd.

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The Woody Greeno
Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. would
mark the first record setting days
this season for Burciaga as she
became the fourth fastest Lady

The two clocked in
times of 22:07 and
23:46 respectively- their fastest of
the season.

For the men, Langat led the way
with an 18th place finish after
running the 8K but was the only
runner to not set a personal
record. Abel Assefa, sophomore
from Olathe, was second on the
team with a 37th place finish and
a time of 26:22. It was not only the
fastest time he's run but also the
first time he finished second on
the team.

"I thought we ran well, it's
always tough, they say sometimes
you have a home course advantage
but sometimes it's even tougher
because we're busy doing other
stuff, but overall, I think both teams
performed well," Coach Becker says.

Women's Soccer Field Set

Austin Helms
Sports Media

It has been a great year for
the soccer team. They have
had two school
records set and
are in playoffs.
The Lady Grizzlies
currently stand at 14-
4. Cindy Benitez, a
returning all-American,
has proved why she is a
great leader for Butler.
She is assisted by #11
Perla Hernandez, a
freshman out of Great
Bend. Perla has set
a school record for
most assists in a game.
On Oct. 4, Butler
soccer destroyed

Independence
Community College
16-0. Perla had eight
assists and one goal,
currently number one
country for assists.

a career at Butler. The previous number
record was at 74 goals, and that points.

three in the country for
In the point system you
get two points for
a goal and one
point for an assist.
Butler women's
soccer beat

Cowley County
for the second
time this year
and is currently in
the second round
of the Region
VI playoffs.

Pending on the
last weekend of
October we will
know if Butler
soccer gets a bid
to the National
Tournament in
Topeka.

Perla is
in the

B e n i t e z
has been
putting in
the most
goals this
year for
Butler
soccer.
She set
the new
school
record in
the close
win over Barton County, 3-2.

That then put her at 75
goals for the most goals scored in

was held by Ashley Tatum back in
the 2004-2005 seasons. Since the
Barton game, Benitez scored seven

more
times in

Benitez is currently number
two in the country for goals at
44 goals this season, and she is

Fall 2010

Hi everyone, my name is Thao
Pham and this is my second year
at Butler. I am from Salina and
plan to major in Electronic Media
at Wichita State University. A
favorite quote of mine would have
to be, "Don't let your dreams be
dreams."

Hello everyone! I'm Kayla Banzet, a
sophomore at Butler CC and this is
my second year on The Grizzly staff
and I'm so excited to be back. I love
journalism! I love reading it, writing
it, discussing it and I'm also majoring
in it. One of my favorite quotes is
from a legendary journalist, "In
seeking truth you have to get both
sides of a story." Walter Cronkite

Hello, my name is Gordon Cave

and I am from Augusta. I plan
on transferring to the University
of Kansas and majoring in
Environmental Studies and
Geology. I am interested in the
outdoors as well as learning about
other cultures. The only quote I live
by is to treat others as you would
want to be treated.

Hey my name's Megan Mahurin.

I am from Cimarron. I currently
live in Wichita and love hanging
out with my friends. I am majoring
in Early Childhood Education and
my favorite quote of all time, no
matter how much it's overused is
"Live Laugh Love! Everything else is
a Waste of Time!"

Hey, my name is Emily Kindel and

I'm from Wichita. This is my first
year at Butler and I'm currently
undecided on a major. Taking
pictures is the whole reason I
joined the magazine staff. One of
my favorite quotes is, "Just don't
give up trying to do what you really
want to do. Where there is love
and inspiration, I don't think you
can go wrong." Ella Fitzgerald.

Hi! My name is Alaina Cohen.

This is my first full semester at
Butler and I am ecstatic to be on
the Grizzly staff this year! One
of my favorite quotes is from 2
Corinthians 12:9-10 But he said
to me, "My grace is sufficient for
you, for my power is made perfect
in weakness."

My name is Leah Emmart and I'm

from Wichita. I am a freshman
and I'm majoring in Mass
Communications. I graduated
from Northwest High School. I like
to write fictional stories, listen
to music, sing, watch anime and
attend anime conventions. My
favorite quote is "You are who you
are, nobody can change that but
you."

Hello Butler, My name is Daniela
Morales. I'm from McPherson
and this is my first year in
college! I'm majoring in Mass
Communications. My favorite
quote is "You have brains in
your head. You have feet in your
shoes. You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. You're
on your own. And you know
what you know. And you are the
one who'll decide where to go."
Dr. Suess

'Ello everyone my name is Amanda
Peters! This is my first year at
Butler and I'm having a blast so
far! I'm from Onaga and my major
is Photojournalism. My favorite
quote is "With God all things are
possible." Mark 10:27

Hey guys, my name is Kayla Clarke
and I am from Wichita. This is my
first year here at Butler. I am a
Mass Communication major. I love
designing layouts. My favorite
quote would be "Don't be too hard
on yourself. Life will do that for
you." My Aunt Mimi

Fall 2010

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