By Maggie Dunning
Staff reporter

“We’re hopeful that a community health center can be established. It’s just a question of when,” said David Brazil, liaison for the board of health, administrator REHS.

If it comes into being it will be named the community health center of Cowley County.

It will impact low-income people, those who are uninsured, underinsured and underserved.

Alan Polen is president of the board of directors for the proposal and a retired Methodist pastor.

After Polen retired he wanted to do something that made a difference. He said, “I’ve had a compassion for people and I feel that’s a calling.”

The process started in 2005 when Cowley County completed its strategic plans through Cowley First and Cowley County Vision 20/20.

The community was surveyed to see what people thought was needed. In a scale from one to 100, with one being the best and 100 being the worst Cowley County rated just about 80 in health care needs.

The results were clear. Brazil said, the need for access to primary care is overwhelming in the county.

“Essentially 15-16 percent of our county in uninsured and another 12 to maybe 15 percent, based on the numbers you look at, are underinsured. Between the two you’ve got 25 to 30 percent of the county that cannot get access to primary care doctor,” said Brazil.

Polen said “If they get a prescription they may not have resources to buy the prescription even though the doctors give them prescriptions.”

The proposed low cost health center will have connections to resources that provide assistance.

Polen said the health center has two aims, “Accessible and affordable health care for those who can’t afford and where it’s not easily accessible.”

A 501-C3 non-profit corporation has been formed. The board of nine directors finished the planning grant in November of 2012 and moved on to a new access point application.

They should hear back from the federal government by this fall on whether or not they will get the award.

Community health centers are modeled in a holistic management of personal health.

Brazil said that health clinics build slowly. The need in Cowley County is so great that he predicts it will grow at a rapid pace.

“Most community health centers, once they are established, even in rural areas, outgrow their facility in three or four years and have to expand,” said Brazil.

While this is the first proposed health clinic for Cowley County, arkcity.net reported that there are several in Kansas.

Brazil said the closest ones to Cowley County are in Wichita. “The three I can think of are Grace Med, Guadalupe, and Hunter.”

The other health center board members are Kounh Astrab, Bruce Blake, Paulin Conde, Joy Kennedy, Grace Nichols, David A. Seaton, Kathy Wohlgemuth, Jeff Wood and Judith Zaccaria.

Maggie Dunning is a freshman majoring in communication. You may e-mail her at margaret.dunning@sckans.edu.

By Dalton Carver

Staff reporter

This year is the first that The Collegian and Update SC have used the application of Instagram to report stories and capture images throughout the year. This slideshow features some of the moments our entire staff captured and reported on, ranging from sports to inclement weather on campus. We’ve recently integrated Vine into our social media reporting repertoire and hope to use that application much more next year as well. Be on the look out as we find new ways to bring campus and community news to you.

Dalton Carver is a sophomore majoring in communication. You can email him at dalton.carver@sckans.edu or tweet him @dalty_james. 

By Jonathan Woon
Staff reporter

Jonathan Woon is a senior majoring in communication. You may e-mail him at jonathan.woon@sckans.edu 

By Maggie Dunning
Staff reporter

The weather is almost perfect and you would rather be outside enjoying the day rather than sitting in the classroom.

The social science division won this year’s student government association departmental grant worth $1000 and the campus improvement grant worth $1000 to create an outdoor classroom.

Anastasia Prokopis, business senior, is SGA president. She said funding for the grants comes out of SGA’s budget. The SGA budget consists of 40 percent of student activities fee. The other 60 percent is allocated to STUFU.

The 40 percent that SGA gets is then split into two different budgets, which are operational and organizations. The operational budgets allow SGA to offer public events and grants. The organizational funds go toward 16 to 20 different organizations on campus.

Jessica McIver, psychology senior, is conduct advisor for SGA. She said, the senate considered four departmental grant and two campus improvement grant applications.

The other grants were:

• Hip-wader boots for the aquatic biology field.
• Technological upgrades for chapel services.
• A new sound system in the Darbeth rehearsal hall.
• A small park addition to the Wallingford lawn.

The senate looked at what the applicants wanted to do and how much it would cost. Each senator voted on a grant they thought was most deserving of the money.

McIver said, “When SGA developed the grant we wanted to make sure that it benefitted most of the students or all of the students so any student can use it.”

Prokopis said, “I think it gets them out of the traditional classroom style and more open to different kind of learning styles. It gives everyone an opportunity to learn and just kind of enjoy being outside and participate.”

Cheryl Rude, chair of the social science division led the grant application process.

The thought process for developing an outdoor classroom started last August. She said, “Different faculty had tried before to have class outside, because students like that. They’re always like, ‘Can we go outside? It’s so nice.’ Especially in the spring, you notice it way more, but there’s not really a great place for that.”

Well now there is. Rude and other social science faculty built and painted six new benches that can be made into three tables. They put them behind Mossman in a little green patch of space.

“I think it’s a morale-oriented thing. It’s a different environment. I think some people will feel a new sense of paying attention in a different way. They like a change of scenery, change of venue,” said Rude.

An outdoor classroom will present some new challenges.

Rude said, “I think all of us will probably have to use it and then see ‘Ok well its really better if you do this out there. These kinds of things work well out there. These kinds of things don’t work well out there.’”

McIver said the outdoor classroom was the right choice.

Prokopis said, “I also think this one was a lot more sustainable for the future. It didn’t really require a lot of maintenance.”

Rude said, “I think that people think that it’s kind of a neat thing to do.”

The benches are in place and can be used. There are still some things to do before the outdoor classroom is ready. The division wants to add landscaping to help the outdoor classroom feel more like a place rather than just a space.

Rude said that SGA’s grant allowed the department to hire Alex Gottlob, class of 2000, who has a landscaping and design business. Rude said, “He’s going to be doing the dirt moving work and then Sodexo is going to be doing a little electrical work for us.”

The division still needs to plant trees and grasses to encircle the space to make it feel more like a classroom.

Rude said that she and Gottlob decided to wait until the fall to do the planting.  Getting people to water plants during the summer can be a gamble. “People are hit and miss in the summer time,” said Rude.

Instead the division faculty and maybe a few students will plant three trees and 16 large grasses in the fall.

“They are all going to be purchased with the grant and paid for, but we won’t actually plant them until the end of September. The likelihood of them thriving and living he’s said is a better call,” said Rude.

The classroom will also be getting an outdoor outlet for students and faculty to use. “In case people are out there and need a laptop or something charging that kind of thing. We want it to have access to electricity,” said Rude.

The electrical work for the classroom should be done by graduation. Rude looks forward to the complete outdoor classroom.

“Kansas, you know, it’s tough. I think in using it, I think we’ll have to plan to use it and want to use it and try to use it but I think we’re also going to be very flexible about it too,” said Rude.

Maggie Dunning is a freshman majoring in communication. You may e-mail her at margaret.dunning@sckans.edu.

By Dalton Carver
Staff reporter

“The moment of explosion is approaching fast.”

This quote from the general staff of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s military is just one of the many threats that the country has issued over the past month. Angered by the sanctions that the United Nations has placed on them for testing nuclear weapons, North Korea claims it will strike both the United States and South Korea. Though relations have never been good between the U.S. and North Korea, it seems the issue has been taken to another level.

This new strain between nations began with the training runs of American B-52 bombers over South Korea last March. Angered by the military exercises, threats to bomb U.S. bases in the Pacific were once again being thrown by Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea. Coupled with the country’s most recent nuclear test last February, the situation is being taken more seriously than usual.

Not long after the initial threats, North Korea stated that the Korean Peninsula should be considered back in a state of war. Last month, they nullified the truce that ended the 1953 Korean War. They pledged to restart nuclear reactors that had been shut off since 2007. As of this month, they moved a mid-range missile to their east coast. It seems that North Korea means business.

Contrary to recent events, North Korea having nuclear weapons is not a new discovery. They’ve been working on that front for almost 20 years. Three tests have been conducted since 2006, all of which have been heavily frowned upon by the U.N. and the United States. Now the question that most individuals are concerned with is whether North Korea is actually reckless enough to launch a nuclear missile.

Although seeming to take it more seriously than previous events, is the United States taking North Korea seriously enough? The majority of U.S. analysts claim that the North doesn’t have the capability to launch a missile that will reach the continental states. However, they don’t have to launch a missile directly from the Korean mainland. One could be launched from a sea-borne vessel, in order to get a weapon that much closer to an American-affiliated target. North Korea has also launched a satellite into orbit, and that takes quite a bit of rocket capability.

Even if they don’t launch a missile, it could further ignite similar issues with the Middle-East. Iran and North Korea seem to be walking similar paths with their nuclear development programs. Even worse, the North could deliver knowledge or weapons to the Middle-East. That thought may be going a bit far, but when nuclear weapons are concerned, isn’t it better to be safe than sorry?

This “wait and see” attitude taken by the United States may result in the country backpedaling when a significant event finally does occur. It may not be a strike on the United States mainland, but it may be on a military installation or on South Korea. Instead of consistently arguing against North Korea’s capabilities, the U.S. needs to accept that North Korea will not give up its nuclear arms program. The U.S. needs to be straightforward with citizens about the intensity of the threat, as opposed to these varying views of “capable” or “non-capable.”

A better way to deal with this threat will arise when the confusion and speculation is no longer so. That should be one of the main priorities of the United States at this point in time. It’s often said that the first casualty of war is truth. If the global community wants a good outcome to this situation, they can’t afford for truth to die.

Dalton Carver is a sophomore majoring in communication. You can email him at dalton.carver@sckans.edu or tweet him @dalty_james.

Taylor Finke
Staff Reporter

A little over two years ago, I didn’t know what I was getting into. As an incoming junior in high school, I had signed up to go with a group from my town on a guided tour of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. Incredibly, everything lined up so that this last summer, I was spending two weeks in the land across the pond.

Before I say anything of my adventures, I want to say that traveling abroad seems impossible to many people. It’s expensive, costs time, money and comfort (in the case of oversea flights in economy). A while back, I wouldn’t have even been able to imagine wanting to go through all the hassle. Where I come from, most people have never been to a major city, much less a different country. However, I can honestly say that the experience was worth whatever problems arose.

In fact, I wish that everyone would become world travelers while they’re young. I’ll give you three good reasons why you should take my advice.

Reason Number One: New experiences abound abroad.

Until my departure date, I had never flown on any plane, nor had I ever seen the ocean. The largest city I had ever been in was Denver and the farthest I had ever traveled was to Durango, CO. In two weeks, I flew on six different planes, visited cities I had only ever read about or seen in movies and traveled thousands of miles.

One massive change was being surrounded by people with various accents. You would think that watching Harry Potter movies over and over again would have prepared me for that, but it certainly didn’t. After a while, it got easier to keep up with what was being said, and I actually caught myself unconsciously mimicking the speech pattern.

There is also something to be said about being surrounded by a completely different culture. In Ireland, for example, you can turn on the “telly” and find shows narrated in Gaelic. Interestingly enough in Scotland, I got to try haggis after it was paraded in by kilted men, accompanied by bagpipes. It wasn’t at all what I expected. Also, people don’t drive everywhere, but walk instead, which made a really nice change. The only pop regularly available was Coke and the only familiar chain restaurants where McDonalds and Subway.

I’ve also found that not only does travel allow you to have such experiences, but also that you can pick up a few things. For me, I started drinking tea with milk and Netflixing popular BBC shows like ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Merlin’. I definitely would not have even considered this before traveling. One thing I can say about it is that traveling opens your mind to new possibilities.

Reason Number Two: There’s no time later.

I think that everyone should travel to a country they’re interested in while they’re young. There’s no time like the present. There are so many possibilities ahead for you when you’re in your late teens and early twenties. Traveling to a foreign country really helped me understand that the possibilities for the future really are almost limitless.

It’s also more difficult to travel as you get older. More than likely, you will end up tied to a job with limited vacation days. Also, you might be facing debt, raising a family and other adult responsibilities. As a young adult, you have a bit more freedom to do what you want. You aren’t tied to one school, town or even country.

Reason Number Three: It’s Fun.

I can honestly say that traveling to the U.K. and Ireland is the coolest thing I have ever done. I got to see things most people have only seen on TV and spend time with my family in incredible settings. So pull out a globe and pick a country. Find a tour, like I did, strike it out with some friends or family or study abroad. I would do it all again in a heartbeat, and I’ve already started planning future adventures.

Taylor Finke is a freshman. You may email her at taylor.finke@sckans.edu.

By Bailey VenJohn
Staff reporter

The Lady Builders conquered St. Mary Thursday afternoon. Senior night was celebrated as it was the last home game for the team this season.

Southwestern was down for most of the first game but made a run in the 6^th inning to top the Lady Spires 3-2.

The second game was another story. The Lady Builders scored in the first inning and ended up winning 4-1.

Sarah Yzquierdo, senior infield, said “It feels pretty great to end my career on a pair of wins. I feel like we started off slow and really picked it up in the second game.”

Yzquierdo and Georganna Hopper, senior pitcher, were the only two seniors on the team this year.

Hopper said she’s going to miss the girls and the team the most.

Audrey Vorderlandwehr, sophomore first base, said “The team is going to miss the enthusiasm the seniors brought every day to practice and games.”

Next up on the schedule for the Lady Builders is a double header Saturday at McPherson. This game, which was originally scheduled for March 30 and then April 4, was cancelled twice due to weather.

The Lady Bulldogs are currently 16-25 overall and 9-9 in the KCAC. Southwestern is sitting at 14-21 on the season and 5-11 in conference.

The first pitch Saturday is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Bailey VenJohn is a freshman majoring in communication. You may email her at bailey.venjohn@sckans.edu.

By Bailey VenJohn
Staff reporter

File Photo: Trey Bruton, mathematics junior, David Leonard, business administration sophomore and Brandon Hatch, chemistry sophomore, compete in the 800 meter race at the SC Relays April 28, 2012. This year’s relays will be on April 27 with field events starting at 11:30 a.m.followed by running events at 2 p.m. (Clinton Dick/Collegian Photographer)

Tradition is huge at SC. Events such as the Mound building ceremony at the beginning of the year have a strong presence in history. Hundreds come back for Homecoming. The SC Relays is another one of those events.

“It’s historic. Schools have been coming here for years. We have had Olympians compete here. Some of the best NAIA teams regularly. It’s a mainstay on the schedule” said Jim Helmer, track head coach.

This will be the 52^nd year for this event.

Helmer has been a part of this gathering for years. He participated in the meet for four years as a SC track athlete and this is his 35^th year coaching in it.

“The meet has changed a lot,” Helmer said. “It used to be a cinder track, and they had a high school division for the meet. Some years they would do bigger high schools one day and smaller another. The college meet has always been on the last Saturday of April.”

When women’s track came into play the high school division got to be too much. In 1986 they dropped the high school division and built an all-weather track.

Typically there are about 15 to 20 teams in attendance.

Between 60 and 70 coaches from schools in the Kansas and Oklahoma area receive invitations.

“We really don’t have selective invites. We just open it up to junior colleges, other NAIA schools, and some NCAA division II schools” said Mike Kirkland, head women’s track coach.

Kirkland has been a coach for 31 years. He graduated from Southwestern where he was a track athlete in 1982.

Scott Nuss, sports information director, is in his first year in this position. This will be his first go round at the relays.

“This is one of our big events. It gets a little more attention than the invitational. It is also deeper in to the season and overall it just gets a little more TLC” said Nuss.

Helmer is the meet coordinator. Dave Denly, athletic director, makes sure everything goes well and that Helmer has access to set the meet up correctly.

Helmer said he enjoys being a part of the excitement, and watching everything operate smoothly. “It’s always special to get to compete at home.”

T.J. Harris, assistant track coach, is in charge of lining up workers to help run the meet. His goal is to have about 30 workers to have it run smoothly.

“At the conclusion of the meet a male and female are awarded the Monypeny MVP award” said Kirkland. Together, Helmer and Kirkland pick athletes that have an outstanding meet or performance.

The field events kick off at 11:30 a.m. April 27. Running events will start at 2 p.m.

Bailey VenJohn is a freshman majoring in communication. You may email her at bailey.venjohn@sckans.edu.

Kaley Rodriguez, volleyball senior, and Frank Adelman, track and cross country senior, were honored today for being the Outstanding Student-Athlete award winners. The award is sponsored by Bill and Georgianna Young in memory of their daughter, Tracy. Tracy was in the class of 1982. Bailey VenJohn/Collegian Photographer

Frank Adelman, cross country and track senior, and Kaley Rodriguez, volleyball
senior, were honored today for being the Outstanding Student-Athlete award
winners.

By Maggie Dunning
Staff reporter

It is the last band concert of the year. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. on April 26, in Richardson Performing Arts Center. Refreshments will be served while live music is played beginning at 6 in the lobby.

The concert revolves around music from Hollywood.

Derreck Carter-House, biochemistry and biology senior, said, “The number 1 thing I would like to do is send the audience away with the joy of music and being able to inspire them to pursue their own joys.”

Martin Rude, director of outreach ministry, is the emcee of “Night on the Red Carpet”.

“I am very excited to be the emcee. Anytime that you are asked back means that somebody got something out of the time,” said Rude.

Karen Morrell, Winfield Municipal Band director, said “It is a chance to pull together different groups at Southwestern.”

Music will be played by Southwestern College’s Concert Band and the Winfield’s Municipal Band. The bands will play music from different films. While music is being played, video clips from the movies will be shown.

Carter-House said, “We’ve got a lot of good ones. We’re playing the ‘Halo’ sweep theme song. I really like that one.”

Music will be played from “Beauty and the Beast,” “Star Trek,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Sound of Music,” including scores such as “Never on Sunday,” “Over the Rainbow,” “The Radiators March,” Bob Hope’s “Thanks for the Memories,” and “Halo Sweep.”

Carter-House said, “We’ve got stuff from our generation all the way back to some of the band member’s generation, so back in the 50s.”

There will also be door prizes given away during the concert. The door prizes were donated by local Winfield businesses.

Morrell said that the businesses are Auto Techs: Frame and Body Repair, College Hill Coffee House, Donna’s Designs, Family Video, Graves Drug, Gambino’s Pizza, KPM Computer, Biederman’s Bistro, Cowley Cinema 8, Kathryn’s Fine Dining, Get Rented Promotions and Tisdale Methodist Church.

Maggie Dunning is a freshman majoring in communication. You may e-mail her at margaret.dunning@sckan.edu.