Folks in the halls of power are finally becoming aware of our abuse of fossil fuels and the subsequent ramifications. Governor Pawlenty recently signed into law a bill that requires 25 percent of Minnesota’s electricity to come from “next-generation power sources” by 2025. That rather ambiguous phrase refers to wind, solar, hydroelectric, and fecal power.
With the success of the basketball teams, it is a wonder why it is our only athletic program at MCTC besides golf. Student enrollment is on the rise and it seems to be time for change. Of course there are concerns with budgeting and location, but the biggest concern was quite surprising.
Campus Closed because of snowstorm!
February 14th, 2007, St. Paul – Students from MCTC assembled with an estimated 1,000 from the rest of Minnesota’s community and technical colleges and state universities for a Wednesday march on the State Capitol protesting annual tuition hikes.
Norbit is a minstrel show in a fat suit. Eddie Murphy plays three characters: a stereotypical Chinese restaurant-owner who runs an orphanage and has an eccentric martial arts skill; the large and loud Rasputia; along with the meek title character. Rasputia defends Norbit when they are kids, and cons him into marrying him.
The melody that opens V for Vendetta is about Guy Fawkes, a Catholic who attempted to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. V (Hugo Weaving), whose face is concealed in a Guy Fawkes mask and clothed in a swashbuckler’s cape, seeks to do just the same in the due course of a year, in the semi-dystopian authoritarian future London, where freedoms have been foregone for protection by the fascist Chancellor Adam Sutler (John Hurt).
MCTC’S FEATURED BAND OF THE WEEK, GANGLION
“Inherit the Wind,” the revolutionary play that first premiered in 1955, is a fictionalized retelling of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial that riveted the world in 1925. The story of Bertram Cates (based on the real-life John Scopes), a rural Tennessee high school teacher jailed and subsequently put on trial for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his sophomore students, “Inherit the Wind” is a searing indictment of American society and its unwillingness to accept change.
We will be meeting in the PLAZA of the T Building at 10am! Our buses will be leaving at 10:30am! Questions? Find Me!! ( Angelica Leonard) MCTC Student Senate is sponsering the free bus transportation. We DO have handicap accessability for those who need it.
Do you want to apply for a scholarship? Or maybe you plan on transferring to another educational institution? Or maybe, who knows, have your academic achievements hanging on your wall!? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will likely need an official transcript from MCTC.
