It is safe to say that every student who comes to MCTC is here to realize a dream. Every year hopeful students sign up and take classes to bring positive changes in their life. While MCTC offers a diverse and varied curriculum, not enough students are taking math intensive courses.
The Student Senate voted Feb 11 to give student approval for the Helland Center buildout. In a time of huge economic turmoil and budget shortfalls for the state government that will likely directly affect MNSCU’s funding, consent has been given to start an expensive construction project on campus.
I went around campus looking for diverse students who seem to spend a lot of time at school. I asked them, “What would you like to see in our school newspaper? In particular, which type of articles and subjects should be included? Are there any pressing topics you see at MCTC that should be addressed?” When I asked my fellow classmate Claudia K.
Green River Ordinace Out of My Hands A&E Editor Imagine a band that tackles all of the emotion of an emo band without coming across as being whiney- Green River Ordinance does that with their album “Out of My Hands.” It’s the sincerity of the vocals and the elegant, painstaking falsettos plus the substantial and pretty guitar lines that back up the honest (and sometimes overly) simple lyrics that make up one pretty good album.
Parke Kunkle, a MCTC science professor, (along with the Minnesota Planetarium Society, co-founded by Prof. Kunkle and 4 other individuals in 2002) has been devoting all of his free time for about the past 10 years in an effort to build a planetarium atop the Minneapolis Library with the goal of placing Minnesota back on the map for planetarium size and also to enhance education for Minnesota’s youth.
The 2400 Block of Lyndale Avenue South is an ideal montage of small stores for the curious consumer. Muddy Waters, a small café where no one will look at you funny if you stay for hours or draw on the tables, Cliché, a fashion boutique where Minneapolis designers can market new ideas a la handmade threads, and Arise Bookshop, a progressive cooperative focused on community improvement.
On Tuesday, Feb. 3, a large number of black social groups and civic leaders met at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative town hall meeting met at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in St. Paul, Minn. The meeting was a good example of participating in the civil process.
I arrived to the Stupor Bowl about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31. We met in the alley behind One-on-One Bikes on North Washington Avenue in Minneapolis. I found a diverse group of people there. Dirty bike messengers from across the country straddled their bikes; forty-year-old men in their biking jerseys from the mid 80′s, and hipsters on flashy fixed gears, all united for one event: Stupor Bowl 12.
MCTC’s student senate has passed a resolution recommending an expansion to the current Helland Center Commons. The senate passed the measure Feb. 11, a week after a special session meant to gauge student response to the multi-million dollar expansion that could begin as soon as this fall.
Is MCTC a racist institution? Close-minded? Discriminatory? In this city and these times are jobs being withheld based on skin color? Professors Shannon Gibney and Kathleen Devore are amongst many who believe so. The pair co-hosted an “It’s Time To Talk” discussion on what is called “White Privilege” Thursday Feb.
