Cowley Press

PBL qualifies for nationals

Phi Beta Lambda students once again are going to nationals thanks to dedication and hard work. The students took part in the state wide competition held in Emporia on Feb. 25 and 26. 

The students worked in groups or by themselves and used online tests or performed interactive roles depending on the event.

The PBL’ers loaded up the vans, driven by accounting instructor Sarah Mathews and Business and Computer Applications Instructor Bethany Stewart.

Along the way people passed the time studying, listening to music or punching each other for every windmill they saw.

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Odd Jobs: Flight Nurse

Christine Kabureck, 39, has a thing for trauma.

Born in Wellington, and having received her R.N. from Butler County Community College, Kabureck has been a practicing nurse for seven years. She is now the assistant director of nursing at the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Wellington. In addition, she works as a paramedic for the Wellington Fire Department and a flight nurse for EagleMed. 

Kabureck first worked at the medical center as a nurses’ aide, then as an R.N. She climbed her way up the ladder to the ADON; this position mainly consists of supervising the staff nurses and aides, covering the emergency room, and relieving people for meal breaks.

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Hunting monsters and slaying dragons

Sitting in front of one’s game system for hours playing Monster Hunter 2 often gave many gamers (including myself) dreams of hunting down and slaying dragons and giant monsters with huge, oversized, and over compensating weapons (weapons like Cloud’s buster blade in Final Fantasy 7). 

Well now those dreams can return with the promise of Monster Hunter 3.

In the Monster Hunter series it has been a big thing for players to move through inventories while moving and changing the camera as needed while still running from a giant dragon that is chasing you all around.

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Behind the Scenes: Jonathan David Krusemark

PO:  What’s up with your last name Kruse—mark?

John: It’s actually from a German city named Krusemark.

PO: What is your major?

John: My major currently is applied science. I am going to Cowley for another three semesters for auto cam and master cam training. 

PO: Do you have any nicknames?

John: As a kid, chatterbox– lately, John because people are lazy and won’t say Jonathan. Some people try to call me Johnny Appleseed, but I get mad and stop them right there. 

PO: What is your job right now?

Jonathan: I am doing photo galleries, like the volleyball thing for this year. Before that I was converting thousands of pages from the old template over to the new ones and that definitely at first was amusing but then I had to require music. Luckily there’s Yahoo radio so I just pop that on.

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Under the Dome placed under the microscope

The town of Chester’s Mill, Maine, is just a quiet little place like any other New England berg. The mostly agricultural community boasts a population of about two-thousand residents when it is plunged into chaos. An unexplained barrier prevents anything from getting in or out of town. When a plane crashes into the invisible barrier, the townspeople quickly see its effects. 

This is more or less the plot of Stephen King’s most recent endeavor Under the Dome. Obviously, it gets a lot more complicated. In a Daniel Dyer Nov. 2009 review in the Cleveland Plain Dealer,Under the Dome is described as “a massive cautionary novel”, referring to it as “busy, ambitious, overlong but addictively munchable, [and] fundamentally a novel about human cruelty, animated by our desires for power, pleasure and sex.”

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Harlem Gospel Choir comes to Cowley College

The Harlem Gospel Choir will be performing a concert in the Brown Center on April 9, at 7:30.  Tickets are on sale and cost $15 for adults and $8 for students. 

The Harlem Gospel Choir has been performing since 1986.  They were founded by Allen Bailey, who was inspired by a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  They are represented by members of many churches in the Harlem area.  They performed for Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, and will now be coming to our community.

The choir is famous for singing traditional hymns such as “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Oh, Happy Day”.  They also perform newer R&B and soul music. 

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Tiger Tech Bytes: A new face for Cowleypress.com

Each year new students give their input on certain things such as how the class is taught, what works best for them and what their goals are. Some students even go further and one of those students is Freshman Christopher Bales.

Bales is the online editor for the Cowley Press and with the help of Meg Smith he was able to completely rebuild the Cowley Press website. “It[the website] did not provide enough interaction with students and I figured I wanted to get students feedback on everything and Meg had been pushing for a while to get comments on the websites so students can voice their opinions on article we have wrote instead of having to go into all the trouble of writing to the editor and everything,” said Bales.

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Alice in Wonderland not so wonderful

Alice in Wonderland was as I expected. The special effects were good, the acting was okay, and the story line, I am sorry to say, could have been better.

The special effects were very well done and I might go as far as to say that they were impressive. The most enjoyable character that got the full 3-D effect would have to be the Cheshire Cat. The appearing and disappearing act that it did was very impressive. As for the acting, it could easily be said that it could have been better.

The actress who played Alice, Mia Wasikowska, did not seem much like any Alice I have seen on the big screen. Her delivery of her lines gave the impression of boredom she just did not have that child- like adventurous spark.

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High school students show off their artistic talents

Enjoying a day of the performing and fine arts at Cowley College, 140 high school students from Kansas and Oklahoma took part in the school’s Fine Arts Day held Wednesday on the Arkansas City campus.

Through the course of Fine Arts Day, students from more than 30 high schools had a chance to audition and/or share portfolios of their artwork. Student artwork was displayed and prizes were given in several different categories. Prizes awarded included scholarships and cash prizes.

Students also had the opportunity to see Cowley’s different art programs in action, as there were performances by Cowley’s instrumental ensemble and the Cowley College Singers. There were also piano performances, poetry reading, and a film by art/design. Students also had a chance to meet with faculty, talk with current students, and take a tour of the campus.

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