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Students make their college proud with first place win
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students have reason to smile with a first place win, a third place
win and an “outstanding student award.”
Seven Wayne State College industrial technology education students
attended the TECA (Technology Education Collegiate Association)
West Regional Conference in Ft. Collins, Colo. on Nov. 11-12. (Pictured
from left to right): Front row: Rachael Racine of Norfolk and Aaron
Nickman of Riverdale. Second row: (from left to right) Jeff Peterson
of Fremont, Aaron Wheatley of Chadron, Matt Pollard of Auburn and
Dave Linnaus of Oakdale. Not pictured: Cole Richardson of Bancroft.
WSC teams competed in live manufacturing, transportation, problem
solving and the technology challenge during the conference. The
WSC team won first place in the technology challenge competition
and was ranked third in the live manufacturing competition. Rachael
Racine was recognized as the “Outstanding Student from WSC”
at the competiion. The team will compete at the national convention
in Kansas City, Mo. in April.
Minors in possession face tough
consequences
By Amanda Hensel
News Editor
When minors are arrested for alcohol possession, there are a number
of procedures that are followed, according to the Wayne Police Department
and Chris Conneally, the Wayne County Attorney.
Once a minor is detained, the officer can choose to cite and release
the person at the scene if he is 18 or older. He can also be placed
under arrest and transported to the police department.
The decision to arrest involves factors such as level of impairment
and access to a breath tester. If an officer chooses to cite and
release the minor at the scene, the suspect is given a court date
and his parents are notified.
If the person is transported to the police department, he is placed
in the booking room while the paperwork and evidence is processed.
The person is also photographed, issued a citation and release,
and parents are informed. If the person arrested is under 18, he
must be released to a parent or guardian.
State law requires officers to contact parents for anyone under
21 if arrested for an MIP (minor in possession).
The initial court date is an arraignment hearing. At the arraignment,
the judge will formally notify the person of the charges filed,
advise him of his rights and give him opportunity to enter a plea.
If the person pleads guilty, he may be sentenced immediately, or
the judge may schedule a later sentencing date. If the person pleads
not guilty, a trial date will be set.
If an adult is charged with breaking the law, it will appear on
his record permanently. If the suspect is under 19 years of age,
most charges get purged. The court knows about the crime but no
one else will. Although this seems safe, if one commits a felony
under the age of 19, there is a possibility it will be on the record.
Numerous young people who are convicted of an MIP charge worry they
will not be able to get hired for various jobs. This is incorrect.
Most of the time, people will not be denied a job unless there are
other convictions. This is a relief for students who plan on majoring
in education and criminal justice.
An MIP is a class-three misdemeanor, which rarely requires jail
time.
A third offense usually leads to some jail time.
Extrasensory preception: Magic or myth?
By Lindsay Scranton
Staff Writer
A multitude of extra-credit seekers, a few WSC professors and people
generally interested in extrasensory perception (ESP) flooded into
Room 131 in Connell Hall on Monday afternoon, Nov. 22.
Thomas H. Zepf, a Creighton University professor, presented “The
Mind’s Eye: A Physicist’s Lighthearted Look at ESP.”
Zepf defined telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis.
He then asked the spectators if anyone thought that those powers
were real. Not many believed they were possible, few didn’t
know and some didn’t care.
As the presentation continued, Zepf started doing experiments with
audience members.
Every once in awhile, someone would gasp in disbelief of what they
just saw. Jaws dropped and faces stared in awe as Zepf demonstrated
his powers of ESP.
It was like a magic show.
When Zepf announced that his presentation was nearly over, he said
he had a few things to say before its end.
“Now, you don’t want to believe everything I tell you,”
Zepf said. “I lie a lot when I’m doing this.”
The atmosphere of the room changed from impressed reverence to dumbfounded
confusion.
“They are not genuine tests,” Zepf said of the things
he presented. “I had control of the results. What I’m
doing is called mentalism (a form of theatrical magic).”
Soon after, the physicist admitted that he was a magician and that
he used physics, psychology and mostly trickery.
Zepf came to WSC to tell people that most things magicians and psychics
do aren’t real.
He also said that if they (magicians and psychics) don’t admit
that their tricks are deceptive, they are.
“It’s part of your education to be aware that these
things can be done,” Zepf said.
Thundercloud shares history of Ho-Chunk
Indians
By Eric Holmes
Staff Writer
Dancing, drums and a presentation highlighted Frey conference suite
two weeks ago.
A Winnebago veteran, Andy Thundercloud, shared his language, history
and experiences with a large and intently interested group of students,
faculty and staff.
Thundercloud is a Winnebago/Ho-Chunk Indian from Wisconsin who opened
the night with an attention-grabbing exhibit of the Ho-Chunk language.
He then went on to explain how his tribe originated in northeast
Wisconsin as an agricultural ethnic group of hunters and gatherers.
Thundercloud went on to describe the struggle he faced growing up
speaking Ho-Chunk and then being placed in an all white school.
He spoke of the difficulty of functioning in two separate worlds.
Thundercloud finished by explaining to the crowd the importance
of practicing what his parents and grandparents believed in, relating
it to his heritage and his people.
The night picked up a step when five Native American children performed
traditional dances to drums and singing.
Some of the dances included were the corn dance and the grass and
round dance.
The night then ended when three audience members had a chance to
participate in the final dance.
Conservationist addresses praire concerns
By Derek Bartos
Copy Editor
Chris Helzer, a member of The Nature Conservancy in Aurora, spoke
of protecting diversity in his presentation, “Managing and
Restoring High Diversity Prairie,” in Carhart Science Building
on Monday, Nov. 22.
The Nature Conservancy is an international, private, non-profit,
conservation organization with over one million members.
“The mission of the Conservancy is to preserve biodiversity,”
Helzer said. “That means restoring and managing the land and
water that protect biodiversity.”
Helzer’s presentation dealt with how The Nature Conservancy
is accomplishing this mission in the Central Mixed-Grass Prairie.
The prairie is a region covering most of central Nebraska, extending
from the sandhills in the north to Texas.
The organization’s primary focus in this region is on sandhill
cranes, migrating whooping cranes, wet-mesic prairie and wet prairie.
Secondary focus is on grassland breeding birds and freshwater mussels.
Helzer spoke of two tasks—restoration and management.
Restoration of the prairie includes harvesting and planting, much
of which is done by hand. Bodies of water are restored by excavating
the land closer to groundwater, digging to depths where water will
stand most of the year.
Management involves providing favorable conditions for every plant
species to grow and successfully replace itself.
Helzer received his bachelor’s degree in forestry, fisheries
and wildlife and his master’s in landscape ecology.
He has been a land steward with The Nature Conservancy in Aurora
since 1997, and has recently been promoted to Director of Science
and Stewardship in the Central Nebraska Project Office.
For more information, the organization’s website can be found
at www.nature.org.
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