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Star search signs PAGE 4 forfeits eight games PAGE 6 Men’s team original programming LCC TV offers performance PAGE 9 thelookout Lansing Community College’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1959 Jan. 24 - Feb 6, 2011 Volume 52, Issue 9 www.lcc.edu/lookout Nathan Wilson News Editor The LCC Board of Trustees voted unani- mously on Jan. 3 to ex- tend the hours the col- lege charges StarCard users for parking. As of Jan. 3, 2011, StarCard users will be charged 80 cents per hour Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for parking in the Gannon Building Ramp, Parking Lot F and Park- ing Lot U. Before this proposal was passed, StarCard users were only charged from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Chris Strugar-Fritsch, executive director of ad- ministrative services di- vision for LCC, explained the reason behind the proposal: “Instead of raising the parking rates, See Parking, page 2 College charges for parking after 6 p.m. A fallen Star remembered Black History Month highlights LCC career pathways Sarah Sanders Editor in Chief With February comes the kickoff of the Black History Month activities at LCC. The events will span the entire month of Feb- ruary with a focus on not only black history, but also to use this history in order to emphasize the career paths available to LCC students through the Healthcare, Educa- tion and Technology/En- ergy programs. The event will open in Dart Auditorium on Feb. 1 with a prelude of what it is to come. This recep- tion will honor notable people in the city of Lan- sing and surrounding community. “How can we best use a historical event to em- phasize a career path for African-Americans and others through black his- tory month?” Dr. Willie Davis said. “The idea is, since this is Black History Month, to celebrate the achievements of African- Americans throughout the history of America and the world.” Davis is a LCC adjunct professor and chair per- son of the Black History Month events. There will be a health fair Feb. 2 in the Gannon Building lobby that high- lights the prevention of disease and promotion of health. There will be a variety of screenings and education provided by many of the health auxil- laries in the community according to Dr. Tager, a participant in the design of the event. The health fair will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See History, page 2 Photos and illustration by Michael Caterina In memory: LCC women’s basketball player Mariah Byrd passed away Dec. 18. Memorial services were held on Dec. 29 in her hometown, Detroit. She will be greatly missed by her teammates, coaches and the LCC community. Cashing in: Cars head into the Gannon parking ramp on the evening of Jan. 19. StarCard users were previously not charged to park in the ramp after 6 p.m., but the hours have been extended to 11 p.m. to raise revenue for the college. Photo by Michael Caterina

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Volume 52, Issue 9www.lcc.edu/lookout

Nathan WilsonNews Editor

The LCC Board of Trustees voted unani-mously on Jan. 3 to ex-tend the hours the col-lege charges StarCard users for parking.

As of Jan. 3, 2011, StarCard users will be charged 80 cents per hour Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for parking in the Gannon Building Ramp, Parking Lot F and Park-ing Lot U.

Before this proposal was passed, StarCard users were only charged from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Chris Strugar-Fritsch, executive director of ad-ministrative services di-vision for LCC, explained the reason behind the proposal: “Instead of raising the parking rates,

See Parking, page 2

College charges for parking after 6 p.m.

A fallen Star remembered

Black History Month highlights LCC career pathwaysSarah SandersEditor in Chief

With February comes the kickoff of the Black History Month activities at LCC.

The events will span the entire month of Feb-ruary with a focus on not

only black history, but also to use this history in order to emphasize the career paths available to LCC students through the Healthcare, Educa-tion and Technology/En-ergy programs.

The event will open in Dart Auditorium on Feb.

1 with a prelude of what it is to come. This recep-tion will honor notable people in the city of Lan-sing and surrounding community.

“How can we best use a historical event to em-phasize a career path for African-Americans and

others through black his-tory month?” Dr. Willie Davis said. “The idea is, since this is Black History Month, to celebrate the achievements of African-Americans throughout the history of America and the world.”

Davis is a LCC adjunct

professor and chair per-son of the Black History Month events.

There will be a health fair Feb. 2 in the Gannon Building lobby that high-lights the prevention of disease and promotion of health. There will be a variety of screenings and

education provided by many of the health auxil-laries in the community according to Dr. Tager, a participant in the design of the event.

The health fair will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

See History, page 2

Photos and illustration by Michael CaterinaIn memory: LCC women’s basketball player Mariah Byrd passed away Dec. 18. Memorial services were held on Dec. 29 in her hometown, Detroit. She will be greatly missed by her teammates, coaches and the LCC community.

Cashing in: Cars head into the Gannon parking ramp on the evening of Jan. 19. StarCard users were previously not charged to park in the ramp after 6 p.m., but the hours have been extended to 11 p.m. to raise revenue for the college.

Photo by Michael Caterina

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On the same day at the Dart Auditorium, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minor-ity Participation will take place.

This session is meant to celebrate the achieve-ments and expansion of the leading statewide ef-fort in developing talent to drive Michigan’s eco-nomic future.

There will also be a separate presentation in the Abel Sykes Building, 127 TLC, prepared by the Director of the Michigan Minority Health Coalition and Resources at LCC de-signed to explore careers in the Health Field.

This event will take place on Feb. 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Presentations that high-light careers in energy and technology will take place on Feb. 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in 134 Gannon Building.

These presentations will include the produc-tion of electricity, water and sanitation projects in Ghana, as well as the pro-motion of careers in the international area.

There will also be a pre-sentation by Education Specialist Rory McNeal of the Lansing School Dis-

trict. His presentation will

include information about the Teacher Education program at LCC and its re-lationship to the YES pro-gram (Young Educators Society). The YES program is geared to recruiting mi-nority students into the teaching profession.

This presentation is a backdrop to a cultural ex-pression of education per-formed live by students of El Hajj Malik el Sha-bazz Academy, an African Centered Charter School.

This event is expected to involve not only students at LCC, but also students of the high school popu-lation in the Lansing area and other school districts. This event will take place on Feb. 23 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Dart Au-ditorium.

“What we are doing is following the national plan by using a historical process,” Davis said, ex-plaining the event’s focus on career paths that have, as of late, become a focus in our nation.

“We are also going to emphasize culture too, because that has always been a part of Black His-tory Month, so we are looking at culture as well

as careers.”Black History Month

will also showcase four movies to be shown in the Sykes Building, 127 TLC.

On Feb. 3, 500 Years Later will be shown from 1 to 3:30 p.m. On Feb. 9, Haiti: A Payment of Histo-ry will be shown from 5 to 6 p.m. On Feb. 14, The Rabbit Proof Fence will be shown from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The last movie, Ras-tafarian Women, will be shown on Feb. 28 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

There will also be four showcases of local black writers and poets, in the Hermann Conference Center, which focus on the black experience.

These events will al-low for participation of the audience and are to take place on Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

The Kennedy Cafeteria will also host soul food luncheons on Feb. 1, 8, 15 and 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. These luncheons will showcase the culinary tal-ents of soul foods.

The grand finale will take place Feb. 24 in the Dart Auditorium from 6:30 to 9 p.m. and will showcase a virtual display

of talent coined “edutain-ment” by the developers of this event.

It will focus on the range of culture and creativity

of the black community with a visual addition of the events that have been held all month long.

For more information

about volunteering or how to participate in the events contact Dr. Wil-lie Davis at [email protected].

we just extend the rates so that all the users in the system are paying the same rates.”

According to LCC’s website, cash users are charged $1.40 per hour from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday.

“The other thing that’s contributing to the need for revenue is in 12 to 15 years, the Gannon Building Ramp is going to be

at the end of its life cycle,” Strugar-Fritsch said. “It will have to be torn down and re-constructed, so that’s a very costly initiative. So we thought it made sense to start planning for that today.”

According to docu-ments supplied by Di-rector of Parking Ser-vices Eric Glohr, LCC is projecting $271,531 in additional revenue as a result of this proposal.

Strugar-Fritsch ex-

plained that equalizing the fee structure would be a fairer solution than raising the rates.

“We are proposing to build another park-ing lot across the street from the Administra-tion Building on the northwest corner of Capitol and Saginaw," Strugar-Fritsch said.

Student reaction to the parking decision has been generally negative. Abbie Smith, a student at LCC, said:

“I was pretty disap-pointed by (the parking proposal) because we already spend so much money on parking. And to take that away from night classes… I was kind of shocked.

“That was the main reason why I took night classes. I just feel like they’re always trying to find ways to rip us off.”

Parking will, how-ever, remain free on Friday evenings, Satur-days and Sundays.

Parking Continued from page 1

HistoryContinued from page 1

File photo by Michael CaterinaCelebrating culture: Local poet Dee Freeman reads a poem during a 2010 Black History Month event on LCC's main campus.

Packed parking: Cars line Grand Avenue while waiting in line for the Gannon Building parking ramp.

File photo by Michael Caterina

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LCC's Faith Based Initiative celebrates MLK dayNathan WilsonNews Editor

LCC and the local community celebrated the birthday of Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. at the Union Missionary Bap-tist Church on MLK Blvd. in Lansing.

Representatives from LCC’s Faith Based Initia-tive were present to talk to ministries and church members who would like to join. The initiative was established to help mem-bers of faith communities meet their educational goals.

According to Stanley Chase, Ph.D., senior vice president emeritas for Advancement, External and Government Affairs Division, the initiative has been in contact with over 200 churches and has invited them to part-ner with LCC.

The LCC Foundation also joined in the cel-ebration and distributed scholarship applications.

“LCC will be giving away many scholarships this year and we want to make sure as many

people in our commu-nity have access to those scholarship applications as possible,” Chase said.

Chase explained the theme of the celebration was destiny.

“One of the things he (King) really pushed was education. He was a pro-ponent of one who be-lieved that a good educa-tion was a stepping stone to success,” Chase said.

“We feel this is an ap-

propriate time for the educational community, specifically LCC, to come in partnership with the faith community to assist people in meeting their destiny.”

During the celebration, the UBMC Dance Minis-try led the people in a dance and prayer. The choir performed a heart-felt rendition of "We Shall Overcome."

Shortly after, James

Coles, a young member of the church, recited King's "I Have a Dream" speech to the applause of the attendants.

Rev. David Bigsby, pas-tor of the Upper Room Ministries Missionary Baptist Church in Chi-cago, was the featured speaker at the program.

"God uses us to do great works, He's even capable of using us to do things that seem impos-

sible," he said. "We know that Dr.

King had some strug-gles. You have your struggles; some of them

may not be at the mag-nitude or level that he faced. The important thing is that you let your first choice be God."

Sharing Information: Director of the Office of Student Success JaNice Marshall, left, ex-plains scholarship options to Minnie C. DeMyers, a guest to the MLK Jr. birthday celebra-tion at Union Missionary Baptist Church Jan. 15.

Connected to community: LCC business consultant Stanley Chase, Ph.D, speaks at the MLK Jr. birthday celebration at Union Missionary Baptist Church Jan. 15.

Photos by Michael Caterina

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Sarah SandersEditor in Chief

The sign language program at LCC is hosting its semi-annual Star Search event, a fast-paced, visually entertaining, interpreting perfor-mance, in Dart Audi-torium on Saturday, Feb. 12.

With one show at 2 p.m. and a second at 7 p.m., the perfor-mance has expanded from previous years to incorporate two shows to meet the program’s growing following.

Katie Oskram, a student in the sign language program, will perform for the third time at the event. Oskram said the event is open to LCC students and the public.

Oskram explained while the event is de-signed for the deaf community, people who aren’t familiar with sign language will find it entertain-ing.

“We are trying to get it out there be-cause people don’t

know about it unless they are in the sign-ing community,” Os-kram said.

“It helps us im-prove our sign lan-guage skills and it visually helps every-one else too.”

She also explained how the event will incorporate dancing, acting and singing with interpreters to give the deaf com-munity an opportu-nity to be exposed to popular films or

music they otherwise would not have the opportunity to expe-rience.

“There will be sing-ing, acting or a poem. There will be a song playing and we will be signing or danc-

ing,” Oskram said.According to Osk-

ram, the event itself is a great opportu-nity for performers to hone their skills while, “it shows oth-er people how excit-ing signing can be,

because it can be re-ally fun.

“My family is all hearing and they know no sign lan-guage, but they love coming because it is so acted out that they can kind of feel like they know it (sign language) even though they don’t,” Oskram said.

The sign language program is also spon-soring a backpack drive this semester to collect backpacks for deaf children in third world countries.

The drive will run from now through April 15. The do-nated backpacks will be received in A&S room 138.

For audition infor-mation, ticket inquiries or to volunteer with the show, contact Star Search through email at [email protected]

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IN BRIEFNEWSI am fascinated, and

more importantly, dis-gusted by how people can use tragedy to pro-mote a political agenda.

In case you didn’t read the headlines on Jan. 7, in Tucson, Ariz., a gunman named Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on U.S. Rep. Ga-brielle Giffords and several other individu-als, killing six innocent people.

Some speculate Gif-fords was targeted for supporting health-care reform. Her office was vandalized last year after the historic vote.

It is sickening how politics can be so di-visive that people will exploit the deaths of six people, a 9-year-old girl among them, to promote their politi-cal ideology.

I don’t believe Loughner targeted Gif-fords on account of her support for the health-care reform. Based on his internet ram-

blings about mind con-trol and the govern-ment listening to his thoughts, he appears to be a paranoid and deeply disturbed man.

I expect senators, state representatives, and media icons will use these deaths to ral-ly support for keeping the health-care reform in place, and they will depict Loughner as a radical, violent and conservative maniac.

Perhaps Loughner will be depicted as an anti-government Tea Party extremist in-stead.

For example, Pima County (Arizona) Sher-

iff Clarence Dupnik po-liticized the deaths by blaming vitriolic rheto-ric from radio talk show hosts, even though there is no evidence to corroborate this.

He went on to char-acterize Arizona as the “Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”

I ask people not to turn this mass shoot-ing into a ridiculous partisan debate about health-care reform and politics pushing peo-ple over the edge.

Dupnik and others who exploit tragedies obviously missed this excerpt from President Barack Obama’s press conference:

“What Americans do at times of tragedy is to come together and support each other. So at this time I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keep-ing all the victims and their families, in-cluding Gabby, in our thoughts and prayers.”

Politicians up in arms— Infallible Rhetoric —

Star Search: A signing performance

Photo courtesy of Katie Oskram

LCC wins six Paragon AwardsCooley hosts gun control debateThe Paragon Awards recognize excel-

lence in communications among two-year colleges.

This year, LCC will receive a gold, sil-ver or bronze award for six entries in four categories. The winning entries included Legislative Agenda, Fast-Acting LCC Poster and Social Media, Academic pro-gram ad campaign and the LCC website.

The colors of the awards will be an-nounced at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations Confer-ence in mid-March.

The Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law is invit-ing LCC students and the public to attend its first legal conference, en-titled To Bear or Not To Bear: Guns in Educational Institutions.

The debate will be held on Friday, Feb. 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Thom-as M. Cooley Law School Temple Building Auditorium.

Speakers include Joshua Horwitz, the executive director of the Coali-tion to Stop Gun Violence, and John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime.

February will feature several LCC events dedicated to Black History Month. See page 1 for more infor-mation.

According to the LCC Fiscal Year 2011, student tuition will not increase this year. Among the guiding principles included in the budget are keeping tech-nology current, purchasing instructional equipment and emphasizing preventive maintenance over costly repairs.

Black History Month takes off

LCC releases 2011 Budget

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Sign it up: Last year’s cast poses for a picture during the rehearsal of their semi-annual Star Search event. The event features several performances consisting of singing, dancing, acting and signing.

*Sign language for LCC

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years, will speak about dining etiquette. Mei-lock-Davis, from Miech-elle Image Consulting, will speak about busi-ness image and how to present one’s self. Barr, the owner of private company Get Up and Grow, will speak about networking skills.

Hancock explained this event would be par-ticularly beneficial if a student is preparing for a lunch interview with-out awareness of proper dining etiquette.

“Where do you put your utensils when you’re done eating? Where do you set your napkin if you have to go

to the restroom?” Han-cock asked, showcasing some of the questions explored in dining eti-quette.

“One of the number-one things employers look for when they take

you out to lunch is when you salt your food: If you salt your food before you taste it, it shows that you jump to conclusions.”

Anyone can attend the event and sponsors are welcome to participate.

“The University part-ners will be there and quite a few other sponsors, so there will be job oppor-tunities,” Hancock said.

The deadline for com-pany sponsorship is Thursday, Jan. 27.

Tickets for the event cost $20 and they can be purchased at Hole in the Hall in the Gannon Building. Students who purchase their ticket can also ask for a vegetarian preference.

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AMA previews 2011 Etiquette DinnerNathan WilsonNews Editor

Faith Hancock, the vice president of Pro-fessional Development, said, “The idea is to get students in there so they can polish up their skills and be ready for the work world outside of what they’re learning in the classroom.”

The networking mixer runs from 5 to 6 p.m. and the dinner runs from 6 to 8 p.m.

The dinner consists of appetizers, salad, meal and dessert. The event will feature three speak-ers, including Vickie Blattner, Shelly Meilock-Davis and Malinda Barr.

Blattner, who has taught at LCC for over 20

Photo courtesy of Faith HancockMeeting over meals: Club Adviser Bill Motz poses with members of the AMA club at the 2010 Business Network Mixer and Etiquette Dinner at West Campus. The event helped improve proper dining etiquette and networking skills

The LCC American Marketing Asso-ciation (AMA) will host a Business

Network Mixer and Etiquette Dinner on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the West Campus. The annual event is designed for students to improve their business skills and prepare them for interviews.

Courtesy photoUp close and personal: Detroit Pistons’ guard Rodney Stuckey (left) was the fea-tured attraction during Pistons Day at the Lake Lansing Meijer store in East Lansing on Jan. 16. Here, he poses for a photo with Brendan Hook, 14, of Leslie. Hook and his family won free tickets to the Pistons’ game against the Dallas Mavericks on Jan. 17. The Pistons won the game 103-89 and Stuckey scored 20 points to lead the way.

Piston visits East Lansing

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Dominick Mastrangelo Sports Editor

Surrounded by contro-versy and a plethora of off the court issues, the LCC men’s basketball team took the floor against Jack-son Community College (JCC) Jan. 12 with one goal in mind: to bring home a win that they would be able to keep.

“No one can take this one away from us,” LCC freshman guard Nate Duhon said before the game. “We’re dying to get back out there.”

But the men struggled, shooting only 23 for 62 from the field all game long. With a halftime lead of 36 to 33 it appeared the Stars had a lot of fight still left in them, but the sec-ond half did not support such an assumption.

JCC made 14 of the 20 free throws on its way to a 76 to 68 victory.

“We didn’t put that team away,” Alvino Ash-ley said after the game. “We should not have lost

this game.” Head coach Mike In-

gram said the players had a long film session follow-ing the loss to Jackson.

“We have to pick up our intensity,” Ingram said. “We are going to be down our opponents’ throats un-til the final whistle blows by the end of the season.”

So the Stars took to the court one week later in desperate need of a spark to reignite their once red-hot season. Ashley proved to be the spark the men needed. He recorded his first double-double of the season, scoring 25 points and pulling in 14 rebounds in an 101-94 overtime win over Lake Michigan Com-munity College (LMCC).

The Stars led by as many as 13 points before Lake Michigan mustered a comeback on the shoul-ders of their season lead-ing scorer Michael Walker, who scored 30 points in the game.

Walker connected for a three-point shot from almost 15 feet out to give

LMCC a two-point lead with eight seconds to go. With no timeouts, sopho-more Michael Martin came down the court with the game on the line.

A screen was set for center Willie Brown but he missed a jumper and with roughly eight-tenths of a second to go Martin tipped the ball back into the net as time expired in the game. The Stars were headed to overtime.

“I could tell Willie missed the shot from the time it left his hand,” Mar-tin said. “I had to step up and make a play.”

After some deliberation, the officials deemed the basket good, and the Stars went on to defeat Lake Michigan.

“This is a magic mo-ment for us,” Head Coach Mike Ingram said. “We be-lieve in ourselves, we can still contend.”

The Stars were sched-uled to travel to Kalama-zoo Valley on Jan. 22 be-fore coming home against Grand Rapids on Jan. 26.

Dominick Mastrangelo Sports Editor

The LCC men’s var-sity basketball team has been forced to for-feit all eight of its fall semester victories this season, according to the National Junior College Athletic Asso-ciation’s website.

The team would have been 12-3 through Jan. 20 if it was not for the participation of an in-eligible player whose name was not released by LCC Athletics.

According to LCC

Athletic Director Scott Latham, the player has been excused from the team for the rest of the year but is currently still taking classes and working on his degree.

“We used an ineligi-ble student athlete who did not have enough credit hours,” Latham confirmed. “It was just a simple mistake.”

Men’s Head Basket-ball Coach Mike In-gram declined to com-ment on the situation.

“We’ve just got to get back to playing basket-ball,” Ingram said. “We

do the best we can with the guys we have.”

Meanwhile, the play-ers have been prepar-ing to meet the adver-sity with a continued sense of complete fo-cus and uncompromis-ing work ethic.

“We just want to win,” said sophomore forward Alvino Ashley. “We’re not going to let anything distract us.”

The team plans to play the rest of its games as scheduled having dealt with this issue.

“We’re just back to

business and winning ball games,” Latham said. “The situation has been handled.”

The men’s basket-ball team had a record of 4-11 through Jan. 20 after forfeiting the eight games.

The player who has been deemed ineligi-ble was still not con-firmed as of Jan. 20. Sophomore guards Jordan Davis and Troy Aubrey, who started the season with the Stars, are no longer listed on the team’s official roster.

Men forced to forfeit eight fall games

Men back from break, win in overtime thrillerTip top: Sopho-more Michael Martin (24) and Freshman Nate Duhon (12) go for a rebound during the Stars 101-94 over-time victory over Lake Michigan College Jan. 19. Martin had 17 points, five as-sists and eight rebounds while Duhon contribut-ed 13 points and four rebounds.

Photo by Michael Caterina

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Conference play proves tough for Lady Stars

Vick makes me sick— A New York state of mind —

Looks like he is hu-man after all.

If anyone should know just how nor-mal he is, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick should. One would think that after 23 months in the slammer, a little humil-ity would follow what can only be described as a lucky return to the NFL.

Vick did not waste any time. He was right back to being Super-man before anyone even noticed former Eagles’ quarterback Donovan McNabb was gone.

This past season Vick produced arguably his best single-season per-formance of his career — career that was put on hold due to criminal behavior, mind you. Even I cannot deny what he accomplished

this season. Let’s admit it: he was fun to watch.

But one point ought to be made: He is a criminal, and for the rest of his life he will be one. Many make the argument that number seven has “paid his debt to society” and is “truly sorry for the heinous crimes he has committed.”

I bet Tiger Woods is sorry he had extra-mar-ital affairs that became public and Mark Mc-Gwire is sorry he ever took a shot to the rear end. But sometimes

sorry does not cut it. NFL Commissioner

Roger Goodell dropped the ball on this one. It probably will not be long until the Lombar-di Trophy, one of the most coveted awards in all of professional sports, is hoisted high in the air in the hands of an individual who broke the law and then lied about it.

Thankfully this sea-son, the Eagles were stopped short of the Promised Land by our cheese-headed friends in Green Bay.

So until the end-ing months of sum-mer come and football season begins again, Michael Vick will go back to doing what he should have been do-ing ever since he set foot outside those pris-on walls: staying off the football field.

Erik StiemSports Writer

After beginning the season 7-0, the LCC women’s basketball team entered conference play with great momen-tum.

The action was slowed after losing its first con-ference game on the road 64-57 against An-cilla College, Jan. 10.

Following the loss, the Lady Stars won two more out-of-conference games; a 77-69 victory over Calvin College Dec. 10. and a 79-71 win over Delta College Dec. 13.

From this point, ev-ery remaining game would be crucial, as the women looked to build their conference record, which decides who from the conference will make the playoffs.

Over the next five games, the women pulled out only two victories, while dropping three to their conference foes, put-ting them at 2-4 within their conference.

The final two games of that stretch were particu-larly disappointing, as the women dropped two in a row on their home court.

In the highest scor-ing game of the season, the Lady Stars were out-scored by Jackson Com-munity College, 113-91 Jan. 19. The previous high the team had al-lowed by any opponent

was 71. Jackson worked its way to the high score by grabbing 20 offensive rebounds and outshoot-ing LCC 92-67.

LCC had five players in double digits, but it couldn’t overcome the offensive attack of the Jets, with 11 players con-tributing to the scoring effort.

The Lady Stars’ most recent loss came Dec. 19 at home to Lake Michi-gan Community College, where they ended up on the losing end in a tight game, 57-54. Tornisha Jones, the team’s leading

scorer, put up 17 points to lead the way for the LCC.

The women won the battle down low, snatch-ing 36 rebounds to Lake Michigan’s 30, but they struggled from the field, shooting 34 percent.

LCC’s women looked to get back on the win-ning track, with their toughest opponent yet, Saturday, Jan. 22 vs. Ka-lamazoo Valley Commu-nity College, the No. 14 team in the nation.

Results of that game will appear in the next issue of The Lookout.

Fast break: Freshman Kristian Hines drives down the court during the Stars 113-91 loss to Jackson Community College.

Photos by Michael Caterina

Tough tip: Freshman Jennifer Wilson shoots a layup during the Stars 57-54 loss to Lake Michigan Community College Jan. 19. Wilson contributed nine points for LCC.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT9Stars fill the airwaves: LCC TV on new legs

Action: LCC TV station manager Nicole Sclafani, left, films host of Bite Sized Cinema Sam Zeller, right, while he interviews The Coughing Dog Pictures founder Joseph Parcell at Gone Wired Cafe Jan. 13.

Photo by Michael Caterina

Photos by Michael Caterina

Ready for close up: Dan Hartley (top), host of LCC’s Double Jump films Bite Sized Cinema at Gone Wired Café Jan. 13. Below, LCC TV sta-tion manager Nicole Sclafani, right, applies a light dusting of make-up to host of Bite Sized Cinema Sam Zeller prior to filming at Gone Wired Café, Jan. 13.

Lee RumlerA&E Editor

In the spring of 2009, LCC TV underwent a redesign under the di-rection of station man-ager Nicole Sclafani and since has added multiple new shows, both local and global, to its lineup.

According to Scla-fani, one of the goals of the new LCC TV is “to fill a void in this (Lan-sing) market ... that really hasn’t been hit and trying to offer pro-gramming that other stations don’t.

“We’re trying to be really global and really local at the same time,” she explained.

For example, one of LCC TV’s biggest orig-inal shows is called Double Jump. Hosted by LCC alumnus Dan Hartley, Double Jump takes an intellectual look at gaming, explor-ing it as a legitimate and mainstream form of entertainment. Scla-fani said Double Jump is the only video game show produced in Michigan.

Bitesize Cinema is a show that features local filmmakers. According to LCC TV’s website, every episode begins with a brief interview with a filmmaker, fol-lowed by some of their short films. Sclafani said it is a great outlet for filmmakers who have a few excellent shorts but nowhere to show them.

Another show pro-duced by LCC TV is the Lansing Lowdown, hosted by Sclafani her-self. The show is basi-

cally a feature story of Lansing.

“I go to different lo-cations around Lansing and focus on 6-10 hot events that are going on that week,” Sclafani said.

The Lowdown has earned enough recog-nition that it is being aired during WLNS’s (channel 6) 5 p.m. newscast.

When LCC TV isn’t showing local pro-gramming, it’s usually playing global news.

A new addition to LCC TV’s global broad-casts is Democracy Now!

According to Scla-fani, “Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, ... hour-long news program that offers different people and prospec-tives that are normally not seen in the corpo-rate-sponsored media.”

Also seen on LCC TV is MHz Worldview programming. MHz Worldview is a na-tional, independent, non-commercial news channel that presents English broadcasts from all around the world and has given LCC TV permission to air (but not live-stream) its broadcasts.

These are just a few of the many programs aired on LCC TV. For a full, current schedule of its ever-updating con-tents, visit http://www.lcc.edu/tv/schedule/.

Unfortunately, Scla-fani said one of the biggest obstacles the station faces is student misunderstanding.

“People walk around the college and they see the TVs that have

the billboards with an-nouncements on them, and they think that’s LCC TV, (but) there’s a totally different side of LCC TV.”

In fact, the televi-sions with announce-ments on them aren’t broadcasting LCC TV content.

LCC TV is aired on Comcast 15 in Lansing and Comcast 31 in East Lansing.

For those who don’t have Comcast or don’t live in Lansing, LCC TV can be live-streamed from the website http://www.lcc.edu/tv/watch/station/. LCC TV is also on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, the links can be found on its website.

Plans are also in the works for converting the Kennedy Cafete-ria’s televisions to LCC TV. Sclafani said she hopes the change will be made before the end of February.

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Arts & EntertainmentIN BRIEF

Lee RumlerA&E Editor

The Green Hornet is, by far, the best action-come-dy movie released so far this year.

To my knowledge, it is also the only action-com-edy movie released so far this year.

I keep wanting to com-pare the movie to Kickass. But at the same time, The Green Hornet is so radically different from Kickass that I don’t want to make the comparison at all.

Both are vigilante su-perhero-action-comedies. Both star relatively new comedy actors (who played in Superbad to-gether) in lead roles. Both travel through a similar story with almost identical climactic structures. Both of their costumes are green.

But when it comes to the actual movies, they’re miles apart.

Kickass had a crude brand of comedy, making audiences laugh out loud at an awkward teenager ac-cidentally repulsing wom-

en and little girls casually dropping the F-bomb.

On the other hand, The Green Hornet has a much more mature comedy – and I don’t mean that it’s inappropriate (quite the opposite, actually) – it’s just more subtle. Of course, it does star Seth Rogen, so it’s not lacking in the cheap laugh department either.

In recent years, most superhero movies have taken a turn for the gritty, realistic side. And while this trend does follow reason and has produced some of the best movies of the past decade (Iron man, X-men, The Dark Knight), movie producers seem to have forgotten where su-perheroes started.

But in The Green Hornet, Michel Gondry returned somewhat to the roots of superhero movies.

I wouldn’t exactly call the movie campy, but it’s definitely reminiscent of the old Batman cartoons – reminiscent in that “What were we thinking?” kind of way.

For example, when Jay

Chou makes a stun gun for Rogen, the hero wonders how a stun gun could ever beat an army of mob mem-bers.

All in all the movie is awesome, and it’s definite-ly worth checking out. It also has a neat little history:

The movie is based off an old American 1960s TV series that was based off an old 1930s radio program, which was originally pro-duced in Detroit.

The radio show is said to have inspired the Bat-man series, and the TV se-ries was the first American movie or TV show that starred Bruce Lee.

If you’re feeling GreekyShauna StockenStaff Writer

If you are looking for a restaurant that will help support your New Year’s resolution of a healthier diet, or if you are simply looking for a great meal, indulge yourself in some authentic Greek food at one of Lou and Harry’s restaurants.

With three area loca-tions, Lou and Harry’s Grill is a convenient res-taurant for anyone.

Whether it’s fresh baked goods, a meal on a fast food budget or a bar to hang out at with friends, Lou and Harry‘s Grill has something for everyone.

During the day, Lou and Harry’s Grill and Bar, along with either of Lou and Harry’s Grills, are family-friendly res-taurants where you can dine in and enjoy gyros, hoagies, Greek salads and pizza.

At night, however, Lou and Harry’s Grill and Bar is an 18-and-up bar. “There is no bar like ours,

with music, fireplaces and televisions,” said Harry Saites, owner of Lou and Harry’s.

Two of Lou and Har-ry’s Grills are located at 4749 Central Park Drive, Okemos, and 1429 W. Saginaw St., East Lansing.

The third location, Lou and Harry’s Grill and Bar, is relocating from downtown East Lansing to Chandler Road in East Lansing. The new loca-tion will be open before the end of January.

In addition to the offer-ings from their restaurant, this location offers two full bars, live music, pool tables and 40 beers on tap.

Regardless if you’re on a date for two, office party or need a place to meet with friends after the game, Lou and Har-ry’s Grill and Bar has you covered with a capacity of 500.

“I’ve always had a pas-sion for something this town needs,” said Saites.

Raised in east Philadel-phia, Saites said he attend-ed boarding school where he saw many restaurants that were the same “fast, quick takeout.”

Noticing the same trends in the restaurant industry sparked Saites’ idea to create something new. Lou and Harry’s be-gan in 1992.

The restaurant is “unique in a sense, I didn’t base off any other food in town. Me and my partner traveled around the United States and got ideas,” said Saites.

Lou and Harry’s Grill is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lou and Harry’s Grill and Bar is open seven days a week, with extended hours from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Not into Greek food? What about free food? Lou and Harry’s Grill and Bar offers a free taco bar on Fridays and a free pizza bar on Saturday as long as you’re buying drinks.

Hornet is stingingly funny

Photo courtest of wikipedia.com

Photo courtesy of facebook.com

LCC TV & Radio gain new programming

LCC TV and LCC Radio have gained rights to Democracy Now!, an international, independent, daily news hour presenting in-depth in-formation and substantive public debate on some of the most pressing issues of the day. LCC TV runs the program weekdays at 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., while LCC Radio runs it week-days at 8 a.m.

Lansing writers’ group seeks members

Capital City Film Festival accepting applications

LCC Student Planner seeking events

The Skaaldic Society of Lansing is a group of writers founded in 1980. The group mermbers meet to discuss their writings in progress in A&S room 165, and they advertise that “Writers, new-bies or published, are welcome.”

The Capital City Film Festival is currently accepting applications for the Development and Events Man-agement Intern and Marketing and Film Publicity Intern positions. Both positions are unpaid and open to anyone who loves independent film, is studying film or is already making films. Applicants should be available to start immediately and work un-til May 2011. Interested applicants should email their resumes to [email protected].

Every year, student orientation participants receive free student planners customized for the LCC campus. Currently, the Student Orientation Program is accepting events that they will place in the LCC planner. For more informa-tion, contact Amie Calhoun at [email protected].

King Crossword

Puzzle solution can be found at www.lcc.edu./lookoutThis week’s puzzle is sponsored by:

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A&E11— Shouting a Nuance —

Shrimp Almendrina

In the kitchen with

Chef Nick

Campus Events

Cartoons have really gone downhill in my time.

As an “uncool” kid growing up in the ‘90s, I spent most of my life in-side, watching TV. Every excursion outside left me nothing but bad memo-ries.

Before I started go-ing to school, I watched Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! Best show on earth, I swear. I’ve seen every episode of it and its spin-off, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.

Any time those weren’t on, I was watching either Hanna-Barbera or War-ner Bros. classics: The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons, Hong Kong Fooey, Scooby-Doo, The Addams Family, The Smurfs, Looney Tunes, Pinky and the Brain, Ani-maniacs, Freakazoid!, the list goes on and on.

I was a Cartoon Net-work kid. Disney was for princesses (because my sister watched it). Nickelodeon was in that awkward stage when they realized Ren and St-

impy and Rocko’s Modern Life weren’t appropriate for children, but they did have Rugrats, Rocket Power, As Told by Ginger, The Angry Beavers and CatDog.

This was the peak of cartoon programming.

Sometime when I was in elementary school, Cartoon Network moved the classics to a segment called “Boomerang,” which later moved to its own channel that I didn’t get, and started another segment called “Cartoon Cartoons.”

If I could pick a tele-vision program that defined my childhood, it would be Cartoon Cartoons. Now, it went downhill at the end, but this segment spawned some of favorite shows ever: Ed, Edd n Eddy; Dex-ter’s Labratory; Johnny Bra-vo; I Am Weasel; Mike, Lu & Og; and The Grim Ad-ventures of Billy & Mandy.

These shows, especial-ly the first three, helped me find who I am today. Shut up, I’m not joking.

Honorable mention to

The Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog. They were good, just not my thing.

In fourth grade, The Fairly Oddparents de-buted and my friend Matt Kunkel sang me the entire theme song at recess, the day after the season premier.

This was when I finally started actively watch-ing Nickelodeon. Un-fortunately, they only had three decent shows: Spongebob, Fairly Oddpar-ents and Jimmy Neutron.

But sadly, this was the beginning of cartoons’ slow decent. I almost feel like I was partially re-sponsible – it all started happening when I start-ed watching Toonami

and the Sci-Fi Network with my dad (around sixth grade).

Shortly after, Cartoon Cartoon was canceled, along with Jimmy Neu-tron, and the two chan-nels started to fill with nothing but reruns and crap.

Only two good car-toons have premiered since my time off televi-sion, and they are Avatar: The Last Airbender and Foster’s Home for Imagi-nary Friends. But those are both gone now, and M. Night is slaughtering the first.

It depresses me to see where cartoons have gone since I left. Nickel-odeon plays Spongebob reruns 24/7, and Cartoon Network is being bought out by Adult Swim. I don’t even want to men-tion the garbage that’s been on in the six years that I missed.

I never thought it would happen, but may-be I’m getting too old for cartoons.

I guess that’s why the Japanese made anime.

I need a good cartoon about now

LCC Theatre alum Nathan Oesterle will present a one-man variety show filled with music and comedy.

Donations will be accepted at the door for The Stan Hartman Scholarship Fund. No advance reserva-tions will be accepted.

LCC Black Box Theatre, 168 Gannon Building

All the Lives of Me

Pro Bono

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Friday & Saturday, Jan. 21-22, 8 p.m.

The Public Offenders will present a night of com-edy, music and film to benefit the LCC Theatre Schol-arship Fund.

$5 donation at the doorDart Auditorium

Directed by Andy Callis Taking us on a powerfully sad and hilarious jour-

ney into meaninglessness and nothingness, Beckett’s absurd comic masterpiece contains beautifully terse language and unforgettable characters. A blind man who cannot stand, his servant who cannot sit and his parents who have no legs share a tiny room and ap-proach the end with routines, rituals, remembrance, remaining and remains.

$5 LCC faculty, staff, alumni & all students, $10 adults

LCC Black Box Theatre, 168 Gannon Building

Friday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m.

Fridays & Saturdays, Feb. 18-19 & 25-26, 8 p.m.

Information courtesy of Melissa Kaplan

Beat eggs until light and fluffy in a medium bowl. Stir in milk. Gradually mix flour, blending well. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Holding the shrimp by the tail, dip into batter, allowing excess to drip back into the bowl. Do not cover the tails with batter. Sprinkle all sides of batter coated shrimp with almonds. Place on cookie sheet and refrigerate at least 2 hours before frying. Heat oil to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Deep fry shrimp a few at a time, just until they turn pink, about 2 minutes. Do not overcook. Drain on paper towels

2 Eggs2 Cups milk2 Cups flourSalt and fresh ground pepper2 1/2 Pounds jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails left intact4 Cups sliced almondsOil for frying

Ingredients:

Directions:and keep warm until all shrimp have been cooked. Serve immediately with orange mustard.

Orange Mustard Sauce3/ 4 Cup sweet orange marmalade1 / 4 Cup chicken or beef stock2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice1 Teaspoon dry mustardFew drops hot pepper sauce

Thoroughly combine all ingredients. Makes about 1 cup.

*Photo by Michail CaterinaRecipe provided by HMFS 263 Gourmet American Cooking

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Nathan WilsonNews Editor

Promoting a spiritual solution

Curlada Eure-Har-ris, the adviser for the club, explained that one of the goals of the group is to promote unity among the hu-man race. Club Vice President Atabak He-jabiyan said the first step to achieving this is introducing people to the Baha’i Faith.

Eure-Harris said, “The club has princi-ples that open the door to anyone who believes in a higher power and the oneness of human-ity, (and) who wants to come together.”

Another concept in the preamble of the club’s constitution is

“a spiritual solution to economic problems.” Eure-Harris explained the individual decision to make a difference can ultimately work toward resolving eco-nomic problems.

“There are other ways to make a dif-ference in the world. I don’t have to just look for the federal govern-ment to send enough rebuilding housing dollars to a disastered area,” she said.

“I can have a per-sonal, spiritual com-mitment because of my beliefs that I can do what I can to help my fellow man.”

The Baha’i Club participated in LCC’s Spring Fling last year, where members in-formed students about the faith and passed out the club constitution.

On Thursday, Jan. 27, the Baha’i Club will host an introductory Fireside Meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at LCC’s Herrmann Conference Center. The featured speaker for the event is Llewellyn Drong from the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Lan-sing.

In mid-February, the club will host sev-eral speakers who will speak about the faith.

According to Eure-Harris, the Baha’i Club will start planning events when they re-cruit more members. Club meetings will be established after Jan. 27.

For more information regarding Baha’i Club, contact Curlada Eure-Harris at 483-9618.

LCC’s Baha’i Club is a group dedi-cated to promoting the Baha’i World Faith to the student populace. The Baha’i Faith teaches that the human race is united under God in which all nations, races, creeds and classes are equal and united.

LCC Baha’i Club assembles: Club Adviser Curlada Eure-Harris, Vice President Atabak Hejabiyan, President Brandon Smith and Llewellyn Drong, one of the club’s speakers, gather for a photo.

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An Ordinary Life

Desktop Blues

I have to say, LCC is one of the cleanest places that I frequent, minus my office, which seems to have a torna-do rip through it every other week.

I can’t tell you how many times I have walked into a nearly spotless restroom in al-most every building on campus.

This is one of my fa-vorite parts about LCC.

Not that I spend THAT much time in LCC restrooms but I do notice in other venues when the trash is over-flowing, soap is out and there is a general feeling of “Nast” upon walking in.

Everywhere else on

campus seems spotless as well.

When you could see the grass, it was always nicely trimmed and the clippings were con-tained and not sticking to my new kicks.

I think the most im-pressive aspect of LCC’s grounds main-tenance is the snow re-moval.

Every time the lovely white stuff starts to fall from the sky, LCC is on top of it. I can’t recall a time when there was more than half an inch of snow on the path-ways of main campus, even when the snow had been falling for days on end.

I notice the difference because I walk from LCC property with no snow to the city prop-erty that does not re-ceive nearly as much attention.

I would like to extend a huge thank you to the maintainers of LCC. You make this a won-derful place to work and learn.

THANK YOU!

Props to those with mops— Fully Flippin’ it —

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I don’t know about you, but Christmas and New Year’s al-ways seem to come and go so fast.

It’s like I barely get to enjoy myself and, before I know it, the holidays are over and it’s back to the same old routine.

Now that Christ-mas is over, many of us are tired of the snow and are now waiting for the day when we can wear shorts and not get frozen to death (ex-cept for those who are crazy enough to wear shorts in the winter).

Thinking about this has made me real-ize how people live their lives in a “hurry up and wait” sort of manner.

Instead of find-ing ways to enjoy themselves or make the best out of what they have right now,

they sit and complain about something they can do nothing about and wish for what they don’t have.

If it’s winter, we can’t wait until spring. Then spring comes and we can’t wait until summer ... and so on and so forth.

How can you ever enjoy yourself when you are always think-ing about what you don’t have?

Whenever I’m around someone like this they just bring me down and their behavior and attitude

makes me not want to be around them. You don’t want to be this person, do you?

I admit I have been guilty of this in the past so that is why I have made it my New Year’s – scratch that – my life’s resolution to stop and enjoy what I have right now be-cause. before I know it. the months and years will just pass by.

I have learned that you cannot be truly happy until you can accept yourself and your circumstances right where they are, and learn to make the best out of whatever comes your way.

If your circum-stances are some-thing you can change unlike the weather, don’t just sit around and complain, do something about it and you’ll be on the road to a happier and better you.

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OPINION14—Everyone should read George Orwell—

— The Collected Klutz—

Content with right nowI check my horoscope every day and I am not ashamed of it. I check my boyfriend’s too. That’s kind of embarrassing.

There must be others out there, as the horo-scope section in nearly every magazine or news-paper continues to run.

One common miscon-ception about astrology is it assumes the planets and heavens control ter-restrial beings and their lives.

Instead I would think of it more as the recogni-tion of a connection be-tween everything in the universe, every piece of which reflects and inter-acts with the rest.

There has been much controversy in the month of January about whether or not the signs people have called their own have been miscalculat-ed due to a shift in the earth’s shift on its axis due to the moon’s gravi-tational pull.

Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society claims this shift puts all of the signs out of

alignment with their cur-rent astrological sched-ule, even adding there is a need for an inclusion of a 13th sign, Ophiuchus.

Astrologers have re-sponded that in the west-ern world our signs have not been based on the position of the stars but are named after them. Instead they claim for thousands of years they have based the determi-nation of a person’s sign on mathematically equal divisions of the elliptic.

One thing that can be agreed upon about as-trology is its unyielding focus on the moment of birth, the first ingested billow of air.

According to astrolo-gists, this first breath im-

prints your cosmic code and influences your life’s blueprint.

It seems strange to me that there has been such a focus on the suggestion of astrology changing when it would seem that most people never be-lieved it in the first place. I’ve heard of people vow-ing to remove their tattoo of their supposedly now wrong sign, yet I have only met a few people that really believe in as-trology.

I am not claiming to be an ardent astrologist or even that I know much about the mysticism of it in the first place. How-ever, I do believe astrol-ogy can be helpful no matter which sign you are or you are looking at, though I’m sticking with Scorpio, for sure.

I like to think of it as a third-party generously offering input on how I should take on my day. While I am not sure of the advice’s singular ap-plicability to me alone, I do think that typically it can be helpful to me.

I still feel like a Scorpio

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The Lansing Community College American Marketing Association (LCC-AMA) would like to thank you for your contributions and dona-tions to the Toys for Tots collection. With your help, we were able to raise 335 toys.

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Most students at LCC are aware there is no left-hand-turn arrow at the Shiawas-see Street and Grand Avenue intersection because most have sat there for an aver-age duration of 10 minutes, waiting for the opportunity to turn onto Grand Avenue.

Every other student who patiently waits behind or in front of them is doing so for the same reason: to get into the Gannon Building’s park-ing ramp.

Everyone here at The Look-out knows first-hand they must leave in time to find themselves at this particular intersection before the clock strikes 15 minutes before the hour their class begins.

Good news only comes for the smokers who find them-selves in this situation. As one of our staff members found, she can smoke three cigarettes before she enters the ramp, even though she began her chain within a quarter mile of her desired parking space.

One would think most of the traffic on this section of Shiawassee, and certainly the traffic within the left-hand-turn lane in question, consists of the student pop-ulace, who eagerly drive to their classes and attempt to fork out the big bucks for a

nearby parking space. One would also think the

streets should be designed to accommodate them; how-ever, every student who sits within a block of their des-tination, waiting to get to school, knows this is not the case.

Patrick Landry of the Traf-fic Division at the Transpor-tation Department said they have been monitoring this issue for quite a while. How-ever, he said action has not been taken because the vol-ume of traffic at this inter-section is not great enough.

Here at The Lookout we know several students, as well as ourselves, have been choosing alternate routes to access the parking ramp in order to avoid being late. It would seem, however, this prevents the Traffic Divi-sion from being able to fully acknowledge the amount of traffic that would be using the turn-lane if a left-hand-turn arrow existed.

Dare we suggest we spend our time waiting at this light to over-pack it as a way to attract notice from the Transportation Department so that they may see the ne-cessity of the left-hand-turn arrow?

Perhaps we should all start smoking.

A troublesome turn

APARTMENT FOR RENT295 Arbor Glen Drive, East Lansing. Five miles from downtown LCC campus. Two bedrooms, $810 per month. Price includes air conditioning, dishwasher, parking, washer, dryer and water. Smoking and pets allowed. Contact Megan at 517-351-5353.

PLACE YOUR AD HEREAdvertising in The Lookout’s classified section is inexpensive and effective. Cost is just $8.50 for 20 words or less. Additional words are 50 cents. Call 483-1295 to place your ad or for more information.

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ANTIQUE TOYSAND GAMES WANTEDAny condition. 1975 or before. Will pay cash if it’s something I need for my personal collection. Especially looking for an antique Slinky in its original box or Hot Wheels cars from the late 1960s in the package. Call 517-589-5273. Leave a message if no one answers.

1982 TOPPSBASEBALL CARDSComplete set of 792 cards, all in mint condition. Cal Ripken rookie card and many Hall-of-Famers including Nolan Ryan, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Robin Yount, Carl Yazstremski and Rickey Henderson. $100 firm. Call 517-483-1291 daytime.

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