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aitlyn Durochergora Staff

With the world of social media growing, there areew methods and concerns that come along with it.

When it comes to relationships between studentsnd their professors, social media sites, such as Face-ook, can be a controversial issue.

Social media sites allow people to communicateith and get to know others more freely than the

more traditional options, such as emails.However, is a professor adding a student on a so-al media site appropriate? Or is it crossing a barrierstudent-professor relationships?

This question has been raised by people in collegesound the globe.

When it comes to MCCC, the opinions on this is-ue are divided. Numerous people support professorsnd students connecting via social media sites, while

others are against it.

I dont really see a problem with it, if the stu-dent allows it, then its their responsibility to conductthemselves in an adult-like manner, said MCCCstudent Kyle Corollo.

Multiple students, including Ally Williams andAngelique Bedee, agree that it is a good method ofcommunication, as long as the relationship is kept

professional and mature.

Facebook is a public website, so who is to saywhom a person is allowed to friend or not? Jamie

Newcomber, another MCCC student, said.

Professors also hold opinions about this method.David Reiman, professor of business, is one of the

professors who has a strong opinion on the matter.

This is a decision that should be left with eachfaculty member, Reiman said. I do believe that ifa professor chooses to friend students, they shouldnot be exclusive. If he or she accepts an invitation

from one student, they should accept any student.

Personally, Reiman has a Facebook account, buthas not friended any students on it. He suggests us-ing LinkedIn, another social media site that is more

professional for students and teachers to communi-cate.

Also, Reiman believes the relationship between astudent and professor should start in the classroom,

but social media sites can strengthen and maintainthat relationship once formed.

While some people believe adding students or pro-fessors on social media sites improves communica-tion and relationships, others think it is inappropriate.

I would say adding a student or professor is wrongbecause if a professor sees a students Facebookpage they might judge them, positively or negatively,based on their page and be inclined to give them agrade based on their judgment rather than their aca-

demic scores, Rachel Wehner said.

We have blackboard and student email foson; I like to keep my social media out of profhands if I can help it, Dylan Miracle said.

I think theyre professional people anshouldnt be adding their students because thlead to trouble within the relationship, Marissaid.

Clearly, not everyone is supportive of proand students building relationships or comming through social media sites.

Other alternatives to Facebook include Liwhich is less personal. Or people could alwemail or face to face contact to prevent prfrom arising.

Issues with this subject include exclusivenappropriateness, and judgment, while the pthat come from it include such things as bettmunication and staying in contact outside of

lege years.

Should professors friend students?

Rachel WehnerI would say adding a student or pro-fessor is wrong because if a pro-fessor sees a students Facebookpage, they might judge them.

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Presidential candidate visits MCCC

photo by Miles Lark

rry White, the presidential candidate for the Socialistquality Party, spoke to members of the Internationaludents for Social Equality club on Thursday, Feb. 23.

David TopolewskiAgora Staff

A presidential candidate visited MCCC on Febru-ary 23, but few may have noticed.

Jerry White does not have hair like Mitt Romneyand is not as well known as Newt Gingrich, butnonetheless is running for president.

White, 52, is the Socialist Equality Party (SEP)candidate. He does not support conventional politi-cal views and nds fault in the two major political

parties.

This government is hostile to the working class,

Republican or Democrat, he said.The presidential candidate has attacked both Presi-

dent Obama and Republican leadership, saying theywant starvation wages. He also does not viewPresident Obama as any different than the previousadministration.

They all agree, defending the elite against theworking class, he said.

White slammed the president, saying he was elect-

ed to repeal legislation such as Homeland Securityand the Patriot Act, but has not fullled his promises.

It is an absolute continuation of Bush, he said.

He argues that America is made up of two classes,the working class and the capitalist elite.

He also wants people to know there is an alterna-tive to this system and attacks the current state of

politics.

I appeal to ignorance backwardness politics dom-inated by billionaires, he said.

Socialism is the alternative he offers; the SEP web-site describes socialism as genuine social equality,

on a world scale. As a reference for this modelWhite highlights the Russian Revolution and calls itthe greatest historical event.

He also attacked President Obama and the peoplehe has appointed to work in his administration.

Obama has lled the White House with corpo-rate heads, he said.

Running as a strong anti-war candidate, he sup-ports an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of

all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan asdisbanding of the standing army. Recognizeign threats, he does understand the workinwould have the right to defend themselves.

White, as president, would end support foHe criticized Israels possession of certain wsaying they illegally have scores of nuclear b

White is critical of the wars in the Middle Ebelieves they have hurt the image of Americ

Bushs wars discredited the United Statsaid, adding that Obama has not changed thas only used troop redistribution.

The only way to stop war is if the workintakes political control, according to White.

Wars have to do with elites, he said.

As for the current uprisings in the Middle Esaid he supports the working class of those co

but would not intervene. He also warned of anent threat of a new war with Syria and Iran.

See JERRY WHITE, Page 2

David ReinmanThis is a decision that should be left witheach faculty member. I do believe that ifa professor chooses to friend students,they should not be exclusive.

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Cost of gas affecting studentsurvey shows MCCC students are adjusting budgets to compensat

Learning Bamay close itdoors; grantfunding end

di DavisReporter

nes could be heard across campus Tuesday,13, at the Welcome Back BBQ.

e event, which is the rst of the year sponsoredtudent Government, was a huge success, ac-ng to Tom Ryder, Student Government adviser.

was hard to tell how many people actually, because people were coming and going, Ry-aid.

estimated about 600 attended, with more thanhot dogs and 36 veggie burgers consumed byrowd.

das, which provided deep fried food, actually

ran out before the event concluded.

I enjoyed the barbecue. Weather was nice, foodwas great, music was a nice variety, and many dif-ferent clubs were there, student Victoria Bushaw-Bichot said.

Christine Keshney, another student, found theevent to be a good way to kick off the school year.

Student Government did a great job. It is nice tohave events like these because it brings a sense ofbelonging, she said.

Robert Brent, another MCCC student, was dividedon how he felt on the random bouts of dancing.

The people dancing were simultaneously hilari-ous and repulsive, he said.

MCCC Student Government will be hold an or-ganizational meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 12:30p.m. in the Student Government room in The Cellarin basement of the A building.

Students who are interested in participating in Stu-dent Government are encouraged to attend the meet-ing.

Nominations for ofcers and committee chairswill be taken at the meeting. Elections will be held atthe following meeting, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 12:30p.m.

For more information, contact Tom Ryder at 734-384-4201.

e MayzlinReporter

CCC students were polled at theTo School BBQ regarding how

afford gasoline with todays pric-

Tyler EagleStaff Reporter

The Learning Bank Network, a centvides basic adult education, may closwhen its funding grant runs out at the etember.

Created to help community membpost-secondary education, The Learhas helped many individuals. MCCCthe partners that operate the center.

Vuncia Council, director of TheBank, said several of the students enroLearning Bank are people whove reclaid-off.

There are so many students out of said. They need access to higher edu

Council also said there has been a ded need for the network. The current is the largest enrolled so far, with 20 ming to be admitted to the program.

Were getting far more studentsthought we would, she said.

With new policies requiring minimPASS scores for entry into sever

classes, John Joy, director of Lifelongexpects to see an increased need for chelp students prepare for college-level

We would pick up a signicant folks, he said.

Council also said the cutoff scores wthe need for programs like the Learnin

She also mentioned the Learning Bvenient times.

Were the only day-time program inshe said. I think we will see even moin the winter term.

Several students from the colleclasses at The Learning Bank to betfor classes and specic programs, sh

This is not the rst time that TheBanks funding has run out.

It previously operated on a $300,00the 2009-2010 year. After the grant e

other grant was secured for the 2010-but was less, totaling $200,000.

According to Joy, thats the minimurequired to keep the program going.

We applied to a couple grants outsaid. With state funding the way it dont know.

BBQ wows students

First of three partsAgora reporter Lorrie Mayz-lin will be analyzing the re-sults of the survey and offer-ing tips for saving money in

Agora photo by Michelle Dangler

ents randomly burst into dance at the Fall 2011 Welcome Back BBQ. The students pictured above were doing the Cupid shufe. For more photos of studentsing and of the BBQ, check out page 8.

tudents burst into dance, do the Cupid shufe

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Taylor PinsonAgora Reporter

The end of Michigans NLeft Behind program apparent

ing enrollment in spring anclasses to drop to 2007 levels.

Our spring/summer enroldeclined, predominately due ting of No Worker Left BehMark Hall, the director of aand guidance services at MCC

The program, sponsored byof Michigan, required studentfull-time during the spring ansemesters, Hall said.

We are con-tinuing to get thesame numberof students whoenroll from four-year schools com-ing home for thesummer, he said.Next years level

should be compa-rable to this cur-rent year.

The No WorkerLeft Behind pro-gram was signedinto law by Michi-gans former Gov.Jennifer Gran-holm in 2007.The programprovided unem-ployed and dis-placed workerswith two free years of traininmunity college. The programin August 2007.

Spring enrollment for 2007 students. It reached its peak in1,624 and began to decline in 2

only 1,592 signed up. This1,494 students.

MCCCs President Dr. Dawas not concerned with the delast years numbers, calling cally insignicant.

Joblessness is still driviment, Nixon said.

Where will students go tosets for becoming lawyers,nurses, welders, nuclear technelectric car manufacturers? price they can afford? MonrCommunity College and osecondary institutions provideswers.

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Enrollmedeclineswork placonclude

Business manager Dan Schwab to retirPapworthReporterniel Schwab described his role at

The role of Controller and BusinessManager is critical to any large organiza-tion with a multi-million dollar budget,

counting, auditing, and budgeting.

Ten years ago, developing the col-leges Datatel system and teaching col-

Digging for the pastMCCC students take part in archaeological digMorgan HofbauerAgora Reporter

Theres one class at MCCChat isnt afraid to get dirty.

An archeheological eld

tudy course offered at MCCCover the spring semester hasbrought students out of theclassroom and into the dirt ofwo archeological dig sites,

where students have discov-ered hundreds of artifacts aswell as the possible footprintof a prehistoric animal.

The students investigatedwo sites located in Maybee,

containing artifacts from as faras 12,000 years ago.

Two possible footprints of amastodon, a prehistoric crea-ure similar to the wooly mam-

moth, got the students excited.

Dr. Scott Beld of the Uni-versity of Michigan Museumof Paleontology has visited thesite to review the footprint.

Students also have discov-ered a possible dig site datingto the last ice age, buried be-neath the surface and sealedfrom disturbance. If they canconrm the site, it will be therst of its kind in Michigansaid the instructor of the courseKen Mohney.

In addition, students havefound fragments of ancientpottery and tools, as well aspossible ancient house postsand re or storage pits somefrom thousands of years ago,from the rst occupants of

Michigan.

Not all the material looksthat exciting, but its the factthat theyre nding somethingthats relevant, Mohney said.

With this class its an ex-periment thats never beendone before. I have no way ofknowing what theyre going tond.

The rst occupants of Michi-gan came roughly 11,000 yearsago after the ice age, Mohneysaid. They most likely werehunting caribou and extinctgame like mammoths andmastodons. Mohney calledthe location ideal for ancientpeoples.

They were hunter-gatherersduring the archaic period and

they wouldve been here ba-sically going through a gro-cery store, because theres somuch material here in terms of

food, he said. It really drewfolks here.

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Mastodons, weighing 4-6 tons, once roamed across Michigan un-til the last ice age. The eld class students have found two pos-sible footprints from these animals that are now extinct.

Studentspeakers,alumnusof the yearpraiseMCCC atgraduation

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