F i N A L :*+ + + ' UM+* #:HS 2 .COMMl/NITY COLLEGE'S MAGAZINE *+ + + <* + + Stressed? 3 How Learn to Relax Undergoe Changes My Turn Today so many people are close-minded. They don't even take the time to listen to someone. I should know, I used to do that myself. Eventually a time came when I was able to question everything in my world, and the only way to get real answers is to be open-minded enough to hear what the truth is. I'm not writing this inform the world ofwhat I think the truth is. I'm writing this in hopes that maybe we all can look at ourselves a little closer and see where we stop lis- tening. I did it all the time when I was in high school. I never listened and always expected everyone else to hear what I had to say. Now I see atheists doing everything they can to keep religion out ofschools. Or churches doing everything they can to keep evolution from being taught to children. This problem goes far beyondjust religion or scientific theories, into all kinds of things that people blind themselves to. Ifsomething is true, then why be afraid to know or understand it? I've found that the reason I was so scared to hear anything different than what I believed was because I was, at heart, scared I might be wrong. Some people would rather live their lives believing a lie, than rather even consider that something they hold to be true could be false. I say let's stop being afraid, and know the truth. Anthony Wade Carver w cub- Meet the Author Anthonyis 21years oldandis majoring in GraphicDesign. In his spare time he enjoys beingwith hisfriends, watching ormakingup movies, andwork- ingon a website he andhis friends created. Managing Editor He said, She said Eden Fuson . 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(Photo ByEden Fuson) [able of Contents Table of Contents Table of Conte e of Contents Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly ) Opinions of the worst kind, about: Indecision She Said I have yet to meet a guy who can make a decision on his own, especially in a relationship. Girls, men think we are too indecisive...well, let me tell you they are no better. Picture this scenario: 1 Man - Where do you want to go eat? Opinion by Shila Young 2) Woman - 1 don't care, where do you want to go? 3)M-O.K. let's go here! W 4) - No, let's go here! M- No, I don't want to go there... This could go on for hours and you wind up sitting at home eating bologna sandwiches. Why can't the guyjust say cOK we're going to go here because we went here last night'? Now come on, a relationship is based on compromise so why is it a blame game all the time? He said this or she said that. Even what movie to pick on a Saturday WW night winds up being III Granted, you won't know everything about someone right off...That takes some time but ifyou are in a serious relationship then you should know the basics. So stop worrying so much. Ifyou honestly care about us as much as you say you do, then sometimes you wouldn't have to ask what movie we want to watch or what restaurant we would like to eat at. You should be capable ofmaking a confident decision without worrying about us getting upset. Pursuit Whatever happened to a true gentleman who called you up and held a door open for you or even came and picked you up at your house? And no, I don't mean sit- ting outside honking the horn waiting for us in the car. I know it sounds so Cinderella, Prince Charming make believe, right? Well OK, what girl isn't waiting for her Prince Charming? I know I am and there are a lot of girls out there who are like me. So, come on guys, put a little effort in getting our attention. We like a guy who actually takes the time to pursue our attention. Matt's Reply: Compromise...what a wonderful word. For people who know their significant other well enough, compromise is an applicable tool. However, it seems most women's view ofcompromise includes men using their telepathic powers to read minds and then telling them where they want to go. Until we evolve to the point oftelepa- thy, you have to communicate with us. As for finding that special someone to disagree with, the only reason women can't find Prince Charming is because they look at the pretty boys and don't see the frog underneath. The guys who have no problem taking the initiative are thejerks honking outside your house. The true Prince Charming is the nice guy in the corner who can't seem to say anything, but that's because he is in awe ofyour beauty. Remember the story "Beauty and the Beast"? The Beast wasn't Brad Pitt, but he was the best thing in Beauty's life. and Indecision Pursuit Indecision He Said Ninety percent ofmy relationships have been scarred with a frightening fact: I will have to make every single decision. Not that I mind too much because it means I tend to get my way. However, the Opinion by Matt Hahn general pre-dinner conversation goes much like this: 1 )Woman: Let's go out to dinner. 2)Man: Okay, where should we go? 3)W: I don't care...you decide. 4)M: What about (insert restaurant)? 5)W: No, I'm not in the mood for (said restaurant). Now, return to step two and repeat until sufficiently infuriated. WHY? Why can't womenjust say what they want instead ofmaking us play 20 questions? Tell you what. Instead ofmaking me name them, here is a list ofevery restaurant in town. You look through it, decide where you want to go and then come get me. I'll be in the back yard pulling out my hair and having a civil conversation with the dog. Pursuit Yes, I know it's traditional for the man to take the initiative and pursue the woman. However, ifyou want to get technical, it's traditional for the woman to be in the kitchen, but things have changed. Women have been and continue fighting for equality. What they don't take into account is the balance. You can't have all the bonuses ofbeing equal without having down- falls. Since we are equal, we get to share everything. Now, you don't have to stand across the room won- dering ifwe saw your shy glances. Just walk up and say, "Hi." Heck, you could even invite us out to dinner. No one knows how much I have spent on meals to kick-start a conversation. On top ofthat, many women enjoy the meal and leave having had no interest in me in the first place. Come on, I enjoy a good chase as much as the next man, but I'm getting poor. Shila's Reply: O.K. my partner in crime may have a point on the whole dinner scenario however, like I said in my statements, ifguys cared about us they wouldn't have to always ask what we really wanted. Compromise is a wonderful word but guys don't seem to understand the meaning. Now call me crazy and old-fashioned ifyou want...but I think that the man should do the pursuing. A lot ofwomen like the chivalry act. While it was once considered improper for a girl to call a guy, that's not the case anymore. While a girl can call a guy, the man should be the one to step up to the plate. Time to Sc tf tf As this chapter of my life at BCCC comes Story and Photos t to an end and a new one begins looking At , back over the past two years, I find that Butler has made more of an impact on my life than I thought. •• I originally decided to come to BCCC because I I %J oyful, exhausted, wasn't quite ready for a big %v#. anxious, confused, excited and university and I was offered a scared are all the emotions I scholarship on the Grizzly am feeling as I say goodbye to Magazine staffto do what I my time spent at BCCC. love, photography and writing. %•• Ironically, these were my exact From this, I have learned SupriSS! A group offriendssuprisedmeand feelings two years ago as I procrastination is not a good decoratedmyhouse on my birthday thisyear. I decided what my next step thing, and it has helped me hadno idea that they wereplanning it. would be after high school. become more experienced in Two years, where did the time what my career might be later «!*!• go? As much as I want to on in life. I was also given the leave (and believe me I want to opportunity to work with the * go very far away from here), I Athletes and Special Needs have become comfortable in El students in the Advising office Dorado, and I must admit that as a tutor. Thisjob opened my it has become like a second eyes to what being patient At home to me. really means, that there are Coming from a graduating many other people who wait r- class of35 people, from little till the last minute to get Pretty Prairie, I thought 'Wow, something done and also to SOLlth Padre! Usgirls andNoah Morford %•• how am I ever going to make it never ever assume things about waiton ourfoodatayummybarbecueplaceat in the 'city' ofEl Dorado?' anyone or anything. My peers South Padre.MSophomoreyearwe wenttoSouth Given time, I learned that the have taught me things in more Padre Texas sPrinSBreak only thing I really needed to ways than one, about school, # %v. know was where Central Street friendship, life and, most was. I have experienced dorm importantly myself. life, cafeteria food, late nights I have grown in •• studying, late nights doing knowledge, self-assurance and everything but studying, going a sense ofwho I really am. It to Wal-Mart for no reason, has brought out things in me eating pizza for breakfast, that I didn't even know were At lunch and dinner (all in the possible and helped to focus same day), taking naps on things that I already had. whenever possible (sometimes But that is what college is all in class) and meeting people about; experimenting and who I know have become my finding out who the person is Around and Around Lastyearroller %•# lifelong friends. that you look at in the mirror skatingwas apartofthehomecomingactivities, heldattherinkin ElDorado. Itwasfunny tosee all thepeople ourageskatingaroundin a circle. • • Goodbye V .> .> .> Rhonda Giefer everyday, yourself. There are that I put myselfin, because things that I have done that I regret is a useless emotion. %: August 2001- am not so proud ofand things It is a chapter in my life that that I really have a lot of has already been written and May 2003 pride for. One major thing I it has helped me learn from have noticed here is that my mistakes and failures but •• people rarelyjudge you, also from my accomplish- because they too are in the ments and good deeds. Sing it! Last year during Christmas same situation in trying to I know that I will take all break I took home about 7guys to Pretty figure out what they are that I have accomplished, %•'. Prairie to see what the "farm" life is like. going to do in the next step learned and experienced here Jamaal Whyce andLaShadHill founda doll oftheir own lives. with me and continue to andsang to it. I have laughed, cried, * ym Two well %v* 5PttvT »•• -mm mm %v> \Happy New Year!! Fortheendof2002 and 'he beginningof2003, we hadagatheringatmy gotten angry, been a little accomplish, learn and house to ring in the newyear. crazy and stressed out but experience in the next place there has always been I decide to go. With no %•• someone there to help me doubt in my mind, I know not become discouraged that when I look back on when something went the two years I have spent wrong, or shared in my here, I will always feel that %v. triumphs when I succeeded. BCCC and the people along Whether it was a teacher, the way have helped me boss, friend or even a become who I am and, %•• stranger, I knew I was never most importantly, who I alone to experience will become. cicumstances that were out ofmy control or ones I had %v. control over. I will never regret anything that has « a happened in these two years; ft •• %:• choices, friends or situations The Lantern has existed in other forms but became step up the quality ofwhat the people on campus see a weekly in 1966. It's put out thousands ofeditions and read. But even though all these changes occur, the and been through many advisers and countless staff goal remains the same. members. The paper undergoes changes every year to Dr. Gene George, who was once a student editor Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly Staff Here is theLantern staff. Frontrow, left to right: ShelleyStraub, ScottRoberts, Sam Smalley, Kim Mangus, Laura Bianco. Secondrow - Sara Pierce, Jessica Shirley, Tammy Dorpinghaus, Josh Gilmore. Back row-Andy Clum, Jon Brickley, Mrs. Freda Briggs. LoreeDeRoseand Liam Wyattwere notpresentwhen thephoto was taken. (Lantern Photo) and later an adviser for the Lantern, says, "The public forum; two, it is a learning laboratory forjour- Lantern has tried to be an independent newspaper. nalism students," Briggs says. Any good newspaper serves its community." The goal that Mrs. Briggs has made for the students There was a time in which the administration and to learn is to work together as a team and to meet the students who ran the paper were nearly at war with deadlines, and finally to tolerate others in a stressful one another, but now things are a lot better. situation. "We had tense times between the administration Shelley Straub, a sophomore from Wichita, is man- and the paper," Dr. George says. aging editor ofthe newspaper today. She has been Jane Watkins, who was an adviser for the Lantern working in news publications since she was a sopho- 16 years ago, pointed out how passionate the students more in high school. on staffwere. She says the students were "good writ- "It has definitely taught me a lot ofuseful things ers, and good thinkers." and it has prepared me for anyjob I may hold in the Today, the administration and the students who future," she says. work for the Lantern have a good relationship, accord- In spite ofeverything the paper has gone through, ing to both parties. the mission remains the same, to serve its community. Freda Briggs is the current advisor for the Lantern. She has been the adviser for six years. Mission Statement ofThe Lantern There are always ongoing changes. The Lantern serves as both a professional news- Briggs says, "When I came six years ago we were paper and as a laboratory experience for students who still printing our own photos, then we used negatives are on staff. It is The Lantern's mission to accurately and now it's mostly digital." repert the news, allow readers to express their views, "Technology is the main change," says Briggs. and to present issues and information that affect the Even though there have been a lot ofchanges and college and the community it serves. many upgrades, thejob ofthe newspaper remains the same. "The role ofthe newspaper has two parts: One is news and information to service the campus and its ics Academics Academics Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly "Movies and More: the Sequel" was the title for the dance concert. Students danced to songs from movies such as "Footloose" and "Dirty Dancing" and music from James Bond movies. Students have been working on the concert since February. They work every day ofthe week and sometimes the weekend. Karla Lloyd, Butler dance instructor, says, "The dancers work really hard and they are not afraid ofchallenges." Lloyd has taught dance for 15 years and has been at Butler for four years and she still loves it. Karla Brown, sophomore from Wichita, says, '"Movies and More: the Sequel' is a brilliant performance." The dance concert was well I prepared and it showed! Academics Academics Academics Academics Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly