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Mark RoughtonStaff Writer
There are a large number of students at Parkland that deal with disabilities every day when it comes to getting to school, making their way around campus or even trying to learn the material; most of which a majority of students don’t have to think twice about.
However, for an every day student with some form of disability, those little things can be the most challenging.
Parkland’s Disability Services office, located in room
X-148, serves the purpose of helping any student who has a disability to reach his or her educational goals.
Director of Disability Services Cathy Robinson oversees these efforts, and is assisted by the efforts of Kristen Murray, Nancy Rowley and a staff of student workers.
“The whole process involves having the student submit documentation of disability,” Robinson said. “That documentation is reviewed, and reasonable accommodations are determined.”
That documentation must come from a certified or licensed professional and include everything from an actual diagnosis of the disability to recommended accommodations from that doctor for the particular student. The list of requirements for proper documentation can be found on Parkland’s website under the college resources tab.
The department of Disability Services offers many different accommodations for students
Questions we should be asking our candidates.
Opinions - Page 4
Buster Bytes tells us how to not pay for mobile phone
service.
SNAP and Parkland Nursing Program
to host art demonstration.
News - Page 5
Summer Camp Music Festival 2012 preview
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WednesdayApril 25, 2012Volume 4, Number 17
Your source for Parkland College news, sports, features and opinions.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches while living and working in outer space.
(Find answer on page 5)
Parkland’s Student Disability Services finds ways to assist those in need
Photo by Chanelle Stokes/ Prospectus NewsNew signs containing more information are just one measure Parkland College has taken to help ensure equal access around campus for students with disabilities.
Linotype: The Film
See SDS on P. 5
Kelsey HoseaStaff Writer
In order to effectively serve the community, it is a priority that Parkland College should accommodate all of its students, according to “Parkland’s growth benefits the community” on the My.Parkland website. The college is striving for that goal, as evidenced by the history of the campus, as well as its recent renovations.
When Parkland first opened it was located in the downtown Champaign area on 134 W. Church Ave. The location in downtown Champaign is currently home to the Nitaya Thai Restaurant and was then used as a temporary location for the college from the year 1967 until the permanent campus opened in September of 1973.
Parkland was located in a group of old store fronts and churches, according to English
Professor Lynn Myers.Myers further explained
that she agreed strongly with the decision to relocate the college.
The Parkland College history page at Parkland library’s website said that on the first day of registration, a line full of students wrapped outside the building in downtown Champaign to sign up for classes. Parkland registered 1,338 students for that fall semester.
Deciding where Parkland College would be relocated was not an easy decision. In fact, 20 different locations were proposed before they decided to relocate to the present site on Bradley Avenue.
Ernest Kump, lead architect of Parkland’s campus planned to accommodate 5,000 full-time students. What Kump referred to as the University Village became a vivid, outstanding architectural design. Parkland College was featured in an
exhibit at New York Museum of Modern Art. However, Kump underestimated Parkland’s full potential of expansion.
Since 1996, Parkland has added a number of new programs and expanded the capacity of several existing programs. With the expansion of these programs comes an expansion of the student population as well.
In response to this increased
See HISTORY on P. 5
History of Parkland’s renovations
Courtesy of Parkland College Archives(Left to Right) President Staerkel and Douglas Mills visit the construction site of Parkland College, circa 1971-72.
Photo Illustration by Burke Stanion/Prospectus NewsDoug Wilson, director of “Linotype: The Film,” responds to questions from the audience following the Illinois premiere of the full-length feature documentary. The premiere was held at Parkland Theatre April 12 after making its world premiere on February 3 at the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York City. Parkland College Graphic Design Department presented and sponsored the film screening. “The Linotype was the Twitter of 1886. It took information and multiplied it at a speed that didn’t even exist at that time,” Wilson said. Also appearing on the stage for Q&A after the show were Rick Baier, President of Baier Publishing Co.; Molly Poganski of The Living Letter Press; John Walker, Graphic Design Professor; Executive Associate Dean for the College of Fine Arts; Director of the Arts Technology Program at Illinois State University and Ray Wright, who previously worked as a compositor in the hot metal type unit at U. of I. Printing Services.
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Buster BytesTech Columnist
For those enrolled in college, money can get tight. Tuition is up to $112 per hour for the upcoming fall semester, and books can cost over $500 in a single semester as well.
Rent and gas prices aren’t showing any signs of dropping, either. Combine these mounting costs with a course schedule that leaves little time for a job and you have a recipe for ramen dinners.
Students can get tired of ramen pretty fast, so many find ways to cut costs. Taking the bus, sharing or buying used textbooks and shopping at thrift stores are just a few ways they use to save money.
When it comes time to tighten belts, though, few students are eager to give up their iPhones and Androids. And with mobile phones having almost completely replacing landlines as students’ main phone lines, it’s often not practical to do without.
The method outlined here can allow students to keep their smart phone, but drop the bill. Completely. Buster, for one, hasn’t paid a mobile phone bill since July of 2011.
This method is not without its drawbacks, though. You will not be able to call or text anyone while driving, grocery shopping or anywhere else that you don’t have access to a Wi-Fi connection.
And keeping in mind that you get what you pay for, it should be no surprise that phone calls made using this method leave something to be desired. The connection can be spotty, choppy or echoey.
Clearly this is not
a good
substitute for someone who spends hours a day chatting on the phone with friends or who likes talking while driving around town. Also, it will not get you out of your current contract.
However, if you’re the type of person who spends more time playing “Draw Something” or “Angry Birds” and text more than you talk,
this may be just the thing for you.
If you answer “yes” to the following three questions, you may be able to save $70 - $100 a month, which you will of course spend on more pens and
notebooks for class, right?
1. Do you have access to Wi-Fi service at home and work? (You do at Parkland.)
2. Can you last the twenty-
minute drive in between these places without texting or downloading?
3. Do you like saving money?If you answered
three yeses, then pay
attention. Here’s what you’ll need:
1. A smartphone, which is activated and programmed. This definitely works on Android devices, but has not
been tested on iPhones. If you don’t have one you can get one for about $120 at Wal-Mart.
2. A Google Voice account. This is free, and you can sign up at https://www.google.com/voice. Your will need to use your current telephone number or a landline number to verify your new account,
but when you are done, you will have a new
phone number.Yes, it can be a little
annoying to have
to tell
everyone your new
phone number, but is it more annoying
than paying a phone bill?
3. A voice-over-IP
(VOIP)
application on your phone. If you are using an Android device, you will want to use an app called grooveIP. It will ask you to log in using your Google Voice information, and then
you’re all set.iPhone has some VOIP
applications as well. Apps such as Talkatone and iCall are definitely worth looking into.
For either type of device, if you don’t mind paying a little something, like around $4 or $5 a month, Skype is a great app to use.
Skype allows unlimited free calls over Wi-Fi to other Skype users and very cheap rates to all other phone numbers.
If your phone has a front facing camera, you can even use Skype for video calls with other Skype users for free.
Using only Wi-Fi is less inconvenient than you might think, too. As you move around town, you’ll be surprised to find how many Wi-Fi hotspots you can access. This makes it more convenient to check your texts and email while you’re out to eat at a restaurant or studying in a café.
The best part of all of this is that it’s completely free to try. You can test it out without cancelling your current mobile plan. You can even use it in conjunction with a cell phone plan to help reduce your usage of minutes.
For those who hold onto their mobile carriers, services
such as Google Talk and Skype can utilize their
3G and 4G signals to make calls which don’t use up your
plan’s minutes. This can really come in handy at the end of the
month when available minutes get low. It can also help prevent
those costly overages.All in all it’s a great way to
save money for those of us that love our phones, but not the bills. And if anyone tries this out on an iPhone and gets it working, Buster would love to hear about it. Just email him at [email protected].
How to not pay for mobile phone service
Illustration by Bill Hogan/
Chicago Tribune/MCT
Erik LacitisThe Seattle Times
SEATTLE - In the past five years, working by himself using mostly a shovel and a pickax, Bernie O’Brien has dug up, loaded onto his 30-year-old Ford pickup and then transplanted some 100 trees that weighed 200 pounds to more than 400 pounds each.
He’s also transplanted to acreage he and his wife own on Pierce County, Wash.’s Key Peninsula another 400 trees that ranged from seedlings to six-footers.
Yes, you could call O’Brien a man with a passion.
His wife, Michelle McCormick, calls him the “the human shovel.”
This 51-year-old West Seattle guy, who talks about the trees he has transplanted as if they’re members of his family, has rescued hundreds of trees from being bulldozed or simply cut down. He has given them new homes.
As O’Brien explains, “Trees are not just a number and we can never have too many. They, too, have character.”
When a neighbor by his five-acre Key Peninsula property cut down a bunch of old-growth trees, O’Brien says, he noticed that the owls he could hear at night went away.
And O’Brien liked the privacy the old trees gave him, and wanted to replace the rampant blackberry bushes. He decided he would create his own forest on the five acres that’s mostly pastureland and used to be a holly tree farm, with the original home still on it.
O’Brien does get a little mystical-sounding when talking about trees.
O’Brien’s real job is as a senior consultant for Artech, a local firm that manages art collections, so it’s not as if he just walked in from a Rainbow
Family gathering.Since he started doing this
five years ago, mostly every other weekend, O’Brien says, “I view winter and rainy months much differently.”
At this time of the year, he sees “root systems show fresh white tender vines through the soil.” He hears “frogs sing all night.” It is, “a time to slow down and observe the year’s accomplishments.”
This nature stuff isn’t a trait that’s just part of the stereotypical Northwest character, says Cass Turnbull, a landscaper who founded Plant Amnesty in Seattle “to lead society out of the dark ages of landscape care.”
With 900 members
nationwide and in four countries who believe, for example, that trees shouldn’t be topped for landscaping purposes, she says, “I get calls and emails all the time from people who say they are spiritually involved with trees. Trees have a silent, timeless grandeur. It’s a theme that runs through all cultures and places. You’ve heard references to the ‘speaking tree?’“
On a recent Friday morning, yet another cold, rainy winter day, O’Brien has driven to a Bellevue, Wash., rambler that is scheduled to be demolished.
He says the rambler’s previous owner, who had planted the property with numerous shrubs and trees, is
now in a nursing home. Soon a bulldozer is set to come in.
One way that O’Brien finds out about a tree that somebody wants to give away is by scouring Craigslist, and sometimes posting on it. Dogwoods, firs, hemlocks, rhodies, mountain huckleberries.
At one point, he had an app for his smartphone that messaged him every time the word “tree” came up on Craigslist. O’Brien gave up the app when he was deluged with messages such as ones about cat trees, those carpeted things for cats to scratch on.
“If you have trees that have been planted too close to the house, planted under wires, outgrown their space in the
city. ... Then I have a good home for them,” he posts. “Max thickness is 5” trunk ... I dig these up myself so imagine how much one person could physically take on.”
It turns out there are plenty of people who want to find that good home for the tree they no longer can keep.
On his property, by the entrance, O’Brien planted a Douglas fir that now is around seven feet tall.
About three years ago, a 10-year-old boy answered O’Brien’s Craigslist posting and said he had a tree that he been growing in a barrel since it was a seedling in the backyard of his family home. He had gotten it at a Weyerhaeuser
field trip. His parents said the tree had gotten too big and had to go.
O’Brien planted the tree, and the boy could look it up on O’Brien’s website, bernieo.smugmug.com/WoodlandGardenProject.
Then there was the pink flowering crabapple tree from a University District home. A woman had planted it in memory of her brother, but had put it too close to her house.
“She was really sad she did that,” says O’Brien. Now the tree is thriving on his property.
On this morning in Bellevue, besides some shrubs, the main prize is a Douglas fir, about 12 to 14 feet tall.
After a couple hours of digging, the tree isn’t budging much. By now, O’Brien’s pants are coated in mud.
He says he likes digging in the rain. The soil is softer. It is only during the hot summer months, and because of the holiday time in December, that he doesn’t transplant trees.
Here in Bellevue, it’s the tap root that grows straight down that’s the problem. O’Brien already has dug a circle five feet across and two feet deep. The more he saves of the root, the better chance the transplant will hold; a fifth of the trees don’t survive a move.
He belts a fire hose around the tree and begins to swing and pull on the tree. The tap root isn’t budging.
Just watching O’Brien is tiring. Grunt. Pull. Grunt.
His wife says she has worried that he’ll keel over of a heart attack.
She distinctly remembers one day looking out the window of their farm, and seeing her husband’s legs sticking out from under a pile of weeds.
“I ran out. I was crying. I thought something had
Seattle man rescues and relocates unwanted trees
See TREE on P. 5
Photo by John Lok/Seattle Times/MCTBernie O’Brien works to dig out a Douglas fir at a home in Bellvue, Washington, in March 2012. O’Brien hunts down people wanting to get rid of trees and digs them up to use on his own property.
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Michael Eric SiegelThe Baltimore Sun
The questions routinely asked of our presidential candidates are insufficient for assessing their potential ability to lead the nation. The following questions are based on my studies of the leadership style of recent presidents.
The candidates’ responses to these questions - as well as evidence of how they have already “answered” them in practice - would, I believe, provide more reliable guidance for their leadership potential in the White House:
1. Vision/purpose. Does the candidate embrace a strong vision or compelling view of the nation’s future? Has the candidate demonstrated a consistent, though not overly rigid, commitment to a set of principles that could energize his White House, as Ronald Reagan did; or does he seem to stand for everything but believe in nothing, as Jimmy Carter was frequently accused of doing?
Bill Clinton campaigned on the basis of being a “New Democrat,” eschewing the outdated orthodoxies of the New Deal and Great Society, and attracted great support for a Democratic Party that could take the ideas of deficit reduction and collaboration with business seriously. By contrast, Rick Perry’s “vision” of making government “inconsequential” seemed unimpressive.
Does the person candidate comprehend the difference between a compelling vision and an obsession? Was George W. Bush’s “vision” of fighting the terrorists, which seemed highly potent in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, transformed into an obsession later in his term, resulting in the Iraq War?
2. Strategy/execution. Does the candidate comprehend or possess the specific political skills needed to translate vision into reality? Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said, “You can campaign in poetry, but you must govern in prose.” Does the candidate understand the importance of surrounding himself with highly qualified aides - some of whom need to be Washington insiders - who can work effectively with Congress to bring
about change?It is one thing to campaign as an
“outsider” and quite another to govern as one. Does the person have a track record of surrounding himself with professionals instead of friends? The difference was poignantly illustrated by George W. Bush’s first chief of staff, Andrew Card, who, when he resigned his position, said, “I’m so glad I’m leaving the White House, because now
I can be George’s friend again.” The president does not need friends in
the White House; he needs “courageous followers,” professionals who have the confidence to challenge a president when needed.
Finally, does the candidate have a limited agenda? President Reagan’s focus on only three or four major policy initiatives during his early years in the White House translated
into impressive legislative victories, while President Carter’s expansive agenda (summarized to his domestic policy adviser in an A-Z list, abortion to Zaire) hampered his ability to get much done.
3. Management/structure. Does the candidate understand basic management principles and the requirements of managing a substantial White House operation and a sprawling federal workforce of some 2 million people? Does he know the functions and operations of the cabinet agencies, or can he at least name them?
There was a serious, though short-lived, attempt by the Clinton administration, under the leadership of Vice President Al Gore, to “reinvent” the federal government. The goal was to create a government that “works better and costs less.”
President Barack Obama has asked for fast-track authority to consolidate and streamline federal agencies, which have multiple and expensive overlapping jurisdictions, as recently noted by Sen. Susan Collins. A president needs to be attuned to the management dimensions of his job, and Mitt Romney’s claim to management acumen should be analyzed seriously.
4. Process/decision-making. Is the candidate comfortable making tough decisions? More importantly, does he understand how to create an environment where good decisions can be made? It is clear that the development of sound decisions requires debate and deliberation, for “groupthink” can easily overtake discussion.
George W. Bush described himself as being a “decider,” but he showed great reluctance to analyze the consequences of
his decisions, or to ever revisit them. (When queried by his first Treasury secretary about the size of his proposed tax cut, Mr. Bush responded, “I don’t negotiate with myself.) Mr. Obama certainly encourages deliberation and even dissent, but at times he holds back on the advocacy and explanations of decisions already made.
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What we should be asking the candidates
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William V. BurksFord Asset
“Find a career at a Ford dealership.”
Jalessa JonesNursing
“My plans are to become a nurse and transfer to a four-year college and expand my education and career.”
Rachel Graham Recreation, Sports and Tourism
“I plan on transferring to the U. of I. and majoring in RST, with an emphasis in sports management.”
Jacob HeadPolitical Science
“Transfer to U. of I. in the fall and continue studying in political science.”
Evan Marlatt Community Health
“Continuing at U. of I. and applying for grad. school.”
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Fact or Fiction?TRUE - The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25
inches while living and working in outer space.Spinal lengthening and straightening was a result of zero gravity.
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The Student Nurses Association of Parkland College and the Nursing Program of Parkland College are hosting the Swann Special Care Center Art Demonstration and Sale on April 26 - 27, 2012 at the Art Gallery Lounge of Parkland College.
The students at Swann Special Care Center, 109 Kenwood Road, C, will demonstrate how they create their art, which will be available for purchase at this special benefit showing. For about $25, you can get a framed piece of artwork. Also available are postcards and greeting cards based on student designs for $1.
Art is therapy and a communications tool for the profoundly challenged people who live at Swann and study
at the nearby school. For Parkland nursing students, it’s also a wonderful learning opportunity. Parkland Nursing students and faculty have pediatric clinicals at Swann where they get to know the residents and also see how the Swann students express themselves through the beautiful art that they create during the art program at Swann.
“These Swann students have really touched my heart... many of them are unable to communicate verbally but through their art they can express their inner essence, their warmth, their individualism and you can connect with them... it’s beautiful and meaningful,” said Michele Spading, RN, MSN, Nursing Program Director, Parkland College.
The students use nontoxic watercolor and tempera paints and
often the painting tools have to be adjusted for an individual’s needs. The art activities offer a multitude of opportunities for choice-making, sensory stimulation, range of motion exercises, and positioning changes. The sale of the art helps provide for these occupational activities.
The public is invited to attend the demonstration and reception on Thursday April 27 at 10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. The art will be displayed and for sale both days, Thursday April 26 and Friday April 27, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The color and abstract designs in the artwork and card design make them excellent gifts just in time for Mother’s Day and upcoming graduations.
SNAP and Parkland Nursing program to host art demonstration
in population, on August 25, 2008, Parkland held a special board meeting to discuss plans to advance the growth in Parkland’s campus. The Board and Council continued to meet and discuss the renovations until February of 2010, when the plan was approved.
Within weeks, the funding became available. According to Jim Bustard, Director of Physical Plant, “The campus renovations started in the spring of 2009 with the remodeling of the gymnasium, the wing remodeling, elevator upgrades, and roofing all started in the summer of 2010.”
The estimated cost of the renovation is $8,575,000 according to “Parkland’s growth benefits the community.”
When asked about his opinion on the improvements to Parkland College,
student Terry Miller responded, “It is a breath of fresh air to see Parkland’s new face lift.” Miller explained that he is proud of his school and the improvements make him motivated to be here.
Another student, Gregg Neff said, “The roofing looks really good and I also noticed the orange paint around the buildings which looks very vibrant.”
In many ways, Parkland students and faculty are very proud of the renewing and renovating that has been taking place at Parkland College. Not only does the clean, well-designed architecture of Parkland’s building motivate students and faculty to be here, but it also attracts future students and faculty to become a part of our Parkland Community.
As Parkland renovates and expands, we can expect a growth in population as more space and services prepare the college for more students.
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in need of them. Some of the more common are extended time for tests, a note taker and sign language interpreters for those with a hearing disability.
Some of the most visible accommodations are the signs all around campus letting handicapped individuals know where accessible bathrooms and areas of the college are.
There are also software programs that assist individuals with writing problems. “Read and Write Gold” is one such program created for students that have deficits in reading or writing. The program teaches the basics of reading and writing through on-screen activities.
Another great software program is “Dragon Naturally Speaking,” which allows students to listen to their tests and dictate their answers.
All of these different accommodations require support. The department’s workers perform many of the tasks but they could always use more help.
“We are always looking for students who feel that they have good note taking skills to come forth and volunteer,” Robinson said. “This semester we were really fortunate to have some students step forward and volunteer their time.”
The department also offers help for those who are hearing impaired. The typical accommodation for those individuals is a sign language interpreter, but that is not always appropriate.
“Not everyone who’s hearing impaired is fluent in sign language,” Robinson explained. “So we determine the best accommodation.”
Another option offered is a captionist, in which someone repeats the lecture word for word so that
the text appear on a screen for the student. This is a very challenging job that requires great listening skills.
Parkland student Paulette Johnson is hearing impaired. She has experienced the benefits of Disability Services first hand.
She used to use a headset unit with two parts. The instructor would have the first part, which consisted of a small microphone attached by a cord that he or she could speak into directly while giving a lesson. The device then transmitted to Johnson’s headphones, which made it seem as though the instructor was speaking directly to her.
Johnson no longer uses it because of her new cochlear implant, which is a surgically implanted device that takes the place of a regular hearing aid.
She is also still accommodated with a note taker and extra test time that has really allowed her to be successful in her classes. Johnson said that the accommodations worked really well for her.
“Actually, the staff coordinates with each other and they try to find the best solution for the student. So at that point with all the coordination going on, you can’t lose,” Johnson said.
The Disability Services office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day and performs a variety of tasks despite its lack of size.
They administer testing for students in need of a better testing environment. They provide the environment, which usually has 7-8 students in it at any given time. There are also two computers which students can use to complete their homework in a quieter environment.
Although these resources are available to students, Robinson notes that many have trouble actually coming to them for help because they don’t want others to know about their accommodations.
“It’s important that we help them
overcome that feeling of not wanting to use their accommodations,” Robinson said. “We do get students that are embarrassed and feel like if they’re not taking their test in a class then people will know (about their disability).”
“For me personally, some that have disabilities they kind of shy away, don’t want anyone to know,” Johnson added. “But I think that I’m put in a position such that students that have a disability or do not have a disability accept me for who I am, not because of a disability.”
“What we always tell them is, you’ve made it this far,” Robinson explained. “Acknowledge the challenge that you’re having, and let us help.”
Self-advocacy is something that is stressed to all individuals with disabilities. For a student, admitting they need help is the most important step and the Disability Services office will work to provide that assistance to any student.
“We do have a disability and we want the students to know that we’re human too,” Johnson said when mentioning her other friends with disabilities. “And don’t be afraid to step up to the plate when you have a disability. Just go be yourself, you’re no different than anybody else.”
Robinson encourages students who believe they could use assistance while at Parkland to come see them in the office.
“If you have a learning challenge and you have a disability that impacts your success, then take advantage of every tool you can,” she said. “And this office is a great tool.”
The new Student Services Center, which will open in 2013, will house a brand new Disability Services office with much more space. For more information about Disability Services please visit the Parkland College Website or the office itself in room X-148.
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happened, that he was dead,” says McCormick. But, she adds, “He’s a lot stronger than he looks.”
Finally, O’Brien concedes to the tap root. He brings out a battery-operated saw and cuts the root at about two feet.
O’Brien says that after a day of prying root balls, and dragging trees, he aches for the next three days.
But, he tells his wife, “I keep reminding her that the exercise is keeping me alive ... spirits and physical health.”
On this Friday, in the later morning, accompanied by his Pomeranian dog, Diego, O’Brien drives onto the Fauntleroy-Southworth ferry to reach the Key Peninsula.
Sometimes his wife asks O’Brien how many more trees he is going to plant. At some point, those 500 trees that were planted will grow up to be big, big trees.
O’Brien talks about maybe buying
more acreage. He talks about turning his tree farm into some kind of retreat place.
He talks about knowing a 70-year-old man who still plows his farmland.
“I have no doubts I could keep doing this until I was 70,” says O’Brien.
Leaving the ferry and turning onto the highway, O’Brien uses his truck’s turn signal.
The signal’s handle has a unique look, just like the headlight switch and windshield-wiper knob.
O’Brien has taken Giant Sequoia cones, drilled a hole in each at the bottom, filled the hole with epoxy, and attached them to use as knobs.
“For such a small thing,” he says about the cones, “they represent so much potential. I do think of that often while driving. Potential.”
Say what you will about people who find spirituality in trees.
This is one content guy who says about transplanting trees: “I sleep well.”
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For many students, the end of the semester combined with the return of warm weather means one thing: music festivals. One such festival, which many here at Parkland eagerly anticipate each year, is the Summer Camp Music Festival.
Summer Camp is an annual music festival that takes place in Chillicothe, Illinois, and traditionally held on Memorial Day weekend, May 25-27.
The music festival houses artists of a diverse number of genres including rock, jam, folk, rockabilly, bluegrass, alternative, country and even dubstep. Such a diverse selection ensures that something is playing on one of the stages for everyone all throughout the weekend.
The festival features three days of the bands moe. and Umphrey’s McGee, as well as other headliners which include such huge names as Jane’s Addiction, Primus and Pretty Lights.
Bob Weir of Grateful Dead fame will be playing in the Weir, Robinson, Greene Acoustic Trio as well, and acts such as Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band and Eoto will also perform.
Other bands and artists of note include Gov’t Mule, Galactic, Leftover Salmon and G. Love and Special Sauce. With a roster of well over a hundred bands, it’s not possible to list them all here, but the full lineup can be seen at summercampfestival.com/lineup.
Some Parkland students who plan on attending Summer Camp, such as Nick Laptew, are more excited for the local bands that will be playing. “Everyone going should go
show some hometown love to DJ SOLO,” Laptew said. “The man has got mad skills and deserves to blow up.”
Other students, such as Jay Trainor, are excited for other reasons. “The culture is what excites me most.” Trainor said. “Three, maybe four days of beautiful weather - rain or shine. With some of my best friends and some of the nicest 15,000 plus people on the planet. All getting down to good music and just enjoying themselves and each other.”
It is important when attending any festival to keep in mind potential health and safety concerns. With the festival taking place in late May, the weather is bound to be hot. Sunscreen is going to be a must if you’re planning on attending.
The grounds provide on-site camping, so be sure and bring your tent, sleeping bags and an air mattress. Shaded pavilions also come in handy when you’re outside for a long period of time.
Another precaution to take into consideration in warmer weather is to keep hydrated. “I recommend a camel pack to stay hydrated,” Parkland student Nick Barger suggested.
Food can be a concern, as well. While food will be available for sale at the festival, the prices can get a bit steep after several days. Bringing non-perishable, well-sealed food items can help you stay fed on a budget.
It’s also important to keep in mind that some of the heavier bands might also have crowds towards the front that might be too rough for some attendants. It’s important to know what you’re getting into before you end up too deep in a rougher crowd.
It’s also not recommended to
go to the front of a crowd unless you have plenty of water and provisions to last you through until whoever you are waiting for comes on stage. Once you are in front it’s likely that you’ll be stuck there for quite a while. Front row center may not be the place for those with claustrophobia.
Pace yourself. Don’t go all out during the earlier bands unless you’re planning on leaving early, you should definitely conserve energy so that you can last until the day is done. You don’t want to be exhausted and be too tired to enjoy it when the last band starts performing.
With outdoor festivals another concern is the weather and rain. Open areas at the venue may get muddy, so you’ll have to worry about getting dirty, slipping and sliding around and people around you getting dirty. This type of event is definitely not for the clean freaks out there.
Tickets are still available according to the Summer Camp Festival’s official website and range in price from $74 for a one day Sunday ticket to the standard 3 day pass, which runs around $180 until May 1, when it will go up to $200.
For more information on the Summer Camp Festival, to see the entire lineup of artists, ticket prices, merchandise, festival news, directions, or anything else, visit www.summercampfestival.com.
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