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The Engineering Science and Technologies department at Parkland College is dedicated to everything involving the sciences. It is especially focused on helping students who share an interest in working with cars to become prepared for the real world.
A popular degree choice in this department is Automotive Technology. This program has provided training for local technicians for more than 40 years.
The program was recently modified to allow students to explore the high performance side of the industry. Interested students can now learn all the needed skills for career’s as technicians in the automotive industry and learn the skills needed to modify vehicles or prepare them for a variety of racing applications.
Director of Automotive Technology Jon Ross oversees the activities and curriculum for the motor sports program.
“Students are learning the skills needed for entry level employment in either a general automotive repair facility and use the motor sport skills as a hobby,” Ross said. “Or use the motor sport skills and automotive skills to secure employment in motor sport related business.”
Parkland Motor Sports currently has four cars they use for racing on weekends. They consist of autocross and drag cars.
The one most frequently use is a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu they call “The Learning Curve,” which uses a 500 horsepower 6.0 L GM engine.
It hits the ground running as it often reaches nearly 100 mph in a 1/8 mile drag race. The fastest time recorded with The Learning Curve is 7.03 seconds, according to its driver Travis Buth, a student at Parkland.
Buth and other students involved with motor sports spend many hours of their time fixing and preparing these
racing machines for the track. He relishes the opportunity given to him to work with fellow students on the car and then be able to be the one to race it after.
“It helps build teamwork for sure,” Buth said. “It’s really rewarding. I’ve been drag racing since I was 8, and anytime you can put something together and then go actually get to drive it instead of seeing someone else drive it, it’s just really rewarding.”
Some of the other cars that students work on include a 1990 Honda Civic used for student driven autocross events, two more autocross racers that are being built currently and a Bob Pierce UMP Dirt Pro-late model dirt track car.
The latter is not student driven but can be seen at the speedways in Farmer City and Lincoln.
Ross wants all students to share Buth’s rewarding feelings when joining the program.
“We like to talk about ownership. If a student feels they are a part of the process they are much more likely to talk about what they are doing and take pride in that work,” he said.
Once the students have prepared the cars, they are taken down to Coles County Drag Way just outside of Charleston, Ill. It is there that Parkland most often goes to race.
They compete with drag cars from Southern Illinois University, Lakeland and Lincoln Land Community College.
Not just any student can step up and drive the drag car. They must meet certain requirements such as a 3.0 GPA and must have passed multiple stages of car-related tests.
“I had to show them I could do a
burnout, and then slowly work my way up (through those tests),” Buth said.
Aside from just racing, Parkland hosts a free car show annually on the first Saturday of May. This year’s car show takes place May 5 with registration beginning at 10:30 a.m. with show and judging starting at noon.
Registration costs are $10 before the day of, and $15 the day of the show. Anyone who is interested and has a car is encouraged to partake in the event. You may contact Jon Ross at 217-351-2209 for more information.
“The car show has allowed Parkland to involve the community in a great on-campus activity,” Ross said. “While we like to show what we have done, the show is really a great place for the community to gather and see the
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WednesdayMay 5, 2012
Volume 4, Number 18
Your source for Parkland College news, sports, features and opinions.
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Photo by Nick Washington/Prospectus NewsIllinois Secretary of State Jesse White (right) speaks in the Gallery Lounge on Parkland’s campus, Tues. April 24, after being introduced by President Tom Ramage (left). White visited Parkland to cheer on the campus’s month long “Life Goes On” organ/tissue donation campaign and to present the college with a plaque for participating in the newly implemented Community College Organ/Tissue Donor Program.
Parkland awarded for organ donor initiative
Photo by Nick Washington/Prospectus NewsThe Parkland College racecar, The Learning Curve, is a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu with a upgraded 500 horse powered 6.0L GM engine with a TH400 trans and 4.11:1 gear ratio and Moser axle. The racecar is a green machine running on E85 fuel with a fastest run time in a 1/8-mile drag race of 7.04 seconds.
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Photo by Nick Washington/Prospectus NewsParkland student Ashton Guin (left) tallied a total of 186 jumps while faculty member Joe Omo-Osagie (right) finished with 500. The two competed in the Jump Rope for Heart competition in Parkland’s flag lounge on April 25, 2012.
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Photo by Briana Kay Stodden/Prospectus NewsLori Patterson spoke to Parkland students and faculty at the final event in Parkland’s Access Success lecture series held in room C-118 on April 25, 2012. Patterson shared entrepreneurial insight, process and experience in the founding, growth and management of Pixo, an Urbana, based web development firm.
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Kelsey HoseaStaff Writer
The Parkland College Police Department hosted Alcohol Awareness Day on Monday, April 18, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
According to Officer Matt Koppman, this is the third year in a row he has hosted the event. The goal of the event is to spread awareness about underage drinking, its health risks and driving under the influence.
Koppman stated, “My main goal is to reach out to the Parkland students and spread awareness of the risks associated with alcohol consumption and abuse.”
This event was informational to Parkland students, showing them the effects of alcohol consumption on the brain.
Public Safety set up a course for drunk-driving stimulation in the L-Lounge. Public safety took a golf cart and goggles that were rigged to be “drunken goggles” and allowed Parkland Students to experience intoxicated driving.
Parkland student Laura Poitnott said, “It was really interesting. It was blurry and confusing.” when explaining how she felt driving the golf cart “intoxicated.”
Another student, Jimmy Cantull explained, “I thought I was good, but it was really dark and it felt dangerous.”
Not only did Alcohol Awareness Day allow students the experience to understand the unsafe of driving intoxicated, but it taught them the consequences of intoxicated driving.
During the event, in the gallery of C-118, there was also a video shown called “Bombed.” In the video, footage was shown of the effects of drunk driving including footage of someone having their stomach pumped.
In another event, students were able to participate in a computer simulation called “One Simple Decision.” The simulator was much like a driving video game, except that the vehicle was very slow to respond to the driver.
One student sat down and after turning the first corner, immediately slammed into another vehicle. After the car accident, footage was shown from the perspective of the driver of a blurry view of a hospital. In the hospital, nurses are intubating the drunk driver and prepping him for surgery.
Next, a scene was shown of the driver in court. The driver who was intoxicated was sentenced to 1 year in jail. After the footage, Corray explained
to the group of Parkland students that the stimulation changed the outcome based on different circumstances.
For example, rather than showing the intoxicated driver making it out alive, he and the person whom they crashed into could have died or been seriously injured. Furthermore, the sentence given by the judge could have been far more than a year judging by the circumstances.
Parkland student Courtney
Roberts won a raffle for a $50 Wal-Mart gift certificate just for attending the event.
With the help of agencies such as the Community Elements Prevention Department, Community Elements Crisis Line, The Pavilion, Prairie Center Health Systems, Parkland College Wellness Center and Illinois Students Against Destructive Decisions, Officer Koppman and Officer Angela Corray of the Parkland College Police
Department were able to put on Alcohol Awareness Day.
These agencies helped by providing supplies and other helpful resources. The Community Elements Prevention Department facilitated the video in C-118, while the Pavilion provided free alcohol screenings, Illinois SADD provided the DUI simulator and President Ramage provided drunken goggles and a golf cart. Koppman also gave credit to
Champaign Urbana Campus Coalition against drug and alcohol usage in helping to inform Parkland students of alcohol awareness.
Not only was this event beneficial in the way that it informed the Parkland community of alcohol awareness, but it also reached out with an award for those willing to become more aware.
Alcohol Awareness Day held at Parkland
Photo by Matt Crosby/Prospectus NewsPublic Safety Officer Matt Koppman assists a student in driving with “drunk goggles” at Parkland’s annual Alcohol Awareness Day on April 18, 2012.
Michelle MaltaisLos Angeles Times
With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the “clouds” are very terres-trial. What’s more up in the air are the laws that govern who can access your stuff and how.
Originally a way for geeks to explain to the rest of us the notion of remote servers storing and serv-ing up content, cloud computing can be defined several different ways, depending on whom you ask. In some ways, even email is a form of cloud computing. (It really lives on a server somewhere out there and is served up wherever we desire.)
“The problem that cloud comput-ing has, more generally, is that (the real world) assumes that rights are based geographically,” Mark Rad-cliffe, senior partner at law firm DLA Piper, said in an interview with the newspaper. “That assumption is not realistic in the cloud.”
Why? Who knows where the serv-ers really sit? They may be in the United States, governed by American laws. Or they may be across the pond in Europe, where there are rather stringent privacy rules. Regardless of where the company is based, the location of the servers determine in some large part who can legally gain access to the content on them and how.
“The U.S. is more like the Wild West,” Radcliffe said. “It’s very het-erogeneous,” with laws at the fed-eral, state and sometimes the munic-ipal level.
One concern some have expressed online and out loud is how law enforce-ment could gain access to your digital life stored in a cloud.
With a computer in your home,
you’d have to be served a warrant for legal access to your hard drive. But with remote storage, you may not know whether a subpoena or warrant has been served on the cloud service provider.
“Law enforcement can subpoena
the service, but it depends on their contractual obligation,” Radcliffe said. In other words, what they spell out in their terms of service. Always remember, that’s a contract that you agree to by using the service.
Most terms of service include a
clause stating the provider would give up your information if required by law, with no mention of whether it would inform you. Interestingly enough, Dropbox’s Terms of Service says something a little different.
It reads: “To be clear, aside from
the rare exceptions we identify in our Privacy Policy, no matter how the Services change, we won’t share your content with others, including law enforcement, for any purpose unless you direct us to.”
The Dropbox privacy policy sec-tion on compliance with laws and law enforcement does say the company may disclose information it collects when there is a “good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably neces-sary to (a) comply with a law, regula-tion or compulsory legal request; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) pre-vent fraud or abuse of Dropbox or its users; or (d) protect Dropbox’s prop-erty rights.”
But it further states that if you encrypt your stuff before storing it there, the company can’t undo that. Something to keep in mind.
So, the obligation varies by com-pany and the rules vary by jurisdic-tion. That’s a lot of variation to pro-cess.
“The direction I think is most likely is an agreed-upon code of conduct,” Radcliffe said. “We’re urging that right now (and are) working with a number of companies right now to see if we can do that.”
Jeff Fowler, a partner at law firm O’Melveney & Myers, told the news-paper, “We in the law business are always chasing these technological developments.” Until the law catches up, he advised, a consumer really needs to be a good self-advocate, keeping track of terms of service and privacy policies.
“There is no easy way to wrap your arms around a cloud,” Fowler said. “The name is quite fitting. It will require a lot of creative thinking over the next few years.”
---(c)2012 the Los Angeles Times
Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like ‘Wild West’
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It’s easy to say that cumulative testing is a horrible idea, so let’s just get that out of the way first. Cumulative testing is a horrible idea.
“Why?” you ask. Concrete statitistics that support this argument are few and far between, unless there is cumulative database somewhere.
Let’s look at the visual approach. If you look at your calendar, obviously it has 12 months. One third of that calendar is all this information you learn in one single class for the semester.
One class, four months of information. All of which you will be tested on in a two hour period. Never mind the fact that you have other classes, possibly a job and other real life issues to deal with.
Does that seem fair? Suppose you are in a
relationship. What if your
spouse tested you on everything he or she ever told you during the first four months of dating, do you think you would pass? Reminder: you only have two hours. Good luck.
Finals are hard enough as it is. There are more clammy hands, dry throats and nail biting than at an American Idol audition.
Then the test is worth like 93 percent of your grade. It’s like going to court with a textbook. If you fail, prepare to head to the prison of course-retake.
There are some alternative views to cumulative testing that proved to be strong points.
“It matters what you know when you walk out the door. Most of our classes are leading to another class,” Kara Greer, a math professor at Parkland, said.
Her argument in this case is valid. Math and science classes are foundation builders, assuming you are a math or science major. In this case, cumulative testing
is quite necessary to test what you know before you move on because the basic concepts will reappear.
But what if it’s just a general education requirement? Should you suffer the same fate?
Should the knowledge be pounded repeatedly in your head knowing it’s not going to serve any purpose past the test you take?
Society, whether we choose to believe so or not, is based on a ‘what have you done for me lately standard.’ Testing should be the exact same way. What have you taught me lately?
People have a hard enough time recapping the last week of their own life. Regurgitating facts from eons ago is asking a lot.
Debate if you will, or cumulatively gather all the facts from above and accept it as truth.
What do you do to prepare for finals?
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Hilda L. SolisSecretary of Labor
Every day, 12 workers die on the job across America. As the nation’s secretary of labor, I am surrounded by numbers about jobs, the labor market and about the economy more broadly. But the number 12 stays with me. It is a haunting reminder of the hard-working Americans we lose every day, often in the prime of their life, filled with the energy that we need to build a better world.
Sheri Sangji was one of these Americans, so full of promise. She was a 23-year-old research assistant in a lab at the University of California at Los Angeles, looking forward to a career that would allow her to pursue her interests in chemistry, law and the rights of women and immigrants. One day, while performing an experiment with highly reactive chemicals, a flash fire ignited her clothes and skin, causing fatal burns. Sheri had not been properly trained in the handling of the chemical that set off the blaze. I later met her family, a loving and tight-knit group of people. The weight of their loss was nearly unbearable. I think about them every day.
To remember Sheri Sangji and all others who die on the job across our country, we observe Workers Memorial Day every April 28. Today, we remember families who have lost a loved one because of workplace injuries, and we pledge to continue fighting tirelessly to make sure that no worker trades a life for a livelihood.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is the agency in my department that sets and enforces standards that ensure every American comes home at the end of a
shift. In 1970, when President Richard Nixon created the agency, 38 workers died every day.
Forty years later, we have gone from 38 to 12. This decline is the result of people working together, marshalling the combined efforts of private industry, government, trade unions and academia to create safe and healthful workplaces for every worker in America. It shows that it’s possible to save lives through common sense safety and health standards and strong enforcement of the law.
I believe that we can keep doing better. I will not let up until we do.
That’s why this week I announced our new public outreach campaign to educate workers and employers about what they must do to prevent deadly falls in construction. Falls are the leading cause of worker fatalities in the construction industry-a sector that accounts for almost one in every five worker deaths in the country.
No matter how many times I meet with families like the Sangjis, it never gets easier. No words can ever adequately express my sorrow.
Yet the strength of character I witness in almost every one of these meetings inspires me. It renews my passion for standing up for workers every day by leading this department in their honor. Almost universally, the single most important need that these bereaved families express is the goal of preventing another family from going through the same unspeakable suffering.
We are never prepared to say goodbye to the people we love, but we are even less so when we send our loved
Job death decrease still not enough
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ones off for a day’s work. It is our duty to ensure that all workers and employers recognize the need to make safety a priority and to stand behind our firm conviction that workplace injuries and fatalities are entirely preventable.
Today, I appeal to everyone to carry that message to your families and
communities. Speak up about your support for the fundamental right to a safe and healthful workplace. Share your stories.
Finally, take a moment to remember the workers who have been taken from us too soon.
Making a living shouldn’t include dying.
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wonderful cars and trucks from our local community.”
Proceeds from the car show help support the motor sports program activities and supplies.
An enticing aspect for students is the new Applied Technology Center set to officially become open in the fall. The 64,000 square foot building will allow for much more space to work with cars than what is currently available in their small garage.
“We have several classrooms and one large lab space,” Ross said about the new building.
“The industry changes so quickly, we wanted to be sure the space we created could stay as flexible as possible for many years,” he said. “By using the large lab concept we feel we can adapt to the future changes as they come.”
One great feature that the Automotive Technology portion of EST offers for students is a direct transfer agreement with SIU. After two years at Parkland, a student can go to SIU as an Automotive Tech
major and further develop their skills working with cars.
Southern Illinois University is one of just five schools in the entire country that offers a degree in Automotive Technology.
“We generally see as many as five students per year select this option,” Ross pointed out. “Our students have done very well with this education and career track.”
Buth is taking that route and will transfer this coming fall as a major in Automotive Technology after being a Motor Sports major at Parkland.
Buth has seen the benefits of being involved in the program. “I really enjoy being able to get the hands on experience,” he said. “It’s a lot easier when you can actually do it rather than just reading about it.”
Any incoming students that have an interest in cars must work with Ross to set up their schedules. Buth recommends all interested students to give it shot.
“I would definitely come check it out; it’s a great opportunity to learn a lot,” he said. “I’ve learned a ton about the process of putting (cars) together since I’ve come here.”
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The Parkland College Alcohol Awareness Day was a success thanks to you! Congratulations to Courtney Roberts who won the gift card! The Flag Lounge was filled with students operating the DUI simulator and obtaining great information from local businesses and organizations. In the Gallery Lounge, many students attempted to operate the golf cart while wearing the “drunk goggles” safely. It was an exciting way to learn the dangers of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
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Mark RoughtonSports Writer
The spring season for Parkland Cobras golf didn’t start exactly the way they wanted it to. Once the fall season ended in October, the team had five full months between tournaments before the John A. Logan Invitational of the spring season rolled around March 25-26.
The five month absence from tournament golf, combined with the advantage Logan golfers enjoyed while playing on their home course at Kokopelli in Marion, left Parkland with a fifth place finish.
“When we play guys on their courses, scores are going to be more skewed towards them based on the fact they play that course all the time,” Head Coach Zach McNabney said about the opening tournament.
The Cobras fired a 625 team total for the two day event, 45 strokes off the winners from John A. Logan. Freshman David Keenan from Salt Fork led the way for Parkland with a two-day total of 150.
McNabney admits that the long layoff played a role in not seeing the results he and the Cobras hoped for coming into the spring.
“When you don’t play in December, January and February, your short game is going to struggle, your putting is going to struggle,” he said.
The next week at the Webster Gorlock Invite in St. Louis, the Cobras were able to find a
little more consistency, ending with a third place finish out of 14 teams. Keenan, sophomore Lewis Martin, freshmen Dan Patkunas and David Hermes all fired fewer than 160 for their two-day totals.
The week prior, just two Cobras broke the 160 mark. Keenan finished in second alone with 144 while Lewis Martin provided a solid 150 total.
Unfortunately, that momentum did not carry over for Parkland as they finished fourth in a disappointing M-WAC conference meet in Pekin. After being two shots off the pace through the first round, they were unable to make up ground on a surging Illinois Central College and wound up fourth.
The 2012 conference tournament ended Parkland’s three-year run as conference champs. “We didn’t win conference this year for my first time. We kind of faltered and fell back a little bit,” he said.
There was a bright spot to the conference meet as Keenan received second team all conference honors after
finishing six shots off the winner.
Of the 10-man team at Parkland, only the top five players play in the tournaments while the other 5 are left to practice during the course of the season.
“If an individual goes,
they don’t play as the team sport, but they can win the tournament as themselves,” he explained. “For me, that’s a great opportunity to give more guys an opportunity under pressure in competition.”
That player’s scores are only factored into the individual race for medalist honors and not the team honors.
Freshman Jake Walters from Bloomington Central Catholic enjoyed that privilege at the opening John A. Logan Invite firing a two-day total of 159.
Occasionally, those bottom five guys will get their shot at a tournament like their own Parkland Invite over the weekend.
The bottom five also played at Danville in the DACC Invite last fall as well. “The nice part about that it is they have the opportunity to play some collegiate golf,” he said.
Josh Krumwiede, Nate Overman, and Mason Silver saw their first action of the spring last weekend as the only guys yet to crack the top five.
On non-tournament days, the Cobras practice at all three of the private clubs in the C-U area.
Those include Lincolnshire Country Club (Champaign), Champaign Country Club and Urbana Country Club.
Practice is huge for those who don’t have a solidified spot in the top five for a given week because it is imperative they continue to improve and they
also may get their shot to jump into that group.
“Sometimes when we’re on the course we’ll do different sorts of drills and workout things so it’s not always just throwing them out to play,” he said. “I also want to give guys an opportunity to play and qualify for tournaments,
and quite honestly that (practice) is the easiest way to do that.”
Practice aside, the Cobras and McNabney are focused on ending this season on the right note after some early struggles.
“My goal is to get to nationals every year,” he said. “And there’s no reason that I don’t have five guys that can get us there, it’s just they have to
believe they can get there.”McNabney is stressing
to his players to finish each round as strong as you start it in order to give themselves the best shot at getting to the national tournament as a team. The advice he gives his team is simple.
“You’ve got to finish strong, don’t quit,” he said referring to the last few holes of a given round. “You’ve got to play all
18 holes.”The top five that McNabney
decides on for the postseason will be put to that test this coming weekend as Region 24 tournament play is set for Sunday and Monday with a berth at nationals on the line.
(Athletic Director Rod Lovett contributed to this report.)
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From May 7 to June 14, the Parkland Art Gallery will begin the Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried Exhibition. During this exhibition, students will be putting their works on display for a chance to win prizes and to be noticed by businesses and other groups. The event is open to the general public.
This exhibition is very important for the students who participate. In addition to the prizes available, participants gain exposure and add to their portfolios.
According to Parkland Art Gallery Director Lisa Costello, the pieces on display at the exhibition will be quite diverse.
“People who come to see the show should expect a wide variety of design projects,” Costello said. “There are web designs, posters, assignments about typography, map design and types of advertisements like billboards, magazines and signage. Other types of things include business cards, letterhead, menus and even product labeling. Designing Books is another really interesting thing to take a look at. We even have some of the books for sale. The proceeds go to graphic design awards for next year.”
According to Parkland’s Graphic Design website, some of the categories being awarded for are the Graphic Design Best in Show, the President’s Award in Excellence, the Davis Award for Outstanding Talent, the McGown Photography Award of Excellence, the David M. and Shirley A. Jones Student
Art Award along with many others.
These awards will be presented on May 10 during the opening night reception, which will include food, drinks and musical entertainment. Winners will receive an award of $100.
The judges for the show will
be John Bonadies and Matt Sharkey. More information about this exhibition can be found at gds.parkland.edu/exhibition/2012. Information is also available in the News & Events section of the Parkland College website.
The Parkland Guitar Ensemble will perform the
music for the opening. On Wednesday, June 13,
there will be a gallery talk with Professor of Graphic Design Paul Young. Young believes this event has been very important to past entrants.
“Both the winners and the participants have done very well,” Paul said. “All the work
in the gallery are portfolio samples that the students will eventually include in their own portfolio when they start interviewing. Because our graphic design program is focused on practical portfolio building projects, our students end up with very marketable portfolios and they do quite
well as professionals.”More information for this
and other events related to the art department can be found at gds.parkland.edu, artgallery.parkland.edu and the News & Events section of the Parkland College website.
Art Gallery to host graphic design student exhibition
Photo by Briana Kay Stodden/Prospectus NewsParkland faculty and students walk by the closed Art Gallery on May 1, 2012, while people inside work in transitioning the space to feature the upcoming Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried Exhibition.