Authors inspire, educate youths
Assistant communications professor Tiffany Lee has great admiration for the Rev. Joseph Brown, a Jesuit priest […]
Month: March 2017
FLIP SIDE: Religion can be a matrix of choices
When I was little, I asked my dad, “Do you believe in God?” He said, “No, we are atheists.” Coming from communist states Russia and Poland, atheism is all he knew. Nevertheless, when I started kindergarten at a public school in Ohio, my parents sent me to an orthodox Jewish synagogue for Sunday school […]
Turnaround season ends with tourney loss
Veteran coach Terry Collins has gotten the St. Louis Community College’s men basketball team back […]
Women fall short in 2nd round of nationals
The St. Louis Community College women’s basketball team was short on depth but long on tenacity, and the team steeled itself for a successful season in part by practicing against men. After a 21-8 regular season, coach Shelly Ethridge’s team showed its grit by winning the Region 16 tournament […]
College to eliminate P.E. requirement
Most future students at St. Louis Community College won’t have to take the two credits of physical education that are required of current students. The STLCC Board of Trustees recently voted 4-3 to make the change, based on a proposal from the College Academic Council and a task force that included faculty members. […]
Faculty exhibit runs through March 30
Decompositional Maelstrom # 27” is one of the most striking pieces of artwork in the annual Forest Park Faculty Exhibition. The sculpture is a three-dimensional collage of ceramic pieces, everything from a salt shaker to a light bulb, a coffee mug to tiny human figures. […]
College commemorates 1917 race riots
Photography major Kathy Carr had no idea that East St. Louis was the site of bloody race riots in 1917. “It was horrific, tragic and unthinkable that innocent people were killed for no reason,” she said. Carr, 46, was one of about 200 people who attended a Jan. 23 program that commemorated the 100th anniversary of the riots. […]
Graphic communications returning to Forest Park
Students and faculty are thrilled that the full graphic communications program is returning to Forest Park after a four-year hiatus. Many students have been forced to travel to the Meramec and Florissant Valley campuses of St. Louis Community College to take advanced classes since Forest Park phased out the program in the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013. […]
