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Basketball players make history
St. Louis Community College is sending two basketball players off to Division I programs in the same year for the first time since 1980. Cortez Conners, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard from Forest Park, and Randy Reed II, a 6-foot-6 sophomore guard from the Meramec campus, made the National Junior College Athletic Association men’s basketball Region XVI first team. […]
Interim vice president fills the void
Deborah Carter has built a career in education following the philosophy of the artist Michelangelo, who said, “I am still learning.” “This is a very simple but powerful statement,” she said. “Education is a lifetime endeavor. Everyone should approach life with an open, eager, curious mind and take advantage of all opportunities to learn and grow.” […]
Students to create 1,000 cups for art fair
People at the St. Louis Art Fair can enjoy their coffee in handmade cups again this year, courtesy of St. Louis Community College. Ceramics students and faculty from across the district will make more than 1,000 cups to give away to people who visit the college’s booth during the Sept. 5-7 fair in downtown Clayton. […]
Defending soccer champs lose elite coach, players
The Lady Archers will begin soccer season without accomplished Head Coach Juergen Huettner for the first time since in six years. He’s taking over the Blue Storm women’s soccer program at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville this fall, and several St. Louis Community College players are going with him. […]
SPEAKING OUT: If you see bullying, do something
“She’s stupid!” That’s what a student yelled after I gave an incorrect answer in my middle-school math class. It was embarrassing. Later that day, I was walking down the hall with an armload of books, and another student shoved me into a locker. It hurt. My school counselor told me I was a victim of bullying. I didn’t realize that’s what was happening at the time, but kids picked on me throughout middle school. Some days I felt hopeless, and other days I was sad. […]
JUST SAYIN’: Changing TV channels was a childhood chore
I’ve been around for a while. Better than half a century. And I’ve done a lot of interesting things in my life. In no particular order, my “titles” have included photographer, lifeguard, soldier, medic, living organ donor, published poet, illustrator, surveyor, inspector, cardboard factory worker, sewer plant employee and pipefitter. I’m a son, a father, a husband, a divorcee, an athlete, a carpenter and a gas-station attendant. […]