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Two Bruins move on to professional baseball

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With the 2014 MLB First Year Player Draft now complete and players reporting for camp, two former Bruins have found a home with an MLB club.

Both picked up by the Chicago White Sox, pitcher Tanner Banks was selected in the 18thround of the MLB Draft while infielder Eddy Alvarez signed a free-agent contract with the club.

Tanner Banks

Banks was drafted out of the University of Utah where he pitched the past two seasons for the Utes following the 2011 and 2012 seasons for the Bruins. This past season for the Utes he made 18 appearances including eight starts leading to 52 innings pitched. He was third on the club in strikeouts with 39 and did not commit an error in the field.

While at SLCC, he recorded an unblemished record of 16-0 in 38 appearances and 16 starts. In 112.2 career innings pitched, Banks racked up 106 strikeouts opposed to 50 walks and only gave up 15 extra base hits in 417 batters faced.

Eddy Alvarez

Alvarez played the 2011 season for the Bruins before solely focusing on speed skating where he was a member of the United States speed skating team in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. During his lone season, Alvarez made 63 starts at shortstop while hitting .311. Leading the team with 16 doubles that season; he also drove in 46 runs while scoring 45 runs.

Noche Flamenca

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Presented by: Tablado Dance Company y Pasion Flamenca

Friday, July 18, 2014
7pm
Taylorsville-Redwood Campus
Student Event Center

Free to Everyone

Sponsored by:
Academic and Career Advising
Peer Mentoring Program, "Una Mano Amiga"

Co-Sponsored by: SLCC Staff Association


Summer Course Evaluations 2014

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Students, get online and complete your course evaluations!

Starts at 8 am on July 21 - Ends at 8 am on August 12 

The information you provide:

- Helps improve the quality of instruction and instructors
- Provides feedback to fellow students on instructors and classes
- Provides feedback to help instructors improve their classes
- May be used to retrain good instructors

Instructions on accessing your course evaluations:

Log Into MyPage:
- Student tab
- Online Course Evaluation
-  Course Evaluations Click Here

Faculty: 
Announce in your classes and encourage student participation. 

Questions? Contact Melba Taylor 801-957-4110 or melba.taylor@slcc.edu


Course Evaluations are completely anonymous! Your name or personal identifying information is NOT REQUIRED to anyone (including instructors). It is simply logged in the system to indicate that you completed your evaluations

SLCC, KRCL host free live music, charity shoe drive

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Salt Lake Community College and KRCL are hosting The Bearfoot Fest July 17, 4-8 p.m. at the College’s South City Campus, 1575 S. State Street, in Salt Lake City.

Featured groups performing live music are Great Interstate, Parachutes, Band on the Moon and Salt Lake Pops Quartet. Organizers are also holding a charity shoe drive. Admission is free and food will be available.

SLCC will also be offering tours of its new state-of-the-art Center for Arts and Media.


The festival will take place on the northeast corner of the campus in the East Fountain Courtyard. Parking for the event can be accessed from State Street off of Kensington Avenue and 200 East.

SLCC, KRCL host free live music, charity shoe drive

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Salt Lake Community College and KRCL hosted the first annual Bearfoot Fest July 17 at the College’s South City Campus. In addition to free live music, volunteers had games and activities for the whole family, and a mobile restaurant sold wood-fired pizzas and drinks.

Salt Lake Pops Quartet

Featured bands included Great Interstate, Parachutes, Band on the Moon and Salt Lake Pops Quartet. SLCC organizers also held a charity shoe drive in conjunction with the event and offered tours of the College's new state-of-the-art Center for Arts and Media.


Eliza Filippi  (l-r), Cierra Cleveland and Tyra Carr


Illustrator Eleora Nelson draws a band member


SLCC Summer Spirit Band playing float preview, Days of ’47 Parade

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Fans of Salt Lake Community College Summer Spirit Band will have two chances to hear the band play this week: once during the annual Days of ’47 Parade on July 24, and at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy at 6 p.m. the night before the parade.

The 40-member band will play at the Expo Center during a special float preview exhibition. The following day they are entry #23 in the parade held every Pioneer Day in Utah.

Not your typical military-precision marching band, Summer Spirit is fun-focused, playing fan favorites that span several decades and genres. Band Director Craig Ferrin continued the annual tradition of taking his group into neighborhoods around SLCC’s South City Campus for impromptu concerts as a means of preparation for the big parade and engaging with the community.


The band is playing in nine parades and shows this summer, including the Days of ’47 parade, which draws more than one million to their televisions and the streets of Salt Lake City. The parade starts at 9 a.m. on South Temple and State Street, then heads south on 200 East before ending at Liberty Park off of 900 South and 600 East.

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Markosian Library July 2014

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Everyone has a few skeletons in the back of their closet, right? Even the Markosian Library has a couple, except we keep ours on display. Meet Max and Sam, the library skeletons.


You can check these lovely bones out for a library study date.  All you need is your OneCard and you can borrow either one for up to four hours. You just have to stay in the building with them. This goes for the other models we have too, like the eye, the kidney, the arm muscle and many more. So just pop on over and see what the Redwood library has to offer you.
If you have any questions, call the Circulation Desk at 801-957-4602

SLCC project home wins Parade of Homes awards

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A home called “The Graduate,” built by Salt Lake Community College construction trades students, won two awards in the Salt Lake Homebuilders Association’s recent Salt Lake Parade of Homes.



The 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Herriman Towne Center won the Best In Category award for homes in the $250,000-$350,000 price range, beating out four other homes in the Salt Lake Valley.

“The award speaks to the quality of our programs and the expertise of our faculty in helping students learn the construction trades,” said Ralph Tasker, SLCC trades programming manager.



The Energy Star home also won a blue ribbon for having the best cabinets, which were made of cherry wood and built by students under the careful direction of SLCC instructor Chaid Fail. Tasker said about 75-80 percent of the 3,000-square-foot home was constructed and finished entirely by students, except for the foundation, sheetrock and painting.



The last time SLCC entered a home into a Parade of Homes was in 2002. SLCC construction trades students build one project home each year. Student construction efforts on “The Graduate” began in August 2013 and concluded by summer 2014. Any profits from the sale of the home, which is currently on the market for $340,000, will be put back into the construction trades program for use in future student project homes.

SLCC and Make-A-Wish Utah surprise boy at 'project house'

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A new home built in Herriman Towne Center was more than a project to help construction trades students from Salt Lake Community College gain valuable experience. It has been fully furnished during a staging to show off the home, which is currently for sale.




But one of the rooms in the home was decorated in honor of a 6-year-old boy who has muscular dystrophy. Make-A-Wish Utah previously sent the boy and his family to Disney World. Dovetailing off of that experience, one of the bedrooms on the main level was outfitted with toys and decorations with a Disney theme.




That room was revealed to the boy, named Max, on Aug. 12. Max was allowed to keep several items in the room as gifts, among them a small guitar that he held on to and played with while looking wide-eyed around a room full of toys. He was also given a few items bearing the SLCC and Bruins logos.

SLCC helicopter pilot student helps save family after plane crash

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Steven Sedlacek was unconscious in the pilot seat of a small plane that, after crashing in a West Jordan soccer field, was smoking and about to catch fire when Utah Army National Guard S.Sgt. Robert Kelley approached.

Sedlacek’s wife Kathleen was, as Kelley described it, conscious but “out of it” in the passenger seat next to her husband. And their daughter, Anna Looper, was in the back shaken and in obvious pain.

Kelley, who this fall will finish his education at Salt Lake Community College toward becoming a professional helicopter pilot, was one of the first few people to reach the scene this past Sunday.

His training in the military and experiences serving in Iraq and Afghanistan told him that he had to remain calm, focus and help the family out of the plane, or they might die.

Salt Lake Community College student Robert Kelley

Kelley, 29, was born and raised in Park City. He tried college when he was 20, but just wasn’t ready. He joined the Utah Guard and has since had four deployments, including Hurricane Katrina, the border of Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan.

His specialty overseas as a combat engineer has been to search out improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ahead of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. In Afghanistan his unit was in a “ton” of firefights. While in Iraq he earned a Purple Heart for injuries he sustained when his truck hit a landmine, exploding directly underneath where he was sitting.

Kelley has “good and bad” days after enduring a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during the explosion that hit his truck in Iraq. He is an instructor for the Utah Guard’s 640th Regiment Regional Training Institute (RTI) at Camp Williams.

Kelley, who lives in West Jordan, was dressed in his military fatigues and on his way to work at the Utah Guard RTI on August 10 when he was at a stoplight near South Valley Regional Airport, located at 7365 S. 4570 West. He noticed a small plane taking off but having trouble as it banked left while the plane’s landing gear came down.

“As soon as he did that, I knew he was going down,” Kelley said.

Robert Kelley

He gunned the gas on his own vehicle at the quiet intersection, running the stoplight, and sped out on to a nearby soccer field where the plane crashed. He was put on hold with 911, “Which I thought was funny on a Sunday morning,” as he neared the crash site. Kelley could see smoke already coming from the engine.

Still on the phone with 911, Kelley calmly assessed the scene as the dispatcher told him to wait for emergency responders.

“I told myself, ‘I don’t care, I’m going in anyway,’” said Kelley, whose adrenaline and instincts began to kick in.

He unbuckled Kathleen Sedlacek from her seat, pulled her out and carried her to safety.

Kelley opened a back door to the plane and asked the daughter, Anna Looper, if she could get out on her own.

“I said, ‘Come to me,’ but as soon as she took one step she collapsed,” Kelley said. So, he and another rescuer helped pull the woman out of and away from the plane, with an engine now in flames, in the green grass of the soccer field.

He ran back to the plane to help rescue the unconscious father, Steven Sedlacek.

“By this time the flames were getting bigger and bigger, almost to the cabin of the plane,” Kelley recalled.

With help from another rescuer, he pulled Sedlacek from the plane within seconds, Kelley noted, of the cabin becoming engulfed in flames.

“It was just perfect timing,” Kelley said.

Police arrived next, and then firefighters. Kelley pounded an energy drink he had in his car, knowing he’d experience an “adrenaline dump” in the coming minutes.

Life this past week hasn’t been quite the same, with local and national media calling him for interviews. He’s being called a “hero.” The Army has put in for a Utah Cross award for Kelley.

“My phone has been ringing off the hook with people wanting to talk to me,” he said.

In the days that followed the crash, Kelley visited each family member, very much alive and healing, in the hospital.

First, Mom.

“She didn’t recognize me at first because I was in my civilian clothes,” he said. “She started crying and was so excited to see me.”

Daughter.

“As soon as I walked in the door she started crying,” Kelley said.

The father was still in an Intensive Care Unit with a tube down his throat, but he could write – and with a sense of humor mixed with tears in his eyes.

“He wrote, ‘No more flying,’” Kelley said. “Everyone kind of chuckled.”

Kelley, however, has not changed his flight plan.

“That’s the risk you take when becoming a pilot,” he said about crashes.

Kelley is focused on finishing at SLCC with an associate degree in the Aerospace/Aviation Technology program’s rotor wing professional pilot track. He hopes of someday becoming a pilot for a search and rescue outfit or a hospital’s emergency medical unit.



SLCC film student gets grant to document ‘coverage gap’

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Salt Lake Community College film student Paul Gibbs rattled a few cages with the documentary “Entitled to Life,” which looked at the lives of six Utahns who fall into a “coverage gap” by not qualifying for Medicaid or subsidized insurance.

Courtesy photo - Paul Gibbs

Gibbs, 39, pursuing a film production degree at SLCC’s Center for Arts and Media, recently received a grant from MoveOn.org to fund another similar project that will examine the coverage gap in two other states. He said he plans to start production for that project around Labor Day.

In June Gibbs wrote a letter that appeared in a Utah daily newspaper, chastising Utah lawmakers for not responding to emails asking them to view “Entitled to Life.”

“Sadly, our Legislature seems determined to shut out the poor people of Utah who want to speak up and share their stories,” Gibbs wrote in his letter. “For many, the decision of whether or not to accept Gov. (Gary) Herbert’s Healthy Utah plan will determine whether they live or die, and they deserve to have their voices heard.”

After the letter, Gibbs was invited by the Legislature’s Health Reform Task Force in July to show portions of his film to legislators at the group’s meeting. He said afterward that lawmakers still seem resistant to implementing Herbert’s plan, but that if the film didn’t actually sway a few opinions it at least made them more aware of the coverage gap’s impact on actual people.

“I think that it went well,” Gibbs said about showing the film to Utah lawmakers. “They listened and paid attention.”

Gibbs’ film “Entitled to Live” debuted in June at Broadway Centre Cinemas and is currently available to view on YouTube, where it has been played more than 2,000 times. Voices for Utah Children and Utah Healthy Policy Project have been promoting the film and its stories toward changing lawmakers’ minds.

Beautiful first day of class at Taylorsville Redwood Campus!

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The rains came and went overnight, making way for a picture-perfect first day of class. Here we go.


Convocation 2014: Here we go.

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Scenes from the 2014 Convocation held at SLCC's Taylorsville Redwood Campus.

Food trucks lined the sidewalks!

Ready? Set. Here we go.

Even Odie was into it.

SLCC student body officers are ready!

Chad Erekson was ready to eat his Korean BBQ.

Some added a little spice to the event!

Some made dining by the Chow Truck a social affair.

A sweet time was had by all.

Artist brings creativity to the look of SLCC messaging

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As seen in the "You Know Us" Convocation video.

When you see Amber Giles standing while working at her desk, you might notice a wire coming from one ear and the fact that she’s probably not standing still.

If you’re in a meeting with Giles, you’ll see her doodling, which actually means she’s paying attention.

And if you followed her around after she leaves work at Salt Lake Community College as a digital designer, you’d see her painting with acrylics or putting on ballet shoes in a dance studio or you’d hear her singing, playing the piano or violin.

It all helps paint a portrait of a creative person whose job it is to ‘get the word out,’ so to speak.

“If I don’t do my job, nobody knows about anything,” Giles laughs.



As a designer in the Marketing and Communications Department at SLCC, a place she considers a second home, Giles assembles emails that go out to staff, faculty and students, incorporating words and images in a way that hopefully compel and catch the eye.

“People will see them and will be like, ‘Oh, did you send that out?’” she said about the visual impression her work leaves on readers. “People will say, ‘I really like how that was organized.’”

She also helps maintain the look of the College’s web site and designs flyers, postcards and posters that are displayed throughout SLCC’s multiple campuses.

Giles, 25, earned an associate degree in Graphic Design from SLCC and is working toward a bachelor degree. That academic path started with one web design class in high school.

“And it was something I liked to do,” she said. “I think it’s like a mental thing. When I design something, I don’t focus on the design. My mind wanders, so I can just come up with something. It’s not a structured process. It’s just whatever happens, happens.”

And in the seven years she’s been working at SLCC, Giles has been quietly gaining a reputation for doing her job well and for being a go-to problem solver, kind of like a techno wizard.

“I don’t know where I get that from,” she said.

Maybe, she added, it comes from being the youngest of eight children in a house with two volunteer-minded parents, who both still work at SLCC and did while Giles was growing up in a home two minutes from campus. Her mastery of all things technical around the office – and willingness to share that knowledge – is an example of how she describes herself: equal parts right and left brained. The right side takes over when it’s time to dance.

“When I walk through the doors of the studio, everything else just goes away,” she said. “I can’t explain it. It’s something that comes very naturally to me.”



She’s a ballerina, who also happens to play soccer and, especially during World Cup action, can be seen glued to a TV for all of the action – no doubt with one or both legs jumping.

“I like to move,” she said.

And sing. Doodle. Dance.


And, to the benefit of SLCC, create.

Ball in the House vocalists welcome SLCC students

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The "Pop-A-Capella" group Ball in the House performed Wednesday at Salt Lake Community College's Jordan Campus and Thursday at South City Campus. They will be appearing Friday, 11:30 a.m., at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus' Student Center west patio.


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SLCC names Nancy Michalko to top development post

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Salt Lake Community College has named Nancy Michalko as the school’s new executive director of development. Michalko will head SLCC’s fundraising efforts, benefitting areas like scholarships and facilities.

“Nancy joins SLCC with deep development experience and an attitude of excellence,” said SLCC vice president of institutional advancement Alison McFarlane. “She is poised to engage the College's present and future donors and move the College's development office to new heights.”

Michalko brings to the job 27 years of development experience that includes posts at Westminster College, State University of New York and Yale University. Most recently she was the scholarship advisor for Park City High School, during which time she steered many students to a successful start in college at SLCC.



“There’s no question that every single person I ask about Salt Lake Community College talks about the quality of the professors and teachers and their love for the teachers they’ve had here,” Michalko said. “They make personal relationships with these kids. So, that’s been very impressive.”

Michalko is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University with a bachelor degree in public relations and marketing. A native of West Virginia, Michalko is a member of Council for Advancement and Support of Education and is a past president of the Utah Society of Fund Raisers. She and her husband have two children, one of whom graduated from SLCC and then from the University of Utah with a double major.

Hypnotist and comedian Chris Jones performing at Taylorsville Redwood Campus

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Hypnotist and comedian Chris Jones will be performing August 28, 7 p.m. at the Salt Lake Community College Student Event Center on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Jones has performed at colleges all over the country and offers "a performance unlike any other."



Problem solver ‘making things happen’ at SLCC’s South City Campus

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In the Salt Lake Community College staff directory Amir Sadeghi’s title is listed as “specialist,” which doesn’t quite capture what he does at South City Campus.

But even Sadeghi isn’t sure how to frame his job description.

For example, his cell phone rings on Wednesday afternoon in June. It’s someone who needs access to a walk-in cooler to store food for an event that night. At other events he might need to find someone to set up tables and chairs or, in lieu of available laborers, he’ll do it himself.


Sadeghi settles on “event management” as a catch-all for what he does, which includes being in on security issues and making sure event planners follow rules set in place by the College.

“I make sure all the events pretty much follow regulations and make sure they have what they need for a successful event,” he said. “A little keeping in line and making things happen.”

So, anyone who has planned or worked on an event at South City Campus over the past year has worked with Sadeghi, who has a knack for carving away the fat of any situation and getting to the meat of the matter. It’s an approach that might be a refreshing addition to, say, politics – that is, if he had the stomach for it.

“I do not like politics. I don’t trust politicians,” he said. “Anyone who speaks a lawyer’s language, I do not trust.”

Sadeghi doesn’t hold anything against lawyers doing their job, it’s the language they use that seems to permeate too many discussions between elected officials that runs counter to how he likes to communicate.

“I’m a very straight-forward person,” he said. “I like to get to the point and solve the problem. I don’t like to play games and beat around the bush.”



So, politics are out as a future career path for this student at SLCC, where he is studying to earn an associate degree before moving on toward a degree in mathematics.

“I’ll get my math degree and see where it takes me from there,” he said. “I’ll always try to work on (creating) opportunities, and when doors open I’ll work through them – but I won’t jump.”

Thoughtful and methodical are two words that describe the man who spent six years of his childhood in Iran, his father’s birthplace and current home. Sadeghi’s mother is from Peru, where he traveled recently for five weeks.

“I’m going there for myself,” he said before embarking on the trip to Peru. He said he wanted to see a lot of sunrises and enjoy the trip without worrying about taking photos all the time or sharing it all on social media, as is the trend these days.

At home he likes to play soccer with his cousins and friends. Or, if you’re walking down a certain street in downtown Salt Lake City, you might hear him relaxing in his apartment while playing flamenco-style music on his classical guitar.

“I play for myself,” he said. “I don’t pick it up to try and please anyone. I just go to that little relaxing place, get away from the world, even if you’re on a busy street.”

But he does please people at work, where he started as a cashier and flexed his customer services muscles – revealing a rare quasi-boast from him.

“I did love the cashiering job simply because of the interaction I had with students,” he said. “I was good at it. I have natural customer service skills.”

He was a cashier for about 18 months before being encouraged to take on his current position.

“I think I’ve made people pretty happy so far – and I’m still here,” he said. “People tell me thank you and I help them out a lot, and they’re grateful.”

Sadeghi has never been a “money guy,” preferring a simpler life, happy to accept a simple and humble ‘Thank you’ from those he helps. But he spends the gratitude as soon as he receives it.

“I don’t carry it,” he said. “I enjoy the moment and I let it sit there. I don’t take it with me, because you have to take one challenge at a time. If you carry that with you, it makes you too cocky.”

The word “simple” keeps popping up in a conversation with Sadeghi, who notes that he’s an “open book.” Again, it’s refreshing.


“I’m a very simple person,” he said. “If something doesn’t need to be said, I keep it to myself.”

Alternative Fall Break 2014

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October 16-18

Service Opportunities

Utahns Against Hunger/Real Food Rising
Urban Farm, 1050 W 500 S, SLC

Salt Lake Community Action Program/Meals on Wheels
Wheeler Farm Cove, 900 E 6185 S, Murray

Utah Food Bank
3150 S 900 W, Salt Lake City

Interested students must attend one of the following mandatory orientations:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus, STC Rm 050
Mon. September 8, 10:30 am or 3:30 pm
Thurs. September 11, 11 am
Mon. September 15 or Tuesday, Sept 16, 5:30 pm

Jordan Campus, Student Pavillon Rm 206
Tues. September 9, 3:30 pm

South City Campus, Alumni Room 1-147
Wed. September 10, 1:30 or 2:30 pm

Applications are accepted September 17-24, 2014.

For more information: www.slcc.edu/thaynecenter
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