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I’m originally from Kansas, born and raised, but I moved to Colorado Springs for Olympic weightlifting. I now live at the Olympic Training Center and attend PPCC, studying culinary arts in hopes that one day I’ll be a certified baker.
Each competition I go to involves two lifts: snatch and the clean and jerk...more
Dr. Tony Kinkel took over the position of PPCC President last week. He follows in the footsteps of former PPCC President, Joseph A. Garcia, who recently took a position as the president of CSU-Pueblo.
Dr. Kinkel said his reason for coming here was “the community of Colorado springs is one of the finest communities in the U.S. PPCC as a part of this community is recognized nationally as one of the finest community colleges. When you get the opportunity to work with the best, you take it,” said Dr. Kinkel on Thursday...more
On Wednesday, March 7th, Ronda Burkhart’s Cultural Anthropology class came together bearing food, stories, and family traditions. The premise behind Burkhart’s Folk Feast is to create an atmosphere in which a class of anthropology students can learn about each other and about the cosmopolitan mix of cultures that make up modern American society, as it is represented in southern Colorado. The eclectic collection of food covered the full spectrum of taste and type. There was coffee and fried chicken, smoked salmon and date pudding, and even a strange Icelandic dish called Gestarettur...more
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The beautiful sunny days are appearing more frequently, and so is the cigarette smoke in the air. The signs around the school say, “No Smoking Beyond This Point” and once you walk pass that point you see “Thank You For Not Smoking”. But are students following the signs? Take a walk outside and look down. The evidence is everywhere on the ground. The college does its best to keep the areas clean, but the smokers out number the maintenance crew...more
What is your opinion on the smoking ban that recently passed?
Photos and interviews by Matthew Roland
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“It doesn’t really bother me. It’s a better idea for those who don’t smoke. I can just step outside if I want to smoke.”
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“I don’t like it. One side’s rights are more valued than the other side’s.” |
“I’m pro smoking ban. It makes waitressing much easier.”
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“I don’t agree with it. Everyone should have the right to smoke or not to smoke. If I’m outside smoking, and someone decides to stand a foot away from me, that’s their fault.”
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The average person, at their highest academic point of knowledge
scores around 100 when taking an I.Q. test. Most people don’t know where on the scale they score, because most people have never been tested. I.Q. actually means Intelligence quotient. The actual scale itself is between 60 and 140, with the numbers above or below being extremely rare. 60 is the low point and 140 is the high point...more
Wouldn't You Know?
Farfetched? Of course. But the wonderful computer in your head, your brain, is a wrinkled miracle. The adult human brain weighs about a mere 3 pounds, but if you were able to unravel all of its nerve cells and string them out, you'd have a path that could stretch from the earth to the moon! All these nerve cells enable our brain to receive around ten million separate signals from our senses every second, and then it must decide which are important and what we should do about them.
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