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Last Updated 12/04/2005




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Emergency Incident Management Along the Front Range
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series on emergency management (EM) in Colorado Springs and adjacent counties. For contextual purposes this article describes a hypothetically severe “incident,” a snowstorm of a size never before experienced in eastern Colorado. Subsequent articles will outline the EM resources in the region that would respond to an incident of similar magnitude....more

He Dreamed of Being a Pilot, but Garcia Soared to PPCC President
A little boy dreams of flying a plane. Not just any plane, anywhere; a plane in the Alaskan wilderness. This boy’s military family resided in that frigid state for a season. Even now, more than 35 years later, if he could do anything else in the world and be successful at it, he’d be a bush pilot. Attracted by the solitude, the open spaces and the sheer beauty of it all, the thought still compels his heart. Now, in his mid-forties, Garcia has surrounded himself by meeting with students, staff and prominent figures of society on a regular basis. His life is crunched with appointments, conferences, speeches to give, lunch engagements, and time with his family....more

Leadership Conference Helps SG Officers
Mike Reyes, Vice President of PPCC Student Government, discusses the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) conference held earlier this semester in Salt Lake City. ...more
Registration a Positive Experience

Every PPCCstudent has had to endure the process of enrollment and registration. Some may have found the process easy and some may have found it difficult and frustrating, so we set out to find out how the students of PPCC felt about their experience..
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WI-FI for All Three PPCC Capmuses
Cyrille Parent, director of Information Technology at PPCC, presented a comprehensive plan to Student Government for a wireless Internet hub at all three campuses. All hardware will be supplied by CISCO with the first hub installed in the new Student Center. If funding is approved, installment could go as early as the Center opens....more

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