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The face of the future: rising enrollment brings hope to RCC

The swelling enrollment rates means many new faces at RCC, and the fastest-growing demographic is returning adults with a renewed sense of direction

By Amy LaPerle
Byline Staff

Do you need a new beginning?

With enrollment up 29 percent from last year, RCC has become a hot-spot for locals in search of a place to set their dreams in motion.

For the last seven years Reggie Jones, 47, has owned a small detailing business for commercial vehicles. Unfortunately the business went under.

“There’s already many people with a lot of skill and experience but in this economy you need a more skilled trade,” Jones said. “The more schooling you have the better off you are.

Since Jones got out of high school, he attended college off and on, but because the economy is in a shambles he is thinking he will need a specialized skill, and a degree to back it up.

H1N1 adviser: “It’s appropriate to be concerned”

Using hand sanitizers is recommended by RCC (Photo by Kassidy Scheppler)

Byline Staff

The H1N1 virus – more commonly known as swine flu – has struck the Rogue Valley, and Rogue Community College wants its staff and students to use common sense precautions to protect themselves and their families.

“It’s appropriate to be concerned, this is a pandemic and it’s a widespread new virus,” said Dr. Steve Wells, a Family Physician of La Clinica and a member of the H1N1 Jackson County Medical Advisory Committee to the Health Department. “Those born after 1959 have no natural immunity.”

Open wide: new Riverside dental lab is state-of-the-art

One of six new dental chairs at Riverside (photo by Kassidy Scheppler)

By Kassidy Scheppler
Byline Staff

Rogue Community College has new state of the art equipment for the Dental Assisting program located in Room 22 of Building A on Riverside campus.

“The new lab is fantastic,” said lead dental instructor Robert Felthousen in an RCC press release. “Now we will be able to cover many more procedures and concepts and provide more hands-on learning.”

RCC seeks green certification for hi-tech HEC

By Ladislay Castillo
Byline Staff

By now you may have noticed the installation of a multitude of solar panels on top of the Higher Education Center at the Riverside campus.

According to Peter Angstadt, President of Rogue Community College, “The solar panels were primarily an SOU project but when we initially heard about the project we thought it was a good idea.”

FILM REVIEW: “Where the Wild Things Are” (2009)

By Elijah Sullivan

Byline Staff

Poor children. Look at the garbage we make them watch.

No commercial motion picture is as contrived as what Hollywood produces for the child market. The role of children’s stories has always been functional. The purpose is to shut the brat up. From Grimm’s Faerie Tales to Walt Disney animations, the product is not about pleasing kids: it’s about pleasing adults.

Which is why Where the Wild Things Are may be the only good children’s film ever made.

Debit this: No more headaches with 2010 cards

By Kassidy Scheppler

Byline Staff

No more waiting for the checks to come in the mail. Beginning this January, students will receive Rogue Debit Cards for quick and easy access to their Financial Aid money.

Rogue Community College has partnered with Higher One program for fast and easy student refunds. According to a press release, RCC is the fifth college in the state of Oregon to partner with Higher One.

RCC: Late applicants must wait for aid

By Elijah Sullivan

Byline Staff

Rogue Community College was unprepared for an unexpected surge in enrollment, leaving many late financial aid applications buried under a mountain of paperwork that may prevent some students from receiving money until January.

“We’ve pulled staff from other departments, and volunteers worked a lot of overtime,” said Anna Manley, head of RCC’s Financial Aid department.

NEWS: RCC to turn Mattress Land into theater

By Marissa Woltanski

Byline Staff

RCC voted in September to purchase the building on the corner of 8th and Front Street in Medford that currently houses RCC’s F Building and Mattress Land, according to Chief Financial Officer and Dean of College Services Lynda Warren.

FEATURE: Will sports ever come to RCC?

By Kassidy Scheppler

Byline Staff

Can you envision the RCC Osprey mascot finally put to use – running up and down the sidelines of a football game?

Students and community members have often speculated about the introduction of an intercollegiate sports program at RCC, lending much-needed enthusiasm and unity to campus life.