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Puma Press Editor
Ron Sanzone
Fine Arts Editor
Vickie Preobrazhenska
Features Editor
Chelly Brown
Photo Editor
Amanda Jaskulski
Copy Editor
Ben Moreno
Fringe Editor
Sean McDaniel
Graphic Support
Stephen Loftus
Charity Williamson
Community Editor
Janice Semmel
Sports Editor
Kevin McGuire
Foods Editor
Joe Daigneault
Profiles Editor
Roman Khomautinnikov
News Editor
Megan Thornton
Religion Editor
Sara Sloan
Wellness Editor
Wendy Reece
Staff Writers
David Mayer
KennethLesinski
Jon Brill
Max Hazell
Beverly Brewerkarpinski
Adam Gaines
Sandra Hoopes
Kimberly Ruff
Kyle Huckins
Michael Pritsos
Christopher Toledo
Travis Gishie
Faculty Advisor
Judy Galbraith
The Puma Press is a student newspaper published by Paradise Valley Community College. It is distributed among the college's approximately 7,000 students. For advertising information or to learn how to join the staff, call 602-787-6772 or email:
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| Islamic feminist visits PVCC as Fulbright scholar
Ron Sanzone
Editor-in-chief
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| Dr. Zahra Tamouh is a renowned scholar and Muslim reformer in her native Morocco. |
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For the first time in its history, PVCC is hosting a Fulbright Scholar in Residence this semester. Dr. Zahra Tamouh, associate professor of history at the University of Mohamed V in Rabat, Morocco, is splitting her time as a visiting scholar between PVCC and Estrella Mountain College this spring.
While at Paradise Valley, Tamouh will have a noticeable presence on campus. In the classroom, she will be co-teaching a world history course (History 110) and guest lecturing in courses in fields as diverse as journalism, political science and anthropology. Outside of the classroom, she will be assisting in the creation of a new certificate program in Islamic Studies and will moderate a faculty development workshop entitled “The Muslim World from Tradition to Modernity” on April 6.
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| Sidewalk art highlights black history
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Freshman art major, John Corbett, helped PVCC celebrate Black History month this February by sketching four chalk drawings on sidewalks across campus.
Above, his drawing features St. Josephine, a Sudanese woman, enslaved in Africa and later freed in Italy where she became a nun. Josephine served her religious community and the poor. She was beatified in 1992 and canonized eight years later.
Corbett says that he participated in the project in collaboration with math faculty Sonya Woodard. “I thought it would be an interesting cultural experience and a good community project,” he says.
The artist adds that while sketching, he received mixed reactions from onlookers wondering what he was doing. “It was like doing a public performance,” he says.
Corbett’s other sidewalk drawings on campus included, Martin Luther King, the copy of a portrait by African-American artist Annie Hall and the Louisiana Native Guard, the first all-black military unit in the U.S. |
| Faculty Senate presents resolution, request for meeting
to college president
By Ron Sanzone
Editor-in-chief
The PVCC Faculty Senate presented a resolution to college president, Dr. Mary Kay Kickels, on Friday, Feb. 16, expressing the Senate’s “aim to immediately initiate a process that returns the administration, the faculty and supporting policy groups to a position of shared governance, collaboration and trust.”
As reported by The Puma Press in December 2006, relations between PVCC’s faculty and administration had soured over the past year because of disagreements over the manner in which important hiring and budgetary decisions have been reached.
The Senate resolution cited the diminishing of shared values of “‘collaboration.., ‘integrity,’ ‘communications,’ ‘respect’ and ‘Stewardship of our resources’... in the pattern of day-to-day operations...” as a cause of deep concern among faculty.
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| Ufologist to speak at PVCC March 28
By Chris Toledo
Staff Writer
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| Phoenix residents spotted this unusual constellation of lights in the night sky on March 17, 1997. |
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Ten years ago, March 13, 1997, a mile-long formation of lights appeared over Phoenix, moved in unison and disappeared, all in about 20 minutes. This was one of the most widespread UFO sightings in history, seen by approximately 10 percent of Arizonans.
One of the most versed experts in the “Phoenix Lights” phenomenon is Dr. Lynne Kitei, an acclaimed health educator who successfully put aside her medical practice for four years and remained anonymous for seven while investigating the mass sighting.
Kitei took her years of research and compiled the book and documentary film “The Phoenix Lights.” Marking the tenth anniversary of the sighting, Kitei will be visiting PVCC March 28 to do a book signing and a presentation titled “Coincidence or Communication?” Her documentary will be screened on March 11 at Scottsdale’s Harkins Shea Cinema along with a book signing.
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| Golf balls threaten
new parking lot
By Megan Thornton
News Editor
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| In less than a two-week period in February, the Puma Press picked up 15 stray golf balls in and around the new parking lot. |
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By Megan Thornton
News EditorWhen parking in the new parking lot on the east side of campus be sure to notice a yellow sign that stands on the right side of its entrance. This sign reads “Caution flying golf balls...Use Paradise Valley facilities at your own risk.”
The problem?
The parking lot borders the Paradise Valley Golf Course, making the new lot vulnerable to stray balls flying over a chain link fence. From Feb. 2-14, the Puma Press found 15 golf balls in and surrounding the new parking lot. Their locations ranged from inside planters bordering the lot to the drive next to the M-East office building.
The warning sign set in place by the college advises drivers to use the lot at their own risk. In terms of law and liability what does this mean?
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