Lockdown case officially closed
President Sopcich announced the campus police have closed the investigation into the reported suspicious persons on campus that prompted the lockdown on Thursday, Sept. 4. Campus police determined that the two descriptions of the suspect did not match and there is no evidence to confirm the presence of someone bringing a firearm on campus that day.
Interior design students and faculty judge local competition
Students and faculty from the Interior Design program judged a competition for the Kansas City Home & Garden magazine. Student judges are enrolled in Spring 2014 and included Grecia De Jesus, Sarah Beall, Katia Alvarez-Villegas, Annie Nguyen, Malena Webb, Patrice Mendelson, Kristen Benson, Majanay Perez, Christine Ashburn, Spenser Lehmann, Jeanne Brown, Ariadna Valentino, Jocelyn Bennett, Kathy Lee and Krista Votruba. Faculty judges were Darla Green, Bobanne Kalkofen, Dalene Erwin, Kristeen Armstrong- Scott and Kathryn Grube. The magazine is currently on newsstands and can also be seen online.
Over $1,800 raised for scholarships
The college’s annual used book sale, which raises funds for the Gene Jack and Jana E. Pinker Scholarships, raised $1,832.51 this year. Students are eligible for the Gene Jack Memorial Scholarship if they have a 3.0 GPA, show financial need and receive(d) at least a “C” in CHEM 122. For the Jana E. Pinker Memorial Scholarship, the student must be a member of Phi Theta Kappa and have a GPA of 2.0 or higher.
Compiled by Christina Lieffring, news editor, clieffri@jccc.edu