FEBRUARY 2012 VOLUME 28 NUMBER 7

The KnightlineOlney Central College Students & Employees Monthly Newsletter

OCC Theatre to present ‘Seussical’Tickets for the Olney

Central CollegeTheatre’s production of“Seussical” will go onsale at 10 a.m. Monday,Feb. 27 in the lobby ofthe Dr. John D. StullPerforming Arts Center.

Performances arescheduled for 7:30 p.m.on March 23, 24, 29, 30and 31. Afternoon showswill be offered at 2 p.m.on March 25 and April1.

Dinner theatres willbe held before theFriday and Saturdayshows at 6 p.m. Themenu includes: bacon-

wrapped pork chops, augratin potatoes, glazedcarrots, seven-layersalad, hot roll and but-ter, double chocolatecake and beverage.

Based on the works of

Dr. Seuss, “Seussical” isa fantastical, magical,musical extravaganza.

Tony winners LynnAhrens and StephenFlaherty have brought

See Seussical, Page 4

Olney Central College’s StudentAdvantage Network will host aMardi Gras concert featuringDennis Stroughmatt et L’EspritCreole on Sunday, Feb. 12.

This unique acoustical group per-forms the traditional music of theFrench Creoles who settled Illinoisand other parts of what was OldUpper Louisiana more than 300years ago. A vibrant blend of Celtic,Canadian and Old Time sounds, thismusic bridges the gap between con-temporary Canadian and LouisianaCajun styles. The group has beenperforming across the country for 15years.

A native of Southern Illinois,Stroughmatt began exploring theFrench Creole culture as a youngcollege student. He forged relation-ships with their descendantsimmersing himself in the old French

language, culture and music of theland which became part of theUnited States following theLouisiana Purchase. Local Creolefiddlers Roy Boyer and CharliePashia taught Stroughmatt to playfiddle in the tradition of theirfathers. Stroughmatt has become anadopted son of the French MidwestCreoles living along the MississippiRiver near St. Louis.

With the blessing of the Creolepeople of the Midwest, Stroughmattet L’Esprit Creole are its passionateambassadors, expanding interestand excitement in a region that hasbeen in many ways ignored by thehistory books.

Stroughmatt is joined on stage byRobert Russell, of Carbondale, andtwo musicians with Creole ancestry,his wife, Jennifer Stroughmatt, who

See Concert, Page 3

SAN hosts Mardi Gras concert Feb. 12

Dennis Stroughmatt et LʼEspritCreole will perform at OCC on Feb.12. Pictured are Dennis Stroughmatt,Jennifer St roughmatt, RobertRussell and Rob Krumm.

Cast namedfor musical

Cast members have beenselected for the OlneyCentral College Theatre’sproduction of “Seussical.”

Names of the charactersand cast members selectedare: Cat in the Hat,Trevor May; Jojo, HoltGarner; Horton theElephant, Caleb Bent;Gertrude McFuzz, ChloeMiller; Mayzie LaBird,Emily Ferguson;

See Cast, Page 2

Cast

OCC Part-time Employee AwardsService Recognitionawards were recentlypresented to OlneyCentral College part-timeemployees. Pictured atright are, front row, fromleft, Courtney Roche,Barb Washburn andNancy Wright, all threeyears; and back row,JoAnne Waggoner, 10years; and Tim Dunahee,three years. Below, pic-tured are front row, fromleft, Carol Weiler, threeyears; Susan Cook,three years; andTerrilynn Majors, fiveyears; and back row,Amanda Johnson, fiveyears; Carole Krager, 10years; Mike Swick, threeyears; and Marla Royse,five years.

Mike Burris earns 100th winOCC Men’s Basketball

Coach Mike Burris capturedhis 100th career win Jan. 19in a 68-64 victory againstSouthwestern Illinois.

Burris is in his seventhyear as head coach of theBlue Knights and 11th yearwith the program. He playedfor OCC from 1997-1999.

“We’re starting to have

some good success,” he said.“The players and coachingstaff have all contributed tothat and hopefully we cankeep adding to it.”

The Blue Knights areenjoying an outstanding sea-son with a record of 20-3. TheBlue Knights lead the GreatRivers Athletic Conferencewith a 10-1 record.

Continued from Page 1Sour Kangaroo, Ivy Benson;General Genghis KahnSchmitz, Bill Padgett; Mr.Mayor, Bill White; Mrs.Mayor, Neita Balding; Yertlethe Turtle, Sam Benson;The Grinch; Chris Kramer,The Wickersham Brothers,Royse Phillips, KeeganTucker and Dalton Thompson;The Bird Girls, Alice AnnHostetter, Claire Downes andMaddie Bush; and Whos,Cadets and CircusAnimals, Taylor Ahlfield,Paige Anderson, MaryArmstrong, Lisa Benson, LeaBenton, Autumn Bogard,Kristin Brian, Shae Caulfield,Tim Dunahee, TaylorFlanagan, Toree Goodwin,Sarah Guinn, Crystal Ham,Breanna Henson, KatieHostetter, Chris Kramer,Chris McDowell, HunterMeritt, Kathy Neeley,Rachel Pampe, Emma Roark,Autumn Scherer, KayleeShouse, Jodee Shuler, KaylaWarren and Joshua Wiggs.Mike Burris

Donors Live Longer

Olney Central College isencouraging individuals tojoin the IllinoisOrgan/Tissue DonorRegistry and save the livesof thousands of people whomay be waiting for atransplant.

According to theSecretary of State’s Officenearly 5,000 people inIllinois are currently onthe organ transplant wait-ing list. More than 300Illinoisans die each yearbefore receiving trans-plants.

Nationally, more than110,000 people are waitingfor a transplant and every11 minutes a new personis added to the waitinglist. An estimated one in20 Americans will needsome type of medical tis-sue transplant duringtheir lifetimes.

There is a tremendousneed across the UnitedStates for organ/tissuedonors and this is yourchance to get involved.

April is national DonateLife Month and OCC ispartnering with theSecretary of State’sOrgan/Tissue DonorProgram to host an organdonation registry driveFriday, March 30 throughThursday, April 5.Students, faculty and staff

are invited to stop byinformational tables andadd their names to theregistry. The StudentNurses’ Association, whichis helping to organize theevent, has set a goal of 50new donors.

All information is confi-dential and only releasedto authorized personnelafter all efforts to save aperson have failed anddeath has been declared.

Illinois has one of the

most successful state reg-istries in the country, withmore than 5 million partic-ipants. The IllinoisOrgan/Tissue DonorRegistry is unique in thatit utilizes the state’s dri-ver’s license database atno additional cost to tax-payers.

Almost 50 percent ofthose who visit a driver’slicense facility join theregistry.

If you didn’t sign up asan organ or tissue donorat that time or wereunable to due so becauseof age restrictions, this isyour opportunity to par-ticipate and show thatDonors Live Longer.

For additional informa-tion visit the IllinoisOrgan/Tissue DonorRegistry site atwww.LifeGoesOn.com.

Join the Organ/Tissue Donor Registry

Bookstore seeks designsfor new mural or painting

Students, staff and faculty are invitedto participate in a contest to design anew mural or painting for the wall out-side of the OCC Bookstore.

The Bookstore is sponsoring the con-test, which will run through March 30.The winners will have their drawing, inpart or in whole, painted on the wall out-side the Bookstore. Multiple drawingsmay be chosen and all winners will havetheir names painted onto the wall as thedesigner.

The design must be original artworkcreated by the submitter and containsome aspect of the OCC Knight.Preferred colors for the design are navy,Carolina blue and black and white.However, other colors will be accepted.

A committee comprised of OCC facultyand staff will select the winning entries,which will be approved by OCC President

Rodney Ranes, Dean of Instruction JeffCutchin and Director of Business DougShipman.

Honorable Mention drawings chosen bythe committee will receive Bookstoremerchandise as prizes and their draw-ings may be used on signs or merchan-dise sold in the Bookstore in the future.Prizes will be awarded for any drawingchosen.

Those wishing to participate can stopby the Bookstore to pick up rules and awaiver form, which gives OCC the entireright, title and copyright of the design.

All entrants must sign a waiver whenthey submit a drawing in order to enterthe contest.

Participants can submit as manyentries as they wish, but a completedwaiver form must accompany eachentry.

ConcertContinued from Page 1

is the SAN advisor atOCC, and Rob Krumm, ofChampaign.

The concert will be pre-sented from 2 to 4 p.m. inthe OCC Banquet Roomwith the doors opening at1:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.Seating is limited and tick-ets must be purchased inadvance. Tickets are avail-able from any SAN mem-ber or by calling SAN advi-sor Jennifer Stroughmattat 395-7777, ext. 2014.

Refreshments may bepurchased during theintermission. Proceedsfrom the event will fundan end of the year trip formore than 15 SAN stu-dents to Chicago. The bandis donating its time forthis special event.

Men’s Basketball• Feb. 11 – OCC atJohn A. Logan, 3 p.m.• Feb. 15 – OCC vs.Rend Lake, 7:30 p.m. athome• Feb. 18 – OCC atSouthwestern Illinois, 3p.m.• Feb. 22 – OCC atKaskaskia, 7:30 p.m.• Feb. 25 – OCC vs.Wabash Valley, 7:30p.m. at home• Feb. 29 – OCC vs.Lincoln Trail, 7:30 p.m.at home• March 3 – OCC atLewis & Clark, 3 p.m.

Women’s Basketball• Feb. 11 – OCC atJohn A. Logan, 1 p.m.• Feb. 15 – OCC vs.Rend Lake, 5:30 p.m. athome• Feb. 18 – OCC atSouthwestern Illinois, 1p.m.• Feb. 22 – OCC atKaskaskia, 5:30 p.m.• Feb. 25 – OCC vs.Wabash Valley, 5:30p.m. at home• Feb. 29 – OCC vs.Lincoln Trail, 5:30 p.m.at home

Baseball• Feb. 18 – OCC atRoane State, 1 p.m.• Feb. 19 – OCC atRoane State, 1 p.m.• Feb. 20 – OCC atUnion College, 1 p.m.• Feb. 21 – OCC atCumberlands, 1 p.m.

Softball• Feb. 25 – OCC atJackson State, noon• Feb. 26 – OCC atDyersburg State,1 p.m.

Sports Schedule

Cutchin defends dissertationOlney Central College

Dean of Instruction JefferyCutchin successfullydefended his dissertationon Jan. 24

Cutchin will receive hisPh.D. in Education with aspecialization inCommunity College andHigher EducationLeadership from WaldenUniversity.

Cutchin began work onhis doctorate in February2007. His dissertationfocused on adjunct faculty.

“My dissertation is aqualitative study andexploration in the cultureof the adjunct such as whydo they teach and what’simportant to them,” hesaid.

Literature indicates thereis a national dissatisfaction

among adjunct faculty.“My intention was to

investigate the culture andto learn as much as I couldabout the adjunct cultureso other researches afterme can look at these areasof dissatisfaction.”

Cutchin joined OCC asDean of Instruction inSeptember. Before coming

to OCC, Cutchin was theAssistant Dean of StudentServices at FrontierCommunity College, wherehe oversaw financial aid,registration and recordsand advisement.

He previously served asFCC’s Coordinator ofInstructional Services andwas responsible for creat-ing the college schedule aswell as managing faculty.Cutchin was a full-timeinformation systems andgeology instructor at FCCfor more than seven years.

Cutchin earned a bache-lor’s degree in geology fromSouthern IllinoisUniversity and holds amaster’s degree in teachingwith a specialization ininformation technologyfrom Webster University.

Jeffery Cutchin

Continued from Page 1to life all of the favorite Dr.Seuss characters includingHorton the Elephant, TheCat in the Hat, GertrudeMcFuzz, Lazy Mayzie anda little boy with a bigimagination, Jojo. The col-orful characters transportus from the Jungle of Noolto the Circus McGurkus tothe invisible world ofWhos.

The story centers aroundHorton the Elephant, whofinds himself faced with adouble challenge — notonly must he protect histiny friend Jojo and all theinvisible Whos from aworld of naysayers anddangers, but he mustguard an abandoned egg

left to his care by the irre-sponsible Mayzie La Bird.Although Horton facesridicule, danger, kidnap-ping and a trial, theintrepid Gertrude McFuzznever loses faith in him,the only one who recog-nizes “his kind and hispowerful heart.”Ultimately, the power offriendship, loyalty, familyand community are chal-lenged and emerge tri-umphant.

Tickets may be pur-chased from 10 a.m. to 2p.m., Monday throughFriday. Tickets for the pro-duction are $10 forreserved seating for chil-dren and adults.

Tickets for the meal and

show are $20.Those who wish to

reserve tickets may call395-7777, ext. 2408, duringthe hours designated forticket sales. Tickets maybe purchased with aMastercard or Visa.

Reserved tickets will beheld for five working days,until picked up in personor a check is received inthe mail.

Patrons may send acheck with a self-addressed, stamped enve-lope to OCC and the tick-ets will be sent by returnmail.

Any remaining ticketsmay be purchased onehour before the perform-ance.

Seussical

Students should update emergency contact informationIt is important that

Olney Central College stu-dents keep their emer-gency contact numbers

current.If the land line or cell

phone numbers for youremergency contact person

have changed, please stopby the Student ServicesOffice and update them assoon as possible.

ONLINE PAYMENTStep 1 : Log into your Entrataaccount with your username andpassword. Click on the Banner Webicon at the right-hand side of yourscreen.

Step 2: Click on Pay Tuition, Fees,and Other Charges Online — CreditCard to make your online Payment.

If you encounter problems with mak-ing your online payment, please con-tact the IECC HelpDesk at 618-395-5299 or toll-free 1-866-529-4322, ext.4357.

Illinois Eastern CommunityColleges has contracted withe2Campus to provide alert notifi-cation services.

The system will notify studentsand employees of campus emer-gencies and closures by e-mailand/or cell phone text message.Log onto Entrata and click onthe alerts link to activate anaccount.

IECC Alerts is an opt-in serv-ice. While there is no direct costfor signing up for the service, youmay be charged a text messagefee by your cell phone provider.

Please check your cell phoneplan to understand the costs you

may incur using the service. The system will be used to send

text mes-sages relatedto campusemergencies,weather-related clo-sures, testmessagesand notifications when accountsare about to expire.

Unfortunately, SMS text alertsare not currently working withthe Alltel carrier.

If you do not have an Entrataaccount, please contact theRecords Office at 395-7777.

OCC emergency alerts

LSC offers students free tutoringThe Learning Skills Center

offers free tutoring in any subjecttaught at OCC.

Study guides and videos areavailable in several subjects.

If you have any special learn-ing needs, come and see the LSC

staff. They will be glad to provide

suggestions, help and/or accom-modations.

The LSC is located in the backof the Anderson Library inConference Room 4.

FAFSA FrenzyNight March 14

Need help filing for FinancialAid? Olney Central College willoffer a FAFSA (Free Applicationfor Federal Student Aid) FrenzyNight from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. onWednesday, March 14 in Room207.

The OCC Financial Aid staffwill be available to answer ques-tions and assist students and par-ents as they complete and submittheir FAFSA electronically.Students and the school willreceive results within two weeks.

Those attending should bringthe following: student’s and par-ents’ 2011 federal income taxreturns, W-2 forms and driver’slicense.

For more information, pleasecontact the OCC Financial AidOffice at 395-7777 or 1-866-622-4322.

OCC student Amy Britton is fea-tured in the spring edition of theTransfer Times as the publication’slatest scholarship winner.

The OCC sophomore received a$100 scholarship to a transferinstitution after her entry wasselected in a random drawing.

“I’m paying for college on myown and saw the scholarship andentered,” she said. “I got it andwas surprised. I got lucky theyselected my name.”

Britton is a special educationmajor and plans to transfer toEastern Illinois University.

She graduated from North ClayHigh School in 2010 and startedtaking college classes as a junior

in high school.“I enjoy

OCC and willmiss it when Igraduate inMay. It’s agreat atmos-phere and Ireally like theinstructors.”

Britton is amember ofthe OCC Concert Choir and PhiTheta Kappa.

The article featuring Britton ison Page 4 of the Transfer Times,which is available around campus.

The publication also featured anarticle on OCC.

Transfer Times awardsOCC student scholarship

Amy Britton

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Please submit information forthe March Knightline to DeannaRatts by 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb.20.

Happy Birthday To:February

3 Teresa Diekmann (WVC)6 Penny Campbell6 Suzanne Downes8 Jeff Cutchin

10 Anne Hustad14 Rebecca Myers17 Nick Wright17 Geneva Forys17 Jerry Booker20 Ruth Henry23 Lisa Rauch23 Anne Hahn

Knightline Information

If you have lost an item, pleasecheck with the switchboard inthe Student Services Office.

Lost and found items

Students utilizing the OCCparking lots are advised to keeptheir vehicles locked when unat-tended.

Keep vehicles locked

Campus visits

Olney Central College will host aninformational meeting for its MedicalCoding Associate Certificate from3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.16 in the OCC Banquet Room.

This is a great opportunity to learnmore about the program, its require-ments and to meet Medical OfficeInstructors Amie Mayhall andShasta Bennett.

This three-semester program pre-pares students to work as medicalcoding professionals. Coders areresponsible for translating health-care providers’ diagnostic and proce-dural phrases into coded form.Coding professionals do this byreviewing and analyzing healthrecords to identify relevant diagnosesand procedures for distinct patientencounters.

Medical coding professionals workin a variety of healthcare settings,

including inpatient and outpatienthealthcare and for non-providerssuch as the insurance industry andhealthcare software vendors. Medicalcoding also offers higher wages andmore employability than other med-ical office positions.

According to the American HealthInformation Management Association,there is currently a nationwide short-age of certified medical coders in hos-pitals, physician practices and otherhealthcare facilities.

Students are admitted to the pro-gram in the fall. Space is limited andstudents are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you are unable to attend orwould like more information aboutthe Medical Coding AssociateCertificate, contact Advisor Joyce Nixat 395-7777, ext. 2015, ornixj@iecc.edu.

Medical Coding informational meeting

Biology II Students Learn About DNAOCC students Corey Stewart, left, and William Miller work on a diagram of aninsulin molecule being constructed by students in Jim Burnettʼs Biology IIclass. The diagram will aid students in understanding the chemical structureof DNA. Each semester students in the Biology II class make a project thatwill stay in the classroom and be used by future students.

Representatives from the follow-ing universities will be visitingOCC. Tables will be located out-side the Student Services Office.

• Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. onFeb. 15

• Eastern Illinois University, 9a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 29

• Saint Mary-of-the-WoodsCollege, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. onMarch 20

• Western Illinois University,11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on March28