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 Meredith Headings is a hometown graduate form Manatee High School. Played softball for both Manatee High School and Manatee Community Collage from During 1999-2001. Coach Headings then attended South Carolina Aiken playing softball and earning a degree in communication. She now coaches the ladies lancers and the works at the IMG academy. Headings herself was the Suncoast Conference player of the year in 2001. On top of all these accomplishments, she is the lady Lancers Softball coach.
 MCC did not have to look far to acquire a new volleyball coach. Lewis Gibson, the current Media Services Coordinator, was more than qualified.
A successful coach and player, Gibson is starting his first season as head coach of the volleyball team. As an athlete Gibson won the co-ed doubles division on a Pro Beach tour in 2003, placed 12th in a 36-team professional tour in 1986, and won the 1989 MVP award as a member of the second place team in a Northern Pacific volleyball tournament. A successful athlete in his own right, the same success has followed him in his coaching career; leading two U.S. Navy teams to tournament victories in 1989 and 1990, Gibson has been a player and coach for numerous United States Volleyball Association teams.
It has become apparent that the parking lot is a nuisance. To most Manatee Community College students the lack of parking is an evident concern. “We need more spaces,” MCC student, Jessica Mitchell said. Students fear being late to class because of the difficulty of finding parking. Another student, Vanessa Kompethecras, noted that, “It’s quite hard to find parking if you have a 10:00 a.m. class, because most of them are taken.” Most people think there should be more parking spaces made available because there are more students than there are spaces.
This is my first semester at MCC, and so I’m still getting acclimated to college. Also, I am first and foremost a writer, and as I suck at math. So, thus far, my favorite part about this school is all the help I get. Take the open lab in the ARC for instance, where there are dedicated tutors six days a week, eight to ten hours a day, just waiting for you to ask them a question. Why, just the other day I was sitting in there struggling with my algebra. I raised my hand and seconds later a kind smiling face approached to help me. She must have sat with me for a good thirty minutes working examples until I got it. Because she took the time show me step by step how it is done I aced my exam later that day. That is why, in my humble opinion, the Academic Resource Center is one of the greatest things this school has to offer. You can also see a full story on the ARC and the English lab in next month’s issue.
 Phi Theta Kappa and the Boys and Girls Club of Manatee Count joined together to encourage peace within our community. One hundred fifty eight children designed pinwheels, which were displayed on our campus on September 21, 2007, International Day of Peace. Residents of our community were brought peace as they watched the pinwheels spin as they drove by. On behalf of Phi Theta Kappa, I would like to thank the children of the Boys & Girls Club for designing all the pinwheels for us to display.
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 A Manatee Community College (MCC) team won first place in regional Brain Bowl competition held at St. Petersburg College Feb. 2 and qualified for a state tournament to be held at Chipola Community College, Marianna, the end of March. The MCC team was undefeated in the regional competition, which pitted it against five other teams.
A walk-through of a “Colormatters” exhibit with postcolonial artist Eleanor Merritt is free and open to the public at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11, in the fine art gallery, building 9A, MCC Bradenton, 5840 26th St. West. The exhibit will continue through Feb. 21.
Peg Lowery Executive Director of the MCC Foundation, the fundraising organization for the college, welcomed the distinguished guests to the grand opening of the new Art and Design building, on Tuesday the 25th of September. The festivities began with the introduction of the benefactors in the beautiful Selby Foyer. Shortly after all the VIP’ arrived cameras flashed as Catherine Chung-Ray Gibbs cut the first ribbon of the day opening the new darkroom. When asked how it feels to have her name over the door, she responded “it’s overwhelming.” She went on to say that “the students are very lucky to have such a state of the art building to study in.” After that, the entire party moved just down the hall to the Michael Saunders Graphic Design Room. Then we all moved back down to the Selby Foyer to honor another of the benefactors, by naming a lecture hall after Priscilla Mabie Stewart. Finally, before we moved to the formal reception, Dan Bailey Representative of the Selby Foundation cut the final ribbon opening the Selby Foyer to the public.
Camarilla is a global organization that promotes creative “personal horrors” through role playing in the Vampire world. There are 50,000 members world-wide following the organization’s book of rules. Members choose one out of the five clans of vampire species and one out of the five covenants. Each vampire has an independent character which can be devious, self-conscious, or concerned with justice. There are chapters set-up and each player comes up with a story based on interactions with others. These chapters are also based on rules from the White-Wolf publishing company.
On Friday September 28th, the African American Student Union held a fall dance fundraiser, and although the AASU got the word out, the turn out was disappointing. Many members of the club brought at least one person to help raise money for the leadership conferences the club will take part in later this year. It was disappointing to see that the students did not show up to support the AASU. You cannot say that you did not know about the dace because there were flyers poster around campus, handed out during the club rush and announced by the D.J. The dance was made known yet still, some could be heard making statements such as it was “juvenile, like we are still in high school,” but even in high school, students lent their support and showed their school spirit.
On Wednesday of club rush week students enjoyed quarter slices of pizza and free sodas while watching dance contests “crank and roll.” They also got a chance to walk around the quad and learn more about the clubs that MCC has to offer.
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If you are coming back to Manatee Community College for spring courses, it is more than likely that you have heard about the five percent increase in tuition. Florida residents will be charged an extra $4.13 cents per credit hour or $49.56 cents for twelve credit hour and non-resident students will be charged $14.09 cents per credit hour or $169.08 cents for 12 credit hours starting in the spring semester. As distressing as it may seem, the facts should be heard before making a harsh conclusion about the increase.
