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Carla CrocketAgora Staff

Flu season is here and with it, runnynoses and nausea.

Every year a new u vaccine is madeto battle the inuenza virus that could

be silently attacking our bodies.

Each year the u bugs evolve, re-quiring a new vaccination to prevent

people from getting the potentiallydeadly virus.

The u is a virus of the lungs andsymptoms begin one to three days af-ter it has entered the body.

It is unclear how many deaths occureach year from the u virus.

If you have any other illnesses or

are prone to pneumonia, the u viruscould be harsh enough to hospitalizeor kill you.

Symptoms of the u include fever,headache, chills, cough, sore throat,

body aches, and diarrhea.

Each individual is different, and ev-eryone may not suffer from all of thesymptoms. If you do contract the uvirus, the symptoms shouldnt lastmore than one week. If they do, seekmedical attention immediately.

Typically, you are contagious fromthe day you contract the illness, untilone week after.

Certain people shouldnt get the vac-cine without checking with their doc-tor rst.

People who know they have an al-lergy to eggs or people who have hadreactions to the vaccine in the past,should not recieve the vaccine.

Anyone who currently has an ill-nesses or a fever, should wait until af-ter it has passed to get the vaccine.

Several pharmacies in MonroeCounty are offering u shots, whichare covered by most health care pro-

viders.

Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, and theMonroe County Health Departmentare all offering the vaccination.

If you have no health insurance, thevaccine costs around $25.

Health Department hours are 9:30a.m. - 11:30 a.m., and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.,Monday through Wednesday, and Fri-day.

Though MCCC is not offering uvaccines this year, u shots are re-quired for students in the nursing pro-gram.

According to the student handbook,seasonal u shots are required fornursing students, as soon as the shotsare available each year.

Failure to receive the vaccination,could prevent students from participat-ing in clinicals.

The federal Centers for Disease

Controls website states that peoplewho get u shots should watch forsoreness, redness or swelling wherethe shot was given, as well as feverand aches.

It only takes 10 minutes or so to llout the paperwork and to get the vac-cine.

Other ways to avoid getting the uinclude hand washing, especially aftersneezing and coughing.

Washing hands also is recommend-ed when dealing with the public, suchas handling food or working with theelderly or children.

Using antibacterial hand sanitizer isanother way to prevent contracting thevirus when washing your hands is un-

available.Disinfecting commonly used things

such as door handles and televisionremotes is a good way to prevent thespread of the virus.

Photo by Nicki Kostrzewa

Flu shots are offered at several pharmacies.

TattoosCafe getsa GradeA name

Hannah Boulton

Agora Staff

The millenial generation ex-presses individuality throughbody art.

There are several reasonsMCCC students are coloringthemselves with tattoos and

piercing their various bodyparts.

Their reasons range frompersonal expression to per-sonal empowerment to just

being spontaneous and rebel-lious.

Despite what some peoplemay think about tattoos, they

have a meaning, MCCC stu-dent, Skylar Hall said. Get-ting a tattoo brands a part ofyour personality onto yourskin for a reminder.

Body piercings and tattoosare a means of expressionfor some; theyre typicallysearching for individualismand control of their lives.

Body art is their mark of in-dividuality and control.

Inking and piercing the skinhas increasingly gained popu-larity with the young crowd,and its slowly gaining wideracceptance.

Thirty years ago, one in100 people in this countryhad tattoos. Now, three outof 10 Americans ages of 18-25 have a tatoo, according tostasticsbrain.com.

While society is becoming

more liberated and expres-sive, and piercings and tattoosare becoming part of main-stream culture, some employ-ers are still having a hard timewrapping their heads around

body art in the workplace.

In todays society, the jobmarket has become an area oferce competition. The small-est details can be the deciding

See, Page 6

Flu shots, ways to prevent infection

Body art canbe a issuewith jobs

Hannah BoultonAgora Staff

MCCCs cafeteria has a newname, and Adrianna MacAllisterhas a bunch of free lunches.

MacAllisters name for the caf-

eteria Grade A Cafe waschosen in a contest sponsored byKosch Catering.

More than fty students sent inname suggestions, according to

Nathan Lockhart of Kosch, tryingto win the prize of free lunchesfor a year.

MacAllister was spending theafternoon with her boyfriendwatching tv and checking her e-mail.

When she came across thee-mail about the contest, shethought it was worth a try.

The name just popped into myhead and I thought it would sure

be nice to get a free lunch the twotimes I am on main campus in thewinter semester, MacAllister

said.MacAllister was among the stu-dents who sent in multiple namesfor the contest. Her other sugges-tions were, Grub Hub, and Re-

juvenation Station.

Due to MacAllisters schedule,she isnt able to come to maincampus often.

Next semester she will be oncampus twice a week and will

be able to take advantage of herprize.

The food is good, but freemakes it much better for a poorcollege student, she said.

Thats what we are here for. We

want to take care of our students.

Barbara MacNameeDirector of Learning Resources

Survey leads to library changesMelanie JacobsAgora Staff

MCCCs library will close anhour earlier next semester insteadof all night Thursdays.

Barbara MacNamee, director ofLearning Resources, announcedthe change following a campus-wide survey.

The survey revealed that stu-dents and faculty preferred shorterdaily cuts in hours instead of clos-ing Thursday evenings, which thelibrary began this semester.

The library was required to re-duce hours as part of the collegescampuswide budget cuts.

As a result, the library closedfour hours early on Thursday

nights.

Following criticism from stu-dents and faculty, MacNamee de-cided to do a survey to search fora better solution.

They indicated that the fourhour cut to Thursday nightshours wasnt the right t, Mac-

Namee said.

The survey was sent mid-se-mester via email to all students,faculty, and administrators.

We also made the surveyavailable if you came into the li-

brary or went onto our web page,MacNamee said.

Some faculty members encour-aged students to participate andgave them the opportunity to do

the survey in class so their voiceswould be heard, she said.

I really appreciated that, Mac-Namee said. That was exciting.

Out of the 361 respondents tothe survey, 80 percent were stu-dents.

I was really happy about that,because the students were theones most affected by this, Mac-

Namee said.

The majority of the votes point-ed toward losing an hour a day,rather than a four-hour block.

MacNamee allowed the votersto have the nal say.

It was the most popular vote,she said. And that is what wewill do.

Being able to change the Thurs-

day night hours back to what theywere before, and still meet theneeds of the budget, is a wonder-ful thing because everybody wins,MacNamee said.

She encourages students tohave a voice and speak up, so thatchange can be made if somethingis not working for them.

Thats what we are here for,MacNamee said. We want totake care of our students.

The new hours of operationwill take affect at the beginningof the winter semester. The win-ter course schedule was taken into

consideration as well, she said.All things considered, its the

best t, she said.

After a lot of concern over thecuts, the survey produced a solu-tion to the loss of hours, she said.

Access to the library is crucialfor a students academic career,MacNamee said.

Changing the hours for the win-ter semester will enable studentsto have these resources moreavailable to them, she said.

Expressing yourself in

Winter library hours

Monday-Thursday

8 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.Friday

8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.Saturday

9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

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Ray BellCarla CrockettCraig EvansAutumn JacksonMelanie JacobsTyler RogoffChris Stadtfeld

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Nicki Kostrzewa

Agora Staff

Christmas shopping is one ofthe most intensive and critical

parts of the year.

There are things to buy, peopleto buy for, and things to get done.

However, many people stillstruggle with the idea of goingout and blowing so much moneyat once.

It not only seems like a bad idea,but it would kill most budgets forthe month.

With that being said, there areways for one to overcome these

joyous thrills of holiday shopping;one of them being layaway.

Layaway has come and gonefrom many stores over the years,

but it is a very helpful option.

One can put so much into a

layaway account and pay it offin lump sums before the holiday

season.One can get all the gifts they

want, the kids are happy, theypaid less up front, and things aregreat.

Stores like Walmart, whichholds layaways until Dec. 14, andK-Mart are two places in Monroethat still offer layaway.

With that being said, there arenot a lot of options for layawayhere in Monroe.

Thankfully, there is another dayof the year where one can ndthings for low prices that wonthurt their bank: Black Friday.

Despite all the horror storiesone might hear about Black Fri-day, it can be the best way to getthe shopping done at cheap, cheap

prices.

Some stores, like Target andWalmart, are opening the night

before to let shoppers line upearly so when the clock hitsmidnight, they can use the BlackFriday sales.

But for those who enjoy somesleep, you can wake up at thecrack of dawn and just go.

Dont worry about the hair orthe make-up, just get out there andstart shopping.

Remember your ID, wallet, andfunds and get everything done inone day at one place and call itquits.

This way, at the end of thenight, one can wrap all their giftsand hide them from the childrentill Christmas comes along.

Making those quick andbest buys is truly an AmericanDream.

Hannah Boulton

Agora Staff

Former History professor-

Jim DeVries earned a spot onMCCCs Board of Trustees in theNov 6 election.

He joins longtime board mem-ber Marjorie Kreps, who wasre-elected. Losing his spot onthe board was another longtime

board member, Michael Meyers.

DeVries campaigned for theelection by showing up to MCCCevents and talking to communitymembers.

The night of the election, Mon-roe County was still countingvotes at 3 a.m. in some districts.

I went to bed not knowing thatI had won, DeVries said.

The next morning, he receiveda phone call from a friend con-gratulating him on winning theelection.

Nicki Kostrzewa

Agora Staff

November is home to many interestingevents and holidays.

Some are nationally known, while oth-ers are known by only a few.

Of course, everyone knows about

Thanksgiving and those loving traditions.In 1621, the colonists of Plymouth and

the Wampanoag Indians shared in the rstautumn harvest feast, which has since

been called Thanksgiving.

However, it wasnt until 1863, in themiddle of the Civil War, that PresidentAbraham Lincoln turned Thanksgivinginto a national holiday.

However, it wasnt the history or thefood that Thanksgiving was really about.

What our ancestors set out to do was to

make a day that brought us, as a people,closer together.

One day of peace, love, and joy that wecould all share together being thankfulfor our families, friends, and the things wehave in our lives, no matter how small.

And of course, after Thanksgivingtheres Black Friday; the most hellish dayof the year.

In the 1960s, the term Black Fridaywas rst used to signal the start of theChristmas shopping season.

Black in the title refers to the storesmoving from red to black aka, loss to

prot.

Of course with all the twisted deals andcoupons that stores provided, along withthe mass shopping, there is no way thatthey wouldnt make some sort of prot.

Last but not least, for you writing buffs,there is something else in Novembercalled NaNoWriMo.

NanoWriMo (National Novel WritingMonth) is a fun way to start writing yourown novel, whether it be for fun or for aclass.

The writing starts Nov. 1, with thegoal of writing a 50,000-word novel by11:59:59, Nov. 30.

It is a great way to challenge yourselfand to see how creative you really are.

WARNING: NaNoWriMi isnt some-thing to be messed with! If you dontthink you will be done in time, do the bestyou can.

This is no easy task! Write a little eachday or else you will be majorly sorry.

Thanksgiving was rst celebrated in 1621 between the colonists of Plymouth and theWampanoag Indians.

Novembers holidays, odd traditions

Melanie Jacobs

Agora Staff

Students and faculty weregiven the opportunity to

participate in a survey thatwould help solve the recenthour and budget cuts.

The top three preferencesfor closing:

-Close one hour ear-lier Monday-Thursday (at8:30PM rather than 9:30PM)

-Close on Saturdays

-Close on Thursday nights

-Other ideas included:

-Open one hour later in themorning

-Dont take the four hoursin one chunk of time fromthe library schedule

-Close Friday afternoon

51 percent of the respon-dents said that they used thelibrary during the weekdays.

30 percent of the respon-dents said they used the li-

brary mostly on weeknights.

The top three ways re-spondents use the libraryassignments, studying data-

base and resource searching

45 percent of the respon-dents say they use the librarymultiple times a week.

357 respondents com-

pleted the How has the fallsemester Thursday closingaffected you?

157 said they have notbeen affected.

116 said they were dis-placed either before or afterclass and had to nd some-where else to go.

111 said they had to comeback to campus another dayto complete the work.

The last two groups com-bined represent 63 percentof the respondents who had

been affected in some way.

After reviewing the resultsit was decided that the Win-ter semester 2013, Thursdayevenings will be restored.

The Library hours will beas follows:

Monday-Thursday:8:00AM-8:30PM

Friday:8:00AM-4:30PM

Saturday:9:00AM-1:30PM

Student Government sponsored a special Tunes at Noon

Concert November 5. Steve Means performed live music in

the cafeteria.

Librarysurveyresults Tunes at Noon

Photos byJim Southard

Planning Black Fridayand layaway specials

DeVrieswinselection

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Did you knowYou can nish your bachelors

degree on the MCCC Campus! Siena Heights University has a degree completion centerright here on campus! Undergraduate classes available in:

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Graduate classes available in Leadership. Contact Siena today at

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Melanie JacobsAgora Staff

MCCC has taken an interest in the green energymovement by constructing an 85-foot wind turbineon campus for students to study.

It is primarily for students to learn about its innerworkings and how to safely construct and decon-

struct towers of this kind, according to RenewableEnergy faculty member, Clifton Brown.

Renewable energy is being utilized more andmore across the country, and community colleges areadopting this new trend, Brown said.

This is basically a tool for training workers thatare going into that growing workforce.

MCCCs wind turbine is considered small windenergy because it is useful in producing enough en-ergy to supplement a residential home and only takesa small group of people to construct.

In a good wind, it will produce about one to twokilowatts of power, which is almost enough to run asmall house, Brown said.

It took three tries to construct the wind power tur-bine.

The rst attempt ran into problems with supplies.

The manufacturer sent the wrong parts, Brownsaid.

The second attempt was foiled by Hurricane San-dy.

We just couldnt do it, he said. There were30-40 mph winds and it was too much to pick it upsafely.

The third attempt was on Sunday, Nov. 4, a sunnybut bitter cold afternoon.

Hopefully, now, the third times a charm, he saidas the crew began the work.

With the help of a number of volunteers, it turnsout it was.

After many hours of collaboration and sheer mus-cle, the wind turbine was nally up.

The data produced by the tower will be studied bywind energy classes currently held in the West Tech

building. When the new Career Technology Centeris completed, the class will be moved there.

We will have our own lab dedicated to renewableenergy, Brown said.

Brown is unsure if the wind tower will be bene-cial to the college as far as producing energy is con-cerned, but he is condent that it will be a cruciallearning instrument for students who are seeking adegree in some form of renewable energy.

Students have the opportunity to learn the scienceof wind energy, he said. Theyll be able to deter-mine what type of renewable energy will make themost sense in each location of interest.

The demand for energy has sky-rocketed and thereis not enough of it to go around, Brown said.

If we can meet the demand with renewable en-ergy, that would be great, he said.

People everywhere need to be as enthusiastic about

renewable energy, Brown said.

Energy is something that comes to us at a cost, asdo most things, he said.

MCCC is now one step further ahead in the move-ment towards promoting renewable energy.

Tyler RogoffAgora Staff

MCCC has recently upgradedits ber optic network with plansto expand further in the future.

The Merit Reach-3MC Broad-band Stimulus Project is a planto connect the colleges and uni-versities statewide to each otherthrough a ber optic network.

This will be an immediatebroadband upgrade to almost allspots connected to the network.

According to their website,

REACH-3MC will build 2,287miles of open-access ber-optic

networking through rural commu-nities across all of Michigan.

This will allow more areas to ac-cess the Internet at faster speeds.

By using universities and col-leges as their main hub, this willallow faster connection speeds.

As of now, MCCC is on stand-by, meaning we are not activelyconnected to the network.

MCCC is in the proccess ofbecoming an active part of the

network.

Merit Network, Inc. is also

planning on connecting the Mon-roe County Library Systems,Mary Kay Daume Library and El-lis Library.

It is signicant for the historyof education in our communitywhen this technology is broughtto Southeast Michigan, PresidentDavid Nixon said.

Students will soon be able toaccess the higher speed internetfrom home and at local libraries.

The technological potential forthe 2,300 mile ber optic network

will set Michigan up for a brighterfuture in education.

The ADVA Optical Networkingequipment will have a speed of 10gigabits per second. There will beapproximately 40 main hubs, eachwith a potential to produce a 10gigabits per second speed.

Each hub will have a maximumcap of 1 gigabit per second initial-ly, with the ability to upgrade tothe higher connection cap.

Photo by Carla Crockett

Volunteers, including several MCCC alumni, work through the long day to put the fnishing touches on theexperimental wind tower.

Fiber optics comes to MCCC

MCCC sees rise of wind tower

It is signicant for thehistory of education inour community whentechnology is brought to

Southeast Michigan.

David NixonMCCC president

The nished wind turbine rises 85 feet above the

ground behind the Health building.

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Tyler RogoffAgora staff

The International Studies Clubhosted a special screening of the

movie Crossing Borders inhonor of International EducationWeek.

Crossing Borders is a docu-mentary that follows four Moroc-can and four American studentsduring a trip through Morocco.They discussed the stereotypesthat each group is educated to be-lieve about the other, and brokedown the fallacies that each grouphas about the other.

On their journey, each studentlearns that the students from theopposite culture are completelydifferent than they expected,

based on the stereotypes that themedia and others have implantedinto their heads.

They learn throughout the doc-umentary that they are far morealike than different, and learn asmuch about themselves as they do

about the opposite culture.

Dr. Joanna Sabo, adviser of theInternational Studies Club, invit-ed the crowd of about 70 people

to a short discussion after thescreening, which was held Thurs-day, Nov. 15.

Students talked about howthe participants in the documen-tary had tough discussions anddebates, which led to a mutualrespect as each group started tounderstand that stereotypes aboutthe opposite group were false.

The discussion then shifted tothe mass amounts of poverty seenin the screening.

Most people in third worldcountries spend most of their timetrying to make food, Sabo said.Its a good lesson about poverty.

The poverty discussion transi-tioned into discussing crime ratesin poorer areas of third worldcountries, as well as areas ofAmerica.

People who are poor will do

what they have to do, Sabo said.

Sabo also discussed a poll takenbefore and after a previous screen-ing of the movie. Before watch-

ing the lm, about 84 percent ofviewers linked violence and ter-rorism with Muslims, while onlyabout 6 percent matched themwith hospitality. After seeing thedocumentary, those numbers werereversed.

The group also discussedwhether or not it was right to justhave the American students travelto Morocco instead of both visit-ing the opposite country.

It was a good idea for Ameri-cans to see it for themselves in-stead of from the news, studentChris Murphy, a former memberof the International Studies Club,said.

For more information on theInternational Studies Club and theStudy Abroad program, contact

Sabo.Photo by Tyler Rogoff

MCCCs International Studies Club painted the spirit rock for the Crossing Boarders, event.

Briefy:Students, staff can competein holiday decorating contest

Student Government is sponsoring a HolidayCampus Decorating Contest.

Any ofce, hallway, bulletin board, or any otherapproved locations are acceptable.

The winner will receive a $50.00 Visa Gift Cardand will hold the traveling trophy in their ofce forthe entire year.

All entry forms should be submitted to Tom Ry-der by Monday, Dec. 10.

Judging will take place on Friday, Dec. 14 from11:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.

Chili Cook-off provides funds

for Reaume Scholarship MCCCs Chili Cook-Off raised over $1,000

for the Kimberly Reaume Scholarship Fund.

Kelly Scheer earned rst place in chili with herCream Cheese Chicken Chili.

Jean Reaume received rst place in soup withher Pasta Fagioli.

Larry Bell received an honorable mention formaking soup and chili.

Political science studentsattend Michigan convention

Three dozen MCCC students were among 770Michigan students who attended the MichiganStudent Political Issues Convention at Henry FordCommunity College in October.

Students met in breakout sessions to choose theissues that are most important to be presented toMichigan legislators.

Political Science Professor Dr. Joanna Sabo tookthe 36 MCCC students to the convention.

Two Monroe students noted below addressedthe entire plenary session to make their remarks

regarding the list of issues.

MASS holds coat drive for

Salvation Army House The Math and Science Society is sponsoring a

drive for non-perishable foods, coats, and glovesfor the Salvation Army Manor House.

Collection boxes around campus will remain oncampus till Tuesday, Nov. 20.

National Roll Call Day

honored servicemen, womanMCCC participated in National Roll Call day in

honor of American service men and woman.

At 12:30 p.m. Nov. 12, in the AdministrationBuilding cafeteria, Student Government mem-

bers read off the 222 names of service members

from Michigan who died in the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan.

At 2 p.m., a minute of silence was held campus-wide in honor of the fallen heroes.

Whitman holds display onWorld War II and Holocaust

The Whitman Center is hosting Parallel Jour-neys: World War II and the Holocaust, during themonth of November.

Stories presented include those of Anne Frankand Traudl Junge (Adolf Hitlers personal secre-tary). The display is on loan from Kennesaw StateUniversity.

Assistance open for students

studying for nal examsTutors will be available to help students on

Thursday, Dec. 6, from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in theLearning Assistance Lab.

Tutors will help review concepts, provide studytips, and answer questions.

No appointments are necessary. Light snacksalso will be provided to students throughout theevening.

Cash raised for breast cancer

Thanks to the students and staff of MCCC,Student Government collected $224.73 towardsBreast Cancer research. The money will be do-nated to the American Breast Cancer Foundation.

By Katie MullinFor the Agora

After the Roman Empire hadfallen and Europe was beginningto awaken, something very differ-ent was happening in what is nowTemperance, Mich.

The year was around 1200 A.D.and several Native Americanfamilies had staked their campin a eld not far from the Whit-man Center land that has beenoccupied for the last 150 years bygenerations of the Adams family.

Enter Dr. Kenneth Mohney, as-sociate professor of Anthropologyat Monroe County CommunityCollege, who was invited by thefamily to investigate the mysteri-ous earlier inhabitants.

Here is a place where you andI live, Mohney says. You aretouching a place where they livedand you were the rst person totouch it in 800 years. We need to

bring these people back to life.

The Adams farmland wastransformed into an archaeologi-cal site last spring by Mohneyand his students. In May, Mohney

brought his archaeological eld-work class to the site, where eachstudent got hands-on experiencein the eld.

Others who assisted the stu-dents on the site included volun-teers from Michigan State Uni-versity, the University of Toledoand the Michigan ArchaeologicalSociety. Among them was a pot-tery expert, who helped identifythe period, based on the potterystyle.

The site was now a puzzleboard, and the pieces of the puzzlewere being revealed, one by one,as the team stumbled upon inter-esting ndings.

Evidence of postholes and pitswas revealed throughout the exca-vation. Mohney said the postholesindicated that the early inhabitants

built wigwam-type structures.

The wigwams probably werecircular, conical dwellings that in-cluded a central hearth inside forcooking and warmth, he said.

For the roong, they may haveused cattails or animal skins that

were woven into mats.

The pits that were found werenot only used to prepare food

but also served as wastebaskets,Mohney said. Some of the nd-ings of what they threw away re-vealed fragments of pottery andstone and charred pieces of ani-mal bone.

Mohney said its likely the fam-ilies gathered in large groups dur-ing the summer, then dispersedinto smaller ones like the Adamssite for the fall and winter.

As the team progressed in theirexcavation, details started toemerge on what the people atethere. Some of the leftovers in-

cluded traces of burned nutshellsand charred animal bone.

They were so focused on thenut harvest, Mohney said, add-ing, We know they were hunt-ers.

These hunters may have con-

gregated along the rivers duringthe summers as the soils thereare rich and the wildlife plentiful,Mohney said.

They may have even livedalong the Raisin, he said.

Mysteries still surround the site,like missing pieces to a puzzle.Mohney explained that, accordingto Professor Emeritus David Sto-thers research at the University of

Toledo, the people around the Ad-ams site appeared to have beenforced from the area, due to pres-sure from groups in the SanduskyBay region. The people then relo-cated to the Saginaw region.

Mohney said that supporting

evidence for Stothers theory canbe seen in their pottery, which dis-appears from the Sandusky areaand makes a sudden re-emergencein the Saginaw region.

But the story does not end there.The puzzle pieces can be un-earthed if there is more fundingfor excavations and testing, suchas the animal bones that werefound.

We need funding for thingslike carbon dating, Mohney said.We have an idea what some ofthese species represent, but notexactly as we need someone toanalyze the bones.

Mohney said he hopes a grantcan provide the necessary fund-ing. Meanwhile, he anticipatesthat additional excavations of thesite are on the horizon and there ismuch more beyond the 40 squaremeters they excavated this springand summer.

The Adams site is signicantbecause it lets us see a part of the

archaeological record that oftenescapes notice, Mohney said. Be-cause it is away from major wa-terways, only a small number ofsites of this type have been profes-sionally investigated, he said.

Mohney urged the public to beaware of their surroundings.

I think its important to under-stand where we came from, hesaid.

Photos courtesy of Ken Mohney

From left, MCCC students Robert Waltbillig and James Jay work on the Adams site archaeological dig near the Whitman Center last summer.

You are touching a place wherethey lived and you were the frstperson to touch it in 800 years.

Dr. Kenneth Mohney

Students dig history in Temperace

Movie reverses students opinions on poverty

The marks on these potteryshards helped experts date thembetween 500 and 1200 A.D.

Brent Borcsani, Eric Bodoh, Evelyn Smith and Megan Fenig were among the three dozen MCCC students who at-

tended the Michigan Student Political Issues Convention in October.

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The rst installment in the Haloseries by 343 Industries is a rav-ing success.

Halo 4s campaign is very good.

The storyline is engaging, al-though somewhat predictable,and the level design is mostly animprovement over earlier gamesin the series.

The storyline is short, however,and a full playthrough only takessix or seven hours.

Many parts of the story alsoseem to hint at other games, al-though this could just be a coin-

cidence.The opening cutscene has a hint

of a Mass Effect feel to it, and oth-er small things, such as a star mapthat looks similar to the star mapsin Knights of the Old Republic,also appear.

The ending to the campaign isprobably the best ending of anyHalo game to date.

Even when it is somewhat ex-pected, the ending still invokes anemotional response.

But while Halo 4s campaignis a very solid mode on its own,multiplayer is where the game re-ally shines.

Halo 4s multiplayer is a vastimprovement over Halo: Reach.

Online play is much smoother

and has very few lag issues, even

when playing with a full game of16 players.

Connection speed also seemsto play less of a role as it did inReach.

The addition to loadouts scaredsome by making it appear to bea type of Call of Duty clone, butarmor abilities are extremely bal-anced.

There is no one ability that isdominant over the others as inthe Call of Duty series, and eachgun has a spot where it is the bestavailable option while also havinga weakness.

The one weakness to multiplay-

er on Halo 4 are the maps.As players are given the optionto pick one of three maps beforeevery game, it seems that the ma-

jority of games are being playedon the same maps.

It can lead to a feeling of re-petitiveness when playing fourstraight games of Dominion onLongbow or ve games of BigTeam Slayer on Ragnarok.

There is a reason that certainmaps are dominating in voting,though.

Halo 4 does not have a great va-riety of good maps.

Complex might be the worstmap ever in a Halo game.

Solace is a pretty weak map aswell.

But 343 Industries has three

map packs planned for Halo 4,and hopefully these additionalmaps will improve the availablechoices.

Halo 4 also introduces SpartanOps, which is a weekly campaign-style game type.

Each week, a new episode of 5chapters is released, and is a con-tinuous story.

Through two weeks, it appearsthat the maps used will cycle withnew parts opening up each weekand used parts being closed off,with some overlap.

Spartan Ops is a combination ofcampaign and multiplayer.

Players can play Spartan Opssolo, but it is designed more inthe mold of being played in co-opmode.

So far, Spartan Ops has beenimpressive and well worth thetime to play.

The story isnt very intriguingyet, but the playthroughs have

been quite fun with the occasionalchallenge.

Halo 4 is by far an improvementover Halo 3 and Halo: Reach.Will it come to surpass Halo 2 formultiplayer? Possibly.

I give Halo 4 a 10/10, and is amust buy for everyone who is afan of the shooter genre, and es-

pecially if any Halo game was en-joyed previously.

Halo provides impressive

game play, graphics

Photos by Nicki Kostrzewa

Top: There was an option with Black Ops 2 to buy a Care-package version. Inside the care-package theresits a NQ-27-Dragon Fire, a copy of the game itself, and real life game challenge coins with the gamelogos on them.

Bottom: The NQ-27-Dragon Fire was one object that came with the $180 package. This drone comes witha stand, a mini-gun, controller and a charging unit.

Nicki KostrzewaAgora Staff

Black Ops 2 is the most recentinstallment of the Call of Dutyseries.

For those of you that are die-hard fans, I bet you havent leftyour game system in the past fewdays.

This game has its ups anddowns, just like the others, but itsomething that we have and willcontinue to live on with as gam-ers.

The campaign of the game isjust like all the others of series.

There are twists and turns, butlike normal they all seem veryshort.

However, I feel this is becausemost fans are in it for the multi-

player and zombies, and the gam-

ing industry knows that.

Before we get into those thingsI would still like to say that whenyou go to knife someone, therestill seems to be like a lag, givingyour enemy a time to hit you.

I know this happens to ev-eryone, but it continues to hap

-

pen throughout all the games itseems.

Then there are the maps, whichI felt they did well giving you aneven number of small and large.

Hijacked is one of my favor-ites, there is still room to snipe,

but not so much that you cantjust run around with dual wield-ing hand guns.

Carrier is another good one.Its a rather large map, which justmakes it that much more fun.

What I noticed about peopleplaying on this map is that ev-eryone really stays on top of theship.

Everyone knows theres a bot-tom section of the ship right? It is

just as good as the top!Another wonderful thing that

they did with this game is makingit easier to choose your weaponsand attachments.

They went through the troublelaying everything out with some

kind of descriptive icon so theplayer knew exactly what theywere getting.

A good portion of the fans lovethe Nazi zombies from the past,

but I feel that you will love thezombies of now.

The new way they did zombiesreally opens it up for the players.

Not only do you take a bus tothe many different locations, butthe action comes along for theride, letting you shoot zombies asthey try to inltrate the bus.

The locations are also very ap-propriate for zombie rounds.

The designers this time wentwith an end of the world look.

Not to mention the fact thatif you are really into playingthrough everything, you have to

build things with scrap parts toget from place to place more suc-cessfully.

I have to give a Black Ops 2 a10 out of 10 for one of the bestgames in the past few months.

Black Ops 2 offers newmaps, killer zombies

Carla CrockettAgora Staff

A book that sold an estimated 3.7 mil-lion copies its rst day hit the big screen

last week.

Starting at 10 p.m. Thursday, crowdsranging from eager teenagers to roman-ticizing middle-aged women lined up to

buy their tickets for Breaking Dawn, PartII.

Phoenix Theatres in the Mall of Mon-roe decided to show the movie earlierand in more theaters, making it the onlymovie to play in all of their cinemas.

As the lights dimmed, the openingscenes showed Bella Swan, played byKristen Stewart, waking up as a newbornvampire.

Bella, after a quick, awkward, and hu-morous bite to eat, gets to really see herchild, Renesmee, for the rst time.

The obviously computer-generated

baby lookedtoo

perfect, making her ap-

pearance disturbing.

The lm is PG-13, but felt racy as Bellaand Edward tore into each other like asex education seminar.

As the story progressed, Taylor Laut-ner, who plays Jacob Black, pleads withBellas dad, Charlie, to hear him out, sothe Cullens will stay in Forks.

Jacob then starts taking his clothes off,making the scene uncomfortable like

a middle school locker room.After a misunderstanding between theever famous Volturi and the Cullens, anold story is told. The story is of a timewhen immortal (or vampire) babies werecreated.

The camera then pans to an ador-able 2-year-old with blood-red eyes and

blood-stained lips.

It looked as though he was dressed fortrick-or-treating.

Toward the end of the movie, Aro, headof the Volturi, lets out a strange exclama-tion of excitement, scaring the audienceand also making them erupt in laughter.

The best effect in the movie, Bellasnewly realized ability of shieldingthoughts, actions and harm, was surpris-ingly shown very realistically.

Once the ght started between bothparties, the ground split into two and awolf fell into the pit looking deep intowhat felt like the audiences soul.

The movie ended with an oh-so-touch-ing ashback and rolling of the entirecasts credits for all ve movies.

The $8.75 to watch this sequel wasonly justied by mufed laughter andwondering, Will Bella ever stop stutter-ing?

Odd ending to Twilight SagaWARNING: SPOILERS INCLUDED

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factor between two candidates.

These deciding details can be anything from con-dence to presentation. And along with a persons presen-

tation comes his or her appearance.

The nations largest retailer, Walmart, doesnt allowfacial piercings (i.e. eyebrow, nose or lip). They do al-low tattoos that arent offensive; offensive tattoosmust be covered up.

Borders, until recently one of the nations largestbooksellers, viewed body art and piercings as some-thing that makes a worker more interesting and a de-nite plus.

Ford Motor Co. allows everyone from senior ex-ecutives on down to have tattoos and piercings. Theonly exception is that factory workers are asked torefrain from piercings that could endanger factorysettings and/or worker safety.

Wahoos, a California-based chain of sh tacorestaurants, allows employees to strut their tattoosin its restaurants and corporate ofce (specicallygraphic designers, and even the owner).

Company policies differ with every career andthis should be taken into consideration before per-manently altering the skin.

Anyone considering getting a tattoo shouldthink about what their future holds. If you aregoing to be a stockbroker for a living, having

holes in your ears the size of baseballs canpossibly cause some clients to not trust youwith their thousands of dollars, said MCCC

student Tyler Davis.

Tattoos are permanent, expensive, and ex-tremely painful, especially when theyre re-

moved. If these pieces of art were not acceptedin the workplace, every person who plans to

obtain a respectable job would be forced toremove all of their visible tattoos and piercings.

MCCC student Rehanna Boissonneault, wantedto get gauges during her freshman year. She laterwas happy she didnt when she met a girl who hadgauges and needed to have surgery to x her earsfor her job.

The risk of not being able to obtain a respect-able job is not a serious concern for some students.MCCC student Brad Grodi has small gauges and hasaspirations of being a lawyer.

I have years of college left before I can even startapplying for jobs, Grodi said.

When Grodi got his gauges, he knew he wouldhave to keep his business life professional. To hidethe gauges, he bought glass gauges that are hard tosee even at a close distance.

Honestly, if I wore my usual gauges, I dontthink Ill be taken seriously because Id be seen asa punk or unprofessional. Also, if I go any biggerin gauge size, itd be unsuitable for any profes-sional career, Grodi said.

Many MCCC students agreed that thereshould be boundaries for tattoos and piercings,such as a face or neck tattoo and the larger-sized gauges.

I dont have any issues with body art, butI do when it comes to altering the face, saidMCCC student Carly Hicks.

People say tattoos are to be unique andshow personality, but your face is the mostunique thing about you. I do not understandwhy someone would do that.

Other students say there are not any bound-aries and that body art is a persons way ofexpressing themselves.

I am currently accessorizing with elevenpiercings and am in the process of gettingtattoos that have symbolic meaning to me,said Michael Ansell.

My body is my canvas and there should

be no boundaries, Ansell said.If you disagree with the fact that I sup-

port tattoos and piercings in the work-place, that is perfectly ne, but you aresaying that I shouldnt alter my own bodywith things that I nd meaningful, hesaid.

Whether tattoos and body piercings arepermanent, temporary, or a fad, its un-

likely they will fade out anytime soon.

Expressing

yourself,MCCC-

style

Arton thehuman

bodyStudents

show off their

individualism

Multiple earrings - from one to a doz-en or more - are a common style.

Shooting stars adorn a hip - one of the most popularspots for tatoos among women.

Gauges makeroom formuch largerearrings, of-fering moreexibility forexpression.

Using the back of the neck to send amessage is another trend.

A ve-point star onthe forearm makes astatement that is easilyvisible, but also easilycovered by long sleeves.

Dermel piercing ofthe lower back provides

a setting for a varietyof kinds of jewelry.

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Agora Staff

I know that most people think thatwaitressing is an easy job, and that

a monkey could do it, in most in-stances, this is true.

Even though the basics of wait-ressing are simple - seating a table,getting drinks, taking food orders,delivering food, relling drinks,clearing plates and giving thecheck - its more complicated thanit sounds.

You have to deal with many typesof people and you have to look formany different things.

Certain people want to talk to youabout your life, and what they didduring the day. Others, want peaceand quiet and will glare each timeyou try to say anything.

You learn to read people by theirbody language, what they say to youand the way they behave.

Some people can make your jobharder. They want you to run andgive them everything separately. Forexample, they will ask for more ice

for their drink, then when you returnthey ask for napkins then theyrerude and dont say thank you. Theymake you work hard for them, andleave you with change on the table.

Other people will not understandwhen you have six tables that youwont be there every ve minutes.

As a waitress, I have learned toread people. I know what they wantand how often to go to a table.

It is also your job to make surethat other tables get what they needtoo.

You have to run food for otherwaitresses, seat customers, takecarry-out orders and make sure thewaitress aisle is clean.

The job isnt as cut-and-dry as itseems. There is a lot more to it than

what people think. Also, the conde-scending remarks and sarcastic cus-tomers make the job harder than itneeds to be.

Many customers are shocked tond out that in Michigan waitressesearn $2.65 an hour plus tips. Overthe years, as minimum wage hasgone up, the waitressing wage hasstayed the same.

If customers could take the timeto understand the stress of workinghard each day and coming homewith $30, they might tip better.

My tips go toward the 10 bills Ihave each month. I have to stresseach month trying to make enoughto cover my bills, gas for my car,food, and other basic necessities.

So, next time you go out, think be-fore you speak to your waitress andremember that your tipping is basi-cally her paycheck.

Nicki Kostrzewa

Agora Staff

There comes a time within col-lege life that everyone needs to sit

back and take a big reality check.

As college students most of usfeel invincible.

These are the rst few years ofour lives that we are out on ourown and we are control of whatcomes of our actionssurprise!

The world isnt like you thought.The teachers dont accept late

work, the tests are harder, andthere is less one-on-one time witheach professor.

Everything that is needed forthat class is on you and only you.There is no saying that my carwouldnt start or I was sick.That kind of stuff just doesntwork anymore.

We are individually responsiblefor our lives and our futuresandour professors know it.

With that being said, studentsare not the only ones who needreality checks from time to time,

professors and other staff mem-bers do too.

When it comes to our profes-

sors, some of them expect us thatafter the rst week of class, weshould know everything that theclass entails.

We are still college students,and this is all constantly a newlearning experience.

Dont always assume we knowwhats going on and leave usalone with a ton of work to dowalk us through it.

Dont tell us that you (the pro-fessor) is doing all the work, helpus students help you.

Not to mention dont assumewe are all lazy good-for-nothings.Some us try really hard or havemore than just college on our

plates.Some of us are raising kids,

paying bills, looking for work, orwork as much as we go to school.

Some professors think that way,but its a very small percentage.

I know some of them are read-ing this thinking; Give me a

break when in all reality studentsdeserve one just as much as youdo.

We are just like youwe cry,we have heartache, and we workto provide for ourselves or others.

And Im sorry, but me puttingfood on the table will alwayscome before anything else.

If the teachers themselves havebeen through those hardships,they would know that you can

never really see the people whoare having a hard time, who haveproblems.

Dont expect everyones life tobe full of sunshine and rainbowsis all that Im saying.

Chris Stadtfeld

Agora Staff

While President Obama andMitt Romney squared off Nov. 6,Puerto Rico was a little sneaky.

For the rst time since the ef-

fort began in 1967, Puerto Ricansvoted to become a state with over61 percent of the vote.

Congress would have to ratifyPuerto Ricos statehood, but theBBC reports that Congress hasnever said no.

All this means something verysimple: the United States ofAmerica may soon have a agwith 51 stars.

The vote, however, was over-shadowed as the Tea Party lostground around the country, Presi-dent Obama won re-election, andmarriage equality and recreationalmarijuana became legal in mul-tiple states.

Regardless, the repercussionsof Puerto Rico becoming the51st State could be dramatic, far-reaching, and instant.

For example, the Electoral Col-lege map would take a new shape.

Each state automatically getsone legislator in the House ofRepresentatives and two Senators.Those totals combine to mean thatstates Electoral College inu-ence, pinning the minimum at 3.

For states low in populationlike Alaska, Delaware, and Ver-mont, such is reality. Nobody cansteal Electoral College votes fromthem.

But Puerto Rico is home to 3.7million people, placing it 29th outof all the states and American ter-

ritories.

Although the House of Repre-sentatives would redistribute seatsto stay at 435 members, PuertoRico would automatically be ableto send 2 Senators to Congress,

bringing the Electoral Collegepool to 540 votes.

Based on population, PuertoRico could have as many as 6electoral votes upon statehood.

For fteen existing states in-cluding Iowa, New Hampshireand Utah, which each have lessthan 3.5 million people, that couldmean a loss of electoral inuence.

Regardless, President Obamahas voiced his support for PuertoRico upon application for state-hood.

If the move does go through,Puerto Rico would be the rstnew state in over 50 years.

Hawaii became the 50th statein August of 1959, mere monthsafter Alaska joined the Union inJanuary.

What may not occur to some,however, is the boost to the econ-omy which could result from aPuerto Rican statehood.

For the ag-making industry atleast, there would be huge ordersto ll in order to replace all the 50-star ags around the country, atforeign embassies, military bases,and so on.

Questions remain, as PuertoRico would have to draft a stateconstitution and begin paying fed-eral taxes.

Until then, however, Americanswill just have to wait and see.

The United States should follow Eu-ropes example.

To a lot of Americans, such a concept isforeign, unwelcome, and blasphemous.

We hate foreigners. We demand peoplespeak English in the United States, and askthey speak it in their own countries to caterto our vacation needs.

Then we wonder why the rest of theworld hates us.

And then we get upset when PresidentObama has all the nerve to show a little hu-mility and apologize for all our arrogance.

How dare he? After all, there is no waythat we can be the villains of the world.Americans are always the good guys.

The sad part is, plenty of us are guilty. Areality check is in order, but its a consis-tently ignored item on the menu.

Meanwhile, Europe and China thegrand villains of the world, in too manyAmerican eyes are beginning to very se-riously lead the way.

For example, France has engineered afake tree that harvests the energy exertedwith the kinetics of childrens play to yankgreen house gases out of the atmosphereand yield oxygen instead.

Elsewhere in Europe, car guys have in-vented a car that runs on compressed air.

European countries are beginning to seehigher standards of living, greater invest-

ments in education, infrastructure, andgreen energy, and all the while, the UnitedStates is caught in the turmoil of inghting.

This no-apologies attitude must stop if,for example, we are to raise our literacyrate above that of Lithuania a countrymost of us probably havent even heard of.

In a country where to show humility isto show weakness, this is an uphill battle.

Moreover, the soldier worship aroundthe country sets off a red ag any time De-fense funds nd their way to the chopping

block, regardless of what kind of leaner-and-meaner goal is behind it.

We bloat our military, bloat our egos,stick to oil like its our lifes blood, andAmericans are so stuck in this set of waysthat we make ourselves blind to the prog-ress other people are making.

Thats dangerous, because a lot ofAmericans consider those emerging lead-ers as enemies and serious rivals.

Part of solving a problem is admittingit exists.

Americans need to acknowledge thisproblem. Unfortunately, theyre too busycalling the French and the British the

most arrogant people on the planet.

Never mind, of course, that the samepeople who think that are the rst ones tomake threats if you even hint that Americais awed.

As a part of the global community, theUnited States needs to rise to the challengeand remind ourselves that humility is notequal to weakness.

For that reason, President Obamasapology tour was a good idea and a nec-essary measure to re-secure our standingwith the rest of mankind.

Im a big believer that remaining a su-perpower on the world stage is not a mat-ter of always having a bigger stick than theother guy.

I nd it pitiful that I often seem the onlyone to be thinking that.

Servers work hard forsmall tips, loose change

Puerto Rico craves statehood

School lifevs. real life

Americans shouldntbe afraid to say sorry

We bloatour military,bloat ouregos, stickto oil likeits our lifes

blood, andAm er i ca nsare so stuckin this set ofways that wemake our-selves blind to the progress otherpeople are making.

Chris StadtfeldAgora Staff

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Detroit Tigers slugger, Miguel Cabrera ,now has the Most Valuable Player award togo along with his Triple Crown this season.

Cabrera won MVP over the Los Angeles

Angels phenom rookie Mike Trout. Cabre-ra got 22 rst place votes to Trouts 6 and atotal of 362 points to Trouts 281. Trout wonthe Rookie of the Year award, however.

Tigers have taken home the MVP tro-phy in back-to-back seasons, with startingpitcher, Justin Verlander winning the honorslast year.

Cabrera is the rst Venezuelan born play-er to win MVP.

Trout was favored by many of the more

sabermetric-focused analysts and fans. Itsdue to his league leading in Wins AboveReplacement of 10.7 to Cabreras 6.9, ac-cording to ESPN.

WAR is a summary of a players all-around contributions to his team and weighstheir ability to create or prevent runs.

WAR is calculated slightly different de-pending on the formula used by the statisti-cian or website.

I was a little concerned, I thought Troutwas going to win because they put his num-

bers over me, Cabrera said.

Cabrera was backed by the traditional-ist statisticians, with Cabrera winning theTriple Crown and leading the AmericanLeague in home runs, batting average, andruns batted in.

Cabrera awarded MVP,holds triple crown

Miguel Cabrera was awarded the title of MVP with a total of 362 points.