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MCCC to host Disability Employment Awareness Event

MCCC will host a Disability Employment Awareness Event in the dining room of the A Building at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 10. The event will feature a panel discussion focused on the challenges, opportunities and successes those with disabilities have experienced in school or work. A question and answer session […]

Entertainment

‘Divisions’ continues Starset’s journey

Some bands are hard to fit into a single genre mold. Blending heavy rock, pop, metal and electronic elements in their newest release “Divisions,” Starset is one of those bands. The album dropped Sept. 13 and consists of 13 tracks and is 58 minutes long. In “Divisions,” concepts of organizations […]

News

Faculty contract negotiations finalized

Following negotiations and finalizing details, Sept. 7 saw the approval of a Master Agreement between the Monroe County Community College Faculty Association and the Community College District of Monroe County. The MCCC Board of Trustees approved the agreement unanimously. Effective immediately, the Master Agreement provides updates to current faculty contracts […]

News

Your Student Government and you

Student Government is a student-run leadership group at MCCC. Despite its name, the focus of the group is not politics. “Student Government is a team that is dedicated to making MCCC a better school through leadership, hard work and involvement,” said McKenzie Lamour, historian of Student Government. “Whenever there is […]

Features

MCCC welcomes criminal justice professor

Dan Wood has been in the field of criminal justice for 28 years. During that time, he has worked as a police officer, criminal defense attorney and teacher. These days, he uses his skills in the classroom as the assistant professor of criminal justice at MCCC. Wood plans to use […]

Entertainment

West misses release date of new album

This was supposed to be a review of the new “Jesus is King” album by Kanye West. “Jesus is King” was supposed to drop Sept. 27. At the time of this article, the album hasn’t been released. West and his latest project have had a long road. West announced the […]

Alumni Staff

Cole Younglove

My name is Cole Younglove. I’m a college sophomore at MCCC. My goals are to get a basic understanding of journalism so that I might transfer to EMU after my 2 years. I’m very into writing, but I often get writers block in the form of boredom of a topic. […]

Features

Pop-Fest draws many cosplayers

The Monroe Pop-Fest took place on Sept. 14 and transformed the Monroe Bank & Trust Expo Center into a hub of pop culture, attracting visitors from in and out of town. Lots of attendees appeared in costume, called “cosplay,” ranging from a nine-tailed fox to the Predator and Batman. […]

Opinion

Monroe Pop-Fest has me questioning

I’m a nerd. Or so I thought. I attended Monroe Pop-Fest on Sept. 14 to get photos of the event for my freelance job with Monroe News. On my way there, I thought in my head that I would fit right in. I knew games, movies and anime to a […]