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New Chemistry class, including lab, to be taught online

A Chemistry 151 student performs an experiment. Starting next fall, students will have the option of taking their Chemistry lab online. MCCC is breaking new ground with its first online laboratory course. After an hour of contentious debate on Thursday, Nov. 30, Chemistry 155 was approved by the Curriculum Committee. […]

Opinion

Death is memorialized

Death can be hard to accept, but it is inevitable in the end. Around the world life after death is celebrated in many different ways. Depending on the location in the United States the most common presentation of the dead is in a casket or in an urn, when […]

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Users are charged credit card transaction fee

Director of Financial Services A.J. Fischer appears at many college events. (Photo by Vanessa Ray) Credit card transactions on MCCC’s campus will now cost 2 percent more. The new fee has been added  to help offset the annual cost to the college to process these transactions, according to A.J. Fischer, […]

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Writing Fellows available during extended library hours

Writing Fellow Ryleigh Byrne sits in the library ready to help. The MCCC library will be open until 9 p.m. the rest of this week — Nov. 28 – 30 — in order to accomodate students working on papers or studying for exams. For the first time, there will be […]

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Early Education study abroad trip canceled

A group photo from the study abroad trip to Italy this past spring. (Photo courtesy of Dan Shaw) The Early Education study abroad trip has been canceled due to a lack of interest.  The trip was designed to be short-term and more affordable to allow more students to have a […]

Entertainment

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp solid despite issues

A warm welcome on the title screen. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is the latest in Nintendo’s line of mobile games, following on the success of titles like Super Mario Run and Pokémon Go. Both of those titles offered something new. Super Mario Run was a twist on the typical Mario […]

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Students, staff give thanks

Speech professor Mark Bergmooser prompts students to write what they are thankful for on his whiteboard hanging outside his office door. (Photo by Leah Thomas)     I truly have a billion things to be thankful for: getting a second chance at a higher education (and life in general), […]

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Black Friday | Cyber Monday

Welcome everyone to the holiday madness also known as Black Friday.  In an effort to make both this day (which has almost become a type of gladiator blood sport) and it’s kinder, gentler little sister -Cyber Monday – a bit more bearable, we here at the Agora have assembled a […]