Linn-Benton Community College

The choir program at Linn-Benton Community College recently released its first music CD entitled "Music is My Refuge." The CD features the LBCC Re-Choired Element, Concert Choir and Blue Light Special's award winning performances, including the American Prize in Choral Performance under the direction of conductor and LBCC music faculty James Reddan. “Music is My Refuge” CD is available for purchase for $15 through the theater box office ticket line at www.linnbenton.edu/go/tickets. Online CD orders will have an additional charge for postage. The CD is also available for purchase at the Russell Tripp Performance Center Box Office in Takena Hall, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. For more information, contact the LBCC theater box office at 541-917-4531.

Join in for a game of Texas Hold Em’, a fund-raiser to benefit the Linn-Benton Community College Democracy Club student trip to Egypt next spring. The tournament will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 4 p.m. in the LBCC Commons cafeteria, 2nd floor of the Calapooia Center, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Entry fee is $15 per person payable at the door. A silent auction will be held during the tournament, with handmade glass ornaments on auction. All proceeds will benefit the student’s trip costs. Tournament prizes include gift certificates for tanning, tattoos, and to Gamestop, Ixtapa Mexican Restaurant, and Air Thai. For more information or to purchase advance tickets, e-mail Robert Harrison at harrisr@linnbenton.edu or call 541-917-4571.

The LBCC Benton Center Pottery Sale will be held on Friday, Dec. 10, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Benton Center Ceramics Studio located at the Benton Center, 757 NW Polk Ave., Corvallis. Buy your holiday pottery gifts and help support the ceramics studio. Ceramics faculty, students and instructional assistants from LBCC will showcase their work and offer raku, high fire, salt fire, and wood fire pieces for sale. Selection includes vessels and vases, a wide variety of decorative items, useable tableware, small sculptures and more. A portion of all sales is used to purchase wheels, kilns and other ceramic studio equipment. For more information, contact Lin Olson at 541-757-8944

Oregon’s November revenue forecast offered little relief to Linn-Benton Community College’s $2.6 million shortfall in the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The current year shortfall is a direct result of a reduction in state support from the originally appropriated $450.5 million to the current $416 million in support for Oregon’s 17 community colleges. “I, along with many others, had hoped that the $60 million increase in the recent forecast might provide us with some relief from this current year’s fiscal challenges,” stated LBCC President Greg Hamann. “But this increase amounts to less than one-half of one percent of total state revenue, so we do not anticipate any increase in state funding for LBCC.” The LBCC Board of Education approved a tuition increase of $7 per credit hour beginning winter term 2011 at its Wednesday, Nov. 19 meeting. The board has directed the college to make reductions in personnel costs and operations in addition to increasing tuition. “This tuition increase is the...

The ESOL department at Linn-Benton Community College is offering Medical Terminology Classes for non-native speakers of English starting winter term. Introduction to Medical Terminology 1 (ENL130) is a two-credit class that introduces the word-building skills and pronunciation needed to understand and use basic medical terminology. Students need to have intermediate to advanced English proficiency. Class will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. on the Albany campus starting Jan. 4. The class Introduction to Medical Terminology 2 (ENL131) will be offered spring term and will help develop word-building skills to describe the different body systems. Students who pass both these classes are eligible to enter directly into Medical Terminology and Body Systems 2 (MO5.631) through the LBCC Medical Assistant Program. In addition, the ESOL department is also offering credit courses in reading, writing, grammar, college lectures and note taking, presentations, pronunciation ...

Vice President Bruce Clemetsen and the college are inviting an LBCC student to become College President for a day! Swap places with President Greg Hamann; he will attend your classes while you run the college! Applications Due by Friday, December 10. To apply, submit the following: A copy of your detailed Winter Term 2011 course schedule Your name, telephone numbers and e-mail address A 100-word or less essay that responds to this question: “What would you do for the college in one day if you were LBCC President?” Turn documents, stapled together, to the “President For A Day” drop box in the Student Life & Leadership office on the first floor of the Student Union by 5 p.m. on Friday, December 10, 2010. You must be available on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 to swap places with the LBCC President. You will also be asked to attend an LBCC Board of Education meeting that evening and to submit a brief written report on what you accomplished and learned.

The winning entry for the Rename SIS contest is "Webrunner," submitted by LBCC student Tyler Spevacek. Tyler won an Apple iPod for his entry, which was chosen from more than 500 entries from students, staff and faculty. Tyler is an exercise science major. He currently serves as president of the LBCC Associated Student Government. Congratulations, Tyler, and thanks to all who entered!

The Linn-Benton Community College choirs will perform “The Heavens Are Telling” on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell Tripp Performance Center, LBCC Takena Hall, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. LBCC music instructor James Reddan will conduct the performances of the Concert Choir, Re-Choired Element Chamber Choir, Women’s Choir, Blue Light Special, and the Sirens. Diana Hancock will accompany on piano. Jason Caffarella will conduct the LBCC Men’s Ensemble. The concert will feature 21 pieces of music performed by over 170 voices from LBCC's award winning choirs. Selections will include Eric Whitacre's "Sleep", Brian Schmidt's "Lux Aeterna", Franz Joseph Haydn’s "The Heaven's Are Telling" from the Creation, Randall Thompson's "Choose Something Like A Star", Darmon Meader's "We Three Kings," and much, much more. There will be everything from the lively to the ethereal with almost every choral genre featured...

New credit students intending to apply for admission to start winter term at Linn-Benton Community College should submit their applications by Friday, December 3. Applications received after that date will be processed for spring term. Students must be fully admitted to register for 12 or more credits, receive priority registration in future terms, or to be eligible to receive Financial Aid. Students can still take up to 11 credits and take non-credit courses without being admitted to LBCC. For more information, visit the LBCC web site at www.linnbenton.edu or contact the LBCC Admissions Office at 541-917-4811.

The LBCC Benton Center Acoustic Showcase presents Marquette Gumbo on Friday, Nov. 19 from Noon to 1 p.m. in the center student lounge, 757 NW Polk Ave., Corvallis. Southern-rooted Marquette Gumbo, known for their lively Corvallis Farmers Market riffs, will fill the Benton Center with their style of musical genius. Sid Beam and Joe Casprowiak, musical brothers for more than 40 years, comprise the musical base for Marquette Gumbo. Often joined by other local artists, Sid and Joe make music that embodies the creativity and upbeat spirit of the popular music from the Great Depression era. The Acoustic Showcase is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the LBCC Benton Center at 541-757-8944.

Had your car fixed lately? Or dental work done? Or maybe a check-up at the doctor’s office? Looked for an accountant? Hired someone to landscape your yard? Dropped your children at preschool? Called someone to fix your computer? Even if you have never taken a class at LBCC, the college is deeply embedded in your community in many ways. Maybe it’s a family tradition to bring your children or grandchildren to the annual Children’s Winter Festival, now celebrating its 40th year. Maybe your child attended LBCC, or your neighbor, friend or co-worker. Maybe you’ve attended a music performance or play at the college, or a job fair. Ask your mechanic, dental or medical assistant, accountant, local chef, preschool instructor, childcare provider, veterinarian assistant, or nurse . . . and you’ll find many will have one thing in common: LBCC. LBCC is in your life, helping you and your family everyday. Below are a few former students, at work in your communities. You may even know a few! Medical A...

Auditions for the 36th annual Linn-Benton Community College Children’s Play Nick Tickle, Fairytale Detective will be held on Monday, Nov. 15 and Tuesday, Nov. 16. Auditions will be held at 3 p.m. or 6 p.m. on both days in the Russell Tripp Performance Center in Takena Hall, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Scripts will be available for viewing in the theater box office starting Nov. 5. Directed by LBCC theater director Dan Stone, the play is a comedy by author Steph DeFerie about fairytale detective Nick Tickle who gets caught-up in trying to save the future of fairytales. As story props come up missing, Granny can’t tell her fairytales and calls on Nick, and some cleaver audience participation, to find the “Mysterious Figure” and to help solve the case. Performance dates for local schools are Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning February 8 and going through March 3. Public performances are Feb 20 and 26 at 3 p.m. There will be 16 performances in all. For more information, contact LBCC the...