At a Glance: The DAC

The Diversity Achievement Center is a resource center located in Student Union room F-202. All of the staff and volunteers are extremely friendly and helpful. The biggest goal of the DAC is to raise awareness and understanding of the diversity we live with everyday.

The Diversity Achievement Center

The Diversity Achievement Center has a constant buzz about it. There's always traffic in and out of the large room and the sign in sheet fills with entries everyday. There's always a smiling face to greet you, an open table or computer to work at and an endless supply of positivity.

"I always do my home work in the DAC." said Kathrine Lee, a first year student and DAC frequenter. "It's an easy place to get work done and hangout with my friends between classes."

So where is this mysterious DAC? It's located in Student Union room F-202 and is attached to the Commuter office.

"I just walked in randomly on the first day of school looking for a computer lab, but I'm glad I did because now it's my favorite place on campus!" Said Lee about how she came across the DAC on her first day at LBCC.

DAC Coordinator, Toni Klohk is constantly showing videos, inviting speakers and hosting small celebrations every single week in the DAC. "Diversity Day" was put on by the DAC last week and was extremely successful.

"The whole point of these workshops, presentations and events are to raise awareness and understanding of the diversity issues we live with everyday." said Valerie Zeigler.

Zeigler is the Outreach and Retention Specialist for Non-Traditional Careers. Her goal is to encourage men and women to not only consider but pursue a gender imbalanced career field and successfully enter the job market.

The DAC is an extremely helpful resource and can help students in many ways. Even if you come to finish a paper or hang out between classes, you'll leave with a better understanding of the diversity that we are surrounded by.

At a Glance: Sasquatch

The Sasquatch Music Festival is an annual event held in the gorge amphitheater in central Washington. The festival takes place over memorial day weekend and draws thousands of people from the U.S. and Canada. It brings in a wide variety of bands and musicians and offers an excellent opportunity for concert goers to see big headliners, up-and-comers and everywhere in between.

Sasquatch Sighting

Thousands descended upon the gorge amphitheater in central Washington over Memorial Day weekend in search of the mythical creature know as Sasquatch. What they discovered will forever shape their understanding of live music. The ninth annual Sasquatch Music Festival was bigger and better than ever in 2010 with well over 20,000 concert goers each of the three days.

"I've been to Sasquatch for the last three years and it keeps getting better and better!" said LBCC student Mackenzie Moser.

The Sasquatch music festival has been quickly growing in popularity since it first started in 2002. This meeting of musical talents has brought more and more patrons to the gorge with each passing year. The festival's big name headliners are what bring the most people to the festival, but there are always other acts that manage to steal the show.

Deadmau5 didn't disappoint with his performance on the Bigfoot Stage Saturday evening. The Canadian mouse-headed DJ captivated thousands in attendance not only with his music but with a light show that made the famous Fremont Street in Las Vegas look like a lite brite.

Kid Cudi had the crowd on their feet Sunday afternoon with his set on the Main Stage. His unique style and infectious stage presence impressed more than just the hip-hop fans.

Band of Horses played arguably the best set of the entire festival on Monday evening and did so in front of the always picturesque backdrop provided by the gorge.

"Band of Horses was amazing!" said concert goer Hannah Zimmerman. "Every song was so great and I was blown away by how good they were live!"

Sasquatch has not only found, but has invited you to join him next memorial day weekend in the gorge for a what could be the greatest weekend of your life.... that is, if you believe in Sasquatch.

LBCC Students to Excavate Fort Hoskins

Aside from a college football game, not a lot of people think about the state of Oregon when they hear "The Civil War". To most, The Civil War brings images of Gettysburg, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee... not the northwest.

"Most people don't think of Oregon during the civil war, but we had troops stationed here and they played a very important role." Said Dr. David Brauner, the organizer of the field school this summer.

Fort Hoskins was established in 1856 by the United States Army to regulate traffic from the coast into the Willamette valley and to monitor the Coastal Indian Reservation. It was one of three Military forts built in western Oregon in the mid 1800's. The first base commander, Captain Christopher Augur named the base after Lieutenant Charles Hoskins. Augur and Hoskins were in the same regiment, but Hoskins lost his life in 1846 during the Mexican war.

Oregon State's Dr. David Brauner is the man behind this entire project. He's been working for over a decade to piece together the history of the fort. Alongside Dr. Brauner will be a handful of LBCC and OSU students. Many of the students working at the field school are either Anthropology or Archaeology majors, but there are quite a few students that are majoring in something totally unrelated.

"Most of the field schools that I have participated in, as both student and staff, there has been a relatively equal number of archaeology majors and students whose majors were as diverse as Economics, Art, Ethnic Studies, and Architecture." Said Michele Wilson, Anthropology Professor at LBCC.

The students participating will be putting in some very long days, but they'll come away with very valuable experience. "For any participant, field schools give practical archaeological experience. Students learn how to survey and excavate using appropriate techniques and a variety of equipment." Says Wilson.

Wilson went on to say that these students will "exit with real-world, in-the-trenches work experience that they will take with them when they become archaeologists for hire."