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Coming Soon… Campus ID Cards
Starting Fall 2008 Students and Faculty will be issued personal identification cards
Kayla Barkau
Staff Writer
Something new will be hitting KC after the summer of 2008. This fall the college will be providing all students, along with faculty and staff, a Kaskaskia College Identification Card.
The card for the students will have a picture of the student, the student’s name, and KC ID number along with the college logo and official seal. The library will place the bar code information on the back side therefore eliminating the need for a library card. Students at the education centers will also be provided this same service. During future registration, students will be asked to present their card for identification purposes.
Faculty and staff will have a card that has their picture, name, and department and will be emblazoned with the college logo. In addition, faculty and staff will be encouraged to wear their card either on a lanyard or clip. This will hopefully make it easier to identify faculty and staff throughout the campus when students are looking for someone to assist them.
If you have any questions about the new ID Cards, contact Gina Glotfelty at 545-3099 or GinaG@kaskaskia.edu.
Photographer’s Wild Life
Jon C. Minor
Copy Editor
A magazine with 30 million subscribers has to find intriguing ways to keep their audience speechless. When National Geographic needs breathtaking images of endangered species and threatened ecosystems, they send professional photographer Joel Sartore to take care of business.
As part of Kaskaskia College’s Season of Entertainment, Sartore came to share stories of his career and his life. Country boy, adventurer, family man and fellow native to the Midwest, Sartore has traveled the world to take pictures of some of Earth’s most fascinating and exotic animals and terrains.
The most interesting memories Sartore relayed were those when the job was dangerous or miserable. He entertained the audience with a surprisingly humorous story about almost dying in a plane crash. The engine stalled in midflight and the panicked pilot began screaming before the plane righted itself again. During another close call, a patch of grass saved the falling photographer when a cliff gave way from underneath him. Even scarier perhaps was the time when he was charged by wild muskoxen on a secluded island.
The worst job assignment, according to Sartore, was down in Madidi National Park in Bolivia. He said his time in the jungle there was absolutely miserable when he spent several months in piranha-infested waters, bug-ridden tents and perpetual mud without so much as a doctor or a sign of civilization anywhere nearby. The trip paid off when Sartore’s story made the cover of the magazine; it also fetched him a bout of infectious parasites that cost him $10,000 and several weeks to recover from.
His motives are made clear by his motto: “I am on a mission to save the world and make a living, in that order,” but Sartore has still had a lot of fun doing his job. Asked what was the most fun he ever had on assignment he went on to tell a story about beer-drinking, mountain-racing firefighters in the United Kingdom. And he has the pictures to prove it.
For more information on Sartore’s works, go to joelsartore.com.