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SERVING THE TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT
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Smashing away the stress
Germans reflect
on life after wall
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By Hope Sandusky
By Jamil Oakford
By Audrey Werth
Board approves
software updates
of $2.9 million
just a
house
McMillan wins
Chancellor’s Award
for TR Campus
Dancers join
together for district
concert on South
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NW art associate professor John Hartley stands in Gallery 414, a West Fort Worth gallery he created 20 years ago.
After the fall of the Ber-
lin Wall, 'Germany faced
many tough decisions. The
Iron Curtain lifted, and citi-
zens on each side were finally
brought together after decades
of separation.
For Susan Harding, a for-
mer TCC student who grew
up in East Germany, this
event was both exciting and
new. Things as simple as gro-
cery shopping had changed.
“Grocery stores had lines
when I was growing up,” said
Harding, now a student at
Southern Methodist Univer-
sity. “And when the wall fell,
in came supermarkets, and I
saw brands I never saw be-
fore. They had different kinds
of chocolate, and there were
so many things to choose
from.”
A little over a generation
ago, Germany was divided
into two separate countries,
German Federal Archives
Germans in Berlin raise the nation’s flag in celebration of
the country’s reunification in 1990.
NE student Alexandra Longoria smashes a windshield during a fundraiser sponsored by NE student
ambassadors. For $5, students and staff got to take five swings at an old car. See story on page 4.
At 414 Templeton Drive
in West Fort Worth sits a
house no more remarkable in
appearance than any other.
What gives this house char-
me,” he said. “It was totally
unexpected, but I’m really
happy to be a part of it.”
Rodriguez has a charcoal
drawing in the gallery and says
he discovered how much he
enjoyed working with charcoal
last spring in Hartley’s class.
“I hadn’t really tried until
I was in John’s class, but once
I did, I loved it, and I was
hooked,” he said.
Hartley tends to keep
the gallery separate from his
teaching, but he included
Rodriguez along with stu-
dents Jan Rogers and Kelly
Ingleright-Telgenhoff in the
show because their artwork is
exceptional, he said.
“I really thought that my
viewing audience could come
in and not see that they are stu-
a lot of contacts. You would
think with more and more
students online this would in-
crease. We did have a meet-
for academics,” Marshall
said. “It’s still a lot of money.
It is our biggest purchase of
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JOHN HARTLEY
NW art associate professor, Gallery 414 creator
East Germany and West Ger-
many. The two were reunified
in 1990, and Oct. 3 marks the
25th anniversary.
People on both sides of
the wall were given a whole
new outlook on life.
NE German instruc-
tor Maddalena De Nicola,
who lived in West Germa-
ny, is helping students learn
about this moment in histo-
ry through a two-day event
where she will show two
films followed by group dis-
cussions.
One of the films chosen
is The Lives of Others. This
movie tells the story of an
East Berlin agent who listens
in on conversations of a writ-
er in 1984. It displays the life
of someone behind the wall in
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“A lot of people don’t
know what life was like in
eastern Germany,” De Nicola
said.
Harding remembered the
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dents,” Hartley said.
NW art student Barbara
Arabian believes the space
provides an important proving
ground for young or beginning
artists.
“They really use it as an
opportunity to introduce new
artists to a great degree and be-
ginning people with talent to
the artistic community, and I
think that’s a really great thing
to do because it’s sort of a hard
scene to break into,” Arabian
said.
After young artists have
shown their work once, it’s a
lot easier to do it again with
the help of someone like Hart-
ley, she said.
“The cool thing about
this is that they [students] are
actually practicing what they
are learning,” Hartley said.
“They’re out there in the
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figure out ways to market this
better to students.”
The biggest purchase of
software involves Oracle Da-
tabase, which is budgeted for
over $700,000.
“[The amount] is a little
larger this year because we
are co-terminating different
products we had staggered of
Oracle,” Marshall said. “Or-
acle runs the databases under
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eludes artwork by 20 artists
never shown before at the gal-
lery.
“We really kind of cover
the gamut,” Hartley said.
“We’ve got humor, beauty, so-
cial commentary, formalism.”
For NW student Greg Ro-
acter are the people and ideas driguez, this is his first chance
that it has brought together.
Twenty years ago, NW art
associate professor John Hart-
ley was asked to place art on
its walls and open the space
as a gallery. This changed the
house into something more.
Within a mile from some
of the area’s greatest art mu-
TCC will spend over
$2.9 million on software up- ing with staff the other day to
dates for this current school
year.
During its Sept. 24 meet-
ing, the board of trustees ap-
proved several renewals re-
garding software used by stu-
dents, faculty and staff.
“These programs are
what help service our class-
es, both online and face-to-
face, and benefit students and
faculty and staff,” said Tim
Marshall, vice chancellor of Colleague and our data ware-
institutional intelligence and
technology.
One of the programs,
Smarthinking, which is a
24/7 online tutoring service
for students, is budgeted for
$150,000, an increase be-
cause its use nearly doubled
in one year.
“Not every student has
access to the campus fa-
cilities, or some take online
courses. This allows them to phasize heavily discounting
have access to help anytime,
anywhere. We have had 6,200
sessions up from 3,800,”
Marshall said. “It’s still not
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to show his work in a gallery
seums, Gallery 414 provides outside of school.
a space for the community “Being in the show is a re-
to gather around the work of ally awesome opportunity for
emerging and lesser-known
artists, including many TCC
students and faculty.
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The expense of renew-
ing Oracle raised questions
among board members. How-
ever, Marshall said the price
that TCC is paying is signifi-
cantly smaller than it is for
other enterprise organizations.
“Most organizations our
size will spend $12 million
for Oracle, but they do em-
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