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OTHER NEWS STORIES - Rather than grieve, Judy Shepard speaks - 408 different ZIP codes, all under one roof - SCC student joins in tuition increases fight - You pay 'em, but do you know what your fees pay for? - Then and now - The Ebbtide analyzes pop culture News Briefs Ebbtide Staff What, you don't know Salsa? Help is on the way! Interested in learning Latin rhythm while providing for a good cause? The Washington State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (WSHCC) is sponsoring the Salsa for Scholarships event Friday, Jan. 17, in the ballroom at China Harbor, 2040 Westlake Ave. N., Seattle. Doors open at 9 p.m. with live music starting at 10:30. Rumba Brava Dance Company will provide dance instruction all night long. Tickets cost $15 in advance, and the proceeds will go toward WSHCC's scholarship fund. (Tickets sales at the door do not go toward the fund.) Donations are also welcome. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (206) 272-2604. Inspiration in anti-hate message comes to SCC 'Hate Crimes and Social Justice': Lecture by Judy Shephard On Jan. 29, Judy Shepard will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Gymnasium. In October 1998, Judy Shepard lost her 21-year-old son, Matthew, to a murder inspired by anti-gay hate. Her ordeal moved thousands of people across America to attend vigils and rallies in Matthew's honor. Determined to prevent their son's fate from befalling other people, Judy and her husband, Dennis, established The Matthew Shepard Foundation to help carry on Matthew's legacy by embracing the just causes he had championed. This includes working for gay and lesbian equality and helping to prevent hate crimes. Judy is determined to use her grief over her son's death to make a difference. She has made the prevention of hate crimes the focus of her efforts, and she is now speaking to audiences nationwide about what they can do to make their schools and communities safer for everyone, regardless of their race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Cost is $10 general admission, $7 for seniors and $5 for children 14 and younger. Call (206) 546-4606 to order tickets or purchase at the door. POLICE LOG Theft - The men's locker room was broken into last Wednesday during the men's basketball game. After a victory of the Skagit Valley team on Jan. 8, the players returned to the locker room to find that locks had been broken. Five victims reported items being stolen. Theft - An LCD projector was stolen on Thursday, Jan. 9 from a classroom in the 1800 building. An instructor saw the projector around noon, when he returned around 5:45 pm he saw that the cables had been cut and the projector (valued over $4,000) was gone. Blue-grass music will rock your world The Robert E. Colbert Lecture Series brings Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show to the college at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, in the Campus Theater. Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show are an all-acoustic, traditional country music show, dedicated to the preservation and performance of the original American musical art form, bluegrass. Cost is $18 general admission, $16 for seniors, and $12 for children 14 and younger. Call (206) 546-4606 to order tickets or purchase at the door. SCC receives Health Care Bridge Project grant SCC, in partnership with North Seattle Community College and Lake Washington Technical College, have collaborated in writing a $262,000 high-demand grant, "The Healthcare Bridge Project," which the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges awarded this past summer, according to Bruce Milne, project director. The student population targeted to benefit from this grant includes Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language (ESL) and other limited English-proficiency speakers, as well as populations that are underrepresented in the health-care system, including people of color and ethnic minorities, Milne said. During this first year, plans are being developed that will address specific objectives for this targeted student population. These objectives include: increasing the access to health-care programs; increasing the retention and completion in health-care programs; developing bridges to programs in a career ladder approach. Faculty committees will begin working together as one team this month, Milne said. These committees have already identified a number of barriers that make it difficult for the targeted student population to succeed in Health Occupations academic programs. The curriculum team will design new curricula and develop other strategies that will address these barriers, which include problems with language, medical terminology, pronunciation and cultural factors. In addition, this team will make recommendations for developing diversity and multicultural education materials and trainings for faculty and other college staff. For more information, contact Milne at (206) 465-1152 or bmilne@ctc.edu. © 2003 Shoreline Community College™