by Janelle Kohnert
Distribution Manager

For the past 10 years or more, SCC’s Arts and Entertainment (A&E) board has put together an Artist and Lecture series that has yet to become active this school year.

According to the A&E board’s budget proposal for the 2007-2008 school year, the goal of the Artist and Lecture series is “To provide educational, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities for students through a yearly series of student initiated and managed lectures, events, and presentations.”

The A&E board has been inactive so far this year because of major restructuring within the program. Three student positions need to be filled, but not before the student supervisor positions are securely in place.

Lorena Melgoza has been recently hired to fill the fourth and final student supervision position as the program manager of student leadership. Together, Melgoza, Lynette Peters, Program Manager of the Women’s Center, and the other two program managers will hire three student A&E board members.

Peters says the supervisors hope to have the three students hired by the spring quarter. They most desperately need a graphic artist, but will also be hiring a student production tech position and a programming coordinator position. Anyone who is interested should contact Peters.

The A&E board has also faced the issue again this year of locations in which performances and lectures could be held on campus. “For winter quarter we are really hesitant to get huge entertainers or performers here until we know the status of the PUB,” Peters said.

With a total budget of $34,844, the A&E board already has a couple of events planned for the winter quarter. On February 20, a group called Living Voices will do a presentation for Black History Month entitled “The Right to Dream: Share the Struggle.” Living Voices will be doing another presentation on March 5 for Women’s History Month titled “Hear My Voice: Win the Vote,” which will focus on women’s voting rights.

If the PUB isn’t ready for the first performance by Living Voices on February 20, Peters said the A&E board will organize performances in classrooms or the campus theater as in previous years without the PUB.

Peters will be taking any student requests for performers or speakers to visit campus for the spring quarter.