Gallery exhibit

Digital images created by Martin Springborg are displayed in the Central Lakes College Gallery on the Brainerd campus Jan. 18-Feb. 10. “Teaching and Learning” is the title of the exhibit by Springborg, an adjunct instructor teaching online digital photography at CLC. The gallery is free and open during regular campus hours, located across from the Jon Hassler Library. Springborg is employed by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities’ Center for Teaching and Learning. He is a tireless artist and educator who is also teaching art history in college classrooms. “Teaching and Learning” is a photographic essay that Springborg began as a faculty member at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., in 2006. Springborg in 2003 published the paperback “Proof: Ruminations on the Everyday,” an example of his influences – Harry Callahan and Emmet Gowin. “I photograph the complexities of the commonplace,” he said. For more about Martin, go to http://www.springborgphoto.com/

Comedy of Errors

"The Comedy of Errors" will be staged in Chalberg Theater on the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College on Tues., Feb. 1 as the first event of the spring Cultural Arts Series. The performers are from the Acting Company from New York City in association with the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis, which premiered the show on Jan. 8. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. for Shakespeare's 90-minute story about mistaken identity, which was first performed around 1594 in London, England. Shakespeare often employs disguises and gender flip-flops as one of many devices to craft his stories but in The Comedy of Errors this technique is the spine of the play, the center where the characters, setting, and story originate. For tickets, go to http://www.clcmn.edu/theatre/Tickets.html

CLC basketball vs. Ridgewater

Men remain undefeated
The men's basketball team at Central Lakes College showed Ridgewater why CLC is the No. 3-ranked team in NJCAA Division III men’s basketball Jan. 12, pasting the Warriors 78-49. The Raiders (3-0, 18-0) displayed the depth of their bench with four players scoring in double digits and four with at least five rebounds. Nash Faulk scored 17 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to pace the Raiders. Marcus Ayala added 15 points, followed by Maurice Hernandez and Kendall Brown with 12 each. Assist leaders: Faulk 3, Brown 3, Kwamaine Johnson 3. Steal leaders: Faulk 3, Brown 3, Johnson 3.

Women lose
Stephanie Neugebauer scored 19 points for the Central Lakes Raiders in a 80-63 loss to Ridgewater. Nikki Pearson added 13 points. CLC has lost seven straight. The Raiders (0-3 in the Southern Division, 7-10 overall) shot 38 percent (26 of 68). 3-point shots: Pearson 3. Rebound leader: Neugebauer 5. Assist leader: Becky Helmeke 5. Steal leader: Neugebauer 6. Next: Riverland at CLC, Sat., Jan. 15, women 1 p.m., men 3 p.m.

Player of the Week

Central Lakes College sophomore Kendall Brown of St. Cloud is the Minnesota College Athletic Conference Southern Division men's basketball Player of the Week ending Jan. 8. The 6-7 forward was instrumental in helping third-ranked CLC (18-0 as of Jan. 13) to wins over No. 2 Rochester and Minnesota State Community and Technical College (Fergus Falls), averaging 18 points and 15 rebounds in the two wins. Congratulations Kendall!

Military guest

Major General Richard C. Nash, Adjutant General of the Minnesota National Guard since Nov. 1, 2010, visited Central Lakes College Jan. 12, meeting students and staff in the Veterans Resource Center before touring the Brainerd campus and finding numerous veterans among CLC students. He and CLC President Larry Lundblad chatted in the CLC Welding and Fabrication shop amid American flags. Other stops on the campus tour included the community dental clinic, nursing labs, Marine and Small Engine, Automotive Technology, student services core area, and Humphrey Center for American Indian Studies. Prior to serving as the Adjutant General of Minnesota, Major General Nash served as the Division Commander of the 34th Infantry Division, Special Assistant to the Combatant Commander, North American Aerospace Command, United States Northern Command.

Tribute to Dominique

As Central Lakes College says goodbye to Dominique Corder today (Jan. 12) in a noon-hour memorial, columnist Rachel Blount paid tribute in the StarTribune newspaper, commenting on the death of the Raider quarterback who died Jan. 1 in his hometown of Indianapolis. The 20-year-old was murdered outside his grandmother's house 40 minutes into the new year. Head Coach Greg Medeck, assistants Jim Strohmeier and Adam Buffington, and over 20 of Corder's Raider teammates attended the Jan. 7 funeral. Corder's death "has left an unfillable void" for those who knew Dom, said Blount, noting that the All-American had a future in football and beyond as he envisioned returning to Indianapolis to make his neighborhood a better place. "A dynamic, unpredictable player with a powerful arm and nimble feet," Dom was attracting attention from NCAA Division I and II schools, "but he never boasted -- and he never stopped trying to improve." He "viewed education as the means to return home as an agent of change," Blount wrote. A special football created in memory of Dom will be placed in the CLC trophy case so everyone present and future will know about one CLC student who took pride in his athletic and academic pursuits and continues to shed light on lives. The column can be found at
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/113249804.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1PciUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUoaEYY_1Pc_bDaEP7U

Cultural Thursday

The next free Cultural Thursday program at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, will be a journey to Mexico in Chalberg Theatre from noon to 12:50 p.m. Feb. 3 on the Brainerd campus. Scheduled presenters are members of the CLC Spanish Club, who in 2010 accompanied a shipment of clothing to Mexico as a donation to Friends of the Orphans. Last spring CLC Spanish instructor Jan Kurtz, students Abra Fisk of Fort Ripley and Heidi Purdy of Brainerd, and staffers Tyra Osvold of the Veterans Resource Center and Susan Bowman from Technology Support accompanied items that had been collected from students and churches in the final days of the spring semester. The five women took a large suitcase of children’s clothing, including 250 pair of underwear, as well as children’s books for Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (Our Little Brothers and Sisters), a network of orphanages in Latin America. The Central Lakes College delegation toured the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon near Mexico City, which once was home to an Aztec population at Teotihuacan (city of the gods). The travelers were, from left, Jan Kurtz, Tyra Osvold, Heidi Purdy, Sue Bowman, and Abra Fisk. Purdy and Fisk will present the Cultural Thursday program Feb. 3 at CLC.