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Stepping away from the books

Badgerama is a day when students get to take some time away from the books and those people who keep waking them up in class. There are games, food and every club supporting its cause. The band selected to play on this Badger-filled day was Nashville’s Mockingbird Sun.

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Ready. Set. Record.

Amarillo College offers many options for degree programs: almost everything to choose from. But Scott Beckett, a music instructor, is pioneering a new degree that would bring recording arts to the foreground as the premier program at AC.

“We are in the process of creating a degree program,” Beckett said. “In order for us to officially launch this program, we have to have five years of tracking. In another two years, it will be a full program.”

West develops photo outreach

When asked, many students said they’d be hard-pressed to find an instructor as passionate as Rene West.

An Amarillo College photography instructor since 2008, West has shared that enthusiasm with the many students who have passed through her classes.

Mayor honors Munger with award

“She understands the impact on young people and how that love of education changes their whole lives,” Mayor Paul Harpole said. “If you look at the work she does and that the school does to help young people and to help children, there’s no denying that it has a huge impact on our community.”