November 2005:
Number 499
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REMINDER: Priority registration begins Nov. 29
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Spring classes start Tuesday, Jan. 17, so enroll early to avoid the rush! Registration will be available online or by phone from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. daily.
Priority Registration
Schedule
(Based on hours completed at Collin)
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30 hours+ Wed., Nov. 30
10 hours+ Thurs., Dec. 1
One hour+ Fri., Dec. 2
Everyone Sat., Dec. 3
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Collin/Dallas counties
469.452.2222
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469.757.2222
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A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.758.3849. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Nov. 11. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Nick Young, photographer; Layout by Publications
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Holocaust survivor speaks in
Learning Communities series
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| Rosalie Schiff |
One could hear a pin drop in Central Park Campus’ Pike Hall Sept. 28.
The only noise in the room was Rosalie Schiff’s voice crackling over the sound system. Schiff, a Holocaust survivor, was the featured speaker during the first installment of “What it Means to be an American,” a Learning Communities program.
Schiff was supposed to be accompanied by her husband, William, who also survived the Holocaust, but he was admitted to a hospital earlier that morning.
Schiff’s story kept a room full of students, faculty and staff saddened and enthralled as she recounted the German Nazi invasion of her homeland, Poland, the subsequent ghettoization of the Krakow Jews and the systematic extermination of more than six million Jews, Russians, communists, homosexuals, gypsies and others.
Those who perished included Rosalie’s father, mother, 12-year-old sister and seven-year-old brother, when she was 16 in 1939.
Rosalie was spared being sent to a death camp after she received a work permit to toil in German industrialist Oskar Schindler’s factory. Rosalie and William were married during the Holocaust and despite being separated and surviving beatings, starvation, sickness and work camps, the couple reunited in Krakow after the American and Russian liberation.
They moved to the United States in 1949. The couple has lectured about the Holocaust to groups for about 18 years and led their crusade of education and understanding. “Hatred leads to destruction, as we all know,” Rosalie said. “We are one race; we are the human race. We are all God’s children. There is no difference in us. Black, white, Jewish or Christian – we should not hate each other.”
Schiff confided that she still has nightmares about the death she saw and has even returned to Poland to help confront her violent memories.
“We were not heroes,” Rosalie said. “We survived because it was just meant to be.”
For more information on this or other Learning Communities programs, contact Lynda Gates in Student Life at 972.881.5787.
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