Be aware of your surroundings and alert to strangers
Avoid potentially dangerous situations
Park and walk in well lit, frequently traveled areas
Avoid walking alone at night
Utilize campus escort services provided by security
Learn where emergency telephones are located on the campus
Program campus security numbers into your cell phone
Always lock your vehicle and do not leave valuables in plain view
Do not leave personal items unattended at any time
Steps to take differ greatly and each situation will dictate a different response. The particular circumstances of a given situation will suggest which of, and in which order, the following should occur.
Move immediately away from the danger to a safe location, behind a steel locked door if possible
Report to Campus Security by dialing 5-1111 or 9-1-1 at the safest opportunity
Alert others (signals, codes, alarms)
Secure surroundings, lock doors
If appropriate, evacuate employees/leave the area
Strategies to De-escalate Threatening Behavior
The following conflict resolution strategies may be helpful to de-escalate situations where an individual is exhibiting threatening or intimidating behavior and a means of quick escape is not available:
Get away from the situation if at all possible at any time, to a safe place, and then call 9-1-1, then Campus Security
Do not confront or physically move against the person unless this is a last resort
Adopt a neutral facial expression, relax shoulders, and lower hands to your sides
Introduce yourself by first name, converse as pleasantly as possible even if it is one-sided
Do not lean forward, appear at-ease
Do not block perpetrator or enter a close physical proximity
Observe emergency exits, know where you are, but focus eyes away from escape
Try to sympathize with perpetrator
Attempt negotiation for unimportant personal needs, toilet, sitting down, etc.
Slow down the action by asking for time to perform tasks
If possible, attempt to offer up alternatives, options, ideas
Do not confront, make a quick move of any kind, or attempt to disarm or approach
Here’s a list of new books in the NMC Osterlin Library.
Title: Modernist cuisine : the art and science of cooking
Author: Myhrvold, Nathan.
Publisher: Cooking Lab,
Pub date: 2011.
6 v. :
The authors–scientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own right–have created a six-volume, 2,400-page set that reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food that ranges from the otherworldly to the sublime.
Title: The best American poetry, 2012
Author: Doty, Mark.
Publisher: Scribner Poetry,
Pub date: 2012.
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition.
Title: Don’t stop thinking about the music : the politics of songs and musicians in Presidential campaigns
Author: Schoening, Benjamin S., 1978-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Pub date: c2012.
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages.
Title: Chemical engineering : a new introduction
Author: Denn, Morton M., 1939-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Pub date: 2011.
Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity’. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering.
On Thursday, November 8, the Michigan Global Awareness Consortium offers the second presentation of its fall series.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Kerri Finlayson, who teaches anthropology and sociology at North Central Michigan College (NCMC), and Professor Ken Winter, who teaches political science and journalism at NCMC and Ferris State University.
Winter is also a former editor and publisher of the Petoskey New Review and a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Both Finlayson and Winter recently returned from Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Their trip, sponsored by Ohio State University and the Niagara Foundation, allowed them to participate in conversations about revolutionary changes in the Turkish society. Please join us on November 8to hear these distinguished researchers discuss the developing social, economic, religious, and political dynamics in Turkey.
The event (7:00 — 8:30 pm in the Oleson Center, Room A/B) is free and open to the public. Please see the attached poster for more details, and spread word to community members. Thank you.
FREE FRIDAY NIGHT FLICK! Student Life has partnered up with the State Theatre to offer the first Friday night Flick of every month FREE to NMC students with Student ID.
This Friday, Nov. 2, @ 10:45 pm join us at the State Theatre downtown for a FREE SURPRISE FILM! We promise, you have seen it before and you will love seeing it on the big screen!
Come find out Monday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in Scholars Hall 217, where the film “Iron Jawed Angels” will be shown. Starring Hilary Swank, the HBO film is the true story of how a group of defiant young activists took the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Sponsored by NMC Student Life, Osterlin Library, and the Department of Learning Services
Hey there. You, with the cell phone. We know you’ve got a camera on it. So let’s have a little fun.
We’re launching NMC in photos, a way for anyone on campus to become an unofficial NMC photographer. Just snap and submit your candid images of life on campus. A caption’s nice, too. Accepted photos will be posted at nmc.edu/photos, where you can also read the fine print about what size photo and more. Thanks in advance for sharing all that you can find here at NMC.
Save the Date ~ December 14, 2012, 4:30 to 7:00 pm for the Annual NMC Employee Holiday Party
Once again we’ll be collecting non-perishable food items for the Father Fred Food Pantry. Come enjoy some time at the Hagerty Center with your co-workers, and help our neighbors in need.
Kudos to Josh Slabaugh and Sam Foster from SLM, who adapted their schedules and worked through problems to re-image PCs in a teaching lab. It was similar to watching a pit crew – working under pressure, to make sure the lab was back in operation for the class in less than three hours.
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at http://jobs.nmc.edu. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
Friends (and would be friends) of Jim Crockett take note! Jim will be reading from his book “Exit Wounds” at Horizon Books this weekend: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27. 4:00 p.m.
Rumor has it he will also be reading some of his newest work!!
This is what Jim Harrison (author and screenwriter, i.e., Legends of the Fall) said about Crockett: “EXIT WOUNDS is a marvelous book of poems with occasionally stunning details of rural life. Crockett knows whereof he speaks and renders it beautifully. This book is well worth intense reading and study. You’ll be captivated.” – Jim HarrisonEntrance to this reading is FREE and you will probably be able to catch up with your poet friends or meet some new ones. Put it on your calendar!!
Willy Ley, U.S. rocket scientist spoke at NMC’s Celebrity Lecture Series. He said the U.S. and Russia were very close in their race to the moon and “whoever is first on the moon will be followed by the other within a year.”
NMC harriers defeated Alpena and Delta College to remain undefeated in cross country for the 1962 season. (See Photo)
1962 Cross Country team of Bob Rothermel, Larry O’Heren, Paul Steusel, Larry Cummings, Jim Frasier, and Coach Walt Beardslee.
25 Years Ago, October 1987:
NMC proposed an intersection relocation at Munson Avenue in order to make room for a new museum. The college had already raised the $2 million projected as necessary to construct the 25,000 square-foot museum
Check out archival shots of politicians on campus, read about the 2012 Faculty Excellence winners, the latest exhibits and concerts at the Dennos and more in NMC’s most-widely circulated publication for alumni and friends.
