College offers Holocaust class

A new class at Casper College will study the Holocaust, according to a release.

The class, taught by CC Director of Security and Judicial Review Lance Jones, will explore the foundations of the Third Reich beginning after World War I and ending in May of 1945.

Students will discuss "the economic, military and social factors that led to the rise of National Socialism, the personal characteristics of Adolf Hitler and other members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party hierarchy, the legal maneuvering that legitimized genocide, and the creation, rise and fall of the Sturmabteilung and ther replacement by the Schutzstaffel," Jones said.

The class will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. and can be taken for credit or audited.

For more information or to register, call Casper College at 268-2207 or visit www.caspercollege.edu.

Blue Envelope establishes scholarship

Representatives from the Blue Envelope Health Fund presented the Casper College Health Science Division with a check for $50,000 to begin an endowment for the Blue Envelope Tate Health Science Scholarship, according to a release.

According to Paul Hallock, executive director of the Casper College Foundation, the gift will be matched by the Wyoming Community College Endowment Challenge Matching Program to create a $100,000 endowment.

Hallock noted that the funds would be invested and interested earned will be used for the scholarship.

The scholarship will be open to any resident of Natrona County enrolled in nine or more hours per semester with a cumulative grade point average of 2.5. and majoring in the health science careers of nursing, occupational therapy assistant, pharmacy technology, paramedical, radiography, respiratory therapy, activities professional or medical lab technician.

The foundation hopes to be able to award funds from the endowment in the spring of 2010.

New class studies physics of comic books

A new class at Casper College will look at whether comic book heroes and villains use realistic physics, according to a release.

"What would Krypton really be like if the Man of Steel could leap tall buildings in a single bound? What really killed Spider-Man's girlfriend when she was knocked from the top of the George Washington Bridge? How much does the Flash really need to eat if he is to sustain his fast-paced lifestyle?" asked physics instructor Jared Bowden. "This class will look at the reality of the fantasy world of comic books and superheroes and explore the use of physics in the real world to understand how things work at a conceptual level."

The course, which has no math or science prerequisites, will explore the scientific plausibility of the powers and feats of the most famous superheroes - and discover that in many cases the comic writers got their science surprisingly right.

The class will begin on March 16 and run through May 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday evening, and can be taken for credit or audited.

For more information or to register, call Casper College at 268-2207 or visit www.caspercollege.edu.