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Sarah Balough

Reporter

Dedicated to the advancements of student knowledge Pierce College also fosters support for the importance of the fine arts. For the purpose of a poly-mathematical advancement it has become costume for Pierce College Puyallup to hold the annual Spring Students Fine Arts Exhibition. For many of the students of Pierce College art is important in the purpose of encompassing all developmental.

The spring school art exhibition brings together Pierce College students, both those showing in the exhibit and those who come to view. Through the exhibition students can learn not only about themselves, but about other students entering an emotional depth unique to an individual. This gives students the opportunity to make a personal statement about their own uniqueness through art while allowing the expression of emotions, whatever they may be.

The show speaks of the successes of the college in fostering development in artistic fields, but speaks more of the personal journey made by such students. Art reflects what people know about the world and enables them to choose how to translate those ideas and experiences. Due to the importance of conveying information through images the gallery is important, however, it will in time be removed from the walls of the Arts and Allied Health Building.

It is therefore in an attempt to document the achievements of Pierce students that their work has been presented within the pages of The Puyallup Post.

To honor their photography, paintings, drawings and prints, student art grace these pages as a memorial of a school year.

Bethany Atwood

Mackenzie Hendricks

Reporter

The highlight of student Bethany Atwood’s year has been working as a writing tutor at the Academic Resource Center, also known as the tutoring center.

“Working at the tutoring center here on campus has been an invaluable experience,” Atwood said. “I have had the opportunity to meet many incredible people. Seeing students succeed in classes and work through challenging assignments has been a wonderful opportunity that I have thoroughly enjoyed.”

Although Atwood enjoys the working environment of the center and appreciates the experience she has gained, her favorite moments are when she sees students reach their goals through her guidance.

“Seeing the joy in a student’s face after they have spent weeks pouring themselves into an assignment and then getting the grade they had been working for is one of the most rewarding moments of my job,” she said.

Atwood graduates from Pierce College after this quarter, but those moments of witnessing students benefiting from her efforts are something she will carry with her when she transfers to Northwest University.

Morgan Vann

Joe Dennis

Reporter

For student Morgan Vann, events both on and off campus have shaped his views when looking back on this school year. Having many memorable experiences since starting at the Puyallup campus in September, Vann identified two events that affected him personally. Out of all the events on the campus he has been able to attend, Vann’s most memorable experience was Stand Up with a Stutter featuring Drew Lynch.

“Seeing how Drew Lynch works around his stutter and make jokes so the audience feels comfortable laughing with him is a talent I can truly admire in a comedian,” Vann said. “I can respect someone like Lynch who can take his personal struggle and turn it into entertainment that everyone can enjoy.”

On a mission to make people laugh, Lynch uses humor to examine the hardships of living with a speech impediment from a personal and social aspect.

“I had seen Lynch prior to his May 23 performance at Pierce College Puyallup,” Vann said. “He’s one of not only the most interesting comedians I’ve ever seen but also one of the funniest as well.”

Looking back on world events, the Boston Marathon Bombing is one that Vann still holds firm in his memory. For Vann it wasn’t so much the act of the bombing that concerned him as much as whether this attack was domestic or foreign.

“Don’t get me wrong, what happened the day of the bombing was tragic and my heart goes out to all those affected by this,” Vann said. “Although, during the coverage of the bombing on the news my concern was whether we were being attacked by another nation or if it was a resident of the United States.”

From everything that has gone on this school year Vann is optimistic of what’s to come next while attending Pierce. Vann hopes to share more memorable experiences with friends and classmates when returning in the fall.

Natalie Bartels

Sarah Balough

Reporter

For Running Start student Natalie Bartels, a reflection of this school year brings her memory back to fall quarter. This event occurred during her Introduction to Literature class, taught by professor Barbra Parsons.

As a student, English enthralls Bartels. It’s one of her many passions and seeing a written work enacted by fellow class members is her most memorial experience of the school year.

As a final project, the class was required to give a group presentation on one of the works discussed during the quarter. While Bartels still can recall the vivid plot of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the work her group presented on, it was the presentation of another group that remains strong in her mind.

It was her classmates’ presentation on the short story Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor. The group decided to depart from an intriguing analysis of the story like Bartels’s group did and instead chose to present an adapted version of the short story. While appearing to be a straight forward decision, it instead unraveled into a complete comedy, not the ironic commentary it was written to reflect.

Bartels explained that the story is about a young conman who swindles an “ugly, arrogant, naïve, women named Hulga out of her wooden leg.”

The story’s plot is one of intrigue due to its unusual plot line, however, as a story that uses finely controlled comic sense to reveal the world as lacking knowledge, the adaptation didn’t full reach the mark.

As stated in O’Connor’s story, “a good man is hard to find,” however, in Parson’s class, men were in no short supply.

“Needless to say, it was an unusual story to begin with, but on top of all that, the group had more men than they had parts for,” Bartels said.

To compensate for this, one of the guys in the group was given the part of Hulga. In portraying the character as being a considerably ugly woman, the casting was very close to life.

The result was uproarious, according to Bartels.

After the storyline was concluded, the group members sang about the main character, a conman named Manley Pointer.

This song and memory still ring in Bartel’s mind and she said will remain with her as a memory of the last school year.

Christian Read

Lacey Longpré

Online/Social Media Manager

Running Start student Christian Read remembers taking a political science class with professor John Lucas.

He enjoyed the class and the professor, but he recalls a particular memory that still is hard to forget.

Lucas had assigned a group project where students were expected to design a presentation and speak about it in front of the class.

When it was Read’s group’s turn, he stepped up with the rest of his classmates and prepared to give the presentation.

However, he doesn’t remember the details of the presentation because he fell asleep during it.

“I remember Mr. Lucas calling my group up,” Read said. “I remember I was leaning against the window next to me. I must have fallen asleep because when I opened by eyes, the entire class was just staring at me.”

Read remembers the moment to be embarrassing as the students began laughing. Fortunately, the presentation moved on and Read finally was able to remove himself as the public spectacle.

Despite this embarrassment, Read said he learned from the class and really enjoyed having Lucas as an instructor.

“He’s an interesting guy,” Read said.

Although Read isn’t choosing to pursue political science, he is glad he had the opportunity to take the course.

Read plans to transfer to University of Washington Tacoma once he completes his high school requirements and his associate’s degree.

“I like architecture,” Read said. “I am hoping to get a degree in it when I transfer to University of Washington.”

Read looks back on the moment and has good humor about what happened. Now it’s a funny story he tells his friends from time to time, not the embarrassment the incident originated as.

When looking back on the school year there were many events that I can positively reflect on. Ideally, my choice is narrowed down to Richard Louv’s speech on The Nature Principle. On May 2, 2013, Louv spoke in the AAH theatre regarding our need to reconnect with nature and how beneficial this reconnection would be for society.

Having not read The Nature Principle, I didn’t know what Louv said in his book, but the message is clear. Being immersed in the world of technology has many advantages but also can be hazardous to a person’s creativity and health.

The story Louv shared about his childhood and seeing his father interact with nature, watching how his father was at peace and happy in nature, touched me. Louv also mentioned that when he grew older his family moved to the city, his father began to drink heavily, slowing him down over time and his depression worsened because he was cut off from nature.

That story resonated when I later began to write the article for The Puyallup Post making me take a second look at how much time I spend in nature. By living “in” nature instead of “with” it as Louv put it, I have learned that writing papers outdoors is very helpful to my creativity while allowing me to think clearly without any pressures of technology weighing me down.

Because of this aid, the words I obtained at the Nature Principle lecture have come to be my best memory of the previous school year.

Lacey Longpré

My first year at Pierce College has been overloaded with changes. In addition to school work, I had to adjust to a new environment and try to make new connections to people.

I was happy to have been hired on The Puyallup Post staff, where I had the opportunity to explore my creativity and meet amazing individuals. It was not only having the chance to connect with the members of The Puyallup Post staff, but all students at Pierce College.

I would say that reporting on events was most memorable to me. This gave me the opportunity to explore the campus and meet individuals who I wouldn’t have met otherwise.

The most recent event I had the honor of covering was the Student Literary Arts Magazine kickoff party. I not only went there to do a story for the paper, but also to be recognized for having my own work published. It was great that I got to report about something that I’m passionate about.

I did quite a few of the shoutouts earlier this year for the paper. I had to push myself to be more outgoing and friendly with people. I think that has definitely helped me be more sociable and I can take this skill anywhere I go.

I look forward to next year and having the chance to get to know more students on campus. Furthermore, I hope that I will have the opportunity to get more involved with the clubs on campus as well.

I look forward to expanding my mind and becoming a free thinker from my education.

Michelle Abbott

On a cold morning in Maine, I saw my wishing well for the last time. Inside its white marble carvings lay the pennies of our past, and we threw our new pennies into the grass.

When the plane departed, I knew I was flying to a new world, and all of my earthly possessions were left behind. I had the most important things: my camera, a laptop and my children.

I came to Washington in July 2011, and my final destination was English 101 at Pierce College. In Maine, we had a home. We sat by the fireplace and read stories together. It’s the stories that stick with you. They come inside and fill up the empty and cracked places. They’re what make life worth living.

My English teachers are the people who kept me in that familiar place. Stories, literature, and language are the elements my heart hears. They are like a song that leads me back to my wishing well on the grass. Stories are like instruments singing my heart’s native song.

Beth Stevens told me the stories of abolition and slavery. I could hear my own voice in the cries of the oppressed, and I could hear the hope of redemption in hers. She was a messenger of freedom to me, and led me out of a box in a basement to the Ohio River, where I could taste the undying hope of freedom.

Corrina Wycoff became my doppelgänger and my friend. She taught me that I could succeed at my dream to become an English teacher and a writer. She taught me that it is possible to succeed as a single mother and a teacher. Knowing Corrina has been a surreal experience because she is like a mirror.

I discovered a new genre in journalism. Visiting people on campus has enlightened me to the joys and challenges of telling other people’s stories. There is nothing that reaches down to the deepest part of people like a story. Stories change the world.

Robert McRill

As the school year comes to a close and summer looms around the corner, this year has felt like a long one. I am in my second year at Pierce College, and I feel that I have learned so much this last year that will help me as I continue working toward my associate’s degree.

I have spent my time this year focusing primarily on my studies, but I have also found myself becoming much more involved in the Pierce College campus. I have taken a variety of interesting courses in many different fields of study; attended student lectures, awards ceremonies, and open mic nights; and, of course, worked as a reporter for the school newspaper.

Without a doubt, each activity has served to enrich my overall college experience. However, I believe that my time spent working with The Puyallup Post is what I have most cherished. I would like to thank my supervisors, Teresa and Steve, for the wonderful opportunity as well as for their patience and guidance.

I would also like to thank The Puyallup Post student staff for all of the fun times and for the memories that I will take with me wherever I go. I wish everyone the absolute best moving forward with their lives.

Sarah Balough

With the conclusion of the 2012-13 school year so too will come the conclusion of many students’ experiences at Pierce College. I am among the ranks of those departing from Pierce, and I will remember my experiences on campus as a time of preparation before the adventure that is life.

My time at Pierce has been memorable, but there is one moment during fall quarter that will not be forgotten.

There is something invigorating about witnessing a wrong and attempting to right it. Possibly it is the internal knowledge of a public morality, but for whatever reason, it’s rewarding. While odd to think, the most memorable moment of the 2012-13 school year for myself was nothing that brought great joy to anyone, but simply was fixed.

This event took place during fall quarter, while disturbing and unbelievable at the time, I never imagined that I would witness a hit-and-run car incident, let alone in the lower parking lot of Pierce. From the library myself and a group of others witnessed the repetitive hitting of a parked vehicle.

We all truly laughed in disbelief as the perpetrator jolted the parked vehicle up into the air, scraping across its rear in an attempt to park. After again hitting the now thoroughly scratched vehicle, the perpetrator retreated to a different part of the parking lot, but did not remain blameless for the action. Wanting to provide information on the incident a party departed to comb the parking lot until the both cars information was documented. We reported the incident to campus security after identifying the make and license identification of both cars.

After this we thought the incident was over, however, this wasn’t true. The next day our faith in student drivers returned when campus security tailed in the hit car and addressed the issue.

Mackenzie Hendricks

After two years of attending Pierce College Puyallup, my final day on the campus will be June 10 when I take my last exam.

In a way, Pierce College is a school of learning for me that high school never was. Every instructor that has taught my classes has instilled within me an interest in their subject and a desire to learn. Even for required courses that I entered reluctantly only with the aim to earn my associate’s degree, I left with more knowledge to apply to my life.

We have a number of memorable professors here in every discipline. In social science courses alone, I have been instructed by three excellent professors: Floyd Churchill, John Lucas and Chris Vanneson. Churchill is who first sparked my interest in politics, and Lucas built on that spark through his ability to capture one’s attention and make his lectures unforgettable. I also cannot imagine anyone leaving Pierce without taking a class from Vanneson, whose knowledge in so many diverse subjects surpasses any other person I know, as does his enthusiasm.

I didn’t expect to pursue a degree in political science before I came to Pierce College, but three wonderful instructors changed that. In a few months I will be transferring to Brigham Young University, where I plan on majoring in English and minoring in political science.

Outside academics, Pierce College has made me grow as a person. It has given me the freedom to develop to my own potential without restraints. Pierce has touched me beyond the realm of education and has taught me to be confident with who I am and to never stop trying.

Today, I say farewell to this institution and its associated members. I thank you all for your time, service and dedication. Pierce College has made me a better person because it’s comprised of great people, for which I’m grateful.

I also bid adieu to my fellow The Post members, who have been a pleasure to work and laugh with. We are such a fun, diverse group, which is why I believe we were so successful. Thank you for your support and I wish you all the best next year.

Kaelyn Anderson

When I started on The Puyallup Post newspaper in the winter quarter, I was eager to begin taking pictures for my first assignment because this was my first job.

I am proud of what I have accomplished in what seems like such a short amount of time. My first assignment was enjoyable because I was able to show the interactions and feelings of people who enjoyed celebrating Valentine’s Day.

Shoutouts were also entertaining to do because there is such a variety of views that the students at Pierce College bring, and shoutouts allow those perspectives to be shown and debated between.

I have learned a variety of skills such as communication through the interaction between myself and my wonderful co-workers, professors, faculty and fellow peers.

I have also learned how to apply my creativity to each event assignment by describing events and capturing a picture so it gives the feel of the environment at Pierce College.

Finally, I have improved my sense of perseverance because even though I am not a reporter I was still able to be successful in writing my first article, which was my view on why Pierce College should add surveillance cameras to every classroom. As a result of learning these life skills, I am definitely looking forward to continuing to grow as not just a student but also a photographer.

Aren Holland: “In the classroom because when I need help it’s there and I can’t procrastinate.”

Bryan Alfaro: “In class because the sense of authority over you makes you want to work.”

Kieran Mundine-Jones: “In class because there is more interaction between the professor and students.”

Nick Holzer: “In class because the interaction is nice to have because I can talk to a professor one on one.”

Brian Wright: “I definitely prefer in the classroom classes because if I have a problem I can figure it out by talking to my professor.”

Cheyenne Lightburn: “In class because I’m not motivated to do the work when I take online classes.”

Darrell Wilson: “In class because you have more face to face interaction.”

Becca Shoemaker: “In class because for online classes there’s more room for procrastination and there’s more participation in classes that are in a classroom. You also don’t get the socialization between you and the college if you take an online classes.”

Sarah Balough

Reporter

Beginning in the fall, a new learning platform will replace the college’s current service for online and web-enhanced classes.

Although Canvas will permanently take over for Angel in September, a few of classes already are using Canvas this quarter. This switch may be less than welcomed by students though.

It’s the intent of the Canvas platform to provide instructors with a maneuverable location for the conveying of information. While spurred on as more simplistic and maneuverable than Angel, the shift from one platform to the other may prove to be a flaw.

Upon the alteration from student online services to MyPierce earlier this year, web coordinator Andrew Glass spoke of how difficult any change is, no matter when it happens. While the shift to the MyPierce location has been viewed as a success by administrators, the same shift can be viewed as unnecessary and tedious to students.

With significant shifts in any system, there will be a time for acclamation, which may not be wildly favorable during the limited time provided by the quarter system.

As advertised, the Canvas platform is intuitive and provides an easy-to-use format. This is a format that provides no direction of manipulation or operation.

An issue similar to this accompanied the Angel platform. After multiple quarters of dependence, students find the Angel website familiar and easily operable.

Easily said. Neither platform provides a clean and simple design, as Canvas is advertised as. However, despite the placement of all class material located on one page, Canvas provides a supposedly easier grade recording system.

The platform allows students to integrate their accounts with social media sites like those of Facebook and Twitter Unfortunately, the privacy is limited, being that all students can easily track fellow classmates discussion posts and activity on such social media sites.

Like Angel, Canvas provides students the ability to keep track of class progress, ensure assignment completion and participate in discussions.

The grade book, like Angel, provides a simple location for the viewing of singular and overall grades.

However, practically all of these features are expressed in the Angel platform and no learning acclamation would be necessary for a program that has been stabilized at the college.

There are multiple issues with the program, including a laxity in loading and there is a lack of information on how to utilize the platform.

However, with the coming school year there will be a shift to the Canvas platform with or without student concent providing no abrupt reversals of decision but only total dependence on the platform.

Robert McRill

Reporter

Second-year Pierce College student Lydia Craven has been studying American Sign Language for nearly eight years and has been interpreting for two.

When she isn’t attending classes or interpreting, Craven enjoys spending time with her friends, walking outdoors, playing sports and reading murder mysteries. Her favorite author is Agatha Christie.

Craven is back at Pierce College this year after having spent two years commuting from Puyallup to Seattle Central Community College.

“I found a lot of independence during my years attending Seattle Central. Now I can take public transportation and I am pretty good at recognizing streets and roads. I was very happy to go there, but it is really nice to come home to Puyallup.”

She prefers attending Pierce College because it’s a smaller campus and she enjoys getting to know her classmates and the faculty.

When she was in junior high school, Craven decided to enroll in her first sign language class.

“All of my other friends were taking Spanish,” Craven said. “I didn’t want to be mainstream, so I took sign language.”

After four years of ASL, Craven realized that she wanted to become a full-time interpreter and she is currently working toward earning her sign language interpreting degree.

“I got into it for one reason but ended up falling in love with the language, the culture, and the people,” Craven said. “I thought ‘This makes me happy and I want to do it.’”

She plans to work as a professional interpreter for 20 to 30 years before settling into a teaching position at a local high school or community college.

Craven is a natural when it comes to working with the deaf-blind.

She says everyone is different and that holds true within the deaf community; that it’s simply a matter of finding out what type of individual she is working with and how she can best assist them.

“In American mainstream culture we tend to be an individualistic society mainly focused on ourselves; the deaf community is collectivist, they have a group mentality,” she said. “If someone in the group is low, everyone rallies around to cheer them up. If someone does something well, everyone celebrates the achievement.”

Craven has been a volunteer interpreter for various organizations. She frequently works with local colleges, church groups and theater troupes; She has also spent time working as a Support Service Provider— the eyes and ears for a deaf-blind individual.

At this year’s Deaf Carnival on campus, Craven volunteered to help set up and interpret for one of the many student-run booths.

She would like to see more students with a genuine interest for deaf culture become involved in the community.

“Attitude plays a large factor. Trying to be involved without stepping on anyone’s toes,” Craven said. “You want to be respectful of everyone involved.”

One of her favorite work experiences was getting to work at a weeklong deaf-blind summer camp within the community.

“I went last year for the whole week and had an absolute blast,” Craven said. “I have been accepted to go back this year and I am really excited.”

According to Craven, working with people is a large part of what makes interpreting so interesting.

She also enjoys the unique topics and settings in which she often can interpret—camping, carnivals and theaters.

Craven has fun interpreting; she has found something that she truly loves to do.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I go without signing,” Craven said. “Some people think out loud. I sign out loud.”

Robert McRill

Reporter

Phi Theta Kappa is one of the oldest honor societies recognized in the United States. The objective of PTK is to recognize and acknowledge the achievements of students who excel in the community college environment as well as offer scholarships and grants to members.

PTK honor society has roots extending as far back as 1910. Originally known as Kappa Phi Omicron, the society began with six founding members at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. In 1918, the society settled on the name Phi Theta Kappa and became an officially recognized national organization in Missouri. In 1926, PTK extended its reach beyond Missouri and, not long after, in 1929, was dubbed the official honor society for two-year colleges.

Students fortunate enough to be taken into the ranks of PTK are eligible for more than $37 million worth of scholarships exclusive to its members. PTK membership also provides students with free access to various online scholarship databases and college transfer planning tools. A membership offers students the opportunity to receive personalized letters of recommendation from the organization for scholarships and job applications as well.

Membership invitations may be made available to Pierce College students with grade point averages of 3.5 or above.

More information can be found online at the Pierce College website or at www.ptk.org.

Michelle Abbott

Reporter

Student Nicole Compton recently revealed her hidden love affair with music at Pierce College’s open mic night.

Compton sang her song I Lie with bluesy and gritty vocals, warranting a standing ovation from the crowd.

“Adrenaline and fear have an intoxicating effect,” Compton says. “Each time you put yourself out there on the stage it’s a challenge, but it’s also rewarding. The reward is in knowing that you’re not alone.”

Compton grasped at honesty and raw human emotion in her vocal expression. She connected with the audience and her inner voice.

“Sharing your art is putting your soul on display, and everyone needs to be heard,” Compton says.

The Beat Poets became Compton’s inspiration in the last year, and she learned to realize that poetry is about unrestrained expression. She started writing lyrics and poetry whenever she could, even on old receipts in the car when the thoughts came to her. They inspired her to pursue her love for lyrical poetry.

Compton says the Beat Poets “blew her mind” and freed her to be brave and do what she wants.

People are so busy hiding what they’ve got, and the open mic night is a time to share that with others, Compton says.

The open mic night remains one of her most rewarding experiences at Pierce College, and she wants to see the opportunity arise more often so others can share their own talents with audiences.

“I want to hear voices that are human; I want to hear voices that make me cry,” Compton says.

Lacey Longpré

Online/Social Media Manager

Pierce College’s Student Literary Arts Magazine was released on the Puyallup campus on May 5.

SLAM is a free literary magazine that is distributed to the Puyallup and Ft. Steilacoom campuses.

English professor Corrina Wycoff started off the event with the poem A Poet’s Advice to Students by E.E. Cummings.

Students from Patrick Daugherty’s acting class performed various works from this year’s edition of SLAM including, The Last Fan by Valerie Ettenhofer, The Penny by Makayla Henry, Cuttlefish by Garth Cummings, Grandmother’s Pearl Harbor by Holly Buchanan, Grandmother by Eric Choi and The Diner by Daniel Sobocinski.

Students who won the “best of” awards were announced as well. The winner of the Elizabeth Breen Prose Award was given to Michael Engelhardt for his fiction story Omiki. Eric Choi received the Susan Wallace Poetry Award for his poem Grandma. The Brian Williams Drama Award was given to Ryan Cole for his humorous play, Neighbors. The Cherry Tinker Art Award went to Karly Strobel for her artwork titled Heartbroken. Darcy Cline was awarded the Brian Martin Cover Design Award. Each of the recipients received $100 for their winnings

Strobel attended the SLAM event and was excited to find out that she was the recipient of the Cherry Tinker Art Award.

“It’s pretty awesome to be a paid artist,” she said. “It’s great to get recognized and share my work with everyone.”

The celebration was concluded with Wycoff encouraging students to submit for the next edition of SLAM, which will premiere in spring 2014.

The deadline to submit work for the 2014 issue is June 14. Details can be found at www.pierce.ctc.edu/pubs/slam/submit.

Hangover Part 3

Warner Bros.

Joe Dennis

Reporter

The Hangover Part 3, directed and written by Todd Phillips, is a mean spirited film where the comedy that made the first film memorable is dumped for an action drama.

With the Hangover Part 2 essentially being the same premise as the first film which discouraged most viewers and fans of the franchise, Hangover Part 3 was given the task of turning this trilogy around bringing new light to the characters and this time, no weddings.

Instead, what audiences will get from Hangover Part 3 is a lot of awkward silence without any payoff.

The story, while not predictable, isn’t original either. Considering that Hangover Part 3 combines a coming of age story into adulthood with an overgrown man-child who lacks any common sense, the film fails to make him three dimensional or likeable.

Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is out of control first by accidentally decapitating a giraffe which results in giving his father Sid (Jeffrey Tambor) a heart attack when he refuses to take responsibility for his actions.

With the death of Alan’s father and his continued resistance to take his medication, Stu (Ed Helms), Doug (Justin Bartha) and Phil (Bradley Cooper) stage an intervention, convincing him to go to an Arizona rehab center.

The gang takes a road trip to Arizona where they run into Marshall (John Goodman) along with his head of security Black Doug (Mike Epps) who ram Phil’s minivan off the road taking Doug hostage in exchange for Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) and $42 million.

Stu, Doug and Alan have no other choice but to head out in search for Chow and to waste an hour of the audience’s time. The subplots are either unfocused or drag along so it’s not difficult to see why Hangover Part 3 isn’t worth viewing in theaters.

At this point in the film, any sense of camaraderie and character development is out the window instead replaced with rehashed ideas better suited for a film such as Snatch.

While Phillips made the right choice by not remaking the same bachelor party type film for the third installment, what replaced it is equivalent to an “IOU” written onto a piece of used toilet paper.

Nothing about Hangover Part 3 draws the audience in other than a vague promise of things being different.

Avoid this movie at all costs. It’s not worth the time or money to waste on a product vacant of any satisfaction that will only leave heart-broken fans and audiences devastated by this train wreck known as Hangover Part 3.