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THE HEARTBREAKER

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This week, The Collegian celebrates Valentine’s Day, albeit a few days late, and I dedicate my editor’s letter to a very special latte. Across campus and across the country, tensions rose on both sides of the relationship divide. Couples took romance to the next level, while the singles tried in vain to drown out the sickly sweet noise.

BARBOSA Editor-in-Chief

I won’t make a case for either side, remind you of the more religious origins of this holiday, or even suggest that it is just a money-making scheme for Walmart, Hallmark, or E. L. James.

What I encourage you to do is to stop and smell the roses every day of this year, whether that means embracing a sweetheart or finding the sunshine in your untethered life. For me, V-day involved

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ASSISTANT EDITOR Karl Wallenkampf LAYOUT EDITOR Mindy Robinson HEAD COPY EDITOR Andrea Johnson PERSPECTIVE EDITOR Benjamin Ramey CONTENT EDITOR Carolyn Green

BACKPAGE & CREATIVE CURATOR Abigail Wissink

SCIENCE & TECH WRITER Daniel Hulse

CULTURE WRITER River Davis

SPORTS WRITER & PROMOTION MANAGER Alex Wagner

FASHION WRITER Alyssa Hartwick FOOD WRITER Rachel Peterson HUMOR WRITER Lauren Lewis

TRAVEL & LOCAL WRITER Shannon Pierce COPY EDITORS Tyler Jacobson Kayla Albrecht Rachel Blake

NEWS WRITERS Morgan Sanker Alexandra Buley

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Zachary Johnson

OFFICE MANAGER Melissa McCrery

LAYOUT DESIGNERS Matthew Moran Ian Smith Chloe Putnam Emily Brinley Alix Harris

RELIGION WRITERS Randy Folkenberg

ADVERTISING MANAGER Shandra Cady

ASWWU HEAD PHOTO EDITOR Erick Juarez

Culture | 14 Food | 15 ACA/SM | 16 CW | 17 #thecollegian | 18 Humor | 19 Fashion | 20 Travel | 21 Science | 22 Sports | 23 The Other Cheek | 24

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In my opinion, the ritual is unimportant. What is important is that you treasure the relationships in your life, no matter the circumstance or relationship status.

We often live like we’re alone, but we aren’t. This last week on campus has been evidence of that.

Don’t settle for obligation or bitterness.

Your heart deserves to be full.

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calling my sister, mom, and grandma, and spending a weekend with dear friends. Throughout the rest of February, I will be indulging in the maple and caramel goodness that is the Heartbreaker latte at the Atlas.

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Madison Jewell Baird CELEBRATION OF LIFE Les Zollbrecht

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News Writer Family, friends, schoolmates, and community members of all ages gathered to celebrate the life of Madison Jewell Baird on Sunday, Feb. 15 at Walla Walla University Church.

The service program featured family members and close friends sharing their fondest memories of Maddy.

Scripture was read by three of her closest friends, followed by a Life Sketch illustrating Maddy’s time at Big Lake summer camp and the many interactions she had with campers. Her sister Josie, a student of Walla Walla High School, followed by reading a few of her sister’s personal letters. Troy Fitzgerald then delivered a moving homily filled with quotations from the work Maddy did in her bible classes.

Josie, this time joined by her mother Lisa, recapped the highlights of Maddy’s life, presenting excerpts from her prayer journals to exemplify her love of Christ.

Following these heartfelt words, those gathered were invited to place various stones and flowers beside the coffin as a symbol of her love of nature.

The service concluded as five of Maddy’s closest male friends, donning white shirts and white boutonnieres,

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processed out with her coffin, fit with climbing ropes for handles.

The following morning at 6:59 a.m., just before sunrise, Maddy was buried.

Her loved ones gathered later that morning at 10:30 a.m. for a hike in her memory.

Various members of the Walla Walla University community rallied

this past week to pray, hold vigils, and make #Maddystrong clothespins. Social media, Facebook in particular, has lit up prayers and support for the Baird family and friends.

Her mother Lisa has created a Facebook titled “Share love for Maddy” as place to for anyone to leave encouraging messages.

TRAGEDY AND LOVE ON ADVENTIST CAMPUSES SHANNON

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In the last month, the Adventist college community has been rocked by two different catastrophic accidents. The campuses of Union College and WWU have been lifted up and surrounded by prayer from every corner of the earth as pain has been felt deeply at both schools.

For those who haven't heard, Heather Boulais, a 23-year-old student at Union College fell 23 feet on Jan. 14, during a gymnastics practice.

She was wearing a safety harness, but suffered a traumatic brain injury and skull fracture. Over the last month,

many Union students and people across the country have shown support by stopping to pray and by using #PrayersforHeather. Until more recently, she remained in a medically induced coma. On Feb. 10, our own campus was shocked with news of Maddy's accident. The campus stopped and prayed at noon on Feb. 11, in front of the Admin building while #MaddyStrong exploded all over Facebook and other social media platforms. At 8:57 P.M., Feb. 11, President McVay sent out an email, informing everyone that Maddy had

passed away. Other schools stopped to pray for our breaking hearts, and to ask God to be with Maddy.

Soon after, on Feb. 13, Boulais stabilized and was moved from the intensive care unit to a rehabilitation facility, said Terry and Cheryl Boulais, Heather's parents. But the fight isn't over — they still ask for prayers for temperature stabilization and a lack of infection.

Comfort can be found in the expansive web of Seventh-day Adventists. But this only continues to be

true if each of us does our part. Show some love for Heather and for those who are still praying for her! Pray earnestly. Use the #PrayersforHeather hashtag. We were blessed with an outpouring of support last week.

Now, and every day, is a chance to pass that love on.

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ODE TO MY CACTUS LOLA Prickly pear of green and quill In pot of clay you grow upon the window sill.

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While grass and fern require water and care Effortlessly you sit, soaking moisture from the air.

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Covered in bristle and barb they think you a danger Reactant to a past shortcoming of a stranger How relaxed you appear despite your harsh nature

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Basking above the silver sink, content to merely savor

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Religion Writer Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an unarmed 35-year-old Hispanic man from Pasco, Washington, was shot and killed last Tuesday, February 10.

The incident was caught on video and quickly spread and secured national attention, adding to the already stained reputation of law enforcement officials. During a very short confrontation ZambranoMontes is alleged to have first thrown rocks at officials — the video shows him turning and running across a busy intersection before being gunned down from behind by three pursuing officers.1

Though one may think you to be dull and idle You’re really working hard to keep up your vitals.

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From root to stem the xylem keeps flowin’

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To feed the flowers, radiant and glowing.

Whatever they say, Lola, my dear Don’t listen to their talk and vicious jeers.

Keep your ears cocked from their callous lies Just sit back, relax, and photosynthesize. fineartamerica.com

Zambano-Montes was caught between a cement wall and three armed officers, leading some to say that he was killed “execution style.”

The family of Mr. Zambrano-Montes has filed a $25 million dollar claim against the city of Pasco.2 A TriCity Special Investigations Unit will

complete its report and send it to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office.

A local Latino group also sent a letter to the Justice Department asking for federal intervention.3 This is the fourth fatal shooting involving local officials in Pasco in the past seven months. All officers were cleared of charges in the other three shootings.

Hispanic residents make up 56% of the total population of Pasco, though only one out of seven of the city council members and only 22% of the police force are Hispanic.

Language barriers continue to create communication issues with police; only a dozen officers speak fluent Spanish. The shooting sparked protests by hundreds of residents — an organized demonstration was held on Saturday, Feb. 14, to speak out against the killing. The Hispanic community of Pasco feels that the shooting represents a larger issue: Hispanics are not a large part of the local government and many barriers exist between them and the current current leaders. Many Latinos in Pasco are not voting citizens and lack the means to become educated.4 tinyurl.com/np5k2kn tinyurl.com/leq7nxr 3 tinyurl.com/pkbleed 4 tinyurl.com/k885nj3 1

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THURSDAY

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On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized Japanese-American internment during WWII

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WEDNESDAY

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Ancient Words

Recital, “Schubert 1815”

Career and Internship Fair

WEC Gym, 11:00 A.M.

FAC Auditorium, 7:30-8:45 P.M.

Ancient Words 72-hour Bible Reading Begins Prayer House, 8:00 P.M.

Prayer House, All Day WEC Gym, 4:00-7:00 P.M.

Saturday, February 28, WEC

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THE OATMEAL PRAYER ANDREA

johnson Head Copy Editor I hate oatmeal, as did my mother before me, and yet she insisted I eat it while living under her roof. She has told me many times how she learned to like it once she started dating my dad during her sophomore year of high school. Growing up, my mom would dump it down the sink when her mom left the kitchen, but my dad’s family ate it almost daily. His mom prepared it like anyone else does, but topped it with fruit, nuts and a drizzle of honey.

My mother’s oatmeal conversion was meant to inspire me, to convince me that oatmeal could be palatable, but all it did was show me that I could put mine down the disposal instead of in the trash.

Last month, I received a frantic message from a close friend, telling me she had a Crohn’s flare up and might

have to have a colonoscopy, the second in her young life. She was diagnosed with the disease her senior year of high school. She noticed something was wrong when she began having trouble eating — everything made her stomach upset. As a method of self-preservation, she ate only when she had to. She was still herself — happy, lively, creative — but a version who was always in pain and no longer liked to eat.

Here is the choice a Crohn’s patient is faced with: they can push through the pain and make their peace with a rotation of diarrhea, rectal bleeding, cramps, and constipation, eventually developing ulcers or anal fissures if left untreated, or they can medicate and deal with the short and long-term effects — extreme bloating and a complete suppression of the immune system. There is no cure and remission is not guaranteed, and if achieved, it is certainly not permanent. Knowing what to expect from a colonoscopy does not make it any less horrible, and

having experienced the debilitating and terrifying side effects of both Crohn’s and its medication doesn’t provide any sort of comfort. Faced with these hardships, it’s no wonder at all that my friend was distraught, looking towards a colonoscopy that wouldn’t even count as treatment, but as a necessary evil before a doctor determined how to proceed.

However, a few days later she shared with me how she was taking a turn for the better and how well she was taken care of by the professors in her nutrition program. In her first quarter of the program, she had many encounters with her professor, Dr. Schneider, a stiffly conservative, no-nonsense woman. My friend does not get along well with this sort. She likes to argue against the status quo and Dr. Schneider lives by it — they have butted heads more than a few times. It was not my friend’s natural response to confide her health problems in Dr. Schneider, and it certainly wasn’t expected that Dr.

Schneider would then go out and buy my friend groceries from three different stores, but that is what happened.

And then, through Dr. Schneider’s introduction, my friend met with Dr. Bull, a brilliant pathologist and retired Dean of Medicine. Dr. Bull suggested she eat oatmeal, which provides nutrition as a soluble fiber with butyric acid and probiotic properties, able to both stay in the gut and nourish it.

I was immediately grateful for those doctors who were able and willing to take care of my friend when I couldn’t.

Then I was amused that the voice of reason concerning my friend’s health was named Dr. Bull. But most of all, I was struck by the fact that oatmeal was part of the equation. That morning, I had eaten oatmeal for breakfast, and by this point you understand why that’s a big deal. What’s more is there was no good reason why, especially considering there was bread and eggs in the fridge, fruit on the counter, and even pancake mix in the cupboard.

I like to think my subconscious was reaching out to my friend, and I told her so. She said, as she has so many times, that we are in cahoots and then she asked me to pray. She told me she was accepting all prayers, to Jesus, and even Allah — her Muslim friend said she would pray for her and it touched her deeply. I said I would.

And it’s odd. Though I don’t fully understand prayer, I think it is something that makes me believe in God, not because I ever get an answer back, but because of its great power; when you know someone is praying for you, you feel comfort, which is healing, and when you pray for someone, you feel that you are reaching the unknown in a tangible way. I think it’s a connection, like how I ate oatmeal, which I loathe, but was at that very moment healing my best friend. Whether or not prayer reaches a higher being, that link, that cahoots, is real and I believe that connection must be part of God.

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LOVE ACCORDING TO JACOB “Genesis 29-30 Retold by yours truly...”

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Pickup lines for any religious lady: Abraham to Sarah — You’re beautiful enough to be my sister.

Joseph to Mary — Let’s have sex with our eyes.

Paul — Your distractions are so fierce I might have to leave the ministry.

‘Tis the season to try your hand at a little bit of romance. To make sure you are ready for this holiday season, I’ve compiled a list of Biblical compliments that will make your special someone swoon in adoration of your wit and charm. Next I’ll give a quick summary of one of the craziest love stories the inspired writing have to offer. I made none of this up.

And now, Genesis 29-30 retold by yours truly...

Love is in the air in the land of the people the middle east; a man with intense patience and an endless supply of sexual energy named Jacob is busy arguing with a couple guys he just met about when the sheep should be watered. Suddenly Jacob’s attention turns toward the distance — a beautiful shepherdess named Rachel arrived with her flock. Jacob has quite the heart-on for Rachel, immediately gives her a smooch and begins crying uncontrollably. She runs back to tell her father, who also happens to be the brother of Jacob’s mother (that makes

them cousins, folks). Her father Laban is overjoyed by the news, gives Jacob a kiss and works out a deal with Jacob.

He needs to work for seven years and only then will Rachel be his. After seven years that felt like seven days Jacob says to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in her for my time is completed.”1 After a great feast Jacob takes and beds his new wife. Jacob wakes up the next morning and turns to look at the beauty lying next to him.

He jumps out of bed and throws his clothes on, sleeping soundly is Rachel’s older sister, the weak-eyed Leah. Jacob confesses to Laban, “Good one, you got me man, now give me my real wife.” Laban replies, “Only after you complete your lovin’ week with Leah and work another seven years.” Jacob works seven more years.

The flourishing Leah gives Jacob four sons named Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. He finally got his pleasure week with Rachel but she’s barren. Rachel, upset with her own infertility, makes Jacob sleep with her

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servant. “Hoorah!,” Rachel explaims, “Now I have sons to give Jacob as well!” Their names are Dan and Naphtali. Naturally, Leah who is now barren as well, calls Rachel’s bid and offers her own servant to joins the mix. Her servant bears Gad and Asher.

The cat fight continues, “You sleep with him! Now you! Now you!.” All the while Jacob is busy collecting ice for his recovery session.

Now Jacob has always loved Rachel more than Leah which intensifies the rivalry between the sister wives. Leah hasn’t gotten much attention lately and is feeling a bit frisky. Reuben, Leah’s son, has collected mandrakes but Rachel furiously wants some for herself. So they trade mandrakes for some one-on-one time with Jacob.

Rachel runs and informs Jacob of the transaction; he finds Leah and completes the deed. Astonishingly, the once-barren Leah births three more children: Issachar, Zebulun, and a daughter named Dinah. Realizing her mistake, and not wanting to be

outdone, the once-barren Rachel quickly delivers the colorful-coatwearing Egyptian-ruling boy Joseph.

Jacob is completely exhausted from the ordeal, so he lets the sheep do the breeding for the rest of the chapter.

Laban has offered him a portion of the flock, Jacob lets them mate, takes the stronger half, and flees with all his wealth.

Four chapters later, Jacob regains his strength, lays with Rachel and she gives him the greatest son of all.2 His name is Benjamin.

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iven the month of February, the superfluous decorations in Walmart, and the recent occurrence of Valentine’s Day, I’ve been struck by a number of memories. In my case, they are memories of writing little notes to my grade-school classmates, enclosing small candies and making sure that everyone in the class received one — one wouldn’t want to be seen as exclusive at 12-years-of-age. Grade school notes led to high school notes, though, as fate would have it, I had gained a deeper appreciation for young ladies by that time. I was a hopeful, if daft, romantic, thinking that my small offerings to the goddesses of my class would eventuate in some

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kind of good fortune. It was problematic that I didn’t know what flirting was, and thus never picked up on “May I borrow a pencil?” moments.

At that time, I was thoroughly adrift.

Perhaps you have found yourself in similar times with similar memories. Whether or not you have traumatic flashbacks to failed amours, I hope to provide a few thoughts on the matter of relationships that can be applicable to anyone — whether Facebook says you’re “Single,” “In a relationship,” or your love life is generally “Complicated.”

It may be helpful to trace a kind of arc for

the whole idea of relationships. As it goes, there is usually a progression of interest to dating and then relationship, and, if the stars align, marriage. There can be several important interjections: rejection, breakup, and divorce.

I will keep my remarks to those things which I have experience with, thus circumventing the last of both categories, however important those subjects are. Note: if you are an expert in marriage, no need to read further — you’re navigating the high seas quite well and probably already read the Food section and prepared the dessert for your loved one.

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T S E R E T IN What a lark life becomes! Flowers bud, birds tweet, angels sing, and acne appears like never before. You’ve seen someone you never noticed, or rediscovered someone you’ve always noticed in a new light. Either way, it’s difficult to stop focusing on him, and you can’t forget about her. The first difficulty is exhibiting interest in a non-frightening manner. One generally accepted way is to make contact over social media: you begin to like photos, particularly profile pictures, and start to form a noticeable presence in this person’s life. Next, you add him as a friend on Facebook or follow her on Instagram (generally speaking, Snapchat seems a little forward if you don’t have his/her number). Once that has occurred, you try to spend more time with them, whether explicitly or implicitly, and at some point, ask their number so as to facilitate increased conversation, interaction, and affection. I would tend to say that the more genuine and personal you are—rather than secretive and electronic—the better.

What a lark life becomes!

Flowers bud, birds tweet, angels sing, and acne appears like never before.

DATING Once you have a clear line of communication, the opportunities seem endless. But they can end, even quickly, if you aren’t careful. Part and parcel of this discussion is what dating is and what a relationship is.

I find great diversity of views on this tack, especially within our Adventist subculture. I’ve thrown around words with friends like “date,” “relationship,” “girlfriend,” “boyfriend,” “hanging out,” “talking,” “seeing each other,” and other such terms. One might think we were in the Pentagon deciding how to “neutralize” the next terrorist “threat” with “extreme prejudice.” Anyway, let’s get down to brass tacks, in the non-50 Shades sort of way.

A fairly accepted definition for “date” is “a part of the human mating process whereby two people meet socially for companionship, beyond the level of friendship, or with the aim of each assessing the other’s suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or marriage.”1 I will now step on some toes. If you like a guy and he asks you to go with him and his friends to Walmart to buy ice cream—it’s a date. If you are really interested in a girl and you sit together at vespers—it’s a date. If you ask someone what February 14 is—it’s a date. I have often run into issues with this definition. I find many of my friends deny the label “date” for their interactions with their interests.

“He didn’t say it was a ‘date.’”

“I didn’t pay for her, so it wasn’t a ‘date.’”

Allow me a radical claim: if you are with the person

you like, and you both found time to be together, it’s a date. Now, what this entails is that some dates are not actually all that romantic. Perhaps some people want every “date” to involve dinners, movies, walks along the boardwalk, and kisses under flowering trees. It’s okay that some dates will not send you into preternatural bliss, because life isn’t always dopaminergic. The trick is to bring the same vivacity to that Walmart run for ice cream as you would if you took her to the Ritz. It’s also impressively cheaper.

One thing to keep in mind during the dating phase is how open to be about your affections. My father once read to me a line from a book entitled City of Thieves: A Novel, written by David Benioff. As my father told me, the story involves two main characters given a particular task during the siege of Leningrad during WWII. One character is handsome and worldly, while the other less so. At one point, the more experienced one offers his friend a word of advice, namely the way to success with women is through the use of “calculated neglect.” I’ve had experience with this. Every time I have been interested in someone, there was a time when greater elusiveness on her part only made me desire the relationship even more. Likewise, there were times when I pulled back in my overt affections, and it seemed like she was all the more involved. However, I adamantly disagree with anyone who claims this is the best way to enter a relationship. It is devious, unkind, and often the result of one person trying to manipulate the other to achieve their ends. While I would not

recommend replying to every text message within seconds of receiving it, manipulation develops when you turn on read receipts to let the person know you have read their message and then wait an hour or more before replying. I recommend that you be authentic. If you’re free, reply. If you’re busy, don’t. Being who you are and acting the way you usually do is essential both in dating and in a relationship.

Now, if you decide you aren’t interested, I recommend being frank with the other person. One cannot condemn honesty in this regard, though I recommend graciousness in the statement. I am ashamed to have simply let an interest die off without stating where I stood. Relationships should be grounded on mutual respect. Deeming someone unworthy of your honest opinion, especially when it is the fear of pain that inhibits your speech, is in no way respectful. This is also not the end of the world: if the person isn’t interested in you, there is someone else. I grew up thinking that relationships would take lots of work, that I would likely have to jump over hurdles and hop through hoops in order to finally land a relationship with an ideal woman. There are plenty of stories to this effect, I will admit. Pride and Prejudice is a notable example of a relationship that took quite a bit of time to develop and began with something near hate, if not disdain.

However, though I cannot state this categorically, there is someone out there who would likely be absolutely stoked to date you, and, note this, you would be happy to date them.

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S P I H S N O I T A REL Being in a relationship is synonymous with being official, “Facebook official,” going steady, being ‘together,’ etc. Dating, however, is a tricky offshoot: some use it to mean an official relationship, others use it to signify the process of going on dates with someone without an official relationship agreement. I prefer the latter definition. So, as far as “relationships” go, I have a few pointers: Keep going on dates. It’s easy to think that your dating life is now over and that you don’t need to put time into asking your boyfriend or girlfriend on a date. However, continuing on dates can open up new aspects of your relationship you hadn’t known of before. Deciding to go on a hike could lead to an important conversation about life and your mutual disdain of ketchup.

Skipping class to go skiing could lead to lifelong memories. Going to a grocery store to buy something you’ve never had before yet always wondered about, could eventuate in some serious laughs (Like the time I tried grape kombucha with chia seeds for the first time — watch out. It’s intense.)

Don’t stress too much. My parents have emphasized that I should spend at least some of my collegiate experience enjoying life. A relationship is an obvious avenue for this enjoyment. Relationships are built around the idea that two people together have a better life experience than one person has alone. If you find that you are exhausted, worn down, or depressed because of your relationship, you should think about your relationship’s role in your life!

College is stressful enough; your relationship should fill you, not deplete you.

Develop kindness and generosity. A friend of mine recently posted an article from Business Insider that reported on recent research on relationships. It showed that two things, kindness and generosity, are the basis for enduring relationships.2 While this may be news to some, anyone who has grown up with 1 Corinthians 13 should already be well aware of the positive effects of those two traits. A multitude of other virtues are integral to a relationship, such as patience, insight, and a listening ear. The absence of any of these often leads to an unfortunate circumstance.

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BREAKUPS There are a few important points to keep in mind, but I will be brief due to the unpleasant nature of the subject.

1. If you are unhappy, take a serious account of what you are looking for in the relationship. If those things aren’t being met, why? Is it because the person you are with doesn’t fulfill you, or because you haven’t been fulfilling your own role?

2. If you find that the two of you are not fulfilling each other, it is appropriate to end the romantic connection of the relationship.

3. While it may help you “get over” the person, deleting Facebook photos, Instagram posts, and unfriending/blocking them are fairly drastic and somewhat insulting methods of getting over a relationship.

I will allow that in some relationships — abusive or otherwise — it is legitimate, however I have regretted taking this action in my own life.

4. In some cases such as abuse, manipulation, dishonesty, cheating, and others, it is appropriate to end a relationship immediately. However, in many cases, there is time to analyze the relationship before ending it. You may find that there was a key to happiness you had been missing.

If this is the track you take, I cannot emphasize kindness enough. If you have used the words “I love you,” now is the best time to make that clear through your actions.

There you have it. A brief overview of the main points around a relationship. Some say that “all is fair in love and war.” Others might equate the two. Whatever your perspective, I hope you gleaned at least some new ideas or refined old ones. If you have any questions about any of my thoughts or disagree with me on others, feel free to ask or fire away. In the final analysis, I’m no expert, even if I have had some share of gain and loss. I wish you only the former.

Last Christmas break I read a fascinating book entitled Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy, by Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman. While the book did not help my attempts at entering a relationship immediately, its lessons are quite valuable. I’ll share the brief descriptions of each of those 12 strategies, though I recommend the rest of the content as well:

Relax

Observe nonverbal cues

Stay present

Express appreciation

Cultivate inner silence

Speak warmly

Increase positivity

Speak slowly

Reflect on your values

Speak briefly

Access a pleasant memory

Listen deeply

Frankly, who wouldn’t be absolutely ecstatic to have someone fulfill all 12 in a conversation? I certainly would be. Break those categories down as follows: 1-6 help you to be centered on where you are, and to allow you to be comfortable enough to really engage in #7, observing nonverbal cues — an invaluable ability. The rest are all involved in communicating in a pleasant, effective way.3

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13 SAILING LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

ASKING FOR THE NUMBER

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ASKING SOMEONE

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ON A DATE

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Walla Walla Roastery: T he Atlas ge beans from ts its the Roaste ry, a small, charming s y e t hop with so me of the b house-mad est e caramel s auce you ca n find.

Cugini Itali an Import Foods: A ne you've likely at shop passed on the way to Worm Ranc the h (Dora's De li) that mak great sand es a wich.

Walla Walla Bread Com pany: A gre place to bu at y exception a l bread and various foo d items inc luding sand macaroons wiches, , and coffee .

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“Love is a Verb” - John Mayer My all time favorite. This is the perfect song to listen to while tying your bowtie. billboard.com

WILL YOU “BEE” MINE

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“In Her Arms You Will Never Starve” - Copeland A universal tribute to that special someone. punktastic.com

Sweetheart candies. But as we got a little older, a different kind of chaos ensued:

RIVER

davis Culture Writer In case you hadn’t noticed, Valentine’s day brings out the mushiness in all of us. Even in our youngest years, our culture introduces us to this random day of love in the middle of bleak February. I remember the days in first grade when the teacher would set up a little mailbox for each student in the back of the room and allow us to drop all of our valentines in our friends’ respective mailboxes. There was absolutely 0% of a love factor involved — it was simply a first grade formality. I just remember the giddy excitement of getting to go get all of my valentine cards at the end of the day.

“Hey, Gregory! What did you get?”

“I got three Spider Man Valentines and six jolly ranchers!” he replied through a mouth full of candy. I looked down at mine. It was a valentine from Jessica. It had a picture of Winnie the Pooh eating honey and the words “Will you bee mine?” printed on it. I shook with delight from the clever wording.

The first grade classroom was always chaos on Valentine’s Day, trading pink and red M&Ms for stale

“Oh my word, did you see Jared hanging out with Sarah? Yesterday he told me he liked Olivia. And Olivia really likes Jared, but Sarah said that she got a note in her locker from Jared AND Brad but Brad doesn’t know about what happened last year.”

“Oh my goodness, I know. And I’ve been sitting trying to sit by Carter all year in math class, but I just don’t think he notices me. Do you think he likes Olivia too? I heard he was going to give her a Valentine today but then Ashley would be jealous.

“She Lit a Fire” - Lord Huron A good song to pump through the speakers as you drive down the open road with your love. saydaily.com

“Never Let Me Go” - Stacey Kent Perfect crooning background music for a picnic or coffee date. exploredance.com

“Guys! Guys! Jason just asked me to sit next to him in the cafeteria for lunch today!” (collective screams).

Then after a while, it levels out.

We grow up, we actually fall in love, and we buy flowers and go to fancy dinners with lovely people on Valentine’s Day. If I am being perfectly honest, I tend to wrinkle my nose when I walk into Wal-Mart and am accosted by pink teddy bears, horribly cheesy cards, and oversized balloons.

But hey, Valentine’s Day has passed, so it doesn’t have to be awkward, and what else is there to do in February?

Part your hair for once, put on that sport coat you never wear, and ask that special someone on a date.

Still need convincing? Here is a handpicked playlist from yours truly to get you in the mushy-gushy mood.

“Two is Better than One” - Boys Like Girls (ft.

Taylor Swift)

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Nothing like a little Boys Like Girls to remind you of your teenage love years. Plus, it has Taylor Swift, so there’s that.

“Bluebird” - Sara Bareilles Thinking of a former love? This is the perfect song to listen to while eating chocolate to forget about the past.

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SHARE THE LOVE RACHEL

PETERSON Food Writer

I’d love to get feedback from you! Send me an email if you have any comments or suggestions for recipes you’d like to see featured at rachel.peterson@ wallawalla.edu

Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and for you those of you looking to make a sweet treat for the special day, I’ve got your back. Having a great appreciation for raspberries, cheesecake, and cupcakes, these Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake Cupcakes immediately caught my eye.

The raspberry marbling adds an incredible pop of color and could even be made into the shape of a heart!

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RECIPE : SPICED TRAIL MIX I N G R E D I E N TS For the crust: 1½ cups graham cracker crumbs 4 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted 3 tbsp. sugar For the raspberry swirl: 6 oz. fresh raspberries 2 tbsp. sugar

I N ST R U C T I O N S 1. Preheat the oven to 325˚ F. 2. Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

3. In a bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and sugar. Stir together with a whisk or fork until blended and all the dry ingredients are moistened.

4. Press 1 tbsp of the mixture into the bottom of each cupcake liner.

5. Bake until just set, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack.

To make the raspberry puree:

For the filling:

Pinch of salt

Combine the raspberries and sugar in a blender or food processor (if you don’t have one try to borrow from a friend). Blend until smooth. Some of you may want to strain out the raspberry seeds at this point, but I usually opt not to.

1 tsp. vanilla extract

To make the cheesecake:

4 large eggs

1. Beat the cream cheese on mediumhigh speed in the bowl of an electric mixer.

2. Blend in the sugar until smooth.

2 lbs. cream cheese, at room temperature 1½ cups sugar

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3. Mix in the salt and vanilla.

4. Beat in the eggs one at a time.

To assemble: 1. Spoon 3 tbsp. of the cheesecake batter over the crust in each cupcake liner.

2. Dot a ½ tsp. of the raspberry puree in about 3 dots over the cheesecake filling.

3. Use a toothpick or the end of a eating utensil to swirl the puree and create a marbled effect.

4. Bake until the filling is set, about 20 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through baking so that the cheesecakes cook evenly. Watch carefully near the end of the baking time. Cooking time tends to vary depending on the oven and you do not want to overcook these babies.

5. Place the cheesecakes on a wire cooling rack and let cool to room temperature.

6. Transfer to a refrigerator and let chill for 4 or more hours before serving.

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WISDOM 92-year-old man hits nine parked cars in Piggly Wiggly parking lot.

- Piggly what?

Vatican on high alert over Islamist threat.

- Pope Urban: “I told you so.”

Man sells watch he found at secondhand store for $35k - See you at Goodwill.

VANESSA

gow-lee Contributor

These are hard times for us all. I didn’t have the pleasure of knowing Maddy personally, and only talked with her a couple times. But like many of you, I was hit hard by grief and shock that something like this could happen to someone in the safe bubble of Walla Walla. It was Thursday morning for us, right after praying for Maddy in Biology and Physics, that we got the news. Maddy’s struggle was over. I had to leave and go hide in the trees behind the building, where I could pray and cry for her family in private. What happened to Maddy is confusing and unfair. But even in the middle of this horrible tragedy and our grief over losing a member of our WWU family, we have something special, something that many people don’t have. We have hope.

You see, the week before, there was another sudden and tragic death, one here in Cambodia. The 21-yearold son of a woman in our Adventist church, a boy named Jay, was attacked as he walked down a nearby street. He was on his way from a wedding to go party with some friends when several people — no one seems to know exactly who — jumped out and slit his throat. He was dead before the police or ambulance came. Unlike Maddy, Jay was not a Christian. His mother is Adventist, and his younger brother & sister attend our school, but Jay was Buddhist.

We attended his funeral the next day, a Buddhist ceremony held at his home. It was so different than funerals at home, partly for the obvious reasons: loud, jarring funeral music played over a scratchy loudspeaker, the orange-clad Buddhist monks chanting blessings, the lack of a set program. But more than anything, I

will remember the hopelessness of the situation. The usual words we repeat to each other, the promise of a future, suddenly didn’t apply.

So what can you say to the mother curled up on a bench? Or the younger sister who just wants to cry by herself?

And to the quiet brother, compelled by relatives to shave his head, dress in white robes, and meditate with the monks? For the Buddhist members of the family, their loved one is now a spirit to be wary of. For the Christian members, the boy they knew and loved is gone, gone forever.

Jay’s time on earth closed with a long procession to the Buddhist temple where his body was placed in a cement pyre and burned. Beyond his family and friends, his death was only of interest to the monks who got paid to chant blessings and to schoolchildren who scrambled to peer at his body in the pyre.

But for Maddy, and all the other people who loved God and have been taken from us, there is more to the story. One day, a small cloud will appear in the sky. Maddy will open her eyes and see the most loving face she has ever seen. On that day, the lives of Maddy and countless others will begin again. Life on earth without our loved ones seems intolerable, but we know that our grief does not go unnoticed.

When we cry, Jesus cries with us. And best of all, we know that this is not the end.

Hong Kong leader calls on residents to be like sheep.

- Probably going to lead them astray.

Dentist charged in death of patient getting 20 teeth pulled .

- Your fears were real.

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Notes midnight

(a journal entry after an evening at the girls’ dorm) by alex lemnah

Creative

WRITING

ABIGAIL

wissink Creative Curator If you’d like to submit your poetry, prose, songs, or any kind of creative writing, email me at abigail.wissink@ wallawalla.edu.

Mouth and tongue, tongue in mouth.

Gurgle, sputter, spittle battle what I’m not doing anything guys, I’m just taking notes.

Something lingers with the lingerers. There is something odd and unwieldy that stoops my shoulders but that you may not have: experience.

Sloppy lips, gently rubbing runny nose tips, Hands on hips, firm finger grips relax guys, seriously, I’m just watching a little It’s not a big deal.

I watch as you mash face and suck lip and think that love’s a trip without dead ends.

There you kiss, yet can you part? Do you know how to step away from love? Let me show you: You walk back to your dorm and you go inside and both of you think about something else for a while, because as I watch the cuddled bundles at the girls dorm, I think to myself: if you don’t own a car or have your own place, you probably aren’t ready to play tonsil hockey at midnight.

Feeling. Oh, the feeling. Feel and gaze and kiss and graze On the itch to rush and peel off clothing until you remember you’re in plain sight Of all the other couples and no, I’m not waiting for someone, I’m just watching you freaking weirdos.

Time. There is no time at this hour.

There is only the eternal linger, the interlaced fingers oh yea and the iPhone Beeping saying time is up — but no. No! To hell with the rules!

Love lasts forever, linger a moment longer, oh god, never leave, never turn your back — How can one know how to sleep alone at night once the sweetness of midnight kisses is discovered?

Once the blissful reveries of shared lips are known, they are impossible not to part with.

It is unthinkable to separate from love unless I stand here with my face too close and you get uncomfortable and ask me what I’m doing and like I said before, I’m not doing anything.

I’m just taking notes.

I stand and watch and recall all the love I have known and something inside me cries out,

If you think the joy of love is felt most after sundown, if you’ve never loved someone by not kissing them, if you’ve never fallen in love with yourself and the god beneath your skin, then maybe chill in your room tonight and do something productive, not reproductive.

Yes, love reproduces itself, and I wouldn’t wish on you the dread of watching your love spark and grow and mature and procreate and suffocate and annihilate in an infinite self-centeredness.

As I watch the scenes of lip-filled reveries outside the dorm, I see little love and many Me’s, the kinds of Me who need and need and need.

So, when it comes to midnight love, should you trust Me? No. Just trust love.

If I had swung for true love sooner, it wouldn’t be Me standing alone taking notes.

Eric Weber

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Because I struggle with dating and my article pretty much starts and ends with “meh,” I chose to ignore the feature this week.

My dating struggle began in kindergarten with Jo-Jo, my first boyfriend. It was a shallow relationship; we were only together because he could rollerblade and I had a multicolor flashlight.

The only time we kissed was when the bullies of elementary

school pushed our faces together. His mouth hit my nose, and it kind of hurt. So instead, I have a contributor for you this week!

His name is Casey Bartlett, WWU Alumnus, class of 2013. This article is aimed at all you seniors who walked in recognition of themselves last week. How self-centered. Enjoy!

LAUREN

lewis Humor Writer

‘real-life?’ well, he’s a jerk.

“Fare thee well college, it’s been good, even great, but I’m headed out.” This was my melodic anthem as I completed my last year of Walla Walla University. Little did I know a devilish fiend commonly referred to as “Real-Life” was winding up to sucker punch me in the gonads.

Heading to a low-key concert in L.A. at the suggestion of a friend, — that’s what people do, right?

— we stopped to get the best iced coffee, according to “yelping” avid coffee drinkers. We walked into a building which married modern and quasi-rustic styles; it was the coolest building I had ever seen.

My feelings on this building could only be described by a hipster’s monotone voice: “I was just living life in the moment… man. I was there and life just surrounded me.” I should have walked out the door — this coffee shop was shrieking, “you don’t belong here!”

Regardless, I walked to the counter and glanced over the menu.

I strained my eyes to see that it

was written not in English, but in hipster-martian. All I wanted was an iced coffee. I saw that they served a cold brew. What is that? It sounds promising, I thought. I strutted confidently to barista behind the counter, and noticed his button-up checkered shirt and cloth vest that matched his shirt both perfectly and horrendously. It complemented his knitted tie and wavy military hair cut.

My first mistake was to open my mouth in his presence; despite my palms sweating, I ordered a coffee.

As I asked for my cold brew, he agreeably set out to work. It was then that I committed the heinous crime. Casually, I remarked, “Can I get that iced?” I never knew such tension could build from such a harmless question. He peered at me through his non-prescription yet highly fashionable lenses and retorted audaciously, “yeah, that’s how it comes.” I felt the mental gasp of all the other employees, coffee drinkers, and people in line in the establishment. They huffed, thinking, “How do you NOT know

what a cold brew is? How dare you share our oxygen, you uncultured swine?”

BAM! ‘Real- Life’ dealt me a straight punch to the gonads! The blinding pain of embarrassment made me want to shamefully pay for my “obviously” iced coffee and walk out of that joint ASAP. But walking and eye contact were difficult, and I hadn’t paid yet. The cash register was, of course, an iPad. Apple was everywhere and for the first time I understand what the Apple motto, “Think Different,” means. I looked at every customer with their own Apple devices proudly displayed along with their hemp shoes and wonderfully hideous clothes; it was confirmed. I felt everyone thinking exactly the same and Apple’s motto was lived out… kind of. Their pretentious looks all shouted in unison, “YOU DON’T BELONG HERE.” I looked at the floor to avoid all eye contact and realized to my horror that I was wearing Nike shoes. The very symbol of everything wrong with the world

was wrapped around my feet and I was walking in it. Corporate America, the 1%, was literally setting foot inside their sacred territory. I could almost hear them silently promising themselves to retrade their clothing and order Toms in my behalf.

With shaking hands, I shoveled out $7 for my cup of coffee, my iced drink arrived and we left the premises just as the iron branding device came out of the fire so that they could scorch the words “you think the same” onto my forehead.

I thought, for all the anxiety I had just overcome, that the coffee had better have been the best iced coffee my taste buds had ever met. While sipping my incredibly hard-earned treat, I realized: it was just an average cup of iced coffee.

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STYLE PROFILE SHOES | Nordstrom Rack PANTS | American Eagle TOP | Macy’s

Ashleigh Kuhn Math, pre-med

NECKLACE | H&M COAT | Burberry

interview AH: Who is your fashion inspiration?

AK: I am most inspired by Kate Middleton!

I also enjoy Steven Tyler’s fashion sense.

AH: How would you describe your personal style?

AK: I would say laid back, but I try to stay on the more classy side.

AH: What is your fashion pet peeve?

AK: Daily wearing of exercise clothes, like, as an outfit.

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NORTHWEST WEEKEND GETAWAYS

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Hello, Collegian readers! Since our issue this week is themed Love and Relationships, we’ve decided to compile a list of the best places to spend time with your sweetheart, or get away with a group of friends. To make it even better, each of these places are less that 220 miles away from Walla Walla; perfect for rest, relaxation, and cost efficiency. Let the Instagram and hashtags begin.

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PALOUSE FALLS: 71.4 MILES

WALLOWA LAKE: 85.5 MILES

SPOKANE: 180 MILES

LEAVENWORTH: 202 MILES

COLCHUCK LAKE: 218 MILES

The closest trip on our list, especially if you decide to disdain Google Maps’ preferred route and opt for the back way of 55.7 miles (it will take you on quaint back roads, perfect for pastoral conversations — and driving the speed limit, of course). Palouse Falls is one of the miniature wonders near Walla Walla, with a magnificent 198-foot waterfall. The sparsity of the surrounding area juxtaposed with the roaring waterfall allows for romantic musings about the passion of your relationship in the dull landscape of academia.

You can swim, hike, and picnic in the surrounding areas. To park in Palouse Falls’ parking lot you will need a Discover Pass — either $10 for the day or $30 for the year, which you can purchase online or at the Park. However, there are some upcoming free days: March 19, April 4, April 22, May 10, and June 6.

If you ever travel anywhere within 200 miles of Walla Walla, please, I beg you, take the quick drive over to Wallowa Lake in Oregon. The serene lake is surrounded by a small mountain range and is a perfect place to camp for a night or two. While there, you can hike up to Icicle Creek, admire the waterfalls, or canoe on the lake. It’s peaceful, pleasant, and only a couple hours away.

If you like to hike or just enjoy scenery, Spokane is a great place to explore parks and recreations.

Riverside Park lines the Spokane River that runs through the middle of bustling downtown and is easily accessible from the highway, and better yet, the mall. While you’re there, visit the falls from one of the three bridges over the river.

Manito Gardens and Bowl and Pitcher are both beautiful places to stroll and stride.

Tucked away at the foot of the mountains is a Bavarian town with scrumptious wiener schnitzel and nutcracker gift shops (don’t worry, they have a vegetarian option). About 15 minutes away lie the beautiful wilderness of the Enchantments. Laden with lakes, peaks and even mountain goats, the Enchantments is one of nature’s finest gems. Here, one can enjoy everything from bouldering, rope climbing, backpacking, day hiking, and mountaineering.

Prepare to be enchanted.

For those of you who love to backpack and be one with nature, Colchuck requires your presence. The icy waters of the deep lake may fool you into thinking that Narnia is near. If you’re looking for a place to get lost, this is your destination.

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Joseph is the quaint town that sits right outside of Wallowa.

Its main street has a plethora of small shops and eateries. We recommend you check out the Arrowhead Chocolates, where they hand-make everything with organic, local ingredients — ­ because it’s Oregon.

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Spokane also has several shopping centers as well as “home town” shops and eateries. Go to Boo Radley’s and Atticus for a Sasquatch t-shirt or a literaryinspired cup of coffee.

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Located in the Central Cascades, Colchuck is conveniently nestled not far from Leavenworth. So if you decide to retreat to Colchuck, stay in a cozy cottage in Leavenworth and you’ll officially be living the Bavarian life!

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THE NEW SMARTS wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntuphone.png

The smartphone wars are over. As it stands today, Android has by far dominated the smartphone market, with 84.4% market share in the third quarter of 2014 (iOS and Windows Phone has 11.7% and 2.9%, respectively).1 At this point, smartphones have been around a while, and are pretty much ubiquitous in most of the developed world. So where do we go from here?

What’s new? As it turns out, there are several new phone operating systems with their own strategies for taking on the market. Well, here they are!

It’s hard not to speculate about Samsung’s long-term goal for Tizen.

While it may be shipping in just a few markets, it’s hard not to think this isn’t a strategic move on Samsung’s part. Samsung, the biggest and most sucessful Android phone manufacturer, heavily customizes Android to make it as much a “Samsung” product as possible by changing the look of the homescreen and default apps, including more features, and by including their own app-and-content store. As Google has attempted to harness more control over the Android platform and other manufactures have created a competetive environment of phones with similar features, Samung’s efforts to keep its market share may be dwindling. Tizen would allow them to have near-total control over the platform while creating a truly different (read: differentiated) experience for their customers.

Tizen

Ubuntu Phone

If you’re not familiar with Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Phone, they have long been making linux-based operating systems for desktop computers and servers called, as it turns out, Ubuntu. Ubuntu Phone is just one of many of their efforts to reach “convergence” — a single platform for desktop computers, tablets, and phones (a strategy they share with a high-profile competitor by the name of Microsoft). Last year, Canonical attempted to crowdfund a high-end phone with cutting edge technology that would showcase their Ubuntu Phone operating system while also booting Android. While it failed to reach its 32-million dollar goal, it reached just short of 13-million dollars, making it the second-most-funded crowdfunding project at the time (it’s now #4)4.

Tizen is Samsung’s effort to produce an operating system for its own devices — not just phones, but tablets, smartwatches, Smart TVs, netbooks (really), and “In-Vehicle Infotainment” systems.2 Tizen already ships on Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatches, and the Samsung Z1 — a $91 smartphone for developing countries that was launched in India this January. Tizen uses the Linux kernel as well as many freely-licensed GNU libraries, making much of it Free Software.

Ubuntu Phone is a new operating system for smartphones based totally on freely-licensed software, including the Linux kernel. The first phone with Ubuntu Phone, the BQ Aquarius E4.5 launched February 9, and is now available in Europe.3 Ubuntu Phone hopes to differentiate itself from other smartphone operating systems through by focussing on scopes--screens that compile content from many different sources — instead of apps. While it’s

Firefox OS is an operating system created by Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox. Firefox OS first lauched in July 2013 and currently ships on several phones and a few tablets.5 Unlike most smartphone operating systems, Firefox OS doesn’t have apps at all — it instead relies solely on web applications — or websites with enhanced functionality. This basic approach, along with some leaned-

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difficult to explain accurately, a brief demo can be seen here (http://youtu. be/TShKZLeZzWE).

Firefox OS

down internals, allow Firefox OS to run on cheap phones with incredibly low specifications. One example of this is the Intex Cloud FX — a $32 phone with just 128 MB of RAM that launched in India August 2014.6 Like Samsung, Mozilla is targeting developing countries with Firefox OS, since people those countries are just now able to buy smartphones.

While they were first to this market, it may become more difficult in the future, as more and more phone manufactures reach for this market.

Google, especially, has made a concerted effort to optimize Android for cheaper devices, and may acheive more traction in developing countries in the future.

Sailfish Sailfish OS is an operating system for smartphones made by Jolla, a Finnish company. Based (once again) primarily on Linux and other freely-licensed software components, Sailfish OS has its own appstore and can some Android applications through a compatibility layer. The Jolla phone first lauched in early 2014, and Jolla successfully crowdfunded a tablet in December 2014, raising just over 2 million dollars.7 Like the Ubuntu Phone, Sailfish OS uses swipe-gestures extensively for one-handed operation.

Jolla, the company behind Saifish, has a bit of a history. Back in 2010,

as smartphones were just gaining traction, Nokia unveiled Meego, an operating system for their devices that would replace their current operating system, Symbian, which was in decline. Unfortunately, Nokia’s Meego phones didn’t take off as much as Nokia had hoped, and they started manufacturing primarily Windows phones. Around that time, many of those Nokia employees left to form Jolla to make Sailfish OS from the freely-licensed components of Meego.

While they may not have a large market share, Jolla seems to have a following in their home country of Finland. http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-osmarket-share.jsp 1

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THE ULTIMATE ATHLETE-CELEBRITY POWER [BRACKET] of a matchup. Success, and headlines.

If a said power couple can combine for successful headlines, well, we are probably looking at a winner.

ALEX

wagner Sports Writer If there is anything that I have learned in my time spent watching sports, it’s that it really doesn’t matter what the final outcome or score is.

What matters is win, lose, or draw, two beautiful people will be together following the game’s conclusion.

Which leads right into what this week’s entry is all about: The “201415 Athlete-Celebrity Power Bracket.”

I love the broadcast shot where the athlete has just made a great play, and the other half in the relationship is shown in a box seat clapping and cheering. I love it when the athlete accompanies the celebrity to their respective awards show. I do not love the ESPY’s, but we will look past that.

So, what is this bracket? Well, I have compiled 10 dynamic duo’s who will compete for the title of best sports couple of the year, and there should be no doubt in your mind who the winner is when we get to the finish line.

Bracket Layout: Like I said, there are 10 total entries in this year’s bracket separated into two regions: The “Jeter Region,” and the “Kardashian Region.” Because there are 10 entries, the four and five seeds will compete in a play-in round to see who makes the elite eight.

How do you advance?

There are really only two factors that go into deciding the outcome

Simple enough? Now follow along with a pen, and fill in the bracket as you see fit (you will undoubtedly agree with everything I say).

4-5 Matchups Let’s start in the Jeter Region with the Tiger Woods Lindsay Vonn vs.

Brooklyn Decker and Andy Roddick matchup. Decker and Roddick have both tried their hands in television, Roddick brings an interesting perspective to FOX Sports 1 as an analyst, while Decker had her CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives canceled after only five episodes.1 There was never anything in the rules about a canceled sitcom hurting your chances in this tournament, but there should have been. Liger advances.

Flashing over to the Kardashian Region, Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari are up against Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union. There are really no winners here, instead it’s more about who wasn’t the worst. Cutler had a terrible campaign playing quarterback for the Chicago Bears, getting benched at the end of the season. His wife and former star of The Hills, Cavallari posted a text message Cutler sent to her, onto Instagram recently. It reads “Need u home asap. All hell has broken loose.

Jax is in his crib. Cam refuses to eat.

I’m about to leave.”2 And just like that, Cutler and Cavallari have left the tournament.

The 2-3s The 2-3 matchups arguably bring the most excitement to this bracket, as the outcome is almost too close to call. We’ll stay in the Kardashian Region and take a look at Jarett Stoll and Erin Andrews facing off with

Iggy Azalea and Nick Young. Stoll is a member of the NHL champion Los Angeles Kings, and Nick Young is on the slightly-less successful Los Angeles Lakers. Andrews has taken over as host for Dancing with the Stars and joined the lead NFL broadcast crew on Fox. Azalea had several hit songs in 2014, but went 0-4 at the Grammy’s.

Rule #1 states this is a success based bracket. Stoll and Andrews advance in the upset.

Our other 2-3 matchup includes several truly beautiful individuals.

Aaron Rodgers and Olivia Munn up next to Justin Verlander, and Kate Upton. If you Google “Justin Verlander Kate Upton Baseball GIF” you would consider this to be a difficult challenge for Rodgers and Munn to overcome!

But if you don’t Google that GIF, and you instead search “Justin Verlander 2014 ERA,” or “Kate Upton Game of War,” you would realize this is easy.

Rodgers and Munn move on.

The 1 Seeds So much beauty, and so much success: the number one seeds. We look up and see Woods and Vonn are trying to make something happen against Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady.

Sure Woods has won 14 major championships, and Vonn has two Olympic medals, but what have you done for me lately? In the past month I’ve seen a picture of Woods on a ski slope with a missing tooth3, as well as a picture of Brady holding his wife’s hand in his left and a Super Bowl trophy in his right.4 Team Gisele advances with a commanding victory.

David and Victoria Beckham not only represent our other number one seed, in a sense they represent what this bracket is all about. A stumbling Wade and Union enter this matchup, and kind of like last time, the deciding question with this group is, who

didn’t lose the most? Well, Wade lost in the 2014 NBA Finals. He then lost his teammate LeBron James. Beckham is retired, and while he can’t win, he also can’t loose. Posh and Becks are in the final four.

Final Four The Jeter Region finale, winner here goes to the championship. Rodgers and Munn find themselves in a little bit of a ditch, as Munn’s involvement in the film Mortdecai has proven costly. I personally haven’t seen Mortdecai, but it gained a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so I will just leave that tidbit there.5 Rodgers does his best to salvage the group’s effort, winning NFL regular season MVP. The problem is there is another MVP is this group, Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady. See you in the finals Team Gisele.

And now for the Kardashian Region finale. Even in the post-career stage of life for Victoria and David, there is a bright future. Victoria has several shops opening across the UK, and David is trying to bring a soccer team to Miami.6 Their son, Brooklyn is being eyed by many people, ranging from soccer clubs, to polish fashion brands. Having successful children is a bonus in this competition. Luckily for Stoll and Andrews, a bigger bonus comes from covering the World Series, and more importantly sharing headlines with “Chevy Truck Guy.” At the conclusion, when Andrews was interviewing Giants pitcher Madison Bumgardner, she made the move to let the regional spokesman for Chevrolet take the microphone. Thank you Erin Andrews for not cutting off Truck Guy from talking about “Technology and stuff.” We needed that.

Well, it’s time for a champion to be crowned. Stoll and Andrews are feeling good fresh off their latest

improbable victory, but did you really ever have any doubt on who was going to win this thing? Jarret Stoll has been shockingly silent since round one, and maybe that has something to do with the Kings underperformance this season. They might miss the playoffs! Brady’s success has been well documented so far, but now it’s Gisele time. She unveiled the trophy at the World Cup over the summer, in front of the largest sporting audience of the year. You can tell we are almost done here, but Gisele has one more move to make. I’m referring to her Under Armor commercial. If we put that up against the Erin Andrews’ digestive tract ad, Gisele destroys Andrews.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ early-lead/wp/2015/02/02/forget-the-lombardi-trophy-gisele-bundchen-is-all-the-congratulations-tom-brady-needs/ 4

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WALLA WALLA WEIRDOS

ABIGAIL

wissink Backpage Writer

You know what? We go to a weird school. I’m sure you’ve already noticed this to an extent, but in comparison to other private and public universities, we may seem just a bit off our rockers. Explaining curfew, CommUnity, and the all-veggie cafeteria to friends from my public high school usually baffles them. “Why did you choose to go there?” I’ve been asked. It’s a question I’ve asked myself on more than one occasion, to be honest.

We may be weird, but there are ways in which we differ from the norm that make me proud. I’m proud to go to a school where you can leave your backpack in the library unattended and not worry about someone taking it. I’m proud to go to a school where it’s the norm that you know everyone, or at least know who they are. I’m proud to go to a school that has poured out so much compassion in the last week and shown what it truly means to love and be loved.

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VERBATIM

“It was the bat nipples that killed it.”

- Micah Hall, on George Clooney’s Batman

“If you do any calculations, I will spank you.”

- Professor Don Riley

“It will be the craziest reading of the quarter, so gird up your loins.”

- Professor Karen Clausen-Brown

“There’s just something about cheese and onions together that makes me angry.”

- Andrea Johnson

If you hear something funny, cringe-worthy, or that could be hilarious out of context, send the quote to me! abigail.wissink@wallawalla.edu

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Full disclosure: I was feeling pretty low about life at the beginning of February. School, relationships, and stress were making me feel as though I didn’t belong here, and I was just going to ride it out until I got my degree. The outpouring of love that I have seen from all corners of this campus and the world that is touched by it has shown me otherwise. Things have changed around here. Don’t tell me you don’t notice it too. There have been more hugs, more introductions, and more asking how someone’s day is going (and really meaning it). Most importantly, there has been more genuine care for strangers and more desire to know everyone on a deeper level. While Maddy’s passing brought out this side of humanity on our campus, I think it was under the surface all along. The realization that life is precious and short snapped us all to attention and that is something for which we should forever be grateful.

There’s a community here that I am proud to be a part of. Being in The Atlas on the night of the 11th showed that this community is a special one, because it has grown out of the compassion and love of each individual. As person after person came through the door and joined the circle of prayer, I was shown a genuine group of people who knew where to go to give and receive support and love: each other.

So yeah, we’re weird, and I think that’s okay.

We are weird. We are Walla Walla. And we will never forget.

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What is the best gift you’ve ever received?

“Life, itself. And Chipotle gift cards.”

- Joshua Huh

Happening Tuesday Don’t miss this special event.

Let your voice be heard.

“Dinosaur earrings. It’s the only gift I’ve ever gotten that made me cry ‘cause I was so happy.”

- Charles Oroko

“I got a plane ticket to come home from abroad on Valentine’s day once, but my favorite present was probably a kitten. I LOVE cats.”

-Amber Aqui

Last week’s answer: The Maple Counter Last week’s winner: Sophia Rich