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The service issue released before Thanksgiving break was brimming with student perspectives. Students examined the efficacy of this school’s traditional endeavors and encouraged students to become more engaged in service, whether overseas or in this valley.

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One submission, entitled “Voluntourism: More Harm Than Good” has received more attention than the average Collegian article. In the process of publishing this article, I didn’t consider the adverse affect a small section of her article could have on Christalis, the non-profit organization that has made To Build a Home a possibility.

I apologize on behalf of The Collegian for any pain my lack of

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LAYOUT EDITOR Mindy Robinson HEAD COPY EDITOR Andrea Johnson PERSPECTIVE EDITOR Alex Lemnah 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

TRAVEL & LOCAL WRITER Shannon Pierce

FOOD WRITER Rachel Peterson

COPY EDITORS Tyler Jacobson Kayla Albrecht Rachel Blake

HUMOR WRITER & OFFICE MANAGER Lauren Lewis NEWS WRITERS Savannah Kisling Morgan Sanker RELIGION WRITERS Benjamin Ramey Randy Folkenberg

ADVERTISING MANAGER Shandra Cady

Thank you for reading, and I encourage you to check out this week’s feature on obesity: it’s an uncomfortable but urgent subject.

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Zachary Johnson LAYOUT DESIGNERS Matthew Moran Ian Smith Emily Brinley ASWWU HEAD PHOTO EDITOR Erick Juarez

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ASSISTANT EDITOR Karl Wallenkampf

If you read the article and have questions about the To Build a Home project, this issue includes a closer look at the work Christalis and ASWWU are doing together (see page 4). I firmly believe that the more you know, the more you will see that it is a project to stand behind.

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‘TWAS THE NIGHT OF THE Last

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‘Twas the night of the last CommUnity Credit, when all over campus Students emerged from their respective abodes, some even from classes; Microphones were set upon the stage with care,

heek | 24 In hopes that David Richardson soon would be there; The couples were nestled, all snuggling each other, While the heads of singles filled with visions of cooked foods from mothers; With cookies in Saran wrap, and all others in hats, Longed to settle their brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Brave individuals sprang from the crowd onto the stage matter.

Away into carols the students began in chorus, Some, however, sounded like a tyrannosaurus.

The moon reflecting on the crunchy crunching snow

Calling to light the tree under a sky of black.

Gave the chilly environment an eerie glow.

As students all around joined in with melodious sounds,

Before students’ wondering eyes did appear,

Counted down the seconds together, lighting in-bound.

Micah Hall with a story of his Grandma dear.

Some suggested the potential moment of awkward,

With a little clever humor, lively and quick,

If the tree would not light up, as if not to be bothered;

The students roared with laughs, giggles, and kicks.

But then, a bundle of joy, given to all in the pack,

And the many students who came

When the tree lit up, bright, beautifully, perfectly intact.

Found their fellows through the crowds, calling each by name.

All eyes — how they twinkled! All faces — how merry!

Now, Timmy, now, Frank, not Prancer, but Austin!

All cheeks like roses, all noses like cherries!

Read a poem like this one, but nowhere near as awesome!

While on the stage, on top of the ball,

Soon, mouths were munching and gnawing, And into the beards of No-ShaveNovemberites crumbs were falling;

The trio put smiles on the faces of all.

With faces broadening from food costing not a penny,

Because of the chilly temperatures in College Place, Washington suburbia,

The freshman fifteen increased to twenty.

Students blew hot air on their hands, avoiding hypothermia.

So into their respective huddles they huddled, With the open-hearted hopes of being penguin-cuddled.

And then, in a moment, Richardson was back,

But as soon it began, the festivities ended, Students returned to their studies, always splendid; Scanning out, students scattered out of sight— “Happy studying to all, and to all a late night!”

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kisling News Writer This December, Walla Walla University Drama presents These Shining Lives. The play, written by Melanie Marnich, is based on a true story set in the 1930s and incorporates the best of feminism, social reform, and life.

The story is centered on four women who are eagerly starting work for the first time at a relatively well-paying job. They are employed by a watch factory called Radium Dial where they are tasked with painting glow in the dark numbers on watch faces. Much of the play details their growing and changing relationships with one another, their families, and their employer. Its accurate portrayal makes interpersonal and corporation-em-

“These Shining Lives is one of the best portrayals of the cultural climate of the ‘30s that I’ve seen,” says Jordan Stephan, Junior and the production’s stage manager. “It is a powerful testament to humanity, in perhaps its deepest sense.”

The play prominently features students Abigail Wissink, Annaliese Hottal, Sabrina Tym, Meghann Heinrich, and Randall Lutz. The entire cast has over a dozen actors. The play is directed by David Crawford, WWU Drama program director, and guest director Jerry Entze, alumnus and director of last year’s Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Carol.

Show dates are December 6, 7, 11, 13, and 14 at 7:30 p.m. Regular admission $10, Student or Senior $9, WWU Alumni/Student/Faculty/Staff $8, and Thursday $3.

Ticket reservations can be made at www.wallawalla.edu/life-at-wwu/ wwudrama/

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One of Walla Walla University’s four core themes is generosity in service, which is exemplified by the many student missionaries WWU sends out every year and by our local community service. Recently, however, the idea of “voluntourism” has become more popular. Some of you may have read an article last week titled “Voluntourism: More Harm Than Good.” This article brought up many valid points about the impact of mission work as well as how the development industry can demoralize communities around the world.

Though there is potential for more harm than good to be done on mission trips, I have found in my experience, having been on multiple short-term mission trips, that significant good can come out of it as well. It is unfair to lump all organizations together because no organization has the same goal or operates with perfect constancy. I would like to demonstrate the good in service to people in other countries, and the impact “voluntourism” can have by focusing on Christalis, which mentioned in last week’s article.

People in other countries are not helpless, underdeveloped, or in need of fixing. As people who are blessed with many things such as clean water, food, shelter, opportunities for education, more than one pair of clothing, and access to healthcare, is

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it not our duty to share what we have with those who do not have these same assurances? Do we just sit here in our own luxurious lives just because there may be a small chance we may make them dependent on us? Christ came to this world so that we who have nothing could have a more abundant life. Should we not give to others the life He has given us? Should we not share His word and love so they also might live more abundant lives? They may be content in their lifestyles and that can be a lesson in and of itself for us to be content with what we have.

But I encourage you to think about why we do these things and not just take what you have heard.

Mission trips are designed both to help people and to foster the desire to serve in volunteers. Having been on these trips, I witnessed the miraculous impact it can have on people’s lives. For example, when the To Build a Home (TBAH) team travelled to Uganda in September there was a little girl who had been brought to Christalis from another children’s home. She would not speak, was usually emotionless, and would often go into a trance-like state or cry. She would only play with toddlers and would not engage with children or adults. By the time we left, she was smiling, laughing, and playing with the children and adults!

This was because the missionaries and our team were able to give her extra

attention. Her adoptive family came to pick her up shortly after our team left, and Heidi Spady and Renee Titus, two missionaries from WWU, played a huge role in transitioning this little girl to her new family.

Mission trips capture the attention of the people who have the ability to sustain these projects. These trips that are frowned upon are what change people’s attitudes towards service and promote awareness. Mission trips are created in order to spark in someone’s heart the desire to keep serving, to keep going back, to keep funding the project, or to keep helping those that they have built relationships with. If everyone stopped going on mission trips because they did not understand the culture, language, or background, where would most of the beneficiaries of mission workers be? Many times it is short-term mission trips that spark the fire for great tasks for God. Shalini David, the cofounder of Christalis with whom ASWWU is working, is a prime example of how a short-term mission trip can spark bigger and better things. She had a vision to help the children she saw as a little girl in India. As a child she told herself she would go back and help, and when she was older she went on a short-term mission trip to Uganda, saw the same faces of children that had nothing, and decided to start an orphanage. Nearly ten years after its

formation, Christalis is still doing amazing things in Uganda.

Christalis is a non-profit organization that is primarily donation-based and volunteerrun, which could cause some to doubt their ability to sustain an orphanage. However, most nonprofit organizations, even the larger ones, are donation-based and get a majority of their funds from individual donors. In 2013, the largest source of charitable giving came from individuals at $241.32 billion, or 72% of total giving followed by foundations ($50.28 billion/15%), bequests ($26.81 billion/8%), and corporations ($16.76 billion/5%).1 As a faith-based school, we know that faith in God is stronger than anything else. Yet, when someone says, “God will provide,” why does that create a little bit of fear in some of our minds that we are falling into this Adventist mindset or trap? This is not an Adventist trap. What we should be saying is, “Yes, God will provide” and in the case of Christalis, He has been for nearly 10 years and I know that will not change.

2 Corinthians 4:7 says, “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”

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children end up institutionalized.

However, many organizations like Christalis work hard to make sure children feel like they are part of a home and not an institution. After going there in September to work on development plans for the building project, I was able to see the “at home” feeling of this orphanage. Christalis has a mother and father figure for the children, the older children help take care of the younger ones much like siblings, and they are in rooms by age. The children have study time, morning and evening worships, chore time and play time. Also, the staff is Ugandan and are present year round, providing the children with primarily local influences.

In addition to the home, Christalis also has an assistance program to help children that have families but are in extreme poverty. This program ensures that families do not feel the need to lie about their children to get help. Currently, the assistance program provides tuition, school supplies, uniforms, medical care, and other immediate necessities to 52 children in the Kasese area. This program is also growing rapidly as more families are approaching Christalis for help so they can provide for their children.

Christalis is also transitioning the assistance program into a family development program, in which they are working together with the entire family to bring up their standard of living so they can become selfsufficient Christalis fully encompasses the role the orphanage should have in the community and understands the culturally sensitive aspect of raising children. Of the 27 children that Christalis has, 23 of them are true orphans, meaning they have no parents. The other children are either staff’s children or their parents are unavailable to care for them. The children brought to this orphanage are there due to different circumstances and a few of them are as follows: One child was found drowning by local fishermen.

One was found in the woods under a pile of leaves.

One lost both parents and was put in a home to work for his food.

One child’s family was massacred by rebel soldiers.

So, I would like to ask the question: To avoid “institutionalizing” the children, should we leave them on the street and hope a local takes them in? Should they be forced to stay with locals to work for their food? Many of you would say no — that’s taking it too far. Yet this idea of orphanages institutionalizing the children and of mission trips going to orphanages causes controversy and doubt in the ability of volunteers to help a community. If it weren’t for mission trips, many long-term missionaries and even nonprofit organizations that are out in the world doing amazing things for people would not be where they are today.

Christalis and many organizations like them are not just taking the children in and handing them something that they can take for granted. The children are being educated so they can become selfsufficient. The goal of both the home and assistance program is to support and nurture the children until they have completed a vocational or university course and can hold a job to support themselves.

The boy who had to work for food in a home when he lost his parents, Manassi, has graduated from Bugema Adventist University with his BS in education and is teaching in a village secondary school. He is now helping other children get an education.

Another boy, Kibenze, is working as a chef in the city. He has finished tourism and hotel management and is saving up to get a degree, which Christalis is encouraging and supporting. Hadija is studying accounting, and Sara is in nursing school. These are all young adults that joined the home when it first started almost 10 years ago. They are self-sufficient or on their way to self-sufficiency because of what God has done through Christalis.

Sustaining a project such as TBAH or an organization like Christalis takes a lot of planning, organization and commitment.

Christalis has been sustained for close to 10 years.

Building this home will prevent them from having rental fees and electricity bills. The whole process of building will be from December 2014 to September 2015, and out of this time Walla Walla students will be there for one and a half weeks in March to help with the raising of the wall. Primarily local laborers will be building this home, lending to the economy. This trip will not only help decrease some of the financial costs for Christalis but will also be a benefit to the community with plans for vacation Bible school and seminars on healthy living.

The financial stability of Christalis is maintained and overseen by two boards, one in Uganda and one in Maryland; both boards are made up of highly educated and experienced individuals. These boards both approve the budget yearly and play a role in the sustainability of the home and organization. Though Christalis is volunteer-run, each volunteer holds a staff position. The combination of a strong board and consistent volunteers ensures that Christalis will not lose its donor base but will continue to grow their funding.

Currently, three Walla Walla University students are serving at the Christalis home in Uganda: Heidi Spady, Renee Titus, and Bryson Weir.

In speaking with Shalini, she said “these three individuals have been a huge blessing in the home.” They have taken out a year from their studies, put their lives on hold, to have an impact somewhere else. Shalini stated that because of these SMs, the children are learning new skills, improving their English, and improving their grades. English is one of the national languages of Uganda, so this is a big deal when it comes to finding a job.

Some may believe that short-term missionaries can leave children lonely after their departure. However, there are ways to prevent this. One of our team members, Kyle Chiasson,

developed a deep relationship with one of the older boys at the home.

Ishmael had not opened up to anyone at the home as much as he opened up to Kyle. Since Kyle was a business major and Ishmael wanted to go into business, they immediately clicked.

Kyle did not want to start a bond with this young boy and then leave him, so Ishmael and Kyle are planning to keep communicating through Christalis.

In an article entitled “The Good Missionary”2 Samuel Ikua Gachagua, an orphan from Kenya talks about how missionaries changed his life.

Samuel emphasizes the importance of cross-cultural exchange and taking time to know the people rather than just trying to “help.” He stresses the importance of how the mission trip does not end when you come home.

If it does, then yes you did more harm than good. But if you keep serving, stay in contact with who you met, and make it a point to follow up, the mission trip you went on, the few short days you spent there, could shape a life in miraculous ways.

Our student missionaries here at WWU support the concept of mission trips. If you ask them, they will give you many examples of how their trips have impacted the community they were placed in. Before dismissing mission trips as a whole, make sure your facts are straight — do your research. There are organizations and people out there who are helping others and doing good through mission trips.

So, go out and serve! Be generous in your service, because that is what we, as Christians, are called to do.

Acts 20:35 says, “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/ charitable-giving-statistics 2 www.christianitytoday.com/le/2014/may/ good-missionary.html?paging=off 1

One child was found drowning by local fishermen.

One was found in the woods under a pile of leaves.

One lost both parents and was put in a home to work for his food.

One child’s family was massacred by rebel soldiers.

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December 13, WEC Gym, 8:00 P.M.

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I commenced this year’s column with an article about why you probably shouldn’t be in college (“To School or Not to School”) so I think it’s appropriate that I wrap up the year with a reminder that you still shouldn’t be here. This time, however, I’ll only discuss why you shouldn’t be here right now during this awkward period between breaks. After discussing our oddly-scheduled academic calendar with alumnus Christian Bell and reading an article he wrote a few years ago on the matter, I was inspired to share a few opinions.

Firstly, I think Christian Bell is one of the best-looking men in this valley and I often wonder when GQ will feature his feature-worthy features. 1 Secondly, I think it is borderline asinine that we have a week off for Thanksgiving, two and a half weeks back on campus for Thankstaking, and then another two or so weeks off for Christmas. It isn’t just that the emotional whiplash of these alternating weeks of freedom has me feeling like Larry King after his 7 th divorce: our academic calendar is ludicrous and everybody knows it.

We have all noticed come September that our normal friends at normal schools are well on their way into their first term before we are even registered for classes. Some of us smile with relish and send boastful texts and others are smart enough to keep in mind that come June the joke is on us. You might, like me, wonder to yourself how difficult it would be to begin school two weeks earlier (even three if

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need be!) and simply take a six week break starting the week of Thanksgiving. And so here I wonder aloud: how difficult would it be? Administration would have to juggle some dates, yes, maybe even reprint a few calendars, but it should be plain to even the plainest that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Primary among the benefits of changing our calendar is ease of travel. This is not merely a matter of convenience; it is an issue of finance, safety, and the well-being of our planet. Even those who can afford to make two round trips home within one month complain about the cost; now, imagine how difficult it is for those who truly don’t have the means. For these people, unless they’ve transcended

the egoic desire to experience the warmth and comfort of home (obviously a byproduct of evolutionary instinct) then Thanksgiving break alone in the dorm or an apartment sucks.

Disregarding finances — which can never be disregarded — the safety concerns of traveling during these holidays are still high indeed. Christmas and Thanksgiving are two of the most congested travel periods during the year, and they also happen to occur when the weather is most antagonistic to mobility. Combine these factors with the sleep deprivation that is natural to a college student and you have elegies waiting to be written. This is no joke; every scheduled period in which students are encouraged to

depart en masse for home there is an increased likelihood of travel-related tragedy.

Disregarding the safety of the student populace — which should never be disregarded — our calendar encourages a disgustingly inefficient use of natural resources. Yes, I am pulling the eco card, because given the reality of our times it is one of the most important cards to pull.

If we could as a campus break away from our anthropocentric ideology and begin to recognize the sacredness of all life forms, we might restructure our priorities. In other words, our

“this two and a half week period at school should be wiped off the face of the earth because you think it should too and so does everyone else.” current calendar has students set out on twice as many fossilfueled trips than is necessary.

You might think this is a silly thing to mention, but imagine with me the power of exponents and keep in mind that not one, not a few, but hundreds and hundreds of campuses across the nation each with thousands of students construct their calendars in such a way that students make large-enoughto-have-an-impact trips twice within one month. Now imagine with me how easy it would be to cut this impact in half.

Disregarding the world — which is disregarded so often that it’s probably more normal to disregard than not – the academic calendar still has a

significantly negative impact on academics. Having a week off before the two most important weeks of the quarter (check your syllabi — it’s true) doesn’t give us a nice break before the last push but instead trips us up nicely before the last push. Even if you disagree, you cannot deny that a six-week long break could afford exciting opportunities both for independent scholarship as well as for internships and or job opportunities at home. Within six weeks, one could easily take condensed courses of study, pursue research interests, or make up to $1,500 just with a minimum wage job. Two shorter breaks chopped up by this awkward two-week return don’t allow for some of the activities that are most vital for the personal growth and scholarship central to a proper education.

Disregarding what an education is all about – which is what we were taught to do a long time ago – and disregarding all the other issues hitherto mentioned, our current calendar is great. I’m not bitter about being here the next two weeks – bitterness is rarely constructive – but I do think that this two and a half week period at school should be wiped off the face of the earth because you think it should too and so does everyone else. Given that you and I are the ones paying for our education, I think we should have a say in the construction of our academic calendar. If you agree with me thus far, I think you’ll agree with me that you shouldn’t be here.

Disregarding what everyone thinks, you should be here.

Thank you, Christian, for inspiring this article.

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Religion Writer Over break, you may have followed the grand jury decision that failed to indict Officer Darren Wilson and the violence that erupted thereafter in Ferguson, Missouri. Now, I am not a professional lawyer or social analyst, so I won’t speak to formal law, but I will speak to what I do know something about: violence and prejudice. We’ve all seen or exercised those. For those of you just hearing about this, riots broke out in the streets and mobs began to burn buildings and rob storefronts.

Out of anger and desperation, a small group of undermined citizens turned violent. Riot police stormed the streets and the National Guard stood at the ready— Ferguson waged strategic war against its own residents. What you won’t see publicized is that as time went on, the riots began to simmer down and peaceful demonstrations increased, with new and better protests forming all over the country. 1

I can’t blame the rioters for

taking to the streets and causing a scene. Public protest is an effective answer to oppression and it brought national attention to what has been recognized as a national problem. This is an issue that needed coverage — it’s about time we have a conversation about the treatment of minority groups, specifically black Americans. For instance, federal sentences are, on average, 20% longer for blacks than for whites that committed the same crime, 2 and a disproportionately large group of black Americans are killed in police confrontations compared to white Americans. 3 And while roughly equal amounts of blacks and whites are homicide victims, 77% of those executed were convicted of murdering a white individual. 4 The statistics themselves only prove that there is a racial discrepancy within the justice system, which is enough to create a social divide all by itself. When a college spring break party turns into a mob, it’s dismissed as kids just being kids, but when it’s caused by a community feels that their humanity is being ignored, it’s viewed as barbaric. 5 The decision not to indict Officer Wilson was the last straw.

As summarized by Eric Weber, “people have finally reached a breaking point. Take a look at

how black people are portrayed in the media, look at Michael Brown. Within days of his death, the media released pictures of him smoking, purposely creating a façade instead of presenting positive aspects of his character … the media thrives off of violence.” The trouble in Ferguson was not an isolated issue caused by a few disgruntled hooligans — it’s part of a greater monster thatz is the racial divide in America. It’s been exploited by the media and fed by American apathy.

With all of that said, non-violent acts must remain the most moral and productive reaction to oppression. More aggressive acts cannot be used to bring racial prejudice to an end — better ideas must catch on. I get that it’s far easier to say this sitting behind a computer screen than it is to live under the constant strain of racial tension. But though solutions aren’t readily apparent, violence is never the answer.

Unlike what the news has portrayed lately, peaceful protests have been communicating their disgust with social and judicial prejudice. St. Louis County protesters staged a “die-in,” where activists laid on the floor and refused to move, echoing the “sit-in” tactic used during the

Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Before the Oakland game last weekend, players on the St. Louis Rams raised their arms in the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture popularized by Ferguson protesters. 6 A young man interviewed by Brian Williams on CSNBC had the right idea: he said that the solution to overcoming this situation is to grow and become part of the system that needs changing. 7

Jesus said, “the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.” 8 Jesus spoke concerning the destination that our choices will ultimately lead us to, but the principle of the teachings holds a common truth.

Using violent methods to solve a crisis is the “easy” way, but it ends with more violence and ultimately destruction. Fighting leads to more fighting.

The alternative is difficult: “for the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Choosing to exact change non-violently is more difficult and it may feel impossible to do at times, but it ends in life, and life more abundant, which in this case is a world free of prejudice. Either way will bring pain and bring change. But by acting peacefully in the face of retaliation, self-

sacrifice wins. The violence is provoked by what you stand for, not your own violence.

We don’t normally think empathetically about racial tension because most of us live free of its effects. If I were to stand back and watch these events unfold, not making a change in my own life, I would be contributing to the problem.

It starts with something as simple as omitting the word “black” when telling a story about my friend and I. The tangible goal of this movement is to make sure that race no longer creates barriers between people or shapes assumptions about entire communities. But only by upholding non-violent methods and listening to the thoughts and feelings of others will a greater era of peace and human prosperity will be ushered in. http://tinyurl.com/oaujs5z

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THE ULTIMATE VEGGIE SANDWICH Feature

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

More than one person I’ve talked to has the misconception that being a vegetarian is equivalent to eating healthy foods 100% of the time. As a lifelong vegetarian, I can tell you that this is not always the case. Think about it. Potato chips, cupcakes, and cookies are all vegetarian but definitely not healthy foods. There are lots of things a vegetarian can live on besides tons of cheese pizza.

Part of successfully being a healthy vegetarian is knowing what options you have. I have found that a great way to incorporate lots of veggies into a meal, by means other than a salad, is through a sandwich.

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RECIPE: ULTIMATE VEGGIE SANDWICH I N G R E D I E N TS 2 slices whole grain bread 1/4 avocado, mashed 1/2 tsp. sesame seeds 3 tbsp. hummus (can add cilantro to hummus for variation) 5 sprigs parsley (optional)

I N ST R U C T I O N S Toast bread. Add mashed avocado to one side of toast and top with sesame seeds. Top the avocado with half of the hummus and then spread the rest of the hummus on the other piece of toast. Layer the parsley, radishes, carrots, beets, spinach leaves, and cucumber on the slice of toast with the avocado and hummus. Salt and pepper according to taste. Top with the remaining piece of toast and enjoy!

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musicians said their final words and bid us goodnight and farewell.

“Thank you so much for coming out, we are The Oh Hello’s!

Goodnight!”

davis Culture Writer There must have been at least 12 people on the little stage. Everyone was singing full-throttle and pounding away at their acoustic guitars and tambourines. The passion of the moment was marvelous. As the music built up again, the drummer suddenly stood up and moved his entire drum set into the crowd right in front of me.

The chorus hit and the drums with it, and everyone went nuts. Laughing, jumping, and singing along to the loud folk tunes, people were living in the moment and soaking in the music.

Half of the band jumped into the crowd and sang with them, accentuating the magic of the moment. When the song finished with a grand bow, the

I haven’t gone to very many concerts, but I have been to enough to know how they usually go. The crowd shows up, the opening band plays, people cheer loud when the main band comes on, cell phones and cameras come out for the duration of the concert, the band says a few words of wisdom between each song, they play the hits, crowd cheers, encore, done. Lights up.

Call me a fan geek, but this concert seemed different. I have recently been obsessed with a little band called The Oh Hello’s, so when I had a chance to attend their concert in Portland, I was ecstatic. We showed up to the little venue and walked towards the front door. Through the windows we could see the tables inside the restaurant, and there sat the lead singers of the band enjoying some chicken wings.

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We were directed down some dingy stairs into a decorated basement with a stage in the back. The opening band warmed us up with some fun and crazy indie folk songs, and finally the moment was here. The brother and sister duo walked out onto the stage along with their rag-tag crew of musicians, including a banjo player with a stellar curly mustache. The whole band was smiling at each other as if something magical was about to happen that we didn’t know about yet.

“I sure hope you don’t take us too seriously, ‘cause we definitely don’t,” the lead singer confessed from the start.

The vibe then changed. They leapt into their first song, each member playing their heart out. They played like this was their biggest show ever, and it showed in the passion of each band member.

I looked around: Not a phone or camera in sight. When you see YouTube videos of a Coldplay or

Taylor Swift concert, the first thing you notice is the immense sea of camera flashes and iPhone screens.

But for this concert, people were too busy singing along or dancing to the strum of the guitar to sit around and take a video. They let the music take them away. It was a beautiful sight.

I may or may not be trying to convince you that The Oh Hello’s are the best band ever, but more importantly I want to share the little discovery I made on that cold November night. To put things in perspective, the last concert I went to was Coldplay during their Mylo Xyloto tour. Of course, the concert was amazing, but I was also astounded at the production it entailed: the lights, the sound, the effects, and the massive crew of workers it took in order to execute such an amazing show. With The Oh Hello’s, I discovered the polar opposite. With this show, the crew basically consisted of the band members and the focus was not on the “shock and awe” effect. It was based on a mutual love for the beauty of music.

As far as I could tell, there could have been only three people in the audience and the man with the curly mustache would have played his banjo just as hard.

Just like any wanna-be musician after a concert, I scotch-taped the free poster on my wall and dreamed of a life where someone could literally live for the love of music. But until then, I decided, I will appreciate those musicians out there that do it regardless of circumstances. They play because they love the art, and that’s enough for them.

Don’t take my word for it! Check out any one of the three albums from The Oh hello’s.

1. The Oh Hello’s 2. Through the Deep, Dark Valley 3. The Oh Hellos’ Family Christmas Album

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OBESITY HEADLINE HERE Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and the Super Bowl — each of these are American holidays, and each of them usually involve copious amounts of food. This social acceptance and celebration of overeating is just one of many ways the United States has become fatter over the years. Just as the scale starts saying “this is going too far” after a few too many big meals during the holidays, the U.S. and the rest of the developed world have been alerted, both by the news and by large campaigns, about the obesity epidemic that is becoming such a serious health problem in our society.

Since the issue is so widespread, it's important for us all to truly understand what obesity means, who it affects, and what caused it to be such a problem.

WHAT IS OBESITY?

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Obesity is most accurately classified by using a person’s percent body fat. Average body fat percentage is around 25-31% for women and 1824% for men. Obesity is then classified as 32% and above for women and 25% and above for men.1 Unfortunately, body fat percentage is difficult to measure, so the most often-used method for classifying obesity is the Body Mass Index (BMI), a simple calculation of a person’s mass in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. While BMI isn’t the best measure of body composition,2 especially for those in the healthy-tooverweight range, it does generally correlate with body fat percentage.3 The commonly-used BMIbased definition for obesity is a BMI greater than 30.4 For a person who is 5’ 9” in height, that means the cutoff for obesity is weighing 203 pounds or more.5 There are also further classifications for obesity, like “class 1” (BMI 30-35), “class 2”, (BMI 35-40), and “class 3” (BMI 40+).

Of course, obesity wouldn’t be such a problem if it weren’t for its terrible health effects. Just a few of the major health effects associated with obesity are high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, joint problems, sleep apnea, and cancer.6 Really though, the list of all different health effects associated with obesity is too long to even talk about

here — it’s such a long list that Wikipedia made them into a table for each field.7 In the most broad sense, obesity has been shown to have a hazard rate of 1.29, meaning that an obese person is 29% more likely to die than the average person of any cause at any time.8 As a result, people with just moderate (type 1) obesity have been found to live on average 3 years less than their healthy counterparts, while those with severe (type 3) obesity live 10 years less than their healthy counterparts.9 It’s worthwhile to note that while all of these health effects may seem vague and abstract, they represent real concerns and issues that the obese have to deal with every day. These effects manifest themselves in obese people having to take drugs to manage things like hypertension and type 2 diabetes, having to breathe through masks at night to keep themselves from suffocating in their sleep, and having to live with a likelihood of death coming in the form of a heart attack or stroke.

Furthermore, in addition to having to live with all of these increased risks and chronic diseases, the obese have to live in a world designed for the healthy. People treat them differently. There’s no angle at which obesity doesn’t impact those who have to deal with it daily.

“…AN OBESE PERSON IS 29% MORE LIKELY TO DIE THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON OF ANY CAUSE AT ANY TIME”

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WORLD MAP OF OBESITY

WHO IS OBESE? Looking at some of the following figures should give a pretty good demographic breakdown of the different kinds people who are obese. One important takeaway from the world map is that obesity is not just a problem for the United States — it’s a problem in the rest of North America, countries in the Middle East, Australia, the U.K., and even South Africa. There are high obesity rates throughout the developed world. In the U.S., obesity rates vary quite a bit across the States, with higher rates in the South (especially Mississippi) than in the rest of the country. Obesity rates also vary by ethnicity, by sex (higher rates for women), and by age. Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, obesity varies with socioeconomic status. While the general worldwide trend is that there are more obese people in developed countries than undeveloped countries, in the U.S. people of higher socioeconomic status are less likely to be obese. The same is true of education — people with a graduate degree are much less likely to be obese than those with just a high school diploma.

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OBESITY 14 One of the most telling things about the world map is how more developed countries have much higher obesity rates than underdeveloped countries. Because of this, obesity has been called a disease of affluence — one that only affects rich, developed countries. It's not a totally accurate generalization, however, because there are some notable exceptions to the rule. Japan and South Korea both have obesity rates of below 3%. France, Sweden, and Belgium all have rates below 20% despite being modern highly-developed western countries. There's also something to be learned from the history of obesity in the United States. In the 60s, when the data was first collected, the obesity rate was just under 15%.10 Now it's over 30%. That's a significant increase. What can we learn from these other countries? What can we learn from the past? What happened to make so many more people obese?

Obesity is caused by a number of factors, including diet, lifestyle, and genetics. Poor diet is generally thought of as a primary cause of obesity, since excess calories are stored as fat, and it has been shown that obese people have higher-calorie diets than healthy people.11 A few other lifestyle factors other than diet also play into obesity like a lack of calorie-burning exercise, and a lack of sleep, which can increase appetite.12 While certain genes do increase the likelihood

for some people to become obese and certain genetic disorders can cause people be obese, genes are generally thought of as a co-determinant of obesity — they are generally present with other “environmental” factors like those mentioned previously.13

cessed foods that are so common in the United States. Japan, one of the few developed countries with a low obesity rate, has a local cuisine that emphasizes small portions.15 Not only that, but the United States has one of the longest workweeks in the world, which can lead to unhealthy lifestyles.16

“In the 60s, when the data was first collected, the obesity rate was just under 15%.10 Now it's over 30%.”

How did we get here? Just as no obese person deliberately chooses obesity, saying “Hey, let's go ruin my health,” society didn't just decide, “Hey, let's go ruin the health of one-third of the populace.” Instead, a combination of socioeconomic factors are to blame. People don't make food as regularly they used to. Fast food and box-dinners have become the norm. Packaged foods and snacks made it easy and cheap to eat as much as one desires at any time, making consumption of extra calories a simple, easy thing to do. Finally, the marketing and popularization of sugary drinks (including fruit juice, which is just as bad17), has added a great deal of calories to the American diet that do not satiate — you can eat without feeling full or getting nutrition.

All of this has put people in a much different situation than in years past. Since food no longer takes much effort to prepare, it has become much, much easier to overeat.18 It's not even that there's something abnormal in fast food making everyone fat — maintaining a 2,100-calorie diet of just McDonalds food is still just as healthy in

Looking at the diets of those in the past and in countries with low obesity rates presents a picture consistent with these causes. The increase in the United States' caloric intake and its obesity rate correlate very closely — just look at the graphs.14 In many developing countries, obesity simply cannot be common because people can only afford to eat what they need to live and have little-to-no access to the calorie-dense pro-

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terms of calories (perhaps not nutritionally) as food from anywhere else.19 Instead, it's just that overeating has become easy, creating an environment conducive to obesity.

It doesn't end there. After all, something had to lead to the mass adoption of fast food and boxed dinners. As it turns out, that something is pretty complex, too. Women, who traditionally prepared food in the American household, entered the workforce,20 making homemade food less of an option. The ingredients used to make most processed foods — corn, wheat and soy — got cheaper due to crop subsidies.21 As the United States' middle class got poorer,22 this cheaper, more convenient food became more attractive to those trying to maintain a standard of living as they did before. To those who are poorer, the increasing reliance on food stamps may also have something to do with this trend — the SNAP program has been shown to loosely correlate with obesity.23 (On the other hand, low income also correlates with obesity, so it is possible that this is a result of poorly implemented programs).24 In any case, the economic story that brought about this epidemic about is worth studying about more, because it factors into how we ought to think about public policy.

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tions/obesity/basics/causes/con-20014834 13 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/ genes-and-obesity/ 14 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/seducedby-food-obesity-and-t.html 15 http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/ diets-of-world-japanese-diet 16 http://ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/WCMS_104895/lang-en/index.htm

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Thankfully, there are still some glimmers of hope that this obesity crisis will end soon. Organic food is a growing industry, which shows that consumers are willing to pay more for food they perceive to be better (even if simply being organic isn't necessary an indicator of healthiness, this is still a good sign). Many start-ups are trying to make healthy foods cheaper and more convenient, like Farmer's Fridge, a business in Chicago selling fresh salads in vending machines.25 The “Let's Move” campaign has created a concerted effort in schools on a nationally to keep kids active and healthy, and many schools are coming up with ideas independently to help kids learn healthy habits early like Ward-Salem elementary school in North Carolina, which has students read on exercise bikes instead of at desks. Finally, a short look at the graph of U.S. obesity over time shows that the United States' rate is actually decreasing.26 Hopefully, this means we've already woken up to what the scale really means; let's hope our resolved efforts are not fickle like a New Year's resolution, but will actually make a difference.

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SEA CUCUMBERS FOR THANKSGIVING Amy Tan, Robyn Reeve, and Julia Loxdale, three biology graduate (M.S.) students in the biology program, spent the first half of their Thanksgiving break thankful for successful scuba diving, plentiful sea cucumbers, and good dive weather at the University’s Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory.

Tan, Reeve, and Loxdale are working cooperatively to conduct research of sea cucumbers and the animal’s ability to essentially dissolve all its internal organs during the winter months and regrow them in the spring.

“The important questions we are

asking here are why and how they lose all of their guts and then regrow them,” explains Dr. James Nestler, who is overseeing the research. “If a sea cucumber can grow back entire organs from nothing, why can’t I?” The students spent their vacation with Nestler at Rosario scuba diving, collecting sea cucumbers, and sampling, that is, dissecting them to obtain samples for further analysis.

Reeve is studying the immune system and organ loss of the animals during this time of dormancy by sampling their coelomic fluid which fills most of the sea cucumber’s body. She counts

the different kinds of immune cells she sees, and measures how active they are.

Loxdale looks at how the sea cucumbers are able to live without their respiratory tree, the internal organ responsible for absorbing oxygen from the ocean water during the rest of the year. In the fall, this organ disappears along with the others.

Meanwhile, Tan studies two genes — survivin and mortalin — which aid in “visceral regeneration,” the biologist way of saying “organ regrowth.” To do this, she looks at the messenger RNA

found in muscles and body wall cells of the cucumbers.

While scuba diving and sea cucumber collection are limited to the Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory campus, the student’s laboratory work occurs both at Rosario and at the College Place campus. All three students spent the 2014 summer at Rosario, collecting sea cucumbers that still had their internal organs.

They will compare their summer findings with the data obtained from the organ-less animals collected over Thanksgiving break.

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“Happy birthday, Ana!” everyone yells, laughing and cheering. Confetti litters the air and the table where I’m seated.

I think I feel some crunch between my teeth. Someone sets a cake in front of me and the calls shift from “Happy birthday!” to “Make a wish!”

My heart is a jackhammer, pounding away at airless lungs.

Presents are stacked haphazardly on the kitchen counter, a jumble of

color and ribbon and wrinkled tissue paper. The room buzzes with sound and movement.

“Oh, Ana,” says the woman who set the cake down. Her eyes crease warmly.

“I just can’t believe it’s your last night with us before college.” Her smile is sad.

“Our sweet summer baby.”

The man to my right grins widely and points at the cake. “Aren’t you going to blow out the candles, sweet pea?”

I look down, my movements stiff, robotic. The cake is three-tiered, swirled with yellow frosting, the words “Happy 18th, Anastasia!” drizzled across the top in flowy script.

My frantic gaze sweeps the people here. Their smiles. The goofy party hats. Their eyes lock on me, happy and expectant.

My breath hitches in my throat.

I don’t recognize a single one of them.

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“I CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING IN AN OLD-FASHIONED WAY. I INVITED EVERYONE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD TO MY HOUSE, WE HAD AN ENORMOUS FEAST, AND THEN I KILLED THEM AND TOOK THEIR LAND.” Welcome back to the cruel world of homework and finals. This week’s feature is about obesity and I have been asked to tie in my article. So let me quickly tell you about all the delicious, fatty dead bird I ate while sitting around a table with humans who share a portion of my DNA. After the murdered animal meal, we embraced glorious tryptophan comas and yelled at buff men in tight clothes running around chucking a leather pocket of air. (Side note: When Tom Brady is widowed or divorced, dibs!) I do believe our Thanksgiving was exactly like the first pilgrims of America.

After the euphoric napping wore off, I questioned the sanctity of Thanksgiving. What is so great about this holiday? In reality, Thanksgiving is a celebration of American incompetence. The pilgrims of early America couldn’t fend or farm for ourselves and were forced to ask for help. Who came up with the idea that we should eat a large and horrifyingly ugly bird and root vegetables for hundreds of years to follow in

celebration? I shouldn’t complain, I love pie.

money.”- Says my aunt in front of her three children.

Obviously, the Lewis family tries to be as historically significant as possible — that’s why we keep to our yearly traditions and display our incompetance. We have many traditions the first being that around the Thanksgiving table instead of saying what we are thankful for we tell jokes.

• “I’m not so good at the advice.

Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”- Aunt who ignores this conversation each year.

Jokes spark glorious conversations at the Lewis family table. The most common subject around many tables during the holidays, including in my family, is dating of the cousins. We had five cousins at the table this year, two of whom are dating and the remaining are single. My uncles and aunts give advice to us all each year, including these golden nuggets below: • “Have you cut one out of the herd yet?”- Aimed towards me about men at WWU / Western Wedding University.

• “Never have children; they are sticky, smelly and steal all your

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• “So you like a girl who has a boyfriend? Well that’s ok. Just have her catch you kissing her boyfriend and she will probably break up with him. Then go for it!”- Uncle giving advice to my youngest cousin.

and all we can do is walk from one chair to another, we watch the newest movie in theaters. This year we went to Interstellar. Here is the Lewis Family response: • “Sadly, I will never get those three hours back.”

• “Maybe I would do better watching Dumb and Dumber.”

• “Once in a while, there are movies that I wish I had slept through, that was one.”

They have the best advice and we cousins take every word to heart. This may be the reason why 3/5 of us are single.

• “The producers must have been on drugs, it’s unfair that they didn’t share, it would have made the movie more bearable.”

Another tradition we hold dear is our yearly poker and golf tournament.

Due to the cold we skipped golf and played a little extra poker. I am happy to say, I won ten bucks. Woot woot!

Oh wait… I’m sorry. Poker is the game of the Devil. No, actually we played Rook and I won five high fives and five hugs! My Bad…ventist.

If you have not seen Interstellar, don’t wait to watch it on your computer; it’s a movie to be watched Imax style.

Lastly, when our tummies are full

I love my family, although they may love me a little less after reading this.

Have a fantastic week y’all!

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It’s the Christmas season! The music is officially allowed for those adamantly against it before Thanksgiving, lights are strung up, and WalMart looks like the holiday season has puked everywhere. I love this season because last year I was introduced to the world of Christmas Markets. What are they, exactly? These are street markets where people are able to rent a booth to sell ornaments, food, Christmas gifts, and much more. There are usually multiple booths of the same thing, so it’s fun to try and compare the food, but there also games, concerts, and ice skating. This tradition started in 1434 with four countries and has now spread to most of Europe. The markets usually start around the middle of November and end a week after the New Year. There were a total of eleven markets that I visited, but only five that were different and memorable for their food, events, and atmosphere. cartesfrance.fr

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On a small hill overlooking Geneva, this town blocked off a mile with stalls full of clothes, ornaments, and a section dedicated to food! You can find multiple kebab stalls — all the Turkish food you could ever ask for — and there are stalls of chocolate and hot cider.

Why it was memorable: This was the town where I lived for a whole year, so I ran into other students, teachers, and church members which gave the market a homey feeling. All of the stalls were full of friendly French and Swiss people wishing people a Merry Christmas. Every time I turned around, I ran into someone I knew.

CAPITALE DE NOËL STRASBOURG FRANCE

Shannon Pierce

This is the biggest and oldest Christmas market in Europe. It blocks off a whole section of the town, centered around the grand cathedral.

There are multiple attractions such as a Ferris wheel, a merry-go-around, and a skating rink. There are nearly 300 stalls and every year about 2 million visitors walk the streets of Strasbourg.

Why it was memorable: There’s a gingerbread bakery that smells amazing; however, since there are so many stalls and visitors the streets are crowded. I don’t like crowds, but in this very crowded city, I ran into a group of Americans who were studying in Zurich and became friends with them. There are also many street musicians playing Christmas music throughout the plazas, and while it may sound odd, the best thing that I experienced was the hot orange juice.

PLAISIRS D’HIVER BRUSSELS BELGIUM

Shannon Pierce

For two kilometers there are stalls snaking all around the capital of Europe.

Starting in the Grand-Place, there’s a large nativity scene right next to a chocolate shop. As you walk around you’ll come across two skating rinks, two merry-go-rounds, and a Ferris wheel, but most importantly there are multitudes of stalls that offer Belgian waffles. It is heaven. There are countless chocolate shops where they make chocolate right in the store.

Why it was memorable: The smell of chocolate, Belgian waffles, and fries floats through the air. The sounds of street musicians, children laughing and screaming, and cars and trains are heard throughout the market — it isn’t loud, it’s all background noise. The best part is the comic book graffiti found everywhere because this is the capital for graphic comic books such as the Smurfs.

MARIENPLATZ CHRISTMAS MARKET — MUNICH GERMANY

Shannon Pierce

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Marienplatz is one of the biggest plazas in Munich. There’s a skating rink at one end shaped like a tournament stadium for the middle ages. There are Christmas trees everywhere even multiple stables with barn animals. There are ornaments, bells, hot drink stalls, and of course the wonderful, or should I say the vuderbar, German desserts.

Every half hour a choir would come out and sing.

The majority of the stalls are in the Old Square — it’s packed, especially at the top of the hour, because the bells go off with little characters walking out on the old tower. Then with a five minute walk through the buildings, you can end up at Wenceslas Square with stalls leading up to the National Museum which holds a few concerts during the season.

Why it was memorable: I was in Munich for Christmas; the atmosphere on Christmas Eve was amazing. I stood and watched a choir sing out on the Cathedral while eating a typical apple strudel with chai in a converted flower pot mug. At 11:00, there was Christmas Eve mass in the cathedral and the head Catholic priest in Germany was leading the service. I’m not Catholic, but it was a new experience.

Who doesn’t love trying to sing songs in German?

Why it was memorable: Prague is a tourist town, so there are a lot of people, but during Christmas and New Year’s it’s magical. On New Year’s Eve, fireworks can be seen everywhere — you look around 360 degrees and always see them.

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21 FASHION

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Manage your real-life wardrobe on your iPhone & iPad

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Do you struggle to get dressed in the morning? Stylebook, a personal virtual closet, is the modern way to plan an outfit. Simply snap pictures of all your clothing, shoes, and accessories et voilà — your entire wardrobe is in the palm of your hands! Stylebook is available for iPhone and iPad for the small investment of $3.99. Watch the video at vimeo.com/99931737 and learn all you need to know!

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APP FEATURES

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1. All your clothes on your mobile device Now you can really see everything that hangs in your closet. No more discovering items in the depths of unorganized bins and drawers. When you know exactly what you have, you know exactly what you lack and what you might have too much of.

2. Create outfit collages using your own stuff Pinterest people, all those outfit collages? You can now make your own with the stuff that hangs in your closet. After you finish adding pictures of all your clothes, click on the looks section, pick your category and start the fun! You’re welcome.

3. Plan when to wear what with the calendar feature The special calendar feature has got to be the organized fashionista’s paradise.

After you have put together an outfit, you can add them to different days of the week with the calendar feature.

No more scrambling to quickly pull something together, making a mess in the process. At the beginning of the week, the night before, or even right when you wake up in the comfort of your bed, plan your look.

4. Packing just got a whole lot easier Create packing lists for each trip and insert all the looks you would like to wear. The app generates a packing list of all the items you should bring. Let me tell you, I used this feature to pack for Thanksgiving break and it was a breeze.

5. Style Stats Ever wondered the total worth of your closet? Or how many times you’ve worn an item? With the style stats feature, you can now find out; it tells you things like how many items you have, the total closet value, how many items you have of each color, and your 25 least and most-worn items.

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SCIENCE 22

DANIEL

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This week’s article is dedicated to answering some of the questions I’ve received during the quarter.

What smartphone do you recommend? — Alex Wanger It’s difficult for me to say one phone is the best one for everybody, so instead of outright reccomending a single phone for everybody, I’ve made a flow chart that should work for most cases, based on the wordon-the-street and my own personal biases. Enjoy!

Bulletproof Coffee: does it actually work? — Andrea Johnson Bulletproof Coffee is a recipe for coffee that silicon valley entrepeneur Dave Asprey came up with after climbing in the Himalayas that consists of one cup of his brand of coffee, 1 tablespoon “Brain Octain” (MCT oil — derived from coconut oil containing fatty acids), and 1-2 tablespoons of grass-fed butter (butter from grassfed cows). The makers of Bulletproof Coffee say it has the ability to boost

IQ and trigger weight loss through ketosis, a metabolic state in which the body burns fat instead of glucose.

Most reliable sources say that most of David Asprey’s claims behind Bulletproof Coffee’s benefits are marketing hooplah.

Probably the most disprovable of his claims is that most coffees have mycotoxins — toxins caused by mold growing on the plants.

Nearly all coffee producers wash their beans in a way that eliminates any risk of health effects from mycotoxins.1 Next, any of his health claims are fairly readily dismissed simply from the fact that this coffee has not been studied.

Currently, there are anecdotes for its effectiveness and ineffectiveness, but nothing that can constitute actual scientific evidence.

Even so, the encouraged practice of replacing a meal with Bulletproof can’t be a good idea because the ingredients are high in calories and low in actual nutritional value.2 Sure, a big glob of fat is going to provide a good amount of long-lasting energy, but it isn’t going to make anyone feel full — fats are typically not as good at making people feel satiated as carbohydrates

and proteins.3 This article4 gives a good illustration of the process — not long after drinking the coffee, the author found himself struggling not to eat more food.

Finally, while ketosis is in fact a real bodily phenomenon, drinking Bulletproof Coffee is unlikely to fall under “nutritional ketosis,” the diet required for ketosis to play a major part in an individual’s health since most ketogenic diets call for less than 50 g/day of carbohydrates for over three days per week — just a little more than the amount of carbohydrates in two pieces of toast.5 Since drinking Bulletproof Coffee in the morning allows for two more meals with a normal amount of carbohydrates (more than two pieces of toast), drinkers of Bulletproof Coffee are unlikely to receive any of the possible benefits (and numerous harms) associated with a ketogenic diet.

So no, Bulletproof Coffee does not live up to its claims, although a thick enough layer of it could probably stop a bullet.6

when we look at the various stresses that occur in objects. Normal stress, the stress caused by force pulling or pushing in or out of a beam, can be calculated using F/A, or just Force over Area. On the other hand, bending stress, the stress caused by a force perpendicular to a beam, is M*y/I, where M is the moment caused by the force, y is the distance of the stress perpendicular to the neutral axis, and I is the area moment of inertia. This can be seen as analogous to normal stress when it is rearranged as stress/y = M/I, where (linear stress/y) would be some kind of rotationalized version of stress.

Thanks for all the questions, folks.

If you have a question you would like to be featured in my column, or an idea for an article, don’t hesitate to send me an email at daniel.hulse@ wallawalla.edu

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Explain the area moment of inertia. — Nathan Loewen

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The area moment is best thought of as the inertia analog of area. What does this mean? Well, we know that the mass moment of inertia is analogous to mass — it is an object’s natural resistance to acceleration. In addition, we know that the angle of rotation is analogous to distance, and the applied torque is analogous to the applied force. In the same way, the area moment is analogous to the actual area of the object. This gets clearer

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we’re usually low on numbers. Maybe people think athletics are a waste. I will continue to argue against this.

CONTRIBUTER

How many life lessons have I learned on the court? I want to say most of them. I’m thinking this is true for most athletes. Where I came from, if you didn’t practice, you didn’t play.

I was a bit competitive. I was held accountable. In my early years I often found joy in being overdramatic: I got knocked down, I stayed down.

garcia This week, Sophomore Michaela Garcia contributed her perspective as a WWU Wolf on both the varsity volleyball and basketball teams. She also balances pre-physical therapy with her athletic involvement.

Being a wolf isn’t as easy as I thought it would be. After speaking with other Wolves in the pack I realize that we are all in the same neck of the woods.

We have all been in this struggle together. We are all students here, we all have to study, and many of us have to work. The cost of this place is out the wazoo. Then there are student athletes. Yes, it’s our choice. We have chosen to play; we devote hours and hours of our time to a sport. We get some cool gear. We’re still paying for it — no scholarships to play. We are all here playing because we love the sport.

I have the feeling that some people think we are crazy; maybe this is why

After several years of my mother yelling at me from the sideline, “Get up” accompanied by “She’s fine,” I learned to suck it up. She stood by the “no blood, no injury” philosophy; it could all wait until after the game.

I’d like to say that this experience has taught me resilience, and I am now able to put up with the negativities that life throws at me without immediately hitting that fetal position. This made me stronger. I have been wired to use sports as an opportunity to learn physically and emotionally.

I just want to give special props to my fellow athletes. Financially, we can’t afford to get out and put in the loads of extra time on the field or the court that it would take to flip this

losing streak, and I think the fact that y’all are still hanging in there strong and fighting hard is so incredibly inspirational. I have watched each team play and know from experience how degrading it is to repeatedly lose; to always feel like the underdog is the worst. Every athlete at Walla Walla University overcomes a mental, emotional, and physical battle every season, and I just want to give y’all kudos. Sure, maybe we could have invested more in our sports when we were younger so we could be better now, but, in reality, most of us do not have the goal of playing a sport for the rest of our lives. We have been given the opportunity to represent our school by doing something we love that also keeps us healthy, and we have taken it despite the negatives. I think most of us are in it for the people and for the miniature victories, such as learning discipline, self-control, and becoming a better listener. Through athletics we are becoming better people, and I think that is something worth supporting. The coaches and people here at WWU have led me to a better place and forced me to think about the important things in life. Now, as a non-athlete, I would

be thrilled if you would thank your student athletes that are doing their best to give you a college experience full of school spirit. Consider meeting us halfway with a little moral support; our win-loss record can flip its way around to lots of wins and few losses. Also, consider joining a team, especially if you have talent. We need you more than you think.

Intramurals Update Football Intramural football season has reached its conclusion, and a champion was crowned in each of the three divisions: A league - Pitch Please defeated Better with Age B+ league - Snakes in the Grass took first over Cookie Monsters B league - The AWESOMES beat the Gridiron Gang

Basketball Basketball Intramurals will take place over winter quarter, and it’s time to start thinkinking about getting your team together and signing up.

You can sign up by going to wallawalla.edu webpage - go to the Life at WWU tab, click Intramurals, then click the Sign-ups tab on the left.

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SELF-IMAGE, OR DOING THE RIGHT THING

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We have the right ideas, but we’ve somehow turned them off and made them lose their authority by repeating them over and over and calling them trite. Telling a twelve-year-old that their body shape is “normal” doesn’t make it easier for them to stand up for themselves when classmates at their school tease them. It seems that with the campaigns to love your true self and the challenges made to the ideals that photoshopped models and super-skinny Barbie dolls put forth, we should be leaps and bounds ahead of where we are. Yet self-image is still, and probably will always remain, a relevant topic.

VERBATIM

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How long ago were you a potato? I feel like it was a long time ago.

– Daniel Howard, to a french fry

You know, I’m just going to start working for the NSA. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

– David Olson

If you’re not loud and obnoxious, you’ve let the terrorists win.

– Dean Elloway

Hey Timmy, Did you have an email receipt for the pancreas somewhere?

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ABIGAIL

Challenge for the day: discuss the idea of selfimage without using at least one cliché in each point.

When thinking about how we think of ourselves, the image of a stereotypical “Love Yourself” poster on Pinterest painted in melted crayons and repinned 1,000 times comes to mind. How much further can this conversation go? How sad is it that discussing selfimage has become a cliché?

Our self-image is grossly connected to how others perceive us. No matter how many compliments we hear from others about an aspect of ourselves, the most memorable comments people make are the negative ones.

For instance, I decided on a whim last fall quarter to cut my hair into a pixie cut. No matter how many times people told me they liked it, I still more profoundly remember the instances when people disliked my choice: “You look like a boy.” “You looked better with long hair.” “Grow your hair out; look like a girl again.”

Although I knew then and know how that my gender is not tied to the hairstyle I prefer, it still made me question myself and whether or not I had made the right choice.

However, the idea of choice is more difficult to bring into play. People do not choose, for the most part, to be larger or smaller, whether it be in height or weight; one can’t decide to have or to not have freckles or chronic

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This is obviously not something that will magically no longer be a problem overnight. Even if all advertising became body-positive, more types of people were included in popular images, and people stopped insulting each other, it is still possible to be uncomfortable with the way you look. If it’s any solace, every other person in the world probably has similar thoughts about themselves. We can all work through the struggle (without commenting negatively on each other’s haircuts. I mean, really).

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Each week I write riddles in the form of haikus about places around campus, popular books or movies, or something random of my choosing. The first person to email me with a correct guess as to what I’m referencing will be mentioned in next week’s Review. Email me your guess at abigail.wissink@wallawalla.edu.

What was your favorite thing that you did over break?

“I went and saw Interstellar.”

- Austin Thomson

– Jaclyn Shankel

If you hear something funny, cringe-worthy, or that could be hilarious out of context, send the quote to me!

acne; economically underprivileged individuals cannot always dress in their preferred style of clothing. There are things we can’t control. So perhaps the idea that we should embrace the way we are is the correct choice even if it has become a cliché. An important part of embracing how we look is doing so without putting down people who are on the other side of the spectrum from ourselves. It is possible to embrace how we look without insulting someone else, even if pop music has convinced you otherwise.

“Oh gracious. Umm...I’m going to be that student who said ‘slept in.’”

- Jordan Stephan

“I went to a pizza place and had a Thanksgiving pizza.

It was good.”

- Alex Baeur

Would you know my voice if you heard it somewhere else?

I sing every day.

You probably don’t notice I even exist unless I bug you.

Last week’s answer: The Patisserie Last week’s winner: Tyler Sherwin Last week’s runner up (because I’m pretty sure Tyler cheats somehow): Jenna Thomas