Volume 97, Issue 23

18 April 2013 Volume 97 Issue 23

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Emily Muthersbaugh HEAD LAYOUT EDITOR Ricky Barbosa

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HEAD COPY EDITOR Cedric Thiel HEAD PHOTO EDITOR Josh McKinney

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CONTENT DIRECTOR Philip Duclos

NEWS EDITOR Jaclyn Archer

Editor-in-Chief

RELIGION EDITORS Rob Folkenberg Daniel Peverini COLUMNIST Rebecca Brothers CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR Kayla Albrecht OPINION EDITORS Elliott Berger Grant Gustavsen Nathan Stratte FEATURE EDITORS Braden Anderson Elizabeth Jones James Mayne Christian Robins CULTURE EDITOR Grant Perdew DIVERSIONS EDITOR Eric Weber TRAVEL EDITOR Megan Cleveland HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Karl Wallenkampf

There is a strong and compelling connection between humans and our environment. Our environment can shape the way we think, influence the things we value, and inform our decisions.

This coming Monday marks the world’s 44th Earth Day, a day set apart to demonstrate support for environmental protection. We will gather as a campus community to reflect on environmental issues and consider opportunities for progress, much like other gatherings around the country and world.

Monday will also mark one week from the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line. As an environmental studies major, I spend a lot of time studying how humans interact with their environment, but the more I learn about the way that humans relate to the environment, the more I think about the way that humans relate to one another.

the way we relate to the earth reflect the way we relate to each other? Do we have a better chance of caring for the earth and our environment when we re-evaluate our attitudes toward those around us, when we heal ourselves?

The answers to these questions are undoubtedly complex and can only be explored by engaging in honest and challenging discussion with those in our community. This week’s Feature may serve as a starting point for this discussion, examining the history of the environmental movement and environmental issues we face today. As you read, I encourage you to consider the way that environmental issues may be changed over the next several decades by a change in the way we treat those around us.

David Orr, an author and professor of environmental studies, is credited with the phrase, “When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves,” but I can’t help but wonder if the reverse might prove more true. Does

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Spencer Cutting FOOD EDITOR Amy Alderman SPORTS EDITORS Trevor Boyson Tye Forshee THE HEEL EDITOR Julian Weller STAFF WRITERS Amy Alderman Casey Bartlett Karina Gomez Hilary Nieland Annie Palumbo LAYOUT DESIGNERS Allison Berger Alix Harris Greg Khng Cory Sutton COPY EDITORS Amy Alderman Rebecca Brothers Carly Leggitt Ryan Robinson DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Alex Wickward OFFICE MANAGER Heather Eva SPONSOR Don Hepker EDITORIAL BOARD Braden Anderson Jaclyn Archer Elliott Berger Philip Duclos Rob Folkenberg Grant Gustavsen Elizabeth Jones James Mayne Emily Muthersbaugh Christian Robins Julian Weller AD SALES MANAGER Brenda Negoescu aswwu.ads@wallawalla.edu

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Context

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News ASWWU/Admin Week in Review Week in Forecast

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Perspective Religion Column Creative Writing Opinion Snapshots SM/ACA

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Life 18–24

Culture Diversions Sports Foodie Health & Wellness Science & Tech The Heel

If you are interested in contributing to The Collegian, contact our page editors or the editor-in-chief at aswwu.collegian@wallawalla.edu. The Collegian is boosted by regularly incorporating a wide range of student perspectives.

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NEWS

Fifth Annual Tri-College Service Day Karina Gomez Staff Writer

This Sunday, April 21, is the fifth annual Tri-College Service Day, a collaboration of Walla Walla University, Whitman College, and Walla Walla Community College.

Volunteers will meet at the Whitman Reid Campus Center ballroom at 9 a.m., and most projects will be done by noon.

The event, which was the brainchild of WWU Administrative Assistant Ellie Veverka and a previous Whitman community service coordinator, usually draws between 350 and 400 volunteers yearly. The Community College averages 10 to 20 volunteers, and WWU and Whitman

both tend to average between 150 and 200 participants. Usually the campus from which Service Day is hosted has the most volunteers that year. There are currently 337 total volunteers registered.

On the subject of collaborating with other local schools to do service, WWU Campus Chaplain Paddy McCoy says, “Whitman is also a very service-oriented/social justice group, and I think it's important to at least connect with [the] CC as often as we can.

We are all serving in similar fields, prepping young adults for the next phase in life, so joining forces on events periodically just makes sense. … [I] just think this is a great way to continue to show our neighbors that we love well, and for one Sunday morning in a quarter, we're willing to get outside our world and impact someone else's.”

This year, there were approximately 30 service projects to choose from, which included everything from yard work for elderly community members, to naturetrail maintenance, to helping out at the Blue Mountain Humane Society, which is one of the more popular projects. About half of the projects have already been filled, but there are still a number of volunteers needed for the projects remaining. If you are interested in getting involved in Service Day (and getting CommUnity credit as well), visit wallawalla.edu/serviceday to sign up for a project.

Veverka, one of the event creators, advises that volunteers arrive on time, wear close-toed shoes and their free Service Day T-shirt, and bring their own water and snack.

Marriage Hopefuls Learn From Experienced Couples Hilary Nieland Staff Writer

Last weekend marked the annual spring Engaged Couples Seminar at Walla Walla University. About 10 seriously dating, engaged, and recently married couples gathered in the Fine Arts Center, where they shared food and learned about the struggles and joys of marriage.

The seminar covered topics ranging from conflict resolution and validating feelings to finances and sexuality. For each topic, an established married couple would present their experience and advice.

Then, men and women would alternate going to a private room to allow each partner to read a worksheet separately.

Each couple would the regroup to go over the worksheet together.

Different temperaments were an important topic covered during the seminar.

Each person who attended was encouraged to take the Myers–Briggs test after the conclusion of the seminar Friday evening to discover his or her own temperament.

On Sabbath morning, Julian and Annette Melgosa distributed handouts outlining different temperaments. They presented information on potential strengths and weaknesses of couples with different temperament combinations.

Kyle and Tess Craig gave a presentation on finances and explained how their financial upbringings affected the finances of their current family. They also shared their top seven tips for managing finances, including living on one person’s income and putting the rest toward debt and savings, buying gently used instead of new items whenever possible, and setting up an automatic transfer from checking or savings into a fund dedicated to vacation.

each couple will have to decide how to divide responsibilities.

A panel discussion concluded the seminar. Panel members included Michael and Serena Dewey, Anthony and Ronda Smith, Rodd and Kim Strobel, Michael and Tobi Goff, and moderator Don Veverka. Couples were encouraged to ask the panel any questions they had regarding engagement and marriage. Topics covered by the panel included wedding planning, contraceptives, and financial planning for children.

“The experience was above and beyond my expectations.”

Another important presentation was roles in the home by Jim and Trudy Klein.

They showed how the Bible and Ellen White treated gender roles, and how they have developed over time. They explained how everyone approaches a relationship with certain expectations of roles, and

Alana Alves, junior psychology major, attended the seminar with her longtime boyfriend Rafael Meneghetti, senior engineering major.

Alves says, “The experience was above and beyond my expectations. The presenters were well prepared, charismatic, and available for questions and discussion. The food was great, the material was excellent, and it was all well worth the price and time.

Most importantly, I think this experience strengthen[ed] our relationship with each other [and] also with God.”

CONTEXT

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Offer made by Dish Network to buy Sprint.

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ASWWU/ADMIN

Alumni Association

SENATE UPDATE

PURPOSE New Business F.L. 34 — ­ Battle of the Bands Grant Purpose: Provide funding to host Battle of the Bands G.L. 27 — ­ Constitution Revision Recommendation to the ASWWU

MEMBERS

Purpose: Recommend constitutional revisions G.L. 28 — ­ Brett Schultz for University Master Planning Committee Purpose: Appoint Brett Schultz to be on University Master Planning Committee P.L. 89 — ­ Nathan Stratte for Opinion Editor Purpose: Hire Nathan Stratte to be Collegian Opinion Editor P.L. 90 — ­ Karina Gomez for Staff Writer Purpose: Hire Karina Gomez to be Collegian Staff Writer P.L. 91 — ­ Zach Munroe for Project Manager Purpose: Hire Zach Munroe to be Project Manager

Regular members of the Alumni Association include all former students, faculty members, administrators, and staff members of Walla Walla University, Walla Walla College, Portland Sanitarium and Hospital, and College Place Trade School. Regular members who are not on Walla Walla University payroll are eligible to hold elected offices within the association. Honorary members include recipients of honorary degrees from Walla Walla University and those who have been of particular service to the university. Honorary members have all privileges of the association except eligibility to hold office.

The purpose of the Alumni Association and Alumni Board is to encourage alumni to support Walla Walla University. To do this, the association works to inform and educate alumni about the university, promote loyalty and commitment to the university through association-sponsored events, monitor and respond to alumni opinions, publish alumni news, encourage financial support of the university, aid in student recruitment and retention, and build an active and influential volunteer base. The Alumni Board has the power to conduct and oversee the business and affairs of the Alumni Association and property.

Members of the Alumni Association elect five officers: board chair, president, president elect, secretary, and treasurer. Six other members are also elected.

Ex officio members include the vice president for university advancement and the director of alumni relations.

ELECTION

GET INVOLVED The Alumni Association welcomes volunteers. If you wish to volunteer or you are interested in becoming a candidate, contact either the alumni director, Terri Neil, or the alumni president, George Fearing.

Old Business G.L. 26 — ­ Elections Manual Revision S.R. 3 ­— Laundry Credit System for Portland Campus

Guests Mr. Bennett: Interim VP of Student Life and Mission

George Fearing

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Art King

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Clarence Anderson

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Loree Waite

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Key: F.L. | Financial Legislation G.L. | Governance Legislation P.L. | Personnel Legislation Senate meets in WEC 217 on Thursdays at 9 p.m.

See Page 23 for details on tonight's senate session with George Bennett.

Alan Coffey '84 | Heather Jarnes ‘02 | Jeremy Beam ‘00 | Felix Tan ‘90 Carlton Cross ‘66 | Bunny (Bernice) Baker ‘75 Terri Neil | Ex Officio Member Jodi Wagner | Vice President for University Relations and Advancement

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NEWS

Weekend of Worship Casey Bartlett Staff Writer

Weekend of Worship returns beginning with a special CommUnity this Friday, April 19. Pastor Matthew Gamble will be the speaker for the weekend. Gamble comes to us from St. Helena, Calif., where he is the senior pastor at the Elmshaven Seventh-day Aventist Church, a close neighbor of Pacific Union College. Pastor Gamble has brought his mission-focused preaching to six of the seven continents, including speaking engagements all over the United States. He is no stranger to the Northwest, either: Gamble began his career as a pastor in Seattle, where he pastored the 24/7 church and frequented Walla Walla University to speak.

Pastor Gamble has an interesting testimony.

He has childhood roots in Catholicism, but at age 14 he denounced the church and became an atheist. His interest in Rastafarianism drew him to the shores of Jamaica at age 19. God inspired Gamble to be a pastor a short time after this, and he has been spreading the good news of Jesus to the world ever since.

Pastor Gamble is a dynamic and lively speaker who has been very well received on the Walla Walla University campus in the past. His mission-focused philosophy of ministry made him one of the desired candidates for Weekend of Worship. The theme for the Weekend is “LoveWell: So All May Know Whom We Serve.” Pastor Gamble will be presenting during CommUnity time on Friday, for vespers, and for both FirstServe and the Second Service on Sabbath. It looks to be a Spirit-filled weekend which will, hopefully, inspire us all to love well.

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Pastor Alex Bryan to Lead Kettering College Jaclyn Archer News Editor

Yesterday, President John McVay announced that Senior Pastor Alex Bryan of the Walla Walla University Church has accepted a post as the sixth president of Kettering College in Dayton, Ohio. In the official WWU press release, Bryan commented, “It is with heavy hearts that the Bryan family departs Walla Walla. This decision has come at the end of many long weeks of prayer as we have sought God’s leading.

We hold deep affection for this church and this campus. The Walla Walla family is our family now, and always.” Pas-

tor Alex Bryan has served as WWU Church pastor since 2009, has filled posts on the president’s cabinet and as advisor to the president for vision and strategy, and has served WWU as an educator in the Schools of Business and Theology. His wife, Nicole Bryan, also serves as an educator in the School of Social Work and Sociology, mentors students through the Freshman Success Program, and leads the university’s social committee. The Bryan family will be sorely missed by members of the Walla Walla University community as they embark on their new mission field at Kettering College.

A Campus Under Construction Annie Palumbo

Staff Writer

Several projects to improve campus are currently underway.

The Atlas Improvement to The Atlas is a two-part project. External improvements to The Atlas are visible on the corner of College Avenue and Whitman Drive. The building received new paint and a sign, making it easier for newcomers to College Place to find the building. New double-paned windows replaced the single-paned windows, which were improperly insulated and screwed shut. A patio and outdoor seating area are being installed, providing students with a relaxing environment to study outside.

Tread Shed The second part of the improvement is the Tread Shed, being relocated to the small ga-

rage behind The Atlas. The construction crew knocked out a wall, giving the Tread Shed much more room, and installed a large garage door that opens onto the new patio. This would give students a comfortable place to wait for their bicycles.

Ad Building The advancement offices are currently being moved to the fourth floor of the Ad Building.

Construction began last week and is estimated to take approximately four months. Currently, they are framing offices and rooms. The move will be finished by the time the 2013 fall quarter begins. By moving advancement to the Ad Building, it will place the group in better proximity to the marketing and administrative teams, allowing for easier collaboration.

Library According to Carolyn Gaskell, director of libraries, the construction in the library is close to being completed. Windows have been cleared and replaced, allowing for more natural lighting. The computer lab has been relocated

to the reference room. Soft furniture, laptop tables, and counter chairs for the computer lab

says, “On the weekend of April 26, the library will be rolling out new names for each of the library’s floors (Gold, Green, Red, Blue). Each study area or nook will be named after a Northwest mountain or mountain range (Mt. Hood, Mt. Denali, Eagle Cap Mtn., Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens), and a photo of that specific mountain or mountain range will be placed in the study area.”

“A patio and outdoor seating area are being installed providing students with a relaxing environment to study outsde.” and periodicals arrive Thursday, April 18, along with new white boards and additional ottomans. Small projects, like replacing the door into the small-group study area, still need to be completed. More tables and chairs for periodicals will be in place by the end of May. Gaskell

Library faculty will be using funds from the Jennie M. Livingston Memorial Library Fund endowment to provide lamps for the reference room tables and an alcohol-burning fireplace in the reference room. Lamps should be in place by April 26, but the fireplace will take longer to design and install.

An open house will be held for the improved library on April 27 from 2 to 4 p.m.

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WEEK IN

REVIEW Photo by Alix Harris

Photo by Ivan Cruz

Photo by Ivan Cruz

ASWWU Battleground

ASWWU Tin Man Triathlon

NCHA Survey and Q&A Sessions

12–13 April

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16–17 April

Arboretum led music for the weekend and special guest Eliud Sicard presented talks focusing on “Call Me Daily: The Constant Creation of a Relationship With Jesus.”

Participants swam, biked, and ran on Sunday morning in teams or as individuals. Prizes were given and T-shirts were distributed.

Campus Health and ASWWU partnered on this project to compile data from students about health issues.

Students also attended presentations given by Dr. Tom Underhill on sex, drugs, and alcohol.

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WEEK IN

FORECAST Photo by Phillip Taylor

Thursday |

18 APRIL 63° 48°

Résumé Workshop

Photo by Matt Gamble

Friday |

19 APRIL 64° 45°

CommUnity: Matthew Gamble 11 a.m.

University Church

6 p.m.

ADM 117

Vespers: Matthew Gamble 8 p.m.

University Church

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Saturday |

20 APRIL 63° 43°

Walla Walla Adventist Forum 3 p.m. & 5 p.m.

FAC

Q&A With Matthew Gamble 9:30 p.m.

University Church Youth Room

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Photo by Flickr user kevin M gill

Sunday | 21 APRIL

Monday |

Tri-College Service Day

Earth Day

61° 34°

9 a.m.

Whitman Campus Reid Ballroom

CommUnity

11 a.m.

University Church

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Photo by Greg Khng

Tuesday |

23 APRIL 70° 46°

Friday 11 a.m. Classes Meet

Photo by Flickr user wombatarama

Wednesday | Pigs in a Blanket Day

24 APRIL 73° 48°

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PERSPECTIVE

Question Where do you see idolatry today?

Response Idolatry, as traditionally defined by Christians, is the worship of anything other than the one true God, Creator of heaven and earth.

In the time of ancient Israel, idolatry was primarily practiced in regard to human creations made of wood, of stone, and of metal. YHWH’s people, as recorded in the Tanakh, repeatedly turned away from YHWH, the creator God, to worship these man-made idols.

We often hear that God’s people continue to practice idolatry today.

Our idols, so we are told, are celebrities, money, and success.

Though some contemporary Christians do idolize these things, I think that many Christians idolize something else, something more deep seated.

I see many Christians today who idolize their ideas of God. They try to contain God, the Maker of heaven and earth, in a set of propositions: 28 fundamental beliefs, 10 Commandments, four spiritual laws, or 66 divinely inspired books.

Many Christians today set up these verbal frameworks as idols. While Christians are busy defending these idols, they neglect to attend to God Himself, who is found in the poor and oppressed of this world. They forget the unfortunate and the excluded while they are busy arguing about whether the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week or whether God created the world in seven days.

Christians today, like the people of God in all ages, struggle with idolatry. Shall we not destroy our idols and turn to the worship of the living God? —Daniel Peverini, Religion Editor

Have a good question? Email robert.folkenberg@wallawalla.edu.

REAL QUESTIONS

RELIGION

Church Unity:

Ordination and Segregation Rob Folkenberg Religion Editor

Just days before His death, Jesus prayed a deep, heartfelt prayer for His followers.

He prayed for their salvation. He prayed for the the work they would do. He prayed, claiming the disciples as His. He had trained them, taught them, and prepared them, and He wanted them to go forward with their heads on straight and with God’s blessing.

Just before Gethsemane, Jesus prayed for unity among His disciples. He prayed, “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”1 Notice that Jesus included us in His prayer. He prayed for not only His disciples at that time, but also for all of us who believe in Him. He prayed for unity in His church.

Today, my church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is not fully answering Jesus’ prayer. There’s division, there’s anger, there’s jealousy. There are both theological and administrative rifts. Just visit the Internet and you will see dozens of blogs and websites and comments bashing this or that problem in the church. Is it too much for me to say that as we bash and belittle, instead of fixing problems, we are perpetuating an attitude that Jesus hated? The problem is on both sides. No pointing fingers at who we think is pointing fingers. Many groups, whether they “stand for truth” or “embrace diversity,” do more talking about how bad the other camp is than sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Mercy.

Let us treat our brothers and sisters as our brothers and sisters.

A caveat — it’s not that no one should stand for anything. It’s not that there isn’t a time for calling sin by its right name or for going against the flow or for saying something that will perplex or even vex

someone. It’s not that decisions shouldn’t be made that may step on some toes. But as far as possible, let us treat our brothers and sisters as our brothers and sisters. Let’s give the benefit of the doubt. Let’s work things through. And may some of the comments I see online show more Jesus and less anger.

It’s not a lost cause. I love the unity I experience as I travel and visit churches around the world. I love the positive discussions I have with Adventists who care for their church as much as I do, but differ with me at times. The purpose of mentioning the subject is to encourage us to move forward in a spirit of unity. Allow me to reflect on two situations and issues in the church. I’m talking straight, but I’m hopeful!

It’s time to take active steps to promote unity.

“If the issues were easy, they wouldn’t be issues.”

The women’s ordination debate is not new. I stumbled across an old magazine recently. It was Adventist Today’s July– August 1995 General Conference special issue. During the 1995 General Conference session, delegates voted against women’s ordination. Some were not very happy. One of the articles in the magazine was titled, “La Sierra Church Urges Conference to Ordain Women.” Sound familiar?

Today, some wonder why we keep revisiting an issue that has already been settled. Others hope that the problems of inequality in the church will finally be solved. I’m excited to see some positive steps being taken by the General Conference to facilitate study and dialogue about the issue. A 106-member Theology of Ordination Study Committee has been formed, which is tackling the issue over four sessions. I like the idea of a church coming together to discuss a serious issue, and I hope real dialogue occurs, resulting in

appropriate action. I did say action. There may come a time, and some say the time has come, when we should move forward or take a definite stand. If it’s now, let’s do it with respect. Let’s not let a debate over the gender of our leaders detract from our Christianity.

Let’s move forward together as much as possible. Get involved in the discussion, but please, do so respectfully.

Struggles affecting unity aren’t just in the theological realm. I see it in our organizational structure as well. In most of this country, the church at the conference level is divided racially. Black churches are organized under their own separate conferences: “regional conferences.” This may have been necessary in the 1960s and before — maybe. But today, I think we can move beyond it. Separate organization within the same territory based only on race: It just doesn’t seem right to me. The added bureaucracy and accompanying expenses take money away from more important areas, and the message it gives to onlookers is not one of unity.

But once again, addressing this issue requires care. I know what I think should happen, but others also know that keeping the conferences separate will ensure that the black minority gets adequate evangelistic and administrative focus and representation. If the issues were easy, they wouldn’t be issues.

As we discuss and work through such issues, I know this: Jesus prayed that His followers would be unified. As we work to do that, let’s not sacrifice what we’re working toward.

I believe that we should be more unified administratively, but if it stays like it is now, let us at least be unified spiritually, in Christ.

The church is not perfect, but Jesus is. Let’s look toward Jesus as we encounter various issues testing our unity. Maybe in that way we’ll overcome problems in our path and be closer to God’s ideal. And let’s remember that looking toward Jesus includes looking with respect and kindness toward those who are His. Let’s move forward. Let’s discuss and make decisions. Let’s do all this — together.

1. John 17:20-21, ESV.

COLUMN & CREATIVE WRITING

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Remember You Will Without a Goodbye Graduate Rebecca Brothers Columnist Several hundred years ago in western Europe, literature and art saw an explosion of material on the theme of memento mori — “Remember you will die.” Chapels were decorated with bones; clocks were inscribed with pleasantries like tempus fugit (“Time flees”); American Puritans went nuts with their gravestone decorations; Thomas Gray gave the world “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Perhaps most strikingly, skulls were de rigueur in every portrait. In Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors,” for example, two men are shown with all the trappings of education and success: rich clothing, scientific tools, books, and musical instruments.

But what’s that distorted blob between them?

View the painting from the side and the blob will turn into a skull, a subtle reminder that everything eventually fades.

night of Thursday, February 5, 2009, when some visiting academy students played a prank on me that involved a bucket of cold water. The most recent jolt of surprise came 10 days ago, when I walked out of the Ad Building and looked over to see masses of U-Days visitors outside Village Hall. In that terrifying moment, I was King Harold, the high school seniors were the Normans, and College Avenue was an easily scaled Senlac Hill. The scene reminded me of a conversation I’d had with my father just two weeks before, when he asked me how I felt about graduating. “I’ll miss WWU,” I said, “but it’s time to go. Some of next year’s freshmen were born in 1995.

I remember 1995.

It’s their campus now.” As I watched 18-year-olds caper across campus, I felt more than ever that, as fun as college had been, it was time to move on. How long, I wondered, had it been since I felt that energetic? How long since I had that sense of freedom? that sense of possibility? Was I truly entering a phase of my life in which jetting off to England for two months was no longer an option? I am looking forward to some parts of post-graduate life, like the part where I start getting a reliable income, but is it a slippery slope from rejoicing over an income to worrying about arch support?

“Is it a slippery slope from rejoicing over an income to worrying about arch support?”

We have something similar on campus, but it’s not along the lines of memento mori, and it’s not portrayed with skulls.

Instead, we’ve got the message “Remember you will graduate,” and its symbol, if it has one, is the academy students who visit campus. I generally enjoy U-Days, possibly because I am neither living in the dorm nor eating in the caf. It’s refreshing to have so many people on campus — they’re more reasons to dress professionally and smile at strangers. However, there are times when the pre-freshmen give me a bit of a turn. This first occurred during my freshman year, more specifically on the

I have since been reminded that (a) I’ve only been here for five years; (b) there’s nothing shameful about needing arch support; and (c) it’s never good to dwell too long on such questions, or else you start getting misty-eyed over Bank of America commercials — not a very constructive reaction, although no doubt Hans Holbein would be proud.

Kayla Albrecht Creative Writing Editor

He was 12 and I was 10. More often than not, I was in flip-flops and he was not wearing any shoes at all, but the polite old woman who worked at the Texaco would ignore the sign on the door that said, “No shirt, no shoes, no service.” We walked around importantly, pretending to consider the merchandise, and our sense of privilege amused the cashier. She knew that we always bought the same things. He would bring a dollar made up of quarters and dimes and nickels so that he could buy two bags of watermelon rings — buy one get one free. He would share what change he had left over with me, so that I could combine it with the coins I had managed to steal from my mom’s wallet. I would get the 12-ounce frozen pink lemonade cup.

The return 0.38 miles to my house always managed to take longer than the 10 minutes it had taken us to get to the Texaco.

We would push along on our scooters, the heavy heat making us slow. He would rip the plastic bag of watermelon rings with his teeth, and I would peel back the lid on my lemonade. The wooden spoon that came with the cup would mix with the other flavors — sour, sweet, wood, cold.

By this time, the sun was getting lower. We would slap at mosquitoes and brush long, sticky bangs from our foreheads. We rolled along eating most of the other’s treat.

We always ended up on top of the swing set in my backyard. We felt as if we could see the world from there, and maybe we could.

We would climb up on top of the main bar that held everything together, and there we would laugh, or try to push the other off, or remain perfectly silent as the sun disappeared completely, neither one of us wanting to go inside. Eventually one of our mothers would call for us. We’d climb down and, without a goodbye, would leave each other. If we didn’t say goodbye, the adventure wouldn’t end. A year later I moved away from that house. I never told him goodbye.

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OPEN POSITIONS Ad Sales Manager Assistant to Executive VP Assistant to Marketing VP Assistant to Social VP Assistant to Spiritual VP Atlas Barista Collegian Editor-in-Chief Controller Executive Secretary Fundraising Manager Designer Head Video Editor Marketing VP Mask Editor Mountain Ash Editor Photographer Project Manager Senate Secretary Tread Shed Manager Video Editor How to apply: 1. Download application from ASWWU website.

2. Send your résumé, application, and cover letter to aswwu@ wallawalla.edu.

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Mathematics A WA R E N E S S W E E K April 22–26, 2013

The Nonagon Challenge

The Sidewalk Theorem Contest

Tuesday, April 23 2:00–4:00 p.m. on KRH Lawn

Thursday, April 25 12:00–2:00 p.m. on KRH Lawn

The Randy Yaw Pi Contest Friday, April 26 3:14 p.m. in KRH 107 For more information, please visit the Mathematics Department in KRH.

OPINION

PERSPECTIVE

Endangered Responsibilitiy Elliott Berger

Opinion Editor

“God’s going to destroy earth soon anyway.”

Great, I don’t think He wants our help doing it.

Half the fun of creation was creating it, and the other half is exploring it. Unfortunately, with over 17,000 species on the “threatened list,”1 it looks like we’re doing a pretty poor job. “God’s

Far too many toxic chemicals are pumped into bodies after they are dropped into the ground and with the number of burials, humans manage to destroy the earth even after they’re dead. To combat this, she keeps mushrooms in containers with any dead material she collects off her (hair, nails, skin, etc.) so that when she dies, the mushrooms will recognize her body as food. While this may seem a little extreme and weird, any step in the right direction counts.

No idea can be marked off as “Your love for the too crazy to help the environment; damage done is already crazy Creator is expressed by theenough.

There’s no excuse for the way we have treated the environment, The effects of pollution are your love for creation.“ and dodging the responsibility with pretty obvious. It’s not terribly coming soon,” merely places the responsibility on someone else. A responsibility developed for us.

It takes some planning. There is a TED Talk2

by Jae Rhim Lee that deals with conditioning mushrooms to degrade her body after she dies.

the second coming, well, we’ve done that with plenty of things. A responsible approach to protecting creation will allow us to better appreciate our Creator.

1. N.p.. Web. 17 Apr 2013. endangeredspeciesinternational. org/overview2.html.

2. “Jae Rhim Lee: My Mushroom Burial Suit.” TED: Ideas worth Spreading. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2013.

Cows and Praise Music As a music and mathematics major, you may know me as “that guy who plays banjo.”

I’m also your new addition to the Collegian Opinion section. It’s a pleasure to be writing for you all.

“Well, what’s the difference?” asked the wife.

The farmer said, “Well it’s like this: If I were to say to you, ‘Martha, the cows are in the corn,’ well that would be a hymn. If, on the other hand, I were to say to you,

‘Martha, Martha, Martha, Oh, Martha, MARTHA, MARTHA, the cows, the big cows, the brown cows, the black cows, the white cows, the black and white cows, the brown and white cows, the COWS, COWS, COWS are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn, in the CORN, CORN, CORN, COOOOORRRRRN,’

A farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was.

and repeat the whole thing two or three more times, well that would be a praise song.”1

“Well,” said the farmer. “It was good. They did something different, however. They sang praise songs instead of hymns.”

Now don’t get me wrong — there are great people who play praise music, and there are

What it often does instead, though, is present a very repetitious, non-creative, and at times intellectually insulting image of God as a lover. I wonder — is it theologically sound to sing worship to God as if he were our boyfriend or girlfriend? We are told that Christ is our Bridegroom,2 but is worshiping him as such appropriate? Are these sorts of intimate praises pleasing to God? I’ll have to let the Religion section address those issues.

The issues of repetition and banality, however, can be addressed by our encouraging praise leaders to choose varied, creative, and intellectually and theologically stimulating praise songs that don’t repeat phrases “til the cows come home.”

1. Slightly modified from hpcisp.com/~kls/hymnsvscontemp. html. You might enjoy their humorous satire of hymns as well.

2. John 3:29, NIV.

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A few weeks ago at vespers, when the praise music began, I noted, as usual, the seemingly endless repetition of words and chords. I began to count. In the span of 10 minutes of music, there were a whopping six chords played. Each phrase in these songs was — as a rule — repeated at least twice. In this specific set, the exceptions to this rule were repeated up to 10 times. A story I’d recently read about praise music came to mind:

“Oh, they’re OK. They’re sort of like hymns, only different,” said the farmer.

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ostensibly some liturgical benefits to praise music. It can help bring people’s attention to God. It can help bring people into the church by providing accessible, familiar music. It can promote holistic worship that involves more than just the intellect.

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“Praise songs?” asked the wife. “What are those?”

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In mid-March, Valencia, Spain, celebrated its largest and most famous annual festival called Las Fallas. This festival is a spectacular of sounds, colors, light, and fire that includes daily displays of explosions, a parade, children throwing firecrackers, traditional food, and several nights of fireworks. However, the most iconic part of the festival is the presence of giant statues made of papier-mâché, wood, and Styrofoam towering over the main street corners in the city. Some are in the forms of people, others of animals or even entire scenes. Despite all the time and money that goes into making one of these statues, also called a falla, these gigantic works of art are burned on the last night of Las Fallas in an event called La Cremà.

Having several days off from school, we ACA students witnessed much of the festival and we weren’t disappointed. Never before had I gone to a daytime fireworks show with the sole purpose of listening to the explosions, nor had I ever before seen a nighttime fireworks show with such an outrageously high quantity of fireworks. The city was packed, and it seemed like the streets were constantly rocking with some type of explosion.

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However, despite all these novelties, the last night was definitely my favorite. To ensure that we would get a good viewing of La Cremà, my friend Ryan arrived a few hours early at the railing which marked the barrier around the falla that we wanted to see burned. With our front row spot secured, we joined him at the barrier and waited. The crowd began to pack in around us, all coming to watch this giant representation of a woman, a polar bear, and a dragon all go up in flames. When the time finally arrived, we watched as the statue was punctured with ventilation holes and soaked in a flammable liquid. The fire was initiated by lighting a long chain of fireworks that lead to the falla. After a series of explosions, the bottom of the falla ignited. It started slowly at first, but within a few minutes the whole sculpture was ablaze.

Suddenly I realized how painfully hot it was. I started wondering if my windbreaker would melt to my body. Just when the flames reached the heights of the building tops and the heat became unbearable, we heard the attendants telling us to back up, as they pushed the railing towards us. After stumbling backward through the crowd, we resituated and continued to watch until the falla slowly burned itself out.

This entire experience, although not life altering, did impact me. For example, I will never again be able to consider a bonfire large, and I now consider myself much more comfortable in close proximity to explosions. Although burning sculptures of Styrofoam may have seemed strange to me, all this was an opportunity to see what another culture considers a normal form of celebration and participate just once in something they do year after year.

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TRADE YOUR W TER Mission Mozambique, the 2012–2013 Walla Walla University fundraising project, has been blessed by having so many supporters this year, including local businesses; WWU students, faculty, staff, and alumni; and other members of our community. This Saturday at 1 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Ad Building, the Chaplain’s Office invites students to join in a worship fast where you can “Trade Your Lunch” for a cup of cool water in support of this cause. Students who would have eaten in the cafeteria can sign in at the event to have the cost of a meal at the cafeteria donated from Sodexo to Mission Mozambique. Students or other individuals, who would have eaten at home, are encouraged to bring the money they would have spent on groceries and donate it at the event.

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This upcoming Monday, April 22, is the 44th annual Earth Day, a day that raises awareness of environmental issues around the world. Fear not, this is not a scaled-up version of Earth Hour; we don’t expect you to turn off the electricity for an entire day, as that could hardly make anyone more amenable to helping the environment.

However, the purpose of Earth Day is to remind us that humans can and do have an effect on the earth’s environment and its inhabitants (including other humans) and not to take this responsibility lightly. The origins of Earth Day also demonstrate that college-aged students can be an influential force for change, as many of its original organizers and participants were collegeaged students like ourselves.

The idea for an Earth Day first came from Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin.

After seeing the devastating environmental damage caused by an oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, he felt that industry and people in general needed to start considering what the long term effects of their activities

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on the environment would be and how they might be changed for the better.1 Nelson and his fellow senator Pete McCloskey recruited Denis Hayes, a recent graduate of Stanford, to coordinate the first event. Hayes and Nelson saw how influential student protests of the Vietnam War had been, and they sought to harness that same energy by educating people about the environment and convincing them to take action.2 Through their efforts, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day brought out 20 million people who showed that they were concerned about environmental issues and wanted to see changes made to improve them.

But 20 million people marching in the streets on April 22 was just a start. Earth Day really set in motion the movement of environmentalism, which transformed the grassroots agenda of Earth Day into an influential political agenda. For some people, environmentalism was the equivalent of a political party, and its members held enough votes to sway some elections in 1971.3 But the relationship between environmentalism

and politics has changed a lot over time. It began as a bipartisan movement between Senators Nelson and McCloskey. However, after the first Earth Day demonstration, Republican President Richard Nixon likely saw that environmentalists could potentially influence his election and worked with environmentalists to pass several environmental laws to reduce pollution and promote a healthy environment.

Included in these reforms were the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, all of which are familiar terms in conversations about the environment.4 Other presidents continued to support the environmentalist agenda, pursuing renewable energy, reducing pollution, and ensuring that big-business industries complied with the new regulations. Democratic President Jimmy Carter even installed solar panels on the roof of the White House.5 At one time, environmentalism had support from many diverse political backgrounds, but with the arrival of President Ronald Reagan, the Republican position became less cooperative with environmental policies that would curb business and productivity in America and possibly disadvantage our economy.

Environmentalists anathematized him for

removing the White House solar panels in 1986,6 and since then environmentalism has become a divisive issue for many people.

Earth Day, however, has consistently been celebrated on April 22 for over 40 years since its first conception in 1970. Hayes himself reprised his role as coordinator at several 10-year anniversaries, working to make it bigger and broader in scope.7 Today it is an internationally recognized holiday by the United Nations, continuing to raise awareness about important environmental issues. But the conversation is not always popular or productive. Often the conversation devolves into ugly partisan bickering. One side, let’s call them the left, advocates huge changes to our infrastructure in order to save the world. The other side, the right, advocates that we leave everything as is because they believe such changes to be damaging to the economy. These are generalizations, of course, and there are many people who find themselves taking a position somewhere in the middle. However, these are the two loudest voices with regard to the environment in the media and in politics.

Both groups spend so much time trying to out-shout each other that they fail to see the merits of their opponents’ arguments.

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This is unfortunate, since both positions have characteristics that appeal to the general public. We all like having clean water to drink and fresh air to breath.

Everybody also enjoys having inexpensive electricity and other commodities that make us more productive, fueling the economy.

Regrettably, many of us are led to believe that we have to choose one over the other.

When asked to make that choice, we are fairly split as a nation. According to a poll conducted by Gallup, 48 percent of us believe that priority should be given to economic growth, as opposed to the 43 percent of us who think that we should prioritize protecting the environment. That is quite a swing from what it was 20 years ago.

In 1992 (there is no data for 1993), only 26 percent of Americans believed that priority should be given to economic growth versus the 58 percent that advocated prioritizing the protection of the environment. The change in opinion was gradual until 2001, when support for environmental prioritization dropped by 10 points. The next large swing in public opinion occurred in 2009, when priority shifted to economic growth for 51 percent of Americans. This was the first time that economic growth had a higher priority since Gallup started conducting the poll in 1984.8 These shifts in public opinion can likely be attributed to the state of the economy. In 2001, the dot-com economic bubble burst, sending the country into a minor recession. More recently, in 2009, with the collapse of the housing market, we entered the Great Recession, the effects of which are still felt today.

However, this does not mean that the American people no longer want to do anything about the environment. The same Gallup poll asked whether the government was doing too much, too little, or just the right amount to protect the environment. It found that 47 percent of Americans thought that the government was doing too little, compared to the 16 percent who thought that it was doing too much and the 35 percent who thought it was doing just the right amount.

It is clear that many of us want to do our part to help out the environment, but we are more reluctant to do so when the economy is in such bad shape. This means that anything proposed to benefit the earth will be much more successful if it has a positive economic

benefit to us, or if it at least leaves us as well off as we were before. For example, many bottled-water companies have reduced the amount of plastic that they use to make each bottle. This leaves the customer with the satisfaction that they are contributing less solid waste to our landfills and the companies with more profit since they now spend less on material and transportation.

Everyone benefits, except for whomever produces the plastic.

“Many of us want to do our part to help out the environment.”

Unfortunately, when it comes to cutting pollutants — especially those caused by the production of energy, like CO2 — there are few immediate economic benefits, and support is harder to find. CO2 is believed to be the primary greenhouse gas emitted by humans, as the EPA tells us.9 Greenhouse gases absorb thermal heat from the sun and re-radiate it in all directions. These gases are thought to be primary drivers behind climate change, the gradual warming of the earth and the most highly debated topic concerning the environment. Capand-trade, a proposal that sets a cap on the amount of CO2 a power plant can emit and requires them to buy the rights to emit more CO2 if they exceed that limit, has never garnered enough political support to be passed by Congress. However, there are a few ways to reduce CO2 that do not impose a financial burden on power companies.

Indeed, the U.S. has cut its emissions by 7.7 percent since 2006 according to The Washington Post. The Post attributes most of this to increased use of natural gas, which is cheaper than burning coal.10 Natural gas also releases half as much CO2 into the air as coal, as stated by the EPA.11 However, natural gas is not the magic bullet for reducing CO2, and it is associated with a controversial practice called fracking, in which pressurized fluid is pumped into petroleum and natural-gas deposits to release them for collection. Still, taking the opposite

direction by legislating that a certain percent of energy must come from renewable sources (sources that are constantly replenished and do not release CO2 as a result of generating electricity) is not necessarily the way to approach climate change either.

The state of California mandates that 33 percent of electricity used by the state has to be procured from renewable sources by 2020, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.12 In the aftermath of that mandate, consumers paid much higher prices for their electricity. Luckily for California, in 2011 electricity prices from renewables dropped about 30 percent from 2009 levels, according to Forbes.13 This is due to a plunge in the price of solar panels thanks to competition from China. Due to the influx of cheap solar panels, many power utilities promise to offer electricity from renewables at lower rates than natural gas. It remains to be seen if this pans out, but it is encouraging.

Even so, this does not mean that solar panels will be able to supply all of our large energy demands. The sun does not always shine, and less sunlight is available in the winter. Even Germany, the world leader in solar energy, only produces 21 percent of its electricity from renewables, according

“The takehome message here is that there is no one way to approach environmental protection.” to The New York Times.14 Our cool friend to the north, Canada, gets 63 percent of its electricity from renewables. Here in the U.S., we get 13 percent. How does Canada do it?

The Canadians are fortunate to have 596 hydroelectric dams that generate electricity.15 That supplies 93 percent of the electricity that they generate from renewables.

Now granted, their population is only about a one-tenth of ours. As reported by

The New York Times, of the 80,000 dams in the U.S., only three percent are use to generate electricity. Most of them were built for other things, like “flood control, recreation, irrigation, or water storage.”16 Of course, most of these dams are in places that do not have a reliable source of water all of the time. Still, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found 58 existing dams that could be upgraded to supply energy to about 950,000 residences. They also found opportunities to refurbish existing hydroelectric dams to supply electricity to about 950,000 additional residences on top of what they already supply.17 Hydroelectric power is just as reliable as coal or natural gas (the hydroelectric dams are usually built on rivers that do not run dry), and it releases no CO2. Here in Washington state, we get the vast majority of our electricity from hydroelectric dams, and we produce 29 percent of all the nation’s electricity. Of course, not every state has the rivers that we do. That’s where other alternatives previously discussed come in. Every state has unique conditions that require unique sources of power generation.

The production of energy is just one way in which we have a huge impact on the world, but with that influence comes a greater potential for change. Earth Day is a day set apart to encourage us to consider these kinds of solutions to the problems that we face. We’ve shown you the spirit in which it was formed and the arguments it engenders today. Even so, we are fully capable of having a rational conversation about the matter. The take-home message here is that there is no one way to approach environmental protection. Rather, we would be better off diversifying the sources from which we get our power, always trying to find ways to make them less costly and thus more widely accepted. Concurrently, we should be finding ways to reduce our power needs while still maintaining the same productivity levels and finding ways to clean up after ourselves as well. It is not that we have not come a long way: The environment has definitely been improved since the first Earth Day, from cleaner air to successful endangered species to more efficient methods of energy production.

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Green Concepts That We May Use One Day Current-Generation Power Plants

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The youngest nuclear power plant in the U.S. is 25 years old. We have no nuclear power plants from the current generation. Our nuclear plants are aging and many are being shut down and replaced with dirty, coal-fired powerplants. The technology we have available today is much safer and more efficient.

Splash Power

This technology can be used wherever you have water pressure. You can use your shower to power your phone.

It’s basically a miniature hydroelectric dam. It can also be used to monitor water pressures. splashpower.com Photo by livingdebtfreerocks.com

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WindWing

Zeolite Thermal Storage

With more surface area than a standard turbine and a better momentum conserving mechanism, WindWing can harvest 65 percent of the kinetic energy from the wind.

Current wind turbines harvest five percent. The increased surface area also has solar-panel potential.

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Scientists in Germany have created small Zeolite pellets that can store four times more heat than water for a longer period of time. Eventually, scientists hope to be able to store heat in these pellets and then extract a similar amount of heat after an indeterminate amount of time. All they have to do is add water and heat is released. extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-storageretains-heat-indefinitely-absorbs-four-times-more-heat-thanwater (Shout out to Rory Ross for sending this our way.)

Marine Cloud Whitening

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Experts of the Copenhagen Consensus recommend expanded research into cloud whitening, which is a process of spraying sea water into clouds to make them whiter and more reflective. This could reduce global temperatures and has a huge benefit for a low cost.

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1. Earth Day Network. earthday.org/earth-day-historymovement.

2. Ibid.

3. Earth Days. Directed by Robert Stone (Zeitgeist Films: 2009). video.pbs.org/video/1463378089.

4. Earth Day Network.

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8. Gallup. gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx.

9. EPA: “CO2.” epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ co2.html.

10. Washington Post, washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ wp/2012/10/25/was-u-s-climate-policy-better-off-withoutcap-and-trade.

We may one day use solar panels to provide energy to power water electrolysis, the seperation of hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. Plants do this every day with photosynthesis. Hydrogen can then be used to charge batteries and recombine with oxygen, leaving water as the only byproduct. fuelcells.org/fuel-cells-and-hydrogen/hydrogen-basics reveals-price-it-pays-for-renewable-energy.

14. New York Times, “Renewable Energy.” nytimes.com/ interactive/2013/03/24/sunday-review/how-much-electricitycomes-from-renewable-sources.html.

15. Canada Dams. ec.gc.ca/eau-water/default. asp?lang=En(ampersand)n=9D404A01-1.

5. Ibid.

11. EPA on Natural Gas: epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/ affect/natural-gas.html.

16. New York Times: “Dams.” green.blogs.nytimes. com/2009/08/19/retrofitting-non-electctric-dams-for-power.

6. Stuart Udall, Earth Days.

12. CPUC. cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/index.htm.

17. usbr.gov/power/data/1834/Sec1834_EPA.pdf.

7. Earth Day Network.

13. Forbes. forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/02/07/california-

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The Growing Connection of Vines and Snaps Grant Perdew Culture Editor

We have come to an age where the smartphone is king and the apps are living in his giant court of procrastination and so-called productivity. Sadly, it's time to lay our near, dear friend Attention Span to rest. Skilled physicians did their best to save him with a few doses of Ritalin, but to no avail. Quite a shame, really, for I really enjoyed paying attention to something every now and then, but we need not worry about focusing when we have apps to take up all our attention.

Most everyone with a smartphone uses the basic social networking apps like Facebook and Instagram to share photos and statuses to let their "friends" know that their lives are actually interesting. (There are over 680 million mobile users of Facebook.) There are two new apps that have begun to grow with intense popularity in the last few months. Here's a bit of info to entice you to have your life consumed by more technology in an attempt to "connect" with people. Presenting: the poster children for new frivolous technology.

VINE Vine lets users thread together tiny clips into one looping video. Twitter's new app

allows a maximum of six seconds of video to be saved. Each Vine video is essentially turned into an animated GIF and looped with sound. It's an absurdly intuitive way to create a relatively complex short film. Released this January, Vine is one of the fastest growing apps in the market, and the number-one free app on the iTunes store for several weeks now.

It's already been used by many companies and celebrities to make new, simple, visual connections with audiences. Paul McCartney uses Vine to engage his followers in a game where Sir Paul himself plays six seconds of a song on the piano, and then asks fans to name it and record themselves playing the rest. This is your chance to play music with an actual Beatle! Even movie studios have gotten involved to host six-second short-film festival contests with Vine. It actually has the power to make Twitter a more valuable company and a stronger social network. If you don't have this app, you'd better get on the bandwagon and whip out that Lego animation or create that new viral kitten dubstep video.

SNAPCHAT The closest competitor for Vine is none other than the elusive Snapchat, a messaging system based around sharing media that disappears within a scheduled amount of time under 10 seconds. Snapchat deploys the tapand-hold maneuver in viewing content, where the photo your friend sends you will expire

within however many seconds they specified. So when your friend sends you a picture of their completed homework, you could only have three seconds to look at the answers.

What a tool.

Punk'd Punct.

Apps have a bigger function in our society than people may realize. When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon on Monday, the world knew within minutes because of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and even Vine. The tragedy in Boston revealed that the future of news may not be as dark as people imagined.

In just a few hours, people posted, tweeted, and shared everything they could to help people out, letting citizens know about emergency blood drives, lodging, and other services. Even misinformation was corrected by people with evidence from their apps and technology. Knowing what's happening around us is collegehumor.com/article/6872071/8-new-and-necessarypunctuation-marks inspiring compassion, and our social media networks may actually be starting to mature into trusted sources.

RAINY RHYTHMS: TUNES TO GET YOU THROUGH THOSE APRIL SHOWERS Listen online at tinyurl.com/a3cqe5y.

Psy

"Gentleman" 63 million views in just three days.

That's the power the K-pop star behind "Gangnam Style" has on the world with his viral new single.

Fall Out Boy

"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"

The band that you listened to in eighth grade is on a mission to "save rock and roll." This is a good start, but we'll see how it goes.

Half Moon Run

Sleigh Bells

will.i.am and Justin Bieber

Yellow Ostrich

"Call Me in the Afternoon" This up-and-coming Montreal trio is progressive without being pretentious, fusing elements of pop and folk with warm electronica.

"#thatPOWER"

If anyone was worried that cheesy lyrics and autotune had gone out of fashion, fear not: It's all right here in this dance anthem of the summer.

"Infinity Guitars" Distorted beats are blown up to Hindenburg-sized proportions with this fuzz guitar anthem about general ladylike aggression.

"Mary (Alternate)"

The one-man-band cleverly uses layered vocals in addition to his catchy melodies and intelligent song structure.

The Muppets "Rainbow Connection" I would argue that this is probably the best song of all time, or at least the happiest, with its inspiring lyrics and uplifting key changes.

Lydia

"I Woke Up Near the Sea" Daring, beautiful, and edgy would describe these Indie rockers.

With ambient overtones, Lydia is perfect for rocking out or relaxing.

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s Sassiness: A History Eric Weber

When I was a child, I was perfection. Not only did I make my bed every day, but I also said things like “thank you” and “I love myself.”

It was a golden age for family, full of joy and offerings of peace. But then everything changed. It all started when a girl named Kristin (aka the girl who looks like she's perpetually eating a tuna fish sandwich) stole my pencil. For some reason this small act of prepubescent thievery started a downward spiral of attitude that culminated in me getting incarcerated for possession of too much swag. This was the highest and lowest part of my life because, firstly, I realized this would be literary gold when writing my autobiography, and, secondly, I got a tattoo that read "Taco Bell Tramp."

Fast-forward to now, where I am living the high life at The Collegian and rockin’ my classes like E.G. herself. It’s been great: I finally have an outlet to focus my loneliness and deep-seated hatred. I hope that one day you, my dear reader, will find the Kim to your Kanye, the bagel to your Rosie O’Donnell, the Russia to your Sarah Palin.

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Sometimes my workouts are so strenuous that I reward myself by taking a year or two off.

I'm not ready to be in a profile picture with you.

I'm not sure how many problems I have because math is one of them.

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Wolves Softball Tye Forshee

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WOLVES BREAK THROUGH AGAINST THE DUCKS

News The Los Angeles Lakers have secured a playoff spot after a Utah Jazz loss.

LeBron James is ESPN's unanimous favorite for the MVP award.

Rasheed Wallace announced his retirement from the NBA as a New York Knick.

Golden State Guard Stephen Curry set a new record with 272 three-point shots in a season.

Pirates pitcher Burnett pitched a one-hit game against the Cardinals.

The Wolves' softball team played a doubleheader against the Oregon Ducks club on Sunday morning. Pitching the first game for the Wolves, Brittani Gutierrez only allowed one run the whole game against the Ducks. On offense, Katie Wilson got the offense rolling with a huge double in the left field corner to score in a run. Later in the game, Karissa Barton had the biggest hit of the whole game with a huge grand slam over the left-field fence. The grand slam seemed to surprise Barton more than anyone else, as she could not believe what she had just

accomplished. The Wolves showed improved patience at the plate by drawing walks and additionally showed some smart base running, forcing four errors by the Ducks. The Wolves won the game with an eight-run mercy rule 9–1 after the fifth inning.

The second game was more of the same from both the pitcher and Barton. Nicole Beeks only allowed one run to score, while Barton hit a huge solo home run over center field. Andri Iwasa led the Wolves on offense with two RBIs. Beeks' strong pitching was enough to keep the Ducks from scoring as the Wolves went on to win 5–1.

WOLVES SPLIT DOUBLEHEADER AGAINST BIG BEND CC The Wolves played a doubleheader against Big Bend CC on Tuesday afternoon. The first game against Big Bend CC was a struggle for

Gutierrez as she allowed four earned runs in three innings. On offense, the Wolves were having trouble getting in scoring position as they failed to string together consecutive hits early in the game. Beeks pitched the final four innings strongly, not allowing any runs. It was too late, though, as the Wolves only tacked on two runs late in the game, losing 2–5.

The second game the Wolves played was a high-scoring affair for both teams. The Wolves had 20 hits total. Taylor Larsen and Kristi Hernandez both had a strong day, hitting five runs between them. Big Bend CC also hit well, but key defensive plays by the Wolves kept them from scoring runs several times.

Beeks had trouble finishing the game due to injury, but Gutierrez filled in and held off a rally by Big Bend. The Wolves ended holding off Big Bend CC 7–5.

Back From the Brink?

Trevor Boyson

Sports Editor

I couldn’t believe it when I found out that Kobe Bryant had ruptured his Achilles tendon. What was even more unbelievable was seeing the way it happened. After the game, Bryant reflected, “I made a move that I make a million times and it just popped.”1 And it’s true: A simple cut back, without any untoward contact from the defender, has put the immediate and long-term futures of the Los Angeles Lakers in peril.

The timeline of Bryant's recovery has been slated to be six to nine weeks. As I was reading the comments on the articles covering this situation in Los Angeles, I was struck by the positivity that people held toward the situation. Commenters cited Bryant’s legendary work ethic, his hunger to be the best, and the fire inside him that drives him relentlessly. The common belief throughout was always something along the lines of, “Bryant will be back and just as good if not better.”

Let take a step back and look at the facts:

the “Black Mamba” is still one title short of Michael Jordan’s six championship rings.

Bryant is also just shy of Jordan in the all-time scoring list. Bryant isn’t anything if he isn’t hungry to be the best. He would never dream of ending his career at this point statistically.

Combine that with his seemingly inhuman

"I made a move that I make a million times and it just popped." ability to work harder, longer, and faster than everyone else, both on and off the court, and you’d figure that his odds are pretty good to return to the game as a high performer again.

But no matter his dedication, Bryant has the odds stacked against him. He is currently 34 years old, and by the time he could possibly return he will be 35 years old. Father Time is against him.

The history of Achilles injuries is not kind either. It was the end to the likes of Elton

Brand, Isaiah Thomas, and Dominique Wilkins' careers. Chauncey Billups, only a year older than Bryant, is currently trying to bounce back from this type of injury. History is against him.

Then there is the injury itself, which, while rehabilitating, prevents you from even walking on that foot. Bryant will not only be away from the basketball court, but he’ll be away from the gym, unable to be in peak basketball shape the moment he returns. No matter how hard he works, his body and/or Achilles tendon may never be as good as they were before. His own body is against him.

I mark this as a sad day for the NBA. Kobe Bryant can be frustrating if you aren’t a Lakers fan, but the NBA is undoubtedly better with him in it. I feel that there were still blank pages waiting in the history books for him to fill out for us. Now there aren’t the same kind of exciting unknowns he was once aspiring toward. The future is dark, both for the Lakers and for Bryant. Most people couldn’t bounce back from this injury, but thankfully, most people aren’t Kobe Bryant.

If anyone can do it, it’s the Black Mamba.

1. articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/12/sports/la-splakers-warriors-20130413.

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Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes Amy Alderman Food Editor

Cupcakes have become increasingly popular in the past five years. Nearly every city you visit will have a smattering of dainty cupcake bakeries. However,

the treats you discover in such places are not your average cupcake. You will find cupcakes with various flavors and fillings, and you will see frostings with a wide spectrum of inspiration to fit any palette.

Confession: I don’t like cake. Too many sugary birthday cakes as a child may be what ruined this delicacy for me. I have eaten cake many, many times and have

not stumbled across a recipe that is as delicious as this one.

About one year ago, the hospital where I work at was hosting the CHIP program.

If you are unfamiliar with this program, it is a 30-day education program focused on a healthy-living lifestyle. In preparation for one of the evening meetings, my supervisor shared this recipe with me,

which was to be used in a demonstration that night. Although skeptical of a vegan cupcake, I had the opportunity to try one — they absolutely are delicious.

These cupcakes are very light and fluffy while still giving you chocolaty goodness.

Give them a try — you’re in for a treat!

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Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes Preheat oven: 350°

What you’ll need: measuring cups/spoons, two large bowls, whisk, cupcake pan, cupcake liners 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking soda ½ tsp. salt

1 cup cold coffee, water, or coconut milk ½ cup canola oil 2 Tbsp. white or apple cider vinegar 2 tsp. pure vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line cupcake pan with liners. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together coffee/water/coconut milk, oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk until just combined. Do not over mix. Fill the cupcake liners about ¼ full with batter. Bake for 16–18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean.

Photos by Amy Alderman

How to Keep Cake Moist

I made a pumpkin dream cake (bit.ly/SQljRx) for a birthday last fall. I read a tip online that said once your cake pans are out of the oven, put them directly in the freezer for about 10 to 20 minutes to keep the cake moister. Although it seemed a bit odd to me, it did, in fact, work!

Putting the pans in the freezer immediately stops the baking so that the cake does not continue to bake in the pans when taken out of the oven.

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SCIENCE & TECH AND HEALTH & WELLNESS

Extraordinary Matter

Darryl Masson Contributing Writer

Darryl Masson is a senior physics major at Walla Walla University who has previously contributed to The Collegian with his article "Curiosity Indulged."

In chemistry class, you probably learned that matter exists in one of three states or phases: solid, liquid, and gas. Then you were most likely given water as a prime example. Most of us are familiar with the ice to cool your drink, the liquid that makes up the drink, and the steam rising from the surface — it’s an interesting beverage.

In science, we say a substance has changed phase when some property doesn’t change smoothly when others change. Some phase changes are obvious, like heating water to the boiling point. Others, like changes in crystal structure, are not so easily detected.

The most common phase of matter in the universe is plasma, because it's what makes up stars. Plasma is formed by taking a gas and heating it up until it’s so hot the electrons aren’t bound to a specific atom like in a normal gas. Electrons belong to the entire group of atoms. It’s like communism for atoms. This means that plasmas interact well with magnetic fields and can very easily carry an electric current. The most common terrestrial form of plasma is lightning. You can’t see the electrons that are moving or the atoms and molecules the electrons jump between, but you can see the blindingly bright light that results from the plasma emitting photons to try to get rid of the extra energy.

If we keep increasing the temperature, somewhere around a few trillion degrees (like the collision center at a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider), matter

forms a quark–gluon plasma. Quarks are the particles that make up protons and neutrons, and gluons are the glue that hold them together. Normally, quarks float around the nucleus in groups of three: Two “up” quarks and one “down” quark make a proton; one “up” and two “down” make a neutron. If you smash two nuclei together with enough energy, the particles in the nuclei form a soup where the quarks and gluons float without needing to hold hands.

What happens if you cool matter down?

If you can somehow convince a bunch of atoms to occupy the same energy state (which is about as easy as herding cats), it’s called a Bose–Einstein condensate, and it is formed when atoms try to do exactly the same thing at the exactly the same time (like kids in middle school). A laser is a BEC made out of photons. If you take a BEC and cool it to within a few degrees of absolute

Rat Tales Karl Wallenkampf Health & Wellness Editor

Have you had a final yet? If not, I’m not so happy to tell you that you probably will soon.

I’ve had one by the printing of this issue, but since more are coming down the pike, I found an aid for my future success, and yours also. It’s a rat-based cure.

The studies began back in the 1990s with experiments on mice.1 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Southern California revealed that when mice went to town on running wheels, their brains started churning out new cells in the brain areas associated with memory. The more lackadaisical mice whose exercise consisted of shuffling to their food did not have such cell creation. Understandably, the über-mice scored much higher on tests of memory than did their bloating companions.

Fast forward through a few gulf wars to the present, and we find new research on old ladies published in The Journal of Aging Research.2 Scientists working at the University of British

Columbia studied a number of women in the age range of 70 to 80 who had mild cognitive impairment — meaning they were slightly less sharp than expected for their age, and consequently at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s. While before the researchers had found that weight training increased similar older women’s associative memories (I remember your name and where we met), now the researchers turned to verbal memory and spatial memory — remembering words and where things are.

They split the group of ladies into three subgroups which would all undergo six months of supervised exercise. The first group lifted weights twice a week, the second walked briskly, and the third control group did stretching and toning. To begin with, every woman was given a number of tests that examined their verbal and spatial memory.

Then the six months of supervision began.

After their completion, the toning group scored worse than they did at the beginning.

The walkers and lifters, however, improved their scores on nearly all of their cognitive tests. Their improvements differed, though.

Spatial memory improved in both lifters and walkers; however, the walkers improved more significantly in verbal memory over those women who simply lifted weights, implying different physiological effects from anaerobic and aerobic exercise. These findings are supported by other research with rats. Two groups of rats were given different tasks: One group exercised on wheels like the mice who had gone before, and the others lifted weights.

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George Bennett Visits Student Senate WWU Vice President for Student Life and Mission George Bennett has been invited to student senate tonight, Thursday, April 18, at 9 p.m. in WEC 217. Bennett has been invited by the president of student senate and ASWWU Executive Vice President Jason Birkenstock along with the 26 senators to answer questions anonymously submitted by students from the 13 districts represented in the senate. Question topics range from alcohol use and housing to campus safety and student representation. The questions that have been selected and that will be posed to Mr. Bennett are listed here:

8. How do you respond to students who feel that they are not being listened to or taken seriously, particularly with the issue of the screening the film Seventh-Gay Adventists on campus?

1. Can a student get in trouble if they work in a place that serves alcohol?

11. Is there a conflict of interest for the head of Campus Security to be in the position of VP for student life and mission? Some would say that security enforces rules, while the VP for student life and mission is an advocate for students. How do you approach this possible conflict of interest?

2. Would it be possible for students to receive CommUnity credit by attending WWU varsity sports games? This would increase school unity and spirit and would ideally be available for both one men's and one women's sport game.

3. What do you view the primary objective/ mission for the VP for student life and mission being?

4. Do you think that the WWU drug and alcohol policy could be written in a way that would avoid prompting risky and dangerous underground drinking among students?

5. What will Campus Security do if there is an intruder on campus?

6. Why does WWU monitor intake of alcohol off campus/outside of school hours?

7. What's the status of the project that designates certain off-campus housing complexes as all female or all male? Do you see this as being a security issue? For example, do you believe that an all-female building would be more of a target for criminals?

9. Why are the campus walkways not appropriately lit for nighttime? And how can that be improved?

10. Why are signs to designate who is able to park in the various WWU parking lots not present? The parking lot by Kellogg Hall is often full, night and day. Who is supposed to be parking there?

12. When dealing with disciplinary issues, are students generally considered at fault for the action for which they are being questioned, or are students considered innocent until proven guilty? How do you differentiate rumors of bad behavior from concrete proof of bad behavior?

13. Campus Security has been known to take down license plates at student gatherings where illegal activity is suspected. Does this mean that the owner of the car is considered to be partaking in illegal activities, or is there another purpose for this?

Student senate welcomes this gesture of support for the student body and opportunity to expand communication with Mr. Bennett. Any student of WWU can attend student senate.

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Continued from page 22 After a six-week trial, both groups scored better on memory tests than before training; however, their physiology was different — as with the elderly ladies. The wheel runners3 had increased levels of brain-derived neurotropic factor, a protein which has been found to support neurons and help in the production of new brain cells. The lifters did not show more BDNF, yet did have higher levels of another protein: insulin-like growth factor. This protein encourages cell division and growth and has been thought to help newborn babies’ neurons survive.

Teresa Liu-Ambrose, an associate professor of the Brain Research Center at the UBC who

helped conduct the research with the older ladies, concludes (brilliantly) that it is advised to exercise both through endurance training like walking and running as well as resistance training such as weight lifting or tying weights to your belt and climbing ladders. If you can only do one, it will help your brain improve its cognitive abilities. However, if you do have the opportunity to play both sides of the fence (but not remain sitting on it), your brain — and your grades — might thank you.

1. Gretchen Reynolds, “Getting a Brain Boost Through Exercise,” NYTimes.com, April 10, 2013. My article’s research is based on Reynolds’ article.

2. Someone should have realized that title implies out-of-date findings. …

3. Not to be confused with another virtual study which ran rats through temples.

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Julian Weller The Heel Editor

Recently, I remembered a friend in high school telling me that she always avoided walking by construction sites because she didn’t like being whistled at. A few weeks later, I ended up convincing a guy friend not to whistle at a cute girl he’d spotted. At first he said it was “a compliment! I’m just telling her she looks good.” I’ve noticed other examples where ideas about the situation are divided along gender lines. An anti-gun friend recently considered a concealed-carry permit because she felt threatened by guys at supermarkets. Would a rejected guy follow her out of the store? This might sound exaggerated to you, but it’s not unusual.

Emily Heist Moss’s “A Letter to the Guy Who Harrassed Me Outside the Bar” is sadly a pretty typical account of what many women put up with routinely.1 Recently, a guy friend made a joking innuendo to girl friend, and only one of them seemed comfortable.

It was a joke, but I don’t think most guys realize how often girls get hit on or what it’s like having to constantly decide if you’re

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safe. Jokes get old. Stepping from the gendersegregated dormitory–caves in academy into the exact same thing at Walla Walla University, it’s easy to be unclear about how to approach people.

This week, I wandered around campus and asked people what they thought. Everyone has different specifics, and context matters a lot, but I hope this can spark some thought.

“I’d love to buy a medium-format camera, but unfortunately I have kids and a wife.” — Brent Bergherm “Dude, she’s like the female version of LeBron Jordan!”

— Blake Houser, on Milca Alvarez’s basketball skills

“I want to, like, take off my shirt and rub my body all over it.”

— Jon Anderson, on an armchair

“Generally the woman is the assistant and the man is in charge.”

— Richard Daley

“I think that instead of foot washing for communion, we should pick each other’s noses.

That’s more relevant to today — in any situation.”

— Pedrito Maynard-Reid

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a bad pickup line/flirt you’ve experienced?

1 What’s

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When is it not OK to be chatted up?

“Getting my butt grabbed.”

“With friends, or when I’m obviously preoccupied — meal times, in the caf. You don’t have time for a conversation.”

3

“Maybe the gym. Girls go to the weight room when they know guys will be there.”

4

“Whistling is creepy, but it might make you feel good deep down.”

1 2

“Guys have offered me sex, ‘if I wanted it.’”

3

“If you’re expecting to find a good guy you won’t go to a bar. And if you’re at a place like that you should expect to be hit on.”

4

“I feel like if the guy is serious about the girl, then he’s not going to be whistling at her.”

3 4

“I think it’s okay anywhere, because why not? I say props to guys, because it’s nervewracking!”

3 4

3 What is an OK place?

1

“In Europe, a guy on the bus kept talking to me and followed me partway home.”

2

“If it’s creeper status, nowhere.”

“If it’s casual and they kind of work into it, then everywhere. It just depends on how it’s done.”

“You have to show interest, but you can’t be super obvious or she’ll be put on the spot and say no.”

1

“One time, a girl moved my backpack, and she was there with it, and was like, “Oh, are you looking for this?”

2

“If you don’t really know them, then not somewhere you’d planned to meet them, like their car, or where they get out of practice.”

“Where other people are around, but not watching.”

“It should appear as random as it could. You don’t wanna seem like you know what they’re doing, if it’s initial.”

4 What is an acceptable way?

1

“Being asked in Spanish if I speak it, or have a boyfriend, or telling me I look really good.”

2

“I dress down to go to Walmart just to shop in peace.”

3

“If someone comes and sits next to you, like at the cafeteria, that’s fine. Short conversations are all right, but when they’re being aggressive ...”

4

“Personally I just hate getting hit on. I hate it. I just hate it. Haaate it! I’m just like, ‘If I’m interested I’ll come talk to you.’”

2 4

“It definitely depends on location and how it’s done.”

“You need to go and communicate, develop a relationship.”

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