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Dance Marathon surpasses goal, raises $57,103.02

FOR THE KIDS. Students participate in Luther’s second annual Dance Marathon in an effort to raise money for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital Miracle Network on Saturday, April 18.

Toby Ziemer / Photo Bureau DANNY MAY STAFF WRITER During the second annual Luther College Dance Marathon (LCDM), donors surpassed the goal of $47,555 by raising $57,103.02. The event took place on Saturday, April 18 in the Regents Center. The 12-hour, student-run event was held to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Students signed up for teams led by morale captains, who coordinated and led dances at

the beginning of each hour.

LCDM Morale Captain Emily Starman (‘18) enjoyed the enthusiasm of everyone who participated.

“Everyone that’s there wants to be there,” Starman said. “I think seeing people get into it and be passionate about it is the best part.”

First time dancer Nora Felt (‘17) thought the environment of LCDM fit well with Luther’s liberal arts mission.

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Students earn Davis Peace Project Award FRANCES STEVENSON STAFF WRITER Luther students Holly Harris (‘16) and Fatimetu Emhamed (‘16) have won a Davis Project Grant, a $10,000 annual grant to help communities around the world.

Harris and Emhamed’s project will focus on building restroom facilities for a school in Algeria.

“Fatimetu had this idea to improve her

school and the community she grew up in, which is a refugee camp in Algeria, to prompt a higher quality of learning at the school,” Harris said.

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Faculty, staff anticipate salary rate announcement ELIZABETH BONIN STAFF WRITER

PIE IN THE EYE. Vice President and Recruitment and Morale Co-chair Libby Logsden (‘15) throws a pie in the face of Dance Marathon President Clay Walker (‘15) after beating their fundraising goal of $47,555.

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Faculty and staff are waiting to hear from the administration if they will experience a pay freeze for the next academic year.

Faculty and staff receive percentage-based raises almost every year. These raises are traditionally announced in the spring.

If the college does not have a large enough budget to increase faculty and staff salary, the faculty and staff will not receive a raise.

According to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Kevin Kraus, the administration looks at the differences between this year’s budget and last year’s by adjusting the

income and expenses that they know will change and try to recalculate the difference.

“The administration builds the next year’s budget starting in the fall,” Kraus said. “They take an initial look at what those changes might be. They think about what should SALARY, PAGE 4

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Luther plans solar additions STEVE PETERSON STAFF WRITER Luther will expand its reliance on renewable energy resources with the installation of new solar panels in conjunction with the update to the roof of Preus Library this summer.

Luther’s Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) will partner again with Oneota Solar, LLC to install a 95-kilowatt array on the roof of the library, as well as 726 kW in the form of two ground-mounted arrays behind the existing solar field on Pole Line Road.

Although the solar panels were approved by the Board of Regents in February, the project has been in the works since December of 2014, according to Professor of Religion and coordinator of the Energy and Climate Program for the CSC Jim Martin-Schramm.

According to Martin-Schramm, a lot of effort has gone toward the planning of the new project and it has seen little opposition. The project received unanimous support from the City of Decorah’s Board of Adjustment and has recently been endorsed by Luther’s Land Use Committee and Sustainability Council.

The planned update to Preus Library’s roof provided an opportunity for construction of the new arrays. The CSC’s previous relationship with Oneota Solar, LLC also provided incentives to move the project forward.

“Oneota Solar is able to utilize various state and federal incentives that Luther can’t,” Martin-Schramm said. “As a result, this project does not require any capital investment by Luther right now, though Luther will likely purchase the system several years down the road—after it has been fully depreciated—for tax purposes.”

Construction of the new panel lineup will be contracted through Dragonfly Solar, who successfully commissioned the largest solar facility in Iowa this past February outside of St. Ansgar, Iowa. They have agreed to use local labor wherever possible, according to Martin-Schramm.

While projected to save Luther College more than $1 million over the 25-year warrantied life of the panels, the project will also benefit Luther’s utility provider Alliant Energy and the greater Decorah community.

“Since these panels will produce power at the peak time of day, it will reduce the amount of peak power Alliant Energy will have to purchase or produce, which will result in savings to rate-payers,” MartinSchramm said.

Annual production for both arrays is projected at around 1.1 million kilowatt-hours, according to Cargill Energy and Waste Fellow Jamie Stallman (‘14).

With the new project, the CSC projects that it will reduce Luther’s overall footprint by five to six percent.

According to Director of Facilities Services Jay Uthoff, construction on the project will begin this summer. The planning process is, however, well

underway.

“There is a lot of preliminary work that has to happen for both the roof-mounted solar and the larger, ground-mounted array,” Uthoff said. “We plan to begin this summer with both. Ideally, the arrays will be operational by this fall.”

Luther’s increasing reliance on renewable energy resources is a continual process, according to the CSC, and solar energy represents one facet of their overall goal.

“There are no immediate plans for additional solar energy,” Uthoff said. “We will, however, explore any opportunities as they arise.”

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International Student and Allies Association hosts Swazi cultural evening JACOB WAREHIME VOLUNTEER WRITER International Student and Allies Association (ISAA) hosted a cultural evening in Marty’s celebrating Swaziland and Swazi culture on Friday, April 17.

Both an informational event as well as a celebration of Swazi culture, the evening was filled with songs, dances, traditional games and stories.

However, the evening’s purpose wasn’t simply to celebrate Swazi culture. Swaziland was the country in focus, but the event also served as part of ISAA’s larger goal of connecting the many cultures represented at Luther, according to ISAA President Sylvester Mhlanga (‘15).

“We try to bridge the gap and create intercultural interactions,” Mhlanga said.

“We do that by helping other people learn about different cultures. And to do that, people from a certain culture have to educate the rest of the Luther community.”

Mhlanga is a native of Swaziland himself and felt particularly connected to

the importance of the event. As for why Swaziland was chosen as the country in focus, it was an easy decision, according to Mhlanga.

“There are quite a few people [on campus] from Swaziland, but not a lot of people know about Swaziland,” Mhlanga said.

“The purpose of this event is to let people know about a culture that they may not know much about, so Swaziland was a perfect country for that.”

This sentiment was on display when one of the presenters asked the audience the question: “Who here actually knows where Swaziland is?” The room filled with laughter as only a few students raised their

hands.

Other highlights of the event included an informational presentation of Swazi culture that discussed topics from national ceremonies and government, to the traditional Swazi dating customs.

The evening included a demonstration of a traditional dance usually performed by the women of Swaziland during the country’s w e e k l o n g Umhlanga or “Reed Dance” ceremony.

Tr a d i t i o n a l l y accompanied with reeds, the evening’s performers made do with straws instead. Their high kicking, foot stomping dance had the entire audience clapping. The men also performed a dance and a demonstration of

“We try to bridge the gap and create intercultural interactions. ... And to do that, people from a certain culture have to educate the rest of the Luther community.”

-Menzi Nkambule (‘18)

two traditional childhood games for which audience members were called on stage to participate. Although the event only lasted an hour, the evening continued—with many audience members coming up to the front of the stage to keep the new dances and games they had just learned going. “[The cultural evening] is a happy event,” Swaziland native Menzi Nkambule (‘18).

“These are the Swazi people. These are the games they play, these are the things they attend. It’s an integration of everyone into this small community where we can share everything with each other and share our diversity.”

Nkambule was one of the students who gave a presentation on Swazi culture and customs.

Abdul Hakam El Mitshu (‘18) participated in one of the Swazi games and reflected on his experience.

“After playing that game, it reminded me that there’s so many things in the world and in other cultures that I don’t know about,” Mitshu said. “It’s just a good thing to be reminded you don’t know that much and to learn new things.”

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Faculty examine inmate and animal oppression MATT HELM STAFF WRITER Professor of Art Richard Merritt and Assistant Professor of Religion Scott Hurley will give a lecture titled “Invisible Geographies: Violence and Oppression in the Prison Industrial Complex and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall.

According to Hawley, the origins of their collaboration were in a unique place.

“This all happened in the gym, where Richard and I started talking about the research we were working on,” Hurley said. “I started talking about non-human animal issues, and Richard started talking about prisons, and we started to see a common ground. Our collaboration started then.”

Hurley’s research is in the field of critical animal studies.

“A concentrated animal feed operation would be like a hog confinement center,” Hurley said. “There are upwards of five hundred hogs in small spaces in separate cages. We raise food animals so we can provide meat quickly and cheaply to the general public. Most market meats come from these kinds of facilities.”

Merritt views the treatment of inmates in prisons as similar to these farming operations.

“The private prison industry commodifies inmates,” Merritt said. “If you didn’t criminalize non-violent drug-related offenses, you wouldn’t be able to fill up private prisons and maintain their revenue structure based on prison labor and state fees.”

Merritt and Hurley hope to make visible the oppression going on in both of these areas.

“Prisons and concentrated animal facilities are built outside of cities and towns so they are not seen,” Hurley said. “We consider animal confinement repulsive and we consider people we consider criminal repulsive. There’s a tendency to keep that stuff out of sight.

We are analyzing the intersection that exists there.”

However, both professors want to remain sensitive when comparing animal feeding operations and prison systems.

“We aren’t saying that the suffering and exploitation in the prison system and the animal feeding operations are co-equivalent,” Hurley said, “but they are similar in the way in which they systematically commodify and disavow living bodies.”

Hurley and Merritt consider their research together to be transdisciplinary.

“Tremendous things happen when discipline boundaries become more porous,” Merritt said. “We are borrowing from disciplines from outside of our own fields and within them to talk about these things.”

Merritt hopes students walk away from the lecture with a better understanding of social problems and potential resolutions.

“I hope that students can critically engage with different forms of problematic social processes and find connections between seemingly disparate social problems,” Merritt said. “By uncovering these connections, we are deconstructing these places.

We are making invisible structures visible, and nothing can be accomplished until they are made visible.”

Students attend activism conference ERIKA STORVICK STAFF WRITER Activists from colleges and universities all over Iowa came together on April 18 and 19 to attend the Iowa Student Power Convergence at Grinnell College. Five Luther students attended the Convergence and discussed how to promote political activism on the college campus.

“Luther students aren’t using their voice,” Annie Zylstra (‘15) said. “We need to hone in on our work as a campus and radicalize our community.”

The Convergence was a two-day event focused on establishing a network of student activists across the state. According to Zylstra, this network of schools hopes to strengthen statewide student power and provide resources for students responding to important issues.

The Convergence was entirely student

run and consisted of workshops, panels and planning sessions along with several social events. According to Zylstra, the student-run nature of the convergence is something Luther should strive for in student government as well.

“A lot of the student non-action is because of this feeling of being parented and babysat by the institution,” Zylstra said.

“The fact that we can’t hang posters without going through the regulatory agencies is absurd to these other universities.”

Workshops ranged from “Student Homelessness” to “Stopping the Raid on Student Aid” and were divided according to themes of educational, racial, gender, environmental and economic justice.

Queer and transgender rights and immigrant rights were also discussed.

The convergence even featured a drag show on Saturday night,

with students from all the schools and Grinnell faculty in the audience.

“This conference was about organizing with other schools, and I think we need to be organized within Luther first” Claire Boeke (‘16) said. “The environment isn’t prime for activism.”

Boeke looks to the lack of gender neutral housing, lack of diversity, and the current RA system as evidence of the lack of activism on campus.

At some point, Zylstra would like to see a Convergence held at Luther to bring the energy of activism to campus.

“The narrative needs to change from ‘I love Luther, Luther is perfect’ to ‘I love Luther, I want to make it better,’” Boeke said.

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Life Outside Luther Boat carrying hundreds of immigrants capsizes off Libyan coast A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union to finally meet demands for decisive action. Survivor accounts of the number aboard varied, with the Italian Coast Guard saying that the capsized boat had a capacity for “hundreds” of people. Italian prosecutors said a survivor flown to Sicily for treatment told them 950 people were aboard, including hundreds who had been locked in the hold by smugglers. Earlier, authorities said a survivor told them 700 migrants were on board.

Researcher denied flight after tweet poking United security United Airlines stopped a prominent security researcher from boarding a California-bound flight late Saturday following a social media post by the researcher days earlier suggesting the airline’s onboard systems could be hacked.

The researcher, Chris Roberts, attempted to board a United flight from Colorado to San Francisco to speak at a major security conference there this week but was stopped by the airline’s corporate security at the gate. Roberts founded One World Labs, which tries to discover security risks before they are exploited.

Campaign against Yemen rebels enters new phase, Saudi says Saudi Arabia declared an end on Tuesday to its nearly month-long “Decisive Storm” air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, and announced the start of a more limited military campaign aimed at preventing the rebels from operating. Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri said the campaign of heavy airstrikes would be scaled down, but did not confirm whether they would stop altogether.

“There might be less frequency and the scope of the actions might be less, but there will be military action,” Asiri said.

He said the goals of the coalition’s new phase, called “Renewal of Hope,” are to prevent Houthi rebels from “targeting civilians or changing realities on the ground.”

Affleck asked PBS not to reveal slave-owning ancestry, according to WikiLeaks Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots” not reveal he had a slaveowning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program. PBS and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, the host of the show who traces the ancestry of well-known guests, said in separate statements that they didn’t censor the slave-owner details. Instead, more interesting ancestors of the actor emerged and Gates chose to highlight them in October’s segment featuring Affleck.

“For any guest, we always find far more stories about ancestors on their family trees than we ever possibly could use,” Gates said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press.

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Luther hosts second Dance Marathon DANCE MARATHON, PAGE 1 “I wasn’t really sure what to expect,” Felt said.

“It’s a lot of fun; there’s a lot of good energy and inspiring stories. I think there’s a really strong sense of community at Luther, and the interaction between academics and social responsibility is really strong.”

Luther College hosted its first DM in April 2014. For this year’s event, more Miracle Families, families who receive the money raised by LCDM, were present. Dance Marathon President Clay Walker (‘15) thinks the changes allow LCDM to focus more on what matters—the patients at the University

of Iowa Children’s Hospital Miracle Network.

“This year, our focus has been a lot less on educating people about Dance Marathon,” Walker said. “Instead, we can invest time in making the event better—keeping people excited all year round and really expanding the reach.”

The LCDM Executive Board is in charge of organizing the event. Dance Marathon Vice President and Recruitment and Morale Cochair Libby Logsden (‘15) explained LCDM’s success.

“I think the atmosphere of Luther really cultivates this sort of activity,” Logsden said.

“I think it’s really cool that we can pull people

from music and sports and everything in between and unite everyone together for this cause.”

LCDM Recruitment and Morale Co-chair Sam Weinberg (‘15) explained that the Big Event, the 12-hour dance party, is only one part of the entire LCDM organization.

“The Big Event is a celebration of all of the work that we do for the kids,” Weinberg said.

“It’s a continuous event.”

LCDM’s Big Event included an hourly dress-up theme and a bounce house, as well as performances by student groups like male a cappella group Bromatic Progression and Luther College Ballroom/Swing.

According to Weinberg, LCDM is different than Dance Marathon at other schools because of the percentage of students who participate in the event. For LCDM, approximately 20 percent of the students on campus participated.

Walker speculated that LCDM is popular because participants are able to interact with families affected by the fundraising.

“Our [Dance Marathon] is known to be more personable in regard to the families,” Walker said. “We do a lot of things based on what the children want. Not very many Dance Marathons ask the kids what they want— they’re more catered to the students of the college.”

Harris, Emhamed win project grant AWARD, PAGE 1 during the school day.

“In that school they don’t have bathrooms,” Emhamed said. “I used to study in that school. I used to live nearby the school so I never had any issues, but a lot of people come from really far away because they like to study in the school.”

The rest of the grant money will be going to providing new tables, chairs and supplies for other projects,

according to Harris. “[The money will] also purchase materials to build an art classroom and then using some of the funds to buy things you need in a classroom,” Harris said. “Then we are also hiring a local artist to paint murals around the school and help teach art to the kids.”

During the summer of 2015, Emhamed will travel back to her hometown in Algeria to oversee the construction of the new restrooms

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and art room. However, Harris will not travel with her due to travel restrictions. Despite this, she will get to give much of her time and efforts to the project.

“There is a lot of preliminary work to be done so when Fatimetu gets there, everything can just happen smoothly,” Harris said.

Emhamed’s love of her community was the basis of their project proposal, according to Harris. Emhamed’s connection to the community allows her to know what the community needs.

“I always wanted to do something good for my community,” Emhamed said. “I always wanted to change things for my people. Even outside of the project I am going to teach English for free. I think it’s my responsibility to help my country. I wanted to give back as much as I could.”

Helping her community is enormously important to Emhamed and the driving point for her grant proposal. Her personal connection is the reason her project is so exciting to her and the people helping her implement it, according to Harris.

Traveling from Algeria to the United States is often difficult,

HELPING OTHERS. Holly Harris (‘16) and Fatimetu Emhamed (‘16) won a Davis Project Grant to help a school in Algeria.

Photo courtesy of luther.edu according to Emhamed. This is partially because of her gender and age, and partially because the government of Algeria lacks the support young travelers need to travel to different countries. It is especially difficult to travel to highly developed countries like the United States, where immigration laws are complicated.

“I have trouble when I’m traveling because there is no support from the government,” Emhamed said. “I face a lot of issues. The government is not

my people. I want to help my people.”

Harris and Emhamed encourage Luther students to find a peace project that might need funding and write a proposal for grant money next year.

“If you have an idea, talk about it with other people, whether it be professors or friends,” Harris said.

“Get input to make your idea very strong, very successful. It’s a really competitive application, so all the time and energy is worth it to have your project approved.”

Faculty and staff raises in question SALARY, PAGE 1 the tuition be, should there be a change in tuition and if so, how much difference should it be.”

Tuition affects financial aid, which also affects the faculty and staff raises.

“If there’s a big increase in financial aid, that battles against income because we’re giving tuition dollars back to students as financial aid,” Kraus said. “We’re trying to find the right balance of tuition increase and financial aid increase so that we get the maximum net tuition revenue. The better we can do there, the more money there will be to pay salaries.”

Student enrollment is the largest factor in revenue.

The administration will not know next year’s student numbers until May. “A lot of our budget concerns rest heavily on the number of incoming students every year,” Professor of Africana Studies and English Novian Whitsitt said.

“We can’t make some of these decisions until we know how many students will be coming the following year. We are a tuition-dependent institution, so that means sometimes you just have to be patient and wait for these figures and the enrollment to be more predictable.”

According to Whitsitt, a pay freeze will only occur if it is necessary for the college.

“If it happens that means it was necessary, but I will say that amongst the faculty you will find conversation going on,” Whitsitt said. “There are discussions going on and concern by some faculty about the institution; how it allocates money, maybe making some decisions that are not in line with the college’s own values and that there are ways that perhaps we as a college can invest more in the development of our academic offerings, programs and support the growth of curricular opportunities. Sometimes it would mean going over the budget item by item and very carefully thinking about how we do allocate our funds.”

Faculty and staff in general would respect any decision by administration regarding salaries, according to Whitsitt.

“There are a number of strategies that have been implemented,” Whitsitt said. “From increasing the number of national recruiters concentrating on new potential regions to find students, to making use of student visit days in creative ways, I get the sense that the administration is doing a number of things to improve our numbers. By all standards at the moment, we look to be in fairly good shape.”

Kraus reported that Luther currently has a few more than 400 incoming first-year students. Administration is aiming for approximately 600 first-years.

“We're hopeful, but we just don’t know,” Kraus said.

“The next couple months will really tell us a lot.”

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COASTAL CONVERGENCE. Luther-based indie rock/psychedelic rock duo Coastal Cabins, comprised of Jack Ross (‘17) and Robert Marston (‘17), and a supporting band played a packed show at T-Bock’s Bar and Grill on Saturday, April 17 as part of the Water Street Music Series.

Photo courtesy of Coastal Cabins

Coastal Cabins rocks Water Street EMMA DEIHL STAFF WRITER Jack Ross (‘17) and Robert Marston (‘17) of Coastal Cabins represented Luther College in their musical performance on Saturday, April 17 as part of the Water Street Music Series. The band featured a handful of other student musicians and featured Jill Hess (‘15) as a visual artist throughout the show.

The band played two different sets on Saturday night. The first consisted of acoustic music, played by Marston and Ross, with songs mainly found on their debut EP. The second set introduced newer music and featured other Luther musicians including Tyler DesRochers (‘17) on synthesizer, Leif Larson (‘15) on drums, Peter Jarzyna (‘15) on bass guitar, Paul Ross (‘17) on cello and Avery Mossman (‘17) on saxophone.

“I think it’s a really unique opportunity to be at a place where you have so many

talented, creative, aspiring artists,” DesRochers said. “But I think it’s even more unique that these aspiring artists are willing to collaborate and work together, especially in a world of music where there’s such a cutthroat mentality. Everyone wants to make it, but I think we’re all after the same idea, and that’s making music.”

Ross and Marston attended high school together in Plymouth, Minnesota, where they also worked at the same grocery store. They quickly discovered they shared similar interests and both wrote their own music, so they decided to collaborate.

“Being friends prior to writing, we made peace with the fact that there would be disagreements here and there,” Marston said. “A part of working closely with somebody is not being afraid to share an idea that you are unsure of. We’ve stopped filtering our ideas before sharing them and started giving them a collaborative

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COLLABORATIVE ART. Coastal Cabins was joined at their Water Street Music Series performance by other student musicians and a visual artist.

Emma Deihl / Chips chance before deciding whether it would be of value to the sound or not.”

According to Ross, they wrote sporadically throughout their first year at Luther and finally decided to record an EP, which they released in August 2014.

“This year, we really decided we wanted to create something concrete,” Ross said.

Coastal Cabins first wrote indie folk and folk rock music, but they have recently experimented with other genres.

“After recording our EP, we were kind of burnt out of indie folk and folk rock,” Ross said.

“We just felt like we couldn’t do

anything new with it because it had already been done, so, we made a stylistic shift toward more of an indie rock/ psychedelic rock feel.”

According to Marston, Coastal Cabins is just “getting [its] feet wet,” but they hope to continue to make music together and see where it leads them.

“We’ll take it one gig at a time and keep doing what we can to write the best music and put on the best performances we are able to,” Martson said.

Coastal Cabins is currently working on their debut album and plan to release it in July 2015.

Coastal Cabins recently released a video for their single “Driftless,” featuring Eva Gemlo (‘16) and Peter Jarzyna (‘15). Scan this QR code with your smartphone to watch the video.

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Misseldine reports from NCUR

A DAY DEDICATED TO RESEARCH. Sara Maronde (‘15) , Michona Johns (‘15) and John Doorenbos (‘16) discuss which presentations to attend. Kasi Misseldine / Chips KASI MISSELDINE STAFF WRITER A group of Luther students embarked on a journey to Spokane, Washington, on Wednesday, April 15, to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) where we presented on topics ranging from “The Fate of Joy: The Solitary Survivor of the Romanov Family Massacre” to “The Impact

of N-6-methyladenosine on Target RNA Regulation by miRNA-RISC.” This opportunity provided many of us with a sense of validation for the quality of education we are receiving at Luther and proved that the type of research we are doing is important to others.

Our group was made up of 13 students: Michona Johns (‘15), John Doorenbos (‘16), Maja Proescholdt (‘15), Maggie Steinberg (‘15), Jenna Johnson (‘16), Laura Boran (‘16), Sara Maronde (‘15), Meg McClure (‘15), Tim Bumpus (‘15), Matt Holcomb (‘15), Rob

Manges (‘16), Laura Post (‘16) and myself.

Assistant Professor of French Anne-Marine Feat was our faculty chaperone.

After spending Thursday and Friday at the conference presenting our own research, supporting our peers who were presenting and listening to student presenters from other colleges and universities, many of us were reminded of the high academic standards held

by Luther College.

Proescholdt was particularly surprised by the lack of preparation evident in some of the presentations she attended.

“I think being prepared is one of the most important things,” Proescholdt said. “I went to some presentations where it was clear that the presenters hadn’t practiced at all. It’s important to prepare what you’re going to say and tie your research to an argument.”

Proescholdt praised Luther’s ability to prepare students for this type of conference.

“Everyone who’s presented from Luther has done a really good job,” Proescholdt said. “It shows that Luther sent on really good abstracts and presenters.”

Feat explained that she designs most of her classes to have some type of presentation component. Even if it’s just informal discussions in small groups, she believes that these types of activities help students with later formal presentations, such as those at NCUR. Luther’s preparation paid dividends for the presenters at the conference. For example, Doorenbos and Steinberg both received

validating reception after their presentations.

Doorenbos, who presented his research on “Preliminary Analysis of a Large, Web-Enabled, Data Set for Computing Education,” was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the other students presenting in his session had used Doorenbos’ research.

“Some guy did his research using the database that was a result of my research,” Doorenbos said. “That was one of the more powerful things about the conference. It showed that the research I did was not just an isolated project, but it can be used as building blocks for more research.”

Steinberg was also happy with the reception of her presentation, “The Politics of Saving Muslim Women: Rethinking Native-Informant Narratives on Islam and Misogyny.”

McClure was pleased with the opportunity Steinberg’s presentation gave her to discuss new topics.

“After Maggie’s presentation, a bunch of us kept talking on and off for a few hours about Islamophobia, a subject I wouldn’t normally engage in,” McClure said.

In addition to the academia of the conference, the trip gave us the opportunity to spend our afternoons exploring Spokane’s beautiful Riverview Park and take a day trip to the beach in Sand Point, Idaho.

For anyone interested in learning more about our research, all 13 of us will be presenting at Luther’s Student Research Symposium on Friday, May 8.

Rec Services battles low participation

BALANCING ACT. Simon McCullough (‘17) enjoys some outdoor slacklining.

Sarah Owens / Chips SARAH OWENS STAFF WRITER With Happiness Week recently concluded and spring weather

on the horizon, the leaders of the fitness classes, Outdoor Rec and the Intramural and club teams hope the high energy will translate into high levels of participation for the rest of the school year, after low

participation last semester.

According to Coordinator of Recreational Services Vicky Jaeger, reaching out to students hasn’t always been as simple as sending off mail to their inboxes.

“Our numbers are down quite a bit this year,” Jaeger said. “Part of [the problem] is that we didn’t get access to campus-wide emails until second semester. Eventually we got permission to send it out once a week. Otherwise, people don’t know about what’s going on.”

The warm weather is encouraging more students to get outside and be active.

“Every time I ride my bike through campus I see people outside doing things more and more,” Intramural volleyball player Connor Mattison (‘15) said. “I think the timing helps a lot. If we had a cold snap it would be a little harder to keep up that happy mentality. It correlates well because people are encouraged to do

something outside or do something different than they normally do.”

From slacklining to volleyball, Rec Services has a wealth of resources to satisfy a student’s itch to get outdoors.

Another option is a self-led camping trip. All rentals are free and range from items such as utensils to tents. For those who would welcome a bit more guidance, the Outdoor Rec leaders also plan camping trips.

The next venture will be over the weekend of May 1 at Yellow River State Forest.

“Yellow River is my favorite place to camp,” Outdoor Rec Leader Annie Schlaefer (‘15) said. “It’s kind of far away, but worth it—it is so beautiful.”

All students at Luther receive weekly emails informing them of upcoming Rec Services activities.

“Rec Services has a great amount of opportunities to do each week,” Rec Sports Referee Sarah Matthiesen (‘15) said. “Yes, your grades are important, but enjoying the

company of others can be even more important.”

Despite this easy access to the happenings of Rec Services, students often put outdoor activities on the backburner.

“I feel like it’s tough on us,” Schlaefer (‘15) said. “Technology is becoming more interesting than the natural world. You always have this option to be entertained by a screen rather than just looking around and seeing the world.”

The leaders within Rec Services hope to revive this interest in getting outdoors and enjoying nature.

According to Schlaefer, sometimes all it takes is showing students a little piece of Decorah that they haven’t learned about.

“Freshmen will come in wondering if there’s anything cool around here, and I show them some caves,” Schlaefer said. “It’s awesome seeing how excited people get about being outside.”

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FEATURES EDITOR: ABBY CARPENTER

APRIL 23, 2015

THE BIKER GANG. (From left) Jon Williams (‘15), Kai Ashland (‘14) and Ben Harney (‘15) pose with their bikes on campus. The trio is preparing for a 5,000-mile trip to Ushuaia, Argentina, which they plan to begin on September 9, 2015.

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To the End of the Earth SAMANTHA PHILLIPS STAFF WRITER While most members of the class of 2015 will prepare for graduate school or the beginning of their professional careers, Kai Ashland (‘14), Ben Harney (‘15) and Jon Williams (‘15) have decided to take a journey to the end of the Earth following graduation. Beginning on September 9, 2015, the men will spend 5.5 months traveling south from the U.S./Mexico border to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the tip of South America. Their trip will span 5,000 miles, two continents and 15 countries—all on bicycle.

“We realized that this was kind of a cool opportunity that might turn some heads and gain some attention,” Harney said.

To ensure that they’re making an impact beyond their own travels, Ashland, Harney and Williams will partner with Habitat for Humanity. Of their $20,000 fundraising goal, 60 percent will go directly to the service organization, while the remaining 40 percent will go towards the cost of traveling, gear and supplies along the way. Ashland’s previous experience and commitment to the organization helped them form a strong foundation for the partnership.

“People keep asking if we’re doing builds on the way down,” Harney said. “Our personalities fit the approachit-as-you-find-it method. If we find someone who clearly needs help and we have the opportunity to stay for a day, then yeah, we’ll take it.”

Their planning process for the journey takes on a similar improvisational feel.

“Sometimes you just have to talk to locals along the way,” Harney said. “You get a feel for the kind of route that you want. You can try to plan, but at the end of the day, you just have to roll with it.”

In addition to these spontaneous service days, they plan to spend a week volunteering in Guatemala.

“We’re approaching this as a backpacking trip on wheels,” Williams said. “We all have experience in that setting.”

Certified as a Wilderness EMT, Williams will provide medical support for the group. He also has serious outdoor experience having served as a whitewater rafting guide in

Colorado, studied abroad through an outdoor leadership school in India and has spent a total of 15-20 weeks in the backcountry.

“I’ve practiced these skills of moving through villages, getting provisions, doing the camping in a courtyard type of thing,” Williams said.

Harney accompanied Williams on a backpacking trip in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Colorado and brings his Management major background to the trip’s fundraising.

Williams and Harney agreed that Ashland should accompany them on the trip because of his unique mindset.

“We all approach things a little differently,” Williams said, “and I think that we need Kai’s perspective on things.”

Ashland understands the importance of flexibility during adventures such as this one.

“We have a really rough map planned out, literally on Microsoft Paint,” said Ashland. “We’re purposely leaving it up in the air because there are a lot of things that we won’t know until we get there.”

That being said, the group hopes to have entry and exit dates set in stone for each country, as well as locations to do border crossings.

Though they don’t necessarily worry about problems such as drug cartels, the trio does have some preoccupations.

“I’m a lot more concerned with traffic or getting some sort of illness in a remote setting that we have to deal with, due to our limited supplies,” Williams said. “Those are realistically the things that will set our trip back.”

Harney agreed with Williams and added that the group was also worried about safety.

“I think that’s good, though, because it keeps you focused,” Harney said. “We’re not looking to put ourselves in harm’s way, ever. Minimizing risk is super important— making sure we’re not anywhere we shouldn’t be, or places where locals aren’t. Between the three of us and our experience with traveling, we should be more than fine.”

Ashland looks forward to the new experiences the trip will provide.

“We’re going to discover a ton of really amazing things we never expected to,” Ashland said. “There are an infinite number of things we’re going to see and experience. I

think that’s what it is—the unknown that’s down there.”

Williams looks forward to the excitement he will get out of learning about other cultures.

“The historical context for me is really fascinating, so I’m going to be trying to pick up on that as much as I can,” Williams said. “I’m also really excited to get closer to these two—to wake up every day and chat about the weather idly with them, as it’s raining and we’re struggling onto our bikes.”

Harney described the adventure as a pivotal component of his future.

“This trip is kind of a defining life moment,” Harney said.

“I’m definitely picking something I’m passionate about and acting upon it, rather than just dreaming about it and wondering ‘what if?,’ and I think that will set up the way I make future decisions.”

Williams agreed that this trip has changed the future he once planned for himself.

“We’re all kind of wondering how this will affect us in the future,” Williams said. “I definitely had my life mapped out before this trip—at least a little bit. It will be interesting to see just how much that map changes.”

Ashland, Harney and Williams are planning a community send-off in Decorah before their departure in September.

They will invite friends and family to check out their gear, bike the Trout Run Trail with them and enjoy a cookout afterwards.

To visit To The End of the Earth’s facebook page, scan this QR code with your smartphone.

To donate to Ashland, Harney and Williams’ cause, scan this QR code with your smartphone.

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A&E EDITOR: DYLAN HINTON

SPIN presents “The Glass Menagerie” COLIN ROBINSON STAFF WRITER The student-led SPIN Theatre Company will perform Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” on April 23 and 24 in Storre Theatre. Meghan Gaffney (‘18) is directing the play.

Set in the 1930s, “The Glass Menagerie” is set entirely within a fictional family’s memory and incorporates only the four characters.

“The hardest part was figuring out what we wanted to say with it,” Gaffney said. “It is a serious piece of literature. It’s Tennessee Williams, but we wanted it to be applicable to college students.”

According to Travis Niertert (‘15), “The Glass Menagerie” posed several significant challenges. This play is Nietert’s first performance with SPIN. According to Nietert, his friends convinced him to audition, and he found himself in the lead role of this mature piece.

“It is a lot of work, it’s a lot of text and getting the accent down is a lot of work,” actor Nietert said.

As a student-run organization, SPIN relies on high levels of student collaboration and communication in order to maintain a steady practice schedule. According to Gaffney, organizing rehearsals can become difficult as the performance draws closer and the school year wraps up.

“Let’s just say last night I forgot to eat dinner,” Gaffney said. “But it’s really all about prioritizing.”

SPIN Theatre is mainly a voluntary

BRINGING TENESSEE WILLIAMS TO LIFE. SPIN Theatre Company will present “The Glass Menagerie” on Friday, April 24 and Satuday, April 25 with a cast of four students.

Colin Robinson / Chips commitment to the arts. Many of the students involved sign up simply for love of theater.

“I think there is something to be said about this short process,” Kajsa Jones (‘16) said. “It’s very student-oriented, and there is a lot less guidance than you would get in a faculty-guided show.”

According to Artistic Director for SPIN Tim Komatsu (‘15), one of the most

challenging aspects of performing with the troupe is balancing the responsibility of being a student and a performer.

“They stay pretty busy,” Komatsu said.

“It takes a lot to do a show and also be in classes.”

“The Glass Menagerie” will be performed in Storre Theatre on Friday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 25 at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 and sold at the door. The play is 90 minutes with no intermission.

KWLC Concert Review:

An Evening with Nick Jonas LUKE STENNES SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR Nick Jonas’ eponymous solo debut was a better-than-average alternative-pop record riding on the strength of its two excellent singles, “Jealous” and “Chains.”

Following the release of that record back in November, Jonas has worked to establish more of an R&B feel to his sound. He has released remixes of “Jealous” and “Chains” featuring R&B artists Tinashe and Jhené Aiko, respectively. In recent concerts he has performed covers of songs like Aiko’s “The Worst,” Frank Ocean’s “Novacane” and Kanye West’s “Only One,” and

as a result Jonas has established himself as an important figure in the constantly evolving genre of R&B. This musical evolution was showcased Monday night when he took the stage for the SAC Concerts spring event and absolutely killed his performance.

Jonas began with “Chains,” which started things off emphatically. His voice sounded great and the entire package of the show (lights, mixing, dancers and live drummer) effectively accentuated Jonas’ stage persona right away. He moved on from the lead single and played pretty much exclusively from his new record, with highlights “Numb” and “Teacher.” It was during his performance of “Teacher” that it became clear not just how much

he has evolved musically, but sexually as well. I don’t know whether it was the “ooos” and “ahhs” from the high school girls behind me, the panties thrown on stage or the girl who kept screaming “Take your shirt off !” but it was obvious that this was not the same purity-ringand-Disney-Channel Nick Jonas from a few years ago. His status as a sex symbol, his excellent musical performance and natural charisma when addressing the crowd all combined to create a captivating event.

Jonas also strayed from his debut solo album to play some notable covers. He played a short snippet of Rihanna’s recent “B**ch Betta Have My Money” and covered “Roses” by Outkast in his own style. These served as evidence of his R&B influence, and the crowd loved it. Jonas closed with a two-song set: a

cover of “SOS,” a popular song he wrote while with the Jonas Brothers, and “Jealous,” the biggest hit off his solo album.

This closing set was absolutely crucial. It demonstrated his ability to acknowledge his past with a remixed version of one of the JoBro’s greatest hits and look toward the future with a knockout performance of what is currently his most popular song.

Personally, I felt this was the best concert I have seen

in my four years at Luther.

Despite a static crowd that did not do anything to fulfill my dancing needs, the energy in the place was high. The backup dancers and musicians were a fun addition. The lighting and sound were spot on. Nick Jonas’ every move oozed sex, and he proved how natural and talented a performer he was.

He also proved that you don’t necessarily have to be reviewed by trendy music blogs in order to play a damn good show.

For the best in new independent music, tune in to KWLC Radio Monday through Friday from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. KWLC can be found at 1240AM on the radio dial or online at kwlc.luther.edu

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MANAGING EDITOR: SARAH KING

APRIL 23, 2015

Clinton marks small step for feminism LUANNA GERDEMANN COLUMNIST For some of us, the 2016 presidential election has been a long time coming.

But for those same people, it’s arriving with a twist: Hillary Clinton is officially a Democratic candidate. Now, I’m just going to come right out and say it: I’m very excited about this. Already some of you have probably stopped reading, shutting out my “femi-nazi” views. But try to take off your “meninist” t-shirt for the few minutes it will take you to read this article and hear me out.

While some of you may have your misgivings about Hillary’s candidacy, take a step back and look at the bigger picture: a woman is running for a presidential election. Our country needs more powerful women. Yes, we have and have had powerful women in our government such as Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice and Madeline Albright. Overall, however, the U.S. government is still a boy’s club.

If Hillary Clinton wins this presidential election, it will be a milestone for women across the board, but I have a feeling that her term would still remain largely a work-in-progress for feminism. No matter how many bills Hillary passes, she will always be seen as a woman before being seen as the president. Reporters will always ask what designer she’s wearing before asking about her immigration policy.

To put this in perspective, think of your professors here at Luther. Even in academia, female professors are still seen as females before being seen as professors. The expectations for the way our female professors should dress are an example of this. Female professors are expected to dress modestly and professionally in order to be taken seriously by their students. If one of your female professors walked in wearing something that a girl would wear to Roscoe’s, all respect would go out the window for that female professor. But then if you take a look in the classroom next door and see a male

professor wearing shorts, no one has an objection. Women practically have to cover up their womanhood in order to be taken seriously by society.

How often do we label a female professor’s loud and boisterous lecture as “crazy” when that same loud and boisterous lecture done by a male professor is seen as “passionate?” Any time a woman raises her voice and demonstrates emotion she comes across as “hysterical.”

As a student seeing these workplace gender inequalities firsthand in college as well as back in high school, I can see how the same things could happen in government. While I do support Hillary’s candidacy, I fear that she will experience these same things: always having to be careful of how she dresses, controlling the way she speaks and battling gender inequalities throughout her race for the presidency.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy will not only be a race for her presidency, but ultimately a race toward gender equality.

In response to Greek activity regulations Letter to the Editor After reading last week’s article on Luther’s Greek organizations – including one member’s comment that “certain people can’t dress up on certain days because some professors don’t like that, which is fine with us” – I was reminded of an incident a (nonGreek) Luther student told me about a while back.

That day in a marketing class, the CEO of a major corporation was scheduled to visit; it had been on the syllabus for weeks, and many of the students in class had put on professional dress in order to present the college’s, and their own, best face to the visitor. Imagine everyone’s surprise when the door opened and in walked a pledge dressed – in the student’s words – “like a [expletive deleted] clown.” The CEO’s eyes widened. All the other students in their dresses and blazers shrank down in their seats a little. “And this man was left wondering,” the student fumed to me, “exactly what kind of professionals we are educating here at Luther College.”

I appreciate the Greek organizations’ willingness to consider this fact: professors’ objections to “dressing up” aren’t cranky whims but are part of our desire to create a classroom space where everyone is focused on learning. College is a place to have fun, sure, but is first of all a place to develop your sense of yourself as a future professional, in your classmates’ and teachers’ eyes as well as your own.

Amy Weldon Associate Professor of English

Discovering new symptoms of senioritis SARAH KING MANAGING EDITOR Whenever someone says the word “senioritis,” most people think of laziness and a lack of motivation. They laugh, slap their knees and jollily say something along the lines of, “Oh, those seniors. They’ve totally checked out, you know.” While I most definitely find the sunshine and warmer weather far more compelling than taking notes under fluorescent lights, and I have probably worn more yoga pants and sweatshirts than ever before, I have discovered another side to the “disease,” the darker and more depressing part of realizing the end of something is nigh.

Last week was the second annual Happiness Week, a weeklong event sponsored by Student Senate that, ironically enough, found me more unhappy than I have been in a long time. The bubbles blown in front of the Union and the Katy Perry songs blasted across library lawn

did not relieve me of stress or make me smile.

In fact, they made me more irritable.

Now, I have to say that it is not Student Senate’s fault I was so crabby. Like so many other students, I felt the weight and stress of my courses bearing upon me. My senior paper was impending (and still is, I might add), I had two tests and it was a somewhat stressful week at work. However, I also found myself facing something I had been doing remarkably well at so far into my semester – shutting out a different side of senioritis.

The other side of senioritis includes, but is not limited to: feeling like you will never see your friends again after commencement; trying to find out what to do with the rest of your life after you graduate and feeling like a loser for not knowing what that will be just yet, especially when a different peer seems to announce their awesome new job or graduate school enrollment or volunteer program acceptance every other day; wondering when your dreams died; wondering if you ever really

had a dream; and facing the reality of moving back home with your parents.

Happiness Week was created to combat feelings like this, but that’s what’s so ironic – while Student Senate was recognizing the feelings of pressure so many students feel at this time of the year, going even so far as to create an entire week dedicated to improving the emotional health of students across campus, all I felt when I saw and heard those events was even more irritated.

Like a petulant child, I mocked the events and, perhaps subconsciously, thought that clearly the people running and participating in these events don’t have any real problems or real work to do. They don’t understand what stress is really like, or else they wouldn’t be wasting their time with such frivolity. They would be furrowing their brow, hunching their shoulders and rushing off to their tenth meeting of the day, like me, right?

It took me getting mad at people I love for no reason and a good long cry session,

but I finally realized that I was infected with senioritis of a different kind, the kind that is not implied when people say they are “Totally feeling the senioritis today, man.” I felt doubt – of myself and of my future, which is natural.

As with all change, there will be some level of uncertainty.

In an effort to make the most of my last semester at Luther, I had been suppressing all of the feelings of self-doubt and fear., which only led to them building up throughout the semester till I exploded.

Although Happiness Week did not help me overcome this, it did help me realize this.

Understanding this and having talked about it with loved ones helped me to realize that it is easy to become dramatic and fatalistic as you see the end of a chapter close, particularly if you don’t know what you will do once it has ended. But this is not the end of the world; life will go on. We will figure things out and find happiness, even if it is not during the week designated to celebrating it.

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Editorial 2015 is proving to be a decisive year for music listeners and producers across the digital soundscape.

In late March, Shawn “Jay Z” Carter launched Tidal, a premium streaming service, to compete with advertising-based “freemium” libraries such as Spotify, Pandora and Rhapsody. For roughly $20 a month, Tidal subscribers can enjoy “high-fidelity audio and exclusive content,” as reported by the New York Times.

In a March interview covered by the New York Times, Jay Z cited his primary goal in launching Tidal as shifting the popularity of music streaming to “a platform that’s owned by artists.” Supported by artists such as Alicia Keys, Arcade Fire, Beyoncé, Jack White and Kanye West – several names among a genrespanning collective cheekily dubbed “The Avengers of Music” by fellow contributors Daft Punk – Tidal allows artists the “dominant means of distribution” they have lacked from Spotify et al. according to Forbes.

“We are treating these people that really care about the music with the utmost respect,” Jay Z said in preparation for the March 30 launch, according to the New York Times. “The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.”

Despite its claim to revolutionize the music industry by offering higher royalties and higher sound quality than Spotify, Tidal is already receiving critical backlash from artists with comparable popularity such as Mumford & Sons, Lily Allen and Death Cab

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“These artists are obviously making plenty ... I think it’s a joke, honestly.”

Emma Cassabaum (‘16)

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for Cutie. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Mumford & Sons responded to the mention of Tidal with an immediate “chorus of fart sounds,” according to contributor Marlow Stern. The band sees Jay Z’s streaming “revolution” as little more than a commercial gimmick and a chance for established artists to keep their work exclusive.

“We don’t want to be tribal,” frontman Marcus Mumford said. “A band of our size shouldn’t be complaining [about royalties]. And when they say it’s artist-owned, it’s owned by those rich, wealthy artists.”

Despite minimal financial compensation, “freemium” streaming services such as Spotify et al. give smaller bands publicity they could not have afforded before the Internet, according to Mumford. “[Streaming has] democraticized the music industry,” Mumford told the Daily Beast. “So as much as it sucks, and they need to figure out how to represent people fairly financially, you’ve never been able to get your music listened to more easily.”

While deciding whether or not to stream music – preceding the decision to pay for it – may not be the heftiest ethical dilemma Luther students face every day, this debate provokes questions of consumer responsibility and the value of creative work. As the preeminence of streaming and free-to-cheap digital service is undoubtedly going to continue, we at Chips encourage consumers of any online media to take some time, do the research and decide how they plan to support the creative professionals they want to see succeed.

What do you think of paying for music streaming services?

“The problem is that [streaming services] don’t pay very much per play.

It disproportionately favors the big artists ... and hurts the artists who are struggling.”

Kirby Olson (‘17)

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SPORTS EDITOR: JULIA JOSEPH

Golf prepares for Conference MARGARET YAPP STAFF WRITER For Luther women’s and men’s golf teams, the spring season is in full swing. Both teams kicked off their spring competition with Spring Break trips to California and Florida, respectively.

“We had a blast [in California],” women’s captain Maddie Bouslog (‘17) said. “We had three days of actual tournament play and then had two free days ... That was our kickoff to spring season and since then we’ve been practicing pretty much daily.”

During their training trip, the women competed at the California Lutheran Regals Invitational and placed 11th out of 12 teams. On April 11-12, they lost to Wartburg in a dual competition.

“Wartburg is one of the top teams in the country, so it is always good to go against really good golfers,” Head

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Norse of the Week JULIA JOSEPH SPORTS EDITOR Isaac Jensen (‘17) placed second in the 5K at the Augustana Meet of Champions on Saturday, April 18. Jensen and teammate Erik Duethman (‘18) earned the men’s team a combined 25 points with their 5K finishes.

Chips:What was your plan going into the 5K on Saturday?

Jensen: To dial in on my own pace for the first two miles, and by doing that put myself in a good position to compete over the final mile. I was hoping that there would be a group of people who were going that pace that could help push me along, but it ended up that I was on my own pretty much from the start, which is less than ideal on a windy day. At that point, you really just have to focus on maintaining your effort.

How long have you been running competitively?

I ran my first road race when I was in fourth grade, but I started running competitively in seventh grade.

What’s your favorite race and why?

I really enjoy the 3000m and the 5k because they require the patience and endurance of longer racing combined with the toughness and speed of middle distance. It’s kind of the sweet spot right

Women’s Golf Coach Eric Karius said.

The women will have their first and only spring home competition against St. Mary’s on Thursday, April 23 at Oneota Golf and Country Club; tee off is at 12:30 p.m.

For the women’s team, spring season is much shorter than the fall season. According to Bouslog, it is beneficial to have the summer to prepare for their major season in the fall.

“Spring sets us up for summer to play all the time,” Bouslog said. “Then we come back for the fall geared up and ready.”

The men’s team has a longer spring season than the women’s, which they kicked off with a Spring Break training trip to Orlando, Florida. “[The training trip] really helped us because we were able to work on every facet of our game while we were down there,” Elliot Horst (‘15) said. “The benefits of this are that we can all be together and challenge and push each other to get better every day.”

One of the biggest challenges the men have faced this season has been the weather, according to Head Men’s Golf Coach Scott Fjelstul (‘83).

“We’ve been on the road a lot and we’ve had a lot of cold, windy and a little rainy weather,” Fjelstul said. “I’ve been proud of the guys for how hard they’ve worked and played for all of the limited practice at home.”

The men will finish their spring season with the IIAC Championships April 24-25 and May 1-2.

“We are really looking forward to the underdog role at this year’s conference championship,” Horst said. “We really feel ready as a team to come out there and make some noise on the course.”

in the middle.

If you could do a field event, what would you choose and why?

I've always thought that it would be fun to do the pole vault. Iowa doesn't have the pole vault in high school, so I never got to try it out. I like to climb, and in my mind that might translate well, although I think in real life I'd be pretty terrible.

What do you focus on when racing and how do you stay focused the whole time?

At a certain point, you just have to let go and trust your training. If you are focusing on every step, you have to exert a lot of mental energy and can psych yourself out. Especially near the start of a race, I try to balance the fine line where I'm still attuned to what's happening around me, but am really just enjoying running fast. When you get to the end of the race, it’s all about just trying to gut out another gear, a few more strides, and you have to focus on keeping your form together and reacting to the people around you.

What’s your favorite weather for meet days?

70s and rainy is pretty fun, especially in cross-country when the courses get soggy. Otherwise, if it’s 50 degrees and sunny, that is pretty ideal. Snow is pretty fun, too.

What’s your best track & field memory?

Racing in the Drake Relays in high school was pretty cool. It’s such a huge crowd, and you can just feel them pushing you around the track. I never really had my best performances at Drake, but the atmosphere is unmatched.

LOOKING TO THE FAIRWAY. The women’s golf team uses the spring to begin training for their fall season.

Both the women’s and men’s golf teams have mostly younger players, which will set them up for the years to come, according to Madeline Petellin (‘17).

“It is exciting to have these next few years to build a really solid base for our team,” Petellin said.

Fjelstul echoed Petellin’s sentiment about the benefits of having a young team.

“We are a young team ... but we’re very deep and we’ve got excellent competition for the spots to make the traveling roster,” Fjelstul said.

Find out details about the upcoming golf competitions and view photos from this season at www.luther.edu/sports.

“We are really looking forward to the underdog role at this year’s Conference Championship. We really feel ready as a team to come out there and make some noise on the course.”

- Elliot Horst (‘15)

STICKING TOGETHER. (Left) Isaac Jensen (‘17) running with teammates Trever Schwichtenberg (‘16) and Justin Velzke (‘15) run the 4x1600m at the Norse Relays.

-HQVHQèV WHDP ĆQLVKHG IRXUWK LQ WKH UHOD\ Photo courtesy of Ally Fillmore What are your goals for the meet this weekend?

I think that I will be running the 1500m this weekend at St. Mary's. There should be a good field, and I'm excited to race my first 1500 of the season. The goal is to get a good mark down and get some quicker racing under my belt after racing longer stuff earlier in the season.

What's your favorite thing about running?

Running means so many things to me at different times, which maybe explains why it’s so important to me. Distance running can be a really meditative activity, a great way to process thoughts and de-stress, but it’s also a great way to get to know some really awesome

people. It’s hard to do a long run or a tough workout with someone and not get to know them on a pretty intimate level.

Running also is an incredible way to explore, as distance runners get to see sides of Decorah and the rest of the world that few other people do.

Running fast and putting together a great race is also an incredible rush, because it’s such a deeply personal endeavor. You may be racing against other people, but on a primal level, it’s just you versus the limits of your body.

That's more than one favorite thing, but I think it’s the interaction of all of the factors in the right measure that really explains my love of running.

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SPORTS EDITOR: JULIA JOSEPH

APRIL 23, 2015

SAAC hosts mini-clinic for local second-graders

Weekly Standings Softball

IIAC 10-0 7-3 7-5 6-6 6-6 5-7 3-9 2-10

#4 Luther #18 Central Simpson Coe Buena Vista Dubuque Loras Wartburg

Recent Scores

Overall 32-2 26-9 28-8 22-14 15-16-1 14-22 16-18 21-16

Apr. 21 vs. Buena Vista University W 5-3, 11-2 Apr. 14 @ UW La Crosse W 2-0, L 5-7

Upcoming Schedule

Apr. 25 vs. University of Dubuque 2 p.m.

Apr. 26 @ Central College 2 p.m.

Baseball

LITTLE NORSE. Men’s and women’s graders as par of a clinic on April 14.

ERIN DANIELSON STAFF WRITER Second-graders piled into Regents Center for a morning filled with sports at an annual mini-clinic Tuesday, April 14. The event, hosted by the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC), exposes second-graders from Decorah and Saint Benedict’s Elementary Schools to different sports and activities.

Student volunteers, the majority of which come from different sports teams, run the event. SAAC member and volunteer at the event Tricia Serres (‘16) said that the variety of athletes present adds a lot to the experience.

“I think it is fun that the kids get to try all different sports, and I think they have fun doing all of them,” Serres said. “A big part of that is the Luther athletes that come and bring energy and make it a fun event for the kids. The kids are going to make it fun no matter what, but I think it is good to have games and more competitions for them, and snack time is always a good bonus.”

The tradition of the second grade mini-clinics goes back many years, and the event has turned into something the kids, teachers and student volunteers look forward to all year, according to SAAC member Kayla Ingvalson (‘16).

“I remember as a second-grader coming to this event myself, and it was just the best day in the world,” Ingvalson said. “I remember having

basketball

teams

a blast and being really, really active, and interacting with the Luther athletes; they were like superheroes to us. I just wanted to make it as fun for these kids as it was for me” One station that was full of laughter and smiles at the mini-clinic was the football obstacle course. SAAC member and student volunteer Tyler Moon (‘16) was in charge of organizing and running the station during the event.

“We usually try to keep it fun, because we are kind of bigger dudes,” Moon said. “At the end when they jump on the pad, it’s always fun to try to make them do a touchdown dance and get them to act goofy. It’s funny because we did it last year, and this year some of the kids were like, ‘Do we have to do a touchdown dance again?’ so that was kind of cool, to hear that they remembered what we did last year.”

Every second-grader gets a chance to rotate through each station and experience different sports, but sometimes the kids are not as excited about the football station, according to Moon.

“Usually we have some kids that come in and say, ‘I don’t want to play football’, and they get all sassy, and then we tell them to at least give it a try,” Moon said. “In the end they usually say, ‘This was the best station ever’ or ‘This was so much fun’. So it’s cool to get to see that switch, since they come in anti-football and by the end they don’t want to leave the station.”

coached Decorah secondErin Danielson / Chips The mini-clinic is one of SAAC’s main events of the year that focuses on volunteer work and connecting Luther athletics with the Decorah community, according to Moon.

“I just think volunteering is really important, not just for athletes, but students in general,” Moon said. “I think it’s a really good way to help someone else out by just being a body and being an enthusiastic person.

Although we are college students and can’t put a ton of money toward different organizations, or we can’t give a ton of time because we are busy with our own lives, just giving the hour that we were there helped the kids really enjoy it. I think it’s important to give our time to something outside of school and to step outside that frame.”

Looking forward, some SAAC members have ideas to add to the festivities surrounding the miniclinic.

“I feel like we could get involved with the music scene on campus, and just collaborate those two things together,” Ingvalson said. “And even have a healthy snack session, to kind of promote nutrition for the kids as well. So something maybe a little bit more than just sports.”

As the second-graders departed the gym, they were not the only ones leaving with high spirits, according to Moon.

“It brightened my day after being there,” Moon said. “It was just fun to experience it and help kids to have a good day–for SAAC, the football team and the community in general.”

#10 Wartburg Luther Coe Loras Buena Vista Central Dubuque Simpson

IIAC 17-7 12-8 14-10 11-9 10-10 9-11 6-14 5-15

Recent Scores

Overall 27-8 17-15 22-11 17-14 20-11 13-18 11-21 9-22

Apr. 21 vs. Wartburg College L 2-3, W 11-8 Apr. 18 @ University of Dubuque W 10-1, 10-3

Upcoming Schedule

Apr. 24 vs. Central College 1 p.m.

Apr. 25 vs. Central College 1 p.m

Men’s Tennis #36 Coe Central Luther Wartburg Buena Vista Simpson Dubuque Loras

IIAC 7-0 5-1 2-1 3-3 2-4 1-3 1-4 0-5

Recent Scores

Overall 18-5 7-7 9-11 7-14 4-13 4-13 5-13 0-13

Apr. 18 vs. Elmhurst College W 7-2 Apr. 18 vs. Wartburg College W 9-0

Upcoming Schedule

Apr. 25 vs. Simpson College 10 a.m.

Apr. 25 vs. Central College 2 p.m.

Women’s Tennis Coe Luther Wartburg Central Loras Simpson Dubuque Buena Vista

IIAC 7-0 6-1 5-2 4-3 3-4 2-5 1-6 0-7

Recent Scores

Overall 19-6 14-9 10-9 10-7 7-9 6-14 4-9 0-10

Apr. 19 vs. Augustana L 1-8 Apr. 17 vs. Winona State University W 6-3

Upcoming Schedule

Apr. 24-25 IIAC NCAA Qualifier Tournament