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BY SCOTT BUFFON

he White House has confirmed the death of humanitarian aid worker and NAU alumna Kayla Mueller while being held hostage by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.

ISIS first reported her death Feb. 6, claiming a Jordanian airstrike struck the facility she was being held in. The Office of Public Affairs at NAU sent out a campus-wide email on the morning of Feb. 10 spreading news of the White House confirmation.

“The Northern Arizona University family is deeply saddened by the loss of alumna Kayla Jean Mueller,” said NAU President Rita Cheng. “This is absolutely heartbreaking and our thoughts are with her family and friends.”

Mueller, a 2009 graduate in political science and international affairs, grew up in Prescott, Ariz. Her humanitarian work took her to Guatemala, India, France, Kenya, Israel, Palestine, Turkey and finally Syria.

According to a statement by school superintendent Mary Ellen Halvorson, “We at Tri-City College Prep High School are deeply saddened at the loss of our student Kayla Mueller. She will be missed by her Tri-City Prep family and friends. She was an outstanding student, always interested in humanitarian issues, and a true leader. She made a huge impact on the world in her short time here.”

Mueller was taken captive around Aleppo, Syria, on Aug. 4, 2013.

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ayla Mueller was a humanitarian from Prescott, Ariz., who wanted to impact the world as she traveled it. Mueller had a deep care for others — friends recall Mueller trying to teach Syrian prison guards origami. As Mueller saw poverty and injustices in the world, she asked herself what she could do to improve the situations of those less fortunate.

Mueller grew up in Prescott and in 2007 graduated from Tri-City College Prep High School, a local charter school where Mueller was already interested in activism and other cultures.

She was part of the Youth Count volunteer program in Prescott Valley, according to an article from The Daily Courier. This program collaborates with other community programs to aid youth dealing with issues such as drug abuse.

While in high school, Mueller was involved with efforts to oppose snowmaking on the nearby San Francisco Peaks and clean up Arizona’s Verde River.

In 2007, Mueller came to Northern Arizona University to study political science. Mueller was a student in a hurry, graduating in five semesters.

During her time at NAU, Mueller exhibited a deep interest in human rights and social justice through her involvement with a number of campus groups, including NAU’s chapter of STAND, a student anti-genocide coalition.

Mueller also spent a semester covering arts and entertainment for The Lumberjack in spring 2008.

Mueller joined STAND:NAU in 2007 while Ellie Kinzel was the president of the group.

Kinzel, who now lives in Madison, Wis., said Mueller was “very interested in helping others.”

After Kinzel’s time as president at STAND:NAU, Mueller became president of the group, strongly advocating for action in Darfur, where over 400,000 civilians were killed between 2003 and 2008.

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Depending on your major, you probably rotate classes between three buildings at most and throughout the day visit maybe three or four others based on where you study, sleep and eat. As a student here at NAU, I think it is important to know where I am and what’s on campus, so I have dedicated a few days to walking around campus and going inside various buildings.

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MUMPHREY It was an eye-opening experience, to say the least. I mean, ASSISTANT OP-ED EDITOR how many of you, with confidence, can say you have been inside every building on campus?

It may not be the top priority in the hectic daily life of a college student, but I recommend getting to know your campus. I have discovered buildings dedicated to student projects, faculty research and what seems to be topsecret information in closed offices and I’m intrigued. If anything, walking around campus is a good stress-reliever, but I truly am filled with a renewed sense of school pride.

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his last few days have been quite an unprecented experience for myself and the editorial staff of The Lumberjack.

As almost everyone is aware of by now, NAU alumna Kayla Mueller, who was an aid worker throughout various parts of the world, was killed while being held hostage by the Islamic State. When we received the news on Friday, many of the staff members came together and began working feverishly to put together a story that honored the extraordinary life Kayla lived, and I want to commend all the work they did with such a complex and delicate situation. The two people who did a majority of the reporting, Kevin Morrow and Mitchell Forbes, became aware of the situation two weeks ago, and had to work in secrecy to avoid disclosing Mueller’s name in hopes of keeping her safe.

The two of them were instrumental in our coverage of Kayla’s life and death.

VINCENT In case you are wondering why this is called “The PENA Love Issue,” it’s because we planned special-themed issues EDITOR-IN-CHIEF throughout the semester, and this was our Valentine’s Day issue. While the theme of the issue and the coverage of Kayla’s life weren’t meant to go hand-in-hand, I find it quite the coincidence that it ended up this way. Kayla lived a life dedicated to loving others more than yourself and helping those who are less forunate. We should look to Kayla as an example of how to make the most of your life by loving others more than yourself and helping to make the world a better place.

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Police Beat Feb. 2 At 12:51 a.m., an employee at McKay Village reported a marijuana odor originating from one of the residence rooms. Upon investigation, officers found three subjects in offense. The subjects were apprehended and charged with minor in consumption and possession of drug paraphernalia.

At 12:03 p.m., a report was made concerning animals seen on campus.

Three dogs were found at the Health and Learning Center and a Northern Arizona University Police Department (NAUPD) officer secured the canines until the owner’s arrival.

The owner received a verbal warning for leaving the animals unattended on campus.

At 6:15 p.m., a concerned employee at The Suites reported several subjects trapped in the building 2 elevator. Flagstaff Fire Department (FFD) was informed of the elevator malfunction and was able to extract the subjects into safety.

Feb. 3 At 10:58 a.m., a student was found driving with a flat tire. A NAUPD officer initiated a traffic stop and contacted Parking Services so that the vehicle would not be cited. The student was given a ride to the W.A. Franke College of Business building while the vehicle remained parked until it could receive maintenance services.

At 11:38 p.m., a student requested help services on how to approach a blackmail

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situation involving their roommate. The subject informed NAUPD that their roommate had taken a video they may threaten to use as blackmail and asked for information in order to handle the dispute.

Information was provided and the subject did not wish to have the report filed.

Feb. 4 At 8:37 a.m., a report was made concerning a suspicious person seen approaching campus.

The subject was said to be carrying drug paraphernalia. A NAUPD officer was dispatched and searched the area but was unable to find the suspected person.

At 5:13 p.m., an employee at The Suites reported a case of domestic violence, which occurred several hours prior to the report being made. A resident had an altercation with their boyfriend causing property damage of a mirror. Officers responded and apprehended and transported the subject to Coconino County Jail.

Feb 5 At 4:56 p.m., a Mountain Line Transit employee reported witnessing subjects on skateboards moving barricades at the Bookstore.

Officers responded to the call and arrived on scene but the subjects were gone and the barricades were found in their proper places.

At 7:11 p.m., the staff at Taylor Hall reported a subject attempting to trespass into the residence.

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building at first, the student was then seen speaking to someone through one of the windows. The subject was gone upon officer arrival.

Feb. 6 At 8:58 a.m., on behalf of an employee of the Campus Health Services, the staff of the department called in to report harassment of a female employee. The harassment was said to be conducted by a former employee at unknown and ongoing times. The male former employee was contacted and warned to not contact the victim. He stated he would comply.

At 5:15 p.m., NAUPD officers were requested to stand by to keep the peace of an aggressive student at the Health and Learning Center. When confronting the student, officers confiscated a knife from his person and the student left campus.

Feb. 7 At 1:41 p.m., a citizen reported finding a sleeping subject in the campus area. When approached by officers, the subject was found to have a warrant from Coconino County Sheriff ’s Office and was booked to the detention facility.

Feb. 8 At 1:13 a.m., a student was reported to have struck a blue phone station with a hammer. NAUPD officers responded to the anonymous call and found that all blue phones in the area reported were fine and remained undamaged.

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An alumnus of NAU and the writer of The Lumberjack piece, Matt Vinsko, said about Mueller: “She was really passionate about bringing the injustices of the world to light.She was a strong person with a strong message that a lot of people remain ignorant to."

Even today, Vinsko still looks back on the article he wrote about Mueller's protest as one of the pieces he is most proud of because of her stand-out personality.

"To spend the day or so I did with her nearly six years ago is something I remember to this day." Vinsko said.

"Not only did she have her heart in the right place, but she has the voice to back it up."

While at NAU, Mueller went to Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to participate in a demonstration at an intelligence training facility. Kathleen Day, an NAU campus minister who is a close friend of the Mueller family, said, “Kayla spoke out as an activist against torture.”

The U.S. military conducts training in human intelligence at Fort Huachuca, including interrogation and counterintelligence. Day emphasized that Mueller worked to have veteran services provided at NAU and was not anti-military.

Kinzel said Mueller was "involved . . . in any opportunity she saw to help better the NAU campus and the world around her. Kayla would make any kind of sacrifice to help others."

Mueller spent her spring break in 2009 traveling to Guatemala with members of United Christian Ministry.

Greg Allen-Pickett, a Presbyterian church official who met the group, remembers Mueller “did stand out amongst the students as someone who was thinking deeply, in this case, about addressing root causes of poverty . . . and how she as an individual could work to address those issues.”

Mueller “had a real heart for the poverty issues she had encountered,” Allen-Pickett said. “It was clear she had been impacted by the exposure to poverty she had seen while she was there.”

After her graduation in December 2009, Mueller began a whirlwind of global travel doing human rights work around the developing world.

“This was not a fly-by-night student or hiker — no," said Carol Thompson, a NAU political science professor who worked closely with Mueller. "She is very much trying to reach out to the least of the least. She had four years of highly committed involved work around the world.”

Mueller then traveled to India in 2010 to work at an orphanage. She also taught English to Tibetan refugees and met the Dalai Lama.

From August until September 2010, Mueller volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Israeli-occupied Palestine. She spent time with Palestinians, resisting the seizure or demolition of homes to make room for Israeli settlements. She stayed in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem and in Hebron, Palestine. Mueller protested weekly on Fridays with villagers against the Israeli settlements and walls, according to ISM. “How can I ignore the blessing of freedom of speech,” Kayla wrote in one of her blog posts, “when I know that people I deeply care for can be shot dead for it?”

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“She wasn’t anti-Israel,” Day said, “She was prohuman rights.”

Syrian activist Oruba Barakat, who became friends with Mueller during her work in Turkey, said Mueller was in Egypt studying Arabic when the Arab Spring started in January 2011.

Between her trips abroad, Mueller spent most of 2011 in Arizona volunteering at Northland Cares, an HIV/AIDS clinic in Prescott, where she worked to raise awareness of these conditions and facilitated events like World AIDS Day, according to a spokesperson.

In December 2011, prior to traveling to the Middle East, Mueller lived in southern France to learn French.

Afterwards, she traveled to Kenya to work with AIDS patients.

In December 2012, Mueller traveled to the Turkey/ Syria border to work for aid groups, providing support to Syrian refugees with the groups Support to Life and the Danish Refugee Council. Her volunteer work kept her near the border, helping orphans and other refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Before traveling back to Syria in 2013, Mueller talked to the Prescott Kiwanis Club about her experience in Syria. The Prescott Daily Courier quoted Mueller, saying that after learning more about the situation in Syria, she was drawn to help and found that she "can't do enough."

Mueller said she had heard of children being hurt by unexploded bombs, women being forced into early marriages, and children being forced to fight for both sides.

"Syrians are dying by the thousands, and they're fighting just to talk about the rights we have," said Mueller.

"For as long as I live, I will not let this suffering be normal.

(I will not let this be) something we just accept.”

According to Barakat, in August 2013 Mueller crossed the border from Turkey with Syrian photographer Omar Khani and two other Syrian aid workers. Barakat said that armed militia were waiting 50 kilometers over the border, and because they knew she was an American, they took her laptop and passport. All four were detained, the driver was released after a few weeks, and Khani and the other aid worker were released four months later.

“It’s because she is working for the lowest of the low that she was captured,” said Thompson. “It wasn’t because she was careless.”

After 18 months of captivity, Mueller was confirmed dead Feb. 10. The circumstances of her death remain unknown.

Allen-Pickett felt that Mueller’s death should not be in vain. “The tragedy of the violence in the Middle East is really compelling and as Americans we are called to address that violence,” Allen-Picket said. “Kayla took a hands-on approach by going over there. We need people doing that, but we also need people advocating for peace at all levels.”

Day, speaking in a press conference in Prescott Feb. 10, said Mueller did “ordinary things to extraordinary measures. She gave people food, she gave people water.

She just saw things and did things.”

Additional reporting by Amy Owings & Grace Fenlason

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n Feb. 9, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released its ninth propaganda film featuring hostage John Cantlie, the last male Western hostage.

Cantlie is a British journalist who was kidnapped by militants with American journalist James Foley in 2012. Foley was executed in Aug. 2014.

Cantlie has since been used in multiple propaganda videos produced by ISIS. In the latest film, Cantlie walks through the rubble of Aleppo, Syria, while narrating the current conditions of the war.

The hostage continues his narration throughout the film

to describe what ISIS perceives to be positive results due to the presence of the mujahidin. He describes Aleppo, or “Halab” as it’s referenced in the video, as a “thriving economy,” due to its agriculture, enforced education and civil society. Over the past two years, parts of the city have been completely destroyed and abandoned while others are still inhabited despite the danger of recent bombings.

Themes of the message do not vary much from ISIS’s previous released films; however, Cantlie’s comment that this is the “last film of this series” has caused speculation as to plans for Cantlie in the future.

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BY KEVIN MORROW

ayla Mueller was captured by unknown militants around the city of Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, Aug. 4, 2013. With an area of 70 square miles and surrounding suburbs and a pre-war population of two million people, Aleppo is similar in geographic size to Baltimore and similar in population to Phoenix.

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) first expanded into Syria in April 2013, adopting the names Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It is now referred to just as the Islamic State.

In June 2013, the Syrian government attempted to take control of Aleppo and the

surrounding countryside from the Free Syrian Army (FSA). In July 2013, government troops were diverted to the city of Homes 120 miles south of Aleppo, surrendering all but the airport to the FSA. ISIS was just one of nine rebel groups that helped end the 369-day siege of the Aleppo military airbase Aug. 6, 2013, two days after Kayla Mueller was captured.

The first inter-rebel conflict of the Syrian Civil War did not take place until September 2013 when ISIS, then still a sub-group of alQaida, seized a border crossing from the U.S.-backed FSA. AlQaida, cut ties with ISIS in Jan. 2014.

“Resistance is nestled in the cracks in the wall, resistance flows from the minaret 5 times a day and resistance sits quietly in jail knowing its time will come again. Resistance lives in the grieving mother’s wails and resistance lives in the anger at the lies broadcasted across the globe. Though it is sometimes hard to see and even harder sometimes to harbor, resistance lives. Do not be fooled, resistance lives.”

Forever in solidarity, Kayla. Oct. 29, 2010.

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In May 2014, ISIS contacted Mueller’s family to prove she was still alive and demanded a ransom. It demanded $6.6 million or the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist with ties to al Qaeda, currently in a federal prison in texas.

U.S. policy prohibits the payment of ransom to terrorist groups. Most European nations have no such policy and were able to successfully pay for their hostage’s release.

Foreign Policy reported on Feb. 3 that officials in the U.S. government had received intelligence that Mueller

was still alive as recently as two weeks ago.

Jordan is using airstrikes to cripple ISIS after the group released a video of a different captive, Jordanian pilot Lt.. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, being burned alive in January. Before the White House confirmation, Jordanian officials dismissed the ISIS information on Mueller as a “PR stunt.”

“Kayla’s selfless dedication to helping others took her to some of the world’s most troubled and dangerous regions,” said Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ).

“But here at home, she’s known by many as a dear friend, a devoted volunteer and a fellow NAU Lumberjack.”

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ISIS releases Kayla Mueller’s personal information, saying she was killed in Jordanian airstrikes.

First contact made to family confirming Mueller’s captivity and providing proof of life.

Mueller is taken hostage near Aleppo after leaving a hospital.

Traveled to Turkish/Syrian border to provide aid to Syrian refugees.

Moved to Provence, France to work as an au pair to learn French in preparation to move to Africa.

Worked at Prescott HIV/AIDS clinic

Kathleen Day, a Mueller family friend, speaks about Kayla at a press conference in Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 10.

Volunteered at African Refugee Development Center in Tel Aviv Worked in Palestine Worked in India

Graduated from NAU Traveled to Guatemala

Graduated from Tri City College Prep in Prescott

Students listen to speeches given at the vigil for Kayla Mueller Feb. 9 on ASU’s Tempe campus. The event was hosted by the Muslim Liberty Project. (Photos by J. Daniel Hud)

The Lumberjack compiled a timeline of Mueller’s life, from her high school graduation to her death.

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arriage requires dedication, discipline, chemistry and many of us would like to say

true love.

In Coconino County, it also requires $37.

As students of NAU we are thrust onto a campus that is supposed to reflect and accept the importance and individuality that we feel within ourselves. We study, grow and party — and not always in that order. At some point, many people want to settle down, and for many people that means marriage.

So, in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here are some facts to help you navigate the topic of marriage and help you figure out: is marriage really for me?

Marriage and Divorce If you have not seriously considered marriage in your lifetime, I commend you. Everywhere we go, we are faced with it. We hear our parents joke about “the ol’ ball-and-chain,” while babies and weddings are popping onto our news feeds like it’s trending.

On the other side of the spectrum, there is divorce. It is shown on television and we hear about its effects on children and parents. There are so many emotions that result from divorce, it would be near impossible to list them all. A simple hop over the fence will show generations of songs about love, sex and settling down.

The baby-boomer generation was the biggest generation before the millennials hit the scene between 1980 and 1999.

The baby-boomer generation is about 48- to 67-years-old — the elder folk. Out of these men and women who have been married, 36 percent of men have been divorced, while 42 percent of women have been divorced at one point.

The children of the baby boomers could vary from the millennials, or could be our parents, who would be a part of Generation X. Experiencing divorce leaves an imprint on a person, one that can be felt beyond generations.

In an article posted on movingpastdivorce.com, one study

conducted on Generation X found that children of divorce have approximately double the odds of divorce than children raised in married homes. As possible children of either generation, the outlook for millennials could be a bit more optimistic.

That being said, there are things parents can do to lessen the effects of a divorce.

“Those resources include: parental closeness, open communication, competent parenting by both parents and low conflict among family members,” said Terry Gaspard, author of the article and his own study looking at divorce.

While marriage looks bleak when you focus on divorce, keep in mind that almost as many marriages work out.

The Future of Marriage The tides are changing.

Currently, 36 states in America allow same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court has begun listening to the case and will declare a ruling by early November. Regardless of their decision, some would say that equality has not been achieved.

Gallup, a polling website, found that eight in 10 young adults were in favor of same-sex marriage in 2014.

The Supreme Court has started to review the validity of same-sex marriage bans. The court’s ruling would be the first official ruling from the federal government on the case.

“The court said it would rule on the power of the states to ban same-sex marriages and to refuse to recognize such marriages performed in another state,” said reporter for the Supreme Court of the United States Blog Lyle Denniston.

If the court were to vote in favor of the marriage equality movement, it would strike down the remaining samesex marriage bans and strengthen the licenses to be legitimate regardless of state.

Arizona joined the movement by allowing same-sex marriage after a district judge struck down the ban on Oct. 17, 2014.

According to the Los Angeles Times,

voters began changing the landscape in Massachusetts in 2004. The most recent state to change was Alabama on Feb. 9.

PRISM, the NAU club selfdescribed as among the “queer” movement, advocates queer equality.

They define queer as anyone who has been marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender, race or attraction. Senior marketing and French major and PRISM communication director Kerry Yamaucci has been attending meetings for two years.

He says that PRISM is a place where people of the queer community can meet and forget they are oppressed.

When Arizona lifted the ban on samesex marriage, PRISM took it as a win.

“We all rejoiced,” Yamaucci said.

“Those of who want to take part in this institution can now.”

On a national level, the group is excited about where marriage opportunity is going; however, they are allies with other members within PRISM who don’t feel the equality.

“A lot of people generally view like: ‘Oh, queer people are allowed to get married! Oh, fight’s over! Hurray, let’s celebrate,’” Yamaucci said. “There are a lot of queer sexual people who don’t benefit from the institution of marriage.”

Yamaucci went on to illustrate his point, mentioning that people who define themselves as polyamorous, people who are in love with more than one person, will never benefit from the idea of traditional marriage. They will receive no tax breaks. Others of the queer community do not agree with the institution’s historical roots.

From his perspective, the next steps in the fight for equality will be safe spaces for queer people, gender-equal bathrooms, eliminating gender roles and their stigmas, and also being aware of how language can affect a person.

“Gay marriage [is legal], yes, awesome. But that doesn’t mean the fight’s over,” Yamaucci said. “I don’t want to come into PRISM and listen to someone who says PRISM saved their life, I want to hear about how it improved their life.”

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Stats: The science of sex

BY JACQUELINE CASTILLO

Research & Rewards Research done by the University of Montreal shows that on average, men burn 100 calories per sex session, while women burn 69. The average session in this study lasted around 25 minutes, so naturally the longer it lasts means more calories burned. The level of intensity is higher than walking at three miles per hour, but not as intense as jogging.

Not only does having sex benefit your fitness, it also provides health benefits.

Research done by the Wilkes University in Pennsylvania found that college students who had sex once or twice a week had a high level of the antibody that fights off viruses in their immune systems. Having more sex increases your sexual desire, helps with blood flow and women’s vaginal elasticity.

Having sex also often lowers the risk for heart attack. A good sex life helps to balance the estrogen and testosterone levels; if either one begins to lower, health problems may begin to arise.

Sexual stimulation and orgasm can also help lessen the severity of pain. Instead of taking an aspirin, sex can be an alternative.

“Orgasm can block pain,” said professor at Rutgers University Barry R. Komisaruk.

An orgasm can reduce chronic back pain, arthritic pain and even headaches. Not only does sex help with pain, but it can also improve sleep and reduce stress.

Risks About 50 percent of college students use condoms during vaginal sex and even less during oral sex. This also means that by the age of 25, one out of two sexually active adults will get a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

Research done by the Mayo Clinic also states that most of these incidences occur under the influence of alcohol.

Most STIs show no symptoms, leaving individuals doubting if they have infections.

Resources There are many resources available for students at Campus Health Services. Links on the website lead to an overview of different STIs, as well as a list of possible symptoms that could arise from getting an infection.

STIs are not only spread through intercourse; some can spread by sharing towels or poor hygiene after sexual activity. The Fronske Health Center offers affordable tests and treatments.

Health Promotion services offer free male and female condoms as well as free HIV testing on the first and third Wednesday of every month.

Another resource offered through Campus Health Services is an online birth control class, where you can learn about the different types of contraceptives available for students to take advantage of.

Coconino County also has a STI clinic that offers testing and contraceptives. The Coconino County Health Services offers testing and will not deny individuals if they are unable to afford it.

Making sure you take care of your body is an important way to reduce the chances of getting an infection. Knowing your status is also a great way to manage your health because if infections are left untreated, they could cause serious irreversible damage to organs, causing future health issues.

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Commercialism is in the air

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all me unromantic, pessimistic or what have you, but of all the holidays, I strongly believe Valentine’s Day is the most commercialized. It seems that all businesses, restaurants, movie theaters, card companies and florists are nearly impossible to patronize because they are heavily congested with couples on romantic dates. Valentine’s Day is a holiday that benefits companies financially year after year. It becomes strikingly apparent in the current commercials that goad consumers into purchasing chocolates, jewelry, flowers, cologne, stuffed animals and other gifts that supposedly make the night unforgettable. I, for one, look forward to the day-after candy sales.

St. Valentine, the namesake of the modern holiday, was a Roman priest who performed Christian marriage ceremonies in secret because of Emperor Claudius’ law prohibiting young people from tying the knot. While he is considered the patron saint of young love, I believe he would JOSH hardly recognize his efforts in modern traditions and even SMALLEY be shocked that this is how people remember his deeds. This The Rookie holiday has turned into one where a lovers’ quarrel can break out if one of the lovers deems the other’s token of affection Cartoon by Cheyanne Mumphrey underthought. With all the commercialism surrounding this love-obsessed time of year, it makes me wonder if true romance really is dead.

It is no wonder many young people have become disillusioned with the nteresting questions were raised recently when very idea of love, considering how easy and carefree the media portrays it Facebook was taken to court over a 148-year-old today. This gospel, according to Hallmark philosophy, is detrimental to the painting by French painter Gustave Courbet. The modern young American. While I am a full supporter of capitalism and aptly named L’Origine du monde, or “The Origin of the the free market, the very idea that the more expensive the activities and World, ” depicts a female nude reclining on a bed, legs gifts of the day, the more romantic it is, creates and perpetuates unrealistic expectations. I know some of you disagree and want to tell me that a blanket apart. The painting was undoubtedly controversial in its in the backyard with some homemade sandwiches watching the stars is time — Courbet was challenging ideas of romanticism romance at its best, but humor me for a moment and really think about how with its idealistic depictions of women. Instead, Courbet turned to painting things in the realist romance has been portrayed. When most people think of a romantic dinner, style, which often involved stronger they think of an expensive restaurant — probably French. When people think emphasis on the realistic nature of about romance, they envision roses, ties, dresses and proposals. This is a the subject, rather than on the style of valid view of romance and I will be the first to admit that romance is open to painting. individual interpretation, but this is the popular view most often portrayed in L’Origine du monde truly captures ERIKA the media and commercials. the raw honesty of Courbet’s philosophy.

HAWKINS This popular view puts many people’s hard-earned wages in the pockets Yet, when a Parisian schoolteacher of companies that couldn’t care less about whether Jack and Rose stay The posted the subversive image online Muse together, just as long as they make their bottom line. The fact is that every Feb. after watching a documentary on it, it 14, romance is forced down everyone’s throats. Even in elementary schools, if students are going to give Valentine’s Day cards out, they need to bring was swiftly removed and his Facebook account was enough for all the other kids so no one feels left out of the holiday. I remember suspended. The image, which was not publicly exhibited second grade clearly, when my class had all these Valentine’s Day activities until 1988, has once again been censored. I do not deny and games. Valentine’s Day was fun and felt almost pure back then. I guess that the image is shocking to view, but living in a society while there are parts that are corrupt, if I really look, I can still see the purity that is apparently embarrassed by the female body, unless of Valentine’s Day and that is something that commercialism can never take it is being exploited through advertisement, has left us unable to think critically about these issues before we away. panic and hit the report button.

My suspicions were further confirmed when I reviewed the terms and conditions of nudity on Facebook.

Facebook claims “We aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are The Lumberjack encourages an open forum on approporiate public issues. photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family If you would like to respond to one of the opinion pieces in photos of a child breastfeeding.” It is not surprising, sadly, The Lumberjack we would love to put it into print. that Michelangelo’s David is permitted, yet Courbet’s Letters can be e-mailed to OpEd Editor Kevin Morrow at kmm578@nau. female nude is not. This injustice was recently highlighted

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by activists of the #FreeTheNipple campaign, aiming at the right for women to show their nipples on networking sites in the same way which men often do without any fear of stigma or being reported.

I am aware that relaxing the terms and conditions of nudity on Facebook may lead to less desirable consequences, such as pornography being posted freely.

If Facebook allowed such nudity, under the conditions that it is safe and consensual, with people being aware of their audience and using their personal settings to restrict it accordingly, I would find this acceptable. However, in such a hypothetical scenario, I would still advocate that the viewing of a revolutionary artwork is benefiting the viewer in a positive way, which is not entirely apparent from pornography, which appears to be a purely sexual endeavor — not entirely necessary for Facebook.

I have no doubt an artist would have a hard time exhibiting such images today if it were not still for the shock factor. We only need to look back to 1995 and the hype created when Tracy Emin made Everyone I Have Ever Slept With — a tent, the inside covered with the names of all the people she had ever slept with. It is also interesting to consider whether the artwork would have conjured the same response, had a heterosexual male produced it.

It is reported that Courbet, before his death in 1877, belonged to no regime except the regime of liberty. His artwork was liberating to women, not objectifying. That said, there may be hundreds of other paintings I would rather have hanging on my wall than L’Origine du monde, but I find its viewing necessary and invaluable as people ought to have 148 years ago. The repetitive censorship of such an honest image is a staggering reminder of how little progress we have made in accepting what is natural.

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Point/Counterpoint: Long-distance relationships

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he thought of long-distance relationships usually come with negative connotations. People think of all kinds of bad experiences, from not ever seeing your love to finding out that he or she was cheating on you. Aside from being in a relationship based on love, long-distance couples can’t experience the advantages of living relatively close, if not living together. Unless the couple started dating when they were near each other and developed a trusting friendship or grew up CHEYANNE together, there is no way a MUMPHREY long-distance relationship Multitalented can work.

There is no physical connection in the word distance. Granted, some can tackle that distance with some mode of transportation, but most are less fortunate. It is quite clear that individual lives get in the way. School, work, family and societal expectations in general end up stopping couples from seeing one another. If not that, then it is the hundreds, maybe thousands of miles of land or ocean separating the two. And let’s not forget the beautiful part of human nature that needs physical contact.

But in reality, it is possible to be deprived of such physical interaction. According to an article by Jeremy Schoenherr, the director of the Touch and Emotion Lab at DePauw University, Matthew Hertenstein, explains that, “Most of us, whatever our relationship status, need more human contact than we’re getting. Compared with other cultures, we live in a touch-phobic society that’s made affection with anyone but loved ones taboo.”

This means the only way we get a healthy dose of PDA is through our relationships; however, long-distance relationships do not provide that guarantee.

It is bad enough to be deprived of physical interaction, but not being able to see each other in person is another downfall.

According to Schoenherr, a journalist from Quartz who was in a long-distance relationship, “texting didn’t feel like enough after a while . . . it wasn’t efficient, either.”

Despite how much you may love a person and want to demonstrate your commitment to them, communicating long-distance takes up time and if you take more time sending photographs, visually showing your love, that is a completely different issue.

And then there’s the trust. If you have it, that’s great; but more often than not, even the so-called perfect couples have their doubts.

Why did he forget to call when he said he would? Who is that guy? Who is that girl? Is he or she cheating on me?

There is not a single reason why you shouldn’t have your doubts. Oh, and they don’t have to worry about you checking up on them, getting in the way of their fun or spoiling a nice long glance of temptation.

I mean, these things happen daily, both men and women have temptation, the only question now is do they have the character to remain faithful.

Granted, you may have fallen in love and if they are the one then so be it, you’ll live happily ever after. But I know for a fact that long-distance relationships are not for everyone and even the people who are in them struggle. I guess it wouldn’t be a relationship if there were no bumps in the road.

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Devoted despite distance

n my mind, anything that is truly worthwhile is worth working for, and that is essentially what a long-distance relationship is — working toward something, as opposed to instant satisfaction.

In a relationship, whether you live in the same city or not, you must decipher your own priorities in life. I love my girlfriend, I truly do, but we both understand that we are not each other’s top priority. This comes with maturity. There was a time where I believed that if I wasn’t her top priority, then I would become offended, but as time passed on, I JACOB realized that we are in school for a HALL reason. A reason that sometimes Life Editor gets obfuscated, but it all boils down to attaining an education. There are always sacrifices to be made in relationships, and distance is the one sacrifice that I was willing to make.

In our quasi-neoteric Tinder culture, it is easy to make the assumption that couples need to be readily physically stimulated. If you are in a relationship where you feel like this is the case, then let me ask you this question: if you truly do believe that your partner is someone who you can potentially spend the majority of your life with, then have you ever realized there will come a time where you two will not be in the same area code for an elongated period of time? If your relationship is based on physical attraction, then where will your affections lie when he or she studies abroad? Where will your affections lie if your partner is hospitalized, and you cannot spend the night together for weeks, or months? To put it bluntly, if physical touch is required to maintain a relationship, then you may not be in the right relationship.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a touchy-

feely kind of guy. Whenever I have to give a friend a courtesy hug, I always become uncomfortable.

What doesn’t make me uncomfortable is conversation, and last time I checked, friendships and relationships are started via conversation — not long, passionate bouts of holding each other’s hands while sensually looking through one another. Honestly, I get the same amount of excitement from receiving a phone call from my significant other as I would if she knocked on my door. Whether or not they are standing in front of me, I can still speak to my best friends, and at the end of the day, I am thankful for that.

Trust is one thing, but a more far-reaching phenomenon is the idea of faith. Faith, as defined

by Dictionary.com, is a “belief that is not based on proof.” From my perspective in Flagstaff, my girlfriend could be with another guy every night, and I would be none the wiser. Faith in her allows me to not worry, and to not stress each night about her fidelity. Without faith, what is a relationship?

If you are more concerned with someone cheating on you, as opposed to actually showing your affection and speaking your mind, then it doesn’t take a psychologist to realize this is an unhealthy relationship to begin with.

I would be lying if I said I didn’t worry about the temptation when I went into my long-distance relationship. Nobody is perfect, but the individual has to make the decision: if the relationship is more important than other earthly desires. A long-distance relationship can be a very humbling experience, but I implore you to understand one thing: instead of asking yourself if you can handle distance in a relationship, ask yourself if this individual is worth your time and effort. More often than not, if you truly love someone, the distance is just one more nuance that can turn into a growing experience.

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e have a conflict and our solution is to bomb them. They kill one of us and we bomb all of them. They didn’t seem to get the message, so we declare war and bring out the big guns.

That seems to be the process behind the United States’ military force. It is strong enough in every manner to take on any enemy we have, but we seem to be in a conflict that is not advancing quickly enough on either side.

ISIS has gained control of most of Syria and Iraq and is steadily gaining more control and presence, not just in the Middle East. The organization has successfully gained the attention of the globe and is establishing a strong, fear-based reputation.

Does it concern anyone else that we have been in conflict with terrorist groups for over a decade and it only seems to be getting worse; first al-Qaeda and now ISIS? I mean, what’s the point of bombing and leading drone strikes if there will always be extremists who will never find favor with the U.S. and always look for ways in which to gain power? Are we just going to kill everyone?

Why do they hate us anyway? Is it because we are a democratic and non-Muslim state or is it because we have involved ourselves with the affairs of these other nations?

Regardless, we have two options: submit or kill them all.

I, for one, can say with full confidence that the first is not even an option in anyone’s eyes, so it looks like we are going to resort to the chemical equations of death — again.

I hate to be liberal and say it, but really? I definitely don’t agree with bombing anyone and everyone who offends this great nation, but it seems to be the only response we have; whether you think that’s good or bad thing is a different issue. If bombing them hasn’t worked yet, I don’t think continuing to bomb them will either.

People will always hate and hurt others. It’s human nature, so as long as we are human, we will never know peace. And bombing each other to solve problems proves to just make matters worse.

With that being said, what else are we supposed to do? Unfortunately, it’s too late to change the situation. We have already successfully committed some murders I think we should never have committed in the first place.

Sophomore journalism major Cheyanne Mumphrey contributed this letter to The Lumberjack.

Don’t politicize legacy

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any may look at the fate of ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller as proof that she should not have placed herself in the warzone of Syria. Mueller made it clear, prior to her capture, that the danger she faced amounted to little in comparison to the horrors Syrian refugees face every day.

Some remain skeptical that Mueller died in an airstrike at all, claiming the Islamic State may have fabricated the released photo of the bombed building in which Mueller had been held hostage in order to cover up the true cause of her death. Still, others use Mueller’s story to promote their own political agendas. In a recent interview with Fox News, former UN Ambassador John Bolton used the story of Mueller’s death to criticize the

president rather than to speak about Mueller at all.

In this time of mourning, it is important that we focus not upon the political aspect of her death or the manner in which she died, but instead upon the legacy she left behind. As a proud NAU alumna, Mueller led a selfless life dedicated to aiding others regardless of the dangers involved. She set an example for many, choosing a life of service over a life of fear. Terrorist organizations, like the Islamic State, thrive upon the fear of others. If all we glorify about Mueller is her death, then the power remains in their hands.

Sophomore English major Evanne Gutierrez contributed this letter to The Lumberjack.

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Human tradgedy in context

t has been nearly 100 years since the Caliphate was abandoned along with the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in the First World War. It’s been about 250 years since the First Saudi Kingdom was established alongside the conservative theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, whose theology has resurfaced today in the highly politicized doctrines of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Wahhab was almost universally despised by the larger Muslim community of scholars for his beliefs, and later, implementation of the belief that saints’ shrines should be destroyed. When Wahhab took Mecca, they destroyed many saints’ tombs, which are places used for veneration by many Muslims. Today, ISIS and other groups take this to an extreme. In Mecca, the only reason the Saudi government has not demolished the house historically believed to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad is because so many people venerate it that there would be an unstoppable revolt.

Unlike Al-Qaeda, a transnational organization, ISIS is a neonational organization whose aim is to create a new state, specifically a caliphate a century after the real one was abolished. Like most emerging states, it struggle militarily against those who oppose their statehood (in this case, everybody who is in any way sensible), and resort to violence against people who resist the state’s agenda. ISIS is not a nation-state, but a pirate state. Its adherents kidnap innocent aid workers and reporters, ransom them for money or execute them, setting a precedence for the kind of state they will

be unless otherwise defeated. I’ve spent four years in college studying the Islamic world historically, socially and culturally, and from what I gather, ISIS is guilty of more crimes against Muslims than against Americans.

But this does not diminish the emotional weight of knowing that somebody from my own college was kidnapped by them and killed in their pirate state. She may have taken classes from the same teachers I did. She ate in the same union. She breathed the same mountain air. Is this enough to warrant a sudden emotional crisis?

Should I mourn only for her, and not for the children beheaded, the minorities massacred, the resistant slaughtered by a band of gangsters with no more sophisticated a theology than an angry teenager? This is a time to mourn because the recent events impose a kind of common ground — community, of course, is very important. But can we really pick and choose the people for whom we grieve? Doing so certainly makes our lives easier. Limiting our tears and outrage to those select few of our community allows us to continue our everyday work. But still, I cannot help but wonder if, by choosing to mourn now, we inflict indifference upon the other victims of ISIS and reinforce the ancient “us vs. them” mentality. I wonder who will mourn for us when we refrain from mourning for others.

Senior history major Keene Short contributed this letter to The Lumberjack.

Forgetting the human remembering the story

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ayla Mueller made a career out of being an aid worker, something some of us can only dream about or do not have the ambition and will to actually pursue. She is consistently described as inspiring to the people around her. From her work with refugees all over the world, as well as incalculable other people, it is blaringly evident that she was an amazing person.

Since ISIS started beheading hostages in August 2014, the organization has been the darling of print and broadcast news. However, every time the media report about ISIS instead of the victims, the terrorists get what they want. They behead journalists and set pilots on fire to get attention and to scare people.

ISIS gains its power by frightening us and teaching us to fear it.

The media have been more inclined to write about

the perpetrators instead of the victims. The media tend to talk about how gruesome the death was instead of recognizing the life of the person who was lost. When this occurs, the media becomesnothing but advertisements of murders. This makes killers famous and shames victims by ignoring them. I have seen this in full effect for ISIS. The main problem I see is easily solved. Journalists tend to get caught up in breaking the story without acknowledging that this hostage was a person.

As an aspiring journalist myself, I don’t want to live in a world or immerse myself in a career where I see journalists waiting for a hostage’s death so they have the opportunity to report on the story and gain recognition.

These victims should never be commodities of media attention; they should be treated

like the brave and valiant people that they were. Each of these victims was somebody’s child, or friend, or coworker, or partner.

The media should not become the problem but instead help to solve it.

I am very saddened to hear that her death has been confirmed.

However, everyone should do Kayla justice and remember her not as a dead hostage, but as a brave, powerful and inspirational woman. Remember her as her parents spoke of her: “Kayla has devoted her career to helping those in need in countries around the world. The common thread of Kayla’s life has been her quiet leadership and strong desire to serve others.”

Sophmore journalism major Grace Fenlason contributed this letter to The Lumberjack.

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BY KATIE SAWYER

ating apps have catered to young, single individuals for years, but how successful are they at producing lasting and meaningful relationships?

Tinder and Grindr are the latest of these apps to gain popularity and are used widely by NAU students. Although both apps are open to all sexual orientations, the gay, bisexual and bi-curious communities predominantly use Grindr.

After using Grindr for over a year, freshman hotel and restaurant management major Connor De La Peña had a lot of experience with these apps.

“There is no love on apps like these.

They are just for hookups and temporary connections,” De La Peña said. “People go on Grindr thinking they are going to find the love of their life, when really people are there for sexual purposes only.”

De La Peña recalls one of the more embarrassing experiences he had using the app.

“This guy kept messaging me, but I wasn’t really into him,” De La Peña said.

Then, while at dinner with a friend of De La Peña’s, the friend unknowingly invited the same connection to lunch with them.

“So, here I am sitting at this table and across from me is this guy that I have obviously seen on Grindr before, yet never messaged back. That’s the awkward thing, is that he knows I have ignored him a lot,” De La Peña said. “I had to pretend like I’d never seen him before, and introduce myself again to him.”

Not all people agree with De La Peña’s stance on these dating apps. Freshman hotel and restaurant management major Stephanie Worstein had a much more nefarious experience on Tinder.

“I just kept using the app and eventually matched up with someone,” Worstein said.

“We got to know each other over time and then hung out together. I do not see him much anymore, but we are still friends and we still have that friendship connection that’s not just a hook-up.”

When it came to Grindr, however, Worstein had a different opinion.

“It’s entirely for hook-ups, people do not look for relationships on there,” Worstein said.

Interactions on Tinder are not always as innocent as Worstein’s experience.

Sophomore visual communication major Audrianna Breckenridge had a different experience.

“It makes me feel alone because I don’t have a significant other to celebrate it with.”

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“The day after I came to NAU, I had downloaded Tinder because I did not know anybody on campus,” Breckenridge said. “The first person I met up with through Tinder sexually assaulted me later that same night. I did not really know where things were going until it was too late. That was definitely my worst experience. It taught me a lot about being careful using those apps.”

Despite this terrifying experience, Breckenridge says she also met good friends on Tinder.

“I’d say I met more friends on Tinder than on anything else. One time, I met a guy passing through from California and we just hung out for the day,” Breckenridge said. “I still use the app pretty consistently, it’s just kind of fun to play around on. I have never taken it seriously.”

When asked if she would recommend this dating app to one of her friends, Breckenridge said, “I would recommend Tinder if somebody wanted to find people to hang out with, but not for dating.”

People have very different expectations and ideas about these apps, and there is some question as to whether they are actually effective regarding their original purpose, or for that matter, even safe to use.

“I really like that there is a lot of chocolate on sale.”

Gavin Witt

Zach Melmet, junior electronic media and film major, browses Tinder in hopes of finding a match. (Photo by CJ Penido)

“It makes me uncomfortable because my girlfriend always gets me great gifts and there is no way I can compete.”

Austin Rua “I feel like it’s just any other holiday.

You can make it special, or whatever you want from it. I usually just Netflix it but that’s me.”

Victor Martinez

“I think it’s just some madeup thing for some people to make profits off of. Why not just love people every day?”

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“I think it’s a beautiful day.

So many people are grumpy because they don’t have anyone, but you have so many people to love. Show someone you care!”

Laura Blair

“I’m in between thinking it’s a Hallmark holiday, and thinking that it can be really romantic. I love to show my family that I love them, but I don’t need a day for it.”

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BY MEGAN TROUTMAN

ome of the discovery of Pluto and first evidence of the expansion of the universe, the Lowell Observatory is one of Flagstaff ’s most alluring sites.

Located five minutes away from the NAU campus, this research facility welcomes the public to observe the solar system through night talks, interactive exhibits and special events.

Feb. 2-6 the Observatory held a special week-long event recognizing Jupiter’s opposition, the time when Earth passes between Jupiter and the sun.

Phoenix resident Jackson Forsey happened to come across the observatory during Jupiter week.

“We just kind of stumbled upon it,” Forsey said. “I had known that there was an observatory somewhere, but I didn’t know the public could go to it.”

Forsey was excited to learn more about Jupiter and what the observatory had to offer. For Jupiter week, the observatory hosted night talks specifically about the

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planet.

“We’re just here learning, I love to learn and this is a great place,” Forsey said.

“It’s cool that the community has access to this.”

Lowell brings in visitors from all over the globe, averaging about 70,000 visitors a year for the public viewing. Because a lot of foreign visitors come to the observatory, astronomers keep dictionaries in Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and several other languages.

“A lot of people from Phoenix obviously come up here on the weekends, but [also] tourists from all over,” said astronomer Brian Skiff. “I mean they all go to the Grand Canyon, so they stop here the day before or the day after. So people are from everywhere.”

Skiff has worked at the observatory for nearly 40 years and spends most of his time observing stars and asteroids. Other astronomers specialize in star formations, comets, asteroids or galaxies.

“It’s hard to be a jack of all trades because there’s so much to know,” Skiff said.

During Jupiter week, Skiff was excited for the opposition. The skies had been clear for the majority of the week, so Jupiter would be especially bright through the telescopes.

“It really doesn’t change much from night to night,” Skiff said.

For Jupiter week, public programs supervisor Emily Bevins assisted in giving nightly talks for younger groups as well as more technical talks.

“The most exciting thing is just going over to see it through a telescope,” Bevins said. “You always see these images of Jupiter in textbooks and on the Internet floating around, but it’s really cool when you can see the actual object with your eyes instead of in a picture.”

Despite popular belief, Lowell is not only a museum, but also a modern research center. Most astronomy facilities are located miles away from cities in order to avoid the city lights and pollution, which makes this center unique.

“It’s kind of confusing when you’re visiting this site because a lot of our telescopes that do research are not here, so

you don’t actually see a lot of the research happening because we had to move them away from the city of Flagstaff,” Bevins said.

When the observatory was founded in 1894, the light produced from Flagstaff was small enough that astronomers were still able to do research. Now, 121 years later, Flagstaff has grown exponentially so most of the research had to move farther from the city.

“I talked to a lot of people and they’re super surprised that we still do research here. We’re really close to the city,” Bevins said.

Despite the close proximity to city life, Lowell Observatory still thrives on locals and tourists coming to observe research and various exhibits. With a small entrance fee, anyone is welcome to learn more about the solar system.

“You have to pay to see it,” Forsey said.

“But that’s the one thing I’d love to put my money towards — learning more about the universe.”

Life

Alexandre Oliveira and Sean Gabaldon pose for a portrait on the balcony at the Carey Lynch and Courtney Davis stand near the union. Lynch and Davis met at a Union. Oliveira and Gabaldon met at party six months ago. show freshman year and then a few days later at the Hotspot.

Parker Olson and Alyssa Valenzuela hold hands and their bikes near the Union. The Toby Lopez and Kianna Pitegoff pose for a photo on central campus. Lopez and two met at swing club. “She asked me to dance,� said Olson.

Pitegoff met in a food class at NAU.

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your own Being

Feeling foreign

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s Valentine’s Day quickly approaches, I find amusement in categorizing everyone around me based on their perspective toward Valentine’s Day. First, there are the couples scrambling last minute to put together creative, yet clichéd gifts for their significant others. These gifts typically consist of overpriced chocolate — Godiva, Sees, Ghirardelli, etc. — a bouquet of roses with a heartfelt note attached, or a teddy bear the size of Jonah Hill.

Second, there are the anti-Valentine’s Day folk who dedicate much effort and attention into planning events GABI focused on the stupidity and WEISS irrelevance of the holiday.

These people usually plan these events to mask their hidden desire for sappy love that emphasizes a fairy-tale ending. These parties usually consist of black décor and a large repertoire of the world’s greatest comfort foods, which aids in each attendee eating their feelings away about love.

Then you come across people like me: people who chose to celebrate self-love. I love Valentine’s Day because this holiday gives me a reason, or maybe an excuse, to indulge in every treat and activity that I love without dulling on possible consequences or having to think twice. The more I experience life and the more I mature, the more I realize that I am my own favorite person. I am independent and need no man to make my Valentine’s Day complete. No one understands me like myself, no one knows what I like more than myself and no one knows what bothers me more than myself. So I use this holiday to take pride in who I am and reflect upon my favorite qualities that I attain as a person, while putting aside the idea of working on my flaws.

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I do this by planning out my ideal day and taking myself out on dates. This takes a lot of preparation and time to inner-reflect on who you are as a person to really figure out what you like. The night before Valentine’s Day, I begin celebrating the holiday by placing sticky notes throughout my room — each sticky note consisting of one thing I love about myself. I also call the local florist and place an order to send myself flowers. For this Valentine’s Day, I added a special addition to my celebration by setting my morning alarm tone to “Flawless” by Beyoncé.

This Saturday, I will wake up to Beyoncé feeling flawless, I will stumble upon the numerous reasons that I love myself and then I will be greeted with a dozen purple tulips sent by my secret admirer: me. Then, I will feast on heart-shaped chicken nuggets for breakfast.

Being the gym rat that I am, I will not go to the gym after this. In fact, I will enjoy the feeling of consuming a cholesterol-filled amount of saturated fats.

Following breakfast, I intend to make my way over to Target, where I will purchase carts full of Reese’s Pieces, Cookies ’n’ Crème Hershey bars, Twix bars and of course, York Patties.

All this chocolate will be eaten while watching every chick-flick on Netflix and listening to every Taylor Swift song on iTunes. My perfect day will come to an end with the purchase, and consumption of, a heart-shaped Domino’s cheese pizza for dinner and a shake from Chickfil-A for desert.

For those who are dreading the upcoming holiday, I implore you to try out the “I am my own secret admirer” method. Sometimes, life can be too busy to take a day to really appreciate your presence in this world. Assign a day, whether it is Valentine’s Day or any other ordinary day, to really admire who you are. After all, that is the best treat of all.

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ne thing I have noticed during my first week at school in Denmark is how much I feel like a foreigner. I’ve grown up in Arizona, and beside some various trips when I was younger, I haven’t ever felt entirely culturally different. Now I do. A large percentage of the time, when I’m not in class or with other international students, all I hear is Danish.

I understand what it is like to come to a foreign country and feel the need to TAYLOR blend in — because HAYNES if you don’t, someone might spot your foreign-ness, your otherness. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be foreign at all, but when you’re completely mystified by the currency, in this case the Kroner, and trying to pay a bus fare as quickly as possible, it’s easy to feel silly, or even stupid at times. When I mumble a quick “sorry,” everyone knows I’m American.

That’s another thing: I never thought about how I had an accent, but now I’m very conscious of it. I hear, very clearly — almost annoyingly — how different my English sounds from a Danish or British person speaking English. I stand out. There are not a ton of Americans here, so sometimes I feel as if I have an enormous American flag behind me with the words, “God Bless the USA,” in flashing lights above it, maybe even a couple gunshots ringing out as I walk by — because, as Europeans seem to think, all Americans love guns. In short, this

isn’t what I would like to necessarily be associated with, thus my desire to blend in.

However, I have also become proud of being American, despite the stereotypes that are sometimes thrust upon American travelers. Danes are more often than not very interested in hearing about Arizona and my studies. I’ve become proud of the fact that I live very close to the Grand Canyon and love describing, to most people’s surprise, the winter storms my hometown gets. As I describe the pine trees and the desert in all of its unique beauty I find myself missing home — even though I thought I wouldn’t.

I have a bright green jacket that I brought with me for the cooler months.

It’s a little too big for me, has a bright plaid lining and isn’t all that subtle. It’s not necessarily the jacket that I would have chosen to bring if I knew how much I wanted to blend in with Danish people; they all wear black or grey. So I’m sure you can imagine me, lost or possibly chasing the bus, in my giant green jacket — a spot of color in a sea of black, navy and grey jackets.

I was joking with a Danish friend about this jacket and how much it stands out. She laughed and commented, “Sometimes I think it is good for the Danish people to be challenged.” I thought about what she had said for a long time and I have come to realize that my difference, my status as a foreigner, isn’t such a bad thing.

From this point on, I’m going to embrace my differences, embrace the Kroner and embrace my green jacket.

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The Harlem Globetrotters visited NAU Feb. 6 on their 2015 “Washington Generals’ Revenge” Tour to put on a show to the locals in Flagstaff. The Globetrotters played against their longtime rivals, the Washington Generals, a team they haven’t lost to since 1971.

The Globetrotters wowed the crowd with game tricks and creative dunks, and even got the crowd involved in the fun.

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Men’s lacrosse entering new era with coaching staff

TOP: Junior midfielder Jeff Gibb attacks on the start of a play during practice Feb. 6. The Lumberjacks are preparing for their 2015 season, which will start Feb. 13.

BOTTOM LEFT: Freshman attackman Sean Mastro looks to pass during practice. BOTTOM RIGHT: The NAU club lacrosse team huddles to discuss plays during practice. (Photos by Cory Walters)

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his season, the focus will be on winning the Southwestern Lacrosse Conference (SLC) for the NAU men’s lacrosse team. The Lumberjacks are determined to be ranked in the top 25 nationally for the first time in their program. Last season the team was given multiple honorable mention votes throughout the year, but was never able to crack the top 25.

The preseason polls have already been released for this season, and NAU has received five honorable mention votes to make it into the top 25.

With the largest freshman class that the program has ever seen, there is a lot of talent and confidence on the team.

“We have so much talent on our offense that we flow very well by simply putting in strategies, as opposed to detailed plays,” said junior midfielder Jeff Gibb.

The Lumberjacks have added around 20 freshmen this year, and also have a new coaching staff.

Head coach John Westfall is working for NAU for the first time this year, and plans on taking the Jacks to the SLC championship. In addition to Westfall, assistant coach Dylan

Schneider will also be working with the team this year.

Schneider is a student at NAU and a former defenseman for the team.

“Besides a few veterans, we’re a whole new team,” Gibb said.

Some of the new freshmen on the team to keep an eye out for this season are attackmen Adam Zimmerman and Cody Essary, midfielder Marco Silva and long stick middle Donnie Ritter.

“We have an amazing group of freshmen this year, and I’m excited to play with such talented guys and make each other better,” said senior midfielder Riley Horton.

Although the Jacks have quite a few freshmen, they are returning a few all-conference selections from last season. Along with Gibb and Horton, sophomore all-conference goaltender Ian Smith will be back in the lineup for NAU. Holding down the defense for the Jacks are sophomore Tilghman Tuebner and juniors Jake Cowin and Mike Franscell.

“We have so much talent and such a big roster that we plan to use our speed, depth and athleticism to overpower our opponents,” Horton said.

The lacrosse team was revived in 2011 by a few of the current players, in hopes to carry on their passion of playing lacrosse.

“All I wanted to do was play lacrosse again,” Horton said.

“The past four years, my reasons for playing haven’t changed, and bringing this program to the national stage is something we want, and all hope for.”

Gibb thinks the team is prepared for its first game of the season against the University of New Mexico Feb.13. NAU beat New Mexico 30–4 in the fall, so the Jacks are confident they can win again.

“We can’t take anything for granted though, so we are still doing our best to be sure we’re ready for them,” Gibb said.

After NAU plays New Mexico, the Jacks will take on the Skyhawks of Fort Lewis Feb. 14. This is a game NAU has circled on its calendar, because over the years the games between these two schools have been very competitive. NAU is 2-4 against Fort Lewis since the 2007 season, but will look to get a win on the road in its season-opening tournament.

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Lumberjacks get two conference wins improving to 7-3 in Big Sky

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BY BRIAN WADE

he NAU men’s basketball team extended its winning streak to four games after defeating the University of North Dakota for the first time at home under head coach Jack Murphy Feb. 7.

In a complete team effort, three Lumberjacks scored in double figures, led by sophomore guard Kris Yanku who finished with a game-high 26 points, nine assists and six rebounds in a resounding 88–63 win over North Dakota.

“Honestly, I just kept penetrating and [Dixon] was just wide open every time, I don’t know what happened to [North Dakota] defensively, but he was wide open,” Yanku said.

The victory is the first to come at home for NAU against North Dakota since North Dakota joined the Big Sky Conference (BSC) in 2012-2013 season.

“I was proud of the effort tonight,” Murphy said. “I was really proud that the guys took a punch from North Dakota, and the way we just attacked and went right at them to put it out of reach early.”

NAU took control of the game during the last five minutes of the first half and never looked back, ending on an emphatic 16-2 run that gave NAU its largest lead of the game, 53–24.

“Once Aaseem hits a shot, once [Quinton Upshur] gets a shot, I think it does get us all going,” Yanku said. “Guys see Aaseem and [Upshur] playing their best, it causes all of [us] to step up and elevate our game, and that’s what I think happened tonight.”

Dixon continued his hot hand from beyond the arc,

knocking down 5-7 in the first half alone to lead the Jacks to their highest-scoring half of the season to date.

“I was just hoping [North Dakota] would be more focused on Kris since he is one of [BSC’s] best penetrators, and today he was just finding me,” Dixon said.

NAU led for 35 minutes of the game, and North Dakota was never able to gain a footing in the game with the Lumberjacks scoring almost at will.

The Lumberjacks escaped with a 65–60 victory Feb. 5 against Northern Colorado on a night where they shot 36.5 percent from the field.

NAU snapped a four-game losing streak to Northern Colorado that dates back to the BSC quarterfinals last season, when the Lumberjacks lost 62–60.

Upshur led the charge for the Jacks, scoring almost half of NAU’s points with 31 and grabbing eight rebounds.

“I’ve been putting some extra work with some of the coaches to try and get a better rhythm, and it seems like it’s been paying off,” Upshur said.

The Bears jumped out to a quick lead, forcing the Jacks to cough up the ball five times within the first two minutes of play.

“We came out of the gates and we looked like we were stuck in quicksand,” Murphy said.

NAU took a slim 29–25 lead into halftime, largely due to Upshur’s hot hand and the Jacks’ ability to capitalize at the charity stripe.

Upshur was essentially the NAU offense throughout the first half, connecting on 3 of 4 from beyond the arc, and accounting for 16 of NAU’s 29 first-half points.

Senior guard Aaseem Dixon crosses-over a defender from the University of North Dakota Feb. 7. NAU went on to win the game 88–63 to improve their record to 12-11. (Photo by Robert Tyler Walker)

NAU out-rebounded Northern Colorado 41-29 in the game, with 13 of those coming on the offensive end.

Senior forward Zachary Reynolds was the anchor for NAU defensively, finishing with career highs in points and rebounds.

“We just didn’t come out with the energy that we should have to start this game, and Zach came off the bench and provided it tonight,” Murphy said.

Northern Colorado was able to stay in the game behind sophomore guard Cameron Michael’s hot hand from 3-point range, where he scored 18 of his 22 points.

Leading 58–57 with 1:40 remaining, Upshur hit a clutch three in the corner to give the Jacks a two-possession lead 61– 57.

Northern Colorado hit a couple free throws and made a layup to get within two points with 30 seconds left in the game.

The Bears had a chance to close the gap, but Reynolds came through on the defensive end with perhaps the biggest block of his career to secure the win.

The weekend sweep improves the Lumberjacks’ record to 12-11 and 7-3 in the BSC. The Jacks now go on the road to face two sub-.500 teams in the BSC, Idaho State Feb. 12, followed by Weber State Feb. 14.

NAU has played both teams already, beating Idaho State and losing to Weber State.

Senior forward Len Springs goes up against Jeremy Verhagen in the tipoff Feb. 5. NAU beat Northern Colorado 65–60. (Photo by Robert Tyler Walker)

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Women’s basketball splits road trip

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BY HAYDEN KNUDSEN

he NAU women’s basketball team split its road series as the Lumberjacks dropped a 68–72 decision to North Dakota Feb. 7, and pulled out a win against Northern Colorado 51–49 Feb. 5. The Jacks have struggled on the road all season long, and are now 1-8 away from the Skydome.

NAU had a much harder time on defense in its game against North Dakota, as the Jacks allowed their opponent to shoot at a 59 percent clip throughout the night and were outrebounded 41-28.

“We didn’t pack our defensive game today, so we need to get that back because we have a big week coming up,” said head coach Sue Darling. “The numbers I’m most concerned about is that they scored 78 points on 59 percent shooting, and they shot 43 percent from three. Our defense didn’t show up today, and it’s a matter of figuring out why and how to get it back.”

This loss snaps a three-game winning streak for the Jacks and puts them at 5-5 in conference play, good enough for the sixth spot in the Big Sky Conference.

The Lumberjacks were led by sophomore guard Brittani Lusain, who scored 14 points and grabbed three rebounds, while senior forward Raven Anderson added 10 points and seven boards. NAU also got a substantial boost from junior

guard Monique Mulder who had 10 points, three rebounds and five assists.

The Jacks fared much better defensively against Northern Colorado, and were able to score consistently to pull out the win. NAU finished the night shooting just about 39.6 percent from the floor, which is just above its season average of 39.5 percent.

The offense is not what won the game for the Jacks, however, as the defense had a great performance. NAU’s defense made a crucial defensive stop to end a potential game-tying effort by Northern Colorado Stephanie Lee with three seconds left in the game.

The Lumberjacks forced the Bears to turn the ball over 14 times and kept Northern Colorado’s shooting percentage under 32 percent on 57 shots.

“We absolutely did it with our defensive rebounding tonight,” Darling said. “We came up with some big stops at the end of the game. Our defense really came through big for us.”

The Jacks were led by Anderson, who scored 14 points and had four boards in just 23 minutes off the bench. NAU received big contributions again from Lusain and senior forward Erikka Banks, both who scored 13 points and combined for 18 rebounds together.

NAU will look to break .500 in conference with two big games at home next week, the first coming against Idaho State Feb. 12. The Lumberjacks will look for redemption, as they lost to the Bengals in a heartbreaker earlier this season. Tip-off will be at 6:30 p.m.

Junior guard Monique Mulder looks for an open teammate against Montana State in the Walkup Skydome Jan. 24. The Jacks won 79–64. (Photo by Ryan J Wesson)

Menʼs tennis goes 0-2 in opening weekend

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Senior Jordan Gobatie returns the ball during the March 30, 2014 match against Montana at Enchantment Resort in Sedona. Gobatie finished last season with a 12-9 singles record and a 13-6 doubles record. Men’s tennis finished 13-9 this past season, and lost in the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference Championships. (Photo by Evan Jon Paniagua)

BY RICHIE TRUNZO

he opening weekend for the NAU men’s tennis team resulted in back-to-back losses Feb. 6-7.

NAU lost to Arizona 7–0 Feb. 6, and 6–1 against Utah State Feb. 7.

“For our first matches, I thought that we were competitive against some tough teams,” said head coach Ki Kroll.

“I thought we accomplished what we wanted this weekend.”

Utah State fared well against NAU, and took an early 1–0 lead by winning the first two doubles matches.

With their backs against the wall, the Lumberjacks needed to pick it up in singles play to stay competitive in the match. Instead, the Lumberjacks lost their first three singles matches, which gave the Aggies the win. Utah State won with a 6–0, 6–3 singles win over NAU freshman Adi Zilberstein.

Senior Kester Black gained the only point of the day for NAU with a comeback win against Utah State senior Marcus Fritz. Black lost the first set 1–6, but rallied back to win the second set 6–4, and battled hard for the 10–8 win

in the third.

“I was really close to losing, I just had to completely change the way that I was playing,” Black said. “Even though we had already lost the match, I just started to relax and go for it. It paid off, and felt good to get the first win of the season.”

The loss to Utah State, by comparison, was an improvement to NAU’s loss against Arizona the previous day.

The Lumberjacks were unable to earn any points in their season-opening match against the Wildcats.

UA took a quick lead in the match by winning the first two doubles matches to take an early 1–0 lead.

Freshman Felix Schumann and Tomas Hons lost the first doubles match 6–1, quickly followed by senior Jordan Gobatie and sophomore Alex Locci who also lost 6–1.

The Lumberjacks were not able to compete with the Wildcats throughout the remainder of the day, and as the match progressed further into singles play, the deficit continued to grow.

UA sealed the win only three matches into singles play as NAU freshman Jackson Lee took a 6–3, 6–2 loss to UA junior Trevor James.

“I think everyone could have definitely played better,” Black said. “It was our first match in a long time, so we kind of struggled during the games.”

Although the Lumberjacks could not stay in the match with their opponent, they saw solid play from many players, including four freshmen.

The match was the first taste of collegiate tennis for the freshmen who got the chance to play.

Schumann was the standout of the day as he came the closest to winning his singles match, but eventually lost 7–5, 7–6 at the four position.

“You always want to win, obviously, but the matches this weekend showed that we have some good players on our team, and we’re only going to get better as we go,” Kroll said.

The Lumberjacks will travel back to Tucson Feb. 13 to play against Nevada and look to get their first win of the season.

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LEFT: Future Present sculpture by T.J. Hogan at the 2015 School of Art Faculty Exhibition opening reception Thursday Feb. 5, 2015 in Old Main. TOP RIGHT: The NAU Art Museum features DRIB sculpture collection by Elisa Wiedeman. BOTTOM RIGHT: If I Only Had a Uterus (We Know What is Best for You) painting by David Williams hangs on the wall in the NAU Art Museum in Old Main. (Photos by Sunday Miller)

Faculty takes on social issues at NAU Art Museum

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BY TYLER MIRANDA AND GRACE FENLASON

AU Art Museum is premiering its first exhibition of the spring semester with the 2015 Faculty Art Exhibition. The various art pieces on display are mixed media created by School of Art faculty. This annual event brought many people to Old Main Feb. 5 for the opening reception.

“The School of Art Faculty Exhibition has been an annual event for many years,” said senior museum specialist Ty Miller. “I

have been at the museum for about 10 or 11 years, and the annual event was occurring long before my time under various titles, as the fine art department has changed names over the years.”

Some of the most popular art pieces were a series of paintings titled Cop/Killer

by Jeriah Hildwine. It depicted the faces of people distorted with blue and red colors, symbolizing the lights of police cars. The small canvases were displayed near the floor, each a half-inch apart from the next. “[The paintings] are based on the recent spate of officer-involved fatal

shootings, both locally and nationally, as well as some older incidents,” Hildwine said. “The portraits include officers killed in the line of duty, the civilians who killed them, civilians killed by the police and the officers involved.”

A lot of the artists attended the event and stood proudly next to their submissions.

This gave the crowd of students, faculty and Flagstaff citizens a chance to pick the artists’ brains.

Keef Reyes, a freshman who attended the gallery, expressed his gratitude for NAU bringing more art to the campus.

“I don’t really see a lot of art exhibits on campus,” Reyes said. “It was nice to see teachers who actually work on campus display their work, not to mention that the art is extremely interesting.”

Another popular piece was Nocturnal

by Kris Waid-Jones. The sculpture featured a bed lifted up on a pole. In the middle of the bed is a sinkhole that keeps going past the sculptured bed frame down into the pedestal it was displayed on.

The faculty show is available for viewing until Feb. 28 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

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NAU play teaches about the rebirth of love

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BY CHARLOTTE EVANS

et ready to hurdle through all the deep and heavy emotions situated on the spectrum of the human heart. Coming this Valentine’s Day to the NAU Studio Theatre is the emotional and evocative play Touch directed by student Rob Barnes. Barnes is a senior theatre major and is in his third year as a graphic design major as well.

Written in 1999, Touch takes place is a modern-day drama told from the perspective of a young man named Kyle who has lost his wife, Zoe, through great tragedy.

Although it is purely coincidental that this play is showing on Valentine’s Day, many of the themes center on the idea of love.

In a general sense, the play concentrates on some of the darker tones of love and loss — death in particular.

However, it also explores growth and change as a human throughout life’s challenges.

“In one sentence, this show is about coping with emotional trauma and chaos and how events that are not planned will rock you to your core,” Barnes said.

The idea of coping is perhaps the biggest focus

throughout the play. The notion that love can be reborn, even in the ruins of tragedy, and can pick us up off our feet, is powerfully portrayed. The play deals with subjects highly relatable for young teens and adults today.

In fact, Barnes chose to direct this play as his senior theatre capstone project and it is highly personal to him.

“Even after reading through the script and watching rehearsals time and time again, I still get all the emotions,” Barnes said. “I can relate to every one of these characters in some way or another.”

Kyle goes through many different stages of grief in trying to work through the chaos in his life after losing Zoe. His character reaches out to the audience and makes them feel his process of pain and sorrow.

“People should come see the play because it’s very relatable,” said sophomore mechanical engineering and business major Kevin LoGrande. “Lines are worded so well they can be applicable to any situation.”

Playing his first dramatic role, LoGrande found getting into the mindset of his character and being so vulnerable was difficult.

LoGrande said Barnes has really helped him grow as

an actor and is a great director.

Barnes has been acting since the age of five and Touch is the second play he has directed. His experience both on and off the stage has allowed him to help his actors bring this play to life.

This play has a lot to offer its audience. Set as central staging, in which the audience surrounds the stage, there is a different perspective and therefore a different experience for each person in the audience.

Because of such an intimate setting, the audience really gets to connect to the main character, experience every emotion and relate on a deep and personal level.

“Expect to empathize and feel a lot of emotions, there is at least one character or situation or one emotion in which one can relate to,” said theatre studies and Spanish secondary education major Karie Cloud. “Everyone can get an emotional experience from the play.”

According to the NAU theatre department, Touch is “a gripping, heart-wrenching, tender drama” and will be playing in the Studio Theatre Feb. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.

NAU freshmen Karie Cloud and Aidian Cipra, sophomore Kevin LoGrande, junior Audrey Young and senior and director Rob Barnes rehearse for Touch in the Studio Theater Feb. 6. (Photo by Thuy Tran)

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Our picks for best love and break-up songs Breakup songs 1.“Tiny Vessels” Death Cab for Cutie 2. “Yesterday” The Beatles 3. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Joy Division 4. “Just a Friend” Biz Markie 5. “Nothing Compares 2 U” Sinead O’Conner 6. “Thinkin’ Bout You” Frank Ocean 7. “Ain’t No Sunshine (When She’s Gone)” Bill Withers 8. “Silver Springs” Fleetwood Mac 9. “Graceland” Paul Simon 10. “Miss You” Blink-182 11. “Unfaithful” Rihanna 12. “If You See Her Say Hello” Bob Dylan 13. “Pictures of You” The Cure 14. “Heartbeat” Childish Gambino 15. “When a Heart Breaks” Ben Rector 16. “Marvin’s Room” Drake 17. “Just My Imagination” The Temptations 18. “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” The Smiths 19. “Friends, Lovers Or Nothing” John Mayer 20. “Tracks of My Tears”Smokey Robinson 30 The Lumberjack | Jackcentral.org

Getting it on songs Getting over it songs 1. “Bump and Grind” R. Kelly 2. “Pony” Ginuwine 3. “Let’s Get It On” Marvin Gaye 4. “Climax” Usher 5. “We Looked Like Giants” Death Cab For Cutie 6. “Bed” J. Holiday 7. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” Led Zeppelin 8. “Sexual Healing” Marvin Gaye 9. “Slow Jamz” Kanye West 10. “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Baby” Barry White 11. “All of Me” John Legend 12. “Rock the Boat” Aaliyah 13. “Often” The Weeknd 14. “Let’s Do It Again” The Staple Singers 15. “Darling Nikki” Prince 16. “Bold As Love” Jimi Hendrix 17. “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” The Beatles 18. “Slow Motion” Juvenile 19. “You Rock My World” Michael Jackson 20. “Shut Up and Dance” Walk the Moon

1. “No Scrubs” TLC 2. “Irreplaceable” Beyoncé 3. “F*** You” Lily Allen 4. “I Will Survive” Gloria Gaynor 5. “You’re So Vain” Carly Simon 6. “Cry Me a River” Justin Timberlake 7. “Somebody That I Used to Know” Gotye 8. “F*** You” Cee Lo Green 9. “Another One Bites The Dust” Queen 10. “Obsessed” Mariah Carey 11. “We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together” Taylor Swift 12. “Bye, Bye, Bye” NSYNC 13. “Single Ladies” Beyoncé 14. “Karma” Alicia Keys 15. “Survivor” Destiny’s Child 16. “F*** It” Eamon 17. “B**** Don’t Kill My Vibe” Kendrick Lamar 18. “I Don’t F*** With You” Big Sean 19. “Love is a Battlefield” Pat Benatar 20. “You Oughta Know” Alanis Morrisette

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