The Lumberjack--Feb. 22, 2018

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T H E L U M BE R JACK

FEB. 22, 2018 – FEB. 28, 2018

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From the Editor

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ncertainty seems to be the theme of this year.

The news is full of stories that spark fear in their readers. In fact, we see so much tragedy and terror in the news these days that we’re becoming either desensitized to it or fearful that it will happen to us. With tragedies like the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and other shootings, assaults and armed robberies that have happened recently in our little community of Flagstaff, it can be easy to let fear control our every move. I think most of this fear stems from uncertainty, and the fact that we don’t know what the future holds or how to control it. Obviously, not all of us are walking around terrified that we will be the victim of some heinous crime, but we are afraid of the unknown.

On a personal level, we are unsure what our lives will look like, what our country will be facing or what will be going on in the world a year from now. And that scares us.

I’m no stranger to uncertainty. I’m one of the most indecisive people you’ll ever meet. I’ve changed my major five or six times since I’ve been in college, and even now, 78 days before graduation, I’m not 100 percent sure about what I want to do MIKAYLA with my life. And guess what? It’s OK. We need excitement and variety to keep SHOUP things interesting. What’s the fun in knowing exactly what the future holds?

ASST. NEWS EDITOR Graduation is rapidly approaching, and as a graduating senior myself, I am painfully aware of how scary it is to have no clue what my life will look like in a few months from now. I’m not going to lie — it’s terrifying. Thoughts of “Where will I live?” and “Will I have a job?” are always in the back of my mind.

Here’s the thing. Worrying has never fixed anything, ever. Do you know what does produce results? Action. It’s time for us to stop limiting ourselves to worrying about the future, and time to jump into life with both feet. Take that risk, apply for that job, talk to that person, shoot for the prize.

If you don’t succeed, oh well. Move on to another dream, but never give up.

We can’t control the future. We can nudge our own future in a certain direction, but we can’t be sure that we’ll be successful. This uncertainty shouldn’t make us afraid to try. Instead, we should do the only thing we can do and work hard toward our goals. We should celebrate when we meet them and cry when we don’t, but in the end, we should just enjoy the ride. Because the only things we can control in life are our own choices and actions, and we should choose to live life to the fullest, regardless of how afraid we are. Fear and uncertainty may be part of reality, but that’s not the end of the story.

Instead of letting the fear of the unknown control you, let it motivate you.

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- David Howley, lead singer, guitarist and banjoist for the band We BaNjo 3, 2018

Celtic bluegrass band We Banjo 3 performs at Sinagua Middle School in Flagstaff Feb. 15.

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Thank you for reading.

Director of Circulation Asst. Culture Editor Luis Gardetto Ashley Besing

“we all need more banjos in this world.”

Senior Photographer Michael Patacsil

On the cover Cars wait at a busy intersection with the iconic San Francisco Peaks in the background Feb 18.

Flagstaff is rapidly developing, causing an increase in traffic and housing demands.

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Corrections & Clarifications The Lumberjack is committed to factual correctness and accuracy. If you find an error in our publication, please email Megan Troutman at mlt273@nau.edu.

PoliceBeat Feb. 12 At 2:04 p.m., a student called to report a stolen bicycle — a yellow Specialized mountain bike. An NAUPD officer responded and took a report, but the case was closed after all leads were exhausted.

At 2:18 p.m., a student reported her vehicle was burglarized at the Skyview Parking Garage. An NAUPD officer responded and opened an investigation.

At 3:20 p.m., a residence hall director at McConnell Hall reported the odor of marijuana.

NAUPD responded, and one student was cited for possession and another was criminally deferred for use.

At 10:05 p.m., a subject called to report a possible firearm at Mountain View Hall. NAUPD responded, but nothing was found.

Feb. 13 At 5:24 a.m., a possible heart attack occurred at Drury Inn. An NAUPD officer, the FFD and a Guardian Medical Transport (GMT) ambulance responded. The non-student was transported to FMC for medical treatment.

At 10:04 a.m., an NAUPD officer was investigating a suspicious vehicle at the intersection of Beaver Street and University Avenue. The subject was just fixing something inside the vehicle. Everything was fine.

At 12:21 p.m., a subject reported to FPD a stray dog on campus near parking lot 16.

An NAUPD officer responded, and no dog, stray or otherwise, was found.

Valentine’s Day At 9:02 a.m., a student at the San Francisco Parking

Garage reported a student in a vehicle with a knife. NAUPD responded for a welfare check and took a report. Counseling Services and North Country HealthCare were notified.

Compiled by Chandler Coiner at lot 13B. An NAUPD officer responded but couldn’t find any suspicious activity.

At 7:36 p.m., a subject reported a traffic sign in a bathroom at McConnell Hall.

At 11:54 a.m., a staff An NAUPD officer responded, member reported a non- and took the sign to NAUPD student yelling at vehicles on for safekeeping. the road. NAUPD responded, but the non-student was gone Feb. 17 when NAUPD arrived.

At 1:58 p.m., a staff member reported finding a Feb. 15 receipt for ammunition at At 7:44 a.m., a staff Taylor Hall. An NAUPD member reported a vehicle officer responded and left in the parking lot at attempted to contact the Drury Inn for several days. resident, but found no one.

NAUPD responded, and it was determined that the vehicle At 7:24 p.m., a student was abandoned, and Drury reported their friend being Inn staff advised it could be followed on campus. NAUPD towed. responded, and interviewed the caller. The investigation is At 8:24 a.m., a staffer ongoing. reported damage to the San Francisco Parking Garage. An At 11:53 p.m., a subject NAUPD officer responded and reported a student lying on the cited one student for failure ground outside Gabaldon Hall. to remain on scene after an An NAUPD officer responded, accident and criminal damage. and the student was cited for a minor in consumption.

At 2:47 p.m., an NAU staff member reported a nonFeb. 18 student yelling at people near At 12:04 p.m., a staffer Old Main. NAUPD responded reported subjects sliding down but found nothing when they the side of the Skydome. An arrived.

NAUPD officer responded, but the subjects had already At 10:03 p.m., a subject slid away from the scene. reported someone setting up fireworks near McConnell At 9:02 p.m., an NAUPD Hall, possibly a bottle rocket. officer reported the odor An NAUPD officer responded, of marijuana at the Knoles but nothing was found.

Parking Garage. Additional NAUPD support arrived. One Feb. 16 student was cited and released At 9:13 a.m., a student for possession of drugs, and reported a hit-and-run collision another student was criminally near Hilltop Townhomes. An deferred for drug possession.

NAUPD officer responded and opened an investigation.

At 10:28 p.m., an RA at Ernest Calderón Learning At 4:18 p.m., a subject Community reported two reported a tow truck blocking non-residents in the dorm. parking spots and apparently NAUPD responded, and waiting for students to leave the subjects were warned of to put a boot on their vehicles trespassing.

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NEWS

Florida shooting renews national debate on gun control Chandler Coiner

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he hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, an AR-15 rifle, and now, 17 counts of premeditated murder — these are the components of the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook five years ago.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, confessed to police that he “began shooting students he saw in the hallways,” according to an arrest report released Feb. 15.

The Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Florida, has renewed a nationwide discussion on gun control and its efficiency. Survivors of the Parkland shooting are calling on Congress and President Trump to act and pass meaningful gun reform. Several protests and marches have already been staged since the shooting and more are scheduled.

The Women’s March organization has also called for a national school walkout on March 14.

“We are not safe at school. We are not safe in our cities and towns,” the Women’s March organization said in a statement.

“Congress must take meaningful action to keep us safe and pass federal gun reform legislation that address the public health crisis of gun violence.”

The Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit organization, collects and documents every gun-related incident in the Unites States in the years since Sandy Hook. The organization defines an incident as anything from a killing to a brandishing with a weapon. There have been 2,618 school and gun-related incidents, 151 deaths and 353 injuries from Feb. 16, 2014, to Feb. 16, 2018, in the U.S. South Carolina topped the charts at 22.78 school incidents per 1 million people. Arizona, with 28 incidents in the past four years, had as few as 4.04 incidents per 1 million people, ranking number 47 in the nation.

But Arizona is somewhat of an exception. The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, whose namesake is based on Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was a near-fatal victim of gun violence, ranks states on their gun control laws. There is a noticeable correlation between the rate of a state’s school- and gun-related incidents and its grade letter.

According to the organization’s 2016 scorecard, Arizona ranks 47 in the nation for its gun control, scoring an “F.” California ranked the highest with an “A.” The five states with the highest number of shooting incidents were South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kentucky and Alabama. All five received an “F” from the Giffords Law Center for their gun control. The five states with the lowest number of shooting incidents were Hawaii, New Jersey, California, New York and Maine. These states received an A-, A-, A, A- and F, respectively.

These findings reflect a common feeling toward U.S. law: Gun control does reduce incidents, even in school scenarios.

“Every single person up here today, all these people, should be at home grieving, but instead we are up here, standing together because if all our government and president can do is send ‘thoughts and prayers,’ then it’s time for victims to be the change that we need to see,” said Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the

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Illustration By Katie Gould

Parkland shooting, in a televised speech. “The guns have changed, and the laws have not.”

Ninety-six of the 2,618 school- and gun-related incidents over the past four years were deadly, or 3.6 percent of the incidences.

Flagstaff and NAU added no small contributors to Arizona’s statistics. Steven Jones, the former NAU student, who killed one person and injured three others in October 2015. The count of victims in the Jones shooting account for four out of nine of the injured and killed individuals in Arizona school incidents in the past four years. In terms of number of victims, the shooting was in the top 16 for school and gun-related incidents in the U.S. in the past four years.

However, Jones’ gun was obtained and stored legally, continuing to raise questions about Arizona gun control law.

“In 2016, Arizona weakened its gun laws by enacting laws prohibiting schools from restricting guns on public rights of way and imposing liability against officials who violate preemption.

The state has little in the way of common sense gun policy and a correspondingly high gun death rate,” according to The Giffords Law Center.

The center recommends requiring background checks on all gun sales, allowing local governments to pass their own gun laws and impose a waiting period as ways to improve the state’s gun control.

But schools continue to be the target of mass shootings.

Heather Newell is the principal at the Sheridan Terrace Elementary School, a part of Norwin School District in Pennsylvania.

“I’m very, very conscious of walking out to my car late in the evening when I’ve been working all day dealing with a situation

that a parent doesn’t appreciate,” said Newell. “Who’s going to be by my car? Are these lights on in the parking lot? I think about that a lot. I think about our doors and our security. Just in the past five years, I find myself thinking about it a lot.”

Newell became principal of her school around the time of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were shot inside the elementary school. The shooter also killed his mother at their home.

Newell has all the skills needed to be successful principal.

Staff management, a creative and caring mind, and of course, police and military training.

Newell’s school partners with a local organization to, every other year, have active-shooter training for her staff and faculty.

With the adults trained, students in fourth grade and higher are trained to use their desks to barricade doors instead of the decadeold drills of hiding under desks with the lights out — or the duckand-cover drills of the 1950s and 1960s.

“In our building, even though we act as principal, and secretary, and custodian and head teacher, whatever our roles are, during a crisis situation we have been trained to then assume these other roles,” Newell said. “We have been trained to know what to do.”

Norwin School District uses the ALICE response system to train its individuals: alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. This is a far cry, Newell said, from the system put in place a decade ago that had everyone hiding in classrooms hoping for the “bad guy” to pass.

Even school architecture has adapted to accommodate the seemingly new normal of school shootings. The main office in schools used to be in the center of the school, but this has changed, putting the main office at the front of the building to

NEWS help stop any potential threats from entering.

Cameras have also been installed in not just high schools, but middle and elementary schools as well.

“For the last six years, I’ve been at the elementary level, so we don’t worry as much about kids as certainly the secondary folk do,” Newell said. “I think they actually worry more about kids causing terror than maybe adults.”

As of Feb. 20, six days since the Parkland shooting, there have been 24 school- and gunrelated incidents in the U.S., four of them in Arizona. Two students in the Phoenix-metro area and one from western Arizona were arrested

and held for bringing guns to campus. All three happened since Parkland, and all three firearms were stored in the students’ vehicles. The firearms were not discharged, and one student said he carried it for personal protection, but did not have issues with anyone at school, according to The Arizona Republic. Congress has proposed no gun control legislation since the Parkland shooting, and has yet to vote on the proposed ban on bump stocks. But on Feb. 20, Trump directed the U.S. Justice Department to ban gun modifications, like bump stocks used in the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 in October 2017.

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Multi-term enrollment frustrates students Chandler Coiner

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ulti-Term Enrollment — the program that has NAU students registering for a full year of classes in one semester — rolled out this spring term and has disappointed many students.

Multi-term enrollment lets students enroll for fall 2018, but they will also be able to enroll in summer 2018, winter 2018 and spring 2019 courses, according to the Office of the Registrar.

Registering for those additional periods is not immediately mandatory, but the program — including the Registrar’s website — encourages students to do so to get into the classes before they inevitably fill up.

Essentially, multi-term enrollment pushes students to plan ahead twice as far out as they normally would.

And now, students — and faculty — are petitioning to repeal the multi-term enrollment program, too, albeit many after recently learning it exists in the first place.

Leanna Wynne, sophomore comparative cultural studies major, began collecting signatures Feb. 12 as part of a campaign to stop multi-term enrollment. Wynne plans to send the petition signatures, along with a letter, to Cheng to illustrate students’ displeasure with the program.

“My main argument is ... it is really stressful for students to have to plan an entire year of college when a lot of them don’t even know what they want to do with their lives or their careers,” said Wynne. “College is supposed to be a very exploratory time for students, and this is really forcing them down one path rather than trying to explore different interests and try out different majors and minors.”

By Feb. 23, Wynne had collected over 378

signatures over the course of only four days, and that number is still growing.

Many of the students Wynne, along with junior political science major Alexis Fleming, solicited signatures from were unaware of the program, despite its imminent effect on the way students will be thinking about and signing up for classes. Many thought the program would be a good thing, at least until Wynne and Fleming elucidated the drawbacks.

One major complication with the program, Wynne said, is that students transferring in from other schools and starting at NAU in the spring will be significantly behind others in enrolling in the classes they need.

Junior biology major Nik Ineich, a petition signer, came close to having that exact problem.

“I’ve got a lot of friends that have transferred in random years and had they waited a year to transfer — I had to transfer back,” said Ineich. “Because I was gone for a year and a half, and I came back, and I had to start over, you know? Not all of my credits from my community college transferred over. There’s still some trickle down that I could get affected by, and if my friends or had I had chosen to come back a year later, I could’ve been screwed out of some classes.”

Ineich’s problems with the NAU administration extend beyond just classes, and multi-term enrollment was just another decision he disagrees with.

“To me, logistically, it will back things up more than it will help things,” Ineich said.

Not all students were completely critical of multi-term enrollment, though. Sophomore biology major Allison Baldwin is eager to finish her undergrad and thinks the program can be a nice convenience to help her out.

“I have it easier because I do have priority enrollment, so I don’t usually have to worry about whether or not I’m going to get my classes,” said Baldwin. “So, this kind of thing for me is a good thing because I can get all my classes right away, and I’ll know ‘Oh, I’m going to have my capstone for next year and I’m going to have all the classes that I need to graduate.’”

B a l d w i n acknowledge, because she has priority enrollment, the program’s benefit to her would mostly be the convenience factor. She signed the petition against multi-term enrollment anyway for other students’ sake.

Wynne said she understands the possibility that Cheng will likely ignore the petition and go through with the program, but still hopes to get the word out about it and be a voice for student concerns.

Faculty grievances, however, with the program began early. The NAU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) sent a letter to the chair of the Faculty Grievance Committee in January, part of it addressing the administration’s circumvention of the Faculty Senate on important academic issues — one of which was multi-term enrollment.

The letter took issue with the “rushed implementation” of multi-term enrollment,

being that much of the process for implementation happened during summer 2017 when fewer faculty were on contract and able to participate, and the lack of evidence provided

by President Rita Cheng and Provost Dan Kain that the program will have a positive effect.

“Should not the same standards apply to academic leadership that we, as faculty, have applied to us by the state and administration, yet they remain blithely untethered to demonstrating efficacy for such major changes to our university?” read the letter authored by AAUP-NAU Co-Chairs Robert Schehr and Heather Martel.

NAU spokesperson Kim Ott said the university does not comment on ongoing grievances.

Faculty Senate President Gioia Woods said the administration did not properly consult with Faculty Senate essentially until multi-term enrollment was a “done deal” and the Facutly Senate had never seen “convincing evidence” in the form of data showing the plan was appropriate for NAU. “We are consistently and in good faith reminding the administration that faculty has primary responsibility for the domain of curriculum,” said Woods. “Multi-term enrollment and centralized scheduling — particularly centralized scheduling of classrooms — is a curricular issue. We were not fully consulted as this was developing. I’m not saying the administration was doing things with bad intent; I’m sure the administration has all good intentions for improving student retention and progress toward graduation, but they just did not consult faculty and involve faculty in a way that respected faculty control over the domain of curriculum.”

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NEWS

Trump, Pruitt aim to deregulate environmental policy Alex Rapp

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n Jan. 20, 2017, President Donald Trump took the oath of office, and one year later, Jan. 30, he gave his first State of the Union Address. With all the changes that come with a new president, one of those is the new environmental policies that have come into effect.

One way that the United States has changed in terms of its environmental standpoint is that climate change has been dropped from the list of national security threats.

Although the issue was declared as a growing threat in 2015 by the Obama administration, the new stance is that climate change does not pose a risk to the security of the nation, and it has been relegated to the back-burner of U.S. energy policy.

As Trump began his presidency, he was never a big believer of climate change and has made that known through a variety of tweets and policy decisions.

Helping with the decision to terminate climate change from national security threats was Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who was nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate in February 2017. Before heading the EPA, Pruitt was Oklahoma’s Attorney General — and sued the EPA 14 times during his time as AG. After being nominated by then President-elect Trump, Pruitt said in a press conference, “I intend to run this agency in a way that fosters both responsible protection of the environment and freedom for American businesses.”

More recently, Trump has moved to reverse Obama-era policy regarding federally protected lands. Trump scaled back on a few national monuments, including the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The monument currently sits on 1.35 million acres of land and is to be shrunk to 228,337 acres and split up into two different sections. One of Obama’s parting actions was to expand the acreage of land that was protected in Bears Ears.

Another monument to be changed, also in Utah, is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which was originally created by former President Bill Clinton. This particular monument will be split into three sections and reduced from 1.9 million acres to about 1 million. Both of these rollbacks were made during a speech given by Trump Dec. 4, 2017, in Utah.

According to Trump, the objective behind this particular project is to open the land for oil and natural gas extraction.

Trump thought that, by reversing some of these monuments, it would restore some of the natural land back to its citizens. Trump’s environmental policy has been one of deregulation.

According to CNN, in addition to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase, Trump’s administration is currently having more than two dozen other monuments reviewed to see if there is action he can take. Ryan Zinke is the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, and in April 2017, started reviewing these monuments to see if any could be shrunk in size.

“I do believe that what was driving the scaling back of Bears Ears was the desire to allow those lands to be available for mining and oil and gas extraction,” said James Allen, NAU forestry program executive director. “I also believe that there are larger state’s rights issues that were at play. Utah is one of the Western states that has been most interested in transferring some federal

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Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, attends a meeting about infrastructure with state and local officials at the White House Feb. 12. Carolyn Kaster | Associated Press lands to the state and maybe ultimately into private hands.”

Although many people are in favor of the idea of this change for reasons believed to benefit the environment, other groups have expressed frustration and opposition to the administration’s environmental policies.

Five Native American tribes: The Hopi, Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute, the Navajo Nation and the Ute Indian tribes, as well as conservation groups, sued the Trump administration. Their reason being that specific land in which some of these monuments reside is sacred and should not be toyed with.

“It’s a very sensitive subject with some people, and one always has to be careful about that,” said Chuck Wallum, adjunct faculty at Pima Community College. “Although it’s a thought, one specifically that could possibly affect our land and environment in a positive way, you have to be so careful because certain people can view some of these areas as important and something that shouldn’t be tampered with. I believe compromise can be reached, but it is something that should not be taken lightly.”

This specific notion of Trump’s is one that has stood out in the past year. According to CNN, Trump noted that his decision was partly made to “reverse federal overreach and restore rights of this land to citizens.”

With the environmental changes occurring this past year, there are a few that could affect environmental matters in Flagstaff.

Allen said, because the changes in environmental policies have come so fast this year, unless you closely follow the policy changes, it can be difficult to know what has actually been changed and what has just been proposed or is under review.

The Washington Post summarized Pruitt’s year in a New Year’s Eve 2017 article.

“In legal maneuvers and executive actions, in public speeches and closed-door meetings with industry groups, he has moved to shrink the agency’s reach, alter its focus, and pause or reverse numerous environmental rules. The effect has been to steer the EPA in the direction sought by those being regulated. Along the way, Pruitt has begun to dismantle former president Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, halting the agency’s efforts to combat climate change and to shift the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels.”

It is hard to note exactly how Flagstaff could be impacted, but one of the possible changes Flagstaff could see would be in uranium mining.

“In the short term, Flagstaff may be most affected by decreases in federal funding for environmental protection programs and for research done by NAU faculty. Mining in this region could also increase, which conceivably could impact things like water quality and outdoor recreation,” Allen said.

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OPINION-EDITORIAL

Not your brown girl experience

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ating in Flagstaff is extremely difficult if you’re a minority. It’s exhausting and can challenge your feelings of self-worth, especially if you’re a woman of color. While Flagstaff is seen as liberal and somewhat diverse, I’d say those descriptions fit loosely at best. From what I’ve seen, especially at NAU, people are still pretty racist up here.

When it comes to dating, the chances of finding a partner are typically better when you’re fishing in your own race pool or in a more diverse community. Unfortunately, I’m but a dash of cinnamon in a sea of salt.

So, so much salt.

My experience with dating at NAU ELIZABETH has been utterly draining. I’ve found myself WENDLER competing for decent white men and OP-ED EDITOR clinging to white women who made it clear they no longer wanted me. Finally hooking up with another person of color proved to be invaluable. I felt less isolated and I didn’t have to constantly validate that my partner totally wasn’t racist!

This sense of isolation often causes people of color (POC) to wonder: What’s wrong with us if we don’t have people lining up to wine, dine and 69 us?

Nothing. Nothing is wrong with being a POC who can only seem to attract white people. It’s not your fault that you always get that one guy who says the N-word, then halfheartedly apologizes but secretly wants you to say it’s chill. I’ve had my share of those and of people who call me feisty, spicy and really any kind of warm, I guess.

Why? Because I’m very clearly a woman of color and many of the people I date feel the need to remind me of that.

I’ve never felt this more than I have at NAU. Is there a solution? First, we all can be more honest about our biases disguised as preferences. We can recognize when we’re fetishizing an aspect of someone rather than admiring them as a whole.

As for POCs, all I can say is try to put yourself first. Dating white people can be more than tiring, it can be dangerous. If dating other POCs is what makes you most comfortable, feel confident that it’s not because you can’t defeat “Becky with the good hair.” I’m sorry, but Becky will almost always win.

That’s something I’ve had to learn to accept with time and experience.

So, stay true to who you are. People will always try to put you in a box to further exoticize you, but you must resist.

Don’t take crap from anyone. Don’t censor yourself so they won’t be uncomfortable. If they want the experience of dating a POC, give them the full ride.

Because POCs will never be Becky with the good hair.

But we don’t have to be.

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Let the Eagles soar ... away from the White House Teana Long

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n Feb. 4, history was made. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41 - 33, taking home the 2018 Super Bowl trophy. It was highly anticipated that the Patriots would win and that Tom Brady would lead the team to yet another Super Bowl victory, cementing his already grandiose legacy. The night was historic for the Eagles franchise as it was their first ever win in NFL history. Tears were shed and the streets of Philadelphia erupted with passionate displays of fandom in their hometown.

After the win, the team was invited to Washington, D.C., to meet President Donald Trump himself. Some of the team members were put off by the invitation and chose not to attend.

This sent shockwaves of anger throughout the country. Athletes who receive an invitation to the White House should not be obligated to go.

While the players opting out of visiting the White House this year have certainly gotten more heat, it is not the first time this has happened. When the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2013, Matt Birk skipped the team’s visit because he opposed former President Obama’s pro-choice views. James Harrison, who won with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006 and 2009, avoided the traditional White House meeting because he felt the whole thing was shallow and contrived. Every year, there are a select few players who choose not to go. This year, however, with President Donald Trump in office, the controversy is definitely getting more attention.

I do not believe that players should have to go because it was their hard work that got them there. They should not be obligated to do anything after their win. I know if I had been working so hard for the past nine months of my life, I would be looking forward to just laying on the couch and spending time with my family, not getting on a plane to go meet the president.

Family plays an important role in everyone’s life and often times players are away from their families six days a week.

So, the offseason plays an

important role in rekindling that connection. The decision to go to the White House should be left to the player and not the team.

Not everyone is trying to make a political stance.

On the other side of things, politics play an important role in football. Every year, the Super Bowl is held in a different city and rakes in millions of dollars for that city. This is a huge economic gain that brings in thousands of tourists and puts a national spotlight on the city. When the Super Bowl was last held in Arizona, the game brought in almost $500 million.

The NFL also contributes massively to political figures.

When you have team owners such as Paul Allen, co-inventor of Microsoft, and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, there is big money to spend. According to Fusion, the Patriots donated the most out of any other team in the past two elections, donating almost $154,000 to candidates and events.

Yet, after analyzing all of this, I still believe firmly that players should not be obligated to go to the White House after a win. Though some players are taking this opportunity to make a political stance, some are just struggling with scheduling conflicts. The Eagles’ defensive end Chris Long expressed well before they won the Super Bowl that he will not be participating in the annual trip to the White House because he wants to do the right thing in the eyes of his son. What the right thing? Staying home. Long donated all of his 2017 base salary to scholarships for students in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Our sports idols should not be forced to do anything they do not want to do. They spent almost 10 months out of the year training and playing to please us and further their careers.

We should not be angry when they choose to make their own decisions. So, let’s set NFL players free to think how they want and do as they please.

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Go filter yourself, Snapchat KELSEY SPIGELMIRE

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quick scroll through anyone’s Twitter timeline recently will leave a sour impression of the latest update by competing social media platform, Snapchat. Say goodbye to having everything clean and organized if your app did not already automatically update itself, even if your auto-updates are shut off. Like Fruit by the Foot, the list of complaints for this update goes on and on and leaves Snapchat’s rating on Apple’s App Store at a lousy 1.9 out of 5 stars.

I usually wait for my friends and family update their apps before me so I can see their reaction and get a feel for what to expect when I eventually update my own. I do not take this lightly, as it took me several years and a completely new iPhone to get me to cave into updating from iOS 7 on my old phone to the current iOS 11.

It is safe to say I’m never one for updates, but I am fuming at the seams at Snapchat’s. It seems as though, in order to promote their news section and most popular stories, they declined to think about the average user’s interests.

No, we don’t go on Snapchat as our primary source of news and we don’t really care what is trending there. That’s what Twitter is for. We go to Snapchat to send a poorly angled, double-chinned selfie to our bestie in class or to share a video of a local street

performer on our story with friends. of those things, but I really feel like it’s not. Reactions to this Snapchat is no stranger to controversial updates. At one Snapchat update on Twitter are unlike anything I’ve ever seen point, relatively soon after the app’s conception, we were able about an update before. And people are showing no mercy. to click on a person’s name and see who their top friends were.

A tweet from user @LexiPotter04 read, “It’s like Snapchat Obviously, this has the potential to cause a lot of drama between WANTS Instagram to be the new place for posting stories.” friend groups and romantic partners. The feature was eventually @EvansPosts tweeted, “We thought the Instagram taken off the app. chronological order update was the worst update ever but Then, there was the idea of showing a real-time map of Snapchat was like ‘hold my beer.’” where people are if they chose to share their Change.org, a site where people location. In trying to be innovative, Snapchat create petitions, has one called, actually dug themselves into a hole trying to “Remove the new Snapchat do what other social media platforms hadn’t update” with over 850,000 signatures. If touched on yet. And maybe for good reason. that doesn’t show how aggravating this The latest update only further deters update is for many users, I’m not sure what me away, especially because Instagram will. already has their own story-sharing Yes, we are still using the app with feature as well. It is only a matter of disgust and confusion. I think it’s time we time until Snapchat is a thing of the take a true stand by boycotting the app. Let’s past, just like good ol’ Vine. R.I.P. use Instagram stories until Snapchat recognizes the Of course, with most social media disdain from it’s most loyal users, the updates, they cause an uproar for awhile average millennial, and changes it back. from people who do not adapt to change Or until Snapchat comes up with some very well. This is only because they’re sort of compromise. not used to it. This could potentially be one Illustration By Katie Dobrydney

Stop bargaining with Dreamers’ Lives Vanessa Savel

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ver since the Trump administration rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Sept. 5, 2017, undocumented youths have been living with anxiety and fear for their future. The program will end March 5 unless Congress passes a law to replace it.

Undocumented youths were brought over to the United States as young children, making the U.S. their own in every way but on paper. In order to provide these individuals with a sense of security, the Obama administration passed DACA, a program that allows undocumented youths to receive temporary lawful status, protecting them from deportation and granting them eligibility for a work permit. But it is not a pathway to citizenship.

If DACA ends, the estimated 800,000 DACA beneficiaries will return to their pre-2012 status. The United Nations Human Rights Council states that undocumented people are placed in disadvantaged situations concerning the enjoyment of human rights and increased vulnerability to human rights violations because of lawful limitations.

DACA recipients and undocumented youths should be granted a pathway to citizenship and only a pathway to citizenship with no strings or stipulations attached.

According to CNN, the White House offered a proposal

Feb. 11 for a DACA agreement.

It would provide a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million eligible immigrants, more than the 800,000 of whom registered for DACA in the five years of the program. In exchange, the White House sought upwards of $25 billion for border security and a border wall. It would also consist of a number of changes to laws to make it easier to deport and detain immigrants. Lastly, it would make changes to the visa lottery and family-based immigration systems, significantly limiting legal migration to the U.S. That said, undocumented youths would receive a pathway to citizenship with this proposal. So, what is the problem with it?

While the “American Dream” is within reach in the proposal, undocumented youths will live with the heightened fear that their families could be targeted for deportation, swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and sent back to their country of origin. There is nothing American about splitting families apart. A pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients shouldn’t come at a price.

Kassandra Carrasco, a 23-year-old DACA recipient from NAU majoring in Hotel and Restaurant Management, commented on the proposal, saying, “Why would I accept the path to citizenship when my parents, who have sacrificed their whole lives to get me to where I am today, would be at an even higher risk of deportation?”

The U.S. is a nation consisting of laws. But, within those laws, are the values of equality. The well-being of all people is the U.S.’s responsibility as a leader of the free world, even that of the undocumented youths. Just as stress was reignited when President Donald Trump ended DACA, this proposal would also do damage to their well-being. A study by a team of researchers at the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab stated the uncertainty of deportation of a parent is one of the greatest stresses on undocumented youths.

If the U.S. and its people want to abide by equality in the debate over immigration, the U.S. would not bargain a pathway to citizenship for the these young people. They have not only been valuable contributions to U.S. society through work or higher education, but the U.S. is their country. A pathway to citizenship with no bargain would grant them human rights that come with citizenship, promote the health and safety of this next generation of U.S. citizens, and allow them to continue to succeed with their families by their side.

So, let us denounce the nonsensical border wall. Let us denounce laws that make it easier to deport and detain immigrants.

And most importantly, let us grant our undocumented youth the life they have deserved all along.

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Cars drive down Route 66 where a new student-housing complex is under construction Feb 17. Shannon Swain | The Lumberjack

Is Flagstaff losing its mountain-town vibe?

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resh, pine-scented air fills your lungs as you sip a freshly brewed cup of coffee and admire another blissful morning.

A sense of wonderment washes over as you gaze at the immense San Francisco Peaks driving north on Milton Road. A few miles trudging along on a hike can release every ounce of stress. Your mind feels at peace in Flagstaff — a place many people call home.

“I was born in Flagstaff on January 29, 1937,” said Flagstaff native Mary Lou Morrow. “I have always lived in Flagstaff with the exception of several months. In that number of years, the number of changes [in the city] are mind-boggling. I am thankful that there are still parts of the town that I recognize from years past.”

The constant construction has transformed Flagstaff into a city that is unrecognizable from what it once was. NAU’s expansion has also contributed to the contemporary appearance of the city.

“The Blome Building on NAU campus is where I went to grade school. Our playground was where 1899 stands today,”

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Morrow said. “There were three other grade schools in town: Dunbar, South Beaver and Emerson. Emerson was where the Flagstaff Public Library is now.”

Along with the multiple schools that stood where NAU has taken over, there was a lack of roads that made traveling not as accessible.

“The only road that connected east and west Flagstaff was Route 66, and east Flag was called Sunnyside,” Morrow said.

“Fourth Street was a dirt road with very few buildings along it.

There were corrals and loading shoots south of Route 66 and west of Enterprise where cattle were loaded to be shipped to market.”

The Sunnyside neighborhood remains in Flagstaff’s east side.

In her 81 years, Morrow has seen a huge transformation in Flagstaff. She said that the lumber mill was on the property across from Galaxy Diner restaurant on Route 66.

“The people who worked at the mill lived in company housing built along the east side of Milton Road. Mill Town became Milton,” Morrow said.

As Flagstaff became a more populated city, and as NAU continued to expand, housing and residential areas began to grow. However, one overlooked cause of the rise in population

in Flagstaff was the events during World War II that led to many families moving to the city.

“During World War II, many men from Flagstaff worked at the Navajo Army Depot west of a town now called Camp Navajo,” Morrow said. “Bellemont also provided housing for workers and the population of Bellemont was more than Flagstaff. After the end of the war, many people decided to stay in Flagstaff, creating a need for more housing.”

Morrow recalled the names and locations of housing areas as well as certain businesses around the city when she was growing up.

One of the first subdivisions of Flagstaff was the Valley Estates which still remain west of U.S. Highway 180.

“Other businesses came into town and expansion began in earnest. Residents at that time were glad to see new opportunities come to Flagstaff,” Morrow said.

Though Morrow has a vivid memory of her experiences growing up, she understands that Flagstaff had to go through changes like any other expanding city. The evolving structures around Flagstaff create a new sense of concern for preserving its history.

FEATURES “For people who have lived here a long time, we feel our concept of ‘mountain town’ is changing. The high-rise buildings bring a change in the atmosphere of a small, mountain community,” Morrow said. “There is a certain evolution going on that is looking to the future.

This causes a certain facet to get lost. More emphasis on preservation of what has made Flagstaff a desirable place to be is important.”

MacKenzie Chase, Arts and Culture reporter for Flag Live! and the Arizona Daily Sun, has lived in Flagstaff for a shorter period of time than Morrow, but has still seen many changes in the city.

“I moved to Flagstaff from Phoenix in 2011 when I started my freshman year at NAU and was able to get a job at the Daily Sun shortly after graduation. So I’ve been in town going on seven years now,” said Chase. “I remember when I first moved here, the Southside neighborhood had a completely different vibe to it.”

Chase said that Ewa’s Thai Cuisine, a restaurant located in Southside Flagstaff, used to be a “dingy concert venue.” She also described a club called the Mad Italian, which eventually turned into what is now Root Public House.

“Flagstaff still feels like a mountain town to me because it’s still surrounded by mountains,” Chase said. “That’s not going to change. It may not be a small mountain town that relies on lumber and railroad industries for jobs anymore, but it’s nowhere close to becoming a metropolis like Phoenix.”

Although Flagstaff has gone through a noticeable amount of construction, there is an appreciation for the ability to enjoy the outdoor lifestyle. The 56 miles of hiking trails on Flagstaff’s Urban Trail System (FUTS) makes it easy for community members to explore the outdoors.

“What I love about Flagstaff, although it is visibly growing, is that I can pretty much walk out my front door downtown and find a hiking trail within a mile, or take the FUTS all the way to the museum. There’s still plenty of accessible nature here,” Chase said.

Flagstaff’s population increase can be credited to the continued rise of students enrolled at NAU. Residents have taken notice that the city’s construction has been more student-oriented.

“Like it or not, students are a big part of Flagstaff’s population. So it’s understandable that some new businesses may cater more toward them,” Chase said. “I came here as a student and ended up staying because I do love what the city has to offer. I appreciated being treated with respect then, and appreciate being treated with respect now as a long-term member of the community.”

Sara Dechter, comprehensive planning

The Standard, a student apartment complex under construction on the south side of Mars Hill Feb. 17, is scheduled to be finished in 2019. It will block the view of Mars Hill for people traveling on Route 66. Shannon Swain | The Lumberjack

manager for the City of Flagstaff, helps to plan for the future of Flagstaff. Along with her team, Dechter determines community goals in terms of community development.

“We think about the long-range future of Flagstaff in terms of land use, transportation, housing, environmental issues, job growth and affordability, and we support that work both through the creation of area plans, the upkeep of our city’s general plan,” said Dechter.

The growing population has created questions for the city’s expansion, including if the city will expand to the surrounding areas.

“The biggest thing I’ve seen as a change in our community right now is Flagstaff is going through a transition from being a large town, to becoming a small city,” Dechter said. “There’s a lot of critical decisions that are a part of those changes. Do we grow denser, or do we grow out?”

Flagstaff had a population of over 71,000 in 2016, which was about 13,000 more than in 2006. With the enrollment rate at NAU expected to increase again in the upcoming years, the city

continues to look for housing solutions for the incoming students while accommodating for those who already live in the city.

Dechter said that the economic climate has changed in Flagstaff. Financing for family housing has created a new perspective on the construction for buildings.

“I think the reason we see a lot of the new buildings going up in town that are larger than we’re used to seeing is not because we suddenly changed the zoning or the rules and we allowed buildings like that, but what happened is the economic market and the financing for multifamily housing was never available in a market the size of Flagstaff,” Dechter said.

Dechter also explained that, as the city is making the transition from large town to small city, what used to be funded by local financing is now being funded through national banks and developers because Flagstaff has become large enough for this to be utilized.

Flagstaff’s environment influenced Dechter to move to the city in 2010. However, she expressed concerns of sustainability for the

current rate of construction of the city.

“One of the reasons I moved to Flagstaff was for the natural environment and the values associated with that,” Dechter said. “I worked in everything from wilderness management to urban development. If we continue to develop in a low density, large lot kind of fashion, there will be less natural features and less affordability and less opportunities for our children to grow up and live in Flagstaff. I think it’s important to remember that a community cannot truly be sustainable without density.”

Dechter said that it is important for Flagstaff to grow in a way that is both fair and just while maintaining a mountain vibe. “Design traditions of Flagstaff” is a phrase she uses often in her work.

“We’re not building something that looks like it could be dropped in Tempe, Vegas or Barstow. It has to incorporate the elements of the built environment in Flagstaff to move forward.

It’s all about that managing change, though, so that we don’t lose being a great mountain town, but we can’t stay small,” Dechter said.

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NAU meditates its way to Zen

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ollege can create difficulty for students and professors in creating a balanced lifestyle. Keeping up with homework, working at a job, keeping in contact with family and friends and attempting to find time to relax; college can be a stressful environment that causes anxiety levels to rise. At times, the stress can be overwhelming for some students and professors.

People involved in the college lifestyle cope with their stress in various ways. Sometimes it is dealt with in healthy lifestyle choices and sometimes it is handled with unhealthy life decisions.

Whether it be exercise or sleep, there are multiple ways in which people can help improve their anxiety.

A well-known stress reliever that is explored on the NAU campus is meditation. The concentration-focused practice cannot be explained in a few sentences because it comes in different forms and styles.

Meditation is a simple solution to clearing the mind and relieving stress. The benefits claim to have strong religious and spiritual qualities without the negative health effects that other typical unhealthy stress relievers such as caffeine consumption and emotional eating do.

NAU’s insight into meditation classes in the Cline Library are held once per semester during mid-February and mid-September.

They are offered to NAU students as well as the general public.

The free classes run for six weeks and meet once a week. The aim is to teach people about meditation and explore some of the helpful benefits that it can have.

Meditation originated in India more than 2,600 years ago

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as a form of self-reflection and exercise. Since its origin, it has branched out across the world and taken new forms along the way in Buddhist, Hindu and other religions. Meditation helps to clear a person’s mind and focus one’s thoughts on the present moment.

Meditation is a practice that is easy to learn but hard to master. In the present day, people from different backgrounds have found it to be useful in relieving stress and anxiety.

Finance professor Allen Atkins teaches the insight into meditation classes held every semester.

“Insight into meditation classes are open to anyone in the community,” said Atkins. “It started 20 years ago.”

When dealing with stress and other internal and external problems, meditation is another form of exercise for the brain that can greatly help reduce the strain that comes with a busy life and schedule.

“Meditation is a great stress reducer,” Atkins said. “Medical studies show it calms people and lowers heart rate and clears the mind.”

Similar to other practices, meditation is not something that someone can do once and expect outstanding results. Like lifting weights, meditation takes patience and self-discipline.

“Just like riding a bike once, you get the general idea, but not mastery. It is the same with meditation,” Atkins said. “Doing it once a day will improve your ability to meditate. Although it is not needed it’s important to set the same time each day to do it... once you do this it becomes part of your daily routine.”

There are hundreds of forms of meditation. The important thing for people to do is to find the one that helps improve and deal with struggles the best.

“[Transcendental] meditation is the first one I learned from an old professor a couple of years ago,” said senior biomedical science major Wayne Nez. “When I am overwhelmed, it helps me relax and prepare for the next assignment... totally clears my mind and helps me handle my course work.”

The practice of transcendental meditation helps people by practicing the repetition of mantras, which are sounds or words repeated throughout meditation to help concentration.

Time limits differ between forms of meditation. Some forms have set times and others do not, so people will know when they have meditated for long enough. The main idea is have a routine of meditating every day. It is a healthy and positive way to deal with stress without taking much time from the day.

“If it did not work people would not still be doing it,” Atkins said.

Flagstaff resident Kevin D’arcy fully respects and backs up any form of meditation.

“Meditation helps me focus on each day and not worry about tomorrow ... before meditation, I would do the typical stress relievers,” said D’arcy. “I used to go to the bars and drink and do other unhealthy habits before. Now with meditation I can be stress free in a healthy way.”

In a stressful environment of long study and work hours that can cause anxiety and exhaustion, there are multiple unhealthy options for coping with stress for people to partake in. Meditation offers a safe and healthy alternative that some people have claimed has improved their lives.

In stressful moments, meditation can be an option to help alleviate anxiety and improve mental stability.

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Dancing into the Lunar New Year Joey Felton

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ringing laughter and showers of lettuce, the dancing lions of Sacred Mountain Fighting and Healing Arts paraded through downtown Flagstaff to herald in the Lunar New Year Feb. 16.

The Lion Dance team of martial arts students emulated lions and were shrouded in intricate costumes complete with elaborate tassels. The team began their Kung-fu-infused performance at the Vietnamese restaurant Street Side Saigon in the Southside neighborhood, stopping at six other businesses before ending at the Uptown Pubhouse.

Matthew Banks owns Sacred Mountain Fighting and Healing Arts studio and instructs Flagstaff’s lone lion dance team.

He is better known as Sifu Banks by his students, a title meaning “master” in Cantonese. He graduated from NAU, where he was first exposed to martial arts.

“Being able to partake in a lion dance is meant to bring fortune, prosperity, wealth and happiness into the new year,” said Banks.

The Chinese New Year, a part of the traditional Lunar calendar, is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture. It represents the start of a new year and correlates with the cycle of the moon. Ceremonial dances like the lion dance are a pivotal part of these celebrations.

Uptown Pubhouse patrons, surprised by crashing cymbals and loud drum beats, soon crowded around the dancers for a chance to pet the lions and feed them red envelopes stuffed with money. According to Chinese tradition, the red envelopes are offered to help the lions ward off evil spirits and promote good luck.

The lions are traditionally fed lettuce, which they eat and fling about the room. This, according to Chinese tradition, is an omen of wealth and good fortune. By the end of the night, lettuce trails could be found all around downtown Flagstaff.

Aside from showcasing the Kung-fu skills of his students, Banks wanted to celebrate the new year in a way that would bring the community together and help local businesses.

“This is the only place I’ve ever felt truly a part of the [martial arts] community. This type of event really helps local businesses generate revenue and get new customers. By supporting Sifu Banks, you’ll also be helping others in their self-defense training,” said Sebastian Hazel, a high school student who began training under Banks in February.

Hazel admires the Sacred Mountain group for their positive gesture to local business. His mother, Dr. Sara Hazel, is a naturopathic doctor who has spent much of her life studying Chinese medicine. She co-owns Stone and Sage Apothecary, one of the stops for the lion dancers.

“Martial arts are really important to my son. I really like [Banks’] focus on balance and discipline. Everyone I’ve seen there are talented, disciplined, friendly and balanced. It’s an excellent studio,” said Sara Hazel.

As the group neared each business, Banks could be heard

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Top: Colleen McDowell, a member of the Sacred Mountain Lion Dance team, dances to celebrate the Chinese New Year in downtown Flagstaff Feb. 16. Bottom: A young lion dancer performs in an elaborate costume at Uptown Pubhouse to ring in the Chinese New Year Feb. 16. Summer Hale | The Lumberjack

saying, “If you’ve never seen a lion dance, now is your chance!”

Interested onlookers joined the growing parade as the three lions progressed through the streets and into local businesses led by the Laughing Buddha.

Kathleen Ellis portrayed the Laughing Buddha garbed in a bright yellow robe and wore a smiling, pink-cheeked Buddha mask. Like a drum major of a marching band, she performed by guiding the lion dancers through bustling intersections and into each business.

In addition to the dance, Ellis was most pleased about engaging her community for a joyous occasion.

“I think it’s good to spread luck and cheer and to be involved in the community. We consider Sacred Mountain and Flagstaff our family. [The lion dance] brings that all together,” said Ellis.

The dance team performed 11 times Feb. 16, with a preparade show at the Hot Spot in the University Union.

Banks and his performers were proud of their performance, which was as physically demanding as it was enjoyable to watch.

“The energy was incredible. One lion dance is a lot, we performed 11 today,” Banks said.

By the end of the last performance, Banks was out of breath and sweating, but remained smiling as he congratulated his fellow performers, including two young but experienced martial artists aged 8 and 10.

The group, that pronounces “health, prosperity and wellness” for all, represent diversity in Flagstaff. As Flagstaff’s only Lion Dance team, the Sacred Mountain martial artists engaged locals with a culturally valuable tradition.

Whether it be petting the lion, scoring a red envelope or being showered in a barrage of flying lettuce, Flagstaff has another reason to feel lucky this Lunar New Year.

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Review: Flag Film Festival

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ith film being created and consumed all over the world on a regular basis, the brevity of film can seem overwhelming to some. Film festivals are a great opportunity to share some of these stories in a unique way.

The Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival is one such occasion.

Taking place Feb. 15 through Feb. 18, the festival was home to many films that varied in their themes and directing style.

The film festival is an annual four-day event in Flagstaff that showcases unique films from diverse communities and is supported by many local sponsors including the Flagstaff Arts Council, Lumberyard Brewing Co., Babbitt’s Backcountry Outfitters and many more.

“Arts Council is proud to support the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival,” said John Tannous, executive director of Flagstaff Arts MAKENNA Council, in an email.

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“The film fest clearly fills an important niche here by providing quality programming. It’s well attended and respected. There is an education component and it also provides opportunities for local filmmakers,” Tannous said.

Flagstaff’s film festival began as a way to bring the community the experience similar to those around the world. Tannous said the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Alberta, Canada, was the inspiration behind this event. Thanks to the original founders — two friends, Geoff Cross and Anne Walton — the Flagstaff community can come together and celebrate another form of art.

After the founders went their separate paths, John Tveten took over as the executive director for the Flagstaff Film Festival.

“I think what is special is the shared experience,” said Tveten.

Tveten believes the film festival has supplied an inclusive community where both audience and director can find a commonality in the films being shown.

“The fest captures a big part of the spirit of Flagstaff: our love of the outdoors, nature and adventure, and our desire to conserve the rich natural lands that surround our home,” Tannous said.

Flagstaff has been known to incorporate many aspects of the arts into the community. The film festival has offered the opportunity once again to integrate the arts into Flagstaff.

The film festival was held in multiple locations including Flag Bike Revolution, Firecreek Coffee Co., Flagstaff Climbing Center, and Headspace Southside Salon.

On Feb. 15, the first day of the film fest, the theme was “Amazing Earth.” This focused on the beauty and nature that surrounds us on a daily basis and the need for us to take care of what we have before it is gone.

My favorite film the first night was “The Seed Vault: Preserving Crop Diversity Forever.” This film focused on the seed vault located halfway between Norway and the North Pole. The seed vault is exactly as it sounds, a vault filled with seeds from all over the world. In one scene, an old woman talked about her

Kate Aitchison stands proudly next to her hand-crafted boat on display at the Orpheum during the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Feb. 17. The intricately carved boat contains photos of the San Juan River canyon and was the subject of Aitchison’s film project.

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favorite apple, which had been considered extinct. In reality, she found out that one farmer in North Carolina still had the last three of these apple trees.

During some of the films, people yelled positive words when something powerful was displayed in the film. When an interviewee in “Seed Vault” stated that the government heavily funds war when the same money could completely save the seed vault for future generations. Many people in the audience began to yell and clap that this man stated something that is on so many people’s minds.

The second night Feb. 16 was themed “Follow Your Heart” and “Thinking Outside the Box.” The focal point of “Follow Your Heart” was that if you want to do something, to just go out and do it. “Thinking Outside the Box” centered on finding new ways to find peace, adventure and answer many of life’s questions.

Many in the crowd this night were excited for the film “Kickass Katie Lee.” Well-known river guide Katie Lee was loved by many in the film community and passed away last year. This film focused on Lee and her love for living wild and free, in her lifetime she accomplished a lot and was looked up to by many.

The film both portrayed her love for the naturals gifts of the world and her sadness and hatred for the people who destroy that beauty.

The event incorporated the “single use plastic” movement, where people could bring in reusable water bottles and were limited to one refillable cup. By the end of the festival, they only had two trash bags full of trash despite more than 50 people attending each day.

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‘Donut’ fear, fresh douGhnuts are here Kaylin Dunnett

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ractured Prune Doughnuts, the doughnut shop located at Aspen Place at the Sawmill, is a creative feast for the stomach and the eyes.

Fractured Prune prepares the doughnuts at the customer’s request. Hungry customers can view their doughnut being made in real time from behind the counter. The owner and employees at Fractured Prune explained the step-by-step process.

“We start with our proprietary mix of ingredients, add water and make the batter, which takes three minutes for 10 pounds at a time to create 10 dozen doughnuts,” said Mark Rothermel, owner of the Flagstaff location of Fractured Prune.

Senior visual communication major Ashley Beghtol is a “doughnut designer” at Fractured Prune and explained that the dough is made every morning by employees, and typically takes 20 minutes to rise before it can be used.

From there, the dough is loaded into a “fry hopper,” a contraption that drops the dough into the fryer.

Employee and Flagstaff local Andrew Catchings demonstrated the use of the machine and explained that the machine can control how big the doughnuts are through the amount of dough that is dropped into the fryer.

“If you want to make [the doughnuts] big and flat, you can do that,” said Catchings.

The hopper drops a ring of dough into a fryer full of soy shortening, which is constructed like a conveyor belt.

“The doughnut is sent down the conveyor for 60 seconds, after which it is flipped and spends 60 seconds on the other side,” Rothermel said.

Beghtol said the frying process typically takes about twoand-a-half minutes per doughnut.

After the doughnut is fried, it plops down into a large pot at the end of the fryer that Rothermel calls the “warming basket.”

“From there, you just create whatever you want,” Catchings said.

Rothermel described the process in which a doughnut is glazed and customized by the customer.

“A ‘Doughnut Designer’ takes the warm doughnut and places it into a room-temperature glaze,” Rothermel said.

While it may seem like an easy, mindless task, Rothermel said there is a special technique involved to ensure each doughnut is perfectly coated.

“They key is to touch with your fingertips and not your palms — fingertips can [be] numb to heat, but the palms cannot,” Rothermel said. “After dipping the glaze, the doughnut is removed with our famous ‘wrist twist’ and excess glaze is removed.”

From there, the freshly glazed doughnut is finished off with dessert toppings at the customer’s request.

There are 19 different glazes to choose from, but the business introduces special seasonal glazes throughout the year. The flavors OC Sand, French Toast and Blueberry Hill are their most popular choices and are what Rothermel suggests to customers.

“They are what put us on the map,” Rothermel said.

With 19 glazes and 13 toppings to choose from, the

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Left: A doughnut is dipped using the famous “wrist twist” in toppings of the customer’s choice in Fractured Prune at Aspen Place at the Sawmill Feb. 15. Top Right: Doughnuts are flipped by a machine in order to fry them evenly at Fractured Prune Feb. 15.

Bottom Right: A Fractured Prune employee showcases an assortment of doughnuts: the Bacon Bomb, Rocky Shore and Dulce de Leche Feb. 15. Rye So | The Lumberjack

combination possibilities are endless. Catchings said he and his boss are still discovering flavor combinations through unique requests by customers.

“That’s what I feel separates us [from other doughnut chains]. Everything’s fresh ... you can customize what you want,” Catchings said.

Rothermel explained the origin of Fractured Prune’s unique name. A spunky elderly woman by the name of Prunella Shriek was known to frequently participate in traditionally men’s sports and had a habit of injuring herself. Thus, Fractured Prune was born.

Rothermel said the business began in 1976 in Ocean City, Maryland, but has since ventured to the West Coast to satisfy the

cravings of doughnut aficionados.

“I have always loved doughnuts,” Rothermel said. “In a previous job, I was actually written up by HR when I got doughnuts for the team I was leading as they preferred bagels.”

Rothermel has many fond memories of owning and operating Fractured Prune.

“My kids are young, so to them, I am the coolest dad in the world for having a doughnut shop,” Rothermel said. “It is always fun when my kids and their friends come in for doughnuts.”

Rothermel believes that what separates his business from others is the taste of a Fractured Prune plain doughnut: “There should be a law that if your customer won’t eat your plain doughnut, you shouldn’t put toppings on it.”

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children, then later in the day the theme was “Rad Women Rock.”

The films in this category were shown as a form of empowerment to people within the community. The last showing of the night featured films in the “Breaking Barriers” genre, which proposed attendees defy the barriers set in front of them.

The films for the third day were ones that I was most excited for. Sure it was a “kids day,” but I have a special place in my heart for animated films. One film entitled “DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver” focused on a young beaver who enjoyed the cultures of the other animals around him. In the beginning, his father did not approve of his love for wearing antlers and hopping like a frog. In the end all of these animals saved Kit and his father when the dam they built broke. Unlike the seemingly stoic children surrounding me, I broke into an emotional mess once the film finished due to the adorable ending and the central theme of teamwork.

The fourth day, Feb. 18, focused on “Resilience” and “Ed Shred Local’s Night.” The first session, 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., focused on people who had recovered from difficult pasts and pushed on to success. The second session, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., was a special night showing films by Flagstaff locals dedicated to locals.

The film festival was created in hopes of bringing people away from their computer screens and instead sharing the emotion of a film with others.

“It brings a lot of culture and a new era of film to Flagstaff,” said creative media and film major Tripp Fusco.

“Arizona can be a great place for film to evolve.”

Tveten said this event over the past few years has grown and caught the attention of many. Their main goal is to continue their increase in attendance for future festivals.

“My first hope is that more people find out about it,” said Tveten.

Many of the films shown during this festival were creations from all over the world. Sharing these films from around the world influences those in Flagstaff to reach outside the box.

Film can bring people together for a common cause such as inclusion, environmental impacts and breaking down barriers.

Promoting the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival opens new doors for new kinds of art, not just in films but everywhere in the Flagstaff community.

“I think so many of the films are really about overcoming obstacles and some of those may be prejudice against sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity,” Tveten said. “What it means is, to not just share but to propagate this opportunity for people to change their lives.”

Many of the films focus on the idea of Flagstaff not only as an outdoorsman’s paradise, but also a place for the public to form and create a new community where all feel welcomed.

“We’re at liberty to give a voice to everybody that wants to go out and get their camera out and try to create something,” Tveten said.

Promoting the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival opens new doors for new kinds of art, not just in films but everywhere in the Flagstaff community.

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he coffee talk: Art as a Political Act, was held at the cozy Bright Side Bookshop in downtown Flagstaff Feb. 17. A panel of poets shared with the audience their personal experience with politics in art.

The poets who answered questions and shared poetry with everyone present were Margarita Cruz, Lydia Gates, Megan Atencia, Rowie Shebala and Briana Hammerstrom, who hosted the event.

“Poetry — as much as I want it to — doesn’t change the world but it changes people, and people change the world,” said Atencia.

Atencia is very involved in her community in Phoenix and works to share the spoken word and poetry to youth.

Rowie Shebala is a Native American poet who was born and raised in the Navajo Nation and uses her background to bring awareness to the struggles that Native Americans have and continue to face in the United States.

When Shebala participated in slam poetry in 2004, she was already using poetry as a platform to share the way she felt about former President George W. Bush and his lack of ability to address indigenous people in the U.S. She used those feelings in her art and poetry.

“What we got from it was, he didn’t realize that we were still here,” said Shebala.

Lydia Gates said she strives to make her work beautiful yet politically meaningful, and she feels that anger has its place in poetry but that is not always what she wants to get across. Gates wants to bring in love, humor and a real message to affect change.

Atencia believes that the more authentic your stories are about your own experiences, the more people can connect to them, and start to empathize.

“Every letter tells a story and therefore every word must tell the story of your poem, in its simplest existence,” Atencia said.

Shebala noticed right away when she started performing slam poetry that there was a lack of voice for the Native American people. She credits the people around her for the support and push to use her voice.

“There was a space for Native American poets. I was the only one there, and I was the host,” Shebala said.

She uses her platform to speak out about indigenous peoples struggles, past trauma of Native American people and shining light on the fact that they are still here.

Hammerstrom admitted that before she moved to Flagstaff from California, she was not aware that Native Americans still lived in U.S., and that she loves poetry because it has opened her up to seeing other perspectives and voices that she would not normally be able to hear.

Hammerstrom also talked about being told that as a white woman she did not need to know those other narratives. She disagrees, however, and actively tries to hear other voices. Being a part of Flagstaff Poetry Slam has created a sense of community for her to hear about other experiences.

Atencia agreed.

“The politics in poetry can be used to celebrate the diversity, through experiences,” Atencia said. “We aren’t all just one thing, or one emotion.”

Cruz comes from a Chicana community in Phoenix, where she says poetry and writing is seen as a fruitless endeavor. She uses poetry and writing as a way of sharing her narrative with others, and believes that everyone’s narratives have politics attached to them.

“The freedom that we have as people right now to speak motivates me to want to say more, I want to push the edges of what people are doing right now,” said Cruz.

All of the artists admitted to being told not to be too angry or too soft in their poetry.

“Art is no longer yours,” Cruz said. “When you put it out, it no longer belongs to you. You give it to other people to make art of itself.”

Megan Atencia performs her poem at an event at Bright Side Bookshop in downtown Flagstaff Feb. 17.

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Extreme sports vs. team sports

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ver the years in the sports world there has been a constant debate on whether extreme sports are in fact sports. The reason for the speculation is because extreme sports hold a much different structure than the sports we are used to. Or, if you will, team sports.

Team sports include, but are not limited to, basketball, football, soccer, baseball and volleyball.

However, the debate isn’t just centered around the legitimacy of extreme sports. There’s also a hot debate on just how extreme, extreme sports are.

I would argue that extreme sports are indeed a sport. And in addition to that, I would BAILEY argue that some of these sports are significantly HELTON more extreme than, say, your average football SPORTS EDITOR game.

However, to prove my point, let’s start with the question of whether or not extreme sports are sports. For the sake of this discussion, I’ll compare the extreme sport of free climbing with the team sport football.

The dictionary defines the word sport as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Both free climbing and football fit the first part of the definition. Free climbing is an individual sport while football is a team sport. So, we’re all good there. Moving on to the second part, “competes against another or other for entertainment.” We all can agree football fits the second part of the definition to-a-T. Now, let me enlighten you. Free climbing is indeed a competitive sport. USA Climbing is one of the largest competitive governing bodies in the United States.

Now my second argument: Extreme sports are far more extreme than team sports. Let’s take a look at some injury reports, shall we?

According to thoughtco.com, from 1998 to 2011, there were 428 rock-climbing victims. Twenty-three of those victims died.

According to a the most recent NFL injury data, the NFL saw many injuries this past season. In 2017, there was a total of 281 concussions, 54 ACL tears and 147 MCL tears. These numbers are combined from both the preseason and regular season.

None of these victims died while participating in the sport.

My goal here isn’t to say that the NFL didn’t get beat up this season, but to show the difference in extremity between football and free climbing.

Therefore, I would say, yes, free climbing is far more dangerous than football. I would rather have a loved one suffer a concussion, ACL tear or MCL tear before having to say goodbye to them one last time.

My advice to you is: Don’t denounce the legitimacy of a sport until you have actually competed in the sport because I’m sure throwing a pig skin is a hell of a lot easier than climbing up a 3,000 foot mountain without any ropes or harnesses.

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Rylee Mitchell will join NAU soccer in fall 2018 as a midfielder. Mitchell competed for Basha High School, where she won Offensive Most Valuable Player of the Year. Courtesy of NAU Athletics

NAU Soccer Adds depth Thomas Rodgers

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ith some of the 2017 season’s key players graduating, the NAU women’s soccer team has retooled with this year’s recruiting class.

NAU has signed 10 new recruits for this upcoming season.

The Lumberjacks lost some of their best players with seniors forward Adrian Nixt, goalkeeper Meghan Dickmann and defender Riley Porter graduating this year. Nixt, this past season, led the team in scoring with seven goals and even recorded her first career hat trick, making three goals in one game, against Idaho State University Oct. 15. Porter and Dickmann both served as crucial parts of the Lumberjack defense.

“It’s always hard to replace our senior class,” said head coach Andre Luciano. “The amount of experience that they’ve gained as players and the games they’ve played, that’s something you don’t replace with any incoming freshman class.”

The Lumberjacks were able to sign a variety of recruits to add to the upcoming season, adding depth to the roster at every position. With key playmakers returning from the 2017 season, Luciano said he hopes to continue their reputation for having a strong reserve unit with new talent arriving this offseason.

With six starting players entering their senior year, the Lumberjacks recruited a new class of offensive players with four midfielders and two forwards, along with three defensive players.

With a new line of offensive players added to the roster, the team hopes to build and continue its strong depth while grooming the new talent to match NAU’s play style.

“Our returning players bring an incredible amount of talent and potential to the table,” Luciano said. “They will have a huge impact on next season.”

The Lumberjacks signed a diverse freshman class, with players from every position. “[We] brought in a lot of different [players] to help balance out each position on the field.” Luciano said. “This is a solid new class of players who understand the game very well and have a great background in terms of the coaches that they’ve learned from.”

Luciano said the new recruits are very well rounded and understand the game well enough to play different positions if called upon.

“There are some incoming players playing a specific position that we feel can develop, and [we can] teach them

SPORTS different positions that we might need further down the road,” Luciano said. “With this new class, we’ll be able to put them into different situations and allow them to develop over the next couple years to fill the roles left behind by our graduating players.”

NAU’s new class of recruits come from all across the western United States. Three of the team’s newest midfielders: Maggie Bender, Sydney Dennis and Joey Wright come to Flagstaff from Nevada. Both Bender and Dennis were four-year starters at their respective high school teams where they received multiple awards and state team honors.

Two of the Lumberjacks’ new recruits come locally: midfielder Rylee Mitchell and defender Madison Montgomery. Both Mitchell and Montgomery played for AZ Arsenal soccer club in Mesa, Arizona, together where they helped to win the club a 2014 state championship.

Hailing from California is defender Sydnee Nickell and goalkeeper Alexa Marchini.

Marchini is the only goalkeeper to sign this season who will work alongside goalkeeper Taryn Benham. Benham came off the bench late in the season to fill in for an injured Dickmann during conference play and became a huge playmaker for the Lumberjacks tallying 37 saves as a freshman.

Two of the recruited Lumberjacks come from the Northwest with Claire Davies from Oregon and Sam Larberg from Washington, while Ana Rivera, the last of NAU’s signees, comes to Flagstaff from Hawaii.

NAU has a team balanced with returning talent and new talent with the potential to make an appearance in the Big Sky Conference Championship after a loss to Portland State University 1-0 in the quarterfinals last season.

The Lumberjacks will have to take some time to identify new leaders within the team with the loss of Nixt, an offensive performer, along with Porter and Dickmann, who were both important defensive leaders for the Lumberjacks.

“Every team is unique in their styles of leadership [and] the roles they create,” Luciano said. “You have to let a group develop their leadership styles organically. Our spring season is spent working on that, along with identifying and developing the different strengths and weakness that our players bring to the group.”

The Lumberjacks will have this offseason to work and solidify leadership roles on the road to the Big Sky conference championship.

“We’re not necessarily looking for seniors to step up and lead,” Luciano said. “We want to empower those players who have natural talent to feel comfortable enough to take charge; having a team who can accept that is important.”

Alexa Marchini, an incoming freshman from Clovis, California, competed for the Buchanan High School Bears as a three-year starting goalkeeper and two-year captain before committing to play for NAU women’s socccer in Fall 2018 under head coach Andre Luciano. Courtesy of NAU Athletics

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Frisbee plus golf: A sport for all CAra Heise

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magine a sport like golf, but with no green fee, no cart and no tee time. Does disc golf come to mind? It should.

It’s Frisbee and golf wrapped into one. The rules are the same as golf, but the golfer uses multiple discs to approach the basket in the least amount of throws possible.

“What makes disc golf such a unique sport is the diversity of it,” said freshman visual communication major Jacob McDaniel. “You can be big, small, old or young, it doesn’t matter. You can enjoy the sport for the walk in nature, the competitive aspect, the self-improvement. It is such a versatile sport, and I believe can be enjoyed by anyone.”

Disc golf was formalized as a sport in the 1970s. The game itself is very similar to golf. A golf disc is thrown from a tee area to a target basket, which is the hole. The hole can be one of several disc golf targets. It is also another way to get some low-impact exercise.

The disc golf team at NAU started in fall 2015. Josh Floyd, a second-year graduate student who is pursuing his master’s in counseling and student affairs, started the team, but there was little interest.

“At that time, we only had four people,” said Floyd. “Three of the four members graduated last year, so it was assumed that the club would fizzle out, but we have a new president, Jacob McDaniel, who has taken a lot of initiative in organizing and growing the club. Now the club is larger than ever, and we are sponsored by a major disc golf company.”

The team currently has 12 members, who welcome new students.

Like any sport, disc golf has its own easy and hard parts, and those differ depending on the person. A challenge that comes with this sport is the emotional response players can have. Just like any sport, competitiveness can control the outcome of one’s performance.

People can start playing disc golf for a lot of different reasons, but members of the team stay for the love of the game.

“I continued to play because after years of playing baseball I found that many of the skills from there transfer over to disc golf,” McDaniel said. “I quickly got better, and a few months in, I hit my first hole in one. It was all over there, I was hooked. The next day I went and bought five more discs and a little bag to carry them with me.”

Students can join the team as competitive or casual members. Competitive players have to pay additional fees in order to pay for traveling to tournaments, while casual players can join to play for fun and to learn the game, but a small fee is required. An athlete pays $25 for the non-competitive fee, which allows them to practice and play with the team. The $50 competitive fee gets the athlete onto the team, a personalized NAU disc golf collared shirt, a custom stamped NAU disc and a chance to compete at the regional tournament in March.

Flagstaff has three main basket courses: McPherson, which is up seasonally, and Thorpe and NAU, which are both up year-round. Snowbowl has a course as well, but it is only available in the summer months.

Although playing disc golf is more successful in the spring and summer seasons, athletes still participate in the winter months. In fact, while playing disc golf in the snow, people will often times tie a string around their disk so they can track it down.

There are three different types of discs: putter, mid-range and driver. The putter is the most like a typical Frisbee, which is designed to fly straight and slow compared to the other two. Putters are usually used for tight, controlled shots that are close to the basket, but they can be used when there is an obstacle like a tree in the way.

A mid-range disc has slightly sharper edges that enable them to cut through the air better. These discs are faster, more stable and have a longer range than a putter disc.

Drivers are designed to travel farther distances at greater speeds, and like a driver in golf, are used for teeing off. These discs are recognized by the sharp, beveled edge and have most of their mass concentrated on the outer rim rather than equally throughout.

“While most people are perfectly happy playing with one or two simple discs, a lot of serious players carry 10 to 20 discs so that they are prepared for a variety of situations,” Floyd said. “By carrying several different types of discs with different stability ratings, players are able to strategically

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Freshman visual communication major Jacob McDaniel performs a trick shot at the NAU Field House during disc golf practice Feb. 13. Bess Valdez| The Lumberjack

choose a disc that is most likely to follow the desired flight path.”

Beginners at the sport should start with an understable mid-range, which one can purchase from sporting goods stores for about $10. The team currently does not have any home matches but plan to host the Southwest Qualifier in Flagstaff next year. For regionals this year, the team will be traveling to Mesa, Arizona, to play against ASU, Colorado State University and University of Colorado Boulder. Regionals will be on March 11. If the team wins regionals, they will receive a bid to nationals in South Mill, South Carolina.

“I find the sport incredibly relaxing,” Floyd said. “I love playing with other people and hanging out, but I also enjoy the quietness of playing alone from time to time. When I line up the next shot, time stands still for a moment, and I love that feeling.”

The team is having a fundraiser tournament Feb. 24 at the NAU Disc Golf Course located next to the South Commuter parking lot. The entrance fee for competitors is $20, which includes a disc to be used in the tournament. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and is open to all ability levels.

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