The Lumberjack -- April 13, 2017

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From the Editor

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his past week, the world witnessed the negative impacts war tactics can create. As a response to the gas attacks in Syria, which left many people, including children, injured and dead, President Donald Trump ordered a missile strike on the Al Shayrat Airfield base in west Syria.

The base was home to the aircrafts responsible for the chemical warfare attacks. Whereas controversy was created and the interference of U.S. military in Syria was questioned, Trump may have been motivated in part to take actions due to the graphic videos and photos of the children suffering in Syria.

As a young journalist, even one who is continuously learning and trying to improve, I find it imperative to question the decisions of those in authority in order to find the truth behind stories.

Although the war tactics used to target innocent lives with gas weapons is immoral and unjust, I also question the use of missiles to serve as an equalizer to a country already suffering.

During this past year’s new cycle, I have seen my journalistic abilities improve and have learned the importance of journalists in our society. More than ever, I understand my responsibility as an editor and writer for The Lumberjack.

But I still have one goal in my life: to be the best writer ever. I have been lucky enough to be surrounded by people who, during my two years with The Lumberjack, have been willing to teach me how to gain information to uncover the truth, who to speak with to get that information and how to organize my DARRION writing to appeal and inform an audience. I have been lucky enough to work EDWARDS for a publication supported by the communities of Flagstaff and NAU, and I ASSISTANT hope I can continue to become a better journalist overall.

CULTURE EDITOR As journalists, we must continue to work endlessly to better our communities. We must be able to fight for the truth and must be willing to avoid biased opinions. I encourage other people to also fight for the truth and what they believe in.

James Foley, an American journalist who was honored by Sting during this year’s Academy Awards, once said, “If I don’t have the moral courage to challenge authority . . . We don’t have journalism.”

We at The Lumberjack will continue to work for the community, fight for the truth and will continue to improve as journalists.

I can only hope such efforts will benefit the community — and uncover the truth.

Thank you for reading.

LJ

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“these friendships that have grown have been beyond what I ever thought It would [be] with my teammates, my lifelong friends.”

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On the cover Steven Jones sits in the courtroom during opening statements April 5. Jones is charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that resulted in the death of Colin Brough.

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Corrections & Clarifications An article in our news section March 30 misrepresented the relationship between the Leadership Institute and Turning Point USA. The Leadership Institute and Turning Point USA are affiliated.

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PoliceBeat

April 3 April 6 At 11:06 a.m., NAUPD At 12:45 p.m., an reported they were monitoring NAUPD officer was waived a student-led march. down by a subject near the Everything was fine. intersection of Beaver Street and Benton Avenue. The At 6:48 p.m., staff in subject requested assistance Sechrist Hall reported an getting personal property back odor of marijuana. NAUPD from an employer. Assistance responded, and three subjects was provided. were deferred for marijuana use. The investigation is At 12:59 p.m., staff ongoing. in Allen Hall reported a subject trespassing. NAUPD At 7:37 p.m., NAUPD responded. The subject was assisted FPD in attempting booked into the Coconino to locate a subject near the County Detention Facility intersection of Knoles Drive for an outstanding warrant, and Riordan Road. FPD trespassing, threatening and later located and arrested the intimidating, and possession of subject. marijuana.

April 4 At 8:52 a.m., a staff member in the Science Lab Facility reported chocolate cake had been smeared around a room. NAUPD responded.

Everything was fine.

At 8:03 p.m., an NAUPD officer educated two subjects about moped- and motorvehicle safety near the Health and Learning Center.

At 10:22 p.m., staff in Allen Hall reported a trespassing subject. NAUPD responded, but they were unable to locate the subject. However, while on scene, a student was deferred for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Compiled by Kayla Rutledge Gammage building reported a subject sleeping behind the building. NAUPD responded and warned the subject of trespassing. The subject left the area.

April 8 At 12:08 a.m., staff in Allen Hall reported a student with a water gun. An NAUPD officer responded, and everything was fine.

At 12:39 a.m., a subject requested help removing a zip-tie in lot 65. NAUPD responded and provided assistance.

At 1:25 a.m., a subject reported hearing fireworks near Hilltop Townhomes. NAUPD At 2:34 p.m., staff in searched the area and could not Cline Library reported a locate any fireworks. subject exposing himself and urinating. NAUPD responded At 8:39 p.m., a student and the subject was arrested in The Suites reported hearing for indecent exposure, criminal someone yelling for help. damage, trespassing and NAUPD, FFD and a Guardian disrupting an educational Medical Transport ambulance facility while on an active responded. The subject was warrant. The investigation is found to be in good health and ongoing. refused medical attention.

At 7:50 p.m., NAU staff near the intersection of San Francisco Street and McConnell Drive reported a sign displaying an incorrect speed limit. An NAUPD officer responded and corrected the sign.

April 7 At 8:41 a.m., a student in Gabaldon Hall reported the theft of their Trump Flag.

An NAUPD officer took the report, and is working to make everything great again.

April 5 At 6:40 p.m., a student at the Health and Learning Center reported multiple subjects skateboarding into traffic. An NAUPD officer responded and warned the At 11:27 a.m., an subjects. Everything was fine.

NAUPD officer initiated a traffic stop in parking lot 62.

At 11:14 p.m., University The officer issued a citation for Safety Aides at the Knoles displaying suspended license Parking Garage reported two plates and having no insurance. subjects indecently exposed in The violation occurred near a vehicle. NAUPD responded, Pine Knoll and McConnell and the area was searched, but drives. the subjects were gone upon arrival.

At 1:40 p.m., staff in the

At 9:19 p.m., a student in the Engineering building reported a hissing noise and the odor of gas. NAUPD, FFD and University Safety Aides responded. FFD could not find a gas leak in the building.

April 9 At 12:41 a.m., staff in Tinsley Hall reported a stolen fire extinguisher. An NAUPD officer responded.

The investigation is ongoing.

At 2:07 a.m., a student in Mountain View Hall reported a suspicious person outside of the building. NAUPD responded, but the subject was gone upon arrival.

At 2:19 p.m., a passerby called to report an unconscious subject lying in the Dome Practice Fields. An NAUPD officer responded and located the subject in good health.

NEWS

Jones trial: Opening statements and Piring’s testimony Joey Postiglione

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he trial of the State of Arizona v. Steven Jones started April 5 with opening statements that painted two different pictures of the events that occurred in the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2015.

Former NAU student Steven Jones is being charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of Colin Brough and six counts of aggravated assault against Nick Piring, Nicholas Prato and Kyle Zientek.

Jones’ defense disputed these charges and said the state did not provide the Grand Jury, which indicted Jones, with all the evidence. The defense claimed the state left out or misrepresented evidence, such as the extent of Jones injuries sustained on the night of the shooting.

The alleged crimes happened in the early morning of Oct. 9, 2015, at approximately 1 a.m., when Jones and three of his friends, Shay McConnell, Jacob Mike and Hunter Todd, were returning to campus from a party at The Grove, according to prosecution court documents.

According to NAUPD reports, during their walk back, Todd became separated from the group.

Then Jones, McConnell and Mike stopped in front of The Courtyards apartments to try to find their missing friend.

Mike then decided to do what both the prosecution and defense have called a “childish” act and ding-dong-ditched the Delta Chi fraternity house where a party was reportedly winding down, according to court documents. After knocking on the door and leaving, Mike, McConnell and Jones walked toward the Mountain View Hall parking lot to wait for Todd to return.

According to court documents, as they were walking back, the door of the Delta Chi house opened and a group of college students including Colin Brough came out to confront Jones and his friends.

After some verbal sparring between the two groups, an unidentified person ran up to Jones and punched him in the face splitting his lip and knocking off his glasses, according police reports.

Jones went to his car and retrieved his .40-caliber Glock handgun with attached flashlight, chambered a round and made his way back to the two groups, who were dispersing, and opened fire, the prosecution said during opening statements.

After firing several rounds at Brough and Piring and then at Zientek and Prato, Jones was convinced to put down his gun, according to court documents, by Chase Jones, who is not related to Steven Jones. NAUPD arrived to the scene moments later, and Jones raised his hands.

"I have one detained, he identified himself as the shooter," said Keegan Park, the arresting officer the morning of the shooting, in the body cam footage of Jones' arrest.

Jones was then handcuffed and placed in an NAUPD patrol car.

Steven Jones was indicted at 1 p.m. later that day on charges of murder and aggravated assault.

His bail was set at $2 million.

Normal court procedures followed for the next few months until Nov. 30, 2015, when police reports revealed medical information about Jones and the victims — information could be brought up in the trial.

Jones was sober the night of the shooting, but the four victims had alcohol or drugs in their systems, according to the toxicology report. Brough had a blood alcohol level of .285 as well as having marijuana and xanax in his system.

In January 2016, an announcement said it might take up to a year to process all the evidence in the case. The crime lab in Phoenix only allowed five pieces of evidence to be submitted at a time.

On Feb. 19, 2016, Judge Slayton considered the defense’s request for Jones’ early release, but decided against it. Slayton cited concerns about whether or not he would have access to weapons, if he was a flight risk and who would be keeping track of him in Maricopa County.

“The concern that I have is that Mr. Jones, without any prior history, took the actions that he did on that night,” said Slayton. “So at this time, I’m going to deny the [bond] motion.”

On April 12, 2016, Jones’ defense team made a second motion for early release, after addressing the judge’s concerns, which Slayton agreed to with stipulations.

Jones has since been awaiting trial at his parents home in Phoenix.

Several pretrial hearings in March wrapped up court proceedings and allowed all parties involved to be prepared for jury selection and the trial.

While it is undisputed that someone punched Jones in the face prior to the shooting, the defense and prosecution have different interpretations of how the events immediately leading up to

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NAU senior Nick Piring, who was wounded in the events of October 2015, testifies April 6.

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the shooting transpired.

The state’s attorney Ammon Barker said in his opening statement that Jones, instead of driving away from the situation, wanted “payback.”

“That night, to the victims, the defendant was an assassin emerging from the dark,” said Barker.

The state claims that Jones escalated the situation when he returned to his car to retrieve the gun. The state also said that 90-foot journey to Jones’ car was plenty of time for premeditation. “[The victims] had no chance to protect themselves … the dynamic of that situation was about to change drastically when [Jones] got to his car,” said Barker.

The state also alleged that Jones never announced he had a gun before opening fire, as the defense claimed he did.

“He was armed for battle, but it was a battle only he knew about,” Barker said.

Barker ended his statement by saying this was not self-defense but “a picture of murder and unjustified shootings.”

The defense’s opening statement by one of Jones’ defense attorneys, Joshua Davidson, painted a different scene of a frightened student in a hostile situation.

“This is a case about an 18-year-old kid, who is just a couple weeks into his college career …

And he found himself in a situation where he was surrounded, bullied, threaten and attacked and he did what he had to do to protect himself,” said Davidson.

Davidson explained the tense environment Jones found himself in when the Delta Chi men confronted him. Allegedly hostile words like “faggot” and “pussy” were said by the Delta Chi group to Jones and his friends, the defense said.

“A group of individuals comes out of [The Courtyards]. It’s not a square-off; it’s not a friendly ‘Hey, what are you doing?’” Davidson said.

Davidson said in his opening statement that when Jones’ glasses were knocked off from the punch he received, his vision was greatly impaired. When running back to his car, Jones thought two people were chasing after him, Davidson said.

Davidson also claimed that Jones, whose father is a NRA instructor and taught him how to use a gun, not only announced he had a gun to the crowd of people, but he was also holding it in a low position.

It was only when Brough lunged at him that he opened fire, according to the defense.

The state wants to show that Jones had enough time to reflect on the situation and his actions, and the defense wants to show that Jones was simply reacting in self-defense to a hostile situation Key pieces of evidence that will play a role in what narrative the jury decides to believe include the distance between Brough and Jones when Brough was shot and if Jones really announced he was armed, which at this time is only supported by his own account.

So far, one victim and several witnesses have testified in court as well as several NAUPD and Flagstaff police officers. In the coming weeks, testimony is expected from the medical examiner, the other victims of the shooting and the first responding officer.

The trial is estimated to continue into early May.

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NAU and Flagstaff nonprofits profit from 24 hours of donations Kayla Rutledge

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n northern Arizona, local nonprofits profited from volunteer efforts and donations April 5.

Arizona Gives Day is a statewide fundraising event that utilizes the Arizona Gives website to connect people from communities across the state with nonprofit organizations in need of donations.

This year’s 24-hour donation day started April 4 at 12 a.m. Flagstaff had 15 nonprofits registered on the website that are in need of donations from community members and Arizona residents.

Included on the donation list was Camp Kesem at NAU along with other nonprofits such as the Flagstaff Family Food Center.

Camp Kesem is a nonprofit, nationwide organization that serves as a support system for children of cancer patients, including those in Northern Arizona. Camp Kesem offers a weeklong summer camp and the support network extends beyond the summer with yearlong support from volunteers.

Through Arizona Gives Day, Camp Kesem at NAU raised $338 that will go toward sending children to camp this July. The children who attend the camp range from ages 6 to 16.

The nonprofit has successfully reached their goal and will send 42 campers to Camp Kesem this summer.

“We are now accumulating a wait list due to fundraising limitations, so we are working very hard to surpass our fundraising goal and get those children off the waitlist,” said Natasha Hayden, co-director of Camp Kesem at NAU. In addition to collecting donations online, the organization also hosts events on NAU’s campus to raise funds for the summer. The largest fundraising event, “Make the Magic,” is a dinner and silent auction at the Museum of Northern Arizona scheduled for April 22.

“We focus on giving these kids a week to just be kids,” Hayden said. “Cancer often forces them to grow up too quickly, so we plan camp as a week where they get to rediscover their childhood and how much fun it can be to be a kid, regardless of cancer.”

About 25 student volunteers run this summer camp. During the week, volunteers are tasked with managing breakout groups, mini-carnivals, high ropes courses and a number of other events to help children feel more connected to one another and create lasting relationships.

“We call ourselves family at Camp Kesem because that’s exactly what we are,” Hayden said. “We accept every person involved for who they are and have a blast together. We realize that cancer sucks, but we know that Kesem is always there.”

Fundraising events will continue throughout the summer in hopes of taking more children off the waitlist.

Another nonprofit that raised funds on Arizona Gives Day was the Flagstaff Family Food Center. Flagstaff Family Food Center’s mission is “[to serve] hope to Flagstaff families by providing hunger relief and children’s literacy programs.”

In 2013, Flagstaff faced a food crisis after St. Mary’s decided to move their food bank services to Phoenix and left the Northern Arizona Food Bank in financial distress. It was at this time that Jim Newberry, Lindsey Spear and their team of staff and volunteers decided to take on the food challenges faced by the Flagstaff community.

“Roughly $902,000 needs to be raised by the end of the fiscal year to keep our organization operating. We have until June this year to raise $100,000,” said Spear, Flagstaff Family Food Center executive director. “These costs are associated with paying staff, keeping electricity in the bank’s two locations and transporting produce in refrigerated trucks to places in need.”

This year the food center received $2,109 during Arizona Gives Day, leaving the organization $97,891 short of reaching their goal. However, Newberry said he applies for grants daily to ensure the foodbank and its eight separate programs stay afloat.

“What we do here only works with volunteer help, and we are so thankful so many people are willing to be here,” said Newberry.

The eight programs run by the food center have provided 57,123 hot meals served daily throughout the year, distributed 1.5 million pounds of food in Coconino County, repurposed 128,291 pounds of rescued food to farmers for feed and compost and other resources such as children’s literacy programs to the community, Hayden said.

Most services are provided to low-income families, children and those in shelters.

“Anyone can come get what they need from us. If they need it, we are going to do everything we can to help and get it to them,” Newberry said.

Flagstaff Family Food Center hopes to continue to provide their services to those in need and

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Senior exercise science major Cody Notbohm (left) and freshman mechanical engineering major Caleb Dusek (right) paint “Camp Kesem” and “Cancer Sucks” on signs outside the University Union April 4. The signs will be used at the Make the Magic fundraiser April 22.

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to other nonprofit agencies in Northern Arizona.

“What we do here is not possible without the help and the support from the community,” Newberry said. “I just want to make sure [volunteers] know how much we appreciate them sharing time with us and helping out.”

The amount of money collected this year during the 24-hour donation event for nonprofits across Arizona totaled $2.24 million. Since 2013 the Arizona Gives website has raised roughly $7.4 million for Arizona nonprofits.

Though Arizona Gives Day has come to a close, donors are still able to contribute through the website throughout the year. The next date donations will count in the 24-hour experience will be April 3, 2018.

NEWS

Flagstaff starts new recycling program, NAU continues theirs Brittany Viar

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hile NAU promotes recycling and sustainability on campus, many apartment complexes around the city have not made recycling a priority.

Flagstaff has a Sustainability Commission that works toward making the city a healthy place to live. The university is also known for its high sustainability standards.

According to the City of Flagstaff website, the city has “directives [that promote] sustainable practices in all spheres of life and educating Flagstaff citizens.”

Additionally, NAU is a “green” university and has a sustainability program dedicated to “social equity, economic stability and environmental stewardship,” according to NAU’s Office of Sustainability page.

According to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency, “recycling and composting of municipal solid waste results in greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In 2014, the 89 million tons of municipal solid waste recycled and composted provided an annual reduction of over 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, comparable to the annual emissions from over 38 million passenger cars.”

There are several recycling facilities around the city, including Isaac Recycling, Waste Management and Norton Environmental, Inc. According to Flagstaff’s website, drop-off locations for all recycling needs are available on NAU campus near Pine Knoll Drive, Coconino Community College on Fourth Street and the Continental Little League Field Parking Lot near Walnut Canyon Road. The city’s website also includes a list of what is and is not acceptable to recycle and which items need “special handling.”

Items such as paper, metal and plastic are appropriate for general recycling. Glass materials are picked up monthly, but require “special handling” because they can break and cause injury to workers. Additionally, Flagstaff’s website offers a Commerce Recycle Rate Sheet with more information in regards to cost of recycling compared to trash.

“We collect copper, glass, aluminum, batteries, cans and plastics,” said Franklin Mendoza, an employee at Isaac Recycling in Flagstaff.

For NAU, recycling bins are available in dorms and throughout other on-campus housing locations. Small blue recycle bins are given to students, and larger recycling bins are outside next to garbage dumpsters across campus.

“All NAU residence halls are outfitted with both trash and recycling containers for resident recycling. The educational, event, recreational and dining hall buildings on campus are progressively being retrofitted [as funds come in] with a new indoor public recycling system,” said senior environmental studies major James Yurkovich. “Some of the older buildings were able to receive the new system right away, and the new/remodeled buildings have the new recycling containers as a set standard. In theory, this system allows for easier building-wide recycling and reduces the workload for our hardworking custodial staff.”

Yurkovich said NAU’s system is unique compared to other cities across the state.

“Additionally, we have giant solar trash and recycling compactors called ‘BigBellys’ for public litter. These are everywhere across high traffic areas around campus. The litter bins allow for recycling to be separated outside as well, something quite uncommon in many cities and towns across the country,” Yurkovich said.

NAU is a green campus, meaning the university has measures including both trash and recycling bins scattered throughout the campus for students and staff to utilize. On NAU’s website, there is a page devoted to the importance of recycling, which also includes various items that cannot be recycled. Plastic, metal and paper products are usually acceptable for campus recycling.

“The program [for NAU] is the same as the City of Flagstaff. We take the recyclable materials paper, aluminum/steel cans, all rigid plastic containers and paperboard/cardboard products all in one dumpster except for glass. Glass must be recycled separately in a roll-off bin located in the back of the P62 B ‘South Commuter’ parking lot. There is a sign for direction,” Yurkovich said. “Also, students, staff and faculty can also recycle batteries, ink cartridges and CFL light bulbs at the NAU Facility Services’ office on South Campus.”

NAU is also partnered with the Recycling Pilot Program. According to their website, the University Union, Social and Behavioral Science building, Liberal Arts building and Babbitt Administrative Center are participating in this new recycling program. As part of this program, new blue-colored recycling bins and small black waste bins are accessible in these areas.

Throughout Flagstaff, there are various apartment complexes that house NAU students.

Common housing options include: Woodcrest Apartment Homes, The Grove, Highland Village Apartments, Pine View Village Apartments and Woodlands Village Apartments. These apartments each have recycling programs.

Woodcrest Apartment Homes near Woodlands Village Boulevard recently added a new program to increase recycling in the complex.

The residents of the apartment complex received a letter from Dylan Lenzen, the sustainability aide for the Flagstaff Sustainability Program, to advocate for the new addition.

“In Flagstaff, like many other cities, we aren’t very good at recycling in a multifamily complex.

Infrastructure is difficult in a college town,” said Lenzen. “We plan on going into the apartment complex [Woodcrest] and telling the residents about recycling.”

Another apartment complex, Highland Village Apartments, has a recycling program as well, but it is unclear how accessible it is.

“I didn’t even know we had a recycling program until I spoke with someone at the front desk,” said Hailee Sattley, resident of Highland Village.

According to the letter, Woodcrest already provides waste services but will be adding new recycling Dumpsters to make it easier to build a healthier, cleaner environment for the community.

“The more we recycle, the closer we move Flagstaff toward a more environmentally friendly community,” Lenzen said in the letter.

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Cigarette ban leaves campus covered in butts Peter Wright

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ast year, there were many days of beautiful sunshine, rain and snow here in Flagstaff.

Throughout the year, many students took a relaxing cigarette break in the quad or on a bench in between classes.

Cigarettes even became just as a way to break up a day spent lounging around in a dorm with friends.

Afterward, as responsible and environmentally conscious citizens of Flagstaff, these students would locate themselves a cigarette disposal unit and ensure their cigarette butt didn’t negatively impact the beautiful environment in which we live.

Now it’s a whole different story. Students constantly smoke cigarettes on campus despite the campus-wide cigarette ban, but there’s no way to do it in an environmentally conscious way.

This is because there are no disposal units anymore. Anytime you want to smoke a cigarette, there are few options but to simply throw the waste onto the ground, and every butt that hits the ground is just another step closer to our destroying the forest we live in.

Furthermore, it’s an absolutely irrational assumption that people are just going to stop smoking because NAU decided it looked prettier for potential freshmen’s parents to ban cigarettes. The fact of the matter is this: Smokers are going to smoke, no matter what completely unenforceable policy is in place.

There are so many different locations throughout campus that have unintentionally become the new designated smoking areas, chosen based on their seclusion. These areas, like all of NAU’s campus, don’t have a proper way to dispose of the cigarette butts and are absolutely littered with the little white and brown stubs.

There are a multitude of reasons why this ridiculous ban has been put into place. First and

foremost, it makes the school look good to parents who are touring schools with their kids.

If the school looks like a clean and safe place for their high school senior to leave the nest come fall, a parent is more likely to send their kid here, making NAU more money. The people who signed the petition to rid the campus of cigarettes are passive aggressive at best and signed their name on a piece of paper instead of kindly telling someone smoking near them that they’re bothered by it.

Sooner or later, the staff and students of NAU will realize that, although it’s detrimental to one’s health, as a society we aren’t going to be quitting any time soon.

Luckily there’s no way this ban can last very long, as NAU is undoubtedly beginning to notice how much more they have to work at cleaning up the waste from people who are still smoking on campus.

Sooner or later, the staff and students of NAU will realize that, although it’s detrimental to one’s health, as a society we aren’t going to be quitting any time soon.

A truly fair compromise to this issue would be designated smoking areas, which are numerous enough to be accessible at all times wherever you are on campus. That way, if second-hand smoke really bothers you, you can stay away from the smoking area. If you need a cigarette, for whatever reason, that option will be provided to you. And everybody is happy, including the most important entity being affected by this issue: our Earth.

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Snail trials and flaws within United States justice system Kaitlyn Munsil

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ost people find the fear of the unknown immense and difficult to handle. One of these fears of the unknown is when there is a person waiting in jail for their trial to occur. Unaware if they will be deemed innocent or guilty, these people spend more time waiting in jail than should be necessary.

Through the Sixth Amendment, the right to a speedy trial is guaranteed.

The term “speedy trial” might not be the best phrase to use because this is not true. Actually, this time period is usually lengthy.

According to FindLaw, “A ‘speedy’ trial basically means that the defendant is tried for the alleged crimes within a reasonable time after being arrested.”

However, several recent examples prove this time frame can be longer than what it’s supposed to be.

Oct. 9, 2015, Steven Jones, a student at NAU, allegedly opened fire on other NAU students, killing one and injuring three. The trial began April 4, which was a year and a half after the shooting. This is just one of the many examples of how long people must wait before actually having a trial.

Of course, there are circumstances when trials must be held off. Delays cause the wait for trial to be extended longer than expected. These delays are usually in order for more information to be gathered to build a stronger case for or against the defendant.

The United States’ court system has adopted the principle of presumption of innocence, otherwise known as “innocent until proven guilty.” Most other countries around the world don’t abide by this principle but instead follow the principle of “guilty until proven innocent.”

Presumption of innocence has set the judiciary system of the U.S. apart from other countries. However, when these people who are awaiting their sentence must often live in jails, it causes a higher cost for the government as well as U.S. taxpayers.

In order to keep accused people in jail, the government uses taxes to do

so. However, if these trials were held sooner rather than later, this could save the government quite a bit of money.

In addition to this, taxpayers must also pay to keep convicted people in prison as well.

In 2012, the Vera Institute of Justice conducted a survey to find the cost for

The trial began April 4, which was a year and a half after the shooting.

This is just one of the many examples of how long people must wait before actually having a trial. prisons as well as an annual average cost per inmate. The article stated, “While overlooked costs can vary from state to state, Vera’s survey of 40 states found that prison costs were in reality 13.9 percent higher than those states combined corrections budgets.” By looking at a fact sheet on the ‘price of prisons’ by the Vera Institute of Justice, one can find that, in the state of Arizona, $24,805 is the annual average cost per inmate.

The number of people who are in jails is high because they are awaiting trial. To efficiently benefit the judiciary system as well as the spending costs of the government, something must be done.

Changes must be made in order to reframe the court system. One way this can be done is not waiting around for trials. Trials should be held shortly after the occurrence, not years later.

In some situations, the time for a person to wait for trial will be longer than others. However, keeping this time to no longer than a year would greatly benefit the people who are waiting and the taxpayers who are paying to keep them in jail.

Making this change is a must in order for people to be released from jail if they are innocent, or to be tried and sentenced if they are guilty, and then sent to prison. The sooner this change is made, the better the outcome will be.

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Point-Counterpoint: Parenting

Discipline and parenting: the oxymoron of the 21st century Zach Martin

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hat has happened to parents? Have they all taken a vacation, or are they really that clueless? Now that physical discipline is regarded as taboo, I can’t count the number of times I’ve encountered a disobedient or unsupervised child in a public place and wondered, “Where are your parents?”

I vividly remember seeing a group of several families all getting together for dinner at a TGI Fridays. They all walked in, plopped their kids in high chairs, handed them all tablets and ordered drinks. Can someone please tell me what is wrong with that image?!

Instead of me ranting on, though, I’d like to zero in on a couple of key points because I could go on all day about what I see almost daily. First off, parental awareness. Think of the last time you were out and about, and saw an unattended child. If you can’t remember, then you need to get out more because I seem to come across them all the time. What are their parents doing?

Whatever you’re doing must be very important and distracting if you lose sight of your child, whom you apparently care for and

love so much. Out of all the things I don’t remember as a young child, one thing I do is the presence of my mother. She was always right next to me, or I next to her depending on who was in control at the time. There was this one time at Seaworld when I took off on an adventure through an epic obstacle course of grand proportions and my mom didn’t realize it.

Yes, my mom lost me, but I take full responsibility for that because I was being a little turd. I feel as though parents today, especially those of a younger age (another trend that blows my mind), aren’t tuned in to the little creature they created because they are too busy worrying about themselves and everything they have going on.

My second point: Laziness. Let’s refer back to the TGI Fridays example. That is not parenting. It is pure laziness.

The day I hand my kid a tablet instead of taking him or her outside to play or spoon feed them as they throw spaghetti and scream is the day someone needs to take said tablet and smash it over my head. I don’t care if there are learning games and shows that help educate them or do nothing but good, there is nothing better than

forming a bond with your child by interacting with them. So, instead of going out to dinner, why not have a barbeque and let the kids run around and have great experiences together? The adults will still be engaged in similar interaction as if they were out to dinner, but at least their kids get to be kids, not drone pilots at age 3.

Finally, my last point: Discipline. I come from a martial arts background, as it has been part of my life since I was about 4 years old.

Tough love and discipline are kind of in my wheelhouse, and in this society, I have never seen such a lack of discipline across the board.

Sadly this has trickled down into parenting, the one place it most certainly doesn’t belong.

Although I don’t agree with everything she does, props to “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua for sticking by her cultural beliefs in parenting and disciplining her kids in the middle of a culture filled with parents giving their kids slaps on the wrist, giving teachers lip about their kids doing poorly in school and bailing their kids out of the drunk tank after getting a DUI. Total pushovers.

If your kid keeps knocking things over in the grocery store, smack them on the butt instead of picking up after the little jerk and

letting it happen over and over. If your kid is getting bad grades, it’s not the teacher’s fault.

When was the last time you checked to see if your kid was actually doing their homework or asked them if they needed help with it?

It’s instinct to want to protect children, but going to bail out your kid after they get a DUI will only tell them that, no matter what wrong they do, Mommy and Daddy will always be there to bail them out. The day I got my driver’s license, my dad told me, “If you get a DUI, your mom and I won’t come and get you. You’ll stay there for the night.” Because of that statement, I have never driven drunk. I know for a fact that my parents would not come and get me. They aren’t pushovers.

If you, the reader, will take away anything from this other than hating me, it should be this: Don’t be afraid to say no, be assertive and be in control. The best kind of love is that of guidance for your children. As they grow up, they will respect you and form stronger bonds with you.

I’m not saying be abusive and yell, that’s just as childish as what your kid is probably doing, and it’s illegal. Just don’t be a pushover.

Harsh parenting causes more problems than it solves Alex Rand

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t’s an easy mistake to make. Many kids were raised with harsh parenting — spanking, threats, yelling — and when they became parents themselves, they fell back on the way they were raised to bring up their own children.

This is how a cycle forms, and it’s why harsh parenting is still so prevalent. It’s the way of our parents, and our parent’s parents and our parent’s parent’s parents, and so on.

Of course, with all that time harsh parenting has been going on, there’s been time for scientific research to be done on it. And the results of this research is overwhelmingly clear: Harsh parenting is terrible for children.

CNN Health reports that, “Previous research has showed how hitting children can lead to them to be more aggressive and to suffer from mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, which could ultimately result in learning difficulties.” I know it’s baffling to think hitting a child might give them anxiety, but bear with me here.

If CNN isn’t a reliable enough source, TIME Magazine cites the Canadian Medical Association Journal, stating, “A new analysis of two decades of research on the long-term effects of physical punishment in children concludes that spanking doesn’t work and can actually wreak havoc on kids’ long-term development.”

And if it’s easier to trust a source based in this country, the American Psychological Association (APA) has also published research on this exact topic. It’s not surprising they’ve come up with the exact same findings as everyone else, concluding that, “Physical punishment — including spanking, hitting and other means of causing pain — can lead to increased aggression, antisocial behavior, physical injury and mental health problems for children.”

The APA goes on to cite Alan Kazdin, Ph.D. Yale University psychology professor and director of the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic, on the matter. “You cannot punish out these behaviors that you do not want,” said Kazdin. “There is no need for corporal punishment based on the research. We

are not giving up an effective technique. We are saying this is a horrible thing that does not work.”

Every single one of these sources agree that harsh parenting, including physical punishment, yelling at or threatening children, is bad for the children. It instills fear and aggression in them without actually showing any reduction in the problem behaviors. The APA shows that children who have been hit endorse physical violence as a means of solving their own problems with peers at school. The study CNN Health shows that children raised with harsh parenting were more likely to drop out of high school and engage in “risky behaviors by the 11th grade, which included more sexual activity for girls and hitting and stealing for boys.”

With all the negative effects of harsh parenting, it’s a miracle it’s still legal anywhere.

But that’s the thing — it’s illegal almost everywhere except for the United States. The APA says, “The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a directive in 2006 calling physical punishment ‘legalized violence

against children’ that should be eliminated in all settings through ‘legislative, administrative, social and educational measures.’ The directive that was established has been supported by 192 countries, with only the United States and Somalia failing to ratify it.”

We sure are the greatest country in the world. We stick to our guns! We don’t let anyone change our beliefs that battering children is the moral high ground, not even the United Nations.

There’s no excuse for being aggressive toward children. It doesn’t stop the behaviors it’s meant to stop, and it’s detrimental to the kid.

If a child is old enough that a parent can have a conversation with them about what the child is doing wrong and why it needs to stop, that should happen. If the child isn’t old enough to have that conversation, then they’re definitely not old enough to understand why a trusted adult figure in their life is attacking them.

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Secret hideaway, clothing optional Matthew Kruelle

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he last sight most hikers expect to see when they round a bend is 36 nude men and women trying to quickly throw on their clothes.

A nudist, or naturist, is someone who enjoys hiking, swimming, or just plain existing in their natural state: stark naked.

After years of commuting to southern Arizona to socialize with nudist groups, Marine veteran Dan Willits founded a group of naturist hikers in the Verde Valley — the only open nudist group in Northern Arizona.

“In order for the people in Northern Arizona to participate, they would have to go to Phoenix or Tucson. So I thought, ‘Let’s do something for Northern Arizona,’” said Willits.

Clothing is optional for first-timers so they can work their way to hiking nude at their own pace.

Willits’ group does not belong to the American Association for Nude Recreation or The Nudist Society, but individual members of the Verde Valley club are allowed to belong to whichever organizations and clubs they like.

The United States lags behind other nations like France in the social and legal acceptance of nudity. Because of this, American Association for Nude Recreation was formerly known as the American Sunbathing Association.

“A lot of people think we just crave the sun and have to be out in the sun, but that’s just not true,” said Cecilia Wenisch, nudist and American Association for Nude Recreation member.

Wenisch said naturists look each other in the eye. A person to them is not defined by body image, but the content of one’s character.

“People judge you by your clothing, how much money you make, what kind of work you do, so on and so forth,” Willits said.

“When you don’t have any of that on, you’ve got nothing to judge but the person themselves.”

Willits has experienced how judgmental people can be. He has had Tourette Syndrome, a nervous system disorder, since he was 9-years-old. It started after he watched a woman burn to death at Canyon Lake, north of Phoenix.

However, in-depth research on Tourette Syndrome didn’t begin until the early 1970s, and Willits’ doctors told his parents he was seeking out attention.

“Obviously my parents were not supportive, teachers were not supportive,” Willits said. “Kids are brutal.”

After a late-night infomercial about Tourette Syndrome, which described him flawlessly, Willits saw a doctor and got medicated. However, that didn’t stop others from judging him.

“I finally got tired of [Tourette Syndrome]. I wanted people to see me and not it, and [nudism] was the first thing that popped into my mind,” Willits said.

Willits’ first naturist experience was at a nude Olympics about 35 years ago. Competition involved tug-o-war, three-legged races, volleyball and more. Now, at age 62, he still participates in nude communities around the state.

Nudists are practical by nature. They wear shoes on trails, and jackets in the snow. If they play tennis, they wear tennis shoes.

Dan Willits is the founder of the only open nudist hiking group in Northern Arizona. Michael Patacsil | The Lumberjack

“There are some naturist that go to, what I would say, is the extreme and say, ‘You shouldn’t even be wearing shoes,’” Willits said.

A common argument a nudist will make is a swimsuit is purposeless. It neither helps the swimmer get wetter or dryer.

“People don’t shower in swimsuits,” Wenisch said.

Willits said some nudists view wearing skimpy clothing on the beach, like speedos and bikinis, to be more sexual than the naked body. To them, these people are drawing attention to their bodies — something a nudist would never try to do.

Nudists come from all backgrounds, including lawyers, engineers, teachers and priests among others. American Association for Nude Recreation has more than 52 million members and over 200 affiliated clubs. Willits’ Verde Valley club has 36 members and continues to grow.

There is one other nudist group based in Prescott, but it is closed to the public. People can only join if invited.

Nudist groups are separated into two classifications: landed and non-landed. A landed community owns the land they use, and a non-landed group searches for secluded areas on public lands such as national forests.

Wenisch lives in Pennsylvania and is part owner of a co-op landed camp there. However, she frequently visits Arizona to hike.

“Something draws me [to Arizona]. Something draws me to

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the Grand Canyon too,” Wenisch said. “It’s a whole lot different from Pennsylvania.”

Wenisch frequently hikes in Northern Arizona, and spends time at a landed camp in New River.

Willits’ group is non-landed, hiking along secret and secluded trails on Mingus Mountain in the Prescott National Forest and the Prescott Valley. The group works hard to keep its trails unknown and exclusive as they do not want to disturb other

“I finally got tired of [TourettE Syndrome]. I wanted people to see me and not it, and [nudism] was the first thing that popped into my mind.”

-DAn Willits, Founder of naturist hikers hikers or be discovered.

Willits is always on the lookout for new secluded spots to explore with his group.

Nudists aim to see hikers before hikers can see them. This way they are able to dress themselves before the inevitable meeting

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Nudists prefer to leave clothes behind for hikes and various activities.

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with a clothed person.

Nudists cover themselves out of respect for other hikers. Willits said nudist are not there to be seen. They are not exhibitionists.

“I’m very discreet, more because I don’t want to embarrass other people or make them feel uncomfortable,” Wenisch said.

To many indigenous peoples nudity was and still may be the norm, according to “205 Arguments and Observations In Support of Naturism,” by K. Bacher. It is not until extended interaction with clothed society that they begin to feel shame about it. Children, also do not feel shame about their bodies. It is not until later that they learn to be ashamed of their bodies.

“We view clothing as a necessary evil for the public,” Willits said.

The nudist community is incredibly supportive of the Free the Nipple movement. In most states, including Arizona, it is illegal for a women to be topless in public but not for men.

It is considered indecent exposure and a felony in Arizona for either gender to be fully nude.

“In the U.S., nude beaches aren’t that big and other nudity things many people don’t want to see in public,” said hiker and junior environmental science major Riley Forbis.

Nudist hiking groups don’t encourage sexual relations among members. Sex is something that can be frowned upon in nudist activities and is far from the purpose of nudist hiking groups.

“The entire community is working very hard to try and show people that this has absolutely nothing to do with sex,” Willits said.

Sexual conduct is prohibited in all American Association for Nude Recreation communities, and every group Willits has ever been affiliated with. Even flirting can get someone removed from the group. American Association for Nude Recreation requires all of its clubs to be family oriented, but even groups like Willits’ that are not affiliated with American Association for Nude Recreation are family friendly.

There are minors at some nudist events. However, the communities are very protective of the children.

“They, unlike most kids that are growing up in clothed families, they appreciate their bodies for what they are. They appreciate their peer’s bodies for what they are; their size, shape, color doesn’t make any difference. They’re just bodies,” Willits said.

The community is open-minded and accepting of people from all backgrounds. No one is required to look like they were sculpted by Michelangelo. Members participate to get to know each other.

“I have absolutely no room to judge another person’s body, I mean I don’t look like Arnold Schwarzenegger or any of these young kids,” Willits said.

Both Willits and Wenisch have been going to nude events for decades and are now in their 60s,

Dan Willits and the members of the nudist group like to keep secret the locations of their Northern Arizona hiking trails. Michael Patacsil | The Lumberjack

never outgrowing the freeing nature of nudism whether it be hiking or swimming or everyday life.

“It’s such a wonderful experience being out in the clear water, the warm water, without having a bathing suit on,” Wenisch said.

Willits recommends clothed people try staying nude after showering, or sleep in the nude to get the experience.

“Some of the very most reluctant people are the ones that get hooked the worst,” Willits said.

The culture around nudism is slowly changing in the U.S. In Northern Arizona, nudists continue to hike and explore whether they are socially supported or not.

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Precious water: Care to be aware Mikayla Shoup

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ome people make a splash without a care in the world.

However, those who care about water conservation work hard to raise awareness about saving this sparse resource.

In Arizona, in 2008, then Gov. Janet Napolitano declared April to be Water Awareness month.

This year, Flagstaff is working hard to raise awareness about water conservation. The Flagstaff City Council recently allocated new funds for water conservation and hopes to become a national leader in conserving water. The city will even compete in a national competition on water conservation.

Events taking place this month include: a tour of the Rio de Flag Water Reclamation Plant April 15, a rainwater harvesting workshop at Warner’s Nursery, and Earth Day celebrations at Heritage Square April 22.

The city wants these events to increase public knowledge about water conservation and that residents will try to conserve water even after the month is over.

“We’re hoping that after this month people will be more aware that there is a water conservation programing coming from the city, and maybe some people that didn’t really understand where their water comes from will have learned some of that,” said water conservation specialist Tamara Lawless.

One of the biggest events of the month is the Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation. The challenge is a friendly nationwide competition between cities.

The cities compete to see who can be the most “waterwise,” and mayors across the nation are challenging their citizens to participate by making a pledge to conserve water. The pledge asks people to commit to making certain changes in their home, yard, community and life. Those who pledge can choose to commit to all or some of the changes, and at the end it shows how many gallons of water the changes made will save.

Flagstaff City Council is making it a goal for the city to win the Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation.

Not only does the winning city earn bragging rights, but the citizens are entered for a chance to win a variety of prizes, with the top being a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime.

The City of Flagstaff works to conserve water in this arid environment. The majority of the city’s water comes from Lake Mary, wells located in the San Francisco Peaks and the Inner Basin. During dry years, the city relies more on well water, and during years with more precipitation, more water is taken from Lake Mary.

Flagstaff has rules in place to conserve water. There is a stricter plumbing code for new buildings, residents cannot water between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and watering is only allowed three days a week on certain days depending on whether the address is odd or even.

Reclaimed water is used on parks, golf courses and at Snowbowl. The city offers rebates to upgrade to more efficient toilets, remove lawns and install rainwater collections systems.

In addition to having rules in place, Flagstaff’s community does their part to conserve water.

“People in this community, because they care a lot, seem to do things like take shorter showers and grow fewer lawns. So

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if you look at the per capita use in Flagstaff, compared to the national use, we use less per person,” Lawless said.

The City of Flagstaff is not the only group that cares about conserving water. NAU is committed to sustainability on campus, and water conservation is a high priority.

In 2010, NAU’s administration decided they need to reduce their emissions impact on the environment. So, they created the Climate Action Plan. The plan has since evolved, and now NAU has the Sustainability Action Plan, which is split into different focuses. One of which is water conservation.

“Water wasn’t in our first plan, but when we revisited all the things that Flagstaff and NAU value, water was certainly at the very top,” said Office of Sustainability manager Ellen Vaughan.

NAU has prioritized making their new buildings more efficient, and about 14 of the buildings have been Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified through the United States Green Building Council. Buildings that are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified have met high environmental standards. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified buildings use less water and energy and are ranked by earning points and then by color:

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certified, silver, gold and platinum.

NAU recently completed an $18 million energy-efficiency upgrade in some of the oldest buildings on campus. The school installed low-flow faucets, shower heads have been upgraded, and new environmentally friendly light bulbs have been installed.

Landscaping has also been a big change. The university is trying to use native plants, which are more drought resistant and require less water.

Vaughan believes that one of the most important parts of water conservation on campus is education.

“You come to school, and you might not know about all the issues in the world, or why you would do something. But we have such a robust sustainable curriculum here where people really become educated about the issues, and I think that goes hand in hand with people acting once they become educated about the issue,” Vaughan said.

Students living in dorms are encouraged to keep their showers under five minutes and wash only full loads of laundry.

NAU has a Green fee, which is $5 that students pay as part of the tuition. This fee goes toward the Green Fund, which consists of six students and three faculty and staff members who come up with ideas to make NAU more environmentally friendly.

“It’s really student run, and students can propose projects and ideas to help make the campus more sustainable,” Vaughan said.

NAU is continuously working toward reducing water usage and is tackling one issue at a time as money becomes available.

Water conservation is not only important to cities, but to rivers as well. The Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club works to preserve the Colorado River and rivers that feed into it.

The Colorado River is a large river, and most of Arizona is in its watershed. The Sierra Club is trying to prevent the pumping of water from drying up this river and multiple other rivers in Arizona. They have recently done a lot of work in the Upper Verde to try and prevent the building of a pipeline that would pump groundwater and possibly dry up the river.

For Water Awareness month, the Sierra Club is training people to do water quality monitoring. They have a watersentinels program, with the initiative to ensure water quality in communities. Their purpose is emphasized during Water Awareness month.

“It’s a way to connect people to their watersheds and get people familiar with what’s out there, with what’s happening with their rivers and really connecting with them,” said Sandy Bahr, Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club Director.

Another factor of water conservation is climate change.

For a water-limited place like Arizona, climate change can have significant repercussions on the environment.

Bahr said Arizona may see hotter temperatures and more precipitation coming rather than snow.

“I think it’s important that, in a place like Arizona — anywhere really, but especially Arizona — when we’re doing water awareness, we talk about climate change, as well,” Bahr said.

Whether it’s rivers, efficient buildings or pledging to reduce water usage, members of the Flagstaff community can have an impact on local water conservation. What better time to start than Water Awareness month?

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The Galaxy Diner hosts the Swing Jacks Dance Club every Saturday night with a vintage-1950s atmosphere. Shannon Swain | The Lumberjack

Swinging to the new times Maria Angulo

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n a basketball court, people gathered while classic jazz hit “Shake That Thing” by Wynonie Harris played in the background. Young men and women dressed up in bow ties and polka-dot dresses as if they were transported to the 1950s to dance their hearts out. They are the NAU Swing Jacks Dance Club.

Samantha Stephens, senior music major with a vocal emphasis, is the co-president for the Swing Jacks. She and JC Lawler took charge of the club in May 2016.

Stephens joined the club officially in November 2015. She had been introduced to it prior to joining but was not as ready as she thought. After going to a few more of the club’s meetings, Stephens decided she wanted to be a part of the group as she really enjoyed it.

The club has been around for much longer than this though.

“I am not totally sure on the beginning, it’s a little fuzzy,” said Stephens. “I know that Steve Conrad started it about 13 years ago in Galaxy Diner. I don’t know if it was part of the school or it was part of the community and got sucked into the school, but it’s been going on for a long time.”

When Stephens and Lawler took over the club, it was not doing so well. They worked tirelessly to establish the club’s present status. The club’s current roster has 15 official members, but they usually get around 30 people at their events.

“It’s amazing, and it’s a fun way for people to come out and try something new,” Stephens said. “You may be bad at it, you may be good at it. No one cares. Everyone wants to have fun.”

The club mostly dances to a style called Lindy Hop. This is a style of swing that comes from jazz and blues music of the 1920s.

Lindy Hop, also known as the Jitterbug, is an eight-count base

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developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Contrary to its name, it has no hopping. It is an energetic, fast and upbeat style of dancing, which can often be accompanied by lifts.

The club also teaches two styles of Shag, a six-count, eightstep jazz dance: Collegiate Shag and Carolina Shag. Other styles of dance taught are Balboa and Blues, but the main focus is the Lindy Hop. While explaining the style of Lindy Hop, Stephens started talking about the history of the dance and how it comes from jazz music made by African-American culture.

“It was a scandalous dance at the time because these white girls would be doing the Charleston to this African-American music, and it was this crazy idea, but it was something that happened,” Stephens said. “It was something that was off the streets. But it’s an interesting history as it included everyone of all continued on page 18

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different races even when they were still segregated.

It didn’t matter they were all dancing together.”

The club meets every Thursday at the Latterday Saints Welcome Center at 239 W. Saunders Dr. from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. and also at Galaxy Diner Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. These nights feature a 1950s theme where rockabilly music is played, and people come dressed in their best 1950s attire.

The club hosts different events and workshops.

One of the most recent was their Spring Fling Swing Thing, which they host twice a year, once during the fall semester and once during the spring semester.

Freshman math major Kelly Castleman and Dylan Ashcroft, junior finance and economics major, both joined the Swing Jacks in January.

“I really wanted to dance, and this looked like the best club for it,” said Ashcroft.

Ashcroft had experience prior to joining the club. He danced in a few theatre productions, but this is the first time he has committed to dance longterm.

said.

“It’s really fun in a wholesome way,” Ashcroft

Castleman was told by friends about the social dancing club and decided to go.

“It’s my favourite thing to do,” said Castleman.

“It has brought me together with a lot of people. I have made a lot of good friends, and it helps me destress at the end of the week. After all my classes, it’s a time to relax.”

Elections for the club are coming up. Stephens and Lawler are running for reelection to be copresidents because they want to continue growing the club.

Swing is a dance of the past, but as time goes on, many Millennials continue to become interested in vintage themes.

“There is this kind of idea of the good ole days,” Stephens said. “We fantasize about it, and sometimes people want to get rid of their phones and interact with people face to face. It’s something we are craving in this day and age.”

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Dancers take to the floor at the Galaxy Diner during the weekly Saturday night Swing Jacks dance session April 8. Shannon Swain | The Lumberjack

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Review: The darkness behind The Clean House MaryAnn Witt

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crowd gathered at The Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse in anticipation of the opening night of The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl April 7. This is the second main stage production put on by Flagstaff’s local theater company, Theatrikos. The show was said to be a tale of love and loss.

The stage was set as the interior of a clean, well-kept modern home. The production title was no mystery as the room looked immaculate. The lighting was simple, but it did the trick. Other effects in the show included a multimedia element in the form of a TV mounted on the back of the set, realistic sound effects and fake snow that, at one point, covered the stage in white flurries. All the technical elements worked together that transported the viewers into an alternate reality.

The audience was introduced to a character named Matilde whose humor was unparalleled but not fit for children.

Some audience members exchanged sideway glances as she gave a monologue in an unfamiliar language, Portugese.

The screen in the back of the set gave a translation, but my hope that the play was not in a different language continued.

Luckily, the crowd was met by characters who spoke English next. As each family member emerged on the stage, a story more complex than expected began to form.

The simplicity of the wardrobe gave the production a realistic feel. The characters were not overdressed or looked like they were wearing a costume. The clothes worn bore no distraction from the acting, which was nice.

The show is full of punchlines that would have anyone laughing like “The perfect joke is somewhere between an angel and a fart.” Between the laughs lie serious topics such as the cold nature of humanity, disease, personal failures and infidelity.

There was the perfect balance between the realities, laughter and comedic relief.

Act 1 of the show was, without a doubt, the stronger of the two. The start of Act 2 was met with technical difficulties with lights and sound that distracted from what was happening in the scene. The actors handled it with grace and did not let it affect their performance.

The opening scene of the second half, aside from behind-the-scenes hiccups, was strange to watch. It felt as though one was watching an interpretive dance performance instead of scripted theatre.

As that particular scene came and went, the cast proved themselves in the rest of the performance. Actor John Winikka, who plays both Charles and Matilde’s father, delivered his lines with such sincerity that it was as if he was speaking to an old friend rather than an audience.

Throughout the play, one character seemed to steal the spotlight: Matilde, played by Jessica Pinaire, senior arts and cultural management major at NAU. Director Nichole Garrison has done an excellent job of creating her own version of a show that has been told on many stages.

Performances are set to continue through April 23 at the community playhouse in downtown Flagstaff.

Although The Clean House is not so clean or family friendly, it is a show that no theatre enthusiast will want to miss.

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Bringing Real People, Real Food to NAU Chloe Greeley

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very Wednesday until April 26, in snow, rain or shining sun, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., something special can be found on the NAU campus. The Real People, Real Food Open-Air Market outside the University Union highlights fresh, seasonal produce grown in Arizona as well as local hand-crafted artisan foods from NAU and Northern Arizona.

The Open-Air Market is an event curated

by NAU campus dining. The goal is to bring campus community members together while showcasing local foods, crafts and artists. The market also provides education and awareness about sustainable health, wellness and community support.

The vendors at the Open-Air Market pride themselves on eating healthy and educating the public on how to eat healthier, along with how they can find off-campus farmer’s markets and

what to expect from those markets. Vendors seasonally rotate produce offered at the market.

The Open-Air Market encourages students to bring their own bag to shop. Some of the vendors will accept Dining Dollars, but others do not.

The campus group Eco Reps has members that volunteer at the market every week.

“I’m here every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help spread the message of sustainability and living green,” said Christina Gunter, Eco Rep member and junior accountancy major.

“We want people to know that living green and eating healthy food is good for you. It’s super easy to do, and you feel much better.”

One of the vendors at the market April 6 was Argentina-native Alejandra Tibaudin.

Tibaudin moved to Flagstaff a little more than a year ago and was introduced to the local art scene. Before Flagstaff, she studied image and sound design in Argentina and bounced from

job to job, one of which included teaching figure skating. She got into art when she was 17 years old and painted designs on t-shirts for money.

“I started painting my own drawings on the shirts to be able to pay for trips, a very hippie idea — to paint T-shirts to travel,” said Tibaudin.

“Flagstaff has given me the opportunity to be a part of the community that makes stuff, and I feel very comfortable painting here.”

She considers herself more of an artisan than an artist because, in her culture, artisan crafts are related to working with one’s hands.

Another vendor at the on-campus market was Pink Sky Creations. The products this booth had on display were soy candles, bath and shower bombs, sugar scrubs, lip scrubs and many other bath products. One notable thing about the seller was all the products were vegan and made from all-natural ingredients. The products smelled good and are not harmful to the body.

Heather Chamorro, owner of Pink Sky Creations, started by making candles. After a little experimenting, she moved onto other bath and beauty products.

“Everything is handmade made with all natural products, all natural ingredients, so there are no chemicals in them, which last a lot longer and are much better for you. And they are vegan, which brings in a nice different crowd, as well,” said Chamorro.

Pink Sky Creations try to do as many farmers markets as possible around town to spread their message of healthy products.

The Open-Air Market is something unique to the NAU campus. It is small compared to city markets, like the summer Flagstaff farmers markets located downtown and on the eastside.

With local artists and growers providing seasonal food, the Open-Air Market is something students can enjoy while also learning about green living.

Left: Pink Sky Creations specializes in all-natural bath products, and the shop actively participates in farmers markets. Right: Heather Chamorro (left), owner of Pink Sky Creations, sets up next to Flagstaff artisan Alejandra Tibaudin to showcase hand-made goods at the on-campus Open Air Market outside of the University Union April 5. Abigail Bieker |The Lumberjack

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NAU gymnastics builds long-lasting friendships Niki Deshazo

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ymnastics is a physically and mentally engaging sport that requires gymnasts to master ever-evolving skills. For the NAU gymnastics team, competition is a big part of the sport and helps them understand the importance of individual and team success.

The team welcomes members of all skill levels, from beginners who want to learn their first handstand to advanced gymnasts who hope to compete at the national level.

Sophomore journalism major Makayla Clark said she loves the benefits gymnastics gives her both mentally and physically. Clark started gymnastics her freshman year of high school and said she likes it more than any other sport she’s tried.

“I really liked it more than volleyball,” said Clark. “It seemed like every practice for volleyball you’re doing the same drills. In gymnastics there’s four different events, and there’s so many different things you can do in each event. So you’re not doing the same thing every day.”

The NAU gymnastics team is a co-ed club, yet when it comes to the competitions, men and women compete in different events.

Female athletes can compete in three different levels for the National Association for Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs: level 6, 8 and 9. The men compete in men’s developmental which is equivalent to level 6 or 7 of the women’s competition. The level a gymnast competes in is determined by the types of skills a gymnast trains.

Women can compete in four different events: vault, bars, beam and floor. If a gymnast chooses to compete in all four, then they compete in the all-around, like senior biology major Calle Ries.

Although the sport is physically challenging, Ries said gymnastics is all mental.

“It is easy to build up strength, it is relatively easy to build up flexibility, but it is the mental game behind it that determines if you’re going to move forward with it,” said Ries.

“Because if your head isn’t in the game, or you’re not focused, you’re not going to get better. And if you’re not in a good emotional place, you’re not going to get better.”

Gymnastics differs from other sports in that a key part of all routines is preparing and memorizing them prior to the competition.

Sophomore physics major and club president Emilee Bovre said floor is an event the club

particularly focuses on.

“Our floor routines actually resemble what you would do for a dance recital pretty closely, except you’re the only one out of the floor instead of the whole team,” said Bovre. “Same for our beam routine: We’ve worked on it all season, and we do the same thing every time. We really work on the choreography and making it a performance instead of just getting up there and doing some skills.”

Tanner Rosenberg, sophomore physics and mathematics double major, competes allaround for the men’s team, which have six events including floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar. Rosenberg can attest to the level of dedication required for floor routines.

“You have a minute and 30 seconds to do basically as many flips and twists and strength skills as you can,” said Rosenberg. “I do not think that my routine is that long, but I’ve got a bunch of different flips and stuff in there. I get to choose every skill in the order that I want to put them in there, but I keep that consistent for practice.”

The consistency required for floor is something the team focuses on in all of their events. It’s especially important for their new members like junior criminal justice major Brian Mugge.

“This is my first year doing gymnastics,” said Mugge. “I started doing it last September for the first time ever out here.”

Mugge wishes he knew how he got involved with NAU gymnastics originally. He said it’s something he just happened to come to, but now he’s in love.

“Kevin, who is on the team, is a mutual friend,” Mugge said. “He is the one who got me out here to try a practice. I just kept coming out, and eventually I realized I was on the team.”

Senior mechanical engineering major Kevin LoGrande experienced a similar scenario when he was invited to join the team last year by senior exercise science major Kim Schaffer. “[Schaffer] took me to a practice freshman year because I wanted to learn how to do a backflip,” said LoGrande. “After learning that, they told me I should stay because I learned it quickly.”

Schaffer was excited to compete in the championship in Columbus, Ohio, especially because she competed alongside her friends.

“I got to college, and I didn’t know a lot of people,” said Schaffer. “I was looking for something fun to do, and I’ve always loved gymnastics, so I was like, ‘It is a club team, and

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it’s not as serious as USA Gymnastics. It’s just fun.’ I met people who had the same interests as me. My team is probably my best friends.

So going on a four-day vacation with your best friends, I think we are all pretty excited.”

The power and grace needed to succeed in gymnastics is something Bovre and LoGrande both love about the sport.

“You just have to learn to control that power,” LoGrande said. “I am a very powerful

person, so the [events] that require a little bit more finesse I’m not as good at. [Vault] is just really powerful, and I can use that power.”

Bovre started gymnastics when she was 5 years old and has participated in multiple sports like swim, figure skating and dance, but none held the same appeal for her as gymnastics. To Bovre, gymnastics is unique and the friendships the team has built through gymnastics is incredibly important.

Freshman forestry major Brittney Esser practices April 2 for the National Association for Intercollegiate Gymnastics Club’s national championship. Ashley Marie Null | The Lumberjack

SPORT S “One of my favorite parts is being able to cheer on my teammates, and really getting to see how far they’ve come between each competition,” Bovre said. “It’s amazing how much people can learn. I love meeting other teams. I like sharing how excited everybody gets — hearing the crowd cheer at the end of a routine, either mine or my teammates.”

Because gymnastics is year-round, Bovre, who competes at level 8, said it can be difficult to keep up the dedication needed to thrive.

Bovre and Ries have both dealt with injuries in their gymnastics careers in a sport that tends to punish the body.

“It takes a lot more dedication than any

of the other sports I’ve ever done,” Bovre said.

“Practicing 25 hours a week is a lot as a kid.

Having to turn down birthday parties and family trips because you have practice is hard, but I have learned how to be dedicated and driven and how to manage my time so well that life is so much easier because of it.”

Gymnastics is a form of expression for Bovre.

“Most people have some creative outlet,” Bovre said. “Mine has always been using my body. Being able to have a stressful week at school but then at the end of the day go in the gym and go upside down — it’s a nice way to get my stress out.”

Results for the National Association for Intercollegiate Gymnastics Club’s national championship NAU Women: Athlete (Level)

Rank (# of Competitors)

Event

Calle Ries (6) Makayla Clark (8) Brittney Esser (8) Stacy Prendiville (8) Stacy Prendiville (8) *Emilee Bovre (8) Emilee Bovre (8) Kim Schaffer (8) Haley Waggoner (9) Haley Waggoner (9)

51 (108) 44 (384) 64 (384) 45 (384) 56 (384) 1 (384) 3 (384) 8.25 25 (204) 49 (204)

Bars Vault Bars Beam All-Around Beam Floor Vault Vault All-Around

NAU Men: Athlete

Rank (# of Competitors)

Events

Tanner Rosenberg Tanner Rosenberg Tanner Rosenberg Tanner Rosenberg Kevin LoGrande Kevin LoGrande Bryan Mugge

10 (65) 6( 65) 14 (65) 8 (65) 9 (65) 18 (65) 24 (65)

Floor Vault Parallel Bars All-Around.

Vault Parallel Bars Vault

*Qualified for Finals

Left: Junior criminal justice major Brian Mugge practices rings April 2 in preparation for the National Association for Intercollegiate Gymnastics Club’s national championship. Right: NAU Gymnastics Club members get ready to practice uneven bars. Ashley Marie Null | The Lumberjack

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Teamwork makes the dream work Anthony Bertran

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rowing up, many kids don’t think of tennis as the first sport to try. Many would rather start out playing soccer, football or basketball. This is not the case for NAU’s young, talented tennis teams. For the past three years now, NAU has completely turned the corner in both men’s and women’s tennis; each being one of the top-ranked teams in the Big Sky conference over the last three years.

Under the leadership of head coach Ki Kroll, in his fourth year at NAU, and his assistant coaches Orsolya Golovics and Inaki Belloso, they have formed championship-caliber teams with their young and determined student athletes.

Kroll said trying to change the mindset is most important, while getting everyone invested into working hard and making the most out of practice are everyday battles.

Looking at the roster for both sides it is noticeable to see the majority of the players, both men and women, are from different parts of the world — predominantly Europe. Those who follow professional tennis are aware that Europe produces a larger number of tennis legends such as Rafael Nadal (Spain), Roger Federer (Switzerland), Andy Murray (England), Maria Sharapova (Russia) and Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark). The Jacks’ tennis squad all wish to be like them one day and follow in their footsteps to become a world-class tennis player. Watching their season and how they’ve progressed, it is easy to see they are on the right track.

“Each year, everybody improves and that’s always important,” said Kroll. “Being committed to the program and working helps them improve more every week.”

“They’ve been improving tremendously,” said Golovics. “We had to first work on team chemistry, working together and being an actual team instead of just individuals. Tennis is mostly an individual game. College players, especially freshmen, are shocked that this is a team sport so we have to create a team atmosphere. They all have each other’s backs and have gotten faster, stronger and smarter on the court, so it’s all coming together.”

Golovics also said both teams share strong bonds on and off the court hanging out together whether it’s at someone’s house or in the library doing study groups. Because many of them are from other countries, and their families are back across the globe, they have all formed their own family within the teams.

Sophomore men’s tennis players Lucas Taylor and Thomas Fisher — both from England — described their bond as a team as very close.

“We hang around outside of tennis and hang out with our coaches as well,” said Taylor. “They’re all family and it would mean a lot to us to go out and win the Big Sky Championship as one.”

“We’re like family, especially with a lot of us being foreign, we don’t have family here so it makes us closer,” said Fisher. “Our coaches as well are always there for us and it’d be a big thing if we could win it all and bring it home to our school.”

The past three seasons women’s tennis has gone 8-2, 8-3, 10-1 and as of right now are 8-0 in conference play. Men’s tennis has gone 7-3, 7-4, and 8-3, and are currently 8-1 in conference this year, dropping their first conference game April 2 against Sacramento State. What’s noticeably impressive though, this season both teams are undefeated at home.

Kroll teaches his players that tennis is a team sport, though there are a lot of individual aspects to it, especially in Europe where tennis is solely focused on the individuals, and especially the stars.

He sent the message to his players that they must think about one another and rally behind their teammates to help motivate them to push themselves and finish the match all the way through to the end.

Fisher said he has noticed, after playing more matches, the team is winning in tough situations more often compared to earlier in the season when they were a bit shaky in pressure situations.

Seeing his team grow as the season progresses has been a major influence on him as well as for finishing matches and helping his team stay on top of the Big Sky conference.

“Our motivation is to win the Big Sky championship,” Fisher said. “We’re all out there to get better and push each other. That is what I believe is our reason for doing so well so far this season.”

Senior women’s tennis player Marta Lewandowska, from Poland, is one of the three seniors on the team. She shared her thoughts on their successful season so far, expressing how tight her bond is with her teammates and how much growth she’s seen in them and herself.

“We are a very talented team this year,” said Lewandowska. “We work hard everyday whether

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it’s on the tennis courts or in the weight room. I think we’re mature enough to push ourselves because we are all after the same goal. We work through things together to bond more as a team and that has really helped us on the court and with our success.”

Senior Hailey Rochin expressed her feelings on how special it would be to remain undefeated going into the championship.

“It means a lot to us to stay undefeated,” said Rochin. “We hope to continue that streak against Idaho this weekend. An undefeated record makes a statement in our conference that we hold dominance and we hope to keep that up throughout this weekend.”

With Kroll having to handle both teams, the women’s team can thank a lot of their success to Golovics, the women’s assistant coach.. She came from the Hungary and is an NAU aluma, having played tennis for the Jacks in 2008, it’s easy to say she has seen a lot of change since she’s been back in Flagstaff.

“During my four years here we always came in second,” Golovics said. “So it’s very personal to me now to stay as the top seed in the conference. To remain undefeated and take the Big Sky Championship, and even make it to the National Championship, would be a huge dream come true.”

“We never had much support other than the athletic department coming to our matches, and now having all this support from fans and students at our games is pretty special,” Golovics said.

Having the majority of the players being from other parts of the world is a huge transition for the tennis teams. Taylor, Fisher and Lewandowska all explained it was tough at first coming somewhere new that they’re not familiar with, but after a few months they all have seemed to fit right in and can very much call Flagstaff a second home.

What they all mainly recognized though is that coming to college and playing tennis is much more of a team sport it is in Europe. Being a part of a team and a family that will support you throughout an entire match is something they cherish mainly about the sport, and they are very grateful to be a part of this tight-knit group of athletes at NAU.

Sophomore doubles partners Lucas Taylor and Thomas Fisher prepare to return a serve against Eastern Washington April 9. Maria Saldivar | The Lumberjack

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