The Lumberjack -- December 1, 2016

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From the Editor

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eing raised in a Hispanic heritage, I learned a lot about traditions and routine. I was surrounded by men who believed they were superior and women who just wanted to be mothers. While there is nothing wrong with being a mother and I commend the hard work these women do, it just was not what I saw for my life.

It has been a tradition in the country for women of any heritage to be the glue that holds the family together but only within the bounds of their household. This only allows the men to be the sole bread winners — because that’s what men do.

While this idea is antiquated, I understand why women fall behind this ideal mold that has been created for us. The idea of children, a husband and a white picket fence is appealing to women who were raised in that similar atmosphere. I was lucky enough to be raised by a father who encouraged me to break the mold I was handed. According to that mold, at 22 years old I should be married with a child already.

To that, I say no thank you.

Women who choose the path less taken are often ridiculed or judged.

Being labeled as a dragon lady, or worse, often become discouraged from becoming extremely successful.

This tradition of girls being raised solely to be wives and mothers should not exist. Young girls should be taught to be educated, hardworking and kind.

Marriage can happen regardless of your mold, and then these women and men will raise strong children. This will overall benefit our country to have JACQUELINE successful women and men who will be our future.

In this special issue of the paper, we celebrate creating, maintaining CASTILLO OPINIONand breaking traditions. We, at The Lumberjack, have created a tradition of EDITORIAL exceeding expectations. Having the opportunity to be the Op-Ed editor has EDITOR allowed me to be surrounded by diverse but passionate individuals.

To that, I say thank you.

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i soaked it all up for a bit and came back to the team.

— Eric Heins, director of cross country

For the first time in history, NAU won an NCAA Division I national title in cross country. Runners Futsam Zienasellassie, Matt Baxter, Tyler Day and Andy Trouard all placed in top spots, earning the team the highest national honor for a collegiate team. Photo courtesy of NAU Athletics

Thank you for reading.

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Before the race, I got a little choked up.

“I realized it was my last time doing this .

On the cover Despite competing against universities with top-tier programs like Stanford, Syracuse, Mississippi and Arkansas, Zienasellassie placed fourth overall and first for NAU with a career-best time. Baxter placed 11th, Day 23rd and Trouard 37th.

Photo courtesy of Justin Casterline

Corrections & Clarifications In our Nov. 17 issue, The Lumberjack attributed photos to the Dakota Access Pipeline rally that were actually from a Flagstaff anti-Trump protest, which took place Nov. 9. The two protests are entirely separate.

News Editor Sunday Miller Asst. News Editor Conor Sweetman

Asst. Features Editor Ariel Cianfarano Culture Editor Taylor Haynes

Opinion-Editorial Editor Emma Helfrich Social Media Director Allysia Lara

In our Nov. 10 issue, our edition of “The Runout” said aerial arts teacher Kira Krick taught in Flagstaff. She teaches in Phoenix.

Sports Editor Matthew Kiewiet

Asst. Culture Editor Kari Scott

Multimedia Editor Keely Damara

The Lumberjack is committed to factual correctness and accuracy. If you find an error in our publication, please email gracefenlason@nau.edu.

Features Editor Megan Troutman

Opinion-Editorial Editor Jacqueline Castillo

Print Design Chief Matthew Kiewiet

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PoliceBeat Nov. 14 At 1:22 p.m., Facility Services reported a stolen NAU vehicle to NAUPD. The vehicle was found by Prescott police at approximately 7 p.m. that same evening. It is not clear where the vehicle was located.

At 8:05 p.m., a student in Gillenwater Hall reported a subject “tossing” fire. NAUPD contacted the subject and advised him that he was not allowed to throw fire on campus.

Nov. 15 At 5:27 p.m., a subject requested a welfare check on a student in the Ceramics Complex. NAUPD located the subject and everything was fine.

At 5:53 p.m., a subject was reported to be panhandling at the Science and Health building.

NAUPD attempted to handle the situation by searching the area. The subject was gone upon arrival.

Nov. 16 At 12:26 p.m., a student reported their wallet stolen in the Health and Learning Center.

A case was opened but quickly closed because the student found their wallet. All the wallet’s contents were accounted for.

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alarm on the Bank of America The pedestrian refused medical ATM at the NAU Bookstore. transport and the driver was cited An NAUPD officer searched the and released. area but no criminal activity was witnessed. Everything was fine.

Nov. 22 At 4:14 p.m., staff at the Nov. 18 North Starbucks reported a At 10:47 a.m., a parent subject panhandling. NAUPD called to report they had not been warned the subject of trespassing. able to contact their student. The subject was given a ride to a An NAUPD officer responded Flagstaff shelter by NAUPD. to Wilson Hall and the student was found to be in good health.

Nov. 23 Everything was fine.

At 1:33 p.m., FPD requested assistance from NAUPD At 12:37 p.m., a student regarding a weapons violation off called to report a vehicle had campus. Upon arrival, NAUPD struck a parked vehicle at the Adel discovered the subject was selling Mathematics building. NAUPD a shotgun. Everything was fine. located the vehicle. The driver was booked in Coconino County Nov. 24 Sheriff’s Office for possession of At 12:15 p.m., staff in marijuana and a revoked driver’s Cowden Hall reported two license. subjects taking a chair out of the building. An NAUPD officer At 8:39 p.m., a resident responded to the call but the assistant in Allen Hall reported subjects were gone upon arrival. the smell of marijuana. NAUPD The case was closed. responded and the investigation is ongoing.

Nov. 25 Nov. 19 At 3:58 p.m., a subject in At 12:26 a.m., a student the South Village Apartments reported their vehicle was stolen reported damage to trash cans from the San Francisco Parking and animal tracks, thought to be Garage. NAUPD responded to bear tracks. NAUPD and Arizona the call. It was determined the Game and Fish determined the student’s vehicle was towed by tracks were from a dog.

Parking Services.

Nov. 26 At 8:15 a.m., NAUPD At 1:33 p.m., staff in the received a report of a subject Health and Learning Center bothering passersby in front of reported that the building was Cline Library. The subject was unlocked. NAUPD attempted warned about trespassing and left to fix the issue, but the building the area. manager was notified.

At 7:21 p.m., staff in Sechrest Hall reported the odor of marijuana in the building.

NAUPD responded and two students were contacted. One student was cited and released for possession of drug paraphernalia.

The other student was cited and Nov. 20 released for minor in possession At 2:59 p.m., a resident of alcohol. assistant in McConnell Hall reported a subject who was At 11:56 p.m., NAUPD was banned from the dorm was patrolling near the San Francisco trespassing in the building.

Parking Garage and made NAUPD searched the area but contact with a suspicious vehicle. was unable to locate the subject.

Two students were deferred for possession of marijuana and drug Nov. 21 paraphernalia.

At 11:33 a.m., a student reported a pedestrian was Nov. 17 struck by a vehicle near The At 4:30 p.m., an alarm Suites. NAUPD, FFD and company reported an intrusion GMT responded to the call.

Nov. 27 At 7:13 p.m., NAUPD received reports of a traffic backup and vehicles sliding on ice at San Francisco Street and McConnell Drive. NAUPD aided the motorists, and the grounds crew treated the roadway with cinders.

At 9:28 p.m., a concerned citizen reported a subject doing donuts in Parking Lot 13. An NAUPD officer contacted the subject and told him to stop.

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NEWS

Circulating petition would make NAU a ‘sanctuary university’ HANNAH COOK

The three weeks following the Nov. 8 general election that proved victorious for Republican Donald Trump have felt precarious for undocumented students and their future in the United States.

In response to this uncertainty, some university presidents across the nation have announced they will stand with, and protect, their undocumented students. ASU President Michael Crow issued a statement of support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students on Nov. 23.

NAU and U of A administrations have been silent.

An online petition recently began circulating social media urging NAU President Rita Cheng to establish the university as a Sanctuary for Higher Education. As a sanctuary university, NAU would join ASU and approximately 300 other universities across the nation promising to protect undocumented students and DACA recipients.

“With DACA, what we did was encourage students to come forward,” said Lori PoloniStaudinger, NAU Politics and International Affairs professor and department chair. “We told them that if they came forward and registered as DACA students they could come into our university and get an education like anybody else. I think for us to change direction on that would be breaking faith with the students. So I think that, morally, we have an obligation to protect students who are here and who are learning from us.”

Under DACA, children brought to the U.S. from foreign countries before the age of 16 have

been permitted to stay in the country provided they are currently in school, graduated, a current or former member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the Coast Guard, have never been convicted of a felony and were under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012, the day DACA was enacted. Any undocumented immigrant granted DACA status is allowed to stay in the U.S. for a specific length of time.

Trump led a campaign built on rhetoric against undocumented immigrants. Throughout his candidacy, Trump promised to enforce stricter immigration laws and repeal all executive orders issued by the Obama administration, especially those in favor of undocumented immigrants.

DACA was among the executive orders many speculate will be overturned once President Barack Obama leaves office.

Overturning DACA would promptly end the protections offered to the current recipients, such as the right to work, apply for a social security number and obtain a driver’s license. Of the estimated 11.2 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., 741,546 immigrants have been approved for DACA and an estimated 750,000 more are still eligible to apply.

“The vast majority of these students are here [at NAU] because they went to high school, got the grades to go to a university and who, through no fault of their own, find themselves used as pawns in a political struggle between one group and another,” said associate professor Stephen Nuño. “And as an educator, as a professor, I feel that it does a disservice not only to the students but also to our school to use our university as a political pawn in this

disagreement that our politicians have.”

Nuño said any student who did well enough to be accepted to the university and eager to learn deserves to continue their education.

“I think our college campuses should be sanctuaries for all people to freely and without fear express themselves and to learn and to teach,” Nuño said.

The petition, which was addressed to Cheng, the NAU Faculty Senate and the rest of the university’s administration, asks that NAU be declared a Sanctuary for Higher Education and protect students by: Protecting in-state tuition for DACA recipients, should the national DACA program be overturned. Implementing private scholarships for DACA recipients until these students are eligible for federal or state financial aid and scholarships. Creating an Immigrant Student Resource Center to give undocumented students and DACA recipients information and counseling.

Making NAU’s offices and classrooms “sanctuaries” welcome to all students, staff and faculty.

The petition also encourages Cheng to sign the Pomona College letter of support for the DACA program that approximately 300 college and university presidents have signed in the past two weeks. The letter also asks that Cheng encourage the other Arizona university presidents and the Arizona Board of Regents to support this same initiative across the state.

Earlier this year, when Trump released his comprehensive plan for immigration reform in Phoenix, he promised to specifically target and punish sanctuary cities. Though the term sanctuary

city has no legal definition, Trump said these cities are found across the nation and have certain laws or procedures in place that have helped shelter undocumented immigrants. Cities such as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City have all been labeled as sanctuary cities by the Center for Immigration Studies and could risk seeing the depletion of justice grants and highway and education funds.

Despite this, NAU professors and supporters of the petition are hardly worried about selfproclaimed “sanctuary universities” being punished.

As it stands, the two basic protections the petition wanted to offer to NAU’s undocumented students — limiting the power of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter the NAU campus and guaranteeing the protection of students’ personal information — are protections that are already in place for all students.

Kimberly Ott, assistant to the president for executive communications and media relations, released a statement about the letter on Tuesday.

“We remain open to community conversation around issues and the opportunity to learn from each other,” Ott said. “Nothing at NAU has changed and rather than speculating about policies that might or might not change in the future we will continue to maintain our commitment to accessible and affordable higher education.”

Ott added that Cheng is considering signing the Pomona College letter of support.

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First snow causes vehicle accidents, traffic jams and delayed NAU start MARCELA DELGADO AND SCOTT SANDON

The first heavy snow of this winter season hit Flagstaff Sunday, Nov. 27, reaching 3 to 5 inches.

The storm brought a number of snowrelated traffic accidents, a delayed start to NAU classes and closure of Coconino Community College on Nov. 29. Some of the accidents involved students returning from Thanksgiving break.

“I did drive in the snow and it was very intimidating and frightening at some points,” said senior psychology major Aspen Blanchard. “I witnessed many accidents in just these first two days of snow. There was a multiple-car pileup on the I-17 and cars swerving on the ice, which was scary to watch.”

The snow blocked many roads throughout Flagstaff, and the resulting ice

made for unsafe driving conditions.

“I drove in the snow and felt fine, I have a vehicle that is capable of driving in this weather and experience driving in it,” said junior forestry major Adam Doiron.

According to U.S. Climate Data, the average annual snowfall in Flagstaff is 77 inches. In November, the average snowfall is seven inches and 11 inches in December.

On campus, Knoles Drive was scheduled to be closed until Jan. 28, which created traffic issues related to the snow.

While the snow blocked access to many roads, the intersection of Pine Knoll Drive and University Drive have limited access due to scheduled road closures.

“The road closures are extremely inconvenient,” said Matt Weimar, sophomore hotel restaurant management major. “I live just off south campus and since the road closures are in effect and half of the bus routes on north campus are shut down, it

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forces me to leave almost 40 minutes earlier to make sure I am on time to class.”

That day the I-17 was also backed up, with the drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff taking up to six and a half hours. “[Facility Services] plows and clears roads, sidewalks and parking lots,” said Kimberly Ott, assistant to the president for executive communications and media relations.

According to the NAU police blotter, there were five reported traffic-related issues on campus Nov. 27, including one non-injury traffic accident where a bus hit a parked car.

However, in Flagstaff, there were 21 reported vehicle crashes overall as of 9 p.m. Nov. 27.

The Department of Housing and Residence Life emailed students to inform them that only President Cheng could authorize snow closures or delayed starts.

Flagstaff Police Department plans to release safety tips on their Facebook page.

Top: Flagstaff drivers face substantial traffic, road closures and delays amid heavy snow Nov. 28. Bottom: Signs warn drivers of hazardous conditions throughout the Flagstaff area.

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EDI TOR IAL & OPINION

The American flag represents our entire country EMMA KEIDER

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ed, white and blue as a unit can be interpreted in different ways by different people around the world. However, for many United States citizens, these colors most often represent the U.S. and its freedoms in the form of a national flag.

The U.S. flag is a symbol for our country’s past, present and future. It stands for the values and rights we have established in our country. It truly represents all U.S. citizens, so it should be important to respect it. Respecting the flag is simple. In a flag etiquette list on USFlag.org some of their suggestions are to always keep it clean and mended, not let it touch the ground and to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. All of these etiquettes are easy ways to display respect for the flag.

Some may claim it is just a piece of fabric or that it does not directly represent them. These are all true statements. The flag is a piece of fabric and it cannot create laws or freedoms. But the most important part about it is the history sewn into every stitch, and the representation of all the people who have fought or died for our country.

People have burned the flag in a form of protest against the government. What these protesters do not understand is that they are not protesting the government, but they are disrespecting every U.S. citizen and protesting against our entire history and values. People do not need to respect the government, but everyone should want to respect others and the people who have

made sacrifices for us. I have so much respect for everyone in the military and those who have served our country. Our flag is the symbol people have fought for and it should be treated as such.

I have volunteered closely with veterans, and both of my grandfathers were in the military, and they all take immense pride in the U.S. flag. Why? Their experiences in combat and training are represented in this flag. It could have given them hope when they were in another country away from their homes and families.

The flag could have been their reason to keep fighting, so they can be a part of our history. If veterans and current soldiers are represented in our flag, I will always do my best to respect it because of what they have done for me. I believe it is selfish otherwise.

It is unsettling when I see people sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance. I want to run over and ask them what their excuse is for not standing. I believe there is none. While people fight overseas to protect my country, I will support them here and make sure they are represented and appreciated. People do not have to join the military. It is their choice and a difficult one.

People are not forced to respect the flag. It is their choice, but it is not difficult. We are given choices in our lives, and I think the choice of being respectful is what should unite us all — especially when respecting the flag, the thing that represents us all.

The U.S. flag is not just about veterans or people who serve in the military, it is also about you and me. I will stand during the Pledge of Allegiance because the people I am surrounded by

are U.S. citizens and take pride in their country. I respect the flag because it is a part of our culture, and I can only hope we respect our own culture. I believe in the Bill of Rights and our constitution.

I am proud of all the great things we have accomplished and I am thankful for the freedoms I was born with.

We do not need to worship our flag, we just need to remember to keep others in mind and respect the symbol that represents us. On USA.gov, red is for valor and bravery, white is for purity and innocence and blue is for vigilance, perseverance and justice. Our flag still stands for these values, and you should want to also.

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Toys “R” Us wants to help autistic children during the holidays ALEX RAND

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hen someone pictures a Toys “R” Us store during the holiday season, they don’t usually envision a calm scene.

Screaming children abound, droning holiday music over the intercom, buzzing fluorescent lights over-illuminating a sea of noisy toys — none of this makes for a particularly inviting experience.

This is especially true for children more prone to being overwhelmed.

Toys “R” Us is trying to fix this, however, by testing out something they call quiet hours.

Autism, a disorder imparing the ability to communicate and interact, can affect the way a person interprets sensory stimulation like sound and light. When the sound is too loud or sudden, or the lights are too bright, it’s easy for an autistic child to become overwhelmed quickly. This makes finding an accommodating store to shop in difficult year-round, but especially during the holiday season.

Toys “R” Us’ quiet hours are an attempt to tone down the usual chaos of the store so that it is more accessible to autistic children. It’s been in effect in the United Kingdom since 2014, and is being tested in stores in the United States this year. According to CBS, “Lights will be dimmed and the holiday music will be turned off. The stores will also offer a ‘quiet area’ in case a child needs to calm down, and provide autism-friendly signage.”

The New Jersey-based company plans to start locally, testing this out on a smaller scale and working with local organizations to provide a truly accessible experience. They’re also assessing ways to scale this

nationwide.

It’s high time for stores to start doing more to make themselves accessible to different communities. Putting a wheelchair ramp in front of the store and calling it a day isn’t enough anymore. Stores need to accommodate those with mental illnesses, not just physical ones, and they should have been doing this a long time ago.

Unfortunately, the store partners with Autism Speaks, an organization that claims to want to help the autistic community but routinely comes up miles short. Autism Speaks, however, has very few autistic people on their board. The organization that I refuse to call a charity uses only three percent of their earnings to help autistic people, and some of that help comes in the form of therapy that is widely considered abusive by the autistic community.

Toys “R” Us may not be aware of the horrible downsides to Autism Speaks and most people aren’t. Celebrities and brand giants alike praise the organization. But if Toys “R” Us is going to claim to support autistic people with the quiet hours program, they need to drop ties with Autism Speaks.

It’s not really a surprise Toys “R” Us is leading this change when they’ve already spearheaded another huge change in stores — they got rid of gendered marketing. In the store, there are no more aisles for girls and boys specifically, just aisles filled with princess costumes and superhero masks for children to pick from as they please. After Toys “R” Us did this, stores like Target, Amazon and the Disney Store followed suit. This gives me high hopes for larger brands to try to replicate quiet hours soon.

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When stores and brands are this large, it can be hard to see how individuals can make a change in the way they run. The New York Times says, for many brands, discarding gendered marketing was caused by parents making a scene on social media. “Last year, Land’s End introduced a line of science-themed shirts for girls after a New Jersey mother, Lisa Ryder, posted an open letter on the brand’s Facebook page calling out its boy-only science collection,” The New York Times reports.

Changes can be made by individuals who speak loudly enough. That’s why there’s no excuse for people not to try.

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EDI TOR IAL & OPINION

Letter to the Editor: NAU, Flagstaff, America you are breaking my heart!

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oday, one of the students at NAU was walking with her boyfriend when some student in a Make America Great hat shouted at her boyfriend, “You’re a n****r

lover.”

The “red hat” ran off before the accosted boyfriend could catch him. She has brown skin and he has white skin. She is a fantastic student and a beautiful person, an asset to our school and someone worthy of admiration.

This incident shook me to my core. I have lived in Flagstaff since 1993 and I have never even heard of a similar incident.

Flagstaff, as we know, is a mountain town in the Ponderosa pine forest and is little hippie, a little working class but, usually, a lot of love.

It feels like an incident out of 1950s Mississippi. I can’t believe in my town, at my school, this level of racism is unleashed.

I think this election has allowed people who harbor these unholy hatreds to feel free to unleash them on an unexpecting world.

So, how do we allow and encourage love and acceptance of our brothers and sisters on this planet? Obviously, assuming that under every “red hat” there hides a racist is not productive. But, we must stand up and defend our citizens in all their beautiful variety, color, sexuality and abilities.

How can we be sure the cup of love is always overflowing and outpacing the hatred that is leaking through the cracks of our society? I am not sure what I can do. I swing between anger, sadness and despair. I will always fight for the rights of my fellow citizens to walk freely through the cities and towns of our great country without fear of verbal or physical

assaults. We must speak out to everyone, as often as we can, and we must demand that our leaders, Republican or Democrat, stand up and repudiate this vitriol and hate.

To my 59 million fellow Americans who got their man, I want to say congratulations. I know there are many of my family and some of my friends who are excited by this victory.

I can honestly say I am happy for your happiness.

I felt that way when Barack Obama won in 2008.

I felt our country was taking a big step away from racism and toward unity. That love was really stronger than hate.

He worked hard to create the change he promised. In some places, he succeeded and in some places he failed.

As I watched this election, an old friend from high school texted me to ask what I thought. I told him what anyone could tell him, it looked like Hillary Clinton was going to lose this one. After a couple of lines back and forth he sent me a photoshopped photo of the president-elect grabbing Clinton by the … well you can guess.

This morning my 3-year-old son looked at his mom as she cried over the eggs I had cooked and said, “Don’t cry mommy. Take deep breaths with me.” He then counted three deep breaths with his little fingers and wiped her tears from her face with his shirt. Thinking about these two reactions to someone’s sorrow, I am making the choice to wipe tears and take deep breaths.

To my friends on the other side, I wish you the best of luck. With the House, the Senate, the Presidency and soon the Supreme Court, you have the opportunity to create the

country you envision. Am I apprehensive? Yes, to say the least, but I hope for the best. If it is not the best that we get, I am ready to take deep breaths and dry the tears because I still believe that love is stronger than hate.

What can we do as a community of students, educators, staff and leadership?

First off, we must never accept racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia as the new normal. Regardless of how relentless the onslaught of verbal insults are, we must not allow people like Steven Bannon — Donald Trump’s new White House chief strategist and a white nationalist — turn the language of hate into the common parlance of the people.

Hate speech must be halted and it is up to all of us. It’s not a joke; words become actions.

My grandfather fought Nazis. It was not so long ago that hate speech turned bloody and led to a war that left 100 million dead. My hope is that today is not 1930s Germany but 1960s America. In the 1960s, despite vitriolic words of hate, America transformed and improved civil rights. Here we are again, and it is up to each and every one of us to stand up and fight to make our country a place where all people are welcome and included.

Adrah Parafiniuk PhD Student and GA in Politics and International Affairs

Despite being a hard year, 2016 brought several happy event s PEGGY PACKER

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here’s no doubt 2016 has been a rough year. With all the stress from the election and the assassination of Harambe, this past year has been exhausting to say the least. It has left many people questioning if we should still have hope for the future, and the answer is yes. Despite the bad things that have flooded the news lately, good things have come out of this year as well.

Here’s my happy list: 1. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won that well-deserved Oscar. Twenty-two years after his first nomination, DiCaprio was awarded an Oscar for best actor in the movie The Revenant. While this might not be a very big deal to us personally, a victory is a victory.

2. Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in one day.

July 11, 800,000 volunteers worked for 24 hours planting trees on public land. This is a huge step toward reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and creating a less-polluted and healthier Earth.

3. Apple finally created a water-resistant iPhone.

Nine years after the creation of the first iPhone, Apple manufactured its first waterproof phone. The iPhone 7 was released Sept. 7 of this year, with several new and innovative advancements. Among these was its ability to resist water, a feature that many technology users have been waiting for for

years.

4. Beyoncé released a new album: This one is pretty selfexplanatory.

5. Two hundred strangers showed up to the funeral of a homeless World War II veteran who had no family. When an Army major was invited to the funeral of homeless World War II Veteran Serina Vile, she found out that she was one of the only four people who planned on attending. Maj. Jaspen Boothe decided to take action, posting to every veteran group on social media, inviting them to attend. When the day of the funeral arrived, 200 strangers had shown up to honor the life of the homeless veteran. If this doesn’t prove that there’s still humanity in the world, then I don’t know what does.

6. A plethora of Joe Biden memes flooded the internet.

While the election was tiring and draining no matter who you supported, a few good things did come out of it. Among these things is the large amount of Joe Biden memes that made their appearance on Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets. The memes depict our vice president making jokes and behaving in a childish manner, which is sure to provide most people with a laugh when election talk gets to be too much.

7. Pandas, manatees and tigers, oh my. After years and years of constant decline, the number of pandas, manatees and tigers in the wild has been growing. The giant panda population has increased so much that the species has been

removed from the endangered species list to which they were added in 1984. The manatee population in Florida alone has increased to about 6,300, which is almost a 500 percent increase in the past 30 years. The number of tigers in the wild increased from approximately 3,200 in 2010 to 3,890 this year.

8. Everyone experienced a birthday, even people born on a leap year. If you’re reading this right now, you’ve survived the year 2016. If that’s the case, you experienced a birthday (or will this month), and since it’s 2016, this is true even if you were born February 29. That alone is something to be happy about.

So there’s the proof. 2016 may have provided us with some negative experiences, but there are definitely some positives that we should celebrate. We shouldn’t give up hope for the future.

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The NAU men’s cross country team holds the NCAA national championship trophy after their historic win in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 19. Photo courtesy of Justin Casterline

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or the first time in history, NAU received a NCAA Division I national title in cross country. For the Big Sky Conference, the small mountain town of Flagstaff, Ariz., at 7,000 feet elevation, has housed some of the most decorated distance runners to ever compete.

The unanimous No. 1 team in the nation took their talents all the way to Terre Haute, Ind., where the seven-man squad did what they have been doing all season — running and winning.

With NCAA All-American performances from Futsam Zienasellassie, Matt Baxter, Tyler Day and Andy Trouard, Director of Cross Country Eric Heins can proudly claim one of his most prestigious trophies in his winningest season. However, even with the team’s numerous accolades going into the race, he had his doubts.

“I had bad thoughts, honestly, as we were crossing the finish line,” said head coach Heins. “I heard that we were winning, but not by much, at 8K, and I couldn’t tell where Nathan [Weitz] had finished. I thought he was our fifth man because I didn’t see any of our other athletes pass him. It was nerve-racking.”

Despite competing against some of the best in the nation in this 10K championship race, Zienasellassie finished fourth overall and first for NAU, placing a time of 29:49.8, a career-best.

Closely behind was Baxter with a time of 30:03.1 coming in at 11th place, Day with a time at 30:13

coming in at 23rd and Trouard grabbing 37th with a time of 30:23.5.

“We knew if we were going to try and make history, all points needed to be addressed and hit,” said Day. And that is what they did, scoring 125 points overall in front of top-tier programs like Stanford, Syracuse, Mississippi and Arkansas, proving that NAU is now a top program.

“To steal a saying from Joe Maddon [Manager of the Chicago Cubs]: Embrace the target.

That’s what our men did and they really embraced being a part of this group,” Heins said.

In his final season at NAU and after a decade-long journey, Heins was able to finally bring home a national title. This achievement was not only the first for cross country, but a first for any sport at NAU. “It’s fantastic. It’s a great feeling to know that we brought the first national championship trophy to NAU and Flagstaff,” Heins said. “This university does a great job with athletics. They do it the right way, and to bring home a national title to show that is such an honor.”

During his time here, Heins has garnered 28 Big Sky Championships and produced nine top-10 national finishes across indoor and outdoor track & field and cross country. Half of those championships were won by cross country. The men won a conference title nearly every year.

A perfect ending for a man who has left a lasting — and shiny — legacy here in Flagstaff.

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Michael Smith will replace head coach Eric Heins. Victoria Kaschl |The Lumberjack JACQUIE LEMARR

(Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of the article “Michael Smith’s Homecoming” written by Jacquie LeMarr in October. For the full article visit jackcentral.org.)

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decade after making his mark in the Flagstaff running community, Michael Smith returned to his original stomping grounds. In 2016, NCAA Division I Champions welcomed Smith as the new Director of Cross Country and Track & Field. “[Smith] embodies the integrity, competitiveness and abilities to lead the NAU cross country and track & field student-athletes,” said Lisa Campos, vice president for NAU Intercollegiate Athletics.

Smith finished out the fall cross country season alongside head coach Eric Heins, the most decorated coach this program has seen. Smith will keep similar aspects of Heins coaching mentality in his new program.

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AU Cross Country has come a long way throughout the years to get to where they are today. With a family atmosphere, a professional approach and dedicated athletes who desire a championship, Director of Cross Country Eric Heins has been able to bring home 14 Big Sky Conference Championships across both the men’s and women’s teams. In the 10 years under his reign, the men have won nine Big Sky Conference titles and the women have won five. Coach Heins has also brought home six NCAA cross country podium finishes, three NCAA Cross Country Mountain Region championships and, this year, the first NCAA National Title in school history. “Witnessing the team win the first-ever national championship in school history was an incredible experience,” said Lisa Campos, vice president for NAU Intercollegiate Athletics. “I could not be more happy for the team, the coaching staff, the athletics department and the university. I am so proud of the men’s cross country team, and they will forever hold a special place in NAU history.”

BELOW: Photo illustration by Cheyanne Mumphrey; Coach Heins photo courtesy of NAU Athletics; background photo by Matthew Strissel

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CAA Division I National Cross Country Champion: what a way to end a tremendous career for one of the best runners to come through NAU. And not just a national title, but the first NCAA national title in school history, the first for the Big Sky Conference and the first non-Power 5 Conference to win a NCAA

Fifth-year senior Futsam Zienasellassie took fourth place in the NCAA championship race Nov. 19. Kirby Lee | USAToday

title since 1981.

Throughout his time at NAU, Futsum Zienasellassie has been within reach of the national title. Last month, he became a national champion.

“Every year was very special,” said Zienasellassie. “Then this year came and everyone stayed healthy, everyone was hungry, motivated and wanted to win a national title.”

Fifth-year senior Zienasellassie has created some memories most athletes can only dream about.

“This team is very special to me and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. This group of guys, I have become very close with, so it’s definitely been a very special season for me,” Zienasellassie said.

Director of Cross Country Eric Heins also felt strongly when he watched his men prepare for what was his final race as coach.

“Before the race, I got a little choked up, realized this was my last time doing this,” said head coach Heins. “I just soaked it all up for a bit and came back to the team. I felt really calm before the race ... really calm.”

Zienasellassie, an immigrant from Eritrea, joins a prestigious line of foreign-born runners at NAU who finished top-10 at the national meet. He joins Diego Estrada and Lopez Lomong, both of whom have competed in the Olympics in their post-NAU career.

“All those runners who ran here in the past, I wanted to be in their shoes,” Zienasellassie said. “I wanted to be coached by the same coach and run in the same program. I knew in my mind that if I came here, I could be like those guys.”

Zienasellassie successfully earned his place among the most esteemed runners in Flagstaff and learned from past teammates as well as his coach, who has become a close mentor and friend to him.

“It all started at the end of my senior year of high school when coach Heins visited [my] home,” Zienasellassie said. “I asked him, ‘If I decide to come to NAU, can we win a national title?’ ... he said, ‘Oh yeah, we will win a national title.’ And that laid the foundation for a long-lasting friendship.”

Heins also remembers that life-changing day for Zienasellassie in Indiana.

“As a coach, when you’re recruiting, you always tell these athletes, ‘We’re going for a national title,’” Heins said. “That’s what we told [Zienasellassie] five, six years ago, and to see it come to fruition is just amazing.”

As for post-collegiate goals, Zienasellassie has London in mind after following a tough Olympic trial last June in which he dropped out of the race.

“I want to get back to it and hopefully make it on the world team or the Olympic team,” Zienasellassie said.

Laughing, he said he has high hopes for the future of the NAU cross country program without him, believing they can become even better next year than they were this year.

“They got great leaders. Guys like Matthew Baxter, Cory Glines and Andy Trouard they will lead these guys into another, more exciting season,” Zienasellassie said. “This team next year can be two times better than a national-title winning team, plus coach Smith is a great coach. I’m really excited, I just can’t wait to see what they are going to do next year.”

Replacing the leadership and production of Zienasellassie, as well as the decade-long legacy of Heins will not be an easy task, but the athletes at NAU are ready to step up along with future Director of Cross Country Michael Smith.

“We have leaders on the course, some by culture and example,” said Smith. “We have a group of guys that have truly taken ownership of their running and their team experience. That is, to me, the best thing about this team, the guys are very empowered by their running.”

According to Smith, one runner who will have a chance to step up is sophomore Tyler Day. “[Day] is a phenomenal leader. He truly is someone who brings a lot of joy to his process and he loves being on this team and loves his teammates, and that really rubs off on the people around him,” Smith said.

The NAU men’s cross country team will be returning 14 out of 16 of their runners next season. Despite the absence of Heins and Zienasellassie, the 2016 national champions will definitely have a shot at the title next year.

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Thousands #OptOutside instead of waiting in Black Friday lines B ALIE WILKINS

lack Friday has been a famous (or infamous depending on whom you ask) United States tradition since its beginnings in the ’50s. Every year the lines seem to get longer, the door busters get better and the fights over the biggest T.V. get even more hits on YouTube.

Not surprisingly, college-aged shoppers tend to stray away simply because of, “the whole broke-college-student thing,” said sophomore dental hygiene major Elizabeth Friedli. “I used to go a lot with my family when I still lived at home and we would do the whole standing-in-line thing. But now I’d rather lay in bed and shop online if I’m going to shop at all.”

She is not the only one who has decided that they are over the chaos of Black Friday. REI, for the second year in a row, closed all of its stores and paid its 12,287 employees to #OptOutside on Black Friday. Instead of waiting in the long Black Friday lines, REI asked its customers to choose the outdoors instead. This tradition REI started last year is coined by the campaign slogan, “Will you go out with me?”

In a statement published on the REI website when the campaign first launched, CEO Jerry Stritske wrote, “#OptOutside is more than a day — it’s been our way of life as a co-op since 1938. REI is committed to helping people tap into the joy, renewal and connection that comes from spending time outside with friends and family, and we see Black Friday as a perfect time to do this.”

Last year, the campaign was overwhelmingly successful, receiving more than nine different advertising awards, and this year the company stepped up their game. The list of companies that sponsor or partner with REI has almost doubled since last year and the sponsor names are getting bigger and bigger.

One of the most notable additions this year is Subaru. Their store in New York City has donated a fleet of their cars to take dogs that live in shelters away from the concrete and into nature for a day. Additionally, for every Instagram post that was made with the hashtags #OptOutside and #MakeADogsDay, Subaru made a $1 donation to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, hoping to donate up to $50,000.

All the REI locations in Arizona also partnered with the Arizona State Parks to offer free day passes to any state park. Lisa Beedy and her family of three boys (and two retrievers) left their home in Phoenix on Friday to go explore the Grand Canyon instead of participating in Black Friday.

“My husband and I have been REI members for a long time now and we just love what they’re doing with this Black Friday campaign,” said Beedy. “The kids have never seen the Grand Canyon and we figured, what better day to do it than today when it’s free and we can teach them that being outside is better than mass consumption.”

The campaign has received seemingly endless praise, but there are still some people who disagree with the idea. In a comment on Stritske’s post, one user from Dayton, Ohio, wrote, “How transparent. They’re just hoping to garner goodwill by having people do something healthy or something. No company will stop me from spending money I don’t have on stuff I don’t need.”

Though this idea might not be popular in Dayton, Ohio, according to Ivie Bryanthe who works at the REI in Flagstaff, the customers here feel quite the opposite.

“Our customers aren’t really Black Friday shoppers to begin with but some of them even come in here and thank us for not being open,” said Bryanthe.

So will this movement by REI start a new trend of businesses closing their doors on the biggest day on the global retail calendar? It seems unlikely but there are a lot of stores that decided to close their doors on Thanksgiving, straying away from the tradition of early Black Friday sales.

Most notably, the Mall of America closed on Thanksgiving — the famous 4.87 million square-foot mall has been open every Thanksgiving since 2012 until this year.

Last year there were 2,053,182 posts on Instagram to show #OptOutside adventures, and the REI website on Black Friday had a running total of 5,529,406 people who chose to #OptOutside this year. All signs point toward this tradition being a long-lasting and successful one for REI.

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TOP: REI is located at Aspen Place at the Sawmill on East Butler Avenue. The store was closed Black Friday, one of the largest days in retail sales, in order to encourage people to go outside.

BOTTOM: Buffalo Park was a great place for locals to #OptOutside on Black Friday.

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Native tribes, traditional medicines DARRION EDWARDS

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ost people turn to prescription medicine to combat their sickness; however, Native American tribes turn to the peaks.

The usage of medicinal plants has been a Native American tradition for centuries. Created from natural ingredients and providing a healthy alternative to available conventional medicines, natural medication has been cultivated by Native Americans in Flagstaff where their population is close to 10,000.

“There are many plants used for medicinal reasons,” said herbalist Phyllis Hogan. “Before colonization happened, that’s what [the tribes] lived on for medicine, for food. One of the big medicine plants is juniper, used by Hopi and Navajo tribes.”

The Winter Sun shop in downtown Flagstaff is a local traditional medicinal shop owned by Hogan, who has been a practicing herbalist for 25 years.

According to Hogan, Hopi and Navajo tribes use juniper as a common solution for the symptoms of colds and flus. Juniper, which is grown in the Southwestern deserts, is used in tea to treat headaches and stomach aches. It is considered as a sacred plant for both tribes.

Along with the traditional used of these plants for sicknesses and ailments, there is the use of plants for ceremonial and religious purposes.

“Yucca roots of plants purify and wash the hair,” Hogan said.

“Purifying hair is important during ceremonies. There’s also sacred tobacco that is smoked to call in cloud spirits and the creator.

It draws in real powerful ways to connect and communicate to spirits. Juniper is burned as another way to purify and cleanse the air before the practitioner goes into another realm to connect to all spirits.”

One of the common plants that is considered a “mighty” plant from the Mayan people is amaranth. This ancient crop originated in Central America more than 6,000 years ago and can be dark green or burgundy, depending on the species. With the ability to grow several feet tall, amaranth is traditionally made into a mush and eaten in the morning during Mayan ceremonies.

This plant is usually considered a weed due to its rapid growth, is high in protein and is an alternative for meat in people’s diets.

Marina Xoc Castillo de Vasquez is a professor for the applied indigenous studies program as well as an elder cultural adviser for the Native American Cultural Center.

She is also a traditional medicine woman.

Vasquez has been trained in the knowledge of traditional medicines, but was also born with the rights of a medicine woman. She is a Mayan Indian from Chimusinique, Guatemala.

“In Guatemala, not just anyone can become a medicine man or medicine woman,” said Vasquez. “You are chosen by the community when you are in the womb of your mother. The council of elders gets together and they can sense, and they have dreams, of who the next medicine man or medicine woman will be.”

Born as a medicine woman for her people, Vasquez uses her knowledge to assist in the health of her community back in Guatemala as well as informing and assisting those in Flagstaff.

The history of some cultural medicines goes back thousands of years, and proves to still be efficient in the healing of mental and

Marina Vasquez, medicine woman and Native American Cultural Center program coordinator, speaks with students in her office in the Native American Cultural Center at NAU. Alyssa Tavison | The Lumberjack

physical health today.

The responsibilities of these medicine men and women are highly respected within their culture. Their jobs not only include assisting any health problems with the people, but to ensure the people understand the importance of taking good care of their bodies through natural medicines and healthier diets.

Their responsibilities are split up in different categories, so their duties for the people are focused on certain aspects of health.

So anyone who requires attention can be assisted in the fullest effort.

“We have five different areas of medicine,” Vasquez said.

“One person is the bone healer. If people break their bones, instead of going to the hospital, they go to the bone healer. We also have an herbalist (for muscles), midwife, blood reader and spiritual healer. We focus on five different areas of medicine that people go to and try to use before they go to western medicine.”

An essential responsibility of the medicine men, medicine women and herbalists for communities is the knowledge of how plants can be used for medicinal, religious and other ceremonial reasons. In addition, these specialists must have a well-rounded knowledge of plants for cultural reasons. Ethnobotany, the scientific study of relations between plants for medicinal and cultural uses, is critical to the applied practices of medicine men and women.

In a less ceremonial practice, more traditional uses of plant usage includes prayer.

“The traditional plants I use aren’t necessary for medicine, they’re for prayers,” said junior public health major Darien Fuller.

“I use them for general well-being during prayer.”

Fuller is the president of the Connecting Higher Education Indigenously club and is also an enrolled member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe. She understands traditional uses of plants for medicinal and ceremonial reasons is important to the culture of her tribe.

“One thing tobacco helps [with] is carrying the prayer up to the spirits,” Fuller said. “It helps carry the substance and the act of offering helps the prayer turn out right.”

Along with the use of traditional medicines, there is a great importance of purification and music during the ceremonies of the Hopi tribes.

“Hopi ceremonies use burned juniper, and different plants are ingested,” Hogan said. “Not so much plants that are hallucinogenic. Peyote is used, but respectfully, where there is a leader. The songs are also ceremonial where the people connect spiritually. Songs are really powerful, because everything is done in song. The world today and the ancient world evolved around songs. Some anthropologist believed that songs were the first language.”

The most challenging part of using traditional Native American medicines, and even cosmetics, is obtaining the ingredients for creating them.

“To go out and pick your plants only costs the gas to get to your garden and pick the plants,” Hogan said. “Many people have medicine gardens where they gather medicinal plants that were passed down traditionally.”

The low cost of making traditional medicines and results of using these natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals is evident in Native American cultures, where they trust the medicine men and women of their tribe in determining the best natural medicines to help sicknesses or ailments.

“In the highlands of Guatemala, most indigenous people do not go to seek western medicines or conventional medicines,” Vasquez said. “They go first to the elders, the medicine man and medicine woman.”

Even though Vasquez trusts traditional medicines more, she warns those who seek her help to not completely abandon pharmaceutical medications.

“I always tell people, don’t stop taking your Western medications, talk to your doctor,” Vasquez said. “Do not just take care of yourself. Go to your doctor and propose that you want to try traditional medicines for three days.”

Even more important than understanding the availability of natural medications is knowing the importance of dieting and taking care of the body. These traditional medicines aid mental, physical and spiritual health, but they are just one part of the necessary steps needed in order to ensure strengthened health.

“We have to take care of our temple,” Vasquez said.

“Whatever you eat and whatever you take inside of your body or outside of your body, putting all kinds of junk in your body, it will affect your mental state and the functions of the organs in your body. For me, the greatest medication is spirituality because you can connect yourself with Mother Earth, connect yourself with the environment and with the people in your community.”

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he Christmas season is upon us, and with that, so are Christmas-themed activities and events around Flagstaff.

Just as every year in the past, the Theatrikos Theatre Company, located downtown, is putting on a Christmasthemed play throughout December. This year, Theatrikos is producing A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian and is directed by Joe Maniglia. “[Theatrikos] had asked me to direct the Christmas show and they wanted me to do The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and it’s a fine show, but we had just done it maybe four years ago,” said Maniglia about the theater’s rotating schedule of Christmas plays. “So, I thought it was time to resurrect A Christmas Story. It had been out of rotation for a while.”

The traditional story, based on the 1983 comedy film written by Jean Shepherd, revolves around 8-year-old Ralphie whose greatest wish for Christmas is to get a Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

Hilarity ensues once he actually receives the rifle.

The beloved story is well-known and for many, it is a Christmas tradition to watch it with family.

“It is one of those movies that you can relate to. I mean it came out in the ‘80s and it’s still relevant,” Maniglia said.

“It’s really like this generation’s It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Angele Anderfuren is the the assistant director for A Christmas Story, and a lecturer in journalism and creative media and film at NAU. Anderfuren got involved with Theatrikos when her daughter joined a summer workshop at the theater.

Anderfuren slowly became more involved as her daughter continued to show interest in the theater’s production of A Christmas Story.

This holiday’s show is the first time Anderfuren tries her hand at directing, and she is excited that it is for a Christmas play.

“Every year is something that is family friendly,” said Anderfuren. “Every year there is something you can take your kids to, no matter how old they are, no matter how old the grandparents are. Everybody can go together and it brings the community together.”

Anderfuren explained that even if one goes into the play having seen the movie dozens of times, the audience can still expect to laugh. The play is not based purely on the movie, but theatergoers will be familiar with elements of the story.

Whereas other productions put on by the Theatrikos Theatre Company are often emotional, A Christmas Story is a fresh take on comedy which might be just what people need during this holiday season.

“We have just come out of a brutal election period and people are either cocky or sad or depressed or confused or triumphant, but no matter on what side of the aisle you find yourself on, you will laugh, and you will laugh hard,” Maniglia said. “There are some beautiful poignant moments, but also just gut-busting laughter, which I think is important.”

This year Theatrikos also added something new to the Christmas play. The company has asked local writers to write and share a personal Christmas story with the audience before the play — a different story for each performance.

“Theatrikos is trying to work with the writers’ community to bring local stories alive on the stage in different ways,” Anderfuren said. “So, this is one of the things we are doing to not just be in Flagstaff, but to be part of Flagstaff and the stories of people in Flagstaff.”

Both Anderfuren and Maniglia consistently emphasized how important it is for the community to have these events to bring families together. Of all the things Flagstaff is doing during the Christmas season — the Festival of Lights, the North Pole Experience — Theatrikos is adding its personal touch with the pay.

“There are things that we all know are going to be done every year,” Maniglia said. “The Theatrikos holiday show is one of these, where people will know about it and will come. If they don’t come to any other show during the year — this is the show they will come to. It’s a place to bring the family.”

Beyond spending time with family, it also represents a time to laugh with other residents of Flagstaff.

“It’s so nice to feel part of the community and the Christmas spirit,” Anderfuren said.

A Christmas Story is performed by local actors, mixed with familiar and new faces for the regular Theatrikos audience.

Every person involved in the play, from actors to set designers, is contributing their time and effort voluntarily. There is no salary or compensation involved, but volunteers are excited to contribute to the community.

The play is performed at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15–17; and at 2 p.m. Dec. 4, 10, 11 and 18. Tickets are available on the Theatrikos webpage and prices range from $12 to $21. NAU students get a discount with a valid NAU I.D. The theater is located at 11 West Cherry Avenue in Flagstaff.

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TOP: The infamous leg lamp referencing the original A Christmas Story movie on the Theatrikos stage. BOTTOM: Actors act out a family argument.

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o bolt or not to bolt? While simple at first glance, this question drives development ethics at nearly every climbing and highlining area around the United States.

In many areas, bolting rock climbs and highlines is completely commonplace, while in others, leaving any fixed gear can become a heated debate. Is it really the bolting that raises issues? Where would the sport be today without these bolt-happy developers making their mark with permanent hardware?

Arizona began the bolting debate years ago, playing a distinct role in shaping national bolting regulations. According to “Fixed Anchors in the Wilderness,” a 2013 article by Jeff Achey published in Climbing Magazine, the debu t of the conflict came about in 1988 at Arizona’s Tonto National Monument. A hiker, peeved by a loud boombox, noticed an “excessive” use of expansion bolts placed by climbers and complained to the park rangers.

“A brief history of Wilderness bolting bans: The first major incident occurred in 1988, when a hiker complained about bolts and chalk in a climbing area called Zonerland in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix,” said Achey in the article. “In response, Tonto National Forest rangers banned bolts, citing rules against ‘abandonment of personal property’ and ‘defacing a natural feature.’”

The Access Fund, a group that fights for access rights of climbers and other recreationalists, got involved and helped pass an amendment stating no federal funds could be used to enforce this law, effectively ending the ban.

The boombox point is crucial. When exploring an area, climbers and other recreationalists must respect the desires of other area stakeholders or landowners. Some radical tunes might get an athlete pumped up to climb like a rockstar — pun intended — but it might annoy another hiker looking for a quieter experience. When entering an area, everyone becomes an ambassador for their sport.

This includes being respectful to others in the area, by leaving no trace so others can enjoy their time in nature.

There are certain things the community can do to minimize conflict between recreationalists.

Danny Mauz is a Flagstaff local developer who has been involved in the climbing community around Flagstaff. Mauz commented on his views of ethical crag development.

“The biggest thing developers need to recognize is respect for other organization’s interests.

Especially small issues such as obeying ‘no trespassing’ signs and closing gates upon entry and leaving an area,” said Mauz.

Respecting interests of others is important for maintaining a positive community image. As unfortunate as it may be, just a few individuals who do not respect area rules can cause everyone to lose access.

The Flagstaff outdoor community has access to some of the most diverse terrain in the state, ranging from our own pine forests to desert conditions only hours away. This land is divided up into National Forest land and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. The Wilderness Act of 1964 is the basis for most National Forest bolting policies; however, this act is loosely worded which allows for individual organizations to set their own standards. In designated wilderness areas, the use of motorized vehicles, chainsaws and, yes, drills to place bolts are strictly prohibited.

It seems straightforward enough, but here is where it gets tricky. Some National Forests allow the use of bolts if they are done with a hand drill, others require permits acquired through the Forest Service and in some it flat out does not matter. On top of that, BLM areas have their own set of regulations.

Every year during Thanksgiving week, many NAU students head out to Moab, Utah, for Gobble Gobble Bitches Yeah (GGBY), an informal festival where adrenaline junkies from all disciplines get together. The “Fruitbowl,” the canyon where they set up, is on BLM land. Normally, to pull off an event like GGBY, organizations would need insurance, waivers, permits and a web of red tape.

However, BLM land has a loop hole: The event is an unofficial gathering which clears the group of

those restrictions. This same BLM land permits bolting when necessary if developers paint the bolts to match the rocks to make them less visible.

Some areas are more sensitive to impact than others, changing the way communities interact with their outdoor playgrounds. One such example is Hueco Tanks in Texas, which is considered a sacred site due to its unusual concentration of historic artifacts, plants and wildlife.

Sean Brady, a prominent figure in the Sedona climbing scene, commented on the need for developers to respect these areas.

“Areas like Hueco Tanks and the limestone natural bridge in northern California are considered sacred to the natives and have ancient rock art that needs to be preserved, require much more regulation and limitations,” said Brady.

Area regulations only mean so much in the eyes of some recreationalists. Many who visit local climbing hot spots in northern Arizona, and even some local developers, are completely unaware of the rules in place for establishment of rock climbs and highlines. Bryce Taylor, a climber from Nevada, spoke about accountability as a key for sustainable development.

“When developing a new area, the best way to create sustainability is to have accountability,” said Taylor. “This means communicating with other local climbers to make sure no one is stepping on anybody else’s toes.”

Creating an open dialogue about what all members of the community are doing and how they are doing it can ensure the most ethical modes possible, per the community which enjoys the recreation area in question. Sneaking around at night so no one sees you drilling those anchors is a sure-fire way to stir up conflict and unnecessary ego battles that bring everyone down.

Get informed! Have a conversation with other locals and read up on accepted practices in the area. If none exist, then start the discussion. Go to your local gym, ask around on social media or sit down your buddies and just talk. Regardless of how, create accountability by having conversations and form a marketplace in which one can freely share ideas.

A rock-climbing bolt in an eroding rock wall. Isaac Dudley | The Lumberjack

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A tradition of taking to the streets MAKENNA LEPOWSKY

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rotest chants can be heard across the nation. 2016 has been a time of turmoil, politically and socially. From activists on the banks of the Missouri River protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, to Black Lives Matter activists speaking out against police brutality, many United States citizens are using their right to assemble.

Acts of civil disobedience and activism have crafted history.

The traditions and methods of activism and protesting are created, enforced and rewritten through various social and education institutions: those who participate in civil disobedience — the active refusal to follow laws or demands made by a government — the mass media, political establishments and others.

Protesters are citizens taking to the streets of the nation through history to make their message heard. Citizens have been involved in everything from the Women’s Rights Movement spanning from 1848-1920, to the Civil Rights Movement and civil disobedience in the 1960s.

Because freedom of speech and the right to assemble have been defined and protected as constitutional rights, civil disobedience has become a tradition among the many methods of activism.

Mary Sojourner, Flagstaff-based author, activist and humanitarian, has practiced various means of civil disobedience throughout her lifetime — specifically in regards to human rights, culture and environmental activism.

Sojourner participated in the Save the Peaks movement in 2011. The coalition of activists protested the Snowbowl Ski Resort’s proposed plan to make snow out of reclaimed wastewater on the San Francisco Peaks.

Her devotion to human rights, culture and her resilience in defending the land she calls home drew her to the Save the Peaks movement.

“The earth is sacred. I’ve felt kinship with the mountains since I first moved here,” said Sojourner. “I also have close Hopi and Navajo friends and have witnessed their profound pain over the desecration of snowmaking on the mountain.”

She moved to northern Arizona to write and partake in the movement in the mid-1980s. In the following years, Snowbowl continued to make snow and clear acres of trees for the resort despite resistance from community members and Native American tribes.

“Flagstaff lives in the presence of an obscene desecration,” Sojourner said.

Sojourner’s acts of civil disobedience represented the power lying in the hands of the people. However, she also realized through her past experiences there are many influencers which are not in the control of the ordinary citizen, particularly what she described as the mass media.

Sojourner commented the media is a powerful mechanism that can influence success or even aid in defeat of activism movements.

“I was an organizer in 1986 to stop uranium mining on

sacred Havasupai land 13 miles from the south rim of the Grand Canyon,” Soujourner said. “Eight of us from Canyon Under Siege and Earth First peacefully blocked a main road in GC Park. We wore white radiation suits, linked hands and stood quietly — we were arrested.”

She described an encounter with a reporter from Phoenix telling her, “There better be property damage or violence.”

Sojourner believes this attitude has been reflected in other movements across the country. Reporters are looking for this sort of violent escalation from activist groups.

Alicyn Giltin is the conservation coordinator of the Sierra Club, an organization working to protect Arizona’s wildlife, waterways, the people and communities who depend on them.

Gitlin also brought attention to the recurring tendencies of mass media to often sensationalize protests, which can undermine or overshadow topics.

“In this day and age, when you talk about the responsibility of the media, unfortunately it is often what is going to be paid for,” said Giltin. “It is unfortunate because unless there is something moving, no one is going to show what is happening.”

Gitlin even referred to an old adage, giving it a modern twist.

“If something happens and it didn’t get covered by the media, did it happen?” Gitlin said.

Gitlin also remembered various instances in the past where radical activism led the FBI to infiltrate various local engagements in Flagstaff around the late ‘70s and early ‘80s “Dave Foreman, a former Sierra Club associate, formed a group called Earth First!, a radical environmental advocacy group that formed in the southwestern U.S. in 1979,” Gitlin said.

“Among the things they did were protesting Glen Canyon Dam, uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and more.”

Earth First! was involved with another group, called the Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy (EMETIC), which was known for cutting down chairlifts at Snowbowl. Evan Mecham was the governor of Arizona at the time.

“Earth First! was associated with [EMETIC] and the FBI infiltrated that group and encouraged people to cut power lines and they also cut down a chair lift at Snowbowl,” Gitlin said.

“When it went to court it was exposed that the FBI infiltrators somewhat drove these processes to happen.”

Rain Locker, 22, from Scottsdale, Ariz., is a student activist at Arizona State University. Locker is one Millennial who aims to exercise her freedom of speech — and equally her right to assemble — to the utmost extent. Locker’s civil disobedience contributions are multifaceted as she has advocated for various human rights, cultural and environmental movements.

In recent instances, Locker exercised her activist efforts at a Hillary Clinton rally at ASU, which protesters used to bring awareness to the DAPL. Locker was in support of a third-party candidate instead of either Democratic or Republican candidates.

While the nation may appear to be divided, Locker sees the opposite. She argued individuals and communities have begun to band together with common intentions.

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“I think that, more so right now, we have been divided, but this election has exposed the division more and it’s unveiling what we have been turning a blind eye to,” said Locker. “Now that we have exposed all the flaws within the system, I feel that these lines of division will be recognized and, therefore, we will start to become more united.”

Locker has become aware of the intimidating role the police force has presented in the past and continues to do so. While people may feel drawn to protests, police involvement may hinder individuals from doing so.

She described what she perceived as police suppression at the Clinton event at ASU. “The police and organizers of the event wouldn’t let us get anywhere near the field because they didn’t know if we were peaceful or not,” Locker said. “They kept us on the far side of the field nowhere near the media and nowhere near the cameras … but we heard after the rally was over that people could hear us even though we were kept so far away.”

Locker also said police can be intimidated by unexpected forces like activists and protesters who challenge social norms and institutionalized expectations. These tensions can lead to discrimination, unnecessary force and riots.

“Police often times can discriminate because of the way people look,” Locker said. “We obviously looked different and were making ourselves be heard in a different way, so with us screaming something of subject other than the election they were hesitant to let us in.”

Social media is a relatively new way for protesters to organize. The Millennial generation has specifically taken to various social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, for civil contribution.

Gitlin believes social media can be an advantageous mechanism to bring awareness and understanding to various movements.

She also noted that while social media may help in creating a unifying message and way to communicate for all participants, there are other effective ways for people to contribute.

“I never want to discourage the ability of people to protest … I don’t think it’s the only thing that people should do. I think it’s just one tool,” Gitlin said. “I have heard a lot of people talk about the need to start calling congress people, weekly or even daily, [and] giving money to organizations that protect our basic needs and rights.”

Methods and traditions of civil disobedience and activism, from social media to stand-ins, are still used today. These tactics are currently being used in current modern day movements like anti-Trump marches, DAPL protests, Black Lives Matter rallies, LGBT civil assemblies and other movements.

However, as Gitlin suggested, other methods can and will be used to promote change, including donating to organizations and becoming involved in the local and national discourses. Among the most powerful abilities the average citizen has is the action of holding government officials responsible to human rights, the environment and cultures.