The Lumberjack -- March 2, 2017

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know what you’re thinking: Why is the director of multimedia talking to me in print? It’s strange — I get it. Quite honestly, I have very little, if anything, to do with print, so I can’t really give you insider knowledge on the finer details of what goes into creating The Lumberjack week after week or how tense production night can be.

What I can tell you is the individuals who bring you this publication every Thursday work tirelessly to give you something worth reading, something informative, something they are proud of.

And I am proud of them, from our dedicated news section to our fascinating culture section. To be in their company is to be in the company of those who inspire and encourage.

My job is to bring that same dedication and diligence to our website, jackcentral.org. From spoken-word opinion pieces to coverage of rallies and protests around Flagstaff, we are constantly expanding our multimedia content. Without the help of our writers and editors, our multimedia would not be possible. Their willingness to say yes to my bizarre requests to shove a microphone in a writer’s face adds a new layer to our coverage.

And to our visual team: Thank you for your time and your fine work as well as your tolerance of my crass language during our meetings. When you agree to make GIFs, like this week’s sweet, delicious wine flowing into a glass, you bring a nowessential dimension to our website.

This is an interesting time to be a journalist. First, they said journalism is dead.

GABRIEL Now, they’re saying we’re fake news. When in fact, The Lumberjack was declined an GRANILLO interview request for fear we were fake news. Just the other day, I was at a bar — I MULTIMEDIA mean, the library — when I stumbled into a conversation with a Donald Trump EDITOR supporter from Hawaii, who had used the term in reference to this very publication.

Fake news. It feels strange to write and even stranger to imagine, and whether you believe in the context of the label, one thing is certain: It exists. Publications are being labelled as fake news, and some organizations such as CNN and The New York Times were recently declined access to a White House media briefing as a result of the label. The role of the journalist is being scrutinized and evaluated. Some may find it unfair, but as a news organization, if we’re doing our jobs right, we should have nothing hide.

So to those who say journalism is dead and to those who call us fake news, take a look. We are not dead. And we are very real.

Thank you for reading.

“We’ve seen her a lot of times at home, and it’s a new experience to see her [play] tennis here at the center and at the college.”

— Claudio tomasetti, 2017 Freshman tennis player Chiara Tomasetti celebrates her birthday with her parents, Claudio and Corinna, who are visiting from Rösrath, Germany.

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On the cover At Page Springs Cellars, rows of wines ferment in barrels in order to reach their intended taste. Winery owner Eric Glomski has refined the process over the years and now knows when each wine will reach its full potential.

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PoliceBeat

At 9:28 a.m., a staff member in Cline Library reported subjects throwing darts at a light post. NAUPD responded to the situation. Two students were cited and released for third-degree trespass, and two other students were warned At 2:13 p.m., staff in the of trespass campus-wide.

Engineering building requested a welfare check on a student.

At 10:39 a.m., a residence An NAUPD officer responded assistant in Allen Hall reported and located the student in good that a subject, who had health. previously trespassed, was in the building. NAUPD officers At 10:54 p.m., staff in assessed the situation but were Sechrist Hall reported the unable to find the subject in odor of marijuana. NAUPD question. responded and gave referrals to two students for possession Feb. 23 of marijuana. The two students At 12:44 a.m., a student had medical marijuana cards. A in Cowden Hall was reported third student was deferred for for having complications after a underage possession of alcohol. recent medical procedure. FFD, GMT ambulance and NAUPD Feb. 21 responded. The student was At 8:31 a.m., a staff transported to FMC. member in Cline Library called to report a subject who had At 1:11 a.m., a subject previously trespassed. NAUPD called on one of NAU’s responded to the situation. The blue phones at Knoles subject was cited and released and McConnell drives to for third-degree trespass. The report two subjects who had investigation is ongoing. forcibly taken his cell phone.

FFD, NAUPD and GMT At 12:33 p.m., a staff ambulance responded to help member in the Performing and the subject, who was taken Fine Arts building reported to FMC for minor wounds being locked in their office. An and intoxication. The report NAUPD officer responded to was later determined to be provide assistance. Everything unfounded. was fine.

Feb. 24 At 12:51 p.m., a student At 11:12 a.m., a reported their bicycle was student in the South Village stolen from the San Francisco Apartments called to report Parking Garage. An NAUPD two subjects fighting. NAUPD officer took the report. All leads responded and booked one were exhausted, and the case student into Coconino County was closed.

Detention Facility for assault, domestic violence, disorderly Feb. 22 conduct and introduction of At 8:10 a.m., a staff contraband into a detention member in Cline Library facility.

Another student reported a suspicious person was cited and released for walking along Knoles Drive. possession of marijuana and An NAUPD officer responded drug paraphernalia. and searched the area, but made no contact with the At 7:01 p.m., a student suspected party. reported seeing five people smoking marijuana inside Feb. 20 At 11:16 a.m., a subject was cited for driving on a suspended license in parking lot 7A. NAUPD arrested and later released the subject. The investigation is ongoing.

COMPILED BY BRITTANY VIAR a vehicle in lot 33A. One student was criminally deferred for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Four other students were referred for the use of marijuana. The investigation is ongoing.

Feb. 25 At 12:51 a.m., NAUPD initiated a traffic stop at the High Country Conference Garage. The subject was cited and released for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The subject was also cited for running a stop sign.

At 1:49 a.m., Cowden Hall staff reported an intoxicated student in the building. NAUPD, FFD and GMT ambulance responded to the call. The student was taken to FMC for treatment and was criminally deferred for minor in consumption of alcohol.

At 6:55 p.m., staff in Cline Library reported a group of students were harassing another student. NAUPD responded and made contact with the group of students.

According to NAUPD, all students involved were asked to leave and they complied.

Feb. 26 At 2:25 a.m., a student was cited and released for minor in consumption, underage DUI, DUI to the slightest degree and DUI over .08. The student was also cited for a stop-sign violation.

At 9:08 p.m., a parent requested a welfare check on their son at Hilltop Townhomes. NAUPD checked the residence and learned that the student was in Pinetop, Ariz. NAUPD advised the parents of their son’s location, and his parents said they would meet their son there soon.

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Local law enforcement takes a stand on immigration

Joey Postiglione

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or the past eight years, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, mother of two, has been meeting annually with immigration officers at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Phoenix.

Rayos was required to go to these yearly meetings after being arrested for a using a fake social security number when her workplace was raided by ICE in 2008. Typically, Rayos would go into the office to review her case with officials, answer a few questions and then was free to leave.

Feb. 8, however, Rayos was arrested during her yearly meeting and then deported to Nogales, Mexico, the next day.

According to Rayos’s lawyer, Ray Maldonado, Rayos is possibly the first person in Arizona to be deported under President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.

Trump signed the executive order into law Jan. 25 in an attempt to tighten the Obama-era policies of the last eight years.

The order, along with authorizing the construction of Trump’s proposed border wall, stated in section seven, “The Secretary shall take appropriate action” to make sure undocumented immigrants are returned to their country of origin when being deported.

Securing the southern border and mass deportation of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants were some of the promises the president pledged during his 2016 campaign.

Now that he’s in office, Trump is looking to undertake this major feat by enlisting the help of local law enforcements.

According to another executive order signed into law by the president Feb. 9, the same day Rayos was deported, “to the extent deemed useful by the co-chairs, and in their discretion, identify methods for Federal agencies to coordinate, as permitted by law, with State, tribal, and local governments and law enforcement agencies, foreign law enforcement partners, public-health organizations, and non-governmental organizations in order to aid in the identification, interdiction, and dismantling of transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations.”

Similar laws requiring local law enforcement to work with federal immigration officials are being discussed at the state level, as well. Feb. 23, House Bill 2121 (H.B. 2121), sponsored by Flagstaff Rep. Bob Thorpe, passed the Arizona House after much debate between opposing sides.

H.B. 2121 would prevent local governments from disrupting the current deportation process. It also forces public employees to be informants if any fellow employees do not comply with the immigration enforcement laws.

The bill will now go to the Arizona Senate for a formal vote.

“This, for me, is a bill that really separates our Arizona,” said Rep. Isela Blanc, who came to the United States from Mexico

Mexican artist Ana Teresa Fernandez paints the Sonoran border fence blue to “lower the sky” as part of the art installation,“Erasing the Border,” in Nogales, Mexico, October 2015. AP Photo | Valeria Fernandez

at the age of 10 and later gained citizenship. “This is seriously hurting families, and it’s hurting our communities.”

Despite these new policies and deportations, the Coconino County Sheriff Department wants to reassure undocumented workers that immigration enforcement is not their top priority.

“I want to make it clear that our department does not ask about papers and immigration status when we are contacted,” said Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll in an interview with The Daily Sun. “We don’t enforce federal immigration, and we have no intention of doing that.”

Driscoll and the sheriff’s department view this issue as one of public trust and don’t want any undocumented immigrants to avoid reporting or helping with the investigations into an unrelated crime over fear of deportation.

Despite all the new legislation and executive orders coming out about deportation and undocumented workers, deportation lawyer Elliot Alford believes little will change under the new administration other than the rhetoric used to talk about

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deportation.

“My personal opinion on all of this is that there’s no way any president could do all the things that [this administration] says that they want to do in four years,” said Alford.

Even before Trump took office, there was already a shift in the handling of deportation cases in court.

“The culture has already changed quite a bit. You used to go into a bond hearing and say ‘Hey, what do you think about a $4,000 bond?’ and the judge would say ‘OK, we agree to the $4,000,’ and you’d walk out,” Alford said. “They stopped negotiating bonds at some point, they hired new lawyers, they hired new judges — you just get people to tow the line more.”

Despite rumors of ICE raids happening in the Flagstaff area, Flagstaff Police Chief Kevin Treadway said no ICE officials have been in the area.

The children of Garcia de Rayos will attend Trump’s first State of the Union address Feb. 28 as guests of representatives Ruben Gallego and Raul Grijalva.

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NEWS

Essential Blends’ website and menu need an update Kayla Rutledge

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ssential Blends, a smoothie shop inside NAU’s Health and Learning Center on north campus, has recently stopped updating the contents of their smoothies both on their sign and the NAU app.

As of Feb. 15, the app said the only smoothie containing any kind of juice is the Fit-N-Fruity, which is a blended assortment of strawberries, bananas, raspberries and apple juice.

However, this is not the case. Every smoothie, with the exception of one, has a juice base. The smoothies containing no dairy products are made with 12 ounces of apple juice, orange juice or both. The smoothies that do have dairy in them have six ounces of milk and six ounces of juice. The exception is the Power Lift smoothie, which contains 12 ounces of milk.

The menu displayed in front of the shop says that the juice is 100 percent pure fruit juice. The fruit juice used is actually juice concentrate meaning it is frozen, which allows the juice to stay fresh longer. Then, when the juice is ready to be used for the smoothie, water is added to it. However, juice concentrates and fresh-squeezed juices have similar nutritional value if the concentrate is prepared correctly. “[The list of smoothie elements] are simply descriptions intended to list the main ingredients in any given menu item and call out food allergens if they are known to exist in a recipe,” said Casey Fisher, director of strategic planning and marketing for campus dining services under Sodexo.

The Essential Blends extension on the NAU website includes what is on the list as “nutritional info.” The NAU website includes an estimate of what content is in the smoothies, but the shop sign and app continue to tell a different story until they are updated.

“I feel like that is awful, and I hate NAU,” said sophomore theatre major Autumn Shorts. “They screw us over in so many ways, and now they want to mess up our nutrition, too. Who does that?”

Fisher also said NAU registered dietitian Megan Anderson is currently working on updating

the app and website.

The milk in the smoothies also varies depending on which smoothie is ordered. Standing behind the counter, customers can see a freezer that contains the items that need to be cold to serve.

When an employee pulls milk from the freezer to make a smoothie, the milk cartons have either a red or orange label with the Shamrock brand labeling on the front: orange being 2 percent, and red being whole milk.

During observation by The Lumberjack, employees interchanged both types of milk for the same smoothie recipe. This lack of distinction between milk percentages means the nutrition facts and calorie count provided by NAU Campus Dining’s website is inaccurate. The request slip used by the shop does not specify what kind of milk needs to be provided, simply that the establishment is out.

During shop and website observation, no matter what kind of milk was being used, whole or 2 percent, the different calorie count of the smoothies was not represented on the shop sign.

One cup of 2 percent milk only has 124 calories while one cup of whole milk has 148 calories, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

“I would only care if I was allergic to something or paying more than what you’re actually giving me. I could care less about the milk,” said senior engineering major Andrew Atkinson, while drinking a Essential Blends smoothie.

Atkinson said he is still going to buy smoothies from the shop, despite the misinformation.

“It’s super wrong because the customers they are getting are obviously health conscious, so they usually care,” said Jasmine Coro, junior advertising and Spanish double major and fitness instructor.

“So that information being wrong is affecting their health. As a customer, I’m not comfortable with that. I mean, I’ll still go, but if I had special dietary needs or really cared, I would be pretty upset.”

The smoothie signage directly affects NAU freshmen who are required by the university to purchase a meal plan, regardless if they feel it is necessary.

Left: NAU students wait in line for one of many smoothies offered by Essential Blends at the Health and Learning Center Feb. 28. Right: Essential Blends employee Jessica Shaw runs the cash register in between smoothie preparation for customers at the HLC. Andrew Holt Frazier | The Lumberjack.

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NEWS

University Texts & Tools bookstore closes its doors Chandler Coiner

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lagstaff students lost another outlet for textbooks after a local store shut its doors Feb. 20.

University Texts & Tools (UT&T), located in the plaza off Milton Road and University Drive, closed. The store sold new and used textbooks, merchandise and various student apparel.

Inventory from the store was transferred from UT&T to the NAU Bookstore throughout the week. UT&T was an independently owned bookstore bought by eFollet several years ago. eFollet took over managing the campus bookstore in the spring of 2007.

The company eFollet also owns and operates the bookstore on campus. NAU partnered with them to sell books and other gear to students.

The company oversees more than 1,200 campus bookstores around the country.

Katy Spratt, community coordinator at Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, said students can trade in textbooks to her store.

However, the store’s inventory relies on the trade-in of textbooks from students and doesn’t order new textbooks, so there’s no guarantee the NAU catalogue will be available.

“I come to Bookmans literally every week,” said NAU graduate student Tyler Stevenson while browsing the shelves of the store. “I’m a big reader.”

However, Stevenson prefers the NAU Freshman psychology major Miles Grayson away,” said Grayson. “They’ve had what I needed bookstore and shopping online for his textbook said his experience with textbooks at Barnes & twice.” needs.

Noble has been positive.

Students can still go to the campus “I never would come [to Bookmans] for “They’re pretty good as a backup if Amazon bookstore, visit any of the local book stores or textbooks for school,” Stevenson said. “I always or whatever aren’t going to be able to ship for a find their books online. either went with the campus store or shopped couple months and you need the textbook right online. One might be a little cheaper than the other, but books are already so expensive I didn’t put too much thought into it.”

According to a press release from Amazon, net income for the company increased 27 percent in 2016 with $136 billion in sales. Book sales accounted for approximately 7 percent of that income.

Sophomore history major Samantha Beck was not as concerned about the closure.

“We all — or I guess I should say most of us students — don’t really use the physical shops,” said Beck. “Everyone I know, at least, just orders off Amazon or trades online over Facebook.

There’s no need to walk into a store unless you want to pay more.”

Beck also said she had never heard of UT&T. Other bookstores in Flagstaff include Barnes & Noble, which has its own “buyback” program, Barefoot Cowgirl Books and Starrlight Books.

Starrlight offers a wide range of used books, but more in the way of a unique selection rather than a consistent NAU catalogue. Barefoot Cowgirl Top: Robert Stephan, Jenna Deal and Tori Aleman take inventory of sweatshirts, T-shirts and Books carries primarily fiction, not-fiction and merchandise to transfer to the NAU Bookstore. UT&T closed Feb. 20, leaving students with one less option to purchase books. Victoria Kaschl | The Lumberjack. poetry.

NAU Phi Gamma Delta’s chapter president Ryan Waltman dies Feb. 26 Sunday Miller Junior Ryan Waltman died over the weekend in Flagstaff. His death came as a shock to his Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI) fraternity brothers, friends and family. Waltman’s Facebook profile is overflowing with comments, photos and memories since he died.

“NAU Phi Gamma Delta is deeply saddened by the loss of our Chapter President and our brother, Ryan Waltman. Ryan touched many of our brothers’ lives with his hard work, character, generosity and sense of humor,” said the NAU Phi Gamma Delta Facebook page.

According to the Phi Gamma Delta website, FIJI is a “social fraternity with more than 120 active chapters and 18 colonies across the United States and Canada.

The five core values of Phi Gamma Delta include friendship, knowledge, service, morality and excellence.

Waltman’s mother, Stacy Kamala Waltman, said Ryan was her only child.

“He was the light of my life,” she wrote on the NAU Phi Gamma Delta Facebook page.

Waltman grew up in San Clemente, Calif., and graduated from San Clemente High School. He started at NAU in the fall of 2014 studying at the College of Education.

The Waltman family is holding a private memorial service intended for close friends and family.

Ryan Waltman and his dog Harrison. Photo courtesy of Facebook

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It’s all fun and games until your punchline offends your audience CASSIE MILLER

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e’ve all been in an awkward situation in which someone’s said something in an attempt to be funny, only to end up just making a fool of themselves. However, this doesn’t always stop this person from trying to make someone laugh. Although they might have good intentions, they could just end up repeatedly offending those around them.

So the question is, what is OK to joke about? If only it were that simple. Having a dark and twisted humor myself, I sometimes struggle with knowing when it’s OK to joke about certain issues. Although, after getting to know those around me, I have learned what types of jokes I can make. This is a habit I would strongly encourage in aspiring comedians.

Those who like to constantly test their friends’ boundaries by making certain kinds of jokes might not be the right type of friend for you. Just because they might have good friendship qualities doesn’t mean the jokes are worthy of the self-doubt. The next time you have to forcefully laugh at a horrible joke about how to pick up a Jewish girl, maybe it’s time to think about making new friends.

With social media today, it’s not just your friends you have to watch out for. Nowadays, celebrities left and right are being caught making insensitive jokes. This brings up a different type of concern.

The next time you have to forcefully laugh at a horrible joke about how to pick up a Jewish girl, maybe it’s time to think about making new friends.

A popular Youtuber has recently come under fire for a questionable skit that had an offensive joke about the Jewish religion. The star known as Pewdiepie, or Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, has always been the type to push the boundaries of comedy. I myself have watched many videos of Kjellberg’s, and those who have

watched him for a long time know he isn’t a Nazi, as some media outlets have tried to portray him as. Kjellberg has since posted a response regarding the ongoing coverage about him and his jokes, apologizing for the skit. Still, Kjellberg stated he is a firm believer that anything can be joked about.

And I have to agree. I do believe everything can be joked about; you can twist anything into humor no matter what the subject is. However, it does not mean you should to go up to a random stranger and make an offensive joke. It means: Get to know your audience.

To achieve the maximum reaction, one has to be able to tell what kind of jokes are allowed. A lot of factors go into someone’s mood; I could appreciate a joke one day and the next, I wouldn’t. Stress is a common factor when it comes to someone’s tolerance. If someone’s mind is on an essay they have an hour to write and they haven’t started it, it isn’t the best time to crack a “yo momma” joke. You might get hit.

Nevertheless, each year the world’s tolerance for jokes changes. People need to understand that anything can be joked about in

a safe way. Jokes aren’t a way to get away with racist slurs. Joking with your friends is OK if you’ve already established the group’s sense of humor. You never want to be that schmuck who just comes off as a horrible person when all you want to do is make someone laugh. So, joke on, my fellow funny people, and continue t o try to make the world laugh.

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Price gouging reusable bottles at the expense of the environment’s quality ZACH MARTIN

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he environment has been a hot topic of conversation for the past decade and, every day, more and more entrepreneurs are releasing their newest creation in hopes of keeping our planet cleaner for the future.

The vacuum-sealed liquid containers that hit the market a couple of years ago are one such product aimed at removing the need to buy cases of disposable water bottles by the pallet, only to find their way to the waste bin.

What exactly does vacuum insulation mean? First, the inner stainless steel layer of the bottle is what holds the beverage, separating the

outer shell held by the user. The inner layer is a vacant space, which protects any sort of thermal heat transfer. Heat transfer is what causes a drink to lose its desired temperature.

Reusable bottles are nothing new. The technology has been around since 1915, but it has reemerged as a new trend in drink transportation. Having a container to keep your drink hot or cold for several hours is an appealing concept for those on the go. I love that my coffee can stay hot for the whole commute to work and then still be hot for another hour. But, realistically, it’s gone in 20 minutes.

The same goes for ice-cold water and other cold beverages.

But often times, I drink way more water than can fit in my ILLUSTRATION BY COLTON STARLEY bottle. Granted, I’ve saved quite

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a bit of money by not buying cases or gallons of water, but I’m not so sure the price paid by consumers for a quality bottle is worth the money given the use they get.

The cost of all these different bottles is staggering. A 21-ounce Hydroflask retails for $28.99 while the Kleen Kanteen of the same size is $35.99. Being a student, I can’t justify spending money on many things, let alone a $30 bottle. If these companies as well as others really want to make a dent in the effort to conserve our environment, these bottles need to be affordable.

One could argue that if you save the money normally spent on about seven cases of water, you could afford to go buy one, but it’s not realistic for the average consumer. Having a reusable bottle is a lifestyle change in itself, and it’s not something most people think of adopting just like that. If carrying a container around all day is not the norm for someone, the chances of losing it or getting frustrated with having to schlep it around all day are high. This leads to simply not using it anymore in favor of the free coffee in the break room or the cups by the water cooler in the office hallway.

On the flip side, for those leading a more

active or on-the-go lifestyle, these containers are perfect. And the money covering the cost is wellspent because the bottles are used every day, all day. Until I lost mine, I had my Hydroflask with me all the time.

I know some of you reading this will say, “Wait, Zach. You just said you couldn’t justify having one of these containers because they are too expensive.” My response would be that mine was gifted to me without solicitation. Unless I really felt like splurging, I would not buy them unless they became way cheaper.

So do these reusable bottles help the environment? Yes. Do they make enough of a positive impact to offset the damage done by disposing of wasteful plastic bottles? No. Why? Because they cost too much and, therefore, not enough people buy them. What would happen if the prices were lower? More people would buy them because they serve a great purpose on a daily basis, they are super cool (you can even make your own custom bottle on Hydroflask’s website), and they can help prevent massive amounts of plastic waste.

I’ll drink to that!

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Student complaints rise as parking spots decrease ALIE WILKINS

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s if it wasn’t already the most hated office on campus, Parking and Shuttle Services has given students (and faculty, for that matter) yet another reason to send them hate mail. For those of us who pay the big bucks to park in the San Francisco Parking Garage on

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central campus, this is not news, but for those of you lucky enough to not have to deal with that mess, you might not know. Recently, the fifth and sixth floors of the garage were closed so installation of solar panels on the sixth floor could begin.

Here’s my first question: If the solar panels are going on the top floor, why do we need to close the fifth floor? Whatever the reason is, there is now literally not enough spots in the garage for everyone to park. The only people allowed to park in the garage now are permit holders and campus-tour guests. This means day parkers now have to park in the SkyDome lot where they still have to pay the daily fee.

Because there is no way to email these people ahead of time, these day parkers just had to learn the hard way when they showed up to park for a couple hours while they went to class and were then faced with an added 15 minutes to their commute. The elimination of day parking in the garage was supposed to create enough space for permit holders to all fit without the fifth and sixth floors. This might have been a good idea in theory, but its certainly not the reality.

If you’ve ever wanted to see a real-life version of The Hunger Games, just go stand in the garage between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. What the parking office didn’t anticipate is there are a lot of permit holders who have class during the 11:10 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday block. People were literally circling the garage waiting for someone to leave so that they could take their spot and make it to class on time.

As more and more people showed up, the circling became much more aggressive: drivers whipping around corners, cutting people off and trying to call the parking office all at the same time. To me, this seems like a relatively easy issue to predict, but Parking Services sure seemed to be stumped when a bunch of angry students called them last Tuesday morning looking for a solution to the lack of spots for us.

Parking Services seemed just as surprised that we didn’t factor in an extra half an hour to wait for someone to come and “assess the situation.”

Since then, they have offered employees temporary permits to other lots around campus.

They even had government-issued cars, which were being used by the Admissions Office,

moved to the lot outside the Health and Learning Center. There hasn’t seemed to be any issues with finding a spot since then, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that we all paid $555 for a spot in this garage, and we have to worry about whether there will be one when we get there. The other day, I seriously considered paying someone to stand in a spot on the first floor so I didn’t have to deal with trying to park.

The worst part about this is that we were all having these issues before the floors got closed, so it’s not like things are going to improve very much, if at all, when the floors reopen. I get to campus around 7:15 a.m. most mornings, and I still had to go all the way up to the fourth floor.

Part of this is because there are students who live in Sechrist and are paying to have their cars sit in the garage all week until they need to use them.

This is fine, except maybe you could think about other people parking and move your car up to the top of the garage if it’s just going to sit there all week? Just a thought.

Bottom line is, if I’m a full-time student, working toward graduation in May, who works 25 hours per week and the most stressful part of my day is parking, there’s something wrong.

Veganism: A solution to mass animal abuse and thoughtless consumerism PETER WRIGHT

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hrough the growth in popularity of the internet and social media, the world as a whole is becoming more aware and mindful about some of the widespread injustices and suffering, which previously occurred mostly in secret. One instance of this increased public awareness is the growing popularity of a vegan lifestyle, which aims to thwart the rampant abuse of animals within animal-based production industries.

Horrors formerly only known by those working in the industry are now easily accessible online, through videos, articles and interviews.

It’s sad to say, but practices such as feeding thousands of live male chicks into an industrial grinder everyday are commonplace in animal production industries to increase efficiency. The sole reasoning behind this barbarity is that male chicks do not grow to lay eggs and are therefore seen as useless.

Keith Wyatt, owner of Whyld Ass Cafe, a local plant-based, organic and GMO-free restaurant on Birch Avenue spoke on some of the different positives and negatives of veganism and the growing trend of adopting a plant-based

diet.

“Veganism cuts out all forms of exploitation,” said Wyatt. “It’s not veganism that’s the trend, it’s plant-based eating that’s the trend. That’s totally for health, and has nothing to do with wearing animals or exploiting animals in other areas like animal testing and fur or leather clothes.”

To truly be vegan is to cut out any expenditure which contributes to different systems of abuse toward animals. With growing rates of veganism in the United States, vegan meat-alternative food products are becoming more readily available and much tastier. In fact, the vegan food industry grew 8 percent between 2010 and 2012, increasing to $553 million per year in sales.

Faux leather, suede and fur clothes can be easily found at most clothing stores these days and have also grown in quality and look realistic.

The internet serves as an easy source to research lists of cruelty-free makeup, hair- and skin-care products coming from companies with policies in effect which do not allow for any product tests conducted on animals.

In a modern world so vastly stocked with new options available to the public that do

not support abusive behaviors toward animals, making the switch is becoming much easier and imperative. Although it may be difficult at first to shift into a vegan lifestyle, the most important thing is to just take the first step. It can start anywhere: It could be switching to cruelty-free makeup, changing your diet to cut out meat or opting to buy faux leathers on a shopping trip.

As time goes on, with commitment and an undying mindfulness as to why leading a vegan lifestyle is important to you, it will become second nature. An overnight solution is not an effective one; it’s more about becoming aware of the effects thoughtless consumerism can have and having the desire to slowly take control of those effects.

As with any cultural movement, veganism has been met with censure and stigmatization. Although this is most likely due to an ignorance or indifference toward the mercenary industrial production of animal products, it’s clear veganism is only going to continue to grow regardless of stigmatization.

Without a doubt, as rates of veganism continue to exponentially grow, rates of animal abuse will decrease due to a lower amount of funding for animal-product industries.

It’s time people begin to think about where exactly their money is going and the unseen repercussions of supporting mass animal production.

We as a society are now in a position to take real control over the indirect consequences of our actions. As a whole, the internet is an incredible source to increase visibility of the reasons why people decide to lead a vegan lifestyle and can no longer be ignored. Despite critique and stigmas, it is important for everyone to decide if they can live with contributing to an industrial animal abuse complex and then act accordingly in order to begin reflecting personal morals and values through action.

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THE GRAVEYARD IN ARIZONA’S BORDERLANDS ADRIAN SKABELUND Editor’s Note: The reporter and his family traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border with No Más Muertes and local high school students.

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eb. 20: Four high school students climbed into the living room of an RV. They looked like your typical teenagers, three girls and a boy, but everyone remained silent as they took their seats. Less than 24 hours previous, the four had, for the first time in their lives, spoken to undocumented migrants in the desert, stood under a Border Patrol helicopter as it circled them less than 50 yards from the ground, been questioned by an agent carrying an assault rifle and discovered and then laid to rest human remains. All of this had occurred in a single hour. They were overwhelmed. They were exhausted.

Feb. 19: It must have been close to 11 a.m. by the time the five 4-wheel-drive vehicles finished their 12-mile, 1.5-hour journey to the top of Charlie Bell Pass. As the vehicle’s occupants exited, they were greeted by two things: a mild temperature and a view that was anything but. Sprawled before them, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, lay the Growler Valley.

Flanked by the Growler Mountains to the east and the Granite Mountains to the west, the Growler Valley is encapsulated within the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge just west of the small town of Ajo, Ariz. It’s beautiful, full of tall saguaro and dotted with forests of cholla cacti, which glow in the sun, especially at dawn and dusk when the light passes through their thousands of spines.

Having rained the entire night before, the ocotillo’s small green leaves were out, and the creosote bushes filled the air with the scent of life. The Growler Valley, however, is more than simply a pretty landscape, for within all its beauty is what many describe as a war zone.

Scott Warren, a member of No Más Muertes (No More Deaths) and an Ajo local, was the de-facto leader of the group consisting of 26 individuals, half of whom were No More Deaths humanitarian aid workers. The remainder were student and faculty volunteers from Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA, a charter high school) who had driven down only two days before.

For some of the No More Deaths members, this trip, along with all their work in the desert, is personal.

“My mom crossed,” said Anthony Ross, a graduate student at Arizona State University. “A lot of people at ASU get involved because it’s

Shadrach Begley (second from left), Scott Warren (middle), Shawn Skabelund (right) and three other volunteers rest as they hike north through the Sonoran Desert. Adrian Skabelund |The Lumberjack

personal or they [simply] agonize about this great injustice that’s going on here.”

As an organization, No More Deaths has operated within the Arizona borderlands for nearly 12 years and acts as a humanizing presence there. In order to accomplish this, the nonprofit has three goals: to provide life saving supplies to migrants crossing the desert in the form of food, water and blankets; to provide medical aid to migrants in need; and to recover the remains of those who have not survived the journey. This day, it was the latter goal which brought these volunteers to the Growler Valley.

“When you look at the map – the human-remains map – this whole valley is just filled with dots.”

-Scott Warren Member of no more deaths As Warren explained to the FALA students, the valley, which until recently had been closed to the public due to the prominence of cartel activity in the area, is just one of many graveyards hidden within the Sonoran desert.

“We’ve been finding a lot of remains out in this valley in the past couple of months, eight or nine sets of human remains that we’ve found in the valley here,” Warren said.

Since 1994, the bodies of more than 7,000 migrants have been recovered throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. And with its vast rugged deserts, the migration corridors in Arizona are some of the deadliest.

“I know a couple of photographers that were out backpacking and hiking in this area

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in the same time period,” Warren said, pointing out into the desert. “They found two more way out in the valley. When you look at the map — the human-remains map — this whole valley is just filled with dots.”

One reason the Growler Valley may be particularly dangerous is due to how remote it is, a factor that law enforcement uses to their advantage Warren said.

“The Border Patrol doesn’t really come out here on a regular basis, so this is really one of those prevention-through-deterrence areas where they’re just kind of letting the landscape do the work for them,” Warren said.

After breaking into two groups, the students and aid workers finished packing and set out. The first group was to explore the ridge tops, locating and mapping migrant trails so future groups could make water drops in the area. The second group would hike into the valley, splitting in half again at Charlie Bell Well in order to cover as much ground as possible.

Among this second group were Warren and four FALA students, high school junior Chiara Rose Skabelund, high school junior Shadrach Begley, high school junior Isabel Marshall and high school senior Elea Ziegelbaum.

Both groups packed light, most carrying only 1 to 2 gallons of water each and a little food as well as their own provisions. As Warren’s group set out from the well, they planned to skirt the slope of the Growler Mountains to the north and make a loop around a small volcanic formation before starting back towards their vehicles. If all went as planned, the trip would take no more than three hours.

Five and a half hours later, Warren’s group climbed out of the valley. The group had stumbled into the middle of a hunt as they ran into migrants fleeing into the mountains who

were being pursued by Border Patrol.

“When we climbed out of the [valley], someone asked [Elea], ‘How was it?’ and ‘What are you feeling?’ and Elea said, ‘It’s a war zone down there,’” Marshall said. “The chaos and the how quickly everything happened and what manifested.”

“You come across two migrants and you think, this is to be expected, we’re helping migrants and then you come across a [group] of migrants, and you’re passing out food rapidly to them and you’re giving them water,” Marshall said. “And then [you’re] coming upon a person who has been laid to rest underneath a bush and you’re coming upon a helicopter circling you again and again.”

Warren’s group gave all the water and food they had to the migrants. The migrants told the group, “Hay un amigo muerto aqui.” There is a dead friend over here.

“They were in an extremely tense situation, but the first thing that they wanted to tell us is that there is somebody who has passed over there,” Ziegelbaum said. “They all waited, a few of them took Scott to the place where the body was.”

“It was so chaotic. It was so hectic. But in the midst of it, we still had to find time to lay this person to rest,” Marshall said. “And it’s this thought [that] if this person is never identified, if they can never be laid to rest in the way that they wanted to, did we do enough?”

This is a question Warren has asked himself many times when working in the desert.

“It also feels like one of the most important and almost sacred things that we do. Just being present for somebody,” Warren said.

Whether he is giving aid to migrants or finding human remains, that question stays with him: Has he done enough?

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aking only the belongings that they can carry, migrants coming from mostly Mexico, Central America and South America, start their journey to a new life.

With very few supplies with them, migrants spend days crossing miles of unforgiving terrain, and many do not survive the journey. Over 7,000 human remains have been found in the borderlands since 1994, and an average of 175 people die each year crossing into the Tucson sector.

“In the summer, they tend to die from hypothermia, heat exhaustion, they roast, a lack of water, and in the winter they freeze to death,” said Bob Neustadt, faculty adviser for No Más Muertes (No More Deaths) Flagstaff and director of Latin American studies.

No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization in Arizona with a goal to prevent migrant deaths and suffering in the U.S and Mexico borderlands. Operating out of a series of camps near the border, they provide supplies and sometimes emergency first aid to migrants in need.

In addition to organizing trips and providing humanitarian

aid, No More Deaths hosts presentations and events to raise immigration awareness within the community and discuss immigration reform. They encourage students and members of the community to get active and learn about the topic.

“If [people] want to have an opinion on an issue I’d say to get educated on the issue and possibly make a trip down to the border and just see it for yourself,” said Vanessa Savel, a sophomore double major in communication and Spanish and No More Deaths member.

“Real people are dying in the desert. Real people are wishing they were in our position. It opened my eyes to be more humane,” Savel said.

One of the common problems No More Deaths faces is the destruction of supply drops they previously left for migrants.

There is speculation some drops are destroyed by local hunters or possibly militia groups, but No More Deaths Tucson has also captured footage on wildlife cameras of U.S. Border Patrol agents vandalizing supplies.

“These water drops are out in very remote places. They’re not in areas where you’re just going to come across [them],” Neustadt said. “These are people who are making a concerted effort to go

out into the desert and seek out these water drops and destroy the lifesaving water and food that people are leaving for [migrants].

It’s really upsetting actually that some people think that it would be better to have people die than to potentially make it into the country without documents and, unfortunately, it’s really common.”

While No More Deaths works hard to provide humanitarian aid, they have to be very careful in their work to avoid breaking the law. They are allowed to provide food, water and medical assistance to migrants, but they cannot provide them with maps, transportation or Border Patrol positions.

“No More Deaths takes great pains to do everything that they do transparently and to act within the law because we want to continue doing what we’re doing, and if we get arrested, no one is able to provide humanitarian aid, so that would be counterproductive,” Neustadt said.

No More Deaths efforts have saved lives in the borderlands, but it is impossible to know exactly how many. They are happy to provide assistance to those in need, even though they don’t always get to see the results of their work.

SILENT ANGELS KEEP WATCH FROM BEHIND THE BAR KATLYN COVENEY

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artenders are saving lives, one shot at a time. The Angel Shot is a new safety measure many bars throughout the country are turning to in order to help individuals on uncomfortable or potentially dangerous dates. This method offers a discreet way to escape dates gone wrong or aggressive pursuers who refuse to take “no” for an answer. This safety measure was first invented by a bar in the United Kingdom, The Brickyard, and has quickly been gaining recognition worldwide as a clever way to escape a bad situation.

So how does it work? Many bars which take part in the AngelShot method have fliers in the women’s restroom that instruct those feeling uncomfortable to ask for a specific bartender or shot at the bar. This allows bartenders to know there is a situation and find a safe way home for the individual in need of help. Water is used for the specific shot to keep the situation discreet.

One flier reads, “Hi I’m Angela, are you on a date that isn’t working out? Do you feel you’re not in a safe situation? Is your Tinder or POF date not who they said they were on their profile?

Does it all feel a bit weird? If you go to the bar and ask for ‘Angela’ the bar staff will know you need some help getting out of your situation and will call you a taxi or help you out discreetly without too much fuss.”

Bars in Flagstaff have taken notice of this safety measure and are implementing it in their own establishments as well.

Patty Walsh, bartender at The Lumberyard, located in Southside, said they have been using this system successfully for a while.

“If somebody comes up and orders the specific shot, the bar staff gets security, and they take it from there. I know they try to keep it as quiet as possible and establish a safe environment for

everyone involved,” said Walsh.

The Angel Shot sets a standard for bars to help women who are uncomfortable or need help. It is new and a popular way to eliminate the stress of having a bad date.

“I do think it’s a good system. It gives women a way out without risking their own safety by upsetting dates that they may not know very well,” Walsh said.

While many feel this method is a great way to go about dealing with risky situations, not all share this belief.

Shandor Whitcher, a senior economics major and bartender at Taverna Greek Grill on Woodlands Village Boulevard, said it all sounds a bit too complicated.

“It’s not that I don’t care about the issue, because I do, I just think it’s a complicated solution to an important problem. Complexity is the enemy of success,” said Whitcher.

In the three years Whitcher has been a bartender, he has never been faced with a situation like those described by the inventors of the Angel Shot.

Ashley DeWitt, senior double major in English and psychology, has heard of the Angel Shot.

“I think I first heard of it from an Instagram post. I thought it was smart because you can order it without your date knowing that you are trying to get out of the situation. I would be concerned about potentially dangerous men knowing what it is.

I guess it would be up to the restaurant or bar to alter the name because, if they do know what it is, it could be dangerous,” said DeWitt.

DeWitt also described another method to help individuals

in these kinds of situations — a mobile app made by Dr. Phil’s wife, Robin McGraw.

“Dr. Phil’s wife is very proactive about this problem. She invented an app called Aspire News. It looks like a news app, and has news stories on it, but you can open it to alert 911 that you need help,” DeWitt said.

Kyle Stocks, a junior university studies major thinks the Angel Shot is helpful at bars.

“It’s a pretty good system in general.

There are always outliers, crazy people wanting to call the cops on a guy they’re with. I can’t see anything wrong with it.

There are no directly bad implications,” said Stocks.

Stocks also thinks the Angel Shot does not necessarily have to be only directed toward women, though he understands why it is.

“I don’t think it has to be gender directed, but I think it is more directed towards females because of bar culture. Women are usually considered more at risk than men, but I think it could be applied to both,” Stocks said.

According to the Sexual Victimization of College Women from the National Institute of Justice, an estimated 25 percent of women are victims of rape or attempted rape. They also said, among college women, nine in 10 know their aggressor, and nearly 13 percent of rapes, 35 percent of attempted rapes and almost 23 percent of threatened rapes happened during a date.

While the Angel Shot may come with its own set of potential problems, it’s also considered by many to be a revolutionary way to keep women safe in a world dominated by dating apps.

Illustration by Matthew Miller

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ver the course of the past two decades, a series of commercial vineyards and wineries have begun to sprout up throughout Arizona. While the area is relatively new to grape growing, many Arizona wineries such as Page Springs Cellars have been growing in popularity.

Since opening in 2004, Page Springs Cellars in Yavapai County has worked to produce and sell fine wines made with grapes sourced from its vineyards. Their wines are made, tested, barreled and stored on site, just below their tasting room and bistro.

“I can have the exact same grape, growing the exact same way at five different places, and every one of those wines is completely different. Because the climate is a little different in each spot — the geography, the geology, the soils, the water supply — that means that that grape is a conduit for place. This is a good area, but we’ve had to figure out what microclimates within it are most conducive to the grapes,” said Eric Glomski, founder of Page Springs Cellars and director of winemaking.

Glomski said differences in elevation, even as small as 50 feet, can help prevent grapes from freezing on his property.

Vineyard manager Jason Krug juggles the changing weather and keeping the grapes in good condition for winemaking.

“You get early frosts, you got to figure out how to keep your vines from freezing up. You get rainy seasons, you got to figure out how to make it through without getting rot in your fruit,” said Krug.

While Page Springs Cellars is a successful winery and a popular brand, they focus on the product first and worry about the business second. Making wine is an art that demands caring for and anticipating the needs of the grapevines.

“We are a business. We have to make this work economically, but I’ve always believed that if you do the right thing and you have a quality product, money will come,” Glomski said. “I’m not making a wine just to sell it. I’m doing it because it is my art, it’s something I believe in.”

Page Springs Cellars, located in the Verde Valley, has been fermenting and crafting wines for over a decade. With more than 30 acres of vegetation to harvest, the fermentation stage is a crucial one that requires close attention to detail. Aaron Fortin | The Lumberjack

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Vineyard manager Jason Krug watches over the grapevines at Page Springs Cellars Feb. 16.

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Glomski believes his business does well because the focus is always on what is best for the wine.

Factors such as soil, temperature and water supply in any given year can affect the flavor of grapes, and Page Springs Cellars will often alter their product line and winemaking processes to make the best wine they can under the season’s circumstances.

“This is a fairly new thing here. [Arizona doesn’t] have a long-established history of growing wine grapes, so we’re learning things all the time,” Krug said.

Glomski is always looking for a new wine to make, regardless of its popularity.

“The flip side of the coin might be that you figure out ‘Oh, this one sells more, so I’m just going to make that one all the time,’ [but] that’s not really how we work. That’s like the tail wagging the dog,” Glomski said.

Although Flagstaff wineries are still relatively new, many local businesses sell the wines in their stores. “[Arizona wine country] is still pretty young, so the wines kind of reflect that in the age of the vines, but they’ve come a long way in the past few years,” said Brandon Kimball, owner of Vino Loco Wine Shop and Bar in Flagstaff.

Kimball described the wine from Page Springs Cellars as phenomenal and said their products sell very well in his shop.

“People come in looking specifically for Page Springs,” Kimball said. “They put out a great product and we’re happy to sell their stuff here. We don’t sell wine we don’t believe in.”

In addition to taking great pride in his products, Glomski prides himself on the ability to run his business independently.

“A lot of farming models have a hard time making it without government subsidies, and this is a small-farm model that actually makes sense economically if you can add value by making wine as well,” Glomski said. “Growing grapes in and of itself is really tough, but if you can add value to your product by turning it into wine and selling it to your consumers, then all of the sudden a family can make a living off a piece of land again, which is really tough to do these days.”

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ravelers from places such as California and Phoenix are notorious for visiting Arizona Snowbowl, especially during the weekends after a massive snow storm has struck and left inches of fresh powder on the slopes. Tourists visit all year, though, letting the Peaks’ weather determine what activities will be taking place.

For senior chemistry major Hannah Pigg, the joy of traveling down a mountain is exhilarating.

“I like the challenge of not knowing how to do something and getting the fulfillment of slowly being able to do that thing,” said Pigg.

Pigg took a skiing lesson recently at Snowbowl but said she is more of a summer gal.

“I would rather visit during the summer because I can hike, it’s warmer and more enjoyable, and I’m better at hiking than skiing,” Pigg said.

During the winter, skiing and snowboarding lessons are given at Snowbowl by instructors who welcome all first-timers.

NAU students and visitors often find they are greeted by great deals and promotions presented by the Arizona Snowbowl. For those needing a place to stay, the Ski Lift Lodge and Cabins hosts families and friends from all over at the bottom of the Bowl. The lodge offers its deals alongside those at Snowbowl.

For biochemistry senior Shaye Holdaway, her favorite place to snowboard is at Wolf Creek in Colorado, but she spends a lot of her free time at Arizona Snowbowl getting runs in. “[Snowboarding] makes me feel like I’m flying,” said Holdaway. “It’s pure bliss when the snow is good. I go with friends a lot, but I feel like I push myself to do more that I wouldn’t when I go by myself. I have a thing for just playing Led Zeppelin on the mountain, it gets me pumped as well as some Odesza.”

Students do not get discounts on lift tickets but are offered discounts on season passes. Different deals are offered each day of the week. Tuesdays offer two-for-one prices while Wednesdays offer locals tickets as low as $40. There are also Carload specials available on certain days. This deal allows for a group to pile into a car, five people maximum, who can ski for $149. Deals can be found for purchase online.

Stephanie Mattingley, guest services associate at Snowbowl, said summer is never as busy as the winter. However, in order to keep up with the winter season, Snowbowl must create its own snow to plant a good start for oncoming snow.

“We blow snow to keep our base good and to make sure there’s no rocks popping up that will injure anyone,” said Mattingley. “[Snow blowing] is usually at the beginning of the year. I know we were blowing snow every night for a week or two, but once we got our first really big snowstorm, we don’t have to

blow as much.”

Newcomers from anywhere and everywhere, including those who are already familiar with snow sports, travel to Snowbowl for lessons but also to enjoy the beauty that Flagstaff has to offer.

According to their website, Snowbowl offers a resort for families and those putting on their snow boots for the first time.

“Don’t say ‘I can’t’,” Mattingley said. “Get a lesson because it’s basically free with your rental and lift ticket. Have a good attitude and, if you’re over 21, get a few beers in you, and it will be a lot of fun.”

Throughout the summer, Snowbowl offers the Scenic Chairlift, the Ranger Program, disc golf, mountainside dining at the Agassiz Lodge, hiking and weddings. The chairlift allows for the travelers to glide to the top of the San Francisco Peaks, dropping riders off to enjoy the scenery below and around them.

The Ranger Program teaches about Northern Arizona geology and the environment, which experts from Forest Services educate visitors on. This partnership guides travelers to understand the significance of the volcanic field, now known as the San Francisco Peaks. Rangers talk on top of the Scenic Chairlift to provide information and answer questions. This agenda offers other programs during the summer alongside the Coconino National Forest.

Disc golf, although closed for the winter, utilizes professional disc-golf layouts with challenging courses built on fresh terrain.

Anyone can partake in this 18-hole course which expands over 1.8 miles, taking approximately two hours to complete. Hiking

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Top: People enjoy a snowy day on the San Francisco Peaks at Arizona Snowbowl Feb. 11. Bottom: Snowboarding and skiing are just a couple of the winter activities available at Snowbowl.

Lessons are available to people of all ages.

Maxim Mascolo |The Lumberjack

is involved in the irregular, mountainous terrain and holes have been known to close temporarily due to re-vegetative projects occurring on the slopes.

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Amnesty International: attempting to save the world one conference at a time Darrion Edwards

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nsuring human rights are delivered to all people. Freeing those who are falsely convicted of crimes and thrown into prison. Fighting for equality in the world and helping those seeking refuge from the dangers of wars and inequality. These are the promises that the Amnesty International club at NAU has made in order to assist the people in the world who have suffered oppression and injustice.

The Amnesty International club at NAU is a chapter of a larger organization with membership across the world and was founded by criminal justice major Nicholas Hanley, copresident of the club. Aside from wanting to help the less fortunate, Hanley’s personal experiences helped influence him to start the club at NAU with goals of teaching the community about the human rights violations occurring in the present

world.

Adopted from St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of two, Hanley’s personal life connections to fighting for human rights continues to be a driving factor for him in the Amnesty International club. After the club was initially started and defunct around four years ago, Hanley saw an opportunity to restart the club with hopes of it being more successful than ever.

“I started the club back up again because they, at the time, were talking about how people in Russia — I was adopted from there really young … They were talking about how in 2012, the U.S. has [imposed] sanctions on Russia for prior human rights offenses,” said Hanley. “Russia, in response, decided that they were going to stop U.S. citizens from adopting their children. So that really bothered me, and I wanted to find out more information and find out why this is happening and understand why

children were being used for political gain.”

NAU’s Amnesty International club other

one of the goals that they’ve been pushing for 10 years is to track the sale of nuclear weapons and things along those lines.

— Montana Edgar, Amnesty International co-president co-president, Montana Edgar, also experienced concern about the politics of Russia.

Edgar’s family was able to escape from

Amnesty International co-president Nicholas Hanley thanks attendees at the Regional Conference Feb. 24. Lena Farber |The Lumberjack

Russia during a time of civil war and violent revolutions. The family was able to seek asylum in Hawaii, and soon came to the continental United States where they were welcomed.

Hanley was in the Sycamore room within the University Union, where the club meets Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the academic year. He worked on posters regarding information and statistics on human rights violations. The dedicated advocate of human rights was not alone in informing the community about the effects of political rulings that negatively impacted both refugees seeking safety within the U.S. and the lives of American citizens.

Junior political science major, Jessica Borders spoke to the club in place for Mounia Mnouer, a professor of Arabic who has had her teaching plans affected by the executive order signed by President Donald Trump Jan. 27 prohibiting refugees from seven different Muslim countries from entering the U.S. “[Mnouer] talked to the university, her amnesty and her family, and she basically came to a consensus that she should stay in the U.S. until things get in a better situation where it’s more stable,” said Borders. “She feels that since she’s on a green card here, she may not be able to come back.”

Mnouer was forced to cancel a class trip to Morocco, where three credit hours were normally offered and the students who were a part of the class would be able to learn more about the cultures outside of the U.S. while speaking primarily Arabic.

“Basically, her work is here, her husband is here, and she’s completing her Ph.D. So she doesn’t need immigration issues at the same time as being a professor,” Borders said.

Hanley believes informing the community about how the impacts that limit the refugees’ safety has on American lives will be a key factor for Amnesty International impacting Flagstaff.

As Borders explained the scenarios of Mnouer, Hanley was diligently working on posters for the Regional Conference for Amnesty International.

The conference, which was held in the Kaibab room of the University Union Feb. 24, was a meeting for the public, tackling issues such as speaking in support of the LGBTQ community, Native American justice and providing tips on how to be better human rights activists.

“At our regional conference, what we do is we bring the LGBTQA speak-out panel,” Hanley said. “It’s basically a panel of LGBTQA students continued on page 18

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on campus, including, I think, some staff, and they just talk about their human rights experiences and what they feel about the human rights experience when it comes to the LGBTQA population.”

Various foods, complimentary drinks and gracious smiles welcomed guests during the regional conference. All the members of Amnesty International were ready for their presentations, and friendly conversations filled the room as Hanley was preparing for the evening.

A panel of six seats was set for the LGBT speak-out group, and the evening was set for criminal justice professor Robyn Martin to speak about justice for Native Americans. After the presentations, workshops were available for students to learn more about becoming advocates for human rights, all of which were helping the club complete its goals for the year.

“Amnesty’s goal this year, one of the goals that they’ve been pushing for 10 years, is to track the sale of nuclear weapons and things along those lines,” said Edgar. “In calling our politicians and things along those lines and the letters that we wrote and the things this club has pushed for in the past year, it was accomplished that they are now regulating those weapon trades in Europe and the Middle East and those types of places.”

Although the club has had success

in improving human rights, it still faces challenges in expanding the club and influencing others to join.

“As silly as it sounds, it’s to keep it going next year,” Hanley said. “We’re low on membership. The members that we do have are extremely dedicated and I’m very thankful for them. But a lot of them are people who are either juniors and seniors.”

One constant struggle with the organization this year has been having enough members in the chapter to officially classify as an ASNAU club.

“This year, membership was a huge thing for us because we’re a very small club still, and we have enough members,” Edgar said. “We are going to the Amnesty General Meeting in March, the 10th through 13th in Albuquerque.”

Amnesty International meets every week and encourages students and the community to attend and provide their personal input on how to improve social issues across the Flagstaff community.

Open to people of different backgrounds, the club will never decline a person because of their political views.

Even with only four active members this semester, the club has helped the entire organization bring to the public the effects of corrupt governments across the world and the violations of basic human rights.

Members of the LGBT speak-out panel hold a Q&A about campus activism Feb. 24.

Lena Farber| The Lumberjack

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A tale of women’s empowerment: A review of NAU Theatre’s Silent Sky MaryAnn Witt

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am not just curious. I am charged.

This quote from Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky embodies the message of this show. It is the tale of Henrietta Leavitt, a female astronomer, who worked in the Harvard Observatory.

The play, lasting approximately two hours, is comedic yet covers major issues of the 1900s. From being pressured as a woman to marry to women’s right to vote, Gunderson highlights the problems many females who lived in that time faced.

Heather Coleman, the face of Henrietta, dazzled the audience with her ability to be reserved yet show a variety of emotions. To play the role of such an iconic and powerful woman is not easy task, but Coleman truly brought the memory of Leavitt to the performance. She was simply inspiring.

Coleman was not alone in her stellar performance.

The entire cast, comprised of five actors, portrayed their characters with grace and charisma. Each of them brought something to the stage that one of their counterparts lacked, creating a harmonious dialogue.

Despite the serious nature of the play, comedy was present as well. The story was enticing and the audience was lost in the trials presented.

Hard conversations had were presented in a comical way. When addressing the issue of sexism in the workplace, the women laughed and made fun of the incidents and actions, to show they were simply

absurd.

The show was accompanied by a mixed-media element, which truly brought everything together. The set was five raised, circular platforms that ascended into the sky like stairs. From above, the moon and parts of the solar system illuminated the floor.

The walls surrounding the audience beamed with stars, making them feel as if they were a part of the atmosphere Leavitt was exploring. It transported attendees into the plot, making them a vital part of the production.

Mixed media was also used as the backdrop.

When the play changed location, the set changed with it. This created scene changes that were utterly silent.

Act I was all any patron of the theater could ask for, but unfortunately the second act was not the same.

The play was written in a way so the majority of the plot unfolds in the first half of the show. Although this lends itself to a captivating first act, it makes the second feel like a let-down.

Despite the flaws, Silent Sky is truly an immersive experience for everyone. Women will feel empowered to go out and accomplish their dreams, and men can get a taste of the tribulations that accompany being a woman. It’s a scientific love story that speaks far deeper than surface level is truly a work of art.

Performances are set to continue in the Studio Theatre located within the Performance Art building.

The show will run through March 5.

Photo courtesy of NAU Department of Theatre

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Road to Reno: women’s basketball embraces underdog status Lance Hartzler

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arch Madness is almost upon us, a time for Cinderella teams to make their case for the big dance. A time when anything is possible and surprise upsets are abundant.

As the NAU women’s basketball team prepares for the Big Sky Conference tournament, they know they’re the underdogs of the conference and are looking to make a splash with their seniorled squad.

“I think we have the confidence because of our close losses and we know that we can play with any team,” said interim head coach Robyne Bostick. “Obviously, March Madness is important because once you get to this time of the month and this time of the season anything can happen.”

For the year, the Jacks’ record sits at 8-19 and 4-12 in conference, placing them 10th in Big Sky Conference standings.

NAU is in an interesting position with five of the Jacks’ 11 conference losses having come within single digits. The underdog role they find themselves in comes with confidence they can win any one game and move on in the tournament.

No stranger to the role, the Jacks have been a bottom-three seed each of the past two years with this year looking to be no different.

“I’ve been here for four years, and I’ve been the underdog all four years,” said senior guard Brittani Lusain. “I really think this year we have a chance to win any game. We are going to get out there and fight hard.”

The confidence the team collectively has comes from the close losses, according to senior forward Catelyn Preston. Preston also said the losses help the Jacks realize they are just as good as everyone else in the conference.

“I think all of us have the mentality that ‘teamwork makes the dream work,’” said senior guard Rene Coggins. “The more we can get people involved, the more versatile scoring wise and defensively we can get. Then we can be a bigger threat to teams.”

On the season, NAU has had six different players lead the team in scoring for a game, showing an ability to have anyone step up to carry the load offensively.

“I think everybody is really understanding their role and understanding that on any given night we can have different people step up to score, and to step up and rebound so everybody is willing to do anything needed,” Bostick said.

Bostick said everyone is clicking at the right time to make a push in the conference.

One player who has notably stepped up lately is Preston. In her last three games, Preston has tallied double-digit figures in points and rebounds.

In Preston’s outing against Sacramento State University Feb. 23, she posted a career-high 24 points to lead the Jacks to a big home win.

Preston said she is trying to lead the team by example, making sure the underclassmen players know it’s the seniors’ last chance.

“We are all on the same page. So some of the younger players will tell me or other seniors in practice, ‘Hey you got to pick it up, let’s go. You’ve only got a few more games left,’” Preston said.

“I’ll also tell them, ‘It’s my last go-around. I need you to be your

best and do your best for me and other seniors.’ They want it just as bad as we do, so it’s great.”

The Jacks have five seniors looking to make their mark on what remains of the season. With the conference tournament their last opportunity, the seniors have shown the drive to do whatever it takes to prolong their last season.

“They have stepped up quite a bit with their work ethic, which they have brought every single day,” Bostick said. “They have been a lot more consistent. They want to go out and finish strong at the conference tournament. They’ve been really bringing it to practice, every single day and carrying it over to games.”

As the standings sit now, NAU will face either Sacramento State, Portland State or Weber State in the first round of the tournament starting March 6.

The Jacks split the season series against Sacramento State 1-1 and they lost both games against Portland State. Although, each game against Portland State was a one-point loss. NAU lost their only game to Weber State 75-64.

Regardless of who they face in the first round of the tournament, the Jacks will need to execute early and often to advance. Preston was straightforward with the team’s goal, a similar goal held by the Cinderellas of March Madness past.

“We want to win the Big Sky,” Preston said before joining her team in the huddle at mid-court before practice.

Top: Senior guard Brittani Lusain goes up for the contested lay-up against Portland State Feb. 25. Bottom: Interim head coach Robyne Bostick draws up a play during a timeout Feb. 25. Michael Patacsil | The Lumberjack

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Top left: Senior guard Brittani Lusain takes the ball up the court during a Senior Day loss to Portland State Feb. 25. Michael Patacsil | The Lumberjack Top right: Senior guard Rene Coggins looks for her teammates Feb. 23 against Sacramento State. Ryan Vanderpool | The Lumberjack Bottom left: Members of the NAU men’s lacrosse team cheer on the Jacks Feb. 23. Ryan Vanderpool | The Lumberjack Bottom right: Lusain and Coggins embrace following a one-point overtime loss to Portland State in their final home game Feb. 25.

Michael Patacsil | The Lumberjack

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The sky’s the limit: Men’s Basketball tournament Preview AUSTIN LEE

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eno, Nev., is the destination for the Big Sky Men’s Basketball tournament. This is where teams come to make their mark, and the Lumberjacks will be in the thick of it soon enough.

Given that tournament play comes within a “one and done” environment means teams can ill afford a lack of focus and preparation come March 6.

“I think we’ve had the same approach — [we’ve been] focused on pace, moving the ball and definitely been focused on rebounding,” said senior forward Jordyn Martin. “There is more at stake given that it’s a neutral site …

[The neutral court] definitely makes a difference because [opponents] won’t have as many fans to get them on runs. It will help even the playing field.”

The Lumberjacks will end the season with a losing record, currently sitting at 8-21 overall and 5-11 in conference after the Jacks’ loss to Portland State University Feb. 25. Despite their record, the team knows they can still win regardless of seed. They just have to perform.

The single-elimination nature of tournament play typically brings out the best in players who have had the most experience.

For Martin and senior forward Ako Kaluna, this is their last go-round playing in the

postseason, so bashfulness can get tossed out the window.

“Jordyn has been playing really well, and it just gives a lot of the guys confidence,” said head coach Jack Murphy. “When you have a senior leading the way, being the leading rebounder in the conference and just playing at a high level, it gives our freshmen and sophomores even more confidence.”

Assurance and self-belief are important factors for any basketball player’s success. On the other hand, the energy and support from those who aren’t able to contribute to the team’s on-court triumphs are just as important, if not more.

Senior guard Jaleni Neely is a vital and level-headed player for the Lumberjacks but has recently come off of a meniscus injury coupled with surgery and rehabilitation.

Neely’s injury could feel like two steps forward and three steps back for the Jacks, but it hasn’t changed the mindset of the Lumberjacks and the team’s common goal: winning a conference championship.

“I think those two guys [Kaluna and Martin] have stepped up their leadership, especially in the absence of Jaleni [Neely],” Murphy said. “Jaleni has been a really good leader on the bench and on the trips that he’s been able to travel to in between his surgery …

I look at Jaleni as a ‘coach in waiting’. He does

a really good job, he has a good basketball mind and the guys trust him.”

Injury is inevitable in sports, so when it does happen teams must find ways to adapt in order to be the as good as possible. Adaptation, not only due to player injury, but in preparation for immediate elimination rounds is required in postseason play.

The Lumberjacks have been no strangers to adversity this season, but they haven’t been far from success either. Just two years ago, with the help of veteran players and the current coaching staff, the Jacks reached the Big Sky Conference championship and nearly acquired a bid to the Big Dance, the NCAA tournament.

Dwelling in the past, however, will be of no benefit to the 2016-2017 Lumberjacks, a team with 13 underclassmen and only four upperclassmen.

“Mentally, a lot of the guys are locked in on the task at hand: taking it one game at a time going into the tournament,” said Neely. “I really feel like we can surprise some people.”

For a college basketball team heading into postseason play of any sort, camaraderie and mental toughness are essentials. Attention to details, or lack thereof, can bring troubling outcomes to young teams and players, but based on the Jacks’ team outlook and player testimonies, the team seems eager to get this tournament going.

Neutral court is all about energy and execution, Kaluna said. Whoever brings the energy first — and keeps it — will win.

The Lumberjacks are a youthful team with extremely important veteran pieces. Their success lies on both sides of the ball, specifically with ball protection and keeping their opponent in front defensively.

The Lumberjacks have four players averaging double digits, sophomore guards Mike Green and Marcus DeBerry and experienced leaders Kaluna and Martin. Martin is tied for the Big Sky Conference’s lead in rebounding at 8.8 boards per game.

The Jacks could potentially match up against five different players who average more than 20 points per game depending on how far they advance in the tournament.

Southern Utah University red-shirt junior guard Randy Onwuasor is one such player.

Onwuasor is currently ranked as one of the topfive scoring leaders in Division-I hoops.

With continued diligence and preparation, Lumberjack players and coaching staff are seeking success in the tournament and to capitalize on an opportunity to quiet any “naysayers” who doubt their abilities. The men’s Big Sky Conference championship begins March 7.

Four-peat and a repeat: Swim and dive, track and field feel the title-wave PETER KERSTING

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ne day, three titles. It was a busy weekend for NAU. Both swim and dive, and track and field experienced an influx of championship titles on Saturday. All three teams battled for championship contention in their respective conferences Feb. 25.

Both track and field teams trailed opponents at various points throughout the weekend, but within a matter of hours, they brought home a championship title for NAU. Track and field left for the Big Sky Indoor Championships in Pocatello, Idaho with a clear understanding of what was on the line. There was a cross country title to defend and an indoor title to take.

When the scoring results for the Big Sky Conference were finalized, NAU had emerged the definitive front-runners. The title victory for men’s and women’s track and field marks the second time NAU has swept the conference championship in the past four seasons and the ninth time in school history.

“It was a huge day for NAU track and field and for Northern Arizona as a university,” said Mike Smith, director of track and field, in an interview with NAU Athletics. “It’s hard to pick one thing about what happened because the performances up and down each event group were absolutely incredible. I couldn’t be more proud.”

Neither of the titles were handed to NAU. Heading into the final day, NAU found themselves in second place, trailing Montana State for the lead in the men’s events by 10.5 points and by eight points in the women’s events.

Red-shirt senior Shanice McPherson and sophomore Tyler Day were rewarded for their individual contributions to the title win. Day and McPherson were named the meet’s Most Valuable

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Male and Female Athletes, respectively.

More than 1,500 miles away, swim and dive was taking on their own challenge in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championship. By the end of the night Feb. 25, NAU sealed a WAC championship title for the fourth year in a row.

“I’m super happy for the seniors,” said head coach Andy Johns. “You know, obviously they were the start of something special, and the group that they were in when they were freshmen was pretty special too … The seniors — it’s great. I’m happy for them. They’ve been a part of four very special teams, four very different teams, four very different ways of winning.”

Johns is no stranger to winning. To say Johns has accomplished a lot as the head coach of NAU swim and dive would be a sad understatement. In his 21st season, Johns has been a leading part of five Division I conference championships.

“I’ve got a great staff,” Johns said. “I’ve got a great group of girls who work really, really hard and we’ve been fortunate. We have a great team. It’s swimming and it’s diving and it’s a total team effort from our entire coaching staff to strength and conditioning, the training room, academics, our sports science, team building, massage — it’s all a team effort.”

Johns pointed toward the culture as a reason for the success swim and dive has seen and the seniors as a catalyst for the underclassmen.

“The expectations are high and they [underclassmen] learn to appreciate all these opportunities that they have,” Johns said. “They really care about each other, and when we are faced with some adversity — like this year, was a tough year — they know how to pull together and come through for each other.”

More coverage on both championships will be available on www.jackcentral.org.

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