The Lumberjack -- November 10, 2016

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From the Editor

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he election is over.

CNN hosts are discussing the fact that Donald Trump is president-elect. After two years of debates, scandals and insults, it is finally over. In what was an anticlimactic end to a seemingly endless election, the people voted for a new president.

While I am sure there will still be much debate and protest over the results, one candidate emerged as the people’s choice. If one thing became clear in this election, it’s that the rift between the people has widened. The people of this country have differing views, and when someone tries to convince them of the opposing opinion, they only become more set in their ways.

This country is in a dismal situation, and no new president alone is going to change that.

That may seem very negative, but it is the reality. There is little attempt for bipartisan action in the government and even if there was, there is a high probability it would end in a deadlock.

“Our nation’s civility sits on a knifepoint,” to quote the previous Letter from the Editor written by managing editor Scott Buffon. The United States is at a breaking point, and it looks as if nothing can stop it.

This election has created sides with a clear division. In the terms brought forth by the election, there are Donald Trump supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters.

Just because we have chosen a winner, this does not mean these divisions will RACHEL disappear — if anything, they will grow. Hatred will fester. Protests will escalate.

DEXTER COPY CHIEF Disagreements will continue to cause strife.

And while it is perfectly okay not to agree with each other, it is not okay to hate. But that is what the future of our country is heading toward. I do not want that to happen and I do not believe anyone else wants that either.

The people of this country need to reach across the aisle and listen to the views of others. I’m not saying we all need to have the same views, but we need to be more open, more respectful and more understanding.

Thank you for reading.

LJ

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together as one united people.

— President-Elect Donald J. Trump

Election night brought forth new policies and new candiates, as people across the nation watched. The watch party held at Oakmont restaurant was hosted by the campaign for Jerry Nabours in support of President-Elect Donald Trump. Gabriel Granillo | The Lumberjack

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Editor-in-Chief Grace Fenlason Faculty Advisor Mary Tolan

all Republicans and Democrats and Independents “Toacross this nation, I say it is time for us to come

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

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On the cover Councilmember Coral Evans was elected mayor Nov. 8, defeating two-term incumbent Jerry Nabours. Evans also announced she is currently battling stage-three breast cancer. “What we did was we focused on the values,” said Evans. “What makes us live here, what makes us stay here, what makes this one of the top 100 places to raise a child. It’s about community.”

Illustration by Alanna Secrest

Corrections & Clarifications In the previous issue, in an article titled “A look into political graphic design,” we failed to identify that students from John Gialanella and Kimberly Mitchell’s classes participated in the design campaign. In the same article, the sponsoring design organization is AIGA, which launched the ongoing national campaign Get Out the Vote in 2000.

In an article in the sports section titled “Soccer avenges regular season loss, advances to semifinals” we misstated that their next game was Oct. 4. The next game was Nov. 4.

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

PoliceBeat Oct. 31 At 12:41 a.m., a resident of South Village Apartments reported a subject had thrown an egg at a window. An NAUPD officer responded and found no damage.

At 1:15 p.m., a student of McConnell Hall called to report sexual abuse that occurred earlier that day. An NAUPD officer responded and the investigation is ongoing.

At 1:42 p.m., a staff member at San Francisco Parking Garage reported seeing a garbage truck causing damage to dumpsters and the dumpster enclosure. NAUPD responded, but all leads were exhausted and the case was closed.

At 11:39 p.m., staff at Sechrist Hall called to report the odor of marijuana.

NAUPD officers responded and detected a strong odor but were unable to locate the source.

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shopping carts were thrown from an unknown floor of the At 7:18 p.m., a fire alarm San Francisco Parking Garage. was triggered in Sechrist Hall.

All leads were exhausted and FFD and an NAUPD officer the case was closed. responded. The source could not be determined. Everything At 3:57 p.m., Bank of was fine.

America called to report an alarm from an ATM at the At 10:21 p.m., an NAU Bookstore. An NAUPD NAUPD officer was alerted to officer responded and checked two students at Knoles Parking the area but nothing unusual Garage. The officer deferred was found. the students for possession of marijuana and drug At 5:33 p.m., an NAUPD paraphernalia. officer reported a suspicious person near McKay Village.

Nov. 5 The subject was working on At 1:09 a.m., University bicycles and everything was Safety Aides reported a latch fine. taped down at the Gammage building. The building was Nov. 3 checked and was clear. A At 1:24 a.m., a student building violation was issued. reported hearing loud construction noises at the At 12:53 p.m., staff at du Bois Center. NAUPD McKay Village reported a responded and advised subject behaving strangely and construction workers to stop requesting information about working until the morning. the apartments. NAUPD search the area but the subject At 10:32 a.m., a staff was gone upon arrival. member at Gammage reported a subject singing, shouting At 10:20 p.m., an and sleeping outside of the NAUPD officer contacted building. An NAUPD officer a subject sleeping in Cline responded. The subject was Library. The subject was warned of trespassing and left warned of trespassing and left the area. the area.

Nov. 1 At 12:26 a.m., an alarm triggered in South Village Apartments.

NAUPD responded to the call. Officers forced entry because residents were not home and found the At 1:03 p.m., a student at alarm was caused by burnt McConnell Hall reported her food. roommate had taken a large amount of pills. NAUPD, At 10:27 a.m., a subject FFD and GMT responded. reported a sexual assault that GMT transported the student occurred off campus. An to FMC for treatment.

NAUPD officer responded, and the subject was referred to At 7:21 p.m., an employee the FPD. A report was made at South Village Apartments and the case is ongoing. reported students smoking marijuana in a vehicle.

At 11:28 p.m., a student NAUPD responded and four reported a gas leak near the students were deferred for use Communication building. of marijuana.

NAUPD responded, and no odor was detected upon arrival.

Nov. 4 Everything was fine.

At 12:56 a.m., an NAUPD officer was alerted Nov. 2 to a subject screaming behind At 1:47 a.m., an NAUPD Target. NAUPD responded officer reported finding two and everything was fun.

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Nov. 6 At 2:26 a.m., a resident in Mountain View Hall reported an intoxicated subject in the building. FFD, GMT and NAUPD responded to the call and the student was criminally deferred for a minor in consumption. The subject refused medical transport to the FMC. At 4:55 p.m., a Police Aide reported graffiti in Hilltop Townhomes parking garage.

Three more reports of graffiti were made within a 30-minute span. Police Aides also reported at 5:37 p.m., there was damage to an exit sign in the garage. All leads were exhausted and the cases were closed.

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NEWS

A night for newcomers

Evans, Whelan, McCarthy and Odegaard oust incumbents SUNDAY MILLER

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oral Evans was elected Flagstaff’s mayor, receiving 56.87 percent of the vote. She defeated incumbent Jerry Nabours.

The Coconino County Recorder’s Office announced on election night Jamie Whelan secured a seat on the city council, receiving 19.73 percent of the vote. Jim McCarthy received 17.97 percent and Charlie Odegaard took the final available seat from Adam Shimoni by 141 votes with 16.9 percent of the votes. At the time of publication, only 57.6 of the votes are counted.

Nearly 300 people attended the Democratic watch party held at The Orpheum Theater. As the night went on and Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president faded away, the crowds gradually dispersed. Nearly 100 people were in attendance at the height of the Independent watch party at the Oakmont restaurant.

Similar to the Democratic event, the atmosphere was at first energetic and then became more subdued after the results of the election were announced.

“What we did is we focused on the values, what makes us live here, what makes us stay here, what makes this one of the top 100 places to raise a child,” said Evans. “It is about community.”

On campus, voter booths had lines out the door, as students and Flagstaff citizens in the community came out to vote. In the Flagstaff mayoral race, Nabours ran for reelection against council member Evans. The race has been a hot topic for Flagstaff residents as the two candidates have widely different views on how the city should be managed.

Nabours ran for a third term as mayor. He was first elected in 2012 and was re-elected in 2014. He was a Flagstaff attorney for 38 years and served six years on the Board of Directors of the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce.

“The people have spoken, they obviously wanted a big change in the city council and that’s what it’s all about,” said Nabours about the loss. “All you can do is offer, and if the people don’t take your offer then that’s fine.”

This is Evans’ first time running for mayor.

However, she has served on the Flagstaff City Council for two terms since 2008 and served as vice mayor from May 2012 to November 2014. In addition to serving on the city council, Evans is also the executive director of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association of Flagstaff.

City Council incumbents Jeff Oravits and Karla Brewster ran for re-election but were not successful. Newcomers Shimoni, Whelan, McCarthy and Odegaard also competed for the three open seats on the council. At one point, Shimoni was mistakenly called a winner at the Orpheum, when his votes inched above Odegaard’s.

The prospective council members were chosen by the City of Flagstaff in a primary election Aug. 30. However, there was no primary for the mayoral candidates because there were only two individuals running.

In the race for mayor and city council, many of the concerns voiced by Flagstaff citizens were addressed. Some of the primary topics discussed among the city council and mayoral candidates included community and NAU relations, how to respond to Flagstaff’s quickly growing population, environmental issues, parking, traffic and affordable housing.

Elected council members will receive a salary of $24,000 and serve for a fouryear term. The mayor will receive a salary of $36,000 and will serve a two-year term. Along with the mayor, the council members have an influence over many decisions that will ultimately affect the future of Flagstaff.

Additional reporting by Scott Sandon, Gabriel Granillo, Jess Huff and Katie Sawyer.

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Top: Mayor Jerry Nabours and his son Blake Nabours watch the results of the mayoral election at the Oakmont restaurant Nov. 8, 2016. David Carballido-Jeans | The Lumberjack Middle-Left: A sign indicating a local voting place in Flagstaff, Ariz. Mikayla Shoup | The Lumberjack Middle-right: Mayor-elect Coral Evans entering the Democratic watch party at The Orpheum Theater on election night. Ashley Marie Null | The Lumberjack Bottom: City council candidate Adam Shimoni reacts at the Orpheum to an incorrect announcement of his win. Aaron Fortin | The Lumberjack

NEWS

Prop or drop: A proposition cheatsheet EMMA HELFRICH AND JACQUELINE CASTILLO

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ith all of the Election Day excitement, state and local government is often overlooked. This historical presidential race may have distracted most from community issues throughout Arizona, but The Lumberjack is here to update you on the results of the propositions.

Proposition 410: Increase funding for Coconino Community College programs (Local) — Defeated Proposition 410 proposed the addition of $1 to Coconino County District property owners’ taxes for the funding of Coconino Community College (CCC). Starting in 2019 and ending in 2026, the supplementation was predicted to provide CCC with an annual income of $3 million throughout its allotted implementation.

As of 10:31 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 410 did not pass after 53.20 percent of voters had voted against creating a tax to fund CCC. Proposition 411: Transit Tax (Local) — Passed Proposition 411 asks voters to continue a 0.295 percent city sales tax in order to pay for constructing, improving and maintaining the city’s public transit system until 2030.

As of 10:31 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 411 passed after 71.35 percent of voters had voted in favor of the public transit tax.

Proposition 412: Municipal Court Bond Issue (Local) — Passed Proposition 412 seeks the approval of $12 million in city bond money. The bond would be used for the construction of a new municipal court building in cooperation with the state and the county. The construction will also include a minimum 200-car parking garage. This bond would be paid for through the extension of a secondary property tax that would stay at its current rate — there will be no raise in city taxes.

As of 10:31 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 412 passed after 52.39 percent of voters had voted in favor of the approval of $12 million in city bonds.

Proposition 413: Greater Buffalo Park (Local) — Passed Proposition 413 would protect an estimated 253 acres of city-owned property on McMillan Mesa and approximately 47 acres of cityowned property just south of Buffalo Park. The proposition would prevent the city from using the land in a way that might disrupt its current natural state. The proposition does allow 10 acres

of the land on McMillan Mesa to be used for the creation of a veterans’ services facility.

As of 10:31 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 413 passed after 86.98 percent of voters had voted in favor of making Buffalo Park a public piece of land.

Proposition 414: Flagstaff Minimum Wage Initiative (Local) — Passed Proposition 414 is a local initiative that will raise the minimum wage in Flagstaff from $8.05 an hour — Arizona’s current minimum wage — to $10 an hour by July 1, 2017, and then to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2021. This also keeps the Flagstaff minimum wage $2 above the state minimum wage.

As of 10:31 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 414 passed after 53.26 percent of voters had voted in favor of the City of Flagstaff raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Proposition 205: Arizona Marijuana Legalization (State) — Defeated Proposition 205 seeked to legalize the use of recreational marijuana in the state of Arizona by any individual who is at least 21 years of age. It would have established a Department of Marijuana License and Control that would regulate the new market including “the cultivation, manufacturing, testing, transportation and sale of marijuana,” according to the ballot summary. The retail sale of the drug would have a 15 percent tax and all the tax revenues would fund education as well as campaigns to educate the public about the “relative harms of alcohol, marijuana and other substances.”

As of 11:30 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report revealed that Proposition 205 did not pass after 52.23 percent of voters had voted against the statewide legalization of recreational marijuana.

Proposition 206: Statewide Minimum Wage — Passed Proposition 206 raises Arizona’s statewide minimum wage from $8.05 an hour to $12. This proposition will increase the state’s minimum hourly pay at a staggered rate over a period of three years, starting as $10 in 2017. Beginning in 2021, voters will see it increase even further as it adjusts to the new cost of living in Arizona.

Owners of businesses where employees receive tips retain the authority to lower hourly pay by a maximum of $3.

As of 11:30 p.m., the unofficial final election summary report showed that Proposition 206 passed after 59.38 percent of voters had voted in favor of raising the minimum wage to $12 across the state of Arizona.

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Trump is now president-elect

Courtesy of Roman Knertser SUNDAY MILLER

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rom the first African-American President Barack Obama in 2008 to the first political outsider Donald Trump in 2016, the political system in the United States has changed. In a close race, Trump won the presidential election Nov. 8.

This controversial election led to many states across the country becoming potential swing states including Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and more. Trump shattered predictions and won 290 of the electoral votes, while Clinton fell behind with only 228 electoral votes, according to CNN on the morning of Nov. 9.

To reflect the growing population, Arizona had 11 electoral votes in this election compared to 10 in 2008. Despite its battleground status, Arizona went Republican with 49.8 percent of the vote. Arizona has not voted for a Democratic candidate in 20 years since Bill Clinton in 1996.

“I just received a call from Secretary Clinton, and she congratulated us,” said Trump live on CNN. With the support of Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton traveled across Arizona and increased campaign funding after Arizona’s battleground state status was announced. With the majority of the election votes have been counted, the Democratic Party’s efforts fell short.

Junior nursing major Dillon Mares was one of the hundreds of NAU students who stood in line at the University Union waiting to vote on Election Day. “At the end of the day there’s going to be a lot of negative feedback no matter who wins.

I feel like this has been the most controversial

election in years,” said Mares. “Either way, there’s going to be a lot of unhappy people.”

Merle Henderson, a Republican, attended the election watch party at The Oakmont restaurant.

“It’s socialism or freedom,” said Henderson regarding the choice between Clinton and Trump. “I’m very hopeful that Trump gets in. We’ve got to maintain our heritage in our thinking. We can’t let it get away from us.”

Arizonans have supported Republican candidates in 15 of the previous 16 elections.

The Grand Canyon state has been one of America’s most consistent red states.

Regarding the possibility of Trump winning the election, Sallie Kladnik, vice chair of the Coconino County Democrats, shared her perspective.

“I hate to think about it,” said Kladnik. “I think we’ll have a lot of our rights taken away.”

As the president-elect, Trump told the election night crowd he plans to focus on supporting our veterans, law enforcement and protecting our nation from terrorism.

After three debates filled with accusations and angry insults flying from both sides, Trump was elected to become our newest commander in chief.

The crowd chanted “USA, USA” at the end of Trump’s acceptance speech as he exited the stage with his family.

It is unlikely the U.S. will ever see a presidential race quite like this ever again. From Millennials’ passionate demand for Sanders, to violent protests at rallies, the country has made their decision for the next four years.

Additional reporting by Jess Huff and Gabriel Granillo.

EDI TOR IAL & OPINION

Why ditching your bra may be the best decision of your life ELIZABETH WENDLER

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o your bras dig into your shoulders during the day? Do you find yourself unconsciously adjusting, then having to stop yourself when you realize you’re in public?

Do you ever think to yourself: Why the hell am I even wearing this thing anyway?

The truth of the matter is, if you do not like wearing bras, why not consider ditching the little bastard for good. Still not convinced?

Allow me to persuade you.

First and foremost, there is one thing that must be addressed before I launch into my antibra rant: People with larger breasts wear bras for support, and therefore should not feel pressured to have to forgo bras. In fact, no one should.

Plenty of people feel perfectly at peace with their bras and even enjoy wearing them.

In my own case, I love the way my breasts can look in a bra and wearing one is definitely a workout requirement for me. Being of a larger cup size, I would really rather not whack myself in the face with a flying breast the moment I hit the treadmill.

(Side note: I never hit the treadmill.)

So, if you like bras or feel them a

requirement for your livelihood, then this article is not for you. Perhaps another one will be. We will see.

Now, without further ado, here are a few reasons why going braless is better.

1. Bras are expensive.

Compared to your average shirt — which, for women, can be anywhere between $8 and $20 if you shop at cheaper stores like I do — a bra can range from $20 to $60 depending on where you shop. Good quality bras bite into your wallet for sure. Bras that actually fit well, are comfortable and do not squish your rolls are so hard to come by. Sometimes, it is worth the money.

Until the damned underwire breaks free, that is. Ditching bras altogether is a great way to save time, money and a whole lot of trouble in the long run.

2. Bras are uncomfortable — really uncomfortable.

Sometimes, it is a matter of finding the right size. Sometimes, it is all about the brand.

And sometimes, no matter what you do, bras just suck.

They are itchy, they are heavy and they are either too tight or too loose. Bras wear out easily

and dig into your shoulders, your back, your side boob — everything. By the end of the day, the best damned feeling in the world is tearing your bra off and flinging it across the room.

Instead of waiting all day to finally set those puppies free, why not refrain from restraining them in the first place?

3. Bras look good now, but just you wait.

Styles change all the time. Before we had round cups, we had weird little pointy ones.

Before those, we had literal cages called corsets.

And way before that, we let ‘em swing.

In a few years from now, who knows?

In fact, alternatives to bras, like bralettes or those weird kinda-bras but also kinda-not bras you might find at your local Walmart or Target, are just as good if not better than the fancy stuff.

Every now and again, I will still don my lacy, underwire boulder-holder (and live to regret it later). But, as of late, I have been going braless more and more.

And guess what? No one says a thing.

Unless someone is really staring (which they should most certainly not be), they really should not even notice. Which brings me to my next point.

4. Bras are a personal choice.

Meaning simply that whether or not you choose to wear a bra is yours and yours alone.

It is bad enough breasts have been so stigmatized in the United States that no one blinks an eye at violence, but everyone freaks out about nipples. By not wearing a bra, whether you mean to or not, it can be a statement, a protest or simply a matter of comfort versus pain.

Whatever it means to you, making the choice to not wear a bra — even for just one day — is (and should be) optional. Therefore, it is your right to not wear one just as much as it is your right to wear one.

ILLUSTRATION BY KALI SWICHTENBERG

A transgender person reacts to New York City’s 31 recognized genders ALEX RAND

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ew York City’s Commission of Human Rights recently began allowing citizens of the state to identify as any one of the the 31 genders they provided. Considering how the LGBT community has been historically treated, this is exciting progress. However, coming from my perspective as a transgender person, the list itself is ridiculous at best and harmful at worst.

The commission also recognizes that transgender or gender-nonconforming people may go by pronouns entirely different from he or she. They even threaten businesses, landlords and others with fines up to six figures for intentionally disrespecting a transgender person’s identity. This part means a lot to me, and it’s really where all of this should have stopped. But NYC went on to make the list anyways.

I have very mixed feelings about this list.

On one hand, my gender is on it: number 24, genderfluid. That’s me. In addition, I use the pronouns they and them, and it was incredible to see a city recognize both my gender and pronouns as valid. I don’t think I ever dreamed of being able to check the news and hear that an entire city had accepted not only transgender

people, but gender-nonconforming people.

With every day bringing different stories of transphobia, something as progressive as a city acknowledging that more than two genders exist just seemed too good to be true.

Still, it really doesn’t help that in providing this list, there aren’t actually any definitions provided. This leaves it up in the air as to what some of them could mean.

Some of them are terms that just, at their core, do not mean transgender people.

Butch and femme, for example, don’t mean transgender. Those are used solely by gay men and women for gay men and women. The terms define the way they act and present themselves — butch for more masculinely, femme for more femininely — while still identifying as a man or woman. Androgynous is also a word used to define appearance. It means something is unidentifiable as solely masculine or feminine.

Someone can dress androgynously and not be transgender. None of these are ‘other words’ for transgender.

Cross-dressers are also not inherently transgender. If I told someone I’m transgender and they proceeded to ask me if I’m a crossdresser, I’d be furious. Even before this list came out, I had to spend ages convincing people

that I wasn’t just crossdressing for the fun of it.

Similarly, drag kings, drag queens and femme queens have a history of being founded by transgender people, but that doesn’t inherently make people who dress in drag transgender.

Drag has progressed from being something founded by transgender women to shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” where the host of the show has made awful jokes at transgender people’s expense and even used slurs harming transgender people. When drag has progressed to this, it absolutely can’t be included under the umbrella of what’s considered transgender.

Deconstructing the list like this makes it sound like I hate everything about it, but that’s not true. Like I said, my own gender is on the list, and it’s got some other gems hidden inside it as well. It’s fantastic that hijra and two-spirit were included, because it shows the people making this list did at least attempt some form of multiculturality. Primarily in Pakistan and India, a hijra is a person whose gender identity is neither male nor female, who was born male and dresses as a woman. Native American culture also recognizes a third gender: two-spirit. Twospirit people are said to carry two spirits inside them, one of a man and one of a woman.

The list overall is bittersweet to look at. In

theory, it’s an incredibly progressive step forward — one that other cities and states should strive to copy. It’s one I’d love to see NAU copy, with everything they’re already doing to try to help transgender students. In practice though, it needs a lot of work. Lists like this need to be created by transgender people. They can’t be done by making a cursory google search for other genders, throwing a quick list together and calling it a day. I don’t expect anything like this to be perfect, and I am grateful this is happening at all, but the list needs a lot of work — work that New York City’s Commission on Human Rights should have done.

ILLUSTRATION BY KALI SWICHTENBERG

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EDI TOR IAL & OPINION

The controversies of printing human organs SHERIDAN HATCH

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ccording to the United States Department of Health & Human Services, 21 people die each day in the U.S. alone waiting for an organ. What if 3-D printing could fix that?

3-D printers can print organ structures which can then be filled with human cells. Optimally, a patient’s cells could be used to personalize a mold for their body, tricking the immune system into recognizing this bioprinted organ as part of the body. This would subvert the need for organ donors and rejection therapy drugs.

Bioprinting has applications beyond an alternative to organ donation. Skin-cell printers are also in development in a North Carolina’s Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

“Say you have an injury to your skin. You’d scan that wound to get the exact size and shape of the defect, and you’d get a 3-D image of the defect.

You could then print the cells in the exact shape you need to fit the wound,” said project overseer John Jackson.

These printers would print directly onto a patient and can even be used to heal burns. However, these printers are currently limited to simple skin components, incapable of creating more complex pieces like adipose tissue and hair follicles.

This disparity between the ease of printing complex and simple organs is the main obstruction to moving onto human trials. While skin, external

ears, bone, muscles and tracheas have been printed, attempts to print the heavily in-demand and complicated kidney are still unsuccessful.

“What’s interesting is that there are no real surgical challenges,” said the institute’s director Anthony Atala. “There are only the technological hurdles that you’ve got to overcome to make sure the engineered tissue functions correctly in the first place.”

Aside from these difficulties, bioprinting could become tomorrow’s solution to organ failure and disease.

Yet every groundbreaking, scientific innovation comes with ethical quandaries, especially in medicine. 3-D printed organs are no different.

“The ethical questions are bound to be the same concerns we have seen in the past. Many major medical breakthroughs have suffered moral resistance, from organ transplants to stem cells,” said Mike Titsch, editor-in-chief of 3D Printer World.

However, not everyone thinks there are ethical issues at play.

“People used to worry about doing research on cadavers ... and that dissipated very quickly,” said Keith Murphy, CEO of commercial bioprinter Organovo. “We don’t think there’s any controversy if you’re producing good data and helping people with health conditions.”

This all sounds good, but how ethical are these data production methods? Some aspects of bioprinting, such as skin-cell printers, are expecting

to move onto human trials within the next five years.

“I worry about how well patients understand the risks associated with these new technologies,” said Kirstin Matthews, Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute. “There will most likely be a lot of failure before scientists discover the right methods, cells, techniques. Patients will have unreasonable expectations and might in fact be worse off after trying a new technology.”

In some cases, such as eye surgery, early trial treatments can even disqualify patients from future developmental treatments.

This is an issue with any experimental treatment, not just 3-D printing. Despite this, human trials are a continued part of testing.

Researchers and doctors simply need to be honest with their patients about the potential risks and the likelihood of it significantly helping them.

Bioprinting tests do face some challenges, though. Normally, a standard treatment could be first tested on healthy subjects, then patients and then a standard treatment option would be made.

However, there are too many confounding variables in 3-D printed organs for this to be an effective testing method. Anything from environmental factors and the organ itself to the patient’s condition and lifestyle can help or impede an organ’s effectiveness that will not necessarily apply to any other patient’s experience with a bioprinted organ.

The very personalization that makes bioprinting

such an appealing alternative to organ transplants also makes it difficult to test. As such, new testing methods would need to be developed and tested before viable testing on 3-D printed organs could begin. Otherwise, they could prematurely become a treatment option and harm many patients.

The cost of bioprinting could also increase social stratification.

3-D printed organs “will likely be only accessible to those willing to pay for personalized treatments,” Matthews said. Those in poverty “will be left on the organ transplant waiting lists.”

Arguably, this could only apply in the short term. Technologies tend to become cheaper over time as they improve and are used on a larger scale.

As such, bioprinting could eventually become an affordable option and even be included in healthcare.

Bioprinting has the potential to save patients who would normally have to wait for a compatible donor.

However, current testing methods are not suited for studying it as a standard treatment option, and release prior to proper testing would be unethical. Ethical concerns for bioprinting in the context of social stratification ignore how any technological innovation makes a similar contribution. These arguments also fail to assign blame for how technology belatedly trickles down to the lower classes.

There is nothing shameful about being a teenage mother PEGGY PACKER

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icture this: You’re 16 years old, a junior in high school, with a baby on the way.

A million things are going through your mind. You still have a year left of high school before you can graduate. You have no job and no place of your own. You’re afraid to tell your parents because of what they might think, and you’re even more scared of the future. You can’t raise a kid — you’re still a kid yourself. It’s just not the right time.

Let’s consider you’ve just turned 21 instead.

Now, you’re just starting your senior year of college. You’re living what feels like the prime of your life, but you find out you’re pregnant.

You’re too busy to raise a child because school takes up all of your time. You still don’t have your own place and you can’t bring a baby into a tiny apartment with two other roommates.

You have no money and you’re living off student loans. It’s simply still not the right time.

Given you didn’t have a baby at 21, imagine yourself almost 10 years later, when you’ve just turned 30. You’ve finished school, but you’re still working on establishing your career when you find out you’re pregnant. You’re still gradually trying to pay off all of your student loans. You have a husband and a beautiful home, but you wanted to have a steady career and no debts before bringing a baby into the world. You’re still not ready.

So when is the right time to have a baby?

The problem with this question is the fact that there is no right time. At any point in your life, you are either too young, too old or too busy to bring a child into the world. It is a common belief in today’s society a woman must wait until she is ready to have a child, and if she doesn’t do so, she should be shamed for her pregnancy.

However, no one is ever 100 percent ready for a child. Raising a baby is something no one knows how to do until they’ve done it for themselves.

Sure, some mothers are more prepared

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than others, but there is no way to ensure you are completely ready to give birth and raise a kid. Whether you are 16 or 39, growing a tiny human is a challenge.

Despite this idea, society has a history of shaming women who get pregnant at young ages. By other people their age, young mothers are ridiculed and slut-shamed. By people older than them, they are criticized for being too young, too irresponsible and for throwing their youth away. Many people believe a woman’s sole purpose is to create life, so why do we criticize women who begin this process early?

Some may argue age brings knowledge, self-assuredness and maturity — all things that are imperative to raising a child. The fact is, most of the women who get pregnant at a young age grow up very quickly and learn a lot about responsibility in a short amount of time.

The pregnancy alone inspires these women to grow and mature. They are required to evolve into responsible adults in order to provide for their babies. While teen moms have less life

experience in regards to time, they can gain all the characteristics they need to be a mother despite their ages.

Apart from that, a majority of young mothers still live with their families. While plenty of people see this as yet another drawback, it often means they have a lot of help and a strong support system to stand by them during this time.

These young moms are just as capable of raising happy, successful children as moms of any age. Shaming women for getting pregnant at a young age will not make them better mothers.

There is nothing wrong with embracing your pregnancy no matter what age it occurs.

Pregnancy is natural and beautiful and once a baby is created, there is no going back. It is no reason to feel shameful. If you were fortunate enough to be blessed with the ability to create a child, embrace it, no matter how young or old you are.

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CONQUERING THE QUAKE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THE UNPREDICTABLE IN THE WEST illustration by Megan Troutman HANNAH COOK AND EMMA HELFRICH

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ust six days after Italy participated in the Great Earthquake ShakeOut Drill — a worldwide earthquake preparedness procedure — Italy was hit Oct. 26 by a devastating 6.4 magnitude earthquake causing buildings to collapse, tunnels to cave in and highways to crumble.

In the weeks preceding this same drill, the NAU Office of Emergency Management realized Flagstaff is dangerously underprepared for earthquake emergency situations, yet Flagstaff is capable of experiencing an earthquake of similar or greater magnitude.

Northern Arizona, contrary to popular belief, sits near a major fault line. The Lake Mary Fault, which is a focus of study for David Brumbaugh, NAU professor and director of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center, is an 80-mile-long fault line that extends into south Flagstaff. The fault carries enough tectonic tension to release a quake with a 7.0 magnitude.

“If the entire fault slipped, which is what they call a worstcase scenario, then it would generate about a 6.9 earthquake,” said Brumbaugh. “In the last two years [December 2014], we had a fairly good size earthquake, 4.2, did a minor amount of damage and also got people pretty anxious.”

While Brumbaugh said a 4.2 magnitude earthquake does not carry the potential to cause widespread damage, an earthquake carrying a 6.9 or 7.0 magnitude certainly would.

“We keep an eye on this [seismic] activity, obviously, because of the hazard consequences and the safety of the local residents,” Brumbaugh said.

Earthquakes happen every hour worldwide as the Earth breathes through its tectonic plates. Many of these earthquakes, though, do not break a magnitude 2 and are not felt. Generally, Brumbaugh said, an earthquake must be at least a 2.5 magnitude before noticeable shaking.

Marc Burdiss, director of the Office of Emergency Management and Preparedness, said northern Arizona could experience damage to highways I-17 and I-40, plus railroad damage.

“We have a train every 15 minutes through Flagstaff, so the likelihood that we would have one with hazardous materials is also a concern, as well as the underground pipeline breaks where we would lose connectivity to the outside world — we’d be cut off as an island,” said Burdiss. “And then, we have the potential for just massive injuries, and our hospital would have to, pretty much, set up tents and work with people outside. The potential to lose utilities is very real.”

Along with the Lake Mary Fault, parts of Colorado and

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I’m not sure anyone is prepared for a large catastrophic earthquake ... I don’t think there’s a single entity in this nation that is prepared for a large 7.0 earthquake or greater. There’s not a lot you can do.

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director of Emergency Management and Preparedness office New Mexico harbor the Rio Grande Rift. The rift is comprised of several faults and basins that travel down through central Colorado toward New Mexico. Seismologists studying the rift had previously been convinced of its inactivity; however, recent GPS findings show the rift is extending at speeds undetectable to the human eye. While numerous studies done by seismologists at the University of Colorado Boulder concluded there was a lowprobability for impending destruction, the tectonic movement still hints earthquakes can occur in unexpected places.

In fact, the Southwest is ripe with seismic activity. The Wasatch Fault in Utah has a major earthquake every 350 to 400 years and its last devastating quake took place approximately 350 years ago. Seismologists have stated there is an 18 percent chance Wasatch county will be hit with a large earthquake resulting in billions of dollars worth in damage within the next 50 years.

The San Andreas Transform Fault, a much larger seismic hotspot than both the Lake Mary Fault and the Wasatch Fault, stretches 800 miles along the West Coast and is well known for possessing a high potential for destruction, especially in California.

It was not until 1977, however, that Congress passed the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act, and charged the National Science Foundation with spearheading overall earthquake mitigation efforts in the United States. That same year, Congress also created the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.

The program was implemented to reduce the amount of property damage and the number of casualties during an earthquake.

California has been a leader in implementing innovative alert systems to warn of an imminent earthquake. The ShakeAlert, for example, has created a network of early-warning broadcasts sent to nearly all grade schools, universities and state agencies across southern California when geologists predict an earthquake is about to hit. The system advises people to exit buildings and move toward open areas to avoid the risk of falling objects and collapsing buildings.

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California has also played a vital role in recent years to raise awareness about the dangers earthquakes pose to not only the Southwestern states, but also to the rest of the world.

The Great ShakeOut Drill, for example, was an idea that came out of the Southern California Earthquake Center approximately eight years ago. ShakeOut is an annual drill performed on the third Thursday in October throughout households, schools and offices worldwide to practice the procedure for self-protection during an earthquake.

NAU’s participation in the drill sparked the realization that not only are the Flagstaff residents generally misinformed about the dangers of earthquakes, but the city itself does not have the means to support the population in case of an emergency, whether it is caused by an earthquake, flood or other natural disaster.

“We’re in the initial stages, and so [the drill] we held last week here at NAU was not really a response exercise to figure out what we would do, it was the initial steps of ‘what questions do we not have answers to?’” Burdiss said.

The NAU Office of Emergency Management is currently evaluating the university’s preparedness for a potential earthquake.

In this phase of their research, Burdiss and his team are working to identify what details and resources are missing from the city’s emergency plan before disaster strikes.

Burdiss said the Office of Emergency Management is using a hypothetical 6.4-magnitude earthquake in their simulations — a magnitude lower than what the Lake Mary Fault is capable of, yet one that has proven to be highly destructive.

“The Italy earthquake [in August] that devastated a town — that’s actually the scenario we’re going to be using. That’s a devastating earthquake. It’s 200 times more powerful than the one that occurred, the 4.7 magnitude, in Kachina Village,” Burdiss said.

During their research, the NAU Emergency Management team is going beyond simply listing where to find the most readily available emergency supplies. Instead, they are working with engineers to analyze the durability of each building on NAU’s campus, local businesses to find safe places to hold students in case campus is unsafe and the county and state emergency management departments to plan out the fastest route to get emergency supplies from another city or county.

“I’m not sure anyone is prepared for a large catastrophic earthquake,” Burdiss said. “I think that’s the secret that doesn’t need to be a secret. I don’t think there’s a single entity in this nation that is prepared for a large 7.0 earthquake or greater.

There’s not a lot you can do.”

Additional reporting contributed by Portia Griefenberg, Sophia Mitrokostas and Taylor Trujillo.

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FLAGSTAFF’S NIGHT SKY PETER MARTIN

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ights in Flagstaff reveal the innumerable stars scattered across the sky. Whether you are outside the city, or walking through downtown, you are guaranteed to see constellations. The ability to see this beautiful night sky is largely due to Flagstaff’s recognition as an International Dark Sky City.

As new construction and pressure for additional development in Flagstaff grows — along with the potential for light pollution from more buildings — the efforts to protect Flagstaff’s dark skies are more important than ever.

“I think people really value [dark skies],” said vice mayor Celia Barotz. “Keeping dark skies dark has become part of the Flagstaff set of values.”

Flagstaff was the first city to obtain the International Dark Sky title Oct. 24, 2001, and was awarded this name by the International Dark Skies Association, a non-profit organization created to preserve and reintroduce dark skies and a nighttime environment.

According to the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition, Flagstaff was awarded this designation because of its “exceptional commitment to and success in implementing the ideals of dark sky preservation and/or restoration, and their promotion through quality outdoor lighting.”

The International Dark Sky title is a source of pride for Flagstaff locals, and it has become an integral part of the city as well as a significant draw for tourists. The visible constellations

above Flagstaff are not only an appealing to tourists, but also appealing to astronomers utilizing surrounding observatories.

“Dark skies are critical to astronomy and maintenance of the mission at Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station,” said Kristopher Haugh, Naval Observatory public affairs officer. “The darker the sky, the higher quality observations can be made. Also, dark skies are a non-renewable natural resource. Once ambient light increases, faint stars may disappear and observers will no longer be able to see the amazing beauty of the heavens as clearly.”

While these are all positive attributes to the ordinance, the only issue that arises is when developers want to start construction.

“When a developer comes in and wants to build a big development and may feel that the provisions are onerous, and they may want more light than what’s permitted, those few times have been the only times that I’ve seen concerns raised about the ordinance,” Barotz said. “But my sense is that the council won’t change the ordinance and we haven’t been asked to change the ordinance.”

The ordinance itself is the most comprehensive ordinance of its kind, outlining specific regulations in regard to construction.

Jeffrey Hall, the director of Lowell Observatory, explained the complexities of the ordinance in three components: one, light cannot radiate from the building above the horizon; two, lighting zones organized by the city restrict the amount of lights per acre; three, lights must be narrow-spectrum, like the large rectangular fixtures along Milton, or narrow-band LED lights.

“The ordinance is what [developers] have to comply with. It

isn’t negotiable. They have to comply and that is the bottom line,” Barotz said. “If they don’t want to comply then they can ask the council to change the ordinance.”

Flagstaff City Council recently unanimously approved the Timber Sky housing development on West Route 66 due to the developer’s plan to minimize light pollution. The company’s plan included light limitations on single family homes, as well as shielding lights and motion sensors on exterior lights.

This part of the development agreement complies with the ordinance and will ultimately reduce light distractions at the Naval Observatory.

As Barotz stated, it is unlikely any big change will happen with the ordinance because having dark skies is such a longstanding tradition in Flagstaff. It has existed well before Flagstaff was named an International Dark Sky City.

Back in 1958, the first light ordinance was put in place to prohibit advertising searchlights, thus the beginning Flagstaff’s dark sky tradition.

“The current ordinance was enacted in 1989 and is notable for its heavy emphasis on narrow-spectrum lighting,” said Hall.

With support coming from all directions, it would seem that dark skies in Flagstaff will continue to protect our night-time sky.

“There is a broad support in the community for dark skies and for the way that we are trying to ensure that they stay dark,” Barotz said. “Not only for our sense of place and our expressed appreciation for dark skies but for the Naval Observatory and other observatories to conduct the work that they do.”

Forty miles away from Flagstaff and even farther from city light pollution, Wupatki National Monument stands stoically under the stars Oct. 30. Ashley Marie Null | The Lumberjack

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Histories, stories and realities:

Native American Heritage Month MAKENNA LEPOWSKY

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ovember is Native American Heritage Month, with many events throughout Arizona honoring indigenous cultures. Among those celebrating is Ora Marek-Martinez.

Marek-Martinez is a Flagstaff local who is proud of her Native American heritage. She is also a two-time alumna of NAU, graduating with a bachelor’s in anthropology and history and a master’s in applied cultural anthropology with an emphasis in tribal cultural resource management.

“My mother is Navajo and Hopi and is from Flagstaff, and my father is Nez Perce and his other half is bohemian and Italian mixed together,” said Marek-Martinez. “My parents actually met at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, which is why I am a little mixed up and not one full tribe.”

Marek-Martinez now finds herself back where her educational journey began — at NAU — and now acts as the executive director of the Native American Cultural Center, a position she accepted in September. “[I’m] lucky this position opened up and I have a split appointment between being the executive director here at the cultural center and then as an assistant professor in anthropology, so I will be able to teach,” Martinez said.

Marek-Martinez’s father helped her find her cultural devotion.

“My father was on the tribal council for Nez Perce Tribe and he was the cultural liaison for a lot of different federal agencies,” Marek-Martinez said. “He was in charge of making sure our resources were safe, traveling around and doing a lot of repatriation.”

Marek-Martinez’s childhood experiences also played a role in shaping her beliefs and attitudes. One of her experiences was at an area called Buffalo Eddie, where her family’s ancestral fishing site was. Nearby, there were a number of petroglyphs Marek-Martinez and her family would admire.

“One summer we went back and the petroglyphs had been chipped out and one huge panel was taken,” MarekMartinez said. “I asked my dad, ‘why would somebody do something like that?’ He said it was probably just a token for them and didn’t knowing the significance it had for us.

I think that’s what sparked a passion for me in terms of protecting cultural heritage, the tangible, like archeological sites, and the intangible, stories and language. It’s my life

mission to protect those things and make sure we can transmit them from my generation to the next.”

Later, Marek-Martinez strove for greater academic heights, obtaining her Ph.D in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley, in anthropology-archaeology with an emphasis in tribal archaeology.

A vibrant education has opened many doors for Marek-Martinez. She has maintained various roles among Native American organizations, historical departments educational systems and more.

“I worked for the Navajo Nation — both the archaeological department and the tribal historic preservation department — for the past eight years,” Marek-Martinez said. “After I finished with my course work at Berkeley, I came out to Flagstaff to do research on Navajo archeology. I got a job with the [Navajo] Nation and really tried to help with community services. There are a lot of Navajo citizens that don’t have running water, good roads to their homes or electricity.“ Through her work with the Navajo Nation, MarekMartinez testified on behalf of the tribe to the United Nations in regard to the 2009 Protect the Peaks case — a suit dealing with the controversial use of reclaimed wastewater for snowmaking at the ski resort Snowbowl.

“We went to D.C. and we testified in the court system, and in front of the United States government, to talk about cultural sensitivity and lack of cultural consultation and outreach,” Marek-Martinez said. “None of our concerns, or those concerns of other tribes, were taken into account when all these decisions were being made to lease the land for Snowbowl to use the reclaimed water. All those things happened without tribal input and, if it did, all of our concerns were ignored.”

Beyond speaking out against injustices the Navajo Nation and other tribes were facing, Marek-Martinez also discovered a passion for teaching.

“At the nation, I worked a lot to train Navajo students on how to do archeological surveys, how to identify sites and how to evaluate sites. [Teaching] was something that I was always passionate about,” Marek-Martinez said. “I had a lot of different experiences with the nation and I spent eight years with them. I just felt it was time for me to move on and pursue another passion of mine, which is teaching.”

Marek-Martinez has dedicated her professional career to being an advocate to protect and preserve Native American cultures, to unite Native American people and

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culture, to create opportunity and to diminish ill-informed stereotypes. Furthermore, she must maintain the university’s image as a Native American-friendly institution. According to collegeportraits.org, Native Americans make up 3 percent of NAU’s population.

“I have a number of responsibilities being the executive director here — programming here for students, faculty and staff and the larger Native American community here in Flagstaff.

Also, reaching out to the 22 tribal nations around the state,” Marek-Martinez said. “I also create programs that are student-centered and culturally driven that contain community outreach and engagement components and healthy living initiatives. These are the four areas we really try and focus on.”

Sharon Singer Doctor is the interim director of Native American student services for NAU. Having worked alongside MarekMartinez for several months, Singer finds it a privilege to have an individual like MarekMartinez at the Native American Cultural Center.

“As Native American women leaders, I appreciate Ora’s work ethic and commitment to serving our students and community,” said Singer. “She is a positive Native American role model who has dedicated long hours to completing and earning her doctorate degree.”

Being influential Native American woman leaders are roles in which both Singer and Marek-Martinez have in common.

“As a Native American woman, I appreciate observing November as Native American Heritage Month, as it gives all of us an opportunity to honor our indigenous cultures and to share who we are to the community and world,” Singer said.

Marek-Martinez believes Native American Heritage Month serves more than one purpose.

The goals of the month-long celebration are to dispel Native American stereotypes, bring awareness to cultural indigenous realities and battles currently being fought.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is one present-day cultural battle. The DAPL is a crude oil production development being built through Native American Sioux Tribe territory in North Dakota.

“This is just another part of the cycle,” Marek-Martinez said. “We went through all these Indian wars and we fought for our lands and now we’re doing the same thing again. To me this is really telling of Native American lifestyle and their perceived value in American society. There are all these tribes and indigenous people gathered there peacefully praying and they are being viciously attacked by our government.”

While the DAPL is being built through the

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Senior strategic communication major Amber Gene at the Indigenous Bash hosted by the CHEI Club Nov. 5 in the du Bois Ballroom.

Gene, a Navajo student and a member of CHEI Club, supports Standing Rock and is shown wearing her own T-shirt design.

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Standing Rock Reservation of Sioux territory, the DAPL project has drawn the attention of a nation-wide audience.

Democracy Now! reporter and host Amy Goodman is a non-indigenous individual who has submerged herself in DAPL activism at Standing Rock. Goodman has witnessed the environment surrounding the protests firsthand.

“On September 3rd, the Dakota Access Pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they resisted the construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline on a sacred tribal burial site,” said Goodman, on a Democracy Now! broadcast report.

Marek-Martinez hopes that Native American Heritage month will serve deeper meaning — and contribute to a nation-wide conversation — to not only Native American peoples, but also other races and cultures.

“Whatever [Native American students] need, I would like to provide support here at the cultural center, regardless if you’re a native or not,” Marek-Martinez said. “This is a place for everybody.”

gonizing shrieks echo from peppersprayed protesters, masking the rush of the Missouri River. Pleas for help, along with prayers from Sioux tribal members, are drowned out by the sounds of power hoses held by armed military and police forces. Protestors are knocked to their knees, fighting for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction to end.

Water is one of the leading reasons behind the DAPL opposition. The Missouri River, which meanders through the Standing Rock Reservation, is the only aboveground source of water for the Sioux tribe in Cannon Ball, N.D. It is the only providing source of water to the surrounding Native American tribes.

According to DAPL supporters, the 1,172mile pipeline will result in local and national benefits. The $3.7 billion investment will create 8,000 to 12,000 local jobs during construction — generating an estimated $156 million in sales and income taxes — producing an estimated $55 million annually in property taxes which, in return, is supposed be used to support schools, roads, emergency services and more.

However, to the people of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, environmental activists and humanitarians, the DAPL could be a death sentence, potentially desecrating the water, land and specifically burial sites considered sacred to the Sioux people.

The DAPL production has attracted worldwide attention. DAPL protesters at the construction site include representatives from more than 100 Native American tribes.

Additionally, celebrities such as Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon, Jason Momoa and Mark Ruffalo have contributed by either camping out and protesting on the Standing

Rock Sioux reservation, donating funds or using their celebrity status to speak out.

Actor Mark Ruffalo and Wahleah Johns, founder of Native Renewables — an indigenous organization striving to promote low-cost clean energy solutions for Native American families and communities — presented Standing Rock Sioux tribal elders with mobile solar panels, which will provide clean power to the protest camps stationed throughout various areas.

In more recent instances, the United Nations sent representatives to Standing Rock to observe the mass protest. Among the representatives was Edward John, a UN indigenous observer.

The pipeline has continued construction, despite urging from the UN, humanitarian groups and Native Americans from across the country to stop.

As DAPL opposition efforts increase, the tactics of military and police forces have become more aggressive.

In a YouTube video released Oct. 29, Native American and DAPL protestor Floris White Bull said she was arrested, taken to the Morton County Correctional Center in North Dakota with a number on her arms and held in a dog kennel.

“We were caged in dog kennels and sat on the floor and we were marked with numbers,” said White Bull in her YouTube video. “My mind, I couldn’t wrap it around the fact that this is happening today. This isn’t something that we’re reading in history books.”

The initiative to hinder and ultimately terminate the progress of the DAPL has not lost support or motivation. As winter approaches, the world watches to see if the construction will continue, be rerouted or be halted.

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What coffee spots you don’t know, but should know ABIGAIL BIEKER

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ith only six weeks left in the semester, students around campus are finding their due dates and winter break swiftly approaching. Many students are looking for a way to stay engaged in school as finals creep closer. Some argue caffeine is the answer to many of their problems as the semester continues on.

Forget Starbucks — it is usually crowded, loud and you might be getting tired of pumpkin spice lattes. Instead, consider some of the less popular shops scattered throughout town, located in places some may not even be aware of. By visiting lesser known shops, students can support local businesses and enjoy a cup of something different.

Many of the shops listed here are also roasteries, adding an element of individuality to each establishment.

It’s About Coffee: Fabulous, fresh coffee and great prices Located at 1000 E. Butler Ave., suite 102, the quaint It’s About Coffee is packed from wall-to-wall with a bar to sit at, preroasted coffee bags and a circular table which holds all of the milks and sugars. The shop, known for its quality roasting, has been pleasing coffee connoisseurs since 2007. Anne Swanson proudly serves as a coffee roaster at the shop.

“We order fresh green beans almost every month,” said Swanson. “We have almost 30 different varieties of green beans, so I’m paying attention to our stock and what is selling the most frequently off of the shelf.”

Every three weeks, It’s About Coffee puts its older beans on sale. This is because, as Swanson noted, the shop does not like having its coffee on the shelf for extended periods of time. Swanson believes the coffee loses its flavor over time and emphasized the importance of bringing in new beans monthly.

“The roast date is right on every single bag that we roast, you can tell exactly how fresh it is, which is a little unique for the coffee shops in town. Most will have a use-by date, we have the date it was roasted, so you know exactly how fresh it is,” Swanson said.

Another distinctive feature at the shop is the stout coffee. The trademarked product can only be found at this location and is a triple-strength brewed coffee used in place of espresso. The stout coffee can be served hot or cold; there is also the “stout and cream,” made with heavy whipping cream and french vanilla.

Matador Coffee Roasting Company: New location, same coffee This roastery and coffee shop, which can be found right off campus at 203 S. Milton Rd., has recently added its second shop located at 7133 E. Hwy 89, about one mile east of the Flagstaff Mall.

The original location off Milton features an auto-shop layout. The garage holds the utensils and machinery used to roast the beans and the espresso bar can be found on the right side. Individuals may walk up and receive curbside attention, or there is a drive-thru on the opposite side of the parking lot for convenient service on the way to work.

“Everything starts out with raw beans, so everything is green from the plant. We roast it through this machine and that’s how we get all of our products for both of our shops,” said Jack Reinartz.

For Reinartz, processing beans and roasting is a skill he obtained at Matador. Reinartz, who has worked at the shop for about six months, also noted the east side location is set up more as an actual coffee shop, while the location off Milton is primarily for the roasting.

“The majority is just grab-and-go. We do have a lot of tourists who will hang around and watch the roaster, but the majority is just students and people working,” Reinartz said.

The inside of the second location contains more table space for consumers looking to grab a seat, along with a much larger espresso bar. The drive-thru is also set up differently than Milton’s Matador, as it has a speaker at which buyers can purchase their drink, later pulling up to the window to pay.

“It has actually been keeping up with the other Matador in the mornings. In the night, it kind of dies off just because we’re more of a residential area with families out here,” said Michelle Roseschatz, a senior at NAU and barista at Matador.

Roseschatz believes Matador is a unique addition to Flagstaff’s already booming coffeeshop scene.

“We’re really trying to set ourselves apart here,” Roseschatz said. “We just ordered a new roaster and it’s going to be all organic. We also do all of our own baking here, we do everything homemade. We make all the food, we prep all the food, we bake all the pastries. Our pastries are made in the morning. It’s super fun and it’s pretty holistic compared to Fire Creek or Macy’s.

It’s very homegrown.”

White Dove Coffee Shop: Stop in for breakfast & brunch

White Dove Coffee Shop on 7th Avenue is a cozy study spot to enjoy a “Revelation,” one of their most popular drinks, or any of their other creative and delicious drink specials.

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The White Dove Coffee Shop truly reflects its positive online ratings — a 4.7 out of 5 stars on Google reviews. The much-loved coffee shop is located at 2211 E. 7th Ave. on the east side of Flagstaff. A cozy abode, the shop maintains a great environment for those looking to relax, or take on homework among the couches and tables. A fireplace is found in the center of the shop, as a bar overlooks the parking lot, making for loads of room for incoming coffee drinkers.

The shop has been open since April 2004 and live music is played every third Saturday of the month, giving locals a chance to share their hidden talents.

Alex Gonzales, barista at the shop for over two years, commented on why she loves driving all the way from her home, located at Lake Mary Road, to the east side of town regularly.

“Customer service has a lot to do with it,” said Gonzales. “We have a ton of regulars who come in daily, and developing that relationship with them is always pretty cool. I also think we have pretty good coffee. I work for the roaster as well and I think we have our espresso pretty dialed in.”

The beans roasted for White Dove are obtained from the coffee roasting Flagstaff Collective — which was previously known as Higher Grounds. For those looking for more than just coffee, the shop also offers a food menu, which includes homemade crepes and sandwiches.

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The Runout A weekly tribute to all things outdoors ISAAC DUDLEY

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old Oak Creek water and changing leaves decorated Casner Canyon during a daring aerial photoshoot Nov. 6.

Kira Krick and Jessica Packard spun through the air on radiant aerial silks holding powerful poses.

Both women are freelance performance artists and working together on a project conceptualized by Jessica Figurski. Figurski is putting together a book of poetry complemented by artistic photography. The aerial arts project is based on a poem titled “Remember,” a nostalgic piece

by Figurski, which calls the reader to reconnect with their purpose for this life. “‘Remember’ asks us to remember our purpose here. For me, aerial silks represent rising into the heavens or lowering to earth,” said Firgurski.

Across a shallow section of rapids and through the golden leaves of cottonwood trees, Krick hung upside down on red silks from a rope strung high above the canyon floor. Expertly transitioning through an advanced flow of difficult movements, Krick went upside down, released her hands and picked up Packard to continue the sequence. Krick and Packard both have backgrounds in various forms of performance arts.

“I used to do dance and cheer, but I stopped,” said Packard. “I missed performing so I got into hula hooping which lead to fire dancing and eventually aerial silks.”

The two aerial artists perform together professionally, occasionally in conjunction with the groups Circus Farm and Show Stoppers. One of their recent shows was at the Ancient Future fashion show at The Unexpected, a Phoenix venue. A show based on the new trends in the festival world, the silks were a key attraction.

Krick wasn’t always on track to be a performer, but always had the dream. Her first public performance was at a talent show while attending Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. Fear of injury pushed her away from the pastime, but after the talent show she fully adopted the lifestyle. Krick didn’t receive much support from her family.

“I basically quit school and joined the circus; I said

‘I’m going to do it anyway,’” said Krick.

Krick enjoys pushing the limits of aerial performance after having done several solos. Here, soloing means performing high above the ground with no safety harness — but with all the risks.

“After my first solo, I made it back to the pillar where we were anchored and passed out, my partner pulled me the rest of the way over,” Krick said.

While her first time soloing was characterized by fear, Krick has two more years of experience under her belt and can manage her mental state much more effectively. She consciously invokes a meditative state to control fear and find the flow.

“I try to maintain a ‘no fall’ mentality, the idea of falling doesn’t exist,” said Krick. “My solo wasn’t about the cameras, it was about my personal meditation.”

Using silks and hula-hoops have become more popular on the NAU campus. Students strut their stuff, compare their abilities and push each other to try harder.

Performance arts are growing in popularity in northern Arizona, supporting a large interconnected community of movement lovers. “[Aerial silks], hula hooping, and fire dancing used to just be part of the festival scene, but now there are three studios in Flagstaff,” Packard said.

Packard and Krick feel fulfilled by sharing their passions. They teach private aerial lessons in Flagstaff.

“I love teaching. Watching as people open their minds to something they never thought they could do,” Krick said.

Passion is not something that can be quantified. It isn’t something that can be measured, isolated or even defined to a satisfying degree. It lives in each of us waiting to be awakened by something. Some experiences push us out of our comfortable routine. Our passions inspire us to be the best we can be and give everything we have.

Passion can be small, like collecting bottle caps, or as ravenous as the fire in the gut of the Everest climber fighting his way to the summit.

There is no excuse for living without passion, without the fire of inspiration. Figurski’s poem “Remember,” encourages readers to reconnect with our reasons for being alive. Whether you are performing in a canyon high above the ground, suspended by scarlet silks, or something a little tamer — get out of the routine and you might find your own passion.

Highlining aerial artist Kira Krick performs in Oak Creek Canyon, near Casner Canyon. Mikayla Shoup | The Lumberjack

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On the rebound: men’s basketball season outlook LANCE HARTZLER

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ere comes the cavalry of the NAU Lumberjacks men’s basketball team.

The team hopes to make a point after a disappointing season in which they finished with a 5–25 record. The Lumberjacks are picked to finish fourth in the Big Sky in both the media and coaches’ preseason polls.

Seniors Jordyn Martin and Jaleni Neely are set to return after missing most of the 2015-2016 campaign due to injuries.

Martin suffered a foot injury in the third game of the season, which sidelined the forward for the remainder of the season.

Martin was granted a fifth year of eligibility with a medical redshirt by the NCAA following the injury, allowing him to play this season.

Neely was forced to the sideline after a knee injury which occurred in the ninth game of the season. Much to the delight of NAU, the point guard was granted a medical redshirt and is eligible to play this season.

Both Martin and Neely are pumped to play the game they love again.

“I’m excited to be back with my teammates and to able to play again,” said Martin. “I just want to be able to stay healthy and have a winning season — a fun season with my teammates since this is my last year. Just to go out there and have fun every time I can.”

“I’m grateful I was able to get the year back,” said Neely. “I missed a lot of last year so I have been missing the game a lot. It’s great to be in practice every day so I am really hungry to get out there.”

It is crucial to have Martin back on the court. As a junior, Martin was named the Big Sky defensive player of the year, helping NAU to a 23–15 record and an invitation to the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament, as well as being a consistent force in the paint — shooting 55.4 percent from the field.

Martin also understands his importance to the team and knows what the coaching staff wants out of him.

“Since I know what the coaches want, being here for five years, I think I know what the program wants and what they expect,” Martin said. “My experience can help the guys out.”

Head coach Jack Murphy is clearly glad to have Martin back and knows the value of Martin’s impact on the team.

“It’s very important,” said Murphy. “Not just his leadership but the way that he plays in the post, he goes after the ball. He just shows our younger guys what hard work does for you because you advance and get better.”

Having the return of Martin will bolster the frontline for NAU, and pairing him with fellow senior Ako Kaluna could prove to be a formidable tandem. With Martin standing at 6’ 7” and weighing 225 pounds and Kaluna at 6’ 7” weighing 280 pounds, the Lumberjacks have some beef in their frontline.

Kaluna averaged 12.3 points and 6.8 boards per game for the Lumberjacks last season, leading the team in rebounds.

“We feel like we have a good group with Ako and Jordyn down-low doing some things offensively that allow them to play both inside the post and outside,” Murphy said.

The Lumberjacks have 12 returning players from last season

NAU men’s basketball tuning up the offense Nov. 3 in preparation for the start of the 2016-17 season.

Victoria Kaschl | The Lumberjack

including notable sophomores who played major minutes as freshmen: Torrey Johnson, Marcus Deberry, Mike Green and Felix Rivera-Vega, who all averaged 15 or more minutes per game.

Murphy is confident in the young guys and their ability, and he believes they will take the next step this season.

“We are really excited to see how the sophomores develop,” Murphy said. “Those guys are all talented players and at times had really good moments [last year]. It was consistency they lacked and as sophomores I think you are seeing more consistency in practice and we are hoping that translates into games.”

There is a new focus coming into this season for NAU. Murphy has been known to emphasize defense in his five years at NAU, but this year he wants to crank up the offense.

“We did more work this summer and during the offseason on offense than we have at any other time since I have been here,” Murphy said. “Our focus in the past has always been on the

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defensive end of the floor, and we still put some good focus there but we did a lot offensively this summer. Hopefully, we see the fruits of that labor early on in the season.”

Neely is excited for the new offensive mindset.

“I love it,” Neely said. “I definitely think it’s something we can be good at as far as the depth on our team, being so loaded with so many pieces. Being offensively driven is something we can definitely focus on.”

A notable departure from last season is junior guard Kris Yanku, who left to pursue his pro-basketball career overseas.

He signed with Turkish team Banvit in July. Yanku led NAU in scoring with 14.1 per game, while shooting a very low percentage of 33.2 from the field and 31.9 percent from three. Yanku also lead the team in assists with 4.8 per contest.

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Continued from page 20 With Yanku gone, it is Neely’s job to run the point and keep the offense going. Neely wants to make sure people know who he is and the impact he can make for the Lumberjacks this season.

“I’m a pass-first point guard so just making the game easier for my teammates [is important],” Neely said. “Getting them the ball in places where they feel comfortable on the floor and at the end of the day getting wins. I’m a winner. I want to continue to win and I know that’s what we want to do here as Lumberjacks.”

NAU faces a tough test early in the season when they travel to Seattle to play the Washington Huskies Nov. 20. Washington is going to be a tough test, as they are led by the seventh-ranked freshman point guard Markelle Fultz.

“I think it will be exciting for our guys,” Murphy said. “I think the Seahawks play right around the same time so hopefully not too big of a crowd. I’m sure everyone in Seattle is excited about [Fultz] getting going. He’s a talented freshman and they’ve always had talented players there at U-Dub. We’re just excited to get up there and compete and show what we have from the Big Sky.” NAU’s first three games of the season are in the Cable Car Classic in Santa Clara, Calif., Nov. 11-13, with their home opener Nov. 17 against Benedictine Mesa at 6:30 p.m.

Lumberjacks battle for a rebound during practice Nov. 3. Victoria Kaschl | The Lumberjack

NAU finishes second in Big Sky, heartbreaking end to seniors’ season MATTHEW KIEWIET

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Left to right: Senior Lindsay Doyle, senior Missy Kettelkamp, freshman Amanda Bennett, junior Adrian Nixt, freshman Carly Gamble and freshman Shelbie O’Connor line up for pregame introductions before the Big Sky championship Nov. 6.

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he NAU soccer team came up short in the Big Sky tournament championship, losing to the Eastern Washington Eagles after two overtimes and a round of penalty kicks Nov. 6 in Cheney, Wash.

“I think we have a lot to be proud of,” said head coach Andre Luciano. “To have just three losses in our last 16 games speaks a lot to how far our team has come.”

Senior forward Ali Lixandru scored the first goal of the afternoon on a penalty kick in the 41st minute and the Jacks took their 1–0 lead into the locker room at halftime.

In the 48th minute, Washington’s sophomore forward Jenny Chavez tied the game at one. That concluded the scoring for the rest of the match. Considering Eastern Washington outshot NAU 23–4, it was fairly remarkable that the Eagles were held to just one goal.

Normally, a tie game after two overtimes would result in a draw. However, given the fact that the game was to decide the conference champion, a winner had to be determined. The game, and Big Sky title, then came down to penalty kicks.

The Eagles did not miss a penalty kick and the Lumberjacks missed two, giving Eastern Washington the Big Sky Conference championship. The Eagles had never won a Big Sky tournament match prior to 2016.

The Jacks’ junior forward Anna Goebel, senior forward Lindsay Doyle, junior forward Adrian Nixt and junior defender Riley Porter were named to the all-tournament team — a team comprised of 13 members.

“I’m super grateful for the people they are, but disappointed for the seniors, especially because I know they wanted this one really bad,” Luciano said. “Overall, we have a lot of positives to reflect on.”

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