The Lumberjack -- August 6, 2015

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EAT & DRINK IN FLAGSTAFF Our guide to food and drinks - page 14

From the Editor

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his is our last summer issue before we kickoff the fall semester with our welcome back issue! This has been my first summer in Flagstaff and it seems to have gone by much too fast! However, I must admit I am excited to have a full staff once again and get back in the flow of class.

This summer at The Lumberjack has still been an exciting time as we have slowly made some design changes to our publication. If you read our publication at all last semester, you might have noticed our change in nameplate on the front. I felt it was time to update it and over the summer we have played with some different options. Now, the version that is on the cover is here to stay for awhile! I’ll write more about some of our format changes that we will be moving to in the fall.

Anyway, this issue features some content that I hope will be beneficial to you. We have a restaurant profile and guide starting on page 14 as well as a look at one of the art galleries that is a strong player at the First Friday Artwalk held MITCHELL FORBES downtown every month. You’ll find that on page 6.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The day after this issue is out on the stands, many galleries, like the Artists’ Gallery we profiled, downtown will stay open late and welcome visitors as part of the First Friday Artwalk. There will also be performances and other activities in Heritage Square. Flagstaff ’s art walk is a great community event that I recommend attending if you haven’t done so before.

As I mentioned earlier, this is our last summer issue. The next issue that we’ll have toward the end of this month will start back our publication for our school-year cycle. I hope you enjoyed your summer in Flagstaff as much as I enjoyed mine.

Thank you for reading.

LJ

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On the cover In the heart of downtown Flagstaff stands the Hotel Monte Vista, opened in 1927, as traffic flies by in this long exposure photo. Downtown has many dining options, some of which are highlighted starting on page 14. (Photo by Mitchell Forbes)

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he Lumberjack encourages an open forum on appropriate public issues and welcomes letters to the editor.

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Deadline for submissions is noon on Monday for publication in that Thursday’s issue. Letters to the Editor can be submitted by e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief at mitchell_forbes@nau.edu.

THE COST OF THE GAME Athletes shoulder burden in pay-to-play sports

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or a high school athlete, there’s more than one option to be able to play sports at the collegiate level.

Although everyone is looking for that scholarship to a Division I school, many kids settle for club sports.

In fact, club sports are slowly becoming a determining factor as to where an athlete chooses to further his education.

“Right now, we have students coming to NAU specifically to play a sport club,” said Mike Przydzial, the NAU sport clubs coordinator. “You’re looking at ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, a lot of our competitive sports that go and play these other institutions. They are coming outside the state of Arizona to NAU, specifically for their club.”

Club sports are pay-to-play, but provide competition, sometimes at the national level, and give students the opportunity to meet people and make friends. While some universities give their club sports a varsity treatment with funding and facilities, NAU is not quite up to par just yet.

The sports offered at NAU range from competitive to recreational. Lacrosse, hockey, volleyball, soccer, quidditch, archery, rugby, baseball, softball, water polo, tennis, and cheer are some of the most competitive sports on campus. Others like ultimate Frisbee, badminton, gymnastics, mixed martial arts, roller derby, and triathlon competitions are either recreational or working on their club to reach a competitive level.

Most of the club teams are affiliated with unions and leagues. For instance, the lacrosse team is a part of the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). Rugby is a part of the Arizona Rugby Union, which is under USA Rugby. This means they have to answer to NAU, Campus Recreation, and their league.

Some of the perks of playing on a club team are that you can use the university’s facilities for free. They provide the south fields, the observatory fields, and the fieldhouse for all outdoor and indoor sports. Each team is able to make its own schedule, search for their own coaches, and contact other schools for tournaments.

Club sports also received a new team player last year. Mike Przydzial is the first official professional NAU coordinator for the clubs. Since he’s been here, he’s already implemented some changes, like making sure there is water at every team’s practice, and encouraging the rebranding of club sports as “sport clubs.”

“When I first got here, I saw a huge need for structure, and that’s what I’ve been trying to implement throughout the year. It’s been a progressive plan,” Przydzial said. “To get them [club sports officers] to buy-in was a difficult challenge at first, but then they saw that I’m not here to say ‘no,’ I’m here to try to help them

excel and improve and become an integral part of the university.”

One thing Przydzial didn’t realize when coming in to the job was the many obstacles he would face, and the many gripes from the clubs about Campus Rec and the university.

For instance, Flagstaff is known for getting snow, and the south fields don’t always get plowed in time for games or practices. Many of the outdoor club sports have to endure these weather conditions with or without help from grounds.

Jeff Gibb and Riley Horton are the president and vice president of the men’s lacrosse club team. Horton’s been on the team for four years, and Gibb has been on it for

didn’t do anything,” Horton said. “The fields still weren’t plowed and Mike came out again to help us. I would be willing to pay someone on grounds crew an extra $20 just to get them to plow for us.”

It seems odd that the university wouldn’t allow the teams to practice and play in NAU Athletic facilities. According to Przydzial, with the amount of varsity teams practicing and playing in the Skydome, there isn’t enough room for club sports to get in on the action.

The school also wants to prevent the natural turf fields, like Lumberjack Stadium and the football practice fields, from turning into dirt with overuse.

Another main issue is money and proper

LEFT: In this March 1 file photo, freshman attacker, Adam Zimmerman, runs past an Occidental midfielder in a snowy field. ABOVE: Senior midfielder, Riley Horton, battles an Occidental midfielder.

three. They’ve made playoffs the past three years, and they are in the top 30 of over 200 lacrosse teams in the nation.

“We had a fiasco this season. Occidental College came up for a game, and that’s when we got dumped on and had a foot of snow on our field. We spent two hours just shoveling the lines of the field. These aren’t game conditions at all,” Gibb said. “We would get in trouble with the league and with Occidental if we canceled the game. It’s a $3,000 fine and we can’t afford that. So we had to play that game in a foot of snow.”

Occidental asked the team if they could play in the Skydome. The dome isn’t an option because it belongs to NAU Athletics, along with Lumberjack Stadium (which is empty all spring), Rolle Activity Center, and the football practice fields. Parents and fans ended up having to help the team shovel the snow, something that many outdoor teams have had to deal with.

“We had a game that Sunday and then another the following Thursday, and they still

funding. Ultimately, many of the club teams struggle with affording any extra costs that their dues do not cover.

An extra cost might be jerseys, which aren’t included. The teams have to collect for that T-shirts, and any other attire they wish to have. These are expensive items. The women’s club volleyball team all together had to pay about $1,100 for 13 jerseys.

Kendall Vandenburg, president of the women’s volleyball club team, said that in addition to bankrolling all of their own gear, her club also cannot use the official NAU logo, which is trademarked by NAU athletics.

“We didn’t use the NAU logo because I didn’t really want to go through the process of getting it approved so we just used block NAU letters on the back. It was from the print shop downtown so they had whatever license they need just to put NAU on our clothes,” Vandenburg said.

The new NAU logo that features the ax is exclusively for NAU Athletics. Some of the club teams are bothered that they don’t get to wear

the logo, even though they are representing the school, too.

With that being said, the hockey team also faced money problems. Each player pays $2,600 in dues for the whole season and travel.

However, this doesn’t factor in playoffs. When this time comes, the team is scrambling to get more money.

“For nationals this year, we couldn’t get ahold of ASNAU. We tried to get ahold of them for months to try to get funding like we have in the past, but they kept putting it off,” said Corey Briody, the president of the D2 IceJacks club team.

He’s been on the IceJacks for three years now. The team finished ninth in the nation, losing to eventual national champion NYU. “We had to pay for our own plane tickets [for playoffs], and each guy has to pay for his own food,” Briody said. “Guys have to think about getting money for the trip and to eat.

Some guys won’t even eat when we stop, or they pack a loaf of bread and peanut butter and jelly to eat for the whole weekend.”

Although some teams like the IceJacks or the men’s rugby team, the Landsharks, have sponsors and donors that provide money, it still isn’t enough at the end of the year. This year, the school implemented a new membership fee – $20 per person – in order to play on a team. In addition to this, some teams have to pay their union or league. The Landsharks have to pay $1,100 for their union, along with $200 for team dues to NAU. Ryan “Pickles” Patterson is a senior member on the men’s rugby club team and is on the executive board. He’s been playing for the Landsharks for three years now at NAU. This year, they are the Division III champs of Arizona.

In order to get around to tournaments and games, the teams are required to travel a lot. However, the school doesn’t really help with transportation.

“We’ve had to rent team vans from other places. We rent vans from the airport, or we carpool. We would have to have an NAU student driver to qualify for the school’s vans,” Patterson said. “The most the school will pay for is travel costs. Not a hotel, and maybe your gas.”

Many of the teams have to fly to their championship that’s across the country, others have to get a charter bus to fit an entire team, or in many instances, they rent vans from the airport or other rental companies. The last resort is carpooling, which can cause conflict in regards to who is driving, who is willing to take their car, and how many players can fit.

The grumblings from club sports can go on and on, whether it’s about money, facilities and scheduling, or simple respect from the school itself.

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STORY BY GRACE FENLASON PHOTOS BY MITCHELL FORBES Greg Hill, a local painter, poses in the Artists’ Gallery downtown Aug. 4. Hill has been with the gallery for eight years.

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Stu Wolf, a potter who has spent 25 years in Flagstaff, stands with one of his pieces in the Artists’ Gallery downtown Aug. 4.

s First Friday creeps up upon us again Flagstaff citizens and tourists will consider which gallery to visit. One to consider is the classic and simply named Artists’ Gallery. Situated in Flagstaff ’s historic downtown on San Francisco Street, this local gallery home is to many favorite Flagstaff artists and a collaborative environment.

The Artists’ Gallery is rare in that it features multiple artists every different month instead of one single artist or only a few per year. The gallery can also boast that it has hosted and is currently hosting some of the most popular artists in the Flagstaff community.

The gallery is one the oldest in Flagstaff and was created in 1992 by Flagstaff artist Lindy Flynn and her local artist friends.

The main idea of the gallery was to create an experience where visitors to the gallery could meet the artists and the artists could work together in maintaining the gallery. Since then it has been

incredibly successful.

“Since its inception, over 200 local artists have been a part of the gallery,” said Joe Coyle, a photographer previously featured in the gallery.

Because of this unique origin the artists work shifts and manage the gallery’s daily operations and maintenance. This system makes the gallery a part of a cohesive experience involving the artists in the display and sales of their art and involving the customer with the artists.

“Our artists have a great deal of say in how our gallery is run,” said Joni Pevarnik, a potter at the Artists’ Gallery and several other galleries around Arizona.

Currently the gallery is home to over 35 artists with ranging species and mediums including painting, woodwork, jewelry-making, glass art, fiber art, photography, ceramics and gourd art.

The Artists’ Gallery is not specialized and new artists are welcome to join at any time. Many of the gallery’s artists work exclusively in northern Arizona and create their art in the image of the Arizona landscape. The gallery has housed many Native American metalsmiths that use the medium as a way to express their culture and traditions.

“The gallery is a warm, friendly place to meet some very talented people, see and purchase some truly stunning, locally produced artwork and maybe bump into a friend or two,” Coyle said.

The Artists’ Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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AUGUST 2015: UPCOMING EVENTS Summer Nights: FunTown Camp Performance Heritage Square 8/7

Les Miserables: School Edition Theatrikos Theatre Company 8/14 - 8/15

Party in the Pines Criollo Latin Kitchen 8/7

Children Music and Arts Festival Bushmaster Park 8/15

Founders Fest Out West Dark Sky Brewing Company 8/8

Concerts on the Square: The Shepherd’s Tone Heritage Square 8/20

Movies on the Square: Muppets Most Wanted Heritage Square 8/8

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic The Orpheum Theater 8/20

Arizona’s Historic Rose Riordan Mansion State Historic Park 8/10

Summer Nights: Gypsy Chicks Heritage Square 8/21

Concerts on the Square: Heartwood Heritage Square 8/13

Family Game Day Flagstaff Public Library 8/22

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Movies on the Square: Goonies Heritage Square 8/15

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TIGHTROPE WALK

NAU’s challenge course offers high and low rope challenges.

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In this March 2013 file photo, Kenneth Cruz zip lines at the challenge course.

Elisabeth Sims zip lines off the challenge course.

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ummertime is when bathing suits come out, vacations are taken and people go outside on wild adventures with friends and family. For the staff at the NAU Challenge Course, the beginning of summer marks the coming of June, their busiest month of the year.

"We do more programs in the month of June than in any other month of the year," said NAU Recreation Program Coordinator Angela Elgin. "I'm hoping to change that and kind of get some of the other months to get just as busy. That’s part of why I'm here."

The NAU Challenge Course consists of low programs and high programs. While the lower programs only get you a foot or two off the ground, the higher ones put you on a static-ropes course 40 feet up in the air. Groups can do a set of both low and high programs if they wish. The outdoor course was rebuilt on south campus four years ago after the old one was removed to make room for the development of an apartment complex.

"With our outdoor high course, there is kind of three different stations that we work from," Elgin said. "We have this four post static course, and that’s all connected and there is a lot of different options within that. And then there is a separate station, some folks call it The Leap of Faith, where it is just a telephone pole that you climb up and stand on, then jump off

towards a trapeze bar."

The programs consists of groups of 10, and people can either sign up by themselves and join a random group or bring in their whole family to create a group. The goal of these programs is to go beyond just getting people's adrenaline going.

The staff hopes the consumers feel a sense of culmination once the program ends.

"Every program that we do we kind of try to target a few specific things that the group comes up with and get them the opportunity to work through some of that," Elgin said. "So we will start out and we try to design programs that are custom built for the group and what it is they are looking to get out of that experience. We have a whole sequence that we work through, starting with the basic intro, warm up, kind of get a feel for what we are doing."

The trained facilitators, who manage the safety of the program, are mostly students. The Outdoor Adventure Department looks to develop students within the staff and the challenge course gives these student workers experience in developing chemistry within a group and communicating with different types of groups.

Elgin is new on the job, taking over the program coordinator position about a month ago. With NAU hosting

camps throughout the summer for all sorts of athletics, from football to gymnastics, she has immediately stepped into the job without missing a beat.

"We try to work with different summer camps and school districts as much as possible," Elgin said. "There has been recent insurance things that have kind of changed a little bit, so it's changed up the way that we do some of our programming for some of those groups. But we still have plenty of opportunities for them."

In an effort to try to increase turnout outside of the summer months and create more programs, The Outdoor Adventure Department built the Indoor Adventure Course inside the Health and Learning Center last year. They will also be implementing a new program called the Amazing Race.

"There are different tasks and things that are designed for the group to figure out stationed across campus," Elgin said.

"It is a high energy and high activity process, but there is also still this team development that is happening within that. So we are looking forward to kind of moving more groups into participating in that as well."

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A Culture Change: NCAA Requirements Raise the Bar

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oday, international students account for approximately seven percent of NAU’s student body population. Ironically, the student-athletes’ population represents double that percentage.

While we may think that the studentathletes go through the same admissions process as regular students, we are sorely mistaken. Student-athletes are sent on a more rigorous route through the maze of NCAA regulations. The thousand-page “bible” containing the sacred text that governs all collegiate athletic affairs has not only a myriad of rules but also multiple interpretations.

So imagine trying to read a riddle that isn’t even in English. These international student-athletes need to be given more credit for the effort they put forth in trying to receive an education.

American athletes are still divided on the subject of international student-athlete recruiting. Because of stereotypes, many people think that these athletes are already professional. They believe that foreign recruiters have dubious tactics of awarding scholarships or don’t have to follow NCCA regulations at all.

Ask most U.S. born athletes out there and they will be skeptical of the recruiting process for any international athlete. However, most stereotypes have a an uncanny knack for not revealing the truth to their outside personas.

There are three main areas that NCAA has recently cracked down on international student recruiting: culture and transitions, academic records and communication.

NAU and the Big Sky Conference however are not the only institutions that recruit internationally.

Dr. Christina Rivera is an associate athletic director in UCLA’s athletic department and has worked extensively on interpreting the NCAA handbook for international studentathletes. She gives a new perspective on this national phenomenon.

“International men’s sports seem to have a larger ratio than women,” Rivera said.

“Women’s ranks seem to populate with US born players from high school.”

The Pac-12 has also seen a trend in international players in most sports such as tennis, golf, track and field and swimming

specifically. For instance in tennis, the University of California has over a 50 percent ratio for international athletes in the men’s tennis program and 55 percent in women’s.

USC has 42 percent in the men’s program and 25 percent in the women’s programs.

“The mix is from all over the world, mostly Europe and Australia. We have seen that northern schools have more than southern schools. Even in California, a hotbed of junior tennis, the schools gravitated towards non-US players,” Rivera said.

Associate Director of Athletics at NAU, Beth Vechinski has a lot of experience with recruiting international students.

“I think that there is a strong desire to win at all levels,” Vechinski said. “And in some sports going overseas is the only way to ensure that you can stay competitive with other programs in some sports like, tennis, golf, track & field/cross country, soccer, to some extent swimming.”

They all have a tremendous number of good players being developed in other countries through their associations and they don’t have the "college level or next level" opportunities. In some respects, coming to the US is the only way they can continue participating.

“At NAU, we have tried to keep up with this international trend and provide these athletes with as much help as we possibly can when it comes to navigating the NCAA,” Vechinski said.

Beth Hopper, an associate in the compliance office in NAU athletics has a large job in making sure that these athletes are eligible and meet all NCAA requirements before coming to NAU. “It is a stretch for sure, not having someone who is as full-time doctorate position for the NCAA handbook, but as a compliance officer, we have raised our standards and learned how to accommodate and help recruit more student athletes into the Big Sky,” Hopper said. “Title 9 certainly has opened up a lot of opportunities for women’s sports as well.”

Although a small school like NAU does not have the same advantages as a UCLA, it still manages to recruit international players for over half of their individual sports.

If you break down a roster analysis of

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NAU’s athletic programs, you will see that individual sports hold more than 50 percent of international student athletes. The individual sports consist of golf, tennis, track and field and swimming. The most prevalent foreign influence on campus comes from men’s and women’s tennis and track and field.

The men’s tennis program has over 70 percent of international students from all over the globe, hailing from Israel to Scotland.

The women’s tennis team has over 62 percent of women from Germany, Sweden, England and Poland. Women’s Track and Field has five international athletes and women’s golf has two.

It is no surprise that individual sports hold the highest international ratios. Because these sports are valued worldwide, it holds greater popularity over sports that are only prevalent in America such as basketball, baseball and football. The average foreign players percentage on rosters combined for the Big Sky is 65 percent, slightly higher for men than women.

Sacramento State’s international influence on the men’s tennis team is at an 89 percent and an 81 percent on the women’s side. All of these students in the conference have to comply to the same NCAA rules as any another other recruited student-athlete.

The NCAA is the main gatekeeper for all international student athletes. Everything they say and do must be approved by their strict guidelines. A large part of the integrations process for these athletes is making sure that English is implemented in their records and culture. They have stringent regulations on how documents are to be received and written.

According to NCAA rules, “If English is not the primary language of instruction at the school you attended, you must submit complete, literal word-for-word, line-byline certified English translations for all your documents in the same format as the original, native language documents. The translator may not be related to you.”

Being able to record transcripts in English as well as taking an English placement test is a large part of changing the culture for these student-athletes.

The process then gets more complex within different countries.

The NCAA has created an online international map that allows students to view the different documents that they will need to submit. Each country has a subcategory for primary and adult education. After that, they download the International Standards Guide to comb through each step of the process for each document. As if it wasn’t hard enough, there is even a guide on how to read the guide.

At larger schools, such as UCLA, they have full-time senior administrative positions where their only job is to dedicate themselves to interpreting the NCAA handbook. At NAU, as with smaller institutions, most of the interpretations are put upon the coaches, athletes and the lone compliance officer. This means that our student-athletes and coaches have to be more aware of the rules. There is no assistance if rules are broken.

“At a smaller school, it is up to us to fulfill multiples jobs that larger schools have positions for. It shows the strength and intelligence of our own department to be able to balance all of these aspects by ourselves,” Hopper said.

Each country has its own section of rules they have to follow, documents they need to send and marks they are supposed to meet for each class. Each grade has to translate to a numeric equivalent grade in the U.S, so while most grading systems are extremely different in other countries, they are still expected to follow an American grading system and transfer over. This takes the inequality out the component of education; these athletes are held to the same standards as Americans and have to comply with our rules.

Although it is a painstaking process, the NCAA says that more than 450,000 studentathletes gain the skills to succeed on the field, in the classroom and in life. The rules provide universities with the best international athletes and ensure that integration between all of these countries in the way of athletics, academics and social skills is efficient.

The process and the results weigh heavily against the foreign-born players success in a U.S. institution. This shows that the value that international players bring to their U.S. college programs is far more beneficial to both player and program.

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ocated just off campus, right before you reach the train tracks, is one of the most popular places in town for those looking for a place to unwind with a great meal and drink. Beaver Street Brewery, a family-owned and family-friendly restaurant and bar is a common place for locals and tourists alike to enjoy some of the best Flagstaff has to offer.

Opened in 1994 by Evan and Winnie Hanseth, Beaver Street Brewery is one of the most established and reputable places in town to dine. In a town known for its many breweries and local restaurants, Beaver Street Brewery is seen as one of the few breweries that offer a large and diverse food menu as well, all at a reasonable price.

Items such as the Meat Loaf Platter, Pot Pie, the Brewer’s Platter, and the many pizzas to choose from are just a few of the favorites on the menu.

“The food is really good,” said Jake Dixon, a customer and NAU student. “It’s different from most other places in town.”

Although the menu is a big aspect of the restaurant, the clear focal point of Beaver Street Brewery is the highquality beer.

“I really enjoy the beer,” said CJ Sternisha, a frequent visitor to Flagstaff. “I’ve tried something new every time and I haven’t been disappointed.”

A unique feature to the restaurant is the open kitchen, allowing customers to see the chefs preparing their meal.

The bar also allows for customers to see the ales and lagers prepared right in front of their own eyes.

“It’s really cool to see how everything is made,” said Tanner Duke, a customer and NAU student.

The staff at Beaver Street is yet another reason to check the place out for yourself, as they always promote a comfortable atmosphere for any type of customer, especially for students.

“Most of the staff is NAU students,” McLaughlin, a student herself, said. “They’re all super friendly and really nice.”

Beaver Street Brewery is a great place for tourists as well, offering a seasonal outdoor beer garden with a beautiful view of the San Francisco Peaks, as well as merchandise you can purchase on your way out the door.

Next door to the main dining area is the billiard room, which gives customers another area to unwind, featuring an antique bar and five full-sized billiard tables.

“Beaver Street is an awesome place to just have a beer, maybe get something to eat, shoot some pool, and just relax with some friends downtown,” said Brady Carpenter, a customer and local resident. “I’d recommend it to anyone.”

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RESTAURANT GUIDE

Flagstaffhas many great restaurants, bars and breweries.

Although we can’t preview them all, here are a few local eateries and chain establishments worth paying a visit.

BY TIM NUTTING & JORGE FRANCO

DIABLO BURGER

A popular place in the heart of downtown Flagstaff, Diablo Burger has consistently made unique and innovative burgers a staple when dining. Known for making their burgers with all natural and locally grown ingredients, they don’t disappoint at all. Diablo Burger prides itself in using beef raised in northern Arizona, often times just miles from Flagstaff. As well as offering a range of locally brewed beers to go with your meal, Diablo Burger knows how to make come back and come for more.

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WILDFLOWER BREAD COMPANY

Located near the Grove Apartment Complex and very similar to Panera Bread, but much more inviting and exquisite. They specialize in sandwiches, soups, salads and an assortment of healthy options that will make you come back for more. In addition, they also make their bread daily, and have a wide range of which you can purchase from. They also have excellent ambiance and a great atmosphere that is comfortable with families and college students alike.

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OREGANO’S

Located across from Cline library, this small, yet quaint and friendly, dining place has heart-felt staff and food. It is a much homier and personal form of an Italian restaurant. Serving a wide range of Italian staples, such as pasta, pizza, sandwiches, etc., you’ll fall in love with Oregano’s. It is a popular place in Flagstaff so get there early.

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This exciting and colorful summer festival had more than 100 of the finest local Navajo artists display and showcase their innovative expressions of the traditional Navajo art. This festival consisted of renowned weavers and award winning painters who captivated the public with their impressive art forms.

Beyond all the wonderful art on display within the museum, there was live entertainment consisting of modern and traditional native Navajo music with groups like Blackfire and the Pollen Trail Dancers performing. It was believed that the oldest Navajo hoop dancer in the nation was performing that weekend with an estimated age of 90 years old.

The public also had the opportunity to learn from the local cultural experts about practices and customs that families are using to maintain their strong Navajo traditions. One practice that is still remaining strong is the Navajo tribe’s intricate language, many of the festival goers had the opportunity to talk with a Navajo linguist and explore the Navajo language.

The Museum of Northern Arizona also gave many of the festival goers the opportunity to understand many of the ancient legends and traditions of the local Navajo people. For example one such tradition of the Navajo people is that the jewelry worn became an important way of showing the substance and standing of an individual in the community. This can often be seen in the massive quantity and quality of jewelry pieces worn.

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ABOVE: Museum members observe a piece by Randall J. Wilson during the 66th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona. LEFT: Tsosie Taylor, winner of the Spirit Award & 1st Place in Jewelry, holds out his traditional style hand stamped concho belt set with coral during the 66th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

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Alvin John, winner of the Best of Show & 2D Fine Art categories in the 66th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture, explains the meaning behind his piece “Holy People’s Stars” at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Peterson Yazzie, a Navajo fine artist, stands next to a collection of his work during the 66th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

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The traditional Navajo jewelry emphasizes the combination of elaborate silver work with large turquoise nuggets. The Navajo silversmiths who created these elaborate silverworks had learned these techniques and crafts from Mexican metal workers in the late nineteenth century. It is believed that this integration of silversmithing knowledge occurred after the Navajo people’s release in 1868 from Bosque Redondo, New Mexico.

The history of Navajo silversmithing was believed to have begun with Atsidi Sani, who was documented as the first Navajo person to have learned the art of silversmithing and believed to have later taught others the art. As a result a diversity of art exploded and animal shaped handles became popular amongst modern Navajo jewelry, much of Navajo jewelry uses inlay, overlay or other techniques developed by pueblo smiths but also still commonly retains a distinctive Navajo smithing style.

After observing the popularity of silversmithing jewelry amongst the Navajos in the late 1930’s, the co-founders of the Museum of Northern Arizona Harold S. Colton and Mary-Russell Ferrel Colton had also observed at the time that the Hopi jewelry designs had looked the same as Navajo jewelry and they were concerned that Hopi silver was not distinctive to the Hopi people.

After enjoying the various art forms of jewelry the museum also gave the public the opportunity to go hiking with a Navajo ethno botanist and learn the Navajo uses of local plant life. The Navajo festival at the Museum of Northern Arizona was definitely a must see event, and great for the family and friends who are looking to engage in the Navajo culture.

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onsistent success since 1984 has now become a tradition for the NAU men’s cross country team. A family atmosphere, which created a strong bond, grew everyday through support and high expectations.

“We were just a family,” said NAU alum Brian Shrader, who won the U.S. 12K championship last fall.

“We didn’t take it too seriously and when it came down to race we just put everything we had on the line and that mixer of being relaxed but expectations enabled us to perform way better than anyone was expecting us to.”

For 24 years Coach Ron Mann coached the NAU cross country team and is also alumni from NAU back in 1972. As a student, Mann included himself in the athletics program as a cross country and track runner. Mann had many highlights in his athletic career, running next to and observing professional runners such as Ibrahim Hussein, winner of 1991 and 1992 Boston Marathon, and Dieter Baumman, 1998

Olympian Silver medalist for the 5000 meter.

Mann began his coaching career at Mesa Community College as an assistant coach along with Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix. In 1980 Mann made a pleasant return to NAU as head coach for the NAU women’s cross country team. He quickly advanced to head coach of the NAU men and women’s cross country team in 1982.

Mann lived and coached in Flagstaff, giving him the opportunity to stay close to the running society.

Since the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, high altitude training truly became a science. Many athletes and coaches were taking into consideration the technique and abilities high altitude training provided toward their strength. Mann’s athletic career was introduced to high altitude training early on.

“I was graduating high school and went up for the summer trip to go up and train as a high school athlete going to college,” Mann said. “Three of the individuals I was around regularly were training for the 1968

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Olympic Games in Mexico City.”

The NAU rein of success has lasted for many years, mainly starting in 1984. The NAU cross country team took a big step in 1982 when the women’s track and field and cross country team transitioned from the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) to the NCAA. Suddenly the men had the women’s cross country team added to their group. Mann had to find a way to coach the men’s and women’s cross country teams successfully for championships.

“My personal philosophy is you don’t coach events, you coach athletes,” Mann said. “No two athletes are the same, so you do not coach two athletes the same.”

This transition started an outstanding relationship for both the men’s and women’s cross country team by creating the tradition of being not only an athletic group but also a family.

This impact all started because Mann focused on his recruiting process, truly researching and getting to know each of the athletes’ personalities and morals.

“You don’t always look for the one with the best credentials, you look for the one that has the biggest heart,” Mann said.

Winning Big Sky Championships has run through the NAU men’s cross country list for many years now. This success has had a dramatic impact because of Mann.

A coaching legend, Mann specifically improved the NAU cross-country teams by perfecting individual performances.

Over his period of time as head coach for the cross country teams, Mann had a highly successful 24-year stint with a combined 58 Big Sky Conference championships. He produced 107 All-American athletes along with five Olympians and four individual national championships.

Within that time Mann made sure his men’s cross country team stayed in the top 10 of the NCAA finish 16 times. The men won the Big Sky championship 16 out of 20 times since 1992.

“We raised them to be the best they can be, in the classroom, and on the field,” Mann said. “You try to win conference championships and place as hard as you can at the national level with the ultimate goal winning the national championship.”

As Mann came to his 24th year of coaching he found that he had done everything he could at NAU and made the decision to leave.

“I retired from Northern Arizona and I figured the best thing I could do in terms of for my own personal growth as well as the professional growth of Northern Arizona,” Mann said. “I had done everything I could do at Northern Arizona, there was no question about that.”

As Mann parted ways and said farewell to NAU, John Hayes stepped into his place as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country team from 2004-07. During his time as head coach, Hayes recruited many advanced runners. He successfully coached six individual NCAA champions and nine All-Americans. As Hayes guided the team toward the Big Sky Conference championships four times, they all came back with Big Sky titles.

Hayes recruited by thinking outside of the box. He not only looked for students in the U.S. but also international students.

NAU alum David McNeill, an Australian long distance runner who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, moved to Flagstaff to become a Lumberjack because of the relationship he built with Hayes.

“I originally wasn’t so interested in coming and I had a breakthrough with my running back home in Australia and

then in 2007 committed to NAU,” McNeill said. “I got here and John Hayes moved on to the Air Force and they brought in Coach Heins.”

Shortly after McNeill decided to come to NAU, Hayes had an open opportunity to move to the Air Force Academy as head coach of the cross country team and he took it. Since Hayes left, McNeill never had the opportunity to be coached under Hayes but was ready to work hard in Flagstaff.

“I came to NAU fairly novice to the high-level, highperformance type training that is necessary to be able to compete at a collegiate level and live up to the expectations that NAU is known for,” McNeill said.

Eric Heins replaced Hayes in 2008 and has now entered his eighth season overall as head coach of the cross country teams. Since Heins has been coach he has won 12 Big Sky Championships.

McNeill’s disappointment in losing the opportunity to work with Hayes quickly faded away as he adjusted to the culture and atmosphere at NAU. He had to adjust from having no family or friends close by and also getting used to the culture in the U.S. One of the inspirations he needed to help him move past the culture shock was being on the NAU men’s cross country team, and Heins was a big part in that.

“Coach Heins kind of weaned me through it,” McNeill said. “Transitioning my previous expectations of what training was meant to be like and gradually accommodated me to his training philosophy.”

McNeill had many significant contributions to the NAU men’s cross country team. In the time he attended NAU he earned three All-American titles as well as three individual championships in the Big Sky Conference championships.

After graduation McNeill ran under the Australian flag in 2012 Summer Olympic Games, placing 29th in the Men’s 5000 meters.

“Different countries have a system they can compete for and they have to do school separately,” Heins said. “So they are pulled in two different directions, whereas we treat it as an extra circular activity with the University.”

As Heins entered into the program he came with a fresh new start; previously he was a grad assistant for the NAU cross country team, so he was already well ingrained to the culture and atmosphere of NAU. In 2008 it was new for many people that year giving them an advantage, which was to start from the ground up, and Heins was there to lead the way.

“I have a general philosophy in training,” Heins said. “I

have got to be able to make some adjustments for some people.”

This mindset and coaching style are the reasons why Heins has had so much success over the last seven to eight years. Last year the NAU men’s cross country team won another podium from the Big Sky Championships, but this year was a much higher advantage when they finished with their highest podium yet, second in the nation overall.

“Coach Heins is an exceptional listener, exceptional observer of what is going on,” McNeill said. “That is why the team is in the position they’re doing now is Coach Heins has always been trying to absorb what’s working on this team, what dynamic works, what dynamic doesn’t work. I can’t see this tradition letting off anytime soon.”

Competing with strong runners such as McNeill, Lopez Lomong, who qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 1500 meters, and Diego Estrada, who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics for Mexico, all made individual championships and helped the team towards their success.

“The mindset was podium and nationals, nothing less than that, so it was a little different,” Estrada said, who ran for NAU from 2008 to 2011. “It was exciting to be a part of a dynasty, such a powerful team that I have ever been a part of.”

Estrada came to NAU from Salinas, Calif. in 2008. When he moved to Flagstaff, he quickly found out he needed to keep up his training for nationals. Yet his training on the team prepared him for success by making it to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

“I remember my freshman year we went to nationals and we finished sixth, that felt like a disappointment,” Estrada said.

“I wasn’t used to it, because in high school I was the fastest runner and we didn’t really have a good team, but coming here right away it was like a power-house.”

New recruitments come every year for every athletic team at NAU. When Shrader, a Flagstaff native, transferred from the University of Oregon, he came not for the successful reputation of the NAU team but the family atmosphere.

Growing up, Shrader cheered for NAU’s athletic teams, and the day he transferred back to Flagstaff, he came home. Running became a job for Shrader and he was starting to lose the fun and enjoyment of long distance running at Oregon. Shrader then decided to look for other pathways toward finding his love for running.

“I wasn’t doing well and I almost quit a couple of times to where I just didn’t want to run anymore,” Shrader said. “Since I have been here at NAU, the atmosphere is relaxed but with high expectations and I have really been able to thrive off of that, which is definitely what you need in a program like this.”

The relaxed atmosphere gives the NAU men’s cross country team the freedom to enjoy and work hard at their passion — long distance running. The enjoyment that the team has grows every day as the team bonds with their love of running and improvement.

“I don’t have to yell at them to run fast, they want to run fast,” Heins said. “My job is to keep them healthy, keep them excited, and keep them happy till the end of the year.”

Each year the NAU men’s cross country team has always found success in either championship titles or out of pure enjoyment from their relationships on the team to a pure passion for running.

“They want to be successful so I don’t have to try and show up every day to motivate this group,” Heins said. “Part of it’s just that atmosphere that we are welcoming teammates here and welcome to have new kids come in.”

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