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Life: End of the world, p 19 Opinion: Snow days, p 9 Sports: Track & Field, p 24

A&E: Rango, p 30

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Weekend storm slams city, causes havoc

Car burglars caught

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BY MARIA DICOSOLA

ne of three suspects for an on-campus car burglary on March 19 was arrested after attempting to run from the scene, according to the NAU Police Department.

Around 9:50 p.m., three men, all nonstudents, were found breaking into a car with a hammer in front of 1899 Bar and Grill.

According to Joe Tritschler, NAUPD’s public information officer, the burglars were spotted by a guest of the restaurant who called the police.

One of the burglars was caught off campus with the hammer used to break the window, and arrested for third degree burglary.

An iPod was stolen from the car but has been recovered and returned to the victim.

The other two suspects have not been identified, and the case is closed.

Huenneke named Provost TOP LEFT: A lone pedestrian makes his way down the sidewalk running adjacent to Milton Road. BOTTOM LEFT: A plow truck attempts to clear Milton Road of snow. (Photos by Daniel Daw) TOP RIGHT: An accident on the I-40 results in a semi-truck catching fire. (Photo courtesy Flagstaff Fire Department)

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BY WILLIAM BROWN

he one-day extension to NAU’s spring break can be attributed to the three-day storm over the weekend, which dumped up to five feet of snow over some parts of northern Arizona.

The weather caused a slew of vehicle accidents, several hours of highway closures and school cancellations, to name a few consequences.

According to a the Flagstaff Police Department, there were 16 accidents reported between Sunday morning and Monday night. However, FPD said none of the accidents resulted in death.

NAU announced for Monday to be a snow day two days in advance, cancelling

classes due to the storm and the ensuing complications. Tom Bauer, director of NAU’s Office of Public Affairs, said the campus would have been ready to operate, but the safety of those returning was the university’s primary concern.

“Being good citizens, we would keep students off the road for a variety of reasons,” Bauer said. “[The] main one is safety and the second one is it helps the crews keep the roads safe when there aren’t thousands of students driving up.”

Bauer said the circumstances of this closure were out of the ordinary because so many people were away from the campus.

“This was a rather unusual situation for us over the weekend in that we had a storm — the biggest one of the season,

I believe — that was occurring when we suspected that a lot of our students and faculty would be traveling,” Bauer said.

“So we made the unusual decision to go ahead and cancel classes even though we would have been up and running campus-wise for Monday. We felt we would give everyone an extra day for travel.”

Bauer also said the decision to cancel classes is never taken lightly or without good reason.

“There’s a lot that goes into it,” Bauer said. “We don’t take lightly people [who have] paid for their education, they want their education and we tend to deliver it, but there comes a point where safety has to outweigh that aspect.”

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BY MARIA DICOSOLA

he president of NAU, John Haeger, annonced his decision to promote Laura Huenneke, currently the univeristy’s vice president for research, to provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. The position was held by Provost Liz Grobsmith for the past 10 years, who New appointed is moving to another role within Provost, Laura Huenneke the university.

“With several qualified can- (Photo courtesy didates already on campus, it was Inside NAU) a difficult decision,” Haeger said in an email. “Laura’s academic and administrative background as vice president for research, former dean and skilled scientist make her an exceptional candidate for this role.”

Laura’s position in the research department will be replaced by William Grabe, a Regent’s professor at the school.

“I have great confidence that Bill will serve as an exceptional leader for the well-functioning department Laura is leaving,” Haeger said.

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CommunitySpot PoliceBeat March 18 At 2:58 a.m., Gabaldon Hall staff reported a rock had been thrown though a window.

Officers were dispatched.

The suspect could not be located and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 3:26 a.m., while attempting to locate the criminal damage suspect from the previous entry, an officer reported contacting an underage intoxicated student at Gabaldon Hall.

The subject was cited for minor with liquor in body and released.

At 3:59 a.m., while attempting to locate the criminal damage suspect from a previous entry, an officer reported contacting three subjects in a room at Gabaldon Hall.

One subject was deferred for the possession of drug paraphernalia.

At 4:34 p.m., Drury Inn staff reported an intoxicated subject who was bothering guests in Building 58.

An officer was dispatched. The subject was contacted, advised of trespassing and asked to leave the area.

At 10:06 p.m., an officer reported being out at Gabaldon Hall in follow up to a previous criminal damage entry.

A student was cited for minor consumption and released.

March 17 At 11:20 p.m., McConnell Hall staff reported an odor of marijuana coming from a dorm room.

Officers were dispatched.

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Three subjects were deferred for the use of marijuana. One subject was cited for minor with liquor in body and released. A second subject was cited for minor with liquor in body, minor in possession of alcohol, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana and released.

March 16 At 7:13 a.m., University Union staff reported a seemingly intoxicated subject who did not appear to be a student.

Officers were dispatched.

The subject was contacted and field-interviewed, where the subject was determined to be a student. The incident was unfounded.

At 10:35 a.m., Communication building staff reported the theft of a DVD player.

The theft occurred between Mar. 15 at 3 p.m., and Mar. 16 at 10:30 a.m.

An officer was dispatched. The DVD player had been taken by a custodian. The subject’s work keys were taken and turned over to his supervisor and he was warned of trespassing. No criminal charges were pursued at that time.

At 2:27 p.m., a Gillenwater Hall resident reported finding drug paraphernalia in his room.

An officer was dispatched and the investigation is open and pending further information.

At 10:36 p.m., Drury Inn staff reported two subjects who were passed out in the High County Conference Center parking garage.

Officers were dispatched.

The subjects were contacted and asked to leave, and they complied.

March 15 At 2:29 a.m., a resident of Campus Heights reported a subject who knocked on her door but would not identify himself.

An officer was dispatched and the area was checked with negative contact.

At 4:12 a.m., Cowden Hall staff requested assistance with an intoxicated student who was having difficulty walking.

Officers were dispatched and the student was cited for minor with liquor in body and released At 6:34 a.m., NAU Grounds reported the owl sculpture east of the Science Lab had been beheaded. The damage occurred on an unknown date and time.

At 8:09 p.m., a Cowden Hall resident reported the sound of a possible gunshot in the area.

Officers were dispatched.

Flagstaff Police Department (FPD) had received similar reports. The area was checked with negative contact.

At 9:43 p.m., a fire alarm was activated at Prochnow Auditorium.

Officers, Flagstaff Fire Department (FFD) and Fire/ Life Safety were dispatched.

The alarm had been falsely triggered by the installation of a chandelier.

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Events Calendar THURSDAY, MAR. 22

SATURDAY, MAR. 24

MONDAY, MAR. 26

NAU Clay Club Soup Bowl Fundraiser [11 a.m. /Drury Inn]

Singer-Songwriter Showcase [5:30 p.m./Sundara]

Monday Night Blues [7 p.m. /Charly’s Pub and Grill]

March of Death Tour [7 p.m./Orpheum Theater]

Big Daddy D and the Dynamites [8 p.m./ Raven Cafe]

Diego’s Umbrella [9 p.m./Green Room]

Pass the Jam Open Mic [8 p.m./Oak Creek Brewing Co.]

Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament [7 p.m./Courtyard Marriot]

Trivia Night [9:30 p.m./Lumberyard Brewing Co.]

FRIDAY, MAR. 23 King Snake [9 p.m. /Mia’s Lounge] Bruce Helper [8 p.m. /Orpheum Theater] OK Sweetheart &Hello Dollface [8 p.m./Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge] Performance by Chris Solomon [9 p.m./Mad Italian]

BLUME [9 p.m./Mia’s Lounge] Dead Winter Carpenters [10 p.m./Flagstaff Brewing Co.]

SUNDAY, MAR. 25 D-I-Y-ology [10 a.m./Kickstand Kafe] Free Food & Music [1 p.m. /Berg’s BBQ] Dave Logan Band [2 p.m./Flagstaff Brewing Co.]

Monday Night Movie [8:30 p.m./Raven Cafe]

TUESDAY, MAR. 27 NAU Film Series [7 p.m./ NAU Cline Library] Llory McDonald [8 p.m./Spirit Room] Jazz Jam [9 p.m./Mia’s Lounge] WEDNESDAY, MAR. 28 Ladies ‘80s [8 p.m./ Green Room] Open Mic Night [9 p.m./ Mia’s Lounge]

Weekend Picks Bruce Heppler Friday@ 8 p.m. – Orpheum Theater stand-up comedy featuring Bruce Heppler with Jamie Anderson and Boomer Nichols

Singer-Songwriter Showcase Saturday@ 5:30 p.m. –Sundara Featuring Mary & Celeste, The Burgundy Boyce, John Borham, Ryan Biter and many more

InTheNews FromTheEditors

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t the tail end of this week, most of our editorial staff will be in downtown Phoenix for a journalism conference held in the ASU Cronkite School of Journalism. For most organizations on campus, attending conferences and symposiums is a regular activity. For us, however, it is an anomoly: this is the first organized effort on our part to attend a conference in over three years. As embarrasing as it may be to admit, this newspaper fell out of contact with the wider world of collegiate journalism: we didn’t apply for awards, we didn’t reach out to our counterparts at The State Press (ASU) and The Daily Wildcat (UA) and we didn’t — again — get out of the house much. We plan to change that. It is our philosophy that student journalism cannot exist in a vacuum, and that all of us have something to learn from both our peers and professional journalists. We’re proud of this publication. It’s time that we got around to letting people know about it.

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APS to test energy-efficient substation in Flagstaff

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BY AURELIA ACQUATI

lagstaff recently became host to APS’s most recent energy project, which is projected to last two years. APS is testing energy storage in order to extend the life of their equipment, and add the use of solar energy to their system.

Dan Wool, APS spokesman, said the company is interested in determining how energy storage can save equipment for future use, and how solar energy can meet the demands of the citizens. He said the ultimate goal for this project is to save customers money in the long run.

“We are interested to learn how energy storage can help reduce wear-and-tear on equipment and the overall system, which helps customers save money longterm,” Wool said. “We are also

interested to see the benefits of energy storage when paired with solar power. So, we believe energy storage has great potential to help match up supply and demand.”

Wool said the City of Flagstaff is already participating in the APS Community Power Project, which is testing how to use the energy grid more efficiently with power from solar panels. According to Wool, the energy storage system

will be moved to the Doney Park Renewable Energy site, after its first year of testing.

“Flagstaff, specifically, is the home of the APS Community Power Project, where we are studying how to optimize the electric grid when many locations in a single area generate power from solar panels,” Wool said. “Currently, 125 Doney Park-area residents are participating by hosting roof-

top solar [panels] on their homes.

Next year, we plan to move the energy storage system to this solar plant to smooth out the flow of solar energy to the grid.”

The press release from APS stated they are hoping to figure out the best way to supply energy to people when demand is at peak times. The project will store energy in a substation when it is less expensive, which will give APS the

(Graphic courtesy of APS)

ability to transmit it to customers during high usage times, at a lower cost.

Joe Wilhelm, APS energy storage project manager, said the project is separated into two distinct parts. They are first testing energy storage for peak demand usage, and then moving the project to a neighborhood to combine it with solar power.

“There [are] really two main aspects to the project,” Wilhelm said. “We have a phase one approach where we’re testing it in a substation to look at some key benefits for how storage can be used in that application. And then we have a second phase where we’re going to move it to a solar site that’s part of the Community Power Project, the Doney Park solar energy site. That is really see SUBSTATION page 5

NAUPD warns against use of new designer drug, ‘bath salts’

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ot for human consumption.”

This is the warning label on products known widely as “bath salts,” a designer drug gaining notoriety among young people. Because the product had a warning label, the drug was legally sold in smoke shops and drug paraphernalia stores until Arizona banned the drug through emergency legislation.

The drug, which can be smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed, acts as a stimulant and was sold disguised as bath salts.

The emergency legislation, introduced by Gov. Jan Brewer in February, has made selling bath salts an Class Two felony and possessing it a Class Four. The laws also made certain chemicals within the drug illegal.

Joe Tritschler, NAUPD community relations officer, said while bath salts are not a real problem on campus, he warns students of their very dangerous effects on users.

“We haven’t really seen too much on campus, especially since the emergency bill took effect to outlaw it,” Tritschler said. “[Bath salts are] extremely dangerous. It can be lethal . . . I’m concerned about it, but it hasn’t hit.”

Tritschler admittedly said students may be more safe experimenting with marijuana than bath salts, though NAUPD does not want to see any students overdose or engage in using illegal drugs.

Documented consequences of bath salts have shown users endure hallucinations, agitation, paranoia and general uncontrollable behavior. This past July, a Flagstaff man was Tasered 71 times while reportedly high on bath salts, according to a Feb. 19 article by the Arizona Daily Sun. The article said the man survived the Tasing and was released from Flagstaff Medical Center.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a press release on Sept. 2 that said the agency would control three synthetic stimulants (Mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone

and Methylone) for one year to study the ingredients and decide later if permanent control is necessary.

Michele M. Leonhart, a DEA Administrator, said in the release the DEA will not hesitate to make use of their emergency authority to control the drug and included chemicals.

“This imminent action by the DEA demonstrates that there is no tolerance for those who manufacture, distribute or sell these drugs anywhere in the country, and that those who do will be shut down, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Leonhart said in the release.

Tritschler said the drug is an increasingly difficult narcotic to identify and control due to chemical alterations by chemists and distributors.

He added raids in Prescott and through the state will hopefully persuade sellers and users to shed away from the drug.

The drug has appealed to users in promising a higher level of stimulation than other common drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. However,

the affects have also proved to be stronger than other narcotics. Under aliases such as “Vanilla Sky,” “Purple Wave” and “Bliss,” bath salts appear to be just another product at a smoke shop. Consequences are seldom disclosed to buyers, though.

Police raids in Prescott and Prescott Valley this past February led to the seizing of bath salts from smoke shops among other illegal items.

Tritschler said while evidence of the product have not appeared in Flagstaff, any shops who did have any were quick to comply before the need for forceful confiscation.

Tritschler said use of the drug causes perhaps some of the worst side effects available among narcotics.

“Hopefully people avoid it because it’s just terribly nasty stuff. Because it keeps changing, it’s difficult to say it has addictive properties,” Tritschler said. “But what it does, from the information we know, is it is addictive and people destroy themselves by doing this stuff.”

“Bath salts” are so named because they closely resemble the minerals many people add to their bathtub. This picture shows what the bathing additives look like. (Photo illustration by Holly Mandarich)

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geared toward how energy storage [can] be integrated with solar energy to make it more predictable and [a] better value.”

Wilhelm explained that because they are testing new technology, there are always obstacles that occur. He said overcoming challenges is done by learning how the internal parts of the project work together, and also how the technology fits into their system.

“There [are] obstacles with every project,” Wilhelm said. “Being that we’re piloting a new technology, anytime you test something new you have challenges where there [are] things that are unexpected; there’s additional development that has to happen along the way. For us, not only is it new technology but something [where] we haven’t operated our system in this way before, so it creates new ways of doing business.”

Tom Acker, professor of mechanical engineering, summarized the project into more easily understood terms. He said the main idea of APS’s project is to test the use of a battery to store energy that is able to be released when needed.

“So, what they’re going to do [is] they’re going to plug this big ‘ole battery in,” Acker said. “If they do have problems with the sun dropping off, the battery just pumps in some [energy] and kind of fills the hole in through the moments that the clouds go by and we don’t get those voltage fluctuations. They just want to take that battery [and] put it somewhere they can really see how the thing [is] going to work.”

Acker said Flagstaff is an optimal location for this project because it consists of a community that cares about the environment. He explained that the city’s weather patterns also make it a good place for what APS is testing. “[Flagstaff] is a prime location because we, as a community, are predisposed to clean energy,” Acker said.

“So that makes us well disposed to accept the utility coming in and doing this. [Flagstaff] is a sunny place, so we’re going to get a lot of sun. It’s variable with the clouds that come through, so it has the right mix of things that APS [wants].”

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tion officer with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), said ADOT was prepared to clear the heavy snowfall and issued warnings to drivers to be prepared for adverse weather conditions.

“Arizona Department of Transportation snowplow crews were fully deployed and worked around the clock in response to the winter storm that developed this weekend,” Krugel said. “Heavy snow fell from Flagstaff to the White Mountains, causing hazardous driving conditions. ADOT urged drivers to

prepare for winter driving conditions, have some emergency supplies in their vehicles and expect the unexpected — especially unscheduled closures due to accidents or icy conditions. A full tank of gas and fullycharged cell phone were also recommended.”

Despite the transportation complications the storm caused, businesses such as Arizona Snowbowl said they greeted the late snow with open arms.

David Smith, the director of sales and marketing for Arizona Snowbowl, said the storm helped the ski resort in a troubled

part of the slopes.

“The critical area that we have been coming into is getting people the last hundred feet down to the lifts, with the rest of the mountain skiing very well,” Smith said.

“So that saved the day for us.”

Smith also said the ski season, which would have ended this past weekend, was given new life by the storm.

“Well, it recreated the season,” Smith said. “Like I said, we would have shut down on Sunday if this storm had not come, and hopefully it can keep this season going on until early to mid-April.”

Campus energy efficiency discussed over lunch found were opportunities for lighting upgrades in 32 buildings, plumbing upgrades in 51 buildhe office of Energy and Services and Sus- ings, building controls — which is your energy tainability discussed the results of the management — in 21 buildings and we are goNORESCO energy audit during a Brown ing to put sub-meters on 32 buildings and that’s complete utility meters, you will be able to see in Bag Lunch Session March 9.

According the Lindsey Wagner, the director real time what all of those buildings are using. of Capital Assets and Services, the session was And then HVAC upgrades in eight buildings.”

With the prospective upgrades, the univermeant to increase the amount of transparency within the department and to prove that people sity will save an average of 18.2 percent of current energy usage, which equates to 1.5 million around the university know what is going on.

“What we are trying to do here, every dollars annually. According to Bryan McLaren, the project coordimonth, is give an for the Office hour’s worth of in“The behavioral change as- nator of Sustainability, formation about the things that are hap- pect is a huge part of mitigat- more savings could pening in operations ing the rebound effect, where be attained with and things that are students don’t just start assum- behavioral changes happening in collabing just because we have bet- campus-wide.

“Part of the oration with the office of sustainability,” ter mechanical systems that entire NORESCO Wagner said. “We are more efficient that we want project, part of this want to become more you to start using more energy. is a huge piece of behavioral change, transparent, so that people can see that On the contrary, we want you so not just upgradwe are doing things.” to use less energy,” said Henn. ing equipment and retrofitting for efThe session highlighted the energy audit completed by ficiency of mechanical systems, but how we as NORESCO, the company who has been tak- community members use the systems,” McLaren ing surveys of NAU’s energy usage. The audit said. “If we have sub-metering, [that] will allow is meant to help the university to become more us to see per residence hall what’s going on. If energy efficient through upgrades in utilities and [students are] not educated on how those probehavioral changes. According to a report pro- cedures work or what the most efficient settings vided by NORESCO, after examining all of the for those are, we’re going to lose out on a lot of north campus buildings and residence halls, the opportunity, efficiency and savings.”

Avi Henn, a graduate student in the Climate university will be able to save energy with more efficient lighting fixtures, plumbing and building Sciences and Solutions program, explained the rebound effect, which says changing to more control upgrades.

“Phase One of the audit was essentially energy efficient tools does not mean people will North Campus buildings and the [residence] reduce usage. It is behavioral change that will be halls campus-wide. They also did a water audit the most effective.

“The behavioral change aspect is a huge of the entire campus,” Wagner said. “What they

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part of mitigating the rebound effect, where students don’t just start assuming just because we have better mechanical systems that are more efficient that we want you to start using more energy. On the contrary, we want you to use less energy,” Henn said.

There are several programs that deal with outreach to students, including student organizations and coordination with other departments within the university.

“Three really specific things we are doing already [include] the Mountain Link and the pedestrian transit way, that is huge for energy savings project; the sustainable living certificate, the No Impact Jack and this new green office program,” McLaren said. “Residence Life has a sustainability council; within residence life they have an Eco RA program [and] the No Impact Jacks sustainable living certification program.”

McLaren noted NAU is unique among universities in that there is a lot student involvement.

“NAU is pretty unique as a university in the sense; we go to all of these national conferences and get to talk to [other] universities, one thing that we know that is extremely apparent is our student engagement in the conversation,” McLaren said..

Other outreach programs focus on introducing new students into the culture of NAU in terms of sustainable behavior.

“Basically, we want to welcome new students into a new reality. A lot of these students, it’s their first time outside of their parent’s home, basically they are learning what the real world is all about,” said Henn. “When they come in here, expose them to this culture of sustainability, and research has shown it’s easier for people to engage in more sustainable behaviors when their peers do it. Basically, the culture is out there.”

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Editorial&Opinion

NAU takes preventative measure with campus closure

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pring break: a time to lay out on the sunny beaches of Mexico, road trip with your friends to California or go camping at some faraway fair-weather place.

However, there is nothing like being snowed-in (or maybe you were snowed-out) to bring your dreamy vacation to a screeching halt.

Welcome back, NAU students!

In typical Flagstaff fashion, students returned from spring break and were met with one of the biggest snow storms of the season.

Flagstaff has seen plenty of turbulent weather over the years, and despite complaints from students, NAU rarely closes campus. Though a vast majority of the student population would agree NAU has missed several chances to declare needed snow days, the school has not experienced a full closure since the fall semester of 2009 during finals week.

On March 17, NAU sent out a mass email informing students campus would be closed March 19, “Due to exceptional circumstances of the arrival of a significant winter storm coinciding with the anticipated travel of faculty, staff and students back to campus at the end of spring break.” In short, a big snow storm was coming and it would be dangerous for students and faculty to be driving on the roads.

This was a smart decision from NAU, considering the storm brought multiple road closures, including sections of the I-17 and I-40. There were also reports of many accidents, including cars sliding off the road and getting stuck in deep piles of snow. The storm

even brought on a rare avalanche warning for residents living in the backcountry of Flagstaff.

NAU’s decision to call a campus-wide closure days before the storm had arrived was a proactive one that saved the stress, hassle and possible car accidents threatening incoming travelers. There is always a bit of travel in and out of NAU on weekends, but the culmination of spring break meant countless more Mountain Campus residents would

be making the trek back up the hill to make it in time for Monday classes. Students would have been met with icy roads, poor visibility and possible road closures. When drivers take poor driving conditions and add to it heavy amounts of traffic due to students returning from break, they quickly get a recipe for disaster. NAU took the smoother route by avoiding unnecessary trouble and giving students more time to safely return to campus.

Had NAU been open on Monday, may-

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hem would have struck the campus. The school has warned students of the construction on San Francisco Street causing traffic delays, and if school had been in session Monday morning, the icy roads would have magnified the already heavy delay. Parking is difficult enough at NAU, and the school is extremely strict in its policy that commuters must park in the appropriate parking lots — not just the areas with less snow.

The school would have been impossible to navigate until parking lots were clear and visible. Students and staff can be happy with this one-day delay, not because they got to leisurely sit around sipping a latte all day, but because there was no stress in the return to campus. NAU students are safe, warm and in one piece here on campus tonight.

In the end, that is all that matters. What good is having classes open when half the student population is missing due to road closures, possible accidents and other wacky weather mishaps?

NAU is not too keen on giving out snow days, but when it is really necessary, the school was proactive and efficient in communicating with students. Life is full of delays, but sometimes, as NAU showed on Monday, they are worth it.

Editor’s note: This staff editorial was written by Associate A&E Editor Emma Changose on behalf of the staff.

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AZ legislature considers Bible courses

Editorial&Opinion

On primaries, Romney hypocritical

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rizona is currently in the process of discussing and voting on two new bills that would allow the Bible to be taught in high schools as an elective. HB 2473 would legalize Bible classes as “critical evaluation and examination of the Bible as a literary work,” and HB 2563 as “The Bible and its influence on Western culture.” According to lawmakers in favor of this bill, the electives ROLANDO would not infringe on GARCIA religious rights, but would merely educate America’s students on a very influential work indispensable in the shaping of our culture.

The Bible, being in fact the literary master-piece its advocates claim it to be, contains innumerable parables, anecdotes and stories meant to guide or inspire the reader in the path to holiness. These stories contain heroes and villains, and provoke the natural feeling of animosity toward villains. From this animosity arises the lesson the passage is trying to teach. Unfortunately, the Bible’s villains are not fictional characters, but may very well be attending the same high school in which this elective is offered.

If the focus is toward Genesis through Deuteronomy, students will learn about apostasy and the grave consequences that follow the fall from grace.

Also, students will learn about the minuscule value humans have when they deny the all powerful Abrahamic God and refuse his gift of salvation. They will learn about the previous occupants of the Promised Land and of how God ordained his chosen people to dispose of them. Later, in the New Testament, Jews are not portrayed in the most heroic light — Jesus, his family and disciples are not seen as Jews, but as members of a new religion with better theology and the carriers of a higher truth. In addition to separating Jesus from the Jews, the New Testament points its finger at Pharisees for having nailed the son of God to a cross. This does not necessarily promote the greatest solidarity among Christian and Jewish students, particularly in high school where bullying and verbal abuse are not uncommon. Another set of people the Bible targets is pagans and polytheists, and what else are we to call our Native American population? Because of Christian connotations, paganism has been associated with witchcraft, devil worship and other evil deeds, which as history indicates, were deserving of persecutions and brutality. Atheists and agnostics as infidels are also devalued by the Bible.

Now, it may rightfully be objected that the Bible here is being taken out of context, which conduces to the next point: without context or an able interpreter, the Bible is as confusing and am-

biguous as any text can be. At the college level, professors struggle to present academic criticism, historical context and religious interpretation hand-in-hand to provide a greater picture, and though these views are in perpetual conflict with one another, a professor is able to respect the disagreement and enables the student to learn without indoctrinating him or her. However, this is a very difficult balancing act, and certainly not one just anyone can accomplish. The Bible is too extensive to be completely read over in one school year; passages or particular books will therefore have to be selected and these selections will strongly reflect the religious views of the selector and strongly influence how the class is conducted and what type of beliefs they teach.

Will the passage in Genesis when Lot impregnates his daughters be taught?

Will it be explained? Will it be justified?

Or will it be ignored? By ignoring this controversial passage, what will be the rationale of the selectors? To protect the image of Christianity? This is indoctrination and a direct infringement on religious freedoms. The Bible cannot exist separately and suspended from a context, and the context that is given will either increase or decrease students’ affiliation to a religion, either of which is trespassing on their rights. High school students are certainly not mature enough to handle the contents of the Bible.

uring his campaign, Mitt Romney has expressed anger with Rick Santorum, after discovering that Santorum’s campaign had set up automated phone calls to the homes of Democrats, encouraging them to vote against Romney in the Republican primaries. AlAMANDA though only HORNER registered Republicans can vote in the primaries, it is possible to change parties in order to cast a vote — a very underhanded tactic to attempt to get rid of Romney. During a Fox News interview, Romney called these “robocalls” a “terrible, dirty trick,” noting it was a “new low” for Santorum’s campaign.

Coincidentally, and in true political fashion, Romney has previously admitted to using similar tactics to give his party an edge over the Democrats. One incident of this occurred when he voted in Democratic primaries, to try to deter Bill Clinton from being on the Presidential ballot in 1992. In 2007, Romney told an ABC News correspondent, “When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I would vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for the Republican.” As anyone may have predicted, it is not so pleasant to be on the other side of the situation.

Perhaps Romney is justifiably upset to find Santorum trying to sabotage his campaign, as he sees it. Normally, these primaries are

intended for the Republican Party to choose who they want to represent their constituents against Obama in November. Romney noted in another interview on Fox, “Look, we don’t want Democrats deciding who our nominee is going to be; we want Republicans deciding who our nominee is going to be.”

This is true enough, but his sudden desire for good political sportsmanship is too little, too late. Unfortunately for Romney and friends, his hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed.

In the midst of all the scandal this election, Democrats will not need to do any sneaky voting to get the results they want from primaries. All they need to do is sit back and watch the GOP sabotage their own chances.

Romney has lost his lead to Santorum; the most recent Rasmussen telephone survey shows 39 percent of likely primary voters favor Santorum over Romney, who is now only favored by 27 percent.

This is the first time this election season that a candidate has had such a strong lead over Romney in a direct match up. With this now being widely publicized, neither of these men are looking great to the public as future leaders. Further still, in general election match ups, Obama is nationally ahead of all GOP candidates. Obama is ahead of Romney and Santorum by an average of five percent in national polls. If the GOP candidates continue their consistently poor campaigning, American’s may be able to sleep safely knowing their civil liberties are not in jeopardy.

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Editorial&Opinion

NAU Southside parking fix will burden students

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TSA: The Swindling Association

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he bags are full: the 44 pack of Costco condoms, the pornfilled iPad, the wife’s pearl earrings resting gently in the jewelry box, next to the passport and lusciously bulging wallet. Taxi to the airport; don’t even bother trying to understand the accent, just tip the unkempt foreigner a dollar and be on the way. Tickets: checked. Luggage: checked. All that’s TOM left is airport secuBLANTON rity and a short wait at the terminal. Airports are always exciting, though post 9/11 they’ve been a constant source of worry. Security has been beefed up in the past decade, and as long as the luggage is never out of sight of its owner before being checked, there’s always a feeling of safety. Granted, airports are a secure place to be, from the outside; but what about an inside job?

In the past year there have been many reports of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents stealing belongings from unlucky passengers’ luggage for personal use or profit. For instance, this past July an amateur swindler and TSA agent at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was caught

stuffing an iPad in his pants. Needless to say, this guy was a genius. He supposedly stole over $50,000 dollars worth of electronics before his hands were caught in the cookie jar.

Yee gads! He even went so far as to take pictures of the items and put them online to sell, all before his shift even ended.

Likewise, Coumar Persad and Davon Webb, two former TSA agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, have pleaded guilty to “Grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration, and official misconduct, for stealing nearly $40,000 from an airport traveler’s luggage.” Unfortunately, TSA agents who break the law are treated more like high-rolling mobsters than the yellow-bellied thieves they are. These two knuckleheads, who believed they could simply walk away with $40,000 out of one man’s luggage in an airport and get away with it, were only sentenced to six months in prison with three years probation.

It’s hard not to agree with Jonathan Benson, a staff writer for NaturalNews.com, when he stated, “Grand larceny alone is enough to warrant a much longer prison sentence than just six months, and when you add the other two charges into the mix,

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sentencing could easily top 15 or 20 years.” The only reason these hooligans got less than a spanking for their shenanigans is because they worked for the government, and apparently government jobs come with a special elevation above the law.

It’s a rather scary predicament for travelers when those paid to protect them and their belongings are the ones that they need the most protection from. Sure, TSA agents are a necessary entity to safely travel, and they sure do a swell job of making travelers feel safe from terrorism.

Life is more important than material possessions, and even the green paper the world revolves around, so in the long run it’s better to have TSA agents. The bad eggs just need to be weeded out before they have time to strike, and the punishments for those thefts should be severe, more severe, perhaps, than even a civilian robbing a gas station. The U.S. entrusts these agents to protect our lives and our possessions. That is their job, and if certain people can’t handle the responsibility, then they shouldn’t apply. Punishment for breaching the trust we hand over to them should be made clear when applying for the job, and the punishments need to be beefed up in order for such misuse of power to disappear.

here is going to be an attempt to solve the issue of students parking on Southside in the next few months. Starting March 16, new traffic codes were issued that increased patrols around the Southside area and the city may make a contract with NAU to allow parttime university employees to isNATASHA sue tickets off REEVES campus.

Students taking up parking, clogging narrow streets and blocking driveways is a huge problem in Southside.

However, this annoyance could be avoided if NAU didn’t rob its students and faculty with the high prices of parking permits, not to mention how Parking and Shuttle Services hands out tickets like candy on Halloween.

It is understandable to have somewhat of a pricy parking permit for parking lots that are meant for student residents.

This is the equivalent of a parking permit for an apartment.

However, the rest of the parking on campus should be free or have lower prices to obtain one. There are colleges and universities that don’t demand nearly as much money for their parking.

For example, Yavapai College in Prescott doesn’t require any sort of parking permit. At universities such as Biola University and Chapman University, both in Calfornia, parking permits range from $120-$280 per year, whereas NAU permits cost $324–$418 per year.

When compared to ASU and UA, NAU does have cheaper prices for parking permits, but the school still nitpicks with all of their traffic violation tickets.

NAU gives out more expensive tickets than Arizona’s other two universities. An average parking ticket range for NAU is between $75 and $125.

ASU tickets range from $15 to $100 and common UA tickets are around $25. NAU could give out the more expensive tickets as a way of making up for having the cheapest parking permits for in-state schools.

While the school does have a suitable public transit system in Mountain Link, which goes to off-campus housing, there are still those who own cars and would rather use their own mode of transportation. Still, having Mountain Link run to more off-campus areas could decrease the use of cars on campus.

Even with the decrease of cars that public transportation offers, there still will be a large number of people with their own cars. Many of those car drivers will not want to pay for an expensive permit. Having more commuter lots could be a way to help convenience the students and get more people to park on campus. There would be plenty of students who would rather park in a commuter lot than pay much more money for a more convenient area, such as a parking garage.

Everyone complains about parking, no matter what school you attend, but Flagstaff has an issue with students’ cars overflowing into residential and commercial areas. This longstanding problem should be a red flag to the Parking Services.

While Southside will clear up with the parking issues, students will only find other ways to get around the expensive burden of having to park on campus and may just infest another area of town.

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WHAT IF THE MAYANS ARE RIGHT?

How NAU students would spend the rest of their days

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n case you haven’t heard, according to the Mayan Long Count calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. The Life section asked students how they would spend their last days on earth.

“There’s been organisms that have lived millions of years before us and there will be organisms that will live millions of years after us,” says Quinn Kawamoto, a sophomore forestry major. “A lot of people will say, ‘Well, you only live once, so you have to focus on yourself.’ I believe the opposite. You only live once, so you got to give as much as you can for anything or everything and make a positive difference. If I can make a positive difference for one person in that time stretch, I think that will be an accomplishment.”

“I think it’s pretty funny that people believe [that the world will end in 2012]. I believe that the world’s going to keep turning everyone’s going to live on,” says Aaron Benally, sophomore electronic media and film major. “But if the world was going to end from a meteor impact, I would jack a plane and fly towards the meteor and jump out with it and fall to earth alongside it. It’s going to be hard, but I’ll still try. I’ll finally go sky diving and I’ll do it

without a parachute because the world’s going to end anyway.”

Benally has an interesting perspective on end of the world orgies.

“I think I’d hop in one, but be sure to wear a condom. Even though the world’s about to end, I’d still feel kind of disgusted without one.

I just feel safer with it,” he says.

“I am of the opinion that the calendar was just unfinished; it didn’t predict the end of the world just the end of their calendar,” says Spencer Young, a political science sophomore. “I’m going to go with great apocalyptic natural disaster.

It’s not my favorite. I feel zombies would be fun, but I don’t know if that would fit into the Mayan prediction. I would say that natural disasters are more epic than the un-dead.”

If Young had to eat resort to canabalism to survive in a postapocolyptics world, he’d add a little spice to the dish.

“If I had to eat human and I didn’t have to kill them to eat them, I would probably use bernaise sauce [butter and spices],” he says.

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“If the world was ending I would probably quit school and go to Europe — because I don’t like this country and what it stands for,” says Kaylynne Gray, a freshman double majoring in psychology and women’s gender studies.

“I would see everything I wanted to see, eat everything I wanted to eat and I would try to take my family, friends and boyfriend. That way, I wouldn’t have to choose between what I wanted to do and who I want to be with. Lastly, I would go streaking through Congress, and somehow blackmail Jan Brewer into stepping down. I would also encourage people to boycott spending so the economy would crash. I would just do it all!”

“If the world was ending I would be much more uninhibited and act on impulse a lot more,” says Derek Engler, freshman arts and music major. “I would just do what I wanted because there wouldn’t necessarily be as many consequences if the world were ending.

I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind is to blow something up or destroy something. I feel like you should just say, ‘Forget it,’ and do what you want to do. The basic idea of having no authority above you is a nice idea.”

“If the world was ending, I would destroy the math system,” says Micah Segura, a freshman public health major. “I particularly am not one for math. I feel math is imposed upon us in our society, and I dont feel it’s right. I would probably also just break a lot of stuff.”

“I’d do the same thing I always do. I’d keep living my life the way I always do until the day came,” says Desiree Acevedo, freshman electrical engineering major.

“If the world ended in 2012, I would take all of my financial aid money and just blow it,” says Yessenia Rodriguez, freshman biology major. “Let’s see . . . with 25,000 dollars I would go on a cruise; I would go play with the dolphins in Ha-

waii; I’d go to Pearl Harbor. And then on the very last day of life I would stock myself with a lot of ice cream, and just die fat and young.

“Would I do anything before the world ended in 2012? I’d have sex,” says Anonymous.

Kimberly O’Hara, freshman interior design major says, “If I knew the world was going to end, I’d want to spend every last minute with the people I love most. Personally, I don’t believe that it’s going to end this year, but who knows what the future holds. I would travel to places I’ve always wanted to go, like Ireland and places in Europe, and I would get married.”

When Angie Racine, a junior majoring in electronic media and film was asked what she would do if the world was going to end this year she says, “I would quit school and travel around with my camera, and definitely run up my credit card bill.”

“I would spend time with my sister, see all seven continents with her, and take all of the opportunities that are there for us, and of course, I would read the Harry Potter series for the thirteenth time,” says Sydney Rhode, a freshman photojournalism major.

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Life

What you thought you knew about anarchism

BY JACKSON RICHARDSON

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hat is anarchism really about?

This is a question some have pondered, wanting to understand before jumping to conclusions. Having never been properly informed of this theory called anarchism, people like me often conceptualize anarchism with destruction, chaos and insanity — when really it has a much more peaceful motive. To better understand this concept, people within the Social and Behavioral Sciences building were able to provide answers.

“Anarchism is a kind of loose tradition of thought based on common themes, or ideas or values,” says Jeff Hilmer, a political science instructor with a doctorate in democratic theory who teaches a course on anarchism. “It’s better to think about what are the common themes and values that various people have expressed a similarity or affinity for — and then what they’ve been incorporated into in this tradition of anarchist thinking and practice by subsequent ‘anarchists,’ or people with similar ideas. As long as they’re based on some sort of direct consensus, or you might call it direct democracy. I’m convinced that what we mean by anarchy today is direct democracy — consensus based direct democracy.”

If anarchism is a tradition of thought based on a societal consensus, theme or value, one might wonder what are some of the common goals shared by anarchists?

“The fundamental goal is freedom of the individual, and any kind of restraint on the individual’s freedom is not acceptable,” Hilmer says. “Most anarchists are interested in pre-figuration, and what I mean by that is they’re interested in making sure their means, to achieve their goals, are consistent with their ideas. Anarchists are not interested in turning the United States into some sort of anarchist thing. It’s contrary to the anarchist ideal. What they want is the state to not exercise illegitimate authority over people. They want the people to be free, voluntary and ultimately, to make up their minds.”

With anarchism being the goal of individual freedom, one might wonder if that is the goal of all anarchists. Then the question arises: What makes a true anarchist?

“Anarchists tend to resist categories

and definitive sort of statements of what they believe in or who their founder was, because anarchists’ primary value is freedom — not liberty — but freedom from any kind of illegitimate authority,” Hilmer says.

“Anarchists, generally speaking, tend to be resistant to any kind of illegitimate authority, but they’re all for rules and laws and order and structure. But it has to be consensual, and this is fundamentally important. Anarchists believe in or argue for, or support the consensus model of

decision-making. Whatever their society may be, the anarchist is opposed to the state.”

After learning about the goals, values and themes of anarchism, many students around campus might not see it for what it is. One particular individual feels he is an anarchist; and his name is Wesley Burriesci, a freshman political science major. Burriesci shared with me his goals as an active anarchist.

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“When I’m in government, I’m going to do my best to influence the government system we have in America today, that is led by one man — to overthrow this one man,” Burriesci says. “This way, the people are actually making decisions, instead of this socalled democracy that we follow now.”

After hearing Burriesci’s individual practice of anarchism for the future, I heard a very different response from Nicolas Burnette, a freshman nursing major.

Burnette feels anarchism has no place

in society and that ultimately it will never work in our modern

world.

“Anarchists, to me, are people who have no actual idea what government means,” Burnette says. “It’s very idealistic but never is really going to work in a real world application setting.”

With such opposing viewpoints on what anarchism really is, one might wonder if anarchy is something we see today, and if

so what kinds of groups of “anarchist” exist?

“There are lots of anarchist organizations that are functioning today all around the world, and in the United States there’s probably thousands, tens of thousands,” Hilmer says. “I mean, if you have 10 people with a community garden and community gardens in their yards, and they share or barter the food, that’s anarchism.”

If anarchism can range from a community garden to something like the Occupy Movement, then why does the media typically only document destructive anarchism? It seems like the only types of anarchism we see in society is the chaotic kind, not the peaceful kind. Many people share a common misconception that anarchy is chaos, when really it is non-violent and can be both positive and effective.

“There are types of more militant anarchists who want to actively destroy the government by bomb throwing,” Hilmer says.

“But it’s not the sort of thing that is very representative of the kinds of anarchism that exist. But I don’t think there’s a lot of bomb-throwing, state-destructive kinds of thing going on. The anarchism that does exist is a less violent and in-yourface thing, but in some ways it’s more effective in the long run than say, bomb throwing anarchism and destroying the state. Because most [contemporary] anarchists argue that we need to create a world that is non-state based, they feel you can replace the state by creating alternative forms of social and political organizations.”

So, with a renewed look into anarchist values, you may be wondering if there is a core value system among anarchists; something they all go by to maintain the fundamental goal of an state-free society.

“Typically anarchists hold themselves to these four core values,” Hilmer says.

“There’s mutual aid, consensus-based decision making, direct democracy and voluntary cooperation. These are the four core values of almost all anarchists. These kind of time and time again core values are something all anarchist share.”

With a new perspective on anarchism and its values, we all might be more comfortable with this type of thinking in our society. It is not such a chaotic, destructive or insane way of thinking. It’s simply a way to create individual freedom.

Life

Bridging the

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hen I moved into the house I live in now, I brought several bags of jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea and put them in the refrigerator. At the same time, my American friend brought a coffee-maker and put it in the kitchen. Every morning, I boil hot water to make tea while he uses the coffee-maker. Both tea and coffee contain caffeine which rejuvenate our physical bodies. The fast rhythm of life requires high efficiency and intense concentration. This makes us want something that will refresh our minds. We have many choices, but if you have to make a choice between coffee and tea, which one do you prefer?

The word “coffee” originated from a Greek word meaning “strength and passionate.” In the 10th century, goat herders in Ethiopia discovered after their sheep ate one fruit of a wild shrub, the animals became very noisy and energetic. Then the Ethiopian people began to eat this fruit.

However, the first cup of coffee was made

by Arabians and the first coffee house was built in Syria. After that, the great transmission of coffee was contributed by France. French culture’s temperaments of freedom and romance match coffee’s dispositions. This is the reason why French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, French Revolution influential figure Robespierre and great French writers Victor Hugo and Balzac all had close relationships with coffee. Coffee has become a culture and also an art. Latte art is a widely known design.

It is a method of preparing coffee created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in an image on the surface of the latte.

Common types of latte arts

with Jiayi Fan

are swan latte, gingerbread latte, cinnamon latte, leaf chart and cyclone.

As for tea, it has a history of 5,000 years, much longer than coffee. The first cup of tea was an accident. In 2737 BC, according to Chinese mythology, a leaf from a wild tree dropped into the water and the Chinese Emperor Yan decided to try the brew. The earliest records of tea drinking can be dated back to the Qin Dynasty in China. Then it became popular during the Tang Dynasty, which was a highly prosperous feudal period from 618 to 907. Tea was spread at this time to Korea and Japan because of the Tang Dynasty’s friendly diplomatic policy. Chinese tea has been a favorite subject among poets for centuries.

Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty wrote about 400 poems on Chinese tea. The most popular one is “Boiling Tea with Water Lilly Dew”: “Dew drops from a water lily, I take a tray to catch it They’re the essence of sky and earth Clay teapot, celadon cups They take charge of a perfect brew A smile rest on my lips For my tea looks as lovely as emeralds.”

Through the process of globalization, people have the choice of both coffee and tea. You can have a morning coffee to wake you up or enjoy an afternoon tea to fulfill your energy. I found a fashionable trend in China about people’s attitudes towards coffee and tea: “Do you want to have coffee with Picasso? Or do you want to have afternoon tea with Renoir?” Both coffee art and tea art can be related to famous artists or emperors, and to the great enjoyment that holding a cup of coffee and tea bring to us.

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CouchTalk with Emily Appleton

ocial networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and LinkedIn are growing quickly with no end in sight for their growth potential. People use these websites to communicate, network and socialize with their friends and family.

Social media operates on a very important principle: human connection. People act according to their perceived level of efficacy and influence. Social networks have united people from all walks of life and allowed them to gain insight into understanding their behaviors, choices and actions through a computer screen. We are able to understand ourselves in the context of other people. Sites like these make it easier to define who we are and to recognize the role we have within our perceived connections.

Just this past week, I was informed via these social media sites about Joseph Kony, an African warlord, and the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He has been tormenting civilians, mainly children, in northern Uganda for the past 25 years. Thanks to the successful social media campaign titled “Kony 2012,” Kony is now under worldwide spotlight. A week ago, the non-profit group Invisible Children released a video on the Internet through YouTube which reached over 40 million views. In the matter of a few days, the video reached millions of people with the help of these social websites. But why am I just hearing about Kony now?

Social networking sites allow people to bypass mainstream news and media.

This may be the most important point of all, considering many conventional news sources today only report what they are instructed to report, which is often times not what is most dire. Malcolm X once said, “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the

people who are doing the oppressing.” It is worrisome to think that Kony and his rebel group have been tormenting more than 30,000 people for longer than I have been alive and yet I had never heard the media report once on the LRA or Joseph Kony until after social networking sites and nonprofit agencies began spreading the word.

Capturing Kony has been the focus of many governments for years, and it will obviously take more than posting a video online to detain him. However, the viral video I viewed was a marvelous first step in informing civilians of the cruelty. Metaphorically speaking, trying to organize a sleeping people around certain objectives without waking them up is inefficient and futile. The first step is waking people up and creating awareness, which has now been done.

Invisible Children has done a lot to create a stir about the happenings across the world. Recently, they have been criticized for the way in which the video minimizes the complicated choices that are involved in attempting to actually capture Kony and his forces. What the group did do is keep the message simple and compelling to youth’s pathos on sites that they frequent. The group was also effective in engaging the audiences by petitioning to celebrities and politicians to help influence people in ways Invisible Children could not.

We can see the impact these sites have had on exposing ongoing acts of violence and it is clear when social media subscribers come together, nothing can stop the resultant power of an educated and united force.

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Legal pot

Educating students in the rich tradition of ceramic arts

LEFT AND RIGHT: Ceramics majors Hailey Campanella and Coleton Lunt work on their individual projects, sculpting a human figure and glazing a vase with materials from scratch. (Photos by Jon Novak) CENTER: One of NAU’s wood kilns fires projects overnight. (Photo by Kelly Woodruff)

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eramics. It is commonly thought of as an easy elective class taken in high school, a class that may be “dirtier” than most, but guarantees an easy “A”. However, the reality of this unique art is a bit different. In fact, the ceramics program at NAU is nationally and internationally recognized; it caters to students who have found a love for the art and are seeking their degree in it.

Junior ceramics major Coleton Lunt had been experimenting in the art for about six years before coming to college. At first, it was just a hobby, but he quickly became passionate about it and decided to take it to the next level.

“Everyone I talked to said that NAU’s wood-firing and overall ceramics program was one of the best in the nation and definitely [the best] in the West for a bachelor’s degree,” Lunt said.

When Lunt discovered the oncampus studio that provides an abundance of materials and access to tools, he was convinced NAU was the school for him.

“It’s like a whole new, weird, little world of ce-

ramics people,” he said.

So far, Lunt has only taken two classes that solely focus on ceramics, but he has enjoyed both of them. “I like that they introduce me to new concepts that I wouldn’t normally explore on my own, and they push me out of my comfort level, but at the same time they are also really laid back, and we can just go to the studio and do our own thing,” he said.

Steven Schaeffer, a professor in the College of Arts and Letters, explained what the nature of ceramics is like at NAU. “Ceramics is about educating students in the rich tradition of the ceramic arts,” Schaeffer said. “From beginners to advanced skills, students are challenged in a variety of areas. Wheel work, hand-building, sculpture, casting, moldmaking, glazing and firing: There are so many aspects to creating a true work of art. It takes many years of dedication to become a true master.”

The career opportunities that suit ceramics majors tend to be very specialized. Schaeffer explained, “The majority of our students eventually go on to graduate schools and residency programs across the country and abroad. Ultimately, these people become teachers at other universities or working artists in their own studios.”

When speaking about his future, Lunt explained he wants to get his master’s degree in order to become a professor of ceramics. “But I don’t want to stop there,” he said.

“I want to continue to evolve my work and push my limits,

and my longest term goal is to be a great and well-known artist. I may just have these hopes and aspirations because I am young, and they may end up getting crushed in the end, but oh well, I mean, I am going to enjoy this while I can.

My long term goal, to sum it up, is basically just to make awesome art.”

According to the NAU ceramics web page, the university operates seven different wood fire kilns. They are located outside the ceramics complex on south campus and can be seen firing through the year. This is where the ceramics students get hands-on experience.

“Two of our kilns have been built exclusively by students. These people have a deep passion for wood-firing and the rich natural effects it gives the work. Wood-firing takes a community effort, so it helps us build strong relations and understandings with our students,” Schaeffer said.

These kilns are just another addition to the fine reputation that the NAU ceramics department maintains. It gives students like Lunt the opportunity to create objects that people can actually put to use — such as a bowl or a vase.

“It’s not like paintings, where you just look at them in a gallery,” Lunt said. “Ceramics is an art that is so different than any other art, mainly because the process is so physical and you really got to get your hands in the clay; it’s so much more involved and so much work, so when you actually do get something that is beautiful and you are satisfied, it’s just that much more rewarding.”

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SportsReport NAU Track and Field in stride over spring break Stuart and Tang named Big Sky Field Athletes of the Week following Willie Williams Invitational

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he NAU track and field team began its outdoor season at the Willie Williams Invitational at Roy P. Drachman Stadium in Tucson, and left the meet with 16 men and 14 women earning Big Sky Championships (BSC) qualifiers.

Following the meet, redshirt sophomore hammer-thrower Lauren Stuart was named BSC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week, alongside fellow redshirt senior hammer-thrower Pascal Tang, who claimed the Men’s Field Athlete of the Week.

“I really see this is a sign of things to come in terms of what these two can do the rest of this season,” said assistant track and field coach Oscar Duncan.

Stuart threw to a sixth place finish in the women’s hammerthrow with a distance of 185–9 meters and Tang secured top honors on the men’s

side with a throw of 200–8 meters. Junior thrower Kasandra Vegas tossed the discus 139–10.25 meters, earning her a sixth place finish on the second day of the event.

On the track, redshirt senior mid-distance and long-distance runner John Yatsko, competed for the first time in the 3,000-meter steeple chase, and ran to a first place finish with a time of 9:24.12, a staggering 15 seconds ahead of Arizona’s Kevin Bierig.

“I don’t train specifically for that race, so it definitely felt pretty good to get the win,” Yatsko said. “It’s a pretty notorious event, so to feel this good after running it, I’m looking forward to improving on it more this season.”

Joining Yatsko and Tang at the top of the podium were redshirt sophomore Andre Gaines, who placed first in the men’s long jump by leaping 24-2.25

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meters, and freshman Deante Kemper, finishing first in the men’s high-jump by clearing a height of 7 feet 1 inch. Sophomore Edgar Panford landed in third place in the triple jump with a distance of 48–9.5 meters.

Senior sprinter and hurdler Jenne Childs tied for fourth in the 100-meter hurdles, and sophomore Lauren Laszczak jumped 5 feet, 4.25 inches in the high-jump for fifth place.

Freshman Lisa Lantz finished fifth as well in the pole-vault at a height of 11 feet 6 inches.

“I was really impressed with all these athletes and how they performed, especially having just come off spring break,” said director of track and field and cross country Eric Heins.

“It’s a great thing for us to come out and get so many Big Sky qualifiers this early in the outdoor season.”

Estrada ends season with two top-10 finishes at Nationals in Idaho

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ollowing a season of shattering records and claiming top-10 honors in many of his races, redshirt junior Diego Estrada concluded his indoor season with fifth and seventh place finishes at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boise, Idaho on March 9 and 10.

Estrada, the lone NAU competitor, represented the Jacks by attaining 6-team points for his fifth and seventh place finishes in the 5K and 3K races.

Estrada was three-tenths of a second shy of fourth place in Friday night’s 5K-run.

Estrada finished fifth w i t h a season best time of 13:38.45.

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of track and field and cross country Eric Heins. “He looked great through the halfway point in sticking with the leaders and covering their moves.”

Saturday evening, Estrada concluded his 2012 indoor season with a time of 7:53.39 and a seventh place finish in the men’s 3K race.

“Diego was a lot happier with the way this race turned out tonight because he ran the race how he wanted to run it,” Heins said.

With these two finishes, Estrada has garnered seven career All-American honors.

BELOW: Senior relay runner and sprinter Dennis Givens anchors the NAU mens 4X400–meter relay team in their third place finish at the Willie Williams Invitational in Tucson.(Photo courtesy of Matt Sewell via NAU Media Relations)

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A family affair

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ften in professional sports, brothers and sisters compete against each other. Whether it is the Manning or Barber brothers in the NFL or the Williams sisters in professional tennis, these siblings helped get each other to where they are today.

NAU is no different; there are three sets of active siblings across four different sports. The Freeman twins participate in track and field and cross country. The Bailey twins are on the football team and the Dallmann sisters participate in volleyball and swimming.

The Freeman sisters, Kayla (who is older by two minutes) and Shayla are both freshman runners for the Lumberjacks. Shayla was always interested in running, and began in high school, but if not for the summer practices, Kayla may not have ever gotten involved.

“I was too scared to go to practice by myself,” Shayla said. “It was over the summer, the first day of practice, and so I was like ‘Kayla, just go for the first three days, [and] once I make a friend, then you don’t have to stay.’ She was like, ‘Fine, I hate running, running is for losers,’ then she got hooked. That’s how we got started in the same sport.”

Because the identical twins ran most of the same events in high school, the competitiveness helped push the sisters to battle each other, usually resulting in first and second place honors for them.

“It gets emotional. It gets very heated, like really fast. You know how there’s sibling rivalry; I feel like twin rivalry is the worst, you can’t get any worse than that,” Kayla said. “We’re so close, and everyone always says, ‘Oh you guys are like the same,’ but then when we’re not the same, one has to win. You can’t just both win.

We wouldn’t do like, ‘Oh this is your favorite race, so I’ll let you win.’ No, you need to earn the win. So we would like out-kick each other and then there would be some tears sometimes, some anger, and the cold shoulder. It was rough. I felt bad for my parents and our coaches. They would try to congratulate the other one. It would be like first and second place too. The one in second would be so

Tyler (left) and Blake (right) Bailey help each other improve on the field every day. (Photo courtesy of Steve Shaff via NAU Media Relations)

LEFT: Freshman Katie Dallmann finished No. 17 in the preliminary 1-meter dive at the WAC Championships.

(Photo courtesy of Jeff Huehn via NAU Media Relations.) RIGHT: Junior Kelli Dallmann (right) celebrates with the volleyball team during a home match. (Photo by Sarah Hamilton)

upset.”

Despite the intense twin rivalry, the Phoenix natives are there for each other as well.

“If we’re not racing [against each other], we’re each other’s biggest supports,” Shayla said.

Blake and Tyler Bailey, fraternal twins separated by one hour (Blake is older), hail from San Diego. The twins enjoyed growing up together, knowing that they always had someone to hang-out with.

“Growing up with a twin, it was interesting,” Tyler said. “It was fun, because you always had that one person to relate to, and you always find common stuff that you always seem to be interested in. We have similar things that we like, but we have different personalities. It’s pretty fun because you basically do everything with your twin.”

The Baileys are both cornerbacks for the NAU football team.

Blake redshirted his freshman year and walked on the team, receiving a partial scholarship, but earned a full one due to his work ethic.

Despite neither one seeing play time, they continue to help each other grow as athletes.

“We always wanted to do our best,” Blake said. “We would have little competitions to see who gets better each game.”

The brothers have always played on the same teams, so playing college ball together is nothing new to them.

“Way back, when we were playing tee-ball, my dad always tried to keep us on the same team so we would have that camaraderie and just that bonding and time,” Tyler said. “Pop-Warner to tee-ball, even high school; all four years of high school we were on the same basketball team, track team and football team.”

The Baileys, much like the Freemans, have that sibling rivalry that carries over from competition to competition, pushing each other to do better.

“We try to have that mutual respect for each other,” Tyler said.

“Every now and again, we’ll tease each other. It just makes us wanna work harder to keep that competitive scale up to a high level.”

The San Diego natives did not always plan on going to the same college, but their parents were fans of them attending college together, with them feeling, “more comfortable with us being together,’” Tyler explained.

While the Dallmann sisters may not be twins, or play the same sport, they still offer the same support system that the Freeman and Bailey siblings offer each other. Kelli is about three years older than Katie, or two school years as Katie put it, and is the starting setter for the volleyball team. Katie is on the diving squad and finishing her freshman year as a Lumberjack.

While the competitive nature of the Dallmann’s may not be on the court or in the pool, it does lie at home, with the rest of their family.

“We play lots of stuff at home where, our whole family is competitive,” Kelli said. “My mom, my dad and my other sister; it gets pretty intense.”

Because of the age gap, the sisters never had the opportunity to be on the same team, but were always there for each other. Katie enjoys having her big sister around.

“If I don’t have anywhere to go, I just come with her,” Katie said. “She takes me to eat and she’s just like my mom.”

Kelli does not mind having her around because she is protective of her sister. She appreciates having family in Flagstaff.

“It’s nice to have someone here that you can just go to,” Kelli said.

The sisters described themselves as the calm ones of the family, with their younger sister being the one to instigate everything.

“We’re kinda of the calm ones when we’re together, but our other sister gets involved — and chaos,” Kelli said. “The little one is the bully, she beat us up, she tries to beat us up, [and] she thinks she can beat us up.”

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Ice Jacks use nationals as a learning experience

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his past weekend, the NAU Ice Jacks competed in their first national playoff tournament as a Division II team.

The team packed their bags and jetted over a dozen states to Fort Meyers, Fla., where NAU went 0–3 in the first round and was unable to advance to next round. The Ice Jacks lost Friday to the Grand Valley State Lakers 8–2, then lost Saturday 9–0 to the Penn State Nittany Lions. Sunday, NAU came up short against the Siena University Saints in a 3–1 loss.

Despite being on the wrong side of the scoreboard in all three match-ups, the NAU coaching staff felt the team took a wealth of experience home from the Sunshine State and will be better prepared for years to come in national tournaments.

“It was a great learning experience for our guys, even though it took a lot out of us,” said general manager AJ Fairchild. “The level of competition at nationals is extremely high, but now we know what level we’d have to play at. We were

put in a tough first-round pool, but I feel we’re only a couple players away from being able to move on to the next round, if not further.”

Sunday afternoon, the Ice Jacks battled Siena University in hopes of tallying at least one win for the weekend. The Ice Jacks took a 1-0 lead midway through the first period when senior forward Michael Farnham scored a goal set up by junior forward Nick Short and junior defenseman Justin Frenchione. Sophomore goalie James Korte was in the net for NAU and gave his team a chance to win by stopping the puck 32 times.

NAU never really had a fighting chance against Penn State, as the Nittany Lions scored at least two goals in every period, including four goals in the final stanza of the game.

The Ice Jacks were able to get some pucks toward the net, but Penn State goalie Tom Badals closed the door on all 24 shots.

Despite the uneven scoreboard, NAU’s goalie, junior Quinn Mason, was the star of the game. The Lions generated enough

offense to record 70 shots on net, and Mason stopped 61 of them.

“When the coaches told me I was starting, I was excited and nervous at the same time,” Mason said. “I know the score makes it sound like I didn’t play well, but I had 70 shots on me. When there’s that many shots, goals are bound to go in.”

In their first game of the tournament, NAU lost 8–2 against the Grand Valley State Lakers. In this match, like Mason, Korte was one of the star’s of the game, saving 50 shots while under constant pressure. Senior forward captain Tucker Braund and sophomore forward Zach Fader both capitalized on power plays to put NAU on the board. Sophomore forward Greg Park and sophomore defenseman Dillon Butenhoff, along with Frenchione, all picked up assists on the stat sheet.

“It felt really good just to be there,” Braund said. “To be one of the top 16 teams in the nation at our level is an accomplishment by itself. Sure, we would have loved to have played better but this was a good learning experience for the future.”

Junior goalie Quinn Mason keeps his eye on the puck during the Nittany Lions 9–0 blowout against the Lumberjacks at nationals in Ft. Meyers, Fla. (Photo By Dan Mason)

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SportsReport Tennis splits matches, sweeps home opener ters, who went 5–1 in his pairings during the weekend, playing in the No. 2 position. he NAU men’s tennis team conPrior to falling to UNLV, NAU cluded its spring break with a 2–2 snapped a five-match losing streak with record. a 5–2 match victory against USU (4–7) to The men’s squad (4–8, 1–2 BSC) re- get the Lumberjacks back in the win colbounded from a 1–2 trip to Las Vegas by umn. sweeping the Western Illinois University NAU kicked its day off right with the (WIU) Fighting Leathernecks in team- team sweeping doubles against USU to points 7–0, and only dropped one doubles claim the matches first point. The Lummatch in its home opener. berjacks clinched the match victory with The tandem of sophomore Dominic three straight singles wins by Bermudez, Bermudez and junior Patrick Schimmel- Schimmelbauer and junior Robert Martin, bauer dropped a doubles match against the all in straight-sets.

Leathernecks. The pair forced a tie-breakWaters wrapped up the day with a er set, but could not overcome their oppo- straight-set victory in his first appearance nents, and dropped the match 9–8 (7–5). of the season at the No. 2 position.

NAU swept WIU in straight sets dur“We got the doubles point and had ing singles play with freshman Trevor Un- a lot of confidence going into singles. ger claiming the go-ahead match point and They’re getting better and better every securing the team victory for the Jacks. day,” Heckley said. “We went out there and The Jacks fincompeted and did ished the first weekwe needed to “We had to step up, and what end of the break in Las do.”

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To open the even though we leave 1–2, After dropping three day trip, the we really stepped up our Lumberjacks fell to their opening match against the No. 74 Cardinals (12– games and that’s going to the ranked Ball State Uni4) 5–2 on Friday. be good for us when we versity Cardinals, the After losing Lumberjacks defeated the doubles point play the rest of our con- 1–2, the Cardinals the Utah State University (USU) Aggies beference matches,” Joseph clinched the vicfore losing to the Unitory over the Lumversity of Nevada, Las Heckley said. “What we’re berjacks by winVegas (UNLV) Rebels the first three working on is paying off.” ning to wrap up the trip. singles matches be“It was definitely fore Schimmelbaua good bounce-back from the Weber State, er and Waters emerged victorious at the Idaho State weekend,” said assistant coach No. 4 and No. 3 positions in straight sets.

Joseph Heckley via NAU Athletics. “We “It’s tough to lose when it’s this close,” had to step up, and even though we leave said Heckley, via NAU Athletics. “We lost 1–2, we really stepped up our games and 5–2, but we could’ve won 4–3. We should’ve that’s going to be good for us when we play had it in doubles against a ranked team; we the rest of our conference matches. What were a match point away from getting the we’re working on is paying off.” doubles. Ball State has a lot of depth and The Lumberjacks wrapped up their we were right there with them.” weekend trip on March 11, when they fell For his performance during the week6–1 to the Rebels (7–8) on Sunday. end matches in Sin City, which included a Despite how the Lumberjacks’ top 3–0 singles record, Waters earned Big Sky doubles team of junior Shaun Waters and Conference Player of the Week honors for Unger won their match, the team dropped his production. the doubles point.

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NAU ends swim and dive season

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for the Lumberjacks. She posted a 204.45 to finish in 18th place. She ended 10.2 points away from qualifying for the final. Holly Frost finished 25th with a score of 179.10 and Anderson followed up in 27th place with 169.15. The meet was the final performance for both Frost and Anderson.

Ardavanis also lead NAU in the 1-meter. She finished in 24th with a score of 245.05. Anderson posted a 231.10 and Lents posted a 230.90 landing them in 31st and 32nd place respectively. Frost finished two spots behind the pair in 34th place with a score of 227.60.

“All four of our divers here had at least one good day this weekend and everyone fought really hard,” Huffman said. “It’s tough to compete against the best divers in the west, and I’m proud of the effort this weekend and all season.”

he NAU divers traveled to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. for the NCAA Zone E Diving Regional on March 8. The meet was the last leg in qualifying for the NCAA diving championships.

NAU sent four participants in this meet, seniors Cassie Anderson and Holly Frost, junior Kristy Ardavanis and freshman Kali Lents. Nineteen schools from across the West Coast came to the meet in an attempt to qualify with eight spots left for the NCAA Championships.

“Making NCAA’s is very difficult,” said diving coach Nikki Huffman. “But, I think if they put one of their best performances together, I am expecting very good things from all of them.”

On the 1-meter dive, all four divers qualified.

Anderson was the lone Lumberjack to not qualify for the 3-meter. Ardavanis was the only Jack to not place on the platform.

“It really is a mental game, and you have to be thinking about what you can do and what you can control when competing against so many other divers,” Frost said.

In the 3-meter, Ardavanis posted a preliminary score of 278.25 and in the final posted a score of 566.60 placing her 12th overall.

“Kristy just dove really well today,” Huffman said.

Anderson posted a preliminary score of 243.70 and landed in 31st place in the 3-meter, preventing a dive in the finals. Lents and Frost placed 40th and 41st respectively, with preliminary scores of Senior diver Holly Frost performs during the NCAA Zone 219.80 and 212.70.

On the platform, E Diving Regionals at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

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t the 84th annual Academy Awards, a lovable and eccentric green lizard ended up walking away with the award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Rango, the wild-west tale of a vagrant lizard (the film’s titular character, voiced by Johnny Depp) who stumbles upon a water-starved town called Dirt, beat out competition from industry heavyweights Pixar and DreamWorks Animation to be crowned as the top animated film of the year.

This lofty recognition is the culmination of thousands of hours of work by animators, concept artists, story boarders and multitudes of other movie personnel who dedicated their past several years to creating the best film possible. It is also the first fully animated feature created by George Lucas’s motion picture visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic.

Ultimately, it is the glorious realization of an idea between notable Hollywood director Gore Verbinski and NAU alumnus James Ward Byrkit, an idea that originated from their ongoing collaborations and professional relationship that has endured for over a decade.

Ever since he was a young boy, Byrkit always possessed an affinity and creative passion for film.

“I loved Star Wars as a kid, and was always drawing and inventing stories, imagining them as films,” Byrkit said. “I automatically created film ideas wherever I went, and my friends and I loved to talk about movies.

I never had much of a plan for pursuing a career, but I found myself instinctively moving closer and closer to people and places associated with films.”

After graduating from NAU in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Byrkit enrolled in the Los Angeles-based California Institute of the Arts (CAL Arts), an educational establishment dedicated toward the teaching and critical study of both the performing and visual arts. It was there that Byrkit’s extensive illustrative and image conceptualization skills were viewed as a valuable commodity. Byrkit’s time as a student at CAL Arts not only helped him refine and enhance his illustrative abilities, but also allowed him to begin estab-

lishing a foothold in the film world.

“People who tell you it is difficult are not telling you the whole story. It is much, much harder than you can imagine,” Byrkit said, on the topic of attempting to enter the notoriously selective movie mecca known as Hollywood. “I was a 24-year-old kid from Flagstaff who never even knew anyone who had been on a film set. But going to CAL Arts after NAU got me around like-minded students. And it turned out my skill at storyboarding was a huge help.”

Soon after graduating from CAL Arts, Byrkit found himself composing storyboards for Verbinski, who at the time was an up-and-coming director whose portfolio consisted mainly of various television commercials. He had directed TV shorts for many reputable brands including Nike, Canon, Coca-Cola, Skittles and United Airlines. He was also in charge of shooting the famous and critically acclaimed Budweiser Frogs commercial, which garnered several advertising industry awards. Byrkit and Verbinski struck up an instant friendship.

“I storyboarded dozens of commercials for him and we slowly developed a great collaborative relationship,” Byrkit said. “He’s a mad genius and we share an absurd sense of humor, love of movies and tequila.”

Even as Byrkit’s career began advancing and more opportunities became available to him, Verbinski continued to collaborate with him on his film projects.

“When I started directing commercials myself, [Verbinski] moved into directing features and would ask me to help him plan his films,” Byrkit said. “Sometimes he would just need to bounce ideas around, and sometimes he would need some specific thing designed.

Byrkit went on to serve as a production illustrator for Verbinski’s 1997 comedy Mousehunt, which starred Nathan Lane and Lee Evans as two brothers attempting to rid their house of a cunning and crafty mouse. He then lent his creative and artistic talents toward conceptualizing Verbinski’s 2002 horror thriller The Ring.

“On The Ring, I ended up doing hundreds of drawings that the little boy made of his visions, drawing like I did when I was a kid,” Byrkit said.

Around the same time, Byrkit found himself occupying the role of storyboard artist and conceptual consultant for Verbinski’s upcoming big-budget blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a film that spawned two successful sequels and raked in over $1 billion at the box office. Prior to shooting, Byrkit traveled with Verbinski and other members of the production

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crew to check out the various possible shooting locations for the film.

“The location scouts were adventures in themselves,” Byrkit said. “It was so early in the process, and each new island would inspire us to create a new crazy scene for the films. ‘What about a rolling water wheel down that slope!

How about a chase through this jungle!’ On the island of Dominica, we got left behind by our local ‘coast guard’ boat and had to trek our way back through the most ridiculous jungle you can imagine. I, of course, neglected to bring shoes. Or any clothes besides my swim trunks. We staggered out, delirious, and found our way to a medicine woman making her own rum in bottles that looked like they were 300 years old.”

Following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Byrkit reprised his storyboarding and consultant roles for both Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End. During the laborious and time-consuming filming process for Pirates of the Caribbean, Byrkit and Verbinski began to toss around the concept of creating a fully-animated feature involving a lizard in a classic Wild West setting. Once At World’s End was officially completed, they both decided to attempt to turn their ambitious concept into cinema reality.

Their numerous brainstorming sessions covered all aspects of the creative spectrum — they wrote music, fleshed out characters, composed countless designs/ storyboards, and slowly infused life and thematic significance into the animated feature that would be called Rango.

“Neither of us had ever made an animated feature before so we were winging it the whole time,” Byrkit said. “We would joke and say ‘Maybe we should buy a ‘How-to-Makean-Animated-Movie’ book.’ We worked out of a house near

some great hiking hills. Basically, we would take long hikes to discuss the story, themes, characters, and then come back to the house and act out scenes, storyboard shots, and record temporary voices. Gore and I did all the voices at first. I was Rango, he was Beans, etc. We would write music, work with our editor, work with the character designers, and slowly put together all the elements. It was organized chaos, but very deliberate and with very little wasted effort.”

Among his many notable contributions to the film, Byrkit is responsible for the original sketches of the greenskinned titular character, designing several other prominent characters and co-writing the script.

Byrkit and Verbinski’s initial unfamiliarity with animated films ended up being a blessing: It allowed them to create an innovative movie of their own, devoid of any industry normality and influence.

“We didn’t know the rules to Pixar or DreamWorks animated projects, so we inadvertently broke them all,” Byrkit said. “We hoped that if we made something that we liked, then it might find its way to others that would enjoy it.”

Rango opened in theaters on March 4, 2011. It received mass critical acclaim, and garnered an impressive 88 percent on RottenTomatoes.com, a popular movie review aggregator website. It ended up grossing over $123 million in the United States and $121 million overseas. Byrkit provided the vocal talent for five minor characters in the film.

“I was Waffles the breathy horny toad,” Byrkit said. “And several other tiny roles like the turkey that gets tossed out of the bar after Rango encourages him to assert himself. And one of the inbred rodents. And the guy leaving town in the Grapes of Wrath wagon.”

While Byrkit is relishing Rango’s Oscar victory, the experience of working on the film is what he truly appreciates

Gore Verbinski (left) and James Byrkit (right) pose at the premiere of Rango. (Photo courtsey of Paramount Pictures)

and will never forget.

“The real reward was being fortunate enough to get to work on a project that allowed full creativity in all of the areas I’m interested in,” Byrkit said. “Working with writer John Logan was inspirational. Gore is amazing, as were all of the artists and actors who brought the show to life. I’m very aware of how rare it is to experience something like this, and the award is a great final gesture to remember it all. Mostly, I’m just so lucky that I found my way to a project I loved.”

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Upcoming rap artist Chris Solomon to perform at Mad Italian

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any of today’s most popular rappers, including Lil Wayne, Jay Electronica and Curren$y have originated from the Big Easy. Chris Solomon is yet another New Orleans musical prospect setting his sights on stardom. This 21-yearold rap newcomer initially intended for music to be a side project, but it quickly found itself at the center of his life.

“I originally started doing music by accident. I created a band with my close friends known as K.O.B. It started out as a hobby, and has since transformed into my passion,” Solomon said. “People started listening to my music and it spread to different countries.

I then had several opportunities to attend record label meetings and radio interviews. At the young age of 21, I realized how competitive the music industry was, and I knew it was where I belonged.”

So far, Solomon has been involved in the creation of his own music and fan base. He possesses over 10,000 Twitter followers as well as 10,000 plays on his single “I Got It.” He is currently in the process of establishing himself both as an artist and brand name. Solomon’s raps are all based on personal experiences that his fans are able to relate with. Solomon is attempting to differentiate himself from other artists.

“Well, for one, I create my own sound. I am more of

a trendsetter than a follower. I am a leader and I am very humble and honest. I am different in all aspects,” Solomon said.

His music genres include hip-hop, pop and rock.

“My music really can’t be described with words. You have to listen to it for yourself to understand. I like to say my music is oldschool swag taken to another level,” Solomon said. “I freestyle to instrumentals which transforms into tracks. I memorize all of my freestyles, and very rarely write anything down. I have a true gift.”

Solomon has high aspirations and is determined to make a name for himself in the mainstream music industry. His strong family bonds help inspire and encourage him to continue pursuing his dream.

“My mother and brother are my music background because they have motivated me and have watched me go from struggling to being successful.” Solomon said. “My family and friends are my musical influences.”

Solomon is starting a tour from the West Coast to the Midwest and is currently working on his first mixtape.

Solomon will be performing live at the Mad Italian on March 23. The cover charge will be $10 before 11 p.m. and $15 after 11 p.m.

Doors open at 9 p.m. For more information concerning Solomon’s music, follow him on Twitter at @musicofchris and listen to tracks on http://www.reverbnation.com/chrissolomonmusic.

(Photo courtsey of Donsha Hutcherson)

NAU Clay Club sends students to national conference

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Brian Pierce, a post-baccalauréat student, sculpts a ceramic bowl alongside Levon Miller, a junior ceramics major, and their instructor Jason Hess. (Photo by Rose Clements)

BY CARA BUCHANAN

he NAU Clay Club has fired up it’s kiln and casted it’s clay in hopes of impressing the Flagstaff community and The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

The NCECA is a weekend-long conference bringing approximately 6,000 artists, professors and art admirers to one city a year.

“It’s one thing to pick up a magazine or look at an online gallery and much different to walk into a place and actually see the work and meet some of the people that make these things,” said Jason Hess, a school of art professor. “Clay is a very versatile material and that’s what I love about it. You take this earthy material and fire it into stone and it becomes a permanent thing offering a whole expressive range and the possibilities are endless.”

NAU ceramic students and members of the Clay Club, senior Duncan Tweed and graduate student Brian Pierce, are finalists in the conference competition, which allotted a wide range of artistic submissions from undergraduate and graduate students.

“The piece I submitted was a set of three

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flasks,” Tweed said. “They were fired in an atmospheric kiln which alters the hues of the clay’s surface depending on the path of the flame through the kiln and the intensity of the heat.”

The once regional conference is now national, growing in participants and expanding student engagement.

“It’s pretty stiff competition and we are really honored to have two students who got into that,” Hess said.

The NAU Clay Club is familiar to the conference and many students have been finalists in past years. This will be Tweed’s third year in the competition.

“My favorite part about the convention is just the number of ceramic artists in one location. If there is one thing I love talking about, it’s ceramics, and the vast majority of the population has no idea what I’m talking about,” Tweed said. “This is one of my few chances to fully embrace my passion for ceramics by being surrounded by thousands of others who share my interest.”

The panel of judges looks for skill, quality, craftsmanship and content, and award numerous cash prizes and sponsored ameni-

ties, including artist’s tools and magazine subscriptions.

“The juried student exhibition is actually one of the better exhibitions at NCECA; it’s one that everyone looks forward to,” Hess said.

While studying at NAU, ceramics students have access to the biggest wood kiln at any university in the country.

“I enjoy ceramics because of the satisfaction I get from creating things with my hands.

There is nothing quite as motivating or satisfying as starting with basic raw materials, making your own clay, creating work, firing the kiln yourself with glazes,” Tweed said. “No matter how much I learn there is always more that can be done to improve my skills or understanding of the process.”

The NAU Clay Club will be holding their annual Soup Bowl Fundraiser at the Drury Inn on March 22-23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The club hopes to raise $2,000 to cover travel expenses.

For $10, attendees will receive a ceramic bowl (to keep) of soup and bread donated by The Wildflower Bread Company.

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BY MYKEL VERNON-SEMBACH

here’s not a songful soul that hasn’t heard of the The Shins. Since starting in the late ‘90s, The Shins have championed adaptation and forged their own signature sound in alternative rock. Despite their seniority among musicians today, their most recent album, Port Of Morrow, would not have happened without a little change.

It has been five years since the dreary Wincing the Night Away came out, and since then, ringleader James Mercer has made decent headway with some rather unorthodox decisions, mainly, his newest band lineup. Port of Morrow has been quite the collaborative piece. Even with some influence from former band members Dave Hernandez, Marty Crandall, Eric D. Johnson and Ron Lewis, Mercer heavily relied on the work of songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin. Organs, keyboards, glockenspiel, lap steel guitar and brass all give Port of Morrow its shape, a theme of mortal duality. Prepped with new band members under Mercer’s self-owned record label, Aural Apothecary, Port of Morrow has blossomed well in the late winter weather.

While Wincing the Night Away began with their slow rise of “Sleeping Lessons,” Port of Morrow’s first track, “The Rifle’s Spiral” is demanding and aggressive, taking no time to ease into their new skin. Noticeably, Port of Morrow is seamless — binding the vocal and instrumental; fitting together like interlacing hands of childlike admiration.

Following is their single release, “Simple Song” which is anything but. Nothing is put on the back burner here, and the intimate lyrics further confirm Mercer is completely enamored with the dichotomy of relationships. Each instrument is pleasantly independent, frolicking harmoniously among Mercer’s lyrics while retaining coherence. It only takes these two tracks to see the influence Mercer’s side band, Broken Bells, has truly held over this latest album.

Of course, Mercer hasn’t strayed far from his starryeyed roots, and travels back with “September.” He holds his own among the slow acoustic sounds of the bass guitar and lap steel; in the words of Mercer, he “Coos so gently, soft and low” like a sweet lullaby for the alternative ears.

Overall, the bottleshock of this album from Wincing the Night Away is a bit, well, shocking. But Mercer eases the audience into The Shins’ new age of sound, catching up with the likes of Arcade Fire, The National and Cold War Kids. The Shins’ latest decently produced, light popelectronia album makes for a classic gone contemporary.

Best Tracks: “The Rifle Spiral” & “Bait And Switch”

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hate this movie. I hate it because I really wanted to hate it, and yet when I was walking home with my group we did nothing but quote it. It is not right. Now, I cannot compare this film adaptation to its TV counterpart (I’ve never seen a single frame of it), but I can say 21 Jump Street is one of the craziest movies I have seen this year, even if it pushed itself a little too far at times.

This action comedy follows Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum), two police officers who’ve earned nothing but park patrol duties. After a humiliatingly failed attempt to arrest a group of thugs on possession charges, the duo is assigned to an undercover operation at a local high school to weed out (hehe) the suppliers of a new drug. In their attempts to blend in with a social structure entirely alien to the one they experienced as teenagers, Morton and Greg struggle to earn their peers’ respect as well as keep themselves from getting killed in the increasingly dangerous situation.

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he dramatic comedy A Thousand Words puts into perspective the saying, “Actions speak louder than words.” How long does it take to say a thousand words? For literary agent Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy), it could take less than an hour, yet when he is deathly cursed by a Bodhi tree that drops a leaf at every word he speaks, McCall begins to learn the importance of silence and listening.

This is where the comedy comes into play. Eddie Murphy performs this comical

types of movies is overly extended scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the main story, but here almost everything ties together. The always-mandatory party scene, for example, was actually used for Greg to plant a bug on the bad guys and for Morton to begin his absorption into their ranks. More importantly, the scene did not overstay its welcome and actually provided one of my favorite moments in the movie. Sure, the operation was one inquiry away from falling apart (they are really bad cops), but it did not really matter with all the insane, yet strangely comprehensible, antics going on.

Just like with Michael Cera after Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, I think I’m starting to change my opinion of Jonah Hill. I may have hated him in almost everything but that Call of Duty commercial, but I will freely admit that he did a great job here as the nerdy Morton. Channing Tatum also brought an excellent performance and was more than able to keep up with the film’s wild nature. The rest of the cast is awesome as well, as Rob Riggle can always make me laugh and Ice Cube effectively pulls off the “angry, black captain.” My one complaint might be Dave Franco as the school’s drug

dealer, who generally had one facial expression for every emotion, but that was only noticeable more toward the beginning.

I could tell actual effort was put into making 21 Jump Street. The script knew what it was and was willing to poke fun at itself (How many adaptations flat-out acknowledge they’re adaptations?), but at the same time it strived to have its own identity. Scenes flowed smoothly together, even when characters were tripping out, and I did not notice any technical errors. When it was time for action, the movie delivered. One scene that stuck with me was an intense car chase scene through traffic; where other action heroes would weave impressively between the other cars, Morton and Greg just ditch one vehicle after another to get ahead.

So yes, I am now forced to admit I enjoyed a Jonah Hill movie. The crowd I saw it with also seemed to love it immensely, but I think some more conservative people might not appreciate the ever-present vulgarity and foul language. As for fans of the original show, I really do not know what to tell them. I hear the source material was more dramatic than comedic, but who knows? They might enjoy the little cameo near the end.

A Thousand Words stance flawlessly. His eccentric use of body language is hilarious. Bulging eyeballs, fluttering hands and gaping mouth all aid in his performance. After first discovering his curse, McCall goes to his usual coffee venue and attempts to order three shots of espresso in his latte. He walks out with three mocha lattes, three shots of espresso and three Paul McCartney CDs. The comical lines in this movie are nothing short of sidesplitting.

The story takes a more dramatic turn when the curse starts to affect McCall’s marriage in a negative way. Trying to save

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Albeit this movie is a cheesy dramatic comedy, A Thousand Words still makes audiences giggle, snort and guffaw.

The moral of the story pulls at your heartstrings and makes you really think about how much we speak through the day and the importance of actions speaking louder than words.

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