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Issue 14, VOL 99 Dec. 1 - Dec. 7, 2011
City discusses illegal parking Council says students cause of Southside jams
Voice
Raise your
How one English teacher used the power of music to help her family by Napua Kalani
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s an English professor, Hannah Pralle might be viewed by students as the teacher who doesn’t exist outside of her English 105 classroom. Sadly for them, they have no idea about her singersongwriter project.
English teacher by day, folk artist by night, Hannah Pralle has a song to sing for everyone. (Photo by Barbara Boksa)
“[I’ve been interested in singing and songwriting] for a long time actually, since I was a kid, but just kind of off and on — I think I just kept getting scared of it or didn’t know what I was supposed to do with it,” Pralle said. Pralle sang in her first two country bands when she was 16 and has continued writing music with fellow muscians and playing shows whenever she can. “It’s weird, it’s like there’s no recognition for people who are doing it just [be]cause they love it. It’s like if you’re doing something artistic, you’re just supposed to make it,” Pralle said. “Seems like people who have a really strong drive to accomplish something aren’t really happy where they’re at or else they wouldn’t be trying so hard to get there.” see PRALLE page 10
BY Maria Dicosola
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ccording to the residents of the Southside of Flagstaff, students will look for any way to avoid paying the several hundred dollar parking fees to leave their car on campus — even if it is at the expense of blocking someone else’s driveway. At a city council meeting on Tuesday, that exact issue was up for discussion, as Flagstaff is weighing levying fines on commuters who park alongside the roads of residential areas — fines that may be higher than the ones at NAU itself. Coral Evans, a council member and Southside resident, said she is frustrated with the disrespect students have for residents when parking their cars along streets. “I cannot tell you the number of times I have had to call the Flagstaff Police Department to ask them to please ticket and tow or find out who owns the car that is blocking me from getting into my driveway or getting out of my driveway. It is constant,” Evans said. “And you can’t tell me people don’t know that a driveway is being used, when there is a car in it.” Earlier that day, Evans took pictures of as many parking violations she could find — from parking far away from the curb, to parksee SOUTHSIDE page 4
Opening of garage gates delayed BY Bree Purdy
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he toll gates installed at the Knoles Drive parking garage will be operational by the end of the semester. Erin Stam, the manager of the Office of Parking and Shuttle Services, said the toll parking structure was anticipated to be operational earlier, but technology and equipment issues have led to a delay in the switch. see GARAGE page 7
Robbery near campus results in suicide BY bree purdy
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n Nov. 28, the Flagstaff Police Department received a call concerning the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank on South Milton Road. This call would eventually lead to a standoff with police officers and the suspect committing suicide in a local hotel room. see ROBBERY page 10
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