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CAMPUS CHRONICLE ISSUE 12 - VOL XCII - APRIL 28, 2016 PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE

THE DISTANCE STILL TO GO: LECTURES RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS PAGE 3

AN ALMOST-DISNEY PRINCESS AT PUC PAGE 4

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Letter From The Editor

By Tara Hattendorf

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Desperate for Attention

By Hannah Barnes Are you “desperate for attention”? Do you think you’re hilarious even though your friends don’t? Then do we have the place for you! Come join PUC’s improv troupe, D4A. We meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Alice Holst Theater in Stauffer Hall and make the scenes up as we go. It’s a great way pick up conversational skills and make a bunch of new friends. We hope to see you there and can’t wait to see what you bring to the D4A Fam. If you would like more information about D4A contact Hannah Barnes: hmbarnes@puc.edu

In the Campus Chronicle office the wall above my computer is dedicated to letters (yes, the United States Postal Service still exists), emails and comments received from our avid readers. Your letters are one of the most interesting and fun parts of being the editor of a newspaper. There is never a dull moment reading people’s feedback, and I happily share both the positive and the negative feedback with my staff.

We gladly engage in discussions with our readers who leave us a way to contact them — John, class of 1971, we would love to write you back. This is a newspaper, a journalistic enterprise, and reader feedback can help shape what we write.

So this is a reminder to our readers that we accept letters to the editor. You can leave comments on our Facebook posts, or you can also leave comments directly on our website, chronicle.ink. If you prefer more private methods of communication, messages and emails are also welcome. Join the discussion; we would love to hear from you.

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PUC Week of Respect Advocacy and Awareness There is a new and upcoming program under wraps and its main focuses are consent and respect.

After having lunch together and deep conversation, two students, seniors Jade Tuleu and Krista Bathan, realized that students at Pacific Union College should be educated on what consent is. In a Seventh-day Adventist community it may be harder to talk about certain topics such as consent in relationships. But if there is no consent, then we have a big problem — rape.

Nobody wants to talk about that subject, especially

in a college environment where we can only assume that alcohol may have been involved.

The mission of this project is to educate and inform the students on PUC’s campus about consent, harassment and sexual assault. This will be a weeklong event beginning May 9 and concluding May 13.

Every day there will be 20-minutes “TED Talks”-style lecture with a variety of speakers on important topics.

The goal is to not only inform students, but also to let them know the many options they have if they are

The What and Why of ISIS If you’ve been paying attention to the news or social media, you will have heard about ISIS. Two attacks in Brussels, Belgium killed 31 people and injured over 300. A suicide bomber in Istanbul, Turkey killed 4 and injured 36. In Aden, Yemen three suicide car bombings targeted military checkpoints, killing 26 and injuring dozens. And at a soccer stadium in Iraq, a suicide bomber killed 33 and injured 78.So what exactly is ISIS and why are they doing all of these awful things?

ISIS/ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and/or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, depending on how it’s translated. ISIS has referred to itself as the Islamic State since it proclaimed a worldwide caliphate in the summer of 2014. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is its current caliph or leader. It is a jihadist militant group that follows a Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. Jihadists see violence as a necessary way to eradicate obstacles in restoring God’s rule on Earth and defending the Muslim community against infidels and apostates.

If the community is threatened, they hold that jihad is not only a collective obligation, but an individual duty every able Muslim must fulfill. Wahhabism has been described many different ways. Some see it as an extremist, ultra-conservative movement, whereas others view it as an Islamic movement for reform in order to restore pure monotheistic worship. The center of Wahhabism is the uniqueness and unity of God. Adherents call for a return to the Islamic practices of

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survivors of sexual assault.

Respect begins with understanding. Consent is knowing what it means to say “Yes,” and knowing to stop if someone says “No.” Psychology major Tuleu says, “This project is to create a safe environment for PUC’s campus to talk to each other about their experiences. ... It is not OK to do anything beyond someone’s consent.”

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the first Muslims and sticking to the original texts of Islam. They reject the veneration of graves of Muslim prophets and leaders. They also, for the most part, reject debate on and new interpretations of Islamic theology and practice.

The roots of ISIS lie back in 1999 when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — a Jordanian jihadist — started a group called Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. In 2004, Zarqawi pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, and his group was known as “al-Qaeda in Iraq.” The group joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council and proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in fall of 2006. The group seemed to decline in 2007 with the surge of U.S. soldiers. In summer of 2011, with the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, ISI established a large presence in some of the Sunni-majority provinces of Syria by delegating to a group called the Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli ash-Sham.

The two groups merged, forming the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in spring of 2013. However, this was rejected by both the leaders of al-Qaeda and al-Nusra. Al-Qaeda subsequently cut ties with ISIL in early 2014.

Then in June 2014, ISIS took control of the border of Iraq and began conquering towns in the western area. Up until early June 2014, only those who were carefully following the news knew about ISIS. That’s when everything changed. They rounded up and executed all men of authority (i.e. anyone who had ever been on the government payroll) and anyone who

resisted their invasion. The Iraqi military fled from ISIS out of fear and because the Sunni government of the army didn’t really want to fight against other Sunnis to defend a government they hated. By June 9 they had captured Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul.

The areas of Syria and Iraq ISIS conquered collectively equal the size of Belgium.

Why has ISIS been so successful? Because of its: • Brutality — as aforementioned.

• Sophistication — they are well-organized and even put out an annual report detailing their killings and conquests. They also use social media very effectively.

• Wealth — ISIS supposedly has assets worth $2 billion dollars. It is, by far, the wealthiest terrorist group.

ISIS has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations, European Union, and many countries including the United States. ISIS is officially the deadliest terrorist group in history. They have claimed more victims than any other prominent terrorist group, despite existing less than a decade; their death toll is more than twice al-Qaeda’s. The long-term goal for ISIS is to expand its caliphate to the reaches of the first Muslim dynasty and beyond, and to impose their beliefs on those territories over which they rule.

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Lecture Raises Questions about Racism and Civil Rights

The fight for civil rights — the fight for equality — is not a recent fight; this has been an ongoing battle even before the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and it continues even today. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has often been behind on the fight for equality, but the progressive attitudes of a few individuals have helped pave the way for a better future.

This was the discussion of the inaugural lecture of the Percy and John Christian Civil Rights Conference Center, which took place April 14, beginning Pacific Union College’s Homecoming Weekend. During the lecture, students, faculty, staff, alumni and local residents filled Scales Chapel to listen to historian Dr. Terrie Dopp Aamodt and honored guest Dr. Donald F. Blake speak about civil rights progress in Adventism in the last century. The title of the Aamodt’s lecture was “Percy W. Christian and Adventism’s Academic Jackie Robinson,” and after her lecture she interviewed Blake on the stage to elaborate more on his life and experiences.

As this was the first lecture in the new annual lecture series, Aamodt spoke about the role of Percy and John Christian, the father and son whom the series honors.

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Both Percy and John have history with PUC, as Percy served as PUC’s president from 1945–1950, and John served as academic dean and a professor of history from 1972–1977 and from 1994–2000. (Students who have taken classes in Irwin Hall remember John as the professor who is commemorated in room 207, where he suddenly collapsed and died while teaching a class.) Aamodt’s talk focused on the work of the father, Percy, who in 1962 while president of Walla Walla College (now Walla Walla University), made a courageous act in hiring Blake, a black man. This was in an era when Walla Walla College actively discriminated against black students by encouraging them, even to the point of buying them train tickets, to attend Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) in Huntsville, Alabama.

At this time, Aamodt explained, the Pacific Northwest was very racist and segregated, but in the 1950s institutionalized racism began to crumble.

During his years as president of Walla Walla College Percy “took action to help remove that blot on American history.” Aamodt said, “His actions made admissions and hiring practices more equitable in his institution

Dr. Terrie Dopp Aamodt interviews Dr. Donald F. Blake at the inaugural lecture of the Percy and John Christian Civil Rights Conference Center April 14, discussing Blake's history making strides against racism. as well as in the northwest church, and he provided an example of tolerance and acceptance in the Walla Walla and College Place communities.”

The process of hiring Blake as a biology professor was not easy, despite him being the most qualified of

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the nearly 20 applicants. “Although his qualifications put him at the top of the list,” Aamodt said, “his skin color put him at the bottom.” Despite the hostile environment, Percy pushed for the hiring of Blake. “I think it’s time for us to hire a minority person, a black person, at this school,” Percy told faculty members of the biology department, one of whom, Don Rigby, remembers the act as a “very courageous move, given the history of the school.”

Aamodt drew parallels between Blake and famous African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson, saying, “Pioneering integration in Southeastern Washington and in Northwest Adventism was no easier for Don Blake than breaking the color line had been for Jackie Robinson.” As the Civil Rights Movement throughout America began in earnest in the next years, Blake and the Christians continued to fight in their Adventist community. In 1965 a protest march was planned from Whitman College in Walla Walla to the Walla Walla County Courthouse, and Blake was invited to speak. Blake and John Christian were the only two Walla Walla College faculty members to participate in the march, and they faced great backlash for it. Aamodt closed by saying, “We must never forget what visionary leaders have done to show us the way to a more courageous future.”

The lecture then transitioned to Blake himself, who began by singing a spiritual. He said, “For every public presentation, I have committed to doing something I have been doing more than 80 years: working to

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preserve the legacy of the negro spiritual.” Looking back on his life, Blake had a lot to say about civil rights and the Adventist church. Blake recalled beginning his role as an activist as a child when he experienced racism while attending a white classmate’s birthday party. Living in Westchester County in New York, one of the wealthiest counties in America, Blake joked, “We were poor, but we didn’t know we were poor until a white social worker told us we were poor. We lived in a ghetto, and that’s the positive ghetto — a place where we were all alike and we supported each other.”

While attending Oakwood College, Blake said, “I went underground again. I just refused to go into Huntsville. In those days, Huntsville was perhaps one of the most racist cities in the South.” Later, he became an activist again “in the truest sense of the word: we marched, we protested.”

Blake found ways throughout his life to fight for his rights. “I was an activist in the army,” Blake said. “I believe in non-violent passive resistance.”

While serving in Korea, a man looking for Blake to hire him as a records clerk naturally assumed that a Donald Blake, who his papers told him was a college graduate who could type 60 words-per-minute, was a white man and became frustrated when the white men insisted they were not who he was looking for.

Eventually the man asked Blake if he was himself, and only then did Blake confirm his name. “I was chided for not speaking up,” Blake recalled, “but that was my way of resistance.”

An Almost-Disney Princess at PUC Jeremiah 29:11–13 says, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’” This is a verse that financial counselor, Lila Cervantes, holds near and dear to her heart.

For a Colloquy winter quarter, Cervantes sang her song, “When I Follow My Heart,” which was reminiscent of a Disney song. Her voice was so melodious I thought she almost sounded like Ariel.

After being told she sounded like a Disney Princess, she said, “Well, actually I almost was one.” It turned out Cervantes was offered an opportunity to become a Disney Princess. Her journey led her to that point, but deep down she knew God was calling her to something different. But before she was an almostprincess, Cervantes’ journey started with her voice.

Cervantes was born and raised in Southern California. As a child she sang every so often at her church. Looking back on growing up, she said, “I never thought I had a gift.” During her academy years, she was told she wasn’t good enough because people thought there were better singers than her. “To me it wasn’t a competition, I just loved to sing,” said Cervantes. “I remember being told many times that I couldn’t sing or I wasn’t good enough.” This left her with little confidence with her singing.

During her time in community college, she sang in the school’s choir. She recalls her director noticing a strong alto voice sticking out. “One day, he kind of went one by one trying to figure out, ‘who is this alto?’” He then asked to see her after class to join the elite choir. Cervantes always thought that she wasn’t good enough, and she was very humbled and honored.

This sparked a bit of confidence in her.

She moved around several times and didn’t have a place she could really call home. However, the one place closest to what she can call home is here at Pacific Union College. “PUC holds a lot of meaning to me,” said Cervantes. She couldn’t come to PUC initially

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“We were poor, but we didn’t know we were poor until a white social worker told us we were poor.”

On being hired by Percy at Walla Walla College, Blake said, “God had a plan. God knew that things had to change.” But the change is not done yet. In Adventist communities, many churches and regional conferences are still segregated by ethnicities. Noting even his experiences in his previous few days at PUC, Blake said, “While we’ve come a long way, we have a much further distance still to go.” He recommended, “We must learn to be inclusive, [accepting], and we must learn to include everybody.”

At the end of the evening, Blake sang lines from one final hymn: “We’ve got to love everybody if we want to see Jesus, we’ve got to love everybody if we want to see God.” With these words, Blake reminded us that above prejudices and traditions, Christianity is about love.

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for financial reasons. Then, in a room adjacent to her current office in Student Finance, she was told she could come to PUC. But while Cervantes was at PUC, she never sang.

After her time at PUC, she was asked to join a production that was held for thousands of people in the community. She was still not confident, and some of other singers told her, “You have no soul. You need to sing with more soul.” So they taught her how to sing with more confidence. She sang “Precious Lord” for the production, and with each performance she felt more comfortable with her singing. She decided then that she wanted to sing.

Cervantes met her husband at PUC, and soon after he finished school they moved to Hawaii because he joined the military. While in Hawaii, she was asked to sing for special music at church. After about three years in Hawaii, a local Christian radio station held a singing contest to make a compilation album of the winners. People who were interested in entering the contest were asked to submit a tape — back in the day when we had tape cassettes — of them singing.

Cervantes’ friends highly encouraged her to sing for this contest.

Finally, Cervantes decided just a few hours before the deadline of the contest to submit her tape. She sang “His Eye is on the Sparrow.” There were about 10,000 tapes sent in, so Cervantes thought, “There’s no way.” They narrowed it down until there were only 12 left. Once they knew the 12, they told submitters to wait for a phone call. In her mind she continued to have doubt whether or not she would make it, but a small, “what if?” rang in her head. She recalled the moment her choir teacher believed in her.

Cervantes waited by her phone, and sure enough, she got the phone call. The 12 winners recorded an album called “Lei of Dreams,” and Cervantes recorded an original song called “Dream On.” Within months, this led her to audition to be on a show called “Hawaii Stars.” Cervantes describes it being similar to “American Idol,” but on a smaller scale.

It was televised throughout the islands and people

Lila Cervantes, PUC financial counselor, enjoys singing in her free time and has produced an album, "I Can See." could vote in their favorites. She was encouraged to give it a shot. She recorded, “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston, and within two days she got a call to be on the show. This was her first time competing, and she had mixed feelings about it. Cervantes said, “I don’t think we should compete against one another. You know, God gave everyone their gifts. But at the same time, I thought, ‘I’ll just do it for fun. I’ll get knocked out the first round.’”

She made it to the championship.

When it was time to select her song for the championship, she did not want to do a secular song.

The producers insisted on doing a secular song, but Cervantes had her heart. She told them, “No, I want to give my talent back to God, and sing ‘Precious Lord.’” It was the same song she sang when she was in the production about Thomas Dorsey’s life. The producers gave in and allowed her to sing her selection.

At the end, Cervantes tied with another contestant.

In order to break the tie, the judges decided, and it was

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announced that Cervantes was the 1996 champion of “Hawaii Stars.” Cervantes found out later why she won. She was told, “The reason why they chose me was because of song choice. My song had meaning; it gave hope to the people. That’s what they were looking for. Not a singer that would just sing a song and had a great voice, but someone who could touch the audience.” Through this experience, she said, she didn’t learn that she was a better singer, “because you’ll always find someone better than you,” but rather, “it allowed me to see the gift that God wanted me to use to give back to His people.”

Her success opened doors to recording offers and opportunities, but soon after, the military transferred her husband to Georgia. She decided when she moved back to the Mainland that she would instead focus on her family. While in Georgia, she did several church programs to focus her gift on God, and she traveled to several states to perform concerts. Then after a few years in Georgia, Cervantes and her family moved to Germany. Though she did sing at churches in Germany, Cervantes saw more doors opening in the secular realm. She said she felt “doors were closing for me to continue singing in my church.” Cervantes started doing secular concerts across Europe.

Then Cervantes and her family moved to Japan.

While in Japan, Cervantes had a friend with an agent — one of the top agents in Japan. The agent heard Cervantes’ voice and said, “Oh, we’re going to make a lot of money off of you.” Soon, Cervantes went everywhere in Japan to sing. At that point, she said, “It didn’t seem like a big deal to sing any song they wanted me to sing.”

While in Japan she was offered a record deal with Sony Records; they wanted to make her the next superstar. This was also when Disney wanted to use her talent. Cervantes explained, “Disney wanted to frame a princess after her voice. They had me sing a variety of different types of music.” During that time, there was a lot of talk on how they wanted to work with Cervantes. There was talk about doing voice-overs, working at Hong Kong Disneyland, and potentially creating a character off her appearance and voice. Until she signed a contract with Disney, they wouldn’t get into details. But at the same time Cervantes was going through a spiritual battle, so

she didn’t get too involved with Disney’s possibilities.

“I look at the progression, and I totally went off on the other end,” she stated. “On one end so many doors were closing, and so many rejections. Then in the secular world, I was getting open invitations and money. I was just in this amazing world. I would have people do my hair, makeup, dress me. I would go and do these huge concerts in Japan.” By the time she had offers from Sony Records and Disney, Cervantes had to ask herself, “Am I going to continue down this road, or not? There was a point where I had to stop all conversations. At that point I knew I was in trouble spiritually.” She was no longer interested in any offers.

Cervantes decided, “I need to get my life together.”

“In my life when I learned to let go and let God lead, I felt a peace that I hadn’t felt in years.”

It got so intense for Cervantes that she stopped singing. She knew it was time to move on. By then, Cervantes’ husband was deployed to Iraq, and Cervantes decided that was a good time to finish her education at PUC. It was full circle for her, a way to try to get back to God. Every Sabbath she went to church. It was then she truly let God lead. She prayed, “You know what, God, this is Your voice. You can give it to me; you can take it away. So do with it as you please, because I’m done.”

She graduated with a business degree. The Thursday before she graduated, she got a call from a woman named Brenda Lane. Lane had heard about her singing, and she explained that she was a songwriter and wanted to show Cervantes her praise songs. Cervantes invited her to come to her graduation to hear her sing for the service. Lane came and listened to Cervantes while she practiced. Lane was in tears, and said to Cervantes, “Your voice — that’s the voice I keep hearing in my dreams.” Lane insisted Cervantes listen to her songs.

Pool Tips for a Light Dip If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself lazy and unmotivated this quarter because of how hot it’s getting. Escape the heat and jump into the Pacific Union College Hanson Memorial Pool. Not only will it provide great fun but you will also get an amazing workout.

As a sixth-year lifeguard, I’ve learned many of the benefits one gets from swimming. I now present to you my top three favorite benefits of why I swim every morning and why you should, too: The first benefit is that swimming is a full-body cardio workout. You aren’t just working one body part at a time but you are targeting the entire body: your arms, legs, back and, yes, even your abs.

The second benefit is that swimming is easy on your joints. Unlike running, jumping and squatting, which create high impact thus resulting on your joints hurting, there is little to no impact on your joints in swimming, allowing your body to not feel worn out.

The third and my favorite benefit is that swimming helps you learn how to breathe better, allowing you to gain endurance when doing other sports like running, biking and more.

Although there are many more benefits to my list, I’d also like to point out some safety precautions before you go out and jump into the pool. Not only will you be safer, but you will also give the lifeguard peace of mind that you’re being safe while in their care.

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Cervantes figured that it was good timing since she was finishing school, so she agreed.

Cervantes listened to the songs, and she was intrigued by Lane’s work. The two of them decided they were going to make an album. In the meantime, Lane and Cervantes played occasionally at churches.

On one occasion Cervantes wanted to bring food to one of their performances. She invited Lane to go to her house before their performance. Lane soon realized that Cervantes’ home was the same house Lane lived in while at PUC. Lane told her, “This is where I wrote many of the songs that you’re singing today.” Cervantes explained, “We just cried and we prayed. I think it was then that I knew that God had a plan. He had a plan for my life, and He was still with me, even though I had drifted” The two went to Nashville to create their album, with orchestral Christian music, named “I Can See.” The song she sang at Colloquy, “When I Follow My Heart,” was written specially for her. Cervantes asked if they could give it a Disney twist in honor of her experience in Japan. “Now every time I do concerts all the little girls say, ‘It sounds like Ariel,’ and I tell them, ‘Yeah, but a Christian Ariel.”

Cervantes said, “I feel like God was telling me, ‘This is where I want you to be. I need you to be happy, and I need you to be content with what you’re doing.’” On the back of her music cards, Cervantes has Jeremiah 29:11–13. “God took me through a series of refining, and he was refining me to get me to this point,” she said. “That’s why PUC means so much to me. It was here I met my husband. It was here that I came back to finish my education. It was here that I recorded my album.” And now, Cervantes is back at PUC as a financial counselor.

Looking back at her experience, Cervantes feels like all of it was worth it. There was a time where she kept her eyes off Jesus. She said, “It’s like Peter, and he took his eyes off Jesus. Sometimes we have all this fame and glory and we lose the sight of Jesus.” She continued, “In my life when I learned to let go and let God lead, I felt a peace that I hadn’t felt in years. ... As long as God gives me a voice, I will continue to sing for Him.”

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The gym and weight room aren't the only places to exercise — as the weather gets hotter check out the pool!

The first precaution is don’t overexert yourself.

When trying to finish a lap, it’s better to stop, stand up and walk to back to the beginning of the lanes or somewhere shallow. By overexerting yourself, you may think you’re swimming, but in reality you aren’t going anywhere and are now flailing — gasping for air while at the same time taking in water into your lungs, putting yourself into a state of active drowning.

The second piece of advice before you just jump into the pool is wear sunscreen! Skin cancer, skin damage, chapped lips and burning — that’s all real. It’ll hurt for days and you’ll end up looking like a lobster.

Lastly, stay hydrated. Being a lifeguard for six years, there’s always the same complaint I get when people have been in the water and sun for too long. People

tend to get migraines after leaving the pool. The best way to avoid this is by staying hydrated.

Now that you know these top benefits and top safety precautions, I believe you’re ready to jump into the pool and beat the heat.

Pool Hours are as follows: Lap Swim Monday – Friday 6:30–8 a.m.

Sunday – Thursday 7:30–9 p.m.

Public/Family Swim Sunday – Thursday 6–7:30 p.m.

Friday 2–4 p.m.

Sunday 1–4 p.m.

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How to Maintain Your Lip Look Matte, glossy, metallic, satin, sheer, creme — these are all words that any lipstick fanatic knows. Most prefer one type above the rest, but playing with all the different kinds is part of the fun. Anyone can pull off any sort of lipstick depending on personal preference, but there are a few basic steps to keep your lips fresh and healthy: 1. Hydrate: Lips get dry, and putting on some color only magnifies the issue. No one wants to see crusty, chapped lips — no matter how perfect the shade!

Recommendations: EOS lip balm ($3.29) or Purlisse Daily Lip Nourisher ($16) 2. Exfoliate: Dead skin accumulates when repeated lip product is being applied. No matter how hydrating the lipstick, there will always be a drying factor. To get those smooth lips again, treat your lips to an exfoliator

It’s a Google search definition, but it fits our purposes. We live in a world riddled with consumerist ideals and capitalist tendencies. In layman's terms: we like to buy what the television — and more recently, Internet — tells us to. The current trend? You guessed it. Holidays. Every single day of the year has some sort of celebratory tagline that comes along with it.

It’s not just Christmas and Valentine’s Day anymore.

It’s Siblings, Pet and Donut Day too.

What exactly justifies these second-rate holidays?

Nothing. But in reality, nothing really justifies a holiday in the first place. They are obligatory days of remembrance just as arbitrary as a birthday. Why do we even celebrate birthdays, anyway? We get it — you were born. Congrats. Literally everyone else in the world did the same thing. Sure, there are holidays that commemorate influential individuals, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Abraham Lincoln. But who’s to say a Madonna Day shouldn’t be just as revered? It’s difficult to find meaning in a day when anyone could tag along with it and make it about something else.

We are spoon-fed unnecessary labels for so many forgettable days that it desensitizes the concept of a holiday. It’s not an odd complaint to hear someone say that the holiday season just doesn’t feel as festive as it used to. It doesn’t, because it isn’t. As children, we weren’t the wiser in realizing the influence of big business on consumer tastes. It was jingle bells, not

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and rejuvenate that canvas. Recommendations: e.l.f.

Lip Exfoliator ($3) or Jeffree Star Cosmetics Velour Lip Scrub ($12) 3. Oil: This is specifically for liquid lipsticks (all the rage). Normal makeup remover will not be as effective as a remover that is oily. The oil breaks the mattified layer rather than simply smearing product and leaving behind bits in the creases. Recommendations: Pond’s Cold Cream Cleanser ($5) or SkinActive Micellar Cleansing Water All-in-1 Waterproof Makeup Remover & Cleanser ($9) There are plenty other tricks to taking care of your lips, but these tips will set you on a track to a satisfying lipstick experience.

Happy Who Cares Day! Hol·i·day / ' hälə,dā/ Noun A day of festivity or recreation when no work is done.

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Colourpop Liquid Lipsticks has great shades but requires more than water to wipe off.

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Black Friday sales. But the veil of adolescence has long been lifted and we have to face the truth: holidays don’t matter anymore. Maybe they never did.

The concept of time is fleeting, and don’t we have more things to do than waste it on Best Friends day? It’s time to answer a question with another question. Why not? Human beings are inherently social creatures.

We look to find ourselves in the world around us, and what better way to do that than to have a reason to come together. Sure, making up a holiday about bunk beds is asinine and unnecessary, but everyone loves a good bunk bed. If you don’t, then at least you have an excuse to talk about your disdain ever since your little brother didn’t let you get the top bunk (it’s time to move on, dude).

The point is, however mediocre a holiday may be, if it brings people together, it is intrinsically worth it.

Like the definition states, a holiday is meant for festivity and recreation. Why not celebrate the invention of the telegraph? Or dogs? Or grilled cheese sandwiches?

If it makes you happy, then go ahead and celebrate (and no, this is no excuse to be a jerk-ist or any other iteration of inconsiderate). Sure, we live in a culture hyper-saturated by flashy commercials and 6-second videos. Sure, it’s all a ploy to spend more time posting statuses and using snap filters. Sure, the government doesn’t actually recognize Waffle Cone Day as a national holiday. But who cares? It’s not going to stop the manufacturing of these days. Might as well ride on the coattails. Don’t think of it as a looming puppet show in the minds of a generation; think of it as an all-you-can-eat buffet in which the food comes to you!

It’ll make the nights easier. More days to holi over!

Instagram and Facebook feeds are often filled with these heartwarming posts celebrating all parts of life – siblings, popcorn, ice cream, waffles . . . .

By Jonathan Salvador

To arms brothers! We stand now against a new menace; a tireless foe that waits on the edges of society planning ... plotting ... seething with rage. I speak of course of the so-called “left-handed community,” which seeks to upset the balance of civilization and destroy all we know and love. Apparently it wasn’t enough to bombard our children with left-hand propaganda, what with their various left-handed celebrities and cartoon characters. Now they want left-hand writing to be recognized as a legitimate writing orientation.

Madness! Is this what we’ve come to? Are we to simply throw away our morals and the very definition of words themselves? Is not writing between a right hand and a pencil? Is that not what is natural and good?

Let me tell you what we bring upon us should we allow this rabble of malevolent villains to practice their dark sorcery in our midst. Like all cowards do, they’ll go for the children first. What are our children going to think when they see them practicing this abhorrent left-handed lifestyle? They’ll want to be left-handed themselves. This unnatural hand orientation will spread like the plague until there won’t be anyone left. Right-handedness as a concept will be lost and forgotten. Who will use all the all the right-handed desks, fishing rods, spiral-bound notebooks and baseball mitts then? Nobody! Confound it!

What comes next? I’ll tell you what! When men can use their left-hand to write, we’ll take it a step

further. Why not use your feet, or grip the pen with your teeth? In fact ... why stick to a pen? What’s stopping a man from writing with a knife ... and then stabbing someone with it? Or better yet, why write at all when you can kidnap a child and have them do the writing for you? Are you pro-slavery? That is where this road leads my friend, and it starts with giving in to the demon of left-handedness. Resist! Fight your sinful nature! Right is the right way to write.

A sentence needs both a right hand and a pencil, otherwise the sentence will be confused. The sentence needs a moral foundation a left-hand can’t provide.

You see ... it’s not about discrimination. It’s about protecting the children. They’ll be morally lost without

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the good ol’ fashioned right-handed writing style that’s worked for me and my right-handed ancestors for generations. I don’t hate left-handed people. I just disagree with their lifestyle.

They will try to convince and deceive you. They will tell you that they are about “equality” and that it is

only “natural” for them. Heresy! The left-hand agenda is about one thing, and that thing is the downfall of writing. These are apocalyptic events! The end of civilization as we know it! When left-handed people can write, writing will never be the same again. Pens will be replaced with tiger fangs, ink with orphan

Follow Up: Cultural Clubs

part of your identity does exist on campus.

PUC’s culture clubs — like Asian Student Association (ASA), Students Organization of Latinos (SOL), Black Student Union (BSU) and Mabuhay Filipino Club (MFC) — are often bonded together through shared types of food, music, language and childhood experiences. However, mixed-race students sometimes only share some of these qualities, and it leaves many students feeling left out.

Personally, as a mixed-race student of both AfricanAmerican and Mexican heritage, I can’t relate to all that goes on in SOL Club, since I didn’t grow up in a household that spoke Spanish fluently, but neither can I relate to all the members of Black Student Union when they describe their childhoods. This isn’t to say that celebrating a culture fully — whether that be speaking in a native language or partaking in traditional foods and holidays — isn’t important; it definitely is. However, if clubs on campus profess to represent entire groups of people, shouldn’t they represent all

What’s in a Princess?

By Aaron Jebb Hernandez

The Disney Princess line is a powerhouse in its own right. Their numbers are prolific and generationdefining. The timeline of issues these women face has greatly improved, especially in recent years. That doesn't go without saying that they aren't without their own problems. The princess line can be split up into three main eras: classical, renaissance and modern. Here, I attempt to dissect the princesses in a simple, easy to understand manner. Obviously, there’s more to say about them but you and I don’t have all day. There’s also a little “femcounter” to keep track of how many notable female characters there are in each movie. By notable, I mean with speaking lines that affect the plot in an arbitrarily substantial way as determined by me. Spoiler alert: there aren’t that many.

as attributing her adequate waltzing skills. All in all, the set up for such an anticlimax calls me back to my excitement and inevitable disappointment at the live action “Avatar the Last Airbender” movie.

Classical: 1930s–1960s

All in all, the princesses introduced in this era are reductive in modern light but have to be taken with a grain of salt. They are portrayed as simple caricatures whose storylines center on everything else but them.

It makes sense. The original stories in which these movies were based on of weren’t any better in creating wholesome women, in any respect. Writers had little to go off of in the first place. Is this enough to excuse shoddy character development considering their long lasting influence on audiences? No. But viewing these princesses in the time period they debuted does put things into perspective.

Cinderella (femcount: 5) Now here’s an oldie but goodie. Cinderella, while named by the same descriptive vein as Snow White, surpasses her royal sister by having a mediocre plotline — and I use mediocre loosely. Yes, everything is against her. Yes, she is hard working, compassionate, determined, effervescent and a whole heap of other adjectives. She is painted as an underdog quite well and you would think that it’s her strengths that would land her the be-all-end-all prince (which is a problem in its own right). Nope. The unnamed fairy godmother in true deus ex machina fashion hands Cindy her ticket out. But surely she uses her talents to woo the prince, you may say. Sure. She’s pretty. You can even go as far

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By Dominique Townsend

Last week, Glo Besana brought the culture clubs on campus into the spotlight, discussing the relatively sparse representation and exclusivity of these clubs, and how they can prevent students from branching out into unknown cultural territory. But what about the students who physically do not belong to any of these clubs, or feel ostracized because they racially belong to more than one group? What about students of mixed ethnicities?

There are many types of mixed ethnicities.

Often when people think of “mixed race” students, immediately combinations of black and white or Asian and white come to mind, but ethnic mixes of all types abound here at Pacific Union College. People of mixed ethnicities are becoming more prominent in the media, with Buzzfeed even stating that in the future, people of mixed ethnicities might be the new standard of beauty. But right now in 2016, and even at Pacific Union College, sometimes these mixes make it difficult to belong, even when a club that represents

Snow White (femcount: 2) Snow White’s namesake is the princess equivalent of a “Friends” episode name. “The one with the hair as white as snow.” I could go on about the statement it makes to call the “main” character of a film by their physical attributes, or how her entire role in the movie was to wait for her prince whilst taking care of seven caricatures of grown children. Sure, it spoon-feeds the role of females in housework to a susceptible audience, but I digress. At least she promotes healthy eating.

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the different types of people who belong to that club?

Everyone wants to belong, but when students don’t feel represented on campus, culture clubs as a whole are failing their members and fellow students.

Luckily, PUC gives every student the opportunity to change clubs they see problems with. Students are allowed to start their own clubs or run for club officer and change things from within existing structures.

If you feel excluded from your own cultural club or clubs, don’t just decide not to belong anywhere; join a different culture club, start a new club or get involved and make a change to an existing club.

Diversity isn’t just a part of campus, it’s also a huge part of any club, because it’s impossible to lump everyone into one categorization of who they are.

Diversity within a group doesn’t make it impure or bad, but simply more varied, and everyone could use a little extra spice in their life. Culture is a beautiful thing; get out and experience a few others.

Aurora (femcount: 4) If you ever had to play Aurora in a musical rendition of “The Sleeping Beauty,” you can really get into character and sleep through rehearsals since she has the least amount of lines of any Disney character, let alone any Disney princess. She is a slim, lovable, neutral blonde, but she is still leaps and bounds more interesting that Snow White in terms of character.

Don’t get me wrong, she’s as interesting as watching paint dry. But at least there’s paint on the wall this time.

Disney princesses are a mainstay of popular culture, giving children something to aspire to. But how "feminist" are they? (Photo by Kaitlin Darnell)

Renaissance: 1990s

amazing voice is her main means of communicating her sizzling personality) to get the guy. Let’s not forget the main villain is a woman just like in the classical era of princesses. I’m seeing a pattern here.

Ariel (femcount: 2) Honestly, how does her hair stay as luxurious on land as it did on water? I need answers to that hair care regimen. She is a spunky firecracker of a redhead who is the only notably interesting member of her countless collection of bra-and-tail-matching sisters.

Her longing for adventure is what drives her to make a deal with the proverbial devil — Ursula. Here we see a little progress. Sure, the adventure is portrayed primarily through prince Eric but at least we get some motivation. But, it still boils down to a story of a girl who gives all her attributes away (seeing as her

Belle (femcount: 1½ — half points for Miss Pots) For someone named Belle, she wasn’t even the belle of the ball. Which is to say, the spotlight was on everything else. The talking furniture. The uptight prince. The entitled meathead. They all have defining characteristics. But Belle? The best I could think of is the reading girl. She has the fire for adventure that Ariel has but gets captured and held captive in a castle, spending most of her time in a library — literally doing the same thing she did when she was home. I guess a giant man-baby monster just wasn’t entertaining enough on her own. But I will say, we actually get

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Mulan (femcount: 3) Mulan doesn’t mess around. She gets down to business, to defeat ... previous expectations of the female's role in ancient Chinese society. Not purposefully, but it still leaves a mark. From the beginning, there is no notion of a man or need for one.

Mulan is literally her own man. While the question of whether or not the story of a Chinese woman adapted for American audiences is historically and culturally accurate is still up in the air, it's a topic for another day.

The princess renaissance marks a great question considering the contribution of the actual princess in their respective plots. Shouldn't they be part of the plot? Yes, the answer is yes. We see a shift in focus

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The modern era is by far the most progressive in terms of giving women a proper storyline. But they still have much to work on. Just looking at the amount of notable female characters in these movies is alarming enough. What image are we giving a young audience if we portray stories about women with a considerable lack of women? What is even more concerning is that while these stories are showcasing more relatable characters, they are getting less and less memorable. There is a chord that has to be struck between entertaining and empowering. These stories transcend much further than a movie we can put on to keep the attention of little kids. The modern era is also notably lacking in women of color (even in "Princess and the Frog" with Tiana's laughable screen time as a human). But we see more plot centered on the growth and happiness of the heroine — and this time, they can actually be called legitimate heroines.

These characters are iconic, if not in the very least, influential. But they’re just that: characters. Some are portrayed as feeble caricatures more than others but, in a sense, these princesses get their job done.

They entertain. Children’s movies are not implicitly created to engrain a sense of politics or any other facet of society into the young minds of a generation. They are made to keep up the attention span with dazzling color and choppy storyline. But it goes without saying that children are porous slates for information and, no matter how unintentional, they learn how to be decent human beings from these princesses. Am I shunning Disney for how far they've come? Not at all. But I'm not sugarcoating the fact that there's still a lot to go through. It shouldn't seem like too much to ask for a storyline that depicts women for what they are — actual human beings.

Tiana (femcount: 3) Okay, I'm not going to beat around the bush.

Tiana was the first (and only) African American princess. She was not born royally — like Mulan.

She was implicitly middle to low class. She was a frog for most of her movie. But in the midst of all this subtly prejudices mess, we find a strong, very much independent woman. Her driving motivation has nothing to do with a man. In fact, the man of the film is the one who falls for the heroine.

Rapunzel (femcount: 2) Same hair question as posed to Ariel. Rapunzel is very reminiscent of the Renaissance era thirst for adventure. She literally needs someone to accompany her in her journey to royalty. Very similar but not necessarily reductive. One of my own personal favorite parts was the musical number in a seedy bar-barian (get it, a bar for barbarians), mostly because it showcases one of the guys with an intense collection of porcelain unicorns. Cute. New. Jealous.

Merida (femcount: 2) Talk about no man needed. Merida doesn't marry anyone. All she wants is to "change her fate." She is steadfast and can probably kill you. All that said, she also has one of the most boring films in the princess franchise. There was a bear. I think her mom was a bear. There was an old witch lady too. Bears and witches. I love the "Wizard of Oz." Elsa and Anna (femcount: 2) Technically, they're not official princesses. Elsa's

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actually a queen. But it's obligatory to include them.

What with the saturation of American psyche with intense merchandise and a never-ending winter of memorabilia. It's no “Lilo and Stitch” story but it comes a close second. But it is worrying to see that Anna needed the help from Kristoff to find Elsa.

Logically it makes sense but still. Anna is just the right combo of strong and stupid to unwittingly wander into a frozen tundra to find her sister.

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Pocahontas (femcount: 3) Now we’re getting somewhere. What I remember from the story is her dad wants her to marry kumquat (or whatever his name is) but Pocahontas is having none of that. The savages — oh wait — white men invade. They mess things up, as white men usually do.

Instead of attacking, she finds a way to appeal to their human side. Pocahontas is a multifaceted individual who is leaps and bounds more relatable than her predecessors. Why? She’s human. She has emotions that stretch past maintaining a relationship with a man. She even pushed the notion aside. Which isn’t to say that pursuing someone else isn’t bad. It was just getting pretty old.

from everything else but the princess to the actual princess. The age-old plot device to pit a female heroine with a female villain is finally challenged. Frankly, it was tiring to assume that the only powerful figure a female could combat was another female. Overall, this is the B+ of the princess line. We see women of color. We see woman starting to look past the prince.

We see women contributing to the plot. We see them taking it back.

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our first male villain — at the cost of Belle being the only human woman for most of the movie.

Jasmine (femcount: 1) The only Disney princess whose movie title doesn’t revolve around or describe her. Sadly enough, she gets just as much character development as the previously mentioned princesses. She ends the same person she started as — an adventure seeking girl trapped in the confines of a palace. Wait a second. Girl? Check.

Adventurous? Check. Wants something new? Check.

That something new comes in the form of prince charming (and yes, Aladdin counts as a prince because he wished to be one. Check yourself)? Check. Very interesting. . .

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