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Students accessing dorms, the NPAC, labs throughout campus, and purchasing meals and snacks from campus food outlets with a single ID might be a reality at Chadron State, Chief Information Officer Ann Burk said.

Burk listed a bevy of improvements made to the college’s information technology infrastructure, and outlined future goals and projects Monday afternoon from her Miller Hall office.

The core function of students using IDs with smart-card technology is building access, including dormitories and the NPAC. Burk said that the technology is flexible enough to enable future innovation such as allowing students to make on-campus purchases.

Some capabilities of the card depend on the coordination of contractors that are housed on campus, such as the Eagle Pride Bookstore and CSC’s Creative Dining Services.

Similar technology is already used by other schools, enabling students to make on- and off-campus purchases by linking their IDs with their bank accounts like a debit card.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 2012

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CAMPUS ACTIVITIES BOARD

CAB seeks to fill open exec spot Sara Labor Lifestyles Editor

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One of the documents introducing residence hall election nominees lies on a surface in Old Admin Wednesday.

Elections, pool center Student Senate’s agenda Sara Labor Lifestyles Editor Discussion on the new pool took up the majority of the Student Senate meeting on Monday.

Dale Grant, vice president of Administration and Finance, came to speak with Student Senate about the pool project. “The pool project is creeping along,” Grant said.

Grant said that he is currently looking into working with the city to get the new pool done. He said that he has met with the new city manager who was receptive. Grant said that by working with the city on this project, it could minimize the cost, which is currently estimated at around 2 million dollars, as well as the time spent building a new pool.

“There is no such thing as a swimming pool that makes money, it’s about how much money you lose.” Grant said the school is losing about $100,000 a year on the current swimming pool. A new pool would minimize the financial effect on the school, according to Grant.

The current pool will be shut down in mid-

October.

“We’ll keep it open as long as we can,” Grant said. If the school were to work with the city to build a new pool, Grant said, the pool would be done around Memorial Day versus twelve months if the school were to take on the project alone.

Several attendees asked if the pool would be open to students and open for classes.

Grant said that this would be well into negotiations, but it would probably be worked out that students could use the pool with an ID and that there would be certain hours put aside for classes.

T.J. Thomson, Student Senate vice president, asked for a hand vote to see if Student Senate was interested in working with the city for the pool. There was a consensus that those on Student Senate would be interested in working with the city to build the new pool.

In other business, Ashley Swanson, Treasurer, said that there is $83,738 in unallocated funds. Swanson also said that Student Finance Committee is currently looking for a faculty member to be their new adviser.

Swanson also said that the applications for

Student Finance Committee are currently online or at the information desk.

T.J. Thomson, vice president, said that advertisements for the upcoming dorm elections are up, and asked that the four nominees who had come to the senate meeting to introduce themselves. The four who came were Kaitlin Mackee, Brooks Hall; Jake Almanrode, Edna Wing; Tessa Retzlaff, Edna Work Hall; and Jamie Henry, Edna Work Hall. Thomson encouraged everyone to vote.

Voting was yesterday and today at the front desk of each hall.

James Bahensky encouraged everyone to look at the improvements on campus. Bahensky said that the new floor for the NPAC is currently in and the arena re-opened to the public Monday.

Laure Sinn said that Find the Flamingo is going well, and the drawing for the grand prize of the iPad will be at the Foam Party tonight, from 9-12pm.

Sinn also said that the Club Fair is today, and encouraged students to sign up for their club as well as look into other clubs.

Thomson said that the wouldn’t meet next week due to the holiday.

The Campus Activities Board is one step closer to filling its remaining executive board spot when it opened the floor for nominations at its Tuesday meeting.

Students who have served as a general member for a full semester are eligible for membership on the board’s executive body.

Media Club representative Ashley Swanson was nominated, but Dani Buckley, CAB President, encouraged anyone else who was interested in the position to write a letter of intent by next week when voting will take place.

In other matters, Vice President Lane Swedberg said that proposals to have anything put on the agenda must be emailed in by Sunday to Secretary Karly Watson.

Swedberg also asked that representatives only represent a single club.

Swedberg then asked that if clubs have activities on campus, to speak to Shelly Johns.

Kellie Aye asked that all clubs pick up their Finance reports.

Watson asked that everyone fill in contact sheets for their club. Clubs are allowed two absences before the club is suspended, according to Watson, so she asked that if a representative could not make it to a meeting that they send their alternate.

Darren Burrows said that elections for dorm representatives for Student Senate were yesterday and today in Resident Halls.

Laure Sinn, CAB adviser said that the Club Fair is today, and asked that clubs sign up for a table to promote their club.

Johns asked that the representatives pick up brochures on the changes in the Student Center. There is a new bulletin board located in the student center, which will boast a calendar with the events on campus. Johns said that in order to get an event on the board, a club should get let her know about the event by the 15th of each month.

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The smoke that filled the air yesterday and shrouded the Chadron skyline in haze came from several fires burning in Dawes and Box Butte Counties that consumed more than 1,200 acres, officials state.

Cyd Janssen, public affairs specialist with the U.S. Forest Service, said Wednesday afternoon via telephone that while citizens should be aware of the situation and should stay alert for warnings, there is no immediate danger and no evacuations have been issued as of Wednesday evening.

“It may look scary, and there is ash falling, but most of the smoke and ash is caused by upper air currents,” Janssen said. “As of right now there is no danger or need for evacuation,” Janssen said.

According to representatives from the Hemingford, Crawford, and Chadron fire departments, four fires in range from Hemingford to Crawford are still blazing.

As of Wednesday evening, Hemingford firefighters are still fighting the grass fire, caused by a lightning strike, located around northern Box Butte County as well as the timber fire found on the Box Butte and Dawes County lines, also started from a lightning strike.

According to Jannsen, the Douthit Fire, located north of Highway 20 between Crawford and Harrison, spans more than 800 acres.

The West Ash fire, spanning between 400 and 500 acres, started Tuesday afternoon.

Firefighters from Crawford, Chadron, and Harrison are assisting with the fires, as well as a Black Hats Type 2 crew from Rapid City, S.D.

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Burk said she understands the potential for smart-card technology, and wants to provide a solution so that if the college chose to offer off-campus purchasing capabilities, the technology would be in place.

“We will want to ensure that the smart-card solution we choose provides this flexibility,” Burk stated in an email interview earlier this week.

Burk said smart-card technology is a priority established by the Student Senate and funded by students’ technology fees.

Burk said she expects the new ID system to be in place by the end of the year.

“I would like to have students walk away with smart cards by December, so that they can use them in the spring,” Burk said.

The college allocated $60,000 from the technology fee fund for smart-card conversion, Burk said.

Other IT improvements over the summer include bolstering the campus’ virtual infrastructure, updating classroom and lab technology, and expanding the hours of the department’s help desk.

The technology in select classrooms was upgraded, allowing faculty to make wireless presentations from mobile devices.

This change enables greater classroom mobility for the faculty, Burk said.

In addition, the campus’ virtual infrastructure was also upgraded with new hardware aimed at decreasing system downtime and increasing data storage.

Data travelling to and from CSC is now load-balanced between two main connections. One is serviced by Century Link and travels through Network Nebraska; the other is serviced

by Great Plains Communications and travels along fiber optic lines.

Though a technically complex process, the load-balanced approach essentially provides reliability and availability, Burk said.

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Hey, lay off the rape comments Just when the Internet had quieted down over the Daniel Tosh “rape-is-funny” controversy, the camp of men who claim to know how rape is for women launched another salvo of stupidity.

This time the gaffe came from Todd Akin, Republican Senate nominee for Missouri.

On Aug. 19, Akin said, women subjected to “legitimate rape” rarely became pregnant, because their bodies had “ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin later said he had misspoke but that he felt his critics were overreacting.

The uproar over Akin hasn’t even begun to quiet down. Most Republicans have tried to distract from the firestorm or put distance between themselves and Akin. And while many have called for Akin to drop out of the Senate race, one of his fellow Republican Senate candidates fumbled the situation further.

On Monday, Tom Smith, Republican Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, dragged the conversation further beyond the pale.

When a reporter asked Smith to clarify what kind of situation was similar to becoming pregnant from rape, he responded, “Having a baby out of wedlock.”

Women bloggers and journalists quickly responded. Rape pregnancy is nothing like having a baby out of wedlock. A spokesman for Smith later said, despite appearances, he was not making this comparison.

What has gotten into these men’s heads?

If we dismiss their insensitivity, pseudoscientific political-posturing, and their unbelievable ignorance, there still remains one ineluctable fact that ought to have shut them all up before any of them opened his mouth: They are men.

Men do not know one thing about being raped. Men are the rapists, not the ones who are raped. Certainly none of these men has claimed to have had such an experience. Not all men rape women, but it still happens every day to women everywhere.

According to activist and rape survivor Eve Ensler, “half a billion women on the planet are raped in their lifetime.” We as a society need to stop demonizing the victims of rape. All rape is forcible and “legitimate.” Many cases result in pregnancy.

These are facts.

Men need to stop acting like they know better than women, especially where it is clearly impossible and insensitive to claim they do. That goes double for men who would lead our nation as senators.

THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 2012

Undeclared: The gray wasteland of academic indecision Franklin Annis Columnist

I was literally shocked after talking to a few incoming freshman about what they wanted to do in the future.

They were undeclared majors that could not even list the professions they wanted to go into. Now, I understand that college is a place to explore career options but you at least have to have some clue about the careers fields that you want to explore. I often ask my young sons what they want to be when they grow up and smile as they list several exciting options. Unfortunately, these freshmen could not do the same.

CSC makes it very easy to graduate with your bachelor degree within the intended four-year time frame. For incoming freshmen it is as simple as taking 15 hours a semester for eight semesters. Motivated individuals might even find that taking slightly heavier loads, and the use of summer school, will allow them to escape even faster than four years.

However, students often find themselves wasting additional years and money due to their own indecisiveness. I urge you not to spend over one semester as an undeclared student. While there are many essential studies requirements that provide credit for

all majors, select majors may require specific classes. If you hated taking a required class the first time, you’ll really hate it when you have to repeat the requirement by taking a slightly different class.

While some individuals may tell you that you must have a bachelor degree in the academic discipline that you want a career in, unless you are going into a heavy science field, this in not usually the case.

A bachelor degree really demonstrates the fact that you have the discipline to set in a classroom of four years and complete the assigned tasks provided by professors. This shows an employer that you are willing and able to complete tasks assigned in the workforce.

While I admire students that double major, I wonder if their delay in entering the workforce and the additional debt is actually worth the cost. Often it would be more effective to graduate with a single major and enter the workforce. Additional classes or majors could be taken while employed, generating higher-levels of income. Or perhaps skipping the second major would extend your undergraduate program and enter into a graduate program.

If you are truly lost and have absolutely no idea on what you want to be when you “grow up,” another great option would be to design a custom degree plan using Bachelors of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies

around your interests. While this won’t provide you a degree in any specific academic major, it will at least demonstrate that you are capable of operating in several academic fields. This interdisciplinary approach to education and leadership is growing increasingly important in many career fields.

In the end, undeclared students are lost. It is very difficult to complete any journey without a map on how to get from the start point to the final destination. The longer you stay undeclared, the more likely you are to not make progress towards anything but a huge debt. I urge you to take my advice and make a choice.

Find an academic program or craft an interdisciplinary program that you can stomach for four years and finish. Honestly, who wants to be in college for six or more years and maybe get nothing? According to TheFiscalTimes.com, 45 percent of American students will spend six years in college and never get their degrees.

Your degree may not perfectly fit with the career your eventually find yourself in, but it is likely that the majority of graduates will work outside their academic discipline sometime in their lives.

If you pick a major and stick with it, you can accomplish your goal in graduating college in four years. Then you will have that magical diploma to help you find a good paying job and a successful life.

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Punk music is dead. Long live punk LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor: I am led to believe that every one of us is guilty of judging something without knowing all of the facts, especially as often as I remember myself doing so. At times we get acclimated to our own little world and lose touch with much of the rest of the world. It happens to us all. At times we get frustrated believing we Robert Jordan have it bad, yet fail to take the time to compare Reporter ourselves to the rest of the world. Ignorance can be bliss for the short term, but in the long I identify a purist when of it comes to term wemyself fail to as reap the benefits seeing the punk, sopicture.

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ith temperatures peaking at a scorching 107 degrees this past week in some regions throughout Nebraska, it seems as though Chadron is baking. Fortunately though, you don’t have to if you employ a little creativity and keep your schedule flexible.

Exercise should be a prime part of everyone’s daily routine; however, with the blazing heat and soaring temperatures, many students are considering foregoing their customary afternoon jog or workout session.

Before you throw in the towel, try to see if there are other alternatives.

Perhaps the most obvious solution is to use one of the many indoor fitness options on campus. Both Armstrong Gym and the NPAC provide a great deal of fitness opportunities, including solo and team fitness choices. If indoor exercise isn’t your thing, see if you can vary your schedule to accommodate your

desire to exercise outdoors.

The coolest part of a 24-hour cycle is most often right before sunrise, so instead of waiting until dark to take that run, wake up a little earlier and see if you can jog in the morning instead. You might just like the different experience of waking up and exercising while watching the sun rise, and with the cooler morning temps, your jog might be more bearable than it would have been if you put it off until night.

Most exercise aficionados know to wear light, breathable, moisture-wicking materials when they're gearing up to work out; however, don’t forget that color, in addition to material, makes a difference. Lightcolored clothing reflects the sun’s rays while more darkly colored clothes tend to absorb them, translating to a warmer surface. Thus, to maintain optimum temperature, stick to the tans, beiges, and whites in your closet.

What you are ingesting also can affect how you feel throughout the day. Stay away from excessive amounts of caffeine and alcohol, as they promote dehydration.

Water is always a good choice, but to make a good choice a great one, try freezing some water in your favorite water bottle the night before your next workout session. The water will melt as you workout, forcing you to pace your intake, as well as deliver an icy-cool wave of refreshment throughout your routine.

One last thing, remember to put things in perspective and have a good mental outlook on the situation.

Yes, it’s unbearably hot outside at times, but before you know it, those chilly north winds will be here, perhaps bearing snow, and you’ll long for the warming rays of summer to return.

Stay cool!

T.J. Thomson Executive Editor

tHree wAys to BeAt tHe HeAt on cAmpus Armstong pool the pool offers students a chance to cool down, have some fun, and possibly do laps. the pool ranges in depth from three feet to 12 feet and is equipped with a diving board. Besides cooling off, the pool is also a good place to work out tired and aching muscles.

However, as the pool is projected to be closed sometime in the middle of october in preparation

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for Armstrong gym's renovation, use it while you can. student center students who want a quick escape from the blistering heat have the opportunity to "chill out" in the student center. the pit area, which is equipped with two ping-pong tables and four pool tables, gives students the chance to relax and hang out with friends. the pit

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also offers recently-installed flat screen tVs on which students can play video games or watch movies. the lobby is fully equipped with chairs, couches, a tV, and a new computer lab. the lab, which was installed during the summer, is available to students who want to study or do homework. the student center is also home to the cafeteria and grille, which give students multiple beverage opportunities.

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retA king liBrAry though there are many places on campus in which students can study, few are as quiet and accomodating to students as the inviting solitude of the reta e. king library. Be on the lookout for the newlyremodeled student study lounge

in the library's basement. Also in the basement is a computer lab, as well as several multi-use conference and group study spaces. the library also offers copiers and two laptop computers available for use in the building. According to its website, king library will eventually house the instructional technology center, sakai offices, the teaching and learning center, and a help desk staffed by the campus it department.

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heat stroke ■ Heat strokes can often mimic a heart attack; a person will sometimes experience heat exhaustion before a heat stroke progresses.

■ sympotomes of a heat stroke include, but are not limited to, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, dizziness, and headaches.

■ infants, the elderly, atheletes, and those who work outside, are more likely to experience a heat stroke than others.

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■ other signs include high body temperature, difficulty breathing, confusion, agitation, seizures, or even comas.

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because it doesn’t put as much pressure on sensitive areas such as the knees and elbows. instead, instead, the water moves with the joints, but also provides enough resistance to provide a great work out. ffor or athletes and those with injured joints, swimming can decrease healing time compared to just sitting around holding heat and ice packs on the injured area. swimming gives a full-body work out, even if the person is only lightly exerting themselves. swimming is sometimes a better work out than simply running on the treadmill, as it is less likely to put excess pressure on strained muscles.

symptoms ■ Avoid becoming dehydrated by drinking plenty of water; stay away from caffeinated beverages, alcohol, and tea.

■ limit heavy physical activities during hot and humid days. sswimming; wimming; however, is also one of those activities that many people do not know how to do correctly. it’s good to know the basic safety percussions, green said. people should be taught how to swim at a young age or, at least take a basic swimming class so they know how to swim. swimming can be a fun activity, and a good way to work the body without stressing it out too much. see you at the pool!

■ if a person starts showing symptoms of heat stroke, get them to a shady ares, give them plenty of water and, if available, place ice packs under the armpits.

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SOURCE: http://www.medicinenet.com/ heat_stroke/article.htm

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Molly Wedan Sports Editor For the fourth time since 1997, the Chadron State Eagles football team will compete against the Montana State University Bobcats in their season opener under the lights.

It might be intimidating playing against a No. 4 ranked team in the division above you, miles away from your home field, during a night game, but the Chadron State Eagles are not too worried.

“The guys and I are excited to play Montana,” head coach Jay Long said.

The Eagles had an impressive preseason camp with few injuries occurring, and the styles Coach Long brought to the team being accepted. Enthusiasm spreads throughout the whole team as this first game could be a crucial beginning to the start of the 2012 season.

The last two times Chadron went head to head with Montana State, they came out with victories, adding to the mounting pressure on the Eagles’ shoulders.

The last victory was a thrilling comeback with a 35-24 point finish.

The Bobcats do have six first-team all conference picks for the Big Sky conference. Four of them play on the defense side of the ball. On offense, junior running back Cody Kirk of Frenchtown, Mont., is the Bobcats first-team pick.

Last seeason Kirk tallied 1,351 yards and 14 touchdowns. Another threat on offense is Everett Gilbert, senior wide receiver of Rockwall, TX. He already has 2,538 yards in two years of play.

Coach Long has a realistic approach and has some ideas on how to counter

the Bobcats strong suits.

“Montana State University has a great defense. They have multiple preseason all-conference picks. In order for us to have success we need to make sure that we control the ball and do our jobs. It is important that we play fast from the start on both sides of the ball,” Long said.

Last week, Coach Long highlighted the depth he had at quarterback. That will come in handy for the Eagle’s offense when they have to compete against Montana’s dominating defense.

Long said he has confidence in his defense to contain Montana’s quarterback, Denarius McGhee, as he is a key to the Bobcats’ success. By exploding to the ball, Montana’s offense will have troubles holding the Eagle’s defense back from getting to McGhee.

Probable starters Mike Lorenzo, sophomore of Oak Park, Calif., and Brandon Ratcliff, senior of Chillicothe, Ill., both guards, will have their work cut out for them in protecting starting quarterback John McLain, sophomore of Chadron, from the DII defense.

Another area that will help the Eagles out in their quest for victory is the special teams.

“On special teams we need to win the field position battle,” Long said.

On Saturday, Montana State University had a refereed scrimmage to see where they were at on both sides of the ball. Both defense and offense looked good, but flags were flying throughout the scrimmage. Maybe Chadron can convert those errors to work in their favor.

Kick off is set for 7:05 p.m. in Bozeman, Mont. The game will be aired on KQSK 97.5 FM and KAAQ 105.9 FM.

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Sophomore tailback of Elk Grove, Calif. Mike Madkins carries the ball down the field during a 2011 game against the Univeristy of Nebraska-Kearney’s Lopers.

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Even with seven of the nine golfers being freshman, Chadron State College’s golf team is ready to start the season.

Junior Emilie Pilkington of Scottsbluff and senior Nicole Tlustos of Hay Springs are the only returning golfers for Chadron State. The bulk of the team is made of freshman recruits who will all bring new talent to Chadron’s team.

Two of the new recruits are already teammates as they played in high school together. Elysha Stahla and Kelsey Williams of Moorcroft, Wyo., both proved to be excellent players by contributing to the three consecutive 2A championships their team received. Stahla won the individual championships in 2009 and 2012, then tying with teammate Williams for first place in 2012.

Another pair of teammates signed to putt for the Eagles this season. Emma Harris and Nicole Pearson of Wahoo both qualified for the state tournament last fall, where Harris placed fourth overall. Both pairs of teammates will add talent to the Eagles’ golf team.

Coming from the west is Darcy Vernon of Wray, Colo., who medaled in the Class 4A tournament.

Vernon has placed first in nine tournaments during her high school career. The Eagle’s begin their season at the Adams State Grizzly Invitational on September 16-17 in Alamosa, Colo.

Chadron State Eagles’ volleyball team begins their season this weekend at the Northern State Tournament in Aberdeen, S.D. Coach Janel Bailey has high hopes for her team and the four games they will play.

“We are all excited for this weekend,” Baily said. “Honestly, we are in a great position as our record last year doesn’t indicate what this team is capable of achieving and the other teams just might underestimate us.”

The Eagles will compete against Northern State University and Missouri Western on Friday, and then Black Hills State and Minot State on Saturday. Out of the four teams, Black Hills State is the only team in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Last season, two of the Eagles five wins were against Black Hills State at key times during the season. Coach Baily sees playing them in the tournament as a head start for the season.

“The nice part about playing them this weekend is that it doesn’t count for a conference record so we can use that game to become familiar with them and learn how to beat them consistently when it counts.”

Coach Baily and the players are all looking forward to a fresh start this season and a chance to prove themselves.

“Our goals for this tournament are to fight hard for every point and above all else, compete!”

Friday’s games begin at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. On Saturday, the games start at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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Senior Nicole Tlustos of Hay Springs puts the ball during the 2011 fall season.

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Ashley VanDeWalle, 19, sophomore of Cedar Rapids blows a kiss to the audience during the hypnotist event in the Student Center lobby Thursday night. It is the third year in a row that hypnotist Valerie Reeves has visited Chadron State College for Week of Welcome entertainment.

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A new Toy Story: Artist tells stories through broken toys Hannah Clark Reporter A little boy, his hair menacingly cropped, chops apart two toys and reassembles their ill-fitted parts into distorted creatures. This is a scene from Pixar’s animated film Toy Story, and the very image evoked by walking into Jason Godeke’s “Totems and Monster,” an exhibit showing on the upstairs gallery of Memorial Hall until Sept. 26. Godeke’s paintings feature strange, piecemeal humanoids, incredibly reminiscent of that little boy’s hybrid playthings. However, instead of serving the horror-film creepy factor – like they do in Pixar – Godeke’s surreal toys are more thought-provoking than haunting.

One painting, “Seeing the End,” features a willowy Barbie doll, her arms replaced with two hulking appendages. Instead of merely a shock factor, the subject suggests some argument between femininity and strength, a topic pertinent today. Beside it, another piece shows a baby doll whose normal limbs had been superimposed with flimsy female extensions. The woman from the previous painting stands next to the baby, telling a strange story of identity and ability.

“I like to tell stories with paintings,” Godeke said during the show’s opening on Tuesday.

Unlike Toy Story, whose antagonist pieced together toy parts like a mad surgeon, Godeke’s stories imply curious, self-reflective ideas. “Auditions for Eve” exhibits a row of vaguely female figures (all similarly slapped together from toy parts) lined up for scrutiny. This created the question: are we just compilations of our childhood influences, figuratively bits and pieces of our favorite toys? Although up for interpretation, all Godeke’s pieces are full of seeding questions and similarly stimulating images.

Like the title of Pixar’s film, Godeke’s pieces are freeze-frame toy stories with a reoccurring cast. “Two Faces as the Witch” displays life-like, prismatic fruits, guarded by a Grimm-worthy female figure. In another piece, the same figure is half eaten by what Godeke referred to as a “big, dragon-head thing.”

When asked about his works’ similarities to Pixar’s film, Godeke said “it’s not that I don’t deny the mass media influence, it’s irrefutable.”

But then Godeke explained that Toy Story’s sadistic sawbones was actually based on “a long history of violent, horrific stories and paintings.”

Godeke’s contribution to this narrative might not be as unorthodox as it appears to 21st-century eye.

But no matter the timeline of Godeke’s genre, his intriguing works prove that like in film and childhood, the best stories are told by toys.

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Jason Godeke of Bloomsburg, Penn., talks about the process he goes through when creating a painting with Nicole Jeffries, 19, sophomore of Wheatland, Wyo., during the Art Reception Monday in Memorial Hall.

Sacrificing beauty to tell a story

FastFACTS ◉ Jason Godeke currently resides in Bloomsburg, Penn. ◉ After he received his undergraduate degree, he was working with acrylic paint. ◉ Eventually, he took up oil painting because it was easier to work with. ◉ If he could describe his artwork in one word, he said he would call it theatrical because they’re [the paintings] like theatre scenes and therefore tell stories. ◉ When he paints landscapes he uses acrylic paint, but almost all of his paintings are oil based; unless he draws, then he uses pencil or charcoal.

Born and raised in Caspar, Calif. (population 400) Jason Godeke has been exhibiting since 1993, and graduated from Yale, later receiving his MFA from Stony Brook University. He is currently the assistant professor of drawing and design at Bloomsburg University, in Willaimsburg, Pa. His zeal for teaching didn’t limit him to strictly academia, however. Godeke has taught in an innercity high school, the M.H. de Young Museum, the Richmond Arts Center, and a boy’s group home in central Mexico.

The teaching doesn’t stop there, though. Godeke spoke in-depth at the exhibit’s opening on Tuesday, and met with Sarah Polak’s museum exhibit design class afterward. The group poised questions ranging from painting height to name-tag placement, all dealing with the esthetic art form of exhibit design.

Godeke answered every question seated on the floor of his exhibit, the students sprawled around him with notebooks out.

Godeke cites a study-abroad session in the Netherlands as his jumpingboard into art and visual communication. Spurred by the exotic local, his initially minute skills in Dutch, and the plethora of museums rich in classic painters, Godeke dove into all things visual.

Inquiring minds might wonder, especially in response to Godeke’s quixotic paintings, why make images like these? Godeke, in response, defined contemporary art as pieces that aren’t easy on the eyes. This is perhaps contrary to more plebeian ideas of art, but the painter didn’t compromise.

“I want to make my images beautiful,” Godeke said, “but I want to tell a story.”

The story of how Godeke experiences art, and indeed his continuing story of sharing with the next generation, can be glimpsed in his exhibit. However, expect the unexpected with this show, no one could have expected the strange paintings which came from the amiable artist they met on Tuesday.