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FLC Choir Traveling and Performing in Italy Story by Jarred Green Advising 2015: An Inside Look at the New Registration Processs Story by Daniel Riley

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Shifting Responsibility: Federal Government to Take Native American Protection Act? Story by Sheena Harvey

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Body Modifications: The Implications of Personal Expression in the Post-College World Story by Luke Perkins

Sports:

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FLC Basketball Finishes with Another Strong Season Story by Alison Uralli

Academics:

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Geology Senior Seminar Highlights Communication Skills Story by Catherine Wheeler

Entertainment: Indy on the Street and Horoscopes!

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FLC Choir Traveling and Performing in Italy

Story by Jarred Green

Photo by Anjelique Cato

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he Fort Lewis College choir is going international with their own tour of Italy. The FLC choir has been planning this trip for over a year.

The choir group will be performing in Rome, Assisi, Spoleto, Vatican City, Bologna, Florence, Venice, Munich and Salzburg, Jenny Diver, choir singer and member of the choir fundraising team, said.

This is a great opportunity to connect something that the choir is passionate about with a historic learning experience, Diver said.

This is the first time the FLC choir has gone out of the country, Derek Zuniga, cohead of the choir fundraising committee, said. It is a good opportunity for FLC to show their talent in another country.

The choirs will be performing in and visiting places where some of the greatest composers have created their pieces, Charissa Chiaravalloti, director of choral activities, said.

For students that will be performing pieces by Mozart later in their education, they might think of the time that they visited Mozart’s apartment, Chiaravalloti said.

Forty-eight singers will be going on the

trip, she said. Out of the 48 singers, 30 of them belong to the chamber choir, which is the elite choir of FLC. “We are going to be able to put forth a really great representation of the music that is happening at Fort Lewis College,” she said.

The concert choir, Hawkapella, men’s choir and chamber choir will be the sections of choir performing in Italy, she said.

“This trip was available for me when I was in school, and I wanted this opportunity to be available to students at Fort Lewis College,” she said.

For music majors, this experience will allow them to appreciate the music they are performing in a more in-depth manner, she said.

The FLC choir will be performing in various chapels and museums containing a lot of art and history in the area, Diver said.

When not performing, the choir will be sightseeing throughout Italy, she said.

Choir students are allowed to roam freely once the performances are done, Zuniga said. Students can go on guided tours on chapels and museums throughout Italy.

There will be tour guides and trans-

lators with the students while they are exploring, Chiaravalloti said.

Chiaravalloti wanted the choir to have an experience in other cultures, Diver said.

She wanted the choir to connect with music and express the pieces heard.

This trip is hopefully going to take place every three years, Chiaravalloti said.

This is such an amazing experience for students to have, and it should be available to any choir student at least once during their time at FLC, she said.

Before the trip, the choir will have many weekend rehearsals to refine each performance, Diver said.

The choir is currently working on rehearsing the pieces they will perform while in Italy, Chiaravalloti said.

This event has the potential to be life changing for students attending the trip, she said.

The choir is really excited to travel to Italy in the summer, Diver said.

“This will be an influential trip for all of us,” she said.

Students will be performing in Italy from May 5-15, she said.

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his semester, a new model for class registration and advising has been implemented. This system is different from those used in the past at Fort Lewis College, and some students have voiced complaints about the change in structure.

Academic success coaches hope that the new system, the most recent in a series of changing advising models, will improve the process and ultimately make advising and registration easier for students, faculty and advisors.

The new advising process involves the use of student success centers in certain departments.

In the school of business administration, these centers have been set up this spring, Crystal Fankhauser, the director of Student Success at FLC, said. This means that two academic success coaches from the office of advising are the primary advisors for all major within the business department.

Under the old model, students’ primary advisors were their faculty advisors, whereas under the new system, they will mainly consult academic success coaches, Fankhauser said. The faculty will mainly serve as mentors to the coaches throughout the process.

“If students have questions about what electives would be good for their particular major if, say, the student wants to get into banking or graduate school, the faculty are still going to be the experts,” she said.

Fankhauser said in the past, student success advisors have been secondary to faculty advisors, so students would consult them in the summer and then shift back to their faculty advisors when the school year started, which could be disorienting for some students.

“If you try to show up in the summer, you need to come to one of us because your faculty member probably isn’t available,” she said. “Then during the school year, after the first two weeks of classes, you go to your faculty advisor again. So that was

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tough, but we’re trying to make it less confusing.”

Another change implemented as a part of the new advising model is that registration and advising start on the same day.

Ryan Riggins, a senior business major at FLC, said he was not aware of the changes that were made to the advising model in the business school prior to registration week.

“The new process was a little confusing,” Riggins said. “They started advising and registration on the same day and was inconvenient for me personally, as a senior signing up for my last semester of classes.”

Fankhauser said one reason for this particular change was that they wanted to be able to advise freshmen and sophomores better.

In the past, every 100 and 200 level class would hold back some seats based on the past enrollment patterns, Fankhauser said. In some cases, it would appear to students that they could register, but they would be informed that all remaining spaces in a class were reserved for freshmen and transfer students.

“WebOPUS can be really hard to read sometimes, especially when you have saved seats in there,” she said. “So now there are no saved seats and after current students have registered we’ll just go in to look and see what happened and where we might need more space.”

Freshman and sophomore students would create their schedules ahead of time, but seniors and juniors would select their classes first and often times pick the most popular classes, she said.

“They would put together schedules, but seniors and juniors get to go first and often times pick popular classes,” Fankhauser said. “That would completely wreck the schedules that the other students had put together. Now, since advising and registration happen simultaneously and we meet with freshmen and sophomores this week, we can do it based on what’s actually

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Since seniors attempting to graduate have specific classes required to do so, they have traditionally been given a priority window for registration.

Fankhauser said that another reason for the change is that, under the new system, new students at FLC have more time to start registration, which also helps to work out these issues that might keep current student from getting into classes that they might need.

For other departments at FLC, the advising process this semester is similar to how it has been in the past where faculty advisors help students in their department to register for classes, she said.

Ross McCauley, a biology professor and faculty advisor at FLC, said there were not many changes made to the advising process in his department this year besides the change of scheduling.

“I can understand the reasoning behind the new system as far as timing, but I had to cancel a couple of classes to advise seniors before registration started,” McCauley said.

Fankhauser said teachers now have more time to adjust their classes in order to fit with student demand for enrollment in cases where all seats in a class fill up and they may need another section for the course.

In the future, they may expand the student success centers, she said. Other departments have said they would like to give the new system a try.

The approach to advising will always change based on student wants and needs, so this model could be replaced again in the future, she said.

“If something isn’t going well in the student success centers, we might try different models,” Fankhauser said. “We want to measure our effectiveness and make sure that we’re not just making changes for changes sake, but actually improving advising.”

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SCHOLARSHIP

SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY:

Federal government to take over native american protection act?

Story by Sheena Harvey

Photos by Sean Summers

Design by Camden Smith

any Native American students attend Fort Lewis College because of the free tuition provided by the state of Colorado. Since Colorado spends a large amount of money on the students’ tuition, FLC asked for help from the federal government in funding the Native American tuition waiver.

Colorado spends $15 million per year paying for the Native American tuition waiver, Scott Greenler, president of the ASFLC, said.

FLC and the state of Colorado has been pushing for the federal government to take over the expenses for five years now, so the state of Colorado can have extra funding for higher education, Greenler said.

The bill is known as the Native American Indian Protection Act, he said. This bill will not affect any of the Native American students attending or who choose to enroll at FLC because the state of Colorado has and will still pay the tuition waiver. Rather the state of Colorado is wanting the federal government to take over the tuition waiver of $15 million.

Camille Keith, a Native American student from the Navajo Nation, said the state of Colorado should keep its promise and keep funding FLC as it was their commitment.

Keith suspects the federal government will want to create strict criterias to lower the expenses by cutting the minimum of

GPAs or require every student to be a certain degree of Native American blood, she said.

Numerous Native American students in the United States are not able to attend a higher education institution due to affordability, Alex Thompson, an FLC student legislator, said.

However, FLC and the University of Minnesota Morris, of Morris, Minnesota are the only two schools in the nation with similarly structured tuition waivers, he said.

Both colleges are working together in lobbying for the government to take over each tuition waiver, he said.

Since the state of Colorado is ranked last in the U.S. in the quality of higher ed-

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Native American lands, she said.

The Native American tuition waiver is very helpful financially with school, rent, books and other expenses, Meredith Cook, a Native American student from the Lakota and Sioux nation, said.

Cook believes the bill is a good idea because it could bring more programs and events to FLC that all students can benefit from, she said.

The struggle of hosting events like the Hozhoni Days Pow Wow might also be less stressful, she said.

There are 1,100 Native American students who attend FLC, and altogether are from 150 different tribes and nations from around the country, Thomas said.

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this new bill in process,” she said.

Greenler has been very active with the progression of the bill by writing and sending letters of support to Bennett, he said.

If the bill passed, it could mean FLC can hire more professors, build more dorms and buildings on campus and the possibility of adding more majors, he said.

The main idea of the bill is to improve the public education system in Colorado and secure the tuition waiver for Native American students, he said.

“I am committed to our mission of educating all Native American students,” Thomas said. “It is very important to FLC, and I will pledge to keep fighting for Native American students.”

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ucation funding according to a report from the National Science Foundation, so FLC would like the government to take over the tuition cost, he said.

If the federal government agrees to takeover the tuition waiver, then the state would have extra funds for FLC, he said.

Working with the U.S. Department of Education, FLC President Dene Thomas frequently goes to Washington D.C. to lobby to members of the House and Senate to pass this bill, Thompson said.

Michael Bennet, the Democrat Senator of Colorado, is the main sponsor of the bill, along with Cory Garner, a Republican Senator of Colorado, Thomas said.

Although Bennet and Gardner are on board, they have slowed the process down because they are still negotiating on who should present the bill to the house, she said.

The original bill is a historical bill set on Jan. 25, 1911, when the federal government and state signed a federal policy to end FLC as an Indian school, she said.

John Shafiroff was the governor of Colorado who signed this agreement contract saying that the state of Colorado’s legal obligation is to provide the Native American students with tuition waiver because the building where FLC originated was built on

COVER STORY

Vintage tattoo guns displayed in Your Flesh Tattoo adds to the ambiance of the new age Victorian

outlines generate creativity for both

Story by Luke Perkins

Photos by Lucy Schaefer

Design by Hanna Maddera

ollege is a time of exploration and personal expression, and for a growing number of Americans the expression of one’s self comes in the form of body modifications.

“It’s definitely become more acceptable since when I got started,” Matt Rousseau, owner and tattoo artist for Your Flesh Tattoo, said.

The term body modification covers a wide gamut of alterations to the human form, including piercings and tattoos, Rousseau said.

Research conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2013 found that 14 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo.

This percentage is much higher in the age ranges of 18-25 and 26-40, being 36 percent and 40 percent, respectively.

Although reasons for this form of expression differ amongst individuals they usually all have something in common, Greg Childress, a firefighter and paramedic for Durango Fire and Rescue Authority, said.

Childress has extensive tattoos, including full “sleeves” on both arms, his right leg up to the knee, and small pieces on his left leg and back, amounting to an estimated total of 100 hours of work, he said.

“There is a general thread that run amongst body modifiers, whether its piercings or tattoos,” Childress said. “You’re just seeking to identify yourself on your own terms.”

The meaning behind tattoos generally goes beyond the the image that is chosen, he said.

“When people talk about what do tattoos mean, the picture kind of becomes irrelevant, what the art is just becomes a piece of art,” he said.

The meaning of the tattoos does not come down to the symbol chosen, but to the events occurring in the persons life when they got the tattoo, he said.

“It really is all these folded pages in the

they are projecting, Rousseau said.

Tattooing has an extensive history amongst primitive cultures throughout human history, with modern practices beginning the United States a little over 100 years ago, he said.

But modern piercing has a shorter history.

The first piercing studio in North America was opened in the ‘70s, Dallas Belden, piercing artist for Your Flesh Tattoo, said.

This first studio, named The Gauntlet, was opened by Jim Ward and its original clientele was almost exclusively made up of gay men and women, Belden said.

Since the opening of The Gauntlet, piercing has changed significantly, both in the quality and availability of the jewelry and in the mainstream appreciation of it, he said “Things have come a long way in a very, very, short period of time,” he said.

Even though body modifications have become more common, it is not entirely clear where or how they fit into the professional world.

For recruiters who come into the school of business administration at Fort Lewis College, there has not been a signifi-

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novel that is my life,” Childress said.

However, this is not always the case and there is a portion of the population who are not always concerned with the quality of the product they are getting, or the image

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ance, and how their workers present themselves to the public, she said.

For example, school district 9-R, which has 487 employees in the La Plata County area according to their website, makes their policies regarding dress code readily available online.

Durango School District 9-R policy regarding staff dress code shows a list of items that if referred to or contained within “body adornments” can cause them to be unacceptable “in school buildings, on school grounds or at school activities.”

While body modifications that fall into these categories are violations of the dress code they do not preclude an employee from employment at 9-R, provided they can be adequately covered during work, Julie Popp, public information officer for

Durango School District 9-R, said.

In this example, or with any company which does not support open displays of body modification, it would beneficial to dress to cover them or replace jewelry with clear or flesh tone variants, Kolodzne said.

Recruiters and interviewers will often recognize these attempts to minimize your personal expression on your professional appearance, she said.

“It’s the same decisions we all make, do I wear a t-shirt or do I wear something with a collar, blue jeans or slacks,” Childress said. “It’s that same decision process we all go through, you just add another layer on that.”

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cant shift in the acceptance of visible body modification, Patricia Dommer, career service coordinator for the business administration and teacher education departments, said.

“Certain industries are definitely more flexible than others,” Jill Kolodzne, career services coordinator, said.

One such industry is that of emergency service, Childress said.

“In the profession I chose, getting visible tattoos was not frowned upon, if I had been a investment banker or real estate agent or something like that I would have been a lot more reserved,” he said.

There are many different factors in how a body modification will be perceived by potential employers including location, Kolodzne said.

It depends on where people want to go, she said. It can be a small town rural American setting or an urban trend setting location.

The age of the individuals involved in the hiring process is also something that should not be overlooked, Dommer said.

“Someone my age is, frankly, not as likely to have body art and piercings, and thus won’t be able to relate to it like a younger person,” she said.

Having open body modifications does not exclude individuals from careers in suit and tie type settings, she said.

“It doesn’t mean that all doors are closed, or certain doors are closed,” Childress said. “It just means you just made an obstacle for yourself, you’re gonna have to work a lot harder.”

As more young people enter the workforce it becomes more common for employees in more professional jobs to have body modifications, such as doctors, therapists, accountants and any suit and tie type jobs, Rousseau said.

“I have a friend who is an accountant for a very conservative organization,” Dommer said. “She has full sleeves and her back is completely done, but you’d never know it on the job.”

As long as prospective employees come into interviews ready to showcase their qualifications and interpersonal skills the effect of body modification will generally be minimized, Kolodzne said.

“I’m not picking someone solely on their appearance,” she said. “I’m also picking you on your ability.”

It does not hurt to scout out any potential employers and see what policies they have in place regarding personal appear-

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he geology department’s senior seminar is wrapping up for students, concluding with its third and final class related to the final thesis. Students are polishing their presentations and oral communication skills.

The process for geology senior seminar starts in the winter semester of students’ junior year, Jim Collier, a professor of geosciences, said.

In the class Research Methods in Geology, students explore ideas for their topic and begin to do research, Collier said.

There are no outlined or preconceived topics that students must focus on, he said.

This is so students are able to branch out into any field they find interesting.

“Their topic can be one of three things: the results of an internship over the summer, the results of original research over the summer, or a literature review,” he said.

Students who are currently in the preliminary research class recently turned in their proposals of projects.

“My project is about the relationship of grain size sorting,” Adam Parker, a geology student, said.

The geology department originally required students to do completely original work, Collier said.

However, as the department has grown with student interest, there is not enough staff to adequately assist students, he said.

Overall, Collier believes that the skills students acquire over their time in classes and senior seminar transcend just an academic EVERY STUDENT’S context.

PROJECT HAS ITS OWN “The skills we teach, particularly in the final seTHE BASIC INQUIRY mester, are those that are useful regardless of what field they end up going DAVID GONZALES to,” he said.

The ability to communicate effectively helps students and is critical, no matter what profession students decide on pursuing, Collier said.

Geology students present their senior seminar work on April 25.

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Laura Joy Healey, a geology student, said her project will focus on the mathematical model of basins.

In the fall of their senior year, students participate in a senior seminar class, in which they write the entirety of their paper, Collier said. In their final semester, students enroll in a final seminar class which focuses on oral presentation.

David Gonzales, the chair and a professor in the department of geosciences, taught senior seminar I this past fall. This is the class in which students focus writing their results.

Projects this year are varied among different concepts within the geosciences.

“I have students working on projects related to mineralization in ore deposit, noble gas isotopes from reservoirs in the area, and plutons and igneous bodies,” Gonzales said.

One student is working on how to integrate earth science into high school curriculums as it relates to teacher education, Collier said.

“Every student’s project has its own life,” Gonzales said. “They are doing the basic inquiry that scientists do.”

Kyle Lewis, a senior geology student, has been studying Mount Sneffels, a fourteener near Telluride.

“My research entails obtaining the chemistry and a new age for the rock formation that forms Mt. Sneffels,” Lewis said via email.

Lewis said Gonzales inspired him to do this projects when he told him about the lack of research done about this kind of rock formation.

Currently, seniors are nearing the end of their final semester in senior seminar.

“They are working on oral communication skills and focusing on preparing for professional talks,” Collier said.

Overall, the goals of senior seminar are to foster written and oral communication skills and serve as an opportunity to bring together their academic work, he said.

Lewis said the communication portion of geology senior seminar has significantly helped him with his impending presentation.

“I’m positive that without the guidance received in senior seminar II, my presentation would be lacking from both a professional and aesthetic perspective,” he said in an email.

However, the current structure of geology’s senior seminar is not how it always was.

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he men’s and women’s basketball season has come to a close, with another high-ranking season under their belt.

The men’s team went 20-9 this year and finished fifth in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, and the women’s team went 16-11 and finished sixth in conference.

“We’ve been in the top five for the last 15 years so thats something we’re proud of,” Daniel Steffensen, the assistant coach of the Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team, said.

As far as accolades go, sophomore Cade Klauston received the second team all conference award, Rasmon Bach was awarded freshman of the year and all conference honorable mention, and senior Alex Herrera was awarded first team all conference and defensive player of the year so far, Steffensen said “We’ve won five RMAC championships in the last fifteen years, and eight out of the 15 we have been in the regional and we were in the sweet 16 once, and when I say the last 15 years it’s because that’s how long coach Hofman’s been coaching consecutively,” he said.

The men’s basketball team has a 3.1 overall GPA, which is the highest for any male sport at FLC, along with the best winning percentage among the other male athletic programs, he said.

“We had a really up and down graph this season,” Bob Hofman, the head coach of FLC men’s basketball, said.

The men’s team had a pretty unfavorable schedule compared to the rest of the league and played most of their big conference games when a lot of the students were out of town, he said.

“Especially with the league being how tough it was this year, we definitely had some key wins. It was just a little disappointing at the end,” Alex Herrera, the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year and FLC senior, said. “It was a heck of a season though.”

However, the games where FLC students came to watch were very memorable,

Head womens basketball coach, Jason Flores, pulls in the team for a timeout during the

leadership and make many of the decisions on travel and eating arrangements. I’m really proud of them and how they’ve come along and progressed.”

He and the coaches like to think of themselves as educators in addition to being a coach, Hofman said. They hope when the players come through the program, that it is not just about basketball.

“At the end of their careers, I give an actual piece of the floor that was left over from construction, and I make it into a plaque that says, ‘For your dedication and hard work, you will forever own a piece of the Fort Lewis College Basketball Floor,’ and what that does is it signifies that they are a part of the program forever and that’s what we want to instill,” Hofman said.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball program have been a great success over the years, he said. This season the women’s team lost a one point game on the road in a similar situation that the men’s team faced.

“They had some great moments and some great wins this year,” he said. “It’s pretty fun because both programs support each other really well, which is very unusual in a lot of other programs.

Hofman said the men’s team makes an effort to stay for all of the women’s team home games, and in turn, the women’s team stays to watch theirs.

The women’s basketball team has won

a total of six RMAC season championships along with two RMAC shootout championships.

Overall, the women’s season went really well. There were some disappointing losses but just as many great wins. One of the teams’ best moments was getting an upset win over UCCS at home, Skylyn Webb, a sophomore and guard for the women’s team, said.

“Being part of the team has been an awesome experience, and I’m thankful to have been able to go through all the best and worst times with the best teammates possible,” Webb said.

The administration and the town of Durango do a great job of showing their support for the basketball teams, and the students do a good job of coming out for the big games, but Steffensen said the teams could always use more support from the students during games.

“People come to Durango not to be a spectator, but to be a participant,” Hofman said. “And, we’d like to think that men’s and women’s basketball could be very participatory for everybody, and I think we as a program and a school, we need to do a better job of getting the word out how well we’ve done and how much fun it is to be involved.”

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Herrera said. The special home games were against Metro State University and Colorado School of Mines, who ranked as the top two teams in the RMAC this year.

This was only the second and third time in the team’s history that they beat a top-ten team at a home game, Steffensen said.

“In terms of not being in an urban area, FLC basketball is by far the most successful program in Colorado, and that is something to be proud of,” Hofman said.

“Twenty wins is very hard to achieve for any basketball team,” Steffensen said.

“We may be a little disappointed with our performance but there are plenty of programs out there that would be grateful for the year we had.”

The three home losses were the toughest losses because they do not lose at home very often, Hofman said.

“All in all the expectations have become so high for the basketball program, and with the 15 team league being probably the most competitive it’s been in recent years, to get a 20-9 season was very rewarding,” he said.

Hofman said he was glad the senior players, Lucas Archuleta, Alex Herrera and Kevin Flohr were able to go out with a bang with a 20-9 season.

“We run a senior based system,” he said. “We make a big deal of our seniors.

The senior players play a big role in team

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CANCER (June 21 – July 22): Writing a letter to someone you need to talk to might help you sort out your emotions.

Even if you don’t ever give it to them, it might help you out.

LEO (July 23 – August 22): DO NOT SKIP CLASS. Stop it, just go to class. Summer is just around the corner.

And come on, who else can say they have a 4 month long summer?

VIRGO (August 23 – September 22): What have your dreams been about lately? It might be interesting to look online if there is an ongoing theme in them. Share dream stories with your friends, too. It’s a fun conversation to talk about what unconscious minds can do!

LIBRA (September 23 – October 22): Seek out hugs. Here is one from me:

SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21): Buy a wonderfully-smelling candle, go home, light it with a match, and do your homework with the appealing aroma around you.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 21): You are a great friend, but consider thinking before speaking as to not hurt anyone’s feelings. But don’t let that stop you from asking questions.

CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 19): Find a good friend, cover yourselves in an opulent blanket, and watch a silly movie you can laugh about. I suggest the cult classic, The Room. Be prepared to make some serious fun of this poorly made movie.

AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18): Send a cute text to your crush and hide your face in embarrassment afterwards. Let your heart explode with joy when they text you back.

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PISCES (February 19 – March 20): Stop what you are doing and drink a glass of ice cold water. Trace the liquid as it enters each section of your body as it finally reaches your stomach. Then, finish the whole glass.

Recipe & Photos by Hanna Maddera

CHILI INGREDIENTS: 1 lb ground beef 1 can of canned diced tomatoes (14.5 oz) 1/2 can of canned tomato paste (6 oz) paprika chili power cumin salt pepper cayenne pepper

CORN BREAD INGREDIENTS: 3/4 cups enriched cornmeal 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour 1/4 cup sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup coconut milk 1/3 jar Durango Diner Green Chili 1 egg 1/4 cup coconut oil

DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.

Put chili in medium pan. Cook on medium heat until brown. Once browed, add tomato paste, diced tomatoes, and spices. Cover and simmer for 45 minutes.

Combine all dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together. Add the egg, coconut milk, and coconut oil and mix until all the dry ingredients are moistened. Oil a muffin pan with coconut oil and fill each section 3/4 with the mixture. Place in oven and bake for 20 minutes.

Once done, remove cups from oven and cut holes in the cornbread to hollow out the center.

Once the chili is done, fill the hollowed-out cornbread cups with the chili.

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