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PTK History Crawl Brings the Past to the Present Phi Theta Kappa and their advisor Elizabeth Grant hosted the event.

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass’ statues debate in front of the Alton Grainery.

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The history of Alton and Godfrey was rediscovered on Sept. 23, covering a wide variety of monuments and historical figures.

Lewis and Clark Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Eta Psi, hosted the event from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. and invited L&C students and staff, as well as community members that wanted to join in on the fun. Some of the locations visited included the Lincoln-Douglas Square, Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument, Western Military Academy as well as other locations.

Elizabeth Grant, advisor of PTK, said, “From hosting the history crawl, I learned that our members were very interested and willing to undertake a project that revealed many facts about the historical significance of our local area. Even though it was a hot day, community members were very interested to take in new information about places they may drive by each day. Each of us learned so much from the volunteer presenters throughout the day and especially the narration of the ‘history chix,’ Cathy Bagby and Nancy Alexander, who guided us through this magical history tour of the Alton/ Godfrey area.”

The History Crawl is a part of the PTK students’ Honors in Action Project. PTK is a national honor society, and membership requires a

minimum grade point average of 3.5 as well as the completion of at least 12 transferable credit hours at L&C. Grant encouraged joining for those “who are interested in connecting with other smart leaders on campus, researching with inquisitive people, serving their campus community, and transferring to a university.”

Grant continued with, “Phi Theta Kappa offers lifetime recommendation letters to members and often gets students who transfer scholarship money. It’s a one-time joining fee and a lifetime of friendships and benefits!”

PTK Co-President, Madalynn McKenzie agreed stating, “I’ve always been proud to be a part of Phi Theta Kappa, but I am truly blessed to finally be able to represent the Eta Psi chapter. As CoPresident this semester, I hope to get our chapter more involved on campus and the surrounding community. I want more people to be aware that PTK isn’t just about having a high GPA, but also leadership, service, and being a well rounded individual.”

For more information on how to become a member of PTK and how to get involved in both campus life, as well as the community, visit L&C’s home page and search ‘PTK’.

Captain Godfrey dressed to impress at the event. Photos Provided By: Shelby Clayton

People taking a guided tour of the Confederate cemetery.

Attendees of the PTK History Crawl gathered to take a group photograph.

Fall Fest Draws Large Crowd of Students TRAE WARGO Contributer

Lewis and Clark Community College’s Fall Fest 2017 happened Wednesday, Sept.

6, just outside the main campus building.

Students, faculty and staff came together to enjoy the fun and free food Student Activities had to offer.

“We had a variety of options for students to be engaged with,” Jared Hennings, director of Student Activities, said. “We had a variety of clubs that operate their function here at the campus to inform students as far as what they do here.”

Students were able to partake in this

Student Activities sponsored event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and check out numerous clubs at tables, choose a sandwich with multiple sides and snacks, and enter in a handful of contests, all while listening to music played by a DJ. Getting students to come check out Fall Fest can be tricky, but Student Activities had a trump card. Hennings said the food does the trick.

“Obviously, you can’t have a big event like that without free food,” Hennings said. “So, we had a variety of food that was offered for students to partake in.”

He planned for 800 meals and ran out of food. When asked if Fall Fest was a

success, Hennings said he was afraid of falling short, but thinks it ultimately surpassed his goal.

“At least planning for that number of people was not in vain,” Hennings said.

“So, we did meet that number.”

Fall Fest is also a way to inform students of programs and what they can get involved in at Lewis and Clark.

There was also plenty to check out and do at Fall Fest. Multiple tables lined the lawn from Lewis and Clark’s radio station WLCA 89.9 FM handing out giveaways to Lewis and Clark’s security guards giving out free snow cones.

“We gave away concert tickets to

Echo Smith, Two Doors Cinema Club, Milky Chance, and we also did T-shirt giveaways,” Director of Production for 89.9 Samantha Seeley said.

There were also competitions for students to show off their skills like a tug of war, a Frisbee accuracy throw contest, dance contest and a hula hoop contest.

Students were able to break the ice of the fall semester and meet other students they would not normally see, so Fall Fest was a success in Hennings eyes.

“It seemed liked everybody that was there enjoyed the experience and enjoyed the day,” Hennings said.

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Wanted ALLISON KOZY Contributer Lewis and Clark Community College is currently looking for innovative ideas and student minds to help make campus a greater place.

Many of the events that take place on campus are planned by a group of students that go above and beyond to ensure an experience that is positive and beneficial for the student body.

The SGA, otherwise known as the Lewis and Clark Student Government Association, is a club offered to students who are interested in representing the student body’s interest at meetings twice a month.

“The Student Government Association oversees all student clubs and provides the funding toward all club activities, as well as composes policies expected towards the student body,” Sean Hill, SGA adviser, said.

Though student suggestions are accepted regardless, those interested in the experience this club provides and involvement in overseeing all school clubs, activities and funding should come and meet with the SGA the first and third week each month throughout the school year.

“The organization is open to any and all students throughout the school year,” Hill said.

Students will have the opportunity to gain hands on experience working with advisors and peers, and the ability to earn leadership opportunities within the organization.

According to www.lc.edu/SGA, each meeting is held at 1 p.m. twice a month on Wednesdays in the Underground Connection in Reid Hall. The meetings are open for all students to join.

For more information on how to get involved, students should visit the official SGA website, or contact Hill at shill@lc.edu.

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Student Government Association Elects New Officers HELEN JARDEN hjarden@lc.edu A new Student Government Association (SGA) president, vice president, treasurer and secretary were elected on Sept. 13 at Lewis and Clark Community College.

“The main goal of SGA is increasing the quality of students’ experiences on campus and making campus better for students,” Student Trustee Whitney Weeks said. “We also attempt to increase participation in student activities and community engagement.”

Weeks works alongside SGA, which manages and provides for L&C club activities, and maintains a position on the L&C Board of Trustees as a representative of the student body.

Joe McKenzie is collaborating with Weeks once again. McKenzie formerly served as SGA vice president in the fall semester of 2016 and the spring semester of 2017 and has now been elected as president.

“I really developed a passion for student government and contributing to the school,” McKenzie said. “I believed that with a year under my belt I could be a great leader in SGA.” Taking up the role of vice president is Thomas Griffin. This is Griffin’s first

semester at L&C, and he is currently working toward his associates in graphic design.

Griffin, who has had an interest in student government organizations since high school, is excited to get started with his new position.

“I’m hoping that we will make L&C a more appealing place because community college’s get a bad reputation, and I also hope that the student body starts to see more ways to get involved,” Griffin said.

Returning to the role of treasurer is Callie Logan. She was appointed treasurer last year when her predecessor resigned. One of the reasons Logan, an accounting major, decided to run for treasurer was because it best fit with her accounting experience.

She also discovered a new passion in the process.

“I love being involved on campus and helping to make a difference and being Treasurer gives me that chance,” Logan said.

The secretary’s position was filled

by Brittany Dickerson, a student attending L&C to obtain an associate’s in nursing.

“The encouragement from my friends in Student Activities made me decide to run for Secretary,” Dickerson said. “I love helping others and our school.”

If students want to create an event or voice concerns over issues that affect L&C, they can attend the bi-monthly SGA meetings on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. in the Underground Connection.

For more information, contact Vice President of Student Engagement Sean Hill at shill@lc.edu.

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FREAKY FRESH! FREAKY FAST! ™

Speaker Series Kicks Off

BRENNEN LARSON

blarson@lc.edu Lewis and Clark Community College held the first in its Visiting Artist Speaker series on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Professor and former chairman of the art department at Blackburn College, Bob Huber, was the speaker.

Huber began the lecture by outlining the thought process he puts into making art. He spoke about the fears he had that motivated him to continue evolving as an artist.

With an understanding of his underlying thoughts down, he moved on to his experience working with ceramics. “My life as a potter began early on in my education,” he explained, describing how a potter named David Shaner visited his school. He came to admire Shaner for his experience and skill. Huber went on to work for multiple pottery firms, including Mississippi Mud Pottery and Crocker

and Springer Salt Glaze Pottery. Over the course of his tenure at these firms, he began to develop a preference for humble forms and user-friendliness.

Next, he discussed his work in the sculpture. He showed a number of slides of his works while discussing their inspiration. They largely are influenced by his Catholic background and by such sculptors as Rodin and Bernini.

After that, he moved on to his drawings and paintings, telling about his experimentation with different methods, as well as giving stories about a model that he’d worked with, Angelo.

Finally, he showed a few slides of his students’ work in drawing, sculpture, and ceramics, showcasing some of the more outstanding works they’ve done.

If you want to know more about Bob Huber, or Blackburn’s Fine Arts program, you can contact him at robert.huber@ blackburn.edu.

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EKINDRA RASAILI Contributor Lewis and Clark Community College’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion program recently offered minority student families an orientation.

The orientation provided information on the financial resources, available scholarships and educational opportunities at Lewis and Clark.

Vice President of Student Engagement Sean Hill said the orientation helped students and their families see what the college offers minority students for their educational and career goals.

L&C has been helping students in the multi-cultural sector since the college was established by supporting local community minority students and international students for their career opportunities and academic goals.

Hill said the orientation was very successful and helped students and their families.

Adrienne Reed works closely with

minority students and international students as the coordinator of Office of Diversity and Inclusion program.

She said that many of the minority and international students have a hard time finding the help that Lewis and Clark Community College offers them.

The orientation aimed to provide of the information that students need.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion assists minority students by empowering them, Reed said. The program also helps international students as they adjustment to a new culture, complete visa paperwork, execute assignments, research for financial information, apply for scholarships and seek career opportunities, as well helping them during challenging times.

L&C has had students from 21 countries, including Nigerian, Zambezi, Mexico, Asia and Colombian.

For more information, students can contact Reed at ayreed@lc.edu.

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Pennywise Dances his Way to the Box Office with “It” JESSE BAALMAN

jbaalman@lc.edu At the peak of 80’s nostalgia, New Line Cinema issues the first (film) adaptation of Stephen King’s killer clown. As an extension of Warner Brothers, the distributor has never put out a horror movie with a budget nearing $35 million or worked with KatzSmith productions (Next up is a “Beetlejuice” sequel). After entering development in 2009 with director Cary Fukunaga attached, “It” now carries his writing credit and tells the first half of the lengthy novel. With Andy Muschietti behind the camera, the story moves from the 50’s to the 80’s, making the “Stand By Me” vibes very prominent.

But this film is not “Stand By Me,” no, because the Loser’s Club is made up of kids who aren’t made up of much at all.

There is the hypochondriac, the chatterbox, the Jewish kid, the new kid, the black kid, the kid with a stutter and the girl.

Missing anything? Oh, the new kid is also chubby. And he rocks out to New Kids on the Block, which is admittedly hilarious because Jeremy Ray Taylor is lovable as Ben. The whole cast does wonders for their characters, bringing them to life by way of the young ensemble’s shared chemistry.

Bill Denbrough (an always reliable Jaeden Lieberher) becomes the leader of

this misfit alliance after his 7-year-old brother, Georgie, goes missing in a scene where his yellow raincoat is tracked along the road’s sewer system in a melancholy opening rain shot. This tragedy, and each member’s nightmarish clown attack solidify a bond between the friends to battle an evil entity that manifests itself (and each child’s individual fear) every 27 years.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard) has remained a menacing figure in the small town of Derry, Maine throughout its history. However, this time around, the kids are not as scared.

Especially Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis, breaking out), a girl with a sexuallyabusive father who is misunderstood by her peers (more on her in a minute). She often is the one to take charge and instill bravery in the rest of the gang who lack a personal reason to defeat the clown like Bill. These are tough kids though - they live in a world without cellphones and authoritarian parents, where summer was spent on a bicycle scurrying away from bullies in the woods.

These bullies, the so-called Bowers Gang, are slightly more brutal than the average playground menace because the leader, Henry Bowers (Nicholas Hamilton), is a psychopath who also happens to have

an abusive father. Beverly instigates the memorable scene from the book where the losers pelt the bullies with stones in a match set on two opposite sides of a stream. It is one of several exceptional scenes featuring her character in a film that strikes a high note with her bloody bathroom sink disaster but comes crashing down when her damsel-in-distress is resurrected by a kiss from one of the losers. The film cares a lot about this character, putting her in a rhythmic love triangle and developing a subplot with her father that capitalizes on the creepy aspects of their relationship without crossing the line. But I can not say they stick the landing with Beverly when her character does not subvert the audience’s expectations as often as she thinks she does.

That being said, these are some of the first characters of their age to create such dark material. The kids are sexualized, objectified, and wildly inappropriate.

Those are some of the groundbreaking elements in King’s coming-of-age novel that justify an R-rating. Not that it means anything in terms of fear factor, most of the fright conjured up by Pennywise is achieved via an emotional through-line and not increasingly recognizable CG effects and jump scares. Taking design inspiration from the 70’s renaissance,

the clown in question is a subtle blend of sinister and mythological elements.

Skarsgard does well in the role, walking the line between cute and creepy with nuance, but even his progression is underdeveloped as the film’s lead.

Muschietti ends the film in a dark, visually-bloated sewer chamber where the friends overcome their childlike fears and send Pennywise back where he came from. That is until 27 years later when the present-day sequel sees the losers facing their demons again as adults. Until then, enjoy this American pastoral for its rural set design, efforts from a game cast including “Stranger Things” breakout Finn Wolfhard, and its inward elements of horror drama. “It” is likely the closest this generation can get to sitting in a theatre at the release of “Stand By Me” in 1986.

Now a cultural phenomenon, the film doubled what it was predicted to make and took in $123 million over the weekend, ending a seven-week down streak and an overall American ticket sales slump. It now holds the record for biggest horror opening and September debut. Hopefully distributors can keep up the moviegoing momentum and get the domestic box office back on track before the year ends.

Dead by Daylight will Keep You Playing ’till Dawn HELEN JARDEN

hjarden@lc.edu ‘Dead by Daylight’ is a multiplayer horror game where one player takes on the role of a savage killer while others play as survivors trying to escape from the killer’s wrath. Starbreeze Studios and Behavior Digital published ‘Dead by Daylight’ on June 14, 2016. Since then, the game has had numerous content added, including new DLC with killers, survivors, and cosmetic items.

This asymmetrical game is played in what are called trials, which are basically just online matches. They only way to escape the trials is to fix five generators to power up the gates that keep you locked in the Killing Grounds. Each Killing Ground is different, and not even the killer knows where the trial will take place. In one game you can spawn into a quiet farm with a dilapidated farmhouse, and in another you can spawn in an institution with labyrinth-like halls. There’s even a chance to spawn in Haddonfield, the town in which the Halloween movies take place. Every map has unique features that players can use to their advantage against the killer and vice versa.

Survivors play in third person, which allows them a wider field of view. The camera can spin in any direction so that the survivor can always check to see what

might be sneaking up behind them.

There are numerous survivors that players can choose from, each with their own unique looks, perks, and back story.

Some are original to the game, such as the graceful Nea Karlsson who is both stealthy and quick on her feet. Laurie Strode, the protagonist from the movie Halloween, is a survivor that can be purchased from the Halloween DLC. No matter who you choose to play as, you’re guaranteed to have a unique experience.

While it’s encouraged to work together with other players, it’s not completely necessary.

Often times players are faced with the choice of being a hero or being selfish. You can choose to rescue your friends at the risk of catching the killer’s attention, or you can leave them to die and risk being the last one alive with the killer hunting for you alone.

The killer gets a first person view which limits their field of view to a narrow cone while they are seeking out their prey. As a killer, you can play with as a multitude

of different monsters, each with unique powers. Some are unique to the game, such as the Wraith, who can turn invisible at any moment he wishes. Other killers include Michael Myers and the newly added Leatherface, who are just as terrifying in game as they are in the movies.

There is a unique progression system in the game called a bloodweb. This is where players can unlock unique items and perks to make their survivors stronger. Survivors can unlock perks that allow them to repair generators faster, get out of traps more easily, and recover from their wounds in desperate situations.

Killers can unlock items that make their weapons more powerful as well as perks that will keep survivors constantly struggling to survive.

There are a number of multiplayer horror games out there, such as ‘The Secret World’ and ‘Friday the 13th: the Game,’ but ‘Dead by Daylight’ has managed to rise in popularity despite the competition.

Personally, I think this might be the best multiplayer survival horror game out

there.

I’ve played over a hundred hours of this game without getting bored. Everytime I load into a match, I feel like I’m inside a slasher horror movie. There have been moments so tense that my hands have started to shake because I’m terrified some creepy monster is going to turn the corner and mow me down with a chainsaw.

There are, of course, a few issues with the game. Much like every other game on the market, ‘Dead by Daylight’ has issues with glitches. Game-breaking bugs do damper the experience, and so far a lot of them haven’t yet been fixed.

There’s also an issue with graphics.

I’m not one who usually gets hung up on visuals, but this game has some really low resolution models. I mean it’s so bad that I can see actual pixels even with my graphic settings on ultra.

Despite these issues, I’d still say that the game is worth the $20 price tag. The developers are constantly working on improving the game and getting new content out. Some of that new content, by the way, is actually provided for free to the players. ‘Dead by Daylight’ is available on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4. If you are interested in learning more about the game, visit http://www.deadbydaylight. com.

Company of Thieves Return with Reunion Tour MICHEAL TOOLEN Contributer

Chicago based band Company of Thieves Makes their Return to music after a three-year hiatus with plans for a new album and more.

Originally starting in 2007, Company of Thieves is an indie rock band founded by Genevieve Schatz and Marc Walloch. Their first album, “Ordinary Riches,” was successful enough to warrant their signing on with the record label Wind-Up Records.

The second album, “Running From A Gamble” charted number 12 in Billboard’s Alternative Albums upon its release and saw the success of singles “Death of Communication” and “Tallulah.” Despite these successes, the band originally stated in 2014 that there were no plans for further albums.

However, the members did not sit idly during this absence. Schatz pursued a solo career, releasing the “Show Your Colors” EP

in 2015, with the title track receiving moderate airplay.

Walloch was added on to the electronic rock band Awolnation, providing guitar parts and backing vocals. He also started a solo project called SPiLL, which released the album “Through the Seasons” in June of 2016.

With the band’s members making significant progress on their solo projects, the chance of a comeback was highly unlikely.

“Company of Thieves were gone for a bit, but now they’re back. I’m excited to hear what they’re doing for the future,” said Mike Lemons, station manager of WLCA. Throughout the summer the band teased their return through the band’s Facebook page.

In May they announced the reunion with the song “Treasure” following in July.

On their official website, www. companyofthievesmusic.com, they also announced eleven stops on their reunion tour, with St. Louis’ Off Broadway as the third

venue on Sept. 14. Joining them will be Mike Maimone, formerly of the band Mutts. A local band from Alton, Hope & Therapy, will also play before Company of Thieves.

After taking the stage at Off Broadway,

Company of Thieves will be in Columbus Ohio. However, this reunion tour is not the end of their journey. They have plans to record a full album as soon as they are finished with the tour.

Company of Thieves has returned with a reunion tour and new album plans. Photo from Company of Thieves Facebook Page

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LouFest Makes Strides MATT CARTER Contributer

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Miss ‘Louie?’

Try ‘Better Things’

JESSE BAALMAN

jbaalman@lc.edu The mother-daughter comedy returns for a second season Thursdays at 9 p.m., starting September 14 on FX. When Louie C.K. did not bring his eponymous FX program back for a sixth season, fans of the show were left wondering if they would ever get more of the witty, nuanced yet nonchalant series of vignettes. Now, with a similarly successful first season in the bag, the network knows that the ‘Louie’ crowd (and then some) have found their way to ‘Better Things,’ which is co-created by C.K. and his longtime collaborator-confidant, Pamela Adlon.

The shift is definitely for the best; this year he did a stand-up special on Netflix and shot a black and white film in secret to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I Love You Daddy,” produced, written, directed, edited, and starring himself alongside a slew of supporting actors (Chloe Grace Moretz, Charlie Day, John Malkovich, Helen Hunt, Rose Byrne, and Edie Falco), has been sold for theatrical release by The Orchard and focuses on a father who tries to prevent a MayDecember affair between his daughter and an aging filmmaker.

So while C.K. is occupied with other creative endeavors, Adlon gets to shine here in her own singular vision. This

single-camera project, a love letter to her daughters, tells the story of a working actress and single mother of three girls. It’s semi-autobiographical of the mom’s real life, which means viewers get a bonafide storyline whereas “Louie’s” episodes were unrelated. This aspect makes the show great for binge-watching and it also helps that its leading lady is infectious in ways that go beyond comedic.

The first season was a collection of hilarious growing pains for Sam Fox and her three girls, Max, Frankie, and Duke (Mikey Madison, Hannah Alligood and Olivia Edward, respectively). It’s not all funny though, there is a real struggle and their singular frustrations juxtaposed helps them find a way through it all whether or not they realize it. Sam channels Adlon’s blunt, everywoman aspects and writes like one too. She is not afraid to put all the weight on her shoulders in some delicate and private moments because she knows she can guide audiences out of the scene gracefully and often right into a touching family ensemble ending.

Being a consistent idiosyncratic dramedy about a house of complex women has always been at the show’s heart and in season two nothing has changed. The only difference now is that critics and audiences know Pamela Adlon’s name, and are ready to see what she is capable of after distinguishing herself from the crowd.

Each year, LouFest has been making changes to the lineup formula, and it finally seemed to do the trick this time.

The eighth annual music festival held in Forest Park, happened Sept. 9-10, and reached a milestone by selling out the first day.

With Snoop Dogg closing out the night, day one contained a healthy variety of musicians, from indie rock groups like Spoon and Cage the Elephant to blues singer ZZ Ward, there seemed to be something for everyone.

One significant moment from day one was the set right before Snoop Dogg, which was called Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry! The set was a collaborative effort between the house band and various musicians from the day one bands.

Guests included Huey Lewis, Britt Daniel of Spoon and Matt Schultz of Cage the Elephant, among many others.

The set also included appearances from Kirk Jones from the Roots, along with Chuck Berry’s son and grandson. The last song of

the set saw the entire ensemble take stage to perform “Johnny B. Goode.”

Another stand-out moment took place on day two of the festival. Rap group Run the Jewels returned to St. Louis for the first time since their 2014 show, which took place on the same day of the Michael Brown verdict. Much like their 2014 show, they dedicated their song “Early” to Brown.

The festival has been making efforts to draw focus to the local communities. From booking more local acts to setting up a tiny local market on festival grounds, their involvement in the area seems to be making progress.

“I think it’s neat to see that the festival is making efforts to draw focus to the community,” L&C student Brianna Sandy said. “It seems like a great way for festival goers to learn a little more about St. Louis and what it has to offer.”

LouFest 2018 is currently scheduled for Sept. 8-9. For more information, visit www. loufest.com.

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Little Evil Provides Terror and Fun BRENNEN LARSON blarson@lc.edu

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“Little Evil”, released on Netflix on September 1, is a horror-comedy from Eli Craig, the creator of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.

It tells the story of a man named Gary (played

by Adam Scott) who becomes stepfather to a small child named Lucas (played by Owen Atlas) that might just be the antichrist.

The film parodies a lot of horror movies, such as Rosemary’s Baby, Poltergeist, and especially The Omen, while also exploring the idea of what it means to be a stepdad.

It features a strong supporting cast, most prominent among them being Gary’s work friend Al (played by Bridget Everett), a fellow stepdad and one of the most colorful characters in the film.

The film does drag on for the majority of the first act, where Gary proves to be extremely slow on the uptake. A lot of the “he doesn’t realize his son is the spawn of Satan” jokes fell flat as a result of them being repeated over and over again. That did not seem necessary because the second and third acts were strong and had some great humorous moments in them. The character of Lucas’ mother Samantha (played by Evangeline Lily) is also extremely underdeveloped, to the point where I could not remember her name until I looked

condescending to her idealism. The couple’s two sons (Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson) arrive after that and really get the biblical horror ball rolling.

Depending on what the viewer has caught onto at this point, they may be checking where the exit signs are.

Even though it’s impossible to spoil, this is where revealing any more of the film’s plot will weaken its viewing experience.

As a part of its cryptic marketing, the posters and trailer depicts Bardem’s character as a judeo-christian god-type to Lawrence’s mother nature. A statement about humankind’s historical treatment of Earth is at the crux of the film. One thing is certain, the film and everything within it revolves around its mother. We see Jennifer Lawrence’s face as an almost ideal image as she is put through the wringer in her most challenging role to date. The characters are given no names, she plays an icon who makes the agony of her burdens and descent into mania a searing transformation.

With that being said, whoever gets off the thrill ride at this point is mere minutes away from a trip down the rabbit hole that builds to a shockingly chaotic sequence.

Writer-director Darren Aronofsky is weaving together a multitude of themes, motifs, and symbols here. His handheld 16mm camera puts the viewer in mother’s perspective for two hours, with 66 minutes being close-ups of Lawrence and the rest over-the-shoulder and point-of-view angles. He zigzags his way through the house and maintains spatial orientation even in some highly complicated scenes.

In terms of what is in the shot, he uses color as an instrument like any painter would, introducing deep blues and vivid reds as the story progresses to make for unforgettable imagery. A meticulous soundscape, audiences will not hear any

music in the movie because the director and former composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (“The Theory of Everything,” “Arrival”) mutually agreed that it was interfering with the total mystery aspect of it. Some may find the camerawork claustrophobic and the lack of a score tedious, but they do a service to the overall product.

The film unfolds like a stream of consciousness and carries a sense of urgency with its timely message. Its screenplay supposedly poured out of Aronofsky in 5 days, drawing inspiration from masterminds like Roman Polanski (“Rosemary’s Baby”) and Stanley Kubrick, keeping in line with his signature paranoiadriven pictures. With varying success, his latest is the most hyperbolic, but the frightening hallucinatory aspects should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his work.

A romantic chamber drama turned home invasion flick, the latter half makes the former an excellent black comedy, a genre the director should consider exploring next.

It also has one of the best cameos in recent memory, Kristen Wiig like you have never seen her before.

This auteur director and leading actress teamup (they’re dating in real life too, paralleling other potential interpretations about fame, artistic muses and toxic masculinity) is a theatre experience unlike any other.

Its audacious with all the subtlety of a

it up.

Overall, I’d give “Little Evil” four stars out of five. It has a fairly strong story and some good laughs in it but features a few flat characters that dull the experience.

Mainstream Moviegoers Should Dare to See “mother!”

JESSE BAALMAN jbaalman@lc.edu

After months of speculation, the secretive film crash-landed in theatres with an “F” Cinemascore and an underwhelming opening weekend of $7.5 million. Paramount’s $30 million psychological fantasy picture polarized audiences and prompted walkouts. It joins only twelve others in history with the same score and general divisiveness.

Even critics are puzzled, many call it a masterpiece, but some think it’s trash. It is definitely the boldest release from a major studio in decades, a love-it-or-hate-it piece of capital “A” art that is pretentious and controversial, but more importantly thought-provoking.

From the first frame, ‘mother!’ (the title is more than earned) exists on an allegorical level within a heightened reality. In a country paradise, newlyweds live a harmonious life together in an octagonal Victorian mansion. After a fire that ruined his place, the successful poet husband (Javier Bardem) experiences a severe form of writer’s block. His wife (Jennifer Lawrence) is a homemaker who cares deeply about the restoration of their secluded home.

One day, a man (Ed Harris, comically bizarre) who works at the local hospital comes knocking at the door thinking it is a bed and breakfast. Much to Lawrence’s character’s distress, the man’s wife (Michelle Pfeiffer, a snake) shows up a day later. She can not understand why her husband has let these people invade her home or why he is so entertained by the man’s company. Pfeiffer’s savage resurgence in cinema is more than welcomed as her character makes herself at home, insinuating about matters concerning the woman’s marriage and

slingblade in some departments and it’s sure to leave each and every viewer with a hot take on its metaphorical meaning.

The worst case scenario is audiences reject the film and dismiss it as a bombastic mess. The best case is that they really do want the originality they ask for and that word-of-mouth will kickstart a slowburning success. Either way, “Requiem for a Dream” depicted the devastating reality of addiction, “Black Swan” was a poignant ballerina’s mind-bender, and his latest is humanity’s violent assault on the environment. Mainstream moviegoers, dare to see “mother!”

4 out of 5 Stars

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Opinions 06 What is DACA? Who are the Dreamers? thebridge ALEX ST. PETERS

astpeters@lc.edu Last month the Trump Administration decided to end the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA). The program provided protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants that arrived in the United States as children.

DACA was created by Barack Obama back in 2012 as a filler program until Congress could come up with a permanent solution for the children of illegal immigrants. The need for the program was created due to the failure of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act or the DREAM Act. From this failed act is where the name “Dreamers” comes from, which is what the some 800,000 young people protected by DACA refer to themselves as.

The DREAM Act was supposed to provide a chance to those who arrived in the United States illegally as children an opportunity at permanent legal residency. However the DREAM Act has failed to pass several times since its introduction in 2001.

So what exactly does DACA do? DACA provides undocumented immigrants that arrived in the United States as children protection from deportation as long as they follow the criteria of the policy.

In order to be eligible, people had to be under the age of 31 on June 15, 2012.

They also had to of arrived in the United States before turning 16 and also had to be continuously living in the United States since June 2007. Applicants are also screened for any criminal history and must be students or completed school or served in the military. If eligible they are protected from deportation for two years and are given the chance to renew after two years as long as they are still eligible.

They are also given the opportunity to get a driver’s license, enroll in college, and receive a work permit.

The Trump administration has given Congress six months to come up with a more permanent solution to deal with some 800,000 undocumented young people protected under DACA, before he will start to deport them back to their home countries. President Trump has flip-flopped many times when it comes to DACA and immigration policy. During his campaign for president, Trump promised to deport all illegal immigrants and to “rip up DACA”.

Since deciding to end DACA, President Trump has been working with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to strike a deal that would eventually provide a path down the road to permanent legal residency to all of the young people who are currently protected by DACA. During an interview the President said “we are looking at allowing people to stay here.

We’re talking about taking care of people, people that were brought here, people that have done a good job and were not brought here on their own volition.” This has caused a rift between President Trump and the people that voted for him in the past election. Many of the people voted for Trump believing in the promises that he made and since being President he has gone back on those promises multiple times.

The deal that the President has struck with Schumer and Pelosi would give all of the people under DACA full citizenship, but it would also allocate more funding to stronger border security. This has caused a major backlash among other Democrats and the dreamers themselves.

They believe that they would be giving up too much to protect the “Dreamers” and that the fate of the DREAM Act should be put to a vote. At a press conference in September a group of “Dreamers” shouted “We undocumented youth demand a clean bill. We undocumented youth will not be a bargaining chip for Trump” at Pelosi.

If no deal is reached by the six-month period people will start to be deported back to their home countries and the effects of deportation will harm the US economy for a decade. According to a report from FWD.us, a pro-immigration reform group co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, found that 91 percent of DACA recipients are employed. If all of those workers are deported the US gross domestic product would see a reduction of $433 billion over the next decade, according to a study done by the Center for American Progress.

Some of the major cities that would take the biggest hits are California and Florida considering that many of DACA recipients live in those states. They could expect see losses in the billions every year due to the loss of workers. Many large American corporations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook have also

Graphic By: Zach Howard expressed concerns if the DACA recipients are deported. Many of those companies employ DACA recipients at their higher

level positions and don’t want to lose the contributions that they make to their companies.

Georgia Man is Charged with More than 100 Counts of Animal Cruelty SHELBY WALLACE

shjwallace@lc.edu During the last week of August, Polk County police received an anonymous tip regarding a potential dog fighting case.

What they found was horrific. 72 dogs, all pitbull or pitbull-mixes were found 200 yards behind a house on Cash Town Road in Aragon, Georgia.

The dogs were extremely malnourished, several were injured, had little or no food and water, no shelter, and each one was tied to a short, thick, metal chain attached to a railroad spike.

However, according to the Polk county police and the rescue volunteers, every single one of the dogs were friendly and sweet. Polk Police Chief Kenny Dodd states, “These dogs are not vicious… This breaks your heart. They just want to be loved.”

Only two days later, police found, yet another location belonging to the suspect on Puckett Road in nearby Cedartown.

Here, 35 dogs were found in the same conditions. All of the dogs have been taken in by rescues and shelters.

Police arrested 32-year-old Devecio Rowland, initially for about 70 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty, however now is being faced with over 100 counts as well as more serious charges such as criminal attempt to commit felony dog fighting.

This is not the first time Rowland has been found abusing animals. he was arrested seven years ago after a private

investigator videotaped 33 chained dogs on the same property. However, Polk County’s district attorney Jack Browning stated he was unable to charge Rowland because the investigator who recorded that video died, leaving prosecutors with no way to prove chain of custody of the video evidence, making it useless.

Polk County police state that this is “one of the most horrific cases of animal cruelty”

that they had ever seen. For comparison, Michael Vick, the former quarterback, had around 50 dogs who he had used for dog fighting.

While this is a heartbreaking and sickening story, all of the dogs are currently being rehabilitated by rescues and shelters and hopefully will be up for adoption soon.

All pictures by Polk County Police Department of dogs seized from the case. Permission given by Polk County Police Department.

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Eternal Ink Tattoo Event Help Animals Affected by Hurricane

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Lexi Burleson’s turtle tattoo from the Eternal Ink’s event for Houston Humane Society.

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shjwallace@lc.edu Eternal Ink Tattoo Studio, a tattoo and piercing shop located in Hecker, Illinois hosted a tattooing event to help the animals affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. They offered $20 tattoos of premade animal designs, and all of the proceeds went to the Houston Humane Society.

Chelsea Moore, an artist at the shop, came up with the idea and alongside Jay Dell. They tattooed people from 12 PM to 8 PM on September 4th. Chelsea says, “After Harvey I felt a compelling need to help. I saw the news reports about people evacuating and leaving their pets behind to brace the storm alone, and it broke my heart. I thought I could use my trade to bring the community together while also raising money for the Humane Society.

People love animals, and people love tattoos. It was a no-brainer.”

She expected around 50 people, however before the event started there was a line that wrapped outside the building and around the corner down the street. In total, they tattooed about 185 people. Chelsea states that, “When I told Eric (the owner) about my idea, he said, “that’s a great idea, but I’m guessing you’ll have about 12 people show up”... but I was more optimistic. I was expecting at least 50. We were both really undershooting how well the event would go.”

All kinds of people showed up, according to Chelsea. “I tattooed several tattoo virgins that day. I tattooed people who had to search for an open spot on their sleeves for their tattoo. I tattooed young people who had just turned 18 and I tattooed the people who brought their newly of-age grandchildren to the studio with them. I met people who’ve never been to the shop before and clients I’ve known for years. A little bit of everyone came out that day.” She stated.

Lexi Burleson, an 18-year-old Nursing student at Lewis and Clark Community College from Carlinville, IL, attended the event. She went because, “One, I like tattoos. Two, I like helping animals.” Lexi drove an hour and an a half there, arrived at the event around 11:45 AM and waited in line until 4 p.m when she got tattooed.

She states, “The wait was exhausting, but it was so worth it. Seeing all those people show up was great!”

Events like this are incredibly helpful, as according to Lexi, “It helped bring awareness and It allows people to get something out of helping out. Not only did they donate $20 to help the animals, but they got a tattoo that they will have forever to remember the event.”

Chelsea Moore, who hosted the event, tattooed Lexi. When asked about the artist, Lexi stated, “She was wonderful.

She walked me through it step by step.”

Lexi chose a premade turtle design, as it matched her other tattoos. While it wasn’t her first one, she had some advice for firsttimers. “It’s not as bad as you think. The adrenaline helps with the pain.”

Not only did Eternal Ink Studio raise $1650, but it brought lots of animal and tattoo lovers together. This just goes to show that even tattoos can benefit a good cause.

Tattoo done at eternal ink studios

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NICK PATTERSON Contributer Lewis and Clark Community College’s Trailblazers men’s basketball team kicks off their season Nov. 11 at Concordia Community College in St. Louis.

After record of a 14-18 last year, in their first season of NJCAA D1, the team is hungry for a winning season.

This squad is loaded with new talent, consisting of 10 incoming freshman.

Although it is a junior college team, it does seem a little unusual to have so many young inexperienced players. This could add fuel to the fire for the players who want to play as hard as they can every game so that they can reach their dreams of playing NCAA Division 1 Basketball.

This could be a second chance for someone who feels they were overlooked by scouts in high school.

“With only three returning players and only two of which who played last year due to injury, the freshman will really have to step up,” Head Coach Doug Stotler said.

Stolter also noted that the Region 24 inter-scrimmage, preseason game happened Sep. 17, and about 25-30 NCAA Division 1 scouts attended the game to recruit players.

When asked what the season’s overall goal is, he said, “Basically to break that barrier of finishing in the top five. Last year was our first year in NJCAA Division 1, and we finished sixth and We were very proud of that.”

One of these past players Burak Eslik, a guard, who was recruited all the way from Turkey to come play for Lewis and

Clark. After his two-year tenure at Lewis and Clark, he transferred to play Division 1 for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. ”Burak was a great teammate on and off the court,” Former SIUE teammate Tre Harris said. “He was always competitive and that always pushed me and everyone else. I am thankful we got to play together the last two years.”

After graduating he signed with a team in his homeland of Turkey.

The Trabzonsor Medical Park Basketball Club is out Trabzon, Turkey, and plays in the Turkish Super League.

To learn more about basketball and other sports at L&C, visit www.lc.edu/ athletics.

Former Trailblazer Burak Eslik (24) goes up against Olney Central’s defense. The Trailblazers defeated the Blue Knights 77 to 70 on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2014 in the George C. Terry River Bend Arena. Photo from L&C Flickr

L&C’s Guard Eldin Salmond (20) goes up for two points after a turnover by Olney Central.

The Trailblazers defeated the Blue Knights 77 to 70 on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2014 in the George C. Terry River Bend Arena. Photo from L&C Flickr

L&C’s Ilias Kyriakopoulos, 34, goes up for two points during the men’s basketball game against Missouri Baptist, JV on November 12. The Trailblazers defeated the Spartans 82-51. Photo from L&C Flickr

Lewis and Clark Students Gear Up For Another Hockey Season with the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ALEX ST. PETERS astpeters@lc.edu

That’s right: Lewis and Clark Community College has a hockey team that you probably didn’t know about.

Now we don’t necessarily have a hockey team at our school, but through the SIUE Partnership Program or Dual-Admission program, it allows L&C students the opportunity to play SIUE club sports.

The program was made to help make the transfer from a two-year university to a four-year university easier. It gives L&C students general acceptance into SIUE, which gives them access to SIUE staff including academic advisors, transfer coordinators and financial aid counselors.

If you are a part of the program, you are technically a SIUE student which would allow you to sign up for their club sports teams.

SIUE has two different club hockey teams, both teams play in the American

Collegiate Hockey Association, but one plays Division two (D2) and the other plays in Division three (D3). According to SIUE D2 Head Coach Nick Edwards, there are currently eight L&C students playing on the D2 and D3 hockey teams. “It’s a huge help to have the L&C players on the team. They’re great guys to have in the locker room and are some of the leaders on the team,” said SIUE D2 President/ Defenseman Kain Henson.

Due to the two SIUE hockey teams being a club sport, recruitment is more difficult.

Since the school doesn’t sponsor the team in the capacity it sponsors their NCAA D1 sports, finding players for the two teams is a task each year. The club teams don’t have the funds or power to offer students scholarships, so recruitment is based solely on if students attending the school want to play hockey. SIUE isn’t considered a “hockey school” so most of the time students don’t attend the school to play hockey. By allowing the L&C students

in the Dual-Admission program the opportunity to play for the teams, it gives them another place to get players from.

Even though there are only eight students playing on the two teams, it’s a huge help considering each team only dresses 20 players for games.

“What’s unique about the team is that a majority of the players that play on the team are from the local area. A lot of the guys on the team grew up either playing with or against each other, so there’s already a good chemistry when they join the team,” said SIUE D3 Assistant Coach Ben Winterberg. Just about everybody on the two teams has played in the Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association (MVCHA), which is the local high school hockey league. Some the high schools that make up the MVCHA are Alton, Edwardsville, Jerseyville, Granite City, East Alton-Wood River, and Bethalto.

A popular path to higher education among students from local high schools

starts at Lewis and Clark Community College. A lot of students like to attend Lewis and Clark before going to a fouryear university because of the affordability and they’re still trying to figure out what they want to do. Lewis and Clark student and SIUE D2 Assistant Captain Tyler Gilleland is one of those students that decided to start at L&C rather than starting at a four-year university. “I really like going to L&C. It’s close to home and more affordable than other schools. I think it’s great that I can start my degree at L&C and still play hockey at a competitive level with the SIUE team,” said Gilleland.

Due to the high amount of L&C players on the team this year, the SIUE hockey team has decided to allow L&C students free admission to all of the D2 and D3 home games as long as they bring a student ID. They play their games in East Alton at the East Alton Ice Arena.

Photos By: Alex St. Peters

89.9 FM WLCA Covers Local High School Football CORRINE HUBBARD Contributer For the first time in four years, Lewis and Clark Community College’s student radio station, WLCA 89.9 FM, is broadcasting play-by-play of high school football.

“Covering high school football depends on people in the program,” Station Manager Mike Lemons said. “Some years we have people into sports. Other times some classes have no one interested in sports.”

Lemons also went on to explain how covering sports could possibly gain the station new listeners.

“Initially we lose listeners; however, we can gain new listeners because we are broadcasting at the high schools,” Lemons said.

Broadcasting high school football all depends on if there are any interest from the

students in the radio broadcasting program.

That interest this semester comes from current Sports Directors Lukas Jones and Alex Meissner and Program Director Luke Clevenger.

“Sports have always been a part of my life,” Jones said. “At first it was scary, and I was nervous to cover the game. But, once I started it became natural. It’s a great thing to get this opportunity for those who want a job doing sports broadcast.”

Sports broadcasting is the interest Jones had that brought him to the radio broadcasting program. Since he knows he won’t go on to play sports professional that this opportunity is the next best thing.

Program Director Luke Clevenger’s role also aids in broadcasting high school football.

“As program director, I have to know everything going on at the station,” Clevenger said. “This means I become almost like a second sports director, knowing what’s going on, which is helpful if anything goes wrong.”

WLCA is a learning station, which means although they play music, it’s an opportunity to learn skills for a career in radio first.

Covering high school sports entails doing things like the play-by-play and making sure everyone knows where the next game is being broadcasted from the use station promos.

The opportunity to broadcast and listen to high school football has caught the attention of people in the community. There are plans to start covering Lewis and Clark sports and also talk about covering high school hockey

as well.

To check out the coverage of high school football, listen to 89.9 Friday evenings on the radio, at www.wlcafm.com or on the Radio FX app, which can be downloaded from the Google Play and Apple app store.

Radio broadcasting students Luke Clevenger, Lukas Jones and Alex Meissner are bringing play-by-play sports to WLCA 89.9 FM. Photo by Dixie Gausling

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In recognition of Campus Sustainability Day, Oct. 20, 2010, Lewis and Clark Community College students, faculty and staff showed their “go green” spirit by posing for this photo. Photo from L&C Flickr

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Contributer Lewis and Clark Community College is taking steps to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and become a truly carbon neutral campus by 2058.

“We’re at a critical juncture for climate change,” Sustainability Director Nathan Keener said. “We have to act now to avoid the worst outcomes for humanity.”

Lewis and Clark plans on achieving this goal by targeting five main areas: energy efficiency, renewable energy, student transportation, waste/recycling and public outreach.

L&C is already taking major strides in each of these areas, Keener said. It has

begun retrofitting CFL and LED light bulbs into its buildings, which are 35 percent and 75 percent more efficient than incandescent bulbs respectively.

The college is also installing occupancy sensors that turn on and off when someone enters or exits a room.

Students have seen several solar panels installed on campus, including two that follow the arc of the sun to maximize absorbed radiation. There are also solar thermal panels on the roofs of campus buildings that supply small amounts of electricity and heated water.

The largest contributing factor to the college’s greenhouse emissions is student and faculty commuting, Keener said. L&C

is providing major incentives to students who do their part in limiting commutes by making them eligible to win a monthly bus pass, gas cards or meal tickets.

The campus provides electric vehicle charging stations for students and nearby communities free of charge.

L&C holds e-waste events once per semester where anyone can bring their electronic waste and to be desposed of safely. The college will help dispose of it safely, and all of the food waste is taken and turned into compost by a local St. Louis company.

One of the things Lewis and Clark is doing to reduce their carbon emissions is reaching out and educating people on

how they can help. Courses are offered on campus that teach about sustainability, and the college participates in programs such as Solarize Godfrey, in which homes and businesses around the community receive help installing solar panels.

“I’m impressed with what the sustainability program has accomplished so far,” L&C Environmental Science Professor Joseph Genslinger said. “Our climate is at a tipping point and we have the ability to do something about it. We as humans have stewardship of the planet.”

To learn more about sustainability at L&C, visit www.lc.edu/Campus_ Sustainability.

Corporate and Community Learning at Lewis and Clark Offers Many Opportunities ALEX LANDRY Contributer

The Corporate and Community Learning (CCL) division at Lewis and Clark Community College is a place that offers many different opportunities on campus to further one’s education.

With the CCL, it is possible explore new hobbies, join a workshop to improve one’s professional skills, learn how to train employees in an organization, take traffic safety courses or even find classes for children.

“Corporate and Community Learning is noncredit classes for corporations and the community,” Dawn Zedolek, who is a program coordinator with the CCL, said.

The courses that dive into new hobbies include a photography class, beginner’s salsa and swing dance classes, and an adult horseback riding for beginners.

With the CCL, people can also improve skills in leadership, technology, finance, healthcare and occupational safety.

When running an organization, saving as much money as possible is ideal. Through the CCL, students can learn human resources management training, how to change management positions, take team building and empowering courses or simply people management courses.

Drivers under 21 who receive a traffic violation are required to take a traffic safety class that the CCL offers.

People do not have to be a Lewis and Clark student to be a part of these programs.

CCL even has courses for children. Some of these programs include social media and cyber bulling safety, horseback riding for children, music classes and swim classes.

The swim classes are not just for children.

“We have a very robust swim program,” Zedolek said. “We have classes for infants all the way up through the arthritis exercise classes.”

The cost of courses ranges from $30 to $100. To learn more about the CCL, visit www.lc.edu/CCL.

Gay Cornell, instructor, works with a student in the welding booth at Lewis and Clark Community College. Photo from L&C Flickr

All are Welcome at the Festival of Nations BREANNA FOWLER Contributer

Many cultures came together on the weekend of August 26–27 at The Festival of Nations.

The Festival was held in Tower Grove Park, located in St. Louis, Missouri.

The festival included many activities such as, dance and music, arts and crafts, more than 40 ethnic food booths and an international bazar with different gifts from around the world.

The festival was so packed with different citizens of the community, even a couple of Lewis and Clark Community College’s own, attended: Speech Professor Mumba Mumba and student Ekindra Rasaili.

“I go to the Festival of Nations almost every year,” Mumba said. “I go out of nostalgia but to also enjoy the international foods. I take my children to see and taste unique foods, we ate Brazilian and Japanese food. We also roamed around looking at the interesting items that

were sold by the international artisans such jewelry and unique decorative items. I also enjoyed the international music and dances.

We sat by the festival stage and enjoyed a variety of performances.”

Aside from the many attractions at the festival, one caught Mumba’s eye more than the others.

“One thing I did that I had never done before was go to a calligraphy stand,” Mumba said.

“I found a woman who was teaching Arabic.

She asked me what she could write for me in Arabic. I was fascinated by the complexity of Arabic. It was a lot of fun.”

Rasaili also enjoyed the festival’s many activities.

“The festival was very good. I enjoyed lots of different national foods, and different handicraft stuff,” Rasaili said. “It was a very good experience to see those from different country arts and jewelry. Another interesting experience was being able to talk with many

different people. Even physically not being able to travel all around the world, but that kind of festival helps so much by being able to experience different food and conversation with different people. Personally, I really

enjoyed it, and I would like to keep going every year, if that happens again.”

For more information on the festival visit www.festivalofnationsstl.org.

Lots of wares, including this jewelry, were up for sale at the Festival of Nations.

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Contributer Looking for that perfect book to use as a source? Look no further. Here on campus there is an extensive library: the Reid Memorial Library.

The Reid Memorial Library at Lewis and Clark Community College aims to provide students with the resources necessary for success, Liz Burns, assistant director of the Reid Memorial Library said.

Burns is happy to share details about the library with students.

“The library staff can help students with research and class assignments,” Burns said. “There’s no need for a student to feel like they have to navigate an assignment or project all on their own. We are here to help from start to finish.”

The library teams up with other libraries to provide students the books they need.

“We are on a shared system with 80+ colleges and universities called I-Share,” Burns said. “Lewis and Clark students are welcome to visit those schools’ libraries, borrow things from them and then return them to us, as we will see to it the items are sent back to the owning institution. Or, they can place electronic requests for those resources to be sent to L&C. Delivery time is usually within in two to three days.”

The library has more than 40 electronic resources including access to the fulltext of millions of articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers, as well as thousands of online videos PBS, History Channel, Biography, A & E and the Associated Press, Burns said.

“These databases are excellent resources for brainstorming topics for projects and they provide the MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association) and Chicago Manual of Style citation information for every source,” Burns said.

Burns and Greg Cash, assistant director of references, are both only an email or phone call away.

Burns can be reached at (618) 4684320 and lburns@lc.edu, and Cash can be reached at (618) 468-4330 and gcash@ lc.edu. Both can be reached through the online chat function at www.lc.edu/ library, when they are available to take questions.

The librarians can also be reached via text message at (618) 565-0452. Texting is connected to the online chat.

The library is open Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., and from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Fridays. It is closed on weekends.

Photo Provided By: Shelby Clayton

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October 3 9:30 a.m. – Free Fruit – Reid Café 4 9:30 a.m. – Free Fruit – Commons Café 9 11 – 1. Commons. Discover Days.

Caricaturist. Photo Booth. Balloon Artist 11 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Video Game Day, FREE Pizza – Hatheway Gallery 18 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Karaoke Contest (prizes of $75, $50, $25) – Reid Café.

18 5:00 p.m. – Chinese Nite – Reid Cafe 23 2:00 p.m. – 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, FREE Pizza – River Bend Arena 30 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Halloween Costume Contest, Psychic, Candy Bags, Brownies, Rice Krispie Treats – Reid Café 31 5:00 p.m. – Baked Chicken, Mac & Cheese, Rolls – Reid Café

Photos Provided By: Krista Davenport Graphic Provided By: Shelby Clayton

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CALLIE LOGAN

clogan@lc.edu 1. Michael Myers Number one on our list is none other than “The Shape” himself Michael Myers of the “Halloween” movie series. The story of Michael Myers starts on Halloween night 1963 in the town of Haddonfield Illinois.

At the age of six, Michael murdered his older sister. After spending the next 15 years in psychiatric hospital, Michael would escape to hunt down the rest of his bloodline. His own doctor describes him as “blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes. The devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.” The “Halloween” movie pioneered the slasher genre and that is why Michael Myers is rated number one on our list. Just remember you can’t kill the boogeyman.

2. Freddy Krueger Coming in at number two is Freddy Krueger. Freddy Krueger gets his start as a kidnapper. Freddy would torture the children before killing them, but he was eventually arrested. He was later set free on a technicality. The parents of the children hunted him down and burned him alive.

Upon his death, he met the dream demons and they gave him the power to enter dreams to kill his victims. The Freddy Krueger film series has become a big name when it comes to horror movies. Freddy has even appeared in a crossover film with the next name on our list.

3. Jason Voorhees Number three on our list is the hockey mask wearing and machete-wielding Jason Voorhees. When Jason was 11 years old he drowned at Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason somehow came back to life and lived in the woods surrounding Camp Crystal Lake for 21 years. His mother blamed the camp counselors for not watching Jason. When the camp reopened in 1979 Jason’s mother tried to kill all of the new counselors but got her head chopped off by one of them. Jason saw his mother die and the swore to kill anybody that would

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trespass around Camp Crystal Lake. Jason Voorhees is the leader in kill count among horror characters with 300+ kills. Matched with his pure strength and not being able to be killed easily makes Jason one of the most feared horror movie characters of all time.

4. Leatherface Up next is one of the most iconic faces in the slasher film genre, Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface. He is an inbred, mentally ill, cannibal serial killer who wears a mask made of human skin.

He actually doesn’t kill out of malice but from fear of his family. His family threatens to hurt him unless he kills for them. Leatherface and his family eat the victims that he kills. They also use the human meat to make dishes at their local diner. Leatherface is actually based of reallife American murderer “The Plainfield Butcher” Ed Gein. Gein would dig up freshly buried people and make items using their body parts. He even killed two women which led to his arrest. The “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was one of the first successful slasher movies until “Halloween” came out in 1978.

5. Ghostface Coming up in the middle of our list is one of the most recognizable killers of all time, Ghostface. Ghostface would often call his victims to taunt and threaten them before stabbing them to death. He would even ask them “What’s your favorite scary movie?” and then stalk them in a manner that was similar the film they would say.

The interesting thing about Ghostface is that he is actually more than one person. In the original movie, he was two high school boys who shared the Ghostface costume.

Then in the movies following Ghostface was made of copycat killers who used the same costume as the original killers. The movie “Scream” was based on real-life American serial killer “The Gainesville Ripper” Danny Rolling. Rolling murdered five college students over the course of a few nights in 1990 only using a knife.

6. Jigsaw Let’s play a game with the next horror movie icon on our list, Jigsaw. John Kramer was a terminally ill cancer patient who went by the persona of “Jigsaw” and used a puppet to intimidate his victims.

After trying to kill himself and failing Kramer found out that people really only appreciate life when close to death.

He dedicated the rest of his live testing people’s will to survive, in an attempt to make them appreciate their own lives more. He would make elaborate traps to kill his victims unless they could muster up the will to live before time ran out and the trap killed them. The Saw movie franchise is one of the highest grossing horror film franchises of all time. The next installment in the series is planned to be released at the end of Oct. 2017.

7. Chucky “Hi, I’m Chucky. Wanna play?” You guessed it next up on our list is none other than Chucky. Chucky was originally a reallife killer in the film universe called the “Lakeshore Strangler” Charles Lee Ray. Ray was trained in voodoo knowledge so before dying he transferred his soul into a child’s doll. In order to become human again, he needs to kill the first person he revealed his true identity to. After several attempts, Chucky would fail to kill the first person he revealed his identity to, which would allow the series to produce six sequels to the movie. The next installment is scheduled to be released at the end of Oct. 2017.

8. Hannibal Lecter Coming in at number eight is the good doctor, Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter is a Lithuanian-American serial killer and psychiatrist, who would consume his victims. Dr. Lecter would eventually be arrested by the FBI after killing and eating six people in the Baltimore area.

Despite being a serial killer and cannibal Dr. Lecter was considered a genius. On two occasions, the FBI would consult Dr. Lecter to help analyze serial killers.

During the second occasion, he would escape by killing the two guards that were

watching him. He posed as one of the guards by tearing off his face and wearing it. He would later kill all of the people transporting him to a hospital and escape in an ambulance. Hannibal Lecter even got his own television series that depicted the events that led up to his arrest.

9. Pennywise (IT) Number nine on our list is Stephen King’s IT. IT or Pennywise is a shapeshifting entity that is to be said to be as old as time itself, with no gender or certain identity. IT can take the shape of anything it chooses, but it likes to take the shape of the circus clown named Pennywise. IT would awake every 27 to 30 years to feast upon the flesh of innocent children. IT can kill and eat anything it wants, but it chooses children because they are easy to scare and manipulate. The remake of the original television movie series came out in Sep. 2017. It’s interesting because the original movie came out in 1990 and the remake came out 27 years later. Which is the same length of time it takes for IT to awaken to feast upon innocent children.

10. Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolfman Last, but not least on our list is three classic movie monsters that started the whole horror movie genre. Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolfman are all responsible for making the early horror genre successful. From the 1930s to 1940s these three movie monster’s terrified audiences of all ages. They are what the writers and directors of the golden age of horror watched as kids and inspired them to make horror movies. These three monsters would eventually go from murderous monsters to so scary icons for the holiday Halloween. They even made their way into the 1948 comedyhorror movie “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.” Even being some of the oldest horror movie characters these three monsters have stood the test of time and are still some of the most iconic horror movie characters of all time.

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Dow, Illinois Computer Graphics Peanut butter drops. They came in orange and black

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Candy corn. It’s dry and terrible.

Gillespie, IL Nursing Candy corn. Seriously. I don’t know why people like it.

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Associates of Arts Mints. Like, Christmas mints.

Um... It’s Halloween?

Godfrey, IL

Tootsie Rolls. I’m not 80 years old.

Hamburg, IL

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Moonlit Mummy November October Pumpkin Rake Raven Ripe Scarecrow Scary

September Skeleton Spider Spooky Sweater Treat Vampire Windy Zombie

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clogan@lc.edu Most people know that physical abuse is a problem in relationships, but the question is do they know that mental abuse is too? Many women are mentally abused, but ignore the fact with the attitude of “at least he doesn’t hit me.” Mental abuse can take its toll on someone just as much as physical, though. I have experienced both in my lifetime.

When I was younger I stayed with a man that would hit me just because I thought it was best for my children to have both mom and dad in their life. Many times I would be covered in bruises and cover it up as me being “a clutz.” Eventually I realized that the escalation of the abuse could one day land me in the hospital and that he could also end up turning that violence toward my children one day. I escaped this life and pushed myself to survive without him. I moved on and found a man that I thought was amazing. He seemed so caring and even seemed to love my kids.

As time went on, he started changing.

It would be little insults here and there.

Telling me no one will ever put up with me like he did. He isolated me. I wasn’t allowed to have friends. If I went to visit

family, it was only allowed if he was with me. I kept telling myself, “At least he doesn’t hit me.”

Eventually it got to the point that no matter what I did, I got yelled at that it was wrong. If he had a bad day, I would somehow catch the blame. Even though the only time I left home was to go to work, school, church, and taking my kids to their different activities, I started continuously being accused of cheating. When I would beg for him to spend time together, he would flat out tell me how he can’t stand to be around me. I still tried telling myself, “At least he doesn’t hit me.”

I always blamed myself. I was constantly trying to change to meet his expectations, but no matter what I did, it was never good enough. There were days I didn’t even want to get out of bed, but had to make myself so my children had their mother around. I knew they needed me. It took me falling into a depression to the point I thought it would all be better

if I died, to finally realize that I needed to get out.

No one should ever make a person feel like they are not enough. I honestly felt completely broken. I got to the point that smiling was almost impossible, and that is the one characteristic everyone always

knew me for. I just wasn’t myself anymore.

If you are being abused or know someone that is being abused, whether it is mentally or physically, Lewis and Clark Community College Counselor Renee Bauer is here to help. She can be reached at rbauer@lc.edu or (618) 468-7184.

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Check Out these Local Events for Scary Fun HANNAH AUSTON

hauston@lc.edu Halloween, bonfires, and everything pumpkin is right around the corner, and I couldn’t be more excited! Take advantage of everything outdoors, as the leaves are finally changing colors. Here are some things happening in the Riverbend area during the month of October.

Vintage Voices are a great way to learn the history of Alton and some of it’s most famous citizens. Take a walk around the Alton City Cemetery every Saturday in October from 11:30 a.m. until 2:45 p.m. It’s

$15 for adults, and $10 for students.

German food, live music, inflatables, and adult beverages (for those of age) - what could be better? St. Mary’s Oktoberfest takes place the weekend of October 6-8.

Friday night begins at 6 p.m., Saturday begins at 1 p.m., and Sunday begins at noon. Admission is free, so go and have a great time with the whole family.

With it being the month of Halloween, you know I had to throw in a couple haunted events for those interested. Fright Night Tour at the McPike Mansion is

October 6 with tours starting at 6 p.m. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and will give you the history of the McPike Mansion along with the opportunity to look at historical documents and photos.

It will also include a tour of the McPike Mansion. Tickets for this event are $20 for adults, $15 for teens, and $10 for children.

The Alton Haunted History Bus Tour is a great way to explore all of parts of Alton and it’s haunted history. This tour takes you via bus as well as walking, so be sure to wear your walking shoes! Each

tour starts promptly at 8 p.m. and lasts approximately 3 hours, and has numerous dates to take advantage of, including: Saturday, October 14, Friday, October 20, Saturday, October 21, Friday, October 27, and Saturday, October 28. Tickets are $40 a person and will sell out fast, so be sure to reserve your spot ASAP! These are just a few of the many events taking place during the month of October in the area. For a full list of events and activities, visit www.visitalton.com/ events and see what peaks your interest!

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Play Music with YouTube Red – Try it for Free NICK BUDZBAN

nbudzban@lc.edu “Hey Google, Play Music.”

Yes, this is (pretend) sponsored content, BUT – I am not pretending when I Play Music with Google. For an unknown but limited period of time, you can get a 30day free trial of Google Play Music AND Youtube Red - $10 per month after that. … Youtube Red? How much do YOU YouTube? I YouTube A LOT. When I don’t watch, I listen. And I could listen, ALL DAY… Do you Bluetooth? I just got started for $30. VAVA MOOV 28’s. Amazon. 2 ears, or 1 – if you’re a BOSS. Hold on, I gotta take this call – it’s from the Future.

“Hey Google, What’s Up?” Their stock, of course. The only thing that can bring their monopoly down is anti-monopoly legislation. But I’ll take a chance card from the community chest and ride this techtrain all the way to Human A.I. Not A.I, artificial intelligence, but H.A.I, human augmented* intelligence. Our handsets are most remarkable – but could be obsolete by future hands-free interfaces.

Somehow, we will free our hands – but at what cost? Our eyes? … Our minds?

“Hey Google, Auto-Play.” Be my channel and feed me content. I want this and this, and thus, that. Wait… What algorithm?

What?? Oh. It’s a deep-learning algorithm and we can’t see inside It? A “neural network” self-engineered through experience – ahem, I mean, data? … Is it alive? Yes, as long as the power is on. I bet it eats kilowatts, by the second.

But that won’t be a problem once we achieve infinite energy through nuclear fusion. Lol. Then, with a surplus of free energy, hands-free H.A.I, and Google AutoPlay – we will finally be able to change our settings one final time – each of us volunteering our last words…

“Hey Google, Play Life…”

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Are the grounds of Lewis and Clark Community College haunted? Some Say ‘Yes’ ALEX ST. PETERS astpeters@lc.edu

Have you ever felt like you’re being watched? Have you ever seen something out of the corner of your eye and then look, but nothing is there? Have you ever felt a cold spot and then it quickly goes away? Over the years many people have claimed that the grounds of Lewis and Clark Community College are haunted and that they have seen the unexplainable.

Lewis and Clark Community College was originally built in 1838 by Captain Benjamin Godfrey, a pioneer of the Alton area. When the school was built it was originally called Monticello College and it was a school for women. It was unheard of at the time for women to even attend college let alone having a college only for them.

In 1867, the college would get a principal named Harriet Haskell. She would devote the next 40 years of her life to college making sure it was the most respected female institution in the country. She would even resurrect the school after a tragic fire in 1888 that almost closed it down for good. Nobody was injured in the fire, but it did immense damage to the dormitories and classrooms. She would rebuild the school to its former glory not long after the fire and run it until her death in 1907. Even though Miss Haskell’s reign as head of the college had ended with her death, many people don’t believe that she ever left the school.

The school would go on for another 64 years until 1971 when the school changed to Lewis and Clark Community College.

On the day the school officially became Lewis and Clark Community College, one of the oldest and largest trees on campus fell to the ground. There were no storms that day or any reason that tree should’ve fallen over. The story goes that the ghost of Harriet Haskell was upset that her Monticello College was no more and knocked the tree over.

The hauntings of Harriet Haskell have now become a part of the school’s history and description. When talking about famous hauntings in the Alton area many people bring up Lewis and Clark because of the hauntings. According to local paranormal investigator Troy Taylor, stories of Harriet Haskell’s ghost go all the way back to the early 1900s, shortly after her death. The girls of the college would tell stories to the new girls about Miss Haskell wandering the halls at night and seeing apparitions of her in darkened corners of the school. The older students

telling the younger students ghost stories hasn’t changed at all, according to L&C radio broadcasting student Samantha Seeley. “When I first started going to Lewis and Clark the older radio students would always tell us that the production room we use was haunted”, said Seeley “Well one night I was working late on a show in the room across from the production room and I saw the lights go on and off. I figured somebody had gone in there, but the lights would continue to go on and off multiple times while I was working. I decided to go see if anybody had been in the room, but when I looked I found out that nobody had been in there.”

There are also stories that the oldest house on campus would have lights and fountains that would periodically turn on and off by themselves with no explanation.

One time in the early 1990s an elevator got stuck between two floors and had to be fixed. The strange thing though was the security guards claimed they heard a woman crying in the elevator and that they were talking to her. However, once they freed the elevator and the doors opened there was nobody inside.

The now Reid Memorial Library was once the chapel of Monticello College and it is considered to be the most active area on campus for Harriet Haskell sightings.

Assistant Director of Instructional Services Elisabeth Burns has had her fair share of experiences in the library. “ One day I was preparing for an event, a boys club was coming to the school, and I had left a plastic tablecloth on a chair in the library. I left to go grab something from my office, I hadn’t been gone long at all, but when I got back I had found that the tablecloth had been folded up and placed on the chair. I knew I was the only one in the library at the time and nobody had come in while I was gone.” One of the ways people have said to know when Miss Haskell is present is that you will smell some strong lilac perfume.

“Another time I had gone downstairs to grab a book and when I came back up the steps I got hit with a strong smell of lilac perfume. I knew that no women had walked through the area that could have been wearing the perfume. I’ve always known that if you smell lilac perfume it means Harriet is around.”

One Halloween night a radio student at the college decided to radio broadcast from the library. They had a speech professor read some writings of Harriet Haskell. Once they had finished the readings and were wrapping up for the night. The radio student was there alone

A faint apparition standing in Reid Memorial Library at Lewis and Clark Community College.

Graphic Provided By: Alex St. Peters shutting everything down when he felt a hand touch his shoulder. He would turn around and find nobody there. Figuring that his friends were trying to scare him he grabbed a flashlight to search the library for his friends. He would find nothing and would sit back down to continue packing up. Not shortly after sitting down he would once again feel a hand touch his shoulder.

This time he left all of his equipment and run out of the library.

Another story is a librarian was working alone one night and claimed that somebody had touched her shoulder, but when she turned around to look there was nobody there. She claims that it happened again and also this time nobody was there. After the second encounter, she would pick up her work and leave for the night. She was a non-believer in ghosts but claims that something was with her in the library that night.

According to Assistant Director of Reference Services Greg Cash, he had

a strange experience in the library one day. “I was preparing a classroom in the library so a teacher could come in and show their students how to use library resources. I turned on all the computers, got the projector warmed up, and I locked the door behind me”, said Cash “When I returned to let the class in, I had found out that everything was turned off. There was no reason everything should have turned off, there were no power outages and the power strips were on. I jokingly said, “Okay, Harriet, you’ve had your fun we need to teach now”, but I couldn’t explain what happened that day.”

For many, the stories are true and genuine. It’s hard to not believe in the paranormal and the ghost of Harriet Haskell after hearing or experiencing them. In this world, there are things that we see and feel that we can’t explain. As the living, it is our choice to believe or not to believe. Have a Happy Halloween!

Left: Two specters standing outside the front of L&C Center: A ghostly figure standing on the steps leading up to Fobes Hall at L&C Right: First floor of Caldwell Hall outside the Bridge office at L&C Photo Manipulation Provided By: Alex St. Peters

J KEEP CALM AND ASK MATT Dear Frazzled To The Max,

Dear Matthew,

I am taking a full load this semester and am in extreme over-load. Do you have any suggestions on how I can decompress outside of school? I am keeping my grades up, but I just need something to take my mind off of school every once in a while.

Thank You So Much,

Frazzled To The Max.

I totally understand being frazzled. I don’t know how many times I wanted to pull my hair out in frustration. I try to set aside specific times to study and do assignments, so I know what kind of free time I have to work with. If I only have a short-time between classes I find that just going across the highway to Dairy Queen is a nice little treat. Everyone knows chocolate is a quick fix. If you find yourself having a few extra hours, you can always hit a movie. I find that a dark theatre makes me forget a lot of my stress even for just a little while. Always remember that if the stress gets to be too much, you can always push the books to the side and turn the radio up real loud. Dance, jump on your bed, and sing as if no one is watching. I found that acting a little crazy, even for just a few minutes takes the stress away. Hope you feel better after reading this.

Keeping It Real,

Matthew Rhoads

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Aries

Taurus

In order to get through the trials you currently face, you must first stop and take a rest. Only through contemplation and reevaluation will you be able to return to your full strength.

This month is brewing with turmoil. Disorganization plagues you.

Your emotions run rampant. In order to solve your issues, you must stop with self indulgence and instead take a firm look at your lifestyle.

Four of Swords, The Emperor, Reversed Ten of Swords

Reversed Knight of Chalices, Reversed Two of Pentacles, Reversed Judgement

Gemini

cancer

A puzzling event has occurred in your life, but it’s only confusing because you refuse to look at it from an angle other than your own. This month, you may feel the need to bottle up your emotions. Express yourself and you’ll find that things will become

This month you will gain satisfaction in all areas of your life. This is the time to enjoy life because you’ve earned it. A new creative opportunity is going to come your way, and with it a wave of good fortune will join you.

Reversed Justice, Reversed Queen of Chalices, Reversed Knight of Pentacles

Leo

The Hanged Man, Reversed Two of Wands, Reversed Five of Swords It is better to stall on a decision rather than make a rushed judgement call. Wait before you make any big moves this month, as you might find that better opportunities will come to you. Use this time to prioritizes your goals.

Nine of Chalices, Page of Chalices, Reversed Page of Swords

Virgo

Reversed The Chariot, Reversed The Moon, Reversed Four of Wands Just as the seasons are changing, so are the forces in your life. You may feel that you have lost control over where you are headed. You recently faced a time of anxiety and fear, but this month these feelings are going to go away.

Libra

scorpio

This month, you are the king of control over your own emotions.

Rarely do people ever get to be this intuned with themselves, and you are lucky enough to experience this. You are entering a period of stability, be it financial or emotional.

Even in a violent storm, your self confidence helps your persevere. Troublesome events may be flooding your life, but with confidence and control you will easily defeat them.

Sagittarius

capricorn

This month you will be tempted to become over invested in a situation. Instead, take a step back. You’ll find that your energy is better suited elsewhere.

This month your social life will experience turbulence. Someone in your life is trying to manipulate you. The signs will become more clear as they become more tempermental. Don’t let this stop you from improving your skills.

aquarius

picses

The autumn winds are bringing obstacles into your life. Your long-term goals will be impeded by threats that need to be taken care of, especially creativity. Don’t turn to frivolous habits to avoid your problems.

Procrastination is going to get you nowhere, and the more you delay on making a choice, the more it is going to hurt you. This month, you are going to discover a lot about yourself, especially when it comes to relationships.

King of Chalices, Four of Pentacles, Eight of Swords

Reversed Nine of Pentacles, Knight of Swords, Reversed Temperance

Reversed Three of Wands, Reversed Page of Chalices, Five of Swords

The Chariot, The Gift, Six of Pentacles

Reversed Queen of Wands, Eight of Pentacles, Reversed Ace of Chalices

Reversed Hanged Man, Two of Wands, The Lovers

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