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‘Predestination’ film brings intrigue to time travel

Stuggle and euphoria: Alaska backcountry skiing

Nanooks force shoot-out, take sixth consecutive Governor’s Cup By Nolin Ainsworth

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Following the last meeting between the UAA Seawolves and University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks at the beginning of spring semester, the clubs’ respective seasons have gone in opposite directions. After sweeping the Nanooks both nights in Fairbanks Jan. 16 and 17, the Seawolves’ wheels fell off — losing their next nine Western Collegiate Hockey Association games. The Nanooks, on the other hand, rebounded from those two losses against UAA and went on to win five of their next eight games, including taking down then-No. 1 Minnesota State on home ice last month. So naturally, when the Nanooks paid a visit to the Sullivan Arena March 6-7 to take on the Seawolves for games three

and four of the Governor’s Cup, some assumed it wouldn’t be much of hockey series. To put it simply, they were wrong. Although UAF looked like the more skillful team, the Seawolves found a way to make both games close. The Seawolves fell 1-0 March 6 and 3-2, 1-0 in the shootout March 7, saying goodbye to five seniors and their hopes of dreams of bringing the Governor’s Cup back to southcentral Alaska. “This one definitely stinks,” said senior captain Scott Allen after Saturday’s game. “That’s not how anyone wants to go out — and I think everyone realizes that, but it’s something that you have to live with now.” Head coach Matt Thomas didn’t mince words after the UAF sweep.

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By Victoria Petersen

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PHOTO BY ADAM EBERHARDT

Forward Brad Duwe gets some air while making a pass during a game against UAF on March 7.

Annual fees up $16 to fund digital portfolios

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By John Sallee

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This year, the University of Alaska Anchorage will roll out the ePortfolio, an electronic portfolio that enables users to store all of their coursework. Starting next fall, students and faculty will be given the tools to keep all past academic work in one online space. Paul Wasko, who has worked with similar ePortfolio projects in the past, is the lead behind the project. “This work has gone better with more enthusiasm that any other effort I have been involved in with higher education in the last 12 years,” he said. Wasko leads an advisory committee that reflects the

university, with membership including English professor Heather Caldwell and a current student from UAA, which enables input from a student’s perspective. Getting the ePortfolio project initiated was a gradual process. First, students’ needs were assessed at UAA. The next step of the process was to find which program was the best at addressing those needs. Caldwell said UAA signed a contract with Digication, which will be the provider for the ePortfolio system. Digication is a provider for more than 5,000 K-12 schools throughout the United States. “The system is very userfriendly for anyone beginning to use Digication,” Caldwell said.

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Paul Wasko said that the Digication system was not only the cheapest on the market, but it fulfilled all of the assessed student needs as well. When asked about this new ePortfolio project, UAA student Olivia Steiner answered enthusiastically: “I’m so excited for it! … It’s about time we had something to keep track of all our college work all in one place.” Steiner is working on her bachelor of science degree, and she hopes the ePortfolio will propel her college career even further. The ePortfolio system will be funded by an $8-per-semester flat fee, which means each student will pay $16 total each academic year. A possibility of a digital media lab is in the

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works, which allows students to use technology to create video, audio and other multimedia elements for their ePortfolios. The media lab would be part of the UAA Learning Resource Center. The media lab would be funded by an additional $12 flat fee — $24 per academic year. The media lab and portfolio will be exclusively for UAA. Top colleges such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton currently already utilize the ePortfolio. Wasko hopes to see ePortfolio success carry across the entire University of Alaska system. The ePortfolio is already being used by a small amount of students and staff, and the rollout to all 20,000 students and 15,000 faculty members will be slated for this fall.

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University of Alaska officials are working to align the Anchorage, Fairbanks and Southeast campus calendars. In April 2014, the Board of Regents passed a policy to align all UA campus calendars. Student Regent Courtney Enright says the Common Calendar Advisory Task Force has been working on this project since last year and has identified several areas for alignment. “These eight areas for alignment include term start dates, add/ drop dates for class, fee payment due date, withdrawal date, term end date, finals week, spring break and course blocks,” she said. The Common Calendar Advisory Task Force has outlined the challenges of each component for the new committee that will take over in the next year. “The calendar will begin alignment of withdrawal dates in spring 2016 — otherwise all other aspects of calendar alignment will occur in fall 2016, aka, calendar year 2017,” Enright said. However, there is controversy concerning the time of calendar implementation. The task force has been guided by a memo from UA President Pat Gamble, which called for a fall 2016 implementation. Despite this, some regents and university leadership believe that fall 2015 is when the common calendar should start. Michelle Saport, a communications assistant for UAA Advancement, is confident the process is progressing in a timely fashion. “This is still happening, and it looks like it is on track,” Saport said. UAA currently has spring break one week before UAS and UAF. Task force members say there was no initial support to align this break, but now they are working hard to make it happen. The move would require engagement by the entire university community. Barbara A. Hegel, registrar and director of admissions at UAS, feels positive about the proposed alignment. “I’ve been working here since 2002. One of my goals as an employee is to see things more aligned,” Hegel said. “I think this will be really good and help students maneuver the system better. I feel very positive about it.” The alignments for a new universal calendar will take place within the next two years.

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MEET THE SEAWOLF

UAA student Jessica Sullivan shares about her life and style By Victoria Petersen

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Between baking banana pumpkin bread and studying lines for her role in Anchorage Community Theatre’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” UAA’s Jessica Sullivan is busy to say the least. “I feel most satisfied when I am insanely busy, almost to the point where I can’t get anything done. I love having a super full life. I hope to accomplish everything,” Sullivan said. One will often find Sullivan in her natural habitat, the UAA Fine Arts building. Most likely decked out in today’s latest fashions or keeping it classy in timeless ensembles, Sullivan has an avant-garde fashion sense on a broke college student budget — all the more accented by her iconic Stevie Nicks bangs. “I love clothing at this age. Most of us are poor college students, and I love the challenge of trying to find cute clothes for a nice budget. I love the hobby of going out and searching through piles of rubbish until I find something I actually like,” Sullivan said. Raised in small-town Skagway, Alaska, Sullivan sought to see the world and gleaned fashion inspiration from the many places she ventured. “When I was 15, I went on exchange and lived in Denmark. I traveled throughout Europe and have sailed through the Caribbean. I think everyone in the world should just explore and see what’s out there. My travels have inspired my fashion sense. I’m totally interested in other cultures’ fashion, from Native American cultures to tribes in Kenya,” Sullivan said. Sullivan studies theater and journalism. You can catch Sullivan in her performance in ACT’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” as well as in the student-made short films from the UAA digital film production class that will show this April in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium.

State of eldritch horror: Boring family vacation, part 2

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Translated by George Hyde First off, George and I arrived safely, and I’ve met the folks. They’re nice. So now let’s talk about how unnerving everything else about this vacation is. Everything started innocently enough. On the flight, George took a picture through the plane’s window because the view reminded him of a scene from “Porco Rosso.” I mention this because the scene is a very dreamlike, odd scene, which should have raised a red flag in my brilliant brain. This picture of the in-flight view should have been a premonition. We arrived in Philidelphia. There were no issues or delays; in fact, George and his family were able to retrieve their bags and rent a car in record time. While we were renting the car, though, I took note of a couple arguing in the corner. I couldn’t make out what they were arguing about because George was blasting bass-heavy music in his ears, and nobody in the family seemed to pay it any mind. Another premonition, maybe. Oh, and it was raining. Freezing rain. That’s gonna be important later. Anyway, we departed from Philidelphia, taking the four-hour drive to Montoursville, the original childhood home

of George’s mother. Before the journey began properly, we stopped at a turnpike, a type of place George is unfamiliar with. He stood in awe of all the national food chains that have not yet set up shop in Alaska, and grabbed a bite from each — Roy Rogers is really good, apparently. We walked out to find the car coated in ice. Seriously, it looked like it had been recently blasted with a freeze ray as soon as we ate. It took us a little bit of effort to rid the doors and windows of the ice, but we were on the road soon enough. I don’t remember much after that — George was asleep — but he woke up in time to witness the sheer confusion that was Hazleton, Pennsylvania. A town that would be right at home in a Stephen King novel, Hazleton locked our car and its driver in a state of constantly running around in circles. Our GPS proved useless in this eldritch town, and every turn we tried to make sent us back to where we began. George’s parents were losing it — Mom was frantically shouting directions from Google Maps, and Dad was confident he could find his way back out if he tried this road that we hadn’t taken yet. Memories of the arguing couple in the car rental place started to return, and as George realized this, he, too, started to go mad from the revelation. Every house — they all looked the

same — seemed to be filled with judgmental families looking down on us, satisfied that they had trapped another group of helpless souls. Thankfully, though, we managed to escape from Hazleton’s grasp within 20 minutes, and from then on it was a relatively sane journey to Montoursville, save for a few slow drivers on the highway. George and I arrived and entered the house. I really love his grandparents. They’re friendly, and they’re more technologically sound than the grandparents that live in Anchorage. He went to his bed, played “Majora’s Mask” for a bit and drifted off. The next day, we went to a sports bar, the name of which escapes me. As soon as we sat down, we found ourselves surrounded by at least five men in camo hunting gear. No, it wasn’t the same party — all of the tables around us were filled with hunting fanatics. There was no escape. George remained silent for fear that he might accidentally utter something slightly nerdy or liberal. Eventually, the pressure of the strange stares of all of the hunting and sports fans around him forced him out of his seat. But as he left through the restaurant’s bar, he found it was filled with mirrors and reflective picture frames. A thousand Georges, staring at us, judging us for not

being Steelers fans. George remained frozen in a state of madness and terror until a drunk guy tapped his shoulder and asked what was wrong. Thankfully, I was able to seize control, brush the guy off and leave calmly — but man, George still hasn’t recovered from that. On the way home, we drove past a mall, and when George and I inspected it further, it turned out to be a buildingfor-building and sign-by-sign copy of the Tikahtnu mall area back in Anchorage. Seriously. Almost a carbon copy. On the opposite side of the continent. Like we’re seeing our hometown within this foreign one. George is currently in bed, sucking his thumb and telling himself it’s going to be alright. This place is odd and strange. I’ve visited the famous cities of the world, but I’ve never seen a place as alien or abstract as this. It takes a lot to freak out someone who sucks on someone’s brain all day, let alone someone who’s on the receiving end of that sucking. Uh — maybe that last sentence was a poor choice of words. My bad. I’ll have an update on the state of George’s sanity when we get back after spring break. Till then...

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The Walking Shred: An adventure in Alaska’s backcountry

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Backcountry ski students ascend to the summit of Manitoba to carve through untouched snow.

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My backcountry ski course met way too damn early the Friday before spring break, loading the bus with what seemed to be enough gear to summit K2. Eager to shred some decent snow and gain our level one avalanche certifications, we headed out before sunup to get an early start. Spending the weekend in a cabin near Summit Lake, we evaluated our options for runs based on weather, reported avalanche conditions, snowpack and how much we’d be able to shred between the summit and the bus. The first day we returned to Tin Can, using the icy but well traveled slopes as a proving ground to hone our travel techniques and practice identifying avalanche conditions. On advice I now consider to be entirely bogus, I had decided to use “Yupis,” a type of ski shoes with an embedded skin that would presumably allow me to ascend slopes faster than with snowshoes. In theory it’s a nice idea, but in practice they looked like someone who had no knowledge of skiing or snowshoeing tried to blindly meld the two concepts in Satan’s garage. To say that this was a failed effort would be putting it lightly, as the first half of the ascent was filled with falling, cursing and bloody knuckles — eventually culminating in me chucking the Yupis in a tree to recover on the way back down. At the summit we settled in to recover some desperately needed calories, and we began digging a test pit to evaluate snow conditions. Your pit should be a representative sample of the slope you intend to ski, allowing you to evaluate the different layers

of the snowpack, relative strength of the slabs and whether an avalanche would propagate if triggered. After running several compression tests and assessing the snow crystals through a magnified lens we made a solid run to the bus and retired to the cabin for the evening, signing the log book as “The Walking Shred.” The second day we hiked up Tenderfoot, an ascent that, during a normal winter, would be quite easy. However, this year’s exposed brush and alders made the climb slow and frustrating — which was exacerbated at higher elevations by a loose, deep snowpack covered by a thin crust. Remembering the ice from the day before, I had naively decided to forgo snowshoes, opting for simple boot spikes instead. Considering that each step brought me crashing through the crust into waist-deep snow, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that may have been a bad call. Upon finally reaching the summit, we realized the avalanche conditions were worse than initially reported. In addition to the southerly slides we had planned to avoid, there was a northern avalanche that hadn’t appeared in any of our reports. Adding to our apprehension, visibility was dropping by the minute as a thick layer of snow and clouds had descended upon the pass. In an effort to avoid dangerous terrain, we descended back down a bit before dropping in to the north slope. The run was decent, and our group had the option to split up afterward to try the different terrain the mountain had to offer. With each group accompanied by an instructor, we made our own ways down the slope, stopping to investigate signs of instability. Though we experienced no slides, new or old, the “whumping” we heard (accompanied by some minor shooting cracks) was more than enough to send our adrenaline levels into overdrive. As we reconvened near the bus, we were given the opportunity to practice using the rescue sled, which solidified my growing aversion to ever needing to use one. On the third day, the instructors had us plan the trip ourselves. Taking into consideration the new snow, early season conditions and overall risk, we opted to run Manitoba, a mountain with a long approach offset by wide, open slopes with low risk of slides. With blue skies as far as the eye could see and new snow from the night before, the approach was beautiful, and everyone dropped down to their base layers to fight the heat coming off the snow. We dug another test pit, declared it safe and dropped in to the best snow I’ve ever had. Between the summit and ridge the snow was largely untouched, and soft from the blazing sun. Carving through the snow like soft butter ranked somewhere between runner’s high and religious experience for me. I was able to get two runs in despite the three-day fatigue, and I have no qualms about describing hurtling down that untouched snowpack as better than sex. As we each soared through to the regroup point, spraying each other with snow as we skidded to a halt, the expressions on every face told the same euphoric story. Riding high on the utter exhilaration of the weekend, we made our descent and piled back into the bus, our legs collapsing into the seats as we spent our very last scrap of energy. Finally able to rest, we spent the return journey exhausted, sore and psyched for the next excursion to Hatcher’s Pass the following week.

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Student gov. to host MasqueRAVE on campus By Samantha Davenport arts@thenorthernlight.org

This year, USUAA will host the annual masquerade dance — but this time, there are two twists. One: The event will be held at the Alaska Airlines Center. Two: It will be a rave. USUAA student government Sen. Sophie Leshan, who is Activities Committee chair and an Early Childhood Education major, talked to The Northern Light about the annual event. TNL: Why is the MasqueRAVE being held in the Alaska Airlines Center Auxiliary Gym? Leshan: “The Activities Committee arranged MasqueRAVE to be held in the Alaska Airlines Center Auxiliary Gym after receiving a lot of supportive feedback from students. At the beginning of the semester, our committee engaged in an extensive surveying process to get a read on what the students we represent wanted to see at the spring dance. When we asked students about their preferred venue, the Alaska Airlines Center was one of the top choices. We also received responses from Residence Life students — a substantial portion of whom attend our dances — who stated that the off-

campus venues (where) USUAA has held dances in the past were not as convenient, so I think hosting MasqueRAVE at the Alaska Airlines Center — a quick walk away from the on-campus living community — is a wonderful opportunity to address this concern! However, the decision to host at the AAC has not been without difficulty. Unfortunately, the AAC has forced us into a ticketing contract that adds additional fees on students who purchase their tickets anywhere but the AAC box office. We’ve tried to negotiate, but there’s nothing we can do if we want to use the facility. Moreover, catering at the AAC is substantially more expensive, with few discounts available for student organizations. We hope that in the future the AAC is willing to negotiate discounts for students and studentcentric events.” What do you hope this event will bring to UAA students? “The goal of the Activities Committee is to bring a rousing event to a wider array of UAA students than we’ve reached in the past. Of those surveyed, the majority believed that USUAA should continue utilizing their resources to put on dances. The Activities Committee feels a significant responsibility to utilize the portion

of student government funds we receive to serve a vast diversity of students, and our aim is to take all the feedback we received during our surveying efforts to make this event the best it can be for UAA students who wish to attend these types of events.” What is your favorite part of this event? “My favorite part of the event is that we really listened to student comments and suggestions while planning for the event. Significant components of the dance, including the DJ, chocolate fountain, photo booth and location, were all arranged by the Activities Committee following leads from student feedback!” Why the add of the “RAVE”? Extra pizazz? “While surveying, we noticed that students had very mixed feelings about the traditional Masquerade Ball theme USUAA has withheld (sic) for the past several spring dances. Many of those surveyed reported that they wished to see less rap and Top 40, and more house or EDM-type music. The MasqueRAVE theme was a product of recognizing our organization’s past traditions while still having a growth mindset for beginning contemporary traditions in a new space!”

Sophie Leshan is a USUAA senator who helps organize MasqueRAVE. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KIERRA HAMMONS

Any additional info? “The MasqueRAVE Dance is brought to you by the USUAA Student Government Activities Committee, whose mandate is to organize events that encourage campus involvement and enhance student life at UAA. This is the eighth annual spring dance, but first time on campus at the Alaska Airlines Center. Please join us Friday, April 3 from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. for dancing, photo fun, refreshments and entertainment!”

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ALBUM REVIEW

‘No Now’ by Clarence Clarity

By Wright Franklin

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“No Now,” the debut album from Clarence Clarity, emerges from a very interesting and refreshing sonic space. Somewhere in the middle between electronic and rock, his sound can best be described as something in the negative space between James Blake, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. If such a space did not exist before, Clarence Clarity creates it here. There is a lot of sound to dissect. It is also similar to Crystal Castles or the Black Bananas release last year in its electronic glitchiness and grit. The vocals sometimes evoke soulful and seductive rhythm and blues, and at other times warp and diverge into screams and shouting. Nevertheless, the songs maintain a core of melodic beauty, ARTIST Clarence Clarity ALBUM “No Now”

surrounded by a barbwire shell of noise. The transitions between songs are a hotbed of static, giving the impression that each song is emerging from an ether. As soon as you begin to think “What is this? This is just noise,” a melody or a beat breaks out from the static and gets your head bobbing. Very rarely is an album such a sensory experience as “No Now.” With dark and self-destructive track names like “Let’s Shoot Up” and “Bloodbarf” and melancholy and beautiful lyrics, the entire listen is a fantastic journey front to back. The only complaint about “No Now” is that sometimes it gets too lost in itself. The second-to-last track, “With No Fear” contains nearly three minutes of pure static that is basically unlistenable. Outside of these noisy issues, the rest of the album is definitely a present surprise.

GENRE Alternative, Rock, Adult Alternative LABEL Bella Union

RELEASE March 3, 2015

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GAME REVIEW

‘Majora’s Mask’ is a somber classic By George Hyde

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TITLE “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask”

PLATFORMS N64, 3DS

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GENRE Action-Adventure

Nintendo EAD (N64); Grezzo (3DS)

RELEASE DATE Oct. 26, 2000 (N64); Feb. 13, 2015 (3DS)

Link is traveling through the Lost Woods until a mysterious Skull Kid kidnaps his horse, Epona. After giving chase, Link meets with a terrible fate: He falls down a chasm into a mysterious land and is turned into a wooden Deku Scrub. He is tasked with finding a cursed mask all in the span in three days before the moon crashes into the Earth. It sounds like an odd premise to those unfamiliar with it, but “The Legend of Zelda” fans are instantly at home. It’s been almost 15 years since “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask” released on the Nintendo 64, and while many advances have been made in the “Zelda” series since then, it remains exactly what it still needs to be: a somber exploration of some of the most mature themes video gaming has ever tackled. On the outset, the game is an adventure very similar to its predecessor, “Ocarina of Time.” The structure is similar, and many of the character models are ripped wholesale from it. It feels almost like an expansion pack to “Ocarina” — many today would perhaps call it a strange piece of story-based downloadable content. It’s easy to admit that “Ocarina,” as lauded as it is among game enthusiasts, isn’t the best game mechanically. But what “Majora’s Mask” does with its characters is crucial. It lends the experience a sense of uncanniness, a sense of the unreal. It’s harder to get sucked into this world

because it’s filled with details that are too familiar — almost like a bad dream. However, it uses this surrealism to explore concepts that games at the time — or even today — haven’t dared to explore, concepts like loss. Grief. Inevitability. One of the mechanics that “Majora’s Mask” introduced was a timer. As mentioned before, the moon will crash in three days, and after main character Link wraps up whatever he does in that time, he must play a tune on his ocarina and travel back to the first day. Players repeat this almost like a fantasy version of “Groundhog Day,” and the only things that Link can bring with him to the first day are main story items, health upgrades and the like. Even the bosses resurrect themselves on the time skip. The problems Link solves are only solved for as long as he can wait before playing the “Song of Time” again. This makes the game feel daunting, but deliberately so. The crushing nature of time only reinforces the overall themes of sadness and grief. If it sounds like a dark game, it is. But it resonates with the human spirit. The characters, as uncanny as they are, feel human because they deal with deep, emotional problems that everyone has dealt with. “Ocarina” was a “Zelda” game that was mechanically flawed. “Majora” realized that it was mechanically flawed, and instead of fixing the flaws, it used them to create something meaningful. That is what makes “Majora” powerful, and now that it’s available on 3DS, that is why you should play it — be it for the first time, or for the umpteenth time.

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‘Predestination’ runs laps around viewers By Jacob Holley-Kline Contributor

TITLE “Predestination”

RELEASE DATE Aug. 28, 2014

DIRECTORS Michael & Peter Spierig

GENRE Science fiction

COUNTRY Australia

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A good time travel movie makes the viewer naive. It’s a wonder that genre fare like it has stuck around for as long as it has. Anyone who’s seen one knows that a curveball is bound to be thrown at some point. Yet, somehow, the best of them make these surprises seem as fresh as ever, even when the story has been done and redone. In “Predestination,” a timetraveling government agent (Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”) is tasked with one final mission: to catch the infamous “Fizzle Bomber,” a domestic terrorist who’s been stacking bodies since the 1970s. To ensure his success, he meets an author who goes by the pen name “Unmarried Mother” (Sarah Snook, “These Final Hours”) in a bar and enlists his help in the chase. Hawke has long been a

dependable actor. His characteristic passion and honesty is showcased in every scene, but Snook is the real revelation. Playing a deeply complex character, Snook takes on every nuance of the Unmarried Mother and dredges an unexpected power from him. In one particular scene, using just three words, Snook can drive viewers to tears. Needless to say, “Predestination” is not an average sci-fi movie. In the often tepid landscape of sci-fi, space and time are mainstays done to death, but the movie paints time travel in a dangerous light that adds tension missing from other movies. That being said, once the curveballs hit, it’s hard not to pick it apart. For one thing, so much time is spent on exposition that the twists and turns of the final two acts feel rushed. That’s not to say that the most surprising don’t came naturally — they do, but everything preceding them

feels aimless at times. So many threads run through this movie that they’re bound to get tangled. When space, time and identities overlap, confusion is a natural consequence. But the best science fiction movies embrace their premises and explore every nuance of them with fervor. “Predestination” takes the concept of time travel, eternal return and inevitability to cosmic extremes. That being said, some aspects of the movie play loose with logic, and certain revelations start to stink after the credits roll. But the movie has an intelligence to it sorely missing from other flicks of its ilk. Championed by Snook’s star-making performance and a deep emotional resonance, “Predestination” hits almost all the right notes, and even its misses are easily forgiven. The movie runs relentless laps around the viewer, and it’s not hard to enjoy the ride.

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THENORTHERNLIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

Road to Vans Warped Tour to hit Anchorage By Jocelyn Stanley arts2@thenorthernlight.org

Spring break came and went quickly, but summer isn’t too far away. Even better, summer means that Vans Road to Warped Tour will be returning to Anchorage. On June 17, several well-known bands will hit the stage of the Sullivan Arena. If you’re looking for a fix in post-hardcore, pop-punk and alternative rock, tickets are available at http://vanswarpedtour.com/dates or on http://ticketmaster.com for $49.55. You don’t even have to do your homework on the artists — here is a miniature bio for each of the bands.

HELMET

The group started in 1989 in New York City, but reformed in 2004 with the current bands members Page Hamilton, Dan Beeman, Kyle Stephenson, and Dave Case. Their most recent album was “Seeing Eye Dog”0 in 2010. Along with performing at the show on June 17, Helmet will also be touring throughout the month of March. MORE AT HTTP://HELMETMUSIC.COM

ISSUES

Girdwood, alaska

free

The metalcore band from Atlanta, Georgia, consists of Tyler Carter, Michael Bohn, AJ Rebollo, Skyler Acord, Josh Manuel and Tyler Acord. Their most recent, self-titled album was released February 2014; the album made it to No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard. To read TNL’s review of the album, visit http://www.thenorthernlight. org/2014/03/04/31701/. MORE AT HTTP://ISSUESROCK.US.

MC LARS march 19, 20 & 21

Jeff Crosby

& the Refugees

Andrew Nielsen, known as MC Lars, is currently working on releasing his fourth full-length album titled “The Zombie Dinosaur.” According to his website, the new album “revisits the satirical, uptempo style” of his 2004 “Laptop EP.” The unique Northern California rapper’s many EPs, mixtapes, music videos and albums are available online at his site. MORE AT HTTP://MCLARS.COM.

THE WONDER YEARS ladies

free

on thursday!

march 27 & 28

edm weekend with

Michal Menert of pretty lights $15

stay & play with the

rockstar packaGe overnight, resort credit, t-shirt & concert tickets

beers on tap / 21 & over / food ‘til late full schedule & advance tix online @ TheSitzmark.com 907-754-2275

Nick Steinborn, Dan Campbell, Josh Martin, Matt Brasch, Casey Cavalieve and Mike Kennedy make up this group from Pennsylvania. “The Greatest Generation,” their most recent full-length album, debuted at No. 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Their nine EPs and four full-length albums can be found online. MORE AT HTTP://THEWONDERYEARSBAND.COM.

MEMPHIS MAY FIRE

This metalcore band from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2004. Since then, the band has shuffled its lineup several times but has put out four albums. Their most recent album, “Unconditional,” was released last March and debuted at No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The band currently consists of Kellen McGregor, Matty Mullins, Cory Elder, Jake Garland and Anthony Sepe. MORE AT HTTP://MEMPHISMAYFIRE.COM.

PVRIS

The alternative rock/pop-punk group will be starting a world tour in April. The band consists of Lyndsey Gunnulfsen, Alex Babinski and Bryan MacDonald. PVRIS, pronounced “Paris,” recently released their first full-length album in November 2014. MORE AT HTTP://PVRIS.COM.

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

Motion City Soundtrack is a pop-punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, that formed back in 1997. The band consists of Joshua Cain, Justin Pierre, Jesse Johnson, Matthew Taylor and Claudio Rivera. “My Dinosaur Life,” released in 2010, reached No. 15 on the U.S. Billboard 200. MORE AT HTTP://MOTIONCITYSOUNDTRACK.COM

NEW FOUND GLORY

This pop-punk band just started a tour March 13 called “Sleep When I Die.” Jordan Pundik, Chad Gilbert, Ian Gruska and Cyrus Bolooki have been called the godfathers of their genre and have reached the Billboard 200 repeatedly. Their album “Catalyst” debuted at No. 3. MORE AT HTTP://NEWFOUNDGLORY.COM.

WE CAME AS ROMANS

The band formed in 2005 in Michigan. David Stephens, Kyle Pavone, Joshua Moore, Lou Cotton, Andy Glass, and Eric Choi released their third full length album Tracing Back Roots in 2013; it reached No.8 on the Billboard. MORE AT HTTP://WECAMEASROMANS.COM.

SPORTS

THENORTHERNLIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

HOCKEY: Governor’s Cup remains in Fairbanks CONTINUED FROM COVER

“I don’t care if you are losing in the national championship game or not making the playoffs like we are,” Thomas said. “It’s always a tough night.” After a hard-fought and physical game the first night, in which UAF recorded nine penalties to UAA’s six, Saturday night was the all-important game to decide the victor of the Governor’s Cup. A UAA win or tie was all the Seawolves needed to bring the cup back to Anchorage after being in Fairbanks for the last five years. The Nanooks, who looked poised to jump out to an early lead, dominated the first period. UAA’s freshman goaltender Olivier Mantha had other plans in mind though, and stopped all 20 shots that were sent his way in the opening frame. The Seawolves began the second period on the manadvantage, giving fans the first inclination the Seawolves might score a goal. However, forward Tayler Munsen scored a shorthanded goal off a Seawolf turn-

over to give UAF a 1-0 lead less than two minutes into the second period. It gave the Fairbanks native his second goal of the weekend, having scored the lone-goal Friday night. Two minutes later, the Nanooks doubled their lead, this time with an even-strength goal from senior Trevor Campbell. It was an odd goal, coming seconds after Mantha made an impressive diving glove save on a UAF breakaway. The Nanooks scored one more goal before UAA was able to find the twine for the first time all weekend. With less than five minutes to play in the period, forward Austin Azurdia skated the puck counter-clockwise around the faceoff circle before snapping a puck on goal. Nanook goalie Sean Cahill made the initial save, but freshman Tad Kozun shot the rebound into the net for the Seawolf goal, making the score 3-1 in the Nanooks’ favor. It appeared the score wouldn’t change before the next intermission — that is, if it weren’t for a

heady move from Azurdia with only 5 seconds left in the period. The freshman from Wenatchee, Washington, scored his eighth goal of the season when he chipped a puck behind Cahill from an improbable angle on the goal line to the senior goalie’s right. UAA mustered six more shots on goal in the third period, but Cahill stopped each and every one, sending the game to a best-of-three shootout. Nanook Tyler Morley was first up for his team. The preseason all-WCHA forward sent a wrist shot under the blocker pad of UAA goaltender Mantha to give his team an early 1-0 advantage. Nanook Cahill stopped following two UAA shootout attempts before being mauled by his teammates in celebration of their 6-straight Governor’s Cup victory. For the Seawolves, it was a bitter ending to the season to say the least. When asked when preparation begins for next season, head coach Thomas didn’t miss a beat: “It’s already started.”

PHOTO BY ADAM EBERHARDT

Forward Hudson Friesen hugs defenseman Derek Docken after a loss against UAF on March 7.

Sea Lions upset Seawolves in epic NCAA West Regional game

PHOTOS BY ADAM EBERHARDT

UAA guard Alli Madison tries to push her way past Point Loma guard Alex Brunk on March 13 during the first round of the NCAA Div. II Western Regional Championships at the Alaska Airlines Center.

By Nolin Ainsworth

sports@thenorthernlight.org

March Madness, commonly used to describe the nationally televised National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Basketball Championship, has several “sister” tournaments organized in the same manner at the Div. II and III levels. Over the weekend, the UAA women’s basketball team hosted the regional tournament for one of these lesser-publicized, but equally mad, sister tournaments: the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. The tournament, with more than 60 teams competing against one another, is broken up into eight smaller regional championships: south, Atlantic, central, south-central, midwest, southeast, east and west — the winners of which move on to the Elite Eight. The Seawolf women were not only admitted to the West Regional Championship, they

were the hosts. This was due to UAA being seeded No. 1 in its region. Other schools from the region in the tournament were CSU Dominguez Hills, Humboldt State, Hawaii Pacific, Cal Baptist, Seattle Pacific, Cal Poly Pomona and Point Loma. To begin their championship quest, the UAA women faced off against Point Loma Nazarene University from the sandy shores of San Diego, California, in the quarterfinals last Saturday evening. Unfortunately, in a “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore”like realization, the first two minutes of the game looked nothing like a typical regular season game for the Seawolves. The Seawolves, who outscored teams by an average of 20 points this season, trailed by nearly that margin before scoring their first points in the game. From the outset, the hot shooting by the Point Loma Sea Lions shocked the No. 1 team in the country and the 2,518 sports fans packed around the lower bowl of

the Alaska Airlines Center. Madness, yes, madness. The heavily favored Seawolves continued to trail the Sea Lions for the rest of the game, save for six seconds of the second half, and lost in a 64-63 thriller. The Seawolves went on a 14-2 run in the last three minutes of the game, capped with a KeKe Wright layup, putting the Seawolves up 63-62 with eight seconds to go. It looked like UAA had just pulled off one of the most unbelievable comebacks in program, if not tournament, history. But it won’t be Wright’s name people will remember. It will be Roya Rustamzada’s. The freshman Sea Lion star cut through the Seawolves’ defense with time expiring and made a tough layup near the baseline with 2.1 seconds left to give her team the lead back. Alli Madison air-balled a desperation half-court shot out of the ensuing timeout, and the Seawolves’ stellar season had come to an abrupt and disappointing ending.

UAA Guard Kiki Robertson grabs the ball out of the air before Point Loma forward Madison West can get a hand on it March 13 during the first round of the NCAA Div. II Western Regional Championships at the Alaska Airlines Center.

“It didn’t come down to Xs and Os. It didn’t come down to whatever tactics,” said head coach Ryan McCarthy after the game. “It came down to shots.” The Sea Lions shot out of the gate with a 14-0 run, thanks to three quick 3-pointers. As the first half wore on, fans were able to see traces of the Seawolves team that led the nation in steals, forcing several turnovers. But the Sea Lions still managed to shoot the ball well — really well. They shot 51 percent from the field in the first half and led 36-23. The Seawolves’ offensive struggles continued in the second half. Despite outscoring the Sea Lions by 14 in the second, UAA never seemed to look in-rhythm offensively. Then, almost magically, the tide started to turn. With less than four minutes to play, the Seawolves went on a 17-5 run. Like the Sea Lions to begin the game, the Seawolves made 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions. Jenna Buchanan’s three with eight seconds to play gave the

Seawolves their first lead of the night and sent the Alaska Airlines Center into a tizzy. But the lead was short lived. Coach McCarthy did not let the loss steal his zeal for his team, school and state. Upon being asked what he will take away from the season, he paused, slowly nodded and said in a methodical tone, “That I get to coach (pause) at UAA, which I believe to be the best institution in the country, in a state that I believe to be the best state in the country and a group of ladies that I believe to be the best in the country (pause), and I love it all.” The Sea Lions were eliminated the very next day by Cal Baptist, 73-46. Monday’s outcome in the championship game between Cal Baptist and Cal Poly Pomona was unavailable as of press time. The winner of Monday’s game will have a chance to win the national championship in Sioux Falls, South Dakota March 24-27 at the NCAA Women’s Elite Eight.

OPINION

THENORTHERNLIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor Ireland, Universities across the country are aiming to create what UAA has already had for decades. Let’s not fall behind, but rather continue to lead. I was a student at UAA’s Tanaina Child Development Center over 30 years ago. The skills I learned at Tanaina as a small child have been the basis of my entire education. The fellow children I met are still some of my closest friends today. I have heard that the university is moving and possibly cutting support for this essential part of any healthy, well-functioning campus community. This would be a serious mistake with long-term consequences. High quality childcare that is located on campus and reasonably priced is essential for young faculty, staff and students to fully participate in campus life. When I became a tenure track professor myself at a well-respected college, I ended up leaving the position in part because the school had neither on-campus daycare, nor decent parental leave. Programs like Tanaina also give children the grounding they need to succeed in life. It is a win-win. Now that I am a parent, I realize it is rare to find childcare as high quality as Tanaina anywhere. UAA’s Child Development Center should be getting awards, not the boot. I strongly encourage the University to keep Tanaina on-campus and to invest in Tanaina and the UAA community that depends on it. —Monica Aufrecht, Tanaina Childcare Development Center alumna

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