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Seawolves cruise to 16th win of season over Simon Fraser Clan By Nolin Ainsworth

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If there was any lingering disappointment in the hearts of UAA’s volleyball team Saturday night following their loss to Western Washington 48 hours earlier – it didn’t show. The Seawolves (16-2, 8-2 GNAC) took care of business Saturday night when they hosted Simon Fraser University (9-9, 5-5 GNAC) - winning 25-15, 25-9, 25-23. The win kept the Seawolves in a three-way stalemate for second place in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference standings with Northwest Nazarene and Central Washington. “The girls responded well,” Seawolf head coach Chris Green said, “I’m very proud of them coming out and getting a good win tonight.” The Seawolves dictated the flow of the game in the first and second sets. Coach Green

complemented his blockers for making life tough on the Clan’s front line, who had no choice but to send the ball in the direction of the freshman libero Taylor Noga. In response, the former East Anchorage Thunderbird had a career-game for herself. Noga finished with a career-high 19 digs in her second straight start at libero. “I think we knew what they were going to do in each rotation, and they didn’t fool us,” coach Green said, “Our block did a really good job of slowing them down and frustrating them.” Following the Clans’ loss in the first set, the squad from British Columbia received a tough break in the second set. With the set tied at 3-3, Clan senior Jessica Young went down with an ankle sprain. The senior outside hitter was visibly shaken-up as

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UAA’s right side hitter, Julia Mackey celebrates as the Seawolves win the third set 25-23 and sweep FSU 3-0 on Saturday, October 17, 2015.

MAC apartments sort out Wi-Fi troubles with GCI

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The 5-minute averages of student bandwidth consumption from just after 11:00 a.m. on October 13 to just after 11:00 a.m. on October 14. Students were most active on the UAA Housing wireless network between 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m on the night of the 13th.

By Nolin Ainsworth

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Wireless Internet has become a necessity for survival in today’s increasingly digital world. Wi-Fi is so commonplace its availability in today’s homes and businesses is often an afterthought, a detail that comes to mind only when unexpectedly absent. This is especially true for college students, who use the Internet on an hourly basis for their homework,

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social life and entertainment. David Weaver, the director of University Housing, Dining, and Conference Services, understood the importance of a sound Internet connection for students when he acquired a new wireless network for the residential campus over the summer. “Doing homework is one thing. But having good Wi-Fi is a quality of life issue.” With a student housing population close to a thousand, the new network

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needed a large enough bandwidth that, when divided among all the residents, could provide reliable service. That is why a total of 450 Mbps (megabits per second) is now “piped” to the residential halls and apartments. Last year, this was the amount of bandwidth shared between the main campus and UAA housing. The UHDCS purchased a service contract along with the new wireless contract. This means GCI is responsible for the maintenance and support of the wire-

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less network instead of UAA’s IT Services. “[UHDCS] felt that it was a better decision to have a service model – meaning a monthly fee for all services including technological refresh, troubleshooting, truck rolls, you know having our folks on site, as well as a 24/7 help desk,” GCI Director of Business Services Jim Kostka said. The move has gone smoothly – for

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UAA College Democrats host party for first primary debate By Nathan Burns

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On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Candidates for the Democratic Nominee for President took the stage in Vegas against one another for the first time. Up until this point they had yet to have their campaign statements, policies and voting history put under the fire by their competitors for the top job. A mere 2,300 miles away, UAA students packed into the Den to see the debate at a viewing party hosted by the UAA College Democrats. The debate was hosted by CNN in Las Vegas and included Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, and former Sen. Jim Webb and was moderated by Anderson Cooper. Vice-President Joseph Biden was invited, but has not yet declared his presidential candidacy as of press date. Students in the Den were hopeful that the debate would address meaningful issues. Kelsi Swenson, anthropology major, attended the party in hopes of better understanding the candidate’s views on important subjects. “I’m here for education and climate change, I think they are going to be hot topics tonight.” UAA Alumni Joshua Spring, another attendant of the event, had a number of questions for potential candidates. “My natural inclination is global climate change, how to deal with ISIS, foreign relations, how they are going to address the recent massive immigration crisis that is affecting Europe.” UAA College Democrats’ Treasurer Stephen Sweet was hopeful in the candidates’ answers. “As in any primary the difficulty is not in selecting a candidate, it’s in sussing out the ideological differences between them, they all are generally in favor of a woman’s right to choose, they all generally support social safety net programs and democratic causes. I want to see them present themselves to the American people in a way that is the exact opposite of what the republicans do, which is fight and throw pitchforks at each other for three hours.” In the Den, viewers were split on whom to initially support — chiefly between the two front-runners: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton, She seems like a sweet lady quite frankly, I’m not educated about Bernie Sanders, but I do believe it would be sweet to have a woman in office. She has more things going for her. Right now I’m Pro-Clinton,” said Elijah Kahula, an undeclared UAA student. Others felt differently. “Bernie Sanders all the way, I feel that he already believes in climate change, he has a lot of ideas to gain support and educate supporters, and I think it will be the best way to make some change,” said Swenson. While others aren’t entirely sure what to think. “I’m still pretty on the fence but I skew more towards Hillary Clinton, because she does have more of that international experience that I tend to focus on,” said Spring. Spring wasn’t the only one who wasn’t sure who to support, either. “I’m rather undecided. We’ve got Clinton who’s been in politics for a long, long time, and Bernie who’s field-

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Over 50 people were in attendance for the Democratic Debate Watch Party on Oct. 13 in the Student Union Den.

ing a lot of new ideas that I’m really liking. I think it’s going to be an interesting debate to see the veteran and the rookie going at it,” said international studies and language student Gerhard Sells. Prior to the debate, a poll average conducted by Real Clear Politics had Clinton leading with 43.3 percent of the polls followed by Sanders at 25.1 percent, Biden at 17.4 percent and Webb, O’Malley, Chafee, each with under percent. Given that Clinton and Sanders, as clear frontrunners, were given slightly more attention in both time and scrutiny by Cooper. Sanders by far got the most attention on social media, however. The debate gave each of the candidates a chance to make opening statements, letting them briefly address their qualifications, motivations and plans for being president. Following the opening statements each of the candidates was asked about the biggest stumbling block they had. Clinton had to field questions about her inconsistency in her voting record, her past scandals, and her deep involvement in Washington over the last four decades. “Tonight, I want to talk not about my e-mails, but about what the American people want from the next president of the United States,” said Clinton in response to the email scandal. Her comment was interjected by Sanders. “Let me say something that may not be great politics. But I think the Secretary is right, and that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.” Sanders said, to wild applause, both in person and in the Den. Sanders had to field questions about how he intended

to pay for his programs, his unwillingness to compromise, his political position as a socialist, and his voting for legislation to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits. Both Clinton and Sanders were called to task about not voting with their party, particularly with Clinton voting to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. The debate lacked a clear winner, although pundits were surprised by Clinton holding her own as well as she did, as she has recently been under fire in the press for being an inconsistent candidate. Clinton was aggressive, passionate, and eloquent, and while she had been losing support in the months leading up to the debate, dipping down to only a 20-point lead, her supporters were glad that the candidate had a chance to face her allegations head on. Similarly, even though Sanders lost one and a half points from 25.1 to 23.8 in the Real Clear Politics polls after the debate, supporters were glad that he was able to get his name and positions out to the general public. In a CNN online poll, Sanders was leading with 80 percent of the vote after the debate, before the poll was taken down. He did see a surge in Facebook followers, and his campaign raised 2.5 million dollars in the 24 hours after the debate.

The next Democratic debate is scheduled for Nov. 14.

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After the debates, Sanders has a long road ahead In the year 2013, an alien brain slug from one of the galaxy’s most feared empires crash-landed on Earth and assumed control of a lowly reporter at this newspaper. These are his stories.

By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde Well, the Democratic debates sure were fun to watch. This is the thing with you democratic societies, isn’t it? I keep forgetting that it’s not as easy to elect a chosen leader for a certain amount of time when you’re used to having a gigantic Slug Queen ordering the workers around for eternity. The United Republic of the Milky Way was a fun experiment for a bit, but let’s face it, once our Empire entered the picture, that experiment was all but over. Ruler and subjects. It can be done well. But noooooo, you Americans wanted a free society where every citizen could decide their own fate, and yet you treat

your important political debates more like entertainment rather than serious discussion. You can’t have your political cake and eat it too, folks! You wanted a fair, democratic system, so now you have to feed it, give it water, and care for it as it grows up. You can’t just sit on your phone and joke about that guy in the audience who looked exactly like Albus Dumbledore, or else that democratic system will end up malnourished, and the big bad guys at the Slug Empire civilization pound will come and take it away and put it down. You need to stop treating political debates like TMZ covers Miley Cyrus’s latest wacky misadventures. That’s actually part of the reason why the Democratic debates kind of surprised me – partly, anyway.

Earlier this year, my host and I tuned in to the Republican debates, and I wasn’t impressed. It was more about feces-slinging and ego-boosting than it was about any actual politics. There was no agreement. There was no actual debate. It was just a bunch of men and women talking trash about the other candidates, while inflating their own ego. The Democratic debates last Tuesday were, thankfully, nothing like this. Candidates agreed and disagreed and actually discussed a lot of important things. It was a far better debate than what the Republicans could muster, if only because the Republican debate wasn’t actually a debate. What we saw wasn’t really as confrontational, which is good. It did still have its issues, though. The frontrunner in our eyes, Bernie Sanders, kept bringing things back to the issue of income inequality. That’s not a bad thing, as many important issues in America tie into it. But Bernie does have to deal with a Congress that has blocked almost everything that your current president has tried to achieve. It infuriates me to see a government fail to address the concerns of its citizens. That’s what makes the Slug Empire so awesome in my eyes – for as much enslavement and hostility as we present to other planets and civilizations, we at least treat the people we enslave well. We do it with a brutal efficiency that America’s Congress really lacks. It’s not just corrupt campaign contributions, either; gerrymandering – the concept that congressmen and women can redraw the

very districts that elect them – is a pretty ludicrously broken system when it comes to a democracy. If you’re going to cheat the system to try and get reelected, you should at least be like the Empire and not be subtle about it. That has to come before anything that Bernie promised at the debate and at his rallies, or else those things won’t get done. Our current president rode a similar wave during his own campaign to the one that Bernie’s riding now, and he learned the hard way that unless Congress is riding with him, that wave is going to come to a halting crash. Bernie talks big about rebalancing the nation’s economy, but unless he can get Congress to stand with him, I’d say his chances of actually doing so are quite slim. Don’t get me wrong. I admire the man for what he’s trying to do, and I guess having him in the Oval Office is a far better alternative to Donald Trump, whose xenophobia baffles me as a slug. You don’t win over voters by threatening them with deportation, you win them over by treating them with some respect. Seriously, Trump. Take some tips from the Empire. Understand me, however, when I say that fighting the top one percent will be a lot harder without a strong Congress at Bernie’s side. Of course, were I president, I’d instill a mandatory hive-mind mentality so that we could all think and act as one. Since you really wanted a democracy, though, it’s probably not gonna happen.

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An ode to the Templewood A well-meaning column rife with clunky metaphors and horrible advice, Orange Rhymes With is the goto place to break the monotony of classes and laugh at someone else’s misfortune.

By Evan Dodd Contributor

In college, you tend to gravitate towards a social group based on mutual interests. In my case, the common denominator is a love of questionable decisions and the bad luck that inexplicably tends to follow. In the interest of graduating without added scrutiny, I’ll simply refer to the group as “The Templewood,” with the shared understanding that most of them never actually lived there and that any stories of questionable moral integrity obviously occurred off campus. I met the first of the group in the latter half of my freshman year, as I observed him rappelling out of his window in one of the halls using a makeshift climbing harness cobbled together with various carabineers clearly marked “not for climbing.” Fresh out of a spat with my current roommates, I decided that clearly

this was the sort of behavior I should be involved in, and thus began a long and strange journey. During my sophomore year, when he moved into the Templewood apartments, I was introduced to the others in the core group. These were the type of people that were capable enough to pass complex courses on four hours of sleep, yet misguided enough to have stayed up in the first place to build and stain a table in the garage while neglecting a boiling pot of moose heart chili. This duality of creative motivation contrasted with horrible ADHD tendencies is perhaps best exemplified by the surrounding environment. The apartment was generally a state of utter anarchy, the type of place you would expect children in a post-apocalyptic hellscape to construct for themselves out of the cannibalized remnants of a dive bar. At different points in time the main floor contained a dartboard used only for cheap throwing knives as the darts generally ended up in the wall, a foosball

table cleverly designed with a glass top for “water pong,” and an engineering marvel of an arcade designed and built by one of the inhabitants. In the corner often sat the lower half of a department store mannequin, and above the often-roaring fire hung an impressively large caribou rack and skull, spray-painted gold and adorned with sunglasses and Mardi Gras beads. Hanging above the toilet in the main bathroom was a homemade painting of an unsettling clown, which glowed menacingly in the light of a grubby candle that served only to enhance its blank eerie stare. As the group expanded and the number of potential meeting places skyrocketed, so too did the absurdity one was likely to witness upon arrival. For example, it was not uncommon to drop by for a brew only to discover that someone’s garage had been transformed into a glass blowing studio, an amateur brewery, or a jungle filled with a six foot pepper plant grown in a hydroponic unit. It’s also important to note that these were all the pet projects of one group member who seemed to have mastered a new hobby every two weeks. The defining feature of the group, as I’m sure you’re coming to realize, was its unbridled — and often unwarranted — optimism, coupled by its horribly misplaced priorities. At some point, I foolishly introduced the concept of “future me” to the group. The argument tends to go something like, “in 40 years will it really matter that you didn’t [insert relevant important task]?” Despite the obvious flaw that 40 years of combined procrastination will almost certainly matter, the line became a startlingly effective mantra of the group, explaining some of the less defensible

decisions. During the midst of a lake party, the barge — loaded with far too many people — began to sink. The group response was to calmly grab our drinks and relocate to the less sunken side of the platform. By the time we reached shore, shortly before the waterlogged motor feebly sputtered to a halt, we were fully submerged and must have appeared to be standing on a submersible moving sidewalk to anyone watching incredulously from the bank. Unfortunate events like this tend to plague the group and have been covered extensively by this column in the past. There was the time we sunk an RV into a mud pit at Lake Louise and nearly capsized a small boat. Then there was the time we sunk three snowmachines into Lake Louise and nearly became midnight popsicles in the blistering cold. Considering the fact that we’re making a third attempt at that God forsaken lake this winter, I’m sure we’ll likely lose another piece of heavy machinery beneath its ghostly shores. A degree is well and good, but the experiences you have along the way shape you just as strongly. While proud of my academic achievement, I can’t help but be equally proud of my honed Smash Bros. acumen, my crash course in arctic survival methods (both alpine and aquatic), and the ability to stay calm in the face of mounting (and self-induced) adversity. Whether it was ill-fated outdoor excursions, the annual spring Marvel viewings, or the probably-too-frequent holiday parties (and I mean the very minor ones too), the Templewood group offered the perfect way to blow off school stress and make quite a few memorable mistakes in the process.

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College Cookbook: Ramen Pad Thai A college spin on a Thai classic

By Victoria Petersen

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Ingredients: One package of ramen Peanut butter Sriracha sauce Cilantro Chicken Green onions

Directions:

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1. Cook your ramen noodles in small pot of boiling water according to package instructions. 2. If your chicken isn’t already cooked, cut your chicken into small pieces and saute until thoroughly cooked. 3. Take one cup of peanut butter and quarter cup of sriracha sauce and add to the pot of noodles. Take a spoon and slowly mix together until the peanut butter and sriracha cover the noodles evenly. 4. Toss the cooked chicken with the noodles, as well as some chopped up cilantro and green onions.

Wi-Fi: UAA Housing adds new wireless network over the summer CONTINUED FROM COVER most residents anyway. MAC apartment dwellers dealt with connection problems for more than a month after the semester began. After flyers were posted to every apartment door in early September informing students housing staff would be collecting landline phones and modems, one peeved student wrote, “To complain call David Weaver at 907-7517101.” This set off a flurry of calls to the director of housing who said he was in “crisis-mode” for a couple days. Weaver says he received as many as 90 calls and e-mails from MAC residents over the matter. “You can take hot water and heat away from a student and its no big deal. But

you take Wi-Fi away for a day and people are up in arms. That was a learning moment for me,” Weaver said. Even with the modems, students were having Wi-Fi connection problems. “The bathrooms and the tin roofs on the entryway were what was really killing the signal,” Kostka said. The MAC bathrooms have two-layers of dry wall and plenty of grout and mortar underneath the tiled-walls. “That just causes havoc with wireless, versus a hardwire solution,” Kostka said. ”Obviously, if everyone had tissue paper walls, it would be wonderful.” In attempts to increase connectivity GCI has more than doubled the amount of wireless access points, or “WAPs.” There were just 17 in the apartments at the beginning of the semester. This move to wireless Internet for the

residential campus came after the housing department decided to pull its landline phones and DSL Internet service. According to the director of housing, the switch to wireless will save the department $110,000 every year. “We made a calculated choice, we went to RHA, went to the police, went to risk management and asked, ‘Would you allow us to shut off the landline phones?’” Weaver said. GCI believes the Wi-Fi in the apartments is showing signs of improvement as they continue to visit the apartments not getting coverage. “At a glance the service must be working and okay because everyday there’s more and more users on there,” Kostka said. “Usually if the service isn’t acceptable, then you see that the bandwidth is hardly being utilized at all.”

Still, some students aren’t all that optimistic about the future of the Wi-Fi situation in the apartments. “I can’t see the Internet getting any better than it is now,” biology student Hunter Jones said, “I think the only way we’d be able to get a better connection consistently would be to bring back the wired internet connections to each room in the apartment complexes and then strictures on that.” Housing and GCI, however, continue their efforts to improve Wi-Fi for on campus residents. For 24/7 technical assistance regarding Internet issues at housing, please contact the GCI Help Desk at 907-865-4456.

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GAME REVIEW

‘Undertale’ lets you play peacefully By George Hyde

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Most Japanese-style role-playing games have a clear group of protagonists fighting a group of antagonists. The heroes of “Final Fantasy VII” are a clear resistance group fighting against an obviously tyrannical corporation. “Mother” sees a group of youngsters fight an evil and strange alien menace. Occasionally the odd game like “Shin Megami Tensei” might mess with the setup, but there’s always a clear hero and villain. That isn’t always the case in “Undertale,” an indie role-playing game about two races who fought each other long ago: humans and monsters. When the humans emerged victorious, the monsters were magically sealed underground. You play as a young, player-named kid who accidentally finds his way on the wrong side of this barrier, and must make his way home without getting killed by any of the monsters. Note that I never mentioned that you have to kill anything in that last paragraph, and that is important. A key mechanic in “Undertale” is that every monster has not only a physical weakness, but a social one as well. By exploiting those social weaknesses (be it through threats, or flirting, or gifts) monsters can be spared instead of killed, rendering them non-lethal to the player. It’s a system similar to games like “Shin Megami Tensei IV,” where mon-

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sters can be recruited instead of outright fought, but it’s a lot more intuitive and easy to grasp in “Undertale.” Finding a strategy to befriend a monster can be just as difficult, if not more so, than killing it. Non-lethal runs of “Undertale” require a lot more out-of-the-box thinking than RPG fans may be used to. Of course, if you’d rather just kill every monster you see, go ahead. While the endings of non-lethal and genocidal runs are radically different, neither of them should be neglected. Playing

“Undertale” as a warrior is a far different experience than playing “Undertale” as a diplomat, and that inherent choice in

mechanics lends the game the ability to be replayed. The game is really funny, too. Don’t mistake that for a lack of emotional depth. This game carries the kind of weight that makes “Mother 3” players weep, but the underworld is packed with character. It makes sense that if you’re going to talk through every battle instead of fight, the monsters should at least have some entertaining things to say and they do. A few of their jokes are cringe-worthy, but it’s always endearing, like a dad telling his kid an awful joke. “Undertale” is often a very powerful experience, whether or not you decide to play it peacefully. It’s mature in its storytelling, but also has a bit of childlike innocence and nostalgia to it. The combat system is fresh — borrowing “bullethell” mechanics from games like “Ikaruga” — but it’s not that that sells the game. It’s the strong writing and the complexity of its kill-or-don’t-kill system that makes “Undertale” worth playing, and if you can spare ten bucks and a weekend to play it, you should pick it up.

TITLE “Undertale”

PLATFORMS PC, Mac

DEVELOPER tobyfox

GENRE Retro-style roleplaying game

RELEASE DATE September 15, 2015

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Bridge of Spies:’ a test of American and Soviet character By George Hyde

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The 1950s were a strange time in terms of foreign policy. In many Americans’ eyes, it was clear: it was us, or them. Many Soviets saw things in a similar way. It’s an inviting setting for a story about character above ideals; that two nations can rise above their differences and come to resolutions peacefully, if only briefly. It’s a kind of story that’s been done a million times, even during the Cold War. In that regard, “Bridge of Spies” is nothing special. It doesn’t really do anything new with that kind of story setup. Fortunately, though, it uses the setup so well that it’s hard to care that it doesn’t try anything really new. The story is based on the real-life 1960 U-2 incident, albeit very loosely. James Donovan (Tom Hanks, “Captain Phillips”) is chosen to defend Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance, “The Gunman”) in court, and while Abel is inevitably declared guilty, he’s able to dodge a death sentence thanks to Donovan. Meanwhile, an American spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union, and young American pilot Francis Powers (Austin Stowell, “Whiplash”) is captured. The United States tasks Donovan with a prisoner exchange – Powers for Abel. But when an innocent American student is captured in East Germany, Donovan must decide whether or not to throw a wrench into the whole exchange by trying to save the student. Tom Hanks plays his usual character, an everyman just trying to do the right thing. What makes the film interesting is how this character, a character we’ve admittedly seen him portray a lot, interacts with two governments who are both at odds with what he thinks is the right thing to do. His old ideals clash with an increasingly fragmented world; one where the best he should realistically hope for is a cold and tense resolution between two bitter enemies. The two spies are also depicted as normal people instead of patriots. When Tom Hanks defends Abel, he’s agreeable and talkative. He has an actual character, and it’s easy to forget that he’s a spy for the enemy. The con-

flict only arises when these normal everymen interact with the real patriots around them – people who love their country so blindingly that they forget the compassion that makes us human. It’s the story of four men, Donovan and the three prisoners, who forget their patriotism, for a moment, to try

TITLE “Bridge of Spies”

DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg

and resolve a very human issue. While that kind of story has been done a lot before, it really works here. It doesn’t stray too far from that formula, but it doesn’t need to, because it takes a well-worn formula and reminds us why it was so well-worn in the first place – because it really works.

RELEASE DATE October 16, 2015 STARRING Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan

GENRE Historical thriller

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Everything is alien in ‘Valhalla Rising’

By Jacob Holley-Kline Contributor

So much about “Valhalla Rising” is familiar — the Vikings, Christianity, and violence — and so much about it is unfamiliar. The world is mostly uninhabited. While it takes place on earth, it feels more like Mars. This palpable sense of unreality, strangely, makes the tale more real. Despite historical accounts and documents, no one really knows what it was like to live in 1000 A.D., and chances are, if a camera was planted in tribal Scandinavia, it would feel just as strange as “Valhalla Rising.” Divided into six parts, the movie follows the mute warrior One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen, “Men and Chicken”) and a boy (Maarten Stevenson, “Glasgow Girls”) as they travel with a band of

Norse warriors to the Holy Land. Like so many historical voyages, the band ends up far away from their destination. Specifically, they land in the New World. Beset by natives, stress breaks down the group and pits each man against the other. Like so many of Refn’s movies, “Valhalla Rising” becomes a study in how isolation affects notions of masculinity and how men react to the vulnerability it brings. Mikkelsen brings his characteristic quietude to this otherwise tumultuous world. Despite his wordless performance, he manages to be the loudest in the cast. What many actors say with a line of dialogue, Mikkelsen portrays with a single expression. His silence becomes the one normal thing in the narrative. Stevenson shares his silence. Their relationship quickly becomes the emotional core of

the movie. The cinematography is absolutely beautiful. The color palette of “Valhalla Rising” shifts wildly as the story progresses. Where Scandinavia is dreary, almost greyscale, and the ocean shadowed like Purgatory, the New World is lush, full of vibrant greens and threatening oranges. By emphasizing that vibrancy, Refn increases the feeling of isolation and tumult. Through and through, “Valhalla Ris-

ing” is a beautifully told story chock full of excellent performances and cinematography. Where other movies rely on surreal imagery to isolate or intrigue the viewer, “Valhalla Rising” takes what should be normal and makes it abnormal. In the first frame, Refn makes it clear that this will be no ordinary voyage. By the end, only that much is clear. Everything else is up to the viewer.

TITLE “Valhalla Rising”

RELEASE DATE March 31, 2010

DIRECTOR Nicholas Winding Refn

COUNTRY Denmark

GENRE Adventure

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SEAWOLVES: UAA’s Mackey reaches 1,000-kill milestone

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UAA’s setter and libero, Morgan Hooe and Taylor Noga are ready to react to WWU middle blocker Michaela Hall as she attempts to block UAA’s middle blocker/ right side hitter Caitlin Hanson in the fifth set. Losing the set 16-14 UAA fought hard Thursday’s game ending in a 3-2 loss.

UAA’s head coach Chris Green talks to his team at the beginning of the third set as UAA leads the match 2-0. UAA ended up winning the set 25-23 and the match 3-0.

she sat on the court following the fateful play. Young had five of the Clans’ 10 kills up to that point in the game. In the second set, the Seawolves went on a 10-2 run, showcasing its commendable teamwork fans have become accustomed to seeing this season. By the end of the second set, Julia Mackey had already racked up nine kills, putting her within arms-reach (three away) of hitting the 1,000 career kills mark by the end of the match. With the Seawolves leading the third set 15-14, Mackey hammered her 12th kill of the game - reaching the 4-figure milestone. The Service High School volleyball team jumped up and screamed for their hero and friend upon the play (most of the fans were just cheering for a Seawolf point). Mackey’s teammate Katelynn Zanders’ has sisters on the Lady Cougars, and she said their team wanted to cheer on her achievement like they had for Zanders last November. “They did a really good job when Katelynn got 1,000 (kills), so they’ve been there throughout our Seawolves career,” Mackey said of the Lady Cougars. The Clan was led by freshman middle blocker Tessa May who finished the game with seven kills and two blocks. Simon Fraser went on a 9-1 run in the third set, sending a wave of uneasiness among fans, were in it until the very end. However the Seawolves’ Erin Braun made two plays at the end of the set to help her team to send the Clan packing.

The Seawolves welcome the Alaska Nanooks to the Alaska Airlines Center today for a rare Tuesday night home game. The Nanooks are on a 4-game losing streak, and are in a 3-way tie for 5th in the GNAC standings.

Ege comes up big for Seawolves By Nolin Ainsworth

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For the second Friday in a row, freshman Wyatt Ege scored a game-tying goal in the third period to spur a comefrom-behind Seawolf triumph. Except this time, the 20-year-old from Elk River, Minnesota scored an additional goal in the third stanza -leading his team a 4-3 victory over Rensselaer (RPI) last Friday in the first game of the Brice Alaska Goal Rush in Fairbanks. RPI, of the Eastern College Athlet-

ics Conference and Albany, New York, struggled to stay out of the penalty box. The Engineers were called for six penalties between the halfway mark of the second and third periods. Despite a short-handed goal a little over five minutes into the third, the Engineers’ infractions would soon catch up to them. Ege scored his second-career goal with the Seawolves — tying the game at three on the man-advantage. A few shifts later, Ege put another puck in the net, a laserof-a-shot past RPI goalie Jason Kasdorf. The lead would hold up for the rest of the game.

Seawolves defeat Yellow Jackets with six goals By Nolin Ainsworth

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WWU players Kayleigh Harper, middle blocker, and Abby Phelps, opposite hitter/outside hitter match up with UAA’s outside hitter Leah Swiss in the third set of Thursday’s 3-2 loss.

The Seawolves returned to action on Saturday and defeated American International College 6-2 in their second game of the Brice Alaska Goal Rush in Fairbanks. Forwards Blake Tatchell and Tad Kozun

scored two goals each for the Seawolves, who are now 3-1 as they begin their Western Collegiate Hockey Association schedule this coming weekend. Despite winning both games in Fairbanks, the Alaska Nanooks were named winners of the 2015 BAGR due to goal-differential, as the Nanooks beat the Yellow Jackets by 4 goals and the Engineers by 2.

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THENORTHERNLIGHT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015

Hockey Standings

Volleyball Standings

Updated Oct. 18

Updated Oct. 18 Conference

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Overall

WCHA

Overall

Western Washington

10-0

16-2

Ferris State

1-1-0

1-2-1

Alaska Anchorage

8-2

16-2

Michigan Tech

1-1-0

Northwest Nazerene

8-2

11-7

Alabama Huntsville

0-0-0

1-1-0

Central Washington

8-2

12-5

Alaska Anchorage

0-0-0

3-1-0

Concordia

5-5

13-5

Alaska Fairbanks

0-0-0

2-2-0

Simon Fraser

5-5

9-9

Bemidji State

0-0-0

1-1-1

Seattle Pacific

4-6

6-12

Bowling Green

0-0-0

3-1-1

Western Oregon

2-8

5-14

Lake Superior State

0-0-0

1-3-0

Montana State Billings

2-8

3-15

Minnesota State

0-0-0

0-4-0

Alaska Fairbanks

2-8

2-15

Nothern Michigan

0-0-0

1-1-2

Saint Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

1-9

2-15

Upcoming games:

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Alaska at Alaska Anchorage

Friday, October 23, 2015 UAA at Alabama Huntsville

Saturday, October 24, 2015 Alaska Anchorage at Montana State Billings

Saturday, October 24, 2015 UAA at Alabama Huntsville

OPINION

THENORTHERNLIGHT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015

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Can you feel the Bern? By Kelly Ireland

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As a journalist I’m told to keep my opinion private, to not let anyone on to my beliefs, but a man named Bernie Sanders has caught my attention and I’m not ready to be quiet about how much I believe in him. For those of you who don’t know, he’s a democratic hopeful for the 45th office of the presidency, a U.S. Senator and former representative in the House of Representatives for the state of Vermont. Sanders has served on the U.S. Congress longer than any other independent, getting elected in 1990 to the House of Representatives and then moving to the Senate in 2006. I don’t agree with Bernie’s entire platform, but there is no other candidate that I agree with more. I will be voting for Sanders because he doesn’t believe in large campaigns funded by big business, he wants to make higher education more attainable for all, he believes in equal rights and supports prison reform. To begin, Sanders has decided to run his campaign without the support of Super PACs (a political action committee) and has only accepted donations from individual Americans. On his campaign website it clearly lays out rules for contributing to this campaign. The following rules are outlined: “1. This contribution is made from my own funds, and funds are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution. 2. I am making this contribution with my own personal credit card and not with a corporate or business credit card or card issued to another person. 3. I am not a federal contractor 4. I am at least eighteen years old. 5. I am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder).” According to The New York Times’ “Which Presidential Candidates Are Winning the Money Race” which gathered data from the F.E.C. and the I.R.S. Sanders has raised 41.5 million for his campaign and $0 of it is from Super PACs. Hillary Clinton on the other hand has raised 97.7 million of her own funds, but has received 20.3 million from Super PACs. I should probably go over what a PAC is before discussing why I dislike them. A PAC or political action committee is an independent group of people that can raise infinite amounts of money from corporations, unions and individuals for a campaign, but is not allowed to contribute or coordinate with parties or candidates directly. The Super PACs came into existence with the Supreme Court ruling on the case SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission in July 2010. Since the ruling corporations have been able to give freely and without limit to PACs under the law. This is why we get an exorbitant amount of commercials on TV that say paid for by groups like Restore Our Future or Priorities USA Action which helped fund Romney and Obama respectively. Last time I checked the constitution, it read, “We the people …” not “We the corporations…” Corporations shouldn’t be able to give unlimited amounts of money to fund their agenda. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States should be the ones funding what we believe in as individuals and should be the ones telling the government what to do, not the corporations.

Can we no longer speak our minds in this county? Well, not if the corporations continue to drown us out with their absurd amount of campaign funding. Sanders not only wants to end the absurd amount of campaign money candidates receive, but wants to make voting easier for all. He would like to make Election Day a national holiday so everyone can go to the polls. In addition, he wants to make it so every American over the age of 18 is automatically registered to vote. Sanders, so much like myself, believes that citizens of the United States need to get more involved in the government. He is very much aware that the steps to participating in our democracy have made it hard for people to participate and wants reform. In addition, Sanders wants to make college tuition at public colleges and universities free and lower interest rates on student loans. “We don’t have a strong economy, unless we have a very well educated work force,” Sanders said in his campaign video. Sanders isn’t just working to make this happen when he is president though. On May 19 Sanders introduced legislation for tuition free college and lower interest rates in the Senate. The bill is called the “College for All Act” and would eliminate nearly $70 billion dollars of tuition at every four-year college and university in the United States. Sanders has set up the bill so that the Federal Government would be tasked with paying 67% of the tuition for college students and the other 33% would be covered by the states. A congressional committee is currently working through the bill. In addition to Sanders’ plans on making college more accessible for all, he is a strong believer in equal rights for all races and for women. “I believe that you are entitled to justice and to equal rights whether you’re black, whether you’re Hispanic, whether you are gay, whether you’re transgender. You are a human being!” said Sanders in his campaign video. Sanders, since starting his political career, has fought for equal rights for all. He has been the forefront politician for equality of people of color and gay and transgender individuals. Actions he has taken for civil rights include membership in the Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, marching in the March on Washington for civil rights, running on a campaign to abolish all laws that discriminated against homosexuals in his first race as a political candidate, high ratings from the ACLU and NAACP, standing against police violence, support of voter rights and much more. Sanders has also stood up for women’s rights. Love me or hate me, I’m a feminist, and therefore, I believe that women should have equal pay, have access to domestic violence support services, access to birth control and abortion and have access to medical services like Planned Parenthood. I strongly believe that women should have the control to make their own decisions free from the government about their reproductive health. The government should also not allow health care providers or employers the right to refuse contraceptive coverage for moral reasons. I also believe that Planned Parenthood is good for our society, it provides a number of services such as cancer prevention and screening, STI and HIV testing and more to women and men who would otherwise not be able to afford it.

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Sanders strongly believes these feminist values as well. “We are not going to allow the extreme right-wing to defund Planned Parenthood, we are going to expand it… We are not going back to the days when women did not have full access to birth control... We will not go back to the days when survivors of domestic violence had no access to services or recourse against their abusers… We are not going back to the days when it was legal for women to be paid less for doing the same work as men,” said Sanders. Lastly, I strongly support Sanders for his desire to reform our prison system. Sanders wants to end the private prison industry. The United States currently has 5% of the world population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners — most of those prisoners being repeat offenders. In 2010 the United States spent $80 billion on prisons (side note: that’s more than enough money to fund Sanders’ “College for All Act”). CNN Money actually did an article on each states cost per student vs. cost per inmate and in all states that statistics were gathered on the state spent much more money on inmates than students. 94,700 of the inmates in 2015 according to statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on July 25 are there for drug offenses. These numbers are evidence that our prison system is obviously broken. I believe that there Platform: 1. Free tuition at public colleges and universities 2. Lower interest rates on student loans 3. Universal health care as a right 4. Urgent action to combat global climate change 5. Create 13 million jobs rebuilding America’s infrastructure 6. Pay equality for women 7. Raise minimum wage to $15/ hour 8. Campaign finance reform

needs to be more education and rehabilitation than retribution in prisons, as does Sanders. “The measure of success for law enforcement should not be how many people get locked up. We need to invest in drug courts as well as medical and mental health interventions for people with substance abuse problems, so that people struggling with addiction do not end up in prison, they end up in treatment,” said Sanders on his campaign website, continuing with, “For people who have committed crimes that have landed them in jail, there needs to be a path back from prison. The federal system of parole needs to be reinstated. We need real education and real skills training for the incarcerated.” Honestly I could not think of a better candidate to spearhead and tackle the issues of campaign spending, the high costs of higher education, equality and prison reform. That’s why I’m voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election. “Today in America we have enormous problems — they are solvable problems,” said Sanders in the closing statements of his official campaign video, “This country belongs to all of us. We want to make policy that improves the lives of all of our people — that’s how we transform America.” And I think Sanders is just the man to transform America for the better. Issues: 1. Reduce income and wealth inequality 2. Getting big money out of politics 3. Creating decent paying jobs 4. Racial Justice 5. Fighting for women’s rights 6. A fair and human immigration policy 7. A living wage 8. Real family values 9. Climate change and environment 10. Reforming Wall Street

OPINION

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Can’t Stump Trump By Nathan Burns

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In my official capacity as just some guy, I’m told that I shouldn’t have deeply held opinions about complex issues that I have no knowledge of. But a man named Donald Trump taught me that shouldn’t stop me from yelling them at people, whether they want to hear it or not. For those of you who have not glanced at a television in the last year, I would like to let you know that Donald Trump is a Republican hopeful for the President of the United States, and that Caitlyn Jenner has her own reality show. These are both signs that America is becoming great again. Donald Trump became the most qualified man to lead the free world, both during hosting and producing the hit NBC reality show, The Apprentice, for 14 seasons, as well as his illustrious 25-years as the chair of various real estate development firms (of which only four declared bankruptcy!) I don’t agree with Trump’s entire platform, he’s a little too moderate and populist for some of me or anyone else at my yacht. I will be voting for Trump because I couldn’t identify any other Republican Candidate if I tried. Is a Fiorina an Italian sports car or traditional pasta dish? Does Huckabee Bar and Grill offer half-priced appetizers? Do Bobby Jindal’s kids recognize him when he tucks them in at night? To begin, Trump is walking this road alone. Unlike his republican peers he is not going to be a paid mouthpiece for corporate interests. “I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.” Many American’s feel that politicians on both sides of the aisle are just fed sugar coated positions and policies by their sponsors and donors. The polices and position Trump regularly takes are so poorly thought out, and wildly offensive, that we can be sure no corporation is paying to put words in Trump’s mouth — or if they are, they want a refund. Armed with nothing but a grassroots base, an ability to draw media attention, and 4.4 Billion dollars in assets, Donald Trump, like David of Yore, stands tall against the Goliath of Big Government, Immigrants, and Unattractive women. As opposed to asking for handouts some sort of freedom-hating Nazi communist, Trump instead only asks that his supporters do the most American thing that they know how: buy overpriced things they don’t need with someone’s name on it. With a quick trip to Trump’s Campaign website my daily businesscasual outfit of a ‘Female Body Inspector’ T-shirt, jorts, bolo tie and crocs has been finally completed with the purchase of a camouflage ball cap with the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ proudly emblazed on the top, for the low, low price of $30 — not including shipping and handling. I should probably go over what ‘Making America Great Again’ means before discussing how Donald Trump is going to do it. “The fact is, the American Dream is dead –but if I win, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before,” Trump has said. It’s no secret America is going to hell in a gender-neutral, fair trade, artisan, small batch hand-basket. Trump’s opponent, and Larry David cosplayer, Bernie Sanders admitted as much in a recent speech: “There is something profoundly wrong when 58 percent of all new income

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since the Wall Street crash has gone to the top one percent.” Even a communist can recognize the problem of 32% of our wealth going to those who need it least. Under Trump, America will stop its downward spiral and will, like our national heroes — Rocky, The Terminator, and the McRib — come back. ‘Last time I checked the constitution, it read, “We the people …” not “We the corporations…”’ I consider this a glaring error in an otherwise perfect document. Corporations can’t vote in this country, and women can? Citizen’s United was a strong step in the right direction, but we can’t stop now. “We need to lower the U.S. corporate tax rate from 39 percent to zero”... “We are the greatest country on planet earth-the world’s companies want to be here. Millions of jobs would materialize.” Trump is the only candidate to recognize that the exportation of American Industry overseas and the financial crisis are all caused by the same thing: Government getting in the way of business. Trump is going to greenhouse gasses. Namely all of the hot-air coming from the liberal media about ‘Climate Change’. Burn. Climate change is a myth, much like the tooth fairy, bigfoot, and the female orgasm, and no amount of data, studies, or the complete consensus of all scientists is going make me doubt my gut. “Obama thinks the biggest threat in the world today is global warming. Okay, can you believe it? Then they change it to ‘climate change,’ cause the word ‘global warming’ wasn’t working. Then they change it to ‘extreme weather.’ You can’t get hurt with ‘extreme weather,’ do you agree? There’s always going to be – ‘There’s a tornado!’ ‘There’s a little cold!’ ‘There’s a wind!’ – there’s always extreme.” Well said, Mr. Trump. Oh boo hoo! The 102,697 residents of the Republic of Kiribati are worried because their country is no more than three meters above sea level and the sea level is rising. The sea level rises and falls every 12 hours outside of my house and I don’t panic. It’s called the tide, Trump. Whenever I get a little chilly I put on a coat, ever think about some water wings, Kirabati?

In addition, Trump is a strong friend to all races, and more than happy to remind anyone of this fact. “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks,” said Trump, demonstrating his mastery of tact and discretion in a 2011 interview. But his finest hour of race relations had yet to come. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” See Jose, Trump believes that at least some of you people are good people! Return to eating tacos and listening to banda music with your mind at peace. Trump is at his core a social justice warrior, fighting social justice wherever he sees it. Trump isn’t going to censor himself on any issue. Trump doesn’t know the meaning of the word PC, nice, insensitive, tactful, appropriate, defenestrate, or oligarchy. Trump does not own a dictionary. “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I don’t have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don’t win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody.” Trump doesn’t only love minorities, he also loves women. Where as former republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reduced the contributions of his female staff into an offhand comment about “binders full of women,” Trump sees every woman as her own beautiful, independent object. “It’s certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on ‘The Apprentice’ were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal.” This isn’t just a one-way road ladies, The Donald (as he nicknamed himself in 2004) recognizes that his incredible sex appeal will swing voters his way. “All of the women on ‘The Appren-

tice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” When confronted at the first Republican primary debate about disparaging comments he made about fellow Republican candidate Carly Fiorina’s looks, Trump only had to take one look at her to call her beautiful. This proves the old adage that that true beauty doesn’t come from a pretty face or slim figure found on the outside, it comes from media pressure. I strongly support Trump for his willingness to give his opinion on any topic regardless. Between the ObamaCare fiasco, and the deadlocked congress, and the government we need someone to make decisions without being paralyzed by “partisan politics” or “researching the topic at hand” or “reflecting on it.” Trump has offered an extended analysis of the fourth amendment, as well as American futures in the Middle East. “Hey, you believe this goddamn ISIS? Chopping people’s heads off, putting people in cages and drowning ‘em. We gotta waterboard ‘em, don’t you agree?,” said Trump in an interview with the Rolling Stone earlier this year. “I would knock out the source of their wealth, the primary sources of their wealth, which is oil,” said Trump. “In order to do that, you would have to put boots on the ground. I would knock the hell out of them, but I’d put a ring around it and I’d take the oil for our country.” Well, I for one can’t imagine a land invasion of a Middle Eastern country going over budget or time, especially with such an impressive exit strategy. Honestly I could not think of another candidate. I’ve tried but I don’t even remember the names of the nobodies I used earlier in the article. I flipped through the TV to try to see who this Rand Paul guy is, or if Ben Carson has any ideas about how to fix America, but it’s just Trump — same thing with the newspaper and the internet. Trump taught me to call it like I see it; so given that all I can see is Donald Trump, I’ve decided to call it now. TRUMP for our 47th and final president.

OPINION LETTER TO THE EDITOR Contrary to the University’s Board of Regents, the University of Alaska can cut its way into excellence. The university needs to cut all of its intercollegiate athletics, and cut all ties to the corrupt and toothless NCAA. To quote Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, “Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of values and ideas to students — not to provide entertainment to spectators and employment to athletes.” The money the University of Alaska dumps into athletics should instead go into replacing the reduced funding of academics. Its priorities are becoming gruesomely misguided. The UAA chancellor, in the face of budget cuts, needs to take the lead and eliminate the Alaska Shootout, an irrelevant and dying relic from 30 years ago. The purpose of college sports is to pacify students who have no business being in a university (Robert Hutchins, U. of Chicago president). Teams, groups and cliques — all destroy the ethics, intelligence and individuality that universities are responsible for instilling in their students. Get rid of college sports, and focus on decency and academics. That is what the University of Alaska should be about. Thomas H. Morse UAA Math and Chemistry faculty thmorse@uaa.alaska.edu

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CORRECTIONS In the Sept. 29, 2015 issue of The Northern Light, we misspelled Gil Monreal’s name in the article, “Camera Club returns to the Student Union Gallery with ‘Through Our Eyes.’” In the same article, there was an error about “Through Our Eyes” participants not being registered members of the club. According to Camera Club president Cody Swanson, “All the participants in this year’s Through Our Eyes exhibition were paid members with the exception of one. When receiving submissions for our annual show, we sometimes receive returning members who have not yet paid their dues. In such cases, we allow them to pay their membership dues at the next business meeting. Members may join at any point in the semester.”

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