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Academic debating is something that UAA is notoriously good at. The Seawolf Debate team has placed highly in many national and international tournaments since its inception in 1972. Unfortunately, many of Seawolf Debate’s greatest accomplishments occur off-campus, leaving the debate team often unable to engage with its community.

With that obstacle, the debate team has found a solid way to recruit new students: the Cabin Fever Debates. The event, which started in 2006, was designed especially for students who are either totally new to debating, or have only competed in past Cabin Fever events — no official Seawolf debaters are allowed to compete.

“We were looking for a way to reach out for students who weren’t active on the team,” Steve Johnson, an associate professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication, as well as Seawolf Debate’s director, said. “We have a terrific competitive debate team here at UAA, but we knew that there’s a whole bunch of other students who we might not be reaching because the competitions happen outside. We’re the only competitive intercollegiate debating team in Alaska so we always have to travel outside to engage in competitions. We wanted to bring some of that experience to students who weren’t active on that team, and perhaps broaden our recruiting effort and some good quality talent out there who might not otherwise have known about us.”

Many students find the event to be an important milestone in getting into the

debating field.

“Participating in the Cabin Fever Debates was one of the best decisions I made in my college career,” said Arina Filippenko, a student at UAA who had participated in the event in the past. “The whole experience was transformative and eye-opening as I had never encountered a situation where I had to advocate directly for something I was opposed to.”

Before the Cabin Fever debates, one of the debate team’s most effective recruiting efforts was engaging with high school debate teams. Many members of Seawolf Debate joined because of their prior experience.

“I fell in love with the activity in high school, and found out that UAA has an incredible debate team, which also offers scholarships,” Sam Erickson, a member of Seawolf Debate, said. “So that was a pretty big draw for me; getting to come to a close school and get paid to debate on a fantastic team? I mean… it doesn’t make much more of an easy sell than that.”

Since Cabin Fever, students have had a bigger opportunity to get their feet wet in the debating field. The event takes place at the Social Science Building, room 118, before the final round in the Arts Building’s recital hall. The first day of the event, Feb. 2, is a practice day. Students are given time to research their topics and form their arguments. They have many resources, including members of Seawolf Debate.

After a week, on Feb. 9, the preliminary rounds begin. Students compete in teams of two. The style is typical British Parliamentary Style, complete with audience members pounding tables with an agreeable, “hear hear!” The preliminary rounds continue through March 1, before teams advance to the semifinals on

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Jacob Shercliffe, Genevieve Mina, and Neal Koeneman promote the Cabin Fever Debates in the Student Union.

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The UAA Gymnastics squad hosts their first home meet of the season this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in the Alaska Airlines Center when they entertain the Brigham Young University Cougars. The meet will mark the third time the team has competed this season. The Seawolves hosted a Green-and-Gold intra-squad scrimmage in mid-December before flying to Ohio for a January 23 dual-meet with the Bowling Green Falcons. Despite losing the meet 194.075-191.500, several Seawolves performed up to their potential.

Junior Julia York competed in the beam and floor events in Bowling Green, two events in which the Seawolves have deepest reserves. Despite the stiff competition among her teammates, York remains optimistic about her events.

“I started to go downhill and I wasn’t making my routines and I didn’t know why,” York said. “Then I just realized I wasn’t being confident and that changed everything.”

The team is comprised of 17 members this season after welcoming four freshmen to the team, including Kierra Abraham, Morgan Colee, Erica Man, and Kaylin Mancari. The whole roster is expected

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to compete this weekend.

For the Seawolves to be successful this season, gymnastics coach Paul Stoklos said they will need to improve on one event in particular.

“Bars is our toughest event. We have people who can’t do bars anymore who came in as bar workers and so were really limited in our depth,” Stoklos said.

“Whereas on some of the other events we have maybe 8 or 9 people.”

Senior M’rcy Matsunami will be one of the Seawolves competing in the bars, along with the vault, beam, and floor exercise. As the only UAA gymnast to qualify for last season’s NCAA West Regional tournament as an all-arounder, the Nebraska native has plenty of reasons to be eager for one last season with the Seawolves.

“I’m really excited for this season, also really sad because I’ve been doing gymnastics for 21 years, since I’ve been born,” Matsunami said. “After I’m done, its just going to be a shock, I think.”

After this weekend, the Seawolves will only have two more home meets, on March 11 and 13 against conference-rival Air Force.

UAA students taking 6 or more credits get in free to all home UAA athletic events. For more on the gymnastics team, visit goseawolves.com.

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DEBATE: 11th Annual Cabin Fever Debates CONTINUED FROM COVER

March 8 and eventually the final round on March 10.

While adjudication isn’t entirely objective, USUAA Vice President and Seawolf Debate member Matthieu Ostrander admits, there is a definite level of persuasiveness that judges are looking for.

“I think there’s always a gradient when we’re talking about the experience of the debaters that you see at Cabin Fever,” said Ostrander. “The important thing to remember is that we’re looking at both the matter that they bring, and then the manner in which they deliver it — that is, the way that they present themselves.”

At the end, cash prizes are awarded ranging from $100 for the semifinalist

team, to $200 to the finalist team, all the way up to a grand prize of $1,000. There’s also the $100 Quianna Clay Prize, named after a UAA debater who went from no prior debating experience to a semifinalist at a national championship in the span of a couple years (1998-2000).

According to Johnson, this theme is what makes the Cabin Fever debates so important. He cited students like Akis Gialopsos, who went from top speaker at Cabin Fever to being one of the topranked speakers in North America, and Brett Frazer, who got his start at Cabin Fever and went on to advance to two elimination rounds at the World Universities Debating Championships, before adjudicating the Cabin Fever debates themselves.

While many of the students on Seawolf Debate started because of prior experience in high school, members of the debate team encourage students to get started no matter what their experience.

“One of the complaints about young people is that they’re disconnected from the world around them,” said Johnson. “I don’t think they are, but I think that even if they are not paying as close attention as they might otherwise, debate gives them incentives to pay attention to what’s going on in the world around them.”

Many of the debaters see their activity as a vital skill to have in today’s world.

“I think competitive debating teaches you how to think,” said Ostrander. “Even if you’ve never been exposed to it, the act of thinking about how you’re going

to engage in making arguments in a way that is persuasive to other people forces you to think about how you’re communicating and how you as an individual can convey ideas effectively. So when you look at that through a competitive lens, there’s really an incentive to do that in the best way possible. So it’s not an academic experience purely, it’s both an academic and competitive experience.”

Members of Seawolf Debate also cite a common prior fear of public speaking, but for them, debate has always been a way to keep that fear in check and hone their skills. They encourage anyone with an interest in overcoming those hurdles to give the Cabin Fever debates a try.

Bree Newsome: Artist and activist

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Bree Newsome discusses her experience climbing a 30-foot flagpole to take down a Confederate flag at the South Carolina state Capitol building.

By Kathryn Casello

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Bree Newsome, a civil rights activist from North Carolina, visited UAA to deliver her lecture “Tearing Hatred From the Sky,” on Saturday, Jan. 30 addressing issues of racism, discrimination and culture in America. Newsome stressed the importance of being conscious of history and aware of it’s impacts on our society today. Issues of activism, awareness, and human rights conflicts are all the direct product of the way America was created and operated for several centuries. Today, systemic racism and cultural segregation are still very real, and Newsome’s voice is a dynamic and unflinching force for change.

On June 27, 2015, Newsome climbed a 30-foot flag pole to rip down the Confederate flag that had flown in front of the South Carolina capital building for

decades.

“The important thing to understand is the Confederate flag, that was there until recently, was raised in 1962 in response to the Civil Rights Movement. At that time there were a lot of students who were starting to do sit-ins, in protest of segregation and so in South Carolina they raised the flag up as the sign of defiance, like ‘This is still the Confederacy,’” said Newsome. “The main point of contention in the Civil War was slavery, and the fact that slavery was okay because African Americans were considered inherently inferior.”

Newsome explained that prior to her involvement in civil rights activism in North Carolina, she was living in New York as a filmmaker and an artist. Upon returning to North Carolina, where her family has lived for centuries, Newsome got involved in activism. It wasn’t until the Charleston church Massacre in 2015 (where Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers) that it was clear to New-

some that the injustice and suffering of the past was far from over.

“There has been a long history of violence in the South. I had a great uncle who was lynched, my grandmother witnessed the Ku Klux Klan drag a neighbor out of his home and beat him. The thing that was so shocking about the Charleston Massacre was that it was a level of violence that I feel we haven’t really seen since the 60s. It was demoralizing and shocking, and a large part of my decision to tear down the flag was to show defiance to that kind of terrorism.”

In Newsome’s lecture discussing the necessity for people to be conscious of the culture that has been created in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, Newsome said that understanding how rights conflicts truly played out in American history, internalizing that race is a social construct and has no biological basis, and how this informs the present is crucial in working against racism.

“We have a lot of cultural awareness that America is a refuge for people fleeing from religious persecution, and every year we celebrate Thanksgiving and we tell those stories. But there’s a lot of things we aren’t conscious of, like the history of racial terrorism in the country.

That’s why we have something like what happened in Charleston happen, people don’t recognize the significance of that.

Racism operates in a lot of ways without people being conscious of it. You can’t address something you aren’t conscious of.”

Newsome’s analysis of modern racism continually comes back to the message that there can be no change and no progress in a society if people refuse to be educated and aware of injustice. The United States has taken many legal and legislative steps to prevent discrimination, but racism still persists if the internal, subconscious culture of subjugation does not end.

“Legal segregation is what we used to have and that no longer exists. However, you still see many schools that are clearly segregated which has a lot to do with issues of wealth and poverty. When Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, he was in the process of trying to begin the ‘second phase’ of the Civil Rights Movement, which was addressing the economic devastation that had been caused by slavery and Jim Crow. We never really were able to heal those gaps that existed between blacks and whites.”

In Newsome’s speech, she drove home the point that racism effects all parts of our society. Whiteness is still associated with being a first-class citizen while being part of a minority group, particularly being black, is associated with being second-class.

“I think it’s necessary to actively develop a consciousness of how racism affects us, even in our thoughts and our behaviors, and then carrying that consciousness into whatever space you go into.”

Ultimately, Newsome’s message is that of inclusion, understanding and equality for all people.

“We are the inheritors of a social tradition that said that wealthy white men who own things are fully human, and everyone else is some sort of lesser form.

You are a human being, and as a human being there are rights that you should be entitled to. We are all equal regardless, and there is nothing that you can be or do that should diminish your humanity.”

While the issue of racism is often painful and triggers turbulent emotions, Newsome’s lecture was compassionate, honest and wise. Newsome used personal anecdotes and powerfully symbolic graphics to connect with her audience and get everyone on board with civil rights activism.

Follow Newsome on Twitter at @BreeNewsome to keep up with her and her work.

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College Cookbook: Super Bowl snacks Whether you are attending a Super Bowl party or enjoying the game from home, snacks are an integral part of the sport spectating experience. With queso dip for dipping or to top on nachos, to chocolate covered strawberries to satisfy your sweet tooth, and drinks to show your team of choice, there’s a recipe that can entice anyone at the party.

Orange Crush Denver Broncos Cocktail

Similar to a screwdriver this cocktail is a little more boozed up and is a classic Broncos cocktail. Serves one.

Taco Queso Dip

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Made for dipping, this queso dip can also be used to pour over nachos. However you serve it, it’s sure to be a winner.

Panther’s Punch This electric blue drink is the perfect way to sport your Carolina Panther’s pride. Serves ten people.

1. Pour all the ingredients, including the ice, into a drink mixer. Shake until drink is thoroughly mixed.

2. Pour into glasses directly from mixer.

Enjoy.

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2 cans of queso dip

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1 pound of ground beef

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1 packet of taco seasoning

Directions

2. In a separate pan, cook the ground beef thoroughly and mix in the taco seasoning.

1 12 oz can of lemon-lime soda 12 oz of Blue Curacao 30 oz of raspberry vodka 50 oz of lemonade

3. Once the beef is cooked, place it into the pot of queso and mix until combined.

Directions

1. In a large punch bowl mix all the ingredients together. Stir until mixed thoroughly.

2. Serve cold and enjoy.

4. Serve over nachos or serve in a bowl for dipping.

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Chocolate Strawberry Footballs Give in to the sweet side of the Super Bowl snack world with this football themed twist on chocolate covered strawberries.

Ingredients

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3 oz vodka 2 oz triple sec orange liqueur 4 oz orange juice 1 cup of ice

1. Pour the queso dip into a saucepan and keep at a low heat, stirring occasionally.

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1 carton of strawberries 1 cup chocolate chips 2 tablespoons of white icing

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Directions 1. Place the chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave chocolate for 15 seconds and then stir. Repeat until melted and smooth.

2. Completely dip the strawberries into the chocolate and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper to allow chocolate to harden.

3. Place icing into icing bag with a thin icing tip.

4. Once the chocolate has hardened, take the icing and pipe on a long vertical line on the strawberry and then two shorter horizontal lines atop the vertical line to mimic the lines on a football.

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Sarah Palin and Passivity 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 Ever since my host has shown me the ancient debates of about four months ago, I’ve been pretty enveloped in the 2016 election. This shouldn’t be the case.

As a brain slug, I shouldn’t have any interest in Earth’s political systems. All they’re eventually going to do is maybe delay our inevitable invasion, and that’s a big maybe. With that being said, though, this year’s presidential race is chock-full of fascinating and entertaining characters.

For example, we have Donald Trump, a candidate so full of cartoonishly bad ideas that it’s a surprise he doesn’t twirl a Dick Dastardly mustache at his rallies. His complete disregard for

political correctness is partly to blame for his own party wanting nothing to do with him, despite him dominating the Republican polls. As the world learned a few weeks ago, though, he does have at least one big supporter.

She hails from the very state we live in.

When I first learned of Sarah Palin, she seemed harmless enough. She has a lot of followers, but a lot of the things she says seem to be fluff. However, when I poked into my host’s brain on a whim for more information about her, the story of Sarah Palin turned out to be pretty tragic.

My host has lived in Alaska long enough to know that Palin was once one of us. She represented the everyman — or everywoman, I suppose.

While she did make some pretty shady moves before moving to the national stage, she was still incredibly popular. She supported things like education, and she called Ted Stevens on his own shady moves.

She then moved to the national stage and became a laughing stock. The American public descended on her personal life like space locusts. Later on, she went rogue. “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” became an inaccurate, red-tinted lens into Alaskan life.

She joined, left and rejoined Fox News. Now, she endorses Donald Trump to supposedly make our country great again.

It’s a shame, really. I didn’t arrive to this planet in time to know a pre-national-stage Palin.

Now, whenever my host or I go vacation somewhere, the first

thing we’re bombarded with is: “Whoa, Sarah Palin’s from there!”

The statement is either followed by wonder or disdain, depending on who’s commenting. Before 2008, we would’ve said something along the lines of, “Yeah, man, that’s right.

Want the autograph of someone who’s been within in the same 70 square kilometers of her?” Now, we would say something along the lines of “Don’t touch me and stop talking. You can still have my autograph, though.”

The point is, she fell from grace, appealing to the rightest and most evangelical end of the right wing, like a bizarre reverse Lucifer. That’s sad. That’s very, very sad.

Nobody cares anymore.

When my host and I ventured to Pennsylvania, nobody acknowledged Sarah Palin’s existence. Whenever we told a stranger about our home, they never brought it up. It’s neither cool nor embarrassing to admit to having known her at any point, because nobody cares anymore.

The timing of this column is hilariously bad. She made waves on social media when she announced her support of Donald Trump, but after a day or two nobody talked about it.

It would be the same as hearing that Mel Gibson supports Donald Trump. You’d think, “Oh, that’s pretty weird,” and then keep doing your homework like the good little college student I know you are. This column is

no longer newsworthy. It could have released the day after Palin’s announcement and it still wouldn’t have been newsworthy.

Not that anything I’ve dictated about has ever been newsworthy, aside from humanity’s invasion from your inevitable Slug overlords, but you get the idea.

Regardless of how you feel about Palin, you know that that lack of attention has to be weighing on her, especially since her time in the sun. She was Alaska’s underdog, starting as a councilwoman in a small Alaskan town and winding up being in the center of the political spotlight. Imagine being in her shoes — all of the attention you could ever want, with the opportunity to express your views and ambitions to the world, only to have all of that snatched away from you, to the point where people only pay attention to you for seconds at a time in their Twitter feeds. It sounds like an existential nightmare.

It’s a sad inevitability in our modern world. Even with the world vastly connected, you can only be a hero to so many people, and at that point, you’re lucky if people pay attention to you for more than a — oh crap, a multiplayer mod for “Fallout: New Vegas!” It’s like they’re reading my mind!

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Moving in: Making sense of the wreckage 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.

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For those of you who follow this week to week, you’ll remember my heartfelt goodbye to my previous long-term apartment last week, complete with unnecessary imagery and a smattering of lies. For those of you who don’t, well, consider yourself caught up.

The arduous moving process continued for several days after the last column left off, much to the dismay of the residents. After the tumultuous packing and cleaning failed to provide the cathartic release we all craved, we decided to take matters into our own hands. As a final homage to the apartment that we had so loved we chose one horrible painting as a sacrifice to commemorate the memories we were soon to leave behind.

In complete silence, we stepped out upon the deck and turned the painting into a ceremonial pyre as the loudest bagpipe rendition of Auld Lang Syne played mournfully in the background. We stood in a row giving one final salute to the flaming pile of symbolism and hurled it off the deck; where of course it promptly landed on top of unnoticed gas cans, spurring one of us to leap from the deck to stop what might have become a far more memorable event.

Over the next few days we twisted the arm of every acquaintance with a truck to help us move the larger items into the new home. This was no small feat considering that our new apartment resided in what I call the “berry streets”; a wasteland of nonsensical roads off of Minnesota that don’t ever seem to connect in predictable ways. In fact, I resisted even looking at the apartment because any time I enter

the berry streets it’s as if all the happiness has gone from the world as I struggle to find my way back out. Somehow we persevered and managed to move all of our belongings with only minimal assistance from Google Maps.

As expected the cat hates us for changing his entire world view. He’s taken to exploring every inch of the apartment, which tends to manifest as random cabinets shaking violently as he discovers that he’s trapped himself. Thankfully after the first couple nights he’s kept his yowling to a minimum and seems to have ended the hunger strike he’d been on.

In more ways than one the new space is representative of that disconcerting no man’s land between college and adulthood. In between our white board that reminds us of monthly bills and the bookshelf containing a lifetime’s worth of literature sits our newly christened “shotski”. For those unfamiliar with the concept, this housewarming gift consists of four shot glasses glued to the top of an old ski. The idea is that four people can take a shot at one by gently lifting the ski, all while trying to avoid getting liquor and fiberglass in your nose and eyes. The result is a decorative memory of college which is trashy and kitschy, yet oddly functional for the type of guests we anticipate entertaining.

The same dichotomy is found in our frenzied approach to giving some character to the new space we’ve found ourselves in. One minute we’re measuring the walls to plan for nice shelving to display our degrees and achievements, and the next we’re trying to determine which

bean bag chairs and wall tapestries will best go with our record player in the guest lounge.

We certainly aren’t done getting settled by any means. In fact we found a few more problems than we anticipated upon moving in, which has been the case with every home I’ve ever had. As I write this I can hear two repair technicians for the internet and the refrigerator awkwardly maneuvering around each other in our cramped kitchen, trying desperately to bestow upon us the power to both Netflix and chill with ease.

For the most part however, we’ve finished the major hurdles; and to be honest it’s hard to not to feel as if we’ve moving up in the world. We now have a large TV instead of a tiny laptop screen to entertain us, and our fireplace is large enough that at some point I’m sure I’ll toy with the idea of trying to roast a rotisserie chicken in our living room. From here on out I’m keeping all my camping gear in my car by choice, and not because I’m a semi-homeless hobo that might need it.

And so ends the saga of moving; the endless caravan across town, the repeatedly stubbed toe and emphatic cursing spells, and the never ending question of why we have no staples in our pantry, yet somehow inherited Gordon Ramsay’s infinite spice rack. I’ve never been one to complain about moving, I’ll be damned if I do it again any time soon.

You’ll have to pry this place from our cold dead fingers if you want us to move again; after months of planning and packing we’re finally home.

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Rundown of February’s First Friday

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By Victoria Petersen

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First Friday in downtown Anchorage is an event Anchorage-ites look forward to every month. It is easy to forget about how eclectic and artsy our bustling winter city is. However, the original tent city doesn’t let its citizens forget when the First Friday of the month rolls around, when all the shops, bars and restaurants pay homage to the creativity in town.

Walking down Fourth and Fifth Avenue in the evening of a First Friday, one will see people flooding to and fro with the sound of local folk songs muffled behind shop windows. Many shops and restaurants open their doors to art and music lovers who wander the street looking for creative talent. This month’s first Friday happens Feb. 5.

One such gallery, the International Gallery of Contemporary Art of Anchorage located on D Street, is a subtle and discrete art venue that boasts quite the First Friday gallery opening. The International Gallery of Contemporary Art was one of the original founders of the Anchorage First Friday Walk, which they continue to host monthly. This month IGAC hosts three exhibitions: Sarah Mellisa Whalen’s “Animus: The Collective Unconscious,” Don Decker’s “Snow on the Water” and an invitational group exhibition curated by Honor Bowman,

“Outside In: Paintings from Other Places.” IGAC will be open from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Feb. 5.

International Gallery of Contemporary Art Manager Honor Bowman acknowledged the traffic First Friday brings to the gallery.

“On First Friday, we host hundreds of people and the majority of them come every month and are supporters of the gallery who also attend our other events and subscribe to our email newsletter. Our annual block party on D Street, which takes place on September’s First Friday drew roughly 1,000 people this year,” said Bowman.

Perhaps the king of all First Friday events downtown is at the Anchorage Museum. With five events happening in the evening alone, the museum also offers free admission on the First Friday of the month.

“The museum is a cornerstone of downtown Anchorage. It’s a great spot and we have free general admission from 6 - 9 p.m. every First Friday. Living here in the winter, having activities to do and being able to go out is a great opportunity, especially to meet people who have similar interests. A thriving active downtown is great for everyone in the community,” said Laura Carpenter, Anchorage Museum public relations manager.

With events ranging from Battle of the Breweries to an exhibition bringing elevator music to a new level, the museum

is the place to start on your downtown Anchorage First Friday tour.

The First Friday jaunt continues across the street at Midnight Sun Cafe. The cafe is showcasing local artist Sunny Foster and her paintings inspired by the sea she loves so dearly.

Journey further down Sixth Avenue on the other side of the mall and stumble across Sub Zero Bistro and Microlounge.

There you will find photographer Ivy Bowler and her exhibit titled “Identities,” a multi-layered perspective at the fabric of what makes us who we are.

Stroll along Fifth Avenue and find Bottoms Boutique’s new location. Taking advantage of the higher traffic downtown of First Friday, Bottoms Boutique is having a grand re-opening of their new store location. With concrete artist, Spartan Designs, and DJ Anthem, the event is set to be a red carpet affair with Tina Marie Photography documenting the event.

The night ends with a VIP after-party at L.E.D. Ultra Lounge.

Walking past the Alaska Performing Arts Center, cross back over to Fourth Avenue. Where side-by-side, is Sevigny Studio and Alaska Cake Studio.

Sevigny Studio will be hosting musician Bill Bilivet and the works of artist Enzina Marrari. Marrari’s exhibit, “Center,” is mixed media, with the element of symbolism to display human interactions.

Alaska Cake Studio will be welcom-

ing Mary Leonard, who will showcase her pieces of wearable art.

Brown Bag Sandwich Company with their new location on Third Avenue, the sandwich shop and bar can accommodate more guests and more events. From 6 - 8 p.m., Fish First Friday, will keep visitors minds on Alaskan salmon. There will be food and drink, as well as local art put on by the Alaska Center for the Environment. There will be a silent auction as well.

Further down on First Avenue, by the railroad depot, is Anchorage Community Works. ACW has been participating in First Friday since its inception in 2013. Besides visual arts and music, the non-profit is working on integrating more unconventional and performing art forms.

“Our event is designed to be hub for artists to share their work. Recently we’ve been attempting to incorporate performance art into our traditional graphic and music offerings. Jugglers, dancers even. I don’t know what I’m going to see, so that’s a lot of fun,” Mike Dickenson, ACW’s audio lead, said.

First Friday is an excellent opportunity to get out and be involved with the community. Whatever form of art you enjoy, a First Friday stroll is sure to offer something for everyone. First Friday events begin downtown around 5 p.m. and go on late into the evening. All events are free, unless otherwise specified.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Rihanna’s ‘Anti’ is Anticlimactic

By Felipe Godoy Diaz Contributor

Surprise albums have become a norm in music. Everyone from Death Grips to Beyonce have had their hand in surprising their fans with new music.

Rihanna followed suit last week by releasing her eighth studio album “Anti” for free on Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal.

“Anti” is a left turn for Rihanna, whose last couple records have focused on club oriented EDM tracks. Rihanna brought in a new set of producers, most of them known for hip-hop production like Bo1-da, DJ Mustard, and Hit-Boy and created a spacey R&B album filled with influences that mirror alternative R&B artist Banks and FKA Twigs.

The lead single, “Work,” is a track that features distant dancehall influences. Rihanna adds Jamaican patois throughout,

with terms like “work” for sex, “haffi” for have to, and “ah go” for going to which are sprinkled through the track. The problem with “Work” is its repetitive hook, which contains no substances and quickly becomes monotonous. The track also features a brief appearance from Drake. For such a mumbling track, “Work” is an interesting choice for a lead single. Especially when better songs, like the banger “Bitch, Better Have My Money,” were left of the album.

Perhaps the oddest part of ‘Anti” is the cover of Tame Impala’s “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from the band’s 2015 album “Currents.” Usually, whenever an artist covers a song, they change something to differentiate both, like Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watch Tower.”

Rihanna uses the exact same song and just switches in her vocals, which is fine, but if you

want to listen to Tame Impala, you could just listen to Tame Impala.

For an album that has been anticipated for such a long time, “Anti” shows brief signs of promise, but ultimately continues to be a means to please the masses. The album already went platinum on its release due to a deal with Samsung that purchased 1 million copies. Even with this, “Anti” still remains nothing to celebrate.

ARTIST Rihanna ALBUM “Anti” GENRE R&B LABEL RocNation RELEASE Jan. 28, 2016

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GAME REVIEW

‘The Westport Independent’ The xenophobic ‘Them’ falls short game lacks narrative depth

By George Hyde

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By Jacob Holley-Kline Contributor

In a tight 77 minutes, “Them” manages to convey an unsettling message, one not easily forgotten. However, that message is enough to undermine the whole film. Like Joel Shumacher’s “Falling Down,” “Them” is a hopelessly xenophobic allegory. Thinly veiled, nationalistic treatises like this lose their luster quickly.

This film is no exception.

Subtitled as “the movie that terrified Europe,” “Ils” follows young teacher Clementine (Olivia Bonamy, “Chez nous c’est trois!”) and her lover Lucas (Michaël Cohen, “The New Adventures of Aladdin”) as they relocate from France to the countryside of Bucharest, Romania. On their first night home, someone, or maybe two, terrorize the young couple.

Clementine and Lucas try desperately to escape before the perps make it inside.

In essence, a young, affluent French couple move to the wilds of Romania and are immediately terrorized. As viewers learn later, the perpetrators are Romanian. They are violent with no purpose, sadistic without reason, inhuman and devilish to the nth degree.

Considering France’s long history of xenophobia towards the Romani people, coupled with how they’re represented in the movie, “Them” takes on a political edge. Though it isn’t a welcome one.

In 2009 alone, the French government forcefully expelled some 10,000 Romani back to Romania and Bulgaria. The fol-

lowing year, 8,300 more were kicked out

by August. Since then, 51 Romani camps have been demolished with a little over 1,200 of their inhabitants shipped back to their respective countries. Each of these governmental crackdowns was preceded by a long history of xenophobia against the Romani people, especially Romanian French people.

That’s not to say the message is obvious at first. It isn’t. If you ignore it, the movie might be more enjoyable. That being said, it can pack a punch when it wants to. The opening scene for example, taking place on a deserted back road, is a master class in tension. This scene sets the bar so high that it’s a damn shame the rest of the movie falls short.

Such high tension is nearly impossible to maintain, but directors Moreau and Palud’s efforts are laudable. They use darkness effectively, cleverly cloaking threats in the darkest parts of the frame. Sadly, the sound design is terrible.

Sounds of all types vary wildly in volume, resulting in some overbearing jump scares and muted horror.

While “Them” is a laudable thriller, it falls short thanks to its divisive xenophobic subtext and its poor sound design.

The best thrillers and horrors rely on subtle editing, sound cues, and darkness.

Moreau and Palud use darkness well, but everything else is run-of-the-mill home invasion fare. What sticks with viewers by the end is not the horror of being stalked, but the horror of oppression and what role the media plays in perpetuating it.

TITLE “Them”

RELEASE DATE July 19, 2006

DIRECTOR David Moreau and Xavier Palud

COUNTRY France GENRE Thriller

Journalism is a tricky business. I should know, I’m writing for a newspaper. The ethics of choosing what to publish or not publish in a prestigious, widely-read paper are complicated. That issue is compounded depending on who funds the paper, who the audience is, or what government happens to be listening.

If you’ve ever complained about what the media is or isn’t covering, “The Westport Independent” is the game for you. It puts the player in the circumstances that a real copy editor might find themselves in — wondering if it’s really ethical to cover things like celebrity news when riots are happening in the streets.

The game takes place in a government that has recently passed a “Public Culture Bill,” meaning that all media must comply with the government’s messages of loyalty and peace, which will come into force 12 weeks after the game begins.

You run the titular Westport Independent, a reputable newspaper. Other newspapers are closing around you, and the people’s attitudes towards the bill aren’t exactly positive.

It’s here that you, the paper’s copy editor, must choose which direction to take the paper. Do you follow the government’s guidelines and appeal to those who are on the upper end of the pay scale, or do you risk your paper’s existence just to tell the stories that you think need to be told?

There are a lot of political undertones, and the game’s world portrays a very black and white rebels-versus-oppressive-government vibe. There are shades of gray here and there, and you can

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remain neutral if you wish — as I initially chose to do. However, the game’s writing encourages you to pick a side.

Unfortunately, the consequences aren’t really there. Well, they are — you get a stats sheet after every week showing how your paper sold, or how suspicious the government is of your paper — but they’re “consequences” in the same way that making a tough decision in “Knights of the Old Republic” might get you a Dark Side bonus. You rarely see the world actually changing around you aside from some remarks from your coworkers. The only consequence metric aside from that is your readership in different parts of town, and that reinforces the black-andwhite themes. If you write a rebel-biased paper, more people from the lower-class areas are going to read it.

Compare this to a game like “Papers, Please,” where every single action you took influenced something later on down the line. In that game, if you let a certain person in the country, there’s a very good chance that it will come back to bite you later. Here, if you choose to publish a story about riots instead of a parade, well... you’ll gain some points with the rebels.

It’s all quantitative, no qualitative.

It’s also very short; a single playthrough will take an hour or two. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. If the game told a powerful story about journalism in that time span, it would still be a worthwhile experience, especially at its $10 price point. It does hit some marks.

If you want to play a neutral run, some of the choices get really grueling. Regrettably, though, the consequences of those choices are limited to numerical, quantitative values, which robs them of their impact. “The Westport Independent” has the skeleton of a great journalistic story; it just needs a lot more muscle.

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McGill tallies 1,000th point in loss to SPU

Updated Jan. 31 Conference Minnesota State

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Bowling Green

11-4-5

Michigan Tech

11-6-3

Ferris State

9-7-4

Northern Michigan

7-7-4

Bemidji State

7-9-4

Lake Superior

6-8-4

Alaska Anchorage

7-11-2

Alaska Fairbanks

5-11-4

Alabama Hunstville

4-13-3

Men’s Basketball Updated Jan. 31 Conference Western Oregon

11-1

Seattle Pacific

9-3

Alaska Anchorage

9-3

Western Washington

8-4

Alaska Fairbanks

7-5

Central Washington

4-8

Concordia

4-8

Montana State Billings

4-8

Saint Martin’s

3-9

Northwest Nazerene

3-9

Simon Fraser

0-12

Women’s Basketball Updated Jan. 31

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Seattle Pacific’s Joe Rasmussen contests Corey Hammell’s jumpshot during the Falcons 74-71 Great Northwest Athletic Conference victory at the Alaska Airlines Center, Saturday, January 31, 2016.

By Jordan Rodenberger

jrodenberger@thenorthernlight.org

Coming off a scorching 9-0 start within the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, the Seawolves men’s basketball team have dropped three of their last four games. The most recent of which came on Saturday afternoon in a 74-71 loss to Seattle Pacific Falcons, creating a two-way tie between UAA and SPU for second place in the conference.

However, the defeat did not take place without a fighting effort from the Seawolves. With just over eight minutes left, UAA found themselves down 16 points, but did not feel the game was out of reach.

“We haven’t rolled over in a game yet all year, and I didn’t expect us to roll over today,” said head coach Rusty Osborne.

Seawolves’ starting guard Diante Mitchell injured his right leg in the matchup against Saint Martin’s on Thursday, and was in a walking boot for Saturday’s game. The Falcons were looking to extend their win streak to seven games, and earn a sweep on their Alaska road trip, which began last Thursday in Fairbanks against the Alaska Nanooks.

Junior Spencer Svejcar kept the Seawolves in the game in the first half by scoring 13 of UAA’s first 24 points. Svejcar hit all five of his shots in the first, including three from downtown. Brian McGill closed out the half with a running floater, and the Seawolves trailed by just two points at the break.

The Seawolves went cold from the field to begin the second half - missing 12 of their first 14 shots. Seattle Pacific

went on a 19-6 run, capitalizing on the Seawolves 0-for-8 three point shooting.

UAA began chipping away at the lead with the help of freshman Damien Fulp, who totaled a career-high three steals.

“We were able to defend a lot better [in the second half] and it helped us get back into the game,” said Osborne.

A Suki Wiggs lay up trimmed the deficit to just three points with only 49 seconds remaining. A 60-foot desperation shot by McGill at the buzzer was off target, and UAA lost by three points for the second time in a row.

“We can live with physical mistakes...but especially against good teams, you can’t make mental mistakes,” said Svejcar.

Despite not practicing this week, Svejcar netted a careerhigh 23 points, the bulk of which totaled from three-point land. The transfer guard was in the emergency room on Monday for an undisclosed injury.

“Didn’t practice, but the training staff has been awesome helping me out, getting ready for the two games this week,” said Svejcar. “I just tried to come out and play as well as I could with what I was going through.”

Brian McGill scored his 1,000th career point late in the second half, the 22nd player in program history to reach the milestone.

The Seawolves hit the road next week, squaring off against Western Washington on Feb. 4 and Simon Fraser the following Saturday.

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Saints steal road contest

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8-4

Simon Fraser

7-5

Northwest Nazerene

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Alaska Fairbanks

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Seattle Pacific

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Concordia

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Western Oregon

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Conference

By Nolin Ainsworth

Eleven different St. Martin’s Saints scored in Thursday night’s game against UAA, but it was Cole Preston’s 4 points late in the second half that fans likely stewed over as they exited the Alaska Airlines Center.

The Seawolves (9-2 GNAC, 16-6) were upended by the Saints (3-8 GNAC, 9-10) 73-70.

With the game tied, 66-all, the 6’4” shooting guard grabbed his own miss underneath the basket before laying the ball up again, putting the Saints up two. The Seawolves didn’t answer on the other end, and Preston forced the issue again — scoring two more points by way of two free throws.

The Seawolves nearly tied the game at the buzzer, but Suki Wiggs’ 80 ft. heave was just off the mark, giving the Saints the win.

“For us, it was really about limiting our mistakes, trying to play simple basketball, and find the open man,” said Alex Pribble, St. Martin’s head coach.

After going 14-2 for a two-month stretch beginning the second week of November, the Seawolves have now lost two of their last three games. UAA lost to Western Oregon last Thursday before getting a win against Concordia two days later.

“We were hard to guard, we were shooting high percentage, we were getting to the free throw line, we were aggressive,” Osborne said of his team’s play during that stretch. “And

then against Western Oregon all our problems just stemmed from poor decision-making and it has continued all the way up into today.”

Corey Hammell, Brian McGill, and Wiggs scored 16 points a piece. Wiggs, who is averaging 24 points a game this season, shot only 4 of 19 from the field. Meanwhile, along with Preston’s 12 points and 7 assists, the Saints also got a boost from Fred Jorg’s 16 points.

The Seawolves fell behind early in the game but kept it close through out the first half. Christian Leckband put the Seawolves up 54-52 near the mid way point the half. The Saints responded five minutes later, putting together an 8-2 run. St. Martin’s took the lead for good when Preston went to work several possessions later.

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Seawolves solve offensive woes in 4-3 win over Chargers

By Nolin Ainsworth

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With two seniors scratched from the Saturday’s lineup sheet, the Seawolves turned to what remained of its senior class — the Blake’s — to lead them against the University of Alabama Huntsville.

Blake Tatchell scored, Blake Leask and his fellow defensemen played lightsout defense and UAA defeated UAH 4-3 to remain in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff hunt.

“To lose the way we lost last night was a real heartbreaker for our guys,” said UAA bench boss Matt Thomas of Friday’s game. “I don’t even know if it should have been a one goal game to be honest with you, but it’s good to learn how to win one goal games.”

Similar to the night before, it was the visitors who opened the scoring. Chargers Regan Soquila fired a shot past the blocker of Olivier Mantha to give the Chargers an early lead at 7:07 of the first period.

However, unlike the night before, the Seawolves wasted no time in putting a goal up themselves.

Freshman Sean MacTavish hit an open Brad Duwe with a puck near the Chargers left faceoff dot. UAH goalie Matt Larose appeared to square up to Duwe, but the junior’s wrist shot found the twine anyway.

“To be honest, our line should have scored probably five or six more goals, but that’s how it goes on any given night,” said forward Anthony Conti, who also assisted on Duwe’s goal.

Fans would get out their seats once more before as UAA mounted a two-goal lead with less than two minutes left in the period.

This time, Tad Kozun, UAA’s most consistent goal-scorer this season, shot a puck through the wickets of Larose.

The Seawolves came out in the second

PHOTO BY YOUNG KIM

UAA’s Olivier Mantha tracks the puck in his twenty-second start this season in goal for the Seawolves Friday, Jan. 29. UAA split their weekend series against the University of Alabama Huntsville in Anchorage this weekend.

period hungry for more goals. Tatchell temporarily satisfied that hunger when he scored on his own rebound in front of a sprawling Larose.

The Chargers did not quit fighting though, and Tyler Paulsen’s quick stick at 12:36 of the second period beat Mantha, bringing his team within a goal. Max McHugh’s backhand pass deflected off the left skate of team mate Jetlan Houcher that went straight to Paulsen.

Jarrett Brown scored for the Seawolves in the third period to help UAA regain a two-goal lead. Once again, the Chargers answered in the same period.

Soquila redirected a shot in the slot off a shot from defenseman Kurt Gosselin, giving him his second goal of the night.

The Chargers had a couple more opportunities to knot the game at four, but Olivier Mantha blocked them all allowing the Seawolves to win 4-3. The standout sophomore was only forced to make nine saves total in the game.

The teams traded shoves and a few punches after the final whistle of the third period but shook hands moments later at center ice as is the custom for the end of Saturday games.

“It’s two teams that are fighting to

stay in the playoff picture,” Thomas said.

“Both teams know how much it matters.”

The Seawolves enter the final month of the regular season with next weekend’s games in Marquette, Michigan against the Northern Michigan Wildcats. The Seawolves are tied for sixth place in the WCHA with Lake Superior State. Ahead of the Seawolves and Lakers in a tie for fifth place, with 18 points, are the Wildcats and Bemidji State. Only the top-8 teams qualify for postseason play in the WCHA.

A tough loss for UAA’s hockey team

PHOTOS BY YOUNG KIM

UAA’s Dylan Hubbs lines up for a face off during Friday night’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association game against the University of Alabama Huntsville Chargers, Jan. 29, 2016.

By Jordan Rodenberger

jrodenberger@thenorthernlight.org

The Seawolves have been a perfect 13-0-0 at home against the University of Alabama Huntsville in all their seasons prior to Friday night’s matchup. However, this season, UAA had not come away with a win at the Sullivan Arena since mid-November. Looking to extend one streak and break another, the Seawolves wanted to set the tone early, but to no avail.

Three periods later, and it was the University of Alabama Huntsville Chargers (6-16-3, 4-12-3 WCHA) over UAA

(9-13-3, 6-11-2 WCHA) by a score of 2-1.

“We came away with very little in terms of results,” said UAA head coach Matt Thomas after the game.

Just three minutes into the game, UAH freshman Adam Wilcox found the back of the net, and the Chargers had all the momentum.

The next 47 minutes of game action remained scoreless. Neither team was able to take advantage of their power play opportunities in the second period. UAA had their chances, but could not finish around the goal.

“There is clearly a little bit of a confidence issue going on with our guys in terms of executing,” Thomas said.

Senior defenseman Chris Williams chases after a puck in Friday’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association contest between the Seawolves and University of Alabama Huntsville Chargers. Williams sat out the following game against the Chargers.

The Sullivan Arena came back to life after UAA freshman Wyatt Ege stuffed in a crucial goal midway through the final period, knotting the score at 1. This strengthened the Seawolves offensive attack, as they began to pursue the puck and attack the net with aggression.

Alabama Huntsville right wing Matt Salhany had a breakaway opportunity with seven minutes remaining to give the Chargers the lead back, but a spectacular glove save by goaltender Olivier Mantha kept the game even.

Moments after a pivotal power play kill by the Seawolves, defenseman Chris Williams and Chargers’ Salhany swung their sticks to gather the puck, but it deflected

off of Williams’ stick and into UAA’s net.

The air had been deflated in the stadium.

The Seawolves found themselves trailing 2-1 with under five minutes to go in the game. Williams sat motionless at the end of the bench as he watched his teammates’ comeback effort fall short.

“To lose it the way we did, you feel really bad for the individual,” said Thomas. “We can’t come into our building, score one goal and expect to win.”

Alabama Huntsville is still at the bottom in the WCHA standings, but are looking to climb in the ranks.

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