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The rise of athlete headphone contracts

‘The Raid’ boasts incredible fight scenes

UA system faces state budget cuts

IN BRIEF: TKE fraternity recruitment suspended, sexual harassment claims

By George Hyde

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On Jan. 22, Gov. Bill Walker unveiled new operating and capital budgets to the public and submitted them to the legislature. Overall, state spending has been cut by around 5 percent, and many departments have received somewhat large cuts, including a total cut to the Alaska Aerospace Corporation. Walker even went so far to say that if oil prices didn’t rebound, the state would need to begin discussion on new tax policies. By contrast, the University of Alaska system has received a relatively low cut, down 2.4 percent from this current fiscal year. However, several factors can modify that statistic. “This number does not include some increased costs that UA will be expected to cover (such as pay raises, new building operating costs, and utilities increases), which will make the effective budget reduction much higher than 2.4 percent,” said Chris Christensen, the associate vice president of state relations from the University of Alaska. Chris Turletes, UAA’s associate vice chancellor for Facilities and Campus Services, had many things to say about the governor’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget. “From the facilities perspective, it’s a triple whammy,” Turletes said. “No capital budget means no new construction and very limited renewal funding — which means renewal projects that fix the infrastructure and building systems, like heating, lighting, elevators, and roofs, will have to wait another year or more before we get to them.” Turletes also pointed out that the budget didn’t include many funds required to fund operation of many of UAA’s new buildings, like the Alaska Airlines Center or the upcoming Engineering and Industry Building. In addition, with rising utility costs, students can expect reduced Seawolf Shuttle service, cooler and warmer indoor temperatures in the winter and summer respectively, fewer student employees and more temporary repairs. All of these considerations are on the table while the UA system formulates a financial plan for the next fiscal year. “The campus community can help by conserving the use of UAA’s energy, cleaning up after themselves and reporting emergency conditions to Facilities,” he said. Turletes also encourages the community to contact the governor’s office to request support for the UA system’s operating budget.

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Student club premieres short film at Bear Tooth Director of photography Kitty Mahoney, director Nichole Kruger (top), makeup artist Liz Savage (bottom) and cowriter Jacob Holley-Kline review footage on the set of “The Phone” Jan. 24. The short film screened at Bear Tooth five days later.

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The University of Alaska Anchorage chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has been ordered to suspend its on-campus recruitment in light of sexual harassment allegations against its members. Last week, female students reported being verbally harassed by TKE members who were tabling in the Student Union Jan. 26. The Title IX office at UAA is investigating the incident. Title IX Coordinator Marva Watson says the university will address the alleged behaviors in an educational session with TKE to prevent future incidents. Watson said Title IX investigators will “engage in a training with the overall (TKE) membership ... to help sensitize out constituents as to what might constitute a sexual harassment. Because we can’t presume everyone has the same knowledge base, so our goal is always to be preventive in nature,” Watson said. Title IX investigator Jerry Trew said the session will take place in two weeks.

Search for UAA provost coming to a close By Kelly Ireland

editor@thenorthernlight.org The search committee for UAA’s new provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs is coming to a close. Former provost Elisha R. “Bear” Baker, IV retired last December. Even before his official retirement date the search for a new provost began. On Sept. 16, 2014, Chancellor Tom Case announced his selection for the search committee. The committee has since then narrowed down their selection to four candidates. The dean of the College of Business and Public Policy, Rashmi Prasad, chaired the search committee for provost. He was joined by other prominent faculty and staff from the university who represented the different colleges and departments. Stacey Lucason, USUAA student body president, also had a place in the committee to represent UAA students. The committee also worked alongside a consultant, Tom Fitch, from the organization Academic Search Inc., to bring in candidates and advertise the position. The same search firm will be used in the UA president search. The first candidate for provost, Murray Nabors, who is currently the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Missouri Western State University, visited UAA Jan. 29 and 30. The next candidates, who have yet to be announced, will be visiting in the following weeks. The second candidate will visit Feb. 5 and 6. The third candidate will be at UAA Feb. 12 and 13. The last candidate will visit Feb. 16 and 17. Prasad said each candidate is from out of state and there are both male and female candidates.

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“All of them have a lot of administrative experience, so there’s nobody who isn’t a seasoned administrator,” Prasad said. “Almost everyone has been a dean for multiple years. We value experience as a dean or provost a great deal. So most of them have held positions like that or have at least been at the vice president level of their university ... and have strong track records of innovation and success.” Prasad said the search committee is looking for a provost who is a strong, capable, resilient leader with experience in management as well as an extensive knowledge of higher education. The committee would also like a provost who appreciates and embodies UAA values. Prasad also said the committee wants a future provost to “develop and refine a vision for UAA. UAA at this point of transition needs to clarify the vision of what kind of university does it want to be in the long term. So that while we’re dealing with a difficult environment, while we’re dealing with cuts and challenges, we deal with them with a horizon or a north star as it were, a guiding star.” Within the committee Faculty Senate President Diane Hirshberg pushed qualities and attributes that faculty wanted to see in a new provost. The Faculty Senate executive board brainstormed those qualities during the initial stages of the search. “We were very concerned that we have someone who is a strong proponent of shared governance, a collaborative but also strong leader, and someone committed to UAA… We, of course, want those basic things that a provost should have. ... We also want a provost who will embrace our very inclusive model of decision making,” Hirshberg said. Hirshberg also said it’s important for the

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Internships, illness and the long road to employment A well-meaning column rife with clunky metaphors and horrible advice, Orange Rhymes With is the go-to place to break the monotony of classes and laugh at someone else’s misfortune.

By Evan Dodd Contributor

Underclassmen have a very uneducated view of what goes into being a college senior. “Sure,” you naively assume. “I mean, the capstone course is probably difficult, as are the remainder of the degree requirements — but otherwise, it’s just another year, right?” Wrong. Hypothetical underclassman reading this paper, you are very wrong indeed. You see, people tend to forget about the dreaded internship application process, which involves applying for every position ever remotely related to your degree in the hopes that you can either fool someone or earn their mercy long enough to come out with some relevant work experience. That’s not to mention the fact that a large bulk of internships are unpaid, presumably to cater to the mythical independently wealthy college student who is really only here to enrich his or her own intellect rather than trying to avoid starving as an unemployed bum. I got three-quarters of the way into applying for an environmental internship in Seward, only to see the tiny print stating that there would be no pay, no stipend, but the housing is covered for the three-month period. As someone who makes the majority of his money in the summer, working for free in a town a hundred miles away doesn’t sound appealing. Even though the housing is free, the funds necessary to purchase food are conveniently forgotten. As much as it would be fun to handle wildlife and save the planet for a summer, you can be damn sure it isn’t feasible for me to do it for free.

The many follies

of Windows 10 By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde

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.

Admittedly, a great deal of my frustration stems from the fact that I was supposed to write this column about my ice climbing excursion at Matanuska Glacier this weekend. Instead, I’ve been on bended knee praying to the porcelain god as a result of what I can only assume is my utter stupidity in failing to get my flu shot this year. So as a mid-column public service announcement, please vaccinate yourself, your children, your pets, and even that loud guy who smokes cigarettes right outside of your apartment building every night. Believe me, it’s more than worth it if it helps you avoid the full body aches and a Technicolor yawn or two. Back to the internship search, hopefully your advisers have been telling you all to get letters of recommendation from your professors. Well, let’s back up. Hopefully most of you have been visiting your advisers, or at least know who they are. Because if you wait until the last minute to get a recommendation letter like everyone else you know, then even the professors who like you will struggle to get you a letter on any sort of schedule. Whether this was publicized and I missed it, assumed to be common knowledge or just a massive oversight, the reality is that every internship application I’ve seen so far demands two letters of recommendation to even apply. That’s a significant barrier to entry for a student who’s forgotten about the networking aspect of college and thought that basic academic success would signal competency. Finally, even if you obtain your letters of recommendation that give off the vague impression that your professors remember who you are, get an internship that pays real American currency and are able to complete said internship alongside your final courses, don’t expect to be hired on full time afterward. While this may be the case some of the time, far too many friends of mine have completed internships only to return back to the full-time job hunt with a slightly spiffier resume. “Isn’t there an alternative to this process?” you may ask with wavering desperation in your voice. I’m afraid not, wearied hypothetical reader, now less secure in their future for having read this column. Whether or not this is the most fair or efficient system is a question for someone far smarter than I, the best that I can do is to educate you to the process. Graduating college is hard. Learning to use your college experience effectively is harder still. My point — if such a thing has managed to come across despite the bubbling concoction of cold medicine I’ve been frantically ingesting — is that quite a bit more goes into graduating school than just taking classes and donning a cap and gown. Sure, you can come out with a 4.0 GPA and be the pride and joy of your family. But if you don’t also have professors who can vouch for you, relevant work experience in your field and a particularly lucky rabbit’s foot, then you might as well just apply directly to Starbucks and call it a day. That’s not a reason to fret or call it quits before you’re done, but it’s a damn good reason to get your ducks in a row long before you register for your final couple of semesters. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get back to applying for internships while I down some Emergen-C and moan for a couple hours.

So... Windows 10 happened, didn’t it. Who even needs computers, anyway? That’s the wonder of having a hive mind, like we slugs do. It’s totally organic and healthier than sitting at a desk looking at a screen all day. And you get more information out of it. But nope, you humans skipped that stage of evolution, I guess. And that’s why you need to rely on clunky electronic boxes with screens to get your information. Actually, that’s where Microsoft came in with their Windows 10 keynote. Apparently holograms are the future! No touch, no keyboards — just a bunch of holograms. Well, as long as you wear a goofy headband. And that’s why Microsoft’s HoloLens, as they call it, will never catch on. You may remember that Google tried the same kind of thing with a product known as Google Glass. If anything, Google Glass was less intrusive. It looked like a normal pair of glasses with a tiny box attached on it. But that didn’t stop wearers and testers from getting constantly harassed. Google’s vision of a Glass wearer walking down the street and pulling up Facebook with nothing but his dulcet tones ended up not panning out all that well. Even with the tiny, low-footprint appearance of it, it was still enough to make wearers look like total dorks, and the public’s reaction showed that. Microsoft, meanwhle, wants to one-up that with a giant band going around the user’s head. Yes, it’s not exactly built for out-of-home or out-of-work use. But it still looks really stupid! Imagine walking around an office with that thing on your head! You may as well be wearing a Virtual Boy! I don’t care how awesome the tech looks from behind the lens. If you have to wear a clunky headset to use it, it won’t catch on. Think about it: the smartphone became popular when it became a small slab that could fit in your pocket and be checked easily with the press of a button. As I’ve stated in the past, consumers are lazy beasts. The less effort a new piece of technology takes, the more popular it becomes. It’s an easy curve to understand. And making consumers wear a gigantic ring around their heads takes too much effort. Wearing a special pair of Google glasses took too much effort. That’s why it failed. But moving on. That wasn’t the only announcement in Microsoft’s keynote. In fact, it wasn’t even the strangest announcement. Before the conference, George had read that Microsoft

was making a new commitment to PC gaming with Windows 10. And it made him excited! For years, Microsoft’s gaming strategy has involved the Xbox and little else. Valve and Steam have been picking up the slack on the PC front, and now that they’re slowly but surely moving to Linux, Microsoft needs to sell their next operating system to a group of consumers that continues to see little value in their brand. So what did they do? Users can now stream Xbox One games to your Windows 10 PC! ... Wait, what? Why? What’s the point? Why would George want to stream games from a weaker machine to his more powerful rig? Why would he want to stream console games over to his desk, where he’s sitting way close to the screen? Wouldn’t he want to play controller-based games on a comfy couch, eight feet away from the television, instead of a foot away from a monitor? Why? Why? The only way this can make sense at all is if you have one of the Windows tablets running the OS, but at that point, it’s all about getting the consumer to buy a product. It’s a feature specifically designed for people who throw money to buy peripherals from Microsoft. You need a $400 Xbox in the first place, then a $500 tablet to stream to. That’s $900 to basically play consolegrade games on a small screen, probably in bed. Plus, there’s the typical $60 for Xbox Live. For comparison, George can do that with his existing laptop and gaming PC for free, with games that look and play far better, with more flexible control schemes, on any operating system he sees fit for his laptop. This new OS has no point! This is an OS seemingly designed exclusively for tablets and phones, with actual computers as something of an afterthought. And even then, if you buy a tablet, you get a better experience with something like Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android, both of which have more apps and a smoother touch experience. On the bright side, Microsoft is offering the service for free during the first year. But the point is, who would want it? It’s a baffling decision, and I can’t see myself or George moving onto it anytime soon. Hell, I have a cool hive mind, so I don’t need any OS. But still, any opportunity to make fun of humanity’s stupid decisions is a good one indeed. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. EMBRACE THE SEAWOLF SLUG.

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Seawolf Student Filmmakers present short film at Bear Tooth

Following the UAA club’s 11-day production process from scriptwiritng to screening

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Gabi Riquelme poses with imitation vomit on the set of “The Phone” Jan. 24.

Cowriters Jacob Holley-Kline and Gabi Riquelme costarred in a short film produced by the Seawolf Student Filmmakers.

themselves, had never done acting like this, and Holleycontent@thenorthernlight.org Kline said the screening made him “partially excited … but Gabi Riquelme and Jacob super nervous.” Holley-Kline jerked awake to But once the film started, the blaring sounds of a phone the actors’ nerves dissipated, alarm Jan. 17, and the struggle and the premiere boosted their to turn it off was unlike any confidence. Riquelme said other fight they’d had before. seeing herself onscreen was But instead of moving on from “the best part of it.” the incident, they dwelled on it The film was well-received — and 11 days later, their story by the crowd. Audience was played on the big screen at members laughed in sympathy Bear Tooth Theatre Pub. with Riquelme’s frustration and The story seems simple at the moaned in disgust when first: Holley-Kline’s phone had Holley-Kline vomited after fallen between the bed frame diving head-first into a wall. and the wall, so the alarm looped “It’s so cool. It’s like the until they could dig biggest crowd I’ve it out from the tight seen just to watch a spot. The couple movie about puke bickered about — that I’ve made!” “It’s so cool. It’s like the biggest ways to retrieve said Seth Whipple, the phone as an who edited the crowd I’ve seen just to watch a obnoxious song film. movie about puke — that I’ve made!” blasted over and Duque said over again. But it making the vomit took not only some taste good was - SETH WHIPPLE, EDITOR jimmying, but also a challenge. a bashed head and Makeup artist Liz a bout of nausea to Savage said she pry it free. made the palatable The club decided to finish the Riquelme and Holley-Kline film before the upcoming Open concoction with “bananas, wrote a script called “The Projector Night XII at Bear milk, and a touch of food Phone” based on the dramatic Tooth Theatre Pub on Jan. 29. coloring.” Her realistic effect experience right after, and Event organizer D.K. Johnston gave the short film a visceral Holley-Kline pitched it to the said the event is “like an open element without negating its Seawolf Student Filmmakers mic night for filmmakers.” The humorous tone. club at 2 p.m. that day. The club only restrictions for submissions “It was gross, and it was liked the idea, so its members is that they must not exceed funny, and it was based launched production. 10 minutes in length and they on something real, so it’s Dan Duque volunteered must be delivered in person in a relatable,” said journalism and to step up as the producer, readable file format. communication major Sharon which is responsible for renting “We have no idea what the Yi after she saw the film. equipment and coordinating the content is,” Johnston said at Duque said the club will go crew. the beginning of the show, “so back to color-correct and clean “Because of (Journalism and there’s your forewarning.” up some sound on the film, and Communication Department The Seawolf Student then it will be made available media techncian) Sam Zeller, Filmmakers took advantage on YouTube within the next two we are able to have access to a of this freedom, exploiting weeks. lot of equipment,” Duque said. mild themes of sexuality in the The Seawolf Student “Some of the lenses and stuff beginning of the short to get the Filmmakers plan enter “The are our own, but otherwise it audience’s attention. Riquelme Phone” in competitions later would be the producer’s job to and Holley-Kline, starring as this year.

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find the money for the rental house equipment, and it would probably run around, in this town, 18-22 hundred dollars for the stuff that we have (on set) for a day.” Film club newcomer Abby Slater volunteered her room to be the location of the shoot. She got involved in Seawolf Student Filmmakers to widen her understanding of filmmaking beyond her previous experience in scriptwriting. As cameras, tripods, and microphones cluttered her room, there were many jobs to shadow and observe while club president Nichole Kruger directed the crew on set.

The Seawolf Student Filmmakers meet twice a week in the Professional Studies Building Broady Room. Club meetings are held at 2 p.m. Saturdays and free movie nights are held 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

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Camera operator L.J. Johnson tests a shot on the set of “The Phone” Jan. 23.

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Editor Seth Whipple, camera operator L.J. Johnson, sound operator David Blake and club staff adviser Sam Zeller pose after seeing “The Phone” at Bear Tooth Theatre Pub’s Open Projector Night XII on Jan. 29.

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‘The Raid: Redemption’ is mostly bad Most martial arts movies have bad character development and stories. They’re only redeemed through their fight scenes. A swift kick to the jaw or a fist to the stomach can mean the difference between a train wreck and a good time. “The Raid: Redemption” is mostly bad: bad story, no character depth and terrible acting. But the fight scenes. My god. The fight scenes. Filled to the brim with the incompetent police work that only an action movie can justify, “The Raid” follows the rookie Rama (Iko Uwais, “The Raid: Berandal”) as he and his team fight through 30 floors of an apartment building teeming with mobsters, gangsters and psychopaths. That’s really all the viewer needs to know. Some cursory character development attempts to give breadth to the violence, but the violence does just fine on its own. Uwais is boiling over with physical charisma, but any time he tries to act, it just feels wrong. And he’s not the only one. Without fail, every performance falls short. The story doesn’t fare much better. Rama is a cop with a pregnant wife at home who pops up in a montage to remind the viewer she exists. Relationships between the cops are lightly implied before they’re torn apart. Ultimately, “The Raid” is not about relationships. Its gratuitous heart is in the action. Each fight scene builds on the last. Director

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Gareth Evans is infatuated with stylish, intricately choreographed carnage. The bloodletting on display is dizzyingly brutal and never boring. Uwais truly shines here, showing that he can make up for his little acting experience in spades. Fists hit and heads bash with exacting force. Swift camera work propels these sequences to another level. At points, it seems like Evans glues his shot to the characters, falling and shifting with them. The result is jarring but keeps the narrative grounded. It’s not a stretch to say that “The Raid: Redemption” is one of the best martial arts movies of recent memory. Evans wants viewers to revel in the action, and anything between flying fists is filler. These are the kinds of heartpounding fight scenes that Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan performed at their peaks. If only the story could rend viewers expectations the same way. Title: “The Raid: Redemption” Director: Gareth Evans Release date: April 13, 2012 Genre: Action Country: Indonesia

MUSIC REVIEW

‘B4.DA.$$’

By Wright Franklin

KRUA 88.1 FM Music Manager

Very rarely is the debut album of a rapper preceded with such a large amount of anticipation and excitement as “B4.DA.$$.” Joey Bada$$, who just celebrated his 20th birthday, has sparked a huge amount of buzz with his movement, Pro Era, as well as his 2012 mixtape, “1999,” and 2013 EP, “Summer Knights.” The positive critical reception of these releases only grew and thrived on the fact that he was a teenager when they were recorded and released. Joey’s clever wordplay and rhymes have been compared to the biggest names in hip-hop and

rappers twice his age. The album has been set up to win. How can “B4.DA.$$” be a flop when the name of the album itself is a triple entendre? It’s a play on Joey’s name, a description of the album and a stylized writing of “before da money.” And the album lives up to its unusually elevated expectations. With production from the likes of Statik Selektah, Kirk Knight, DJ Premier, HitBoy and even the late hip-hop legend J Dilla, it’s possible that even if Joey Bada$$ was spitting stupid and slow bars, the record would still sell. However, this is not the case. In fact, Joey is at the top of his game here. The style of “B4.DA.$$” continues to maintain an old school vibe to the beats, coinciding with new school production value and of course Joey’s relevant and ever-complicated rhyme schemes. On “Big Dusty” he spits, “I guess my CD really shaking the coast, ‘cause this really be the year that I feast, capisce?” Other standout tracks are “Christ Conscious,” “On & On” and the nostalgic “O.C.B. (Only Child Blues).” As a January release, it seems that B4.DA.$$ signals the start to a great year for hip-hop — fingers crossed, we need it — and will be a hard record to top. Artist: Joey Bada$$ Album: “B4.DA.$$” Genre: Hip-hop Label: Cinematic Release date: Jan. 20, 2015

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UAA senior Matt Bailey signs pro NHL contract

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University of Alaska Anchorage senior hockey captain Matt Bailey signed a two-year contract with the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks on March 25. Bailey left Anchorage last week to play for Anaheim’s American Hockey League team in Norfolk, Va. Goseawolves.com reported that Matt is working with professors at UAA so that he can complete his Bachelor’s degree in marketing, and graduate this spring. Bailey posted career highs of 20 goals and 38 points in the 2013-14 hockey season with the SeaZROYHV %DLOH\ DOVR ¿QLVKHG KLV FROOHJLDWH FDUHHU with a ranking of 23rd all-time on the UAA scoring list with a total of 94 points in 138 career

games. Bailey started his professional career with the AHL’s Norfolk Admirals. According to Goseawolves.com, Bailey said, “I want to thank the people of Anchorage and the University of Alaska Anchorage for allowing me to chase my dreams while getting my education. I feel truly grateful to have been able to live in Alaska and have this amazing experience.” Bailey also added, “I’d like to thank the entire coaching staff this year for making this the best year of hockey of my career.” Bailey was recently named to the All-WCHA First Team, the WCHA All-Academic Team and honored as a WCHA Scholar-Athlete. Only one Seawolf alumnus, Jay Beagle, currently plays in the NHL. He plays for the Washington Capitals and played hockey for UAA from 2005-2007.

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UAA’s Health and Sciences Building is holding an exhibition until March 6 titled “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness.” In the third floor lobby of the building, five large posters labeled “healing,” “nature,” “tradition,” “community” and “individual” line the wall. Each of the banners has an iPad with headphones for the listener. Once listening, Katherine Gottlieb, President and CEO of the Southcentral Foundation will introduce herself and “Native Voices.” In the exhibition, listeners will discover new knowledge about Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives. On an iPad, users can navigate through speakers from different indiginous groups. Listeners can discover different tribal dances, healing powers of traditional diets as well as special sporting events. In the exhibition, M. Kaulia Clark, CEO at Kaulia Enterprises, speaks about Native Hawaiian dietary issues. “This center developed the Native Hawaiian diet with Dr. Shintani, who is a traditional practitioner along with us, Clark says. “He’s not here today. But in that traditional diet there was a woman that was on 75 units of insulin a day, and after three days of being on that diet, she was off all of her insulin and her body functions went back to normal. So it’s the McDonalds and Burger Kings and Pizza Huts and Kentucky Fried Chicken that lead Hawaiians down the pathway of diabetes.” Ashton Thompson, one of the few people her age who can speak the Choctaw language, talks about the Choctaw Annual Fair Tournament. “Stickball, there’s a lot of teams,” Thompson says. “We actually play ... in our fair that’s annually in July. And it’s actually a stickball tournament, and they call it stickball season. It’s where all the teams practice, and it usually starts in March or April. They start early, and then we’ll all play in the tournament in July. So now it’s — I guess you could say we use it for bragging rights as to where it used to be, you know, for the dispute of wars. But now it’s just something to showcase our traditions.”

The Native Voices exhibit will be on display Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through March 6.

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On Jan. 24, UAA’s Glee Club held auditions in the Fine Arts Building for the upcoming season. Auditions lasted for several hours, consisting of a solo audition, choreography, ensemble singing and a group rendition of Adele’s “Rumor Has It.” Glee Club President Lailani Cook was impressed by the energy of the new group. “This is a smaller turnout than I thought, but people are so busy,” she said. “We got some sent-in video requests when people couldn’t make it out to auditions. This is just a great opportunity for people that want to enjoy the stage that can’t or haven’t since they were kids.” Members’ audition pieces varied

from Bruno Mars’ pop and soul, musical numbers from “Chicago” and Ed Sheeran music featuring guitar accompaniment. After performing their solo pieces, everyone moved to the stage to show off future potential. Music played through the speakers, including “Wobble Baby” and “Hey Mrs. Carter.” Members followed choreographer Hazel De Los Santos until the moves were mastered. English major Bijan Welch is Glee Club treasurer and balances the club’s finances. She has been a member for almost two years. “The people who auditioned today all seemed to have a glow to them, and that’s one of the main traits we look for,” Welsh said. “Glee is all about family, being with people who have this one thing in common.” De Los Santos, a music and early childhood development major, is vice president of the group. De Los Santos

believed that auditions went better than expected. “They were all really good,” De Los Santos said. “When it came to the dance portion, I was blown away, they were putting Beyoncé down! That is by far one of the best dance auditions I have ever witnessed. Everyone was just giving me so much energy, and there was no tension. I could tell a few were nervous, but they were pretty chill. It already felt like rehearsal was starting already.”

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Black History Month kicks off with campus celebration Alaska civil rights leader E. Louis Overstreet speaks at UAA By Samantha Davenport arts@thenorthernlight.org

UAA’s Student Union Cafeteria transformed Jan. 29 into a place of celebration. Members of the community came together to eat, talk and rejoice at the Black History Month kickoff event. Andrew Freed II, president of the Black Student Union, welcomed everyone at the event. After introductions, there was a performance of two songs, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”

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“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is often referred to as the Black American National Anthem. The most memorable lyric sung was “Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us / Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.” After two beautiful renditions, food was served and socializing begun. After 30 minutes of mingling, Freed returned to the podium to introduce E. Louis Overstreet, Ph.D. Overstreet, Alaska Civil Rights leader and author of “Black on a Background of White: A Chronicle of AfroAmerican’s Involvement in America’s Last Frontier,” was the keynote speaker

at the event. Overstreet attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Ohio University in 1967 and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University class of 1973. He received a Ph.D in Engineering from California Coast University in 1988. He and his wife moved to Alaska in 1975 and he began work as a staff engineer for the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. “The only way we can make a difference is to understand our history, where we come from, so we know where we’re going,” he said.

FEB. 4: HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN A DIVERSE AND MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT Opportunities and Strategies for Rising Leaders, presented by Dr. Landry Singne’ Multicultural Center, RH 106. 4-6 p.m.

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