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UAA women boast a 9-0 record and an overall 12 game win streak

UAA parking services launches new parking app PassportParking app is expected to service over a hundred users and keep visitors out of the cold

The future of Seawolf athletics

The athletic department waits to find out what is next for UAA sports teams

UAA's total budget for athletics: $10.36 million Hockey: $1,347,311 Volleyball: $394,726 Gymnastics: $356,826 PHOTO BY YOUNG KIM

Using the new PassportParking app, a student can extend their parking permit without having to physically feed the meter.

By Cheyenne Mathews cmathews@thenorthernlight.org

As of this January, the UAA parking services is implementing a new way of paying for parking through the PassportParking app. The app is designed to be convenient for nontraditional students, especially in the winter, because it enables students or visitors to pay for their parking through the app instead of outside at the Pay’n’Park. Falon Harkins is the UAA associate director of parking services, and says that parking services started a soft launch in November for a small group of users to prepare for a full roll out in January for the spring semester.

“Passport can be a solution for virtually anywhere on campus that you need a permit to park,” Harkins said.

“In essence, if you can use a pay’n’park machine to buy a permit for the area you can use the app in lieu of that. Also, if you park in one place on campus and move to another we will still be able to see that you have paid for parking. Passport can be used at the parking meters for up to two hours and eliminates the need to carry loose coins.”

The students who will best benefit from the service are those who visit campus occasionally. Traditional and oncampus students would save more money by purchasing a parking permit for the year or the semester.

“A permit for the semester is $160 and allows you to park as much as you want

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through the semester,” Harkins said. “A two-hour parking session with the app is $4.20. If you are a full-time student spending several days a week on campus then a permit is a better choice. If you are an online student using the library or in a program that only has you on campus occasionally, then the app is a great option.”

UAA parking decided to implement the Passport app after the UAF system incorporated it into their parking services.

“Passport services many universities; also many other universities use or are adopting pay by app options,” Harkins said. “UAF chose Passport and that was a deciding factor in moving forward with them on our campus. Keeping the platforms consistent across campuses is one of the ways we can help ensure we are being efficient while also still growing and offering new programs that serve the varied parking needs of our customers.”

Harkins says the biggest benefit to students using the Passport service is its convenience.

“Convenience is the main benefit,” Harkins said. “You can pay from your phone, there is no need to walk across the parking lot to the machine then walk back. No need for a line at the machine and best of all you can extend your session directly from your phone. There is a 20 cent convenience fee for each transaction, extending a session is not a new transaction so you only pay the fee once

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Women's basketball: $446,429 Men's basketball: $467,375 Women's skiing: $279,708 Men's skiing: $279,708 Women's track & field: $242,100 Men's track and field: $242,150 Women's cross country: $134,880 Men's cross country: $134,610 GRAPHIC BY JIAN BAUTISTA

By Alexis Abbott

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With extensive budget cuts impacting departments university-wide, concerns regarding athletics at UAA — and the future of the sports teams have been expressed. The uncertainty of Seawolf athletics has been looming for several months now, leaving student-athletes and coaches fearful of potential elimination.

A proposal that was later reversed by University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen to cut the ski and track teams raised a lot of controversy in the athletic community and was a reality check for many of the sports teams.

The decision to reverse the proposal by Johnsen and the National Collegiate Athletics Association led to some relieved ski and track athletes, but since budget cuts for the athletic department at UAA are certain, there are now a few other teams rumored to be up for a possible cut.

There is a possibility that both the gymnastics and hockey teams could be the ones to go.

The athletic department is on a $10.36 million budget for the fiscal year 2017, while the sports teams have a total budget of $4.33 million. Hockey is by far the most expensive sport - with a budget of $1,347,311. Gymnastics falls right in the middle of the teams with a $356,826 bud-

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Keith Hackett, the director of athletics has high expectations for the studentathletes and coaches, even through all of the unpredictability.

“I still think we are going to have a significant budget reduction, but what we’re waiting on is if it is going to be a budget reduction that is implemented over one year, three years or five years,” Hackett said. “That really changes how our athletic department will continue to operate.”

Hackett revealed that the athletic department will have to rely less on general fund dollars from the state, and continue to work on external fundraising strategies.

“We’re going to have to deal with the reductions that we’re given just like every other department on campus. We’re going to have to deal with the reductions that we get,” Hackett said. “And that’s my job.

I have to make sure that we continue to move forward and present the best program we can, even through those difficult budget reductions that are coming.”

Being a division I or II athlete is not easy, and according to gymnast Morgan Ross, student-athletes do a lot for the academic standing as well as the face of the university. Ross is the captain of the gymnastics team and believes that both

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ATHLETICS: Potential budget cuts threaten to diminish UAA athletics Continued from cover the gymnasts, and other athletes, provide a lot of benefits both in the community and the classroom.

“I think at this point, it’s pretty much out of our control, and as a gymnastics team we’ve spent a lot of time this semester writing to the Board of Regents and attending different meetings and doing

lots of community outreach and volunteer work,” Ross said. “I think at this point we’re just trying to focus on our upcoming season and all of the things we can control instead of worrying what might be happening in the future.”

With a reduction in state support, the athletic department must look for outside resources to support the high budget that is necessary to manage the 13 sports team at UAA.

Nate Sagan, the assistant director of athletics who specializes in media relations, thinks that the best thing for the athletic community is to patiently wait and see what changes will have to be made.

“There is a lot of decisions to be made in the legislature this term, so I think it’s too early to know what will happen at this point,” Sagan said. “In a perfect world, it would be great to have our normal lev-

el of funding, but we understand that things are tough at a statewide level and it would be nice to be able to find a way, with whatever happens, to have the same success - academically and athletically.”

The future of Seawolf athletics is still to be determined, but those in the department are actively working to create the best possible outcome for both coaches and student-athletes.

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How a repeal of affordable health care will affect Alaskans

President Trump’s plan to replace Obamacare

By Alexis Abbott

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An approval by the House of Representatives has set up a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Debate surrounding “Obamacare” has been of issue since it was passed in 2010, and with President Donald Trump in office with a majority Republican congress, a healthcare replacement is expected to take effect.

In an interview with ABC news, Vice President Mike Pence reassured Americans that if they wish to keep their plan with the Affordable Care Act, they can.

Pence stated, “Any American who has insurance today, through an Obamacare exchange, or through the Obama plan itself, should have no anxiety about losing their insurance. We’re committed to an orderly transition to a new and better health insurance set of reforms that are going to work for every American just like the President-elect said.”

Whether Trump and Pence will repeal and replace or follow through with their word is to be determined.

Judy Eledge, president of the Anchorage Republican Women’s Club supports a repeal and replacement of the health care law. Eledge thinks that decisions like national health care should not be decided by politicians in D.C. “Alaskans are in serious trouble. There is only one insurer in the state because of the Affordable Care Act. We expanded Medicaid and the state can’t even pay doctors...nothing Trump does in a repeal would be worse,” Eledge said. “My hope is that Donald Trump as a businessman will know how to tackle this in a much better way than most politicians.”

According to the U.S. Department of Health and

Healthcare in Alaska Employer Coverage: Medicaid: Private Coverage: Medicare:

source: www.hhs.gov Human Services, the uninsured rate in Alaska has fallen 25 percent since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, while 36,000 Alaskans gained coverage.

Portia Watson Noble, vice chair of the ARWC and graduate of UAA believes that the relationship between doctors and their patients should not involve politicians and government regulators.

“Transparent and realistic policy is the only way Americans will reach their full potential. I am in full support of the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act or what I describe as Obamacare. I do agree with a sustainable replacement as long as budgets are

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met, taxes are not increased and regulations are not expanded,” Noble said. “Any replacement that regains the trust between patients and doctors, lowers premiums, decreases the state’s budget and helps all Alaskans to become more self sufficient will be good for Alaskans.”

If a repeal of the Affordable Care Act passes, lawmakers must initiate legislation to replace the bill, leaving some time before any major changes for healthcare in America.

The Edge Update: Alaska stalking, El Chapo extradited and warming global temperatures after, he perfected a system of underground tunnels and hatches in many of his homes that allowed him to elude the authorities time after time. His escapades halted for a time after his arrest in 2014, but resumed when he escaped Altiplano, Mexico’s most secure prison. He lived under 24-hour surveillance and managed to escape using a tunnel built by his associates the following year. When the Mexican government recaptured him last year, the government said it would allow Loera to be extradited to the U.S. for trial, where it is highly unlikely he will be able to escape again. His extradition happened suddenly and unexpectedly, after close to a year of appeals and legal procedures.

By Max Jungreis KRUA

Local According to a new survey, more than a third of Alaskan women have been stalked. The results come from the Alaska Victimization Survey, a study conducted in 2015 by the state Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault as well as the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center, based on a sample of over 3,000 women. This indicates that some 80,800 Alaskan women have been

stalked. Of this number, 15,000 were stalked the year before they took the survey. More than 5,800 had experienced stalking in the last year. Comparatively, a nationwide study by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted in 2011 found that 18.3 million American women, or 15.2 percent, had experienced stalking in their lifetimes.

Andre Rosay, director of the UAA Justice Center, attributed the different rates to the CDC’s stricter definition of stalking. The researchers that worked on the Alaskan survey hope to produce a report focusing exclusively on Anchorage later

this month.

National Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as El Chapo, was extradited to the United States last Thursday. The extradition marks the end of an effort to prosecute the drug lord that has dragged on for decades. Loera, head of the Sinaloa cartel, made his name as a billionaire drug dealer, fueling the addiction crisis in America while his foot soldiers killed by the hundreds in Mexico. In 2001, Loera escaped from prison by possibly hiding in a laundry cart. In the years

Global As expected, 2016 has been declared the world’s warmest year since humans began consistently tracking global temperatures in the 1880s, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The global average surface temperature for the year was 58.784 degrees, higher than any previous year. 22 separate nations or territories tied or broke their personal records for high temperatures. The region most dramatically affected may be the Arctic.

Sea ice in the region set new records for low coverage of the sea surface in seven months of 2016. The extent of Arctic sea ice now covers 40 percent less area during peak melt season than it did in the early 1980s.

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What to do with your leftover beer from beer week If ‘leftover beer’ exists, this is what you should do with it • 1/8

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Now that beer week is officially over and done with, try something new with your excess brews.

Beer Cheese A go-to comfort food, this beer cheese is best served hot and is perfect for pretzel dipping.

Ingredients

Add a brew-worthy twist to a favorite chocolate treat. Dark beers and porters will work best for this fudgy dessert.

Use this sweet and tangy BBQ sauce on grilled chicken, sloppy joes or even pizza. The recipe yields approximately 2 and 3/4 cups.

• 1 box of fudge brownie mix

• 3 cups shredded extra

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• 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1/8

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• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

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2. Once the ingredients are stirred together, let the sauce cool for about 3 minutes.

3. Once cool, transfer the sauce to a blender and blend until the desired consistency is reached.

4. Pour the sauce into a bottle that can be stored in the refrigerator.

Parental control: School, work and family

Parents attending UAA share stories of their daily lives

By Brenda Craig

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Imagine your daily life attending class, studying, working and making time for hobbies and friends. Now, imagine throwing a couple kids into the mix of your daily life. Managing school and work is tough as it is, so working parents attending school are an inspiration and show great dedication. The most recent study in 2014 from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research indicates that in 2011, 26 percent of students attending college were parents.

Attending college full time can be looked at as a job itself. Dedicating 40 or more hours a week for school easily interferes with managing children’s schedules and the parent’s schedule as well.

“I treat my school like a job. I work at it from 9:30 - 5:30 every weekday, a little extra on the weekends, but don’t want to neglect my family, so I usually only get

two to three hours in on the weekends,” Holly Roth, dental hygiene major and mother of three, said. “I usually sneak in extra studying at night after the kids are in bed, too.”

Roth has three children the ages of 17, 14 and 11. After working for her father who was a dentist for 20 years, Roth decided to go back to school to pursue a degree.

“I look forward to getting back into the clinical aspect of what I’ve been doing my whole life,” Roth said. “Hygiene is the best future for me as far as flexibility with family and children, and grandchildren in the future.”

College students are known for staying up late to study. Students who are parents sacrifice rest for studying while the children are asleep.

“It’s my job to juggle school, kids, homework and studying, even if that’s with babies in my lap. I normally have to stay awake way after everyone and wake up before they do,” Christina Colburn, a

mother of two pursuing a nursing degree, said.

Colburn has a seven-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter. Originally, Colburn received an associates degree in criminal justice, then decided to switch degrees and apply for the nursing program. When she first started school, her oldest was four years old. Colburn is able to take time for her studies with the help of after school programs and day cares.

Although UAA cannot provide day care for children, the university understands the amount of parents who are students by providing them with fun and free activities throughout the year such as Family Movie Night.

“Sometimes students are strapped for entertainment for their families that doesn’t cost them an arm and a leg, so that was the emphasis many years ago to start the Family Movie Night,” Annie Route, Student Life and Leadership director, said.

The Student Union is excited to pres-

ent a new feature coming soon for new mothers.

“We’re getting one [lactation station] called a Pod and it’s going to be in the lower level of the Student Union,” Route said. “So if you’re nursing and have to go to class, it’s a nice thing to have.”

One major piece of advice for those who may be starting a family while in school is to keep a tight schedule.

“Make a schedule and stick to it. Get ahead as much as possible and don’t procrastinate, life throws too many curve balls to not be on top of your game,” Roth said.

Through the hardships of school, work, and family it is easy to admire those who are putting in for all hours of the day. These parents who attend UAA are working hard to provide a better life for them and their children and set a positive example for those wanting to create their own family.

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Localize It: Say yes to the ‘Yellow Dress’

Jamal Reed releases his debut album, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Google Play

By Madison McEnaney arts2@thenorthernlight.org

At the end of last November, Jamal Reed released his debut album to the world titled “Yellow Dress.” This full length, eleven track album takes a listener on a journey through Reed’s mind, exploring all of the thoughts and feelings that helped him write and make this album.

Reed grew up in a family of musicians and therefore had been immersed in that type of culture at a very young age. With his father and older brother being successful musicians, Reed always knew

he wanted to try his take at making music. With that, the song lyric writing for “Yellow Dress” began back in 2012, when Reed had much smaller plans for this album. “‘Yellow Dress’ started out as an EP that I planned to release back in 2012. I had around four songs that my older brother and I planned to record at home and throw together. But then my brother started going through a divorce, and I wrote a song about his experience with that. I wrote another one, and another one, and before we knew, it this project turned into something bigger, and took on a larger story than what I had originally planned,” Reed said.

‘Yellow Dress’ then turned into a concept album with a few different stories embedded into it. Reed has three songs on the album that addresses his brother’s divorce and three songs that Reed wrote about his earlier, younger relationships. The rest of the album is written for someone that Reed had feelings for, but no true way of showing what he felt in any other way than through his music.

While Reed’s family served as inspirations for his early music career, he turned to a few other important musicians to help him create “Yellow Dress.”

“John Mayer served as a huge inspiration for me and this album, as far as how the album sounds. Another artist,Elliott Smith helped inspire me on the lyric side of the music,” Reed said. “My favorite

part about making music is kind-of also my least favorite part, which is song writing. I’ll start with a melody on my guitar, and write from there. I consider myself a writer before anything else, so writing music just makes sense for me, even if it is hard sometimes.”

Since its release last year, “Yel-

low Dress” is available on Soundcloud, iTunes, Google Play and other music platforms. Reed recorded the album in his athome studio with the help of his cousin and, since its release, has been working to make sure people know about his music and what he does.

UAA hosts 33rd annual Student Showcase

Students can enter their best work from 2016 to potentially win a cash prize

By Brenda Craig

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Every year, UAA hosts a showcase that allows students from all majors to come together and submit their best work from that school year to be evaluated and possibly presented in the Student Showcase Conference. Submission can be from any academic area from visual art, music to term papers as long as they were completed in class at UAA. Participants are able to share their work with the community and gain the experience of networking with community professionals while potentially winning up to $300.

Their work will also be published in the UAA Student Showcase Journal.

Created over 30 years ago, the Student Showcase has evolved to provide students with experience and the chance to openly present their hard work.

“They saw the need or the opportunity for students to have more of a chance to dialogue with people from the community and get the opportunity to present their work so they designed this conference, and it’s evolved over the years. It’s not exactly the same as it was the first time they did it,” Annie Route, Student Life and Leadership director, said.

Last year, Nicole Wilson was one of three winners at the UAA Student Showcase. She submitted a final research project she had written in Spanish for Saints and Sinners: Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature (SPAN A432). This was the

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second time participating in the Student Showcase and Wilson was able to score high enough the second time around in the evaluation to continue to the presentation round and win the competition.

“There are all sorts of benefits, not only do you get the chance to have your work published and win $300 cash, but you get to share your hard work with your community, test your presentation skills, grow your confidence, add to your academic CV and continue learning about a topic that you were already interested in,” Wilson said.

The deadline for submissions is Jan. 30, 2017 and the Notification of Acceptance will be in March 2017. The participants who scored high enough will compete in the Showcase Conference on April 6 and 7 with a presentation and ten minutes of Q&A at the end. All the participants who score high enough to present will earn a $400 tuition waver and the winners will be awarded with an additional $300 cash.

“There are community judges present at each presentation who judge the projects by some arbitrary criteria that is cho-

sen each year by the people who run Student Showcase, as none of the judges are experts in the fields to which your project belongs,” Samantha Mack, participant in the 2016 Student Showcase, said. “The only stressful part is the actual presentation, and that’s really only stressful if you’re not used to giving presentations, as the audience isn’t particularly large.”

There is a different amount of winners each year depending on the material submitted in the showcase. Student Life and Leadership is in charge of determining the number of winners.

“If there are five students whose work is ‘winner material,’ then all five students will be winners for that year,” Wilson said.

Wilson won her second try at the showcase, and she encourages other students to participate in the showcase and gain the positive experience she was able to have.

“Just submit something, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain,” Wilson said.

Submissions are due Jan. 30 for the 33rd annual Student Showcase. If there was a project or paper you are proud of from the 2016 spring, summer or fall semesters, turn it in to be eligible for the chance to present at the showcase. You have already done the work, so share your creativity with the community while potentially winning a $300 cash prize and a chance to be published in the UAA Student Showcase Journal.

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transaction so you only pay the fee once regardless if you extend it for more time.”

This service is also convenient for students who park at different parts of campus throughout the day because the service uses the vehicle’s license plate instead of a physical permit.

“Additionally since it uses the license plate of the vehicle so there is no physical permit to concern with being visible or being blown off the dash by a defroster,” Harkins said. “Also since you do not need to see the car you could pay for another car if you wanted, let’s say someone is coming to campus and you want to pay for their parking you could do so without meeting them in the parking lot by simply having them text you the license plate.

The app also holds a record of all your transactions so you can do things like add up exactly how much you spent on parking in a semester to determine if a permit is a better choice. You can set it to notify you by text when your parking is about to run out, which is handy.”

The UAA parking services website lays out the process for using the PassportParking app. Step one is to download the app, which is available through Google Play and the App Store. Step two is to enter the zone number, license plate number, and length of stay. Step three is to use the service wherever there is a Passport sign or decal.

The service is still very new, but Harkins estimates that about a quarter of all current Pay’n’Park machine users will be

using the app by the semester’s end and that there will be at least hundreds of users. Glenna Muncy, director of Parking Services, is quoted on the UAA parking service saying that this service will bring a good resource for convenient parking.

“UAA Parking is excited to bring this new parking payment option to campus,” Muncy wrote. “Passport will provide additional convenience to students, staff, faculty, and visitors who can now pay for parking right from their phone without ever leaving their car, office, classroom or study group. Convenience is especially important in Alaska’s northern climate where winter temperatures frequently drop below freezing.”

UAF isn’t the only university that has previously implemented the PassportParking app. The UAA parking web page states that this app is frequently utilized in bigger cities.

“Passport can be found in large cities like Boston, Chicago, Toronto and Detroit, it’s also used at other Universities like North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, Michigan State University and the University of Central Florida,” stated the UAA Parking service website. “The parking app is available to use at all of the 5,000 parking spaces on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus.”

For students who are interested in trying the PassportParking app, parking services are currently running a promotion where students can receive $2 off their parking session of $2 or more when using the app. Once the session is started, users can choose the discount button in the app and enter the code to receive $2 off.

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Stellan Skarsgard saves ‘In Order of Disappearance’

By Jacob Holley-Kline Contributor

It’s hard to make violence in movies meaningful. So hard, in fact, that most movies, especially big budget releases, can’t get their head around it. The Norwegian action “In Order of Disappearance” looks, on the surface, like it treats death with gravity. If you look any deeper, however, this isn’t the case. Thankfully, the movie has a killer lead performance to lean on.

In rural Norway, the mild-mannered snowplow driver Nils lives with his wife.

Soon after winning an award for being an excellent citizen, his son is killed and his murder covered up. Knowing the police won’t do anything, Nils aims to kill the person responsible. It’s not long until his mission for revenge sticks him in the middle of a brutal gang war.

On the one hand, the movie on its own feels disingenuous. The editing can be slipshod, the characters don’t feel fleshed out, and the story is generic as far as revenge thrillers go. On the other hand, it can be disarmingly funny and Stellan Skarsgard is at his best as Nils. If it weren’t for these two qualities, “In Order of Disappearance” would be another forgettable action flick.

Adding onto this, director Hans Petter Moland has a deft eye for parallels. From the beautiful opening shot, Nils plowing the snow and cutting to shaving his face,

Moland shows his chops. He doesn’t stop there, either. While the story gets more generic, Moland gets more creative. His take on violence is especially mesmerizing. The kills are creative, often brutal, but he tows the line between exploring and exploiting them.

The cinematography deepens this balance. Like so many Norwegian action or crime flicks, “In Order of Disappearance” is a grayscale beauty. Rural Norway is a setting ripe for despair. It’s vast, though it never overcrowds the people inhabiting it. Like any good movie, “Disappearance” sticks with its main character and diverges only where necessary.

Skarsgard makes that easy. Where Nils could’ve become another boring Mr. Chips to Scarface downfall story, Skarsgard keeps him from becoming a cliche.

The problem is how quickly Nils reverts. Skarsgard makes the transition less jarring, but the movie doesn’t establish his character with enough specificity to make his almost immediate decision to wreak vengeance feel haphazard.

At best, “In Order of Disappearance” is the thinking man’s action movie. It’s got enough depth for the intellectual crowd and enough blood for the gorehounds. It certainly has its problems, but Skarsgard carries the movie in spite of them. Aiding him, Moland’s observant lens adds style to an otherwise empty, violent exercise. It tries to be otherwise, but don’t be fooled without Skarsgard the movie would be nothing new.

“In Order of Disappearance”

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DIRECTOR Hans Petter Moland

RELEASE DATE Feb. 10, 2014

COUNTRY Norway

GENRE Action

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Renouf twins make their UAA hockey debut

After transferring in as redshirts for the previous season, the twins now prove to be a large asset to the team

By Lauren Cuddihy

sports2@thenorthernlight.org

The Renouf twins, Jonah and Nathan, transferred to UAA from the division I Quinnipiac University in 2015, but only to redshirt the entire season at UAA. Not long after, turmoil began to brew as a prospective hockey cut put the twins’ future collegiate hockey career on the edge.

After over a year in Alaska holding on with anticipation, the Renoufs’ finally got to step onto the ice for the first time to compete with their team in September 2016. As the team suffered a rocky start as a whole, the twins’ started to thrive and be the perfect duo the Seawolves needed.

“To going through some slumps, as a team and individually, I think our team is definitely headed in the right direction and we can definitely make some noise in the next 5-6 weeks before playoffs come along,” Jonah said.

Nathan added that they have made a comeback and have already beaten some of the best teams in the league. Out of the most recent 10 games, the Seawolves have only lost three. This puts them at No. 9 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Even at this rank, the Seawolves were able to recently beat No. 1 Bemidji State and tie with No. 2 Michigan Tech.

This season to date, Jonah and Nathan have accumulated eight points each, good for a three-way tie for third highest on the team. Most collegiate athletes never get to play a sport with their siblings, but the

twins have been fortunate to make it this far together; this sport has brought them a lot closer.

“The biggest advantage of having a twin on my team is obviously the continuous support of someone that always has your back. Also, the chemistry we have developed over the years is very helpful game-wise,” Jonah said.

Both twins have been on the ice for nearly their entire life, as the love for the sport was passed down from their father.

“My dad built us a backyard rink every year until we were about 16, so we learned to skate around and just fell in love with the sport,” Jonah said.

With such a long history and experience in hockey, it’s only natural to see the skill and chemistry they share on the ice as they play. Fortunately, that was what brought them to UAA. With very little playing time in Quinnipiac, the two mutually decided to transfer. Not only did UAA work out well for hockey, but also for them to get their degrees.

“UAA was a good fit, as the coach [Matt Thomas] is from our hometown, so he had watched us play growing up, he knew what kind of players we were. UAA also has a great engineering program, so it fit our academic interests as well,” Nathan said.

Both of the twins are mechanical engineering majors and hope to see themselves be successful in that field in the future. However, as they have already redshirted two year, the twins’ final academic year is next year, but they still have

The Renouf twins celebrate a goal with teammates mid-game.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ADAM PHILIPS

Jonah Renouf guards the puck against the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

two more years of NCAA eligibility.

While Nathan expressed interest in a possible double major or masters degree, Jonah considers a possible future hoping to play professional hockey at some point. At this point, the twins were more focused on the recent weekend games against Northern Michigan on Friday, Jan. 20 and Saturday, Jan. 21.

“I think this weekend [was] a huge weekend to determine where we’re at in the standings and where the season will

continue to progress,” Jonah said.

Despite coming in with an optimistic attitude for the back-to-back weekend games, the Seawolves suffered an unfortunate double loss against Northern Michigan at 1-6 in the first game and 0-4 in the second game.

The Renouf twins and UAA Hockey team will be back in action and ready to redeem themselves on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Sullivan Arena against Minnesota State Mankato.

Nathan Renouf battles for the puck in a face-off against the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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UAA women’s basketball looks forward as No. 1 in West Region

As the UAA women’s basketball team nears the end of the season, the team still continues to maintain high standings

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN DELAPP

Autummn Williams goes up for a layup at a home game against Seattle Pacific.

By Lauren Cuddihy

sports2@thenorthernlight.org

The Seawolves women’s basketball team has been in season for nearly three months now, with only an absolute maximum of nine weeks left, if they were to make it to the NCAA Elite Eight. As it stands, the team has a pretty high chance of making it that far. The team currently holds the No. 1 seed in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, being the only undefeated team in GNAC, the women boast a 9-0 record and an overall 12 game win streak.

In addition, the women are also the No. 1 seed in the West Regional division II standings, holding on overall 28-2 record. This high seeding is enough to place them at No. 5 in the entire country, up two spots from their previous No. 7.

The team ended the 2015-2016 season not only in the NCAA Elite Eight, but as the runner-up in the national division II championships. With the the impressive standings that the team currently holds, there is a likely chance they will be able to make it again.

Even with a distinctly different team than last year, there’s still a lot of success seen in the players.

“Our team is so different and we lost a lot of great players last year, [but] our standards, expectations and goals are the same and I don’t think that being so new makes it any less possible,” senior forward Alysha Devine said.

As the season progressed, the Seawolves continued their 13 game win streak and undefeated conference standing at the back-to-back games against Seattle Pacific and Saint Martin’s on Thursday, Jan. 19 and Saturday, Jan. 21, respectively.

To start the weekend off with a close call, the Seawolves prevailed over Seattle Pacific with a slim lead of 9 points, ending the game at 71-62. They suffered a rough start, although the began with a 5 point lead, the second quarter proved to be extremely daunting, allowing Seattle Pacific to out score them 23-9.

With help from senior forward Autummn Williams and senior point guard Kiki Robertson, the Seawolves were able to make a come back in the third quarter.

Slowly but surely, the Seawolves’ offense pushed passed SPU to soon carry the lead.

Ahead only a slim couple of points, UAA quickly lost their lead in a toggle between SPU. Williams and Robertson excelled and attempted to redeem the team but only to end up at a 56-52 deficit with less than four minutes remaining.

In a last ditch effort from Williams, sophomore guard

Zhara Laster blocks an opponent as she steals the ball in the Jan. 21 home game against Saint Martin.

Tara Thompson and Devine, the Seawolves finished the closest game off yet with a win at 71-62. In addition to the win, Williams secured a career-high 29 points.

With such a close call, the team knew they had to re-focus.

“We struggled because we lacked focus and we didn’t come out ready to compete like we should have and SPU really did. Thankfully we pulled off a dub but it’s definitely good for us to have some adversity like that in a close game against a good team and pull ourselves out of it,” Devine said.

In order to make a comeback and redeem their reputation, UAA competed against Saint Martin’s on Saturday, Jan. 21 and prospered.

Sitting at complete opposite spectrums of the GNAC rankings, the Seawolves No. 1 had an obvious advantage over Saint Martin’s No. 11. SMU came in having won only a single game in the entire conference season.

Similar to the Thursday night game against Seattle Pacific, the duo of Williams and Robertson lead the team. The Seawolves secured the lead early on in the game that then skyrocketed after they reached 15 points.

With such a successful game, UAA proved to sur-

pass many individual and team records. They tied with their nation-leading steals average of 17. They converted all seven of their free throws. In addition, they excelled over Saint Martin’s with a 52 percent average in comparison to their 34 percent.

In addition to a quick total overall lead, every single one of the active and eligible Seawolves scored in the game. Williams and Robertson brought in the most with a combined 28. Sophomore forward Hannah Wandersee and Thompson also brought an additional 8 each. In addition, junior forward Sierra Afoa scored 7.

It was only expected that the Seawolves would excel over Saint Martin’s, but with the win, UAA furnished the school record win streak of 17 consecutive road wins and 14 GNAC road wins.

After yet another successful weekend, the Seawolves are ready to continue forward. “We just have to stay focused, keep pushing each other and growing as a team every day and every game, and I think that we could reach our ultimate goal,” Devine said.

UAA plays again at home on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the Alaska Airlines Center against UAF.

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