March 3, 2012 by The Northern Light

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April 3, 2012

University of Alaska Anchorage

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UAA “Department of Computer Science and Engineering” merges established programs

By Evan Dodd Staff Reporter

Big changes are coming to UAA’s computer related programs. A merger between the Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering programs was recently announced by Provost Mike Driscoll. The changes,

proposed entirely by faculty, will create a new department under the School of Engineering known as the “Department of Computer Science and Engineering.” The move is meant to provide students with a more robust selection of courses and will help to consolidate the expertise contained in both programs.

Additionally, the merge will help to eliminate duplicate courses currently offered by both programs. The merge, proposed by university faculty in early January, will move funding and faculty from the current Computer Science program to the School of Engineering for

use with the new department. According to Kim Peterson, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, merging the departments also brings the added benefit of accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. “Students will now see special

accreditation of their programs. The computer science program has never had special accreditation from ABET until now. It will grant more prestige to graduates of the program.” said Peterson. ABET is an international organization that accredits college programs dealing with

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‘Bring Back the Sunshine’ an emotional send-off (with original music written by Professor Mari Hahn), that involves both a traditional cast Scraps of fabric and fur are and puppet characters. The story strewn about in a haphazard revolves around a girl, Elena, who war zone. Plaster faces and half- has to rescue her husband from finished heads are resting on work an evil general with the help of tables, and whimsical garments friends she meets along the way. are adorning mannequins. It’s not In true fairytale fashion, many a Tim Burton of these new workshop friends are you’re animals, and invading, puppets. it’s the UAA “Bring costume shop; Back the the heart of Sunshine” Professor Fran is more Lautenberger’s than a final kingdom for collaborative the past 26 work for years. Lautenberger, Her reach who is also extends far serving as past the the show’s costume shop director. The however, and play is several -- Jonathan Minton years in the this jack-of-alltrades has had making, her hand in every aspect of theater some better than others. at one time or another. Now, after “I started it three or four years two and a half decades of devoted ago as a lark, as a joke; it was service to UAA, she’s cashing in going to make fun of everybody her last paycheck and retiring. I worked with,” she said. “It was But not before putting on one going to be a metaphor for my final show. husband and I, you know, being “Bring Back the Sunshine” is in Alaska. Tra-la-la, and I came an original musical, written by up with this thing, and it was all both Lautenberger and former See SUNSHINE Page 6 UAA student, Jonathan Minton

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

UAA professor Fran Lautenberger leaves the Theatre Dept. with one final play

“...to have somebody whose opinion you respect and trust come to you and offer you something that really is a very personal project, and trust you with it; it’s an invaluable experience.”

UAA Professor Fran Lautenberger shows off one of the handmade puppets to be featured in the upcoming performance of “Bring back the Sunshine.’” photo by Krystal garrison/TNL

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News| April 3, 2012

NEWS briefs

Shell gets injunction for Arctic drill ships A federal judge has ordered representatives of Greenpeace USA to stay a kilometer away from Shell Oil’s drilling vessels destined for Arctic Ocean waters off Alaska’s northern shores. The 29-page order signed Wednesday by Judge Sharon Gleason in Anchorage grants a preliminary injunction requested by Shell through Oct. 31, the end of the open water drilling season. A 500-meter safety zone is in place for support vessels. The restrictions apply to U.S. territorial waters up to 12 miles from shore and could be extended to 200 miles off shore. Shell sought the injunction after Greenpeace New Zealand activists, including actress Lucy Lawless, in February boarded the Shell drill ship Noble Discoverer before it left for the U.S. West Coast for cold-weather modifications. The activists were arrested.

Soldiers coming home in waves

Fort Wainwright’s Stryker soldiers are coming home in waves. The main group of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, has begun to return with the arrival Thursday of about 150 soldiers. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says soldiers are returning from a one-year deployment in southern Afghanistan. The remainder of the roughly 4,000-soldier unit will return in the next few weeks. It was not just families who came to Fort Wainwright to welcome back the soldiers. Richard and Caroline Miller came to Fort Wainwright with a bag of cookies and a name of a soldier they do not know to greet. They said they are from the Vietnam War generation and wanted to make sure this generation of soldiers felt more welcomed when they returned.

Sat image shows activity at North Korea launch site

New satellite imagery appears to show preparations beginning for a longrange rocket launch in North Korea despite international objections. The image from a privately operated satellite was taken Wednesday at the Tongchang-ri site where North Korea says it plans to launch the rocket between April 12 and 16. An analysis conducted for the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says the image shows trucks and fuel tanks, and work on the project underway next to a mobile launch pad. North Korea says the launch is to fire an observation satellite into orbit. The U.S. says it is a cover to test long-range missile technology.

One wounded in man’s shooting spree A 23-year-old gunman wounded the father of his former girlfriend in an office building in Finland on Friday, then went to a nearby school and fired several shots through a classroom door, police said. No one was hurt at the junior high school, and the attacker quickly surrendered. Police did not identify the gunman but said he had no criminal record. The suspect could be charged with attempted murder and endangering the public. Detective Chief Inspector Jari Kinnunen said the man had gone to the school in search of the former girlfriend after he had shot and slightly injured her 50-year-old father in an office in the town of Orivesi, 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Helsinki. Kinnunen said the gunman had been dating the girl but that the relationship had ended. “They had started going out together ... but he was not satisfied with the situation,” Kinnunen said, without giving further details. The gunman fired six shots with a hunting rifle through the closed door of a classroom occupied by a teacher and several students, but no one was hit, Kinnunen said. Compiled by Evan Dodd

MERGER: Department offers new opportunities for UAA students Creation of a new department under the School of Engineering will merge the current computer science and computer systems engineering programs Continued From Cover engineering, computing and applied science. Completion of an ABET certified program can look very appealing to future employers and academic programs. This decision to combine the programs is a definite change of pace, as Computer Science has been a part of the Mathematical Sciences department for the past 35 years. The newly formed department is intended to strengthen both programs and create new opportunities for students. “The two departments were smaller than optimal size, so the move was meant to achieve the most efficiency by combining the two programs.” said Peterson in reference to the merge. Orson Smith, Interim Dean of Engineering, seemed very excited about the prospect of combining the two programs. Smith was quick to express his hope for the program as well as his pride in the staff involved with the proposal. “The merger has benefits for students, for UAA, and for Alaska with consolidated faculty talent and program resources. I think it’s

remarkable because it is a 100% faculty-initiated endeavor.” Smith explained. “These specialists acted in the best tradition of faculty governance of curriculum to put the merger before the UAA administration. The benefits of the merger are entirely to their credit.” Although some concern has been expressed over the merge, the overall response has been positive. Most concerns stem from the fact that the Computer Science program will no longer be a part of the Mathematical Sciences department, a move that can be seen as counter intuitive. “From my perspective, the only drawback may be that Computer Science may not be as well served in the long run by being a part of the Engineering department,” Peterson acknowledged, “But the short term benefits of the merge far outweigh any long-term potential for harm.” Students affected by the changes seem to have reacted in a similar fashion to faculty members, with many expressing their approval of the merge.

“I don’t really have an issue with the shift because personally I think that engineering would be a more fitting department for Computer Science to fall under,” explained Evan Riley, current Computer Science student. “The CS program by itself isn’t that large, I don’t see how it could hurt it to merge with the Computer Systems Engineering program.” Though the merger may seem drastic, many of the changes will occur fairly gradually. According to Dr. Kanapathi Thiru, Chair of the Mathematical Sciences department, students of the new program will still be able to use computer labs located in the Social Sciences and Mathematical Sciences Building until construction of the new engineering building is completed. Additionally, Computer Science faculty will remain in the Science building until the new engineering building is finished. The search is currently underway to fill the new positions created by the merge and changes to the department are set to take effect beginning July 1st 2012.

Say What? Conn. police free sex shop customer from handcuffs There’s a new twist for police in Orange, Conn.: They’ve had to break a man out of handcuffs. Assistant Chief Ed Koether tells the Connecticut Post newspaper officers were called Thursday afternoon to an adult entertainment store in Orange, a town just west of New Haven. The man had been trying on the cuffs and locked himself in a pair. Koether says shop employees couldn’t get the man free and called the fire department and then police. The cuffs were similar to the kind police officers carry. But Koether says the officers tried several keys that didn’t work. The handcuffs had to be removed with bolt cutters. Koether says he doesn’t know if the man had to pay for the broken handcuffs.

Utah teens’ naked run inspired by ‘American Pie’

Four Utah teens armed with a BB gun told deputies they were inspired by a scene from an “American Pie” movie when they went running naked through an Ogden-area neighborhood. Authorities said Wednesday the teens were spotted streaking in the residential community about 45 minutes north of Salt Lake City at about 2 a.m. Sunday. When a deputy responded, a 17-year-old girl ducked behind a tree, while the three teenage boys kept running and were found shortly after. The teens said they brought the BB gun because they feared they would be attacked by deer during the jog. Deputies notified the teens’ parents and let them off with a warning. The 2006 film “American Pie: The Naked Mile” features a high school student who wants to join a college campus’ tradition of running a mile naked.

Motorist dressed as Batman escapes ticket in Md.

Police in Maryland pulled over a motorist dressed as Batman, but the caped crusader escaped without a ticket. Authorities pulled over the driver of a black Lamborghini with Batman logo tags last week in Silver Spring outside Washington. The driver was dressed as the Dark Knight - cape, mask and all. Police, however, weren’t impressed and wanted to talk to him about his superhero logo license plate, which isn’t an approved plate in the state. The driver, who goes by Lenny B. Robinson when not dressed as a superhero to visit sick children at hospitals, was able to show them a proper license plate for the car. A video of the stop shows police officers shaking his hand and taking pictures of him with his ride.

Police: Car thief who crashed was eating, texting

Texting and eating while driving? Not the best plan. Do those things while driving a stolen truck and the trouble mounts. Kennewick, Wash., police say a Chevy pickup truck previously stolen in nearby Richland ran into a ditch and drove through some logs and lawns before hitting a home Wednesday. Neighbors and the homeowner saw a man run from the scene. A Benton County sheriff’s deputy in the area made an arrest a short time later. Spokesman Mike Blatman tells the Tri-City Herald the arrested man said he was eating a croissant and reading a text message when he lost control of the truck. The spokesman says 32-year-old Jeromy Kirkendall of Kennewick was booked into the Benton County jail for investigation of possessing stolen property. It wasn’t immediately known if Kirkendall has an attorney or how much damage was done to the home. Compiled by Evan Dodd

FEATURES

Survey sites continue Meet your ‘12-’13 student body presidential candidates growing in popularity By Nita Mauigoa Contributor

This year’s USUAA presidential candidates have opted to explain their goals in layman’s terms because most students are put off by confusing governmental jargon and an overload of foreign acronyms. Here are details about them in clear, plain English. There are two presidential candidate teams running against each other for the election Photo by Krystal Garrison/TNL beginning April 3—presidential candidate Alejandra Buitrago and vice presidential candidate Andrew McConnell, and presidential candidate Sam Frederick and vice presidential candidate Kevin Vanderwall. Their race outcomes will determine who steps into office at the start of the fall semester. Presidential candidate Buitrago and VP candidate McConnell have shared three main goals they plan on implementing if elected, Photo Courtesy of ALejandra Buitrago broadcasted en mass through Above: Vice presidential candidate Kevin Vanderwall and presidential candidate Sam their campaign posters: Connect, Frederick. Below: Presidential candidate Alejandra Buitrago and vice presidential Build, Inspire. cadidate Andrew McConnell. “Rant to me about what it is you don’t like about UAA and what we is the commissioner for the state technology issues. can do to fix that,” Buitrago said. of Alaska. He represents UA They also want to form The team plans on launching student government as a whole on leadership unity with various a mass survey this summer to a statewide level. governance groups around find what issues are plaguing the If you want to meet with campus like the Greek Council student body as a whole. They Buitrago or McConnell, they will to improve quality of student will focus on the most prevalent be circulating the Student Union services, and host more events issues and aim to resolve them or and giving out food the days of together as a whole. at least start working on them by elections. Don’t know what they Frederick and Vanderwall the end of this year. look like? Just check out their plan on visiting students in less There is already a line of pictures on the flyers plastered all targeted areas like the University students anxious to express over campus. Mall or the Aviation Technology discontent. Presidential +candidate building, located by Merrill Field. “You shouldn’t have to hop, Frederick and vice presidential Frederick, a computer science skip and jump through hoops to candidate Vanderwall have major, is currently serving on a find current information about decided to forgo the poster angle faculty-senate committee with student government. I feel like and instead, rely on their face- focus on academic integrity. He I’m playing the game Clue half to-face interaction with students has served in other areas such as the time!” UAA student Yvonne around campus. the sustainability committee, and Pascual lamented. If elected, they both plan on has introduced five constitutional Buitrago and McConnell would improving or fixing what students amendments that were passed last like to provide students with easier already have access to on campus, year. access to student government versus spending student fees on Vanderwall, an accounting affairs by live streaming their new elaborate projects. major, served as the student body assembly meetings. Students will “One of the big issues and vice president in 2010. He has an see current bills they are working extensive background in student “When it comes on, what they do with student government. fees and what they do in general Government Relations to voting, you to improve student life. They also Director Terry Draeger offered are voting for the want to build a strong rapport with some advice for students weary people who will TNL and KRUA radio so that they of voting. speak on your can work together to keep students “When the chancellor or a informed on a regular basis. high official who runs UAA behalf.” –Terry Draeger, Government The pair hopes to strengthen wants feedback or input, they Relations Director USUAA’s senate body. The come to student government—so turnover rate is high because the when it comes to voting, you are position requires much time and basically one of the reasons we voting for the people who will dedication, both of which most decided to run is the issue we face speak on your behalf,” Draeger students are limited in. with classroom clickers. They’re said. Buitrago, a journalism and overpriced and not compatible If you have any questions, public communications major, is between classes,” Frederick said. just stop by the USUAA student currently a senator for USUAA. “We want to standardize clickers.” government office in the Student She is involved in several Frederick and Vanderwall Union. leadership roles, including would like to see the student The spring general student chairman of legislative affairs, and government spearhead these elections are on April 3-4. You reestablished campus programs types of issues by organizing can visit uaa.collegiatelink.net to like Morning with the Mayor, a technology committee. They cast your votes or stop by any of which has been absent since 2007. would act as an intermediary the various voting booths located McConnell, a business major, between students and faculty on around campus.

By Ashley Snyder Features Editor

Students like free things. Look around when free pizza is offered, or free swag, and swarms of students will gather around to take advantage. It is understandable due to the nature of money frugality among the general student population. Getting people to an event or a speaker of some kind usually works best if something free is offered. When asked ‘would you like to take a survey?’ most people try to avoid getting sucked into it no matter what the offer, not knowing if they will be trapped in an endless barrage of intense questioning. However, surveys have taken advantage of the way people accept free items and a new way to get people to answer surveys is by offering incentives. On the back of a Subway receipt, a free cookie will be offered. On a PetSmart receipt, $5 off next purchase coupon.Pizza Hut will enter a survey taker into a contest to win $1000. But these are one time deals, and the rewards are short-lived. There are sites that have taken advantage of the general desire to take surveys in exchange for rewards, and that is exactly what they do. E-Rewards, MyView, and CampusLive are just a few of the many legitimate websites that offer people the chance to take online surveys and quizzes, offering points for every survey completed, and then offering prizes for points gained. College students are shown to be among the majority that take surveys in order to take advantage of the incentives. “I like to complete surveys when I am bored, sitting on the bus, or in between classes,” said student Tracey Thomas. “It’s totally worth it to get free stuff, you know?” Thomas is not the only one getting in on the action. With Internet access available on most smartphones anywhere, students are really getting into survey

mode. Add ease of access with free gifts, and presto, the swarms of survey takers come streaming in. Student Michel Epson isn’t an avid survey taker, but does still take them every once in a while. “I just take [surveys] when I feel like it,” said student Tracey Thomas. “Slowly the points add up but eventually I log in and take a survey and then it’s like ‘Hey look I can get a few song downloads!’” The gifts that are promised vary from site to site. Generally magazine subscriptions, song downloads, airline miles and Blockbuster rentals are the most common and the easiest rewards to get. However, the one that college students are vying for are the array of gift cards. Starbucks, Gamestop, ITunes, Applebees and the highly coveted Visa gift cards are just a few offered. These gift cards can range from $10 to $100 and most do not have an expiration date. “The gift cards are the best. Free money for just answering a few questions—why not?” said Thomas. “The only downside is that it can take several months to get the really big gift cards, but when you get them you get to use them on whatever you want, whenever you want, and it’s awesome.” What takes the extra amount of time is the fact that students will not qualify for all of the surveys, depending on the criteria they are looking for. Or by the time a student does get to do a survey, sometimes the survey already has the amount of respondents they are looking for. But in either case the survey will alert the taker almost right away so that they do not waste time with it if they are not going to get any points for it. As the trend continues to grow, more survey sites are appearing. Companies garner valuable information from a large source of the general public, and the general public gets gifts for free just for their input.

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features| April 3, 2012

Beware of those late night munchies By Kate Lindsley Contributor

¡Corazón de Fuego! *Pt. 2*

By Alden Lee

Assistant Features Editor

“G’morning ladies and gents, this is your favorite buddy Stu speaking—letting ya know at this fine, balmy hour of seven o’clock in the morning it’s time for ya to pick your heads up off your pillows and mosey on up to the main deck, for we’ve just arrived in lovely Cabo San Lucas!” As far as abrasively headsplitting New Zealander accents over PA system at such ungodly hours go, this one wasn’t such a bad wakeup call. The promise of sun-kissed Mexican beaches and lobster roasted sunburns has no problem motivating a kid running on four hours of sleep after some frenzied cruise ship clubbing the night before. I was on my feet in an instant, smashing my head against the bunk above and stumbling in the dark onto my Mormon cabin mate. He hit me with a Bible and then we both lurched around the room searching for our swim trunks and towels. I had learned, upon actually boarding the Carnival Spirit back in San Diego, that the majority of the crew I would be vacationing with was...Mormon. In fact, I was the only one, out of everybody I was with, who wasn’t Mormon. Oh joy! I’m working a sales job over the summer in North Carolina—part of a highly successful company selling pest control, of all things. In order to get me psyched up for selling what essentially amounts to cockroach and bedbug extermination for random strangers, the sales crew decided to send me on a company cruise to Cabo. Slightly overkill, if you’ll let that pun slide, but I wasn’t about to turn that opportunity down at all. The thing I should’ve factored in is that nobody is better at playing the door-to-door game than a bunch of Mormons. They’ve

built up a monopoly doing it. My first response upon learning this LDS-saturated situation: “We’re really still doing pest control sales right? You’re not about to slap a bicycle helmet, black tie and Good Book on me are you?” “Oh don’t worry, this is definitely still pest control,” said one of my sales friends, with a wonderfully religious twinkle in his eye. “But never fear, we’ll make sure to spring a baptism on you before we get back to the States!” And so this was how we arrived at Cabo San Lucas on the second day of the cruise—199 Mormons and Me. We subsequently took that

(somewhat) a guy who served his mission in Chile a few years back. That added a Level Up to our negotiation tactics with the locals. He hadn’t had to bust out the español in quite a while, though, and garbled words that sound close to the same cause problems in any language. (English example: “public” and “pubic” and “general” and “genital.”) After a couple confused mixups, in which I’m pretty sure we almost purchased a caged puma from a shopkeeper, a small group of us were on a dingy motorboat headed off to the beach, top rate snorkeling gear in hand. And man was that beach fantastic. Snorkeling, at least initially, felt like we were attempting to drown ourselves in the surface ten inches of water. There’s no getting over the psychological barrier attached to breathing in underwater—and then you realize that no, that’s not just your brain playing tricks, Eduardo really did sell you crappy snorkeling equipment. I swallowed so much ocean water that day I’ll probably never need to get salt around the rim of a margarita ever again. But deep sea diving ensued after that, and cliff jumping, and beach side races, and rock climbing, and flea market madness and some of the best damn fish tacos I’ve ever consumed. The next two days were a blur of Wonderful, and by the time our cruise ship set sail for Stateside waters my skin was peeling like some sort of liver cancer across the shoulders. I could not have imagined a more fantastic way to embrace the beginning of my spring break—let me tell you, that Mormon sales company sure knows how to wine and dine a guy before taking him into the fold! Now I get to look forward to a summer spent dodging kamikaze baptisms.

“Mexican hagglers were...waving signs with a fervor that would make most Cash 4 Gold sign wielders collapse in epileptic fits.” place by storm. Everything was flip-flops and sunglasses and amazingly short summer dresses. The sun was making vigorous love to my pale ass Alaskan skin. Mexican hagglers were running around and shouting and waving signs with a fervor that would make most Cash 4 Gold sign wielders collapse in epileptic fits. And our crew came rolling through this shimmering madness, shunting hagglers aside in a basic Flying V formation. Mormons are master negotiators, I’ve learned, and don’t take any sort of BS from motor-mouthed Spanglish speaking salesmen shoving second-rate snorkeling gear in their faces. “No, Eduardo, I’d like a breathing apparatus that won’t have me ingesting large amounts of salt water if I don’t have to. And the guy back there said he could get me a boat shuttle over to Lover’s Beach for tres dinero, not nueve.” We had to our advantage

If I eat a big meal right before I go to bed, will I gain weight? Yikes, what a loaded question. The time just before you fall asleep is complicated in the sense that your body is riddled with changing hormone levels, which in turn affects how your body will process the food you’re about to consume. Another reason it’s complicated is because eating right before you go to bed can do one of two things: increase the overall calorie count for the day (gaining weight), or throw off your meal cycle. If you’re hungry enough to eat a big meal right before bed, you’ve likely already thrown off the meal cycle. Meal cycling is a large factor in weight maintenance. If your body gets used to a certain time when it’s going to eat, the hormones and enzymes will all be in line ready to help digest the nutrients and distribute them properly. It’s kind of like if you have a factory and all of the materials show up when the workers are off duty –

it’s not going to work as efficiently as if the workers were there to distribute the materials when they were delivered. When you add back in the hormone factor to late night binging, it can really throw off the usual way of things. Melatonin (a hormone that tells the brain to shudder-down), an already persnickety hormone in Alaskan winters, can be even more impacted by a blood sugar spike. So what should I do if I get really hungry late at night? Get a light snack to hold you over until the morning, like a granola bar or piece of fruit. Then when morning rolls around, eat a well-rounded breakfast. Eat a large lunch at regular lunch time, and eat a normal sized dinner at dinner time. Resetting your meal cycles can be difficult simply because of weird class scheduling, professors who won’t let you eat during class or being around people who don’t eat at normal times. But it is truly important if you want to get your body on track.

ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT SU gallery shows art uncensored

Photo By krystal Garrison/TNL

‘Expulsion’ by Devry Birdsell is a piece done in. ink, colored pencil, prismacolor marker and graphite.

By Nicole Luchaco Assistant A&E Editor

When it comes to art, pretty much anything goes. The word “art” refers to a broad spectrum of mediums and interpretations, and the work displayed within the “2D invitational” at the Student Union Gallery March 28th through April 12th, is no exception. “Well my first impression was the sign that said, “Warning, this exhibit contains explicit materials,” said JPC major Russell Porsley. “So I went in and I expected nudity, but it seemed like a very wide variety of pieces. I really liked the intermediate woven fibers; the scarves were really neat.” The Student Union gallery (located in the upstairs of the SU) is a small gallery funded

by student fees and dedicated to promoting student work. “We are a part of student activities. Student fees basically fund us; we stress that fact because we are here to serve the students,” said gallery manager Philip Obermarck. The SU gallery hosts a number of shows each year, the current 2D is the second of three “invitational shows” that the gallery hosts each year. “This is an invitational, so all of the professors have to invite students to participate; Gary Mealor is the watercolor professor and asked me if I would put this piece [“Amaris”] in,” said featured artist Shelly J. Giraldo. The selection process for SU gallery shows happens a year earlier than the premiere dates, in

fact the board is currently entering its selection process now. “We basically put out a call for exhibitions and people who want to put on a show submit proposals,” said Obermarck. During the March, April and May period the board sifts through the proposals that are submitted and choose which one’s will be featured in the next year’s schedule. This is done with the assistance of Mike McCormic (head of student life and leadership) and the faculty advisory board, which consists of a number of art professors who guide the gallery from behind the scenes. “The invitational shows that we do; the 3D invitational, the 2D invitational and then the “Foundations” show that we do, that work is all selected by the professors, they are able to chose one student, per class, per semester,” said Obermarck. “Each teacher essentially chooses two students for each class that they teach. We have intermediate drawing and advanced drawing, individual research drawing; each one of those classes could potentially have two different submissions.” The 2D show this year is featuring a grand total of 34 entries submitted by 30 different artists using a wide variety of mediums such as Computer art, illustration, graphic design, drawing, painting, printmaking photography and more. “I did it [“Amaris”] in advanced watercolor class,” said Giraldo. “It has watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil.” And as for the “graphic content” this exhibit does indeed feature a fair amount of nudity. “We are not in the business of censoring artwork,” said Obermarck. “We will warn the public that there may be things that people find offensive but as artists, our job is to express ourselves in the ways that we feel are “appropriate” and many times that is not what the public feels is appropriate.”

Album review

The Shins latest album steps away from indie roots

By Felipe Godoy KRUA Music Manager

This week, we’re going to take a look at The Shins’ new album, “Port of Morrow.” The Shins are an indie band originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but who now reside in Portland, Oregon. Lead by frontman James Mercer, (the band’s longest active member), the Shins bring an influx of indie, mid 80s rock feel, and even some electronic sounds to this album. Mercer has recruited famous names such as Joe Plummer, drummer for Modest Mouse; Yuuki Matthews, bassist of the Crystal Skulls and even Richard Swift to play keyboards. This new composition of the Shins may come off as strange at first, but once one listens to the title track “Simple Song,” everything suddenly turns into the Shins of old. Bringing back memories of records such as “Wincing the Night Away” and

“Chutes Too Narrow” from their indie label Sub Pop Records. In other instances, we see the poppy, mainstream side of this all-star lineup like in “No Way Down,” which comes off as a song that would be featured on the high school drama television show “One Tree Hill.” That being said, this is the Shins first major label debut, (which will result in plenty of backlash from indie heads everywhere), but at the end of the day James Mercer is the Shins itself and he can do whatever the hell he wants with the band. Recommended Tracks: “Simple Song”, “September”, “Fall of ‘82” Album: “Port of Morrow” Artist: The Shins Record Label: Sub Pop Records Release Date: March 20, 2012

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A&E| April 3, 2012

SUNSHINE: a culmination of Stag and Cola, a over two decades of artistry Red match made in heaven Continue From Cover

funny; it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. Then, two years ago, my husband passed away, and it was suddenly not funny anymore. I didn’t want to finish it.” Her students objected to this plan. “The kids were like, “No,” and especially Becca, who’s playing Rosie the Raven, she said,

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“No, don’t...don’t let go.”” Minton, who graduated from the theatre program last spring, was asked by Lautenberger in his final semester to help her finish the play to fulfill his final two practicum credits. Lautenberger admired his work, and thought he would be perfect to help her finish the work. For Minton, it was a humbling request.

“It was a big thing for me,” he said. “Not just as a graduating artist, but as an artist in general, to have somebody whose opinion you respect and trust come to you and offer you something that really is a very personal project, and trust you with it; it’s an invaluable experience.” He isn’t the only person honored to be a part of Lautenberger’s final show. Theatre junior and costume shop assistant Scott Heverling is very excited to be involved. “It’s been so hard, since we all love Fran here at the university. And Fran’s actually the first professor at the university to take me under their wing,” he said. “A friendship has sparked, a mentorship, and it’s been really great.” The assistant director and former theatre student, Nathan Huey, was also pleased to be back on campus for the month long production.

“The kids were like, “No,” and especially Becca, who’s playing Rosie the Raven, she said, “No, don’t...don’t let go.””

-- Fran Lautenberger

UAA Theater major and Costume Shop Assistant, Scott Heverling, shows off one of the handmade puppets featured in the upcoming performance of “Bring Back the Sunshine.”

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A collection of handmade puppets lying around the UAA costume shop. A variety of original puppets will be featured in the upcoming performance of “Bring Back the Sunshine.”

“This is my fifth consecutive show,” he said. “No one matches me in “Fran” shows.” There was no mistaking the pride in his voice and smile. Lautenberger, who will be retiring to a house in Cape Cod at the end of May, is looking forward to the time to herself. That doesn’t mean she won’t miss her work at UAA, however. “I’m going to miss the students; I love the kids. They’re frustrating, they’re annoying, but when you see somebody like Nathan...the last few shows I’ve done with him, it’s like, “You’re amazing,” and it’s so much fun to see kids like that,” she said. Her students, including Huey, wish her nothing but the best. “I think she should be very proud of her work here, and of this thing, this sort of culmination of a very personal journey. She should be very proud of turning that into art, and something beautiful and meaningful.” “Bring Back the Sunshine” is showing in the Harper Studio in the Fine Arts Building until Sunday, April 22. Showings are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets can be purchased at the UAA Box Office for $15 on Fridays and Saturdays and $10 on Sundays. Students with a valid ID receive the discounted rate of $10 for Fridays and Saturdays and $7 on Sundays.

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Red Stag Black Cherry by Jim Beam is a beautiful bourbon, and it’s even better when mixed with some kind of cola. Stag & Cola is a simple cocktail with a nice bite. Fill half a glass with ice, pour in two shots of the Stag and top it off with the cola of your choice (Coke, for some reason, is much better in this than Pepsi however). The cocktail’s aroma reeks of the bourbon, but not in a bad way. It mixes well with the cola, and is seemingly amplified by it. The tip is sweet for all of half a second before the carbonated mix assaults your tongue; it’s both bitter and not at the same time. Despite the ice, the drink also leaves a slight

warming sensation on the tongue that increases marginally as you continue to imbibe the cocktail. The slight burning of the cola’s carbonation only adds to this. Because of the strong sensations, Stag & Cola is best sipped, much like straight bourbon should be. The warming sensation is more pleasant and mild this way, and makes for an enjoyable drink. Don’t forget to drink some water afterwards though; Stag & Cola is strong enough to leave you tipsy if you aren’t careful. Drink: Stag & Cola Liquor: Red Stag Black Cherry Bourbon ABV: 40%

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‘Back-Room Boy’ a classic flick

A black and white comedy about priorities and the “price” we pay for love By Nicole Luchaco Assistant A&E Editor

When life and love get you down, move to an isolated island. At least that is what Arthur Pilbeam (Arthur Askey, “Bees in Paradise”) does in this off-beat comedy about love lost and adventure found. Directed by Herbert Mason and released back in 1942, this black and white comedy is classic to its era, featuring comedy, mystery, submarines and war-time murmurs. Arthur Pilbeam’s first priority has always been his job as a BBC employee; his schedule is strict and precise, running like clockwork, until the day his fiancé has finally had enough. In a moment of pure exasperation at the fact that she has played second-fiddle to a company for so long, she gives him an ultimatum; it’s either her or his position at the BBC. After being dumped by the woman of his dreams Arthur cannot stand the monotony of his life any longer and, through a series of comedic events, demands to be transferred to a place,

“Without women! Where women are the way they should be! Only in pictures.” Arthur gets his wish when he is stationed as a weatherman in an old lighthouse on an island where he is the sole inhabitant, or, so he thinks. Life, as it often does, has a funny way of doing the exact opposite of what we would like, such is the case when Arthur’s solace is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a stow-away smart-Alec little girl named Jane (Vera Frances, “Good-Time Girl”) and a subsequent thirteen other shipwrecked models. But things take a turn for the bizarre as one-by-one they each begin to disappear. A delightful plunge back in time and amusing in an “oldtimey” way; for Herbert Mason fans this is a must-see. Movie: Back-Room boy Release date: April 17, 1942 Director: Herbert Mason Starring: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffat Genre: Comedy Style: Black and white

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An MVP Season in Pictures

All-American Hanna Johansson’s photos from the Seawolves’ 2011-12 season

“Those waves were amazing,” Johansson said about the waves along the North Shore. While on the island of Oahu, the Seawolves played twice against Chaminade and once against St. Xavier, winning all three games.

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By Ashley Smith Assistant Sports Editor

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Jordan Martin and Alysa Horn enjoy a break after a preseason hike up Flat Top in early September of 2011.

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” - Don Williams, Jr. American Novelist and Poet, b.1968 Although the Seawolves made it to the Elite Eight for the third time in the last five seasons, breaking multitudes of records along the way, this is the story of their journey there through pictures. Over the last few weeks I was lucky enough to be able to work with All-American senior forward Hanna Johansson to collect and sort through many excellent photos that she took throughout the season and pick the ones that seem to capture the journey the best. This is a look into the players lives that people other than the players themselves, coaches and trainers rarely get to see. These athletes devote seven months of their lives each season to practice, travel, and nothing but basketball, however, they get more than just records, scores, and a win loss record; They make the memory of the journey.

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The team, minus Miriam Seale who had not arrived from England yet, together on top of Flat Top overlooking Anchorage. Joining them were Coach Tim Moser’s and Assistant Coach Rebecca Alvidrez’s dogs, Griz and Zirg.

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Kylie Burns working out in UAA’s Athletics gym. During the preseason practices and workouts the team mostly trains together with little competitions, swim exercises, and team runs. After about a month and a half of preseason practices the regular season starts and players are often given individualized workouts depending on what they need to strengthen.

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Gritt Ryder and Alysa Horn cool down after a pre-season practice. Some of the Seawolves enjoy an “ice” bath everyday after practices to prevent injuries.

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While in Washington D.C. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski gave the Seawolves a personal tour around various parts of the Capitol and through the House of Representatives. “She was really happy to show us around,” Johansson said. Photo by Rebecca Alvidrez

The Seawolves on the steps of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, also known as the building on the back of the U.S. nickel. While in D.C. they scrimmaged Liberty University and Roanoake College and played an exhibition game against University of Virginia

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The Seawolves scout and take notes on Simon Frasier at the GNAC tournament in Lacey, Washington. While there, the Seawolves won both of their games and went on to the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships Photo by Hanna Johansson

“Out of all the places we visited I think that this trip stuck with us the most because of the historical places we go to see,” Johansson said about the trip to Washington D.C. While there the Seawolves got to visit the White House, the Smithsonian, and the Holocaust Museum.

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“It was weird because no one in that gym thought we would win,” Johansson said about their win over UC San Diego on UCSD’s home court. The Seawolves did however have fellow Seawolves from the track and field team cheering for them.

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Above: Gritt Ryder, Bruna Deichmann, and Kylie Burns all dressed up for the banquet held each year the night before Elite Eight games start. During the banquet, a slideshow of each team was presented including a short story of how each got to the Elite Eight. Also announced at the banquet was the All-American team which included senior forward Hanna Johansson, joining Rebecca Kielpinski as just the second All-American in program history. Junior Haley Holmstead was an All-American Honorable Mention. Right: The Seawolves in front of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas before the Elite Eight.

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sports briefs UAA finishes in top10 for Director’s Cup after Winter season Following the completion of the NCAA Division II Winter Championships season, UAA ranks a program-record 10th place in the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup standings. The latest rankings were released March 29 by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, marking the two-thirds point in the 2011-12 campaign. The rankings – which quantify the national success of all 286 NCAA Div. II programs – will be finalized after the completion of the Spring Championships season in June. Boosted by a recent 5th-place NCAA finish from its ski team (75 points), an Elite Eight appearance by the women’s basketball team (73 points) and a 2nd-round berth by the men’s basketball team (50 points), UAA’s current placing and total points (361) are its best ever at the conclusion of winter competition, topping its 13th-place standing and 332 points from last year. The Seawolves had been ranked 13th this year’s fall standings, thanks to the women’s cross country (6th place, 75 pts), men’s cross country (8th place, 66 pts) and volleyball (1st Rd., 25 pts) teams. Defending champion Grand Valley (Mich.) State leads the competition yet again with 550 points thus far.

Bailey, SIdor highlight Hockey season awards at banquet Sophomore Matt Bailey was selected as the Most Valuable Player on March 29 as the Alaska Anchorage hockey team wrapped up the 201112 campaign with its annual team banquet at the Anchorage Marriott Downtown. Other individual honors went to seniors Jade Portwood and Dusan Sidor and sophomore Chris Kamal and freshmen Derek Docken and Corbin Karl. Bailey, a local of Winnipeg, Manitoba, posted a team-high-tying 17 points for the Green & Gold, including a team-high 10 goals and seven assists. The 6-1, 194-pounder also netted four power-play tallies and one game-winning goal for the MVP honor. Racking in the Rookie of the Year honor went to defenseman Docken. From Northfield, Minnesota, Docken tallied one goal and 10 assists for 11 points. Docken dressed in 31 games, while starting in 21 of those. The Most Improved honor went to Karl. Karl, a defenseman from Foremost, Alberta, tallied just one goal in the first half of the season, before producing two goals and three assists in the second half as one of UAA’s crucial blueliners. Bringing home the Corner Man honor for the fourth straight season was Portwood, a local of Victoria, B.C. Measuring in at 6-3 and weighing 205 pounds, Portwood suited up for 29 games, recording four goals and six assists. Portwood became just the second Seawolf to garner the award all four years, following Justin Johnson (2002-06). Sidor was honored with the team’s Most Inspirational and the Jack Peterson Student-Athlete honors. A local of Poprad, Slovakia, Sidor became an inspiration for his work ethic during practice and off the ice. Sidor also led UAA in the classroom with a team-high 3.87 GPA. This season, Sidor received his third WCHA All-Academic Team honor and was named to the WCHA ScholarAthlete Team for the third time – just the second Seawolf to received three honors.

UAA Track and Field takes down multiple wins in Wilamette The UAA men’s and women’s track & field team completed Day 1 of the Willamette Invitational with 11 top-10 finishes on March 29 at the Charles

Bowles Track.   Leading the Seawolf pack with a first-place showing in the men’s 1500 meters was senior Alfred Kangogo. A local of Eldoret, Kenya, Kangogo posted a time of three minutes, 53.61 seconds for the win. Also competing in the same heat was junior Micah Chelimo, finishing fifth at 3:55.54.  In the men’s pole vault, senior Micah Johnson posted a jump of 13 feet, 6.25 inches for fourth place. Johnson holds the UAA record in the event at 13-7.25.   On the women’s side, picking up a season-best and winning time of 4:31.91 in the 1500 meters was sophomore Ivy O’Guinn. Junior Miriam Kipng’eno (4:37.44) and freshman Susan Tanui (4:38.06) were fourth and six, respectively. Senior Hallidie Wilt produced a podium finish, completing the 5,000-meter race in a personal-best time of 17:06.14. Sophomore Haleigh Lloyd set a GNAC record in the women’s 400-meter hurdles Saturday, while setting three UAA records during Day 2 at the Willamette Invitational. The Seawolves concluded the meet with multiple personal-best and podium finishes, but the day was highlighted by Lloyd’s efforts in both hurdle events and the 4x100-meter relay. A local of Ladysmith, B.C., Lloyd posted a GNAC record and winning time of 59.98 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles, displacing the previous record of 1:00.31, held by Western Washington’s Heidi Dimmitt from 2009. Lloyd had already provisionally qualified for the NCAAs in the event, but the new time will improve her chances at making Nationals. She needs to furnish at time of 59.72 for automatic qualification. Lloyd, who already owned the 400-meter hurdle record at UAA, also broke her own 100-meter hurdle record with a time of 14.42 – just .02 seconds slower than the NCAA provisional qualifying time needed. Joining Lloyd on the UAA recordbreaking 4x100-meter relay squad was sophomore Sasha Halfyard, freshman Grace Morgan and senior Dianne Chong. The foursome cruised to a time of 48.04 seconds, good for second place. Other first-place showing for the Seawolves went to Chong in the women’s triple jump with a seasonbest leap of 37-07.25, while junior Ethan Hewitt collected the win in the men’s 400 meters with a time of 48.58. The men’s 4x100-meter relay team – comprised of freshmen Nicholas Blackburn and Elliott Bauer and junior A.J Allen and senior All-American Shaun Ward – won with a time of 42.51, while the women’s 4x400-meter relay team of sophomores Susan Bick, O’Guinn, Halfyward and Lloyd posted a time of 3:55.41 for the victory. Combined, the Seawolves registered five first-place finishes, 14 podium results and 22 top-10 showings on Day 2 of the meet.

Cook heading to regionals after all, first all-arounder since 2007 Seawolf freshman gymnast Morgan Cook has moved into the allaround lineup for the NCAA Division I West Regional Championships, set for, Apr. 7 in Seattle. Cook moved up from alternate status after California’s Mariesah Pierce withdrew due to injury. The Seawolf rookie will be one of five individual all-arounders who will rotate with the full squads from No. 4 Alabama, No. 9 Louisiana State, No. 16 Arizona, Iowa, Central Michigan and host Washington. The Hot Springs, Ark., native earned a 37.435 regional qualifying score in eight all-around performances to become the first Seawolf since Leah Wilson in 2009 and the 11th UAA gymnast ever to qualify for D-I regionals. Cook posted her season-high of 38.400 on Mar. 11 against Michigan State. Compiled by Taylor Hall

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Rohde nets the National Player of the Year award Sports Editor

UAA senior Taylor Rohde has been no stranger to personal accolades since he arrived on campus last year. The 6’9” center has literally towered over all others, collecting awards left and right at both a league and West Region level. Pun intended: he has been the definition of a big fish in a little pond. And now, he just may have reeled in the biggest this school has ever seen in any individual athlete. On March 28, Rohde was named National Player of the Year by the Division II Basketball publication and became the first ever Seawolf in any sport to claim that level of notoriety. “It was shock to me, I didn’t even think or know that there were any more awards,” Rohde said. “But when I got the news, I was definitely happy and very thankful.” The way in which he received the news may have provided him even more shock as it came while he was waking up to greet the world. “Actually, I had a text from Nate (Sagan, UAA Sports Information Director) when I woke up one morning telling me the news,” Rohde said with a laugh. “Yeah, that’s how.” In his short time in the green and gold, Rohde quickly solidified himself as one of the best in UAA

Men’s Basketball history. He etched his name in to the record books as 10th in scoring average (17.9 ppg), 11th in points (1,143), 7th in double-doubles (13), 11th in rebounding (463), and 11th in games started (63) in just two years time. This season alone, Rohde, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona, scored double figures in 26 of his 30 games this season while shooting 50 percent or better in 25 of the last 26 games for UAA. On 12 different occasions, he scored 25 or more points, four of which were 30 or more points. Despite knowing the talent Rohde was bringing to Anchorage when he transferred from Arizona State, a Division I program, two seasons ago, no one could have foreseen it working out this well. “Although it wasn’t a goal of his when he first got here, I think the award verifies his decision to come here,” said UAA Head Coach Rusty Osborne when asked about predicting Rohde’s career upon first arrival to the program. “We got to reap the benefits as a team also while he was here, winning 47 games in two years. “It was a win-win situation for him and us.” Nothing was easily earned. In fact, when Rohde made his decision to play for UAA, it came after two years of playing as a reserve player for the Sun Devils. This came on the heels of Rohde being the Phoenix High School Player of the Year in 2008 after starring for Pinnacle High School.

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UAA senior Taylor Rohde goes up for a hard fought two popints against the Western Oregon Wolves on Feb. 18 at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.

“We wanted to make sure we tempered expectations early,” Osborne said. “You don’t just spend two years not doing something and then become a great player again, it takes time to get back in a rhythm and accept a new role.” Once settled in, Rohde

rediscovered his confidence and began playing at level that few could match. On top of the National Player of the Year Award, Rohde earned three other All-American honors as well as GNAC and West Region Player of the Year accolades. However, it’s that national

award that will stand above the rest. “Well, it’s just huge,” said UAA Athletic Director Steve Cobb. “It’s a first in school history and it couldn’t have happened to a better person or someone with higher character than Taylor. He was a Seawolf the first day he got here and he’ll be a Seawolf the rest of his life. “This is just off the charts.” The only thing that remains to be seen is where Rohde will begin his “play-for-pay” career. “Right now i’m exploring all of my options and looking to maybe get invited to some NBA camps even,” Rohde said. “Whatever opportunities I get, i’m going to feel blessed by it and i’m going to make the best of it.” According to Osborne, it’s not a question of “if” he plays pro ball, but where he plays. “He going to get a chance to play professionally at some point, whether it’s over in Europe or over here, that’s to be determined,” Osborne said. And if his college career has prepared him for anything, its to expect anything and everything. “It was a fun ride, no question,” Rohde said. “Going from high school to Arizona State and then sitting on the bench and then coming up to Alaska and being able to flourish. “The only way I can describe it as a rollercoaster ride.”

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UAA Gymnastics Coach Paul Stoklos trains to save lives to maintain his hobby. “Fall semester, I can miss a day or two of practice if I have to but in meet season I can’t miss a road trip,” Stoklos said. “Ya know, we’re all volunteers, we all have real lives and sometimes we just can’t go.” Stoklos has been ski patrolling since he was 16, which he credits for getting him into the rescue scene. All four of his search dogs over the years have been German Shepherds. His first search dog was Arrow. His second, Kiana, was named after the village of his first search he took Arrow on. Buck was his third and was Photo by ashley smith named after the dog he grew up Paul Stoklos and his German Shepherd Mora, who train weekly to stay sharp while there with. Buck searched up until a are no emergencies for Mora to search for people on. Stoklos has been balancing training month before he died, although gymnasts and training search and rescue dogs in Alaska for over 23 years. He also helps he was old for a search and rescue train other dogs and their handlers through Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs. dog and not extremely mobile, By Ashley Smith his nose still worked and his last trained dog. However, he already Assistant Sports Editor had an older German Shepherd search was on a boat, searching who had moved with him. After for a person whom had drowned. UAA may know Paul Stoklos he flew his elderly companion out Stoklos’ fourth and present dog is as being the Seawolf Gymnastics to Arizona to retire, as he stated Mora, named by his ex-wife who coach since the program began in playfully, “like all the old folks originally wanted to name her 1985 but he has a hobby that he who retire in Arizona,” Stoklos Precious. “Precious was not going to is just as passionate about away got another Shepherd in 1988 and from the mats and bars. started training with Arrow in work,” Stoklos said. “I told her originally that as long as it was “When I got into ski patrolling 1989. here somebody told me, ‘well Since then, he has had to a working dog’s name, she could there’s this guy who’s a ski patrol balance coaching a college pick it. So after that, she came up instructor’ and that was Bill Tai, gymnastics team while training with Mora.” Mora, Stoklos was told, was who was my link into Alaska his dogs and also volunteering for Spanish for Blackberry and Search and Rescue Dogs,” Stoklos various searches with those dogs. Despite how difficult that decided it was a great name for said. Before moving to Alaska in sounds, Stoklos has produced the small, all-black German 1984, Stoklos knew he wanted his impressive records through his Shepherd. Search and rescue dog handlers next dog to be a search and rescue gymnasts and continues to be able

always continue to add to their dogs’ knowledge and problem solving abilities, according to Stoklos, but a majority of their training is done after two-three years. Mora, 7 years old, began her training the first day that Stoklos brought her home at 8 weeks, however training very much starts out as a game with puppies and increases to training and learning through positive reinforcement with the dogs. There are three disciplines that the dogs can be trained in: wilderness, cadaver, and avalanche. “For cadaver work, we are training them to find dead bodies, which means you have to have dead body stuff,” Stoklos said. “When I was getting my appendix out I told them, ‘Save the appendix!’ and they were laughing at me as I’m going out from the drugs and I was like ‘No I train search dogs, I need the appendix…’ but they didn’t save my appendix.” Both Stoklos and Mora help train other members in Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs, or ASARD, which is a nonprofit and volunteer search program. Paul Brusseau has known Stoklos since 1995 where they met through the program. “He’s been a really good teammate,” Brusseau said. “His understanding of dogs has been something that he has been able to pass along to other folks and I have certainly been one of the beneficiaries of that.”

Brusseau has trained two dogs through Stoklos’ mentoring and presently works with his second search dog, Sky. Although they are trained for most possible searches, in the beginning of November 2011, Stoklos was called to a search that hit a little closer to home. UAA cross-country and track and field star Marko Cheseto went missing on a snowy winter evening. “I know Marko, and yeah it’s hard because you really want this person to come home and you really want to find them,” Stoklos said. “We are really that way on every search but it hits home a little more.” Cheseto was found alive two days later but sadly had to have both his hands and feet amputated due to being frozen after he got lost in the woods and fell asleep. For now, Coach Stoklos is still training with his gymnastics team, training with Mora and other ASARD dogs, and contemplating when to get his next puppy so that it’s trained by the time Mora retires. “At some point and time I’m thinking to myself, it’s time to let the young people to do all this,” Stoklos said. “But it’s pretty much in my blood. I don’t know how I’d stop doing it either, there will probably be something that makes me stop doing it more than anything.”

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Exercise has always basically been the same: Burn more calories than you consume and you have exercised enough for the day. If you are like me and get tired of the same old workout routines rather quickly, new imaginative goals that seem fun and rewarding instantly caught my attention. Check out these three events that could be added to your workout plan this summer.

The Color Run This 3.1-mile/5K run is new and exciting because as participants run, walk, skip, and make their way through the untimed course, they are splattered with five colored powders that mark what kilometer of the race they have reached. Each runner is instructed to wear some kind of white clothing to the start-line, basically acting as a blank canvas, and will collect yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink cornstarch based powders as they run. And while being tie-

Running from zombies, becoming a blank painting canvas, and training like the British Special Forces are all involved in these 5k’s around the country

dyed as you run is fun all by itself, they add to the excitement with a “Finish Festival”, where runners, volunteers, and spectators join together to watch live bands, collect even more color, eat, and celebrate together. Another excellent perk of The Color Run is that proceeds benefit a different charity in each city, so while having fun you are also giving! Sadly there is not a color run scheduled to come to Alaska… yet. The closest city The Color Run is scheduled in so far for 2012 is Seattle, Washington on May 13th. For more information on this touring event, visit www. thecolorrun.com

Tough Mudder This event is quite a bit more intense, however still seems like buckets of fun. Created by Harvard Business School senior Will Dean in 2010 after becoming tired of boring marathon runs, this 10-12 mile obstacle course challenges teams and individuals

to form camaraderie in order to make it through. The Tough Mudder was designed by British Special Forces and includes 25 obstacles and challenges such as log carries, mud holes, jumping into freezing cold water and swimming a channel, running through live wires (yes, hanging wires with electricity coursing through them where you will get somewhat electrocuted), rope climbs, monkey bars, and many, many more that are too various and time consuming to list. The Tough Mudder boasts to be “The Toughest Event on the Planet” and each event is set up differently from the last. This course also has a postevent party where participants over 21 can pick up their complimentary beer for being in the race and join spectators to chow on food for sale. The Tough Mudders proceeds go to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project where donations are given to help people who have served our country and returned home with both physical and mental injuries.

People interested can go to www.toughmudder.com to vote to bring one to Alaska and for more information.

Run For Your Lives Everyone knows theme parties are fun, so how about a theme 5K run? Run For Your Lives is a zombie infested 5K-obstacle course that really goes all the way to make it seem like runners are in a postapocalyptic fight for their lives. First, people interested in registering will have to choose whether to be a survivor trying to outrun the flesh and brain hungry zombies or a flesh and brain hungry zombie. Second, the survivors, or runners, will be given flag belts that indicate their health and told to look out for hidden health bonus packs throughout the course. Since there are multiple routes to reach the finish line, this is not as easy as it sounds. The zombies will arrive on race day to be transformed via makeup and wardrobe professionals before the race and choose to be either

“chaser”(fast) or “stumbler” (slow/ stationary) zombies. The zombies can only grab survivors’ health flags; not trip, tackle, or attack survivors. Both survivors and zombies receive a specific perks package, including medals to recognize their participations, however only survivors are eligible for awards like Top-3 Men and Top-3 Women. This event is also finished up with the “Apocalypse Party”, where zombies, survivors, and spectators can come together to watch live entertainment, play games, and enjoy food, adult beverages and all things zombiethemed. Run For Your Lives’ charitable partner is the American Red Cross. There are currently no scheduled appearances of Run For Your Lives in Alaska, the closest city it will be visiting is in Onalaska, Washington, 2 hours south of Seattle. For more information, visit www. runforyourlives.com.

Going to School? Looking for Work? A direct service career can be the answer. Working part-time you can make a positive difference helping those who need a hand. Or, make it a career helping people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, chronic alcoholism and other substance related disorders, Alzheimer’s and related dementias, and traumatic brain injury.

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The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority www.mhtrust.org

Dara Lively and Kamaree Altaffer, masters students in the UAA Social Work Program

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YOUR STARS THIS WEEK

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Solution from 03/27 issue “The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.”My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The coming week is likely to see many individuals shaken up in some way as circumstances and situations are stacked against what they have assumed, for some time, to be the preferred and natural state of things. In other words, there are those who have been content to believe that which, this week, is likely to be proven untrue -- and this, surely, will cause uncertainty, insecurity, and in some even a state of panic. Of course, those who recognize that everything is a matter of perspective, and that adjustments to changing views and changing circumstances are necessary and positive, can win big. In some cases it is possible that issues may be allowed to come between people -- but there are those who will fight against any ideology becoming more important than the individuals who promote them. Indeed, people themselves will count for much this week! ARIES (March 21-April 4) -You may have to grapple with the rules for a time before things fall out in a way that makes sense to you. (April 5-April 19) -- You are willing to go where others are not -- and for this reason your ideas and methods may be feared by some. TAURUS (April 20-May 5) -- An about-face may be required of you if only so that you can get along with those who share a workspace with you. (May 6-May 20) -- You will have a chance to promote an idea that has lost favor of late; you feel that it’s time to bring it back. GEMINI (May 21-June 6) -- There is really no place for narrow views this week; you must be willing to engage in an honest dialogue with those who disagree with you. (June 7-June 20) -- It’s a good time to adjust your image a bit so that you have an easier time of it in certain arenas. CANCER (June 21-July 7) -You’ll have work to do this week before you will find yourself in a position in which your authority is accepted by others. (July 8-July 22) -- You don’t want to be engaging in any character assassination this week; use courtesy, especially when things get competitive. LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) -- Second place is not what you are after; you want to be in the top spot by week’s end, and you can be -- if you stay the course. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) -- Accountability is a key

issue this week; be sure that you are willing to acknowledge your own involvement in certain endeavors. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) -- A one-on-one approach will surely work well for you -- but it may take a little time to arrange the face time you need. (Sept. 8-Sept. 22) -- You mustn’t allow yourself to change merely as a result of a sudden and unexpected success this week. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) -- You don’t want to be a victim, nor do you want to victimize another. You must be aware of how harmful mere words can be. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) -- It’s time to inject just a bit more courtesy into your daily interactions. Mind your manners! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) -- You can broker an agreement between parties who have been at odds for much longer than most can remember -- including you. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) -- You have the authority to do something rather controversial -- but in this case the ends justify the means. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) -- You’ll find yourself in the spotlight on at least two occasions this week, and you can use the attention to further a worthwhile cause. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) -- Actions that are premature can prove more dangerous than actions not taken at all; timing is everything. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) -- You may not be able to do everything you had hoped this week, but what you do accomplish will be remembered for some time. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) -- Avoid distractions -- especially if you have to work at home. You must make time to get the job done. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) -- You can score a major success this week, but it’s not likely to be a cakewalk. Indeed, hard work is required -- and you’ll need some help. (Feb. 4-Feb. 18) -- You are approaching a crossroads this week -- and you’re likely to meet a friend there, quite unexpectedly. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) -You can anticipate coming events with remarkable accuracy -- but you may require more information in some cases, and some proof. (March 6-March 20) -- Keep your emotions in check this week; you can’t afford to fly off the handle and put your credibility at risk.

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