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T.J. Gossard Features Assistant Josh Moses, 32, Business, Spokane, fed his 11-month-old daughter, Cynthia Moses, a spoonful of yogurt one October morning at a breakfast restaurant.

“Uh-oh, where’s your Minnie?” He glanced around for the Minnie Mouse stuffed toy.

Moses is slated to graduate summer 2015 with a degree in business and an emphasis on communication and has held multiple leadership roles within the CDA community. But the history that made this innocent moment possible is far more complex.

“I found him in a house I used to go to and when I went in there and asked, you know,” Moses said, “‘Where’s my money?’ and I pulled out a gun—and never in my life had I pulled out a gun and nobody had gotten scared—he Josh laughed at me and said ‘You’re Moses not gonna shoot me.’ And so I lost it and I pistol-whipped him.

That’s when I put him in the basement and duct-taped him to a chair for a few hours until his family came and paid me.”

Moses was charged with Grand Theft by extortion and aggravated battery in 2010.

He had once given a man a couple of ounces of meth, Moses said, when the man ran away without paying.

During these times Moses said he only weighed 120 pounds, with sunken cheeks from drug abuse.

“From the age of seven my mother was an alcoholic, and so I had nobody to watch me. She’d pass out at night. I’d have all that time to do whatever I wanted to. Nine times out of 10 when I did go to school and I came home, she’d be passed out,” Moses said. “I had this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skateboard, and I used to put her on that skateboard and we’d roll her to her bedroom, pick her up and put her on her bed.”

Moses said he began dealing drugs at age 12, when he found pot in his mother’s bedroom dresser and was taught to roll joints by his sister.

This progressed until he was selling harder drugs and eventually got involved with the Spokane Nortenos Gang.

“When you get involved in drugs, it leaves a bad trail behind you,” Moses said. The only way to forget about that trail behind you is to continually do more drugs. And so anything that would make me forget, anything I could do to forget the pain I had caused, I would do. It wouldn’t matter.”

Moses was arrested by a SWAT team at The Falls Club in Post Falls on July 29, 2010.

Moses said he went to the bar because police were tracking his locations on camera. He called up a friend who sent someone else to pick Moses up, a girl whose father owned a liquor license. They decided to go into the bar.

“She asked, ‘Do you want a drink or a shot?’ and I think that was her cue or whatever for them. Well, I said ‘I’ll take both’ and not three seconds later a bunch of black SUVs and SWATs surrounded the place.”

The girl was a confidential informant.

Moses spent 12 months in Kootenai County Jail before losing at trial and being sentenced to 10 to 20 years, with one chance to change. The judge offered Moses a rider.

The rider would be through a Therapeutic Community program, wherein inmates are placed within a family of accountability partners who report any negative activity or lying that takes place from fellow members to keep them in good health. The penalty for about something there is getting privileges taken away from you, particularly exclusion from commissary.

“So I believed that all these guys were rats. And I was at the point one day where I was gonna give up and I was gonna go start my sentence. I started packing my bags and stuff, I was seriously going to start a 30 year sentence, and I was gonna use the bathroom before because I knew I was gonna be locked up for a minute and this guy said, ‘That’s too bad, you know, I really thought you could lead this family.’”

“This became crystal-clear when he said that, because I’d always influenced bad: I’d always led for the exact opposite of good

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NIC instructor and doctor talks about Ebola, the current frenzy surrounding the virus Thomas Hansen News Editor As a result of the frenzy surrounding the current Ebola situation, an NIC instructor gave a lecture on the topic Oct 23.

Cheri Zao, a medical doctor and biology instructor, talked about the current Ebola crisis in West Africa and its passage into the U.S. Zao hosted the lecture to help people better understand Ebola, and the current situation created by the outbreak of the virus.

“I felt that better information needed to be put out there in a format that people could better understand,” Zao said.

Zao said that the strain of Ebola effecting West Africa is known as Zaire, and is the most lethal of the five strains of Ebola. Of the other four strains, only three effect humans while the final strain effects only monkeys, apes and primates.

Despite the state of healthcare in West Africa and the lethality of the Zaire strain, Zao said that the mortality rate of the disease is down to 50 percent.

Zao said that because of many factors, including population density, a large number of people in West Africa have been effected. The lack of proper infrastructure has led to Ebola sufferers not being able to be admitted by the swamped hospitals. In addition, 1-in-20 healthcare workers are contracting the virus during treatment.

Zao said that Ebola survives in the bodily fluids of its host, and is transmitted from its primary host, the fruit bat, to the local populations of monkeys and other wildlife through saliva on partially-eaten fruits. Ebola is then transmitted to the human population through consumption of wildlife.

“You actually have to have direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone who is sick from Ebola, or has died from Ebola,” Zao said.

Those bodily fluids include spit, sweat, blood, tears, snot, vomit, feces, urine, vaginal secretions, breast milk and semen.

When in humans, Zao said the virus will typically incubate for up to 21 days, and is not terribly contagious when mild symptoms of the virus are exhibited in the host. It’s not until the more serious effects are exhibited that the volume of the virus makes it highly contagious.

Zao said that the symptoms of Ebola generally don’t show for 8 to 12 days.

Headaches, weakness, fatigue, muscle pain and sore throat are some of the initial affects of infections.

Zao said that vomiting, diarrhea and fever are the more serious effects of the later stages of Ebola when it’s most easily transmitted.

Ebola can then remain in the host for 3-to-6 months after the host survives the infection.

Zao said that the capsule that surrounds the virus reduces its hardiness, and makes it easy to kill. A solution of one part bleach in ten parts water is enough to kill it.

This lack of hardiness is why Zao said the virus is extremely unlikely to ever survive as an airborne virus. Desiccation and UV rays would kill the virus quickly.

“There is no reason to actually believe that Ebola is transmitted in the air. The only time they’ve been able to do that is in the lab,” Zao said. “It’s not been reproduceable in the real world. Cheri Zao showcases the protective gear worn by hospital staff for isolation cases. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel You can do a lot of things in the insufficient gear and training for hanlab that you can’t do in the real world.” dling patients in isolation.

Zao said that because of this lack of A single mistake with PPE removal hardiness, coughing and sneezing are can result in the infection of the wearer. not transmission sources associated Zao discussed the mistakes made with Ebola. by the CDC when dealing with Ebola in A host infected with Ebola will typithe U.S., detailing the events surroundcally infect two other people, Zao said, ing improper advising by CDC personas was the case with Thomas Duncan nel to an Ebola patient.

Clark, the first person to be diagnosed “People aren’t making the right dewith Ebola in the U.S. during this crisis. cisions,” Zao said.

Duncan came to the U.S. with Ebola The lecture was attended by nearly after he slipped through Ebola screen40, and lasted for two hours. ing at a Liberian airport.

All of the information relayed by Zao discussed the incident surZao was well received by some. rounding Duncan and the two nurses “It was great, very informative,” infected, and the timeline of events that Ashlee Maple, 33, Nursing, Coeur led up to the event. d’Alene said. “I think that she really Two nurses caring for Duncan touched on a lot of subjects.” were infected, reportedly due to imZao criticized the way the media has proper handling of personal protecportrayed the issue, and felt that there tive equipment (PPE). The nurses was a need to inform people about the infected were alleged to have broken issue to alleviate fears.

PPE protocol.

“The way they’re treating Ebola is Zao demonstrated the PPE worn not right, and because of that they’re by hospital staff when dealing with patients in isolation, and the proper way to making people fearful,” Zao said.

A second lecture will be held on Oct. remove it.

28 in room 106 of the Meyer Health and Zao’s demonstration showed how Science Building at 1 p.m. The event is easy it is to improperly handle PPE free and open to the public. without proper training, and cause the “I really hope that people found that wearer to become infected.

Zao holding an Ebola virus plushie with a tag of accurate While discussing PPE, Zao criticized talk informative, and that it allieved information on the virus. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel some of their fears,” Zao said. the U.S. healthcare system for having

Breaking out the Budget Finance and Business office releases fiscal year 2014 enrollment, shows higher enrollment than projected, better future budgets Evan Jones Staff Writer

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xpectations for a drop in enrollment didn’t match up with the final numbers this year.

Vice President for Finance and Business Af fairs Chris Mar tin said that NIC’s enrollment decrease was less than was anticipated.

“I’m ver y confident in what the fiscal year of 2015 will hold,” Mar tin said.

For this fiscal year NIC’s enrollment was expected to drop by 10 percent. Instead, enrollment dropped by 8 percent.

Mar tin said that this gives them a larger budget pool to draw from.

Mar tin said that in addition to the higher enrollment numbers, there were ver y minimal areas where improvement could be made and that the improvements aren’t in need of abr upt consideration.

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provement are vendor pay and budget transparency, along with some minor accounting improvements.

Soon NIC’s budget of fice will be going through their annual audit for fiscal year 2014.

After the audit is complete it will be presented at an upcoming NIC board of tr ustees meeting sometime during November or December.

A recent ar rival at NIC, Mar tin said the cur rent budget had been well managed and that NIC as a whole, financially, has been acting as a well-oiled machine.

Budgets are cared for, and kept in strict check to provide for the necessar y education for the students. The NIC foundation is strong and well sustained, Mar tin said.

“There is a lot of excitement that comes along with two year colleges. The budgets in place are for helping our students obtain the essential tool set to fur ther them-

selves. There is an immense community involvement, and focus here,” Mar tin said.

“Cur rently NIC is set to receive a $15 million budget to move for ward on technical industries. This budget Nor th Idaho College will receive is a stimulating thing, not raising anyone’s taxes, either. This is a major project that is heading well,” Mar tin said.

Cur rently NIC is preparing for constr uction for a new technical building. The building will house many professional-technical programs that need the additional space.

Mar tin said that, all in all, NIC’s standpoint is good, and that the college is cur rently in good hands.

“I am ver y confident going into fiscal year ‘15,” Mar tin said.

More information on the state of NIC’s budget will become available after the final repor t is given to the board of tr ustees within the next two months.

The Man With No Thumb Former NIC student survives potentially-fatal gun accident Christina Villagomez Managing Editor When 26-year-old former NIC student Lawrence Taylor “Skip” Gee went on a solo hunting trip on Oct. 14, he never expected to become a statistic.

Little did he know, within a few hours of setting out into the thick forests outside of St. Maries he would become a gunshot victim.

It wasn’t a fellow hunter who shot Gee, however. Gee’s assailant was his 4-year-old hound/pit bull mix, Rocco.

Realizing he was running late and needed to get home to his young son, Gee said he was rushing to load up his truck when his dog attempted to leap out to grab a startled grouse.

“It was kind of a freak accident, it was the first time I never put the safety on, first time I never unloaded it getting in the car,” Gee said.

“He jumped forward when he saw the grouse, landed on the trigger and off went my thumb.”

In addition to receiving what would be a devastating injury under normal circumstances, Gee was in even greater danger due to the fact that he was completely alone in the late-evening wilderness.

“It was 40 miles before a paved road and 60 miles before I saw another person [on my way to the hospital],” Gee said.

Rapidly losing blood and in danger of going into shock, Gee did the only thing he could think to do to keep himself conscious enough to drive the far distance to the emergency room; he pulled out his truck’s dashboard cigarette lighter and proceeded to cauterize the wound to the best of his ability.

“I’m not going to lie to you, I cried when I cauterized it,” Gee said. “It hurt.”

Becky Bailey, Gee‘s mother said emergency personnel were amazed by her son’s survival instincts.

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Winter Clothing Giveaway Matt Clapper Staff Writer The Trio Club will be hosting a clothing giveaway to dispense the donations they received in their recent campus clothing drive on Oct 30.

Students with a current student ID card and their immediate families are invited to come and pick out what they need during the event.

“The clothing drive has been a huge success,” said Trio Club member Jakob McKlain.

“Building a campus culture supportive of underrepresented college students particularly those who are first generation and low income” is the mission statement of the Trio Club, and its members are dedicated to living up to that statement.

Club members McKain and Kevin Collins, both Social Work majors, spearheaded the clothing drive to help students who may be struggling financially by providing them with an opportunity to pick out some gently used clothing.

“Being a student can disqualify people for certain benefits, this clothing drive is kind of a test run to see how the NIC community reacts”, said Collins.

If you would still like to donate clothing before the giveaway, please take them to the student food pantry, which is located in the far end of the lower level of the SUB, or just bring them to the giveaway. Any leftover donations will be donated to the NIC food pantry.

The Trio Club is grateful to Jess Bennett of the food pantry, which is open to students every Thursday from 9am-12pm, for her help in storing and organizing the donated clothes. The food pantry can always use more items on its shelves as the holidays are fast approaching.

Collins said that he hopes that students and faculty who normally donate food or clothing to local charities during the upcoming holidays will think of struggling students here at NIC who may need a little help this year and bring any donations of food or warm clothing to the food pantry.

The Trio Club would like to thank all the students and faculty who contributed the the success of the clothing drive.

The giveaway will be held in the Blue Creek Bay room in the SUB Thursday Oct. 30 between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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have stitches and ever ything on it, but now I’m able to from page 2 hold a can of soda and I’m room; he pulled out his able to drive.” truck’s dashboard cigarette Bailey said doctors have lighter and proceeded to cauinformed her that her son terize the wound to the best will likely have the closest to of his ability. a full recover y possible.

“I’m not going to lie to “10 days out of surger y you, I cried when I cauterized and [Gee’s] one of the most it,” Gee said. “It hurt.” healthy patients he’s seen,” Becky Bailey, Gee‘s mothBailey said. er said emergency personnel As a gun enthusiast from were amazed by her son’s boyhood Gee said he’s emsur vival instincts. barrassed by the preventable “The doctor said if it circumstances that led to his wasn’t for his quick thinking injur y. he would have bled out and “It’s a prime example of probably died before reachwhy we always follow our gun ing the hospital,” Bailey said. safety training, but I’m super Gee said a childhood spent proud of him that he kept his in 4H and the Boy Scouts head so that we were just tr yhelped prepare ing to figure out him for the mowhen he could go “The doctor ment of crisis. hunting again said if it wasn’t instead of plan“It was growing up with for his quick ning his funer[mom] and al,” Bailey said. thinking he learning how to Gee said he hunt, fish, surplans to use the would have vival, take care as a bled out and accident of yourself,” Gee lesson for his probably said. “A lot of it son. is common sense “I waited died before which a lot of until [my hand] reaching the was healed and people don’t realize when you do not swollen so I hospital.”.” get injured. If it’s didn’t shock my bleeding you stop son, but I used BECKY BAILEY the bleeding.” this as a perfect Mother of Gee With bone example of why and tissue fragguns aren’t toys ments of thumb blown across and need to be respected his hand Gee said he realized and why you need to be safe, attempting to wrap or staunch because accidents do and the wound in the traditional can happen,” Gee said. “Peomethod would only worsen ple can definitely get hurt if his injur y. you’re not safe.”

Unfor tunately, after conAlthough he’s been told sulting with a doctor, Gee he now qualifies for full discame to the conclusion that ability benefits, Gee said he’s his thumb would not be salplanning to turn them down vageable and the remains because he still feels capable were amputated a half-inch of working. above his lowest knuckle.

“Those are in place for Although initially relieved people with genuine needs to hear that he would be and emergencies, not for me healed enough by Thanksgivto take advantage of the sysing to take his son on an antem,” Gee said. nual family hunting trip, Gee Despite having lost much, admitted he has difficult moGee said he hopes his acments emotionally dealing with cident doesn’t encourage a his loss. However, he remains fear of firearms in those that optimistic about his future. believe they should be more “I’ve actually been to the tightly controlled. point that I can master a lot “Coming from being shot of things now. First it was myself, I still love guns,” Gee hard to tie my shoes and now said.

I’ve figured ever ything out,” As for Rocco?

Gee said. “You can see I still “I still love him too.”

Tyson Juarez Features Editor The streets of Post Falls are quiet and serene during the Fall, but on four th street things get a little more creepy.

Post Falls own Lions Club Haunted House is back this year and is freakier than ever.

Over the past year, the Lions club has made more renovations to the house, making it scarier and more visually appealing than before.

Clowns, werewolves, and a creepy figure with an in-

timidating chainsaw are sure to get hear t’s pumping as well as the many other traps and visuals to be seen in the house.

The new house even features a colored cylinder guests must walk through that’s entirely lit up to look like a creepy psychedelic fun house.

The house will be open from 6 p.m. to midnight on Thursday Oct. 30 and Halloween night. The cost is $7 or $6 with a donation of two cans of non perishable food for the Post Falls students in need.

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Oct. 13 - Items were stolen from a vehicle parked in the Lee-Kildow Hall parking lot.

Oct. 20 - A flatbed trailer was stolen from the Fleet Services area.

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Oct. 20 - A minor vehicle accident occurred on the roundabout of River Avenue and Hubbard.

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Oct. 22 - Suspicious individual were reported on campus. They were later contacted by the police off-campus and arrested for an unrelated matter.

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Oct. 25 - A transient individual was trespassed.

Aerospace Program Gets Mid-flight Check Aerospace program gets reviewed by the Department of Labor, will introduce two new courses next year Evan Jones Staff Writer NIC’s Aerospace Center of Excellence came under review this semester and has a new program planned for next year.

At the September board of trustees meeting NIC President Joe Dunlap announced the results of the Department of Labor’s review of the aerospace program.

The grant for the program was provided by the Department of Labor, hence their review.

The team that performed the review released a report detailing

three areas in need of improvement.

The first issue was the lack of a procedure for grant management.

The second issue was the lack of a policy for procurement.

Finally, the review team said that the funds from the aerospace grant were not being spent quickly enough.

Eight commendations were also earned by the program.

As a result, the Department of Labor is granting NIC a 6-month extension for the grant. This extension comes in part because the grant had come into play late.

Aerospace Director Patrick O’Halloran said, “what $3 million can do for a school like this is make a significant ripple. The way the program utilizes its grant is very important.”

To utilize remaining grant money, and to continue to teach in line with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, the aerospace program will add a new course next fall.

Airframe Fabrication and Repair. The course was initially intended to be made available in the spring, but was pushed back; a decision ultimately made by the FAA. A new program will be made

available next semester despite the pushing back of the airframe fabrication and repair course.

Non-destructive testing and inspection, one of the original courses planned for the program, will accept enrollment next semester.

The grant was awarded by Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative in 2012, totaling $2.97 million and predicting to create 520 jobs by 2015. The three-year grant period started on Oct. 1, 2012.

A big reason why it takes so long for classes to be approved is that NIC does not give final ap-

proval.

The final edict for the classes comes from the FAA, and they are why the course pertaining to airframe development and repair has been pushed until next Fall.

The Aerospace Center of Excellence has to show the FAA many different aspects of any future classes they plan to offer.

Currently the aerospace program has seen 50 graduates from its one-year degree program. heir ultimate goal is to contrive more classes, and a twoyear degree. The FAA and their budget are both playing notable roles.

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Violence: Video games not to blame First and foremost, I want to stress an opinion I hold ver y strongly: media is a reflection of society, not a driving force. In the case of video games, obviously, gun violence existed before the 80’s. Gun violence existed before film. Gun problems necessitated commentar y in various medias, and due to its long use in militar y, necessitated realistic portrayals of… well, militar y. And violence. I’m certain the literar y world picked up on unethical gun tropes well before the ‘30s, when from my reading these things have become such a huge “media storm” issue—when gangster films started getting traction and making waves.

The fact that guns are so accessible to such a massive and ever-larger population I think is the reason that gun violence keeps being such an issue, and that the media is really only a reflection and correlation with it. The fact that there’s so much anti-media violence influence in the media is a clear sign that media is a reflection of the populace, but it’s not fair to say that if anti-media violence didn’t exist in the media, all of those people would suddenly start punching and murdering each other. At least, it’s no fairer than saying that if violence didn’t exist in the media, violent crime would reduce significantly.

Gun violence has risen and dropped in numbers while popular violent video games and films have been released at a constant. People claim that it desensitizes youth to the topics, but I truly disagree.

I’ve played Grand Theft Auto (GTA) a lot since a ver y young age and I’m personally horrified by gun violence, and sensitive to it if given an emotional angle in the arts. I know that people always say it’s a way of venting frustrations, but personally when I’m watching Inglourious Basterds or playing GTA, where the violence is so blatant and senseless, it’s just that: senseless. It’s just entertaining, and it’s just poking fun at an issue we all know is real with a neon sign over it saying: “this is obviously fiction”. I’ve never seen anybody screaming: “take this, mom!” while shooting in GTA, and if this is happening, I wholly support that they aren’t allowed to play, and get some mental help quickly. However, if they’re just having some fun, that’s all it is. They’re just traversing the world that this video game has created for them, and just like you would click on a fridge and browse through the selection in The Sims, you would duck behind things, speed and shoot (simulated) people in GTA. It’s just a menial task that is necessar y to get the good stats you want in the game, which has no connection to anything outside your TV screen.

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An Open Letter To The Kids That Smeared Pumpkin On My Car:

Dear Kids, when I limped my hungover way to my car I can only express my initial feeling as puzzlement as to how some leaves had stuck to my window overnight. I’m assuming you’ve never conducted a prank before, so I’ll go ahead and let you know that that’s not the first impression you want your victim to experience upon discovery.

When I got closer and realized those leaves were actually pieces of pumpkin, I was disappointed. In fact, the last time recorded instance of someone

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Sally Balcaen Staff Writer What does a woman look for when she considers voting for a certain candidate?

Is it the policies the politician represents? Maybe just the political party?

Or maybe women don’t know how to vote on such ideas and need someone to help them by comparing picking a candidate to, say, dating or choosing a wedding dress.

After all, this is all that women think about: relationships and reality shows.

At least, the College Republicans National Committee seems to think so.

In what Time Magazine is calling the “most sexist Republican ad of the year,” this committee has released an ad modeled after TLC’s show “Say Yes to the Dress” in an attempt to win over

one of their weakest voting demographics: young women.

This ad is called “Say Yes to the Candidate” in which a young, blonde, college grad named Brittany is picking a candidate by actually picking out a wedding dress.

Apart from being nauseatingly cliché, the ad demeans women’s intelligence to that of an excitable, over-dramatic blond who wants to defy her Democratic mother and be an adult.

“Rick Snyder (R-MI) is becoming a trusted brand!”squeals our darling Brittany. Because, to women, voting is the same as picking out a wedding dress, right?

Unfortnately, this ad is just one of the many sexist ads that appear every election. Lately the trend has been to turn possible presidents into “boyfriends.”

For example, in 2012, the Republican National Committee ran an ad about a woman “breaking up” with a cardboard cutout of President Obama. Some of her complaints about him were that he’s

“constantly on the golf course” and that he’d been seen “out with Sarah Jessica Parker and George Clooney.”

Forget the economy and foreign policy. Golfing and celebrities are the real issues that matter to women.

And it’s not just limited to the Republican Party.

In 2012, Lena Dunham starred in a pro-Obama ad that compared voting for the first time to having sex for the first time.

Another ad by an ouside group called Independent Women’s Voice portrayed Obama as an unreliable boyfriend who makes empty promises.

“Why do I always fall for guys like this?” complains one of the women.

It breaks the heart of any woman who has had such a boyfriend, errr...president.

How can women be taken seriously when this is how candidates view them?

Political parties need to realize that we are now in the 21st century. It’s time for the sexist ads to stop and for political parties to finally take women voters seriously.

festivities. If only they had a killer Halloween soundtrack to go along with their freaky shenanigans.

What better than music for the creepiest holiday around, especially when there are so many musicians who could produce music about spooky ghouls and monsters? I mean, come on ,where’s Slayer’s Halloween album at? They wouldn’t even have to wear itchy sweaters or do a duet with Michael Bublé like most Christmas albums.

I guess The Devil Wears Prada put out an album about zombies but who are we all kidding? No one listens to these guys in the first place.

I’m talking I want a Judas Priest Halloween and I want it to play at Wal-Mart 24/7.

So let’s make a Kickstarter or maybe even a band that plays just Halloween music because if the only thing I have to look forward to is three different Carrie Underwood versions of “Jingle Bell Rock” all of November and December, I’ll just rip my ears off now. Speaking of which, that may look cool for my costume.

All and all, my fellow Halloween fans, we need more than just the “Monster Mash” to tie in to our seasonal splendor. We need more to celebrate the awesome holiday of Halloween than just pumpkin carving and standing in line in the cold at Scarywood. We need a soundtrack. As soon as we get that I’ll start working on my petition for a Flag Day album.

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ed on Facebook, but you did a s----- job.

I know a little about pranks. I’ve forked yards, zip-tied cars and done things so elaborate with plastic wrap, vaseline and condoms that the recipient went slightly insane with the knowledge that hate is just a darker shade of love.

I’m going to have to request that you stop embarrassing yourself and go back to retweeting celebrities like you do best. Happy Halloween, loser.

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being as disappointed as I was in that moment was the first time your father ever held you in his arms and realized you’d never be as good at sports as your cool older cousin Tim. I don’t know how it’s possible to suck so bad at such a simple prank, but I can only assume you were too busy texting and taking selfies to realize you were getting more pumpkin guts on yourself than the car.

Look, I get it. You’ve been probably been watching some YouTube videos and wanted to try having that thing called fun they keep talking about on Huffington Post articles you see repost-

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We’ve all heard the songs that the holiday season has provided. Christmas songs play constantly in super markets until we want to deliberately smash our faces into a nice oak counter top, but where is all the music for Halloween?

Let’s be honest, though Halloween isn’t as big of a holiday as say Christmas, Hanukkah, or some of the other seasonal holidays, it does have its fair share of seasonal spirit which ought to be celebrated.

People get so excited over the Halloween season because of the

DID YOU KNOW? Halloween’s orange is associated with the fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

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Countering Counter-Culture Coming to terms with Constanza-esque mediocrity Evan Jones Staff Writer

Democracy has been leaking again, like Plato said, more than 2,000 years prior, people in a democracy will eventually believe themselves equal in all aspects. This can be demonstrated with our latest fashion trend.

Normcore is the only logical response to our fashion oversaturated market, today.

With everyone having it in their power to stop by the local H&M, being fashionable isn't anywhere near as strenuous. It's easy to hide behind a facade of fashionista guise with polyester and rat-hair blends.

How do you counter-culture the increasing large population of counter-culture in 2014? You give up completely, and fallback on the couch in those ill-fitting, stonewash jeans your mother bought you. Normcore has been closing the gap between the working class, and the bourgeois hipster.

This may be correctly viewed as a reactionary critique of capitalist culture, the spurn of fashion as something requiring new clothing every season.

A German philosopher, Hegel, would tell this is a dialectical development. A movement containing three elements; a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The thesis arises to the antithesis which, in tandem, devolve into the synthesis.

In modern counter-culture today, two trends are deeply routed; irony and sincerity. The thesis and antithesis. Normcore is our synthesis, Hegel would say.

Irony is what gives us the platform for skepticism and helps safeguard against the effects of ideology. While sincerity, an antidote for commitment, connection, seriousness, and patriotism, is our retaliation for

an increasingly postmodern culture. Sincerity is the explicit response for postmodern irony.

Normcore is irony and sincerity working in tandem.

As current counter-culture struggles to fabricate authenticity, modern hipsters are gravitating toward a sense of imagined economic-class devolution that makes them feel more real. Imagined because they are truly out of touch with the working class. So much so, it's a fashion statement to pretend you're apart of the working class.

As these counter-culture hipsters are "finding liberation in being nothing special.”

As trend forecast, K-Hole has told, is this not offensive to the working class? By “nothing special” are they referencing the working man?

Whether it's offensive to the working man or not will not be the scope of this article, but one intriguing relic concerning normcore is its aspirations, or better said, post-aspirations.

Normcore isn't trying to do anything. It's yielding to mainstream American fashion.

Not being different from the masses. The people subscribed to normcore are not zany, rebellious, or individualistic. Noncomformity has run its course in

America, being rebellious is beating a dead horse. Edgy is boring. How many people do you know with a pierced nose? An elaborate tattoo?

An advocate of normcore would say this movement is about “not differentiating through dress.” The reason for the “blank clothes” is to let your true personality shine.

Not letting your clothes do the talking. Are below-knee cargo shorts, Patagonia fleece, stonewash Levi's, black turtlenecks, and New Balance trainers the apropos way to do this? This counter-culture is fabricating one of the most forward thinking movements as of late. Taking personality out of the domain of clothing, and putting it back in personal achievement, social-economic status, sexual identity, and most importantly, merit.

The greatest accomplishment of your life will be when you finally come to terms with your own mediocrity.

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What are you going to dress up as for Halloween?

Mollie Murray, 33, Environmental Science, Cd’A.

“I am going to be wearing my pajamas, because my husband and child will be out of town.”

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Ken Griffey Jr. the Best in Baseball Griffey Olsby Staff Writer

Every year, or even everyday, people are always arguing about who is the best player in MLB history. I’m here to tell you that it is Ken Griffey Jr. Its always easy to say that Hank Aaron or Babe Ruth is the best player of all time because they have hit a bunch of home runs, but its hard to

argue with the numbers that Griffey has put up in every aspect of the game. Ken Griffey Jr had a remarkable career finishing in the top 5 in nearly every offensive category. “The Kid” hit 630 home runs and drove in 1836 runs over his sparkling 22 year career. Griffey was one of the most decorated players in MLB history. He had 10 gold gloves and 13 all star selections.his ten gold gloves is significant because he is among only one other outfielder to do so.

Now there is some controversy in naming Griffey the best of all time. He was playing in the middle of what has been referred to

as the “Steroid Era.” Now I’d like to think he wasn’t using any performance enhancing drugs but i can’t say for certain. The way i look at it is that he has never been accused of it and has never even been suspected of it either. Griffey is a great player and I don’t think anyone is arguing that, but greatest of all time is a title experts have never been able to put a name to. Griffey is the most prolific player the game has ever seen. Were seeing some great ones today in Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, but until their careers come to an end, its hard to argue with the résume of “The Kid.”

Thomas Storey, 21, English, Priest River.

“A pirate, because I like pirates.”

Album picks of the issue Maddie Nilges, 19, General Studies, Cd’A.

In the Sentinel’s newsroom it’s not uncommon for minor conflicts to arise from three different people trying to play their music all at once. This time however, we decided to put our heads together and recommend five of our favorite records to spin while assembling this paper. Kick back and enjoy.

Jimi Hendrix

The Black Ryder

Band of Gypsys

By The Ticket, Take The Ride

Undisputedly one of the greatest live albums of all time, Band of Gypsys still has the power to move the listener with the emotional interplay of a man making love to his guitar.

I saw this band live before even hearing their album, but when I picked this album up from that very concert it changed my life. This album is a mixture between haunting cowboy guitar riffs and wall of sound instrumentals that remind me of early Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.

-Christina Villagomez/Managing Editor

This is a fine piece for any music collection.

Tyson Juarez/Features Editor

Primus

Death Cab for Cutie Plans

Syd Barrett Barrett

If you have ever listened to Primus, you know they are one of the weirdest bands around, and this album is no different. As the title of the album would suggest, it’s basically the soundtrack of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with a bunch of Primus weirdness mixed in.

-Beau Valdez/Photo Editor

This band has grown onto me in such a way that I simply cannot stop listening. There are some specific songs from this album that made me choose it over others. This band album is a great addition to many playlists.

-Tanner Sheffield/Webmaster

“Barrett” displays wistful britishisms and psychologically revealing nonsequitors accompanied by deliberate flourishes of off-beat funkery, and tight, concise production.

A must listen album.

T.J. Gossard/ Features Assistant

Primus & The Chocolate Factory

“I’m going to be Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon, I really like that character.

She’s smart, funny and also adorable.”

Jamel Brown, 31, Criminal Justice, Monroe, La.

“I haven’t even thought about it, I don’t know if i’m dressing up this year.”

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Legendary bassest dead at 71 Revive classics in honor of fallen heros Tyson Juarez Features Editor

The world lost one of the most influential bass guitarists of the last 50 years. Creams own Jack Bruce passed away on Saturday October 25 from liver disease according to a statement given by one of Bruce’s Spokesman.

I believe this is upsetting for rock n’ roll for we have lost a lot of good artists over the past year including Tommy Ramone, Johnny Winter, and many others.

This goes to show that some of the mighty artists whom we’ve seen as “gods” are mortal after all but even still after their deaths, the music lives on.

Things like this make me appreciate classic rock n’ roll even more. Though we lose plenty

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Drama department gets personal Students take on new play from guest director Scott Doughty Rhiannon Fullerton Staff Writer Taylor Nadauld Staff Writer

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he NIC Drama Department unveiled their production of Neil LaBute’s, “The Shape of Things” Thursday night to a cozy crowd.

The production featured many edgy, nontraditional elements including the placement of audience seating which was on the stage where the cast per formed, some adult content, and the use of “liquid scener y,” a mash-up of traditional staging techniques and multimedia elements.

“This play uses the layering of a lot more technical elements, which is a lot dif ferent than anything I’ve done here before,” said lead actress Lindsay Teeter.

From an audience members’ perspective, the experience is intimate and engaging. Cast members act among audience members without breaking the four th wall.

“When you read the play it’s a very intimate experience.

It feels like you’re right in the middle of these people’s emotional lives,” said Guest Director Scott Doughty. “In order to honor that experience, we talked about how do we make it feel like we’re sitting right there with them. One of the goals we set out to do is really try to involve the audience in a much more immediate way.”

The entire cast is made up of only four students and one understudy. Characters feel more like friends than fiction by the end of the show.

“You learn to trust each other,” Teeter said of working with a small cast.

Audience members were warned before the play star ted that it is intended for mature audiences only, due to “strong sexual scenes” and “graphic language.” The play did feature scenes involving sexual encounters, with language scattered throughout. Prevalent themes in the show included student relationships, college life, motivations behind seemingly good intentions, and the definition of “ar t” in general.

“This show is a lot more contemporar y than what NIC normally does,” said cast member, Diana Bailey, “which is really nice.”

The play is per formed with a lot of creative control from the actors’ own interpretations. Students were provided a script, but there was nothing defining the characters other than the way the actors choose to portray them.

“It was awesome,” said audience member, Shari Thomas. “It was ver y well acted. It just was ver y smooth; no glitches or anything like that, and I thought the lead couple was just amazing.”

The play is accessible to ever yone because it does not use heightened language.

“You don’t have to be a

Students were able to view the play from the stage, giving them a unique perspective on the story. John “Risky” Boltz /Sentinel

‘theater person’ to appreciate this,” said Cole Durbin, the play’s male lead.

The actors had audience members fully engaged from beginning to end. There was plenty of laughter, and equal amounts of shock at the show’s many twists and turns.

“It forces you to think

ver y hard on your view on relationships on ar t, on ethics; it’s a really unique experience,” Doughty said. “The characters are not good or bad, just present and real.”

“The Shape of Things” is being per formed on Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boswell Hall Schuler Per forming Ar ts Center.

of artists every year we can still honor them through their works of art because such things were the statements and impressions they left on the world. They are almost timeless.

They danced the night away at NIC Students dance, glow, and connect with each other at the semesters first club sub

The passing of a member from such a well renowned band hits close to home for many fans but reality has to be faced because we may lose even more in the future.

Someday Led Zeppelin may be a little more incomplete, or the remaining Beatles may fade away.

Break out your old rock records or maybe go through your dad’s collection. Find something on Spotify or look up Youtube videos. Don’t let these artists music be forgotten in later generations, they deserve better than that.

So in saying, though he is gone, Jack Bruce lives on through our speakers and will hopefully grace future peoples with his groovy, catchy, and innovative rhythms and his chilling vocals.

In honor of our fallen rock n’

A student dances in front of a projector connected to an Xbox connect. Attendees of the event got an oportunnity to play around with the motion-sensor device, creating warped images on the wall. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

roll hero I’ll be flying my rock banners at half mast and I’ll also be blaring some Cream for the next few weeks.

Tyson Juarez is an editor for The Sentinel. Her opinions are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sentinel. Respond to this column online at nicsentinel.com.

Maddie Chapman Staff Writer A dark room, loud music, and neon lights brought students together to dance and enjoy themselves during the night.

Held in the lower level of the Student Union Building, Club Sub was an upbeat environment complete with refreshments and black lights.

It had a late start with groups milling around and testing out the dance screen which mimicked the movements of the person standing in front of it.

When the music started blaring students started grooving.

“I just like dancing,” said Bailey Scribner.

She said she has been dancing professionally since the age of eight.

Many students were sporting their glow in the dark homemade shirts. Days before Student Events provided an opportunity for people to make their own shirts just for the event.

Some also wore a collection of glowsticks to complete their outfit.

As the night went on more filed in and showed off their

moves. Those who weren’t dancing seemed amused by watching the interesting moves on the dance floor.

“It’s an interesting and new event,” said student Kayla Lawrence.

Club sub was hoppin’ till the end and many students said that they would r etur n if this event happened again.

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Let’s go hunt Mushroom expert comes to NIC Maddie Chapman Staff Writer

Racist comments and sexual innuendos are only a few of the vulgarities that can be found scribbled on bathroom walls. Some of the comments, though, may be becoming personal. T.J. Gossard/Sentinel

Bathroom graffiti an issue?

Pulbic restrooms defaced by vulgar language and imagery T.J. Gossard Features Assistant Belying the commonplace and casual calm of campus life—the striding back and forth between classes, passing of glances, ambitions and stresses running circles through the fragile student mind—there is a bewildering, repulsive, perhaps even shameful truth we all must share.

Students digest things. 10/10 students interviewed for this story alone replied “Yes” to the question, “Have you ever gone to the bathroom here at NIC?” That’s 100 percent, a telling statistic.

More interesting perhaps is that 50 percent of those students have indeed seen vandalism in their bathroom stalls. That 50 percent was 100 percent of the males interviewed for the story.

For some peculiar reason, men feel the need to pull out a pen, mark-

er or set of keys and scratch at the wall when in the bathroom far more than women. Inside the men’s bathrooms there are multiple drawings of penises, swastikas and various random messages such as “I come in this bathroom don’t touch the rail he he,” “yeah, you poopin’,” and “vagina.” A gallery will be posted on the Sentinel website.

There can also be phone numbers found in three stalls across campus to call for a good time.

One of the girls whose number was in a bathroom stall, who wishes to remain anonymous, commented on her phone number’s presence in the men’s bathroom.

“I dunno, maybe somebody was just thinkin’ about me and wrote it on there,” she said. ““I think it’s funny. […] But it gives out personal, not true, information, and so I don’t want people to think of me like that.”

Now, what kind of implications does this have for our male populace? What does this divide say about men and women’s relationship in today’s culture? Perhaps nothing. Students gave their thoughts.

“In my personal experience I’ve met a lot of guys who are really creepy,” said Alyssa Dodge, 19, English, Rathdrum. “The guys who don’t know boundaries.

“I really don’t want to say it’s because guys vandalize,” said William McCarthy, 20, Math, Greenville. “It says that men like to have fun, but they don’t know how to do it.”

Are men just bored or is something primitive and vulgar lying just beneath the surface of our male populace unleashing itself by lashing out at the walls of toilet stalls the minute that the bathroom door closes them off from the world? You can decide.

Many people have hobbies such as knitting, writing, playing an instrument and so on. Here at NIC there is a mycophile, or someone who hunts wild, edible mushrooms.

Tim Gerlitz, president of the North Idaho mycological association, gave a presentation on proper handling, identification, and safety of hunting wild mushrooms.

Mycology is the study of fungus which includes mushrooms.

The north Idaho mycological association was founded on campus in the 1960’s by Kit Scates and is a group of people who enjoy hunting mushrooms and educating and aiding others in mushroom hunting adventures.

The club has about 45-50 active members and meets six times a year.

Gerlitz has been president many times since he joined the club 25 years ago and has been giving presentations about mushroom hunting for 15 years.

Some mistakes Gerlitz said people make while hunting include a lack of field guides, taking risks with identification by not being positive about a species before eating it, mixing species, and like any food, eating too many mushrooms at once.

Being absolutely positive about the identification of a species and not going out alone or without a knowledgeable mushroom hunter was stressed heavily through the presentation.

It is very easy to mistake a deadly mushroom for an edible one.

“You can eat any mushroom once,” stressed Gerlitz.

The most deadly mushroom is the amanita phalloides or “death cap” and can kill someone within a week.

If digested it damages the kidneys and liver and the only antidote is an organ transplant. This mushroom looks very similar to edible ones so it is important to know the difference and features of each wild mushroom.

With a warning about the deadly mushrooms Gerlitz also presented many edible and according to him, “delicious” ones that can be found in the area such as the honey mushroom.

The honey mushroom or Armillaria, is the largest living organism on earth and grows in clusters. It is about 2400 years old and spans over 1660 football fields.

The agaricus bisporus was also mentioned which is the type of mushrooms sold in grocery stores.

The life cycle of mushrooms, many more species and their features such as the morel, and even ways to prepare and eat these mushrooms was presented.

“I learned a lot,” said student Paula Flodquist.

After the presentation audience members had an opportunity to look at some “lobster” mushrooms which are nicknamed for their distinct smell and some say they even taste like seafood.

The audience was also encouraged to bring items to donate the food pantr y.

Aphids take over Bug swarms could get worse in the future

T.J. Gossard Features Assistant There’s something new in the sky. Clouds of black distort even the sunniest days of this season, and they’re not from shadows.

They’re from aphids, the Halloween season’s foreboding reminder of the cold upcoming winter, slapping you in the face ever y five seconds with seemingly no purpose but to scold us for having the ambition to walk more than three feet outside of a building any given day.

“I want a flame-thrower to travel around with me and burn them in the air,” said Kara Burnham, 20, Philosophy, Naples. “If it weren’t for the fact that ever ybody else was dealing with them, they would make me feel dirty.

And in biology I’ll be in class in the morning and there’ll be bugs flying off me and I feel like that one stinky kid from the peanuts, and I’ve just got stuff flying

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you know what I mean? When he said that, something clicked in me, and so I started putting stuff back in my locker,” Moses said.

“It gives me goose bumps because everything all started coming at me all at once, all this bad stuff that I had done. This was my only chance to get a chance at life again.

Because if I went before this judge, he had no regret.”

Moses grew to appreciate his surroundings.

“I started learning about trust, about accountability, about how if you do something and you get told on it doesn’t make them a rat, it’s just them being honest with somebody,” said Moses. “I learned about my word, giving my word, caring about people, just everything.”

Later, Moses became Senior of the family. Due to a disagreement with the counselor he lost it after two weeks, Moses said.

“I’m glad I lost it though, be-

around me.”

Biology Instructor Mike Kelly has taken an unhappy interest in these unpleasant neighbors as well.

“My wife and I,” Kelly said, “we hike and we take bikes around and ever ything and around this time of year, you don’t want to go out.”

Kelly has taken time to personally research the methods of these little beasts and shared his research.

The reason that some parts of town are worse than others is because with the flying aphids, that’s a reproductive phase. So they’re not really focused on getting food, they’re just entirely worried about mating. And during that flying phase they are attracted to ash trees so it’s a sort of ornamental that’s pretty common here in town, and basically the areas that have a lot of ash trees have a lot of aphids. If you look at those trees over the last month, there’ll be

cause it showed me that everybody falls,” he said.

Moses graduated the program.

An unusual amount of time was allotted to speaking about him during the graduation, running to about 45 minutes of tearful accounts, said Moses.

“Never in my life had I done good. And not only had I done good, I’d helped lead these guys in a positive way. And so it was crazy when I went before my judge because he was speechless,” said Moses.

After being released into probation, Moses said he had no place to stay, so he was brought to the men’s shelter at St. Vincent de Paul. Based on his experiences there he built himself up, found a home and continued his education. He became president of American Indian Student Alliance, and led a successful homeless Thanksgiving that the club now wants to maintain as a tradition.

Though Moses has overcome a lot, he said some new issues have arisen in his life.

“I was talking to this guy at work and the next thing I know, it’s just little flashes: I’m in the freezer and

just literally piles of dead aphids at the bases of them.

There is no way to personally repel aphids, but there are methods on a bigger scale. Kelly said that liberally applying a light pesticide on the trees they are particularly attracted to, conifers, might be something the city will have to consider.

“If it keeps getting worse,” Kelly said, “then I think the city’s gonna have to do something because it’s a major nuisance because it’s gonna hurt tourism and make people just want to not go outside which is not good in fall.”

So what is the benefit of Aphids? Looking up general information online, it becomes clear that aphids suck on plant sap and secrete honeydew. Whether or not that benefit outweighs the cost of having a simulated massacre in one’s hair and T-shirt because of a want to check the mail is ambiguous, but there are certainly other insects capable of making honeydew.

I could hear the chef talking to me, and then I’m in his truck and he’s slapping me, and the next thing I know I’m waking up in the hospital and I’m hearing “beep. Beep.” And I guess through the whole experience I was almost dead, they couldn’t get my heart rate up.”

The doctors/surgeons couldn’t get his heart above a 42.

“I was almost toast, man.”

Moses has been diagnosed with Gastroparesis with a Dystautonomia, an incurable genetic condition that Moses’ mother passed away from, but he said the doctors aren’t completely sure yet. Moses has another EKG scheduled currently.

Moses is incapable of eating too much food without having an episode, and he’s lost a lot of weight he cannot make up for. Moses said he had to re-learn how to eat for two weeks after this incident to stop from vomiting it all back.

Moses said he intends to go to Lewis-Clark State College after NIC, and is currently working on getting a car lot started with his stepfather called “L&M Automotive Sales.” He

Aphids have invaded CDA since mid-September. The bugs are expected to multiply even more in years to come. Beau Valdez/ Sentinel

said he’s left behind the life of crime and drugs he used to celebrate and intends to raise his daughter with his wife, Lori Moses.

“She’s my life,” Moses said.

“She’s such a good mother, good friend. She’s always there for me, and I’ve told her this; she may have found me but I’ve been searching for her my whole life.’”

This is a life far away from Grand Theft by extortion and aggravated battery.

“But that’s the guy that I was, and it’s crazy that if I go on and I search my name on Google, ‘CDA Josh Moses,’ it brings up the “sirens & gavels,” and the story of it: the 2,500 dollars of it and it’s just, like, I threw my life away for $2,500 but if I had not done that I’d never be the person that I am today. When you’re in drugs and you’re addicted to drugs, it takes something really powerful to pull you out of it and had that not been that situation, I probably either would have already been dead by now from gangbangin’ or the ripping off of drug dealers, or who knows. But I think in all of this and

what I’ve learned is my self-worth, because before nobody liked me unless I was selling you s---, I had no relationship with my father because I’d stolen his credit card and stolen his truck and maxed out that credit card, was on the run from the cops, and I’d been in high-speed chases, lost my license because of a high-speed chase that I was in and I’m glad to say I just came on my fifth year of sobriety and I’ve never felt better about that situation, and even though I’m now dealing with my health situation, I think if I had to pass away today, I think I could be happy. Because I’m telling you, that person that I used to be, I don’t know who would have come to the funeral. It would have been a pretty quiet deal, you know what I mean?”

Moses patted himself down with one hand while spooning some more yogurt for his daughter, and glanced about.

“I don’t know where her Minnie is, man,” Moses said. He smirked a little bit, guilty. “My wife’s gonna kill me.”

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Terrorizing Haunts from Beyond the Campus

The Sentinel invites you along a tour of the area’s local haunted attactions reimagined as B-Horror flicks. Grab some popcorn, bundle up and enjoy the ride Thrills and chills await those who brave rathdrum’s tunnel of terror Christina Villagomez Managing Editor The snapping buzz of a chainsaw wielded by masked maniac charging at you out of the velvet night would usually be greeted with confused horror, but at Rathdrum’s Tunnel of Terror the screams the villain commanded were those of delight.

The surprise visitor brought a pleasantly chilling break in the monotony of standing in the long, but quick moving line to enter of the area’s most popular haunted attractions.

When you finally step in the winding, maze like structure, it’s easy to see why the Tunnel of Terror continues to remain a draw to large crowds well into its twelfth year of operation.

Full of elaborately decorated themed rooms such as Jack the Ripper’s foggy London, a giant spider-infested jungle scene and many thrilling suprises, The Tunnel man-

ages to hold scares for even the most jaded attendee.

“I’ve worked in a haunted house for several years and they still managed to get me to jump a few times,” said Margaux Birdsall, 22, Chemistry, Coeur d’Alene.

The Tunnel is a labor of love for Ruth Maryott and her husband Ed, who build and decorate the entire building by hand every fall.

“We start from scratch everytime,” Maryott said.

Ruth said she never starts with much of a plan, but always ends up with a bundle of new ideas to keep visitors on their toes.

Although the couple does charge $5 a visitor, all the proceeds are put back into expanding the venue for the next year.

Even the spooks in costume are all volunteers.

“We just wanted something fun for our grandchildren.”

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Silverwood experiences a chilling transform into Scarywood Maddie Chapman Staff Writer Carnival music was replaced by swirling fog, Garfield and magic shows transformed to zombies, and squeals of delight turned into shrieks of fear. For the month of October the Northwest’s largest theme park, Silverwood and Boulder Beach, has become Scarywood haunted nights.

Timber Terror runs backwards, the ice skating rink is replaced with a haunted house, and the steam engine is now a zombie hunting machine complete with vulgar jokes and explicit language.

Scarywood is acres of haunted houses, stalker zombies, clown corpses and much more to give all who dare a terrifying time. Other attractions include total darkness, 3Dementia, ghouls gone wild, the crypts, the Scarywood nest, and vortex tunnel.

Lose yourself in Hauser’s Incredible corn maze or run for your life from the field of screams T. J. Gossard Features Assistamt

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oreboding shadows and schizophrenic flashes of blood-spattered faces paint stock upon corn stock at the Post Falls Incredible Corn Maze, inviting participants to lose themselves in a night of terror. Or perhaps even a few nights, given one’s love of fright. But for those approaching the multiple Halloween season offerings in the CDA area with a discerning eye, the question has to be asked: is it worth the travel and $10 entr y fee?

With events such as this, some might fear the maze has nothing to offer except conceptual cheesiness and unrepentant raucous high school behavior of those attending.

However, anyone who researched the event beforehand would know that this venue has a bit more to offer.

The grounds are littered with exceptionally creative family-friendly frightful fun. Attractions include a tractor tire playground, a corn-shooting cannon that awards prizes, a maze game where participants search for checkpoints and chart progress on a map, and there is even a pumpkin patch

for picking.

The offerings here might be more quantity than quality, though. The tractor tire playground is small and aimed more at children than anything else and the pumpkin patch, though visually appealing under the harsh spotlights that illuminate the ground, can only offer entertainment for so long. Meanwhile, the corn cannon costs $1 for three shots or $5 for 20, but the prizes to be won are of the plastic frog and rub-on tattoo variety. Participants earn $50 reward for hitting a particularly distant target, but an employee present on Saturday, October 18, claimed that she’d never even seen an employee hit it.

The maze game did offer much entertainment, though uncontrolled rampant rule-breaking might be considered a nuisance to some.

The amount of effort put into structuring the maze, from individually styled hole-punchers for each checkmark to the map’s illustration of the maze drawing an image of a pumpkin-headed horseback rider before a Transylvanian castle, are likely to impress.

The highlight of the park, of course, was the Haunted Maze.

It didn’t quite escape from a

“The vapors smelled really good, like cotton candy,” said student Jacki Goonan.

There were edible bubbles and sweet smelling fog throughout the park. Many of the rides and rollercoasters also operate through the night.

The actors, which include zombies, creatures, creepy dolls, zombie hunters, and much more all stay in character throughout the night, jump out of the bushes randomly, and have been known to chase those who run away from them.

“My favorite part was the clowns because one of them knew me,” said student Sage Piatt. “He kept creepily chanting my name but I didn’t realize it was him until afterward.”

Scarywood is open every weekend in October on most Thursdays and Friday and Saturday nights. Times and prices vary depending on which night it is.

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couple of pitfalls, however. The frequency of groups being allowed through made the maze challenging to take the atmosphere in and appreciate, the different styles of acting from the employed scarers created a somewhat uneven effect, and an hour-long-plus wait in line might be a greater horror to some than the jump factor the maze promises to deliver on.

The management of the park could have improved, with an employee bare-handedly giving popcorn to those in line, another employee encountered was not certain of their job position and turned

out to be the person in charge of making sure visitors purchased their tickets before granting maze entr y—almost letting attendees in for free— and an ATM processing wait of four minutes for those who didn’t come with cash. Also somewhat daunting, though perhaps coincidental, was an appearance of an ambulance and firetruck for an ambiguous amount of time.

The grounds have been treated to a meticulous attention to detail in their look, however, and the energy exuded by the attendants and autumn-exclusive surround-

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ings make it a challenge to not appreciate. For those with a discerning eye, discern as you may; but when you’re at a fork in the path, know that spookiness could be around any corner.

The Tunnel of Terror is located at 7980 Diagonal Road, Rathdrum ID, 83858 Scarywood is located at 27843 North Hwy 95, Athol ID, 83801 The Amazing Corn Maze is located at 3405 N. Beck Road, Hauser ID, 83854

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COMMENTARY

Good news for Seahawks Harvin loss coup for Hawks

Connor Sears Staff Writer

The Seahawks returned to an old identity this week as Percy Harvin jettisoned to the Jets for a mid-round draft pick last week. A variety of factors including: offfield transgressions, offensive mismatches, future injury concerns, and monetary worries for other players presented an un-

Brittany Aldridge prepares to deliver a vicious spike in attack against Snow College on Saturday. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

desirable package that Coach Pete Carroll

Volleyball Wins Against Nationally Ranked Opponent Ryan Rohde Staff Writer It has been an up and down season for the NIC Volleyball team, but on Saturday they got a huge win when it mattered most beating seventh ranked, Snow College.

The Cards won the third set 25-23. They held of f a good comeback from Snow in the final set, winning 25-21 and taking the match 3 sets to 1.

In the 4th set, the Cards stor med out to a 7-2 lead early and they never looked back despite Snow cutting the deficit three dif ferent times in the set.

Snow cut the deficit to three 18-15 at one point in the final set and eventually cut the Cardinal lead down to two 23-21 before NIC answered with two consecutive points to take the final set.

“It always feels good beating a nationally ranked opponent,” Head Coach Kelsey Stanley said, “Our last couple of wins were big, but any

The Seahawks are a team based on scrappy, talented draft picks that turned

win like this feels good.”

The Cards dominated throughout the final set, getting key blocks in the match from 6’4” sophomore Dzeni (pronounced: Jenny) Hadzisehovic, who was dominant in front of the net.

NIC doesn’t get a break though, as they take on second ranked College of Souther n Idaho this Saturday at 1 p.m. in T win Falls.

(clockwise) Libero Kennedy Chadwick prepares to bump the ball, two lady cards dive in desperate defense, volleyball fans dressed in pink for breast cancer awareness raise their spirit fingers, and teammates Brenna Meehan, Zoia Basargin and Maddi Seidl celebrate a hard earned ralley.

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couldn’t keep for any longer.

into superstars; not players like Harvin who is granted a huge contract based on hype and potential versus paid by performance.

Seattle now has $5.7 million more salary cap space to rehire linebacker K.J. Wright and Bobby Wagner, and perhaps an extension on running back Marshawn Lynch. It also creates space for a few veteran offensive linemen.

Harvin is an explosive football player who changed the offensive identity for the worse. Seattle’s success last year stemmed through power, run-first offense by Lynch and the old-hand blockers.

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Wilson has been running for his life in the last few weeks, scrambling as the pocket collapses a 30 percent of the snaps.

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The run game opened up the pass game for quarterback Russell Wilson.

Harvin was a limited player for the

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Seahawks. Most of his receptions were behind the line of scrimmage and his runs were mostly sweeps across the field.

Coach Carrol is a visionary coach who protects locker room chemistry. However, I doubt that an altercation with then teammate Golden Tate was as serious as the talking heads make out to be seeing how much press was at the Superbowl and that Tate was willing to take a hometown discount before leaving for Detroit.

Harvin has a history of altercations in high school, in college at Florida, as a Minnesota Viking and now as a Seahawk.

In week six against the Dallas Cowboys, Harvin refused to enter the game in the fourth quarter. To me, he does not deserve $13 million this year considering his attitude and willingness to play.

He missed most of last season recovering from a hip injury and was plagued with a variety of injuries as a Viking. He seems like too much of a liability and a headache than what he’s worth.

The Seahawks are better off moving forward without Percy Harvin.

Connor Sears is a writer for The Sentinel.

His opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sentinel. Respond to this column online at nicsentinel.com.

DID YOU KNOW? The mask used by Michael Meyers in the movie “Halloween” was actually William Shatner’s mask painted white.

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Don’t Punish the Fans

Uncontroversial controversy

Ryan Rohde Staff Writer

If you have ever been to a hockey game at the Spokane Arena then you know the pride the fans of the Spokane Chiefs have.

Chief fans yell “CHIEFS” at the end of the National Anthem instead of saying “Brave.” This has now come into to question by some fans of the WHL (Western Hockey League) and even of the Chiefs due to an incident that recently occurred.

On Friday, Oct. 10, the Chiefs were at home facing off against the Seattle Thunderbirds. During the National Anthem, some injured Chiefs players allegedly yelled, “Let’s Go Bech’s,” for teammate Markson Bechtold. Fan reaction to the incident prompted an immediate response from the team.

On Tuesday, Oct. 14, during the pregame show on the radio, Spokane Chiefs General Manager Tim Speltz personally apologized on behalf of the team and also announced that the players would address the incident in front of their home fans the following night.

This has now sparked some fans to question if the fans should be able to say “CHIEFS” instead of saying “Brave.” I personally believe that is the decision of the fan and I will tell you why.

What the Chiefs injured players did on the 10th was completely unacceptable and I am glad that Speltz and team Captain Jason Fram addressed the incident in a proper manner, but should the fans really be punished?

The answer is simply no. I per-

Cardinal’s number 10 midfielder Braden Ridgewell fights for ball possession. Scoring the only goal in the first 20 minutes of the game, they held back the Knights for a close win, also buying their way into the playoffs. Photos by Beau Valdez/Sentinel

Cardinals Clash with Knights Men’s soccer takes first place in division after close 1-0 victory Annie Stonebreaker Sports Assistant Men’s soccer defended their solo point against Wenatchee Valley College in an extreme physical battle that ended 1-0 Saturday afternoon on slippery Eisenwinter field.

They started off strong and pushed forward to attempt several goals, and the Knights retaliated with a few attempts of their own.

NIC’s keeper Mitch Markovets had seven impressive saves, and WVC’s Tony Madesa made several amazing saves to also block a total of seven goals.

The first half of the game both teams struggled and strained for ball control and that initial goal.

The Cardinals shot from an indirect free kick and punched through the defense of their opponent’s goal to either be blocked by the keeper or kick the ball too high to make the net.

Finally at 20 minutes into the game Adam Talley put away a powerful shot assisted by Matt Howard, making the first and only goal of the game, and demonstrating an impressive show of teamwork with tight passes and communi-

cation.

In the second half, the game escalated in intensity as the Cardinals defended and the Knights pushed to make a goal.

The game also grew more physical and the referee gave a total of three yellow cards for grabbing, cleats up during a slide tackle, and unsporting behavior. The crowd did not fail to put in their input to the ref for the calls that he did or did not make.

“Our team played very well, both of us were fighting very hard for that for-sure first place in our league,” Said midfielder number 10 Braden Ridgewell, “I’m really excited to get well rested and come out strong and dominate at the playoffs.”

sonally always yell “CHIEFS” at the end of the anthem because that is how it has been at every home game I have been to since I began really following the Chiefs about three years ago.

I honestly do not see what the big fuss is about and why it is such a big deal all of the sudden. If you choose to say brave then say brave and if you choose to yell Chiefs then yell Chiefs. Don’t make a big deal out of something that is not.

In Everett at Xfinity Arena, they yell “FIGHT” at the end of the anthem. In Kennewick at the Toyota Center, they flash all the lights in the arena at the end. In Kelowna at Prospera Place, they yell “ROCKETS!” Even in the NFL, Kansas City Chiefs fans yell “CHIEFS!” This is and should never be a big deal, but as usual in sports, when you draw attention to something, especially something as powerful at the National Anthem of the United States of America, people always will have something to say.

GO CHIEFS GO! Ryan Rohde is a writer for The Sentinel.

His opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sentinel. Respond to this column online at nicsentinel.com.

Lady Cards Ensured Spot in Playoffs After stale first half, Cardinals secure game with a 3-1 win

Connor Sears Staff Writer The Lady Cards in a 3-1 victory defeated Wenatchee Valley College on Saturday at Eisenwinter Field.

Forwards Meghan Pagano, Jaimee Hulst, and Katelyn Sly scored for the Lady Cards on Keeper Shawnee Covington.

Pagano scored in the bottom right side of the goal in the 58th minute off a rebound from the Knights goalkeeper.

Hulst found the back of the net in the 66th minute.

The third goal by the Lady Cards came in the 77th minute. Sly poked the ball across the goal line by the keeper on a cross from Jessica Cassens from the left flank, across the middle.

Wenatchee Valley College For ward Kristal Alejandrez in the 87th minute. The ball was collected from NIC defender Sydney Sol. The ball got by Keeper Madi Williams.

The Lady Cards star ted out playing aggressive

and losing possession due to fouls. The ball bounced around the middle of the swampy field until late in the second half when the Cardi-

nals had five unsuccessful shots on goal.

Freshman defender Jadyn Sanchez sustained a right knee injur y and left the

game.

The team is 9-2-8 on the season. The last game before the playof fs is Saturday at noon on Eisenwinter Field.

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Hell in in Heels Heels Hell Deadly dames and killer kings take the stage at HalloQueen T.J. Gossard Features Assistant Cleavage. Stiletto-strutting studs and cleavage-clad kings and queens bared breasts bursting with dollar bills and ruled the stage with bejeweled fists and perfect nails during the Gender and Sexuality Alliance’s (GSA) annual Halloqueen drag show Thursday night, the proceeds of which were shared with the Coeur d’Alene Center for Gender and Sexuality Diversity.

Students, elderly, children, community members, B-rated inflatable bats and glow-in-the-dark skeleton decorations demonstrated that the stage dancers weren’t the only ones who knew how to stuff, with the attendance hitting over 150 according to club adviser and chemistry instructor Jon Downing.

The performances were vibrantly diverse.

Performer Asher Johnson announced shyly before going into her act that she was only going to sing because she didn’t realize these events were mostly lip-synched. But this self-proclaimed rookie to the stage turned heads with her countryman’s outfit coupled to a vocal performance of opera that received a standing ovation.

Later, looking like the survivor of an S&M venture through an oil spill, Felony Mayhem Cox burst onstage with a brutal faux-hawk,

spiked bra, broad dominating shoulders and bulging eyes— frightening guests and somersaulting in heels, viciously emanating a mastery of drag theatrics.

Closing the night was glittering fireball Beyonce St. James, who twerked and twisted for the climax of the night, wherein she personally grabbed a male audience member who had offered her a dollar bill, sat him on the stage, gave him a lap dance, laid him down and bounced atop his body.

The audio had technical difficulties mid-performance, which St. James handled with grace, transitioning the time to speak a little about her experience as an empress in the Imperial Sovereign Court of Spokane.

The student reception was ecstatic.

“It got pretty crazy,” Megan Abey, 20, General Studies, Coeur d’Alene said. “But in a good way. In the best ways.”

The event wasn’t all about fun and games, though. Midway through the show GSA advisers and representatives from the CCGSD spoke about some of the struggles facing the LGBT community, such as higher sexual violence, homelessness, personal experiences with coming out and suicide rates.

In light of the recent Supreme Court rulings and the success of the night, the general feeling seemed optimistic about the future

of LGBT relations.

“Everybody always talks about RuPaul or the stereotypes of drag queens, and it’s nice to actually show what that’s about,” said event coordinator Jess Brereton, 28, English, Manitou Springs. “It’s a whole other kit and caboodle.”

“It’s all theater to me,” Felony Mayhem Cox, 24, Hotel Restaurant Management at Spokane Community College, Post Falls said. “I enjoy it because Felony is so much different than who I am normally, so much more boisterous. She’s loud, obnoxious, she’s

fun, she’s a lot ballsier, and I enjoy the makeup aspect of it, the theater and the embodying an entirely different character that I’ve got to create myself.”

An elementary-aged girl in attendance of the show was dancing around by people’s seats. Her name is Tori Wilkinson, and she does drag in her spare time. Her stage name is Surreal Mystery Diamond.

“I’ve been doin’ a lot of drag shows, but sometimes I don’t do drag shows. I only do a couple because my mom doesn’t like some-

times doing so much,” Wilkinson said. She smiled and raised her arms proudly. “I always make the whole place shut down!”

Make no mistake: this is an event of clothes flinging, sleazy frizzled hair, audience members grinded upon, and blood spatter makeup. However, this is also an event of family, laughter, fake sword battles, Freddie Mercury impersonations, and Ghostbuster-costumed Gangnam style-dancing students. No doubt: fun is to be had at Halloqueen.

“It got pretty crazy, but in a good way. In the best ways.”

MEGAN ABEY STUDENT

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