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Guest speaker talks software, education Rhiannon Fullerton Staff Writer

Pixies Coverage Continued Read the Sentinel’s exclusive interview with the Pixies’ Joey Santiago Pixies Page 8

Frontman Black Francis kicks off the opening set. Spokane was the Pixies third stop on their new tour. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

This is the Planet of Sound

Alternative rock pioneeers the Pixies bring down the house in Spokane T.J. Gossard Features Assistant Names like Black Francis and Joey Santiago and other figures of noise pop are always going to be well known within a subgenre whose fashion tends to lean toward ironic 80’s T-shirts and grungy torn jeans. But in the greater northwest of the U.S. in Spokane, Washington, a different story was told at the INB Performing Arts Center, with an audience composed of fedoras and sweater-vests trapped between cramped seats.

A noisy collage opened the show before a steady bass-snare beat dropped, followed quickly by a surfer rock-reminiscent guitar strum and a jubilant bassline that descended into a full dynamic shift of percussive, hard-riffing tango.

The Pixies blasted out onto the stage with a “Wave of Mutilation.”

Their performance addressed the audience with immediacy; this was going to be an engaging performance. The lighting of the show was immaculate, but the audio mix was sometimes rough. But even just seeing the side profile of drummer David Lovering projected onto the wall like a mythical figure made up for a lack of complete sound clarity.

Meanwhile, Paz Lenchantin, the bassist, was able to perfectly emulate the bubbling personality and infectious melody of Kim Deal while bringing in her own moody demeanor as a stage presence in a short-cut pointed black leather jacket. However, most of her playing was buried in the mix for this particular performance.

Black Francis, the front man and rhythm guitarist, fantastically sprang old life from his aged vocal chords by thrashing them to death for our pleasure with old screamers and vocal strains like “Broken Face,” “Crackity Jones,” and “The

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For their first event of the semester the Computer Science and Technology club hosted “A Field Guide to Common Nerds” on Sept. 23.

Although the terminology of the presentation about people in the game coding industry may not have been understandable to all, the presenter’s story is one that we should all learn from.

Jason McDonald is the CEO of a company that is “dedicated to creating innovative solutions for education.” MousePaw games was started as a senior project and has evolved into a company capable of offering internships to numerous college students and graduates looking to get into the software development field.

When McDonald was a sophomore in high school he fell down a staircase and hit his head on a banister resulting in a grade three traumatic brain injur y. When he woke up from the accident he couldn’t even read. Many doctors told him he would not be able to graduate high school or go to college. He thanks his mother for not accepting this answer and continuing to search for a doctor who could help him.

Eventually he was able to recover and graduate from high school with a 3.9 GPA. “Educational software was such a key part of that,” said McDonald.

Wanting to help kids going through similar experiences gave McDonald the drive to start MousePaw Games.

“There was once a lot of good educational software out there and most of it has ceased to exist. It’s left a market gap big enough for a truck to drive through,” said McDonald. “I wanted to ensure that whatever I built was going to be something that kids with learning disabilities, kids with head injuries, kids with autism or dyslexia could use the same game.”

Trailcrest, one of the games currently being developed by MousePaw games, is designed to match the players’ intelligence, lowering difficulty in content when the player struggles and increasing it as the player excels.

It also gives teachers the ability to adjust the content that the students are seeing.

McDonald attended NIC for three semesters but has decided to focus on his company for the time being. He is currently tutoring NIC students in math and science and hopes to release his educational software by this time next year but says in the world of coding “it’s done when it’s done.”

Sad Punk,” while still being able to hit precise notes with clarity and tonal accuracy. There were a couple off moments in the night for Francis though: when “Where is My Mind?” closed the night off, he lazily slurred the chorus to a different count than the album version, throwing off all of the audience members singing along. This might have been one of the many reported “F--- you” moments of Francis, but when he monotonously forced out the lyrics to “U-Mass” like he was being drilled by a military sergeant and was about to break, there was no denying that it was a strain to his health.

The highlight performer was Joey Santiago this time around, with some shining moments of sound clarity for his sonic ventures: the surf pickings of “Velouria” and “Is She Weird?” pierced the auditorium with just as much clarity and conviction as the hard riffing of “Bagboy.” Sometimes, particularly in songs from ‘Trompe Le Monde,’ the guitar got shuffled away in the audio setup.

But nothing prepared the audience for the performance of “Vamos.”

When the song broke down into the repetitive, nervous drumming that indicated the guitar solo section, Santiago strummed some notes and played around with his whammy bar and pedal board, for about the full solo length and had fans nervously eyeing each other. Is he going to go all the way?! Just do it, Joey! There was a moment of expectation when the guitar solo was likely supposed to end that Santiago made eye contact with Lovering for encouragement, and the audience howled out a couple of encouragements. Next thing Santiago was requesting a drumstick, bouncing it off the ground, slapping his guitar around, and even playing feedback frenzy behind his back. Then something amazing happened; Santiago went to bounce his drumstick, but missed catching it. He tried to kick it and missed as well. He looked down

“(I) started getting interested in using my own backyard as a source of making ar t.”

at it in question before unsaddling his guitar and forcing it down onto the ground, shaking it frantically on top of the drumstick to the audience’s wowed surprise—spitting audible fire over an audience gleefully awaiting it.

Following this bout of showmanship, David Lovering snapped his snare to indicate the spitfire transition into Francis’ screams, but either his voice was too thrashed to snarl psychotically at the jeering audience before him, or he was displeased by the flash of the prior moments, but the expec-

A Pixies fan with a glittery wig rocks out. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

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tancy of the audience was denied for the next verse. Following this huge climax to the show, the band gave a denouement: “Where Is My Mind?” before bowing for the audience while they all clapped and howled. They obviously wanted more, but Francis seemed tired. They really discussed on-stage and tested just how long the audience was willing to push.

After a good stretch of wondering whether they were ever going to do anything, they gave an encore in the form of “Planet of Sound.”

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Republican candidates get together at NIC to meet local constituents, socialize, talk politics Thomas Hansen News Editor Republican candidates from around the area congregated at NIC to meet their constituents Oct. 2.

The event was hosted by the Republicans Club alongside the local republican party in the SUB, and had a healthy turnout from the community.

In attendance was Jim Brannon, county clerk; District 2 Senator Steve Vick; District 2A Representative Vito Barbieri; District 2B Representative candidate Eric Redman; District 3 Senator Bob Nonini; District 3A Representative Ron Mendive; District 3B Representative candidate Don Cheatham; District 4 Senator candidate Mary Souza; District 4A Representative Lucas Malek; and District 4B Representative Kathy Sims.

Steven Matheson, running in Kootenai County for treasurer, was unable to attend. Dr. Warren Keene was also unable to attend, and is running for coroner.

Jennifer Locke, of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and chair of the elections committee, helped kick off the event with Rodriguez. Locke said they had a great turnout.

Dirk Mendive, 31, General Studies, said, “I thought it was good.

Would’ve liked to have seen a few more people come out and meet their representatives, but it was good.”

Dirk is a committee member for the republican party in Coeur d’Alene, and the son of Ron Mendive.

“I thought it was a great event, and what I really like the most is to see more and more young people

involved,” said Souza. “Politics and ing with a minor in Political Science, viewpoint on a couple things and Even though Nicholson considers what government chooses to do eiCoeur d’Alene, is a democrat that gave him some reading material. himself a democrat, he said he wants ther makes our lives much better, or came to learn about the local candiNicholson shared the views of to make informed choices about much worse, and it is really impordates.

Rodriguez and Locke in regards to which republican candidates he votes tant that we all get involved.”

“I talked to people from the Restudent turnout on the event. for in Idaho’s elections, which heavily The entirety of the event was publicans Club, and they actually did “I love politics. I think that our favor republican candidates. focused on letting the republican a great job of not only swaying my age group- it’s almost tragic that we The Republicans Club has no guests speak to the people who atviewpoints, but doing so in a very don’t go out and vote, or know who planned events for the future betended in an informal meet and greet professional manner,” Nicholson we’re voting for or what their viewcause many of them will be involved style, and there was a mixture of said. “It was impressive that they got points are,” Nicholson said. “I want in the elections being held this year political talk and humor that filled all of the candidates to come out, and to know who I’m going to be voting on an individual level. Rodriguez said the room. Souza said she met several that was really cool.” for, and who’s going to be running that they plan to be heavily involved people she had yet to meet.

Nicholson said he spoke to Vito the city and the state I’m going to be in the school board elections later in Despite all the merriment, the Barbierri, and that he changed his living in.” the year. student turnout was disappointing for the people running the event, however.

“The students didn’t come out as I thought they would have,” said Reina Rodriguez, 18, Political Science, Yakima Wash., president of the Republicans Club. “They never do.”

Student attendance for the event was minimal, attracting only two or three students outside of the club. Rodriguez said that their events get good reception from the community, and that people have a good view of NIC, but she’d like to see more students.

“I really hope that we can reach young people here about the conservative values of the party and what we stand for, and grow the base here,” Locke said. “I think we have a great leadership role in these people that are in office this time around for the college republicans.”

One of the students that showed up for the event spent the majority of it debating with students from the club, and learning about the viewpoints of the republicans.

Rep. Kathy Sims jokes with local constituents at the meet and greet. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel Josh Nicholson, 21, Account-

Students rally to support ill professor NIC’s Dr. Fruth diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins T-Cell Lymphoma, unable to finish semester Abigail Nelson Staff Writer A class of NIC students got a surprise when their tear yeyed instructor announced it would be her last day Sept. 10.

Ingrid Fruth, a Biology and Chemistr y Instructor of the Natural Sciences Division, and mother of four, made the announcement during her Microbiology lab. Fruth had received a diagnosis of Non-Hodgkins T-Cell L ymphoma on July 3. It

was originally misdiagnosed for five years, and had become more aggressive. Fruth was originally hoping to be able to work through the semester and the treatments, but time and monetar y restrictions prevented her from being able to do so.

Adrienne Nelson, a Nutrition student in Fruth’s class, said that Fruth excused herself from the class nearly in tears.

“You could tell she wasn’t upset about her diagnosis as much as she was frustrated that

she couldn’t finish out the semester like she had hoped to,” said Nelson.

In response to the revelation over her condition, students, staf f, and members of the community have already star ted coming up with ideas to suppor t Fruth. Fruth and many of her students have high hopes for a new, $50,000 treatment in Seattle, that could help her cope with the disease. L ymphoma is not curable, but it is treatable.

Theresa Duf field, one of Fruth’s students, and many others are working to organize several fundraisers to gain the necessar y funds for the new treatment.

Some of the fundraising ideas include eating contests and “Eat for a Cause” events at some of the local eateries. Par t of the proceeds from the night would be donated to Fruth’s account. Duf field said she would be looking for sponsors and donation items for silent and live

auctions, which are most likely to happen in December.

“As a mother myself, I can relate to how hard it is to ask for help or even to accept it.

We take care of others, it goes against a mother’s nature to have others take care of us,” Duf field said. “So far we are still in the planning stages, but we have several things in the works.”

The response to Fruth’s

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Tanner Sheffield Webmaster The month of September has unveiled complete overhauls to NIC’s two websites, the college’s official website at www.nic.edu and The Sentinel’s website, www.nicsentinel.com.

Chris Pfeiffer, a web designer wth NIC, said that the major changes have been completed and that the new website should retain its current appearance for some time.

Pfeiffer said that a lot of what went into the new website was geared toward mobile devices, since most of their traffic www.nic.edu comes from smartphones.

Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP). The The Sentinel’s new website website is around one-third CMS with the rest being static pages. The website was built in a comis expected to become available bination of tools, primarily between Microsoft Sharepoint, Visual Studio, and Dreamweaver. today.

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NIC’s community garden grows over summer, gaining new structures, weed removal, Sally Balcaen Staff Writer Students may have noticed a hoop-house along Hubbard Street while driving to and from NIC or maybe even little rows of vegetables if they were paying close attention.

All the endeavors come from the Kootenai Environmental Alliance (KEA) who star ted the Community Roots’ Gathering Garden not too long ago.

Two years ago, KEA received financial suppor t from the Nor th Idaho College Foundation and was donated lease of the land by the college for a garden.

“They [the college] have shown great suppor t; the board, the administration, the staf f, and the students.” says Adrienne Cronebaugh, executive director of KEA. Cronebaugh says that one of KEA’s missions is to practice permaculture, a branch of ethics involving human harmony with the environment.

The garden, although still a work in progress, already has many state-of-the-ar t systems in place to display permaculture.

Large solar panels stand near the shed and are used to heat the hoop-house in the winter time. The growing season in Nor th Idaho is so shor t that being able to star t early and keep your plants alive longer can really make a big dif ference.

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of NIC and Emer y’s Restaudents might know what the Even after building a hooptherefore putting Gathering rant were big suppor ters of the area looked like before the house and few raised beds, Gardens constantly depending Gathering Garden and helped garden. At first, being old mill it’s credit to volunteers that a on volunteers and donations KEA get funding from the NIC proper ty and a vacant lot, it weedy area has become a flouryear-round. foundation, which helped pay looked like an impossible place ishing garden in just two years.

“We utilize whatever we can get for the solar panels. for growing food. The area was “It’s been a major transforour hands on,” says Cronebaugh,“It Another system the Gathfull of buried tarps and commation,” says Cronebaugh. really has a very, very limited budering Garden has in place is pressed soil – a place where A garden of this size, howget-next to nothing-and these voluna storm drain. Water floods only weeds can thrive. ever, requires a lot of up-keep, teers make it happen with that.” from three acres into the garden ever y year. The Nor th Idaho College Environmental Science Depar tment helped install the storm drain along with volunteers to design a bio filtration plan.

Water comes in and drains into the ground where it is filtered an reused to water the garden.

“One of our goals is improved water quality and so these are ways that we can begin putting in storm water swales instead of water drains that drain directly into the lake and river,”says Cronebaugh Older stuA look inside the community garden hoop-house, containing the fruitions of gardening efforts. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel

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Governor Otter (R) debates against candidates A.J. Balukoff (D), Libertarian John Bujak, and independent Pro-Life at a debate in the Coeur d’Alene Library Oct. 3. Savannah Sanders/Sentinel

“I cannot say that we are friends, but if you have ever met someone that you just knew had a light inside of them and they inspired you to try harder, work harder, and learn more, that is what Ingrid is to me.”

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my hair too thin to do this at a later from page 2 date.” Fruth said. condition According to frames the imNelson, Fruth is a pact she has had dedicated instructor, on some of the and wants her stustudents and dents to be successpeople in the ful in her classes. community.

Her notoriously “I cannot rigorous program say that we are is partly due to her friends, but if you own experience as a have ever met student. someone that Fruth acquired you just knew an Associate’s dehad a light inside gree in Chemistry THERESA DUFFIELD of them and they from NIC, a BachStudent of Fruth inspired you to elor’s of Science try harder, work in Microbiology, harder and learn more, that is what Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry Ingrid is to me,” Duffield said. from U of I, as well as a Ph.D. in MiFruth herself believes in giving, crobiology, Molecular Biology, and and left a comment on a “Go Fund Biochemistry from U of I. Fruth is Me” site created by Lee Burns in known around the NIC. campus as Fruth’s honor.

“Dr. Fruth”, but outside of class she in“After 14 years of growing my hair vites students to call her “Ingrid”. chemical free, after this moment while Nelson mentioned that the loss of unexpected this summer, I chose to Fruth as an instructor left some pretty cut my hair 12+ inches to donate to big shoes to fill. Currently the entire locksoflove and make a difference for Natural Sciences Division taking over a kid with cancer. The drugs will make Fruth’s classes.

Joint-use Facility reaches final stages Will unite all Cd’A-area colleges in a single building Matt Clapper Staff Writer A $12 million joint-use facility that would make it easier for students to plan all of their higher education needs here on the NIC campus is closer than ever to becoming a reality.

Representatives from NIC will be making a presentation requesting $4 million to the Permanent Building Advisory Committee in Boise on Oct. 7, with the remainder of the estimated building cost to be split between NIC, Lewis-Clark State College and the University of Idaho.

The proposed building would unite the efforts of NIC, LCSC, U of I and Idaho State University in a single building dedicated to helping students plan and carry out their educational goals from pre-associates degree to their final graduation. NIC Vice Presi-

dent for Community Relations Mark Browning said that it would be a “one stop service center” for students.

The joint-use facility idea germinated over 10 years ago with the formation of the North Idaho Consortium of Higher Education, or “NICHE,” which first envisioned using the land we now call the “educational corridor” that extends from NIC to the Harbor Center building on the Spokane River. LCSC and U of I have been offering higher-degree courses in Coeur d’Alene for 35 years and have been occupying the Harbor Center building since 2002.

The Harbor Center would still house most of the administration offices for LCSC and U of I, but all advising, financial aid and registrars’ offices of the participating colleges would be housed in the joint-use building. Browning said that having all of these offices

as well as new classrooms in the new building would free up much needed space for more classrooms at NIC as well.

Rocky Owens, LCSC’s Coeur d’Alene Director, said he “sees the building as a physical embodiment of higher education cooperation, with NIC as the flagship.”

Owens said 92 percent of LCSC’s students come from NIC, adding that LCSC “rests on the shoulders of NIC.” “It can’t happen soon enough,” said Jody Neuberger, LCSC Harbor Center administrative assistant. She is on the front lines scrambling to coordinate classroom space for LCSC students at NIC each semester The proposed building would occupy the space which is currently home to several smaller buildings, the motor pool, the copy center and the testing center.

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Sept. 20 - Three NIC basketball players were ejected from the gym after-hours for unauthorized entry, and a disciplinary referral was filed.

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Sept. 23 - A mentally disturbed individual was trespassed from campus after disturbing students in the Molstead Library.

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Sept. 25 - Burned popcorn prompted a fire department response to residence hall.

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Sept. 26 - Police, campus security responded to remove an Innercept student attempting to gain entry to the Seiter roof.

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Oct. 1 - Landscaping Services staff reported theft from storage on campus, and damaged equipment.

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Oct. 2 - A black-clothed individual carrying a gun case was reported by Hedlund employees.

The individual was confirmed to be part of a theatrical production.

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EDITORIAL

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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Who makes the best burger in CDA? Ian Brookwell, 26,

International Studies, Oceanside, CA

Hudsons, they have been around forever, they know how to do it.”

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f you make up only 1% of the human population, are made constantly aware of your absent soul, are a mutant, and have an army of phonies skulking around salons to be like you ... You might just be a redhead.

The World needs more of ’em! Here’s why.

Natural redheads are a rare masterpiece thanks to recessive genes called MC1R, so be sure to stop when you see one and share a magical moment with the unicorn of the human race.

They’ve been sacrificed by the ancient Egyptians, burned at the stake in medieval times, sought out in the Spanish Inquisition, and in more modern times had a day on Facebook dedicated to kicking them. So the next time you see one explode in anger

or let their temper get the best of them, try and survive knowing they’ve earned it.

They’re dang pretty! Ever tried to design a human? Me neither... But think about the aesthetics. Defiantly bright red hair paired with contrasting pale skin and green/blue eyes?

I’m not a cannibal but that sounds like it could also be some sort of culinary pièce de résistance. Another reason why redheads are awesome I guess.

A lifetime of being different has lead to a resilience and hearty humor, so you can tease a redhead but don’t beat around the bush with your humor. Gingers know when to pick their battles, and if you need more motivation to not get one angry, picture an army of them marching with their eyelashes and eyebrows terrifyingly vanishing in the sun.

The Little Mermaid…NEXT. They’re happy creatures, guffawing and flipping their hair around in public places, seemingly for no reason. However a study was made by the Hamburg Research Institute in Germany that resulted with the fact that redheads get more “boom boom” than any other hair color. You won’t be judged if you leave right now for the hair salon to get your hair dyed.

Still need proof? Prince Harry, Conan O’Brien, Cleopatra, Emma Watson, Elmo, Mark Twain, Shaun White, Vincent Van Gogh, Galileo, and even Willie Nelson, who toots his own horn with the song Red Headed Stranger.

Oh and the whole pale skin freckle thing? Well because of their sensitivity to UV rays their bodies compensated by creating an internal vitamin D factory of its own. So redheads can hole themselves away and take more naps, unconcerned by the list of diseases the rest of humanity gets from vitamin D deficiency.

They get discounts! A liquor store in England gave a discount to any redhead that bought wine, and a man reportedly saved over $300 at theatres, bars and restaurants when he

flashed a homemade “ginger discount card” his friend made for him for his birthday. Also, all that money that others spend dying their hair and maintaining it, redheads spend having more fun!

Maybe after you’ve read this you’ve developed a special place in your heart for those redheaded darlings.

Yes, some of them may be scary or intimidatingly hot, but move on from your criticism and redheaded step child jokes to making fun of other people whose looks you really don’t like.

On second thought, don’t do that, that’s racism and discrimination and you’ll get what’s coming to you (ultimately for messing with a carrot top).

“They’ve been sacrificed by the ancient Egyptians, burned at the stake in medieval times, sought out in the Spanish Inquisition, and in more modern times had a day on Facebook dedicated to kicking them. So the next time you see one explode in anger or let their temper get the best of them, try and survive knowing they’ve earned it.”

nel. Nobody probably ever will.

s e i r Cher

It was recently discovered that a Sentinel staffer shares his name with a convicted murderer. I won’t reveal his identity here, but I guess you could say hanging out with him could be considered a little “Risky.”

What do you call it when Batman skips church? Christian Bail

They’re back! After a long hiatus, the Sentinel staff has decided to bring back a proud tradition.

So without further ado, here’s our collection of random campus observations, bad jokes and indulgent ancedotes cultivated from this production cycle: Nobody knows why “Choke Cherries” became a thing at The Senti-

There are 22 dead flies in the Sentinel office’s fluorescent light fixtures

Michel Carey, 20, Business, Wallace, Idaho

“Rogers Burger’s: its greasy and good.”

Caycee Faler, 18, Psychology Spirit Lake

“Hudsons, their affordable and worth what you pay for them”

Jake Wilson, 18, Turf Management, Colflax, Montana

“I’d say

wall, where two previous events are still being advertised. They still haven’t been washed.

In the Western men’s locker room in the Christensen Gym there is a sign posted above a toilet seat by the janitor asking athletes not to urinate on the toilet seat.

Nosworthy’s, I haven’t really ate there, but my aunt and uncle say its one of the best”.”

3-out-of-7 Sentinel editors have the initials “T.J. Obama resembles the dad from the Disney Channel cartoon, “The proud Family.”

Coincidence, or Illuminanti?

Anna Hampton, 16, Forensics, Hayden

Speaking of dead bugs: The corpse of an old firefly hangs in solitude upon a pillar in the SUB, visible from the ASNIC The Sentinel adviser, Geoff reception room through the glass Carr, coincidentally, doesn’t over by the couch. ASNIC staff drive a car. believes it is good luck. Nobody knows how long it’s been there.

One of ASNIC Student Events’ advertising techniques is to draw on the campus sidewalk in chalk about upcoming events. If you don’t believe us, look in front of Christensen Gym, near the front

This ChokeCherry from history: “Harry Potter allegedly has a room under the stairs in the northern entrance to Molstead Library.” -Issue 3, 2012

“I’m a vegetarian.

John “Risky” Boltz Staff Writer

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Pardon Me Forgiveness is key to healing

Sentinel staffer frustrated by multiple mislabeled metal genres

George Hendrickson Staff Writer When you think of Screamo, what do you think of? Bands featuring guys with straightened, dyed hair wearing girl pants (straight out of the girls’ section of department stores) and maybe some eye liner and black nail polish to look extra dark and hurt? But then heavy metal gets mixed in with this. Screamo and metal are nothing alike.

If you look back in time, heavy metal started with bands like Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Dio. These bands heavily featured robust, operatic vocals.

Screaming was slowly mixed into metal with bands like Slayer and Exodus, but full on deep growls and high pitched shrieks weren’t introduced until the rise of Death metal and Black metal in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

Even when screaming was introduced, this music was never given a specific name. This didn’t

come along until the period between 2008 and 2010. The alternative music scene was flooded with bands where all of the guys had “that look”, and who just happened to have a particular type of screaming in their music. You may recall seeing guys and girls with similar descriptions, known as “Emos.”That is when the ugly label Screamo was invented.

There are many people and bands guilty of going along with this emo fad, myself included. So I will admit many popular bands who scream today do have these roots, The Devil Wears Prada, Silverstein, Chiodos, Bring Me the Horizon. The thing that all bands and their fans have in common though, is they all grow up eventually. When we grow up we typically start to prefer to listen to and play different kinds of evolved and mature music. (Not to mention better clothes and hair). If you listen to the recent music of the bands I mentioned, the change in their styles over the years is drastic to say the least. They are not “Emo” and their screaming has changed. If you really want to hear what Screa-

mo sounds like, listen to bands like Brokencyde and Alesana. Bands like this either aren’t around anymore, or no one seems to care that they are.

There is another somewhat confusing and frustrating factor to this, all of the sub genres of metal -- Death metal, Black metal, and Thrash metal. Then you also have the “cores,” Hardcore, Metalcore, Deathcore, and Djentcore.

The list can and does go on. Not surprisingly the Screamo label has stuck around and been carelessly slapped on any kind of screaming music like a wet paper towel on a bathroom wall. While different kinds of sub genres can be somewhat helpful, it usually backfires and just muddles both the metal and the rock scenes.

If you have ever referred to the aforementioned bands or other much heavier bands with face melting brutality such as Chelsea Grin, Whitechapel, The Acacia Strain, Thy Art is Murder, as Screamo, please stop. It’s a dying definition of a dying fad.

Just call it Rock or Metal and let music mature and evolve with the rest of the world.

Rock and Roll isn’t dead, Gene Simmons Tyson Juarez Features Editor In recent news, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons weighed in on the current state of rock n’ roll by proclaiming it’s dead. Now that’s exactly what you want to hear from some one who was once a “big deal” in rock music.

My only response is that Simmons is just a wanker that’s bitter that his success didn’t last longer than he had hoped.

In his recent interview with that magazine that thinks it’s still rele-

vant, Rolling Stone, Simmons claims that there are hundreds of iconic musicians he could name between the 1950’s and the 1980’s but only two he can name for the newer generation: Nirvana and Tame Impala.

First of all, are you kidding me?

Those are the only two bands he can name? Maybe if that washed up hack worried less about his hair and actually listened to today’s music, he would come to find there are some gems.

I’m sure if he heard music from the likes of Rival Sons, BRMC, or even Jack White he would take back what he said.

These musicians do more than their fair share at reviving rock’s tenacity and rawness. Even more

bands that are similar to these acts are being formed every day.

My point is that rock n’ roll isn’t dead. Rather it is preparing its come back from the depths of the underground where it all started in the first place. When the time comes, rock n’ roll will come riding in on a horse drawn carriage made of leather, explosions, and whaling guitar solos.

So in saying that Mr. Simmons, listen to what’s out there and quit being so damn pretentious as if you are the king of rock when all you are is a washed up bass player from a band that is now an even bigger joke than you.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself sir.

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eople hur t each us to a bruised moment in the other. When somepast. one wrongs us, beIt shouldn’t happen quickly trays a trust, cheats and glibly because we are told us or wounds us in such a way that we should forgive. that forgiveness seems imposHow can this be accomsible, then what? Forgiving is plished? First we rediscover done only for people who don’t the humanity of the person deserve it. We forgive only if who wronged us. We have to we know that get past the old the person could thinking of them “The pain have chosen not as personifying to do what he or the act they of a past she did. While like transgression committed, we wait for them “He’s nothing can burrow to show remorse but a cheat!” or or ask for our itself deep into “She is nothing forgiveness the but a thief!”. We our psyche desire to avenge forgive persons the pain of a past and discolor for what they do, transgression not for what they our current can burrow itself are. We forgive relationships specifically what deep into our psyche and dishas been done to and color our current wrong us. This personalities doesn’t diminish relationships and personalities for for the worse.” the wrong what the worse. the other person Vengeance did, nor does it and a desire for invite them back justice are two different things. into our inner circle. We surVengeance has us front and render our right to get even, center to witness and even and then revise our feeling participate in the perpetrator’s towards them. We do not punishment, whereas justice is excuse the person we when those who wronged us forgive, we blame them are held accountable for their for the actions they actions but there is no pleasure took. taken in it.

Forgiving is for the Forgiving takes place when tough-minded. If we there is an inner push to do dar e not blame, then we so, it is the only way to heal dar e not forgive. Forgiving the wounds of a past we canis for people who know their not change and cannot forget. own faults but who recognize It does not necessarily mean a wrong and dare to name it reconciliation. The person when they feel it done to them being forgiven may not have and have the wisdom and even asked for forgiveness, nor grace to forgive it. There is an may they ever know we have interesting thing that happens forgiven them. We do it for when we undertake choosing ourselves. Forgiveness frees to forgive, we in turn feel forus from the pain that had glued giveness for ourselves.

Album picks of the issue Adam and the Ants

13th Floor Elevators

Kings of the Wild Frontier

The Psychedelic sounds of the...

Any Port in a Storm

With his dubiously-tuned spaghetti western guitar laid over a double set of marching band drums, there’s a reason Adam Ant isn’t just king of the wild frontier, he’s king of my heart.

This in my opinion is one of the greatest albums ever created. After listening to 12 tracks of musical perfection, you will be convinced that these guys coined the term psychedelic rock for a reason. With haunting reverb and groovy leads, this album proves why it is so highly regarded among psychedelic music critics.

-Tyson Juarez/Features Editor

The Dirty Heads blends hip-hop, punk rock, and reggae with a laid back attitude following closely in the footsteps of Sublime. The positive vibes become infectious when The Dirty Heads come on. Do yourself a favor and listen to this one.

Pink Floyd

Guided by Voices

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.

Kick back and enjoy.

The Legend of Zelda

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25th Anniversary Symphony As a kid, The Legend of Zelda was my life. Most 90’s kids will tell you the same.This album lets you experience your childhood again performed by an exceptional Symphony.

As a band kid, it warms my heart.

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The Dirty Heads

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Tremors

Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Bee Thousand

The unique sound embodies the “fresh air” feel intended by it’s Australian creator. Songs like “Artifice”, “Tremors”, or “Veto” draw you in with silky smooth vocals and leave you lingering on the mysterious yet empathetic lyrics. No one says it better than the author, “Every night I worked finished with a cold sunrise and a walk home... and to me that’s what Tremors sounds like.”

-Annie Stonebreaker/Sports Assistant

It’s not as conceptually airtight as latter-day Floyd, but the Syd Barrett PF didn’t need that. They had wild imagination, fantasy, and genuine psychedelic fragility. “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall” were directly influenced by Barrett’s ascendance into madness. His desperate humanity and paranoia are fully embodied here.

-T.J. Gossard/Features Assistant

The low-fi juggernauts officially broke up for the second time in the past week, which makes their canceled summer show in Spokane even more disappointing. The band’s infamous for their proliferation and hit-andmiss songwriting approach, but “Bee Thousand” remains their gold standard.

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Backyard Creator Corner gallery hosts works of David Prince Taylor Nadauld Staff Writer

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or David Prince, the search for ar tistic inspiration is just a matter of looking in his backyard.

“If I was going to make a sculpture for a plant, what would it look like?”

Prince is already experienced in asking, and answering, that question for himself, but he answered it for others when he brought his latest series of ar twork to Nor th Idaho College on Monday, giving students a taste of what sculptures look like when the natural world and a creative mind come together.

Prince gives credit to his exploration of yards and gardens for his nature-based creations that resemble something that might happen when “Alice in Wonderland” sur realism meets Dr. Seuss’s childlike whimsicality.

“I got interested in that idea of a yard as an under utilized space by ar tists and star ted getting interested in using my own backyard as a source of making ar t.”

The show was held in The NIC Cor ner Galler y of Boswell Hall, where students were greeted with refreshments and invited to walk through the galler y at their leisure to explore Prince’s various creations.

Prince spent a lot of time in Giver ny, France, home of Claude Monet’s gardens. It was there that Prince became intensely interested in gardens, nature, and the manipulation of nature to create ar t.

“I spent a lot of time in the Monet gardens taking photographs,” said Prince. “[I] got interested in how he would compose plants, almost the way he would compose a painting where he would set up dif ferent plants next to each other to create color, contrast, and create a composition with the actual plants, which he would then paint, and so the gardens sor t of operated like his studio.”

“I was just interested in gardens and yards as a place that’s sor t of halfway between public and private space and there between wild nature and controlled space.”

“A sculpture is something that you walk around, and in the time it takes to walk around it, it changes, depending on your perspective and your orientation in the room; and so it creates almost a stor y depending on how you’re looking at it. Anybody who experiences it is going to have a dif ferent experience depending on how they come in contact with it.

Prince also of fered some advice for students at NIC who may be tr ying to pursue ar t and make a living.

“Putting in work is the most impor tant thing,” said Prince. “And finding a balance between pushing what you’re doing and just going for it; and making lots of stuf f.

“In ter ms of how to make things work in the ar t world, if you want to be an ar tist, I suppor t myself through a variety of means. Right now I’m a teacher, which is my main source of income. I do sell some work but it wouldn’t suppor t me on its own. I get some money from visiting ar tists’ gigs and applying for grant and fellowships.

New club promotes a healthy lifestyle Excercise science helps students set goals to make good fitness choices Rhiannon Fullerton Staff Writer What is one health goal you want to achieve by the end of the semester? This is the first question asked when joining the new exercise science club on campus.

The club is designed to get students to recognize their health goals and to help achieve them.

“Everyone has goals, but

they aren’t specific enough to get results on their own.” Said Dana Hemmingmoore, president of the club. “We narrow down their goals and we give them suggestions.”

Hemmingmoore has posted several different work outs for members of the club to use at their own pace and is there to help newcomers with questions they may have on how to do certain exercises.

“He knows a lot about your

body,” said Jonathan Graham, a student who has been attending since the first week. “He helped me improve my form, improve my diet, and I’ve already put on some more muscle.”

The club meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week from 6-8 in the Winton Hall weight room and welcomes students no matter what their fitness background is. Hemmingmoore hopes that the high attendance of the club will draw

attention to the fact that the NIC campus needs new fitness facilities.

“A lot of people who want to start working out don’t have the money to go to a gym,” said Hemmingmoore.

“On campus, students should have a place to work out when they need to and the rec hours don’t cut it.”

The club hopes to become official on October 7th at the first ICC meeting.

Lights, camera, action!

Film club premiers first short film Tyson Juarez Features Editor Sometimes fate brings two unlikely people together to create something valuable. That’s just what NIC film clubbers T.J. Gossard and Risky Boltz did in creating their very first short film together, “Writers Block.”

The North Idaho College Film club presented their creation at the screening of “A Clockwork Orange,” and was well received by their audience.

The two used synergy to create their film, using Boltz’ directing and editing abilities along with Gossard’s humor and writing to manifest something they weren’t expecting.

“Its always different than what the vision is, but it still works,” Gossard said.

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The film tells the story of a stressed screenwriter Jonathan Dubois (Gossard) who is fighting writers block as his deadline approaches. His desperate attempts to cure his ailment leads him to meeting Mup, (Boltz) a lovable pizza guy that helps to spark Dubois’ creativity.

The film had plenty to laugh about, playing off of sarcasm, wit, and even stoner humor. Gossards writing was superb as he mixed all Director John “Risky” Boltz and writer T.J. Gossard perform in a those elements to create a unique scene from their first film “Writers Block.” Photo Curtesy of Film Club and lovable script.

The idea for the film was Boltz claimed that the films creating this semester as they created over the summer as the genre was perfect for a zero bud- plan to work on a few more projtwo couldn’t figure out what to get based on the conditions the ects including a humorous film write about and ironically based two faced. about the club itself. their film of their struggles. “(With comedies) you can “We intend to make short “We were all suffering from get away with a lot more as far film and making short films,” writers block so we made a film as film making mistakes.” Boltz Gossard said. about writers block,” Gossard said.

The film is intended for resaid.

The film club isn’t finished lease later in the semester.

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COMMENTARY

Please don’t rush it

Fanatics force holidays a little early Tyson Juarez Features Editor

Can you guys feel it outside?

Sure, I bet you can see it even better. As we all may know fall is here and I’m sure you’ve heard all about it from those Starbucks commercials and all of your friends obsessing over pumpkin spice stuff.

Now is it me or is this getting a little blown out of proportion? People started “celebrating” fall a little early this year, breaking out their pumpkin spice everything and whimsical admiration of fall in like September.

To me fall time is another thing being commercialized and even more rushed than I prefer. Fall is my favorite season but I liked it better when it crept up on us instead of everyone just trying to force it to be here.

I mean hey I get it, all your amateur angled photos of leaves will definitely make your Instigram account look snazzy but come on, I saw this all over social media about a month ago when it was still summer.

Honestly I don’t want to hear about how bad you can’t wait to trick or treat this year either especially when its still September 3 and 85 f------ degrees out.

It’s starting to get like Christmas with how we obsess over presents in it in November before we are even in gear for Thanksgiving.

I think this is because bigger businesses that profit largely off of the holiday season push this time of year harder and harder as the years go on just so they can make a few more bucks of off mediocre pumpkin crap and sappy Hallmark cards about how majestic it looks outside.

Give me a break it doesn’t even look relevantly “beautiful” outside until at least late October and early November.

And I get that it is October now, but I feel like the magic had already fizzled because everyone had already overdosed on pumpkin sh— and Halloween candy by October first.

So hey what did we learn today? Please don’t rush into the holiday season because it will come soon enough. Enjoy your life and the time you are in now and don’t let money grabbing businesses fool you into thinking you have to “get into the seasonal spirit now or else.”

Go now and enjoy October, for real this time.

Tyson Juarez is an editor 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.

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The Pixies made a triumphant return to Spokane on Oct. 3. All photos by Beau Valdez/ Sentinel

Sentinel super fan scores exclusive interview with musical inspiration

itting in a thick layer of dust on an unkempt desktop was an old, of fwhite, beaten landline telephone on speakerphone. Duct tape held its batter y in place. A calm, collected, Filipino-tinged baritone voice sprung from it; a slightly tired singsong; “Helllooo?”

Within any of the nearby trailers could have been a variety of important phone calls, but none of their participants likely lent consideration that just across the way fled the voice of one of noisy guitar-playing’s more well-regarded figures. Hello, is this Joey? “Yes, yes it is,” said Pixies lead guitarist Joey Santiago.

It’s an odd place for his voice to be. The disconnect between his mellow cool voice, legacy in rock histor y, and the bruised speakerphone he talked through are almost classically discordant, almost as such was the dynamics he was known best for in the band.

So when you decided not to do that and joined the Pixies, what sort of conceptual differentiation did you define yourselves by that sort of separated you from ever ything else in music (U2, Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Van Halen, Boston)? “Well, you know, we didn’t plan on being different at all. We just thought a lot of music was maybe cluttered, there was a lot of heavy metal bands back then and we couldn’t play like that.

We wanted a more quirky band, I guess, when Charles and I met in U-Mass. We both wanted to start a band. That was one of my things about going to college, was to start a band.”

How are things looking over there? “Good. It’s sunny, I’m in L.A., we just got out of practice yesterday. You know, we’re practicing for the next leg of the tour.” Yeah, that’s starting pretty soon; that’s starting tomorrow or the day after? “It—it—oh, god, yeah, it is tomorrow. Yeah. Starts in San Diego,” he said with lighthearted exasperation.

During the Pixies’ career have you met any rock heroes that inspired you to get involved in rock? “We met David Bowie and U2. People like that, you know, people who we played for.

David Bowie actually wanted to meet us in L.A. at this club before we even played with him. He is a big fan of ours. I thought that was weird, you know, the tour manager goes, ‘Oh, someone wants to meet you.’ I went, ‘Who?’ He says, ‘David Bowie.’ ‘Pffhwwah? Yeah, come on over!’”

Journalists have long described Santiago as the quietest member of the band. This seems less due to introversion than just because he was able to nutshell and summarize things well. This could suggest a similarity to his guitar styling; it isn’t about how many notes or chords are traversed, it’s about creating a tone accurately—the less complicated, perhaps the better. Santiago has been living in L.A. and has two children. He has recently finished up the first leg of the Pixies’ North American tour.

Aren’t you glad you didn’t get that economics degree?

Joey laughed, recalling the degree he gave up in pursuit of a rock career. “Yeah! I didn’t want that, that would’ve been a total waste of money.”

So what was it that put you off that degree? “What do you mean? I liked it, you know, I mean I had a propensity for some reason to be good at it. I was probably more interested in the macro, you know?” I tell the stor y of a friend of mine who pursued the same degree for two years only to change it out of boredom.

“Yeah, I imagine the career choices would have sucked. For me, anyways.”

To that end, college worked out quite well for Santiago.

The band has gone on to have two albums certified gold, influence big-name bands from Weezer to Radiohead, and receive critical accolades as significant as having their album “Doolittle” appearing in Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums and being ranked the second best album of all time by NME readers. It’s hard to imagine this happening without the dominant stylistic addition of Santiago: unpredictable angular riffs and shards of noise that will cut through the bubble-gum dynamism often found in the band’s rhythm section, and ethereal soundscapes that linger in the background like something from a horror film. It’s hard to believe that nothing drove this unique style.

Through all the touring have you met any bands along the way that you think will be making the histor y books the way the Pixies have? “Oh, god, you know, there’s a lot of factors involved. I met Arcade Fire at The Lobby in Detroit when they were just crackin’ it and I never knew who they were at that time, so they handed me a CD and I go; ‘This is Fantastic!’ I thought they were still in the infant stage, and they were like wondering, “What the hell is this CD like?’ And I happened to put it on, and it was really good.

There was this other one—you know what, I can’t remember! There’s so many bands that open up for—god d*** it—I wish I knew one of them, but they were skateboarders and they were really, really good.”

Later Santiago recalled the band’s name was FIDLAR. “And I like Gogol Bordello who’s gonna open up for us, Cat Power too.

She’s opening up for us, too. It’s a great lineup.”

The Pixies are of an odd breed wherein they have become much more popular after the dissolving of their band than when they were actually recording in the studio. Their most impactful albums were made in the late 80’s and their influence wasn’t known until the grunge movement was in full swing. On September 23, 1991, the day before Nir va-

na’s “Nevermind” hit record stores, “Trompe Le Monde” was released by the Pixies, marking the beginning of a hiatus from music (particularly album-making) until just this year with the release of “Indie Cindy,” their highest peak on the Billboard 200 yet at #23.

How do you feel about “Where Is My Mind?” being used in ‘Fight Club’? “Oh, of course! Of course! It’s great. If anything, that’s why people love the song. That’s how a lot of new fans have been introduced to us, and I think it was a perfect placement for the song, it was just right on.”

They’ve been touring to promote the album with a new bassist, Paz Lenchantin, after years of tension between Pixies front man Black Francis (Charles Thompson) and previous bassist Kim Deal. “[Touring is] just more invigorating and I think that’s due to us just appreciating it, and also having Paz onboard is making a big, huge difference for us.”

Are you guys working on any new material right now?

“No, not at all, not at all. There’s no time! We got a three-week break in-between, it’s just not enough time to get anything going and when we’re on tour we’re just on tour, we’re not able to really hash things out, we don’t do sound check. And that’s probably where bands work out a song—I suppose you could do it on the bus, but when you’re on the bus you just want to take a nap.”

In a previous inter view you said Paz had both yours and Charles’ vote as a new bassist, and David seems to be a fan, and you said there’d be more news on that later. Is there any development there? “No, not yet, she recorded one song with us, a B-side, “Women of War.” And we like the presence in the studio.

What sort of things do you do when you’re not playing or sleeping on tour? “I try to see the city. I’ve got this rule that I have to walk at least one hour or something, I just like to walk around a city, get my exercise in and soak in the sights and all that.

I’ll just go to a café and do normal stuff, record shop. I do laundry on the road.”

How does she feel about it? “Well, she loves it. She did love the band beforehand, and she’s got the same personality as us, so it’s good. It’s good.”

Well that’s cool—you get to see all the kinds of dif ferent laundr y and record shops. Santiago chuckles, “yeah, exactly.”

What sort of personality is that? “She’s just funny and very smart, and she’s just very easy-going.” Santiago emphasized the ver y easy-going.

Having composed for television and working with The Martinis, do you feel as if that work you’ve done independently of the Pixies has been outshined? “Of course, I can’t beat being in the Pixies. You know, all of us can’t. I got those gigs partly because they definitely need a hand, but at the same time you have to really work at the craft, and after a while they didn’t give a s--- who you were. They just want the movie done, or the TV episodes done, you just have to be professional in the end of it. It’s crazy.

And what I learned from that is that nothing’s ever that precious.

And you just gotta work fast, and I learned more to be atmospheric— and that’s what I am anyways. But even so, that just made it easier for me to record ‘Indie Cindy.’ Well, it’s not any easier, but I put a lot of pressure on myself.” The phone-line went on the fritz at this point. “I learned how to embrace myself. I’m always trying to grow but, you know, f--- it. This is what I sound like. I can’t help it.”

Do you prefer that studio-for-TV, have to get it done by a deadline, over touring? “Nothing beats being in the Pixies. Nothing. So, that’s what I like doing more than anything else.”

It’s kind of interesting that you do scoring because it’s not that far off from work with the Pixies to an extent. Like, even Gil [Norton, “Indie Cindy” producer] advised to look at this album cinematically, and you guys are pretty big on film, like with the surrealism influences. “Yeah.”

I was wondering, outside of the pixies, is there any particular work you favor? “Work… well, you know, I like raising my kids. That’s really the priority. When you’re on tour, you wonder what they’re doing, all that stuff, and you gotta raise ‘em and get rid of their bad habits and embrace the good ones. And that’s basically what you do.”

Have you shown them any of your work? “Yeah, you know, I’m just a dad to them. They don’t want to know what I do. They want to get fed, go swimming, they wanna play, play catch, they don’t give a crap that I’m in a band. They miss me when I’m gone and they say, ‘Why can’t you do a shorter tour, blah blah blah?’ But they understand that’s what keeps the light on.”

Transitioning to one of the more frequently asked questions probably, Indie Cindy has some mixed reviews, possibly more so than any of your previous albums. What would you say to critics who would say the Pixies aren’t whole because Kim’s not there? “Well I mean, come one, it’s not really the music you’re talking about anymore. You know, so… you gotta ignore that. Having said that, we ignore every single review. I don’t read them, actually. These days you just wanna get a lot of Internet hits and get as much attention as you can, you know, and I mean, you’ve got a right not to like it. I don’t like a lot of records that other people like; it’s just the nature of being a music fan.

So, hey man, the guy didn’t like it, so you could review him.”

You said there’s some records you don’t like; are there any particular genres that appall you or you keep away from? “Nah, not really. I listen to everything. Anything that my kids like, I like, just because they like the music. They like to listen

to it. It’s very different when you’re a dad because your kids open you up. You know, I took my daughter to a Katy Perry show. I liked that, you know, she’s a good performer, she sings, she writes her own stuff, you know, she empowers the audience, and when she spoke to you it felt very intimate. That thing that my daughter got out of that is that you can achieve anything. So that’s good, overall that was it. That was the main thing that she said after. It was a good, positive experience.”

With that stage presence, as a performer, speaking about Katy Perr y, how do you feel about your self when you’re on stage? “Eh, you know, I am what I am. People like you. I’m not that animated, and I don’t wanna be fake about it. So, that’s the way I am, it just comes across. And I’m starting to come out of my shell. I saw Weezer, Rivers [Cuomo, Weezer frontman]— he kept to himself, but then when things get going he becomes this performer guy, it was like, “ra, ra, ra,” it was like: OK. Anybody can do it. People do expect you to do that. Not expect, but they wouldn’t be so surprised when you do. I gotta do that. You know, I played with Link Wray one time, and he made me monitor surf. I just went, ‘Come on?!’” Santiago sounded embarrassed, annoyed and bewildered just recalling the moment. “And I put my feet on the monitors and I go; ‘Oh my god…’ And people loved it when we did that, both of us surfing on monitors. It was great. I just played one song with him, I was the guest thing.”

Is that someone who was a personal influence? I just imagine he would be a pretty big influence to you. “All that surf stuff, it was a big influence. Once again it’s like scoring a movie,

with one word. You know; ‘bonzaaaaiiiii,’ ‘rummmmbbbbblllllleeee.’ Here the phone went on the fritz again. “It’s the same thing I do with the Pixies, I do one word and I go with it. It’s like, you know, that song, ‘Dead!’

You know, that song ‘Dead?’ That was me doing ‘Psycho,’ you know: ‘EEEK, eeek, EEEEK, eeeek, EEEEEK, eeek,’ except Psycho only kept on one note and it sounded really creepy. They said, ‘Dead,’ so I said, ‘OK, I’ll go ‘Psycho.’”

So, with this tour I’ll be seeing you on the third in Spokane— are you as bothered as I am that the show’s gonna be seated? “Is it seated?!” Yeah, it’s a seated show. “Eh, you know, people will end up standing up. There’s some places, we call them soft-seaters. We get a bunch of ‘em, Fox Theaters, they’re just beautiful. They’re very ornate. We did a tour just playing all these venues, beautiful venues, and people want to see us there. They want to be in a classy place. And I end up just looking at the ceiling and enjoying the architecture, all of that stuff. We gotta change it up, you know? It’s not like the band is playing a basketball arena, you know? We did that one time, and I said, ‘If I gotta see another basketball hoop I’m gonna go f------ crazy,’ you know it doesn’t really sound that great, it’s for sports. So we’re just sort of clanging around and I hate playing those kinds of places.”

Alright, it’s looking like we’re running out of time; is there anything you’d like to add? “No, I haven’t had my morning coffee so I can’t really add anything right now,” he said with light humor.

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Author comes to NIC Gregory Spatz presents short stories Maddie Chapman Staff Writer

gle line that his wife gave him and it is still the first line in the stor y.

After he finished readIC was visiting, Spatz gave students ed by author, insight into his writing Gregor y style, techniques, and his Spatz, who own stories when they travelled here to conduct were given the oppor tua reading from one of his nity to ask questions. shor t stories in the WritSpatz explained that ing Center on September many of his stories have 16. a theme of identity fate Presented by the when a student asked NIC English Club and if he writes the Trestle “the ending through a Creek Retain “literview, the is inevitable cer ar y lens.” The college’s but characters tr y literar y magazine, unexpected.” and find their own identity Spatz read through exploan excerpt GREGORY SPATZ ration and he from a shor t description also shows how stor y in his manipulating book “Half as your fate may Happy.” end up badly.

“Half as Happy” is a Spatz also told the collection of eight shor t stories that are not related crowd about the process he likes to use to form but “fit well together” achis writings. He said he cording to Spatz. likes to have a first line The stor y Spatz read as a str ucture to begin from was titled “Luck,” from and then writes for which is about a man, a few hours a day and Herb, and his and his keeps coming back to family’s experience on it until the stor y is fina cr uise ship. Spatz exished. plained to the crowd beSpatz ar rived with his fore his reading that the book and reading voice stor y was based on his and left the students with own experiences working more knowledge about in a bluegrass band on a his own writing style and cr uise ship but the main advice for their own stocharacter was not a reries. flection of him.

“Really pay attention When writing “Luck,” to the stor y and it can Spatz was ser ving as a surprise you in the direcprogram director at Easter n Washington Universi- tion it takes,” said Spatz.

Shor t stories can only ty where he teaches crehave one topic and “the ative writing. Like many ending is inevitable but of his stories, he began unexpected.” this stor y based on a sin-

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Molstead library displayed books that were once banned from U.S. libraries and schools. Maddie Chapman/Sentinel

Banned books celebrated

Molstead displays classics that were once removed from libraries Maddie Chapman Staff Writer Every year libraries across the nation are invited to participate in Banned Books Week. The American Library Association (ALA) presents the list of banned books and libraries make these books available to the public.

The ALA and libraries participate in Banned Books Week because it is people’s First Amendment right to be able to read books no matter what the content is and decide for themselves whether it is appropriate material or not.

“It is okay for families, for parents, and for individuals to make

their own decisions about what they want to read,” said Library director George McAlister.

Many award winning books have been challenged and placed on the list for a wide variety of reasons.

Many were for religious reasons or offensive language, and parents have challenged books because they believe they are too mature for their children.

“A lot of books are challenged in elementary and junior high schools,” explained Molstead library staff member, Skip Kuck.

Authors whose books have been banned include Earnest Hemingway, William Golding, Mark Twain, William Faulkner and many more.

Many students were shocked when they heard Harry Potter was put on the list after it first came out, and even the Bible was on the banned list at one point because of sexual content.

Banned Books Week is a time for students and people across the nation to experience literature that is not always offered to them, make decisions about a book’s content, and learn the history of banned books.

Kuck explained that Molstead Library has been participating in Banned Books Week for the fifteen years that she has been there and will continue the tradition for many years to come.

Presenting a true Renaissance man Actor Tim Mooney performs his one man Shakespeare show in Molstead Taylor Nadauld Staff Writer “Testing, testing, testing!

Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare!”

So began the show as actor, author, director, Timothy Mooney tested the impromptu microphone he decided to use as he faced an unexpectedly over flowing crowd.

The Nor th Idaho College Theatre Depar tment hosted Mooney’s per formance of “Shakespeare’s Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!” in the Todd Lecture Hall of the Molstead Librar y Monday night.

Adver tisement for the show was only initiated about a week in advance, and the anticipated turnout was admittedly low.

However, walking into the room, which seats about 80, audience members were packed like sardines, with almost half of the audience being forced to sit on the sidelines, behind rows, on stairs, and giving some lucky people the chance to sit even closer than the front row, within the realm of Mooney’s per forming space.

So close that Mooney was able to engage the audience not just emotionally, but physically as well, comically grasping the hands of audience members and gaining equally excited responses to the performance.

“I thought the play was great,” said Michael Kain, who was approached by Mooney during the per formance. “Zeroing in on somebody like that in an audience grabs your attention, literally.”

When asked how he felt about the over whelming size of the crowd, Mooney was shocked.

“They were amazing!” said Mooney. “I had no idea. I anticipated per forming maybe for a dozen people or so, and I think we had close to 100 here.”

“We haven’t filled this space up before,” said Joe Jacoby, NIC Theatre instr uctor, who organized the event. “So to see this space filled up was really gratifying.”

“Shakespeare’s Histories” is an hour long show featuring monologues from seven different Shakespeare plays, and 26 characters, all per formed with precision and emotion, at a “breakneck” speed, solely by Mooney.

There was a wide range of ages in attendance, from young children to seniors, with mostly students in between. Despite demographic dif ferences, the entire audience was engaged from beginning to end. And for his tr ue Shakespeare fans, Mooney stuck around for another hour after the conclusion of “Histories” to per form impromptu speeches requested by audience members, where he per formed monologues entirely from memor y, doing ever ything from “Taming of the Shrew”, to Winston Churchill’s, “Their Finest Hour” speech.

Timothy Mooney performed “Shakespears Histories” in which he plays 26 different characters all while doing monologues from seven different Shakespeare works. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

“I greatly enjoyed the performance,” said NIC student, comedies of Moliere, and has Abraham Musonda. “As a onewritten various books on topics man show, he immensely exranging from acting to monoceeded my expectations. I was logues. enormously impressed with his But just like anyone else ability to memorize all those in the acting world, Mooney’s Shakespearean speeches and career required hard work and the histor y dediper taining cation “Testing, testing, to them.” from the This ver y betesting!

Shakespeare, kind of ginning.

Shakespeare mega-mem“I did orization a lot of Shakespeare!” of course theater comes with in high TIMOTHY MOONEY years of exschool,” Actor perience, said a backMooney. ground that Mooney has most “But ever y year kind of grew definitely earned. He founded into more and more as I would and edited The Script Review, do, you know, maybe two was the Ar tistic Director of shows in high school my junior Chicago’s Stage Two Theatre, year, 3 shows my senior year; has produced nearly 50 plays, when I got away to college I written 17 versions of the did 4 or 5 shows a year.”

“I’m sure I was not the best actor in my high school class or in most of my college classes, but it was the only thing I wanted to do, so I kept working and working and working at it, I got better as time went on, and I grew into being a director, and a playwright of sorts, and doing my one man shows. So I wouldn’t take no for an answer, and I kept, you know, fighting to keep my hand in, to do the things that I love to do.”

When asked what advice he had for students pursuing acting here at NIC, Mooney spoke from experience.

“Be stubborn and stick with it. You never know where the tree trunk of your career will branch into something and take you this way or that, which will lead to a new branch out there and a new branch out there to the point you find yourself way

out there somewhere, never ending up where you anticipated you were going.”

“Either you choose what inspires you, or you choose to obey your fears, and go away from what inspires you, and that I think leads to a lot of kind of unhappiness, is when we let our fears rule our choices.”

Mooney says that despite the unanticipated crowd turnout, he will be “winding down on the touring.”

“I’m hoping to settle in Chicago or maybe even on the east coast, or on the west coast for all I know, and to do more kind of regional performing, local performing.”

Mooney is currently memorizing Shakespeare’s, “Hamlet”, Carlo Goldoni’s, “Ser vant of Two Masters”, and has a future show planned for the Por tland area.

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Seeing the Signals ASNIC hosts humorous sex ed Taylor Nadauld Staff Writer Things got a little steamy in the SUB this week.

Catharsis Productions, presented

by ASNIC, hit North Idaho College Thursday night, with their production of “Sex Signals,” a crass comedy about all the things we think we know about sex and date rape.

The show starred Chris Sanders and Hilary Williams…and that’s really all the explanation you get going in.

Even Sanders had trouble describing it.

“It’s a funny, two-person, sort of improvised, partially-scripted, part audience interaction show about men, women, dating, sex, hooking up, and ultimately we approach the topic of sexual violence, but using humor throughout to make a difficult topic to talk about a bit easier to talk about.”

This is Catharsis Productions’ 14th year of “Sex Signals” as a show.

It was originally created by two people who met at a one-person show competition. The two became friends and had a conversation about the topic of sex and sexual assault.

“It kind of turns into this show,” said Sanders. “We’re really kind of playing those two people. We’re still ourselves up there, but we’re kind of playing the conversation that they had.”

There was no holding back in this performance. Viewers were warned beforehand that content could be considered graphic by some, and were invited to leave if they felt the content became offensive. Most people though, were happy to stay. And not just for the wild, brash humor.

“I think that it’s good that we brought this here to educate the students,” said Richard Fortman, NIC Student Body President. “I like the fact that they’re using humor and breaking the tension to get [the audience] to open up so then they

could learn. It was a good way to do that. I thought it was awesome.”

The show, which is partly scripted and partly laced with the impromptu wit of Sanders and Williams, was constantly fed by audience participation. Students stood to offer ideas and debates on opinions often became heated.

At one point during the show, audience members discovered pieces of paper that read “STOP” taped under their chairs for them to hold up during the performance as Sanders and Williams created typical but hypothetical date rape scenarios.

As soon as students felt that things were taking a turn for the worst, they were instructed to raise their papers.

For some those moments came early. For some they never came at all. There was contention in the room.

But mostly, there was laughter.

“That’s what makes it funny is when people realize how absurd it is,” said Williams. “And they do laugh, because it’s actually kind of crazy that we think this way or that we’ve been led to think this way [about sex].”

The show was written to be funny, engaging, and exciting right off the bat. And that it was.

The audience was constantly laughing, cheering, clapping, or gasping at the intensity of it all.

But by the end, a more somber tone took over as the reality and seriousness of the issue became fully apparent.

Sanders and Williams took the time to promote Rainn.org, the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization; Planned Parenthood, which had a booth set up outside of the room for students; and NIC’s own Counseling Center.

The two also pulled out free T-shirts for two members of the

Students gather in the lake Coeur d’Alene room and participate in humorous activities to create awarness of sexual harrassment on college campuses. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

audience to keep if they made a pledge to help their friends, and strangers, out of dangerous sexual situations.

“I thought it was a really powerful message and I thought they did a pretty good job on showing both viewpoints of it,” said Cheyenne Salazar, who was chosen for a T-shirt and made the pledge.

“I’m definitely going to wear this [shirt] around. I enjoyed it just for the show. I really respect the way that people stand up for victims…I’m really happy they have stuff like this at the college for people to see.”

The show touched on many different topics, but ultimately, the overall goal was to cause a change in our thought processes when it comes to sex.

“There’s so many different things,” said Williams. “Just in general, how we talk about it; how can we change the way that we talk about it so that these things do change?”

Sanders and Williams said that even though the show is funny and they want their audience to be able to laugh about it, the end goal is for viewers to grasp some major takeaway points, including thinking about cultural gender roles, accountability for crime, importance of consent, and safe communities. “[It is] to support those who have survived [rape],” said Sanders, “so that they feel comfortable enough that they feel like they can live in a community that if it were to happen to them, or if it has, they feel comfortable enough that they could report it and actually be believed, so that something will be done about it.”

“In most places, if you can imagine, people don’t report it much because they’re scared to do it, that they won’t believed, or that they’re going to be shunned in some way.”

“Other messages are of accountability when it comes to this crime; that accountability belongs

to the perpetrator and not the victim at all.”

The show’s thesis statement, its main goal for the audience, was to cause a cultural shift in the way we think about the word, “consent.”

“A lot of people in our culture think that consent is just this thing that happens without any sort of verbal communication,” said Sanders.

Many students in attendance were there as a mandatory measure from the school. But by the end, most felt it was time well spent.

“It was funny,” said Daniel Lopez.

“Not as bad as I expected it was going to be. It was a good experience for me to learn how to say no, and about all the signals, and you know, just that everyone’s prepared for the situation if they ever have it.”

For more information on date rape, sexual assault, “Sex Signals” and more, you can visit rainn.org, catharsisproductions.com, or visit the NIC Counseling Center.

Lobby Jam

Harp Guitar Hype

Faculty and students perform in Boswell Maddie Chapman Staff Writer

The Powell brothers accompanied by Avid Lunden from Lundin’s Violins perform America the beautiful as the opening performance of the Harp Guitar Convention held in Boswell Hall. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

NIC students got a break from hearing their teachers lecture and were able to hear them play during a lobby recital in Boswell hall.

Teachers and faculty from the music and theater depar tments played a selection of songs from a variety of dif ferent instr uments during the recital.

There were per formances played on the violin, piano, and guitar. Students seemed to enjoy the performances and were par ticularly amused by Theater instr uctor, Joe Jacobi.

One of the songs that

Jacobi played was a pop song that left the audience with laughter and amusement.

“I love music, it’s something that helps me relax and connect,” Said Jacobi There were many students and teachers gathered to see their fellow colleagues and teachers to witness their musical abilities.

“The recital shows of f our wonder ful music program and all the talent that our instr uctors possess,” said student Laurel Rench There will also be a chance to experience a lobby recital on Feb. and March 27, April 24, and May 8.

Here comes Voloe New social media site helps users set goals Maddie Chapman Staff Writer

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acebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and so many other social media sites help students and almost ever yone to stay connected and updated with colleagues, relatives, and even world news. Now the web has a new site, Voloe, which allows people to interact in a whole new way.

Like most other social media, Voloe allows users to connect with others but they do so by sharing goals, ideas, and wishes. The site and users can help these wishes come true by working together. It’s social media that is being used to help users achieve their dreams and goals.

“I think Voloe has the potential to change the world,” said CEO Andy Firoved. “We have a real opportunity to leave a lasting impact on society and a true

legacy we can build for future generations.”

The name Voloe originated from its Latin root, “volo”, which means want, wish, will, desire. The name itself is also per fectly symmetrical as “V” is the fifth letter from the end of the alphabet and “E” is the fifth from the beginning.

The founders of voloe are accumulating over $1 million to help users. They will be sponsoring weekly contests and promotions to help people reach their goals. And will continue to find new ways to help in the future.

By signing up for voloe users will have access to resources and oppor tunities to make their own wishes come tr ue along with helping voloe and the founders reach their goals and expectations for the site.

“To create a social community where users draw inspira-

tion from others and help improve their lives by collectively helping each other accomplish their dreams,” said Firoved.

Firoved said it has taken about two years to launch the site and hopes it will continue to grow and change people’s lives the way it did his.

“I am amazed at how inspirational Voloe has become,” said Firoved. “My relationships and interactions with my family, friends and network are stronger than ever and I am closer to my family and friends.”

To sign up one needs to register for the site, voloe. com, make a list of dreams, wishes, and goals, and then “share, explore, and find inspiration,” explains Firoved.

Many have spread messages and gained suppor t through social media and voloe was created to continue that suppor t and help others make their dreams come tr ue.

Faculty member Joe Jacoby performs an acoustic and humorous version of Britney Spears’ “Hit me baby one more time.”

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Liberty, justice for all

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

Cardinal Men’s Soccer Ties 5-5

Staffer proposes new name for Washington Redskins

Connor Sears Staff Writer

The Washington Liberators with a F-15 as the mascot. I believe that this is a much better alternative team name than the disparaging Washington Redskins.

I agree that the Redskins is a slanderous name to Native Americans. However I disagree that the name should be changed due to racial tension. This is a premium opportunity to appease Native Tribes and acquire a chic and aggressive team name.

The Redskins have been a team since the league creation in 1932. At that time

Cardinal team captain Alec Johnson puts his body into a powerful goal he kicked from 25 yards back right through Trinity’s defense. He scored 2 goals back to back out of the 5 total. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

they were known as the Boston Braves.

Emotions ran high as Cardinals fought to equalize

Historically, NFL teams have changed their names 17 times. Another notable fact is that none of the teams have kept their name since the beginning of the league.

There are over 50 teams called the Redskins. Granted most of the teams are high schools, but they shouldn’t be obligated to change their name.

The name came into conflict with the Lanham Act that prohibits any disparaging, scandalous contemptuous, or disreputable patent for marketing purposes.

Earlier this summer the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office voted to cancel the six Redskins trademarks in a 2-to-1 vote.

Dallas Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith believes the team should change their name to the Skins.

The Redskins lost six patents and are losing a lot of revenue from memorabilia. Smith’s suggestion would be the easiest change and would allow for fluid transition because the Skins can utilize their current logo. Team owner Dan

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en’s soccer played T rinity Lutheran College in a br utal game that r esulted in a tie in the last few minutes.

Adam Talley made the first goal within the first five minutes of the game, and the Eagles came back with two attempted goals, the thir d which ricocheted of f the post into Car d goalie Rober t Powel’s hands.

T rinity player number 4, Br yant Maxey made the first goal for his team fr om a fr ee kick.

Car dinal for war ds went to scor e several times but were of f sides, until player number two Tony Quesnell passed it to Talley who crossed the ball in front of the keeper right in the cor ner of the net.

Trinity made the next couple goals and put themselves in the lead by intercepting the Cardinal defense’s passes and turning it around to score.

The spectators were ver y aware of the combative playing, and many of them and the players actively turned to the referee to take

out their aggression.

There were a total of six yellow cards for unspor ting behavior, one for the Cards and the remainder for Trinity. The referee called a few on behavior after plays were dead.

The Cardinals were behind when Alec Johnson made two goals to bring the score up to 4-5.

In the last two minutes of the game, Trinity fouled in the box resulting in a penalty kick.

Trinity goalkeeper Ghristos Voglis blocked the attempt by Talley, but the referee called a foul on him when he lunged for ward of f the line to block the ball too early. The second tr y, Talley made the goal to tie the game 5-5, also giving himself a hat trick.

“Our team has gotten incredibly more in sync,” Quesnell said, “We’re playing for each other and will take on any team any time now.”

They play again on We d n e s d a y t h e e i g h t h against Community College of Spokane.

Cardinal team captain and forward Adam Talley fights for posession of the ball. Risky Boltz/Sentinel

Snyder is missing out on some major profit.

Another idea in which they could use the same logo would be the Washington Americans. It matches well with other D.C. teams like the Capitals and the Nationals.

I believe that any red-blooded American would love a more intimidating team name and mascot. Even though it’s politically incorrect, I also like the name “The Washington World Police”.

Why are there not any knock knock jokes about America? Because freedom rings! What better mascot is there than the machine that represents American technology, industry and their veterans?

I can’t think of any; let the F-15 represent the Washington Liberators.

Connor is a staff 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?

Cardinal goalkeeper Robert Powels dives to save a goal. He blocked a total of 10 goals from Trinity. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

George Lucas’ Dog, an Alaskan Malamute, was actually named “Indiana”.

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Cardinal Goalie Madi Williams throws herself in defense the goal. As the last line of defense, she blocked two goals from Trinity. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

Women’s Soccer Plows Forward in Conference The Cardinals continue kicking it with five wins, six ties, one loss

Annie Stonebreaker Sports Assistant Ameen Gondo Staff Writer The Cardinals women’s soccer season continues with more ties, shutouts and victories taking only one loss against Treasure Valley Community College.

The team beat Yakima on Wednesday evening the 24th in a

home game on Eisenwinter field.

The Lady Cardinals beat the Yakima Valley Yaks after they got off to a slow start. Sophomore forward Jaimee Hulst scored a late first half goal in the 42nd minute.

The second goal was scored in the second half when freshman Elly Priddy bent a corner kick in during the 69th minute, giving her an unassisted goal.

Goalkeepers Madi WIlliams and Cassandra Van Der Mey both had 2 saves in the shutout over Yakima.

The Cardinals were unbeaten, and improved to 4-0-4.

They suffered their first lost 1-3 in a rough game versus Treasure Valley CC on Tuesday the 30th.

Forward Jaimee Huest made the first goal assisted by Elly Priddy in the first 15 minutes.

The Cardinals continued to fight but could not defend against Chukar player Brooke Thomas who made the first goal for her team assisted by Merhasweet Sahleigh 12 minutes later.

Treasure Valley players Madison Johnson and Shelby Cleaver made the last two goals of the game in the 34th and 76th minute respectively.

Cardinal player Natalie Middleton received the only yellow card

Cardinal’s Finess White kicks the ball as two Trinity players challenge. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

for unsporting behavior.

The team’s next game was against Trinity Lutheran College on the fourth of October and the game ended with both teams having the equal score of 1.

Trinity player Courtney Brown scored the first goal in the game at the 84th minute.

The Cardinals quickly retaliated when forward Katelyn Sly made the last and only goal in

the 85th minute assisted by Elly Priddy.

Their overall score is 5-1-7 (4-16 in the conference) and they will play against Community College of Spokane on Wednesday the 8th.

Cardinals Stave Off Eagles in Fifth Game to Win Match Volleyball team gets narrow victory after series of hard-fought tied games Annie Stonebreaker Sports Assistant The women’s volleyball team defeated Utah State University on the 25th in a hard earned game where they broke the tied games 2-2 by scoring 17-15.

In the first game, the Cardinals took the game 25-18 with a stronger amount of attacks and rigid blocking. Card’s number four Brittany Aldridge had a large amount of well placed spikes and also ended the game with one.

The second game got down to the line with several back and forth tying points that were barely hit in and out. The Eagles caught up with the cardinals to tie 9-9 when several of their attacks were just barely in and made the receiving and blocking a hard call for the Cardinals.

The scoring went back and forth until both teams were tied 26-26 and the Eagles scored after a rally that left the Card’s middle

compromised, then game point 26-28 when the Cards hit the ball over the net and it was just barely outside the line.

The third game was similar to the last, but both teams fought for the tie-breaker. Both team’s skilled players kept it going back and forth in a continually equalizing score, until the cards lost the game by hitting the ball twice in succession for 25-27.

The Cardinals brought the games to a 2-2 tie in another vigorous battle where their attacks made them victorious 25-11.

“We have a really good mental mindset. We get down but there are some key players that pick us back up and we just get back on it,” Aldridge said, “We’re always aggressive and attacking no matter what. Even if the set is not on perfectly, we just swing away.”

In the last game, the playing intensified with stronger attacks and longer, more desperate rallies. The Cardinals broke into the lead with a well aimed spike

Cardinal offense player Brenna Meahan spikes the ball at Colorado Northwestern CC Beau Valdez/Sentinel

for 15-14 and a lot of the crowd came down from the bleachers and stood on the sidelines, cheering in excitement.

Once again, the lady Cardinal’s attacking won the game 17-

15, and ultimately the match.

“We’re a fresh team [only have three returners] and its going to take a long time for us to get glued together,” Aldridge stated, “But today proves that

just because we have young players doesn’t mean that we can’t stick it out with the rest of the teams. So I’m happy and excited to see what this year brings for us.”

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Upcoming Events “A Season of Singing: A Season of Giving”

Thursday - Oct. 9 | 7:30 p.m.

NIC’s music department hosts special guest Dr. Tim Sharp for a concert with the College Chorale and Chamber Singers. Non-perishable food donations are appreciated and will go toward the NIC Food Pantry.

Courageous Compassion: Responding to suffering with an open heart.

Friday - Oct. 10 | 6:30-8 p.m.

Venerable Thubten Chodron comes back to NIC to help attendees explore the teachings of Buddha on the development of a courageous and open heart. The event free, and donations are welcomed.

Day of Service

Sunday - Oct. 11 | 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Students and employees will assist non-profit agencies and community projects from the Cd’A area.

T-shirts, lunch and transportation is provided. Registration is required. Check www.nic.edu/volunteer for more information on the event, or contact Jess Bennett at jabennett2@nic.edu.

“Hunting for Wild Mushrooms In North Idaho”

Friday - Oct. 17 | Noon-1 p.m.

NIC’s Tim Gerlitz, director of student disability, health and counseling, and the president of the North Idaho Mycological Association, will give a presentation about edible mushrooms that appear in North Idaho during the spring and fall. Gerlitz will teach identification techniques, food preparation and the dangers.

CLUB FAIR

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The Sentinel staff teamed up to highlight some of the different groups participating in this year’s campus club fair

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1) The gender-sexuality alliance club is all about accepting people who identify with a certain gender or sexuality.

The club holds educational seminars and brings in speakers to try to create a community of welcome for everyone.

“It’s a place where you can meet people like you,” says Jason Elk, treasurer, “It’s a place where you can feel comfortable.”

The club meets Thursdays at noon in the Echo Bay room and their upcoming events include celebrating National Coming-Out Day on October 9th and HallowQueen on October 23rd.

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2)The English club incorporates and discusses all different kinds of English: creative writing, literary analysis, poetry, non-fiction, and fiction.

The club brings in authors and have lectures about writing styles.

Members can even bring in their own work, with some literary works being published in the “Trestle Creek Review”, a literary journal on campus.

“I really like meeting with authors and learning more about writing because I really like to write,” says Chris Locke, an officer.

The English club meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month at noon in Lee-Kildow Hall room 210.

3)The Business and Entrepreneurial Club is new to NIC, its co-presidents Matt Gaier and Michael Carey, both business majors, started the club with the idea of asking local business leaders and entrepreneurs to speak at club meetings and share their experience and expertise with future business leaders studying at NIC. Gaier said that involvement with a business club also looks great on an application for those seeking Business Administration scholarships. The club tentatively plans to meet the third Thursday of each month at 2:30 pm, location to be announced.

4)The NIC Film Club has huge plans for this year. With a new partnership with the Coeur D’alene Public Library their events are promised to bring college students and community members alike.

Their previous two screenings have been preceded by short films produced by Film Club students.

5)The purpose of the Nor th Idaho College Ve t e r a n s C l u b i s t o l i n k veterans and their families from all branches of militar y ser vice; striving to suppor t each other by educati n g t h e m o n VA b e n e fits and local resources both on and of f campus.

NICVC will create veteran connections that will assist in the transition from militar y culture to mainstream civilian life.

6)The Business Professionals of America club is a professional technical club that competes in all areas of business.

“It prepares your for what the real world is going to be like in a safe environment,” said previous club secretar y Darcy Gross.

The club meets ever y other Thursday at 4pm and will elect a new president at the first meeting this week.

7)Exercise science club, although not yet an official club, attended the club fair to gain members interested in working out on campus. The club meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week in the Winton Hall weight room from 6pm-8pm.

“We want to promote all things health related,” Said Dana Hemmingmoore, president of the club. He was informing students of the free heart screening that was offered by The Jordan Johnson Foundation on Saturday.

8)Need more philosophical though on NIC campus? The philosophy club’s Logic Lounge is Lee-Kildow, room 210. They meet every Friday at 1:00. They have focused their shift towards more discussions this year, but still have exciting events like going to the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.

“We have begun the semester very successfully, with consistently 15 or more members showing up each week, and more events like game nights and movie screenings to come.“ Joseph told.

11)The NIC Communication Club’s mission is to “engage the campus community, bring awareness tothe importance of good communication in daily life and offer the tools to students for improving their communication skills.The club is also known as “Speak Out”, and that’s exactly what it’s asking NIC students to do. At this year’s club fair, representatives handed out fliers with links to their Facebook page, asking students to share what topics they would speak out about. Speak Out meets every Thursday at 12:00 pm in room 138 of the Boswell Hall.

12)The Characters club is a club with weekly gatherings focused on games. They meet every Thursday from four to four-thirty, to do certain games including the Pathfinder game, discuss plans for the club and decide what games should be played in the future.

“We want to gather the students together to play the games they want to play with others,” Club President Byrd said, “To teach people about new games and ways of getting together and cooperating.”

13)TRiO Club works to help out underrepresented students, students in need, or those who are having trouble adjusting to college life.

“Personally, I would not have made it this far without TRiO,” said club president, Jacob McKain. “I consider myself blessed to have TRiO’s support in my College endeavors. TRiO’s faculty have been some of the kindest people I have ever met. I believe TRiO club is proof of their determination to see their student’s through thick and thin.”

For questions on specific meeting times, contact club president, Jacob McKain, at jamckain2@students.nic. edu.

9)A dancing Gmod connected to an Xbox Kinect is what you could have found at the computer science club’s table on Thursday. With 15 students, the club has grown, it can be noted with their latest project. Head over to their Facebook page to see videos of their projects. Programming is not the only thing they’re concerned with, they also work with hardware and Unity, the game engine.

The club meets at 4:30 above the Molstead library. “Anyone is welcome to join. Programming experience isn’t a necessity.” Erik told.

10)Phi Theta Kappa: Phi Theta Kappa is an honors club on campus.

This is not only exclusive to NIC but is an international honors club as well.

This club offers many opportunities such as chances for scholarship and membership to collegefish which promotes two year completion and transfer opportunities.

“We are based on community service and academic excellence,” said member Ian Brookwell. “ Last summer we raised $3500 for the food bank”.

Membership to the club is by invitation only and one must have a 3.5 GPA and taking at least twelve credits at the 100 level or higher.

14)This Christian club has been active at NIC going on four years, they meet regularly and usually have colorful fliers posted around campus. Club member Dirk Mendive is in his second year at NIC after previously attending a bible college. He said the he was Inspired to join the club after attending an event on creationism. Advisor Cynthia Nelson said that bibles, cd’s and literature are always available for free for any student who wants them. The club meets for bible studies Thursdays from noon to 12:50 in the SUB’s Blue Creek Bay room, Wednesdays from noon to 2 pm in the SUB, first floor.

15)The purpose of the Gaming Club is to provide an environment where in its members may experience any and all for ms of multi-person competitive and non-competitive games, including role-playing, board games, card games, dice games, war games and miniature simulations. The Gaming Club will help find fans of par ticular games or systems to organize with other such fans.