The Observer, Fall 2023 – Issue 6

NEWS

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What is AI’s role in academics?

CWU student writes children’s story.

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CWU basketball players nab preseason honors.

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Elvin Delgado appointed associate vice president of academic affairs Elvin Delgado’s goal is to help with success.

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Megan Rogers News Editor Elvin Delgado, associate dean of faculty development, research and interdisciplinary initiative, was appointed interim associate vice president of academic affairs on Nov. 2. This was after Kurt Kirstein was appointed interim provost and vice president of academic affairs on Nov. 1.

Delgado said that as of now, he isn’t sure when they will have someone to fill the role full-time, but he plans to return to associate dean once the position is filled.

Currently, Delgado said the department is in the process of dividing up his responsibilities as associate dean.

As interim associate vice president of academic affairs, Delgado said some things he will be doing

are overseeing the registrar and the school of graduate studies.

Delgado said he accepted this position because he has always been interested in learning and developing new skills.

“I was the chair of the Faculty Senate and during that time, I had the opportunity to work closely with the operational side, the academic affairs side, the union of CWU, as well as faculty and I really enjoyed that opportunity,” Delgado said. “So when this opportunity came up, I accepted.”

While Delgado is still learning about this new position, he said that during his time as interim associate vice president of academic affairs, his priority will be to serve the students.

“Everything we do is for our students,” Delgado said.

Delgado joined CWU in 2012 as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Geography. Delgado said that his favorite thing about CWU is the sense of community.

“I am inspired by how [many] great professors we have and the quality of the education that we provide to our students,” Delgado said. “I’ve also been inspired by the staff and the administrators and how they focus on providing the best possible education and services to our students.”

Read about Kurt Kirstein’s role as interim provost and vice president of academic affairs in the next issue.

Come check out The Observer and PULSE’s de-stressing event Thursday, November 9 in SURC 137 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

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Beyond Our Coverage Local

National

Global

Thorp School District was allowed to have an amended version of the state’s youth health survey, making the district exempt from questions about students’ sexual history, according to the Daily Record. The optional questionnaire would ask students grades 8 to 12 questions including, but not limited to, when their first sexual encounter was and what methods of contraception they use.

Former President Donald Trump showed up for his civil hearing on Nov. 6 according to AP News.

The state of New York is suing Trump for supposedly exaggerating his wealth and income in order to secure bank loans and business deals, accusing him of business fraud.

Climate activists broke the glass on a Diego Velázquez oil painting that was displayed in London’s National Gallery. According to ABC News, the activists were from the Just Stop Oil campaign and were arrested after the incident.

A 198-pound Burmese python fought five men in Florida before its capture. Conservationist Mike Elfenbein was at Big Cypress National Preserve hunting with his son. Elfenbein said the python quickly went from “flight to fight” and was a “formidable opponent,” according to CBS News.

An Ellensburg man who had previously been charged with kidnapping his ex-wife, reckless driving and assault was arrested for a hit-andrun collision on Nov. 6, according to the Daily Record. He is now additionally being charged for leaving a scene of an injury, reckless driving and driving under the influence, and has been arraigned on all 12 charges.

Cherelle Parker, a Democratic candidate, was elected as the first female mayor of Philadelphia on Nov. 7. According to the NY Times, Parker - who is a former teacher, state legislator, City Council member and Philadelphia local - will be the 100th mayor for the city.

A 46-year-old man from North Bend was brought to Ellensburg to appear in Kittitas County Superior Court on Nov. 6, according to the Daily Record. He was released from Coyote Ridge Corrections Center and now faces charges for stalking and fourth-degree assault and pending charges for the violation of a protection order and failure to register as a kidnapping offender.

After an LGBTQ+ photo gallery was displayed in a museum in Hungary, the museum director was fired. According to AP News, the country has laws that ban LGBTQ+ content for minors but the gallery had an age restriction of 18 and over.

After nearly 400 years, wild Eurasian beavers have returned to London. According to CNN, the beavers were hunted to extinction but are now a protected species and will help prevent flooding.

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Letter from the Editor Greetings CWU, I have kicked my illness off and am officially back from the dead, and does it feel good to be back. Keep yourself healthy folks, you’ll regret not doing so if you do get sick. We’re getting into the swing of November now and the temperatures are dropping pretty fast; try to keep warm out there Wildcats.

We’ve got a variety of articles for you this week; from serious discussions about the place of AI within academia, to more light hearted topics such as a CWU student’s new children’s picture book.

Farewell CWU, Morgana

Morgana’s Magical Prediction: There will be reason to celebrate your accomplishments this week

Regarding last issue: in the story “A look into the changes at Nicholson Pavilion” Andrew Petko’s name was misspelled as Andrew Pelko, and in the story “CWU volleyball players make their mark in GNAC All-Conference honors” Brooke Garman and Kylie Thorne’s photos and text were swapped. We apologize and have amended these mistakes in our online versions.

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NEWS

Bots replace the writing process

CWU Library presents the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in academia Maria Mann Staff Reporter Is it acceptable to copy written works if they were generated by a computer and not a real person? This is a topic of controversy within the realm of artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Turnitin. com, “similar to contract cheating, using AI to write an assignment isn’t technically plagiarism. No original work is being copied. But at the same time, it isn’t the student’s original work.”

On Wednesday Nov. 1, the CWU library gave a presentation in person and over Zoom on “AI as a tool for producing content, synthesizing and learning in research settings,” according to CWU Communications and Assessment Librarian, Dr. Toria Messinger.

According to Messinger, “ChatGPT is of course the most talked about [form of Open AI] in casual conversation…[another tool] is Elicit and it’s marketed as a research tool that speeds up investigative processes. So it is advertised as being able to search for, summarize and pull information from digital sources.”

ChatGPT and Elicit are a form of AI known as large language models (LLMs) which use deep learning strategies and enormous data sets to create new content, according to techtarget.com.

According to the CWU Library Department Chair and Instruction Coordinator professor Elizabeth Brown, whether or not AI is a useful learning tool is case depen-

dent. In some scenarios, it could be relevant and necessary. In other scenarios, it might end up preventing students from learning the skill sets that they are paying to learn because the AI does it for them.

Brown said that it is important to fact check anything that you write with the help of AI. While AI is good at summarizing and making things up, it is not always 100% accurate.

As to whether CWU students are allowed to use AI in their work, “it really depends on the professor,” Brown said. “Talk with your faculty member or check your syllabi to see what the AI policy

is in class. Whether you have one and whether its use is allowed or disallowed, or how it’s allowed.”

AI not only affects how students write, but also how they create citations. Brown recommends referring back to citation style guides for how to correctly cite the use of AI in your work.

AI services are not free. According to the OpenAI website, a ChatGPT Plus subscription costs $20 a month. This calls into question the fairness of it being used as a learning tool in public education.

“This is something we are going to have to contend with as a society moving forward, because not everybody is going to have the same access to all these tools. And that has the potential to give some people a huge leg up and other people a disadvantage because they don’t have those same tools,” Brown said.

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CWU student harkens back to his childhood with children’s book Isaac Hinson Scene Editor Junior public relations major Brian Valencia is releasing a children’s book. “The Dog Who Barked… and Barked, and Barked…” tells the story of just that, a dog who has a real affinity for barking. The dog, Nova, fears that she has driven away her owners because of her excessive barking. Nova must deal with her emotions, and some unexpected turmoil, as the story unfolds.

Self-proclaimed “cat guy” Valencia said his book is the reworking of a project he was assigned in his youth.

“At the time I really liked dogs.

Now, I’m a cat guy,” Valencia said. “It was in fifth grade, we were supposed to make books for kindergarteners.

Mine never got finished, at least the illustrations, which seemed to be a common theme with this book. I had it and nothing much happened with it.”

Valencia’s experience with that assignment,

as well as whenever people would come in and read storybooks to him and his class in grade school, inspired him to reclaim this book and begin on it anew.

“That’s kind of what pushed me to want to do this book as well,” Valencia said. “I remember when people would come into our elementary school and talk about their book. I always thought it was the coolest thing that you came in and read us a book and I kind of want to do that eventually. That’s the goal. I hated reading, and now I love reading.”

Valencia looked back on the unique way he wrote as a fifth grader, and how it differs from how he wanted to approach re-working the story in the present day.

“When you’re in fifth grade you write a certain way,” Valencia said.

“It’s very hard to read and it’s really weird. As a kid we’ll write the most heinous things ever … I ended up switching a lot of the elements. The core is still the exact same. I changed how it read just because I wanted to make it a little more cohesive.”

The book remained dormant in both Valencia’s home and his memory until early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, where Valencia rediscovered the book under unfortunate circumstances.

“I had it in an old notebook. I found it four years ago when COVID hit,” Valencia said. “Our family had to move because our house got sold, so I was looking through all my old kid stuff as you do you know, every now and then you get curious and check your old things.”

When Valencia found the book, he was taken aback by how he still found it entertaining. Valencia offered a look at what the original story looked like, which took a slightly darker but humorous turn than the final product.

“The original story when I wrote it was supposed to be about a dog family, and in the original story the family actually abandoned the kid,” Valencia said. “That’s one thing I really had to take off, they left like 20 bucks on the bed. They were like ‘We’re moving out, you bark a lot.

Here’s 20 bucks.’ $20 was a lot of money for me back then.”

While Valencia fancies himself as a writer, he knew he couldn’t take on illustration duties. Finding commission artists too expensive, Valencia was able to get in contact with an old co-worker with ambitions of illustrating for a book.

“I always ask for examples when I’m working with someone,” Alana Jacobs, CWU graphic design alum said. “[Brian] sent me examples of pieces of artwork he liked from other children’s books and then kind of told me the vibe he was going for.”

Previously coworkers together for CWUs marketing department, Jacobs currently works as a freelance graphic designer and jumped at the opportunity to work with Valencia on a children’s book, something that has been a dream project of hers.

“I was so excited to do this project for him,” Jacobs said. “I have always wanted to illustrate a children’s book. That’s really my end goal in life, to do full-time illustration.”

Along with her loose direction from Valencia, Jacobs drew from many other corners for her inspiration.

“I actually really love ‘Adventure Time’, and watched a lot of ‘Steven Universe’,” Jacobs said. “But when I was a kid I read a ton of children’s books, like everyone does. I really loved Roald Dahl, who illustrated and wrote children’s books like ‘Matilda’ and ‘The BFG’.”

“The Dog Who Barked… and Barked, and Barked…” is available on Amazon Nov. 15.

Brian Valencia reading ‘The Dog Who Barked… and Barked, and Barked…’

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SPORTS

Cai, Hector, Huerta and McNeil named to the GNAC Preseason All-Conference Team CWU basketball shares aspirations of a conference title Charis Jones and Lily Goold Sports Editor and Staff Reporter CWU’s basketball teams are gearing up for an exciting season, with standout performances anticipated from both sides.

Representing the women’s basketball team is sophomore guard Asher Cai and junior guard Sunny Huerta as selections to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Preseason All-Conference Team.

From the men’s team, senior forward Samaad Hector and senior guard Camron McNeil were also recognized as GNAC Preseason All-Conference selections. These players shared their thoughts on the upcoming season, their roles on the team and their individual goals.

Both Hector and McNeil were the men’s team’s top returning scorers last season, along with being leaders in other critical facets of the game.

“Being named to the GNAC Preseason team is a great honor and it feels good,” Hector, who led his team in blocks last season, said. ”It’s a testament to how well I played last year really and what I am expected to do this year.”

McNeil, who held the title of his team’s leading scorer last season, was appreciative of the recognition as well. He sees it as a standard to live up to and strives to set a positive example, along with Hector, for the team.

Hector’s shot-blocking ability was a game-changer for the men’s team

last season, energizing the team’s defense and discouraging opponents from driving toward the basket.

“Blocking shots kind of emulates both of those qualities and something about blocking a shot boosts the confidence in myself and lowers that of the person who was just blocked,” Hector said. “I love it.”

On the other end of the court, McNeil’s scoring prowess was instrumental in the Wildcats’ early success. He shared that scoring comes naturally when he allows the game to come to him.

“This year I am surrounded by some guys who can flat out shoot the ball, and I plan on being able to play off of their strengths,” McNeil said. His approach emphasizes taking opportunities as they come and leveraging the strengths of his teammates.

From the women’s team, Cai felt pride in her preseason all-conference recognition. She emphasized the collective effort within her team that helped enable her individual success.

Cai, who finished last season as the GNAC Freshman of the Year along with the title of Honorable Mention All-GNAC, was also just named GNAC Player of the Week on Monday, Nov. 6. Last year, she logged 74 assists, 29 steals, 11 blocks and an average of 14 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

Cai attributed her accomplishments to diligent off-season work and the helpfulness of having “teammates who are eager to get better as well,” Cai added.

Hureta is also coming off an impressive season seeing that she was named to the All-GNAC First Team after posting 18.4 points per game,

Senior guard Camron Mcneil dribbling the ball against the Simon Fraser University Red Leafs.

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Sophomore guard Asher Cai shooting the ball against the Seattle Pacific University Falcons.

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97 assists and 29 steals last year. She also held the top shooting record for the Wildcats with 33% field goal accuracy, a 45.7% success rate for her three-point shots and 87.1% for her free throws.

“Sunny does a lot for us and is so deserving of that award,” Cai said.

“She has always been a great offensive threat and has stepped into a leadership position this year too which has been vital ... She challenges everyone and helps hold people to a high standard.”

While each player has distinct strengths, their collective contributions have proven to be invaluable to their respective teams. Last season, McNeil’s statistics spoke for themselves with a dominant total of 59 three-pointers, 44 assists, 26 steals and an average of 15.6 points per game.

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Senior forward Samaad Hector shooting the ball against the Northwest Nazarene Nighthawks.

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Junior guard Sunny Huerta getting ready to pass the ball in a game against the Seattle Pacific University Falcons.

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‘The Killer,’ and the top four

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David Fincher movies Isaac Hinson Columnist

‘The Killer’ debuted in limited release in theatres Oct. 27 and will be available on Netflix Nov. 10 (Photo courtesy Netflix Flims)

Harkening back to his thriller roots, legendary director David Fincher returns this Friday with his new film “The Killer,” starring Michael Fassbender. Based upon the French graphic novel of the same name written by Alexis Nolent, “The Killer” is an incredibly lean and precise action thriller that is all killer and no filler (pun intended).

Releasing Nov. 10 on Netflix “The Killer” continues Fincher’s now long-running partnership with the service, which started with his development of the series “House of Cards” in 2013, continued with the series “Mindhunter” in 2017 and previously culminated with his 2020 film “Mank.”

The film opens with Fassbender’s titular killer going through any normal job of his.

According to him, he has never messed up a job. Suitors know this and he gets paid handsomely because of it, and also gets extremely high-profile targets. His target in this opening sequence remains unnamed, but it can be inferred through the bodyguards, fancy hotel room and dominatrix that he is a high-level political figure.

The killer goes through his seemingly typical pre-kill routine. He stalks out his target for a few days, does yoga and listens to The Smiths. This scene is also the beginning of Fassbender’s ongoing narration. Here, he talks to the audience about the mundaneness of his job. How tedious he needs to be to achieve success. How his lack of “giving a fuck” makes him perfect for this line of work. How if he gets this hit, he’ll be batting 1.000.

And then he screws up.

The killer goes on the run and begins attempting to cover his tracks. After a thrilling sequence through Paris, the killer returns to his home in the Dominican Republic and finds it thrashed.

From here, the movie becomes a revenge-thriller.

“The Killer” is a great study on hypocrisy, male-ego and a man so stripped from reality and so honed in on his own contrived approach to life that he completely implodes in on all the rules he set for himself within

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seconds when something actually challenges him. The film features incredibly tight action sequences, great performances from Fassbender and Charles Parnell, and a particularly electric performance from Tilda Swinton, who in my opinion steals the show with just one scene.

Many will claim that this is a “return to form” for Fincher after the perceived diversion that was his last film, “Mank.” While I think that “Mank” completely maintains Fincher’s core themes of obsession, perfectionism and how we unintentionally strain ourselves from what is important and the people we care about.

However, it is in an entirely different genre than Fincher has typically operated within, being a historical drama rather than Fincher’s typical thriller.

But David Fincher’s worst movie is another filmmaker’s best. Even “Alien 3.” But, in celebration of “The Killer,” let’s take a look at what I think are his four best. Fincher is arguably my favorite filmmaker of all time.

I think that his films (and his television show, “Mindhunter”) are some of the most important pieces of art of the last 30 years.

4. Se7en Fincher’s first hit, “Se7en” stars Morgan Freeman in his first significant leading role, and Brad Pitt in his breakout performance. “Se7en” received one Oscar nomination, for Best Film Editing (Richard Francis-Bruce) but ultimately lost to “Apollo 13” (Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley). “Se7en” was the first collaboration between Fincher and writer Andrew Kevin Walker, who received a British Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Walker and Fincher re-teamed for “The Killer.”

“Se7en” essentially sparks the crime-media craze of the 21st century, completely re-inventing how gruesome and tactical a detective story could get, while still maintaining mass appeal.

Before “The Killer,” “Se7en” was Fincher’s film I had most recently rewatched. Freeman and Pitt are truly next level here, both of their characters on polar opposite sides of their careers having to deal with the most important case of their lives. Their

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dynamic explodes off of the script and onto the screen. The unnamed town full of trash on the streets and rain incessantly falling from the sky makes our characters think there is nothing left for them besides the case and each other. Also, I would like to shout out Gwenyth Paltrow for serving as the lone heartbeat in an otherwise incredibly dreary and dread-filled movie.

3. The Social Network Lauded by many, and myself, as one of the defining films of the century, “The Social Network” is one of the great modern biopics. Coming right at the peak of the Facebook craze, “The Social Network” tells the origin of the social media platform, while showing what it cost for everyone involved, notably Mark Zuckerberg, played

by Jesse Eisenberg in one of the most inspired casting choices ever. Also, in the ensemble with Eisenberg is Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer and Rashida Jones, with cameos from Rooney Mara and Dakota Johnson.

“The Social Network” is the perfect pairing between Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, who was previously known for his work on “The West Wing” and “A Few Good Men,” and would go on to write one of my favorite movies “Moneyball.” Sorkin’s affinity for writing dialogue at a million miles an hour, full of jargon and dry humor, mixed with Fincher’s perfectionism and ability to get the absolute best out of his actors made for a perfect pairing for a movie about one of the most egotistical, yet important, figures of our time.

2. Gone Girl Absolutely iconic. “Gone Girl” is one of the three best movies of the 2010s in my opinion. “Gone Girl” serves as a dual announcement: The announcement of Rosamund Pike with arguably the best performance of the 2010s, and the re-announcement of Ben Affleck as one of our great movie stars. For a two and a half hour movie, “Gone Girl” is intensely gripping. It’s borderline impossible to tear your eyes away from the screen.

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BSERVED One of the most visually stunning, tightly written, and edgeof-your-seat intense movies ever made.

“Gone Girl” also sports maybe the best executed twist of the century, which leads into one of my favorite scenes ever made. Not to spoil too much for those still not initiated, but the twist followed by the “Cool girl” monologue is one of the best 10-minutes ever put to film.

From there the movie crescendos and builds up to a breaking point that only Fincher could properly maneuver and execute on the level that he does. An absolute masterpiece.

1. Zodiac On the right day, this is my favorite movie ever made. For my money, it is the best movie of the century. “Zodiac” is Fincher’s magnum opus, and an absolute pillar in American film-making.

Featuring a ludacris ensemble of Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, John Carroll Lynch, Dermot Mulroney, Clea DuVall and Donal Logue among others, Fincher crafts one of the great crime stories, obsession stories and historical odysseys ever made.

Thinking about the many phenomenal sequences in this movie, the opening Fourth of July sequence, the Lake Berryessa killing, the cab car killing, the news interview and a basement scene all stand out as some of the most well-made and horrifying scenes ever put to the screen.

“There’s more than one way to lose your life to a killer,” reads the tagline for “Zodiac.” Fincher has said that this is a highly personal film for him, having grown up in San Francisco during the killings.

While loosely based on Robert Graysmith’s investigative novel of the same name, Fincher conducted his own obsessive investigation into the killings for this film, with the final product serving as a presentation of he and Graysmith’s conclusions.

With some of the best performances of all time and one of the best scripts ever written, “Zodiac” makes you just as much of an obsessive about the movie, as Graysmith and Fincher were about the case.

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Wildcat Words What’s your favorite music to listen to in the car?

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“I usually listen to upbeat rock’n’roll, so artists like Oliver Tree, The Offspring and Mindless Self Indulgence.”

“Mine is rap music, R&B, hip-hop. When I’m on the aux cord, I like listening to Drake, Gunna and Summer Walker.”

“I love to listen to Taylor Swift because she creates pop music but then she also creates albums like ‘evermore’ and ‘folklore’ which are a little more deep and that I can relate to.”

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Gracen Bayer is a senior at CWU. Bayer is a film major working towards a career in film or photography after graduation. Bayer was the director for the production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at CWU this fall.

“It’s definitely more relaxed I would say, so Indie mixed with hip-hop and also R&B. I enjoy artists like Tyler the Creator and Brent Faiyaz.”

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Gracen Bayer What was your favorite part about directing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show?”

My favorite part about directing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” this year was creating a unique tightknit community out of our performers and crew members. Rocky can be a stressful production process because we have so little time to prepare, but being able to lean on your castmates and crew when times get tough is essential to having a successful production. I also loved learning about the history of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and what it means to the queer community, and I loved being able to also share that knowledge with our cast, crew, and audience members.

What are you most proud of from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show?”

I’m extremely proud of my cast and crew for putting so much time, energy, and effort into this production, and it really showed during the performance. I was so proud watching my cast take what my choreographer and I had given them and take it to the next level, leaving us both speechless. I also had an incredible costume designer, lighting designer, and stage manager, each of whom’s hard work shined on performance night as well. I was so proud to sit back and see everyone else enjoy all of our hard work come together!

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“Country music because I’m a big car singer. I like listening to Zach Bryan and Chris Stapleton.”

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Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Oooh… that’s a hard one. I could see my life going in many different directions, but I think at the very least I see myself staying in the PNW. I see myself still working in media, whether that’s photography or film, but I hope I’m still telling stories and working with other creative people in my community.

What is your all-time favorite film?

Though this is one of the hardest questions for a film major to answer, I think my favorite film of all time is “Little Miss Sunshine.” It’s hard to put into words, but this film does everything right and makes me laugh and cry harder than any other movie.

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What inspired your interest in video and film?

I’ve always been aware of the power of storytelling. I knew after watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” at 11 years old, walking out of the theater feeling like my view on life had changed in a 2-hour period, I wanted to make films that made people feel that way too. After that experience, I started making silly films with my sister on my iPad and then graduated to making films with real cameras in high school. I then found a film partner in high school who I worked really well with, and we began making films that would win and place in regional and state competitions. After having so much fun making these films and meeting other filmmakers along the way, I knew I wanted to keep telling stories through film, trying to make each film better than the last.

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