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Students get down to Earth
NAU kicks off Earth Week
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Lights out: campus to conserve
BY JUSTUS BURKITT
pril 11 marked the first day of NAU’s Earth Week 2012 celebration, in which students and faculty participated in events to promote sustainability and share their love of all things Earth for two weeks. With over 20 events occurring around campus, including several film screenings, tours of sustainable buildings, internship information sessions, musical performances and even an undie run, the community can celebrate the Earth in many different ways. Bryan McLaren, coordinator of the Office of Sustainability, said their extensive partnerships with local businesses, the City of Flagstaff and The National Parks Service have been a large asset in making the two-week celebration possible. “We work with the City of Flagstaff ’s Sustainability Office; we work with national parks, the Grand Canyon, [and] USGS to really put a lot of these events on,” McLaren said. In addition to outside support, there will be significantly more involvement from other departments at NAU who were previously not involved in Earth Day. “The timing has worked out great,” McLaren said. “ . . . This year it’s Volunteer Week, International Education Week and Earth Week all in the same week. All three of those offices got together several months ago and tried to coordinate.” McLaren and Nick Koressel, campus sustainability specialist, are excited about the outcome of the university-wide collaboration. “[It’s] a really great opportunity,” Koressel said. “Last year, we had a lot of events, but it was a really small team with almost no resources trying to put this togeth-
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or Kelsey Morales and Jason Lowry, a typical Tuesday comes to an end with a hectic but successful group meeting. Both part of the Weatherization and Community Building Action Team (WACBAT), Morales and Lowry have put a lot of time and energy into the group, which acts more like a family than a cohort of students. However, their smiles and caring attitudes are not a façade as they will soon get to share their big event with the rest of NAU. WACBAT has been planning its first BlackOut event since the beginning of the semester. On Friday, April 20, the campus will turn off and unplug. “The purpose behind the event is to shut down all electrical devices within the dorms, within the buildings and have a celebration behind that,” Morales, a sophomore environmental science major, said. “It’s been a lot of work but it’s definitely been worth it.” Lowry, a graduate as-
er. This year we are actually bringing on official offices to help coordinate and host the event has really helped.” Koressel said having more coordinators to help manage the event relieves a lot of stress and makes each individual event more successful. “I think one of the major [differences] from this year to last year is that last year a lot of the events were being put on by five people,” Koressel said. “This year,
each [event] is a separate group of people instead.” Among the departments participating in this year’s Earth Week is ASNAU. ASNAU will be hosting two events including a free concert featuring bands The Cold Desert and A Change of Pace, and the much-anticipated Undie Run. Sammy Smart, ASNAU vice president of student affairs, said their
sistant and co-facilitator of WACBAT, said the event aims to involve students in their education as well as reduce carbon usage. “I think the BlackOut itself has been an amazing opportunity for students to really become engaged and be co-creators in a project that’s going to not only impact their own academic careers, but begin to lower carbon reductions,” Lowry said. Morales explained students can look forward to free food, live music and different activities at the event. It will be held on the Wall Aquatic Field from 5-9 p.m. at the same time as the Undie Run. “At the event [students will be] getting free food, celebrating with music [and] different bands [will be] showing up,” Morales said. “Honestly, what students should be excited about is that this will be a yearly thing.” WACBAT plans on hosting this event every year, and hopes it will grow and have an impact on students and the environment. “As time goes on the event will get bigger and bigger — [it’s] just a celebration of NAU becoming carbon neutral by 2020,” Morales said. The BlackOut ties in with NAU’s week-long celebration of Earth Week, to create a more sustainable community on campus.
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Life: Sports: Tennis, p 22 Handshakes, p Opinion: AZ electronic bill, p 8 16 A&E: Boudoir photography, p 25
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Issue 11, VOL 99 April 5, 2012 - April 11, 2012
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NAU hires Campos
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Former UTEP dean fills renamed athletic director position
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ily through telephone communications. But we also know that there’s a need to upgrade the legislative process for the use of newer technologies. The problem is deciding how do we get there: continue to protect people about harassment laws, protect people about the use of telephoning as a way of harassing people and still make them applicable to modern technologies without quashing, quelling or suppressing free speech.” Williams said one group that voiced its concern over the substance of the bill was the Media Coalition, an association dedicated to defending the First Amendment. David Horowitz, the executive director of the Media Coalition, said the main concern of his group was that the law was unconstitutional. “We believed that section 1A, the first part [of the bill], is substantially overbroad and would criminalize a great deal of speech that is protected by the First Amendment,” Horowitz said.
he NAU athletic department has hired Lisa Campos as their new Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics, replacing the departing Jim Fallis. Campos comes from the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), where she spent nine years as the senior athletics (Photo courtesy of NAU) administrator and two years as assistant dean of students. She also earned her doctorate in educational leadership and administration from the university in 2009. While at UTEP, she oversaw over 14 sports and compliance operations within its athletic department, while also gaining experience participating in an NCAA leadership program in 2009. Campos’ initial interest in the opening allowed her the opportunity to gather information about NAU. “When I first started looking at this position, I did extensive research on NAU and what it valued and how it aligned with my values,” Campos said. “I didn’t ever want to take a job where I didn’t feel like I couldn’t be successful. I feel like I can really can help the folks here be successful.” The process that took Campos from El Paso to Flagstaff occurred fairly quickly and efficiently, as her interest soon spilled into a mutual respect between Campos and the committee assigned to fill the position. “I was contacted by [the search committee] and asked to submit materials,” Campos said. “From then, when I was invited for an interview in Phoenix, it went pretty quickly from there. I interviewed with a great group and then met with President Haeger and within a day, I had been offered the position. It has been a whirlwind week but its been pretty ex-
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Remembering Electronic harassment bill slowed Joel Olson
NAU reflects on late professor’s lessons, teaching and political see page 4 activism
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BY WILLIAM BROWN
bill sent back to the Arizona House of Representatives from the Senate regarding electronic harassment will take longer than expected to reach Governor Jan Brewer’s desk. Rep. Vic Williams (R-Northwest Pima County) said the bill, HB 2549, has been slowed in response to public opinion. “It’s slowing down,” Williams said. “We’re listening to the concerns of the public who are concerned that the bill is too broad in its dialogue and will quash free speech.” Williams also said he personally intends to address the concerns of the public. “I want to listen to their concerns,” Williams said. “We want to make sure that we provide adequate protection that currently has been under this legislation which has been in place for about 46 years which has to do with harassment, primar-
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NAU picks Murphy
Former Memphis asst. to coach men’s basketball
BY BRETT MURDOCK
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The lost world of north campus Students experiment in educational greenhouse
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AU draws people from all over the world for its forested mountain landscape — and draws people from across Arizona for its four seasons. However, what many do not know is that different climates exist here on campus — and plants from all over the world thrive within them. These artificial climates, sustained within two different greenhouses on campus, provide opportunities for students to study biomes not found in northern Arizona. They also serve a variety of other purposes, including wildfire restoration and
sustainability exercises. Tina Ayers, the supervisor of the teaching greenhouse, said the facility, which was built in the 1960s, received some much-needed renovations last year. “The place really got a facelift last summer [when] the Dean of the College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences bought us some new panels,” Ayers said. “They are Lexan panels that are polycarbonate plastic and twin walls that are energy-efficient and buffer the outside temperature. NAU took off the old glass that TOP: Kendra Hart, a junior biology major, inspects one kept breaking and installed the [new] of the many plants located in the greenhouse. BOTTOM: Students from Botany Club and Tri Beta prepare to feed panels.” worms with recycled organic material. (Photo by Christina
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Voice siNce 1914 • SPecial edition • Vol 99 • AUG. 2012
BY BRETT MURDOCK
urrent University of Memphis assistant coach Jack Murphy has been hired to lead the NAU men’s basketball program, the school announced Thursday afternoon. “We are so pleased. This is a great day for NAU Athletics,” said Lisa Campos, the Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics. “It was a really competitive process. There was a lot of interest in this position. We know that Jack is the right person to do that and if you look at his background, he’s Jack Murphy, the learned a lot from great coaches.” Murphy has been on the new coach of the Memphis staff since 2009, joining NAU men’s basketball program. the program when close friend Josh (Photo courtesy Pastner took over. Before holding Inside NAU) that position, he was a member of the Denver Nuggets organization under George Karl, acting as an advance scout while also serving as the video coordinator and leading players such as Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups and J.R. Smith in off-season workouts. “My first thanks goes to obviously Dr. Campos and President Haeger for seeing a vision in me,” Murphy said. “It’s very humbling. I’m overjoyed but it hasn’t hit me yet.” Murphy’s coaching career started at UA, where he was a team manager before working his way up to director of basketball operations, spending eight seasons in Tucson from 1998-2006 under Lute Olson, before leaving for the Nuggets gig. Serving under three quality coaches in his young career, Murphy has taken away an extensive knowledge of how to handle programs both on and off the court. “I learned from Coach Olson how to respect the game and respect your players,” the 32-year-old said. “With Coach Karl, I learned how he managed players and his staff. He was an unbelievable motivator in several ways. From Coach Pastner, I’ve learned how important it is to bring in entire communities and empower the players.” see MURPHY page 16
FOR THIS WEEK’S STAFF EDITORIAL ABOUT THE HIRING OF JACK MURPHY, SEE PAGE 8
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