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The gangway leading out to the dock sustained much of the damage from the flooding. This photo was taken on March 22. Facilities has since boarded off the gangway to keep people from going on it until it is properly repaired. Michelle Mills/Sentinel

Lake Coeur d’Alene floods NIC beach Michelle Mills Managing Editor

Picnicking would pose a slight challenge if people planned on doing it on the NIC beach about a week ago. The lake became a dark, rushing body of water that lapped up the legs of the picnic tables, crept up the trunks of trees, and submerged the dock.

The flooding comes as a result of a prolonged period of freezing weather during the winter. The snow and ice that usually melts throughout the winter never did until spring when it all melted at once. That combined with the large amount of rain the area received during the

month of March contributed to the high water levels.

To help with the flooding, the Washington Water Power Company has opened the dam, to let the water run through.

“Those people are on top of it,” said Bill McElver, the physical plant manager.

“They start letting out the dam full board when they know that they’re going to run into issues.”

When the dam is open wider, the result is a much stronger current of moving water. And the more melt there is, the stronger the movement.

“This time of year when they open it, and there’s that much water coming behind

it, it’s high and it’s moving really fast,” McElver said.

“And that’s what creates some of the damage- the fast moving water.”

One structure that especially took a hit from the flooding was the gangway leading down to the dock off the NIC beach.

“We’ve never had this happen before, because I think the gangway is only four years old,” said Garry Stark, director of facilities operations.

Stark said that the water reached a certain level where it would wash up against the concrete twoby-two panels which supported the gangway. As the

Water levels made it up to the regular picnic areas on the beach, putting off any pic-

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Time to vote in ASNIC elections. Who will be president?

Caleb Weeks

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Eduin Amador

Through my lessons of Vice Presidency, I have learned diligence, time management, communication skills, determination, and time on task work.

I’d really say my top quality is genuine honesty, which I’ve learned to utilize in my roles here on campus.

I love the work I’ve done for student government and I believe I can use my strengths and skills to help drive the team to accomplish their goals in ASNIC to benefit students.

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Why should you be elected for president?

I should be President because I have experience.

I know what it takes to help run ASNIC and keep everyone motivated and moving.

I want to succeed and I want others to succeed as well. I want to help develop NIC for the better and create a positive impact on campus.

I have what it takes to do this job from my previous experience, and I know I can do it.

What are your best qualities and how will they benefit you in ASNIC?

Why should you be elected for president?

I believe that I am a strong candidate to carry the responsibilities of president. I have leadership experience though out my life and education.

I listen to and respect the opinions of others. I believe that the best decisions are taken collaboratively and thus I want to Caleb Weeks (left), the current ASNIC vice presient and interna- work as a team.

What are your best tional student, Eduin Amador (right) are running for the position qualities and how will of ASNIC president. Photo courtesy ASNIC and Rebecca Pratt/Sentinel they benefit you in ASNIC? One of my strongest qualities is that I am a hard worker. I am a perseverant person

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with a very positive attitude.

When I set a goal to achieve something, I work hard and diligently until I achieve it.

Another strong quality is my friendly personality, which makes it easy to engage in conversation and establish relationships.

I am a good listener, critical thinker and I like to make decisions based on analysis. I am an honest person with good values.

I am a dedicated and focused student with many goals and I believe in my future.

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Choose the future ASNIC vice president Robert Smith Why should you be elected vice president?

I should be elected ASNIC Vice President because I have the skill set and qualities to enhance the student experience while working with the rest of the ASNIC team to achieve greatness. I feel when we have the opportunity to help serve we should do whatever we can to help make the future brighter for those who come after us. I will put forth my full effort in everything I do for ASNIC and will work diligently to be an advocate for the student body.

What are your best qualities and how will

they benefit you in ASNIC? I am always looking to learn and improve. I am goal oriented, motivated, and have a strong work ethic. I will use these qualities as well as my problem solving ability to hit the ground running. I general like to get moving on a problem as soon as it is identified and will push for quick corrective action without unnecessary delay. I strive to achieve high standards of work throughout my life and will take that same attitude into my duties as the Vice President in support of the student body.

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VS Robert Smith (left), non-traditional student and Navy veteran and Brad Darrow (right), are running for the position of vice president. Photo courtesy of ASNIC

Log into Cardinal Sync to vote and view the full candidate biographies. Voting opens on April 10 and runs through April 14.

Why should you be elected vice president?

By putting me in student government I will motivate students to be the best they can be while they further their education and open them up to new experiences. College is a time to support and better yourself and others while being open to new experiences.

What are your best qualities and how will they benefit you in ASNIC? I go and get things done in a prompt yet polite manner. If I was to run I will do my best to

serve students in the best way possible and take every action to heart and consideration.

I motivate others to be the the best they can be while making positive choices.

In times of crisis I am level -headed and calm and will lead the rest of the way.

My goals are to give feedback on my experience so far and to be the voice of the silent.

I want to hear how everyone has gotten to where they are and learn as much as I can from the oportunity given to me.

Meet the candidates running for senator Eight senators seats need to be filled. Here are the seven candidates who want to fill them.

Martha Barb Photo courtesy ASNIC

Sara Wegner Photo courtesy ASNIC

Ben Anderson Photo courtesy ASNIC

“Brainstorming ideas to make this college even better is going to be one of the greatest experiences. I hope to get the chance to do just that.”

“My common sense and love of others will surely be assets, as discernment and empathy will make up a great part of this position.”

“It is incredibly hard to get anything done if you don’t put your whole self into it, and I fully intend on putting my focus on what the student body wants.”

“Together with the rest of student government, I will brainstorm strategies that will help implement positive change on campus.

COURTNEY ELIZABETH MILLER ASNIC senator candidate

MARTHA BARB ASNIC senator candidate

SARA WEGNER ASNIC senator candidate

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“I work well with others and want to contribute my ideas to better and improve the school and lives of people here. Very importantly, I want the students’ voices to be heard.”

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ALLISON ALBRITTON ASNIC senator candidate

BEN ANDERSON ASNIC senator candidate

“I care a great deal about others, which will allow me to listen to the [students’] needs and suggestions and do all I can to make these suggstions and ideas a reality.”

MICAELA KLOCKO ASNIC senator candidate

“I want the best for the school, and nothing less. I will work hard, I will be professional and I will always think about the students first.”

JOSH GRANT ASNIC senator candidate

Josh Grant Photo courtesy ASNIC

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>FLOODING from page 1 fast-moving water continued to buffet against the panels, some slid down each other and piled up at the end, while other ones went down into the lake.

“Meanwhile, we have put plywood in place and boarded off the gangway to keep people from going out there until we get it properly repaired,” McElver said.

McElver said that the City of Coeur d’Alene has been down to assess the damage of the dike slope. The city also has to work with the Army Corp of Engineers to ensure that everything is back to standard after the flooding.

McElver said that the city and college will be applying for disaster relief funds and possibly receiving the funding if the damage justifies doing so.

“At this point, nobody is quite sure of the value of the damage because it’s frankly not anything severe,” McElver said. “There’s nothing catastrophic that happened out there that is visible anyway, but that’s why the Army Corp is coming to look at it and see if they see anything that we didn’t.” The Corp will be walking the beach with the city to check out the damages.

On the brighter side, Stark and McElver note that since the tree removal, restructuring of the dike, reforming the slpes and planting of grasses has minimized the damages that could have taken place. Stark

said that in years past, when the water would rise, it would percolate through the dike and come gushing out in little geysers on the other other side.

And the natural stone slopes are another perk to the changes made to the dike. They encourage people to walk down those pathways instead of tracking through and killing the vegetation which ties the dirt bank and holds it together when the water rises so that it is not so easily washed away.

“The vegetation is one of the things that really held the dike in place,” McElver said. “As people in the past used to run up and down it, they made some pretty big trails, and that’s one of the things that the Army Corp of Engi- Water levels are unsually high and fast flowing this neers identified, prior to the rebuild, as spring. Michelle Mills/Sentinel an issue.

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NIC celebrates culture with American Indian Heritage

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Nun speaks on the power of respect Mackenzie Conner Graphics Editor

Mackenzie Conner and Nathaniel Symons Graphics Editor and Staff Writer

over 350 students that represent 62 different tribes.

So there is a very large population, but we don’t really have a lot going in the community that is just about our For the last week, NIC students and Coeur d’Alene culture. This week has been a great opportunity to edcommunity members have been celebrating American ucate.”

Indian Heritage Week with several lecture series, craft The following day, a gourd art class was held in workshops and outreach with local tribes. The Amerthe SUB. The class included instruction on the various ican Indian Student Alliance club sponsored the week techniques for gourd cleaning and decoration. While of activities and most of the events were made free and participants learned about the original uses of gourds open to the public. in native cultures and traditional pow-wow music played NIC welcomed Dr. Ed Galindo on April 4 for two in the background, speeches that emphathe class was made sized the importance modern with the of STEM education exploration of new and careers for Amerdesigns and technolican Indian students. ogies for decoration.

Galindo works not “Gourds were only as a professor originally used for at the University of carrying water and Idaho, but also as an ceremonies too, so associate director for they are traditional, education and diversibut they are also ty in the NASA Idaho contemporary beSpace Grant Consorcause of classes like tium. He spoke of today. I think that’s his close work with why it’s important to American Indian stuhave American Indidents that has helped an Heritage week,” to preserve tradition American Indian Adwithin various native visor at NIC Evancultures, while also lene Melting Tallow promoting future said. education and career Mayes’ granddaughter plans the design for her gourd. Supplies Within the last plans in cutting edge including dyes, acrylic paint, tools and external decorations were made availble to participants. Instruction was offered for every year, there have fields. medium. Mackenzie Conner/Sentinel been many contemTwo days later, porary issues that have arisen within the American Laura Laumatia lectured on the importance of preIndian community, including the South Dakota pipeline serving and protecting Lake Coeur d’Alene. Laumatia and promotion of American Indian accessibility to eduworks with the University of Idaho Extension Program cation. The theme of the NIC American Indian Heritage in parallel to working as an environmental specialist for Week this spring has been focused around bringing the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. these contemporary issues to light.

On April 7, a family craft night was held in the Lake “It is very important to realize that we do have the Coeur D’ Alene room of the SUB. Projects like Yakapast tradition, while we have current things happenma dolls, dream catchers, rain sticks, and bead arts, ing, as well as things that are happening in the future. illustrated different art forms from various tribes in the American Indian Heritage Week really does have more area, while highlighting a shared heritage. of an understanding of the past, the current, and the fu“I think that people are aware of the Coeur d’Alene ture. We’re not the history books that are being taught Tribe that is south of us, but they’re not aware of just today, there’s so much more,” Tallow said. how many American Indians live here,” NIC alum and For more information on American Indian Heritage Indian education coordinator for CDA school district, Week, contact the American Indian Student Alliance Sarai Mays said. club on Cardinal Sync.

“In our school district in Coeur d’Alene, we have

In the Lake Coeur d’Alene room of the SUB, students from NIC and members of the surrounding community sat in the silent company of one another. The room was politely warm and the calmness of the moment enticed an almost drowsy feeling. The silence was broken by the tranquil voice of Venerable Thubten Chodron, the guest of honor and the resident expert on the topic of respect for the evening. For about an hour and a half, her speech would focus on respect and the main conflict that many encounter when trying to get it: giving it.

Venerable Chodron, a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, opened her speech, by politely pointing out the differences between respect and fear, respect being earned instead of deserved, and then forcing the question of what qualities gain people respect, especially in light of the current political climate in America.

Vernerable Chodron, the current abbess and founder of the Srvasti Abbey in Newport, WA, highlighted the different levels of personal involvement that often lead to people respecting another person. She noted that more beneficial one is within your life, the more likely you are to respect them, but when someone doesn’t agree with another person, there is no respect exchanged.

“Our level of social discourse in this country has gone downhill. We don’t respect each other. We don’t value each other as living human beings that want happiness and don’t want to suffer. I think if we saw that common denominator that we all share it would be much easier to respect others because we’d see that they’re just like us,” Venerable Chodron said.

She emphasized the importance of dropping the labels that we give ourselves because of the buffers that they create between living beings. Venerable Chodron spoke on the topic of labels and identity during a speech that she delivered at NIC this past fall.

Venerable Chodron also stressed the importance of approaching people with curiosity opposed to judgement.

“We want people to see us for who we are and respect us for who we are. If we would like that from them, we should try to train our mind and bring our mind to a point where we can look beyond our prejudice, beyond our stereotypes, beyond our preconceptions, and see an individual human being there that wants happiness and doesn’t want to suffer,” Venerable Chodron said.

“Due to whatever life circumstances they had and whatever conditioning they had, they made certain life choices that may not be the choices I would make, but wouldn’t it be interesting to find out why they made those choices and to really learn how different people think?”

Venerable Chodron’s speech corresponded with NIC’s larger theme of diversity that has been selected by the NIC Diversity Council for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

NIC presents ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ Mackenzie Conner Graphics Editor After almost an entire semester of planning, designing, rehersal and fine-tuning, the NIC theater department and other community memebrs will finally be able to showcase their many hours of work during the opening show of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” a play by Sarah Ruhl, on April 13.

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” follows the story of Jean, a middle-aged woman, who becomes invested in the life of a man, Gordon, who has died in front of her. She is drawn into Gordon’s mysterious life by means of his cell phone and the calls that he continues to receive by those who do not know he has died. Jean, through many lies, pieces together snippets of his life while interacting with the people who were closest to him: his wife, mother, brother, and coworker.

Conversations, quiet moments, and even intimate kisses are constantly interrupted by the continued ringing of the cell phone throughout the duration of play.

NIC alum and director of the show Lindsay Teter was presented with the opportunity to direct this past fall from NIC theater professor Joe Jacoby. She was given “full reign” for the production, including the selection of the play, and for many reasons chose “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”

“It’s a show about storytellers,” Teter said. “Jean’s character is consistently making up stories to further her own ends, and the theater itself is a community of storytellers, so

I really resonated with that. We all want to be the author of our own story and we all want to be able to tell our stories.”

Teter said it also gives student actors fascinating characters to delve into. She wanted the students to have something really fun to chew on.

“Every single one of the the characters brought something different to the table, so it made for a nice challege,” she said.

The characters in the play embody several wide-ranging personalities from Mrs. Gottlieb, Gordon’s outspoken mother, and Hermia, his disgruntled wife, to Dwight, Gordon’s less-loved brother, and Jean, the dishonest protagonist.

“It was reasonably challenging. There were bits that I brought of myself to it, and then parts that were not myself.

My goal, in this play is to lie to you; it always is to lie to you,” NIC theater major Carrie Lasher (Jean) said.

“I need to always be aware of my motivation, and what is connecting me to these people,” Lasher said. “Because if I believe it, then you believe it. Finding those connections are pivotal to making it believable.”

The play utilizes a cast and crew of both NIC students and community members, all with a wide range of experience.

NIC’s production of ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ will run at 7:30 on April 13-15 and April 20-22 in the Schuler Auditorium. Shows are intended for mature audiences due to language and themes. There is no cost for admission.

Top right: Coeur d’Alene community memeber Cameron Jones, as Gordon, dies in front of Jean, leaving behind his cell phone and a plethora of messy relationships.Botton right: Carrie Lasher as Jean and Logan Parks as Dwight embrace as both characters seek authentic relationships throughout the play. Bottom left: Lasher is forced to confront many of her own qualties as the protagonist, Jean, in ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’. Mackenzie Conner/Sentinel

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EDITORIAL It takes endurance We have 18 schools days left, guys. We can do this! Who else is ready for summer? For the freshmen, congrats! You have almost completed your first year of college. And for soon-to-be graduates, congrats! The finish line is right around the corner.

Motivation might be flagging, everyone, but look down the the track and the finish line is just around the next bend.

At this point, we are all racehorses neck and neck with eachother, tired and ready for the end, but we are almost there.

This race called education is not the Kentucky Derby, though. This is an endurance race, only run by those up to the challenge. Unlike the Kentucky Derby, which is 1.5 miles, endurance races can be up to 100 miles long. And that is what education is. Sometimes it even feels like it will never end.

But there is a finish line. And the American Endurance Ride Conference has a motto, which seems fitting, “To finish is to win.”

To graduate is to win, to pass the semester is to win, to pass a class is to win.

For some of us, this race and victory may have seemed a little more daunting than for others. This editorial is especially for those of us who have found it a bit more of a struggle.

As the Script sings in the song “Superheroes,” “Every day, every hour, turn that pain into power.”

When you’ve been fighting for it all your life You’ve been struggling to make things right That’s how a superhero learns to fly Every day, every hour, turn that pain into power When you’ve been fighting for it all your life You’ve been working every day and night That’s how a superhero learns to fly It doesn’t matter how we start, what matters is that we finish. We must keep working, every day and every night and keep fighting for it all our lives, because the payoff will come... eventually.

If there’s a will, there’s a way. But honestly, it takes a little more than just the will to finish. It takes perserverence, grit and endurance, for some.

Another aspect of endurance is also knowing our limits. There are checkpoints along the way to test the horse’s well-being during an endurance race to make sure they are fit enough to continue. If they are not, they do not continue the race.

We too should abide by this standard. We are not any help to eachother if we are burned-out. Take breaks. And test limits, but don’t push too far beyond the breaking point.

In other words, don’t take too many credits. Don’t work too many hours. College is all about balance, and sometimes, it’s about finding balance by finding our breaking points.

Once we find out breaking points, however, we should not continue to over-ride them. Admit it; we’ve all done it.

Just as the horses must condition for any kind of race-- the Kentucky Derby or the Tevis Cup, an endurance race, we should condition ourselves as well. And college is just the place to do that.

Now the race is almost through, so congratulations, we have learned a lot together.

We have learned not to take a lab science in the same semester as a higher level math class. We have learned that food is expensive and should not be taken for granted. We have learned that working full time and going to school full time means that between our job, our grades or our bodies, one is not going to come out in tact in the end. And finally, we have learned that the late start classes or summer classes that are only 8 weeks are the most stressful kind to take. Don’t do it.

Just 18 more school days. Chin up, and nose to the grind. The race this school year is almost over, and we are all about make it out with a medal. Maybe it’s just a participation medal, but in college, that should be enough, because in college, “To finish is to win.”

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Bullying and the adult aftermath A reflection of the past and encounters in the present Rebecca Pratt Multi Media Editor I don’t know how many of you have been targeted in your life by a bully, but according to www. stopbullying.gov, 28% of U.S. students in grades 6–12 have experienced bullying. If you are like me and you were targeted for multiple years, or had one horrifying incident, then you know just how much it sticks with you.

I personally have been bullied sexually, physically, emotionally, face to face, online, from across the classroom, etc. The saddest part is that no matter how bad it was for me I know there are a million people out there who had it worse and a million more who have had it worse than those people.

Thank God bullying is something most people grow out of.

Unfortunately, some don’t. These people become the abusive parents/partners in life. They become the boss who everyone goes home and cries over at least once.

And they become the manipulative friends that people either take or leave. But what happens to those who were bullied?

Not all of us can just pick up and leave those haunting memories behind. A lot of us have PTSD from it. PTSD, or Post Tramatic Stress Disorder, is defined as a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it (Mayoclynic. org).

PTSD is generally used in context of soldiers ariving home after experiencing combat or near death situations. Something people forget is that those who are bullied feel like they are in combat. Every day walking through the halls, going online, walking to their car, you are a soldier on enemy teritory. PTSD arrives in many different forms; anxiety, depression, emotional and physical withdrawal, suicidal behavior and thoughts, as well as alcohol and drug abuse. (Pyschology Today) Two weeks ago I had the magnificent pleasure of once again being targeted in a class room with the only difference now being that I am 19 and this woman is almost 30.

God only knows what I have done to this girl to cause her to dislike me so much. Either way, I apologize to her now for whatever it was. And now I would like to explain to this woman that

screaming your head off and calling someone a “fucking bitch” in class from across the classroom, in a crowd of fellow students, is not how you follow up with your problems. You should know this by now as you are a grown woman living in the adult world.

The main point to discussing bullying is to eliminate it. I don’t know what it is like to be so insecure that one must tear down another. I cannot fathom gaining joy instead of guilt, happiness instead of empathy, or validation instead of shame, if I intentionally or unitentionally harm anothers.

What people have to gain from this, especially as funtioning adults, I do not understand. These people seem to have been born with the ability to deliver pain rather than with the tools to empathise or give kindness.

After my encounter with this exceptionally irrational woman I was in shock. I blacked out. While she was yelling insults at me and my professor I lost my ability to hear. All I remember after her first few insults are her arm gestures.

the schools swim team all four years, as well as a memeber of various clubs. However, just becuase the bullying ended when I parted ways from those peers who made my life feel like a trap that wasn’t worth living, that doesn’t mean the experience didn’t change my life.

For my entire freshman year I couldn’t stand being touched by anyone, male or female. To this day I have a hard time keeping eye contact with men my own age and harbor an irrational fear of people laughing and me not being in on the joke.

I don’t want to say that bullied victims are forever damaged because there are those of us who move on. I hope someday to be one of those who can forget the taunting, shoving, name-calling and groping, but right now I am not.

When we tell our children not to bully, we forget to reiterate it to the adult generation. Some men and women think it’s okay to beat up a child or a spouse. Some adults think it is okay to verbally

I remeber her pointing at me and her voice getting louder, but when I look back it is mute. My brain has completely blocked out this womans audio.

Something people forget when they are speaking for anti-bullying platforms is that children who were bullied, assaulted, or both don’t just move on after the bully is removed, or that chapter of their lives is over. The children who were targeted don’t just forget or resort to suicide. It sticks with us.

I am not alone in my day to day panic that someone is tricking me or making a joke behind my back.

I am not alone when I fear the new friend I have because they might just be using me or mocking me.

We suffer afterwards as well.

My experience in middle school, thankfully, did not follow me through highschool. I made friends quickly and was a part of

harass and assault classmates and co-workers.

Perhaps we need to not only look at our children when tears are running down their cheeks and when their emotions teeter on the edge of “it’s not even worth living,” but take a closer look at who is causing the pain. Think before you open your mouth next time.

When you need a confidence booster and that requires you to tear down another person, keep it to yourself. If that’s what you need to feel good I implore you to find another way or else just continue to feel like shit, because destroying another’s feeling of safety and confidence, or lack thereof is not something that belongs in this world.

My instructions to the adult bullies out there; shut up and stay away. Are you not old enough to know better than to hurt those around you with clear intent?

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Nathaniel Symons Staff Writer There’s been a type of electricity from people supporting the Gonzaga Bulldogs’ team throughout the past few weeks leading up to the big game. Fan’s excitement seem to go beyond what is typical for a series of basketball games that lead to the Final Four.

Almost everywhere was infected with “winning fever.” People who aren’t normally entertained by sports were excited to see how far the Zags would go.

The anticipation spread through all sorts of age groups and places that wouldn’t normally be expected. Churches, grocery stores and even here on the NIC campus, everyone has at least said

something or retold their experiences about this year’s games.

While I didn’t watch all of the games or keep score, it really struck a chord with me and got me excited to see the end result.

Rooting for the Zags brought families closer together to experience victory, watch the plays and try to predict what will happen.

Then last Monday rolled around, and fans mourned the loss of their team after witnessing it either in person, via radio or television. Some had more attachment than others, but everyone’s joy sank just a little in hearing the news.

While the Zags got second place, I feel like as a community we rose above the loss and developed something greater; a con-

nectivity.

It inspired people to push aside their preconceived notions about the sport and got some folks to watch sports for the first time. It brought families and friendships closer together, and broke down barriers to give people an opportunity to have something in common to talk about.

If any message should be taken out of this little speech it’s that people should try new things so that they can learn to identify with those they love and care about.

Branch out, who knows, you might like the end result and make you closer in whatever relationship you might be in. Try sharing a passion with someone else, you never know where it might lead you.

In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

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Trumpet players from Lakeland high school’s wind symphony play along with the rest of the band. After each band played individually, both NIC’s and Lakeland’s wind symphonies gathered onstage to perform in one group. Kaylee Dinkel/Sentinel

A tale of two symphonies Kaylee Dinkel Social Media Editor

North Idaho College Wind Symphony and Lakeland high school Wind Symphony came together on Wednesday, March 22. to present the concert “Movin’ On. The bands each performed a selection of songs on their own before all members of both bands were brought onstage to play together. “It’s always good for the high school kids who are kind of grinding their way through high school to see that music is something they can do forever. And they’re (Lakeland Symphony) very high quality. They play just as good as some of the high school bands in the area on a lot less time,” said director of NIC bands, Terry Jones.

Lakeland’s wind symphony separated into it’s own band of musically advanced high school students. “It’s their first year being apart from the other Lakeland band and we really enjoyed Director of NIC bands, Terry Jones conducts both wind symphonies the mixing of the two symphonies,” said during the “Movin’ On” concert. Kaylee Dinkel/Sentinel

audience member, Shawn Fisher, “Our eight high school kids in that group. It’s son Cody Fisher plays the trumpet for just a great community effort thing that Lakeland. He’s been playhappens all of the time,” ing since sixth grade.”

Jones said.

“We get Jones is in the The members of some process of completing his the symphony were chalchallenging lenged to perform on a final year as head director of bands at NIC. “I’m retirvery limited number of stuff ing at the end of the school “We rehearse sometimes practices. year after 31 years here.” once a week for two hours but we Jones said. and do our concerts on The band is a six rehearsals. We get always combination of commusome challenging stuff manage nity members aged anysometimes but we always to pull where from dual-enrolled manage to pull through. through” high school students up to And it’s a lot of fun and we eighty year old members always look forward to it,” who are all there for their said member Caden DaCADEN DAVIS C S passion for making music. vis.

Band member “The band Jones also spoke is unique. There are 65 about how demanding the people in there that are workload can be in their community members who do all sorts situation. “If you’re not a musician, you of stuff yet they come in every week and don’t realize how hard that was because make great music. And they’re great tu- it was hard, and we do it on six rehearsals tors because they help out all the college and it’s because the community people kids. And then there are about seven or work hard and give to that.”

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NIC Cardinals celebrate after a homerun against Colombia Basin which lead to win the game. Katie Hartwig/Sentinel

NIC softball season off to a rainy start Katie Hartwig Photo Editor

Kayla Moore #22 pitches during game against Columbia Basin Community College Friday.

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The softball season has dawned at NIC and softball coach Don Don Williams has been working with the new team to ensure a great start.

The Cardinals played well the start of April against Columbia Basin Community College, winning two games that were played at Post Falls High School.

In the first game the Cardinals won easily 113. The second game the Cardinals fell behind 4-0 in the first inning but quickly jumped back in the next inning and finished winning by the score 14-6.

These wins proceeded a fundraising trip the team took to Florida to play softball, where they went 4-2.

Kaya Carton out of Roseville has had a very strong start to her season so far, as well as the returning center fielder Ana Raynor. Meagan Carver and Jamie Yurich returned as sophomores and have had some timely hitting at ideal times during games.

Williams and Recruiting Coordinator Shay Fu-

work jobs with these sion have recruited new heavy schedules. Stufreshman pitchers who are working very hard this dents have to be academically eligible by taking year. The pitchers have 12-15 credits per semester to practice an extra two to graduate. hours as well as the usual The team is dedicated, two hours with the rest but it needs the weather of the team. One of the to cooperate. Williams newest additions, Kayla said she hopes to get her Moore, is out of Vancouteam out onto the grass ver and getting lots of more often innings of soon. But in pitching in.

“Freshman the meantime, “Freshthe Cardinals man need to need to an indoor develop to develop to have hitting facility the collegiate level and she the collegiate they use in town batting and is working level and she for pitching prachard,” Wilis working tice. The team liams said. also rents out The athhard.”

Premier Sports letes must in Post Falls for abide by a practices due strict schedDON DON WILLIAMS to poor weather ule regardsoftball coach conditions. ing games, and practice, NIC hosts which fall on at least five home games at Memodays a week, sometimes rial field by the college, on a Saturday. This sched- weather permitting. So far, ule leaves little room to many of the games this rest and relax, but the athyear have been rained out, letes know the rigorous resulting in a slow start to schedule before beginthe season. ning the program. Players Williams started the must maintain a high GPA college softball program as well as earn enough back in 1997. Now she credits to graduate North is in her 20th year as the Idaho College. head coach of the North Some students still Idaho College Cardinals.

NIC cheer takes second place title at nationals Rebecca Pratt Multi Media Editor On March 22-23 the North Idaho College Cheer Team competed in the USA College Nationals in Anaheim, California. The coaches had “very confident” going into the competition and the team walked out winning second place in the small co-ed two-year college show-cheer category. The team performed both Saturday and Sunday before walking away with the second place title.

NIC student and cheerleader, Bethany Sutter, reported that her team “worked extremely hard all year long” and attributes their success to that and the teams strong choreography and the routines ability to meet score card standards.

Assistant coach, Cassie Motley,

who was also on the team form after watching the teams public NIC’s class of 2012, claimed before practice on the 21st of March at leaving for the competition that the NIC Christensen Gymnasium, the team just had “a few things to “I always want to be surprised is tweak” before the competition. “It’s something comes down on them such a team sport, not one person, [at Nationals].” it’s the whole team “I’m very together that pulled proud and “I’m very proud through,” Motley also excited about and excited about said leading up to the getting 2nd getting 2nd Place. competition that in Place... I feel The team worked ex- like our weakthe past NIC had far tremely hard all year ness going less competitors and that this competition into this long.” would be “much more competition challenging” than was nerves BETHANY SUTTER competitions of the performing NIC Cheerleader past. in front of a The team went crowd. I think against five other junior collegeif the team would have had a little giate teams from across the United longer and more opportunities States. to perform their entire routine Jessica Edmondison, head in front of a crowd they would coach, said she was “truthfully just have been less nervous and more excited about the competition” steady,” Sutter said.

At a send-off performance to showcase the routine NIC cheerleaders took to nationals, Hailey Keiser pulls a heel stretch on top of her bases. Rebacca Pratt/Sentinel

DID YOU KNOW? When cheerleading was invented only men were involved but now 97% of the athletes are women.

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Campus crime log 1. March 24- Student Conduct Issue in Winton Hall 2. March 26Drug Law Violation (X2) in Rosenberry Drive

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La vie en France Dakota Piver Staff Writer

many of Paris’ monuments such as the only be slightly larger than the average Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the portrait photo.

Palais Garnier, and even Ernest HemingWe then continued through the Italway’s old apartment. ian Renaissance paintings where we saw After a nine-hour straight flight from The bus dropped us off back at the the the famous “The Coronation of NapoSeattle to Paris that started out with inEiffel Tower, and we all went through leon.” The painting itself is so large that tense turbulence, we were finally there. security and got in line for the elevators each person painted in it is roughly the Looking out the window by my seat, we that would take us up to the second floor. same size as an actual person. were greeted in the French capital city by I will not lie, my heart started to race a bit Once we finished browsing through an orange sunrise that illuminated the Eias we went up the crowded elevator and the Italian works, I made my way to the ffel Tower, while the morning mist tried stepped out onto the second floor. I am Greek works, but somehow managed to hide the rest of the city underneath. a bit afraid of heights. Well, maybe more to get lost in the Egyptian section for Terry Barnard, a French Language than a bit because I started to panic once 45 minutes. After heading back to the instructor at NIC and Post Falls High we went outside to the edge of the tower. entrance and getting something to eat, I School, oversaw organizing and coorLet me start by saying pictures do not made my second attempt at finding the dinating the trip to France, which ran do the view from the Eiffel Tower justice Greek section. After a few wrong turns, from March 25 to April 2. Barnard also when compared to seeing it in person.

I finally gave up and asked one of the brought along his wife Lucy, Joe Jacoby, Although I may have been terrified to security guards for directions and then the theatre instructor at NIC and Michele walk to the edge, quickly found my Jacoby Chmielewski, an art instructor at the view was way there.

Post Falls High School, to help coordinate breathtaking. On With so many the group. Many students from Post Falls all four sides of Greek sculptures to High School, some parents, and a few the tower, buildsee, it was hard to students from NIC attending, totaling 26 ings stretched for decide which ones to people on the trip. miles and seemed focus on. I first went After checking into our rooms at Hotel to blend into one to see some of Claude Bernard, we went on a walking mass of white mothe most famous tour of the Latin Quarter district, home saic. Throughout pieces, “Venus to the Panthéon and the colleges of Paris. the white mass, de Milo” and After such a long flight, it was relaxing the large monu“Winged Victo stroll through the gardens, see some ments could be tory”, both of impressive sculptures, and watch as chilspotted with ease, which have dren poked sticks at toy sailboats that but there are so missing apfloated in the fountains. many that it was pendages due We returned to the hotel to relax bedifficult to identito damage. fore heading down to the famous Notre fy even one. HowThe next Dame cathedral. I am not Catholic, or ever, the view of day, we were even Christian, but it was impossible Trocadéro with given a free to ignore the immense beauty of Notre DAKOTA PIVER skyscrapers loomday to do Dame.

Staff Writer ing at the edge of whatever we In pictures it is hard to see how much the city was by far wanted. I detail is on the outside of the building but the best view in went to tour it is littered with fine sculptures, ranging the world. the Panthéon that we had passed from countless hellish gargoyles on the When we came back down to earth, by on the first day with a few sides to a line of Israeli kings and scenes we took the metro line to the Montmartre friends. Inside, giant statues and from the Bible over the entrance. Inside, district which was filled with small spemurals made everyone inside stained glass windows towered above, cialty and tourist shops, sketch artists, look so miniature. Then, we went and many sculptures caught the attention and street musicians. It all sat atop the down the stairs to the tombs of of tourists. hill that provided yet another great view many famous French figures, At the end of our first full day in Paris, of everything down below. including Victor Hugo, Voltaire, we went to the restaurant Le Gai Moulin, During our third day in France, we and Madame Curie. Fresh flowlocated in Paris’ gay district. For my meal, went to the Louvre. Once we were inside, ers were even left on some of the I had duck pâté, some delicious stuffed tombs.

I quickly grabbed a map and headed chicken with mushrooms in a cream On this free day, Barnard ofstraight for the famous “Mona Lisa”. sauce, and an apple tart, along with a few fered to take a group of people While it is incredibly beautiful, it was glasses of smooth merlot. to the catacombs underneath shocking to see how small it truly is in The next day, we woke up bright and the city in the afternoon. Unforperson. Instead of being this giant canvas early for a scheduled bus tour of Paris. tunately after a mix up on the I had always imagined, it turned out to Audrey Pliquet, our guide, took us by metro, we missed the closing time.

So instead, we went to one of the best ice cream shops in all of France, Le Flore en L’Île, then sat down right by the Seine river. Just as we took our seats, the sun warmed up our backs and the wind ceased, providing perfect weather for a perfect moment.

The following morning, we woke up bright and early to leave for the train to Nice. To avoid spendTerry Barnard’s tour group takes a walk through the Cimiez Gardens in Nice, France. ing a whole day Dakota Piver/Sentinel traveling down

“Let me start by saying pictures do not do the view from the Eiffel Tower justice when compared to seeing it in person.”

The tour group stands out front of the Pantheon while touring the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. Dakota Piver/Sentinel

to the southern end of the country, we took one of the TGV rails, also known as a “bullet train”.

Once we arrived in Nice, we checked into our hotel, Hotel de Suede, and we decided to go for a walk down the beach boardwalk. The Mediterranean Sea was calm with mild waves passing over the shore that could barely be heard.

The second day in Nice we wandered through the walking district and the flower market. Passing by fresh picked flowers, lavender products, and various spices, the air filled with many wonderful, authentic smells.

Following the market, we went up to the Cimiez gardens. The flowers, trees, and shrubs were all so colorful and perfectly shaped, I could have spent hours relaxing here if given the chance, but we needed to get going to the Marc Chagall museum a couple blocks away. At the museum, I admired his colorful pieces, but I was more attracted to the scene of a tree outside the window that had shadow-shaped glass sprouting out from the base into the building.

On the next morning, we went to the medieval town of Saint Paul de Vence. The village was filled with local art galleries stuffed with beautiful pieces, craftsmen’s shops, and many clothing and jewelry shops.

Once I grew tired of all the shopping, a few friends and I went to take a dive in the Mediterranean Sea. Before we dove in, we noticed that the beach was unlike any other. Instead of being sandy or have harsh rocks, the beach was covered in smooth, rounded rocks. As we finished admiring the shore, we finally went into the sea, but we very quickly realized that it was freezing cold.

For our final day in France, the group went for an excursion outside of France to Monaco. We made our way to the gardens where there were many unique sculptures, as well as exotic flowers and various palm trees.

As we walked towards the Prince’s Palace of Monaco, we realized they were going to start the changing of the guard ceremony momentarily. Our group stayed to watch as the guards performed their routine drill.

By the time we arrived back at the hotel in Nice, everyone was ready to nap.

We had to prepare to leave for the airport, but no one felt ready to leave France.

I closed my eyes and dreamt of the experience of this trip as if it were already a distant memory.