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BROTHERS GOW RETURNS TO FLAG
Drummer Nathan Walsh-Haines and guitarist/vocalist Ethan Wade returned to Flagstaff with the Brothers Gow band at the Orpheum Theater on Nov. 3. Brothers Gow is orginally from Flagstaff and is now based out of San Diego. (Photos by Amanda Ray) see BROTHERS GOW page 22
Vice President McMahon set to retire BY AURELIA ACQUATI
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n Nov. 5, NAU President John Haeger announced Vice President MJ McMahon will be stepping down from her position in June 2013. McMahon has served as vice president for the university for more than 10 years. In a letter to faculty and staff, President Haeger said McMahon has been involved in a number of NAU’s advancements. “MJ has extended NAU’s reach nationally, maintained a close collaboration with the Arizona Board of Regents and built closer ties to the Flagstaff community,” Haeger said. “I have relied on her insights and am grate-
ful for her continual support.” Sarah Bickel, current associate vice president for student affairs, will take over McMahon’s role as vice president starting July 2013. Haeger said Bickel is wellprepared for fulfilling this new role due to her previous experience on staff. “Sarah is a trusted member of NAU’s senior staff and her long academic career has prepared her well for this important duty,” Haeger said. “. . . At the same time, please welcome Sarah as she transitions to a challenging leadership position.” McMahon will continue to serve as a consultant to Bickel and retire at the end of next year.
AZ student loan debt low nationally
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BY CLARK MINDOCK
ccording to a The Institute for College Access & Success, Arizona colleges and universities are ranked 45th in the nation for average graduating student debt. The study found Arizona students were just behind California students with an average of $19,950 of student loan debt upon graduating in 2011. An estimated 49 percent of Arizona college graduates had debt in 2011. Voluntary reports from 1,057 private and public schools across the country were considered when conducting the study. The average student debt for those who earned bachelors degrees in 2011 nationwide grew from $25,250 to $26,600 — slightly more than a five percent increase, according to a press release from the institution. “The reasonable higher education costs in Arizona undoubtedly contribute to the low level
of student debt,” said Sarah Harper, director of Office Affairs for the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR). “Despite increases in recent years, tuition and fees at Arizona’s public universities remain competitive among similar institutions.” According to the report, graduating student loan debts correlated to regional similarities, with the West and the South having the lowest student loan debt. The highest student loan debt was found in the Midwest and the Northeast. Recent college graduate unemployment rates had decreased slightly from 2010, but still had not retuned to previous rates. Of recent college graduates, the unemployment rate for 2011 was 8.8 percent, down from 9.1 percent the year before. The unemployment rate for those with only a high school diploma was more than double of college graduates at 19.1 percent. “Apparently I do [have a significant amount of student debt] off of freshman year alone,” said see DEBT page 4
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PoliceBeat Nov. 4 At 12:10 a.m., a student reported they were assaulted by head-butt at Gateway Marketplace. Officers responded and the case is still open pending investigation. At 11:56 a.m., a faculty member called from the Physical Sciences building to report trash had been strewn through the second floor lobby. Officers responded and determined the damage had been done by an unknown animal that had entered the building. The animal was not found and the custodial crew was called to clean up the mess. Nov. 3 At 2:22 p.m., staff from Aspen Crossing called to report individuals were sitting at a picnic table and lighting leaves on fire on the table top. Officers responded and gave field interviews to five suspects. They were instructed to cease and desist in the activity. At 2:49 p.m., park rangers from the United States Forest Service (USFS) arrived at the Northern Arizona University Police Department (NAUPD) in an attempt to locate the president of a fraternity in connection with a party that had been held on USFS land. The partygoers had left a bonfire burning, fraternity paraphernalia, trash and had committed other crimes. Escorted by NAUPD, the USFS Rangers contacted the suspects at
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Mountain View Hall and cited three individuals for littering and failing to extinguish a fire. At 6:32 p.m., a call was received reporting someone skateboarding on the top level of the San Francisco parking garage. Officers responded and warned the suspect that skateboarding was not allowed in the structure. Nov. 2 At 10:41 a.m., a student called to report his ex-girlfriend had violated an order of protection by contacting him at the Cline Library. Officers responded and have turned the case over for further investigation. At 4:07 p.m., a woman at the South Apartments called to report her husband was being verbally abusive. Officers responded and separated the couple. A report was taken for informational purposes. Oct. 30 At 9:03 a.m., staff from McKay Village called to report a resident was assaulted by her roommate. Officers responded and separated the two roommates. They took a report for informational purposes. The offending roommate will be moved to another room. At 11:13 a.m., staff from Tinsley Hall called requesting medical transportation for a resident who had fractured their ankle the previous day
during a basketball game. Officers and emergency personnel responded and the student was transported to Flagstaff Medical Center for treatment. At 1:35 p.m., staff from Cline Library called to report someone panhandling in front of the building. Officers responded and advised the suspect panhandling was not allowed at this location and asked him to leave. At 10:55 p.m., staff from Aspen Crossing called to report individuals engaged in the smoking of marijuana in the quad area. Officers responded. One suspect was deferred for possession of drug paraphernalia and two others were deferred for smoking marijuana. Oct. 29 At 12:02 p.m., staff at Gabaldon Hall called to report they had been informed by a resident that their roommate had been smoking marijuana. Officers responded but could not detect an odor and they further noted the room was vacant at the time. At 5:38 p.m., the resident hall director at Pine Ridge called to report two males who were suspected of selling drugs between Pine Ridge and McConnell Hall. Officers responded and determined the individuals were only smoking a cigarette.
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Events Calendar Calendar Events THURSDAY, NOV. 8
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Rt. 66 Fall Blood Drive [9 a.m. /Southwest Windpower]
NAU Football vs. Southern Utah [2 p.m. / NAU Skydome]
Meet the Artist [12:30 p.m. /NAU Bookstore]
Clean Out Your Clutter [9 a.m. /Wheeler Park] Greatful Dead Night [9 p.m. / Orpheum Theater]
Iration & The Expendables [8 p.m /Orpheum Theater]
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TUESDAY, NOV. 13 Dropkick Murpheys [7 p.m. / Orpheum Theater]
50’s & 60’s Graffiti Gold Show [7:30 p.m. / Canyon Moon Theatre]
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NAU School of Music Horizons Concert Series Presents Jeffrey Swann, Piano [7 p.m. / Ashurst Hall]
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very four years on Election Day, our staff gets to celebrate the holidays early. With CNN blasting in the background as we put together this issue, our staff anxiously watched election coverage like children waiting to open their holiday presents. Although we rarely see the light of day on Tuesdays (production day), it was extremely refreshing to walk outside the office and see all of the students sporting the “voting is sexy� shirts and activists encouraging each and every student to vote. As the future of this country depends on our generation and those younger than us, we must realize the importance of voting and pay tribute to our forefathers who fought to give us this right. We are privileged to live in a country where young people have the power to affect change and were proud as a staff and members of the student body to see students on this campus exercising their right to do so.
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InTheNews Nabeyin Panford, a senior electronic media and film major. “Heck yeah, it’s surprising that Arizona [has a low student debt rate]. The only people that I know that aren’t in debt are fullscholarship athletes. Everybody else that I’ve talked to, everybody has some type of debt that they have to pay off.” In February, Arizona legislators voted to increase tuition requirements in the state. The vote came after the legislators learned “nearly half of students at ASU did not pay tuition in the 200910 school year, whether due to financial aid need or scholarships.” The “nearly half ” estimate has been refuted as being misleading and that the actual figure is closer to 25 percent.
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University of Arizona
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Alumnus creates memorial app
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Average Debt of Ariz. Graduates in 2011
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(Information courtesy of Project on Student Debt)
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NAU 41st college in nation with gold STARS ranking
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BY CALEB MCCLURE
AU took major strides towards sustainability, joining ASU and UA to become the 41st higher education institution to be awarded a gold rating in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS). The STARS program is a self-reported ranking system, overseen by Association for Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Obtaining this ranking is a requirement of the President’s Climate Commitment NAU President John Haegar signed in 2007, which promises NAU will become a carbon neutral campus by 2020. “[STARS] is the accumulative, comprehensive snapshot of everything we do, [regarding sustainability]” said Bryan McLaren, NAU sustainability coordinator. McLaren is also the university’s liaison to the STARS program. STARS rates a university based on three major categories: education, research, operations and planning and administration and engagement. There is also an innovation category, which is only worth four points of the rating system. NAU excelled highly in the education and research category. “It’s super clear that NAU is dominating curriculum in sustainability,” McLaren said. “Everything we have going on from the Global Learning Initiative (GLI), which puts sustainability learning outcomes in every major path. We have some of the most well-known graduate and undergraduate degrees in sustainability.” The gold rating is an improvement from this past year’s silver rating. The advancements resulting in a higher ratingwere mostly made within the curriculum. “We made a huge advancement in the past couple of years, especially this past year with integrating sustainability into the curriculum, inside and outside the class room,” McLaren said. Even though the report is self-ranking, McLaren wanted to avoid “green-
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washing” (appearing to be more sustainable than actuality) and to ensure the report was done with integrity. “I wanted to make sure anyone who looked at NAU’s report . . . had full assurance and back up that these things were actually happening,” McLaren said. The university was recognized based on aspects such as the Sustainable Living and Urban Garden (SLUG), sustainability oriented courses, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and attempts to increase energy efficiency on campus. The full report is available at green.nau.edu, as are details as to which aspects are considered notable.
The Advanced Research and Development (ARD) building uses (from left to right), a wind turbine, a “living roof” for insulation, and solar panels which can be seen atop the building on the right. (Photo by Keenan Turner)
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acebook can now be utilized as a memorial service for those looking to celebrate the lives of their loved ones as a result of a creation by NAU alumnus Russ Hearl. Hearl’s application, Evertalk, allows users to create a tribute page to those they have lost, as well as collect donations. The app was launched July 3 and has since garnered over 1,500 likes on Facebook. Hearl, CEO and co-founder of Evertalk, was inspired to create a more modern and efficient way of alerting friends and family of a peer’s passing. “Evertalk came about one day when I was on Facebook and [saw] a friend of mine who I went to high school with had passed away,” Hearl said. “I saw the post from a mutual friend of ours in my news feed, so I went to his page and found out that he had actually passed away three weeks ago. It was really at that moment that I was like, ‘Hey, there really should be a better way in this day and age.’ That was the genesis of the idea.” The app offers users various options for layouts and can be set up in minutes. “The process is: you write the biography, you upload photos, you determine whether or not you want a fundraising campaign, you could associate a video to your page if you want to, then you publish it,” Hearl said. “Simultaneously, when you set up a page, you could also arrange a fundraiser campaign. A lot of times, people need to raise money for different things. It could be for a special cause, it could be for a memorial site, to pay for hospital bills left behind; there are a lot of reasons. You can set all of that up on Evertalk.” NAU fund coordinator Abraham Kelley acknowledged the benefits of using social media campaigns like Evertalk. “We are definitely looking at ussee APP page 5
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The sun shines over Picture Canyon’s serene landscape. (Photo by Holly Mandarich)
BY JAMES GINGERICH
inder cones rise starkly above the waters of Picture Canyon, the stream runs clear and strong while petroglyphs lay scattered along the canyon’s walls and yet, not even a decade ago, this pristine natural sight was strewn with garbage. Thanks to the City of Flagstaff ’s recent purchase, Picture Canyon will never return to this state. Just inside city limits in northeast Flagstaff, Picture Canyon’s purchase was the fruition of decades of work by citizens “The citizens of Flagstaff have transformed it from a garbage dump into what will be a crown jewel of Flagstaff ’s park system,” said Paul Beier, a conservation biology professor at NAU. “Within five years, this will become one of the most popular places in town for hiking and outdoor recreation.” The land remained neglected in the state trust for 50 years, when an archaeologist by the name of Don Weaver rediscovered the vitality of the cultural heritage the canyon held. Rallying together citizens, Weaver began the push to have the canyon protected from the desecration it had experienced for so long. “The area was in really poor condition with
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tons of garbage and trash, defaced pictograph and petroglyph panels and poor water quality,” said Bruce Fox, a forestry professor at NAU. However, funding stood in the way. Even though much of the canyon is unsuitable for development, laws requires state trust land be sold to the highest bidder for the benefit of education, with no exceptions for the sake of the environment would be made. In 2004, the city passed an open space bond, which allotted a certain amount of money to be available for the purchase of land that should be protected. The city agreed Picture Canyon represented such an interest and applied for a matching-grant from the Growing Smarter program, a voter-passed fund providing money to set-aside ecologically or culturally significant land. The grant was approved and, with funding in place, the city seemed set to fulfill protection goals. With an appeal to the state for the sale of the land, the state land department planned an auction for Oct. 30. With City Manager Kevin Burke the lone bidder, the land was sold to Flagstaff for $4.8 million. The city must now go about developing a management plan both to protect the ecology and cultural artifacts but also to provide for recreation on the land.
ing social media to expand our fundraising efforts,” Kelley said. “I think especially with the younger generations, you guys look at everything in social media through Twitter and Facebook. We would have to sit down and have meetings to discuss before proceeding to do anything like that; I think it’s a good idea to look into it and utilize those tools if you can.” Hearl encourages NAU students to explore Evertalk for their fundraising and commemorative needs. “I think that if, you know, I had this when I was a student at NAU, I can recall some professors that really had a major impact on me in a positive way,” Hearl said of his hotel and restaurant management professors. “I could see myself creating tribute pages for those professors because they were really mentors of mine . . . Students can also use it to raise money for various causes.”
Arizona 2012 Election Results Proposition 120
Ariz. would become the exclusive authority over air, water, land, minerals, wildlife and all other natural resources in the state, excluding Native American territory. The intent is for the state to more effectively protect and harness the economic potential of its properties and become independent of outside management, such as the National Park Service.
DEFEATED
Graphic by Mark Saunders and Bree Purdy
Arizona Senate Representative
Flake 50%
Carmona 45%
* Est. 67% in
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Proposition 121
If passed, Proposition 121 would eliminate the primary election where voters may only vote for candidates within their political party to move forward to the general election. Instead of a primary election, voters would select their candidate(s) of choice regardless of political affiliation. This would not apply`` to the presidential election.
DEFEATED
1st Congressional District
Kirkpatrick 49%
Paton 45%
* Est. 99% in
Proposition 204
Proposition 204 would extend Prop 100, which added a 1 cent tax to use for educational programs, public transportation and human services programs.
DEFEATED
Maricopa County Sheriff
Arpaio 53%
Penzone 43%
* Est. 96% in
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Massive student debt avoidable with the right disposition
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all it a generational anxiety — the kind of creeping, crawling disquiet that begins to haunt students as they get closer and closer to graduating. Faced with a bleak job market and the suddenly crushing weight of student debt, many cannot help but treat what was once a day of hope as a slow, inevitable march toward an economic guillotine. According to The Project on Student Debt, an organization that advocates for allowing more students access to college, two-thirds of American college students had $26,000 in debt, on average, upon graduating. It is important to note this statistic is not uniform, and different states have different averages of debt. Arizona has one of the lowest averages of debt in the nation, coming in at 45th with a statewide average of $19,950. According to the study, 55 percent of 2011 NAU grads had an average of $20,602 in debt. In an article from spring of this year, The Arizona Daily Sun reported NAU students, on average, spend a total of $83,000 Political Cartoon by Brian Regan getting their degree. This math does not really add up. The manage by applying for scholarships and tuition rate for this year’s freshman class is $4,637.50 per semester, including fees. For working. Some of us do take out student the remainder of students, that rate is actu- loans, but few seniors on staff have more ally far lower, thanks to NAU’s Pledge pro- than $8,000 to $10,000 in debt. We recognize everyone’s circumstances gram. What’s more, many students receive some sort of merit scholarship upon arriving are different, and it is impossible to account at the university. So, what is driving the costs for each and every student’s personal and financial situation. It is easy to see some stuup? Well, students also have to pay for books, dents work through college and some do not. The easiest and simplest way to stay out of parking, food, rent and recreation. At this newspaper, we face this reality massive amounts of debt is to earn income — many of us here have little-to-no paren- and reduce spending, our elected-officials tal financial contributions, mostly because reitarate this principle often enough. It is not a luxurious, or even comfortthey have disowned us for being journalism students. Most-to-all of us compensate and able, existence. That loaded campus meal
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plan might need to go in favor of some tomato soup dinners, and you will have to spend some time combing the Internet for the best deals on textbooks. You may consider doing the research to find which is cheaper for you: living on campus or cramming into an apartment with three of your closest friends and soon-to-be mortal enemies. Making the sacrifices now can spare you the pain later. Most of us working here do not have the sunniest post-collegiate job prospects — it comes with the territory. For most of us, working for this publication is our second, or even third, job. You make your own future: You cannot
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depend on your parents, future employers or — God forbid you actually trust them — the state legislature to help you out in this down economy. In the end, you must take all possible preventative measures — applicable to you, in your situation — to keep your student debt accumulation as limited as possible. That is not to say that, as a society, we should give up on trying to make college a more affordable venture for even the most disadvantaged among us, but don’t hold your breath waiting for meaningful change — especially because of our nation’s opinion on higher education and student debt. Be proactive: apply for scholarships; find that terrible, minimum-wage job you will remember ever-so-fondly twenty years from now; and cut costs. You may have to forego leisure time and several material privileges, but you will save a remarkable amount of money on loan intererests. But above all: keep your heads up. You make your own future, and it does not have to be one full of doom and gloom. You will get a job if you persevere — knock down any door of opportunity that opens a crack for you. If you commit to living frugally now, you may actually come to live the life you envisioned — fulfill the promise that motivated you to pursue higher education in the first place. Editor’s Note: Kevin Bertram, editor-inchief, wrote this editorial on behalf of the staff. Kevin is a senior double majoring in journalism and history. He has very little parental financial contributions and works two jobs in addition to running The Lumberjack. Using money saved from working, he did not take out student loans this year.
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Enough of American politicians’ campaigning strategy
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arely ever does someone walk in for a job interview, shake hands with the potential employer, and say — with a most serious countenance, “You should hire me, because the other candidates for this position are terrible people, and I am the least repulsive option. You’re welcome.” At least we can know with unyielding certainty, if anyone has ever employed such tactics, they AMANDA probably did not end HORNER up getting hired. So why is it somehow expected or acceptable for our politicians to engage in this strategy? Well, just as though we were all in high school again, attacking somebody else is always far simpler than having to accept accountability for one’s own statements and actions. Yet, what is most insulting is the fact that the people creating and running these vicious campaign ads could possibly think they would serve American citizens. The overuse of this strategy is to blame, at least partially, for the popular American mentality that voting is absurd, and government is of no use beyond
entertaining radicals. The whole “This guy over here eats babies” sort of campaigning is not going to cut it anymore. This election season, according to The Huffington Post, over 80 percent of all campaign ads were attack ads — meaning the ads did not only mention the opponent in a negative way by name, but was often the only conveyable message. To compare, during the 2008 election only 9.1 percent of ads were negative. The study, done by Wesleyan Media Project, concludes the reason for this astounding increase is the rise in interest groups and super PACs: Candidates this season put out less self-sponsored ads, only about 35.8 percent, as of this past April. These negative ads are not only sickening, but for the most part, completely inaccurate. The truths in these ads have generally been stretched so much, it’s probably best to just assume that none remains whatsoever. One can find more honesty on sites like Factcheck.org, and Votesmart.org to make an informed decision on a candidate. Still, with everyone attacking each other, it fails to make any of them appealing at all. By the time one is finally done
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through with a commercial break, Breaking Bad’s Walter White himself probably seems like a better option. Americans don’t want to hear what the other guy is doing wrong — we already notice! We want to know what a certain candidate running is going to do to make things better. If candidates are expecting citizens to buy into their rhetoric, they need to wake up. As for our citizens, we need to stop tolerating these ads any longer, and get informed. With this election season over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief for the Nissan dealers and shampoo commercials we didn’t know we missed so terribly. Instead of spending money attacking the opposition, campaign money can be spent much more productively, and without insulting the intelligence of the American people. Politicians and interest groups can learn a valuable lesson from everyone’s favorite Mean Girl, Cady: “Calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter.” If it weren’t for the revolting ads of our politicians, citizens would have a much better disposition to participate in the election.
Tom Horne disregards law
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n the U.S., an attorney general is the highestranked law enforcement officer and lawyer. In numerous instances, Tom Horne has used and continues to use this title to bend the law instead of enforcing it. He is responsible for more than neglice — for maleficence of the most eviALLISON WEINTRAUB dent kind. In order to protect the wellfare of the state, it is necessary that we strip this crook of power, and remove him from his position immediately. In 1973, The SEC placed a lifetime trading ban on Horne’s investment firm because he “among other things, violated the recordkeeping, anti-fraud, and broker-dealer net capital provisions of the federal securities laws and filed false financial reports with the commission,” describes a report by the SEC. If Horne’s offenses ended here, the public might have been able to forgive his lapse in judgment and move on. However, in 2007, while positioned as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Horne was cited for criminal speeding; The following 18 months, Horne was cited for speeding another six times, including once in a school zone. In early October, Horne’s misconduct culminated in an FBI investigation that found Horne guilty of campaign finance violations committed during his 2010 bid for attorney general. Horne and Kathleen Winn, general director of community outreach for the attorney general’s office, coordinated with the independent expenditure committee
Business Leaders for America (BLA). According to a press release from Maricopa County Attorney, Bill Montgomery, “Horne actively directed BLA’s fundraising and communications strategy with Winn in the final weeks of his 2010 campaign for attorney general. During this time period, BLA raised more than $500,000 from the Republican State Leadership Committee and individual donors which paid for television advertisements advocating against Felicia Rotellini, Horne’s Democrat opponent.” Although Montgomery did not ultimately file criminal charges, he has demanded Horne report and refund the illegal campaign contributions. The FBI also found Horne coached employees to lie to interrogators. Last but not least, Horne is responsible for a misdemeanor hit-and-run. According to police reports, investigators saw Horne hit a parked vehicle in March while leaving the home of Carmen Chenal, with whom the FBI alleges Horne was having an affair. “Though motive is not an element of the criminal statute listed above,” the police report said, “it stands to reason that Horne did not want any record of his presence in the parking garage of Chenal’s apartment complex thus he did not leave a note [on the vehicle].” Instead of admitting his mistakes, Horne has repeatedly attempted to conceal his crimes. Horne’s website says his primary goal is to defend Arizona. However, due to his blatant disregard for the law, it is evident that Arizona citizens must defend themselves from Horne.
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n epidemic is spreading through the collegiate community: more and more students are coming down with the symptoms for something called electoral dysfunction. It comes in many forms: Facebook memes, dramatic TV ads or booths bribing students with free candy. For a majority of students, the 2012 election was the first presidential election in which they were able to vote. The task of voting for the first time can seem as exciting as it is challenging, bringing in a whole new element to adult life. “You’ve never really had to think about what stances you need for stuff because I’ve never voted before,” says Malory Donahue, a sophomore visual communications major. “And now you have to balance your emotional aspects with things you want for the country.” Along with thinking critically, students must find ways to do research on the candidates and propositions for the election. “I usually talk to my parents about my stuff because they’re the ones who have to deal with this stuff now,” Donahue says. “News stations are so biased and they focus on the most ridiculous things. I just feel stupid watching it.” This concept of media bias leads to a great deal of frustration for students when trying to find accurate information on the candidates. “They say, ‘Oh, let’s learn about this guy’s family,’ or ‘What did this guy do as a kid?’” says Travis Davis, a sophomore secondary education major. “I don’t care about that. I want to know what he is going to do.” With busy school schedules, it may be difficult for students to find time to do extensive background research on the elections, but accord-
ing to Shayna Stevens, a sophomore secondary education major and Board Director for ASA, it is worth the extra time if you understand the importance of it. “There’s not a starting or ending point; it’s a constant stream of education,” Stevens says. “If you make it a priority, you can find time. Don’t watch TV that night; don’t go out that weekend. There are so many opportunities you can use to educate yourself.” For some, though, social media has become the primary source of information for the election, buried under a wave of memes on killing Big Bird, invisible people in chairs and opinionated bar graphs. “If the presidential election is a joke,” Davis says, “Then Facebook is the punch line.” Emma Kzrnarich, a freshman political science-communication major and ASA intern, was looking for Facebook pages on Proposition 204 when she found one that claimed to support the proposition, but was actually feeding false information. “[Facebook pages] have such an influence now,” Kzrnarich says. “People are so far beyond knowing what’s actually even going on with our government, with our propositions [and] with the candidates.” With a lack of time for research, students are more at the mercy of media sources that do not paint the full picture, such as hardly mentioning third-party candidates who also run for president. “As a college student, I’m all over the place,” Kzrnarich says. “They make such a big deal out of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama; I’m hearing about those, but I’m not hearing about the third parties.” When it comes to third parties, many students also share the common conception that a vote for them would only take a vote away from someone who can actually win.
“Even if the independent does have the better [candidate], the reason I would end up voting for the Republican or Democrat is that I know one of those is getting chosen even if it’s just the best of a bad situation just which one even by slightly deserves it more,” Davis says. As the election season winds down and life returns to the socalled normal, students are coming out of the season with a new perspective on how the system works
— or doesn’t. While some might feel powerless under the wave of media bias, social media gags and Super PACs, they ultimately have the final say with their vote. Stevens feels it is about time people started realizing that. “If enough people decide to do anything, there’s a change that can happen,” Stevens says. “It always starts with that one person that believes they can change the world that actually does.”
Voters wait in line outside Flagstaff’s 20th precinct polling station in the Univeristy Union’s Havasupai rooms A, B, and C on Nov. 6. (Photo by Sean Ryan)
Writing Month kicks off at Bookmans BY MIRANDA SCOTT
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ave your pens and paper at the ready, because November is National Novel Writing Month, and burgeoning writers are setting aside formal responsibilities to make time to write. Thousands of participants from across the country will write thousands of words per day for the entire month as part of the competition known as NaNoWriMo. Organized by the non-profit Office of Letters and Lights, NaNoWriMo is open to anyone up to the challenge of writing a novel by the end of November. What started in 1999 as a small get-together of frustrated writers has now been turned into a nationwide event, with participants as young as 14 joining in the mayhem. The goal is to write 50,000 words — which is by no means a novel, but is definitely a good start. While a writer is certainly welcome to try and go farther than the 50,000-word goal, the point of NaNoWriMo is to reach that goal and win. This means, for the month of November, anyone participating in the event will be writing until their hands fall off. While this is an exciting month for writers, with excitement comes challenge. Many writers might feel afraid to face NaNoWriMo alone. Fortunately, for the NAU students and Flagstaff citizens partaking in NaNoWriMo, the local Bookmans store has fears see NOVEL page 14
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covered: they offer public write-ins every Friday at 6 p.m. during the month. The write-ins provide a place where people can get in their writing zone and punch out large amounts of a novel while in the company of fellow writing buddies. Writers can bring their laptops, snacks and comfortable writing clothes to the bookstore and settle in for a night of flowing creative juices and blasting out hard work. Senior anthropology major Sal Webber appreciates the write-ins. Webber likes having a place that is just for writing, away from any real-world distractions. “They are really good for motivation. If you are alone in your dorm or apartment you can do laundry, do your homework, or other, you know, responsible things,” Webber explains. NaNoWrMo’s official website offers procrastination help as well, including pep talks from famous authors and tons of positive messages posted on the site to encourage users to get their fingers typing away. “I actually daydream a lot, so it’s nice to actually be able to put stuff down on paper,” says senior anthropology major Samantha Christensen, who is taking part
in NaNoWriMo. “Especially since I love reading and I read so many good stories; sometimes you are just looking for more [stories], like that quote ‘If there’s not a book you like to be found, write that book yourself.’” The air of camaraderie helps those who are attempting the 50,000-word feat find a sense of motivation. For competitors, Bookmans is the goto place every Friday of this month, with the exception of the day after Thanksgiving. With a schedule so accommodating, it is hard to find an excuse not to join the novel-writing fun. “I’ve done it two years before this,” says Amber King, a sophomore anthropology major. Her main motivation for finishing the competition is her characters. “I spend so much time before starting it, working on them [my characters] and trying to get them as real to me as possible,” she says. In any case, enjoyment from NaNoWriMo and from the write-ins hosted by Bookmans can be funneled into pure fuel for novel writing. Sometimes writers just need to be kicked into gear, and events like these can certainly do just that.
Amber King, a sophomore anthropology major from Phoenix, works on her novel at Bookmans on Nov. 2. King’s novel is based on an Asian red string myth and takes place in a bookstore. For King, Bookmans is “a great place to write.” This is the third year King is participating in writing a novel for a month, but the first year she is “taking it serious.” (Photo by Sean Ryan)
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BY CHRISTIAN BOOZ
ut of the 200-plus student groups NAU has to offer, eight of them center on environmental advocacy including water issues, climate change, local foods and more. Many students join these groups as a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference in the local community as it relates to the environment. With an estimated member base of 300, the largest of the environmental groups on campus is the Student Environmental Caucus (Green Jacks or SEC). The Green Jacks is made up of all the environmentally focused groups on campus. The SEC is the face for many of the smaller advocacy groups. “With the Green Jacks, it feels like you can get stuff done and make change because they have power to do so,” says Allison Whiteford, a sophomore environmental science major. Whether it be climate change, recycling on campus or sustainable energy usage, the Green Jacks has a place for everything. “If you come to the Green Jacks and are really passionate about something, we will try to organize around it,” says Elizabeth Wiggen, a graduate assistant for the SEC. The Green Jacks are responsible for organizing Earth Week every year during the spring semester as well as working with some of the smaller groups for other events. One of the groups the SEC works with is the Weatherization and Community Building Action Team (WACBAT). This group is an action team that falls under the Sustainable Communities graduate program at NAU. WACBAT works toward sustainability in the Flagstaff community by retrofitting houses which, according to Coconino County standards, helps save money for utility bills. For Frankie Beesly, a junior environmental studies major, WACBAT was the major force keeping her at NAU. “WACBAT made me realize that freshmen and students in general can make
change in the community,” Beesly says. WACBAT has also spearheaded major events on the NAU campus. Working with the Green Jacks and Residence Life, they created the campus blackout this past semester. “It was a celebration of not using electricity in the dorms for one day and seeing how much energy was saved as well as getting people outside,” Beesly says. While many groups work on energysaving issues, one group on campus is working on a different, but also important issue: food. Students for Sustainable Living and Urban Gardening (SSLUG) has been planting a garden located just behind the Social and Behavioral Sciences building on south campus. The garden, which was started in 2008 by graduate student Ian Dixon, currently has over 50 edible varieties of plants and more than 30 varieties of medicinal and cooking herbs and has nearly doubled in size since 2010. “Learning your connection to the land, through gardening, can really enrich your life,” says Brian Patrick, a graduate student in the geographic information science certification program. The food grown at the garden is given to volunteers who have donated 1,000 hours of volunteer work so far this year. “Students are genuinely excited about picking food from the ground and are even more excited about the taste,” says Susan Nyoka, a campus organic gardener. There are many reasons to join environmental advocacy groups. “It’s a great way to meet like-minded people and affect change,” Whiteford says. Some believe joining environmental advocacy groups can not only change the way you think about these issues, but can also change the way you live — even after college. “Environmental advocacy groups aren’t something that end in college; for many students it becomes a career path and changes their lifestyle completely” says Adrah Parafiniuk, a graduate student facilitator of SSLUG.
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Swim and dive continues dominance
Ice Jacks sweep weekend
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Junior Jane Wakefield dives off the 3-meter board during NAU swim and dive’s dual against Northern Colorado. The Lumberjacks crushed the Bears 178–119 (Photo by Sean Ryan)
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BY CHELSEA MARTIN
he NAU swimming and diving team continued its winning streak for the season with a victory against the University of Northern Colorado on Nov. 3, easily sweeping the Bears in relays, diving events and nine races, finishing with a final score of 178–119. The Lumberjacks are now 3–0 in dual meets this season. “The girls really enjoy racing in their home pool, and I think it really showed today,” said head coach Andy Johns. “A lot of different people were asked to step up and they did a great job at that.” The Lumberjacks held nothing back from the very start. The 400-medley relay was an impressive beginning to the meet, with NAU placing first and second. Junior Emma Lowther led the Lumberjacks by winning two individual events. Lowther won the first event of the day, the 800 freestyle, in 9:14.88 and the 100 butterfly in 1:04.74. Sophomore Caitlin Wright displayed excellence in the water, earning two individual wins in the 200 freestyle in
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2:09.27 and the 400 freestyle in 4:34.69. NAU continued to display superior performances in the water and on the boards. Junior Andrea Derflinger was more than pleased with the outcome of the meet for her team and for herself, winning the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:24.35. “I was so excited. That was the first time I’ve ever won a race in a dual meet and I almost had a heart attack,” Derflinger said. The diving boards held the same amount of excitement and opportunity for the Lumberjacks, who easily placed higher than the Bears for both events. NAU senior Kristy Ardavanis dominated the boards, placing first in both the 3-meter with a 308.25 score and the 1-meter with a 290.78. Freshmen Chelsea Jackson took second in the 1-meter with a 258.08 after placing fifth in the 3-meter. Junior Gwen Smithberg had quite the successful meet, finishing second on the 3-meter with a 282.98, a score that qualifies her for the NCAA Zone Regional meet, and placed third on the 1-meter with a 257.33.
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BY MATT ESAENA
ockey season is in full swing this time of the year and the Division II Ice Jacks are not taking that for granted. After sweeping the Long Beach State University (LBSU) 49ers this past weekend, NAU hockey improved its regular-season record to 8–1. On Nov. 2, the Ice Jacks shut out the 49ers 3–0 and on Nov. 3, NAU rallied after giving up a three-goal lead to end the night with a 5–3 victory. “We were a lot better defensively this weekend than we were last game,” said head coach Travis Johanson. “Their goalies played well both nights. We had two good games.” The match-up on Nov. 3 probably made the Ice Jacks’ fans nervous. NAU held a 3–0 lead heading into the third period and about midway through that frame, the 49ers tied the game at three. But the Ice Jacks rebounded from those miscues and rallied back to score twice in the final five minutes of the game. Forwards senior James Terry, junior Greg Park, and sophomore Vinny Eck each tallied a goal and an assist on the score sheet for NAU. Senior forward Taylor Dustin also had a multi-point night with two assists of his own, while senior forward Jonathan Isbell burried the game-winning goal. Senior goaltender Quinn Mason had to be one of the stars of the game as he was forced to make 40 saves to give his team the mark in the win column.
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Sophomore forward Vinny Eck attempts to beat a 49er to the puck. (Photo by Andrea Sanchez)
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Rogers’ big second half propels Jacks to 86-78 win over Adams State
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BY KEVIN BERTRAM
own 12 points to the visiting Division II Adams State University Grizzlies with only 11:39 remaining in the game, things were not looking rosy for the Jacks. Senior guard Gabe Rogers, who scored 29 points in a win over Haskell a week ago, was struggling to find his shot along with the rest of his teammates, and the Grizzlies — seeming to smell an exhibition upset of a Division-I program there for the taking — were playing with feverish energy, hitting shots as often as their players hit the floor. Rogers’ solution was simple: keep on shooting. “I saw the team really needed a lift, so I just stepped in and started playing harder,” Rogers said. Just when it looked like Adams State was primed to pull away, the bombardment started. First, at the 10:49 mark, a 3-point shot from Rogers. Another from freshman guard DeWayne Russell. A 3-point shot from sophomore forward Gaellan Bewernick. One more from Rogers. Senior guard Stallon Saldivar lead the fast break, over-and-over again, converting Grizzlies’ misses into easy baskets. For the second straight game, head coach Jack Murphy had great praise for Rogers. “Gabe’s one of the best shooters in the country,” Murphy said. “If we stick with him through most games, he will get it going. Tonight, we were fortunate that he had a great second half — and another great game overall.”
Only a few minutes later, the Jacks — courtesy of a 25-3 run — found themselves in possession of a 73-65 lead. It would be one they would hold through the rest of the game to win it over Adams State, 86-78. Murphy attributed the huge run to the Jacks stepping it up on defense. “We kept our focus on defense,” Murphy said. “We wanted our focus to be on defense and rebounding, and once we got stops, we were able to get out on the break and get open looks.” For the second straight game, Rogers led all scorers, scoring 16 in the second half alone and ending with 26 points on 10-of-22 shooting, 6-of-11 from behind the arc. He also had six rebounds and five assists. Senior guard Michael Dunn, who had helped the Jacks remain in striking distance with his defense, pitched in 14 points and three steals. Russell had 11 points and six assists. In the first half, the Grizzlies seemed to catch the Jacks off-guard a bit with their overall intensity, jumping out to a 10-point lead at the 12:45 mark. Behind the defensive play of Russell and Dunn, though, the Jacks were able to cut that deficit to three entering the half. The Jacks shot 45 percent from the field for the game to go along with 45 percent from the 3-point line, with 10 total makes as a team. They also out-rebounded the Grizzlies 46-40. NAU plays its next game on the road against Oregon on Nov. 10 and will open in the Walkup Skydome on Dec. 1 against Sam Houston State.
Senior guard Gabe Rogers (11) puts up a fadeaway shot against Steven Ruple (0) in the Jacks’ exhibition game in the Rolle Activity Center against Adams State University. After struggling in the first half, the Jacks rallied in the second half behind the strong play and shooting of Rogers to take the game 86-78. (Photo by Xiaozhen Wang)
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Volleyball makes late-season surge, clinches playoff berth in split weekend
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fter dropping a match against No. 11 Eastern Washington on Nov. 1 for the first time since 1991, the NAU women’s volleyball team recorded its third 20–win season in program history with a defeat of No. 1 Portland State University on Nov. 3. With the win, the Lumberjacks not only improved to a Big Sky Conference (BSC) record of 12–4, but also dropped the Vikings to a tie for first with the Idaho State Bengals at 14–2, ending a 16–match losing streak dating back to 2004. For the senior class, the four-set win (25–19, 19–25, 25–21, 25–16) was especially satisfying because they had yet to defeat the Vikings during their four-year tenure. “We knew we that we kind of had to pick it up from Thursday and that’s how you find out good teams, it’s how they rebound from tough losses,” said senior libero Anna Gott. “We [came] into the season not beating either Northern Colorado or Portland [State] and that was kind of our two huge goals and, so far, we got them, so hopefully we keep it that way.” The team appeared more comfortable and in control of their side of the net than their play against the Eastern Washington Eagles. The Lumberjacks allowed the Vikings to create their own errors. 31 of the Lumberjacks’ 94 overall points came off of Viking hitting errors, while the Lumberjacks committed 19 of the Vikings’ 81. “I think we got to a point, kind of, the past couple matches where we were trying to think too much. I think that we just needed to simplify it and worry about us and make things happen,” Gott said. With the match tied at one set apiece, the Lumberjacks began to mix up their shots and place their attacks to the open court, instead of relying on power swinging. “This is the learning curve,” Choate said. “You’ve got to get
good. You’ve got to learn how to play against the good teams.” With a chance to take down the No. 1 seed, the Lumberjacks used the momentum from the previous set to clinch the match heading into the fourth game. Senior outside hitter Kelli Dallmann put the ball away at 19–15 and would serve the next four points until the Vikings would sideout at 23–16. After a hitting error by the Vikings, Gott served an ace to claim not only the set, but the match. “On game point, when everybody stood up and started cheering, I got the chills,” Dallmann said. Dallmann finished with 13 kills, an ace and nine digs for the match. Freshman outside hitter Janae Vander Ploeg contributed 11 kills and five digs of her own, sophomore middle blocker Sydney Kemper hit an impressive .429, with nine kills on 21 attempts. “The best part of the whole thing is, win or lose, and I think it’s really hard for the team to understand this, but I really mean it, it’s they just played well,” Choate said. “The energy level we had didn’t relax on Thursday. This time we had an energy level and we were relaxed and just played ball.” On Nov. 1 against the Eagles, miscommunication and timidity caused the Lumberjacks to see their fourth loss in BSC play in a five–set loss (25–22, 23–25, 18–25, 25–21, 21–23). Sophomore middle blocker Sydney Kemper and freshman middle blocker Payton Bock kept the team engaged with 14 and 20 kills respectively. Sophomore setter Kalee Kirby had 64 assists and Dallmann contributed 19 digs. With the fifth set typically ending at 15, the Lumberjacks and Eagles continued to battle with one another to epitomize the tightness of the match, battling off each match point, until an Eagle setter dump terminated the evening play. “It was kind of like a reality check,” Dallmann said. “We just had to refocus and come back strong.”
Freshman middle blocker Payton Bock goes up for a spike during NAU’s 3–2 loss. (Photo by Jenni Solberg)
Revitalized Lumberjack offense blows out Bengals, 50–10
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BY CODY BASHORE
aving failed to score an offensive touchdown against Northern Colorado the week prior, the No. 12 Lumberjacks broke through for five offensive scores against the worst defense in the Football Championship Subdivison and pushed their winning streak to eight games. NAU (8-1, 6-0 Big Sky) cruised past the Big Sky’s bottom dweller, the Idaho State Bengals (1–8, 0–6, Big Sky), with a 50–10 victory highlighted by its pair of backup running backs. “Our defense was steady for all four quarters. Offensively, we really had trouble getting going in the first half,” said head coach Jerome Souers. “We showed some signs in the second quarter and I’m glad we finished strongly the way we did. The Bengals could not step up against a recently struggling Lumberjack offense and allowed 356 yards on the ground. ISU entered the game giving up 339 yards per game, the worst-
ranked rush defense in the league and had also given up at least 52 points in every conference game this season. Leading rusher junior Zach Bauman totaled 17 carries for 79 yards and added 21 yards on three catches. Despite Bauman’s average day on the ground, NAU rushed for the most yards as a team since Nov. 10, 2010 against Portland State. “Zach kind of opened it up; he got the harder yardage,” said sophomore receiver Dejzon Walker. “Once we got Idaho State’s defense to lay down, that’s room for Covaughn and Casey to come in and they did exceptionally well.” Senior Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson rushed for 151 yards on just eight carries, two of which went for touchdowns. DeBoskieJohnson rattled off a 34-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter and then added a 62-yarder in the fourth. Freshman Casey Jahn chipped in another 144 yards on his 10 carries, including a touch-
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down run of 66 yards for the final score of the game. “It’s nice to see Covaughn out there getting the reps the way that he did and Casey as well. That speaks to the offensive line and the blocking that’s going on in the front,” Souers said. Midway through the second, the Lumberjacks finally ended a streak of six consecutive quarters without an offensive touchdown, when senior quarterback Cary Grossart hit sophomore receiver Dejzon Walker for an 11yard score. “We started off a little bit shaky, had to make some adjustments to get everything rolling,” Walker said. “But, once we did, you see the outcome.” The touchdown triggered a 38-3 run for the remainder of the game, putting the Lumberjacks firmly in control as the Bengal pass offense only managed 287 yards for the game. ISU had averaged 367 yards per game coming into the contest, which ranked fifth in the nation.
“All we had to do was stay disciplined, keep our eyes on our man and read the quarterbacks eyes when we were playing zone coverage,” said junior safety Lucky Dozier. “It took us in the direction to make plays.” Running the ball proved to be useless for the Bengals as well, rushing for only 39 yards on the ground. The 39 yards topped the previous week’s 42 conceded to Northern Colorado. “Our defense as a whole played really well, our pass rush was good. Andy [Thompson, defensive coordinator] kept a good mix of coverage and blitz that I thought kept them off balance,” Souers said. “Being able to take on a passing game like that and to hold them to 10 points was an accomplishment.” With the win, the Lumberjacks remain the lone undefeated team in the conference. With two games remaining, a win against Southern Utah University next week at the Walkup Skydome would clinch a share of the Big Sky Conference Championship, but would not guarantee a playoff spot.
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Arts&Entertainment High school orchestras from Southwest play at Ardrey BY JAYSON BURNS
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hispering voices are the only sounds left in the theater as the stagehands finish setting up the rows of chairs and music stands. After a long moment, a group of students dressed in black and carrying their polished instruments enter from the wings and take their place. The stage seems at first to be large and a bit overwhelming, but this proves to be useful to the musicians; the acoustics strengthen their notes as they tune their instruments. Finally, the conductor appears on stage and organizes them with a swing of a baton. This is how a typical orchestra begins, but that is, of course, only from the audience’s perspective. On Nov. 3, NAU held the second annual NAU Orchestra Festival in Ardrey Auditorium, bringing musicians from California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona high schools and middle schools alongside the NAU Symphony Orchestra. The festival was brought to a close with one final concert. For the first half of the concert, high school students from both
in and out of state performed a select piece of music ranging from slow and calm to fast and booming. While there was some variation, many of the bands focused on a string section of violins, violas, harps and cellos. After a short intermission, the NAU Symphony Orchestra took center stage and played for the second half of the festival with soloist Elena Urioste, “a rising star,” according to conductor Nicholas Ross. Recipient of several international awards, Urioste is an acclaimed violinist whose first appearance was at the age of 13 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and has gone to play at Carnegie Hall and appear on the cover of Symphony magazine. Among the NAU musicians is freshman violin performance major Veronica Rinner. “It’s so magical, playing,” Rinner said, “I don’t know an intelligent way to say it. It’s just magical.” While orchestra may not seem like the most competitive of pursuits, Rinner is adamant about the challenges it brings. “In orchestra, no matter what you do, no matter how good you are, there’s always someone better,” Rinner said. “It gives you a com-
petitive edge.” Performing alongside Urioste has been a very beneficial experience to the musicians of the NAU Symphony Orchestra; it has helped them hone in their craft. “She was fantastic. It was so much fun,” Rinner said. “It was a great learning experience.” “With a soloist, you don’t know what tempo she’s going to use,” said senior music education and performance major Wesley Hunter, a violist. “You have to be really flexible in order to adjust with what she’s playing.” Hunter, like many other musicians, has a difficult time deciding who or what is his biggest influence. “I come from a musical family,” Hunter said. “I got a lot through my dad.” Musicians like Rinner and Hunter were very pleased with how the festival turned out and find such events to be another way to better their performances. “Part of it is festivals like this,” Hunter said. “You learn new music and hear how it’s supposed to be played.”
Badjacks illustrate life experiences in upcoming performance BY ELLY CAIN
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AU dance club, the Badjacks have been hard at work for their next performancne to take their audience on an adventure through dance during their performance this weekend, presenting their significant life events through the students’ polished dance skills and passionate choreography. The performance’s theme — “Life Events” — is a large compilation of personal experiences influential to the dancers, according to junior exercise science major and Badjacks coach Ashley Burke. “We’ve done a couple different themes in the past, but this one’s more internalized by the dancers. If you have a certain feeling, if a song makes you feel a certain way, if something happened in your life that you really want to express, this is your time to shine,” Burke said. Putting in extra, more productive practices, according to the coach, to prepare for the upcoming performance have been
central to the Badjacks’ preparation. “We’ve been trying to make our practices more efficient [by] using our time better. We do get sidetracked, but we’ve been really trying to stick to our schedule,” Burke said. Freshman electronic media and film major Emani Payne has high hopes for the upcoming performance, “It’s going to be awesome,” Payne said. “Everybody is in for a treat. Everyone’s put in a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of energy, late nights. We have a lot of styles, so I think it will be a good show.” There are currently 60 Badjacks selected for the performance team after auditions held at the beginning of the semester. Having this many performers gives the club an opportunity to include very diverse choreography in their show. “The coolest part about Badjacks is that everybody has different styles,” said Becca Richardson, a second-year Badjack and sophomore psychology major. “Everybody just comes to-
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gether and that stuff doesn’t matter, and it just makes it really cool because you get to learn. Someone might have a certain style, and they can bring it in and teach it to everybody.” A mix of styles will give the dancers’ upcoming performance plenty of variety for the audience. Amanda Tillman, a freshman hotel and restaurant management major, said, “[The audience] should expect some pretty creative dances and a lot of laughter — a little bit of everything.” Brittany Jones, a three-year Badjack and a senior electronic media and film major, said the audience will “experience lots of different emotions.” Being a Badjack, students put in endless nights of practice, choreography planning and commitment to perfect their routines. “I think you have to be dedicated; you have to come and learn your dances and dedicate yourself to the dances because you want them to be the best that they can be for the people to see them, because you want to have a good performance,” Richardson said.
The NAU Badjacks’ hip-hop group rehearses Nov. 1 in the Rolle Activity Center. (Photo by Jing Wang)
The concert will take place on Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. in Ardrey Auditorium. Tickets are free, but retrieving them from the Central Ticketing Office beforehand is encouraged. The upcoming Badjacks’ performance is also a collaboration of the valuable life lessons they have learned through dance.
“You have to be patient, you have to have tough skin in this business, definitely. You learn time management, and you just mature [quickly],” Payne said. “I think it’s about learning how to use your time and work with people you’ve never worked with and learn something new.”
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Lead guitar and vocalist Kyle Merrill plays trumpet for Brothers Gow on Nov. 2 at The Orpheum. (Photo by Amanda Ray)
Brothers Gow returns to Flag Lumberjack reporter Laura Thompson met with Flagstaff ’s native musicians, Brothers Gow, to discuss their performance at the Orpheum and their newest album.
The Lumberjack: What made you decide to move from San Francisco to San Diego? Alex Bastine, keyboards and vocals: We were in the East Bay and it was not cutting it at all. It was just too big. Carson Church, bass and vocals: We booked a show in Ocean Beach and we just thought on the drive in, ‘Why don’t we move here?’ One month later, we moved. Ethan Wade, rhythm guitar and vocals: The people were nice, the show went really well. Kyle Merrill, guitar and vocals: It was really spontaneous the way it happened. Before we even played, we were driving in and we rolled down the windows and we just said, ‘LETS MOVE HERE!’ LJ: What is your connection with The Oak Creek Band? Have you played with them before? CC: We actually played with them at Mia’s Lounge in 2010. EW: They’re a great band, and they’re really talented so I’m stoked to play with them. Matt Collier, lights and sound: They have a good local draw . . . it’s a good mix because they bring a
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lot of people that may have never heard Brothers Gow before, and vice versa. LJ: On your website, it says that you will continue to tour relentlessly to mold your sound and identity. Is this tour based on a new album that does so? EW: It’s a new chapter for us. We’re striving for success harder now than we ever have . . . for the first time in five years this is 100 percent what we do and it’s a liberating feeling. MC: You can practice a lot, but when you play live shows is when you excel the most; you just have to go out there and put it all on the line. AB: When we first moved out there, we were all trying to get jobs and we didn’t have any luck and we always talked about trying to live off the band with touring. KM: You know, to quote Jack Black, ‘We must pay the rent with our rock.’ LJ: Has your sound changed since your Flagstaff days? EW: I think it’s matured, definitely. We’ve all learned to play together a lot better. I think that now more than ever we’re able to go in any direction we want to without hesitation . . . we were kind of spanning ourselves across a lot of different genres and now that we have our unified sound, it sounds like us. CC: It’s becoming a lot more professional. We finally have a sound that’s our own unified genre. MC: The lyrical content is a lot more mature, a lot more thoughtful, in-depth vocals.
READ THE REST OF OUR INTERVIEW AND A REVIEW OF THE CONCERT AT NORTHERNARIZONANEWS.COM
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Artist: Kendrick Lamar Album: good kid, m.A.A.D city Genre: Hip-Hop
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nding his career as an independent recording artist, hip-hop rapper Kendrick Lamar joined forces with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath/Interscope Records to launch his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city. It is always questionable if a raw artist will change their sound when signed to a new label. Based on this release, fans will find that the label is honoring Lamar to remain true to his music. Even if gangster rap doesn’t appeal to you, this album can be respected for the amount of heart and honesty Lamar pours into each song. This concept album comes alive with intense stories of growing up on the streets of Compton, Calif., his struggles there and how he breaks away from the influences threatening to drag him down. Like the independent album he released a year prior — Section.80 — good kid, m.A.A.d city utilized a similar story-like style. Lamar’s album art displays: “good kid, m.A.A.d city. A short film by: Kendrick Lamar.” Good kid, m.A.A.d city is more than another hip-hop album for the charts, it is a personal autobiography. Most of the tracks on this album feature skit recordings that tie one song to the other allowing the story to consistently connect. “Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter” begins with a prayer to his faith with eerie auto-tuned vocals. He forms a mellow beat before laying down quality rhymes about his lover, Sherane. Her story connects to gang affiliation, which foreshadows to Lamar’s issues with gangs and influences explained in
“The Art of Peer Pressure.” As his story accelerates through the harsh reality of his past, the bass drops lower, his voice grows fiercer and the beats drive deeper. “M.A.A.d city” acts as the climax of this story by telling you to “brace yourself ” while illustrating the horrors he has seen on the streets. He explains the images that have scarred patterns in his brain, the ear-shattering gunshots and the loved ones who he has lost. Songs like “Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst” tug at the listener’s heartstrings and address the importance of his faith and family. This being a dedication to the loss of his siblings, he comes to a realization he’s “tired of running” and ends the song with a religious ceremony of rebirth. This song leads into “Real,” which expresses how you can love so many things, but none of it matters unless there is a self-sustaining love of self. With an optimistic feel, this song shows how Lamar starts to turn his life around, realizing the importance of being honest with himself. Dr. Dre features in “Compton” which celebrates “The new faith of Kendrick Lamar.” Being the most upbeat song of the album, it represents the demons Lamar has defeated in his triumphant rise to the top. Lamar did a brilliant job maintaining his street-wise edge, heart and lyrical integrity. Representing hip-hop in a manner that would make artists before him step back and take notice. Good kid, m.A.A.d city has set the bar for other upcoming hip-hop albums.
Best Tracks: “B****, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” “The Art of Peer Pressure,” “Swimming Pools (Drank)”
Directed by Rich Moore Starring: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch and Sarah Silverman Running time: 108 minutes BY DANIEL DAW
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ith recent Disney films being on a decline and the track record of previous video-game-turned-movie failures (see the Silent Hill: Revelations review below), WreckIt Ralph is a refreshing boost to both. This film is very charming with humor aimed for both children and adults and more video game references than there are Pokemon. The film follows Ralph (John C. Reilly), a villain from the fictional arcade Fix-It Felix Jr. After being severely mistreated by the hero, Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) and other supporting characters, Ralph decides to leave his game and tries to earn a hero’s medal from another game in the arcade. In doing this, he ends up in the first-person shooter Hero’s Duty — here he encounters the nononsense Sergeant Calhoun (Jane Lynch) — and Sugar Rush, a Candyland meets Mario Kart racing game where he meets the glitch
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houghts on the first Silent Hill movie from 2006 are still mixed to this day. Some hated it, some enjoyed it. Without even taking the original into consideration, its sequel Silent Hill: Revelations may actually be a contender for worst movie of the year. Set several years after the original’s ambiguous ending, Sharon (Adelaide Clemens) has followed her dad Christopher (Sean Bean) to a new town, having changed her name to Heather in order to avoid the cult that had captured her in the ghost town of Silent Hill. When
character Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman). Things go sour as this puts some of the games in the arcade in danger of being unplugged, which, in the arcade, is the worst thing possible. Video game players from the first of the arcade age to present will be able to appreciate subtle references and the nostalgia that they will bring. One of the best parts was the Alcoholics Anonymous style meetings with such villains as Bowser, Zangief and Major Bison from Street Fighter and Clyde from Pacman. It almost becomes a game within itself in finding all of the different ones. The voice cast was fantastic in this film. In his first voice role, John C. Reilly was the perfect fit with Ralph and the way that the specific actors played off each other was an excellent aspect, one that helped the jokes hit their mark. In the writing, it is obvious that the script was written with these actors in mind because the dialogue fit too perfectly with
each character. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch — and even Silverman — do a fantastic job with their particular characters. The story is also very well written. Being funny overall, it also has some sad and even tense moments. The jokes are written in such a way that children will laugh at most of them and adults will appreciate more subtle jokes and one-liners that will likely go over the younger one’s heads. The animation was smooth and well done. The settings for each of the game worlds were vivid and very pleasing to the eye, between the dark and gritty Heroes Duty to the almost disgustingly cute, candy-filled world of Sugar Rush. It is refreshing to see a movie incorporate video games in such a way that it actually enhances what is going on instead of making it highly commercialized. Wreck-It Ralph is an entertaining film and one that people of all ages will appreciate.
Silent Hill : Revelations they are finally tracked down and Christopher is kidnapped, Sharon and her mysterious classmate Vincent (Kit Harrington) follow them back to Silent Hill — exactly what the cult wanted. It’s hard to decide where to begin with this story. The filmmakers decided to incorporate the “evil god-summoning” plot from the games, disregarding or changing several plot points that were established in Silent Hill. It’s sad to say this about legitimate actors like Sean Bean and Kit Harrington, but everybody gave a lackluster performance. Also, there were quite a few Australian and English accents coming from these American charac-
ters. This, of course, could be partially blamed on the directing and the script writing, but it’s disappointing nonetheless. The writer of Revelations does not know how the average person talks. It is obvious Adelaide Clemens is trying to make her dialogue work, but moments such as her last lines of the movie are just awful. The pacing is also off, with some scenes having no impact on the rest of the movie. At least in the original the dangers Rose faced were intimidating and had some kind of point. Practically nothing can be said in praise of this movie.
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