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Issue 10, VOL 99 Nov. 3 - Nov. 9, 2011 (Photo by Holly Mandarich )
Contamination cause for recycling decline BY kevin bertram
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n NAU’s Climate Action Plan created in 2010, university president John Haeger said the school needs to push the societal envelope as far as sustainability goes. In the past decade, NAU added nine U.S. Green Building Council buildings, made a commitment to become carbon-neutral by the year 2020 and reduced electrical usage by 20 percent. However, not everything ran so smoothly. In the same period of time, the campus had also been getting worse at recycling. see RECYCLING page 6 ABOVE: NAU and ASU players find themselves intertwined during a match. (Photo by Gean Shanks) RIGHT: Freshman seeker Porter Marsh battles Daniel Taber, representing the golden snitch: a small ball that — in Muggle Quidditch — is attached to the back. Marsh overpowered the snitch, winning the tie-breaking match against ASU. (Photo by Vanessa Marchena)
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uidditch summit
BY Mark saunders
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ver the last few years, the game of Quidditch has slowly transcended the pages of J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novels and cemented itself firmly as a club sport in universities across the nation. In their first International Quidditch Association (IQA) sanctioned tournament, the NAU Narwhals quickly proved they could hang with the big boys.
nce again, students will see big changes to NAU’s housing application process for the 2012-2013 academic year. The traditional lottery-style system — in which students applied for the housing they were eligible for at an assigned time — has been overhauled to allow greater freedom for students when applying for housing. Alicia Voytek, associate director for the Office of Residence Life, said the new system will be a combination of priority times for students, real-time room selec-
see QUIDDITCH page 17
see LOTTERY page 4
NAU Narwhals defeat No. 3 ASU in debut BY trevor gould
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LEFT: The hilltop crowd came prepared with Harry Potter merchandise, costumes and unicorn headgear in support of the NAU Narwhals. (Photo by Gean Shanks)
Campus housing lottery prepares for overhaul
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