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Issue 1, VOL 99 Jan. 19, 2012 - Jan. 25, 2012

Students march in honor of MLK

(Photo by Daniel Daw)

‘Rapid Ride’ restores old route

BY MARIA DICOSOLA

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(Photo by Mary Willson)

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tudents, faculty and members of the NAU community celebrated Martin Luther King Day on Mon-

“Dare to Dream” began at the University Union and ended at the du Bois Center Ballroom, where a ceremony was held for King.

The march consisted of students and community members of various backgrounds. Grace Thompson, a Flagstaff resident, marched to honor King and to speak out for social justice.

“Well, just read my sign: ‘Social Justice and Equality Now!’ Every opportunity I get to speak and express myself concerning that, I take it, and this is one of them,” Thompson said. “So, that brought me out here — and in respect and honor of Dr. King, because he is my hero.”

Sophomore nursing major Erin McElfresh marched because her friends and her wanted to support a good cause.

“My best friend really wanted to do this and I just wanted to support her and

support a good cause,” McElfresh said.

“Things like this definitely make a difference.”

Maggie Huntington, a Flagstaff resident, said that while the United States has made progress with respect to equality, the nation still has work to do.

“I think we’ve made progress," Huntington said. "Things have gotten a little better, but we have [a very] long way to go. There’s no doubt things are better, but things are not where they should be.

There are a lot of people resisting and I feel like [now] there’s more resistance to [new] ideas then there [was] 20 years ago."

Huntington attends the MLK marches every year because King's stance is important to her.

“I’m here because I have been," Huntington said. "This day of the year I don’t miss it, no matter what’s going on in my life. He truly saved our country from a lot of trouble.”

Following the march, a ceremony was held which included readings from King’s writings and music.

NAU President John Haeger stated in his welcoming remarks that society has much to learn from the example King set forth in fighting for civil rights.

“It is my pleasure to be with you this evening, to talk a little bit about Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy, but also there are very important lessons for us today as we confront many issues in our society,” Haeger said. “He ultimately understood that real change would only come through legislation.”

Haeger said students should be organized and ready for the national elections later this year.

“For this generation of students, we have some extraordinarily serious issues in our society, and I want to remind people that there is an election beginning to unfold in this country with spectacular differences between the candidates and, ultimately, the solutions to problems in our society today are going to be decided by legislation in Washington,” Haeger said. “This is the time that we need a plan and we need to be organized, so that this election can go in the right direction.”

ith the completion of the Transportation Spine this past semester, the university chose to eliminate the bus route along the northern portion of Knoles Drive. However, due to the enormous volume of students in need of faster transportation between north and south campus, the department revived public transportation along the road by launching a new threestop “Rapid Route” this week.

Erin Stam, the director of NAU Parking and Shuttle Ser-

vices, said after re-evaluating the traffic in the fall, the department decided to eliminate the stop in front of the Health and Learning Center, and added a stop in front of the Hotel and Restaurant Management building.

“Last year, when [the buses] would get to north campus, they would circle the Wall Aquatic Field counterclockwise, and we had a really hard time making the left-hand turn onto San Francisco,” Stam said. “It was see RIDE page 4

Spring snowboarding class canceled

BY MARK SAUNDERS

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ue to lack of snowfall, NAU canceled its annual snowboarding and skiing classes, held at the Arizona Snowbowl, for the semester.

Phone calls to the resort have been alerting callers of limited slope availability.

David Smith, the director of sales and marketing for Snowbowl, said the cancelations will be detrimental to those who work at the resort.

“It will have an impact, [because] we do receive some revenue from the class,” Smith said. “It also impacts those that want to take the class, [and] the instructors with possible lost wages.”

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PoliceBeat Jan. 9 At 8:41 a.m., the du Bois Center building manager reported a TV had been stolen from the lower lobby.

The theft occurred between Jan. 8 at 2 p.m., and Jan. 9 at 8 a.m.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 2:57 p.m., an officer reported finding graffiti on a power box in parking lot 3. The vandalism occurred at an unknown date and time prior to the call.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 4:28 p.m., a subject reported his bike had been stolen. The subject had unlocked his bike, retrieved an item that he had dropped and upon his return, the bike was missing.

An officer was dispatched, a description of the bike was taken and the information was given to the Flagstaff Police Department (FPD) and the Super Pawn on Milton Road.

At 5:30 p.m., a student reported that she had been approached by

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an unknown male subject in front of Cline Library at approximately 3 p.m. She did not know the man and he began to follow her.

An officer was dispatched, and information was taken regarding the incident.

At 9:47 p.m., a subject reported a vehicle that appeared to be stuck in the snow on the McKay Village lawn.

An officer was dispatched. Subjects were moving in, and had driven up onto the grass. NAUPD assisted in releasing the vehicle and issued a verbal warning for driving on the grass.

Jan. 10 At 5:53 p.m., FPD requested assistance with locating a suspect in an armed robbery that took place at 216 W. Phoenix Avenue. The suspect pointed a handgun at the victim and demanded money.

Officers were dispatched. A subject matching the description and two other subjects were contacted at DuPont and San Francisco Street.

However, neither were found to be involved in the robbery. The subjects see POLICE page 3

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Open Mic Night [8 p.m. /Sundara]

Friday, Jan. 18 No Guts, No Love [5:30 p.m. /Sundara] The Melismatics [6:30 p.m./Monte Vista Lounge]

Great Gatsby Night [8 p.m./Uptown Billiards]

Sunday, Jan. 20

Tuesday, Jan. 22 NAU Classic Film Series [ 7 p.m./ NAU Cline Library]

Food Not Bombs [12 p.m./ Green Room]

Two Step Tuesdays [8 p.m./Green Room]

All-Star Karaoke [1 p.m./ Coconino Center for the Arts]

FUSD Governing Board Meeting [ 5:30 p.m./FUSD Administrative Meeting]

“All The More to Love” [7:30 p.m. /Coconino]

Katie Lee Book Signing Event [2 p.m./Cline Library Assembly Hall]

MELT [9 p.m./Orpheum]

Live Music [7 p.m. /San Felipes Cantina]

Saturday, Jan. 19

Monday, Jan. 21

NAU Women’s Basketball vs. Idaho State

Weekly Wine Tasting [6 p.m./ Wine Loft]

Karaoke Night [12 a.m./Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge]

Wednesday, Jan. 23 Ladies ‘80s [ 8 p.m./ Green Room]

WEEKEND PICKS NAU Women’s Basketball vs. Idaho State (Saturday@ 3 p.m.– Rolle activity center) Come watch the nau women’s basketball team face off against Idaho State.

Performance by Johannes Moller (Saturday@ 8 p.m. –Coconino Center for the Arts) Witness award-winning guitarist Johannes Moller perform live in concert.

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were field-interviewed and were sent on their way. The subject is still being searched for at this time.

Jan. 11 At 1:50 a.m., an officer reported receiving information from FPD regarding a possible child neglect situation in parking lot 3.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is currently open and pending further information.

At 10:42 a.m., NAUPD reported assisting FPD at Cline Library with taking an armed robbery suspect into custody. The armed robbery occurred on Jan. 10 at approximately 5:50 p.m.

The suspect was contacted in parking lot 13.

Custody of the suspect was transferred to FPD. At 11:12 a.m., a resident of Tinsley Hall reported that his iPad had been stolen from his room. The theft occurred between 1:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Jan. 10.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 2:56 p.m., the staff at South Heating reported graffiti on the south side of the building.

The vandalism occurred during an unknown time frame on an unknown date.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

Jan. 12 At 8:22 a.m., a fire alarm was activated in the Science Lab facility.

Officers and the Flagstaff Fire Department (FFD) were dispatched, and determined the alarm was falsely activated by surrounding construction.

Jan. 13 At 11:37 a.m., an employee at Hilltop Fields construction site reported the theft of a temporary parking permit. The theft occurred on Jan. 12 between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 11:45 a.m., the plumbing department staff reported having found a 4 year-old child left in an apartment at the South Family Apartments.

An officer was dispatched. The father was eventually located, cited for child neglect and

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At 5:05 p.m., the Engineering building manager requested an officer walk through the building, as she had contact with a student suspected of sleeping in the building overnight.

An officer was dispatched, and the building was searched with no findings.

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Jan. 14 At 4:26 a.m., a resident of South Family Apartments and her sister reported engaging in a physical altercation with one another.

Officers were dispatched. One of the subjects was booked into the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) jail for assault and domestic violence.

At 4:42 p.m., a resident of Tinsley Hall reported the theft of a watch from their room.

The theft occurred between Dec. 12 at 6 p.m., and Dec. 16 at 5 p.m.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

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At 4:53 p.m., a student reported the theft of their bicycle at the Wettaw building. The theft occurred between Dec. 15 at 8:30 a.m. and Jan. 14 at noon.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 7:32 p.m., a subject reported the theft of their bicycle from outside Pine Ridge Village. The theft occurred between Dec. 10 at 6:30 p.m. and Jan. 14 at the time of the report.

An officer was dispatched, and the investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

At 8:51 p.m., a resident of Campus Heights reported that an intoxicated subject had assaulted him outside of his room.

Officers were dispatched. The suspect could not be located, and the victim sustained no injuries from the assault. The investigation is closed with all leads exhausted.

Jan. 15 At 2:15 p.m., a subject reported an intoxicated female who was stumbling on the McConnell roadway near the I-17 overpass.

A second caller reported seeing the subject on Knoles Drive at the Babbitt Administrative building.

An officer was dispatched. The subject was gone prior to police arrival.

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The new building, located on 7th and Van Buren Street in Phoenix, will house NAU’s Physician Assistant graduate program, as a part of the Phoenix Biomedical Complex. (Photo by Daniel Daw)

NAU to open grad program in Phoenix

BY William Brown

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AU is responding to the need for more health professionals in Arizona by creating a graduate program for physician assistants, located in downtown Phoenix.

Starting this fall, the Health Sciences Education building will be open in the Phoenix Biomedical Complex, and will be admitting 25 NAU graduate students into the first class for the Physician Assistant (PA) program.

Richard Dehn, the founding chair of the program, said it was formed in response to a need determined by the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR).

“This program was really a result of the ABOR doing a health professions workforce study about what the demand was and what were the unmet needs of medical providers in Arizona,” Dehn said. “And then [they] looked at the current output and influx and population of different medical providers.”

He said the need for more health care professionals was only one essential issue the study revealed.

“One of the points of that study that was commissioned by ABOR was that there wasn’t a public Physician Assistant program,” Dehn said. “The two existing programs were in private osteopathic schools in Phoenix, and the state

needed a public PA program.”

Although the program is new to NAU, Dehn said he has spent much of his career teaching PA skills.

“I’ve always done PA education that’s aimed at dealing with workforce shortages,” Dehn said. “I’ve always been in programs, and I’ve always worked in places — in public universities — where the PA program’s mission was to deal with under-served medical populations and trying to identify[,] train and graduate providers that would provide medical care in places where they’re needed.”

Katherine Look, a project coordinator with the program, said students will receive opportunities to gain experience all over Arizona.

“Well, I think that one of the most important things is the mission of the program, which is to train and provide health care workers for the people of Arizona,” Look said. “[Also,] students will have an opportunity to get experience — through their rotations — throughout the state, in urban and rural areas.”

Dehn said the exposure of the students to different economic areas will prove beneficial, because physician assistants often do the same sort of work a physician would, but in lower-income areas.

“With tremendous physician

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shortages and, particularly, physicians choosing to go into high-paying jobs that are in specialties and in highly developed and pretty affluent areas as their first choice, then increasing the numbers of physician assistants and nurse practitioners graduated is going to address the medical needs in communities that physicians don’t necessarily gravitate towards.”

ASU recently pulled out of their position at the Biomedical Complex because of financial difficulties.

Leslie Schulz, executive dean of the College of Health and Human Services, said NAU was able to hold to its commitment due to a different approach.

“The way that we’re doing the Physician Assistant program is kind of a new model for NAU, in that it will have programs fees that will help pay for the entire program,” Schulz said. “In four years or so, it should be self- sufficient.”

Dehn said he sees the program as being very beneficial to both NAU and the state.

“This — and the expansion of the [physical therapy] program down here, actually — are opportunities for NAU students that are interested in entering the health care professions,” Dehn said. “This is just more opportunity for them in what they do after they get their bachelor degree at NAU.”

“It was really often impossible for the drivers to get to south campus in a timely manner because they kept getting stuck over there. Additionally, we really expected a much larger volume of riders from Health and Learning [Center], but we really didn’t have that. So, in order to expedite the service, we’re going to go clockwise around the Wall Aquatic Field.”

Stam said they prefer to have a one-route system in order for the shuttles to be put to better use, but with the new route, two are now avaliable — not including the Mountain Link line. This, she said, is a significant decrease from the past year.

“We really wanted to do a one-route system so that all of our resources can be focused on shuttling the highest volume of people in just one route,” Stam said. “Because, actually, a lot of people think we had two routes – we actually used to have six.”

The department chose

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faculty will also see effects on a historical level. “[Holding snowboarding classes] is a long-standing tradition,” Smith said. “Our classes have been around for a long time. I took them when I went to NAU; I taught them when I was teaching up here. It’s history.”

Learning a winter sport for credit is a unique opportunity offered by the university, Smith said. “[There are] not many places you can say you can go and you took skiing and snowboarding for a class,” Smith said.

The decision to cancel classes may also re-fuel previous debates regarding the use of artificial snow within the ski park. Critics of the utilization of reclaimed snow argue ingesting snow made through the treatment of

to eliminate the Knoles route entirely because the mass amount of pedestrian and personal vehicle traffic slowed the shuttles down significantly.

However, she said they see a clear demand for a route spanning from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) building on south campus to past the University Union on north campus.

“We’re sort of crossing our fingers, because we are really concerned we’re going to have those same problems,” Stam said.

The new route consists of the following three stops: In front of the SBS building, the Union and the Frier geology building.

Buses are expected to stop every four to six minutes along the Rapid Route.

“We have over 40,000 riders per week and we’re doing our darndest to keep up with the volume, and we just want to provide the best service to students,” Stam said.

wastewater is dangerous and may result in threats to visitors’ health.

However, Smith said the class cancelations will likely provide new support for the use of reclaimed snow on the peaks, in order to extend the winter sport season.

“People [would] know each year that they will be able to take their class,” Smith said. “If you look across the entire west, those resorts are open on snow making.”

Currently, there have been no announcements as to when classes will be reintroduced — if at all — this semester.

Nonetheless, Smith said the Snowbowl Ski Resort will always have open doors to NAU students and the Flagstaff community.

“We love hosting this class,” Smith said. “Like most places around we just haven’t received the snowfall we need. It’s a bummer.”

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NEWS BRIEFS — From the AP Wire Rep. Giffords leads Tucson shooting remembrance

AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press Jan. 9

TUCSON (AP) —After a year of struggling to re-learn how to walk and speak, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords confidently climbed the steps on an outdoor stage on Sunday and led a crowd of hundreds in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out on a cold Tucson night just one year after she survived a gunshot to the head.

The remembrance at the University of Arizona culminated a day of events, some filled with sadness and regret, others with hope and joy.

Lawmakers announce civics program for centennial

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Food prepared for patrons sits ready to be served. The menu at 1899 features lobster, pasta and many steakhouse-style entrees. (Photo by Daniel Daw)

‘1899’ featured in Sunset magazine

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AU’s 1899 Bar & Grill was featured in Sunset magazine’s December 2011 issue in their article titled “Three Restaurants We Love Now.” Joe Maatman, the manager of the restaurant, has been on board since it opened in February 2011.

He said the business has grown well in its first year, and they have exciting events coming up.

“We have grown our business pretty much progressively since we opened,” Maatman said.

“We have a few upcoming events — we’re doing foursquare for the homeless; we’re also doing a leap-year dinner and, as well, we’re doing something special for Valentine’s Day.” Maatman also said they employ many Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM) students, and receive much of their business from the student

body. In addition to student business, Maatman said the community members and Drury Hotel guests are regular customers for the restaurant.

“I would say that we have a larger student staff; we do try and employ Hotel and Restaurant Management students as much as we can,” Maatman said. “We get all kinds of business, from student business to people from the community.”

1899 Bar & Grill was called “slick” by the magazine for what the writers identified as its charm and understated elegance. Sunset also noted that although the restaurant is on a university campus, it does not take away from the preparation of professional dishes.

Chris Thomas, a senior majoring in computer and information systems, has been a cook at 1899 since the restaurant opened. He said even though he is not a HRM major, his experience

cooking for the restaurant has been an insightful experience.

“I believe that [for] this experience — working in a restaurant — you have to have a lot of responsibility,” Thomas said.

“That responsibility, I believe, prepares myself and all of my fellow coworkers for whatever the future holds.”

Thomas also said that the restaurant has been trying to move away from the perception that it is just another cafeteria on campus. He said the entire staff takes pride in working there.

“We have been trying really hard to break [the campus dining] stereotype, and we’ve come out with some really good specials; we’re doing a lot of things that we’re excited about,” Thomas said. “We take personal pride in what we’re doing here, and that really gives back more to me than just showing up to work and getting my eight hours.”

PHOENIX (AP) —In honor of Arizona’s upcoming 100th birthday, state lawmakers are creating a project to teach Arizona students about government and citizenship.

Legislative leaders say the Arizona Legislative Centennial Civic Project, aimed at students in kindergarten through 12th grade, will also cover the legislative process and Arizona history.

Under the program, every school in the state will be given a two-hour civics DVD explaining how a bill becomes a law, Arizona’s road to statehood and interviews with elected officials, among other content.

The film will also be available for the public to request copies.

Lawmakers say the program is being funded by donations.

The state Legislature is also planning to add a “Students Page” to its website that features material on the DVD.

Arizona panel OKs legislative, congressional maps

PAUL DAVENPORT, Associated Press Jan. 17

PHOENIX (AP) —Arizona’s redistricting commission approved new congressional and legislative district maps on Tuesday, voting 3-2 along party lines on both votes.

The commission’s two Democrats and its independent chairwoman voted for the maps, while the panel’s two Republicans voted against them, saying the maps were drawn to pack Republican voters into some districts to increase the chances of Democratic candidates to win in others.

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Editorial&Opinion Downtown businesses have a right to be upset over icy event

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he Flagstaff City Council has teamed up with Mountain Dew to create The Dew Downtown Flagstaff Urban Snowboarding and Ski Festival. The event will take place from Feb. 1112 as a part of Flagstaff ’s 26th annual Winterfest, and will feature an open urban snowboarding practice sessions and a competition.

In order to for locals to shred the gnar, the city is scheduled to close N. San Francisco Street between Birch and Dale Avenues and transform the streets into a snowboarder’s paradise. This proces will start Feb. 10, and the streets will reopen on the morning of Feb. 13.

Residents and downtown business owners are worried about traffic jams, noise complaints, and — most importantly —lack of business due to limited access because of the closed roads.

The sales tax from downtown runs approximately 40 percent less in February and March than in the peak summer months. To boost Editorial cartoon by Brian Regan Flagstaff ’s economy during their worst economic month of the year, The city can’t honestly expect to break the city hopes the festival will resurrect downtown’s revenue. Through registra- even over the course of this three-day spection fees and VIP offers — the latter of which tacle. College students will be hesitant to enranges from $50 to $75 per person — they tertain the thought of paying to party at a bar believe the festival will garner enough money they have free access to any other day, and simto repay the $30,000 donated by sponsors. The ply discounting beer does little to compensate VIP passes include heated seating, discounted for an exorbitant fee. Parents and relatives are beer, preferred parking and a ticket to a pre- simply not enough to make up the sizable difparty at Altitudes Bar & Grill. Not to insult a ference.

The city’s miserable attempt at promotlocal restaurant, but will Flagstaff residents reing the event is evidence of how they are out ally hand over $75 for this? of touch with their community. A combination

of minimal advertising and formidable resistance by local residents are a coup-de-grace for a successful turnout.

The urban park has already been relocated from its original location on Leroux — an arguably better location because it put the competition closer to the heart of downtown.

Consider as well the hesitancy of Snowbowl pass holders to shell out more cash and time to hit improvised terrain on fake snow.

For the city to not just lose money, the execution of the entire festival should be seri-

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ously reconsidered.

Flagstaff and NAU had an opportunity for a major hit, but a lack of advertising has altered the potential for the event. With the backing from corporate sponsor Mountain Dew and with snowboarders’ familiarity with the Dew Tour, Flagstaff has the ability to tap into a statewide pool of snowboarding talent. If the town were to recruit snowboarders from across the state, this festival could become a profitable and popular annual event.

For future activities the city officials need to do more in the planning stages in order to get word out, receive feedback and avoid stepping on the toes of sensitive citizens. Advertisements should be produced soon after said event is in place, not a month prior, and they need to be targeted at the proper audience. The focus of the advertising should be targeting snowboarders from cities other than Flagstaff because the whole point is to bring in money from tourism. Residents of nearby event locations need to be notified in advance. Fortunately, this ordeal has forced the city to change their notification process.

If there is another Dew Downtown Flagstaff Urban Snowboarding and Ski Festival, Flagstaff needs the next corporate sponsor to step up and flex their muscles. The extreme nature of Mounain Dew appeals to the snowboarding crowd, and the event could benefited from this type of publicity.

In their defense, the city has done their best to accommodate the concerns of residents and businesses, but at this point it’s too little too late — the event already has more opposition than support. The Flagstaff City Council would do well to learn from their mistakes and move forward with an urban snowboarding event with a more professional and thorough approach next year.

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A Brew-full new year

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Political cartoon by Brian Regan

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ov. Jan Brewer stood before a joint session of the legislature Monday to deliver her centennial state of the state address. The House Chamber in Phoenix hosted this splendid event in which Brewer dressed elegantly and lively — a pleasant surprise in contrast to the past, much grimmer addresses. With a radiant Rolando smile and much enthusiasm Brewer Garcia said, “Arizona has been saved.” The only potential improvement to this built-up ceremonial announcement rests in the active voice: I saved Arizona.

Congratulations, Janice.

Rhetoric aside — just two months before this address — Arizona was named among the most poorly-run states in the country by 24/7 Wall St. The financial website reviewed data on financial health, standard of living and government services for each state to determine how well each state is managed. Arizona was ranked 47th, beating out only three states: Michigan, Illinois and California (Phoenix Business Journal).

The announcement that this state is saved is clearly an exaggeration, but it has seen some

improvement in budget management, deficit reduction and even additional cash flow: cash with which Brewer proposed to buy back several high-profile state buildings that were sold to close earlier budget shortfalls. The purchase should cost $105 million including the pre-payment penalty, and thus is controversial.

Independently of the state being saved or not, it’s undeniable that Arizona is in a delicate financial situation. After years of spending cuts and borrowing, careful and prudent measures must be taken to preserve and improve the status of Arizona. This hundredmillion dollar purchase would do little to benefit Arizona. It is but a symbol of wealth: “to fortify that symbol, to make all of our Capitol truly ours once again,” are the reasons provided by Brewer. Until more stability is reached, the purchase of the formerly mentioned buildings is imprudent and should be postponed.

Another important source of state revenue, which largely contributed to the “saving” of this state, is the temporary one-cent tax increase that passed in 2010, when Arizonans voted in favor of Prop 100. This tax increase is

scheduled to expire in 2013, so Arizona’s government must find ways to compensate for this $900 million loss. Saving the positive cash balance, or extending the tax’s time limit, are essential in preserving the accomplishments of the Republicans, however many or few.

As some of the most affected individuals by the cuts in funding, Arizona’s college students should seriously consider the potential benefits and disadvantages of extending the one-cent tax increase past mid-2013, under the strict condition that this revenue be invested strictly in education. In Brewer’s words, “the jobs of the future will demand an increasingly skilled workforce.” Education is fundamental to job creation: Educated and capable citizens will attract employers to the state.

After years of failure, Arizona has at last seen the light of day. For whatever reasons, this state is improving financially. Now is not the time for spending and reducing sources of revenue. As the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

The additional money the state has accrued must be saved, especially if Arizona’s legislators plan on the tax increase expiring as scheduled.

opular movies such as Full Metal Jacket have made suicide in the military a widely known topic, but the problems veterans and active duty service members face during and after combat are more heartbreaking than any Hollywood film could ever convey.

In 2011, for the second year in a row, more soldiers committed suicide than died in combat.

The U.S. military has Amanda put great effort into horner preventing soldier suicide, but despite these efforts, solider suicide rates are not declining in any branch, and tragic stories continue to emerge every month.The military has been encouraging soldiers to seek mental health treatment and initiated campaigns to eliminate the stigma that seeking help is “unmanly” and the likes. One example is the ACE (Ask, Care, Escort) campaign: It enables soldiers to talk among each other about depression and suicidal thoughts by encouraging openness in communication. As with any illness, the sooner it can be treated, the easier the path to recovery is.

According to the Army Suicide Event Report, the most common contributing factors to solider suicide included financial problems, legal problems and failed personal relationships: It is critical they know they can reach out to their fellow soldiers about anything impacting their lives. USA Today reports when female soldiers go to war, the suicide rate rises from five out of every 100,000 to 15 out of every 100,000 soldiers. Their male counterparts have an even higher risk. In 2010 alone, an average of 25 National Guard soldiers committed suicide.

General George Casey of the U.S Army said, “It’s frankly frustrating that with the level of effort that we’ve put out there, that we haven’t stemmed the [suicide] tide.”

Truly, the campaigning and effort put in against solider suicide is a blessing for everybody. Stopping military suicide is a cause every American citizen can support, regardless of political affiliations. The Army Suicide Prevention Program has many methods of bringing soldiers together, such as “Shoulder to Shoulder” campaigns to promote team building, as well as the ACE program. Awareness methods such as these make the subject less taboo, and help easier to seek. They have made it clear nobody has to suffer alone.

Regardless if one agrees or disagrees with the military’s initiatives, suicide devastates every person acquainted with the solider, and it brings a lifetime of heartbreak to family and friends. This means antisuicide campaigns must be studied for their effectiveness and gaps must be filled in where there are pieces missing. Suicide campaigns need to be aggressive and noticed. Even one suicide is far too many; ask any of the families who have experienced it.

The military needs a strictly enforced zero-tolerance policy for mocking soldiers who do seek treatment and getting the public to support soldiers who fight overseas. They must know they are welcomed back into the open and loving arms of America.

The American public needs to be more involved and let service men and women know they are supported. The battles that those in uniform face are not just seen in movies. The U.S. Military’s full support of antisuicide campaigns is critical and admirable. The weight that is placed on solider-to-solider friendship is very encouraging and stigmas of mental health treatment are being reduced.

However, if solider suicide does not begin to decline, more will need to be done, and no matter what is done, it is very important that everyone contributes to defend our soldiers after they have defended us and let them know they are very much cared for.

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Study Drug

Life The risks.

The glamour.

The Adderall.

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AU students are too familiar with the need for extra focus during the final few weeks of each semester. Coffee, Red Bull, green tea, Bawls Energy; if it keeps you awake, you’ll be able to find someone with it in the library before finals. But some students are going above and beyond the rush of caffeine and turning to prescription drugs to help them boost their grades.

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“I went about 40 hours without sleeping”

The most popular of these “study drugs” is the ADHD medication, Adderall. Because Adderall is an amphetamine, the drug increases focus, decreases appetite and keeps patients awake. Students use these side effects to their advantage, but Adderall carries much more of a risk than just sleep deprivation.

According to Dr. Yvonne Grassl of Estrella Pediatrics, Adderall’s more serious side effects include a fast or irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, tremors, hallucinations, aggression, seizures and tics.

Dr. Grassl said she is disturbed by the illegal use of Adderall by college students.

“These side effects will be more pronounced for someone who does not actually need the drug,” Dr. Grassl said. “These students run the risk of sudden death from stroke or heart attack.”

For some, the risks are worth the reward. Junior psychology major Jane Dubois says she has used Adderall roughly 20 times since her freshman year.

“I first used Adderall because I had to cram for a huge exam that I waited to study for until the last minute,” she said. “I was in a bind, and needed a little motivation.”

Since then, Dubois has used the drug for more than studying. “Now I’ll take them throughout the semester for big papers, or sometimes even just to deep-clean my house.”

Dubois isn’t worried about the potentially dangerous side effects of the drug, despite the fact that she has experienced some of them.

“I get nauseous if I take Adderall without eating beforehand, and sometimes I can’t sleep if I take it too late in the afternoon,” Dubois says. “I’m aware of [the side effects], but not frightened away by them. I mean, birth control has major side effects as well, and women pop those pills daily.”

Other students are concerned about the side effects, but continue to use the drug. John Bartlet, a freshman engineering major, used Adderall to study for finals.

“I have noticed side effects,” Bartlet says. “Specifically speaking, I’ve noticed loss of appetite and insomnia. I went about 40 hours without sleeping. I am worried about the side effects, as it is very hard to analyze yourself in terms of how psychoactive drugs affect you.”

The illegal use of Adderall as a study drug is not new to college campuses. In 2008, a study in the Journal of American College Health found 84 percent of college-age students with Adderall prescriptions had been asked to share the drug with their peers.

This “sharing” of medication may be partly to blame in the current nationwide shortage of ADHD medication. According to an article in The New York Times, the FDA has reported hundreds of patients complaining daily that they are not able to find pharmacies to fill their prescriptions.

The Times cites abuse by college students as part of the problem, stating the shortage is due to a battle between manufacturers trying to maximize their profits and the Drug Enforcement Administration trying to stop abusers like college students.

Sophomore music major Chris White has a prescription for Adderall, and says he’s been asked to share or sell his medication.

“I’ve given it to someone before,” White says. “They needed it to focus.”

The medical community is especially worried about students like White’s friend, who now “need” the drug to focus.

“Adderall is a drug of abuse,” Dr. Grassl says. “It is much more addictive for abusers who do not have see STUDY DRUG on page 12

Life

Electronic Dance Music

BY Angela MCCoy

Why youths choose to go dancing

Editor’s Note: This column is written in conjunction with NAU’s Student Education Team (SET). SET is a highly trained student organzation that promotes healthy sexuality and healthy relationships.

Yes, the state of music is coming around again in a new shape, form and most importantly, sound. In 1969 a comhe 1969 Woodstock Movement munity of 500,000 teenagers, college stuwas just that — a movement, de- dents and adults came together as one for fined through unity. But what sets the legendary music festival. Never mind aside the fest from other massive concert the torrential rains, disorganization and events is not that it took place on a dairy stench of the Port-a-Potties; only the farm in the middle of a rainstorm. It music, unity and flicker of lighters matwas the community that was born from tered. This same concept is happening it, and that is what the current electric again in the electronic music scene, and music scene is creating now: an under- its only difference is sound.

“It’s a community from all walks of standing of community. It has created a similar sense of coming together, from life, from high school to adults that are the local DJs to the ones who made it big. all equal once they enter the doors,” said Listening to music has been and Colorado State University junior Alex Vinton. “They go to make new friends, always will be a vito escape the stress of tal part of any sociIt is music that is life, and to watch the ety; it is part of the felt and seen; an art lights shine and feel human experience. form built on experi- the rattle the floor.

Encrypted into personalities lies an ear ence and experiencing And at the end of the night, they all leave as preference: a type of together. a family.” music that a person The generation attaches to more than other genres. This is no new phenom- of ear ringing, heart pulsing music has enon. With increasing technology, ac- gained computer processing speed withcess to music on all scales of popularity in the last few years as technology has is accessible to nearly anybody. Yet, what given skilled musicians the possibility of technology has promoted within the last making their own music with computer few years is bigger than any iTunes al- programs and portable mixing tables. bum, Spotifiy track or blog download: These are joined by music blogs, websites and additional applications that add community.

’ve been with my girlfriend for a few years now and we’ve hit a sexual slump. I want to have sex with her regularly and often but she seems to not be interested in it at all. We used to not be able to keep our hands off each other but as time passes we seem to be more friends than lovers.

How can we work past this?” — Sexual Slump Forget about the penis for a moment, and leave behind the vagina and the clitoris, too. Even when the genitals are working the way they’re supposed to, sexual satisfaction can be a difficult summit to reach.

Sexual dysfunction usually takes center stage when sexual problems are mentioned, but just because you are frustrated sexually does not mean you can’t function properly. If you ask 20 different people what makes for good sex, you’re going to get 20 different answers. Sexuality is self-defined and individual.

So what causes sexual frustration? You may be eager (horny) to get it on, so the hours between can start to feel like days. It’s totally normal for one partner to want more sex than the other. It’s a huge frustration for both hetero and same-sex couples.

In the scheme of things, it really comes down to embarrassment. No one wants to talk about his or her sexual frustration and no one wants to inadvertently insult their partner. It can be taken as a negative comment on attractiveness or even an accusation of having another lover on the side.

Another aspect is a lack of sexual communication. What is worse than not having as much sex as you want is not being able to do what you like. You may have a fantasy that your partner is

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not willing to do or a certain sex act that is marked off-limits. It can range from something tame like sex with the lights on, to using blindfolds, ropes and a hot fire poker. Opening the lines of communication in the bedroom can help to get what you want out on the table as well as possibly find a compromise in which you’re both comfortable and getting what you want. It’s also a lot more fun. It can be frustrating when your favorite dish is removed form the sexual menu, but it’s not uncommon for someone to extend themselves past their comfort zone when infatuated and eager to please, and once the partner is hooked, they retract back behind the line. It makes sense but can seem like false advertising because this is what attracted the partner sexually in the first place. In this case, compromise is necessary. For example, if your partner is only willing to go down on you fresh out of the shower, that’s compromise. Some call this the “price of admission,” and sometimes you just have to accept it.

So how do you get over this sexually frustrating hump? Set the scene. You catch her eye. She comes to you and you tumble into a passionate embrace.

Sultry notes from a tenor saxophone rise in the background. The lights dim, rose petals appear on the floor. You tear at each other’s clothes. The air quivers with the heat of your lovemaking.

Maybe this isn’t how it always pans out, but the point is that a mood needs to be set. While you may not be able to track down Kenny G to serenade your love, you can plan out the romantic situation that can lead to spontaneous sex. Something people don’t understand is that spontaneity is actually planned.

Phone calls were made, dates agreed upon, outfits picked out. The planning needs to be done to ensure spontaneity. Now, I’m not saying go as far as pencil it into your calendar, but at least make sure your partner knows when you have a few extra minutes to romance the romance out of them.

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from STUDY DRUG page 10

Things to keep in mind An estimated 6.4 percent of fulltime college students used Adderall illegally in the past year. Adderall is classified as a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning possession of Adderall without a prescription is equal to possession of cocaine, morphine, methadone and oxycodone.

Illegal use of Adderall is of special interest to policymakers because it is among the group of legally approved drugs classified as having the highest potential for dependence or abuse.

In 2006 and 2007, full-time college students were twice as likely as those in the same age group who were not in college full time to have used Adderall illegally in the past year.

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to the fast growing universe of free music. Woodstock was a complete event that rose above its time and pushed the music scene into a new world, just like massive population of followers dedicated to the new form is pushing the current music scene to advance and grow at the viral pace it is now.

“The entire crowd has a great collective energy that rises and falls with the music,” said University of Santa Clara junior Bismah Aziz. “Everyone experiences it simultaneously yet each person still has a unique response.” Aziz is in preparation for her second trip to Coachella in Los Angeles — one of the largest music festivals in the United States.

In the same family as the dubstep, electronic dance music is a self-proclaimed genre of goosebump-giving, soul-numbing, body-overtaking bass mixed with the hues of dozens of lights and lasers that come at you like fire and pull you in. It is music that is felt and seen, music that cannot be rightfully experienced through headphones or by yourself, because it is an art form built on experience and experiencing together.

The electronic music scene is or should be viewed as the most vibrant out there today. However, big cities are not the only places that have been infected by the culture. Flagstaff just opened a new

ADHD. The medication is addictive and, over time, more medication is needed to achieve the same effects, which can lead to more serious side effects or turning to other drugs.”

College students aren’t the only ones abusing the drug. According to Dr. Grassl, physicians have to be cautious when evaluating parents of children with ADHD who may want the drug for personal abuse. Some parents even instruct their children to fake the symptoms of ADHD in order to get a prescription.

Generally, these parents use the drug for many of the same reasons as college students.

Adderall increases focus and energy and also suppresses appetite, making Adderall a useful diet pill for many parents.

Whether you’re using Adderall to study, to slim down or keep up your energy, the potential dangers are all the same. However, the medical side effects and legal ramifications aren’t deterring some students. To them, the side effects seem to be worth the risk. *sources names have been changed to protect the sources*

venue called Club Loop to help promote DJ performances, as well as groups like Mimosa who bring a big enough crowd to fill the Orpheum. The electronic music scene is much broader than what meets the eye. It does not just take a big city, a lot of hype and drugs to be a part of progressive culture. “[The concerts] promote community because there are so many different genres of music all put into one and it brings many different people together but they are all there for the music,” said University of Colorado freshman Rhett Cross. “It just promotes a very positive, friendly and happy environment. It’s all about dancing and enjoying the music with your friends.”

Although the scene can be viewed as a drug-infested culture that promotes harmful behavior, the reality of shows like these forces their listeners to be a part of music. When dancing together on the thumping floor, it’s not about you, it is about everybody coming together for the sole purpose of experiencing awesomenes.

In a world where we are controlled by technology and all music is at our fingertips, we are reminded, one bass-kicking time after another, that music is about friendship and community. Although The Beatles aren’t on stage to remind us to come together — we always find ways to.

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SportsReport Ice Jacks return to Jay Lively with two game win streak

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he Division II Ice Jacks ended the past semester heading into winter break having lost eight of their past nine games, putting their playoff hopes in jeopardy.

After a long break, a new year has brought a new attitude to the Ice Jacks’ locker room and the team is confident they will regain the momentum they had earlier this season when they won seven straight match-ups.

“The boys played tough during that losing stretch; we played a lot of good teams in that tournament in Colorado and the boys tried hard,” said head coach Keith Johanson. “The boys are coming into this semester a little rusty after a long break, but they are determined, which is great.”

The Ice Jacks entered this semester ranked No. 8 in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s western region.

This past weekend, the NAU hockey club started 2012 in a great fashion by dropping the Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars 12–0 see HOCKEY page 18

NAU Ice Jacks celebrate after netting a goal in their 6–3 victory over the No. 9 ranked San Jose State Spartans. (Photo by Sarah Hamilton)

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ROUGH TIMES IN ROLLE Montana schools extend the Jacks’ losing streak to five BY brett murdock

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onference play continues to remain unkind to the NAU men’s basketball team as it dropped games to Montana and Montana State on Jan. 12 and 14.

“We’re still struggling with our offensive timing; shots aren’t going in,” said interim head coach Dave Brown.

“But I have great respect for our kids after that 14-point deficit and hopefully that will have a positive spin.”

MSU started hot from the floor, making 60 percent of its first half attempts, including a 6-of-9 mark from long distance, building a 41-27 lead at the break. However, the second half was a much different story as NAU broke out an intense, turnover-inducing full

court press, attempting to get the game flowing in its favor.

“Coach Brown loves the press,” said sophomore guard Michael Dunn. “He says in practice every day ‘If you don’t want to press, then leave’. We work on it a lot and as long as we bring intensity and energy, our press will be good.”

The adjustment seemed to work, as the Jacks slowly clawed back into the contest, getting big contributions from Douglas and junior center Ben Olayinka. NAU knotted it up at 68 with 4:29 to go when Douglas drained two free throws. A couple of possessions later, the Jacks took the lead at 7270 when junior point guard Stallon Saldivar sank two of his own from the charity stripe. It was their first lead since they held a 4-2 advantage in the game’s see BASKETBALL page 19

Forward Ephraim Ekanem tosses the ball over two Montana players in the Jacks 78–53 loss. (Photo by Sarah Hamilton)

Track and Field earns multiple auto-bids to Big Sky Championships in first meet of the season

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he NAU track and field squad began its indoor season with the Lumberjack Invitational, and 19 Jacks earned automatic qualifiers to the Big Sky Indoor Championships.

“We wanted to come into the meet and get some qualifiers,” said Track and Field and Cross Country director Eric Heins. “On the guys’ side, we have over half of the team qualified, [and] with the girls, we have almost half.”

This was the first meet on the team’s indoor schedule, and also the first of six home meets through the season. The meet featured ASU, UA, the University of New Mexico, Southern Utah University, Cal State Bakersfield, and Grand Canyon State as well as a few unattached athletes.

The Lumberjacks had a strong showing for their first meet of the season. One Lumberjack to do so was junior distance runner Tim Freriks. He won the 3000-meter run with a time of 8:18.76, which was enough to qualify for the Big Sky Championships.

Freriks is one of the leaders of the No. 25 ranked Lumberjack men’s track team.

“It felt ok; I didn’t taper a lot or back down in training,” Freriks said. “I didn’t really have to think much because I had pace work. Considering all that, it felt good.”

Sophomore sprinter Adel al Nasser won the 400-meter with a time of 47.75, and also qualified for the Big Sky Championship meet.

“I feel really good about it, I didn’t expect to run this fast,” al Nasser said.

Along with Freriks and al Nasser, a pair of freshmen women’s sprinters, Darriel Banks and Shamelle Pless, opened their collegiate athletic careers with fifth and sixth place finishes, respectively, as well as qualifying for the Big Sky Championships in the process.

“I was really nervous … I was actually surprised, especially in my 60-meter,” Banks said. “I still want to do better in my times, but it [qualifying] did help.”

Banks ran a Big Sky qualifying time of 7.59 in the 60 meter dash and 25.04 in the 200 meter, both team bests for the meet. She was just one member of the freshmen tandem that exceeded their early season expectations.

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Two Lumberjacks earn Capital One All-American honors for fall semester

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wo NAU athletes were honored for their academic achievements for the fall 2011 semester. Volleyball junior outside hitter Lauren Campbell and football senior long snapper Ben Bachelier were named 2011 Capital One Academic All-Americans. They are the 26th and 27th NAU student-athletes to receive this honor.

Campbell is the first NAU volleyball player in the program’s history to earn All-American honors.

A mechanical engineering major, Campbell was recognized for her 4.0 GPA. She was one of 18 NCAA Division-I volleyball athletes chosen and the only selection from the Big Sky Conference.

Campbell, a Covington, Wash. native, is also a two-time Big Sky

All-Academic selection and received the Golden Eagle Scholar Athlete award. She has been an Academic All-District Eight first team selection the past two seasons.

“I’m really excited and it feels like all my hard work has paid off,” Campbell said via NAU Athletics.

“I never thought this would happen and it feels great. You need to have your priorities straight in being a student-athlete and keep focused on school. It feels really good to be rewarded for my efforts!”

Over the course of 18 matches and 61 sets, Campbell finished fourth on the team with 2.25 kills per set, 54 digs and 15 blocks on the season. Campbell tallied five matches with double-digit kills.

She recorded a career-best 21 kills on a .360 hitting percentage in NAU’s Oct. 29 win over Sacramen see ALL-AMERICAN page 16

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SportsReport Women’s basketball swept in road trip to Montana, skid hits nine by travis guy

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AU women’s basketball capped off a long winter break by dropping consecutive Big Sky Conference (BSC) games against Montana and Montana State.

The two losses extended the Jacks current losing streak to nine, with their previous win coming against non-conference opponent Cal State Fullerton on Dec. 4.

The Lumberjacks (5–13, 0–6 Big Sky Conference) lost to the Bobcats (11–6, 3–2 BSC) 77–65 in their final game of the winter recess. Junior small forward Tyler Stephens-Jenkins led the team with 19 points, followed by junior shooting guard Amy Patton’s 11. Sophomore power forwards Shay May and Trinidee Trice added six rebounds each.

“We played really hard,” said head coach Laurie Kelly, via NAU Athletics. “But [we] went back to struggling from the free throw line, missing key free throws to keep the game close.”

Stephens-Jenkins sunk a 3-pointer to open the contest and begin a 7–2 Lumberjack run. The Bobcats answered back with three uncontested shots and a Stephens-Jenkins free throw tied the game 8–8 after seven minutes of play.

Both teams battled for the upper hand through the remainder of the first half. With six minutes left and the score knotted at 20, Montana State University (MSU) went on a 15–7 run to end the half.

“We had some mental breakdowns at the end of the first half and beginning of the second half that cost us the game,” Kelly said.

MSU began the second half with seven unanswered points, before Stephens-Jenkins found the net with a layup.

With the score 44–32 in favor of MSU, NAU went on a 9–0 run, spurred by a Stephen-Jenkins 3. Senior point guard Caty Huntington tied the game at 46 with a 3-pointer with 10:39 remaining in the game.

Unfortunately for the Jacks, that would be the closest they would come to overtaking the Bobcats for the rest of the game.

The Jacks began their road trip to Montana by visiting the Grizzlies of the University of Montana (UM). NAU lost to UM (10–7, 3–1 BSC) 60–48, despite May’s and Patton’s 10 points and nine boards each.

“We made defense a priority and got a lot of good looks for our posts who played well,” said Kelly.

The game was a defensive battle, with both teams holding each other under 40 percent shooting. The Jacks were held to 33.3 percent, compared to the Grizzlies 37 percent.

With all of the other stats almost even, UM notched two more rebounds than NAU, but the biggest discrepancy was the turnovers. The Grizzlies forced the Lumberjacks to turn the ball over 21 times through the contest, including 12 in the first half, compared to UM’s 16 giveaways for the whole game.

“We’ve been coming out of the gates slowly the last few games,” Kelly said. “It’s really hard to come back from that on the road.”

The women attempt to break their skid when they return home to face the Weber State tonight at 6:35 p.m. in the Rolle Activity Center.

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Above: Junior outside hitter Lauren Campbell is the first Lumberjacks volleyball player to earn Capital One All-American honors. (Photo by Sarah Hamilton) Right: Senior long snapper Ben Bachelier is the ninth football player from NAU to claim Capital All-American honors. (Photo by Dean Hendrickson via NAU Media Relations)

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to State.

Rio Rico, Ariz. native, Ben Bachelier, was one of 11 student-athletes from the Football Championship Subdivision chosen for the 22-player Capital One Academic All-America Division-I football team.

Bachelier, joined by Montana’s Bobby Alt and Bryan Waldhauser, was one of three Big Sky Conference players to earn Academic All-American honors.

“Being selected to the Academic All-American team was definitely special to me,” Bachelier said.

“To be included in an elite group of student-athletes from all over the country from both the FCS and FBS levels is truly a great honor and something I will take with me for the rest of my life.”

This academic achievement, however, is far from Bachelier’s first. Bachelier, who owns a 3.97 GPA, was also nominated for the 2011 National

Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Award.

He is a three-time Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete recipient and received the 2010 and 2011 Cynthia Bennett Awards for academic excellence at the NAU football team banquet.

Graduating this past December with a degree in Exercise Science, Bachelier was one of 23 graduating seniors who received the noteworthy Golden Axe Award for the 2011 fall semester. He also was chosen to the 2010 Big Sky All-Academic team.

“Many accomplishments would not be possible without the contributions of my family, friends, team mates and coaching staff and all the support they have given me over the years,” Bachelier said.

Bachelier has been the team’s long snapper for the past four seasons, and logged over 200 snaps in 35 games. In 2010, he helped the Lumberjack punter Drew Zamora and kicker Matt Myers earn All-Big Sky honors.

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Friday night and defeating the No. 9 San Jose State University (SJSU) Spartans 6–3 the following night.

Getting off to a quick start against SJSU was part of NAU’s game plan, and that is exactly what the squad did. The Ice Jacks scored three goals in the first period of play.

Another key stat to the game was the shots on goal: NAU outshot the Spartans 38–29.

Sophomore forward Greg Park netted two goals and added an assist to finish the night with three points.

Park’s linemate, sophomore forward Ryan Greenspan, scored a goal and notched two helpers to finish the night with three points. Freshman forward Vinny Eck added two assists to help the line finish with a total of eight points on the night.

Sophomore goaltender Quinn Mason had fans cheering through the game as he stopped 26 shots to earn the win for his team.

“It felt good to beat that team,” Mason said. “They are close to us in the rankings so we have to make sure we get the job done against a team like that.”

Friday night, the Ice Jacks dropped the visiting Cougars 12–0. In the blowout win, NAU had 17 skaters record at least one point. Sophomore goalie James Korte was not tested by the Cougars offense very often, but when he was, he stood tall, stopping all 19 of BYU’s shots attempts, earning his first shutout in his NAU hockey career.

The Ice Jacks made two roster

moves to boost their offense for the second half of their season. The coaching staff activated senior captain Tucker Braund off the injured list. Braund had not played in a game since Oct. 29 due to a groin injury, and wasted no time contributing to the team by dishing out two assists in the win.

“My groin doesn’t feel too bad,” the team captain commented about his injury.

“It isn’t at 100 percent yet, but it feels good enough to play. And I want to contribute to my team.”

The Ice Jacks also added a new player to the roster. Sophomore forward Zach Vader made his debut Friday. The NAU coaching staff could not have asked for a better start for the new skater, because he netted a hat trick in the blowout win.

“It was fun, playing in my first game at NAU,” Vader said with a smile as he talked about his Ice Jacks debut. “I’m glad I was able to contribute right away; I was on the good side on a lot of good passes.”

NAU started the new semester heading in the right direction, but now the task will be to stay on that path. The Ice Jacks have some big games coming up including a two-game series against No.1 ASU at the end of January. The Ice Jacks will look to stay positive and focused as they fight for a berth at the regional playoffs.

“We have to make sure everyone has their head in the game,” said senior assist captain Rob Brown. “We need to stay focused and stay hungry. Everyone here wants to make a hard run at nationals.”

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Junior guard Gabe Rogers attempts a layup against Montana State. Since returning from a shoulder injury, Rogers has averaged 10.8 points per game. (Photo by Sarah Hamilton)

early stages.

NAU had a chance to send the game into overtime or get the win, but Saldivar’s desperation 3-pointer clanked off the rim as time expired.

Douglas had 13 points to lead NAU, while senior forward Durrell Norman and junior forward Ephraim Ekanem each chipped in 10. For the night, the Jacks shot 41 percent from the field in a game eerily similar to what happened two nights earlier against the Montana Grizzlies, without the attempted rally.

In a game that players and coaches labeled as “embarrassing,” the Jacks fell to UM 78-53, their worst home loss to the Grizzlies since the 1995-96 season.

“They’re a good team and they didn’t do anything we really weren’t expecting,” Brown said. “But they did it with physical strength and maturity.

Our team is rather young and we get bumped around out there on the court. Sometimes, we don’t respond to that very well.”

The Grizzlies set the tone early, forcing early turnovers and jumping out to an 18-6 lead just six 6 minutes in. That lead swelled to 18 before Douglas hit a jumper before the half, closing the gap to 39-23 at the intermission.

The second half did not get better for the home team, as UM continued to pounce on its opportunities and thwart any comeback attempt the Jacks attempted to make. NAU fell down by as many as 28 before the final score settled.

“We got a couple pushes but they got us right back,” Douglas said.

“We have to have effort and take some pride. We lacked some intensity and got our heads down early. This is our home court and we have to protect it.”

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Local poker company sends season winners to compete in World Series of Poker

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By TREVOR GOULD

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he annual Las Vegas World Series of Poker represents the pinnacle of professional poker competition. Set within the gaudy confines of the Rio All Suites Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, players gather together under one roof and engage in a mental battle of bluffs, odds and luck.

Attending this nationally renowned event is considered very prestigious, and players from all corners of the globe flock to attend. For the past six years, a local company has been sending individuals to compete at this legendary competition. It is Free World Series Seat (FWSS), a poker company that hosts nightly gaming events through Flagstaff and rewards their season winners with a trip to compete in Sin City. see POKER page 21

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Epic Lloyd

BY trevor gould

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n 2010, comedians Epic Lloyd and Nice Peter were performing in a freestyle rapping improvisation show

entitled “Check OneTwo.” One of the show’s games involved them extemporaneously battle rapping as famous figures suggested by audience members. Peter later proposed the idea of translating the rap battle concept over to the digital video realm of YouTube. Lloyd agreed, and they immediately went to work on producing, writing and editing their first rap battle, John Lennon vs. Bill O’Reilly.

One year and over 300 million YouTube views later, the Epic Rap Battles of see LLOYD page 21

ell-known local band Them Savages will be playing a celebration show at Sundara Boutique and Gallery Jan. 27 commemorating their upcoming LP release, Church Songs.

“People should come out on the twenty-seventh because it’s the first time we get to expose some of these songs to people and in such a way that we get to celebrate what we’ve put together,” said vocalist and percussionist Ben Velazco.

“Plus, we get to have a couple of people that were on the record join us on stage, which is very different.”

Velazco, together with guitarist Joshua Be, are known for their pure, natural sound consisting of an acoustic guitar, a tambourine, some foot stomping and a floor tom. Their simplicity compliments Velazco’s poetic lyrics, making for an intimate, unseasoned performance. Velazco said their new album will have a refreshing spin on the familiar sounds of their older music. “[The album has] just simple, raw songs that we have fun playing and that feel natural to us,” Velazco said. “We even re-did some songs that have been on previous EPs. That being said, we did get some of our friends on this album so there’s a few different instruments and voices and what-not. We think it’s a pretty good progression from our earlier recordings.”

Lyrically, songs on the new album are inspired by life experiences Be and Velazco have had over the past couple of years.

“Religion and my personal experiences around it are a constant theme in a lot of our songs,” Velazco said. “Aside from that, our songs are mostly all just little stories, fictional and non-fictional.”

Religious themes can be seen repeatedly through Church Songs, which is also the name of their title track. Velazco said that the duo decided on naming the LP after that particular song because they felt it represented the album perfectly. “[We decided on Church Songs] because religion is an underlying theme throughout the album, whether I’m directly talking about it or using it as a metaphor,” Velazco said. “That and it’s just one of our favorite songs on the album.”

With the upcoming LP and a soundtrack for a film documentary in the works, Them Savages currently has a lot on their plate. Velazco said the band’s future could involve more recording and a split with their friends, North Americans, but for now they are focusing on promoting their upcoming show at Sundara.

“Beer, wine, three dollar cover, a free Church Songs LP and a good show,” Velazco said about their upcoming performance on Jan. 27. “Seems like it’d be worth the time to me at least.”

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Arts&Entertainment from POKER page 20 events occur five days a week

FWSS is owned and operated

by Flagstaff local Damon Burke, who also works within the Cline Library’s Course Resources unit.

Burke originally served as one of the primary event coordinators for the Bad Ass Poker Tour, a company dedicated toward providing a fun and competitive poker atmosphere to northern Arizona cities. He conceived the idea of starting his own company when Bad Ass Poker’s influence within the Flagstaff community began to slowly disintegrate.

“They were running in five or six different towns in northern Arizona,” Burke said. “The guy who ran those tournaments was great; it was awesome working for him. He had a great system and set-up but he was spreading himself a little thin and wasn’t able to put the focus that it would really take in each location. I have to keep up a regular relationship with all the business owners to make sure they’re happy and that the players are happy, and if you’re 150 miles from Flagstaff, you just can’t do that.”

Burke decided to create FWSS to place the emphasis back on local community poker events.

“I was running the tournaments for Badass at the time, but when all the bars started pulling out I decided I needed to do something to get them back involved and all the players really wanted this to continue even though it looked like it was fading away,” Burk said. “So I created my own business six years ago called Free World Series Seat just to keep poker going at the bar scene.”

Currently, FWSS poker

at three local Flagstaff venues.

Mondays events are hosted at the Courtyard Marriot, Wednesdays at Porky’s Pub, and Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday take place at the Cinnabar. All nightly events begin at 7 p.m., with all the poker tables and chips provided by FWSS. Burke makes a point of encouraging participants to support the bars that host the events.

“The bars are the ones who really support this and make it possible for me to send players to Vegas,” Burke said. “They’re the ones buying the players in every night so that the players can participate without an entry fee.”

There is no participation fee for entrants; the only requirement is to sign up for that evening’s event. By the end of the night, the top ten players will receive points which will be added up and contribute to their weekly standings and ultimately overall ranking.

“We have six month long season, at the end of every six months we have one final tournament, and the top fifty from the six month season play one final tournament and the one winner out of that final fifty wins the World Series seat,” Burke said.

“Other players win smaller prizes like a buy-in to a Cliff Castle tournament.”

Burke does not possess an official partnership with the World Series of Poker, but provides the winner with the financial backing to enter.

“Anyone can buy into the World Series,” Burke said. “All I do is write a cashier’s check from my company directly to the World Series of Poker. Winner takes that

cashier’s check to Vegas with them [and] when they go to check in at the tournament, they hand over the check as their entry fee.”

Burke enjoys the experience of being able to help send the winner of the final tournament to the World Series of Poker.

“There are a lot of players.

I’ve sent 10 now, and I’m about to send my 11th and 12th players this coming June,” Burke said.

“Every one of them is a good poker player. A serious poker player really thinks they can make it and got a chance to go out to Vegas, and it is pretty exciting.”

One of those fortunate individuals includes two-time FWSS winner Bob Belton, a Flagstaff resident of 20 years and heavy participant in the nightly local poker scene. In 2010, he attended the World Series of Poker Senior Event and took 49th place out of 2,700 players, and cashed in for $7,600. The 80-year-old said trying to make it to the final table was a truly grueling ordeal.

“To make it to the last day, to make it to the final twenty, you play from two in the afternoon to one or two at night for two days in a row, in order to get up to the final table,” Belton said. “It was real fun; it was challenging. There are a lot of nice people that you meet there; you see a lot of celebrities; it was really an exciting venture.”

Belton said the FWSS poker events provide a friendly atmosphere where players can hone their skills and establish new friendships in the process. “[It is perfect] if they like to play cards and like to meet new people, and it’s a social event as well as just playing for just points, you’re not playing for money,”

Belton said. “It’s a cheap way to learn how to play poker, if you’re interested in learning and there is an ultimate award if you do. Even if you go to the casino occasionally, it’s a good practice format to learn to play and understand the game.”

Naomi Brandis, a secondyear speech pathology graduate student, has been playing poker for five years and began frequenting the FWSS events upon moving to Flagstaff from her native home of Tucson. Brandis said she really enjoys both the social and mental aspects of the game.

“I like it because it’s a hobby and it’s really fun and it can be really interactive,” Brandis said.

“You can sit there and have a drink and talk to people at the table or you can sit there and listen to music and just be completely into the game. Both are considered appropriate, and it’s a fun game, it’s really complicated and the more you learn about it the more you know you don’t know about the game.”

As the popularity of the FWSS poker events continues to grow, Burke said he is completely open to expanding the “lucrativeness” of the season ending prizes.

“If I had enough players . . . I’d probably just do more tournaments or higher payouts from those tournaments,” Burke said.

“Or I’d go deeper with second, third, fourth, fifth, buying some type of other tournament buy-in.

There’s a couple of pretty famous ones in Vegas, like the Bellagio has a $540 deep stack tournament and I’d love to buy 2nd place into that. The more people I get, I definitely give back to the poker players.”

from LLOYD page 20

History have firmly cemented themselves as one of the premier online video series/channels and turned Epic Lloyd and Nice Peter into internet celebrities. Each episode features famous historical and fictional characters duking it out in a musical fight for lyrical supremacy, spitting insulting lyrics alluding to each other’s personal histories and quotes.

The Lumberjack was able to secure an email interview with Epic Lloyd concerning the rap battles’ immense success, the planning/conceptualizing that goes into each battle, and how hot those studio lights really are.

Epic Lloyd (EL): Big shoutout to NAU: I lived there for a little while; my wife went to grad school up there; I love that place. I worked at the Mad Italian for a while, and shoutout to the NORAZ poets: Christopher Fox-Graham and those dudes up there are pretty sweet.

The Lumberjack (LJ): The concept for the Epic Rap Battles originated during your freestyle improv rapping show “CheckOne Two.” Did you ever think it would achieve the level of runaway success that it has?

EL: No, I never thought it would, I never really gave it that much thought, it was a fun thing that my buddy was like “Hey, you wanna do this?” and I was like “Yeah, let’s do that.

That sounds really fun.” I’ve always known that I run with a bunch of talented people and that my friends are real talented, but this wasn’t the type of project where I was like “Alright, this project is going to be the biggest project I’ve ever done,” which probably makes the most sense that it did become real big just because it was very natural and organic. I never pictured it being this big, I’m jut really happy that it is.

LJ: Explain to me the process that goes into conceptualizing, planning and writing the lyrics/music for an Epic Rap Battle of History. Do you and Peter just view all the YouTube comment matchup suggestions and pick one collectively?

EL: We always pick a suggestion as the next match-up. We’ll scroll through a bunch of them, [and] there are so many of them that basically at this point we can say “Hey, we want to do a rap battle with Joan of Arc,” and then let’s just scroll through and we’ll find Joan of Arc versus somebody who is cool. Or every once in a while we’ll be looking through something, and we’ll something that jumps right out at us and is immediately like perfect for both of us. We go back and forth sometimes.

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War Horse: The right horse to bet on Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Jeremey Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis. Running time: 146 minutes.

Rated PG-13.

s a rule, I usually don’t see movies with an animal as a main character.

This does not mean I think those types of movies are always bad; it is just they do not appeal to me. I decided ahead of time Steven Spielberg’s latest film, War Horse, was going to be another one of those films, but by the end I was glad I saw it.

War Horse takes place before, during and a little after World War I in Europe.

Farmer Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan) buys a spirited thoroughbred horse instead of a strong workhorse for his farm. Despite not being the right horse for the job, Ted’s son Albert (Jeremy Irvine) believes the horse, which he names Joey, is exactly what he and his family needs in their lives and begins to train him. Reality soon takes control, however, and Joey is sold to the war effort in order to help pay the farm’s rent. The story then follows the young horse as he

goes through a number of masters during the war, ranging from a British captain, two young German soldiers, a sickly French girl, a German artillery unit and finally a British infantryman.

It is interesting to see a WWI movie considering they are not as prominent as those following WWII. I was a little concerned there would be too much focus on Joey and not enough on the legitimately more important global war, but War Horse manages to balance it all just fine.

The different characters Joey comes across on his journey show the audience the various sides of the conflict, and the movie does not pull any punches when showing just how brutal the entire war was. Considering the amount of characters Joey meets through the movie, I was surprised at how well they were all portrayed. I would attribute this to both the actors’ performances and the writing, as it was well done allaround.

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on’t kid yourself, you are not going to see Ghost Protocol for the story; you are going for the adventure and boy, what an adventure it is.

This movie is a ton of fun, in every way imaginable. The action scenes are intense, and even more importantly, gritty. The gadgets are so over-the-top, which makes them very entertaining. Everything from the life-like masks to invisible walls to the new BMW 6 series convertible add to the enjoyment of watching these agents do what they do best.

The movie focuses around agent Ethan Hunt (The Tom Cruise) and his teammates William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and Benji Dunn (Shaun of the Dead’s Simon

Pegg). I love the relationship these characters build toward one another during the film.

At the beginning of the film, none of these agents had worked together, but they are forced into becoming a team when external circumstances leads their country to disavow them. I really felt for this team as they evolved into a family of sorts as the film progressed. On top of that, they play off of each other brilliantly; they act toward each other, like real people.

In addition, this film is BIG in how it is shot. Scenes like the one where Hunt climbs the side of the world’s tallest building is actually extremely cool despite its heavy advertisement. The magnitude of the filming does a great job adding a heavy layer of tension to the movie. There

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Albert makes a likeable protagonist, and Joey has enough personality to keep viewers interested when the focus is on him.

War Horse was filmed very well, but there were a couple noteworthy problems.

Scenery used for England and France looked beautiful during peacetime and depressing when the war takes over, but there were a few scenes that looked like they were filmed in front of an obvious matte painting.

Another thing that bugged me was the way the passage of time was portrayed; WWI lasted four years, but it seemed to breeze by. Still, there were some amazing shots, particularly in the war scenes. To see the brave cavalry charging in one shot, only to see the opposing machine gunners shooting past rider-less horses in the next, was pretty heartbreaking.

Spielberg and his crew have shown that they still have the ability to put together a good movie, and I can recommend this to a wide range of moviegoers.

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By Derek Schroeder

t’s only the first month of 2012 and I’m already nostalgic for 2011.

Every year at this time the year-end lists in magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin set the standard of what “good” music is. They are fun to read and a great way to find new artists but they also kinda suck.

Why? Because they instill a hierarchy on musical quality that, frankly, upsets me. Don’t get me wrong Adele, Mastodon, The Black Keys, Feist, Bon Iver and other heavy-hitters released beautiful music last year, but I don’t enjoy music in a linear progression. One day I may want to wallow in self pity to James Vernon’s heart-wrenching compositions and the next feel the need for some crunchy, plagiarized Mississippi Blues (you can’t deny it, Auerbach). The reality is, picking a best album over the span of 12 months hurts my brain.

So, I intend to fight fire with fire. I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder but for every yin there is a yang. For every list, a counter-list filled. Here are some of the albums I was into that didn’t make many lists, or hit me at just the right time in my life. Or are just indie enough to impress (read: annoy).

Listen to this, not that

What self-respecting music columnist wouldn’t indulge in shameless, self-aggrandizing name dropping? Adele’s album Rolling in the Deep was indeed one of the better albums this year, but I really enjoyed the Australian songbird Kimbra. Kimbra’s vocal authenticity and progressive-pop songwriting make the British star child’s tobacco-tinged croon seem sophomoric. Kimbra’s 2011 release Vows is a catchy powerhouse of respectable and impressively produced European pop. Plus her music videos are really weird.

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are quite a few scenes where you will find yourself on the edge of your seat, even maybe gasping in shock, once again, due to actually caring about these characters.

I do not remember much from the previous Mission Impossible movie. It might be partly because it was just about Hunt saving his wife from the clutches of Phillip Seymour Hoffman (or some portly gentlemen with glasses).

The past movie tried to focus on the semi-decent plot while Ghost Protocol made the smart decision to put the plot in the backseat and let the action and the characters do the driving. This really is a road trip movie in its purest essence, focusing on the journey and not the destination. Ghost Protocol is worth every penny to see on the big screen with your buds.

Radiohead started this phenomenon with the release of In Rainbows and more and more bands are forgoing publishing their albums to make them available for free downloads. The best free albums of 2011 belong to The Darcy’s and The Milk Carton Kids. The Darcy’s describe their sound as post-soul—a label I agree with because it gets at the very core of their self-titled album. Transient guitars and whisper soft vocals make stepping into a Darcy’s song like a trip into the back of your memory. The Milk Carton Kids are Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan: essentially our generational equivalent to James Taylor except with, you know, hair. Their intricate acoustic compositions caress Oberst quality lyrics minus the self-loathing and substance abuse.

Something different

The two most impressive musical deviants that I came across last year were Canada’s Timber Timbre and the trance-jam five piece from Indiana Tammar. Timber Timbre is the king of creepy and accessible horror film soundscapes. Basically imagine what Dracula’s folk band would sound like. Other Lives released an incredible album called Tamer Animals that has a strong vocal focus and beautiful string driven numbers with a similar feel to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s and a mid-western version Beirut.

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LEROUX HOUSE: ½ BLOCK TO NAU. For Spring Semester, Prorated to May 19.Smaller, cozy dorm-style living for Juniors, Seniors, and Grad Students.

Restored, Over-sized Singleoccupant rooms have walk-in closets and cabinet sinks. Men’s Floor has 6 rooms at $560/ month. Women’s floor has 7 rooms at $535/month. Rent includes utilities and wireless internet. Common areas have Double/split Bathrooms, Fully furnished Kitchens, Living/ Dining areas, Laundries and are cleaned weekly. Inside and Outside doors lock, with Private Parking and Mailboxes.

No Smokers & No Pets. Call Charlotte at (928) 600-6582 ALLIED HEALTH career training. Attend college 100% online. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified. SCHEV certified.

Call 800-481-9409. www.

CenturaOnline.com.

SUMMER OF YOUR LIFE! CAMP WAYNE FOR GIRLS –Children’s summer camp, Northeast Pennsylvania (6/16-8/13/12). If you love children and want a caring, fun environment we need Counselors for: Tennis, Swimming, Golf, Gymnastics, Cheerleading, Drama, High & Low Ropes, Camping/Nature, Team Sports, Waterskiing, Sailing, Painting/Drawing, Ceramics, Silkscreen, Printmaking, Batik, Jewelry, Calligraphy, Photography, Sculpture, Guitar, Aerobics, Video. Other staff: Administrative, CDL Driver (21+), Nurses (RN’s and Nursing Students), Bookkeeper.

Interviews on NAU campus February 1st. Select The Camp That Selects The Best Staff! Call 215.944.3069 or tapply on-line at www. campwaynegirls.com.

ADOPTION: Energetic, fun loving well-educated couple looking to adopt a newborn child from a caring birth mother. Expenses paid. Call Stefanie & Kevin at 1-866-816-3251.

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