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12.2.11

“aRgonaut Arts Weekly Review�

cover art by rhiannon rinas

humanity of music pg 3

gem state jewelry pg 6

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on the cover “untitled” Rhiannon Rinas is a senior triple majoring in English creative writing, journalism and radio/TV/digital media production. This photo was taken in Washington DC on her high-school senior trip.

Sagittarius 11/22 – 12/21 Listen, it’s obvious you’re excited for Christmas, but your “ho ho ho” is scaring the children. Maybe a little less intensity would be good.

Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18 Tis’ the season to … shop. Enjoy it.

resolution — who knows, the list could be longer than you thought.

Pisces 2/19 -3/20 Your singing voice is in the prime for shower singing — embrace those holiday songs stuck in your head.

Leo 7/23 – 8/22 Invest in coffee and a positive attitude. It will get you through dead week and finals.

Aries 3/21-4/19 Slipping on the ice is fun, but better when planned. Take a pillow and then hit the ice rink.

Virgo 8/23 – 9/22 That snow globe you keep shaking to see the future isn’t magic. The little snow pieces only fall to the bottom. Santa doesn’t hand out magic snow globes like he does candy canes.

Taurus 4/20 – 5/20 That stocking hat with elf ears that you love is awesome. Keep rocking it.

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We are accepting art submissions each week for the cover. All forms of art will be accepted.

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Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19 It’s snow season, and we all know there is a reason your nickname isn’t Grace. You should consider investing in some of the strap-on chains for shoes.

t Texas red dir DJ Red

anja sundali rawr People love to hate country music, but hating Taylor Swift or Toby Keith is in good taste. Real country music isn’t found on popular radio stations or at the CMT awards, it’s found in back alleys and dark bars. Texas Red Dirt country has its roots in Austin and can be found anywhere there is open road and heartbreak.

“Wicked Twisted Road” Reckless Kelly Idaho born-and-bred Braun brothers continue to break hearts over and over again with this simple, acoustic ballad.

Gemini 5/21 – 6/21 Spending all break watching spy movies has worn off. But you should really consider wearing more than a black leotard since it’s freezing. Spies aren’t effective with hypothermia.

Cancer 6/22-7/22 Start your search for a New Year’s “Alabama” Cross Canadian Ragweed The other “CCR” may have broken up last year, but their music will live on in this classic Texas Red Dirt anthem.

“When I’m Stoned” Jason Boland For all of you with a baby who loves you just the way you are.

“Velvet” Stoney LaRue What a country love song should sound like — sad, beautiful and brokenhearted.

“In My Arms Instead” Randy Rogers Band The band’s most recent album took them to the top of the contemporary country charts, but this song off the 2008 self-titled album is perfect for all those long distance lovers out there.

“The Band Song” Micky and the Motorcars Brothers Micky and Gary Braun wrote

Libra 9/23- 10/22 Don’t deny your love for Christmas lights — they mesmerize you. Go When people start staring, know it’s time to move.

Scorpio 10/23 – 11/21 Embrace your inner child and make a gingerbread house with some friends … Or maybe just eat the candy instead. this song about Stanley, Idaho. Anyone who’s ever spent time in the Sawtooth Mountains and at the Kasino Club can relate to these Idaho natives.

“Think it Over One Time” Robert Earl Keen For all you unapologetic country fans out there who actually know true music, this song is for you. Never apologize.

“Copperhead Road” Steve Earle Earle is one of the fathers of Texas Red Dirt and living proof that country isn’t always conservative. This song takes listeners back to country’s Irish roots.

“I’ve Always Been Crazy” Waylon Jennings No country mixtape would be complete without Waylon Jennings. Classic Texas country at its best. Where would music be without this pioneer?

“Nobody’s Fool” Wade Bowen True country fans are independent and self-reliant, just like this Red Dirt staple song.

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How you learn:

Learning styles provide understanding to memorization and education

lindsey treffry rawr If you prefer to learn with your eyes closed and ears open, you may be an auditory learner.

If seeing rather than listening works for you, you’re a visual learner. If you’d rather get hands-on, you’re kinesthetic.

Due to a simplistic model created by teacher Neil Fleming in 1987, people are now able to understand how and why they learn certain ways through the idea of visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning.

“All people learn differently,” said Steven Meier, associate professor of psychology at the University of Idaho.

Although there are hundreds of learning styles, visual, auditory and kinesthetic — or tactile — are the three apparent in Fleming’s model.

Meier said in a college setting, people with certain learning types may not be as efficient learners as others, and that it’s difficult to teach some lessons kinesthetically. He said, too, that learning depends on the way material is presented and how students

manipulate that material.

“If you match the learning style to a particular topic, you don’t have an issue (learning),” Meier said.

Leonard Garrison, UI associate professor of flute and aural skills, wrote an article, “For the mnemonically challenged,” in order to aid flutists with music memorization.

“Flutists aren’t called upon to memorize,” Garrison said.

“We need special help.”

In his article, Garrison compared different learning styles and their relation to memorization. He said tactile learning is the least reliable, because if a player loses track of finger placement, it’s hard to get back on track.

He said memorization can sometimes be visual, when musicians close their eyes and see the score — the written music. Garrison said, though, that musicians largely learn aurally, or by ear.

“If you hear it right,

you’re going to play it right,” Garrison said.

But, he said musicians aren’t all auditory learners.

“People think musicians are so strong in terms of hearing, but sometimes it takes visual skills,” Garrison said.

Overall, Garrison said the strongest learning style for musicians is analytic memory — knowing how something is put together. Musicians can best remember a piece when they recall where a melody starts, the key, contrasting themes and the overall structure of the piece.

As it may be true for musicians, Meier said practice makes perfect. He said that involves student participation, even if different professors

teach different ways.

“Some people think ‘I’m an auditory learner (so) I shouldn’t have to learn visually,’” Meier said. “But it’s gonna take some extra time.”

Audriana Sedgwick, UI psychology sophomore, said there should be an effort from the teacher to be adaptive to the students’ learning styles though.

“Learning should be made as easy as possible,” Sedgwick said.

She said there seems to be a large reliance to teach directly from a PowerPoint presentation, but when teachers list words or read paragraphs, it only reaches the auditory learners.

“There is no visual,” Sedgwick said. “They do not provide an image. It’s more auditory.”

Meier said some teachers might not teach all learning styles because there is a lack of time for lesson preparation.

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“It’s very difficult to do some activities kinesthetically,” Meier said. “You can, but it’s very difficult.”

Overall, Meier said Fleming’s model is straightforward and its simplicity is its strength.

“But because it’s simplistic, you leave out a lot of stuff,” Meier said.

Although the model is a good way to conceptualize learning, it must be taken with a grain of salt, Meier said.

“Everybody still learns all three ways,” Meier said. “(Individuals are) just more efficient in one type.”

How do you learn?

Here’s a Chem 101 lesson with each of the learning styles.

An instructor lectures a class (auditory) on the formation sodium chloride as he draws the structure of the molecule on the board (visual) and passes a plastic sodium chloride model around the class to mold and pull apart (tactile).

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Finger-lickin', toe-tappin' good Blues Brew and BBQ prepares to open downtown Moscow

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A drum set hangs from the ceiling at an upcoming Moscow barbecue-style restaurant, Blues Brew & BBQ. This hanging drum set is one of many unique decorations at the restaurant. The interior also incorporates guitars on the wall and a bar that resembles piano keys.

12.2.11 matt maw rawr The upcoming “Blues Brew & BBQ” restaurant promises to make people feel anything but blue.

Owner Jack Mastro said “Blues” will open on downtown Sixth Street by the start of next semester. Mastro has been a professional chef for more than 20 years, and developed the restaurant’s theme about six years ago.

“Blues and barbecue and beer kind of go together,” Mastro said.

The restaurant uses a North Carolina barbecue style with a dry rub, slow cooked for 16 hours, and a barbecue sauce mixture of vinegar and mustard sauce. There are 18 beers on draft and 15 specialty cocktails made with wine and the Japanese alcohol sake. Sake has 15 to 18 percent alcohol content, and Mastro said it makes good martinis, margaritas and various fruit drinks. Blues will also feature about 20 different kinds of wine.

Mastro said they make everything from scratch.

They slow-roast their own meat, prepare their own dry rub and barbecue sauce and nothing is pre-made. They’ll have 14 microbrews from the Pacific Northwest. In addition to regional food and drink, they support local musicians.

“We’re pro-Moscow, and we want to put money back into the community,” Mastro said.

Local bars don’t bring much blues or jazz, and Mastro said Blues will help cultivate the music at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival with open mics every day of the event.

“People can just bring their instruments or their voices and come on in and play,” Mastro said. “Kind of a secondary workshop from the university where they can just hang out and have a glass of wine, drink some beer, get some good barbeque and meet other musicians.”

Blues will host Sunday jam sessions every week in addition to open-mic nights, Mastro said. These won’t have a signup list for performers.

Blues music manager Brad Crooks said it’s important

to support local musicians because there are so many of them. He has played music in Moscow for 15 years and knows many local artists.

“There’s more talent than there (are) places to play, really,” Crooks said. “It’s fun to get (artists) all together and have a nice themed venue to play at, the blues and the jazz especially … It’s like throwing a line in the water — they’ll come.”

Crooks said the only bad part of blues is that people think it’s all about feeling sad.

He said blues is really a “cure for the soul,” and the music might help people feel better after they come in.

Gale Wagner, assistant manager, said the music is just one part of the experience, and Blues will never be too loud or disruptive for customers who just want to grab a drink.

“It’s not a jukebox, it’s a unique experience. We’re letting those local people and artists come in and be a part of the atmosphere we’re trying to provide,” Wagner said.

Mastro said the vibe of the restaurant is important.

He said the food will be tasty and affordable, and his philosophy for the staff is to be friendly, outgoing and to provide “impeccable” service.

He said he likes to hire drama students and people with really good personalities. The restaurant will be a festive place, and serve as a kind of classy jazz-and-blues bar.

“If you look around the room, you don’t see any TVs that you normally see at a typical bar,” Mastro said. “We’re controlling the atmosphere, and if we do our job right, you won’t be looking for a TV.” Wagner said the emphasis is on fun and service.

“We’re trying to create a little niche where people old and young can come in, whether it’s a date night, or people want to come out for a birthday party, they want to listen to music, (or) they just want to have a dinner with the family,” she said. “The way we’re trying to structure it is to be able to cater to many different types of customers but everyone still leaves satisfied.”

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Waiting for the nap at the end of the tunnel Overworked students cope with too many commitments

kristi atkinson rawr Last spring, University of Idaho junior Megan Lopez woke up at 4:50 a.m. for 5:30 a.m. soccer practice. She had class from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. She was a teacher’s assistant from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. she worked in the biology lab. From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. she was at her sorority’s chapter meeting. From 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. was at a meeting for the Student Athlete Advisory Committtee. From 8:30 to 11 p.m., she was working in the lab. And then she started her homework.

Lopez is a teammate, sorority sister, S.A.A.C. treasurer and representative. She’s a lab assistant, teacher’s assistant, member of a club and premed student. She is an overachiever.

“I don’t want to look back on college and regret not taking advantage of the opportunities offered,” Lopez said.

Lopez came to UI from San Diego after being recruited for the women’s soccer team. She said she likes being involved in everything and loves to feel the accomplishment of finishing a hard task.

“Obviously my experiences here will also help my future career, but that isn’t just the driving force behind my involvement,” Lopez said. “Each one of my involvements compliments a different part of my life, but I do these things because I want to.”

Throughout everything, she said her experiences are preparing her to be successful.

Lopez said her parents only encourage her and never pressure her.

“They encourage me to be passionate about things and to be involved and are always the first to congratulate me on my successes,” she said.

Although she doesn’t handle the stress well, she said the best way to handle it is to separate tasks and look at them individually.

“Feeling overwhelmed is a waste of time,” Lopez said. “You just have to smile and get through it because

there is a nap waiting for you at the end of the tunnel.”

Prioritizing, music, organization and food helps Lopez beat the stress, she said, and she prioritizes based off the consequences.

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“Grades and soccer are always first,” Lopez said. “After that, I prioritize based on time and what’s the most interesting. I am content with where I am now though,” she said.

Heidi Lyons is a member of the UI dance team, president of Delta Zeta, dance teacher, full-time student and certified nursing assistant.

Lyons said she would like to add more to her schedule next semester.

“I feel I will want to do more because it will be the end of my senior year and I want to do everything and fit it in,” she said.

Lyons said she prioritizes based on her commitment.

“It depends what I have promised to do first because I don’t want to let anyone down,” she said.

Lyons does what she loves and wants to do.

“I’ve been so involved with a variety of things since high school. That’s just been my lifestyle,” Lyons said.

It has helped her develop time management skills. Lyons said her experiences will help her in the future because now she knows how much she is capable of doing at one time.

“After going competitive in dance there was some pressure to take every class, but my parents help me choose what ones I could handle at one time,” Lyons said.

Lyons said doing everything at once can be stressful.

“Giving up sleep during the week and catching up during the weekends seems to be the best way for now to handle everything though,” she said.

For Matt Cook it’s strange to be home before 6 p.m. on any day.

Cook is vice president of the Student Alumni Relations Board, an ASUI senator, and sits on ASUI’s Finance Committee, Activities Board and Safety Task Force.

He is a student representative on the Facilities Scheduling Policy Committee, Fundraising Chair for Homecoming Committee 2012, part of the Council for Advancement and Support for Education Affiliated Student Advancement Programs, District 8 Representative, an ASUI Presidential Policy Adviser, and works in the Idaho Commons Administrative Office as a receptionist.

“I’ve always been involved since middle school and it just feels weird to me when I actually have some free time now,” Cook said.

“I honestly can say that I am never

bored anymore, and I like the feeling of just having to go, go, go.”

Cook enjoys staying busy and said these experiences will look great on a resume by providing examples of his experiences and explanations of what he learned from each experience.

“Being so involved will help me in the future because I am gaining experiences that I never would have gotten just sitting in the classroom or just sitting in my dorm room or apartment,” he said. “It definitely prepares me for the work force.”

Cook is not involved in multiple extracurricular just because it looks good on a resume, but it is an added bonus, he said.

With each extracurricular, prioritizing is definitely important, he said.

“I prioritize by what I have committed to first,” Cook said. “If I am in a leadership position and there are commitments in the job description, they are top of the line.”

Cook said he is lucky that many of his commitments do not conflict, but when they do he is prepared to handle the stress.

“I try not to bottle it up because I know that is dangerous,” Cook said. “I know what I am getting in to so it’s never a surprise when I have meeting after meeting after meeting, but it can wear me out for sure.”

Cook is always sure to set aside enough time to get a decent amount of sleep and to make time for friends.

“I think laughing is really a great way to de-stress so being with friends is a must,” Cook said.

With Cook’s terms coming to an end, he said he wishes he was more involved again.

“I think it just means I can devote more time to the things I am involved with,” Cook said. “I definitely don’t wish to be less involved because I wouldn’t know what to do with my time.”

But Cook has been told he spreads himself too thin.

“I have never received pressure to do so much, although I have had pressure to stop being so involved from friends,” Cook said. “My parents have always supported me in doing what I love.”

Cook’s parents worry that he cares too much about each extracurricular and he forgets to focus on academics or sleeping, he said.

“But that just pushes me to work harder and show them they are wrong,” he said.

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Un-Hidden Gems Custom gem couture: Gem State Crystals

kristen koester-smith rawr A treasure chest nestled in the center of downtown Moscow conceals sapphires, rubies, garnets, gold and silver.

Gem State Crystals is not just a place to buy a shiny ring or a new necklace — it is a design center where art and plunder come together.

The shop, owned by local couple Bill and Diane Mabbutt, induces a feeling of hominess.

Collections of tapestries, old time photographs and sculptures line the walls above cases of intricate bracelets, necklaces and rings.

The shop’s interior also includes a snake case, where a seemingly bored rattlesnake named The Bud eyes customers from the other side of the glass.

At the back of the store is a workshop, where jewelry makers hunch over magnifying glasses, creating one-of-a-kind pieces.

The jewelers mainly create custom pieces, and never duplicate a design. All of the stores

jewelry is handmade.

“There is that draw that makes our store different than others, there’s the uniqueness to artistry of it. You’re never gonna see the pieces that we’ve made again,” said Even McLean, the Mabbutt’s son-in-law and Gem State employee.

Bill Mabbutt said every customer and piece gets special attention. Some clients just want a family heirloom repaired or a ring resized, and others come in asking for a completely original piece made with materials the shop has on hand.

Still others supply their own metals, which can cut the cost of a finished piece because gold prices are high. Some patrons bring rough stones or gems they found and want to create a ring or necklace from.

“I could cut a $3,000 ... stone for $100. If they go and find it, I just charge by the hour. I would charge $2,000 for the same thing on the shelf,” said Bill Mabbutt, an expert cutter with years of trial and error behind him.

Each type of gem needs to be cut a certain way for its sparkle to reach full potential.

“It’s like how light bends different going through glass windows than it does going through water,” Bill Mabbutt said. “Same thing in each different kind of gem stone, light will bend at a different angle, and you need to catch that critical angle so the luster comes back to the eyes.”

Ideally, the light reflects through the bottom of the stone and shoots back to the eyes instead of shooting out the bottom, Bill Mabbutt said.

Star garnets have to be formed into a rounded shape called cabochons, he said, to preserve the dazzling image of the star.

Opals are made into cabochons more regularly than faceted, like a diamond’s would be to allow their “fire” to shine through.

Metals also have to be dealt with in special ways, McLean said. When people bring jewelry that has been created or repaired at other shops, it’s difficult to know how the piece will react to

heat. If repairs have been made with substandard materials, such as lead, the jewelry could completely fall apart because lead melts at about 300 degrees Celsius, while gold and silver melt at close to 1,000.

There are also different ways to repair and create jewelry. McLean said he can solder two metals together by melting a similar metal on top of them — similar to taping. Or he welds two pieces of metal into one — similar to fusion. He can also connect the pieces with rivets, which act as the hinges used on lockets.

McLean said the jewelers have to be careful not to damage family heirlooms.

“These things have a lot of sentimental value, so we take a lot of time to make sure that we don’t do (something harmful). Especially with the repairs of the things that are so old and the value is more than what the monetary value is,” McLean said.

Gem State Crystal jewelers take time to design exactly

what the customer wants, Bill Mabbutt said. They discuss the customer’s idea at length, often asking the customer to draw or describe in detail the perfect item. Then jewelers create a wax mold of the piece to give the customer a tangible idea of how the finished product will look. The waxes can be skewed and remolded until the customer is pleased with it.

“We have a lot of artistic freedom that gives us the ability to learn different ways to get the customer exactly what they’re asking for,” McLean said.

Diane Mabbutt said interactions with customers, and their delight at a completed piece bring joy to her work.

“I like listening to stories behind jewelry,” she said. “When (customers) bring a piece in they can tell you that this is from their grandmother or their great-grandmother and it was handed down.

Where it came from and all that — that’s what jewelry is all about in my opinion.”

McLean said jewelry often has

a story even before it is formed.

“Children come in with the garnets that they dug or the opals they found, or newly engaged couples come in to make a wedding set with a stone they found on the beach or where they met or got engaged,” McLean said. “It doesn’t even have to be a special stone to the gem industry, but it’s special to them. That’s what we specialize in, the personal nature of the jewelry.”

Even the Mabbutts have invaluable items. Diane Mabbutt keeps a rough aquamarine crystal around her neck, hung from a necklace “Billy” made for her.

She said she likes the rawness of it, and the fact that it came from the dirt.

“Most of (my favorite pieces) I give to my wife. There are so many I don’t remember,” Bill Mabbutt said.

The gems and crystals Gem State Crystals owns all come from different places. Bill Mabbutt said they go to international gem shows, search for stones in Idaho and buy materials from people who own mines.

He said while Idaho is the Gem State and has almost all types of gems, they are not always the best quality.

Diane Mabbutt said her husband’s habit of searching for gems has rubbed off on her.

She said it’s fun to be outside and learn what to look for. She recommends people read “old timer” books if they are interested in finding treasures.

Bill Mabbutt said he began collecting rocks when he was in second grade and continued to study them throughout his time in college, although geology wasn’t his major. His love and knowledge of rocks prompted him to purchase, with two partners, a rock shop in 1980, on a day that was historical for its own reasons. “(It was) the day Mt. Saint Helens blew up. What happened is we bought a rock shop … and as we were moving it here the ash started pouring on us,” Bill Mabbutt said.

The shop evolved over the years and the three partners even owned a rock-cutting factory in Sri Lanka and sold gems in international markets.

Bill Mabbutt said he and his partners agreed to take their own pieces of the business and split up because they had different visions.

One wanted to start a chain of jewelry stores and be a millionaire and the other wanted to be

heavily involved with international business, while Bill Mabbutt wanted a “ma and pa” type store.

Gem State Crystals is just that, as he as his wife still run the business, and their children grew up around the shop. The store is truly local, Diane Mabbutt said.

McLean said the business has an impeccable reputation within the community.

“The shop already has that reputation of being overly honest, to the point where it almost hurts when you tell people that their grandparent’s jewelry is all fake,” McLean said.

“But they respect you because we’re not just trying to make you feel better … That honesty really makes a big difference.”

The Mabbutts said the store itself is invaluable to them. Diane Mabbutt said she loves that she can create artwork every day alongside her husband.

Bill Mabbutt said the good energy in the shop comes from all the crystals and he loves coming to work.

“It’s really fun having a job as a hobby and a hobby as a job.

You can’t beat it,” he said. “I was always afraid that if my hobby did turn into my job I wouldn’t care for it, but I love it.”

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Bill Mabbutt (left), owner of Gem State Crystals, Inc. cuts a piece for a pendant he is working on with a diamond impregnated saw. Diane Mabbutt (right), owner of Gem State Crystals, Inc. works on repairing a silver necklace for a client.

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Gem State Crystals, owned by Bill and Diane Mabbutt, is located on Main Street in downtown Moscow. The shop has a large collection of gems and crystals, and specializes in custom jewelry design and repair.

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Four years to grow up December graduates open up about high school and college

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kristen koester-smith rawr When you’re in high school, being a senior in college sounds ancient. You think — they must be super mature, or they must know what they want to do with their life or they could pretty much be my parents. Now, many have a much different understanding of what someone who is about to graduate is like, and it doesn’t seem that old anymore.

College is supposed to be about knowledge, learning a skill and becoming a citizen who can be productive in society. Graduates are meant to be the minds of tomorrow, the people who find the cure to cancer or develop world peace.

Is it working?

Tom Petty once said, “You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax … Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday.”

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Name: Tara Ball Major: Ecology and conservation biology Tara Ball said during her years at the University of Idaho she found time to have fun and become more responsible.

She learned to be more motherly from caring for drunken friends and a better time manager from schoolwork.

She said it was a big change from high school, when she never had to worry about working hard to get good grades.

“I never had homework in high school and I was always skipping class. It was just a joke,” Ball said.

Ball said she can tell she

doesn’t judge people as often or as harshly because she has come to realize that everyone pretty much has the same emotions and reactions to what happens in life.

“You have to remember to treat people the way you would want to be. We hear that all the time, but I get it now,” Ball said.

Ball said the types of friends she had in high school are just as crazy and down to have a good time as the friends she has now.

“They’re never judgmental, and not worried about what other people are doing. We’re just trying to do us, have a good time,” Ball said.

Ball said college didn’t change her beliefs or values, because she doesn’t have many.

She said her strongest conviction coming out of college was to develop real relationships with people and to always demand respect.

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rawr Name: Scotia Bruijn Major: Spanish education, art education and Spanish Scotia Bruijn said every step of her education experience, from elementary school to college, has just gotten better and better.

The biggest change for her was becoming more outgoing. She said she really didn’t know anyone when she got to UI, and

was forced to step out of her comfort zone to make friends.

“I basically came up here knowing absolutely no one and had to go through the whole making then new friends all over again.

That definitely helped me grow,” Bruijn said. “I used to be really shy. I’m still shy but I’m a lot more confident in myself.”

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Scotia Bruijn waits in the third floor of the Administration Building for her Spanish 404 class to start. The class will complete Bruijn’s Spanish major, but she is tripple-majoring with art education and secondary education, as well.

Two of the experiences that helped her learn to be more outgoing were her time as co-section leader of the clarinets in marching band and studying abroad in Spain.

“I remember freshman year just starting marching band and thinking I would never do this, I would never be a section leader here. So that’s definitely something that changed me,” Bruijn said.

When she was in Spain, Bruijn was again forced to make completely new friends, and she even went on trips throughout Europe by herself, something she said she would have never imagined doing in high school.

Bruijn said she has a wider group of friends, whereas in middle school and high school she stayed around the same people.

Bruijn said many people feel they are more responsible and independent because they have gotten used to living away from their parents. Bruijn said that was one thing she didn’t realize would be so different in college until she got here.

“Especially living about six hours away from home, it’s not like you can go home every weekend. Living with parents you never really realize just how often you’ll hang out with friends in college,” Bruijn said. “You’re just constantly doing something, whether it’s with school or with friends.”

Bruijn said she generally feels like she is a more well-rounded citizen because she has seen and experienced different cultures and varying sides of issues. She said some of her morals have strengthened and become more concrete, and her thoughts have expanded.

“I’ve gotten new perceptions of different things I had never even thought of before. That definitely made me change and made me far more open-minded,” Bruijn said.

9 Name: Eric Greenwood Major: Organizational sciences Eric Greenwood said he feels he’s more mature and responsible, although he still isn’t all grown-up. He said one of the most obvious ways he can tell he is more mature is by his increased desire to protect his life.

“I can’t even believe how dumb we were driving around, me and my buddies … burning out on every corner, racing — just stupid stuff. But you’re young, you’re immature,” Greenwood said.

He said he misses the lifestyle of living at home, but it makes seeing his family that much more special when he comes home.

“I appreciate mom so much more, oh my goodness. I eat out every day now, wait until the laundry is overflowing the basket,” Greenwood said.

Greenwood said that he was once in a class in which 90 percent of the students gave a presentation on the same thing. This made him realize the importance of being original.

“When I was in high school or younger a lot of (my) opinions were shaped by parents, teachers, and friends. I know now I kind of have more original ideas compared to back then,” Greenwood said. “I guess, try to find your own way.”

Greenwood said colthen lege also shattered his perception that he knew everything in high school.

“I was arrogant in high school.

You’re young and naïve. You’re young, but you also feel like you know it all, he said. Then when you get here … and it’s just part of getting older, you realize you’re not as smart as you thought you were.”

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Eric Greenwood hangs out in the Idaho Commons after his class Tuesday.

Greenwood will graduate in December in organizational sciences and plans to head to Western Washington in search of a job.

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The smell of the acrylic, the feel of the brushes, the look of a fresh canvas — from the moment an artist picks up a paintbrush, these sensations combine to help make inspiration reality.

But what else goes in to making a new painting a success?

After an artist’s muse descends, many creative decisions from technique to medium stand between an artist and the final product. For many artists, including Ethan Kimberling, a University of Idaho senior, each choice made during this process can be the difference between bringing a piece of imagination to life and wasting time.

“Painting is such a prolonged process when compared to other media,” Kimberling said.

“I want the outcome to be exactly what I want.”

Kimberling said he usually starts by sketching his idea and makes preliminary adjustments there. Once he actually begins to paint, Kimberling said he finds better solutions than those in the original composition and will paint over entire sections.

“In the end my best development is on the canvas and not in my sketch book,” he said.

Sophomore Dylan Agnes said an artist’s growth is primarily facilitated by developments to the artistic process that are made during each new project.

“I jump right into trying to understand the limitations on a project and instead of using them as limitations, I try to use them to help make my artwork more creative,” Agnes said.

Agnes and Kimberling said the artistic process is different for every person and the approach each artist takes is unique to each painting, as the inspiration for individual pieces is almost never the same.

“It depends on the painter,” Kimberling said. “Some painters are really influenced by the world around them and they will draw on their surroundings for inspiration. Other painters will

express something personal and will draw inspiration from themselves.”

Many artists are inspired by their own feelings and use artwork to create visual representations of their feelings, such as nostalgia and curiosity. Corinne Lumens is one such individual.

“I would say that my process normally starts with something capturing my imagination and my yearning to capture it in paint,” Lumens, UI art student, said.

“Currently I am focusing on landscapes, mostly from my travels.”

For some, the addition of personal feelings can be unintentional, evolving the final product into a visual record of an artist’s emotion at a particular moment and Agnes said this is true of his paintings “The mood you are in— happy, sad, sick, mad — effects, to me, how you paint,” Agnes said. “The atmosphere contributes to your emotional state which in turn contributes to your painting.”

Agnes said this is because painting can, for some, be very introspective. Many artists enjoy harnessing that experience and making it visible for the viewer within their work.

“Even though you may not be aware of it a painting can bring out emotions in you both as the painter and as the viewer,” Agnes said. “I am sure there is my personality in every painting I make underneath the crafted emotions of the painting. It just slips in there regardless if you wanted it or not.”

For most paintings, the interest in a piece is also defined, not just by the diligence of an artist during the development of a piece, but also the technique used in rendering the content. Agnes said for the most part his preference is clear in his artwork.

“I will say that I tend to lean more toward abstraction because I am told

that when I try to represent an object as it is, the emotion of the object is overworked,” Agnes said. “To me, your style really depends on who teaches you, who you study, and how you take critiques — the good and the bad.”

Kimberling said decisions about technique are made at the beginning of each piece.

“It depends on the painting,” Kimberling said. “I’ve played around with various styles and each one has its own advantages and drawbacks. I usually end up going with a style that most resembles Impressionism because it’s a nice balance between loose brushwork and representational painting.”

Kimberling also said style is based on both level of experience and personal taste.

“It really depends on the student’s background,” Kimberling said. “Students who have been painting longer tend to have a firm grasp on what style they enjoy and will run with it. Those with less experience like me are more likely to try multiple styles throughout a semester to help figure out what works best for them.”

Exploring style preferences and mastering techniques can be challenging, but Agnes said it’s important to stay focused on the goals that you’ve set for yourself during each project, even when the development of a piece becomes frustrating.

“Like most new things in art you will like it or hate it then later on hate it or like it, but just keep at it because once you develop the basic skills needed to paint you can do anything you want just like with other media,” Agnes said.

Lumens said focusing on the benefits of each new project, despite the difficulties an artist may face, is ultimately how an artist’s

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process and talent develops.

She said that this is especially true in classroom settings.

“In many classes, teachers will have you try and copy a masterpiece of art.

Although this can be very frustrating, I feel that you can learn a lot by analyzing a work that closely,” Lumens said. “Take advantage of the opportunity and learn from it.”

For Kimberling, Lumens and Agnes, the value of art comes down to the simple joy they receive from creating a new work of art.

“Don’t be afraid to paint,” Kimberling said. “Before I started painting I had the mindset that painting was incredibly difficult and that I would never be able to do it well.

Once I actually started I realized that I could transfer what I already knew about art into painting. In the end it has made me a much more well-rounded artist and I highly recommend that all artists should explore it at some point in their academic careers.”

Lumens said it’s important to keep your own goals in mind, especially for students who are just starting out.

“Try not to compare your art to others immediately,” Lumens said. “Do your best, learn as much as you can, practice and watch yourself grow. It’s your own growth and enjoyment that matters.”

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The two are so different, it’s just a matter of what type of music you personally enjoy.

It’s inequitable to be a hater of the electronic fad in a generation that relies so much on technology. Everyone knows there is a difference between instruments and computers, and both styles require hands-on learning, time and talent.

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