THENORTHERNLIGHT OCTOBER 19, 2010
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By Taylor hall The Northern Light
The Seawolf hockey team is ready to open the book on the 2010-11 WCHA campaign as they go to battle with the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. UAA will travel to Duluth Oct. 22-23 for a pair of road contests against a perennial power in the conference. Despite the tough challenge presented in UMD, the Seawolves (1-2-1 overall) are coming into the games having already been on highs and lows in the early season. Last week, the Seawolves were in Fairbanks for the Brice Alaska Goal Rush tournament, hosted by rival UAF. The tourney pitted the Seawolves against fellow WCHA team Colorado College and Union College out of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The game against CC would be a back and forth tilt that would see the ‘Wolves in constant catup mode with the Tigers. It would finally catch up with UAA as they ultimately wouldn’t be able to get the late equalizer and fell to the No. 18 team in nation 4-3. UAA got goals from sophomore Mitch Bruijsten, freshman Jordan Kwas, and the second on the season from junior Curtis
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Edgar Allan Poe honored in Halloween play By heather hamilton The Northern Light
Few can deny the fame of Edgar Allan Poe or his literary contributions to American horror. “The Raven” rendered him a household name immediately after publishing in 1845, and is still arguably his most well known work. But who was Poe the man? What drove him to write such dark tales and poems of illness, murder, insanity and death? According to Shane Mitchell, the auditorium manager of the Wendy Williamson and writer/ director of “The Death of Edgar Allan Poe,” he led a very tragic life. “His father left him, his mother, and two siblings before Poe was three. His mother already had tuberculosis; she died a few months after he left,” Mitchell said. Poe also lost every other woman he ever loved to the same illness, was verbally abused by his stepfather, had drug, alcohol and gambling problems, was scorned by the general public and died in a way so mysterious even now there are dozens of different See Poe PAGe 10
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From left: Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and leading Senatorial candidate Joe Miller field questions from community members at the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, as part of their “Make it Monday” forums, Oct. 11 at the Dena’ina Center.
shana roberson The Northern Light
A forum held on Oct. 11 hosted by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce showcased three of the Alaskan candidates for Senate: Joe Miller, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams. In an afternoon that consisted largely of the candidates’ major talking points, there were glimmers of the candidates’ ideologies and style. Murkowski skillfully repeated each question in her answer to either buy time or to cement the answer in the minds of the audience. She also drew laughs from the audience on several occasions, once after being asked which Senator she most admired. After a moment of pause,
Murkowski responded, “Ugh.” Beyond her style, Murkowski had one clear message for the audience. She highlighted her history of working across the aisle, saying that she plans to continue doing so if re-elected. “I have taken a somewhat unprecedented step as advancing myself as not necessarily a Republican,” Murkowski said, quickly adding that she was still a Republican. Murkowski was not the only one to highlight her political bipartisanship. McAdams touted his bipartisan abilities while also displaying his wit. “You know when I was President of the state School Board Association, I didn’t represent liberal kids,” McAdams said jokingly, as part of an explanation
of his plan to put Alaska before his personal ideology. McAdams also had a penchant for extended metaphors, evident from a comparison of Alaska’s natural resources to an empty house on the market that requires a new agent. He also threw in a metaphor when highlighting one of his life goals. “My goal throughout the course of my lifetime is to see the day when forever gone is Alaska the colony,” McAdams said. “People from the outside come in, extract our resources, take the best bite of our apple, and move their resources and money offshore.” Miller also took to a metaphor, repeating one in particular several times throughout the forum. “Alaskans have to understand that we have to diversify and
ensure all the eggs are not in the federal basket,” Miller said. Often referring to himself in third person, Miller’s tone was serious and he made no jokes. He did receive loud applause after he was the only candidate who specifically mentioned leaving Afghanistan. “The priority has got to be eliminating the threat and then getting out,” Miller said, referring to his own service during Desert Storm as an example. The candidates also took time to criticize each other. During a round in which the candidates were able to ask questions of each other, McAdams criticized Murkowski for voting against appropriations for Alaska. Murkowski defended the charge,
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International students adapt to life in US By Jerzy shedlock The Northern Light
Modern communications systems and the emergence of the Internet have pushed the world’s population toward a global identity faster than ever before. Diversity is now a straightforward fact of everyday life, especially in Anchorage.
Diversity in droves The International student population has continually grown at UAA in recent years. There are 265 students on F-1 and J-1 visas at the University this semester, which is just below the largest international student body ever attained at 280 students. This pool of international students brings different cultures together in a freethinking learning
environment. International student advisor Doni Williams explained that while UAA has remained a small speck on the international radar in past decades, it is becoming to be well known as a travel-abroad University in foreign countries for a number of reasons. “It’s a pleasant atmosphere. Students experience less prejudice here than they would in other parts of the country,” Williams said. “We’ve got a wide variety of majors, and some people dream their whole lives of coming to Alaska. It’s just a matter of getting the word out and making sure students understand they are not going to live in an igloo, or a polar bear is not going to get them when they get off the plane.” Stereotypes associated with Alaska are something the office has had to address, Williams stated. It is assumed that such
stereotypes are not typical, but for students arriving from countries such as Germany and Sudan, our state is a mystery until they decide to come to Alaska and begin learning about it. The visa students from 41 different countries have come to Anchorage for the express purpose of studying at UAA. The largest numbers of F-1 and J-1 students come to the university from Russia, South Korea and Canada, according to International Student Services (ISS). Others come from countries such as Australia, Mongolia, Liberia, Nicaragua, Ghana, Norway, Kenya and Malaysia.
Processed diversity When international students arrive in Anchorage they have to “check in.” This
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