The Northern Light February 11, 2014 Issue

By Nita Mauigoa

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Some folks just want friends — no sex, no romance — just pure, unadulterated, platonic fun.

However, not everyone is a socialite.

Craigslist Anchorage takes a break from the conventional personal ads and offers a “strictly platonic” section, where strangers age 18 and over can solicit friendships.

Posts run the gamut from those who understand what “platonic” means to those who are looking for romance in all the wrong places.

It seems there is something for everyone.

One post read, “I’m fat, want to work out?... Just realized I was fat again. Crap! Well anyone want to join me?”

Another read, “Open-minded smoke buddies…friendly guy here looking to meet some fellow open-minded smoke friends. I’m a very respectful, educated, non-cigarette smoker…”

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By Valerie Hudson

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Valentine’s Day is only three days away. Chocolate sales are rising, restaurants are booked and florists are working their fingers to the bone in preparation. But even this close to the big day, a romantic date night can be achieved without spending a fortune.

Bombay Deluxe, located at 555 W. Northern Lights Blvd., is offering a special at 4 p.m. on Valentine’s Day. The special costs a flat rate of $69 for two people and will include a four-course dinner menu, including champagne. Participants must be 21 years of age or older to attend.

Ashley Lewis, a barista at the Union Station Café, said her ideal Valentine’s Day date “doesn’t have to be expensive or anything, just something fun that both people can enjoy.”

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Jevante Mcalister, a biological sciences student, vividly remembers the day he features@thenorthernlight.org got his heart broken for the first time.

The anticipation led up to that fateful Valentine’s Day. All the hard work and preparation he put into a gift for his crush was going to culminate into something beautiful.

“I made my crush a Valentine’s Day box filled with chocolates, roses, all this stuff,” Mcalister said. “By the time Valentine’s Day came up, she told me that she had a boyfriend, and I was crushed.”

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One cheap and easy date night idea that a sig- between the comfort of the past and moving in an nificant other may enjoy is a Valentine-themed exciting future. breakfast in bed. This idea can cost as little as $25, Carolyn Tague, coordinator of the event and and with a little bit of creative thinking can start founder of the Lemong’o Project, said this event the day off right. “has no fee, just donaA fun Valentine’s Day tions. So if you choose breakfast feature is heartto donate, great! But if “(Date night) doesn’t have shaped toast. To do this, get not, that’s OK too.” to be expensive or anything, heart-shaped cookie cutter, Proceeds will go to which costs less than a dolthe Lemong’o Project, a just something fun that both lar at Wal-Mart, and press it non-profit organization people can enjoy.” into the toast. Accompany that supports the eduthe toast with a breakfast cation, nutrition, health Ashley Lewis meat, scrambled eggs and a and employment needs small bowl of fruit. Arrange of the Maasai people in the breakfast items on a plate, then put it on a Lemong’o, Kenya. breakfast tray along with a rose. Roses can be purSingle red roses will be available for purchase chased at a Holiday gas station at a maximum of during the event. $4, depending on what kind of rose (real or feathThe Anchorage Museum is also offering a free er). Then you’re done — the perfect simple date showing of Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” at 9 p.m. idea for under $25. the night of Valentine’s Day. This event is comOn Valentine’s Day, Alaska Wild Berry Prod- pletely free and participants can enjoy hot chocucts is showing the movie “Chocolat.” The film is olate courtesy of Muse. Concessions include a about a mysterious stranger who moves to a tran- special Valentine’s Day beer from Midnight Sun quil French town with her daughter and opens a Brewing Co. and chocolate from Modern Dwellchocolate shop. The movie centers on the battle ers Chocolate Lounge.

“Want to cuddle with me?”

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Some didn’t mince words: “Who wants to trade rubs? Attach a pic so I know your (sic) real.”

Archeology student Monique Jones said she likes to use Craigslist to make platonic connections because it is less complicated, straight to the point and free.

“It can be creepy and a risk. You just have to have your wits about you all the time,” Jones said.

Maria Bonifacio, associate director of UAA Residence Life, coordinates campus social events all year long. These events include “speed dating,” where students can mingle and find friends.

She said she could see how online “friending” can seem enticing to the less social.

“I see students who just get their meals, go back to their rooms, close the door and I don’t see them until it is time for class,” Bonifacio said.

However, she encouraged students who are tempted to go fishing for friends online to “be careful. You never know what’s on the other end.”

Instead, she recommended students take even a few minutes to check out the myriad of free events on campus, such as salsa dancing or movie nights. She said at least students would be in a safe environment.

The Student Health and Counseling Center, or SHCC, on campus promotes the importance friendship has on mental wellbeing and safety through campus events and booths. An emphasis is placed on safety, regardless to how the connections are made.

“Friends make the highs higher and the lows not quite so low, and it’s good to have someone to share the world with,” said Georgia DeKeyser, director of the SHCC. Despite warnings that may come, Craigslist is brimming with people soliciting friends daily. Many of those posting write that they do not know how to make friends in person, but are lonely and simply crave friends — not sex, not romance.

It seems sites like Craigslist has something enticing for everyone.

But what one wants and what one gets might not turn out to be the same thing.

Who’s single and ready to mingle?

By Valerie Hudson

features2@thenorthernlight.org

UAA’s Student Activities will present Singles Night from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Student Union Den. Sponsors include KRUA, Seawolf Catering, Concert Board and the Black Student Union. Singles Night is a free event.

“They (students) can expect something different than any of the other mingle or meet and greet events that they have been to on campus before. It is nothing like speed dating. We don’t have any of those … pressures, games or activities or events,” said Alexis Rasley, Student Activities programming team member and co-creator of the Singles Night event.

The event will feature music

by KRUA and a “mock-tail” bar. It will also feature games, including a raffle where participants have the chance to

win concert tickets to the Cults, tickets to Black Student Union’s Valentine’s dance or a surprise date night package that will be revealed at the event.

Programming manager Matthew Glenn said the idea clicked one day during a casual conversation with Rasley. He said they wanted to do this for people who are new and haven’t had the opportunity to make friends.

Rasely said although this event is specifically targeted to singles, couples are also welcome to join in on the fun. They would like to keep the atmosphere inviting and low-pressure. She said students do not necessarily have to make a love connection, but she hopes they at least make new friends.

“This event is mostly for people to meet other people, mingle, talk. Instead of like a speed dating atmosphere, it’s more like, ‘Hey, I’m new here. Let’s hang out sometime,’” Glenn said.

“They can expect something different than any of the other mingle or meet-and-greet events that they have been to on campus before. It is nothing like speed dating. We don’t have any of those ... pressures, games or activities or events.”

Alexis Rasley

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He did what many do — pretended it was just a joke and that it was really for someone else.

“I haven’t seen her since sixth grade,” Mcalister said, laughing.

For some, Valentine’s Day is a positive experience, while for others it could be straight-up annoying.

Human services student Dee Bonnie said she is annoyed that there are not enough campus-friendly events for the “mature.”

“I’ve been invited to events like that upcoming Valentine’s Day dance. I don’t want to be a cougar dancing out there with who could be my greatgrandson,” Bonnie said.

Meagan Wagner, a student studying to be a preschool social worker, didn’t mince words.

“I could care less about Valentine’s Day! All I think about is discounted chocolate,” Wagner said.

Danica Bryant, Career Services Center development coordinator, said she feels it puts pressure on single women and that she is annoyed by how Valentine’s Day concentrates this expectation into one day.

“Love shouldn’t be on a specific day. It should be all year long,” Bryant said.

Sophie O’Connell, who is taking general studies courses, said she is annoyed with Valentine’s Day because of the different views she and her boyfriend have.

“He thinks it’s stupid and often completely forgets about it. I think that he and I could still do something special together and I am often times disappointed,” O’Connell said.

Human services student Holly White summed it up simply: “I hate the love and romance thing, period.”

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Valentine’s Day dance fundraiser

By Kelly Ireland

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Alaska’s STD rates are some of the highest in the country.

Use a condom and get tested regularly.

Condoms are available at the UAA Student Health and Counseling Center. Those eligible for Student Health benefits can also get STI testing at the center (www.uaa.alaska.edu/studenthealth).

To find a testing location near you go to www.iknowmine.org

The Black Student Union will host a Valentine’s-themed dance Feb. 25 in the Student Union Cafeteria. The BSU will pay 40 percent of proceeds to the Vera Allen Jones Scholarship and another 40 percent to the Alaska United Negro College Fund, which provides scholarships to all students of color, not just black students.

Black Student Union decided to donate to these charities in support of higher education for all.

Pre-sale tickets for the dance are $8 for students and $10 for guests. Tickets sold after Feb. 14 will be $10 for students and $20 for guests. The dance will take place Feb. 15 from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. in the Student Union Cafeteria. The dance has a semi-formal dress code and BSU asks that students not wear sweats, t-shirts or sneakers. There will be food at the event.

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Wordless and eternal: Love in film

By Jacob Holley-Kline arts2@thenorthernlight.org

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” is what someone would say if they were never in love. That quote comes from the 1970 romance “Love Story.”

It’s hard growing up with messages like this, surrounded by movies like “Titanic,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “Serendipity” and any Nicholas Sparks adaptation.

In movies like this, love is immediate, eternal and wordless. Love at first sight is impossible to avoid and, even if tragedy separates two lovers, they will be together forever.

This scenario has been played out on movie screens for generations, and it’s a damaging notion.

Researchers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland found that relationship problems discussed in their counseling center reflected misconceptions about relationships and love, thanks to Hollywood movies.

One misconception is that if your love is true, you will know everything about each other and what’s wrong in your relationship without talking.

Nobody’s a mind a reader,

and communication is key in a relationship. Some stuff is hard to talk about, sex especially.

In romantic movies, sex is something that begins (and ends) without consent or communication.

Sex can be fun and transcendent all at once, but it begins with trust and understanding, two things unachievable without talking.

Romance in movies is hyper-realized, enhanced like the actors themselves. Little of what is on-screen is true. During the honeymoon phase of a relationship, it may feel like two lovers have “crossed the oceans of time” to find each other, to quote Dracula.

But once that’s over, the real work begins. One comes to find out that the initial infatuation was only a foundation on which real, toilsome love is built. It’s worth it, in the end, if you love that person.

It’s important to not get wrapped up in romantic movies, books and video games.

The characters on-screen live in an idealized world with idealized people in idealized relationships, and these ideals are important.

Real life is a struggle and getting away from that for 90 minutes or two hours at a time isn’t a bad thing, it provides an escape and catharsis. But at what cost?

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What are your plans this year for Valentine’s Day?

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Going to the KRUA 22nd anniversary live shows. Join me!

I’ll spend the time with my husband at a restaurant.

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There is no better way to spend Valentine’s Day than with your girlfriends, eating ice cream and watching zombie movies.

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Hospitality and Restaurant Management

Hang with my girls and be happy being single.

Do you think that legalizing marijuana is good for Alaska?

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Rishi Joshi

Chilling with my good friend Madison and my sister watching my favorite movie, “Warm Bodies,” eating ice cream and having a blast.

It’s the day of love! I plan to make a list of all the little things my wife loves and hide them all over the house where she can find them. After I get back from work, I plan to take her to a nice place for dinner and just let her know how special she is for me.

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Luke Munday

That remains to be seen. I am currently involved in a project to analyze the tax impact on the state.

I think it is happening anyway, so government might as well regulate it.

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FOREIGN FILM FANATIC

‘Once’ is a bittersweet lullaby

By Jacob Holley-Kline arts2@thenorthernlight.org

Tales of star-crossed lovers have graced movie screens since the beginning of cinema. Some are fine with being sappy, others strive for realism. But less often do they become something truly special.

“Once” is about an unnamed Dublin busker (Glen Hansard, “The Commitments”) and woman (Marketa Irglova) and their week in Dublin writing, rehearsing and recording songs together.

When it comes down to it, “Once” is a musical without the theatrics. It’s an understated and perfectly realized gem. It’s by no mean a diamond in the rough. After all, it won Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly” at the 2007 Academy Awards.

It’s hard to describe just how delicate “Once” really feels. It feels like the characters, the narrative and the relationships could fall apart at any moment.

But the absolutely beautiful music holds so much of it together.

The movie secures its place as one of the best, if not the best, musical of the pre-3-Dimensional generation. From the renowned “Falling Slowly” to “When Your Mind’s Made Up,” there isn’t a single performance that doesn’t invoke tears. And what the music doesn’t hold together, the protagonist’s relationship does.

Both together and separate, Irglova and Hansard are charming. Their conversations are frank and lay-

ered. They communicate like two lovelorn people would, and their chemistry is easily apparent. But their real conversations take place in the music. The pain from their past relationships is evident in their interactions, and sometimes it can’t help but bubble to the surface. Those quiet, biting moments sneak up on the viewer.

For all of its emotional richness, “Once” has minimal production values. It was made for only $130,000 and grossed over $20 million at the box office. There are only a few locations, but — thanks to the music, performance and the characters — the world on film feels like the world at large.

“Once” is not sappy. It exists at the corner of love and loss. The journey of guy and girl is unassuming and all-encompassing, all at once.

Director John Carney, Irglova and Hansard set out to tell a musical love story. The result is a bitingly poignant portrait of two people who can’t help but undress through their art. At any point, it could have devolved into cliché and sap, but it never does.

This precious gem revels in the love of art and people without drowning in it, and it’s hard to not revel with it too.

Title: “Once” Director: John Carney Release date: Jan. 20, 2007 Country: Ireland

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Kinetic sculpture General chemistry exhibition interprets concentration cut time, space themes

By Kelly Ireland

arts@thenorthernlight.org UAA art students Hans Hallinen and Scott Pugh will open their Student Union Gallery show, “Notions of Time,” Feb. 18. The show features kinetic sculptures done by the two. Pugh describes “Notions of Time” as “oversized” and “interactive.”

Kinetic sculpture combines movement and art. Sculptures are able to move and morph, changing the nature of the sculpture itself. Kinetic sculpture takes a new look at what sculpture really means and defies the notion that sculpture captures only one moment in time. It also emphasizes that from different angles and perspectives, the way something is seen changes.

Kinetic art began in the early 1900s with artists who tried to convey movement in their art-

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“The drawing is a causality light cone. It’s a common way of describing how cause and effect work in a universe where light has a speed limit. The cones describe a flash of light as it expands across space over time,” said Hans Hallinen, one of the artists who is part of the “Notions of Time” gallery.

Falcons beat ‘Wolves, 88-76

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Junior guard Travis Thompson passes a defender on the way to the basket Friday night.

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In this Chemistry 105 lab, students of term instructor Derek Bascom practice reading and dispensing volumes from glassware.

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org The University of Alaska Anchorage offers a major in chemistry with two concentrations: biochemistry and chemistry.

At present, a total of 80 students have declared chemistry as their major. Of these 80 students, 70 have declared a concentration in biochemistry, and only five have declared a concentration in a general studies track of chemistry called “chemistry.” In response to low enrollment, the College of Arts and Sciences has decided to suspend the chemistry concentration.

The university does not currently offer all the courses needed for students with a declared concentration in chemistry to graduate. UAA cannot add the needed courses because there are not enough students who require them. As a result, biochemistry will become the only available concentration for students pursuing a bachelor’s of science with a major in chemistry.

The change was announced via email, but some students mistakenly interpreted the statements about suspending the specific chemistry concentration to mean a greater breadth of the chemistry program was being suspended.

Students became vocal about the change. Some posted their views about the issue on Facebook, and a group of

students voiced discontent about the perceived affair at the Dean of Students’ Office.

“I understand why people were so upset, because it (the email statement about the change) was misstated,” said Patricia Linton, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “It’s too bad that this track is called ‘chemistry’ with no adjective. It would be better if it was ‘general chemistry,’ which is what I think it’s called at UAF. But it would be a better descriptor to say that the ‘general chemistry’ track is suspended.”

John Stalvey, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, clarified reasons why the university would not suspend the chemistry department as a whole.

“We have plenty of non-majors who need chemistry, so we have many students across the university interested in chemistry,” Stalvey said. “That would be another reason not to do away with chemistry.”

The College of Arts and Sciences at UAA will be partnering with the University of Alaska Fairbanks to offer current students with a concentration in general chemistry some of the upper-division courses needed in order for them to graduate.

“If we suddenly had tons of students interested in general chemistry, we would reopen it. There just does not seem to be that many out there,” Linton said.

Fall commencement in USUAA advocacy report new sports complex

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Running the risk of an unprofitable overlap of graduation and Christmas gifts, UAA students will have the chance to walk at the newly opened Alaska Airlines Center on Dec. 14, just after fall final exams week. The decision to host December and May commencements at the new arena was made at a meeting of the Chancellor’s Cabinet last Tuesday.

To address concerns that summer and fall graduates might not be interested in a fall ceremony, Student Affairs conducted a survey of students, which found 54 of 68 respondents supported the idea.

UAA Special Events Manager Bridgett Mackey, who chairs the Commencement Planning Committee, has been working with a special task force since October sharing information with the Chancellor’s Cabinet to get approval.

“It’s another thing that contributes to enforcing UAA as a community. To have it on campus really creates that front porch feeling,” Mackey said.

Mackey says one advantage of the Alaska Airlines Center is its greater opportunity for the staging of graduates in the arena prior to walking. Whereas past commencements at the Sullivan Arena have had students staged in the hallways or even outside, the Alaska Airfacebook.com/northernlightuaa

lines Center has an auxiliary gym that can be used for that purpose.

Mackey herself remembers having to wait patiently outside the Sullivan the first time she walked.

The Alaska Airlines Center is a much smaller arena, and fall commencement may be necessitated by capacity restrictions. Previous ceremonies at the Sullivan Arena have seen 800–850 students on the floor at a time, not including faculty and orchestra. The new arena has a maximum floor capacity of 892, as well as significantly fewer seats available.

Fall commencement is common practice at schools all over the country, and there are pros and cons.

“I personally wouldn’t have a problem with it, but I think a lot of people might have an issue with vacations,” Fine Arts major Lisa Thayer said.

Fall and summer graduates may be less likely to participate in commencement if they need to wait until May to walk.

“You’ll be more likely to walk if you can walk when you graduate. Friends and family won’t have to wait as long either,” geological sciences major Stephen Warta said.

UAA has not held a fall commencement since the late 1980s, when the university was known as UA,A before merging with Anchorage Community College.

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The USUAA student government Advocacy Team returned from the state capital after a slew of productive meetings with state legislators between Feb. 1 and 4. Along with their other University of Alaska associates, the advocacy team met with senators and representatives in an effort to garner a bigger budget for UA projects.

The UA Coalition of Students advocated for larger budgets for the UAA and UAF engineering buildings, the UAF power plant and high-demand academic programs. The platform encompasses the needs of all schools in the UA system. An agreement was reached on Feb. 2 before meeting with legislators the following Monday and Tuesday.

According to Nithya Thiru, KRUA news, sports, and public affairs director, Chancellor Tom Case asked USUAA to advocate for funds for the Alaska Airlines Center because it can only operate for 6 months on present funds.

UAA representatives thought it was more appropriate to focus on the UA system as a whole and directed their attentions elsewhere. USUAA is planning to head back to the capital to advocate for UAA-specific needs sometime next month.

USUAA President Drew Lemish, who is part of the Advocacy Team, says his decision to refrain from advocating for UAA-specific topics in this past advocathenorthernlight.org

cy meeting was welcomed by the UAA participants.

UA President Pat Gamble gave a budget presentation last Tuesday about the UA systems and the projects that need extra financial attention. UA students were granted the chance to provide testimonials and further explanation on topics that included advising.

Younger Oliver, a member of the Advocacy Team, says this is the first time a platform has not been organized beforehand. This was Oliver’s third and final trip as a UAA advocate. Her experience allowed her to lend advice to her team members.

“Everyone from around the state was on the same page,” Oliver said. “We all had the same goal, and when we actually went in to meet with legislators on Monday and Tuesday, we were all on point and we knew what we were talking about and we had done our research.”

Lemish agreed with Oliver.

“At the end of Tuesday evening, I would say that we accomplished everything we went down to accomplish. And I couldn’t have asked for a better team to go down with. And I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome,” Lemish said.

However, Lemish recognizes the need to return by to Juneau to ensure what UAA needs is conveyed in meetings.

“I think there is an opportunity, and I hope this opportunity is taken advantage of when we go down to advocate for UAA-specific needs, such as the sports complex operating budget,” he said.

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WEEKLY BUZZ Plane diverted to Istanbul

A Pegasus Airline plane was diverted to Istanbul last Friday after a passenger alerted authorities a bomb was on board. The passenger stated there was a bomb in the baggage hold and told the pilot they wanted to land in Sochi, Russia. Instead, the plane, which was flying from Kharkov to Ukraine, landed in Istanbul. Authorities do not know why the hijacker wished to go to Sochi.

Man arrested in 1974 murder case

Lonzo Guthrie, 69, was arrested this week and charged with murder in the 40-year-old murder case of Eileen Ferro. Ferro was 21 when she was stabbed to death in her Massachusetts home. Guthrie was a furniture salesman at the time of the murder. Investigators resubmitted evidence from the crime scene, where they discovered Guthrie’s DNA. Guthrie later committed a crime in Los Angeles and was required to submit DNA samples.

Continued peace talks for Syria

The Syrian government said it would participate in a second round of peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland. During the first round of talks the government agreed to the evacuation of children, women and citizens older than 55 from the city of Homs. The United Nations will also deliver food and medicine to those who stay behind.

Israel settlement permits defy international law

Israel approved a new settlement last week and issued permits to build 550 new homes in East Jerusalem. A 386-unit apartment complex would be built in Har Homa, a 136-unit building would be built in Neve Yakov and a 36-unit complex would be built in Pisgat Zeev. According to international law, it is illegal for Israel to build these homes.

AK family wins suit for death of family member

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In July 2011, a Hooper Bay family called police on their relative who had become drunk and combative. Louis Bunyan, 22, was imprisoned for less than an hour, when he was found dead in his cell due to suicide. A jury found the city negligent after an attorney argued the city failed to complete a suicide screen and did not ensure he had no items on his body that he could harm himself with. Bunyan used the drawstring from his pants to hang himself.

English education senior Caity-Ann Stigen is a resident adviser in Templewood Apartments. Her’s is one of the apartments remodeled in an ongoing renovation effort.

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org The cost of renting an apartment in Anchorage can be high, and working to pay for rent, utilities and groceries can be difficult while attending college.

UAA residence halls offer many programs to help students succeed in education. One of the programs offered is the First Year Experience program in North Hall. This program is for students who have earned less than 20 college credits. It offers peer support and mentoring, as well as a variety of social events and workshops with the goal of helping these students transition and become successful in college.

English education major Caity-Ann Stigen has lived in the residence halls throughout her college career and became a peer mentor her freshman year.

Stigen said she has enjoyed the community campus living has given her, and the friends she made during her first semester of college have become like family.

Residence Life launched a program this semester called “refer a friend.� This program gives residents a $250 discount on their room for referring a friend; in return, the friend would be given a $500 discount for their first time room. “Our spring enrollment as of the add/drop deadline was about 90 percent, so it’s very good for us. That’s up significantly from one spring ago, so spring 2014 is up 10 percent higher occupancy than spring 2013,� said David Weaver, director of University Housing, Dining and Confer-

ence Services.

There several room types students can choose from when the decision has been made to live in the residence halls. There are three residence halls, North, East and West, which house about 200 students each. Rooms vary from single suites to quadruple suites.

The Main Apartment Complex is known as the MAC, and is located west of the residence halls. These apartments offer students four single bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, living room and storage area.

The Templewood apartments are townhouse-style apartments.

They include garages and house a total of 80 students.

All housing offers local phone service, all utilities, a basic digital cable package, an in-suite bathroom, beds and basic furniture and Internet access.

MAC and Templewood apartments are the only residence areas that offer full-service kitchens.

Weaver said UAA is working on renovating all the apartment complexes and hopes to have the renovations completed within the next four years with new paint, flooring and furniture.

Stigen said living in the residence halls is fun because on any given day she can see 50-100 people she knows just by walking to class. She also said that there are many social functions at the halls, and students are always welcome to attend these functions. “Here we offer anything from the range of social, fun events to educational ones — that are about like how to be safe about drinking or not drinking, and

facts about drugs and alcohol and things like that — to keep them educated and always learning, even when they are not in the classroom. We like to put on dances and poker nights and stuff like that,� Stigen said.

Students who have disabilities are also encouraged to live in the residence halls. Weaver says UAA goes out of its way to assist students who need help.

There are accommodations for students in wheelchairs, students with disabilities like blindness or those who need service animals, among other things. “We ask that students work with the office of Disability Support Services and document any needs that they may have, and at that point it makes it much easier for us to understand exactly how we could best understand the student,� Weaver said. “We have a lot of students who experience disabilities at any given time, so we’re pretty good at making accommodations that help students be successful.�

Living in the residence halls is convenient for students because rent and utilities are paid for at the beginning of each semester. Stigen, who is graduating in May, said she is experiencing some anxiety about having to find her own apartment and pay bills on a monthly basis.

Stigen encourages students who have not lived in the residence halls to try it for at least one semester. “I’d say if you have not done it, give it a try because it’s a whole different experience for the university student. It enriches your whole experience because you get something outside of classroom,� she said.

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By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde Now that I think about it, Anchorage is the only place that I’ve ever been on Earth. It’s the only experience I’ve had on this planet and with humanity. Aside from the Internet, Anchorage is the only place I’ve ever been, and your people are the only people I’ve ever met.

So it’s strange whenever people talk about other places or states. George has been to a few places, like New York, Miami or the Bahamas, and from what I’ve seen, those places seem so exotic and weird compared to Alaska. Palm trees, jungles of steel, different languages — it all seems so strange. And that’s not even mentioning the strange creatures that George has encountered in his travels, like the alligator or the majestic sassy cab driver.

My point is that some of these exotic lands have experienced what Alaskans deal with on a regular basis: cold weather.

There are some cases (mostly in the southern states) of traffic coming to a complete halt due to a couple measly millimeters of snow. Alaskans jest and joke about how weak and powerless those in the other states are.

And I just want to say, that’s kind of rude.

Not that it’s not funny, but man, you guys can be vicious sometimes!

In fact, George was talking with a Texan friend of his who’s had to deal with cold weather, and he made a snarky Bane quote: “Ah, you merely adopted the cold. I was born in the cold, raised by it, molded by it!

I didn’t know the warmth of the Lower 48 until I was a man, and by then it was nothing to me!”

Chuckles from both sides ensued, when I realized something: Bane’s got a point about winter. Not an intentional point, but then again, “The Dark Knight Rises” is a pointless movie anyway. (I finally get to make a joke about that movie! Ha!) Alaskans were raised in this kind of weather. They were

brought up in an environment that encouraged snow shoveling in the winter alongside lawn mowing in the summer.

They grew up sledding, skiing, snowboarding, tubing or doing any number of other awesomely fun things in the snow.

So when Anchorage is hit with four feet of snow, we know what to do. We don’t cancel school or drive the city into chaos. We grab our shovels and our plows and get to work so we can, well, get to work. We’re used to it.

Now take a city like, say, Atlanta, which recently was thrown into disarray after getting hit with less than an inch of snow. They can’t deal with snow. They’ve never really had to. They’re a very warm city.

They’ve never had to throw down the gravel or get the plows going, because they don’t really have any.

It’s the same reason George always gets concerned during a heat wave. If you remember last summer, when Anchorage temperatures hit upwards of 83 degrees, you’ll remember that most Alaskans, George included, started to loathe it after the novelty of the heat wore off.

That’s normal, everyday weather for a city like New York or Atlanta. And it just about killed an Alaskan like George.

It works both ways, see. We may joke about how Texas can’t handle the cold, but you can bet that they’re right there laughing back at us when we start sweating up a storm at 80 degrees.

So before you start pointing your finger at those “wusses” in the South, learn your place and think about how funny it is to them when we start cooking in what they would call a rainy day.

The cold betrays them because it belongs to us! We will show them how cold it is where we have made our home, and then it will break them. Our precious advice, gratefully accepted! They will need it. Ah yes, we were wondering what would break first ... their spirits, or their bodies?

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Orange rhymes with of that. Transportation will work itself out, as will our ever-expanding packing list, which now includes an enclosed tent/gazebo for some reason. Even if we have to hitchhike to the venue carrying what must look like the remnants of a thrift shop robbery on our backs, it wouldn’t diminish my excitement at all.

No matter what happens, in seven months I get to see some of the biggest bands alongside some of the best people I know. We get to watch indie concerts, an epic fireworks show and a crowd of thousands of people making very poor decisions.

So even if we do have to walk — which is entirely likely — or if we get stuck driving a rusted out landyacht, we’re not overly concerned. One really just can’t plan a Sasquatch trip; he or she just has to let it happen.

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So far this winter has been a bust. The snow decided to skip town and leave the liquefied corpse of snowboarding season in its wake, and the Superbowl was about as exciting as watching Olympic athletes face off against any sports team I’ve ever been a part of. I don’t want to venture too far into the land of hyperbole, but this winter is tied with Parking Services on my list of things that fail to impress me.

I suppose the lack of winter excitement is the reason I was so unbelievably ecstatic to awake to see the new lineup for Sasquatch 2014 early this week.

For those of you who have wisely found better uses of your time than to read these columns, Sasquatch is a three-day indie music festival that I barely survived last year, and I plan to attend again this summer.

Only three people are going in my group this year, which is fantastic because there are fewer chances of losing people in the crowd. But it’s unfortunate because there are only three people to split the cost of food, beer and gas.

So once again it looks as if I’ll be travelling with people who’ve shunned the concept of normal names and instead prefer to be called Mastodon Jackson and Fiona the Thunder God. Though, now that I think of it, that would be a great name for a hipster band.

Because I am a motivated and driven student, I immediately decided to skip class upon realizing the lineup had been posted in an attempt to get a head start on booking airfare and rental cars. Though I’m now even further behind in math, I do have a better idea of how we might actually get to the show. Unfortunately, I for-

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got that renting a car requires three credit cards, handing over the rights to your firstborn child and the entire gross domestic product of Nigeria when you’re under the age of 25.

Suddenly our trip just got a lot more expensive.

Setting aside the transportation aspect for a moment, we decided to focus on which pieces of gear to bring this time. As a bit of a minimalist, I’m not thrilled that our packing list seems to follow an exponential curve.

The first year my friend went to Sasquatch, he arrived with nothing but a backpack’s worth of supplies. Last year we had one bag each, with mine full of camping gear and his full of Hawaiian shirts.

For the current year we’ve already decided that we absolutely need items such as a broken bugle, a duck call, a high-powered laser and another assortment of Hawaiian shirts.

It’s not that extra preparation is a bad thing — on the contrary we’ll be able to save hundreds of dollars by packing the rental car (that we don’t have) full of canned food to avoid paying $12 a meal in the venue. Plus, assuming we’re able to rent a drivable hunk of rust with wheels, we’ll have the option of abandoning the festival at full speed once it’s over instead of getting stuck in the slow-moving crowd of exhausted attendees — think “Walking Dead” meets unwashed hipster horde.

So at the moment, we have admission passes to Sasquatch with no airplane tickets and no method of instate transportation, assuming we make it to Washington. Additionally, we’re not even entirely sure we can get work off for that time period, or that anyone would be crazy enough to rent us a car. Funding for the adventure is speculative at best, and at the moment we recognize about half a percent of the bands attending.

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works, such as Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo. According to Oxford Art Online, artists after them “began to develop their color organs and projection techniques in the direction of an art medium consisting of light and movement.”

In the 1950s, kinetic art began to expand with the works of artists Pol Bury, Jean Tinguely, Nicolas Schoffer and Harry Kramer, who lead the beginnings of mechanical movement in art. Then in 1960, following published works about kinetic art and large exhibitions of kinetic artwork in Europe and the United States, kinetic art was finally able to become a legitimate art style.

The “Notions of Time” show will feature this dynamic style of art.

Hallinen says, “There’s a great deal of wood involved, mirrored surfaces, some mechanical and electronic components, procedurally generated animation. There will be some sound components as well.”

“Notions of Time” will indeed be very different from any other show featured in the Student Union Gallery and will likely make many question what can be considered art and what art is defined as.

“I often feel we have little opportunity to really push the bounds of what is possible for art today and in the

now. I looked at this show as an opportunity to explore what is really possible when constructing physical objects that not only occupy space, but sometimes travel through it,” Pugh said.

Pugh’s main piece for “Notions of Time” takes a look at time and what will happen with endless consumption.

“It’s a conversation on the price of humanity’s endless desire for consumer goods and what we are losing from the natural world as a result,” Pugh said.

The piece Pugh is discussing is a large eagle constructed of reclaimed wood that will slowly fall apart throughout the showcase to reveal the inner steel skeleton of the eagle.

Hallinen and Pugh have been working on “Notions of Time” for over a year. The two were inspired by movement and time. They tried to make those inspirations the focus of the exhibition and would like their audience to think about their own perceptions of time.

Hallinen was also inspired by a variety of influential men in both the art world and the science and mathematics world, such as Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, the American architect famous for designing the geodesic dome; HSM Coxeter, a prominent mathematician of the 20th century, who focused on geometry; John Cage, composer famous for coining indeterminacy of music,

ALBUM REVIEW

‘Croz’ by

David Crosby

By Oliver Petraitis KRUA Music Manager

Those who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame are probably doing something right. If one has been inducted twice, then there’s no doubt. He or she is definitely doing something right.

There aren’t too many people who can boast that they’ve been twice inducted in that Hall Of Fame, but among that group is David Crosby, famously of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and occasionally Young. Basically, he’s a rock ‘n’ roll hero, an icon to the point that just the abbreviation of his name on his new record “Croz“ is enough to say it all.

So here’s what he’s doing (and doing right). For one, the album is intensely groovy.

Nearly every song, regardless of the tempo or drive, is full of a groove that couldn’t be subdued even with tiger tranquilizers.

Album opener “What’s Broken” is an example of this. The answer to the titular question hopefully isn’t listeners’ dancing muscles, because the growling Rhodes keys, funky bass line and twitchy break beats at the drum kit are a compelling force for dance.

This continues throughout the album. When one thinks dancing, he or she might not default to images of 72-year-old rock ‘n’ roll versions of Gandalf, but this dude can write some serious funky tunes.

The second bit of excellence on this record is its ability to balance classic rock ‘n’ roll against modern adaptations. “Croz” sounds simultaneously as if it came out of 1974 and 2014.

There’s a healthy dose of the old and the new in each track, as in the bass-driven “Set That Baggage Down,” which is full of old-school call-and-response choruses, hair-raising flourishes on a wickedly toned bass guitar and a heavy modern groove.

This new-in-old sound is most strikingly apparent on “Holding On To Nothing,” which begins as an acoustic hand-drum jam and evolves into a wailing synthy epic by the end of the 4-minute song. Classic blues licks are juxtaposed with reverse loops of guitar solos. If the devil is in the details on this one, the devil’s dressed in a tux.

And then there’s Crosby himself. Not only is he a great lyricist, but he’s also a wonderful singer. “Slice of Time” is a heavily groovy track with a lot of empty space that allows him to scamper all over the register in his silky, time-worn voice.

Crosby is kind of like a good bottle of wine: He’s old and he is good!

Whereas many rock stars lose their cool in their later years, there’s something about Crosby that preserves his iconic status in rock ‘n’ roll history.

One of the worst and best characteristics of “Croz” is the album art. The font looks like it was done in Microsoft Paint.

But that only contributes to the fact that this record is a total sleeper. Not only does Crosby have some seriously impressive horn-owl eyebrows, but if one had somehow managed to never hear a piece of music with some bit of his influence, this record could easily win him or her over.

Every song is a little surprise, from the psychedelic “If She Called” to the digital drum-kit folk ballad that is “Dangerous Night.”

So all cover art aside, the diversity and attention to detail on this record makes “Croz” an absolute winner.

Album: “Croz” Artist: David Crosby Genre: Rock Label: Blue Castle Records Release Date: Jan. 28, 2014

or the “ability of a piece to be performed in substantially different ways”; and James Turrell, an artist famous for his light and space works, such as the Roden Crater in Flagstaff, Arizona.

“Notions of Time” is the first show of its kind to come to the Student Union Gallery and will be an interesting new take on movement, time, space and light.

“Notions of Time” opens Feb. 18 and will be open until March 7. The opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Student Union Gallery.

The midday reception is from 1:30-3 p.m. Feb. 19 in the same location.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Monuments Men’ squanders monumental talent

By George Hyde

gchyde@thenorthernlight.org This film, based on a true story, tells the story of a group of artists who put their lives on the line to protect art and culture in the midst of the largest and most violent war in world history. It’s a message that the film hammers home several times: the culture that the Nazis were trying to steal, and ultimately destroy, is more valuable than perhaps anything else at stake in the war.

It’s unfortunate that “The Monuments Men� often throws that message to the wayside and disappoints with its loose plot and uneven tone.

The story follows army lieutenants Frank Stokes (George Clooney, “Gravity�) and James Granger (Matt Damon, “Elysium�) as they assemble a squad of seven art experts in order to locate and identify world-famous pieces of art stolen by the Nazis. However, the squad soon finds they don’t have much time.

The Fuhrer has issued an order to destroy

everything, art included, should the Reich fail. With Allied victory soon at hand, it’s up to this squad to rescue as many pieces of art as they possibly can.

The film feels incredibly preachy at moments, as George Clooney gives his several monologues drilling into the audience’s mind that destroying art is bad. There are several of these monologues throughout the film, and they distract from the rest of the film — because aside from the monologues, there are few moments where the audience gets the impression that these works of art are really important.

Aside from the preachy bits, the film takes on a comedic, almost cartoonish tone that seems unfitting of any World War II film. While the characters are very well written and play off of each other nicely, they never seem to hit any moments of true gravity, especially with all of the incredibly violent scenes happening around them.

At times, it almost feels like an old World War II propaganda film meant to build up American can-do spirit against

an enemy that doesn’t really exist anymore.

That’s incredibly unfortunate, because the much-advertised all-star cast really flaunts their stuff. As mentioned before, the characters are exceptionally written, and all of them are very likable.

It’s a shame that all of the film’s talent and potential was squandered to deliver an almost cartoonish experience, with a few monologues thrown in to haphazardly communicatean important message. Fans of any of the actors listed on

the poster should give the film a gander, but be warned that the subject matter isn’t taken very seriously.

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GAME REVIEW

‘Final Fantasy VI’ is a classic, but not on smartphones

By George Hyde

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Make no mistake: “Final Fantasy VI� is a landmark of the gaming medium. Its characters had unprecedented depth for the time, the soundtrack blows the minds of all who hear it even today, and the tale is a classic, cautionary story of mankind ascending into godhood. Many fans even rank it among the best in the “Final Fantasy� series, or even among the best games ever made.

It’s with a heavy heart, then, that I recommend against picking up the recent re-release on the App Store and Google Play.

The release is littered with bugs, typos and new artwork that is detrimental to the experience as a whole.

The game’s famous story takes cues from diverse sources such as “Star Wars,� “The Legend of Zelda� and even the biblical Book of Genesis. One thousand years after the War of the Magi, a fierce war that robbed the world of all magic, the Gestahlian Empire seeks to restore magic again. The story, at first, revolves around Terra, a mysterious girl with magical powers as she is juggled between the Empire and a rebellion crew known as the Returners. Both forces of this political struggle fight on, unaware of the consequences that magic will bring to the world.

It’s a timeless tale, but it’s the characters that bring it to life and give the game its own identity.

They were fleshed out, played off of each other well, and brought enough levity with them to make the game’s drama more genuine.

When the game was first released in 1994, a story and cast as deep

as this was never seen before, and it was one of the first games to be on par with novels or operas in terms of emotional depth. Even today, it still remains a masterpiece.

However, the Android and iOS versions muck it up with issues like new translations (which result in obvious typos), ugly new character sprites and the worst sin that any mobile developer could commit: always-online digital rights management.

That’s right: if players don’t have a reliable 3G or higher connection, and aren’t connected to Wi-Fi, they won’t be able to continue their adventure. That means players who don’t use mobile data must be tethered to Wi-Fi hotspots as they play, which is a death knell when it comes to portability.

There are better ways to experience this title, even on the go.

For those with PlayStation Portables or PlayStation Vitas, the game is available at a lower price with better graphics, a better translation and the ability to play offline. And for players with hardware old enough, there’s even a Game Boy Advance version out there.

If a smartphone or tablet is your only gaming device, then by all means, pick up “Final Fantasy VI,� because it’s a masterpiece of the gaming medium that no game enthusiast should be without. But for those with any other gaming system, there are better versions out there for lower prices.

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CORRECTIONS On Page 7 of the Feb. 4 issue of The Northern Light, we misnamed the 2011 Hungarian drama “The Turin Horse.”

On Page 8 in the “Celebrity look alikes” article, we misidentified Salma Hayek’s ethnicity. Hayek is ethnically Mexican; she is Spanishspeaking.

On Page 8, we misspelled the name of “That Awkward Moment” movie review contributor Gabriela Riquelme.

On Page 13 we misidentified Carey Brown’s position in the university. He is the academic advising coordinator for the College of Health.