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The windmill: A symbol of Spenardian kitsch

By Victoria Petersen

vgpetersen@thenorthernlight.org

The windmill of Spenard, located in the Koot’s parking lot on Spenard Road and 26 Avenue, stands as a symbol of Spenardian culture. Over the decades the windmill has seen major changes come to the area. From Spenard becoming a part of the Municipality of Anchorage in the 1970s, big oil money and the “world famous” Chilkoot Charlie’s in the 1980s, to today with the introduction of the Spenard Food Truck Carnival and Farmer’s Market; the windmill has seen it all.

JJ Doherty, who has been working at Koot’s since 2006, recognizes the landmark as one of Spenard’s oldest treasures.

“It’s been here since 1970, before Spenard was really Spenard. It’s been a landmark,” Doherty said.

The old white windmill, with chipping paint is strewn with lights shining red, white and green, looms over Spenard as the neighborhood’s most recognizable monument.

“It definitely is a landmark. It’s sort of an icon of the area,” Brendan Stuart, who works in the area of Spenard, said.

Owner and operator of the Spenard Food Truck Carnival, Darrin Huycke, sees the landmark as quintessentially Spenardian, adding to the culture of the neighborhood.

“It’s like a beacon. Like, there’s a lot of action going on here. It’s probably the tallest thing in Spenard period.

It’s kind of goofy and definitely straight from the inception of Spenard, you know, back in the day when it was its own little city within a city. It keeps Spenard weird.

It was born back then and it’s just been continuing to be a part of that.”

Before the windmill made its home in the Koot’s

parking lot, watching over farmers markets and food truck carnivals, the windmill lived on East Fireweed Lane.

Byron Gillam, owner of the liquor store Kut Rate Kid, located on Fireweed Lane and Gambell Street, was traveling in Sacramento, California in the late 1950s.

During his time Gillam discovered a local business with an ornamental windmill in the front. Gillam found a liking for the windmill and asked the owner how to get his own. For $13,000, Gillam bought and installed the windmill kit in front of his liquor store on Fireweed Lane in the early 1960s.

The people of Spenard weren’t fond of the new installation. Seeing it as a flashy advertisement, a municipal ordinance was passed prohibiting large commercial signs, in hopes to bring the it down. With no advertisement on the windmill itself, it stood tall and stayed.

Throughout the 1970s, the windmill fell went through multiple owners, and due to bankruptcy, became an orphan of Fireweed Lane. Michael “Mafia Mike” Von Gnatensky, local character and owner of a pizza restaurant, bought the windmill in the 1980s and gave Mike Gordon, owner of Chilkoot Charlie’s, an offer he couldn’t refuse.

In the mid-1980s Von Gnatensky told Gordon that he would give the windmill to him if he paid to move it and install it in the parking lot of Koot’s. Von Gnatensky also requested that a plaque be added to the windmill detailing the donation by “Mafia Mike.” The plaque is now long gone. When the windmill moved a time capsule was planted beneath it’s new resting spot.

Mark Butler, one of the founders of the Spenard Farmer’s Market, lives in what he calls “lower Spenard,” down the hill by Chester Creek.

“It’s where Spenard started. It’s a significant landmark of this place. It’s funny, we don’t have mountain views, and we don’t have views of the ocean, so in the

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The Windmill stands tall as an Anchorage landmark and serves as the meeting place for the weekly Spenard Food Truck Carnival.

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Parking services put to the test by the pros

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Casey Jones, Vice President of SP+, was on hand to answer questions from the UAA community about the findings and recommendations put forth from his firm on the school’s transportation needs.

By Nolin Ainsworth

sports@thenorthernlight.org

A comprehensive assessment of UAA Parking Services performed by an outside consulting firm was presented last week in a forum titled, “The Future of Parking at UAA” in the Consortium Library.

Casey Jones of the Boise-based con-

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sulting firm SP+ discussed his company’s findings with a thin crowd of mostly university administrative staff.

“By comparison to many other places, things are going really well here,” Jones, who has been in the parking industry for over two decades, said.

The firm did most of its work remotely, aside from two short visits to campus last semester. The on-campus visits

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allowed Jones to interact with students face-to-face, and to encourage them fill out an online survey regarding perceptions of the parking at UAA. The surveys revealed parking services is perceived as doing a “satisfactory” job. Jones said that’s not the case at other colleges and universities.

“A lot of places I go, there are staffs and pitchforks,” he said.

Parking availability and proximity are the most important factors to UAA Parking Services customers, and outreach and communications are seen as weak, according to survey results.

In addition to the surveys, SP+ analyzed the program’s budget, organizational structure, and use of technology.

The firm’s repository of parking and transportation profiles of past university clients allowed them to identify eight “parking peers,” or universities that have similar parking and transportation needs based on metrics like size, distance from municipality, and topography. This was another source of input for his team.

“We’ve spent a lot of time at other campuses and universities and that factors in some because we’ve seen and implemented best practices in other places,” Jones said in an interview last semester.

The brunt of Jones’ presentation out-

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lined nine priority recommendations based on the evaluation. Jones highlighted three in particular that should carry the most weight: implementing of a strategic visioning process, realigning parking services and switching to a demandbased permitting system.

Strategic Visioning Process The strategic visioning process is meant for the organization to define what success looks like to them.

“It’s not difficult to fall into a purely operational orientation and just one detail after another after another after another and you lack any kind of strategic approach,” Jones said.

Realignment of Parking Services Jones said consolidating transportation services such as parking, shuttle, bicycle and bus into one department would be more efficient and cost-effective than having separate offices.

“We think of people as singular modes, once a driver, always a driver, once a bicyclist, always a bicyclist,” Jones said. “If we think of the service as not so much parking and transportation

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WINDMILL: An icon of the neighborhood

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middle of funky Spenard we have the windmill. Who would have thought?” Butler said.

Local businessman, Bob Gillam, who founded McKinley Capital Management, LLC, admired the windmill for its sentimental value. Gillam made multiple offers to Gordon, while he owned Chilkoot Charlie’s, to buy the windmill from him to assemble it at his family’s property in Lake Clark. Gordon, in an article he wrote

on growingupanchorage.com, mentioned he would be willing to make this happen for Gillam, but in the case of a deal would require Gillam to recreate another windmill for the Spenard area. However, the deal was never made and the original remains in the Koot’s parking lot.

In 2015, Gordon sold Chilkoot Charlie’s to a group of employees, who manage the business, and was renamed Koot’s. The new establishment maintains the iconic windmill. The property itself, including the windmill, was sold to Moreland Properties, LLC, who remains hands-off with the operation of Koot’s and the accom-

panying upkeep of the windmill. The staple Spenardian landmark looks like it’s here to stay.

Moreland Properties, LLC, official and CFO of Moose’s Tooth, Warren Hancock stresses the symbolic value of the windmill to the area.

“No plans to do anything with the windmill. We definitely feel it is an important symbol of Spenard,” Hancock said.

Without any plans for the windmill, Spenardians and Anchoragites can enjoy the quirky monument on the historic corner of Spenard for years to come.

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as access and mobility, housing all those services that allow someone to get to the place that they wish to go, makes more sense.”

Glenna Muncy, Director of Parking Services, said her program has long worked hand-in-hand with shuttle services, in addition to promoting alternative transportation modes like the People Mover bus.

“I don’t think Casey is suggesting anything new here,” Muncy said. “What we’re looking at is really just making sure that our missions are aligned and that the budget that we are expending on both sides goes to serve the same purpose.”

Included in the recommended realignment would be the creation of two new positions: a special events coordinator and communications coordinator.

“That persons job in essence would be to work with all the venues on campus to ensure they have parking and transportation services to support their events,” Jones said of the events coordinator.

Parking services shares a marketing director — Brandon Moore — with other auxiliary departments like the bookstore and housing, which limits its reach.

“I’m going to be tasked with easily readable, simple, consistent communication,” Moore, who was in attendance for the presentation, said.

Demand-based permit system The demand-based permitting system encourages students to park in the less popular lots by charging them less to do so.

“In the East side of campus, an under-utilized resource, parking services should be able to say, ‘Let’s use cost as an incentive to get people to park there. Let’s really discount this thing so people start to make a trade off that makes sense,’” Jones said. “Well, yes, it’s a little farther away, or yes, it’s not connected to the skywalk

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The College of Engineering parking garage located off UAA Dr. will open this coming fall semester and will add an additional 450 parking spaces at UAA.

system or whatever, but it’s a heck of a lot cheaper and so I can pocket that difference if I want.”

The permit structure is changing next semester, but not to a demand-based system as Jones suggested.

“We need to find out with our new garage, which is opening this fall, with those three garages and the other 24 surface lots that we manage, where are our pinch points? Where are the new pinch points going to be when we have this open access for all of campus?”

Muncy said.

Starting next fall students will have three permit options: full day, evening, and housing. The full day permit can be purchased for a year or semester. Both the full day and evening permits allow access to all garages and surface lots.

The Future Not all the recommendations given by SP+ will be adopted by the parking services. However, the information relayed by the firm will undoubtedly have long-term effects of this campus.

Parking services is preparing additional information on the assessment soon through their website: uaa.alaska.edu/parking.

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Alaska Shield: Emergency response exercise at UAA

By Kelly Ireland

editor@thenorthernlight.org

On April 1 numerous first responder organizations in Alaska came together to participate in an emergency response training exercise known as Alaska Shield. The event is a simulation of a real emergency. It is designed to test emergency organization’s ability to respond to a crisis. The organizations were faced with an active shooter/hostage simulation in Beatrice McDonald Hall at UAA. Each participating organization worked together to suppress the actor acting as the shooter.

Alaska Homeland Security, Alaska FBI, Alaska Fire Department, Providence Hospital, Alaska Joint Terrorism Task Force, American Red Cross, APD, UPD and more participated in the event. According to Alaska Homeland Security, the bicentennial exercises are designed to evaluate 13 core capabilities of participants: community resilience, cybersecurity, environment response/health & safety, fatality management services, intelligence & information sharing, mass care services, mass search and rescue operations, on-scene security and protection, operational communications, operational coordination, planning, public health and medical services, and public information and warning.

USUAA Vice President Matthieu Ostrander in an interview earlier this semester before the event explained how the Alaska Shield drill is a tool for emergency planning. “‘We don’t know’ isn’t the response you want when you ask ‘what if?’ Preparing our response could save lives. It also helps up recognize what we can do now. We might realize that we need stronger doors or a better way to navigate buildings in emergencies,” said Ostrander.

The event began with a debriefing prior to the simulation. All participants were then asked to clear the building. Police then ran a metal detector over the actors as they reentered the building to play their parts in the scenario. The security was to ensure that organizations

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Chancellor Tom Case and other university officials and first responders give a press conference to the media as if the emergency response training exercise on April 1 were real. The press conference was a part of the exercise to help train PR officials in dealing with an emergency and the media.

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would only be responding to a simulation and not a real emergency.

After the actors playing victims entered the building the actor playing the shooter ran in around 9 a.m.

What sounded like gun shots were heard shortly after he entered. Minutes later UPD and FBI went in to clear the building. The scenario continued to unfold until about 10 a.m. as actors playing victims exited the building in three separate groups and some individually. The actors were then lead by FBI agents to the Rasmuson Hall to be interviewed about how things unfolded. Therapy dogs from National Crisis Response Canine Team were also available to actors in the Rasmuson Hall.

“Canines are here to work with the witnesses and with the families and with the survivors,” said Connie Jantzen, president of the National Crisis Response Canine Team at the event.

Following the clearing of the building Assistant Vice Chancellor of University Relations Kristin DeSmith, Chancellor Tom Case and UPD Chief of Police Brad Munn and other emergency officials gave a staged press release that opened with DeSmith stating that this was

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One of the actors at the Alaska Shield emergency response exercise on April 1 after exiting the Beatrice McDonald Hall as one of the first released from the building.

only a part of the training and not a real emergency.

After DeSmith opened with the disclaimer the press release followed as if it were real. This allowed univer sity officials to practice giving a press release in case of a real emergency.

After the press release the scenario winded down.

Organizations met again to debrief and discuss how things went.

“I think overall it went well in terms of interacting with so many different agencies... it actually went pretty well. We learned that though the capabilities are there it’s always good to keep training,” said UPD officer John Chu. “I think that in order to get good at something you have to practice... I heard someone else say, if you look at our women’s basketball team they couldn’t have gotten where they have gotten without practice.”

The Alaska Shield emergency response training exercise has been useful to all organizations involved in determining where they need to improve and allowing them to practice in the event of a real emergency. Alaska Shield will also help the university’s Incident Management Team to assess how to make UAA a safer place.

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Actors acting as released hostages from the Beatrice McDonald Hall on April 1 for the Alaska Shield emergency response training exercise.

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FBI agents and UPD enter Beatrice McDonald Hall to clear the building of threats and rescue those acting as victims during the Alaska Shield emergency response training exercise on April 1.

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Two actors at the Alaska Shield emergency response training on April 1 with their makeup wounds.

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Klax’s recap on UAA’s emergency response exercise

SEAWOLF

SLUG

In the year 2013, an alien brain slug from one of the galaxy’s most feared empires crash-landed on Earth and assumed control of a lowly reporter at this newspaper.

These are his stories.

By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde Oh boy, I sure got treated to some excellent entertainment this last April Fool’s Day. No, none of the staff here at The Northern Light got pranked in a particularly hilarious manner, much to my dismay. However, an emergency response exercise was held at the Beatrice McDonald Hall to train Alaska’s first responders in responding to a potential terrorist threat on campus.

The Northern Light saw this as an excellent opportunity to cover the event as a fake breaking news scenario for a training on covering breaking news. I’m not going to share exactly what was reported by the staff at the end of the event, but let’s just say a lot of blood, sweat and tears made it into the final pieces.

I accompanied my host George in his camera bag, occasionally popping my head out to see the action. I have an eyewitness account of what happened.

Here’s the play by play.

The purpose of the exercise was a bit

undermined when our executive editor warned us a month in advance. To be fair, all we knew in advance was this: - Be there before 8 a.m.

- Charge your camera’s batteries beforehand, because you — George and I — are the videographer.

- Muffins and pizza will be provided.

That last tidbit was enough to get my host out of bed and in the office before 8 a.m. After Kelly showed up, she looked shocked when we asked what story we would be breaking. She told us this was just a normal TNL breakfast meeting!

Nothing’s going on on-campus!

An obvious ruse, but we played along. Soon enough, 30 minutes after we showed up, the office got a phone call about gunshots and police activity at the Beatrice McDonald Hall. We all ran (or speed-walked, in George’s case — he lacks stamina) over to the scene.

This being a simulation, the gunshots hadn’t actually been fired yet when we arrived. We were a few minutes early. In keeping with the spirit of the exercise, I attributed this to a psychic premonition on my part. Journalism students take note: that’s a good skill to have.

Of course, we naturally heard gunshots a few minutes later. The game was afoot for the police, but again, in keeping with the simulation, we at TNL decided to wait two or three minutes so as to have a more realistic response to the scenario.

It didn’t stop George from recording the police and FBI entering the building with huge assault rifles that I can only assume were probably fake as well.

A few moments later, a few “victims” were escorted out by the cops. The game was finally afoot for us. It took some effort to get near them because of the escorts, but some of the reporters were able to get in and talk to them. My host decided to keep his distance and try and get some shots of the building’s inside as the cops cleared it out.

The victims were then escorted to the Rasmuson Hall for questioning, along with a few therapy dogs to help them calm down. This was a prime distraction for George to get away from the building and follow the victims.

Here’s the first huge lesson in reporting news scenarios like this: victims don’t want to talk to you if you’re a vulture trying to pry information. If you decide to help them out or comfort them first, they’ll be much more willing to help you out.

While many of our team’s reporter’s went in and discussed the incident with the victims, George saw an FBI agent in between questionings and saw an opportunity. In a calm, organic manner, he approached her and asked her some questions. She reiterated what we already knew: there’s an active shooter situation on campus, and the cops are clearing the building out.

We spent the next few minutes wandering between the Rasmuson and the Beatrice McDonald, juggling the two situations and scenarios and getting some footage of each. A lot of the cops we talked to told us they didn’t have any information, but a police scanner we over-

heard clued us in otherwise.

Here’s huge lesson two: verify everything. When police are investigating a massive crime scene, there’s a lot that even they don’t know. A lot of the information that does become available has to get filtered by, say, a PR person so that it can be presented to the media in an orderly and verified fashion.

About 20 minutes later, a press conference was called by the chief of the University Police Department Brad Munn, as well as Chancellor Tom Case. We didn’t realize it when the chief said it, but the most important information was revealed immediately: Five dead including the shooter. Sixteen injured.

Huge lesson three: the most important question on every reader’s mind when there’s a mass shooting is not who the shooter is, or whether or not campus is closed — though if you’re a particularly lazy and antisocial person, the latter tidbit might be more important — it’s, “are my friends and family safe?”

The statistics of the incident should have been front and center when we produced our media after the press conference. Even I, with my divine brain slug mental prowess, neglected to remind George that the first line of his video probably should have been how many casualties.

It was a stressful start to a day that should’ve been full of jests and japes, but it taught the entire staff several important lessons about covering this kind of thing.

As my audience, though, let me impart some wisdom to you: when something like this happens, don’t believe the first thing you read. Verify that information.

There are many stories of sloppy reporters getting a name wrong and implicating someone innocent.

Don’t be that guy.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

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Better than concessions: Homemade soft pretzels Ingredients • • • • • • • • • •

By Victoria Petersen

vgpetersen@thenorthernlight.org

Originating in Europe, pretzels have become a staple food in American culture. Soft pretzels can be found in shopping malls, movie theaters, and gas stations all over the United States.

Pretzels are most commonly sprinkled with salt, but in the past century have been seasoned with a more wild array of seasonings. Popular pretzel seasonings include, but is not limited to, nuts, cinnamon, sugar, cheese, and chocolate.

Add any seasonings you desire to this pretzel recipe for a savory or sweet snack.

One packet of active dry yeast 1 cup of warm water 1 tablespoon of melted butter 1 tablespoon of sugar 1 tablespoon of salt 3 cups of flour 2 cups of water 4 tablespoons of baking soda 1 tablespoon of coarse salt, for topping 6 tablespoons of melted butter

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1. Preheat oven to 475 degrees, and grease a baking sheet.

2. Combine yeast with warm water and sugar in a large bowl. Wait for the mixture to become frothy. Then stir in salt and melted butter.

3. Add the flour 1 cup at a time, while you mix with a spoon, until a dough forms and is no longer sticky. The dough is ready to knead when it is bouncy and tacky. Knead for about five minutes.

4. Place the dough back into the bowl after kneading and let it rise for 30 minutes.

5. While you let the dough rest prepare the baking soda bath. In a large pan boil 2 cups of water and the baking soda. Wait for the baking soda to mostly dissolve and take off heat.

6. When the dough is ready after thirty minutes take out of the bowl and cut into eight equal parts.

7. Take each part and roll into a shape of a long thin rope. At this time shape into a pretzel. When the pretzels are in their shape place each pretzel into the baking soda bath, which should be lukewarm in temperature at this point, submerging the pretzel briefly into the water, saturating all parts of the dough.

8. When each pretzel has been bathed in the baking soda bath place each on the grease pan, allowing plenty of room, 4-6 inches, in between each pretzel to allow for growth.

9. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Or until the pretzels have reached a golden brown color. When taken out of the oven brush the pretzels with the melted butter and sprinkle with the coarse salt.

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The namesakes of Rasmuson Hall: Edward and Cathrynn Rasmuson

By Jake Johnson

jjohnson@thenorthernlight.org

The west campus of UAA houses a building named in honor of Alaska’s largest charitable foundation. Rasmuson Hall, formerly called the Business Education Building was renamed after Edward B. Rasmuson and his wife Cathryn Rasmuson, who sponsored the building through his family’s charity foundation in 2006. Edward is the current chairman on the board of the Rasmuson Foundation that his great-grandmother, Jenny Olson Rasmuson, started in 1955.

Edward is a third generation banker and Alaskan who is credited with evolving the Rasmuson Foundation into the largest charity foundation in Alaska. He graduated from Harvard in 1962, then spent two years working at an investment firm before he moved back to Ketchikan in 1964. After returning to Ketchikan, he started his career at the National Bank of Alaska. By 1974, he was president of the bank and became chairman of the board in 1985. When the National Bank of Alaska merged with Wells Fargo, Edward became the chairman of the Statewide Advisory Board for the bank.

Cathryn Rasmuson has served as vice president of the Rasmuson Foundation since 1997. In the past 35 years, she has been involved with countless numbers of non-profit organizations and providing her expertise to those in need. Cathryn was born in Canada and moved to Alaska in 1969, where she met, fell in love with and married Edward in 1969, just seven months later. She wouldn’t become a citizen of the United States until 1977. Cathryn and Edward have devoted almost 40 years to the Rasmuson Foundation in an attempt to keep its original values.

Edward’s great-grandmother Jenny

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Rasmuson Hall is named after Edward and Cathryn Rasmuson. The building was renamed in 2006.

started the foundation in honor of her late husband Edward Anton (E.A.) Rasmuson. E.A. assumed control of the National Bank of Alaska in 1918, he had no banking experience but still accepted the formidable task of taking on a bank in serious financial trouble. Jenny and E.A. never lost faith in the bank and grew it into one the most profitable banks in Alaska. When E.A. died in 1949, he left the bank to his son, Elmer Rasmuson, Edward’s father.

Elmer grew the bank from a community level into a statewide establishment.

Elmer established the foundations first grant of $250. When Elmer passed at the age of 91 in 2000, he left his personal for-

tune of over $400 million to charity, most of which went to the family foundation.

Today, Edward and Cathryn have grown the foundation’s budget to over $650,000,000. Achieving all of this while while still keeping true to the values established by Edward’s great-grandmother.

Vice President of Communication at the Rasmuson Foundation, Cassandra Stalzer, has worked for the foundation for almost eight years. Stalzer works with the foundation in an attempt to increase understanding about their grant making opportunities. In her time at the foundation, Edward and Cathryn have stayed readily involved with all of the founda-

tion’s works.

“In my time here, Ed and Cathy have been the chair and vice chair respectively of the Foundation,” Stalzer said. “They have taught me how to take the long view in solving social issues, how to apply financial concepts to social sector investments, and that gratitude for the work of others is a powerful force for good.”

Edward and Cathryn lead the decision to have Rasmuson Hall at UAA renovated and updated for students when it was renamed. For years, the couple has lent helping hands to Alaskans across the state. Their charity will live on in Rasmuson Hall and Alaska for years to come.

On the subject of gear and why I have too much A well-meaning column rife with clunky metaphors and horrible advice, Orange Rhymes With is the goto place to break the monotony of classes and laugh at someone else’s misfortune.

By Evan Dodd Contributor

Once again springtime is upon us – as evidenced by the fact that we face a citywide epidemic of soggy shoes, the uncovering of an entire season’s worth of plastic liquor bottles, and the unmistakable stench of thawing feces.

We are truly lucky to live in such splendor.

On the personal side of things, I can sense the new spring coming through by the undeniable urge to buy hundreds of dollars’ worth of outdoor gear, for activities I’ve never had the faintest inkling to participate in. The fact that I’m writing this directly after the APU gear swap should indicate one of two things. One being that I’ve yet to learn my lesson about blowing all of my money at outdoor sales in return for gear that I have

no place to store. Secondly, that I’m writing this well after even the most generous deadlines have passed due to my complete inability to juggle writing with an ER rotation for my EMT course.

The takeaway being that life has been a bit hectic lately and rather than sorting it out or planning for the future. I’m instead shooting for the low hanging fruit of life achievements by upgrading and repairing all my outdoor gear. There are those who would question whether this is the healthiest response to mounting obligations and responsibilities, but I would remind those naysayers that I can’t quite hear them over the sound of the cash register at AMH. This happens every season, a passing fancy to expand my inventory grips me around the time my REI dividend comes in. Then, I happen across some new backpack or tent (generally deep within the confines of Spenard) that I’m convinced I

need to own, and then it’s all over.

The real problem begins back in the fall when the National Outdoor Leadership School sells off all of their summer gear at a discount so good that I’ll refrain from revealing the location of the sale.

Inevitably a gear swap at UAA or APU happens, some drunken online shopping occurs, and three REI sales later it’s time for the spring NOLS gear sell-off and I suddenly have more outdoor gear than I do food.

Compounding this issue is the fact that I have the tendency to break things.

Whether it’s by falling down a mountain and ejecting my phone, forgetting where I left my cook set and driving over it or just the general wear and tear caused by poor planning and bad luck. In any case, I have an entire closet of broken equipment.

Because of this, each new day that passes I find a new project to fix. My Thermarest sleep pad apparently grew a hole since last season, which explains why it’s currently sitting in my bathtub as I attempt to find the leak. Each backpack houses a new zipper then needs to be replaced, my trekking poles have jammed shut after being used as a pair of emergency “oh damn I’m sliding” tools and the trunk of my car is filled with a nice pile of unorganized fishing lures (which might just explain the hole in my sleeping pad).

Then there’s the matter of my tent, which appears to have the residue of an entire can of black beans, which must have been consumed alongside malt liquor, considering the Steel Reserve label I found lodged in the zipper.

Whether that was the lingering evidence

of a great story, or a particularly trashy moment remains to be seen, but it doesn’t change the fact that I now need to air out my damn tent.

All the while this ever expanding mountain of new, broken, lost and forgotten gear has been growing. In the beginning, it was constrained by the size of my dorm room and by the amount of floor space I was willing to sacrifice.

Then it all lived in my trunk, which was both convenient to have at all times, and thankfully limited by the space of my car, but now that I have a whole apartment, with closets spread across two floors and a car with which to house my gear, it’s expanded into an untamable beast.

So maybe this column, which began as me frantically bemoaning my unending stash of outdoor equipment before yet another deadline whistled by, is really a cry for help. Maybe what I need even more than a garage or a shelving system, is some sort of therapy to cure whatever compulsive behavior leads me to give my entire paycheck to Patagonia and Mountain Hardware.

Maybe.

If you ask me, what I really need in this time of undue stress and uncertain future, what would help to sooth the soul and lend a sense of direction in life, is almost undoubtedly a sea kayak.

So if you have a gently used kayak, a collection of REI gift cards, or a discount therapist, please give my girlfriend a call.

I‘ll just leave it to her to relay the message down into the closet under the stairs as I fight to hold back the avalanche of sleeping bags.

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New color, same Weezer in ‘The White Album’

‘The Housemaid’ skirts believability

By Felipe Godoy Diaz Contributor

By Jacob Holley-Kline Contributor

The 1960 Korean masterpiece “The Housemaid” is a tough watch. It scrutinizes obsession and infidelity with a sarcastic eye. That’s not to say it’s funny. It isn’t. What it is is a blade sharp satire, one with brains and brawn. Following up a film of its stature is a heavy burden. Director Im Sang-soo himself said he tried to not to think about the original during production. Maybe that was his mistake.

Pregnant with twins, the wealthy couple Hoon (Jung-jae Lee, “Assassination”) and Hae-ra (Woo Seo, “Knock”) hire a young, energetic maid named Eun-yi (Do-yeon Jeon, “Memories of the Sword”) to look after their daughter. Unsatisfied with his marriage, and stressed by the pregnancy, Hoon starts an affair with Eun-yi, and the consequences come fast and hard.

“The Housemaid” of 2010 is much different from the original. Where the 1960’s version focused on a middle-class family, this adaptation focuses on an extremely wealthy one. This work to its benefit.

Where the original was a stark morality tale, this version is a savage satire. Albeit one that is less carefully crafted, though still impressive.

Chief among its problems is the character of Eun-yi. She initiates many

encounters with Hoon, and seems intent on bringing down the household. For a housemaid, that’s a lofty goal. But her motivates are never explained, or even hinted at. Because of this, she becomes a nebulous character. One who seems totally irrational.

However, Do-yeon Jeon plays her with erotic gusto. In fact, all the performances are pitch perfect. It’s a pleasure to watch Jung-jae Lee delve into Hoon’s cruelty, and Woo Seo into Hae-ra’s mania. As this is a melodrama, the plot twists and turns wildly, sometimes unbelievably.

Soap operas like this have a tendency to give viewers whiplash. Thankfully, the cast and director handle it all extraordinarily well.

In fact, it’s refreshing to see such a good melodrama. A vicious man comes head-to-head with an even more vicious woman. The question is: who will go further? While it’s fun to watch that question answered, “The Housemaid” is ultimately a deeply-flawed adaptation of a much better movie.

To be fair, they are very different movies. One’s a fable, the other is a satire.

This “Housemaid” is far less human than its progenitor. Eun-yi, especially, lacks an inner life and any deeper motivation beyond tearing the world apart. Suffering through her sometimes non-sensical actions might just make viewers want to tear the world apart, too.

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Over the last 23 years, Weezer has been one of the staples in popular music. From their classic 1994 “The Blue Album” that featured iconic songs like “Say It Ain’t So” and “Undone,” 2016 finds the band as a popular, yet aging group that has been grasping for straws over their last couple of releases.

For this release titled “Weezer” like most Weezer albums but known as the “White Album,” frontman Rivers Cuomo found inspiration by visiting and living in West L.A. in places like Santa Monica and Venice Beach. Cuomo also downloaded the popular dating app, Tinder to meet with individuals on a strictly platonic level and get ideas for the album.

In an interview with Pitchfork, Cuomo said of the album, “The inspiration behind the songs were my experiences hanging around the Westside of Los Angeles, which has been our home since Weezer began. Hanging out with people in Venice and Santa Monica, the beach, the Hare Krishnas, the Sikh on roller blades with the guitar, girls on Tin-

der within a 4-mile radius, seeing other bands, the kids from La Sera. I would just tweet out ‘does anybody wanna hang?’ and then I’d get together with people who responded and talk about life. I love California. I wanted the album to make you feel like you were there with us SoCal weirdos even if you’re in Milwaukee in December.”

The social experiment worked for Cuomo as “The White Album” is filled with sunny vibes reminiscent of the Beach Boys combined with the crunchy power chords of vintage Weezer. The entire album is wrapped around the idea of Los Angeles beach culture, with songs like “California Kids,” a back catalog song from years ago, “Do You Want to Get High” that deals with Cuomo’s past drug addiction and “King of the World” which examines Cuomo’s past experience with his marriage.

The concept behind the music is refreshing and songs like “Thank God for Girls” and “LA Girlz” are great Weezer tracks to add to an already impressive catalog. While they might never reach the weirdness of the “The Blue Album,” “The White Album” has a place in Weezer’s discography as a primary color.

ARTIST Weezer

LABEL Atlantic

ALBUM “The White Album”

RELEASE April 1, 2016

GENRE Alternative

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Anchorage woman hockey player competes for World Cup

PHOTOS COURTESY CRISTY HICKEL

Hilary Knight, Tori Hickel, Zoe Hickel, Brianne Decker, and Kacey Bellamy spend time together at the TD Garden at a Boston Bruins game. Knight, Zoe, Decker and Bellamy all played on the NWHL Boston Pride team together.

By Nolin Ainsworth

sports@thenorthernlight.org

Anchorage’s own Zoe Hickel represented Team USA at the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Cup. The IIHF Women’s World Cup showcases the best women’s hockey players in the world.

The U.S. were joined by the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Russian, Canada, Switzerland, and Sweden at the event, played this year in Kamloops, British Columbia. As of press time, Team USA was a perfect 3-0 and scheduled to play either Canada or Finland in the Gold Medal game on Monday, April 4.

Hickel is no stranger to USA Hockey - the governing body for organized amateur ice hockey - having been selected from 2006-2009 for the prestigious player development camp. Hickel went on to play four years of college hockey at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Last season, Hickel joined the Boston Pride of the newly-formed National Women’s Hockey League, the first paid professional women’s hockey league.

The Northern Light spoke to Hickel on one of Team USA’s days off about being selected as an alternate, her love of Boston, and what she will remember about Duluth.

TNL: How disappointed were you about not being originally selected for the final U.S. Women’s National Team when it was finalized in late February?

Hickel: “I think the biggest thing is you just use it as motivation but at the same time I had to... train and play as if I was coming... [To] still be in the program and be on the squad for the next Olympics is the ultimate goal. It’s just one step at a

time, just take what they can give you and try to learn... and keep applying that to the skills to work on over the slower periods between camps and between tournaments.

I’m pretty pumped to be here and to get a call the day before [training camp] was exciting and nerve-wracking. You just had to flip the switch because the odds of those things happening aren’t always likely.”

You were on the national team last year. What would you say is the biggest difference from a skill-standpoint between international women’s hockey and any other level you’ve played at?

“I don’t really know what to compare it to — because the NWHL and college — it’s the cream of the crop from all of those leagues and it’s put together here.”

Did you ever think that you would be paid to play hockey and become a professional hockey player?

“No, I mean the league developed really quickly... It’s the first paid professional league and so it was convenient for me graduating at that point in time because I had a place to play and you have to keep doing that, especially coming from Alaska. It’s hard for me to train and play at home over the years if I’m out of college.”

I bet your fellow Boston Pride teammates were excited about — well maybe a little disappointed about Stephanie’s appendicitis — but were excited to welcome you as a teammate again.

“It’s definitely bittersweet. I wish her the best too, she’s definitely a great player.”

Because Boston has so many hockey programs — from Boston College to

Zoe Hickel on the ice during the inaugural NWHL All-Star weekend January 23-24 at the HarborCenter in Buffalo, New York.

the Bruins — what has it been like for this new women’s professional team to enter into that fray of hockey in Beantown?

“It’s been welcomed greatly. I think Boston is a phenomenal city and it was a lot of fun and we had a ton of support. We played at Harvard, [it] was our home rink and we always had a ton of fans that were there… It has a lot of potential to make it bigger and keep getting the word out.

Obviously Beantown is a huge hockey town, so its awesome city to be in when it comes to hockey.”

What is the diet like of a professional hockey player? “(Laughs) Well that’s a loaded question, it depends. We try to eat clean, but I have a lot of weird allergies. But a lot of protein, carbs are important for our performance; veggies, chicken, brown rice, sweet potatoes, that consumes a lot of my diet.”

If you have a Saturday night out on the town, who are you with and what are you doing?

“Well, we actually play on Sundays, so there wasn’t much time — all of our games were on Sundays, so we didn’t get out much but whenever we had a chance to go to a Bruins’ game or get together with the team. After we won [the Isobel Cup] we were in Newark for that, and we went to New York City and that was a blast. We didn’t really go out much, but the team was a lot of fun when we got to get together and go out for that. Mostly just go out for some dinners and have a couple drinks, but nothing too crazy. Our girls like Hong Kong [Restaurant], that was a popular place to go on Sundays in Faneuil Hall.

Have you been to a Red Sox game?

“I have, it was actually a couple of years ago. My first game was actually against the Yankees, the first and only game I’ve ever been to it was awesome.”

You and Canada are really competitive, what is that rivalry like and how fun is it to face your friendly neighbors from the north?

“Well, it’s awesome to be in Canada, first of all, because everyone knows about [the Women’s World Cup] and the games are packed and its just an awesome atmosphere and even though they are cheering against us, there is still so much energy and it’s just a fun environment to be in and it’s the biggest rivalry throughout women’s hockey. It’s spread throughout the country and into the world, and it’s a lot of fun having so many people catch onto it growing up in the women’s game.”

What were your goals for the tournament, because you won last year?

“Being in Canada, too, as well, there is a lot of pressure in defending a title, but the goal for us is just get better everyday and work on the process and keep growing as a team. We only get to be together as a team a short part of the year and to make the most out of these opportunities as we’re together and continue to get better everyday and at the end of the tournament to be able to come out on top.”

How fun was it to be at the University of Minnesota Duluth and be a Bulldog?

“I love Duluth, it was a great four years. It went by too quick, for sure. It was a fast four years and I learned a lot when I was there and it definitely got me to where I am today and I’m thankful for that.”

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NHL Playoff Overtime

Who’s in ?

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Hockey IQ from a dusty old hockey player.

By Jake Johnson

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April never comes soon enough for the die hard NHL fans. It means playoff push style hockey that will determine whether or not teams will have a chance to compete for the highly coveted Stanley Cup. As the season winds down, the league is looking at its first “Canadian-less” Stanley Cup playoff since the 1969-1970 season. All seven of Canada’s team have been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. Here is what the playoff picture looks like in the Eastern Conference’s Metropolitan and Atlantic Divisions and the Western Conference’s Central and Pacific Divisions.

Six of the eight playoff slots are currently clinched in the Western Conference. A power packed Central Division is locked up tight. Teams that have have clinched a playoff spot are the Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues and defending Stanley Cup champions Chicago Blackhawks.

Over on the West Coast in the Pacific Division, California-based teams dominate the ranks. The Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks all have their respective slots locked in.

Only two wildcard playoff spots remain, currently held by the Nashville Predators and Minnesota Wild. Chasing the tails of Minnesota are the Colorado Avalanche,

who remain 5 points behind the Wild with only four games left in their season.

In the Eastern Conference, only three teams have clinched one of the eight playoff spots: the Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Florida Panthers.

The Capitals are the President’s Trophy winners for the 2015-16 season - awarded to the team with the best record. Capitals’ goaltender Braden Holtby is the fan favorite to win this year’s Vezina Trophy as the league’s best goaltender. Meanwhile, teammate Alexander Ovechkin’s 44 goals have him well on his way to yet another Rocket Richard Trophy — awarded to the league’s top goal scorer.

The Washington Capitals are the only team in the league who has yet to lose back to back games in regulation this season.

The rest of the Eastern Conference playoff slots are up for grabs, and the race is tight with just five games remaining. The New York Rangers sit third in the Metropolitan Division with 95 points.

The Tampa Bay Lightening and Detroit Red Wings round out the second and third spots in the Atlantic Division. The New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers occupy the two wild card spots in Metropolitan Division. Behind the Flyers is the Boston Bruins with 91 points. The Detroit Red Wings — who have qualified for the playoffs a record 24 seasons in a row — are in jeopardy of closing the book on that chapter of their history for

the first time since the 1989-90 season.

The Flyers will play a make up game against the New York Islanders, after the original game was cancelled during New York’s blizzard closures earlier this year, giving them a game in hand against the playoff hopeful Red Wings.

Even though it seems that most of the teams are within grasping distance of a playoff berth, anything can happen in the last two weeks of the season. Big conference games will determine the outcome of crucial points towards seeding in the playoffs. The Washington Capitals have secured home ice advantage throughout the playoffs after winning the President’s Trophy. Only eight teams have won both the President’s Trophy and Stanley Cup in the same year since its beginning. The Capitals know this all too well, having won the honor in the 2009-10 season only to be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

NHL fans rejoice at the coming of the Stanley Cup playoffs a little over two weeks away. A champion will be crowned and a team will hoist the coveted Stanley Cup above their heads. After a long 82 game season of countless road trips, injuries, highs and lows and four rounds of best of seven hockey, only one team will be able to call themselves Stanley Cup Champions. Will it be your favorite team?

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Action packed week for UAA’s outdoor track & field team

By Jordan Rodenberger

jrodenberger@thenorthernlight.org

It was an event-filled week for the UAA outdoor track and field team, as several athletes parted ways to compete in the Stanford Invitational, Texas Relays, and the San Francisco State Distance Carnival.

Stanford Invitational Headlining the Stanford Invitational for the Seawolves was senior Joyce Chelimo, the runner-up of the women’s indoor 5,000 meter at nationals. At the invitational, Chelimo broke the Great Northwest Athletic Conference record in the 10,000 meter event with a time of 33:14.41. Her swift pace is the fastest in Division II this season and fifth all-time.

Chelimo was not the only Seawolf who shined at the meet. Sophomore Caroline Kurgat was right behind Chelimo in the 10K, finishing with the second best time in Div. II so far this year.

On the men’s side of the Invitational, Henry Cheseto solidified a spot in the

NCAA Championships by posting a personal-best time of 29:36 in the 10K.

Texas Relays At the 2016 Nike Clyde Texas Relays, Cody Thomas totaled a score of 7,079 in the decathlon, good for sixth place overall. Thomas faced several prestigious Div. I athletes at the meet. Although he was bothered by a knee injury, Thomas was the runner-up in the 100-meter dash, as well as in the 400 meters. He also placed fifth in the 110-meter hurdles, while taking fourth in the long jump.

“It [Thomas’ knee] bugs me a lot. The high jump didn’t go quite as well as possible,” said Thomas.

The New Zealander was honored with his second consecutive GNAC Male Athlete of the Year award for the indoor season.

“I didn’t think I had a shot...Apparently, I did enough at nationals to show that I still had a good year despite the hiccups,” said Thomas.

Also bringing home hardware for the Seawolves was Chelimo and head coach Michael Friess. Chelimo was named the

GNAC Female Athlete of the Year and Friess the GNAC Coach of the Year.

Joining Thomas at the Texas Relays was All-American Cody Parker. Parker excelled in the javelin, registering a throw of 234-7. Parker, the 2013 national champion at this event, now sits atop the rankings in Div. II for furthest throw this season.

San Francisco State Distance Carnival The Seawolves also found success at the SFSU Distance Carnival, notching two meet records at the ninth annual event. Jamie Ashcroft, the UAA record holder for the 100 and 200 meters, took first place in both of those events. She set a meet record in the 200, finishing with a time of 24.39. Teammate Mary-Kathleen Cross was right behind her as the runnerup. Seawolf senior Rosie Hewitt took home the crown in the 100-meter hurdles, while the men’s 4x400 team sailed to victory as well.

“Everyone was really tired after a long day in the California heat and multiple races but we still had a job to do, so all of

the guys stepped up and ran a good race with no questions and full effort,” said Nicholas Taylor, a member of the men’s 4x400 team.

The Seawolves had a few runner-up finishes as well. Junior Michael Mendenhall took second in the one mile run, posting a time of 4:13.1, and the men’s 4x100 team finished a close second. As for sophomore Nathan Kipchumba, he took first in the 800 meter and broke his own UAA record with a time of 1:49.67. Tamara Perez won the women’s 800, adding another victory to the Seawolves’ resume. By finishing with a time of 29:46.48, sophomore Edwin Kangogo took first place in the men’s 800 meters.

The Seawolves outdoor track and field team will have a week off, and then hope to carry their momentum into the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 15 and the Beach Invitational the following day.

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