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Deficit budget Debate over marijuana reform hazy for University of Alaska

Proposed budget cuts lead to almost 7 percent deficit for UAA and UAF

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org Governor Sean Parnell announced recently that the state’s unrestricted general funds are expected to see a decline from $6.9 billion to $4.5 billion due to the reduction in oil revenues. This is a 35 percent reduction in state operating costs, and these numbers have caused a deficit of about $2 billion.

After looking over the proposed budget, the University Budget Subcommittee added an additional $1 million in cuts to the budget, making the total proposed cuts equal to $15.9 million.

Parnell’s budget proposal includes $5.3 million toward expenses, such as employee pay raises and buildings that are scheduled to open next year.

What this means for the University of Alaska system is a proposed budget deficit of about $14.9 million, or around $7 million for UAA and UAF. UAA Provost Elisha Baker said, “67 percent of the budget is on the academic side of the house. Probably 80 percent or more of that is in salaries. The only way we can save money is not to pay salaries. There is very little for travel, copiers, telephones — all of that money disappeared years ago and we don’t really have that in there. We

have in my estimation half the staff needed to run the colleges we have now. So it’s not going to be staff. It’s going to have to come from faculty positions.”

Baker said there are always empty faculty positions. If those positions are not filled the salary is saved, so it may be the university does not hire as many adjunct, term or tenure faculty.

The proposal has not been finalized, which means there may be even further cuts made.

The House Finance Committee is currently listening to public testimony regarding the UA budget cuts.

“Our basic concern is why would you want to cut you’re higher education when that’s here to help the state do better,” said Bill Spindle, Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services.

“The real role here of higher education is to help the state find ways to increase revenue, to look for innovative ways of doing things.”

Spindle said the recent cuts to K-12 education will also have an impact on the university system. His suggestion is for Alaska to seek endowments for the entire education system. He said the university is producing students who are engineers and students who can write, speak and help solve problems. He said the state is in desperate need for people with these abilities, and he believes cutting funding for these programs will hurt Alaska

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Ben Cort speaks at the public marijuana legalization discussion on Mar. 5 in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium.

By Evan Erickson

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“Doobie or Not Doobie?: That is the Marijuana Question,” was one of the playful titles suggested to assistant professor Jason Brandeis of the UAA Justice Center for an upcoming public discussion at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on March 5.

The problem for Brandeis, who acted as moderator, was that “marijuana legalization is a serious subject and a serious public policy issue,” and though many may find pot-related puns irresistible, the event ended up simply being titled “Time to Legalize? A Public Discussion on Marijuana Law and Policy.”

Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the

Drug Policy Alliance, has been at the forefront of the national legalization effort and acted as keynote speaker at Wednesday’s event.

“In Washington and Colorado they also talk about the Lower 48. But in their view the Lower 48 are the states who have yet to legalize marijuana. You don’t wanna stay in the Lower 48!”

Nadelmann declared.

Colorado made history when it became the first state to legalize sales of marijuana for recreational use, and on Jan. 1 pot retailers opened for business across the state. Washington state is scheduled to begin retail sales in a similar fashion in June. A 2013 Gallup poll found that a majority 58 percent of Americans favor legalization.

Coincidentally, a 2011 survey by the U.S. Department of Health

and Human services found that 58 percent of Americans 12 and older had never used marijuana.

Described by Brandeis as the “anti-Ethan,” Ben Cort, seated at the opposite end of the panelists table, is a Colorado resident actively opposed to legalization.

He appeared on behalf of the policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, also known as Project SAM. Referring to the marijuana legalization ballot initiative to be voted on by Alaskans in the August primary election, Cort said “I’ve read it. Read it, understand it and know it’s not legalization. This is an effort at industrialization of marijuana in your home state, like they did in mine.”

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Female pioneers of Alaska

Past and present Alaskan women who made a difference

By Valerie Hudson

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“For most of history, anonymous was a woman,” said Virginia Woolfe, an early 1900s American female writer.

This month is Women’s History Month, which allows for a great opportunity to honor women who have made a significant difference in the Last Frontier. Bonnie Jack member of the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame, Hattie Gardner corresponding secretary for Business and Professional Women, and Marva Watson Director of Diversity and Compliance at the University of Alaska Anchorage have all contributed to this list. pa s t

Katie John

During Katie John’s 97 years of life, she went from living a traditional Alaska Native village life

to the more modern Western lifestyle of today. In 1984 Katie John, along with Doris Charles requested that the Alaska State Board of Fisheries permit former residents of Baltzulneta to subsistence fish. This is because 20 years earlier, the board had ended subsistence fishing. The board rejected the request, which led to a long, complex legal battle that would be later known has the “Katie John case.” This case began in 1985 and revolved around subsistence rights for Alaska Natives.

Emily Morgan

Emily Morgan was a registered nurse and a Red Cross public health nurse. She is credited with administering the serum that was brought to Nome via the famous Iditarod Serum Run for the diphtheria epidemic in 1925. Morgan is nicknamed the “Angel of the Yukon” for saving Alaska Natives from the “black death” during the small pox epidemic.

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Roasted Tomato, Spinach, & Rosemary soup gives the conventional tomato soup an alluring spin.

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Yesenia Carmarena speaks on a panel during the Fresh Air campaign kickoff. photo by suhaila brunelle

U.S. assistant surgeon general visits UAA for Fresh Air kickoff

By Suhaila Brunelle

news@thenorthernlight.org Members of UAA’s Smoke Free Task Force hosted an event on Feb 24, to kick off their campus-wide Fresh Air Challenge. The Fresh Air Challenge is a region-wide effort to encourage all college campuses in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho and Washington to become smoke- or tobacco-free.

The event opened with performances from the Underground Dance Company and UAA’s Glee Club. Chancellor Tom Case, Alaska chief medical officer Dr. Ward Hurlburt and Patrick O’Carroll, who is the assistant surgeon general to the United States, spoke at the event.

After the guest speakers, there was a panel that included Amelie Rousseau former student body president of the University of Oregon, who was successful in leading a smoke-free task force at her school.

In an interview, Dr. Patrick O’Carroll said, “The research is really strong, there is no documented safe amount of expothenorthernlight.org

sure, even on a second hand level. The more we study this, the more we find. In fact the most recent report, the 50th anniversary of the surgeon general’s report, has found new diseases that, prior to this we did not know were affected by exposure to smoke, including colorectal cancer, and tuberculosis for example, is made worse by exposure to smoke. So it’s just a phenomenally poisonous substance, and there’s no biological reason we should be inhaling it.”

During the event, Yesenia Carmarena, who is a member of the Smoke-Free Task Force, said, “The goal of UAA’s Smoke-Free Task Force is to improve the health of the UAA community not just for today, but for the future and for the leading generations to come. We wanted to do something more than just what a regular club or organization would do on campus. We want to make it an environment that restrains tobacco use rather than supports tobacco use, reduce the number of new smokers, help smokers to quit and

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provide them with an environment that supports their efforts, and to contribute to a healthier environment for all students, employees and visitors.”

Hurlburt gave a brief history of smoking in Alaska and emphasized how tobacco use and smoking has affected the Alaska Native population. Hurlburt said that before World War II, tobacco use was not prevalent among Alaska’s indigenous people. This changed when many Alaska Native men joined the military during the war and were given free cigarettes from the tobacco companies. These men returned from war addicted to tobacco and introduced it into their societies. According to Hurlburt, the first case of lung cancer in the Alaska Native community did not occur until 1970.

Case talked about how he grew up with a father and grand-

father who smoked. His grandfather lost part of his lip to cancer from tobacco use, and his father died from a tobacco-related illness.

Case stated that he, along with chancellors from the other two main University of Alaska colleges have been discussing going smoke- and tobacco-free throughout the entire UA system. Case said he believes this will happen within his lifetime and said it’s inevitable that UAA becomes smoke-free because it is the health campus in the UA system.

Students will vote whether or not to adopt the comprehensive smoke-free initiative in the April 8 and 9 student body elections. Faculty task force member Gabriel Garcia stated that if the measure does not pass, the task force will continue working on the initiative.

WEEKLY BUZZ Crimea votes to secede from Ukraine and join Russia On Sunday, March 16 residents of Crimea in Ukraine voted overwhelmingly to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia. United States President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday that “the vote violates the Ukranian constitution and would never be recognized by the United States and international community.”

Citizens of Crimea are primarily of Russian ethnic backgrounds and were given the choice to vote for annexation by Russia, or to remain in the Ukraine with greater autonomy. Of those who voted, 95 percent approved the cessation.

Missing Malaysian plane said to have been hijacked

Officials searching for the missing Malaysian jetliner say communications were turned off near the edge of Malaysian air-space, and the flight path was also changed, a maneuver officials say would have been done by a professional. The search has now turned into a collaborative effort between over 20 countries. The flight crew, pilots and passengers have all been under investigation with a flight simulator seized from the home of the pilot, who is said to have ties with an opposition leader who was sentenced to five years in prison on a sodomy charge earlier this month.

Large ancient virus un-earthed

French scientists have unearthed a 30,000 - year old virus in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of northeast Russia. The virus, named Pithovirus sibericum is known as a giant virus because scientists are able to view it under a regular microscope. Pithovirus also contains more genes, about 500 to be exact, which means it is more complex than HIV. The virus does not affect humans, rather it infects amoebas.

Changes made to SAT test

College Board officials announced last week that changes will be made to the SAT test. These changes include an optional essay, and there won’t be a penalty for wrong answers. Also, vocabulary words will be changed to better match words used in college and business environments. The new format will be available in 2016 with the option to take the test on the computer.

Wayne Knight alive and well

Rumors surfaced early Sunday that actor Wayne Knight had been killed in a car crash. Knight responded to the rumors on Twitter saying, “Does someone have to DIE to trend? Geez! I didn’t know you cared. Glad to be breathing!” Knight is most famous for is portrayal of the character Newman in Sienfeld and also has had roles in the movies Rat Race and Jurassic Park.

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Project SAM has taken to calling the commercialization of marijuana “another Big Tobacco,” claiming that deliberate targeting of children and severe public health costs will be marks of the marijuana industry also.

“A commercial marijuana industry will act just as the tobacco industry acts. Big Tobacco may even take over a marijuana industry once it’s up and running,” Project SAM’s website reads.

Cort, a recovered addict who has been deeply involved with the recovery community for years, believes the mental health risks of marijuana outweigh the benefits, especially for children. He also shares the belief with Project SAM that penalties for marijuana possession should consist of structured treatment interventions.

“I will never advocate putting people in jail for the possession of small amounts of marijuana. What I do think is we’ve got to maintain the ability to do is to have those brief interventions,” Cort said.

Taylor Bickford, with the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Alaska, refuted Cort’s assertions. He said, “What SAM articulated through their principles a few weeks ago is if you get caught with marijuana you’re forced into treatment, and if you don’t follow through with that treatment, then you’re forced into jail.”

Dean Guaneli, former chief assistant attorney general for Alaska, was seated next to Cort. He doesn’t think current marijuana laws are a problem in Alaska and believes legalization is too risky to make sense.

“There’s so many problems with marijuana, the amount of dependency ... making alcohol treatment more difficult, making mental health treatment more difficult. People have psychotic breaks more frequently,” Guaneli said.

Speaking to Bickford’s previous comments about bringing a criminal industry “above ground,” to be taxed, Guaneli answered, “Sure we can tax it a little bit. Colorado’s on slate to get maybe $100 million in tax revenue this year, but they’ve got seven times the population. Alaska might get 15 million dollars. ... Are we gonna build a couple of classrooms with that amount of money?”

In response, Nadelmann said tax revenue from legal marijuana sales in Colorado over the past two months has been twice as high as expected.

The fifth panelist, Lance Buchholtz, a retired Wisconsin sheriff and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP, offered comments from the law enforcement perspective.

“One of the things I’m concerned with, and what brought me to LEAP, was the militarization of law enforcement. Instead of being community caretakers, when you have a drug war, you have to have warriors, and people are afraid to approach their local police nowadays,” Buchholtz said.

Buchholtz’s closing comments took on a more holistic tone. “We have had a relationship with this plant for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years,” he said. “The prohibition is what is atypical of our relationship with this plant, and it will go down in history as being an apparition.”

The company Public Policy Polling released polls of Alaskan voters in February finding that 55 percent of voters overall and 72 percent of voters under age 30 support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use.

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Warming cold case files

Pulitzer prize winner to visit, discuss unsolved murders

By Nita Mauigoa

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Compiled by Nita Mauigoa / Graphic by Jenna! Roosdett

Flames consumed the hot Louisiana morning in 1964. The owner of a shoe repair shop, Frank Morris awoke to find his shop ablaze and a shotgun aimed at him. ““Get back, nigger!”” the man wielding the gun yelled.

Within seconds Morris, who was in the shop, became engulfed in flames. His cries echoed. Morris died and no one was charged for his murder.

Hank Klibanoff, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Race Beat,” about news coverage during the civil rights era, will speak on campus at 7 p.m. March 20. As the managing editor of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, Klibanoff will discuss how investigative reporting, documentary filmmaking and multimedia production is used to prod unsolved murders from the South during the Civil Rights era.

Klibanoff said racially charged murders were often committed in the South during that tense era, which were often investigated by the FBI but overlooked by local law enforcement, ultimately going unsolved.

“That’s no reason why journalists today can’t look at the records, put the story back together and try to figure out who did what to bring answers to the families,” said Klibanoff, who directs and teaches in the Emory University journalism program.

Klibanoff said details of murder cases of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project can be found at http://www.coldcases.org. In addition to this project, he heads the Emory State Cold Case Files Project, a course where students can engage in investigative reporting about unsolved murders that took place in Georgia during the Civil Rights era.

Marie Claire Kelly, a senior at Emory who is in the course, said she enjoys working with FBI primary documents on real cold case murders.

Kelly said the project is focused on historical and journalistic perspectives to give the murders context. She said there are different forms of finding justice.

“It’s about uncovering parts of the struggles of our history that have been swept under the rug,” Kelly said.

Klibanoff’s book, “The Race Beat,” offers vital historical context to understand the attitudes and beliefs that fueled the murders in the South during the Civil Rights era.

“Back in the ‘30s-‘50s white supremacy was the way of life

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Among many hats author Hank Klibanoff wears, he also serves on the John Chancellor Excellence in Journalism Award Committee at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is chairman of the advisory board of VOX Teen Communications.

and law of the land in the South.

Legislators who passed laws not only advanced it, they made it illegal not to discriminate against African-Americans,” Klibanoff said.

He said the Ku Klux Klan was as violent, vicious and hellbent as any terrorist group today, intimidating anyone who expressed a counter point of view. However, he also said there were many Klansmen who were regular informants for the FBI. A primary source mentioned in the book is John Seigenthaler, who was the administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.

He was also the editor and publisher for the Tennessean and the editorial director of USA Today.

In an exclusive interview with TNL, Seigenthaler shared first-hand accounts of his ordeal during the Freedom Rides of 1961 to sketch how intense the racial hatred was in the South.

Seigenthaler said he was sent on a mission by President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy to negotiate protection for the freedom riders with Alabama governor John M. Patterson. After resistance from Patterson, who at first insisted that the “freedom riders can’t be protected because they wanted to get killed,” an agreement was reached that local law enforcement would protect the riders on the streets of Alabama.

Patterson followed through on his promise, with protection surrounding the freedom riders up until they reached the city limits of Alabama.

Then local law enforcement left and the buses were alone.

A mob of hundreds swarmed with torches and weapons and attacked.

Seigenthaler was still following the riders when he saw the

hell that broke loose.

Seigenthaler said he saw woman freedom riders being jostled and beat before he blew the horn, bounced up on the curb and yelled at them to get into the car.

The mob surrounded the car when Seigenthaler yelled, “Get back! I’m from the federal government.”

At that moment one of them hit Seigenthaler in the head over the left ear with a pipe, knocking him unconscious.

“It dawned on me that I failed on my mission, to hear the screams and see the beatings going on knowing that I couldn’t do anything about it. It wasn’t just the beatings. It was a roar — to see grown women holding children by the hands screaming, ‘Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!’ and yelling the N word. After all this time, it’s not the sort of sound I will ever forget,” Seigenthaler said.

Seigenthaler’s account awakens the ghosts of the South’s racially divided past, which is necessary to uncovering the historical context behind the cold case files.

The cold case projects Klibanoff is working on seek to fill in history’s gaps and to correct myths to bring exposure, reconciliation and, where possible, criminal prosecution.

For those who have lived in the Civil Rights era, today’s efforts of justice seem to echo the sentiments of “change” and “awareness” Seigenthaler recalled hearing from young freedom rider leader Diane Nash while warning her of the impending danger: “Sir, you don’t understand.

We all signed our last wills last night, and we know someone is probably going to die. But we got to change the system.”

Domestic Violence: NO MORE The blue zero symbol for the NO MORE campaign stands for zero tolerance and no more acceptance of domestic violence. Broad ranges of celebrities have joined the cause to speak out against domestic violence—from gangster rappers (right: Ice-T) to comedians (left: Amy Poehler). graphicS courtesy of Simona Gerdts of the Justice Center

By Nita Mauigoa

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I fell down the stairs. I am just clumsy. She didn’t mean it. But he loves me.

Do these “reasons” sound familiar when a friend or loved one shows up with a black eye or a bruised arm?

The Justice Center and the UAA chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the Criminal Justice Honor Society, will introduce the national “NO MORE” campaign against domestic violence to campus through a discussion panel at 6:30 p.m. on March 19 in the Consortium Library.

“Focus will be on bystander intervention to move past the passive agreement that ‘yes domestic violence is bad’ to action — doing something about it,” said Kristen Speyerer, justice major and coordinator of the event.

NO MORE was founded by Mariska Hargitay, and the campaign is taking flight in several universities around the country. Several celebrities have joined the cause of awareness, from rapper Ice-T to comedian Amy Poehler.

To bring local awareness to the table, several experts

will serve on the panel, including Marny Rivera, UAA Justice Department faculty; Randi Breager, Alaska State Troopers program coordinator; and Rhonda Street and Dave DeLesline, officers of the Anchorage Police Department.

Speyerer said the annual Alaska Victimization Survey, conducted by the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and the campus Justice Center, shows figures to give the subject of domestic violence local context. For example, 60 percent of women in Alaska will be a victim of domestic abuse of some sort in their lifetimes. Domestic violence rates in Alaska are the highest in the nation.

Simona Gerdts, who is the president of Apha Phi Sigma and a main coordinator of the event, said the panel will also touch on domestic violence against men, something that is often overlooked and lesser discussed. The NO MORE message is not limited to women.

“Domestic violence does not discriminate against race, national origin, socioeconomic status, gender or sexual orientation — it’s everywhere,” Gerdts said.

Gertdts said the event was organized for March because it is National Criminal Justice month. The

event just so happens to take place during NO MORE Week, which celebrates the one-year anniversary of the campaign.

The symbol for the NO MORE message is a blue zero for “no more.” The campus is covered in flyers with the blue zero. Speyerer said the goal is to have the blue symbol as widely recognized as the pink breast cancer ribbon one day.

Gerdts said another goal is to break the taboo of discussing domestic violence, which is often viewed as a personal topic that just isn’t spoken about, even today.

“This is one way to come together. Domestic violence shouldn’t be a stigma, and it shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of,” Gertdts said.

For those who cannot attend, information can be found through the “UAA Says NO MORE” Facebook page at http:// www.facebook.com/nomoreuaa.

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THENORTHERNLIGHT Tuesday, mARCH 18, 2014

Back to the Stone Age

By Evan Dodd Contributor

It’s easy to forget how dependent you are upon technology until it’s suddenly gone when you need it.

Earlier in the year my laptop made the questionable decision to melt its own battery, possibly in protest to the six-hour Netflix binges I had been subjecting it to. Fortunately I was able to buy a new one the same day after four hellish hours haunting the local Best Buy. Little did I know that I had only delayed the inevitable, because a few days ago my current laptop’s hard drive decided that it

was tired of protecting my data and thus achieved its apparent ambition to become a paperweight.

Two hours at Best Buy, an additional two hours on the phone with Samsung (where I’m pretty sure I learned the basics of a foreign language), and $80 in shipping costs later, I was finally able to mourn a semester’s worth of data in peace.

I guess I should consider myself lucky that all of this is happening over spring break, where I’ll have less of a dire need for my magic computation machine. On the flip side, my plan to binge on Netflix beneath a blanket fort for the majority of spring break came to a screeching halt.

The world has changed since I lost my laptop. I feel like a caveman who had discovered fire, built an entire lifestyle around the use of fire, and then was clubbed in the head and promptly forgot how to make it. Almost everything I do has an online or digital component to it these days. I haven’t gone to a physical bank in years, instead choosing the option where I just get to click on things and avoid actually interacting with people.

Yesterday I realized that I may need to mail a letter at some point considering that email was now a limited option. Quickly

remembering that it had been so long since I sent a letter, I decided to Google how to correctly fill out the address until I also realized that I can’t Google things without a computer. With the dawning realization that I was trapped in an infinite loop I began rocking back and forth as I clutched my external hard drive and began sadly humming the startup music to my former laptop. These are dark days indeed.

Like a junkie that’s been abruptly cut off, my mind is still reeling from the shock. Having access to the Internet meant having access to the entirety of human knowledge and discovery. Without it, I’m limited to the information contained in my economics textbooks and the pretty pictures found in outdoor magazines. This must have been what humanity felt like when Rome burned and the Dark Ages began.

The only solace I’ve found is in a site that lets me watch classic “Doctor Who” episodes on my phone, which only reminds me of how bad the world was before the widespread use of the Internet.

Even now I’m writing this column with pencil like some sort of savage, making keyboard noises with my mouth so as not to feel entirely uncomfortable with the process. Losing my access to technology during midterms is a bit less than ideal, so I’ve spent the last six hours of my life wasting away in the Gorsuch

Commons computer lab.

Have you been to the Commons lab?

It’s like trying to survive in the Sahara desert, only in this case the Sahara uses exclusively Internet Explorer and is filled with printers that never seem to work. I just watched a grown man blow his nose on his hands and continue to touch every available surface on the keyboard before leaving (probably off to spread the plague somewhere else).

The slight upside to all of this is now I have a solid excuse for when I take two weeks to respond to emails and Facebook messages. Without a laptop nothing could stop me from sleeping for the first few days of spring break and cutting contact with the digital world entirely.

So that’s my current situation. Much like Tom Hanks in “Castaway,” I’ve taken to talking to myself in an attempt to pass the time. Hope grows dimmer by the day as I yearn for the simpler days of Google searches and Windows error messages.

With another three weeks to go before my computer is expected to arrive, I can only hope that I can adapt to a post-digital world in time to survive. In the meantime, if anyone needs to contact me, I’ll be the sad hermit holed up in the library attempting to figure out how to work an encyclopedia and an abacus.

PIONEERS: Women, past and present changing the last frontier for the better continued from cover

Gertrude M. Wolfe

Gertrude Wolfe worked to improve life for the people of Hoonah and for all Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska. Some of the ways she did this was by being a certified village health aide, a member of the Hooach School Board, an active member of her local and regional Native health corporations and a past president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood.

Wilda G. Burch Hudson

Photos courtesy of Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame website

After becoming an active member of the League of Women Voters, Wilda Hudson later served as the organization’s Anchorage president.

In 1967 she was appointed to the Anchorage City Council, becoming the third women to serve on the council. She later became the first woman presiding officer of any Anchorage governmental body. In 1967 she was appointed to the council due to vacancy for a one-year term, but she was then elected to the same position in 1968 for a threeyear term.

honored by the State of Alaska, when before the start of that year’s Iditarod then Gov. Sarah Palin signed a bill establishing the first Saturday of every March as Susan Butcher Day.

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MaryJane (Evans) Fate

MaryJane (Evans) Fate was one of the original Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act lobbyists. She worked with others to convince the White House and Congress to give 40 million acres of land and $1 billion to Alaska Native peoples through the passage of the act in 1971. She also was one of the first Native women to attend college at the University of Fairbanks. She helped found the North American Indian Women’s Association and was its third national president. Appointed by Governor Hickel, she was the first Alaska Native to serve on the Alaska Judicial Council from 1981-1987.

Susan Butcher

Susan Butcher was the second woman to win the Iditarod in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990 and the first to win four out of five sequential years. In 2008 Butcher was

Jewel Jones

For 32 years Jewel Jones has served the Anchorage municipal government. Serving six mayors with responsibilities included executive management of City of Anchorage Social Service Department and the Municipality of Anchorage Department of Health and Human service. After retiring from

The UAA Nutrition Club has agreed to write the cooking column for National Nutrition Month. If readers have any questions about the recipes, exchanges or interest in the club, feel free to email uaanutrition@ gmail.com.

Roasted tomato, spinach and rosemary soup

By Kat Sweetman Contributor

Makes approximately 4 servings

I have a love/hate relationship with the vegetable section at Costco. I always return home with armfuls of fresh vegetables, only to realize the race against time and vegetable spoilage I just signed up for.

Last week, I almost accepted defeat by accepting the fact that the remaining half-dozen tomatoes would never get eaten, until I had a revelation — soup.

Soup is fantastic solution to most kitchen dilemmas. It’s warm, it’s easy to eat and you can throw just about everything your fridge in it and it magically (most times) becomes a savory meal ... hence, this tomato soup created purely out of a need to use up my overenthusiastic Costco purchases.

One serving of this soup gives you a good dose of veg-

etables and some added protein with the addition of the Greek yogurt instead of cream. Serve it up with some whole wheat grilled cheese!

Directions

Set your oven to 400 degrees, and quarter the tomatoes. Put on a pan lined with foil and drizzle lightly with olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 45 minutes.

Put 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil in a sauce pan over medium heat and add diced onions, garlic and rosemary. Saute until translucent and fragrant. Add the chicken stock, tomatoes and spinach and bring to a boil.

Reduce heat to low and simmer for 25 minutes.

Blend with an immersion blender or pour into a blender to puree.

Stir in the Greek yogurt and serve!

I garnished mine with some goat cheese crumbles, but you could also add fresh mozzarella or diced avocado.

Ingredients • 5 medium/large tomatoes • garlic salt • pepper • olive oil • 3 garlic cloves (diced) • 1 yellow onion (diced) • 2-3 sprigs chopped fresh rosemary (or basil) • 3 cups chicken stock • 2-3 handfuls spinach • 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt • Possible toppings: fresh mozzarella, goat cheese, avocado

Nutrition Facts

(with 1 tablespoon of goat cheese per serving)

211 calories 12 grams of protein 15 grams of carbohydrates 3 grams of fiber 13 grams of fat

government service, Jones opened her own consulting firm and spent several years providing business management consultation. She also worked as executive director of the Anchorage Community Land Trust in 2007. The ACLT is a community development organization that invests in grassroots, community-based projects, specifically focusing on revitalizing Mountain View.

Carolyn E. Jones

Carolyn Jones has a distinguished 25-year history working for Rotary International, starting with becoming the president of her Anchorage club to becoming the first woman in the world to be appointed as a trustee to the prestigious, worldwide Rotary Foundation. She has been recognized for her volunteer work with children in eastern Russian orphanages by both the Alaska State Legislature and the Tomsk Russian Duma. Jones graduated from Stanford in 1963 and later became the first women president of the Yale Law School Student Association.

She also graduated from Yale on a full scholarship. In Alaska she was an attorney for the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights.

Aliy Zirkle

Aliy Zirkle completed in the 2014 Iditarod, an annual long-distance sled dog race in early March from Anchorage to Nome. She has finished all 14 of her races this year and became the only musher to finish second in three consecutive races. In addition to winning second place this year, she has previously completed the Iditarod 12 other times.

Stuffed bean and cheese quesatacos with avocado

By Kate Lindsley & the UAA Nutrition Club Contributor

Ingredients • 1 tsp canola oil • 2 corn tortillas (6 inch) • 1/4 cup shredded part skim mozzarella cheese • 1/2 can of black beans • 1/4 avocado, cut into cubes • 1 tbsp salsa

Serves: 1 Preparation time: 10-15 minutes

Nutrition Facts 387 calories 17 grams of protein 44 grams of carbohydrate 10 grams of fiber (25-35 grams recommended)

Sometimes, the best recipes are born from opportunity and necessity. A couple of months ago, my roommate brought home a huge container of corn tortilla shells left over from her work.

They were relegated to the freezer until a week ago when I took them out to thaw, because I thought they were mine. Thankfully, I have a very understanding roommate who said that I could have as many as I wanted.

Therefore, we all owe her a huge favor, because they helped me create the quesataco (tacodilla?): a delicious and flexible layered treat.

International studies freshman Brook Cinocco said, “These are the best things in the world.”

Because nutrition was at the forefront of my mind in concocting the quesataco, I can tell you that its high protein, high vitamin, high fiber contribution is a healthy way to fill you up. This recipe makes one quesataco — enough for a meal for me (a 5’1” girl with an average appetite) but could be a mid-afternoon snack for a more voracious eater.

Directions

Heat the canola oil in a small frying pan over medium heat. Place one corn tortilla in the frying pan and spread the shredded mozzarella cheese over the tortilla.

In a small sauce pan, heat the black beans.

While the beans are heating and the cheese is melting on the corn tortilla, cut up the avocado and set it to the side.

Once the cheese is mostly melted on the tortilla, lift the tortilla with a spatula and place another tortilla in the pan. Flip the cheesy tortilla cheese-side down onto the new tortilla. Let the quesadilla sit for 30 seconds, then transfer it to a plate.

Place the black beans, avocado, and salsa on the quesadilla and eat like a taco.

Exchange options: The quesataco also tastes great with parmesan cheese instead of mozzarella cheese, but this slightly increases the fat and sodium content. The black beans can be exchanged for any other kind of bean. Rinsing the beans can help decrease oligosaccharides (gut-bacteria fuel) and therefore reduce intestinal gas. This recipe is gluten-free and vegetarian.

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Spring break, also known as ‘sleep break’

By Klax Zlubzecon

Translated by George Hyde Perhaps I spoke too soon when I stated that George was recovering from his illness a few weeks ago. Just about as soon as that article got published, George relapsed into another coughing fit that he’s still recovering from as I type this. He even had to skip a few classes in order to recover, which is unheard of even for a sick slob like him.

Thankfully, though, George has had a free week with which to recover. In fact, everyone did, since campus was still a sick mess when spring break started.

The concept of spring break has a lot of stereotypes surrounding it. Going somewhere tropical, getting wasted, having a rowdy good time and not remembering it when it’s all over are apparently staples of the collegiate spring break experience. Except none of that is true, at least if George is to graphic by be believed.

Roz Kirkelie George spent his entire spring break at home, sleeping and doing what ultimately amounts to nothing at all. In fact, it seems as if George’s professors were aware of this, because he had a grand total of two assignments over break, neither of which were that difficult. Not a very large load, if you ask me.

Actually, George has had a pretty restful semester overall. He knocked out his capstone project last fall, and this semester is comparatively easy. So it’s not like winter break, when he actually deserves to be resting and sleeping in, because he hasn’t had to work nearly as hard this semester. I mean, he works hard, but not at the brain-busting level of last semester.

As I type this in the fledgling days at the beginning of the break, I’m hoping George will at least go out and do some things in his free time instead of just loafing around. Maybe I’ll have him go shopping. Finish part of that Steam backlog he’s been meaning to get to.

Find a member of the opposite sex and take her on a blind date. At the very least, he should be out on the street carrying a sign saying “THE END IS NIGH” in honor of the Slug armada’s arrival a couple centuries from now.

But nooo. You’re not doing any of that, George, are you? You’re just going to sit there and rest up, maybe study a little for that quiz next week after the break. You’re going to spend this week being completely brain-dead.

Maybe that’s what I’m doing to him. Maybe I’ve been sucking on George’s brain for too long. I’ve turned him into a mindless, coughing puppet only capable of eating, sleeping, watching Netflix marathons and playing old games he’s already played thousands of times.

Or maybe it’s college that’s done that? Last fall semester took a huge toll on my host as he worked on several huge projects (including his capstone) in addition to writing for The Northern Light — and hey, did I mention he was also heading a student club that semester? That may have been too much to bear, and maybe this brainless break is just the fallout from that.

Well, anything that takes the blame off of me is always nice. So sure, let’s go with that.

I hope you all had a restful spring break, just in case your classes are more demanding than George’s. I guess I may as well go with the flow and sleep in as well. I’m also having a week off after all, so I may as well spend it in the traditional college fashion.

So this is spring break. No parties, drinks, drugs, sex, or wild hooplas, just a lot of sleep and intellectual recovery.

I guess I could get behind that.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. EMBRACE THE SEAWOLF SLUG.

Bonnie’s black bean brownies

A healthy modification to your favorite sweet treat

By Bonnie Billingsley Contributor

Ingredients • 1 can of black beans (14 oz) • 1 box of your favorite brownie mix • Toppings optional (nuts, candy, etc.)

Directions

Preheat the oven as directed on the brownie mix.

Open the black beans and empty all contents (liquid included) into a blender. Blend until smooth and no bean chunks remain.

Empty the brownie mix into a mixing bowl and add the

blended black beans. Do not add any of the ingredients listed on the box!

Mix well and pour batter into desired baking dish. Note: I used a muffin tin to make individual brownies rather than a pan of brownies.

Top the brownies with nuts, candy or dried fruits if you desire.

Bake according to the directions on the box. If you decide to use a muffin tin, it takes about 20 minutes.

Allow the brownies to cool before digging in.

Note that these brownies will have a cake-like consistency and will not be thick and fudgy.

Bonnie’s healthy remix of the typical brownie is packed with nutritious protein with the unique addition of black beans.

Photos By Bonnie Billingsley

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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).

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April movie preview movie preview compiled bY kelly ireland

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” April 4

Captain America or Steve Rogers (Chris Evans, “Thor: The Dark World”), wakes up in the future and becomes a member of the S.H.E.I.L.D. organization. He is faced with defeating a villain known as the Winter Soldier, who has stayed anonymous and hidden from most of the United States intelligence agencies.

“Dom Hemingway” April 4

Dom Hemingway (Jude Law, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) is released from prison and attempts to make up for 12 years of missed time by partying and raising hell. He also goes after criminals he didn’t snitch on in order to get compensation for keeping them out of prison.

“Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” April 4

“Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” is a documentary film about the lemurs of Madagascar, how they got there and how they evolved into what they are today. It also documents the species’ endangerment and how scientists are working to save them. The film is narrated by Morgan Freeman (“The Lego Movie”).

“Rio 2” April 11

Blu (Jesse Eisenberg, “Modern Family”) and his wife, Jewel (Anne Hathaway, “Don Jon”), discover there’s more of their bird species in the Amazon, which were thought to be extinct. They fly there with their children and Jewel becomes reacquainted with her father, Eduardo (Andy Garcia, “Christmas in Conway”), who Blu must now gain the approval of, while fighting off one of Jewel’s old friends, Roberto (Bruno Mars), who Blu sees as threat to his relationship.

“Transcendence” April 18

Will (Johnny Depp, “The Lone Ranger”), the inventor of a super intelligence system, is attacked by a group known as Revolutionary Independence from Technology before his technology can go live.

Will is left to his death bed in a hospital. His girlfriend, Bree (Kate Mara, “House of Cards”), uploads his mind to a computer before he dies so his technology may be launched. This gives Will unlimited power, which may end the world.

“A Haunted House 2”

“Bears”

“Heaven Is for Real”

“The Other Woman”

Malcolm (Marlon Wayans, “The Heat”) moves in with his new girlfriend (Jaime Pressly, “Melissa & Joey”) and soon learns he is not free of the strange paranormal events that occurred in “A Haunted House.” Malcolm must go through exorcism and is forced to deal with the paranormal all over again.

This is a documentary about a bear’s life narrated by John C. Reilly (“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”). The film follows the brown bear named Sky and her two cubs as the two grow up. The film takes place in Alaska and begins at the cubs’ birth. Disneynature, the makers of the film, will donate part of opening week ticket proceeds to the National Parks Foundation to protect national parks.

Colton Burpo (Connor Corum), a young boy, visits heaven during a neardeath experience. His mother Sonja (Kelly Reilly, “Calvary”) and father Todd (Greg Kinnear, “Rake”) question the validity of his claims of visiting heaven and soon learn their son can’t be making these things up. They must fight for their son as their community chastises him as a liar.

When Carly (Cameron Diaz, “The Counselor”) finds out her boyfriend, John (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones”), has a wife (Leslie Mann, “Rio 2”). The two women, wanting to discuss what’s happened, establish they aren’t going to become friends — but they end up being friends anyway. Along the way they discover another mistress, Amber (Kate Upton, “The Three Stooges”), and the three team up together to get back at John.

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GAME REVIEW

‘Thief’ can’t keep up

By George Hyde

gchyde@thenorthernlight.org The original “Thief” was a landmark in stealth titles when it was released in 1998. First-person games tended to focus on brutal, direct combat, and to see a game focus on non-violent stealth was unheard of in those days. Even today, the original remains a masterpiece of stealth. However, while the recent reboot tries very well to maintain what made the original great, there are times when it falls completely flat, and some of the newer changes feel very forced.

The game begins with Garrett, master thief extraordinaire, as he loses an accomplice in the middle of a heist. He finds himself wrapped up in the woes of a plague-ridden town known simply as “The City” (a name borrowed from the original games’ settings). Here, he must help a resistance movement fight against the rich, overpowered 1 percent and bring balance to the City.

If the plot sounds familiar, it’s because it’s more-or-less a clean translation of the plot from developer Eidos Montreal’s previous game, “Deus Ex: Human Revolution.” It maintains a lot of the same themes of wealth disparity and the income gap, and it’s a bit disappointing that the developer couldn’t find something new to bring to the “Thief” series. As a result, the story feels dull.

The story isn’t the only thing “Thief” brings from “Human Revolution.” It also has a confusing open hub area, which clashes a lot with the classic “Thief” tradition of going from mission to mis-

sion. Instead of the huge, sprawling levels from the original games, players now have smaller levels interspersed in a clunky overworld that’s tedious and painful to navigate.

However, modern touches aside, the game maintains what made the original games great.

Garrett’s trademark snarky voice acting is back in full force, and his new voice actor maintains the character’s original charm quite well. In addition, while it’s not as open as the original “Thief” games were, the stealth still feels very satisfying.

There’s no feeling quite like manipulating the environment to meet one’s sneaky needs.

However, one has to ask: What place does this reboot have in today’s market? Nowadays, players have other stealth games like “Dishonored” or “Mark of the Ninja,” both of which bring their own twists and do stealth far better than the new “Thief” does. It’s as if this new “Thief” has no identity of its own and is simply trying to copy what other, better stealth games have done.

Hardcore “Thief” fans will get a kick out of hearing Garrett and exploring the City again, but others will be far more satisfied with other stealth games that bring new things to the table. “Thief” is a great stealth experience, but in a sea of other games like “Dishonored” that have done far better, it’s hard to recommend it.

Title: “Thief” Developer: Eidos Montreal Platform: PS3, PS4, 360, XBO, PC Genre: Stealth

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FINAL WEEKEND Anchorage School District students showcase their work ASD Art Show closes Sunday, March 23

TODDLER TIME Little ones learn dance moves from around the world 10:30 and 11 a.m.

Saturday, March 22

PICK. CLICK. GIVE. Your PFD can help support museum programs and exhibits For more information, call 929-9226 or visit pickclickgive.org.

RISKLAND

Remembering the 1964 Earthquake On view April 11 through Sept. 14 Special commemorative event 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27

Museum members enjoy free general admission.

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Sponsored by the State of Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, NOAA, U.S. Geological Survey, Chenega Corporation, First National Bank Alaska and KTUU.

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Sam Beam Profile

By Kelly Ireland

arts@thenorthernlight.org Indie/folk artist Sam Beam, better known by his stage name Iron & Wine, is a father of five who went to college for painting and pursued film for his masters. He went from being a film producer to a professor. From there Beam was offered the opportunity to record for Sub Pop Records and hasn’t looked back since, launching himself fully into creating and recording music as well as touring and growing out his beard.

Beam most recently worked with Nonesuch Records and came out with his fifth album, “Ghost on Ghost.”

UAA Concert Board is bringing Iron & Wine to the Egan Center to perform. It will be the second time Concert Board has brought Beam to Alaska. The first time was in 2009. In a phone interview Beam answered the following questions: TNL: What’s it like going on tour?

Beam: “It’s a lot of fun. You get to do what you enjoy for a living. It’s a lot of work to be done too, though. Lots of pluses and minuses.”

Is it hard being away from your family when you go on tour?

“It definitely is hard being away from the family, for sure, but I don’t go for very long. I go out for for maybe a week and a half or so sometimes, so it’s not too bad.

What instruments do you play?

“Mostly guitar, but I dabble with the keyboard and drums. All kinds of stuff. I like to dabble with lots of things. I don’t feel like I ever master anything, but it sure is fun to play around on them.”

How did you learn to play them?

“I never took lessons, just enjoy fooling around with the instruments. (I) just spent a lot of my free time doing it so eventually, hopefully I figure something out.”

You went to Virginia Commonwealth University and concentrated in painting, right?

“Yeah, it’s a really good art school. It was the farthest school I applied to from home, so it made me want to go there. It was a good school. I started out as a painter and sort of got swept up into photography then film/cinematography from there.”

And you were a film professor at some point, correct?

“I was, yeah. I went to graduate school at a film school and was working in production, and when the kids came along I started teaching so I could spend more time with them. ... You think touring is a hard job, production you just work all the time. Film was an interesting thing to be doing. I was teaching for awhile, mostly cinematography, but some history, some screen writing and stuff like that.”

How did you make the switch from film to music?

“I was always doing music in my spare time as a hobby and then a label in Seattle called Sub Pop got a hold of some of the stuff that I was doing from a friend of mine and they called me. It seemed like too good of an opportunity to pass up.”

What got you interested in music in the first place?

“Some people just gravitate towards it. The arts are funny that way. It doesn’t really make sense. You just sort of feed your spirit in a certain way. I’ve always liked music. I also like making things. I like drawing and making things and making films and stuff like that. So when I started recording it became that kind of a thing for me, not just a listener, but a creator. “ When did you start doing stuff for music?

“I got a guitar when I was 14 or 15, something like that. I would play with friends of mine. There were bands that we liked and we played like they did, but I was always doing other things and just kept my guitar with me to play in spare time. I started playing more in college.”

What musicians or artists inspired your music or inspired you to do music?

“It’s a long list. It’s a lot of people. As far as writers go, I like the wordy fun guys like (Bob) Dylan and Paul Simon and those people. I think I get more inspiration from, well, poets. There’s also a lot of different music that you draw inspiration from — lots of different types of music. I grew up with punk rock music and whatever was on the radio and country music. There’s all kinds of stuff to draw inspiration from.”

How did you start recording music? How did you shift from it being a hobby?

“A friend of mine had a four-track recorder, and I borrowed it for awhile. That was kind of all it took, really. Like I mentioned before, I like making things and all of a sudden it became crafting this recording instead of just making a song, and it really sparked my interest.”

Your stage name is from the supplement “Beef, Iron and Wine.” What exactly made you choose that?

“I just saw that when we were shooting a movie at this country store in Georgia and I saw it on the shelf and it just struck me as a funny combination of words. I didn’t put beef in it. ... (there) didn’t seem to be a part of the permanent ring to it, so I dropped it.”

What have you learned from having children?

“Well you could write a book about that. You learn a lot. You learn to be more sympathetic and empathetic with people because you go from being young and worrying about yourself to worrying about others and then you start to be interested in other people’s perspectives.

It teaches you a lot about yourself, to be honest. You learn more about yourself than anything.”

photo by Craig Kief

What advice would you give to students to be successful?

“To be successful, find something you love to do and enjoy being in school, because it doesn’t last forever.

Find what you enjoy doing in life and pursue it.”

Why did you grow out your beard?

“Because I’m a lazy bum. I just don’t like shaving. I finally got a gig where I didn’t have to shave and I never did again.”

Iron and Wine will perform at 7:30 p.m. March 28 at the Egan Center. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door for UAA students. For general public, tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at http://www. ticketmaster.com. Student prices available at the Student Union Information Desk. Limit two tickets per student.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Rise of an Empire’ fails and falls

By George Hyde

gchyde@thenorthernlight.org The original “300” film was a very stylish adaptation of Frank Miller’s very stylish graphic novel, which in turn was based (loosely) on the true tale of the 300 Spartans who fought at the Battle of Thermopylae. It’s a tale many are familiar with, and depending on who one asks, director Zack Snyder did a fabulous job of emulating the style of the original comic while maintaining the central theme of Spartan glory.

However, the sequel, titled “Rise of an Empire,” ditches most of this to focus on an Athenian general and his relatively inglorious fight in the Battle of Salamis. It tells a completely different story with different characters, and it forgets what made the original “300” film such a standout.

Taking place roughly at the same time as the events in the first “300,” the film focuses on the Athenian general Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton, “Gangster Squad”), who prior to the film’s events, kills Persian King Darius I, the father of the first film’s antagonist, King Xerxes I. Several years later, at the onset of the Persian Wars, Themistocles and his navy are sent to protect the Grecian seas from a naval assault from Artemisia (Eva Green, “Dark Shadows”), a Greece-born woman who rose to become one of the most feared commanders in the Persian fleet.

And herein lies the main problem with the film: Was the word “Spartan” in that last paragraph?

Aside from a few cameos at the beginning and the end of the film, they don’t appear. That’s a major problem because Spartan glory was the central

theme that the whole novel and first film was based on. That sense of glory was the main reason that the first “300” film was so enjoyable. It was the glue that held the film together, and without that glue, “Rise of an Empire” falls apart.

Another important factor that is conspicuously missing is the comic book style that set the original “300” film apart. One could pause any scene of that movie and note it looking like it was straight out of a graphic novel. That’s also gone in “Rise of an Empire,” and as a result, the action feels lifeless.

Adding to the film’s lifelessness is the acting, which, when compared to the bombastic and fierce attitude of the 300 Spartans, feels hollow and dull.

Themistocles and his Athenian navy don’t have the personality that the Spartans at Thermopylae had, and while Xerxes and Artemisia do provide enjoyable performances, they aren’t enough to make up for the rest of the cast’s poor job.

All of these things made the first “300” an awesome experience, at least for some. But now the factors that made the original so unique have been stripped from the experience, and the audience is left with an experience that won’t appeal to many at all. It’s a boring, bloody slog, and even for fans of the original, it’s probably worth a skip.

Film: “300: Rise of an Empire” Release Date: March 7, 2014 Director: Noam Murro Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green

GAME REVIEW

Stand by for ‘Titanfall’

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Art as catharsis: Why make art?

By Jacob Holley-Kline arts2@thenorthernlight.org

By George Hyde

gchyde@thenorthernlight.org Almost four years ago, the two lead developers at Infinity Ward, the studio behind the gargantuan “Call of Duty” franchise, left the studio along with more than half of their employees to form their own studio: Respawn Entertainment. “Titanfall” is their first creation. And if it can live up to the massive speculation and hype surrounding its release, it will be destined to lead the multiplayer charge of the next gaming generation.

Thankfully, “Titanfall” mostly delivers on its massive promises to create what may possibly be the definitive multiplayer shooter of 2014, if not the next few years and beyond.

The game is firmly rooted in the world of multiplayer, and nowhere is this clearer than in its greatest flaw: the story. The story campaign, as it’s loosely called, simply dresses a few multiplayer matches up with extra voice acting and cutscenes to give the illusion of a story being told.

It’s no great masterpiece, but it’s enough to make the world fairly interesting. It’s just a shame that, for such a masterfully executed multiplayer game, a competent story mode couldn’t follow suit.

But looking beyond that, “Titanfall” is an outstanding achievement in multiplayer shooting.

Being from a team mostly comprised of Infinity Ward’s best and brightest, the gameplay doesn’t stray too far from its “Call of Duty” roots. However, there are two major twists that make matches much more satisfying.

One is parkour. Jump up into a wall and the character will initiate a wall run, gaining momen-

tum and speed. Wall runs can be chained together to build and build speed, adding a feeling of exhilaration to map traversal. And because the maps are designed with wall running in mind, the action always feels fast and fresh.

The second twist is the eponymous Titan, a piloted mechanical robot that players can hop into and go stomping and shooting with. The Titans add a David-and-Goliath feeling to matches, because Titans can obliterate Titan-less pilots with ease, but clever pilots on the ground can still maneuver around and do plenty of damage to the Titans, possibly even destroying them.

With these two elements mixed in, it adds up to a game that feels like “Call of Duty” at first but becomes its own beast as the experience goes on.

Playing as a lonesome pilot still feels viable as the map continues to fill with friendly and enemy Titans. The new mechanics make an already fast game feel so much faster and more gratifying.

It’s a shame that the campaign mode couldn’t live up to the expectations, but the incredible multiplayer more than makes up for it. And hey, the campaign mode is just a collection of scripted multiplayer matches, so players wanting to constantly be online won’t be missing much. Those who want an engrossing single-player experience probably should look away, but anyone interested in fast and fun multiplayer shouldn’t miss “Titanfall” for the world.

Title: “Titanfall” Developer: Respawn Entertainment Platform: XBO, 360, PC Genre: First-person shooter

Aristotle famously said that the purpose of art is catharsis. If looking at or making a piece of art leads to some outburst of emotions, it’s done its job.

“Painting was a big therapeutic exercise for me,” said junior Accounting major Jacob Paiz, “I could transfer emotions onto canvas and detach them from myself.”

Paiz began painting in the summer of 2011. His father, Pablo Paiz, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, leaving Jacob with much free time.

“Having your father diagnosed as terminally ill the day of your graduation … is absolutely crushing. Art was a place I could go that was a universe in itself,” said Paiz.

When it comes to painting and drawing, Paiz believes the end product is not the most important, “Your art doesn’t have to be spectacular or amazing,” he said, “It is truly the process … that gives the most joy.”

This escape reconciles emotional conflicts according to pioneering art therapist Harriet Wadeson in her book “Advances in Art Therapy.”

All forms of art, from painting and drawing to music and writing, can be therapeutic. Freshman music major Wright Franklin picked up a guitar when he was 10.

“I always, always loved music,” said Franklin, “it takes your mind to a different place.”

Music helped Franklin through the tougher parts of his childhood, “Every kid goes through it … there’s certain things that can be expressed in music that I can’t find words for.”

According to a meta study titled, “The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health” published in the American Journal of Public Health, creating art can lead to “reductions in distress and negative emotions” and help with “expression of grief, positive identity, and social networks.”

From a young age, making music has given Franklin catharsis, “I always feel this emotional exhaustion afterwards … no matter what style or how you’re making it, I think you can hear emotion in it.”

For Franklin and Paiz, creating art has fulfilled its purpose: catharsis. The next piece in the “Art as Catharsis” series will focus on art therapy in Anchorage.

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SPORTS UAA loses Governor’s Cup 4-game series ends in tie; UAF claims title in shootouts for fifth year running

By Travis Dowling

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‘Wolves hockey advance to WCHA semi-finals

By Travis Dowling

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Friday, March 7, 2014

The University of Alaska Anchorage, Seawolves hockey team visited in-state rival the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Nanooks, to finish the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular season and the final two games of Governor’s Cup. In the four game series of the Governor’s Cup, UAA and UAF both previously had two wins under their belts. In the third game of the series, UAF greatly dominated the game, with a winning score of 7-2. This put UAF in the lead for the Governor’s Cup title, having won 2 out of 3 games.

UAA needed to win both Friday and Saturday’s games in order to host the first round of the WCHA playoffs in Anchorage. With this loss, the Seawolves would have to win on Saturday to have a chance towards the Governor’s Cup, as well as find out where they would travel to for the first round of WCHA playoffs.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

At the start of Saturday’s game, UAA needed a victory to have a chance at the Governor’s Cup title that had been dominated by UAF for the past 4 years. If UAA won on Saturday, thus tying the series, a penalty shootout would ensue to determine the winner of the Governor’s Cup. The Seawolves won the game 3-1 but lost the shootout giving the Nanooks the victory over UAA in the Governor’s Cup. Captain Matt Bailey, Senior, scored the first goal for the Seawolves at 2.37 of the first period. UAA’s Scott Allen, Junior, added a second goal at 14.09 of the first period, giving the Seawolves a 2-0 lead, going into the second period .

At 5:41 of the second period UAF’s Garrick Perry, Junior, scored, putting UAF within one goal of UAA. With UAA leading UAF by a score of 2-1, Seawolf Brett Cameron, Junior, scored a goal at 15:57 of the second period, giving UAA the lead of 3-1.

UAA’s 3-1 victory forced a tie for the Governor’s Cup and the Seawolves and Nanooks competed in a penalty shootout to determine the 2013-14 Governor’s Cup winner. UAF won the shootout by a score of 2-1, giving defending champions, UAF, their 5th consecutive win of the Governor’s Cup. UAA finished the WCHA regular season ranked sixth in the standings and travelled back to Fairbanks over the next weekend to play the first round of WCHA playoff hockey, in a best of 3 games series.

SPORTS BRIEF ‘Wolves lose in first round of NCAA March 14, 2014 - On Sunday, March 16 residents of Crimea in Ukraine voted overwhelmingly to secede from the Ukraine and join Russia. United States President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday that “the vote violates the Ukranian constitution and would never be recognized by the United States and international community.” Citizens of Crimea are primarily of Russian ethnic backgrounds and were given the choice to vote for annexation by Russia, or to remain in the Ukraine with greater autonomy. Of those who voted, 95 percent approved the cessation.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

The UAA hockey team traveled to Fairbanks to open the first round of Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs against in state rivals, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The game remained scoreless until 2:44 into the second period when UAA’s Tanner Dusyk, Freshman, scored the first goal of the game. The Nanook’s Justin Woods, Freshman, scored a goal at 11:59 of the second period, tying the game.

Seawolf Blake Tatchell, Sophomore, gave UAA a 2-1 lead with a goal scored at 6:24 of the third period. The Nanook’s fired back with a goal scored at 13:54 of the second period, the goal scored

by UAF’s Marcus Basara, a Freshman.

This goal tied the game at 2-2. This first game of a set of three games went into overtime.

In overtime UAF’s Colton Back, Senior, scored the gamewinning goal at 3:40 of the overtime period. UAF won the first game of the best of three series.

2:59 of the second period with a goal. With the game tied 1-1, Seawolf Brad Duwe, Freshman, scored the game winning goal at 4:27 of the second period.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

When the puck dropped on Saturday UAA and UAF were tied in the first round of the WCHA best of three game series. With the winner of this game moving onto the WCHA Final Five in Grand Rapids, Michigan, both teams were playing to keep their season alive. UAA scored the first goal of the game, when Jordan Kwas, Senior, gave the Seawolves the lead 1-0 at 1:09 of the second period.

Seawolf Matt Bailey, Senior, scored a goal at 5:00 of the second period giving UAA a 2-0 lead. The Nanooks gave a tough fight, scoring a goal at 16:04 of the second period. Seawolf Scott Allen, Junior, scored a goal to give UAA a 3-1 lead.

At the start of the third period with UAA leading UAF, 20 minutes separated one team from moving on to the WCHA Final Five and the other teams season coming to an end. The Nanook’s scored two goals in the third period, tying the game at three goals apiece.

UAA’s Austin Coldwell, Junior, scored a go ahead goal (a goal scored after a game is tied) at 13:23 of the third period. UAF trailing on the scoreboard 4-3, the Nanooks were not going down without a fight and would tie the game with a goal scored at 14:47 of the third period. Seawolf Brad Duwe, Freshman, scored the game winning goal on Friday night, also scored the game winning goal on Saturday giving the Seawolves the victory by a score of 5-4.

The Northern Light will be covering the WCHA live from Grand Rapids, MI on March 21 at 7 pm ET (3 pm AKST).

Friday, March 14, 2014

At the start of Friday’s game UAA trailed the three game series 1-0. The Seawolves fell behind early by a score of 1-0, the goal scored by UAF’s Colton Parayko, Sophomore, at 19:31 of the first period. The Nanook’s led the Seawolves 1-0 at the end of the first period.

UAA’s Matt Bailey, Senior, tied the game at

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University of Alaska President

Recently chided by a well-meaning citizen for not arguing against SB176 (I had, in fact, declared clearly to the Senate Judiciary Committee that, as written then and now, the University of Alaska Board of Regents would not support the bill, but no matter), I asked myself: “Argue against what?”

I am a gun user. I believe in the Constitution’s Second Amendment rights. I respect the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment. And I am duty-bound to insure the university complies with state law. Therein lies the real issue.

UA’s objection to preempting current board policy regarding guns on campus is both legal and legislative. The Supreme Court ruled on the Second Amendment in a 2008 case that also affirmed states could legislate restrictions on firearms in sensitive places that warranted extra concern for the common good. In adopting the 1994 amendment to Alaska’s constitutional right to bear arms, Alaskans were assured that restrictions like the following would not be affected: • Concealed carry for people under 21; • Concealed carry in residences, without the express permission of an adult resident; • Loaded firearms in places where intoxicating liquor is served; • Possession in childcare facilities; • Possession in court system facilities; • Possession in domestic violence/sexual assault shelters; • Possession in schools from pre-school through secondary school.

Legislatures since 1994 have consistently reaffirmed their intent to provide that extra measure of both security and safety. They remain the law in Alaska.

University campuses are complex communities and share the same risk sensitivities. Campus living space is limited and shared.

Last fall, 29 percent of students enrolled in four-credit courses were under 21 years of age. Liquor may be served in campus pubs and is legally present in dormitories. Both UAA and UAF have childcare facilities. Most importantly, K-12 students regularly attend our 16 campuses in large numbers, sometimes in extended residential, enrichment and college prep programs, often daily after school.

Universities are both schools and workplaces where responsible, irresponsible, healthy and troubled students and employees live and work side by side. Disciplinary and academic tensions are adjudicated on a daily basis. Campuses maintain laboratories containing explosive and hazardous materials. To remain consistent with state law, the UA Board of Regents holds that the aforementioned firearm restrictions should therefore apply. If not, why not? If the law indicates that common sensitive areas be offered special protection off campus, why would UA campuses be different?

Alaska state laws place a clear burden of responsibility on the board to maintain what’s called a legal standard of care. That standard includes policies aimed at ensuring basic safety. We are currently (and would still be under SB176) financially liable for incidents involving firearms. Adding many more firearms throughout UA and expecting that the legal standard of care will remain the same, or as some argue, improve, is faulty logic. That conclusion is further validated by the higher premium estimates of companies that carry our liability insurance, whose business it is to assess risk, and who also take exception to the SB176 solution.

SB176 does not address the ambiguities created by the application of the law to UA. Besides liability it would, for example, deny the board any meaningful authority to regulate armed individuals on UA premises. The bill significantly impacts UA’s ability to manage firearm risk proactively. Continuing an escalating gun debate that fails to clarify the legal issues and thus continues indefinitely serves no purpose other than to cast a chilly pall over the thriving UA academic environment we work to maintain for current and potential faculty, staff and students.

So let’s do this. Decide once and for all whether UA campuses legally fit the select firearm restrictions already approved by the voters and make the results clear in the legislation. If conditions on UA campuses are determined to be similar to existing legal restrictions, then let’s accept the wisdom of regents past who had to deal with this same issue, accept that they did it in accordance within the laws of the state, and that they got it right.

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