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No Big Heads, open this week

By Kierra Hammons

For the past 27 years, small packages from around the country have been sent to UAA’s campus and displayed for two weeks.

Inside of those packages are selfportraits under one square foot in dimension.

Those artworks then become part of UAA’s annual No Big Heads self-portrait competition and exhibition, opening this week in the UAA Student Union Gallery.

“This year we have a couple middle schoolers, and we have more out-of-state submissions than ever before,” said Tess Forstner, Student Union Gallery manager.

According to Forstner, the reason why the show has size limitations is to make non-local submissions more cost-efficient to ship.

The top award for participating artists is $1,000 for Best of Show and a summer 2013 solo exhibit at the UAA Student Union Gallery.

An additional total of $1,000 will also be given out through various runner-up awards.

David Kassan, Brooklyn portrait artist, is the guest judge for this year. He has shown his work and lectured in several continents across the globe.

There are no style guidelines for the show, so Kassan’s award selections will be a surprise to all.

“Some people do it by originality. Some people do it by technique,” said Forstner on how the guest judge determines the awards each year. “Other people do it by how it relates to how they paint — so he might judge because he’s a realist portrait artist, how accurate it is, but some people also like to look at how abstract it is, so there’s no telling how he’ll pick.”

Mike McCormick, assistant director of Student Activies, esteems No Big Heads as a UAA tradition. “It’s one of the most highly-regarded annual shows in Alaska,” he said.

The opening reception for No Big Heads will be today, Oct. 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Student Union Gallery, and the award ceremony for participating artists will be d at 5:30 p.m.

An additional midday reception will be held in the same location Thursday 1:30-3 p.m.

No Big Heads will be displayed from Oct. 23 to Nov. 6. The gallery is open for viewing MondayThursdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Fridays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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By Keldon Irwin Staff Reporter

Despite all the hope and hype for a UAA football team, Athletic Director Steve Cobb said Oct. 19 during the USUAA meeting that a football team will not be commissioned anytime soon.

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Adding football would cost $6 million.

“Adding football would cost $6 million,” he said. “We’re currently spending $8 million on 13 (sports).”

Cobb briefly summarized the process of adding a sport to UAA’s arsenal, which requires a short, yet potentially difficult process.

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First, the sport is proposed to the Board of Regents, because they possess the executive authority to accept or reject new sports. Next, the Board of Regents has to approve the sport. Last, if approved, the Board of Regents orders the person or group who

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proposed the sport to allocate the means to cover any expenses that the proposed sport requires.

Cobb said that while the athletic department does have minor financial issues to sort out,

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Bill Clinton to campaign in NY congressional races ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Former president Bill Clinton is helping out three fellow Democrats in their upstate New York congressional races.

Clinton plans to be at two rallies on Friday. The first is in Syracuse to endorse Dan Maffei’s challenge of Republican freshman Ann Marie Buerkle.

Polls are showing a tight race for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Clinton’s second stop will be in Rochester for a rally to endorse the re-election campaigns of Reps. Louise Slaughter and Kathy Hochul in their western New York districts.

Slaughter faced a challenge from Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks in the 25th District.

Hochul is challenged by former Erie County Executive Chris Collins in the neighboring 27th District. Hochul won the seat in a special election last year.

Green Party candidates arrested at debate HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Police say the Green Party candidates for president and vice president have been arrested at the second presidential debate.

Nassau County, N.Y. police say Jill Stein, the Green presidential nominee, and Cheri Honkala, vicepresidential nominee, were charged with disorderly conduct as they tried to enter the debate site at Hofstra University.

The Green Party says in a statement that Stein and Honkala were walking with supporters toward the Hofstra campus Tuesday afternoon when they were met by uniformed police officers. Stein and Honkala then held an impromptu press conference, in which Stein called the debate a “mockery of democracy.”

A third person was later charged with disorderly conduct.

Suspect in Ky. HOA shooting: ‘I had to kill them’ LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As he prepared for a homeowners association meeting last month, Dr. Mahmoud Yousef Hindi packed a loaded revolver and six spare bullets in his briefcase, told his family to have dinner without him, and walked down the street to a community center.

Once there, Hindi told Louisville police detectives, his frustrations over several battles with the association erupted. Within 30 minutes of the Sept. 6 meeting’s start, 73-year-old David Merritt and 69-year-old Marvin Fisher lay dead on the floor. Hindi shot the men, then told onlookers to call the police, and said he wasn’t going to hurt anyone else and wasn’t going to leave.

“They just made the killer in me.

I had to do it,” Hindi told police hours after the shootings in eastern Louisville. “Those are not human beings. Those are actually big time racists.”

Hindi is charged with two counts of murder and multiple counts of wanton endangerment in the shooting at the Spring Creek Homeowners Association. He has pleaded not guilty as prosecutors weigh whether to seek a death sentence for the Jordaniantrained doctor with an expired medical license. Hindi is scheduled to return to court Nov. 2.

Prosecutors released Hindi’s police interview as part of an exchange of evidence with defense attorneys. On the tape, first reported by The CourierJournal newspaper in Louisvillle, Hindi recounts the months leading up to the shooting, his prolonged battles with the association and the sleepless night before the shootings.

During the more than four hours of video, Hindi speaks clearly and unemotionally about what led up to the shooting, as well as the shooting itself. At one point, Hindi diagrammed the shooting on a whiteboard for officers, explaining where he sat and how he first shot Merritt, then Fisher.

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they would be solved through “internal cuts.”

He was very careful to emphasize that should will be no need for athletic fee increases in the next four years.

Cobb also mentioned the desperate need for a student-only recreation center.

“We are the largest school in the nation that has not built a recreational center for their students. It’s embarrassing for me,” said Cobb.

While UAA’s new recreation center will not be entirely for students only, students will have notable priority to the building over the community.

“Right now, it’s in the backdoor stages,” Cobb said.

Cobb shared that plans for the recreation center are only in the preliminary draft stages.While the details of the building are all tentative, Cobb did disclose that the building should contain a pool, basketball court and track.

The recreation center should also showcase a weight room, a rock-climbing wall and an ice rink that will double as a turf field.

In addition to the services the recreation center will provide to students, it will also be a notable source of income for the school through advertisements and a soft drink partnership. UAA is currently deciding between Coke and Pepsi as a soft drink dispenser.

In other news, USUAA Senator Max Bullock reported on UAA’s new partnership with the Tutor Matching Service, a new service available to UAA students through Facebook. There are two types of tutors at UAA. Tutors who are paid by the school work in tutoring centers on campus, whereas private tutors advertise with bulletins and meet in various locations. With the goal of the most efficacious services possible, Bullock and other senators discussed the two main problems with tutoring on campus. All of the tutoring services offered are not consolidated into one location.

Also, tutors provided by UAA do not currently provide science services to students who are not enrolled in supplementary programs.

The Tutor Matching Service is

an online hub where local tutors can consolidate their credentials, available hours, subjects offered and prices in one place.

The only payment method offered through the Tutor Matching Service is through Paypal. Not all tutors require payment, because some are volunteers offering free services.

Bullock sees this new program as a solution to tutoring ambiguity across campus.

USUAA Vice President Andrew McConnell also reported that current measures to reform course fees are being enacted.

“Some professors don’t even know that fees are being collected for courses that they are teaching,” said McConnell.

He said that some fees were put in place up to 10 years ago and have not been evaluated since. While there is a lot of work to be done, McConnell seemed confident that these measures would produce a satisfactory reform in course fees.

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Vermont ski resort to run lift with power from manure KILLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont’s Killington ski resort says it’s going to power one of its lifts this season with electricity generated from methane gas recovered from cow manure.

The resort is planning to power its K-1 Express Gondola with electricity generated through Green Mountain Power’s Cow Power program, which enables customers to purchase all or part of their electricity at a premium and support Vermont’s dairy farms The program works by collecting cow manure, mixing it with wash water from the milking equipment and then pumping that slurry into a digester where it is heated for three weeks. The process converts the manure into biogas that is 60 percent methane.

The methane is then used to power a generator, which sends power to the electric grid.

Shotgun wedding?

Jeweler offers rifles with rings NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa — Have you spent your life hunting for the perfect wife? Maybe you have met the one but are feeling gun shy?

An Iowa jeweler is offering free rifles for husbands-to-be who spend at least $1,999 on an engagement ring at his store near Iowa City.

Jeweler Harold van Beek told KCRG near Cedar Rapids (http://bit. ly/TY3Jgg ) that he wanted to “do something for the boy who doesn’t like to hunt for diamonds but likes to hunt for deer.”

The deal at Jewelry By Harold in North Liberty starts Thursday and will run through the end of October.

The rifle offer is subject to Iowa laws on gun ownership. Those barred include felons and addicts.

Phoenix man pleads not guilty in terrorist hoax PHOENIX — A Phoenix man accused of dressing his nephew in a sheet, sending him into a busy street with a fake grenade launcher, and filming the teen as he pointed the phony weapon at passing cars has pleaded not guilty.

A Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman says 39-year-old Michael D. Turley entered the plea Thursday to falsely perpetuating a terrorism act.

Authorities allege Turley filmed his nephew as the masked 16-year-old pointed a fake grenade launcher at vehicles July 28 in northwest Phoenix.

The film was then posted on YouTube. In it, a narrator says he wanted to see how long it took authorities to respond. Police have identified the narrator as Turley.

Turley also faces counts of endangerment, misconduct involving simulated explosives and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

He doesn’t have a listed phone number. Turley’s next court date is set for Dec. 4.

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Students keeping bikes and butts dry

Bike lockers remain empty while bike racks continue to be overcrowded By: Ashley Snyder Contributor

Snow has officially started to blanket the ground, announcing the arrival of winter. To most students, this means time to put away the bikes and break out the shoe spikes.

However, there are still those avid people who will continue to trek to school via bike, no matter how much snow piles on the ground, and on their bikes.

Many know how to winterize their bikes for the journey to and from campus, but few of those students know how to avoid the inevitable bike burial while parked in between classes.

The secret? Bike lockers.

“I’ve used them, but I don’t bike that much, so I don’t use them often,” said junior Miranda Thompson. “But when I do, they are great. I don’t have to worry about (my bike) getting stolen or anything.”

The lockers were implemented a little over two years ago with the help of Glenna Muncy, UAA Parking Services Director.

Walking around campus, bikes can be spotted crammed together on locked bike racks, seats covered with plastic grocery bags to protect them from the damp weather — while the majority of the lockers remain empty and unused.

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then why are they nearly a secret?

Bike lockers are located in two locations on campus.

The first set is located on the first floor of the Central Garage, next to the Social Sciences Building. The second set can be found outside on the bottom floor of the Student Union, just next to New Student Orientation.

They are large enough to fit most sizes of bikes, and the doors have small hooks to allow hanging helmets or heavy winter coats students don’t want to lug around inside.Unlike most lockers on campus, they are all controlled by a key for each locker.

And also unlike most lockers on campus, they are free, only

requiring a quarter for deposit.

Student Amanda Larson said the lockers operate by: “like a coin-op.” One just has to place their bike in the the locker, insert a qaurter, lock the door and the qaurter will be refunded when the key is returned. Some lockers can be more permanent for students who feel they will use them

continuously.

A locker can be rented for the semester for $30 at the Parking Services Office, where the student gets a special key for the semester.

So for those who bike rain, shine, sleet or snow, say goodbye to plastic bag-covered seats out in the elements and hello to secure bikes and dry butts.

Mabil Duir shares stories in UAA’s International Passport Series

By J. Almendarez Managing Editor

Mabil Duir was like any fouryear-old boy. He liked to pick flowers from a field and take them to his mother.

The difference between Mabil and other students on this campus is that he had to crawl under fences in refugee camps throughout South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia, his birthplace, and wander into an unprotected war zone to pick those flowers.

“I loved my mother, but I was a rebel,” he said.

Duir spoke at this month’s International Passport Series, a monthly series aiming to spread awareness about cultural diversity on campus. Enrollment Services, Union of Students and the UAA Bookstore sponsor the event.

Duir has come a long way from crawling under fences to gather flowers. He is now 23 years old and has spent the last 18 years in this country.

But he remembers how he got here like it was yesterday.

Duir was taken from his mother’s arms by United Nations soldiers who placed him into a truck bed with his aunti, while a large group of people tried to grab a place in the truck.

He wiggled out of the truck and went back into his mother’s arms.

She placed two gold pyramidshaped earrings into his hand and placed him back into the truck with his aunti.

“I watched her get smaller as I rested my head on the window,” said, recounting when the truck drove away. “I hated the U.N.” The U.N. trucks took him and his family to an airport where they were flown to New York as part of asylum program run through a church. During the time Duir was living in refugee camps, South Sudan was fighting a war that began in 1983.

“Officially this was not for independence but for a united, secular, democratic Sudan,” the Guardian reported July 8, 2011.

The Guardian article stated the strife was caused by a history of British control of the Sudanese area, relinquished in 1972.

However, discrimination and violence prompted the rebellion in 1983. Duir’s uncle, Yop Dit, said the war was mostly fought because of differences in religion and race. He said many people in North Sudan have lighter skin than those in the south. When the North Sudanese people began invading the south, he said they took people out of their homes and took them to work or killed them.

Duir’s father was a “big figure” preacher, soldier and all-around

revolutionary figure.

He helped educate people in cities and organize others to fight against the north, becoming one of the founders of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army.

He was killed during the war.

Duir said he admires his father,

but when he was growing up, he just wanted his dad.

Duir grew up in the United States with his aunti for seven years. He often asked for photos to see what his dad looked like, and his aunti told him, “When you want to see your father, just look in the mirror.”

His family traveled often from state to state looking for work.

When he was 12, Duir was placed in foster care until 2007, when he became 18 years old. He then rejoined his family, who had moved to Anchorage in 2005 and 2006.

Though Duir said he received multiple sports scholarships from different universities, he opted to rejoin his family in Anchorage because “that’s how Sudanese people are.”

“That’s where my heart was at,” he added.

Duir said his goal is to earn a bachelor’s degree from UAA in Political Science.

“My ultimate goal is to work with the Department of Defense,” he said, saying he may join the Marines or U.S. Air Force to help him achieve that goal.

However, he said, “The thought of never returning to my birth land bothers me.”

One day, he said he wants to return to South Sudan to, “free my

people and hug my mother.”

But he said he feels he can only go back to South Sudan to work in a governmental context.

“I want to be a high head in the parliament,” he said. “That’s the only role I feel myself going back to Sudan for.”

“I can’t be a normal person. I was never a normal person,” he said.

Rachel Epstein, special events coordinator for the UAA Bookstore, said this is the first of what she said will be a monthly lecture by international students.

She said there are tentative plans for a student from India and a student from Pakistan to speak about their homeland and culture, but no official dates have been set.The Bookstore provides free parking for the event in the South Parking Lot, located by the American Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) building, along with light refreshments and free admission.

She suggested students check the UAA master calendar online at www.uaa.alaska.edu/calendar/ mastercalendar.cfm for more information about future lecturers.

Duir’s speech can be heard in its entirety via podcast at thenorthernlight.org. The podcast is available courtesy of the Bookstore.

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Celebrate Halloween with fellow Seawolves

By Evan Dodd Contributor

Let me begin by saying I am a lifelong Alaskan. Every year I pack on my 42 thermal layers and watch the Iditarod, go see the ice sculptures in negative 20-degree weather or even wake up to groggily watch auroras at 3 a.m.

I even worked a fireworks stand during a 40-below cold snap, because that is how dedicated I am.

And I love that stuff — all of it — because that’s one of the perks to living in this beautiful state, as opposed to New Jersey. In New Jersey all I could do was go to the mall and, if I’m lucky, watch the entire cast of the Jersey Shore be obliterated by an asteroid whilst listening to Bruce Springsteen.

Note: my editor claims that this is extremely unlikely, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

I’m not new here. I don’t complain at the slightest breeze or even the four-week monsoon season. But I can’t remain silent anymore. I guess my point is that I can’t deal with the first half of winter here.

Winter after January is my absolute favorite time of year.

In fact, my spring semester class attendance rate drops to a whopping 16 percent and my snowboard never leaves my car.

All of my free time is spent on a ski lift, ice climbing or passiveaggressively throwing snowballs at ex-girlfriends. They tell me I’m very mature.

But for the love of all that is holy, it’s freakin’ October!

I don’t want to wake up to find that my lawn looks like a giant Charlie Sheen spilled his stash of drugs on it. I don’t want to leave

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a cup of coffee on my windowsill and wake to find it solid. I especially don’t want to hear the sorrowful death rattle emanating from my poor Kia as it struggles to survive.

I understand it’s cold here and a lot of us thrive on this environment. But I can’t be the only one that gets frustrated with the fact that our version of fall involves a great deal more frozen apocalypse than the rest of the nation.

And don’t try to lie to me and say that this is just how nature works. Nope, not buying it.

Because I’ve just spent the last four hours on Reddit looking at pictures of fiery red and orange leaves and children preparing for Halloween. I know that those things exist somewhere beyond the frigid borders of this frosted state.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it the wind wasn’t blowing every time I work up the nerve to leave my dorm. One foot out the door and

it begins to feel like Frosty the Snowman just belched in my direction. I have to believe that given the choice between grazing in a frozen wasteland and dozing in a nice climate controlled barn, Donner, Blitzen and Santa’s elves might choose the heated scenario.

I’m obviously not quite up to speed on my Christmas characters.

The elves sleep in the barn right?

So this year I’m not going to freeze to death without a fight. I won’t be beaten down by frost and wind and ice. I simply refuse to huddle in the corner of my dorm, wearing my bed sheets as a turban to conserve heat, and wait an eternity for Christmas break.

What I’m trying to say is that I’ll be going to Hawaii in a month so I won’t go nuts and start building fires in my sinks to stay warm.

I’ll wait out the first part of winter on a beach somewhere, surrounded by palm trees without a snowflake in sight.

Enjoy the frost, suckers.

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Celebrating over 20 years of festivities, UAA will once again host its annual Haunted Halloween Fun Night.

Occupying both the Student Union and the Wells Fargo Sports Complex, the celebration Oct. 27 from 1 p.m.-6 p.m. offers a wide range of attractions including Plinko provided by the Accounting Club, a mock archeological dig provided by the anthropology club, slot cars provided by Simple Truth, pumpkin bowling provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers, a haunted house in the south cafeteria, a bean bag toss

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with mock human organs and a cake walk. All proceeds from this event are shared between the Make-A-Wish foundation and various UAA student clubs.

Joshua Bruno, student worker at the Greek Clubs and Student Life, said roughly 50 student clubs and organizations have signed up to host the booths at the event.

Haunted Halloween Fun Night is Saturday, Oct. 27, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. in the Student Union and Wells Fargo Sports Complex. This event is open to kids ages 2-12. Parking and admission to the event are free, but activity tickets are 25 cents each.

Noon music promises more broadened talent

By Emily Hodson Staff Reporter

The Student Union has many events each week, but none as consistent as the Noon Music near Subway.

Students, people and bands from all genres and backgrounds are selected each week to perform for two hours inside the Student Union cafeteria, where many people pass by to go to classes or grab food.

The performers are usually mellow during their jam sessions, which are hosted every Wednesday, with the exception of special events scheduled during that timeframe.

“This has been the longest standing base event going on in the student activities

department,” said Garren Volper, a programming team member who specializes in sound and finding new talent each week for Noon Music.

Not much has changed since the beginning of the event, other than a widening range of musical genres being performed.

From covers to originals, it’s hard to predict what types of performances will happen each week.

Because the Student Union is a place where people study and eat, rockers, heavy metal, and screaming bands are not usually included in Noon Music schedules.

Noon Music is mostly targeted at mellow, jazz and singersongwriter types of performers.

Sometimes people from the lower 48 will even play during Noon Music along with regular groups.

Costs for this event involve paying the performers, paying the student organizations and paying student employment fees.

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However, a considerable problem with Noon Music persists: Groups with loud instruments struggle with the lack of sound quality the Student Union Cafeteria provides.

Noon Music has planned to do something a little different this year to make this weekly event more interesting. Kat Sweetman, programming assistant manager for Noon Music, said, “KRUA

will be sponsoring one Noon Music event at the last Wednesday of every month.”

KRUA recently celebrated their 10th anniversary and wants to broaden the range of music played in the cafeteria.

One of the most interesting performances in the past involved accordions, tenors and banjos with Irish musicians.

A wide range of musicians are currently accepted to play, but not just anyone can get on stage to play or sing something.

“They need to be able to play songs for at least two hours and be on tune. Students who are studying don’t want to be distracted or annoyed,” says Volper. “We usually vote who gets

to perform each week after people give us copies of their music.”

Lyrical content has never really been an issue, so there are currently minimal guidelines set for performers.

“We rarely run into that kind of problem. Most of the performers already know to keep the atmosphere clean. I’ve only seen one person drop the ‘F’ bomb three times during a song performance.”

The next noon music event will feature KRUA’s Anna Lynch at the end of this month.

If interested in performing for a Noon Music event, please contact programming staff at 907-7861207 or email uaaprogramming@ uaa.alaska.edu.

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Viagra and your penis

By Vicente Capala Multimedia Editor

Sildenafil, commonly known by the brand name Viagra, is a drug used to give males an extra boost for happy hour (or longer, if you are a wild child).

Viagra is used commonly to treat erectile dysfunction in males. It is also used to help those who can achieve an erection keep that erection. As we all know, no appendage’s stamina is the same.

There are many questions commonly asked about this penile pill’s power. But first, let’s begin with how it works.

Viagra is a drug that allows more blood to flow inside the penis. One must be sexually aroused for the drug to work at all, however — so no worries on accidentally swallowing a pill during family dinnertime, unless of course “family dinnertime” is just you and the lover. If so, you should then consider calling family dinnertime by another name.

Make sure you don’t eat at least 2 hours prior to taking Viagra, or else it won’t work properly. If you eat something before the pill, your body becomes confused about what it’s absorbing. You also don’t want to smell like onions or grease before making love, so that should be another reason to not eat beforehand.

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After taking it, the pill should work within a half hour. It can safely last up to four hours after that.

Make sure you use those four hours wisely, because you do not want to waste the opportunity of prolonged erections by climaxing earlier than your partner. In other words, please him or her before yourself.

For those of you who like to have intercourse multiple times throughout the day, you might want to consider finding other means for your erection to last longer. The recommended dosage for Viagra is once a day, but of course it is different for each person.

One myth about Viagra should be addressed. It involves a man who took several pills, thinking Viagra didn’t work. Once he was aroused he had too much blood flowing into his penis, so his heart went out. Though this myth has not been confirmed either true or false, please follow the recommended dosage, even if it’s for the sole reason that awkward situations arise when you can’t get rid of your erection.

For more information on Viagra, check out http:// www.viagra.com. Viagra is a prescribed drug, so make sure you talk to your doctor before taking it or finding other cheap rip-offs.

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By Kate Lindsley Contributor

Bacteria and viruses must exit one host and enter your body by a port of entry (POE) to make you sick.

POEs include the mouth (entrance into your lungs and gut), nose, eyes, the skin (through insect bites, cuts and scrapes leading to your bloodstream), urogenital tract (the penis and vagina) and, in very few cases, the anus.

However, the anus is mostly a place for bacteria to exit, which is where something called “enterics” comes into play.

If someone is hosting enteric bacterial colony (one that lives in the guts and exits through feces), dropping a deuce can allow it to escape into the toilet water, thus contaminating the toilet bowl. The potential for infection does not lie in the sit-and-splash scenario.

Rather, the infection can occur once the contaminated toilet is flushed and little bits of water are aerosolized — simply put, microscopic bits are splashed up

and carried through the air.

According to a 2005 article published in “The Journal of Applied Microbiology,” two researchers discovered that once a colony of bacteria has been shed into the toilet, it stays inside the bowl and in the water long after the first flush.

Each flush following the initial poop forms contaminated aerosols in the air surrounding the toilet. There is no way a flimsy cover localized to the toilet seat can protect someone from these various forms of contamination.

Sorry for upping your anxiety.

The exit in this case is the anus, via poop, and the POE is the mouth — OK, I just threw up a little while writing that. So yes, this is something to worry about.

The toilet seat liners can’t protect you from anything other than your own paranoia. And after reading this article, nothing can protect you from paranoia.

The best you can do is wash your hands thoroughly and avoid putting them in your mouth.

And don’t hang out in the bathroom stall after you’ve flushed the toilet. And don’t sit on the pot and text, because the glassy surface of your phone screen is

a great place for microbes to sit and wait. Then, when you put the phone to your face later in the day to call your honey boo-boo, BAM — gut bacteria gets on your face!

Now, if you’re sitting there thinking, “Wait, but she didn’t say if the toilet seat itself is crawling with STDs or pubic lice or anything!” here’s the answer for you.

You can’t get infections from the toilet seat itself. The only possible way I could see that occurring is if your rear end was scraped up and bloody, allowing for the POE (bloodstream) to be exposed. But, that would require the previous seat-sitter to have shed bloodborne pathogens and left the bloody spots on the seat.

This situation is both severely unlikely and very disgusting.

Regular hygiene practices and hand sanitizer go a long way towards preventing any kind of sickness.

The Mayo Clinic says to wash your hands with soap and warm water, scrubbing all surfaces of the hands for 20 seconds. Under the nails and between the fingers are often places where bacteria love to hide, so be thorough with scrubbing to stay safe!

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New Pacific Islander Organization: Knowledge is power Students emphasize education to spark social change in rapidly growing Pacific Islander community

By Nita Mauigoa

a police officer fatally shot Shane Tasi, Anchorage resident In the movie “Spider-Man,” and Pacific Islander, because Uncle Ben gave Peter Parker solid he was waving a stick at him. advice: “With great power comes This happened months after great responsibility.” the fatal police shooting of East For many Pacific Islander High School football star Frank students, a college education gives Tanuvasa who was reportedly them the responsibility to serve as fleeing from them. a voice for their elders who have Young Polynesians on campus language barriers and also as role who are socially conscious about models for their youth. issues in the community have The new UAA Pacific Islander already flocked to join the PIO. Organization (PIO) was formed “In a span of two days, I had to guide these nine students who students, while “You are meant didn’t know each helping them to do something other approach balance school me about starting and work. It great. You represent a Pacific Islander is also open yourself, UAA, your club,” said to those who organization, your Andre Thorn, want to learn Multicultural about the culture and what you Center director. “In Pacific Islander stand for.” a 24-hour period, culture from -Leonidas Medal, PIO adviser we had 15 students a fun, fresh on the mailing list.” perspective.

“I am delighted that this is one PIO President Miriama of the organizations we have at Aumavae, a social work major, UAA. They are very organized brings her experiences as and dedicated,” Thorn continued. executive director of the local “I want to see them expand and Polynesian Community Center to take off on campus in terms of the club. being involved in leadership “The main focus is on needs activities.” in the Pacific Islander community With many goals on the table, with health, employment, members emphasize that the language barriers, social justice foundation of success is rooted in and social change,” Aumavae education. said. “A lot of times we are seen “My goal is about instilling as invisible people. But we are motivation in the younger visible. We want people to know generation. We have a lot more that.” opportunities than our parents Aumavae recently lead a did. I’m motivated to work and peaceful demonstration after go to school, so they can look up Assistant Features Editor

Student, Kekoa Fomai studies hard so he can inspire younger Pacific Islander children to reach for success through education.

and say, ‘Oh they did it. It must be possible,’” said accounting student Joe Taufaeteau.

PIO has goals to visit schools in the Anchorage School District (ASD) to interact with youth and possibly bring them to campus on field trips. According to the 2012 ASD statistics, Asians and Pacific Islanders make up 15 percent of enrolled students and is the largest group of minorities in the district.

PIO members said that assisting their parents and elders is of equal priority, because parents can be oblivious to pressing social issues at times.

Members hope to have

workshops with professors certified in law through interpreters so their parents can be educated about their rights too.

“You are meant to do something great. You represent yourself, UAA, your organization, your culture and what you stand for,” said PIO adviser Leonidas Medal while addressing the club.

While enlightenment through education is a movement sweeping over Pacific Islander students, there are two aspects engrained: culture and family.

“A lot of Pacific Islanders live with their parents until their parents are gone. It’s not like we

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have to move out when we are 18 years old,” business student Sam Faleulu said. “I embrace my culture because it makes me who I am. Our culture is very loving.”

Comedians set to take the stage this week on campus

By Emily Hodson Staff Reporter

Two internationally recognized comedians are visiting UAA this Thursday. Student Activities presents “A Night of Comedy with Marcus and Melissa Villasenor.”

Melissa Villasenor is best known as a celebrity impressionist contestant in the 2011 season of “America’s Got Talent,” and Marcus was the 2008 runner-up in the “Last Comic Standing.”

The anononymous “Marcus” began his career in radio first, voicing several commercials and putting in thousands of hours of live radio before even attempting comedy stage.

“In 2005 I did commercials for a radio station, and they brought in comedians on weekends. One of the comics told me I should do it because they thought I was really funny on air,” said Marcus.

As the years went by, he began to become recognized for his comedic shows.

He was the winner of the 2007 Seattle International Comedy Competition and winner of the 2007 Rocky Mountain Laugh Off. He was also a semifinalist in the HBO’s “Lucky 21 Comedy Showcase” in 2007.

Then Marcus landed a spot in “Last Comic Standing.”

“It was crazy being on that show,” he said. “When you go from being obscure to people knowing your name.”

Having background in radio has given him many perks when performing a show at universities or at a club, according to his official MySpace.

“I did a show two weeks ago at a community college in Utah, and the first show had 800 people and the second show had 1,300. I had never done a show where so many people showed up,” he said.

He used to do impressions but decided to go a different route.

“When I very first started out, I did impressions. There is only so much you can do with it, though, when you’re a man. It’s more unique when a woman does it,” Marcus said.

He has never been to Alaska, but has another talent to share with this state.

“I’m an avid ghost hunter.

If anyone in Alaska knows any places that are weird, I’ll go with you ghost hunting. I have the equipment for it.”

According to Marcus, he and Villasenor have only met once in person.

Villasenor has also never been to Alaska but looks forward to visiting.

At 12 years old, she discovered that doing impressions makes people laugh and feel good.

Her first stand-up was at her high school talent show.

“In that moment I realized I was in an epiphany to do this for the rest of my life,” Villasenor said.

She later made it into the top 16 in “America’s Got Talent” for her comedy. Even though she didn’t win, she still had a great time.

“My favorite thing about being on that show was feeling very unique and different compared to the singers and dance groups,” Villasenor said.

Villasenor is also working on other projects.

She is currently writing a memoir about herself, including humorous stories.

“My goal is to have the book out by December. It’s already at a hundred pages, but of course with all the editing, it will probably be out next year,” she said.

Another thing she did were voiceovers for the cartoon “Adventure Time,” and she also did a one-liner in “Family Guy.” “It was really fun. Voiceover work is the most fun to me because you don’t have to dress up for work. It’s only your voice so you can be wacky,” she said.

She hasn’t starred on Comedy Central yet, but has been on the road doing shows solo, at clubs and with other comic headlines.

She also starred as Sarah in “The 41-year-old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and felt Super Bad about it” parody, but hasn’t done any movies since.

“I don’t have anything planned for TV or movie stuff yet,” said Villasenor.

She has done voice impressions of Barbara Walters, Natalie Portman, Miley Cyrus, Kathy Griffin, Owen Wilson and many more in her performances. Her favorite is Owen Wilson.

“I will definitely be sharing most of the voices when I come to Alaska for the show,” she said.

“I look forward to performing at a place I’ve never been and I will warm everyone up with my comedy.”

To learn more about Villasenor, go to www.facebook.com/ melissacomedy, follow her Twitter account @melissavpees or visit her official website, www. melissavillasenor.com.

To learn more about Marcus, find him at www.myspace.com/ comedianmarcus, www.facebook.com/ comedianmarcus or on Twitter: @ comedianmarcus.

Marcus and Melissa will be performing in Room 150 of the UAA Fine Arts Building on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free for students taking at least six credits and $10 for the general public.

FEATURES October 23, 2012 Cooking in college

Witch’s Fingers Prep and cooking time: 75 minutes Ingredients: 2-2/3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon almond extract 1/4 pound almonds 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 pound confectioners’ sugar 1 ounce piping gel 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup butter 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt Recipe by Sandra on Allrecipes.com

Bloody Baked Rats Prep and cooking time: 90 minutes Ingredients: 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 cup white sugar 5 (6.5 ounce) cans tomato sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 5 ounces Cheddar cheese 1 egg 1/8 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas 1 (1.25 ounce) packet meatloaf seasoning mix 2 pounds ground beef 1 ounce spaghetti 1 carrot 1 onion Recipe by Angela O. on Allrecipes.com

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

Next week is Halloween, and what better way to celebrate with the family than to cook something gross looking?

“Bloody Baked Rats” is a cheese-stuffed meatloaf molded into the shape of a rat, decorated with two carrot ears and peas for eyes and a nose. “Witch Fingers” are rolled up cookies decorated with almond “fingernails” to look like, well, witch fingers.

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then wash your hands.

Dump the ground beef into a large bowl, followed by the chopped onion, egg, breadcrumbs and meatloaf seasoning. If you can’t find meatloaf seasoning (I couldn’t), a dry spaghetti sauce mix works great. Start mashing everything together with your hands until everything appears evenly distributed.

Once this is done, grab a

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portion of the mixture, flatten it in your hand, and place two or three of the cheese cubes in the middle, depending on how large the portion is. This step is great for including kids, especially younger ones — just have them hand you the cheese and decide how much goes in.

Fold the meat mixture over the cheese and mold it in your hands until the seam becomes invisible.

This will make it less likely for the cheese to escape when it melts. Once this is done, shape the mold until one end is larger than the other, then use one hand to pinch off a section between the two sections to look like a neck, creating a “head and body” shape to the blob. Put it in a shallow baking dish and move on. Do this until all the meat mixture is used up, creating portions as you see fit.

Next, break off strands of dry spaghetti and place them in the back of the rats, creating tails.

Do not let them hang over the edge of the pan.

Otherwise, if the tails fall out of the bodies they will be stuck to the bottom of the oven and unsalvageable.

Set the rats aside and wash your hands again.

For the sauce, you’ll mix the tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce and sugar in a medium mixing bowl. Once everything is well mixed, pour the sauce evenly over the rats, coating them as much as possible.

This is also a good time to include the kids; give your little helper a ladle or large spoon and let them help you pour the sauce.

Cover the rats with aluminum foil or, if you don’t have any, find your inner genius. My apartment is constantly out of aluminum foil, so when I saw two unused disposable pie tins, I had my cooking partner cut them so that they’d lay flat while I started collecting the ingredients for the cookies. Two flat pie tins worked for us, but you may need more, depending on the surface area your rats take up.

Once you’ve got the rats covered, stick them in your oven for 45 minutes.

Then you can start with the cookie dough for the witch’s fingers.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the egg, sugar, butter, almond and vanilla extract. Beat the mixture with an electric mixer, and gradually add in the flour, baking powder and salt.

Make sure you have a strong motor in your mixer that can handle very thick dough, or it’ll be smoking and stinky by the time your ready for the next step. My kitchen smelled of overworked motor for 20 minutes.

Cover the bowl of dough with plastic wrap and chill it in the fridge for 30 minutes (or longer, if your rats have more than 30 minutes left in the oven).

Uncover the rats when the oven timer beeps for the rats. Baste them with the sauce mixture in the pan to keep them moist (I used a large spoon), then stick them in the oven for another 30 minutes.

You’ll do this step three or four more times while the rats are baking.

Once the rats are back in the oven, take out the cookie dough, and call back your child helper if you have one.

Take a tablespoon of dough and roll it between your hands until it’s the length of a finger or a little longer. Pinch it near one tip and then in the center to resemble knuckles. Place it on a greased baking sheet and continue until all the batter is gone, which is anywhere between 30 and 40 fingers later.

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almonds and press them onto the fingers, wide side of the almond in the finger and the narrow side hanging off the edge, to look like long fingernails. I used dark cocoa-covered almonds for a chocolaty kick. This step and the previous one are great for kids to do with supervision.

For an added detail, take a butter knife and create little cuts over the knuckles to look like wrinkles; it only takes two minutes and adds an eerie realism to the cookies.

If there’s still time left on the oven, cover the cookie sheet and put it back in the fridge. If not, take your rats out and let them cool on the stove.

Reduce oven heat to 325 degrees and wait for a few minutes for the temperature to go down. Once it’s readjusted, put the cookies in for 20 to 25 minutes or until slightly golden.

By this time, the rats are almost cool enough to eat, so slice up your carrot, grab a small handful of peas and microwave them in a bowl for 15 seconds, just enough to heat them up. Then take two carrot slices and set them on each rat’s head to look like ears.

Place two peas for eyes and one on the end of the rat for a nose.

This usually works better if there is sauce for the veggies to sit in.

Dish up the rats and eat up!

Heat up extra veggies for a side if you want, but the rats are filling on their own.

You’re not done, though. Once the cookies are finished baking, take them out of the oven and pry off the almonds. If you’re lucky enough to find the red decorating gel, squeeze some into each almond cavity and replace the almond to make it look like a bloody nail.

If, like me, you couldn’t find the red gel, grab a jar of DIY frosting and the flavor of your choosing. I picked mint chocolate, so the frosting turned out green — because witches can bleed green in my book. If you go with frosting instead of the gel, wait until the cookies are completely cooked, or else the frosting will melt and create a mess.

Once the nails are applied, the cookies are ready to eat! Bon appetit!

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Dance Ensemble gears up for annual fall performance

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

Leaps, bounds, lights and music: It’s the middle of the semester, and that means that Dance Ensemble is in full swing, prepping for the first of two annual dance concerts on campus.

Unlike “New Dances,” the annual spring semester dance concert, “Dance Ensemble in Concert” is a small production.

Instead of upwards of 50 dancers, the fall concert showcases the eight Dance Ensemble members, as well as three Dance Ensemble alumni and UAA’s new faculty dance professor, Katherine Kramer.

“I have (visited) many times,” said Kramer. “Gosh, about a dozen times since the mid ‘90s.”

Brian Jeffery, Dance Ensemble director and UAA dance faculty member, said this year’s ensemble is comprised of all new members, many of them freshmen. Jeffery also said that no one truly leaves the company, even when they graduate.

“We always say that once you’re a member of Dance Ensemble, you’re always a member of Dance Ensemble, whether you’re part of a full-time company or not,” he said.

This year’s concert will consist of four dance pieces. One, “Blackbirds” by Jeffery, is a duet featuring two Dance Ensemble alumni.

Another, Kramer’s “Footprints,” casts the current

Dance Ensemble and is meant to explore life’s different twists and turns.

“It’s a playful piece, but I guess I would call it serious play, because it’s a piece that looks at and addresses things that are both light and heavy,” said Kramer. “In the very beginning of our process, I asked them to make a list of all the places they’d lived. Then they had a big piece of paper and they drew a map that translated and moved through lines to all the different places. ... So we used that as a way to create movement.”

Bonnie Moring, an alumna of the student company, is dancing a solo piece choreographed by herself. The piece, “Deceptions vs. Reflections,” is meant to be an introspective one that hangs on the question, “If you find your true reflection, are you content with what you see in the mirror?”

The fourth, though not necessarily final, piece, “One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Blue Fish,” is by guest artist Lynn Andrews of Minneapolis. The piece features the current ensemble, and is inspired by environmental concerns regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as well as by the work of visual artist Dale Chihuly.

“I think it’s important that they (the ensemble) get exposure to the guest artists that I bring up from the Lower 48 or people who have worked internationally. Often, professional companies, even though there will be a director,

A&E OPINION

No point to stolen art

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

We’ve all seen heist movies: Some dude wants what he can’t have, and then he steals it just because.

Sure, sometimes there’s a greater reason behind it (“Ocean’s 12” and “13,” anyone?), but for the most part, people just want to have things simply because it is said they are out of reach.

What do we do when someone says we can’t have something?

We find a way to prove them wrong.

At the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, seven paintings were stolen on Oct. 16, 2012.

The heist occurred at around 3 a.m. according to security footage, but local authorities are not releasing details about how it was executed.

The seven paintings missing are Pablo Picasso’s “Harlequin Head” (1971), Claude Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge, London” (1901) and “Charing Cross Bridge, London” (1901), Henri Matisse’s “Reading Girl in White and Yellow” (1919), Paul Gauguin’s “Girl in Front of Open Window” (1898), Meyer de Haan’s “Self-Portrait” (around 1890), and Lucian Freud’s piece “Woman with Eyes Closed” (2002).

This is a needless blow to the art community. These works are valuable, true, but now that the thieves have them, what do they plan to do with them? Sell them?

Let’s be honest: No intelligent person purchases a stolen painting.

The paintings can’t be displayed for fear of them being recognized and of the thief being prosecuted.

They can’t be ransomed for fear of something going wrong and the thieves being caught. They can’t be sold to other museums for the same reason. (Note: Doing almost anything with a high profile stolen item is likely to get a person caught and thrown in jail.)

The most someone can do with a stolen painting is hang it up in a locked room and just sit there looking at it when they’re bored.

They can’t be shown off — anyone could report them.

Is that what people do, then?

Own stolen paintings and hide them in private home offices or something?

It’s pointless. Sure, the thieves have something no one else is allowed to possess, but at what price?

Who can you share that victory with? And, regardless of whether you stole the piece or bought it from the guys who did, what kind of victory is it if it can’t shared with the world?

they don’t just work with that one person all the time. They’re often working with illustrious choreographers from around the world,” said Jeffery. “I was very anxious to bring Lynn up ... she’s a new artist to Alaska. She’s someone I’ve never brought up before.”

Andrews spent 12 days in September at UAA in an artist residency teaching courses and choreographing the piece, which originally premiered in Birmingham and has been re-imagined for the Anchorage performance.

Like with every production in the Department of Theatre and Dance, “Dance Ensemble in Concert” is produced with funds loaned from the College of Arts

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The Dance Ensemble has a technical rehearsal Friday in the Arts Building.

and Sciences Dean’s Office, which must be repaid through ticket sales. Costs include costumes, advertising, lighting and other production necessities. Because the company is run through the university, its account can’t roll over funds at the end of the year.

In the event of excess revenue from ticket sales (it typically costs around $5,000 to put on the fall concert), money can be used

for the spring show to help bring up guest artists or put toward other necessities that benefit the program.

“Dance Ensemble in Concert” will run from Friday Oct. 26 through Sunday Nov. 4 in the Harper Studio in the Fine Arts Building. Tickets are $10 for UAA students and $14 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the UAA Box Office or online at www.uaatix.com.

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GAME REVIEW

‘Dishonored,’ killing baddies with supernatural style

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

If you’re a fan of “Bioshock” and “Assassin’s Creed,” chances are that you’ll like “Dishonored.”

You are Corvo. You are the bodyguard to the Empress and her daughter Emily. You start off the game returning from a mission for the Empress. Your island city of Dunwall is infested with a rat plague, and your mission was to visit the other cities in the Empire to see if they’d seen anything like it before. While telling the Empress that the other cities were going to block off Dunwall until the plague has subsided, she is assassinated by warriors using some kind of magic, preventing you from saving her, and Emily is kidnapped.

You are found at the scene and accused of her murder.

The nice thing about “Dishonored” is that you immediately know who set you up and have a decent idea about why.

A small group of revolutionaries believe you are

innocent and help you break out of jail. You become their assassin, their arm against those who are taking over the kingdom. Your ultimate goal is to find and save Emily, eventually restoring her to the throne of her mother and to clear your name. While you look for the girl though, you obtain powers from a mysterious man known only as the “Outsider,” and train said powers up to help make you the most formidable pawn on the board.

Sound like a bit much to take in? That’s not all. The world of Dunwall is a whaling city based on Victorian England, with some sci-fi technology worked in. A local scientist has recently made advancements using whale oil to power almost everything.

The technology is new and gritty. It’s captivating, from advanced street lighting and guns to motorized boats and special walls of light that vaporize intruders. Any fan of steampunk (a near-exact concept, but everything is steam-powered),

will find this world beautiful and fun to interact with.

The gameplay is fairly straightforward — the only problem is that those who aren’t familiar with first-person gameplay will have a difficult time coordinating camera movements (right toggle on the PS3 controller) with physical movements (left toggle). Corvo can equip objects to both hands, but can only perform magic with his left hand, so there are additional buttons to coordinate his various attacks and stealth movements that can be difficult to memorize if you aren’t used to doing so.

But that’s just for beginners.

Once you’ve got your coordination figured out, the possibilities are endless.

You may be an assassin now, but Corvo can physically go through the entire game without killing a single person if the player tries hard enough. There’s even a special trophy for it. If you do choose to kill, however, there are plenty of ways to do it.

You can slow time, shoot people, walk over to get a better view, and then watch the carnage unfold in real time. You can “blink” (transport yourself a short distance away in any direction) out of the way of attacks, shoot people with a crossbow and take them out from behind quietly. You can set traps for your targets and unleash a hoard of ravenous rats to devour your enemies. According to game creators at E3 this year, beta testers were finding ways to kill characters in ways that weren’t even conceptualized when making the game.

Your powers are developed and strengthened through runes and whalebone charms. The Outsider gives you a means through which to collect these objects, and certain side missions will reward you with them as well. Without the Outsider’s tool, however, only chance will land you an artifact.

The voice acting is fairly good, and the characters are easy to identify with. You immediately despise those who set you up, even

before you know what they’ve done, and you’re attached to Emily and Corvo before the illfated attack. The game is good at sucking you into the story as well as the gameplay. The plot itself would make a phenomenal book or television series.

The game is new, so it’s still expensive, but it’s worth every penny. “Dishonored” is available on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Game: “Dishonored” Maker: Bethesda Softworks, LLC System: PS3, Xbox 360, PC

ALBUM REVIEW

By Max Jungreis KRUA Volunteer

Muse have been creating bombastic alternative progressive rock for over a decade. They have earned a reputation for sonic diversity and a uniquely grandiose style. “The 2nd Law” does nothing to challenge that perception. In fact, at times it seems like the album was made to uphold it. This is the most bombastic and grandiose Muse album ever, which seem to be the best two words to describe it.

Some of these songs are so gaudy and preachy that it becomes hard to take them seriously.

Sure, Muse have always had that strain of ridiculousness in their lyrics. But here, the strain of ridiculousness has grown into a viral outbreak of silliness.

“You won’t pull ahead/I’ll keep up the pace/And I’ll reveal my strength/To the whole human race/Yes I am/prepared/To stay alive/I won’t forgive, the vengeance is mine,” Matt Bellamy sings in “Survival,” a hectic song featuring massive guitar riffs, Greek chanting, Glee-esque piano pop and a full 45-second dramatic orchestral arrangement as an intro.

Almost all songs have some political or current event theme.

This is annoyingly obvious with

the lyrics. The repetition and blatancy of these themes really gets old after a few listens. It’s like hanging out with a friend that only wants to talk about politics and conspiracy theories. I never would’ve guessed that the famous paranoia of Bellamy would drive him to mediocrity. I mean, the guy knows he’s allowed to write songs about other subjects, right?

Despite the lyrical themes, Muse remains musically diverse.

The album spans many genres, from the sexy EDM and Queen mixture of “Madness,” to the George Clinton funk of “Panic Station” to the surprising guitar dubstep of “Unsustainable.” The odd mixture seems to work for Muse, like another layer of nutty frosting on the crazy cake.

In the end, this isn’t just another rock album. It’s unabashedly over the top, preachy and bombastic.

And you know what? I love it.

It’s not often that massive hubris matches talent, but Muse have pulled it off, like they always do, with “The 2nd Law.” Consider yourself warned: This album is bonkers.

Artist: Muse Album: “The 2nd Law” Label: Warner Release Date: Sept. 28, 2012

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October 23, 2012

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Paranormal Activity 4,’ scariest installment yet

By Heather Hamilton A&E Editor

The first installment of the “Paranormal Activity” franchise terrified moviegoers with its home video-style of camera work and the thrill of an unseen terror. The second, possibly more frightening than the first, unsettled viewers by including a baby in the haunting and revealed a deeper back story within the mythos. The third movie, while sporting some fantastic camera ingenuity and offering a healthy dosage of the creepy little girl factor, failed on a few plot points highlighted in the first two movies, despite being a direct prequel to them.

“Paranormal Activity 4” is a direct sequel to the events in movies one and two, and ups the terror factor in surprising ways.

As the adopted slogan goes: “All the activity has led to this.”

Five years after the possessed Katie (Katie Featherston, “Mutation”) kidnaps Hunter, a woman and her six-year-old boy move in to a suburban neighborhood across from Alex (Kathryn Newton, “Bad Teacher”), her little brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp, “The Time Being”) and their family. Once the boy, Robbie (Brady Allen), starts hanging around with Wyatt, terrifying things start to happen in the house. Alex and her boyfriend

set up computers around the house to record everything through webcams, and what they find is more than a little unsettling.

“PA4” has a lot to make up for with the disappointment of “PA3” still fresh in fans’ minds. And while it answers some questions, it also creates new questions and revives some old ones. Which, given the sense of finality you get from the ending, could be a bad thing.

Old question number one: why does the demon (called “Toby” in the prequel) want Hunter? It is established that he wants the first-born male heir to the family in payment for the deal allegedly made in the 1930s, but what he plans to ultimately do with the kid is unknown.

Old question number two: What purpose does the coven revealed to be active in “PA3” serve? Besides making a deal with the demon back in the day for wealth and power, what do they do? What is their overall purpose?

At the end of “PA4,” the demon has what it was promised it would, but one last old question still burns: What does it really want?

“Paranormal Activity 5,” anyone?

What “PA4” does deliver is a witty take on terror but not in the way that you would think.

Alex serves as the stereotypical

dumb blond in a horror movie, to the point of stupidity. There are more cheap-shot scares than in any of the previous movies.

There is more lull between scares, especially near the beginning, than in previous installments as well.

But that just means that once the real scares start popping up, you don’t expect them. You’re waiting for the cheap shot, but then you’re thrown into terror after terror, with just enough lull between them for your heart to start beating normally again.

The webcam concept is great, offering some creepy backlighting at night, as well as sometimesgritty camera quality. Alex also has a handheld camera she likes to carry around, so the range of footage is relatively complete.

An Xbox Kinect also aids in the terror because of the unique way it captures motion. I won’t ruin it for you, but the Kinect’s tech adds more suspense to the footage, much like the fan cam in “PA3.”

Last but not least, Katie. Katie is definitely in the movie, and she’s more terrifying than ever.

For those that remember her eerie smile and possessed killing spree in previous movies, this installment sees her on an entirely different level. She gets much more screen time than in “PA2,” and boy, does she use it well.

We’ll keep the ending under wraps, but trust me when I say that no viewer will see it coming.

Watch it in theaters — after a marathon of the first three if you can swing it. You won’t be

disappointed.

Movie: “Paranormal Activity 4” Release Date: Oct. 18, 2012 Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Starring: Katie Featherstone

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October 23, 2012

OPINION

Women have healthcare options other than Planned Parenthood

By Rebecca L. Stapleford Contributor

Planned Parenthood has recently been working overtime to make low-income, uninsured women believe that they need their services and that any attempt to criticize this organization is part of a “war on women.”

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the leading reproductive health and policy research institute in the United States, there are 1,212,400 abortions in the United States each year. Planned Parenthood’s internal reports state that the organization performed 329,445 of these abortions in the year 2010.

Considering their responsibility for performing 27.17% of all abortions in 2012, Planned Parenthood deliberately chooses to downplay the role abortion plays in their business, desperate to rebrand themselves as a noncontroversial women’s health organization dedicated to fighting for women’s welfare and rights that everyone should support, regardless of their position on abortion.

For instance, whenever Planned Parenthood advertises in our student newspaper, they never advertise the abortion services that they provide, even though they are one of the few abortion providers in Alaska. They choose to highlight the affordable contraception, Pap smears, and STI testing and treatments they

offer to low-income people are uninsured or on Medicaid.

While Planned Parenthood does help many people with these services, the fact remains that they do not supply nearly as many essential health services as the average person on the street might think. For instance, Planned Parenthood makes it clear on their website that they do not provide mammograms and instead merely refer clients to other health care providers.

Furthermore, Planned Parenthood is not the only organization in our community to provide these affordable services to those who could not otherwise afford them. The Anchorage Community Health Center website advertises mammogram, Pap smear, contraception, HPV screening and immunization, STI screening and treatment, a prenatal program, and HIV/AIDS services to low income, uninsured persons.

The Providence Family Medicine Center website advertises both general and maternity care on a sliding fee scale in an effort to make quality healthcare available to everyone.

University of Alaska Anchorage students can get affordable contraception, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings, and immunizations from the UAA Student Health Center.

According to the University of Alaska Fairbanks

website, the same services are provided to UAF students free of charge or for a nominal fee at their Student Health Center. Similarly, the University of Alaska Southeast website states their Student Health Center strives to make those aforementioned services available to students for free or for a nominal fee through their partnerships with other community health centers.

According to the website of the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Centers managed and founded by the Alaska DHHS exist in most communities with at least several thousand residents.

According to the Alaska DHHS website, these centers provide affordable contraception, STI treatment and screening, prenatal monitoring and health education to low-income Alaskans who are uninsured or on Medicaid.

In addition, there are OB-GYNs in private practices that provide services to Medicaid as well as uninsured patients, especially through the Alaska Breast and Cervical Health Check.

Indeed, almost all of these organizations provide all of the services that Planned Parenthood provides-with the sole exception of abortion.

No woman needs Planned Parenthood to have a healthy life, but Planned Parenthood’s very survival depends on her belief that she does.

She can get affordable contraception, well woman care, cancer screening, prenatal care and STI treatment from other community health care centers.

Planned Parenthood won’t even

provide her a mammogram, and in Alaska, no Planned Parenthood center will even provide her prenatal care. Instead, they will refer her to another health care provider.

The one thing that they will offer her that almost no other organization will is abortion — a procedure that leaves a child dead and a mother wounded. No woman needs this.

She needs love, community support, and life-affirming healthcare, which is already provided by the Anchorage Community Health Center, Providence Family Medicine Center, DHHS Public Health Centers, Student Health Centers, crisis pregnancy centers, Catholic Social Services and many different OB-GYNs throughout Alaska.

She does not need to have her unborn child sucked out of her womb with a vacuum. She does not need to be given RU-486, also known as Mifepristone, an abortion pill offered by Planned Parenthood that induces a lengthy and painful miscarriage.

She needs affordable healthcare that protects not only her life, but the life of the unborn child inside of her.

While Planned Parenthood may protect her health, they terminate the lives of 329,445 unborn children each year.

With that in mind, why do our public tax dollars continue to go to this organization? Why not take the public money that Planned Parenthood receives and give them to organizations like the Anchorage Community Health Center instead?

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Hashtags reflect the nation’s concerns better than media

By TNL Staff Biden’s teeth bared. Romney’s caffeine overdose. Binders full of women. And the biggest American flag pin of anyone ... on the entire stage.

Forget the economy, a raging war in the Middle East and health care.

Forget mainstreaming fact checking for the American public.

The media has, for the most part, created a superficial focus on information during all presidential debates thus far this election.

Granted, the media is happy to report trending words during the debates. The public, contrary to what most people may think, seemed focused on issues such as #Syria, #Afghanistan, #economy and #healthcare.

So why is there a discrepancy between what the media is covering and what voters want to hear about?

It seems like the mass media has become content to turn the run for presidency, into a run for homecoming king — bringing our national election process to a new whopping level of pathetic.

Why new?

Because each year that the American public stands for this babble, each year that we perpetuate this kind of manipulative, sensationalist reporting, we tell media moguls that it’s okay to ignore the important issues and focus on whether or not Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan washed clean or dirty dishes at a homeless shelter.

And that adds one more tally mark to how long Americans have been distracted, like cats smacking laser lights on a wall, from national issues that should take precedent such as Syria, Afghanistan, the economy and healthcare without the caveat of hash tags.

The solution is for the public to actually think for themselves and focus on issues important to them, while ignoring or being mildly amused by the hubbub being reported.

While it’s okay to laugh at memes of Bill Clinton asking, “Binders full of women?” it’s not okay to let that overshadow the fact that there are real, important decisions being made during election season.

And at the end of the day, regardless of who laughed at whom during the debate or who took too many big gulps of water, come Nov. 6, we still have a president to elect.

SPORTS October 23, 2012

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Seawolves topped by in-conference opponent

WOU transfer McGill joins men’s basketball roster ANCHORAGE – UAA head coach Rusty Osborne announced an important addition for the following season, with guard Brian McGill joining the Seawolf roster.

McGill, a 6-2, 180-pound guard, comes to UAA as a transfer from Great Northwest Athletic Conference rival Western Oregon, and will redshirt this season in accordance with NCAA rules.

The Clackamas, Ore., native played in every game for last year’s 18-10 WOU squad, averaging 4.2 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals in 17.9 minutes per contest.

He shot 45 percent overall, including .455 from three-point range, and 80 percent at the charity stripe as a true freshman.

“We are very pleased that Brian chose to join our program,” said Osborne, who begins his ninth season as head coach this week.

“He is sacrificing a lot by coming and paying his own way and having to sit out for a year. He had numerous opportunities to play right away and receive scholarships from successful programs, but he chose to be a Seawolf.”

Bruns, Spooner inducted to Seawolf hall ANCHORAGE – Former men’s basketball coach Charlie Bruns and hockey star Doug Spooner were inducted to the Seawolf Hall of Fame in the 2012 induction ceremonies at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.

Bruns, who roamed the sidelines from 1980-2004, was joined by his wife, daughter and extended family, and introduced by current UAA head coach Rusty Osborne.

Spooner, who helped UAA to a pair of NCAA Tournaments from 1987-91, was joined by his wife and daughter, and introduced by longtime friend and former Seawolf hockey equipment manager Kevin Kuper.

Timberwolves star Love out 6-8 weeks with broken hand MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Timberwolves will likely have to begin the first month of the season without Kevin Love.

The two-time All-Star broke his right hand in a morning workout Wednesday and will miss six to eight weeks.

Love broke the third and fourth metacarpals on his shooting hand in a workout before practice. It’s a crushing blow to the Timberwolves, who already will be without star point guard Ricky Rubio for what is expected to be at least the first six weeks of the regular season while he recovers from a torn ACL in his left knee.

Love averaged 26 points and 13.3 rebounds last season, leading the team in both categories and emerging as the best power forward in the game.

Briefs compiled by Thomas McIntyre

The Seawolves celebrate a point as the third set winds down during Saturday night’s game against Western Oregon University.

By Thomas McIntyre Sports Editor

The Seawolf volleyball team couldn’t find enough rhythm to avoid a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Western Oregon University Wolves.

The final score is a bit deceiving. The Seawolves did have their moments Saturday night. They kept the sets close but weren’t able to put together the runs needed to escape a tough 23-25, 19-25, 21-25 in-conference loss.

Freshman outside hitter Julia Mackey earned the team’s highest kills count on the night with nine.

She also provided two digs and the team’s lone block.

Senior outside hitter Nikkie Viotto and freshman outside hitter Katelynn Zanders both added seven kills apiece.

Junior setter Siobhan Johansen

racked up 12 digs, which was enough to lead both teams in the category.

Senior setter Kimya Jafroudi handed out 32 assists and her nine digs were the second most on the team.

When asked about how she felt about losing such a close game, Jafroudi gave some interesting insight.

“I think a loss like this is harder than if they beat us really badly,” said Jafroudi. “It’s always harder losing those close games.”

The Seawolves have also been on the winning side of those close games.

So what held them back Saturday?

Aside from one of Western Oregon’s servers having a hot hand, Jafroudi thought that their opponents played how they expected them to. Overall,

PHOTOS BY J. ALMENDAREZ

Senior outside hitter Nikkie Viotto tried to keep the ball in play during Saturday night’s game against Western Oregon University.

she felt the Seawolves only had themselves to blame.

“We need to improve on everything,” said Jafroudi. “We just have to go after it.”

Jafroudi portrays the Seawolves as a team that is fine with being greedy. They want to get better on all levels. They want to jump higher, serve tougher hitters and play with more intensity. And if the Seawolves get what they want,

it won’t take long for them to bounce back.

The Seawolves return home from a road stint Nov. 8 when they face Montana State University Billings at the Wells Fargo Center at 7 p.m. The Saturday after that the Seawolves will welcome Seattle Pacific University for an 8 p.m. game at the same place.

Anderson Silva: More than a great fighter 50

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By Thomas McIntyre Sports Editor

“I’m not the best. I just do things that people think are impossible.”

Anderson Silva dropped this line shortly after earning a technical knockout victory over Stephan Bonnar at UFC 153.

While this statement holds some merit, it’s only half true. Silva’s a horrible judge of talent if he believes he’s not the best, but he’s spot on with the second part.

The fairest opponents for Silva live in arcade machines and on the silver screen. Eddy Gordo from Tekken could last a few rounds against him. Put The Rock’s character from “Fast Five” in there with Silva and interesting things would happen.

Silva was asked last summer

what fighter could threaten him in the cage. His response?

“My clone.”

Spend a few minutes on the Internet and you’ll find a group of users yelling at each other in all caps about who they think is the best athlete in the world. What you probably won’t find is Silva’s name in the discussion. That should change.

An athlete is generally ranked by how much better they are at their sport relative to the other players. Soccer star Lionel Messi garners “best athlete” consideration under that criterion.

So does LeBron James. I think it’s time Silva is mentioned in the same breath as those guys.

People wax poetic about greatness all the time. Greatness is transcendent. Greatness is hard to explain. But you know it when you see it. A person doesn’t need to be familiar with soccer or basketball to understand the greatness of Messi and James. The same thing

applies to mixed martial arts and Silva.

Show Silva’s highlight reel to someone who has never watched MMA. They’ll see Silva make professional fighters look like amateurs. They’ll see him drop his hands and dare his opponents to attack. They’ll see him do whatever the hell he wants inside of the cage.

Regardless of their familiarity with MMA, it will resonate.

What they’re watching is a master. Silva is at the highest level of his craft — a level no mixed martial artist has reached before.

He challenges himself to do the impossible and makes it look easy. It is almost overwhelming to observe.

Silva reminds me of Roy Jones Jr., who is arguably the top boxer of the last 20 years. In his heyday, Jones was a super talent who knew he was a super talent. He toyed with his competitors and won fights in ways most people

couldn’t fathom.

Unlike Jones, Silva has a technical brilliance paired with his natural talent. This is largely why Silva has continued to thrive in his late 30’s while Jones fell off a cliff once his physical tools diminished.

My biggest fear is that Silva’s greatness will be overlooked because of our society’s perception of MMA. Many Americans view MMA as both a novelty act and blood sport. The sport has covered major ground in recent years, but the stigmas remain.

But no matter how much you oppose MMA, there is no denying Silva’s talent.

We need to treat Silva the way we treat Tom Brady and Floyd Mayweather. If we don’t, sports fans 50 years from now will wonder what our problem was.

Anderson Silva is more than just a great fighter. He’s a great athlete — one of the greatest athletes we have ever seen.

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HOROSCOPE The coming week is likely to require of some individuals a renewed commitment to achieving that which was considered by many, not long ago, to be difficult, far-fetched or even impossible.

There are many choices to make at this time, none of them easy, but all of them leading to the kinds of opportunities that can result in a new level of achievement.

Personal commitment combined with a willingness to take advantage of opportunities as they arise will certainly give one the advantage this week -- and that advantage can lead directly to personal victory on a scale not often dreamed of by most.

Things are changing, of course, and this will be widely acknowledged this week -- but what may be difficult for some to swallow is that the most significant changes are developing from within.

This means, of course, that even those who are in love with the status quo may not be able to hang on to it for long.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) -- A question of legitimacy is likely to arise, and it will be up to you to prove that recent decisions have been on the up-and-up. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) -- You’re not likely to buy into that which others are trying to promote; your own ideas are stronger and more viable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) -- Extremity of any kind is to be avoided. Do what you can to guide those around you toward decisions that are more moderate. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) -- A recent choice begins to win you results this week, though you’ll be surprised to learn how and why.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) -- Something you have taken

for granted for quite some time might suddenly mean something different for you. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) -- You’re in no mood to do what another is begging you to do, even though you may not yet have thought of an alternative.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) -- You’ll be dealing with facts and figures throughout the week; you may want an expert to join your

team at this time.

(Feb. 4-Feb. 18) -- You may be quite close to making a dream come true. Now is the time to promote your ideas more aggressively.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) -- What happens to you this week may come as a welcome relief -- until you realize that you must bear certain extra burdens as a result. (March 6-March 20) -- A

relaxed and restful week can be yours, but you must first be sure to address a pressing issue directly.

ARIES (March 21-April 4) -- Someone will see right through you, compelling you to tell only the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. (April 5-April 19) -- Despite hardship, you’ll want to hold true to a dream you have spent

quite some time building for yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 5) -- Take care that you don’t try to do so much that you are incapable of doing any one thing completely or up to par. Pace yourself.

(May 6-May 20) -- You’re after something valuable at this time, but your more traditional methods may not be getting the results you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 6) -Someone may accuse you of doing less than you had promised, but in fact you are taking charge of more than that one situation. (June 7-June 20) -- It’s time for you to brave the storm and do what you know you must do -- simply because it is the right thing to do!

CANCER (June 21-July 7) -- You may have to wade through more red tape than expected -- but you are prepared to use the situation to your advantage.

(July 8-July 22) -- You are likely to receive news this week that has you second-guessing yourself. A hidden situation comes to light.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) -- You must pay attention to changes in procedures of all kinds this week in order to keep up with the way things are being done.

(Aug. 8-Aug. 22) -You can’t afford to be left behind when your competitors begin exploring new and untried methods.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) -- Your excitement is on the rise as you realize just where you are going -- and how soon you can actually get there. (Sept.

8-Sept. 22) -- Take care that you don’t make someone close to you feel insecure because you are unintentionally highlighting his or her shortcomings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) -- The things you know will certainly come in handy -- but that which you don’t yet know may be most important of all. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) -- You can’t expect your creativity to be at an all-time high throughout the week; such energy will surely wax and wane.

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