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Annie Stonebreaker News Editor

Over $11,000 was raised at a silent auction Friday night for NIC Instructor

Ingrid Fruth, who was recently diagnosed with a type of rare lymphoma.

Fruth was misdiagnosed for 5 years until July 3rd, when her Non-Hodgkin’s T cell lymphoma was correctly diagnosed and found to be aggressive and rare: 69 thou-sand people are diagnosed

with Non-Hodgkins lymphoma every year, and only 10% of those have T cell lymphoma.

Because of the rarity of her condition, she requires care from an advanced medical team in Seattle, and her medi-cal bills are set for a significant increase.

“She announced it in class, and I went to her after class asking if there was anything I can do. I was heartbroken,” Said Theresa Duffield, an NIC student who organized the event with her friend Matthew Wild, “I empathized instant-

ly. She went to school to be a nurse, found microbiology, she was so passionate about it she went all the way to a Ph.D., you can see she’s doing what she loves and then she’s not even at tenure and she’s sick. It’s unfair! So I said to my friend Matt I want to do something for her, and he said, “Let’s do it!” I told him and it just went boom! Everybody just made it happen.”

Many of Coeur D’Alene’s small businesses donated bas-kets and items to auction off throughout the night, all as-

sembled on four tables which each had a cutoff time to put in the last bid.

Items (some single and in baskets) ranged from home-made wreaths to jewelry, kitch-en gadgets to an assortment of wines, and a $500 certificate reduced to $49 for fine portrait art to paintings by local artists.

Laurie Gaboury, who works at the Eagles Lodge and is usually in charge of events in the room where the auction was

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Volume 68 | Issue 5

DiscussingThoreau

Tyson JuarezManaging Editor

Writers, English majors, and admir-ers of Transcendentalism gathered on December 4 to discuss the works of Henry David Thoreau.

The event was held at the Todd Lecture Hall and was presented by the NIC English Club and the University of Idaho Outreach program. U of I Schol-ars Scott Slovac and Walter Hesford gave attendees presentations on Tho-reau’s work and how he has affected society.

Hesford focused mainly on the journals that Thoreau kept from 1850 to 1860. These journals included Tho-reau’s queries on toads and how the sounds of nature were just as beautiful as a major symphony.

Hesford focused on Thoreau’s view of beauty of the natural world and how his view compares to our view of natural beau-ty in the modern day. Hesford explained how Thoreau preferred to spend his time in nature comparing the sounds of nature to church bells or the sound of a busy city.

“I like to read what Thoreau wrote on the day we are in,” Hesford said.

Hesford also touched base on some of the experiences that Thoreau had on Walden Pond.

Slovac made a little bit of a different point in his presentation as he discussed how Thoreau influenced modern day Eco criticism.

Slovac explained how Thoreau’s ideas of standing up for rights are demonstrat-ed in recent times. The scholar touched base on Rachel Carson, who wrote “Silent Spring,” and how her protests against the government’s injustices were similar to some of Thoreau’s protests. Slovac explained how Thoreau was once arrest-ed for refusing to pay taxes because he “didn’t want to fund a country that allowed slavery.”

“(Thoreau) was not about reputation but rather doing something meaningful with his life and his words,” Slovac said.

Angels in the auction houseU of I Scholars talk

about Transcendentalism

Community comes together to raise funds for NIC faculty member with cancer

Students, faculty, and family friends all gathered at the Eagles in downtown Coeur d’ Alene to raise money for NIC Biology and Chemistry instructor Ingrid Fruth with a silent auction. Fruth was diagnosed with a rare type of lymphoma. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

ASIA events have success this semesterStudent club embarks on events that have sparked interest in students on campus

T.J. GossardFeatures Editor

Students might have seen a crowd of children gath-ered around a man flinging hula-hoops around his body while indian tacos were being sold in the Student Union Building (SUB) on Thursday, Nov. 20. This is thanks to the American Indian Student Alli-ance (AISA), a club that has been making headlines, as well as waves throughout the communi-ty and campus this semester.

Active club members have found themselves raising and sharing funds in a big way this semester, publically presenting,

hosting successful events, edu-cating fellow students, and even marauding through wetlands for water potatoes.

Why water potatoes? The Coeur d’Alene Tribe hosts an annual digging up of water pota-toes from wetlands to celebrate a long-held tribe tradition; some participants even going as far as to tread bare-footed through the cold water to experience the event authentically. AISA club member Taylor Abrahamson, 20, Pre-Nutrition, Worley, attended the event.

“[Water potatoes are] not big-ger than a golf ball, and

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Club preps for Spring

Maddie ChapmanStaff Writer

As the semester is coming to an end Campus Alive in Christ Club met for one last Bible study before winter break.

Led by president Israel Nehemiah Musonda, members read chapters from the Book of Hebrews and dis-cussed their thoughts and feelings about what they were reading. Mem-bers usually read a chapter each week at the Bible study sessions.

“We come together as believers in Christian faith and support and encourage one another,” explained Musonda.

The club also has separate men’s and women’s Bible studies as well. Vice President Tabitha Shanklin led the women’s Bible study this semester.

The club has also put on several events throughout the semester in-cluding pizza parties, a fundraiser for orphans in Africa, and guest speakers such as Michael Paul, who will be speaking on Jesus Thursday, Dec. 11.

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Students gather in front of a Tipi while on a trip to collect water potatoes. Photos courtesy of Evaline Melting-Tallow

Lizeth MeinguerStaff Writer

The automotive tech-nology (AutoTech) program at NIC offers to repair cars with no

labor fees.As part of the student train-

ing process at the end of each semester students get involved with customer work.

“We are certified by National Automotive Technicians Educa-tion Foundation (NATEF) and they require that students are exposed to a certain level of cus-tomer work,” Auto tech instruc-tor, Mark Magill said. “We have to deal with real world prob-lems, real world solutions with a vehicle that is actually on the road. We try to simulate what is done in the industry.”

Some of the requirements to accept a vehicle are that the car cannot be older than the year 2000; the vehicle’s problem must be related to the subject in class at the time; and the customer cannot bring their own parts.

“This is like in the real world, typically you don’t go to a shop and supply your own parts,” said Magill. “We can purchase parts for less money than if you went and purchased it yourself and at the same time we generate money that goes for equipment, and if there is any money left it goes into student scholarships.”

The auto tech program charg-es a graduated lab fee that goes

from $15 to $70, depending on the problems that need to be fixed.

The rates are divided in four tiers. Tier one consist of minor services and repairs such as oil change, lube jobs. The second tier includes moderate services like tune-ups, parts replacement adn minor rebuilds. A major service is considered tier three, which takes typically several class periods, and the last tier is only for Auto Collision.

“Our priority is to provide the most valuable experiences to students, not to fix cars for a re-duced amount of money,” Auto tech instructor, Steven Schlauch said. “That is not why we are here. We promise to do a careful work and true inspection before delivery but we assume no re-sponsibility.”

Requests can be sent by email to [email protected]. Auto tech provides this service up

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Following NIC’s November board of trustees meeting we can recognize a few notable things about the audit and the col-lege’s budget. Let’s address the things that have changed from fiscal year 13 to fiscal year 14: Operating expenses of the college have decreased approximately $2.4 mil-lion, State appropriations have increased approximately $370,000, and there’s been an overall increase in net position of $3.7 million.

This seems good! Now, where may this money be going? One noteworthy place will be into the new industrial build-ing for some of the programs NIC offers, welding, etc. But some money is needed to stay in place in case of hardships, things such as recessions, etc. This is where the Government Finance Officers Association comes into play. The state law is that we must maintain at least 5 to 15 percent of regular general fund operating revenues in an unreserved fund balance, or two months worth. Another thing the college can feel good about; for fiscal year 14, we have been sitting at about 29 percent or three months worth (approxi-mately 105 days worth).

Chris had also talked about projected enrollment, he’s really hoping to see it only go down by 5 percent as he said, it’s projected to go down “between five to eight percent.”

Chris Martin said, “I do believe we’ll see a slight decline over the next fiscal year.” Which results from lower enroll-ment.

We might expect the enrollment to be going up because the economy is doing well, especially compared to post-2008 years. Enrollment is related to economy, but not in the way one would expect.

During a down turn in the economy people are laid off, forcing them to find something else for work. That’s where higher education plays a huge role. En-rollment will always be up with a poor economy compared to a prosperous one. People will need to acquaint them-selves with new technologies, or equip-ment to compete in the industry they had been laid off in, or maybe there won’t be room, forcing them to switch industries entirely.

But we, on average, have a more significant amount of disposable in-come than in 2008, right? Which you would think meant we would have the means to go back to school. Not the case. College isn’t needed when we can find well-to-do work.

Back to the audit, Scott Hoover was the man to present the presenta-tion at the Board of Trustees meet-ing. The audit is composed of three reports, they all passed without a problem, except one little hiccup. As Hoover said, “We found the timing of the grant recognition was not proper.” We had received two grants, these grants had been given in full up front, not in disbursements, which makes them unique to others. It must have been stored somewhere, instead of the impossibility of being used. The audit only claimed this was a “significant de-ficiency.”

The problem was fixed, “It just happened to be a large enough dollar amount to where we felt we should re-port it as a significant deficiency… The cash was all there, it wasn’t as if it was being miss spent, the unused portion of these funds was report as deferred income, it should have gone to restrict-ed fund balance,” Said Todd Hoover.

The bwoard had discussed put-ting something in place to prevent this from happening in the future, and Chris said, “We have a process in place now where we’ll receive every grant to determine if this is an exchange grant [disbursements] or if it is not we can properly account it from the begin-ning.”

Overall we’re at a good standing, Chris had spoken very highly of our accountants, “I’m really proud of the team, of accountability shown, they do a really good job.”

Evan JonesStaff Writer

Annie Stonebreaker Staff Writer

ASNIC and the student event committee created an oppor tunity for families hav-ing a harder time providing gifts for their children during the holidays, donated by the NIC community.

In the plaza of the SUB is a decorated Christmas tree with ornaments displaying a card with a child’s name, fa-vorite color, gender, and what they want Santa to bring them for Christmas this year.

The parents came to the ASNIC office and filled out an application with the informa-tion for their children, and

then dif ferent students made their way in to the SUB to pick an ornament, buy a gift and return it to ASNIC.

ASNIC went through the gifts, making sure they were age-appropriate and what the child wanted, and then had a par ty where they wrapped them and signed them to the child from Santa.

The actual event will take place on the evening of Dec.

9 from 4-7 p.m. where the children can come and have their picture printed out of

them and Santa, tear open their presents, make a cookie to take home for later, and also make an or-nament to give to someone of their choosing.

“It’s a lot of fun,” said Quinne Evans, 19, general studies, Spokane who helped plan the event with

the ASNIC student events committee.“We wanted to give the kids something that

they’re able to give to their parents or someone special. They get their toys, gloves and hats to stay warm during the holidays. Every family gets a food basket, and we are also able to give dinner to the families.”

Evans explained that Stu-dent Events has an amount of money allotted to them that they are able to use on the event. TRiO donated hygien-ic products for the families, the food pantr y and a couple other businesses donated for the food baskets to be handed out to each family, and lastly the NIC commu-nity provided the gifts “from Santa.”

NIC coasts through

auditNIC comes out clean

in 2014 audit, sans excess grant fund

A Christmas tree ornament bears a tag with a child’s Christmas wish, allowing NIC students to become Santa. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel

Auto tech repairs open to students

Ol’ Saint ASNIC and the giving treeNIC students help make Christmas spirits bright

learning experience for tech students is opportune for students

Auto tech students fix model year 2000 and later vehicles for no labor fees. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel

QUINNE EVANSStudent Volunteer

“We wanted to give the kids something that they’re able to give their parents

or someone special.”

CV axles, driveline and U-joints

Wheel Bearing, 4-wheel and All-wheel drive systems, Differentials

Engine Performance (tune ups, check engine light, fuel system)manual transmissions (clutches

and axles)

Starting and Charging Systems

Areas of Repair

DID YOU KNOW? The name “ewok” is never said out loud in the Star Wars Movies, it was only in the movie’s script and credits.

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held, volunteered to work the event as an “angels for Ingrid” and said that the room was being rented at a charity rate, with quite a bit of help from the Eagles Lodge Secy Aerie 486 Foe fraternity.

The bartenders also volunteered to run the bar during the event, and a table in the back of the room was lined wall to wall with a large array of gourmet appetizers made by Lee Burns and Cynthia Palmer, who cooked with Emeril Lagasse and ap-

peared on the Food Net-work Channel in 2003.

“This is the embodi-ment of community,” said Jenny Weerheim, Angel for Ingrid Volunteer and NIC student. “When somebody needs help, this is the way it should be.”

As the night wore on more guests arrived, fill-ing the room with a buzz of chatter, laughter and playful competition for the items on auction. One of the volunteers gleefully announced they convinced Fruth to come; she arrived later, mingling around the room in constant conversa-tion.

She teaches biology

and chemistry at NIC, and has a Ph.D. in microbiol-ogy, molecular biology and biochemistry. She is a mother of four.

When the auction fin-ished, the Rhythm Dogs hit the stage and began playing as people made their way to dance the night to a close on the dance floor.

“My students have blown me away with their ability to organize and demonstrate,” Fruth said at the end of the night, fighting back tears “ I’m just overwhelmed and humble in my emotion of love and my great sense of gratitude.”

Christie Wood new trustee chair

Events CalendarTuesday - 12/9 Open house in the Edminster SUB Ts’elusm dining room - Christmas giving event for NIC families and children who need assistance at 4-7 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

Wednesday - 12/10 Winter CARDnival and Auction presented by the Booster club, at Best Western CDA Inn at 5pm. Tickets $30 call Patty Stewart for reservations 769-3348

Friday - 12/12 Karen Kaiser, Melissa Lang, Wendy Franklund Miller “Drawing and Paint-ing” - Gallery Walk at 10:30 a.m. and panel discussion at 1 p.m. at the Bo-swell Corner Gallery.

Tuesday - 12/16 NIC board of trustees meeting - 6 p.m. in the Edminster SUB Lake Coeur d’Alene Room.

Thursday - 12/18 Registered Nurses Class of December 2014 Pinning Ceremony - gradu-ating class of the Associate’s Degree Nursing Program at the Hagadone Event Center at 4:30 p.m.

Inability to drive, sit, shoot up reported 1

Nov. 25 - Security called about irate bicyclist in Molstead lot. Subject was gone upon arrival.

2Nov. 1 - Syringe with opiate found in Hed-lund men’s bathroom, first floor.

3Nov. 1 - Security responded to second floor of LKH for medical emergency. Student re-fused transport.

4Nov. 1 - Student and faculty member re-ported suspicious person -- possibly under the influence of drugs -- on north side of campus.

5Nov. 2 - Hit-and-run vehicle accident in Resi-dence Hall lot, involving NIC vehicles. Police also notified.

6Nov. 3 - Student refused medical treatment after falling off chair in Boswell.

A new chair of trustees has been elect-ed at the latest trustee meeting.

Wood took over the chair position, re-placing former chair trustee Ken Howard.

“The future possibilities for our stu-dents with the Education Corridor, CTE facilities, outreach centers, new programs paid for by a large federal grants, and the continuing dedication of faculty, staff, and

administration keep me very motivated,” Wood said.

Christie Wood has been a trustee for NIC for 10 years and has been elected to another four-year term.

“ I feel privileged to be part of this in-stitution for so long,” Wood said, “I have had the opportunity to serve at a time of growth and change.”

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Police officers stand at attention at NIC’s academy graduation. The two-year program is designed to train newly hired law enforcement agency officers. George Hendrickson/Sentinel

NIC student Bobby Montgomery donates to Toys for Tots in the SUB. Boxes are lo-cated in the SUB and Boswell Hall. Annie Stonebreaker/Sentinel

Semper caritativa

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DID YOU KNOW? Yoda from “Star Wars”was almost played by a monkey in a mask holding a cane

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[email protected] Perspectives

In this day and age we face many negative things in our society. With looming cyber attacks, intense protests, and possible terrorist attacks, it seems as if this holiday season may need a bit of a positive facelift don’t you think?

Unfortunately, during the holiday season people still try to find ways to bring each other down and it just doesn’t feel like Christmas to me this year. I think we are too caught up in things that are harm-ful to us as a society and through that we divide ourselves even more. We fight over who’s religious observations are more important during this sea-son and most recently our society has its sights set on most of the scandals and problems that are cur-rently causing a stir in our country.

Facebook is a cesspool of negativity as people post angry things about the scandal in Ferguson or even if you switch to news stations like Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. you’ll see articles about the “War on Christmas” and other debates on censorship. All these things have one thing in common, and that is we as a society are too focused on division rather than uniting as a nation.

It’s seems that there is always this theme of “us against them” mixed within our media. In recent years our society has become so obsessed with bad news that we tend to forget about what it is that brings us together.

I remember when I was younger and the times seemed to be cheerier. Even those who didn’t observe the religious side of Christmas, or they even cele-brated a different holiday, still saw that togetherness during this wintery season is important. I see it as a celebration of another good year, but if we continue to act so violently, irrational, and arrogant then we will not have anything to celebrate this year at all.

So my friends, on behalf of all of us here at the Sen-tinel we wish you a joyous end of the year, and may your holidays be filled with happiness and well spent with loved ones. Be positive and spread goodness to those you meet. Look to uplift people, not discourage one another. Spend the holiday season the right way, and use your positivity to wipe away the negative. Re-member it’s all about your attitude. That’s all for now, have a great winter break and we’ll be seeing you next semester.

-Tyson JuarezManaging Editor

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Geoff CarrAdviser

‘Tis the season of protests.The month of November

was plagued by protests and the trend has not slowed down heading into December as cities prepare for demonstrations over the missing Mexican university students.

Ferguson took the stage fol-lowing the shooting of Michael Brown by police of ficer Darren Wilson.

Then, besides the usual Thanksgiving traditions of eat-ing turkey, camping outside of stores, and being bombarded by Black Friday commercials, Walmart protesters threw in their recently-added storefront picketing tradition for the third year in a row.

Now protests are taking of f in New York with the failed in-dictment of of ficer David Panta-leo in the death of Eric Garner.

I wonder if I should go out on a limb here and say that a large number of people seem to

be unhappy.It’s not easy being a protes-

tor. After all, not everyone can make cool, interesting posters. It’s really hard work, especially for those who lack the ar tistic flair. And standing around yell-ing in New York City on a De-cember evening? Such a task is not for the faint of heart. On top of all that, you have to deal with the media, with their conniving ability to twist and manipulate the message for their own agen-da.

By Constitutional law, Con-gress cannot prohibit the right of “people peaceably to assem-ble, and to petition the govern-ment for a redress of grievanc-es.” Having the right to protest is important and should be exercised. Sometimes, it is the sole way to bring attention to an issue. However, it seems as though protesters are forgetting the dif ference between a pro-test and a riot. And in the case of Ferguson, protestors seem to have really skipped over the phrase “peacefully to assemble” in the aforementioned state-ment.

Unfortunately for Fergu-son, while the idea of the pro-tests star ted out positively

and brought people together, it quickly fell into chaos when Wilson was not accused of any crime.

I hold the most aggravation with the media, who continued to call what had now become riots “protests.” There is a sig-nificant dif ference. A protestor is someone who has a strong objection and voices it public-ly. The definition of a rioter is someone who is causing public violence, tumult, and disorder. At the point where Ferguson protestors began looting, over-turning police vehicles, and setting fires, they lost the title “protestor” and became riot-ers. Small businesses owned by community individuals were de-stroyed; burned to the ground. The people’s actions had lost meaning. Senseless violence, es-pecially towards the innocent of your own town, leads nowhere.

I can commiserate with people who feel frustrated by the system and wish to voice their opinion. But once people see violence, it’s harder to support the cause. Peo-ple don’t usually support property destruction. It destroys the mes-sage. And it looks as though Fer-guson might have to learn that lesson the hard way.

Sally BalcaenStaff Writer

Media sends wrong message about protestors agenda

Protestors demonized

New ‘Star Wars’ trailer raises questions, concerns from fans

“Star Wars” fanatics got a treat over Thanksgiving week-end when the first sneak peak of the new “Star Wars” film “The Force Awakens.”

The minute and a half video sparked both interest and out-rage as the trailer revealed a few twists that some fans had prob-lems with. Raves and rants have been littering the Internet over the past week and I feel like its time I put my two cents into the conversation.

I’m honestly on the fence about the new movie. I think J.J. Abrams could possibly bring some new interesting ideas to

the Star Wars Universe but I’m afraid he’s going to make a few major flaws.

From what I saw on the trail-er, it looks like Abrams may make the mistake of overusing special ef fects. This was a major problem with the prequels and hopefully it doesn’t reoccur in the new movies. Abrams made these same mistakes with the Star Trek movies and hopefully he tones it down on the new film.

Next lets talk about that new light saber. Despite Stephen Col-bert’s convincing argument he made on his show, I still think the new design is tacky and may make or break if I like the movie or not.

The sight of this new weapon reminded me of the fantastically overdone crappy rereleases that George Lucas put out in 2000. Seriously, the two mini sabers

are very unneeded. Abrams, please don’t ruin this for me. Please don’t turn it into another Disney summer blockbuster that is overdone like that horrid “Pi-rates of the Caribbean” series.

All complaints aside, I am glad that there is going to be a new “Star Wars” adventure to look forward too; I just don’t want to get my heart broken.

Abrams has a chance to create a whole new unique sto-ryline. Hopefully he has the brains to consider the longtime fans or he’ll probably get called a ‘nerf herder’ in angry hate mail.

All and all, I’ll keep a good attitude about the whole thing but that doesn’t mean I’m not worried. Ill be sure to try and go to the theatre with my chin up. I only hope someone wishes the force to be with me before I go. Maybe I’ll get lucky.

Tyson JuarezManaging Editor

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When is too much wealth too much?

Here’s our collec-tion of random

campus observa-tions, bad jokes and

indulgent ance-dotes cultivated

from this produc-tion cycle:

After many semesters of freezing to death in room 203 in the

Seibert Building, the Sentinel finally figurd out where the thermo-stat is: the next room over.

There have been two different instances report-ed of students fighting with celebrities on twitter. One with WIlliam Shatner and the other with Chris Brown.

What time does Sean Connery get to Wimble-ton? -Tennish

What kind of bagel can fly? -A plain bagel

Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl going to the bathroom?-The “P” is silent.

Cherries

CAMPUS VOICES

What is your opinion on the fact that some em-

ployers are requiring their employees to say “Hap-py Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas?”

“I don’t really think it matters because I

feel that every religion should be kind of put forth, I mean because we live in the United

States, we’re supposed to be diverse, we’re supposed to kind of

appeal to everybody”

Layla Abrams, 20, General Studies

Adriana Oliveira, 18, General Studies

Interviews and photographyTaylor Nadauld

“I guess it works because it’s not offensive. I mean,

I think that a business should be able to decide

whether or not they want their employees to say ‘Happy Holidays’ or ‘Merry Christmas’. Like

the Coffee Cottage in Post Falls, they say ‘Merry

Christmas’ and they don’t care and I think they

should have a right to be able to do that.”

Jonathan Graham, 18, Business and administration

A discourse Against Mer-cedes

Although socialism of all kind has been a pest to mod-ern society, there are within it, key elements that could supplement our Lockian soci-ety. When the Federalist Pa-pers were written there were direct words from the work of John Locke that Madison had placed into it. Reading the Federalist Papers, and The Second Treatise of Civil Government by Locke in tan-dem and this become well es-tablished in our minds.

Now before I get ahead of myself, an in depth look into Locke’s views on human nature is required, as what is habitual with political the-orists, his political views are directly tied to his views on human nature. In Locke’s human nature he claims one of the great evils to God is spoilage. We shall not pro-duce goods from the land God has given us and let them go to waste (Ex: grow-ing apple trees and letting the apples spoil instead of giving/selling them to be eaten).

In regard to how we use what God has given us, Locke explains how we may use it: “As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils.” Any one thing only has impor tance if it may be of or in use. This is explicitly the core of his claims, this is why he believes land right-ly belongs to cer tain people over others, the industrial and rational, as told, “God had given him [land/goods] in common with others to la-bour on, and whereof there was as good left, as that al-ready possessed, and more than he knew what to do with, or his industr y could

reach to.” Ever yone has the same potential to labor, or work, on land or other goods, those who can make the land or other goods excel and thrive are the ones who should possess what-ever is in question, Locke believes.

One thing to keep in mind, when I speak of wage or income, I don’t strictly mean the paycheck we get ever y two weeks or so. I speak on all capital gains a company may give someone (assets, stock, etc.).

Now here is where I might lose a few: I believe Locke, the predecessor of our forefathers, and early Americans all believe in an income ceiling, or maximum wage. We’ve all seen mini-mum wage debated prodi-giously, but this may come to some as a new idea. A threshold where our income cannot and should not ex-ceed. I claim this is a true American thought, but is it not social-ist in nature?

Explaining old thought in modern day terms only divides and con-fuses. It doesn’t help much to put these thoughts into a box. Which can be shown by the refusal of cer-tain philosophers through time to reject labels such as existen-tialist or stoic (Ex: Alber t Camus and existentialism).

So...how is Locke a so-cialist?

In today’s America we have many CEOs making an absurd income, an income that they could never get around to fully spending, or even when their children inherent the money there may be some that shall never be touched. This money is ef fectively wasted, spoiled, dormant in a bank account collecting interest. Undoubt-edly, not in the economy providing profit to companies

or playing into the “trick-le-down ef fect.” If it may be spent, what is it spent on? A second house? I four th Mer-cedes-Benz? A third Range Rover? The elite in our countr y cannot make use of their money. Their money is spoiling just as the apples, a direct contradiction of what God had in mind, Locke would claim. You can only drive one car at a time.

So what do I advise Amer-ica to do from here? Many might impose that they be-come heavily taxed, but that would imply thinking the Government can do better with the money than the CEOs, which after a bit of reflection, taxing quickly be-comes an absurd idea (Ex: NSA, TSA, and Dept. of Ed.). Although, pre-Reagan admin-istration, for a company to give one of their CEOs (that are within the upper 10%) $100 they had to pay Uncle Sam $900. This isn’t exactly

maximum wage, but it was ef fec-tive as I’ll fur ther explain.

We should cre-ate a threshold where our income shall not exceed, and all excess shall be put back directly into the CEOs business. It doesn’t matter where, just out of the pocket of the

CEO and the Government. It can be placed into creat-ing a better/less expensive product (good for the con-sumer, us) or my favorite option, into the pockets of the employees of the busi-ness (good for the worker, also us). The latter option, coincidentally, is what often took place pre-Reagan. Com-panies with an excess of profit wouldn’t give bonuses to CEOs due to the tax, so they would boost the income of lower employees. There would be no good reason to raise the minimum wage, the super-giant CEOs and their

companies would raise it themselves.

Quickly googling income statistics in America and you can identify that most ever y profession has a wage stagnation problem, except the CEOs. CEO compensa-tion has gone up 876% since Reagan, while the average workers has only been a scant 5.4%. The statistics before the election of Rea-gan were 87.7% and 23.7%, respectively.

How great of a society would we live in if Douglas McMillon gave a por tion of his income to the elder-ly greeters at Wal-Mar t? There’s a reason the old folks home is the first thing directly to the West of Wal-Mar t in Post Falls.

There are many ways to enact something such as maximum wage, some better than others, which is why this topic so critically needs to be debated. We could cre-ate a ratio from CEO pay to their average worker’s pay that should be constrained to a cer tain cap. In this framework we could see this “trickle-down ef fect” often talked about put to work, something I’ve never wit-nessed.

The ramifications of a maximum wage would far outweigh those of a min-imum. This is an issue of a small par t of our popu-lace having to under take the unpleasant decision of driving the Mercedes or Maybach, between those that outweigh the previ-ous in number that require gover nment assistance in feeding and clothing their children. In reality, a max-imum wage prevents infla-tion, while minimum wage prevents deflation. Incorpo-rating both can ensure the American economy against hard times.

If you or someone you know can drive more than one car at a time please, please let me know.

Locke philosophy suggests maximum wage optimal

Evan Jones Staff Writer

People have it wrong about Bill CosbyStaffer claims allegations towards comedian not credible enough

EVAN JONESStaff Writer

“A threshold where our

income canno and should not

exceed.”

Everyone is entitled to have an opinion about events around us, but we should always re-member to exercise caution before we judge someone we hardly know. The most import-ant thing we have to consider when we search for the truth is the consequences of our actions because, last time I checked, we have a law that says innocent until proven guilty and society seems to forget this when they throw around their ideas of what “really” happened.

Unfortunately Bill Cosby has already lost comedian deals with Netflix and had his shows taken off air because of allegations from the general public and spo-radic women saying that Cosby drugged and abused of them. It is no longer important what some guy in Iowa or a student

in college thinks if the simple allegation itself is going to ruin a person’s life.

If any of these women had a valid case then instead of attacking him verbally and ripping away at his reputation they would have sued him in court, but as we all know they are probably not going to do so, because there is no case against him.

You bare probably wonder-ing why Cosby not sues them for attacking his name and leg-acy if he is innocent. I do not know, but here is something I do know. Court arguments are often won by parties with plenty of money to feed lawyers and fight prolonged battles.

It is a definite possibility that this older man who is 77 years old --in a world where the life expectancy of an African-Amer-ican is only 75 years-- probably wants to live out his life with his family and good memories, not embroiled in court battles over allegations from the envious and conniving. Furthermore, to play into their games and take those

to court only serves to reinforce their argument.

Why should he waste his valuable time and money to go in court and try to put out a fire that doesn’t exist? There is a say-ing, “If you have nothing good to say, do not say anything at all.” I think people should learn a lesson from Cosby who leads by example and as far as I am concerned is simply turning the other cheek for society to slap like another famous man I know.

Unfortunately, witch hunts are as old as humanity itself. Al-though we drop our jaws at the stupidity of the dark ages --and how many women were burned at the stakes for supposedly being a witch using flawed logic-- we are still guilty of doing the same thing today.

What we should think about of Bill Cosby until he is proven guilty is not only his accomplish-ments as a comedian, but his speeches and the effort that he makes when so many people turn a blind eye to the problems in our community and our chil-dren who are our future and are

not being successful because the generation before them never set them up for success.

This is a quote from one of his speeches, which for some reason, in this days is harder to find than the allegations against him:

“Ladies and gentlemen, these people set, they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they are pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.”

If these people are going to attack a man who is a role model for teenagers then I sin-cerely hope they have more ev-idence then a story whipped up to gather 10 seconds of media fame. If you truly believe he is guilty I hope you have proof and not only opinions.

Lizeth Meinguer Staff Writer

“I feel like it is unnecessary censorship.

As people, they should be able to say ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy

Holidays’ without having to get personally offended

by it. It’s just a wish of, you know, “Merry

Christmas”. It’s not like you’re telling them to F off or it’s not like you’re

saying anything bad to them. It’s a positive

affirmation.”

PERSPECTIVES6 | the sentinel Monday, December 8, 2014

In the Sentinel’s newsroom it’s not uncommon for minor conflicts to arise from three

different people trying to play their music all at once. This time however, we decided to put our heads together and recommend

five of our favorite records to spin during this production

cycle.

Gospel, soul, rock, and blues. This album captures it all. Songwriters

Robert Levon Been and Peter Hayes come together again to create a

dynamic masterpiece that captures all my favorite aspects of Americana

music.-Tyson Juarez/Managing Editor

Prepare yourself for songs that gently take your hand, showing you a nev-

er-felt-before level of sentiment in the lyrics and pull you into sweet addic-tion with the melody like “3 Days”

and “Open”.-Annie Stonebreaker/News Editor

This is an album has the special distinction of featuring some of the

best of the Beatles’ work as well their very worst song, Revolution 9. If you aren’t already aware of what

a spectacular piece of music this album is, you’re beyond my help. -Christina Villagomez/Contributor

This album makes me feel more

ambitious every hour I spend listen-

ing to it. I saddle up my “high-horse”

and ride into my post-grad sunset on

Kanye’s fly motorcycle.-Connor Sears/Sports Editor

Meticulously crafted layers of shim-mering jangles and crunching riffs coalesce beneath melodic falsetto

whispers, simulating the sensation of melting into your pillowcase

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The Beatles have long been uni-versally lauded by critics and fans alike to such a high degree that no-body’s eyebrows even begin to raise when The Beatles are declared as the “greatest band of all time.” Why? They historically lagged in their inno-vative qualities, weren’t that techni-cally ambitious comparatively to their contemporaries, and their oeuvre is wildly inconsistent. I’m going to argue that they merely had amaz-ing personality, wrote great hits, and were influenced by very influential people. Take that, hipsters! And al-most everybody else! Please grit your teeth and keep an open mind like all that bullshit John Lennon told you to do.

When the Beatles came out their music wasn’t very complex. I think we can all agree on that, right? If you browse virtually any Merseybeat band of the time (there’s not many), they were doing the same darn thing with lesser production value because it was so easy to impersonate. And there’s a difference between things that are easy to impersonate because they’re completely distinct and have a lot of original trains of logic or mannerism, like Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, versus just because they’re easy to remember and mimic, like the ABC’s. Anybody impersonating Chaplin is a Chaplin impersonator, while any Merseybeat band is still able to be it’s own thing. This is be-cause The Beatles didn’t create a genre, they just combined aspects of pop that already were well estab-lished: Beach Boys party melodies, Shirelles tight vocal melody and harmonization, and then what else is there? 4/4 counts and I-iv-V (C-F-G) chord progressions, the thing that permeates virtually all pop and rock music the most. Specifically, the ‘50s—You know, that generation that came before them and nobody really validates that much in rock conver-sations except for the sake of appre-

ciating the relic? Heck, even follow-ing the ‘50s as a Mersey Pop band didn’t break as much ground or chal-lenge established norms as much as Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Howling Wolf or any multitude of bluesmen.

They also brought us multiple al-bums whose songwriting was done by others! So, that’s the next thing to address probably: what about “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Help!,” and their transitioning point to more cre-ative endeavors, “Rubber Soul,” those three albums in which songwriting became actually completely written by the band? It’s hard to disagree; A Hard Day’s Night was a cut above the rest of rock/pop at the time. But, what does that even say? They didn’t have competition! The days of Roy Orbison and Buck Owens weren’t charting amongst youth anymore, and The Beach Boys were never really in-novative these days. Oh, yeah, there was Bob Dylan too, who was miles ahead of them up until this light step forward. OK, so, small accomplish-ment for rock/pop standards. And then “Help!” really isn’t all that great: it still has all of the hold-ups of their other pop efforts: “The Night Be-fore” sounds like it was made by an uninteresting doo-wop/ballad band from the ‘50s as well as that awkward country thing that kept on happen-ing early in their career with “I Need You,” “Act Naturally,” etc.

Then came “Revolver” and after-ward when everybody went insane with their revolutionary innovation of multi-tracking, unconventional in-struments, distortion, orchestral as-semblies, mellotron, Indian music, classical, music hall, etc., but their albums play like a variety show, and the individual “innovation” showcases are worth about a dime a dozen. All of those things had done before The Beatles got around to it: Bob Dylan, The Who, The fugs, The Monks, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, even the Beach Boys beat out half the in-novations. “Abbey Road” came out when the prog scene took off and by the time of “Sgt. Peppers,” Hendrix, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Velvet Underground were already well established and blazing in their psy-chedelia.

Take that, hipster!

Kids these days. They just don’t appreciate the classics. As if it’s not bad enough that you have to hear high school sophomores moan about the injustice of being forced to read Thoreau, now you have to hear those whippersnappers declare the Beatles are overrated.

It’s time to set the record straight.I’m going to skip telling you that

the Beatles have sold over a billion records, are the best selling band in history and have seven of the 100 most successful albums of all time.

I’m sure that even though that’s all unheard of, it has nothing to do with having any talent at all. Neither does the fact that their music re-mained in the Billboards for years after they broke up.

The Beatles were musical pio-neers. In ‘64 they were the first band to ever use feedback in a song, and later they were the first to use back-ward vocals. They also led the way in artists writing their own music; be-cause of this there was an increase of self-penned hits in the 1960s.

They innovated the whole idea of using the recording studio as a tool to write music. The Beatles did this by mastering the art of multi-tracking so that they could build more com-plex arrangements. They meticu-lously laid different sound effects, in-struments and orchestral textures in their songs, all while multi-tracking was largely unheard of.

Let’s take a moment to focus on the legendary “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” In addition to being one of the first concept al-bums, it’s also one of the first psy-chedelic albums. It popularized wah-wah pedals, fuzz boxes and varispeedin. The automatic double tracking system developed for the Beatles to use on this album would later become the standard in the re-cording world until the digital switch in the 1980s.

While the Beatles certainly had

the advantage that as a popular band they could use state-of-the-art equip-ment, they also had the talent and vision to fully utilize those tools. Rather than lapse into complacency, the Beatles took a risk and created something that still sounds different than anything else ever produced. “Sgt. Pepper” is a lovingly crafted album, littered with little details, like a high-pitched frequency that annoys dogs, fragment loops and sound collages. It’s no wonder Brian Wil-son was devastated into a nervous breakdown after listening to the album.

There’s a bunch of bands that try to be the Beatles *cough Oasis cough,* but they can never to man-age to capture the diversity and growth the Beatles’ collective body of music features.

Ranging from the folk, ‘30’s dance hall, avant-garde and film score-influenced songs on the “White Album,” to the rock and roll pop of “Meet The Beatles,” the band not only turned out a large body of work, but an extremely diverse one as well. This versatility is even more impressive when you realize that al-most the entirety of their discography was produced over an eight-year pe-riod.

Each individual of the band demonstrated tremendous musical prowess. In the ‘60s, Paul McCart-ney was considered by some a bril-liant bassist. John played variety of instruments for the band, providing identifiable trademarks of different periods in their music – the har-monica in the early years, the Mel-lotron during their psychedelic phase are a few examples. Although not an overly flashy or fast guitar player, George’s playing was solid and flex-ible, and provided the backbone to most of the discography, without being overpowering. Ringo, despite everyone always being jerks and picking on him all the time, is actu-ally a pretty creative, albeit not nec-essarily technical, drummer with a unique and very identifiable playing style.

So next time someone tells you the Beatles are overrated tell them to fact check themselves before they wreck themselves.

Under Appreciated classic,or overrated cliche?

Christina VillagomezContributor T.J. Gossard

Features Editor

Features


The NIC Cardinal Chamber Orchestra per-formed “Music of Love and War,” a collection of baroque style music, at the Coeur d’Alene First Pres-byterian Church Sunday.

The concert, directed by NIC music instructor Gerard Mathes, ranged from classics such as “Suite from Julius Cae-sar” by Handel to the “Game of Thrones” theme by Ramin Djawadi.

“I really liked it and I really loved the way that they put it together,” NIC student Madalyn Forthman said. “I didn’t really know we had an orchestra, so it was really cool to see that we had one.”

Soprano Alyssa Maur-er sang a solo in “Lament from Dido and Aenas;” in-strumental solos included Casey Marotta on percus-sion in “Game of Thrones,” Sarah Ranftl on the organ in “Adagio in G Minor,”

and Keegan Bernardin on the violin in “Autumn.”

“My favorite piece that we performed tonight would probably be either ‘Autumn’ at the very end that I had a solo in,” Ber-nardin said. “Or the ‘Game of Thrones’ theme was pretty cool too,”

“Solos and performanc-es like this do not come without intense practice and determination,” Ber-

nardin said. “The orchestra has been work-ing on the per-formance since the start of the semester, meet-ing and playing at least once a week, and even twice a week in recent days be-fore the concert, on top of prac-tice at home.”

“I’m just re-ally happy to be a part of the

string program here at NIC,” Bernardin said. “I’m really looking forward to continuing my member-ship in this program next semester.”

The NIC music depart-ment’s followed this event with the “Sounds of Christ-mas.” See story above for more details.


DID YOU KNOW? Mark Hamill was unaware of Darth Vader’s true identity until moments before the revelation scene.

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KEEGAN BERNARDINNIC STUDENT MUSICIAN

“I’m just really happy to be a

part of the string program here at

NIC and I’m really looking forward to continuing my membership in

this program next semester.”


NIC music groups spread a little hol-iday cheer this weekend with their

premiere of “Sounds of Christ-mas” at North Idaho College.

The hour long show on Sat-urday included performances by various NIC choirs, the NIC Wind Symphony, and even Santa Clause himself.

Choirs included the Cardi-nal Chorale, Chamber Sing-ers, and Vocal Cardinal Jazz, directed by Max Mendez.

Songs ranged from takes on traditional African carols, to Italian hymns, to the choral suite from “Frozen.” Bongos, flutes, and violins played in accompaniment, including vi-olin solos from NIC Orchestra

director, Gerard Mathes, and student Keegan Bernardin, both of whom were involved in the orchestra’s perfor-mance of “Music of Love and War” last week.

The Wind Symphony took the audience by storm at the second half of the concert when director Terry Jones in-vited Santa Clause to join him in directing a sing-along, ush-ering the whole audience to stand and sing Christmas clas-sics in unison, with some help from lyrics posted on a pro-jector on the wall - along with choir members who stood in the aisles to guide audience members through the songs. Santa brought children to the stage to dance with him, and the orchestra closed with a booming performance of the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

NIC gives the gift of music

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TOP: Director Max Mendez conducts before the NIC Cardinal Chorale. BOTTOM: NIC Vocal Jazz singers Hannah Melton, Jasha Sandford and Allison Parsons belt out some tunes. Thomas Hansen /Sentinel

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Cardinal Chamber Orchestra plays “Love and War”

Performers work the string section at Music of Love and War. Taylor Nadauld /Sentinel


It’s not often that unicy-cles, balloons and machet-es are experienced all in one night, or ever for that

matter, but NIC was graced with a taste of that rarity .

Renowned per formance ar tist Michael DuBois hit the NIC stage to per form his “Solo Circus” - an hour-long, one-man per formance of dangerous stunts, tricks and some brief balloon ani-mals.

DuBois has per-formed on the “To-night Show with Jay Leno” twice, and the “Late Show with David Letterman.”

Along with tele-vision per formanc-es, he also makes time to bring his act to small-er stages.

“That’s the thing, like, peo-ple think that, ‘look if you’re on TV [you don’t perform smaller venues]’, but that doesn’t mean anything about doing performances to make a

living,” DuBois said. “I do 75 colleges a year and at least 75 other gigs a year too.”

If high profile performanc-es add any nerves, DuBois said they are rarely a concern.

“You know, it’s not even nerves, it’s more just anxiety if I can see well and that I’m warmed up,” DuBois said. “It’s always logistical stuf f I worry about, like the music, because I run my whole show on a remote in my pocket, so

it’s making sure that everything’s working properly; those are my big stresses, and travel. The show’s easy.”

Yet despite the lack of nerves, it doesn’t mean his shows have always gone without po-tentially dangerous mistakes. DuBois says he’s fallen of f a

unicycle while in a straitjack-et, gotten his jeans caught on the unicycle chain and had a stage break under him.

“You have to pay attention. Stuff happens,” Dubois said.

DuBois was raised in Up-state New York, where he

learned to juggle in school at the age of 12. He eventually graduated from Penn State, where he went on to make his first appearance on the “Tonight Show” with per for-mance par tner, Chris Chelko.

It was after Chelko got a job with the “Tonight Show” that DuBois star ted per form-ing independently and creat-ed his “Solo Circus” show.

“It was really cool,” said NIC student Annalee Fox. “It was ver y high-action and ver y funny.”

Associated Students of Nor th Idaho College (ASNIC) Student Events hosted the event.

“He was really enter tain-ing,” ASNIC Events Coordi-nator Maria Paluzzi said. “I think he really got the crowd involved, and ever ybody loved what he had to do.”

Paaluzzi said she hoped more students would attend student events.

“They’re really fun and it helps get ever y student together,” Paluzzi said. “It brings nontraditional and traditional students together and coming and just having a really fun time.”

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The circus comes to NICOne-man show Michael DuBois balances and juggles

an audience on the edge of their seats

One man circus, Michael Dubois wows NIC crowd with his juggling skills. Thomas Hansen/Sentinel

Maddie ChapmanStaff Writer

Zambia is a country with 1.2 million orphans. That’s 207 times the amount of people enrolled in NIC and about 10 times the amount of orphans in the entire U.S.--a country 13 times the size and 20 times the population of Zambia.

Campus Alive in Christ Club presented Monica Musonda, director of an orphanage in Zambia, to share her experiences growing up in Zambia and running the orphanage.

Musonda, mother of eight, has been director for 14 years. The orphanage provides basic education for the children there and has a teen outreach program for street teens.

Musonda explained that in Zambia someone cannot work until they finish school. It is very difficult to get a job with only a high school education and they must pay for college with cash. This can make it dif-ficult for one to attend school.

“We are giving them a sec-ond chance,” Musonda said. “I love these children just as I

love my own.”Musonda said she decided

to start an orphanage after vis-iting Zambia again in 2000 and encountered two boys begging for money because they had no one to look after them.

She said the orphanage provides a safe place for the children and widows in need that have visited and lived there. It has allowed children to grow up with support and has even helped some to reach their dream careers.

Many students and com-munity members showed up to listen to Musonda speak and they were given an oppor tunity to help the cause as well. Awareness Bracelets were being sold at the event for $2 and do-nations were being taken to help fund the education for these orphans. All proceeds will help pay for an orphans education.

Bracelets can still be purchased from the Campus Alive in Christ Club, Phi Theta Kappa, Native Amer-ican Student Alliance Club and the recently formed International Students club.


With the close of the se-mester drawing near, NIC Film Club screened their final film on Thursday for students and the community.

The film was Spike Jonze’s, “Her”; but what preceded it was a more personalized fare-well to the semester than any Academy Award winning film could be.

Keeping with a trend set this semester by the club, an original short film, “De-

nial”, premiered before the main screening, giving Film Club students a chance to demonstrate their passion for creativity, film-making, acting, and writing to their peers and the community.

“Personally, I was really excited to work on it,” said co-director, Patrick O’Farrell.

“’Denial’ [is] a collabora-tive project between seven dif ferent people,” explained O’Farrell to the audience. “There are eight dif ferent scenes and each of them ex-cept the very last was directed

by a dif ferent person. They filmed and edited it all with a dif ferent kind of concept in mind.”

The concept of “Denial” was credited to club member, Leo Schnepf, who encouraged viewers to discuss and ques-tion the film.

“Any questions are wel-come in the discussion,” Schnepf said. “As vile as you want, it doesn’t matter; we just love talking about it.”

Film Club will begin host-ing film screenings again in the Spring.

ANNALEE FOXNIC Student

“It was very high-action

and very funny.”

Orphans receive support

Closing titles screenshot from NIC Film Club’s short film “Denial.” Courtesy of NIC Film Club

AISA club members Amanda Lott, Destiny Calvin and Taylor Abrahamson get muddy in search of water potatoes. - Photo courtesy of Evanlene Melting Tallow

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a lot of the time when you cook them right, they taste like a normal potato and they’re found in the mud,” Abra-hamson said. ”I think I was working for like 25-30 minutes and I only got a little baggy full of potatoes. They’re really cool.”

The club doesn’t only attend events; it also hosts and creates them, much like they did with this semes-ter’s Che’nshish Golf Scramble, held at the Coeur d’Alene Casino.

In 2009 the club received $2,000 from the Kootenai Tribe as a sponsor-ship that the students turned around and made into a NIC American Indian scholarship: the Che’nshish scholar-ship.

Evanlene Melting Tallow, the club’s and American Indian Support services’ adviser, is proud of this accomplishment.

“These funds go to students,” Melting Tallow said. “And these students who work on it, they may not get any funds. But they still believe in the concept of it and why it was started.”

The club also hosted the hoop dancer, Shanner Escalanti, whose skills and showmanship helped the

club sell Indian tacos and fry bread by bringing in a crowd. Finances made were shared between the Che’nshish scholarship and the club’s personal funds.

Illustrating the club’s dedication to education, some students of the club have created times to host classes to teach native art; including gourd making and beading.

The gourd classes have seen much attendance, with 20 currently enrolled for a Dec. 13 class. The class-es, led by AISA member Sarai Mays, can be reserved out to May 2015 with a fee of $20 for students and $40 for non-students.

The beading classes, hosted by Sami Mitchell, teaches students how to make earrings, headbands, belts, bracelets and more every Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the AISA club room, donwstairs SUB.

Continuing their theme of education, the club also had students Taylor Abrahamson and Amanda Lott travel to University of Idaho to give a speech, entitled “Native Students Speak Out Against Mascots.” This presentation concerned racial conno-tations inherent in American Indian mascots, as well as how the extend into bigger problems for Indians such cas poverty and loss of tradition.


The Cardinals extend-ed the win streak to 8 as they beat Chemeketa, Por t land CC and Colum-bia Basin twice. They are cur rently ranked 21st in the nat ion.

The Cardinals recent -ly competed in the 2014 Bigfoot Classic tour na-ment in Spokane.

In the f irst round, NIC defeated Everett 106-84. Djuan Piper scored 26 with 6 re-bounds and Jordan King scored 25 with 7 boards. Sneaky guard Braian An-gola -Rodas stole the bal l 7 t imes. NIC led 58-39 at hal f t ime and maintained that lead unti l the f inal buzzer.

In the f irst of two games versus CBC, local Lake City graduate Kyle Guice led with a career high 22 points shoot -ing 78 percent from the f ie ld. Guards Jamaal Robateau scored 15 and teammate Lucas Antunez contr ibuted 18 points.

Jordan King scored 13 points and came down with 9 boards. The Car-dinals are a deep team. The bench recorded 53 of the 99 points for the Cards.

In the second game versus CBC Robateau recorded 23 points, 8 de-fensive rebounds and 2 steals .

NIC defeated Cheme-keta and Por t land at the annual Por t land T ip-Of f Showcase. Althou the Cardinals were behind by 15 points at hal f t ime, they ral l ied and won by 13 against Chemeke-ta .

Red shir t freshman Robateau scored 54 points of f the bench in the two games. Accom-panying Robateau was King and Djuan Piper with 16 and 15 points respect ively. The Cardi -nals raced of f to a 94-56 win versus Por t land.

Head coach Corey Symons said, “I t was a great weekend for NIC Basketbal l .”

The Seattle Sounders fin-ished their season early because of the newly adopted “away goals

rule” by the MLS.The latest controversy over

the rule came after the Seattle Sounders beat the LA Galaxy at home last Sunday 2-1 yet failed to reach the MLS Cup cham-pionship again. The Sounders lost 0-1 to the Galaxy in LA before heading to Seattle. The cumulative score was equal at 2-2 in the two games. The Galaxy moves on to host the MLS Cup because of the “away goals rule” which acts as the tiebreaker and awards post season play to the team that scored the most goals on the road..

I believe that the MLS should of fer a third match to decide the victor instead of the “away goals rule.”

The precedence is that a final decision game should be played to break ties. The NHL, MLB and the NBA all crown their victors by winning the series, not by the scores in the matches.

The MLS said they believe that the “away goals rule” bene-fits the fans to encourage more attacking from the away team.

Contrar y to MLS beliefs, this rule involves more defen-sive burden from the home team. Most fans in attendance root for the home team, thus the fans are less involved be-cause they prefer goals to saves.

The “away goals rule” was adopted from the English Pre-mier League in Europe. Teams in that league play around 80 games in a summer, compared to 34 in the MLS. Thus the two legs and the “away goals rule” keep the playing time down. If the MLS were to play twice as many games, I believe that the rule of fers a fair alternative to winning a series.

A two-legged playof f se-ries should of fer a third leg to crown the victor. The “away goals rule” could ser ve as a tie-breaker after the deciding match is played. But, there should be a third decision game.

Although Sounder ville (Seattle fans) is upset by the rule in the game versus LA, it is slightly ironic because the same rule sent them past FC Dallas in the playof fs in mid November.

The Sounders had a fantas-tic season regardless of their (fluke) loss to the Galaxy in the playof fs. They finished with the record of 20-10-4. They won the U.S. Open Cup earlier this year and defender Chad Marshall was awarded MLS defensive player of the year. The fans earned the Suppor ters’ Shield award for their devotion.

Adding another 90 minutes would have benefitted the fans by of fering more play time be-tween American soccer legends Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey.

The “away goals rule” nega-tively af fects the game and does not award the true winner. Throw the fans a bone. Let the players play!


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Dajour Reece escaping at the NIC Duals. Beau Valdez/Sentinel


NIC’s wrestling keeps win-ning, they are now ranked 2nd in the NJCAA conference.

A day earlier on Thursday, the Cardinals faced off against the Mustangs of Western Wyo-ming. They won by a score of 31-12 even though they forfeit-ed a couple matches because wrestlers had their flights delayed.

Coach Whitcomb said, “Having to give up those weights was tough but our guys picked it up and wrestled hard.”

They defeated Cerritos College and Highline Commu-nity College at the NIC Duals that were held in Christianson Gymnasium.

Cerritos is ranked as the best junior college team in California. They kept things close in their 24-19 loss to NIC. This was a very competi-tive match. Teammates were

screaming and celebrating wins.

Wrestler at the 165-weight class, Dajour Reece said, “We learned to not doubt any team by their rankings.”

Cardinals Bryce Weather-ston and Jordan Cooks pinned their opponents. Teammates Michael Nguyen Cruz Del Angel and Reece also won their matches.

“The main guys got the pins, that’s what we needed” NIC wrestler Jordan Cooks said.

NIC rolled over Highline Community College 40-9 in their second duel.

“Highline is a lower rank-ing than us obviously,” Cooks said. but we still came out and wrestled good.”

Nguyen, Weatherston, Reece, Cooks and Del Angel won in their first and second matches. Kit Major, Tyler McLean and Trent Allen re-corded a win only in the sec-ond duel.

Coach Pat Whitcomb said, “I thought the guys wrestled very well in our second match.”

Aric “Ric” McCutcheon and Cooper Thomas both lost their matches versus Highline. They were also the only Cards to be pinned, McCutcheon in the first dual to Cherritos by Dustin Kirk who has a perfect 31-0 in college. Thomas was pinned in the latter match.

Reece said, “I thought we wrestled pretty good. The last one was better, but we do. We didn’t pick up the intensity like we usually do.”

Since the first match was close versus a strong oppo-nent, support dwindled in the second match because of the strong lead that NIC held throughout the match.

NIC most recent competed in the Clif f Lee Invitational tournament yet failed to ad-vance any wrestlers to the championship bracket. On Friday Tyler Booth, Taylor

Kornoely and Deondre Wilson were the only Cardinals to win a match in the consolation bracket. All three wrestlers went 1-2 before losing out.

“We had some others that battled with some big name teams,” coach Pat Whitcomb said. “I think they came away with confidence in them-selves.”

The team also suffered a defeat to Labette 23-19 in the first match of the season.

Reece said, “we learned to not doubt any team by their rankings.”

Cooks added, “Rankings really don’t mean anything. It’s wrestling, anything can happen,” Cooks added. “You have luck and you have the support of your team.”

The team attributes part of the loss because the match was on the road in Powell, WY.

Reece said, “We need to be more intensified on the road, as if we were to wrestle here.”

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Connor Sears is a writer for The Sen-tinel. His opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Sen-tinel. Respond to this column online at nicsentinel.com.

COMMENTARY


Mens Basketball team wins eight games in a row

Cardinals on a roll

D’Adrian Allen powering his way to the rim for a dunk against Co-lumbia Basin College. Beau Valdez/Sentinel

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Jamaal Robateau from the NIC Mens Basketball team was awarded Athlete of the Week by the SWAC conerence. He scored 54 points in two games as the Cardinals won both games at the Por tland Commu-nity College T ip-Of f invita-tional.

Robateau scored 21 and shot 7-10 from the field including 4-6 from beyond the arc to beat Chemeketa Community College.

The Cardinals also de-feated Por tland Commu-nity College by 34 points

in the 94-56 thrashing. In that game Robateau scored 25 of his 33 points in the first half and was a per-fect 9-9 from three-point range. He scored a career high against the defending NWAC champions.

“Jamaal is known as an exceptional shooter, but he was extraordinar y this weekend,” NIC men’s head coach Corey Symons said. “He is a tremendous weap-on to bring of f the bench for instant of fense.”

The NIC guard has ver-bally committed to Gard-ner-Webb, a NCAA Division I school out of Bowling Springs N.C.

NIC guard named athlete of the week

The Lady Cardsfighting for a rebound. From left, Panisesi Taimani (55), Maci Benedict (12) and Mariah Swanson (33). Beau Valdez/Sentinel


The Lady Cards are 5 -1 in the last two weeks. Improv-ing their record to 7 -2 on the season.

NIC dominated Centra-l ia 88-61 in the paint with of fensive rebounds and tur novers. Guard Samara Hil l opened up the game by dropping dimes from deep.

NIC led by 15 at hal f , 40-25. The Lady Cards kept increasing the lead through-out the game.

For ward Panisesi Taimani dominated in the paint with help from guards Maci

Bened ic t and Ba i ley Schr o -eder mov ing the ba l l we l l .

The Lady Car ds Co lumbia Bas in hos ted

NIC las t T uesday. NIC he ld o f f the Hawks by a po in t a f ter a s low second ha l f . The Lady Car ds wer e out -scor ed in the second ha l f by 14 po in ts but eventua l ly won 80 -79 .

Car d ina l center Pan ises i Ta imani scor ed 24 w i th14 r ebounds in the winn ing e f -for t . Monica Landdeck and Mar iah Swanson scor ed 12 and 11 po in ts r espec t ive ly.

The Hawks s t r e tched the f loor and pr essur ed the Car d ina ls . The Hawks scor ed 25 po in ts o f f tur n -overs .

When the Hawks v i s i ted Coeur d ’A lene , the Lady Car ds won mor e hand i ly 81 -74 . The Car d ina ls ou t -scor ed the Hawks by 10 in the second ha l f for the w in .

This t ime for war d Mar iah Swanson r ecor d -ed a doub le -doub le w i th 17 po in ts and 10 boar ds . Guar d Kara S taggs led the Lady Car ds w i th 20 po in ts . She a l so had 4 ass i s ts .

The Lady Car d ina ls sp l i t back - to -back wins w i th d iv i -s ion opponent Casper Co l -l ege .

On Black Fr iday, the Lady Car d ina ls los t 75 -69 . The 18 po in t de f i c i t a t ha l f -t ime was too har d to over -come.

Coach Chr is Car lson commented , “ I thought our de fense was r ea l ly s t r ong coming out o f the ga te , and I f e l t good about i t . ”

A f ter the s low s tar t shoot ing on ly 21 per cent , the Car d ina ls ra l l i ed back in the second ha l f to t i e the game in the second ha l f w i th a s t r ong e f for t f r om Staggs , Ta imani , and Land -deck .

The Lady Car ds got r e -venge the next day when they won 64 -59 . In the c lose game, T iamani l ed w i th 17 po in ts . Th is t ime Swanson r ecor ded a dou -b le -doub le w i th 16 po in ts and 11 r ebounds .

NIC outd id Be l levue Co l -

l ege 83 -65 a t home. The Lady Car ds p layed s t r ong on de fense and wer e s loppy tur n ing the ba l l over 13 t imes . Be l levue was even worse about tur novers , w i th 20 dur ing the game.

Mar iah Swanson had her e season debut a f ter she tor e her ACL in her r ight knee l as t season . She led the team wi th 11 r ebounds .

“To come wher e she ’s come f r om tha t in jur y…she ’s r ea l ly f ight ing thr ough, ” Car lson sa id .

S tar t ing guar d Ba i ley Schr oeder scor ed 14 and had thr ee s tea ls . S taggs a l so scor ed 14 . Ca i t lyn Be -hymer came o f f the bench and scor ed 17 .

Lady Cards rise to the occasionMomentum for NIC helps moving into season play next week

Calendar of EventsMens Basketball

12-29 8 p.m. Medicine Hat Col lege12-31 8 p.m. Blue Mountain CC1-17 5 p.m. Col lege of Souther n Idaho1-22 7 :30 p.m. Utah State- Easter n1-24 5 p.m. Colorado Nor thwester n CC1-29 7 :30 p.m. Snow Col lege1-31 5 p.m. Sal t Lake CC2-12 7 :30 p.m. Utah State – Easter n2-14 5 p.m. Colorado Nor thwester n CC

Womens Basketball1-2 5 :30 p.m. T rini ty Wester n Univ.1 -3 3 p.m. T rini ty Wester n Univ.1 -17 3 p.m. Col lege of Souther n Idaho1-22 5 :30 p.m. Utah State – Easter n1-24 3 p.m. Colorado Nor thwester n CC1-29 5 :30 p.m. Snow Col lege1-31 3 p.m. Sal t Lake CC2-12 5 :30 p.m. Utah State – Easter n2-14 3 p.m. Colorado Nor thwester n

Wrestling12-12 7 p.m. Nor thwest Wyoming Col lege12-13 12 p.m. Southwester n Oregon Col lege12-13 2 p.m. Clackamas Col lege1-28 7 p.m. Simon Fraser Universi ty

Al l matches are held on campus at Nor th Idaho Col lege in Christ ianson Gymnasium.

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1. The people who work for the school.

3.______ Fishing Club

5. Campus Alive in _______

7. A club for movie lovers

8. NIC student government

9. A drink that is important to many students.

12. A way to fund your education.

15. Two of these make a full year of college.

16. NIC mascot________ Cardinal.

17. First year students

20. The day we throw our hats

22. A scary word for test

23. A club for deep thinkers

25. Lee-_____ Hall

26. Club membership is related to journalism

and production

29. NIC student paper

30. Full of the possibility of danger, failure, or

loss.

31. American Indian ______ Alliance

32. _______ 12th is the first day Spring semester.

NIC Crossword

1. John Lennon shot, 19802. Americans begin siege

of Quebec, 17753. Auto-factory architect Albert Kahn dies, 19424. Lincoln issues Procla-mation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 1863

5.Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan, 1949

6. Theater fire kills hundreds in Vienna, 18817. Superpowers agree to reduce nuclear arse-nals, 19878. NAFTA signed into law, 19939. Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Champion-ship game, 1940

This day in history, Dec. 8

CAPRICORNMake an attempt to be more sympathetic to the feelings of others. Don’t forget that not

everyone is as strong-willed and directed as you. Avoid getting bottled up in your head; culti-vating a love of food, sleep and sensuous activities is essential to the grounding of your energies. This week lucky numbers are:

95, 35, 50, 59, 98

SAGITTARIUSTry to soften your stance a

bit- take things as they go and let them go as they will. You should keep your work and home life separate during this week. Step out a bit and demand depend-

ability form others, too. This week lucky numbers are:

15, 88, 62, 69, 40

VIRGOYou should better watch your temper. Hotheadedness can throw you off balance and aid your opponent. This week is right time when compromise

and diplomacy are virtues to be cultivated, not weakness to be

despised. This week lucky numbers are:

65, 76, 60, 6, 92

LIBRAYou shell try to tone down a bit

your demanding and command-ing side. Hold the mirror up to yourself as well – examine your

motivations carefully. Battle to keep the combatant in you

more peaceful. Try to take some distance from yourself.

This week lucky numbers are: 48, 60, 69, 78, 52

SCORPIODon’t put the blame on the

world for not recognizing you if you hide yourself away. Try to be more transparent- let the people see what you are really like. This week is not the right time to keep secrets, even from

yourself. This week lucky numbers are:

30, 98, 2, 7, 22

ARIESThis week is the right time for to actively seek joy. Allow yourself

the best that there is. Avoid passing judgment on others too quickly. Beware of feeling that you must prove yourself. Easy

up a bit on the expectations you place on others.

This week lucky numbers are: 75, 88, 83, 8, 17

TAURUSIt is important to allow for inspi-ration- don’t just work for work’s sake. Share affection with others. You can get away with breaking the rules forever- sooner or later

the reckoning will come. This week lucky numbers are:

1, 71, 42, 76, 61

GEMINILearn to work with faith. It is neither your enemy nor your friend, but it can become an

accepted companion. Find it in your heart to accept. Tilting with windmills is not all there is to life. This week lucky numbers are:

56, 54, 93, 67, 4

CANCERYour ideas are not always easy for others to accept. So, don’t push them too hard; let other people breathe a bit. Strive to

be yourself. You should beware of tendency to be bossy or

insensitive. This week lucky numbers are:

14, 72, 10, 94, 44

LEOThis week is the perfect time to follow your own path and de-

velop the talents you have been given to the fullest. Avoid judging others too harshly, nor yourself. Expand your horizons to include wider possibilities for the future. This week lucky numbers are:

37, 7, 66, 3, 71

AQUARIUSTry not to be overly concerned with appearances. Keep alive

in your search for beauty- avoid becoming jaded, trendy or com-pulsive. You should beware of

neglecting spiritual goals or falling prey to excessive materialism. This week lucky numbers are:

72, 2, 84, 15, 20

PISCESYou should cultivate self-con-fidence. You should beware

of being too aggressive in your criticism. Be consistent in

your stance. This week lucky numbers are:

41, 73, 48, 1, 33

Horoscopes

2. Important exam for college hopefuls

4. Your first stop as a student

5. Club for students interested in tabletop

gaming

6. An academic rank conferred by a college or

university.

10. We wish you happy _______

11. We lose this during finals week

13. __________ students are not U.S. citizens

but attend college with a student Visa.

14. If you miss this your grades might go down

18. North Idaho College

19. Mica ______ bookstore

21. Now a financial aid requirement

24. Where we check out books

26. Doesn’t work well here

27. Most math classes are in this building

28. and a happy New _________

29. The place we eat

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THE NUTCRACKER12 | the sentinel Monday, december 8, 2014

Holiday cheer is here

Rhiannon FullertonStaff Writer

F r o m the time the velvet red curtains opened through the end

of the show, the audience was transported from the Schuler Preforming Arts center to a magical dream world full of sugar plum fairies and toy soldiers, life-sized mice and party goers, Dros-selmeyer’s toy creations and waltzes of flowers.

The perfor-mance of The Nutcracker on Wednesday night, put on by the Eugene Ballet Compa-ny, included local Coeur d’Alene chil-dren as the baby mice, angels, bon bons, party children and dancers in the waltz of the flowers, bringing a sense of community to the show.

Debi Terracciano, owner of Le Danse Stu-dio in Coeur d’Alene, has sponsored the production for 9 years. She works with the children weekly for eight weeks to pre-pare them for the winter performance. Only 52 are

chosen out of over 80 who audition.

Terracciano said she chose to hold the show at NIC every year because it is the very best facility in Coeur d’Alene.

“The stage, sound, lights, dressing rooms and mostly the people who run the theater; they are awe-some,” Terracciano said.

Dynamic sets, fake snow, and elaborate cos-

tumes brought this ballet to life and got the full house audience in the Christmas spirit as Clara and Hans danced through her extravagant dreams.

“I have seen a lot of Nutcrackers and I really love the Eugene Ballet Companies’ ver-sion. Fun for chil-dren and adults, beautiful cos-tumes and amaz-

ing dancers,” Terracciano said.

The audience was full of little girls in fancy dresses and family mem-bers of the children hold-ing bouquets of flow-ers. The final curtain closed after two 50-min-ute halves and an inter-mission, easily keeping the attention of even the youngest watchers.

Eugene Ballet Company presents the Nutcracker in SchularPrinciple Dancer Jun Tanabe performs during the second act of the Eugene Ballet Company’s presentation of the Nutcracker. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

Performers carried out intricate dance routines during various acts. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

Yoshie Oshima performs as the Sugar Plumb Fairy. Taylor Nadauld/Sentinel

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