Fall 2011 - Issue 1

City Council OK’s community gardens

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YouTube soul sensation Allen Stone rocks Raw SpacePage 8

SULTAN OF SOUL Allen Stone plays his “greasy soul” at Raw Space on September 21, 2011. Ellensburg was the final stop on his three week West

Coast tour. Stone’s record becomes available October 4.

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NEW BUILDING ON THE BLOCK (TOP RIGHT) The downstairs hallway in the new Hogue Hall on September 20, 2011.(BOTTOM RIGHT) “Bender’s Knuckle” sits in an all-wood room downstairs in the new Hogue Hall. (BOTTOM LEFT) A gnome keeps an eye out over the Fluke Interdisci-plinary Lab in the new Hogue Hall. (TOP LEFT) A skylight shines down through the stairwell in the new Hogue Hall.

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Hogue Hall opens in time for school year

Sporting a new eco-friendly look, the recently renovated Hogue Hall is open to students this year. The building is cur-rently going through LEED certification and is expected to earn a platinum rating, the highest level.

There will be an opening ceremony this Friday with a larger grand opening to take place next year when the renovations on the other half of the building are completed.

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Vote on marijuana collectives, dispensaries

I’ll be your tour guide through the ex-citing world of Ellensburg’s underbelly. If you see italics, you’ll know there’s a bad joke coming.

By Weston Morrow

§ A person reported that all of the fl owers had been ripped off of their plants and left under their bedroom window.

Sounds to me like someone’s stalker is leaving her a gift.

§ A person reported that they are fi lming a movie Wednesday through the end of Sunday and

there would be much screaming since they’re fi lming a murder scene.

That’s exactly what I would say if I were going to murder someone.

§ A person reported they be-lieve someone is attempting to enter their apartment with a key. They heard someone trying to en-ter the apartment but a chair was propped under the door.

That’s just really creepy. § A noise complaint was re-

ported on W. 9th Avenue, where a woman was reportedly slamming

a door at all hours.I like how it highlights the fact that

she’s a woman, as if that’s signifi cant to her door slamming habit.

§ A person reported that their mother and friend broke down on a jet ski and were stuck in the mid-dle of the Columbia River.

This would be a great time for a your momma joke. Can I make your momma jokes in the newspaper?

§ A person reported their car was covered in mustard, eggs and condoms.

Mmmm, nothing goes with eggs quite like mustard and condoms.

§ A dog was reportedly barking for two or three hours on E 14th Avenue and appeared to be in dis-tress.

What is this person, the dog whis-perer?

§ A person reported that they had found a piece of mail in gar-bage that had been dumped on their property.

Congratulations! This sounds like when your kids call just to say they ate a bug.

§ A woman reportedly keeps slamming her door on West 9th Avenue. It is an ongoing problem.

Hey, she’s still slamming that door? Some people just don’t ever learn.

§ A person reportedly wanted to know if their warrants are mis-demeanors or felonies. Subject has jumped bail.

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Who does that?

§ A woman was reportedly slamming the door at all hours and has been cited for noise viola-tions four times this month.

This woman is a serial door slammer. NO DOOR IS SAFE!

§ A person reported that their ex-girlfriend threw items at them and hit them with a pill bottle while they were trying to move out of a residence. There are no guns in the residence.

Guns don’t kill people--empty TUMS bottles kill people.

Starting this quarter, Central Transit will be reducing its hours. The shuttle ser-vice, which is often the best transportation option for students without vehicles, has been forced to make changes due to lack of funding.

With the state legislature cutting so much funding to higher education last spring, it would be easy to blame the re-duction on those cuts. This isn’t necessar-ily the case, however.

Central Transit falls under the jurisdic-tion of the University Police Department, overseen by director Mike Luvera.

The Transit’s funding though, comes from a different place entirely. Since the Central Transit is a student service, its

funding comes from student fees, not the university’s or the department’s budget.

Student fees provide the program with about $75,000, Luvera said. This may sound like a lot, but according to Luvera, $75,000 doesn’t get you very much busing service.

The university doesn’t run the transit itself—like most services where the uni-versity has to hire outside help, the Cen-tral Transit contract was put to public bid. Private companies then bid for the right to the contract.

In this case, the bid was won by Hope-Source, a private nonprofi t which pro-vides many different services throughout Ellensburg and Kittitas county.

The student fees go toward the Central Transit service. Since student fees haven’t changed in the same way as the univer-

sity’s budget has, the hour reduction to the transit doesn’t make much sense on the surface.

The real reason for the reduction, Lu-vera said, was the loss of state funding given to HopeSource.

HopeSource receives funding from the State to operate some of its services. This state funding is what allows the Central Transit to operate over the student fee budget.

Because of the loss of state funding to HopeSource, however, changes had to be made in order to continue the operation of the transit.

Essentially, Luvera said, HopeSource informed the university of the funding de-crease and then Luvera and the university had to re-evaluate the service in order to keep it sustainable.

The course of action they eventually chose to take was to reduce the hours, al-lowing the transit to stay in operation, just not as frequently as it previously had.

“We looked at it from all different an-gles, and that’s the best option we have at this time,” Luvera said.

The largest cut to the Transit’s hours will come in the evening. The shuttles used to operate fairly late into the night but will now stop circulating at 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the buses will continue to shuttle students until 10 p.m.

According to the police department, the late evening hours were chosen to be cut because ridership drops drastically after 8 p.m. on weeknights, whereas the morning number of riders stays fairly consistent.

With the reduction in hours, the hope is that the Transit will run on a much more effi cient schedule, with less hours of low ridership circulation.

Central Transit to reduce hoursBY WESTON MORROWNews Editor

BY NICHOLE WILLIAMSON

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The Ellensburg City Council voted unanimously to continue the interim zon-ing regulations for collective marijuana gardens and to continue the six-month moratorium on cannabis dispensaries last Monday.

The council enacted the emergency ordinances in August, to bring the state into compliance with state law and pro-vide further regulations on collective can-nabis gardens. The council’s recent de-cision will extend the ordinances for the next four months.

Without regulations the city would have less control over the community gar-dens and their location. The city council held a public hearing to solicit feedback and suggestions from the public.

“While it’s required to take public testi-mony, it’s clear the state had legalized col-lective gardens,” said James Pidduck, city attorney.

The law

Under Ordinance No. 4595 collective gardens can have up to 10 qualifying pa-tients, with not more than 15 plants per patient and up to 45 plants per garden. The garden cannot contain more than 24 usable ounces per patient and 72 ounces total.

The garden must be grown indoors and more than 300 feet away from schools and youth-orientated facilities. Qualify-ing patients can only be members of one garden at a time, and gardens must keep membership records for at least three years.

To establish a garden qualifying pa-tients have to provide names, addresses, proof of qualifying status of members and fi ll out an application that provides the location of the garden, approval of the landowner, and pay a $25 permit fee.

After receiving the application the planning supervisor will inspect the prem-ises to make sure it complies with the or-dinance.

At this time no applications for com-munity cannabis gardens have been sub-mitted.

Patients

Medical marijuana patient Dave Hag-er, of Ellensburg, thanked the council for making the decision to allow collective gardens rather than placing a moratorium on them, during the public hearing.

“I believe it was a courageous decision by the council to do it,” Hager said. “We can stand in the way of the steam roller or we can do it right.”

Hager, a U.S. Army veteran, was glad that he is able to legally use the medica-tion he needs and thinks that the regu-

lations will create a better relationship between law enforcement and medical marijuana users.

“I think you’ll fi nd that you’ve been chasing us through the hills for about 60 years now, and I think you’re going to fi nd that we’re not bad people,” Hager said. Patients just want to be able to use their medication and want to be good neigh-bors, he said.

“We’re not the crack heads, we’re not the meth heads. ... In fact, if you bother to talk to us we’ll probably tell you where they are,” Hager said.

Brian Grimmer, a medical marijua-na patient and current Central student agrees, the collective gardens want to be good neighbors and will take steps to make sure that the gardens are secure.

He also asked that the city let the gar-dens know when someone requests in-formation about where the gardens were located.

“The grows are going to be secure. We don’t want people coming in and stealing our medication. So, yeah, we are going to be proactive on security,” Grimmer said.

Grimmer also told the council that there wouldn’t be a garden on every block and that many patients do not have the time, money and dedication to grow their own plants.

He encouraged the council to come to a decision regarding the moratorium on dispensaries.

“We do need a dispensary here,” Grim-mer said. Money that could be going to Ellensburg is instead going to dispensaries on the West side.

A joke

Not everyone who spoke at the hear-ing felt that the city council was taking the right steps. Don Richter, an Ellensburg resident, was surprised when the topic ap-peared on the city council agenda.

Richter has been involved with medi-cal marijuana since 1989 and while he thinks it should be legal, he’s concerned with the direction the council is taking.

“While it has its positive points, we’re off to a bad start here, this whole medi-cal marijuana industry is a joke,” Richter said.

According to Richter, anybody with money can get a prescription for medical marijuana and the current system is “cor-rupt and convoluted.”

“What we’re doing right now is a joke, and the people who are growing cannabis themselves aren’t going to get involved in a community garden, only the people who have an ulterior motive,” Richter said. “There’s always a corrupt agenda.”

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This is a two part story. The second part will run in next week’s issue.

The story is available in its en-tirety online at cwuobserver.com.

Spending on personnel at the College of Education and Professional Studies (CEPS) has ballooned by $1.6 million while the rest of the university has suf-fered severe budget cuts.

Between 2007 and 2010, budget doc-uments show that spending on CEPS administrators increased by 25 percent, spending on faculty increased by 29 per-cent, and spending on staff increased by 26 percent – much of which was for a “college split” that was supposedly stopped by former president Jerilyn Mc-Intyre for budgetary reasons.

These personnel budget increases oc-curred during a two-year process to split the CEPS into two colleges. Adminis-trators defend the actions, saying the attempted split was backed with good intentions, and aimed to improve the fo-cus and effectiveness of the college’s aca-demic areas.

However, an ad hoc committee or-dered by President Jim Gaudino on March 20, 2009, to look into the moves showed that a lack of policies to guide such an action allowed the CEPS to use poor practices to reorganize the college and to create and fill new positions.

While other universities around the country have combined colleges to re-duce costs, the CEPS created four new departments with four new chair posi-tions, hired new chairs for six depart-ments, hired 29 new faculty members and gave the CEPS associate dean a pay increase that had him earning more than all but one dean on campus, documents show.

Interviews with faculty and adminis-trators, meeting minutes, e-mails, budget documents and other public records tell a story of poorly documented votes, un-clear budget plans, positions filled with-out announcements or searches, and lim-ited explanations for faculty about moves that would greatly affect their depart-ments and the entire university.

Confusion in the ballot

Central was founded in 1891 as a teacher’s college, and since then has been known for its strong education programs. Once its own college, the Education De-partment is now in the CEPS, which in-cludes not only education but many pro-fessional programs such as engineering and nutrition. In fall 2008, the Educa-tion Department had roughly 50 faculty,

making it one of the largest departments in the university.

“This is a very diverse college... be-cause it is so diverse it is really difficult at times to focus on education,” said Con-nie Lambert, dean of the CEPS. “We wanted to split the college to be able to allow a more focused attention to educa-tion all the time.”

Jim DePaepe, director of research evaluation and assessment for the CEPS, explained that having two colleges would

allow education and professional studies to operate better.

“We’re the sixth-largest teaching insti-tution in the country,” DePaepe said. “It makes sense to have a college for educa-tion.”

Wayne Quirk, who was provost at the time, declined to be interviewed in per-son but sent a statement via e-mail ad-dressing some of the issues.

“The needs and interests of profes-sional studies seemed obscured by the bigger interests of the education pro-grams,” he wrote. “Having a dean rep-resent the professional studies programs at Provost’s Council and Dean’s Coun-cil evens the representation in meetings where decisions are made about impor-tant issues such as resources and poli-cies.”

In spring 2008, the college held a vote to see if the faculty wanted to explore the idea of splitting the college. Faculty who were interviewed said they were not shown a plan or any budget information to help them decide.

At the CEPS Executive Council meet-ing, which consists of department chairs

and the college’s administrators, the vote was tallied, with 104 faculty voting yes and three voting no. According to various faculty and administrators of the CEPS, the vote was mostly verbal through the department chairs, so besides those who e-mailed their ballots, there was no phys-ical count of ballots.

“It’s unbelievable – you never get that much agreement about anything,” De-Paepe said.

Jan Bowers, who was chair of the De-

partment of Family and Consumer Sci-ences for 17 years, said, “We voted to ex-amine a possible college split. It was easy to vote for something that had no budget attached to it.”

According to a memo by Lambert to CEPS faculty in September 2008, the vote was to see if faculty wished to “ex-amine these structures” and how the col-lege could possibly be split.

Even though Lambert confirmed in an interview that the vote was only to ex-amine structures for the college, faculty in the college said the vote was repeat-edly misrepresented throughout the next year and a half by the CEPS adminis-trators in several documents as being the voice of the CEPS faculty wanting to split the college.

Summer retreat

On July 28-29, 2008, the college held a retreat, open to all faculty, to draft or-ganizational structures for the split. De-Paepe, who helped organize the retreat, said the two day-retreat was supervised by two nationally known external facili-

tators to help them align departments and name the two new colleges. How-ever, because of the retreat’s timing in summer, attendance was an issue.

“It wasn’t an overwhelming majority by any stretch,” said Ethan Bergman, associate dean of the CEPS. “I think it was a fairly representative sample, but it wasn’t a majority.”

Bergman said roughly 50 faculty par-ticipated in the retreat, but not all of them finished the retreat. According to Bowers’ notes from the retreat, 20 facul-ty started the professional studies retreat and six faculty finished it. According to an e-mail from Lambert to the CEPS faculty and staff in July 2008, the retreat would be “the primary process for split-ting the college.”

The e-mail addresses confusion among the faculty. “For some of you, this may not be the order of events that you were lead to believe was going to occur,” Lambert wrote. “But the process needs to occur this summer in order to have two functioning colleges by the begin-ning of fall quarter [2008].”

Even though the majority of the fac-ulty was not at the retreat, new names for the colleges were chosen. The CEPS would split into the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) and the College of Education (COE). Mission statements and department organization for the new colleges were also discussed, Bergman said.

Faculty who participated in the pro-fessional studies side of the retreat were not given an opportunity to evaluate the retreat, Bowers said, so there is no record of faculty satisfaction with the process used.

The split “has been stopped”

On Aug. 6, 2008, then-Provost Quirk submitted a one-page proposal to split the college to the President’s Advisory Council (PAC). Quirk also put the pro-posal on the next agenda for approval.

“The faculty noted that establish-ing an independent College of Educa-tion demonstrates the significant role of CWU in teacher preparation,” the meet-ing minutes show, “and at the same time provides an equal voice for the depart-ments in Professional Studies.”

Quirk presented the split proposal to the President’s Advisory Council before it was introduced to the Faculty Senate, and before a budget plan was developed. At the next PAC meeting, Quirk removed the proposal from the action agenda.

“There have been some budget changes [Governor´s directive], and we need to weigh priorities before moving forward on this,” Quirk said in the min-utes on Sept. 3, 2008. According to the minutes, then-President McIntyre add-ed, “For these reasons, the proposed split of the College of Education and Profes-sional Studies has been stopped.”

Even though McIntyre stopped the college split in September 2008 and the university budget conditions worsened, Quirk and CEPS administrators contin-

Split to nowhereEducation and Professional Studies racks up expenses in halted splitBY KELLY REQUA

Special to the Observer

Decoding CWU AcronymsBOT: CWU Board of Trustees

CAST: College of Applied Science and Technology

CEPS: College of Education and Professional Studies

COE: College of Education

CTL: Center for Teacher Learning

EF&C: Department of Education Foundations and Curriculum

HHPN: Department of Healthy, Human Performance and Nutrition

LLSE: Department of Language, Literacy and Special Education

NCATE: National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

NEHS: Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science

PAC: Presidents Advisory Council

PESPH: Department of Physical Education, School and Public Health

TEACH: Department of TEACH

Connie Lambert becomes full-time associate dean for the College of Education and Professional Studies.

Sept. 1, 2006

Ethan Bergman, HHPN professor becomes part-time FTE associate dean for CEPS.

Sept. 1, 2006

Bergman becomes full-time associate dean for CEPS, faculty within the department is not notified and no search is held.

Sept. 1, 2007

Lambert, a full-time associate dean for CEPRS takes an interim position change to full time Dean for CEPS.

Nov. 16, 2007

Jim DePaepe takes an administrative exempt position as Director of Research Evaluation and Assessment for CEPS, earning a $124,756 salary, plus benefits.

Jan. 2008

CEPS administrators at a CEPS executive council meeting ask department chairs to collect faculty votes on if they would like to examine structures to split the college. Department chairs report back to the council and the vote is tallied as 104 faculty say yes, 3 no.

May 2008

CEPS holds a two-day summer retreats with low attendance and decides names and mission statements. Vote to split is held.

July 28, 2008

Provost Wayne Quirk submits a one-page proposal to the PAC stating CEPS faculty wish to split and asks them to vote. No business plan or budget is proposed.

Aug. 6, 2008

Quirk removes the college split from PAC agenda, citing budget changes and the Governor’s hiring freeze. President Jeri McIntyre adds that for budget reasons, the split of the CEPS “has been stopped.”

Sept. 2008

McIntyre writes to the campus informing them of the Governor’s directive and notifies faculty of a new form to fill out when asking for an exemption for restricted actions.

Sept. 3, 2008

HHPN splits creating PESPH and NEHS. Vincent Nethery becomes NEHS chair, Ken Briggs becomes PESPH chair, both receive contracts from Lambert to begin earning chair compensation starting Sept. 1, 2008.

Sept. 4, 2008

McIntyre writes to the campus community explaining where they stand on budget issues. McIntyre states that upon hearing of these cuts, in November she immediately asked PAC to work with divisions to plan for budget cuts for the current fiscal year and upcoming biennium.

Nov. 2008

Quirk gives Bergman a contract earning $137,271 for “CEPS administrative transition work and duties as the Faculty Athletics Representative,” $8,007 of that increase is for duties as Faculty Athletics Representative, the remaining $22,948 for CEPS transition work to split the college. Bergman receives this additional pay for duties that McIntyre halted just three months earlier. For the next 19 months Bergman has a higher salary as an associate dean than all deans at the university except one. He earns more than his supervisor, Lambert.

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ued to take actions that fall and winter designed to facilitate a college split.

When Lambert was asked why the col-lege split was proposed before a budget plan was created, she explained that she was not involved when the split was pro-posed to then-President McIntyre.

“I did not do that – it might have been the provost at the time, but I did meet with the President’s Advisory Council when President Gaudino was here” in 2009, she said.

Quirk, who declined to be interviewed in person, was asked by e-mail why he continued to try to split the college. He declined to answer any specific ques-tions, but wrote his own statement.

“The proposal did go through ex-isting processes and obviously met pock-ets of resistance, particularly from Faculty Senate and United Faculty, and in one case from a chair in a professional studies program,” Quirk said in his e-mail. “Through the bumps in the road the over-whelming majority of faculty in CEPS re-mained in favor of the departmental and college split … The dean and I simply de-cided to listen to the college faculty and press ahead through the process.”

No approval for department split

During September, when the college split was stopped, the Department of Health, Human Performance and Nutri-tion (HHPN) was split, creating the De-partment of Physical Education, School and Public Health (PESPH) and the Department of Nutrition Exercise and Health Science (NEHS).

Ethan Bergman, the CEPS associate dean, explained the department split was both a necessary step forward, and a part of the preparation for splitting the college.

“It needed to happen regardless of whether we split the college – both those departments [HHPN and Education] were very large,” Bergman said.

A year later, Provost Quirk would tell the Faculty Senate that departments in the CEPS had split in preparation for the overall college split.

Bergman said another reason for the department split was for better faculty representation.

Departments with many faculty mem-bers have less representation on the CEPS Executive Council, he said, than depart-ments with a handful of faculty.

Stephen Jefferies, physical education professor and the chair of HHPN until it split, sent an e-mail to the President’s Advisory Council warning that splitting HHPN was unnecessary and “forced,” because faculty had been told to align with either the future College of Educa-tion or College of Applied Science and Technology.

“This [idea to split HHPN] didn’t come from HHPN, it came from adminis-

trators that this was an opportunity for the programs within HHPN to re-examine best where they belonged,” Jefferies said in an interview. “Prior to any of this dis-cussion there had never been any serious talk among folks in our department that we needed to split.”

Jefferies explained that the majority of faculty did not desire to split because programs were in the same building and shared resources, including two adminis-trative assistants and a computer room.

“The analogy for me is a couple di-vorced and have to live in the same

home,” Jefferies said.There were pro-

grams within HHPN that clearly related to teaching, he said, so when forced to choose what future college to align with, a few faculty had wstrong opinions.

“The only reason for us being asked [to

split the department] was because there were going to be two colleges,” Jefferies said. “The irony was asking us to split only made sense with two colleges. As it turned out, we don’t have two colleges.”

One of the main reasons Jefferies said he gave for opposing the HHPN split was because to continue to grow, programs with common themes needed to easily be able to work together.

“I was very concerned that when you create this split it makes collaboration much harder,” Jefferies said. “You kind of splinter into smaller and smaller groups and study smaller and smaller questions and we don’t talk together because you’re in a smaller unit.”

HHPN was split five months before the President’s Advisory Council approved the action in February 2010, raising concerns about awarding and writing contracts for new chair positions before seeking ap-proval from PAC. Both Vincent Nethery, NEHS chair, and Ken Briggs, PESPH chair, began receiving increased salaries in September 2008 for their duties as new de-partment chairs, salary records show.

According to Nethery, new depart-ment chairs were voted on in the summer of 2008, and when HHPN split they did not receive any additional positions. How-ever, the new chair position was created in September, shortly after the state hiring freeze began, but an existing faculty mem-ber filled the position.

Just two months later, in November, President McIntyre wrote to the campus community warning of future budget cuts.

“Unofficially, we may be asked to take cuts in the next biennial budget approxi-mating 20 percent of our state-funded budget,” McIntyre said. “It would mean that our state-funded budget of approxi-mately $60 million would be reduced to about $48 million.”

Preparations for a new dean

In December of 2008, Bergman, the

CEPS associate dean, received addition-al duties, raising his annual salary from $106,316 to $137,271. A memo from the human resources department shows the additional duties included “CEPS admin-istration transition work.”

The memo states “this confirms your temporary assignment of duties related to CEPS administrative transition work and duties as the Faculty Athletics Representa-tive.”

According to Judy Miller, the former executive secretary to the president and Board of Trustees’ secretary, Bergman re-ceived 70 percent of one month of his ad-ministrator salary for his work as Faculty Athletics Representative.

That makes $8,007, or 25.9 percent, of that $30,955 increase for duties as Fac-ulty Athletics Representative, the remain-ing $22,948, or 74.1 percent, for CEPS transition work.

Four months earlier, President Mc-Intyre had stated the college split was not to go forward. Bergman received this added salary as President McIntyre was leaving CWU, and before Gaudino had arrived to take the helm.

Bergman explained that one reason his salary increased was because he couldn’t receive his stipend as Faculty Athletics Representative as an exempt employee.

“I didn’t realize I couldn’t get addi-tional pay without having it built into my contract, so my salary was raised once I discovered that,” Bergman said.

For the next year and seven months, until July 2010, Bergman received a high-er annual salary as an associate dean than most deans at Central; only Roy Savoian, dean of the College of Business, was paid more. He even received a higher salary than his supervisor, CEPS Dean Connie

Lambert. Bergman said that when the split was halted he couldn’t amend his contract.

“We kept thinking the college would split, and when I signed the contract, we signed a yearly contract,” Bergman said, “The year runs out in June – they don’t sign two-month contracts.”

Bowers, then chair of Family and Con-sumer Sciences, said that administrators do have the ability to amend and create short-term contracts.

“Bergman has had direct authority to amend and create short-term contracts for the CEPS faculty for several years,” Bowers said.

In January 2009, Bergman and Lam-bert began creating the business plan for the split, and asked department chairs to write a short paragraph about each pro-gram in their departments. Bowers, who had been present at the President’s Ad-visory Council meeting when McIntyre stopped the split, asked Bergman in an e-mail why they were still working toward a split. Bergman responded, “We have been working with Wayne [Quirk] on this.”

Gaudino said he was unavailable to be interviewed because he was traveling, but replied to questions via e-mail. He wrote that he “was not aware before arriving” at Central that the CEPS administrators were working toward splitting the college. “I was briefed by Provost Quirk soon after my arrival,” Gaudino wrote.

“I did not support nor oppose the split-ting of the college,” Gaudino said. “I did support the development of a proposal.”

When asked about Bergman’s salary increase for CEPS administrative transi-tion work, Gaudino wrote that he “was not aware of the increase.”

To be continued next week...

The analogy for me is a couple divorced and have to live in the same home.

-STEVEN JEFFERIESPhysical education prof

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McIntyre attends her last PAC meeting, and leaves CWU at the end of December. New President Jim Gaudino visits Dec. 11-12, begins duties as president in January.

Dec. 10, 2008

Lambert informs DOE faculty that Quirk “has approved splitting the education department into four departments. Elections for new chairs will occur in January 2010.”

Dec. 15, 2008

Jan. 2009

Bergman and Lambert begin creating the business plan for the split, and ask department chairs to write a short paragraph about each program. When asked in an email from a department chair why they’re continuing to split the college when they were told to stop, Bergman writes “We have been working with Wayne [Quirk] on this.”

Quirk requests for the split of the HHPN into NEHS and PESPH. Quirk summarized details of the department split as the initial reason behind splitting the departments was in response to a less than stellar accreditation review. PAC members were asked to review the document and be ready to vote on the item at the next meeting on February 4, 2009.

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Dear Readers,

I hear a lot from my fellow students about how they never have enough time. Now I know some of you are really busy, but I think we need to put things into perspective.

We’re college students. I’m sure you’re aware of this by now. Most of you were probably enjoying your summer vacation at your parents’ house. You might have had a summer job or an internship, but for the most part you were just enjoying your time off from school.

Now, before you jump on my back about how you spent your summer hard at work and didn’t have a moment of free time, just let me fi nish.

As college stu-dents, we tend to see ourselves as the busiest people in the world. But to be honest, we have more free time than just about anyone else.

If you want to know why you nev-er have any time, you might want to take a hard look at your study habits. I usually hear the most complaints from other students during high-stress times like mid-terms and fi nals.

If you feel like you don’t have any free time during fi nals week, there’s a good chance it’s because you did a poor job of prioritizing your free time before fi nals week. It’s common knowledge that cram-ming isn’t an effective learning strategy so why do students still do it? They do it be-cause they aren’t good at scheduling time to study throughout the quarter.

When the time comes for the test, they have to spend all their time study-ing. They then feel rushed and like they have no time and, of course, they never think about how much free time they have when they aren’t busy. We tend to focus on things when they’re worst.

You may not be one of the people complaining for no reason—you may be legitimately busy. If that’s the case, I’m here to tell you there are always enough hours in the day. You don’t have to stress; you don’t have to skip doing homework;

and you most defi nitely do not have to cut into your sleep.

None of those things will help you in any way. Stressing never helped anybody. If you can’t fi nd time to do your home-work, then you should take a long hard look at being in college in the fi rst place. And if you feel like you need more time, the very last thing you should be doing is getting less sleep.

If you fi nd yourself saying that there just aren’t enough hours in a day, don’t fret. Take a deep breath. Instead of trying to juggle dozens of projects at once, slow down and focus on one thing at a time. Invest in a calendar and an hourly plan-ner. Write in your classes. Write in your meetings. Write in your work hours. Now that you’ve written in the things you can’t do any time, start thinking about all the other things you need to do. Think about your homework, your papers, study time and any other work you have to do on

your own.Set time aside

for these each day, and stick to it! If you don’t follow through with your scheduling then it wasn’t worth scheduling in the fi rst place.

Once you’ve done all this, you’ll notice a remark-able amount of time begin to free up. If you get up at 8 a.m. and go to

bed at 10 or 11 p.m. you’ll have a very hard time spending every single one of those hours working.

I take a full course load, work for the Observer as the news editor, have two other jobs, and happen to be writing my undergraduate thesis for philosophy. If I have time to spare every day, then so can most of you.

Trust me, I know I’m not the busi-est guy in the world, not even close. I’m not even close to the busiest person on this campus. But I still fi nd it annoying when people who spend the majority of their day sleeping and drinking, complain about how busy they are.

Don’t be one of those people!As long as I’m getting 8 hours of sleep

every night, I will never complain about not having enough time. We’re blessed to be in a place where we can focus on our studies. Take advantage of this opportu-nity—do your best work, and cherish the free time you have.

WESTON MORROWNews Editor

As college students, we tend to see our-selves as the busiest people in the world. But to be honest, we have more free time than just about anyone else.

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The Observer Editorial Board is made up of Katharine Lotze, Nicole Swapp, Giancarlo Gonzalez, Iris Dimmick and Weston Morrow.The Editorial Board meets every Sunday to discuss controversial topics effecting Central students.

In August, the Ellensburg City Council approved community marijuana gardens for the city, and over the summer, the Compassionate Care of Kittitas County opened—a clinic that dispenses recom-mendations for medical marijuana use. The university, however, does not allow the use or the possession of medical mari-juana on campus.

Central’s campus police continue to enforce the federal law regarding mari-juana offenses until the federal and state laws align. As of now, Washington State law allows individual cities to decide the legality of medical marijuana use. Federal law outlaws any use of marijuana, medi-cal or otherwise.

Since Central is a public university and is partially federally funded, they are re-quired to implement a program that pre-vents the use, possession and distribution of illegal drugs by students and employ-ees. Every student agrees to abide by this policy every time they log into their Safari account.

According to Michael Luvera, director of campus police services, any police of-fi cer can be prosecuted under federal law for allowing someone with a state medical card to keep their marijuana.

For example, let’s say my friend, Shotzee Nubbs, has terrible pain in her left knee from an accident seven years ago involving two squirrels and a ladder (she doesn’t want to talk about it). Let’s say that Nubbs got herself a green card.

If a police offi cer happened by her apartment (for a noise violation or what-ever), chances are he’d see her new, green medicine proudly displayed on the coffee table. If that police offi cer, let’s call him

Offi cer Macgillicuddy, follows local laws and allows green-card-carrying-Nubbs to keep her marijuana, Offi cer Macgil-licuddy could be prosecuted under federal law for distribution by an offi cer. That’s a felony.

Because of this legal ambiguity, it is our opinion that Central’s continued refusal to allow marijuana on campus is justifi ed – it is understandable that Central doesn’t want to risk breaking the federal law.

If (probably when) the federal govern-ment catches up to our state and local governments’ progressive “green card” policies, Central should absolutely allow medical marijuana on campus. Once marijuana becomes a nationally accepted prescription, Central should review its drug and alcohol policy to ensure that all prescription drugs are treated the same.

Until then, some are left with a tricky situation: while it is legal to consume medical marijuana within Ellensburg city limits at a private residence, students with “green cards” who live on campus have limited access to this new right. (If Nubbs lived in a dorm, she would have to fi nd a legal place to smoke off-campus.)

Perhaps Ellensburg should have a “green” place for students and residents to consume medical marijuana until the legal issues are resolved.

**Editor’s note: Ms. Nubbs and Offi cer Macgillicuddy are fi ctional characters and in no way are made to resemble actual people, living or dead.

Staff Editorial

Campus right to side with Feds on pot lawsUniversity should stay aligned with federal law

Time to manage your timeCollege students need to learn to prioritize, pronto!

For more information about Central’s drug and alcohol policy visit

cwu.edu/~hcws/wellness/drugAlcoholPolicies.html

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SCENEScene Editor Pete Los [email protected]

THE OBSERVER • SEPT. 29 - OCT. 5, 2011

BY KELSEE DODSON-CARTER

Assistant Scene Editor

I sat beside Allen Stone last week on an old wooden bench outside of Raw Space. I inter-viewed him about his inspirations, mu-sic, background and style all from the glow of a street light on Pine Street.

A black fl oppy top hat sat upon his blonde and wavy hair that reached just above his shoulders. His gi-gantic spectacles with thick lenses have red and clear frames. His T-shirt is a green and yellow Seattle Sonics T-shirt. His light grey skinny jeans and high top leather boots, laces untied, com-plete his outfi t for the night.

Stone describes his sound as soul R&B music with a little bit of jazz and folk.

“It’s tough for me to describe it cause it’s up to the listener,” Stone said.

He grew up in Chewelah, a small town in Northeastern Washington about an hour from Spokane. He loved growing up in Washington because he was able to enjoy all four seasons.

“There is no place like the North-west,” Stone said. “The west coast is the best coast, in my opinion.”

His father was a preacher so he grew up singing in the church. Stone said he went from singing gospel to gos-pel soul to just soul. Growing up in the church taught him how to feel the mu-sic. He graduated from high school, went to a community college in Spokane for a while, and then decided to move to Seattle and start grinding with his music.

“You need to have conviction and be-lieve what you are singing,” Stone said.

The best advice that Stone can give to other artists is that you have to feel what you are singing.

“If you don’t feel it inside people can see that,” he said. “You have to need to do it.”

Stone said that he has to do music. If he didn’t he would go crazy. The reason he does music is to play live.

When asked to describe himself in just three words. Stone thought a moment and said: passionate, relaxed and personable. Al-though he is very humble when it comes to his fame.

“It’s fl attering to even have anybody interested in what’s coming out of my mouth,” he said.

When the music he is singing means something to someone, he’s happy. Stone chuckled as he thought about where he might be in fi ve years.

“Do you want the fantasy answer or the honest answer?” he said.

The fantasy answer was that he would be selling out big theaters across the

country. However, he said the honest answer was that he would be grinding across the coun-try trying to make a buck.

“The smart, honest side would be that I hope I’m not living on the street,”

Stone joked. “ I just hope to be happy and exude passion

with people.”Which is exactly what he did last week at

Raw Space. Stone strolled onto the

stage and i m m e d i a t e -

ly hyped up the

crowd.“Yo Ellensburg! You know what I’m sick of ?”

he asked the audience. “Soul music looking so proper and spic and span.”

He yelled out to the audience that his soul was “greasy” and the band started to play.

When one looks at Stone,

they don’t expect that sound to come out of his mouth. The audience can feel his emotion when he sings. The words coming out of his mouth really mean something to him. They are not just words to a song, they are a part of him and where he has been.

“The interaction between Allen and the au-dience dancing was fun,” said Caroline Born-horst, junior English literature. “It was an all around good show.”

Stone split the crowd in half and had them battling it out in what he called a nasty, El-

lensburg dance party.“Shake that nasty like you never

have,” Stone yelled to the crowd.Stone told the audience that growing up he only watched three

movies, “Fievel Goes West,” “The Little Mermaid” and “The Jungle Book”.

“My parents sheltered the hell out of me,” he chuckled.

Stone grabbed his gui-tar and began singing

“Bare Necessities” from “The Jungle Book”. Of course he encour-aged the crowd to sing along with him.

“This is the best thing I have been to

in a really long time,” said Monica Paustian,

Ellensburg resident.Paustian said she really

enjoyed how Stone played “Is This Love” by Bob Marley because that was her wedding song.

“I got a feeling people in El-lensburg like some Bob Mar-ley,” Stone said. “Don’t know why. Maybe its because of all the tie-dye.”

Stone defi nitely performed his heart out. When the crowd thought he was done he came back to sing one last song called “Last to Speak;” a song that speaks the truth. It was a perfect song to end the night.

Ellensburg resident Tom Hoskin said the show was awesome.

“It was good music,” Hoskin said. “You can’t not like good music.”

Make sure you check out his self titled album “Al-

len Stone” that will be released on October 4th.

Allen Stone Reveals His Greasy Soul

Shake that nasty like you never have!

-ALLEN STONERighteous Artist

“Shake that nasty like “Shake that nasty like “

FEELIN’ IT After a minor wardrobe adjustment, hipster Allen Stone performs a cover of Bob Marley’s “Is This Love” at Raw Space on September 21, 2011.

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SCENE8 THE OBSERVER • SEPT. 29 - OCT. 5, 2011

Students take big Bite of the BurgAnnual community festival sees record involvement from students and businessesBY PETE LOS

Scene Editor

The Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce (KCCC) welcomed new and returning Central Washington University students to enjoy the 52nd annual Bite of the Burg in downtown Ellensburg last Tuesday afternoon.

According to the KCCC, the Bite of the Burg is designed to introduce stu-dents to downtown and local businesses; and this year’s ‘Bite’ saw record-breaking vendor involvement lining two city blocks with nearly 70 vendors ranging from local eateries and recreation, hotel chains, car dealerships and even Costco.

“It’s really grown dramatically. It’s a wonderful event,” said Ron Cridlebaugh of the KCCC. “The business community really likes it because it’s one the few ways they have of getting in touch with the stu-dents right at the beginning of the school year.”

KCCC volunteer, Claudia Sikes, has participated in Bite of the Burg for the

past four years and has observed the event grow in vendor and student participation.

“I love it,” Sikes said. “I love the stu-dents. I love the time of year when the students come back. It’s great.”

Hundreds of students took to the streets the day be-fore classes kicked off, taking the op-portunity to join the festivities and dis-cover what Ellens-burg has to offer, all while sampling lo-cal foods and other products as well as collecting coupons and discounts for future consumption.

“It’s really nice. As a freshman, I’ve never gone to anything like this so it’s something different,” said Benson Ndun-gu, freshman engineering. “I ate so much I’m full, and I came here hungry.”

Aside from fi lling the bellies of hungry

freshmen, Bite of the Burg also benefi ts Central students in other ways.

“It’s very benefi cial for the students be-cause they get basically ushered into the downtown area,” said Gus Foster, owner

of Central City Comics. “For some of them it might be the only time they come down here. This way they get a sense of what’s actually down here rather than having to fi nd it on their own.”

Bite of the Burg annually strives to connect Central students with the

Ellensburg community.“The business community under-

stands how important the university is to their business,” said Jim Armstrong of the KCCC. “It’s just always a challenge of how do you connect the two.”

The large turnout for Bite of the Burg was indeed a testament to its ongoing success in bringing the community and the university closer together. The atmo-sphere was thick with enthusiasm and positive energy from students and vendors alike.

“There are a lot of friendly people; people kind of eager to fi nd out about what’s going on,” said Isaac Lanier, pro-spective Central student and vendor for the clothing line Respect My Region. “There’s actually been a better response than I thought there was going to be.”

Students who took part found the fes-tivities enlightening and helpful as they have made new discoveries and con-nections that will help them survive and adapt to their new college environment.v

“I think it’s really cool because I didn’t know that a lot of these places were around here. I didn’t know there was a frozen yogurt place around here,” said Sa-mantha Robbinson, freshman biochemis-try. “It made me realize that Ellensburg is more than mountains and fi elds.”

TAKE A BITE New and returning Central students flood the streets of downtown Ellensburg during the 52nd annual Bite of the Burg on September 20, 2011 to enjoy free food, music and games while perusing a multitude of downton and local business.

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9SCENE THE OBSERVER • SEPT. 29 - OCT. 5, 2011

Library renovation improves services, hours for studentsBY AMANDA BOWERS

Staff Reporter

Recently there have been many chang-es happening to the James E. Brooks Li-brary on campus. Over the summer the library had a small renovation project. Now there is no longer a need to search for the circulation desk when you fi rst walk in the doors there it is.

“Before, students didn’t know where to go. There was just a big white wall that hit them in the face,” said Patricia Cutright, Dean of Library Services.

In August of 2010, the library staff de-cided they needed to utilize the space they had. The staff had four committees and each committee took a goal. One of the goals being the renovation that was com-pleted over the summer.

Also, the library would like to provide services and resources in multiple formats to meet user’s needs, educate users about the library’s services and resources and in-crease collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and the outside community.

“In order to improve the library, we needed to think outside the box,” Cu-tright said.

To benefi t the library, the media circu-lation merged with the circulation depart-ment, allowing two staff members to work in different departments.

Now that there is an extra person working in the newly renovated music library on the fourth fl oor, it is open 12 more hours a week.

There is also all new software available, full piano keyboards and places to com-pose and research music.

“We absolutely focus on what is going to make the students and staff more suc-cessful here at CWU,” Cutright said.

The computer lab and circulation desk switched spots allowing the computer lab to have a bigger and more private space for students to use the computers.

“The new computer lab is very conve-nient,” said Arturo Arellano, sophomore political science and law and justice. “It’s really spacious so I don’t have to worry

about not fi nding an available computer.”

Along with the computer lab and circulation desk be-ing switched, the DVD section is now out in the open on the fi rst fl oor, the standing computers have been moved to the sides and the

printing system has changed. “The printing system is interesting, it

shows you how much it would cost to print if you weren’t a student,” Reese Christo-pher, senior English Education. “It makes me think twice about if it is actually worth printing.”

In order to complete the renovations the library had to come up with some funds because of the recent budget cuts they had received.

The library gained funds from the stu-dent technology fee and they also received an $18,200 competitive grant from the Institute of Museums and Library Ser-vices for Stories for Learning, Laptops for Growing.

“I’m really excited we received funds from the student technology fee for the music library,” Cutright said.

The Brooks Library is always trying to stay true to their mission statement. The Central Washington University library provides quality resources and innovative services to stimulate creativity, intellectual curiosity and to facilitate lifelong learning and research within the communities we serve.

For more information call 963-3682.

CIRCULATION RELOCATION Kevin Cox, junior exercise science major (left), checks out a laptop with the assistance of Ben Livingston, senior math major (right), at the new circulation desk in Brooks Library.

PETE LOS/OBSERVER

Free advice for fresh facesStaff and students provide words of wisdom, advice and tips for continuous collegiate sucessBY MADDY SHORTT

Staff Reporter

For an incoming freshman, Central Washington University may feel entirely different when compared with the famil-iarity often felt in high school. One thing that does transcend the gap between the two is seeking advice from upperclassmen and professors.

Upperclassmen are able to give fi rst hand advice for situations that freshmen may encounter, as will most professors. Most upperclassmen have lived in the dorms, eaten the food, and most of them have walked or biked everywhere. As for the professors, they know freshmen are new to the college scene and good ones take that into consideration.

Ben Luce, junior engineering, shared some insight concerning the fi nancial dif-ference between high school and college, as well as the importance of taking the right classes during freshman year.

“Consider all the money you’re spend-ing and how much each class is … there is a huge difference as far as the money spent between high school and college,” Luce said.

As for the advice on classes, Luce suggested getting through the required breadth classes early. “It’s easier to stay focused that way.”

It’s safe to say that putting in some ef-

fort early in high school classes can have some benefi ts. Alex Jackson, junior busi-ness, explained how the same is true for college.

Jackson said stu-dents should try as hard as they can in classes and early on in the quarter.

“Two years down the road you’re go-ing to wonder why you weren’t doing good in easy classes,” Jackson said. “Later, you’re going to have to do better in the hard ones.”

Tr a n s i t i o n i n g from a high school setting to college can be a shock simply because of the difference in the number of students. Melanie Arends, junior psy-chology and primate behavior, gave her two cents about creating a social life on campus.

“If you want to get to know people, join a club – either sports or faculty re-lated,” Arends said.

She added how school related pro-grams are a good way to start to build a social network while at college.

While upperclassmen are a source of

information from a student-based per-spective, professors are going to give ad-vice that is entirely different.

Jim Bisgard, assistant professor of m a t h e m a t i c s , brought up the tra-ditional advice most professors would give. “Come to class and do the home-work.” Bisgard said this is especially im-portant in mathe-matics and the proof is plentiful.

“If students in pre-calculus classes don’t come to class or don’t do the homework, they don’t pass. There is a direct correlation,”

Bisgard said.If you think high school helped to build

your time management skills, college will put them to the test.

Kathleen Barlow, anthropology chair, said jotting down each week’s schedule makes for a clear and easy way to stay on track.

“Take a look at when you have heavy workloads so you can get ahead,” Barlow said.

Communicating with your professors

about absences ahead of time is impor-tant as well she said.

“Understand each professor’s atten-dance policy – classes won’t all look the same and there isn’t a university-wide at-tendance policy.”

She also discussed how offi ce hours are often underutilized and that they are a great opportunity to get to know pro-fessors and ask questions outside of the classroom.

Classwork and homework can quickly stack up and easily become overwhelming. Craig Revels, geography and land studies assistant professor, said that study groups can help to keep this from happening.

“Finding a study group [can] give stu-dents a different perspective because of how different people take notes in class,” Revels said.

Revels sees college as “a way to fi nd your world” and he encourages students to be open to new ideas.

Being shot back down the social lad-der to a freshman after enjoying a senior ranking in high school might provoke the urge to burn that week’s homework or promt one to throw text books from the window.

Being a freshman means being at the bottom of the ladder yet again, but fol-lowing the advice given by upperclass-men and professors will help make for a smooth transition.

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11SCENE THE OBSERVER • SEPT. 29 - OCT. 5, 2011

BY TRAVIS KLECKLEY AND IRIS DIMMICK

Observer Staff

We met at the Dairy Queen on the eastern edge of town. My friends Alan McNolty, Ian Doyle and Trevor Thomas stood with me for a cautious moments be-fore crossing the street into the unknown.

It was scary. We were nervous. We had always joked about it, but never actually wanted to do it, until now – to go where few have ever gone before: The First - Last Chance Tavern. We were terrified as we walked across University Way. We had heard stories about people getting thrown out, how they don’t like college students. For some reason we all thought that we might get stabbed.

“Everyone in there probably has a knife clipped to the inside of their pock-et,” said McNolty.

A sign on the front door says “Hippies use side door.” If there was a side door we would have used it. There is no side door.

Inside it’s clean and small – about 30 feet by 15 feet. The bar takes up most of the space and bends around the middle, creating a corral for the bartender. All the seats, approximately 20 total, are stools and five small tables dot the walls. In a bar this size, the door opening is a hard thing to miss, so everyone’s attention is drawn to incomers. We made our way to the bar, avoiding eye contact, but saw enough to know we were younger than everyone by at least a couple decades.

“What’ll it be?” asked the bartender, “We have beer and wine.”

After we got our drinks we stood in the corner like newbies. I was afraid. I was very afraid.

“I don’t feel welcome here,” Thomas said as we maneuvered around to an open table in the back.

The atmosphere was like no other bar in town. The walls were covered with signs that offered intimidating advice and quips by way of both clever and not-so-clever word play.

“Welcome Jackass.”“Low cut blouses are looked down

upon at this establishment.” “Drink you bastards, drink.”Their main motto is stenciled on a ceil-

ing beam above the bar in black paint: “Drink ‘til you’re stupid, eat lots of red meat, never use a rubber.”

The bathrooms were labeled simply as “shakers” and “wipers.” Next to the bath-room read a sign that said “clam cleaning station.”

About a dozen small models of wood-bodied cars and trucks, “woodies,” hang from string above the bartender and strings of trailer-shaped lights line the walls.

But, while sitting there, we realized that none of the stories were true. They knew we were college students, but we didn’t receive any dirty looks and were far from getting thrown out. In fact, if we had made eye contact when we walked in, we would have been met with smiles. There was nothing that threatened us, it was just the stories and assumptions that scared us.

A guy wearing a Central Washing-ton University Football shirt at the bar just happened to be the tavern’s owner, George Bender.

Bender, who graduated from Cen-tral in 1971, quickly debunked all of the myths about people getting thrown out and put our minds at ease – he assured us we would not be stabbed.

“Never happened,” he said, “In seven years we never had a fight in here … we’re too old to get hit.”

Bender is retired after 13 years of contracting and bought the First - Last Chance Tavern just for fun. The tav-

ern itself has been around, according to Bender, since the 1940s. Before Interstate 90 was connected through Ellensburg in the 70s, Vantage Highway (connecting to University Way) was the main drag through town – making the tavern the first and last chance to get a brew coming into or leaving on the east side of town.

He explained that his customers, mostly men, are usually just a bunch of older locals who come here to cool off af-ter work – he points out a car dealer and a dentist. His family has lived in Ellens-burg since his grandmother moved here in 1888 and they’ve owned bars in town since before prohibition.

Bender knows just about every single person, by name, who walks in the door. That seems to go for most of the custom-ers. They laugh and yell at each other from across the bar (only about 20 feet), lean on shoulders to tell the punch-line of a joke and buy each other beers.

“They’re like our cows. They come ev-ery day at 3 p.m., they get their fill, then they go home,” he said.

Customer Larry Zirkel echoed this sentiment. “I come here from three to nine and I drink!” Zirkel said. “That’s the attitude around here.”

The bar doesn’t reject students, but they are extremely rare. Bender says it’s because The First - Last Chance provides a very different scene, it’s not a college bar. They are only open from 3 to 9 p.m. during the week – closing before most stu-dents even start to come out. Friday and Saturday nights, “we close whenever we feel like closing,” Bender said. They serve a variety of domestic beers, mostly Olym-pia and Rainer. He attributes the cleanli-ness of the bar to his older clientele as well – drunk college kids have messy habits when it comes to bathrooms, floors, doors, chairs and just about everything.

Bender and the other usual customers embrace the horror stories and think they are funny, but don’t actively try to keep students out.

“The last week of school we get a lot of seniors that come in here, just to say they’ve been,” he said, chuckling, “They say, ‘This is kind of cool!’ And we say, ‘Don’t tell your buddies!’”

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BY EVAN THOMPSON

Staff Reporter

Transition. In many cases it can mean moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. It can be dif-fi cult. It can be inconvenient. It

can also be soothing or refreshing. One of the biggest transitions young people face is going to college.

Moving out of the house and traveling to a new city can be a huge step, maybe even the biggest of their life.

This alone can be daunting for an av-erage student, but imagine doing all the aforementioned work plus a two-hour long practice at the end of the day. And a sixty minute meeting afterwards. And a 6 a.m. workout session the next morning-before most students get out of bed.

Student-athletes are tasked with a tre-mendous amount of responsibility. They have to care for their performances on and off the fi eld. For freshmen athletes who are facing athletic, social, and aca-demic challenges it can be especially dif-fi cult.

Each of these student-athletes will face obstacles along the way such as: staying eligible academically, adapting to the pace of college athletics and the sheer size dif-ferential of players in comparison to high school. According to athleticinsight.com, athletes experience unique stresses related to their athletic status such as extensive time demands; a loss of the ‘star status’ that many had experienced as high school athlete’s injuries, the possibility of being benched/red-shirted their freshman year and confl icts with their coaches.

Other studies on athleticinsight.com show that the combination of all these stresses has a negative effect on the well-being of the individual ath-lete. Athletes must fi nd methods to bal-ance and counteract these stresses while performing at a high level of Division II athletics. Central soccer players Hadli Farrand and Taylor Stanley both spoke of the benefi ts and pressures of playing Division II soccer. Stanley laughed when

asked whether or not she felt these condi-tions.

“I feel pressure and stress, yes,” Stan-ley said. “For sure, there’s stress, espe-cially as a freshman. I’m sure there’s more stress for upperclass-men but as a fresh-man I feel stressed.”

Farrand weighed in on the topic as well.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a freshman (or) senior,” Farrand said, “Everyone ex-pects you to come in and give your best

each and every day so that’s pressure al-ready.”

In college, there are three associa-tions in which athletes can participate:

the National Collegiate Athletic Associa-tion (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the National Junior College Athletic Associa-tion (NJCAA).

In the NCAA, there are three main subdivisions, D-I, D-IAA and D-II (which CWU falls under), and D-III. Being in the third highest level of competition athletes are allowed to play in, a number blue, red, and white chip high school prospects are readily available to play for Central. Cen-tral can award full scholarships to athletes, paying for their tuition.

A balancing actAlso thrown into the mix are transfer

athletes, who can arrive every year from other subdivisions. These transfer athletes change schools for a number of different reasons but most hold the same goal in mind, simply to compete and play.

Fifth-year senior defensive lineman Taylor Tanasse, who is pursuing a de-

gree in Public Health, looked back on his fi rst experiences with college football and noticed the differences between his high school and Central.

“You’re about 18 years old and you look around and you see guys that are 20 (or) 21,” Tanasse said, “they’re a lot big-ger and stronger (than you). It’s kind of an eye-opener, going from being a high school standout and then to college where everyone is just as good, if not better than you.”

Tanasse arrived on campus his fresh-man year as a linebacker, but was soon moved to the defensive line. Tanasse said the transition mostly consisted of adapt-ing and adjusting to the new position. The change in lingo and numerous plays shown to the players were overwhelming.

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Soccer off to great start

Making the transition to college athletics

LEARNING THE ROPES Hadli Farrand, 15, freshman and Taylor Stanley, 12, freshman get directions from Head Coach Michael Farrand vs Western Oregon on September 22.

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BY GIANCARLO GONZALEZ

Sports Editor

The Central Wildcats soccer team sal-vaged a 2-1 victory against Great North-west Athletic Conference (GNAC) foe Western Oregon on Thursday then beat St. Martin’s 1-0 on Sunday to improve to 4-2-2 on the season and 3-1-0 in the GNAC. The Wildcats are off to their best start since 2008.

They struck fi rst against the Wolves but the team struggled to put away West-ern Oregon. Senior Amy Pate scored the Wildcats’ fi rst goal in the 22nd minute. Ju-nior Carson McKole launched a beautiful pass to freshman Savanna Moorehouse who then headed the ball to Pate on the left side of the goal. Pate found the back of the net, giving Central a 1-0 lead.

In the second half, the Wildcats gave up the equalizer with time running out but then struck pay dirt moments later. Sophomore Nicole Laughlin took a nice pass from senior Alex Jensen and slotted in the game winner.

“As a team, I felt like we weren’t really organized, we had a little bit of problems coming together as a unit but ultimately,

we did get the win which is the most im-portant part,” Laughlin said. “Personally scoring a goal is scoring a goal so that’s a big deal.”

A good win but the Wildcats wanted more.

“A win’s a win but it could have been a little bit better than we did,” coach Mi-chael Farrand.

The team’s mood was consistent from the coaches to the players that there are higher expecta-tions this year and that last year’s losing record is in the past.

“I think we did okay probably not our best game,” freshman Amanda White said.

“It was a tough game but we pulled out the win, so I’m happy,” sophomore Tarah Duty said. “Communication was our big thing today but we know to work on that for next week.”

“We won, it’s all that matters but it was pretty rough out there, I was a little out of it, mediocre I’d say,” senior Brit-tany Franks said. “Everyone played indi-vidually rather than as a team, we’ll fi x it by Sunday.”

The Wildcats then headed out to Lac-ey to play against St. Martin’s. Central wasted little time in jumping out to a 1-0

lead. In the 99th sec-ond, junior Carson McKole scored her team-leading fourth goal of the season. McKole shook off defenders and hit the eventual game winner from four yards out. For her outstanding efforts, McKole was named GNAC Women’s Soccer Player-of-the-Week for Sept. 19-25. Remarkably, the Wildcats have

equaled their win total from last year with 10 matches remaining in the regular sea-son.

“This year we want to go to the play-offs,” said Laughlin. “We want to go as far as we can, as any team would.”

GAME WINNER Nicole Laughlin, 5, sophomore, celebrates with teammates after scoring the game winning goal vs. Western Oregon on September 22.

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As a team, I felt like we weren’t really orga-nized, we had a little bit of problems coming to-gether as a unit but ul-timately, we did get the win which is the most important part.

-NICOLE LAUGHLINSophomore, defender

“As a team, I felt like “As a team, I felt like we weren’t really orga-“we weren’t really orga-

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It’s kind of an eye-opener, going from be-ing a high school stand-out and then to college where everyone is just as good, if not better than you.

-TAYLOR TANASSESenior, D-lineman

“It’s kind of an eye-“It’s kind of an eye-opener, going from be-“opener, going from be-

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RECENT GAME:L 14-7 @ Western OregonJunior QB Ryan Robertson tied a career-high 322 yards in a losing effort. Central is 0-3 for the fi rst time since 1980.

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RECENT GAME:W 1-0 @St. MartinsJunior Carson McKole scored the only goal. CONFERENCE W L TSeattle Pacifi c 4 0 0 Montana State Billings 3 0 1 Central Washington 3 1 0 Western Washington 2 2 0 Northwest Nazarene 2 2 0 Western Oregon 1 2 1 Saint Martinʼs 0 4 0Simon Fraser 0 4 0

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BY GIANCARLO GONZALEZ

Sports Editor

Last year’s accolades were part of something bigger for Tim Stanfi ll. The Central Washington senior in exercise sci-ence has had a talent for rugby ever since he stepped onto the fi eld for his fi rst game.

“My buddy told me ‘Hey bring your cleats ‘cause we might not have enough guys’ so I got in there and scored three tries,” Stanfi ll said. “I’ve been hooked ever since.”

The three sport high school athlete from Vancouver, Wash. credits the speed of the game, the physical demands and the in-game strategizing as part of what made him stick with rugby. His talent gave him a leadership role and his drive to suc-ceed was instrumental to being All-Amer-ican. His mother’s passing last December was a major turning point in his life.

“It was an eye opener for me and made me realize that life is too short, you have to live in the moment and you have to take full advantage of every opportunity that comes your way,” he said.

He tries to impart that sense of urgen-cy to his teammates so that they play all out.

“Last year we shocked a lot of people and made everyone realize that ‘Hey we’re Central, we’re here,” Stanfi ll said.

The perception that Central is a small school compared to the established pow-erhouses also fuels Stanfi ll and the team.

“We love playing with a chip on our shoulder, it motivates us when people underestimate us,” Stanfi ll said. “We’re a tight knit group.”

When he’s not working out in the gym to get an edge on the competition, Stanfi ll relaxes by playing massively multi-player online video games on his X-Box with his friends back home.

“Right now it’s ‘Call of Duty, Black Ops’, until ‘Modern Warfare’ comes out,” he said.

The Central rugby team shares a strong bond of brotherhood that is forged on and off the fi eld. Alex Reher, senior law and justice, said “Well I’ve been here a couple years, actually live with Tim, he’s my roommate, one of my good buddies, and gotten really close playing together, I play right next to him so we have a lot of chemistry and he just makes me better and we really work well together on the fi eld.”

Stanfi ll’s individual excellence gives him a strong sense of responsibility to his teammates so mentoring is a natural extension for him. Beau Nichols, junior construction management, said, “When I

fi rst came here as a freshman, Tim was already a star player, I play a winger, same as him, and so most everything I learned came from him and he’s an excellent leader and he’s been instrumental in my development as a rugby player.”

Sean Wanigasekera, senior public rela-tions and economics, is co-captain of the Central rugby team along with Stanfi ll and he’s seen continued progression in his teammate from the beginning, culminat-ing in last year’s recognition.

“Tim’s a great guy off the fi eld and a great player on the fi eld and his growth phase has been tremendous within the last year,” Wanigasekera said. “It’s quite excit-ing to have him alongside me, him with the backs because he has an immense ex-perience with the backline not just play-ing but also in leading the backline and I’ll take it up with the forwards so it should be a good combination.”

Last year, Central’s men’s rugby team won the Northwest 7’s Collegiate Rugby Conference (NCRC) tournament and then captured the CRC 7’s Qualifying tournament down in Las Vegas, securing a trip to their fi rst USA Seven’s Collegiate Rugby Championship. The team placed fourth but everyone in their guts felt they could have won it all.

“This year, we’re motivated to do even better and win a national championship.”

Central All-American shines and dominates with rugby family

DOWN TO THE LAST SCRUM Kellen Gordon-senior, Hayden Spevacek-freshman and the rest of Central rugby get down for a dirty, all out fight against St. Mary’s last year. The bar is higher in 2011 as they set their sights on a national championship.

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PLAYMAKER Tim Stanfill, All-American winger, led Central Washington rugby to a top 4 finish in the Collegiate Rugby Championship 7’s tournament.

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NEXT LEVEL Central shocked every-one in their 2010-11 season.

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Central Rugby defends their NCRC crown in the NCRC tournament in Seattle Oct. 16.

CONFERENCE W L Western Oregon 3 0 Humboldt State 2 0 Dixie State 1 1 Central Washington 0 2 Simon Fraser 0 3

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“The whole philosophy of college football compared to high school is totally different,” Tanasse said. “They don’t re-ally go hand in hand.”

Tanasse recalled an event during his fi rst year in which he and a teammate realized the increase in the speed of the game.

“I specifi cally remember when me and my roommate were just sitting on the sideline watching the older guys when they had to do their conditioning tests,” Tanasse said. “The fi rst week we didn’t have to do it but just watching those guys fl ying around doing the tests. It was just like, ‘Whoa this is going to be a lot differ-ent than high school.’”

Farrand also took note of the increased pace of the athletes during her fi rst few games.

“Every time I got the ball it was just nerve racking,” Farrand said. “I think it took us all a few games to settle down and play how we should.”

The opportunity to compete for start-ing positions, battle with upperclassmen and play up to expectations can be a struggle-but also a very rewarding experi-ence.

“It’s exciting, but you also don’t want to piss off any of the upperclassmen,” Stanley said, “But it’s like ‘Sure I’ll start!’”

Time spent on the fi eld for a player’s respective sport doesn’t end there; players must endure countless hours of fi lm study and weight room workouts in order to compete at the Division II level.

“I don’t want to compare it to a full-time job, but it takes up a lot of time in the

day,” Tanasse said. “And then you’re do-ing physical stuff while you’re out there, so you’re spending a few hours practicing and then you go to study fi lm and then you get to go home and do homework.”

Student, then athleteAthletes participating in fall sports ar-

rive on campus several weeks before the rest of the student body to prepare for the long season ahead.

According the NCAA Eligibility Cen-ter, Division II athletes are required to maintain a 2.0 GPA, with at least 12 cred-it hours of enrollment and must progress towards a degree during their four-to-fi ve years in school. For football players, the position coaches try to assist their players in their schooling as much as possible.

“Position coaches take care of their own groups of players, and they make sure we’re turning everything in on time,” Tanasse said. “You also have a study group for the younger guys who aren’t quite adapted to the college environment yet.”

Stanley and Hadli also have similar support. Hadli, who is the daughter of head coach Michael Farrand, said study-ing was defi nitely emphasized.

“As soon as classes started,” Hadli said, “Coach Farrand said ‘What are we going to do today?’ and everyone replied ‘Go to class!’”

The tolls of college athletics are paid mentally, as well as, more obviously, phys-ically. Tanasse, who went to West Valley High School in Yakima, arrived at Cen-tral with a few injuries. As the years went on, the number of his injuries increased.

“In high school, I already had two knee injuries so I came in a little beat up,” Tanasse said. “Over the past fi ve years

I’ve had a couple knee injuries, shoulder injuries, ankle injuries. The sport in gen-eral takes a toll. You just have to stick with it and hang in there.”

Experience of a lifetimeAside from grades and physical stress,

Stanley and Farrand felt that the dif-ference in attitude at Central was much more refreshing compared to their high schools.

“Everybody came in with really good attitudes, because last year wasn’t their best,” Farrand said. “So the older girls got us motivated to come in and make every day count and every practice better.”

“It was exciting for me to actually play at a higher level, with people who actually cared and wanted to win,” Stanley said. “Having a team that I liked and wanted to work hard was good.”

The benefi ts also extend to relation-ships built between players after having spent hours upon hours experiencing the same torments and satisfactions of college athletics.

“You network and you meet a lot of good guys,” Tanasse said. “I have a lot of good friends on the team; there are a lot of good guys that I’ll be keeping in touch with for the rest of my life.”

Stanley spoke of the same bonds as Tanasse.

“Our freshmen [teammates] are really close,” Stanley said. “And we’re close as a team, so it’s nice to go around campus [to-gether]. If I didn’t have the soccer team

I’d be lost.”Tanasse said the experience he had

gained from being at Central for fi ve years was great, and that his grades had drasti-cally improved from his freshman year.

“Some people look up to you, younger kids that are in my hometown,” Tanasse said. “It’s good having people respect you and knowing you’re doing something re-ally good.”

Each and every player on a college sports team from the lowest level or the highest, all share a similar goal, a com-parable mindset in which they set out to achieve from their fi rst season until their last.

Wanting to set out make a name for yourself is a com-mon high school objective and can be achieved; just take a look at all of the players on Central’s athletic teams. The next step after being a high school stand-out is to become a

college standout, but only if the player is willing.

The transition into college competition is just as crucial as any practice through-out the season, or any game near the end. The transition gets a player where they’re heading, which is hopefully the pinnacle of their respective sport.

“As a player, you hope to achieve a cer-tain goal,” Tanasse said. “The ultimate goal is to be a starter and to make a name for oneself. As soon as I came in I wanted to compete and be the best I can with the skills I have.”

BY EVAN THOMPSON

Staff Reporter

After several weeks of competition, the Central Washington University Women’s volleyball team record stands at 8-5 over-all, 2-3 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC).

Some notable wins came against Si-mon Frasier, Humboldt State, Montana State and Walla Walla.

Two matches were 3-0 decisions. The Wildcat’s last fi ve victories have been won by two sets or more.

“Any conference win is important,” head coach Mario Andaya said. “[It was] a much improved Montana State team from last year and a big win to come into this week with.”

On Sept. 19, the Wildcats faced off against the Lady Wolves of Walla Walla in a non-conference matchup.

The Wildcats plan was to improve on the “little things” that slightly set back their play against Montana State Uni-versity Billings; the little things were parts of their game that could be fi xed, according to senior outside hitter Meg Ryan.

“Little things like: taking up [low shots], capitaliz-ing on free balls and working on the offense,” Ryan said. “Making sure we block the balls that try to squeeze through.”

The Wildcats won the fi rst set 25-10, with mostly starters playing throughout the time.

Sophomore Chelsie Vea had several

noteworthy digs while leading the defense from her defensive specialist position, aka “Libero”.

The second set was tightly contested, with the fi nal of the set 25-20 in favor of the Wildcats.

Ryan credits the defense for the win. Our “defense is the strong point right

now,” Ryan said. “We’re serving tough and getting the opponent out of their rhythm, once we get fl owing. We’re good at getting into a rhythm and making sure the other team stays down.”

During the third set, the Wildcats rested their starters, and in place were the backups for each position.

Junior Jordan Offutt believes that the experience backups gain from the short amount of time they are allotted to play is tremendously important, and that their performance for the night was positive.

“It was amazing having that feeling of getting in and get-ting the taste for the pace of the game,” Offutt said. “It’s what every player needs to keep you going and it keeps you loving it.”

The backups held their own against Walla Walla, win-ning the third and fi -nal set 25-13. Coach Andaya spoke of a few players that he believed rose to the occasion.

“Devin Larson, our backup setter, stepped up [on Monday night],” Andaya said. “I was most of all pleased with Julie Hulbert, Sabrina Schwindler, and Molly Mayer. All of them came in and had good performances and did a good job for us.”

Offutt fi nished the night with a team-

high 9 kills. Assisting her was Devin Lar-son, who had 25 assists, and defensively, Vea fi nished with 13 digs.

In an anticipated matchup between two GNAC teams, the Wildcats battled the Crusaders of Northwest Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho. The Wildcats lost to the Crusaders on their home turf, 1-3. The loss set the Wildcats back in the standings at 2-3 in GNAC play but they still hold an 8-5 overall record.

All four of the sets on Thursday night were decided by eight points; the last two by a combined six points.

Leading the Wildcats offense statisti-cally once again was Offutt, with 17 kills. Close behind was freshman middle hitter and Idaho native Cheltzie Williams, with a career-best 14 kills.

Senior setter Carlee Marble had 42 as-

sists, and Vea also led the team from her respective category with 16 digs. In the upcoming weeks, the Wildcats will contin-ue their GNAC play, traveling away from Ellensburg to battle Western Oregon and Saint Martin’s on September 29 and Oc-tober 1, respectively.

Ryan believes the team is ready to compete on the road.

We’re “looking forward to what we can show on the road with two big matches,” Ryan said. “We have to play our game in other people’s houses and show them we can play.”

A WALLA DEFENSE A trio of Wildcats attempt to block a spike from Walla Walla on Monday, September 19. The Wildcats went on to win the match.

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Our defense is the strong point right now. We’re serving tough and getting the opponent out of their rhythm, once we get flowing. We’re good at getting into a rhythm and making sure the other team stays down.

-MEG RYANSenior, outside hitter

“Our defense is the “Our defense is the strong point right now. “strong point right now.

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and making sure the other team stays down.

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other team stays down.

Volleyball starts strong, looking to climb GNAC standings to make playoffs

As soon as classes started, Coach Farrand said ‘What are we going to do today?’ And every-one replied ‘Go to class!’

-HADLI FARRANDFreshman, midfielder

“As soon as classes “As soon as classes started, Coach Farrand “started, Coach Farrand “

one replied ‘Go to class!’

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one replied ‘Go to class!’

Central Volleyball goes on the road for their next 2 games. They’re at Western Oregon 9/29, then at St. Martin’s 10/1. They host Alaska Anchorage on 10/6.

BY DANNY SCHMIDT

Assistant Sports Editor

The Wildcat football team is off to their worst start in 31 years and despite loads of talent, Central can’t seem to win in the end.

Central started the season ranked 22nd in the nation and faced off against Texas A&M Kingsville, ranked seventh. The Wildcats had a successful training camp and were ready to kick the season off.

“We were excited about our two-a-day camp,” Head Coach Blaine Bennett said. “We were excited about Texas A&M Kingsville coming in. To be able to start off Rodeo and Labor Day weekend in Tomlinson Stadium was really exciting. It was a great crowd, great community sup-port.”

The game didn’t go the Wildcat’s way, going down 14-0 in the first half. The Wildcats were resilient, however, and made the game closer before halftime.

“I thought we did a nice job in the sec-ond quarter,” Bennett said. “We started to do some good things offensively. We went into halftime very optimistic about win-ning the football game.”

After a scoreless third quarter for both teams, the fourth quarter would decide the game.

With 10:13 left in the game and the Wildcats driving in Kingsville territory, Ryan Robertson threw a costly intercep-tion. Kingsville went on to score one touchdown in the fourth and won the game 21-10.

“We focused on them all camp,” ju-nior quarterback Ryan Robertson said. “It came down to a missed one pass that could’ve put us in the lead. Then next play a ball gets picked off and they score to make it a two-possession game. We just didn’t come out and play well in the first quarter and that killed us.”

For the second time in as many years, Central went into its second game with a week one loss to a ranked opponent.

Central’s next matchup took them to California to play Humboldt State on na-tional television.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to play a nationally televised each of the last three years,” senior defensive lineman Mike Reno said. “We get really excited for those. Obviously not a lot of Division II schools get the opportunity to play on TV.”

The game turned out to be an offen-sive battle, with the teams combining for 74 points and 805 total yards.

Central scored the first touchdown of the game and took a 7-0 lead into the sec-ond quarter. The second quarter proved to be costly as Humboldt scored three touchdowns and had a 21-13 lead at half-time.

The scoring went back and forth in the second half and with seconds remaining, Central had a 36-35 lead. Senior Hum-boldt kicker Brian Blumberg kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired, handing the Wildcats a heartbreaking second loss, 38-36.

Junior receiver Anthony Spain finished the game with 11 receptions, 166 yards and two touchdowns.

Despite the game’s outcome, Bennett believes that the opportunity to be on na-tional television was great for his current players and will help with future recruit-ing.

“It was great for the GNAC to have a game on [CBS] college sports,” Bennett said. “A great opportunity, a neat chance for our players, our coaches and our uni-versity. Any time you can get into differ-ent homes, any time you create that kind of excitement where you can see Central Washington on a college game day type atmosphere is huge. It speaks well for the

football program. We’re at a level where CBS sports wants us.”

Going into the third game in Western Oregon, Central was in danger of going 0-3 for the first time since 1980 and los-ing to Western Oregon for the first time since 2001.

Western Oregon scored the first 14 points of the game, putting Central in a tough hole.

The Wildcats continued their trend of turnovers, helping cancel out Robertson’s career day. Robertson tied his career high with 322 yards passing and threw the ball a record 53 times.

“Once we got down 14-0 we needed to start throwing the ball a lot,” Robertson said. I don’t think in order to succeed this season we have to throw 53 times.”

The Wildcats tried mounting a come-back in the third quarter, putting a touch-down on the board, but that’s all the points they could manage.

The team is in a very unfamiliar po-sition. The turnovers have proved costly this season and it is a pattern Bennett would like to put an end to.

“We didn’t make those extra plays to make points,” Bennett said. “You just can’t win close games turning the ball over that many times. You continue to emphasize it. Securing the football, mak-ing good choices.”

With the slow start, the talent level could seem to be the problem, but players and coaches don’t seem to be buying that theory.

“I feel like we’re 3-0 in beating our-selves,” Robertson said. “We make a couple plays here and a couple plays there and we’re 3-0 right now, but that’s the game of football.”

“We might not have come together as a group quite as well. I feel like we have more talent on this team than the last cou-ple years. It makes me scratch my head a little bit. Being 0-3 is tough for guys at this school, we’re used to being 3-0,” Robert-son said.

Central hosts Simon Fraser on Oct. 1. Both teams have yet to win a confer-ence game. After the Simon Fraser game, the Wildcats will look for revenge against Western Oregon and Humboldt State, with both games being in Ellensburg.

The team has a “one game at a time”

mentality, but the players are far from un-aware that the rematches are closing in.

“All our focus right now is on Simon Fraser,” Reno said. “You have to take it

one game at a time. But I do highly an-ticipate once we get to those weeks there will be some bad blood and we’ll turn it up and play the best we can.”

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Wildcat football off to historically bad start

CENTRAL GETS SLAMMED Central running back Louis Davis gets crushed by Humboldt State’s D in 2010 game. JOEY LEBEAU/OBSERVER

one game at a time. But I do highly an-ticipate once we get to those weeks there will be some bad blood and we’ll turn it up and play the best we can.”

15 SPORTS16 THE OBSERVER • SEPT. 29 - OCT. 5, 2011

BY DANNY SCHMIDT

Assistant Sports Editor

Central’s cross country team is off to a mediocre start, but looks promising as the season progresses.

On the men’s side, senior Manuel San-tos has been the star thus far. In the fi rst meet of the year, the Apple Ridge Run Invitational, in Santos’ home town of Ya-kima, the senior fi nished in second place by seven seconds. The 41-person fi eld was six kilometers. Santos’s time was 20 minutes, 22 seconds.

Freshman Ryan Thompson fi nished seventh with a time of 20 minutes, 50 sec-onds.

The men fi nished second out of fi ve schools and the women came in third.

Red-shirt freshman Connie Morgan led the Wildcats on the women’s side, coming in fi fteenth. Morgan had a time of 17 minutes, 31 seconds.

Morgan leads a young group, who is struggling, but looks like they will con-tinue to grow.

“It’s great because we know we’ll all be here for years to come,” Morgan said. “We’re not the best team in the GNAC [Great Northwest Athletic Conference], but how exciting is it that we’ll have ev-eryone? When other schools have people graduating, we won’t.”

In the second meet, in Bozeman, Mont. Santos was a half-mile from the fi nish, and in second place of the fi ve-mile meet, when he fell and twisted his ankle.

“We were running around a golf course and I didn’t realize there was a

big hole,” Santos said. “It was very un-expected.”

Instead of staying down, Santos mus-tered up the strength to get up and fi nish the race.

“I wanted to fi nish,” Santos said. Santos still managed to fi nish with a

time of 28 minutes, 50 seconds. Thomp-son was the Wildcat’s leader, fi nishing in seventh place. Thompson fi nished in 26 minutes, 55 seconds.

On the women’s team, in the three-mile contest, Morgan was once again Central’s individual leader, with sophomore Ashlee Sincraugh fi nishing right behind.

Morgan and Sincraugh fi nished 19th and 20th with times of 19 minutes, 32 seconds and 19 minutes, 36 seconds, respectively.

Morgan is emerg-ing as the leader of the young group but insists there is no true captain on the team.

I’m “a leader in the sense that I’m one of the better run-ners,” Morgan said. “I am new to the team so as far as a team captain type of thing, no I’m not the leader of the team. We have good chemistry.”

The start hasn’t been as smooth as coach Kevin Adkisson hoped it would, but injuries on the men’s team have hurt the Wildcats.

Two of Central’s top fi ve runners have been out due to injuries. Brothers Nathan and Scott Power, sophomore and senior respectively, are both suffering from inju-ries and hope to come back soon.

The team hopes to have Nathan Power back in time for next week’s meet in Or-egon on Oct. 1.

Scott Power, the number two runner before the injury, was injured in early Au-gust and will be re-evaluated in October.

Adkisson likes the individual effort, but hopes the Wildcats will produce better team scores.

“Things have been going well in general,” Adkis-son said. “Team score wise, we’re not where we expect to be, or we’re looking to be early in the season. But the guys who have been run-ning have been run-ning well.”

Both teams had meets last Saturday, but Adkisson used the meet as a chance

to rest the top runners, and get them ready for their upcoming meet on the fi rst.

With Nathan Power back running, Central will look to fi nish higher than they have been.

As for Santos, the week off will help him recover from the ankle injury. The never-quit runner has been, and he fully expects to be 100 percent for the big meet.

Men’s cross country suffers injuries; women look to grow

GOING THE DISTANCE Senior Manuel Santos runs the Big Cheese 200 meters at the WWU Twilight track meet in spring 2011. He is currently the number one men’s harrier on the team.

KATHARINE LOTZE/OBSERVER

We’re not the best team in the GNAC, but how exciting is it that we’ll have everyone? When other schools have people graduating, we won’t.

-CONNIE MORGANSophomore, harrier

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