Spring 2008, Issue 1

Index

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A&e page 8

FeAtures page 12

Fun House page 15

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Sports

Get to know player of the issue, junior Jonas Flok.

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Features

August Kelm writes about his experience at LC-J.

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A&E

Van Hagens' "Body Worlds" displayed at the Milwaukee Public museum.

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Professor Jeff Elzinga appointed as interim deanSearch committee is on the lookout for dean replacement, summer is goalBy Erik HyrkasManaging [email protected]

Wisconsin Primaries are Feb. 19, take a look at the leading candidates. PAGE 4

Men's basketball seniors step it up. PAGE 20

Lakeland robberyPub burglarized, $179 stolen from registerBy Lori [email protected]

The Pub was burglarized and $179 was stolen sometime

between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. of Jan. 17-18. The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department was called in to investigate.

There was evidence of forced entry into the bar area according to Jason Wilson, director of safety and security.

So far there have been no leads in the investigation. “It takes a while to have that [fingerprints] run through crime labs,” Wilson said.

On the morning of Friday, Jan. 18, the security department was informed by the cleaning staff that the door was open to The Pub. However, because The Pub was closed for business, security did not make it a priority to check on.

That afternoon, Direc-tor of Student Activities Talia Koronkiewicz and The Pub Manager Tim Romanello entered The Pub and re-alized what had happened. “There was napkins, and straws, and our tip bowl was on the ground… That’s when I noticed the cash register,” Romanello said.

“I had already touched the regis-

ter,” continued Romanello before it was realized that it might have been a crime scene. He was just picking everything up like he would normally do.

Romanello said he had left Thursday night after checking in with the two bartenders who had said everything was locked up.

Following the burglary, The Pub only accepted campus cards for payment of drinks for a few days. Since then, they have begun accepting cash again.

This incident did not cause any programming to be changed or cancelled in The Pub.

“My beverage staff and I are just going to go about business as it was,” Romanello said.

There will be a Super Bowl party on Sunday, Feb. 3.

While everyone interviewed was quick to point out that it is not known if the burglar is someone on-campus, it is the assumption that has been made.

“It’s not something you would expect everyday to happen,” Wilson said. “Someone had the audacity to do it to their own school.”

“I know the campus is getting bigger, but to have someone do this sure is a question of their character,” Romanello said. “This is the last thing I would have

expected. There’s got to be somebody who knows something.”

Lakeland has not yet been reimbursed for the stolen mon-ey. According to Romanello it is an insurance issue that just has not been taken care of yet.

“The Pub might have been a victim of circumstance,” Wilson said.

The Pub will need to invest in a new pizza oven, knives, and pizza cutters, all of which are small costs.

Improvements will be made to The Pub area. A more effective cage system from the ceiling to the floor will be installed to block off the bar. Money will also be taken out

from behind the bar and locked up every night.

“It seems like an isolated in-cident,” Wilson said. During the fall of 2007, two staff members had credit cards stolen from their offices in the campus center. The sheriff’s department was also called in about that. There have been no leads con-cerning the thousands of dollars that were spent.

A light from the Mania EFX 500 system was stolen from The Pub during the spring 2007 semester. This new system was pur-chased the semester prior with a $3,000 price tag. Nothing has been recovered in that incident either. Lakeland did offer an award for any leads on the theft.

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Above: The pub register was broken into sometime between Jan. 17-18 and $179 was stolen. Despite the burglary, The Pub continues to operate as normal.

goals; it’s very difficult. I miss working with the students. I was looking forward to class and teaching, but I plan to be back next fall,” said Elzinga.

A search committee was formed last December in order to find Fulop’s replacement. Dr. Meg Albrinck, Dr. J. Gar-land Schilcutt, Vice President of Finance Joseph Botana, and Dr. Mehraban Khodavandi are some of those on the commit-tee.

“Typically we look for a candidate with advanced ex-perience in higher education; a Ph.D. in hand in the subject area specified. One prefer-ence we have is collaboration and leadership skills. Working well with other people can be an important trait to have in such a small community,” said Albrinck.

Advertisements for the position are currently posted on The Chronicle for Higher Education Web site, and ap-plications began coming in last week.

Gould would like to have a new VPAA on board by the end of the summer.

component of the accredita-tion process. From the be-ginning of that process he’s been involved, so I think that transition will be seamless.”

“The goal is to receive a 10-year reac-c r e d i t a t i o n , but that is not guaranteed . NCA decides how long to re-new a college’s accreditation, based on their

findings during their visit,” Elz-

inga said.As interim VPAA, Elzin-

ga’s time allotment for teach-ing is compromised. He is not able to teach the two courses he was scheduled to teach. Hence, there is no fiction writ-ing course this semester, and a replacement for introduction to mass media was brought in: Professor Tom Montag.

“There is a big difference in

ministration, Elzinga says all of the work in preparation for the NCA reaccreditation will continue and be completed on time.

Gould also commented, “We hope it doesn’t have any affect at all. Another thing that makes Professor Elzinga an ob-vious choice is he’s a member of the steering committee of the self study. That’s an important

President Stephen Gould has appointed Jeff Elzinga as

the interim dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs (VPAA) this semester in response to Dr. Tim Fulop’s res-ignation last fall.

“Professor Elzinga is an ob-vious choice. He’s done this job in the past and he’s done it with great distinction. He is trusted by his colleagues on the faculty, and I trust him as well,” Gould said.

Elzinga was appointed as in-terim vice president the first time when Dr. Arthur Linkins retired in 2002. He served a year longer than anticipated when the search for Linkin’s replacement was not completed.

The position involves duties such as providing leadership to the faculty, organizing and over-seeing academic functions and events, interacting with the dean of students, and preparing bud-gets for Lakeland.

Currently, re-accreditation of Lakeland by The North Central Association (NCA) in March of 2009 is a major concern for the school. Despite the change in ad-

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Above: General Studies Division Chair and Professor of Writing, Jeff Elzinga, is currently filling in as interim dean.

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Security updates being implementedSecurity takes many new measures to ensure campus safetyBy Dawn HughesStaff [email protected]

matic external defibrillator). Wilson has also started

the safe ride/walk program. It is available 24 hours a day for students or staff to utilize on campus.

During the day time it can be used by students who are on crutches or otherwise dis-abled to get to class. Wilson realizes that it is a problem for some students because parking is so far away, and he hopes that this resource will

Jason Wilson, head of Lakeland College security,

has been working to enact many new security improve-ments around campus. Wilson says, “We are implementing little things to let the stu-dents feel safe.”

The most prominent new security item is a security van. The blue van can be seen around campus and has the security phone number on it.

It is equipped with a first aid kit, jumper cables, and vehicle lockout equip-ment, and it is available 24 hours a day. This new vehicle allows the security staff to have ready access to the equipment they need to keep our campus safe.

Before the portable first aid kit was implemented, se-curity staff had to retrieve one from the security office. All members of the security staff are certified in administering CPR and using an AED (auto-

keep students safe.At night the safe ride is

available for students who may not feel comfortable walk-ing across campus alone after dark. It can also be utilized by students who are under the influence of alcohol.

Wilson said, “We are not going to use it as a tool to bust people.” The safe ride is there to keep students from hurting themselves, others, or school property.

Construction going strongSouth Hall construction continues through cold and snowBy Dawn HughesStaff [email protected]

As students returned to campus Jan. 14, many

commented on the speed with which South Hall was being constructed. “I drove by one day, and there was a big hole there. And then I drove by and woah! It’s a building,” said a student in the cafeteria.

The building is scheduled to be done in June. It should be ready to house students for the fall semester ’08 school year. Lewis Apel, director of facility management, said, “As it stands, we are still on schedule.”

“We did have a slight de-lay with some DNR issues, but we were able to do other work so in the basic time of the project nothing was lost,” Apel said.

In addition to the con-struction on South Hall, util-ity work is being done. There will be more construction on that side of campus so expand-ing the utilities now saves time and money and allows

the future construction to go more smoothly. “The reason for extending the utilities is cost saving,” said Apel.

The extension of the utili-ties includes putting a fire hy-drant on that part of campus.

Lakeland College chose to work with Quasius Construction, Inc. for a very specific reason. “We like to deal with people in the lo-cal counties. When it comes to contractors, we try to deal with people locally and keep our dollars locally,” Apel said.

Scott Quasius of Elkhart Lake worked on the South Hall construction until shortly after Christmas. He was involved in working on the foundation, framing, and walls.

There have been some complications this year due to the unusual amount of snow early in December, Quasius said. After a snowfall they would have to shovel for an hour and a half before they could even start working on the construction.

The contractors used

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Above: South Hall construction continues through the changing weather.

Wilson is also working to start a new program called Jyngle on Lakeland’s campus. Jyngle was started after Vir-ginia Tech by a company out of Milwaukee. It is a free mass messaging program that al-lows the school to send a text or voicemail to the entire stu-dent population for any life saving reason.

“[Jyngle] can be used for something as severe as the Virginia Tech shooting or a tornado watch.” Wilson said. There is no spam and students’ names are not associated with their phone numbers.

RA’s are working to col-lect cell phone numbers from students who live on campus. Wilson urges everyone to sign up for this service. Non-tradi-tional and commuter students can e-mail their phone num-bers to Wilson at [email protected].

Wilson wants to ensure that the students and staff feel safe on Lakeland’s cam-pus. “If students have sugges-tions they should stop by or send me an e-mail.”

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Above: Regardless of the weather, security will come if you call 1126.

panelized walls and pre-made tresses. This is supposed to help the process go quick-er. However, there can be problems with the wood warp-ing or pieces not fitting to-gether correctly.

“During my time on the job, things went pretty smoothly,” Quasius said. “We had very little problems with

the pieces fitting together.”Once the building is

enclosed, heat, plumbing, and electric start coming in. The workers will often set up an area or enclose a small space with a heater to keep tools from freezing. Many tools that are used on the site are air tools which collect mois-ture and freeze up.

Nominate a teacher for the 2008 Underkofler AwardStudents and faculty are invit-ed to nominate a Lakeland College faculty member to receive this year's James R. Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award. This award, which includes a cash prize, will be presented at the Lakeland Honors Banquet on April 9.Criteria for receiving the award are the following:-The recipient is a fac-ulty member who has been employed full time by the col-lege for at least three years

and is teaching undergradu-ate courses. -The recipient demonstrates outstanding performance and excellence in undergraduate teaching. -The recipient was not a recipent of the Underkofler award within the past five years. (Winners within the past five years are Meg Albrinck, Adina Schwartz, Pam Engebretson, Lynne Lauer and Rick Gaumer.)To nominate a faculty mem-ber, you must complete a

nomination form and write a detailed one-page nomination letter explaining why you feel this candidate deserves this recognition. Forms and letters are due to Gwen Schroeder by Feb. 14. Nomination forms are available in Schroeder's office, WAK 205. The James Underkofler Endowment Fund is creat-ed in honor of Mr. James R. Underkofler and his 48 years of service to the utility indus-try as a means of honoring and recognizing the impor-

tance of excellence in the undergraduate teaching. It's presented through the Alliant Energy Foundation and the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. The award selection committee is composed of past recipients of the award, an alumni representa-tive and Lakeland student representatives. If you would like additional informa-tion about the Underkofler award, please contact Gwen Schroeder in the Office of Academic Affairs, ext. 1290, WAK 205.

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Zeta Chi Fraternity sponsors

blood driveOn Feb. 5, the Zeta Chi Fraternity will be sponsoring a blood drive in Bossard Hall. The blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Blood Center of Wisconsin will be facilitating the donations. The Zeta’s have a goal of about 30 people but more are always welcome.During lunch and dinner this week, members of the fraternity will be in Bossard Hall where anyone interested can sign up to donate.The Zeta’s have been sponsoring the blood drive for about 30 years.

Update to LC-CAB constitution

The Lakeland College Campus Activities Board (LC-CAB) is required, according to its current constitution, to provide the public with information regarding any interest in making changes to the constitution because the changes may affect the campus community. Therefore, LC-CAB invites everyone to attend a meeting discussing and voting on the proposed amendments which includes changing the levels of membership and the amendment process itself. If you are interested in attending this meeting, please join us in Laun 209 Feb. 11 at 7:00pm.

The Honors Program accepting

applicationsThe Honors Program is currently accepting applica-tions from current Lakeland students. Minimum requirements include a 3.25 GPA from Lakeland or another school. Students must write an appli-cation essay and submit a let-ter of recommendation from a Lakeland faculty member. Students should be intellec-tually curious, with a desire to expand their personal horizons. Applications are available from Meg Albrink and should be submitted by Feb. 10.

Lakeland professor receives honorNate Lowe's essay listed as one of the noteable essays in the Best American Essays

Nate Lowe, assistant pro-fessor of composition and

rhetoric, has recently received awards for several of his wpublished nonfiction essays.

One of his essays, “At the Edge of the Field,” is listed in the Best American Essays 2007 as one of the notable essays selected by editor Robert Atwan. Every year the Best American Series republish 20 or 25 essays, and about a hundred more essays are listed as “Notable.”

“At the Edge of the Field” reflects Lowe’s youth on an Illinois farm where he worked together with his father. Lowe said, “This essay is about the relationship between my father and me working

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together and growing up in that culture.”

“The Room on the Other Side,” is his second published essay in the Ascent literary magazine. This essay is based on his experience as a part time student worker in the maintenance department when he was at the Univer-sity of Iowa.

“They both focus on the same thing: growing up and working in the Midwest. I hope in the near future to develop them, along with others I’m working on, into a book,” said Lowe.

“This is about a man whom I worked with there and the relationship between a working adult and someone who is learning about being a man. It explores how each individual lives his life and the different avenues that

can be taken,” said Lowe. A third essay by Lowe

was also recently chosen as a finalist for New Letters magazine’s 2007 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize. It is a nonfiction essay contest for writers around the world.

“I think writing and teaching tie together and I can’t separate them at this point in my life. I write while I teach and I teach while I write. I’ll be working on my own writing and be stuck someplace in the process, and then I’ll have a conversa-tion with a student about her writing and relearn a technique to use for myself. Teaching fuels the creative process for me,” Lowe said.

Lowe is now working on an essay about hired hands. He said, “My father had all kinds of hired hands in the

past. So, I began to think about hired hands and their lives. I’m trying to figure out this relationship and what it means to do this work as the owner of that farm ver-sus someone who is hired to work it. I worked side-by-side these men, each of us a hired hand for my father.”

Lowe has finished writing some short stories which he anticipates will get published in the near future. He said, “I try to write in every genre- poetry, non-fiction, short fic-tion, and a screenplay that’s been in the works for a few years. You learn something from each, and then you can use it in all of your writing. Anybody who is writer should try it all and see what they can learn in each process.”

Lakeland students can take a break from thinking

about classes on Saturday, February 9, when they “Think Pink.”

The Lakeland women’s basketball program is one of over 600 schools that will participate in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Associa-tion’s 2008 “Think Pink” ini-tiative.

The “Think Pink” ini-tiative is designed to raise breast cancer awareness on the court and across college campuses all over the U.S., and Lakeland’s players and coaches are hoping to draw a big crowd for the game.

“Think Pink” Week is Feb-ruary 8-17, and the Muskies are using their game on Feb. 9 against Alverno College to participate. The game begins at 2 p.m.

The first 75 fans wear-ing pink to attend the wom-en’s game and the first 75 fans wearing pink to attend the men’s basketball game against Dominican at 4:15 will receive a free “Think Pink” bracelet.

“I think it’s a great oppor-tunity for us to do our part be-cause we have the resources to promote it,” said Lakeland Head Women’s Basketball Coach Teri Johnson. “It’s im-

portant for our program to do what we can with this cause and help spread the word of awareness.”

Details for the event have not all been finalized, but a number of activities before the game and during half-time have been planned.

Members of the Lakeland basketball team will be wear-ing pink shirts and shoelaces when they warm up before the game, and Johnson and her coaching staff will also be dressed in pink.

The notes that the sports information department does for the game will include facts about breast cancer. Even the officials are going to be involved because they will use pink whistles during the game.

Students in April Arvan’s Introduction to Sports Stud-ies class are planning some activities for halftime of both games.

Schools participating range from all divisions of college and high school. The WBCA hopes to take this to professional and AAU/YBOA play over the summer.

Each school has been provided with access to logos, product ideas, promotional ideas, flyers, breast cancer facts, product offerings, and much more. All of this infor-mation can be found at www.wbca.org/thinkpink.asp.

Lady Muskies "Think Pink"Feb. 9 game brings breast cancer awarenessBy Brad Wilk Staff [email protected]

Above: The "Think Pink" logo is part of the Women's Basketball Association's breast cancer awarness initiative.

HARC Tutoring Schedule History

8:00-10:00 MWF, 11:00-1:00 TTH 1:00-2:00 MWF, 1:00-4:30 TTH 9:30-12:00 TTH

Spanish

3:00-5:00 M, 11:00-1:00 TTH 2:30-3:00 T 9:00-11:00 MWF, 3:30-5:00 T

Science

10:00-1:00 MTWTHF

Japanese

5:30-7:30 M, 2:30-3:30 TW, 5:30-6:30 TH

Math

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Accounting

Study Tables 2:30-4:30 MW, 3:00-5:00T

Micro economics

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Macro economics 2:30-4:30 MTH, 3:00-5:00 T

Life Science 5:30-7:30M, 2:30-3:30 TW, 5:30-6:30 TH

Genetics

Contact Kasey Gussert w/ LC e-mail

Computer Science

10:00-11:00 MWF, 11:00-1:00 TTH

Psychology

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-hillaryclinton.com

-Lowering middle class taxes, increasing student aid, lowering the deficit, strengthening unions & trade laws

-Secure the border, implement stronger penalties for businesses hiring illegal workers.

-Immediately began withdrawl of troops, increas American aid to Iraqi people.

-Illinois State Senator

-barackobama.com

-Tax credit of $500 per worker, universal mortgage credits, promote business abroad, support small businesses.

-Secure border, restructure immigration bureaucracy, cut incentives for illegal immigtrants.

-Complete troop withdrawal with in 16 months, increase relations, $2 billion increase in aid to Iraqi refugees.

-North Carolina former senator.

-johnedwards.com

-Tax break for middle class, strengthening workers rights, limiting credit card interest penalties, increase student aid, decrease tuition.

-Strengthen our borders, increase fines for businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

-Complete troop withdrawal within 10 months, training Iraqi security forces.

-Former Massachusettes governor.

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-A corporate tax cut, investment in infrastructure.

-Build a fence around the border and rejecting amnesty.

-Plans to fight radical Islam, support moderate Muslims.

-Former Arkansas governor.

-mikehuckabee.com

-Complete restructuring of the tax system, with a consumption tax and no income tax

-Securing the border, increasing penalties for employers of illegal immigrants.

-Troop increase in Iraq, no withdrawl date, summits to strengthen commitment throughout Iraq.

-Arizona Senator

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-Cutting middle class taxes, eliminating government pro-grams, and lowering trade barriers.

-Secure the border, create assimilation programs.

-Troop increase, better training for Iraqi security forces, political and economical reconstruction.

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Throughout my years in col-lege, I have observed many

students who work hard in classes and receive excellent grades due to their acceptance of the sweat equity necessary to get the best grade possible.

Acing a class is a great goal to have; however, it should not be the only one to set within a course.

The top priority in taking a class is to truly learn and to understand the material that is being offered. It is my concern that too many stu-dents, whether they receive good grades or not, simply go through the motions of the class without picking up on what knowledge there is to learn.

Of course any student can practice their skills in memori-zation and thusly pass a class with an “A.” But aside from a good grade what was gained if a student fails to actually pick up any meaningful education?

Memorized facts are stored in an area of the brain where they can be retrieved upon command almost like a file cabinet. However, like a file cabinet, the compartments in the brain can get full and infor-mation that hasn’t been called upon over a larger stretch of time will be discarded.

“For majority and minority I only remembered the stuff I needed for the day of the test,” admitted J.D. Botana, an art and writing major in his soph-omore year.

Actually wrapping one’s mind around a concept, on the other hand, makes the brain

The nearly-three-month strike has caused reruns

on TV, the Golden Globes being reduced to an hour-long press conference, late-night talk shows having to go back on air without comedy sketch-es and a monologue, postpone-ment of some movie releases, and the loss of work for thou-sands of people, not just writ-ers, but others involved in the production process.

So far, no agreement has been reached between the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Televi-sion Producers (AMPTP). The AMPTP has refused to come to the table to negotiate with the writers who want an extra four cents per DVD sold and a residual rate for the Internet that is the same as the one for television.

As of right now, writers only receive about four cents per DVD and 2.5 percent of every dollar made from televi-sion.

This is about 2.5 cents for every dollar the production companies make.

On average about 48 percent of writers are un-employed. Residuals, mon-ey made from reruns of TV shows, help keep them afloat between projects.

Most writers are middle class; of those who do work, a quarter make less than $37,700 a year and 50 per-cent make less than $105,000 a year. Over a five year pe-riod of employment and un-employment, a writer makes an average income of about

Can too much knowledge be a bad thing?

Academic retention

By John SieglaffFunhouse Editor

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connect pieces of information (facts) into a logical loop like a puzzle. Upon this advanced type of learning, the brain is rather “shaped” by the knowl-edge and expands in an educa-tion that is unforgettable—re-tention!

I encourage everybody to make it the top goal in their classes to truly understand the material being presented rather than just memorizing what is necessary to pass a class with an “A.” Take advan-tage of classes by using them for the full academic value they bring.

To receive an “A” in every class in a semester is a rather difficult task and a feat that deserves much credit. Profes-sors cannot give a low grade to a student who has done all the assignments well, aced every test, and participated in class frequently. So it is up to every individual to know whether they are really retaining their education or simply succeed-ing. Beware the illusion of education.

As an afterthought, pass-ing every class with an “A” is a great thing and congratu-lations to those who do, but straight “A’s” do not mean ev-erything. As advice to those who may feel the overwhelm-ing pressure of maintaining or working toward a GPA of 4.0, remind yourself that “B’s” are good grades too. Even “C’s” are a respected, decent grade.

I am not encouraging low grades, rather, I am encour-aging everyone to do the best they can in their classes. There is no reason for discourage-ment from a decent grade and it is better to live a life without

PHOTOOPINIONWhat is your new year’s resolution?

Jay RossSophomore

Writing

“My new year’s resolu-tion is too eat healthier in order to lose weight.”

Shastel BakerSophomoreSociology

“My new year’s resolu-tion was to get outta debt and I already

did it!”

Wendi KulasSenior

Writing

“My new year’s resolution was to not hit the snooze button

on my alarm clock and I haven’t broken it yet,.”

Tabitha KniestSenior

Education

“I purposely bought my wedding dress a size

smaller which shaped my new year’s resolu-tion to lose weight."

Peter SattlerAssociate Professor of American Literature

“I had the resolution of finally going to keep track of my checking

account. I even got the carbon copy checks. I realized after doing so I have the most boring

life on Lakeland College."

$62,000 per year. Why am I spouting all of

these facts at you? I’m sure you have heard them many times before. The strike is all over the news, since it affects so many aspects of the media. It is because this is the pro-fession I hope to go into after college.

I never expected to make a lot of money pursuing this career; I just want to do some-thing I love. I love to write and enjoy the various aspects of getting a television show on the air, so I figured on com-bining the two and going into writing for television.

Needless to say, this strike is a bit troubling for me. The benefits writers currently re-ceive are poor at best, and the AMPTP hasn’t even tried to negotiate! Even after the writers have adjusted their demands time and again, the AMPTP continues to ignore their offers.

On Jan. 23, the WGA and the AMPTP went into infor-mal discussions to try and get back to formal discussions.

People are accusing the writers of being greedy. How-ever, the writers aren’t ask-ing for anything outrageous. They want eight cents per DVD sold. They are also look-ing for 2.5 percent of every dollar made on the re-use of material online and on mobile phones in addition to the tele-vision rate.

4.6 billion dollars is pro-jected to be made from Inter-net sales. The AMPTP tells the writers that there is no way to track the profits made from these sales, yet they tell their stockholders and the me-dia that the sales from digital media will only increase in the

future and that digital media will become more popular.

The reason the writers only receive 4 percent of home video sales is because back in the late 80’s, the AMPTP wanted to help the fledgling home video market grow.

The writers agreed to take an 80 percent pay cut to help it along with the understand-ing that they would be com-pensated once the home video market became big enough. Twenty years later, the writ-ers have yet to see any repay-ment.

Almost three months have gone by since the writers have gone on strike. Too many people have been affected. It is time that writers are fairly compensated for their hard work and creativity. Here’s hoping that a fair deal is reached before long.

Taking a good look at the future...The writer’s strikeBy Mariah TessStaff Reporter

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Survey says: Take a course with one of these professors

The Mirror recently surveyed Lakeland College students regarding their favorite professors.

The question posed was: If you were to suggest to a student one professor to take a course with at Lakeland, who would it be?

The statistics were compiled from 100 Lakeland students ranging from all majors, grade levels and demographics.

Peter SattlerDavid Lynch

Joshua KutneyGregory Smith

Meg AlbrinckMehraban Khodavndi

April ArvanLucretia Crawford

Rick DodgsonKarl Elder

Jeff ElzingaNathan Lowe

Don FrancisScott Niederjohn

Martha SchottCharles StockmanJennifer Tanouye

Paul WhitePam Engebretson (Lundin)

Janet herrick-StuczynskiWayne Homstad

Timothy Fojtik

0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12%

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(All survey statistics gathered by Jennifer Duenk.)

With 10 votes out of the 100 students surveyed, Associate Professor of American Litera-ture Peter Sattler was the most popularly recommended.

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Welcome back to this winter wonderland of a campus

Muskies and Muskie affiliates! I for one have been digging the snow, figuratively and literally. More than you could imagine. Between car troubles and the harassment I received from some Lakeland groundskeepers last week when it snowed 4-6 inches overnight, it’s been a rough month for my automobile.

Let me start from the beginning. Having not refueled since my trek back to campus to start this semester, my Oldsmobile was on empty dur-ing that cold snap two week-ends ago and my gas line froze. I couldn’t start my car the en-tire weekend and I didn’t go anywhere until the weather warmed up the following Mon-day. I drove it to WAK as I was late for a meeting and later to Wehr to play basketball with my friends.

Unfortunately, I forgot my car was in the Chase/Wehr lot when I left that after-noon. Once I remem-bered, it was already snowing heavily. Log-ically, I assessed that moving it would make my vehicle even more dangerously low on gas, and attempting to get to Mobil on the slip-pery roads during the bliz-zard would be even worse if I did run out of fuel. So I left it, assured the worst that could happen was get-ting ticketed, something I’ve never had a problem with when leaving my car in that lot. I planned to re-fuel it the next day when the roads were clear.

To my dismay, after my workout Tuesday af-ternoon, I walked out only to find my car was now a manmade snow bank. The plows had plowed my car in on all four sides up to the windows. I stopped in my tracks and my jaw literally dropped. At first, I couldn’t help laughing. That was until I real-ized the dilemma I now had. Naturally, I went to the Mirror office and picked up a camera to photograph the prank and this episode became this column.

After showing the photos to a few friends who proceeded to laugh at the hilarious yet perturbing situation, I showed Muehlmeier Hall Director Tim Vallier, who told me I was not

alone in this joke. Krueger Hall Director Hannah Hitterman’s husband, Ken Hitterman, has been plowed in by groundskee-ping before.

“I was in the Krueger lot. I should tell you my car was the only one there. It definitely

looked deliberate; the snow was up past the windows on all sides,” said Hit-terman.

As I continued to tell people about it, the stories kept com-ing. Senior Wendi Kulas told me when her fiancé attended Lakeland, he left his car in the Nash parking lot and was plowed in. In his case his car battery

died and he had to get a friend to help shovel his car out and push it out of the spot.

I ran into alumnus Lea Holz at the mall and she said her friend Wayne was plowed in by groundskeeping several years ago.

Freshman Kyle Banker told me one of his friends parked in

a handicap space be-cause there was no sign posted and it was covered by snow. She was also plowed in by groundskeeping.

Once I saw this trend of deliberate-ly plowing in “ille-gally” parked cars was everywhere, I had to know more.

Getting back to my situation, after I first talked to Vallier, I spoke to Jim Bajczyk, director of residence life, and he called Joe Beniger, the manager of groundskeeping, who was in bed due to plowing from 2-3 in the morning. Beniger told Bajczyk that where I was parked is not allowed overnight. I told him I didn’t have any pity for waking him up.

Still, Bajczyk offered me a shovel and to find me some help if I needed it. Cordial as it was, it took me 20 minutes to shovel the back of my car out. That’s when I proceeded to open my driver’s door and watch an avalanche of snow fall into the driver’s seat.

Tired from shoveling, I didn’t bother shoveling the snow out of the doorway. That turned out to be a mistake when I turned on the car, put it in reverse, jammed the gas ped-al, and nearly ripped my door off with the three feet of snow piled in its way. It was pretty comical if you were watching. As I reversed even more, snow piled into my car and hit me in the face. We’ll have to omit

the expletives. After that I stopped to brush off and shovel the snow out of the doorway. The door eventually managed to shut. I got my car out of the space five minutes later.

The final dilemma involved not having enough gas to de-frost my car, and tracking down an ice scraper because I had left mine at home in Minneso-ta. After two requests, someone offered and I hastily scraped. I finally drove to Mobil with an un-defrosted windshield, filled up my gas tank, and bought a new ice brush and scraper. I was cold, damp, and pissed off.

After this I put the photos up on Facebook with appropri-ate captions and set up an in-terview with groundskeeping manager Beniger.

I was ready with steam and hard-hitting questions, but Beniger showed up ready with his own offensive. To his credit, he was not the one who plowed the Wehr lot that morning, and apologized for what happened to my car, agreeing he would be angry too.

“That’s not supposed to happen,” Beniger said.

He said that it was unac-ceptable and would find out who is responsible.

Still, Beniger says by law groundskeeping has 24 hours to move freshly fallen snow

and if cars are illegally parked and in their way it can add 30-45 minutes of extra time to their job.

“All snow is pushed from east to west and if a car is in the way, that’s where it stops.”

So while my car was with-out a doubt deliberately encased in snow as well as Hitterman’s, Beniger said they are not sup-posed to touch the cars.

There are four full-time groundskeeping employees who plow in addition to two to three students, depending on the snow. They plow from mid-night to 3 a.m. when it snows, as their goal is to have it cleared by 8 a.m. for school.

According to Beniger, “Se-curity is in charge of parking, and if they aren’t writing tick-ets, that’s someone else not doing their job.” He also men-tioned it takes even more work when cars are in the way be-cause after they move their car the next day there is still snow to clean up.

While I like that Beniger takes his job seriously and will take responsibility for what happened, the fact that other groundskeeping staff members feel they need to add extra in-centive not to park overnight in illegal parking spots is over-kill. There was no sign posted where my car was parked. The

Plow harassmentBy Erik HyrkasManaging Editor

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Pledging Musko

closest sign was 20 yards away. Seriously, in the largest lot on campus, how much of an incon-venience can my car be to make a snow plower so disgruntled they have to ruin my day? I had a perfectly legitimate reason to park there.

While I agree security should be properly ticketing illegally parked vehicles, and I would rather have received a ticket than a white wash, this practice is bad news. It might seem hilarious and fun to most of you readers, since it hasn’t happened to you, but wait your turn.

I just kept thinking, what if someone had a job to get to, or an appointment and missed it or was fired because their car was encased in a snow bank? You might think I’m exag-gerating, but things like that happen. And what if I decided I wasn’t going to even enter-tain the idea of dissecting this issue? What if instead, I took advantage of the situation by smashing in my bumper and suing for damages from this incident? Nobody would have been the wiser.

After discussing the issue with Beniger I also brought it up to the president of Student Association (SA), Rob Pockat. He told me that shortly after that incident SA had a meet-ing and discussed the issue. “Where do you draw the line? What should we do in the sum-mer, deflate your tires?” Pockat joked.

Pockat said that SA will soon be talking with ground-skeeping and residence life to work out a better notification system to inform students on plowing.

Now, I know it just sounds like some harmless fun from some guys on the job, but as Pockat said, where do you draw the line? Call me a whiner if you like, but--

What would Musko do?

Above: This is my Oldsmobile on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Left overnight in the Wehr/Chase parking lot, goundskeepers plowed my car in on all four sides. A decent prank.

Above: This is the hillarious, yet, horrific sight I saw after leaving the Wehr Center. I laughed until I looked down in anguish at the jingling keys in my hand.

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Left: This was the closest sign posted to my car. By close, I mean 15-20 yards away from where I was parked. You can see it in the background of the photo above as well.

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dangerous missions he must attempt in order to fulfill his goal of restoring humanity to the world. Booby trapping, firefights, and painful injures ensue, as well as plot twists and turns.

The film is very excit-ing. Though the monsters are mostly digitally created, they look decent, and it doesn’t stop the film from scaring the sh** out of you. While a lot of it is intense action, there is a great dramatic aspect to the characters as well.

Smith portrays the tri-als of loneliness in Neville’s life very well whilst talking to manequins he dressed up and choreographed in a video store, and telling Sam to eat all of his vegetables. This film also has the best charac-terization of dog I have ever seen. The audience loves Sam, and sees her the same way Dr. Neville does, as everyone’s fa-vorite companion.

“I am Legend” is scary, ex-citing, funny, sad, and over-all a great cinematic expe-rience. Catch it in theaters before it hits video store shelves.

Will Smith is the star in this adaptation of the

novel “I Am Legend” recently brought to the silver screen. Imagine yourself alone in New York City with wild ani-mals and monsters lurking about, and you may be able to picture this jump out of your seat flick.

Smith plays Dr. Robert Neville, a scientist once in the military, who has found himself without his family or the rest of the human popu-lation. Living in NYC, his only counterpart is his best friend, a German shepherd named Sam.

During the day the two hunt, exercise, (even Sam has a treadmill) and hope to find survivors of the epidemic that caused their isolation. Meanwhile at night, they are forced to hide from the blood hungry nocturnal creatures.

Nevertheless, Neville has many intense run-ins with the animals. He is almost al-ways armed with an assault/sniper rifle, and with good reason. The monsters are as strong as ten men, jump as high kangaroos, and lunge more quickly and violently than rabid dogs. In Neville’s scientific effort, capturing the nocturnals is one of the

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By Erik HyrkasStaff Reporter

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Katherine Heigl portrays a young woman, Jane, who

loves everything to do with weddings. Basically, she’s obsessed with them. She has managed to be a part of 27 weddings within a ten year time period.

Jane is in love with her boss, George, and hopes to marry him someday. That is

until her sister, Tess, comes home to visit. Jane never would have thought Tess would get in the way of her hopeful future life.

George and Tess plan a world-wind engagement, dragging Jane along the entire time. Jane has two choices: to be the good maid-of-honor or tell everyone the truth about her sister.

Throughout the movie journalist Kevin is inter-twined looking for a way to

“27 Dresses”

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get out of the sappy, human interest commitments sec-tion of the newspaper. Will an exposē on the mysterious and highly devoted brides-maid be his way out?

This predictable fai-rytale-ending movie provides laughs and tears for every-one throughout the movie. The most exciting part of the movie was when Jane showed off the 27 different dresses. I did manage to almost cry at one point during the movie.

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When you help the American Red Cross, you help America.

Through her involvement with the American Red Cross,

Heidi Klum helps to save lives every day.

To learn how Heidi Klum is helping,

or to find out what you can do to help, visit redcross.org.

My name is Heidi Klumand I’m an American Red Cross volunteer.

Will you join me?

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dangerous missions he must attempt in order to fulfill his goal of restoring humanity to the world. Booby trapping, firefights, and painful injures ensue, as well as plot twists and turns.

The film is very excit-ing. Though the monsters are mostly digitally created, they look decent, and it doesn’t stop the film from scaring the sh** out of you. While a lot of it is intense action, there is a great dramatic aspect to the characters as well.

Smith portrays the tri-als of loneliness in Neville’s life very well whilst talking to manequins he dressed up and choreographed in a video store, and telling Sam to eat all of his vegetables. This film also has the best charac-terization of dog I have ever seen. The audience loves Sam, and sees her the same way Dr. Neville does, as everyone’s fa-vorite companion.

“I am Legend” is scary, ex-citing, funny, sad, and over-all a great cinematic expe-rience. Catch it in theaters before it hits video store shelves.

“I am Legend” pleases

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The new MacBook AirA featherlight laptop without a CD drive?

The MacBook Air, Apple’s new laptop, is a new and

innovative laptop designed around the concept of ease of access. The Air weighs in at 3 pounds and is less than an inch thick. Despite this small size, the Air still manages to wield a sizable screen with a 13 inch diameter.

The Air is also very eco-friendly as it is made, for the most part, of recyclable materials. Take for example the alumi-num frame and arsenic and mercury free display.

This new laptop’s feature most worthy of mention is the fact that there is no CD drive. That is right, no CD drive.

However, if you must use a CD to install something on your computer, Apple has provided a way. It’s called “Remote Disc”, essentially using your wireless connec-tion to connect to a second computer which will then transfer over the files.

Other notable features are the Air’s built in above-dis-play webcam, full size back-lighted keyboard, and ambi-ent light sensor. This sensor detects the

amount of light and based on this sets both the screen and keyboard brightness lev-els preserving battery in low light conditions. The bat-tery lasts on average 5 hours while connected to a wireless network.

laptop with 1.8 MHz pro-cessor or a 65 GB Solid state hard drive. The solid state hard drive has less capacity how-ever because it has no moving parts it is more durable and less prone to damage if dropped or jolted. The USB port, headphone jack, and DVI input are concealed in a port that is hidden when not in use.

Also included in the Air is Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and iLife which includes TimeMa-chine, iChat, iPhoto, iMovie, along with many other pro-grams, which can be controlled through a built in track pad equipped with multi-touch capability. This allows you to rotate, zoom in, or adjust an image and advance through documents/photo albums.

The Air comes factory equipped with 2 GB of RAM, a 1.6 MHz Intel Core 2 Duo Pro-cessor, an 80 GB hard drive and a built in speaker with an omni-directional microphone. You can also customize the

By Jason EhlenfeldtStaff [email protected]

Exploring Our BodiesMPM shows us the inside scoop

Dr. Gunther von Hagens’ “Body Worlds the

Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies” has come to the Milwaukee Public muse-um. It runs from Jan. 18 until June 1 2008.

Von Hagens’ “Body Worlds” is the first anatomi-cal exhibition of preserved hu-man bodies, which was made available to the public. This extensive collection includes more than 200 authentic or-gans, systems, and whole-body displays with healthy and diseased organs, body sections, and slices. Authentic human corpses are preserved through a revolutionary pro-cess called Plastination.

Plastination was invented by von Hagens. This remark-able preservation technique replaces bodily fluids and fat with reactive plastics, thereby preserving human tissue in its natural state. Von Hagen has been quoted saying, “I am still developing my invention further, even today, as it is not yet perfect.”

“Body Worlds” is the most interesting and thought pro-voking exhibit that I have ever witnessed. It is absolute-ly a must see event.

“Gunther von Hagens’ ‘Body Worlds’ exhibitions are the only anatomical exhib-its that use donated bodies, willed by donors for the ex-press purpose of serving ‘Body

Worlds’ mission to educate the public about health and anat-omy. To date, more than 8,000 people have agreed to donate their bodies to ‘Body Worlds’ for Plastination and use in the exhibits” according to the Milwaukee Public Museum’s web site.

The human bodies are stripped down to the muscles and deeper in order to give you the chance to view the side of humans that you have never seen before. As unnerving, im-mensely weird, and creepy as it was, I was fascinated and couldn’t look away.

It makes a great class trip, date, or fun memory with friends, whoever you go with just don’t miss it.

If you decide to go to this exhibit I recommend you buy tickets in advance online. The fee is $4 online, and a $5 over the phone. An adult ticket costs $21 for a weekday and $24 for a weekend, excluding the price of the optional audio tour, the online fee or over the phone fee and parking. Two hour parking is free on the streets on weekends.

Tickets to “Body Worlds” are timed tickets, offered at 15-minute intervals so come about fifteen minutes early. If you choose not to, be prepared to wait about fifteen minutes to a half an hour because this exhibit is very popular. With-out an advanced ticket pur-chase your admission is not guaranteed.

Tickets are non-refund-able and non-exchangeable.

However during my visit there were problems with the lighting and heat. For this reason they made excep-tions and said that anyone could reschedule.

The Museum and exhibi-tion opens at 9a.m. and clos-es Monday through Wednes-day at 5p.m., and Thursday through Saturday at 9p.m. On Sundays the exhibit clos-es at 6p.m.

I recommend this exhibit to everyone! You get a very up and close view at exactly what you are, however this exhibit is not for the light of heart. I found it to be abso-lutely awe inspiring. It is a phenomenon that you will never forget.

By Jen [email protected]

Milwaukee Public Museum

What:

Body Worlds Exhibition

When:

Jan 18—Jun 1

Where:

800 West Wells Street,

Milwaukee, WI 53233

How Much:

Students w/ID: $19.50

Adults: $24.00

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Four students participate in All—Star Band

At first, Han was nervous at the prospect of working with colors, but soon found out that she really enjoyed it. Han has discovered that she was finding her identity through art education and self expression.

Han’s hopes for the fu-ture are to move in a mod-ern direction, to innovate an art format that combines both computer generated imagery with studio art me-diums.

The ongoing exhibition is for graduating Lakeland art majors to learn how to market themselves as artists.

It provided an oppor-tunity for the students to open themselves to the lo-cal art community, and for those who attended to be-come a part of the overall experience.

The next artist to give a statement was Atsushi Kobayashi, who stated that his goal was to become a designer. While at Lake-land, he learned a great deal about composition, and photography. Kobayashi ex-pressed his feelings on the importance of learning the basics of composition in photography for all graphic designers.

Although Kobayashi is not sure if he has settled into a particular style, he does manage to put a unique twist into his designs.

”Whenever he was given an assignment, he was very experimental with it,” said Presnell-Weidner. She went on to comment that Ko-bayashi would usually find a way to apply humor to his work, and was very aware of the task at hand.

Interested in industrial design, Kobayashi said he hoped to learn more about interior space and archi-tecture through future job training in Japan.

The third and final art-ist to discuss her work was Julie Han. Han stated that her favorite courses were watercolor and black and white photography.

Interest in computer de-sign and animation is what brought Han to Lakeland College, but she soon found out that she really con-nected with the studio arts.

to ask questions.Sam Copp was the first

to discuss his work. In-spired by Bible stories and art masterpieces from the likes of Michelangelo and Leonardo, many of Copp’s pieces depict religious im-agery.

At one point during questioning, Copp men-tioned that he didn’t feel confident working with col-or. One look at his vibrant artwork would tell the viewer otherwise.

Copp said he hoped to continue with his art, and really enjoyed making art-work on commission. He mentioned that he would like to connect with kids through drawing, and as-pires to teach English in Japan.

Dozens crowded into the Bradley Gallery on the

frigid night of Thursday, Jan. 24 to attend this semes-ter’s first of two senior art exhibitions.

The seniors who pre-sented their work were Sam Copp, of Oostburg, WI; At-sushi Kobayashi, of Tokyo, Japan; and Julie Han, of South Korea.

Each of the three art majors had an opportunity to present their work to the audience. Following the art-ists’ statements were com-ments from professors De-nise Presnell-Weidner and Bill Weidner. Afterwards, the audience had a chance

LakeLand Student art *ConvoCationS*

Spring 2008

Senior Art Exhibit II Jan24–Feb21

Senior Art Exhibit III Mar6–apr10

*opening reception thursday Mar6, 5:30pM–6:30pM*

Annual Student Art Exhibit apr24–May23

*opening reception thursday apr24, 5:30pM–6:30pM*

BradLey BuiLding HourS Monday—Friday, 9aM–5pM

Three seniors exhibit work in Bradley GalleryShowing Jan. 24 through Feb. 21

Atsushi Kobayashi, Julie Han, and Sam Copp are the seniors on exhibit.

professor denise presnell–Weidner and Julie Han answer questions at the reception.

By Liz LangeLayout Staff

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Focus the Nation ConvocationLakeland particpates in national effort to increase awareness of global warming

Lakeland College will soon be taking steps

to increase environmen-tal awareness on campus. By participating in the

national project “Focus the Nation”, Lakeland will educate students and com-munity members alike on the issue of global warm-ing. Over 1550 institutions across the United States will participate in the proj-ect. This project includes a video, a teach-in, and the Choose Your Future vote.Students can participate in this vote by logging onto www.focusthenation.org, and click ‘Future’. The goal of the program is to cre-ate awareness, and come up with real global warming solutions for America.

The 2% Solution video is the precursor to the teach-in, and aires on the Earth Day Network as a webcast on the 30th. The video is co produced by the National Wildlife Federation, and

Events2% Solution Web-cast- Wednesday, January 30th at 7:00pm

Global Warming Dis-cussion Panel- Thurs-day, January 31st at 11:00pm Bradley Building

Choose Your Future- January 21st through February 12th at www.focusthenation.org

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contains commentary from top climate scientists and environmental specialists.

The teach-in is a day completely devoted to one topic; global warming. Pro-fessors will be discussing how global warming relates to their respective disci-plines, and brainstorm cre-ative solutions to reduce their impact on the envi-ronment.

The last portion of the Focus the Nation effort is the Choose Your Future vote, where students will vote on their top five solu-tions for global warming.

Although Lakeland Col-lege does not have the re-sources to support a full teach-in, there is still a need to educate on Global Warm-ing. Instead, Lakeland Col-lege will hold a discussion

panel in the Bradley Build-ing focusing on solutions for multiple disciplines.

Paul Pickhardt will open the discussion with a brief overview of the is-sue. Panelists include Alan Mock- to discuss Sociology, Scott Niederjohn- to discuss Business, Rick Dodgson- to discuss History, and Karl Kuhn- to discuss Religion. This discussion will take place on Thursday Jan. 31 at 11:00am in the Bradley Building, and will count for convocation credit. All stu-dents, teachers, and com-munity members are invit-ed to join in this program.

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Four students participate in All—Star Band

Events2% Solution Web-cast- Wednesday, January 30th at 7:00pm

Global Warming Dis-cussion Panel- Thurs-day, January 31st at 11:00pm Bradley Building

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Students head to Madison for All-State Collegiate

ChoirFrom Jan. 9-11, 14 Lake-

land students participated in this year’s Collegiate All-State Choir in Madison. They performed a concert during a convention for the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association.

“It was a great experience for the students to be a part of,” said Janet Herrick-Stuc-zynski, associate professor of music and director of college choirs. “A total of 91 students participated and there were 14 from Lakeland, so we had a good representation from Lakeland College.”

Herrick not only got to see her students participate; she also put everything together for the choir.

“This was my first year as head of the choir. The state asked me after last year’s con-vention to do it because they noticed my students’ work ethic and they were rather impressed,” said Herrick. “Crystal [Iverson] and April [Wasmer] were a big help, es-pecially with registration for the event.”

“When they asked me if I could do it, I said I would do it under one condition: get Dr. Robert A. Harris to con-duct the choir,” said Herrick. “I studied with him at North-western University about 21 years ago and he was an amazing teacher. I learned a lot from him.”

At Herrick’s wish, Harris of Northwestern University served as this year’s guest con-ductor for the choir. “He was a great conductor. I liked him a lot,” said senior Iverson.

Harris used each song as

an educational tool. He seized the opportunity to teach something in every song they performed. “I use tactics that he taught me. During a part of one of the songs he told the students to put a ‘skull and crossbones’ there. At that same exact time, 14 heads whipped their heads and looked at me. Now they know where I got that teaching method from,” said Herrick.

The choir performed songs such as “Oh How Can I keep From Singing?” “Good Ale,” “The Dream Isaiah Saw” and several others.

“They sounded so great when they performed,” said Herrick. “It was the greatest choir I’ve ever heard.”

Herrick is pleased with the outcome of this year’s choir and is looking forward to returning next year as the head of the Collegiate All-State Choir.

Above: Front Row (left to Right): Nick Nelson, Holly Zielinski, Emily Rendall, Markus Savaglio. Middle Row: April Wasmer, brittany Wierzbach, Janet Herrick-Stuczynski, Clarissa dimel, Crystal Iverson, Cody linder, Chris Gro-tegut, david Geitner Jr. back Row: Aaron Kraemer, ben lutter, dr. Robert A. Harris, Chris Wray

Students head to Madison for All-State Collegiate ChoirBy Sandy Sternitzky Staff Reporter

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Lakeland College band stu-dents Sandy Sternitzky,

baritone saxophone; Cody Linder, bassoon; Sarah Neuman, flute; and Jessica Keller, horn, participated in the Sixth Annual 2008 College All-Star Band.

This tradition was pre-sented by the National Band Association Wisconsin Chap-ter. Held at Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids on Jan. 19, approximately 100 students came together for the concert from public and private col-leges and universities across Wisconsin.

“I really liked playing in it [the band] because it was

bigger than we have here [at Lakeland],” Sternitzky said. This was her second year in the All-Star band. She also preferred this year’s music se-lection to last year’s.

Dr. Walter Rich, assistant professor of music at Lake-land, was one of five conduc-tors at the concert. Along with Rich, professors from UW-Platteville, Edgewood Col-lege, UW-Stevens Point, and Louisiana State University conducted the five songs.

The band performed “Pre-lude & Folk Dances,” “Sleep,” “Chester,” “Symphony #2, 3rd Mvt.,” and “Semper Fidelis.”

To become members of the All-Star band, students must complete an application pro-cess in the fall and be part of their college band.

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All-stars Jessica Keller, Sarah Neuman, dr. Walter Rich, Sandy Sternitzky, and Cody linder.

Uwe Boll officially throws in towel on big-budget movies

(U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. — It’s impossible to say goodbye to someone when they don’t go away, so it came as a relief to many in the movie-going commu-nity this month when we finally bid farewell to Uwe Boll – at least, for now.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Mr. Boll’s name, perhaps you’ve heard of his work. Boll di-rected “Alone in the Dark,” “BloodRayne,” “House of the Dead” and 10 other af-fronts to film so far. Three

By Brad BoronDaily Cardinal

of his films reside safely in the depths of IMDb.com’s “Bottom 100 Films of All-Time” list, and most of the others aren’t available widely enough to warrant consideration for the list. He even once got into a war of words with Wired Maga-zine reviewer Chris Kohler, who gave his film “Postal” a bad review.

At one point, Boll wrote (with his spelling errors intact): “His whole goal is to destroy my business. If he cannot see that scenes are genius in that movie¬-then there are 2 possibili-ties: he is dump and has no

idea what movies are or he hates me and is disappoint-ed about his own shitty ca-reer.”

But there’s no need to worry, because Boll has officially declared he is through with making big-budget movies after his lat-est film, “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,” flopped miserably at the box office.


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Figures. The first flight of my life was 12 hours long,

full of turbulence, mediocre food and a seat about half my size. My books were packed away in my carry-on, which happened to be ten overhead luggage compartments down from my window seat. I slept through “Spiderman 3,” a movie I was excited to actu-ally see since I was broke at the time it was released in theaters.

But all of that disap-peared when I set foot in the airport. I was in Japan. As I hustled along a large glass corridor playing light jazz, people watched as the auto-matic walk-way pulled me to-wards the customs area. Most of my fellow passengers were transferring to other flights, a large number to China, while others were going to South

Korea and Taiwan.I was nervous. True I

took a whole year of Japanese back at Lakeland, but, all the practice in the world can’t hold up to being alone in a country not your own for the first time. I had any and ev-ery single document I thought they would need at customs in hand. A large mess was what it was, but the majority of it was needed at the customs window. They didn’t smile; they didn’t really even look at me until they had to verify the picture on the passport. I brushed it off as “I wouldn’t be smiling either having to deal with rude foreigners too.”

After the first customs area, I was pretty much ap-proved to enter Japan official-ly. I made my way through a maze of hallways and floors. All this just to get my suit-cases. The rest of customs was easy. The only things I had with me were money, my cam-era, gifts for my host family,

clothes, and books. That was it. My plan was to bring more back than I took with me.

Meeting my host fam-ily went well, which was nice considering I was going to live in their home. For the most part, they spoke no English, only bits and pieces such as simple sentences or words. The first question my host fa-ther asked me was this: “Do you drink beer?” I became his drinking buddy. I was only in Japan for five minutes and al-ready, I made a friend.

In between formalities and very slow Japanese, they supposed that I was hungry. Personally, I really wasn’t. My stomach was still turning from the ten hours of turbu-lence they called an inter-con-tinental flight. So what would be THE worst meal to eat on a

queasy stomach? You guessed it. Sushi!

Mind you, I love my su-shi…but when it comes to eating it when I felt nothing would stay down, I became worried. I feared if I got sick, I would show a great disrespect to not only my hosts, but Ja-pan in general.

But as I sat in the back of a strange looking mini-van, watching neon-lit buildings fly by, the sickness faded, and indeed, I was hungry. The adventures of “Round Sushi” began.

I was puzzled at the name. For I knew not all sushi was round. In fact, not all sushi had fish on it, so I was a bit perplexed looking at the sign, seeing the cleverly cut sushi roll/welcoming face smiling and saying the name of the

eatery. Oh the fascination didn’t stop there.

They don’t come up to you and serve you food. There is this conveyor belt that pa-rades fresh made sushi on colored dishes. Each color on the dish designates how much it is, depending if you’re eat-ing on a budget. If something you want is not on the belt, you can call out the Japanese equivalent of “Excuse me!” and tell them what item you want, and it will be made.

My first few hours were a success. No one was offend-ed, I didn’t hurt anyone, and I wasn’t deported. So far, so good. After a few more plates of sushi and another beer with my host father to toast my arrival, it was time to head home. Tomorrow was another day, and I couldn’t wait for it.

From LC-Wisconsin to LC-JapanThis is the first of a series of stories chronicling Mirror staff member soph-omore August Kelm’s adventures in Japan during the fall 2007 semester

By August KelmStaff Reporter

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Timothy Fulop leaving Lakeland

Left: This is one of Kelm’s photographs from Japan in which he won an editor’s choice award in an online contest. He nearly won in a picture.com contest as well.

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For the past five years, Lakeland has experi-

enced an enormous amount of change. A lot of this change has been because of Dean Timothy Fulop.

Fulop helped to create a strong college faculty, as-sisted in the major curricu-lum change from four credits to three, strengthened the faculty evaluation process, and prepared Lakeland for its reaccreditation process in 2005.

At the end of February, Fulop will be leaving Lake-land for the dean position at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. William Jewell College is his wife’s alma mater.

“William Jewell is a school that I’ve been well aware of for a long time,” said Fulop.

Fulop originally went to college unsure of what he wanted to do. He began as a pre-med student majoring

After five years as dean, Timothy Fulop takes new job at William Jewell CollegeBy Crystal PeltierNews Editor

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in history but then changed to philosophy. He knew that he wanted to go to gradu-ate school and decided that he wanted to be a college professor.

Fulop began his academic journey at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he completed his undergradu-ate degree in philosophy.

He went on to receive his master’s of divinity at Princ-eton Theological Seminary, and then to Princeton Uni-versity where he completed a master’s of arts and a Ph.D. in religion.

Fulop is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church.

After teaching for one year at Princeton University and two years at Harvard University, he had the op-portunity to get some admin-istrative experience in 1995. For three years he worked as an assistant dean at Colum-bia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

Fulop felt he had a good experience working with another dean as a mentor.

“Through that experience I realized that I enjoyed be-ing an administrator because you’re dealing with broader issues and more people, and I kind of enjoyed that broader focus.

“Really, an administra-tor is working with people to solve problems, and so it’s very gratifying to be an ad-ministrator. It’s not always easy though, I’ll admit that,” Fulop said.

For five years he was the dean of faculty and the vice president of academic affairs at King College in Bristol, Tennessee.

“King College was a great experience; it was a smaller college and it was good to come here and get experience in a school that was a little bit bigger,” stated Fulop.

In 2002, Fulop came to Lakeland.

“Lakeland has a very strong Kellett school adult program; the two year school in Tokyo, LC-J, I find inter-esting, so this was kind of a step up. In terms of the type of organization, this is a more

complex organization than King was,”Fulop said.

As a minister, Fulop helped Lakeland and its connection to many UCC Churches.

“Presbyterian is very sim-ilar to the United Church of Christ,” said Fulop.

Fulop’s decision to leave Lakeland did not come as a surprise to some.

“I’m not surprised; I’d prefer we weren’t [turning over the position], but Dr. Fu-lop and I have been straight-forward with each other from the beginning. I’ve understood the difficulties in his decision to move along, and I’ve been a participant in his search for other employment. So I’m not surprised. Sometimes these things work and sometimes they don’t, through nobody’s fault,” stated President Ste-phen Gould. “This is a great opportunity for him.”

Gould has been very sup-portive and helpful in Fulop’s decision. “It’s a school [Wil-liam Jewell] that is in need of the kind of leadership that Dr. Fulop will bring, and there-

fore it is a very good opportu-nity for him,” said Gould.

This semester Jeff Elz-inga, general studies division chair and professor of writing, is filling in as interim dean.

Elzinga has held the posi-tion once before for one and a half years, prior to Fulop com-ing to Lakeland. When Fulop arrived, he and Elzinga had meetings often to help keep the transition smooth.

Elzinga filled Fulop in on all the information he needed. “It was kind of like an informal orientation,” said Elzinga.

For the last year and a half, Fulop and Elzinga have worked closely together in the academic council. “Lakeland is small enough, with 60 fac-ulty members, that you end up working together regu-larly,” said Elzinga, “Tim is a very easy person to get along with. He has such a personal interest in the faculty, and we’ll miss him very much.”

Fulop will begin his po-sition at William Jewell on

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From LC-Wisconsin to LC-Japan

A familiar face to Lakeland’s communications depart-

ment has made homage back to campus this year. Jason Irish, former webmaster of the Lakeland Web site, recently left his job at Kohler. In January, he came back to Lakeland as director of interactive communications, a promotion from the manag-ing position former student Neal Grosskopf filled when Jason left Lakeland last February.

Ironically, when Neal left for a new job in Ripon, Wis. last semester, Jason was one of the people Lakeland ap-proached in hopes to refill the position.

“Now that I’m back in an academic setting, my joke is calling it the Kohler sabbati-cal. I took a year for some pro-fessional development, and now I’m back,” said Jason.

Jason said the reason he left in the first place was to see what else was out there and to get more involved in strategic planning with world-class Web develop-ment.

You know, it’s the devel-opment versus the mechan-

ics, the guy designs the car vs. the person who gets in there and fixes.”

At Kohler Jason was a project manager. “I ran two main redesigns of Kohler sites working with big agen-cies in Chicago. We did some badass stuff out there.”

Of what Jason could talk about, he said he launched a web- based video player for the Kohler Web site, and there have been four million video views since.

Though Jason liked the job at Kohler it wasn’t every-thing he was hoping for. He wasn’t doing the web work he wanted to, and getting things done was a slow moving pro-cess as meetings were a big part of the job.

“Meetings are the nature

of corporate culture where there is a lot of red tape, and internal teams have 10-12 people, and you spend most of your time talking with agencies in teleconferences and web meetings,” Jason ex-plained.

Web meetings are basi-cally showing a PowerPoint presentation to others over the internet.

On coming back to Lake-land, Jason said he left on good terms, so the transition wasn’t difficult.

“When I left, I had an ad-visory role in the selection of the new manager of interac-tive communications, and I recommended Neal,” Jason said.

He also noted that when Neal was working here the

Lakeland Web site had its highest recognition, ranking 9th in the country according to The National Research Center for College & Univer-sity Admissions.

“He must have been do-ing something right, that’s a higher rating than I ever got,” Jason laughed.

Now that Jason is back, he’s a lot more comfortable than he was at Kohler.

“Work out here is more rewarding; it’s a pace more my style. Academic vs. busi-ness. I prefer the more re-laxed working environment here with students,” Jason said.

For the future Jason has a lot of plans on working with my.Lakeland, a Lake-land student and alumni web portal Neal helped the college unveil last fall.

“We are definitely looking at my.Lakeland and further working it into the Lake-land site. For example, ev-eryone who has an account on my.Lakeland, including students, faculty, and the al-ums, could upload their own photos of homecoming into a user-generated photo gallery on the Lakeland site,” Jason explained.

Other possible features for my.Lakeland include al-lowing all members to blog,

rather than the few featured on Lakeland’s site.

A redesign of Lakeland’s Web site is also in the works for later this year, as well as the development of better communication tools to use between Lakeland depart-ments. These will be done through open source software and web based digital man-agement tools, things Jason says will help modernize the Web site to include more Web 2.0 functions, and improve the efficiency of managing the web site.

Lastly, Jason says the communications department is looking to hire a full-time web assistant this spring.

“With this new position, I have more of a strategic planning role than before. And look, here we are com-ing around full circle. I origi-nally left because I felt ready for a strategic planning role, but I found at Kohler I was not close enough to the Web sites.

“Rather, I was manag-ing those doing the work. Now that I’ve come back to Lakeland, my new position provides what I was looking for at Kohler, a balance be-tween strategic planning and working closely with the Web sites,” Jason concluded.

Jason Irish reclaims office with new titleFormer webmaster moves back to Lakeland from Kohler Co.By Erik HyrkasManaging Editor

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Suzanne House heads to KansasFormer director of the ELI program takes on new job at Applied English InstituteBy Becky MeyerStaff Reporter

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Suzanne House, former director of the English

Language Institute (ELI) and academic advising pro-gram, left Lakeland College on Dec. 21 for the University of Kansas, where she began teaching on Jan. 7.

House said she took the job at KU “because I was ea-ger to spend more time in the classroom.”

“When I started at Lake-land in 1999, I did a lot of teaching and a little admin-istration, but over time, the administrative work kept growing and the time I had for teaching kept shrinking.

“I really enjoyed directing

the ELI and the academic ad-vising program, but my new job in KU’s Applied English Center puts me back in the classroom, which is where I feel most fulfilled and at home,” House said.

Education major and for-eign exchange student Sul-Rang (Sarah) Woo was able to interact with House enough to appreciate what she had to offer Lakeland, and said that she was “impressed with what she has done here.”

“She understood what students might need or want to say to her…though they only spoke a few words.

“When one of the ELI teachers had a baby, she pre-pared a baby shower, which international students never experienced….She wanted to

show us what the real Ameri-ca is,” Woo said.

House said that there were “so many wonderful parts” about Lakeland, al-though she said, “I’d have to say that the sense of belong-ing was my favorite thing….It was impossible to go any-where on campus without be-ing smiled at and greeted by name.”

House said that she has gained many memories while teaching at Lakeland College. She said that she will remem-ber the holidays, birthdays, and nights of games that the ELI students and she cel-ebrated together.

House also enjoys the memories she has come away with from the summer ELI program. “At the final ELI

summer ELI program din-ners, groups of students who had spent an intense month together would realize how much they were going to miss Lakeland, and every year I was amazed at the richness we had all added to each others’ lives in less than 31 days.”

House said that she has also been impacted by her students over the years, and that they have taught her im-portant values.

“One extremely impor-tant thing I learned from my Lakeland students is the power of encouragement….I appreciated being able to encourage students and then

see them work through diffi-culties and come out success-ful and stronger on the other side,” House said.

House will be able to teach more in the classroom, which is where she wishes to be, while at the University of Kansas, though she has gained many positive and memorable experiences while at Lakeland College.

House said, “Working together, learning together, and even suffering through homework assignments to-gether builds connections between people, and seeing those bonds makes my heart happy.”

March 1. They originally wanted him to come in Janu-ary, but he decided that stay-ing until the end of February would allow Lakeland to be-gin a search for a new dean and possibly hire someone new for the summer.

His plans for the future are unknown. He hopes to be a good dean at William Jewell with a good long term. He’s leaving his options open.

“We’ll see what the future has in mind. If in the future some school needs a presi-dent, that might be some-

thing to consider, but I’m not actively seeking. It’s the same as being a dean.

“Most administrators plan on being administrators; they don’t go and say I’m go-ing to be a dean. It’s usually more of an accidental thing,” said Fulop.

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Left: Members of the English Language In-stitute and the football team participate in a program last fall.

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Above: Jason Irish, a former webmaster for Lakeland College has now returned as the director of interactive communications.

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New assistant professor of history From Manchester to Lakeland; the life of Rick DodgsonBy John SieglaffFun House Editor

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Lakeland’s faculty wel-comed a new assistant

professor of history this fall. The traditional profile of a professor is not always the most exciting. But the story of Rick Dodgson’s journey is quite unique and one to be noted.

Dodgson was born in Manchester, England in 1961 in a middle class family. When Dodgson graduated from high school, college was not the conventional next step after high school that it is today.

He got married to his high school sweetheart at 19, and worked as a plumbing and heating engineer. He owned a solar heating company for some time called Sunshine Services. He has also been a soccer referee, a musician, a deckhand on a yacht traveling the Mediterranean, and an English teacher in Tanzania.

One of Dodgson’s passions is music. He loves singing and playing guitar as he used to participate in a band called “A Nation in Exile.”

He got divorced at 27 and gave up work. He began to lead a rather nomadic life-

style, sleeping where he could find shelter. “I’ve spent a night in a subway station with other backpackers. It’s not as scary as it would be here,” he said.

After some time he start-ed traveling. He spent time in Africa, Spain, and Denmark while finding any kind of em-ployment he could. He would take on odd jobs while travel-ing on ships, jobs like fixing a mast, using skills he obtained as a plumber.

At this point, Dodgson claimed, “I was uneducated—not dumb, though.” He felt it was time for a change from his current lifestyle and applied for college. “I didn’t want to be a plumber my whole life,” he smiled.

He went to Swansea, the University of Wales, where he studied social anthropol-ogy, American studies, and student politics. Though he claims to have entered college because “it sounded fun,” he was quite involved at his col-lege as a full time representa-tive of student officials. Stu-dents who needed help with anything came to him.

The now-bearded Dodg-son has a bachelor’s degree in science from Swansea, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D from Ohio University. He was an

assistant professor of history and philosophy while he was working at the University of Tennessee - Martin. He has had many papers presented at various history conferences including the American His-torical Association Conference and the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Confer-ence.

He came to America in 1998.

His tidy office in WAK 321 has quite a collection of books. “It suits my needs and inter-ests,” he said. “I like the small nature of it here.”

Since Dodgson has taught at larger universities, he can see a direct and definite dis-tinction between classes at Lakeland and classes else-where.

According to Dodgson, the classroom sizes at bigger uni-versities are incredibly huge. The classrooms make the pro-fessors look like they’re talk-ing to an audience rather than a classroom. He feels that un-der the atmosphere of Lake-land, the opportunity is pres-ent to “really teach people.”

One class he is offering this semester (aside from U.S. Women’s History and U.S. His-tory) is his oral history class. It teaches “how historians do

oral history,” he explained. “This is real history,” he

said as he excitedly showed off a large box packed with cas-sette tapes holding interviews recorded on them—his char-ismatic demeanor projecting through his accent.

Dodgson is enthusiastic about teaching the May tw-werm class, the history of rock n’ roll. He hopes many students make their way into his classes and that he devel-ops a relationship with many students on campus.

Dodgson got remarried to Alexandra Leosatos in 1994, and they have two daughters, Amalia and Willow.

His involvement is al-ready blossoming as he was a shepherd in The Boar’s Head Festival, part of the Christ-mas at Lakeland celebrations. Dodgson hopes to be involved quite frequently in campus activities.

“This is like a big family and I’d like to participate as much as I can in this family,” said Dodgson.

Psych Club brings you the Reel Deal

By Ashley England and Michaela HigginsPsych Club Members

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Forget forgetfulness: some helpful tips for studying

How do you feel about your school work and

study methods? The field of cognitive psychology brings several different theories and methods that can help you to improve your memory, learn-ing, and study methods.

One thing that is ever important in terms of success with course work is maintain-ing organization. Organizing your materials for each class, as well as keeping track of important dates is an easy way to avoid becoming over-whelmed with assignments and due dates.

Keeping a folder for each class helps prevent the loss of important papers; keep-ing a planner with impor-tant dates and times for all of your classes and organi-zations prevents forgetting, and helps you keep track of your schedule.

However, there is more to success in school than just staying organized. One com-monly used technique is as-sociation.

Association involves us-ing the new information you obtain throughout your courses, and then connect-ing it with the knowledge you have obtained in the past.

Using the association technique allows you to think critically about what you are learning, as well as enhanc-ing your prior knowledge through new application.

Although “cramming” seems like a pretty conve-nient way to study, it is defi-nitely not the most effective. Psychology research shows that you remember less after a period of cramming than you do when you study the same number of hours but spread out the study sessions across the week.

Another effective study technique is to actually take breaks throughout your study session. One negative result of long study sessions

is the loss of focus needed to learn the material. However, taking breaks allows for the individual to come back and recognize what they actually know, and then what areas they need to study more.

Another strategy to study effectively is to use state-de-pendent learning. The state-dependent learning theory says an individual should be in the same mental state or condition when they are learning and studying as when they are being tested on the material. This includes studying in a quiet place with few distractions, just like the conditions will be for the exam.

Also, as you study, imag-ine what it would feel like to be taking the exam. It is also important to pay attention to your mood and physical state. People tend to recall more information and have a better understanding of it if they are in the same emotion-al state as when they were studying: if you were sad/ir-ritated/or happy while study-

ing, get yourself in that same mood for the exam!

Now, there are a few tips which are age-old and although we may be tired of hearing about them, they are still quite helpful, true, and important.

First, mnemonics are al-ways helpful in terms of re-calling important patterns and terms. A mnemonic is any device which allows for enhancing of recall.

So for example, if you have to remember a tough vocabulary word—like that the ‘cingulate cortex’ in the brain is involved in process-ing emotion--perhaps you can think about the fact that you are ‘single’ (which sounds like ‘cingulate’) and that makes you sad (an emotion).

Second, get a good night’s sleep before any exam and even before going to regular class periods. Studying ear-lier and then getting a good night’s sleep will always be more beneficial than cram-ming until the early hours of the morning.

In fact, sleep helps to make your memory stronger. So sleeping before the exam and after your study sessions can help improve your exam performance.

Finally, remember to eat a good meal. Having a satis-fied stomach will allow for one less distraction in any stressful situation, such as an exam.

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Left: Rick Dodgson’s unique personality shows through in this headshot. He joined Lakeland’s facutly in the fall of 2007.

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Section editor’s position threatenedAn interesting item in the mail poses a serious questionBy John SieglaffFun House Editor

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Well, it’s another break come and gone. I spent

the first week getting orga-nized for my classes in a fruit-less attempt to get excited about them.

So I went to my mail-box to pick up the textbooks I ordered. Along with a slip for my books was a birthday card from my aunt and uncle, my monthly subscription to “Cooking: The Fine Art,” and a very curi-ous envelope with sloppy red crayon writing all over it.

I brought my mail back to my room, took a look at my books, and made myself a steaming plate of pasta with chicken scampi on top.

It was delicious, but not as good as the turkey stuffed peppers I made for my friends. After I was sated, I figured it was time I had a look at this irregular item of mail.

The crudely written words on the outside of the envelope read: “I hate John Sieglaff,” “This is serious,” and “Fear me.”

I drew in a deep breath, as I am not used to receiving such mail, and then opened it up. The outside flap of the tri-folded letter had a skull drawn on it and overlapping the drawing was a warning. It said: “Warning: If you are not John Sieglaff do not read this.”

Identifying myself as John Sieglaff I felt that I had the proper clearance to read the letter. I unfolded it and read away.

“Dear John,” the letter began. “I won’t mince words. I hate you. I know of your position on the Lakeland College Mirror as the Fun-house Editor. It is my firm belief that you are a disgrace to the entire genre of com-edy and should be stripped of your title. I will take over as the section’s editor assum-ing that you will gracefully step down. There’s little to no point in refusing to resign with dignity, as I am certain that your Editor-in-Chief is already looking for a replace-ment. I’ve heard funnier ma-terial in eulogies! Chase and Eddie? What is that? It’s just two talking heads.”

I stopped reading at this point just to take a relaxing breath. My heart was beat-ing rapidly and a shiver crawled its way down my spine.

Even sitting on my bed in my room with the door locked, I felt unsafe suddenly. I felt sullied and in-sulted. The part about the eulogies really kind of got to me.

Continuing the letter: “I know you think you’re funny, Mr. John Sieglaff, but let me assure you, I have what it takes to tickle people’s funny bone (which is located by the elbow since an unfunny person such as yourself prob-ably doesn’t know). Step down or be defeated you lame ex-cuse for a…”

Well, he just sort of trails on at this point in the letter.

Most of the body is

made up of expletives describing my character that

I would have to leave out any-way.

But you get the point. The letter concludes suggesting that I digest a “booger sand-wich” and drop dead.

“P.S.” it said as I looked at the lower portion, “Tell that funnyman Rob Pockat that he can still work for me if he

d o e s n ’ t mind the scent of incense and mas-saging feet. By the way, I’m serious about all of this. Sincerely, Carlos.”

I believe the direction this situation is headed in is called a hostile takeover. I still don’t think this guy stands a chance, though.

I mean, c’mon! I’ve brought you, my fellow and avid readers, fresh, hilarious material.

I brought Chase and Ed-

die, the c o m i c

strip set right here at

Lakeland. And it is so much

more than just two talking heads!

Right?Please, all you fans out

there…Bill, George—send a word into The Mirror for me. Tell them how much you laugh at my stuff.

This Mr. Carlos is not go-ing to take me down without a fight.

Straight from the John

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Out of the PockatA struggling individual coming to terms with the limits of his own intelligenceBy Rob PockatStaff Reporter

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Well, I’m finally a senior; a time when the synthe-

sis and application of acquired knowledge should be a seamless occurrence in my life. So why do I feel so ignorant and incom-petent?

I like to dunce it up as much as the next guy, but lately my at-tempts at logical or intellectual thought have been…limited. (See, I couldn’t even come up with anything wittily demeaning to describe my academic dizzi-ness.)

I remember confidently and cockily strolling the campus grounds during my freshman and sophomore years, knowing that my intelligence would increase ten-fold by the time I graduated. And now I’m just glad to slink across campus without getting beat up by an honors student.

The only reason I don’t feel that I’m at a complete in-tellectual loss is because John Sieglaff is my section editor. When he’s around, I feel bril-liant. It’s just too bad his days are numbered.

College is a time of great intellectual awakening and en-lightenment, yet I feel like my faults and inadequacies are being magnified by the Hubbell tele-scope.

Thomas Edison once said

that, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” May-be I’m simply not sweating enough.

I decided I needed to talk to a professional. With $100 in sin-gles in my hand I bellied up to the stage hoping for some insight. $78 later, a fine young woman by the name of Purple Mountinz suggested that I see a therapist. Maybe Edison was right, because this perspiration thing was defi-nitely beginning to pay off.

Upon telling this new-found therapist of my inner struggles, he simply suggested that if I were a bit smarter my self-confidence issues would be resolved. He then said, “Time’s up, that’ll be $120.00, dumbass.”

I decided that religion could perhaps heal my insecurities and help me to find my intellectual being. I immediately turned to Scientology to give me the an-swers I so desperately needed.

I found a video clip con-taining the unbalanced ram-blings of a well-known celebrity. This guy, in my opinion, was cracked! His cheese had defi-nitely slid off of his cracker. He ate the full can of crazy. He fell out of the lunatic tree and hit ev-ery branch on the way down.

You get the picture.This made me feel pretty

good. I may not be the quickest duck on the pond, but I definite-ly don’t have a YouTube video

showcasing my ineptitude, I just have The Mirror.

As I thought about it, I de-cided that maybe I’m not com-pletely ignorant after all.

Sure, there is things I’m not good at…like subject/verb

agreement, speeling, and punc-tuation? But I am taking classes to improve these areas of my life because I may need to know some of the grammaratical rules someday.

So, if you see me walking

across campus with my head down, I’m having a stupid day and I know it. If you have a chance, say something nice to me; I need all of the mental sup-port I can get.

And, if you see John Sieglaff,

Birds Down1. Pink Floridian bird3. Rhymes with “bow”4. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a

rather chilling tale about one of these birds

5. An extinct bird6. What the ugly duckling

grew up to be7. Wisconsin’s state bird8. There is a large

population of these birds in New York

11. This is also the name of a fruit

Across2. Cereal character named

_____ Sam.3. A crimson colored bird5. Two turtle _____.8. The antarctic bird9. We traditionally eat this

brid at Thanksgiving10. Mmm...Tastes like

_______.

What’s wrong, no Christmas spirit?


18 SportsThe Lakeland College

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With five starters return-ing from a team that fin-

ished second in the nation last year, the Lakeland men’s vol-leyball team is looking forward to another strong season.

The Muskies finished sec-ond in the National Intramu-ral-Recreational Sports As-sociation (NIRSA) National Tournament last April, losing 2-1 to rival UW-Oshkosh.

Five starters are return-ing from last season’s team, including fifth-year outside hitter Matt Martin, and se-nior middle hitters Jared Roh-land and Avdo Omerbegovic. Junior setter Matt Clemens and junior outside hitter Joe Julkowski will also contribute vital experience. Head coach Chad Schreiber said his team has the talent to compete for the national title this spring.

Martin is playing his fifth season because club sports eligibility rules are different than NCAA rules. Athletes that play club sports are eli-gible to play six consecutive years from the start of their freshman season. Martin graduated in May but has come back to Lakeland to ac-quire a master’s degree.

Martin was player of the year in the conference last

season and the most valuable player on the team. He led the Muskies with 363 kills and the defense with 241 digs.

“We got our best player back,” Schreiber said. “You can’t even measure not only getting the best player on your team back, but the best player in your conference.”

Martin leads a strong, ex-perienced group of returning players. Roland, Julkowski and Omerbegovic were sec-ond, third and fourth respec-tively in kills last season. Cle-mens, the team’s setter, led the Muskies with 963 assists. Lakeland does lose one start-er, Adam Plach, who started for four and a half of his five seasons.

“Even though Matt is our best player, one of the things that made us a great team was anyone in our starting lineup could have been our best player on any given night,” Schreiber said. “We are a tough team to game plan or defend against. We can change what we do be-cause we have so much talent and depth on our roster.”

“I’m not sure any of our new guys will play a big impact on the court in stats, but this is the most talented recruiting class we’ve ever brought in,” Schreiber said. “Where they’re going to make an impact is in practice. We’re going to be able to practice so much differently

and so much more aggressive because our second lineup is going to force our best lineup to be that much better in prac-tice every day.”

Schreiber said the Muskies will have a great offense this season. Blocking, versatility and depth are the Muskies strengths, but the team needs to continue to work on serv-ing and serve reception. “It’s something we talk about ev-ery day in practice,” Schreiber said. “It’s not a big part of our game yet.”

The Muskies won their

first Wisconsin Volleyball Conference regular season championship last year.

“I don’t know how much pressure our guys have felt in the past from taking second a number of times and not get-ting over the hump and win-ning one,” Schreiber said. “I think our desire to win one is the same.”

“I think many times you feel more pressure from be-ing defending champion, but I think we would have felt more pressure with that monkey on our back of another second

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place finish. So if anything, I think we have less pressure because we got that monkey off our back and won that first one.”

The team kicked off the season this past weekend, taking a 3-0 record in confer-ence and overall. They defeat-ed UW- La Crosse, UW-Stout, and UW-Platteville. Clemens sustained an ankle injury, but is optimistic to a speedy re-covery.

The Muskies play their first home match on Feb. 1 against UW-Whitewater at 8 p.m.

Above: The 2007 men’s volleyball team at NIRSA Div. 1 Nationals in Kentucky. They fell to UW-Oshkosh in the finals.

The Lakeland College Wrestling team fought

through a grueling four-match schedule at the Border Duals meet held UW-Whitewater on Saturday, Jan. 26.

Lakeland earned a 1-3 record against some tough competition. The Muskies only team win on the day was against Augustana College, 31-13. The Muskies unfortu-nately were out matched to a pair of nationally-ranked schools, North Central (No. 9), 30-11, and Elmhurst Col-lege (No. 25), 33-18, and fall-ing to Chicago by a close 23-16 margin.

“It was kind of a disap-pointing day all around,” said head coach Pete Rogers, “We lost a few close matches that I thought we should have won, but we couldn’t quite pull it off. On the other hand, this is the first off week we have had all season where

we didn’t wrestle as good as we should have, so I can’t complain too much. I think the guys still have the right attitude, and we should be able to build off this experi-ence and bounce back in our next meet.”

Despite Lakeland not doing as well as they would have liked as a team, senior Paul Hartt, ranked No. 4 in the nation in the 197 division, and sophomore heavyweight Adam Sutter continued to do well. Both Hartt and Sutter were undefeated for the day. Hartt recorded two pins and a 9-1 victory, while Sutter had a pin and a 6-2 win.

“Adam and Paul wrestled great today,” Rogers said. “Paul continues to lead this team by example and he’s be-coming more vocal. The guys respect and respond to him. He works hard and makes good decisions. He’s a great person to follow.”

“I’m pretty satisfied with how the season has been go-ing so far but I know I need to improve my technique and

in some other areas too. I’m excited to see how this sea-son will turn out. This is my last chance and I am just making myself ready before every match.” said Hartt.

Kory Theil also wrestled great even though it was his first match back since before Christmas. Theil, who com-peted in the 141 division, was 3-1 on the day with two pins and a 12-0 shutout to his credit. Jonas Flok went 2-2 on the day.

“Kory wrestled up a weight and he looked good. It’s always a question when guys move up a weight and if they are going to be able to perform well at the weight,” said Rodgers.

“Jonas lost to the #6 ranked wrestler at 157 and he did a good job. He might be disappointed he lost a close match, but I think he will learn from it. He lost two close matches and won two blowouts. He continues to improve and by the end of the season there’s no telling where he will be,” said Rodg-

ers.The Muskies will have

another chance to perform at the national level as they travel to the Pete Willson In-vite at Wheaton College on Feb. 1 and 2. The meet will start Friday, Feb. 1, at 1:30 p.m.

According to Rodgers, the Invite is great because of the tough competition. Lakeland has not had a champion since 2002 when Lee Kadinger, our first and only All-American, took the honor.

The Lakeland College wrestling team out willed, overpowered, and purely de-stroyed Lawrence University 50-4 in the duel meet on Jan. 23, at Lakeland, to move to 11-2-1 on the season.

With a rowdy crowd in at-tendance, Lakeland only lost one match on the night.

“It was real exhilarating to wrestle in front of such a crowd. The fans added so much energy and inten-sity in the matches. I was definitely fired up and that help me overwhelm the kid

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Wrestlers’ silver liningI was wrestling.” said Jake Frias, who pinned Law-rence’s Chandler Bellanca in just 1:19.

Hartt and Sutter also pinned their opponents.

“Frias and Sutter wres-tled to their capabilities and really got after their guys and as a whole, we performed well,” said Rogers, “It was exciting having a cheering crowd and it was probably the most support we had at a Lakeland match. It made it a lot of fun to wrestle.”

Junior Jonas Flok also had an impressive victory in the 157 weight class, defeat-ing Lawrence’s Evan Neuens, 18-3, while junior Ben Chap-man fought a close 5-4 de-cision in his favor at 149 pounds over Tony Norton.

“Ben fought through a neck strain that has been bothering him and in wres-tling that’s very difficult. It was a real gutsy performance and I was glad to see him come away with the win,” said Rodgers.

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“Defense, Defense!” is what can be heard from

the Lady Muskie bench dur-ing every game. This season, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Terri Johnson has emphasized the team’s defense and the pressure they put on Benedictine, Jan. 26 was no different.

“We got huge defensive stops when we needed them, and I think we capitalized on a lot of their mistakes,” said Johnson.

The Lady Muskies forced the Eagles to shoot a dismal 29.6 percent from the field throughout the game.

Another big contribu-tion to the win was the per-formance by 5’8” sophomore guard K.C. Blahnik. With a career high 19 points, Blahnik helped the Muskies achieve a 27-25 lead going into half time, after which, they never looked back.

Other Lady Muskies who contributed in the scoring cat-egory were senior guard/for-wards 5’7” Peggy Keiper and 5’9” Brenda Paulson, along

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with 5’5” junior guard Kasey Gussert who all pitched in eight points apiece.

Despite dropping a nail biter at Edgewood 56-52, the team has been picking “it” up. The Muskies munched out Maranatha on Jan. 17. According to Johnson, hav-ing three double digit scorers that game really helped the Muskies get an early jump.

Along with the starters, a couple of ladies came off of the bench and made a big impact in the game. Sophomore forward 5’9” Kayla Moffatt, and 5’6” freshman guard Mary Dene-witz both put up six points off the bench. Moffatt added four rebounds to the cause, as well.

“It was huge!” said John-son about the stellar bench play. “It was nice to see others who don’t normally get a shot, contribute and capitalize.”

Capitalizing is exactly what Paulson did during the Wisconsin Lutheran game, with a career high of 30 points, which led the Muskies to win in four over times.

Outstanding performanc-es from the senior leader, and freshman sensation Dene-witz, who added 23, helped the Muskies give Wisconsin

Lutheran their first egg on the season.

“Mary and Brenda really stepped up big,” said Johnson.

Other Lady Muskies who put up double figures in the points category were Keiper, who scored 17, Blahnik who scored 12, and 5’5” sophomore guard Meghan Chart who scored 11.

Shooting 82 percent from the line, the ladies knew that it would be a nail biter. The winner of the contest would be the team who executed the clutch shots in the end. How-ever, to describe the shooting in the extra quarters as clutch is an understatement.

With just a few ticks left, Denewitz hit a game tying free throw to send the game to overtime. Denewitz kept with her clutch ways in the first over time, as well, by hitting another game tying shot to send the game to double OT.

In the third overtime of the “marathon” game, Wis-consin Lutheran was able to knot the score up with a last second shot of their own to send the game to a fourth overtime.

Clutch 3-pointers from Chart and Paulson, and

key free throws helped the Muskies pull away.

Winning four out of their last six, the Lady Muskies are

on a roll and look to add to their 8-10 record overall, and their 5-6 record in Northern Athletics Conference play.

Above: Guard K.C. Blahnik takes a free throw shot in the game against Benedic-tine. Blahnik scored a career high, 19 points, in the 55-42 win.

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The Lakeland football team celebrated its 2007 season

and looked ahead to the 2008 season at the team banquet held Jan. 19 in Bossard Hall. Approximately 200 players, family and friends attended the event.

The winners of individual team awards were announced. They were chosen by a team vote.

Senior Craig Van Dera was named the Fighting Muskie of the Year, an award given to the player that best represents Lakeland’s pro-gram. Van Dera is an honor student at Lakeland. He is one of the team’s co-captains and a member of all the Muskies’ special teams.

Senior wide receiver Ma-cArthur White was named Offensive Player of the Year, while junior linebacker John Wagner was named Defensive Player of the Year. Sophomore receiver Jacob Heinemeyer was named Special Teams Player of the Year.

White finished his Lake-land career as the school’s all-

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time leader in career receiv-ing yards, and he was named Illini-Badger Football Confer-ence Receiver of the Year for the second straight season.

White also is the first Lakeland player to compete in the Aztec Bowl, which has the U.S. Division III All-Star team playing against the Mexican National Team.

Wagner was unanimous-ly named IBFC Linebacker of the Year, and was one of the team’s co-captains this season with White, Van Dera and Joe Puhl. Wagner was also named third team all-region for the second straight season as he led the confer-ence in tackles.

Heinemeyer led the Muskies in punt returns, including two returns for a touchdown, and was second on the team behind White in kickoff returns. He was named second team all-IBFC as a receiver.

Freshman defensive back Keith Woodson was named Defensive Rookie of the Year, and freshman tight end Tra-vis Robinson-Worthington was named Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Every member of the

team was recognized, and Head Coach Kevin Doherty spoke about each of the team’s seniors. Some of the seniors talked and thanked their families and their team-mates. Tom Kelly read a let-ter from Cubby LaBelle, who was not able to make the banquet.

Doherty also named the team’s captains for 2008: Wagner, Heinemeyer, line-backer Brent Miller, receiver Matt Pawlyk, and quarter-back/kicker Billy Hughes.

The Muskies have al-ready started their offseason workout plan, which includes weight lifting and running. Doherty said formal spring practice will begin after spring break and continue into April. The teams will have five weeks to have 16 practices.

At the banquet he said the 2007 team won the final Illini-Badger Football Con-ference championship and he challenged the 2008 team to win the first Northern Athletics Conference cham-pionship. Sophomore kicker Nic Horstmeier, helped con-clude the event with a 2007 highlight film.

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IntramuralsThree-on-three basketballCo-ed three on three basketball tournament starts Mon-

day, Feb. 4. The tournament will be a two week commitment with time to play the seventh, eleventh, and the final games will be played Feb. 14. All games will be held at 8 to 10 p.m. in the Wehr Center.

Dodge ball“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball,” is a

well known line from the movie “Dodge Ball.” Well if you would like your shot to be “Average Joes,” then sign up a co-ed team of five with Mike Bachar by Feb. 19. The dodge ball tournament will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m., and Feb. 21 at 8 to 10 p.m.

FREE Fitness ClassCertified Personal Trainer, Vijay Gadhia, will be teach-

ing a free fitness class available to all students and staff who show interest. This class will begin Tuesday Feb. 5 at 8 in the morning. Gadhia has worked with many individuals to achieve different physical goals, and plans to work indi-vidually with each person in the class, so he or she can gain as much as possible.

If you are interested contact Vijay Gadhia: [email protected] or at Ext: 1717If need be, contact Mike Bachar at Ext: 1411.

Open Gym! The Wehr Center will be available for open gym more

often! Starting on Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. there will be volleyball and basketball. A schedule for all open gym times is posted in the lobby of the Wehr Center.

20 Issue 1, January 31, 2008 Sports The Lakeland College

M I R R O R

This 5’8”, 157 pound junior has much to strut about

these days. A quiet guy around campus but a fierce competitor on the mat, Jonas Flok knows he has a great opportunity if he continues to execute and perform at the level he has been.

Flok, was the No. 1 seed in his division at the Al Han-ke Invite. He was outstand-ing in his three matches after a first-round bye on the way to his first-ever meet champi-onship. He started off in his first match pinning Dan Staf-ford of Knox College in 5:29. He then defeated the No. 4 seeded Sheldon Hubbard of Elmhurst, 7-1. In the champi-onship match against the No. 2 seeded Jacob Mango of Au-gustana College, Flok pinned Mango for the win in 3:12.

Most people don’t know that Jonas, an Egg Harbor native, is the type of guy who tries to not take life too seriously. He has a sarcas-tic humor and enjoys having fun with his friends, here at

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Lakeland. Jonas is working toward his major in resort management and is planning for an internship this sum-mer at the American Club in Kohler or Stone Harbor Re-sort in Sturgeon Bay.

In his free time, you might find him playing or looking to play different games on ad-dictinggames.com. He also enjoys the time of relaxation by watching “Family Guy,” “Futurama,” and “UFC” on Spike TV. Spending time with his girlfriend, Cassie, is also one of his priorities.

“She adds encouragement that makes me really want to do well, and win matches,” said Jonas. “My teammates Levi and Frias really push me every day at practice as well.”

“Jonas is starting to open up and wrestle to his capabili-ties. His hard work and extra time training is starting to come together for him,” said Paul Hartt, a ranked senior from Port Charlotte, Florida.

Jonas picked Lakeland because it’s a small school and he was anxious to work with Head Coach Pete Rogers, a former Ohio State wrestler.

“Jonas continues to wres-

tle well. You can see a fire in him and since Christmas he came back and almost seems like a different guy,” said Rog-ers.

“I knew I could contend here at Lakeland and I was heavily encouraged by my

After the first preseason meeting this past week,

Head Tennis Coach Doron Green believes that despite lacking participation, the rac-quet swinging Muskies can still bring home a few wins.

In division three men’s tennis, a team requires at least six players to compete. With only four on the roster as of now, the Muskies are going to be down three match points at the start of every game.

Andre Glass, last year’s Northern Athletics Confer-ence Rookie of the Year, re-turns this year and brings some hope. Last season, Glass defeated Ira Meiling, of Con-cordia Wisconsin, who had been undefeated prior to the conference finals. Green ex-pects great things out of Glass this season.

Along with Glass, Darta-nian Taylor returns from last season after having a solid campaign last year.

Newcomers to the team this year are David Mooney and Young Koo Lee. Accord-ing to Green, Mooney comes in having many years of com-petitive experience under his belt and can instantly contrib-ute to the team.

“This will be a year for personal growth and personal records rather than “team” achievements.” said Green, who is excited to work with these eager players.

The Muskies kick-off their season on Feb. 8, as they travel to De Pere to take on St. Norbert at 5 p.m.

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mom to go to school and wres-tler. After I got here, Matt Preimesberger really helped me. He wrestled tough and he beat me up pretty good. It only made me better though,” Jonas reminisced.

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The Lakeland Men’s Bas-ketball team moved to an overall record of 11-7, and a conference record of 7-4, as they defeated Benedictine University last Saturday.

Entering the Moose and Dona Woltzen Gymnasium as the team warmed up that af-ternoon, only one thing came to mind. “Holy… Suring!” The stands were filled with what seemed to be the entire small home town of 5’10” senior guard Aaron Regal.

“I felt more nervous I guess. That was the most nervous I felt for any game this year,” said Regal. “But it was a good nervous. I think it

made me play better. It was exciting to see everybody.”

Play well, Regal did. He scored 25 points during the game, which was the team’s high.

“Tonight, early in the game for the first time in a while, we were defending and we were playing carefree in-stead of careless,” said Head Coach Kyle Brumett. “We played together better.”

The team dynamic was electric the first half, as the Muskies had a dominating lead, 41-28, going into half time. As the Muskies pulled 22 points away from the vis-iting Eagles, the second half was a no less cathartic. Bene-dictine University tightened the margin to a final of 79-73.

“The other team, they’re not going to stop playing. They’re not going to stop com-peting. The other coach is not going to stop competing. And we haven’t had that situation at all this year. This is the first time that we had had a big lead early in the game,” said Brumett.

Six foot senior guard Kris Saiberlich put 21 on the board, with five out of ten from the arc. Shane Grube, a 6’4” guard, racked up another 16 points for the Muskies.

“We need to find some consistency, especially down the stretch if we want to win games,” said Saiberlich.

“We had some guys step up and make big shots, you know, at times when they were making little runs, guys would push the lead back up too,” said Brumett.

Grube and 6’5” senior for-ward Danny Ehnert both took eight off the glass during the game. The overall outcome, however, was definitely at-tributed to the team on a whole.

“I thought Pete played re-ally well. He had some tough match ups defensively with a couple good offensive guys for them,” said Brumett.

This team has the ideal-istic camaraderie of every in-

spirational sports story ever told. Every coach and each player is a key component to the team, which truly de-serves that title.

When asked about his outstandingly high 94 per-cent average from the line, Saiberlich politely pointed out that teammate, Regal, also has an overall 94 percent average.

When Worth dominated a jump ball for the overtime at MSOE, which has not been a team strength this season, the whole team exploded off the bench in collective roar of pride.

The eight-game-win-ning-streak that rallied over Christmas vacation is indica-tion of what is possible. They set the bar high for them-selves, and the team intends to achieve every goal.

Our Muskies will come out fighting the NAC oppo-nents in the upcoming games against Dominican, MSOE, and Maranatha.

The home games start on Feb. 6 at seven p.m., as we face off against MSOE. The “Think Pink,” event, to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research, will take place on Feb. 9, as the team plays Dominican Uni-versity. NICOLE HOLLAND/[email protected]

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