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Small cutbacks and budget tweaks make all the difference in hard economic timesBy Erik [email protected]

With job cuts exceeding over 100,000 last week, some

Lakeland students’ parents are out of work. Students and par-ents alike are weary of the eco-nomic repercussions this could have on the students’ education and tuition fees.

“My dad was laid off two weeks ago. This economy sucks. They said they had to make room. It sucks, because now my dad is in a rut, and he can’t find work,” said senior Caitlin Piat.

Nevertheless, Lakeland holds strong that it will help students as much as they can during these difficult times with tuition and financial aid.

President Stephen Gould said, “I know that we are going to be doing everything we can to work with students for those families who are temporarily

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strapped, so they don’t have to interrupt their education.”

Lakeland is currently the second most inexpensive private college in Wisconsin.

Joe Botana, Lakeland’s vice president for finance, said, “Our Board [of Trustees] has made a very conscience decision to in-tentionally position ourselves to be one of the highest valued pri-vate colleges in Wisconsin.”

Regarding tuition increases for next year, Botana said the recommendation Lakeland is making to the Board of Trustees is the smallest he’s seen in his career at Lakeland.

“We want to keep the educa-tion affordable for its students and their families. We want it to be possible for our students to come back,” said Botana.

In addition to the modest tu-

$$ Lakeland adapts to the economic crisis $$

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated on a grand,

public scale for the first time in Lakeland’s memory this year. The festivities were planned and implemented exclusively by Lakeland students.

Throughout the day, there were a myriad of activities for peo-ple to enjoy, including a slide show with quizzes about Dr. King’s life, an “Are You Prejudiced?” survey, a reflection banner for students to share insights, a candle-lit reflec-tion walk, and a chapel service honoring Dr. King’s life and ac-complishments. The dining staff

also prepared a special dinner in honor of Dr. King. Capping off the evening, the Water Street Hot Shots played a gig in The Pub.

A local school was also in-volved. This year, Sheboygan’s Cooper Elementary School con-tributed pieces from an art con-test they held, and area daycares and boys & girls clubs colored pic-tures of Dr. King for decoration around Lakeland’s campus.

Dr. Alicia Helion’s Core II class from Spring of 2008 got the ball rolling on planning the event. It began as an Student as Prac-tioner (SAP) project, intended to get her students out into the com-munity to gain practical, real-world experience to add to their resumes.

Lakeland embraces MLK dayBy Ross DeRosier Staff [email protected]

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Helion posed the idea of putting together a celebra-tion of Dr. King’s life as an SAP. Although she initially had concerns for how popular the idea would be with her students, she put it to a class vote. The MLK celebration won easily, quickly becoming their passion.

“Dr. Helion’s enthusiasm rubbed off on me, and I want-ed to help spread it through-out the campus,” said senior Justin Medard, marketing major. Medard was in the class that started the project, and he helped throughout its development.

Senior Bob Goetsch, a computer science major who

was in Helion’s Core II class in fall 2008, was manning the banner signing station in Bossard Hall. Goetsch felt that “Even though MLK Jr. Day is on Jan. 19, we should be thinking about Dr. King, his ideals, and his sacrifices every day.”

The evening’s chapel ser-vice, accented by the Bethes-da Baptist Church choir, was brought to Lakeland courtesy of the Alpha Psi Alpha Sorori-ty, which also gave the service an emotional ring. Chaplin Kelly Stone pointed out the timing of the week’s events, with this year’s celebration of

ition increase recommenda-tion, Botana says Lakeland is trying to find an extra pool of financial aid resources to help families who may be affected by the current eco-nomic situation.

Lakeland has also cut ex-penses by suspending raises usually given in October, saving energy, and eliminat-ing waste.

Lakeland also reduced the reimbursement for gaso-line now that the prices have gone down. Most of these ideas to cut costs were sug-gested through an e-mail ad-dress set up by Lakeland’s Senior Vice President for Ad-ministration, Dan Eck. The e-mail, [email protected], was created so students, fac-ulty, or anyone could submit

Lakeland hosts its first large-scale celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

ideas for ways to help Lake-land College save money during this rough time.

Instead of mailing thou-sands of Kellett School schedules, Lakeland has gone paperless by posting the schedules online. The college has also turned down the thermostat on some wa-ter heaters.

“If you’re mixing hot wa-ter with cold, you’re wasting energy,” said Gould.

According to Lakeland’s “Crier,” Lakeland could save $50,000 with initiatives such as the food-waste re-duction in Bossard Hall and the Muskie Mart, possibly a “Trayless Dining” food line, and saving on postage in the mail room with smaller en-velopes.

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Lakeland is searching for a new director of security

after former director Jason Wilson left Lakeland to pur-sue other career options. The school has not hired anyone to take over the position, but it is in the final stages of selecting a new director of security. Despite the current vacant position, the num-ber of security employees remains the same from last semester.

“I am currently the only full-time employee on secu-rity, so there is more work for me to do,” admitted Sam Scharinger, assistant direc-tor of security. “Other than that, nothing has really changed with the overall op-

By Shawn ForsythStaff [email protected]

eration.”Lakeland’s campus secu-

rity consists of 15 security employees.

“This is your home, so why not treat it that way and take care of it the best way possible,” said Schar-inger. “Life is just simply a lot easier when everyone acts respectful and is posi-tive to others in their sur-roundings.”

Scharinger said the main priority is to keep the campus safe and secure for everyone, especially for the students. If there are sug-gestions from students on how to better the community or programs from which the student body would benefit, e-mail or go talk to security.

“I believe getting more involved with the students is important for this job,” said

Scharinger. “I don’t think it is really that difficult, but we do have to catch up on some things.” Every day it’s a work in progress, the thing about it is the students don’t realize that we’re not here to get them in trouble; it’s all about making good decisions in life, and some people de-cide not to make good deci-sions. That’s where we come in and try to help them un-derstand that’s not the best way to do something.”

Lakeland is currently working on setting up a web page specifically for Lakeland Security for con-venience and efficiency. It would contain updated in-formation on security as well as a section for taking care of personal affairs such as parking tickets. This way, students would not have to

New security director wantedSecurity keeps campus safe during the search for a new director

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Changes to the cafeteriaNew initiatives to reduce food waste at Lakeland

Many changes have been made in dining services

this semester, and most of these changes have been for ecological reasons.

The setup of the cafete-ria was drastically altered. The exit and entrance to the food line were switched “to encourage people to get their hot food last,” said Greg Hopkins, director of dining services.

“We’ve had a little bit of confusion at the beginning,” he said, but overall the re-sponse from students has been positive. Hopkins said that students have noticed that their food is hotter than when the line was set up in the opposite way. The biggest complaint from students was that they had to go through the dessert area first.

Another change is the packing of flex meals in the Muskie Mart. Instead of Sty-rofoam boxes, this semester there was a switch to paper bags. This was changed be-cause the large empty Sty-rofoam boxes were filling the garbage cans, which in-creases the cost of garbage pickup.

This change has been seen by students as a posi-tive one. The bags are easi-er to carry and there is less trash in the residence hall garbage cans because the bags take up less space. The only drawback is that the students have to unwrap the paper to put condiments on burgers and such.

Junior Heather DiDo-nato, an employee at the Muskie Mart, said, “It took a

while to get used to, but it’s definitely better for the envi-ronment.”

Concerning the changes made in the cafeteria, junior Andre Glass said, “I think it’s a good thing,” but he also said, “The whole thing about portioned meals, I don’t like that....If too much food waste accumulates, then they will begin to limit the portions of food everyone can take at a time.”

On all of the lunch tables there are cards to remind students to eat all of their food to reduce food waste at Lakeland. On Oct. 9 and Nov. 5, plate waste studies were conducted and it was decided that the school could not afford to have that much food wasted. This semester, Clean Plate Awards will be given to students who con-sume all the food on their plates, positive reinforce-

ment to get students to re-duce food waste.

“We don’t care how much they eat; we just want them to eat it,” Hopkins said.

Dining Services is also hosting a Clean Your Plate Awareness Contest, and gift certificates to use in the Muskie Mart, Daily Grind, or Blue and Gold Dining will be awarded to the first, second, and third place winners. The certificates are worth $100, $75, and $50 respectively.

Hopkins said that if the amount of wasted food is not reduced, Lakeland will switch to a trayless line, which is what many other colleges have done to reduce waste. In this situation, there will be no trays and the students will only be able to fill one plate.

To reduce food waste, Hopkins suggested that stu-dents go to the salad bar

first; this way the students will consume less of the fried food in the hot food line. Also, if you are unsure about a food, he suggests that you only take a small serving.

“Your eyes are bigger than your stomach,” Hop-kins said.

Hopkins said the new setup is designed to make sure that students get to the fried food last so that they are eating more fruits and vegetables.

“Use the system the way it’s set up,” he said.

The plan to reduce food waste should show results if it is working soon, Hopkins said. “If we can reduce food waste, we’ll know by the end of spring break,” he said.

run down to security’s office all the time.

It will also contain infor-mation on off-campus help for circumstances such as sexual harassment, depres-sion, etc. With this extra information, students will have other directions to turn to incase they don’t feel com-fortable dealing with these things here on campus. Their Web site is expected to be up sometime next fall.

In the future security also hopes to set up more ed-ucational programs such as the different types of harass-ment and how to deal with those circumstances. Other programs would consist of substance abuse, drinking and driving, and other areas of safety.

Above: Lakeland's Blue and Gold dining has a new design this semester in Bossard Hall.

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WorkForce Career Fair-Wisconsin's Premier Career & Internship Fair

Mark your calen-dars for the largest

career fair in Wisconsin, with representatives from 80+ companies. Transportation to the event is provided FREE to any Lakeland students interested in attending. Shuttles will be leav-ing Lakeland at 3pm and 4:30pm, Thursday, February 19, 2008. The annual WorkForce Career Fair, held from 4pm to 8pm at Marquette University's Alumni Memorial Union in Milwaukee, is exclusively for Private Colleges in Wisconsin. More than 1000 students from, over 20 schools will be attend-ing. This is an opportunity for students looking for an internship or full-time employment to meet casually with employers from companies spanning the business, communi-cation, government, non-profit, engineering, com-puter science, and techni-cal fields, and to present their resume, education, experience, and skills. Again, Lakeland College is providing FREE shuttle service for any students interested. However, space is lim-ited, so to reserve the seat that my take you into your future, Contact the Career Development office ASAP.

Contact Jess LambrechtA d m i s s i o n s / C a r e e r Counselor920-565-1388 (ext. 1388)[email protected]

Lakeland’s Information Technology (IT) depart-

ment successfully switched Lakeland’s network to a new core system two weeks ago. The installation forced Lakeland to shut down its Internet connections for a brief period of time.

“It was one of the best upgrades here ever,” said Marcus, director of IT. “The core switch is the back bone of the network.”

The IT staff was able to reboot the system with-out any problems after the switch was made. The entire switch only took 20 minutes of the four-hour window that Marcus had predicted.

“I was not unprepared. Emails were sent warning me. Therefore I was able to make appropriate plans,” said Rob Pockat, second-ary education and English major.

“The switch was unno-ticeable,” said Carlos Millan, Spanish and his-tory major.

“I didn’t know they

System switch a success

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were offline,” said senior Kevin Fitchett, writing and English major.

The core switch device, about the size of a micro-wave, has 48 different cords which had to be taken out from the old system and placed back into the brand new system.

Any data sent in or out of a Lakeland-networked computer travels through the core system through those cords. This means all emails, Citrix, and hard drive traffic is funneled through and back to users.

With the new core switch, internal traffic will be better siphoned to areas that need to be faster.

“Before, it was like driv-ing through the Marquette interchange,” said Marcus. “Now that’s it’s opened up, you go there and you go here; it makes it go smoother.”

“We configure it, then walk away and let it do its job,” said Marcus.

The old core system had been in place for six years. This change enabled IT to get rid of other obsolete machines.

John Esch Library's new Easicat system has

guided Lakeland's students for the past three months, and according to Director of Library Services Ann Penke, it is functioning very well. "More books have been coming in via Easicat orders, so the students seem to be utilizing the new system," said Penke. However, Penke believes many Easicat users do not know about all of the system's features. One feature of the new system allows users to spec-ify their searches according to format. Penke cited the popular book "Freakonomics" as an example. The previous Easicat system would pro-cess the inputted data and give the user every piece of information associated with the title and author. In the current system, the user can choose whether they want to search for a Freakonomics book, DVD, or audiocassette. Penke also noted that the new Easicat sends overdue book notices via students’

Lakeland email. Students without a Lakeland email or those who are in the process of switching email addresses might not receive these notic-es. Librarian Joe Pirillo named several other fea-tures of Easicat. The newly added RSS Feed can alert users when a work by a par-ticular author arrives. This addition can help fans of an author keep up-to-date on the author's newly released titles. Tumblebooks, another Easicat program which was available in the old system, provides children books with audio when used. Pirillo suggested the Tumblebooks Application for parents of small children and education majors. While Lakeland pays to participate in Easicat, Penke believes the money is well spent since Easicat gives stu-dents access to 13 other librar-ies. Similarly, the Easicat system gives the community access to the resources in Lakeland's library. Penke believes Easicat connects Lakeland with the commu-nity and has been a positive addition to the Esch Library.

MLK Jr. Day just hours before the inauguration of our coun-try’s first black President.

For the people attending the chapel service, it was a touching moment.

“While Chaplin Stone spoke about the inaugura-tion my eyes welled up a bit. Obama made the MLK cel-ebration more relevant, more emotional,” said Helion.

The common consensus was that it was a day to re-member and a milestone in American history. Freshman Chris Sewell, a non-profit or-ganization management ma-jor, put things into perspec-tive. He said, “Often times

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MLK Jr. Day is looked at as a blacks-only day, but that is the wrong way to remember the legacy of Dr. King. He fought for peace for everyone and learned the art of civil disobedience from Gandhi. He loved all people, not just black people, and fought for the rights of everyone.”

When asked about the fu-ture of the MLK Jr. Day Cele-bration at Lakeland might be, Helion said that her dream is for more and more students to get involved, and possibly even include more classrooms from other community schools to share in the planning.

Lakeland's network now on a newer, faster system

Easicat system doing wellEasicat allows students to check out books from other librariesBy Danny SpatchekStaff [email protected]

Top: Students and faculty gather with Chaplin Kelly Stone for a can-dlelit vigil on Lakeland's celebra-tion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Far Left: A group of students along with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration coordinator, As-sistant Psychology Professor Alicion Helion.

Left: Artwork from various elemen-tary and pre-schools were posted on the walls of Bossard Hall during the week.

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PHOTOOPINIONWhat do you think of the Muskie Grill’s new

paper packaging?

Sam Shepeck Sophomore

Criminal Justice

“It’s more enviornmen-tally friendly. Your food gets less soggy

because they put the paper around your

fries.”

Jordan NiggemannFreshman

Resort Managment

“I used to complain about all of the

Styrofoam waste last semester. So I like it a lot. It’s more environ-

mentally friendly.”

Chris Wray Senior

Mathematics/Education

“I haven’t gotten a flex meal since they

decided to be honest.”

Raychelle DevlinJunior

Sociology

“I think it’s BS, and I’d rather put my food in the palm of my hand.

They need to wear gloves.”

Dana Schmidt & Lindsey Rogers

Freshmen Undecided

“We really don’t care."

Megan LocySenior

Biology

“While I think it is a great way to reduce

garbage waste, I still don’t like it because it does not keep your food warm on your way back to your

room.”

Cathy SimsJunior

Religion

“I like the new packag-ing for two reasons:

One: It is a lot easier to carry the food and two: It takes up less

space in the garbage."

be busy with jobs and classes, especially those who work and take a full load of credits; and in our current economy, it’s hard to take the time to help our fellow man when we’re struggling ourselves to make enough to stay afloat.

And one underlying prob-lem, the one which many don’t want to mention, is that of apathy. With our own issues to deal with, many students might simply not care about the needs of those less fortu-nate. I’ve seen this apathy ac-tively in my own friends, some of whom wouldn’t even take the time to vote in the last election.

“I just don’t care about the issues,” one friend remarked, despite my remark that his vote might help others, if not him. The mindset seems to be ‘every man for himself ’ in the case of many students, which is an active selfishness that goes against the very values of Lakeland College and our ‘Christian’ community.

Even courses on cam-pus are directed at serving the community, with core III classes requiring service ven-tures and introduction to hon-ors creating their own original projects.

Hannah Hitterman, Kreuger Hall Director and Community Service Coordi-nator, has been a big help in getting the word out about service in the Sheboygan area. She receives updates about upcoming community proj-ects, and she also organizes the paperwork necessary to collect on community service hours. But without active vol-unteers, much of the needed service does not reach the or-ganizations.

Students that don’t take part in these organizations aren’t necessarily reaching out to their community on their own, and it’s not hard to imag-ine why: Sheboygan, whose people are so far away from our campus, seems like a dis-tant endeavor; students may

Community service has become an important part

of President Gould’s vision for Lakeland College. His hopes are to have 100 percent of stu-dents contributing to commu-nity service hours, which is a high, but attainable, vision. However, the enthusiasm of students is not quite up to par, and I believe that community service should be an active requirement for all students.

Lakeland is making an attempt to get students in-volved. Currently, many stu-dent organizations on campus require their members to par-ticipate in a certain number of hours each semester. Greek organizations are required to create community service pro-grams, and although sports teams are not required, many coaches individually request that their teams participate in service.

Community service neededBy Jessica LillieManaging Editor

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The values of Lakeland are words that students, es-pecially those that claim to be practicing Christians and those with pride in the college, should aspire to. Underneath the mission statement of Lake-land is a core of values for all of us to learn from. “Lakeland is a just community, where the sacredness of each person is honored and where courtesy and honesty are practiced…” and “The concern for human-kind exemplified in the life of Christ is reflected in the core curriculum of the college.”

At the very core of com-munity service is self-sacrifice. The hungry and the poor do not stop needing help when we become too busy – and in fact, they need us now more than ever. Habitat for Humanity, which has its own chapter on Lakeland’s campus, has seen a harsh cutback in donations across the nation, according to Charlotte News.

The last year has seen a push towards community

projects across America, and one could see the correlation between President Obama’s message and the increase in service. For example, when the President declared Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day as an official service day, millions of Americans reached out to their neighborhoods. While running for president, one of Obama’s ideas for education was to give grants to students who completed community service hours.

I think it’s time for us to shed our apathetic ways and make time in our busy lives to help those in need. As stu-dents of Lakeland, we should feel the active desire to help our fellow man. Our country is changing, and its people need us now more than ever as the recession takes its hold. If Lakeland requires us to be active members in our com-munity, we may learn that self-actualization comes in the form of our selflessness and our desire to reach out so oth-ers will grow.

Why Lakeland students need to be more involved

Chris GrotegutJunior

Accounting

“I like it because it is eco-friendly. It’s a way

to save the college money because it costs

so much to get the dumpster.”

Jason GersmehlSenior

Chemistry

“It’s fine for simple sandwiches, but for things you want to put condiments on, not very convenient, like fries or a cheese-

burger.”

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projects across America, and one could see the correlation between President Obama’s message and the increase in service. For example, when the President declared Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day as an official service day, millions of Americans reached out to their neighborhoods. While running for president, one of Obama’s ideas for education was to give grants to students who completed community service hours.

I think it’s time for us to shed our apathetic ways and make time in our busy lives to help those in need. As stu-dents of Lakeland, we should feel the active desire to help our fellow man. Our country is changing, and its people need us now more than ever as the recession takes its hold. If Lakeland requires us to be active members in our com-munity, we may learn that self-actualization comes in the form of our selflessness and our desire to reach out so oth-ers will grow.

Why Lakeland students need to be more involved

Lakeland Dining Hall Dilemma

As a new student at Lakeland, I find the dining hall hours are troublesome. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I am forced to eat lunch at 10:15 a.m. because I have classes that go through the rest of the lunch period. I feel that all dining hours should begin and end one hour later.

The current hours have forced students, myself in-cluded, to skip meals or get less healthy meals from the Muskie Mart. The Muskie

Mart does offer a limited va-riety of healthy food options for students, such as salads and some fruits, but eating properly often goes on the back burner for college students. It should not and does not have to if our cafeteria served food at better hours. After eating many meals in the Muskie Mart and spending extra on food to keep in my dorm, it is time for a change.

Freshman Andy Cheever said, “I think that lunch should go

from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. because there would be more people to get lunch, because a lot of people have classes straight

through the lunch hour. Who eats lunch at 10:15 a.m.?”

I understand that there are reasons for the existing

schedule. Director of Food Services Greg Hopkins said concerning the is-sues regarding the dining hall hours, “If we were to stay open it would work for a little while, but holding food… in [the] quantities we serve… we’d have to throw al-most all of it away because there aren’t enough peo-

ple to eat it all.”Freshman Nicole Geurts,

she said “[The dining hours] could be changed… so that I don’t have to spend money on extra food for my room.”

It is illogical to have to buy extra food to have in my dorm room when I purchased a meal plan that should be sufficient. After adding up all the costs to attend Lake-land, having to set additional money aside for food makes it increasingly difficult to have extra money to spend else-where. If the dining hours are shifted then I will be able to make full use of the meal plan I paid for.

By Georgiana PorlierStaff Reporter

[email protected]

Dining hall hours can cause trouble for some students

The Underkofler AwardGet your professor nominated

Do you know of a professor that has changed the way you think?Do you have a professor you think deserves some rewarding for their work?

Then nominate them for the Underkofler Excellence and Undergraduate Teaching Award. Simply cut out the attached form and complete the requirements listed. Be sure to return this form to Gwen Schroeder, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The deadline is Thursday, Februrary 19. Now is your chance

to speak out about your favorite professor.

The 2009 Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching AwardNomination Form

Due Thursday, February 19, 2009The 2009 Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award along with a cash prize will be presented at the Lakeland

College Honors Banquet. Full-time faculty and students are invited to nominate a recipient for this award.

Criteria for the Underkofler award winner:

TherecipientisafacultymemberwhohasbeenemployedfulltimebyLakelandCollegeforatleastthreeyearsandisteachingundergraduate courses.

Therecipientdemonstratesoutstandingperformanceandexcellenceinundergraduateteaching.

TherecipienthasnotreceivedtheUnderkoflerawardinthepastfiveacademicyears.Pastrecipientsare:

2004 Adina Schwartz2005 Pamela (Lundin) Engebretson

2006 Lynne Lauer2007 Rick Gaumer2008 Peter Sattler

The James Underkofler Endowment Fund was created in honor of Mr. James R. Underkofler and his 48 years of service to the utility industry as a means of honoring and recognizing the importance of excellence in undergraduate teaching. It is presented through

the Alliant Energy Foundation and the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. (WFIC).

To nominate a faculty member, 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, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, by Thursday, February 19. Nomination forms are available in Schroeder’s office, WAK 205, and

complete nominations may either be submitted in person to the same location or by e-mail to [email protected].

I would like to nominate:

Nominator’s name:

Above: The empty plate. Photo via www.thehealthblogger.com

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New club on Lakeland Campus

International student reflection

The Spanish Club, a new student organization, is

being added to the extra-cur-ricular calendar this year.

The Spanish Club is de-signed to give both Spanish and non-Spanish speaking students the opportunity to learn about the culture of Spain and other Latin-Amer-ican nations and to become familiar with the language. The club is open to all inter-ested students.

Although the club has not met yet, President Kayla We-ber and Co-President Carlos Millan have numerous ideas for activities. This includes teaching salsa lessons to students in The Pub, having Spanish movie nights, and cultural trips (possibly to the

“If we just kept staying in our homeland, we would

never meet each other,” said Cho Daeseon, a student from South Korea whose English name is Sonny.

Since Lakeland College stresses international educa-tion, it provides valuable op-portunities to meet with those from various parts of the world and experience a great cultural transition.

Daeson studied English at Ansan College in Korea, which has an international re-lationship with Lakeland. He decided to come to Lakeland last spring. In his first days here, Daeson suffered through jet lag and the extremely cold Wisconsin weather.

Nevertheless, he gradu-ally adapted to Lakeland and found himself adopted by the community. He made American friends very quick-ly through smoking outside together.

“Everyone is so friendly. They know my English is not so well, so they use simple forms of sentences when they talked to me,” said Daeson. As he walked across the Laun

Center to Younger Family Campus Center/Bossard Hall, a number of students noticed him with a smile. He said talking is the start, and it is his conclusion for finding fun and adapting at Lakeland.

On the other hand, some international students took longer to adapt to Lakeland’s community. “Imagine if you study academic issues by second language,” said Hiro-taka Murai, who graduated from Lakeland College Japan (LCJ) and entered Lakeland in fall 2007.

Murai believes everyone should study abroad, but he also admits that at first it’s harder to adjust.

“In the early days, adapt-ing to class was the hard-est job, more than any other homework or so,” said Murai. Dur-ing the first week at Lakeland, he was terrified of entering classrooms because he knew no one, and the atmosphere was totally different from his homeland.

According to him, group discus-sions in classes were the most frightening experiences he ever had in his life. “I could not even catch what native speak-ers say during a dis-cussion,” said Murai. He explained that it was like a great ava-

International students reflect on adapting to Lakeland

By Kristen Van GasseStaff [email protected]

The Spanish Club is started on campus to teach about language and cultural connections

By Yosuke ItoStaff [email protected]

Above: Members of the Spanish Honors Society (from left to right): Jason Gersmehl, Hannah Lane, Carlos Millan, Rebecca Werthmann, Professor Elizabeth Shumway, and Kayla Webber.

Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago).

“Right now we are hoping that once we have a good num-ber [of students in the club], we can do more community service, like send our group members into schools that need a translator for Spanish to English [or] find some plac-es where adults want to learn Spanish and tutor them,” said Millan.

“I personally would like to see students that are Span-ish speakers and non-Spanish speakers show up to learn about it [Spanish],” said We-ber. “That, right now, is the goal; just to get enough mem-bers to keep it going.

Currently, the club has set the date for their first meeting for Feb. 19 in The Pub. They are looking for ideas from students about activities the whole campus would enjoy.

lanche of words. As time went by, he found

his way and became comfort-able at Lakeland. No matter what, people adapt to any kind of community, even if it is in a foreign country. Since then, he has smoothly passed classes and earned credits.

Murai, now a senior, is putting his experience as one of the international students to account as supporting new international students, espe-cially those from LCJ. “Study-ing is not everything in Lake-land. There is still something more valuable that exists here,” said Murai.

JD BOTANA / [email protected]

Funny February returned to The Pub on Tuesday

with comedian Kelly Taylor. Hailing from Saskatchewan, Canada, he was named the Canadian College Comedian of the year in 2006.

Taylor received a re-sounding cheer from the crowd when he opened by saying, “I’ve performed at over 200 college campus-es, and this is the first one where I’ve been allowed to drink beer onstage.”

Taylor then went on to ask why there is a college in the middle of nowhere. His inquiry received many groans from the spectators and several comments that every comedian asks that question.

Still, there was almost constant laughter, sprinkled with little snorts that Taylor incorporated into his act. In fact, it appeared like Taylor pulled most of the material for his act from things going on around him as opposed to having a planned set. There was a basketball game on TV in the background that he referred to several times before someone turned it off.

When Taylor looked again he said, “Awe, now where am I supposed to get my ideas?”

The night appeared to be a huge success. Sophomore Anna Schumacher said, “He was freaking hilarious. It was a great start to Funny February.”

Next Tuesday’s comedi-an is Chris Fairbanks. Cur-rently living in Los Angeles, he has appeared on “Last Comic Standing,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and “Reality Bites Back.”

On Feb. 17, Michael Palascak, from Wabash, In-diana, will brave The Pub’s stage. Palascak trained with The Second City Com-edy Troupe in Chicago. He performed on Comedy Cen-tral’s “Live at Gotham,” and he was also the winner of Comedy Central’s “Open Mic Fight: Chicago.”

Funny February will conclude with Sheng Wang. Like Palascak, Wang has performed on Comedy Cen-tral’s “Live at Gotham.” He has also toured with Ameri-can Eagle’s “Campus Com-edy Challenge.”

Material from all four comedians can be viewed on the MySpace Comedy Web site.

Comedians entertain at Lakeland CollegeFunny February to be hosted in the Pub every Tuesday of the monthBy Brittney SandbergCopy [email protected]

Left: The South Korean Flag.Below: Lakeland College Japan. Photo via http://www.japan.lakeland.edu/e/

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MEDIAREVIEWS

Slumdog MillionaireDanny Boyle creates a million dollar masterpiece By Jessica LillieManaging Editor

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LC Represents at All Star BandThree Lakeland students attend All Star BandBy Erik HyrkasEditor-in-Chief

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Lakeland students Sandy Sternitzky, Dartanian

Taylor, and Sarah Neuman participated with the 2009 College All Star Band in Wisconsin Rapids at Hotel Mead this January. The annu-al concert sponsored by The National Band Association featured musicians and direc-tors from sixteen Wisconsin colleges and universities.

“They [Lakeland band members] did an outstanding job considering the different demands of the music chosen this year,” said Dr. Walter Rich, Lakeland’s assistant professor of music and direc-

tor of bands.The concert’s bill included

five different pieces: Nicho-las Rimsky-Korsakovs’ “Pro-cession of Nobles,” Isaac Al-beniz’s “Fete-Deiu A Seville” (Feast Day in Seville), Vaclav Nelhybel’s “Symphonic Move-ment,” John Gibson’s “Resting in the Peace of His Hands,” and Frank Ticheli’s “Apollo Unleashed from Symphony #2.”

The pieces were conducted by Dr. James Croft of Florida State University, Dr. David Delyser of UW-Marshfield/Wood Count, Dr. Erik Jan-ners of Marquette University, Dr. Rob McWilliams of UW-Oshkosh, and Professor Terry Treuden of Wisconsin Luther-an College.

The strenuous prepara-tion for the annual concert re-quires musicians to rehearse the music on their own time for several weeks before doing a heavy amount of rehearsal together as a band in a short span of time.

“I spent countless hours practicing. I’d be here (on campus in Verhulst) from 9a.m.-10p.m., but putting so much effort into it made the experience much more sat-isfying. To be able to do it so well was a great feeling,” said percussionist Taylor. “It took a lot more work and practice time to pre-pare the music this year. The rehearsals are very long, and it takes a lot of endurance to get through them, both men-

tally and physically,” said flutist Neuman.

The College All Star Band was instructed by a different director for each piece of mu-sic.

“The hardest part is un-derstanding all the different directors’ teaching methods. They’re so much different. We are very comfortable with Rich as a director, but adapt-ing to the others was difficult,” said Taylor.

“It’s a wonderful experi-ence to see different approach-es and see different interpre-tations of music. It just shows that there is no one way to do it,” said Rich.

All three of Lakeland’s performers have partici-pated in the College All Star

Band numerous times. Neu-man said the music was more difficult this year, but the concert still went well. “I really enjoyed the experience. It’s really amaz-ing to get to perform with so many other talented musi-cians,” said Neuman.

Students are selected for the All Star Band through an application process in which students list their accomplish-ments, honors, and achieve-ments. There is no limit to the number of applications that can be submitted by each col-lege or university.

Rich said, “It really de-pends on students availabil-ity; who wants to go; who can; etc.”

Rarely does a film come along that can discuss

topics like torture, poverty, egocentrism, and greed and still leave audiences quiver-ing with laughter and leaving the theatre in high spirits. “Slumdog Millionaire” does this with a masterful hand without avoiding the troubles and sorrows of growing up as an orphan in Mumbai.

“Slumdog Millionaire” tells the story of Jamal Ma-lik (Dev Patel) and his older brother, who were orphaned

because of the regular attacks on Muslims in India. Los-ing their mother to one such ‘raid,’ the brothers must learn to survive on their own on the streets of Mumbai while avoiding slavery, muggings, and the greed of an impover-ished people.

Getting the once-in-a-life-time chance of being on India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jamal is arrested when he is suspected of cheat-ing on the game show. Bol-lywood’s famous Irfan Khan plays the unbelieving police inspector, and Jamal must retell his life as a Slumdog to prove he did not cheat.

In Jamal’s life-story we learn of Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal’s first and only love, and how the two were separat-ed by the cruelty of the world they live in. Their love story underscores all of Jamal’s ac-tions, and we soon learn that Jamal’s motives for being on

the game show have nothing to do with money.

Director Danny Boyle’s in-herit restlessness has led him to follow several movie genres in his career, from the drug-infused “Trainspotting” to the arguably underrated sci-ence fiction piece “Sunshine.” “Slumdog” seems to transcend classification. A mixture of co-medic drama, romance, and the full-blown color of Bolly-wood lets “Slumdog” exist in a genre apart, allowing for a wide range of emotional re-actions and visual brilliance quite unlike the average film that passes through Holly-wood’s doors.

The most prominent characters in “Slumdog” are played by actors mostly new to the film scene. Patel, who is only 18, grasps his character fully with a performance that will stick in one’s mind for days, bearing the full weight

of his character’s troubled childhood.

The visual beauty of the film is astonishing. Boyle has developed an eye for color that keeps this mostly woeful story upbeat with all the brightness that is inevitably a part of India’s troubled culture. He does not shy away from the film’s Bollywood roots, and he even calls back to some of Bol-lywood’s most heralded actors (such as Anil Kapoor and Ir-fan Khan, to name a couple).

The musical score is also quite brilliant. Done by A. R. Rahman (famous for the score of “the Godfather” and a slew of foreign films), the scenes in the film are brilliantly com-posed with music that en-

compasses a broad spectrum of human emotions. It’s no wonder the film was nomi-nated for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures and Original Song for the Oscars.

“Slumdog Millionaire” is a dazzling work of art, and has earned its nomination for the best picture of the year. The exemplary soundtrack, act-ing, and visual beauty make this one film well worth see-ing.

Slumdog millionaire

Fox Searchlight Pictures Directed by Danny Boyle

Photo: www.slashfilm.com

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MEDIAREVIEWSThe Colorful World of SatomiSatomi Fukuhara showcases art at Lakeland’s senior art exhibition

Satomi Fukuhara, a graph-ic art major, held her

senior art exhibition Jan. 22. An international student from Japan, she came over to Lakeland, Sheboygan, after she graduated from Lakeland College Japan in 2007. This is her last semester at this college.

“Right before the speech, I was so nervous, and I felt my legs shaking,” Satomi said. “I was overwhelmed because I didn’t expect so many people to come.”

She told the large audi-ence that she was from Machi-da, Tokyo, an idyllic town, and she loved nature. She said that she would often play with friends in forests and rivers near her house, and at age six or seven, she began drawing landscapes.

There were thirty-one pieces on exhibition. Of them, her favorite is the graphic art titled Starry Night, which consists of a tall, pink feather and a big eye inside which is a night sky with stars. She explained, “The eye is look-

ing up at the sky, and the bird also represents the sky.”

When she was done with her speech, Professor Denise Presnell-Weidner, one of her art teachers, took the micro-phone and praised Satomi’s skill and efforts as an artist. “She is a very good painter,” she said. On Starry Night, she commented that it’s an “imag-inative piece,” and “the colors are so vibrant.”

“Colors” seems to be the keyword when we talk about Satomi’s sense of art. After the convocation, Presnell-Weidner mentioned that Sato-mi uses brilliant and strong colors. “She had a great sense of color,” she said.

Regarding Starry Night’s pink feather and blue eye, Satomi said that she wanted to use a sharp color contrast. Many other pieces of hers also show daring use of colors; for example, her self portrait stands out because of the con-trast between the red back-ground and her green clothes.

Satomi has dabbled in many art subjects, and Presnell-Weidner says that Satomi will not let difficult as-signments stop her from giv-

ing her best effort.“Even if she doesn’t like

the assignment, she is hard-working,” Presnell-Weidner said. “She’s a high caliber stu-dent and one of the best stu-dents in all art classes.” What is Satomi especially best at? “Everything.”

During her speech, Wil-liam Weidner, who is Presnell-Weidner’s husband and as-sociate professor of art, told the audience that Satomi was “disoriented” when she first came to the U.S.; however, she “took a leap forward.”

He also told the audience that she always puts a stun-ning smile on her face, and he asked Satomi why. “Because it’s a source of happiness,” she said. He gave a deep bow to her at the end.

“I want to be a freelance graphic designer,” Satomi said about her future. “But the problem is, it’s difficult to find a job, and moreover, designers’ salaries are not so high, …but I think I will con-tinue my job because I want to do what pleases me most. Art is indispensable for my life.”

By Suguru TakebayashiStaff Reporter

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Top: Senior art student Satomi Fukuhara explains her art and the inspiration behind it at Lakeland College’s art exhibition.

Left: Satomi stands alongside art professors Bill and Denise Weidner as she talks about her artwork.

Right: A self portrait done by Satomi.

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Student LifeThe Lakeland College

M I R R O R 9Issue 1, February 5, 2009

Student Life

Greek organizations gain pledgesBy Nick NelsonStaff Reporter

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Welcome to Student Life!!!We at the Lakeland

Mirror have decided to add a new section to the newspaper this year. “Student Life,” will include

more student oriented sto-ries and entertainment. Whether you’re looking to read about dormitory-life woes, a zany social experi-

ment, get advice from a peer columnist, or be updated on student exclu-sive events, this section is for you. The section is

starting small, but creative ideas are welcome, so that it can grow in the future. Any and all suggestions should be sent to lake-

[email protected]. Without further adieu, I give you “Student Life,” every Lakeland student’s section. Enjoy.

On Monday, Jan. 26, all the Greek chapters

began Rush Week by going from door to door in the resi-dent halls and encouraging everyone interested in pledg-ing to meet with the Greeks in the hall lounge.

The Greeks introduced themselves and explained what they do in their individ-ual chapters. This day was

meant to form a connection between the Greeks and those interested in pledg-ing. On Tuesday, each chap-ter brought its personal shirts and paddles to show off and to help interested students understand what each fraternity and soror-ity is all about.

“Rush Week has been going on ever since I’ve been here, which has been about ten years,” said IGC (Inter Greek Council) Presi-dent Sally Bork. “But it has probably been going ever

since the first Greek chapter started on campus, so that would mean it’s been about 76 years.”

Wednesday was the pop-ular Punchers and Smok-ers. “If you don’t smoke or if you’re allergic to punch then you don’t have to do it,” said Bork. “It’s just an event to show the Greek chapters who is serious about pledging.”

Thursday included a trip to the local movie theatre to see either “Bride Wars” or “Last Chance Harvey.”

Before venturing off to

the theatre, all the chapters had to submit a list of inter-ested pledge candidates by 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29 so Bork could check to see if candidates were eligible to pledge. If Bork gives the thumbs up, then those people are in the clear to pledge. If the candidate’s GPA is below 2.2, then pledging is not an option. Bids are given out to those who are in the clear.

On Friday, Jan. 30, there were 13 pledges overall for the spring class. On Friday night there was a party in

The Pub, which signaled the end of Rush Week and the be-ginning of the pledge period.

The Greeks also ad-dressed questions about what being Greek is, and what it isn’t, “…like clearing up all stereotypes against Greeks and letting people know it’s not just about partying,” said Bork. “There is so much be-hind-the-scenes that no one sees.” “This is how we ex-pand,” Megan Locy a member of Phi Delta Omega talking about Rush Week.

You can’t judge a man based on

the odor of his sweater, but on the thread count

of its fabric.

With our first Student Life section underway,

a few of us at The Mirror and our friends decided to under-go a fun social experiment. It all started with something The Mirror’s editor-in-chief, Erik Hyrkas, confessed to his roommate, Andre Glass. “You know, if I could get away with it, I’d wear the same sweat-shirt all week.” And thus, the investigation began.

Seven Lakeland students picked one of their favorite long sleeve shirts/sweat-shirts/sweaters and wore it Monday through Friday last week. Here were the rules.

1. You must wear the shirt in public all week.

2. You cannot wash it.3. You may Febreze the

shirt to disguise odor.4. You cannot tell any-

one about the experiment.Our test subjects were

Erik Hyrkas, Andre Glass, Carlos Millan, Jamie

Schmidt, Katie Koch, Alex Giese, and Jessica Lillie. They each picked a sweater or sweatshirt, well-aware they would have to wear it for the rest of the week. All of the subjects successfully completed the experiment with varying results.

We were surprised by the dichotomy between female and male subjects. The reac-tions towards male students were rather apathetic.

“Only one per-son noticed,” said Hyrkas, “and he shrugged it off say-ing he figured I was just a col-lege student who didn’t have clean laundry.”

Giese had similar re-sults. “Unfortunately, no one seemed to notice or care. Those who did notice prob-ably didn’t bother or have the guts to tell me. Most people are too reserved to say some-thing demeaning like that.”

However, the reactions to our female subjects were quite different, and some-times even professors noticed the repeated clothing.

“Peter Sattler (my hon-ors professor) said he noticed because he liked the colors in my sweatshirt,” said Koch. She noted that other friends saw the repetition but didn’t think much of it.

Schmidt seemed to have the boldest response to her choice in clothing. “Wednes-day, I got my first result. It was right before my Spanish

class, and there were only two other people in the room besides me. The girl was making a comment about me and was not hiding it at all. I know this because she was looking right at me when she said it. She said ‘I wish I could go shopping for new clothes, but I don’t have any money.’ I caught the sarcasm from the smug smirk she gave me when she said ‘new clothes.’”

She received an even more extreme comment on the final day of the experi-ment. “Before my Spanish class, my friend came up to me and said, ‘Jamie, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but I’ve noticed that you have been wearing the same shirt a lot this week, and I just want you to know that if you need money for laundry, you can ask me!’”

Our findings support the theory that men on this campus are able to repeat sweatshirts more often than

women without getting nega-tive feedback. For the women, however, it’s another story. Assumptions were made to-wards both parties, but nega-

tive assumptions seem to curve in the direc-tion of women. Several people felt compelled to

intervene with the women’s clothing, while Glass was the only male to receive a com-ment from a peer about the repeated fashion offense.

“My friend Tom asked me, ‘Why are you wearing that again?’ I just yelled, “Because I like it,” Glass remarked.

What was the point of this, you ask? Turns out,

The Lakeland sweater experiment

Hyrkas’s dream of getting away with wearing the same shirt all week can really come true. However, for women, it’s very unlikely. At least, not on Lakeland’s campus.

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Along with the realizations that I may not be college

material and that I am not a snappy dresser, it has also recently come to my attention that perhaps I was not born to be a musician.

As some of you may have already g a t h e r e d from spotting me about campus, lugging a six-string, electrical acoustic around, I dabble a bit with guitar. And by dabble I mean suck.

Not that I ever had any outlandish fantasies of becoming the next Hendrix, but I was rather crushed to find that I am without any rhythm.

The reality of my rhythmic challenges penetrated my brain in a rather piercing manner, taking the form of my guitar instructor’s half-frustrated and half-shocked

inquiry, “No girl ever taught you to dance?”

Tapping out the rhythm with my foot proved to be as difficult as studying for an Irish literature final while watching Family Guy. Alas, I can barely task—much less multitask.

In his outrage, my instructor dismissed me from his sight. And as I gracelessly walked away, he shouted to me my next assignment. “Learn The Box Waltz, you flat-footed oaf!”

I immediately began to consider whom I might request for my Waltzing partner and trainer. I envisioned my chosen one and myself holding one another in an intimate embrace—our heads resting on the shoulder of the other as we flawlessly four-step across the floor. “O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?” (I guess some of the Irish lit. must have stuck.)

My plan was fool-proof. It would be perfect!

However, after six curt rejections, three open palms to the face, and one restraining order, I regrettably settled

on my esteemed and eerily insistent former Fun House columnist, Rob Pockat. What on earth I was thinking…I don’t know. But damn, is that man persuasive!

“It’s easy,” he told me while gingerly placing his arm around my shoulder, a tape of ABBA’s Dancing Queen queued up in the background. “Just put one foot in front of the other.”

“Isn’t that walking?” I asked while he guided my hand to a region around his hip.

The first few minutes went fine, and I even started to get the hang of it, until Rob nestled his head on my shoulder and began counting to four in a mesmerizing, repetitious whisper. Then, gazing into my eyes, he said he was going to teach me how to do the collegiate shag.

I’d rather not disclose any further details about this ordeal. But for the sake of closure, let’s just say that if you see Mr. Pockat around campus in the near future, don’t be surprised to see a swollen, plum discoloration encircling his left eye. How was I to know the collegiate shag was an actual dance step?

In continuance of my search for a proper tutor in rhythm, I decided to look to some of the great dancers in American history: Gene Kelly, M.C. Hammer, Ellen DeGeneres. But I then

thought of the true dance master and commenced

at once to analyze, with uninterrupted intentness, old Fred Astaire films.

And I dare say that after reviewing “Swing Time,” “Holiday Inn,” and “Let’s Dance” repeatedly, I had mastered, not just The Box Waltz, but the art of dance entirely.

By the time the following week

rolled by, I confidently balance-stepped, cross-swiveled, and figure foured into my guitar lesson to demonstrate in front of my instructor what newfound

skills I possessed. But as soon as my lesson

began and my instructor requested I sit down and begin to play, things went terribly awry.

Now able to perform any number of dances ranging from The Jitterbug to The Tango, I felt well-accomplished in the rhythm department. However, as my leg went to tapping at a pace paralleled to a metronome, I had forgotten the chords to the piece I was performing.

Unfortunately, not even the cyclical studying of Fred Astaire’s moves abetted my guitar-playing abilities.

Woe betide me, I suppose it’s time to set down the guitar and set forth on new unexplored endeavors like studying harder and dressing snappier. I just got to keep it in my single-tasking mind—only one venture at a time.

Rhythm and BluesHow John Sieglaff got his groove back

Straight from the John

By John SieglaffFun House [email protected]

Across2. A type of comedy performed by

the Three Stooges, Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin

4. A witty remark; good-natured ridicule

5. Improvisational comedy based on prompts; comedy ______

8. The last comic ________12. A woman who tells jokes for a

living13. Humorous discourse intended

to amuse14. One’s capacity for expressing

something amusing or funny; a sense of _____

15. Comedy of ______

Down1. a witty remark2. A phrase first used in

1953 referring to situation comedy

3. A facial expression displaying no emotion or humor (compound word)

6. Fictional work blending the genres of tragedy and comedy; serious action with a happy ending

7. The audible expression of merriment or happiness

9. A short, humorous story with a punch line

10. The use of ironic comedy to portray a person or institution as ridiculous

11. Slang for the daily comic strips

The Last Laugh

Above, Below, and Lower Left: An awkward moment shared between former Fun House columnist, Rob Pockat, and myself as my goal to acquire rhythm slowly and uncomfortably came to fruition. Photos by Erik Hyrkas.

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Google: from search engine to deityAll hail GooooooogleBy Alex GieseStaff Reporter

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Google: that monstrously popular search engine

that always delivers porn on the first result. (Not to be con-fused with googol, that one really, really, big number with a hundred zeroes.)

It’s hard to imagine life without Google. How many times has your friend Google saved you from procrastina-tion with research being a click away?

If you’ve ever used Google’s image service, you know it’s a sexual deviant. Oh, and don’t ever Google image “brown re-cluse.” EVER. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Regardless of its explicit and potentially psychologically damaging image repository, if you ask anyone down the street, they’ll say Google is the greatest thing since Chia pets.

Google seems to be so awe-some that a couple of folks have deified it (www.thechur-chofgoogle.org). Here lie sev-eral arguments that Google “is the closest humankind has ever come to directly experi-encing an actual god (as typi-cally defined).”

BLASPHEMOUS! Who in their right mind

would call a piece of the Inter-net godly?! Jesus, Buddha, and I are pretty good pals, and we all think calling a piece of soft-ware “god” is quite ridiculous. However, I do wonder if Goog-lists have wooden G’s hanging above their door instead of a cross.

You know, people think that Google is the hizzie-rizzy-

off-the-bo-shizy. I beg to differ. With a little

luck and a little research, I’ve found nearly the opposite.

Well…okay, actually, just put the word “Google” into Google.

Still, I have found that those folks at the Googleplex (Google’s company headquar-ters) have some pretty nasty ambitions. I’d argue that they’re going for world domi-nation with the front that they are merely a “god.”

First, look at Google’s un-official motto: “Don’t be evil.” This is one of the oldest—and least effective—tricks in the book: hide the obvious by stating the opposite. It means they probably are, in fact, undoubtedly evil. It’s like me wearing a shirt saying, “I am not a jackass.”

Another example is that Google’s maps provide a new “Street View” feature, which puts you in streets and high-ways in a virtual world of fuzzy cars and blurry people. Based on your Internet con-nection, you may be able to travel at the blazing speed of crawling.

Google hired some creep to go along every last street and take 360° pictures of cit-ies across the nation. He’s probably still out there. May-be even on the Lakeland Cam-pus… BOO!

I found my house and sev-eral of my friends—you prob-ably can too—and I never felt more scared.

The idea that someone had taken a photo of my house and placed it on the Internet made me feel that my privacy had been kidnapped and mer-

cilessly beat-en with my own Ethernet cord.

The folks at Google with their “[Don’t] Don’t be evil” policy MAY take the photo of your house down if you have concerns, but it’s highly unlikely. Before you know it, they’ll be photo-graphing the insides of our houses too!

Now that they’re mapping every Main Street in civiliza-tion, they’ve decided to take it one step further by mapping out the ocean. No, really.

While I find it exciting that I can find the sunken Titanic on any given day, the only excuse for this I can think of for something so unneces-sary is: 1) They’re trying to find Atlantis and plunder all they’re worth or enslave the Atlantians, 2) Plot a massive, international attack involving submarines or 3) They’re just running out of ideas.

Another thing to consider is how Google’s Gmail service and the searching service it-self, never delete anything. They say it’s for personalized advertising. I say they’re us-ing it to keep dirt on every-one.

Don’t be surprised if you receive a knock on your door the next day and it’s the folks at Google wielding your dirty

laundry. Or, if you too have been spying on your friends and enemies, they may want to recruit you for their master plan.

Think about it: with the information you unwillingly provide, they have power over everyone!

With access to anything and everything—our address, our knowledge, our sexual fe-tishes and fantasies—we may very well be doomed. I rue the day that we end up praying at Googlist Churches every Sun-day, reading Google Bibles and praying before a gigantic G. Maybe those Googlists had a point.

So, if Google were a god, what kind of god would It be? It’s the informational equiva-lent of several dozen hydro-gen bombs; what could be done with the information It has gathered is unfathomably scary. Are we not, to a degree, at Its mercy? Can Google even be stopped? With such a gloomy outlook, I think not.

Thus, let us pray to Google in hopes that It will forgive us for not worshiping It earlier with this prayer found from The Church of Google’s Web-site:

Our Google, which art in cyber-space,

Hallowed be thy domain. Thy search to come, Thy results be done, On my computer as it is in the

WWW. Give us this search our daily

results. Forgive us our spam, as those

that have spammed up against us. And lead us not into infected

sites, But deliver us from Trojans. For thine search engine is the

greatest, and the power, and the glory, For search after search. Amen.

Can you spare some change, please?By Brandon EzzardStaff Reporter

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It’s been a little over two weeks since Barack Obama

became president of the United States, and quite frankly, I am disappointed. Instead of giv-ing former president “Dubya” two weeks’ notice before he was evicted from the White House, Obama gives him barely five hours before hav-ing his belongings left out on the street curb.

Then later, instead of immediately starting work as soon as he was sworn in, Obama decided to take the day off so he could go to ten late-night balls and dance away. I was under the impres-sion that as soon as he read the oath of office, he would

use his magical powers to make everything perfect.

That brings me to the one word Obama used through-out his campaign: Jumanji! No wait, I mean Change. Not only has nothing changed, things may have actually got-ten worse.

For example, did you know they are closing down Guantanamo Bay? Soon, all the supervillans from Dr. Doom to Toy Man will wreak havoc on the world once more. But that’s the least of concerns when it comes to Obama’s so-called promise of change. Here are just two of the changes that should have happened by now.

First, since Obama wants to distance himself from the previous administration, maybe he should hurry up

and bring a certain evil man to justice. For years, this dia-bolical enemy of the U.S. has managed to evade capture, hiding in many spots and even being so bold as to hide in crowds in broad daylight.

So I ask the question that everyone has wanted to know for a long time, Mr. President: Where’s Waldo? Taxpayers have spent hundreds of dol-lars on those books trying to find that candy-cane sweater-wearing jerk only to have him be one step ahead of everyone else.

Rumor has it, Waldo was last seen hiding behind a group of mimes and a break-dancing dwarf on the surface of the moon. I think it’s time Obama makes good on his word and brings Waldo in once and for all. And when

that dark chapter in Ameri-can history is over, Carmen Sandiego, you’re next.

The other change that needed to happen on day one has to do with the media in particular— television. Reali-ty shows, or as they are known in the medical world, emetics, have plagued and tainted the innocence of television for too long. I mean really, how many times does VH1 think we want to see Brett Michaels try to find his one true STD?

I’m pretty sure since Obama is president he has the power to control all media. I mean, he most certainly put a spell on CNN during his cam-paign. He should not only ban all reality shows (not to men-tion banning Tyler Perry from making any more shows or movies), but he should man-

date that only original shows can be seen from now on.

I mean, who wouldn’t want to see shows such as Saved by the Bell: The Prison Years, The Stephen Hawking Variety Hour, or Home Alone: The Series?

I don’t expect Obama to make these changes; he’s too busy trying to fix the economy or some other unimportant stuff like that. Of course, this is also the same guy who stole the phrase “Yes We Can” so blatantly from Bob the Build-er.

But I will try to give the new president another month to change things around. But after that, if he doesn’t, I say we go back and see if we can’t exchange him for a new pres-ident—or at least store credit at Bed, Bath and Beyond.

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A year after they won the national championship,

the Lakeland men’s volley-ball program is working hard to duplicate their dream sea-son.

This challenge is not a new goal for Chad Schreiber, who begins his thirteenth season as head coach of the program he created in 1996.

“Winning the national championship is always a goal,” said Schreiber, whose record with the men’s team is 349-144-10. “I’ve tried to win one for the last 14 years. I tried to win the national championship with the wom-en in the fall. It’s always my goal.”

Last spring, the Muskies beat Illinois 25-23, 27-25 in Dallas, Tex., in the champion-ship match to win the NIRSA Division I National Tourna-ment for the first time. The Muskies finished the season with a 52-8 record.

Schreiber said that win-ning the national title taught the returning players a lot about what it takes to be the best team at the end of the season.

“I think it impacts this team a lot,” Schreiber said. “I think every experience in life, even losing, would impact this team a lot. The returnees realize how many things have to go right and how much work and health and focus goes into it.”

The national title also helped Schreiber when he was talking to recruits.

“I realize the luxury a coach has when you come off winning,” he said. “Right now it’s instant credibility with how we trained and how we put lineups together because what we just did was success-ful.”

Lakeland has lost talent-ed players from last season, including Matt Martin, who was the 2008 NIRSA Player of the Year, and three other starters, setter Matt Clemens, libero Shawn Voelz and right side hitter Andrew Lietz.

But Lakeland has experi-enced players returning this season, as well. The Muskies are counting on some young-er talent to contribute right away.

The Muskies co-captains are senior outside hitter Joe Julkowski (6-foot-4, Carol

Stream, Ill.) and senior mid-dle hitter Avdo Omerbegovic (6-7, Chicago, Ill.).

Julkowski has started all four years and was first team All-America last year, as well as a member of the All-Wis-consin Volleyball Conference (WVC) and the All-Midwest Ten teams. He led Lakeland with 56 service aces and 272 digs last season.

Omerbegovic was also a first team All-America and was All-WVC. He had a .348 hitting percentage and 208 kills in 2008.

Another big name return-ing for Lakeland is senior mid-dle hitter Jared Rohland (6-6, Fort Atkinson, Wis.), who was second-team All-America and All-WVC last season. He led Lakeland in kills (391) and hitting percentage (.402).

“We’ve got a lot of guys who have led us for years – Joe Julkowski, Avdo Omer-begovic and Jared Rohland,” Schreiber said. “They’re just incredibly talented. Any team could be built around those three individuals.”

Several other returning players will see a lot of play-ing time this season including sophomore right side hitter Chris Kubacki (6-4, Vernon Hills, Ill.), outside hitters Perry Ringfelt (6-foot junior, Elwood, Ill.) and Marko Grgic (6-1 sophomore, Chicago, Ill.) and sophomore middle hit-ter Beau Bradshaw (6-6, Oak Lawn, Ill.), who was most valuable player of the JV con-ference last season.

Two freshmen are in Lake-land’s starting lineup – 5-7

libero Andy Cheever (Mil-waukee, Wis.) and 6-1 setter Mitch Wiskirchen (Schaum-burg, Ill.) Junior right side hitter Dan Judkins (6-4, Kaukauna, Wis.), a trans-fer student, and freshmen outside hitter Chris Guimon (6-3, Bartlett, Ill.) will also get plenty of playing time.

“There are a lot of peo-ple we are counting on,” Schreiber said. “We literally have 12-13 guys of our 18 that could be in the starting lineup this year. We have 12-13 guys that we feel could get in the lineup if we have to to win with them.”

It is early in the season – Lakeland had only played one match at press time – but Schreiber said he is get-ting a feel for what his team does well and areas that need some work.

“Our team is hitting real hard and real well right now,” Schreiber said. “We’re jumping well, hitting with velocity, and putting a nice attack together.

“We need to find bal-ance where we can serve consistently aggressive, and that’s not the case right now. Blocking can be a lot better and will be – that’s always a learning curve when you put new people together.

“Every team will always say they’d like better ball control. Our ball control will get better as our consis-tently aggressive approach to serving and our practices get better too.”

IntramuralsThere will be 3-on-3 basketball leagues

for men and women beginning on February 9 tentatively at 8 and 9 p.m. Sign up sheets are available in the Campus Center at the front desk. The league is scheduled for Feb-

ruary 10-12 and 18 at 9-10 p.m.

Chasing the same dream

By Brad WilkStaff [email protected]

Volleyball teamsets its sights ontitle repeat

Above: Avdo Omerbegovic, a senior, was a first team All-America last season and is a big defensive presence for the Muskies.

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Above: Joe Julkowski, a senior, has been a four year starter and was a first team All-America last sesason when the Muskies won the national championship.

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Chemistry majorsBy Jake FriasStaff [email protected]

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Top: The women’s basketball team gets pumped up before a recent game. Bottom: Becca Paulson attempts a free throw.

Right: Freshman Jake Schwarz goes up for a shot during a recent game.

Teamwork has Muskies competing for NAC title

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Sitting at third place in the North Division of

the Northern Athletics Conference, the Lakeland College women’s basketball team can credit a lot of their success this season to the great chemistry on the team, according to head coach Teri Johnson.

“We have a great group of young ladies who continue to work hard and get after it in practice, and that’s really half the battle,” Johnson said. “We have a close-knit team [in which everyone] has each oth-er’s backs and wants to make each other better.”

Tallying a 14-5 overall record, and a 9-3 conference record thus far, the Muskies are just two wins away from surpassing their 15-11 record of last season. Along with the great team chemistry that has contributed to the successful season, a lot of credit goes to

the stellar bench players.“We have a pretty deep

bench. Our players coming off the bench are just as strong as [our starters],” said Johnson.

Throughout the season, many players have not only stepped up on the court but in leadership roles as well. Some of these players include ju-niors K.C. Blahnik and Katie Kilton, as well as the lone se-nior of the team, Kasey Gus-sert.

“K.C. Blahnik is a return-ing all-conference honorable mention player. She is just a steady player for us, a great rebounder, and great offensive player as well,” said Johnson.

“Kasey Gussert has got-ten better with her shooting ability. Katie Kilton brings a lot of leadership to our pro-gram and has continued to improve every week. A good strong group of upperclass-men has been the core of our success as well.”

All of these keys to suc-cess have come together at the

right time for the Muskies, es-pecially on Jan. 31 when they knocked off Wisconsin Lu-theran, 55-52.

“We knew it was going to be a good game. It’s always fun playing against Wis. Lu-theran. They are always a talented team,” said Johnson. “It was a great game back and forth. I thought we did a great job of attacking them in the first half.”

Leading the way for the Muskies was Blahnik who led all scorers with 16 points. Also contributing in the scoring de-partment were freshman Au-tumn Gaylor with ten points and junior Chelsea Coenen with nine points.

Going into the home stretch of the season, the Muskies need to maintain their focus as they work to-wards their goal of winning a conference title, according to Johnson.

“We have got to take one game at a time and not look too far ahead. We need to ac-

complish our goals for [the game at hand], and then move on from there,” said Johnson. “It’s always crucial that a team gels going in to the second half of the season. It’s a long season and [main-taining focus] is always the battle for the winter sports.”

The Muskies will look to add another win to their total tonight as they take on Maranatha Baptist Bible College at home at 7 p.m.

By Danny SpatchekStaff [email protected]

Basketball team’s youth showsFreshman forward

Jake Schwarz had team highs with 25 points and 13 rebounds. Junior guard Khendal Andrews scored 13 points, while freshman point guard Josh Regal and junior forward Anthony Cobb each added 12 points.

The Muskies also came up on the short end of an 85-73 score in Saturday after-noon’s contest with Wiscon-sin Lutheran.

The Warriors ended the first half with an 8-0 run or-chestrated by two Kyle Plath three-pointers.

“Wisconsin Lutheran is a veteran group,” Aanonsen said. “When they need a big shot, someone stepped up.”

The Muskies rallied back into the game in the second half, twice cutting the War-rior’s lead to six and five lat-er on. However, every Lake-land run was countered by a

savvy Lutheran team.“The team played with a

lot of heart and energy,” Aan-onsen said. “We just didn’t have enough in us to get over the hump and get that big shot or key stop. Our youth allows very little room for er-ror.”

Schwarz recorded his second straight double-dou-ble for the Muskies with 20 points and a career-best 18 rebounds. Andrews and Regal scored eleven and 12 points, respectively.

“We need to continue do-ing the things we have been doing to get back on track,” Aanonsen said. “When we do the little things right like boxing out and setting solid screens, we win games.”

The Lakeland men’s bas-ketball team saw its half-

time lead disappear en route to an 87-81 loss last Thursday at home versus Maranatha Baptist College.

The Muskies led 38-33 at halftime, but couldn’t with-stand a second half where the Crusaders shot 78.3 percent from the field and missed only five shots.

“Defensively, we let them get too comfortable,” coach Aaron Aanonsen said. “Any-time you let a college basket-ball team get comfortable, they’re going to shoot a high percentage.”

The team still managed to cut the lead to one with 1:18 left in the game, but some clutch shooting from the Crusaders allowed Ma-ranatha to prevail.

“Although they are win-less in the conference, they gave us a big fight when we played them at their place [earlier in the season],” said Johnson.

According to Johnson, the Muskies have gotten bet-ter at attacking the basket on offense. Doing that tonight and also keeping them off the boards will ensure a win.

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Wrestlers set stage for strong finish

By John WagnerStaff [email protected]

Muskies have big home date Friday night SUBMITTED BY THE SPECTRUM

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Top: Sophmore Isaac Roberson of Chicago, Ill. has been a great new addition for the Muskies this season at 141 pounds.Bottom: Junior Adam Sutter of Gladstone, Mich., is hoping for a trip to the national tournament this season.

will. They have tough wres-tlers, but so do we.”

The No. 30-ranked Musk-ies managed to place four wrestlers in the top seven at this past weekend’s Wheaton College Invitational. Lake-land placed eighth out of the 31 teams in competition.

“The tournament offers some tough competition and I feel our guys gave it their all,” Rogers said. “There are areas where we could have wrestled better, but it’s a learning experience headed into the home stretch of the season.”

“We wrestled as a team, and we wrestled well,” said junior 165-pounder Jake Frias. “As the season comes down the stretch, we click more and more. Although other teams may have more talent, we come together as team and encourage one an-other to do well.

“I had a poor showing this past weekend, but I know I just need to work on my con-sistency, my focus, and keep my nerves right so I come out with the right mentality to dominate like I know I’m capable of doing.”

Sutter was among one

of the top four wrestlers to place for Lakeland as he fin-ished second at heavyweight. Sutter had a huge win against UW-Whitewater's Jon Schmidt, the nation's No. 5 heavyweight wrestler, by a 5-0 decision in the semi-finals. However, Sutter was defeated in the champion-ship match, 6-2, against Dan Laurent of UW-La Crosse, the defending national champion. These mammoth heavyweights will go to war again for the rematch this Friday.

“Sutter wrestled phe-nomenally,” Rogers said. “It’s just in time for him to peak as we head toward the end of the season. Sutter just needs to take this week to get ready for an aggressive opponent. The kid really at-tacked, and now this time Sutter just needs to take a different strategy.”

Seniors Kory Thiel and Jonas Flok placed sixth at the Wheaton Tournament.

”Kory and Jonas were both in very tight match-es, but each won some big matches,” Rogers said.

Senior David Copp fin-ished seventh in the 125-

pound bracket. Copp suf-fered a tough 5-4 decision setback against Elie Naoum of John Carroll before ty-ing up seventh place with a 6-2 win over Mount St. Joe's Ethan Miller.

"David had a good tour-nament even with the tough loss against the wrestler from John Carroll," Rogers said. "Even in his loss, he was taking it to his opponent in the last period but just ran out of time playing catch-up.

“We have a tough, ma-ture team. The team contin-ues to improve and we know

The Lakeland College wrestling team has been

a tough group all season long. The Muskies are hop-ing for a big crowd for their final home dual against No. 9-rated UW-La Crosse set for this Friday, Feb. 6, which is also “Senior Day.” The match begins at 7 p.m. in the Fieldhouse of the Wehr Center.

After this past weekend’s wrestling tournament at Wheaton College, the team is looking forward to hav-ing some redemption against La Crosse. Particularly Rob Frias, Kory Theil, and Adam Sutter, who are looking for rematches after close losses.

“This week those guys know they have to wrestle a better match, and they know more of what to expect,” said Lakeland head coach Pete Rogers. “Now they just have to put in the time this week and get their minds prepared. There are matches that are up in the air. We need to just continue to wrestle the full match. If we have confidence and believe we can do it, we

we can make it happen. We know we got the guys to get it done, and that’s great. Wrestling is not so based on talent, but more so for the guys who push harder and work harder.”

Lakeland will host the Northern Wrestling Associa-tion Tournament on Feb. 14 begining at 10 a.m.

The Muskies will com-pete in the Great Lakes Re-gional in Mequon, Wis., on Feb. 21 begining at 9 a.m. National tournament quali-fiers will be determined that day.

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