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VOLUME Fal l , ISSUE 3 WWW.LAKELANDMIRROR .COM WEDNESDAY, O CTOBER 17, 2007
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Highlights
Index
opInIons page 5
A&e page 6
FeAtures page 13
Fun House page 14
sports page 17
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Sports
Football team improves to 4-0 in conference play. Cheesebowl against rival Concordia University of Wisconsin scheduled for Saturday in Mequon.
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Features
Food Service Director Dale Carlson bids farewell to Lakeland before moving on to Stevens Point.
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A&E
Get a preview of the theatre department's fall play, "The Importance of Being Earnest."
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Who knew this is the real world?Lakeland looks to improve four year graduation rate of athletes
Students like to procrastinate. Sometimes the big picture is
not clear until crunch time. For freshmen in college, graduation is not the most important topic on their mind. They want to experience college, not plan to enter the real world. However, the real world does not start when students graduate. The real world starts when the deci-sion is made to further their education. This is it.
Freshmen need to plan their college careers as graduates need to plan their lives. Lakeland College is unique because of its personal approach to each student’s needs. Advisors are an integral part of Lakeland.
Suzanne House, instructor of writing and ESL and direc-tor of academic advising, has been in charge of the Academic Advising Program for three years. Each year she has orga-nized Advisor Development Events. The most recent of these was on Oct. 2, which dis-cussed ‘Eligibility Issues.’
Eligibility is a term that is often linked to athletics. The
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Lakeland College's numer-ous sister schools often get
overlooked. However, for most students at Lakeland College Wisconsin, sister schools are allowing for a more diverse education both abroad and in the states.
President Stephen Gould, Vice President of International Programs Tony Fessler, and Director of International Admissions Patrick Liu were able to answer questions regard-ing Lakeland's sister schools.
According to Fessler, “A sister school is a school … with which we may be exchanging students. We may be actually looking to the students com-ing out of their program to come in [to Lakeland College] where we will accept some of the credits that they earned in that particular school.”
Some of these exchang-es are rather unusual. For instance, Lakeland currently has two Chinese students from its sister school in Germany.
Gould later expanded on that definition. “We have sis-ter school relationships to do two things. One is to inter-nationalize our student body, and the other is to provide our domestic students opportuni-ties to study abroad.”
Gould continued, “We desire to internationalize our student body because the world that our students live in as mature adults has vir-tually no borders. In order to be successful, you will have to collaborate and cooperate with people who have wildly differ-ent backgrounds than you, who don’t all speak English as their first language, and who have different views about what is important or not important.
“This is not something that you want to wait until you are 30 to discover, and by having a campus that is 17 percent international with about 30 countries represent-ed, students at Lakeland will learn all those things before they graduate. If not, you must have hidden in your room your entire four years before graduation. You can’t go to class here or join a stu-dent organization… or go to dinner and not be running into people… from places you are unfamiliar with.”
Gould continued, “Institutional relationships are much more beneficial than
Sister schools present possibilities
Andrew Bird performs for a crowd in the Bradley Building. PAGE 6
Over 70 people participate in
Make A Difference DayBy Lori [email protected]
Over 70 students, faculty, and staff came out to sup-
port Lakeland College’s first Make A Difference Day.
Volunteers gathered for breakfast in the David and Valerie Black Room in the Laun Center at 8:30 Saturday, Oct. 13. By 9 a.m., they were load- SEEVOLUNTEER/PAGE3
By Brittney SandbergStaff [email protected]
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ing the vehicles to Maywood, Camp Anokijig, Howards Grove Community Center, and Money Smart at Sheboygan South High School.
Maywood volunteers helped weed out invasive species. “The garlic mustard is evil, and I don’t like the canary grass,” said Rebecca Clarke, Maywood naturalist.
By the end of Make a Difference Day at 11:45 a.m.,
the twenty-some volunteers had collected nine bags of inva-sive plants. “This is amazing,” Clarke said.
According to Clarke, Make A Difference day was “not just good for Maywood, but good for Lakeland, too.”
Maywood volunteer Ron Haas, professor of mathematics and computer science, said, “I
specifications of eligibility as a student at Lakeland were covered by Kristi Vogel. Athletic Director Jane Bouche was also asked to give an overview about the eligi-bility for the student athletes.
The normal overview would include how the student ath-lete must maintain a 2.5 grade point average (GPA) and take at least 12 credits per semester. Bouche was prepared to just go over the NAC rules like these, but the event took an interest-ing turn at this point.
Instead of sticking to the NAC eligibility conditions, Bouche upped the ante. She pointed out the simple solution that she has Lakeland athletes following this year: To graduate in four years, take 15 credits each semester. Figuring out the math is not hard. Eight semes-ters multiplied by 15 credits is 120 credits, which happens to be the number needed to graduate.
There are cases when grad-uating in four years is not an option. Education and account-ing are examples of areas of study that will require more time than four years. The stu-dents in these majors need to be more aware of how they use
their time. Students who do not have
to stay longer than four years should not plan to. “Let’s be at an advantage rather than a disadvantage,” said Bouche. If all students who could gradu-ate in four years did, “everyone would be happy.” The students, parents, coaches, advisors, and the college would all benefit from an increase in the four year graduation rate.
The more years students spend in school, the more money they have to pay. The students would reap the benefits of this time management by break-ing into the workforce as soon as possible. Opportunity cost, defined as the cost of passing up the next best choice when making a decision, is a factor in the four year plan. In this case it refers to the money that could potentially be made at a job instead of remaining in college.
Some parents also have to deal with financial ramifica-tions of their children not grad-uating in four years.
If all athletes made four year plans, coaches would not
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simply running around and waving your flag for recruit-ment. We are also providing our students opportunities to study abroad.
“Lots of our German majors and minors study at Kassel University. We’ve had student groups in May visit China. Through our connections in Ansan [Resort Management] students have had opportunities to intern in international hotels. ”
Sister schools are impor-tant because, “If you are going to go to a place as foreign as Japan, you need that insti-tutional relationship so that someone else is taking care of your housing, and someone is going to be there to help you figure out how the heck to buy a bus ticket, and so on and so forth,” Gould said.
According to Gould, there are two ways to develop an international student body. “One is to recruit generally around the world. That is an expen-sive process. You don’t really know what you are getting, because someone who applies from abroad is much more of a mystery than somebody who applies from Peshtigo.
“[Domestic students] can provide us references that we can actually check. Your tran-script actually means some-thing to us. We have had other students from Peshtigo. If we wanted, we could drive up and meet you in your home, or we would invite you to visit the campus.
“You would come down with your parents, so we
could get a great sense of who you are, and where you come from, and what you are about… People often think that these campus visits are all about convincing students that this is a good place for them to be, but what we are also doing is trying to figure out if this is a person that we want to invite to join us.
“We can’t do that with international students, but if we have institutional relation-ships, then our sister institu-tion helps us to understand about our new students that are coming here.”
In light of that, Dr. Gould said that over half of Lakeland’s international stu-dent body comes from sister school relationships.
Right now, there are six active sister schools of Lakeland College. “An impor-tant, if not the most important sister school of Lakeland right now is Ansan College in South Korea. That is to the south-west of Seoul,” stated Fessler.
Over the years, 17 resort management students have done internships in South
Korea. “There are opportu-nities for more of that this year,” said Charles Stockman, associate professor of resort management.
Other sister schools include Shanghai Finance University in Shanghai, China, the East China Institute of Technology in Jiangxi Province, China, Huate Vocational High School in Taiwan, and Hessen University in Kassel, Germany. Gould stated that the relationship with Hessen University was formed almost 30 years ago.
Last but not least, Fessler said, “Our first sister school relationship in Latin America is with the University of Reformada in Barranquilla, Colombia.” Dr. Gould visited this school last spring.
In fact, over the past sev-eral years, each of the sister schools have been visited by Fessler, Liu, or Gould. Gould said, “They’ll come to visit us, or we’ll go to visit them... and we will talk in general about the kinds of schools that we are and our own individual needs. Then we’ll see if we can
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fill those needs for each other. If they were unwilling to visit us here, then I wouldn’t think that they were very serious. I don’t want sister school rela-tionships that are just pieces of paper. They have to be real, living, vibrant relationships.”
So, that is how sister school relationships are formed. Gould playfully described it by stating, “It is a little bit like a first date, second date, third date sort of thing. Usually we are intro-duced to them through some-one who is a friend of Lakeland and a friend of theirs.”
Even though setting up these relationships can be time consuming, Gould wishes to continue creating at least one new connection each year until the maximum number has been reached. What that number is, no one can be sure until it is attained. Gould said he is such a strong supporter of gaining more sister schools simply because, “There is a much richer collegiate experi-ence out here in the cornfields all because we have over a hundred students from other countries.”
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Lee’s Summit, MO – The National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA), released its annual rankings of the admissions Web sites of more than 3,000 postsec-ondary institutions. The 9th annual Enrollment Power Index® (EPI), a research-based analysis, rates how well the functionality and design of college and univer-sity Web sites provide infor-mation to potential students to take them from prospect to applicant.
This year, Lawrence University in Appleton, WI has the highest-rated admis-sions Web site. Of the 3,087 postsecondary institutions whose sites were graded, less than 30% earned A or B grades. The top ten rated schools were: 1. Lawrence University2. Pennsylvania College of Technology3. LeTourneau University4. University of New England5. Bellarmine University 6. Wayne State University7. Gonzaga University8. Saint Vincent College & Seminary9. Lakeland College10. Newberry College
“Today’s technically savvy
Lakeland College ranks ninth in nation for Web sitegeneration of students has extremely high expectations when it comes to the amount and type of admissions infor-mation they find on university Web sites,” said Don Munce, President of NRCCUA. “Meeting these expectations with quality, up-to-date Web sites will help students better navigate the admissions pro-cess and ensure that colleges and universities are attract-ing students in the Internet generation.”
Only 140 institutions received an A, 713 a B, 1,369 a C, 635 a D, and 230 an F. No sites scored in the 90s or 80s on the 100-point scale, only 16 scored in the 70s, and nearly one-third earned scores in the 50s or 60s. Scores for the top ten schools ranged from 74-71 on a 100-point scale, a sig-nificant decrease from last year’s top scores of 82-78.
The highest rated school in the North region was Pennsylvania College of Technology, Lawrence University in the Midwest, Bellarmine University in the South, and LeTourneau University was the highest rated in the West.
“Overall, approval rat-ings of college and university
Web sites have continued to decline over the last several years, indicating a level of dissatisfaction among today’s students,” said Munce. “To satisfy prospective students and encourage them to apply, college and university admis-sions offices need to contin-ue updating and enhancing their Web sites to keep them dynamic.”
EPI measures the abil-ity of a college or univer-sity admissions Web site to take students from a pros-pect to an applicant. It pro-vides a detailed analysis of trends and clear indicators of what institutions can do to improve the effectiveness of their sites.
To identify the site fea-tures that have the most sig-nificant impact of a potential student’s perception of the site, an e-mail survey was sent to more than 100,000 college-bound high school stu-dents, asking them to rate two admissions Web sites. Next, over 3,000 sites were evalu-ated to identify functional features present on each site. Statistical tests were then used to identify the functional features that were important to students and their relative importance.
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in briefInformation to let people know what's going on goes here!!Information to let people know what's going on goes here!!Information to let people know what's going on goes here!!
President of UCC gets arrestedAccording to ArcaMax Publishing, Reverend John H. Thomas, president of United Church of Christ, was arrested on Oct. 10 in front of the White House. He was attempting to deliv-er a pastoral letter about condemning the Iraq war to President George W. Bush. About 60,000 UCC members signed a petition that was in agreement with the letter. Rev. Linda Jaramillo, anoth-er senior UCC official was also arrested. The two were released about three hours later.
Lakeland maintains a close relationship with its founding church, the United Church of Christ.
Editor's Note: This is why we report national newsIf you've picked up Issue 2 of The Mirror, you saw an arti-cle on the Summer Olympics in Beijing and the contro-versy surrounding it. Also, on page four in this current issue, there is a story about Myanmar.
Students at Lakeland College have the opportunity to meet people from these countries.
Since there are numerous students from China and Myanmar, why don't these articles have their quota-tions and view point? That's simple. They don't want to be interviewed.
While it's rare at Lakeland to find a student who does not want to be quoted in The Mirror, these students have a real fear.
China and Myanmar both have low tolerances for free-dom of speech and of the press. Two things that we definitely take for granted in the United States.
In fear of their voice being heard in China or Myanmar, they prefer to remain silent on these pressing issues.
If in fact their interviews made it to those countries via the Internet, their fami-lies and they themselves could be in danger.
Be informed of what is going on in the world. Chances are, a student at Lakeland is being directly affected by the issue.
“I just want to know why look outside Lakeland for a
Lakeland event,” Kenya Ward, cheer team member, said.
This is the same question hundreds of others are asking after the Sheboygan South High School’s dance team performed during half time of Lakeland’s Homecoming foot-ball game on Saturday, Oct. 6 against Eureka.
“It’s nothing to do with our cheer team,” Athletic Director Jane Bouche said. Bouche wants to make it clear that she had no intentions of demeaning any of Lakeland’s usual half time activities. “No one can have 100 percent of the time,” she said. “I have to be as fair as possible.”
According to Bouche, there has been an open invita-tion for the past ten to twelve years for area cheer and dance teams, as well as marching and pep bands, to perform at Lakeland events. Until now, no one took advantage of the offer.
As South’s team took the field on Saturday, people in the stands were wondering if Eureka’s team was perform-ing. Sheboygan South and Eu-reka both have red as a school and uniform color.
Bouche said this issue has come up when Lakeland’s own dance team performs at home events as well. The colors black and royal blue, which are worn by the dance team, correspond with Dominican’s colors. At a recent soccer game between
South High's dance team performsBuilding a fan base and showing Sheboygan what Lakeland is aboutBy Lori [email protected]
Lakeland and Dominican, Bouche was asked why Domin-ican’s team was performing at half time of that game.
Colors aside, the goal during every half time is to entertain the fans.
“It’s a marketing tool,” Bouche said. “The number one way to get area schools on campus. It’s a great way to build a fan base and connect to the community.”
Bouche pointed out how Lakeland has struggled to attract the Sheboygan com-munity to sporting events. Years ago, basketball games were played at the Armory in Sheboygan. Then, the gymna-sium would be packed with Sheboyganites. However, it has been difficult to get those same people to drive ten miles to Lakeland’s campus.
“Did the Sheboygan South dance team bring in peo-ple?” Bouche asked herself. “Absolutely.”
While increasing the fan base, sacrifices needed to be made to remain in the time al-lotted for half time. The SAAC activity was completely can-celled and the Lakeland cheer
team performed pre-game and cheered during the game.
Based on the schedule, there was no remaining time for the cheer team to perform during half time. At the ac-tual event, there was at least five minutes between the end of the entertainment and the start of the second half.
“I was a bit upset, seeing as though we are the ones who put in time and effort to cheer on the team. At the same time, the [Sheboygan] girls were good!” Ward said. “I just think it was rude.”
“The communication prob-ably was not real effective, the way I communicated with their advisor,” Bouche admitted.
The Lakeland dance team was still able to perform. How-ever, their time slot followed the South High team and the alum-ni parade. Bouche explained that the time slot for the Lake-land team was the prime spot due to the alumni parade.
“No way did I want to dimin-ish what our [Lakeland’s] dance team is about,” Bouche said.
During South’s perfor-
mance, alumni were waiting on the field, just feet from the per-formance area, ready to cross the field. During Lakeland’s performance, the field was free from any distractions.
“Homecoming to me means we are bringing our alumni home,” Bouche said, and that’s what she did. “I got very positive comments about the whole day.”
Since Lakeland is She-boygan County’s only four year college, Bouche is hoping that events like this will help the local community discover Lakeland. “We’re not the little college in the corn field any-more,” Bouche said. “We have a lot of opportunities. Let’s ex-pose people to that.”
An upcoming football game will not have any of the usual entertainment venues during half time due to a Pow-der Puff football game, which is part of a student-as-practi-tioner project for one of April Arvan’s sports studies classes. This November, pep bands will be coming from Sheboy-gan to perform at some of the basketball games.
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thought it went wonderfully. We accomplished a lot, but I think everyone had a good time too.”
At Camp Anokijig, volun-teers helped break down the camp and take down tents.
Asst. Program Director Don Hill said, “This was phe-nomenal. We did not expect to get this much work done. The kids did a great job. They’re a lot of fun to have around too.”
It wasn’t just all work for the volunteers at Camp Anokijig. Led by Alicia Helion, instructor of psychology, the volunteers created a cheer for the day: “To help our neigh-bors, here’s a way. Lakeland’s Make A Difference Day. Yay!”
Heidi Kees, asst. program director, said, “We hope they [Lakeland volunteers] come out and help us again. We’d love to have them back!”
At Howards Grove Community Center, volun-teers washed windows. Since the building was built a few years ago, the windows hadn’t been washed. Volunteers at Sheboygan South for Money Smart helped set up for pre-sentations.
“I think it does a lot for people of your generation [col-
lege students]. There’s a lot of negative news,” Haas said. “It blocks negative publicity of college students and shows that college students care.”
Lakeland is looking to make this an annual event, according to Martha Schott, instructor of writing. “Many of our neighbors in surround-ing communities have sup-ported the college for years. This was an opportunity to say thanks to our neighbors.”
Make A Difference Day was the conclusion of Lakeland College Service Group’s community service week. According to Cathy Sims, club president, the turnout for the week’s events was not so good. “I don’t think I advertised good enough,” she said.
Members of the Make A Difference Day commit-tee include Schott, Helion, Haas, Hannah Hittermann, Tim Fojtik, April Arvan, Karl Elder, Scott Niederjohn, Kelly Stone, and Lisa Stephan.
Furthest Above: Men's basketball head coach Kyle Brumett and sophomore Joy Harvell take down a tent at Camp Anokijig as part of Make A Difference Day.Above Left: Rabecca Makanga and Mary Potani pull out invasive plants at May-wood. In all, the volunteers at Maywood collected nine garbage bags full of plants.Right: Make A Difference Day committee member Ron Haas points out canary grass to Pratikshya Bhandari and Rob Pockat.
Below: The Sheboygan South High School's dance team performs at halftime.
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On Aug. 15, the govern-ment of Myanmar, for-
merly Burma, run by military leader General Than Schwe, more than doubled the price of fuel. This led to their largest anti-government demonstra-tions in nearly two decades.
Initial demonstrations were led by pro-democracy activists in Rangoon, Myan-mar’s main city. Approxi-mately 400 people marched in this protest on Aug. 19. The pro-democracy movement in Myanmar is currently headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, lead-er of the National League for Democracy (NLD), who is currently in government detention.
Dozens of activists were rapidly arrested by the govern-ment in an attempt to swiftly diffuse these initial protests.
Although numbers were relatively small, demonstra-tions were held in Rangoon, Sittwe, and other towns throughout the region.
Buddhist monks became heavily involved in demonstra-tions after military troops used force to break up a peaceful rally in the town of Pakokku on Sept. 5. At least three monks were hurt during this demonstration.
The next day, monks
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briefly took government offi-cials hostage and gave them until Sept. 17 to apologize; no apology came.
When the deadline ex-pired, the monks began pro-testing in greater numbers. They denied religious services to members of the military and their families.
Protests in Rangoon and other parts of the country be-gan to rapidly increase. Tens of thousands of monks became involved in these protests.
The participation of monks in these demonstra-tions is significant because there are hundreds of thou-sands of them in the region and they are highly revered by the people. Historically, the clergy has been very promi-nent in political protests in Myanmar.
Initially, the public was not heavily involved in the protests. It is suggested that they may have been afraid of retaliation.
However, as demonstra-tions grew in size, so did public involvement. In one instance, a large group of common peo-ple formed a chain to protect monks from retaliation by soldiers.
On Sept. 24, thousands of people responded to pleas from monks and joined a mas-sive protest in Rangoon.
As protests began, Myan-
mar’s military leaders held back and allowed these peace-ful demonstrations to take place. After a week, protesters were warned that the military would take action if protests did not cease.
As tensions escalated, hundreds of troops and riot police moved in to stop the protests.
Despite media restrictions in the country, images on tele-vision and on the Internet have shown military police using violent baton charges and tear gas on monks and other protesters.
Since the beginning of the protests there have been re-ports of thousands of arrests. It is alleged that monks have been taken to temporary de-tention camps until they can be transported to prison camps in the northern part of Myanmar.
Recently, campaigners in 30 cities around the world staged a series of rallies against the bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in Myanmar.
Marches began in New Zealand, then moved to Asia, Europe, and then the United States.
The US, France, and the UK have called for immediate dialogue with military leaders in Myanmar. The US has also suggested that it would push for sanctions on the country.
The UN is now suggesting that Myanmar move towards democracy in order to avoid serious international reper-cussions.
The US envoy to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, has stated that Myanmar’s ruling gen-erals need to prepare for a transition of power involv-ing opposition activists and international mediators.
Khalilzad called on the mil-itary regime to begin talks with the detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
“We believe it’s very im-portant…that there be nego-tiations for a transition and that we need to start prepar-ing ourselves with a regard to a transition in [Myanmar],” Khalilzad told reporters. “It’s very important that a serious dialogue on transition begins and that the international community, [and] regional players, play their roles.”
The government of Myan-mar has appeared to take steps towards dialogue with opposition in the wake of in-ternational condemnation of its repression. Correspon-dents, however, believe that the offer of talks is just a de-lay tactic as the government waits for international pres-sures to fade away.sources:
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Myanmar at a Glance
official name: union of Myanmarpopulation: 50.7 millionCapital City: nay pyi tawLargest City: rangoonpolitics: Has been under military rule since 1962economy: one of Asia's poorest countries
Governemental Leaders:Sr. General Than Schwe As chairman of the state peace and development Council (spdC), schwe is a ruthless dictator who is said to be very superstitious and consult with astrologers.
Sr. General Maung Aye Vice-chairman of the spdC. Aye, having extensive field combat experience, is said to be more ruth-less than schwe.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 62, is the leader of Myanmar's most prominent opposition group, the national League for democracy (nLd). she is also the recipient of the 1991 nobel peace prize. during more than 11 of the past 18 years she has spent time under some form of arrest and under the coun-try's military regime. Her followers and other pro-democracy activ-ists in the country are routinely harassed and imprisoned.
Myanmar or Burma?Both names are correct. In 1989, the country's name was changed from Burma to Myanmar by the military regime, which suppressed a popular uprising.
the united nations, France, and Japan all accept the name Myanmar. Britain and the united states continue to use the name Burma under the rationale that there is no democratic mandate from the ruling government.
news organizations also differ: the BBC uses Burma, but reuters and the Associated press use the name Myanmar.
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Kristopher James Hall, a criminal justice major
in the day program, passed away in his sleep two weeks ago. Kristopher had back surgery in May and was still suffering from some compli-cations from this surgery. He was 33.
Kris was a transfer stu-dent from Wisconsin Lu-theran College. He began his academic career at Lakeland College in 2005 as a nontra-ditional student commuting from Chilton. He aspired to work in private security and was particularly interested in focusing on anti-terrorism initiatives.
“Kris was enrolled in this semester’s class [crimi-nal law],” said adjunct pro-fessor/Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCec-co. “He was doing well in the class and was an active par-ticipant. He was very pleas-ant to interact with and, as he was an older student, I identified with him as I too experienced being an “older” student in law school. I was
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thirty-three surrounded by students some ten years my juniors.”
Katy Muckerheide, a nontraditional student, said, “Kris was a very car-ing person. He and I would sit and talk between class-es about everything and anything. He always had a way to make someone laugh. He was a very devoted stu-dent, and despite his numer-ous back surgeries, he still gave his all when it came to his role as a student. I know that I will miss him since we had classes together every se-mester.”
Hilary Estes, criminal justice professor, wrote, “As a new faculty member at Lakeland, I first met Kris last fall in my juvenile jus-tice course and subsequently had him in a spring crimi-nal justice course. Kris suf-fered from chronic back pain problems and often had to miss class due to his condi-tion. Despite his absences, Kris worked hard to stay on course in his classes, wait-ing to have back surgery at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year.
“I did not have Kris in class
this fall, but stopped to talk with him just shortly before his death. Although he still had back pain, the surgery had provided Kris with improved mobility, and it seemed that he was on his way to having a good semester.
“While many students on campus did not know Kris, the sudden loss of a member of our community is deeply saddening and reminds us all that we should live every day to the fullest. My con-dolences go out to the fam-ily and friends of Kristopher Hall.”
have to worry about their players’ NAC eligibility. By taking 15 credits, there is a safety net for an athlete who may not do well in a class. The worst case scenario would then be to drop that one class, and still have enough credits to be athletically eligible.
“We have just accepted 12 credits as being okay, and we just need to raise the bar,” stated Bouche. If student ath-letes only takes the 12 credit minimum and they do poor-ly or need to withdraw from a class, they automatically become ineligible.
The 15 credits a semester plan will be able to prevent sit-uations like that happening. There is a common miscon-
ception that athletes should only take 12 credits while they are in season. However, Jane Bouche has statistical proof that in season athletes have higher GPA’s.
Time management of ath-letes in season is necessary.
If Lakeland as a whole can adopt this mantra, every-thing improves. It starts with this year’s freshmen, as their progress on the four year plan can be tracked more closely by advisors and themselves.
As far as the four year graduation rate of Lakeland students Bouche said, “I don’t know if we can hit 100 per-cent in the next four years, but 90 percent?”
Only time will tell.
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Issue 3, October 17, 2007 OpinionsThe Lakeland College
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Dear Sherry and Cary, I found a lump in my
breast last week, and I am scared. I don’t know what to do next. I don’t do monthly ex-ams, so I don’t know how long I’ve had this. I am afraid of what it could be.
---ScaredDear Scared,
We know how frightening this can be. The first thing you
By Becky MeyerCopy Editor
In today’s world, everything is so fast paced that, at times,
it’s hard to keep up. With so many technological advance-ments, we are able to receive information more quickly.
The Internet has many uses, and now it is able to provide news in the same way print newspapers do. We have the ability to receive news at a much quicker rate, which is a good thing. And yet, news on the Internet does more harm than good: what will happen to print newspapers in the future as the Internet news grows in popularity?
As the Internet becomes more competitive with print newspapers, it is obvious that print newspapers are suffer-ing. According to money.cnn.com, not only are print news-papers suffering from declin-ing circulation, but from de-clining advertising and profits as well. According to a Web site entitled “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” there was over a six percent drop in print ad sales in the first quarter of the year.
It is nice to have news faster over the Internet, but it’s too much of a detriment to
the traditional newspaper. It’s changing our way of getting information, and if the cir-culation of print newspapers continues to decline at such a rapid rate, then the tradition of waking up and reading the paper (an actual paper) will be long gone, which is quite a depressing thought.
The Internet is a threat to the print newspapers, as is TV news. Also according to money.cnn.com, between the years of 1940 and 1990, 267 newspapers were shut down because of the growing popu-larity of watching the news on television. It seems that the newspaper publishers’ only choice is to begin to use the Internet in their favor in order to compete and stay in business.
I feel that the Internet is harming the print news-papers much more than any-thing. If circulation continues to decrease at this rate, then the print newspaper will be nonexistent in the future. There will be no more of the average Joe waking up, drink-ing coffee, and sitting down to read the newspaper. Could you imagine waking up and sitting in front of a computer screen? I’m sure you could, but it’s a weird thought-it’s not the way things should be.
Is this the end of print newspapers?
Dear Cary and Sherry,
I have been missing classes for two weeks because I can’t get out of bed. The more class-es I miss, the more difficult it is to go back to class. Now it is midterms, and
Missing too many classes?
I have no idea what I need to do to pass the class. What can I do? Help!
---Missing OutDear Missing Out,
First of all, take a deep breath and put things into perspective. Take one step at a time to make changes. Talk to your professors and let them know what has been going on. Ask them if it is possible to make up any work, and whether or not you can stay in the class. Make a schedule and write in all your classes, assign-ments, exams, work, and
Breast cancer awarenessneed to do is see your primary doctor. The lump does not au-tomatically mean cancer. An exam and possibly a biopsy of the lump will determine the next step. It is really important for women to get into the habit of monthly breast exams. It only takes a few minutes. Get to know the feel of your body and you will notice any changes ear-ly on. This includes men also.
Fishing for an Answer
other activities. Talk to your friends and let them know you are trying to get orga-nized and ask for their help and support. Go to bed ear-lier! Set your alarm clock (or two or three of them!) and place it on the other side of your room; therefore, you have to get up to turn it off. Eat healthier meals. In-crease your water intake to stay hydrated. Get some ex-ercise. Prioritize your tasks. These are all things that will help you get back on track and stay there. Take care of yourself!
Not to open h e a l i n g
w o u n d s , but I feel as the author of Pledging Musko,that I should address the sweet feed-back we at The Mirror received during and after our week as a team, Publication Power.
Throughout and after the contests of Homecoming Week, we received many glares reminiscent of high school. We overheard various profane comments, and we undoubt-edly had a spiteful Facebook group created to promote the torment.
But in all honesty, I’m not very shocked by the claws and teeth that came out of this competition.
Seriously, what would school spirit be without scorn-ful attitudes, poor losers, and rumors of LC-CAB rigging the games?
Immature? Exactly. But if you
Homecoming clawskeep reading, you may ac-tually be taken aback to find out I think these actions are perfectly respectable.
That’s right; I think these actions show the pas-sion Lakeland students have for their home team. Wheth-er it’s the Betas and their great dance steps, the Pi Kapps and their rendition of “Grease’s” “Summer Nights,” or the women’s basketball team’s Orange Rubber Balls window painting, all of those involved during Homecoming Week came together to fight for that $100 reward, trophy, and year’s worth of bragging rights.
Yeah, Musko is special: He has teeth, ten fingers, yellow shoes, a six pack, and some kind of abscess on the back of his head. But we still idolize the crap out of our mascot.
We fight for his name in every competition we can in-volve ourselves with at LC.
The zeal Lakeland stu-dents have for winning is un-like any I have seen in any community. So I applaud the efforts of all participants of Homecoming Week, and I hope that fire you’re feeling
Although rare, it is expected that over 2,000 men will devel-op breast cancer this year alone. Early detection and treatment are your strongest tools.
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about it is instilled in next year’s competition as well.
Now, the glares, the com-ments, and the Facebook group entitled “F#$% the Mir-ror” did put a little damper on our spirits no doubt, but I understand the spite. In fact, I tried to get several Mirror students to request joining the group for a poke back, but it seems tact set in, and the group was removed before I could attempt.
As for our winnings, we may now be able to in-vest in a couch for the Mir-ror office for lounging, nap-ping, and spending the night here, where many of us slave for 20-30 hours during production week.
I hope you can at least commend our effort for par-ticipating in all the events during our production week and still pulling a victory. It was hell.
Homecoming Week is a chance to be a kid again, and to some, maybe even relive high school for a mo-ment. So I’m glad people were angry, but I hope it’s all in good fun, because hon-estly, if it wasn’t fun, why bother?
Pledge Musko.
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Issue 3, October 17, 2007
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By Sandy SternitzkyCopy Editor
On Monday Oct. 8, Andrew Bird set foot on the stage
in the Bradley Auditorium to deliver an authentic perfor-mance.
Bird walked on stage holding a doll and then got into his music without small talk or words of welcome. Playing the violin, glocken-spiel, electric guitar, and us-ing a sampler, an electronic device that digitally encodes and stores samples of sound, Bird produced music that sounded as though an entire orchestra played it.
The multi-instrumen-talist and lyricist from Chi-cago started off the show by playing the violin. Using the sampler, Bird was able to record that part of the song and begin playing another instrument, which he also recorded.
Not only can he play in-struments; he can sing and he can definitely whistle. His whistling is sometimes said to be “organically generated” yet “unnatural.” Bird was able to incorporate whistling into his music as part of the main fo-
Andrew Bird performs in fine arts seriesLakeland audience enthused by indie sound
cus and even the background music.
Halfway through his first song, Bird took his shoes off to reveal rainbow socks, show-ing he is someone of eccentric character.
Bird barely talked at all throughout the perfor-mance. He did tell a hu-morous short story of his roommate in college and how he retaliated when his roommate bugged him. He played a song that came from the experience.
During a few of his songs, he had unusual artistic videos play on the projector behind him. These movies were ab-stract and thought-provoking, but didn’t coincide with the songs.
Bird played songs such as “Plasticities,” “A Non-Animal” and “Scythian Empire,” all of which are original recordings that can be heard on his many albums.
In his song “Masterfade,” one of the lines mentioned thistles and grass and af-ter that song was done, Bird mentioned he got the idea for some of the lyrics from when he was driving around Kohler a few years ago.
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Bottom: Bird whistles in an amazingly unhuman way, meanwhile closing his eyes and waiting to hit his glockenspiel at the correct beat.
7a&e Issue 3, October 17, 2007The Lakeland College
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By Adriana CoopmanStaff Reporter
The annual Great Lakes Writers Festival will be
celebrating its ten year anni-versary on November 1 and 2.
Hosted by Fessler Profes-sor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence at Lake-land College, Karl Elder, the event is free and open to the public. It provides an opportu-nity for writers to share their work with peers and learn from well known professional writers. This year’s featured writers are Phillip Dacey and Margaret Dawe.
Elder describes Dacey as “One of the most highly re-spected poets in the country.” He is the author of nine full-length books of poems, includ-ing “The Deathbed Playboy” and “How I Escaped from the Labyrinth.” Dacey has re-ceived three Pushcart Prizes and a Discovery Award from the New York YM-YMHA’s Po-etry Center, along with many other awards.
This is his second appear-ance at Lakeland, as he was invited to read in 1990 to a highly appreciative audience. Having lived and taught for much of his career in Minne-sota, he now resides in Man-hattan’s Upper West side.
Dawe is author of “Nisse-quott,” one of few American novels published by New Di-rections and labeled a New
York Times New and Note-worthy Paperback. Dawe has also received New York state and Long Island press awards. She is chair of the English department at Wichi-ta State University. Elder had the opportunity to meet Dawe last March at a conference in Atlanta. “She’s very warm, very natural,” Elder said. Lakeland writing students who have gone on to graduate school at Wichita speak well of her, he said.
GLWF coming to LakelandGreat Lakes Writers Festival celebrates ten years
By Dawn HughesStaff Reporter
Energy conservation is a leading topic in environ-
mentalism. John Anderson presented a convocation lec-ture on that topic Tuesday, Oct. 9. He discussed where our energy comes from and what can be done to reduce the amount of energy that is wasted. The theme of his lecture can be summed up in this phrase: think big, create small.
Anderson also talked about the effect our energy use is having on the environ-ment. According to Anderson’s slides, out of the carbon-diox-
ide being released into the at-mosphere “Forty-two percent is from transportation and 40 percent is from generating electricity.”
He emphasized the fact that the rising cost of oil does not affect the cost of electric-ity because they come from two different sources.
One of the examples he gave, which is imperative to many college students, is the cost of gas. “Eighty-sev-en percent of fuel energy is wasted and three-fourths of fuel use is weight related,” Anderson said. The solution is to make ultra light cars out of carbon composites. These cars are just as safe as, if not safer than, the cars
A new world of energyConvocation discusses important issues concerning the world
we drive now, and they waste far less gas.
When one student asked about the possibility of run-ning out of oil, Anderson said, “We will have oil definitely for the rest of my life and prob-ably for the rest of yours, but can we afford to burn that oil economically and environ-mentally?”
The practical application of all that Anderson talked about is about saving energy and finding new forms of en-ergy. Finding more effective ways of wiring, plumbing, and designing automotives saves energy, and the more energy we save the less carbon diox-ide is expelled into the atmo-sphere.
Thursday, November 1
10 – 11 a.m. Registration in the Bradley building
11 a.m. Welcome and readings in Bradley Building
2 – 4 p.m. Workshops(location TBA)
7:30 p.m Reading (DVB room, campus center)
8:30 p.m. Book signing
Friday, November 2
9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Open mic (DVB room, campus center)
10:30 a.m. Readings and question and answer session in the Valerie
and David Black Room with authors
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Workshops (location TBA)
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MOVIEREVIEW
A movie to watch at HOMENOT
By Nicole HollandStaff Reporter
Above: Margaret Dawe
Above: Phillip Dacey
There have been great sports films. “Gracie” does
not fall into this category. The story is cliché, and extreme-ly predictable. The idea of women playing sports in a men’s world, circa the 1970’s, gripped me. However, my attention was lost almost immediately.
The “Benvolio” of the story has a predictable tragic end-ing. The memory of the char-acter is motivation for the rest of the predictable plot.
The protagonist of the story, Gracie, played by Carly Schroeder, was not a cohesive character. Instead of focusing on her athletic prowess, her re-bellion and bad attitude were the plot points of the story.
Dating, promiscuity, lying to her parents, and stealing
were focuses of the film. This side note was underdeveloped. It seemed to be a transition as to why Gracie’s father would eventually be open minded, but it did not work.
The struggle between her and her father’s opposing opinions was never clearly re-
solved. Un-dermining between the characters held both the plot and the charac-
ter development back. There were also gaps in
the concept of the story. The idea that someone can master a sport within such a small time frame was not believ-able. In most sports films, the protagonist has been working his or her whole life towards a goal. In this movie, Gracie’s brothers have been training their whole lives. She trains for one off-season, and some-how can make the team?
“Gracie” was a movie
Gracie
Picturehouse Directed by Davis Guggenheim
about a girl who wanted to be an athlete. It was not a film about an athlete who hap-pened to be a girl. Her situ-ation was not indicative of women who wanted to play sports and could not.
The protagonist was headstrong and irrational, which helped her achieve the goal of trying out for the team, but again was hard to relate to other women. Real women went through the discrimina-tion of this era.
Although I will not be adding this to my watch-again list, there were some redeeming qualities to this blunder of a film. “Gracie” did have a semi-good soundtrack, which made the monotony of the plot somewhat bearable. Another perk was watching Dermot Mulroney on screen. His character was developed, and well played.
Instead of staying in to watch this new release, I rec-ommend spending the extra dollar at the theater this week.
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Registration begins at 9:00 AMWalk Starts at 10:00 AM
$3.00 per participant
Registration: Lakeland College Campus in front of Lucius P. Chase Building
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8 Issue 3, October 17, 2007 a&e The Lakeland College
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By Jennifer DuenkOpinions Editor
This year’s fall play will be The Importance Of Being
Ernest. This will be directed by Charlie Krebs, Lakeland’s new theatre and speech pro-fessor’s first Lakeland debut. Krebs is the Director and Samantha Tonn is the assis-tant director.
The auditions were held on Sept. 10 and 11. Every-one who auditioned received a part, except for one. Krebs tried to find positions for ev-eryone. He even invented some roles to accommodate everyone and make sure that no one felt left out.
Even though not everyone could be the lead, Krebs made sure that
Charlie Krebs rehearses fall playLakeland’s fall play, “The Importance Of Being Earnest” is in dress rehearsal
there was a position for ev-eryone that wanted to be involved. For those who do not like the lime light of the stage there are opportunities to work backstage. Stage-craft is a class you can take to help build sets and furniture for the Bradley building and the plays held in it. Also, the Bradley building has a very talented staff.
“I love having the Bradley staff and the stagecraft staff available to make this pro-duction happen. I’m not used to so much involvement,” Krebs said.
When asked why he choose this play to be his first production at Lakeland, Krebs stated that h e “wanted to do s o m e t h i n g humorous” in contrast
to the more serious plays that Lakeland has done in the past.
“I choose this play because it had a lot of parts for people. It’s a classic play that’s just masterfully written.” Krebs said.
Although Krebs loves the way the play was writ-ten, he is making a few small changes. He added maid and housekeeping roles to incor-porate all the students who wanted to participate. He also switched a man’s role to a role that could be played by a woman.
Another small change in detail is the fake accents. All the servant roles will have Cockney dialects, while the main characters will have the traditional British accents.
“We are having a lot of fun with the British and Cockney dialects,” Krebs laughed to himself.
Practice for the play has been held every night except for on the weekends for the past four weeks. Not all stu-dents have to go every night. Exceptions have to be made for classes, work, etc. But mandatory practices every night began on Oct. 11. This will be Charlie’s first time di-recting a play here at Lake-land. But this is definitely not the first play he has ever directed. Krebs has had over 30 years of directing experi-ence. He has directed about 40 plays in his lifetime.
“I’ve been directing since
1977; wow that would make it thirty years,” Krebs said.
When asked if he was ex-pecting the play to sell out he said “Well, it’s a big theatre, but one of the things that I am trying to do is attract and include the Sheboygan com-munity. We’ve advertised in the Sheboygan press and a symphony program.”
The play starts on Thurs-day, Oct. 25th and runs through Sunday the 28th. On Thursday through Saturday the play will begin at 7:30 p.m. but on Sunday the play will be held at 2 p.m.
If you can’t make it dur-ing those four days the full dress rehearsal will be held on Wednesday Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. It will be open to all Lakeland students. Tickets will not be necessary.
Students can get free tickets in advance by request-ing them at the Nash Cen-
ter. Other free tickets will be available at the door with a Lakeland ID.
For all other information about the play or how to get tickets, contact Charlie Krebs 920-565-1283.
By John SieglaffFun House Editor
From the language that Earnest Hemingway
uses throughout his classic novella, “The Old Man and the Sea,” it may appear on the surface to be a simple read (which I cannot deny, it does go by fast). However, I think there is due credit for the multiple layers the story contains. It’s definitely about more than just a fish.
Using very simplistic sentences, Hemingway’s tale about an old man named Santiago unfolds. He is a fisherman down on his luck. He goes out to sea for days upon days being dragged along by a monstrous mar-lin out in waters where most fishermen wouldn’t dare go.
He ends up landing the fish and ties it to the side of his boat, but the return home holds bitter victory for the old man. Sharks and
other predators chew on the carcass of Santiago’s prize, and by the time he gets back to land, nothing remains but bones.
I recently read this piece of literature and heard in-teresting news about deep symbolic meaning within the story. I did some research on the Internet and found that there really are some specific
symbols in the story.The initial symbolic
meaning I heard of was com-paring Santiago to Heming-way as a metaphor for the artist. Santiago is a fisher-man who has proven himself. He has been successful in his life just as Hemingway was at the time he wrote “The Old Man and the Sea.” However, it’s never sufficient. Failure will find you.
I found other interesting symbolic meanings hidden in the story. The sea is said to be life in general upon which we all must sail. It holds risk and the unknown for us as does life.
The critics are suppos-edly the sharks and other predators. They devour the prize marlin the old man had caught and defeated.
The frequent dreams that Santiago has, possibly symbolize strength, youth, and inspiration. In the few pages of the novella before Santiago sets out for the
sea, the friendship between himself and a younger boy named Manolin, who is usu-ally referred to as “the boy”.
Santiago has also been said to become a Christ symbol. Upon the end of the story when Santiago finally returns home, he lays down on his bed. His hands are bleeding and his arms are outstretched, which is quite a plausible comparison to Christ’s crucifixion.
I have a deeper appre-ciation of the novella after developing an awareness to the many layers the story contains. As aforementioned, the book is an easy read, and there’s obvious deep mean-ing. The simplistic language is almost mesmerizing. You may as well read it.
Information was gath-ered from http://pinkmon-key.com/booknotes/monkey-notes/pmOldMan41.asp.
Above: Chris Wray and Joe Janisch sit on a bench as they rehearse a scene in The Importance of being Earnest.
Above: Kayann Botana plays Cecily Cardew during a dress rehearsal of Lakeland’s fall play.
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The Lakeland College Pre-Health Care Club is raising money for breast cancer awareness!
Teddy bear sales will con-tinue until sold out. Each teddy is a different style, including sports and sea-sonal bears.
One Bear = $10.00Two Bears = $15.00Three Bears = $20.00
Contact Jennifer Huang, president of Pre-Health Care Club or any other member to assist in pur-chasing a bear for a good cause.
Issue 3, October 17, 2007 HomecomingThe Lakeland College
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LAKELAND -- Hundreds of alumni returned to create new memories as Lakeland College celebrated Homecom-ing during a weekend filled with activities.
Alumni returned to test their skills as women’s bas-ketball, volleyball and base-ball all held alumni games.
Three people were hon-ored at Saturday night’s banquet.
Richard Preuhs `65 was named the winner of the in-augural President’s Richard Preuhs Award.
Preuhs transitioned from being a mid-year graduate right into employment when he was asked by then-Presi-dent John Morland to manage the new campus center when it opened in 1965. He ran the Muskie Inn before leaving Lakeland to open a supper club in Cedar Lake with fel-low Lakeland graduate Paul Krueger, and he taught at Lakeshore Technical College.
Rick Gaumer `74 was given the Service to the College award.
Following a nearly 30-year career in the private sector, Gaumer returned to his alma mater and spearheaded the creation of several high-pro-file initiatives that have posi-tioned Lakeland’s accounting program as one of the biggest and best among Wisconsin col-leges and universities.
The late Mike Devaney was named the winner of the Honorary Alumni Award.
The background picture is Publication Power’s painting for the Spirit Week competition. This window came in first. Second place went to LC-CAB and third to Orange Rubber Balls.
FILM STRIP: Far Left: Tim Valier, Ryan Ophale, and Margaret Teske judge the window paintings. Middle Left: The men’s soccer team at the Pep Rally. Middle Right: Men from Beta Sigma Omega Fraternity perform. Far Right: Members of the dance team perform at the football game.
With two straight victories over the conference opponents Eureka and
MacMurray College, the Muskies find themselves 4-0 in conference competi-tion and sharing the title with Concordia University of Wisconsin.
The team has simply been clicking. The Muskies feature a defense that has only allowed 27 points over the past two weeks, and an offense that put 42 points on the scoreboard in the first half against MacMurray College.
Quarterback Brad Wilk has been su-perb in conference. In the past four confer-ence contests, the senior has completed
By Beau MarkutSports Editor
Below: The Muskies set up for a play in the Homecoming game vs. Eureka. The final score was 32-9. SEE FOOTBALL/PAGE 17
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The Alpha Psi Alpha
Sorority formed a team
Lady A’s Plus The One.
Their window featured
“Stomp the Yard.”
Teammates had to pass
a lifesaver from toothpick
to toothpick without using
their hands. Shown are
members of Sigma 3.
“Pass the Muck” required
teams to pass food like
oatmeal, rice, corn syrup,
and pudding over each
other’s heads.
Members of the Pi Kappa
Gamma Sorority earned 5
points for their Homecom-
ing team by creating a
music video.
Freshman Ashanti Chavis
brought in the most
money at BSU’s annual
date auction. The highest
bid was $515!
Kevin Strowder and Helen
Daniel hosted the date
auction. BSU raised more
than $2,000 Tuesday
night.
The Lakeland cheer
team performs at the
Homecoming Pep Rally on
Friday night.
Members of The Mirror act out the last play of “Remember the Titans (Muskies)” in slow motion. This skit came in 2nd.
The women’s soccer team
was one of 14 teams to
compete in spirit week.
They performed the
“Remember the Titans
(Muskies)” dance.
2006 Mr. Muskie Eric
Sauld crowns Tom Kelly. Kelly was voted Mr.
Muskie for 2007.
Dance Team co-captains Ashley England and Jen
Hoffman hosted the Mr. Muskie pageant. Come-
dian Pete Holmes assisted.
Before movie trivia night began, court members took the stage as movie characters. Kevin Hildebrand was Happy Feet.
ALL HOMECOMING PHOTOS BY BEAU MARKUT, JARED PETRIE, TALIA PROFFITT & LORI SASS
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Homecoming Court
Students packed into the
gym to watch their peers
perform skits and cheer
on the teams. Fireworks,
a bonfire, and parties
followed.
Ricardo BrownKempton FreemanKevin HildebrandTom KellyAhkeim McKnightJohn WagnerTracy BinsAshley EnglandKasey GussertJennifer HoffmanBritini ParkerKenya Ward
Tom Kelly and Kenya Ward were crowned king and queen at the end of the Pep Rally.
Spirit Week PointsPublication Power
(The Mirror)
Orange Rubber Balls(Women’s Basketball Team)
Black Student Union
1st Place280 points
Sigma 3(Mu Lambda Sigma Fraternity)
2nd Place235 points
3rd Place200 points
Issue 3, October 17, 2007 FeaturesThe Lakeland College
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Dale Carlson bids Lakeland farewellDirector of food service moves onto Chartwells after ten years at Lakeland
Dale Carlson has been the Director of Food Services
at Lakeland College for ten years, and in his time at Lakeland he has brought suc-cess and enjoyment to each corner of food service that Lakeland offers.
Carlson has accepted a ca-reer opportunity with Chart-wells, a food catering com-pany. He will be working at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point as the Director of Retail Operations. He will be in charge of the food court, training people, staffing em-ployees, and many other du-ties as well. He said that he did not go looking for this job, Chartwells came looking for him.
“I enjoy Lakeland Col-lege. This job [at Univer-sity-Stevens Point] should be rewarding. If it was not,
I wouldn’t have decided to leave,” Carlson said.
He will start at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Nov. 1.
“We’ve done a lot of new things over the past few years,” Carlson said.
In his time at Lakeland, Carlson has strived to im-prove all areas of food ser-vice. The Daily Grind coffee shop, which is only four years old, is a huge success with students and faculty.
Manager of The Daily Grind Caroline said, “I have mixed feelings [about him leaving]. We do not know what will happen from here.” The Food Service staff does not know who will be filling Carlson’s spot.
There have also been new additions made to the meal plan and flex meal options for students and commuters. The ‘Grab n’ Go’ meals are also a new addition to the food ser-vice area on campus. These
meals allow students to get a Cousin’s Sub sandwich, a bag of chips, and a soda when they are in a hurry. Carlson has helped make the Muskie Mart and The Grill popular among students by keeping it open longer and having a wide variety of food and sup-plies to choose from.
Jean Fowler, a Muskie Mart employee said, “I have only worked with him for nine months, but I could not imagine what it would be like without him.” Carlson said that his approach to improv-ing the food service at Lake-land was listening to the needs and wants of students and trying to fulfill exactly what the students wanted.
Carlson said, “I have en-joyed the students here the most.”
Carlson’s father, Roger, also works in food service at Lakeland. He said, “I am very happy for him. This will be a good experience, some-
thing new.”Carlson has had experi-
ence in food service many years before Lakeland Col-lege. He was an executive chef for United Airlines, where he worked in Portland, Org. and Miami, Fla.
Outside of Lakeland, Carlson enjoys many outdoor activities such as hiking, win-ter camping, and kayaking.
Lakeland wishes Dale Carlson the best in his new career. He has been an out-standing member of the Lakeland team and he has made numerous contribu-tions to the dining services of this college. He will be missed by many at Lakeland, and his accomplishments are very much appreciated.
By Kelly ConardStaff Reporter
Free tutors availableHARC: the place to be when questions need answersBy Emily WachelStaff Reporter
It is the time of year where students find themselves
overloaded with homework. With the abundance of class work certain questions will arise, which students will need help answering.
Any student wanting as-sistance has the opportunity for free tutoring on the third floor of Old Main in the Hays-sen Academic Resource Cen-ter. Therefore, why not take advantage of this opportu-nity?
Tutoring is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Scheduled times for specific subjects are posted around campus.\
“I am a sophomore here at Lakeland and I feel that the tutoring that Lakeland offers is very helpful for stu-dents from my past experi-ences,” Cathy Sims said.
All of the tutors take prep classes to learn how to accurately give advice to the students needing assistance. These tutors are always will-ing to work with all students in order to develop a success-ful outcome.
“Students need to under-stand that we work with you; we don’t just proofread your
work or do your work for you,” writing tutor Matt Van Drunen said.
It is important that all students visiting the academ-ic resource center are aware of this fact. Students should be prepared to learn from these tutors and be actively involved in the tutoring ses-sion. Tutors are there to help guide students in the right direction. They are not there for students who don’t wish to learn.
Tutors cover almost all subjects. If there is not a tu-tor for a certain subject, the staff will find someone who can fill that slot.
“To tell you the truth, I do not care if students come get tutored; it just means less work for me. Although if stu-dents do come to me for help, I will guarantee them one grade higher,” student tutor Kevin Fitchett said.
Make sure to take ad-vantage of this opportunity that Lakeland offers, because whether or not you are using it, you pay for it in your tu-ition. There are always peo-ple willing to help you.
If anyone has any con-cerns or further questions, contact Paul White, director of the Hayssen Academic Re-source Center at ext. 1412.
Lakeland has a new theatre organizationSay hello to the campus playersBy John SieglaffFun House Editor
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Above: Food Service Director Dale Carlson will be leaving Lakeland College this November. He is shown in his office.
participating in the campus players seems very down-to-earth. “No one person totally controls the campus players,” commented Janisch.
“Everyone has a say in what we do,” commented Baker. The attitude among the campus players seems unanimous and good-heart-ed.
The campus players are p r e p a r i n g t h e m -
selves for their upcoming show. There is no set time for it as of yet. However, Shastel Baker is excited for it to hap-pen. There’s simply no time to secure it.
The show is said to be a one-act play called “Grace-land.” The hopes of Janisch are that it will be performed this semester, but that is still questionable. “I think it will
be a good performance,” said Baker.
Whether it comes out this semester or not, either way it will be coming soon. “If not in November, then it will be in January or February next se-mester,” Janisch said.
Among those three op-tions, January seems like the best bet.
Janisch and the rest of the campus players send an invitation to the students of
Lakeland College to join the organization. “You
don’t need any the-atre experience going into this at all…you’re more than welcome to join,” said
Janisch. “We need more
people,” said Bak-er. “We want to do bigger things.” It
seems like there is a short-age of participating students. Baker refers to her part in the campus players as “enter-taining” and “a blast.”
Opportunity to join the campus players is still plenti-ful. The next meeting the or-ganization will hold is taking place on Oct. 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bradley Building.
The campus players is a theatre organization full
of students who devote their time to acting in plays as well as improvisational skits, sketch comedy, screenwriting, singing, lighting, and student directing. The organization is separate from school plays.
James Crawford (J.C.), the previous direc-tor of the campus play-ers, ended his 30 years of directing last year with the production “Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage.” Char-lie Krebs has taken the role as J.C.’s suc-cessor.
“[Krebs] is a really nice guy, and he contributes a lot to our efforts,” said Shastel Baker, the secretary of the campus players.
The members of the cam-pus players are: Joe Janisch, president of the campus players, Samantha Tonn, vice president, Shastel Baker, secretary, and Nicole Hoy, treasurer.
However the roles are ranked, or what higher level there might be, everybody
[Krebs] is a really nice guy and
he contributes a lot to our efforts. "
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The new face of LakelandBy Rob PockatStaff Reporter
years the same billboard pic-ture has moved throughout Sheboygan County at least six times. I’m really sick of seeing the guy giving the thumbs-up sign. I don’t think he even goes to Lakeland anymore.
On the other hand, I do understand that I may not fit the typical demographics of a Lakeland College billboard
model.
I’m not on any sports teams, I’m not particularly attractive, and I’m probably about 15 years older than the typical Lakeland student, but I still think I can fill a void.
I feel that the slightly
overweight, mildly intelli-gent, middle-aged population is sorely under represented on Lakeland signage. These are attributes that I not only possess, but I am quite proud of… (Except for the over-weight part…and being mild-ly intelligent has its limita-tions…The age thing kind of bugs me too).
All of this aside, I am very
happy with the high level of av-erageness which I have achieved in my life.
Why do I want to do this? Is it for the pride or the prestige? Not re-
ally. Is it for the admiration of my peers? Not at all. Is it to spite my mother-in-law? May-be a little. Is it to potentially get the “thumbs-up boy” out of Sheboygan County? Defi-nitely.
Mostly, I just think it would be cool to see myself ten-feet-tall and bulletproof on a giant sign.
Now the question: How
do I get on a billboard? Do I need to fill out an ap-plication or join the foot-ball team? Maybe losing a little weight or having some minor plastic sur-gery would help. The only thing that I can think of doing is to bribe some-
body. Here it goes!The offer: If you can get
me on a Lakeland billboard I will go to the great expense of taking you out for pizza. I will, of course, have to limit the number of toppings to no more than three because my wife only gives me $7.63 per week for allowance. You’ll also have to buy your own bever-age and leave a tip too, but
I’ve got the rest.So, if you can get
me on a billboard, send me an e-mail, give me a call, or con-tact my agent. I may not ex-actly fit the requirements for your sign, but I really can’t be too much worse than Ryan Holm.
Benjamin Franklin once stated that “Pride is said
to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.” I don’t think I’m going to clear this one.
I know that a student publication isn’t the proper forum to for-ward one’s own goals and ambi-tions, but I feel like rock-in’ the boat a little bit.
I don’t n e c e s s a r -ily consider myself vain or conceited, but I have one goal be-fore I gradu-ate from Lakeland. I want to be on a billboard!
I don’t think this is an unrea-sonable goal. The school is putting these signs up anyway. You can’t drive more than three blocks in Sheboy-gan without seeing a 20 by 40 foot advertisement for Lake-land College. There is obvi-ously a ton of money in the budget to pay for this sort of thing.
Also, over the past two
Pool shark threatens MuskiesMake way for the legend, make wayBy John SieglaffFun House Editor
of at Lakeland College, and I haven’t written about it yet. How silly of me!
Well, people, I don’t want to boast at all, or perhaps “toot my own horn” would be a better expression, but I am one sharp-shootin’, money-takin’, son of a gun (or some-thing like that). Seriously, I’ve taken entire dollars from op-ponents before.
I once walked away from a brutal game of pool wearing the shirt off my opponent’s back. Save his pants and box-ers, it was all he had left to give me. I felt bad for taking the poor sap’s shirt. But, the people must know that I am a threat. He shouldn’t have been messing with adults.
One time I walked into a bar and this portly, biker fel-low came up to me and said, “How old are ya, sonny?” Our eyes locked and it was obvious to me that a challenge had been made through the lost
art of eyeball communication. When I answered him with
the firm response, “Eighteen,” he grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and threw me out like a defective barbecue bris-quette. It had become appar-ent to me as I laid there with my cheek pressed tight to the sewer grate, this “portly, biker fellow” was the fine owner of this particular tavern.
So it may appear that this tale ended with my failure. But, the truth of the matter is quite on the contrary, my friends. It may seem like I was unable to play this man in pool, but all you need is imagi-nation.
Since that night, after I stood up out of the sewer and
made sure no one had seen this embarrassing act of vio-lence against my own self, I have told the story of the night I took on a nasty biker man in a bar and beat his beard clean.
I’ve found that it’s incredi-bly easy to make yourself into a legend when you just con-tinuously lie about everything you’ve done. Lies—the stuff legends are made of!
People have asked me how
I feel about myself knowing that I’m living a lie. At this, I usually stare straight into the person’s eyeballs and say, “You wouldn’t know I was a pathological liar unless you’ve read my column.”
In my last words, I’d like to ask all of you who have just read this, please, don’t tell anyone else. My secrets are surfacing too much right now. So remember, mum’s the word!
Finding things to talk about can be a difficult
task. That’s when a writer finds him or herself writ-ing out long, i r r e l e v a n t introductions that serve their purpose as taking up space, just like this one! So, I was playing a mean game of pool and try-ing to think of a decent topic for my column. “You should write about pool,” my oppo-nent suggested.
I found it hard to believe once I came to the realization that I have never written any-thing about pool before. Pool! The one true love I can be sure http://news.siu.edu
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Chase and Eddie By John SieglaffFun House Editor
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Why birds fly by their own means...and not with Jack Hanna on a planeBy Mariah TessStaff Reporter
Most of us have flown on an airline before. Even
if you haven’t, it’s inevita-ble that you’ve heard stories about it. Hopefully they didn’t begin with: “So what’s the deal with airline food?!” or “I just flew in from (insert city here)…Boy, are my arms tired!” There are even sto-ries on the news about flying;
mostly about security mea-sures that are being taken since 9/11.
Nowadays, one must go through all sorts of unusual procedures. Take off your shoes, walk through metal detectors, recite all of the state capitals, recite all of the Presidents – in order, includ-ing years in office; if you can’t do it, you hate freedom – and what have you.
Airport security proved especially difficult for fa-
mous animal expert Jack Hanna at an Ohio airport in September. There was a problem when the animals couldn’t comply with the ‘take off your shoes’ rule, as they did not have any. Hanna, three other people, a mongoose, a small leopard, and an eleven-month-old fla-mingo arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight one Sunday to find the terminal closed.
Apparently, nationally r e c o g n i z e d animal ex-pert Jack Hanna and his animal posse aren’t i m p o r t a n t enough to be allowed through an airport ter-minal at m i d n i g h t . The only way off of the tarmac was through a ten-foot-tall metal turn-stile with several hori-zontal bars. “Not the easiest exit to squeeze t h r o u g h
when you’re traveling with boxed-up animals,” Hanna said. “I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round.”
Hanna’s parents never gave him the toy with the slots that are made of vari-ous shapes with the differ-ent shaped pegs that go into the corresponding slots. No matter how hard you try, that square peg isn’t going into that circular slot. So the difficulties of shoving a SQUARE crate (that hap-pened to have a flamingo, a live animal) into a CIR-CULAR turnstile never oc-curred to him. That is, until he became stuck in the turn-stile straddling the crate. Awkward.
“I was stuck like a worm. My eyes were as big as grape-fruits,” Hanna said. “I can’t describe the feeling in my stomach. I can’t move up or down. The bars are on your face.”
Being stuck in a turnstile with a flamingo is not exactly a life- threatening situation. Personally, I do not see how he was that freaked out. I would have started to laugh. ‘Look at this; I’ve gotten my-self stuck on a tarmac in a turnstile with a flamingo, HA, HA, HA! Just wait until everybody hears this when
we get back.’Eventually, Hanna
squirmed free of the hell that is being stuck in a turnstile with a flamingo and walked (didn’t run, even though his buddies and the other ani-mals were stuck on the tar-mac and the flamingo was still wedged in the turnstile) to the nearest fire station for help. It took three firefighters to hoist the flamingo’s crate up and out of the turnstile. Columbus fire department logs show the firefighters ar-rived at the airport at 12:30 a.m. for a “flamingo rescue,” spokeswoman Kelly McGuire said.
Hanna joked that the next time he flies through the airport, the biggest animal he will bring will be a gerbil. He takes animals places for vari-ous shows and gigs for enter-tainment, so why bother even bringing a gerbil? Nobody cares about gerbils. Gerbils aren’t nearly as fascinating as a mongoose or a small leop-ard. They especially aren’t as entertaining as flamingos that have been stuck in turnstiles with Jack Hanna.
I hear the flamingo is be-ing treated for Post-Traumat-ic Stress Disorder and plans on writing a book detailing its harrowing ordeal.
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58 of 109 passes (53.2 percent) for 783 yards and ten touch-downs. In addition to Wilk’s aerial threat, he also ran for three touchdowns.
“It starts off first with the offensive line,” said Wilk. “They got to give me time or I am not going to able to throw the ball. So they have been do-ing a great job. We have been able to run the ball a lot more since we got into conference. My receivers are running hard routes to get open. All I have to do is throw the ball up for them and they come down with it.”
Paul Resop has rebound-ed from his early injury with great success. Last week against the MacMurray High-landers, the senior ran the ball 14 times for 84 yards and two touchdowns. The most impressive statistic was the tailback’s yards per carry av-erage which stood at 6.0.
“Paul [Resop] has been doing a great job,” said Wilk. “He has been finding the holes and he has been getting big yards on first and second down, which makes it easier to convert on third down. As long as we keep being able to run the ball with Paul and he keeps pounding them in there, we will be all right.”
“What is really starting to gel right now in our running game is our line,” said Head Coach Kevin Doherty. “We are getting fewer and fewer hold-ing calls from week to week and we are getting fewer and fewer missed assignments.
There is some skepticism about how healthy Resop is. The senior continues to wear a knee brace and limped out of the game against MacMur-ray. The tailback is recovering from a knee injury suffered earlier in the season.
“[Resop] is healthy. He is
Muskies await Falcons faceoffsore, but he is healthy,” said Doherty. “His knee is still bothering him but I can’t say that he is not healthy. That is just the style that he is. He is not a real burner. He is not go-ing to break one for seventy or sixty [yards]. He is just a hard downhill runner.”
Joey O’brien has been sidelined for a year and a half after tearing his ACL the first day of practice. The red-shirted freshman saw his col-lege debut at tailback against Eureka on Oct. 9. In the past two weeks O’Brien has car-ried the ball eleven times for
29 yards.“[O’Brien] runs hard,”
said Doherty. “From an expe-rience standpoint, he is still a freshman. So he is learning how things go and he is going to continue to mature and get stronger, and he will be a good back for us in the future.”
Last year, the Muskies steam-rolled every opponent in conference and maintained a winning streak entering our homecoming game against an undefeated Concordia Univer-sity of Wisconsin. This year, the Muskies have steam-rolled every opponent in conference
and maintained a winning streak entering an undefeated CUW’s homecoming game.
Although graduating 22 seniors last year, the Fal-cons have had no problems destroying conference oppo-nents with each opportunity. Eureka University was easily handled by our Muskies with a confident 32-9 victory. CUW slaughtered Eureka 70-0.
The Falcons have not al-lowed a single point in confer-ence this season. They have outscored conference oppo-nents 189-0. This is a pass defense that has proved im-
penetrable allowing only 632 passing yards over the six weeks.
“[CUW] is big, strong, and physical,” said Doherty. “De-fensively, they’re the same as last year, big up front and hard-hitting linebackers. So we are going to have to be able to protect the passer and get some things moving in our run game. Which should al-low us to pass the ball a little bit.”
“I think that we will be alright,” said Wilk. “We have a lot of talented receivers and with the running game start-ing to get underway, I think we will be alright.”
“Intensity is going to be up definitely,” said tailback Paul Resop. “But no more pressure. It is just hype. It is a big game and we are all go-ing to be ready.
With the Concordia de-fense most likely going to double and triple team star receiver MacArthur White, Resop may be pressured to pick up some of yardage that his counterpart may be de-nied. Resop feels differently. “There is not much pressure,” said Resop. “[Opponents] have been covering [White] like that for two years now. Every game I go into it and you just got to run hard.”
“It will be exciting,” said Doherty. “This is exactly what this football team wants. We want to go into Concordia un-defeated, playing for the con-ference title, playing for the Cheesebowl, the big trophy. I was talking to [Athletic Di-rector] Coach Bouche and she makes a great point and I told the team today. ‘It is really not as much about the team who we are playing, but what we are playing for.’ That is what we are going to focus on, be-cause right now, we control our own destiny.”
FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 9
Above: Paul Resop breaks a tackle against MacMurray. The senior had 84 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries.
Muskies drop two straight
The Lakeland College men’s soccer team lost a tough
match versus rival of the Northern Athletics Conference, Edgewood College, 7-3. The game was kept close in the first half with Lakeland on top 2-1.
Sophomore defender Doua Vang and junior midfeilder Matt Van Drunen were the two credited with the goals in the first half. Edgewood con-tinued to be forced to play on their heals as Zach Buchman, a Senior midfielder, scored the Muskies third goal on a penalty
By John WagnerStaff Reporter
kick. Unfortunately, Edgewood was able to score five goals to answer back for the win.
The men’s soccer team also lost a 3-0 decision to UW-Oshkosh this past Monday, October 15th. Oshkosh was able to put 19 shot attempts on the Muskies but they only gave up 3. Offensively they didn’t match as well as the de-fense had played. Head Coach Dave Madsen did see some positives that he had to point out from the game.
“Today was probably one of our better games in terms of defensive organization,” Madsen said. “We made it dif-ficult for them to get in good
positions to score, and I was happy to see that our defense was frustrating them and making them work for the shots they did get.”
The Muskies get back to facing a NAC opponent against Marian College.
“With local rivalry games you kind of throw the record out the window and see what happens on that particular day,” Madsen said. “I think at this point we can put every-thing else that has happened this year aside and see what the players bring.”
They face Marian at 7 p.m. in Fond du Lac, Wiscon-sin on Wednesday Oct 17.
Women on a three game streak
The Muskies have returned to dominating
their opponents in excellent fashion. Now on a three game winning streak, it almost seems as if they are untouchable, due to the fact that in the last six games Lakeland is 5-1.
In the first exciting bat-tle of this winning streak against Wisconsin Luther-an, overtime was needed to decide the victor. It took 14
By Shaun ForsythStaff Reporter
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minutes for the sophomore Celine Elzinga to allow the Lakeland faithful to breathe a satisfying sigh of relief as she hit the back of the net to seal the deal.
Next came the trip down to Milwaukee to face MSOE. The Raider’s just couldn’t seem to “engineer” a win-ning strategy as both Elisa Waltz and Jacqui Drexler scored impressive goals in the first half of play. Senior goalie Savannah Johnson contributed also in a huge way with six saves, not al-
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Lakeland rolls over MacMurrayLCSI--The Lakeland College football team remained per-fect in Illini-Badger Football Conference play with a 49-18 win over MacMurray Satur-day at Taylor Field in She-boygan, Wis.
The win sets up a show-down next Saturday, Oct. 20, in Mequon against rival and co-IBFC leader Concordia, Wis., in the annual Cheese Bowl, with the winner gain-ing sole possession of first place with two weeks to play. The game is set for 1 p.m.
The Muskies (4-3, 4-0 IBFC) held the Highlanders (0-6, 0-4 IBFC) scoreless in the first half leading 42-0.
“I’m really happy with how we played,” said Lakeland head coach Kevin Doherty. “Our starters played the first half and let the younger guys play the second half. That is important for those younger guys to get a taste for college football.”
The Lakeland de-fense was a huge key this weekend as they held the Highlanders to just 221 yards.
Senior running back Paul Resop had another solid day, as he ran the ball 14 times for 87 yards and 2 TDs. Sopho-more wide receiver Jacob Heinemeyer was in his ele-ment this week with two re-ceptions for 72 yards and a 49-yard punt return. Senior quarterback Brad Wilk was 8 for 19 for 151 yards, two TDs and one interception. Lake-land had 360 total yards.
“Offensively, I thought Brad did a great job,” said Doherty. “He did a nice job running our offense and through some great touch-down passes. I thought our running game went great and our offensive line was outstanding.”
“Our defense played great again,” said Doherty.” Above: Isiah Calhoun pulls down a 29 yard pass in the home contest against MacMurray. This was his lone catch on the day.
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Defense delivers again in 32-9 winLCSI--The Lakeland College football team’s defense rose to the occasion for the second straight week and the Muskies celebrated Homecoming with their third straight win, a 32-9 thumping of Eureka College.
The Muskies improve to 3-3 on the season, 3-0 in Illini-Badger Football Conference play. Eureka drops to 1-4, 1-2 in the IBFC.
Junior linebacker John Wagner dominated the game early on, and classmate and fellow linebacker Stephan Johnson joined in the festivi-ties as the two overwhelmed Eureka’s offense with a com-bined 21 tackles and four quarterback sacks.
Wagner, who finished with eight tackles and two sacks, pounced on a punt blocked by junior linebacker Brent Miller with 4:59 left in the first quarter in the end zone for a touchdown to give Lake-
land a 12-0 lead. It was one play after Wagner sacked Eu-reka QB Nick Lindsey for a 14-yard loss.
Johnson finished with 13 tackles and a pair of sacks, including three and a half tackles for a loss of 25 yards. Wagner had two tackles for a loss of 22 yards. Lakeland held Eureka to just 15 yards rush-ing, and junior defensive back Justin Medard had an inter-ception that one play later led to a Lakeland touchdown.
“Our special teams got us going when Wagner blocked and recovered that punt,” said Lakeland head coach Kevin Doherty. “Our defense did a great job of swarming to the ball. John and Steph played awesome today, and our de-fensive line did a great job of getting off blocks and making plays. Justin had a nice pick and our guys in the secondary really hit today.”
Offensively, the Muskies had more yards on the ground (175) than through the air (166) for the first time this sea-son. Senior running back Paul Resop had another solid day with 14 carries for 74 yards and a touchdown, while fresh-man Ben Lombardi added 59 yards on 12 carries.
Lakeland senior QB Brad Wilk was 11 of 23, throwing three touchdowns passes but also three interceptions. Se-nior wide receiver MacArthur White had four catches for 79 yards and a pair of TD catch-es.
Along with the turnovers, the Muskies were flagged for 11 penalties for 127 yards.
“Our running game con-tinues to get better, minus our holding calls,” Doherty said. “Usually when you hold it’s in the passing game, but we’re getting them in the running game.” Above: Paul Resop breaks a tackle against Eureka. He had 74 yards and a touchdown.
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lowing the opponent to have a chance at a comeback.
“We’re on an impressive run right now,” said Head Coach Dave Madsen. “Now we really need to obtain strong focus and continue to battle hard through the remainder of the schedule. If we could get a chance at hosting the first round in the NAC tournament, I tru-ly believe we can do some serious damage and sur-prise a lot of people.”
Finally, the most recent victory came last Satur-
Women tally eight goals against conference opponent Alverno Collegeday here at Lakeland. The Muskies made the Inferno look like the North Pole as they froze Alverno in an im-pressive 8-0 shutout. Just within 20 minutes of regu-lation, Lakeland punched in three goals to give an early preview of how the rest of the game would surely un-ravel. Lola Engel impres-sively scored twice while Elisa Waltz scored another with the help of Jessica Hopfinger’s assist. It is shocking to find out that these stats only credit the first half for the Muskies.
In the second half, Lake-land cruised with five out of fourteen shots fired hitting the nets. Maria Santelli also doubled in scoring while Tracy Bins, Jessica Hopfin-ger, and Gina Weiss fin-ished off Alverno with goals of their own. Surprisingly, the opponent’s net was not burning or up in smoke at the end of this one.
“We are doing exactly what we need to do at this point in time,” stated coach Madsen following the third straight victory. “Our confi-dence is building, and the
SOCCER FROM PAGE 17 girls continue to work hard and stay hungry.”
Looking forward to the next contests up the road, the Lakeland Muskies head to Watertown, Wis to go head to head with Mara-natha Baptist on Tuesday, Oct. 16. The Crusaders, who have a 3-5 conference record compared to the Muskie’s 5-3 record, will have a chal-lenge on their hands.
Then starting Oct. 20, Lakeland will enjoy a short two game home stand, fac-ing Auroa University at 3pm. The Spartans are in-
credibly undefeated in the NAC while just losing a pair of games all season. The girls will have to be on top of their game and play to their full potential to come out victorious.
The second of the two games comes on Octo-ber 24 against Concordia Wisconsin at 3 p.m. The Falcons are closely fly-ing right behind Lakeland with only a half game sep-arating the two squads in conference play.
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Favre, legendary senior citizenBy Beau MarkutSports Editor
The roar of applause at Cooperstown was enough
to put any old man on his h a u n c h e s , but not Brett Favre at the 2052 Hall of Fame. That senile geezer raised his frail body up to the platform with dignity and pride. A l t h o u g h his last “Lambeau Leap” was a good three decades prior, Brett’s soul seemed to leap out of his decrepit chest with the energy of his 54-year-old self in those good old days.
Although he was blind, para-lyzed, and somewhat kooky from the many sacks over the years tak-en under shoddy offensive lines, the 84-year-old Favre seemed as alive as any other senior citizen. The commissioner of football (the twenty-fourth Brett has seen as the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers) took the microphone and started the legendary quarterback’s praises:
“Brett Favre is a testament to the great sport of football,” he said. “This heroic man has broken the
records for: passing touchdowns, passing yards, completions, games played, games started, snaps ac-cepted, and Wrangler commercials. Although he has also broken the records for most: incompletions, interceptions, fumbles lost, sacks, and wide receivers decapitated, we are willing to forgive him.” A little snicker escaped from the crowd.
The Cooperstown lawn was jam-packed with teary eyes for the heroes’ induction. The commis-sioner continued, “I will now pass the mike off to someone who I know had a great impact on Brett,” he said. “I present you now with Bill Belechick III.”
The coach grabbed the mi-crophone and wiped a few tears from his eyes. “I had the distinct honor being Brett’s thirty-second coach and I was there the day that he broke the completions record,” said coach Belichick. “It was a magical time. I was also there when they broke your hip for the second time in your career. I had faith in you Brett, and so did the rest of Packer nation. This was in despite of the fact that you were collecting a pension.”
This show of emotional tes-tament for the third-generation Super Bowl champion coach, Belichick began to bawl profusely, drowning his notes in his tears. He mustered his strength and spewed, “I will give it off to the grandson of Brett Favre’s favorite target, Donald Driver.” The retired coach
returned to his chair and tried to choke back his tears on such a glo-rious day.
Daniel Driver kissed his young daughter’s hand and lifted himself out his seat and to ap-proach the microphone. Driver clutched the mike with a firm grip and bellowed, “I never met Brett, but I loved him. My grandfather would sit for hours and spew out fables of the great quarterback and I kept my father’s ancient DVD player working through the years so I could watch the original film from those legendary years back when he was in his prime, when he was in his forties or fifties. It is hard to think that he only retired from the game four years ago.”
The commissioner regained the microphone, and with great en-thusiasm and announced, “I now induct the great Brett Favre into the Professional Football Hall of Fame! Brett come on up here and say a few things.”
The invincible quarterback pushed the joystick on his electric wheelchair and rolled up to the mi-crophone. He smiled wide for the adoring crowd that were overflow-ing with the emotions of the great event. Favre took a deep wheezing breath and spoke, “I truly enjoyed the sixty-some years I played for the Green Bay Packers, but I wish I would have beat the Chicago Bears more often.”
Yeah I said it. Go Bears! You know where to send the hatemail...Above: The great Brett Favre 50 years before his eventual retirement.
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LCSI--The Lakeland College women’s soccer team improved to 4-3 in the Northern Athlet-ics Conference with a big win over Milwaukee School of En-gineering, 2-1, on Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wis.
The Muskies (5-9 overall) came out firing from the start, racking up both of their goals in the first half to take the early lead.
“It was an excellent ef-fort,” said head coach Dave Madsen. “We finally put in a strong effort right from the
beginning of the game, which is what I have wanted to see all season.”
Senior defender Elisa Waltz knocked in the Muskies’ first goal, and also her first col-legiate goal, in the 29th min-ute, while junior defender Jac-qui Drexler split the Raider’s defense for the squad’s second goal just before halftime.
“I’ve been putting Elisa up at forward to give us a differ-ent look there, Madsen said. “She was constantly frustrat-ing their defense, and was able
to get a good look to score.”Senior goalkeeper Savan-
nah Johnson also had a solid game, snagging six saves and refusing to let MSOE find the back of the net until one snuck through in the waning minutes of the game.
“She did a good job of read-ing things early, which was helpful for our defense,” Mad-sen said of Johnson. “They knew she was there backing them up and helping them see dangerous situations before they happened.”
Women’s soccer stuns Raiders for NAC win
LCSI--The Lakeland Col-lege women’s volleyball team dropped a pair of non-confer-ence matches in the final day of play at the UW-Oshkosh Invite on Saturday, Oct. 13, falling to UW-Stevens Point, 3-1, and dropping a 3-2 heart-breaker to UW-Whitewater in the fifth-place match.
The Muskies (15-11 over-all), were unable to get ahead against the Pointers in their first match, as the squad was only able to take game three, 30-25, while dropping the other three games, 30-23, 30-18 and 30-17.
Senior middle hitter
Shelly Bruni led the squad on the scoreboard with 12 kills, followed by senior outside hit-ter Ashley Domask with 10 kills. Sophomore outside hit-ter Brittanie Paulus poured most of her energy into the backcourt, posting a team-high 17 digs, followed by de-fensive specialists Tonia Stre-belinski and Rachel Young with 14 digs apiece.
Lakeland then went on a comeback run against UW-Whitewater in their second match of the day for fifth-place in the tournament, taking the first two games, 30-26, 30-22. However, the Muskies weren’t
Women’s volleyball drops two matches at Oshkoshable to hold that momentum, as the squad dropped the re-maining three games of the match, 30-22, 30-13, 15-6.
Bruni and Domask at-tempted to lift the offense with a tie for kills leader with 12 each. Strebelinski and Paulus stayed strong on defense with 23 and 20 digs, respectively, while Paulus also knocked down 10 kills.
The Muskies will look to regain their confidence and defend their perfect Northern Athletics Conference record as they continue conference play with Wisconsin Lutheran Col-lege on Tuesday, Oct. 16. .
LCSI--After an extra 14 min-utes of overtime play beyond the standard 90 minutes due to a frustrating 0-0 dead-lock with Northern Athletics Conference opponent Wis-consin Lutheran, The Lake-land College women’s soccer team finally got the result it had been seeking all game, as sophomore midfielder Ce-line Elzinga found the back of the net on a breakaway to notch the 1-0 win for the Muskies (4-9, 3-3 NAC) on Saturday, Oct. 6.
“The other team pushed up really far, and it took two touches to get it to me,” Elz-inga said. “I went at the goal and told myself to remember to keep my head up and not to choke. It was the perfect shot, and I was really lucky to get it, but that’s what we practice for.”
Elzinga succeeded where her teammates met only frustration, as nearly every Muskie that took the field aimed at least one shot at the goal without success, racking up 25 shot attempts for the game to the Warriors’ four.
“We started off really
slow, but we stuck in and kept banging shots at them until they fell over and one went in,” said head coach Dave Madsen. “I was frustrated that we had to go into over-time to win, but we found a way to win today and I give credit to the girls for sticking into it for that long.
The Muskies can also draw confidence from the fact that they have evened their NAC record back up to .500 and still have hopes of see-ing games in the conference tournament.
“It’s good to get another conference win and climb up the ladder a little bit more,” Madsen said. “It’s one step closer to getting us into the conference tournament so we can be playing our best soccer at the end of the season and have a chance to make a run at the championship.”
Elzinga agrees, citing teamwork as a major factor in the Muskies’ success.
“We’re accomplishing our goals step by step,” she said. “Getting the win today was the perfect situation with it being Homecoming.”
Women’s soccer bears down to snag overtime victory against Wisconsin Lutheran
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John Wagner, Linebacker, FootballJohn Wagner is a captain of
Lakeland football and he is a figure head of the defense as a whole. In the past two weeks Wagner has been out-standing at linebacker. In the victories over MacMurray and Eureka, the junior has tallied 21 tackles, 5.5 of them for a loss. He has a forced fumble, three sacks, and even a defen-sive touchdown.
“John, in the past few games, has really come into the zone,” said Head Coach Kevin Doherty. “He has done a good job. Really, he has done everything we wanted him to do. He has done a good job taking care of the run game be-tween the tackles and penetrating to make tackles.”
Congratulations to this issue’s MVP, John Wag-ner. Coaches who feel a member of their team de-serves the MVP of the issue award can send an e-mail with the suggested player to [email protected].
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Above: Matt Pawlyk catches one of Wilk’s two touchdown passes against MacMurray
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The Lakeland College men’s soccer team has got-
ten their first win of the sea-son over Wisconsin Lutheran College on Saturday, Oct. 6. More importantly they got their first win in Northern Athletic Conference as well. Wisconsin Lutheran College was also undefeated in Conference until they fell to a 3-1 loss to the Muskies.
“It’s a big relief to get this win, and I think it’s long over-due for our guys,” said Head Coach Dave Madsen. “The way we dug in and fought hard in the second half was great to see. This was the first time we got a second goal in a game, and I was very glad
Sweet, sweet victoryto see we got more than just one goal today and added the third to extend our lead.”
Zach Buchman, senior midfielder for the Muskies, kicked in two of the three goals for the Muskies. Ryan Malo assisted Buchman’s first goal in the first half. Buchman’s second goal was off of a penalty in the second half.
“It’s a great feeling get-ting our first win of the sea-son and I think it‘s the confi-dent booster that we needed,” says Buchman. “It was an overall team effort and it just so happened I got to kick in the goals that helped lead our team to victory.”
Junior midfielder Kev-in Fitchett, assisted in the third goal passing to Takumi Yabara. Yabara, a Junior who
is listed as the back-up goal-keeper, put in the game-win-ning goal that helped seal the deal over Wisconsin Lu-theran.
“I hadn’t really thought of putting Yabara on the field much this year,” Madsen said. “But we’re at that point where we need him. He has the right attitude and he’s bringing effort and doing all of the little things right. I may have missed the boat on that earlier, but I don’t think I’ll miss it again and he’ll see some chances to play.”
“We put too much of a bur-den on our team trying to do too much to get that win, but today we kept our determina-tion,” Buchman said. “We just need to keep building and playing one game at a time. All we can do is go up from here.”
Men’s soccer gets first win of the season at HomecomingBy John WagnerStaff Reporter
Above: Paul Resop limps off the field against MacMurray College on Oct. 13. This action and the continued use of his knee brace raises skepticism to whether the tailback has fully recovered from the knee injury that sidelined him earlier this year.
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Muskies burn Inferno, stretch match win streak LCSI--The Lakeland Col-lege women’s volleyball team (14-8, 9-0 NAC) continued its perfect Northern Athletics Conference record with a 3-0 match win over Alverno Col-lege on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Lakeland.
Along with trying out dif-ferent line-ups came a bit of a slow start in game one, but the Muskies adjusted quickly to take the game, 30-22. The squad’s offense really clicked in game two, squashing the Inferno’s hopes of a comeback flat with a 30-12 outcome on an impressive .519 hitting as a team, giving Lakeland the
right momentum heading into the third game to finish off the match, 30-24.
Sophomore Kaylyn Kasper, who came off the bench to lead Lakeland’s offensive attack with nine kills on .538 hitting and a team-high four service aces, proved herself a major fac-tor in the squad’s total team effort.
Schreiber was also pleased with the efforts of freshman outside hitter Andrea Mueller and freshman setter Kristine Raeder, who were also key con-tributors off the bench, with Raeder leading the Muskies
in assists with 18.Senior middle hitter
Shelly Bruni was also a tough match on offense, knocking down six kills, while outside hitters senior Ashley Domask and sophomore Brittanie Pau-lus also contributed with five kills apiece.
Lakeland will now resume non-conference tournament play this weekend at UW-Os-hkosh in hopes of giving itself a chance to make a run for an NCAA bid.
“We said we need to make a presence early in the year and try to steal some matches,” Schreiber said.
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