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Independent Magazine Winter 2010 Issue 10: FLC Basketball, Men's Choir, Texting Taking Over, LOL Mondays, Snow Removal, Student Summit OppertunitiesTRANSCRIPT
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"My last name means "big" in Navajo. So really I am Jessica Big.
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"The pain and suffering of a cyclists can be erased with an instance when the pedals turn themselves. the air goes calm, and you float up a hill with the grace of an artist putting brush to canvas." - Jason Waddell
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What’s on your mind!?
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act
but a habit" - Aristotle
Tanya Marchun
"I can't write on a chalkboard"Sassy Kelly
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The Melody of Comedyby: Ryan Versaw
Is Texting Taking Over?by: Mike Carr
Environmental CenterSinging Their Way to Chinaby: Marcus Rennerby:Sassy Kelly & Emily Tennison
Elite 8by: Steph Cook
Snow Removalby: Jordan Squiers
Student Opportunity Summitby: Tyrel Karp
HoroscopesCover photo attributed by
the FLC Athletic Department
Sage GreyRio Coyotl
Brett Masse
Ellie Duke
Clare O'Connor SevilleJordan SquiersLori Badolato
Courtney TaylorMike Eckstein
Laura Beth Waltz
Business Editor In Chief
P.S. Don't forget to vote in your student elections!
Online EditorSassy Kelly
Kaitie Martinez
Welcome back from Spring Break! This is the time of
year that the sun starts to shine again, trees and flowers
bloom and the FLC campus comes back to life with students
enjoying the outdoors. It’s a good time to remember
how wonderful it is to be a Skyhawk. There are so many
things that make Fort Lewis an amazing place to get your
education. But, there are also so many things that we, as
students, can improve. If there’s one thing our campus
lacks, it’s student involvement. That’s ok though, because
that’s one of the things that we have the power to change.
FLC has lots of places you can leave your mark. You could
run for senate, promote student wellness in Uniting Students,
be an RA, plan events for campus in SPC, host a radio show
on KDUR, work with the Environmental Center, travel to or
help other countries, start your very own club or even join
The Independent and be a part of the campus free press.
The nice thing about FLC is that we are a small enough
campus that an involved student really can make a big
impact throughout their years here. So when the mountains
and the river call, of course you should go, but maybe this is
your time to really get involved in something that will change
things for years to come. Or maybe you will just change
someone’s life with your impact. Or maybe it will be your
life that will change. I know that I truly cherish my time as
a student leader. There are pieces of this campus that I
got the chance to leave an impact upon. There are people
who I feel like I’ve helped. But most of all, getting involved
at FLC has helped me. I’ve learned so much about myself
and about the world. There are people who have changed
me, shaped me and taught me things that I could have
never learned in any classroom. I’m thankful daily that I’m
at Fort Lewis, blessed with this opportunity, fellow students
who care and wonderful advisors and professors. I wish
this experience for each of you and I encourage you all to
find a place here at FLC to make your mark. Happy Spring
Skyhawks!
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t doesn’t take much to make a disruption in
class with your cell phone, and with some calling
plans as low as $39 a month, it makes sense that
almost every student carries one around.
It can be nonsense to teachers and students alike,
when a professor is in the middle of a lecture, and
someone is texting or their ringer goes off.
With more students using their cell phones to text
as a quick means of communicating, it is an almost
everyday occurrence that a cell phone will go off in a
classroom.
“I turn my cell phone off in class, and it is always
annoying, and students should have some respect,”
Chris Audit, student, said in regards to students in
class who are trying to concentrate.
There is nothing more distracting than when a cell
phone goes off in class.
“If you can hear the buttons pressing it’s hard
to concentrate,” Audit said. Punishments have been
created to deal with the use of cell phones, but it is
common to see students at the back of a classroom
texting anyway.
“In some aspects it can be a good thing, it could
be an emergency,” Adam Bojan, student, said.
It could be a good thing, for example, if someone
is in an accident, Bojan said.
“The bad aspect to it is that it could disrupt other
students as well as contribute to others cheating dur-
ing a test or class assignments,” Bojan said.
With advances in social networking in today’s soci-
ety it should come as no surprise to anyone that those
cell phones open up a world of entertainment as well
as a place for communicating.
With advances in micro-technology, almost ev-
eryone can surf the web and read books, check their
social networks with little effort.
At the same time, these handheld devices have
created new ways of communication that have
changed the concept of a normal conversation.
No longer do people have to get face to face with
others, but can simply just use texting or the internet.
This new kind of communication is making people see
the good and the bad behind all these easier ways to
connect, and unfortunately the cons out way the pros.
“I don’t like it,” Larry Hartsfield, professor at Fort
Lewis College, said.
“No punishment, but I find it distracting for stu-
dents and teachers alike,” Hartsfield said
Whenever Hartsfield does see a student using their
cell phones, he tells them to put it up, he said.
Hartsfield also specifically states in his syllabus
that electronics are not to be used in class, he said.
By Mike Carr
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The Fort Lewis College Men’s Choir has
been selected to perform at the 29th Annual
International Society of Music Education ISME
World Conference 2010, Aug. 1 thru Aug. 6. in
Beijing, China.
The Men’s Choir submitted a recorded
audition of Toto’s, Africa, to perform at the
conference and was selected out of thousands
of applicant’s worldwide, Eric Stramel, a choir
member said.
The Men’s Choir will perform, Salvation is
Created, by Pavel Tchesnovok, Stamel said.
“It’s like tasting the fruits of our labor,” Jake
Padilla, a choir member, said. “Not only is it
another chance to perform for a large crowd,
but a great cultural experience.”
According to the ISME, the 2010 confer-
ence will cover all aspects of music education
and learning. The convention will host classes,
seminars, concerts, and exhibitions taught by
both Chinese and internal instructors.
Members include: Tenors I: Kyle
Cahall, Ben Meckley, Brian Stoneback,
Eric Stamel, Kelly Swartz, Christopher
VanDyck, Tenor II: Steve Blaylock, Chris
Brophy, Sean Mallow, Jake Padilla,
Andrew Tomasi, Bass I: Ryan Baker,
Travis Dalenberg, Sam Kelly, Billy Pinto,
Jamie Olinger, Mike Ziemke, Bass II:
Kevin Bell, Josh Hoffman, Chauncey
Larson, Jeremy Morris, Luke Petrusa,
and Bradley Sharp.
The Indy is currently looking for Reporters, Writers, Photographers, Copy Edi-tors, Art Designers, Programmers, Public Relations, and Advertising Agents for the fall semester. As long as you’re a Fort Lewis student you are eligible to join and work in any position. Benefits include: college credit up to 6 credits (you pick the amount of credits between one and six), involvement in a RSO (club), internship credit, and opportunities for advancement and management positions. The Indy is a great resume and portfolio builder! No experience, no problem, the Indy can train for any position. If you are interested in joining our growing team next semester please register for English 250 Practicum-Newspaper. If you have any questions, please email the Indy at [email protected].
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t is important to ensure your personal data is protected through
your computer when using or disposing it to avoid identity theft.
It is the individual’s responsibility to protect their personal data
by keeping the computer up-to-date, keeping the virus scan soft-
ware, and having the firewall active, said David Longan, an IT Profes-
sional I of Client Services in the Information Technology Department
of Fort Lewis College.
There are multiple devices out there that a person can pull data
off a hard drive and use it for nefarious reasons, Longan said.
The IT Department uses a USB cord to recover data from hard
drives for professional reasons and anybody can get hold of these
for $14, Longan said.
Another device used, not at Fort Lewis, is XMap, a unique space
application that a data-recovery person uses to retrieve data,
he said.
The IT Department used the XMap for an experiment on a digital
audio tape that was sliced through with a pocket knife, water dam-
aged, stomped on, spooled back up into the tape, and recovered the
data, Longan said.
So if the hard drive ends up in a landfill, an unauthorized person
can reach the personal information and may do something illegal
with it, said Jeff Stockberger, an IT Professional I of the Information
Technology Department of Fort Lewis.
If your information is not properly cleared off the hard drive when
thrown away there is a possibility of identity theft, Longan said.
“The first way we deal with our waste is we reuse it,”
Longan said.
At Fort Lewis, two methods of recycling are used for electronic
equipment which are selling computers from the computer stored in
the basement of Reed Library and sending the equipment to Colo-
rado Correctional Industries, he said.
Fort Lewis’ IT has to be very tight about disposing electronic
equipment properly because of the EPA fines, Longan said.
For institutions or large businesses, when electronic equipment
is improperly disposed the school or business is charged $10,000 a
day until the equipment is properly disposed, Longan said.
The manufacturing of one 17 inch desktop personal computer
uses 528 pounds of fossil fuel, 48.4 pounds of chemicals, 412.5 gal-
lons of water, and tons of mining waste, said Traci Phillips, president
of Natural Evolution, an electronics recycling company located in
Tulsa, Okla.
When the computers are recycled or sold, Fort Lewis’ IT has to
meet the Department of Defense’s (DOD) regulations to properly
clear information off hard drives, Stockberger said.
DOD has a regulation about how and what you have to do in
order to say that the information in the hard drive cannot be recov-
ered, or is unrecoverable, Stockberger said.
“We’re as good as the military as the way we wipe out all the
stuff because your student records could be on there,” Longan said.
Darik’s Boot and Nuke, known as DBAN, is a computer software
program used at Fort Lewis to ensure data security of the campus-
owned computers by writing random information to the hard drive
seven times, after which the information is wiped off seven to nine
times, Stockberger said.
t is important to ensure your personal data is protected through
your computer when using or disposing it to avoid identity theft.
It is the individual’s responsibility to protect their personal data
by keeping the computer up-to-date, keeping the virus scan soft-
ware, and having the firewall active, said David Longan, an IT Profes-
sional I of Client Services in the Information Technology Department
There are multiple devices out there that a person can pull data
off a hard drive and use it for nefarious reasons, Longan said.
The IT Department uses a USB cord to recover data from hard
drives for professional reasons and anybody can get hold of these
Another device used, not at Fort Lewis, is XMap, a unique space
application that a data-recovery person uses to retrieve data,
The IT Department used the XMap for an experiment on a digital
audio tape that was sliced through with a pocket knife, water dam-
aged, stomped on, spooled back up into the tape, and recovered the
So if the hard drive ends up in a landfill, an unauthorized person
can reach the personal information and may do something illegal
with it, said Jeff Stockberger, an IT Professional I of the Information
If your information is not properly cleared off the hard drive when
a possibility of identity theft, Longan said.
“The first way we deal with our waste is we reuse it,”
At Fort Lewis, two methods of recycling are used for electronic
equipment which are selling computers from the computer stored in
Spider is software that runs on computers which looks for
personal information, such as credit card numbers or social security
numbers, so IT has an idea if there is anything on it before using
DBAN, Stockberger said.
“There’s two methods, you can either run a DOD compliant
sweep which actually writes data to the hard drive and writes new
data to the hard drive and writes data to the hard drive,” Longan
said. “It’s like seven copies and it does five, seven, or nine sweeps.”
“So it actually rewrites every piece of data 40 times over for each
spot and that’s the way we protect our data,” he said.
Before selling, disposing, or recycling computers hard drives, the
IT Department of Fort Lewis recommends clearing off the data to
ensure personal security.
If an individual wants to wipe off a hard drive, DBAN is available
to the public at no cost on the Internet. Download it and after run-
ning the program for 8-10 hours, make sure to check it, Longan said.
Although, donation may seem like the right thing to do, it is not
recommended because of the data security issue unless you are
willing to take that risk, Phillips said.
Donation standards are high and it depends on the organization
you’re donating to because they may not be able to use it, and if
that’s the case, who is going to reuse it and is it going to be dealt
with in a responsible manner, Phillips said.
For college students, Phillips recommends bringing the electronic
equipment to one of Natural Evolution’s recycling events where it
can be taken care of properly, Phillips said.
Durango’s Recycling Center holds a semi-annual e-cycling event
in the spring and fall where people can drop off their electronic
equipment and Natural Evolution picks it up and clears the data
themselves, said Mark Williams, the Sustainability Coordinator in the
Department of Sustainable Services of the City of Durango.
They accept central processing units, printers, scanners, fax
machines, laptops, televisions up to 27 inches, large office equip-
ment, keyboards, mouse, power cords, cables, cellular phones, ink-
jet cartridges, laptop and cellular phone batteries, and don’t accept
refrigerators, washers, dryers, and air conditioners, Williams said.
Evaluating your needs before purchasing electronic equipment
can decrease e-waste or buying products with Energy Star ratings
can help the environment, Phillips said.
Data security isn’t the only reason you want to properly dispose
of electronic equipment. There are also environmental concerns.
About 20-50 million tons of e-waste are generated each year
globally, Phillips said.
It is estimated that if you put this amount into containers on a
train that this train could go around the world once, she said.
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n the Regional Championship game on Monday, March
15, Fort Lewis College’s Women’s Basketball team took
on the Golden Bears of Concordia University at home
in Whalen Gymnasium. With the bleachers full, the
Skyhawks defeated the St. Paul, Minn. team in the Sweet
Sixteen game.
The team has been doing well all season and if they
win this they will be one of the final eight teams, said
Kylie Kroneberger, a Fort Lewis student and team host for
the Augustana Vikings in the second round game.
Fort Lewis was seeded first in the regional tournament,
Kroneberger said. The tournament started with eight dif-
ferent teams and Fort Lewis and Concordia are the final
two, she said. Fort Lewis student David Horn said he
hadn’t attended many games this season, but was happy
to cheer on the Skyhawks.
“They’re doing awesome,” Horn said towards the end
of the first half. Even before half time, Horn said the
Skyhawks were definitely going to win and move on to
the next round. Overall, Fort Lewis basketball has really
taken a step up and gotten much better recently, Melissa
Sansoni, a Fort Lewis fan, said.
There have been a lot of improvements each season,
she said.
Sansoni has attended about half the games this sea-
son and expected the team to win and continue on to the
next level, Sansoni said.
Fort Lewis students weren’t the only fans who came to
cheer the Skyhawks to victory.
Jessica Roach and Joyce Roach came from Albuquer-
que, N.M to watch their friend, Fort Lewis player, Mary
By Steph Cook
I Rose Paiz, in the Sweet Sixteen game, Jessica
Roach, an Albuquerque student, said.
Joyce Roach said they were skiing that day and as
soon as we they heard about the game they decided
to attend, she said. Joyce Roach said the Skyhawks
played well with great defense and excellent transi-
tions, and if they win, it will be a good game, she
said during the second half.
After just watching the state basketball games in
Albuquerque, N.M., Joyce Roach said it was great
to continue seeing so much support for women’s
basketball at the Regional Championship game, she
said
The Skyhawks led the game at half time with a
score of 32 - 23, and defeated the Golden Bears with
a final score of 73 - 64.
The Fort Lewis Women’s Basketball team will move
on to the Elite Eight next weekend in Missouri in their
effort to continue a victorious season.
As for the men’s team, they wrapped up the bulk
of their season on March 2, with a loss to New
Mexico Highlands in the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference.
Though, they won’t go to the NCAA tournament
this year, the Fort Lewis Men’s Basketball team had
a winning season, with a record of 19 – 9.
The team might be a force to reckon with in the
future, as they will keep most of the team while los-
ing only one senior, Mark Jeranko.
While the men’s basketball season is over, the
women will continue their battle in the Elite Eight.
By Ryan Versaw
A bout 179 Fort Lewis College students
and a few faculties packed into the Vallecito
Room of the College Union Building at 7 p.m.
on March 1 for the weekly LOL Mondays.
LOL Mondays is a weekly comedy perfor-
mance coordinated by Union Programming
Coordinator Kat Kaszpurenko and Student
Programming Council (SPC) members like Ali
Smith, SPC President, Kaszpurenko said.
At 7 p.m. sharp, the halls of the Vallecito
Room were filled with student spectators
who sat in more than ten 13 seat rows as
Arvin Mitchell began to generate applause
and hollering from the crowd.
Mitchell’s animated, theatrical expres-
sions spurred waves of laughter from the
front to rear rows of the audience, and it
continued to break until past 8 p.m.
Mitchell writes his own jokes and speaks
occasionally at schools while in the midst
of writing a more serious book called “No
Laughing Matter,” about health and taking
time for granted, Mitchell said.
“We spend so much time doing things
that are not conducive to who we are,”
Mitchell said.
Mitchell stated that he will work on this
novel over the following year but has no offi-
cial release date yet for the newly acclaimed
comedy author, Mitchell said.
“I would love to have it in by July of next
year but I think I could get it in much quicker
than that,” Mitchell said.
The comedian describes this work in
progress as an opportunity to learn how to
make the transmission from comedian to
author, Mitchell said.
“I am learning how to write,” Mitchell
said.
Mitchell gives his sister, Rita Mitchell, as
an example of a source of inspiration and
encouragement along with his family full of
comedians, Mitchell said.
Listing Eddie Murphy and Michael Jack-
son as a reference all should investigate,
Mitchell moves on to describe other places
in which he has performed, such as Stut-
tgart, Germany, in a concert for the troops
and various college campuses nationwide,
Mitchell said.
Mitchell stated that he did not have to
cater to the troops, though he mentioned
that soldiers appreciated his impersonation
of someone getting shot, Mitchell said in
reference to the type of jokes appreciated
by military personnel.
“I really do appreciate what they are
doing for our country,” Mitchell said after
admitting that some of his jokes do make
humor of the troops.
The comedian of many lands has
adapted to perform in many venues at vari-
ous locations, Mitchell said.
“Sometimes I am performing in the
cafeteria, and one time I performed in the
corridor,” Mitchell said.
Although withheld for that evening,
Mitchell stated that he does possess an
armada of dirty jokes he employs on cam-
puses nationwide, Mitchell said.
Mitchell was chosen at the National As-
sociation of Campus Activities, at a regional
conference in Portland, Ore., Kaszpurenko
said.
Kaszpurenko attended the regional NACA
conference and the national conference in
Boston Mass., Kaszpurenko said.
“First of all, no one responds well to
demands.” Kaszpurenko said, in reference
to student input.
Secondly, there exists SPC student email
at [email protected] and a weekly
Senate meeting at 7 p.m. in the senate
chambers on the east side of the College
Union Building, Kaszpurenko said.
Ali Smith attended the regional NACA
conference in Oregon alongside Kaszpuren-
ko, Smith, president of the SPC, said.
“It was an amazing experience; I was
amazed to see all of the different colleges,
a lot of them the same size as us,” Smith
said.
Smith said that one goal of the program
is to drive prices down by collaborating with
other schools around Colorado and Utah,
and the Four Corners area, Smith said.
Driving prices down could help get more
programming for free, Smith said.
In the fall of 2009, Smith first involved
herself with LOL Mondays. SPC is sched-
uled to take over this event next and future
years, Smith said.
A survey given at the end of year asks
students to rank from one to five what they
would like to see SPC feature. Ironically,
comedy was one of the last genres picked
but the best attended once scheduled,
Smith said.
`”We love student participation,” Smith
said.
So far the SPC has already booked
comedians for fall 2010 and some for the
winter of the following year.
Students are encouraged to attend
senate meetings and email the SPC with
demands, needs, and ideas.
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By Jordan Squiers
n Durango, CO, where snow is falling fairly consistently for
several months of the year, an effective and consistent snow
removal plan is a necessity.
The accumulating snow creates several problems for the
people of Durango, not only regarding transportation, but
damage to the roads, Durango Public Works Director, Jack
Rogers said.
The city has a written policy entitled, “2009-2010 Snow
Removal Program,” Rogers said.
The document prioritizes the streets of Durango according
to the previous year’s problem areas, explains protocol for
snow plow drivers, rules and regulations for all snow removal
personnel, and procedure for emergency or “Red Alert” situa-
tions, Rogers said.
Despite the city’s established snow removal plan, there
are several problems that stand in the way of snow-free
streets in Durango, Rogers said.
One of these issues is that all of Main Avenue, a main
artery in Durango, is considered the responsibility of the Colo-
rado Department of Transportation rather than the Durango
Public Works Department, he said.
Though there is potential for conflict, the Durango Public
Works Department makes an effort to work with the state’s
crew regarding the clearing of Main Avenue, Rogers said.
Snow Removal EquipmentDurango Public Works Department
12 Large Dump Trucks3 Pick-Up Trucks3 Front-End Loaders1 Motor-grater
Fort Lewis College
8 Plows2 Sanders11 Snow Blowers2 Skid Steers (Bobcats)1 Road Grader1 Backhoe2 Loaders1 Tractor
I Another problem is that although the Durango Police
Department assists the snow removal teams by citing and
removing parked cars from the road during snow removal
hours, there are simply not enough police officers to remove
every car in violation of the parking rules, he said.
The snow removal team at Fort Lewis College has a similar
problem, Fort Lewis Service Center Manager, Ted Gross said.
Two of the most problematic parking lots are those in front
of Noble and the Education-Business Hall, Gross said.
“The challenges we have are when people park in a ‘No
Overnight’ parking lot,” Gross said, “We have to go around that
car and it’s dangerous and hazardous for everybody.”
Not only is it extremely difficult for a plow driver to maneu-
ver around a parked car, but it creates a dangerous icy spot in
an otherwise cleared parking lot, he said.
While the City of Durango and Fort Lewis crews have
similar problems, there are many differences in the rest of their
removal plans, including budget.
The City Council allotted the Public Works Department
$616,000 for snow removal in 2010, Rogers said.
By the end of the year, however, because of the amount of
snow Durango has received and the cost of plowing, roughly
$9,000 per night, they will have spent around $800,000 by the
end of the year, he said.
Fort Lewis’ snow removal budget is different, in that not all
snow removal services are figured in.
The snow removal crew was given $31,504 to cover remov-
ing snow from parking lots and roads, and has already spent
around $30,000 this year, Gross said.
The removal of snow from places like roofs, sidewalks,
and entryways is considered an expense, and therefore not a
part of the budget plan, but has already cost Fort Lewis over
$32,000, he said.
While the budgeted amount at Fort Lewis appears to be a
great deal smaller than that of the city, part of the discrepancy
can be attributed to the fact the school’s budget does not
include the salaries of removal personnel, Gross said.
The city’s budget includes equipment, labor, and contracts,
Rogers said.
A few things that the school and city removal teams do
share are the sand and salt supply and the responsibility of
Goeglein Gulch road, Rogers said.
Both also work throughout the night, aiming for completion
around 7 or 8 a.m., Rogers and Gross said.
THE INSIDE SCOOP ON
COMMUNITY
The Summit is a chance for the students
themselves to bring ideas that they want
changed, not the ideas that faculty and adminis-
tration think should be changed, Michael Kelley,
host of the Summit, said.
The president of the Student Summit, Michelle
Kenney, had the students that attended the
Summit in Fort Lewis College’s Ballroom split into
groups of five to eight people.
She then asked them to discuss ideas they
thought should be addressed and brought up to
the Fort Lewis administration.
Kenney explained that the groups would have
three to eight minutes to come up with their
ideas, and then one person from their group
would present their ideas to all of the attending
students.
Kenney explained that all of the ideas given
should be written down on large pieces of paper
and posted throughout the room.
After all the ideas were submitted, the stu-
dents were given five star-stickers, and asked to
put a star on their favorite ideas.
Kenney gave a brief outline of what the Stu-
dent Opportunity Summit was doing, stating that
any student was free to join the program.
“Benefits of the Summit are being involved in
the process of change, a sense of accomplish-
ment, progress on issues that you find need
attention, achieving presentation skills, and good
networking for the future,” Tiffani Waters said.
The Student Opportunity Summit was there
to be delegates for the students, because the
administration is always open to student ideas,
if they can be brought to them in a presentable
manner, Kenney said
They will take three favorite ideas from the
students, and have a group of the students come
up with an acceptable way to present their idea,
Kenney said
The group will have to be serious about want-
ing to present this idea, because even though
the Summit is there to help, ultimately, it is the
students that must bring their ideas to the admin-
istration, Kelley said.
The group of students will meet over the next
few weeks and practice presenting their idea in
the way they think is best, Kelley said.
Later those groups of students will take their
practiced ideas to the Associated Students of
Fort Lewis College (ASFLC) and give their presen-
tation, Kelley said.
ASFLC, in turn, will take the ideas to the Fort
Lewis administration, Kelley said.
Many ideas were given, such as Bobby
Ashire’s idea about keeping a herd of buffalo at
the old Fort Lewis grounds.
The buffalo herd would be used for studying
biology and agriculture, such as the buffalo’s
impact of the environment, and how to use those
impacts to better the environment, Ashire said.
Buffalos could also be used for food, and buf-
falo burgers could be sold in the Student Union
Building at Fort Lewis, Ashire said.
Scott Sourfs presented the problem of all
the snow being plowed into motorcycle parking
sports, leaving no areas to park, which results in
a fine, he said.
He presented this dilemma by writing an
appeal to the campus police but they dismissed
him, Sourfs said.
Wil John suggested having different quiet
study areas other than Reed Library. Reed Library
isn’t open 24/7, and every other campus he has
visited has a library that is open all the time.
There are not many other places to go that
are devoted to studying, he said.
The five ideas students thought worthy of
presenting were as follows: What to do about
the master lease of the old Fort Lewis grounds,
how to make Fort Lewis more self sustaining and
removal of the current food caterers, a larger
weight room for athletes, more faculty and less
administration, and better advising options.
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STUDENT OPPORTUNITY SUMMITBy Tyrel Karp
The Environmental Center has “positive action”
as one of its core values. Our message is, “Doing
some positive for the planet and other people feels
great and is fun. So, join the party.” Still, we often
get the response, “What’s the point?” And a dispas-
sionate analysis of the state of the world and the
structures of power make this a perfectly reason-
able point of view.
In deciding what to do for this year’s Earth Week
celebration, students at the Center decided to take
up this challenge head on. The theme they chose
was “Take Back Your Future,” and they have consis-
tently reminded me that the note of defiance in the
title is important. Even our positive crew feels that
with the recession, bailouts, debt, climate change,
and the potential for large-scale renewable energy
still unrealized, their future is vaporizing.
This cuts especially deep around the issue of
jobs. Students at Fort Lewis graduate with a good
idea about what the world needs and plenty of pas-
sion to provide it. But it’s rough out there, and the
opportunities to earn a living while doing something
positive for the world are always harder to come
by than entry-level service jobs. Why is this? If the
supply-and-demand curve is the answer to all our
problems, why isn’t there a robust market for jobs
in public service? This question is deeply frustrat-
ing for students, especially when they see CEOs
earning millions for crashing their company and the
economy.
Defiance in the face of the disconnect between
what is and what ought is necessary. But what does
effective defiance look like? EC students have
some ideas. Earth Week starts with a re-localization
fair on March 29th and then continues with events
on public service careers, alternative health care,
and food security, and then ends on April 2nd with
a campus forum on civil disobedience that asks,
“What is the best response to a political system that
defends powerful interests instead of empowering
its citizens?”
The truth is that the impact of one week of
events will be limited. But the impact of a campus
full of students geared up to take charge of their
own future and that of their communities could be
devastating. Take Back Your Future is a call to arms.
Let’s link them together and demand a future we
can all be proud of. Visit http://envcenter.fortlewis.
edu for all the details about Earth Week 2010.
By Marcus Renner
The views and opinions expressed in
this column are that of the authors and
do not represent the views and opinions
of the Independent.
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Sudoku
Horoscopes
Sudoku
HoroscopesAries- March 21 to April 19You will be pleasantly surprised by something a family member does for you.
Take the time to show them your appreciation.
Taurus- April 20 to may 20Spend some of your time cleaning this next week. It will completely change your
attitude for the positive and momentarily rejuvenate your life.
Gemini- May 21 to June 20Watch where you are walking. Keep your head up and your eyes pealed for
danger.
Cancer- June 21 to July 22Wear your sweaters as much as possible this next two weeks. Soon you will miss
wearing them.
Leo- July 23 to August 22Focus on eating heathier this next couple weeks. It will greatly improve your
concentration at school, and your energy level.
Virgo- August 23 to September 22You are really looking forward to a very special event coming up soon. Enjoy the
moments leading up to it, and the time will pass faster.
Libra- September 23 to October 22Follow your intuition. Ignore the doubts you have about a purchase you are
about to make, and just go for it. You’ll be glad you did.
Scorpio- October 23 to November 21Take advice that your wouldn’t normally take this week. You will be surprise and
thrilled by the outcome.
Sagittarius- November 22 to December 21This week is very important for you. Don’t neglect any events or deadlines in
your schedule or you will deeply regret it, however be positively effected if you
stay on task.
Capricorn- December 22 to january 19Spend extra time doing something that satisfies your creative urge. You will have
a new vision and feel more inspired than ever before.
Aquarius- January 20 to February 18Enjoy the gifts of nature this week. Spend some time outside admiring the joys of
springtime and soak up the sun.
Pisces- February 19 to March 20The Copper River Salmon swims 300 miles of rugged river every year. You will
be swimming against the current this week, but do as the salmon, and not be
daunted by the challenge.
Sudoku
Horoscopes
Sudoku Puzzles created by Matt Morrison
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