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In the past nine months, University Police has responded to five accidents on the Garfield Avenue hill. Four of the recent accidents were due to speed, and braking issues were to blame for one ac-cident. Three of the accidents were so se-rious, hospital transport was necessary.

University Police is fighting on mul-tiple fronts. Students are speeding down the Garfield Avenue hill, bicycles are not properly maintained or equipped with proper lights, pedestrian traffic isn’t stopping at the stop sign at the Garfield Avenue end of the footbridge and bicy-clists are not using proper hand signals.

To help educate bicyclists on cam-pus, Sergeant Joel Field said officers are out on bicycles themselves. Officers are reminding students that bicyclists must abide by the laws of the road, including stopping at all stop signs and obeying posted speed limits.

The speed limit on the Garfield Ave-nue hill is 15 mph and there are multiple signs warning of a dangerous intersection ahead. In the future, those signs will get a boost from solar powered, amber flash-ing lights.

“If you feel that you are going too fast, slow down,” Field said. “Fifteen miles per hour is not that fast, that is why it is selected for that hill. The slower the better.”

The second barricade was put in place after the hill closed to public vehi-cles. Field said the double barricade is in place partially to keep vehicles off the

road but also to slow bicyclers down. “Either brakes are failing or they are

just going simply too fast that their bike cannot physically stop in time to make the maneuver around those barricades,” Field said. “Speed is the main issue.”

Along with obeying the posted speed limit, Field said students should also be sure bicycles are properly maintained. He said students should ensure brake maintenance and should not tamper with brake systems. Wisconsin state statute requires a white front headlight visible 500 feet away and a red rear reflector vis-ible 50 feet away on any bicycle.

University Police encourages cyclists to lock their bikes up with a U-style lock

through the frame. Field said there are several bait bikes on campus that have tracking abilities, immediately alerting University Police when the bicycle has been moved.

Officers on bicycle patrol are also keeping an eye on the stop sign at the end of the footbridge. Field said there is a misunderstanding of who the stop sign is targeting. The stop sign is intended for bicycles and pedestrians, not for motor vehicles.

“That is a legal stop sign that we can enforce,” Field said.

This stop sign isn’t the only one bi-cyclists are required to stop at. Bicyclists must obey all stop signs and red traffic lights. According to Wisconsin state stat-ute, a bicyclist may travel through a red traffic signal only after stopping and waiting a minimum of 45 seconds.

Rules of the roadSafety of bicyclists a concern for University Police

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ANNA MATEFFY / The Spectator BE RESOURCEFUL AND LOOK BOTH WAYS: Lack of proper maintenance and not looking both ways on busy streets near campus have also been a problem in terms of bike safety at the university.

NICK ERICKSON/ The Spectator IT’S THERE FOR A REASON: University Police say not obeying the speed limit on the Garfield Avenue hill has been a factor in most bike crashes.

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UW-EAU CLAIRE STUDENT SENATE

Student Senate dealt with several house-keeping topics at their Monday night meeting, approving new positions and appointees and new updates to the Mascot Committee.

Personnel The personnel matters updated positions

for several existing senators while adding two completely new members.

Senior public relations major Rebecca Jewell took over as the chair of the Intergov-ernmental Affairs Commission, dealing as the liaison between Student Senate and the uni-versity, local and state government.

Her sister, Director of the Public Relations Commission Amy Jewell, is also on Student Senate.

Rebecca Jewell said she is looking forward to working with the city government and in-creasing student involvement in city elections and local politics.

Part of that will be accomplished by help-ing students register to vote and understand how to use the new online registration website Student Senate made available for this year.

“It’s important that students realize how much effect they can have,” Rebecca Jewell said. “And that they realize how much of an ef-fect city council can have on their lives.”

She said forwarding school-related issues in the city, with a concentration on the Conflu-

ence Project, will be another goal for her in the coming year.

The second new appointee was senior ac-counting major William Beckfield, as the Fi-nance Commission intern.

In his position, Beckfield said he will be re-viewing money allocated to organizations and how that money is spent within the organiza-tion.

He will report his findings to the Finance Commission, which are factored into the allo-cations for groups in future budgets.

Beckfield said he applied for the position because he is interested in auditing as a career, and would like to be involved in making sure that the money provided to the senate is spent appropriately.

“I want to make sure that the hard-got money, the money we work seven-dollar-per-hour jobs for, is used correctly and for what it is designed for,” Beckfield said. “This position is to make sure that the money given to these organizations is spent the way they say it will be spent.”

Beckfield said that he is interested in re-viewing some of the larger organization bud-gets, including athletics and student health.

He said that with a decreased enrollment this year, the budget is stretched tighter for segregated fees, and that makes it all the more important to review where the money goes.

BluThe senate approved updates to the Mas-

cot Committee, giving the committee official definitions and procedures concerning the use and control of Blu the Blugold, the student mascot.

Jake Stendahl, the mascot coordinator, said when the committee’s original goal recom-mendations were created, Blu was still in the the planning stages.

“That document didn’t know what it (Blu) did,” Stendahl said. “They didn’t know what its name was or what it was.”

Since many of the original recommenda-tions have been satisfied, the Senate needed to update the documentation for the committee, Stendahl said.

According to the new recommendations, the use of the mascot is free for Student Sen-ate, University Centers and student organiza-tions.

There is a fee for other university depart-ments using the suit, unless the time comes when the university as a whole adopts the mascot.

The Public Relations Commission over-sees the mascot, and it can be reserved for ap-pearances by emailing theblugoldbirdmascot@uwec.edu.

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BIKE from page 1Jill Klopp, a senior, bikes to class from Broad-

way Street. When she hits the end of the footbridge, she checks for cars but doesn’t always stop.

“If there are no cars I just go,” Klopp said. “If there is a car coming, I would stop.”

Klopp said her biggest concern biking on cam-pus is that she is going to hit people.

Walking through the campus mall can be a maze with people rushing to get to their next class and bicyclists cutting between people, often with lit-tle regard to their surroundings, Field said.

“Be courteous,” Field said. “Slow down.”

Tremmel can be reached at tremmejr@uwec.edu or @jessietremmel.

Making a career in musicTrumpeter Byron Stripling delivers inspirational message

TYLER HENDERSON / The Spectator SWEET INSPIRATION: Byron Stripling, renowned trumpeter, spoke to a group of students Monday about what it takes to have a successful music career. See more at spectatornews.com.

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NEWS3Thursday, September 18NEWS EDITOR: Kristina Bornholtz

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film, Frankenstein.

Paulis Lazda, UW-Eau Claire history profes-sor since 1967, said he remembers a day 20 years ago when professors were forced to use trailers between Zorn Arena and Schofield Hall as offices, due to cramped quarters.

Now, two decades later, Eau Claire is a main-stay as a top public midwest University according to U.S. News & World Report magazine. This is thanks to what Chancellor James Schmidt said is excellence that students and staff continue to embrace, and a growing campus.

This year’s edition of “America’s Best Col-leges” ranks Eau Claire No. 6 among the top regional public universities in the Midwest, and 33rd among all institutions public or private in the Midwest. U.S. News has ranked Eau Claire among the top public institutions in the Midwest and in the top third of public and private Mid-western regional universities since 1995.

Schmidt said he thinks Eau Claire has some-thing not many other schools can offer.

“Institutions do create unique cultures,” Schmidt said. “I think UW-Eau Claire’s culture is maybe not solely unique, but it is fairly rare in

American higher education today.”Lazda said the main reason he came to Eau

Claire in 1967 was because many colleagues in the area invited him to interview for a position in the history department. Despite the political tur-moil going on with the Vietnam War at the time, he said nothing changed in Eau Claire.

“I came here not knowing much about the university other than a few colleagues that I knew,” Lazda said. “Every professor here was so open to ideas which makes the campus a much stronger place.”

However, not only does the staff receive rec-ognition on campus, but the students do as well. Trevor Cooper, a freshman, said he can already tell Eau Claire has a strong student community, despite being on campus only for a few weeks.

“Everyone here is really friendly,” Cooper said. “It kind of seems like its own little communi-ty within a community and everyone is extremely nice with one another.”

Despite previous success, Schmidt stressed the phrase “continued excellence,” which he hopes to continue during a strategic plan the university has set up to be finished around 2016.

Schmidt said the plan includes working on better preparing students for timely graduation

and continuing to work with financial planning to keep loan debt down.

Along with working with students, the uni-versity is also planning to continue campus ren-ovations by building a new event center in the coming years, fully renovating both Towers dor-mitory buildings, and redoing the riverfront along Garfield Avenue in order to attract students and staff to campus.

“Faculty are willing to come to Eau Claire even with the winters because of the students,” Schmidt said. “And frankly I think because we’ll have competitive facilities, it will help attract them.”

Lazda said he believes one of the biggest reasons Eau Claire continues to be on the map nationally as a top university is because of the increasing involvement of the campus with study abroad programs and immersion experiences that excite students and staff to come to Eau Claire.

“Being here since 1967 I can consider myself lucky,” Lazda said. “I am able to be a part of an extremely caliber university that is still only de-veloping really.”

Tetzlaff can be reached at tetzlata@uwec.edu or @ttetz5.

Trent Tetzlaff COPY EDITOR

University named a top midwest college for the 20th straight year

Glen Olson STAFF WRITER

Olson can be reached at olsongp@uwec.edu or @GlenPOlson.

This fall the university added new guidelines and resources for students to address the topic of hazing on campus.

Assistant Dean of Students Jacqueline Bonneville said prior to this year the university had re-sponded to incidents as they hap-pened, in accordance with state statute definitions of hazing.

She said after attending a sem-inar on hazing, she realized the campus was lacking several key ways of addressing problems with hazing within organizations.

The three main areas of im-provement, she said, were to create an easy-to-find, anonymous re-porting area, provide information for new students and parents and have a unified message in all de-partments on campus.

This fall the dean of students office added an anonymous report-ing form to their website, Bonne-ville said. They also addressed new students during orientation and

will include printed materials in their freshmen packets next year educating new students.

A group formed to address and implement these changes includes representatives of departments on campus and organizations, includ-ing the music and theatre arts de-partment, athletics and greek life.

Bonneville said openness and availability are necessary to ad-dressing these kind of problems, despite the tendency by universi-ties to ignore these issues.

“I’ve seen enough to know, through students I’ve worked with, that hazing is happening on this campus,” Bonneville said. “Some people don’t want to believe that.”

Bonneville said hazing isn’t always where one would suspect, and it most often happens in the powerful and popular groups and organizations on a campus.

Alan Rieck, chair of the music and theatre arts department, was part of the group of administrators and leaders bringing these changes to the departments.

Rieck said because the music

groups are such a focus on campus and in the community, he wanted to make sure everyone understood the new expectations.

Rieck said he spoke to the faculty, advisors and conductors

to make them aware of the new information.

At the re-quest of some of the faculty, Rieck said he also spoke to in-dividual ensem-bles to reinforce the idea that the university is

dedicated to being proactive about hazing and its prevention.

He said there have been in-stances of hazing in the past, in the music department and elsewhere on campus, and educating new stu-dents and ensembles beforehand is easier and more effective than re-acting after the fact.

“We work in a field and live in a field where we need each other,” Rieck said. “We want to respect

each other and what we bring.”He said in ensembles and

musical groups, like other groups on campus, creating differences of power based on seniority isn’t healthy.

Both Rieck and Bonneville emphasized that the preemptive education is vital, and including it in the student literature is part of making sure new and old students are all aware of what hazing is and what the expectations are for be-havior in student organizations.

The university’s definition of hazing, and punishments for in-dividuals and organizations, are available on the dean of student’s policies section of their website un-der “Your Right To Know.”

Students can also find the anonymous reporting form, as well as information from resources like stophazing.org.

University adds guidelines on hazingThree new approaches to address freshmen, organizations

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4NEWS EDITOR: Kristina Bornholtz Thursday, September 18

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$418,869 grant awarded for Geospatial Education InitiativeInitiative will bring newest technologies and new majors to UW-Eau Claire

Geospatial education at UW-Eau Claire is getting a face lift, in an effort to give students a hands-on education in a rapidly expand-ing field. A Geospatial Education Initiative (GEI) has been developed by a team of faculty members from the departments of geography and anthropology, Computer Science, Phys-ics and Astronomy, information systems, and marketing and management. This GEI has recently been awarded a three-year, $418,869 grant from the Growth Agenda for Wisconsin Grants Program.

The purpose of this Initiative is to teach students the skills and experience gained from using new technologies needed to enter the Geospatial workforce. Geospatial technol-ogies include the tools that involve the map-ping, analyzing and processing of information about the environment of a specific location.

“The scope of this project is to enhance education at the university,” said Christina Hupy, an associate professor of geography and one of the principal investigators of GEI. “Es-pecially in the geography department.”

Geospatial technology and the science be-hind it is a fast developing field, which spans various industries other than geography, and

the demand for new graduates is high. Eau Claire does not currently offer geospatial technology as a major.

“There are three main goals to this initia-tive,” Hupy said. “To create meaningful rela-tionships between faculty and students with businesses around Wisconsin, develop a solid internship program so students can jump right into the work-force and it will also create a new compre-hensive geospatial major at the univer-sity.”

Among the geo-spatial technology that this grant will help bring to Eau Claire are those re-lated to GPS, GIS, remote sensing and computer cartography systems that are all developing very rapidly according to Associate Professor of Geography Paul Kaldjian.

“These tools are how we analyze, interpret and represent the community,” Kaldjian said. “And as geographers, define the significance of the information.”

Among the new, still developing technolo-

gies this grant will bring to the university are unmanned aerial systems (UAS). These are drone-like systems, which use GPS technolo-gy and cameras to take detailed images of the ground, and can gather information about the air, ozone and even more.

“This grant gives us a great opportunity for students to keep up with developments in the field and apply them in the class-room and beyond,” Kaldjian said.

Students will be able to use these technologies and learn them as they develop. Tim Condon, senior geogra-phy major already realizes the potential this grant can bring future students.

“I think it’s a really good thing because it’s a growing

science, and there’s a lot of applications it can be used for environmentally and culturally,” Condon said. “Plus this puts Eau Claire in the forefront of the area.”

While these new geospatial technologies such as UAS will start with being used in the geography and anthropology department, GEI will integrate them into the other de-partments involved in the initiative. Kaldji-

an thinks this collaboration will open up new possibilities and relationships in other indus-tries as well.

“This grant is a whole package of how to do and what to do with these tools,” Kaldjian said. “What geographers do is connect rela-tionships over space, and relationship with environment. These tools open up possibili-ties with a wide range of businesses and in-dustries that have to do with space, which is almost anything.”

Ranging from engineering to environmen-tal consultants, to transportation to health services, there are many industries getting invested in geospatial technologies. GEI will continue to expand Eau Claire’s geospatial education throughout the three years of this grant. How far these technologies develop by then might well depend on students still grasping what these could accomplish.

“It’s awesome, but in a way frightening,” Kaldjian said. “Where are the limits and bounds of these tools we are developing? The good consequences are very powerful, but the negative conse- quences, well they’re out there, too.”

Jake Steen STAFF WRITER

Steen can be reached at steenje@uwec.edu or @_JakeSteen_.

“The scope of this project is to enhance

education at the university.”CHRISTINA HUPY

Associate professor of geography

Meeting students’ needsStudent Health Service saved after proposal to move Ask Laura Chellman, director of UW-Eau Claire’s Stu-

dent Health Service, how much planning she has been a part of the last four years, and she’ll reveal a bookcase shelf lined with binders. Not to mention the handful of binders are just for planning one thing.

When former Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich want-ed the best healthcare for his students, the possibility of combining Student Health Service with a community health care provider came to fruition, according to Beth Hellwig, vice chancellor of student affairs.

“He felt like we needed to explore what kind of options were out there for students,” Hellwig said. “Whether it was in terms of the university partnering with an independent provider or to look at our own program.”

Levin-Stankevich has worked at other institutions where the healthcare provided to students was across the street, so he had good experiences with a healthcare part-nership, Hellwig said.

Eventually, Levin-Stankevich’s idea became a proposal that needed to be looked into. Teaming together with Stu-dent Senate, the university launched the proposal that last-ed four years. The proposal included looking at other venues for Student Health Service on campus, looking at partner-ships and holding open forums.

The role of Student Senate throughout the process was to find ways to lower the segregated fees, which seem to be on the rise. By taking Student Health Service off campus, Hellwig said it would decrease these fees, saving students money.

Chellman said receiving the segregated fees is why the medication students receive is reasonable.

“Basically, we don’t have the overhead to worry about,” Chellman said. “Every time we order something we are shopping for the best price under the guidelines of the state. We purchase things that are reasonable.”

Both Chellman and Hellwig have noted besides finding

another place off campus to serve students, maybe Student Health Service could move from its current location below Crest Wellness Center to lower campus. The problem was finding the space for this to happen.

By Sept. 5, a decision was made to keep Student Health Service in business and where it’s currently located. Chell-man said there are improvements that are to be made, but nothing is set in stone or planned out too much yet. She said she’s pleased with staying on campus and happy to help.

“We feel that our mission is to help students’ success,” Chellman said. “And so we do that by providing health care, whether it’s education, or clinical services … we remove barriers to learning.”

Hellwig said despite going through multiple chancellors and multiple student body presidents, she is happy to have gone through this process and is confident with Student Health Service.

“I am just really happy that we went through the pro-cess,” Hellwig said. “I think our Student Health Service re-ally responded by trying to find ways to meet the student needs.”

Hosely can be reached at hoselym@uwec.edu or @mj_hosely.

Meghan Hosely STAFF WRITER

MEGHAN HOSELY / The Spectator SAVED BY THE BELL: The doors of Student Health Service, UW-Eau Claire’s on-cam-pus infirmary, will stay open despite talk of moving to an off-campus location.

“We feel that our mission is to help students’ success.”

LAURA CHELLMANDirector of Student Health Service

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NEWSNEWS EDITOR: Kristina Bornholtz

It is the norm on campus to see multiple students walking around wearing blue and gold striped rugby shirts. Those threads they are part of the Campus Ambassadors.

They are easy to identify, partially because they lead campus tours for prospective UW-Eau Claire students. However, the Campus Ambassadors do much more than just give tours.

When the ambassadors are not giving tours they are busy help-ing prospective students through online chats or calling students to congratulate them on their acceptance and ask if they have any ques-tions.

“It’s a lot of prospective student work,” said Amber Hargesheimer, an organizational communication major and third year ambassador. “Before students are admitted, we do online chats .. where they can ask questions, and it is not as scary as face to face.”

Hargesheimer noted the online chats have yielded good questions such as, “Can I bring my pet turtle?”

When not speaking with prospective students, members of the or-ganization are also a part of Momentum Mondays, which started last year. With Student Senate, a few volunteers are out at the bottom of the hill before 8 a.m. classes Monday mornings to welcome and high five students as they head to class.

In addition, ambassadors volunteer to help at graduation in May and December. They will also travel to college fairs, both in Wiscon-sin and Minnesota, to promote Eau Claire to other schools and learn about ways to improve the university.

The application process to be a campus ambassador is lengthy

and competitive, Hargesheimer said. Co-adviser Andrew Arends went through the process when he was an Eau Claire student, be-fore graduating in 2010. On average the organization will send out 300-400 nominations to students annually in the spring. Of those, about 100 students will apply. Every student who applies will get an interview, and depending on the year anywhere from 20-40 students will get a congratulatory email welcoming them as an ambassador. There are usually 70 ambassadors total on campus, with about five students studying abroad.

“Ambassadors generally need to be nominated by someone on campus, whether it is a current ambassador, one of the advisors or any faculty members,” Arends, other title, said. “Anybody they have noticed being a stand up individual, involved on campus and really positive about the university.”

Arends said the application process is lengthy and in-depth to en-sure the ambassadors are students who love the university, are very involved on campus and would be passionate about the organization.

A goal the advisers have toward application time is to find a variety of different qualities within ambassadors. They try to find students with different majors, years in school, favorite parts of the campus, interests and involvement in other organizations on campus. They aim to find students who have remained just as in love with the campus as they were when they first arrived as freshmen.

“Its one of the most passionate organizations for UW-Eau Claire,” Hargesheimer said. “I love getting new prospective students to come to Eau Claire because I have had so many amazing memories and time at Eau Claire.”

Courtney Roszak STAFF WRITER

Roszak can be reached at roszakcm@uwec.edu or @croszak22.

COURTNEY ROSZAK / The Spectator CAN I HELP YOU?: Campus Ambassadors Amber Hargesheimer and Alex Brault contact prospective students through online chats and phone calls to answer any questions they may have.

Providing a helping handOnline chats and welcome calls aim to answer incoming student’s concerns

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The bond that binds themSenior golfer Kate Engler is preparing for a WIAC Championship repeat, while adjusting to

life on the greens without her former head coach

Ellis Williams SPORTS EDITOR

ANNA MATEFFY / The Spectator DANCING ON THE GREEN: Senior Kate Engler has an extensive list of accolades to her name, all of which she re-ceived under the coaching of Meghan Murphy (nee Sobotta).

“When you get to a certain level, coaching can only go so far and it’s

more about the support or emotional side...”

KATE ENGLERSenior

SUBMITTED WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE: Former Blugold head women’s golf coach Meghan Murphy (nee Sobotta) relieved herself as coach this past spring.

Williams can be reached at Wil-liaml@uwec.edu or @BookofEllis

In Angola, Ind., lies a sce-nic and challenging 18-hole championship golf course. These nationally respected grounds known as Zollner hosted the National Colle-giate Golf Championships three times, most recently in 2012, when the UW-Eau Claire women’s golf team fin-ished in third place.

Senior Kate Engler was a freshman when the Blugolds traveled to Angola over two years ago. Unsure of what to expect on the national stage, Engler carried herself in a manner that would later be-come one of the staples of her golf legacy at Eau Claire.

She quietly and con-fidently recorded the sec-ond-best four-day score on the team behind her teammate and newly crowned national champion, Catherine Wagner.

Fast forward to the 2014 fall season, and the two-time All-American is poised to lead her team to consecutive WIAC championships.

Engler is thankful she made the right decision in

coming to Eau Claire and for having the opportunity to play out her senior season.

She also credits her for-mer coach, Meghan Murphy (nee Sobotta) for elevating her game and said she would not be the golfer she is today without her guidance.

Coming out of high school, Engler was searching for a university with a winning creed. Her top choice was Eau Claire, and after reaching out to Murphy, who was the Blu-golds’ head coach at the time, she knew this was where she wanted to play collegiate golf.

Murphy, a graduate of Eau Claire and three-time All-American golfer, said she saw the spark in Engler after her performance at nationals.

At some point after En-gler’s freshman year, Murphy recalls a conversation she had with her future star athlete. The two were reminiscing on the national championship, and Murphy asked the young golfer if she realized she fin-ished with the second-best team score.

Engler gave her coach a look that, to this day, makes Murphy wonder if she re-alized how good her perfor-

mance at nationals was at the time.

Murphy witnessed En-gler blossom into a champion-ship golfer, and the bond be-tween player and coach grew as well.

“It was really easy to re-late to Megan,” Engler said. “When you get to a certain level, coaching can only go so far, and it is more about the support or emotional side that gets you going.”

The reason for the two gelling together so well is ob-vious. Both are multiple-time All-Americans, both are fierce competitors and both have learned valuable lessons from each other along their jour-ney.

Murphy noticed as her perfection-seeking golfer kept pushing herself to improve. Her scores kept dropping. As a result, Engler and Murphy’s expectations for one another kept rising.

Often athletes will speak about the lessons their coach-es teach them, but in rare cas-es, exceptional competitors can teach their instructors lessons about themselves.

“Always knowing that you can be better,” Murphy

said regarding the lessons Engler instilled in her. “And to be a team player, she truly wants her teammates to suc-ceed.”

Engler and her team-mates formed a bond with Murphy that extends past the

fairways. This past summer, Murphy was married and sev-eral of her former golfers, in-cluding Engler, attended.

The relationship the two share as friends is strong to this day, Engler said. Which is why when she found out Murphy would not be return-ing to coach the 2014-15 sea-son she was shaken.

“The whole team was re-ally sad,” Engler said. “I was really affected by it.”

Despite her decision to

step down from coaching, Murphy said she wishes her former golfers the best and she is always cheering for them.

In sports, much like in life, when adversity hits, there is little time to dwell on it. The show must go on, and this year Engler must adjust to her new coach, Mike Greer.

Greer, who has been the head of men’s golf for four years, said he has dedicated the first few weeks of practice to the important process of getting to know his new ath-letes.

Like Murphy’s first im-pression, Greer noticed the calm reigning WIAC Player of the Year was not going to be the one to bark at her team-mates. Instead, Greer said Engler is exceptional at lead-ing by example.

“Kate (Engler) is the com-plete package,” Greer said. “She’s a great ball striker, has fantastic short game and is capable of ‘holing’ a lot of putts.”

Adjusting to life on the

course after Murphy has been challenging at times for En-gler, but she said her new coach is a great guy and is extremely dedicated to the team.

Engler also said she re-spects the fact that Greer un-derstands some of the team is still dealing with Murphy leaving, and he is very sup-portive of the process.

With over a month of in-season work already in the books, Engler, Greer and the other Blugold golfers are working tirelessly in prepara-tion for the WIAC Champion-ships.

If Eau Claire makes it to the national championship, it will be Engler’s last chance to follow in the footsteps of her former teammate by taking first at nationals.

She admitted the fairy-tale-like end to her career is something she has thought about, but the humble golf-er said just playing better at nationals than she has in the past is her goal.

“If we get back there this year, I really hope to place in the top 15 or top 20. Maybe the top 10,” Engler said. “I would really like to win it.”

SPORTSSPORTS EDITOR: Ellis Williams Thursday, September 18 8

Setting up for successThree Blugold volleyball captains work together to lift their team to a common goal

AUSTIN MAI / The Spectator BUMPING UP THEIR GAME: Teammates and coaches named sophomore Katrina Raskie, senior Alexis Wong and junior Jenna Smits captains this season.

Laughter and grunts echo off the walls of McPhee Physical Ed-ucation Center’s main gymnasium every volleyball practice. This is not by accident, instead by design.

When the UW-Eau Claire vol-leyball team practices, it’s not just a group practicing volleyball tech-niques, it’s sisters enjoying the shared time together. While they work on their passes and sets, they become a stronger, more tightly knit group fueled by the need to win

The captains personify the sense of community within the team. Captains are often the face of the team, and the coach tends to select them to represent the team in different situations.

However, this team is differ-

ent. For these Blugolds, the team decides who the captains are. To be-come a captain, someone can nom-inate themselves, but in most cas-es, fellow players nominate players they think would be a good fit. Play-ers write recommendation letters, which creates a lot of team input into who their captains will be.

Senior Alexis Wong said the se-lection process allows teammates to be honest and leaves room for open communication.

Experience is an important fac-tor when considering captains, but it’s only one of the qualities play-ers and head coach Kim Wudi looks for. Captains must lead their team through success and adversity, but Wudi said there’s much more to be-ing a Blugold captain.

“Captains need to be able to lead by example when it comes to putting the team first,” Wudi said. “Making sure they feel whatever decisions

are made were with the team’s best interest in mind.”

Wudi said it’s nice when cap-tains are also the floor leaders or go-to players on the court, but it’s not a requirement.

Junior Jenna Smits has been with the team since her academic freshman year, and said it’s fulfill-ing to serve as captain on this team.

Wudi said Smits is the floor cap-tain and her responsibility is notice-able in every match.

Smits’ role as a setter makes her commitment on every play vital toward the match’s success. Smits is expected to touch the ball every possession, and if she executes a quality set, her teammates can fin-ish the play.

Wudi great leadership is what makes them so special.

“On our team, our three captains balance each other out,” Wudi said. “They all have different strengths so I think they work really well to-gether to help meet the needs of our team.”

The three captains all hold dif-ferent responsibilities, and Wudi as well as the other team captains said Wong provides the glue of the team.

“Lexi (Wong) helps hold the team together and tries to make

sure that everybody’s involved and engaged,” Wudi said. “She reaches out across grade levels to make sure everyone is contributing.”

Wong said captaincy to her is ensuring sta-ble relationships within the team.

“We’re a huge family, volleyball is our second family,” Wong said. “If I can help contribute to an indi-vidual’s growth, that will help the growth of the team.”

Wudi said sophomore Katrina Raskie is the emotional leader of the team.

“She holds our team to a high standard,” Wudi said. “Kat (Raskie) would be the first one to step up and tell the team we need to pick up the pace or to relax.”

Smits said Raskie is definitely the vocal leader and does a great job re-energizing the team.

Captains are an important part of a team’s structure as well as team dynamics. This team is comfortable with their captains because each pulls their weight and contribute to the team’s success.

“What we want most out of our captains is a drive for success,” Wudi said. “That’s what makes a good team great.”

“ Captains need to be able to lead by ex-ample when it comes to putting the team

first.”KIM WUDI

Head women’s volleyball coach

WUDI

Mai can be reached at maiat@uwec.edu or @austinisfresh.

A hotand cold

weekWomen’s soccer player

scores hat trick Saturday, but Blugolds drop home

game Wednesday

Austin MaiSTAFF WRITER

Just when it needed an offen-sive spark, the UW-Eau Claire women’s soccer team got one, and it came in the form of a striker from Eugene, Ore.

Tara Dennehy notched three goals in a 4-1 victory Saturday against visiting Gustavus-Adolphus (Minn.) at Bollinger Field.

But it wasn’t just Dennehy who shined in the contest.

The Blugolds notched 20 shots in the 90-minute contest, which was a season-high.

Dennehy scored in the 22nd, 24th and 62nd minute while soph-omore Fallon Peplinski knocked home the Blugolds’ final goal in the 78th minute of competition.

Lizzi Hanke, Lauren Lenz, Me-gan Hanson and Sami Matuszak all recorded assists for Eau Claire.

Freshman goalie Sammie La-faive stopped nine Gusties’ shots.

Wednesday, that offense all went away as Wartburg College (Iowa) shut out the host Blugolds, 2-0.

Although Eau Claire tied the Knights in shots at 11, the Blugolds had four more fouls and three less corner kicks to fall just short.

Larson and Dennehy both had three shots on goal.

After Wednesday, the Blugolds fall to 2-3-1 on the year. They go on a four-game road trip starting Sun-day afternoon at Concordia-Moor-head (Minn.). They’ll return home Oct. 4 against reigning WIAC cham-pion UW-Whitewater.

--The Spectator staff

Staff Writer Jake Steen was at Wednesday’s game and

has full video highlights of the action. Give it a look on

spectatornews.com.

SPORTS 9SPORTS EDITOR: Ellis Williams Thursday, September 18

Fall/Winter Recreation Positions The City of Eau Claire Parks and Recreation Department

is now hiring for the following part-time recreation positions (hours, pay rate and duties vary with position): Management Positions: Concession Director, Specialized Recreation Program Director, Aquatic Director. General Positions: Head Swim Instructor, Lifeguard, Swim Instructor, Water Aerobics Instructor, Hoop Dreams Coordinator, Building Supervisor (Hobbs Ice Center), Ice Center Attendant (Hobbs Ice Center), Pickleball & Volleyball Gym Supervisor, Concession Worker (Hobbs Ice Center/Carson Park), Outdoor Skating Rink Coordinator, Outdoor Skating Rink Supervisor, Flag Football Coach/Leader, Gymnastics & Tumbling Coordinator, Gymnastics & Tumbling Instructor, Specialized Recreation Program Leader, Youth Tennis Coordinator, Youth Tennis Instructor, Parent’s Night Out Coordinator. Volunteer Services Opportunities: Youth Hockey Coach, Specialized Recreation Activity Assistant. Contractual Services Opportunities: Volleyball Referee (Women's and Co-ed Leagues), Volleyball Head Referee, Hockey Referee, Hockey Referee-in-Chief. To Apply: For complete information regarding above positions, please visit our website at www.eauclairewi.gov/jobs. Accepting online applications only. Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until positions are filled. Please apply early.

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Blugold tennis keeps winningWomen’s team completes two sweeps, moves to 4-1 overall

The UW-Eau Claire wom-en’s tennis team was able to take care of business over the weekend and on Tues-day afternoon by sweeping UW-Stout on Saturday and UW-River Falls on Tuesday.

The Blugolds had no problems taking down Stout Saturday, beating the Blue Devils 9-0 in Menomonie.

Four Blugolds lost just three games on their way to winning in straight sets and sweeping singles play. The two other Blugolds dropped just four games.

Senior Maddie Johnson won 6-3, 6-0 at No. 1 sin-gles, and junior Colleen Mc-Cullough won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.

At No. 3 singles, junior Paige Kuepers won 6-0, 6-3 while senior Madison Rossebo won No. 4 singles 6-3, 6-0.

Kuepers said what al-lowed the Blugolds to remain strong and dominate on Sat-urday and Tuesday were the physical aspects of the game.

“For us as a team, it was all about our footwork, movement and consistency,” Kuepers said. “When we’re able to do these three things

throughout an entire match, our play is much better and more steady.”

After winning their third match in a row Saturday, the Blugolds won all six singles matches in straight sets en route to beating River Falls on the road 9-0 to extend their current win streak to four.

During the current win streak, the team has not dropped more than two games in a match and has continued to display great movement and footwork, head coach Tom Gillman said.

Gillman said the team set up goals coming into the season, and one of them was to extend their mentalities be-yond winning.

“Coming into this year the girls set a goal to extend themselves beyond winning,” Gillman said. “We could get lazy, but instead we work on making ourselves better and think about more than just winning coming into our matches.”

In singles play Tuesday, the Blugolds lost just eight games in 12 sets, including 6-0, 6-0 victories in the No. 4, 5 and 6 matches.

In doubles play, the Blu-golds struck similar results as they lost only five games win-

ning all three matches they competed in.

Johnson and McCullough started things off the right way at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, both winning 6-2, 6-1. Senior Nicole Pothen defeated Molly Deering at No. 3 singles 6-1, 6-1. To close things, off senior Madison Rossebo, freshman Sarah Henderson and soph-omore Olivia Gallagher both won 6-0, 6-0 in No. 4, 5 and 6 singles respectively.

The Blugolds continued their dominant play in dou-bles play. The duo of Johnson and Rossebo won at No. 1 dou-bles 8-4. Along with this, the pair of Pothen and Kuepers won at No. 2 doubles, and at No. 3 doubles the combination of McCullough and Hender-son defeated their opponents quickly.

This upcoming weekend, the Blugolds will compete at the ITA Tournament host-ed by Gustavus Adolphus in (Minn.) The tournament will start on Friday, Sept. 19 and will conclude Sunday, Sept. 21.

Trent Tetzlaff COPY EDITOR

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Tara DennehyForward

Women’s soccer

Dennehy scored three goals in the women’s soccer teams home against Gustavus Adolphus

(Minn.) She led her team to a 4-1 victory and the Blugolds now carry a record of 2-3-1. Dennehy is

a junior kinesiology major.

Get to know Dennehy:

Favorite TV Show: Grey’s Anatomy

Biggest Fear: Her dog dying

Most played song on music player: “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran

Favorite team: University of Oregon

CURRENTS10CURRENTS EDITOR: Katy Macek Thursday, September 18

Katy Macek CURRENTS EDITOR

Macek can be reached at macekkn@uwec.edu or @KatherineMacek.

UW-Eau Claire professor searches for more than victims in his latest book, blurs line between fact and fictionDrowning in the truth

After watching police search for the body of one of the many drowning victims while on a morning run in the summer of 2011, thoughts about how riv-ers are something to fear turned into thoughts about the meaning of truth for a UW-Eau Claire professor..

The next summer, BJ Hollars, an assistant professor in the English department, used these thoughts to begin working on his new book “Dis-patches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction”, which was published this month.

To write this book, Hollars said he took 75 histor-ical accounts of drowning that occurred in this region and rewrote them, while at the same time completely fabricating 25 stories about drowning and leaving it up to readers to decide which ones were real or not.

“In many ways that’s sort of a commentary on the limits of truth and the limits of reporting,” he said. “Even when we try to relay a fact the best we can, sometimes only 75 percent of that fact is actual-ly true and a portion of it, 25 percent, might actually be a bit false.”

For these reasons, he said he considers this work to be a “hybrid text”. While it’s not completely fabri-cated, it’s not all completely true either.

Hollars said while researching he was struck by the conclusions reporters jumped to, such as the vic-tim’s state of mind, and how quickly they jumped to conclussions made him question the truthfulness of the reports.

“Everything is a series of choices,” he said. “What we include in a news report, what we leave out, will help kind of cement a story one way or the other forever.”

In addition to this inclusion (or deletion) of facts, Hollars said he paired many of the stories with pho-

tographs by Charles Van Schaick, a photographer from the Black River Falls area in the late 1800s.

“Late at night, when I was reading these news reports, I would turn to the pictures and suddenly there would be a picture that seemed to fit the victim described in the news report,” he said. “After kind of going through it long enough there were so many fits, which was kind of strange.”

A lot of his inspiration came from “Wisconsin Death Trip,” a book by Michael Lesy that uses news reports and photographs by Van Schaick to paint a picture of Black River Falls in that time period, he said. “Dispatches from the Drownings” uses differ-ent photographs and focuses strictly on drowning reports, but the idea is very similar.

Greg Kocken, university archivist, said he worked with Hollars to help identify several of the photographs used in the book.

“I’d like to think I played some small role, but truthfully this really all comes from BJ’s rather cre-ative mind,” he said.

Kocken said he will be helping McIntyre Library host an author reading for Hollars’ new book on Oct. 2 in the second floor breezeway, but that it will be slightly different from readings they have done in the past because they are presenting the audience with the chance to guess whether the story read is true.

“While I would certainly like (Hollars) to divulge the truth, I don’t think he’s going to do that,” he said. “Nonetheless I think it’s going to be very interesting to be able to see how the audience reacts whether he is telling them fact or fiction.”

Despite this, Hollars said he wants to remind his readers that the “game” of figuring out fact versus fiction is not his intention, nor is it to call out specific drowning victims.

“I am trying to draw attention to a threat that

continues to plague our community,” he said. “In ad-dition, I hope to remind readers of a very different threat: taking everything we read at face value.”

ANNA MATEFFY / The Spectator SOUL SEARCHING: BJ Hollars (pictured above) released his newest book, “Dispatches from the Drownings: Re-porting the Fiction of Nonfiction” this month.

Rachel Streich CHIEF COPY EDITOR

Celebrating culture and communityLatino Heritage Month to spread awareness on campus and beyond

In preparation for a yearly celebra-tion at UW-Eau Claire, Ashley Salas re-cently took a trip to La Misma Luna, a lo-cal Mexican supermarket, not to shop, but to pass out maps extending an invitation for community members to visit campus.

Salas, a senior and vice president of the Student Organization of Latinos, said this year’s Latino Heritage Month will gather both students and those in the Latino community in Eau Claire. SOL is sponsoring several events over the rest of September and the beginning of October to focus on Latino cultures.

“I think it’s really important, along with all the other heritage months that go on throughout the year,” Salas said. “Because it’s a good way to be able to un-derstand other cultures.”

Latino Heritage Month sheds light on the uniqueness and diversity of Latino heritage, Raul Tapia, a senior in charge of SOL, said. He said Latino includes many cultures and people from different coun-tries and backgrounds.

At the welcome reception on Tues-day, students could try food from differ-ent cultures, participate in activities, and listen to speaker city councilwoman Cath-

erine Emmanuelle share her life journey as a Latina woman.

Salas said the events throughout the month will help people learn about a va-riety of experiences from people that they may not have been aware of.

“It’s good for students to hear about what’s it’s like to be a Latino here in Eau Claire or in Wisconsin and how it’s differ-ent for each person,” she said.

SOL is dedicated to finding a place for students to continue to learn about Latino heritage and to come together in a community, Salas said.

Although the organization has been inactive in the past, she said this year she and Tapia hope to keep it running strong so it can be a place for students to contin-ue to feel a sense of connection.

As a student from Peru, Tapia said SOL has been a place for him to meet peo-ple and bond with other students who are from different countries.

“I get to share my experiences and culture with other people who under-stand,” he said.

Tapia said the group is not just for Latino students, but any student who is interested and wants to get involved. Last year the group had around 20 regular attendees and Tapia said he hopes they grow this year.

This semester the group will partic-ipate in social events as well as campus events like the International Folk Fair.

Salas said SOL is considering start-ing a big brother, big sister program to promote continuing education and to demonstrate leadership for young stu-dents in the area.

As the group continues its activities on campus, Alice Hampton, SOL’s advis-er, said Latino Heritage Month is import-ant so students and community members can explore the Latino culture.

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RACHEL STREICH / The Spectator A CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Students and community members listened to speaker Cather-ine Emmanuelle, UW-Eau Claire alumna, at the welcome reception for Latino Heritage Month on Tuesday. The event also included free food and activities.

Streich can be reached at streicrn@uwec.edu or @RachelStreich17.

CURRENTS11CURRENTS EDITOR: Katy Macek Thursday, September 18

Sam MartinezSTAFF WRITER

Two different bands rock The Cabin

Bands from Stevens Point and Eau Claire keep weekend concert series swinging Martinez can be reached at martinsp@

uwec.edu or @ smartinez201.

Local talent was on display at The Cabin Saturday evening with performances from The Hi Matics and Travis and The Terrestrials.

The Hi Matics stepped on to the stage and quickly engaged its audi-ence with its unique style of folk/indie rock music.

“We’ve been called a lot of things, like Americana and folk rock,” Bradley Prellwitz, guitarist for the Hi Matics, said.

The Hi Matics started when Graham Prellwitz, Bradley’s broth-er, and Daniel Waterman started playing together in a two piece band in their hometown of Appleton. The band has grown and is now based out of Stevens Point.

The Cabin was crowded on Sat-urday with all of the tables filled most of the night. In between songs, guitarist and singer Augie Dough-erty remarked that it was nice to be playing to a crowd.

“Great, great atmosphere, good vibes, beautifully put together, good sound people and a really cool wall,” Bradley Prellwitz said.

Travis and the Terrestrials, an Eau Claire band, were also there

to play a six-song set before The Hi Matics took the stage.

Travis Kohnhorst, the front man of Travis and the Terrestrials, was back at The Cabin after winning the Singer/Songwriter Slam last Febru-

ary.Eli Frieder, the bassist of The

Hi Matics, and Kohnhorst have been playing music together since they were in high school. When The Hi Matics booked The Cabin gig they requested that Kohnhorst open for them.

In front of an attentive crowd, Kohnhorst opened up the evening of entertainment with a cover of Al Green’s classic soul hit “Let’s Stay Together”.

This was the first show Tra-vis and The Terrestrials have ever played together, and Kohnhorst said he hopes the band will build on this success.

“This was our first show and we don’t plan for it to be our last,” he said.

The crowd at The Cabin was very receptive to both bands, espe-

cially Travis and the Terrestrials, who appeared to have many friends in attendance.

“I thought they both had a very unique sound,” sophomore Alex Neeb said.

The Hi Matics next scheduled gig is at the Central Waters Brew-ery in Amherst on Oct. 11 and the band also plans on releasing an EP

sometime this fall.The Cabin will continue to host

free concerts all semester, starting at 8 p.m. Borders plays next Friday evening and Derek Lynch performs on Saturday.

“ This was our first show, and we don’t plan for it to

be our last.”TRAVIS KOHNHORST

Junior

SAM MARTINEZ / The Spectator FUNKY TOWN: The Hi Matics jam out in The Cabin on Saturday night, entertaining the audience with their unique folk/indie rock style.

CURRENTS12CURRENTS EDITOR: Katy Macek Thursday, September 18

THE GRANITE BROSNICK ANDERSONAge: 22Year in school: seniorMajor: businessHometown: AppletonRole in band: leadsinger

IAN McAlisterAge: 20 Year in school: juniorMajor: psychologyHometown: Chippewa FallsRole in band: drummer

GALEN KEILY Age: 21Year in school: seniorMajor: geography/ SpanishHometown: WausauRole in band: lead guitarist

EVAN MEHREAge: 22Year in school: seniorMajor: musicHometown: PortWashingtonRole in band: bassist

Students by day, rockers by night

SUBMITTED ROCKING OUT: Nick Anderson, Evan Mehre, Galen Keily and Ian McAlister make up the UW-Eau Claire-based band, Granite Rose. The band will head out on tour next month with Saving Abel.

Student band Granite Rose prepares to hit the road for week-long tour with nationally known Saving Abel

During the 2011-12 school year, with the permission of the Sutherland hall director, Granite Rose practiced in a cramped room in the upper-campus dorm’s base-ment pending no complaints from other students.

Fast-forward three years and the band, composed of four UW-Eau Claire students, is preparing to hit the road for a week-long tour in Iowa and Illinois with nationally known act Saving Abel.

“It’s pretty crazy,” Ian McAlis-ter, drummer, said. “Saving Abel is a huge name.”

The band — which includes McAlister, Nick Anderson, Evan Mehre and Galen Keily — has mas-tered the bar scene, playing over 100 shows in the past two years, and it is ready for a new challenge, Anderson said.

“It was our dream to play ev-ery weekend, then we did that,” Anderson said. “People in bars are usually there to drink and we are just background noise, they’re not excited about our music.”

The tour will last from Oct. 2 through Oct. 5. The quartet will

pile in Anderson’s mother’s mini-van and hit the road to play their first shows outside Wisconsin and Minnesota, and if tradition is upheld there will be a lot of Foo Fighters blasted along the way.

The road to hitting the roadAnderson and Keily went

to guitar camp together in high school, so when they reunited at Eau Claire they were already fa-miliar with each other’s style, An-derson said.

After uniting on campus, the duo recruited Mehre to play bass. However, finding a drummer wasn’t such an easy feat. McAlister is the fourth the band has had.

“Ian has been with us the lon-gest,” Anderson said, noting the current four members of Granite Rose have been jamming together for a year and a half and together put out the band’s second album. “We finally got the fourth mem-ber we were lacking and it’s been great.”

Aside from playing the bar scene throughout the state and oc-casional trips to Minnesota, Gran-ite Rose has made a name for itself on campus: the rock group was the first to play The Cabin in the new

Davies Center and the first to play the new campus mall.

At their onset they were noto-rious for writing with chalk across campus and urging their peers to like their Facebook page, which now has over 1,000 likes, Anderson recalled with a smile.

Along with locking down a fourth member, some of the band’s favorite moments include their first show at Higherground, when they started making money from bar shows and the release of their sec-ond album.

However, now all efforts are focused on preparing for the up-coming tour. The opportunity came to be when Anderson was walking down Water Street last summer and saw Saving Abel signs dis-played at the House of Rock. Gran-ite Rose, whose sound Anderson describes as alternative rock with a classical feel, had been toying with the idea of attempting to tour with some bigger names, so Anderson emailed Saving Abel’s manager and the two hashed out a contract.

Even though the tour will re-quire missing classes, the band members are all willing to do so.

“I have never felt stupid about telling a professor I want to be a

rock star,” Anderson said, noting the university has been incredibly supportive of the band through the years.

Throughout college the band has practiced for two hours, two times a week, Anderson estimates. Even though it has been a big time commitment, which required many sacrifices, Anderson and Keily agreed they would do it all over again.

Gearing up for the tour, the band is busy practicing and raising money for fuel and food on the road.

Even though the tour is just a few weeks away, band members have already started to think about what spring will mean for them when three of the four members graduate.

So far the solution is simple, they all know they want to do mu-sic after graduation and they are hoping for the best, Anderson said.

“We’ll see how this tour goes,” Anderson said of the band’s future. “We’re not sure what is going to happen but we know we have a lot of fun together.”

Courtney Kueppers MANAGING EDITOR

Kueppers can be reached at kueppecm@uwec.edu or @cmkuep-pers.

13OP/ED EDITOR: Jessie Tremmel Thursday, September 18

OPINION / EDITORIAL

Whenever a challenge presents it-self to a group of people, that group can decide to do one of two things: lie down or embrace it.

Here at The Spectator, our collec-tive staff of 29 student journalists, ad-vertisers and business people is staring at perhaps the biggest challenge our 91-year-old publication has ever faced.

But I can assure each and every one of you we are choosing the latter.

Let me draw out for you the difficul-ties this particular group faces and how we plan to conquer it.

The first chal-lenge we face is one almost every major print publication faces, and that’s readership. In 2002, 2006 and 2013, Michael Dorsher, the faculty advisor for The Spectator, facilitated readership surveys with one of his classes.

The number of people who said they read The Spectator has decreased dra-matically in this 11-year time frame.

According to these surveys, given to the student body with anywhere from about a 3 percent to 6 percent margin of error, almost 60 percent of students in 2002 read the paper more than once a week. In 2013, that number was under 10 percent, while less than 20 percent read it once a week.

However, more than 50 percent of people in the 2013 poll wanted to see updated content in either the print edition or the website. So clearly, inter-est is there, it’s just a matter of us as a staff figuring out how to convey that message.

That’s a segue into our second chal-lenge: our budget. This school year, we are getting $18,000 in allocated funds from Student Senate, which helps us with the daily expenses we have such as salaries, maintenance, supplies and website hosting.

As I’ve quickly discovered moving up the ranks from staff writer three se-mesters ago to Editor in Chief currently, there’s a lot more than just writing that goes into making a successful publica-tion.

There’s all of these expenses you wouldn’t necessarily think of, and it is hard to appeal to advertisers when readership numbers have declined. For those who don’t know, our non-al-located money is pretty much from advertising.

To no individual’s particular fault, The Spectator has been in the red finan-cially for a few years now, including last school year. Needless to say, this doesn’t exactly scream “keep funding us” when

we put up a bid to Student Senate, and the future of a publication that’s been a proud tradition of our university since 1923 can’t survive by not changing some things up.

So here’s what this hungry, loyal and hard-working batch of The Specta-tor staffers are all set to do.

We are dedicated to putting new content online at least five days a week instead of pouring whatever is on the printed pages online Thursday mornings when the paper comes out to stands.

That means that every event we re-port on, wheth-er it would be a home football game, Forum speech or a rocking show at The Cabin, we’ll have full coverage of

it up on spectatornews.com within 24 hours of the event.

We’ll also have a much larger social media presence as we live Tweet at such events, so even if you can’t be there, we’ll be your source to follow along.

We’ll have more mutlimedia stories than you’ve ever seen The Spectator produce, and of course, the only place to find that is, you guessed it, at spec-tatornews.com.

We also have an Andrioid applica-tion with an iPhone one currently in the Apple store.

But here’s the biggest thing you need to know about this school year. Starting next week, we will only be printing every other week. That’s a huge sacrifice we’re making in an attempt to balance our budget. Printing costs are our second highest sum of money behind salaries, so cutting that in half will only help us get back on our feet.

But as I just explained, we’ll still keep you up-to-date on everything, and it is not only our goal but our expecta-tion to be your number one source for campus news.

This staff is committed to being just that for you, and we will do everything in our power to make sure you are en-tertained and informed on what’s hap-pening here on Wisconsin’s most beauti-ful campus. That is an absolute promise from me.

As the fictional coach Eric Tay-lor from NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” would tell us: “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”

Erickson is a senior journalism major and the Editor in Chief of The Spec-tator. He can be reached at ericksna@uwec.edu or @NickErickson8.

A committed changeThe Spectator will boost coverage this school year in

order to stay afloatNick Erickson

EDITOR IN CHIEF

“ Starting next week, we will only be print-ing every other week.”

For many students, college is a time for finding yourself, majoring in what you love and losing a lot of sleep.

A whirlwind of events happen on a daily basis, from clubs to work to schoolwork, I’m sure many people don’t lay their heads on their pillow until well after midnight, only to get up early to start all over the next day.

The Official Journal of the Amer-ican Academy of Neurology released a study on how lack of sleep affects the brain, with the two tests done about three and a half years apart. Out of the 147 adults ages 20-84 years old, 35

percent showed poor sleep health.What’s even more interesting is

the same 35 percent of adults showed a faster decline in the size of their brains during the three-and-a-half-year test.

I think it goes without saying, but college students show an extreme lack of sleep, especially during the school months. U.S. News reported more than half of college students receive

less than seven hours of sleep at night. In order for the body to fully recharge from the day, more is definitely needed.

Which is why it’s even more in-teresting that the study’s participants ranged from 20 to 84 years of age. It seems to me that after college, noth-ing really changes, even if the extreme work from tests, homework and proj-ects seems to fade away.

While many people think turn-ing to caffeine is a quick fix for lack of sleep, there are actually cons to con-sumption. Everyday Health states the negative side effects to consuming cof-fee could include: headache, insomnia, rapid heart rate, trembling and even stomach pain.

So, is it really worth it then to drink something that could make someone feel awake for maybe a fraction of the day, when sleep can provide the same energy boost?

Mayo Health Clinic stated online it’s actually beneficial to nap during the day, which may seem impossible in col-lege. However, these naps don’t have to be the typical hour or two, which takes up a chunk of a student’s afternoon. In-stead, aim for a short nap, between 10 and 30 minutes. Even if it seems like a waste of time, it actually boosts pro-ductivity.

The best time for a nap is mid-af-ternoon, around 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. This allows for a boost in productivity throughout the night for homework, but doesn’t interfere with sleep loss at night. Napping has more benefits than having a drive to get things done; oth-er benefits include relaxation, reduced fatigue and improved mood for the rest of the day.

Mayo Health Clinic also stated adults need about seven to eight hours of sleep at night, which seems so impos-sible for most people, myself included. If there comes a time at night where your brain stops processing the notes you’re taking, it’s a pretty good sign to go to sleep.

The most important thing is to lis-ten to your body. Denying what it’s try-ing to tell you is just going to backfire sometime, and will cause more loss in productivity. So lay your head down, close your eyes, and wake up feeling re-freshed and ready for whatever comes next.

Get some sleep, you need itStudies show lack of sleep causes the brain to shrink

Hosely is a sophomore organizational communications major and a Copy Editor at The Spectator. She can be reached at hoselym@uwec.edu or @mj_hosely.

Meghan HoselyCOPY EDITOR

HOSELY

Last week members of the Hono-lulu City Council approved measures that would keep homeless people out of tourist destinations, under pressure from the tourism industry. Hotel rep-resentatives have received complaints about safety and human waste.

Members of The Spectator Editori-al Board agree that those in power in Hawaii should not be able to enact a ban on sitting and lying down on side-walks, effectively displacing the home-

less people in Waikiki, Hawaii.One member said they can see why

having homeless people on the streets in popular tourist destinations could be a problem but questioned where the homeless people would go if kicked out.

City officials have plans to set up a temporary encampment on a remote island, allowing some of Oahu, Ha-waii’s homeless people to camp with a wastewater treatment plant and for-mer dump.

Another member said extra money from the tourism industry should be used to provide resources to relocate the homeless people. They suggested building a center that would trade a roof for manual labor. Helping home-less people get back on their feet would in turn clean up the streets.

One member said the ban of sitting on sidewalks reinforces the stereotype of what a homeless person is and does.

According to ABC News, Breene Harimoto, a Honolulu Councilman, said, “We’re helping the public to view the homeless as faceless people – not even people, but objects to sweep away.”

Another member said while the area is a tourist destination, some homeless people might still consider it home.

One member said when you travel, you go to experience a place and the so-cial issues come with that experience. Another member questioned if home-less people, sitting and playing a gui-tar would face charges since they are providing a service.

“Sitting on the sidewalk is a way that they are able to stay alive,” mem-ber said.The staff editorial reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board and is written by the Op/Ed Editor. Columns, cartoons and letters are the opinion of the author/artist and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Spectator as a whole.

ELYSE BUTLER / The New York TimesWITHOUT A HOME: Honolulu City Council approved keeping homeless people off the streets to benefit the tourism industry.

OPINION / EDITORIAL14OP/ED EDITOR: Jessie Tremmel Thursday, September 18

Together We CanGRAPHIC BY JOSH THORSON / The Spectator

Tremmel is a senior journalism and women’s studies major and the Op/Ed Editor of The Spectator. She can be reached at tremmejr@uwec.edu or @jessietremmel.

Jessie TremmelOP/ED EDITOR

Documentaries, by definition, give the facts. They present viewers with in-formational entertainment.

But that doesn’t mean a viewer can accept only the information the film-maker puts forth. When I question the facts or want to learn more, I turn to the holder of all the answers: the Internet.

A new HBO documentary, “Terror at the Mall”, provokes audiences to use their search engines in the same way as it leaves out important background in-formation from the story.

The documentary shows perspec-tives from people present at the West-gate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, last year when a terrorist group from Somalia attacked, killing 71 people. It relies on these citizens’ experiences for informa-tion and does not explain the political context of the attack outside of their accounts.

This style of documentary is benefi-cial for the filmmaker and for audiences, as it provides an opportunity for critical thinking and research, even though the facts aren’t coming straight from the TV screen.

According to an article about the film in The Atlantic, filmmaker Dan

Reed relied on the audience’s use of “the second screen” on phones or computers to find information so he could focus on telling the personal stories of the attack.

Leaving out information allowed him to be more creative with the work and to show people’s testimonies in-stead of listing facts on a screen or tak-ing time out to narrate these facts. Film should allow for creativity, even if in the genre is documentary.

Although viewers can’t automati-cally hear about what caused the terror-ist group to attack in the tragic act of violence, the movie forces people to use critical thinking skills. It gives people the opportunity to research instead of mindlessly watch a movie and neglect to think about it.

Over the summer I watched the documentary “Blackfish,” and I was so interested in the SeaWorld debate about whales in captivity that I spent hours on my computer researching the topic. I would not have the same perspective on the issue if I hadn’t done this, and I also would not have the same information.

To read more about documen-taries go to spectatornews.com

Looking up the factsDocumentary encourages viewers to use their searching skills

Rachel StreichCHIEF COPY EDITOR

National Guard soldiers killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest in the 1970 Kent State University massacre. This week Urban Out-fitters released a one-of-a-kind Kent State University sweatshirt, complete with what appear to be blood stains.

The Kent State University sweatshirt continues the legacy of poor decisions from Urban Outfitters. The retailer has also had to pull a T-shirt covered in the word “de-pression,” a shirt that mirrored the require-ments for a Jew in Nazi Germany and a shirt with a pro-anorexia message.

I have to wonder if this is all a market-ing ploy. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with messages, including the Urban Outfitters email to my inbox every 20 minutes, it seems the more politically in-correct a message is the more attention the retailer gets.

Retailers will do whatever it takes to get customers on their website even if their merchandise is offensive to some. Urban Outfitters, Inc., the company that owns Urban Outfitters, recently reported record quarterly sales of $811 million, according to TIME.com.

According to dailymail.com, Alan Can-fora, one of the nine people injured in the shooting, said, “This was a crass attempt at free publicity and a very morbid offering to stir up controversy.”

All of the scandals just go to show that any publicity is good publicity for retailers.

“There is no blood on the sweatshirt nor did we ever promote it as such,” Urban Outfitters said in an apology statement pub-lished on TIME.com. “The discoloration that has been mistaken for blood is from natural fading and sun exposure.”

While Urban Outfitters said they took the sweatshirt off the website, one user on eBay claims they shelled out $129 for the sweatshirt. Bidding starts at $550.

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STUDENT LIFE16STUDENT LIFE EDITOR: Kristina Bornholtz Thursday, September 18

At the center of the four concrete walls of Phillips Hall, there is a thriving garden.

Plots of land fenced in chicken wire play home to a variety of vegetables, with tufts of green poking out of the soil, ready to blossom with tomatoes. Apple trees line the side of the garden, ripe for the picking. Milkweed thrives, almost overgrown, attracting butterflies to make this their home too.

This garden is the pride and joy of Miles Hegg, senior geography and biology double major and president of Foodlums. The Foodlums, a sustainable food organization at UW-Eau Claire, has been growing fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in this garden since its concep-tion in 2011.

“A big part of working in a garden is creating, and it’s art,” Hegg said.

Though the garden was previously the sole responsibility of the Foodlums, the responsibilities shifted over the summer. Instead of planting a new crop every semester, the garden has been revamped with plants that will grow year after year, known as perennials.

Hegg said he thinks this will allow the organization to focus more on the values behind its love of food and share it with the community.

Bigger than “green”When walking into a community garden on campus, the obvious

word that comes to mind is “organic.” The organic movement, which farmer J.I. Rodale founded in 1947, has been in a renaissance lately, with sections of supermarkets now dedicated to food grown without genetic modification or pesticides.

Hegg insisted the Foodlums’ purpose is more than “being green,” or focusing on giving back to the Earth. For the organization, it’s a deeper concentration on human connection with the food itself.

“There’s a problem with words like green and organic, they’ve wasted those words,” Hegg said. “Growing your own food and being a part of that culture is basically tying ourselves down back to hu-mans. ”

With recent advances in technology now spreading to food, in-cluding instant-meals and genetically modified fruits and vegetables,

Hegg said it is more important than ever to start connecting with the food we consume. In order to do this, he said society needs to not only change their actions, but also their mentalities.

The availability of consciously grown food can be an obstacle for college students. Growing organic often means a hike in price, which can be deterring to those who can’t afford it. But Hegg encourages those interested in connecting with their food to try growing their own, whether with the organization or otherwise.

“There are definitely places and things you can do if you don’t have a place to grow food, you can do a community garden share,” Hegg said. “That’s where it comes to the mindset, because it takes a lot of work. It takes every single day.”

Hegg, who is greatly interested in how food connects with cul-ture, said he thinks growing your own food is the strongest way to create the identity of a place. With the Foodlums, Hegg hopes to cre-ate a sense of place for members within Eau Claire.

“This garden and all other gardens, the reward is knowing you’re doing something from scratch,” Hegg said. “You’re building, you’re creating, and then you’re putting it in your body to create energy and do it again. It’s a cyclical thing.”

He said he believes, despite the steps society has taken away from natural food, groups like the Foodlums will slowly guide food back “in the right direction.”

While the group works to create a sense of place for its members, they also work with the community. Aba Mbikra, assistant professor of math and member of the Foodlums, said he thinks the organiza-tion’s biggest strength is their relationship with food lovers within the community.

“I really think Foodlums is for the community,” Mbikra said. “It is for everybody. I don’t think about it as a student organization; I think about it as an organization for people who are concerned about where their food comes from.”

A food democracyWhen asked what the definition of a Foodlum is, Hegg could only

laugh.“I don’t think there’s a very sturdy definition,” Hegg said. “It’s

not a foodie, it’s not just a bunch of hipsters, it’s not people who are super into organic and sustainable food. I think it’s people who are conscious about the food and what they’re eating.”

Though the group is affiliated with the university, its members reach further than the student body. Mbikra says if you look at the email list the organization uses to send out updates, you will see not only students, but also community members and faculty, like himself.

Mbikra said he was drawn to the Foodlums last year by its table at Blugold Organization Bash (now Blu’s Organization Bash), where the presence of a certain type of student reeled him in.

“What I kind of like about Foodlums a lot is that they are stu-dents but they remind me of my people,” Mbikra said. “They are the students I would want to be around anyway.”

It is the melting-pot nature of the group which keeps them mov-ing forward, according to Hegg. Despite being voted in as president of the group, he said he believes everyone is equally important to the organization’s success. In that way, he feels like he is simply leading the way.

“I want to hear people’s ideas,” Hegg said. “I want to see people be creative and see people figure out plans in that way.”

Moving forward, the group is looking to do more than just grow-ing food in the community garden. Hegg hopes to rent kitchen space to teach cooking classes for Foodlums. The Foodlums will be going on “field trips” to farms like A to Z Produce and Bakery farm in Stock-holm, Wis. He also hopes to form a coalition with other like-minded groups, like the Conservationists, to educate the campus about the importance of connecting with food.

“It’s got the passion of the religious club, because their hearts there, but they also want to learn,” Mbikra said. “We’re going off to farms, we’re working in that garden, and even though none of us re-ally know 100 percent what we’re doing, we sure do know how to pick stuff and then come together and eat stuff.”

Kristina Bornholtz NEWS EDITOR

KRISTINA BORNHOLTZ / The Spectator GROWING UP: The crops growing in the Foodlums’ community garden continue to thrive, despite the recent cold weather.

KRISTINA BORNHOLTZ / The Spectator REAPING THE REWARDS: Foodlums President Miles Hegg said one of his favorite parts of running a community garden is enjoying the fruits of his labor, literally here with the apple crop in the Phillips Science Hall garden. Bornholtz can be reached at bornhoke@uwec.edu or @kebornholtz.

University organization promotes growing own food as a vital part of sustainable livingGRAPHIC BY JOSH THORSON/ The Spectator