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High school students from the mid-Michigan area showcased foreign language skills through skits, music and dancing at last week’s 37th annual Foreign Language Day.

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Foods from 15 countries will be featured Tuesday at the annual International Food Festival in the Marketplace at Doan from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Vanguard reviewer Tim Windy gives the Disney computer-animated film “Wreck-It Ralph” five out of five stars.

This semester, a marketing class may help prevent crime.

Marketing Principles, taught by Gary Clark, provides students an opportunity to work with a real client on improving the marketing plan for their busi-ness.

The 15 students taking the class this semester are work-

ing with Crimestoppers, a non-profit organization that operates throughout the United States. Both Saginaw and Bay Counties have Crimestopper programs.

The program encourages citizens to safely and anony-mously report crimes they see. If the report leads to an arrest, the tipper could receive a cash reward.

Dave Solce, a marketing se-nior, said the program is an im-portant one for the area.

“It’s pretty much a justice system. It’s a vigilante thing, a service for the community by the community,” he said. “They fund Crimestoppers and they can also see the benefits of Crimestop-pers, both in the community and financially, as they can earn re-wards for their phone calls and their tips leading to arrests.”

The marketing class is working with Crimestoppers to help improve the organization itself. The students analyze dif-

ferent parts of the client’s busi-ness and offer solutions based on what they see.

According to Clark, profes-sor of management, the students are working hard for Crimestop-pers.

“We are trying to help Crimestoppers by redoing their brochure, by pointing out what could be improved on their web-site,” he said. “We are trying to

A veteran who served a deployment overseas in Iraq, Shaun Yankee had never written a poem before he walked into Chuck Davenport’s writing workshop this summer.

“I didn’t really know anything about poetry,” he said. “I had to learn a little bit, what a stanza was and how to make the piece flow.”

A few months later, Yankee learned a thing or two about publication, too.

Yankee’s poem, “Liberation Requiem, Baghdad, Iraq 2003” was recently published

in “Proud to Be: Writing by American War-riors,” an anthology of poetry and prose written by military veterans.

The poem and subsequent publication came as a result of Yankee’s participation in a summer workshop for veterans ran by SVSU adjunct English professor Chuck Davenport, winner of the 2009-2010 Mary H. Anderson Adjunct Faculty Award.

Davenport, who served in the Navy from 1974 to 1981, organized the workshop around the submission date for the anthol-ogy.

“I saw what the submission date was and just backtracked eight weeks,” he said. “It’s easier for me to say at the end, we’ve got

this product of some kind. We were always working toward that.”

After spreading the word around Bay City, Saginaw, SVSU and Delta College, Davenport started the workshop with about five participants in June. While that number dropped to two, both Yankee and Delta Col-lege student Jason Sansburn had their work accepted for publication at the conclusion of the workshop.

Davenport said he came up with the idea for the workshop after years of teaching the war-based poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, as well as the concept of

In the 10th year of battle, SVSU claimed victory against Grand Valley State University in both the football game and the

fundraising competition, raising a total of $30,224.60 for the Great Lakes Bay Miracle League.

Grand Valley raised $1,100 for the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan.

“The SVSU population truly came together this year to raise

funds for our charity,” said Sean Khatib, Student Association cam-pus events director and Battle of the Valleys chairman. “It is great to see everyone united for a mis-sion to make an impact for chil-

Junior quarterback Jona-thon Jennings and wideout Jeff Janis have connected for a lot of big passes over the last two sea-

sons, but none as big as the one that ended SVSU’s seven-year losing streak to Grand Valley.

Down by three points in the waning seconds of Saturday’s game, Jennings stepped up and fired the ball from the 32-yard line into the corner of the end

zone, where Janis rose above his defender and clinched a 55-52 win over Grand Valley with the biggest catch of his career.

“I couldn’t really see the safety and but I knew where

Hybrid online courses are beginning to find a faithful stu-dent audience.

Marc Peretz, the associate provost, thinks online courses compliment normal classes and vice versa. He explained that there are two types of courses, hy-brids and straight online classes.

The hybrids consist of a possible class meeting one day a week and having the second class online. The regular online course might only meet once or twice a semester. The majority of online classes at SVSU are hybrid.

“Many students are working full time and commuting,” Peretz said. “If these online courses cut down on the stress or the number of times they have to take a trip to campus, it’s huge.”

Elementary education senior Dominique Bigelow feels that on-line courses are a beneficial alter-native to normal classes. Since she has taken online classes in several subjects such as political science and English, Bigelow has expe-rienced the pros and cons of the

system. “It’s really convenient,” she

said. “You don’t have to worry about working around a work schedule, you don’t have a two hour block to fit a class into. If I want to take my time and do my schoolwork at the end of the day, I can.”

Not all students have had good experiences in the class-room. If students have issues with the teacher-centered approach, online courses are an alternative solution.

“I think that it’s beneficial to not have the teacher in front of me,” Bigelow said. “I’ve had a lot of teachers that had never taught before and I basically had to teach myself.”

Communications senior Michelle Horn has also taken a variety of online courses and felt they sparked her interests just as much as when in the classroom. She said the convenience was a big attraction.

“The positive thing about online courses is that the student can learn at their own pace,” Horn said. “But there are negative

Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisIn the 10th Battle of the Valleys competition, SVSU took its fifth straight fundraising title and beat Grand Valley on the football field, 55-52, for the first time since 2004.

Marketing class to support local Crimestoppers

Writing can serve: Veterans get published Online classes available for on-the-go students

Winning the Battle

By Lauren WietchyVanguard Staff Writer

By Justin BrouckaertVanguard Editor-in-Chief

By Rachel Stocki Vanguard Campus Editor

By Justin BrouckaertVanguard Editor-in-Chief By Matt Ostrander

Vanguard Columnist

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Vanguard photo | Sean Dudley Students play blackjack at the Casino Night / Election Results party last Tuesday sponsored by the Residents Housing Association. The games were part of the fundraising efforts for the 10th annual Battle of the Valleys, which worked to raise money for the Great Lakes Bay Miracle League.

Vanguard photo | Sean Dudley Josh Freitas shows off during last Thursday’s Date Auction, sponsored by Alpha Sigma Alpha and Kappa Tau Epsilon. Students were “auctioned off” to raise money for the Great Lakes Bay Miracle League. Almost 40 students participated in the auction with a top bid of $45 for a “double date.”

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Tragedy struck the SVSU community on Oct. 16.

David Premo, 22, was a first-year transfer stu-dent from Delta College, majoring in environmen-tal chemistry. He was driving from a co-op at Dow Chemical Co. in Midland to SVSU when he died in a head-on collision in the early evening.

Close friends, family and professors have joined together to create a memorial bench and scholarship fund in his honor. The bench was an idea of Cynthia Peck, a professor at Delta College, who had Premo as a student for four years.

The bench will be placed in the hallways near the chemistry classrooms at Delta, where David used to wait outside Peck’s classroom. It will be en-graved and serve as a memorial to him and a gath-ering spot for students.

Peck hopes to collect enough donations by Thursday, Nov. 15, for David’s memorial bench. So far, friends and family have been able to raise more than 60 percent of the money needed.

Jessica Chatterton, a senior environmental chemistry major and a close friend of Premo, set up a Facebook page so that friends and family could

share their favorite memories and keep his mem-ory alive. People are invited to share pictures, sto-ries, and their favorite things about Premo.

“We miss David very much but I know his family and friends want to keep his memories alive,” Chatterton said. “(We) enjoy talking about how great of a kid he was.”

Last Saturday, friends gathered together to raise money to put a memorial bench in the memo-rial garden at Hemlock High School, where he had attended.

“David had wonderful friends,” said Ginny Nevarez, David’s mother. “At the wake when they had a chance to talk, they said they’d like to be just like David. That says a lot.

“He touched so many lives. He was so help-ful. I don’t know how many people told me they wouldn’t have passed chemistry if it hadn’t been for David helping them,” she said.

Premo was an exemplary student, accord-ing to several of his professors, both at Delta and SVSU. He graduated from Delta last semester with top honors and received several awards. In just his first semester at SVSU, he continued to succeed, working with David Karpovich last summer doing fieldwork.

Phyllis Hastings, professor of English at SVSU, knew he was a bright student from the very begin-

ning. “David was a remarkable student,” Hastings

said. “Chemistry was his thing, with awards from Delta and upper level classes in his first term at SVSU. But literature, reading, humanities — that was something else, as he warned me in his intro-ductory letter.

“Instead of holding back or hiding, or trying to make interpretation of literature into a science, he was fully and insightfully engaged in every class. I admired his creativity,” Hastings said. “He supported other students. That contribution is like gold in a discussion-based class, and its absence is deeply felt.”

“What I saw coming through in every discus-sion was wisdom and understanding, as well sensi-tivity and creativity. He was the most engaged stu-dent I had this semester. The class was diminished greatly by his sudden absence. One recipient of his encouragement left a red carnation on the table by the empty chair,” she said.

If you would like to donate to the David Premo memorial fund, go to gofundme.com and search ‘David Premo Memorial at Delta College’ or like his Facebook page, ‘In Memory of David Premo.’

International food festival showcases culture with food and performance

Memorial bench planned to honor student

New class provides fresh view on gender issues

When going out to dinner in France, who pays? The host or the guest?

While this may be challeng-ing for some college students, high school students in the mid-Michigan area were tested on cultural questions such as this as part of the 37th annual Foreign Language Day.

Sponsored by the SVSU modern foreign languages department, the conference drew in about 12 schools with about 650 students in atten-dance with some from towns as far away as Tawas.

Students competed in small teams to showcase their foreign language skills and cultural com-petency in skit, musical, dance, in-ternational awareness, cheerleading and song contests.

Judging was done by students with majors and minors in the lan-guages represented.

“Every student that performs really puts the time and effort into it,” said Monika Dix, assistant pro-fessor of Japanese language, litera-ture and culture.

Songs performed included Psy’s Gangnam Style translated into the German and Japanese folk song Sakura.

Myla Militello from Garber High School, who has studied French for three years, sang Edith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour.

“It was very hard because I was very busy and I memorized it three days ago,” Militello said. “The ac-cents were probably the most chal-lenging part.”

Dix said many students deliver well-polished performances, but some of them need practice.

“Students have good days and bad days,” she said.

Many of the department faculty and staff helped organize and put on the event including Dix, Gladys Zu-bulake, Julie Foss, Paula Mantei, Janet Sanborn-Stevens, Ann De Corte, Bor-ja Ruiz, Nancy Tesauro, Mandie Wil-ley, Barbara Cohen and Lori Krantz.

Dix said Krantz has been ex-tremely helpful toward putting on the program.

Krantz’s duties included sched-uling the program, ordering awards and creating judging sheets.

“I teach classes five days a week, and without her help, this would not be possible,” Dix said.

Languages represented in the competition included German, Span-ish, French, Latin and Japanese.

Dix said the program is growing.This year’s event marked the

first time a school brought a team representing the Latin language. A Latin team was scheduled last year, but had canceled.

The Japanese representation has grown from last year from one scheduled performance to two per-formances.

The MFL department uses this program to help recruit high school students interested in attending col-lege and studying languages.

“Admissions back us up because it’s important to them, too,” Dix said.

When Dix arrived at the univer-sity a few years ago, it marked the be-ginning of Japanese courses at SVSU.

A Japanese minor has recently been approved to be available on the 2013-2014 university calendar.

Dix hopes to see languages such as Japanese grow in the program in the future.

Languages such as Arabic, Chi-nese and Portuguese are hopeful new additions to the program.

She said much of what’s rep-resented depends on what the area high schools offer, but she believes schools will begin to offer more in the future.

International students at SVSU share their culture with the community the best way they know how: food.

The annual International Food Festival, hosted by the International Student Club, takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Mar-ketplace at Doan cafeteria.

“It’s important to give a taste of the different cultures because it’s the easiest way to share their cultures,” said Viviane Diwongui, president of the International Student Club and sophomore computer science major.

International students will partner with SV-SU’s Dining Services to cook and serve their fa-vorite dishes from their homelands at this event.

The event will feature food from nearly 15 countries including Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kuwait, Taiwan, China, Venezuela, France and Poland. Students from Pakistan and India will collaborate, as well as students from African countries, to present their dishes. Last year, near-ly 1,800 people attended the food festival.

“Personally, this is one of my favorite events of the year because everyone comes together and appreciates the food and culture of other coun-tries,” said Lauren Cheaney, public relations chair of the International Student Club and se-nior elementary education major. “The students have worked very hard to put this event together. We feel honored to show our com-munity more about where we are from.”

The event fea-tures performanc-es by students that may include dancing and singing to represent their country’s traditions. Each country’s students will decorate their food station.

Rima Malik, vice president of the Interna-tional Student Club and pre-occupational thera-py senior, said this event offers something that the community doesn’t have much of.

“Saginaw doesn’t have a lot of places that offer international cuisine, so this is a great op-portunity for our community to display their tra-ditional foods for people to try.”

The India/Pakistan dishes will feature dish-es as chicken bryani, pakora, which is fried spicy dough with potatoes, and a milky sweet noodle dessert called sawiyan.

The Kuwait group serves an everyday Ku-waitian dish known as chicken machboos, which is yellow and white rice with chicken. Fatmah Alnejada, second year economic major, is making her mother’s recipe of sweet cheese sticks. Last year, it won second place. Alnejada hopes it will win first place this year.

“Everybody thinks we eat a lot of potatoes in Germany, so I felt like I had to cook something with potatoes in it,” said Ulrike Drevenstedt, ad-ministrative science graduate student.

Drevenstedt will make potato pancakes with apple sauce and curry sausages with roast pota-toes.

“Curry sausage was invented in Berlin, which I just learned while looking for recipes to cook. I thought that was really cool and now I want to share it with everyone.”

Attendees will be asked to vote on four cat-egories: best/favorite food, best service, best decorations and best performance by country. SVSU staff and faculty will serve as judges. Each winning category will earn a plaque that will be displayed near the Office of International Pro-grams in Wickes Hall.

The cost of the event is $8; SVSU students may use their meal card.

For more information, contact Cheaney at lecheane@svsu.edu.

A new course means a new look at global majority-minority relations.

Although many industrialized societ-ies have granted greater responsibility to women’s roles in the workplace, there are still growing problems around the world concern-ing women’s rights. Gender injustices often go

unnoticed or are not taken seriously. SOC 407, Majority-Minority Relations:

Global Perspectives is a new course that will offer insight into these gender issues.

This course will debut in the Winter 2013 semester. It will include topics such as repro-ductive health and rights, gender inequality in the workplace, women’s political efforts, ways globalization has reshaped women’s lives, and transnational women’s rights movements. It will give students an overview of the role of

women, as well as give a greater insight into the injustice of women worldwide. It will al-low students to understand the brevity of so-cial, political and economic influences at both the international and national levels, concern-ing the role of women.

Although it is currently offered in the so-ciology field of study, Karen Lang Krause, pro-fessor of sociology, hopes that in the future it

Foreign language takes the stage

By Marie Nesbitt Vanguard Staff Writer

By Tyler Bradley Vanguard A&E Editor

By Katelyn Davis Vanguard Staff Writer

Vanguard photo | Sean Dudley Students from the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy perform on Foreign Language Day, promoting language through skits, dance and song.

About two years ago, hun-dreds of volunteers helped place native plants grown by Freeland Prison inmates outside the newly developed Health and Human Services building.

Just less than one year ago, members from the National Wild-flower Farm followed up on that planting, dropping a mix of na-tive plant seeds.

Less than one week ago, Es-ther Durnwald of Michigan Wild-flower Farm gave a presentation on the status of the slow-growing native plants during a meeting with Campus Facilities.

“It’s not easy to look at the first year,” Durnwald said, show-ing a photo of typical first year growth.

Native plants, she said, often develop their roots before making an appearance above ground. In fact, it is not uncommon for na-tive plants, even once established, to have more biomass below the ground’s surface than above.

While the 15 acres on cam-pus still resemble an undevel-oped, patchy grass and dirt sur-face, Durnwald is confident that the area will be full, thick and flowering within the next two or three years.

And when they do, some of the native blooms will provide food, shelter, or a habitat to rare, declining or endangered species.

“Ten years ago, we weren’t as interested in harvesting Milk-weed,” Durnwald said. “But re-search has been done since then that shows that the common Milkweed, native to Michigan, is an important food and nectar

source for the Monarch butterfly.”Monarchs have declined at

rates as steep as 30 percent each year, as observed over the past decade.

Other species of plants in the seed mixes planted in recent years include the Columbine and Yel-low Cone flowers, which attract hummingbirds and can easily tolerate heavier soils found in the local area.

Steve Hocquard, vice presi-dent of Campus Facilities, said even thus far, the wetland area provided a home to a family of Mallard ducklings in the Spring.

But providing food and shel-ter to declining native species is not the only benefit to going na-tive with landscape, Durnwald said.

Native plants grown locally have significantly deeper roots, sometimes several feet deeper,

than non-native plants, or even plants native to this area that are not grown locally.

Durnwald said longer roots mean hardier plants and less maintenance, pesticides and fer-tilizers.

Because longer-rooted plants can tap into water several feet be-neath the surface, they can with-stand longer periods of drought. Durnwald said the opposite also applies, and longer-rooted plants help draw floodwater and nutri-ents down into the soil as well, removing it from the surface.

Firmly rooted plants also help reduce erosion and runoff, and thus help keep nearby waters cleaner.

Although there are no blooms, and not much foliage visible today, Durnwald said that next summer visitors can expect lots of green foliage, and perhaps

a few blooms, as it typically takes wildflowers three to four years to become fully grown and flower. After that, the area will look like a restored prairie or wetland as it would have looked in the 1700s, before European settlers arrived.

Hocquard said he hopes the area will raise awareness in local homeowners about the benefits of native plantings. His goal is to convince others to landscape their own areas thoughtfully, which will lower their dependence on fertilizer and pesticides and de-crease the much of the time and resources spent maintaining a non-native landscape.

For more information and pricing on Michigan Wildflower Farm native seeds, visit michigan-wildflowerfarm.com.

Going Au-Naturale: Updates on native plant growth outside Health and Human Services building

By Molly YoungVanguard Staff Writer

“We feel honored to show... more about where we are from.”

Lauren CheaneyPubLiC reLations Chair,

internationaL student CLub

By Marie Nesbitt Vanguard Staff Writer

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Video games are as im-portant to my generation as books, as important as any picture taken,

as important as the teddy bear a child holds onto even after years of detachment. The nostalgia evoked from these electronically derived sets of rules and pre-programmed excitement is much more than just a remembrance of the good old days when happiness was staring at a screen and responsibility was a mere abstract thought.

Let me paint you a clear portrait of this video game nostalgia. There I am, arriving back to my apart-ment after a long day of tirelessly working in class, when one of my roommates excitedly tells me about a new incantation of the Pokémon series. I immediately forgot about my horrible day and was transported straight back to middle school. It didn’t matter any more if I was in a terrible mood. The nostalgia awakened a simple, clear enjoyment that is so difficult to obtain any more.

This nostalgia is important — I would even go as far as to say es-sential — for mental survival. We need these little instances where we can be sent back to a time in our past when every situation wasn’t as complicated as it is now. As college students, we’re looking at a long life of constantly work-ing and stressing our brains to their maximum capacities, so this remembering of a past joy is a sort of coping mechanism.

I can already hear my dad com-

plaining and he’s an hour south of Saginaw. I wasn’t an obsessed gamer as an adolescent, but I put in my fair share of time in front of the tube, watching my youth pass by through an assortment of Poké-mon and Mario. The person who agonized over my main hobby most was my father.

Those darn video games were going to rot away my brain! Why would I want to sit in my comfy, warm living room and experience a thrilling adventure when I could weed whack the ditch? Again and again I heard him putting down the games I played because they were not helping me be produc-tive. Mostly because video games were not how my father spent his free time during childhood.

This is my point exactly, but he was always too stubborn to hear me out. He felt as if the hobbies he had as a kid, like baseball, wood shop or working on cars, was the best way of spending time because that was all he knew. He looks back on his childhood with satis-faction because he was doing what he enjoyed the most, just as I was. What I always tried to tell him was that video games were what I was going to be telling my kids about someday, just like he loves to remember being on his high school baseball team.

When I wonder about what the future generation is going to be playing when I’m an adult, video games still come to mind, but with the continuous progression of technology it’s impossible to think these games will be anywhere near the same concepts from the ones I grew up with. In the same way that my dad fondly remembers physically working outside, I look back with that same nostalgia on games like Mario Kart 64 or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This trend will probably continue onto my children, where they will look at the Pokémon graphics and laugh in my face for playing Stone Age games.

The cycle of future generations

and their resentment toward the previous’ interests will continue until the end of mankind, but that doesn’t mean we can’t conceptual-ize what this means. This nostalgic feeling I continue to speak in is an important part of our adult lives because it’s on this that we judge our future happiness on. Any time I can truly say I’m experiencing contentment, it will always be compared to the innocent happi-ness of my childhood.

There’s definitely another side to this argument, since most video games are technically just enter-tainment. I’m going to be honest and admit that you’re not going to catch me playing an exercise game or the ones where our bodies are the controller. I play games when I’m too lazy to do anything physical.

It would obviously be more productive to be out in the world accomplishing rewarding tasks or creating networks with other people, but if the kid is playing the video game he or she prob-ably isn’t trying to be productive in the first place. Also, I can see where the health questions come into play, because video games keep players in that living room for longer periods of time than needed. But there are going to be pros and cons for any activity kids go through during their daily lives.

Video games inspire a youthful exuberance in me that is hard to find when I constantly worry my-self over college or financial issues. When a roommate throws some Pokémon in my face, it will forever be an instinct to flash back to when life was simpler and, in turn, happier. No matter what negative attention I attract or demean-ing comments that fly from my father’s uninformed mouth, I will forever play these games, if only to feel that nostalgia once more.

Campus BeatVideo games essential for nostalgia & mental survival

By Matt OstranderVanguard Columnist

Matt Ostrander is a secondary education junior. Reach him at mjostran@svsu.edu.

This weekend marked an important day in our calendar year: Not only was it the first weekend free of the slanderous attacks and volatile social

media debates that seemed to characterize the 2012 presidential election, but Sunday was also Veterans Day – an important day of tribute and recognition that the county should find a much easier time coming together for.

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Day was originally celebrated as Armistice Day. While the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, fighting actually ceased seven months earlier when an armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect.

In 1938, Armistice Day was approved as a legal holiday to honor veterans of World War I. Following World War II and the Korean War, the Act of 1938 was amended to include “Veterans” in place of “Armistice.”

It’s interesting to trace the increasingly inclusive history of the holiday, because Veterans Day is as diverse now as it ever has been. We pay tribute to our fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, to our siblings and friends, to the troops still overseas, and to the influx of veterans, men and women, who have recently returned or are doing so in the near future. They have served all over the world in any manner of capacities, both combat and noncombat.

With so many troops returning, it appears likely that, as adjunct English professor

Chuck Daveport alluded to in an article this week, many universities will soon be flooded with veterans.

To SVSU’s credit, it appears to be taking the right steps to accommodate these veterans. For the second straight year, the university was included on the Military Friendly Schools list by Victory Media, comprised of the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are “doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans and spouses as students, and ensure their success on campus.”

Along with nontraditional students and international students, veterans contribute to a diverse campus, and much like the university reaches out to the commuter community or the international community, it should continue looking for ways to do so for veterans.

The showing of the film “High Ground” a few weeks ago was one way to do that, though it would have been nice to see the university organize and advertise an event to honor Veterans Day on campus this Monday.

Opportunities such as Davenport’s summer writing workshop for veterans seem to be fruitful steps in that right direction, which is the reason we took pride in featuring its end products this week.

SVSU currently has 163 students receiving veteran’s benefits, but that number is likely to grow. As it does, the university and its students would do well to continue searching for ways to welcome them.

Vanguard VisionTaking a look at the past & future on Veterans Day

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You might say that I’m a cat lover. In the last few weeks, Roman officials have affirmed the suspicions

of cat lovers around the world: Archaeologists are saying that the cat sanctuary must go.

Although I’ve never visited Rome, I still had hoped to visit the sanctuary one day. Now I may never get the chance because the shelter, which has been open for more than 20 years, is under a health code violation.

The Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary, located in an underground area next to an archaeological site in Rome, has become a place for tourists and a home for stray cats.

The shelter is next to a site where Brutus is thought to have stabbed Julius Caesar.

The problem archaeologists are having is that the shelter brings a lot of tourists to this area of Rome, and with tourists there are messes. Visitors are throwing food into the shelter and sometimes the waste lands on the fragile ruins in an attempt to feed the cats.

This has been a recent find, and that is why archaeologists are in an uproar. They don’t want their findings to be covered up by wrappers, food scraps and debris. I guess I would be in an uproar, too, if great discoveries were being damaged because of trash.

But the main problem is tradition verses legality. The streets of Rome have been home to cats since the time of Caesar, but the shelter, because of its popularity, has made a good idea a

terrible situation.Currently, Rome is looking to find

a new home for the shelter. Without a replacement, the shelter will close entirely, forcing hundreds of cats onto the streets.

The shelter has neutered and spayed close to 29,000 cats over the past 20 years.

I strongly believe that without the shelter, Rome will see and increase in accidents and cat litter because of the amount of stray cats that are back on the busy streets. The shelter had been keeping down the spread of disease by keeping the strays healthy. It has become an ever-growing place for tourists to visit when in Italy.

With an estimated 10,000 benefactors that help pay for medicine and supplies, there is a large number of supporters looking to keep the sanctuary open.

Yet, the archaeologists do have a point. Should Rome risk the preservation of their past for a few cats?

My answer would be yes. I am not naïve enough to think

that history does not need to be preserved, but I also believe that the removal of the cat shelter would not stop the problem.

More than four million visitors come to Rome each year, and no amount of waste is going to be left behind just because Rome closes the only cat shelter within the city.

Cats can’t read the evicted signs. Out of habit, the cats will still remain in the area.

Most importantly, ban or no ban, the cats will still live in Rome and tourists will continue to feed them. The problem isn’t as simple as cat shelter or no cat shelter.

Finally, Election Day is over! I’m not going to talk about politics because I need a month to get over the mud that was flung

throughout the year. Plus, I’m still angry about the Electoral College and its existence.

So instead, I am going to try to answer a question that has stumped our society for the past few years: Is Pluto a planet or not?

First, the definition of a planet from ancient Greece: If it’s bright and moving across the nighttime sky, it’s a planet.

This was a horrible definition.It excludes Earth (we can’t see it

moving across the sky), and groups together objects that aren’t planets, such as the sun and the moon, with objects that are planets.

This definition didn’t change until thousands of years later when the Dutch created the first telescope. Suddenly astronomy was much more interesting.

Thus, the solar system was rearranged. The Earth was no longer the center of the universe, and the sun took its rightful place in, well, the center our solar system.

Then the ancient Greek definition of planets changed so that the sun and the moon were no longer grouped with actual planets. At that point, it’s also important to note that only five planets had been discovered, besides our own. There was Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Venus and Mars. The definition now changed to “if it revolves around the sun, then it’s a planet.”

Time went on and telescopes got much better, thus each new century brought a new discovery about our solar system. Uranus was discovered in 1781, Neptune in 1846 and Pluto in 1930.

At this point, we had the solar system most of us grew up learning, with nine planets revolving around one star.

Then why isn’t Pluto a planet?Look at any generic picture of the

solar system in your textbook, with eight or nine planets. If you look closely, each planet looks like they are spaced equally apart and maybe even about the same size. If you remember anything from our science classes of yesteryear, you’ll remember that planets are, in fact, spaced apart by massive distances and hardly any planets are equal in size — besides Venus and Earth being sister planets, anyway.

For example, Jupiter is massive compared to Earth. If we took a diagram of the planets and adjusted it so each planet was the correct size, the first four planets would be dwarfed by Jupiter and Saturn. Pluto, on the very end, would almost be non-existent.

Even if we did show the correct sizes, we would need to show the distances, as well. If Jupiter were the same distance away from Mars and Saturn as it is away from Earth yet still massive, then we would just see an overwhelming amount of Jupiter in our nighttime sky. Have you looked outside lately at night? Do you see a massive planet taking up most of your view?

Of course not. We know that Jupiter is 380 million miles away from the Earth.

All right, back to Pluto. Pluto, in relation to size, is tiny. How tiny? There are moons bigger than that object. Plus, it’s extremely far away from the sun.

This is when the Pluto Club comes in to say, “Leave Pluto alone!” Before you say anything, I want to say one word:

Ceres. Heard of it? Probably not.In 1801, astronomers discovered

a new planet in the huge distance between Mars and Jupiter. Although small, it was declared a planet and named Ceres. That following year, astronomers discovered another similar planet in that same stretch of space, naming that planet Pallas. A few years later, Juno was discovered, and then Vesta.

Thought learning nine planets was hard? Try learning eleven. As astronomers discovered more similar objects, they began to become more uncomfortable calling them “planets.” Instead, a new category was created, the Asteroid Belt, and the “planets” were renamed.

Back to Pluto. A few years after its discovery, astronomers discovered other objects similar to Pluto in the same area. Once again, they were growing uncomfortable calling them “planets.” But they figured that they could ignore the other similar, icy objects around Pluto as long as no other larger icy object was found.

And that’s when Eris comes in to burst Pluto’s bubble. Astronomers had to rename that stretch of distant, icy objects (which included Pluto), and the Kuiper Belt was born.

Now Pluto, instead of being an uncategorized planet, has found its home with other icy objects.

The round-about answer to all of this is no, Pluto isn’t a planet. But planets still have a horrible definition. With the knowledge we are gaining, I think the word planet will either be redefined or it may even fall out of practice. Until then, we’ll have to say goodbye to Pluto the planet.

As we say in my hometown, don’t forget to be awesome.

Staff Opinion

Defending the preservation ofthe Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary

Sympathizing with the plight of Pluto:How solid is the definition of a planet?

Staff Opinion

By Brandy AbrahamVanguard Campus Editor

Brandy is an English literature senior. Reach her at bmabraha@svsu.edu.

Hannah Meyer is a history sophomore. Reach her at hnmeyer@svsu.edu

By Hannah MeyerVanguard Staff Writer

can count towards the gender stud-ies program. She pointed out that many gender studies and sociology courses cross paths and may count for both programs of study. Krause gave the example of Sociology of Gender, offered both in sociology and gender studies. She hopes in the future, the same can be said for Majority-Minority Relations.

Krause has always had a big interest in majority-minority re-lations and women’s rights. She hopes this course will help broaden students’ understanding of the is-sues concerning women and spark interest in the development of women’s rights.

“My interest and study in this area has grown over the years and has been especially inspired by my trips to India, Mexico and China, where I studied women’s roles and rights,” Krause said. “In the future, I hope to use this course as a way to provide background knowledge for students who participate in a study abroad program focused on women and development.”

As of right now, the course is only offered at the 400 level in so-ciology, but if more students are interested and the course becomes successful, there could be opportu-nities to have similar courses at the lower levels.

Majority-Minority Relations: Global Perspectives is offered Tues-day and Thursday, 2:30-3:50 p.m., next semester.

For more information about the Majority-Minority Relations: Global Perspectives course, contact Karen Lang Krause at kkrause@svsu.edu.

dren in need.”Battle of the Valleys (BOV)

events began Sunday, Nov. 4, with a campuswide scavenger hunt and kickoff party. The kickoff party pro-moted the upcoming events and showed a video clip featuring the Great Lakes Bay Miracle League, a nonprofit organization that en-hances the quality of life for special needs children and their families by giving them the opportunity to participate in recreational pro-grams.

“I loved the charity Student Association chose this year,” said communication sophomore An-drea McAulay. “Since BOV week ends with a football game, it was fitting that the charity is sports-related.”

Residence Housing Associa-tion (RHA) sponsored the Casino Night and Election Results party Tuesday night in the Thompson Student Activities Room. The room was transformed into a casino with tables for black jack, craps, roulette and the big money wheel. A $5 ad-mission fee bought students food catered by Hooters, mocktails and a raffle ticket for the chance to win a 32” TV.

“RHA hosts a casino night ev-ery year,” said RHA Vice President of Public Relations Amber Swan-son. “This year, we collaborated with Student Association to make the event bigger and better to raise funds for BOV.”

As students took their turn at casino games, the presidential election results were streamed on the projector screen. Music educa-tion and theater freshman Andrew Whitman was the dealer at a black jack table for the night.

“This event was a great op-portunity to bring students out to watch the election results and sup-port the charity,” Whitman said. “Most students would be watching the results anyway, so this event is a way to have fun while doing so.”

One of the most well-known BOV fundraisers is the car smash, sponsored by the Kinesiology De-partment and Kreager Towing. Stu-dents paid $1 for one swing or $5 for unlimited swings at a car paint-ed blue to represent Grand Valley.

Exercise science sophomore Rayshawn Williams took his turn at the car smash.

“I had never seen something like this before today,” Williams said. “It is definitely a fun and dif-ferent way to raise money. I saw a lot of students doing it and having fun, so I decided to give it a try for a good cause.”

On Thursday, sororities Alpha Sigma Alpha and Kappa Tau Epsi-lon hosted the annual BOV “Date Auction” in the Thompson Student Activities Room. Nearly 40 stu-dents were “auctioned off” to raise funds.

The highest overall bid was $45 for a “double date” with psy-chology sophomore Kari Lahar and exercise science sophomore Kristina Tschirhart, both members of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

“The date auction was a great way to get more involved to help raise money for a great cause, and at the same time have an opportu-nity to bond with sisters and meet new people,” Tschirhart said. “It was great to see so many organiza-tions come together to raise money that will benefit those who need it the most.”

The week concluded with con-cert-style entertainment at Project X Party on Friday night and a pre-game tailgate sponsored by SA on Saturday morning.

Weeklong events included T-shirt sales, purchasing a “Caged Louie” and a campuswide silent auction. Nearly 40 items were auc-tioned off, including a mini iPad, SVSU paraphernalia and the op-portunity to be a guest football coach at the game.

help Crimestoppers by redo-ing their brochure, by point-ing out what could be im-proved on their website,” he said. “We are trying to collect money and find fundraisers for them to do.”

The students split into groups and do a series of anal-yses for their client, including a website, trifold and compet-itor analysis matrix. Students also analyze the business it-self by looking at its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

A set of in-depth reports are then prepared and pre-sented to the client with rec-ommendations.

In order to achieve these results, the students have sent out 300 to 400 letters. Some of these letters went to other Crimestopper organi-zations around the country, asking them for their trifold brochures to do compari-sons. Other letters were sent to the board of directors for Crimestoppers and the Chamber of Commerce in both counties.

The client, who provides the students with a budget when the project begins, pays for the cost of these letters along with other expenses.

The students in the class work extensively with the cli-ent to discuss goals and prog-ress. When the project first begins, the client fills out a cli-ent background survey. The students hold periodic meet-ings with the client to discuss the steps they are taking and to make improvements.

Clark believes that marketing is important for Crimestoppers because many have the wrong idea about the program. Often, people disbelieve the fact that the Crimestoppers tipping sys-tem is truly anonymous.

“Everybody thinks ‘snitch,’” he said. “It’s not snitch, it’s being a good public servant, helping the public.”

Solce agreed, saying that getting the word out about Crimestoppers is an impor-tant goal for their class.

“It’s not as much market-ing as it is education, getting people to know what it is,” he said. “Once people know what it is, once people can be-lieve it, they can be all for it.”

attributes. You are not able to be face to face with your teacher, so if you have a question that needs to be answered right away, the only way to contact them is through email.”

Peretz notes that there are still rea-sons to sign up for classes the normal way. SVSU is a community that prides itself on

its positive and receptive campus atmo-sphere.

“This is a friendly place,” Peretz said. “People here tend to like each other. There’s a social component and the people who are on campus like that. That is why students prefer the hybrid classes.”

While there are legitimate reasons to continue signing up for normal classes, students do not always feel it is for them. Horn clearly sees the ways classes could lead students to sign up for online courses.

“The classroom can become an un-

comfortable place because the surround-ing is the same every time,” Horn said. “The students’ interests in the class falter if the subjects doesn’t capture their atten-tion.”

Anthony Bourdow, who is finishing his associate’s degree at Delta College, has taken several entrepreneur courses and feels that online classes prepare students better than traditional ones.

“I felt like I had to do a lot more out-side of the actual class,” Bourdow said. “Sometimes it’s so much more productive

to not just be listening to a teacher all class long.”

Peretz agrees with Bourdow that on-line courses give more responsibility to the student.

“There is a lot more that a student has to do on their own in an online course,” Peretz said. “There’s more stuff you have to do. The teacher is not doing as much lec-turing, so the student will have to do the extra reading or the further research.”

“poetry of witness,” a term coined by poet and activist Car-oline Forche to classify works of art resulting from traumas such as exile or imprisonment.

“All of this came together, and I realized that this poetry of war is really poetry of witness,” Davenport said. “I teach this idea in my classes, of catharsis through the purposeful act of

telling, of going at something to understand it.”

Yankee, who was deployed in Iraq from 2003 to 2004 and is currently president of the SVSU Cardinal Military Association, came to enjoy the class after be-ing skeptical in the beginning.

“I didn’t know what to ex-pect at first,” he said. “There were only a couple of us, but we wrote things and it was really productive. It’s a way to express what you experience, but it’s re-ally informal and acceptable.”

Davenport said he saw Yan-

kee change over the course of the workshop.

“It wasn’t until the last three workshops that he let us see anything he had written,” he said. “When he first came to the workshop, he was very quiet. By the end, he relaxed.”

Yankee also read his poem at the pre-release showing of film “High Ground” at SVSU last month.

“That was definitely new. I was really nervous, but I got a really good emotional response from the audience,” he said. “I

was really happy with the way (the poem) turned out. I just de-veloped a good theme through-out it, and it really helped me express some of the things that I experienced.”

Davenport, who called him-self more of a “player-coach” than a teacher during the work-shop, said writing can serve an important role for veterans cop-ing with their experiences.

“Maybe more than any-thing, for veterans and anyone who has experienced any kind of trauma, writing can siphon

off a little bit of the pressure,” he said. “I don’t think it gets rid of anything, but when you begin to name things, you begin to own them, and that’s really impor-tant.

“For me, personally, the workshop was cathartic. It’s beautiful, beautiful stuff.”

Davenport plans to run another workshop soon, and this time hopes to include more women veterans and veterans from the local VA hospital.

SVSU has been included on the list of Military Friendly

Schools released by Victory Me-dia for the last two years, with 162 students currently receiv-ing veteran’s benefits. In April, Yankee and the Cardinals Mili-tary Association raised funds to support Travis Mills, an injured veteran from Vassar.

“In the next 14 months to two years, schools are going to be flooded with veterans,” Davenport said. “I think SVSU is making the right steps right now.”

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Originally from western Indi-ana, theater education sophomore Lexee Longwell started to become interested in her field of study at the age of 4.

Progressively becoming more and more fascinated by the field over time, Longwell has large as-pirations for her future in profes-sional theater.

For her first production, she took on the demanding role of Quacky the Duck in her church’s rendition of “Noah’s Ark,” while sporting a pair of bright yellow overalls and boots to play the part.

“After that, my family moved around a lot all over Indiana and Michigan,” she said. “My dad’s job took him to a lot of different places, so we had to move fre-quently.”

Once she settled down in Hartland, Mich., her sophomore year, Longwell’s interest in the-ater really started to take off.

It was at Hartland High School where she took on many different roles in productions such as “Beauty & The Beast,” “Robin Hood” and “Footloose.”

“My favorite performance in high school, however, was defi-nitely the White Witch in ‘The Lion, The Witch & The Ward-robe,’” she said. “I was usually al-ways typecast as the floozy-type role, so it was nice to play a villain for a change.”

After graduating from Hart-land High School in 2011, she started her college career at Sagi-naw Valley State University. So far, she’s been in numerous pro-ductions such as “The Little Shop of Horrors” to the recently per-formed “Buried Child.”

“So far, I’ve been mainly involved with serious produc-tions, but I’m definitely looking to branch out to more comedies pretty soon,” she said. “I’m going to be auditioning for ‘Moon Over Buffalo’ pretty soon, which I’m hoping to get a role in.”

In the production of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” Longwell was able to show her exceptional singing voice. However, the idea of singing on stage isn’t new to the young actress.

Throughout high school, the actress participated in mul-tiple musicals, as well as dramatic pieces. Longwell has been singing since a young age.

“It’s always been my primary

focus when performing. I’ve al-ways tended to gravitate toward roles that involve singing. My family and I would always take road trips where we’d attempt to sing seven-part harmonies.”

Once she has her bachelor’s degree in theater education, Lon-gwell plans to head to Columbia College in Chicago, where she’ll get her master’s degree.

“Right now, I’d like to go to Chicago just to test the waters out,” she said. “Experience is im-portant for this field, especially for graduate school. My biggest goal, however, is to one day be-come a theater professor.”

Theater isn’t all that’s on Longwell’s mind, however. In her spare time, the actress is also a big fan of creative writing, specifical-ly poetry and short stories.

Longwell is a fanatic of film and television, as well. For film, some of her favorite actors are An-thony Hopkins and Meryl Streep.

“I’ve always really loved dra-matic performers over comedic, especially ones that go to school to particularly to act well,” she said. “Actors like Will Ferrell will never be up to the same caliber as actors like Audrey Hepburn or Rock Hudson.”

Courtesy photo | Ashley FarrierStudents make decorated paper plates skulls on a stick as part of the Day of the Dead event last Wednesday. Students also made flower crafts and ate pan de muertos, known as bread of the dead.

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ARTIST PROFILE

Dealing with her personal experi-ences, poet and author Meg Kearney has channeled them through writing.

As part of the Voices in the Val-ley series, Kearney read some of these poems to students and faculty last Wednesday.

She has received many awards for her work including the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award for, “Home by Now,” a collection of poems.

She lives in New Hampshire and is the founding director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of the fine arts in creative writing program at Pine Manor College.

Kearney’s most-recent book was published last May entitled, “The Girl in the Mirror.” This is a sequel to “The Secret of Me.”

She regards both books as novels in verse for teens.

Kearney said she draws inspira-tion for writing from her personal ex-periences.

“I am drawing from my stories,” Kearney said. “But also a lot from people I know. As writers we have to take what we can from what is going

on around us.” These books are written from the

perspective of a teenage girl named Lizzie McLane, though Kearney admit-ted she and Lizzie have a lot in com-mon. One similarity being that they were both the youngest of three adopt-ed children.

Kearney read a poem from “The Girl in the Mirror” to start. She then got more personal, touching on her expe-riences in a Catholic orphanage in her poem “Rescued.”

“I have been among the found-lings, poster child for Catholic char-ity,” Kearney read. “They sorted us like laundry, coloreds from whites, and if there was any doubt about a baby’s blood she was whisked crosstown to the local anthropologist.”

The last poem of the night was from a women bartender’s perspective. She prefaced it with, “Being on a col-lege campus, I thought I would leave us in the bar.”

Creative writing junior Michael Blodgett was pleased with the perfor-mance.

“Anytime you get a chance hear a poet read their work you should go out of your way to see it,” Blodgett said. “I think in a couple years, Meg Kearney will be regarded as one of the greatest

of our time.” Kearney gave advice to students

looking to pursue poetry.“I always tell aspiring writers to

read, not just in their genre, read every-thing you can get your hands on,” she said. “People can tell you, you can’t do it, but you have to keep believing and working hard. You have to believe that at some point that stuff you read and admire, you can be a part of that.”

After the event, Kearney mingled with the audience and signed books which were on sale.

English sophomore Jackie Heap-heart said, “It was very different from what I am used to. In my (creative writing) class I am learning a lot of new types of writing and I am gaining a lot of respect for the different types of writ-ing.”

Kearney’s first picture book, “Trouper the Three-Legged Dog,” will be released by Scholastic in 2013. The book is based off Kearney’s three-legged black lab.

Though this was the last event of the Voices in the Valley series for the semester, English professor Arra Ross told the audience to keep their eyes open for readings in the winter semes-ter.

Vanguard photo | Sean DudleyAuthor and poet Meg Kearney reads one of her poems at an event sponsored by the English department last Wednesday.

A campus landmark since the 1980s, the Marshall M. Fred-ericks Sculpture Museum has a permanent exhibit of more than 200 of Fredericks’ works as well as two temporary galeries where other artists can display their pieces.

It also offers a sculpture gar-den just outside the museum.

Despite these attractions, voluntary student attendance re-mains low, and that’s where new RSO Students for Marshall Fred-ericks is getting involved.

It was founded last month by Ashley Farrier, an elemen-tary education sixth year and the only student member of the mu-seum board.

“I started working there two or three years ago and really fell in love with it,” Farrier said. “Marilyn Wheaton (the museum director) approached me about becoming a board member and it just snowballed from there.”

The concept of the RSO is to find ways to show fellow stu-dents that the museum can be fun and exciting.

One of the ways members

plan to do this is to host a pro-gram or event every month.

For November, the group teamed up with the Spanish honorary society Sigma Delta Pi to celebrate the Spanish holiday el Día de los Muertos.

The group provided the room and part of the funding, while Sigma Delta Pi provided food and the presentation.

The event saw 70 in atten-dance.

According to Farrier, she wants students who come to the events to feel laid back and to have a good time.

“We’re all stressed enough so having a fun group is the whole idea,” she said. “How much fun is it to just come and color

for a while?”They are also hoping to host

a board game and cookie party in the sculpture exhibit early De-cember and would like to open next semester with a Q&A on the group’s Facebook page.

The idea would be to ask an art-related question and who-ever guesses correctly can come to the museum for a small prize.

“It’s to get students in the door,” Farrier said. “And then, hopefully, they’ll stay.”

The group isn’t just for art majors or artists though. They want to get every student in-volved in the museum.

It is there for everyone to enjoy and that’s what they want people to know.

“We can twist to fit any fo-cus or major,” Farrier said. “Our

goal is that by the time you grad-uate, you’ve come to the mu-seum at least once on your own accord.”

Students can check this RSO out on Facebook: Students for Marshall M. Fredericks Mu-seum.

Members meet at 4 p.m. every first and third Tuesday of the month in the classroom right outside the museum and are open to anyone who wants to visit.

“Just ask the museum and they’ll tell you where it is,” Far-rier said.

She encourages students to bring a friend and is excited to see more people get involved in this group.

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“Buried Child” has closed to the public, but thoughts of the theater de-partment’s performances remain.

Written by Sam Shepard in 1978, the Pulitzer Prize-winning production circles around a nuclear family in ru-ral Illinois. The lives of these family members revolve around a deep, dark secret, which causes a deep cycle of violence and aggressive behavior.

The play’s set design showed the run-down interior of the depleted home. All the details in this setting are in perfect place such as the faded pictures hanging on the wall and the rigged rain system outside the house.

In the first act’s opening scene,

two of the play’s more important char-acters Dodge (Isaac Wood) and Haile (Mykaela Hopps) were shown in the middle of conversation.

It came as a shock that this was Wood’s first production with the the-ater department.

He completely immersed himself into the lethargic, increasingly decrepit character of Dodge. The character of Dodge was an essential part of the play, which Wood channeled successfully.

Hopps’ interpretation of Haile worked to a similar effect. Though a lack of comprehension from the char-acter in the opening scene hurt the ac-tress’ chance, she came through in the play’s second half to end the play on a strong note.

Sophomore Dakotah Myers gave a refreshing interpretation of the fam-ily’s son Tilden. Dim-witted with a blank stare, Myers made the character of Tilden equally confused and likable all the same.

However, the dead air between some of Tilden’s lines was unnecessary.

The second scene of the first act

made tensions rise and the plot quick-ly thickened for the cast. The family got a visit from Tilden’s long lost son Vince (Jordan Stafford) and his girl-friend Shelly (Lexee Longwell).

Though Vince wasn’t recognized by the family, he came to see Tilden and reclaim possession of the house.

Stafford’s interpretation of Vince was a solid attempt, but some of the actor’s dialogue got lost due to a lack of diction.

Stafford is a solid performer and shows potential. Anyone who’s seen him perform at Work ‘n Progress knows that.

Unfortunately, his performance here wasn’t much to rave about.

Longwell gave a performance of a completely professional caliber. In the role of Shelly, Longwell has the dif-ficult job of being the only beacon of sanity in the cast, which she does ef-fectively well.

In the second half of play, it’s found out once and for all what the deep dark secret of this family really was, as all of the play’s seven char-

acters were suddenly plotted against each other to keep it under wraps.

In this act, we finally got to know Bradley, Dodge and Haile’s maniacal one-legged son, portrayed by fresh-man Keith Schnabel. To similar effect of Wood, the fact this came as Schna-bel’s first production came as a shock, as it’s easy to see the actor’s potential.

Finally, we have Father Dewis (Blake Mazur), the character which we find out that Haile is having an affair with. Mazur’s experience with the the-ater department was easy to see, but it’s a shame he wasn’t able to be cast in a role with more involvement.

One of my biggest regrets of the play was that Mazur was so criminally underused. However, this stems from a problem within the play, not from its interpretation.

All in all, director and theater pro-fessor David Rzeszutek has crafted an interesting version of this production. Though its first act tends to drag on a little more than what’s needed, the play is a dark, realistically gritty piece that was as entertaining as it was disturbing.

When I was a kid, I grew tired of watching cartoons and television shows where the line between good and evil was drawn plainly with heroes falling on one side and villains on the other.

I knew from what limited experience I had that the real world wasn’t like that.

One show I remember tuning in to watch on Saturday morning to see who would triumph in the endless battle good and evil was “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”

And week after week, a long line of villains and monsters, who seemed to have no motive in their actions beyond a desire to change the stagnant, oversimplified world order, would be sectioned off into manageable por-tions.

That week’s villain(s) of choice would wreak havoc, only to be squashed by the heroes’ awesome individual and combined powers.

“Wreck-It Ralph” bridges the gap between the simple morality of Saturday morning cartoons and video games and the complexities of everyday life through its relation of the exploits of the movie’s titular character.

Ralph is the antagonist of the arcade game “Fix-It Fe-lix, Jr.”

His average day is spent performing the role of 8-bit bad guy at the urging of gamers’ quarters.

Ralph wrecks things so the players acting as Felix can repair them and receive recognition for Felix’s good deeds.

The character Felix receives an actual medal in-game that he is free to take home with him while Ralph is regu-larly thrown off the roof of a penthouse into a pool of mud.

When the arcade is closed for the night, though, the games’ characters, free from their respective games’ scripts, transform, becoming three-dimensional in both space and character when they were once only two-di-mensional.

Unsurprisingly, the Donkey Kong-esque Ralph is treated every bit as poorly outside of the daily perfor-mance as he is within the context of the performance.

The other characters see him as nothing more than a bad guy.

On the day the other characters celebrate “Fix it Fe-lix, Jr.’s” 30th anniversary without him, Ralph, fully aware that the game cannot go on without him, leaves that night in search of recognition for his goodness.

On his quest, Ralph carries with him a mantra he learns in Bad-Anon, “I’m bad and that’s good; I will never be good, and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather be than me.”

Bad-Anon is an anonymous support group for video game bad guys, attended by Bowser and Zangief among others and led by the Pac-Man ghost Clyde.

The mantra, as Ralph uses it within Bad-Anon, is mis-leading in that it appears to apply only to the video game villains, but its message — that as human beings we are all inherently flawed, that as ourselves we cannot realize a state of perfect moral goodness, and the resultant deci-sion from these two points to embrace all that we are, in-cluding our flaws (I apologize for the warm tinglies at this point) — is one that resonates far beyond the confines of the arcade.

I haven’t written a glowing review yet, though I have had some more positive ones and some more negative ones, but “Wreck-It Ralph” is deserving of just that.

With the film’s writing I laughed almost continuously for the first 30 minutes.

The deft combination of animation styles in moving from one arcade game to another, voice acting (John C. Reilly as Ralph, Jack McBrayer as Felix and Sarah Silver-man as Vanellope von Schweetz) and its plot (too nuanced to do justice here) warrant a 5-star rating.

Even its music choices such as Owl City warrant it. Don’t ask me how they made it work.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I would suggest you do so.

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Watercolor Exhibition• The Michigan Watercolor Society’s

2012 Traveling Exhibition will be on dis-

play in the University Art Gallery from

Monday, Nov. 12, through Saturday, Dec.

8. A free reception will be held at 4:30

p.m., Thursday, Nov 15, in the gallery.

For open gallery hours go to: www.

svsu.edu/artgallery/galleryopenhours .

Joint Recital• At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, an SVSU

and Delta Joint Recital will be held in

the Rhea Miller Recital Hall. Sponsored

by the department of music as a part

of music at SVSU and Delta week.

Auditions• From 8 to 10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12,

in the Thompson Student Activities

Room, auditions will be held for the

program, “Girl Talk: The Open Diaries,”

showing Feb. 8. Sponsored by Phenom-

enally Young Negotiating Change.

Guitar Recital• At 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, in

the Rhea Miller Recital Hall, the depart-

ment of music will present a guitar

ensemble under the direction of Brad

DeRoche. Free.

Glow Bowling Night• At 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, at Stardust

Lanes, Cardinals for Special Olympics

will host a fundraising bowling night

for the Special Olympics. $15 a person.

Sign up individually or as a group. Six

members per lane. Sign up 11 a.m. to

3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12, and Tuesday,

Nov. 13, outside the Zahnow Library or

Wednesday, Nov. 14, and Thursday, Nov.

15, outside Marketplace at Doan.

Valley’s Got Talent• At 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, in the Alumni

Lounge, Music Inspiring Change will

host a talent show. Song, dance and

spoken performance categories. Win-

ner will receive prize money.

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Tim Windy is an English literature and creative writing senior and Vanguard reviewer. Reach him at tmwindy@svsu.edu.

Show closes the casket on “Buried Child”

WRECK-IT RALPH

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Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisFrom left, theater sophomore Mykaela Hopps (Halie) acts out a scene with theater sophomore Lexee Longwell (Shelly) in “Buried Child.”

“Ralph” wrecks the

morality binary

Landon Defever is a communications sophomore and a Vanguard staff writer. Reach him at lhdefeve@svsu.

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the corner was, and I knew that it was a good ball. I just made a play on it and kept my feet in bounds,” Janis said. “I’m speechless.”

Speechless was a word that could have been used to describe the packed Wickes Stadium just a minute before-hand. With 1:06 remaining in the game, Jennings and the Cardinals started the final drive at their own five-yard line with no timeouts, and were forced to go 95 yards for the win.

“We looked pretty well oiled in that situation, and it was great to see,” said head coach Jim Collins. “The coaches, the fans, the players, we all got our money’s worth.”

The Cardinals have found themselves in similar situ-ations earlier this season against Valdosta State and Fer-ris State. Janis said that prac-ticing the two-minute drill in

is largely responsible for the team’s poise under pressure.

“When you do that every day you just get used to it, so you’re not feeling any pres-sure,” he said.

With the win, the Cardinals end their season with a record of 8-3 (7-3 GLIAC) and a share of the GLIAC North division title. Grand Valley finishes with the same record, and the two teams will share the divi-sion title along with Michigan Tech and Hillsdale.

Ashland (11-0, 10-0 GLIAC) won the GLIAC overall, and will be the conference’s lone representative in the NCAA playoffs.

Coming into the game, Grand Valley was ranked eighth in Super Region No. 4, while SVSU was ranked 10th. The top six teams qualify for the NCAA playoffs, but nei-ther SVSU nor its cross-state rivals were selected for the playoff field.

The Cardinals came out on fire against the Lakers to start the game, scoring 28 straight points and taking a 35-7 lead

into halftime.But then came the melt-

down: The Lakers outscored SVSU 45-20 in the second half, with sophomore quarterback Isiah Grimes tossing four touchdown passes.

“In the first half everything went our way. I don’t remem-ber too many bad plays in that

first half on either side of the ball,” Collins said. “That game had a different tone to it in the second half.

“There were times on the sideline where you could see the dejection and disappoint-ment that we weren’t able to

keep them out of the end zone, but you never saw a lack of hope.”

Led by Jennings, who threw for 360 yards and three touch-downs, and senior running back Tim Hogue, who rushed for 175 yards, the Cardinals held onto their lead until a lit-tle more than halfway through the fourth quarter.

GVSU’s sophomore running back Michael Ratay scored on a 11-yard touchdown run with 6:07 remaining to put the Lak-ers up 52-48, their first lead of the game.

After the offense punted on the next drive, the defense made its biggest play of the game, forcing the Lakers to punt with just over a minute remaining.

“After all the points we gave up in the second half, that was the biggest stop of the game for us,” said senior linebacker Grant Caserta. “We didn’t quit, we got our offense the ball back and we got the job done.”

The punt was downed at the five-yard line, and with 1:06

remaining and no timeouts, Jennings went to work.

First was a 16-yard pass to Hogue, then back-to-back passes to junior wide receiver Mark Thrash for 37 yards and 10 yards.

And then the pass to Janis.“I’ve never been a part of

anything like that before,” Caserta said. “That’s probably the most excited I’ve ever been in my entire life. I looked up in the stands and everyone was going nuts.

“It was something I’ll never forget.”

Even though it didn’t result in a playoff berth, Collins said he counts this win among the best in his tenure at SVSU.

“We’ve had some big ones in this program and a lot of memorable moments in my five years, but we had yet to beat our cross-state rival,” he said. “The way it happened, to come from behind on a last-minute drive sure made it even better.”

By the numbers

• Jonathon Jennings has thrown for 3,282 yards and 27 touchdowns on the season. • Tim Hogue led the Cardinals rushing attack this season, carrying the ball 191 times for 1,105 yards and seven touchdowns.•Jeff Janis led the GLIAC in receptions at 106, yards at 1,635 and touchdowns at 17.•Grant Caserta lead the team in tackles with 109 on the season. He also tallied two forced fumbles, two interceptions and two sacks.•Jeff Heath led the Cardinals’ secondary, snatching five interceptions on the year.

FOOTBALL

This season’s men’s bas-ketball team is looking to set up the foundation for years to come.

In his first year at the helm, head basketball coach Randy Baruth stated that early in the season and over the summer, recruiting and training are the main goals.

“I’m not focused on over-all expectations as far as wins and losses at this point in the season,” Baruth said. “We’re

trying our best to build the program from the ground up, recruit for the culture and tak-ing care of our business.”

Last week, the Cardinals lost 76-48 to the University of Michigan in an exhibition game. The game was sched-uled as a warm up for both teams to get prepared heading into the regular season. Baruth said that despite the great com-petition, he was happy with his team so far.

“I think our guys really shot the ball well against a team that’s just absolutely loaded,” Baruth said. “We

have great skill people when it comes to perimeter shoot-ing but I’m looking forward to developing more of an inside game.”

In the loss against Michi-gan, Baruth saw a lot of the qualities that he hopes to in-still in his own team moving forward.

“We look at next year’s team and we see almost all freshmen and sophomores,” he said. “We are going to focus hard on recruiting and training to build quality depth at every position.

“Against Michigan, they’d

take one big guy out and slide another one right in like it was no big deal.”

Traditionally, SVSU has had a more perimeter shooting mentality and game plan. Ba-ruth says he likes the skill he has on the outside, but his plan going forward is developing a tougher, more mentally strong inside game.

In order to do that, Baruth said he focused most of his at-tention on recruiting over the summer.

“We’re really happy with the kids that came over during the summer,” he said. “We’ve

also had two guys commit this fall that I’m looking forward to bringing onto the court.”

Sunday, the Cardinals opened up their season at home by beating Marygrove 82-43 at home. Going into the game, Baruth said that his fo-cus was less on the opponent and more on his own guys.

“I’ve watched some film and we’re taking on a very tal-ented and skilled team with solid, athletic guards,” Baruth said. “But we know that we have to take care of our busi-ness and focus on defense in order to compete.”

Following the opener, the Cardinals will take to the road for four games in a row. Baruth said that from the film he’s watched, the competition will be tough going into De-cember.

“A lot of the teams we’re playing have returned a lot of experienced guys,” Baruth said. “We’re going to have our work cut out for us but I’m still more concerned with develop-ing our own guys.”

First-year coach focused on building foundation

Men’s Basketball• Thursday, Nov. 15, @ Cedarville, 7:30 p.m., Cedarville, OH

• Saturday, Nov. 17, @ Central State, 5 p.m., Wilberforce, OH

• Thursday, Nov. 29, @ Ohio Dominican, 5:30 p.m., Columbus, OH

• Saturday, Dec. 1, @ Tiffin University, 1 p.m., Tiffin, OH

Women’s Basketball• Saturday, Nov. 17, vs. Wis.-Parkside, 1 p.m., University

Center• Thursday, Nov. 29, @ Ohio Dominican, 7:30 p.m., Columbus, OH

• Saturday, Dec. 1, @ Tiffin

University, 3 p.m., Tiffin, OH

Women’s Cross Country• Saturday, Nov. 17, @ NCAA Championships, Joplin, MO

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By Chris OliverVanguard Sports Editor

Vanguard photo | Alyssa Ellis

Jeff Janis (No. 82) drags a Laker defender across the goal-line in his first touchdown reception of the game and 16th touchdown on the year.

Vanguard photo | Alyssa Ellis

Junior quarterback Jonathon Jennings fights to break away and slip a tackle from a Grand Valley State defender.

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Vanguard photo | Alyssa Ellis

The Cardinals defense forced two interceptions and kept Grand Valley off-balance in the first half, leading 35-7 at halftime.

“We didn’t quit, we got our offense the ball back and we got the job done.”

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Last year’s nemesis awaits in RegionalsWith contributions from the

entire team, the Cardinals ad-vanced past the second round of the NCAA Super Regional No. 3.

Head coach Cale Wasser-mann said his team was ready for the next round of the post-season. Friday, Nov. 16, the Cardinals will travel to Tahle-quah, Okla., to take on Rock-hurst, the team that beat SVSU in the playoffs last season.

First, the Cardinals had to survive overtime with Quin-cy. Wassermann said his team was simply hungrier than the opponent. In a game that would be decided by penalty kicks, the Cardinals came out ahead ro defeat Quincy and advance to the regional final.

Wassermann said the home-field advantage made a dif-ference in the outcome of the game.

“The fans that came out were just great,” Wassermann said. “They were loud and did a great job of pulling our

guys up and keeping them go-ing.”

Beyond the fans, Wasser-mann said the weather had a significant impact on the game, with strong winds and the set-ting sun playing a role in the first half for the Cardinals. Playing into the wind and sun, the Cardinals gave up their first goal in seven games, giv-ing Quincy a quick 1-0 lead.

“The wind and sun played a huge factor early on,” Wasser-mann said. “Quincy came out strong and put a lot of pressure on us early and with our guys playing into the wind and the sun in our eyes, they got to us early.

“They scored a sloppy, ques-tionable goal early on and we had to respond.”

The Cardinals did respond, coming out in the second half stronger, looking to make up for the first goal surrendered in seven games.

With a little more than four minutes left in the game, ju-nior forward Zach Walega took a corner kick from junior Zach Minor and put the ball in the net to tie the game and send

it into overtime. Wassermann said the entire team came out strong in the second half to outplay Quincy.

“I really feel that our guys absolutely dominated the sec-ond half,” he said. “We had more shots than them, more corner kicks and we were just all over the field.

“Our guys were just hungri-er for the win.”

Continuing with the great defense and timely scoring, Wassermann said a number of individuals stepped up throughout the day. Senior goalkeeper Jason Wise made two saves in the shootout to seal the win for the Cardinals.

“Jason (Wise) has been great for us all season,” Wassermann said. “We can’t really express how important he’s been for us back there, and he was great again today.”

Wassermann also referenced other key contributors for the victory over Quincy.

“Bobby Short and Lachlan Savage were unbelievable out there,” Wassermann said. “They were all over the field the entire second half and

overtime and played great.”The Cardinals’ bench also

proved to be critical, giving Wassermann the options to substitute and not losing per-formance on the field.

“We have one freshman, Mitch Posuniak who came off the bench and stepped up big today,” Wassermann said. “He was a huge help for us all over the field.”

In overtime, Wassermann said his team continued to ex-ecute as it had done in the sec-ond half.

“We wanted to win and our guys were simply relentless in the way they played out there,” he said.

Wassermann said now his team is looking forward to the regional finals.

“We’ll recover from this game, get our heads right and get ready to go down,” Wasser-mann said. “Our guys are real-ly looking forward to playing the team that beat us last year.

“This team is hungrier and ready to go.”

Tough season; lessons learned

Growing pains and inexperi-ence make for a season packed with more lessons than victo-ries.

Going into the season, wom-en’s volleyball head coach Will Stanton knew there would be growing pains with a number of playmakers graduated and gone. The struggle turned out to be tougher than expected for the Lady Cardinals.

“We knew it was going to be tough and we knew that it was going to be a rebuilding year for us,” Stanton said. “But I’m glad to say that we grew and got stronger as the year went on.”

Throughout November, the Lady Cardinals failed to win a competition, losing their final four meetings to finish out the season with an overall record of 11-19 and 6-12 in the GLIAC, good for seventh in the GLIAC North.

Stanton said the GLIAC is

tough for volleyball, and the combination of inexperienced players switching positions throughout the season made a bad recipe.

“Overall, I’d give us a ‘C’ let-ter grade,” Stanton said. “We were an average team in an above-average conference for volleyball.

“It was a tough season but we underachieved and under-performed.”

Entering his 10th season at the helm, Stanton has seen his share of ups and downs in building the women’s vol-leyball program to what it is. Last season, he coached a team packed with senior talent to an 18-11 record, going 15-4 in con-ference.

Stanton won GLIAC “Coach of the Year” in 2007 and one year later was named the Mid-west Region “Coach of the Year.” In 2008 he led the Lady Cardinals to the NCAA Divi-sion II Regional Finals and a final ranking of 24th in the country.

Following this season, Stan-ton looks to build off of the

lessons learned. He said he’s looking forward to what the team is like with a full year of experience under its belt.

“We head into the off-season looking forward to next fall,” Stanton said. “We really want to continue the progress that we’ve made this season, even if it’s not apparent in ‘wins’ and ‘losses.”

Stanton said that despite the team’s record, significant progress was made throughout 2012. One of the biggest im-provements the team learned throughout the year was how to play as a team and overcome adversity.

“We definitely have some things to work on moving for-ward, but I am really happy with some of the improve-ments and lessons the play-ers learned during the course of the season,” Stanton said. “The girls made progress dur-ing the season, just not quite at the pace we were hoping for going into the year.”

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