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VOLUME Fall, ISSUE 1 THURSDAY, September 15, 2011
SINCE 1936
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Lakeland welcomes new communications professor
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The front entrance that will connect North and South Drives as the centerpiece of
the construction project that has been going on since late April will open before Homecoming, according to Senior Vice President for Administra-tion Dan Eck.
Eck, who has man-aged the approximately $3.2 million project since its start, said people will be able to drive into the new entrance from County Highway M before Home-coming weekend begins on Friday, Oct. 14.
“It will be open before then,” Eck said. “How many days before that is hard to tell yet. It depends a lot on the weather - how much rain they [the workers] get - because that slows down some of the work. But we still have a cushion of time that, even if it does rain a day or so, we’ll still be on schedule.”
The campus enhancements being done by Boldt Construction started April 25 when Reineking Court was closed and extended into a road that vehicles could access the entire campus from. Reineking was originally sched-uled to reopen May 13, but in-clement weather delayed the fin-ish date until June 20, according to Director of Facilities Manage-ment and Planning Rich Haen, who, along with Manager of
Groundskeeping Operations Joe Beniger, has overseen the project from a “boots on the ground” level since he was hired at Lakeland in early May.
“We anticipate everything in the front of campus being com-pleted no later than Oct. 15,” Haen
said. “What that means is the lighting and the fountain in the center of Old Main Plaza will be done, the areas seeded should be greening up—everything.”
Work on the main entrance and the ditch began when South Drive was closed around May 9.
After Homecoming, work-ers will turn the remainder of the ditch—the section that runs from Prof. Drive to the baseball field—into a stream and add a layer of asphalt to Reineking Court, Haen said.
Eck said the project has also
included several “unplanned up-grades” to campus, like work on Lakeland’s roads. After Homecom-ing, workers will also remove the electrical poles in the WAK park-ing lot and plant electrical boxes underground to power campus.
“We did add some time inten-
tionally to the project to take care of a few of these things that it real-ly made sense to do while we had all of this construction equipment on site rather than having them come back in a year, which would cost a lot more money,” Eck said.
According to Eck, the three-year comprehensive fundraising campaign that Lakeland started about a year ago to pay for this project and three years of the an-nual fund has, to date, raised over $5 million of the approximately $6.5 million needed.
“That last million dollars will
be equally as challenging as the first several millions because now we’re going for some smaller gifts from people,” he said. “We got some major contributions up front and, as you go on, the gifts start to get smaller and smaller, so it takes more to complete the campaign.
There’s still a lot of work left to do, but we are far ahead of sched-ule on our fundraising goals for this project.”
Lakeland is placing bricks engraved with donors’ names on the east side of the Laun Center and in Old Main Plaza, the court yard being constructed in front of Old Main. The 4.5 by 7 inch Laun bricks cost $150 and the 12 by 12 inch and 12 by 18 inch Old Main Plaza bricks are $750 and $1,500, respectively.
Bricks paid for by a cut-off date in June will be set by Homecoming and the remainder will be set before Lakeland’s ses-quicentennial celebration this summer.
Eck hopes the front entrance project will give prospective stu-dents a good impression of the col-lege and kick start other projects by generating excitement among the record number of alumni ex-pected to visit campus during the sesquicentennial.
“The college historically hasn’t had a ‘real’ front door. It’s had what looks like several back doors,” Eck said. “This is really go-ing to engage people when they see it, and they’re going to get excited about the next 150 years of the col-lege and what we can do once we go on to other projects.”
Front entrance nears completionLakeland's "first real front door" to open before HomecomingBy Danny [email protected]
Editors’ note: Reina Kato, ju-nior history major, was a Lakeland College Japan (LCJ) student when the earthquake struck. Her first person observations are included in this report.
The earthquake that hit Touhoku in the northern part of Japan on March 11,
2011 is now regarded as one of the major disasters in Japanese histo-ry. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake is the fifth strongest recorded in world history. Even more devas-tating, however, was the subse-quent tsunami that struck Iwate and Miyagi and caused severe
damage to nuclear power plants, where officials were unable to contain radiation leaks.
At 2:46 p.m. that same day, the quake struck LCJ, located in S h i n j u k u , T o k y o —235 miles from the hypocenter (the quake’s focal point). Students at LCJ could do nothing when we felt the first shaking. The windows and walls began to creak, computers and books on the fourth floor fell down onto the ground, and the copy machine on the sixth floor moved a
few meters. After it ended, all stu-dents and professors were escorted from the building. For a while, we had no words to describe our feel-
ings and fears.S i n c e
Shinjuku is one of the biggest cit-ies in Tokyo and there are hundreds of s k y s c r a p -ers, we had nowhere to
go. Many people knew it was not safe to go back into the build-ing after the quake because many students remembered the tragic deaths of Japanese students dur-ing another earthquake, occurring
in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 22. Fortunately, one of the LCJ staff found a field at a middle school where we could be safe despite the many aftershocks. Students tried to make contact with families and friends on their mobile phones, but most of their phones didn’t work. Some students tried to go back to their homes via trains and sub-ways, but Shinjuku Station was shut down to prevent having too many people flood into the station.
It was 41 F that night, but the only thing we could do was stay at school because we were told the trains would not run until the next day. Even though some people decided to walk home or tried us-
After 3/11: Lakeland College JapanFormer LCJ student reports on last year's quake, aftermathBy Reina katoStaff [email protected]
Construction on the front entrance last week. Target completion for entrance is Homecoming Weekend.
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
-Walter Cronkite
SEE JapaN/PAGE 2
LCJ students clean up after the earthquake.
photo sUbmitted by: yasUtaka sakamoto
STAFFLIST
Danny SpatchekEditor-in-Chief
Michael KnaakManaging Editor
Skye Sieglaff Copy Editor
Nicole GeurtsFeatures Editor
Jenni HeinrichLayout Editor
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Josh GraminskeReina Kato
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A parking ticket book was stolen off the security golf cart Sept. 1, and prank
tickets were issued to students be-tween Sept. 1 and Sept 6, accord-ing to Annette Gamache, head of security at Lakeland College.
“The first complaint was filed on Sept 3,” said Gamache. The tickets included insults about students’ vehicles, the sports they play, and the character of the car owner. The writers of these prank tickets often used profane lan-guage.
Jake Belknap, a junior art ma-jor, was one of the students who were issued a phony ticket.
“I was upset at first because I thought it was a security officer who issued the ticket, but when I later found out about the stolen ticket book it didn’t bother me as much,” said Belknap. He also went on to say how ridiculous it is for someone to take time out of their day to fill out these tickets in full and put them on cars.
Gamache urges anyone who was issued a phony ticket to bring it to the security office on the low-er level of Brotz Hall, across from the student employment office, for investigation. These tickets are not valid and students will not be charged or penalized in any way.
Initial suspects denied the charges. The investigation is on-going.
Prank TicketsStolen parking tickets issued By RoB SchoettleRStaff [email protected]
Two prank tickets that were left on students' vehicles.
On Tuesday, Sept. 27, Coast-al Connections and Career Development will be hold-
ing a speed networking event in the Pub at 5 p.m.
Speed networking is similar to speed dating; it is meant to give students and professionals a few minutes to interact with each other and provide contacts in the busi-ness world for Lakeland students.
There will be nearly 25 profes-sionals attending, all coming from different backgrounds. People rep-resenting various industries includ-ing banking and insurance, graphic design, and food production will be present at the event. According to
Jess Lambrecht, career counselor, even if an employment opportunity for you is not at the speed network-ing event, it is still a good event to attend. The people you talk to may know someone who is in your field, and can forward your information to them.
Students who attend should dress in business casual, and bring 25-30 business cards. If you don’t have business cards, you can get help ordering them through the Career Development office. The latest time to order business cards is September 20th, and costs $10.
If you are interested in attend-ing the speed networking event, contact Jess Lambrecht in the Career Development office, or log onto Career Connect.
Coming to LakelandNearly 25 professionals
Campus incident reportReported incidents at Lakeland ranging from Aug. 23 to Sept. 12, 2011. Data was provided by Director of Safety and Security Annette
Gamache.
Crime Location Date
Disorderly Conduct South Aug. 23
Booted Vehicle South Aug. 24
Underage Drinking Resulting in Injury
South Aug. 28
Battery & Destruction of Property
Kurtz Sept. 3
Public Drunkenness Soccer Fields Sept. 3
Destruction to Property South Commons Sept. 5
Smoking in Room Grossh Sept. 5
Medical/EMS Football Field Sept. 6
Public Drunkenness Pub/Campus Center Sept. 10
Underage Drinking Brotz Sept. 10
Noise Complaint Grossh Sept. 12
ing other train stations to get home, most of us slept on the cold floors of each classroom. Of course no one could sleep well because of anxiety for their families and friends and so many aftershocks throughout the night.
After the earthquake, Dr. Alan Brender, associate dean of LCJ, and stu-dent Hidetaro Konno, whose family was from the city of Ishi-nomaki, Miyagi where the tsunami directly hit, were very much worried about the damage to LCJ from the earthquake. After only a week, classes for the Spring 2011 semester were can-celled and Konno went back to Ishinomaki to search for his relatives and friends.
“There were tons of dead bodies with crazy smell [sic],” he described. Because most of the dead bodies were burned, he couldn’t identify who they were. After the DNA testing took place there, Konno finally knew that he had lost 4 rel-atives and 18 friends. Konno also said that survivors suf-fered from infections due to
unsanitary environments; some committed suicide after losing loved ones and friends.
Since Konno’s personal losses were so devastating, he wanted to do something to help. He planned a charity event, held in LCJ on June 24, to raise money for Japan’s relief. Luis Poza, assistant professor
of general studies at LCJ, said they col-l e c t e d m a n y items to
auction off or to offer as raffle prizes. There were a number of t-shirts from Lakeland’s She-boygan campus, special cloth-ing donated by local sources, and local restaurant tickets for free food. Some people sim-ply donated money they could spare. In all, the event raised $3,470, which was used to buy 60 air fans for 10 elementary and middle schools in order to
overcome strong sum-mer heat, and the rest of the money was donated to some hospitals in Ishinomaki during this summer.
“I will never forget about the people who suffered in Touhoku. We know of the inci-dent that happened on 3/11, but even now we don't really know what is happening in those ar-eas,” Konno said. There are still over 100,000 people living in shelters. “We could still find a way to help them as LCJ friends did, so it is important to continue to support Japan.”
After the LCJ building was strength-ened, the fall semester started safely at the end of August, but a few international stu-dents had to leave Japan after the embassies gave them a caution because of the aftershocks and radiation leaks.
Lakeland com-munity members who would like to donate to relief efforts in Japan should contact the Jap-anese Red Cross Society by visiting www.jrc.or.jp/english.
Japan FROM PAGE 1
Photos from Japan after 3/11. Above: A boat washed up on to the streets. Bottom: Two boys make the best of their situation
A world-wide po-etry festival, 100 Thousand Poets for
Change, is coming to She-boygan on Saturday, Sept. 24. Approximately 600 in-dividual events will take place in more than 450 cities representing 95 countries to become the largest poetry reading in history.
The Sheboygan day, orga-nized by Lakeland Director of Alumni Relations Lisa Vihos, will begin at 10 a.m. at Mead Public Library where Wiscon-sin’s poet laureate, Bruce De-thlefsen, will read his poems, followed by an open mic.
From Mead, Dethlefsen will go to Bookworm Gardens for “Picnic with the Poet,” be-ginning at noon. The poet lau-reate will emcee this part of the day, which will give children and parents the opportunity to share original poems or favor-ite poems from books. Attend-ees can bring a picnic lunch or buy food at the Garden.
The event continues in the afternoon and evening at Paradigm Coffee and Music:
2:30 p.m. Poet Chuck Ry-bak will lead a writing work-shop for high school students
4 p.m. Obvious Dog mu-sical duo will back up poet Cathryn Cofell
5 p.m. Open mic begins.
At 7:30 p.m. featured reader Karl Elder, the Jacob and Lucile Fessler Profes-sor of Creative Writing at Lakeland College, will share his work. All attendees will receive a free copy of Elder’s book, “The Houdini Mono-logues.”
Vihos said she first learned about the world-wide event last year on Facebook and got a group of friends to-gether to inspire Sheboygan-area community members to experience the transforma-tive power of words.
“My goal in Sheboygan is to change how people feel about poetry,” Vihos said. “I want poetry to become a household word. I want ev-ery person to have a favorite poem and a favorite poet, or several.
“Poetry is good for the soul,” she added.
Events around the world include a poetry and peace gathering in Kabul, 20 poetic actions in Mexico City, and a reading along the Platte River near Omaha, Nebraska, a site endangered by the pro-posed Keystone XL pipeline. More examples of events can be accessed on the home page of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change website at www.100TPC.org.
Poetry festival: Coming soon
By JoSh GRaminSkiStaff [email protected]
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Issue 1, September 15, 2011
You know us. Non-tradition-al students.
There are more of us around now than when I became one the first time back in 1971. There are more of us now and we’re older, due mostly, I suspect, to the state of the economy.
Back then—in the 70s—it occurred to me that getting an education might be more worthwhile than
crawling through the mud or digging ditch-es. It was a time when most non-traditional
college students were military
vets, and a 24-year-old f r e s h m a n like me was
about as rare as a 64-year-
old senior—again like me— today.
My college career began at the University of Nebraska, where
I unfortunately bit off more than I could chew. After a couple of years, I dropped out to “get a job” and relax. Being a newly-wed carrying 21 credits in
pursuit of three majors and two minors while
holding down a full-time con-struction job and serving in the Ready Reserve, well… it just didn’t work. It should have been obvious, but you know how twenty-somethings are: I thought I was invincible.
Forty years later, af-ter having begun that hiatus from higher education, what had turned into an extraor-dinarily tedious job abruptly ended when it was offshored. I found myself faced with a decision — accept the dismal end of a lifetime of work just a few years before retirement, or make it into the opportunity of a lifetime? I chose the latter, and here I am at Lakeland Col-lege—once again a nontrad.
I should point out that the term “nontrad” isn’t meant to be some sort of ill-conceived, trendy slang term gone wrong. It’s just a way of avoiding hav-ing to spell out “non-tradition-al student at a tertiary educa-tional institution” every time I refer to myself or my peers.
We nontrads are, for the most part, the undergraduate commuters driving the gener-ic-looking, full-sized four-door sedans or the rusty pickups you see in parking lots E, F, and back past Chase near the chapel. You can tell we’ve been there by the oil spills we’ve left between the parking lines.
We can be here part-time of our own choice, seeking indi-vidual fulfillment, or we might be enrolled full-time, salvaging a lifetime of work steered wrong by a bad economy or new tech-nology. Personal enrichment on steroids.
At 64 years of age, I’m sort of the king of the nontrads. At least I like to think so. I call my-self “Lakeland College’s oldest living undergraduate.” Well, the oldest one still going to classes full time. But I say that while not knowing the facts. Any-one who’s got me beat and feels slighted should write a letter to the editor, and I’ll immediately concede—in writing.
I hear the varied reac-tions from family members and friends—from the condescend-ing, “Oh, isn’t that cute… going back to school,” to a real recog-nition of just how challenging it really is. I’d forgotten just how tough getting educated could be.
Don’t let anybody tell you the real work begins after school ends. You’re working now.
Maybe I’ll regale you with tales of spur-of-the-moment journeys to Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, K-Mart, and ShopKo. The begin-nings of semesters are the only times my wife, who brings home the bacon by herself now, really gets to enjoy my education. After being barred from spoiling the
grandkids, she gets to drag me to all the Back-To-School sales.
I might mention the extreme range of emotions I’ve endured as a nontrad, from lows like walk-ing into a lecture hall the first day of class and hearing whis-pers of, “Who’s the old guy?” and wondering if this really WAS the right decision, to fantastic highs, like literally feeling my calcified brain become once-again flexible through use—a roller-coaster ride of gazing into a mirror at a used-up old shell pretending to be a young student, followed by the realization of actually having become twenty years younger in-side because a life-changing event has happened.
One thing is certain. A nontrad at Lakeland gains more than just a formal education. The school itself becomes a sort of sec-ond home, and the faculty, staff, and classmates become much more than extras in the story of a single life. They become family, and family becomes a story. I look forward to telling you mine.
EDITORIALS
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By Al FAirchildStaff [email protected]
Whether it’s forced you to drive into campus on Reinek-
ing or enter WAK through the base-ment, the construction at Lakeland has been impossible not to notice.
And that’s okay. To paraphrase Senior Vice President for Admin-istration Dan Eck, who’s managed the project since it started, most at Lakeland realize the temporary inconvenience is going to give the campus an entrance that will leave visitors with a favorable lasting im-pression of the college.
But if the first time you noticed
major construction was about to start was when the inconvenience did, that’s not okay. Nor is it okay if the first time you considered the work’s implications —like the trees that would need to be cut down to make room for the project—was when you heard the chainsaws buzzing.
One of the Mirror editors was taken aback the day the trees were cut down in mid-May. He thought, at that moment, that removing the trees seemed out of character for Lakeland, a college that has always seemed to base its identity some-what on its natural surroundings. Others on campus probably thought similarly in that moment too.
Look, this piece isn’t meant to criticize the fact that Lakeland had to knock down some trees so it could have a memorable front entrance for the first time in its history. To the contrary. Eck, who admitted that the day the chainsaws came out was a dramatic one, said that since then more trees have been planted than were removed, a commendable ac-tion for Lakeland to take in an effort to stay true to its character.
Really, this wasn’t meant to criticize anyone—just to encourage people to stay well-informed about things that matter in whatever ways they can. No one should have been surprised when the trees came down. Information on the construc-
tion has been available for months, long before it started in April, located everywhere from the Lakeland web-site to the Lakeland Mirror.
With all the things Lakeland people have to worry about—classes, work, relationships—it can be diffi-cult to stay well-informed. From now on, stay up on the news—at Lakeland, in your hometown, in the world.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” Again, this piece wasn’t written to suggest anyone’s life is beginning to end because a few trees were cut down. It was written to encourage a better-informed citizenry.
No construction surprises
thinking, “That’s good enough, a please isn’t necessary.” But have you ever heard a child ask nicely for something and not get told, “What do you say?”
Saying please is something that a lot of adults forget on a daily basis. If you listen closely, I’d be willing to bet that at least once a day you will hear an adult ask for something without saying please, even if that adult is you.
Being aware of this, I still catch myself asking for things multiple times a day without saying please. Instead I ask nicely, but the please is an afterthought sitting in the back of my mind that gets blurted out afterwards—upon realizing I have, yet again, forgotten.
Asking nicely takes the place of please so frequently that a burn-ing question presents itself: Why even bother teaching children to say please if they are most likely going to grow out of it?
When we were young, many of our parents
worked with us constantly to teach us to say “please” and “thank you.” So why is it that most adults don’t take the time to add that little please when they ask for something?
I got to thinking about this while spending time with my niece, a two-year-old, and my nephew, a five-year-old.
When a child asks for something, the most common reaction is to make them say “please,” and, upon getting what they asked for, “thank you.”
But oftentimes adults will ask - not only children, but other adults - for favors without saying please, even sometimes without saying thank you.
This isn’t to say that all adults have no manners. Most people will ask in a nice way,
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Issue 1, September 15, 2011
As the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 ap-proached, students and faculty gathered in the Bradley building on Sept. 8 to re-
flect on the events that took place on and around 9/11 - a whole decade ago.
As students and faculty were geared up, both physically and emotionally, for the first Packers game of the season, Karl Elder began the convocation by reading from a personal es-say, “The Silence,” in which he tells the story of a Packers game that he had attended, along with professors Jeff Elzinga, Merhraban Khodavandi, and Ronald Haas.
Elder described the high tension that shrouded Lambeau Field 13 days after the terror-ist attacks.
“Word is that security will be tight—no coolers, no purses, no umbrellas. Barricades around the stadium. Aircraft prohibited from entering a no-fly zone six miles in diameter. I worry about my binoculars. Should I pull my poncho out of the zip-lock bag before we get in line…I maybe shouldn’t wear rain gear. People might think I’ve something hidden.” Elder read.
Elder also explained what it was like to watch his friend, Khodavandi, being searched by security as others watched judgingly.
After Elder’s reading, Khodavandi described what it was like to be of foreign ancestry. He de-scribed a feeling of embarrassment for the ter-rorists who initiated and were involved in the attacks on 9/11.
Khodavandi revealed his feeling of over-whelming abandonment at that game. In a stadium packed full of people, even his friends seemed distant, he joked that he felt if security were to ask if they knew him, they would turn away and say ‘no.’
Haas followed Khodavandi by sharing his experience being a “Vietnam Era Veteran, but not a Vietnam Veteran.”
He also talked about the Packers game and
the very emotional halftime.“The four jets flying overhead at extremely low
altitude was felt even more than it was heard,” said Haas. “The firemen from various places, including some from New York, opening the American Flag covering almost half the field evoked another emo-tional patriotic response in me that I had not previ-ously felt given my experience during the Vietnam Era.”
Ten years later, this tradition continued as an American flag was unfurled across the entire field during the National Anthem before every televised NFL game on Sept. 11, 2011.
The last professor to speak was Elzinga. He began, “Today’s convocation is not and never was meant to be the definitive statement or statements about what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. Of course, no convocation could do that.”
He also read excerpts from a poem called “When the Towers Fell,” by Galway Kinnell, about experiencing the 9/11 attacks firsthand. As he read in detail about the shaking of building, the scream-ing of children and adults, and the sight of bodies dropping, the Bradley auditorium was silent.
“Some died while calling home to say they were okay… Some died after over an hour spent learning they would die… Some burned, their faces caught fire… Some broke windows and leaned into the sunny day. Some were pushed out from behind by others in flames,” Elzinga read.
Following the reading, a slideshow was pre-sented with pictures depicting the devastation of 9/11. As the photos of explosions, debris, and both terrified and distraught citizens flashed in front of the auditorium, silence fell over the theatre once more.
This convocation dredged up a lot of emotion that many have spent a decade trying to come to terms with. This tragic event will be with us for the rest of our lives, but we keep going and continue to grow.
Safety in numbersNine one one two zero zero oneBy Jenni HeinricHLayout [email protected]
Senior Weekly Standard Writer and Fox News Con-tributor Steve Hayes gave a
talk defending America’s exten-sive war on terrorism in a Sept. 12 convocation.
In the speech Hayes detailed the day after 9/11 when he saw firsthand the chaos in New York and argued that America’s anti-terrorism efforts have prevented more attacks like 9/11.
Hayes fielded questions, mostly on politics, after he spoke.
Hayes, a Waukesha, Wis. native, spoke to honors students about his job and socialized at a brat fry held in his honor before the convocation.
A number of Lakeland Col-lege students took advan-tage of the unique oppor-
tunity to see the NFL Kick-Off concert, featuring musical acts Maroon 5, Kid Rock, and Lady An-tebellum, for free on Sept. 8 out-side Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
The free tickets were pro-vided by 1iota Productions, a Los Angeles-based company respon-sible for “casting” audience mem-bers for televised events. Director of Communications David Gallia-netti received an e-mail from Josh Patil, director of social media at 1iota, inquiring whether the staff at Lakeland would be interested in procuring access to this event for their students.
Gallianetti forwarded this e-mail to Director of Student Ac-tivities Kaye Martin, who immedi-ately jumped at the chance to plan the event, saying, “I cannot deny our students the chance to be on TV and see three major bands for an NFL opener.”
Martin sent out an e-mail to the Lakeland student body con-taining the details of the concert and the procedure to go through in order to obtain tickets. She also
stressed the point that transporta-tion to the event would not be pro-vided by the college, as the event took place during a time when classes were going on.
Patil informed the college that by having the students use the promotion code “LAKELAND 2011,” 1iota could track the number of Lakeland students who used the website to acquire tickets. At final count the day before the concert took place, seventy-two students had used the promo code to get between one and three tickets.
Seniors Cindi Schaefer and Tom Seaworth both attended this event. “I think it’s great that such a small school is getting such a big opportunity,” said Schaefer of the concert. “I’m really stoked for Lady Antebellum and Maroon 5.” Sea-worth shared this opinion, adding that, “It was really cool of 1iota to think of us.”
The concert lasted for three hours, and at the end of the perfor-mances, 1iota raffled off four pairs of tickets to the Packers-Saints game and three footballs signed by NFL Hall-of-Fame greats. The af-fair lasted all day, and the concert was wonderful. The great concert was made even better by the Pack-ers’ win later that night.
Three big time performers at LambeauBy Skye SieglaffCopy [email protected]
Conservative pundit speaks at LakelandSteve Hayes commemorates 9/11
Steve Hayes addresses the audience in the Bradly auditorium during a convocation Monday night
Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, spoke in the Bradley Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Abrahamson discussed the U.S. Constitution, courts, community, and the relation-ships each has with the other two.
One of the prominent points Abrahamson pre-sented was the importance of community involvement. She urged Lakeland students to, at the very least, visit the She-boygan courthouse to better
familiarize themselves with the history of our community and its courts system.
“Only with a court-commu-
nity coalition can we have a truly independent judiciary that does its job properly under the Consti-tution,” Abrahamson said.
As Chief Justice, Abrahamson reviews cas-es with the other Wis-consin Supreme Court judges that help define and revise state legisla-tion as society’s needs change and evolve.
Abrahamson has been a highly respected judge and lawyer repre-senting the state of Wis-consin on the Supreme Court since 1976; at that
time, she was the only
Chief Justice encourages community involvement in judicial system
woman serving on the court. Chief Justice Abrahamson is listed in Great American Judges [Top 100]: An Encyclopedia (2003), in The Lawdragon 500 Leading
Lawyers in America (2005), and in The Lawdragon 500 Lead-
ing Judges in America (2006), ac-cording to the Wisconsin Court System website, wicourts.gov.
For more information about Abrahamson and the Wisconsin Court system visit www.wicourts.gov.
Shirley Abrahamson fields questions during convocation Tuesday
Left to right: Merhaban Khodovandi, Karl Elder, Jeff Elzinga, and Ronald Haas pose for a picture after the “Safety in Numbers” convocation Sept. 8
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A driving simulation run by a company called P.E.E.R.S, which emulated texting
and drinking while driving, was held outside the Campus Center on Sept. 6-7.
Robert Tower, the operator of the simulation that took place in a real Chevy Aveo, explained that the car is connected to mo-tion sensors which pick up every movement a person makes by turning the steering wheel, press-ing on the accelerator, and hitting the breaks. The person sitting in the driver’s seat wears a head piece that is held on by straps and holds a monitor in front of the person’s eyes. What the person sees on the screen is one of the hundreds of simulations that Tower chooses. Viewers can see exactly what the driver does on a monitor connect-ed to Tower’s laptop.
Tower talked about how, in today’s electronic age, it can be difficult to make a person listen to an entire lecture about not drink-ing while driving, because they will say that they have heard it all before and walk away unaffected. The simulator is not like that, however, because it makes the link between this generation and technology. Doing so makes the message more relatable to people, and they will strongly consider not texting or drinking while driving.
Unfortunately, people still text and drink while driving. To prove their superiority at driving while texting and impaired, about 150 students put the simulator to the test over the two day span.
Senior Nicole Shavlik’s at-tempt at texting while driving cost her 17 infractions in the time it took her to send one text mes-sage. Although this simulator did not have a huge impact on her feelings toward texting and driv-ing, she com-mented, “More people should have the oppor-tunity to experi-ence this [simu-lator].” Shavlik recruited many people into the tent to try out the simulator.
Another stu-dent who tried out the simulator was Killian McK-enzie. The sopho-more had one infraction by the end of the simulation due to being slightly over the speed limit, but almost ended with a fatal crash when a car stopped in front of him, and McKenzie nearly hit him.
“It [the simulator] is slightly harder than real life, because you have more things to juggle,” McK-
enzie said. “However, it will make me think about the dangers of tex-ting while driving more.”
This opinion was not shared by junior Logan Hughley, who deemed the simulator “fake and unrealistic.”
“The simulation was com-pletely off because it had inac-curate measurements. No matter how slightly I turned the wheel, it
would over-exaggerate my move-ments,” he said.
Even if the driving simulator itself did not make a difference on a person’s attitude toward drink-ing and texting while driving, the impact videos that were playing did. These videos reenacted true stories of teenagers who were af-
fected by these situations. There were multiple stories of drunk driving accidents that resulted in brain damage and recovery.
One lady climbed into a car with a guy after he had a few drinks; she wound up being pinned against a tree when he drove off the road. She had a major brain injury and had to relearn how to do things we take for granted like
talking and walking.
The sto-ries about texting were slightly more severe. The most chal-lenging video to watch was about a teen-ager who drift-ed temporarily over the center line. His truck clipped a car, making it spin out of control
and get t-boned by the truck be-
hind him. Both of the other drivers were killed on impact. That teen-ager was charged with homicide and is currently in prison, living out his sentence.
Kaye Martin, director of Stu-dent Activities, with the assis-tance of Sally Bork, assistant direc-tor of Student Activites, located
Virtually raising awareness at Lakeland CollegeSimulator aims to prevent texting, drinking while drivingBy Stephanie ReBekStaff [email protected]
Virtual simulator used to demonstrate the effects of texting/drinking and driving
J ohn McKenzie grew up under the heat of the Texas sun and until recently he knew noth-ing but Texas all his life. To-day he lives in the small town of Kohler, WI with his wife
of three years, Jade McKenzie. While McKenzie is in for an eye opening experience with snow just around the corner, he could not be more excited to be here. McKenzie is taking the first ever position of the communications major and says he is honored for the opportunity to play such a big role in this step for Lakeland.
In high school McKenzie was involved in many extra-curricular activities, speech and debate be-ing two of them. McKenzie found a passion through these activities and grew a love for communica-tions. After graduating high school McKenzie attended Texas A & M where he majored in communica-tions. Within a year he was sure that he wanted to become a profes-sor and teach communications on a daily basis. From there he com-pleted his bachelor and went on to pursue his masters degree. With a bachelors and masters under his belt, he then attended the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin to complete
his Ph.D in communications. When he was writing his
philosophy of education, McK-enzie was influenced by a 1980s educational psychologist, Mor-timer Adler. Adler had the idea of re-empowering students to be in charge of their own education, which is something McKenzie hopes to do as well.
“In my perspective, I think we have taken a big step back-ward in the last decade or so in K-12 education. I think a lot of times students leave high school wondering what it was all about. I think it is important to show students who are graduating and going to college how much con-trol they have and how they are in the driver’s seat of controlling their own destiny through their education,” McKenzie said.
“The community is fantastic here and it’s very student orient-ed. Also the fact that the school wanted to build from the ground up with this major was very inter-esting to me,” McKenzie said.
By November, McKenzie hopes to have a proposal made for the communication classes to present to the board. If the pro-posal passes it will give students an opportunity to register for these classes in the spring.
“What we are really trying to emphasize with the curriculum is a focus on communication in new media to distinguish ourselves from other programs that may be in the area,” McKenzie said.
Some of the classes that the major is looking to offer will be an interviewing class, communi-cation theory, persuasion, and ad-vocacy. McKenzie is also looking to focus on upper level classes to emphasize new media and tech-nology, and while it is still in the beginning stages, one course may be digital communication in tech-nology to show how technology both enhances and takes away from the way we communicate with one another.
“It was a huge honor to be picked for the position. I’m re-ally glad to be getting in from the ground level and to be a part of designing the major from the ground up. I have really devel-oped an appreciation for all dif-ferent angles and perspectives on communication and I want to be able bring that to Lakeland as well,” said McKenzie.
While he hasn’t been on cam-pus too long, he really loves the school.
“Everybody I have met has been fantastic, the community
surrounding Lakeland is fantas-tic, the location is wonderful, granted it’s not winter yet, but
everything has been great so far. I’ve really enjoyed all the students I have gotten to work with so far in my classes, and the staff is top
notch,” McKenzie said.While most of his time may
be taken up by the new task at
hand, McKenzie enjoys his free time with movies, the farmer’s market, and growing his own produce.
Texas native helps build new majorJohn McKenzie is excited to share his knowledge of technologyBy nicole GeuRtSFeatures [email protected]
Instrustor of Communications, John McKenzie
and booked the program. Student Activities has wanted to do dif-ferent programs that might make a difference by raising awareness instead of just random, fun activi-ties. When asked why the message of not texting or drinking while driving is important for students to hear, Martin said, “Everyone thinks that they are “good.” They claim they are good at texting and drinking while driving. But in reality, it is harder than people imagine.”
Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of accidents. Recent reports show that over 100 kids lose their lives every week due solely to texting while driv-ing. In response, states have cre-ated a “no texting while driving” law. According to Wisconsin’s no texting while driving law, a first offense can result in a fine up to $400 and four points on a person’s driving record, and the second time is a fine up to $800.
Something as simple as drift-ing and clipping someone can put you in prison because of texting while driving. The main message of this simulator and the impact videos is that texting and drink-ing while driving is not worth it. Your life and the lives of those around you are too important to take lightly, so drive intelligently and observantly!
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Issue 1, September 15, 2011Fun HouseThumbs Up
Thumbs Down
Construction is almost done!: I for one, can’t wait to use the ”front
door!”
Being late for class: why can’t time just
stop!
First day of school: I love buying school
supplies!
Second day of school: I’m ready for vacation!
As I approach school, I am actually early. Then I see a big white sign with red let-
ters, reading “MAIN ENTRANCE, ALL OTHER ENTRANCES CLOSED.” I turn quickly; gravel spitting up from beneath my wheels.
As I travel down the long, winding driveway that forms the only entrance to school, I come to a quick stop. A mother duck leads her babies across the road. As they wad-dle, ever so slowly, I watch the time move forward.
They finally cross the road; I continue on. Not even ten seconds go by before I get to a steep pile of dirt covering the road in front of me. With only a few feet on either side, I have no choice but to go over.
I floor it up the pile so that I can get to class. My back tires spin. I look out the window to see a few shovels lying next to a sign.
The sign reads, “Shovels for dig-ging yourself out of the dirt.” “Re-ally?” I exclaim.
I step out of my car, pick up a shovel, and dig for several minutes before dislodging the wheels. I slowly move up the pile, and coast down to the other side.
I now have three minutes to park and get to class. As I’m driv-ing as fast as I can, while still being safe, I go around a big curve. I feel as if I’m going in circles. And, as I see myself approaching the giant
dirt pile again, I know I’m right. I think to myself, ‘I have to
make a decision quickly.’ Should I take another stab at getting over the dirt pile or throw my car in reverse? Before I can decide, how-ever, my car is backing around the curve.
I see a small sign directing me to stu-dent park-ing. I put my car in drive and c o n t i n u e down the small road. With only a minute, I begin l o o k i n g
for a place to park. All of the spots are taken.
I turn the corner by Chase and see one open spot. Not seeing any signs warning me not to park there, I whip into the spot, jump
out of my car, and begin running to class. As I hurry to class a small sign at the end of the row of cars catches my eye. “Faculty and Staff Parking.”
I throw my bags on the ground, along with a few choice words, and run back to my car to move it. At the back of the park-ing lot I find a few spots still open. I begin sprinting to my class. I grab my bags without stopping and dash into the building. As I get into the classroom, panting, I look up at the clock which reads 8:01 a.m.
Late again, go figure!
Shovels for digging
yourself out of the
dirt
Up, down, and all aroundJourney to Lakeland through construction
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PERSonnEL WHo HAVE dEVoTEd MUCH
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Educational drunk driving simulatorBy Julia WilliamsStaff [email protected]
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Issue 1, September 15, 2011 SportsWomen’s volleyball battles at Pizza Hut ClassicDaus and Reindl lead Muskies to first victory of seasonBy Paul ElzingaSports [email protected]
The Lakeland College wom-en’s volleyball team got a small taste of victory on
Saturday at the UW-Oshkosh Pizza Hut Classic Tournament, though it was not as much as the team had hoped.
The Muskies went into the Pizza Hut Classic 0-4 looking to break their losing streak of four games, but on Friday the la-dies were defeated twice, moving their record to 0-6. On Friday, the Muskies lost a close match two games to three against the Univer-sity of Wisconsin Superior in the first contest and then lost by the same score in the second match to Lawrence University.
The first match-up on Satur-day pitted the Muskies against the University of Chicago. Chicago won in three straight sets, defeat-ing the ladies 15-25, 17-25, 23-25.
“We played well, but just missed too many serves,” said Muskies coach Jon Staabs. “We should have won game three. We
were winning the whole time and then gave it away. We missed eleven serves and had ten recep-tion errors—we beat ourselves.”
In Saturday’s second match, the women’s team pulled off their first win, defeating Concordia University of Wisconsin in four games.
“We served really well in the match,” said Staabs. “We played together and played really well except for the second game. It’s nice to get a win. It gives us some confidence heading into Tues-day.”
The scores of the game against Concordia University were 25-10, 21-25, 25-10, 25-15. In the match, junior Taylor Daus led the Muskies with 15 digs while sophomore Brittany Re-indl added 35 assists.
The Muskies will play against Elmhurt College in the Oshkosh Invitational on Sept. 16 at 3:30 p.m. The complete schedule of the entire season is posted on the newly redesigned Lakeland Col-lege athletics website, lakeland.edu/athletics/. Sophomore Amanda Dillman and Sophomore Anna Faust block a return in last weekend’s Pizza Hut Classic tournament.
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Lakeland College foot-ball opened its season at Waukesha, Wis. on Sept.
3 taking on the Pioneers of Car-roll College. A lack of rhythm and missed opportunities could have
been to blame for the 13-0 loss as the Muskies have dropped six straight season openers.
Offense seemed to have a rough go and could not get into sync with one another. First-year starting quarterback Dylan Van Straten couldn’t seem to get com-fortable in the pocket and was
pressured throughout the game.While the offense struggled,
the defense had themselves a game allowing two field goals and one touchdown which came from a 20 yard rush by the Carroll running-back Joe Beckstrand.
Carroll would finish the game with 355 total yards which
included 226 rushing yards. This was compared to Lakeland’s 94 total yards. The Muskies did have a clean game while only commit-ting one penalty for five yards. They converted just 5 of 16 third downs.
Van Straten finished the game 4-23 for 28 yards and had two in-
terceptions. Senior running-back Adam Miller led the team in rushing yards complet-ing 32 yards on seven attempts.
Senior Tony Faller led the team with 13 tackles, two sacks, 5.5 tackles for a loss of yards, one pass break up, and three forced fumbles on the game.
Ryan Young of Car-roll was 10-23 for 129 yards, while teammate Beckstrand led in rush-ing yards with 120 on 22 carries. Beckstrand also had the game’s only touchdown.
For their second game of the season, the Muskies traveled to Kenosha, Wis. to face rival Carthage College. The Muskies would open the season 0-2 as they would go on to lose 38-0. This is the first time since 2008 that the Muskies have been shut out in back-to-back games.
Struggling for a
second time, the offense earned 97 total yards, 45 rushing, and eight first downs. By halftime the Musk-ies would face a 31-0 deficit.
While the Muskies moved the ball, turnovers would cost the team in the end. Committing three interceptions and a fumble attrib-uted to 21 points for Carthage.
“The interception for a touch-down really hurt. The defense makes a good play and you give it right back. It took the wind out of our sails,” said head coach Kevin Doherty.
Van Straten struggled to again find a steady rhythm, com-pleting six of 19 passes for 51 yards and three interceptions. Freshman Tarrel Jackson would lead the Muskies in rushing with 42 yards for 11 carries.
The defense tried their best to keep the Muskies in the game al-lowing 293 total yards, 190 rushing yards, and 13 first downs. Carthage committed two interceptions and was only allowed seven points throughout the second half.
Faller led the Muskies with nine tackles, which included two for losses of yards. Junior Bruce Romagnoli and Evan Dieringer each had an interception and a tackle for a loss of yards as well.
“Right now we need to take these two weeks to heal, watch film, and continue to get better,” said Doherty.
The Muskies have a bye this weekend and will look to getting their first win at the home opener on Sept. 24 at noon against Hope College (Mich.).
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Senior defensive back Tony Faller wraps up the Carroll ballcarrier. Lakeland lost 13-0 to the Pioneers.
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Muskies take hard loss on the roadLoss is program’s sixth straight in home openers
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Men’s soccer team fails for consistency Muskies are even by the end of the week
Lakeland’s men’s soccer team opened up their 2011 season with a home match against
Martin Luther Sept. 3.The Muskies opened up their
season with an early goal from se-nior forward Jeremy Hardy.
“After our struggles to score last year, it was nice to get that goal out of the way. It helped us get started on the right foot,” said Hardy.
Martin Luther was able to answer back with a goal of their own, tying the score at 1-1. The Muskies then found success off the foot of senior forward Benja-min Koepsell.
When asked about the goal that would eventually lead to be the game winner Koepsell stated, “It [the goal] meant a lot to the team because we hadn’t started the season with a win in a few years. We are working hard to make a push into the conference tournament, and that was a good first step for us.”
The Muskies went into their second game with a 1-0 record on the season, and hoped to find the same offensive success against
Northern International at home on Sept. 8. This game was dominated mostly by great defense from both sides, along with outstanding goal keeping from junior keeper Alex Piekarski.
Senior midfielder Adam Ben-son had a look at goal late in the first half of play against Northern International but his shot went
just off the crossbar in the top cor-ner of the goal. This left the crowd breathless but still hoping for a goal.
Inevitably, this match of will came to an end in extra time, and, disappointingly, resulted in a draw for the Muskies.
The Muskies had hoped to stay undefeated as they entered
their third game of the season at home against the University of Chicago on Sept. 10. However, they were not able to do so.
The Muskies conceded two goals in the first half, and began a tough up-hill battle starting in the second half. The Muskies conced-ed their third goal in the fiftieth minute, but did not give up. Craig
Dekarske, a senior midfielder, an-swered in the fifty-first minute with a goal of his own. The Ma-roons then scored yet another goal in the eighty-ninth minute to seal the game and a 4-1 victory.
When asked how the team could improve on the first three games of the 2011 season, Coach Pierce responded, “The first way we could get better as a team is to have everyone healthy. We need to improve our confidence on the ball, and we need to be more ef-ficient when it comes to finishing our chances. This season opened with a much better start, and we look good so far. Now we just need to regroup after the tough loss against Chicago.”
When asked about how the team is playing so far, Benson re-plied, “I think the team is playing well; the work rate is the highest I’ve ever seen it here in my four years. We just need to clean up the little stuff and finish our op-portunities. If we do these simple things, I can see us going the fur-thest we have ever gone before in school history.”
The Muskies open up confer-ence play on Sept. 17 at Rockford College at 8:30pm.
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Senior striker Jeremey Hardy dribbles toward the Universty of Chicago goal Sept. 10 at home. Lakeland fell 4-1 to the visiting Maroons.
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Senior forward Lindsay Rog-ers scored a golden goal in the first two minutes of over-
time to lead the Lakeland College women’s soccer team to a 3-2 vic-tory over Northland International University Sept. 8 at home.
The Muskies, now 2-2 on the season, were first to score when senior midfielder Dana Schmidt played Rogers a through ball in the 34th minute. Rogers capitalized on the opportunity to give Lakeland a
Outlook bright for 2011 squadHigh expectations for women’s soccer team
1-0 lead at half.It was an up and down game
for the Muskies and Pioneers in the second-half. Northland’s Heather Thompson scored in the 84th minute to tie the game at one. Then, a Pioneers hand ball inside the 18-yard box forced a Muskies’ penalty kick that senior midfield-er Kristi Borts placed upper ninety to give Lakeland a 2-1 lead in the 85th minute.
Four minutes later, it was the
Pioneers’ turn as Lakeland com-mitted a foul to force a penalty kick. Thompson came up big for Northland again, netting her sec-ond goal to tie the game at two and force overtime.
Overtime didn’t last long as Rogers netted her second goal of the game in the 92nd minute to give Lakeland the victory.
Head coach Tony Pierce was satisfied with the team’s play and poise.
“It was an emo-tional game,” said Pierce. “Unfortu-nately, we made a mistake in the 89th minute to allow Northland to tie the game, but we stayed composed and I am proud of the girls for continuing to battle to get the result we wanted. It’s a great win, especially early in the season. Now we are .500 going into Ripon next Wednesday.”
Lakeland sopho-more goalkeeper Ashley Sarbacker re-corded eight saves on the game.
Lakeland played Ripon away Sept. 14 and will travel to Rockford for a con-ference game against the Regents Sept. 17.
Six different Muskies won in either singles or doubles, but the Lakeland women’s
tennis team lost two matches by 6-3 scores Sept. 10 in Chicago.
In the first match against Au-rora, senior Nicole Shavlik won 7-5, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and sopho-more Brittany Jurek won 6-4, 6-0 at No. 4. Jurek teamed up with s o p h o m o r e Jenna Ober-thaler at No. 2 doubles for an 8-4 victory.
Lakeland W o m e n ’ s Tennis Coach Casey Carr, in his first season at the helm of the women’s program after a year with the men’s team, talked about Shavlik and Jurek.
“Nicole’s the leader of our team. Everybody looks up to her, her being the senior captain of the team, very motivated, very talented, and the person who keeps everybody loose. This year I want her to play in matches as freely as she does in practice. I think once she does, she’ll be one of the toughest players to beat in the conference.
“Brittany has to understand that this is her first year playing. She has the skills and the athleti-
cism and just needs more match experience,” Carr said.
Junior No. 2 April Schimitz and senior No. 5 Catie Campion both took their opponents to three sets but lost 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, respectively.
Against Benedictine, Schmitz came back from a set down to win a tiebreak match 6-7, 6-4, 12-8. Schmitz and Shavlik won 8-3 at No. 1 doubles and Campion and sophomore Stephanie Rebek won
9-7 at No. 3 doubles.
“ A p r i l ’ s playing some awesome ten-nis. I think the tiebreaker she won will give her confidence and that’s all she needs to start playing
even better,” Carr said.Carr, who’s been holding ad-
ditional individual practices with his players in addition to team practices, said he’s pleased with all the hard work his team has put in so far this season and is optimistic about their chances because of it.
“We were predicted to fin-ish eleventh in the conference and right now we’re 1-3, but we could easily be 3-1,” he said. “We’re not going to win all our matches but we’re going to be competitive and improve every week, and right now we don’t look like the elev-enth seed in conference.”
“Right now we don’t look like the eleventh seed in conference.
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Tennis drops twoTeam competitive in lossesBy Danny [email protected]
Senior Lindsay Rodgers and Sophomore Liz Pritzl celebrate with high-fives after a goal last season.
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