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West Campus adorns themed, large-scale muralArtist creates Shakespeare-inspired painting outside theater

Artist David Flores added the finishing touch to his mural outside the Mary Hill Theater last Tuesday evening. This large-scale mural is a stain glass-style portrait of William Shakespeare, in honor of the univer-sity’s School of Visual and Perform-ing Arts.

Flores started on the mural nearly a week ago and produced this large artwork in a relatively short amount of time. When asked about his pro-cess Flores joked, “It’s hard to find a good photo of Shakespeare right?”

Hayden Leavittguest writer

Men’s soccer advances to NCAA playoffsFor the first time in program history, the team will compete in the NCAA playoffs. 10

Blake Standal PHOTOThe team forms a post-game huddle.

Kimberly Smith PHOTOHunter Foote holds up her résumé.

Faith Vander Voort PHOTORueben Lindsey

Students aren’t ready for jobsEditor-in-chief Hunter Foote sees a lack of professionalism on campus. 8

No-Shave NovemberStudents prepare their faces - and their legs - for No-Shave November. 7

Kimberly Smith PHOTOThe Theater Department presents David Flores’ Shakespeare-inspired mural outside of the Mary Hill Theater on West Campus. see MURAL 3

Khristi Adams: The end of this season

Jasmine Rodgers PHOTOSmith Hall RD Scott Kolmer and his man bun.

Trending: Man Bun

Associate campus pastor departs to begin a new season

Khristi Adams COURTESYKhristi Adams

Wednesday, Nov. 5, Associate Campus Pastor Khristi Adams an-nounced in morning chapel that she would be departing Azusa Pacific. Following a brief message on tran-sitions and decision-making, Ad-ams presented a letter that she had written just the night before in order to communicate and express what went into her decision to leave.

“We originally planned on do-ing it a little smoother and kind of having a back-and-forth with Woody [Morwood] and I about the direc-tion I was taking in my life,” Adams said. “We didn’t want it to be formal, and students are used to this kind of thing in chapel – with having a panel or the people up there doing creative things, so nothing was out of the ordinary. I said to Woody, ‘I wrote something last night, and you didn’t know that I was going to read anything.’ I didn’t feel that I could articulate it any different.”

The letter recapped her journey of recognizing a call to a different season in life, being torn between staying and leaving and having to finally make a decision. The deci-sion was a process, and it was an emotional one, according to Adams.

“The last three and a half years working with Khristi have been an amazing answer to God’s faithful-ness to me and to APU,” said Mor-wood, lead campus pastor. “Right now is a time for us to celebrate God bringing Pastor Khristi and celebrate how her ministry here has brought about transformational mo-ments for all of us.”

Megan Ramirezstaff writer

Many students and faculty were unaware of the decision Adams had made back in May to leave, and were sad to see her go. It is for this purpose that the Campus Pastors Office collec-tively decided to wait to announce her departure in hopes of not making this semester a distraction or an extended goodbye. Rather, Adams was present and invested in the lives of many, as she has been any other semester and the goodbyes were reserved for a time closer to her departure.

“Khrisit has become somewhat of a mentor for me, and I am truly go-ing to miss her,” said Kalina Lamb, senior psychology major, former Spiritual Formation SALT team member and current senior chapel intern. “However, I know that she couldn’t be at APU forever; no one stays in the same job their whole life.”

As Adams explained in her letter, APU is a place that she will greatly miss. The process of transi-tion and making big life-changing decisions is not easy. Just as Moses was, people are sometimes called

out of their comfort zones to big things with which they never would have thought or imagined to be en-trusted. Just as Moses was scared, this process may be a scary one and come with its challenges.

“I have really struggled with figuring out what’s next for me, mostly because I really want to hear the voice of God,” Adams said. “I understand that wherever we go, no matter what decision we make, God is with us. He is with us even in our mistakes. It’s not about finding the perfect choice. It’s more a matter of having the confidence to know with-out a shadow of a doubt that this is where God wants me.”

Tentatively, Adams plans to move to Washington, D.C., to take a position as chaplain in residence at Georgetown University. Although the APU com-munity has to say goodbye to a well-known and highly valued member, the Office of Campus Pastors wishes that the school will offer support and prayer as she pursues this newfound purpose, passion and season.

First, get your mind out of the gutter. This article isn’t what you think it’s about. We’re talking about hair.

Perhaps one of the most common hairstyles of all, the bun, has been on the rise in the world of men’s fashion and style.

In the past few months, the man bun has evolved and become bigger than its past self. Some men wear it with a beard, while others sport a clean-shaven look.

What has historically been seen as a “women’s” hairstyle is just as suited for men, wearers say. The French-named “chignon” is just as flattering on Harry as it is on Mary, only now it is increasingly recog-nized as an acceptable style for guys.

Jared Leto, with his ombre-hued locks, and Russell Brand’s thick curls may be two of the most famous man buns right now, but APU is home to many diverse, unique and trend-set-ting man buns as well.

Scott Kolmer, the residence di-rector for Smith Hall is admittedly enthusiastic about the man bun.

Jasmine Rodgersstaff writer

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The following are selected inci-dents as reported from the Daily Media Log from Nov. 2 through Nov. 8, courtesy of Campus Safety.

■ MONDAY, NOV. 3SHIRE MODSReporting party heard what she thought was a subject in her residence. Officers re-sponded along with Azusa Police and the residence was searched. There was no one inside.

■ WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5PUBLIC PROPERTY CITRUS AVENUERP advised of a minor traffic collison. Officers and Azusa Police responded. Officers directed traffic until Azusa Po-lice arrived and took over the call.

■ THURSDAY, NOV. 6PARKING LOT AOfficers observed a vehicle that was driving wrecklessly on campus. Officers responded and made contact. The sub-jects departed the area.

■ THURSDAY, NOV. 6ADMINISTRATION WEST BUILDINGRP reported a sheriff’s helicop-ter hovering over their building and wanted to know if there was an emergency. Azusa Po-lice was called and they ad-vised there was no emergency.

■ THURSDAY, NOV. 6PUBLIC PROPERTYCITRUS AVENUEOfficer reported a non-injury traffic collison on Citrus Ave. Azusa Police was contacted and responded to take over the call.

■ Weekly NumbersKeys lost/found....................11ID cards lost/found...............15Cellphones found..................2 Unsecured bikes found........4 False fire alarms.....................3

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Paige Shafer COURTESYAPU students shine brightly to show their support at Citrus College’s Stadium on Nov. 6.

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Friday, Nov. 14Jazz Ensemble ConcertThe APU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of David Beatty, will present a concert of jazz standards, contemporary jazz and commissioned arrangements. The concert is located in the Munson Recital Hall from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 15Chamber Singers Fall ConcertThe APU Chamber Singers opens its 15th season with a kaledeiscopic program, featuring works from Purcell and Ligeti. The performance is from 8-10 p.m. in the Munson Recital Hall.

Sunday, Nov. 16Wind Ensemble Winter ConcertUnder the direction of Dr. John Burdett, the Wind Ensemble will perform from 2-4 p.m. in the Munson Recital Hall.

Monday, Nov. 17Francis Chan in ChapelBest-selling author of Crazy Love and Forgotten God, Chan is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Calif. He will be speaking in morning chapel from 10:30-11:20 a.m.

Thursday, Nov. 13Kindertransport Premiere Diane Samuels’ play is about separation, about the choices made in attempts to keep children safe and about the reverberations of traumatic events through generations of a family. Directed by Monica Ganas, the play runs from Nov. 13-23. The show is from 7:30-10 p.m. in the Blackbox Theater.

More people have been taking advantage of the APU Writing Center this fall than ever before, with visits up 60 percent from the same period last year, according to the office’s re-cords.

The Writing Center, located in Marshburn Library, allows any stu-dent seeking feedback on class com-position-oriented projects to sign up for an appointment either in person or online, up to twice a week and always for free.

The data for the first two months of the school year make clear there’s been a spike in visits. There were 1,861 appointments during Septem-ber and October 2014, about 700 more than during September and Oc-tober last year and almost three times as many as during the same months of 2011.

Writing Center Director Rebecca Cantor described the benefits of us-ing the resource. “People can come at any stage of their writing process,” she said.

She explained that many students come in with a prompt for a paper they haven’t started writing; they

need some help brainstorming and getting started. Others come in with a fully-formed draft that they want help proofreading. Writing coaches will help students with revision, ed-iting, documentation or whatever

else students might need help with on their writing projects. Others come in with a fully written paper and writ-ing consultants will sit down with students and discuss possible issues or mistakes, but they won’t take con-trol of the paper or even write on it. The writing coaches will also help students with outlining, citation or whatever else they might need during the writing process.

When signing up for an appoint-ment online, one of the first aspects that students will notice is a text say-ing: “During your appointment, you will maintain authority over your paper. We will never tell you what to

Kimberly Smith PHOTOStudents seek help on essays, papers and assignments from Writing Center employees.

Daniel Wilsonguest writer

Writing Center nearly triples in appointments since 2011

APU Writing Center gains new studentsdo. Instead, we will ask questions and offer assistance.”

Cantor reiterated this by men-tioning that writing coaches never actually write on students’ papers.

“Our main goal is to help people become better writers,” Cantor said. “It’s not necessarily about making one paper better.”

Junior social work major Jen-nifer Fraga is one of many writing coaches. She said that working at the Writing Center is a good expe-rience and that the students she has worked with tell her that she was helpful. Many of those she assists are English language learners in the process of getting down English as a second language.

“My favorite part about working here is brainstorming with students,” Fraga said.

She said she loves thinking about ideas with people and that she is often impressed with the content coming from the students. She remembered a specific English language learner who was very concerned about gram-mar and technicalities but had a lot of great ideas.

“It’s nice to be reminded that technical issues don’t make people bad writers,” Fraga said.

The Writing Center has been helping hundreds, including APU sophomore Houston Garcia. He said he has been to the office before for help on a paper and he would do it again.

“Their attention to detail helped me substantially on my paper,” Gar-cia said.

“During your appointment, you will maintain authority over your paper. ”–The Writing Center Website

THECLAUSE.ORG/NEWS Clause WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 2014 32014 Midterm elections reflect state and nationwide changes

Camille Frigillanastaff writer

A political party gains the majority while a governor keeps his power

The midterm elections were held on Nov. 4, 2014. Although not a ma-jor presidential election, this elec-tion determined which political party would have control of the Senate for the next two years.

In order to have a majority in the Senate, 51 out of the 100 seats needed to be filled by one political party. The Republican Party were able to obtain 52 seats, beating out the Democratic party, who was able to fill 43 seats.

With a Republican majority in the senate, Democratic President Barack Obama will have a hard time trying to stick to his political agenda, accord-ing to APU politcal science professor Abbylin Sellers.

"With President Obama in the last two years of his second term as a lame duck president, it will be dif-ficult for him to have the remainder of his agenda sail through Congress," Sellers said.

Among the republicans elected to Congress is 30 year old Elise Stefan-ik, who is the youngest woman ever to be elected. She will represent New York's 21st district.

"She has political experience at her young age," Sellers said. "Per-

haps this will encourage younger people to pay more attention to the political scene, and perhaps consider getting involved in politics in general whether it is at the federal, state or lo-cal level."

Along with Congressional elections, various states also had different measures on the ballot. Notably, Colorado and North Da-kota had a measure that would le-gally define an unborn child as a person. The measure did not pass in either state.

On the other hand, voters in three states have passed a measure that would allow the legal use of recre-ational marijuana. Alaska, Washing-

ton D.C. and Oregon join Colorado and Washington in allowing citizens to possess cannabis for personal use.

As for here in California, Demo-cratic Governor Jerry Brown beat Re-publican Neel Kashkari and was re-elected. When it came to Congress, Republican Doug La Malfa beat Democrat Heidi Hall for a seat on the House of Representatives.

Among the measures that were passed were Proposition 1, which called for water storage reform, as well as Proposition 2 that amended the state budget laws.

"I'm really glad that California voters were able to unite together to try to relieve the drought," junior

communication studies major Jacova Snyder said. "Hopefully this means that APU can have a green front lawn soon."

Voters did not pass proposition 45, which would have required the insurance commissioner to approve all health care rate increases. Propo-sition 46 also did not pass, which would have required doctors to un-dergo various drug and alcohol test-ing.

Sophomore biology major Ga-briel Martin was surprised when he found out that Proposition 46 did not pass.

"I would definitely want my doctor to be held accountable if

he made a mistake while under the influence of anything. And if they weren't, I would just want those tests done so that I can have some sort of piece of mind," Martin said.

Proposition 47 was passed, which will lower the charge of drug possession for recreational use from a felony to misdemeanor. Voters did not pass Proposition 48, which was a referendum that allowed the construction of more Indian casinos.

The next major election is in 2016, which will mark the end of President Barack Obama's time in office and voters will have a chance to elect a new president.

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Series highlights Chicano experiences West Campus proudly displays themed mural

MURAL, from p. 1

Jessie Gomeznews editor

Professor discusses experience as Mexican-American bilingual

Tuesday night, Nov. 4, the APU Department of Modern Languages continued its Chicano/Latino Expe-rience series with a conversation on bilingualism theory, research and a Chicano's journey. Dr. Pedro Ol-vera, the keynote speaker and asso-ciate professor in the Department of School Counseling and School Psy-chology, presented on his experiences as a Chicano academician.

Olvera, a Mexican-American, opened by retelling his experiences growing up as a Chicano. During the presentation, Olvera stated that this was the first time he had used the term "Chicano" in a public forum.

Chicano is a wide-spread term that many Mexican-American's choose to identify with. Prior to the Chicano movement in Amer-ica, the term was not widely ac-cepted within the Mexican-Amer-ican community. The term became widely used during the Chicano movement to express an identity, of cultural, ethnic and community pride.

"Growing up, my dad would al-ways tell me, you know that you are Mexican, right?" Olvera said. "The term 'Chicano' was a sort of deroga-tory term before."

Olvera explained that his father would continuously remind him about his heritage and culture.

"Mexican-Americans don't feel like they are full Mexican or full American. So this is what is called

He then explained how his meth-od is similar to that of a printing pro-cess: starting with the lightest colors, going into darks and finishing with black. “The black has to be last,” he said.

According to Flores, this is the first mural in which he has attempted a kind of cross-hatching method to give the figure more depth.

Jim Daichendt, associate dean in the College of Music and Arts, was primarily responsible for bring-ing Flores to the school. Daichendt met Flores while the administrator wrote his book "Stay Up!: Los An-geles Street Art." Daichendt selected Flores out of all the muralists he en-countered for the acceptable qualities of his content.

“Public art is so tricky because it’s in everybody’s context and ev-eryone’s space, so you have to be re-ally careful that it speaks to and con-tributes towards wherever it’s going to go and that it can do it across the board,” Dacichendt said.

Daichendt also noted that he picked Flores for the way he handles his portraits and the care he puts into his creations.

Director of Exhibitions Stephen Childs had a chance to work with Flores leading up to his exhibition in the Duke Art Gallery. Childs seemed to have had a positive experience in the process.

“He came through with every-thing,” Childs said. “We asked for a lot of work, and he gave it to us.”

Aside from the permanent mural outside the theater building, Flores has a collection of his works dis-played in the Duke Art Gallery on

West Campus that will remain until Dec. 12, ranging from canvases to sculptures.

Regarding Flores’ unique style, he said it just happened naturally.

“I don’t know if it was born from either boredom, creativity or both,” Flores said.

Skateboard culture had a large impact on the work he makes today. Early in his career, Flores noted that he started designing artwork for his friends’ skateboards. One of those friends ended up launching the skate company Shorty’s. This point in time marked the launch of Flores’ career as an artist. Since then he has designed 500-700 skateboard decks.

Flores mentioned that he created his first notable mural in late 2011. “I was ready for the next thing to grab me. Like everything else, it just grabbed me and took me. I just went with it,” Flores said.

After that first mural, he said the requests for his murals started stack-ing up and it was just one after an-other from there.

“It's more muraling than it is street art. I’m not out there really try-ing to put stuff up, you know, wheat pasting or tagging. That was a while ago.”

Regarding feedback for this mu-ral, reviews have been looking pretty good. Daichendt mentioned that feedback has been nothing but over-whelmingly positive and everyone has been in awe.

“Everybody that I talked to loves it, and that’s saying something,” Childs said.

He mentioned that usually when you have a street art-style mural, you are going to have critics, and he hasn’t heard from any thus far.

Jessie Gomez PHOTODr. Pedro Olvera poses for a picture during his presentation.

'the hyphen' in society," said the orga-nizer of the series, professor Marcela Rojas.

Dr. Linda Chiang, professor in the School of Education, attended and expressed her deep connection with Olvera's experiences as a child as well as the importance of bilin-gualism.

Olvera "talks a lot about school and education. This is a good way to raise awareness on how bilingualism is dealt with in our schools," Chiang said. "[He] also mentioned how dis-crimination also happens within the same racial group."

Olvera discussed various ways in which schools have incorporated bi-lingualism into their daily schooling.

"Many students are placed in special-education programs because the school system does not have programs to support these [Spanish-speaking] students," said Olvera. "It's not that they have a learning disabil-ity, they just don't know the [English] language."

According to Olvera, his kin-dergartener is currently enrolled in a dual-immersion program, which con-sists of 90 percent of instruction in Spanish and 10 percent of instruction in English. By the time his children reach the fifth grade, both English and Spanish instruction will be at 50 percent. Olvera stated that culture and language go together and cannot be separated.

"A big thing that we need to im-prove on is embracing bilingualism within the U.S.," Olvera said. "We need more interconnectedness with one another in order to learn from each other, and I think that is the pur-pose of these conversations."

This series is part of the Chicano and Latino conversations, which Ro-jas hopes sparks a larger discussion among APU students, faculty and ad-ministration.

"Two years ago I decided to start these conversations in the sense that I don't think we have these conversations at this school," Rojas said. "This school is chang-ing and so many Hispanic people are coming to APU. I think we need to have these conversations."

Rojas said she invites faculty members from varying depart-ments on campus to speak in order to expand the discussion within other disciplines at APU.

"I started inviting profes-sors from different departments and started to ask them, 'What is your experience with Chica-no culture?'" Rojas said. "I re-ally like the conversation, and I would love to have more people coming."

The Department of Modern Languages is planning sessions for the coming semester. For more information on the Chi-cano and Latino Experience se-ries, contact professor Rojas in the Spanish department.

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Students and faculty discuss varying opinions of social justiceDepartment of History and Political Science hosts conversation Katie Richcreeksports editor

More than 250 students attended Tuesday night's faculty dialogue con-cerned with the question, "Is there such a thing as social justice?"

The event, hosted by the Depart-ment of History and Political Sci-ence, was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute. According to the institute's website, AEI is a "private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare."

The six-member faculty panel was split into two: Three members presented cases for social justice and three members presented cases against it.

Representing the "for" side were theology and philosophy professor Craig Keen, Department of Psychol-ogy Interim Chairwoman Kathyrn Ecklund and global studies professor Richard Slimbach.

History and political science pro-fessor Brad Hale, biblical studies pro-fessor Keith Reeves and business and management professor Stu Strother represented those "against."

According to senior finance and economics double major Alan Feng, chairman of the AEI Executive Coun-cil at APU, selecting panelists with diverse backgrounds was intentional,

to create a well-rounded discussion about social justice.

Panelists had the opportunity to weigh in from the perspective of their respective disciplines. They were also allotted a limited amount of time to discuss and answer questions pro-posed and mediated by Department of Communication Studies Chairman Bala Musa.

“The only thing I was worried about was that the debate would de-volve into an argument," Strother said. "It seemed like Dr. Musa really controlled the debate.”

Among questions asked were whether social justice is compatible with capitalism. The floor opened for questions from students, and se-

nior sociology major Casimiro Pena joined more than 10 other students who lined up at a designated micro-phone.

“I hoped to come to this event and be able to offer my experience as a student of color and as someone who seeks social justice," Pena said after the dialogue. "One of my hopes for the discussion was that the panel-ists fighting for social justice would speak truth and help liberate minds on this campus.”

While time did not permit all the students to ask the panel questions in a formal setting, they were invited to approach individual faculty members at the conclusion of the event to dis-cuss any remaining issues. Students

were also welcome to stay to discuss the matter with peers.

"The goal of this event is to spark dialogue," Feng said. "Not amongst the panelists, but amongst the stu-dents."

According to Feng, the event was structured as a dialogue between op-posing parties to exhibit a culture of collaboration rather than argumenta-tion.

“Rather than saying, ‘OK, you’re wrong and I’m right,’ it's saying, ‘Perhaps we can work something out and learn from each other,’” Feng said.“The culture of AEI is conversa-tion, and we’re hoping to bring that culture to APU.”

The event was sponsored by Val-

ues & Capitalism, a project of AEI that partners with Christian colleges in support of the morality of free mar-kets.

“It’s an ongoing dialogue in so-ciety," Ecklund said. "As students graduate, they’re going to be con-fronted with non-listening dialogues, so hopefully we can keep doing stuff like this to get to where we are listen-ing to each other and trying to find a way to meaningfully dialogue.”

"As far as future events, we have another dialogue planned for next semester. It will involve Peter Greer, who is the current president of Hope International, and Shane Claiborne, who is a well known Christian social activist," Feng said.

Katie Richcreek PHOTOStudents have the opportunity to ask the panel members follow-up questions and address concerns regarding social justice at the university.

Communiversity COURTESYThe Glasgow Range Rovers winning photo.

Lifestyle

Intramurals take over APUStudents boost up competiton in this year’s intramuralsBecky Kay lifestyle editor

For those who don’t have the opportunity to show off their skills and talents on Azusa Pacific official athletic teams, intramurals are a great way to play the sports they love and compete against students with similar pas-sions.

The intramural program offers multiple op-portunities, some of those including soccer, flag football and volleyball, all programs offered in the fall. When spring semester rolls around, basketball, softball and sand volleyball are ex-tended. All of these programs have separate men’s and women’s leagues and provide co-ed options for a few of the sports.

“By facilitating intramural sports, our staff fosters healthy competition and community de-velopment,” said Austin Swift, a sophomore fi-nance major intramurals intern for the Office of Communiversity.

Swift also mentioned that the next sports season will be coming up at the very begin-ning of spring semester, starting with basket-ball.

The latest championship games were from the flag football season, which always pulls a good amount of students. The win-ning team for the men’s leagure named Bae Area and the women’s winning team, Vic-torious Secret. Along with the flag football championship, there was a soccer tournament championship on Oct. 25. The winning team, known as the Glasgow Range Rovers, took over the weekend with its soccer skills and competitiveness.

The Rovers’ captain, freshman business major Ian Fletcher, was proud of his team of six, including freshman applied exercise sci-ence majors Andrew Boyd, Oliver Davis, Zach Gappa, Hayley DeBois and Abigal Kern.

“We are a bunch of young bloods with big hearts. Shout out to APU intramurals for teach-

ing integrity and teamwork. God first. Go Cougs,” Fletcher said.

On APU’s intramurals page, www.apu.edu/communiversity/intramurals, it states the programs goals by saying, “The intramu-ral sports program is to provide a safe and welcoming environment where the Azusa Pacific University community can play, ex-ercise, compete, develop spiritually, enhance sportsmanship and character, and find fun and satisfaction while participating in recre-ational activities.”

Boyd agrees with this statement and feels that intramurals are a fun way to get connected with sports and peers with the same passions.

“The tournament was a great time where we could incorporate both fun and competi-tion into something we all love to do,” Boyd said.

The soccer tournament last month and kickball tournament on Nov. 9 are just two of four events that the intramural program is hoping to host this school year. Next se-mester the program hopes to have two more. Plans for a sand volleyball tournament and Mario Kart video game competition are in the works.

Swift is excited about upcoming oppor-tunities with intramurals and the interest stu-dents display.

To sign up for any of these sporting op-portunities, visit IMLeagues.com.

MAN BUN, from p. 1

The man bun trend is making its mark Dressed in a salmon button-

down, short-sleeved shirt, Kolmer’s blue eyes, half-beard and calm per-sonality blend well with the blond-ish chestnut tresses that make up his neatly wrapped man bun.

Ryan Fackler is a junior commu-nications studies major who’s fairly new to the man bun style. His youth-ful, kind face and sky-blue eyes con-trast nicely with his loosely wrapped, chestnut man bun.

In an interview with the two APU man bun wearers, they answer a few questions about their man buns and what makes their hairstyles unique to them.

Q: How long have you been wear-ing your hair in a bun?

Scott Kolmer: I’ve been grow-ing my hair out for a little over two years. I’d say it’s been about a year that I’ve been rocking the man bun consistently.

Ryan Fackler: About eight months. I did it because the RAs in Smith Hall all started wearing their hair long. They had a campaign for it with the slogan #longhairdontcare.

Q: Do you always wear it in a bun or do you alternate between wear-ing it up and down?

Jasmine Rodgers PHOTORyan Fackler

Jasmine Rodgers PHOTOScott Kolmer

SK: Early in my bun days, I only wore it up on what I like to call “Monday Bunday,” so every Mon-day. But this year just about every day has become a bun day. I try to wear it down occasionally just to mix it up, but I’d say I’m pretty commit-ted to the bun life.

RF: I alternate. I like wearing hats, so sometimes I wear it down.

Q: What made you start wearing your hair in a bun?

SK: Once my hair was long enough, I needed a way to wear it up and keep it out of my face. I’m not really a fan of ponytails, so the bun seemed to be ideal. I tried it out, and the rest is history.

RF: It just makes sense, espe-

cially when I’m getting ready in the morning.

Q: What does your bun say about you? Is it a reflection of your per-sonal style, or is it just for conve-nience?

SK: I like to think that my man bun says: “Hey world, it’s Scott. You should be my friend. I like exquisite snacks and blocks of cheese. I legally changed my middle name to ‘Adven-ture.’ And I’m super-mysterious.” Or something like that. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t convenient, but I also think the man bun has become my signature style.

RF: Sometimes it goes with dif-ferent outfits, but for the most part, it’s just convenient.

Q: Do you think buns are a “wom-en’s” hairstyle, or is this a false as-sumption?

SK: I think some people might feel that buns are primarily for wom-en, but recently the man bun has become such a trend that I think it’s been normalized for us guys.

RF: I think it’s a false assumption. It’s universal – anyone can wear them.

Q: Do you think “man buns” are a trend or are they here to stay?

SK: I know that man buns are to-tally a current trend, and I recognize that most trends fade over time. So who knows, they could be consid-ered lame any day now. But for me,

as long as I have long hair, the bun is here to stay! #manbun4lyfe

RF: Man buns are here to stay. I’m now seeing that even guys with short hair are wearing them.

Whether or not the man bun is just another fashion trend or the “new black,” psychology major and transfer student Noel Thompson feels that the quality of man bun depends on the guy. When it comes to her preference for man buns, she believes that they shouldn’t be overshadowed by hefty beards.

“The clean-shaven look with a man bun is best. It looks like there’s too much going on if you have both,” Thompson said.

Next time you’re walking around campus, seek out a mund! They’re something you must experience at least once in your life.

Faith Vander Voortguest writer

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Beard watch: No-Shave November styleIt’s time for men and women if they choose, to put those razors away and let their hair grow wild

Faith Vander Voort PHOTOLauren Sweet

Faith Vander Voort PHOTORueben Lindsey

Well folks, the time has come; No-Shave November is upon us. Peach fuzz, awkward mustaches and lumberjack beards are emerging across campus and the month-long celebration has only just begun. While there are a host of reasons people choose to participate, not many know how and why this bristly tradition came to be.

Rebecca Hill established the No-Shave November Foundation in 2009 as a non-profit

APU film, “Luiseño,” to start productionCapstone film, Luiseño, takes undergrad cinematography to new heightsSavanna Cowles staff writer

This spring, a team of senior cinematic arts majors will produce the most expensive cap-stone project film in APU history for their se-nior thesis project, the crew says.

“Luiseño” is a short narrative film based on the people and events surrounding the Temecula Valley Massacre of 1847 during the Mexican American War. This western film follows the story of two American brothers who cross paths with two Luiseño survivors. Together they must overcome their differences to reach safety and protect land grants to the valley from the Mexi-can Army.

“Luiseño” was the name given to the Na-tive American people of Southern California by Spanish explorers in the late 1700s, according to Ryan Bowman, producer and senior cinemat-ic arts and business management double major.

“We have three different races in our film: Caucasian Americans, Mexican military and Native Americans, which makes it unique,” said Tanner Morrison, director of “Luiseño” and se-nior cinematic arts major.

“Luiseño” will be filmed in Temecula Val-ley, the same region where the actual battle took place. Other filming will be done locally, in the Azusa and San Dimas canyons.

“We [the crew] love historical stories that are inspired by true events that people wouldn’t necessarily hear about unless we made them,” Morrison said.

Bowman, a resident of Temecula Valley, is excited to bring his senior thesis to his home-

town to tell a story that has been a part of its history for 150 years.

The production crew expressed much ex-citement over the story line itself, which is a period piece in members’ niche and a western film.

“Going through table-reads, there were a lot of moments when I was shocked,” said Connor Eaton, assistant director and cinematic arts pro-duction major senior. “That hasn’t happened to me at all during film school, where I’ve read a script and get emotionally attached to a char-acter.”

Morrison and three of the crew members, fellow senior cinematic arts majors Allie Lapp, Tom Scott and Corban Aspegren, have been creating films together since freshman year.

They won an award in 2014 for their sopho-more production, “Wildblume,” at the Broad-cast Education Association’s Film Festival of Media and Arts.

“We want to create a film that APU can use

to show that we’re not just some small school, but that we can compete with bigger universi-ties,” said producer Allie Lapp.

The strong story line and tightly knit crew of “Luiseño” are factors that set it apart from other student films. The cast hopes that a story with great visuals and sound will make it stand out even more.

The film is meant to be something that APU can showcase for years to come.

“It’s a solid story, a compelling one, and Corban has done a great job creating this story,” Eaton said with much excitement.

“Luiseño” has been in the works since Janu-ary 2014. Fall semester is being used in its en-tirety as a pre-production period.

The first draft for “Luiseño” was co-written by Morrison and Aspegren. Aspegren was then given full rights to finish the story over summer vacation and he finished writing the script about a month and a half ago. It was then handed over to Morrison to make the final touches.

Filming doesn’t begin until January 2015. The crew has four weekends to film and post-production will take place until mid-April.

“The sheer scale of this project makes it different from undergraduate films in the past,” Morrison said. “We are going very big, in terms of production and production value.”

Morrison and his team also hired a casting director for “Luiseño.” Casting will take place at APU in December.

There will be four main actors, three sup-porting roles and eight others that will be seen throughout the film but have one line. Extras will used for battle scenes.

“We’re hiring horses, professional stunt men from the Matrix, 24, Agents of Shield and other major Hollywood productions,” Bowman said.

In previous years, capstone films had a $10,000 budget. However, the “Luiseño” crew has a $15,000 budget, which is the most expen-sive ever for an APU undergrad film.

“We decided that this story demands a film with a ‘go big or go home’ mentality,” said Bowman. “It’s full of action, stunts and amaz-ing production design.”

Being a senior thesis project and only one of three capstone films, the team receives some matched funds from the university but the rest, members must raise on their own.

“For smaller projects, we had a lab fee and the school matched it, this project we are re-sponsible to fundraise all by ourselves,” Lapp said.

In order to achieve the necessary funds, they created a Kickstarter campaign and pre-pared packets to send out to friends and family. They also are doing TV tapings and are more recently beginning a Krispy Kreme fundraiser.

Besides the APU premiere at the Writer’s Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, “Luiseño” will be entered into the 2015-2016 film festival cir-cuit. According to Eaton, the crew wants to go big and hit Sundance if possible.

organization that aimed to raise money for families dealing with cancer and other serious illnesses. The money that participants might otherwise spend on grooming would be donated to the American Cancer Society or a family fighting cancer.

The No-Shave November official website proudly states that “With every whisker grown and dollar raised, No-Shave November cel-ebrates the hair that many cancer patients lose and gets one step closer to eradicating the dis-ease”.

Because he’s currently single, Rueben Lindsey, a junior major at APU, doesn’t need to worry about what a significant other thinks of his facial hair. Maybe his month-long display of facial hair will land him a lady even though he admits his beard “won’t be very intense” by the end of November.

Lindsey said that he’s carried out the anti-grooming trend all the way through January be-fore. Lindsey wasn’t certain why No-Shave No-vember started, but he did know one thing for sure: Girls should continue to shave throughout

November.One female student in particular, happily

disagrees with Rueben Lindsey in that matter. Lauren Sweet, a freshman from Minnetonka, Minnesota is proud to proclaim that 2014 marks the third year in a row that she’s participated in No-Shave November.

“Shaving is a hassle,” Sweet said, “but don’t worry, I still shave my armpits”.

The Minnesota winters aren’t as kind as the ones here in Southern California, so Sweet had no problem hiding her hairy legs in high school with jeans or sweatpants. She admits to neglect-ing her leg hair from November all the way to New Year’s once. Sweet said the only way she would shave before the 30th is if Matty McKib-ben from the TV show “Awkward” asked her on a beach date.

When reminded that Les Femmes was this month, Sweet hesitated, then responded, “Oh well, I’ll just buy tights.”

Fadi Nassar, on the other hand, doesn’t plan on hiding his whiskers for any reason whatso-ever.

The junior business marketing major proudly stated, “I’m a freshman RA in Trinity, so I want to lead the pack, lead the way for my boys.”

Nassar cares so much for his residents that he would shave off his facial hair for them.

“If I saw a resident in need, one that can’t grow a beard for himself, I would shave it and tape it onto his face for the day,” Nas-sar said.

He believes that November is his girl-friend’s favorite month of the year because his “beard rivals that of Santa Claus.” November may be less than half over, but Fadi’s facial hair is in full swing.

There is so much more to No-Shave No-vember than patchy facial hair and pre-teen peach fuzz! For more information on how to donate to the No-Shave November cause, visit www.no-shave.org. The results of Lindsey’s, and Nassar’s beards as well as Sweet’s legs will be featured at the end of November in the Clause.

Faith Vander Voort PHOTOFadi Nassar

Kimberly Smith GRAPHIC

OpinionBack to Black: Dreaming of chain-link

Marissa Blackopinion editor

Why opinion matters in a fast facts world

Kimberly Smith PHOTOAs I’ll be climbing fences (a.k.a. Pride Rock) next semester in South Africa, this column, Back to Black, will become my weekly contribution to the Clause as a jour-nalist abroad.

Professionalism lacks presence on campusEven though students are pursuing education for a career, they’re not career- or job-ready

Hunter Footeeditor-in-chief

Kimberly Smith PHOTOMany students don’t know how to properly format a professional résumé.

Digging your toes into the diamond holes of chain-link fences brings a certain satisfaction. There’s freedom in lacing your fingers through the metal netting and pulling yourself up onto the top bar.

But the jump down is never as reward-ing for me as the climb up. I like to just perch on fences, swinging both feet to one side.

However, there seems to be a misconcep-tion about fence-sitting. To be a fence-sitter is to be branded as reluctant or hesitant. It means you are unable to pick a side – as if being indecisive is a sign of a weak will, as if having firm conclusions on everything in life is healthy.

But what if the best way to pick a side is to go higher up? I’ve found that sometimes you get the best perspective in life from the top of the fence, because not knowing what you be-lieve isn’t wrong. Not caring what you believe is.

And that’s where the importance of opinion comes in.

To get one thing straight, opinion isn’t the opposite of fence-sitting. Opinion is just what follows from observing on the fence for a while. I almost fear for those who choose a side of the fence without ever sitting on top of it to see the big picture.

But in an ask-Siri world that wants just the facts, ma’am, opinion seems trite and un-necessary. In a culture that wants the who, what, where and when, the “why does this matter?” is often shunted out of the way. Opinion writing helps us recover that mean-ing behind the facts so we can better process them.

It allows us a broader perspective. Without a formed opinion, facts are just facts. But we need to internalize and understand those facts. We need to know the consequences of those facts. We need to know how they will affect us and our circumstances.

Opinion certainly isn’t meant to pit two exclusive sides against each other. It’s meant to help all individuals on the spectrum better understand themselves and one another. Ar-ticles that force you to wipe the steam off the mirror with your sleeve and see things more clearly are vital to understanding the world around us.

Opinion is meant to help us better com-

prehend ourselves and those we may disagree with. The logos of argument, combined with the pathos of how those arguments are presented, can be lethal when joined together. The rheto-ric alone can take the hard, cold facts and with some warming and seasoning make them more palatable to the ordinary person.

Conversations that need to be held can stem from a well-handled opinion. They can involve people from all sides of an argu-ment and engage with those from every back-ground. Discussions about human rights, the broader implications of political choices and even what it looks like to be a daily follower of Christ can come from a graceful yet strong opinion.

To be honest, this can initiate some pretty tough talks, but choosing to discuss controversy is better than muffling it with the sound of the next piece of news.

Opinion writing is not griping about poli-tics or championing causes for their own sakes. That’s ranting. Opinion doesn’t come from the passion of the moment. It usually comes from a seasoned fence-sitter who’s seen both sides of the chain-link.

Simply put, opinion is gracefully using rhetoric to thoughtfully and intelligently start conversations. One of those conversations possibly asking why I have these holes in my jeans? I’ve been climbing fences.

“Why do you look so nice?” This is the question I get four days a

week. In my internship that I work Tuesday through Friday, I have to dress professional-ly. And even though this has been happening all semester, it never fails. I can even have on a name tag, and people are still surprised and confused when I am dressed profession-ally.

This is just one look into the lack of professional presence on Azusa Pacific’s campus. It seems far too often, students lack the skills or preparedness for employ-ability.

Is your resume up-to-date right now? Do you know what goes in a cover letter? Does anyone really know? The answer to this last question is yes. There is a professional – and correct – way to go about creating a resume and cover letter.

According to an annual study by the Center for Professional Excellence at York College of Pennsylvania, it is not just those at APU who struggle with this lack of ap-propriate mindset, but many recent college grads.

“The researchers surveyed about 400 human-resources professionals about their experiences recruiting and hiring recent col-lege graduates in a variety of industries and roles,” said a Wall Street Journal article about the study. “More than a third report that the level of professionalism among new hires has decreased in the last five years. Nearly 45 per-cent said that employees’ work ethic has wors-ened.”

We are part of the Millennials, the genera-tion born between 1980 and 2000. According to “The Millennials: Connecting to America’s

Largest Generation,” a book by Thom and Jess Rainer, Millennials see the importance of education and a successful career. Additionally, “Three out of four millennials believe it is their role in life to serve others,” according to the book’s study.

This seems to be conflicting information. On one hand, we have a source telling us that we are unprofessional – and let’s face it, we are sometimes. Whenever I leave my apartment in anything that would be considered less than work-appropriate, I am unprofessional. If I am not ready and prepared for an interview with my resume and prepped for questions, I am unpro-fessional.

On the other hand, I am here pursuing

my education and looking for a career that will make me “successful.” So, why does what we believe about education and careers not line up with our level of professional-ism?

According to Julia Russell Toothacre, in-terim director of the Office of Career Servic-es, it is because students do not explore their options for their career paths sooner. They might have some idea of what they want to do, but do not ask themselves what they can be doing to prepare themselves earlier enough in the game.

Russell Toothacre said students often wait until their senior year to make any career deci-sions.

“I think that a lot of students don’t know what they want to do, so the idea of career ex-ploration is not happening early enough or not at all,” Russell Toothacre said.

If students explored career options or steps to pursue their career options earlier, like fresh-man year, then by the time that they need to be searching for internships and jobs, they would be ready. However, overwhelmingly, that is not the case.

“I think the biggest area for profes-sional improvement for students is figuring out what they want to be and where they want to go after graduation sooner,” Rus-sell Toothacre said. “We see a lot of stu-dents senior year in their last semester who come into our office and have absolutely no idea what they want to do or where they are headed. At that point, it’s really late and they have to do a lot of catchup, which becomes overwhelming.”

The key is asking those tough life questions earlier, like, “What do I want to be?” Or, if that is too hard or too specific, “Where do I want to be heading?”

“If students can take control of their future earlier in their freshman and sophomore year and start those exploration pieces, then as they move through their time at APU, they will have better internship opportunities because they’ll know what to look for,” Russell Toothacre said. “Then once they graduate, they are not sur-prised because they know who they are and they know what they want, and then they will have a higher level of professionalism as they move out of APU.”

It would speak volumes if APU could be one of the universities combatting this issue, and could be even more competitive as we all enter the job market. Additionally, each of us going out into the “real world” and the reputa-tion we set for the students with this university on our degree affects all of us.

This is a call to action, fellow Cougars. This is a call to recognize dressing profession-ally as a normal, everyday occurrence. This is a call to stop guessing what is the correct way to format a resume, and find out for sure. This is a call to stop assuming you know how to interview just because your No. 1 strength is relator.

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Zennie Abraham COURTESYBrittany Maynard took her own life with prescribed lethal drugs after battling brain cancer for months.

Fighting for the right to die with dignityDeath of young cancer patient sparks discussion on assisted suicide

Yik Yak from an alumni perspectiveDoug Faganalumnus ‘86

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@luvjoysie | Joy:New life goal is to get a tweet in the Clause before graduation in December. Training under sensei @caitgoehr #iheartapu

@maggsdumphy3 | Maggie:Shoutout to the register girl who paid for my pizza with her dining points cause I forgot my ID. You the real MVP. This is why #iheartapu

@Renengle | Rene:It is literally the best feeling when the trolley stops directly in front of you and you are the first one on #nevergetsold #iheartapu

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Terminally ill Brittany Maynard invoked the Oregon right to death-with-dignity law on Nov. 1, ingest-ing prescribed lethal drugs to end her life.

The 29-year-old was diagnosed with brain cancer in January and given six months to live, prompt-ing her to move to Oregon, where assisted death is legal. In an inter-view last month with Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit advocating “end-of-life choice,” Maynard did not emphasize her impending death, but the importance of keeping life in perspective.

“Seize the day. What’s important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest,” Maynard said.

Compassion & Choices released statements from Maynard updating the public on her health and status on taking her life. In an Oct. 24 state-ment, Maynard explained that she was suffering headaches, neck pain and severe seizures.

Compassion & Choices defends assisted euthanasia by appealing to the desire for calm, saying that “simply having the choice provides people a sense of peace in the face of uncertainty and fear that their suf-

fering might be unbearable. It allows people the freedom to die in control, with dignity.”

Oregon was the first of five states to validate death-with-dignity stat-utes, now standing alongside Ver-mont, New Mexico, Washington and Montana. According to a report re-leased by the Oregon Public Health Division, just over 750 individuals have died via lethal pills prescribed under the Death with Dignity Act. Last year, the median age of those who passed was 71 – more than dou-ble Maynard’s years.

Art Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York Uni-versity, suggested in a video state-ment that Maynard’s youth might spur a shift in thinking among the younger demographic.

“Critics are worried about her partly because she’s speaking to that new audience, and they know that the younger generation of America has shifted attitudes about gay marriage and the use of marijuana, and maybe they are going to have that same im-pact in pushing physician-assisted suicide forward,” Caplan said in an op-ed for Medscape.

Compassion & Choices has cre-ated “The Brittany Fund,” a website that includes Maynard’s obituary and graphics to share on social me-dia to support death-with-dignity. Prior to her death, Maynard was frustrated by the way her situation was being used by various parties to make a point.

“We as a country have real issues with the way doctors are trained to speak about, educate and embrace re-alities of death,” Maynard wrote Oct.

23. “As a terminally ill patient, I find it disrespectful and disturbing when people discuss my personal health with details that are not accurate to push an agenda.”

According to a 2014 Gallup poll, nearly 70 percent of Americans sup-port physician-assisted euthanasia. However, among those who attend a church service weekly, only 48 per-cent support the choice to end a pa-tient’s life through painless means.

The subject of ending one’s own life is charged with a broad spectrum of emotional rhetoric, with support-ers calling it “death with dignity” and adversaries referring to the process as “assisted suicide.” When placed in

the midst of a life or death situation, where should Christians fall on this spectrum?

Sensitivity is key. Before judg-ing those who have elected to end their lives, it is important to realize that most who choose “death with dignity” are cancer patients. These individuals deal with severe pain and the threat of an unpredictable, imminent death hanging constantly over their heads. The emotional and mental stress of a terminal illness is an experience that those with good health would struggle to fathom.

On the other hand, Christians claim that God sent his perfect Son to die in payment for the sins of the

world, so that humans would not have to do so. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 tells followers of Christ, “You are not your own; you were bought at a price.”

If we do not own our lives, do we have the right to end them?

The heavy media coverage of Maynard’s choice to end her life fo-cused largely upon her young age. But the issue extends to a larger ethi-cal dilemma – the value of life itself. With the Death with Dignity Act thrust into the political spotlight, it will be interesting to see whether oth-er states legalize assisted euthanasia and how religious communities will choose to react.

I am an alumnus of APU. I attended the recent Homecoming and happened to pick up a copy of the Clause and saw the article about Yik Yak. I was not familiar with this app, but my son (who is a student at APU) quickly filled me in and let me know that stu-dents of APU had posted a lot of filth about APU via Yik Yak. My son spared me the details, and I did not ask.

Why is this happening? As usual, the answers are in the Bible. In Jeremiah 17:9-10 the Lord told Jeremiah: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, test the mind, even to give every man ac-cording to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.”

We are seeing what is in the heart of these students (assuming that students made these com-ments). How do we counter this? Your article suggested talking to others and encouraging people not to do this. That is a start.

Who is behind this? Satan. Satan is waging his usual spiritual warfare. In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5a, we are told: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war accord-ing to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down

strongholds, casting down arguments [Yik Yak comments] and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.”

Our response to this attack on Yik Yak is prayer. Let’s say that of the thousands of students and faculty at APU (and alumni), only 100 of us care to pray about this. We decide to pray daily for the salvation of those attacking APU and we continue that prayer through the end of the school year. There are about six months left

in the school year or 182 days; 100 prayers a day multiplied by 182 days equals 18,200 prayers! James 5:16b lets us know that, “The effective, fer-vent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” How effective would 100 men and women praying be? Count me as one of the 100 who will pray daily until the end of the school year.

Thanks,

Doug Fagan ‘86

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Blake Standal PHOTOSenior forward Jeremy Bishop plays in one of his last games as a Cougar.

Men’s soccer seeded second in West Region

Bishop completes senior year of Cougar soccerBishop is the only senior on the team this season

The team will play Saturday against either Cal State LA or UCSD

Jeremy Bishop is a senior soccer player for Azusa Pacific, marketing major, Glendora-native, sibling to two who hopes to pursue a ca-reer as a soccer coach. In a team of 28 members, Bishop is the only senior and is wrapping up his fifth season at APU.

Bishop said soccer is his passion, but he also enjoys other hobbies to keep in shape like running and swimming.

He said he has always loved soccer, and playing at APU has always been one of his goals.

“I grew up around the area and I had friends that went here. I also got to know the players because they coached me at Glendo-ra,” he said. “Observing the great soccer team and faculty really made me want to be part of the team.”

He played two years of varsity soccer at Glendora High School under head coach Bill Mair. He captained the Tartans as a senior in 2010 to a 17-5-5 finish and a second round California Interscholastic Federation appear-ance.

During his freshman year at APU, he ap-peared in 22 games as a reserve, compiling two goals and two assists for a total of six

Azusa Pacific men’s soccer is the No. 2 seed in the West Region and the host for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division II men’s soccer championships. The Cougars, who wrapped up their regular season 14-2, will receive a first-round bye for their seed-ing.

“We are excited,” said head coach Dave Blomquist. “The boys are a group that is not satisfied by just being in the tournament – they are motivated and driven to be the best.”

The first round will feature a matchup of third-seeded Cal State and sixth-seeded UC San Diego on Thursday at 7 p.m. APU will play the winner of that game on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The Tritons and Golden Eagles faced off once this season, when UC San Diego took a one-goal victory over Cal State LA on Sept. 26.

The Cougars already saw one of their two potential second-round competitors once this

Stefany Romero staff writer

Stefany Romero staff writer

Katie Richcreek sports editor

APU Sports Information COURTESYThe team rallies together before game against Dixie State on Oct. 23. The Cougars defeated the Red Storm 2-1 in overtime with a golden goal from sophomore midfielder Colton Lamb.

season, taking a 1-0 double overtime win over UC San Diego on Sept. 20, breaking even with a series history of 13-13-1.

Cal State LA leads the short series history against APU 2-0, defeating the Cougars 3-0 in the team’s 2013 season opener. The Golden Eagles this season returned junior forward An-dre Bissmark, who accounted for two of that game’s three goals.

“The guys want to keep moving forward and we know that both teams are quality oppo-nents,” Blomquist said. “We are going to pre-pare for both teams because it is going to be a great game and anyone can win.”

UC San Diego ended the regular season 10-4-5 while Cal State LA finished at 13-3-1.

The 35-team layout includes 2-6 teams from each of the eight regions. The East, Southeast and West regions account for the most teams, registering six playoff competitors apiece.

The West Region is composed of four teams who competed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament and two first-time Division II playoff competi-tors, including APU and Northwest Nazarene.

Fifth seed Simon Fraser, a 2013 Final Four team, will play fourth seed Northwest Nazarene on Thursday at Seattle Pacific. The winner of that matchup will take on top seed Seattle Pa-cific, which has the most playoff appearances and holds the second most national titles among NCAA Division II programs.

The third round and quarterfinals will be held Nov. 20-23 with locations to be an-nounced. The Final Four will play in Louisville, Kentucky, from Dec. 4-6.

APU Sports Information COURTESYMen’s soccer team reacts to news of playoffs during the selection show on Monday, Nov. 10.

points. During his sophomore year, he played in

13 matches and started 10 times, and finished second on the team in goals with 6. Also dur-ing that year, he injured his left shoulder on a motorcycle accident.

As a junior at APU, he appeared in 19 matches, starting 18 times. He played de-spite having a dislocated shoulder and was able to score three goals and add five assists to finish with 11 points. He also received the Pacific West Conference honorable mention recognition.

He redshirted for the 2013 season after getting surgery for his injury, which allowed him to stay for a fifth season.

“He cares a lot about his teammates. He is always investing on the guys off the field,” said head coach Dave Blomquist. “The way he cares about each and everyone of his teammates really stands out. He has a fun loving approach to life, and he brings it on the field. You can see how much he loves the game.”

Bishop has been enjoying taking a lead-ership position on and off the field.

“It’s a big difference being a senior be-cause I have to encourage and provide lead-ership to others,” he said. “I’ve seen my ex-perience progress each year here. This year I feel a strong chemistry with the team and being a senior is a whole new experience. The way I approach things is enjoy every moment with the team and show a good ex-ample.”

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The football team’s once-prom-ising playoff hope is now hanging in the balance of the final week of the season. The team will try to grab a spot in the top six in Super Region Three when the final playoff bracket is announced Sunday, Nov. 16.

The Cougars appeared to be in good position after coming in fifth in the first set of regional rankings and sixth in the second round. The team, however, has now dropped to eighth in the region and potentially out of a playoff spot.

Division II college football play-offs feature a 24-team layout with six teams selected from each of the four super regions.

The top two teams then earn a bye as the third seed plays the sixth and the fourth and fifth seeds play each other. The winners then play the first- and second-seeded teams. Eventually two teams play for the national championship title in Kansas City, Kansas in December.

A committee selects the six teams from each region. The GNAC joins the Great American Conference, Mid-America Intercollegiate Ath-letics Association and the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in Super Region Three. Top-10 regional rankings are released for three weeks prior to the final bracket coming out.

The committee is made up of ad-ministrators from each conference. The criteria for selection are season record and strength of schedule. This sounds simple, but because three of the four conferences in the region only play against in-conference com-petition, it can be hard to judge teams. The GNAC is the only conference in the region to play out-of-conference opponents this season.

“The GNAC is tested nationally, across other conferences and other regions,” said Azusa Pacific Sports Information Director Joe Reinsch.

The lack of inter-conference play leaves teams and conferences to be compared largely by reputation, which is something the GNAC lacks compared to the powerhouses in the rest of the super region.

Head coach Victor Santa Cruz disagrees with this perception.

“Our league is an amazing league, full of great coaches and tal-ented, next level players,” Santa Cruz said. “We understand week in and week out it’s very tough football.”

One thing that could have conceiv-ably helped the Cougars, but as it stands can only keep the team out, is what is called “earned access.” This allows the highest regionally ranked team from a conference, if it is ranked seventh or eighth in the region, to knock out a team ranked inside the top six.

In order to benefit from earned ac-cess, a conference must have six full-time football-playing members. The GNAC has three full-time members that play football and four associate members that play football, APU be-ing one of the latter. Because of this, the conference doesn’t have the ben-efit of earned access and therefore must place within the top six.

The lack of earned access is now

Cougar football vies for playoff spot

Landon Trokaguest writer

hurting the Cougars. In the most re-cent set of rankings, the Cougars are placed eighth. If the GNAC had earned access, this would be enough for them to get into the playoffs.

The Cougars’ playoff hopes now largely depend on what happens with the rest of the teams in their region. The battle for the final spots will come down to the remaining one-loss teams: APU, Henderson State, Uni-versity of Sioux Falls, Harding Uni-versity, Pittsburg State and defending National Champions Northwest Mis-souri State. None of these teams can take a loss and still contend for the playoffs.

With three contending teams taking on opponents with winning records, there is hope that some may fall and Azusa Pacific will be able to climb back into the top six.

However, this has been a double-edged sword in the last few weeks, as it has given teams quality wins that have vaulted them over the Cougars in the regional rankings. Harding’s win over East Central, 6-2 at the time, propelled it from eighth into sixth.

The Cougars will have to hope for at least two of the teams ahead of them to fall.

Super Region Three is the best in the country featuring nine top-25 teams in the AFCA Coaches Poll, including the No. 1- and 2-ranked teams as well as five other teams in the top nine.

APU is the only nationally ranked GNAC team, appearing at No. 22, the lowest among ranked Super Region Three teams.

As mentioned before, the lack of national respect for the GNAC is hurting the Cougars as they transition into the league. The conference has not placed a team in the tournament since Central Washington in 2009.

“There is a perception that because the GNAC hasn’t produced a post sea-son participant in the last several years that the conference doesn’t play great football, and I don’t think that’s a valid assumption,” Reinsch said.

The Cougars are doubly disad-vantaged because they lack recogni-tion due to their recent transition for NAIA. They have yet to build a repu-tation in the NCAA outside of the GNAC. Weather or not the perception of the GNAC and NCAA newcomer Azusa Pacific are fair, they are the re-ality facing the Cougars.

The Cougars tried to combat the negative perception by scheduling a

SUPER REGION THREE

Blake Standal PHOTOPlayers huddle up during homecoming game against Dixie State on Oct. 18 in which the team took a 49-27 victory.

1. Minn. St. Mankato 10-0, No. 1*2. Ouachita Baptist 9-0, No. 9*3. Minn. Duluth 10-0, No. 2*4. Pittsburg St. 9-1, No. 6*5. Northwest Mo. St. 9-1, No. 7*6. Harding 8-1, No. 16*7. Sioux Falls 9-1, No. 18*8. Azusa Pacific 9-1, No. 22*9. Henderson St. 8-1, No. 14*10. Central Okla. 8-2

*AFCA Coaches Poll

Azusa Pacific Unversity’s men’s and women’s cross country teams of-ficially kicked off the championship season by earning third and second places, respectively, at the Pacific West Conference Championships Nov. 7 at Fresno Pacific.

The men’s team was topped by Cal Baptist in first place with 31 points, and Academy of Art in second place with 71 points. APU finished with 77 points. Senior applied exer-cise science major Peter Buscheck finished fifth with a time of 25:23.6, which earned him All-PacWest first team honors.

Sophomore communications ma-jor Kyle Bueckert finished 15th and freshman business management ma-jor Jeremy Porter 16th for APU.

The women’s team earned second place, finishing below Cal Baptist, which had 56 points over APU’s 59. Senior sociology major Staci Foster

finished fourth overall with a time of 21:44.9, which gave her All-Pac West first team honors. Freshman music major Eileen Stressling finished 10th overall.

Foster, a transfer from University of Colorado, has run very well this season, finishing second with 22:13.3 in her previous meet at the Triton Classic at UC San Diego Oct. 25.

The next step for the team is to head to the NCAA West Regional Championships, which will be held

AROUND THE DENCross countryPrevious: PacWest Confer-ence ChampionshipsUpcoming: NCAA West Re-gional Championships Nov. 22 at Billings, Montana

Swimming and DivingPrevious: Bulldog Pentathlon and Trojan Diving ClassicUpcoming: Orange County Invitational on Nov. 15

Volleyball (13-14, 9-9*)Last game: W, 3-2 vs. BYU-Hawaii*Upcoming: vs. California Bap-tist* tonight

Football (9-1, 6-0*)Last game: W, 21-6 at Simon Fraser*Upcoming: vs. Menlo at 4 p.m. on Saturday

Men’s BasketballUpcoming: vs. Cal State San Bernardino at Cal Poly Pomona

Women’s BasketballUpcoming: vs. Cal State Dominguez Hills on Friday

*Conference game/record

Cross country team looks to postseason success

Kaity Bergquist assistant sports editor

The teams compete in regionals Nov. 22 in Billings, Montana

in Billings, Montana, Nov. 22. This competition will determine the re-gional champions.

The team’s goal would be to fin-ish in the top six at regionals. If the team does not qualify for regionals, individuals can still compete in na-tionals, which is why the individual results are so important. The Pac-West will be able to send six teams to the nationals because of previous success.

Two weeks following region-

APU Sports Information COURTESYPeter Buscheck (left) and Staci Foster (right) are top competitors for Azusa Pacific’s cross country teams.

als, the NCAA Division II National Championships will be held in Lou-isville, Kentucky, Dec. 6.

Last season, the men’s team placed third at the PacWest confer-ence championships, while the wom-en’s team won first place. The cham-pionship was the second consecutive for the women.

Last year, Grand Valley State won the NCAA Division II National Championship, its third in the last four years.

formidable out-of-conference game against then-No. 2 ranked Grand Val-ley State for their season opener.

“We went out and scheduled the toughest opponent we could find to open the season and got a victory,” Reinsch said.

The Cougars took down the Lak-ers in double overtime on national tele-vision in a statement game to the rest of Division II. However, the win over Grand Valley State, Division II’s high-est all-time winning percentage pro-gram, has now turned into a too-close game against a middling 5-5 team.

Despite these problems, there is still optimism around the program. The hope is that the committee would rank the GNAC champion Cougars over a second- or third-place team from another conference.

While APU may have to wait for the playoffs, it has still been a historic year for the Cougars, who showcased the university in a nationally tele-vised game as well as won the con-ference for the second straight year.

Many observers feel the Cougars are building a strong program in Divi-sion II and playoff trips are sure to come.

The finalized playoff bracket will be announced Sunday, Nov. 16.

Football team has to land a spot in the top six in region

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Azusa Pacific handed the No. 4-ranked BYU-Hawaii Seasiders the team’s second conference loss this season in a five-set match (19-25, 25-15, 20-25, 25-18, 15-9) on Friday night in the Felix Event Center.

“This is the biggest win I’ve ex-perienced in my three years here,” ju-nior right side hitter Mattie Shelford said. “Every person was high energy, high efficiency and executed well. Everything came together. We’ve been waiting for this moment all year, for it all to click, and tonight it clicked.”

After dropping the first set, the Cougars immediately established a lead in the second set’s opening points. Midway through the set the team extended a three-point 14-11 lead into a 10-point lead with a 7-0 rally, eventually closing the second game out 25-15.

Despite losing their momen-tum in the third set and allowing the Seasiders to lead the duration of the game to take the win, the Cougars came back out in the fourth set, com-peting neck-and-neck with eleven tied scores. APU pulled away with a late 8-0 rally to win the set 25-18.

BYU-Hawaii could not take the lead in the match’s final set and Azusa Pacific ended with a 6-0 rally

to take the match victory.“When you can see the morale on

the other side drop, you know you’re in it,” Shelford said. “You know you have them right where you want them, and if you can just take it, it’s yours.”

Three Cougars ended the night in double-digit kills, led by Shelford with 19 and a .486 hitting percent-age. Senior outside hitter Alicia Utke posted a double-double with 17 kills and 20 digs while junior outside hitter Joy Reinke recorded a season-high 16-kill performance.

“They’re the top team in our con-ference, so we had that mentality of having nothing to lose,” Reinke said. “We said let’s just go all out and mess some things up in our conference.”

Coming into the match, the Sea-siders had lost just nine sets in con-ference, five of which were to Fresno Pacific. Eleven of their conference wins have been three-set sweeps, competing in a five-set match just four times this season.

“We’ve been in this moment a lot this season, right there on the cusp of winning,” head coach Chris Keife said. “We’ve been in that moment so much that we’re comfortable with it. I don’t know the comfort they had with that.”

This was the first victory for the Cougars in the team’s five-match se-ries history with the Seasiders.

The win places APU at an even 9-9 conference record. The team will host California Baptist Wednesday and Point Loma on Saturday, wrap-ping up a six-match home stand and its regular season schedule.

Volleyball knocks off No. 4 BYU-Hawaii

Katie Richcreeksports editor

Cougars defeated Seasiders in five sets Friday night

Blake Standal PHOTOVolleyball hosted three opponents in four days, wrapping the week up with a five-set win over BYU-Hawaii.