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Page 1: The Observer Fall 2014 Issue 8

By the students and for the students of CWU

The BSERVERO

Online daily, print weeklycwuobserver.com

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Vol. 98 No. 8, No. 19 - Dec. 3, 2014

IMPROPER INTOXICATION

FASHIONISTAS3 Central designs selected by

international competition

HOME SWEET HOMEWomen’s basketball looks for streak

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Page 7

Page 15

Students with MIPs face consequences

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BY KYLE FENTON

Staff Reporter

Views on marijuana are rap-idly changing nationwide, as four states have legalized recre-ational cannabis use in the past four years. But that does not mean Central has completely changed it’s views on the feder-ally illegal Schedule-1 drug.

For students who receive fi -nancial aid, it is important to know what could happen in the event of a marijuana-related crime.

Central Police offi cer Greg Margheim said marijuana re-lated crimes on campus are all classifi ed under the Violation of Uniform Controlled Substance Act (VUCSA) and depending on the incident, the police can make an arrest. In the month of November, there have been eight VUCSA-related cases on campus, two of which resulted in an arrest.

“It does aff ect student con-duct,” Margheim said. “I’ve heard of specifi c cases where

State and federal laws con� ict: What that means for the pot-smoking student

A schedule I drug is a substance with “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervi-sion, and a high potential for abuse,” according to usdoj.gov.

students have lost their fi nancial aid.”

Marijuana is classifi ed as a Schedule-1 drug along with her-oin, LSD, ecstasy, bath salts and other drugs.

School policies - FAFSA and drugs

Because fi nancial aid is feder-ally funded, students convicted of a marijuana-related crime, could lose their fi nancial aid, de-pending on the off ense.

“Financial aid gets direc-tives when there is a conviction through the court systems,” Richard DeShields, Central’s chief conduct offi cer, said.

Adrian Naranjo, director of Student Financial Services, said the fi nancial aid offi ce doesn’t actually get a notice when some-one is convicted of possession or sale of marijuana, it is on the application for student aid. The student self-certifi es in applying for aid that he or she is eligible.

Convictions only count against a student’s eligibility for

aid if the off ense occurred while the student was receiving fi nan-cial aid.

A student regains eligibil-ity the day after the period of ineligibility ends, or when they successfully complete a qualifi ed drug rehabilitation program. Further convictions will make him or her ineligible again.

Marijuana a Schedule-1 drug: Unconstitutional?

In California last month, a federal judge announced an

end to a fi ve-day hearing on the constitutionality of can-nabis’ Schedule-1 status. Judge Kimberly Mueller is requesting extensive briefi ngs from both parties, which could delay her ruling until December.

On Oct. 30, the fi nal day of the hearing on scientifi c and policy evidence, Judge Mueller heard from Dr. Bertha Madras, the former deputy drug czar un-der George W. Bush, who insist-ed that her position that canna-bis lacks any accepted medical value was accurate, while Zenia

Gilf, attorney for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), courntered with claims that the government’s research was bi-ased.

The Leaf Online reports that Madras protested in her defense, “There are thousands of studies on marijuana. It’s very diffi cult to study all of them.”

If Judge Mueller were to fi nd it unconstitutional to have marijuana listed as a Schedule-1 drug, it would impact marijuana astronomically.

UP IN SMOKE Students’ financial aid can be compromised if they have a marijuana-related charge.PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DERRICK CLARIT

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BY R. TROY PETERSON

Staff Reporter

For underage students at Cen-tral, being caught in possession of alcohol can result in either a court date or a date with Student Rights and Responsibilities.

Greg Margheim, a bike pa-trol offi cer for Central Police, has worked for the university depart-ment for two years. He said that offi cers who catch minors in pos-session (MIP) have the option of issuing citations which can result in one of two possible outcomes.

“I can either cite them with a crimination citation, which re-quires them to go to court,” Mar-gheim said. “Or you can be cited with the pre-charging diversion program.”

Central Police is the only de-partment in Ellensburg which issues pre-charging diversion ci-tations.

Richard DeShields, associate dean of students, said that the role of Student Rights and Re-sponsibilities is primarily to edu-cate under-age students about drugs and alcohol.

He said that this education oc-curs whether there has been an incident report fi led by the police or by the resident assistants on campus.

“Our job is to meet with stu-dents and talk with them about the ramifi cations of their deci-sions,” DeShields said. “So we’ll meet with students and get their perspective, and then potentially hold students accountable.”

Margheim said that the most common days for MIP citations, and alcohol citations as a whole, are Thursdays, Fridays and Sat-urdays. However, he said that incidents are not limited to those times.

“I can tell you I’ve writ-ten MIPs on a Tuesday at nine o’clock in the morning,” Mar-gheim said. “With students walk-ing to school, walking to class with a beer.”

Margheim said since the loss of fraternities and sororities on campus, MIP citations have also gone down, and credits the city’s noise policies for this decline. He also said that recently, there has been a greater amount of MIPs with marijuana instead of alco-hol.

The issue of minors possess-ing alcohol is not limited to Cen-tral’s campus. It also manifests itself at local businesses, such as Safeway and Fred Meyer.

A former Fred Meyer em-ployee, who wishes to remain anonymous due to Fred Meyer’s policies about talking to the press, expanded on some of the techniques used by the store to prevent minors from purchasing alcohol.

“As far as management, they really stress that you verify ev-ery single aspect of the ID,” the anonymous source said. “The birth year, whether it’s expired,

whether it’s actually that per-son. But at the same time, there weren’t very many people that we had to turn away. There weren’t very many minors that have tried to go through with fake IDs.”

The anonymous source said that he had witnessed Fred Mey-er employees selling alcohol to underage persons.

“People have been terminated for that, though,” the anonymous source said.

Despite the fact that at Fred Meyer selling liquor to minors is a terminable off ense, the anony-mous source said that they were unable to give an exact number of employees terminated for that off ense.

“You’re not really supposed to talk about things like that there. If you talk about anyone being terminated, you yourself are eli-gible for termination,” the anon-ymous source said.

The anonymous source also

said that one of the red fl ags em-ployees are trained to look for is suspicious behavior by one or more of the customers purchas-ing alcohol.

“The biggest problem with mi-nors trying to buy alcohol is just them trying to get their friends to do it for them,” the anonymous source said. “The minors here are college aged kids. They’re a little bit more intelligent than the high school aged kids.”

While it is generally a crime for minors to possess and con-sume alcohol, the Washington State Liquor Control Commis-sion (WSLCC) makes some ex-ceptions.

According to the WSLCC website, it is legal for Washington state minors to be given alcohol for consumption by a parent, guardian, physician or dentist for medicinal purposes. These would include cases in which mi-nors were given alcoholic bever-

ages with their family meal.DeShields said that Central

enforces their own policy as well as the state and federal policies. As such, Central essentially treats every MIP the same.

The WSLCC website also states that any minor seeking medical attention for alcohol poisoning, for themselves or for others, cannot be charged based on information off ered during any medical attention.

As for any business that sells alcohol to minors, the WSLCC can issue citations. Such sales, which are a gross misdemeanor, can result in a verbal or written warning to the business.

If the off ense is more serious, or the business is a repeat off end-er, the WSLCC issues adminis-tration violation notices. Accord-ing to the WSLCC website, the consequence for repeat off enses by businesses is the revocation of their alcohol licenses.

DeShields echoed the senti-ments of Washington law.

“The biggest concern with alcohol is that a lot of students don’t know the risky choices,” DeShields said. “We want to try to prevent a student from moving through the path of having to be hospitalized. We do see several students who have to be trans-ferred for emergency purposes, so we really want to make sure that we’re helping students make low-risk behavior choices.”

Charges carry significant impact on student life

� e Observer • Nov. 20 - Dec. 3, 2014NEWSEditor// Colt Sweetland

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Three Strike RuleStrike 1:

Prime for Life course

Strike 2: O� -campus assessment

Strike 3: Suspension

Minor in Possession

INFRINGEMENTS In Fall 2013, 73% of MIPs in E-burg were on Central’s campus, and 27% were off.

Number of MIP Infractions

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DERRICK CLARIT/OBSERVER

= 71 people=195 people

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Central, along with the city of Ellensburg is looking into the possibility of switching to a new biomass boiler. Central is a cen-trally heated university, with the heat supplied from a facility lo-cated near 11th and C St.

According to Bill Yarwood, director of Capital Planning and projects, Central’s current boiler runs on natural gas purchased from the city of Ellensburg. It also has the ability to burn diesel.

The boiler was installed in the early 1970s, and will most likely be replaced in the coming years, though there is no exact date or solid proposal for what may re-place it.

Yarwood said that a study to determine the effi ciency of a new boiler was commissioned by the Ellensburg Chamber of Com-merce after receiving a grant to fi gure out ways to reduce fi re dangers in the forests around El-lensburg.

“The university has certainly looked at [a biomass boiler] in the past,” Yarwood said.

An updated system would run on dry wood waste secured by various means.

Along with wood waste, un-

used wood by-products, such as sawdust from wood mills and or-chard waste could be used.

The study said the construc-tion costs for a new boiler would be around $37 million.

According to Mike Moon, director of Maintenance and Operations, the study projected that in 10 to 20 years, a new bio-mass boiler would save Central around $2 million a year.

Moon said all potential leads

are still open, and that this study is just an assessment of the issues and potential options for future development.

Some potential concerns for getting a boiler would be cost, environmental impacts and the sustainability of fuel resources.

According to the study, a biomass boiler could ultimately lower the particle emissions that Central’s heating generates.

“Anything that the university

looks at needs to be in the long term,” Moon said. “We need to make what I call a 30-year deci-sion, and in reality, it’s going to be longer than that.”

Moon said that Central would continue buying fuel from the city, and that any new boiler would ideally be able to run on a variety of fuel sources such as wood, natural gas and diesel.

The main thing students might notice would be more

trucks delivering wood fuel to a new boiler.

Other campuses are using similar technology; the Univer-sity of Idaho has been using a biomass system to fuel their cam-pus heating for around 25 years.

Yarwood and Moon said these are all ideas designed to look at potential paths for Cen-tral’s heating.

Any change would have to get state approval fi rst.

CWU considers alternative heat

WASTE Excesses from a farm similar to the one above, or from forests and brush, would power a new biomass boiler on Central’s campus.JOHN WHITTLESEY/OBSERVER

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BY HALEY CURLStaff Reporter

The Chimpanzee Hu-man Communication Institute (CHCI) building has recently become a study hall for the ath-letics department. The ROTC programs had requested use of the building, but did not receive the necessary funds.

“That facility was not a tra-ditional classroom space,” Linda Schactler, director of public af-fairs, said. “We were trying to identify what a good, permanent function would be for that build-ing.”

Army ROTC Lt. Col. Scott Carpenter said the CHCI build-ing is not very useful to the uni-versity, due to it being set up more like a zoo than a classroom.

“The university last fall did an assessment of programs that might be interested in that space,” Schactler said. “ROTC is one of the highest priority pro-grams.”

Instead of using the CHCI building for ROTC, the univer-sity plans on moving the ROTC to Lind Hall when Science Phase II construction is done.

“They’re going to spend a

year refurbishing it, the whole second fl oor will be army and air force, the bottom fl oor is going to be student services,” Carpenter said.

A legislative request by the university was made last year ask-ing for the ability to renovate the CHCI building to make it more suitable for the ROTC programs’ use, Schactler said. However, the proposal was turned down.

A second request could have been made this year to start reno-vations. However, the university felt that the ROTC programs couldn’t wait that long for an up-date, Schactler said.

In the meantime, Peterson Hall, two double wide modular housing units are the current home for the Army and Air Force ROTC.

Senior Military Instructor Kori Kvalevog said that one unit in Peterson has already be-gan the process of renovation, and should be ready for the pro-grams’ use later in 2015.

The current facilities for the ROTC programs are located on the northwest corner of campus. The main complaint is that there is too little presence of ROTC on campus.

“I think [the facilities] are ad-

equate,” Kvalevog said. “We’re provided a place and we’re able to accomplish our missions with it. So I have really no issues with it.”

Carpenter and Kvalevog said that, though some aspects of the buildings are less than desirable, they’ve been grateful to have these resources.

“Obviously it’s an old build-ing, but it’s served its purposes.” Carpenter said. “You always would like better, newer, state-of-the-art stuff , but it’s done every-

thing we’ve needed.”Having access to their own

building has given the ROTC programs the benefi t of not hav-ing to compete with others for space.

Carpenter said that the plans to put the programs into Lind are perfect.

“It puts us on main campus, and all students who come on the university come through there.” Carpenter said. “So we’ll get a chance to meet all the men and women who come through there

and let them see what opportuni-ties there are to become a mili-tary offi cer.”

The university has been look-ing for ways to accommodate the ROTC programs, said Carpen-ter, but those decisions have to be make fi nancial sense.

The ROTC programs have worked with their current facil-ity, but are looking forward to the addition of Lind.

“We do the best we can with what we’ve got.” Kvalevog said. “That’s the way of the army.”

AT EASE Members of the Army ROTC meet in front of the current ROTC building, Peterson Hall.RILEY ELLIOTT/OBSERVER

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Cop Block sucks. There, I said it, and before all you Cop Block-ers start throwing words like ‘shill’ and ‘enabler’ around, hear me out.

When I fi rst found Cop Block, a blog dedicated to holding po-lice accountable for their actions, I thought it was great. Most peo-ple in our “millennial” genera-tion can see that police brutality, as well as our legal system, is out of control. It has a long and rich history of racism, classism, ho-mophobia and sexism. Which is precisely why Cop Block gets it all wrong.

What really set me off this week in particular was their com-plete ridicule of “casual” sexism by way of mocking the issue of street harassment. Police brutal-ity and harassment is an impor-tant issue, and trivializing one to strengthen support of your posi-tion is straight up garbage.

There’s this sentiment that I picked up on from the site and community Basically, it’s that :modern police forces are out of control and over-militarized, and that if we can get back to “The way things used to be,” we’d be better off . But what exactly was this mythical state of existence that’s so touted by Cop Block?

Was it in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when police were busy throwing dogs and thousands of gallons of pressurized water at civil rights protesters?

Was it in 1969 Chicago, when Fred Hampton was murdered in cold blood by the raiding police for talking about education and free school lunches?

Was it in the 1980s, when P r e s i d e n t R o n a l d R e a g a n ’ s r e i n v i g o -rated “War on Drugs” s t a r t e d p a c k i n g Amer i can p r i s o n s , while dis-p r o p o r -t i o n a t e l y t a r g e t i n g people of color and the poor?

Was it in the 1990s, when po-lice offi cers were getting acquit-ted for brutally beating Rodney King?

Certainly the idea behind Cop Block is a good one, namely keeping America’s police force accountable to the people they’re charged with keeping safe. If, however, you’re only going to fo-cus on the lowest-hanging fruit, the police offi cer, you’re doing it wrong. Police brutality is a sys-temic problem, and one that will take systematic changes to tackle, from the beat cop all the way up to the federal court system.

If we’re not looking for ways to meaningfully change the legis-lation that cops are obligated to enforce, we’re never going to see real change. Laws are predomi-nantly written by older white males to enforce existing power structures which keep them in power.

We owe it to every Mike

Brown, every John Crawford and every victim of police brutality to do our part to create a better and more just society. But that won’t happen if we hold up some mythical state of the past as the

gold stan-dard of Amer i can police and legal action.

I support short-term actions like we see in Ferguson , Mo., or the protests that hap-pened in New York City, and we need

more of them, but we also have to think bigger.

If you’re worried about im-migration roadblocks, but not about rewriting immigration laws. If you’re worried about institutionalized racism without thinking about how to increase our fellow citizens socioeco-nomic situations and how to eliminate laws such as “Stop and Frisk.” If you’re worried about police brutality without thinking about how to write laws which reduce violent situations in the fi rst place, I’m going to use Cop Block’s favorite line, and say that “You’re part of the problem.”

Our situation is much, much more complicated than just a “good cop, bad cop” scenario. We have to start fundamentally rewriting how our country op-erates, and for once, create that ‘Golden Age’ of legal action, which has so far eluded Ameri-can society.

Language: The very building blocks of communication and society. Yet when we talk about the Eng-

lish major, it becomes

s o m e -t h i n g wrong.

“Why major

in English when there are so

many other sensible majors out there? Eng-

lish wont get you anywhere.” It saddens me to say that all the humanities are usually treated in the same manner.

Art, music and electives like photography or creative writing are the fi rst to get cut from school curriculum when the budget needs to shrink.

Central off ers every kind of career fair including several for the college of business but none specifi cally for any of the hu-manities. Even at the “all ma-jors” job fair, once the potential employers saw my English major nametag, I was told unanimously “they didn’t have any jobs like that.” Like what? Jobs for people who are excellent communica-tors, work well with others, have extensive knowledge in writing grants, memos and advertising?

In the last fi ve years STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer-ing and Math) careers and edu-cation have been pushed down our throats. In 2009 President Barack Obama launched an “Educate to Innovate” campaign that focuses on teaching kids and teens about STEM careers in the hopes that they will fi ll these po-sitions and become the pioneer-ing minds of tomorrow.

This focus has spread throughout our schools and has made everyone think twice about their love of art or books, think-ing instead that they should listen to their parents and go for that sensible career in computer sci-ence or be that doctor their bi-ology teacher encouraged them to be. If those aren’t their pas-sions, what are we really teaching them? Do what society expects even if you hate it? You should start liking math more because your photography in motion class is going to be cut next se-mester?

Do we really want people who couldn’t care less about STEM careers working in them?

Maybe there is a brilliant poet out there who can inspire the masses with his words, but his passions are being crushed by the societal expectation that STEM careers are the only way to make money, be happy and make a dif-ference.

If my doctor is only in it for the money, I don’t want him treating me.

There are people whose pas-sion is to read Shakespeare, to write, to create music and art, to study history and to teach people , and that is just as worthy of at-tention as every other profession.

I’m not opposed to people majoring in STEM disciplines if that is truly what they enjoy. I want scientists, doctors and ac-countants out in the world doing the things they do best. Telling students that those are their only realistic options is wrong.

English majors like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thom-as and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, TV host Conan O’Brien; actors Harrison Ford, Matt Damon and Susan Saran-don; or directors James Cameron and Martin Scorsese would say their education was well spent.

When I tell people I’m an English major, their fi rst question is usually, “Oh, so do you want to be a teacher?” I politely say no, and explain I’m specializing in writing. Most people start to look confused at this point. Why not major in computer science, ITAM, economics, accounting or even business? Those are the kids who get jobs. Those are the jobs that make the real money.

Well perhaps I’m not in it for the job security or to get rich quick, and let’s be honest: That won’t happen. The J.K. Rowl-ing’s of the world are few and far between.

I don’t study English for the potential future fame, I do it be-cause I love books, I love writing, I love studying characters and their motives and using pretty words. Telling me that these qualities are somehow less valu-able than liking to dissect things in biology class is sad.

English and humanities ma-jors develop critical thinking skills, study cultural diff erences, develop communication skills and study what it means to be a human. If this doesn’t make us poised to solve world issues and be the next innovators, I don’t know what does.

I may not get paid the high-est salary or even be guaranteed a job when I graduate with my English degree, but who is in to-day’s market? At least I can say I studied something that matters (despite popular opinion) and something that I loved.

When November 7 Femi-nism issue of The Observer came out, I was ecstatic. I read it immediately upon receiving it. However, as the paper con-tinued, I found myself steadily growing more and more disap-pointed. While the content was good, the way in which it was presented struck a chord with me. Every feminist article was titled in pink.

I can understand the ratio-nale. Pink makes it readily iden-tifi able. These articles are about feminism. However, the issue I have is mainly this: pink is not the color of feminism, it is the color of women.

As you can read on feminist.com, the most common col-

ors associated with the feminist movement are purple and white. And while pink is used, because of the push for purple, I believe that there is no reason someone would theme their entire paper pink to refl ect the subject mat-ter at hand. With the exception, perhaps, that feminism is often seen as a “woman’s issue.”

One of the greatest hurdles feminism faces is the idea that it is only a woman’s issue. On your own cover is the statement “a movement for equality” and this fact is reiterated by femi-nists in various articles within. It should be clear that feminists do not consider this a woman’s issue, but a human issue. We are all aff ected by gender inequality.

By using the color pink, it felt to me like the entire paper was stratifying the subject, cat-egorizing it as solidly a wom-an’s issue. Anything in black, therefore, was not something women would be interested in. I felt as though The Observer were making a comment on my gender and what should inter-est my gender despite the fact that the paper was supposed to be tackling gender disparity, not causing it. The association with women is something that feminists are actively fi ghting, to try and make gender equality more inclusive, and I think there could have been better ways to indicate it in your paper.

Letter to the EditorThe pink elephant in the room

-Lynn ThompsonArt Department Secretary

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BY KAYLEIGH PERRIER/COPY EDITOR

BY AARON KUNKLER/STAFF REPORTER

Don’t CopBlock me, bro

Language: The very building blocks of communication and society. Yet when we talk about the Eng-

lish major, it

in English when there are so

many other sensible

BY KAYLEIGH PERRIER/

Humanities:don’t give up on us

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� e Observer • Nov. 20 - Dec. 3, 2014SCENEEditor// Camille Borodey

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BY NICOLE HUSON

Staff Reporter

Three fashion designs from Central were accepted into the International Textile and Appar-el Association’s design competi-tion this year.

Central apparel, textile and merchandising senior Ryanne Durfee, Central alumna Krissy Knutz and associate professor of apparel, textiles and merchandis-ing Andrea Eklund’s designs were accepted into the prestigious compet i -tion.

The In-ternation-al Tex-tile and A p p a r e l A s s o c i a -tion holds one of the most r i g o ro u s d e s i g n compet i -tions in the world every year in Charlotte, N.C.

The International Textile and Apparel Association accepted only 313 designs this year. Of those, only 105 were selected for the live gallery show on Nov. 12.

Eklund’s design, “Haunting Darkness,” was accepted into the competition at a professional level.

The design was inspired by the gorgeous cemeteries in New Orleans, where Eklund attended an annual conference.

“I was fascinated by the cem-eteries there. They are so beauti-

ful, yet so dark at the same time, so I brought those two concepts into the design,” Eklund said.

Eklund also incorporated a pleating technique that she learned during a workshop in Montreal.

Inspired by the famous de-signer, Madame Gres, Eklund used a specifi c hand technique to pleat the bodice of the piece.

Last year, Eklund took a class on working with alligator. The whole back of the dress is real alligator leather, with alligator

feet as the shou lder accents.

“ T h e goal was to use the d i f f e rent techniques I have l e a r n e d and in-corporate them into one gar-m e n t , which was fun, but

took a very long time,” Eklund said.

Eklund said that designing and creating the piece was a very long and tedious process.

“It took me quite awhile,” Eklund said. “It took me prob-ably over 200 hours total on one garment.”

Every year Eklund submits a piece into the competition every year. She requires her students to do the same. It was Eklund’s goal to make it into the competition but also to challenge herself and try new things this year.

“I wanted to push myself and develop,” Eklund said. “I have never worked with alligator or that pleating technique on a gar-ment before, so I wanted to use those skills.”

Knutz is the former vice president of the Student Fash-ion Association. Knutz’s piece, “Marguerite,” which she de-signed before she graduated in the spring, was accepted into the competition this year.

Knutz’s design is a long bell-sleeve lace crop top. Knutz learned the dying technique she used on the top from a theatre design class she took last year. The class is also where she got the inspiration for her design.

Knutz dyed the lace of her piece in coff ee to give it a vintage, Victorian look. Crop tops have been in style recently, but Knutz wanted her piece to be diff erent.

“I didn’t want to make the crop top that ‘little girl’ look, I wanted my design to be more sophisticated,” Knutz said. “I also noticed bell-sleeves are com-ing into fashion so I took the two styles and put them together.”

Knutz’s goal was to create an elegant looking crop top with long sleeves, as opposed to the short-sleeved crop tops that are usually seen.

“I chose a deep wine colored skirt to make the crème colored top really pop,” Knutz said. “The colors look really rich together.”

Knutz explained that making it into the competition was unex-pected. The designs she had en-tered into the competition in the past had not been chosen, and she was honored when she found out “Marguerite” made it in.

“I was really excited when I found out my design had been se-lected,” Knutz said. “I was really happy that I had put all this work and time into this design and the hard work paid off .”

Durfee also designed a piece that was selected into the com-petition. Durfee is currently studying fashion abroad in Italy. Durfee’s design, “Walk the Line,” is a short, black, backless dress.

The International Textile and Apparel Association competition was reviewed by a double blind

jury and evaluated on criteria such as technique and innovation of design. It is one of the hardest competitions to get into, and the winner of the competition gets a paid semester of design school in France.

Although none of the pieces won any awards at the competi-tion, Eklund is grateful her and her student’s work got selected.

“I’m so excited whenever my students make it into the compe-tition because it’s very diffi cult to get in,” Eklund said.

Central designs hit the runway Three Central pieces accepted in International Textile and Apparel Associationʼs design competition

FASHION Models pose in Andrea Eklund’s design (left), Krissy Knutz’s design (middle) and Ryanne Durfee’s design (right). The competition took place on Nov. 12. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ANDREA EKLUND, TAKEN BY DANIEL BALDWIN AND MEGHAN GILBERT

STYLE Durfee’s (left) design “Walk the Line” and Eklund (right).

The goal was to use the different techniques I have learned and incorpo-rate them into one garment, which was fun, but took a very long time.

“ The goal was to use “ The goal was to use

-Andrea EklundAssociate professor of apparel, textile

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Andrew Jenkins, also known as Droptonix, leads a double life, working 40 hours a week and producing music.

Jenkins and his partner and co-founder of Jetpack Brigade, Coco, bonded over wanting to break away from the style of the more mainstream electronic dance music (EDM) scene.

“I never listened to EDM,” sa-Malissa Clark, Jenkins’ girlfriend of two years, said. “I called it techno, and I thought it was stu-pid until I met him. He showed me the good stuff , the more un-derground, the more complicat-ed and heartfelt music.”

Jenkins and Coco fi rst formed Jetpack Brigade when they were roommates living in an apart-ment in Cle Elum. They decided their extra space would be best used as a studio.

Jetpack Brigade does not col-laborate as often anymore.

“My style is a little more spac-ey and Coco’s has a more raun-chy style,” Jenkins said. “I try to be a little more musical and move things more fl uidly because one thing that I don’t really like about EDM is how chopped up every-thing is.”

As a kid, Jenkins used to play around with music editing soft-ware in his downtime. Jenkins can do more than just play key-board and create EDM sounds. He’s also a self-taught guitarist and took drum lessons when he was younger.

“I just like to beat on things,” Jenkins said. “I used to have an ‘84 Suburban, when I didn’t have a drum set, and I would just play drums on my car because it was a rickety old Suburban, and you could get some nice sounds out of it.”

As Jenkins got older, he grew to love electronic music produc-tion and see it from a diff erent perspective.

“Once I realized that [music production] is really an in-depth science, that’s when I got really interested in it because I’ve loved science my whole life. So once I realized that - that sound

is science - that’s when it be-came more interesting. It’s more than making music; it’s creating sounds.” Jenkins said.

When Jenkins fi rst attended Central, he was looking into a major in geology, but it was a class in philosophy that essen-tially changed his outlook on life.

“Everything that that pro-fessor was talking about just got me thinking,” Jenkins said. “I realized that I wanted to be free, free of the burden of the

world. So I started to make mu-sic and I

f o u n d

that that was the best way to express myself and feel comfort-able, to feel like I’m contributing something, and I feel great about it.”

Also at that time, Jenkins was bored, and his job at the Safeway in Cle Elum left him unenthused.

Jenkins’ style is infl uenced by a variety of sounds and genres including classical, ‘90s metal, rock, grunge, ambient music and underground hip hop.

“Andrew loves music more than anything. He dedicates most of his time to it. Even if he has to slave away at a job, he’ll come home when he’s really tired and he’ll work on his music,” Clark said. “It gives him energy and makes him happy.”

On Halloween, Jetpack Bri-gade played at the House of Haze, a hookah lounge in El-lensburg, where Jenkins used to work. Izaak Fukuyama, a friend

of Jenkins and also an employee of the House of Haze, says he liked Jenkins’ music from the start.

“I’ve had other people show me their music, and it was just ge-neric electronic music, but when I listened to [Jenkins’], it has this unique sound that he made, this organic, metallic sound. It’s re-ally unique. It’s so peaceful,” Fu-kayama said. “It was thought out and layered.”

On May 30, Jenkins not only played at the House of Haze’s Space Cowboy Rave, but helped decorate and organize the event. He has been very involved with promoting the business as an out-let for his music.

“He just wants to share how much he loves the world through what he creates and how it makes people feel,” Clark said.

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Last Saturday, ten women gathered upstairs at Gallery One for Mimosa Saturday, where they painted Christmas themed can-vases while sipping on orange juice and champagne.

The class was taught by Mary Duke, who traveled all the way from Snohomish. Duke volun-teers frequently at Gallery One; she substitutes children’s art classes and more recently, taught some adult classes.

“The class itself is just fun,” Duke said. “I just love being around people who want to cre-ate. I just love being involved in the creative process and helping people realize how to go forward with art.”

Duke grew up in Ellensburg and used to volunteer at Gal-lery One when she was younger. She reconnected with the gallery when her daughter, Hayley, who assisted Duke at Mimosa Satur-day, attended Central.

“I have a really close tie to El-lensburg and Gallery One. It’s crazy how much the gallery has grown,” Duke said.

Duke teaches 4th grade art in Mukilteo, but she enjoys being able to work with the adults at

Gallery One as well. “Mary is very open to people

learning the techniques and then taking it where they want to go,” Becky Parmenter, education program coordinator at Gallery One, said.

In the class, each person was given a canvas. The process in-cluded several steps of painting and drying before they decorated the canvas. For a holiday theme, the participants put a stag sil-houette on the canvas and added words, beads and other crafts to their pieces.

“It’s a good way to meet people in the community. I took the print making class last winter and that was pretty fun. This one was a little more relaxed, a little

bit more free form,” Brittany Holmes said.

Holmes is a Central alumna, with a master’s in chemistry. She said she uses art as stress relief from her job at the department of agriculture in Yakima.

“It’s a never ending science project, so it’s nice to have a re-lease,” Holmes said.

Holmes has grown up with art. Her mom is an interior de-signer, her aunt has a photog-raphy card art business and her uncle makes metal sculptures.

Holmes thought the most enjoyable part of the class was learning a new type of art and the most challenging part was not overthinking the project.

“It kinda forces you to take a step back, put it on the wall or hold it up and look at what you’ve done. See if it needs more or less. Usually less,” Holmes said.

Holmes thought that Duke’s overall teaching style was very relaxed.

“Which is how art should be, at least this type of art, it’s not re-ally rigid,” Holmes said. “There are certain steps and techniques, but you get to do what you want.”

For Parmenter, the hardest part of the project was the de-cision making process. She said that she is used to taking a long

time on art projects. “Mary knows a lot about

color and textured surfaces,” Parmenter said. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to take [the class] from Mary, because when she wants to discover or do some-thing, she just keeps testing the limits to how far you can go with it. She’s really an inspiration.”

One of Parmenter’s favorite parts of the process was getting to look at everybody’s pieces as they were being created. She also liked that she used art materials she has never used before.

“Now that I know a little bit

more of what we’re doing, I’ll be able to work on my piece more than just trying to just work with the material. I can take it further and think about my piece ahead of time and explore using more colors,” Parmenter said.

Gallery One off ers a variety of art classes for people of all ages and there will be another Mimosa Saturday at Gallery One on Dec. 13.

“All of those individuals got out of their box. They didn’t just do what my demo was,” Duke said. “They put their own unique twist on the subject matter.”

Gallery One hosts Mimosa Saturday

HOLIDAY ART Participants painted Christmas themed canvases. CAMILLE BORODEY/OBSERVER

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BY MORGAN GREEN

Staff Reporter

Thanksgiving is the fi rst big break that students have away from classes, and some students cannot wait to relax and spend time with their families.

While some students go back home to celebrate with a Thanks-giving feast, others have diff erent traditions.

“Every year we go to Leaven-worth for Thanksgiving. We get a cabin on Icicle Creek and this will be our fourteenth year go-ing,” Michael Cyr, a junior com-puter science major, said.

According to Cyr, his mom’s side of the family all converge to spend the holiday together.

“We also make it a point, especially me, my dad and my brothers, to do something out-side. I actually recently just did the Enchantments (a wilderness area about 15 miles from Leav-enworth),” Cyr said.

Many other students fi nd ways to keep active on the holiday.

“I am going to run a 5k in my hometown of Wenatchee. Ev-ery year my family does it; it is

a tradition,” Emily Danko, se-nior English education major, said. “Then we will go over to a friend’s house for dinner.”

Other family traditions center on spending time with people they care about.

“We eat turkey and we nor-mally do a bonfi re,” Hannah Grover, a sophomore English major, said.

According to Grover, her fa-vorite part is getting the opportu-nity to hang out with her family.

“Going home to see my fam-ily, I just love that,” James Todd III, a freshman Spanish interpre-tation major, said.

Danko agrees with Grover and Todd III about seeing fam-ily. She says she really likes being able to reconnect with people she hasn’t seen in a while.

“It is important to take time out of your year. Like Christ-mas is very materialistic, but Thanksgiving is more like get-ting together and eating good food with people. People that you love,” Danko said.

Many families have a tradi-tion where they express their gratitude.

“We have a table cloth, and every year we write something that we are thankful for on it. It is like a time capsule. This is our fourth or fi fth year doing it,” Cyr said.

One of the many staples of

Thanksgiving is the large Macy’s T h a n k s g i v i n g Day Parade.

“Honestly, I just love the performances,” Celesti-na Ramirez, a freshman psychol-

ogy major, said. Some people say that the true

meaning of Thanksgiving, being thankful, has been lost over time.

“I don’t think it matches what it originated from,” Ramirez said.

Students still believe that it is a time of the year to be thankful.

“I think it is [a time] to re-fl ect on what you are thank-ful for throughout the year,

and just remember that we have a lot to be thankful for,” Grover said.

One of the main reasons that people believe the

meaning of Thanksgiv-ing has been lost is be-

cause of Black Fri-day shopping.

“I am against Black Friday per-sonally. It is mor-

alizing the capital-ist greed. It is saying that

it is justifi able because there are so many great deals. I am actu-ally repulsed to hear people get-ting trampled and people being assaulted,” Beth Vander Stoep, a junior social services major, said.

Danko said she doesn’t like

Black Friday either. “I have never actually done

Black Friday shopping, for me, it is Cyber Monday,” Cyr said.

Other students really enjoy the Black Friday experience, even going so far as to plan out their whole night.

“We go right on-the-dot at midnight until six in the morn-ing, sometimes,” Ramirez said.

Even though students can be polarized when it comes to issues of Black Friday, there is one thing that most students can agree on in regards to Thanksgiving - the food.

“My favorite food for Thanks-giving is the turkey and pumpkin pie,” Grover said.

Some students really look for-ward to all the leftovers from spe-cial Thanksgiving food.

“I also love the day-after and you throw the leftovers into a pan and make like a casserole,” Danko said.

Thanksgiving break cannot come soon enough for some stu-dents.

“I’m excited to go home and have home cooked food,” Danko said.

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BY CASSIDY WARNESS

Staff Reporter

With downtown Ellensburg full of independent businesses, the Ellensburg Downtown As-sociation is hosting the national event Plaid Friday.

Plaid Friday is an alterna-tive experience to Black Friday, aimed at promoting local and in-dependent shops.

The day long celebration on Nov. 28 encourages holiday shoppers to veer away from hec-tic lines at big box retailers and support local businesses.

During Plaid Friday, custom-ers wearing plaid receive special discounts at participating busi-nesses in the downtown area.

“Historically, Black Friday is the biggest shopping day for large box stores and retailers,” Mark Holloway, D&M Coff ee co-owner, said. “We were think-ing Plaid Friday would be a fun way to promote local businesses and the diversity they off er.”

For D&M Coff ee Com-pany own-ers Mark H o l l o w a y and Donna Malek, Plaid Friday has been a cel-e b r a t o r y day for their company.

A c c o r d -ing to Hol-loway, the couple was part of the initial com-mittee that brought Plaid Friday to Ellensburg in hopes of turn-

ing Black Friday into something more local.

“Our local merchants are here to serve the customer and they are in a unique position,” Holloway said. “They are not only the merchant selling the product, they are your neighbors and customers themselves. You can spend $1 in Ellensburg and it stays in Ellensburg, helping our community thrive.”

Holloway said that ‘Home-town Holiday’ events like Plaid Friday are a great way for busi-nesses to say thank you to the customers of Ellensburg for be-ing a part of the community.

“I think our Ellensburg com-munity, both merchants and cus-tomers, value the unique things that are available here in town,” Holloway said. “Where else can you go to a 100 year-old business like Fitterer’s and have them bake cookies for you while you shop for that special gift? Or at D&M Coff ee, where you can purchase a unique gift card with artwork designed by the owners who at-

tended the art program at CWU?”

Holloway said that they are looking forward to a busy holiday season.

P l a i d Friday was launched in 2010 out of O a k l a n d , Calif., a town known for sponsor ing local business

campaigns, according to plaidfri-day.com.

According to Leslie Newton, manager of Sedona Sun, the af-ter Thanksgiving shopping rush doesn’t attract enough customers to her store for them to partici-pate in events like Plaid Friday.

“Small businesses have to compete with big-box chains and their advertising so most customers go to chains like Fred Meyer,” Newton said. “I don’t want to make people, both my workers and customers, come in on Thanksgiving or the day after. It’s family time.”

Newton said that compet-ing with big-name businesses in advertisements and sales is too costly and Sedona won’t be open for Plaid Friday.

With the store motto, “friends

don’t let friends shop at chain stores,” Megan West, owner of Claim Clothing on Pearl Street, is excited to participate in events like Plaid Friday that support local businesses. West said that this is the store’s fi rst year par-ticipating in Hometown Holiday Events such as Plaid Friday.

“It is important to support small businesses,” West said. “I didn’t understand how important local businesses are until I start-ing owning my shop, but it’s a good way to see and, from a busi-ness point, show locals what we have to off er.”

West said that the Claim Clothing store has been busy since she opened in May of this year and is prepared for a lively

holiday season.“We don’t know what to ex-

pect, or have concrete numbers, so we are basing product and promos on the demands from our customers. We will be go-ing with the fl ow this year and next year we will be twice as pre-pared,” West said.

Because this is Claim’s fi rst year participating, West is plan-ning special promotions to at-tract customers including Star-bucks card door busters and deals throughout the shop.

“Since this is our fi rst year, we are preparing for any outcome,” West said. “Sounds like there are many downtown events planned the same day so it will bring more and diff erent crowds down.”

The small town Black Friday

RAD PLAID Downtown Ellensburg shops, such as Flirt, give shoppers a local Black Friday experience.RILEY ELLIOTT/OBSERVER

Our local merchants are here to serve the cus-tomer and they are in a unique position. They are not only the merchant sell-ing the product, they are your neighbors and cus-tomers themselves.

“ Our local merchants “ Our local merchants are here to serve the cus-“are here to serve the cus-

“-Mark Holloway

Owner of D&M Coffee Company

JORDAN BROWN

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I fl ip between stationary se-curity cameras in a place that looks like a nightmarish Chuck-E-Cheese. I linger on the screen where a trio of animatronics usu-ally sit.

It hits me. The bunny is miss-ing. Frantically I click around the map, fi nally fi nding the bunny in a room fi lled with presents.

I switch the camera to the mu-sic box room, furiously winding it up, too afraid to leave it alone for too long. I fl ip back to the bunny to make sure it hadn’t moved. It did. It’s in the party room, on all fours near a vent. Watching me.

As soon as I click away, the telltale thump of the bunny en-tering the vent sounds. The vent leads directly to me.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (FN@F2) is an indie point-and-click survival horror game cre-ated by Scott Cawthon. You play as a security guard who works a 12-6 a.m. shift at the pizza res-taurant Freddy Fazbear’s.

Unfortunately, the pizzeria’s animatronics are malfunc-tioning and are out for blood.

The fi rst FN@F was released Aug 8, 2014 and with the se-quel released Nov 11. The game gained attention from popular You-Tube personalities who do “Let’s Plays,” videos where viewers watch them play the game with commentary.

I noticed the game diff ers from the fi rst in a few ways:

there are no doors to keep the killer robots out, and the build-ing doesn’t have limited power. Instead, you have a mask to fool the animatronics and a fl ashlight to paralyze them briefl y. Like the fi rst game, you are stationary in a security offi ce.

Another addition was a music box which the player has to con-stantly make sure is playing to soothe one of the animatronics or die instantly.

This makes the game me-chanics more about the player’s reaction times and time manage-ment skills, rather than tracking an animatronics’ movements and closing a door, which I preferred. Other gamers agreed.

“Having doors meant you had a barrier, you could isolate your-self,” Omar Freemire, sopho-more in Aviation Management, said. “Now they can just get in. You never know when you’re go-ing to die.”

After the fi rst night, I never actually got to explore what was going on in the game in the other rooms because I only had time to wind the music box and then

check if an animatronic was in my room then switch back to the music box.

It got old fast and I wasn’t alone in my frustra-tion.

“It be-came a chore,” freshman Lucas Kleven said. “You constantly get a game over screen just because you weren’t looking in the right place.”

Since it was so diffi cult, I often just felt angry instead of scared,

just like Evan Catlin, junior Eng-lish major.

“It needs to be easier to be scarier,” Catlin said. “You end up only looking at the music box and your own room instead of exploring the other cameras be-cause you have no time. You have half a second to put on a mask or you’re dead.”

I thought the ambiance of the game, however, was solid. There’s creepy children laugh-ing, pipes getting banged on, garbled mechanical noises, and a soft overlay of music from the music box that combined to cre-ate a disturbing eff ect.

The security cameras are grainy and often black out, and lights tend to fl icker throughout the restaurant.

Dismembered animatronics also kept me feeling uneasy, espe-

cially when their eyes are sharp red pinpricks staring straight into the camera, mouth agape to show several rows of teeth.

The story was wonderfully disturbing, with subtle clues placed throughout the game in-dicating the animatronics are be-ing manipulated by the souls of dead children.

My favorite part was that sometimes when you died, in-stead of starting the night over an 8-bit game would pop up. The game usually led you through a story. Once, I played the grim reaper who gave “life” to chil-dren by giving them animatronic heads.

“Learning more about the story was interesting,” Kleven said. “Especially since so much of it is through assumptions.”

I do think the third install-

ment needs a new idea in order to keep the game fresh.

Freemire mentioned he thinks in the next game you should be able to actually walk around the restaurant.

More time in development, with extra play testing, is also necessary, since there were only three months between the games.

Overall, the game suff ered from too much micromanag-ing to be truly scary. Frustration made even the jump scares dull.

I recommend anyone with anxiety to be careful about play-ing, as it is incredibly stressful and will make your heart race.

The user score on video game review site Metacritic is 8.6. It has an “overwhelmingly posi-tive” review on Steam from us-ers, with over 1700 reviews, and is a top seller this week.

Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

BY MARIAH ROCKER

Copy Editor

The planet is turning into an inhospitable environment and humanity is facing extinction in Christopher Nolan’s newest fi lm, “Interstellar.”

In the near future, a blight similar to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s is destroying all the crops and oxygen on Earth, and the 21st century is to blame. Those remaining live in a world where people are scarce, farming is vi-tal, air travel is nonexistent, and school children are taught the moon landing was a hoax.

Humanity’s desire to progress was its ultimate downfall. As a result, people are more focused on attempting to nurture the planet than to reach beyond it, and NASA has become a secret operation, hidden underground.

Most of the people left believe that returning to a simpler way of life is the only way to save the hu-man race, but Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot with a background in engi-neering, is one of the few that still has his head in the clouds.

Living and working on his father-in-law’s farm, Cooper’s life revolves around tending to the few crops left, tinkering with abandoned robotics and spending time with his family, a 10-year-old daughter, Murphy, known as “Murph,” and his 15-year-old son, Tom.

Despite Cooper’s clear de-sire to explore, his life is incred-

ibly mundane until a mysterious message in the dust leads him to NASA’s underground facility.

It’s here that Cooper learns of the devastation that Earth is headed for: that his genera-tion might be the last on earth to survive. In order to save all of humanity, Cooper is recruited as the pilot for Endurance.

Endurance’s small crew con-

sists of Amelia Brand (Anne Ha-thaway), Romilly (David Gyasi), Doyle (Wes Bentley), and two ro-bots: CASE and TARS.

Although Romilly and Doyle’s involvement throughout the fi lm is limited, Brand is a major play-er. As the daughter of the pro-fessor (Michael Caine) behind the mission, Brand’s relationship with him while she travels is one

of many emotional strings the fi lm likes to play with.

Their mission is to travel through a wormhole that was inexplicably found near Saturn hoping to fi nd new habitable planets.

For the members of the En-durance, time passes—but not as quickly as it does for those left be-hind on earth, due to the subtle-ties of time and relativity that I dare not attempt to explain.

What truly separates this fi lm from others is Nolan’s attention to detail. Not only does the fi lm employ ideas like time, relativ-ity, wormholes and black holes, but these concepts are explained in ways that most audiences can understand.

People often forget how inter-esting those subjects can be, and it fosters a desire to learn more about the universe.

With mind-boggling concepts and unexpected twists—includ-ing a surprise celebrity whose in-volvement in the fi lm was never made public—Interstellar is a movie that will capture your at-tention and make you think about the universe.

Review: Interstellar

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-Evan CatlinJunior English major

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Wildcats mirror 2013 recordCentral falls short of GNAC title despite going 7-4 again

BY JEFFREY MACMILLAN

Staff Reporter

The Wildcats finished this season with seven wins and four losses, and a four and two record in GNAC play. Central’s defense influenced every game with their harassing style and constant team pressure.

Central’s secondary finished the season ranked fourth in the nation in pass interceptions (21), first in the nation in total inter-ception return yards (485 yards) and tied for first in the nation in interceptions returned for touch-downs with five.

Junior Isiah Davis, leader for Central’s secondary, finished the season in the top 30 players in the nation in interceptions with five. Davis also returned one for a 66-yard score versus Dixie State in St. George, Utah in a GNAC win for the wildcats.

Davis attributes his success to the work of his teammates on the defensive side of the ball and to the coaching staff.

“The guys around me are what make me successful,” Davis said. “Coach (Payam) Saadat’s game plan puts us where we need to be to make plays.”

In the middle of the Wildcats defense, the opportunities contin-ued as sophomore Kevin Haynes did it all for the wildcats defense. Haynes is the nation’s leader in interceptions (five) for lineback-ers. Haynes led the Wildcats with 99 total tackles and had six games with 10 or more tackles.

“Kevin works hard to make sure he’s improving every week,” linebackers coach, Mike Dunlevy said. “Even when he’s banged up he’s still working hard to be ready for Saturday.”

Much of what Central does during games comes from their

ability to create pressure in the opponents backfield. As the na-tion’s ninth ranked pass rush, the Wildcats have been able to put pressure on the opposing team’s quarterbacks; recording 35 sacks for a total loss of 212 yards from scrimmage.

Tovar Sanchez, who wears the prestigious number 44 jersey, has been the defense’s biggest weapon this season, recording 22.5 tackles for loss. This makes him tied for eighth in the nation, Sanchez’s backfield accolades don’t end there.

Sanchez has recorded 12 sacks this season ranking him eighth in the nation in this cat-egory as well.

“When I’m pressuring the quarterback, that lets the guys behind me make plays,” Sanchez said. “If I hit them enough some-thing good is going to happen.”

Assistant coach John Picha said that Sanchez has made strides on the field.

“Tovar works on the field to be the best he can,” Picha said. “He’s only going to get better.”

On the offensive side of the ball, the Wildcats offense rank 41st in the nation, scoring at 35.5 points per game. The Wildcats, lead by sophomore quarterback Jake Nelson, implemented coach Shoemaker’s spread offense this season with good results. Nel-son found himself second in the GNAC in total offensive yards. Nelson, a dual threat, showed off his arm, averaging 245.6 yards per game and rushing for 322 yards making him eleventh in the GNAC.

While Nelson’s running was a bonus, junior running back Jor-dan Todd’s was a necessity. Todd is Central’s running back, car-rying the ball 191 times for 738 yards. Todd’s number of carries

placed him third in the GNAC in rushes. That, combined with his 23 receptions and duties in the pass protection scheme, placed a large amount of responsibility on Todd’s shoulders.

The Wildcat’s receiving core stepped up this season as they demonstrated a knack for big plays, led by senior wide receiver Greg Logan’s 63 receptions and 917 yards, he led the team and placed fourth in the GNAC in both categories.

Benefiting from Logan’s work on the outside was sophomore wide receiver Jesse Zalk, who led the Wildcats in touchdown re-ceptions with seven.

Another wide receiver who benefitted from Logan’s work was Kent McKinney Jr. who was the Wildcats big play receiver this season. McKinney made 39 receptions but averaged a team high of 16.2 yards per catch, in-cluding a long of 87 yards. His ability to pull the top off the cov-erage caused havoc for defensive secondary all season long.

The Wildcats said goodbye to seven senior players this sea-son, including offensive Line-men Marshall Green and Calvin Hoohuli Jr.

Hoohuli Jr.’s hard work has been apparent to his coaches.

“Calvin might be the most productive guy on the line this season,” Picha said, “His work on and off the field has shown in his play all season long.”

According to Shoemaker, wide receiver Greg Logan has been the silent leader in the re-ceiving core.

“Greg isn’t a ‘rah rah’ guy,” Shoemaker said. “He’s a guy who work’s hard and doesn’t need to tell people how good he is, he just proves it at practice and in the game.”

Ishmael Stinson, who came on late in the season managed to break into the GNAC top ten in rushing yards per game (42.2 yards per game) while only par-ticipating in eight games this sea-son.

This season senior Cole Graves changed positions from defensive back to linebacker. Graves took any change as a team player and sacrificed for the betterment of the team, and his coaches took notice.

“Cole Graves is the kind of person you want in your locker room,” Shoemaker said. “He’s a leader on and off the field. When you think of the type of attitude, you want in your program, you could hope for players like Cole. He is a locker room leader, and his voice carries respect and weight that is unmeasurable and invaluable to this program and

these players.”The last senior leaving the

’Burg, JB Torsey. On the field, Torsey was a

leader for the team on the de-fensive side of the ball and was quickly voted captain.

“Sometimes [junior college] players are more headaches than you’d want,” Picha said. “But JB has been a leader on this team and has the respect of everyone in that locker room.”

The Wildcat’s loss of valuable leaders is clear, but moving into next season the Wildcat’s future looks bright as Central will hope to expand on the seven wins in Shoemaker’s first season.

With so many key players re-turning next year, the GNAC should get ready because it looks like Central is going to be com-ing back with more experience than they will lose.

PLAYMAKER Linebacker Mitch Haldane celebrates a tackle.PHOTO COURTESY OF CWU ATHLETICS

DROPBACK Quarterback Jake Nelson scans the field and receives a snap against Lincoln University. Nelson finished third in the GNAC in total offense with 3024 yards.ALYSSA DARBY/OBSERVER

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Sisters stand out at CWUBY DILLON SANDStaff Reporter

In sports, it is common knowledge that whenever you play against someone more skilled, or extremely competi-tive, it will likely make you bet-ter. It makes sense, the more you play, the better you get. Imagine playing against some-

one that is just as competi-tive and skilled as you

are, and you com-pete against them in everything you do.

Now, imagine that the person is your sister.

This is life for Courtney and Jennifer John-son. Courtney, a senior forward

and captain of the women’s basketball

team, and Jennifer, a freshman on the rugby

team, have been compet-ing with and against each other for as long as both can remember.

Growing up, both sis-ters say they played every sport possible.

“We played T-ball, soc-cer, basketball… if you name a sport, we played it growing up,” Court-ney said.

Growing up in a house full of competi-tive athletes helped both sisters develop into the athletes and individuals they are today. Being the youngest of three sis-ters didn’t make Jen-nifer have any less of a competitive edge growing up, and she ac-knowledges her sisters as the ones who always pushed her to be better.

“I defi nitely feel like being the younger sibling they made me strong. I had to grow up fast in order to guard them and keep up,” Jennifer said.

Although there is a gap of a few years between Courtney and Jennifer, they never let that aff ect their competitiveness or desire to beat their siblings.

Game night in the Johnson household is where their real com-petitiveness comes out.

“We play a lot of board games and card games… Speed is our fa-vorite. We would sit on the living room fl oor and play for houirs

and just go at each other again and again,” Courtney said. Jen-nifer added, “We couldn’t stop because neither of us wanted to stop playing after we lost. It went on forever.”

After Jennifer was off ered a scholarship to play basketball at Central, it was one of the fi rst times that both sisters could have played on the same team. Jen-nifer made a diffi cult decision to turn down the scholarship to play rugby instead.

“I started playing rugby in March and I just fell in love with it. Then at Central it became a varsity sport and I knew I want-ed to join. It was hard to turn down playing with my sister but I couldn’t be happier with my de-cision,” Jennifer said.

Courtney admits that she tried to convince her sister to choose basketball instead, but realized that rugby is what made her most happy. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters to ei-ther sister.

After playing soccer and bas-ketball for all of her life, Court-ney knew that she wanted to con-tinue he career into college.

She decided to play basketball instead of soccer in college, but was unsure of where she wanted to play after high school.

Courtney’s coach at the time, former Wildcat men’s basketball player Keith Hennig, advised her to look at Central. Her visit to campus sealed the deal and she was invited to walk onto the women’s basketball team.

After not knowing what sport she would play, or where she would play it, Courtney is now in her fourth season with the Wild-cats and is currently their lead-ing scorer at 20 points per game, while also adding seven rebounds and 1.5 assists.

She says that growing up in a house with multiple sisters, that each eventually went on to play collegiate athletics, helped de-velop her competitiveness to the level that it is today.

Athletics and competition have always been a part of both of their lives, both sisters make sure that family comes fi rst be-fore anything else.

Both Courtney and Jennifer always try to make time to watch the other play.

“We’re both usually pretty quiet on the sidelines whenever we watch each other play,” Jen-nifer said. Courtney added, “Un-less there’s a play that gets us re-ally fi red up on the sidelines, then we’ll be heard.”

Although both sisters have taken diff erent paths with their collegiate sports careers, it is ob-vious what is most important to them.

“Athletics has always just brought us all closer as a family,” Courtney said. “I think that’s probably the reason we have grown to love it so much and continue doing it today.”

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BY COLE RIDLEY

Staff Reporter

There have been proposals in recent years to bring a bicycle moto-cross (BMX) course to El-lensburg. A former resident of Ellensburg pushed for the recre-ational addition for many years before leaving town.

Ellensburg City Hall an-nounced in December 2012 that a BMX track had been added to Rotary Parks master plan.

The Parks and Recreation de-partment of Ellensburg acquired more property for Rotary Park and has created a plan for the addition of the BMX track. Brad Case, the Parks and Recreation director, led the team.

“At the time we did the mas-ter plan update, [the former resident] was big into BMX and was pushing hard to get some-thing out of Rotary Park,” Case said. “His input and involvement in the process was the catalyst to including BMX into the plan.”

The 100-acre park currently has four regulation Little League baseball fi elds, four other base-ball and softball fi elds, four soc-cer fi elds, a basketball court, a play structure, walking trails and

324 parking stalls. If there are no more additions

made to the plan, the future Ro-tary Park would include the four youth baseball fi elds, four soft-ball fi elds, seven full-sized soccer fi elds, three smaller soccer fi elds, an off -leash area, a play structure, a basket-ball court, a roller rink, a BMX track and 1,600 parking stalls.

According to Case, the BMX track would be full-sized, large

enough to host certifi ed BMX or other unsanctioned races. The

plan includes asphalt turns, dirt and a starting hill wide enough for a starting gate and eight bik-ers wide races and competitions.

“The idea would

be to serve local rid-ers and also be a way to bring people from outside the community to come to Eillens-

burg,” Case said. “But the details of the track are not even close to being developed.”

A landscape architect gen-erated a cost estimate for

each component of the master plan, with the BMX track estimated at

$250,000, without lighting. Case and his team are

agreeing to move forward with the project. Case sees

the addition of the proper-ty as an economic generator

and a way to bring the commu-nity together through racing.

The inclusion of a BMX track could play a factor in the deci-

sions of high school seniors from around Kittitas val-

ley on where they plan to attend college.

Central’s Out-door Pursuits and Rentals (OPR) program provides opportunities for students wishing to engage in rec-reational activi-ties.

OPR con-nects with skiers

and snowboarders searching for transpor-

tation to the Snoqualmie Sum-mit and off ers other connections with people who like to raft, hike and rock climb.

OPR could work with the BMX track at Rotary Park in the future and create another con-nection with recreational BMX riders looking to attend Central.

Case said that the establish-ment of the track is years away, but it’s on the future plan for Rotary Park and will be taken seriously by the Parks and Recre-ation department.

BMX track still in the works

more property for Rotary Park

tary Park would include the four youth baseball fi elds, four soft-ball fi elds, seven full-sized soccer fi elds, three smaller soccer fi elds, an off -leash area, a play structure, a basket-ball court, a roller rink, a BMX track and 1,600 parking stalls.

According to Case, the BMX track would be full-sized, large

enough to host certifi ed BMX or other unsanctioned races. The

ers wide races and competitions.

“The idea would

be to serve local rid-ers and also be a way to bring people from outside the community to come to Eillens-

A landscape architect gen-erated a cost estimate for

each component of the master plan, with the BMX track estimated at

$250,000, without lighting. Case and his team are

agreeing to move forward with the project. Case sees

the addition of the proper-ty as an economic generator

and a way to bring the commu-nity together through racing.

The inclusion of a BMX track could play a factor in the deci-

sions of high school seniors from around Kittitas val-

ley on where they plan to attend college.

and snowboarders searching for transpor-

Rotary Park1200 W 5th

Current features:

•Four LL baseball � elds•Four regular softball and baseball � elds•Basketball court•Play structure•Walking trails•324 parking stalls

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BY JONATHAN GLOVER

Staff Reporter

Coming off an electrifying win over Hawaii Pacifi c in the Naza-rene Tip-Off Classic in Nampa, Idaho, Central’s women’s basket-ball team looks forward to play-ing Evergreen State at home.

Settling into a 1-1 start, the Wildcats hope to improve from their 7-19 record last season.

Under new head coach Jeff Harada, the philosophy of the Wildcats can be summarized by one word: defense.

As a defensive-minded coach, Harada said the biggest area of improvement for the team is tightening down on their assign-ments, since they don’t have the fi repower to outshoot their op-ponents.

“We’re trying to establish an identity that when you play Cen-tral Washington, you’re in for a tough night,” Harada said.

After their disappointing sea-son last year, the Wildcats were predicted to rank last this season by the GNAC coaches. Despite this, Harada has chosen to re-main hopeful and work on turn-ing this team around.

“I’m very excited to prove [the GNAC coaches wrong],” Ha-

rada said. “It bothers me, and it should bother the team. We feel we’re better than tenth. We can-not control where we’re picked in the beginning, but we can control where we’re picked in the end.”

Coming off an important win last weekend, the Wildcats have much to look forward to, after their impressive defensive perfor-mance.

The Wildcats allowed Hawaii Pacifi c 63 points, just under last year’s opponent average- per-game of 69. In their loss to Cali-fornia Baptist, the Wildcats al-lowed 68.

Senior forward Courtney Johnson, originally a walk-on her freshman year, is excited about the changes Harada has made to the team dynamics. Something Harada has done diff erently is make the team feel more like a family, she said.

“Personally, I liked [Nelson] but there were just a lot of ups and downs,” Johnson said. “Peo-ple didn’t buy in, and I think one of the most important things is all people from top to bottom need to buy in, and I think that’s something we were missing. With coach Harada, he’s made it very clear that this is the way it’s going to be.”

Even freshmen players re-cruited by the staff of former coach Nelson have found success in Harada’s coaching style, re-marking that the family dynamic of the team is something they cherish.

“My favorite thing about this team is the chemistry we have and the bonds we’ve created,” Jasmine Edwards, freshman point guard, said. “We’ve gone through a lot of stuff together like training, conditioning and all the blood, sweat and tears together. It’s brought us closer together.”

“Together We Will” is a slo-gan created by the players as a means of overcoming previous adversities and sticking it out as a group, Harada said.

“We know that a lot of times it’s just going to be us that believe in us,” Harada said. “We’ve gotta be in it together. We win together. We lose together. There really is no selfi shness on this team.”

When playing in front of the home crowd, the Wildcats have historically found more success. On away games last year, the team sunk to a disappointing 1-8, but at home, the team improved to 4-9 overall.

For the players, there’s some-thing about the home atmo-

sphere and the stadium that mix together to make something spe-cial.

As for Johnson, it’s a matter of routine and comfort that can make the diff erence.

“You’re familiar with the gym and familiar with the school,” Johnson said. “It’s kind of that home court pride where you

don’t want to lose at home and you want to defend it.”

The Wildcats will have the opportunity to defend themselves against Evergreen State, who currently sit at 3-0. The game is not part of the GNAC schedule, but nonetheless, Harada said the team will be playing their hearts out.

X-Country makes Regionals

Women’s basketball looks to right the woes of a season ago

BY DONNIE SANTOS

Staff Reporter

For all the hours sacrifi ced and the miles traveled, it all comes down to the regional races for the Central Washington cross country runners.

For the regional tournament, held in Billings, Mont., all the teams in the West Region will gather to be in the top six team positions. The top six teams will then be allowed to send their seven best runners to nationals in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 6.

“Both teams have been look-ing forward to this race,” head coach Kevin Adkisson said. “It’s going to be an especially tough race for our women. As the sea-son has come to show that our region has eight or nine really strong teams that are all going to be fi ghting for one of those six spots with us.”

Currently, the women’s team is ranked seventh in their region.

Making it to nationals can be done through an individual route as well. The fi rst three runners, who are not on one of the top six teams will earn a bid.

Returning senior All-Ameri-can Connie Morgan was able to make the national race as an in-

dividual qualifi er.“I think making it last year in-

spired a lot of people,” Morgan said. “Nobody thought I had a chance to make it, including my-self. It was a great experience and it has been a goal of mine to have the whole team go this year.”

The women’s team will be lead by Morgan and junior top runner Dani Eggleston. In the last two years of regionals they have fi nished 10th. They will be looking to break that streak.

As the season continues into the winter, racing in unfamiliar climates and various terrains gives racers mental and physical obstacles that they might not be used to.

With the cold weather in the Northwest, Central racers have become acclimated to training in conditions that are often foreign to many other competitors. The Wilcats are planning to use this diff erence in temperature to their advantage.

“This cold weather is really hard to run in,” Morgan said. “The way we see it, though, is we have an advantage over teams who are from the Northwest coast or from California, because Billings has similar conditions as Ellensbiurg.”

The regional race will be on Saturday, Nov. 22. The men’s race is a 10k and the women’s will be a 6k.

Home Schedule

Nov. 22 Evergreen StateNov 29. Dixie StateDec. 4 Saint MartinsDec. 6 Western OregonDec. 13 ConcordiaJan. 8 Western Washing-tonJan. 10 Simon FraserJan. 29 Alaska Anchor-ageJan. 31 Alaska Fairbanks

Western Regional

Tournament

Regional RaceBillings, Mont.

Nov. 22Women’s 6K, Men’s 10K

Away Schedule

Nov. 30 Eastern Wash-ingtonDec. 18 Montana TechDec. 19 South Dakota MinesJan. 1Alaska FairbanksJan. 3 Alaska AnchorageJan. 15 Montana State BillingsJan. 17 Seattle Paci� cJan. 24 Northwest Naza-rene

Defense will be key for CWU

Division IINational

Championship

National RaceLouisville, Ky.

Nov. 22Women’s 6K, Men’s 10K

Connie Morgan

Regular season results

CWU Invitational 4K 14:58

Sun Dodger 6K 22:53

Willamette 5K 18:18

Western Washington Invitational 6K 22:31

Viking Short Course 5K 18:43

GNAC Championship 6K 21:02

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