Juniors Brandon Gollhofer and Brandi Boese were elected president and vice president for the 2015-2016 SGA term, winning over the ticket of juniors Wesley Williams and Mary O’Neal.

Dean of Students Levi Esses revealed the results of the election, showing the Gollhofer-Boese ticket won 78.93 percent of the votes and

the Williams-O’Neal ticket won 21.07 percent of the votes.

This is the first year the executive officers were decided by voting for a ticket instead of for individuals and the first year elections took place online.

Only 280 students voted, but Boese said she thought the number of voters had increased because online elections were more convenient for students.

“I think it’s a little higher than it

usually is,” she said.Gollhofer and Boese chose Kylie

Werth as SGA secretary Christopher Luschen as treasurer.

Boese said she and Gollhofer decided to run together because they had similar goals.

“We both kind of had similar ideas for what we wanted to change about Newman,” she said.

Gollhofer said he and Boese intend

Most mornings where she works at Starbucks, there’s at least one person who recognizes senior Rusty Car-baugh for her role in a recent Span-gles commercial.

“They call me bacon now,” she said. “I did have some girls come in and order frappucinos and ask for my autograph. I was just really embar-assed.”

Cast members from Newman University’s production of “Hamlet”

were recently asked to film a com-mercial for Spangles, a local fast food chain.

The camera focuses primarily on Carbaugh, juniors Alison Byrne and Lauren Gardner, and freshman Carlos Sanchez, as they hawk the restau-rant’s new garlic parmesan bacon cheeseburger.

Sanchez said President Noreen Carrocci saw the play and reached out to the restaurant, which frequent-ly features local people in its commer-cials, saying that she had actors for their next commercial.

Carrocci herself has appeared in a Spangles commercial before, advertis-ing the “turkey turkey on pita.”

“It was a fun experience,” Sanchez said. “And the burger was really good.”

The commercial was shot at the Spangles location on West Street, just north of Kellogg, and filming took approximately two hours, Carbaugh said.

All of the actors were told to bring multiple costumes, and the producers of the commercial picked out a color

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VantagetheSTUDENT VOICE OF NEWMAN UNIVERSITYsince 1968

Scholarship awarded to high school studentsBy TRE’ BLOUNTStaff Writer

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10 incoming freshman have been awarded the Cardinal Newman scholarship, the university’s highest-valued scholarship, whereas last year there were 14 students that received the scholarship.

Director of Undergraduate Ad-missions Kristen English said the decrease in the number of students receiving the Cardinal Newman scholarship is the result of an effort to distribute money to students from different backgrounds.

“We want to give money to these students equally,” she said.

These differences accompany some changes made to the number of scholarships students can stack. The stacking policy for scholarships have changed only for those incoming students; current students are grand-fathered in. Incoming freshmen may stack only two or three scholarships at a time.

“We have to be diligent and make sure that we’re balancing how we distribute it because of the stacking policies,” said Mark Barrett, VP for Enrollment Management.

“We want to make sure that we’re not over-awarding in other places than most. We’re trying to award students appropriately. Look at New-man’s mission, we’re trying to do as much as we can in terms of giving back,” he said.

Barrett said the changes will hope-fully benefit more students in the long run.

“We’re hoping that what we’re do-ing here is going to help impact that but it’ll never be perfect and if done right this will benefit more students,” he said.

The students who were awarded the Cardinal Newman scholar-ship will receive full tuition and are required to live on campus for the du-ration of the next four years at New-man. They will also have to maintain their academic standing while at

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Students cheese it up for commercialBy MATT RIEDLStaff Writer

RUSTY CARBAUGH AND CARLOS SANCHEZ were two of several cast members of Newman’s Hamlet production in-vited to star in a Spangles’ commercial advertising the new garlic parmesan bacon cheeseburger. Courtesy Photo, Spangles’

Gollhofer and Boese new SGA execsBy JESSICA SPONSELNews Editor

MMM, BACON!

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News BriefsTHURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 NEWS 2

From “Scholarships” on Page 1

Cash CabCampus Activities

Board will be hosting a “cash cab” event from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. today all across Newman Univer-sity’s campus.

Students will be invited to board the cash cab golf cart and answer questions.

Students will receive a dollar for every question they answer correctly.

SGA Senator elections

Elections for next year’s SGA senators will happen April 27-29 online.

Students interested in running for a senator posi-tion must fill out an appli-cation by noon Apr. 24. The applications are located outside the Student Life Suite in the Student Center.

Newman.The students who were awarded

the Cardinal Newman scholarship are:

Nicole Beck of Bishop Carroll, An-

nie Dang of Kapaun Mt. Carmel, John Vincent DeGraffenreid of Bishop Carroll, Anna Dinh of Bishop Carroll, Nora Hartman of Conway Springs, Makaylah Perkins of New Tech High @ Coppell of Coppel, TX, Linnea

Joy Ristow of Goddard Eisenhower, Kenneth Tristan Santiago of Wichita South High School, Emily Sarnacki of Winfield High School, and Laura Faye Shine of Wichita Northwest High School.

From “Commercial,” on Page 1

to work on specific goals in the com-ing school year.

“The three things we’re working on are increasing school spirit, school service, and cooperation among the departments,” he said.

Gollhofer said he thinks the SGA cabinet has a lot of diversity because it includes an athlete and the mem-bers come from different classes and have different majors.

“It goes hand in hand with the Jet spirit we’re working on,” he said.

One of the ways Gollhofer and Boese want to promote school spirit is by creating “spirit shirts.”

These shirts will be created by spray painting t-shirts; Golhoffer said these shirts would be worn to cam-pus events and students who wore these shirts to events or on game days could win prizes.

Boese said she thought students

would be more willing to wear the shirts if they made them.

“If students design them, they want to wear them more,” she said.

Another planned project would be to bring some of the art made by Newman art students outside of De-Mattias to other buildings on campus.

“That builds a sense of commu-nity,” Gollhofer said.

As executive SGA members, Gollhofer and Boese cannot serve as presidents of any Newman clubs.

Gollhofer is the current president of the Board Games club.

“We’re looking into finding a presi-dent,” Gollhofer said, but “the club won’t die.”

Esses said in an e-mail to The Vantage that he has confidence in the newly elected president and vice president.

“Both tickets deserve recognition for the campaigns they ran and for their strong leadership potential, and I congratulate all parties involved. I feel confident Brandon and Brandi will do a tremendous job running SGA next year. They both bring the experience and enthusiasm needed to lead the study body,” he said.

Boese said she is ready to get started.

“It’s exciting,” she said.Gollhofer and Boese will be sworn

into their positions on May 5.

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Quilting BingoNewman’s Jets for Life

club will be hosting its third annual quilting bingo at 1 p.m. April 26 in the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center.

Students will have the chance to win a quilt; stu-dent bingo cards cost $3, adult bingo cards cost $5.

Food will be available for purchase.

scheme they liked, she said. None of the actors are wearing Newman attire.

“The Newman people know we’re (students) at Newman,” Sanchez said. “The others are just like, ‘They’re some kids filming a commercial.’”

They each were given a sandwich and told not to eat the whole thing, since it had to appear in the commer-cial yet. Carbaugh did not follow that advice.

“I ate the entire sandwich, and they took a sandwich from a child and put it in front of me, and gave him a fresh one,” she said. “They said, ‘Don’t eat this one.’”

Other members of the cast, such as Justin Ralph, Wesley Williams, Mat-thias Brand, and Sha’Terryca Williams appear in background shots, eating the burger at separate tables.

Each cast member was compensat-ed for their work with a $50 gift card to Spangles, which Sanchez said he spent within the week – all on garlic

parmesan bacon cheeseburgers.Sanchez said he has also been

recognized in the community for his role in the commercial – which, in ad-dition to playing on local television, is also played on local radio stations.

“A lot of people say, ‘Hey, you’re that guy from the commer-cial,’” he said. “I was at a forensics competition ... helping judge, and most of the other kids recognized me from the commercial because I was still in the costume I decided to wear that that day. The publicity went way up.”

He said acting for film was much different than acting on the stage in “Hamlet.”

“In ‘Hamlet,’ you’re told to project

out to the audience, and in front of the camera, you’re told to talk regu-larly,” Sanchez said.

Carbaugh said her work as Ophelia prepared her to deliver her signature lines, “It’s so juicy!” “Bacon!” and “Parmesan, melted swiss cheese and

bacon?”.“Ophelia ate a

lot of garlic burgers before committing suicide,” she said. “That may have been why.”

The restaurant chain has featured Newman officials in its commercials before, and once

filmed a commercial in which a Wichita State singing group sang the “Sourdough Turkey, Buffalo Bacon and Ranch” song.

Occasionally, featured spots in Spangles commercials are sold off as prizes in silent auctions for charity.

Brandon GollhoferBrandi Boese

“I did have some girls come in and order frappucinos and ask for my autograph. I was just really embar-rassed.”

RUSTY CARBAUGH

They’ve been working since the start of the semester, the set looks just as large as previous years’, and an ec-lectic mix of show tunes and pop mu-sic has been memorized… mostly.

But this year’s spring musical show, “Raise Your Glass,” is going to be a lit-tle different from past years, Musical Director Deanne Zogleman said.

“The last two years have been more plot-centered,” she said. “I felt it was time for a change.”

The last two years, song numbers were performed surrounding charac-ters interacting through a core story last years’ was a failed wedding and the year before was centered around the history of a nightclub, she said.

There are still going to be central characters, but it’s going to be more song-driven, Zogleman said.

“It’s more of a musical-revue style,” said senior chorale member Haley Hungate. The dialogue is there to set up the songs instead of driving a plot or anything like that, she said.

This is Hungate’s fourth and final year as a chorale member - she gradu-ates this spring - and she said being a part of Newman chorale has had a profound impact on her experience here, specifically Zogleman’s support.

“She made me an extrovert. When I first came to Newman I was much more shy,” said Hungate, who is sing-ing “Poor Unfortunate Souls,” from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.”

Zogleman said she will be sad to see her seniors go but that there are a lot of underclassmen ready to step up.

“I hope they’re excited to have their first experience with a show like this,” she said.

Freshman chorale member Carlos Sanchez, who is singing “No One is Alone” from “Into the Woods,” said he is excited to have a solo in his first Spring Show.

“I absolutely love it, and I am very excited,” he said. “My family is com-ing up from Ft. Worth to see it.”

“Raise Your Glass” premieres 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in the De Mattias Performance Hall and runs till May 2. It is free for Newman students, $12 for

adults, and $5 for other students. Zo-gleman said there is still much to do, though she isnt’t stressing. Sanchez and Hungate are feeling a little more anxious.

“I don’t sleep well,” said Sanchez.“I’ll be a mess on Sunday,” said

Hungate.

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SHAKE IT OFF!

Chorale members prepare for annual spring concertJOHN DENNYEditor-in-Chief

Friday will include two significant events for Newman’s Fine Arts de-partment: the last Final Friday of the year, and the second annual Art Day of Giving (ArtDOG), where the Wi-chita community is invited to donate to its Fine Arts program.

ArtDOG is a 24-hour online fund-raising event put on by the Wichita Community Foundation that allows donors to support the local art pro-grams of their choice. The organiza-tion that raises the most money could potentially be matched. Newman University’s Fine Arts Department is one of 37 participating nonprofit art organizations.

From 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, the Steck-line Gallery will showcase the art-work of local artists Dustin Parker and Greg Turner. During this time, artwork by Newman’s alumni and art majors will also be displayed in the hallways of De Mattias. The hallway show will also include artwork from graduating seniors Lisa Pleskan, Glo-ria Esparza and Austin Solis.

Parker’s artwork could be de-scribed as unusual yet beautifully unique, said Mary Werner, Newman’s Director of Visual Arts. His works will intrigue viewers who come to the Steckline Gallery, she said.

“Dustin Parker is a really well-known local artist who has quite a following within Wichita,” Werner said. “His works are really over-the-top and prolific. Very often, his works include some kind of narrative or self-portrait, and sometimes there will be a social/political comment of some kind. It should be an interesting show for all the art lovers who come.”

Following the art exhibits, New-man will put on their first ever va-riety show at 7 p.m. in De Mattias Performance Hall. The talent show will feature several performances that people should be excited for, said Mark Mannette, Newman’s director of theatre and the show’s emcee, who encourages all art lovers and support-ers of Newman to come and celebrate

ArtDOG throws Newman a bone

ZOGLEMAN AND CHORALE MEMBERS celebrate after last year’s Spring Show final performance. Kati Bush, A&E Editor

By ELLEN HEALYStaff Writer

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more info

when: 7:30 p.m. April 30 - May 2

where: De Mattias Performance Hall

how much: $12 adults $5 students Free to NU students

what: “Raise Your Glass”

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“ Question of the Week

JuniorEngels

What are the 3 movies you’d want with you if you were stranded on desert island?

“The Hobbit Trilogy.”

Sam Sophomore

Minx

“The Lord of the Rings Trilogy”

TaraFreshman

“Johnny English, Big Hero 6, and The Pianist.”

Carlos

“Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, and Kingsmen: The Secret Service.”

“The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Inglouri-ous Basterds.”

FreshmanTrevor

SophomorePaughPhil

“All of the Harry Potter movies cut together and burned onto 3 DVDs.

Rusty CarbaughFarney

Sanchez

Super Senior

the arts.“The show kicks off with the New-

man University Troubadours,” said Mannette. “It will feature some pieces from the theatre program, some solo performers, and a performance by the members of Newman’s sketch com-edy club. The show will wrap up with the Sloppy Joes. It’s going to be an awesome evening, and if people care about the arts at Newman University, then they should come and join the fun.”

The variety show will include free food and prizes, including raffles for some of the artwork displayed, and art and theatre themed gift baskets. The prizewinners will be announced during the show, and those who enter must be present to win.

During all events on Final Friday, cash donations of any amount are wel-comed, said Susan Crane, an assistant professor of English and a member of the variety show’s committee. The money raised will only be used to-wards Newman’s Fine Arts Program and its students, Crane said.

“I hope that because it’s a fund-

raising event, people will make a do-nation, however small, to us here,” Crane said. “The donations made during that 24-hour period, could be matched, which could really help us out a great deal, especially when it comes to our visual and theatrical arts, there are many material costs, and we want there to be good materials so that students can have the best educational experience. In the fine arts area, all the funds raised will be given back to the students that are doing the work of their discipline. It’s not used for any-thing other than that.”

The last Final Friday at Newman

should be an enjoyable one, Crane said, a fun way to celebrate the arts and support Newman.

“It’s an opportunity to get together as a community – students, faculty, staff, folks from the wider Wichita community who have been affiliated with Newman as alumni or who just want to come – to have a good time for an evening of art celebration,” she said.

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Spring fling will bring the fun

Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host its annual Spring Fling this Saturday that will include food, games and inflatables from 2 to 6 p.m. on Founder’s Plaza.

Megan Hemel, CAB chair is over-seeing the organization of the event and said she is hoping the event will help students get excited for the end of the year. She said students are en-couraged to bring friends and family as the event will feature activities for all ages.

“Spring Fling is a way to celebrate the end of the year,” she said. “A way to let loose with four hours of music, junk food, friends, and fun stuff pro-vided by CAB.”

Hemel and CAB have coordinated with campus clubs to help with activi-

ties during the Spring Fling. Art Club will be face-painting, Board Games Club will be organizing yard and lawn games, and the Swing Dance Club will be found dancing around the plaza. And NUMC will be sponsoring a chili cook off. Freddy’s Frozen custard will be catering custard and other drinks and Great Western Dining will pro-vide other snacks.

Inflatables and other activities will include a pirate ship, an obstacle course, jousting, and a mechanical shark.

Student Life Coordinator and CAB Sponsor, Mic Brunner said he is hop-ing for a good turnout.

“It will be a great time for students to have a relaxing Saturday with fam-ily-friendly entertainment,” he said. “I hope everyone comes out to have a good time.”

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Newman vs. St. Edward’s L 1-8

Newman vs. St. Mary’s L 4-5

Newman vs. CameronL 3-6

Newman vs. Bethel CollegeW 8-1

Newman vs. Kansas WesleyanW 9-0

Newman vs. Fort Hays StateW 9-0

Newman vs. St. Edward’sL 2-7

Newman vs. St. Mary’sL 0-9

Newman vs. Cameron L 3-6

Newman vs. Bethel CollegeW 9-0

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Newman vs. CameronL 1-7, L 5-7

Newman vs. St. Edward’sL 0-9, L 4-5

Newman vs. William JewellL 4-5, W 4-3

Newman vs. Fort Hays StateW 7-6, L 6-3

Newman vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State W 9-5, L 3-4, L 6-7

Newman vs. Texas A&M Interna-tional W 7-4, W 3-2, W 14-2

Newman vs Fort Hays StateW 10-9

Newman vs. Arkansas - Fort SmithW 8-5, L 6-17, L 8-12

Newman vs. Northwestern Okla-homa State W 12-4

Newman vs. St. Mary’s L 2-11, L 1-5, L 2-3

Athletic department tests out online strength program

SOPHOMORE CIERRA TJADEN defends the ball during the pre-season matchup against Wichita State. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By DELANEY HIEGERTSports Editor

Newman University’s athletic de-partment has been testing out a new online strength and conditioning pro-gram since the start of the 2014 fall se-mester.

The program, called Volt, is a com-puterized program that individually analyzes each athlete’s information and creates a workout specific to them.

Newman’s athletic trainer Cam Clark brought Volt to the attention of the athletic department.

“It’s similar to having a strength coach on staff with us,” Clark said. “It creates individualized sport-specific workouts for pre-season, in season, and post-season athletes.”

Volt, which is based in Seattle, has strength and conditioning coaches on staff that help to analyze and create the workout, Clark said.

“The biggest downfall is that our coaching staff is not trained to be strength coaches,” Clark said. “That makes it hard to implement the pro-gram with our athletes.”

Clark said he had an in-service with the university’s coaching staff to show them the program and see if there would be enough interest to test it out this year.

“We wanted to see if Volt would even be a plausible alternative to an

actual strength coach on site,” Clark said.

A handful of teams were selected to test out the program, including the volleyball team, women’s soccer team, and women’s basketball team.

Sophomore basketball player Cierra Tjaden said she felt like the program was a good idea but just not as effec-tive as a strength coach on site would be.

“I liked the idea of having our own personalized workouts,” Tjaden said. “But once we got going with it, I re-alized things would go a lot smoother with a strength coach there to help.”

Tjaden said that not only would a strength coach help with technique, most of the players agree it would help with motivation and excitement in the weight room.

The athletic department agrees with the players and aspires to get a full-time strength and conditioning coach on staff in the futur, if funds allow.

Athletic Director Vic Trilli said hir-ing a strength coach would be a logi-cal and valuable move, considering most of Newman’s competition has strength coaches on staff.

“You wouldn’t have a softball field and no softball coach. We’ve got a weight room with all that equipment – but no coach,” Trilli said. “Volt was a way to try and fill that hole until we

can hire on a coach.”Trilli said the goal is to hire on a

strength coach once they have the fi-nanical ability, but Volt was a program to try and implement in the absence of a coach.

“We tried it out this year to see how effective it would be,” Trilli said. “We have to pay to use the Volt workouts, so we haven’t decided if we’ll add on some more teams this coming year or not. A big part of it is how successful

the athletes, coaches, and trainer feel the program was.”

The cost of Volt programs does vary, but Trilli said that Newman is investing upwards of $5,000 in the program currently.

“We don’t want that money to be spent on Volt in the long-term,” Trilli said. “We know what we want to do – what we need to do – is hire a strength and conditioning coach. That’s the long-term goal.”

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ABOVE: SENIOR COURTNEY DOLD AND JUNIOR ARIANA RAGA celebrate after a point in their doubles match earlier this season. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

LEFT: SENIOR FREDDY SANCHEZ gets ready to toss a ball up for a serve in a doubles match at the beginning of this season. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

The men’s and women’s tennis teams have left their marks on New-man athletics this year but are still looking to make some waves in the conference tournament this weekend.

The women’s team is seeded fourth in conference heading into the tournament with a record of 18-4.

“Our conference is very strong this season,” head tennis coach Shella Augspurger said. “Our only four losses are all to nationally ranked teams.”

The men’s team is hoping to make it through the tournament and on to nationals.

“It is awesome that my last year here we have a chance to go to na-tionals,” senior Jeff Wherritt said.

Assistant tennis coach, Kevin Klein, said that the players on each team this year have been very selfless.

“Even though tennis is more of an individual sport, the players are very team oriented,” Klein said. “Our players are just good people on and off the court.”

Senior Courtney Dold said, “We’ve gotten a lot better as a team and created a close family. We walk on the court together to reach the same goal.”

Augspurger said that it’s been fun

watching the team grow together and bond as the season progressed.

“The team is made up of many different cultures. The girls are from many different places all over the world,” Augspurger said. “It is neat to see the girls teaching each other languages and learning about each other’s cultures.”

Before Klein became a coach, he was once a Newman player and played on the same team as many current players including Jeff Wherritt and Evgeniy Kim. Klein’s transforma-tion from player to coach ran smooth-ly thanks to the support and respect of the athletes.

The men’s team will lose three sen-iors and the women’s team will lose four this season. The men’s team will lose Freddy Sanchez, Jeff Wherrit and Evgeniy Kim. The women’s team will lose Courtney Dold, Hilary Hicks, Lisa Pleskan, and Carissa Villaflor.

“ I don’t know what I’m going to do without them,” Augspurger said. “I’ve really grown to know them. They are a bunch of really smart kids and hard workers.”

Klein’s hope for next year is to keep building on what the team has already accomplished. “We have come along way in the past years and especially this season,” he said.

Men’s, women’s tennis prepare for conferenceBy RACHEL MYERSStaff Writer

If anyone reading this has ever stepped into Dr. Bryan Dietrich’s of-fice, then you have a complete un-derstanding that no matter how old a geek gets they still love to collect geeky memorabilia. And my geeky obsession happens to be Nintendo’s fighting game series “Super Smash Broth-ers.” So, when Nin-tendo announced their line of Super Smash Brothers col-lectables, I flipped a table. Not liter-ally, but I was as ex-cited as when they announced Mega Man as a fighter in the fourth install-ment of the series. I screamed. Literally.

These collectables – or “amiibos” – are part of a new wave of technology in gaming. They satisfy a geek’s need to buy and play with action figures, gather collectables, and also they can bring a character to life in-game. In Super Smash Brothers’ case, the “ami-ibo” is like a virtual pet you can feed,

play with, or brutally destroy on the battlefield. (Until they reach level 50… then good luck, my friend.)

However, North America has gone insane over these collectables. On April 2nd this year, pre-orders went up for the third wave of merchandise. Meaning brand new collectables were hitting the shelves, and within an hour, all pre-sale orders were gone. Insane fans had crashed servers to websites like Best Buy and GameStop, and in one hour, millions of fans hopes of getting a Charizard figurine were crushed... Including mine.

Consistently, whenever I’m out shopping I scope out the gaming sec-tion in the store in hopes of finding a rare figurine. As I said earlier, I am a huge fan of “Mega Man,” but when the Mega Man figurine was released, he was impossible to find anywhere. One fateful day over spring break, as I walked into a GameStop with the hopes of finding a rare “amiibo” a lonely Mega Man was sitting on the rack. I fell to my knees, shrieked in ex-citement, embarrassed my girlfriend,

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Society says that there are two things we should not talk about in public: religion and politics. Well, con-sidering that we are at a Catholic insti-tution, that first one might not apply here but I am about to break the taboo. That’s right I’m here to talk to you about politics, but before you throw this paper down in disgust, I encour-age you to keep reading; it isn’t as bad as you think.

The ability to vote is something that many people take for granted. Voting rights are protected for all U.S. citizens by the amendments made to the Consti-tution, and every-one should realize how important that is. Odds are, your great, great grand-pappy fought in the Civil War, leading to the passing of the 15th Amendment. Likewise, it’s possi-ble that your great grandmother was a mover and shaker in the women’s suf-frage movement, leading to the adop-tion of the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.

So if people have fought for your right to vote, why not honor them by actually voting?

According to the Washington Post, only 36.4 percent of eligible voters participated in this past fall’s midterm elections. So if you are reading this ar-ticle in a group of three, it’s likely that two of you did not vote. Shame them as you see fit.

It appears, however, that presiden-tial elections get more voters, although that fact is changing. In a study by the University of California, Santa Barba-ra, 54.9 percent of voters showed up to the polls for the 2012 Presidential Elections. While that is a better turn out than the midterms, it is still lower than both 2008 and 2004 with 58.2 per-cent and 56.7 percent respectively, and even lower than the 1876 Presidential election where 81.8 percent of voters showed up.

So what’s the deal? Why aren’t peo-ple going to the polls like they used to? Well, one idea of mine is that voting

Exercise your right to vote

Wesley Williams

Rock the vote!

Justin Ralph

This is completely healthy.

Amiibos, the newest geek-tech

I need mo’ Amiibo

Moo Barragan, Cartoonist

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Letter to the Editor: We need Vic to stick

I have been around Newman Ath-letics for a long time. When I started school it was called Sacred Heart Col-lege. That’s how far back I go.

I have known, or known of, all of the Athletic Directors here at New-man. With all due respect to those who came before, (Herm Bachrodt, Sister Diane Leary CSJ, to name just a few) none of them ever did as great a job as our current AD, Vic Trilli has done. The man knows what to do when it comes to running our athletic department. He is a BTO.

I believe it would be a bigger blow to our school & athletic department to lose Vic Trilli than it would have been for WSU to lose mens’ head basketball coach Gregg Marshall. In Vic’s seven years at NU he has done so much for so many, too many to mention here.

As a man of faith, I believe the good Lord placed Vic at Newman to help guide us down the path of NCAA Di-vision II. I just hope and pray that he will stay until his retirement. (Maybe at age 85, Vic). Vic is an ASSET that this school can not afford to lose.

Sincerely,Kirk Lester

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This week’s tip is very simple, yet also very useful, especially when you’re doing research. When you’re Googling information for your re-search paper, sometimes you click on the link, and the information isn’t right there at the top. So, you try searching all over the page. You skim once, skim twice, and then finally find the little bit of information you need for your pa-per. But that’s annoying, right?

What if you do the same sort of search on a specific Internet page? Well you can, and every mainstream

internet browser supports it. It’s called CTRL-F, or CMD-F – for the lovely Mac users out there. Simply hit that key combination when you’re on a web page you want to search. A little box or tab will appear. Simply start typing what you want to find, and the browser will start finding all the in-stances of that word or phrase on the web page.

It doesn’t have the same auto cor-rect features like Google has, but it still does a great job finding information fast. So save yourself some time, and

get some more relaxing done with this tech tip!

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The end is coming.I don’t want to graduate.

LinkedIn here I come.

THE HAIKU ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

and purchased the little guy.Other countries are not experienc-

ing this level of geek freak-out. Which leads me to conclude that America is just an insane country, with people buying and re-selling the “amiibos” online because they’re money-grub-bing jerks. It only takes one person with a lot of money, a fast Internet con-nection, and the mentality of a school-yard bully to ruin it for everyone.

But even with a nation of consum-eristic bullies, let’s hope that I can get lucky enough to find a Charizard figu-rine. Because then I’ll fall to my knees again. And weep... openly... in lucky, geeky glory.

has fallen victim to our busy lives. We run around all day at work or school, and then totally forget to vote, or we find it too time consuming to stand in line just to press a few buttons on a screen.

Another idea is that many people our age do not know that they can re-quest a ballot to be mailed to them if they are away at school. Yes, this is a thing. Contact your home county for more information on how to sign up for absentee voting.

Although, the truth is, people just don’t care. With the way elections are ran today, people feel that their one vote couldn’t possibly make a differ-

ence so why bother. Well, that vote does make a difference (see the 2000 Presidential Elections) and you never know when your seemingly small voice can make a large impact.

I want to leave you with some vot-ing tips. First, start small; participate in a Newman or local election and then work your way up to the main event next fall. Second, research: Do some digging to find out more about who is running so that way you aren’t just throwing darts at the ballot (don’t actually throw darts; it’s probably ille-gal.) Finally, if you decide not to vote… Don’t complain about how things are run after the elections. You could have changed the way things ended up.

From “Amiibos,” on Page 7 From “Voting,” on Page 7

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