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The printed word has always been something that intrigued me (see page 13). There’s something about

the legend of the journalist that champions truth despite impossible odds. More often than not, journalists are the

Davids to the Goliaths of the world. They expose corruption and solve mysteries. It always seemed necessary to have an

unbreakable moral code and an unapologetic approach to life.

What I’ve learned as a communications student are two very important things:

a) I don’t actually want to be a journalist. It’s a hard knock life.

b) True journalism is less about curiosity and more about responsibility.

Journalists in newspapers of consequence are held to a very high code of ethics and conduct. They enjoy the freedom of expression that the

Constitution grants, but they don’t abuse it. As newspaper subscriptions decline and fluff websites draw clicks by the tens of millions, the demand for

news that takes itself seriously is disappearing. And along with that lack of interest comes a lack of financial support.

I have hope that although media is evolving, it will change into something that is much better for all of us. But there’s this uncharacteristic pessimism that sticks with me, that believes that unless something changes, we’ll spiral into idiocracy by choice rather than natural selection, as the popular movie by the same name depicts.

Know that the spirit of this newspaper is alive and well! We will be featuring pieces from communications students in this and upcoming weeks. Maybe The Collegian can be the exception to the rule.

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The Collegian is the official publication of ASWWU. Its views and opinions are not necessarily the official stance of Walla Walla University or its administration, faculty, staff, or students. Questions, letters, and comments can be sent to aswwu.collegian@wallawalla.edu or richard.barbosa@wallawalla.edu. This issue was completed at 1:20 P.M. on Thursday, February 5, 2015.

If you are interested in contributing to The Collegian, speak with one of our illustrious staff members. The Collegian is enhanced by regularly incorporating a wide range of campus perspectives.

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CONTENT EDITOR

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BACKPAGE & CREATIVE CURATOR

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HUMOR WRITER & OFFICE MANAGER Lauren Lewis

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SPORTS WRITER & PROMOTION MANAGER

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TRAVEL & LOCAL WRITER

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Sodexo, a multinational hospitalities corporation and Walla Walla University’s dining service, has recently come under fire by The Humane Leauge for their use of eggs from battery-caged chickens in their liquid egg products.

Sodexo released a statement in August 2012 announcing their transition to cage-free shelled eggs and estimated that by July 2014 all 39 million eggs purchased would come from cage-free hens.

The Humane League, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to saving animal lives and reducing animal cruelty, recently began

FOR BATTERY-CAGE LIQUID EGGSSODEXO TARGETEDa movement to shift the food-supplier and food-service industry to cage-free liquid eggs. The Humane League targeted Sodexo with a petition and stated that they “reached out to Sodexo time and time again, but Sodexo refuses to make any meaningful commitment on this issue, and have fallen behind their competitors on this basic issue of animal cruelty.”

Sodexo addressed these allegations in a letter to the Walla Walla University Administration expressing their concern for corporate social responsibility and animal welfare. Sodexo explained that the transition into using cage-free eggs would take a significant amount of time before

their supply chain could fully support Sodexo’s purchasing requirements; the supply chain is often unstable today. At this time the corporation is still evaluating whether or not switching to cage-free liquid eggs is a viable option for Sodexo and their customers.

Despite the Humane League’s claims, Sodexo’s mission is to improve the quality of life through their corporate, educational, governmental, health care, senior living, sports, and remote site environments. In the U.S. alone, the corporation employs 132,600 employees, offers 9,000 Sodexo sites, and generates $9.2 billion of revenue. Sodexo also employs another 413,000 people in 80 countries, while reaching

nearly 75 million consumers.

The corporation, which is considered a global sustainability leader in its market, launched The Better Tomorrow Plan in 2009. The Plan aims to keep Sodexo accountable as an equitable employer, an advocate of health and wellness, an integral part of local communities, and as a corporation committed to protecting the environment.

Prior to announcing their move to cage-free shelled eggs, Sodexo also eliminated the use of gestation stalls in its pork supply chain. Following these actions, the Humane Society of the United States awarded Sodexo

the Henry Spira Humane Corporate Progress Award in 2013.

Other noteworthy Sodexo accomplishments in sustainability include recognition in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the past ten years, the Dow Jones 2011-2012 Global Sustainability Leader, 2012 SAM Sector Leader, 2012 Catalyst Award for Diversity and Inclusion, and 2012 Fortune’s Most Admired Companies.

For more information regarding Sodexo Inc.and the Humane League please visit:

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http://www.thehumaneleague.com/

The Walla Walla University Career Development Center is hosting a professional etiquette workshop in collaboration with Whitman College and Walla Walla Community College Feb. 5.

The event will be held in the Young Ballroom at the Reid Campus Center of Whitman College and is open to juniors and seniors from each of the participating schools.

The aim of this event is to give students who will soon be venturing into the business world the opportunity to experience a professional dinner interview. The evening will provide a guide not only to table manners, but also appropriate dress and offer networking opportunities.

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part of life and many jobs depend on you being able to conduct yourself in a mature and professional manner,” said Dorene Hackett, office manager at the Career Development Center.

Check-in for students will begin at 5:00 P.M. at the Young Ballroom where attendees will pick up their name tags and programs and be directed to their tables.

According to David Lindstrom, Director of the Career Development Center, it has not yet been decided whether seating will be assigned or if students will be allowed to choose their own seats.

Students should dress in business casual attire. For men slacks, dress shirts and shoes, and belts are appropriate and women should wear slacks or knee-length skirts and low heels or flats.

According to Hackett, ties are optional and any jewelry should be simple. Conservative and non-

conspicuous clothing is best for this event.

After check-in, there will be tie-tying demonstrations and women’s accessory exhibits provided by Macy’s. This is also an appropriate time for attendees to network with other students and grab a few hors d’oeuvres.

The evening will officially begin at 5:30 P.M. with a business attire fashion show also put on by Macy’s and modeled by two students from each of the participating schools.

Dinner, which is provided by Bon Appétit at Whitman College, will consist of multiple courses with both chicken and vegetarian options and will begin shortly after check-in.

The evening will be directed by Crystal Stanfield, Talent Acquisitions Manager for Enterprise Holdings which is the No. 1 recruiter of college graduates. Enterprise Holdings provides internships in the areas of management, marketing, and accounting. It also has job opportunities

in the fields of management, accounting and finance, automotive and transportation, corporate and administrative, customer service, information technology, rental operations, and sales. Stanfield will be explaining appropriate dinner etiquette and a host will be at each table to assist throughout the meal.

According to Hackett, Stanfield is also hoping to meet potential applicants.

An e-mail sent out by the WWU Career Development Center stated that many important meetings and job interviews are conducted over a meal, and though good etiquette may not guarantee you the job, bad etiquette just might cost you the job.

Lindstrom reached out to both Whitman College and WWCC this year and worked to expand the workshop with the help of Kimberly Rolfe, Director of Business Engagement at Whitman College, and Jessica Gilmore, Dean of Business at WWCC.

“The Career Development Center has hosted etiquette dinners in the past but on a much smaller scale. This year we are teaming up with WWCC and Whitman College to provide a much richer experience,” said Hackett.

The Professional Etiquette Dinner and Workshop can now accommodate a total of 126 students which amounts to 42 students from each school where past events have been limited to 30 students total. The event now also provides for inter-campus networking for student attendees.

To sign up for the workshop students can go to the Career Center located at office 217 in Kretchmar Hall. The cost of attendance can be charged to student accounts and is $30 per person. Registration is open until seats fill up.

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MEET THE CANDIDATES

PRESIDENT

Fellow Students of Walla Wal-la University,

I am running for the posi-tion of ASWWU President because I want to make your time at WWU a highlight of your life. If elected, I plan on accomplishing this by focus-ing on three things:

Innovation — I will study all the great things that ASWWU does so that we can do great things better.

Collaboration — I will encourage communication between the various depart-ments of ASWWU.

Integration — I will regularly spend time listening to your desires, doing all that I can to integrate them into the framework of ASWWU so

PRESIDENT

ASWWU? ASWHAT? AS-WHO?Many before me have prom-ised to foster a stronger atmosphere of positivity and transparent communication at Walla Walla University.I’m tired of empty words.I’m doing something about it.I’m already working on a collaborative project. If you’re curious, just ask me about it.

I hope you’re intrigued. I also hope you vote for me because I’m excited to create positive change on campus next year, like revamping Dead Week events.

Can you feel it?

Be Connected.

Vote Seth White for ASWWU President.

PRESIDENT

I am a people person. I enjoy building personal relation-ships and want them to suc-ceed. During my time as the APIC President, an ASWWU Senator, and an RA, I learned what it takes to be a strong leader. I learned to utilize people’s strengths, set high standards, and most of all to believe in your team.

Given the opportunity to serve as President of AS-WWU, my goals would include increasing student involvement within ASWWU and making people feel like they’re an important part of ASWWU. Because just like Aibileen Clark from The Help, I believe that “you is kind, you is smart, you is important”.

EVP

Every student should be involved in ASWWU. One of the best ways students can have their ideas heard is through ASWWU Senate. I want Senate to not only listen to your ideas (through sug-gestion boxes, Senate Listens, etc.), but allow you to get in-volved in the process. This can be accomplished by educating the student body on how Senate works and encourag-ing everyone to get involved in improving our campus. If I am elected Executive Vice President, I will facilitate and educate both the Senate and the whole student body so that our ideas can become a reality.

RANDY FOLKENBERG

JOHNEL LAGABON

SETH WHITE

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EVP

Leading senate is probably what comes to mind when you think “Executive Vice President.” But my goals for this year go beyond senate leadership. Communicat-ing effectively, empowering employees, and engaging the community at large are a few of my aspirations. Although strength as a campus comes through unity, I believe building relationships with our neighboring colleges will expand our options for activ-ities. To further unity on our campus, I want to empower ASWWU employees and sen-ators to act on behalf of the students. Finally, coherence in communication is key. How does one succinct email from senate with truly useful information sound?

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SPIRITUAL VP

I am Stephen Farr, a Theology Major and Minor in Business and Biblical languages.

As your ASWWU Spiritual Vice President I will continue to be committed to allowing God to use me to make an im-pact on our campus. I bring a lot of experience to this position including, serving as Lay Pastor of the Estacada SDA Church, founding Win a City Ministry, and serving as your co-prayer coordinator for Campus Ministries. My most important qualifications include my passion for minis-try, my love for God and you the students of Walla Walla University! Dreaming Big Together, We Will Go Farr!

STEPHEN FARR

SPIRITUAL VP

Greetings fellow students of WWU, I would like to serve as your next ASWWU Spiritual VP. I see this position as a unique opportunity to make a positive impact in each one of our lives. I aim to support the student body of WWU and help facilitate a spiritual atmo-sphere on our campus. I will do this by sustaining what has been done in the past and by reaching for greater heights so that together we can succeed in our academic, physical, and spiritual lives.

SOCIAL VP

Hey guys! Licenna Bouit is in the HOUSE, and by house I mean ASWWU House! Just kidding. But for those of you who don’t know me I am a freshman here at Walla Walla and I have been involved in Senate for a half a year now and am now a part of the social team. I love being a part of the social team and work-ing to make your experience here at Walla Walla fun and memorable. I am running for Social VP in order to accom-plish that. I hope you vote for me! God bless!

SOCIAL VP

I am running for the position of Social Vice President for the 2015-2016 school year! Being privileged to work on the ASWWU Social Team since May 2014, I have had the opportunity to observe both success and growth from an internal perspective. With this knowledge and qualifi-cation, I hope to provide our school with events that elevate our traditions and create rich, unique experiences applica-ble to all social niches. I am determined to provide our student body with events per-taining to our goals with the level of maturity that universi-ty students deserve.

SPIRITUAL VP

The Spiritual Vice President represents the religious con-sciousness of ASWWU and works to stimulate a positive religious atmosphere that is practical and meaningful. As your Spiritual Vice President I will make it my goal to serve all students within the con-text of their various religious backgrounds. I will give ample attention to your opinions while providing an open space for questioning and personal development. In order for this to happen, I will find well-ed-ucated speakers and organize purposeful events to help move our ideologies towards ones of greater peace and free-dom. May we all be inspired by our God.

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This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Carla Johnston, WWU’s coodinator for The One Project, about her involvement in the Project. Enjoy!

Morgan Sanker: What is The One

Project?

Carla Johnston: The One Project, started in 2010, is a General-Conference-sponsored organization focused on “Celebrating the supremacy of Christ through the Adventist Church.”[1] It came out of a meeting that a few Adventist pastors had in a hotel room when they took some time to re-focus on what is really important through prayer, discussion, and Bible study. By the end of the weekend, they were refreshed, spiritually renewed, and had a new motto: Jesus. All. They were so moved by this experience they organized The One Project to try and share it with others and to help remind them the reason we’re alive, the reason we’re free from sin, and the reason we became Adventists in the first place.

MS: How many people are involved

in this Project?

CJ: The One Project is sponsored by the General Conference, so it reaches across the globe. There are 12 board members, 43 consultants, a number of partners, and many more students and assistants who help organize the different gatherings. Because there are multiple gatherings a year that happen all over the world, there are thousands of people who have been reached by this Project simply by attending. The next gathering is this weekend in San Diego, and, last I recalled, there are

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about 700 people registered.

MS: When and where will this year’s

One Project gatherings take place?

CJ: There are four gatherings planned for this calendar year, the first of which is in San Diego this coming weekend (February 8-9). The next gatherings are in Melbourne, Australia (July 18), Boulder, Colorado (August 8-9, a mini-gathering), and Utrecht, Netherlands (September 5-6).

MS: How many universities/

organizations are involved with the

One Project?

CJ: Walla Walla University and the University Church, La Sierra, An-drews, Union, Newbold, LLU, Ket-tering Health Network, ADRA, Boul-der SDA Church, Avondale College, Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, the North American Division, RE:LIVE, countless conferences, and so many others.

MS: What are the goals of The One

Project?

CJ: The short-term goals always include making each gathering a venue for people to fall in love with Christ all over again, and to renew the excitement our church founders had because of Jesus.

“We crave a ‘High Christology’ — where Jesus is fully honored as Creator, Savior, and Lord. ...

“We love our church. And so we want the greatest gift for it... Jesus.

“The One Project seeks - through gatherings, conversations, web-based content, and Christ-focused publica-tions - to stimulate preaching, wor-ship, and adoration of Jesus within and through the Adventist church.”[2]

“[T]he One project seeks to engage, support, and inspire local congrega-tions, pastors and church leaders as the Body of Christ tasked with being His presence in the world.”3

The One Project wants to continue its growth as a global ministry, extending to children and youth (we’re even having a Kids program during the San Diego Gathering), with the goal of sharing and celebrating Jesus.

MS: How does The One Project

reach out to those around them and

achieve its goals?

CJ: The gatherings are a huge part of the Project because they bring a sense of community, provide a venue for discussion, and help people from all over the world connect. We have people coming to San Diego from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia… the list goes on. Likewise, a lot of believers in the United States travel to the international gatherings. Beyond that, many of the sermons from the gatherings are on YouTube; the Project has a great website, and some of the board members just wrote a book about and for the project.

MS: What setbacks or hardships has

the One Project encountered?

CJ: The One Project and people involved in it have faced criticism and rumors having to do with neglecting the 28 Fundamental Beliefs and Biblical authority, and being an emergent/mystic/spiritual-formational/evil organization. Personally, I don’t know how focusing on the ways Jesus Christ enriches our church is any of those things, and the Project has not given much response to such accusations. The co-founders are Adventist, and the Project is sponsored by the General Conference. The Project addresses these accusations in a statement in their the website FAQ, but really, their only response has been the following:

“Colossians 1:15-21 New International Version (NIV)

“The Supremacy of the Son of God

“15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created:

things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”4

MS: Why is the One Project

important?

CJ: The One Project focuses on the most important person/being in the history of the universe: Jesus. Our church was founded by people who were beyond excited about Jesus’ Second Coming because they understood how important Jesus is and how profound our responsibility to share the gospel is. Yet, it is all too easy to get caught up in politics and allow hard questions and painful issues to drive us away. In a society driven by debate and fueled by individuality, I don’t think there is anything we need more than a reminder that Jesus is the ultimate Unifier, Savior, Counselor, King, Redeemer, Friend, Teacher... All. Jesus. All. Knowing Jesus through the Spirit will lead us to everything else we need.

MS: How can students get involved

with the One Project?

CJ: There is a gathering next February in Seattle, and pre-registration is already open! I encourage anyone who wants to get involved to go to a gathering (students get a great discount, too). Visiting the website is a must, as it can lead you to video and article links and other great information. As I said, the One Project recently came out with a book, and

its board members have written many articles, so reading those is a great option. But really, the power and significance of the One Project lies in its mission, in what happens after the Gatherings: Celebrating the supremacy of Christ in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. First and foremost, pray, read God’s Word, fellowship, and remember: Jesus. All. Everything else will follow.1 https://the1project.org

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SenateUPDATE

NEW BUSINESS:Kyle Lambert for Marketing Designer

Nichole Briones for Marketing Designer

Kyler Alvord for Marketing Assistant

Jonathan Deleon for ASWWU Web

Gregory Ringering for ASWWU Web

OLD BUSINESS:Delegates for Adventist Intercol-legiate Association

Tyler Hissong for Tread Shed Technician

Concurrent Position for Frank Ramirez

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Word: (noun) a unit of language,

consisting of one or more spoken sounds or

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as a principal carrier of meaning.

Let’s try something. Just by arranging words in a certain order, I will paint for you a mental image that you have never seen before: on a sunny beach there is a donkey wearing a four-legged onesie prancing in circles with a green child doing somersaults on its back. Have you ever held that image in your mind before? Probably not — but then again, how else could you have known what to imagine?

Most of us are wrong to think that words jump off pages or out of people’s mouths to take nest in our minds. A friend of mine recently likened words to postmen that deliver packets of information from one mind to another. Reading often feels this way.

So does listening to someone speak. However, it is important to remember that words are only symbols that the brain either does or does not interpret as significant. In other words, it is brains, not words, that create meaning. Though words often create the effect of being new or fresh, and though it seems as if they gather in the mind like visitors from an outside world, words are only stimuli. Words can’t create meaning themselves — the brain uses them as it creates meaning.

Most of us know that “reading minds” is bunk, yet most of us seem to implicitly believe in “speaking minds,” or the ability to deposit words and ideas into someone else’s brain. When someone insults you, it probably feels as if they have planted painful words in your mind. When you read a sappy love note someone left you, you feel the words jumping off the note and into your heart and mind. Let me remind you: no one can put words in your mind, no matter how painful or good they may feel. Everything you interpret around you is the product of your high-functioning brain reacting to and making sense out of sensory stimulation. The brain sees words as it sees everything else: something that has been given order and meaning by internal mechanisms.

Back to the image of the donkey prancing on the beach. Why is it that you can imagine something you’ve never imagined before? Well, you can’t. Your brain is intelligent enough to mix and match all the words, memories, and symbols that it has ever recorded. You have seen the color green at some point and have seen a child and your brain links these things to the words “green” and “child.” I can talk about a green child and your brain knows what to do. If I were to use words your brain isn’t familiar with, you wouldn’t have such an easy time.

Try making a clear mental image from the following sentence: The man stabbed the sarcoline dibble into the dewlap of the babirusa. You may see a man with something in his hand but the rest is hazy. Without having prior knowledge of a word or a series of words, without your brain having already attached meaning to their symbols, words are meaningless.

So what’s the point?

There is a school of literary criticism that sees readers as the true authors of a text. Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest but nobody is around to hear it, they say words and sentences and books have no meaning until someone reads them. In the act of reading, the

reader is actually creating significance. It’s an interesting theory, but is it true?

If no one read this article, would its words have any significance? No. You are the one creating meaning out of the string of words that I have put together.

This week’s feature examines the future of journalism and its relevance in an increasingly digital age. I would like to suggest that, like is the case with words, journalism has as much significance and power as readers allow it to have. I can list books and articles and poems that have changed my life forever. I wouldn’t be able to say that if I never read those books and articles and poems.

Words will continue to effect change as long as there are people willing to be stimulated by them. Remember, words change readers because they stimulate the brain to create meaning. With this view, a journalist’s primary job is to invite readers to exercise their minds in new ways. Journalists don’t invent new ideas or insights, but they do provide a platform for other minds to create new ideas and important insights.

It is time that we stop thinking of reading as an act of entering into someone else’s world. It’s time we recognize that by “reading” and

“listening,” we are actually exercising our own ability to invent and create. The less we read, the more limited our mental abilities become. The death of journalism would be like the death of sports: it would not be sad because we would have less entertainment, it would be sad because we would become less as human beings. Just as sports provide opportunity to develop coordination and physical health, so too do words offer the brain a way to strengthen itself.

Case in point: if you hadn’t read this article, would you have drawn an analogy between lifting weights and reading words? If not, you have now. Here’s another idea your brain may or may not respond to: as words diminish, so do our minds. Let’s worry less about the diminishment of journalism and care more about expanding our minds with words. If we all take this idea seriously, I bet journalism will thrive along with our minds.

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When I think of my first memories of the news, I think of my father reading The Orego-

nian over breakfast, and of coming home to the voice of Peter Jennings on ABC’s World News

Tonight. I remember watching the World Trade Centers fall a full 13 years ago and not grasping what it all meant. My TV screen was filled with flames as I watched the space shuttle Colum-bia explode in February 2003. I was filled with fear for my own safety for the first time when I heard about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in June 2002.

The news has filled my life with compassion as I watched families look upon houses torn apart by natural disasters, with shock and hor-ror as gun violence affected even the youngest Americans in their schools, and with hope as Egyptians gathered together in revolution that led to the ousting of former President Mubarak and nations across the Middle East rose up to create governmental change, known as the Arab Spring.1

But the way we report and consume our news is changing. We no longer live in a world where news comes singularly from the handsome news anchor on my TV or from the newspaper on my front porch. New mediums have taken over, and I now get the majority of my news from headline alerts on my iPhone, Twitter and NPR Morning Edition. Citizens want information faster than ever before, and they can use any number of sources to find what they’re looking for. The way we received news even 15 years ago may be dying, but the fact is, the news itself is very much alive.

Rick Doyle, editor at the Walla Walla

Union-Bulletin, shared his thoughts with me as he reflected on evolving technologies that have changed the way news is reported and consumed in short amounts of time.“We don’t have to wait until the next cycle to publish something. Before, if a story broke after the press run, it would have to wait 24 hours before it was published. Now, we can put it on our Website, Facebook page and Twitter immediately.”

Immediate, convenient access to information provided by smartphones and tablets does, how-ever, create its own problems. One of those is a rapidly spinning rumor mill that generates sto-ries about what details in a news event might be. It’s hard to verify these details without rock-solid sources, and stories spin out so fast that finding

accurate sources and details can be tricky. “People have curiosity about what’s happening, and that curiosity makes sense,” said Alasdair Stewart, managing editor for news and multimedia at the Union-Bulletin.

The element of ‘time’ in news reporting is gone. This adds pressure to the process of report-ing stories as quickly and accurately as possible. While Stewart and the staff at the UB sometimes feel this pressure, he said bigger cities are more affected by technological advances. With so many stories continually coming to the surface, there isn’t enough context to determine which stories are important. Stewart compared this phenomenon with trying to write an album re-view with no any idea of who a musician is, what they’ve done in the past or what impact their mu-sic has on the genre. “You can appreciate what has been created, but you can’t fully understand what it means without that context.”

Social media has brought us the term “citizen journalists” to explain the outbreak of news re-ports that come from people who have little to no professional training in journalism but who are witnesses to events and want to share infor-mation. The Arab Spring in 2011 was the first major example of this type of reporting and news consumption, when the world watched as citi-zens posted videos and tweets of their revolution from Tahrir Square in Egypt and across the Mid-dle East. Doyle said that a danger of social me-dia news may be that if citizen journalists aren’t trained, they are more likely to commit libel or to be so incomplete in their reporting that they steer

readers to an inaccurate understanding. “Howev-er, if people read or ‘listen’ to a broad range of sources — professional and citizen-generated — they can actually get a fuller, more rounded view of an issue.”

Stewart is adamant that news can’t be holistic if it doesn’t come from both ends. “If only people in the ‘ivory tower’ practice journalism, how do you get an Arab Spring? The media is so swayable by forces that aren’t the same as the community.”

Tracci Dial, anchor and reporter at KNDU-TV in Tri-Cities, began working in news right as the transition to social media emphasis began. In 2010, she helped create and run the Facebook page for KLEW news in Lewiston, Idaho. “While it was fairly common for news agencies to have social media accounts, they weren’t widely used to share stories and information for a little while. Now that [social media] is where people get news.”

The news around the country is that printed newspapers are failing: The sky is falling on this era of news dissemination, and Americans will no longer be able to pay for a paper to be de-livered to their doorstep every morning. Papers around the country have cut down on publica-tion days and have laid-off their staff. Locally, green

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readers to an inaccurate understanding. “Howev-er, if people read or ‘listen’ to a broad range of sources — professional and citizen-generated — they can actually get a fuller, more rounded view of an issue.”

Stewart is adamant that news can’t be holistic if it doesn’t come from both ends. “If only people in the ‘ivory tower’ practice journalism, how do you get an Arab Spring? The media is so swayable by forces that aren’t the same as the community.”

Tracci Dial, anchor and reporter at KNDU-TV in Tri-Cities, began working in news right as the transition to social media emphasis began. In 2010, she helped create and run the Facebook page for KLEW news in Lewiston, Idaho. “While it was fairly common for news agencies to have social media accounts, they weren’t widely used to share stories and information for a little while. Now that [social media] is where people get news.”

The news around the country is that printed newspapers are failing: The sky is falling on this era of news dissemination, and Americans will no longer be able to pay for a paper to be de-livered to their doorstep every morning. Papers around the country have cut down on publica-tion days and have laid-off their staff. Locally,

however, this is not the case. In all the years that Stewart has worked for the Union-Bulletin, he said the paper has always made a profit and has rarely missed budget goals. While the number of print subscriptions has stayed fairly static in re-cent years, online subscription rates are growing by leaps and bounds. The UB has decreased the number of pages it prints, but they have never been forced to lay off staffers.

Stewart is not overly worried about the fu-ture of newspapers. “Everywhere I look, people of every age are holding printed papers.” Doyle agrees that there is still a large group that prefers the physical paper, but he remains cautious. “The trick will be to increase the revenue from the digital side to the point where it can support the journalism. It is expensive to gather, write and edit this material.”

Broadcast news is also finding ways to adapt in this Internet era. “For TV stations to make it, they will have to compete on the Internet more. The younger generations (the least likely to watch a newscast) are always connected. In order to wrangle them in, we need to be where they are — on their phones, tablets and computers,” said Dial.

A much-debated question among communi-

cation and media scholars and professionals is “Does the media tell people what to think about, or is media content determined by the people?” To this question Doyle asked, “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? If the media does not supply news, information and entertainment that is important to people, they will seek it out somewhere else. However, the media also is in a position to bring attention to things it believes are important. It can do this through the selec-tion and placement process or through writing editorials.”

Stewart sees the exchange between the media and the citizens as an advantage. “My interest is to stand together at the window with readers and talk about what’s outside instead of going to the window and telling them what I see happening outside. We can exchange ideas. That’s what’s cool about right now.”

In a digital age with rapidly changing technol-ogy, faster access to information, and deeper in-terconnectedness, change is the only sure thing. In her career, Dial recognizes a rapidly changing landscape: “I hope the news continues to evolve. It’s an ever-changing world of new technology and new wants and needs from viewers. I just hope the news can keep up.” She adds with a wink, “I think I can.” News stories and mediums will change, but people will still undoubtedly search for news and information. “I hope even-tually people become more discerning about the sources of their information and put their trust more in institutions and/or people they have found to be reliable,” said Doyle.

As the news progresses from a paper on my doorstep to notifications on my iPhone, I hope that journalism will always fight for the truth. I hope that news is brought by the people and made public by the media. I hope that people can be empowered to reach their full potential because they have access to information. I hope that the important stories are shared around the world, and change is made because people believe they can create good together. 1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

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information to keep you informed about the issues, this is for you. theSkimm is a daily email that you can subscribe to (it’s free) and

you can read it in about five minutes.

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Morning Edition on NPR fills me in on both the headlines and gives a deeper look into some stories. I listen to this radio program (old school, I know) each morning as

I’m getting ready for class. Listen to NPR at 89.7 from 5:00-9:00 A.M. in the Walla

Walla Valley or stream online at nwpr.org.

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If you tweet or if you’re willing to have another

social networking app on your smartphone, Twitter is an easy place to get some news. Follow multiple new organizations to make sure you’re getting all the details. News-related hashtags help

you see the opinions that may not be reported by the

news organizations.

traditional

local, state, and national news

The Walla Walla Valley produces its own print

newspaper. You can read the twice-weekly paper at our campus library or you

can subscribe to receive your own copy. Stories are

also published online at union-bulletin.com.

different political views

local, national, and international

stream video clips

Whatever your preference is for news sources, you can find headline news online.

Keep up on the stories from your hometown by visiting

the local sites, and with national and international news by visiting the main network and cable news

websites.

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The first American newspaper, Publick Occurances, Both

Foreign and Domestick, was printed in 1690.

The first printing press in America was built in Connecticut by Isaac Doolittle in 1769 and in 1776, over 20 newspapers printed the Declaration of Independence throughout the colonies.

As the rotary printing press and the penny press were developed in the 1830s, papers became more accessible to

citizens throughout the young country.

1844 saw the first telegraph line, stretching from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland, open for business, allowing news to be passed

between cities faster than ever.

In 1849, the Associated Press was founded by groups of newspapers to create a cooperative news-gathering service that supplied foreign news by ship and telegraph.

By the late 1800s, telephones and typewriters changed the way that news was gathered and work was done in the newsroom.

By the 1920s, radio became a major source of information and entertainment for Americans, and began to compete with newspapers to distribute news.

In the 1950s, television created a social and cultural change in America, in both entertainment and news. News organizations made huge strides in TV, and Americans relied on the news broadcast each night for their information about national and international news.

Easy access to the Internet in the 1990s brought about another major change in American culture and news consumption. American

citizens began to prefer the immediacy of access to information that the Internet provided, and started to turn from their newspapers and

TV news programs to online sources. In 2009, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, that was started in 1863, became the first major U.S. newspaper to leave print and become a web-only publication.

The Arab Spring in 2011 showed people all over the world the power of the Internet and social networking in news gathering

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The Collegian is many things to me. It defines itself each week as the official publication of ASWWU. To me, The Collegian is much more. My relationship with this publication began in my high school years. I attended Walla Walla Valley Academy, just down the street from here. I worked at the school rag there (appropriately named The Collegian, although it was actually four pages long). It wasn't a sizable publication, but we had passionate debates about hot topics at staff meetings and amused ourselves by seeing what we could get away with publishing. On Friday afternoons, I would walk to The Express and sit down with a Yogi burger and a fresh copy of The Collegian.

Flipping through the pages was just short of a magical experience. I was informed, entertained, and amused. It wasn't just a fun read, but it was a glimpse into the college life that I coveted. Everyone wrote what they were passionate about, and in a way that felt serious and carefree at the same time.

A few years later I found myself on campus again, but this time as a wide-eyed high school senior, being rushed through the works by U-days staff. Somewhere between sessions in the Village Hall and icebreakers in the SAC, I ran into someone I knew. His name was Dustin Kelley: he had been my counselor at summer camp, but that year, he was the editor-in-chief. He pulled me away from the group and gave me a tour of the ASWWU office... a space that I'd soon know very intimately.

The rest of my story with this paper should be abbreviated because I could write about it indefinitely. I spent a year as Head Layout Editor from 2012–2013, and applied for the responsibility of Editor-in-Chief while I was in Spain last year. I've come to see it as much more than a paper. It's a distinct subculture, a family, and a league of extraordinary gentlemen and ladies. And because these exceptional people are given so much freedom to express and to question, The Collegian staff has simultaneously taken itself seriously and pushed itself to greater heights. It's a giant among student newspapers in Adventist institutions and a formidable publication by any measure outside the church. I don't say this to brag of any of my personal accomplishments, but out of respect for previous staff members who devoted themselves to bettering the paper and the campus that read it.

This publication is more than 99 years old (due to a few gaps in early production). It began as a purely informative newspaper for the students on campus. From the 1960s to the 1990s, a sense of humor became a bigger and bigger part of its appeal, and the paper went from 4 to 8 pages. Over the past several years, The Collegian has begun evolving much more rapidly. More and more pictures became a part of the mix and entertainment pieces became an essential part of the draw, with the back page drawing a lot of popularity.

More recently, The Collegian increased its size to 24 pages and began publishing feature articles about relevant topics. A website was established, abandoned and rebuilt a few times. Its social media presence is just beginning to take off, with 1,164 Facebook followers and 3,501 submissions to the Instagram hashtag. Last year, it even took the form of a magazine for a week.

So, where will The Collegian be going in the future? Will it go the way of many successful newspapers and struggle for a few years before shutting down operation?

I believe that although things are changing quickly in the world of media and journalism, The Collegian will continue to adapt to serve its student body. If future staff take their responsibility as we have, they will find a way to keep their readers engaged and ask important questions.

This paper focuses less on news because the methods by which we stay informed have evolved. We don't need our student newspaper to report breaking news in the Middle East because there are those who devote their lives and resources to bring that news to the people, often much more quickly than we could compile it into a 24 page issue. It is now our job to inform the students of news that would be irrelevant to the general public, but important to Walla Walla University. We carry on, expecting excellence in thought, beauty in expression, generosity in service, and faith in God from our staff and our students.

Who knows where this publication will be in 10 years? It might take the form of a blog or an app. But to make matters simple, The Collegian

will be what you want it to be, whatever form it may take. If you continually demand the best from us in both discussion and in news, The

Collegian will continue to reach higher! But if you settle for too little, it won't be long before it loses its value.

I consider it the responsibility of myself and my staff to give our all when making this newspaper. But ultimately, the duty falls to you, the reader. The future of The Collegian and of news in a more broad sense depends on your expectations.

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the kaleidoscopeNew discoveries, far and near. Songs, books, and art, it’s shared right here. MICROSCOPE

Hollow Wood: This local, Boise band has

just released a new EP titled “Wallflower.” Hollow Wood is

becoming not so local anymore as they continue to share

their unique and honest style with the world. Enjoy the

journey of calm acoustics to passionate choirs as you

listen to these kids play their hearts out in their new EP

“Wallflower.”

Of Monsters and Men: You know how sometimes a

song just hits your ears just right? Well, the song “Slow and

Steady” did for me this week. I have never given this band

the chance they deserve, but this track did me in. If you

haven’t already, check out this orchestration of electric piano

and kick drums underneath buttery female vocals.

Jon Spracklen: A dear friend of mine has recently been blooming in the field

of photography. Jon Spracklen shoots beautiful photos of just about anything

that crosses his path, and it’s enough to make you wish you followed him around just to see the things he shoots in

real life. A true adventurer, he captures life through the lens of someone who explores the boundaries of nature. Check out truly

artistic photographs and join the adventures of Jon Spracklen at jspracklenphotgraphy.tumblr.com.

LIFECULTURE 14

In Adventist culture, there are some things shared with other religions, such as outreach and worship music. However, there is one part of our religion that is shared with no other religion on our planet: the Adventist potluck.

I have been aware of the Adven-tist potluck phenomenon for as long as I can remember. To my 5-year-old brain, a potluck was a feast of magical, eternal food that sprung up from a mysterious room next to the sanctu-ary. My friends and I would pile our plate high and stuff ourselves with brown casseroles and deceptive mac-aroni.

Even though I’m now 22, this same excitement remains. If you did not grow up Adventist, then perhaps you do not share the same love for pot-lucks that I do, but I would like to

offer a crash course for maneuvering a potluck so that you can be ready for whatever surprises come your way.

Step 1: Avoid the flimsy plate.

It is a fact that most standard paper plates were not meant for the hefty job of holding potluck food. It would be best to double up to keep the green bean juice from leaking through.

Step 2: Don’t fill up your plate too

quickly with the first few dishes.

It is common for beginning pot-luckers to not plan ahead. Be careful not to get too much vegan lasagna at the front of the line, because you will be sorry when you reach the Special K loaf and find there is no more room on your plate.

Step 3: Forgetting your silverware.

Yet another common mistake. Make sure to grab this at the begin-ning to avoid the awkward dance of trying to go back in line while balanc-ing a plate of food around lots of suits and dresses.

Step 4: Don’t try to identify the foods.

What’s beneath that layer of ketch-up on that casserole? Doesn’t matter. Chances are, all the dishes are made up of roughly the same array of ingre-dients. I highly recommend any cot-

tage cheese loaf, anything covered in ketchup, or anything bathed in gravy.

Step 5: Experience the Great Fruit

Salad Dilemma.

This is the hardest part of the pot-luck experience. Here, you have a plate full of hot, savory food, but then you come to a big bowl of delicious fruit salad and Jello. You must decide if you want to risk your green-bean casserole getting soaked with fruit juice, or wait until round two. Everyone is different.

Step 6: Finally, pile a few rolls on top

of everything and find a table with

someone your age.

This is a chance to brag about how many layers of casserole you were able to fit on your plate.

To me, the Adventist potluck is one of the strong points of our cul-ture. Sure, people make fun of it all the time, but deep inside we all know there is nothing better than reading the potluck announcement in the bul-letin and smelling the mouthwater-ing scent wafting through the doors of the church kitchen. It represents the teamwork and community of our church coming together to create a big meal to share as a family — a church family. So, long live the Adventist pot-luck, and long live Special K loaf.

HOW TO MANEUVER AN ADVENTIST POTLUCK

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FeatureRECIPE BUFFALO TOFU WINGS

Recipe adapted from abesmarket.com

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BAKED TOFUHave you had baked tofu? I hadn’t either until recently. Thankfully, Tyler Jacobson introduced me to the idea this week. Baking the tofu gives it a really fabulous texture! Usually I just fry my tofu on the stovetop, but this may be my new favorite way to cook it. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started on how to make it.

I’d love to get feedback from

you! Send me an email if you have any comments or suggestions for

recipes you’d like to see featured at

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Food Writer

1 (14-ounce) package extra firm tofu, frozen and thawed, then pressed dry with paper or kitchen towel

1 tbsp. cornstarch

Pinch of salt and pepper

2 tbsp. olive oil

1 tbsp. melted coconut oil

2 tbsp. hot sauce (try Frank’s Red)

INGREDIENTS1, Preheat oven to 400ºF.

2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

3. Cut the tofu into slices, making approximately 12 sticks. 4.Place the tofu sticks in a dish and coat them with cornstarch, salt and pepper. Roll them to coat. Be gentle because they will break easily!

5. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. 6. Place the tofu in the skillet and cook on each side until golden brown

and crispy, 3-5 minutes on each side.

7. Transfer the tofu to the baking sheet.

8. Whisk together the hot sauce and coconut oil until the oil is fully fused.

9. Coat the tofu in sauce. Bake for 10-15 minutes, turning over halfway through cooking time. Bake until the tofu is crispy.

Serving suggestion: Arrange the tofu wings on a plate with celery sticks. Serve with additional hot sauce, if desired, and ranch dressing.

Another simple technique for baked tofu:

Without freezing the tofu beforehand, try cutting the tofu into cubes or strips and then bake at 400ºF for 30 minutes.

I like the tofu marinated in soy sauce before baking, but that can also be added on afterwards.

Serving suggestion: pair with rice, add veggies (carrots, bamboo shoots, etc.), and wrap in lettuce leaves to make lettuce wraps.

INSTRUCTIONS

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PERSPECTIVERELIGION 16

Let me tell you an amazing story about focus and perseverance. Every year, Australia hosts an amazing ultramarathon between two of its major cities, Sydney and Melbourne. It is one of the most grueling races on the planet. It usually takes five days to complete, the participants are usually under the age of 30, and they are some of the most fit and awesome athletes in the world.

In 1983 Cliff Young showed up on race day. He was 61 years old and wore overalls and work boots. Many questioned his sanity and assured him he could never finish this race.

He replied, “Yes I can. See, I grew up on a farm where we couldn’t afford horses or tractors, and the whole time I was growing up, whenever the storms would roll in, I’d have to go out and round up the sheep. We had 2,000 sheep on 2,000 acres. Sometimes I had to run those sheep for two or three

days. It took a long time, but I’d always catch them. I believe I can run this race.”

When the gun went off, Cliff was left in the dust by the “real” athletes. He didn’t even appear to run properly — he had a unique shuffle.

To run the race, the runner has to run for 18 hours a day and sleep for six hours, then repeat that pace for about five days. Cliff somehow did not know about this plan. He ran all night long, and he kept running day and night until, by the end, he had passed all of the young runners. He was the first to cross the finish line, and did so in record-breaking time.

When he was awarded the winning prize of $10,000, he said he hadn’t known there was a prize and said he really didn’t need the money. He ended up giving all of his prize money to several of the other competitors in

the race, who seemed to need it more than him. He ran for the love of it! He was passionate about the race, and confident of his prospects. His mission was clear.

The greatest danger we face in our personal Christian life is to get distracted — to lose focus. It’s easy to divert our eyes from Jesus, who alone is the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2). The same threat exists for us as a church. Without a doubt, the greatest danger we face as a church is to forget our mission, or why we exist as a movement. If the devil can divert our attention from our God-ordained purpose and mission, he has successfully slowed down the progress of the Kingdom of God.

Paul, speaking at the end of his life of ministry, gave this testimony — one which speaks to us just as clearly today: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the

faith” (2 Tim. 4:7). What he is saying to you and me is “stay focused and finish strong the mission which God has given us!”

The amazing thing is that we can often be distracted by absolutely good and wholesome things. Let me give you an example. Not too long ago I was conducting a seminar on personal ministry and evangelism in a church in Canada. After I had concluded speaking about God’s calling and the equipping of each member of the church to build up the Body of Christ and share the life they have in Christ with others, a lady came to me and said, “I just don’t have the time to share my faith, to be a part of an evangelistic team.”

I asked her why that was the case. She responded by telling me that she only had time to help with their church’s Cardiovascular Health Seminar that they conducted once or twice a year. I tried to explain to her that the reason

for a church to share this kind of a seminar in their community was more than merely for physical health. Of course, health and healing is the desire of Christ for all of His creation. But, I told her that Christ’s desire was more than just having heart-healthy people marching straight to hell. His desire was for her and her church to share the health message, but in the process also make a friend with whom, as the Holy Spirit led, she could share her best friend: Jesus.

It’s about Jesus and His mission! The calling of every member of Christ’s church is to be fully consumed with Christ and then be wholly absorbed with His cause — which is to seek and to save the lost. (Luke 19:10)

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BOB

A cup of coffee and a rainy day, I sit amidst many similar conversations. At least six different discussions blend and add to the cacophony of sounds. The interactions are similar because they take place between friends and lovers alike, but they all transmit on the same surface-level frequency. We often lack the base intention to be open about vocalizing how we really feel about one another. Spend any amount of time with another person and you will realize that we all share the same desire: to be loved, cared about, wanted. The one thing we all want is something we don’t always voluntarily express.

I remember watching Lord of The

Rings in high school and poking fun at how gay Sam and Frodo were for each other. I failed to comprehend one of the best modern illustrations of platonic love. The two hobbits built a relationship on mutual trust and support and the raw integrity of their bond made me so uncomfortable that I had to retreat using cowardly humor. What is it about blatant non-romantic affection that causes suspicion?

I spent some time asking a few friends what they thought about this. We all have the ability to show love to those that are in our lives; what makes it so difficult to affirm one another?

Here are a few responses I gathered this week:

“I think part of it is that we think to much about ourselves rather than others. We look for affirmations from others but aren’t keen on giving them. When you talk, you can never get back what you said, many of us have difficulty expressing

ourselves and are worried about how the other person will take it. We become vulnerable.” - Timothy Oliver

“Well, its hard to affirm each other because we are all so confident that we are the ones that need to be affirmed. We don’t want to make others feel egotistical. But most of us have low self-esteem.” - Liz Rice

“Could it be that our culture has influenced how men and women think? We become so individualistic that we worry about how others are going to view us if we affirm other people. If you are single and you compliment a girl, people could overthink it. Imagine walking a girl

back to the dorm.” - Benji Oliver

“I think there is a difference between conscious and subconscious affirmations. It may be difficult to tell someone how much they mean to us, but we are able to show it by a choice to spend time with someone or how we generally talk to them. I think we can affirm different people in different ways: if you have someone you spend a lot of time with, you show them that way; another you may give a gift to. It would be nice if people gave more direct affirmation like, “Hey man, you mean a lot to me.” We are afraid of being rejected.” - Nolan Chinn

“I just think that in society and in life we’re told that we need to suppress our sexuality, anything related to feeling. I think that love is a very, very deep feeling that we’re told is not something that it’s okay to talk about. They come from a raw place and we’re told they aren’t good things to have. There is an idea that masculinity is superior to femininity. Many try to have a hardened perspective on life,

instead of having more feminine or feeling characteristics where we can be responsive.” - Eric Weber

“There’s also the question about what to do about those of us who are giving love in all the ways we know how but don’t actually see that being returned (regardless of whether or not it actually is). Sometimes we’re doing that desperately but it gets read that we’re fine and not in need of affirmation.” - Tyler Jacobson

I think in part it’s fear of rejection. You know, you don’t want to scare someone away by showing too much affection. We’ve been raised in a society that doesn’t want to promote it. We’re afraid of that guy that hugs everyone too much and we don’t want to be that person. Everyone should get seven hugs a day! Nobody does that!” - Abby Wissink

“His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril, he cried aloud: ‘I’m coming Mr. Frodo!” 1

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CONSUMED WITH AND HIS CAUSEChrist

If you’d like to submit your poetry, prose,

songs, or any kind of creative writing, email me at abigail.wissink@

wallawalla.edu.

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Creative Curator

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WISDOMCollegian

This week, old news that should perhaps still be in the news:

Global homicide rates down compared to previous decades

Marijuana use is high.

Iceland replaces entire government during 5-year revolt

Still see them every day.

Kenya adopted mobile payment system... 7 years before America

1st-world problems, 3rd-world solutions

No end in sight for conflicts in Sudan and Congo

Declared worst humanitarian crises since WWII.

Chinese teen chops off left hand to cure his internet addiction

If it causes you to sin....

University of South Carolina study confirms that student loans cause stress

At least WWU has a Stress Management class!

Crocheting is my family’s version of a dream catcher, although it can function a bit differently. See, in my family, when we crochet, (and by “we” I don’t just mean the women because my brother crochets too) if a hair falls onto our laps or has fallen somewhere close by, it is our custom to crochet it into whatever we are making. Sometimes the hair is a dream, sometimes it is an emotion that we’ve been holding on to, and other times it is a memory we’re not supposed to forget. By weaving these strands into what we make, the memory, emotion, or dream stays in such a way that we can pass it on and help the next person remember.

While writing this piece, I was not only thinking about that capturing of the abstract, but of the power that lays in naming things. We are very much shaped by outside forces. Sometimes it’s the stories we’ve heard, maybe even the media we expose ourselves too, but I think the most detrimental to our self-expression is how we let others label us. It’s important to remember that we are so much bigger than any one name.

Floating down to

her lap, the strands

of hair Mami needled

to the yarn.

“Meaning. Breathe

and knit it into

ourselves, like hair in

an afghan.”

Hair like dreams

caught between the

hereafters to help

remember

who you are.

A piece to warm us up,

Comfort and hand down

Material of self.

“Fight time,” She said,

“Fight the naming of self

that takes from the

creation

of ourselves

and accounts for the

(annihilation)

loss and ruin,

destruction of

the afghan, of the strand,

the piece of an

actual

person.”

AN-ACTUAL-AND-ACCOUNTED-FOR PERSON

By Mary Aparicio

The panic attacks started when I first decided to be a student missionary. I would wake up in the middle of the night freaking out, finding it hard to breathe, with a pain in my stomach and a pounding in my head. “What am I doing?” I thought. “There is no way I am cut out for this.” For the next six months I went through waves of being really excited or being abso-lutely terrified. I knew it was going

to be hard, I knew it was going to be rewarding, but there were still all the unknowns that haunted me. I knew that ultimately I wouldn’t regret the decision to go, no matter how hard it was at times. But somehow, there was still that panic that would grip me every time I thought about the magni-tude of what I was about to do.

When I came to Pohnpei I didn’t just become a third grade teacher, I

became a mother, a nurse, a mediator, a tutor, a cleaning lady, a Chaplin, a storyteller, and an exterminator. There are many things here that are different than I had expected. My kids struggle in most subjects, and I say “sit down” and “be quiet” more than any human being should have to. I give the same directions hundreds of times and yet there is always someone who asks, “What we are doing?” But these

kids are the cutest, most loving chil-dren I have ever met. No matter how many times I mess up, or get upset, or raise my voice, they still come and hug me every day and tell me I am the best teacher in the world. I am a completely unqualified college student who is expected to act and teach like a professionally trained teacher. I mess up a lot, but God continually shows me that He is the ultimate teacher.

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Thank you, Andrews University, for closing school for multiple snow days, while we swelter in WWU and curse the lack of snow. Suck it up, princesses, and

get to class!

Thank you, Super Bowl, for forcing me to re-learn Roman numerals each year.

Thank you, Professor Lamberton and Professor Joliffe, for embracing a wide range of vocabulary in class. Profanity 101.

Thank you, Super Bowl commercials past, for sexualizing random things, like burgers and Swiffer WetJets. Really?!

Thank you, Super Bowl commercials present, for thoroughly depressing me and bringing to surface my daddy issues. A Nissan will compensate for the

absentee father, I swear.

“Thank you, Rachel Green/Jennifer Aniston, for nearly never wearing a bra during Friends,” said all

men and most women everywhere!

Thank you, freezing fog, for making morning life absolutely miserable and ruining my windshield wipers. I guess I’ll have to walk to class, just when I

wanted to be lazy.

Thank you, Professor Alma Alfaro, for never letting me forget how to say “attention” in Spanish. Or cat,

bathroom, and cheese.

Thank you, to the Loma Linda University who was “Health Marketing Director Arrested for Suspected Embezzlement, Grand Theft” of “approximately $350,000,”1 for joining our Adventists Who Embezzle Employees Club. We are up to two

members… that we know of!

Thank you, Dr. Anthony Smith, for making me feel hopelessly inadequate in my future career goals. I will never work for NASA. You’re so cool, why are you in

Walla Walla?

“Thank you, Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, for being there for me when the answers were not,” said every

organic chemistry student.

Thank you, Katy Perry, for disappointing my brother and the male population of the U.S. by not letting that nip slip! Was that really Snoop Dog in the

shark costume? @superbowl_shark, he has a Twitter!

Sincerely and without apology,

Lauren C. Lewis

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LIFETRAVEL20

News is in an ever-changing state. For travelers, there’s now the options to Snapchat or Instagram friends to keep everyone in the loop. It’s common to hear “I’m going to Instagram that” or “I need to Snapchat this” any time you travel — we want to keep everyone updated with what we’re doing.

When traveling across the States, it’s easy to share everything on social media in addition to texting friends and family in order to explain the current events happening in that state. When you’re abroad, however, texting becomes a luxury and the use of blogs increases. Many student missionaries and ACA students end up creating a blog to keep their family and friends at ease despite the distance.

Blogs, Pinterest, Tumblr, and a few other social platforms have changed the way people can travel. It’s easy to follow people who have the same interests, or explore interesting places that are less-traveled. Blogs have also become a way people can show off their writing skills. They might even get picked up by magazines.

Traveling bloggers aren’t in very high demand, but it’s still a competitive field. If you go to London, for example,

it’s a well-talked about tourist city. There needs to be a special reason you’re talking about it. During the 2012 Olympics, it was common to talk about the typical tourist traps, but adding a unique little gem about the city helped certain bloggers get ahead of the rest.

It can be hard to write about countries with prominent tourist trades, but countries that are less-known can provide great experiences for those who want an exciting, new outlook on life. Bloggers who write about eastern European countries have more new material to write about than those who travel western Europe, so they’re able to make their articles interesting without sounding forced.

Other platforms like Pinterest create a new way to make picture boards of “Places to Visit” to travel without having to read articles. This is the easiest place to start planning a trip. You can find places that look really interesting and then start planning a trip around that. You’ll then be able to find more amazing places to check out by following picture links to other travel bloggers.

But while these websites are great for planning trips, you have to be careful with some of the links and pictures. It’s not uncommon to find a gorgeous, mysterious-looking place only to find out that it’s really two separate images photoshopped together. Just a word of caution.

For those traveling, the way news is changing is a great convenience. Now you don’t have to pack all those heavy travel books — if you have Wifi, you can just access blogs or search Google for “top things to do in [destination of choice]” and you’ll have the world at your fingertips.

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In this week’s style profile we have the classy and cultured Chadwick Young from Los Angeles, California. I had the privilege of meeting up with him for drinks at the Colville Street Patisserie, and it was such a blast.

For those of you who have not yet been featured for Style Profile, if you see me around campus please, feel free to come ask me. I am always looking for new candidates.

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C: Have you seen the statesmen & women of the

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GOT EARS, BRUH?

Perception is trippy. While we as humans value sight, hearing, and the other senses, many of us don’t appre-ciate all of the underlying signal-pro-cessing gobbledigook that transforms all of the sensory information into useful and relevant information. One of the best examples of this is the sense of hearing.

The sense of hearing relies on more than just an eardrum connected to the brain — there’s a lot going on to make sure the information we get is relevant and usable. One of the most obvious functions that goes on is the Fourier transform* that happens in the co-chlear nerve to turn the vibrational time-based signal received by the ear into one that includes frequency. To explain: Sound enters the ear as a vi-bration that moves through the air, which in turn vibrates the eardrum, which sends the vibration through a fluid into the cochlea.1 Unfortunately, vibrations look like this:

This is kind of difficult to get any meaning from. If we heard sound like that, it would be like looking at static — there just isn’t much to see here. Because of this, the cochlear nerve has fibers that each respond to a characteristic frequency**2, and, as a result of this, we end up hear-ing something that looks like this:

To be clear, frequencies are tones — each of the notes on a keyboard re-fer to their specific frequency*** in a one-to-one mapping. This means that the frequencies shown above can also be displayed as actual notes. Here they are:

or:

Isn’t that neat? Our cochlear nerve takes an arbitrary-looking signal and translates it into three notes — G, E, and B.

Speaking of scales, the scale we per-ceive sound on is different than the normal evenly-spaced one, which is why we say we hear in decibels. A deci-bel isn’t really a unit of sound so much as it is a ratio. What that means is, in-stead of perceiving sound in terms of an objective scale of how much pres-sure the vibration exerts, we perceive it as a logarithmic multiple of a refer-ence pressure. In terms of graphs, this

means that while the sound intensity really acts like this:

We perceive it like this:

What you’ll probably notice from the first graph is that it’s easy to distin-guish how much louder a jet engine is than the others, but not how loud the others are in comparision to each oth-er. On the logarithmic plot, however, you distinguish perfectly fine which things are louder than others. (The same is true of how we perceive fre-quency****)The fact that we percieve sounds this way is great because it lets us see a very large range of sound in-

tensity — from a soft whisper of a mu-seum full of Escher woodcuts to Bach’s Tocatta in Fugue in D minor on the church pipes.

*OK, it’s technically only roughly a fourier transform, other information is preserved that would not be preserved in a normal Fourier transform, but the principle is still the same.

**Actually, an individual fiber responds to a range of frequencies, but the characteristic frequency is the most important.

***They also have different harmonic frequen-cies, but that’s beside the point. The natural frequency, the one the note refers to, is the loudest.

****Not quite the same. Tones scale with the base-2 log, while magnitude scales with the base-10 log.

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The final kneel down. It’s over.

“The New England Patriots are Su-per Bowl champions, and the Lom-bardi Trophy is going back to Fox-boro.”

Confetti falls from the sky as an enthusiastic Rob Gronkowski runs up the field jumping in the air while conducting simultaneous fist pumps. Offensive lineman Nate Solder is rap-idly making the celebratory upper- cut punch motion in front of a disap-pointed Russell Wilson, who walks by with his helmet off.

A singular photographer is taking photos of opposing offensive and defensive players shaking hands at midfield.

Commissioner Roger Goodell

hands Tom Brady a large trophy and a graphic saying “Super Bowl MVP” appears on the screen. Brady shares a hug with who we are assuming is Head Coach Bill Bellichick, but it really looks nothing like him.

The screen goes black for about a second, and boxes that read “Game Stats” and “Exit Game”appear.

In my opinion this was what Mad-

den always got right, and here’s the part that is kind of cool — the amount of fun I had in the offseason in that game is directly proportional to how important the offseason actually is in the NFL. In other words, what was the most enjoyable feature of the game, is the one of the most important aspects in the NFL today.

Super Bowl XLIX really proved how getting the offseason right, and making smart (or lucky) decisions is so crucial to a team’s success.

Let’s start off by taking a look at the Super Bowl champs. In Sunday’s game, the three players who made arguably the biggest plays for their team were Tom Brady (sixth-round draft pick), receiver Julian Edelman (seventh

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-round), and cornerback Malcom But-ler (undrafted rookie). And while ev-ery year it is so frustrating for Patriots fans when Bellichick trades down in the draft, or doesn’t use a high pick on an offensive skill player — we have to give him credit for how these under-valued players turn out.

The Seahawks have also done a fantastic job of finding undervalued players and building a winning team with them. Not only are they able to discover players late in the draft, but apparently they can walk into a Foot-locker and turn a shoe salesman into a Super Bowl star.

While it is kind of fun to laugh at how Chris Matthews could go from a Footlocker in December to scoring touchdowns in the big game, there is a method behind it. Maybe Seahawks scouts saw something they liked from him in College at Kentucky and filed it away somewhere. Maybe a scout took another look at that file when Matthews won the Canadian Football League’s Rookie of the Year award. Whatever the case may be, the Sea-hawks were able to utilize his talents for the season at $171,000.

These moves are important, es-pecially when there are countering moves where you got it wrong. The Seahawks got it wrong with Percy Harvin this year. It wasn’t just the fact they traded a first round pick to ac-quire Harvin, but his spot on the ros-ter in theory eliminated the need for Golden Tate, whom they let walk in free agency. Tate had a Pro Bowl sea-son in Detroit, and by October Harvin had been traded to the New York Jets. The Seahawks were reminded again on Sunday of their Harvin blunder, when they had to contractually cut him a $46,500 check to not play in the Super Bowl. 1

Teams don’t mind paying large sala-ries if that means they are able to lock somebody down to a contact who will be a productive player for a long time. While Seattle was able to enjoy their gem and third-round pick Russell Wilson on a ridiculously cheap con-tract over the past three seasons, he is due for a very large payday, perhaps one of the most lucrative contracts in NFL history. The Seahawks will have to find value in this year’s draft to counteract the money they will be paying Wilson, and they won’t have as

much room to spend big in free agen-cy. It’s a delicate line to walk.

I suppose the point I am trying to make is, while most of us are a little worn down from the NFL by now, you may want to keep an eye on off-season moves, free agent signings, trades, draft picks, and roster invites your favorite team will make over the next few months.

Following a beat writer for your team on Twitter is a good place to start. They will often tweet out any and all moves that are made. So now when you hear that a former Best Buy electronics technician has been signed to compete for a running back spot — know that there is hope! They could be making a big play on the big stage around this time next year.

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“Books for class... Does that count?”- Kayla Albrecht

“Animorphs by K.A. Applegate.”- Charles Oroko

“I mean, the last book I read was by Dr. Seuss. That’s kind of embarrassing.”

- Kendrick Rady

“I thought District of Columbia was something near Jamaica.”

If you know me at all you’re probably surprised that I haven’t brought this topic up already in The Other Cheek. I would like to have a word with all of you this week, friends. I want to discuss equality for all genders, something in which I strongly believe and for which I advocate. Many people (hopefully you reading this, as well) agree that all genders should have equal rights, yet when the word “feminism” is introduced to the conversation, people tend to shut down or shy away.

Why are people so against this word? The meaning of any word can change drastically over time, and some words can take on more than one definition. There is much that could be said about the etymology of the word feminism and the different waves of feminism that have occurred over the last six or seven decades, but I’d like to focus on what feminism means to many people now and why it should still be considered relevant and important.

In my mind, feminism is still relevant because women say it is. The fact that we, as a society, ignore women because we’re “past” the time when we need feminism, even though women still say they feel discrimination, shows that something is still wrong. This can be disputed by anyone, but I don’t think we’ll be in an age that doesn’t need feminism for a long time. We still live in a world where women are assumed to be studying in the humanities and men to be studying a S.T.E.M. subject. We still live in a world where people feel the need to clarify if it is a woman in a position of power, because that is out of the ordinary. We still live on a campus where women feel uncomfortable walking down College Ave. in a skirt because of the inevitable (and frankly creepy) catcall that is sure to come from a passing car.

Feminism is important because many people think it’s not. We’ve come to a point where awareness has

reached a plateau, and because people know that the feminist movement exists they think it’s okay to joke about it. To each person on this campus who has made a rape joke, laughed about women’s rights, or told a girl to go make them a sandwich: you’re doin’ it wrong. To assume that we’re “Post-Feminism” is to assume that everyone agrees that women feel equal to their male counterparts, which is obviously not the case. To argue against the term but not its definition is not productive. What is productive is working with those who believe in equality for all genders, whether they term themselves as a feminist or not, to help promote this equality and not pretend like it already exists.

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