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The age of Winslow has begunNFL Hall of Famer heads Lakeland's Athletic DepartmentBy Brandon rookerSports [email protected]
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Kellen Winslow is Lake-land's new athletic direc-tor. He has a law degree
from the University of San Diego: School of Law and is a nine year NFL tight-end for the San Diego Chargers who happens to be a Hall of Famer and considered by many to be the greatest player his posi-tion has ever seen. Winslow was previously the Director of Athlet-ics at Central State University in Ohio before coming to Lakeland.
While many are familiar with Winslow’s accomplishments, few truly know the man behind the fame.
Although Winslow no longer plays football, he is an avid player of both chess and golf. “I grew up playing chess,” Winslow said. “As a matter of fact, I began playing chess before I began playing football.”
The most important aspect of Winslow’s life is his family. His proudest moment was when his son, Kellen Winslow Jr., walked out of Cleveland Brown’s tunnel to play his first game after recovering from a motorcycle accident.
Winslow said, “[Kellen Jr.]came out of the tunnel and the crowd started to cheer…I got goose pimples—he didn’t think he was going to return to football; a lot of people said he wouldn’t, but he
did, and he had a pretty good year. That was a very proud moment for me to see him come back from that accident, return to the field, and continue to do something that he loves to do. “
Often, Winslow reminisces about his time in the NFL.
“What I miss most about the NFL is my teammates,” Winslow said. “When you’re in that upper echelon of a profession and you’re taken away from that upper echelon, whether due to age or something else, you find that you miss those individuals who were there with you. It isn’t until you’re out of the game that you find you really miss them.
“We [the Chargers] had a
great organization, a family type of setting. If somebody had a baby, everybody had a baby. We brought the kids to the locker room. Everyone knew the wives and the girlfriends. To this day I am still in touch with them. When something happened to someone on the team, everyone knew about it, everyone was involved, and we still come together around those issues.”
In regard to his status as a Hall of Famer, Winslow said he is still in awe of the honor that
accompanies it.“[It’s an honor to be an NFL
Hall of Famer] simply because, first of all, when I go to Canton [Ohio], I always check to see if my bust is still in there—did they make a mistake and realize it?” Winslow said with a laugh. “[It's] very humbling. They thought enough of your career and your contributions to the game to bestow this honor upon you. For me, it’s just a mindblower."
“I don’t have [a favorite NFL team],” Winslow said. “When Kellen [Jr.] was in Cleveland, it was Cleveland, when he was with the Buccaneers, it was the Buccaneers. I grew up a Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals
fan.”A small Division III school
in the midst of cornfields doesn’t seem to be a natural home to a man of such accomplishment. What drew Winslow to Lakeland in the first place was his prior connection to President Grandillo.
Winslow said, “We met each other in Ohio through mutual business acquaintances. When he became President here [at Lakeland], he called me up and said, ‘I’m President at Lakeland College now. It’s a Division III school, and we want to be the best Division III sports teams college in the country—I need you to come up here and work with me.’ So that’s why I came.”
Believe it or not, Winslow knew of Lakeland College before Grandillo’s invitation. “I had heard of it, yes, because the only professional football player to come out of Lakeland, Pat Kern, was a teammate of mine in San Diego,” Winslow said. “It is a very small world.”
Winslow is most excited to see Lakeland grow. “We are going to put a foundation in place,” Winslow said. “We will form a vision. What will this campus look like in a couple years in relation to building upon the athletic facilities? We have very capable coaches who do a very
New sign, latest LC improvement, lights the way
Lakeland students may have noticed some construction within the past two weeks
at the intersection of county high-ways A and M. The structure will become, as Senior Vice President of Administration Daniel Eck calls it, Lakeland College’s “monument sign.”
“When the building process of this sign is complete, the tow-ering monument sign will reach to approximately forty feet high,” said Eck; this way it will be tall enough to see from any direction from which a person comes.
He disclosed that the sign was modeled after Old Main, the building that has become iconic for Lakeland College. The materi-als utilized for the brick portion of the sign, as well as for the font, are the same as those used for the front entrance Lakeland College
installed at the be-ginning of the 2011 school year.
The monu-ment sign will cre-ate “a sense of pres-ence right away,” said Eck. “The front entrance and the sign stand as Lake-land’s approach to upgrade.”
Eck is confi-dent the install-ment of this sign will positively influence first impressions of the college and enrollment growth, as well as give Lakeland students a sense of unity.
The funds for this $115,000 project were donated from “a sin-gle donor who wanted to help the college in this way,” Eck said. He admits that the amount sounds costly, but reconciles this fact by saying renovations and upgrades “are built to last.” The base and
foundation are made from brick and concrete while the peak is made of fiberglass.
Eck stated that the tricky part about the sign project was not the actual building process, but rather where to build it. “We had to find the right distance,” Eck said while recounting the geographical trou-bles they had. The sign had to be far enough away from the road so that people driving by could see it, but it couldn’t be too far back
because of nearby marshlands. Eck also disclosed that the land on which the sign has been built was donated by the Moir family, with whom Lake-land College has an easement agree-ment.
Eck is confi-dent that the entire project will be fin-
ished approximately a week after homecoming.
The front entrance and mon-umental sign are Lakeland’s first steps in upgrading the campus. Eventually, academic buildings, dormitories, and other buildings will be renovated as needed. No one knows what Lakeland College will look like five to ten years from now, but the road to change began with a single sign.
Athletic Director Kellen Winslow Senior
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The addition of a Communi-cation major is expected to be finalized this fall.
The major is currently under review of the Higher Learning Commission, whose members are the ones that grant accreditation, according to John McKenzie, in-structor of Communication at Lakeland.
The final decision will be made on Oct. 22, and Lakeland faculty and students will be in-formed of the decision within two weeks of that date. McKenzie says that students will be able to regis-ter on the day the news is received.
The previous curriculum only offered a minor in Communication and, before last year, the Commu-nication minor mostly consisted of courses in writing and a few art classes. The minor has since been
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Communication major to be finalizedCustomizable, interdisciplinary major will feature 13 all-new classes
redesigned to compliment the ma-jor.
McKenzie said, “Those who take the minor are still going to get a lot of the meat, the same content that people in the major do. Those who enroll in the major, however, will partake in more senior-level experiences."
There are also several new classes that will be added to the curriculum. Some classes that al-ready exist have changed their names to become Communication classes specifically. For example, the class Introduction to Mass Media (or WRI 100) will now be called COM 100 and Fundamen-tals of Public Speaking (or GEN 111) will become COM 111.
Thirteen completely new courses will also be available. Among these courses are Interper-sonal Communication, which will be taught by Charlie Krebbs, and Persuasion and Advocacy, which
Early Warning List: a helpful nudge to success
Students who have never re-ceived an e-mail from the Early Warning List system
may not be aware of its existence, while others who have received one may be familiar with the feel-ing of panic it can induce. Howev-er, Paul White, director of Hays-sen Academic Resource Center & assistant professor of General Studies, says there is no need for stress at the sight of one of these e-mails.
“The goal is to intervene be-fore problems become crises,” said White in describing the system.
White says the system has been around for years, even before
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the responsibility was given to him when he was hired as director of the academic resource center. Its main purpose is to provide an early warning to students who ap-pear to be experiencing academic difficulty in a class.
White stresses that students who receive an e-mail about the Early Warning List are not in trouble or being disciplined in any way. The system is simply meant to alert students of academic con-cerns, and go about fixing those problems before it is too late to do so.
The way this system works is that about once a week, through midterm, White sends out an email to anyone teaching a course in the traditional undergrad pro-
On Sept. 27, in a partner-ship between Lakeland College, Lakeshore Tech-
nical College, and Jake’s Café, eleven students tried their hand at speed networking in an effort to meet new business owners and develop their own professional portfolios.
By Joshua schartnerStaff [email protected]
Students and professionals were divided into five groups and were each given eight minutes to describe future plans, share busi-ness ideas, and learn about new businesses in the area. The pur-pose was to introduce students to these new businesses and allow them to expand their own profes-sional networks and to promote their personal vision for them-selves.
gram, asking if there are any stu-dents they are worried about, what class it is, and what the concern is. The faculty responds to that with comments, which are then sent out to the students themselves.
Students are guided to receive academic help in any way most ef-ficient for them, such as providing them with information about tu-toring or arranging a meeting with their advisor. “We’re really trying to be proactive and helpful,” says White.
Reasons a student might be added to the Early Warning List vary. White says that many stu-dents, particularly freshmen, may not understand the implications of missing even two classes, which
Students were required to be at least 21 years of age to attend and were instructed to bring their own business cards to promote their personal “brand.”
Those interested in another speed-networking opportunity will have a second chance to do so on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. during an on campus event that will have 30 area professionals in attendance.
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will be taught by McKenzie in the spring. Another class that will be offered is New Media and Digital Communication, which will allow students to design, write, and cre-ate their own professional blogs. Other class titles include Com-munication Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, and Critical Communi-cation Approaches to New Media, which is a senior-level course.
According to McKenzie, the major will have two primary fo-cuses, the first being on Rhetoric and Public Communication and the other on Professional Com-munication. McKenzie says that students interested in the profes-sional emphasis are looking to have jobs in the fields of business, corporation, or journalism.
He described the emphasis on rhetoric and public commu-nication as “revealing the way in which our communication is con-nected to everyone else’s commu-
nication.” These students may also take courses in politics, social and cultural issues, design, and speech writing.
McKenzie believes that stu-dents can greatly benefit from a major in Communication. He says that the number one quality employers are looking for in col-lege graduates is communication skills, and majoring in Communi-cation would prepare the student to enter the job field with the skill set desired by employers nation-wide.
He also stresses the interdis-ciplinary nature of the major, stat-ing that it can “be whatever you want to make it.” It can lead to a broad set of careers after gradua-tion, including those in marketing, advertising, journalism, writing for the web, public relations, hu-man resources, or designing and administering informational cam-paigns.
in some cases can account for a whole week of class work. Stu-dents may also have an important assignment missing, or poor quiz or test scores.
Whatever the reason, re-ceiving an e-mail from the Early Warning List should not be a panic-inducing experience, but rather seen as a helpful nudge in the right direction meant to help the student.
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WINSLOW FROM PAGE 1
good job in their recruitment efforts and their handling of the students, but we have to improve our athletic facilities, thus improving the collegiate experience they have. We want to have the ‘wow’ factor. [We want athletes] to envision themselves here. That’s how we are going to improve our enrollment. We will have to fundraise, and it will get the student body out into the community.”
Winslow puts a lot of em-phasis on community involve-ment. “The team is important,
but the community has to feel like they are part of it,” Winslow said. “That’s when they will come and support [our athletic teams]. If you do it the right way, you cre-ate a culture in which people who grow up in the community grow up with the thought of going to Lakeland. You have a pipeline of legacy that starts when they are young.”
Winslow also strongly be-lieves in his Health and Wellness Plan. He encourages students to live a healthy life in which they eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep to make sure they are at their very best for sports, classes,
or anything else they must do. One thing he already changed was tak-ing away the trays in the cafeteria.
Winslow also says that employers are more likely to hire someone who is healthy rather than someone who is unhealthy. If these good living habits are started in college, then they will carry on with the student through graduation and into the real world.
Adding an NFL Hall of Famer to the Lakeland community is an exciting event, and the future looks bright for Winslow, a man who is just as talented off the field as he was on it. The age of Winslow has begun.
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Hope is out there for cash-poor studentsAs a college student, one of
the most common phrases you probably use is, “I am a poor starving college student.” With books and tution costs rising year after year, this statement becomes increasingly correct.
So what can a college stu-dent do in order to stay out of debt so that he or she does not have to spend the next fifty years paying off loans? Is there any way to earn easy cash?
Last year, I was introduced to a wonderful website called Swag Bucks. Registration is free
and easy. On this site, you can earn Swagbucks by printing off and using coupons, answering daily polls, playing online games, using the Swagbucks’ search en-gine, and completing surveys.
When you have collected enough Swagbucks, you can re-deem them for prizes and gift cards. In the last year, I have racked up approximately $170 in Amazon.com gift cards. Other types of gift cards they offer are for restaurants, stores, and travel promotions.
Physical prizes can include apparel, magazines, electronics,
jewelry, posters, and appliances. If you would like to help out
your fellow Lakelander, you can sign up under my referal code: www.swagbucks .com/refer /LilChick92.
Another possible way to earn a little extra cash is to be-come a mystery shopper. Mys-tery shopping allows students to shop at stores and restaurants. After having gone to these busi-nesses, the shopper fills out a report on the businesses’ opera-tion and will then get paid for doing so. This is a great idea for a college student who needs to
have a job with flexible hours. Donating plasma at Sheboy-
gan’s Biolife Center is my final suggestion for earning a little extra cash. As long as you don’t mind having a needle sticking out of your arm for about an hour, you can earn about $45 every week if you donate twice. Additionally, Biolife uses the plasma for a good cause. The or-ganization works toward a cure for blood disorders and other medical conditions.
Now you have the tools to help you earn a some spending money for your college years.
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At her artist’s reception in the Bradley building on September 21, Dionne
Landgraf started her session by taking everyone into the gallery space. On the walls were mostly oil paintings and of those oils, most were portraits, a genre dear to Landgraf.
She told her audience that the face and its facial expressions are important in our culture. She said that other experimental artists create works that exclude the face or focus on something abstract, such as the feet.
However, Landgraf said she wanted her art to resonate with our culture and our daily lives. She had the audience do an exercise to illustrate her point. She told ev-eryone to turn to their neighbor and begin a conversation by either introducing themselves or, if they knew their neighbor, by talking in detail about something. The catch was that no one could look into the face of their neighbor. They could look at their neighbor’s shoes, their clothing, or something else in the room, but no one could look into another’s face.
This exercise immediately demonstrated why Landgraf finds it so important to paint the face. As humans, we express emotions through our facial expressions,
and especially in American cul-ture, the face is what it is polite to look at when you are speaking to someone. Therefore, Landgraf told her audience that it is important for her to paint portraits because the face is so expressive and influ-ential.
Landgraf’s portraits are also close to her heart because she mostly paints her daughter or other family members. She works from photographs of them to cre-ate her artwork. Landgraf’s color palette is also important in her work. Her sister, Kathy Alby, founded Earthfest in Sheboygan and so the environment is a large part of Landgraf’s life. She uses natural colors, admitting that she favors the umber tones.
In her most recent works, Landgraf is extremely influenced by water, nature, and lakes (espe-cially Lake Michigan). Her new-est four pieces included blues and greens to create sweeping water themes.
On the same topic, Landgraf explained how line, shape, and movement were important to her when she began to work.
Most of her works are still and do not include a lot of move-ment around the canvas. Land-graf told the audience that this is intentional. It represents specific
moments of time and the tran-quility of movement suspended in time and space. She uses a lin-ear means of expression to offer the stillness and tranquility her work is known for. It also extends to represent how transitional the moments are that she paints.
As her question and answer session continued, Landgraf ex-pressed her belief that some type of creative outlet is needed to survive this life. Hers is painting portraits and the occasional figure or landscape. In every work Land-graf tries to express the physical, spiritual, and intellectual aspects of humanity.
Most pointedly, Ladgraf led the audience to a portrait of her late father giving her a spiritual sign of blessing. This encourage-ment in her art and her life as a parent helped her to be confident enough to continue her artistic venture. In the same way, Land-graf reflects upon these aspects of her own life and looks to the works of other artists.
In Landgraf’s own experience, historical artists, especially from the Renaissance, are like friends to her.
One of the final questions asked at the reception included a curiosity as to why the pieces Landgraf had exhibited were all
relatively small. She responded with a small laugh and, “Good question.” She chalked it up to her small studio space and equally sized vehicle.
However, there is some part of the mind that wonders if this decision was more intentional than studio space. The small piec-es forced the audience to draw closer to the artwork, causing an intimate feeling.
From across the room, it was very difficult to tell what a work was about, or to see the detail in Landgraf’s strokes. Like the exer-cise Landgraf had everyone do at the start of the reception, it was needed to draw closer to her art before we could decipher the ex-pression on the face of her por-trait.
We had to consciously decide that we were going to engage in a sort of conversation with this piece before we could understand its meaning. To Landgraf, her work is personal, but it is also an expression of the human condi-tion.
Dionne Landgraf’s artist re-ception was an enlightening and interesting look into how this artist uses shadow and light, line, shape, movement, themes, and palette to create her artwork and to interpret life.
Landgraf’s portraits resonate with our daily lives and cultureTh
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100,000 poets for change: Sheboygan does its partBy SEaN GilliGaNStaff [email protected]
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The Sheboygan community and several members of the Lakeland College commu-
nity came together Sept. 29 at the Mead Public Library to promote change through poetry and vari-ous other types of art.
According the the 100,000 Po-ets for Change website, “The first order of change is for poets, writ-ers, musicians, artists, anybody, to actually get together to create and perform, educate and demon-strate, simultaneously, with other communities around the world.”
This goal is exactly what was
accomplished not only in She-boygan but also at 800 different events in 115 different countries in a global effort to promote not only change, but art and poetry in itself.
This is the second year in a row that Director of Alumni Re-lations here at Lakeland College, Lisa Vihos, has organized this event and she was happy with how it turned out this year and stated that, “Poetry and music are a universal way to express stuff.”
Vihos attempted to capture the idea that change can come in many forms. “If you want to con-nect to this idea of change, it could be personal, political, growing up,
changing your mind, changing your socks. Change is more than one thing,” Vihos said.
Vihos isn’t sure if poetry can really change the world, but she believes that, “It can change a per-son, and that’s how you change the world.”
The event consisted of four different events, closing with an open mic opportunity. Kristin Kl-emme and John Higgins kicked off the event by performing music on the terrace of the library.
Following them was Fessler Professor of Creative Writing and Lakeland College’s resident poet, Karl Elder, performing a few pieces from his book, The Houdini
Monologues, while accompanied by a cello.
Elder said he thoroughly en-joyed himself, as well as seeing ev-eryone else have fun.
The final performance of the afternoon was the Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Bruce Dethlefsen, who attends many events throughout the state promoting and reading his poetry. In regard to Dethlefsen, Elder said, “It’s always nice to hear Bruce read.”
The open mic session pulled in a varied crowd of people who were willing to get up and share their work, including several members from the Sheboygan community, a few Lakeland College students,
and also a high school class from IDEAS academy of Sheboygan.
The students from IDEAS, led by teacher Tad Wente, were
one group Vihos was especially impressed by.
“It was nice to see how many high school kids were there from IDEAS academy,” Vihos said.
Each student participated by reading at least one of their pieces.
Lakeland College Senior Writing major Nate Bakke was also in attendance and participated in the open mic. Bakke said the event was a lot of fun and he enjoyed the chance to
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Issue 2 October 11, 2012FeaturesHomecoming 2012 HighlightsByHeatHer HartmannStaff [email protected]
Homecoming week was filled with much excite-ment and many fun ac-
tivities. Here’s a rundown of all that transpired and the different teams’ rankings.
Pi Kappa Gamma won the window painting competition judged on Monday, Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. with a score of 50 points. The Kamikazes placed second with a score of 40 points. Freshmeat came in third with a score of 30.
There was also a pie eating contest on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 11:30 a.m. Freshmeat finished first, but because they didn’t clean the pan of all excess crust and crumbs they were bumped into third with a score of 30 points. The Kamika-zes came in second with a score of 40 points and ZX-AHX won by default with 50 points.
In other homecoming news, Brian Rudo rocked the Bradley with his amazing talent and jokes on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. He even messed with some of the LC-CAB executive board members, including Jacob Simonson and Frank Lucas.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. the teams had to turn in their Premier Night Posters and Photo Scavenger Hunts to Kaye Martin.
Freshmeat turned in the winning Premier Night Poster, earning themselves a score of 50 points. The Kamikazes turned in the second place poster, achieving 40 points for their team. Pi Kappa Gamma turned in the third place poster, receiving 30 points.
The Kamikazes turned in the winning Photo Scavenger Hunt, earning the team a score of 50 points. ZX-AHX turned in the second place set of photos, scoring 40 points for their team. Pi Kappa Gamma turned in the third place set of photos, gaining 30 points.
On Oct. 4 at 11:15 a.m., a costume competition was held.
The costumes were judged, and Freshmeat won by a landslide, earning 50 points. ZX-AHX came in second place with a total score of 40 points, and the Kamikazes slid into third with a score of 30 points.
Matt Troyer won Mr. Muskie Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bradley Building. Guest Comedian Jessi Campbell was the MC for the event. Last year’s victor Braden Woods, vice president of LC-CAB, gave up his throne and crowned Troyer.
The money from the penny war was counted at 1 p.m. on Fri-day, Oct. 6: the winning team was ZX-AHX, earning themselves 50 more points. The Pontooners came in second, earning themselves 40 points, while Team Thuggin’ came
in third, gaining 30 points. Matt Troyer, a mem-
ber of Freshmeat, won not only Mr. Muskie, but also the hon-or of becoming Homecoming King at the pep rally on Friday, Oct. 5 at about 9 p.m. in the Wehr Center, of which gained his team 60 extra points.
Kaylin Olson, of the Kamika-
Inside Sports: Hannah LandgrafSenior Forward leads fellow Muskies with her play and guidanceBy Brandon rookerSports [email protected]
The Lakeland College Wom-en’s Soccer team has shown great promise throughout
the 2012 season. A major contribu-tor has been the leadership and play of Senior Forward Hannah Landgraf.
“I love Hannah's energy and leadership on and off the field,” said Muskie co-captain Liz Pritzl. “Hannah is a great teammate. She's the kind of girl that you love to play with because she is so motivated and determined to do well that it’s contagious to the rest of the girls on the team. She is such a hard worker and always does her best. If a girl on the team scores a goal or does something
zes, was honored with the crown of Homecoming Queen, also earn-ing her team 60 extra points.
ZX-AHX won the lip synch-ing competition with a total score of 50 points. The Kamikazes came in second with a total score of 40 points and Freshmeat placed third
with a total score of 30 points. The Kamikazes won by a
landslide in the overall team games with a total score of 310. Freshmeat came in second place with a total score of 270 and ZX-AHX came in a close third with a total score of 260.
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great during a game or a practice, Hannah is the first one to run over to her and give her a high five or a compliment. She's the type of
player that gets more excited when one of her teammates does something amazing than herself. Hannah is awesome and I can’t say enough good things! I'm very happy to be her teammate.”
As a Senior, Landgraf is putting the finishing touches on a soccer career that has spanned the majority of her life. With her college eligibility running out, this season will likely be the last that Landgraf ever plays organized soccer. Along with her love of the game, Landgraf also enjoys the comradery that soccer gives to the teammates that play it and recognizes that it is growing rapidly in its American popularity.
“The fact that in America it’s not as popular as it is internationally in Europe [makes
me want to endorse it],” Landgraf said. “It’s a growing sport. With the Olympics that just happened and the World Cups that have been going on, people are starting to see that this is cool.”
Landgraf said, “You see the heart and the drive of all those girls on the field and it’s just awesome to see, especially when you score. In other sports you score all the time. In soccer it’s either one and done, or you may get two or three. Whenever that happens it’s just the greatest feeling ever. It’s definitely rewarding.”
Landgraf has loved soccer since she was in grade school. “I first started playing probably [when I was] [in] kindergarten,” Landgraf said. “I was really competitive, even from a young
age, so the competitive nature kept me going.”
Landgraf says her family has been a great influence on why she plays the game. “My parents [have been my greatest influence] just because they see me enjoying something, so they kept pushing me,” Landgraf said. “I also have a younger sister and when I got older she looked up to me, and I [thought I] should keep going because she was following in my footsteps. I wanted to be a role model to her, too.”
Landgraf has loved her time at Lakeland and is sad to be graduating. “The people [are what I will miss most about Lakeland],” Landgraf said. “I made a lot of
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5The Lakeland CollegeM I R R O R
Issue 2 October 11, 2012Features
She hails from the United Kingdom and has lived in France, South Africa, Hong
Kong, and Turkey, but now she finds herself… deep in the heart of Wisconsin cornfields?
Alex Liosatos is Lakeland College’s new part time counselor, filling in for full-time counselor Cary Knier on Fridays. Considering her sheer passion for travel, as well as her background in both social anthropology and international affairs, it is no wonder Liosatos harbors such a deep appreciation for other cultures and the people that partake in them.
Liosatos is also serving as an adjunct instructor in Lakeland’s Kellett School’s counseling department, particularly in the field of multicultural counseling.
Liosatos believes multicultural awareness has a positive impact on counseling in general.
“It is important to remain completely open and to ask the right questions so that you can figure out what you need to know to help a person and what you need to know about that person’s culture so that you can help them in the best way—this actually ap-
plies to all counseling, but in mul-t i c u l t u r a l counseling you may have to ask a lot more questions,” L i o s a t o s said.
Though some might find it odd that one
with such an interest in the world at large would settle down in a quiet Wisconsin community, Liosatos says that she is by no means bored in her current situation—in fact, it may be one of her greatest adventures yet, and one that was years in the making.
Liosatos has a personal connection to Lakeland as she graduated from its Kellett
School with a master’s degree in counseling.
She has wanted to work at Lakeland ever since her husband, Professor of History Richard Dodgson, was hired by the school five years ago—in fact, his decision to take the job was influenced by their knowing the campus had a counseling department in which Liosatos would someday like to work.
Liosatos is eager to meet the students and is already fascinated by Lakeland’s own little ‘culture’. "There is even a culture on campus," Liosatos said with a laugh. "The different groups all have their own ways of dressing and talking."
Liosatos hopes more students will drop in and take advantage of the resource, and believes more will do so once they truly understand what its offerings are.
“We have people coming
Liosatos happy to be back homeNew counselor says students can drop in whenever they need toBy Leah ULatowskiCopy [email protected]
in with problems ranging from academic stress to relationship problems to more serious things like depression,” Liosatos says.
“But, I think it is important for students to know that they can drop in whenever they need someone to talk to. Sometimes people think that to see a counselor they must have a mental illness, but that isn’t the case. Counselors are also here just for supportive talks and to serve as a listening ear,” Liosatos said.
In addition to her duties at Lakeland, Liosatos serves at Novo Counseling and BridgePoint Health in Sheboygan, as well as facilitating a weekly group for at risk teenage girls.
In regard to offering any discouraged student advice, Liosatos said, “This too shall pass…but, it may pass more quickly if you reach out for help!”
Inside Sports: Alex PiekarskiBy Brandon rookerSports [email protected]
There has been a sense of security in the Lakeland College Mens Soccer team
for the last four seasons. In a sport that’s low scoring, it is a charac-teristic of success to have a great last line of defense. In Lakeland’s case, that defense is senior goalie Alex Piekarski, a four year starter as Lakeland’s keeper.
“Alex is the kind of player that is never intimidated and he’s ruthless in the goal,” said team-mate Justin Blauert. “He will nev-er give up on a play, of which has saved countless goals and has led us to win a lot of games. He is one of the best goalkeepers that I’ve ever seen and it has really been an honor to play with him.”
“[The term] ‘player’ doesn’t begin to describe what Alex is,” said another teammate, Paul Elz-inga. “He is an all around super-athlete and still continues to set the bar higher. Imagine a lineback-er/tight end [in football] wearing a goalie uniform and you have somewhat an idea of Alex. He has accomplished many titles that he can be very proud of but still sets his bar higher to the extent that most people only dream of doing.”
Piekarski has been playing organized soccer since he was five years-old. When he was ten, he made a positional change to goalkeeper that would prove to shape him into the force he is today.
“When I was ten, I was the biggest guy on the team. I was pretty good at it and I’ve gotten a lot better since,” Piekarski said of the move to goalkeeper.
Teammates believe there are a variety of reasons as to why
Alex Piekarski
Senior goalkeeper a last line of the Muskie defense
Piekarski has been so successful as the last line of the Muskie defense.
“Alex's greatest strength as a player is that he isn't afraid to go into a dangerous play and won't give up on it if the ball gets loose,” Blauert said. “He will dive through a crowd to punch a ball out, slide into oncoming players to get the ball, and win 50/50 balls out of the box. Determination is a key aspect of Alex's strength. If you think you’ve beaten him, he will dive across the box and deny your second shot attempt on goal. He isn't intimidated by anything.”
“Alex has a wide range of strengths,” Elzinga said of Piekarski. “His greatest strength is keeping the ball out of the net. I believe that he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. The amount of saves he truly has in a game or scoring opportunity punts, you’re not able to read about in the local paper, you would have to witness it by attending a match.”
Piekarski lists his high school coaches and his parents as his greatest influences in soccer.
“My high school coaches really pushed me to become an
elite player,” Piekarski said, “and my parents always supported me. That really means a lot [to me].”
Piekarski says he will "miss soccer a ton, as well as the teammates, [and the] great comradery on the team,” he said. “I love the campus. [I have] a lot of friends here and I love getting to know everyone. I love just being able to talk to anyone anytime.”
“I will miss his motivation in pushing me to be the player I am today,” said Elzinga of Piekarski’s imminent departure. “A great player doesn’t create himself, his surroundings create him. Being able to compete with and learn from him is something I will hold true to my heart as a soccer player.”
“There are a lot of things that I will miss,” said Blauert. “I will miss his dominant play in the goal, his determination to improve as a player and to make his teammates better, and his subtle sense of humor, but the most important thing is his passion for the game. Alex loves soccer and you can tell by how hard he works on and off the field. He is usually the first on the field for keeper training and the last off of it due to talking with the coaches to see how the practice went and what we need to improve.”
Piekarski is an Elementary Education major and would love to coach high school soccer while teaching fourth or fifth grade.
Though his time at Lakeland draws to a close, the influence Piekarski has made on his teammates, coaches, and the Lakeland men’s soccer team as a whole will never fade. Long after he is gone, people will still remember one of the greatest goalies Lakeland College has ever had.
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be “a part of the community.”Jeannie Gartman, of the
Mead Public Library, organized a book spine poetry event, in which participants stacked books on top of each other while using their titles to form a poem that read from the top book to the bottommost. There were around 40 poems created in all.
About the book spine poems, Vihos said, “It is fun to find poems in the world. It was really just to
make people feel more comfortable with poetry.”
Elder also praised the book spine poems saying, “The stacked poems were just unbelievable.”
Sheboygan may not be a big city, but thanks to modern technology, that does not stop us from reaching out to connect with other countries and events all over the world, and playing our own small but significant part in promoting change and making this world a better place.
On Sept. 27, Lakeland hosted its own Faculty Music Recital.
The faculty music recital consisted of performances from Lakeland faculty members performing music created by the greats. It included classical music from the likes of Mozart, Pierre Ferroud, and Benjamin Britten.
The performers were the following: Associate Professor of Music Arthur Johnson, Professor of Applied String Dan Ognavic, Associate Lecturer of Music Kathy Pedersen, Applied Bassoon Instructor Patricia Milsted, Applied Instructor of Guitar Michael Ammons, Adjunct Professor of Flute Megan Pettitt, Applied Instructor of Oboe Heidi Hess, and Professor of Applied Piano Olga Rua.
All the performers played beautiful music. Mozart composed his music only on original copies,
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ReviewBy Benjamin wiLksStaff [email protected]
Faculty music recitaland luckily they were preserved so that artists today, like Johnson, can study and recreate the art for modern ears to hear. Every key of Johnson’s performance created a heavenly sense of relaxation for the listener.
After Johnson’s performance on the piano, Milsted entered with her bassoon, from which she produced a mellow, flute-like sound.
Milsted put a lot of time into rehearsing the piece, as she was very intent on perfecting the performance. The result could give any listener goose bumps and felt like a soft whisper to the ears.
To spice up the performance, Johnson performed an improvisation based on the idea of zip codes. It was very creative and original, and the audience got a laugh out of it.
The final performance, featuring Ammons on guitar, was very entertaining. When he started to sing, it made the moment even greater.
A few audience members sang along to Ammons’ arrangement of Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground and By and By I’m Going to See the King.
The performance as a whole was great, and the audience seemed well pleased.
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6 Issue 2 October 11, 2012 Arts & Entertainment The Lakeland CollegeM I R R O R
Matt Troyer named Mr. Muskie 2012,winning despite twin sweater situation
Last week’s homecoming ac-tivities included the annual "Mr. Muskie" pageant, during which five male contestants competed for the title of Mr. Muskie 2012.
The Lakeland College Dance Team organized the event, which took place on Thursday Oct. 4 in Bradley. The team’s co-captains, Siera Ramirez and Kourtney Rie-der, introduced the judges, who included Lakeland’s new presi-dent Dr. Michael Grandillo, the President’s wife Nancy Grandillo, Director of Student Activities Kaye Martin, Professor of Biol-ogy Kathy Marr, and Associate Professor of Biochemistry Jef-fery Schwehm. Mr. Muskie 2011 Braden Woods sat on his throne, wearing a golden crown.
The co-captains then intro-duced comedian Jessi Campbell, who was the MC for the night, sponsored by LC-CAB. She set a casual mood for the night with the first of many jokes.
Campbell introduced the five contestants. Chris Callan—fresh-man computer science and busi-ness major, Daniel Zea—sopho-more communication and Spanish major, and Dale Sievert—junior religion and sociology major en-tered in semi-formal wear.
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The audience giggled when they realized that, junior Matt Troyer—majoring in music education and trumpet perfor-mance—and sophomore Jake Si-monson—majoring in business management—had arrived wear-ing exactly the same combination of white dress shirts and blue and gray argyle sweater vests. During the “Question and Answer” por-tion, Campbell teased Troyer and Simonson for showing up in near-ly the same outfit.
Campbell then pointed out Woods’ glasses, assuming that
they were just a fashion state-ment, and said, “I’m not just some hipster trying to be cool with fake glasses.” The audience laughed as Woods tried to assert that his glasses were real, too.
For the talent portion, Cal-lan skateboarded. Zea attempted to eat a package of Oreos. Simon-son's routine included beatboxing. Troyer prepared a dance known as the “wobble,” which he performed with both energy and precision. Sievert also performed some free-spirited dance moves.
Campbell started “Dude
Looks Like a Lady” by introducing Callan, who wore a black dress. Zea showed off a Beyonce-like look in a short black dress and wig. Simonson’s Disney princess look included braids and a cape. Sievert enlivened his strut in a little black dress by throwing off his flowered hat to Woods.
But Troyer pushed the bound-aries when he arrived onstage in a long bleach-blonde wig and short lacy dress with fishnet stockings and high heels. He wowed the judges with some hair-flipping.
When the judges had tallied
From left to right: Daniel Zea, Chris Callan, Matt Troyer, Dale Sievert, and Jake Simonson.
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Mr Muskie 2011 Brayden Woods poses with Mr Muskie 2012 Matt Troyer.
their votes, Campbell announced that they had chosen Zea as the runner-up, and that Troyer would be crowned the next Mr. Muskie. Woods presented him with a sash, crown, and trophy.
After the performance, Troyer said that “this was just outstand-ing. It’s a great group of guys. They made it really fun.”
The now ex-Mr. Muskie Woods explained that he was sad to have to give up the title and the crown, but also “happy to be able to hand over the crown to some-body deserving.”
Some say the world will end in rapture, and some anticipate the world will end
when the Mayan calendar does. However, Professor of Astronomy at Berkeley University, Alex Filippenko, who spoke at a Sept. 20 convocation, begs to differ.
Filippenko was a member of the cosmological teams that discovered the expansion of the universe and has since dedicated his life to teaching cosmology and furthering the investigation on the expansion of the universe.
Filippenko said that he “expand[s] [on] the past history of expansion in order to determine the fate of the universe.” Astronomers uncovered 13.7 billion years of what Filippenko calls “great achievement” in the area of astrophysics.
With the aid of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a telescope invented by Edwin Hubble, astronomers are able to take in-depth photos of various stars and galaxies. Filippenko said that each photo of the sky taken by this telescope was equal to a grain of sand, implying that the universe is bigger than many understand it to be.
Filippenko described how the universe is continually expanding
Dark energy and the runaway universeBy Brittany BeckMannStaff [email protected]
and said that the possibility the universe will grow so vast that the earth could freeze over exists. Filippenko said that the reason lies with anti-gravity; which can best be described by Filippenko as “maybe a property of space, but not a property of earth, and therefore cannot be harnessed.”
Based off of past observations of space, the universe expands faster over time. Galaxies haven’t expanded so far that the earth is close to freezing over thanks to dark matter.
Dark matter and dark energy, to this day, stand as enigmas to cosmologists despite the fact that they make up a large portion of the universe. According to Filippenko, the universe is comprised of “73 percent dark energy, 23 percent dark matter, 3.6 percent inter-galactic gas [atoms], and 0.4 percent stars and planets.”
Another theory exists that the expansion of the universe will eventually slow down and crash. Filippenko recited the famous poem by Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice,” articulating Frost’s perspective about the end of the world and how he would prefer the world to perish by freezing.
This lecture provided an intellectual insight into the end of the world, how far science in this area has come, and the sheer quantity of what yet needs to be discovered.
The Lakeland CollegeM I R R O R
Issue 2, October 11, 20127Fun House
At first, students, faculty, and staff assumed that some sort of Halloween
prank was taking place when a gorilla approximately 40 feet tall emerged from the cornfields across the street from Lakeland College and made his way toward Old Main on Oct. 1 around 4:15 p.m.
“I thought it was some other students in a big gorilla suit,” said Brandon Rooker, who was among the first of the students to notice the lumbering beast. “But as it got closer, I realized that there was no way they could be operating a costume that huge.”
According to those who were present at the time, the gorilla—which Lakelanders are now calling King Kong—emerged from among the corn very cautiously and sniffed the bridge leading to campus before walking across it and leaping right over the brick wall with Lakeland’s new lighted sign on it. King Kong then made his way across the grassy courtyard and began lapping out of the fountain in front of Old Main.
“I wasn’t too scared,” said
Rooker. “I’ve always been fascinated with monsters, and King Kong didn’t seem too dangerous when he was just drinking out of the fountain like that. He reminded me of a person at a bubbler.”
Meanwhile, some witnesses say that another creature was emerging from the pond behind the president’s house.
Stephanie Rebek, who was on her way to WAK from the apartments at the time, says she noticed that the earth seemed to
tremble beneath her.“It felt like an earthquake,
only smaller,” said Rebek. “Then this huge shadow fell across me, and I looked up and screamed!”
And Rebek had good reason to scream. The shadow, as it turns out, came from a dragon-like creature estimated to be around 60 feet tall. It snorted a stream of fire towards the ground, narrowly missing Rebek and cooking six geese that had been resting on the edge of the pond, which the dining staff later served at dinner,
explaining that the feathers had been burned off and that the geese had been thoroughly cooked; students later complimented the freshness of the meat being served.
At any rate, Rebek quickly dialed security on her cell phone to ask them to deal with the creature, fearing that it would breath fire on students and bring them to the same fate as the geese that had sat on the edge of the pond.
The dragon-like creature trudged toward Old Main and roared when it spotted King Kong sipping from the fountain. By this time security had arrived on the scene. The full staff was there frantically taping off the area to keep students away from the dangerous creatures.
“I got pretty scared then,” said Rooker. “Godzilla [the dragon] seemed pretty angry with Kong, and I didn’t know what that would mean for us onlookers.”
But King Kong swiftly climbed up the front of newly-renovated Old Main and perched himself on the steeple where Godzilla couldn’t reach him. Godzilla tried repeatedly to swat at King Kong, but his tiny forearms prevented him from scratching King Kong, who remained at the top of the steeple.
The two monsters stayed focused on their quarrel until finally a helicopter arrived from
Animal Control Headquarters to detain the two. The Animal Control officers came prepared with tranquilizer darts and various ropes and nets, all of which made quick work of capturing Godzilla. They were able to set up a trap that tripped Godzilla and kept him still long enough to be tranquilized.
King Kong had to be coaxed off of the steeple with roasted corn on the cob before he could be tranquilized. Additional helicopters had to be called to carry off the monsters.
Animal Control officer Amy Borntrager told the Mirror, “When we got the call, we made sure to come up with a plan that wouldn’t permanently harm them. While that is usually our goal, it was especially important in this case because of the scientific importance of both animals involved.”
Borntrager says that both King Kong and Godzilla will be taken to a secure lab at an undisclosed location for further investigation into how these anomalies of nature came to be. Borntrager had no comment regarding when or if further information would be released to the public, but was willing to say that “we [Animal Control] will do all we can to protect the public from threats like this in the future.
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Concept By Brandon RookerSports [email protected]
Joe the Rooskie gets lost
I was bored one day, so I decid-ed to go flying beyond Lake-land College, but I started
getting tired as I soared over the fields of green, yellow, and brown. I kept going until my wings gave out.
I made a less-than-graceful landing in the middle of a cornfield. I looked around and realized I was lost. I started following the path that was cut through the cornstalks and lined with sandbags and a wire fence, but I found a dead end.
I turned around and went right instead of left this time and found the way out. I looked around and realized I was on a farm. I could see bright red barns and fences that had peeling white paint. There were also many horses around. I counted ten different horses that were tied up next to a pale blue house. I went up to a black and white horse that was nearby in the fenced area.
“What’s your name?” I asked. “Hershey,” said the horse
with a toss of her mane. “What’s yours?”
“Joe. Where am I?”“You’re on a ranch, silly,” said
Hershey. When she wasn’t able to
point me in the direction that was home, I started leaving, but
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something caught my eye. I saw some people hoisting themselves up onto some of the other horses.
“What are they doing? I asked.
“This is where you come to ride horses.”
“You mean people ride you?”“Yea, they do. It’s not hard,”
said Hershey. “See this thing on my back? It’s called a saddle. They sit on it and put their feet in the stirrups by my side. Then they have to balance or else they’ll fall off.”
“Can I try?”“Sure! Fly on up and try to
stay on.”I flew up and landed on
the saddle; it was slippery and hard. I stood in the middle, and Hershey started walking. I felt myself slipping off, so I flew into the air and landed on the ground. I decided to try again and made it for ten minutes but wound up falling off again and landed in a mud puddle.
“That is harder than it looks,” I said. “I don’t know how humans do it. Thanks for letting me try it though.”
“You’re welcome,” said Hershey. “Come back again.”
I started heading back the way I came, but realized I didn’t know where I was supposed to go after that. I have no idea how to get home, I thought. Which way did I go to get here? I tried to remember
but nothing looked familiar. All of a sudden I saw some geese in the air. I let out a loud crow. One of the geese slowed and came down by me.
“Joe?” she asked.The voice sounded very
familiar, but the geese all looked similar to one another.
“Lola?” I asked. “Yeah. What are you doing
over here?”“I went off exploring, but
now I’m lost. Do you know how to get home?”
“Yeah, I do. Can you fly?”“No, I’m still tired from
getting here.”“Okay, just let me say goodbye
to my friends.”Lola said goodbye and headed
toward me. “We have to go right, and let’s
stick to the fields. It’s safer that way,” she told me.
“I trust you,” I said.We headed in the direction
that I came from and came across that same cornfield with the paths cut out of it.
“I was here before,” I said. “I had to follow this weird path because it was lined with a fence and these weird bags.”
“Oh, you found a corn maze. The point is to find your way out,” Lola said. “This is what humans do for fun this time of year. The fence and sand bags are to make the humans figure out the path,
otherwise it’s too easy.”“So we have to go through it
again?” I asked.“If you want to get home you
have to,” she said.We started taking a pathway
but wound up at a dead end. We backtracked and tried another way. I was scared that we’d never make it out.
“Lola, there’s no way out! We’re trapped!”
Lola shook her head and pushed me into a different path with a scarecrow by it. We followed the path and came out into the open pasture.
“Oh, thank goodness,” I said with relief.
As we were walking, something brown jumped in front of us and over us. We turned around and saw an animal
standing there.“What’s that?” I
whispered.“It’s a deer,” said
Lola. “We must have startled her.”
“Wow, she’s really neat. Will she hurt us?”
“No, she’s more scared of us than anything. She’ll run off pretty soon.”
“Can you fly the rest of the way?” Lola asked.
“Yeah, I can try. We should get going; it’s starting to get cold out.”
We were almost home when my wings got very tired. I can make it, I thought. I gave it everything I had and
ended up landing in the ditch. My feathers were muddy, but I was just relieved to be home where I could go somewhere warm and get food from Dr. Grandillo and his family.
“Thanks for the fun day and for rescuing me,” I said to Lola.
“You’re welcome. See you tomorrow,” she said.
I headed home feeling tired but happy, after a fun-filled day.
Monsters take over Old Main: onlookers terrified
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Football Muskies don’t disappoint homecoming crowdBy Alec NoaStaff [email protected]
The women’s volleyball team meets at the net to clarify their strategy.
There was a lot of hype going into the homecoming foot-ball game on Sat. Oct 6 for
Lakeland College. The Muskies went into the game heavy favor-ites over their opponent Rock-ford College, with a record of 4-0 against Rockford College in the last four years. Also, the Muskies hadn’t given up a single score to Rockford College in the past three years.
The Muskies did not take long to get started in the game. They got the ball and drove 65 yards to
score a touchdown on their open-ing drive in the first quarter.
Though the Muskies’ offense came out strong, it would be the defense that kept them in the game in the first half.
The Muskies where unable to score again in the first half but the defense was able to hold Rockford to a single touchdown to keep the score tied at halftime.
The Muskies were able to re-gain their momentum by coming out stronger than ever in the sec-ond half. Lakeland’s football team scored three unanswered touch-downs, two of them coming from quarterback
Dylan Van Straten, who scrambled effectively and found himself in the end zone. Muskie kicker Wil-lam Yelverton converted on a field goal attempt, making the score 31-7 and giving Lakeland College their first win of the season.
The Muskie defense sacked the Rockford quarterback seven times in the second half and forced a fumble in their own red zone, and gave the ball back to the of-fense when Matt Hill scooped it up and returned it 55 yards before getting taken down.
Muskie standouts were Quarterback Dylan Van Straten, who completed 8-14 passes for 164
Disappointing loss for women’s soccerBy Alec NoAStaff [email protected]
The Lakeland College Muskies Women’s soc-cer team looked to get a
win on Wednesday Oct. 3 against Marian University. The Muskies went into the game with an over-all record of 3-7 and a conference record of 2-3.
The Muskies and Marian played to a deadlock in the first 20 minutes of the contest before Marian took over the first half.
Marian was able to score two goals in the first half at the 30th minute and the 38th minute of the contest.
Marian scored goals first converting on a corner kick and converting on a free kick that was headed into the corner of the goal.
The Muskies were able to slow down the Marian momen-tum though, keeping the score 2-0 at the end of the first half.
The second half started, and Marian looked to pick it up again when they scored their third goal of the contest in the 59th minute of the half. The game continued to go back and forth, and the contest ended at a 3-0 score.
The loss has put the Muskies’ overall record to 3-8 and their con-ference record to 2-4.
The Muskie standouts were Hannah Landgraf, who had six shots at the goal, and Ali Thomp-son, who had 10 saves in the con-test.
The Muskies looked to re-bound Sat. Oct 6 against Domini-can University in River Forrest, Illinois.
The Muskies struggled through the whole game, getting outshot in total shot attempts 29-1. Dominican poured on the of-fense winning the game 5-0.
The loss has put the Lake-land’s women’s soccer team to a total overall record of 2-8 and a conference record of 2-4
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Men’s soccer rough loss, 0-3-2 conference
The Lakeland College Muskie men’s soccer team looked to take down their
opponent Concordia University Wisconsin on Tues. Oct 2. The Muskies went into the game with an overall record of 2-6-2 and a conference record of 0-2-2.
The Muskies came out strong, scoring the first goal of the contest when Farouk Dadzie was able to punch the ball in at the four-minute mark.
Concordia was not going to go down that easy though. Diego
Campos tied the score when he made a goal at the 35th minute of the contest.
Both teams would be unable to score and went into halftime tied.
The Muskies were unable to stop the Falcons in the second half. Concordia’s Kyle Sytsma converted on a penalty kick and took the lead. Concordia wouldn’t give up the lead for the rest of the contest.
The Muskies hung in there, but Concordia sealed the game when they scored their third un-answered goal at the 72nd minute of the contest. Concordia went on
to win the game 3-0.A Muskie standout was Alex
Piekarski, who had eight saves for the Muskies.
On Saturday Oct. 6, the Muskies took on nationally-ranked Dominican University in River Forest.
The team struggled the whole game, getting outshot 31-2 by Dominican in the contest. Do-minican went on to win the game, scoring 10 goals in the contest and shutting out the Muskie offense.
The losses have put the Muskies’ overall record to 2-7-2 and a conference record of 0-3-2.
Muskies split weekend volleyball games, win Homecoming, and raise awareness
Lakeland’s women’s volley-ball team opened a weekend of home games against Do-
minican University on Friday Oct. 5 in NAC conference play.
Both games were part of the “Dig Pink” event which many col-leges around the country will be participating in. Dig Pink is part of the Side-Out Foundation help-ing to raise money for breast can-cer awareness month.
At both volleyball matches, prize baskets were raffled off, in-cluding items like CDs, gift certifi-cates, and holiday-themed items.
The Muskies struggled, hit-ting a negative percentage with 27 errors and just 19 kills.
Lakeland fell in straight sets after losing the first set in a close game 25-23. Senior Taylor Daus led the Muskies with five kills, and junior Brittany Reindl led in assists with 17.
The Muskies rebounded on Saturday for the homecoming game against Concordia in NAC conference play. Junior Katie Fre-
itag led the way with ten kills in a Lakeland romp of Concordia.
The Lakeland Muskies de-feated the Cougars in three straight sets by scores of 25-21, 25-19, and 25-23.
The win came at an impor-
tant time for the Muskies, who improved their record to 14-8 overall and 4-4 in conference. The homecoming victory made for a “Muskie sweep” on Saturday. Re-indl led the team with 27 assists and junior Anna Faust led with 17
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digs.Lakeland has just four con-
ference games left in the season before the NAC conference tour-nament. The women’s volleyball team also clinched their first win-ning record since 2009.
yards, and Kendrick Burks who had 22 rushes for 65 yards. The Muskies had a season high of 368 total offensive yards.
Defensive standouts for the Muskies were Erik Lucht, who had a team-leading ten tackles, and Bruce Romagnoli and Trevor Tanck, who had seven tackles each.
The win put the Muskies’ overall record at 1-4, with a con-ference record of 1-1. They hope to keep the winning streak going on Saturday Oct. 13 when they take on Maranatha Baptist Bible Col-lege at 1 p.m. in Watertown.
close friends, and it’s easy to build a relationship here because you know everybody on campus. You get to know the professors and the coaches, and they get to know you. It’s more of a family than just somebody in your class or a professor or a coach. They are a big influence on your life, and you can use that to your advantage once you leave if you need references for a job.”
Though Lakeland’s record is not particularly good this season, Landgraf insists there is potential in the team.
“This year has just been awesome,” Landgraf said. “I’ve been extremely lucky to play with this group of girls. Our record doesn’t show it, but we’ve been extremely successful. We’re getting better every day with each practice and every game. I keep
LANGRAF FROM PAGE 4 seeing improvements. This year so far, playing soccer with these girls has been spectacular.”
Landgraf is a Criminal Justice major with dreams of being a police officer when she graduates Lakeland. “Eventually, I will probably go to the police academy,” Landgraf said.
Graduation is still months away, and in the meantime Landgraf is promoting the Women’s soccer program on and off the field. “The women’s soccer program is rebuilding itself. We’ve had a tough few years, but people have to have confidence in us,” Landgraf said.
“They have to see that we come out every day and work our butts off. We get frustrated, but we never give up. We’d love [to have] the support [of the students] and have people come out and watch us and see what we can do,” she said.
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