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BY MICHAEL RIGGIN
Staff Reporter
Students around campus have been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month this October with many cultural events, in-cluding dances, fi lm presentations, exhib-its and guest speakers.
One very widespread cultural celebra-tion is the Day of the Dead. Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (M.E.C.H.A.) has joined the Center for Diversity and Social Justice in organiz-ing a variety of free ac-tivities for the celebra-tion.
Beginning Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the SURC, M.E.C.H.A. and the Center of Diversity and Social Justice will be hosting Mexican Bingo (or Loteria), craft workshops and face paint-ing. Free Mexican cuisine will be served, and a Maria-chi band will perform.
“Mariachi Wenatchee will be playing, with free food and fl avored waters available,” said Caro-lina Perez, co-president of M.E.C.H.A.
“We’re doing a photo booth and [of-fering] skull face painting. Also, an altar will be created and decorated.”
Another event hosted by the CWU Art Department for Day of the Dead is Al-teras y Ofrendas, or Altars and Offerings, an art exhibit displayed on campus and in the Ellensburg area.
Alteras y Ofrendas will be held Oct. 30 through Nov. 5. One display will be held at Sigle Law downtown. These displays will consist of sugar skulls and papel picado (decorative craft paper).
The sugar skulls are made of sugar and moringa powder (a nutrient-dense powder which supports the immune system) and are decorated with frosting.
So far, a dozen students are participat-ing in the workshop.
“A larger workshop [will be held] on Friday for anyone who wants to come and help out,” said Ryan Swain, president of
the art club.Calaveras, or sugar skulls, are an offering in the Day
of the Dead celebration which adorn the private altars built to honor the deceased.
Altars are adorned with marigolds and the favorite food and bev-erages of the departed.
Traditionally, altars are made and offerings
are placed on the graves for the deceased.
It is important to note that the Day of the Dead is viewed as a celebration for
the dead rather than a time of mourning.
“The event Day of the Dead: Altars and Offerings is part of the Hispanic Heritage Month’s events programmed by the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies (CLLAS),” said Stella Moreno, di-rector of the Center, in an email.
“In the creation of the artwork for Al-tars and Offerings to be displayed on cam-pus and in town from Oct. 1, Nov. 5, we want all CWU students to be involved.”
Moreno said this is a way for CWU students to put their artistic skills to work and to honor the festivity in the traditional Mexican way.
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(M.E.C.H.A.) has joined the Center for Diversity and
workshops and face paint-ing. Free Mexican cuisine will be served, and a Maria-
“Mariachi Wenatchee will
Calaveras, or sugar skulls, are an offering in the Day
of the Dead celebration
are placed on the graves for the deceased.
that the Day of the Dead is viewed as a celebration for
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BY SANTOS HERRERA
News Editor
Erim Gomez visited Central to give a two-day workshop as part of the Hispanic Heritage Month events put on by the Cen-ter for Latino and Latin American Stud-ies. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Washing-ton State University, who has received a
Bullitt Fellowship for $100,000 to conduct research on the state-endangered North-ern Leopard frog. Al-though Gomez is well on his way to the high-est academic achieve-ment, the journey was anything but easy. His story is one of hard-ships, perseverance and triumph that sets an example, not just for Hispanics and La-
tinos, but for everyone. “I was in special education until my
sophomore year in high school,” Gomez said. “I used to be embarrassed by it, but now I am proud of it because of how far I’ve come.”
After graduating from high school, Go-mez attended Southern Oregon Univer-sity. He was told to work as much as he could in order to avoid taking out a lot of loans; consequently, his grades began fall-ing behind.
Things didn’t work out with his fi rst ac-ademic advisor, but his second academic advisor was the one who really gave him
a boost.“He asked me, ‘What are you doing
here [in college]?’,” Gomez said. “That was a wake up call for me.”
The following summer, Gomez changed his job from working at Safeway to working as a park ranger.
Gomez was 80 miles from the nearest city and he used that time to think about his life and what he wanted to do. The combination of his job as a park ranger and the conversation he had with his ad-viser changed his life.
Gomez received his undergrad degree in environmental studies, his master’s in natural resource sciences, and his doctor-ate will be in environmental and resource sciences.
Gomez was accepted to a master’s pro-gram at WSU, so he left Oregon to contin-ue his education. Tragedy struck amid his time in the master’s program. Gomez’s fa-ther passed away. Gomez was devastated, but he said he knew that his father would have wanted him to fi nish his master’s.
Shortly after his father’s passing, Go-mez’s younger brother also passed away. Gomez was very close to his brother and the event really tore into his well being, but he was determined to fi nish his master’s to honor his family and make them proud.
Gomez doesn’t stop at doing things to better his own life. He makes sure to give back to the people. He conducts work-shops to inform students about what steps to take if they want to attend graduate school. He is also currently the adviser for the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A) chapter of WSU.
Gomez leap frogs to success
ERIM GOMEZBullitt Fellowship recipient
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BY MATTHEW THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
Central Washington University has been a top military-friendly school for the past four years.
“It’s an incredibly friendly campus,” said Capt. Ben Glasgall, training and op-erations offi cer. “Defi nitely pro-military, defi nitely supportive of the ROTC.”
G.I. Jobs Magazine has compiled a list of the top 15 percent of universities in the country going above and beyond to create a healthy learning environment for military students. Central, for the fourth consecutive year, has made it on to the list.
Eastern Washington University and Central are the only four-year universi-ties in the state with veterans centers. The Veterans Center is where veterans or their dependents can seek guidance through the G.I. Bill certifi cation process, as well as gather resources to make the transition into college life easier.
“Our focus is one: Taking care of our veterans,” said Susie Beador, Veterans Center manager.
The Veterans Center, located in Bouillon Hall, is outfi tted with a friendly staff, helpful literature on available re-sources and a student lounge complete with cable television and computers.
Reuben Cardenas was recently hired as the outreach recruiter to increase the enrollment of veterans and their depen-dents. According to Enrollment Man-agement, there has been a 28 percent increase in veteran enrollment since the fall of 2011.
While on recruitment trips, Cardenas informs veterans and their families of how the G.I. Bill works and what a differ-ence having a veterans center can make on the certifi cation process.
“Its nice that we have a center where we can personally talk to people who
know a lot about the G.I. Bill,”said Pfc. Cristine Fetzer, freshman clinical physiol-ogy and veteran dependent.
The good military vibes do not stop with veterans. Central also has award- winning programs with the Air Force and Army.
In 2009, Detachment 895 of Central’s Air Force ROTC received the Right of Line for Small Unit Award. The Army ROTC of Central has also had similar success, fi nishing fi rst out of eight teams that competed in the Sandhurst Compe-tition held at West Point Military Acad-emy.
“The ROTC program is rated one of the top programs in the country,” said Maj. Scott Carpenter, professor of mili-tary science.
ROTC’s objective is to train students to a level where they can graduate col-
lege with an offi cer’s rank. Of the hun-dred or so students enrolled in the Army program, only 19 will reach their senior year after the demanding selection pro-cess, Carpenter said. These students are competing against 6,000 other cadets na-tionwide for 2,700 active duty positions.
“Central has a good reputation of putting [cadets] through such a rigorous program, so they usually get commis-sioned what they want,” Carpenter said.
Roughly 4 percent of the student pop-ulation at Central is a military or veteran student, and they have a graduation rate of 85 percent, according to the G.I. Jobs Magazine.
The combined success of both veter-an students and the ROTC programs is a point of pride for Central as it expands the Veterans Center and as the ROTC cadets continue to bring home awards.
BY CHASE PACKMAN
Staff Reporter
Flu season is coming, and in prepara-tion for it, many grocery stores and phar-macies are advertising their availability of the fl u shot.
For students at Central, however, ac-cess to the vaccine is even more conve-nient and actually doesn’t cost a cent.
“There’s no reason not to get your fl u shot,”said Barb Stanley, RN at the Stu-dent Medical and Counseling Center. “As opposed to paying $25 at a grocery store, we offer the vaccination free to any stu-dent.” There were clinics set up around campus earlier this year. For those who missed out on that, Barb Stanley said stu-dents just have to make an appointment at the Student Medical and Counseling Center.
When it comes to the fl u and the fl u shot, people have many misconceptions.
Joy Walters, LPN at the Student Med-ical and Counseling Center, explained that “infl uenza is actually an upper respi-ratory virus, which has symptoms similar to a cold but develops quicker and more severely, with a really high fever.” She said when people think about the fl u, they think nausea, diarrhea, and vomit-ing, which is not the same thing as the fl u. That is called gastroenteritis.
“Having the fl u can be extremely dev-astating if you are a student. Being really sick for two weeks would mean missing
classes for two weeks, which can really mess up your quarter,” Stanley said. “So I don’t see why you wouldn’t want to get the fl u shot if you are a student.”
There are many reasons people don’t get fl u shots. However, some of these rea-sons are simply based on myths.
“First of all the fl u shot does not make
you sick,” Walters said. “It is actually a dead virus and boosts your immune sys-tem and creates more antibodies.”
The fl u shot doesn’t work “over-night;” it can take up to two weeks to boost your immune system, Walters said, which is why she encourages students to get their shot early.
According to Stanley, there has been
no fl u outbreak yet. Sometimes it can take as long as spring for the fl u outbreak to occur. Four hundred people have been vaccinated at the clinics on campus, she said, and the clinic will continue to pro-vide vaccinations until they run out.
Getting a fl u shot once the outbreak happens is pointless, Stanley stressed, as it is all about prevention.
“When people were all worried about the H1N1, it was just because that par-ticular strain didn’t make it into the vac-cine in time,” Stanley said. “It shouldn’t take a scare in the news to remind people of the importance of the vaccine.”
Walters agreed with Stanley about students’ reluctance to get vaccinated.
“I have been practically begging stu-dents to get their shots, but the majority of students don’t seem too concerned,” Walters said.
Publicity was one of the largest rea-sons, she believes, that students hold a negative stigma against the fl u shot.
Andrew Numa, a pharmacist at Rite Aid, said students are the smallest demo-graphic he sees trying to get vaccinated.
“Every year scientists choose three strains that they think are the most likely to breakout in North America and put them into the vaccine,” Numa said.
“I would say only about 20 to 50 stu-dents have come in here for a fl u shot. I always recommend it to everyone every year regardless of who they are. It is bet-ter to get poked than get the fl u.”
G.I. Mag salutes Central battalion CWU ranks in top 15 percent of universities geared for military students
A shot at immunity o� ered to Ellensburg community
Investigative report details misconduct claims against ManwellerBY SANTOS HERRERA
News Editor
The outside investigator Central hired concluded that, in his judgment, “based on the documents reviewed and interviews conducted, evidence exists to suggest” po-litical science professor and state repre-sentative candidate Mathew Manweller “engaged in conduct with or toward” a Central student “that violated CWU’s 2006 Sexual Harassment Policy.”
However, the university decided the report didn’t substantiate the allegations against Manweller.
In a letter to Manweller, Kirk Johnson, dean of Central’s College of the Sciences, said Central was not pursuing disciplinary actions against him “because of concerns due to the time interval between the events and this Report.”
Johnson also said in the letter that he has “serious concerns about the behaviors described in the Report. I hope that you will take this letter seriously. This letter is not, in itself, disciplinary, but future inci-dents of the same or similar type as those in the Report could result in disciplinary action, up to, and including termination.”
In a statement fi led last Thursday with the Kittitas County Superior Court, Sherer Holter, President James Gaudino’s chief of staff, said, “After reviewing the Oct. 1 ‘Report of Investigation,’ CWU did not make a determination that the allegations against professor Manweller were substantiated.”
The investigative report was released by Central on Monday in the wake of a ruling by Kittitas County Superior Court Judge Scott R. Sparks, which dissolved the temporary restraining order the court put in place on Oct. 22. Sparks said he agreed with Manweller’s contention that the leaks that led the Yakima Herald-Republic and Daily Record to request records of the in-vestigation were politically motivated, the Herald-Republic reported.
But regardless of motive, the allega-tions didn’t involve Manweller’s private or personal life, but his position as a public employee, the Herald-Republic reported.
According to the investigative report, several staff and faculty reported students were claiming that, between 2006-2009, Manweller had made “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and verbal and physical conduct of a sexual nature,” with some indicating he would trade sex for grades.
However, no formal complaints were ever fi led and the outside investigator said he could only identify one claimant by name, which is who his report focused on. Central redacted her name and Man-weller’s name before releasing the report.
In her interview with the investigator, the student said she regretted not making a formal complaint, but had feared retali-ation, saying both her and her boyfriend needed Manweller to write recommenda-tion letters for them to get into law school.
In 2006, Central had an unwritten pol-icy “not to investigate sexual harassment
RESCUE MISSION Sergeant Todd Fuchigami (left), from the Yakima traning center teaches rescue techniques for wounded combatants.
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BY ANDREW EVANS
Staff Reporter
Room 122 in Black Hall bustled with energy as high school students took their seats for class. They share Central’s cam-pus with college students because they are enrolled in Excel, an alternative high school education program designed and taught by Mike Nelson and Dustin Wal-lace.
Excel uses the blended learning model, which is a method of alternative educa-tion that combines face-to-face classrooms with electronic education.
“In the right setting, it really opens you up,” Nelson said.
Fortunately for Excel, Central has the resources to make it the right setting. Cen-tral students work with the Excel students to teach them math, science and physical education.
“It’s kind of like a double-edged sword ‘cause we’re helping their education and they’re helping ours, and that’s pretty cool,” said Oliver Malek, a junior in Excel.
Students come to the program when they aren’t reaching their maximum po-tential in a traditional high school setting. There are countless reasons for this.
“Maybe there’s drama in their personal lives that they don’t want to deal with,” Nelson said. “Sometimes there are fam-ily issues, sometimes there are drug issues, sometimes there are psychological issues.”
Wallace said that they have cut out a lot of variables. For example, students don’t have to switch between six teachers
or make stops to their lockers in between classes.
Excel has provided a platform for edu-cational experimentation. Wallace and Nelson used to divide the students be-tween them and alternate throughout the day. Now they teach in the same room as a team.
“Team teaching is a scary thing for most teachers in the profession,” Wallace said. “Having a colleague watching you constantly can be hard to get used to.”
But Wallace said he found nothing but positives from team teaching.
The teachers decided to join forces because they weren’t able to retain the students throughout the day. For some reason, the experiment has increased at-tendance.
“Before that, you would see maybe 30 kids in the fi rst hour, by the end you would see 15,” Nelson said.
Malek said he enrolled in Excel be-cause he had too many absences at the high school and wanted to continue to work toward his diploma. He doesn’t feel like traditional high school is right for ev-erybody.
“It’s like, ‘Hey, you’re a lion, you’re an elephant, and you’re a monkey. All [of you] climb this tree,” Malek said.
Wallace and Nelson said they designed Excel to give students some perspective of life after high school. Through the cur-riculum and volunteer projects, the high schoolers get the opportunity to build up their resumes and real world knowledge.
“They actually, on top of regular school stuff, teach you real life skills and things that you really should know that the high school wouldn’t regularly teach you,” Malek said. “They really want you to know that there’s more out there.”
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BY ALEA THORNE
Staff Reporter
New service concepts for Central Tran-sit were proposed to the public on Oct. 23 during two open houses.
The open houses were held in order to gain feedback on how to improve public transportation in Ellensburg, and featured two new concepts and funding options available to increase transport in the city.
“This is truly a public transit system that will fi t in the city limits,” said May-or Bruce Tabb. “This is really a discussion on how to improve and potentially sustain transit in the city.”
A committee put together by the city council is exploring new ways to improve Central Transit and has spent 10 months developing a plan with Seattle company Nelson Ny-gard’s principal specialist developer Tim Payne.
Last spring, the committee conducted a survey which received about 1,200 re-sponses from Ellensburg residents. When residents were asked how important an available transit service in the city is to them, 39 percent responded that it was “extremely important.”
Geography Professor John Bowen said that public transportation is important to many people in Ellensburg, but the amount of people that use it is “not im-pressive.”
The committee also conducted a sur-vey about the purpose behind the most frequent trips a person makes: 37 percent was work, followed by shopping trips at 29 percent and university at 12 percent.
Another survey question asked the usual amount of time each trip takes a person. The highest response was 10 - 15
minutes, with 36 per-cent responding.
Two transit ser-vice concepts were also introduced at the open house. The fi rst concept was of two routes operating in opposite directions on the same loop.
That concept re-quires two vehicles
per direction and costs $560,000 annually, which is similar to the one that exists now.
“This one is more for knowing what time the bus is coming, while concept two, you may have to wait a while,” said Nancy Jewett, advisory committee member.
The second concept is two routes that intersect, allowing transfers. The route could potentially extend to west Inter-change and the high school, at times of day that match the school’s schedule. The
frequency of route times due to the ex-tended area would be every 60 minutes, compared 45 minutes through the loop with concept one.
“This provides more fl exibility and op-tions on where someone can go because they can just transfer,” Jewett said.
An issue the committee still is trying to solve is how to fund the transit. In order to support the possible transit systems, El-lensburg would need somewhere in the range of $500,000 to $700,000 per year.
This money is funded through community pro-grams such as H o p e s o u r c e , Elmview, and Central, as well as state and federal grant fund sourc-es and fares.
Currently, $3 of student fees help support the transit, and people who ride the transit who do not attend Central do not have to pay any-thing.
“Fares are always the hot button issue when doing transit proposals,” said Mike Williams, advisory committee member. “There are pros and cons. A lot of it has to do with what’s the philosophy.”
Williams said there has to be a trade-off, which means that everybody pays something for improving driving.
Other funding options available in the future to support the transit system are through motor vehicle license fees, house-hold excise tax, sales and use tax, property tax, utility tax, business and occupation tax, general fund revenues and parking revenues.
According to Payne, Ellensburg has a sig-nifi cant amount of the city budget supported by the utility tax, so that source may also be a good source for the transit system.
“Utility taxes are not completely reces-sion proof, but they tend to be less volun-tary then the other sources are,” Payne said.
The committee will continue to develop
the best system and funding options for Ellensburg transit by exploring and imple-menting the public’s feedback.
“These are concepts; this is not a fi nal plan on how to operate,” Payne said. “We wanted to present people with a couple of different ideas about how that might be possible and to give you your ideas and your feedback.”
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to fi le a written formal complaint,” the investigative report said. But Central now “has a policy to investigate all sexual ha-rassment claims.”
Holter’s statement said that when Cen-tral reviewed the records fi rst provided to the Herald-Republic last summer, it “was unable to conclude that a formal investi-gation had been conducted, or that a suf-fi ciently thorough investigation had been conducted in response to the 2006-07 al-legations.”
She said because of CWU’s responsi-bility under federal law, it retained the out-side investigator, who concluded his report on Oct. 1 2012.
“CWU emphatically denies professor Manweller’s allegation that the investiga-tion was politically motivated or conduct-ed for any other purpose,” Holter said.
Manweller is suing Central, saying the university’s order to conduct the outside investigation was “done in an effort to de-
liberately undermine” his political cam-paign and “cause him personal harm.”
Manweller said in his suit that the uni-versity “violated his civil rights, his privacy rights and his right of due process.”
He is asking for the investigative re-port to be expunged from his personnel record and for attorney fees. According to the Daily Record, Manweller’s attor-ney plans to amend his lawsuit to include demands for monetary damages. Douglas Nicholson, Manweller’s attorney, has not returned a phone call seeking comment.
In the investigative report, Manweller said he believes the “allegations and/or rumors about his conduct toward female students stems from a misinterpretation.”
He said rumors began when he was married to a Central student whom he met before coming to Central.
Manweller said he “was occasionally seen off campus holding her hand and kissing her in public.”
Manweller, a Republican, is running against Democrat Kaj Selmann of Moses Lake to represent the 13 District.
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-MIKE WILLIAMSAdvisory Committee member
I read with interest about food waste as experienced within Central Dining Services (Oct. 25 issue).
Recently I read that between now and 2050, the consensus projection is that there will be a need for between 70 and 100 percent more food to meet global demand, while upward of 40 per-cent of food is currently wasted in the U.S.
I applaud Dining Services for ef-forts to reduce food waste by encourag-ing students to buy only what they will eat and to reuse food products in new recipes, when possible. However, Food Services Director Dan Layman’s rea-soning on why Central does not donate usable food waste to food banks due to liability issues and fairness seems to ap-proach this problem as one of resigna-tion rather than creativity. Can day-old
vegetables and fruits be donated as ed-ible food for the chimpanzees at CHCI? Is fairness an issue when there is only one food bank in town which has the necessary storage capacity? Can there be a workaround regarding the liability issue? Can increased education on the impact of food waste be effective in the form of eye-catching signage?
I challenge Central Dining Services to think more creatively to reduce waste
and help solve this local and global problem so Kitchen Manager Jim Ma-theny’s comment that “We’re doing what we can to limit the waste…” rings more true.
--Ruth Ann StacyHuman Protections AdministratorHuman Subjects Review Committee Office
The Observer • Nov. 1 - 7, 2012 OPINIONEditor-in-Chief// Danny Schmidt
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I had never worked a day in my life and the job hunt was tough. I had no idea where to start, and my biggest is-sue was attire. The fact that employers would judge you on the type of clothes you wore to the interview was a com-
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In 2006, social media was not as much a part of everyone’s lives as it is in 2012. Sure, people had MySpace, but now you are totally out of the loop if you aren’t constantly on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram. These different social sites also give employers a com-pletely unfiltered look into their poten-tial employee’s lives. This has caused me to realize I will never be hired if my potential job takes a peak at my social media presence.
For instance, if you click on my Face-book ‘about you,’ will find that my reli-gious views are Based God, and if you don’t know what that is I suggest you Google Lil B. You’re welcome. But what if the person interviewing me is super religious? The supervisor will probably want to see if the people he or she is working with share the same values. I’m sure that person will be extremely of-fended that my religious views are based on a rapper from California.
Or look at my past profile pictures to really find out how insane I am. Casual-ly glance at my album and you will find a picture of Kobe Bryant with a Zorro mask, my face photoshopped on the Un-dertaker and a Power Ranger, Reggie Miller making the choke sign and Prince at a football game. I am the least pro-fessional person of all time. I am com-pletely transparent on social media and
I’m pretty sure it’s going to cost me if companies really are checking.
Don’t even get me started on how awful my Twitter is. Scroll down and you’ll find something I retweeted from rapper Curren$y questioning why he would want someone to chase him and his girl around in a mask with a chain-saw in slightly more explicit language. Spitta isn’t a fan of haunted houses or corn mazes and neither am I. Dig a little deeper and my future boss will find an-other retweet of WyClef Jean on a mo-torcycle in nothing but red underwear. I can’t help that it was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Hope-fully my new boss will understand.
This generation shares so much of his or her lives on social networks that most everyone will have something in-criminating online. It seems unfair that employers are starting to check the dif-ferent social media sites of potential employees. They’re asking for trouble. You won’t find anything on Facebook or Twitter that will make someone more qualified for a job. Only something, in my case, that will give everyone at the company the creeps.
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What requires two teams, press cover-age and a ton of trash talking between opponents and their loyal fans? If you’re thinking it’s a sporting event, you would be normally be correct.
However, in this case, I am referring to the presidential election, which is similar to a sports game.
For the sake of this opinion, I’ll use boxing as a comparison for the election.
There are two boxers: Mitt Rom-ney and Barack Obama. Their goal is to stay in the ring (election) as long as possible, while es-sentially trying to knock the other out with every scandal-ous campaign ad
and commercial (jabs and hooks.)
As voters, we are referees, de-
termining which candidate is the winner. It is this position that I feel is the most im-portant.
Because of this, I cannot possibly stress enough how important I feel it is for every voter to educate themselves on the issues and candidates.
Unfortunately, I have come to realize throughout this election that many people are forming their opinions based on pet-ty information and, even worse, rumors. This scares me. I fear that these are what will influence votes.
I heard a study conducted that deter-mined, based on the results of past elec-tions, candidates with the least bushy eye-brows won.
Why this study was conducted remains a mystery to me, but it did leave me to question just how many ridiculous factors often influence people’s votes. I mean seri-ously, will having trimmed eyebrows really make someone a better president?
I think it’s safe to say that as voters we have a tendency to choose our favorite candidate early on for one reason or an-other. We then proceed to only look for their good qualities throughout the cam-paign. This mindset typically involves trash talking your least favorable candi-date and pointing out every flaw.
But beware, forming such a biased opinion early can stray you from hearing any other side or opinion.
Over the course of this election, I have seen countless Facebook statuses blasting candidates and their views, or just flat out cursing them with name-calling. While I am all for exercising the freedom of speech, I am more concerned with wheth-er or not these opinions are being based on information people have come to know firsthand. And if not, where are they get-ting their information?
To truly know a candidate, you must actually watch the debates. It’s not enough to rely on the closing remarks of the de-bate. I also feel it is not enough to just take someone else’s word, such as a parent or friend. You should form your own opin-ion. Put forth the effort to research wheth-er or not the rumors you hear hold any truth by checking multiple media outlets.
I know that for many college students, including myself, this election is the first voting opportunity. So here it comes, that critical moment when you ask yourself, as a referee in this election, what’s your call? Will you give in to the peer pressure of the crowd around you shouting their opin-ions? Or will you call like you yourself see it? The choice is yours, so don’t waste it.
� e Observer • Nov. 1 - 7, 2012SCENEEditor// Chanet Stevenson
The Dead walk: zombies attackBY JOIE SULLIVAN
Staff reporter
Last Saturday, more than 300 students participated in the Zombie Zone, attempt-ing to retake the recreation center from hordes of fl esh-eating zombies. Zombies were only fellow students and volunteers, but that doesn’t mean some weren’t in-timidating.
“I’m kind of scared of zombies,” said Kelsey Westermann, freshman history major. Westermann ran the Zombie Zone with her roommate from Wendell Hill Hall B, Noelani Mohoric, freshman avia-tion major.
“I’m here to protect her,” Mohoric said.
Participants were given only a nerf gun, a fl ashlight, and 15 minutes to com-plete their objective. Goals changed de-pending on the level of diffi culty the group chose, and ranged from collecting items to fi nding fi rst aid for a mother and her child. There was even a “nightmare” diffi culty, which had participants aid a mad scientist.
Westermann and Mohoric went back and forth on which diffi culty they would choose, with Westermann opting for easy and Mohoric urging them to run the hard course.
One group of four ran every 15 min-utes for each diffi culty level, adding up to a total of 16 students running around the recreation center in the dark.
Nick Ragazzo, political science major was one of four members that comprised “Seal Team Beck,” a group of freshman from Beck Hall.
The group ran through the zone on hard diffi culty, There was confusion with the actors in the zone regarding where the
group was supposed to go. “It would have been easy (otherwise),”
said Spencer Workman, communication studies major.
Even through the commotion of wrong directions, Ragazzo said he was able to “leap over the lockers, curb stomp a zom-bie, and storm out.” The group laughed.
Seal Team Beck, which also included
Cole Frampton, fi lm and video studies, and Brandon Beringer, paramedicine, said they would defi nitely come back to run it again next year.
Another group of four, led by Reiko Kobayashi-Wagner, a senior nutrition ma-jor, waited in line eagerly to sign up. The other three members were ESL students Kobayashi-Wagner had met.
“We might as well try it while they’re here,” Kobayas-hi-Wagner said.
The event seemed ex-tremely popu-lar, with all 304 spots fi lling shortly after 10 p.m.
On the oth-er end of the SURC in Hol-mes Dining, an-other zombie course awaited participants. The Feeding Zone sent students into a huge maze fi lled with zombies. In this course, however, participants could choose to be a courageous human or a ravenous zombie. Students weren’t required to sign up for a time slot, and could come and go as they wanted.
“Dead ends add to the pressure,” said sophomore Creighton Wright, undecided.
Abigail Schranck, a freshman geogra-phy and Russian dual major agreed.
“It can be very discombobulating,” Schranck said. “There’s a little bit of light, but it’s still spooky.”
Around 200 people came through the Feeding Zone, including Cassie Wood, a
senior nutrition major, and Nick Aguilera, a sophomore in the pre-med program. Aguilera decided to go through the feed-ing zone as a zombie against Wood, who planned on being a human.
“I like to be on the good side,” said Wood to Aguilera..
There were also plenty of activities for those not too fond of running from zombies. SURC 137 was equipped with
a photo booth complete with available wigs and masks. Dance, cos-tume, and doughnut eat-ing contests took place throughout the night.
Down in the M a rk e t p l a c e
dining area, student volunteers served a variety of “mocktails” and hosted mini pumpkin painting. The Marketplace and Cat Trax East were also open later than usual to serve their late night fare.
Some enjoyed their late night refresh-ments while watching fellow students kill zombies in Left 4 Dead 2, which was pro-jected onto a big screen in the SURC Pit.
A few yards away, people posted sticky notes over Lord of the Rings and a Cen-ters for Disease Control posters for a cap-tion contest.
At the end of the night, it was safe to say the SURC was free of any zombie in-fection as everyone returned home for a good night’s rest after hard-fought battles.
BLINDSIDED Students participate in a doughnut-eating contest to win free candy at the annual Zombie Zone event in the SURC last Saturday. About 300 students attended the event, which included a photo booth complete with available wigs and masks.
PHOTOGRAPHER ZACH OLNNEY/OBSERVER
UNDEAD Alanna Alegria (left) and Emily Shamrell (right) strut their zombie walks during the costume contest.
PHOTOGRAPHER ZACH OLNEY/OBSERVER
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light, but it’s still spooky.
-ABIGAIL SCHRANCKFreshman geography and Russian major
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J.R. Martinez marches past adversityBY JOE COLUCCIO
Staff Reporter
J.R. Martinez is a veteran of the Iraq War, an actor and a former Dancing with the Stars champion. He now travels the country spreading his words of resiliency and overcoming obstacles. Martinez be-gan engaging the crowd as soon as he set foot on stage.
“Humor is a great tool,” Martinez said. “Sometimes all you can do is laugh.”
He went on to discuss his life – the ob-stacles he has encountered and the ways in which he dealt with them.
“My story is not about Iraq,” Martinez said. “My story is not about the military. My story is not the 33 surgeries I had. My story is about adversity, and that is some-thing we can all relate to.”
In 2003, Martinez was driving a mili-tary vehicle in Karbala (located south of Baghdad), when the front left tire ran over a roadside bomb. He was trapped inside the burning truck for fi ve minutes before he could escape. During that time frame Martinez experienced burns on over 34 percent of his body, spanning across his head, face, arms, back and legs. Marti-nez also suffered broken ribs and smoke inhalation. All the other passengers were thrown from the vehicle and walked away with only minor injuries.
Martinez was charismatic and capti-vating. He often stepped off stage to walk among the crowd, at one time saying, “Don’t worry about me falling. If I trip then it is funny for everyone.”
Martinez went into depth about the struggles he went through in the after-math of his accident. He spent his re-covery time in the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex-as. In between his appointments at the hospital, Martinez would spend time with other burn victims at the center, which is how he became in-volved with inspirational speaking.
“The way he structured everything was so coherent, so specifi c that it made sense step by step by step,” freshman Timothy Nakhisa said. “He was able to create a co-herent message: Be able to keep your plans fl exible in life. He’s probably the best pub-lic speaker I have seen.”
In 2008, Martinez was sent an email by a friend regarding an audition for the role of Brot Monroe on the Emmy Award-winning daytime soap opera “All My Chil-dren.” After that role, he was invited to be a contestant on the 13th season of Danc-ing with the Stars, where he was partnered
with Karina Smirnoff. The duo went on to win that season.
“I thought it was pretty awesome,” fresh-man Matthew Everett said. “I think my favorite thing that he said was: ‘Everything happens for a reason, it’s all part of the journey.’ That was the biggest thing for me
that I took out of it.”The crowd was diverse, including Cen-
tral students and members of the commu-nity alike.
“He spoke to all ages,” said audience member Judy Monosky. “Being a former teacher, dealing with students with dis-abilities was treated with a whole different manner back then. I just love that he’s normalizing this kind of thing and expos-ing people to people who have had prob-
lems in life and how they can overcome that.”
Martinez claimed that he “has gotten the entertainment bug” and would like to
spend more time on the other side of the camera. His book, “Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength and Spirit” is in stores now.
INSPIRATION (Top) J.R. Martinez gets personal with the crowd. (Top) The crowd enjoys the speech, which focused on overcoming adversity.
PHOTOGRAPHER NICK SNYDER/OBSERVER
Humor is a great tool. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. “Humor is a great tool. “Humor is a great tool. “
-J.R. MARTINEZIraq War Veteran, actor, speaker
9SCENE � e Observer • Nov. 1 - 7, 2012
Cloud nine: new movie exceeds expectations BY JEFFREY ALAN COTE
Contributing Writer
Though a critic may enjoy scrutinizing a terrible fi lm or raving about a great one, a new kind of satisfaction comes when evaluating a fi lm that is by all defi nitions unique. “Cloud Atlas” is such a fi lm. Di-rectors Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachows-ki and Tom Tykwer (best known for the “Matrix” trilogy and “Run Lola Run,” respectively), have created a fi lm that is undeniably different from any other of re-cent memory.
To put it simply, “Cloud Atlas” ex-plores the evolution of the human spirit over time. The fi lm does so by linking to-gether the lives of people all the way from the 1800s, through the 1970s, to the pres-ent and the far distant future. The pleth-ora of noteworthy actors, which include Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon, are all given multiple parts in the various narra-tive threads. Hanks, for instance, stars as characters from a creepy British doctor to a brutish Scottish author.
The narrative consists of six different stories loosely connected to each other by theme. Each thread of the fi lm is remark-ably different than the next, especially in genre. The threads of the narrative all stand out in comparison to each other. This means the fi lm ends up encompass-ing everything from historical drama to sweeping romance, quirky comedy to sci-fi thriller. Though this sounds like a recipe for disaster, in the hands of three skilled fi lmmakers, this concept becomes a rev-elation.
There is certainly a difference between complex and complicated, and “Cloud Atlas” is the former. While this might be a fi lm with a whole lot of content, it never comes with an aura of confusion or incon-
sistency. This alone is an incredible feat, especially considering the story’s unique-ness. The fi lm’s clarity is likely helped by the fact that its story is thoroughly engag-ing and entertaining.
Tykwer and the Wachowski may have created one of the most ambitious fi lms of all time. Thankfully, this ambition is not blind. Though it may feel overreaching at times, “Cloud Atlas” is an incredibly well-made fi lm that is making a grand and beautiful statement. The idea that despite society’s violent injustices, a person can change the course of history with love, art or a simple act of kindness is not only re-freshing to see in mainstream cinema, but also powerful.
Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, current critical reception has been mixed. This will likely prove to be an error of judgment, much in the same way that clas-sic fi lms such as “Citizen Kane” and “Fan-tasia” had their own polarizing reception at the time of their release. The reason for this phenomena is clear. To quote “Ra-tatouille”, “there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the dis-covery and defense of the new.”
I have no issue standing as such a crit-ic. I encourage you to see “Cloud Atlas.” This fi lm is fascinating, mesmerizing and will likely stick in your mind regardless of your own assessment of its worth. Most of all, it has true potential to stand the test of time.
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BY BEN NEWBY
Staff Reporter
The SURC theatre was a sea of North Face jackets, beanies and beards as students took their seats to get a shot of adrenaline from the new climbing movie, “Reel Rock 7.” The movie is a collection of fi lms featuring some of today’s most innovative and popular climbers as they take on mountains, routes and boulders all over the world.
The fi rst chapter of “Reel Rock 7” featured famed climbers Chris Shar-man and Adam Ondra. Only 18 years old, Ondra is already regarded as one of the biggest up and coming names in the sport of rock climbing. With a thin and lankey form, Ondra “doesn’t seem like he would be such an aggressive, fi erce climber,” the fi lm stated.
But, when veteran Sharman and the young Ondra attempted to climb the fa-mous route “La Dura Dura” in Oliana, Spain, Ondra lived up to his reputation. He attacked the route and screamed with agony as he reached for the next hold.
From the fi lm it was clear that Ondra is a very emotional climber. When he falls he kicks, screams, punches the air and cries tears of frustration.
Although the pair of climbers did not reach the top of La Dura Dura this time around, they swore to come back and tackle the route another time as their segment ended.
Ryan Chase, senior recreation and tourism major, did not have much knowledge about rock climbing, but en-joyed the fi lm.
“These guys are crazy,” Chase said.The next chapter of the fi lm jumped
to Mt. Venu in India. Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and photographer Renan Ozturk were attempting to climb “The Shark’s Fin,” a massive granite rock on Mt. Venu the Hindus believed was the center of the universe. According to the fi lm, “The Shark’s Fin” had “thwarted over 20 of the worlds best alpinists.”
On the trio’s fi rst attempt at climbing “The Sharks Fin,” Chin suffered major frostbite on his feet. Several years later, the original group re-assembled and made plans to be the fi rst to tackle the
climb. After photographer Ozturk was severely injured in a skiing accident, it did not seem as if they would all be able to make the trip. Ozturk proved doubt-ers wrong however, and through vig-orous exercise defi ed the odds and got himself healthy enough to attempt the climb. This time the group persevered and were the fi rst to climb to “the center of the universe.”
After a brief intermission, the fi lm covered a relatively new style of climb-ing called “off-width climbing.” It is a very brutal style where the climber wedges their arms and legs into wide cracks of boulders in order to ascend. It leaves the climbers with big rashes, cuts and scars from the rough surface of the boulders.
“The Wide Boyz,” a pair of off -width climbers from Great Britain, were the fi rst to tackle the “Century Crack” in Utah. They trained for this climb by constructing a makeshift ver-sion of parts of the cracks features in their basement. They wedged their legs and arms into their replica and would lift weights to train for the daunting task
, which they successfully conjured. The fi nal chapter of the fi lm featured
Alex Honnald, whose claim to fame is that he climbs with no ropes. Honnald’s segment began with him training in Bishop, Calif. As he scaled a nearly ver-tical boulder with holds no larger than fi ngertips, the atmosphere in the audi-ence was very tense. Olivia Love, senior biology major, was on pins and needles watching Honnald’s fi rst climb of the fi lm.
“It’s hard to watch,” Love said. “If he makes one wrong move…”
Honnald’s segment in “Reel Rock 7” fi nished with him soloing the three big-gest walls in Yosemite National Park in under 24 hours, a feat that had not yet been accomplished. Starting at 4 p.m. Honnald fi nished by 10:45 a.m. the fol-lowing day. The fi lm ended with an ex-hausted Honnald as he climbed to the peak of the last wall with a big smile on his face.
Outdoor Pursuits and Rentals next fi lm will be Warren Miller’s fi lm, “Flow State” on Nov. 8. Tickets are $8 for Cen-tral students.
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Street performer strikes a chord with CentralBY DEREK SHUCK
Staff Reporter
While street performing is a great way for artists to demonstrate their skills, their acts rarely get national attention. This was not the case for Carly Calbero, a 20-year-old artist in Seattle.
Calbero, named one of the top four street performers in the country by Roll-ing Stone, has quickly gained a lot of hype in the Seattle music scene.
Calbero expanded her hype to the east side of the mountains, performing twice in the SURC last Wednesday at noon and 7 p.m. Quietly tuning her guitar before the event, Calbero was at ease once she took center stage at the start of her 7 p.m. show.
Rather than creating a dance fl oor, stu-dents tapped their feet and bobbed their heads to Calbero’s smooth indie-rock sound. With a croon-ing voice that doesn’t match her tiny frame, Calbero showed Cen-tral Washington Uni-versity why she has quickly risen to the top of Rolling Stone’s list.
Calbero plays with a drummer, Nika Wascher, to add a layer of variety to her songs. Everything from a box drum, to tambourines, to maracas are used to add a booming undercurrent to Calbero’s al-
ready moving voice. Calbero shared that she enjoys performing on college campuses.
“I feel like you can connect to more peo-ple,” Wascher said. “It’s a more intimate experience.”
Wascher’s drum-ming certainly fi red up a portion of the audience, as a small child danced in the corner during one of Calbero’s more upbeat songs. For a brief period, Wascher left the stage and Calbero was left with just her guitar to play ballads that complimented the gray fall day.
Playing a mix of original material and covers, Calbero made sure there were songs everyone could enjoy. Calbero showcased her fl exible voice by covering
a wide array of artists from Johnny Cash to the Killers.
“I try to play as much old stuff as new stuff,” Calbero said.
Nothing exempli-fi ed this mix more than the medley of songs Calbero ended the set with. Dis-
playing her vocal range, Calbero quickly switched gears a number of times to play a completely different song immediately after the chorus of another. The audience
rewarded the perfor-mance with a series of applause and brief “woos,” ending the set on a very upbeat note.
The familiar songs drew in about 30 peo-ple during the course of her performance in the SURC pit.
“It’s a really relax-ing experience,” Calbero said.
Despite only having a small crowd, the variety of the attendees demonstrated Calbero’s mass appeal. An elderly couple sat in the corner, politely listening to the songs, while a family of four sat in the op-posite corner, doing the same. Meanwhile, the couches in the pit were crowded with college students, eager to hear what Cal-bero had to offer.
However, drawing a crowd is some-thing Calbero is used to. Despite being a street performer for only four years, Calbero has won a number of awards in Seattle, including fi rst place in a Battle of the Buskers competition put on by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. During this time, she has also released three different EP’s, and appeared on King 5 in July 2011.
“It’s cool to follow them – every year they get better,” said Lexie Proctor, junior public relations major, who has known Calbero and Wascher since high school.
Calbero and Wascher have several
shows planned for the rest of the year, spanning from Everett to Woodinville.
“I feel like I’ve been doing this forever,” Calbero said of street performing. Based on her upcoming shows, the ride doesn’t look to end anytime soon.
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As a costumed student screamed or-ders into the night outside of Alfred Montgomery last Saturday night, guests neared the entrance to infi ltrate the haunted residence hall.
Those brave enough were met at the door by a seemingly normal looking stu-dent. He warned them of the terrors waiting inside and passed on instructions on how to proceed through the maze of haunts. Near the end of his speech, however, a zombie ran into the secluded room inside the haunted house, biting and dragging him outside, leaving the daring souls to navigate the halls on their own.
“The hardest part was coming up with themes and scares, but with the sup-port of so many students, it was almost effortless,” said Bo Mendez, a senior music education major and community programmer for the music LCC.
Mendez came up with the idea for the haunted house, and met students at the door to lure them inside.
Screaming mental patients and vic-tims of violence were strewn about the hall, forcing people to step over some of them to proceed to the next room.
Guests were led into a room by a detective, who had them watch a short
murder scene before leading them into the building lounge. There they were fi -nally out of the woods, and could relax with some candy and hot chocolate.
“It was nice to get out of the rain and i was really impressed by all the work that was put into it,” said Jessica Hodgeman, senior business major. “I think the best part was how committed the residents were. They were yelling and groaning all over the place.”
The idea for the haunted residence hall came from the Music Living Learn-ing Community (LCC) in Al-Monty.
“My favorite part was people inter-acting and coming up with ways to deco-rate,” said Sydney Raymond, president of Al-Monty and freshman sociology major. “It brought the hall together.”
She said the students in the hall felt privileged to be a part of the haunted house and weren’t bothered by the screams emanating from the fi rst fl oor.
“It’s been really exciting being part of the crew,” Raymond said. “I’m excited to be a part of it next year.”
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� e Observer • Nov. 1 - 7, 2012 SPORTS Editor// Connor Vanderweyst
Volleyball Fryed at home
BY CHACE DAVY
Staff Reporter
The Wildcats have a knack for fi ve-set matches as of late. The women’s vol-leyball team experienced their fi rst home loss of the season against Montana State
University Bill-ings, three sets to two, followed by another 3-2 loss to reigning Great Northwest Ath-letic Conference champions Seattle Pacifi c University.
The Wild-cats are now 15-7 overall, 9-4 GNAC, and fall to
fourth place in the conference standings. They currently sit two games behind fi rst-place Western Washington.
On Thursday, Central was able to take an early lead against MSUB in the annual “Think Pink” match, and held on to win the fi rst set 27-25. Senior outside hitter Marcy Hjellum had eight of her career-best 24 kills in the fi rst set. Hjellum was a crucial part of the Wildcats’ game plan throughout the match.
The second set began the same as the fi rst. The Wildcats were able to take a small lead, but a 7-2 run by MSUB allowed the Yellowjackets to retake it. MSUB followed their large spree with a 10-2 run, putting
the second set out of reach.Central jumped out with an early lead
in the third set, then countered runs for runs with MSUB. The Wildcats went on to win 26-24, leading the match 2-1.
In the fourth set, MSUB proved to be too much for Central. After 15 ties and eight lead changes, the Yel-lowjackets tied the match with a fourth set, 25-23 victory, bringing the match to a pivotal fi fth set. The Wildcats found themselves down in the fi fth set for the second straight time, but were unable to repeat the comeback performance they had at Simon Fraser last week, losing 15-10.
The Wildcats entered Saturday night’s game looking for a repeat victory over SPU, though it didn’t work out that way.
In the Falcons 32-30 opening set vic-tory, there were 21 ties and seven lead changes, ended by a kill from Falcon se-nior outside hitter Cailin Fellows.
The Falcons took a large lead early in the second set and CWU was unable to recover. The Wildcats ended up losing the second by ten points, 25-15.
Going into the third set, head coach Mario Andaya told his team that they needed to play better defense in order to
have a chance at coming back.Central needs to get back to the defen-
sive principles that made it so successful earlier in the season.
The Wildcats found themselves in a hole, down 9-5 in the beginning of the
third set, but went on a 10-3 scor-ing run and never looked back.
Stellar defense, as well as kills from almost every player on the team, led to a 25-22 set victory for the Wildcats.
The fourth set was almost a car-
bon-copy of the previous set; SPU was able to keep it close through the end of the set until CWU pulled ahead 25-17.
Redshirt senior setter Devin Larson at-tributed the comeback from two sets down to CWU doing the “little things” right.
“When we do the fundamentals right, we are one team, and we build from there,” Larson said. “We felt like we should be there, come out fi red up and take it.”
The Wildcats then entered their third consecutive fi fth set in three games with momentum in their favor.
Unfortunately for Larson and the rest of the team, things didn’t work accord-ing to plan. SPU immediately leapt out in front and never lost the lead after they took it at 3-2. SPU ended up winning by a
fi nal score of 15-9.The loss is the third in four matches for
the Wildcats.“It’s heartbreaking,” said redshirt
freshman outside hitter Rachel Hanses. “You put it all out there on the court, and sometimes the ball doesn’t fall your way.”
Despite the Wildcat losses, winning isn’t the focal point – defense is, according to Andaya.
“We’ve got to think about getting back to work and getting better defensively,” Andaya said.
Getting comfortable with every situa-tion on court is another key step for the team.
“Mainly it just comes down to doing our stuff how we’re taught to,” Hanses said. “When we do that, things run smoothly and everything is great, but sometimes we stray from that.”
Central plays Northwest Nazarene at 7 p.m. in Nicholson Pavilion. The Wildcats beat NNU in fi ve sets the last time they met.
HEARTBREAK Senior outside hitter Sabrina Schwindler falls diving for the ball as Montana State Billings celebrates their upset victory over Central at Nicholson Pavilion.SETH LONBORG/OBSERVER
It’s heartbreaking. You put it all out there on the court, and sometimes the ball doesn’t fall your way.“It’s heartbreaking. You “It’s heartbreaking. You put it all out there on the “put it all out there on the “
-RACHEL HANSESRedshirt freshman outside hitter
Wildcats lose three of four matches since key injury
MARCY HJELLUMSenior outside hitter
The Wildcats defeated Walla Walla University 25-10, 25-5,
25-15 in a non-conference match Tuesday, increasing their
record to 16-7 overall, 9-4 GNAC.
13SPORTS � e Observer • Nov. 1 - 7, 2012
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RECENT GAME:L 14-10 @ Humboldt StateCentral loses back-to-back weeks for the fi rst time all season and have fallen out of a tie for fi rst place in the GNAC
NEXT GAME:11/3 vs. Western Oregon - 1 p.m. Both teams are battling for sec-ond place in the GNAC
RECENT GAME:W 5-0 vs. Simon FraserWildcat soccer dominates on Se-nior DayCONFERENCE W L TWestern Washington 12 2 0Seattle Pacifi c 11 1 2Montana State Billings 8 5 1Western Oregon 6 7 1Saint Martinʼs 5 7 2Northwest Nazarene 5 8 1Central Washington 5 8 1Simon Fraser 0 14 0
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RECENT GAME:W 3-0 vs. Walla WallaCentral sweeps Walla WallaCONFERENCE W L Western Washington 11 2Western Oregon 9 3Alaska Anchorage 9 3Central Washington 9 4Seattle Pacifi c 7 5Montana State Billings 6 6Northwest Nazarene 5 8Saint Martinʼs 3 9Alaska Fairbanks 2 10Simon Fraser 1 12
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RECENT MEET:M: 9th W:5th Great Northwest Ath-letic Conference ChampionshipsNEXT MEET:11/3 NCAA D-II West Regional Championships
CONFERENCE W L Humboldt State 6 2Central Washington 5 3Western Oregon 5 3Dixie State 3 5Simon Fraser 3 5
WILDCAT SCOREBOARD
BY AMBER THORP
Staff Reporter
For the Wildcats, Senior Day was bitter-sweet; on one end of the spectrum Central dominated Simon Fraser 5-0 and had three of it’s four seniors score at least one point. But the win also concludes the women’s soc-cer’s team season.
The Wildcats fi nished their 2012 cam-paign 6-10-2 overall, 5-8-1 in Great North-west Athletic Conference play.
Prior to the Wildcats home fi nale, the women played 14th-ranked in the nation Western Washington in their fi nal road game, losing 1-0. Central was able to keep the GNAC leaders scoreless until the 71st minute, when Vikings freshman fortward Catherine Miles scored the game’s only goal.
Head coach Michael Farrand expressed disappointment in Thursday’s match.
“We did a great job limiting Western; they never really got to the goal,” Michael Farrand said. “But we made a little bit of a soccer blooper and kind of gave the game away at the end.”
Against Simon Fraser, scoring and play-ing solid defense was never an issue.
Within the fi rst fi ve minutes of the match sophomore midfi elder Savanna Morehouse scored after an assist from sophomore mid-
fi elder Taylor Stanley and senior defender Allie Washburn. Sophomore forward Hadli Farrand scored second for the Wildcats, end-ing the fi rst half at 2-0.
Senior forward Carson McKole scored quickly into the second half, putting the score at 3-0. Hadli Farrand found the inside of the net again fi ve minutes later, then senior mid-fi elder Kelsy Villegas scored the fi nal goal in the 73rd minute.
“The seniors had a great way to fi nish,” Michael Farrand said. “It’s very rare that you get a senior game like this where each senior had a big part of the game. It was just a great way to fi nish.”
The Wildcats had a rough season travel-ing, fi ghting injuries and battling sicknesses.
“I’m disappointed in this season because I think we have a great team and we have been so inconsistent in so many things,” Michael Farrand said. “We’ve had some challenges along the way, and it’s disappointing when you don’t reach your expectations when you have such a great group of girls.”
The team plans to make several changes for next season. They plan to re-evaluate their coaching methods, look at who they are as players, and change their subs and prac-tice line up. The team has a promising core of younger players, thanks to the leaderships
of the seniors.The senior lineup this year included
Washburn, McKole, Kelsy Villegas, and midfi elder Kylee Villegas all took part in the Wildcats fi rst Senior Day victory since 2008.
“This was a really fun game,” McKole said. “But it was hard not crying during the game because it was our last, and it’s chal-lenging to say goodbye.”
Challenge accepted: OPR reopens ropes course
SLIP-N-SLIDE (Top) Senior forward Carson McKole slides for the ball against Simon Fraser University. (Above) Sopho-more midfielder Savanna Moorehouse goes for the header.
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BY KATELYN POTASKY
Staff Reporter
More than 50 students took advantage of the clear Thursday evening when Cen-tral’s Outdoor Pursuit and Rental put on their last challenge course of the fall. With the air fi nally clear in Ellensburg, OPR was able to open the alpine tower and the giant swing for fall quarter. The challenge course will re-open spring quarter.
The obstacle course isn’t only a great place for clubs and groups to participate in team building activities, it’s also a great place for friends to hang out and create and break new limits.
Many students took to the ropes for the very fi rst time, including junior Rachel Churchill.
While she remained skeptical and hesitant on tackling the Alpine Tower, Churchill was able to push through her fears and reach the peak, placing both her
feet on the top of the tower. Churchill believes there are many dif-
ferent rewards with the Central Washing-ton University’s challenge course.
“The challenge course really got me to push through my limit that I thought I had with completing the challenge course,” Churchill said.
Sophomore Ellye Main was also among the fi rst-timers; her goal was to complete both the alpine tower and the giant swing.
Main was attracted to the challenge course after one of her leadership classes at Central.
“After completing the challenge course I was able to overcome my fear of heights,” Main said.
The challenge course is a great place to conquer fears and a to build leader-ship among peers, friends, clubs and other groups.
Senior Brent Ranniger is one of the challenge course’s facilitators, and has
completed the course more than a 100 times.
“I love to get people out of their ele-ment, and see people challenge them-selves,” Ranniger said.
Ranniger highly recommends all stu-dents overcome their fears of heights or climbing.
Junior Galen Abercrombie works alongside Ranniger and she was more ex-cited about another aspect of the course.
“There is always a great social environ-ment at the challenge course,” Abercom-bie said, “I can’t wait for when it re-opens up in the spring.”
Outdoor ActivitiesFor more information on OPR visit the o� ce at 400 E. University Way or contact them at 509-963-3537
Senior celebrationWildcat soccer blows out SFU in season � nale
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No California love for Wildcat footballCWU loses two straight weeks for � rst time all seasonBY JARYD CLINE
Staff Reporter
The Wildcats knew that Humboldt State University was going to come out with a vengeance after their 31-3 loss to Central at Pop Keeney Stadium on Sept 29.
With fi rst place in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference on the line, the players knew that the game was going to be rough and physical between the number one and number two rushing offenses in the confer-ence.
The Lumberjacks escaped with a nar-row 14-10 victory. The game saw two of the GNAC’s leaders in rushing held to around half of their season averages.
“I wouldn’t have believed it,” head coach Blaine Bennett said. “Going into the game both offenses were open about the fact that they wanted to run the football.”
Central Washington University (5-4, 5-3 GNAC) dominated the Lumberjacks (7-2, 6-2 GNAC) in time of possession and fi rst downs and had a higher total of yards gained, but was unable to leave California with a win, one that could have granted the Wildcats the fi rst place position in the GNAC standings.
“It was a tough loss,” said senior quarter-back Ryan Robertson. “The offense came out and played really well at the start and then we kind of sputtered after that. The
defense played incredibly well and came up with a couple of huge stops.”
Humboldt State’s junior running back Nick Ricciardulli came into the game as the GNAC leading rusher, averaging about 158 yards per game, but fi nished with just 52 yards on 22 carries. Central’s star run-ning back senior Demetrius Sumler, who’s second in the GNAC in rushing and aver-ages 120 yards per game, fi nished with only 66 yards with one touchdown on 23 carries.
Defense played a huge factor in the game, which forced each team to move away from their strong ground games and rely heavily on their passing attacks.
“Both defenses really stepped up and tried to force the opponent to pass and nei-ther team threw the ball very well,” Bennett said.
The Wildcats found the end zone on their fi rst possession of the game when they took over on Humboldt’s 29-yard line, following a mishandled snap on a punt at-tempt recovered by Central. Sumler ran in from four yards out, giving the Wildcats the lead and him a league-high 17 touchdowns.
The Central offense seemed to struggle for the rest of the fi rst half, failing to convert solid drives into the end zone and uprights. Senior kicker Sean Davis was unable to con-vert on two attempts from 37 and 30 yards.
The Wildcats luck didn’t get any better; Robertson pass in the beginning of the sec-
ond quarter was intercepted and returned for a touchdown, tying the game at 7-7. During the next possession Sumler and Robertson had trouble with the handoff, which resulted in a fumble on the Lumber-jack 15-yard line, after the Wildcats drive had begun on their own 21-yard line.
“It was really disappointing,” Bennett said. “In the fi rst half, we missed two fi eld goals and we fumbled the quarterback run-ning back exchange down in the red zone, and those were critical errors for us.”
With the game deadlocked at halftime, both teams failed to score in the third quar-ter. Central and Humboldt punted twice in the quarter, while each team also turned the ball over once. A fake punt by Central on fourth and one was intercepted by the Lum-berjacks which gave them the ball right be-fore the fourth quarter.
Humboldt State scored their fi rst offen-sive touchdown following their interception early in the fourth after a 47-yard pass and a one-yard run from Ricciardulli, taking the lead 14-7.
“Other than that play, both offenses weren’t able to throw the ball very well and both defenses did an excellent job,” Bennett said.
The Wildcats drove the fi eld on their next possession, moving nearly 80 yards and tak-ing up fi ve minutes and 34 seconds of game time. Robertson passed for 28 yards, while
Sumler and freshman running back Jordan Todd rushed for a combined 43 yards, and the Wildcats were able to come away with a 29-yard fi eld goal, closing the gap to 14-10 with HSU still in the lead.
The Wildcats’ defense allowed the of-fense to regain possession of the ball on their own 41-yard line, down 14-10 with three minutes and 26 seconds left in the game. The Wildcats were unable to move close enough for a score and were forced to punt. The Lumberjacks simply ran the clock out from there, cementing the fi nal score at 14-10.
Senior wide receiver Tavoy Moore fi n-ished with new career highs of nine recep-tions and 94 yards while Robertson com-pleted 20 of 34 pass attempts for 184 yards and one interception.
Senior linebacker Louie Bruketta and ju-nior linebacker Stan Langlow fi nished with ten and nine tackles, respectively, playing a big part in helping to contain the Humboldt State rushing offense.
The Wildcats play their fi nal two games at home versus Western Oregon next Satur-day, then Dixie State on November 10th in their regular season fi nale.
“It’s going to be good to be home fi n-ishing up our season in front of our home crowd, and it’s going to be fun,” Robertson said.
Week nine fantasyfootball pickupsBY CONNOR VANDERWEYST
Sports Editor
The NFL season is halfway over. By now you probably know whether or not your team has a shot at making the play-offs, if they are a true title contender, or if you have to start researching for next year.
For those still in the hunt for a playoff spot check out my top fantasy football pickups for week nine.
Quarterback
Nick Foles (PHI): Michael Vick has gone from fantasy stud to fantasy migraine headache in all of a year and a half. Now, with Andy Reid on the hot seat, the rabid Eagle fanbase is hoping that their rookie quarterback out of Ari-zona can get a shot. Foles will be a quality start if he gets the nod against a horrible Saints defense. Philly has too many weap-ons going to waste.
Running Back
Daniel Thomas (MIA): The Daniel Thomas bandwagon was a little late, but it has fi nally arrived. Thomas’ hard run-ning is the perfect compliment to Reggie Bush’s lightning speed on the outside. Thomas played twice as many snaps as Bush in the Dolphins blowout victory over the Jets and looks to be the goal line back for Miami going forward. Look for Thomas to vulture touchdowns the reast of the season.
Wide Receiver
Titus Young (DET): The Boise State
product fi nally broke out against an es-pecially stingy Seattle pass defense which makes him a must-add in all leagues. Quarterback Matthew Stafford seems to have fi nally gotten his groove back and with Megatron getting the attention of every defensive back on the fi eld Young will have plenty of opportunities to rack up yards.
Tight End
Dustin Keller (NYJ): Keller stumbled out of the gate with a lingering hamstring injury, but he now seems to be fi nally healthy after averaging 80 yards in his past two games. The Jets offense isn’t the most explosive, but with quarterback Mark Sanchez having no established re-ceivers to throw to Keller will be looking at several targets per game. Outside of the top guys, tight end is a weak position that can be upgraded easily with the ad-dition of Keller.
Defense/Special Teams
San Diego Chargers: The Bolts face off against the Kansas City Chiefs this week and turnover machine quarterback Matt Cassell. Cassell has been respon-sible for 16 turnovers in just fi ve starts this season. That is over three turnovers per game. With pass rushers like Shaun Phillips and ball hawks like Eric Weddle the Chargers should be able to keep the Chiefs in check.
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CWU’s rugby coach to head All-American team BY SCOTT HERMAN
Staff Reporter
Last June the Central Rugby team notched yet another victory, this one off the fi eld, as head coach of the seven player squad, Tony Pacheco was named as head coach of the USA Rugby Men’s Collegiate All-American team.
The appointment came after a run of successful sea-sons that saw the Wildcats compete admirably on the national scene, win-ning two Northwest Collegiate Rugby Conference titles and fi nishing 2nd at the 2011 USA Rugby National Tournament under Pacheco’s guidance.
Pacheco was elated to land the position and saw it as an achievement for not just himself but for his players and everyone involved in CWU Rugby.
“It was a real honor and a refl ection of what we’ve been able to accomplish here at Central that they would offer me that position when there’s quite a few people who applied for it around the country,” Pacheco said. “I was honored and really excited for the opportunity.”
Pacheco believes that Central’s style of play was exactly what USA Rugby was looking for, and hopes that he could dupli-cate his success within their program.
“The people who make those decisions for USA rugby, they see the product that we put out on the fi eld, and how are play-ers play,” Pacheco said. “We play a pretty expansive and fun style of seven’s and I think they probably saw that and thought I could do the same thing for the All-Amer-ican team,” Pacheco said.
Pacheco will remain head coach of the seven’s here at Central as most of the All-American team’s obligations are over summer when the student athletes are free to go on tour. His goal as the head man is to identify and develop young players that someday could take the fi eld for USA Rugby in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Ja-neiro.
Not long ago, the coach was a stand-out player himself, taking the fi eld for the USA Under-19 squad, Kentwood Rugby Club and the Olympic Club before roam-
ing the sidelines in Ellensburg. Accord-ing to one of his standout players, senior Patrick Blair, Pacheco still has some of his old moves, often lining up and taking reps with the squad in practice.
“He’s more like an in-play type of coach, like when we’re running drills, he’s running them with us,” Blair said. “It’s pretty cool. He’s a player’s coach, every-one likes playing for him.”
Blair is a return-ing All-American, and was able to play under Pacheco this past summer.
“It’s great, I mean you already know the coach and you’re in,” Blair said. “It helps a lot. You already have the relation-ship, there’s no breaking the ice with a new coach and I already like playing for him.”
Looking forward, Pacheco hopes to soak up the knowledge of other coaches like USA Men’s Eagle seven’s head coach Alex Magleby in hopes of climbing up the USA Rugby coaching ladder.
“Down the line, I’d love to be part of the men’s national team staff, maybe even head coaching it someday, but they have a very good coach in there right now, some-body that I respect and have learned a lot from,” Pacheco said. “Down the road if they need an extra set of eyes on the team I’d be defi nitely willing to help out.”
But for now his focus is trained on an-other successful season leading his Cen-tral players already know what the rest of USA Rugby will soon fi nd out.
“He is probably the best coach in the northwest I think,” Blair said. “He gives us what we need, and he pushes us to succeed and I think that’s what helps us.”
He’s more like an in-play type of coach, like when we’re running drills, he’s run-ning them with us. It’s pretty cool. He’s a player’s coach, ev-eryone likes playing for him.
“He’s more like an in-play “He’s more like an in-play type of coach, like when “type of coach, like when
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-PATRICK BLAIRSenior
Dominant
Recently, Central’s rugby club won their tournament
on Oct. 20 and will be travel-ing to National’s on Nov. 30.
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