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Dr. Clausal
discusses post-
earthquake Haiti
and their recovery
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ASWSUV Spring Gala
MASON O’LENNICK AND TIFFANY MOORE ARE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT
With 209 votes, O’Lennick and Moore are elected for next years’ ASWSUV Student Government. There was a 9.7% voter turnout in this years’ election.
‘Team Pink’ wins the election
Eleven Senators also
confirmed for next year
Erik Cummings\Sports Editor
R
esplendent in their evening
finery, and chatting
amongst linen, crystal,
and gambling tables, one hundred
and fifty students were present for
the news of the ASWSUV election on
the evening of March 13 at the Red
Lion on the River. The event not only
showcased the government elect for
next year’s student government, but
served as the Spring Gala, as well.
It was a surprise to few when
current president Nick Ferderer
announced that the “Team Pink”,
Mason O’Lennick and Tiffany
Moore, had been elected to office.
Eleven senators were also elected, ten
of which were on the ballot. Derek
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The
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Brown, the eleventh elected senator,
was a write-in candidate.
Following the main dinner,
Ferderer introduced the President
and Vice-President Elect. He took
the opportunity to thank the older
senate members and his executive
staff for their hard work, and he
recognized their recent passage of a
Code of Ethics and their passing a
bill that would spend ten thousand
dollars on clubs in following year.
Mason O’Lennick and Tiffany
Moore then took the floor to thank
their supporters for wearing pink
t-shirts and campaigning. O’Lennick
gave a brief outline of his plans for
his administration, which included
an emphasis on accountability to
students. The announcements ended
with the introduction of the senators
present. They boasted a considerable
variety of majors (psychology the
most popular among those present),
Washington State University Vancouver
and one mentioned his hope to start
up a Non-Traditional Student Club.
One of the senators, Aaron
Bruckner, noted his relief at his
term renewal. Bruckner had been
one of two senators sworn in at a
special election one month ago.
Even with the special elections,
the senate remained below quorum
for some time due to high turnover
rates. Bruckner managed to enter
the senate on his fourth bid for the
position. “I’m really excited about
getting re- elected,” said Bruckner.
“Before, I didn’t have a year to make
a difference. Now, I can take a full
swing at it.” He hopes to focus on
improving the surveys dispensed by
the student government, solidifying
their consistency.
When asked about his plans for
the final weeks of his term, Ferderer
outlined his aims to finish the job
description for a new position in the
Office of Student Interest, as well
as finalize plans for a compost pile
on campus. He also hopes to aid in
finalizing a transition program. The
program would aid new members of
OSI and ASWSUV staff in learning
how to perform their respective tasks.
Rachel Miles and Larisa Robertson,
two students who attended, both
said they looked forward to the new
presidential administration. Cheaper
textbooks topped the list of changes
they hoped to happen. “We also
hope they continue with the events,
especially the low cost ones.” Asked
about the differences in advertising
during last year’s election compared
to the recent one, they noted that
announcements concerning the
application process were generally
more numerous last year.
O’Lennick said his first priority
once in office would be to reexamine
the health services. He plans to set
Joe Creager\The VanCougar
up a committee to ascertain the
current situation among the students
and the program. On the topic of
cheaper textbooks, he and Moore
acknowledge the difficulties that
faced past administrations in dealing
with the issue. “We’re going to find
a balance between the two parties,”
said O’Lennick, referring to the
book retailers and students. Moore
added, “We’re also going to push
for a student position on the Bookie
board.”
Even before current president
Nick Ferderer announced the future
administration, Mason O’Lennick
and Tiffany Moore remained the top
choice predicted to win the ticket.
Bruckner also affirmed his guess
that O’Lennick and Moore would be
elected. “Naturally, those you see get
the vote.”
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Dr. Clausal lectures on post-earthquake Haiti
Political turmoil and
recovery from disaster
Rup Brar\Staff Writer
D
r. Clausal Theard, a
Haitian scholar now
living in the United
States, says that the recent earthquake
has allowed the world a window
onto Haiti’s dwindling political,
economic and social structures. Dr.
Theard presented Haitian History
to a group of about twenty-five
students, on March 9, in a lecture
that was scheduled as part of the
“Living Legends speaks” series
organized by the Center of Social and
Environmental Justice and the club.
Dr. Theard told the lecture
audience that what is generally
known about the country is that,
“Haiti is the poorest country in the
Western Hemisphere…and that is all
we hear”. What Americans and other
Westerners haven’t appreciated about
Haiti, Dr. Theard continued, is that,
“it is a country without government,
a country without hospitals, without
doctors, without ambulances, without
food, without clean water, without
even cemeteries.”
Dr. Sue Peabody, the associate
chair of WSUV History Department,
agreed. “While the earthquake crisis
is a natural disaster, there has been
a political disaster for a long time,”
said Dr. Peabody, an expert on the
slave trade in the French Atlantic
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DID YOU KNOW? The first WSUV campus consisted of two rooms in Hudson’s Bay HS • The land where WSUV now sits used to be a dairy farm
colonies, of which Haiti was a part.
When Dr. Theard fled Haiti, forty-
five years ago, it was a nation in the
midst of violent transformation. It
was at the time that the oppressive
Duvaliar Regime began to truly assert
its authority. Fear of persecution
and loss of employment drove the
Haitian middle-class to United
States, Europe, Canada and Africa.
Duvaliar dissolved the educational
structure, medical services, all
professional associations and other
stable structures. Dr. Theard was one
of many professional Haitians that
fled the country.
Dr. Theard has vivid memories
of that time. “ I was attending a
teacher’s meeting that was not
allowed to meet,” Dr. Theard
recalled, “and suddenly the Tonton
Macoute [Duvaliar’s paramilitary
force] invaded, and they were yelling,
‘shoot to kill shoot to kill,’ and we all
ran for our lives.”
The Duvaliar Regime,
according to Dr. Theard, retarded
any progress or development in
the country. And with many of the
educated/professional middle-class
gone, a deep class divide emerged,
and an unbridgeable gap between the
rich and the poor came to dominate
the dynamics of the country.
What we need to realize is that
“we are all Haitians,” as Dr. Theard
stated. “The earthquake has taught us
that no matter how voiceless you are,
how poor you are, how rich you are,
Monday, March 29, 12:30–3:30 pm
Sponsored by ASWSUV and the Student Alumni Group
we are going down the same hole.”
The 7.0 earthquake wreaked havoc
on the nation on the evening of Jan.
12, and the Haitian government
estimates that 217,000-230,000
lives have been lost, while 300,000
have been injured. According to a
CNN report, 3 million people, out
of the total population of 9 million,
have been impacted by the disaster.
For more information please visit:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/
americas/02/12/haiti.by.numbers/
index.html
Thus far, the Red Cross has raised
about $353 million for Haitian
relief and development efforts, and
allocated about $106.4 million to
providing food, water, shelter and
health. Even though aid agencies
around the world have helped
thousands of Haitians, the real impact
remains to be seen. “I am very
pessimistic about the situation,” Dr.
Theard admitted. “Imperialism and
colonialism are never going to stop.
The weak are always going to be
oppressed.”
Remembering his last trip back
to his native land, Dr. Theard
was equally pessimistic about the
rebuilding efforts. “Right now I don’t
know how it’s going to happen,”
Theard said. But it was clear that
there are other forms of “rebuilding”
besides structural ones that
desperately need to be considered.
“We need good psychologists there,”
Dr. Theard stated, “after all they have
y o u r c o u g a r p r ide,
S h ow
a r c r i m s o n a n d g r ay !
we
endured.” Also, Dr. Theard called
for the building of a strong army HAITI FACTS
(the Haitian army was abolished by
the Duvaliar regime), democratic •Port-Au-Prince, Capitol
•9,035,536 Population
leadership, decentralization, public
works, employment, healthcare,
education (especially in the poorest
•47% of Haitians live in
slums of the nation), and, especially, Urban areas
a classless society. •10,569 sq miles Total
“The Haitian people themselves land area in Haiti
should be in the position of
leadership to determine the process,” •90% of Haitians speak
Dr. Peabody said, stating that Haitian Creole
émigrés living in foreign nations •10% of Haitians speak
“ought to be drawn into decision
making.” “In order to help Haiti it
French
is important to educate ourselves,” •French is the written
said Dr. Peabody. Learning about the language of business in
history and culture is an important
Haiti
factor in understanding the needs
of the people. Dr. Peabody also •80% of Haitians are
recommended contributing to the Roman Catholics
Haiti Relief funds both on campus
•59.59/1,000 deaths to
and off.
When asked if he will go back to
live births in Haiti
contribute to the rebuilding efforts, •80% Of Haitians are
Dr. Theard said he will only if asked. living below the poverty
Currently, Dr. Theard teaches French
line
and Spanish at the Kennesaw State
College and Depaul University in •2/3 of Haitians are
Georgia. Dr. Theard is also the without formal jobs
founder of the Haiti Observateur
•46% of the population
newspaper. The Observateur is a
French/English weekly publication in Haiti is undernourished
started in 1971; it focuses on the according to the UN
Haitian community both in Haiti and •$1,300 GDP per Capita
in other parts of the world.
compared to $46,400 in US
Outside ADM and CLS
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Women’s Empowerment Coalition

Women in Art, The event celebrates National
Academia, and Women’s History Month and is an
opportunity for WSUV and the city
Community of Vancouver to connect. Several of
Triana Collins\ACE Editor the speakers are from WSUV, while
strongly recommends. “I’ve been to
the workshop before and felt like I
had been to a yoga class afterwards,”
says Romig. “This workshop is an
incredibly empowering experience.”
More music will take place during
lunch with the Harney Marimba
Band, a 4th and 5th grade marimba
group. Romig’s reasoning behind
hiring the young musicians was
that. Cherry Muhanji, a poet from
Kansas City, MO, is, according to
Romig, “the embodiment of the
Women’s Empowerment Coalition’s
purpose. She is a powerful woman

J
en Romig, a social sciences
major and Vice President of
The Women’s Empowerment
Coalition, wants you to spend
Wednesday, March 24 getting
empowered at “Women in Art,
Academia, and Community.” The
event takes place in the Firstenburg
Student Commons from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m., and features lectures,
workshops, and artistic expressions
that honor women of the past and
recognize the continued work for
women’s equality.
others are from the local community.
Dr. Laurie Mercier will talk about
“The Second Wave Feminist
Movement During the 1960s
and 1970s;” Dr. Finley and Erica
Nicewonger will present “Gender,
Power, and Education;” Paul Field
will speak on “Women’s Role in
the Portland-Vancouver Shipyards
During WWII,” and Dr. Gordillo
will present “Gendered Art: Chicana
Empowerment and Resistance.”
The YWCA will be conducting a
workshop on “How to be an Effective
Advocate and Ally,” which Romig
Other speakers include Toni
Partington, a local poet, who will
be reading from her new book Wind
Wing. Hope Medford, a midwife
from Portland, will be leading a
women’s drum circle, as well as
giving a lecture titled “Women’s
Empowerment Begins at Birth: Local
and Global Impact, Taking Back our
Power Through Knowledge.” Romig
is excited about the drumming and
says, “these are five women with
amazing talent and energy. The drum
music is powerful and resonates with
all creative beings.”
more than just entertainment. “We
wanted to bring as many non-college
students to the campus as possible,”
she explains, “because the more
times young people visit a college
campus, the more likely they will go
to college.”
Teresa Ashford will be talking
about “Menstrual Products: The
Industry’s History, Media, and
Moving toward New Ways of
Thinking”; a lecture on how women
have been socialized into being
ashamed of their bodies natural
functions, and how we can change
with a strength and a creative energy
that is inspirational.” Muhanji
will give a talk titled “Up Close
and Personal: The Evolution of
Empowerment.”
Speaking on behalf of the
Women’s Empowerment Coalition,
Romig would like “everyone of all
genders to walk away from the event
with the tools to be agents of change.
In other words, we would like
people to experience empowerment
and then share that with others.”
For more information contact
WomensEmpowermentCoalition@yahoo.com.

Turning 21
Call for Photos
WSUV Celebrates its
birthday along with 120
year old WSU Pullman
Triana Collins\ACE Editor

Your photos could play a starring role in the 2010

O
n March 28, WSUV is
turning the big 21. And
commencement program and/or photo montage. you know what that
means: A big all-campus party with
We are looking for photos of 2009/2010: kegs on every corner! Actually, not
quite. WSUV is opting for the more
responsible 21st birthday party:
• Graduating students • Student activities Cougar Cake, sparkling apple cider,
WSU History flyers, and music by

• Student trips • Student events KOUG Radio. Designated drivers

will have the night off.
The event will take place on

Send your photos (4 x 5” photos at 300 dpi/ppi) Monday, March 29 outside the
Classroom and Administration

to Jovonda.shafrik@vancouver.wsu.edu Buildings starting at 12:30 p.m.,

and will last until the cake has been
completely consumed. The funding
with the subject line: SENIOR PHOTOS for the birthday party came from
ASWSUV, and the planning by the
Student Alumni Group, a group of
students of all degree backgrounds
and ages who think it’s important to
start campus-wide traditions.
Lea Pfau, Program Coordinator of
WSUV, gave all the birthday details:
When was WSU born, and why
have a party?
WSU as a system was “born” on
3/28/1890, so we are 120 years old.
WSU Vancouver was “born” in 1989
making us 21 years old. The event is
celebrated yearly in Pullman and the
Student Alumni Group wanted to start
a similar tradition here at WSUV. We
want to do something that students
will remember each year and get
excited about. What a great way to
get some energy on campus with the
students, and there’s free food!
What’s up with the Student
Alumni Group?
The Student Alumni Group is
accepting applications for new
students interested in becoming
campus leaders, planning events, and
connecting the campus to current
WSU alumni in the area. We are able
to assist students with networking
opportunities, job shadowing, and
other fun events! The club is free to
join and is a current RSO. So, if you
like events, career development, and
having fun, visit our web site, www.
vancouver.wsu.edu/sag.
Check out cool facts on the
bottom of the page!

The first WSUV graduating class, in 1990, was comprised of 38 students • For its 10th birthday, WSUV hosted a petting zoo
 4 STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

Dancing and gambling at Gala

A good time of dancing,
buffets, casinos, and
prizes
Joey Hollibaugh/Staff Writer
Spaced out through the dealing of the
cards are sessions of betting. Once
all the cards are dealt whoever has
the best poker hand wins the round.
Blackjack is a very simple game.
The dealer starts out by dealing each
their moves through swing dancing
while others danced by themselves.
The night came to an end with
the raffle drawings using the tickets
from the casino games. Several gift
baskets were given,
the ASWSUV Activity Director, was
very impressed with how well the
event played out. “The success of
this event exceeded my expectations.
We had a good turn out and everyone
had a good time.” Johnston stated
that she hoped that the Spring Gala
will become an event that WSUV will
make into a school tradition.

O
n Friday Mar. 13 the
ASWSUV celebrated
the beginning of Spring
Break with WSUV’s first Spring
Gala. It was an entertaining night
of dancing and gambling (with fake
money). With the low cost of $15
per ticket, it was an easy way to have
a fun night on the town.
The night began with a wonderful
buffet featuring a variety of foods.
The choices included salads, cheese
and crackers, steak, and salmon.
Students were also privy to a small
bar with alcoholic drinks costing
around $5. Once you were done with
dinner there were some delicious
desserts provided. The buffet had a
couple of cakes and an assortment of
personal-sized pies.
Prior to the main event of the
evening, ASWSUV President Nick
Ferderer announced next-year’s
newly elected ASWSUV President,
Vice-President, and senators. The
main event of the evening began at 8
p.m. with the opening of the casino
tables. At each table, everyone was
given $100 in chips. For every $50
a person gained over the given $100,
they would receive a raffle ticket
for prizes awarded at the end of the
night. There were four different
games offered at the event: Texas
Hold’em, Blackjack, roulette, and
craps. Texas Hold’em is a variation
of poker where each player is dealt
two cards and then five community
cards are dealt face up on the table.
person, including him/herself, two
cards. The dealer then goes to each
player and asks if they want more
cards. The player attempts to have
a hand that adds up to 21 without
going over. If a player goes over 21,
then they “bust” and instantly lose
the hand. Each player competes with
the dealer. All bidding is completed
before the cards are dealt.
Roulette is a game of chance.
Each player begins by betting chips
on either a specific number, a color,
all odd or even numbers, or a set of
numbers. The table attendant then
spins a wheel with a ball in it. The ball
would then begin to lose momentum
and fall down into the center of the
wheel where there are little pockets
for each number/color. The fourth
game played that night was craps.
Craps is a dice throwing game where
each player takes a turn playing. On
ones turn, you make a bet based on
what you think you will roll. If you
successfully meet your bid, then you
continue playing. If you fail to meet
your bid, then you pass the dice over
to the person on your left.
There was a great amount of
variation in the type of music played
at the event. During the dinner
portion of the gala smooth jazz music
from artists such as Michael Bublé
and Frank Sinatra was played. As the
night went on the music transitioned
over to more traditional party music,
such as YMCA and The Electric
Slide. There was also a great amount
of dancing. Some couples showed off
carrying items such as
WSU paraphernalia and
hiking equipment. Two
of the night’s winners
offered their own tips
for the different games
they played. Casey
Bartel, who won the
majority of his tickets
at the blackjack table,
suggested that you only
bet 10 to 20 bucks on
each hand, never buy
insurance, and always
double down on a score
of eleven. Scott Dolam,
who won it big at Texas
Hold’em, stated that
you should never fold
right off the bat. Wait
until the first three of
the community cards
are laid out before you
make the decision to
play or not.
WSUV’s Spring
Gala was a tremendous
success. Approximately
150 people participated
in the event. Everyone
seemed to really enjoy
the games and dancing.
Aaron Bruckner said, “I
loved the food. I loved
the dancing. I loved
the poker. I think the
student government is
going to be hard pressed
to do a better job next
year.” Janine Johnston,

Joe Creager\The VanCougar

3/28 Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus Performance at 3 p.m. Tickets in OSI for $6!

Event Spotlight: Birds of Prey Live
Bird Club to bring
raptors to campus
Louise Wynn\Staff Writer
I
f you’ve ever wanted to see a
hawk, owl or falcon up close,
here’s your chance: The Bird-
ers’ Association and ASWSUV are
sponsoring a “Birds of Prey Live!”
event on Tues., March 23.
Raptor expert Cathi Wright will
bring a red-tailed hawk, an aplomado
falcon, and a western screech owl
to the second meeting of the club.
Wright has worked in the Birds of
Prey program at the Oregon Zoo and
as education director at the Ridgefield
National Wildlife Refuge.
KOUG Radio’s Sex, Donuts, and Rock & Roll
‘Scandalous’ event
informs students about
safe sex
Brenda Yahm/Staff Writer
W
ednesday, Mar. 10 at 4
p.m., students rushed
to the Firstenburg
Student Commons to get a glimpse
of the KOUG Radio event “Sex,
Donuts, and Rock & Roll.” The
three hour event offered a variety
of entertainments, such as carnival
games, sex education, live music
and food! Within minutes, the
Voodoo doughnuts vanished into the
stomachs’ of hungry college students.
Like many students, Khon Truong
and Justin Williams were one of
KOUG Radio Station Manager Cara Cottingham (above) wanted to put on an event that was both fun and informative.
3/23 Bird of Prey Live from 4-6 p.m. in VELS 12. Local falconer displaying her hawk, falcon, and owl.
The club was started
by Joey Smokey, who is
majoring in biology and
minoring in chemistry
and math. He’s planning
to enter the University of
California Davis next fall
to start graduate studies in
Avian Science.
The first meeting of
the Birders’ Association
featured a lecture by
Smokey about birds
and their physiological
adaptation to a post-
dinosaur world. The
WSUV facilities people
recorded the lecture, which
will be available soon on
YouTube. Smokey gave
many who rushed to the event before
class to check out the action and grab
some grub. “The Voodoo doughnuts
were a nice touch,” Truong enthused
before racing back to class.
The ultimate purpose of the event
was to help students gain access to
sexual health information. That it
came with some good music and
top-of-the-line junk food was even
better. The Vancouver campus, of
course, lacks a sustainable health
center where students can get
essential information, or just have
some uncomfortable answers cleared
up. “Sex, Donuts, and Rock & Roll”
provided a few hours of just such a
service.
WSU students lined up to play
the various games that were offered
at the entrance of the Commons. The
carnival-inspired games included
a ring toss, featuring colored hula
hoops and a large blow up penis. The
game was played with 3 to 4 people at
a time, and whoever tossed the most
hoops onto the target was granted a
prize. That done, players could move
on to challenging one another on who
could put a condom on a cucumber
the fastest. The player who had the
most condoms on the cucumbers
won a prize. As if the laughter and
joy were not enough of a prize for
the participants and onlookers, all
of the winners received a WSU
jump drive for their computers. At
the other end of the Commons sat a
panel of volunteers ready with sex-
related information. Melody Ramsor,
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT 5
some technical information
about the evolution of
birds, why they have
feathers (for insulation
and to attract mates), why
their bones are hollow (so
they can fly), how their
vocalizations are different
from those of humans, how
their respiration is more
efficient than mammals
(it’s more complicated and
unidirectional), and why
they put so much energy
into singing.
For his undergraduate
research project, Smokey is
establishing syllables and
song patterns of the Black
Jacobin, a South American
a clinical assistant professor of
nursing, was available for questions.
Staff from Planned Parenthood set
up a table next to the nurse to give
out more information on safe sex,
abstinence, and sexually transmitted
diseases. A petition went around
for attendees supporting affordable
access to birth control to sign, and
there was also as an abundance of
condoms of various themes and
textures to pick up, too.
The music was first provided
hummingbird. This bird sings in the
ultrasonic range, which takes a lot
of energy. Smokey hopes to do field
work later that will determine which
songs are associated with the birds’
behaviors, to understand why the
birds have developed this adaptation.
Smokey started the club to raise
awareness of birds on campus and in
the community. He’s been interested
in birds since he was 12 years old,
and says he doesn’t know why, but it
“almost feels like a calling…It’s just
one of those things where you realize,
‘Hey, this makes sense to me.’”
Smokey welcomes all members
of the campus and community to the
“Birds of Prey Live!” lecture and
presentation on Tuesday, Mar. 23 at 4
p.m. in VELS 12.
by KOUG Radio and its music
library. Then the local band Brother
Elf stole the spotlight with its own
vibrant tunes. Station Manager
Cara Cottingham said the event
had a “great turnout.” Certainly,
the station’s personalities helped
make the event the cool, informative
success that it was.
You can catch more great music
and tunes from bands such as Brother
Elf on various shows on KOUG radio
at www.kougradio.com.
Joe Creager\The VanCougar
 6 FEATURE
Footbag: the secret sport
Footbag, often confused
with Hacky Sack, is an
aerobic workout
Triana Collins\ACE Editor
W
hen talking to
footbag player Aaron
Clevenger do not
confuse his beloved passion with
the term “hacky sack.” “They’re
different,” Clevenger maintains. “It’s
like comparing a sprinter to a football
player.” He will then patiently
explain to you the entire history of
the sport, which began in 1972, and
was invented by 2 Portland men. He
will then tell you that it was these
Portlanders who came up with the
name hacky sack, and later sold the
title, so that it is now a trademarked
type of footbag.
Hacky sack is also known as a
specific footbag game where a small
cloth ball half filled with heavy
pellets is passed in a circle using
only your feet. But to show that the
boundaries to the sport of footbag
are endless (unlike the simple game
of hacky sack), Clevenger will give
you a demonstration which involves
stripping to his footbag shorts, tying
up his footbag shoes, and contorting
his body while kicking this little
ball across his legs, down his back,
and over his head. It’s an amazing
spectacle, which usually gets people
pulling out their cell phones to get
a quick picture of the camera-shy
athlete.
Lights out for climate change
Earth Hour takes place
on Mar. 27 at 8:30 p.m.;
conserve energy
Tyler Hicks\Staff Writer
T
he actions or failure to
act against global climate
change will be what
defines our generation. We will either
be the generation that saved the world
we know or the one that destroyed it.
Global climate change, unlike other
world-ending events such as nuclear
war, pandemic viruses, and asteroid
impacts, is something that everyone
is responsible for and capable of
contributing to the solution. As
Americans, that per capita produce
19 metric tons of carbon dioxide, we
have a greater responsibility to alter
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3/25 Student Health Professions Association Meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in VMMC 23
Clevenger started out playing
footbag as a way to meet people in
school until he was introduced to it
as a sport and was encouraged to go
compete. He ended up winning the
Canadian Footbag Championship
in 2003 in the Intermediate Level,
which earned him a Brazilian soccer
jersey and a $25 dinner. Although
he was proud and excited to win, he
admits, “there isn’t a ton of money in
footbag.”
But it’s different in Europe, where
the sport is huge, complete with
multi-national companies competing
over which professional footbag
players will endorse their products.
There are competitions where
thousands of fans go to watch their
footbag heroes conduct hands-free
acrobatic stunts while keeping this
small, soft bag in the air. Clevenger
will soon be in close quarters with
these overseas athletes, as he is
currently training for the U.S. Open
Footbag Competition this summer,
which will take place in Camas, WA.
“There will be a lot of European and
international players there because
the World Championship is in San
Francisco right after it,” Clevenger
reports.
But there’s more to footbag than
just competing. “I do it more for the
social enjoyment of just playing the
game,” Clevenger says. “It’s been
a huge part of my life.” Clevenger
also keeps in shape with footbag,
and considers it a strenuous workout.
“It’s so aerobically consuming. It’s
our behaviors than other. Admittedly,
simple steps such as replacing
incandescent bulbs with fluorescent
light bulbs seem meaningless but in
fact these small steps are absolutely
necessary if we are to achieve current
carbon emission goals. Preventative
global climate change action is
not the sole responsibility of big
companies and governments it’s
everyone’s responsibility. We need
everyone on board including you,
your friends, family, and neighbors.
Creating awareness among our
cohorts about climate change and
how their behaviors affect their
carbon output is not an easy topic to
bring up. Earth Hour, celebrated on
March 27, offers such an opportunity.
Earth Hour was started in 2007 in
Sydney, Australia. By 2008 it had
and concludes with a concert. The
foundation for all of the events is
James Welch’s award-winning novel,
The Heartsong of Charging Elk.
The lectures will be held at 7
p.m. March 22-25 on campus in the
Administration building. The concert
will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 26
at Vancouver School of Arts and
Academics. All events are free and
open to the public, and there is no
charge for parking.
The symposium explores the
themes of displacement, intercultural
collision and accommodation in
Welch’s last novel about Lakota
warriors transported to France in
the late 19th century by Buffalo
like jumping rope as fast as you can
while doing complex tricks,” he
explains. “It really gets your heart
pumping and uses a lot of muscles
that you don’t normally use.”
Besides being physically involved
in footbag, Clevenger is artistic with
it as well. He sews his own footbags
by hand with a rare form of suede that
he special orders from Michigan, and
then fills the inside with shot from
shotgun shells. Each footbag takes
him about 2.5 hours and they sell for
$25 a piece on FreedomFootbags.
com and Fourkast.com. A humble
environmentalist, Clevenger makes
sure that a portion of the bag’s sales
goes to a sea turtle hospital he used to
work at on South Padre Island, Texas.
Clevenger has started the Footbag
and Juggling Club here at WSUV,
where students can gather and
play. The club will have juggling
equipment, balls, bags, pins, a
unicycle, slack line for tightrope
walking, and hopefully a football net.
Clevenger thinks of the club as a way
for adults to maintain the childhood
concept of play. “I’m an adult, so
what do I play with?,” Clevenger
asks. “I don’t want to color, video
games are too time consuming. I
want to do stuff outside that will
increase my agility and strength.”
If you’d like to learn how to
footbag, juggle, or just plain play,
contact Clevenger at:
aaron.clevenger@email.wsu.edu.
grown into worldwide phenomena
with over 4000 cities and 88 countries
participating. This awareness event
calls on participants to turn off
their lights for one hour in a unified
“celebration and contemplation of the
one thing we all have in common –
our planet”. Earth Hour also provides
an excellent opportunity to invite
friends and family over to discuss
climate change and ways that we
could change our behaviors to reduce
our carbon footprint. Earth Hour on
the west coast of North America will
be celebrated on March 27 at 8:30
PM. To pledge your participation,
and to find out more on the topic,
visit www.earthhour.org. Break out
your candles, throw an Earth Hour
party, and let’s knock the lights out of
climate change.
Bill’s Wild West show as players of
themselves. The five days in March
also celebrate the work of the late
Blackfeet/Gros Ventre author himself,
one of the most important Northwest
writers of the 20th century.
The week begins with a four-night
lecture series that includes talks by
noted Plains Indian anthropologist
and linguist and editor of Black
Elk Speaks, Raymond J. DeMallie;
historian of the American West and
author of Buffalo Bill’s America,
Louis S. Warren; Native American
Studies Professor and author of
the forthcoming Killed Beyond
Recognition: The Writings of
James Welch, Kathryn W. Shanley
MLIA College Comfort
Life is pretty normal today.
Submit your own at www.mylifeisaverage.com or via the newspaper!
Today, I was at the mall. The escalator was broken, but instead of the sign saying “Sorry,
escalator is out of service,” it said “Sorry, escalator is temporarily stairs.” MLIA
Today, my ex-boyfriend left a box on my doorstep full of things that I left at his house
during our relationship. I wonder when he will realize that I never owned an Ipod touch.
Oh well. MLIA!
Today I was walking into Wal-Mart just as some boy was walking out. The alarms went off
when he walked through the detectors and he threw his hands in the air and waited like
that for quite some time. Finally, I walked up and patted him down and told him he got
lucky this time. We have a date this Friday. MLIA
Today, I realized that Twilight used to be just a time of day. I miss that. MLIA.
Today, I googled for stuff to do in the snow. One list said to have a frozen snowball fight, so
I put some snowballs in the freezer. It took me about five hours to realize that snowballs
are already frozen. I hate the Internet. MLIA
Today, the Jehovah witness people came to my house. When they asked me, “do you have
the time to hear the good news.” Deciding to be nice I said, “sure, come on in.” after sitting
on the couch in my family room for about 30 awkward seconds, I said, “well aren’t you
guys going to say something?” they replied, “we have never made it this far”. MLIA
The other day I got pulled over by a cop for speeding. He told me, “I’ve been waiting for
someone like you to come by”. I replied “I know! Which is why I tried to get here as fast as I
could so you wouldn’t have to wait long.” He laughed. I didn’t get a ticket. MLIA
Today, I realized all of my credit cards expire in December 2012. Interesting. MLIA.
Not thinking anyone could hear me, I started singing Aladdin’s “A Whole New World” out
loud at work today. I am an 18-year-old guy. I then saw a cute girl staring at me. She
did not sing along. We did not high-five. She stared at me like I was a moron and then
promptly left. I don’t think I have found my soul mate either. MLIA
I was in the car with my sister when a Jaguar drove beside us. I asked her if she knew
which animal the symbol is for a Jaguar. She confidently said lion. I stared at her for a
minute with a puzzled face. She realized she was wrong and corrected herself by saying
tiger. MLIA.
Today, after days of searching for my Finding Nemo DVD... I’ve accepted that I have lost it.
That’s it, I’ve officially lost Nemo. Oh the irony. MLIA.
Today, I wondered what it would be like to have walkie talkies that could reach across an
entire country. Then I realized that we call them cell phones. MLIA.
Today in geography we started our new unit on China. We watched Mulan. MLIA
Best of the Month:
*Today in Vans I was showing my brother how the zipper on my jeans is fake. I pointed to
that area of my pants and said, “look it’s fake! There’s nothing there! It’s crazy!” I looked up
just in time to see one of the workers’ shocked face. She hadn’t heard me say I was talking
about my zipper. MLIA.*
(Assiniboine-Sioux); and
conversation about the novel with
Lois Welch, Professor Emerita of
a and events open to the public,
including an exhibit of rare books
by James Welch and William Cody,
English, research collaborator and photographs by Edward Curtis, and
life partner of the late author. artifacts from Buffalo Bill’s Wild
The week concludes with an West show. The exhibit can be seen at
original musical performance of the WSU Library during March and
The Heartsong of Charging Elk April. Learn more by visiting www.
for four voices and a 10-piece vancouver.wsu.edu/heartsong.
chamber ensemble by internationally The Heartsong of Charging Elk
acclaimed Seattle composer and is sponsored by Alphagraphics,
musician Wayne Horvitz, composer/ the Heathman Hotel, Humanities
songwriter Robin Holcomb and Washington, The Associated
Pulitzer finalist, writer/director Students of Washington State
Rinde Eckert. Learn more at www. University Vancouver, and WSU
waynehorvitz.net/projects/heartsong. Vancouver’s Office of Academic
html. Affairs, Chancellor’s Office, College
To accompany the spring of Liberal Arts and the Diversity
symposium, WSU Vancouver Council.
will offer a variety of programs
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Two dates to celebrate; two men to remember whim of Congress).

Neal Q. Herrick\Contributing Writer
March 16, 1751: Birth
date of James Madison
The important distinction so well
understood in America between a
Constitution established by the people
and unalterable by the government, and
a law established by the government
and alterable by the government, seems
to have been little understood and less
observed in any other country.
Nevertheless, the intent of the
Constitution is clear from the writings of
those who framed it. They intended us to
have the power to amend our Constitution.
Hamilton says, in Federalist 33, that –
should the government “overpass the just
bounds of its authority,” the people, “whose
creature it [the Constitution] is, should
take such measures . . . as the exigency
may suggest.” The circumstances of our
present crisis suggest the writing of reform
legislation bringing the federal government
back under our control. While the writing
of statutes is reserved to Congress, the
March 23, 1775: the day
Patrick Henry gave his
“liberty or death” speech
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to
be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know
not what course others may take; but as
for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
of tyranny.” He and his fellow-framers
attempted to balance the powers of
government among the three branches.
They provided “checks” for each branch
to use in defending its powers from raids
by the other branches. We have arrived
at our present predicament because this
system of checks and balances has broken
down. Many powers of Congress and
some powers of the courts have migrated
to the presidency.
Patrick Henry, however, was prescient.

- James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 53
J
He refused to attend the 1787 convention
Constitution is our “creature.” We should
ust 235 years ago, Henry urged the in Philadelphia. Speaking at the Virginia
take advantage of this by bringing about a
“responsive government” amendment. House of Burgesses in Richmond, ratifying convention, he opposed

J
ames Madison, “Father of the
Constitution,” born in Port
Conway, Virginia, 259 years ago, is
remembered for the major role he played
in making us a country “of, by and for the
people.”
One of his contributions was made in
vain. He argued for our establishment as a
non-aggressive nation. He wrote in 1791,
“In no part of the Constitution is more
wisdom to be found than in the clause
which confides the question of war and
peace to the legislature, and not to the
executive department” (Helvidius, No.
1). He explained, in part, the executive’s
tendency to violence when he added, “In
war, the public treasures are to be unlocked
and it is the executive hand that is to
dispense them.” Despite Madison and the
crystal-clear language of the Constitution,
our government has slid out of our control.
Congress has abdicated its war powers
and the executive branch now (illegally)
exercises them.
Madison also made important statements
of principle that helped guide the framers
in their work. For example, in Federalist
Papers 49 he called the people “the only
legitimate fountain of power.” He went on
to state that, “a constitutional road to the
decision of the people ought to be marked
out and kept open, for certain great and
extraordinary occasions.” Madison and
his fellow-framers attempted to give these
statements “efficacy” (to use Hamilton’s
term) when they crafted Article V of the
Constitution.
Their efforts, however, fell short. Instead
of explicitly giving the people the power to
initiate constitutional amendments, they
gave this power to Congress and to state
legislatures. Instead of giving the people
the power to approve amendments, they
gave this power to either state legislatures
or state conventions (depending on the
The difficulty, of course, is that the
“constitutional road to the decision of the
people” is far from being “marked out”
and “kept open,” as Madison said it should
be. In fact, it is so obscure and hidden that
it has never been used. All twenty-seven
of our constitutional amendments were
proposed by the federal government. This
same federal government has abstained, of
course, from “marking out” a constitutional
road for us to use in initiating constitutional
amendments. Our civil officers do not wish
us to interfere with their enjoyment of the
favors provided by corporations and other
special interest groups.
This makes the “road to our decision”
bumpy and overgrown from disuse. It does
not, however, excuse us from exerting
ourselves to make a path through the
thicket. We might, for example, use the 9th
and 10th Amendments to clear our way.
The 9th Amendment says, in effect, that a
right cannot be denied us simply because
it is not “enumerated” in the Constitution.
The 10th Amendment says that all rights
neither delegated to the federal government
by the Constitution nor prohibited by it
to the states, “are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people.” Our right to
petition our state legislatures to apply for
the calling of a constitutional convention,
for example, could not be denied simply
because it is not explicitly mentioned in
the Constitution. Further, since this right is
neither delegated to the federal government
nor prohibited to the states, it should be
reserved to us, the people. We are, after all,
the only legitimate “fountain of power.”
A lesson taught us by history and by
James Madison is that we should not
complain because our government has
slid out of our control. We have no one to
blame but ourselves. We possess both the
responsibility and the means for restoring
it to lawfulness.
Virginia, to mobilize forces against
the English army of occupation. In 1775
our forefathers had to choose between
living peaceful lives under a government
they could not control and fighting a
bloody war for the right to live under a
government they could control. We are
now faced with a similar choice. Our
choice is between living peaceful lives
under a government we cannot control
and taking time out of our busy schedules
to conduct a peaceful revolution. Is our
leisure time so dear or our leisure pursuits
so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
life under an elective monarchy?
English philosopher Lord Acton was
still able to say, in 1907 “ It was from
America that the plain ideas . . . burst forth
. . . upon the world . . . under the title “the
rights of man” . . . and the principle gained
ground that a nation can never abandon
its fate to an authority it cannot control.”
These words describe our heritage - our
past. Our present era is one of out-of-
control presidents, passive legislatures
and an “activist” judiciary. Our presidents
fight illegal wars against our will and often
against the will of “the people’s branch”
(Congress). Our Congress abdicates its
war powers and allows the presidency to
encroach upon its law-making powers by
adding “signing statements” to its bills.
Our judiciary declares corporate donations
to Congress constitutional.
How did we come to our present
sad state of affairs? The “Father of our
Constitution,” James Madison, said in
Federalist 47, “The accumulation of all
powers . . . in the same hands . . . may
justly be pronounced the very definition
ratification saying, “What can avail your
specious, imaginary balances, your rope-
dancing, chain- rattling, your ridiculous
ideal checks and contrivances.” This was
harsh, since the framers’ “rope-dancing”
gave us almost two centuries of reasonably
balanced government. Technological,
economic and demographic changes,
however, have combined (with flaws in the
Constitution itself) to destroy our balance
of powers and set us on the slippery slope
leading to tyranny.
What can be done to preserve our
representative democracy? Expecting our
federal government to balance its own
powers is as fruitless as expecting the fox
to guard the chicken coop. However, the
framers anticipated a situation in which
our powers would need to be re-balanced
(or new-modeled, as Madison put it in
Federalist 48). No doubt realizing that
the federal government would be unlikely
to “new-model” itself, they gave us
Article V. This Article is pivotal for two
reasons. First, it makes our Constitution
“unalterable” (to use Madison’s words
again) by the federal government.
Second, it allows us, the people, to alter
it, acting through our state legislatures or
conventions.
So you and I face a choice analogous
to the one faced by Patrick Henry 235
years ago when he made his speech to
the Virginia House of Burgesses. Which
future shall we choose?
Neal Herrick retired from the University
of Michigan as a Visiting Professor. His most
recent book, After Patrick Henry: A 2nd
American Revolution (Amazon.com) was
awarded the IPPY gold medal for the best book
of 2009 in the “freedom fighter” category.

Free Koug: living on a budget
Cheap activities for the
average, poor, college
student
Triana Collins\ACE Editor
my bad dreams if I watch it in the
morning. 4) From a film student
perspective, I’m more awake to study
screen shots and angles and color
choices and all that cineaste stuff. Try
it! It’s a totally free morning activity
based Meydan, a 5 piece Turkish
and Balkan band, will be gracing
Mint Tea with their traditional tunes
ranging from Devotional Sufi to Folk
music. While raki will probably not
be served, Mint Tea has an assortment
you stuff that really old musty quilt
into the back seat right before you
left, and you’re like “Yes! A Quilt!
Thanks Mom!”
What: Duct Tape Magic
When: Tuesday, March 30
Where: Cascade Park Library
Time: 5p.m.
unbelievable. Anyways, once again
there will be art, music, food, wine,
and more art for your viewing and
imbibing pleasure.
What: Tulip Festival
When: April 3-4
Where: Royal Dutch Flower
Gardens, Woodland, WA

Y
ou know what’s really
fun? Watching movies
in the morning. Like
6 a.m. type morning. I know this
sounds crazy, but it’s really great
for a number of reasons. 1) I’m so
exhausted by night time to ever stay
awake for movies. 2) I often (okay,
maybe usually) have really twisted
dreams, a.k.a nightmares, that haunt
me throughout my day, and watching
movies first thing when I wake up
helps erase the nightmares from my
memory. 3) If the movie happens
to be scary or a documentary about
factory-workers, the environment
or something, it won’t contribute to
that will enhance your life! Along
with all this other FREE stuff...
What: Turkish & Balkan Music
When: Saturday, March 27
Where: Mint Tea, 2014 Main St.
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Turkish music is best heard in
Turkey while lounging on huge
pillows atop a hand made carpet
with a glass of raki (a traditional, and
very potent, anise-flavored liquor) in
one hand and a hookah in the other.
The soothing sweetness of the music
always seems to even out the harsh
fire of the raki. But of course, we’re
not in Turkey, we’re in Vancouver.
But you are in luck, because Portland-
of organic wines and beers for your
sipping pleasure.
What: Quilt Show
When: March 27-28
Where: North Clark Historical
Museum, 21416 399th St.
Time: Saturday, 10a.m. - 5p.m.
& Sunday, 12p.m. - 5p.m.
Cost: FREE
Quilts are cool when you’re
camping and you wake up in the
middle of the night thinking “Oh
my god, I’m fucking freezing”
even though you’re bundled up in
your $200 North Face sleeping bag
that’s supposed to keep you warm
in Arctic level temperatures. Then
you remember that your mom made
Cost: FREE
The instructors at the library are
Duct Tape professionals and are
prepared to teach you how to make
your very own iPod Case and wallet
all from this very special sticky tape.
Wow.
What: First Friday Artwalk
When: Friday, April 2
Where: Downtown Vancouver & Camas
Time: 5p.m. - 9p.m.
Cost: FREE
The time has come once again:
the first Friday of the month, with
that month being April. Can you
believe it? Me neither. But I never
can so let’s just all stop acting
like the progression of time is so
Time: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Tulips are just darling aren’t
they? So why not spend a whole
day or two looking at them! Besides
fields upon fields of tulips there will
be display gardens filled with lots
of other flowers, a tulip artwork
contest, cutest baby contest, live
music, children’s activities, inflatable
jumping jungles, petting zoo, and
food. More specifically, there will be
ethnic food, which I know, because
I saw a picture of a food cart selling
nachos with a big banner that read
“Ethnic Food!!” (Are nachos really
“ethnic”? Maybe to sports games or
something...)

3/25 History and Fiction: A Conversation with Lois Welch, University of Montana at 7:30 p.m. in VADM 110; Free and open to public
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Hollywood’s 82nd annual Academy Awards

Hurt Locker takes home
six of nine nominations
Joey Hollibaugh\Staff Writer
currently holds the record for most
nominations given to an actress, or
as he likes to think of it, “the most
losses.” Later on, both hosts point
out the fact that both Cameron
nine nominations, winning for art
direction, cinematography, and the
film’s visual effects.
A few other Oscar winners
that are worth mentioning were
Christopher Waltz for his role in the
movie Inglorious Basterds, where
Waltz played a Nazi named Col. Hans
Landa, who hunts Jews in France.
This year at the Academy Awards
include a best picture nomination
for The Remains of the Day, and
four more nominations for two other
films, Closer and Postcards from the
Edge. Two of his most recent films

O
n Mar. 7, the biggest
night in Hollywood
struck again with the
presentation of the 82nd annual
Academy Awards. It was an exciting
night filled with tense moments as
each of the nominees waited to see
if they were to be honored with an
Oscar.
The ceremony began with the
introduction of this year’s hosts,
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
As is customary for the Academy
Awards, both performers were
given a ten-minute period to poke
fun at the different nominees sitting
in the audience. Some of the more
memorable gags were those at the
expense of Meryl Streep, James
Cameron, and Cameron’s ex-wife
Kathryn Bigelow. Steve Martin
pointed out the fact that Streep
and Bigelow are competing
against each other for best
picture. Baldwin made the
comment that Bigelow, “was
so pleased to be nominated
with [Cameron] that she sent
him a beautiful gift basket, with
a timer.” Steve Martin came
back with, “and he reciprocated
by sending her a Toyota.”
The biggest winner of the
night was Bigelow and her
film, The Hurt Locker,Locker
winning six out of its
nine nominations. The
military drama about a
bomb disarming unit
in Iraq won Oscars for
directing, film editing,
sound mixing and editing, its original
screenplay, and for best picture. The
runner up for Oscars was Cameron’s
Avatar. Avatar won three out of its
Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges,
Mo’Nique, and Christopher
Waltz. Bullock won the
award for best actress in a
leading role for her part in
the movie The Blind Side.
Side She
played the mother of a well-to-
do white family who takes in an
African-American boy from a
broken home.
Bridges won best actor for his
role as Bad Blake, a minor
country music legend,
who is an overweight,
chain smoking alcoholic
in the film Crazy Love.
Mo’Nique won for
her role as Mary in
the film Precious.
Mary is the abusive mother of the
obese and pregnant teen Claireece
Precious Jones. Lastly, the award
for best supporting actor went to
there were four honorary Awards
for lifetime achievements, service
to the academy and contributions
to motion picture arts and sciences.
This year the recipients were Lauren
Bacall, John Calley, Roger Corman,
and Gordon Willis. Bacall began
her acting career when she was
only 20 years old in the Humphrey
Bogart film To Have and Have Not.
After marrying Bogart, she made
several more films with the famous
actor, such as The Big Sheep, Dark
Passage, and Key Largo. In 1996
Bacall was nominated for an Oscar
for a supporting role in the movie The
Mirror Has Two Faces.
John Calley is one of the most
admired and trusted people in
Hollywood. Throughout his career in
movies he has been both a producer
and a studio executive in various
films. His many accomplishments
include The Da Vinci Code and its
sequel Angels and Demons.
Corman is a very talented
producer who was able to produce
epic films with very little funding.
He is particularly known for his
horror films based on Edgar Allan
Poe stories. Corman also mentored
many of today’s top talents, such as
Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jack
Nicholson, and Robert De Niro.
Willis is a cinematographer who is
considered to be one of the best in
Hollywood. He is mostly known for
his work as director of photography
for such best picture-winning films
The Godfather, The Godfather Part
II, and Annie Hall.
With strong comedic performances
by Martin and Baldwin, as well as the
recognition of both current and past
Hollywood legends, the show was an
event not to be forgotten.

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Ferret Legging vs. March Madness
Basketball not worthy
of using the term
‘Sudden Death’
Erik Cummings\Sports Editor
Y
ou might think with
a name such as
“March Madness,”
one would find more deals on
consumer products as opposed to
sports channels and internet sites
swamped with basketball news.
Not being a fan of the sport, I
decided to check into “March
Madness” and perhaps discover
why it sounds so much like a
month-wide sale on clothes at
Kohl’s.
March Madness is the
National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division I Basketball
Championship. Thank you,
Wikipedia. I never expected to see
the term “Sudden Death” applied
to Basketball, but March Madness
is a single-elimination tournament.
Losing teams are unable to win the
championship, but could play to
place among the top three.
University of California, Los
Angeles currently holds the record
with eleven NCAA Championship
titles. The universities of Kentucky
and North Dakota follow second
and third.
All these descriptions fail
to match up properly with the
“Sudden Death” term. Who could
There’s two kinds of people in this world when you boil it
all down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most
people are just talkers, all they do is talk. But when it is all
said and done, it’s the doers that change this world. And
when they do that, they change us, and that’s why we never
forget them. So which one are you? Do you just talk about
it, or do you stand up and do something about it? Because
believe you me, all the rest of it is just coffee house bullshit.
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associate the “Sudden Death” with
a bunch of tall guys in shorts and
jerseys running around a court
tossing a ball back and forth?
Come on – rugby does not have
the “Sudden Death” moniker and
yet it could live up to the name due
to the brutal contact and violence
of the sport. Tennis is home to
hundred-mile-an-hour serves and
if one receives such a serve to the
face that would be sudden death.
Even Ping Pong could have sudden
death – pack a little gunpowder in
the balls along with some non-
safety match heads. Hm. I smell a
youtube video in the making.
Ferret Legging, for example,
richly deserves the “Sudden
Death” rule, though perhaps
death is not so sudden. In fact,
it is awaited with bated breath,
with shivers and shudders, and
wincing from even the audience
members. A ferret, teeth intact,
is placed down the trousers of
the bold participant who is also
sober. The winner is the one who
can stand before the judges the
longest with the ferret still in their
trousers. Now, before you say,
“No problem,” and break out the
chloroform for the weasel and the
fifth of Jack Daniels for yourself,
both ferret and participant must
be one hundred percent sober. The
participant must tie the bottom
cuffs of his trousers and belt
the top so the ferret may
not escape. No briefs or
boxers are allowed in
order to let the ferret
access to both pant legs.
The current record holder is
Reg Mellor from South Yorkshire,
England. Mellor stood for five
hours and twenty-six minutes with
a weasel down his pants. Every
year in Richmond, Virginia, the
ferret legging championships
take place during the Richmond
Highland Games & Celtic Festival.
Origins of this game are disputed.
In England of the 1700s, while the
privileged rich kept ferrets as pets,
the poachers used them to aid their
craft and hid them in their trousers.
This may or may not have led to
Ferret Legging as a pub game.
Granted, Ferret Legging would
provide less opportunity for
running commentary. Dedicated
participants like Mellor are not
as common as those in the sport
of basketball. Indeed, if it was
not for the championships in
Richmond, Ferret Legging might
be considered a discontinued
recreational activity. However,
as long as testosterone exists and
men of all ages persist in proving
their machismo, the sport will
survive in taverns and at Saturday
night parties across the globe.
Unless, of course, they
combined it with basketball. Can
you say, “No overtime?”
SPORTS AND RECREATION 11
Pullman Updates
Women’s Tennis - SAN DIEGO,
CALIF. - San Diego-- The No.
FITNESS
70 nationally-ranked Washington
State University tennis team lost
CENTER
their second match in a row to the
University of San Diego, Wednesday,
4-3. The Cougs (8-7, 1-1 Pac-10) Hours
have their last two matches by only
one point.
WSU struggled in the doubles M-Th : 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
matches. USD swept the Cougars, Friday: 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
taking the first point of the match. Sat-Sun: Closed
The Cougars were competitive
in the singles matches. Elisabeth
Fournier and Ksenia Googe both
earned their second victories of the Equipment
road trip. Fournier defeated Laura
Claus, 6-3, 6-4 to tie up the match
2-2. Googe defeated Maja Sujica, Ellipticals &
6-3, 6-0 to give WSU the lead, 3-2. Treadmills
San Diego earned the last two
singles points, with a close win at the Free Weights
No. 5 spot when Marina Nicolas took Leg Presses,
her opponent, Alexandra Demidova
to three sets.
Extension, & Curl
WSU hits the road again for machines
three away matches against No. 53 Medicine balls &
Long Beach State and Pacific-10
conference opponents No. 6 UCLA Yoga mats
and No. 21 USC, March 25-27. Strength bands &
Men’s Basketball - KANSAS
CITY, MO. -- KANSAS CITY,
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Mo. - Washington State University
sophomore Klay Thompson has been
named to the National Association
of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
Policy
Division I All-District 20 First Team,
the organization announced. He is
now one of 240 student-athletes Fitness center is free
eligible for the State Farm Division
to all WSUV students,
I All-America teams which will be
announced April 3. faculty, and staff.
Thompson becomes the first Cougar Must sign liability
to earn the honor since both Derrick
Low and Kyle Weaver were named
waiver. Bring Fitness
to the NABC District 14 First Team Center card each visit.
in 2008. Weaver also picked up the
accolades as a junior in 2007. The
organization divides all Division
I schools into 24 districts. District
20 is made up of all 10 Pacific-10 Trainer
Conference teams and each district
has both a first and second team
named by the NABC. Thompson A certified personal
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seniors; Landry Fields of Stanford,
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Thompson earned All-Pac-10 First
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named to the all-freshman team
in his rookie season last year. The
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Cougars’ leading scorer, Thompson or develop strength
became the third fastest and 31st
overall Cougar to reach 1,000 career for a specific sport
points. Thompson accomplished the or activity. The
feat in just 63 games and finished
his sophomore season with 1,023 sessions are free.
points in 64 games. He is third in the
conference and in the top-30 in the
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per game, along with a team second-
best 5.1 rebounds an outing.
He ranks 14th in the Pac-10 this
season in rebounding (5.1 rpg),
fourth in 3-point field goals made (2.5
mpg), ninth in free throw percentage
(.801) and ninth in steals (1.4 spg),
while playing a league fourth-most
35.4 minutes a game. He ended the
season with 609 points, the third-
most in a single-season by a Cougar.
Thompson was also named NetScouts
Basketball All-Pac-10 First Team and
second team all-conference by The
Sporting News.
 12 ARTS, CULTURE, AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bublé’s Crazy Love holds

resemble the style of music that
its own against Sinatra
one associates with ‘60s Bond
films, particularly from the violins
Joey Hollibaugh\Staff Writer
and some of the brass instruments.
portion that sounds like a Bondian,
spy jazz pastiche. Nonetheless, this
version of “Georgia on My Mind”
will, for my tastes, rate right behind
where I now think of this song as
being one of the best tracks on the
CD. The second original track from
this album, “Hold On,” is a slower

M
ichael Bublé’s
latest album, Crazy
Love, is a stunning
compilation of love songs by an
artist with a honeyed voice. With
love (either won or lost) as his
theme, Bublé takes command of
a variety of old standards, such as
“Cry Me A River,” “Georgia On
My Mind,” and “All I Do is Dream
of You,” and adds his famous jazzy
twist to the melodies. He even
mixes things up by bringing in two
of his own works, “Haven’t Met You
Yet” and “Hold On.”
The album begins strong with
“Cry Me a River.” Unlike the
original cut by Julie London in
1955, Bublé dramatically uses a
mixture of string and percussion
instruments throughout the piece
to give the song a larger sound, a
marked departure from the cool
intimacy of London’s version.
Indeed, portions of the song almost
The song successfully captures the
listener’s attention, while setting the
tone for the rest of the CD.
Bublé keeps up the momentum
with the next track, the popular
jazz song “All of Me.” Many jazz
legends, including Louis Armstrong,
Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald,
have recorded very memorable
covers of this song setting a high bar
for Bublé. Thankfully, he does not
disappoint. Even though Bublé’s
take is very similar to that of Sinatra
there are some slight differences
that come together to make it
uniquely Bublé’s.
The next song is Hoagy
Carmichael’s classic “Georgia On
My Mind,” perhaps best known in
a cover by Ray Charles. If Bublé
matches London and Sinatra in the
earlier tracks, he doesn’t quite match
up with Charles’ vocal strength.
Bublé does add more of a big band
feel to the accompaniment, and,
again, there’s a small instrumental
that of the great Ray Charles as a
favorite.
Another song worth mentioning
is “All I Do is Dream of You.” Here,
Bublé references bebop, giving the
song a bouncy, uplifting feel that
you can’t help but dance to, whether
you know how to or not. As in
bebop, the song features vocalists
in the background accentuating the
instruments. All these elements,
blended with Bublé’s fabulous
voice, makes this version that you
will find yourself humming the rest
of the day.
As for Bublé own songs, the
first, “Haven’t Met You Yet,” has
been getting a lot of radio air time.
The first time I heard it I didn’t
care for it. I thought the whole
thing sounded rushed, loud, and
a bit disorganized. However, as I
continued to hear it on the radio,
and then gave it a proper listen on
the album, it quickly began to grow
on me. It has gotten to the point
paced love song.
If there’s a criticism of this
album it would be found here. It
starts out quietly, setting a romantic
mood, then, unfortunately, grows
stronger and louder to the point
where the instruments almost
overpower Bublé’s voice. This
had the effect of destroying the
romanticism that it started out with.
Perhaps, if I give it more time, this
song will grow on me just like
“Haven’t Met You Yet.” But for now
it is the one disappointment on an
otherwise great music album.
Crazy Love is a fantastic album,
and Michael Bublé has the vocal
chops for a songbook of such
standards. And at its best (which is
almost always), this CD can easily
hold its own on a shelf of Frank
Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Ray
Charles. This is truly an album that
is worth buying and listening to
over and over again.

Modern chamber music an odd angle

Third Angle New Music
Ensemble unearths the
classical underground
Triana Collins/ACE Editor
performances of new chamber music,
and to reinforcing the necessity for
the voice of the living composer.
Since 1985 this Portland-based group
of about 10 musicians (they often
come and go) has presented more
the players to bring their music to
life.” In other words: music that has
direction and limitations, but includes
a good deal of improvisation.
A pre-concert piece titled Tropical
Fish Opera (1962) by Spanish
lines) a variety of evocative glyphs
and densely arranged pictographs.
The Metaphysics of Notation (2009)
by Mark Applebaum invited the
musicians to wander around the
auditorium, up and down the aisles,
writes that the work “consists of 53
short, numbered musical phrases,
lasting from half a beat to 32 beats...
Each musician has control over
which phrase he or she plays: Players
are encouraged to play the phrases

I
t is easy to think of chamber
music as being stuffy, old
fashioned, and downright
boring. This is especially true when
so many of its famous composers
are from eras long gone, whose
pictures in the program notes are of
faded sepia or are self-aggrandized
drawings. But fresh, exciting, and
modern chamber music is out there,
if you know where to look. And you
don’t have to look much farther than
across the river to Third Angle.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
is a group of chamber musicians
committed to presenting world-class
than 90 programs of challenging
contemporary music, commissioned
over 25 new works, and released nine
critically acclaimed recordings. The
instrumentation is typically of violin,
viola, cello, flute, clarinet, and piano,
but can include trumpet, a drum set,
saxophone, or any instrument that the
composer has chosen to write for.
Friday, Mar. 5 was the third
concert out of four of their 2009/2010
season. It took place at the elegant
Hollywood Theatre in Portland, with
a theme titled “Chance/Perchance: A
Musical Happening.” It was centered
around, “ingenious frameworks
build by master composers who trust
composer Ramon Sender included
three instrumentalists and one singer/
conductor seated around a large
fish tank holding about 6 large and
beautifully colored tropical fish.
Sender writes that “the idea of a
three-dimensional score (tank) with
movable notes (fish) that can either
be pitched high (top of the tank) or
loud or soft (proximity to performer)
always intrigued me...” He’s not the
only one intrigued.
The first piece of the concert was a
20-minute long score projected onto
the theatre’s large film screen that
showed (instead of your typical sheet
music with notes, clefs, and ledger
playing whatever they felt those
strange symbols meant to them. It
was a sonic cacophony that included
people yelling, talking to each other,
and sonically fighting.
The composer of Mountains/
Rivers (2008), David Schiff,
conducted the world premier of
this piece based on his experiences
of living in the Northwest. With a
backdrop of rotating photographs of
the Columbia River Gorge pre-1950,
it was a nostalgic work that was
reminiscent of a pristine wilderness
long gone.
The final piece was the famous
In C (1964) by Terry Riley. Riley
starting at different times...” The work
can last anywhere from 15 minutes to
several hours, although Third Angle’s
version lasted about 20 minutes. The
piece is extremely trance inducing,
as the rhythmic pounding of the
soothing C chord creates a tension
that is both invigorating and calming.
Third Angle’s concert was
sonically rewarding and left me
feeling heightened, sensitive, and
positive. Their next concert will
take place on May 7 and is titled
“Views from Cascadia.” Don’t miss
it! Check out thirdangle.org for more
info.

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 ARTS, CULTURE, AND ENTERTAINMENT 13

The Wolfman was perfectly cast OMSI After Dark for 21+
and there are Hopkins (in a series of fun-filled, science
All-Star cast save A night with Oregon
other flaws to the old Claude related activities. Throughout the
mediocre film contend with. Rains role as the Museum of Science and evening there were demos, such
Anaya Martella/Staff Writer
But it remains Talbot patriarch), Industry as a marshmallow exploration, two
an entertaining Geraldine Chaplin planetary shows, Starry Nights Live

T
enough film. (great in the Maria Anaya Martella/Staff Writer and Laser Michael Jackson, and then

he Wolfman begins when a
traveling actor, Lawrence
Talbot (Benicio Del Toro),
receives word that his brother has
mysteriously vanished. In an attempt
to discover what has happened
Talbot revisits his ancestral home
to find clues, and to assist his
brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe
(Young Victoria’s Emily Blunt).
In doing so he is forced to review
his childhood and the haunting
memories of his mother’s death.
As he pieces together a narrative
of his tragic mother, he will run
into an unexpected fate.
What follows are some
menacing full moons, an
ample supply of mist and CGI-
metamorphoses of the lupine
variety. Anyone interested in
all things lycanthropic or in the
classic Universal horror films
(this is, more or less, a remake
of the famous 1941 The Wolfman
with Lon Chaney, Jr.), will find
some entertainment value here,
though others may not be as keen.
Regardless of the few jumps some
might experience in their seats,
the suspense wanes at times.
Still, it’s not a howling success,
O
Plus, the cast Ouspenskaya
is superb; part as the gypsy n March 3, 2010, the
other than Maleva), and The Oregon Museum of
del Toro and Matrix’s Hugo Science and Industry
Blunt, there’s Weaving. Worth a hosted another one of their OMSI
A n t h o n y look. After Dark Events. The event started
at 6 p.m. and went until 10 p.m.
OMSI is a family-friendly Museum,
where people can play, experiment
and learn about the wondrous world
of science. However, what makes
this event special is not only the new
exhibits but that it’s for adults only!
For this OMSI after Dark Event
people were carded for entry into
the building. People could only gain
entry if they were 21-years-old and
up. It was obvious why this would
be the case, as the museum served
various alcoholic drinks as the adults
walked around and interacted with
the exhibits. Alcohol wasn’t the
highlight at the event, though. The
OMSI cafeteria also had a special
menu with courses such as Painted
Hills artisan mini-burgers, crispy
fries with a trio of house made aioli,
toss-to-order winter green salad with
roasted shallot vinaigrette, artisan
smoothie selection, and carnitas and
salsa verde tacos.
This entertaining event included
the featured event, Space: A Journey
to Our Future. Lastly, there was the
dinosaur exhibit featuring Samson the
T-Rex. And of course there were the
usual features of OMSI, such as the
animal labs, the science exploration
room, and the brain teasers.
OMSI after Dark happens several
times a year. However, they do
alternate and change some of the
activities provided. So if you’re over
21 and looking for something to do
on a Wednesday, look into the Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry
after Dark Event. Its only $10 for
hours of entertainment and learning,
and the next one coming up will be
Wednesday March 31, 2010. For
more information visit www.omsi.
edu/afterdark.
UPCOMING DATES
FOR OMSI AFTER
DARK
•Wednesday, March 31
•Wednesday April 28
•Wednesday May 26
•Wednesday June 30

Fashion for President

Nick Ferderer shares his
style secrets to land that
hot job
Brenda Yahm/Staff Writer
occasion, Ferderer relies on a dress
shirt and slacks. But if he really
wants to dress to impress he will wear
a suit. His key accessories include a
nice watch, something silver and
dressy but not too extravagant,
that plaid and stripes do not mix
well.” He tends to go with the flow
rather than research current colors or
prints. Some advice he would give
is to “wear a power tie,” meaning a
bright color or something that makes
of advice is to bring along a friend,
as it makes shopping more fun, plus
you get that criticism and advice to
land the perfect look.
Confidence is a must for any
occasion. Ferderer has seen
people come to business

D
ressing properly for
an occasion is a must!
Despite the current
fashion trend there are always key
ways to master a look to land an
interview or lend the right look for
an event. Specifically for men, here
are some style tips that will help
make any guy successful for a formal
event or meeting. With the need
to dress professionally for student
government, and other occasions in
everyday life, Nicholas Ferderer has
some style tips perfect for making a
lasting impression.
For a business and/or casual
because it is always important to
be on time! A trick he uses to look
professional is carrying a briefcase
or note pad even if he doesn’t need
them. Ferderer says it is a must
to have a “well fitted dress shirt.”
Speaking from experience, he says it
is good to be measured, so you don’t
look like a potential choking victim
with a tight collar. Alternatively, an
unfitted shirt just looks sloppy. As for
shoes, they should accent a polished,
professional look, but should also be
comfortable.
Ferderer doesn’t follow exact
trends for each season but says he
“knows how to match colors, and
a statement. His favorite power tie is
a baby blue and orange paisley print.
When choosing the perfect colors
with a suit, Ferderer favors tradition:
you can never go wrong with classic
black and white, as these are colors
that work for any occasion.
When shopping for a new outfit,
Ferderer likes going to Macy’s for
their selection and customer service.
He describes his personal style as
“professional with a bit of pizzazz,”
and Macy’s usually has the selection
he is looking for without breaking
the bank. He also says to “always
ask for a second opinion, even if you
go with your own.” An interesting bit
events in jeans and they
still look great! “The
resume should land you an
interview, your attire should
leave an impression, but your
personality will get you the
job,” Ferderer stresses. With
his clean, professional fashion
sense, Ferderer has served as
president of our student body,
and has even landed a job at a
marketing agency. The advice
he would give anyone is “if
you feel good, then you look
good,” because it is always
important to be confident
and comfortable in your
clothes.

1
The Windsor Knot
Start with 2 3 4 5 Pull the
Then cross Bring the Then bring wide end
the wide the wide wide end up the wide end underneath
end 12 end over through the back down the narrow
inches the narrow loop between and to the end, back
below the end. the collar and left. through the
narrow
end. your tie. loop, and to
the right.

6 Bring the 7 Then pull 8 Bring 9 Using both Check out tie-a-tie.net for
wide end the wide the wide hands, video tutorials on this knot,
across the end up end down carefully
front from through through tighten the as well as Four-in-Hand,
right to the loop the knot in knot and draw
left. again. front. it up to the
Half-Windsor, Pratt, and
collar. Bow-Tie Knots.

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 14 OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS

The VanCougar
The VanCougar is a student-run newspaper

serving the students, faculty and staff of
WSU Vancouver. Copies of The VanCougar
are available free of charge every other
Monday during the school year.
Editor-in-Chief
Katie Wells
Managing Editor
W
elcome back from
Spring Break! The
VanCougar is printing
only two more issues after this one,
and we are currently searching for
an Editorial Staff for the 2010-2011 James Van Boxtel: Making apps for fun

school year.
Jake Kleinschmidt Currently, we are accepting
applications for the Editor-in-Chief
Adviser and Managing Editor positions. I’ll
Dean Baker give you a quick run-down of the
job requirements and expectations
Advertising Manager for each position so that you can feel
Kenneth Allan confident when applying.
Editor-in-Chief: As the E.I.C., you
Campus News Editor
are in charge of the entire paper. You
Sally Thrall
plan and run staff meetings, decide
ACE Editor which stories run, edit articles and
Triana Collins photos, hire your entire staff, have
the final say over layout, attend
Feature Editor Student Media Board Meetings,
Ben Ryan sending the newspaper to the printer,
and everything in between. You are
Student Involvement Editor
required to be in the office a minimum
Chau Nguyen
of 15 hours a week, and you are paid
Student Government Editor $400/issue.
Adam Fox Managing Editor: As the M.E.,
you assist the E.I.C. in whatever they
Sports Editor need done. You are also responsible
Erik Cummings for filling out employee time cards,
keeping in constant contact with the
Web Editor Advertising Manager, and helping
Kelly Hudson and Jessica Stockton
with staff meetings. You are required
Copy Editor to be in the office a minimum of 15
Steffen Silvis hours a week, and you are paid $350/
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J
ames Van Boxtel’s hobby
of making i-Phone
applications fits nicely
with his work as a graduate
student in computer science at
WSUV. He has invented a game
called “Actionz,” where the player
has to do things fast to earn more
time. Another game of his is “Easy
Dice,” where the player rolls dice
on the screen for playing games
like Yahtzee.
“You can put these games in
any apps store, where anyone can
buy them,” James says. “And you
can play flash games online.” One
of the Web sites he recommends is
www.247webgames.com.
However, James doesn’t have
much time to play games right
now, because he’s completing his
research project to finish his M.S.
by the end of this semester.
For his project, he’s
helping develop an interactive
curriculum for computer science
undergraduates. He demonstrates
the ant game, which he developed
for a lower-division beginning
programming class. Students
write programs to get ants to leave
their nest, find food, and bring
it back to the nest. James says
this makes it more engaging for
students, “makes it easier to learn
the programming language and the
skills.”
Students can play the game
against each other, making ants
from different nests compete to get
all the food on each level. “When
they compete, they tend to work
harder to make the game work
better and better,” James explains.
The students start in Java, an
object-oriented programming
language, and then learn other
languages, eventually comparing
and contrasting the advantages
of each language as they develop
their skills.
The teaching-programming
merger seems to be working.
“Many students have a visual
and interactive mindset, and this
approach keeps them engaged, and
helps them to think better. They
learn to think mathematically.
For example, there are some
rules about ant behavior: The ants
wander, find the pheromone trail,
and then bring food back, and other
ants follow. But some randomness
helps, too. So the students learn to
program in some random behavior
like having the ants turn right ten
percent of the time.”
Students are graded not only
through testing, but by how well
their project works. “If you have
a project that works, you get a
good grade. If you can’t get it to
work, you can get help. And all the
professors and staff here are really
nice and helpful.”
Part of the research James
is doing involves determining
how well the graphic-computer
innovation is working at helping
students learn programming skills.
“We did a survey before and
after, asking if the students enjoyed
their projects more with graphical
results. We also asked technical
questions about object-oriented
programming to see if they really
understood better. So far, student
response has been positive. They
did enjoy being able to get a visual
response.”
What James is learning will
be applied also to higher-level
college courses and to GK-12
classes. His research is supported
by a National Science Foundation
(NSF) grant through his adviser,
Dr. Scott Wallace.
Wallace, who is part of the
Northwest Distributed Computer
Science Department (NW-DCSD),
notes that computer games are
helpful in retention for people in
general, not just students or young
people.
James points out that the
entertainment software industry
is worth billions of dollars a
year and growing rapidly, and
Washington State has the second-
highest number of video-game
jobs in the U.S. An industry Web
site (http://www.theesa.com/facts/
index.asp) says the average game
player is 35 years old and has been
playing games for 12 years. Does
this sound like anyone you know?
If you can gain the programming
skills and a logical way of thinking
and solving problems, perhaps by
taking a WSUV Computer Science
class, all those video games may
not have been a total waste of time.
QUICK PROFILE
Favorite books: The
Bible, Narnia Chronicles
Favorite music: Owl City,
Switchfoot
Favorite movie: Star
Wars
Favorite video game:
Super Mario Brothers for
Wii.
Academic background:
Columbia River High
School, Running Start at
Clark College
Advice for students:
Figure out what you
want to do. Seek out
the sciences. If you like
problem solving and
computers, this is a great
field.
Advice for life: Seek
out God. Hard work and
a positive attitude, and
depending on God, gets
me through every day.
Why he likes WSUV:
There are small classes,
and you can get to know
your professors.
Future plans: Engaged,
will be married in June

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Staff Astrologist

Associated Students of Washington State University Vancouver

Date:
 March 11th,
 2010
To:
  All WSUV Students, Faculty, and Staff

From: The ASWSUV Election Board: Kimberly Hass, Katie Scott, and Yuriy Kopitko
 

Another election year has come to a close and we will have new ASWSUV

Offi cers taking their elected posts from the 2010 Commencement to the 2011

Commencement.
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
The official winners of the election are the following:

   

President
  Mason O’Lennick Mechanical
 Engineering



Vice President 
Tiffany Moore 
Biology

Senate 
   

20th Aaron Bruckner Computer Science

Marshal 
Richards Psychology

Alan Olson  
English

Haeyalyn 
Valdez Human Development
John Won 
 Finance


Karmen Abbott Public

 Affairs

Kevin Guzman
 Biology

Blake Smith 
 Human Resources

Nick Dust
  Education

Nalina Bauer
 Biology
 
**Derek Brown
 Mechanical Engineering

** The 11th
 Senate seat will be filled by the majority write-in candidate, Derek


Brown, pending his acceptance to the post.




The election process was swift and we thank all candidates for the

perseverance in their interaction with the student body during the campaign.

The 2010 Elections received a 9.7% voter turnout overall.

2010 Elections Results_March 11, 2010


“There’s two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all
down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most people
are just talkers, all they do is talk. But when it is all said and
done, it’s the doers that change this world. And when they
do that, they change us, and that’s why we never forget them.
So which one are you? Do you just talk about it, or do you
stand up and do something about it? Because believe you me,
all the rest of it is just coffee house bullshit.”
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