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THE NEW PERSPECTIVEThursday, October 7, 2004 • Volume 28, Issue 2 • http://newperspective.cc.edu

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Carroll College Campus Safety released this year’s Annual Security Report, and though very little of the security policy has changed, the statistics give benefi cial information about the campus.

The report, which was released in compliance with the Jean Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, contains a summary of Carroll College policies and statistics regarding campus security and policy viola-tions over the past three years.

The statistics include, but are not limited to, criminal offenses, disciplinary actions, and judicial referrals on and off campus under such titles as forc-ible sex offenses, burglary, drug violations, liquor law violations, and weapons violations.

One of the more prevalent statistics shows the “liquor law violations” over the past three years resulting in disciplinary action or judicial referral. The statistical counts for 2001, 2002,

and 2003 were 66, 146, and 233, respectively. However, the on-campus arrests for the same violations in those years were 11, 3, and 2.

John Harbeck, director of Campus Safety, said, “It’s defi -nitely a concern that our num-bers are increasing.”

Harbeck, through his posi-tion in Campus Safety, is par-tially responsible for letting the college know what is going on around campus.

There are mixed ideas about Campus Safety around Carroll. Though many students actively support Harbeck and his pro-gram, there are those who have had their share of Campus Safety problems.

Heather Kennedy, junior, fell down a fl ight of stairs last year after losing her balance on crutches. “It took [Campus Safety] thirty minutes to get to Swarthout. I had to beg them to call for an ambulance.”

“We, like every department that services Carroll, try to do

See Campus Safety Page 3

Spitfi re Grill, page 12

Jimmy Eat World, page 13

Arts & Entertainment

Photo by Amy Arvay

In the PocketSenior quarterback Marcus Koronkiewicz drops back for a pass against Lawrence University Vikings during the homecoming game on Saturday, September 25.

There are many new faces in the front of classrooms this fall.

New faculty were hired in a variety of departments across campus including, religion, nursing, music, exercise science, chemistry, English, education and physical therapy to name a few. Provost Dr. Lynn Bernier explained the this year’s turn-over rate.

She believes the additions are a positive “revitalization” for the college. Also, it is important for students to realize that “there is a lot of this going on at other colleges around the nation right now, so students here at Car-roll shouldn’t feel like they are the only ones going through something like this.” There are 97 full-time faculty members on Carroll’s campus. 18 of them, almost twenty percent, are new hires in their fi elds.

These hires were made for a number of reasons and in many cases the reasons were specifi c to the program area. For instance, three new nursing faculty were added to the staff this year. The

nursing program was to be part-nered with Columbia College of Nursing in Milwaukee. In this program nursing majors attend-ing Carroll would attend two years here and then fi nish their schooling at Columbia. During the 2004-05 school year Carroll took on the entire nursing pro-gram themselves, which created a need for more faculty.

Physical Therapy and Nurs-ing are two of Carroll’s largest academic majors on campus. With a freshmen class of over 600 and many of them taking these majors, additional faculty became a necessity.

In addition to the new professors, two of the eighteen newly hired staff are librarians assisting in aiding the new larger group of students.

Many of Carroll’s 2003-04 professors made the decision to retire as well, creating a need to fi ll their positions. However, Bernier did admit that four of last year’s professors were denied their tenure contracts. She denied any comment on the situations due to legal issues the college is facing.

Some current faculty on

New teachers ‘revitalize’ Carroll

Alysha SchertzStaff Writer

See Turnover Page 3

Campus safety asks for cooperation from Carroll Community Director encourages students to utilize opportunities offered on campus to students

Craig ManiscalcoStaff Writer

Photo Illustration by Jill Ridenour

Junior Cory Zoellick followed by junior David Kletz uses his student ID card to enter New Hall.

Briefs, page 3

Another Perspective, page 3

An Invitation, page 7

Recycling Ideas, page 11

Spirit led by students, page 15

Soccer update, page 16

NEWS The New Perspective Thursday, October 7, 2004

News Briefs

9/15/04 Took a report from a student

of possible disorderly conduct. Waukesha Police were called to investigate.

9/16/04 Responded with Waukesha

Fire Department to Steele/Swarthout Residence Complex for a fi re alarm. A pull station was activated on second fl oor Steele. A check of the building revealed no cause for the alarm.

9/22/04 Assisted Student Life with

checking on the welfare of a student.

9/24/04 Received recovered college

property found in New Hall Resi-dence Complex.

9/24/04 Responded with Waukesha

Fire Department to Steele/Swarthout for a fi re alarm. A smoke detector was activated on second fl oor Steele. A check of the area revealed no cause for the alarm.

9/24/04 Apprehended several people

for attempting to take a tempo-rary sign from the area of Lot 9.

City police issued several under-age consumption citations.

9/25/04 Investigated possible unau-

thorized use of a golf cart.

9/26/04 Took report of vandalism to

portable rest rooms.

9/27/04 Took report of damage from

an accident to a Carroll College-owned van.

Register to Vote at the LibraryFor the fi rst time, students,

faculty and staff will be able to register to vote at the Todd Wehr Memorial Library on Carroll’s campus. Most of the library staff is now deputized to register voters between September 15 and October 20. To register, you must be 18, a U.S. citizen and resident of the city of Waukesha. Students who live in campus housing qual-ify as Waukesha residents.

Health Center is Back to Normal

Barb Spychalla, a nurse practitioner, has been hired in the Campus Health Center to assist Pam Dolata. This puts the Health Center back to its normal

operating hours, opening daily at 9:30 a.m., and closing Mondays at 5 p.m., Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. (walk-ins afternoon availability by appointment only), Thursdays at 5 p.m., and Fridays at 1 p.m. The offi ce will also be closed daily for an hour lunch beginning at 12:30 p.m. Carroll College Student Health Center Newsletters, The Pioneer Pulse, will be available at the Campus Center Information Desk this week.

Student OrganizationsA number of student organi-

zations have started meetings this year. All students are encouraged to join activities that are of inter-est to them. The organizations need members to help support and fundraise. Students can also benefi t from student organization

involvement by gaining knowl-edge and experience in their fi eld of study. Flyers can be found in all academic buildings.

Job HuntingFlyers have been posted all

around campus, specifi cally in the Campus Center, promoting student employment. Check them out, and see if something might work for you. The busi-nesses need employees just as bad as students need the jobs. Give it a try.

Chicken fi ght … A man and his son got into a

serious fi ght over the best way to cook skinless chicken. This was no ordinary argument’ however. What started as a physical con-frontation turned into a gun fi ght. Each shot a .22 caliber handgun at the other. Jackie Lee Shrader, 49, and his son Harley Lee, 24, both face charges. The father was injured and the son was struck in the head by a bullet but treated and released. (ABC7Chicago.com)

Mr. Potato Head gets a new look …

The simple times of only wanting two front teeth for Christmas are over. Kids can now get luxurious toys from Neiman Marcus, such as a jewel-covered Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head for $16,000 a pair. Fans of the novel “20,000 Leagues under the Sea” can go under the sea in their own submarine for a price of 1.7 million dollars. But that’s not all. There’s still a Zeppelin 8-ton sky ship that seats up to 12 and can fl y low and slow for 24 hours for a hefty $10 million. Those who loved King Arthur can purchase a custom suit of armor for $20,000. The family favorite of the season

is a 5,000 square foot bowling center with four lanes, a high-tech monitor and scoring system, per-sonalized bowling shirts, and les-sons from pros for $1.45 million. (Yahoonews.com)

Go ahead, take a shot … Shot glasses bearing the

phrase “Dreams will come true 2004” were given as a homecom-ing memento to over 100 students at a New Mexico high school last Tuesday. School activities director James Chavez takes the blame for the controversial keepsake. He said they were cheap and he thought the students could use them for candles or toothpicks. But Principal Al Sanchez stopped the keepsake giveaway when he found out about it. He said it was not an appropriate message for the school to be sending. (ABC7Chicago.com)

The fl ip-fl ops gave it away …If you had to chase after a

criminal, would you really wear fl ip-fl ops? The airport workers in New Hampshire didn’t think so. They called the police right away when a suspicious “FBI agent” started milling around Sky Haven Airport in Rochester, asking about security, while wearing a jacket that said “FBI Anti-Terrorism.” The police were immediately suspicious because he was wearing

fl ip-fl ops and couldn’t produce proper ID. The police noted that it is a federal crime to impersonate an agent. (ABC7Chicago.com)

No more fl ashing … Naked photographer Ste-

phen Linnen is being sentenced to a year-and-a-half in jail for walk-ing up to unsuspecting females naked and taking photographs of their reactions. He apologized to the court, but none of his victims were there to hear it. Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty on 53 misdemeanor charges, including public indecency. The court has decided not to sentence him as a sex offender or take away his law-yer’s license. (ABC7Chicago.com)

Rent-A-Husband …Need a man to do things

around the house? Just rent one! Petteri Ikonen says he is your man for all chores about the house. “I don’t sell sex services at all,” stressed Ikonen, a warehouse worker who set up his solo hus-band rental business a year ago, noting his clients were mostly lonely women, but also men and families. “I’ve given driv-ing lessons; I’ve sung a birthday serenade, all sorts of things.” His more usual tasks are changing a light bulb and hanging pictures. (Yahoonews.com)

Editor-in-ChiefAmanda Bothe

Executive StaffManaging Editor

Pete Seroogy

News EditorAmanda Bothe

Assistant News EditorKristen Anne

Opinion EditorBear Milne

Features EditorJessica Pairrett

Arts & Entertainment Editor Andrea Janey

Assistant Arts &Entertainment Editor Jodi Lynn Banning

Sports Editor Pete Seroogy

Photography EditorJill Ridenour

Layout EditorApril Karlen

Graphics EditorKatie Hadler

Web EditorMichael Buchholz

Business ManagerChip Bartel

Advertising ManagerChip Bartel

Faculty AdvisorAnne E. Schwartz

Writing StaffHelen Brewer, Nate Cekay, Mark R. DeBoar, Feleciz Dupczak, Jose-phine Ejebjork, Tyler Hahn, Wil-liam Humphreys, Eve Jacobs, Craig Maniscalco, Alysha Schertz, Deon Schmalholz, Melissa Sedlmeier, Jamie Slewinski, Brad Thayer, Steve Van Dien, Jim Verbick, Mark Weit-kunat, Jay Wendland

Photography StaffErin Conway, Felicia Dupczak, Nicole Groszek, April Karlen, Jamie Slewinski, Megan Wallace, Jay Wendlan, Jim Verbick

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If you observe suspicious activity on campus, please contact Campus Safety at (262) 524-7300. On-campus escorts are available 24 hours a day be contacting Campus Safety or by using an exterior blue light phone.

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News from Another PerspectiveCompiled by:Melody KoneyStaff Writer

Thursday, October 7, 2004 The New Perspective

campus disagree with the college’s decision and feel it will greatly effect the education process here at Carroll.

Dr. Joe Dailey, professor of communications, said, “Our high faculty turnover rate is itself a problem, and it is symptomatic of other deep problems…As far as I can tell there was no benefi t to the quality of student experience or to the college as an institution. When an institution fi res people for no good reason, other people start looking for a better place to work. When the college gets itself sued big time for unethical

practices, people start looking for a better place to work. This is exactly what happened and what is continu-ing to happen.” Other faculty were contacted for their opinions but were unavailable for comments.

Hiring 18 new faculty for any reason can have many effects on the environment of a campus as a whole. However, as Bernier stated, this seems to be going on at colleges all over the state.

In 2003 Beloit College added “19 new faculty members for appointments of limited dura-

tion.” This year Lawrence Uni-versity added 10 new non-tenure

track faculty and signed 7 tenure contracts.” It’s not just Carroll going through these changes, a lot of professors are leaving and in their absence new faculty must

be hired. Bernier admits that this number is extremely high for

Carroll, in the past faculty turnover rates have been less than half of the number they are this year. Four of the 18 new faculty hired were granted tenure, as for the others Bernier stated that “the college decided they did not want to lock in to the tenure just yet.”

This seems to be an issue for faculty on campus. “Tenure is a process that contrib-utes to the task of attracting and keeping a high quality faculty. Our current leadership’s willing-

ness to abuse the tenure process has weakened our ability to create and hold the strongest possible faculty,” stated Dailey.

With the lack of tenure contracts being signed to ensure some faculty stability over the years, some students may wonder about the quality of the education they will be receiving this year. With the new faculty adjusting to the environment just as much as new students it can sometimes be hard to teach effectively while making those adjustments.

“From my point of view we’ve strengthened the faculty with the new hires. I’m not saying that a twenty percent change in professors is acceptable every year. However, this year I think of it as a positive decision,” stated Bernier.

It is important for students here to know, according to Ber-nier, that “these teacher’s didn’t just fall from the sky and didn’t have any teaching experience. Most of them have taught here, as either part time, assistants, or have held a teaching position elsewhere.” These faculty already know Carroll and its students inside out so the problems with adjusting won’t be present.

Students at Carroll college are assured a quality of educa-tion and friendliness that they deserve.

“It is probably true that these 18 people need time to get their feet on the ground, get organized, and get to know Carroll campus and the students who go here. Give them time to fi nd out where the bathrooms are.”

Continued from Page 1

Turnover: Carroll on pace with other private colleges

our best to do all the facets of our job,” said Harbeck when asked to comment on student negativity towards Campus Safety.

The “job” of Campus Safety includes maintain building security around campus, one card access to buildings, providing a 24-hour emergency contact for Carroll students, enforcing parking regulations, and performing some basic mechanical check-ing of systems during breaks, fi re alarm maintenance, and key control. Also, Campus Safety runs self-defense classes every week.

“Our most under utilized program is our self defense class,” said Harbeck. The class meets once a week with its certifi ed instructor and is fl exible to accommodate those with different schedules and abilities.

“Campus Safety is here to assist the Carroll commu-nity members,” said Harbeck. “We can do a certain amount to make you safe but we also need cooperation from the community.”

Although the Campus Safety statistics are given in fi scal years rather than school years, they still show valuable patterns that Carroll College can use when determining their plans and actions for upcoming years. Copies of the report can be attained through Campus Safety.

Campus Safety


“It is probably true that these 18 people

need time to get their feet on the

ground, get organized…fi nd out

where the bathrooms are”Dr. Lynn Bernier

Legislation sits in the Con-gress that could affect our chil-dren and our children’s children. Something new, right, I’m sure. But not like what I’m about to share. And I would’ve been fi rst if the Shepard Express hadn’t beaten me. So, if you didn’t read that, then read this. In fact, read this anyway.

While everyone is distracted by the upcoming election, there is a bill for a mandatory draft for men and women (ages 18-26) that would go into effect June 15, 2005 if passed. The bill, spon-sored by Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), is identifi ed as S89 in the Senate and HR 163 in the House; twin bills that Congress is playing with. Bills that Congress is waiting until after the election to ratify. They’ve been sitting on it since January of 2003.

The bill is identifi ed as “HR 163” uniformly and can be found in detail at http://thomas.loc.gov/ — enter “HR 163” on the search and read away. And in case there’s doubt, this site is run by the Library of Congress. “A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young per-sons (18-26) in the United States,

including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in fur-therance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.” No joke. Good times.

But wait, it gets better. Under the bill, the United States will sign an agreement with Canada no longer permitting anyone attempting to dodge the draft. A signed agreement was made with the Canadian government a few years back. College will no longer be an option for avoiding the draft; a high school diploma or age 20, whichever comes fi rst, makes someone required. Military service for those currently active will be extended.

Don’t believe me? Check out the Selective Service Web site and read their 2004 FYI Goals and understand that terrorism is the primary reason and infl uence for this draft. Twenty-eight million dollars has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for the military draft; they must report to the President by March 31, 2005 to acknowledge that the dormant system is ready for activation. This is the kind of program that Israel has been using for years — by that I mean the mandatory service. How often is there a terrorist attack there? I believe in parallels and mirrors.

This bill, entitled the Univer-sal National Service Act of 2003, requires two years of active or reserve service. Religious grounds grant non-combatant positions. Civilian service is required as well. The extension for the soldiers cur-rently active is pending, “for the purpose of furnishing hospitaliza-

tion, medical, or surgical care for injury or illness incurred in line of duty; or for the purpose of requir-ing the member to compensate for any time lost to training for any cause.” That’s Section 3, while Section 4 basically gives unlimited power to the Commander-in-Chief. “The President shall pre-scribe such regulations necessary to carry out this act” — this sole person has the power to oversee the operation and carrying out of this bill. How you thinking about voting now?

The reason to share this information is to remind people to vote, and write; write the sena-tors and representatives of this state and others. Vote — vote for whomever you like, but know that with extended operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that global terrorism is now the Red Scare. Communism is terrorism. Domestic terrorism doesn’t seem to exist anymore — the Crips and Bloods, the Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan — they don’t pose a threat or safety concern. What-ever. Under the wrong leadership and alienation of the rest of the world and powers, we could con-stantly be on the defensive into our children’s children’s children’s times. Because people put these people in power and then don’t care. Care. Everyone start to care, before there’s nothing left to care about. Going from envy of the world into the eyes of the despis-ing isn’t what I believe in. It’s not what the Framers believed in, that’s why they sailed here. And the Germans and the Irish, the Italians and French, the Quakers and Amish. Freedom. And it’s starting to slip away. That, my friends, is terrorism.

Pet Peeves

OPINION The New Perspective Thursday, October 7, 2004

Terrorism is now a matter of stateBear’s Tales

Bear MilneOpinion Editor

Radar of annoyance

Jim VerbickStaff Writer

Eat Jimmy’s World

I doubt I’m alone when I say “Weathermen suck!” However, my complaint is not the traditional questioning of accuracy. My irri-tation is caused by the persistence of “severe weather” alerts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not referring to actual severe weather — tor-nadoes, fl oods, etc. The weather I speak of is thunderstorms. Sure, thunderstorms can kill people if they are struck by lightening, but the chances are very slim.

The most recent incident I can think of is when I was watching Last Comic Standing on NBC. Paul Joseph felt it was necessary to inform us viewers of the “severe thunderstorms” that would “devastate” southeastern Wisconsin. I glanced outside and there wasn’t even enough rain fall-ing to fi ll a kiddy pool; the light-ening wasn’t much to sneeze at either. Yet he felt inclined to spend the next four minutes showing us four different radars.

“Let’s take a look at this radar, notice the colorful blobs around Waukesha . . . that means it’s raining there. If you’re not fully convinced, here’s another radar zoomed in on just Waukesha. Observe how there are some red spots in the east of Waukesha. What’s that? You can’t see the red spots in the surrounding green

background? In that case, let’s zoom in closer to the parking lot of Waukesha State Bank. Did you see that rain drop just hit? Be care-ful because the next drop could land on you, then you would get wet. Run! Don’t look back!”

Honestly, if you see the radar for all of southeastern Wisconsin, do you really need to zoom in any closer? It’s only a thunderstorm! What kind of steps would you take after learning the location of a thunderstorm? My guess would be to stay inside. Instead, it leads to confl icting feelings. On the one hand, Paul Joseph told us to stay inside. On the other hand, his consistent interruption of my show made me want to dance in the rain while holding a golf club in the air.

The interruptions would always come right after the end of commercials too, because they had paid for that spot. Therefore viewers had to wait through fi ve minutes of commercials, only to be given the laundry list of background information on this unimportant, pointless thunder-storm for another fi ve minutes.

I just try and imagine what someone from Oklahoma (an area with frequent tornadoes) would say if they were here. “Weather alert?! Oh no, we better get to the basement! Wait a second . . . it’s just a thunderstorm? Are you serious? Let me watch my show and come back when it’s judg-ment day.”

Wisconsin media is pathetic when it comes to the weather. It’s completely uncalled for to spend fi ve minutes showing us eight radars. The last time I checked, the small radar at the bottom corner of the television served a purpose. In cases of great despera-tion, one could also actually look outside.

Not only does having a bad day in general make me angry, but also some of the people around here just don’t help the matter. This may have freshmen written all over it, but everyone starts as a freshmen. It is only human to lock yourself out of your building. So my pet peeve is those people who act like you should be condemned for something so simple and would take ten sec-onds of their life to open the DOOR.

When adapting to new things, such as needing a key to get into the places you live, people sometimes are a bit slower than others. Is it such a crime to forget some-thing that one’s not used to? I mean, hello, some people have problems with adjustment and it’s not like some people have only been here for not even a month.

I understand that there is the whole safety issue, but when the person lives there and he or she gives specifi cs of living there, it will not kill anyone to just let them in. The physical strength

that it takes to push the door open a tiny bit so that the person on the other side can open it and thank whomever will NOT make or break someone’s physi-cal abilities. It just might make an impression that a nice person lives there as well, and there isn’t any harm in that. It doesn’t piss me off more than those certain people who stand by the door and won’t open it until you’ve given up all hope and walked

away. We aren’t in fourth grade anymore. Will it really impose a great danger, to just open that door and have common courtesy for your peers? Who knows, maybe you will gain a friend. Who would’ve thunk it, doing something nice will make anyone a better person? Hmmm.

It especially won’t kill someone to open the damn door. If one really is concerned with safety take that person up to their room and make them

prove that they live there! Like anyone really cares. Many other campuses have this great idea that Carroll should look into; friendly people. Like the people at the desks, I know there job isn’t to let people in but there has to be some way that they can fi nd out if someone’s a resident or not, and then let them in. Hell, charge a damn fee if you’re heart desires it.

So the point I want to get across is that there is a big, fat line drawn between being concerned with safety, and just being an ass! Seriously people, if someone wants to hurt or burn the damn build-ing down do you really think they will enter through the front door?

I highly doubt it. Be nice to people when they make mistakes and lock themselves out. No one purposely locks themselves out because it’s fun; accidents happen and that’s life. The only danger is making someone angrier than they already are by not letting him or her in. Now that can be scary: especially if that person is me. So make a note to self, if I am locked out, let me in, or I will write about it in the paper and it won’t be pretty.

Jamie SlewinskiStaff Writer

Safety issue or hospitality?

“No one locks purposefully locks

themselves out because it’s fun; acci-

dents happen and that’s life.”

LSP? Aren’t they all?As the school year rolls on,

one fact is becoming clearer to me — the staff at Carroll is dis-proportionately Liberal. I fi rst got inkling that this phenomenon was true when, at convocation, I saw a number of staff members with Kerry-Edwards pins on. “Could be a fl uke,” I told myself. However, as classes started up, and as I got scowls for wearing my Bush-Cheney pins and stick-ers it became clear — the staff here is Liberal.

Now the big question is “Is this inherently bad?” In short, no

it is not. However, if the politi-cal ideology of the staff members seeps into their teaching (liberal or conservative), this could be bad. Now am I proposing an affi rmative action program so that we have political diversity, as well as racial, gender, ethnic, religious, etc. Diversity? No, that would be hypocritical (seeing as I no longer see a use for affi rma-tive action based on race), but I do fi nd it troubling that this inequality exists. I fi nd it equally troubling that most people don’t fi nd a problem with this inequal-ity. The nation is pretty much equally divided between liberals and conservatives, but the faculty of this college, and almost every college and university nation-wide, is certainly not equally divided. Would this be accepted if it was racially unequal, or what’s more, if the inequality was reversed (conservative to liberal)? Race has nothing to do the way a person teaches, or the quality and factuality of the information taught; can the same be said of

Liberal Arts mean liberal campus?

Tyler HahnStaff Writer

See Liberal Arts Page 5


I spent about 10 minutes last night wandering around the Abyss –– you know, the parking lot between Barstow Street and East Avenue. It took that long to fi nd my car. At least that’s what happened, as far as I can remem-ber. And what I don’t remember these days is a lot.

On Sunday, I was sure that I’d emptied my cat’s dirt box and fi lled it with fresh kitty litter. But on entering my apartment that evening, a certain odor told me that 1) I hadn’t cleaned the box, because 2) I’d forgotten to buy kitty litter, and 3) I therefore had to apologize to my cat — whose fi erce glare was the palpable equivalent of three words: “SUCK EGGS, DADDY!” While driving to the store — having written “KITTY LITTER” on the backs of both hands — I mused about my declining memory.

Time was when I remem-bered everything. During family get-togethers, I could answer every chronological question that came up. How long were “Happy Days” and “Bonanza” on

the tube? Who won the National League West division in 1973? When is cousin Jason’s birthday? When was Coca-Cola invented? I knew ‘em all, no sweat.

Gradually, however, I learned that I was slipping. Reference books and other documentation proved my forgetfulness about the year “The Flintstones” pre-miered (1960, not ’59), who won the American League batting title in 1976 (George Brett, not Rod Carew) and even my mother’s birthday — which I think is this month, but I forget.

Mournfully, I realized that the passing years had spawned a cosmic 12-gauge shotgun, which had blasted my memory until it was as full of holes as, well, my complexion. The good news: Cer-tain ideas, concepts, thoughts, etc. can plug the (cerebral) holes. The bad news: the other 90 percent of certain ideas, etc. that can’t.

For example, after four semesters of study, my Spanish vocabulary is decent. But I have to look up certain words with Swiss-watch regularity, because I forget them just as dependably.

One such word is “rogar.” What does it mean? I dunno, even as I write it. Here, I’ll look it up en el diccionario, for the fi fteenth time. OK, it means “to beg” or “to pray.” Well, being a full-time and fi nancially-chal-lenged college student, I beg and pray frequently, at least in Eng-lish. Why can’t I remember the Spanish word? ¡Caramba!

If so, given my much-bemoaned bad ankles, my sub-conscious is an ass. It’s strange what I do remember. Saturday’s

events are a mystery, yet I can recite lines from Walt Disney comic books that I read in fi fth grade, and haven’t thought of for decades. Don’t ask me what supper was last night — or what this morning’s breakfast was, for that matter — but I can tell you the names of Mickey Mouse’s nephews (Morty and Ferdie), Daisy Duck’s nieces (April, May and June) and the fi rst name of the Big Bad Wolf (Zeke). Natu-rally, there’s as much demand for that information as there is for pork rinds with peanut butter.

What bugs me the most about my perforated memory is, of course, related to my ancient age. After you’ve lived for many years, you realize those years are gone for good. You might have kept journals, videotaped birth-day parties and vacations, and taken tons of photos of everybody you’ve ever known. But you can’t truly get those times back.

Ultimately, despite modern technology, time past exists only in the memory. And when that starts going, you start losing the past — your fi rst signifi cant other, the goal you scored to win that sixth grade soccer game, the jerk who put dog doo-doo in your high school locker, the day you got your driver’s license, and how your parents cried when you left home to attend Carroll.

Aristotle put it best: “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

I too had something pro-found to say about this. But I forget.

As time goes so does the memoryOld Farts Corner

Steve Van DienStaff Writer

Where did it all come from? Big questions seem to be the sub-ject of many religions. And where did WE all come from? is another such big question. The Bible tells us we all come from God, who made Heaven and Earth and the fi rst human beings. From the Garden of Eden to the big fl ood to the Tower of Babel, the lon-gevity of human beings decreased as the population increased. And before long we meet Abraham, who becomes the father of two important sons, thanks in large part to the conceiving and par-enting roles of their two different mothers.

The story comes to us in the Judeo-Christian traditions of the Book of Genesis, beginning at chapter 12.

Abram and Sarai are the main characters of the drama, which becomes more dramatic as they discover the reality and disappointments of Sarai’s bar-renness. Unable to conceive a child with Abraham, Sarai gives

one of her servants, Hagar, to Abraham for the traditional, and sometimes popular, activities associated with conception. Sure enough, Hagar conceives and bears a son, Ishmael.

All is not well. Sarai becomes jealous of Hagar-her-servant-and-now-mother-of-Abraham’s-son-Ishmael, and Abraham experiences the tension of divided loyalties. Following the promises of God, covenant-ing with Abraham through the assurance that Abraham will have countless ancestors by way of their barren-becoming-fertile mother, newly named Sarah, Abraham and Sarah do conceive a son, Isaac.

Responding to Sarah’s jeal-ousy of Hagar, Abraham sends Hagar off into the wilderness with Ishmael, yet with the prom-ise of continuing care for them and the great nation with which God would bless Ishmael.

From this point, most of the Biblical record focuses on the side of Abraham’s family that descended from Sarah through Isaac and sons and daughters who followed. The family came to be the Hebrews of Biblical proportion, and grew to include priests and prophets and kings and queens.

Today’s Jews claim Abra-ham’s family as their ancestors through the family tree that leads back to Abraham through Isaac, son of Sarah.

Today’s Christians claim similar ancestry through the spir-itual connections of following

Jesus and then backward in time through Jesus’ Jewish lineage to Abraham through Isaac. This is the same family tree as that of the Jews, at least from Jesus to Abraham.

Today’s Muslims claim ancestry to the same patriarch, Abraham, through Hagar’s son, Ishmael, who was, we recall from the earlier note, promised a great nation.

As many of us know, sibling connections do not necessar-ily make us anything like our brothers’/sisters’ keepers. If the fi rst brothers of Biblical fame, Cain and Abel, could not survive together (Cain, we’re told, killed Abel in a sibling rivalry), we’re led to believe that sibling rivalry is, shall we say, in our blood.

Among our struggles in our families and in the world’s full family today is the struggle to faithfully be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers in compassion, support and celebration in ways that get far beyond the seemingly natural impulse to be divisive. Perhaps it helps us to get along better if we think of our common patriarch as Abraham, rather than to put so much international, interracial, interethnic emphasis on his two sons.

Said another way, it’s a good thing for us all to think of ways to be mutually supportive and up building, having pretty much the same heritage we ultimately have.

Bible Stories 101Abraham: Siblings from enemies

The Rev. William Humphreys is the chaplain for Carroll College.

William HumphreysStaff Writer

political affi liation?Numerous polls have

shown that college professors are in fact more Liberal than the general population. One poll showed that 90 percent of the professors at Yale voted for Al Gore in the 2000 election. Jeff Hart, emeritus professor of English, said that conservatives choose not to go into a c a d e m i a b e c a u s e they “don’t think they can get any-where in the a c a d e m i c profession.” He said that college p ro f e s s o r s feel that while liberalism is common sense, conservatives are “a psychological aberration or bad character.” Professor Ivy Schweitzer said that the general atmosphere at Dartmouth is lib-eral because “we are a liberal arts institution, and liberal arts edu-cation is supposed to produce liberal attitudes that encourage forward thinking and ideas.” The “liberal” in liberal arts, and in liberal studies, refers to unspecialized and nonscientifi c studies pursued by undergradu-ate students at a college.

To put my theory that Carroll College professors are generally more liberal than the population to the test, I decided to conduct a survey. I sent out surveys to every professor and assistant professor in the C-Book we were all given at the beginning of the year; about 126 surveys were mailed to the staff members. Unfortunately, many of the staff chose not to participate; however the number of staff that did partici-pate is suffi cient to represent the staff as a whole.

The survey asked four ques-tions. A number of staff criti-cized the primitiveness of the survey; however it was intended only to make generalizations — not to gain deep insight into the political cleavages that exist within the faculty of the college. The four basic questions were:

1. Would you consider yourself more liberal or conser-vative?

2. Would you consider yourself a Democrat, Republi-can, other Liberal party, other Conservative party?

3. Will you be voting for John Kerry or George Bush?

4. How would you describe each candidate in one word?

The results are as follows:1.) 29 percent self-identifi ed as more conservative (about 1/3)71 percent self-identifi ed as more liberal (about 2/3)2.) 28 percent Republican69 percent Democrat3 percent Independent3.) 29 percent voting for Bush71 percent voting for Kerry.

The answers to question number four were the most interesting of them all. It is perfectly fair to say that the “liberal” staff members loathe President Bush, and fi nd

Kerry to be a better alternative even if he is somewhat boring. These are some of the words that the “liberals” used to describe the President: puppet (twice), narrow-minded, hateful, arro-gant, cowboy, unethical, arro-gant, liar, incompetent, buffoon, deceptive, catastrophic. Some of the words they used to describe Senator Kerry were: trustworthy, dull, puppet, dedicated, moder-ate, stiff, hopeful, liberal, viable,

intelligent, thoughtful, and many o t h e r s describing his “intelli-gence” and “dullness.”

T h e “conserva-tive” staff m e m b e r s d e s c r i b e d

the president as: honorable (twice), principled, pro-life, proven, focused, steady, integ-rity (three times), strong, among others. Of Kerry they said: annoying, indecisive (twice), panderer, pro-choice, waffl er, ultra-liberal, weak, and others of a similar variety.

Overall, the staff here at Carroll is indisputably Liberal. I personally like a number of the “liberal” staff members here; they are great people. The only thing that I fi nd troubling in having an overwhelmingly Liberal staff (Liberals outnum-ber Conservatives two to one) is that their political ideology could be incorporated into their teaching which is being presented as objective.

Now are Liberals more likely to teach their respective subjects with a liberal slant more so than Conservatives? No. However, I think based on the responses to question four, we can assume that the Liberals here are more fervent in their hatred of our President than the Conservatives are of Sen. Kerry. Professors referred to the President as a liar, a buf-foon, unethical, incompetent, deceptive, and catastrophic. The conservatives were critical of Kerry, but they were more respectful of Kerry than were the “liberals.” I believe that the stronger a professor feels about the candidates and issues, the more likely that sentiment will be introduced into their teach-ing. One professor went so far as to say that most thinking people are liberal. Personally, I think that Conservatives are just as intelligent and thinking as Liberals are. I know I am.

I am not criticizing the staff here for being Liberal, I accept that. I am simply pre-senting the argument that if the staff, Liberal and Conservative, doesn’t make a conscious effort to be objective and fair in their teaching, the students could be getting a fundamentally fl awed education. So far, from my experience, I think the staff does a pretty good job of that. Thank you to the staff members who participated in the survey. If you have any qualms with my report, or wish to thank me for my literary genius, please e-mail me a [email protected].


Liberal Arts: campus politics Survey

“To put my theory that Carroll College professors are

generally more liberal than the population to the test, I

decided to conduct a survey.”

The New Perspective Thursday, October 7, 2004

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There is an overwhelmingly powerful voice within the soul of humanity that has accompanied us down through all of our his-tory. It has been a very integral and important agent in the evo-lution of human consciousness, but has changed along with us. Long before we had telephones, e-mail and even the presence of a culture beyond that of immediate family, there was a force born out of our creativity and love. That force is the word, and this is an open invitation to all to continue the celebration of this nearly eter-nal tradition.

Amor Linguae! Love of language, or more specifi cally language’s love. Everyone can claim ownership of this state-ment in one form or another. Be it through conversations, books, music or movies, it is all a part of Amor Linguae. For those of us who claim to be writers, this takes on a completely differ-ent connotation. It is about the creativity and the gift of artistic expression that drives us in our continuing search of our next masterpiece. The word holds a mystical quality for the writer; it’s like communing with our God; it’s the epiphany of a soul upon creation, of the body taking its fi rst breath!

This invitation is open to all, no matter skill level or writing background, and I encourage you to join in this celebration. I ask for any who are willing to submit their work so we can share all of the wondrous adventures we are having with our words. I ask for little as far as content or struc-ture, just keep the poems, short stories, and narratives under 200 words. Vulgarity is allowed, but make it tasteful and be sure that it is absolutely necessary. I also ask for any submissions to be accompanied by a brief biography of the author and an e-mail address if we need further contact, but anonymous pieces will not be turned away. That is not what this is about. Please send any and all submissions to [email protected], and I will do my best to make sure they all fi nd their way to print as fast as

I can. Any and all biographical information will stay anony-mous upon request, and e-mail addresses will not be published.

Within this deep love of the word, there is an understanding of the importance of including these art forms into our daily lives and education. With Car-roll College being a liberal arts school, it will probably come as no surprise that there is an excel-lent writing program within the English department. We have, up until now, been without a professor that was in charge of this program, but with the start of this school year our faculty gained Professor Michael Kula.

While it took a long time to fi ll this much needed spot, the introduction of Kula has proved thus far to be an excellent step in the right direction. The restruc-turing of the writing courses offered at Carroll has already begun with the help of our hon-ored English professors, with a new introductory writing course for next semester. Kula is already trying to not just build a writing program, but a culture of writing to go along with that. Each and every one of us has something of importance to contribute to this.

Future class descriptions may include an intermediate and advanced writing class to complete the multi-tiered pro-gram with the new introductory class. Other possibilities may include courses on screenplays, drama, fi ction, non-fi ction and even poetry. While a lot of these classes may be represented by a course already offered, the future only knows how these classes may or may not be affected. As things, undoubtedly, will con-tinue to change at Carroll, this is defi nitely for the better. For those currently enrolled in the writing program, any requisite courses will be based upon the curriculum requirements when the program is offi cially entered. Many students may opt to take these new classes anyway for elec-tive credits.

In the future, there will be continuing reports about the evolution of this process, including any possible avenues for student feedback. Any aspect that affects the nature of writing

in general has great impact upon the way we write. It is completely possible there are people who were unaware of this program’s existence, and some may be inter-ested in adding a writing educa-tion to their plans for the future. For now, we can rest assured that the restructuring of this beloved program resides in the capable hands of Kula and the rest of the English department.

As stated above, some bio-graphical information would be nice to have on any submissions, but it is not necessary. To kick this new column off, I will pres-ent a piece that I feel is very fi t-ting to the celebration that we are about to join into more fully. I wrote this several years ago, but I feel it just grows truer with time. My name is Mark R. DeBoer, and I’m a junior with a writing major and a philosophy minor. I am a recent transfer student who is defi nitely glad that Carroll will be my new home for awhile. While I love to write, I have been leaning more towards exploring philosophy for graduate work, but I will always love the word.

I offer up again this formal invitation to “Amor Linguae,” with hope that many will submit in the future. I know there are many great things that have yet to be said, and art is defi nitely one of the greatest gifts that we can give to the world.

Common Roots We are common folk,ones who wander,yet keep deep rootsat which we know is home.

We are family,faith in oneand in the other.A communal life,one of balance,of good cheerand understanding.

Festivals of feast,merry making and wine drinking,good talk and fi ne smoke.Beware all of thee!Who enter our housewho do not celebrate!

FEATURESThursday, October 7, 2004 The New Perspective

Person on the Street

Deon SchmalholzStaff Writer

What would the world be like without carpet?

“The world would be a horrible place. Not only would your feet

be cold constantly, you wouldn’t be able to shock anyone anymore. What

fun is that?”Freshman Brent Blood

“It would be much harder on your feet. Cats would

miss carpet a lot.”Professor Pete Suttle

“Without carpet we would all have cold feet all the time. Maybe we

could use Astroturf or something instead.”

Senior Josh Riewe“There would be more Tom

Cruise ‘Risky Business’ moves going on!”

Senior Tina Moser

“I would never have to put myself through the

torture of the Soref’s Carpet City commercials.”

Freshman John Leveritt

“People would have a lot of callouses.”

Junior Heather Smith “Yeah...no more rug burn, but back bruises here I

come, Baby!”Senior Susan Nuciforo

An Invitation to Amor LinguaeMark R. DeBoerStaff Writer

With the slight increase in tuition, many students are think-ing twice about accepting those student work-study jobs offered by fi nancial aid. With the bills piling high and the debt con-tinually adding up, do not panic. There are options out there to make some extra money.

Fresh-men could a l r e a d y go into shock with a m o u n t of money they owe, but never fear — odd jobs around C a r r o l l College can be found.

There is a job out there for everyone. The fi rst step is to not withdraw from those work-study jobs. Little money is better than no money at all.

In the mood for a job that’s actually fun? How about being a movie extra, mascot, Santa Clause’s elf, or an Easter bunny helper? There are a wide variety of fun jobs out there. When in doubt, be creative and look to holidays or events people attend regularly.

Everyone likes to have a

little company. How about people walking? Not only will it be a business used for nurs-ing homes, but it also might be a way to fi nd a date with a small fee attached.

Of course not all jobs have to be so crazy. People also look for the traditional jobs. Many students are already starting their own leaf raking businesses, but as the seasons change, so will the job demand. Another possibility

would be to browse the Inter-net. By doing so, s t u d e n t s may fi nd ideas such as getting paid to take sur-veys, mys-

tery shopping or even placing ads on cars. The only work involved would be to get on the computer and put those fi ngers to work!

There are endless possibili-ties. The only problem may be students not putting the initial effort into fi nding these dif-ferent jobs. Good jobs aren’t going to fi nd those who want the money but don’t start the search. Remember: Employment isn’t limited to the billboards throughout the school. Use a little imagination and fi nd some-thing fun!

Odd jobs work for college students

Jamie SlewinskiStaff Writer

“How about being a movie

extra, mascot, Santa Clause’s

elf or an Easter bunny helper?”


Homecom

Photo by Sarah Mueller


Sophomore Amanda Robertson par-ticipated in the Sept. 21 homecom-

ing event in Shattuck Auditorium. Mentalist Chris Carter had four

audience members think of a name or a place and then had Robertson verify the names as he pulled them

from an envelope in his wallet.

Members of the 2004 homecom-ing court, (from left to right back

to front) senior Jamie Stoegbauer, junior Dana Hickel, senior Talia

Proffi tt, and with a humorous grin, senior Derek Kitts, dressed up for

their formal Hollywood style debut.

Homecoming 2004 King Jason Ackman and Queen Ta

Photo by Jamie Slewinski

Sophomore Washinton Osler performs during karaoke night at the opening kick off party for Homecoming 2004.


College Activities Board (CAB) executive alumni dressed up for the Hollywood style Yell-Like-Hell and even made their own awards from Mrs. Butterworth’s bottles.


ming 2004 — Hollywood Style


alia Proffi tt.

Photo by Megan Wallace


Photo by Jamie Slewinski

Above, Sophomore Lauren Nessler played one of Hollywood’s well known singers, Brittany Spears, and rode atop the newly formed club, Residence Hall Council’s (RHC) fl oat during the homecoming parade Sat. Sept. 24, for which they took third place.

Top right, The Music Educators National Conference (MENC) par-ticipated in the homecoming parade with their musical and colorful interpretation of the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off parade scene.

Bottom right, Black Student Union (BSU) performed a humorous and well choreographed skit during the Yell-Like-Hell event that earned them fi rst place. The scene depicted different pop celebrities attempt-ing to enter a hot club.



Senior Jason Ackman, freshman Kyle Hawkins, and senior Brent Redeker, representing the Computer Science Club, participated in the Yell-Like-Hell event by performing a scene from the favorite movie, Offi ce Space and gave a fax machine a beating that the crowd went wild for.

The Carroll Blaze and the Carroll cheerleading team performed a routine together at the Yell-Like-Hell homecoming event and a combina-tion of dance moves and acrobatic stunts made for an impressive spot.


How To

Finally, classes have begun. Not that school is something to get overly excited about, but starting a new year, with new experiences waiting shortly beyond future grasp, are some reasons to get stirred up. Until the fear or overwhelming thoughts of beginning a new year, freshman year, at a new college sets in. Or maybe the thought of senior year, once extremely awaited, now appears beside thoughts of dread, and that thesis and internship yet to be fi nished. Or, for that matter, started.

Live the life. To a point. Staying in the residence halls can be fun — roommates, parties, people to talk to all the time. On the other hand, roommates may drive each other crazy, people may be over all the time, and shower shoes — an integral part of dorm life. Don’t leave for the bathroom without them.

Get involved. Feeling left out of the friendship loop? No matter how much time until graduation, making friends will help ease the burdens of school-work, jobs and the occasional crazed roommate. Look for an organization listed in the weekly campus announcements that arrive via e-mail or get in the mood for an intramural sport. A

team may be on the lookout for another skilled athlete, or at least an uncoordinated one who’s will-ing to give 100 percent.

The food factor. Grab some of those new friends and take a tour of Carroll College’s cuisine venues. Visit fellow classmates in the Main Dining Room (MDR) and watch them make your meal. Or just give the guys and gals a reason for loving their jobs. Likewise, wander down to the Pioneer Indoor Terrace (the PIT, if you didn’t recognize the long, rarely- used full name). Otherwise, host a cook-off on certain residence hall fl oors and see who can satisfy the most with excellent cooking (may beat going home for the home-cooked taste).

Classes. Ah, yes, the high-light of an education. In con-trast to popular belief, normally attending class is recommended. However, if the professor head-lining a particular course is one to seldom check to see which students attend class, or even to learn a single name, in this case, occasionally missing a class may work out. Also, while signing up for all intro courses freshman year will probably guarantee a 4.0 GPA, putting off those tougher courses until the last year, or worse yet, semester, at Carroll might assure a, well, something lower than what’s actually needed

to graduate. Spacing out the dif-fi culty of courses throughout time spent in college will make for easier semesters later.

Prepare to fail. Unfortu-nately, there are going to be some disappointments while getting an education. Maybe that test that took hours of preparation and study only granted a BC-. That thesis that you stayed up working on until the birds started chirping right outside your closed window (even a window can’t drone out a chirp-chirp) came back in red ink, and not the color used in the printer? Look at the com-ments without getting defensive, however hard that may seem. Maybe take a drink or two (a cup of warm milk or hot chocolate can be just as calming as alcohol) before reading those comments and going to your professor for help. In the end, make a little effort, show you care about your disappointing (or failing) grade, ask for help and someone will be more than likely to.

College, the last base before sliding into the unknown of a work career or graduate school, can be a bit frightening. Know-ing how to score and navigate a great fi rst year or brief senior (or super senior) year is this spring’s second destination. Just make sure to have a blast during that season’s fi rst stop: spring break in a sunny, yet safe, locale.

Endless hours of class, home-work, jobs and extracurricular activities leave little time for the seven to eight hours of quality sleep the average adult requires to maintain proper mental func-tioning.

Lack of sleep quickly becomes an accepted part of our routine. However, it has been proven that a sleep-depriving schedule can actually impair judgment, reaction time and abil-ity to concentrate.

Sleep defi cit can be as simple as feeling drowsy during daily activities. Often times individu-als experience microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep, in an otherwise awake person.

Other symptoms of sleep defi cit include impaired memory and physical performance, mood swings and hallucinations.

For many years, researchers have attempted to determine the exact physiological purpose of sleep, as well as the effects lack of sleep have on an individual’s body. It is currently believed that while we are asleep, the active neurons in our body are given an oppor-tunity to repair themselves. With-out sleep, neurons may become so depleted in energy that they begin to malfunction. Human growth hormones, which stimulate the repair and renewal of cells in the body, are also released during this time. Furthermore, the activity in the parts of the brain that control emotions, decision making pro-cesses, and social interactions are drastically reduced during deep sleep. This is believed to help people maintain optimal mental functioning during the day.

Feeling well-rested in the morning is not only dependent on the hours of sleep one receives, but the quality of sleep. The normal sleep pattern is made up of two phases: nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM)

sleep. During NREM, one will progress through 4 stages of sleep, with each stage getting progres-sively deeper. During the fi rst two stages it is easy to wake up when one hears external noises, for the nature of sleep is very light. If an individual is unable to get past these stages, it is unlikely that they will report sleeping well. Stage three and four involve a deeper sleep that is harder to interrupt. At the end of stage four, a sleeper will enter REM sleep, the stage in which cognitive restoration is believed to peak. This stage may assist in memory storage and learning, thus if an individual never reaches this stage it may be diffi cult to absorb new information in class the following day.

Approximately 20 million Americans suffer from occasional sleeping problems, so it is impor-tant to examine your sleeping patterns and look for ways to improve the quality of sleep. As a college student, the ideal is to achieve quality sleep as often as possible. It is recommended that an individual go to bed at a set time each night and get up at the same time each day, for disrupting this schedule may lead to insomnia. Sleeping in on the weekends negatively affects one’s sleeping cycle because it resets the body’s internal clock to wake up at a later time. Students should also avoid caffeine, nicotine and alcohol prior to sleeping.

Sleep debt is a lot like an overdrawn account at the bank. Eventually your body is going to demand that the debt be repaid.

Disclaimer: Contact your health professional before beginning any

exercise or diet plan.

Melissa Sedlmeier is a junior at Carroll College. She is working for a major in the nursing department.

Health Happenings

Melissa SedlmeierStaff Writer

Sleep: the way to a healthy lifeJessica Pairrett

Handle the fi rst (or last) year of college

Photo by Amanda Bothe

Laughter in the PITSOS comedy event featured Brad Lowry tickled audiences funny bones Sat. Oct. 2 in the PIT.


College can leave many stu-dents knee-high in debt trying to pay for an education. Many people say that college is the greatest time in life, and many, upon refl ection, will probably agree.

But right now, all students see are price tags on every single thing that they need, and what-ever’s cheapest is what’s going to be purchased. Taking a break from homework should not have to break the bank, and if the right activity is chosen, it won’t. There are many things to do in Waukesha, even on campus, which are fairly easy on the sav-ings account.

Whether aware of it or not, Waukesha has a Riverwalk located downtown. The Fox River runs parallel to Main Street and under Barstow Street, and

wandering the paths around the river, watching the wildlife and city scenes can make for a relax-ing and refreshing afternoon.

Also, there are many trails in the city of Waukesha. These can be used for a variety of activities such as walking, roller blading or simply something to check out if bored and have no money to spend. One trail is about six blocks away from the college campus and it goes on for miles. The trail is great for exercise.

For something else cheap to do without wandering too far away from Carroll College, there are several activities on campus. Basketball hoops are located at the park behind the Kilgour Resi-dence Complex, as well as volley-ball nets behind the Bergstrom Residence Complex. Just grab a ball, and enjoy these free courts, which are extremely appealing to many young people. Don’t have a ball? K-Mart is not too far of

a walk to take to buy one of the store’s $5 basketballs, a decent price for something that can be used over and over again. Also, there are many parks located around the Carroll campus. One is behind Kilgour, as well as one on the way to K-Mart.

Additionally, keep eyes peeled for things happening on campus. Activities are planned on campus so that students who do not have a lot of extra cash lying around have something to do. Go and join a student organi-zation. These are free and can be a lot of fun if when participating and meeting other people around campus.

For something to do that is fun but doesn’t break the bank, be creative. Go for a walk, join a club, play at a park or do whatever pops into your head. Discovering the hidden activi-ties may become a new favorite pastime.

Face it, all college students go through a lot of garbage a day. Why not give the Earth a break and have some fun with it? Here are some recycling ideas to keep recycling fun and new.

Magazine RackWhat you need: empty

cereal box, left over contact paper or fun magazine/newspaper pages and glue

For when you’re not ready to throw out those old issues, but a roommate is — better than a sloppy stack. Take the cereal box and cut off the top fl aps. Next, start cutting diagonally from the upper left corner of the front to about halfway down on the other edge. Continue to cut across the side of the box in a horizontal line. Finally, cut the backside of the box so that the front and back have symmetrical shapes cut out. Cover the box with the contact paper or maga-zine picture for decoration, and it’s done!

Pollyanna’s D’sWhat you need: those

pesky Free Trial of Version 29.0 Internet CDs, string, and duct tape or a hot glue gun

Add a digital disco “fl avah” to your room for cheap! Place one CD with the shiny part down and put an adhesive (glue or tape) on the labeled side. Put a string along the diameter of the CD, and then place another CD shiny side up on top of the string and adhesive. The CDs should now be stuck together with the string sandwiched between them. Hang the CDs where the sunlight will catch them, especially in areas where wind or a draft will turn them.

Magazine Wrapping

What you need: some nice interesting ads or pictures of hot guys or girls from magazines.

If you don’t want to pay for paper to wrap Christmas gifts, use magazine ads. Save some cool backgrounds from adver-tisements in magazines. Tape ads together to get unique wrap.

Additionally, use old magazines to make cool collages for gifts.

Bottles to VasesWhat you need: pretty

glass or plastic soda bottlesGlass bottles can be used as

vases to hold fl owers. Get some paints, paint the bottles, buy some cheap fake fl owers and give them as birthday gifts. Add stones inside plastic bottles so they don’t tip. They also come in handy to put that extra change somewhere.

Quilts ’R UsWhat you need: any scrap

from favorite old clothes or old cherished material

Instead of taking clothes to Goodwill to give away, save and put them to good use in the bed-room. To make the best out of old clothes, save some that aren’t too worn and cut squares. When there’s time, sew the squares to make a quilt, and then the bed will be more colorful.

Bottle Cap BeltWhat you need: bottle caps

and a hot glue gun and glue Save those bottle caps!

Instead of buying one of those bottle cap belts, make one. Paint them or keep the existing design. Use the hot glue gun and stick those caps onto any old belt. Now, something fun and cre-ative can be shown off around the waist.

Coffee Cup KeepersWhat you need: any coffee

cup will doCoffee cups can be used as

a great pen and pencil holder. They are very handy as paper-weights too, to hold the loose papers from classes.

Mouse Pad ManiaWhat you need: old mouse

pad and scissorsMouse pads can come in

handy when the old one starts to lack interest. Cut small circles and use as “stoppers” for cabinet doors or as appliance “feet.” Mouse pads can also be used as place mats for the kitchen table.

Making something is a great way to relieve stress — plus you are recycling.

Fun recycling ideas Helen Brewer and Eve JacobsStaff Writers

While chatting with Tif-fany Amacher, you soon realize that this pretty, thoughtful, soft-spoken junior is also strong-willed and passionate about help-ing others.

Those qualities helped her revitalize Carroll College’s Circle K club, the college and university affi liate of Kiwanis International.

“Kiwanis is a worldwide service organization comprised of individuals who want to improve their communities. As a group, they can achieve what they cannot do alone,” its Web site proclaims,

“I’ve always thought it was an awesome organization,” Tif-fany said.

Given her love of service, it’s not surprising that Tif-fany chose physical therapy as a career. That was part of her reason for coming to Carroll. The other reason became clear when Tiffany explained, with a smile, that there were only 59 students in her senior graduating class at Newman High School in Wausau.

“I was used to small class sizes, and the PT program here is very good,” she said.

Having been a member of Kiwanis’ high school chapter, the Key Club, at Newman High, Tiffany naturally joined Circle K as a freshman. Her friendliness, energy and drive led to her elec-tion as the club’s president from April of 2003 to the following spring.

Kary Zarate, Circle K’s cur-rent president, recalled Tiffany’s work during that eventful year.

“The club had been pretty disorganized, and Tiffany had

to start rebuilding it from scratch,” said Kary. “But she’s very personable, and she gets along with everybody. She got to know everybody on a fi rst-name basis, and that’s important. It helped her organize an executive board, get people to come to the meetings and get our activities going.”

Those activities included a week devoted to helping the hungry.

“We need to raise aware-ness about hunger and famine,” Tiffany explained, “not just in our community, but across the world.”

To that end, Circle K placed collection bins for non-perishable food collection in the Campus Center, as well as at the Waukesha City Hall and the Waukesha Public Library. The club also worked with Sodexho to convert student food points into money for hunger relief donations.

“We’re really appreciative of what Sodexho did for us,” Tif-fany said.

To get the word out about Famine Week, Tiffany and Circle K used such public relations tech-niques as hunger simulation. This was a kind of theater in which Circle K members would meet in the Campus Center ballroom to portray various situations that hungry folks face. For example, one playlet involved a member portraying a single mom with three kids and no job.

The work paid off when Circle K received some 700 non-perishable food items and over $3,000 in food points converted to cash. The former went to the Waukesha Food Pantry, and the latter to World Vision Interna-tional, which used the money to relieve hunger in South America.

“I’m personally very proud

of that,” said Tiffany.Another successful project

was Circle K’s work with United Cerebral Palsy. On a designated night, parents of children with CP would bring them to the Campus Center. Circle K mem-bers would then play games with the kids and take care of them, giving their folks a night off.

“That was a very rewarding experience,” Tiffany said.

Other Circle K projects under Tiffany’s watch included helping the elderly. Club mem-bers made food tray favors for Meals on Wheels — such as a Kleenex-wrapped Tootsie Roll to portray a little Halloween ghost — so housebound older people could have a smile along with their meals.

Tiffany also worked with Alzheimer’s patients during the summer, in a Wausau assisted living center. She found the work diffi cult, but gratifying. It reinforced her interest in geriatric physical therapy, which she hopes to pursue after graduation.

“You come to realize how much of a role we need to take in helping the elderly, to make the time they have left as pleasant as it can be,” she said.

Despite her busy presidential year with Circle K, Tiffany still maintained over a 3.0 GPA while taking an exhausting 17 credits. Now she’s concentrating on her studies, while still doing as much as she can as a “regular member” of the club.

She might also fi nd a little time for her hobbies. An accom-plished pianist, she enjoys scrap booking as well. And Tiffany praised her boyfriend, Brian Arney, who’s also a Carroll junior.

“He knows how much Circle K means to me, and he’s very sup-portive,” she said.

It appears, too, that Tiffany’s example has inspired other stu-dents to pursue Circle K service.

“It makes me glad to see so many new and returning mem-bers at our meetings,” she said. “I’m excited for the club.”

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Tiffany Amacher

Photo by Jay Wendland

Freshman Patrice Soehlein climbs up a big yellow slide at a local park as a fun and free thing to do in Waukesha.

Deep in debt and lacking funds for funJay WendlandStaff Writer

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The New Perspective Thursday, October 7, 2004

This fall at the Milwaukee Public Museum, the creatures of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the earth’s history are returning for an astonishing exhibition. Fourteen robotic dinosaurs are being built and placed in the exhibition with “whipping tales, knocking skulls, fl ashing teeth and mighty roars,” as the exhibit promises.

“Scenes of the Dinosaurs,” presented by Bank One, is the major exhibition for this fall beginning September 18, 2004, and runs through January 10, 2005. It is a dramatic exhibition that brings much excitement and also education to visitors.

“It is a fun, creepy sort of feel,” said John Tindall, Public Relations Coordinator for the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Always dreamed of living the life of a paleontologist? Working in the exhibit’s “Big Dig Box,” visitors can shovel sand and brush away small par-ticles to reveal the bones of a Torosaurus, just one of the many dinosaurs living in the late Cre-

taceous period. The Torosaurus is from Triceratops family and has the largest head and neck shrill of any land animal that has ever lived.

In combination with “Scenes of the Dinosaurs,” a permanent evolution exhibit, called “Continents, Oceans and Life in Motion: A New View of the Third Planet,” illustrates how the planet has changed throughout time because of Plate Tectonics. The exhibit shows life in Wisconsin through different time periods, including the life of the dinosaurs.

At the Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater, you can be swept back in time to more than 65 million years ago with the movie “T. Rex: Back to the Cretaceous.” The movie brings the dinosaurs back to life with the help of computer technology and some of the world’s leading paleontologists.

Other fi lms currently being shown at the IMAX Theater include Forces of Nature, Adrena-line Rush, Pulse, and Haunted Castle.

The new Quick Turn Reel, a screen-cleaning device which has

changed the IMAX Theater, has helped to improve viewing.

Tindall explained, “You get a crisper brighter picture than you would get in a regular the-ater.” It is also now possible to see 150-minute length-feature fi lms at the IMAX Theater. With new seats and concessions, you can get that movie feel as you would in a regular theater. As of press deadline, Tindall said that no one has yet to be scheduled

since the contracts are different for the feature fi lms .

With Halloween right around the corner, the Mil-waukee Public Museum will be brightened up with more than 50 Jack-O-Lanterns located all over the museum. There is a chance to put on your costume and go trick-or-treating throughout the museum and to solve the mon-ster museum mystery with lost dinosaur bones.

The Milwaukee Public Museum, located at 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, is open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admission to the museum is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5.50 for children. Tickets for the IMAX shows are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $6.50 for children. For more informa-tion about other exhibits, news, and events, visit the museum’s website site at www.mpm.edu.

Josefi ne EjebjorkStaff Writer

Dinosaurs conquer Milwaukee Public Museum

There have been many movies that have been adapted to the stage, but none that deserved to be called unique. With the help from James Valcq and Fred Ally, The Spitfi re Grill can be called just that—unique. They took the 1994 fi lm and adapted it to the stage. Due to their close Wisconsin ties, they changed the setting from Maine to Wisconsin. Other than the setting change, the story plot remains fairly similar to the original plot.

This year’s musical was a collaborative choice of Howard Bashinski, the play’s director, and the Carroll College theater program, specifi cally chosen with the audience at heart. “Art needs to inform, refl ect, or transform,” Bashinski said.

This piece of theatrical art does just that, refl ecting emo-tions felt in society, giving hope of transforming into a better person, and informing that a positive attitude changes one’s outlook on life.

The music preformed on the proscenium stage is what makes this particular show so unique. The music, directed by Ann Wheeler, combines multiple musical styles, includ-ing country, bluegrass, and Broadway-style pop, with lyrics written more like conversations than big musical numbers. This means the majority of the play will be in song.

Bashinski has expanded the musical and its production beyond Carroll College, making it more of a community effort. Marilyn White, a local actress portraying one of the lead char-acters, Hannah, is the only non-

Carroll cast member. There are also various crew members from the community coming to aid in the production of “The Spitfi re Grill.”

The main character, Percy Talbott, played by sophomore Robin Hassinger, had just been released from prison, and chose to live in Gilead, an old Wis-consin mining town because of a picture she saw in an old travel book.

Once in town, sophomore Justin Kamps’ character, Sheriff Joe Shutter, takes Percy to the Spitfi re Grill, which happens to be the main stage for most of the story. There she meets Hannah (White) who gives her a job.

Effy Kreyneck and Caleb Thorpe, played by seniors Cait-lin Kujawski and Alan Murphy, respectively, are immediately suspicious of Percy. They along with the entire town make it known that she is not welcome. The only person to hold back judgment is senior Rachel Jonen’s Shelby Thorpe.

Percy goes around stirring up the town and its residents from their normally quiet lives. For example, she meets a strange visitor, David Dabasinkas, and helps him get his life together. Throughout the play she causes transformations for every char-acter, including herself. This is defi nitely a tale of hope and inspiration.

With rehearsals already underway, the cast and crew are preparing to put on a great show in November.

“It will be an uplifting eve-ning that will make you forget about the outside world. You will leave the theater with a smile on your face, maybe even humming a tune,” Bashinski said.

Brad ThayerStaff Writer

The ‘Spitfi re Grill’ comes to Carroll

Original artwork by Willa Schroeder

The Milwaukee Public Museum has many exhibits this fall, in particular the dinosaur exhibit which features realistic scenes of dinosaurs and gigantic skeletal remains.


People of a certain age don’t have to be told who Wil-liam F. Buckley, Jr. is. But since this reviewer is older than most Carroll students, perhaps some background information is appro-priate.

That, however, is tough. At 79, Bill Buckley has had such a long, wide-ranging career across American politics and culture that one hardly knows how to start.

In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, still this coun-try’s most prominent conservative journal. More: in the early 50s, he brought together the disparate but legitimate voices on the Right and kicked out the kooks- neo-Nazis and Klansmen, anti-Semites, and the John Birch Society- to create a coherent, respectable conservative political philosophy.

Buckley has given thousands of speeches and participated in as many debates. His late public television program, Firing Line, familiarized millions with his Jesu-itical logic, elegant pseudo-British accent, and puckish wit. Despite his joy for intellectual combat and eagerness to shred his liberal opponents’ views, he has often befriended them personally.

Buckley is also a dedicated sailor, accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, and master of the English language, in which he has the broadest vocabulary since Noah Webster. He is also a witty, graceful and astoundingly prolifi c writer, having authored approxi-mately 40 books. These cover a remarkable range, from collec-tions of his syndicated columns and accounts of his transoceanic sails and spiritual life to spy thrill-ers and serious novels — and his latest, Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography. It’s a collection of past and recent writings, as Buck-ley explains, “in the nature of a narrative survey of my life, at work and play.”

The book details Buckley’s boyhood in Connecticut, his family, and his pre-World War II education in an English Roman Catholic boys’ school. The recent furor over priestly pedophilia

notwithstanding, Buckley notes that the priests who taught him were not only non-pedophiles, but good, holy men who nurtured their charges’ spiritual lives: “I am a senior citizen and my faith has never left me, and I must suppose that Fr. Sharkey and Fr. Paine and Fr. Manning had something to do with it. They, and the closeness I felt, every morning [at Mass], to the mystical things that were taking place at the altar.”

Buckley’ describes his years at Yale, of mesmerizing professors like his mentor Willmoore Kend-all, and roommates who ever since have been his friends. Unavoid-ably, he also discusses the fuss he raised after graduation with his fi rst book, which accused his alma mater of opposing both capitalism and Christianity, in an embryonic version of political correctness: “At the private college, the sense of mission is distinguishing. It is, however, strangled by what goes under the presumptuous designa-tion of academic freedom.”

We get a bracing excerpt from The Unmaking of a Mayor, Buckley’s book about his protest run for mayor of New York City in 1965. (When asked by the press what he’d do if he won, Buckley, who ultimately got 13 percent of the vote, immediately answered: “Demand a recount.”) Buckley writes lyrically of his love for wine: “It is wonderfully comforting to refl ect that the New Testament speaks other than invidiously of wine. There is always the sin of excess, and I comply with the biblical injunction against greed by making it a hard-and-fast rule never to pay excessive prices for wine.”

He excels at the character sketch, as demonstrated by his descriptions of “Ten Friends,” including publisher Henry Reg-nery, liberal columnist Murray Kempton, actors David Niven and Roger Moore, and Ronald Reagan. Above all is Buckley’s moving account of his friendship with Whittaker Chambers, who exposed Alger Hiss, a former State Department offi cial, as a Soviet spy. As Buckley reminds us, Chambers wrote with bibli-cal power in his autobiography,

Witness, of the struggle between Western freedom and Communist dictatorships: “For me, and others who knew him, his voice had been and still is…magnifi cent in tone, speaking to our time from the center of sorrow, from the center of the earth.”

Buckley, a famously fast writer, often writes a 750-word column in 20 minutes. So it’s not surprising that Miles Gone By includes an essay about this topic. Morton Kondracke, a political columnist, once claimed that Buckley’s speedy writing doesn’t permit him to think seri-ously about his topics. Buckley’s response would seem egomaniacal, if not for his wit: “It is axiomatic, in cognitive science, that there is no correlation between profundity of thought and length of time spent thinking…So cut it out, Kondracke. I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time? I couldn’t think of anyone. And I devoted to the exercise 20 minutes. Flat.”

As you’ve probably deduced by now, the pieces collected in Miles Gone By are uniformly excel-lent. Even so, Buckley’s eight essays about sailing rise to an even higher standard. In the most recent one, he sadly surrenders to aging and gives up his lifelong passion: “…the decision that the time has come to sell [the boat] and forfeit all that, is not lightly taken, bringing to mind the step yet ahead, which is giving up life itself.” But he concludes with a rousing memoir of the pleasures that sailing provided him: “You are moving at racing speed, parting the buttery sea as with a scalpel, and the waters roar by, themselves exuberantly subdued by your powers to command your way through them. Triumphalism …and the stars also seem to be singing together for joy.”

In his introduction, Buckley tells us: “I hope that this volume achieves the purpose [of an auto-biography], and that it will give pleasure.”

On both counts, Miles Gone By succeeds, resoundingly.


The Prodigious William F. Buckley Jr., at work and play

The most profound changes in our lives are often prompted by changes in our philosophies. Ideas that revolutionize the way we live often come in the form of a parable. While there is something slightly biblical about Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, it is as much a romp in science fi ction as it is a philosophical parable. On both fronts it does not fail to impress as it asks, rather light heartedly, what if Martians raised one of us?

Stranger in a Strange Land is packed full of questions to muse. Is it possible that by changing our attitudes we can increase our metabolism? Can we affect the physical realm through out-of-body experiences? If a man is the sole human citizen of a planet, does that grant him ownership? These queries and more are what elevate Heinlein’s work to the level of Masterpiece.

The blithe Martian man is as loveable as a lost puppy. His happy go lucky attitude and lust for knowledge could melt even the most cynical person’s heart. The team of humans introducing

him to the earth is just as color-ful, both teaching and learning much from their Martian friend. The character I found most love-able was a man who simply had the whole situation dropped into his lap, but took what the world(s) gave him and appreci-ated it to the fullest. This was of course the Martian’s attorney, Jubal. His matured and cultured view of society easily had as much to teach as Siddhartha. There are few characters in books of the twentieth century that I would say that about.

So why would I consider Heinlein’s most famous work to be a possible candidate for the best book written in the twentieth century? Stranger in a Strange Land inspired me to, in quoting Michael Jackson, “Start with the man in the mirror.” The book offers practical phi-losophy in a form that is worth reading for the story alone. It has introspection, rivaling that of C.S. Lewis’ science fi ction excursions, yet retains a sense of humor very much in the vein of Douglas Adams. In short, it is a fantastically pleasurable read, with seldom-peered revelations for the idle mind to brood over. I grokked it well.

Closet Classics

Nate CekayStaff Writer

Martian philosophy

It was just one of those random events in time. It was kind of like when you lose a tooth. Okay, maybe it was more like winning at Bingo or grab-bing a stuffed bear out of one of those claw machines.

I was just sitting at home one evening, I think it was the Wednesday before school started, chilling with my best bud Eric. I had fi nished up packing and was eager to start the new semester at Carroll College as a sophomore. An old pro at this moving thing, being a sophomore and all, I was done packing way ahead of schedule and used the extra time to spend with friends and family, and that’s exactly what I was doing when I made the phone call.

I wasn’t ever planning on winning an opportunity to meet Jimmy Eat World. I didn’t even know what I was calling in for. I knew it was tickets to a concert of some sort, but I didn’t know it was for the chance to see one of my new favorite bands. After seeing the show I was more than impressed with the performance, let alone getting to meet the band in person.

I called WLUM, Rock 102.1, but this wasn’t the fi rst time I’d called in to a radio sta-tion. In fact I’d made it a point to call the station like once a day over the summer either request-ing songs or trying to win some sort of contest. Let’s just say that I was ready for the new semester to start. It looked like my time had come, however. Perhaps it was fate that I had won and it was just meant to be. After hearing there was a chance to win tickets on the radio for some concert, I quickly dialed the number and waited while it rang.

A DJ’s distinct voice could be heard over the radio…and in my phone, saying I was caller four. It was a good thing I didn’t give up. I dialed the number fast again and before I knew it I was the winner of a four-pack of tickets to their little gig at the Henry Maier Festival Grounds where Jimmy Eat World was playing. The coolest part, for lack of a better term, was that I was automatically entered in a drawing to win two meet-and-greet passes before the show. I had the chance to meet the band members in the fl esh before they went onstage!

I’d already won the tickets and eventually moved back to school, and all I could do was wait in great anticipation to see if I would get the phone call. A few days after I was back on campus, I received a phone call from my dad informing me that along with another guest, I was meeting Jimmy Eat World. It was amazing because I didn’t own any of their CDs and had only heard a few of their songs. To me, they were just another band, but how soon that would change.

The whole experience was awesome. I met Zach Lind, Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, and Tom Linton, all four members of the band and received a signed picture of them as well. Mixing things up with some old favorites and songs from their upcoming album, Futures, which is avail-able on October 19, 2004. The show was defi nitely a crowd pleaser for both veteran fans and newbies like myself.

They were defi nitely up to par and not only were ready for the little gig that I attended, but they’re ready to tour the nation. On November 16, fans can look forward to seeing the band in Madison, as they wrap up their current tour.

Mark WeitkunatStaff Writer

A Night with Jimmy Eat World

Photo by Jill Ridenour

Homecoming Window DecorationHomecoming spirit was displayed by campus organizations on Campus Center windows.


LibraSeptember 23 – October 22

Lately you feel like you are in a constant state of Déjà Vu. Don’t worry it will go away in time. Trust me.

Lately you feel like you are in a constant state of Déjà Vu. Don’t worry it will go away in time. Trust me,

ScorpioOctober 23 – November 21

You feel like your muse has left you and your sense of creativity has dried up. It is your lucky day. Inspiration will strike you, and leave you for dead. Sadly, your roommate may do the same thing.

SagittariusNovember 22 – December 21

Somewhere along your very busy schedule, you will lose your marbles. Fortunately, someone will fi nd them and return them to you. Maybe now would be a good time to consider a second set, just in case.

CapricornDecember 22 – January 19

You are developing a strange magnetic personality. There are people who know who you are, but you don’t know them. I hate it when that happens. Oh, and random metal objects will begin to stick to you.

AquariusJanuary 20 – February 18

You will meet a team of people dressed entirely in black. They will offer you a blue pill or a red pill. My advice is to play he inny-minnie-minny-moe game. Hey, making important decisions using that method hasn’t failed me yet.

PiscesFebruary 19 – March 20

Soon you will fi nd yourself up a creek, but you will have giant spoon instead of a paddle. Ok, I’m not going to ask. I guess you have two choices; one is to have one huge bowl of cereal, or use it as a paddle to save your life. Personally, I’d use it for the cereal, but that’s just me.

AriesMarch 21 – April 19

Your luck will run high for the next few weeks. For exam-ple, you will fi nd an amazing price on a fl ame-thrower, and everyone knows that a fl ame-thrower is a necessity to life.

TaurusApril 20 – May 20

You will get a strange urge to walk around wearing a white lab coat and carry a clipboard. Then what? I guess you could count how many people say hello back to you. Keep in mind, this isn’t normal behavior, you may not always get a positive response

GeminiMay 21 – June 21

Once you get as behind as you are there is almost no point in catching up. You can go have fun instead. Tell them that I said it was ok. You may even get to graduate on time.

CancerJune 22 – July 22

As you remain in the depths of the library, you begin to notice how pale you’re getting. You also realize that you incisors have grown and you now despise garlic. Maybe you need to give studying a break.

LeoJuly 23 – August 22

You are facing many impor-tant question in life, like how did the man in the moon get there. Something else that really bothers you will need further explanation from experts: If Tefl on doesn’t stick to anything then how does it stick to pans?

VirgoAugust 23 – September 22

You will suddenly get a surge of morals. Try to be honest for a week. It is the perfect way to develop a clean conscience. Personally, I prefer my way, just blaming everything on having a bad memory.

Mr. LeoStaff Astrologer

Horoscopes

Organizing an event on campus? Want some free publicity? Send the details to [email protected] with ‘Cruise the Campus’ in the subject line at least two weeks in advance for publication.

October 7Women’s tennis • vs. Marian College• Kilgour Trailblazer Tennis

Center • 3 p.m.

October 11Political Speaker, Dr. Horacio Boneo• Stackner Ballroom• 7 p.m.

October 12Women’s soccer • vs. Concordia (WI)

University • Schneider Stadium • 6 p.m.

Salsa dance lessons• Oak Room, Camous Center• 9 p.m.

October 14Volleyball • vs. MSOE• Van Male Field House • 7 p.m.

Movie, Life Is Beautiful• Pioneer Indoor Terrace• 9 p.m.

October 15Native American Speaker, Richie Pass• Stackner Ballroom• 1 p.m.

Women’s soccer • vs. St. Norbert College• Schneider Stadium• 4 p.m.

Men’s soccer • vs. St Norbert College• Schneider Stadium • 6 p.m.

October 16Football • vs. St. Norbert College• Schneider Stadium • 1:30 p.m.

Mendryus Male Choir• Shattuck Music Center

Auditorium• 2 p.m.• Adult and seniors/students

tickets ($15, $10), Premium tickets, $20

Wisconsin Wind Orchestra and DanceCircus “Windfall”• Otteson Theater• 8 p.m. • Tickets $15 adults; $10

students and seniors

S.O.S-Loteria-Spanish Bing• Stackner Ballroom• 8 p.m.• $500 in prizes

October 17Men’s soccer • vs. Cardinal Stritch

University • Schneider Stadium• 1 p.m.

October 20• Last day for voter registration

in the Todd Wehr Memorial Library

• Registration for Winter Ses-sion 2005 begins.

Cruise the Campus

My last column was about football. This column will be about football as well. However I’m not going to discuss the NFL or college football. I won’t be mentioning the CFL, arena foot-ball, AF2, or even NFL Europe.

Soccer is known as football everywhere in the world but the USA. There are places in the

world where soccer is a way of life. Men and women of all ages live think and breathe soccer. Loyalty to teams causes riots and fi ghts when the game gets tight. Riots are fairly commonplace overseas following a devastating loss. As recently as August 2004 a riot erupted in Moscow that caused so much damage that Russian authorities classifi ed the whole thing as a “natural disaster.” The violence, which turned deadly, broke out after Japan scored what turned out to be the deci-sive goal against Russia on June 9, 2002. Already drunk and angered by the game, hundreds of people who had gathered in the square to watch the match began throw-ing beer bottles before rampaging through downtown Moscow, van-

dalizing everything in their way.Americans just don’t love

soccer the way the rest of the world does. Soccer has the same effect on Americans as the metric system. The rest of the world uses it, but not the USA. Soccer is less popular in the United States than

NASCAR. There are professional circuits for soccer players in the US, they’re known as MLS (Major League Soccer) and the WUSA (Women’s United Soccer Associa-tion). The WUSA has eight teams with names like the Charge, the Beat and the CyberRays. The

MLS has ten teams with names like The Crew, the Wizards, and the Burn. The WUSA is pretty much brand new, it’s been around since 2001, and really hasn’t made much impact. The MLS is turn-ing into a minor league system for the European teams. Any

potential super-star that the MLS may have is signed away to European teams. In the past year alone, the MLS has lost seven U.S. national team players to teams in England, Germany, Portugal and the

Netherlands. European teams lure talent away because they can promise a much larger paycheck. Until the MLS gets to the level that the NHL is at, they will never be able to compete with European contracts.

Why won’t soccer ever become here as compared to overseas? It’s mostly arrogance. We have our own measurement system, it works for us. So what if the metric system makes more sense, is easier to use and learn? We’re Americans dammit, we like our feet and inches, why should we change for the rest of the world? I considered why we don’t like soccer the way we like other sports. This is what I came up with.

1. Soccer is not high scoring. Americans like to see high scores. We don’t appreciate good defense. Just look at major league baseball, we worship the homerun, not the diving catch.

2. Soccer has too much movement. We as like to set up plays, and get time to do it. We need playbooks. Soccer is a lot of improvisation, there are general strategies, but few plays compared to football or basketball.

3. There are few “all-stars.” Americans like to support a favor-ite player. I understand that David Beckham is probably the biggest celebrity in Europe, but American sports have at least one superstar on each team that give us a vested rooting interest in the team.

4. Americans didn’t invent it. As a country, we’re very proud of what we’ve done on our own. We adore baseball, basketball, and football. All of these sports we either invented or modifi ed to make it ours.

5. This is probably the big-gest thing. How can we follow a sport where they allow games to end in a tie? Who wins? Certainly not the fans. I demand to know who is the victor!

Personally, I am not a fan of soccer. I love football because I am American and refuse to give in to what the rest of the world loves. The US national team can disap-point all they want in the world cup. I could care less that the men’s national team didn’t qualify for the summer Olympics. I watch the NFL. REAL football.

SPORTSThursday, October 7, 2004 The New Perspective

It was not all “rah rah shish boom bah” this summer for the Carroll College cheerleaders. They had to say good-bye to a dear friend of the squad. Roger Smith, former coach, decided to step down from the position this past summer.

Roger left the girls on good terms. He had been contemplat-ing it for a while, but some did not know he would step down so early. He left the squad because he was over involved in all that he does on campus. Roger chose to step down from his coach-ing position only because he knew the girls would be in good hands.

Carroll College was under a time restraint and asked Tim Dornemann to take the role of new coach for the cheerlead-ers. Unfortunately, Tim had no cheerleading experience, so the school looked to the students, who had experience, which in the end was the best option in

this small school environment. They found Heather

Mathews, a senior at Carroll College, to fulfi ll this position. Heather has been cheerleading since the seventh grade. With ten years of experience and hold-ing the title of captain last year, she seemed more than qualifi ed for the job.

Heather feels no pressure to impress or prove herself to others this year. “I had a lot of the same responsibilities last year…I just have a little more work to do this year.” She also does not feel like this job is taking a toll on her social or academic life. Some of her closest relationships are with people on the squad and she is so used to balancing all the pressures of being an athlete and a working student. “Cheerleading has been a big part of my life… it’s becom-ing more natural for me.”

Of the 18 current cheerlead-ers, ten of them are returnees. All of these girls have incredible talent, and talent is what made the team possible. Heather was guaranteed an advisor, which is

required for all student activities, by the school, so she was never worried whether or not the team would remain part of the Carroll tradition.

Those girls that were quali-fi ed to return this year, but chose not to, did not do so because of how the college handled the coaching situation. They chose to pursue other activities.

When Heather was asked if she would return next year as coach she said “It’s up to the school and the team, but I will be there if they need me.”

She also wanted to let the Carroll community know that the cheerleaders have a very exciting season in store. The cheerleaders are planning to go to Madison in February to compete. Last year the girls did not compete because a girl was injured, but they did compete in 2003.

You can fi nd the cheerlead-ers now on the sidelines of the football games, later in the year they can be found at both men’s and women’s basketball games.

Feleciz DupczakStaff Writer

‘Rah rah shish boom bah’ Carroll spirit led by students


The Carroll chearleading team performs an impressive pyra-mid at the Yell-Like-Hell Homecoming event Friday Sept. 24.

Pete SeroogySports Editor

Football or Futbol? Americans have made their choice4th and Long

“I could care less that the men’s national

soccer team didn’t qualify for the summer

olympics. I watch the NFL. REAL football.”


WOMEN’S SOCCERLady Pioneer’s soccer has

never looked as good this season as they did against Ripon on Sat-urday, September 18. The women came a way with a 9-0 victory over the Redbirds. Scoring was balanced well across the fi eld with both Carroll’s Julia Belle and Kelly Wulff-Plumb pulling away with three goals each. Other scorers for the match were Megan Blenner with two and Maria Quesada rounding the score out to nine.

The ladies continued confer-ence play on Tuesday, September 21 in a home match versus Law-rence University Vikings. The Vikings started out early with a goal by Greta Raaen in the fi rst 12 minutes of the game. It wasn’t enough though for Lawrence as the Lady Pioneers answered the one goal with two of their own to win the match. Junior Jamie Lawrence answered with her fourth goal of the season off of a corner kick by Julia Belle. Fresh-men Amanda Lopez added her fi rst goal of the season to round out the 2-1 victory for the Pio-

neers. Freshmen goalkeeper Sarah McLaughlin adds a new spice to the team’s defense with a starting position and nine saves for the season.

The team captain was unable to be reached for comments but the Ladies continue their season with a non-conference match-up on Wednesday, September 29 at Carthage and travel with the men to Monmouth and Illinois Col-lege the fi rst weekend in October. Lady Pioneers are now 6-0 overall and hope to continue their record in the next week of play.

MEN’S SOCCERCarroll Men’s soccer has

started of the conference season with a bang. They’ve continued to shut down their opponent’s offense and managed to win their last two games in back to back overtime matches.

Saturday September 18, the men faced Ripon College at Ripon. The men won the game in over time with a score of 3-2. Goals were scored by Joe Paroubek and Michael Katzenburg. Katzen-burg scored the game winning goal in overtime with a “header” assisted by Michael Wheeler and

Joey Shoemaker. The following Tuesday the

men followed up their win in Ripon with overtime win against Lawrence University here at Schneider stadium. The game was tied 0-0 all the way through regulation play. The two teams went into sudden death overtime from there. Carroll senior Dan Schindhelm managed a goal fi ve minutes into overtime play to win the game 1-0 for Carroll.

The team’s defense is the key to their game this season and so far with the last fi ve out of six matches going in to overtime it’s obvious they are accomplishing their goal. Thursday the team took on non-conference Concor-dia University and suffered a dev-astating 4-0 loss in the fi rst half. The team played in Schneider stadium but despite the home fi eld advantage the team couldn’t upset the 7-2 overall record Con-cordia has. Seth Dehne, one of this season’s team captains, said Carroll is a team that “no matter what, will never give up and will always grind it out until the end. Defense is something we pride ourselves on.”

The guys are 2-0 in the con-

ference right now and continue their conference road trip versus Monmouth and Illinois College the fi rst weekend in October. Dehne comments, “We don’t

expect to win games by a big margin, that is why our never give up attitude and desire to win seem to be more prevalent this year as compared to last.”

Alysha SchertzStaff Writer

Carroll soccer teams undefeated in conference

Photo by April Karlen

Junior Chris Schultz is dribbling the ball out from the defense against Lawrence University on September 21.

The Pioneers got to ring the homecoming victory bell for the second year in a row. In a game where there was a lot of pressure on the Pioneers to win, the game marked the dedication of Sch-neider Stadium before a packed attendance of over 2400. Or the fact that it was Homecoming, their fi rst game on the artifi cial playing surface, whatever it was, the Carroll College Pioneers game with their “A” game as they destroyed The Lawrence Vikings 49-6

Despite the continued quarterback rotation between senior Marcus Koronkiewicz (90.85 effi ciency rating) and the freshman Chris Rogers (151.69 effi ciency rating), the Pioneer offense produced its most stellar performance of the year. Both quarterbacks maintained a pick-free air attack, fi nding 10 differ-ent receivers in a combined 19 attempts for 171 yards. Junior Adam Fletcher (leads team with 346 yards on season) and fresh-man Brandon Wogomon each received for over 30 yards and a touchdown apiece.

But Homecoming also saw a surge in the Pioneer run game. Sophomore Dan “Biscuit” Del Monte and freshman Bryce Crocker rushed back and forth, up and down and through the Viking defense for a combined

total of over 200 yards. Del Monte also caught three receptions for 38 yards to compliment his 84 yards rushing, tacking-up over 120 all-purpose yards (Crocker rushed for 119 yards on 13 carries with 4 touchdowns. He leads team

with 5 touchdowns on the season. Freshman kicker Brian Jachimek won performer of the week award from the Midwest Conference (fi rst Carroll football player this season to win the honor) after completing all 7 of his extra-point kicks in the game (and has com-pleted all 14 fi eld goal attempts this season).

The story, however, was the defense. The Pioneer “D” held Lawrence to only 10 fi rst downs to Carroll’s 25, and held the Vikings to 201 total yards of offense: 102 yards rushing and 99 through the air. Junior Justin Stigler, freshman Isaac Hamilton and freshman Frank Mazzone all snagged an interception from the Carroll secondary, while sopho-more Chris Albanese recovered two Viking fumbles. The defense held Lawrence to only one red zone appearance and the Vikings converted just 5 of 12 third downs. Freshman Matt Dollar acquired the only sack of the day.

The following week, against Midwest Conference rival the Ripon Red Hawks, the defense wasn’t enough to champion the Pioneers to victory. Senior Mike Leeman led the defense with 11.5 tackles (9 solo) while Freshman

Isaac Hamilton and Junior Doug Hazen each grabbed an inter-ception. As a team the Pioneers recovered three Hawk fumbles (one by Hamilton), but the Hawk offense managed 280 yards in their ground attack with three touchdowns despite being held to 133 yards in the air with two touchdowns.

But it was turnovers that spelled defeat for the Pioneers. Carroll lost two fumbles, while senior quarterback Koronkiewicz came back to earth after his home-coming heroics and was inter-cepted four times in the contest, twice in the fi nal quarter. One of his interceptions was returned for a touchdown. The Red Hawks held Carroll to just under 200 yards rushing, with freshman Bryce Crocker chalking up 111 and two touchdowns and Del Monte with 72. Junior receiver Adam Fletcher continues to lead the Pioneers in receiving, catching eight for 86 yards and Del Monte complimenting his rushing with 21 yards on three receptions.

Both Carroll and Ripon now stand at 2-2 in the conference, 2-3 overall. Carroll travels to Beloit College on October 9th to take on the 1-3, 2-3 overall Buccaneers.

Bear MilneOpinion Editor

Pioneers dominate homecoming then fall to earth a week later

Photo by Amy Arvay

Freshman receiver Brandon Wogomon looks on as junior Adam Fletcher catches a touchdown pass homecoming game.

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