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A Drop in the Ocean: Ripple Effect Campaign“Wrecked.”

This is the word used by Mc-Crea Nirider to describe her re-action to the conditions she saw children living in at a Haitian orphanage last summer. Nirider travelled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last May and experienced a real-ity that faces 780 million people worldwide—limited or no access to clean water. Nirider, along with Lukas Rieke, Rachel Ball, and Kassi Johnson were all part of an NNU On a Mission team that worked at an orphanage for disabled children called Hope Home, where despite the love and intentions of facilitators, “there’s only so much that can be done to keep the place and the kids clean and sanitary without running wa-ter.” According to UNICEF, every minute a child under five dies as a result of diarrhea caused by con-taminated water and poor sanita-tion. Lukas Rieke said he didn’t realize how difficult the situa-

tion was at first. He was cleaning painting equipment with water given to him by the house moms, water which he assumed was waste water since it was “so dark and gross,” but learned that it was actually the same water they used to bathe kids. “You don’t realize how important clean, running water is until you’re in a place without it,” says Nirider, and that simple empathy for fellow human beings inspired these students to do something which might be unusual in our world, but not in God’s kingdom.

Rieke, a senior engineering major, went with trip advisor and physics professor Dr. Dan Lawrence to assess what could be done the day before they left Hope Home. His intent was to design his senior engineering project to improve water acces-sibility at Hope Home. Unfortu-nately, the project did not meet certain requirements imposed by the engineering department, but Rieke was not deterred.

Meanwhile, Student Ministries

Director Julene Tegerstrand had been getting a lot of information from Nazarene Compassionate Ministries “trying to get Naza-rene universities to get involved in a water challenge project.” The NCM grant was looking for schools to “propose projects that would educate our university campuses on the problems of water scarcity and issues related to sanitation around the world… and take on a social justice issue.” In her discussions with Rieke, Tegerstrand noticed that the two ideas seemed to fit together, and the students began to work to-wards getting the grant.

The process included writing a letter of intent and creating a pro-posal. Nirider says, “We reached out to various staff and students on campus to get their input and to draw from their experience and expertise in different areas like marketing, design, and bud-geting.” After compiling all of this information that included how they would involve differ-ent groups on campus, how they

would raise awareness of the issue, what budget they would need and how the funds would be used, they waited. In December they found out that they had won 3rd place, which meant they were

rewarded about $7500 for what they had budgeted, plus $2500 to be used as desired (which the group decided to put directly to-wards Hope Home).

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Imagine yourself standing on a beach with your friends, the waves crashing at your feet. For many of us, this is just a fantasy, but for 56 NNU students this is going to be reality. Over spring break this year, March 22-28, 56 students and three Resident Di-rectors, from Kirkeide, Culver, and Dooley, will be soaking up the sun and enjoying the Califor-nia beaches. What’s on the agen-da? Surfing, kayaking, snorkeling, and Magic Mountain! The spring break surf trip has become an an-nual event, and this year will cer-tainly be one to remember.

Phil Haunschild, the director of Journeys club and next year’s SGA Vice President, got to plan this year’s trip. This is the big-gest trip that Journeys does and Haunschild is excited for the out-comes.

“I went on the surf trip last year, and we had over 60 people go. We don’t have quite that many this year, but we’re still at capaci-ty. It’s going to be a great trip,” he says.

There are many things on the itinerary this year. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be spent on the San Diego beaches, Ocean and Mission beach specif-

ically. On Monday students who haven’t had prior surfing experi-ence will be given basic instruc-tion on the beach before they head out to the waves. According to Haunschild, only 30% of the students going on the trip have had prior experience surfing, so it will definitely be a fun learn-ing experience for the majori-ty of students. Wednesday and Thursday will be surf days as well, with a beach BBQ in the plans for Thursday evening.

To break up the constant surf-ing, Haunschild has planned a kayaking and snorkeling adven-ture for Tuesday, March 23rd. The team will start at La Joya beach, then kayak up the coast and out to some sea caves.

“If we’re lucky, we might get to see the leopard sharks migrat-ing on the way back to shore,” Haunschild said, “Hopefully, that’s not a bad thing,” he laughs.

The team will be renting their equipment from a club similar to Journeys at Point Loma Nazarene University. The students are also planning on joining PLNU stu-dents at their TimeOut for wor-ship during the week, and they are hoping to collaborate with PLNU student ministry clubs on a service project in the San Di-ego area. Last year, the students handed out food in one of the

local parks, where they ate and talked to people, establishing re-lationships. Haunschild hopes to do something similar this year.

The students will be staying in a hotel, and for those of you who have gone on mission trips and slept on church floors, you know just how amazing having an actu-al bed to sleep in can be.

In addition to all of the planned events, Haunschild says there will be plenty of time for students to explore San Diego and take in all of its attractions and wonders.

“It’s become more of a San Di-ego trip, than just a surf trip.”

To end their week, the stu-dents will stop at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California and spend Friday riding the awe-some rides and soaking up the amusement park fun. Those brave enough will find themselves on the new Twisted Colossus roller coaster, a reinvention of an exist-ing wooden coaster. This hybrid roller coaster features original wood and added metal with “in-tertwined track, steep banks and unrelenting rolls and spirals.” It will definitely be a thrill.

If you weren’t one of the lucky ones who signed up for Surf Trip 2015, don’t despair! There is a great possibility that you will get the opportunity to go next year!

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Photo courtesy of Phil Haunschild

Spring Break 2015Surfing the Pacific Waves

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Northwest Nazarene Universi-ty prides itself on the community. We’ve seen it on all of the promo-tional brochures, and it’s been in-doctrinated into us since the very first on-campus tour. We may be able to come alongside our fellow students when they need help, but what about the campus itself? I’m talking about keeping the sidewalks clean, the grass green, and Howard the Elk serene. An interview with facilities director Jade Anderson revealed some of the most helpful things we can do to keep our campus looking its best and make the maintenance crew’s job just that much easier.

Anderson oversees all of the maintenance, custodial, grounds, projects, and energy manage-ment for the entire university. Over 50 dedicated individuals are working around the clock to

keep anything and everything running smoothly for everyone. The two most common problems that require constant attention are clogged and leaky faucets, as well as paint for the buildings on campus.

“The best way that the student body can help us is to be good stewards of their trash,” said An-derson. “One of the biggest prob-lems we have are the little wrap-pers for the mints.” That’s right, you know the ones. That tanta-lizing bowl of after-dinner mints at the front counter of the Dex has caused untold hours of frus-tration for the maintenance staff. Wrappers are found everywhere on campus, especially on the oth-erwise beautiful lawn. A team of six brave souls travel across cam-pus every morning to pick up all the trash from the day before, and by noon the ground is once again plagued with trash.

Anderson wanted to make it incredibly clear that if there is

a need for a trash can to be in a certain place on campus, that they should be contacted about it. It’s much easier to place a new trash bin then pick up another mint wrapper. They usually no-

tice where people drop their trash most frequently, but if you know of a particular place that could re-ally use one, don’t hesitate to let them know.

So let’s keep our campus look-

ing great, people. A new approach to how trash can be handled by us, the student body, could be as refreshing as an after-dinner mint (just be sure to throw away the wrapper).

continued from page 1 Tegerstrand says that the grant

competition is probably a one-time step used by NCM, as they will use the resources generated by grant winners for a future de-nomination-wide social justice campaign targeted at Nazarene youth. In that case, it’s just anoth-er facet of the ways that the stu-dents’ water project is effecting a diversity of groups—and that’s exactly what they were hoping for.

As described by Rieke, the point of their campaign is “to cre-ate a ripple effect that will spread from us to the NNU community, to the children in Haiti.” As man-dated by the grant, a large part of

the campaign is awareness, which began, surprisingly enough, with SGA Awareness Week. The Rip-ple Effect has been presented by students from the Haiti trip speaking at Timeout, taking an offering every Monday at chapel for Hope Home, and doing week-ly challenges throughout Lent, such as trying to take shorter showers. (Congratulations Shaun Hall for your record-breaking time of 2:25). In April the Ripple Effect is also putting on a 5k to raise more money and awareness for the campaign. Rieke says, “We are hoping that this event will grow into something the broader community of Nampa can get in-volved in!”

The goal is lofty: to raise $30,000. That would include up-graded sanitation, pumps, water storage, and an electrical system. But Tegerstrand notes that even

without the full amount, plenty can be done to improve the cur-rent situation at Hope Home. With the $5,000 already raised, Hope Home can already move forward with one part of the Ripple Effect project. The team knows that they can’t raise un-limited money or solve the water problems everywhere, but the point is to do what they can. As Tolstoy once said, “Add your light to the sum of light.” If he could have used hashtags, he might have framed his words like the Rip-ple Effect’s driving mantra: #do-forone. Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone. Add your drop of water to the ocean and it will not be without effect. Mother Theresa concurred: “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be-cause of that missing drop.”

Tegerstrand describes the pas-sion and determination of these students as incredible—they do it “not because it’s for a class, but because they want to see some-thing happen in the world. Even if we don’t raise the money, it’s changing lives.” Hope Home and their umbrella organization are also working towards alleviating the crisis, and Nirider notes that it was the manager and house moms at Hope Home, dedicated to loving and helping the kids there, who inspired the team in the first place. The way these NNU students were affected by their experience might not have been the first ripple in the wa-ter, but it won’t be the last either. Another NNU On a Mission Team will be travelling to Hope Home this May, including Niri-der, Rieke, and Rachel Ball, who all felt called to return after last

summer’s experience and hope to continue the work of serving the kids there. Beyond that, the NNU community, the Nazarene com-munity, the Nampa community, and not to mention the Hope Home community, are all becom-ing affected and involved as the ripples spread outward.

Nirider says, “I know that Rip-ple Effect will always be evidence of what one person dreaming big can start, what incredible things can happen when we earnestly seek to serve, and the way lives can be changed when people ar-en’t afraid to come together and do things they couldn’t do on their own.”

You can find more information on the Ripple Effect on facebook or twitter @nnudoforone or at spirituallife.nnu.edu/doforone.

Ripple

Keep it CleanEric Ostyn

writer for The Crusader



The Senate meeting on March 4th was one of the lon-gest Senate meetings this year. There was much debate over bills SB15-02-04 and SB15-02-05 titled “AMA Membership Fees” and “AMA New Orleans Registration,” respectively. As AMA [ American Marketing Association] is a class D club (D for Department), receiving funds from Senate requires “matching” funds from their corresponding department. This goes for all Class D clubs. The wording in the ASNNU

Code allows for different in-terpretations of this general rule; more on this point will be made later. The main issue Sen-ate had with the “AMA Mem-bership Fees” bill was that Sen-ate judged the $47 membership fees were not something Senate should be paying for. The bill, written by Senator Roemhildt, outlined the benefits the mem-bership and resulting Certifi-cation would yield. With zero senators “For,” seven “Against” and four “Abstained,” the ma-jority Senate body ruled that it would not be appropriate for Senate to pay for the fees.

SB15-02-05 “AMA New Or-leans Registration” asked the Senate for $600 dollars to cover registration fees for the annu-al AMA Conference in New

Orleans. This request brought the Class D club department “matching” clause back into debate. Section 3, Statute 2, Paragraph 1, Clause 4 of the ASNNU Code reads: “Class D clubs are such clubs as have previously been given Class B status under a ratified consti-tution and may only receive funds equal to funds contrib-uted by their department.” The interpretation of this clause is primarily up to the Judicial Board to decide, but the broad-er Senate conversation on the matter is far from any conclu-sion. Due to the lack of clari-ty regarding the AMA Club’s funding, the bill was tabled for a week in order to gather more information.

Imagine moving from a city with a population of 500,000 to a city of 80,000. You might expe-rience culture shock, and that is exactly what Kris Stinson, a NNU sophomore, did, when he moved from Fresno, California to Nam-pa, Idaho.

“I found out that I’m a small town guy,” he said, “I like the size

of Nampa.”But how does one choose to

go to school in Nampa, Idaho, especially when one lives so close to Point Loma Nazarene locat-ed right on the Pacific Ocean? For Stinson, this became an easy choice. His dad had to travel through Nampa on a business trip, so Stinson rode along and toured the NNU campus. What he found led him to fall in love with the NNU community.

“It was definitely a God thing. I don’t regret my decision at all.”

Stinson said Point Loma was definitely one of his choices, but

he prefers the beach as a vacation spot, not a home for eight months out of the year. So, off to Nampa he went!

Although Stinson is only in his second year at NNU, he has been involved in numerous ac-tivities. On top of being a double major in history and elementary education, Stinson has performed in various plays, such as Fiddler on the Roof and Boys Next Door. Most recently, he worked on an off-campus play, called The Dia-ries of Adam and Eve, as an Assis-tant Director.

“It’s interesting to be on the other side of things. I’ve only been involved in the acting side of theater, so seeing the technical side is a great experience.”

The play was performed at the Cathedral of the Rockies on

Friday, March 13, and featured fellow NNU student, Riley Fair-grieves as Adam.

In addition to theater, Stin-son works hard in the education office and the Brandt Center, helping setup for events and per-forming various office duties. He is also one of the few people who is working on a double major and planning for two careers! It is Stinson’s goal to be a fifth grade teacher upon his college gradua-tion. Later in life, he would like to pursue a master’s degree and pur-sue a career as a history professor.

Stinson is very involved in NNU’s community and in his ed-ucation, but he is not too involved to hang out with friends, watch Netflix, and make new friends. So if you see him, make sure to say hey!

campusStudent Highlight:Kris Stinson

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Ross, I am beyond excited for you, the next year is going to be one of the most fulfilling and exciting years of your college experience. And, as you said in your speech, you have the opportunity to make it one of the best years for your peers. With this in mind, the single best piece of advice I can give you is to figure out how to make your contribution to the team something that you enjoy and take pride in. For me, it was working with Jack on events. For you, it may be working with Liberty on events, Phil on revamping club involvement, or any number of other possibilities to improve campus life working with the other SGA positions. To reiterate, the best thing you can do for yourself and your time over the next year is encouraging an environment of fun and pride in a job well done. I wish you and your team the best of luck in the coming year, I have no doubt you’ll crush it.

Your friend and humble servant,Connor J. BackSGA President

Mr. Phillip Haunschild,First off, congratulations! You have set your-

self up for a wild year full of late nights, long days, laughter, and an extreme sense of accomplishment. The opportunity you have been given (by the stu-dent body) is your chance to change this school, and your cohorts’ college experience, for the better. I am thrilled to be passing on the mantle and gavel of Ex-ecutive Vice President to someone such as you.

There is something important I want to tell you, though: you are both the most and least important person in your life. It’s critical that you maintain a level of self-care and balance in your life, doing things you enjoy that aren’t school- or work-relat-ed. On the other hand, your team and your sena-tors will either make or break your year. Making sure things are going well on your SGA team are of utmost priority; and achieving a level of produc-tivity and consistency with your Senate is where you prove your worth. Good luck with next year! Fortunately for you, I didn’t set the bar too high. :)

ShaunP.S. Good luck with improving the WIFI…

Dear Social Vice President Elect Fleming, Congratulations on your new position for next

year! It’s going to be a blast! Looking back a year ago, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. People had told me it would be an amazing time but require a tremendous amount of work and time but my goodness did I underestimate how much fun it would be and how difficult it would be. My two favorite things about this job have been picking the shirts for TWIRP and getting to know the rest of SGA and Grant. This time last year I was good friends with three people, decent friends with two people, and hardly knew the other six on the team. Grant had played on my flag football team before but he always kind of scared me so I never real-ly got to know him. Now I’d say there are a couple people I’m not super close with, but I’d call Grant and all 11 other SGA members friends. The Social VP position has three main aspects to it: coming up with a great idea, figuring out all the details of the event, and decorating. I’m good at one of those three (the details) and rather abysmal at the other two. I’ve used SGA and social board to come up with ideas and then Cassie Wade and Kalyn Nel-son were in charge of decorating with social board. The biggest advice I can give you is to realize what you’re bad at and try to find people that comple-ment you. Social VP is just too big of a job for one person to do by themselves! It’s going to be a crazy year and you’ll wonder why you signed up for this job at times, but the Saturday after a big event it’s all worth it!

Jack Biewend

Martinson, Haunschild, and Fleming Emerge VictoriousPresident Executive VP Social VP

Photo by Angela Monroe

Compiled by William Roemhildt


If you’ve never sought out help from any of your professors, you’re missing out on one of the best op-portunities to improve your work in class. That valuable one-on-one time can have some incredible re-sults on your performance as a student, and Dr. Dan Lawrence recognized how important it is to provide that opportunity before he even became a professor at North-west Nazarene University.

Lawrence teaches a calcu-lus-based physics course, Quan-tum Mechanics, courses dealing with electricity and magnetism, solid state physics, and a slew of other physics-related classes. His office is decorated with diplomas and Physics books galore, which is quite a sight to behold.

Dr. Lawrence’s humble begin-nings started right here on campus. He had missed an entire section of Physics as a freshman due to sickness. Lawrence was frantical-ly checking the answers to all the homework he had missed because the professor, Dr. Ford, had post-ed the answers to the homework on the outside of his office. As fate-changing stories go, it was of course, 10 o’clock the night before the test, when stress was high and hope was almost nonexistent. But the whole situation took a turn for the better when Dr. Ford had to come back and grab something from his office. Seeing Lawrence’s dilemma, he decided to help him out and essentially teach him the entire unit. He was definitely not expecting this, so the sudden en-couragement was a huge boost for the young freshman. He ended up passing the test and making a very important decision that would eventually dictate his future career: Dr. Ford showed his desire to see his students succeed, and Dr. Law-rence wanted to be a part of that

awesome experience.This goal was not quite attain-

able when he graduated, but he made the promise to eventual-ly find himself back on campus, only this time as a professor. He first wanted “to be financially at a point someday in the future where I could come back and teach here.” Dr. Lawrence was working at Ray-theon Missile Systems in Arizona when he got the coveted chance to return the favor that had been giv-en to him so long ago.

At this point he was helping develop the Sidewinder missile that would be equipped on fighter jets. It was his first job, and he was starting to ask himself if it was time to move forward, so his job search began on a four day weekend. In-stead of actually searching for jobs, he went up to the lake with some friends and spent the time riding jet skis. But this wasn’t a particular-ly bad move because the very first email he read when he got back was from NNU, and it was from the dean of science. He was asked if he would be interested in one of two positions that recently opened up. It was now May and school was lit-erally just around the corner. After much deliberation, he and his fam-ily decided to come back and fulfill the promise that he had made to himself as a freshman.

Appropriately, Dr. Lawrence’s favorite part of what he does is the one-on-one teaching. He enjoys assisting students understand con-cepts better and helping them with any research they may need to do for his classes. Dr. Lawrence isn’t the only professor who loves to see students seek out help when they need it. Any one of your professors are willing and able to help you do the best that you possibly can. It’s one of the defining features of this university, and those that don’t take advantage are missing out on one of best aspects of it.

Returning the Favor: Dr. LawrenceEric Ostyn

writer for The Crusader


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Woods End Ministries.You’ve heard the name around

campus and you’re about to hear more because they are doing big things!

It started with two siblings, Northwest Nazarene Universi-ty alumni, Carly (Peck) Bartlett (2007) and Chris Peck (2013). In 2012, the sibling duo decided it was time to bring their visions to life by creating a team where art, speaking, and worship music could unite as one; thus Woods End Ministries was created. After connecting with friends passion-ate about ministry in different areas of interest, the journey to

transform the lives of others be-gan.

Woods End isn’t any ordinary name, but rather a name that means a lot to the group collec-tively. “We believe, symbolically, that we are called out of dark-ness into the freedom and light of Christ. The metaphorical place where the darkness ceases and light begins is the ‘Woods End’.” This is deep and exciting stuff, guys!

So who is all involved in Woods End you ask? Both alum-ni and current students have brought their talents to the table in order to bring transformation to the world: Carly, Chris, Grant Miller, Mike Bartlett, Nathan Knox, Miles Wilson, Shaun Hall,

David Reimer, Angela Monroe, Robby Skinner, Spencer Hassman, Kevin Laughlin, Paul Zukowski, Ryan Cork, and Jen Miller.

So far, the group has been able to travel around the United States to lead worship, speak at events, camps, retreats, and attend con-ferences.

After a Kickstarter campaign page was created for the group, thanks to Wilson and Knox, Woods End successfully raised enough money to create a wor-ship album and to essentially continue moving forward with

their ministry.So what did they do next?

Naturally, they made an album! Some of the members were able to travel to Nashville, Tennessee to record music. With the help of alumni members, Carly, Chris, Mike, Grant Miller, Reimer, and current NNU seniors Monroe and Hall, the writing and record-ing process took place. Cork, an-other alumnus of NNU, produced the album, which is made up of two hymns and 10 original songs. Talk about dedication and deter-mination!

Just a few short weeks ago, Woods End gave a free CD re-lease concert for their new album at Eagle Church of the Nazarene. Woods End Ministries is just one example of how God uses His fol-lowers and their talents for His Kingdom. Woods End has come a long way, but this is only the be-ginning of a lifetime journey for the group.

Check out their album on itunes and their website at wood-sendministries.com for more in-formation!

Avery Russelleditor for The Crusader

Album Art by Mike Bartlett

Courtesy of Woods End Ministries

Woods EndThe Ministry Group Called to Transform Lives


A developing field in science is a field referred to as 3D printing. This is a young field with a great deal of potential and application to engineering, biology, physics, art, and even business. The basic idea is to create 3D objects, but instead of assembling a variety of parts or etching away a block into some particular shape, the mod-eling material is placed precisely where it needs to be in three di-mensional space. The accuracy of the types of machines varies, but some are precise enough to place material on the scale of atoms. The principal has grown substan-tially over the past decade and re-cently has developed application in the medical field. Most schools that have an engineering depart-ment practice rendering various objects and mechanical devices, even your very own Northwest Nazarene University.

The NNU engineering depart-ment has two types of 3D print-ers. The first one, the Dimension 3D Printer, was bought 5 years ago. This machine was, in its in-fancy, about $25,000. It has since been used to teach engineers how to model and create working 3D mechanical devices.

The process is something like this: First the student will create a model using Solidworks or Au-todesk, two common 3D model-

ing programs. This will be saved as an stl. file (stereolithography CAD file) which is then upload-ed to the Dimension Printer. The program used to upload the file allows the students to orient the objects however they desire, then using machine language, the Di-mension printer chooses a path and begins printing. It’s like pav-ing a road, but instead of doing a long path across the ground, the asphalt paver can fly and piles strips of asphalt on top of a par-ticular enclosed path over and over again, but instead of asphalt, our printer uses ultra-fast-hard-ening-plastic gew. The engineer-ing department has another such device called a Maker Bot. This printer is much smaller, much newer, much cheaper, and just as effective.

Some students have even tak-en it upon themselves to make their own printers. These types of printers are referred to as “reprap” printers. This is what is referred to as an open-source design mean-ing the information on how to create one, and the programming that it would need is available to the public online for free. Here the concept of “machine-mak-ing-machine” is exemplified: the parts that were used to make the first machine, can be reprinted by that machine and applied to the second. This entire process costs the students somewhere around $300-$500.

If there are art majors read-ing this you might be interested to know that a pen has been de-

signed after this very concept. These 3D printing pens are a little bit thicker than your average pen, but it allows you to actually draw physical objects in three dimen-sional space, doodling at a whole new level. Unfortunately, they are pricey, and not marketed well to the starving artist, running at about $100 per pen.

So now we can make toys and models in three dimensions with plastic gew, but how else can this be applied? Biologists and doc-tors have recently figured out how to apply this to their field in the most intriguing ways. Lets imagine that instead of us-ing super heated plastic in our machine, we used a gooey mess of living human tissue. Different

types of tissue can be used so that the different organs can be made. For instance Anthony Atala, di-rector of the Wake Forest Insti-tute for Regenerative Medicine, made a 3D printed bladder as an experimental therapy for a child ten years ago. Scientists from nu-merous fields have met on the stages of TED multiple times to show the world the wonders of this new technology. Maybe some time in the future, people will no longer have to be put on a waiting list to receive a replacement or-gan; they could just print one up on the spot. Another interesting application in the medical field is 3D printed skin. This experi-mental grafting method is being researched by a number of insti-

tutions, including the US army. The idea is to be able to graft skin to a patient’s body simply by put-ting their arm under the printer nozzle.

Three dimensional printing truly is a fascinating field with a great deal of potential. Some of the applications almost seem like a sort of Star Trek science fic-tion. Images of the food synthe-sizer from the original Star Trek series come to mind. It is true that NASA has already been in-vesting and researching into the “printing” of food, as they look for better life support systems the farther out they aim to travel into space. At this point the possibili-ties for 3D printing seem virtually endless. What will they do next?

Courtesy of Ryan Lofthouse

Printing in the Third DimensionRyan Lofthouse

guest writer for The Crusader


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Murder of Boris NemtsovOn February 27th, on a bridge

just outside the walls of the Krem-lin, Russian dissident leader Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed. Just two days earlier he was handing out pamphlets on the streets of Moscow for an anti-war rally on March 1st. After his murder, that rally turned into his memorial procession. Fifty thousand-plus people turned out for the march, which was more than just a memo-

rial or the intended anti-war rally, but a bold refusal to be intimidat-ed by such acts of terror. Many al-lies of the late Boris Nemtsov, such as Garry Kasparov, believe Prime Minister Putin is behind the mur-der. In a piece he wrote for The Guardian Kasparov wrote: “When the victim is a former Russian dep-

uty prime minister and a promi-nent critic of the regime, and his murder takes place in a wide open area right next to the Kremlin, the chance that it occurred without the involvement of Russia’s secu-rity services is vanishingly small.” Pegged as a leader of the Maidan revolution in Kiev, Nemtsov’s proposed March 1st anti-war ral-ly prompted an “anti-Maidan” protest organized by the Kremlin just days before his death. The thousands who turned out for this protest, many of whom belonged to gangs patronizing Prime Min-

ister Putin, were nothing in com-parison to the fifty thousand-plus that turned out to stand alongside Nemtsov against the regime.Netanyahu speaks at Congress

In Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US, he gave a heavily support-ed and heavily debated speech to

the US Congress. Invited to speak in front of Congress by Majority Speaker of the House John Boeh-ner, Netanyahu took the oppor-tunity to voice his opinions on a nuclear deal in the works between the US, their allies, and Iran. Sec-retary of State John Kerry has been involved in talks for a new nuclear deal for weeks. The initial invita-tion from Boehner was made with-out consulting the White House, who most likely would not have supported Netanyahu’s presence. As Israel was just weeks out from elections, President Obama chose

not to meet with PM Netanyahu so as not to give the impression that he favored one candidate over the other, or simply give Netanya-hu added publicity. Netanyahu’s speech, however, gained maybe all the publicity it needed. Inter-rupted multiple times by stand-ing ovations, Netanyahu took an

“Iranophobic” stance and opposed any interaction with such an un-scrupulous government. “We’ve been told that no deal is better than a bad deal,” said Netanyahu. “Well this is a bad deal, a very bad deal, we’re better off without it.” He pointed to Iran’s gobbling up of Middle East states, such as Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, as a sign of their apparent menace. Iran’s influence in these states, of course, comes from their involvement in the fight against the Islamic State – a common enemy to Israel, Iran and the US. Islamic State Desecrates Nimrud

The ancient Assyrian city of Numrud was founded in the 13th Century BC and is located about 18 miles from Mosul - which has been under IS control since June of last year - on the Tigris river. Nimrud was the capital of the As-syrian empire for 150 years, and is referenced in the Old Testament as Calah. The site is considered one of the most important archeolog-ical sites in the world. In the Is-lamic State’s notorious tradition of destroying “false idols,” heavy ma-chinery was employed to bulldoze the site. The extent of the damage is unknown, but the Iraqi ministry of tourism reported extensive de-struction. In a post on their Face-book page they said, IS “assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles,” adding that IS continues to “defy the will of the world and the feel-ings of humanity.” The UN’s cul-tural agency condemned these acts of the Islamic State as an act of war. These actions come after the reported burning of the Mosul library at the hands of IS, which housed over 8,000 ancient man-uscripts. Through various social media outlets IS utilizes to show-case their brutality, videos were

released showing masked men pushing over ancient statues in the Mosul museum and bashing them with sledgehammers, finally using a pneumatic drill to complete the destruction.Cartel Leaders Captured in Mexico

In the span of a week, Mexican authorities achieved two great vic-tories in the capturing of promi-nent cartel leaders Servando Go-mez of the Knights Templar drug cartel, and Omar Trevino Morales of the Zetas cartel. Probably the more “high profile” of the two, Morales, had rewards of 5 million dollars from the United States and 2 million dollars (30,935,396.40 pesos) from the Mexican govern-ment for information that would lead to his arrest. These victories come amidst much adversity for current President Enrique Pena Nieto. Gang related crimes have outraged the country as of late, highlighted by the disappear-ance of 43 students in September of 2014. The Zetas and Knights Templar cartels were known for extreme brutality, and the capture of their top leaders is seen as a ma-jor blow to each respective cartel’s operation. Speaking on the Zetas, DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said: “The Zetas repre-sent the worst in global organized crime: violence, intimidation, corruption, and brutal killings… Today’s arrest strikes at the heart of the leadership structure of the Zetas and should serve as yet an-other warning that no criminal is immune from arrest and pros-ecution.” Following his arrest, Morales was transferred to Mexi-co City and paraded through the streets. He is being held in Mexi-co City and faces drug trafficking conspiracy and money laundering in several jurisdictions.

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Photo from telegraph.co.ukServicemen carry the casket containing the body of Russian dissident leader Boris Nemtsov


sportsStrong Team Dynamics Fuel Crusaders’ Confidence

“When I found out I had the op-portunity to play college softball.”

This was Morgan Buchanan’s response when asked to name her favorite life moment. The girl loves softball, competition of all kinds, and her “amazing teammates.” She isn’t the only one who feels that way. Madeline Grant is a sopho-more who decided to join the team this year, “Because I missed the game of softball and being a part of a team. I met some of the girls and it seemed like a fun group and a team I wanted to be a part of.” This year, the softball team has added eight new players in addition to eight experienced returners. Soph-omore pitcher Ashley Pesek is one

of those returners who has already been making a big difference for the Saders. In a stellar victory over Carroll College in February, Pesek struck out three batters in five in-nings to aid her team in an 11-1 rout. Peshek says, “I know it’s cliche saying that we are a family but I truly believe these girls and coach-es will always hold a special place in my heart.” She affirms the team’s confidence in second-year Head Coach Rich Wagner: “Playing for Wags has been a great learning opportunity. Working as a team, and feeding off his will to win, has created a new dynamic for the Cru-sader softball program.”

Great relationships within the team definitely augment these girls’ passion for the game. Pesek says part of the joy of being a pitcher is

the feeling of being in command of the game, but there’s more to it than that. “The way I see it is that there are eight other girls out there who are backing me up every step of the way, and that is what makes pitching so rewarding.” Not every-one can throw a nasty curveball, but there are many aspects of the game that these girls love. Buchan-an describes part of her affinity with softball: “I love it when you get a great hit. You see the ball perfectly and you swing the bat like you have practiced thousands of times and when you hit the ball you just know it’s going to be great. It makes this perfect sound when you hit the bar-rel, and when you swing through it doesn’t even feel like you hit any-thing.” Grant mentions something she really appreciates that most people probably don’t know about her team, something that takes these girls’ experience to an even more meaningful level. “We real-ly center our games and practice around God and always thank him for being able to play softball, and we play to glorify him.” Being able to exercise your mind and body in conjunction in an activity you love truly is a rare gift.

After memorable and fun trips to California and Las Vegas, the team had a few weeks of bouts with non-conference teams before opening up GNAC play against Western Oregon University the first weekend of March. Buchanan notes, “Our record hasn’t yet shown how much work we’ve put in, but

we’re getting better every day.” Coach Wagner expressed the same confidence in the team: “This sea-son we look to improve our offen-sive stats across the board. We have the ability to be one of the better offensive teams this program has ever had.” At the same time, “I am very confident in our defense and I’m excited to see some great plays in the field this year.”

Wagner has high hopes for the team to make it into the four-team

GNAC playoffs at the end of the year. Although NNU was ranked seventh in conference in a pre-sea-son poll, GNAC play has barely begun, and there is a lot of time left in the season. One avid soft-ball fan once told me, NNU really stands for “Never Never Underes-timate.” The strong bonds between these teammates will be an invalu-able aid as they work towards that post-conference goal.


Photo by NNU AthleticsSenior Kendra Day (second baseman)

Photo by NNU AthleticsSenior Brianna Kinghorn (first and third baseman)


Basketball ResultsThe NNU men’s basket-

ball team finished second in the GNAC and went on to the

GNAC playoffs the first week-end of March. They defeat-ed Central Washington for the third time, and they did it in style. See it for yourself by looking up “Erik Kinney NNU Windmill Dunk” on youtube.

The men made it to the semifi-nals but were stopped short by Seattle Pacific University.

Additionally, Kevin Rima was named to the GNAC Sec-ond-Team, and Alex Birketoft earned GNAC Freshman of the

Year and made the GNAC Hon-orable Mention Team, along with Kinney. Pol Olivier was named to the GNAC All-Aca-demic Team.

On the women’s side, Taylor Simmons was honored with

GNAC Second-Team, and Ellie Logan earned GNAC Honor-able Mention. Simmons, along with Ellen Ferrenburg and Katie Swanson, earned GNAC All-Ac-ademic honors as well.


Photo by NNU Athletics

Photo by NNU Athletics


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By Eric Ostyn

Quote of the issueTop 10 Quotes from Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to

the Galaxy”

Sudoku: easy

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

Milton Berle1. “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” 2. “Did I do anything wrong today,” he said, “or has the world always been like this and I’ve been too wrapped up in myself to notice?” 3. “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” 4. “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”5. “Ford,” he said, “you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.”6. “The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Ev-erything... Is... Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”7. “The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw atten-tion away from it.”8. “The ships hung in the air in the same way that bricks don’t.”9. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bog-glingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”10. “Don’t Panic.”

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