Did you sit alphabetically in chapel today? Did you get in trouble for holding hands with your boyfriend or girlfriend? Are you currently growing a vegetable garden to raise money for tuition?

No? Then you must be a student at present-day NNU and not an attendee of NNC or the Idaho Holiness School.

The school’s name isn’t the only thing that has changed in 101 years - although a few things, like freshman boys thinking they are God’s gift to the world - never will.

Back in the day, the student body used to be divided into six “societies.” These athletic-literary societies were like fraternities or the houses of Hogwarts in that they helped students build relation-ships with each other and be part of a group that did things together. Intramu-ral sports, debates, music contests, etc., were based off societies. At the end of the year, whichever society had won the most points through these various com-petitions was announced in chapel and awarded The Loving Cup.

Did you know that chapel used to be held in Emerson Auditorium and students

sat alphabetically? A few people even end-ed up marrying the person they sat next to. But don’t even think about holding hands in chapel! During a society skit one year, one young man held the hand of a girl riding a bike. Marian Washburn, the overseeing faculty member, caught a lot of heat for letting that happen, since holding hands on campus was against the rules.

Relationship rules used to be very stringent indeed. Until the 1970s, students who wanted to marry while enrolled had to get the president’s permission. In 1948, one young lady overlooked this rule and got engaged to her non-student boy-friend. When the administration found out, she was dismissed from school.

But even getting the president’s per-mission for marriage didn’t prevent an-other kind of punishment for newly en-gaged students. Before the Brandt Center was built, it was just a public park with a big ditch full of irrigation water. In the spring, well-meaning friends threw re-cently engaged young men into this ditch. One man’s pants were so waterlogged that they fell off when he came out. A dean was put in charge of stopping this tradition, but when he came to reprimand a group of ditchers, they threw him in too.

Another tradition called Malibu Days

preceded what we now call Week One. Students donned Bermuda shorts and tank tops and came out for activities such as a mud fight, volleyball tournament, a barbecue, and buck-buck. The capping event required the lawn between Wi-ley and Riley Library to be flooded for a skimboarding competition.

One thing hasn’t changed in all these years. All kinds of pranks and shenani-

gans continue unabated. Ford Hall, now home to gaggles of freshman girls, housed freshman boys on the southern wings for its first couple of years. One of the final straws in moving the boys out may have been when a greased pig was released on the girls’ side.

Freshmen, if you think curfew is bad now, imagine a time when only girls had

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It’s a Thursday morning, and the Brick 29 Bistro is quiet. In the middle of the room sit three college students in red po-los, sticking out like sore thumbs - my-self, Curtis Mostul, and Doug Waterman, the man responsible for this luncheon. “I thought I told him eleven o’clock,” Doug says. Curtis and I shrug as he pulls out his phone to double check the meeting time he set up with Sean Evans, Advertising Di-rector of the Idaho Press-Tribune. “Nope, twelve,” Doug exclaims, and we laugh and look around awkwardly, plotting a tempo-rary escape (a thing not so easily execut-ed for three guys wearing red polos and slacks). On this day we represent the NNU Yacht Club, as the logo on our chest so proud-ly displays, and we are meeting with Mr. Ev-ans to make a business connection.

The Yacht Club mission statement reads: “We are NNU’s premier business net-working club. Our goal is to connect business-es with their future partners and employ-ees, as well as foster a level of professional behavior in profession-al situations.”

As Doug later explained to Mr. Evans, “The idea came about from a joke about my short bright yellow shorts, and the subsequent realization that our campus lacked opportunities for students who are serious about succeeding when they grad-uate to network with the people they will

be working with and for.” In the restaurant though, it is still well

before noon, so we rise and tell the wait-ress at the door we’ll be back at twelve. On the streets of sunny downtown Nampa we draw unusual glances as we meander in and out of the local shops - too well dressed to be your typical NNU student, and too young to be anybody of any ma-terial worth.

By the time we arrive back at Brick 29, the place has been totally transformed into a lively jumble of suits and ties. The red polos draw the same attention they did on the street. A man waves Doug and Curtis over, and I am introduced to Mr. Evans.

I myself was brought along on this

outing because of my position as a writ-er for the paper, as well as my credibility as a student ambassador. Mr. Evans asks me what my plans are after graduation and nervously I tell him my grand master plan: “Well, I usually tell people I’ll be a well read construction worker. But that’s

not really a joke anymore.” There’s a round of laughter around the table and I feel a bit more comfortable.

This is what the Yacht Club is all about: making meaningful connections between students and po-t e n t i a l employ-ers. As the Yacht Club pro-vides these unique opportunities, they also wish to promote the “professional be-havior” necessary to survive, and indeed thrive, in those professional situations.

A few of the events they have offered have been the hosting of cam-pus speakers on professionalism and business style, days at the driving range with lessons from NNU’s own PGA mem-ber, Davis Halle, and in the future, much anticipat-ed sailing days; not to mention golf outings with President Alex-ander and Nam-pa Mayor Bob Henry.

In practice, the Yacht Club has had a presence at events such as the Nampa Chamber Business Breakfasts and Lun-cheons, Startup Boise Meetings, and prestigious Legislative Coffee Sessions, connecting with big names such as Dale Dixon – President/CEO of the Better

Business Bureau [BBB], Debbie Kling – President/CEO Nampa Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Bob Henry.

Walking out of Brick 29, confident-ly now, a man looks up from the table

to wave us over: it’s Rick Youngblood, State House Representative for District 12B. Doug and Curtis had con-nected with him on a previous occasion and we are all introduced to

his lunch party. “Any luck with that polo?” he jokes, “We’re working on it, sir,” Doug responds with a smile.

When we get outside, the sun is shin-ing and the air couldn’t smell better. As the door eases shut Doug spins around, “That’s Rick Youngblood, and he wants one of our polos. He wants to display our logo on his body... This is the greatest idea I’ve ever had.” Agreed, sir.

The next Yacht Club event will be this Tuesday, November 4th, and will fea-ture mayor Bob Henry.

For more information on the event and the Yacht Club, “like” their Facebook page or contact Doug Waterman.

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Technology and the classroom don’t always go hand-in-hand. It can be diffi-cult for teachers to know how to get their students to use their gadgets to further their own learning. Northwest Nazarene University is helping to solve that issue with the Doceō Center (pronounced duh-cheh-oh), a program set up to instruct teachers on the implementation of mod-ern technologies such as tablets and other mobile devices in their everyday curricu-lum. The word “doceō” means “to teach or instruct.” A number of new faculty mem-bers have come to NNU full time to help this program come to full fruition, includ-ing Professor Gregg Russell and Professor Amy Ackley.

“We exist to help personalize learning and innovation in education,” said Pro-fessor Russell. The Doceō Center’s goal is to help make learning more personal and innovative from preschool all the way through college by bringing more tech-nology into the classroom. In addition to helping outside the school, it also assists with the professors on campus. With the help of a generous grant from the Albert-sons Foundation, the Doceō Center was

able to get the kickstart it needed and was able to provide devices to three different elementary schools last year.

Instead of using a specific application to teach the children, the center refers to apps as “learning platforms.” Students commonly think of apps as games or oth-er means of entertainment. This simple change in definition helps to show stu-dents that it is possible to do more with their devices than just launch birds into towers with a giant slingshot.

Professor Russell and Professor Ackley are helping teachers get their students en-gaged in classrooms with the help of mod-ern technology.

Before coming to NNU, Professor Russell was the principal of an elemen-tary school, holding a BA in elementary education. His school received a grant to start implementing the Doceō Program into the classrooms, and Professor Rus-sell noticed a considerable amount of ac-ademic growth. Seeing the success in his own elementary school, Russell wanted to share this success with even more schools . When the opportunity arose for him to apply for NNU, he jumped at the chance.

Professor Amy Ackley had a similar experience in her own elementary school. She is an alumna of NNU and was also

an Elementary Education major. She was able to work with the Doceō Center first-hand in the classrooms of Ronald Reagan Elementary. By helping the students and teachers use their devices for learning, Professor Ackley was struck by just how engaged the students were. That inspired her to join the NNU Doceō Center full-time.

If all goes according to plan, we will see more and more personalized classes in the future, thanks to the implementa-tion of technology. Elementary students will be able to use their devices to their full potential, thanks in part to all of the hard work and effort going on at the Doceō Center. We are all excited about the new innovations in education that will be surfacing and put in place in the coming years!

Eric Ostynwriter forThe Crusader

Education Innovations: Doceō Center

curfew because administrators thought that if the girls stayed in, the boys would too. It was a well-intentioned policy, but shockingly enough, boys are quite capa-ble of wreaking plenty of havoc by them-selves.

Think your coach is always on your back? When Orrin Hills was the basket-ball coach, he used to wait in the lobby of the boys’ dorm to see if his players were coming in late with any girls. An-other professor, Guy Sharp, held a similar watch at the movie theatre to see if any students were supporting the immoral institution of Hollywood. It was once part of the lifestyle contract, as well as profes-

sor contracts, not to attend movies. A few clever young cads went to the drive-in theatre, but they avoided financially sup-porting the film industry by hiding in the back of a car so they only had to pay for one ticket.

NNU students are all about saving money, but it used to be commonplace for students to bring homegrown apples or potatoes to the cafeteria as part of their tuition payment or for professors to be paid with produce. Dr. LeClerc has been known to trade an A for a good long look into a cow’s big brown eyes, but in the 30s, one student literally paid for school with his milk cow.

There are a lot of new or renovated buildings, and many that have been torn down. Morrison Hall used to be where

the Ford parking lot is now. The cafeteria, called SAGA, was housed there. It used to give away little containers of chocolate milk, and boys would often take them and put them on the windowsills of their dorm rooms in Chapman Hall (which was where the track is now). One student, a future doctor and benefactor to NNU, had the bright idea of using a fishing pole to liberate his neighbor’s milk for his own use.

If you’ve ever played soccer in the indoor center, you may have noticed that it has an unusual shape. That’s because it used to be a swimming pool. When stu-dents wanted to swim there, they had to use school-issued polyester swimsuits. No wonder they made it into a soccer field.

Did you know that the school col-ors used to be black and orange, or that the previous RD of Ford, Lindsey Kuhl, was the inventor of both the Brick House brick and TWIRP? The list of historical gems like these could go on and on. It is these stories, like the time everybody danced on the roof, or when so-and-so released chickens in chapel, that make our time here memorable. I urge you to talk to NNU/NNC alumni and hear their stories, because you won’t regret it. Then, go make your own memories, so one day you can tell your kids, “Back in my day…”

For more information, visit the Alumni House, or follow our facebook page NNU Crusader Newspaper.

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Nov. 4: Women’s Basketball vs.TVCC 6pmNov. 7: Women’s Basketball vs. BSU 7pm Men’s Basketball vs. GFU 8pmNov. 14: Women’s Basketball vs. HPU 5pmNov. 15: Women’s Basketball vs. CBU 1pm

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“My advice to my fellow students? Do it right the first time,” says third time college student Janelle Richardson, “I’m almost 30 years old, and I’m a freshman again.”

Richardson, who recently moved to Idaho from Northern California, is working on her third bachelor’s degree and this time around she’s studying Ki-nesiology.

“I’ve always been an athlete, but af-ter a knee injury during my junior year of high school, I wasn’t able to play any-more,” Richardson said.

After her knee injury, Richardson felt excluded from her athletic friends and found herself looking for new people to spend time with. The people she met had an enormous impact on her life.

“I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. The friends that I met after my injury in-troduced me to the church.”

Although Richardson started attend-ing church in high school, it wasn’t until after she had graduated that she start-ed getting serious about her faith. Now Richardson and her husband work with youth at Fairview Church of the Naza-

rene in Nampa. Although they don’t have any kids of their own, Richardson says that her husband and her “have plenty of youth” that they consider their “kids,” and Richardson hopes to one day coach school sports. She is especially interested in having a positive influence on young girls, and she is in a great position to do just that. Just as God found Richardson in her youth, so has Richardson found her calling in helping young people.

Because Janelle works in Meridian while she’s not in class, chances are most students probable won’t see her. But if you happen to be one of the lucky few who does, make sure to stop and tell her hey!

Student Highlight Homecoming HappeningsJanelle Richardson

Get ready NNU students and fac-ulty, because Homecoming and Fami-ly Weekend is right around the corner! This weekend, November 6-8, 2014, will mark another homecoming celebration on campus. Many events are taking place during homecoming and you will not want to miss out on the fun planned for students old, current, and new!

The staff at the Leah Peterson Learn-ing Commons will be providing a tour for those who have not yet been able to take a step into the enchanting castle and see the new and improved facility for themselves. Delve inside the new library to find out what new features it has to of-fer to students, as well as what centers are now housed inside its walls. During this tour, a time capsule will be buried for fu-ture NNU students and alumni to find.

The homecoming men’s basketball game will also be a highlight of this week-end and will take place Friday, at 8:00 pm in the Johnson Sports Center. This is the perfect time to gather with fellow Sader fans and cheer on the basketball team as they push to bring in a victory against

George Fox University. The Pep Rally Dinner is at 5:00pm followed by Home-coming Court Corination at 7:00pm

The fall play, “The Boys Next Door,” directed by Rick Strader, will be per-formed four times over homecoming weekend. Your opportunities to attend this performance in the Little Theatre are this Thursday at 7:00 pm, Friday at 4:00 pm, and Saturday at 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm.

The NNU Music Department will also be putting on a homecoming concert Saturday night at 7:30 pm in the Brandt Center [Swayne Auditorium]. Stop by to experience the beautiful sounds of Bella Voce, Northwesterners, Concert Band, NNU Jazz Revival, and the Crusader Choir and Orchestra.

A plethora of other events will be tak-ing place, such as various class reunion luncheons, an Academic Department Breakfast, a Nursing Gala and Dinner, and much more. For a full list of events and ticket pricing, go to: homecoming.nnu.edu or contact Alumni House staff at 208.467.8841

Hope to see you this year at NNU Homecoming 2014!

Marina Roseassistant editor forThe Crusader

Avery Russelleditor forThe Crusader

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More than half of the general fund was given out in Senate over the past two weeks. You read that correctly, more than ONE HALF of the general fund was giv-en to clubs and officers for student events. In a year in Senate where generosity has been encouraged, this comes as not as a surprise, but definitely a huge develop-ment for how Senate will facilitate money the rest of the semester. The oldest bill “SB 14-10-01 Journeys Travel Expenses,” was on its fourth week of life. The bill’s pur-pose was to subsidize for Journey’s recent

trip to Moab, as they did not budget for said trip last spring. Due to a discrepan-cy between numbers and the amount of money in Journey’s account, the bill was tabled and sent to an ad hoc committee for further investigation. The following week it was tabled again, and officially was voted on in the next senate session. After receiving information and recommenda-tion from the ad hoc committee of Sena-tors Gray, Welch, and Roemhildt, Senate passed the bill at the amended amount of $2,000 (bill originally read $2,500) noting Journey’s reputation as one of the flagship clubs of NNU.

The largest bill to be passed in recent memory, SB 14-10-02 “Funds for So-cial VP” came to Senate with the asking amount of a whopping $9,900. In this bill it was stated that the money would be used primarily to bolster the Social VP’s account and prepare for planned events later this semester. For those of you who do not know, the Social Vice President is responsible for planning and coordinat-ing most of the SGA events, including Week One, Manzana Gras, Twirp, and Week Done. The bill also explained that it is customary for the Social VP to ask for money midway through the semes-ter, as most of the money in the proposed budget, presented to the Ways and Means Committee during budgeting, gets cut.

After much inquiry and surprising coop-eration the bill was passed at the original amount of $9,900. There was concern over the amount of money that would leave in the general fund, but the consensus trust-ed the Social VP’s reputation to put on successful and well attended events.

Also, SB 14-10-03 “Tennis Club In-door Practice Funds” was passed, moving a total of $430 dollars into the Tennis Club account. Tennis Club President Curtis Mostul explained that the money would be used to subsidize the cost of indoor courts and equipment. No new business was presented to Senate for a first reading.

$9,900 to the Social VP

The Beauties and Beasts of TWIRP

Were you an astonishing beauty? A fe-rocious beast? A disney character in gen-eral?

TWIRP offered fellow NNU students the ability to make their wildest dreams come true, by dressing as some of their fa-vorite movie and storybook characters for the weekend of October 17th and 18th. If

you were looking for a weekend of adven-tures and thrill seeking fun, TWIRP was definitely the place to be.

In their matching Mickey and Minnie shirts, TWIRP participants spent “Day 1” enjoying a classy dinner at Chipotle, a scavenger hunt and hot beverages at Julius Kleiner Park, followed by a stroll through the beautiful fountain lights at The Village in Meridian. They ended the night with a trip to The Farmstead for an experience

through the Corn Maze and an entertain-ing movie at Overland Park Cinemas.

If that wasn’t enough fun already, TWIRP “Day 2” was even better.

From a hipster twist on The Little Mer-maid’s Ursula, Lion King’s Scar, and the original Flynn Rider from Tangled, the creative costumes were a sight to see. Ev-eryone gathered for pictures at Julia Da-vis Park and then had the opportunity to experience the amazing Disney on Ice at

Taco Bell Arena in Boise. The night ended with a dessert bar at the Cathedral of the Rockies.

Another great TWIRP is in the wraps and much thanks is due to Jack Biewend [SGA Social VP] and the rest of the SGA gang. Men, don’t forget to thank your ladies for funding one of the main high-lights of this year at NNU.

Avery Russelleditor forThe Crusader

William Roemhildtwriter forThe Crusader

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Students enjoying day one of TWIRPDANIELLE MILLER

Costume day of TWIRP and an adventure at Disney on Ice

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EbolaThe WHO puts the current death total

at 4,922, with all but 10 occurring with-in Liberia (2,705), Sierra Leone (1,281), and Guinea (926). 8 of the deaths outside those countries have come from Nigeria, one from Mali, and one from the United States. Nigeria and Senegal have been de-clared Ebola-free according to the WHO. New York Doctor Craig Spencer, who re-cently returned from aid work in Guinea, has been confirmed to have contracted the virus. The two nurses who treated Thomas Eric Duncan (the only US fatal-ity) and contracted the disease, have been declared Ebola-free. One of those nurses, Nina Pham, met with President Obama hours after being released from the hos-pital.

Canadian Parliament ShootingOn Wednesday the 22nd of October

a radical Muslim convert let loose a rain of gunfire at the National War Memorial and Parliament building in Ottawa, Can-ada, killing one. Local mosques did not know the shooter, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, but those at a local homeless shelter where he had stayed in the previous weeks de-scribed him as a radical. Zehaf-Bibeau had an arrest record going back ten years, and it is reported that he has been es-tranged from his family for over 5 years. Sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers was re-sponsible for stopping Zehaf Bibeau in the Parliament building and was honored the following day, along with Captain Na-than Cirillo, the one victim of the radical shooting spree.

4 From Blackwater Prosecuted

Seven years after the mass shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, which left 17 Iraqi’s dead, the men responsible were brought to justice in a marathon delibera-tion. Nicolas Slatten, Paul Slough, Liberty, and Dustin Heard, were found guilty of a combined 17 accounts of manslaughter. At the time, the four were American con-tractors for Blackwater Security stationed in Baghdad. The defendants claimed their convoy came under attack, instigating the eventual massacre. Witnesses denied that claim. The 2007 shooting was a turning point for contractors in Iraq, the biggest ramification being the loss of immunity. Slatten’s murder charge carries a man-datory life sentence, and each voluntary manslaughter charge has a 15 year max-imum sentence.

Submarines!In its largest military mobilization

since the Cold War, Sweden has been searching for an alleged submarine spot-ted in their waters. On three separate occasions the vessel was seen in the wa-ters outside Stockholm. There has also been rumor of men in black suits wading ashore, and a Russian distress signal was intercepted recently. It was speculated the vessel could have been Dutch but they deny this claim. Suspicions point to it be-ing Russian.Two wrecked WWI ships were found 30 miles off the coast of South Carolina: a German submarine U-576, and the ship it sank on July 15, 1942, the US Freighter Bluefields. “Most people associate the Bat-tle of the Atlantic with the cold, icy wa-ters of the north Atlantic but few people realize how close the war actually came to America’s shores,” said David Alberg, top brass of NOAA’s Monitor National Ma-rine Sanctuary.

Deadly Airstrikes Plague ISIS in Kobane, Iraq

U.S. led airstrikes have slowed the Is-lamic State advance on the Syrian city of Kobane, a strategic point along the Syria/Turkey border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported recently that since the beginning of the airstrikes in September there have been 553 fatalities as a result. IS fighters’ account for 464 of these, “other” militants for 57, and civil-ians for 32. With help of U.S. led airstrikes Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers in Zu-mar (Iraq) have retaken control of the town from the IS after months of attempts at recapture. This victory may mark a turning point in the Iraqi fight.

Meanwhile the Turkish government has granted the passage of 200 Iraqi Kurd-ish Peshmerga forces across the border into Kobane, Syria – a big step forward for the international community. Turkey/Kobane relations have long been strained because the Kurdish fighting forces on the ground are considered terrorists much like the IS in the eyes of the Turkish gov-ernment. While they serve as a buffer be-tween Turkey and the IS, they are an ene-my nonetheless. The international push to stop the IS at all costs seems to have won Turkey over in this instance, and the pas-sage of 200 Peshmerga soldiers (seen as more Kurdish than terrorist) is the Turk-ish compromise.

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Don’t forget to vote!Midterm ElectionsTuesday, Nov. 4, 2014Midterm Elections do matter!If you are passionate on either side of the spectrum about issues such as immigra-tion, minimum wage, reproductive rights, and equal rights, you must vote in order to make a change!

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If you’re like most people, the idea of running ten or fifteen miles seems daunt-ing, if not downright immoral. But for a select group of individuals, including the NNU cross country-team, running is a joy and a bond that brings people together.

There are four seniors on the team this year, and they are all unified regarding their team goal of making it to Regionals. Kaleb Fleenor says, “Team goals this year are to make Top 4 in conference and Top 8 at Regionals.” Additionally, qualifying for nationals is in the scope for the team this year.

Last year Fleenor and Michael Gor-don, who have been running together since sophomore year of high school, both made it to the NCAA DII West Re-gional Championship. This year as seniors they are focused on leading the team to new levels of excellence.

Gordon remarks that even though it’s his last year of running, he doesn’t want to focus on himself, but on being a great leader for his younger teammates. “I don’t want to leave my mark as a fast runner or a great athlete, but rather someone who people could talk to about things going on in their life. I want to lead my team with the utmost integrity and lead them in the right way as they continue their journey here at NNU.”

Cross-country requires that kind of strong commitment from leadership, both leading by example and pushing from be-hind when things get hard. Running may be an individual activity, but it requires a lot of teamwork.

Hailey Gordon says, “This year in par-ticular we’ve made it a goal to decrease our gap times. This means that each run-

ner’s goal is to get as close as they can to their teammate running in front of them. By decreasing our gap times, making it to Regionals should easily be accomplished.”

Not only are closing gap times key to team success, but so is everyday moti-vation. Who but your teammates keeps you going when the going gets tough? Susanna Fleming recounts one of her fa-vorite memories from the cross-country team. “We had to do a long run and it was blizzarding outside and really windy. The girls on my team all took turns leading the

pack so the other girls could shield them-selves from the icy blizzard. I hated it at the time, but it was a really good bonding experience and actually really funny!”

Michael and Hailey Gordon get to ex-perience teamwork like most people never will, as not only teammates, but husband and wife. Hailey joined cross-country when her soccer coach jokingly informed her that she enjoyed running way too much. In high school, she talked her best friend into joining the team too - but it didn’t take much to convince him. “If

it meant spending more time with the woman that I was all googly-eyed over then I was all for it,” says Michael.

Hailey signed to run for NNU first, and Michael says she still doesn’t believe that she was part of the reason he signed too. “I finally made it out of the friend zone our second semester of our fresh-man year during track. Two years later, we got married June 21, 2014. It is truly a blessing.”

Running may seem like cruel and un-usual punishment to many, but it certain-ly has its benefits. It’s certainly not easy to keep putting one foot in front of the other for miles on end, but that aspect of plac-ing mind over matter makes the ends jus-tify the means. When you don’t give up, despite the pain, you reach that runner’s high. Susanna Fleming sums it up nicely: “It makes me grateful to be alive.”

Sarah Blumwriter forThe Crusader

sportsFriends Who Run Together Stay Together

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The women’s volleyball team was ranked 15th in the nation as of October 27th. On October 30th, they defeated the #9 team in the nation in 3 straight sets, earn-ing themselves a spot to the NCAA DII National Tournament. (ranking is subject to change).

Men’s soccer earned a top-25 national ranking for the first time ever earlier in the season. In an October 22nd poll, they were ranked 5th in the West Region, and on October 30th, they upset #2 SPU.

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Dear Mama,You ever talk to someone with breath so bad that you have to HOLD YOUR BREATH when conversing with them? I was speaking with one of my professors in his office and he had the worst dragon breath imaginable. You know the camel section at the zoo? Well, that’s what his mouth smelled like. I mean, I couldn’t even talk straight, the stench was so overwhelming that it jumbled my speech and clouded my thinking. I left his office in what seemed like a drunken, odor in-duced daze. How am I supposed to talk to this guy or even attempt to brown nose if I can’t breathe when I’m near him?

Sincerely,Holding My Breath

Dear Holding Your Breath,Stop. You’ll pass out if you keep that up too long. My suggestion for dealing with this professor would be to retain a re-spectful distance. Try asking him ques-tions in class as often as possible, but if you have to meet with him one-on-one, treat it like your trip to the zoo: a rare and exciting adventure. Common cour-tesy asks that you overlook this fault of his when you are in his vicinity. After all, you never know when you’ve been the one with a giant wad of broccoli stuck in your teeth or a suspicious-looking stain on your pants from sitting on a bench a bird may or may not have pooped on and no one tells you about it until after your piano recital... Cut him some slack, and seriously, stop the brown nosing. That may be why your nostrils are so stanky.

Mama Mandy

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