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MIKE JACOBS / The SpectatorBEFORE THE DUST SETTLES: In addition to the extensive construction on lower campus, upper campus could see some major changes in as early as two years. UW-Eau Claire has been utilizing nearby hotels like the Plaza Inn and Suites and Americas Best Value Inn to house students for several years and the new dorm building should deter the university’s reliance on them.
THE SPECTATORTHE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1923
VOL. 91, NO. 2 FALL 2012Thursday, September 13
As early as September 2014, construction could begin on a new dorm building on upper campus, replacing the tennis courts and a section of the Governor’s parking lot.
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Thursday, September 13
The UW-Eau Claire campus mall, a popular destination for students and important recruiting ground for organizations in the past, has been transformed into a large pile of dirt and a maze of chain-link fence.
Director of Facilities Manage-ment Terry Classen, the current inconvenience the construction has created will all be worth it in the end.
“This will be a mall to die for,” Classen said. “It’s going to be a mall that will be the envy of the state.”
Construction on the mall be-gan in earnest just days after last spring’s commencement ceremo-nies and is expected to continue through next November with the completion of the new education building. Classen said he is hope-ful much of the construction will be done in the next few months.
Classen said the new mall will be much larger and will in-clude an amphitheater, locat-ed where the old W.R. Davies Center was, to hold performances. Classen also said a renovation plan for Gar-field Avenue set to be complet-ed in the summer of 2014 will expand the mall and make it pedestrians-only.
But during this transition process, events held on the mall in the past have been moved to other venues. The first Blugold Orga-nizational Bash, usually held on the mall, was instead held in the Ojibwe Room and Dakota
Ballroom in Davies. “It’s hard to get foot traffic on
the third floor of a building,” said Frank Heaton, director of the orga-nizations commission. Heaton said he still expected a good turnout for BOB.
As of Tuesday, 150 cam-pus organizations, approved by the Organizations Commission, had signed up for spots at BOB.
Because of the indoor venue, there were only 157 spots available.
Classen said a temporary plan is being discussed by the Chancellor’s staff to accommodate organizations who have re-lied on a large mall presence in past semes-ters. Areas under consid-eration for use for organiza-tions include the grass be-hind Putnam and Katherine Thomas Hall and the side-walk facing Garfield Ave-nue in front of Zorn Arena.
Rachel O’Neil, co-chair of the University Activities Commission Festivals Committee, said her committee used the mall frequent-ly in the past, especially for Home-coming festivities. But the com-mittee has tried to remain flexible with its promotional plans and lo-cations, including utilizing upper campus more.
“I think that we’ll still be able to reach the same amount of stu-dents, just in a different way,” she said.
O’Neil also said the Davies Center may be able to foster the level of campus c a m a r a d e r i e that was once found on the campus mall.
Classen said the large scale of construction is due to the mul-tiple projects going on at once. Classen said this approach is actually pref-erable to doing
it piecemeal over years and cited construction of the previous cam-pus mall in 1985 as proof.
“I saw how we went through some pain then, but everybody loved it for decades after that,” Classen said. “This is going to be bigger and better.”
Editor’s note: Managing Ed-itor Taylor Kuether contributed reporting to this article.
MALL NO MORE Campus mall undergoing numerous changes; organizations adapt to hold events
Chris Reinoos NEWS EDITOR
“ This will be a mall to die for. It’s going to be a mall
that will be the envy of the state.”
TERRY CLASSENDirector of Facilities Management
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
LONG WAY TO GO: The current state of the campus mall, as viewed from W.R. Davies Center. The mall will be completed once construction on the new education building is finished, tentatively ending next November.
NEW ADDITIONS: The campus mall in front of the new W.R. Davies Center. The redeveloped mall will include an amphitheater, where the old Davies stood, to accommodate outdoor concerts and events.
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NEWS3NEWS EDITORS: Martha Landry & Chris Reinoos Thursday, September 13
NOTABLE EVENTS HAPPENING ALL OVER CAMPUS
Foster Gallery Art Faculty Show
Haas Fine Arts CenterRuns through Sep. 27
10 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. M-F 4:30 P.M. Sat.-Sun.
UAC Films“The Artist”
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black-and-white feature from France taking viewers
* 9 P.M. - 1 A.M. - Two to Tango’s Swing Fling, Ojibwe Ballroom
* 6 P.M.— Student Senate, Dakota Ballroom
* 6 P.M. - How To Be a Smart Renter, sponsored by Rental Resources, Higherground
* 12 - 1 P.M. - Faculty and staff Q&A with Interim Chancellor Gilles Bousquet, Phillips Recital Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
On Aug. 20, a dead crow found in Eau Claire County tested positive for West Nile virus.
Richard Throne, Director and Health Officer at the Eau Claire City-County Health Department, said a community member alert-ed the department of the dead crow and the department col-lected and tested the bird. This is the first bird to test positive in Eau Claire County.
“The crow was identified as result of the ongoing West Nile virus surveillance program that the Department of Health Ser-vices activates each year,” Throne said. “The Department of Health Services establishes a dead bird hotline … particularly what we are looking for as far as testing for West Nile are birds that we know are capable of being infected with West Nile virus.”
Crispin Pierce, head of the department of environmental public health, said West Nile vi-rus was first introduced to the United States in 1999, transfer-ring from mosquitoes and birds to humans, but not from humans to other humans.
“It is not permissible, so if a student is bit and is carrying West Nile, there is no danger to
other students,” Pierce said.
Symptoms of West Nile virus include mild flu-like symptoms such as fever, head-ache, muscle ache, rash, and fatigue, Pierce said. But an esti-
mated 80 to 90 percent of the population would be unaware if they were bitten by an infect-ed mosquito. Unless symptoms become severe, seeking medical attention is unnecessary.
P i e r c e said these numbers are high because most people are healthy enough to fight off the virus with little to no symptoms.
T h r o n e said a bird testing posi-tive for West Nile virus is a common event, and even though
a bird has tested positive, no hu-mans have in Eau Claire County.
“We have been lucky that we have not seen West Nile virus transmission between mosquito and humans in Eau Claire Coun-ty,” Throne said. “We have not had a confirmed active case of West Nile virus reported to us through any of our health care providers or laboratories at this point in time.”
There is no vaccine for West Nile virus, so the best way to re-main safe is to protect yourself from potential mosquito bites. However, that does not mean people need to stay indoors.
Senior Amber Kroening said knowing West Nile is in the coun-
ty won’t discourage her from being in the outdoors.
“ ( W e s t Nile virus) is going to be on my mind more (now) that I know it’s in Eau Claire but prob-ably won’t keep me from going outside,” she said. “I’m
glad that I know. It’s good to be informed.”
To protect yourself, Pierce and Throne encourage community members to take precautions when being outside.
“Some of the things you can do is limit time spent outside at dawn and dusk ... when mosqui-toes are most active,” Throne said. “Having the right clothing is important.”
Throne also recommended re-pairing any damaged screens on their house and regularly empty-ing containers that could provide mosquitoes enough water to breed.
Pierce attributes the ability of mosquitoes to survive later in the year to wetter winters and more intense rainfalls which give mosquitoes places to breed. He said mosquitoes will die when the weather gets colder.
Pierce also said wearing DEET, an ingredient in most insect repellents, is a smart way to stay safe.
This isn’t the first time an outbreak of West Nile virus has occurred, Pierce said. Five years ago there was an outbreak in the Midwest. Pierce said community members should be comforted by the fact that West Nile is normal and once the cold weather hits, mosquitoes will be gone.
West Nile not a serious threat in Eau Claire County Crow tests positive for virus for first time this season; colder weather to prevent spreading
Blugold Organization Bash moves indoors
Biannual event takes place in Ojibwe Room, aims to get students involved
Martha Landry NEWS EDITOR
PIERCE
“We have been lucky that we have not seen West Nile virus transmission between mosquito
and humans in Eau Claire county.”
CRISPIN PIERCEEnvironmental Public Health
Department Head
Crammed into the large ballroom of the new W.R. Davies Center, many stu-dents meandered slowly throughout the many ta-bles filled with shiny pens and various assortments of candy.
The Blugold Organiza-tion Bash, a biannual event held on campus to bring awareness to students about the variety of student orga-nizations available to them, took place Wednesday.
With groups ranging from churches in the Eau Claire area handing out free plants to a fraternity eagerly passing out energy drinks, the room was filled with loud talking, music, and even tap dancing.
The event highlighted groups that can help or bring
together people within ar-eas of specific study, such as the Psychology Club, Public Relations Student Society of America, and Blugold Marching Band.
These groups and more were all placed in one room trying to relate to the many students making their way around the crowded tables.
In the second room, the central focus was on sports, including wom-en’s rugby, men’s rugby, lacrosse, and even the equestrian club.
The room made for nar-rower constraints in terms of walking space, but ev-eryone was successfully making conversations with potential members about the organizations they represent.
ELIZABETH JACKSON / The Spectator GET INVOLVED: Senior Scott Voermans explains more about the Nordic Ski Sports Club to senior Maggie O’Donnell as she signs up at the Blugold Organizations Bash Wednesday in the Ojibwe Room of the W.R. Davies Student Center.
* 4:30 - 7 P.M. - Multicultural Affairs Welcome Back Picnic, Owen Park
NEWS4NEWS EDITORS: Martha Landry & Chris Reinoos Thursday, September 13
A transformation of scenery will be affecting UW-Eau Claire’s upper campus in the next two to four years, not unlike the current construction on lower campus.
A new residence hall is expect-ed to be placed between Horan and Governors Halls, wiping out some parking space on upper campus as well as the ten-nis courts. Con-struction could start as early as September 2014.
Housing Di-rector Chuck Ma-jor said that the proposed addition is necessary and will bring under-classmen closer together.
“The ideal is to have everyone on campus ... it’s just more conve-nient,” said Ma-jor. “Especially for freshmen to get out of the hotels, and get closer to
all the action.”Major said the new complex will
house approximately 350 students, comparable in size to Bridgman or Murray Hall. Early estimates have the project’s cost at $33 million.
That $33 million will be coming directly out of students’ pockets. The funding will come from the students who live on upper campus.
“We (the university) are going to start collecting funds during the con-
struction phase ... and so it could be that some juniors or seniors that are here in the dorms will have to pay for the building without ever using it,” Major said.
That doesn’t sit well with some of the stu-dents now living in the dorms.
F r e s h m a n secondary edu-cation major Ma-riah Weinberger doesn’t agree with having to pay for some-thing she may not end up using.
“I didn’t even know this was happening ... if I do live in the dorms when this construction begins, it doesn’t make sense for me to pay for something I’m not going to use just because I live on upper campus,” Weinberger said.
Even though the hall most likely will not be operational and able to house students until fall 2016, plans to level the tennis courts bother some residents.
Senior Blugold men’s tennis player Ben Robertson has lived in Horan Hall since coming to Eau Claire and said he will definitely miss the courts he has played on throughout his college career.
“This is my fourth year here, so I look out the window and I always see
it,” Robertson said. “To me, those ten-nis courts along with the basketball courts and Towers Field are the hub of upper campus. It connects everyone, and I’ll miss it when it’s gone.”
On the other side of the spectrum, fellow senior tennis player Taylor Heltne said being able to house more students outweigh the emotional ties.
“I definitely think that its always a good thing to be able to expand your campus and to promote what this cam-pus offers,” Heltne said. “It’s hard to do that and have unity when so many students live off campus.”
The new dorm, which will remain unnamed until its completion, will be Eau Claire’s first new dormitory since Chancellors Hall was built in 2000.
Major said the newest addition will not interfere with the feeling of upper campus, and to the contrary, it may actually improve it.
“The university plotted it there with the idea that it would still try and make it a warming area, more of a residential area,” Major said. “It won’t be urban sprawl up there; there is a planned courtyard and a welcoming path from the hill.”
This project isn’t the only one that the university has planned to send through to the Board of Regents re-garding new buildings. A combination of a new and improved Fine Arts Cen-ter along with another new dorm hall has been proposed.
“It would be quite the crown jewel,” Major said.
Major added that the buildings, projected at $90 million, would be placed near Phoenix Park.
The fate of the project will be decided in October when the Board of Regents reviews the university contributions.
SUBMITTEDThis Master Plan map details where the new residence halls will be positioned when they are started approximately in the fall of 2014.
MIKE JACOBS / The Spectator In order to accommodate the new apartment-style dorm building, the tennis courts and a section of the Governors parking lot will be removed.
David Heiling SPORTS EDITOR
“I definitely think that its always a good
thing to be able to expand your campus and to promote what this campus offers. It’s hard to do that
and have unity when so many students live
off campus.”TAYLOR HELTNE
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IT’S NOT OVER YETHaving started numerous major construction projects this summer, UW-Eau Claire sets its sights on what will eventually become a new
apartment-style set of dorms on upper campus.
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5NEWS EDITORS: Martha Landry & Chris Reinoos Thursday, September 13
In the old W.R. Da-vies Center, the Cabin served as a concert ven-ue and a meeting place for students.
With the construction of the new W.R. Davies Center came a new Cabin, and there are some notable differences be-tween them.
The new Cabin features fireplaces, a bal-cony with extra seating and a full coffee shop in-side. Unlike its predecessor, the new Cabin does not have a permanent stage, but rather a portable one.
Jason Anderson, Event Production Coor-dinator for University Centers, said the decision to have a portable stage came from looking at what would provide more for students.
“This one’s obviously far more technologically advanced ... But there’s sort of a give and take,” Anderson said. “You can’t have a fireplace and a fixed stage.”
Anderson said hav-ing a portable stage will
allow the space to be used for more than just performances.
“There was definitely more of a priority placed on the fireplace and what that provides to stu-dents on a com-plete day-round basis,” Anderson said. “As opposed to a fixed stage
for performers that really only services our needs at the end of the week,” he said.
Lauren Bryant, Co-Chair of the Cabin Com-mittee, said the portable stage makes sense to her.
“With the new stu-dent center, each room is supposed to be able to
vary and change a lot, so you can add whatever you want or take out whatev-er you want, like with the new ballrooms,” she said. “I think it fit the mold of the new Davies Center that way.”
The building was moved further east in or-der to preserve the site of the original Council Oak Tree, an important symbol of the university. As a re-sult, the Cabin needed to be moved around and was made smaller.
Anderson said that over time, the size of the venue and the stage could force Cabin pro-gramming to change to fit the venue.
“I feel like the space itself is a magnificent space,” Anderson said.
Bryant said she and the committee aren’t cur-rently concerned about the size or stage.
“It should still work really well for the bands that we bring here and for all of our other events,” she said. “We’re able to
just pull (the stage) out, set it up and we’re good to go.”
Crisbel Jimenez, a freshman international business major at Eau Claire, enjoys going to the Cabin.
“It’s a really cool place to sit down and relax a while,” she said. “It’s calm and I like it.”
Jimenez attended the Davies Housewarming Party on Sept. 1, where Granite Rose took the por-table Cabin stage for the first time.
She said they put on a good show, but the Cabin was packed.
“It seems too small
for a concert,” she said. “If there had been a few more people, they wouldn’t have fit.”
Bryant said the com-mittee had to take band size into consideration just as much with the old Cabin as they do with the new one.
One of the more nota-ble improvements to the Cabin, Bryant said, is the addition of a coffee shop.
“It’ll be nice having it in here,” she said. “I think it’ll keep more people in-side during shows. And some people also like to be able to talk during shows, so I think the balcony will be great for that.”
Student Senate bylaw changes proposed
A new Davies, a new semester, a new stageThe Cabin moves to new W.R. Davies Center; features seated balcony, coffee shop, fireplaceHaley Zblewski CURRENTS EDITOR
Alex Zank & Haley ZblewskiCHIEF COPY EDITOR &
CURRENTS EDITOR
BRYANT
Amendments to the finance commission bylaws were intro-duced at Monday’s Student Sen-ate meeting for the purpose of es-tablishing auditing procedures for student organizations. Support-ers say this will be an appropriate step to hold organizations more accountable as well as ensure student fees are being properly used.
The changes to the bylaws were introduced by Finance Com-mission Director Bryan Larson as the third legislative item on the schedule for the first meeting of the semester.
The changes include the ap-pointment of a finance intern to act as an auditor, who will an-swer to the director of the finance commission. The auditor would be in charge of going through student organizations’ expendi-tures at random via a queue sys-tem, and maintaining a detailed report.
If discrepancies in the organization’s spending patterns are found, the bylaw amendment states the finance commission will, “review the organization’s status per their bylaws and take appropriate action.”
“The main purpose (of amend-ing the bylaws) is to ensure we know what happens to our money after it’s allocated,” Larson said.
Currently, Student Senate does not have any oversight in student segregated fees allocated annually, Larson explained. The amount of segregated fees allocat-ed by Senate comes out to about $4 million.
“There has … been a gener-al feeling that in the past we’ve needed more oversight,” Larson said. “And looking to the future, this is just something that real-ly makes sense and really makes sure the students get their bucks’ worth.”
Student Body President Co-rydon Fish said it will be several weeks before an auditor is cho-sen, since the finance commission and others will have to create an auditing procedure first.
Part of this process is also setting up strict criteria for the
auditor as well as clearly defining the auditing process itself.
“We can’t not give you mon-ey because we don’t like your mission,” Fish said. “That’s not being viewpoint-neutral. So the reason why you need strict criteria for the auditor is to ensure that at no time is the auditor being biased based on their own viewpoints.”
UC resolution
debated
In addi-tion to amending the finance bylaws, a resolution was in-troduced and voted on at the meeting. The resolution, at over 30 pages, contained proposed suggestions for reforming United Council activates in what propo-nents thought would better serve the Eau Claire student body. After a lengthy debate, the reso-lution was passed 25-1 by a roll call vote.
Senator Libby Richter was one of the senators that argued against the resolution, although she was the only one to actually vote against it.
“I was concerned that (the res-olution) would become something more … binding, or possibly step to another referendum,” Rich-ter said. “I was concerned with what the ulterior motive might have been.”
Several others, including Vice President Patrick Martin and Senator Stephen Fisher said that the resolution was not intended as an attack on Unit-ed Council, but a reaction to student concerns.
Senator Jacob Fishbeck believes United Council’s per-formance has been “shaky at best” and the organization does not have a solid record for performance.
“I believe no organization is infallible and United Council is no exception,” said Fishbeck.
The finance bylaw changes will be voted on at 6 p.m. next Monday when the Student Sen-ate meets in the Dakota Ballroom on the third floor of the W.R. Davies Center.
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Auditor position introduced; United Council resolution hotly debated before passage
“We’re able to just pull (the stage) out, set it up and we’re
good to go.”LAUREN BRYANT
Co-Chair of the Cabin Committee
Biker’s limboThursday, Sept. 6
Around 11 a.m., an officer traveling north on the Garfield Avenue hill witnessed many people gathered around a broken gate at the bottom of the hill. The officer approached the group and was told that a student hit the gate while riding his bike.
The student said that while riding his bike down the hill, his brakes were not able to stop him. He added that he attempted to duck the gate, but instead hit it and was knocked off of his bicycle.
Noticing scrapes on the rider’s arms and face, the officer called an ambulance. The student was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital and the officer se-cured the bike onto a Putnam Hall bike rack. The officer also double-checked the brakes on the bicycle and they seemed to be functioning fine. Many wit-nesses said they saw the rider going down the hill at a high speed prior to impact.
Pitbull mix-upThursday, Sept. 6
Around 6:30 p.m., an officer observed a white and black mixed-breed pitbull running on the Wa-ter Street bridge. He was able to catch the dog and found that it was friendly. Noticing the dog had a collar, the officer went to the address listed.
Upon arrival, he saw that the door was open, but no one appeared to be home. The officer called the dog’s owner, who said she had no idea how the dog could have gotten out of the house. He could see that the screen door was not latched properly and the front door was open. He decided the door could have easily been pushed open.
After placing the dog back inside of the house, he ensured that the main door was shut tightly.
Nothing in life is freeSaturday, Sept. 8
Around 10 p.m., an officer responded to a com-plaint placed by the R.A. on duty at Chancellors Hall. On arrival, the officer discovered two home-less people blocking residents from the card-swip-ing device at the front of the building. The subjects were using electricity from Chancellors to charge their wheelchairs.
The officer said one female subject refused to move. He approached the two people and took their licenses. The male told the officer they were charging their chairs because they’re homeless and living on the streets.
The officer told the man that using the universi-ty’s electricity for that reason could be seen as theft of services. The subject said he was never told he was not allowed to do so. The officer asked them to leave campus and told them they were not allowed to charge their wheelchairs any longer.
The officer instructed the RA to report the incident if it happened again.
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SPORTS7SPORTS EDITOR: David Heiling Thursday, September 13
All the Blugolds needed was a de-fensive stop. But like so many facets of football, it’s easier said than done.
Leading 28-21 with a little over 11 minutes left, St. John’s University (Minn.) marched down the field with a drive lasting more than nine minutes to score a field goal, putting the game out of reach. The Johnnies ultimately won 31-28.
The loss, the second three-point home loss in as many weeks, spoiled an otherwise prolific day for junior run-ning back Joel Sweeney, who racked up 182 rushing yards on 28 carries to go along with his three touchdowns.
“This really sucks right now,” Sweeney said. “But we’ll overcome this. We’ll just take this to the heart and then get rid of it, and work on getting the win.”
Sweeney added the offensive linemen and wide receivers paved the way for him to pick up these kind of numbers, as well as saying he would trade the stats for a win “any day.”
Senior safety Coltan Ellis said it was a few big plays particularly on third down situations late in the game, which prevented the Blugolds from having a shot to win.
“Our defense played so well on first and second down,” Ellis said. “We just need to go back and look at film and fix those plays; those third downs, we really need to take a look at.”
Head coach Todd Glaser said the defense needs to focus on playing fun-damental football as they prepare for their next game at UW-Platteville.
“They execute at times, but not all the time,” Glaser said. “That’s a problem when you’re playing good teams, and we have very good teams in our league. We need to learn from these non-conference games so when we do get into conference, we’re ready to play.”
In addition to the defensive strug-gles, the passing game produced very little for much of the game. Quarter-back Austin Neu completed 7-of-17 passes for 84 yards before leading the Blugolds on a 73-yard scoring drive late in the fourth quarter.
One thing that did work in the ae-rial attack was a plan to utilize Neu’s scrambling abilities to make some plays on the ground. Neu gained 35 rushing yards on seven carries and also made several big throws out of the pocket early in the game.
“(St. John’s) linebackers drop fast (into coverage),” Neu said. “We thought we’d get a couple yards with the legs, and it worked out.”
Similar to last week’s game against St. Thomas (Minn.), the Blugolds start-ed off strong, holding a 14-7 lead mid-way through the second quarter. St. John’s scored 21 unanswered points in the third quarter as the offense slowed.
With just more than two minutes remaining in the game, a lightning de-lay was called and the bleachers were evacuated, with the announcer advising fans to return to their cars for the du-ration of the delay. The delay lasted 36 minutes as lightning and brief bursts of heavy rain hit the area.
The Blugolds have a week off be-fore their next game at UW-Platte-ville. Glaser said improving consisten-cy on the field will be critical entering Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.
“Usually, we’re playing well,” Gla-ser said. “But when we’re playing bad, we’re playing pretty bad. We just have a lot of work to do.”
Blugolds come up short at home despite junior running back Joel Sweeney’s big day on the ground
Kris Kotlarik COPY EDITOR STEVE FRUEHAUF
/ The Spectator St. John’s
Sophomore linebacker An-drew Rose (33)
gives chase to Blugold
running back Joel Sweeney
(24) Saturday afternoon at
Carson Park.
Defensive struggles continue
SPORTS8SPORTS EDITOR: David Heiling Thursday, September 13
Sophomore Alex Anderson, like many of his classmates, has a lot on his plate. Balancing school work, the occasional roommate scuffle and a healthy social life is enough to keep any col-lege student’s cal-endar chock-full.
A n d e r s o n though, is part of a group of Blugolds that voluntarily and regularly pile hours upon hours of addi-tional work onto their already busy schedules, without any sort of monetary compensation. That may sound cra-zy, but for Anderson and those like him, that isn’t the case.
They are student ath-letes and they call it something else: dedication.
When winter sports kick into gear, Anderson will begin his second
season as a member of the men’s basketball team. No longer a wide-eyed freshman, he has finally gotten a handle on juggling his life as a col-lege student and his life as a colle-
giate athlete. “I think the
biggest thing is learning to man-age your time,” Anderson said. “You have to make sure you spend enough time studying.”
That can be-come challeng-ing for athletes, especially when some homework isn’t always
geared toward earning class credit.Many athletes spend hours
watching game film or studying playbooks. For Anderson, when bas-ketball season is revving up, that workload increases even more.
Winning a national title last spring is an accomplishment UW-Eau Claire women’s golfer Catherine Wagner said she is proud of and adds that she hopes to continue to be successful in the fall season alongside her team.
Wagner, now a senior, has played for the university golf team for the past three years. A letter winner since 2010, this last spring, Wagner became an NCAA Division III individual national title winner.
Over a four-day tournament in the spring, Wagner took the lead after the second day of play and stayed at the front until the very end, where she won in a tight race for first place.
“There were a lot of the golfers that were su-per close,” Wagner said. “It was kind of nerve-wrack-ing, but it was really exciting.”
Third-year coach Meghan Sobotta said she is very proud of the senior she has coached over the last three years.
“It’s something that she will al-ways remember and I know that I will always remember,” Sobotta said. “I am privileged to be a part of that. She made school history with that (title) and it was just something very unique and special for her, and me, as a coach.”
Sobotta said she looks forward to getting back to the course with Wag-ner and the rest of the team with the fall season being started.
The women’s golf team began their fall sea-son playing two rounds Sept. 1-2. The Georgianni Memorial UWEC Invite here in Eau Claire at the Mill Run Golf Course consisted of 20 dif-ferent schools.
With the team finishing third, Wagner had a total of 80 strokes, ranking 11th overall. Sophomore Kate Engler, led Eau Claire’s team with 76 strokes and ranked third in two rounds of golf over the two day tournament.
Sobotta said that the team hopes to get better week by week, working on small aspects of game play that should be improved.
“It’s a new season, new team,”
Sobotta said. “We lost three seniors last year — they will be missed, but we have Catherine, defending na-tional champ — and senior — com-ing back as well as Kate Engler, who is a sophomore, but played in the national championships last year in the five spot.”
Wagner had similar thoughts about the lack of playing experience the new players bring and the ex-
pectations others may have.
“I think the pressure kind of rides on me, being the oldest one — kind of the leader of the team — but if I just stay focused I think it will turn out well,” Wagner said.
E n g l e r was very hap-py for Wag-
ner and her achievement of a national title.
“I think Catherine’s a great player, she’s really competitive and she hits the ball a very long way. We’re all pretty dedicated,” Engler said. “We like to work hard. I think that if we all just concentrate and work hard we should be able to im-prove a lot.”
Champion returns to the green
Bridget Cooke STAFF WRITER
Wagner looks to defend her national championship title while leading a young women’s golf team
Student athletes a special breed
WAGNER
“ I think Catherine is a great player ... She’s
really competitive and hits the ball a
very long way.”KATE ENGLER
Sophomore golfer for the Blugolds
Andy Hildebrand STAFF WRITER
For a minority on the campus of UW-Eau Claire, dedication for the sport outweighs anything else
>> SPORTS page 9
“ ... the biggest thing is learning to manage your time ... you have
to make sure you spend enough time studying.”
ALEX ANDERSONSophomore Blugold basketball player
SPORTS9SPORTS EDITOR: David Heiling Thursday, September 13
The women’s soccer team couldn’t capitalize on a quick start against the College of Saint Benedict (Minn.) Sat-urday afternoon at Bollinger Field, finishing with a 1-1 tie in a tough, physical home opener.
In addition to regulation, two overtime periods came and went without a winner.
Despite the early goal, the Blu-gold offense was once again unable to capitalize on many scoring opportuni-ties. Head coach Sean Yengo said that may be due more to the quality of com-petition than poor play.
“I think the tie was a positive step in the right direction,” Yengo said. “The team is working hard to get that ‘W’ and will continue to. I’m happy with our style. Our players just need to read the game better. We fell apart in the second half because we weren’t reading the game.”
Saint Benedict spent the majority of the first half trying to find their offense.The Lady Blugolds took advantage min-utes into the game when junior Allie Stone’s header found the back of the net for the team’s first goal of the season.
Junior Hannah Rademacher thinks the offensive drought is finally over for good.
“Finally scoring is definitely a high-light, we started calming down in this game,” Rademacher said. “In New York, we were frantic in games a lot of the time, so we played more comfortable
today. We think that now one is scored, a lot more will come.”
The script flipped after the break, however, as Saint Benedict came out firing. Eau Claire had trouble maintain-ing possession from the start and before long, freshman Alyssa Hoffman knotted things at 1. The change in momentum can be credited in part to the way Saint Benedict kicked their toughness up a notch after the break.
“It was a rough game,” Rademacher said. “We got tossed around a little bit out there.”
The team will need to pick up the scoring if they want to contend this year.
“We just need to start putting the ball away and figure out how to play a full 90 minute game instead of one good half,” Rademacher said. “Our defense is really coming together. Finishing is really what’s missing. With so many freshmen starters, it’s really important to work on team chemistry.”
Yengo agreed that his young team will need to log more game time to help get their feet wet and build more confidence.
“We’ve played very good teams and it’s been a very tough schedule,” Yengo said. “We’re creating good opportunities and have been in goal scoring position, but it comes down to making that good pass. Finishing is one of the hardest parts of the game.”
The Blugolds will continue to look for their first win and begin their quest for a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title on Wednesday when they host UW-Stout.
Early goal not enough in tie
Andy Hildebrand STAFF WRITER
Lady Blugolds fall in Minnesota, still searching for their first victory
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“I’ve got practice in the af-ternoon that lasts around two hours,” Anderson said. “Afterwards I spend another two working on individual things I need to do to improve, so I spend about four hours a day on basketball during the season.”
Those balancing skills aren’t unique to basket-ball. Senior Anne Satterlee is completing her final year of eligibility as a member of the women’s volleyball team and is very familiar with the balancing act that comes with being a student athlete.
“You’re not a nor-mal student, you’ve got a full credit load of 12 to 18 credits, but then you’ve got practices and games on top of it all,” Satterlee said. “Time man-agement is big. You’ve got to know when you have time to sit down and watch a movie or when you really need to study.”
Student athletes aren’t without help when it comes to their grades. Coaches pay close attention to the ac-ademic performance of their players, both out of genuine care and eligibility concerns. Each takes a different ap-proach. In Satterlee’s case that means virtually constant contact.
“We sit down with our coach once
every other week and once a week for the freshman,” Satterlee said. “We talk about how we’re doing in our classes. If we have a big test coming up or some-
thing, we might get to take a half hour or so off of practice if we need it.”
Balancing school and sport starts well before practices begin. The key to successfully navigating a season academically be-gins with a sound plan.
“You have to go into the season very well pre-pared,” Anderson said. “Know what you’re in for, and then when the season ends, really dedicate your-self to your studies.”
The faculty can play an important role as well. Away games often translate
into missed class time, which can make learning the material a challenge. Working with professors to stay on schedule is pivotal.
“Professors are very understanding,” Ander-son said. “Our schedules are more hectic than the average student and they realize that. As long as you show them that you’re serious about your studies, they’ll work with you.”
Mass Communica-tions professor Terry Chmielewski has taught many student athletes over the years and gener-ally doesn’t have to worry about them keeping up with the rest of the class.
“Often, I don’t know whether a student is an intercollegiate athlete,” Chmielewski said. “When I do find out, I’m always pleasantly surprised. They are some of my best students.”
Despite an increased workload, student athletes excel both in the class-
room and on their competi-tive platforms. It’s not crazy, it’s dedication.
“ Often, I don’t know whether a student is an intercollegiate athlete...when I do find
out, I’m always pleasantly surprised. They’re some of my best students.”
TERRY CHMIELEWSKIUniversity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire journalism professor
ANDERSON
Time management skills, having a sound academic plan along with communication with professors are keys to success
It’s not your typical main-stage play; you may not know the char-acters or the plot line at all. You may not recognize the director, or be able to say you have seen it be-fore. But you will be seeing an orig-inal production. You will be able to appreciate local talent at our very own university.
That’s all thanks to the UWEC Players. Last weekend, the Players held their summer production in the Schofield Au-ditorium which included two plays that were completely per-formed, designed, and directed by UW-Eau Claire students.
JT Stocks and Abbey Lowen-stein starred in the shows. They performed two plays, “Sure Thing”
by David Ives and “The Individ-uality of Streetlamps” by Anna K. Gorisch. While these plays are professional productions, the Players traditionally try to perform student-written plays whenever available.
“We like to do original work that is somehow related to the uni-versity,” Stocks said. “It gives you a lot of freedom and a lot of excite-ment and energy to really do some-thing on your own.”
These shows are also designed and directed by students. Maris-sa Aprill was the director of this weekend’s summer production. As the director, Aprill was able to choose the shows, set up for rehearsals and work on light and sound during the productions.
Although it is a smaller cast and crew, “we have a very dedi-cated group of people that come to watch and are consistently excited about our group,” Lowenstein said.
But the UWEC Players are
about more than just their perfor-mances; they are active both on and off campus.
Most notable is this week-end’s International Fall Festival in downtown Eau Claire where the Players will transform into living statues throughout downtown.
In the past they have done this at the Viennese Ball and the Library After Dark event in McIn-tyre Library, and have even act-ed as live mannequins in shops downtown.
“This is sort of a completely on our own creation of theater,”
Stocks said. “We try to get people involved as an opportunity to show off their work.”
With the new semester under-way, the Players are welcoming new faces into the group.
“We are a very tight knit group, but we are always excited about new members,” Lowenstein said. “I swear, you will never find a group of people happier with where they are.”
The UWEC Players are not just about the actors, directors or designers. It’s about each of them working as a team to create art.
“It is a bunch of collaborative art that brings dancers, actors, technicians, writers, and musi-cians all together,” Lowenstein said. “Even if you are not a the-ater major or minor, the Players is open to anyone. Whether you are interested in designing, writ-ing, or art, all are welcome to the meetings.”
CURRENTS10CURRENTS EDITOR: Haley Zblewski Thursday, September 13
Eau Claire’s sweet love triangleThree frozen yogurt shops open in Eau Claire in last six months
It’s sort of like Candyland. The walls are painted with the brightest and most vi-brant colors, there’s candy everywhere and it doesn’t require much know-how to understand.
We’re not talking about one place in Eau Claire; we’re talking about three new, unrelated frozen yogurt shops that have popped up in town this summer.
Frogiyo (331 Riverfront Terrace), Cher-ry Berry (2524 Golf Rd.) and Raspber-ry Reign (310 Water St.) have all opened their doors to customers within the last six months, offering their own variations on the trendy, do-it-yourself treat.
“It’s just a really fun dessert idea,” said Pe-ter Geary, co-owner of Cherry Berry. “You get to come in and eat something that’s healthier for you and make whatever you want. You have a ton of choices.”
Not only does a typical Eau Clairian have a choice between toppings and flavors, but they’ve got the ultimate decision of choosing one of the three new places.
It’s more or less capitalizing on a national trend. Frozen yogurt is extremely trendy, but so is being healthy, and fro-yo offers a more di-et-conscious alternative to those seeking a cool treat without all the calories of your typical ice cream sundae.
“Yogurt’s a trend,” said Colleen We-ber, the owner of Frogiyo. “It was a trend in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. I think right now it’s coming back because it’s interactive the way it’s being done. It’s not just food, it’s sort of a little event.”
For the skeptics that think this trend isn’t lasting, even some of the biggest ice cream man-ufacturers like Coldstone Creamery, Baskin-Rob-bins and even Ben & Jerry’s are incorporating frozen yogurt in their product lines.
And on the business end, Geary said
that it’s a lot easier to manage than most other restaurants.
“As far as businesses go, it’s more simple,” he said. “It’s not super complicated. You’re working with yogurt and toppings; you don’t have to cook things really.”
But don’t hasten to lump all three Eau Claire shops together. Though they may all share similarly bright interior design, with each fro-yo shop comes a different value.
For example, Frogiyo is a little cheaper be-cause they don’t charge by weight, but rather by cup. On the other hand, Raspberry Reign is small, but it thrives on its Water Street location which garners significant student foot-traffic. Cherry Berry, then, has the most variety and flavors and is a franchise, which Geary said of-fers “a more polished product.”
Frogiyo was the first to open and has had to watch the other two businesses open with similar goals, but none of the three seemed worried that they’ll put each other out of business.
Abbey Strunk, the owner of Raspberry Reign, said the relationship between each shop remains amicable.
“They’re all spread out, so I’m not too worried about it,” she said. “It’s just fun for families and individuals to come in to be able to create their own dessert (and) have total control.”
It’s certainly a strange phenomenon for three fro-yo shops to open just a few months apart, especially in a mid-size city like Eau Claire, but as Weber put it: “There’s plenty of business to go around.”
So get it while it’s still hot!
Eric Christenson and Chris Reinoos
EDITOR IN CHIEF AND NEWS EDITOR
UWEC Players: Student-run talent
Heather Hejna STAFF WRITER
MUSIC: Devin Townsend Project, “Epicloud”
My favorite artist, Devin Townsend, is at it again with what I am declaring to be the most positive metal album I have ever heard. The thing with Townsend, though, is that he fuses many styles together (in-cluding a gospel choir in this album), cre-ating music which reaches the point where arguing about what genre it falls into becomes asinine.
Highlights on this album include “Lib-eration,” “Grace,” “Save Our Now,” and “Angel,” but the entire album is beyond great and should have something on it for everyone. As some readers may have seen last December at the House of Rock, Townsend is also extremely fun to watch in a live setting, and is easily worth the price of admission.
The album releases Sept. 18 and is playing at Station 4 in St. Paul with Kata-tonia, Paradise Lost and Stolen Babies on Sept. 16.
Rogue theatre company gears up for new semester
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Located on Clairemont Avenue just off of Patton Street, this is the place to go for people who love all things barbecue but are too cheap/broke to go to Famous Dave’s or Texas Roadhouse. It’s also with-in a reasonable walking distance from the dorms for those looking to go on a mini-adventure.
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CHRIS REINOOS / The Spectator Cherry Berry is one of the three new frozen yo-gurt shops to open in Eau Claire. It is located near Oakwood Mall.
This week’s editor:
“ I swear, you will never find a group of people happier with
where they are.”Abbey Lowenstein
Senior
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CURRENTS11CURRENTS EDITOR: Haley Zblewski Thursday, September 13
When the weather is boiling on the first day of classes, what do students wear? It’s common to see students dressed down in shorts and a t-shirt to stay cool. But Kelsey Dery, a senior geogra-phy major, kept cool in Davies Center, dressed in a feminine sleeveless blouse, skinny jeans and Chaco sandals.
Dery described her style as eclectic, but also flirty. She tends to wear a lot of dresses. Dery’s favorite place to shop is Francesca’s Collections, which sells eclectic fashions that appeal to Dery.
It’s not just hot weather that influences Dery’s wardrobe. When the weather is glum, she tries to dress in happier clothing. Dery is also influenced by “old Hollywood” style and she enjoys the classic looks this style is known for.
Dery doesn’t usually have a thought process when getting ready in the morning. Instead, she said she usually chooses one item of clothing and the rest tumbles into place.
Dery said her favorite accessory is shoes.“If your feet feel good, you feel good,” she said.
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KELSEY DERYSENIOR
Once upon a time, movie producers took time to craft new tales, bending the rules of cinema.
But recently (though one could argue it’s a trend that has gone on for a while), Hollywood has seemed to come to the con-sensus that recreating old tales is more interesting. The theme this summer — and apparently con-tinuing on throughout the next year — is fairy tales.
One of this summer’s most-hyped films was “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Starring Kristen Stewart and Thor from “The Avengers,” “Snow White and the Huntsman” featured a Snow White that was a little bit more warrior than housemaid for dwarves.
Upcoming films include “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” featuring Jeremy Renner as a grown-up Hansel who shoots witches and demons and “Pan,” a retelling of Peter Pan revamped with cops rather than pirates.
On ABC, there’s “Once Upon
a Time,” a show that features time-traveling fairy tale char-acters of sorts, trapped in the modern world.
But even the revamped themes seem a bit lazy. “Han-sel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” sounds like it’s borrowed the plot of 2005’s “The Brothers Grimm,” and as for “Pan,” cops searching for mysterious kidnappers while keeping up with a fairy tale theme sounds a lot like NBC’s show “Grimm.”
So why the sudden interest in turning stories meant for children into teenage romantic dramas and knockoffs of CSI: Medieval?
I think it stems from the same reason that “Hey Arnold” and “Angry Beavers” are on Netflix, and “Lion King” was re-released in theaters complete with 3D: people want to relive their childhoods.
But still, as much as playing on nostalgia to make money from movie-goers works, sometimes it doesn’t go so well.
Right around the same time
as “Snow White and the Hunts-man” came out, another, less dramatic version of the Snow White tale came to theatres, sans K-Stew, starring Julia Roberts as the evil queen. While K-Stew’s “Snow White” did well for itself, “Mirror, Mirror” breezed through theaters barely noticed, ending up at the budget theater after a few short weeks.
The campy, more kid-friendly version wasn’t what people want-ed to see, though it was arguably more cartoonish and more like their childhood favorites.
It seems that what viewers want to see is their fairy tale princesses all grown up, just like they are. They want Snow White to fight her own battles alongside the dwarves, not wash their socks for them while they’re at work.
Arguably, the re-written fairy tales trend started with Disney’s “Alice in Wonder-land,” which featured a grown-up Alice revisiting the place of her childhood.
Sound a little familiar?
This week: Fairy tales recycled
The everyday fashions of UW-Eau Claire and the students who wear them.
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CURRENTS12CURRENTS EDITOR: Haley Zblewski Thursday, September 13
Looking at loss and rebirth through art
Children, Eau Claire education, sculpture students build art in the park
Walking along the Chippe-wa River State Trail, the first cool breezes of fall creating crackling sounds from the crisp leaves, sym-bols of one of nature’s most devas-tating natural disasters hung within the oak branches.
A repre-sentation of rebirth and re-alization came from a most unusual source: children of the Eau Claire area, including those from the Boys and Girls Club, the Chil-dren’s Center, and art educa-tion and sculp-
ture majors Catelyn Mailloux and Megan Byron.
Byron and Mailloux began prepa-ration for the River Bend Art Project in February of 2012 by applying for grants. For the past eight weeks, Mailloux and Byron worked to create stick sculptures, objects they hoped would represent debris left behind after a flood.
Venturing into the Eau Claire community, the women asked chil-dren of the Boys and Girls Club, the Children’s Center, and families in both Owen and Carson park if they’d like to participate. Children drew pictures of what they would save if a flood occurred.
“We chose to work with kids be-cause we appreciate their honesty,” Byron said.
Children ages four to 12 were eager to show what they would take with them to higher ground.
As one child wrote next to a pic-ture of a bike, “my bike because I bike every day.”
Another child drew books, and next to the books wrote, “books to keep me busy (my iPod dies fast).”
Dogs, horses, cats, ice cream, pizza and family members were more items children chose to draw.
The flood catchers were tied to tree branches along the Chippe-wa River State Trail with wire by students and community mem-
bers who came to the event. Framed Plexiglas stands were also placed along the trail, invit-ing event-goers to write words describing flooding.
From the beginning when their interest consisted of responses to hu-man flooding and dealing with emo-tions, Byron and Mailloux sought to connect with the community.
“ … It was simplistic and sen-sitive too … we wanted to do some-thing that connected with the com-munity,” Byron said. “We wanted the kids to have a pride in being able to participate in an elective … and also to respond to the ideas of loss. Some-times we don’t talk about loss with kids because we’re kind of scared to talk about it. We wanted to touch on that with kids.”
Head of the sculpture de-partment and project advisor to Byron and Mailloux, Jason Lanka said the women came to him for assis-tance, and it was his job to help with the techni-cal aspects of the project.
“I was there to help guide their development as a professional … I used my experience to help them better their work,” Lanka said.
Lanka said he was pleased with their hard work and individuality.
“To see a wonderful, articulate and unique work that was their idea was rewarding … their creation and their voice,” he said.
Mailloux said she hopes the project will benefit people in the community.
“As people are walking, we hope people will look at the drawings … see art as a way to respond to life ex-periences,” she said.
Byron said it was a way for them to reach out to the community and mature as artists.
“I would just invite the commu-nity and students to walk the path and experience the work and draw-ings,” she said.
Amelia Kimball STAFF WRITER
UAC film: The Artist
Out of the audible cacophony, spe-cial effect storm and marketing chaos of modern cinema, one film has ris-en and prove true a time-old phrase: “silence is golden.”
The 2011 Golden Globe and Acade-my Award-winning film, “The Artist” is a black-and-white, silent feature from France that takes viewers back to the silent film era. Playing this weekend in the Woodland Theatre, it will be the second film in the UAC Campus Film Series.
Set in the 1920s, the film focus-es on a major silent film star, George Valentin (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin). When George meets a young dancer, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), she bursts into the studio back lot with charm, talent, and a promi-nent chemistry with George.
However, when the studio exec-utives choose to hush silent films for good, talking pictures — with Peppy as the studio starlet — bring in the mon-ey. Thus, the curtain falls on George’s career, and the audience witnesses his fall along with it.
This is one movie that, upon an initial viewing, I knew would be the best picture winner, February at the Oscars. Even now, as I sit in my apart-ment in front of my computer watch-ing it, I still have those moments of
awe; every time I see “The Artist,” it’s the first time all over again.
I have reason to believe it is one of the best movies of the last five years. Based on artistic merit and achievement alone, there truly is no other film like it.
Simply put, it’s the non-verbal di-alogue (some “talking” occurs over cue cards and receives emphasis through strong orchestration) and black-and-white cinematography that pull this film into the spotlight.
One might say such stylized mov-ies are seen as overly artistic or ob-scure, but director and writer Michel Hazanavicius brings back a lost style of movie-making. It’s the precision recapturing of vintage cinematogra-phy and detail to 1920s culture that make it work.
For example — the tight shots of the actor’s faces and soft white light on their faces re-create the intimate scenes similar to ones seen in sweeping romances such as “Casablanca.” Pan-ning shots of the dancing scenes with large prop-heavy sets behind them
recreate the back lot sets that stars such as Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire danced through.
But all technicalities aside, the ap-pealing plot and precision acting make it a head-turner by itself as well.
Dujardin’s performance as George Valentin is a jewel — we feel emotions of pain, depression, despair, and love — all without words. We see Bejo as a sweet starlet who gets it all, but never forgets where she came from. We watch the rise and fall of a mov-ie era, with no more than 25 words spoken throughout.
The rest of the cast is spot-on as well, both in appearance and charac-terization. Yes, even Jack the dog is good. He could have won an Oscar too.
Don’t let silence and lack of color keep you away from Davies this week-end — it won dozens of awards for a reason. With a daringly different style of filmmaking in an age of special ef-fects and big explosions, this film most certainly made some noise in Hol-lywood — and will even break your silence and have you talking about it.
Emily Gresbrink FREELANCER
The Artist
will be
playing in
the Woodland
Theatre in
the Davies
Center Fri-
day at 7 p.m.,
Saturday at
2 p.m. and 7
p.m. and 2
p.m. Sunday.
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OPINION / EDITORIAL13OP/ED EDITOR: Tyler Hart Thursday, September 13
It’s going to be a hell of a lot easier for you to figure out what you want to do with your life if you start thinking about it now, rath-er than waiting until you graduate. Now is the time to figure out what you want your future to look like. My advice? Start with looking up internship opportunities that make sense for your major, or your interests.
This past summer, I had the most amazing experi-ence of my life. I applied for a beauty internship in New York City at a small online start-up company called StyleCaster. I never thought I would get the internship, and I remember the day I found out I got accepted.
I was in The Spectator office one bright Tuesday afternoon when I received an email saying that I was hired, and that I should start making plans to move
to New York. I was extreme-ly excited and ready to start my adventure.
My first day was crazy and overwhelming. I had no idea how to use the subway, and the city was excruciating in every way possible. New York is not what you see in movies, shows, or pictures. It is a gross, filthy, over-ex-posed city, and I loved every second of it.
Without this internship, I would never have realized some very crucial things. I have always thought that I wanted to go into beauty or fashion when I graduat-ed, but now I know that my interests in this area were heavily clouded by high pro-file magazines such as Vogue and Glamour.
Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast writing and researching stories for the company, and they even pub-lished my articles, but I’m not sure if I really want to
go into that industry when I graduate. Sure, I would like to be the next Ryan Seacrest, having a jolly old time with celebs and whatnot, or inter-view some high profile TV executive, but really, how often does a job like that come along?
I would never have known that the industry was not for me if I didn’t take this internship. I learned that I would rather focus on doing something more, like traveling and writing about my adventures. I don’t want to just write about beau-ty products, I want to set out and discover the world. And yes, I know that this sounds arbitrary, cliché and totally unattainable, but let me dream.
That’s life, though. You say you want something, you sometimes get it, and then you realize that you never really wanted it in the first place. It’s a “grass is always
greener” thing, but you have to do it. You have to figure this out one step at a time.
That is why I practical-ly demand that every one of you get out there and intern somewhere. Figure out what is best for you. Figure out what direction you want to go in life. Don’t just sit there doing your readings and studying for tests because that will only get you so far.
No one is going to care about how long you were in the library on Saturday night or about the awe-some research paper you wrote freshman year. Col-lege gets you the degree, but anything you do out-side of that is what makes you who you are. It is what makes you valuable.
I’m not saying do what I did: save up since 2nd grade, pack up two suitcas-es and travel 1,000 miles to a drastically different city. It doesn’t matter if you
intern across the country, or in your own backyard. Find what is right for you, take the chance and just do it.
With an internship you may find reassurance in your goals, or you may find disappointment. The internship may point you in the right direction, or it will make you feel more lost than ever. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you got out there and tried. You will be in a far better place af-ter experiencing something other than school than you were before.
Talk with your profes-sors, look online, talk to other people around you. I promise you that with a lit-tle time, patience and dedi-cation, you will find an in-ternship that will help lead you in the right direction.
The real world awaits youAn internship now will continue to help
long after graduation
Albrent is a junior journal-ism major and Chief Copy Editor of The Spectator.
Emily Albrent CHIEF COPY EDITOR
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong was re-cently stripped of all seven of his Tour de France titles after he chose to stop fighting the charges filed against him by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
Although he was never actually caught doping, the USADA cited testimonials against Armstrong made by people who were close to him throughout his career and made the deci-sion to take away his titles, his bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic games and all of the mon-etary awards he won during his pro cycling ca-reer. The American organization also banned him from the sport of cycling for life.
The editorial board feels as if this punish-ment is unfair and without basis. It is not an issue of whether or not Armstrong was actually doping, because it seems fairly obvious that he was no angel for his entire career. It is an issue of whether or not the USADA had any right to rescind his awards and ban him from his sport.
The board agreed that the lack of hard evi-dence is the main issue with this case. Although there were numerous testimonials from legiti-mate sources, they shouldn’t be given as much weight as cold hard facts.
One speaker considered the situation from a legal point of view. A court of law wouldn’t prosecute an individual of operating a vehi-cle under the influence of alcohol based sole-ly on eyewitness testimonies, so how is it fair that the USADA doesn’t need any positive drug tests to do something as drastic as what they did to Armstrong?
Another speaker chose to assess the issue from the mindset of a USADA official and stat-ed that fighting the issue of performance en-hancing drugs is a positive idea, but choosing to fight Armstrong was a poor move. The board agreed that cheating is wrong, but it is a shame they chose to make cycling’s top performer into an example.
Special consideration was given to the high number of Armstrong’s competitors who have also been caught doping at some point in their career. It is no secret that many other athletes within the sport of cycling have taken perfor-mance enhancing drugs, so Armstrong would not have been the only elite performer to have used drugs if he ever did at all.
Another interesting point that was brought up was how the possible ramifications of the recent events could affect Armstrong’s rela-tionship with the Livestrong Foundation. It was agreed that Livestrong will continue to thrive because of how positive it is as an or-ganization, and it would be unfortunate if something so good were affected negatively by the USADA ruling.
Armstrong’s actions outside of the cycling world were considered strongly by the editori-al board, and it was agreed that he remains a heroic figure and one of the best athletes of our generation. The fact that he no longer technical-ly has any awards doesn’t mean he can’t still do good things for the world.
The staff editorial in The Spectator reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board and is written by the Op/Ed editor. Col-umns, cartoons and letters are the opinion of the author/artist and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Spectator as a whole.
Take a second to think back to when you were in grade school. It was a different lifestyle, one de-void of cars, jobs, Facebook or any substantial amount of work (aside from beating the Elite Four in Pokemon, of course).
A kid could wake up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning, catch an epi-sode or two of “CatDog,” and then head out into the world for what seemed like an eternity. So why is it that, as college students, we’re so hard-pressed to find new things to do?
I think the best way to keep things fresh is
to take some advice from kids, the people we used to
be. All of the best things happen somewhere in between point A and point B, and kids are the mas-ters of uncovering this mysterious point X.
As we hop into our cars and speed across the Water Street bridge to-ward wherever we need to be, a group of young-sters surround-ed by tipped-over bicycles skip rocks beneath it.
While we’re swiping our almost- empty credit cards at a Holiday gas pump, there’s a high-voiced middle schooler buying Sour Patch Kids with a handful of quarters.
It’s obvious that we can’t just shrug off all of our responsibilities to support a candy habit, but I see
no reason the idea can’t remain the same.
I decided to put some effort into a new sort of lifestyle during this past summer. Instead of driving to places like the grocery store and my job with the Eau Claire Express baseball team, I decided to bike. Seems like a pretty minor change in my routine, right?
It turns out that the bike ride itself wasn’t so different, but the things it caused me to notice are what made all the difference.
As I pedaled my way up Claire-mont Avenue to get a backpack full of groceries, I spent some time consid-ering the con-tents of a pawn shop that I had only noticed in passing before. I wondered, do pawn shops have any good
deals, or are they just trying to rip me off?
Two days and a ton of research later, I had a respectable PA sys-tem for a more than respectable price. My roommates and I even hosted a couple of basement shows
with some great local bands and made a ton of connections with interesting people.
On my bike ride to work, I no-ticed all of the contented-looking fisherman on the shores of Half Moon Lake and thought, “What’s stopping me from being that content?”
So I bought myself a $20 fish-ing pole and caught an impressive amount of very small fish. My friends and I even caught enough legal-length bass to make a stunningly mediocre fish fry (bass aren’t the most palatable fish in the lake).
My point is that it’s easy to get stuck in a rut, but we should take some time every once in a while to look around and see the world through different eyes. It may not work out every time, like my se-vere case of inner-thigh poison ivy as a result of an adventure down some abandoned railroad tracks, but you can’t benefit from what you don’t try.
In other words, the jour-ney holds infinitely more poten-tial than the destination if it is approached with an open mind.
Tyler Hart OP/ED EDITOR
“ ... why is it that, as college students,
we’re so hard-pressed to find new
things to do?”
Hart is a junior English major and Op/Ed Editor of The Spectator.
OPINION / EDITORIAL14OP/ED EDITOR: Tyler Hart Thursday, September 13
Hey, what’s your fa-vorite season? Oh, it’s fall? Ugh, cool.
I’m all about cooler weather, nice sweaters, flannel shirts, fun times and nice drinks. What if I told you that you can get all that without the prom-ise that soon it’s going to be negative 50 degrees for five months?
I’m here to tell you that you can get all this plus flowers, trees, rivers and nature being born instead of dying. That’s kinda nice, isn’t it?
Think about May. Think about enduring the toughest, most resilient Wisconsin winter and then
having the first 55-degree sunny day. It’s the most serene kind of relief. Ev-eryone wants to be outside and wear short sleeves and dresses and it’s just perfect.
You can drive around with the windows down and start sensibly drinking lemonade. You can enjoy baseball, grilling out, bik-ing, picnics and being out-side without it being 1,000 degrees out.
So don’t be so hasty! It’s easy to say fall is the best season, but if you’re just a little more discerning, you’ll soon realize that you just feel better in the best parts of spring than you do in the best of fall.
Which season is the best?
Fall is the best sea-son. This is common knowledge. What other season grants you sweat-er weather, apple picking, pumpkin carving, special-ty beverages (Starbucks’ salted caramel mocha, I’m looking at you), and of course, color-changing leaves? Answer: None. No other season can offer all that.
Fall means football season, kicking off five months of Packer parties, football food (in my house, that’s homemade nachos, pigs in a blanket, and a bowl of my dad’s spe-cialty: chili), and yelling at the TV together. You don’t even need to be a
football fan to love congre-gating in someone’s living room on a Sunday after-noon with good food and good friends.
Two of the best hol-idays even happen in fall: Halloween and Thanksgiving.
The former allows you to be anything you want for one night (and causes all the candy in the world to go on clearance the next day), and the latter allows you to eat to excess one day and then shop to ex-cess the next (Black Fri-day, anyone?).
Autumn has some-thing for everyone. No other season even comes close.
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OPINION / EDITORIAL15OP/ED EDITOR: Tyler Hart Thursday, September 13
Last Friday, a three-member panel ruled in favor of reinstating four NFL players caught in the midst of the New Orleans Saints’ injury rewarding bounty scandal uncovered earlier this year.
The panel, consisting of two retired judges and a college professor, found that it wasn’t in NFL commis-sioner Roger Goodell’s juris-diction to suspend players
given the accusation nor hear their appeals on his own. Rather, they left it up to Special Master Stephen Burbank to dish out pun-ishment when dealing with players receiving money for high risk plays.
For Jonathan Vilma, Scott Fujita, Will Smith, and Anthony Hargrove, this ruling is most likely a long awaited sigh of relief. The four were accused earlier this year of accepting bribes at some point in their ca-reers to injure key opposing
players, specifically quar-terbacks Kurt Warner and Brett Favre in the 2009-2010 playoffs.
Although they have been reinstated, this should by no means free them of future punishment relating to the scandal.
All four have eight or more years of NFL experi-ence under their belt. They were all big contributors to the Saints defense. It would have been crazy for Saints c o a c h e s not to go to these guys when try-ing to make deals.
T h u s , I find them just as guilty for not bringing light to the situation earlier. I’m all for physical play, but when someone purposely tries to injure others, it’s crossing a line.
The panel did say that Goodell could continue his search for further insight on these players’ intent to injure other athletes. This would be penalty un-der conduct detrimental to the game which is within his jurisdiction.
With all this time
already invested into the case and the serious sus-pension time he previously handed out, I’d be shocked and saddened to see Good-ell not pursue the matter further.
Personally, I think let-ting these four back in the NFL before their suspen-sions are served only shows what people with money can get away with. Goodell was
harsh while dishing out their pun-i s h m e n t s for a rea-son. He was trying to set a league-wide exam-ple: play fair and play clean. What do these guys need extra
money for anyways? Professional athletes
in the NFL are making six figures minimum, and most make much more than that. That’s more than enough to comfortably support a family of ten. I think it’s idiotic that they’re paid that much in the first place, but to put greed on top of what they already receive is disgusting.
SUBMITTED PHOTO The New Orleans Saints were found to have been operating a bounty system which awarded players bonus pay for hard hits on opposing teams’ key players.
Bounty rulings favor the rich
The decision to allow previously suspended players back into the NFL is a matter of who has moneySteve Fruehauf
STAFF WRITER
Fruehauf is a sophomore journalism major and Staff Writer for The Spectator.
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write about politics, but it was too difficult not to. After all, ‘tis the season.
If the upcoming election was a vote for who was going to be the father of my children, Ann Romney and Mi-chelle Obama’s speeches would have been brilliant.
Unfortunate-ly, the election in November is going to be for the next president of the United States, and I personally found Michelle Obama and Ann Romney’s speeches lacking in substance.
Let’s start with the bulk of what both ladies’ speech-es were about. In short, each speech was some form of, “My husband was poorer than your husband.”
Obama said of her husband, “...he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passen-ger side door. He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.”
But that’s nothing compared to what Ann Romney had to say about her husband: “We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the house-keeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room ta-ble was a fold down ironing board in the kitchen.”
Good to know. If you all want a lit-tle flashback you can come to my house for a dinner of saltine crackers and rice. I’ll even come pick you up in my 1991 Dodge Spirit.
I understand the need to human-ize these men. I also recognize the importance of knowing where they come from. However, I think Ann Rom-ney and Michelle Obama could have focused on more important issues.
These women had many similar themes in their speeches. First, they understand the common American. They have met the men, women, and children of this country, struggling to pay the bills.
Next, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney came from poor families. These men understand what it means to succeed, because they had to work to get where they are today.
Lastly, and I think most impor-tantly, Michelle Obama and Ann Rom-ney know what their husbands need to
do to help America succeed.
But, what is it?I heard noth-
ing about what these men actually plan to do, nor did I hear any ideas the ladies themselves may have. Michelle Obama and Ann Romney did what wives are sup-posed to do: give the voters a point
of view of their husbands that others rarely see.
I’m not saying the speeches given by the ladies were bad. In fact, Michelle Obama gave one of the best speeches at the Democratic National Convention. However, the speeches were off topic. The speeches should have specified what their husbands have done, will do, and want to do.
But I think the reason the speech-es bothered me so much was because they were echoes of what both conven-tions focused on: social issues. I have to wonder if the upcoming election will focus more on social issues rather than economic or financial matters.
In the end, both women gave impressive speeches. I think I choose President Obama to father my children.
Let’s get back on topic
Presidential nominees’ wives need to focus their speeches on more important issues
Rita Fay STAFF WRITER
FAY
“ ... I think Ann Romney and
Michelle Obama could have focused on more important
issues.”
Fay is a senior English major and Staff Writer for The Spectator.
“ ...letting these four back into the NFL
before their suspen-sions are served only shows what people with money can get
away with.”
STUDENT LIFE16STUDENT LIFE EDITOR: Eric Christenson Thursday, September 13
Many upperclassmen are well-fa-miliarized with the nuances of Water Street: • Don’teattoomuchfreepopcornat
It’s all there for of-agers to enjoy. However, for some students, more goes into the bar experience than fun, friends and $5 ATM fees. Some students are the very bartenders and bouncers that try to keep their buzzed peers in check.
“It’s not a bad job at all,” said se-nior Patrick Swanson, a bouncer at Shenanigan’s / Lucky’s. “It’s actual-ly fairly easy. You just have to wor-ry about watching people’s age and watch what they do in the back.”
Swanson said on the whole that
even though he’s had to throw people out, outwit underagers and even find a knocked out tooth and at one of Water Street’s most rowdy clubs, most of the time he just stands around, checks IDs and has a good time.
“It’s weird being there as a bounc-er with a sober point of view of how crazy the bars can actually get,” he said. “If you’re just there at the bars drinking, you don’t really notice every-thing around you that’s going on, but when you’re a bouncer, you have to be aware of everything that’s going on around you.”
But it’s not necessarily easy being a student working as a bouncer or a bartender among your contemporaries.
Koryna Flores worked at three dif-ferent Water Street haunts while she was in school: The Pioneer Tavern, El Patio Restaurant and most recently, The Grand Illusion.
She said other students will some-times try to take advantage of the fact that they shared a class or a mutual friend with a younger bartender.
“People you know always ask, ‘can I get a free shot?’ or something, and depending where you work you can do that,” Flores said. “People would try and come behind the bar to give me a hug or something, but they were
drunk and they didn’t know better.”Senior Emily Chambers recently
started bartending at The Joynt, but she hasn’t run into many difficulties partly because The Joynt tends to be more casual and laid-back, she said.
The casual vibe is what makes Chambers OK with seeing her class-mates out and about.
“If I worked at Shenan’s or some-thing and saw (classmates) having sex on the dancefloor, I’d be like, ‘That girl’s in my French 101; what is she doing?’” Chambers said. “The Joynt’s pretty casual; we don’t get too many crazies.”
So the divide between school-life and bar-life is palpable, for sure. Swanson said he tries to treat people fairly, while it’s still a little weird see-ing some classmates at the bars.
“I try not to judge people because they’re drinking. Everyone acts a little different when they drink,” he said. “It’s funny seeing some people that I know are shy in the classroom, but I see them out and they’re just really outgoing and really talkative, it’s just funny to see how their personality can completely flip when they’re actually out drinking.”
In all, balancing a bartending job with student life isn’t that diffi-cult, and there are added bonuses, Flores said.
“It’s fun when you have parties of your own, you can be like, ‘I know how to make this drink and I know about all these different beers,’” she said. “I usually am a late-night person, so the hours are really nice for me. I like be-ing up and actually doing something with my time instead of just being on Reddit.”
I N S I D E
STORIES FROM BEHIND THE BAR
Eric Christenson EDITOR IN CHIEF
Water Street bars are nice after-hours hangouts for of-age UW-Eau Claire students, but it’s a somewhat different story for the students that
are bartenders and bouncers dealing with their inebriated peers weekend after weekend.
“My first night working, it was the Fourth of July weekend. We were really busy
and this guy comes up to the bar and he lights a cigarette right in front of me, and I honestly didn’t notice it because I was so flustered. You have all these people at the bar and it’s really, really flustering your first couple times. It’s really over-whelming. All that happened was this
dude lights a cigarette and I didn’t notice it. All of a sudden (the other bartender) comes out of nowhere, rips it out of his mouth, throws it in his drink and says,
‘Out.’ That was all it was.”
“It was a girl’s 21st birthday and she came and she was fairly intoxicated to say the
least. She was sitting on a stool and she ended up leaning over and falling off the
stool and hitting her face on the tile. She knocked herself out and also knocked out her front right tooth. So we had to call the non-emergency police and an ambulance
and we got her outside. We ended up finding her tooth, so we gave
it to the ambulance people. It was a pretty crazy 40 minutes.”
“One time, at the Pioneer, someone was dressed as an Oompa Loompa, which was a little scary. Usual drunk stuff, people would come in and puke on the floor and throw glasses. El Patio’s really fun because not many people can really speak Spanish well when they’re drunk and trying to order a burrito, it’s really complicated.”
EMILY CHAMBERS BARTENDER, THE JOYNT
PATRICK SWANSONBOUNCER, SHENANIGAN’S / LUCKY’S
KORYNA FLORESBARTENDER, THE GI / EL PATIO / THE PIO
TYLER TRONSON / The Spectator TREADING WATER: Water Street hosts many of-age students every weekend, but some other students are behind the bar, managing their altered peers by bartending and bouncing. It leads to some interesting stories from those sober few.
