Saginaw Valley State University’s student newspaper since 1967 Vol. 45 No. 22 valleyvanguardonline.com NEWS TIPS/PRESS RELEASES [email protected]NEWSROOM (989) 964-4482 ADVERTISING (989) 964-4248 visit us online at valleyvanguardonline.com Monday, March 25, 2013 Insisde A6 Students competed for publication and cash prizes at the Cardinal Sins Winter Poetry Slam. Inside A3 The History Club hosted a Civil War simulation to honor the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Inside A5 The men’s lacrosse team offered a seminar to local students in kindergarten through sixth grade at Bay City Public Schools. The happiest place on earth will soon be home to a handful of students. Seven students will spend the fall se- mester at either Disneyland in California or Disney World in Florida as part of the Disney College Program. Jacklin Bixler, biology and theatre sophomore, is among those students. Bixler said she is a Disney kid through and through, so when the op- portunity presented itself she jumped on it. “I grew up going to Disneyland, so it was sort of a no brainer,” Bixler said. Tyler Cichowski, exercise science se- nior, participated in the program during the fall 2009 semester. He now serves as a campus representative for the program and enjoys spreading the word and shar- ing his experience with others. Cichowski said the Disney College Program is a good opportunity for stu- dents to take advantage of while they still can. “It just helps you realize that there’s more out there than our small school,” he said. Cichowski’s experience at Disney allowed him to make lasting friendships with people from all over the world. “You get out and meet a lot of peo- ple, and I have a lot of friends I wouldn’t normally have,” he said. Cichowski said he keeps in touch with friends he made that semester. In fact, he visited one of them in Australia last summer. Bixler said she is thrilled to be able to put such an experience on her resume after graduation. “Disney is one of the most well- known companies in the world,” Bixler said. “It will look really good because Disney is a household name.” Students are eligible to apply for the program up to a year after they graduate. The selected students started out by submitting an online application. A ques- tionnaire accompanied the application, requiring applicants to look at possible scenarios that could occur in the park and determine how they would handle them. Applicants then went through a phone interview process, and about six weeks later learned they had been ac- cepted. The applicants have the luxury of choosing whether to stay at Disneyland and Disney World, where free housing is This year, marking the 50th anniver- sary of the university, five SVSU alumni were honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award during the rescheduled Alumni Celebration. The five alumni were honored as distinguished representatives of the five SVSU colleges from which they gradu- ated. Kevin Schultz, director of Alumni Relations, said that the recipients of the award have used what they have learned at SVSU to their best advantage and have made the university as proud of them as they are of SVSU. Distinguished Alumni Award re- ceipts included Paul Bridgewater, a 1975 graduate from the College of Arts & Be- havioral Sciences; Greg Grocholski, a 1990 graduate from the College of Busi- ness & Management; Janet Grief, a 1994 and 1998 graduate from the College of Education; Donald Whittington, a 1978 graduate from the College of Science, Engineering & Technology; and Ellen Talbott, a 1999 graduate from the Crystal M. Lange College of Health & Human Services. Showcasing some of the university’s most talented and esteemed graduates, the Alumni Celebration is meant to pro- mote the talent and skills that come from university students, according to Schultz and other Alumni Association board members. “The faculty and staff of SVSU fo- cus daily on the needs of and the ser- vices provided for our SVSU students,” Schultz said. “We are here for them and because of them.” Paul Bridgewater, one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, served as presi- dent and CEO of Detroit Area Agency on Aging, a multimillion-dollar nonprofit More than $2,000 was raised to support AIDS Walk at Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show. The show is a tradition for Living Proud, a GLBTQA stu- dent organization. Created in 2007, the RSO started the event as a different way to help raise money for AIDS Walk, an annual walkathon fundraiser that raises money to combat the AIDS epi- demic. Every dollar raised goes to- ward AIDS Walk, which is why social work sophomore and Liv- ing Proud President Kara Brooks believes the event has gained popularity on campus. “A lot of other fundrais- ers are less interactive, which is what made us choose this one,” she said. Last year, the event raised $1,576. Attendance cost was $1 for a general admission seat and $3 for a VIP seat, which got stu- dents a spot in front of the stage to watch the show. Student Asso- ciation purchased Buffalo Wild Wings for the event and Valley Nights helped serve popcorn and raffled off prizes. The event itself showcased new and veteran drag queens who performed routines that included song and performance for the crowd inside of a certain set time. The more creative the routine, the more likely audience members would tip the perform- ers. “This show is an exaggera- tion of stereotypes found in gen- der roles,” said fine arts sopho- more Sam Boswell. “For the drag shows, generally people that are female identified dress up in masculine clothing, while those that are male identified dress up in feminine clothing. They inter- act with the crowd, and it’s a lot of fun.” One performer, Gail Force, came out with an umbrella and a raincoat to the tune of “It’s Rain- ing Men” by The Weather Girls. Another standout was “Domino Seven” (Dominic Freeman), who sang in ‘80s garb to the tune of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper. First place winner “Jackie Leigh Peters” (Arik Gottleber) began his set off as a pregnant nun and stole the show after birthing a baby doll on stage, umbilical cord and all, to the sounds of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.” Second place went to “Chantinique La Flare” (Sabas- tian Ra’Khiem) and third place went to “Patrische Tigerlily” (Kyle Tuszkowski). Many of the performers at the show volunteered their time solely for the cause. “There’s a student on cam- pus that participates at The Mixx, a gay bar in Saginaw, [who] knows a lot of the drag queens,” Boswell said. “Through word of mouth, they volunteered their time and agreed to donate the tips they got.” Besides the cost of admis- sion and a few small prizes through a silent auction, a major- ity of the money raised through the event is made through tips from the audience. Overall, many thought the event was a huge success, espe- cially criminal justice freshman Deavante Grier, who was blown away by the sight of his first drag show. “It was cool,” he said. “I have so much respect for the craft that goes along with (the event), as well as the energy.” A new club is looking to make connections between international and domestic students. The Chinese-Taiwanese Cul- ture Club is a new group focused on immersing students of different cultures together. History senior and club Presi- dent and founder Phillip Geisz believes learning about and un- derstanding different cultures is important. “I want to have international students and American students interact with each other,” he said. “I want this to be a chance for them to actually get to know each other, to make a friendship, and hopefully build a better future based on these ideas.” The club meets weekly and of- fers films and presentations about different parts of Chinese-Taiwan- ese culture, including politics, his- tory, food and religion. Members selected the topics when the group began, and often research and give presentations. Geisz believes learning about Chinese-Taiwanese culture is crucial due to today’s changing world. “The role that China and Tai- wan are playing in today’s world (makes it important). It’s global- ization, and China is really behind that,” he said. “It’s very important that domestic students really un- derstand the culture if they’re go- ing to succeed in this new global- ized world.” Geisz has faith that the club will help change people’s percep- tions of Chinese-Taiwanese cul- ture. “I want to break down those stereotypes, because China is very diverse, just like the U.S.,” he said. “You can’t label a person from China the same as everyone else within that country, and the same goes with Taiwan. It’s a large country, diverse, just like Ameri- cans.” Lu Liu, a college students af- fair administration major and club vice president, also believes in promoting understanding. “I am from China, and I found that most Americans haven’t been there before, so their impressions about China are limited by me- dia,” Liu said. “I really want to let them know what China looks like now.” The club isn’t just about changing the views domestic stu- dents hold. “It’s also the goal to break down the stereotypes of the Amer- icans from the perspectives of the international students,” Geisz said. “(We’re focused on) educa- tion and immersion.” Education is an important part of the club. Geisz said that in the future, he plans on bringing in more speakers to teach the group members. “We have a lot of scholars on campus that can help us achieve that goal, to talk about subjects that domestic students and inter- national students won’t touch on or won’t hear about,” he said. “I want to steer the club away from the negative perspectives of China and Taiwan. I want them to hear about the positive side.” Geisz hopes to work with the Chinese Students and Scholars Vanguard photo | Arianna Paver “Mary Magdelicioso” (Mikey Flores) performs and collects tips to Luciana’s “I’m Still Hot” in Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show, held Friday. “ The faculty and staff of SVSU focus daily on the needs of and the services provided for our SVSU students. ” KEVIN SCHULTZ, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS SVSU job hunters return to childhood Association awards distinguished alumni International, domestic students connect through culture club Dragging out traditions By Landon Defever Vanguard Staff Writer By Andrea McBride Vanguard Staff Writer By Brandy Abraham Vanguard Campus Editor By Rachel Stocki Vanguard Campus Editor See ALUMNI, A2 See DISNEY, A2 Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show raises more than $2,000 for charity See CLUB, A2
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Insisde A6
Students competed for publication and cash prizes at the Cardinal Sins Winter Poetry Slam.
Inside A3
The History Club hosted a Civil War simulation to honor the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Inside A5
The men’s lacrosse team offered a seminar to local students in kindergarten through sixth grade at Bay City Public Schools.
The happiest place on earth will soon be home to a handful of students.
Seven students will spend the fall se-mester at either Disneyland in California or Disney World in Florida as part of the Disney College Program.
Jacklin Bixler, biology and theatre sophomore, is among those students.
Bixler said she is a Disney kid through and through, so when the op-portunity presented itself she jumped on it.
“I grew up going to Disneyland, so it was sort of a no brainer,” Bixler said.
Tyler Cichowski, exercise science se-nior, participated in the program during the fall 2009 semester. He now serves as a campus representative for the program and enjoys spreading the word and shar-ing his experience with others.
Cichowski said the Disney College Program is a good opportunity for stu-dents to take advantage of while they still can.
“It just helps you realize that there’s more out there than our small school,” he said.
Cichowski’s experience at Disney
allowed him to make lasting friendships with people from all over the world.
“You get out and meet a lot of peo-ple, and I have a lot of friends I wouldn’t normally have,” he said.
Cichowski said he keeps in touch with friends he made that semester. In fact, he visited one of them in Australia last summer.
Bixler said she is thrilled to be able to put such an experience on her resume after graduation.
“Disney is one of the most well-known companies in the world,” Bixler said. “It will look really good because Disney is a household name.”
Students are eligible to apply for the program up to a year after they graduate.
The selected students started out by submitting an online application. A ques-tionnaire accompanied the application, requiring applicants to look at possible scenarios that could occur in the park and determine how they would handle them.
Applicants then went through a phone interview process, and about six weeks later learned they had been ac-cepted.
The applicants have the luxury of choosing whether to stay at Disneyland and Disney World, where free housing is
This year, marking the 50th anniver-sary of the university, five SVSU alumni were honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award during the rescheduled Alumni Celebration.
The five alumni were honored as distinguished representatives of the five SVSU colleges from which they gradu-ated. Kevin Schultz, director of Alumni Relations, said that the recipients of the award have used what they have learned at SVSU to their best advantage and have made the university as proud of them as they are of SVSU.
Distinguished Alumni Award re-ceipts included Paul Bridgewater, a 1975 graduate from the College of Arts & Be-havioral Sciences; Greg Grocholski, a 1990 graduate from the College of Busi-ness & Management; Janet Grief, a 1994 and 1998 graduate from the College of Education; Donald Whittington, a 1978 graduate from the College of Science, Engineering & Technology; and Ellen Talbott, a 1999 graduate from the Crystal M. Lange College of Health & Human Services.
Showcasing some of the university’s
most talented and esteemed graduates, the Alumni Celebration is meant to pro-mote the talent and skills that come from university students, according to Schultz and other Alumni Association board members.
“The faculty and staff of SVSU fo-cus daily on the needs of and the ser-vices provided for our SVSU students,” Schultz said. “We are here for them and because of them.”
Paul Bridgewater, one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, served as presi-dent and CEO of Detroit Area Agency on Aging, a multimillion-dollar nonprofit
More than $2,000 was raised to support AIDS Walk at Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show.
The show is a tradition for Living Proud, a GLBTQA stu-dent organization. Created in 2007, the RSO started the event as a different way to help raise money for AIDS Walk, an annual walkathon fundraiser that raises money to combat the AIDS epi-demic.
Every dollar raised goes to-ward AIDS Walk, which is why social work sophomore and Liv-ing Proud President Kara Brooks believes the event has gained popularity on campus.
“A lot of other fundrais-ers are less interactive, which is what made us choose this one,” she said.
Last year, the event raised $1,576.
Attendance cost was $1 for a general admission seat and $3 for a VIP seat, which got stu-dents a spot in front of the stage to watch the show. Student Asso-ciation purchased Buffalo Wild Wings for the event and Valley Nights helped serve popcorn and raffled off prizes.
The event itself showcased new and veteran drag queens who performed routines that included song and performance for the crowd inside of a certain set time. The more creative the
routine, the more likely audience members would tip the perform-ers.
“This show is an exaggera-tion of stereotypes found in gen-der roles,” said fine arts sopho-more Sam Boswell. “For the drag shows, generally people that are female identified dress up in masculine clothing, while those that are male identified dress up in feminine clothing. They inter-act with the crowd, and it’s a lot of fun.”
One performer, Gail Force, came out with an umbrella and a raincoat to the tune of “It’s Rain-ing Men” by The Weather Girls. Another standout was “Domino Seven” (Dominic Freeman), who sang in ‘80s garb to the tune of
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper.
First place winner “Jackie Leigh Peters” (Arik Gottleber) began his set off as a pregnant nun and stole the show after birthing a baby doll on stage, umbilical cord and all, to the sounds of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.”
Second place went to “Chantinique La Flare” (Sabas-tian Ra’Khiem) and third place went to “Patrische Tigerlily” (Kyle Tuszkowski).
Many of the performers at the show volunteered their time solely for the cause.
“There’s a student on cam-pus that participates at The Mixx, a gay bar in Saginaw, [who]
knows a lot of the drag queens,” Boswell said. “Through word of mouth, they volunteered their time and agreed to donate the tips they got.”
Besides the cost of admis-sion and a few small prizes through a silent auction, a major-ity of the money raised through the event is made through tips from the audience.
Overall, many thought the event was a huge success, espe-cially criminal justice freshman Deavante Grier, who was blown away by the sight of his first drag show.
“It was cool,” he said. “I have so much respect for the craft that goes along with (the event), as well as the energy.”
A new club is looking to make connections between international and domestic students.
The Chinese-Taiwanese Cul-ture Club is a new group focused on immersing students of different cultures together.
History senior and club Presi-dent and founder Phillip Geisz believes learning about and un-derstanding different cultures is important.
“I want to have international students and American students interact with each other,” he said. “I want this to be a chance for them to actually get to know each other, to make a friendship, and hopefully build a better future based on these ideas.”
The club meets weekly and of-fers films and presentations about different parts of Chinese-Taiwan-ese culture, including politics, his-tory, food and religion. Members selected the topics when the group began, and often research and give presentations.
Geisz believes learning about Chinese-Taiwanese culture is crucial due to today’s changing world.
“The role that China and Tai-wan are playing in today’s world (makes it important). It’s global-ization, and China is really behind that,” he said. “It’s very important that domestic students really un-derstand the culture if they’re go-ing to succeed in this new global-ized world.”
Geisz has faith that the club will help change people’s percep-tions of Chinese-Taiwanese cul-ture.
“I want to break down those stereotypes, because China is very diverse, just like the U.S.,” he said. “You can’t label a person from China the same as everyone else within that country, and the same goes with Taiwan. It’s a large country, diverse, just like Ameri-cans.”
Lu Liu, a college students af-fair administration major and club vice president, also believes in promoting understanding.
“I am from China, and I found that most Americans haven’t been there before, so their impressions about China are limited by me-dia,” Liu said. “I really want to let them know what China looks like now.”
The club isn’t just about changing the views domestic stu-dents hold.
“It’s also the goal to break down the stereotypes of the Amer-icans from the perspectives of the international students,” Geisz said. “(We’re focused on) educa-tion and immersion.”
Education is an important part of the club. Geisz said that in the future, he plans on bringing in more speakers to teach the group members.
“We have a lot of scholars on campus that can help us achieve that goal, to talk about subjects that domestic students and inter-national students won’t touch on or won’t hear about,” he said. “I want to steer the club away from the negative perspectives of China and Taiwan. I want them to hear about the positive side.”
Geisz hopes to work with the Chinese Students and Scholars
Vanguard photo | Arianna Paver“Mary Magdelicioso” (Mikey Flores) performs and collects tips to Luciana’s “I’m Still Hot” in Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show, held Friday.
“The faculty and staff of SVSU focus daily on the needs of and the services provided for our SVSU students.”
Kevin Schultz, director of Alumni relAtionS
SVSU job hunters return to childhood
Association awards distinguished alumni
International, domestic students connect through culture club
Dragging out traditions
By Landon DefeverVanguard Staff Writer
By Andrea McBride Vanguard Staff Writer
By Brandy Abraham Vanguard Campus Editor
By Rachel StockiVanguard Campus Editor
See ALUMNI, A2See DISNEY, A2
Living Proud’s sixth annual drag show raises more than $2,000 for charity
See CLUB, A2
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Police briefs are written according to reports from University Police. These indicate preliminary descriptions of events and not necessarily actual incident
Minor in Possession• At 1:51 a.m. March 15, officers were
called to the First Year Suites to meet with the residential assistant for the smell of marijuana. There was a strong smell coming from the room, but a search revealed nothing. It was discov-ered that one of the tenants had been drinking and was issued an M.I.P.
• At 7:27 p.m. March 20, officers were called to University Village to meet with residential life who had reported to smelling marijuana while doing a health and safeties check. Officers spoke to the residents and it is believed that one had been smoking in one of the rooms. Remnants of marijuana were found but there was not a substantial amount, and the case was turned over to student conduct.
Hit and Run• At 5:14 p.m. March 14, officers received a
call from two female students who had witnessed the vehicle of a 19-year-old student in G-3 lot hit the vehicle of a 45-year-old non-student. Officers ar-rived and met them in the lot, and left notes on both vehicles.
Property Damage• At 7:25 p.m. March 18, an 18-year-old
female student was turning at the intersection of Collins Road and College Drive when she lost control of her ve-hicle and hit the curb, causing moder-ate damage.
• At 1:30 p.m. March 20, officers were alerted by an employee in the Ryder Center that someone had ripped the paper towel dispensers off the wall in the men’s locker room.
Assault• At 7:40 p.m. March 16, officers re-
sponded to a verbal argument in Living Center Southwest. A 20-year-old female student had reported earlier that day that she had seen a text from her 19-year-old roommate that stated “her mouth would get her in trouble.” She and her roommate later got into an argument, and the victim told her room-mate to hit her. Her roommate did and a fight developed. The 19-year-old student was arrested for assault.
Driving with Suspended Liscense• At 12:56 p.m. March 14, an officer made
a traffic stop for an expired registration plate. Upon contact, it was discovered that the driver was on his third offense and was driving suspended. A search of the vehicle revealed marijuana and other paraphernalia located under the driver’s seat. The driver was arrested for driving with a license suspended and possession of marijuana.
• At 11:15 p.m. March 16, an officer
organization. Also a respected gerontologist, Bridgewa-ter was appointed to serve as a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging on four occasions.
He told a story about a letter he kept from a base-ball coach from September 1959.
“As a nine (or) ten year old, I didn’t know what leadership meant. (But) I understood what a team was,” Bridgewater said.
He called his family and colleagues “a team.” “It is that team that has made the difference to me,
and made me what I am now,” he said. “I accept this award on their behalf because of where they have put me and how I have been able to do what I have done.”
Donald Whittington, another Distinguished Alum-ni Award recipient, is currently vice president and chief information officer of Florida Crystals Corporation, which is a sugar company with headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida. Whittington’s career experience includes roles in product development for iWork Soft-ware and adjunct lecturer of computer science at Sagi-naw Valley State University.
He said that he was a first-generation college stu-dent. With plans to only stay for one year, he said that he “fell in love with (SVSU)” and stayed to become a 1978 graduate.
“What it really prepared me for, that intimate-style, was to prepare for the change. I would recommend that for young people today,” Whittington said. “The only thing that is certain is change. I am an agent of change, and change is hard.”
Darryn Crocker, a 2008 graduate from the Crystal M. Lange College of Health and Human Services, was honored as the 2013 Young Alumna for her work with the people of the Kingdom of Swaziland in Sub-Saha-ran Africa, serving with the health division of the U.S. Peace Corps. She served as an HIV/AIDS rural health educator.
Elyse Ledy, a future College of Arts and Behavior-al Science graduate, was chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Future Alumna award. Ledy is the vice president and programming chair of Forever Red, SVSU’s stu-dent-alumni group, and is a member of Lamba Pi Eta (communication honor society).
SVSU President Eric Gilbertson, as the celebration’s featured speaker, ended the event with a presentation about SVSU’s 50th anniversary and the aspirations of the staff and students.
He said that the community which gave birth to SVSU was a blank canvas that gave the university the opportunity to develop and grow.
“A lot of what we have become was anticipated by people back in the 1960s,” he said. “This is all about people and traditions. What we are is what we created together.”
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Association in the future, along with the American Ming Chuan University on SVSU’s campus.
“Ming Chuan University recently opened up American Ming Chuan University here, and hopefully the (Chinese-Taiwanese Culture Club) will be a big help for them, especially in the summertime,” Geisz said. “There are a lot of things that they are hoping to achieve that I think that this club can be a major asset in help-ing.”
Geisz is optimistic about the future of the club.“Hopefully we can get more students in there and
be supportive,” he said. “It all depends on how well the
domestic students accept the idea of Chinese culture in their school learning with them.”
Liu hopes that students will join the club for both the education and the community.
“I made some new friends here. We can help each other together,” Liu said. “From the club activities, peo-ple could know other cultures better, not just from me-dia. It could let them learn something (new) and have fun.”
The Chinese-Taiwanese Culture Club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Brown Hall 218. All are wel-come. For more information, contact Phillip Geisz at [email protected].
Wednesday, March 27th
@ 7pm in the Malcolm Field Performing
Arts Theatre
INTERCULTURAL NIGHT: AROUND THE WORLD 50 YEARS AGO
Come for a Night of Wonderful Entertainment! Tickets are only $7 for the General Public & $5 for Students!
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performed a traffic stop for defective equipment. Upon contact, it was discovered that the 21-year-old female student did not have her driver’s license and has had numerous suspensions. She was issued a citation for her third offense and her car was impounded.
Larceny• At 12:55 p.m. March 16, a 19-year-old female student reported
that she had left her cell phone in the bathroom in the Student Life Center. Upon returning about an hour later, she discovered that it was missing.
• At 9:40 p.m. March 18, a 21-year-old male student reported that while at the Ryder Center, he placed his items in a locker and came back two hours later to find his wallet missing.
• On March 19, officers were called by the custodial manager that over the course of the past few weeks, the bathrooms in Curtiss Hall and the Student Life Center have been los-ing large amounts of toilet paper. This case is still under investigation.
Impounded Vehicle• At 10:24 p.m. March 20, parking services located an illegally
parked vehicle in the parking lot of University Village West. It was discovered that the vehicle had several unpaid tickets at court, and it was impounded as a result.
provided for them. They were also instructed to choose three jobs
they’d be interested in performing during their stay. The choices include lifeguard, custodian, at-tractions or even a Disney character, all of which are paid positions.
Bixler will be helping with the attractions during her stay, which she said happened to be
her first choice.Cichowski said most applicants receive their
first choice, but it all depends. However, no matter what role is acquired,
spending a few months immersed in Disney may be the stress reliever a college student needs.
It allows them to take a break from the nor-mal college routine, and Cichowski said he highly recommends it.
“I can honestly say that this is the best thing I’ve done in all my four years,” Cichowski said. “It got me out in the world.”
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Students who have ever been curious about the experience of participating in a historical event like the American Civil War got a chance to find out.
To honor the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the History Club put on a simulation to show students an interactive way to get into history last Wednesday. The event operated similarly to the game Risk, but on a larger, more interactive scale.
Students were divided up and took on the roles of famous leaders from either the Union or the Confederacy. Each group had their own sepa-rate room with a computer and a map of the Unit-ed States.
Using Facebook Chat, the students communi-cated with the main room, but not with each other. Tiny figures were used to designate Confederate and Union troops, and were moved around the map as each group planned out their strategies.
However, this does not mean the simulation
followed history as it is known today. Students are encouraged to turn history on its head, which means that there is the potential for the South to win the war.
“We’ve attempted to keep it accurate up to the point where the simulation starts,” said history senior Jeremy Killion, the president of the History Club. “But once it gets going, the course of events is determined by the participants.”
Killion got the idea after attending a 2012 Model United Nations conference in Toronto.
“There was a simulation for the Civil War as well as some other historical events,” Killion said. “A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who was also at the conference and the idea seemed perfect for the History Club.”
On the Union side, political science freshman Elizabeth Michalek had the job of the messenger and communicated her team’s moves with the main room.
“This simulation is really engaging and edu-cational,” Michalek said. “It’s really interactive, which makes it really fun and awesome. I would definitely do it again if given the chance.”
For the Confederacy, the role of General Rob-ert E. Lee was taken on by public administration senior Drew Christiansen.
“It was really interesting to be a part of this simulation,” Christiansen said. “It reminded me a lot of when I used to play Axis and Allies. If given the opportunity, I would probably do it again.”
Killion said that the Civil War event will not be the only simulation to come to SVSU’s campus. There were a few minor difficulties that he encoun-tered, such as the lack of messengers to help keep up with the incoming commands of each group. Despite these “hiccups,” Killion believes this simu-lation will help with the planning on future simu-lations.
“I would like to do one simulation in Fall 2013 for either the 200th anniversary of War of 1812 or the Napoleonic Wars. During Winter 2014, there will be a much larger simulation for the 100th an-niversary of World War I,” Killion said.
For more information or to join the History Club, students can contact Jeremy Killion at [email protected].
Professional profiles, resumes, networking and job searching can seem overwhelming for the job-seeking college student.
Nearly 30 professionals gathered at a seminar titled, “How to develop, define and build a per-sonal brand (that matters)” with Hajj Flemings, renowned expert on personal branding, to learn strategies to better identify their own brand in to-day’s job market. The session was hosted by the White Pine chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) on March 19 at the Horizons Conference Center in Saginaw.
Flemings founded Brand Camp University, the largest personal branding company in the Mid-west, and has been featured in publications includ-ing the Wall Street Journal and CNN Tech Money.
Flemings provided a range of advice on how to best brand oneself, in situations such as enter-ing the job market for the first time or broadening one’s horizons as a seasoned professional.
“The average American works 89,000 hours in their lifetime,” Flemings said. “You need to think about what you want to do for that amount of time. What do you really like to do?”
Flemings said that finding the ideal job is the cross-section of a “genius.”
“In order to be a ‘genius,’ you need three P’s – a passion, a problem and a process,” Flemings said. “You need to love to do something, there has to be a problem to solve or a need for that skill and then an opportunity or process to complete it.”
Flemings performed an exercise of saying names including ‘Lindsay,’ ‘Lance’ and ‘Kim.’ At-tendees immediately associated the names with celebrities using one-word adjective descriptions.
“When you think about your personal brand, it’s not all about what you say about yourself; it’s about what others say about you,” Flemings said.
Flemings emphasized the importance of being a storyteller of your own personal brand. Whether based on first impressions in person or via social media outlets, one’s personal brand should speak clearly for itself.
“Storytelling is a learned thing and has to be developed,” Flemings said. “It is key for you to be able to tell your story well across multiple plat-forms.”
Lauren Weiss, SVSU Fall 2012 graduate, works as a marketing assistant at St. Mary’s of Michigan.
“If there’s one thing I could say to current col-lege students, it would be to start early on defining your personal brand,” Weiss said. “Create a Linke-dIn, use Twitter and get involved in groups and clubs that will benefit you professionally. I think many students wait before it’s too late to get on board with these kind of activities.”
LinkedIn has become an increasingly popular tool for job seekers and companies looking to hire. According to LinkedIn in January 2013, the site re-ports over 200 million users in more than 20 coun-tries and territories.
Flemings said that 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies have company LinkedIn profiles, and many companies use the site as a recruiting tool.
“For students, LinkedIn is a great opportu-nity to make connections with companies, groups and alumni groups,” Flemings said. “Your job is to make it as easy as possible for people to connect with you, whether it’s headhunters, recruiters or college alumni.”
Flemings also addressed LinkedIn’s endorse-ments feature which allows users to recognize their connections’ skills and expertise.
“It is one thing if you think you have skills for a job, but totally different if the outside world can recognize it,” he said.
Carrie Schultz, marketing/fund development director at Child and Family Services in Saginaw, said that internships provide invaluable experi-ence to college students.
“Students should come into an internship like a sponge and soak up all of the knowledge of those around them,” Schultz said. “College students should be transparent in their company and clear about who they are.”
Schultz added, “As the saying goes, ‘It’s not always what you know, but who you know.’”
Hurricane Sandy quelled Kwame Anthony Appiah’s first effort to speak at Saginaw Valley, but he was determined to reschedule and help more people understand his idea that honor and shame can and does change deeply rooted cultural practices.
Appiah teaches philosophy at Princeton Uni-versity and has taught at The University of Ghana, Cornel, Yale and Harvard. In 2010, he was award-ed the National Humanities Medal at the White House given to those who have helped broaden the nation’s understanding of the humanities. Ap-piah has also been named one of the top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.
During his talk, Appiah first spoke about how honor matters to most people.
While he admitted that, “Yes, there’s a rela-tive small number of sociopaths and people who honestly don’t care what other people think…” He pointed out that, “The majority of us do to an ef-fective degree.”
Appiah defined “honor” as a system of codes
a group of people have agreed upon for assigning respect. Losing honor leads to shame and eventu-ally loss of respect or even causes disrespect.
Appiah made a distinction between morality and honor, defining morality as how we ought to treat one another. He pointed out that morality is at odds with our ideas of what is honorable.
To illustrate, Appiah presented the outdated practice of dueling.
“Back then, when a man accused another man of lying, to defend his honor, the accused was to challenge the accuser to a duel to the death,” Appiah said. “It was crazy… Dueling was illegal, a sin against God, and irrational, but the men did it anyway to preserve their honor.”
Men who were dueling were partaking in the immoral practice of murder while also partaking in the honorable practice of dueling. Honor and morality were at odds.
What is more interesting is the men who par-took in the duels often knew it was wrong, Ap-piah’s second point.
“Much of the time the people participating in immoral practices know that it’s wrong.” Appiah said. “Many of the wills of men who were to par-ticipate in a duel the next morning ask God’s for-
giveness for the sin they were about to commit.” In fact, some intelligent minds of the time
found dueling to be detestable at its very onset, Appiah revealed. He quoted one as saying, “Duel-ing will end when its practice is adopted by base men (butchers, barbers, etc) and these ‘noble gen-tlemen’ feel it lower than themselves.”
Dueling became shameful and ungentleman-ly and eventually the lower class found it detest-able.
“What better tool than mockery to destroy an honorable act that was not so honorable in the first place,” Appiah said.
Appiah believes the same idea can end cur-rent occurrences of honor conflicting with moral-ity, for example, female genital cutting.
He said that it’s not our place to tear one culture’s sense of honor away and replace it with ours, but rather to turn honor against honor. He said that we should not tell them that their prac-tices are dishonorable, according to our standards.
Simulation brings Civil War to life
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Vanguard photo | Alyssa Ellis Last Wednesday’s Wellness Fair featured local vendors who offered attendees free services such as glucose, cholesterol and blood sugar level tests.
There are more than 1,000 chapters in the Bible, and this week every single one of them was read in the Rotunda, one half hour at a time.
Every year, His House organizes an event called Crave, during which people sign up for half-hour shifts to read through the Bible.
The name Crave comes from 1 Peter 2:2, a Bible verse that discusses craving “pure spiritual milk.”
“The purpose is to get the Bible in students’ hands and to spark interest in God’s word,” said Troy Andreasen, pastor of His House.
Crave began with Genesis chapter one verse one on Tuesday night after His House’s weekly meeting.
In the time leading up to the three-day event, people signed up on a large poster-board for half-hour shifts that ran 24 hours a day until the entire Bible was finished.
Readers read into a microphone next to a dry-erase board noting what book and chapter was be-ing read. Tables and chairs were set up around the microphone where people could sit and listen.
Next to a large dry-erase board that read “listen, ask, hang, believe, unite, crave” was a table with free Bibles in English, Chinese and Arabic.
“We usually give away about a hundred Bi-bles,” Andreasen said.
This year, they ended up giving away more
than 140 Bibles.Many people used the event as a social oppor-
tunity to spend time with other Christians, hanging out, talking and playing board games.
Some even stayed up late and spent the night there.
Most of the people who read at Crave are stu-dents who regularly attend His House. But many students from other Christian groups on campus were involved in the event, as well as SVSU alumni who are still involved with His House.
Chelsea Turner, a nursing student who graduat-ed from SVSU in December, still attends His House’s weekly meeting and spent time each day at Crave.
“My favorite things about Crave would be the fellowship with friends and being able to share the Word with students on campus,” she said.
This was Turner’s fifth year at Crave.It was Standing in the Gap member Eden Han-
back’s first year reading at the event.
“I knew it happened previously in other years, but I never really went,” said Hanback, a social work junior. “I figured it would be a really cool idea to be a part of something that would reach out to a lot (of) people.”
The idea for Crave came from Central Michigan University’s chapter of House House. CMU had its first Crave event in the late 1990s.
In the past, SVSU had Crave in one of the Wedge Lounges. This is the event’s second year in the Rotunda.
Turner commented on having more space be-cause of the location.
“We can spread out, and I think we’re able to af-fect more people because it’s a more traversed area,” Turner said.
Adreasen periodically posted in the Facebook event page with updates on the progress of the read-ing. The last update was that the final verse was read at 7:26 p.m. Friday.
Read-through of entire Bible spreads the Word, creates community
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I’ve avoided writing on this concept for quite some time because I felt that it was too controversial in light of the
recent events that inspired it. However, it has come to a point that I feel that it is not only social-ly acceptable to state my opinion but also to a point at which I am morally compelled to speak.
I am disgusted by the way we, as citizens of the United States, treat tragedies and disasters. Death, in any unex-pected and mass form, becomes a spectacle through which the news seeks to draw in viewers—and for some reason we are drawn to it like moths to a streetlamp. How-ever, this is a social norm I have long become accustomed to as a feature of our modern age. What inspires the true sense of disgust from me is the way we turn such tragedies into political debates. The event that comes to mind as most recent is the horrific school shooting at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary in Connecticut.
It seemed to start with talk shows and trashy tabloids. Everyone wanted to state their opinion on the causes and what should have been done to prevent the atrocity. Something about the deaths of these innocent children sparked what some would call a “need for change.”
But it wasn’t a desire for so-cial welfare or even prevention of future problems that sparked this fixation on the event at hand. It was driven by an intense human
need to put the fault of the event on a single tangible piece of soci-ety that could be changed, rather than admit that the causes of such events are either too numerable to account for or simply non-ex-istent in a way that one can point out any true cause. But from these tabloids and talk shows with their simplistic outlook and comfort-ing approaches to such issues, the social media network is lit ablaze.
As soon as the event had sunk in and the news and media had got their hands on it, Face-book lit up with discussion. Whether it was video games, mental health treatment, gun control, or any other myriad of potential causes, there was a pic-ture or a statement that had been shared and/or seen by nearly the entire Facebook using populace of the United States within 24 hours for each potential claim being thrown out. Whether or not peo-ple knew any of the actual facts from the Sandy Hook Elementary incident, they were ready to argue for how the deaths of children could have been prevented.
From this spawned a second massive defense against the is-sues at hand. People began to take a counter stance on how the problems posted were not the actual problem. The majority of this was directed at the stance that further gun control could have prevented the attack from happening. These rebuttals may have been slightly more informed as they drew on multiple issues with the statements made against the killer. They drew on facts and used evidence to show that gun control was not the answer and they pointed to a different cause that needed their focus.
But regardless of what they were trying to say, regardless of what issue these people were against or defending, nobody in the news or in the entire network of social media drew the atten-tion to the actual victims of his homicide.
The name of the shooter was all over the news on the day the shooting occurred. The names of the victims never made the national news. Even a simple Internet search will prove that his name is much easier to learn than the names of the victims. I often question what it says about our society that we are more focused on the name of the killer and only seek a number instead of names for those that died by their hand. It seems to offer a glorification of his actions and to discredit the suffering of the victims and those that mourn them. I for one would wish to live in a world where we can manage the reverse, but I don’t believe I will ever see this happen in my lifetime.
When I originally sat down to write this article a few months ago, I didn’t think there would be a need to publish it and that the arguments would die down by the time that it would be socially reasonable to publish this. Yet for some odd reason, the debate over how this event and others like it rages on. Gun control, even disconnected from this issue, has once again become raised as a major issue that plagues Facebook walls every day.
I simply wish this incident could have been handled without a deep controversy, without a call to false solutions, and with a fo-cus on the victims rather than the perpetrator. I would like to hope that something like this will never happen again, but I feel that I may simply be an optimist in the face of human cruelty. So instead, all I can ask is that the next time some idiot decides to wreak pub-lic havoc, we as a society know where our values and attention should be placed.
Beyond the ValleyTreating tragedy with mourning and respect, not politics and blame
By Gerhardt SchuettewVanguard Columnist
Gerhardt Schuette is a secondary education junior. Reach him at [email protected].
Lately I’ve become very concerned about the smallness of things.
I’m coming closer and closer to making a decision about graduate
school in the fall, and the questions I’m ask-ing myself now are so much more precise, so much more compressed than the ones I asked when I applied this winter. The tiniest of words — just a Yes or a No — will have an explosive impact on my life, and soon.
The things I’ve done seem tiny when I think of them in the context of my five years here, but with only a month remaining, each small thing has doubled, even tripled in magnitude. I read the small print more care-fully these days. I’ve been comparing myself to the world.
I’ll be proud to say I received my under-graduate degree at Saginaw Valley, but I’ve become especially attentive to sobering and exciting fact that SVSU, in reality, is really
only a speck. This is a tiny place — a tiny school in a tiny city in a tiny state, and we are all fit to scale. It’s important, I think, to remember this.
Every once in a while — like in this issue, with the article on the Disney College Program — we run stories about students breaking away from our very small campus to get exposure to the country, the world, the vast field of stuff that travel has to offer. And the stories come and go, undoubtedly failing to show the impact that these trips have had and will continue to have on the lives of the students that take them.
With a full travel itinerary ahead of me — South Carolina, Indiana, China, Japan and Taiwan—in the next two months, I’ve been thinking often of that impact, of the possibility of moving, I mean really moving and spreading out.
And I’ve been feeling very small.But I think this smallness, this sort of
humility that comes with knowing you are born with a lot of space in the world to fill, is a good thing. It’s humbling, but also enliven-ing, too.
I hope you are all thinking of this as often as I am. I hope you are all reading the small print and choosing your words with economy and precision. I hope you are tak-ing chances and preparing to explore. I hope you, too, are paying close attention to the smallness of things, and that you are finding that perhaps they are not so small at all.
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- Thursday, April 4, @ Ferris State University- Saturday, April 6, vs. University of Michigan - Flint- Saturday, April 6, vs. Findlay- Thursday, April 11, vs. Delta College- Saturday, April 13, @ Wayne State University- Sunday, April 14, vs. Bowling Green University- Saturday, April 27, vs. Wayne State University- Saturday, April 27, vs. Akron
After losing eight players from last year ’s national championship team, the SVSU dodgeball club has set its sights on silencing the doubters who have tabbed it as a rebuild-ing program.
After going 1-3-1 in its first tournament at The Ohio State University, the team has rebounded and has only lost two games since - both of which were taken to overtime.
Torrie Peplinski is one of the team’s four captains. The veteran said that the early is-sues were due to the lack of team chemistry.
“In the beginning we just struggled,” he said. “I think the chemistry wasn’t there after losing the eight players, and when you take eight people out of a 15 man roster there are some spots to fill and we just didn’t know how each other played yet.”
Zach Phelps is another team captain. He agreed that having so many young players led to the team’s rough start.
“In our very first tournament we had six of our projected 15 playing and nine were in-coming freshmen or brand new players to the program,” he said. “It was a real eye-opener
to go down there and to play like we did.”Max Siler is in his first year as the team’s
head captain. He says that although there was a lack of chemistry in the beginning, the team has rebounded nicely and other players have made the most of their opportunities.
“We didn’t only lose eight players, but we lost eight top players,” he said. “When we came into this year everyone was thinking, ‘Oh, they’re just going to go into rebuilding mode,’ but we’ve been proving people wrong because those second-tier players are now moving into the first tier.”
The captains credit the team’s turn-around to more time together and learning everybody’s strengths and weaknesses.
The team’s latest performances were back-to-back shutouts of Central Michigan and Bowling Green.
Despite the winning effort, Siler saw room for improvement before the team com-petes in the national tournament.
“A 5-0 score is definitely what you shoot for, but watching the game, you wouldn’t be able to tell,” he said. “There were definitely a lot of things that we need to work on but luckily we have a month until Nationals.
“We need to work on our communication between team members and getting every-body to work together.”
Peplinski agreed that the team could do
even better.“The scoreboard looked like we smoked
them but there were some points where we didn’t play as well as I thought we could have,” he said.
Former captain Spencer Jardine was im-pressed by the team’s performance and said that despite the occasional loss of focus, the team played really well.
“I was very impressed, and I liked what we did,” he said. “There were some point where I wondered what we were doing, and you just want to put your hands up, but put-ting up 0-0 scores on teams in this league is pretty impressive.”
He also wanted to thank the fans for do-ing their part.
“We just want to thank the fans for being there,” he said. “That was a packed house and everybody was into it, and it was enter-taining.
“I think the best quote about our fans is as someone from MSU said, ‘It’s like play-ing in the Swamp in Florida’ because it’s that intimidating.”
In mid-April, the team will head to Lex-ington, Ky., to play in the national dodgeball tournament. The club has competed in the tournament several times before, including last year when they won it all at home.
Siler says that the players experience in
past national tournaments will benefit them in this one.
“Just like in every other sport everybody wants to talk about the big game experience that the guys from last year can carry over into this year ’s season,” he said. “We may have lost eight top guys from last year ’s team but that leaves us with seven starters who played in the National Championship and who played in the final four game against Grand Valley that went into overtime.
“They have the experience and they know how to pull it out when it comes to big games.”
Despite the influx of new talent, the team expects to be ready for the national stage.
“With the roster we have and how we played this weekend we just have to keep the momentum going,” Peplinski said. “We struggled in the beginning of the year, but here at the end of the year I don’t think we’ve given up more than two points.”
Jardine concurred. “We know we’re the best team in the na-
tion, we just have to prove it,” he said.
To cope with the typical fickle Michigan weather, the men’s lacrosse team has focused on spreading knowledge about the game and staying in game shape.
In order to spread the popularity and knowl-edge about the game of lacrosse, the men’s lacrosse club teamed up with a few of its sponsors to put on a seminar at the Bay City Public Schools Academy on March 15. The team let students from kinder-garten through sixth grade try out equipment and learn the rules of the game.
“We went up there and by class 200-300 kids showed up and learned some of the basics of the game,” said freshman goalie Nick Ruby. “The kids really got into it and at the end we let each one take a shot at me to see if they could score.”
Following the program, the lacrosse team in-vited students out to Wickes Stadium for its rivalry game against Delta College on Thursday, April 11. According to club President Patrick Gross, the school administration was excited and supportive of the trip.
“The principal of the school set up buses and transportation for the kids to have sort of an after school field trip to come see us play,” Gross said. “We want to keep doing events like this and we’re even planning a summer camp for middle-school kids to come out and learn about the game some more.”
Gross said that the details haven’t been ham-mered out yet, but sometime in June or July the club wants to host a camp on campus to help show kids a more in depth look at the game. Summer events and showing kids what lacrosse is all about
has been an important part of the lacrosse team’s season due to the weather in Michigan thus far.
“The weather is really holding us back and we’re pretty much stuck to practicing inside for the time being,” said assistant coach John Brand. “It’s tough because as a club team, we can’t just practice whenever, and the baseball and softball teams have both been stuck inside with us.”
During spring break, the team traveled to Ten-nessee but according to Brand, the unusual winter weather did more than just make the games miser-able.
“We only got to play two of the three games we were scheduled to play due to the weather and the conditions of the fields,” Brand said. “But I think overall the team really bonded and came together on the road.”
The team managed to split its two games in Tennessee, losing against Tennessee-Chattanooga and beating Louisville despite the weather condi-tions.
In Michigan, the team has yet to play a game. The team was scheduled to play both Michigan and Michigan State on March 16, but both of those games were canceled due to the long winter. While the Michigan game has been rescheduled for April 7 in Ann Arbor, Gross said that it has been disap-pointing as he feels his team is ready to come out and win.
“We’ve been the featured team every week for the National Collegiate Lacrosse League (NCLL) and it’s unfortunate that we’ve had to cancel,” he said. “As a club team, we can’t keep guys past the end of the semester so we’ve only got a month left of the season and we haven’t played a real game yet.
“This time last year it was 70 degrees out and sunny.”
Another obstacle the club faces is the gen-eral lack of organization among most of the club lacrosse teams it plays. From rescheduling games to finding time and places to practice, the SVSU la-crosse club seems to be one step ahead of the other clubs in the area.
“It seems that unlike a lot of the other schools we play, Patrick (Gross) just seems to have a backup plan for everything,” Brand said. “We’ve been told that our organization has been off the charts for handling the lack of games and practice time com-pared to most of the other clubs here in Michigan.
“It just seems that when plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, we have two more backup plans ready.”
Gross said that the practices held are orches-trated to resemble games as much as possible to keep the team fresh, but for the goalkeepers, it is tough to simulate the kind of situations found on the actual playing field.
“The rest of the team can bounce the ball off of the wall or practice passing and whatnot, but for us, it’s impossible to simulate the shots we’ll be fac-ing in a game,” Ruby said. “There’s so much hand-eye coordination involved and that’s just tough to keep up on without some action.”
While the club isn’t playing games, it is focus-ing on organizing events and fundraising as usual. The team continues its work with the American Cancer Society and helps fundraise with other club sports on campus. Friday, March 29 the club will team up with the women’s lacrosse club at Stardust Lanes to help raise money for both clubs.
Assuming the weather clears, the lacrosse team will be back in action April 4 when they travel to Big Rapids to take on Ferris State.
Courtesy | John BrandFreshman goalkeeper Nick Ruby led the seminar at the Bay City Public Schools Academy, helping to teach the kids the basics and finishing the event by letting the students take shots on him. Besides teaching how to catch and pass, Ruby handed out helmet stickers to the 200-300 kids that came.
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A reflection on what poetry does won one writ-er cash and publication in a literary magazine.
Psychology junior Janey Fry won first place in the winter Cardinal Sins poetry slam competition with a free-form poem last Wednesday.
“It’s a way to release old haunts,” Fry said. “People hold onto things and sometimes you just need an outlet to set those things free.”
Fry explained that poetry is not only a way to get things off one’s chest, but is also a way to remem-ber.
“I like to write about people,” Fry said. “These poems are a way for me to hold onto memories. It’s how I keep things.”
Lending students a voice through poetry, the slam gave a chance for them to grow as poets and performers.
Creative writing senior Maria Franz said she understands that no matter if the poetry is a nov-ice or an expert, there is always pressure associated with getting up in front of the audience. Franz was one of three judges of the slam and is a member of the Cardinal Sins staff.
“There’s always a risk when you put your work out there,” Franz said. “Saying it out loud in front of everyone. But it’s a risk that every poet should make, because you never know unless you try.”
She said the audience was there to enjoy local poetry, not to stunt confidence growth in the per-formers.
“The audience enjoys anything that they can re-late to emotionally,” Franz said. “When it comes to poetry, the audience is here to listen, not to ridicule.”
Social work senior Melanie Coleman was awarded second place for her rapidly paced poem that personified who she was. She was confident in her work, even though she admitted that it had been a while since she had last read a piece at an event
“My poetry is more testimonial, observations of what I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Coleman said. “I’ve been writing poetry for 15 years. I remember read-ing some of my work at the Magic Bean a couple years ago. Tonight (was) my refresher.”
Criminal justice junior and third place win-ner Justin Kokkinis chose to read one of his poems for the first time. Even though he said he normally writes prose, he felt the inspiration to create some-thing for the event.
“I don’t normally dabble in poetry,” Kokkinis said. “I’m more of a fiction kind of guy. But I would describe my poetry as slice of life. Just trying to de-scribe the impact of events. I hope that some people can identify with it. It’s what a person makes of it.”
Kokkinis explained why he preferred writing free verse poetry than to more restrictive forms.
“How do you capture chaos in a form?” Kok-kinis said. “You can’t do it. How are you supposed to show irrationality through form? Free verse flows better. It is more apt to capture the actually human experience.”
For readers who are still deciding on whether to perform their poems at the next Sins Slam, Franz believes that there is no time like the present.
“If you like reading Cardinal Sins or any poetry for that matter, you would enjoy the Slams,” Franz said. “Reading poetry and seeing it preformed are two different things.”
The next Cardinal Sins poetry slam will be held fall semester.
Drug Bingo• At 12 p.m. Monday, March 25, in the
Student Life Program Room, Peer
Health Educators will host drug bingo.
Free.
Flash Fiction Contest•At 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 25, the
deadline to submit to the flash fiction
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Senior Voice Recital• At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in
the Rhea Miller Recital Hall Rachelle
Austin and the department of music
will host her senior voice recital. Free.
Rob Little Comedy Show• At 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the
Rhea Miller Recital Hall comedian
Rob Little will perform. Sponsored by
Student Association. Free.
“Silver Lining”• At 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday,
March 28, in the Thompson Student
Activities Room, Valley Nights will
show the film “Silver Lining.” Free.
“The Hobbit”• At 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, March
29, in the Thompson Student Activi-
ties Room, Valley Nights will show the
film “The Hobbit.” Free.
Easter Egg Drop• At 11 a.m. Saturday, March 30, in
the intramural fields, the New Life
Christian Fellowship will host an
Easter egg drop. For children ages 2
through 12. Free.
Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisPsychology junior Janey Fry delivers her poetry slam performance that won her first place, $50 and her poem published in the latest Sins edition due for release this April.
Japanese Edo period prints populate art gallery
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The latest exhibition at the art gallery has trav-eled in from across the globe and across centuries of time.
The University Art Gallery is housing a Japanese woodblock print exhibit with prints from the Edo and Meiji periods.
Woodblock prints became popular in Japanese culture during the Edo period (1603-1867) when Ja-
pan saw a growth in the merchant and craftsmen class.
This style persisted, though declined, in the Meiji era (1858-1912) with a change in style and subjects.
During this period, artists incorporated images of Western dress, military and political events, car-riages and railroads into their prints.
The colors also changed in this period, transi-tioning from neutral tones to brighter colors with the introduction of aniline dyes.
“What I thought was cool (about the exhibit) was all the prints were of everyday life in Japan,” pre-
occupational therapy junior Anna McCoy said of the exhibit. “I felt like I got a better idea of how things were run and a look at what their culture was like.”
The number of prints on display made it hard for Art Gallery Coordinator David Littell to pick a single favorite.
“There are some really beautiful snow scenes by Hiroshige, as well as some great depictions of Kabuki actors and Japanese women,” Littell said. “There are also scenes that depict traditional Japanese life as well as the modernization of Japan.”
This exhibit was donated by Professor Louis W.
Doll in the 1980s. Doll collected the prints when he was stationed in Japan after World War II.
“Japanese prints are an extremely influential art form in Western Art, dating back to the opening of Japan to the West in the 1850s,” Littell said. “As Japa-nese prints began to appear in Europe, they greatly influenced artists such as Manet, the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Latrec and more.”
The exhibit will be on display until Sunday, April 14, and can be seen during Art Gallery hours Monday through Thursday and Saturday.
By Alyssa TarrantVanguard Staff Writer
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Whether performing or leading, piano is all about practice and diligence, for one music performance student who held her senior recital yesterday.
Pianist Amanda Lewis said it took a long time for her to realize the way her teachers were telling her to practice was right after all.
She didn’t particularly believe them the first time and had to learn in her own way that their advice was worth taking.
“I like to blaze my own trail,” she said, and laughed.
The recital lasted a little over a half an hour and consisted entirely of Lewis playing pieces she had handpicked throughout the past year.
Lewis’s theme was of music from the Romantic era, and she chose pieces from her favorite composers from that time.
These included pieces from Chopin and Litz.
She was assisted in these deci-sions by her professor and mentor, Carl Angelo.
The recital is typical for senior music students as a way to demonstrate what they’ve learned while at SVSU.
“Not all my friends knew that I can play classical music like this,” Lewis said. “So this was a chance to kinda say ‘Hey, this is what I can do!’”
Students such as Lewis work with a professor to choose the individual pieces
they want to use and then have to audi-tion and be approved to perform.
Lewis said the audition wasn’t too nerve wracking.
“I knew all the professors,” she said. “But you’re up on stage and that’s always scary.”
But this recital is more than a culmi-nation of Lewis’ time at the university.
She has been playing piano since she was 6 years old and has wanted to be a pianist her entire life.
“My grandparents stored their piano at my house,” she explained. “I played it every day. Piano was just instilled in me.”
Just four years later, she was asked to be the regular piano player at her home church.
“My pastor knew I was an avid pia-nist,” she said. “He just let me play.”
Lewis has been playing regularly at her church for the past 12 years.
“It’s really different from playing here,” she said. “At my church, it’s a leadership position. Here, it’s strictly performance.”
Lewis will be graduating in May and then will be going to graduate school in fall to pursue her masters in collabo-rate piano.
She also plans on a getting a doctor-ate in performance.
She hopes to travel the country as a professional accompanist and then even-tually teach college-level piano.
Lewis said she is sure that music will always play a big role regardless of where her life takes her.
The lights are still on in theater six. I drift down the aisle and sit beneath one.
I haven’t showered in the past four days and I’m still wearing the same clothes. My teeth feel gritty.
“The Croods” is rated PG and for every adult in attendance there are at least two-and-a-half children ages 9 and under also in attendance.
A few kids are running up and down the rows of seats. They stop only to take loud sips of pop and to wrinkle plastic candy wrappers.
The lights dim and they filter back to their seats.
I begin taking notes.
Of the six movie trailers that play, four of them are for sequels and prequels.
“Don’t worry. Smurfette could nev-er be naughty,” Papa Smurf assures us at one point in the trailer for “The Smurfs 2.” Smurfette will be played by Katy Perry.
The children snicker at the minion characters in the preview of “Despicable Me 2.” Its background music is Emi-nem’s “Without Me” — a nearly 11-year-old song.
Then the lights are shut off com-pletely and the final advertisement plays.
I’m at the bottom of a glass filled with ice cubes. I stand still, transfixed, as a cola is poured over me. The carbon-ation hurts my eyes and bubbles in my throat.
A straw is lowered from above and a specter cuts short the transfiguration, sipping up all the dark liquid. A child in the audience imitates the ensuing sigh.
Snares rolls, horns blast, violins swell and the movie begins.
From here, my notes become more and more difficult to follow.
There is a fire, a cave painting.“We’re cavemen,” says the narra-
tor of the opening sequence. This “we” includes us, the people in the theater who are watching a series of still images — cave paintings — replace one another quickly enough to simulate continuous motion.
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind spending three days in a cave with Nico-las Cage as long as we didn’t make a regular thing out of it.
“The Croods” is clearly based on “The Flinstones,” only the Croods aren’t modernized and have no neighbors — they’re the last survivors they know of.
They continue to live and breathe
thanks to their fear, which has been in-stilled in them by their father, Grug, through his easy-to-remember slogans, e.g., “Darkness brings death.”
After a hunting scene based on American football that gets the whole family involved and offers numerous chances for physical comedy, the Croods return to their cave.
Rather than cozy up with the rest of the family, Eep (Emma Stone), the oldest daughter, reclines on a ledge above them like a Neanderthal version of Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.”
Firelight flashes into the cave. In-trigued, Eep chases it, leaving the cave to discover its source.
The person carrying the torch is a warthog-clad orphan who goes by the name of Guy (Ryan Reynolds).
Guy accurately predicts the end of times. Why the world is ending and the cause of the devastation go unexplained.
As was predicted, the first earth-quake occurs. An audience member be-
gins crying loudly. I stifle a laugh.The Croods’ homestead is demol-
ished by the natural disaster. Sifting through the dusty remnants, Grug finds only slabs of rock covered with hand-prints.
Well, at least now the stay-at-home mom will get out of the cave for once.
Grug leads his family on a tedious search for a new cave and nearly gets his family killed by a bloodred murmuration that consumes whatever it touches.
I can’t see the lines on the paper.A chorus of corncob fireworks goes
off.“How’s your acting?” asks Ryan
Reynolds.Flying argues with falling, tomor-
row’s suns knock at the door and living washes its hands of not dying.
The voice actors all mumble over the phone.
Panthers breed in Owl City whilst Wallace Hartley’s violin quietly sings it-self to sleep.
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Tim Windy is an English literature and creative writing senior and Vanguard reviewer. Reach him at [email protected].
Pianist presents Romantic pieces
THE CROODS
DIRECTORS: KIRK DE MICCO, CHRIS SANDERSSTARRING: NICHOLAS CAGE, RYAN REYNOLDS, EMMA STONERELEASED: MARCH 22, 2013
By Rachael BlaylockVanguard Staff Writer
Vanguard photo | Amelia BrownPianist and music performance senior Amanda Lewis held her student recital Sunday with music she and mentors selected from the Romantic era.
Vanguard photo | Arianna Paver“Zahara Léshant” (Taquawn Williams) blows kisses to guests, performing Beyoncé’s “Why Don’t You Love Me?” The event raised $300 its first year and more than $2,000 this year.
Vanguard photo | Arianna PaverStudents tip performer “Zuzu Bella” (David Knapp) as she performs to Christina Aguilera’s “Love Your Body” at Living Proud’s drag show. See related story, A1.
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Comedown Machine
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BioShock Infinite
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The Host
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