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Megan ThompsonSpencer PedersonCade SchmidtNick MarkmanLauren PraterLauren SimmonsKylie WadeTodd Wells

Jeff Bates

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FEATURES

Bylines did not print in the September 24 issue with the stories. We apologize for the confusion. Stories from last week are below with the writer.

VU Late Night by Nick Markman, AS ReviewRed Square Info Fair by Nick Markman, AS ReviewEthnic Student Center by Daniel Espinoza-Gonzalez and

Dylan Koutsky, guest submissionNew Dining by Nick Markman, AS Review

Corrections

Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conserva-tives, independents, Libertarians, and everyone in-be-tween lost in the world of American politics have their eyes on the state of our economy and they all have their own ideas of what to do with it. But where do the candi-dates actually stand?

Complicated best describes the state of America’s cur-rent economy, says Evan Fowler, the president of West-ern’s American Campaign Transparency. WWU’s ACT aims to spread awareness of the current state of America’s dysfunctional federal campaign finance system.

How did America get to this place that many call “The Great Recession?”

“I am a political science and economics major, so I think about this stuff a lot,” says Jered McCardle, associate director for the Associated Students Rep-resentation and Engage-ment Programs.

Even though the exact reasoning and origin of America’s financial crisis stems from, economists and analysts attribute to-day’s society to globaliza-tion, education, our mas-sive debt and government overregulation/under regulation of certain areas and entities, says Fowler.

While the origins of our financial crisis go as far back as the Reagan administration, the ma-jor tipping point was the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 and 2009.

Building houses, the housing market and rela-tors is a much larger part of the economy than per-ceived, says McCardle. These industries affect

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‘TIS THE SEASONWeekly rundown of important issues of the 2012 elections

THE HORRORAnnual Rocky Horror Picture Show holds auditions on Oct. 8

EVENTS CALENDARSee what’s happening around Bellingham

RED SQUARE INFO FAIRA look at the two-day kick off before school

CLUB HUBClub Coordinator Jarred Tyson explains his office

A couple walks in the foggy morning near the Wilson Library on the first day of classes, Sept. 26.

Photo by Cade Schmidt// AS Review

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NEWS

EVENTS

STUDENT LIFE

FEATURES

Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conserva-tives, independents, Libertarians, and everyone in-be-tween lost in the world of American politics have their eyes on the state of our economy and they all have their own ideas of what to do with it. But where do the candi-dates actually stand?

Complicated best describes the state of America’s cur-rent economy, says Evan Fowler, the president of West-ern’s American Campaign Transparency. WWU’s ACT aims to spread awareness of the current state of America’s dysfunctional federal campaign finance system.

How did America get to this place that many call “The Great Recession?”

“I am a political science and economics major, so I think about this stuff a lot,” says Jered McCardle, associate director for the Associated Students Rep-resentation and Engage-ment Programs.

Even though the exact reasoning and origin of America’s financial crisis stems from, economists and analysts attribute to-day’s society to globaliza-tion, education, our mas-sive debt and government overregulation/under regulation of certain areas and entities, says Fowler.

While the origins of our financial crisis go as far back as the Reagan administration, the ma-jor tipping point was the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 and 2009.

Building houses, the housing market and rela-tors is a much larger part of the economy than per-ceived, says McCardle. These industries affect

where people live, where people spend money on their taxes, where people spend money to buy the house and is the foundation for thousands of jobs. The housing bub-ble, or subprime lending issue, failed when prices sur-rounding the housing industry got so high, and wages for Americans began to fall.

“The bursting of the housing bubble was simply a symptom of a disease, it was not the disease,” says Fowler.

Now that the economic issue has been established, presidential and governor nominees have detailed how they plan to fix it.

President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney are the two frontrunners of the presidential race, represent-ing the Democratic Party and the Republican Party re-spectively.

The Democratic Party, along with President Obama, likes to increase spending, increase taxes, regulate in some areas and deregulate in others, says Fowler. These platforms are synonymous with “Big Government.”

President Obama’s stance on the improving America’s economy relies heavily the clean energy and sustainabil-ity industries providing more jobs and, overall, more sustainability in the government, says McCardle. Presi-dent Obama can be considered a Keynesian economist –

someone who wants to improve government spending to improve the economy.

In contrast, the Republican Party, along with Mitt Romney, stand for less government regulations and in-creasing tax revenues, says McCardle. This is more of a classical approach to fixing the economy by believing that businesses and individual people are going to make the best decisions for themselves. With that said, Gov. Romney has not stated a concrete plan as to what he will do with the economy, but he plans to stand close to the Republican Party’s platform.

The Washington state governor’s race is a more inter-esting race, says Fowler. The two-frontrunner candidates running for governor are Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna – and they have similar stances on economic issues.

Inslee, representing the Democratic Party, has a very grand plan to improve the economy, says Fowler. He wants to create entire new departments in Washington that would oversee the economic vitalization of the Puget Sound, among other ambitious projects.

McKenna on the other hand wants to reduce taxes on small businesses, like Romney. For example, he wants to reduce or eliminate the business and occupation tax (B&O tax), which would affect 118,000 small businesses

in Washington.“Economically speak-

ing, McKenna and Inslee are neck-and-neck…most of their policies are the same” Fowler says.

The economy is some-thing that effects every American differently, so it’s up to them to analyze which plan put forth by a candi-date will benefit them the most. Being informed about the parties and the can-didates are key to making these decisions, and people just have to choose to be in-formed.

“It’s really important to educate yourself and be ob-jective because both parties have pluses and minuses, whether social policies or economic policies,” Fowler explains. “It’s just important to be aware that there is a difference between Federal parties, state parties and lo-cal parties, and they aren’t all the same and that it’s chaos, basically.”

ELECTION RUNDOWNThis week: Economy

Lauren Simmons • AS Review

For every week until the election in Novem-ber, the AS Review will feature a hot-topic in the presidential and governor’s race and each candidates attitudes and opinions. We’ll be your guide to the elections and help you be a more educated voter. Enjoy each week read-ing our election series.

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coming Western students for the 2012-2013 school year bombarded students with multiple flash mobs, prizes, entertainment and human traffic jams.

The Associated Students, clubs, local businesses and other university entities gathered to showcase what the Western and Bellingham community have to offer students. The annual popular event attracted a huge gathering into Red Square.

Ranging from A’capella to Zombies, the Associated Students Club Activities Office has it all. What-

ever your interest may be, there’s a club for it. If there isn’t a club already, you can start a club of your own and add to the club system. The AS has a club system that encompasses over 200 clubs a quarter. These clubs are created and run by students and even host events for the Western and Bellingham communities.

The source of the Western club system is the AS Club Activities Office, commonly referred to as the Club Hub, located in Viking Union 425. The intent of my office is to provide students who are involved in clubs various resources and a room to work on promotional material as well as event planning. If you are looking into joining or creating a club we’ll help and guide you towards the perfect club match.

As stated on our website, the Club Hub aims to empower, support, and provide oppor-tunities for diverse student interests and community build-ing within clubs. The office serves clubs as a resource for leadership and organizational development, as well as event planning and programming. We are committed to ensuring all students can be involved and engaged in the Western community.

As the Club Coordinator, the Club Hub is my home. I am the person that supports the clubs and am respon-sible for guiding students through the steps of creating a club, planning events, how to manage their clubs, how to utilize OrgSync, an organizational networking tool we use for all AS clubs, and teaching clubs how to be self-supporting and sufficient to creating student leaders.

I see the Club Hub as an evolving organism: it’s the

third year for my position to exist in the AS. The Club Hub is constantly being changed every quarter: adopt-ing new methods of assisting clubs in whatever they may need as well as adapting to student needs.

Because we’re constantly changing, this year we’ve incorporated two new positions and volunteer opportu-nities to help the club needs. This year we will be hiring two supporting specialists as well as recruiting two vol-unteer peer resource officers. If you are interested, apply

online at http://as.wwu.edu/personnel.

If you are passionate about clubs and student interests, we encourage you to apply for a posi-

tion. These new positions will assist me in training clubs to be self-sufficient and train clubs in the various club processes.

Clubs on campus provide the opportunity for stu-dents to expand and explore their interests, network, develop themselves professionally and to bond and have fun with other students they wouldn’t otherwise meet. Through joining one of the many clubs on campus, you can have those experiences. We are looking forward to an amazing year and working with all students.

High fives and good vibes,Jarred Tyson

MEET THE CLUB HUBClub Coordinator introduces his office and the club system

Jarred Tyson • Guest Submission

“Whatever a student may be interested in, we want to help it flourish.”

Jarred Tyson, AS club coordinator

InfofaIr attendIes dIrty theIr hands dIggIng for prIzes provIded by the as envIronmental and sustaInabIlIty programs.

all photos by Cade sChmIdt // as revIew

natIonally reCognIzed Improv-Comedy group, dead parrots soCIety, were assIsted In CarIng for theIr beloved parrot by InfofaIr attendees durIng a danCe performanCe on monday.

transfer junIor andy sIm break-danCes on monday

as kugs 89.3 musIC dIreCtor stephen steen provIded tunes for both days of Info faIr

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ASP Pop Music

photo by Cade sChmIdt // as revIew

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MEET THE CLUB HUBClub Coordinator introduces his office and the club system

Jarred Tyson • Guest Submission

EVENTS CALENDAR

L ve!MuSiC Monday

Outback Farm Fertility Workshop

Ghosts I’ve Met w/ Great Pacific (Indie/Folk Rock)

Web Design Info. Session

Ski Movie Premier:“Choose Youre Adventure”

Artisan NW Market

Energy Independece Presentation w/ Speaker Dan Kammen

Queer Resource Center Ice Cream Social

Cabin Tavern

Where: Outback Farm

Where: Underground Coffee HouseWhere: Comm. Facility 120

Where: Backcountry Essentials

Where: Depot Market Square

Where: Bellingham High School Auditorium

Where: VU Multi-Purpose Room

For more events and info. go to as.wwu.edu/events

When: 7-9 p.m.

When: 6 p.m.

Price: Free

Price: Free

Price: FreePrice: Free

Price: $12

Price: Free

When: 4:30 - 5 p.m.

When: 8 p.m.When: 6 p.m.

When: 8 p.m.

When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Price: Free

Boundary Bay Brewery

ASP Pop Music

Wild Buffalo TYCHO,Heathered Pearls

Table of Contents, Fire Organ, Nineteen-Eighty-D

$10 $4 $3

$3 $2 $5-7 $8-10 $7

$5-8 $3-15 $5-7 $10

Tom Waits

Christopher Nunn DJ Yogoman Star Anna,Kasey Anderson

Korby Lenker,Robert Srazin Blake

Scott Greene Band, Sanoma

The Spring Standards, The Ames

Karaoke w/The Uncanny Valley

Revenge of the 90’s

Youngblood Hawke, Eagle Teeth, Animal Inside

Kultur Shock, Yogoman

Variety Show

Pickled Herring Band

Sonido AcuarioThe Blessed

CoastPolecat,

SpoonshineCedaa, Emosean and more...

Ghosts I’ve Met, Great Pacific

The Physics CD Release Party

The Provacateurs, Dirty Bird Cabaret

Glow

The Shakedown

Green Frog

Wednesday

Wednesday, Oct. 3Monday, Oct. 1

Saturday, Oct. 6

Sunday, Oct. 7

Thursday, Oct. 4

Friday, Oct. 5

Teusday, Oct. 2

SundayFridayThursday SaturdayTuesdayOct. 1 Oct. 2 Oct. 3 Oct. 4 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Oct. 7

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CASTING CALLRocky Horror Picture Show auditions to be held

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic musical and movie adaptation, tells the story of a young couple thrown into a world of transvestites, dancing and mad science. As an annual Halloween clas-sic, the Associated Students Queer Resource Center will put on its own adaptation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Auditions for this year’s show will take place on Monday, Oct. 8, from 6 - 8 p.m. in Viking Union 464. The play will premiere on Satur-day, Oct. 27th in Arntzen 100 at 9 p.m. and midnight.

QRC Coordinator Briana Fitzpatrick said that the auditions are open to everyone. Along with acting roles, background positions for the play such as projector and lighting operators will also be cast at the audition.

“It’s a lot less intensive if you are a background person just because you don’t have to go to every single rehearsal,” Fitzpatrick said. “You don’t need to have acting experience or singing experience or anything like that.”

Individuals wishing to try out for acting roles will be presented

with a small amount of lines to recite as well as a short part of a song to sing. Fitzpatrick said that no prior memorization of lines or songs is necessary to audition. All participants in the audition will help decide the final cast with a vote.

“Be ready to go all out,” Fitzpatrick said. “Don’t be reserved. You want to be able to impress your cast members because you have to impress a large audience.”

Fitzpatrick said that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an event where people can dress up, get crazy, and express themselves in ways that are sometimes not accepted by society. She also said that the movie and musical were one of the first of their kind to play around with gender roles and put a heavy emphasis on the transgender and queer communities.

“This movie caters to a lot of people in our community, which is why we continue to put on the event and because it’s super popular and draws such a diverse audience,” Fitzpatrick said. “It doesn’t only attract queer people, but kind of brings everybody together.”

StudentS perform at the 2011 rocky horror picture Showphoto by cade Schmidt // aS review

Nick Markman • AS Review