THURSDAY September 30, 2011

S i e r r a N e v a d a C o l l e g e

Science department wins $30,000BY PATRICK HOEPPNERStaff Editor

Professor Suzanne Gollery worked with Director of Grants Sandra Wallace to secure a $30,000 grant from The Wie-gand Foundation on Oct. 8, to buy new equipment for the Science department at Sierra Nevada College.

The general and organic Chemistry courses, Environmental Systems, field courses and the Biology Lab courses will use the new equipment that includes hot plates, binoculars, microscopes, UV safety goggles and glassware.

Wallace’s duty on campus is to help the school find funding opportunities. She writes three to five applications a month. She said that she is actively writing, and has seven applications pending at the moment.

In September, Wallace went to Execu-tive Vice President and Provost Shannon Beets and President Lynn Gillette and asked what were the biggest issues on campus. They said that the Science de-partment needed new equipment because of the increasing student population at SNC.

Wallace contacted The Wiegand Foun-dation, which gave the school a $10,000 grant a couple of years ago. The Wiegand Foundation is a non-profit organization that gives grants in California and Wash-oe County to help establish and develop educational programs according to its website.

Gollery gave Wallace a list of all the equipment the Science department want-ed to purchase. Gollery said one new piece of equipment would be a digital melting point apparatus, which is used to determine the exact temperature at which a solid melts. The old melting point ap-paratus used a mercury thermometer, full of a toxic chemical. The switch to the digital equipment eliminates these risks.

“It’s important the Science department get more modern technology for the lab,” said Junior Joe Granado, an Envi-ronmental Science and Ecology major. “Technology is moving at such a fast rate, it helps to have experience with up-dated equipment in the lab.”

The Science department faculty hopes to receive additional grants that would benefit undergraduate students. Gollery said that Professor Andy Rost and Pro-fessor Chuck Levitan want to receive grants for environmental science re-search. Rost does research on algae to see how healthy the streams and lake are, and is interested in developing an earth science curriculum.

Vol. 32 – Issue 5 | THURSDAY October 25, 2012

Eagle’s EyeFirst snow!

On Monday, Oct. 22, the skies opened and dumped up to 18” on some peaks in North Tahoe. SNC Junior Lloyd Garden split-boarded to the top of Diamond Peak and snapped this photo, moments before scoring the season’s first face shots.

If riding the chairlift is more your style, make sureto catch these opening dates (subject to change):

Alpine Meadows December 7Squaw Valley November 21Northstar November 16Boreal October 26Diamond Peak December 13Mt. Rose November 21Kirkwood November 21Heavenly November 16Sugar Bowl TBD

Index News..............................1,3Campus.............................2Forum.............................4,5Features....................6,7,8,9Arts & Entertainment.......10Profile...............................11

Students got weird at the annual

Monster Bash, see pages 6 & 7 for

more.

Suzanne Gollery

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How did you make it to SNC?

I was a designer and art di-rector for a decade in the Bay Area. I was doing animation, print design, web design and at a certain point I got kind of bored with it, and thought that teaching would be more fun and creatively engaging. Fortu-nately, that is indeed the case. I got my MFA at UC Davis, and basically right after that I interviewed with Ann, the chair at the time, and got the job. It was a gradual move Eastward, from San Francisco to Davis to Reno. You know, in 10 years I’ll probably be in Salt Lake City.

How long have you taught here?

This is my sixth year. I teach a majority of the Digital Arts classes and Rick Parsons teach-es video. I teach classes that deal with Photoshop, Illustra-tor, doing artwork for prints and projection, web design, documentary class and I’m do-ing a special effects class this semester. One thing that’s been fun about working here is that I have always been able to add a new class to broaden what is offered.

What are your passions out-side of teaching?

I love art, of course. I’m ac-tually a big comics-head. Car-tooning is actually sort of my background. I’ve done video work, I’ve done performance, I’ve done writing but comics is really what I love. I love the combination of writing and im-ages playing off each other. It’s one of the only art forms where you have a visual sensibility to tell a story that one person can control. In movies and big-bud-get productions, people have to

work in collabora-tion with each other, so it is always sort of filtered through the collaborative process. I think there is some-thing to be said for something that comes from an individual sensibility. I realized that it would be very difficult to make a living just as a car-toonist or even just as a teacher of com-ics. Frankly, if I had it my way, every school that has an Arts department would have a comics person as well as a painter, and all that. The way a painter approaches an image is very different from the way a cartoonist does.

What is your favorite clas-sic comic strip?

That would have to be Krazy Kat by George Herriman. Back in the day, in the 1910’s even until the 1920’s, spectacular visual media was the Sunday

comics. Movies had special effects but they were rudimen-tary. On the Sunday pages, that’s where the blockbusters happened. The comics were the visual, fantastical loot. The cartoonists were superstars, very well paid. Krazy Kat was a great strip about a fractured love triangle between a mouse, a cat and a dog. The dog is a cop, the mouse is a little bit of a sadist and the cat is a little bit of a masochist. This was in 1916, by the way. My favorite recent comic is probably Cal-vin and Hobbes.

What about animated TV shows?

I get to watch less stuff than I’d like to. But the last thing that fired me up was something called Kaiba. It’s a Japanese series. It’s this strange sci-ence fiction about characters that can put their conscious-nesses into different bodies. I think Japanese animation can be much more interesting than American animation. In Japa-nese comics culture there is not so much separation as far

as what is for adults and what’s for kids. There is not that bias that “if there are drawings in it, it must be for kids.”

What kind of music do you listen to?

I use Pandora, mostly. Right now in the mix I’ve been listening to MF Doom and Diane Cluck, she’s a weird, new folky artist. I like the Ella Fitzgerald station. I like jumping from Afrobeat to a Beethoven string

quartet. Sometimes you notice interesting things about music when you bump those against each other.

OCT. 25: THURSDAYTrail of Treats and Terror

Patterson and Campbell Friedman halls

4-7 p.m.

OCT. 26: FRIDAYNevada Day

College Closed

OCT. 30: TUESDAYCo-ed Volleyball

7 p.m.Recreation Center Gym

OCT. 30: TUESDAYExtended Field Course Presentation

TCES 1065:30 p.m.

NOV. 1: THURSDAYCasino Night

Patterson Hall7 p.m.

NOV. 1: THURSDAYArt Opening with Nathan Lynch

5-7 p.m.

NOV 2.: FRIDAYWorkshop with Nathan Lynch

10 a.m. -4 p.m.

NOV. 2-4: FRI - SUNSustainability Film FestivalTCES 139/141 and TCES 106

6:30 - 9 p.m.

NOV. 2-4: FRI - SUNClimbing Club Bishop Bouldering

TripBishop, Calif.

BY JASON PALADINOManaging Editor

Faculty of the Fortnight: Chris Lanier explores digital art mediums through comics, video and web

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“I’ve done video work, I’ve done performance, I’ve done writing but comics is really what I love.”Chris LanierAssociate Professor of Digital Arts

JAKE POLLOCKASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHRIS LANIER is teaching Digital Arts six years after leav-ing his job as a designer and art director in the Bay Area of Calif.

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The Art Department is abuzz with excite-ment over the new Holman Arts and Media Center.

Everything will be new and fresh when the Holman building opens for summer 2013 workshops.

“We’ll move everything we currently have over there as far as mediums and studios,” said Art Department Chair Sheri Leigh O’Connor. “We’re adding an audio recording studio and a video recording stu-dio.”

The space will be active with current stu-dents, faculty, graduates and community members that wish to practice their art and share ideas.

“The dirty arts [ceramics and sculp-ture] will go on the ground floor,” said O’Connor. “And the two dimensional and digital arts on the second floor.”

The new studio space will allow artists to expand their practices and combine differ-ent mediums.

“The Holman building is focused on be-ing a place where the art faculty can prac-tice, teach and engage the community in arts,” said Vice President and Provost Shannon Beets.

In addition to new studio space, the Hol-

man Center will have space for a com-munity gallery, a shop for community and students to sell their artwork, and a hub.

“A hub is a gathering point for a variety of mediums,” said O’Connor.

The hub will function as a place for col-laborations among artists, a hangout to ex-change ideas.

“Graduates will be able to use the space to further their artwork,” said Beets. “They’ll be able to sell their work in the store, work with faculty and new students to gain new ideas.”

The process has already started to get the second floor of the building ready to open as soon as January.

“That’s the goal, if that’s doable,” said Associate Vice President for Development Deborah Prout. “If it’s not possible then everything will open at once in the sum-mer.”

The Holman Center is a space that will allow larger art classes, more community programs, not just summer art workshops, said Beets.

“You always want to come study art in a space you’re comfortable in,” said Beets.

Art center donors Robyn and Robert Holman plan to stay involved with the arts and media at SNC. Robyn Holman is a new member on the board of trustees for the school, according to Prout.

Applause exploded inside San Francisco bar, the Make-Out Room, as another author finished his reading. I sat at a booth in the company of Sierra Nevada College Eng-lish Chair June Saraceno, Freshman Chris Muravez, Senior Kolina Koe and Bay Area literary enthusiast Lewis Eichele. Another writer took the stage and peaked my in-terest with her ode to The Vagina Mono-logues until the three of us ladies were standing on the bench erupting in laughter and “she’s so right,” conversation.

I caught a glimpse of Sophomore Emily Provencher, Freshman Margaux Kelly and Senior Kenny Stoneman at a table near the front and was glad to see everyone enjoy-ing Lit Crawl 2012.

Lit Crawl is San Francisco’s culminat-ing night to the nine-day Litquake Liter-ary Fesitival. Hosted in three phases from 6-9:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the Mission Dis-trict, 85 venues offered a preview into the works of over 450 authors.

The six SNC English students that at-tended arrived at the San Francisco Inter-national Hostel early in the afternoon on Oct. 13 for the newly indoctrinated Cre-ative Writing Club’s first trip. The pur-posefully saved enough time prior to the event to wonder through China Town and onward to Jack Kerouac Way, the location of City Lights Bookstore, a landmark pub-lishing house and bookseller. An indepen-dent literary company at its finest, we wan-dered through the genres that were neatly tucked into staircases and tiny nooks, gath-ering impressions of what constitutes a real bookstore.

After meeting up with Saraceno and company, we headed to our chosen first

phase, Drink to Me: LGBT Writers Tell Tales of Inebriating Experiences, at Mar-

tuni’s bar. Pushed into a congested back room with a poor quality sound system, we turned our ears to hear the sometimes soft-spoken readers pour their best lines into the microphone. After five brief but pow-erful stories, it was on to the next round.

Phase two was called Sweet Sexy Dreams, at the extremely over-packed store Good Vibrations and it didn’t quite sit well with everyone. The group headed on to the next venue as Koe and myself stumbled into an impromptu street corner performance of Shakespeare’s a Midsum-mer Night’s Dream. Self-proclaimed as the best part of the night, we wove through the large crowd to find a seat on the concrete near the front. A female Puck stole the show in the final two acts of the play to the delight of Koe and myself.

For the third phase we headed to the Make-Out Room, for The Rumpus Pres-ents…On Hands and Knees. This final round of readings brought a sense of com-munity. Unlike the other events where lis-teners sat quietly and took in the scene the crowd inside the last bar reached a higher, more connected energy level. The crowd laughed in unison, applauded mid-story and shouted out comments along the lines of “Hell ya!” This atmosphere made for a great end to the night.

Collaboratively, the six of us SNC Eng-lish students saw a total of 20 local writ-ers in three separate locations. Well worth the visit to San Francisco, we all agreed, knowing Lit Crawl would be an annual event for the Creative Writing Club and any other students who wished to partake.

Lit Crawl offers glimpse into Bay Area literary sceneBY MARISSA STONEStaff Reporter

BY SAM MARQUARDT Staff Reporter

Vision for art center evolves

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I would like to respond to the response by a recent reader opinion that criticized the students that all said they would not go to war if drafted. I agree with the reader’s opinion that the attitude present

at SNC is sickening. I am ashamed to be a part of a generation that has no spine and thinks only inside their own personal world. I was disturbed when I read the answers the students gave to the ques-tion, “how would you react if you went to war?” To think that the people around me here would not have my or my country’s back, if need be, shows that our country does not have a bright future.

Next time someone asks you if you

would go to war if you were drafted, think about the hundreds of thousands of Amer-icans that died in war before us to give us the way of life we have today. If you are unwilling to sacrifice the same, then you should not be allowed the same privi-leges. This country was created by brave, hard-working people that were willing to do what it takes to have this way of life. Now we are a society of entitled cowards that will not sustain the America that we

all know. “Americanism means the vir-tues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sin-cerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America.” — Teddy Roosevelt

Chuck RoeschJunior

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eagleseye@sierranevada.

Letterseditorto the

reader opinions

Word on Campus: Do the Presidential debates influence your vote? BY JAKE POLLOCK Photo Editor

“Absolutely not. Debates are littered with lies and unverified information. It’s ridiculous to watch both candidates say things that are blatantly unrealistic.”

Trevor JacksonSenior

“Nope. Absolutely not. I don’t think a performance is reason enough to choose who’s going to be a better president. If that were the case we should have actors.

Daniella CallaisSenior

“No, I don’t think performance in debates should influence your decision.”

BJ PetkanasSenior

“Yes, I feel that some people only choose who they are going to vote for because of either what their peers say or because it is the “popular” thing to do. By watching the debate you can hear what both sides have to say.”Melissa DanielsSophomore

Why are you voting for Obama?

Why are you voting

for Romney?

“Because I care about money, not abortion.”

Stefan MooreSenior

“I just want cheaper, cleaner energy and more affordable education.”

Forest JadeSophomore

:Who are you voting for?We asked students

On Monday, Oct. 22, the Eagle’s Eye conducted a non-scientific survey of 70 students on campus. The results showed that 36% of them are not registered, and 64% are currently registered. It is important to note that the survey was conducted prior to Monday night’s presi-

dential debate, which may have swayed students’ choices and reduced undecided voters. The deadline has passed for California and Nevada voters, and the Eagle’s Eye would like to congradulate those who took the time to have a say in their country’s future and registered. For the majority of students who registered in Nevada, you have a special opportunity. Nevada is a swing state. This means that your vote truly could affect which candidate wins your state. The Eagle’s Eye encourages all who registered to go ahead and vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Not Registered 36%

Romney 16%

Obama 53%

Other/Undecided 31%

Registered 64%

Of Registered Voters:

BY JASON PALADINOManaging Editor

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Living in Tahoe during the snow season is not the most sustainable lifestyle. There is a reason why

the Native Americans would migrate here once the snow had melted, and travel back to Carson Valley when it re-appeared. The natives knew how to live in the most ef-ficiently without harming the earth. Instead of learning from them, our culture had to conquer snow-country, and prove that hu-mans will never be defeated. Let’s take a critical look at a few factors contributing to the unsustainable environment we live in.

We want to keep warm inside our home, school, and places of work. We do this by cranking up the heaters, or firing up the fireplaces. To stay warm in the outdoors, we need multiple layers of weather-ap-propriate clothing from thermal layers, sweaters, jackets, and gloves, to scarves,

hats, ear-warmers, boots, and wool socks. This is not counting all of your ski and snowboard gear. Now if you are a business-centric individual, you might fight me on this as a negative aspect of living in snow-country, arguing that all of these material things have contributed to the

economy. Yes, you did win that argument. I am speaking to our consumerist lifestyles and how living in the snow has contributed to that lifestyle more than we would like to admit.

Transportation in the snow is a topic with-in itself. We buy cars with studded tires, and snow removing accessories to simply have a safe vehicle to drive in snowy and icy conditions. There are massive amounts of snow removal, and highways are torn to shreds from trucker chains. One might ar-gue that these situations have created jobs from chain control to snow plow drivers. Again, you are correct. I am speaking to all of the emissions from these vehicles, that beautiful black snow you see on the side of the road, which contributes to further envi-ronmental degradation, and the excessive

amounts of money we put into beefing up our vehicles.

Luckily for all of the snow enthusiasts, the ski industry is seeing how climate change has negatively impacted their busi-ness with strange snow patterns, or even worse, hardly any snow at all. Because of this there are many resorts that are taking responsibility for their carbon footprint by reducing their greenhouse emissions through sustainable endeavors. You can check out the ratings on these “green” ski resorts from websites like skiareacitizens.com, where the resorts are given a grade based on categories such as habitat and watershed protection, addressing global climate change, and environmental poli-cies and practices. You can find the top 10 best and worst 10 resorts. Spoiler alert: No. 1 best is currently Squaw Valley.

Since we are all guilty of this very un-sustainable lifestyle, we should strive to reduce our negative impact. Does your heater need to be cranked up when you’re not even at home? Do you really need that awesome new Volcom Jacket made in Chi-na? Carpool whenever you can and make smart choices when the snow season hits us hard.

Bearer of bad news: Living in snow is not sustainable

Sonya’s Sustainabil ity Corner

“Yer bum’s oot the windae!”-You’re talking rubbish- a voice yelled from across the

pub. I jumped out of my seat and turned around. A Scottish man slammed his beer on the bar, losing about half of it to the floor, while spitting a mouthful on his friend. He was very drunk. I turned to Evan and started laughing, covering my mouth in an attempt to keep from spitting out the cider that I was drinking.

“Eedjit! Snout!”-Idiot! Cigarette! – The sloppy man kept yelling foreign slang words.

The two men then stepped outside for the cigarette they had been fighting over. They stared at us curiously through the window. After a couple minutes they walked back inside, and immediately headed over to Evan and I.

“Where are you girls from?” the drunker one slurred.

“Where do you think?” I asked. “AMERICANS! Ah, barry!-Wonderful-

Would you like to learn some Scottish slang? Or try some haggis?”

With no hesitation, I said yes to the slang and no to the haggis. Haggis is a concoc-tion of sheep’s lung, heart, intestines and oatmeal, mashed into a pudding and served with whiskey sauce. I wanted to try it, but my stomach screamed no.

We were in Dunblane, Scotland, a small town divided by a river, with quaint cottag-es and cathedrals on either side. Our idea of a quiet and relaxing lunch turned into a loud and drunken Scottish slang lesson.

Prior to Dunblane, we were in Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh castle stands on a high volcanic rock, towering over the west end of the city. It is home to the Prisons of War museum, the National Scottish War mu-seum, Scotland’s crown jewels and much more. We joined a tour, which we endured for about five minutes; we didn’t even at-tempt to try and understand the tour guide’s accent. After slipping away, we explored the castle on our own, but found it to be rather dull. The history of the castle was informative, however I didn’t get a feel of what the castle used to truly be like. I was looking for a more ‘here I am in the Edin-burgh castle, wandering through candle-lit rooms and hallways and smelling the old stench of the kings and queens that once stayed here’ feeling. Unfortunately, there were no old, candle-lit hallways and no

rustic stenches, so we moved on. Following our castle tour, Evan and I,

having the young and healthy hearts that we do, decided to hike up Edinburgh’s tallest peak. Dominating the city at approximately 800 feet is Arthur’s Seat, the remains of a volcano that erupted under water during the Carboniferous Period. As we hiked, my hair was being whipped across my face and tears were running down my cheeks. Ev-ery step up the steep, soggy summit, I had to force my feet into the ground. After an hour, we made it. Two girls from Chicago took our picture as Evan and I latched onto the rocky top for fear of being blown away. The unforgettable 360-degree view of the city made the tiring hike well worth it.

After three days in Scotland, Evan and I conquered virtually nothing that we had set out to. Perfect. Instead, we learned some unusual Scottish slang (skelp your bachoochie- smack your booty), didn’t try haggis (probably never will), didn’t eat any traditional Scottish food (still don’t know what exactly it is), walked for miles (or kilometers as the Scottish say) and came to the conclusion that castles are always beautiful on the outside (but not always so interesting on the inside). Oh, and one last thing, it doesn’t rain everyday in Scotland and the Scots are very friendly people, but don’t run around in kilts with bagpipes all day!

ELIZA DEMAREST

Abroad in England

The second half of the semester is in full swing, and with that comes some su-per awesome SGA events!

As a re-cap on the last two weeks, let’s start with our midterm study break. A huge shout out goes to our awesome caf-eteria staff and all their hard work accom-modating the record breaking amount of hungry, stressed out students! SGA had a good time showing off our classy polos and feeding you all as well.

The Pumpkin Carving Contest was riddled with up and coming jack-o-latern artists with mind-altering sugar highs. Yes, candy was in abundance, and it was awesome. And of course, we cannot forget the Halloween Dance. Nothing is better than putting together an awesome costume and showing it off by dancing like the wild college students that we are. A big thank you to all the students who came out, stayed safe and responsible, and had a jolly good time doing so!

Coming up Nov. 1 will be the infamous casino night! Come get your sin on and gamble the night away with real black-jack, craps, and roulette tables, dealers, and awesome prizes! All proceeds of this event are donated to a local char-ity. Some of the prizes of the night will include gift certificates for custom skis, the new GoPro3, and iPad 3, just to give you a little taste. The more you win while gambling, the more raffle tickets you get for a chance to win these bad boys!

Check out the Sustainability Film Fes-tival on Nov. 2 and 3 Don’t forget to vote in the election on Nov. 6, come to the Student Forum to voice concerns on Nov. 7 and help out Tribe of Many Na-tions club donate coats during the Undie Run on Nov. 8!

Happy Halloween!-SGASonya Hernandez, SGA Treasurer

Exploring Scotland: lessons in dialect

Casino Night Nov. 1

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STORY AND PHOTOS BY DANNY KERNContributor

Music pulsed through the musky air while stu-dents dressed in a variety of creative costumes and danced around enjoying themselves Oct. 20 at the first of three dances put on by Student Govern-ment Association. The event took place at the Hyatt Ballroom.

What was the best costume you saw?

“There was some great costumes, somebody had a perfect one, Joel wearing the papa smurf costume was pretty G.”

Senior Dylan Glasgow

“My date Renee was a present, her costume was pretty complex.” Senior Kailey Hamer

“I thought Coach Kirby was a riot.”

Junior Lloyd Garden

What could SGA do to make next year’s dance better?

“It would be pretty awesome if they had the dance in Patterson Hall, in the caf. With the DJ upstairs.”

Senior Dylan Glasgow

“SGA should give us two free drink tickets for the people over 21.”

Senior Kailey Hamer

“Find a more efficient way to ad-vertise. I feel like not enough people knew about the dance because we don’t always notice fliers.”

Junior Lloyd Garden

Monster Bash 2012

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What was the greatest part of your Saturday night at the dance?

“When they played Gagnam Style by PSY. That was the greatest part of the dance.” Senior Dylan Glasgow

“I think the greatest memory I had was dancing with the winner of ‘most sexy costume’ Brett Wulc.”

Senior Kailey Hamer

“The house music was good. The DJ played a lot of music that I listen to.” Junior Lloyd Garden

Monster Bash 2012

THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2012Eagle’s Eye 8 FEATURE

Art Department Chair Sheri Leigh O’Connor had a blast visiting parts of Europe and traveling to Denmark to give a presentation on glazing ce-ramic at the University Nord-jylland of Hjorring, Denmark.

O’Connor has been at Sierra Nevada College since 1997. At the conference she presented her glaze kitchen where she re-lated mixing glazes to baking. Recently she was published in the fall edition of “Clay Times” magazine on this topic.

Arriving Sept. 16, O’Connor visited London first on her journey through Europe.

O’Connor said she, vis-ited the National Gallery, Tate Modern Museum, West Min-ster Abby, the London Eye and the Tower of London.

She arrived in Denmark on Sept. 19 and continued to Ger-many Sept. 24. O’Connor trav-eled with Paulie Beech, editor and owner of “Clay Times” magazine and Catherina Orran-tia, presenter at the conference.

“It was my first trip to Ger-

many,” said O’Connor. “We went to the Modern Art Mu-seum.” The architecture of the surrounding buildings was beautiful, said O’Connor.

“America is so young compared to Europe,” said O’Connor.

Beech, one of O’Connor’s travel companions hadn’t been to Paris. A day trip was ar-ranged and the two drove from Frankfurt to Paris, a six-hour drive.

At the Louvre in Paris, O’Connor saw the Mona Lisa, and many other Italian Re-naissance paintings as well as Neoclassical and Romanticism paintings.

“The architecture is amaz-ing,” said O’Connor. “The whole complex is wowie zow-ie.”

O’Connor tried to cram in as much as she could while in Europe from both the museums and the conference.

“I didn’t want to go all the way to Europe just for a weekend conference,” said O’Connor. “I wanted to travel.”

Sheri Leigh O’Connor presents ‘Glaze Kitchen’ at conferenceBY SAM MARQUARDTStaff Reporter

The Sierra Nevada College Tutoring Center offers assistance in all subject areas for both students and the Incline Village community.

Drop-in hours for math and English are noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 4 p.m. on Friday on the third floor of Prim Library. Further, by request appointments can be outside these time frames. Specialized subjects beyond math and English require an appointment.

In addition to academic help for SNC undergraduate and graduate students, tutors offer free assistance to the local community. In return for this service, SNC is given Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID) Recreation Center privileges.

“We have a mutual agreement with IVGID in that they provide different services for our students and as part of that agreement we provide free tutoring to the community in exchange,” said Director of Academic Support Services Henry Conover.

The selection process for tutors consists of an application accompanied by references or superior grades in a specific subject and an interview with Conover. Once selected the tutor is obligated to attend specific sessions on the subject in order to assist a student.

“It was really simple, but the point was to ensure that I had the qualifications. I had to go through some training, I had to take a diagnostic test to make sure I qualified as an English tutor. I had to go over the process of how to treat student papers. It’s a little different

this year. I think last year it was more of an editing service and this year it’s more comprehension,” said English tutor Margaux Kelly Sophomore.

One of the centers new policies in the effort to work with the community involves tutoring services for the elementary age children.

“It kind of got a little haywire in the spring. It felt more like a daycare at times and we’re trying to curb that so we’ve implemented a new policy that requires the parents of elementary aged children to remain in the library while the student is being tutored,” said Conover. Along with the changes Conover emphasized student involvement.

“I think that there’s still, unfortunately, a stigma for a lot of students who are either uncomfortable or embarrassed to have to come ask for help, and I’ll tell you the students that tend to be really successful are the ones who aren’t afraid to come in,” Conover said. “Across the board, it’s true no matter what the subject

that just by getting that extra help it can really make a huge difference.”

Tutoring center provides services to students, communityBY MARISSA STONEStaff Reporter “

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“I think that there’s still, unfortunately a stigma for a lot of students who are either uncomfortable or embarrassed to have to come ask for help.”

Henry Conover

COURTESY OF SHERI LEIGH O’ CONNORSHERI LEIGH O’CONNOR mingles with other ceramists at the third annual ceramics conference at University Nordjylland in Hjorring, Denmark where she presented her idea “Glaze Kitchen.” Other presentations incuded “Marketing ceramics on the web” by artist, Ayumi Hoari.

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Parents traveled from places as far as Alaska and Utah to attend Parents’ Week-end Oct. 13 at Sierra Nevada College. The event gave parents an opportunity to expe-rience what their offspring do at SNC and to learn how the school teaches.

A complimentary breakfast buffet at 8 a.m. had parents filling half of the Pat-terson Dining Hall. Junior Jake Denney helped greet parents with a gift bag con-taining a map of the school, a copy of the Eagle’s Eye newspaper and tips and sug-gestions of what parents could do for the weekend.

The parents then headed over to the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences (TCES) building to hear from students and faculty about the four-year liberal arts college. When Parent Relations Coordina-tor Erika Gillette asked the crowd if this was their first time at a parent’s weekend, eight responded. Erika assured them that they would leave the next day amazed with SNC.

“We are a caring, close-knit communi-

ty,” said Executive Vice President and Pro-vost Shannon Beets. “[We want] to make sure students learn, and to support them with anything they want to do.”

President Lynn Gillette told the teachers in the room to stand up. Pointing, he as-sured the crowd that they are all committed

to helping students. “We care and push the students. If they

fail, we pick up the pieces and then let them try it again,” said Gillette.

Parents had the opportunity to ask stu-dents Rebecca Lincoln, Sabrina Belleci, Sonya Hernandez, Marcus Plyhr and Anza

Jarschke about their experiences at SNC.A parent asked the students why people

drop out from SNC. Hernandez replied that she had a friend who felt school in general wasn’t right for her at the time, so she left and now leads white water rafting trips all over the world.

After the student comments, parents had the chance to take a 45-minute mini class with a professor. Humanities Chair Dan O’ Bryan said that he believed the mini ses-sions went very well, in terms of amuse-ment and the questions parents asked. O’ Bryan taught a condensed version of his Senior Ethics class.

Caren Rasmussen from Henderson, Nev., came to visit her daughter Christy, and said with a smile that she thinks this is a great school. Christy said she is glad her mom supports her and her educational adven-tures.

George Gowen, from Truckee, Calif., fa-ther of Junior Bailey Gowen said, “I be-lieve the ideas and approach that [SNC] is taking works well in a small setting.”

He said he went to a large college in Il-linois, and what you get from a graduate school environment is what SNC offers.

On a field that is usually inhabited by kids running after soccer balls, a differ-ent crowd now gathers on Thursday af-ternoons. Across from the Incline Village Recreation Center, about 20 members of the Sierra Nevada College Ultimate Fris-bee Club meet for a pickup game to show off their disc skills and run the opposing players into the dirt.

The Ultimate Frisbee Club was formed this year by Freshman Austin Ford. Ford

set out a sign-up sheet at the beginning of the semester and quickly had pages full of signatures from students seeking Frisbee action.

“Ultimate Frisbee is rad, and it’s a lot of

fun. People should come out and play it,” said Jake Roy, a member of the club.

A striking feature about this new club is the passion that its members show at their weekly pickup matches.

“It’s Frisbee or die,” said Ian Wieczorek, the club’s treasurer. In each game, the play-ers run and throw to the very reaches of their physical limits.

Still, when the game is over and one team emerges victorious, there are no hard feel-ings. High-fives and knuckle-bumps run rampant.

“I want to get to the point where we play and every player’s throw is right on the money,” said Ford, casually tossing a Fris-bee around in front of Patterson Hall.

The club has its sights set higher than mere pickup games. “We want to enter some tournaments and play with people from different areas,” said Ford.

Midterms have come and gone, the tem-peratures are drop-

ping and Starbucks is serving its seasonal pumpkin spice latte. In honor of the only time of year where it is OK to eat pumpkin flavored everything, here is a guide to making your own pumpkin pie filling from scratch.

The first step is selecting a pumpkin. There is a differ-ence between pie pumpkins and your typical jack-o-lantern pumpkin so be sure to get the right one. A pie pumpkin is generally smaller about six to eight inches in diameter, and the meat is sweeter and creamier. Grocery stores typi-cally carry pie pumpkins from October to December; it’s usu-ally near the squash. If you are unable to find pumpkins, but-ternut squash can be used as a substitute. Many canned pie fillings use a blend of pumpkin and squash.

Once you get the pumpkin home, rinse it in cool water and cut it in half using a serrated

knife. Scoop out the insides us-ing a large spoon or ice cream scoop. Save the seeds, they are a tasty snack when roasted or you can plant your own pump-kin patch next spring.

Place the pumpkin halves face down in an oven safe pan with a lid and cook at 350 de-grees until the meat is soft. Remove the pumpkin from the oven and let it cool enough to handle. Using a spoon, scrape the pumpkin meat from the skin and place it in a blender. If the meat is difficult to remove, the pumpkin is not cooked enough. Once the pumpkin is blended it can be frozen and stored or used for a variety of recipes including soup, or you can add pumpkin spice and make pie or other pumpkin fla-vored treats.

Pumpkin Spice Mix

1 tsp. cinnamon½ tsp. ground ginger¼ tsp. All Spice¼ tsp. nutmegBlend with pumpkin puree

Parents get acquainted with SNC at Parent’s WeekendBY PATRICK HOEPPNERA&E Editor

PATRICK HOEPPNERSOPHOMORE TAYLOR PUSC, SENIOR ARIELLE SHIPE AND JUNIOR JAKE DENNEY welcome SNC parents to campus for Par-ent’s Day on Oct. 13

Student club profile: Ultimate Frisbee gains popularityBY SAGE SAUERBREYContributor

To join the next UF matchMeet at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays (weath-er permitting at the soccer fields across the street from the Incline Village Recre-ation Center or contact Austin Ford.

Make pumpkin pie filling from scratch

THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2012Eagle’s Eye 10 A&E

Halloween is the best time to watch a horror movie. If you’re looking to be scared for the big night, I

recommend killing the lights and checking some of my preferred horror movies. The selected movies will provide enough ex-citement and chills to feed any horror hun-gry viewer. All of these films were released within the decade, and will make it difficult

to fall asleep.

Fright Night“Fright Night,” directed by Craig Gil-

lespie, is an entertaining and effective re-make of the 1985 vampire movie with the same name.

Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a teenager who lives in Las Vegas, Nev. who notices strange things happen when a vampire named Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) moves next door. It turns out that Dandridge is a human eating machine, which puts Brewster’s friends and family in danger. Farrell does a good job as the vampire, and seems to have fun with his role.

What I enjoyed most about the film is that it thoroughly explores the mythology of vampires. With well-made fright scenes and more than a dab of humor, Gillespie creates a fun spooky flick.

The GreyThe Grey,” directed by Joe Carnahan (A-

team), is a ferocious film about a group of men fighting for survival across the bleak lands of Alaska. John Ralph Ottway (Liam Neeson) works for an oil drilling business; shooting and killing wolves that try to at-tack the workers. When we meet Ottway, he has just lost his wife and attempts to com-mit suicide by putting a rifle in his mouth, but can’t pull the trigger. Ottway and his fellow co-workers head back home on a plane. The scene where the plane crashes in Alaska is skillfully shot. The survivors become stranded in harsh winter lands, and end up fighting off large ravenous wolves hungry for dinner. If your desperately look-ing for a top-notch thriller, then the “The Grey” is most recommended.

The Woman In Black“The Woman in Black,” directed by

James Watkins, is an old school horror movie that prefers atmosphere to violence, with a big spooky haunted house to hold it all in.

Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is a law-yer, whose four-year-old son just died. He travels to the creepily isolated Eel Marsh House, to obtain the rights to sell it for his company. Kipps journey to the house is tense and frightening. Once at the house, Kipp experiences strange phenomenons and begins to see the ghost of a woman dressed in black.

This movie has a pretty good role for Radcliffe, who just finished the “Harry Potter” franchise. The film contains many twists and turns, and benefits from creepy cinematography.

PATRICK HOEPPNER

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms”

“It’s like communion,” said Sierra Ne-vada College English Chair June Sara-ceno, on passing out the Moonpies author of “The Lost Saints of Tennessee,” Amy Franklin-Willis, brought to the second reading of Writers in the Woods series.

“The Moonpies are the favorite treat of one of the characters in the novel,” ex-plained Franklin-Willis to the crowd of over 25 SNC students, faculty and visitors.

The event, which took place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19 in SNC’s Tahoe Center for Envi-ronmental Sciences, began with an expla-nation of the novel broken up by the au-thor’s sarcasm and occasional sip of water that sent laughter throughout the room.

The reading itself focused on the main character in an intense, heart-pumping scenario where the place he has finally found is being threatened by a tornado. Of course, the chapter ended mid-crisis, leav-ing the suspense unresolved.

“That’s the end of the chapter,” Franklin-Willis said, knowing exactly where she stopped the action, to the chagrin of the audience that craved more.

A Power-point presentation with pictures from the novel’s setting, Pocahontas, Tenn. followed the reading. As an eight-gener-

ation Southerner, Franklin-Willis made note of the importance in the draw to her father’s hometown and the sense of family ties she lost out on growing up in Birming-ham, Ala.

“It was nice to walk on the same street my dad had walked on as a young boy, and where there was connection. There were roots there,” Franklin-Willis said on vis-iting Tenn. “And when my grandmother died it felt like a double loss, because we lost her, the matriarch of our family, and we lost the place.”

A brief question and answer between Franklin-Willis and the audience ensued.

“Can you tell me how you went about your revision process?” said one audience member.

To which Franklin-Willis instructed, “I don’t know how you work, but I don’t re-ally know what the story is until I finish the first draft. So it’s a very instructive process, that first draft. And now you have to look at the piece, and find out what is the best way to tell the story. You just have to keep chipping away at the beautiful story that’s in there.”

Another student asked, “How do you go from being a good writer to a good au-thor?”

Franklin-Willis offered answers such as their different skillsets, how a good editor

can be a miracle to the circle of people in the writers life that have read the work a million times, having your novel read by actual readers and starting your next book immediately.

A quote that prominently stood out was Franklin-Willis’s, “if you’re writing than you’re a writer. If you’re talking about writing you are not a writer.”

After the event Franklin-Willis stayed to converse with the attendees and sign cop-ies of her book, prompting excitement for her workshop scheduled for the next day,

Saturday, Oct. 20. The workshop helped many SNC students and local writers find innovative ways to go about their pieces.

“I didn’t know what to expect going into the workshop. I just knew that [Franklin-Willis] would have great advice on some areas I’ve been struggling with in some of my writing,” said Sophomore Em-ily Provencher. “I’m really glad I got the chance to share some of my work with a brilliant author. It’s too bad so many writ-ers out there don’t have the same opportu-nities I do.”

Halloween Events Many shocking events will be coming

to the Lake Tahoe area

- Reno Zombie Crawl has 40 bars participating. It starts 8 p.m. on Oct. 27. Costs $5.

- The Creepers Ball featuring “Tainted Love” begins 9 p.m. on Oct. 27, at the Crystal Bay Club in Crystal Bay, Nev.

- Freakers Ball with “Pop Fiction” starts at 8 p.m. at the Mont Bleu, Stateline Nev.

- Horns and Halos haunted Halloween costume party on Oct. 31, at Cal Neva Resort, Crystal Bay, Nev. Tickets $15.

Writers in the woods features Amy Franklin-Willis

Jake PollockAmy Franklin-Willis talks about the craft of writing during the Writers in the Woods event on Oct. 19 in the Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Science.

BY MARISSA STONE Staff Reporter

Scary movies to sink your teeth into

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BY DREW FISHER Contributor

Lucy SandovalAdvocate of multilingualism, posole

JAKE POLLOCKLUCY SANDOVAL aspires to teach high school math and enjoys teaching others about her Mexican heritage.

Name: Lucy SandovalAge: 29Year: Sophomore Major: Humanities Hometown: South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Lucy Sandoval is calm, friendly and patient--the ideal characteristics of an aspiring high school math teacher. Recently married and the mother of a 5-year-old daughter, Lucy has a strong appreciation for family and culture.

Whatʼs your major?Iʼm majoring in Humanities. I want to go

into the teaching program and teach math for the high school in South Lake Tahoe.

Why teach high school math instead of elementary or middle school?

Iʼve worked in elementary school, mid-dle school and high school. Middle school-ers are a little crazy with their hormones. Theyʼre trying to get away from authority, so they donʼt really care. Theyʼre too cool for everything. In high school, the students are finding themselves and they want to talk to you a little bit. I wouldnʼt mind elementary school, but what I like is the higher level math.

Where are you from originally?I was born in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.,

but my parents are from the center of Mex-ico, in Zacetecas.

Do you speak Spanish?Yes. Thatʼs probably the second thing I

would want to teach. For communication purposes, I guess we should all learn. Itʼs going to be an important language.

Do you think more of us should learn Spanish?

Maybe itʼs just part of my culture, but yes, speak Spanish! The way the world is turning right now, we should all have an-other language. In high school, they offered French and Spanish. I already knew Span-ish, so I went for French and I took four

years of it. They say you use more parts of your brain if you use more languages. So go for it. Use more of your brain.

What are some of your favorite parts of Mexican culture?

I like a lot of the traditional dancing. I used to be in a folkloric dance group. We still volunteer for church events and try to raise money for the family resource cen-ter. The dance group was intended for kids who were losing part of their culture, to keep their culture more alive. Sometimes we get a little too Americanized. I consider myself completely American, but I still think kids should know a little bit more of their culture. I absolutely love the dancing. And also, there are so many different types of food that are traditional to our culture, like posole. My dad makes an awesome posole.

What is posole?Itʼs like big corn kernels. In English, I

think itʼs called hominy. Itʼs big kernels of corn mixed with a certain type of meat. It’s like a stew. You put in a bunch of veg-gies, like cabbage, radishes, and chopped up onions.

Do you notice any differences between the culture of your parents and the one you were raised in?

The big differences are in the roles that a man and woman play. In my parents’ cul-ture, a man is to be tended to by the wom-an. The woman is to take care of the kids and the house. The man is to bring home the food and the money. Thatʼs the way my parents are. But here, most women are al-lowed to get educated and go outside of the home and work.

What is your favorite class at SNC?My favorite class is Introduction to Cre-

ative Nonfiction. I am able to hear about other people’s writing and I am learning things about writing that I didn’t know. I also like my civilization class because Pro-fessor King really makes us think and ana-lyze what our civilizations derived from and why our society is what it is.

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They say you use more parts of your brain if you use more languages. So go for it. Use more of your brain.

Lucy SandovalSophomore in Humanities

THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2012Eagle’s Eye 12 CAMPUS