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Resilience and perseverance Auschwitz survivor to share her Holocaust story

BY SAMANTHA MONTERREY

Staff ReporterIn 1944, Edith Eger and her family

were taken from their home in Kassa, Hungary, and turned prisoners of Aus-chwitz, one of the largest, most notorious concentration camps of the Holocaust.

Eger, only 16 years old at the time, spent a gruesome year in Auschwitz.

“My parents were executed in the gas chambers shortly after we arrived at Aus-chwitz,” Eger said. “My sister Magda and I were the only survivors of my family.”

Eger, now a clinical Pyshcologist, will share her experiences with Central stu-dents on, May 15 at 4 p.m. in the Jeri-lyn S. McIntyre Music Building Concert Hall.

This is Eger’s fi rst visit to Central, and she hopes that students will see her as a role model.

“I would like to show students how resilience and perseverance was with me throughout my time at Auschwitz,” Eger said. “A place where I discovered trauma-tizing things I never thought possible.”

Eger was an experienced ballerina and aspiring gymnast, prior to her imprison-ment.

“I was preparing to compete in the upcoming Olympics when my family was taken to Auschwitz,” Eger said. “My dream was doing that.”

According to the United States Ho-locaust Memorial Museum, Dr. Josef Mengele was an infamous SS camp phy-sician at Auschwitz and notorious for his inhumane experiments. Mengele soon found out about Eger’s dance history.

Upon her arrival to the camp, Mengele requested she entertain him with her dancing.

“I had to close my eyes and pretend I was dancing in an opera house in Hunga-ry,” Eger said. “I could not bring myself to accept that I was dancing for the man that executed my family.”

According to Eger, it isn’t her experi-ences at Auschwitz that are important, but instead what they taught her.

“When you are in a situation like that you have to try to survive,” Eger said, “fi nd the power within you as I did. You have to be a survivor and never a victim.”

Eger uses her history of survival to give hope to others suffering through traumatic circumstances.

“It’s not what’s happening, it’s what you do with it,” Eger said.

After a horrifying year, Eger was liber-ated in May 1945. She was found in a pit, surrounded by corpses, weighing only 60 pounds.

“I was left for dead, and I was rescued by an American soldier,” Eger said.

Auschwitz was one of the last concen-tration camps to be liberated before the war ended. Eger still holds onto the Red Cross documentation of when she was

found.After her liberation, Eger came across

an ad for a concert featuring a violinist. The violinist was her older sister Klara, who Eger didn’t know was still alive.

“It was a very emotional experience,” Eger said. “She became my mother after that. She felt guilty that she wasn’t with me and my family in Auschwitz.”

Klara Eger had a long career as a vio-linist for the Sydney symphony in Aus-tralia and died in 2007 of Alzheimer’s disease.

Eger would like to dedicate some time for questions and encourages students to watch the DVD “Seeds of Resiliency,” which features Eger’s inspiring story and journey to survival.

Today, among other things, Eger is a renowned clinical psychologist and au-thor. She works with victims of sexual assault, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“When I am working with sexual abuse victims or even when I am speaking to students, I tell them, ‘don’t check out,’ I never did,” Eger said.

The only thing Eger held on to while at Auschwitz was her spirit. It was the one thing she felt they couldn’t take away.

“I never allowed the Nazis to murder my spirit,” Eger said. “They could beat and torture me but never ever take away my spirit.”

Heidi Szpek, philosophy and religious studies department chair and professor, believes Eger will bring a new perspective in the way she shares her story.

“I think no matter who you are, people go through a variety of horrifi c experi-ences, be it our veterans, be it survivors of genocide, be it individuals who have been abused,” Szpeck said. “They all need to fi nd a way to move forward and I think that is the uniqueness. She wants to share her story and experiences, but it doesn’t end there – she wants to help others.”

Szpeck teaches Holocaust studies as part of the philosophy and religious stud-ies department.

According to Szpeck, in her studies of the Holocaust she has read memoirs, historical documentations and books that describe the horrors and adverse con-ditions the prisoners of concentration camps faced.

“You learn about...the whole process of those who come to the camps,” Szpeck said. “The routine of those who were sent

to Auschwitz, if not immediately sent to the gas chambers, who were allowed to live. You learn about the lack of food, the horrifi c conditions, the suffering endured, the forced labor under adverse condi-tions.”

What occurred in Auschwitz also oc-curred in other concentration camps.

According to Szpeck, recent research indicates that there were a total of ap-proximately 42,500 camps established by the Nazis. Auschwitz, however, has be-come symbolic of the Holocaust.

“In a way, when we hear Auschwitz, it evokes understanding or memory of all these camps and it should also evoke memories of individuals who suffered in different camps and different situations,” Szpeck said.

Szpeck values the opportunity to listen to the story of a survivor.

“You can take a class on the Holo-caust, you can read a book, and you can

read memoirs – historical ones, personal ones,” Szpeck said. “You can listen to mu-sic composed in the camps. You can read poetry com-posed in the camps, but that is not the same as lis-

tening to the story of someone who was there.”

As a professor, Szpeck encourages her students to attend Eger’s visit, and as chair, she also encourages her faculty and staff to attend.

“It’s been 70 years – we start marking those specifi c dates connected with WWII and the Holocaust, and soon there will be no survivors to tell their stories,” Szpeck said. “As years pass by and we become further removed from events, we rely on historical written works, but there are those who won’t believe, those who need to hear it from someone who’s had these experiences.”

The Center for Diversity and Social Justice is sponsoring Eger’s visit, in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, which is celebrated in the month of May.

Michelle Cyrus is a diversity offi cer for CDSJ. She hopes students will take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime op-portunity.

“How many times do you actually have the opportunity to talk to someone that has experienced something of that magnitude? It’s history,” Cyrus said. “You have living, breathing history at the mo-ment.”

I never allowed the Nazi’s to murder my spirit. They could beat and torture me but never take away my spirit.“I never allowed the Nazi’s “I never allowed the Nazi’s to murder my spirit. They could “to murder my spirit. They could “

-EDITH EGER

EDITH EGER

EDITH EGER HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

GUEST SPEAKER

WHEN: Wednesday May 15

WHERE: Jerilyn S. McIntyre

Music Building Concert Hall

Time: 7:30 p.m.

HOLOCAUST FACTS

• Auschwitz was a complex

of about 40 camps holding

135,000 prisoners

• About 1.5 million prisoners

of Auschwitz were mur-

dered, 1 million of whom

were Jewish.

• The Holocaust claimed the

lives of about 6 million

European Jews (as well as

members of about other

persecuted groups, such as

Gypsies and homosexuals).

Sourceshttp://en.auschwitz.org/http://www.history.com/

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Tune-up: 3-5 faculty to be realignedBY EVAN PAPPAS

Staff Reporter

The Provost’s Offi ce was hit with a roadblock in their faculty realignment pro-cess last week after the Academic Depart-ment Chairs Organization advised faculty not to take part in the process, causing the provost to make various changes.

This past year, Provost Marilyn Levine has gone to each department to discuss its operations, and she has realized that some departments are having issues with balancing out the amount of students per class.

This led Levine to start the process of realigning faculty positions between de-partments. The realignment project would only affect three to fi ve faculty members, she said.

Last week, an open work session was scheduled by the Provost’s Offi ce inviting faculty to participate. This session was for faculty to determine which departments need a larger staff and which ones can spare a position.

“I just want a transparent, open pro-cess where we all look at the same data,” Levine said. “I wanted to share the data so it wasn’t done in the dark.”

Unfortunately for the provost, the ADCO did not feel comfortable with the process and recommended faculty and staff to not participate in the ranking pro-cess.

ADCO put out an open letter on Cen-tral’s website regarding the realignment process stating that “ADCO is unable to fully endorse this process at this time” and that the data would provide an incomplete picture of departments.

Physics Professor Michael Jackson, chair of ADCO, said the process of rank-ing is what ADCO disagreed with, not the entire concept the provost put forward.

“Because of that we felt very uneasy about people ranking things, ranking de-partments, and so what we would prefer that they did is help everyone gather infor-mation,” Jackson said.

Faculty Senate also did not participate in the process. The executive committee decided to join ADCO in abstaining from this process.

Ian Loverro, associate education pro-fessor and member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, said he was uncom-fortable with a process that would have faculty pointing fi ngers at each other.

“For me to be asked to single out other

departments for cuts didn’t seem appro-priate, it felt a little bit like ‘Survivor,’” Loverro said.

Jackson emphasized that ADCO was not opposed to the realignment because they thought it would be bad for the university, but was opposed to the ranking process that was to be used.

“It’s not as if we were asking people to shun it because the administration is doing something so terribly naughty that they should have their wrist slapped,” Jackson said. “I think quite the contrary. I think the uni-versity has listened to faculty and staff concerns and they are trying to go ahead and fi nd a resolution to a situation that is really challenging.”

The notion of possibly incorrect or

fl awed information was enough to make ADCO want a revision to the process that this project will use.

“We also didn’t want to make a rush to judgment even if it was perceived to

be fl awed even to a small extent be-cause then people will have biases and that leads to conclusions ‘Well I heard this’ and ‘I assumed this,’” Jackson said.

Bob Hickey, professor of geog-raphy and presi-dent of the United

Faculty of Central, echoed Jackson’s state-ments when he said the original process used fl awed data.

“I think that the data set that was used was incomplete and not refl ective of what faculty and departments do,” Hickey said.

“For example it looked at student and fac-ulty numbers, it didn’t look at research, it didn’t look at grants, it didn’t look at ser-vice, it didn’t look at publications.”

After hearing the feedback from ADCO and Faculty Senate, Levine said she has reworked the process into something she believes can address the concerns.

Department chairs are being asked to provide corrections and additional data t to associate deans by May 13, after which the data will be reorganized and be sent out to the deans, associate deans, Fac-ulty Senate Chair Melody Madlem, and ADCO Chair Jackson.

After that, contextual and qualitative information will be gathered from the de-partment chairs, Levine said.

Levine said the students are the main focus of all this. Their success is the end goal.

“I think our number one consideration is student success and positioning our-selves to serve the students well,” Levine said.

BY MATTHEW THOMPSON

Staff Reporter

After a month of campaigns and 672 votes later, the Associated Students of Central Washington University Board of Directors election is over and seven stu-dents can rejoice in their victory.

“I was very pleased with [the results],” Cassie DuBore, newly elected vice presi-dent for legislative affairs, said. “I think it is a really diverse group because we have some people who are brand new to the BOD, we have some people who have a lot of experience and people that are bring-ing in new traits.”

The BOD presidential race was decid-ed by 196 votes with Bryan Elliot receiv-ing nearly 65 percent of the votes over his opponent, Philip Rush.

Mary Orthmann secured her second term as the incumbent in the race for the position of vice president for clubs and or-

ganizations beating out opponent Kaleb Burg with a 93-vote margin.

Two candidates fresh to the BOD scene vied for the position of VP for Academic Affairs, with Kelsie Miller winning 61.7 percent over Jessica Murillo.

Spencer Flores narrowly beat out Jes-se Hegstrom Oakey with only 78 votes. Flores was not only happy for her win but also that the race was the closest.

“We got along really well and everyone was like, ‘why are you guys friends?’ and I’m like, ‘this isn’t the Hunger Games,’” Flores said.

A mere 91 votes clinched the win for Scott Kazmi over Corey Poston. Even though Kazmi was confi dent in his pros-pects for winning the election he was shocked to hear the results.

“I thought both my opponent and I were on a level playing fi eld through the heart of the election,” Scott Kazmi, newly elected vice president for Student Life and

Facilities said. “I was still pretty surprised that I won.”

Jacob Wittman and Cassie DuBore both ran unopposed for the positions of executive vice president and VP for Legis-lative Affairs respectively.

This year’s turnout for the election was 40 votes less than last year’s 712. That means that less than 8 percent of the stu-dents enrolled on this campus voted for their student government.

Elliott sees the voter turnout as prob-lem that needs to be fi xed through higher engagement of the BOD with the student body as well as amending the rules for BOD campaigns.

“I think that some of the campaign rules need to be improved and maybe streamlined,” Elliott said. “The rules are very well intentioned, but I think at times they can be too restrictive and that really prevents the word getting out about elec-tions.”

BOD voter turnout down 40 from last year’s totalELECTION OUTCOMESPresident Bryan Elliott......................64.8%Executive Vice President Jacob Wittman..................100%VP for Clubs and Organizations Mary Orthmann................57.4%VP for Academic A� airs Kelsie Miller......................61.7%VP for Equity and Community A� airs Spencer Flores..................56.1%VP for Student Life and Facilities Scott Kazmi......................57.2%VP for Legislative A� airs Cassie DuBore....................100%

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didn’t seem appropriate, it felt

-IAN LOVERROFaculty Senate Exec. Comm. member

EMPTY TABLE Faculty Senate and department chairs refuse to participate in the provost’s plan to realign 3-5 faculty members.PHOTOGRAPHER NAME/OBSERVER

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BY PATIENCE COLLIERStaff Reporter

Basic rights have been a hot topic on the Central Washington University cam-pus, as the First Amendment festival kicked off this week.

Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald was the keynote speaker, and each day in the SURC Pit, Professor Brian Carroll’s history students re-enacted famous First Amendment trials. Student clubs and or-ganizations also tabled in the “Market-place of Ideas.” The festival, which is run-ning in conjunction with College Civics Week, ends today with a lunchtime Speak-Out Central debate in the SURC pit.

On Monday, students read excerpts from the Daniel Ellsberg whistleblower case. He was accused of theft and conspir-acy for copying and distributing the Penta-gon Papers, top-secret military documents that proved the U.S. government had been lying to the public about the Vietnam War.

Greenwald also spoke at the re-enact-ment. He drew parallels from Ellsberg’s actions to former soldier Bradley Man-

ning, who released classifi ed documents to the organization WikiLeaks for similar reasons and was held in solitary confi ne-ment for more than two years before being court martialed.

“He knew when he decided [to leak the documents] that he was going to be prose-cuted and was likely to go to prison for the rest of his life,” Greenwald said. “And he made that decision to give up his liberty. He simply could not, in good conscience, let those lies continue to be concealed.”

Keith Champagne, the assistant dean for student development, was in the crowd watching the case.

Champagne said he was attending to support the students and because one could always learn something by watch-ing events, even those that they may have studied earlier in life.

“I think it’s a struggle facing all of us,” Champagne said. “How do we continue to allow people to have their Constitution-al rights, as we move to ensure that our so-ciety becomes a safe society, given what’s going on in terms of terrorism around the world.”

Champagne said it was important to draw a balance between protecting civil liberties and keeping citizens safe, but stressed the importance of protecting the rights of American citizens.

“We have to trust that what’s in place in the system will work regardless of the crimes that are committed in America by Americans,” he said.

He mentioned that this struggle is not a new thing facing this generation.

“We have a history of denying people their constitutional rights, regardless of what the crime is,” Champagne said. “If you look at how people of color have been tried throughout the history of American jurisprudence, you will fi nd that even to-day, in non-terrorism cases, there are cer-tain members of our society who are mar-ginalized in their rights.”

This reaction echoed, in many ways, the points made by Greenwald in his speech Monday afternoon, which covered First Amendment rights and the ways in which they have been eroded in the name of national security.

Greenwald stressed that the violation

of First Amendment rights falls fi rst on marginalized groups.

“I think the critical thing to understand is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its law-abiding, rela-tively quiescent citizens,” Greenwald said. “It’s how it treats its dissidents, or people who are in some kind of group that has been marginalized and demonized.”

Greenwald frequently referred to the “War on Terror’s War on the First Amend-ment,” and the way terrorism has been used as an excuse to deny, or abridge, the rights and civil liberties of United States citizens. He closed the speech by taking questions from some audience members about issues such as how the issue of ter-rorism is effecting prosecution of citizens.

Political columnist opens eyes upBY JULIA MARTINEZ

Staff Reporter

Glenn Greenwald, civil rights litigator turned politcal columnist, said Monday that nearly all human progress is “driven by people who have stood up and said, ‘I disagree with this idea’ that the society at the time considered to be the most pre-cious, the most cherished, the one deserv-ing of the greatest reverence.”

Greenwald’s keynote speech, “Under Fire: The War on Terror’s War on the First Amendment,” kick started Central’s First Amendment Festival.

Greenwald has appeared on MSNBC, CNN and “The Colbert Report,” and is scheduled to appear this Friday on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” He is a New York Times-bestselling author and a columnist for The Guardian, where he concentrates on exposing how civil liberties have been eroded in the name of national security.

Greenwald fi rst explained what civil liberties are, since people are quick to say they “know their rights.”

“All we really mean when we talk about civil liberties or constitutional rights is the list of limitations that we have imposed on the government in terms of its power and what it is that it can do to us,” Greenwald said.

These liberties are easy to fi nd, they are called the Bill of Rights, and they are “ab-solute in nature,” Greenwald said.

“They’re not waivable under certain circumstances, like war or threats to na-tional security, or in internal instability,” Greenwald said.

Along with explaining civil liberties, Greenwald also explained that these rights are “anti-democratic” in that they cannot be changed, no matter how many people oppose or favor a particular act. These rights, according to Greenwald, were de-signed to protect minority rights.

“Ultimately what free speech ... is real-ly intended to do is to ensure that there are never any ideas considered to be so sacred, so shielded, so worshipped, that the state will bar people from challenging them or contradicting them,” Greenwald said.

Citing the Arab Spring, a term for the recent uprisings and revolutions in coun-tries such as Egypt, Syria, Libya and Ye-men, Greenwald said “free speech ensures that even the most extreme forms of tyr-anny can be uprooted.”

Even though many First Amendment rights have been eroded in the name of national security, Greenwald said there’s still hope. “As long as we have the unfet-tered ability to communicate with our fellow citizens to make people aware of injustices, to bring our version of the truth to other people and persuade them using the power of ideas, all forms of social change are pos-sible,” he said.

Greenwald said a free press should act as a fourth check on the government, opposing and acting as adversaries. Jour-nalists, in regard to the government, are supposed to “expose their secrets and un-cover their wrongs and deceit.”

While the mainstream media has not been doing a good job of being a watch-dog on government, Greenwald said, the internet has helped, because individuals can start their own blogs and newspapers and write against those in power.

Greenwald dove into two Supreme Court cases to remind the audience that even objectionable ideas are protected. Brandenberg v Ohio upheld the Ku Klux Klan’s right to advocate for killing those in power.

“It really is necessary if you’re gonna have free speech to protect not just pleas-

ant, uncontroversial main-stream opin-ions but even those opinions that are most hated, most de-spised and most dan-gerous,” Greenwald said.

“Because ulti-mately if all you believe is that only u n c o n t rove r s i a l ,

main-stream pleasant opinions should be permitted to be heard, but not offen-sive, heinous, dangerous ones, then by defi nition you don’t actually believe in free speech.”

It is very diffi cult for the average person to understand the current war on the First Amendment, Greenwald said, because if

you refrain from expressing an opposing opinion and abide by the law, the govern-ment generally won’t bother you.

“If you allow the government to do a particular act to this citizen over here, be-cause you think that citizen is a bad per-son who probably doesn’t deserve rights, you’re not just allowing the government to take action against that citizen, you’re allowing the government to take that ac-tion against any citizen that it chooses, you’ve legitimized and institutionalized that rights abuse,” Greenwald said.

The abuse of this power was a central point in the speech and Greenwald ex-plained that in every government, there should be “a healthy fear in the heart of people who exercise power about what will happen to them if they abuse it.”

To end his speech, Greenwald gave an anecdote about WikiLeaks, a non-profi t organization that leaks government in-formation and classifi ed documents and news from anonymous sources. In 2008, WikiLeaks leaked a document from the Pentagon that made it clear that the de-fense department deemed Wikileaks an enemy of the state.

That document prompted several peo-ple to tell Greenwald they were scared to donate money to Wikileaks because the Pentagon might then label them “enemies of the state.”

When people are too afraid to exercise their rights, “those rights become com-pletely worthless,” Greenwald said. “It’s a much more effective form of tyranny.”

After a Q&A session with the remain-ing audience, where questions ranged from the defi nition of terrorism to court cases such as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commision, Greenwald attend-ed a book signing and then a dinner with journalism students and sponsors.

Mike Davalos, junior communication studies major, said he thinks U.S. citizens “should be well aware of their liberties. The freedoms ensured to me under the First Amendment make me proud to be a citizen of this county. I enjoyed listening to his perspectives on court cases such as Brandenberg v. Ohio.”

Sophomore Alex Silvi, fi lm and video studies, liked Greenwald’s points. “I think more people need to pay attention to what their freedoms are and they need to be more involved in politics, instead of celeb-rities and what they see on MTV.”

USE ‘EM OR LOSE ‘EM Greenwald spoke of the erosion of First Amendment rightsCHANET STEVENSON/OBSERVER

Today’s EventsCollege Civics Week Block Party with Hey Marseilles: 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. SURC BallroomMarketplace of Ideas: 10 p.m. - 2 p.m. SURC Tabling AreaSpeakOut Central: 12-1:30 p.m. SURC Pit

1st Amendment Festival events end today

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The drunk and the restlessBY Patience collier

Staff Reporter

Timothy Bishop of the Ellensburg Downtown Association recently went on record with Central’s Newswatch, saying bars in downtown need to be more re-sponsible for the actions of their patrons.

Businesses and residents have had problems recently with drunken behavior on weekends, including students on week-nights. Phil Hasenbalg, junior biology ma-jor, that from his apartment, he witnessed a party in the parking lot of a nearby res-taurant get broken up by the police.

“I was getting annoyed because I was trying to sleep, then I heard the cops show up,” Hasenbalg said.

Hasenbalg said the police blocked off a street, and put some students in custody. Hasenbalg doesn’tagree the bars are re-sponsible for the behavior of patrons at their establishment, since alcohol is read-ily available elsewhere, and when bars kick patrons out when they’re too drunk, the responsibility still lies with the patrons themselves.

“I think that it was more just the stu-dent or the people’s fault,” Hasenbalg said. “They were the ones out there party-ing, revving their engines and being loud. They could’ve gone somewhere else to do it, somewhere they weren’t bothering peo-ple, but they chose to do it there.”

Hasenbalg felt that kicking out intoxi-cated patrons was still the bar’s responsi-bility because of the liability of alcohol poisoning, but that was all they should be held responsible for.

“The bar only has responsibility for the student until they kick them out, and then what that person does outside of the bar is kind of their problem,” Hasenbalg said.

Hasenbalg’s brother, who also wit-nessed the incident, agreed.

“The bar can kick them out for being drunk, but in the end, the student can just go to a Fred Meyer or something and grab all the alcohol they want,” said Samuel Hasenbalg, senior computer science ma-jor.

Ryan Jack, manager at The Tav, said he had not seen serious problems with the patrons.

“Everyone is pretty, well, tame,” Jack said.

Jack didn’t think there was any way to put the responsibility of intoxicated be-havior on bars rather than students.

“It’s pretty random,” Jack said. “I

don’t think you can pinpoint it to any one place.”

Starlight Lounge owner, Doris Mor-gan, agreed that she rarely sees problems with students getting too drunk to handle their behavior.

“I don’t think it’s a major problem,” Morgan said. “It’s minimal.”

Morgan feels some issues are unavoid-able in a college town.

“You get a lot of kids in one place par-tying, you’re going to have problems,” Morgan said. “But in general, it’s few and far between.”

Morgan said the Starlight has so few problems with behavior because of the way the business is run.

“We’re conscientious about it,” Mor-gan said. “Our doormen, bouncers, bar-tenders, watching for kids who are im-paired.”

Sergeant Mike Koss, Ellensburg Po-lice Department, agrees that downtown bars have been responsible where their

patrons are concerned, but said any ef-fort that brought the community and the bars together would be a good thing. He said Ellensburg police have been working with the bars on a program called Serving Standards, which allows police to monitor infractions at various establishments and talk to the people involved.

“I think the bars do a pretty good job,” Koss said. Since we’ve started that Serv-ing Standards program, we’ve seen a lot of compliance.

He said the officer who was monitoring the program had seen compliance from the bars.

However, Koss still said in the end, the bars could only do so much, and the re-sponsibility for the problems downtown ultimately rests with the individuals who cause them. He cited a continuous string of issues with vandalism and theft on Wa-ter street, which he said was mainly due to the foot traffic of intoxicated people in the area.

“Through education and good choices, a lot of our student population does not drink and drive, but through those travel corridors, we see a lot of vandalism and theft,” Koss said. “It coincides with foot traffic on those nights, and I don’t think you can hang this around the necks of the bars.”

He explained that although the of-fenses are mainly misdemeanors, they do cause issues for residents. They also cost taxpayers, in some cases. One issue they deal with is intoxicated people pulling up street signs and the city having to spend money to put them back.

“If people decide to get rip drunk and start a fight, there’s only so much the bars can do,” Koss said. “We are all responsible for our own actions.

Koss stressed the importance of indi-viduals choosing to avoid the destructive acts that have been a problem, but also said that a collaborative effort could be a good thing.

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� e Observer • May 9 - 15, 2013 OPINIONEditor-in-Chief// Danny Schmidt

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The Observer welcomes brief letters of 300 words or less from readers on current issues. Please include your full name and university a� liation: year and major, degree and year graduated, or sta� position and department. To be printed in the following week’s issue, please e-mail your letters to cwuobserveropinion@gmail.com by 5 p.m. Sunday. The Observer reserves the right to reject or edit for style and length. All letters become property of The Observer. Anonymous letters will not be considered.

Dear Readers,

CHANET STEVENSON Assistant Scene Editor

ALEXIS THOMAS Copy Editor

As graduation approaches, many of us are more terrifi ed than excited to zip up the long gown and walk across the stage to receive our degree.

Several years ago, graduating se-niors were ecstatic about the adven-tures and potential careers that lie ahead. Job offers were common, and

their futures looked bright.

T o d a y , many of us are left with lim-ited options and told by fel-low graduated alum to “stay in college as long as you can.”

As much as most of us

would like to pull a Van Wilder, real-ity seems to creep up faster than we had ever imagined. In less than three months, the “I’m a college kid” ex-cuse is no longer acceptable. As a se-nior graduating in June, I would have never imagined that exiting college would be scarier than entering.

Four years ago, I made it my col-lege career goal to fi nish my degree in the allotted four-year time frame. To-day, I almost regret working so hard to fi nish on time, because where do you go from here?

Most college students graduate, move home with their parents and go back to working an “in the mean-time” job until they get an offer worth the money and the hard work it took to earn their degree.

Unfortunately, the economy sucks and employers don’t want to hire a fresh college graduate—they’d rather have someone with experience and knowledge within the fi eld. So college gradates have to stand out and be that much better than the next applicant.

We now enter the rat race called life. Graduating college is an amaz-ing achievement, and no one can take that degree away from you. But in the back of my head, I sometimes wish I’d had a couple more crazy nights just so I could stay in college a little bit longer.

I mean, in the end, what do you remember more: all the neat stuff you learned, or all of the shenanigans you got yourself into during college?

Mrs. VanWilder

There is always that one car in ev-ery parking lot that is either parked over the lines, parked illegally, or doesn’t have a pass for the lot.

Let’s face it, everyone dislikes

these kinds of drivers. I know I do.

There is no place I’ve witnessed these parking of-fenses occur more frequently than in the parking lot of the apartment complex I live in.

Let me begin by saying that I have withheld my opinion on the subject for quite some time, but due to a recent oc-currence, I fi gured now is as good a time as any to speak my mind about it.

But before I go into the incident which led to this particular opinion, I need to explain the other offenses I’ve witnessed, and why they’re a problem.

First off, nothing frustrates me more than when people without parking pass-es fi ll up the parking lot near my apart-ment, especially when they are parked there overnight. I often work late, and don’t get home until later. So the last thing I want to do when I fi nally do get home is to have to search for a park-ing spot. Usually I end up parking on the street, or in the lot farthest from my apartment.

I mean, the whole reason I drive in the fi rst place is so that I won’t have to walk home alone in the dark. Yet I still fi nd myself having to do so.

What makes this situation even more frustrating is the fact that we have park-ing passes for our complex, but never once in the two years I’ve lived there have I ever seen someone patrolling our lots to make sure that everyone has a pass. Seriously, why do we even have the passes if no one is ever going to check them?

It seems the towing signs are a waste of space as well, since no one has ever been towed. This puzzles me, since peo-

ple park in fi re lanes. If you pull into our parking lot, there

are two spots in particular where people stupidly park. One has a fi re hydrant clearly visible in the grass in front of it, and the other has the painted lines on the sidewalk.

Aside from being fi re lanes, the one spot is signifi cantly smaller than a regular parking stall, and the other is positioned in a way that makes it nearly impossible for anyone to back out of it without hit-ting another car.

Come on people, really? Are you THAT dumb?

The other parking pet peeve of mine is when a car is parked sideways, and/or over their lines. I think this type of park-ing job in particular is something that many people will agree is annoying. For one thing, nothing makes it more diffi -cult to get in and out of your car than having to squeeze your way through a partially opened door because the car parked next to you decided to hog the line.

Cars parked over their lines also pose a risk of getting scratched, or scratching another car, which also poses the ques-tion of why so many people continue to run the risk of this by not correcting themselves. That’s why this particular parking job baffl es me. I don’t under-stand why it’s so diffi cult for people to back up, straighten out, and pull back into the spot.

As for the incident which sparked this article, here is what happened: Last week my roommate walked out to her car to leave for class, and found a pair of sticky notes attached to her windshield, cursing her out for supposedly parking over the lines and for not having a parking pass.

So to the person responsible for the notes: Though I could easily use more choice words to address you just as you so eloquently did to my roommate, I will instead try to express my thoughts re-garding your actions as delicately as pos-sible so as not to get my next statements bleeped before printing.

While I appreciate your efforts to try to weed out the non-parking pass viola-tors, leaving notes on someone’s car is not the way to solve the problem. Believe me, as I’ve already stated previously, I too hate it when people without passes take up spots. And if you ever want to go to our apartment management about the parking issues, I would gladly sup-port you and go along. But leaving nasty notes on people’s cars is where I draw the line.

P.S. I’d like to point out that had you not been so hasty to call her out, you might have noticed that she does in fact have a parking pass. So if you insist on remaining our parking lot monitor, try to be more observant.

Pissed o� parkers

This is a submitted photo of a note that was left on a student’s car last week.

Gloomy economy scaring

students

� e Observer • May 9 - 15, 2013SCENEEditor// Jeanette Genson

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BY MARGAUX MASSEY

Staff Reporter

Starting Friday, the Central Washing-ton University theater program will give seven performances of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

It’s the fi rst mu-sical of the year and is a joint effort between the theater and the music de-partments at Cen-tral, with the music department provid-ing the orchestra.

Attendees who are expecting a nor-mal play are in for a surprise. The show is an opera, mean-ing that there is no actual speaking, ev-erything is sung.

According to director Keith Edie, the musical is essentially the last week of Je-sus’s life, set to rock music.

“In a modern calendar, we would say from Palm Sunday to the crucifi xion,” Edie said.

The play won’t be anything like “The Passion,” however, as it is set in modern times. According to Edie, the point is to see what the whole situation would look like now.

“It’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ with tex-ting, suits and beanies,” Alex Smith, a se-nior performance major and Peter in the play, said. “I joke that my costume looks like it came out of my closet.”

Even though the play is a little different from the story in the Bible, Edie says he hopes the expe-rience will change the attendees of the play.

Edie doesn’t want to beat the audience over the head with what he believes is the truth; he wants them to make their own de-cisions.

“I’m hoping that they leave dif-ferent in some way,

so they don’t leave thinking the same way as when they came,” Edie said.

Jordyn Brown, a senior musical the-ater major who is playing Mary Magda-lene, agreed with Edie and added that she hoped they got a reaction in some way, “even if it’s just that they walk a little lighter.”

With this being the fi rst musical Edie has ever directed, he said it is hard for him because he doesn’t like to dictate to every-body what they are supposed to do.

With Edie directing, along with a vo-cal coach, a choreographer and a musical director, he said they had to mesh what everyone was doing into a cohesive whole.

“It’s been like guiding the ship itself,” Edie said. “My job is to make sure the ship gets safely to shore.”

The play has been diffi cult for the actors for dif-ferent reasons. For Brown, it was how important it is to get the message across. The play “isn’t just about how pretty it sounds,” to her.

For Smith, the diffi culties were a bit dif-ferent.

“There are so many things going on and so many people relying on you,” Smith said. It adds to the pressure be-cause they are all relying on you to get it right, he went on to say.

Luckily, he said, the easiest part of the production was the trust and the relation-ships he has with the other actors.

Having that trust is an integral part of any performance, and with a cast like the one they have, it has been the easiest part.

“We’re all trained the same way,” Brown said. “You have the knowledge and notion that the actor is going to do

their job, you have to trust that they have it.”

The participants are all excited be-cause, while it is the same play that has been done countless times in countless places, there are some aspects that are unique to this performance.

Edie said that, going into the play, he didn’t want to do what

everyone was expecting to do, he wanted to do the play in a way that it would be new to people, even those who have seen it countless times.

He looked for what within the play he could change, “for the person that has seen it a million times,” Edie said. “The person that’s going to be like, oh wow, I’ve never seen it that way.”

‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ arrives at the McConnellMusic and theater programs work together to put a modern twist on a classic

I’m hoping that they leave different in some way, so they don’t leave thinking the same way as when they came.“I’m hoping that they leave “I’m hoping that they leave “

-Keith EdieDirector

BRINGIN’ IT BACK Music and theater students were a part of the effort to bring this musical to Central with a new modern take on the story, including texting and beanies.COURTNEY BRUNNER/OBSERVER

It’s Jesus Christ Super-star with texting, suits and beanies. I joke that my costume looks like it came out of my closet.

“It’s Jesus Christ Super-“It’s Jesus Christ Super-

“

-ALEX SMITHBFA performance major

McConnell AuditoriumMay 10, 11, 16-18, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.

May 12, 19, 2013, at 2:00 p.m.

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Wildcats welcome parents for Family Weekend

BY ALYSSA FOLAND

Staff Reporter

Wildcats might be a little less wild this weekend due to some parental gui-dence.

Campus Activities will host a vari-ety of events over the weekend for their annual event Family Weekend, May 10 through May 12.

Andrea Kuhn, senior recreation and tourism major, oversaw the planning that went into the weekend.

“I just hope that [student’s families] experience Cen-tral and see what a great school it is,” Kuhn said.

Kuhn said this weekend is not only meant to have families see what their student does, but also to experience student life them-selves. Check-in is between 3-7 p.m. in the Student Union Recreation Center (SURC) Info Booth.

Much like previous years, they are holding the Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. in Holmes Dining with this year’s entertainment being Nellys Echo, who was featured on NBC’s “The Voice.” Students and and parents can also participate in the Yakima River fl oat, which has always been a popular attraction.

“I just wish that everybody would get a chance to experience the Yaki-ma,” Eric Scott, intramural and special

events coordinator, said. Scott helps to coordinate the recre-

ational portion of the weekend’s events. He said they will be hosting the Yakima River fl oat and outdoor Zumba. The Zumba class is offered to anyone who wants to try it, no need to sign up be-forehand. He said bringing the activi-ties outside will attract the community’s attention.

“Spring in Ellensburg is such a great time to get outside, so anytime we can do our indoor activities outside we like to do it,” Scott said.

Scott said their activities have had a very successful turn out in pre-vious years, and that University Recreation tries to add fun and excitement to the time the families are here.

Scott Drum-mond, associate director of Cam-pus Life and di-rector of Campus

Activities, makes sure all the activities blend together to make a full weekend.

“They drop their student off at the beginning of the year, at the beginning of the academic year, and they don’t always realize that they’re always wel-come here,” Drummond said.

Drummond said the university is not only a student experience, but also a family experience. He wants this weekend to show them what the school does and provide entertainment to give

families the full scope of what kinds of things go on at Central.

Part of his job was fi nding a stu-dent coordinator, Kuhn, to make sure everything runs smoothly. Drummond and Kuhn want to make sure the facili-ties have a good relationship with the school along with the students.

“I’m fortunate enough to get to know quite a few of our students while they’re here, but I don’t always get to meet the families,” Drum-mond said. “Like I said, maybe it sounds cliché, but it really is enjoy-able.”

D r u m m o n d said he likes to see where the students came from, what family they came from, and said it’s fun to see how they react with their families and the school. He said Central is going to show them a great time no matter what.

“A lot of times, students — they’re a little more intimidated to take on a new adventure — but when their par-ents get involved, parents will help push them into a new activity,” Scott said. “And then it becomes a lifelong pas-sion.”

Other events going on during the weekend are downtown tours, a the-atre department performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and a comedy rou-tine by Melissa Villasenor from Ameri-ca’s Got Talent.

“I hope that students get just a night of laughter before all the craziness of fi nals kicks in,” Ashley Stubbs, senior

music major and comedy programmer for campus activities, said.

On Friday May 10 at 8 p.m. Vil-lasenor will perform her impressions, which according to Stubbs, is what she is known best for.

She said this is one of the only events that they charge for. They have already sold half of their tickets to the show

and in the past they have always had very high at-tendance at the comedy shows.

“Her Kathy Griffi n impression and her Britney Spears impression get me every time, and if there’s any event you’re ever

unsure of because it costs money, this is the one that’s worth $3 to pay,” Stubbs said.

Stubbs suggests for anyone who has not heard of Villasenor to look her up on YouTube. She chose Villasenor because she watched her audition in Seattle for America’s Got Talent, and is very excited to have gotten her this year.

“We make sure to book someone that’s well worth it,” Stubbs said.

Kuhn said her family has never come up for the weekend before, but said she knows they would have really enjoyed it. She said it can be fun to take your parents out and play tour guide because people don’t recognize how fun it can be.

“I feel like they missed out because it’s such a great experience,” Kuhn said. “I don’t think people realize it.”

I’m fortunate enough to get to know quite a few of our students while they’re here, but I don’t always get to meet the families. Like I said, maybe it sounds cliche but it really is enjoyable.

“I’m fortunate enough to “I’m fortunate enough to get to know quite a few of “get to know quite a few of

“really is enjoyable.

“really is enjoyable.

-SCOTT DRUMMONDDirector of Campus Life

We make sure to book someone that’s well worth it.“We make sure to “We make sure to “

worth it.

“

worth it.-ASHLEY STUBBSSenior music major

Float the Yakima River, experience outdoor Zumba and see performances from “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent” stars

Family Weekend events:

Friday, May 1010 a.m. - 3 p.m.

2013 Juried Student Art Exhibition Sarah Spurgeon Gallery

Free

3 – 7 p.m.Check in at the SURC Info Booth

7:30 p.m.Jesus Christ Superstar IIMcConnell Auditorium

$15 general admission, $12 seniors/students, $7 CWU students with ID

Not recommended for young children—best for audiences 10 years old and up.

Saturdy, May 119 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Check in at the SURC Info Booth

9 a.m. - 1 p.m.Farmer’s Market

Downtown Ellensburg

10 - 11 a.m.Outdoor ZumbaSURC East Patio

Free

8 p.m.Comedy Night: Melissa VillasenorSURC Theatre $3 CWU students,

$7 general admission

11 a.m. and 2 p.m.Campus Tours

SURC Info Booth

7:30 p.m.Jesus Christ SuperstarMcConnell Auditorium

$15 general admission, $12 seniors/students,

$7 CWU students with ID

Sunday, May 1210 a.m.

Mother’s Day Brunch featuring live music from Nelly’s Echo

Ham, potatoes, desserts, fruitsHolmes Dining, SURC

$11.02/person, $5.51 for 10 and under (at the door)

2 p.m.Chimposiums1-hour session

$11 for adults/ $8.50 for students

2 p.m.Jesus Christ SuperstarMcConnell Auditorium$15 general admission, $12 seniors/students,

$7 CWU students with ID

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BY ADAM WILSON

Staff Reporter

Members of the community gathered last weekend to open the annual Kittitas County Farmers Market, a traditional event which takes place every weekend from May until October.

The farmers market is located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Ellensburg, between Pearl Street and Ruby Street. Farmers and business owners from all over Kittitas County come to sell food, artwork, jewelry, and soaps. Farmers market board member Barbara Ansley-Vensas also sees it as a large social event.

“I think the farmers market is fun,” Ansley-Vensas said. “It’s almost like a big long church social.”

In addition to serving as a board mem-ber for the market, Ansley-Vensas sells her artwork. She has participated in the farm-ers market since 2008, when she moved to Ellensburg.

“We wanted to live in a funnier, less stressed environment,” Ansley-Vensas said. “We no longer wanted to live on the West Side because it was so crowded.”

Ansley-Vensas began selling photos in the 1980s when she was noticed by a na-tional catalog, who started selling her work for her. When she moved to Ellensburg, she tried to promote her work at the art

walk unsuccessfully, and decided to give the farmers market a try. She found most of her success in edited pictures she made.

“People liked the edits a lot better than my photos,” Ansley-Vensas said. “Ninety percent of what I sell is that.”

Ansley-Vensas gets the inspiration for her art from nature. Many of her pieces are fl owers or birds, as well as other ani-mals.

“Anything that has not been in-fl uenced by hu-manity has an inherent beauty,” A n s l ey - Ve n s a s said. “I make my images really large because I’m trying to shout, ‘Look how cool this is. And we didn’t touch it.’”

Ansley-Vensas also grows aquatic plants, including water lilies and sultans, which she sells as part of her business Endless Song Water Gardens.

Local photographer Phil Klucking also sells his photography at the farmers mar-ket, but uses it as a networking tool as well.

“It’s a really good way to get involved with the community,” Klucking said. “It’s a very great way to get to know Ellens-

burg.”Klucking, who recently moved back to

Ellensburg to do professional photography, has participated in the farmers market for three years. Prior to his photography, he worked as a professional chef for Tom Douglas Restaurants for 13 years. His career took him to several cities, including Portland and Dallas. While he always had a passion for fi lm, photography wasn’t a

viable career path until now.

“It’s kinda hard to rent a house be-cause they knew you were going to paint the bathroom black,” Klucking said.

Klucking offers a wide variety of pictures for sale, from animals to scenery. He hopes

his photography will inspire Central stu-dents to make their own art.

Lynda Larson, who owns Purity Soap-works in Ellensburg, promotes her busi-ness through the farmers market. After working as a journalist for over 30 years, including at the Daily Record for four, she decided she needed a change of pace.

“After you do it for that many years, it’s

time to do something different,” Larson said. “I wanted to be my own boss.”

Larson started making soap in 1995, when she lived in Wyoming. She wanted something that would help with the arid climate in the state, which caused her skin to dry out. When she moved to Ellensburg to work at the Daily Record, she was given an offer to buy Purity Soapworks from its former owner. She decided to promote her products at the farmers market to keep the business going.

“The business needed to be built up,” Larson said. “I needed to get in front of people to sell it, so the farmer’s market was perfect.”

The majority of Larson’s customers came from the farmers market, which she has been involved with for over 10 years. Her customer demographic is varied, so she offers products for everyone she can.

“Everyone has their own thing that they like,” Larson said. “I have enough of a variety where whatever everybody likes, I can have for them.”

Larson hopes Central students come to the farmers market, which she describes as a social event.

“I’m amazed at what people do with the market,” Larson said. “It’s amazing the work that goes into it for four hours on a Saturday.”

FARMER Local business owners sell a variety of homemade and grown items.

QUAN LAM/OBSERVER

Kittitas County Farmers Market

4th Ave between Pearl Street and Ruby Street

(509)899-3870 kcfarmersmarket@yahoo.com

9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Community gathers for farmers marketKittitas County Farmers Market opens this year with fun and unique attractions

I’m amazed at what people do with the market. It’s amaz-ing the work that goes into it for four hours on a Saturday“I’m amazed at what people “I’m amazed at what people do with the market. It’s amaz-“do with the market. It’s amaz-“

for four hours on a Saturday

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for four hours on a Saturday

-LYNDA LARSONLocal business owner

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BY CHANET STEVENSON

Assistant Scene Editor

Located on Main Street next to Q Nails, Daily Bread & Mercantile is unlike any other deli in Ellensburg.

With short wooden shelves stocked with old-fashioned candies and baking sup-plies, the deli takes on a look similar to that of Olson’s Mercantile in “Lit-tle House on the Prairie.”

Chalkboards sit at the end of each shelf along the red and yellow hued walls, with neatly hand-written descriptions of what each shelf contains.

It was a Saturday afternoon when own-er Matt Wise and his wife Dana were driv-ing to a wedding in Cle Elum.

While on their way, Matt was scrolling through Craigslist postings on his phone, when he came across one from a man in Seattle selling coolers and other deli sup-plies.

It was this chance discovery that they took as a sign for them to open Daily Bread & Mercantile.

As a family-owned business, all baked

goods are made by the Wises, including yeast breads, danishes, pies, scones, and Matt’s favorite, cinnamon rolls.

“I’m usually in the back doing the bak-ing,” Dana said. For her, baking breads is her favorite thing to bake, because she enjoys the challenge of baking different

breads every morn-ing. She explained how their daughter, Kyra, bakes and decorates most of the cupcakes.

Brooke Wolsky, a senior nutrition major at Central Washington Uni-versity, said she fi rst heard about

Daily Bread & Mercantile when her boss brought in cinnamon rolls to work one day.

She liked the cinnamon rolls so much that Wolsky described how she plans to visit the deli sometime herself to try out some of their other selections.

Matt explained how their lunch menu has become a favorite among customers looking to order sandwiches, because both the meats and cheeses used contain few preservatives, making them a more whole-some food choice. The bakery also offer various homemade soups every day.

“We do have some unique, hard-to-fi nd bulk items,” Matt said. These bulk items include old-fashioned candies and bever-

ages that are diffi cult to fi nd elsewhere. Gluten-free products, such as baking sup-plies, can also be found at Daily Bread & Mercantile.

Wise and his wife moved up to Wash-ington from California in order to be clos-er to their son, Jadon, and daughter-in-law Mindy.

The entire Wise family, including their youngest daughter Kyra, works in the deli. Matt also owns Wise Automotive, which he ran full time for over six years before opening the deli.

“When someone comes through that door, they make a choice to want to be here,” Matt said, explaining how that is his favorite difference between his deli customers and his automotive shop cus-tomers.

This is because the customers who visit his repair shop tend to come because they have to get something fi xed which results in a much less friendly demeanor than

those of the customers who visit the deli because they choose to.

Since Daily Bread & Mercantile opened last November, its Facebook page has received over 700 likes.

However, despite the deli’s growing cli-entele, Matt hopes for the business to re-main small enough that it can maintain a “hometown” vibe to it.

He also hopes to someday be able to recognize customers by their faces and names.

Matt describes himself as very conser-vative, so if they ever expand the deli, it will be because they know for sure they have enough business to sustain changes.

As for future plans for Daily Bread & Mercantile, the Wises are working to learn the art of baking gluten-free pastries to be sold in the deli. They also hope to even-tually incorporate ready-to-order home-made meals which the customer can take home for dinner.

Wise beyond your yeastLocal bakery serves wide variety of homemade goodies for Ellensburg community

When someone comes through that door, they make a choice to want to be here.“When someone comes “When someone comes “

a choice to want to be here.

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a choice to want to be here.

-MATT WISEOwner

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Central Washington university

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Nothing’s cleaner than a packaged wiener, but unfortunately for broke col-lege students, condoms are expensive. The Central Washington University Wellness Center hopes to combat that with the “Love Glove Club.”

“I think it’s a pretty cool idea,” junior information technology administrative management major Brandy Searcy said. “It’s a lot more convenient for people who can’t get to Planned Parenthood or afford condoms.”

The club has a simple premise: Stu-dents who sign up for the club receive 20 free condoms of their choosing per quar-ter.

Of course, the Wellness Center has al-ways given out free condoms to students, so why make it a club?

Alice Bowman, a health educator at the Wellness Center, said that the club is a much better way to keep track of how many condoms they give out and it helps make people more aware. The club, which has been around for a few years, has only recently become free.

“We’ve always offered condoms out of this offi ce and this is a better way to publi-cize it,” Bowman said.

The idea came from a former peer health educator, but it wasn’t an original one. According to Bowman, clubs like this

are already popular on college campuses nationwide.

Sophomore public health major Lind-say Cristobal says the club is a great idea because “people can get protection and hopefully be encouraged to use it because it’s free and supplied for you.”

Students can sign up for the club by stopping by the Wellness Center or e m a i l i n g t h e m . All they n e e d i s

their student ID, which means the club is only for students at Central.

Students can also place their orders for what they want in person or via email. There are six types of male condoms, as

well as female condoms, fl avored den-tal dams and lubrication.

“We try to be as inclusive as possible,” Bowman said on

their wide variety of products.

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because sometimes they hear “condoms don’t work for me.” Bowman said the great benefi t to having free condoms is that people can try out new things.

The club “should come up with ways to educate people on condoms as well,” Cris-tobal said. “Encourage them so it’s not as straightforward and awkward.”

As of right now, the club just gives out condoms, but starting next year, Bowman says she hopes they will have an educa-tional video that people will have to watch before they join.

Bowman says a lot of people don’t know everything they should about con-doms and hopes the video will help.

Unfortunately, since the Wellness Cen-ter is located right in the middle of the SURC and the advertisement for the Love Glove Club is noticably large in their win-dow, they have gotten some complaints.

“Parents can get upset about it when young children on campus see the post-ers,” Bowman said. That is the only nega-tive feedback the club has received and be-cause of that, they are encouraged to keep the club going.

The Wellness Center hopes in the fu-ture to tie the club in with Sexual Respon-sibility Week and Pure Romance parties.

“I don’t see [the club] going anywhere anytime soon,” Bowman said.

Feel the love, wear a glove

hopefully be encouraged to use it because it’s free and supplied for you.”

Students can sign up for the club by stopping by the Wellness Center or e m a i l i n g t h e m . All they n e e d i s

well as female condoms, fl avored den-tal dams and lubrication.

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After moving into a fi rst-place tie with Great Northwest Athletic Conference-leader Western Oregon, no one expected that the Wildcats would lose six of their fi nal eight games.

Central (28-22 overall, 19-13 GNAC) lost three games to Montana State Bill-ings University and Western Oregon University over the fi nal two weeks of the regular season.

Because only fi ve schools in the GNAC have baseball programs, the conference tournament only allows the top three teams to compete in the round-robin bracket, unlike other GNAC postseasons.

The Wildcats will now voyage to play in the inaugural GNAC tournament on Thursday, opening against Montana State Billings, followed by playing West-ern Oregon.

“Our goal is for Western Oregon to beat them [MSUB] in Game 1 and for us to come out and beat them Game 2,” head coach Desi Storey said. “And that

takes any doubt out of who’s going to be in the championship game.”

The tournament will be held on the campus of Western Oregon. The Wolves won the regular season title, giving them right to host.

“I think everybody is a little bit dis-appointed in the last few weeks,” Storey said. “Some of the games we haven’t won that we probably should have.”

Central comes into the tournament as the No. 2 seed, followed by Montana State Billings.

Each team plays each other on the fi rst day and the team that loses twice is elimi-nated.

The fi nal two teams battle it out on the second day to see who is named the tour-nament champion.

“They’re a good club, they swing it,” Storey said. “But if we play just baseball like we’re capable, I’m pretty confi dent we can win that game.”

Billings has had a successful season against the Wildcats, winning fi ve out of eight games against Central. It wasn’t too long ago that the Yellowjackets claimed

GNAC team of the week after beating the Wildcats in three out of four games.

Montana State and Central boast the top two slugging teams in the GNAC, respectively. Central has the top batting percentage while the Yellowjackets lead in runs scored, RBIs, homeruns and triples.

“I’m feeling pretty good about Mon-tana State,” said senior catcher Kyle Sani, who leads the GNAC in homeruns and RBIs. “As long as we go out and play our baseball, fi eld it, throw it and hit it alright we should be fi ne.”

Sani has crushed the Yellowjackets as a designated hitter. He has combined to go 14-29 with 14 RBI, and six home runs in eight games versus Montana State.

Junior shortstop Justen Weigel has also had success against the Yellowjackets, hit-ting seven of 19 with two homeruns and 3 RBIs in four games this season.

Right after the Wildcats battle the Yel-lowjackets, they will meet the top-seeded Wolves.

Western Oregon fi nished off its regu-lar season by defeating the Wildcats in three out of four games in Ellensburg.

The Wolves have the best pitching staff in the GNAC and it has showed against the Wildcats. They have shut the Wildcats out once and had three pitchers combine to strike out 18 bat-ters.

WOU also leads the conference earned run average and strikeouts.

The GNAC tournament kicks off Thursday at 10 a.m. with Montana State taking on Western Oregon in Game 1. That’s followed Central’s matchup with the Yellowjackets.

The Wildcats then face Western Or-egon at 4 p.m. Whichever team loses two games on the fi rst day will be elimi-nated, and the two remaining teams will battle on Day 2 for the right to be named GNAC tournament champions.

The Wildcats had a few days to work out the kinks before their last games of the season.

“We’re just gonna practice hard,” junior right fi elder Ethan Sterkel said. “We have a great team, talented group of guys, just a good couple days of practice and we’ll be back at it.”

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WINDUP Junior left-handed pitcher Joe Arlt pitched five innings on Saturday versus Western Oregon. The Wildcats lost 9-0, 5-3 to the GNAC-champion Wolves in their final doubleheader of the season. Central plays in the round-robin-style GNAC tournament which begins today.

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After Central Washington lost 2-0 to Saint Martin’s in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference tournament opener, the Wildcats split their two games on Day 2 but were eliminated by Simon Fraser, 2-0.

The No. 4 seed in the tournament, the Wildcats ended their season 20-20 overall, 13-11 GNAC. They upended No. 2 seed

Western Oregon 3-2 in their second game of the tournament before losing to Simon Fraser in Game 3.

In their 8-0 loss to No. 1 seed and 22nd-ranked Saint Martin’s University, who later captured the GNAC title, Cen-tral managed only three hits and commit-ted four errors.

“A lot of it was just us not being re-laxed and aggressive at the plate,” senior Cassi Ellis said. “That was our main issue that game. We didn’t have our complete

‘A’ game, but our defense wasn’t the main reason for the loss.”

In the second day of the tournament, the Wildcats defeated Western Oregon 3-2. Ellis proved to be the game changer when she hit the game-winning home run in the sixth inning, with the score tied 1-1.

Junior pitcher Maria Gau pitched seven innings and tallied three strikeouts against the Wolves. Gau allowed only four hits and two runs, which was an improve-ment after the Saints knocked 12 hits and eight runs off her.

“I just wasn’t going to let them win,” junior Maria Gau said. “I had all that night to think about how the Saint Mar-tin’s game went and just come out as a pitcher with a different mentality.”

The Wildcats had seven hits in the game, four of which were hit by freshman Alexa Olague. Central was 2-2 against the Wolves entering the game.

“I mean, we just never gave up, which is our team motto,” Ellis said. “We just knew we were going to win.”

The win against WOU set-up their matchup with Simon Fraser. It was score-less game until the sixth inning, when Si-mon Fraser’s Kaitlyn Cameron hit a two-run home run.

Hamada was the only Wildcat to make contact off the Clan pitchers. Walks al-lowed by them gave the Wildcats opportu-nities to score runs, but they were unable to capitalize.

“I think we played just as aggressive

against Simon Fraser as Western Ore-gon,” Gau said. “We were still loud and aggressive, it just didn’t go our way. Balls weren’t landing for us.”

Seniors Ellis, Elena Carter and Kim-berly Kocik ended their careers on Friday. Despite the loss, Ellis was confident with the way Central has improved from a year ago, and is hopeful for the future of the program.

“We improved a lot from last year,” El-lis said, “which is something they can keep building off.”

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BY DAnIel SolteRoStaff Reporter

Tony Pacheco was nothing but proud of the Wildcats as he stood on the side-lines, just as his team was eliminated from the 2013 Varsity Cup Collegiate Champi-onship semi-finals.

Pacheco, who is the Seven’s head coach and recruitment coordinator of Central’s rugby team, has helped put the Wildcats on the map. He’s had ongoing success since taking over the team in 2007. This past season the Wildcats competed in the most prestigious tournament in the coun-try, before losing to BYU 53-20 to end their season.

As a Division II school, Central is men-tioned with elite rugby programs in the country like Notre Dame, UCLA, Air Force and BYU.

Pacheco was no stranger to the Ellens-burg area. An undergrad from 1999-2003, he played for Central’s rugby team when he was a student and is now doing what he loves most: coaching.

“I enjoy coaching these guys,” Pacheco said. “They are a bunch of self-driven players who only want to get better.”

Pacheco played rugby his whole life, especially in high school. He was an aged-grade All-American, as well as a junior All-American.

But his time with rugby didn’t end there. After graduating from Central, Pa-checo moved down to the Bay Area and lived there for five years, playing for the Olympic club of San Francisco.

Pacheco became head coach of the col-

legiate USA 7’s All-American team.“It’s great working with some of the

best athletes in the college game,” Pache-co said. “I get to see up and coming guys who are pushing for the national team and Olympic aspirations.”

When the opportunity presented itself in 2007, Pacheco was led back to Ellens-burg to take the position as a coach of the Central rugby team.

Since then, Central rugby has had a steady incline of success, wiping out op-ponents to the point where the Wildcats gave up only a try or two.

“The more and more players who come wanting to compete and perform at the highest level, the better you’re going to be,” Pacheco said.

With nothing to be disappointed about this last season, other than not advancing to the finals, the Wildcat rugby team is looking forward to reaching the top.

Central has worked to gain national recognition in the past years, and because they compete with the best in the nation, Pacheco believes the Wildcats are repre-senting the university on a large scale.

“It’s really cool, though, that it’s Cen-tral Washington out there with all those bigger schools,” Pacheco said. “The best part about it is you got these schools we are aligned with now, and then you see us along with them.”

The Wildcats have four seniors depart-ing the squad: Alex Reher, Ryan Snider, Patrick Blair and Sean Wanigasekera, who all played crucial roles in the recent suc-cess of the Central rugby team

Pacheco is looking forward to making his squad stronger and able to adapt to the choices, changes and opportunities that present themselves next year

“As long as our players keep raising their standards then we will continue to develop and get better,” Pacheco said.

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Staff Reporter

Previously, the Wildcats have ad-vanced only two or three athletes to the NCAA Division II Track and Field Na-tional Championships.

2013 is different, however, and Cen-tral will have an opportunity to advance the largest number of participants since 2007.

Central’s track and fi eld team will be traveling to Monmouth, Ore. for the 2013 Great Northwest Athletic Confer-ence Championships.

The meet will be held on May 10-11 at McArthur Field on the campus of Western Oregon University. All 10 teams in the conference will be in attendance.

Day 1 begins at 2 p.m., starting with fi eld events and followed by the running events, which will begin at 2:40 p.m.

Since the men’s team fi nished fourth and the women’s team fi nished seventh in 2012, the Wildcats will be looking to improve and fi nish in the topthree this year

“The main focus and push of the whole season is the conference meet,” head coach Adkisson said. “For 90 per-cent of the team, that’s the end of the season.”

Junior Braden Keller is the Wild-cats’ only auto-qualifi er for the national

championships thus far. Keller is cur-rently ranked third in the GNAC in the javelin, with his best mark being 203 feet.

Keller fi nished third in the GNAC in 2012 at the conference championships and will have an opportunity to become an All-American at the national champi-onships begining May 23-25.

Central will be facing some tough competition at the meet. Athletes have worked all season to reach peak perfor-mance.

One athlete in particular is senior jumper and sprinter Bryan Mack, who is in his fi fth year at Central.

Mack’s best event is the triple jump, in which he has set an NCAA Division II provisional mark at 49 feet, fi ve inches.

“I’m more excited than nervous,” Mack said, “just because it’s getting close to that time where the good jumps are going come. I’m only a foot and two inches away from the number one rank-ing, so going into nationals my goal is to win it.”

Senior Andrew Venema is the top GNAC performer in the in the 110-hur-dles. His best time this season was in April at the Spike Arlt Invitational at Tomlinson Stadium, at 14.91 seconds, while his career-best is 14.77 seconds.

Venema fi nished second at the cham-pionships in 2012, but he hopes to be-come a conference champion on Mon-

day. Venema has already improved upon his second place mark by over three-tenths of a second.

“My main goal defi nitely is to win conference,” Venema said. “I want to be able to break the school record.”

On the women’s team, sophomore high jumper Tayler Fettig has an NCAA Divison II provisional mark at 5 feet 8.75 inches, giving her a number one ranking in the GNAC.

Improving from last year by an inch and a half, she has also broken Centrals previous high jump record.

Senior distance runner Kelsey Kreft is fi nishing up her fi fth year at Central. Kreft’s strongest event is the steeple-chase, where she is ranked 23rd and is aiming to make it into the top 20 to qual-ify for nationals.

“The goal is to improve my place-ment and PR again at the conference meet,” Kreft said. “I’m going into the conference meet confi dent and ready to feel the burn. I am nervous but I’m will-ing to put it all on the line to do what I have to do.”

Other athletes are expected to com-pete and do well at the conference meet.

Watch for more than a handful of Wildcats to be competing in Colorado at the end of the month.

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BY SAMUEL CATHCART

Staff Reporter

The Wellness Center and University Recreation are partnering up to host the fi rst 5-on-5 Green Dot Dodgeball Tourna-ment on May 15 at 7 p.m. at the Recreation Center.

The dodgeball tournament is a fun way for students to learn about the Green Dot campaign and the Bystander Training Event, as well as giving them a chance to hurl balls at their classmates.

Registration for the event began on May 1. Students who are interested in entering a team can pick up registration forms at the Wellness Center or Recreation Center front

desk, and can register a team any time prior to the start of the event.

“We want to get our students who play dodgeball interested in bystander training and Green Dot,” Eric Scott, University Recreation, said.

The Green Dot campaign has been go-ing on at Central Washington for the past four years.

“The Green Dot campaign is meant to empower bystanders to prevent works of power-based personal violence,” Alice Bowman, Wellness center health educator, said.

During the event, the Wellness Center will be promoting the Green Dot bystand-ers training. There will be a booth set up to

inform students about the training and how they can get involved.

The Bystander Training will be held on May 18 and will teach students how to react when they’re confronted with violence.

“Bystander training is a violence preven-tion program,” Andrea Easlick, health edu-cator and sexual assault coordinator, said.

Bystander training is open to anyone who is interested. Participants do not need prior violence prevention training to attend.

“We train students and equip them with the tools they need to help victims,” Bowman said. “The bystander training is a lot of fun and totally worth it. I’ve gone through it multiple times and you continue to learn and feel more confi dent in helping

to reduce violence in our community.” The Wellness Center will also have an

incentive for the teams participating in the tournament. The team with the best Green Dot outfi ts and the team who gets all their players signed up fi rst will receive a prize.

Students interested in entering a team or attending the event can fi nd more infor-mation at the Wellness Center or online at www.cwu.edu/rec.

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