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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act

but a habit" - Aristotle

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The Melody of Comedyby: Ryan Versaw

Is Texting Taking Over?by: Mike Carr

Environmental CenterSinging Their Way to Chinaby: Marcus Rennerby:Sassy Kelly & Emily Tennison

Elite 8by: Steph Cook

Snow Removalby: Jordan Squiers

Student Opportunity Summitby: Tyrel Karp

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Business Editor In Chief

P.S. Don't forget to vote in your student elections!

Online EditorSassy Kelly

Kaitie Martinez

Welcome back from Spring Break! This is the time of

year that the sun starts to shine again, trees and flowers

bloom and the FLC campus comes back to life with students

enjoying the outdoors. It’s a good time to remember

how wonderful it is to be a Skyhawk. There are so many

things that make Fort Lewis an amazing place to get your

education. But, there are also so many things that we, as

students, can improve. If there’s one thing our campus

lacks, it’s student involvement. That’s ok though, because

that’s one of the things that we have the power to change.

FLC has lots of places you can leave your mark. You could

run for senate, promote student wellness in Uniting Students,

be an RA, plan events for campus in SPC, host a radio show

on KDUR, work with the Environmental Center, travel to or

help other countries, start your very own club or even join

The Independent and be a part of the campus free press.

The nice thing about FLC is that we are a small enough

campus that an involved student really can make a big

impact throughout their years here. So when the mountains

and the river call, of course you should go, but maybe this is

your time to really get involved in something that will change

things for years to come. Or maybe you will just change

someone’s life with your impact. Or maybe it will be your

life that will change. I know that I truly cherish my time as

a student leader. There are pieces of this campus that I

got the chance to leave an impact upon. There are people

who I feel like I’ve helped. But most of all, getting involved

at FLC has helped me. I’ve learned so much about myself

and about the world. There are people who have changed

me, shaped me and taught me things that I could have

never learned in any classroom. I’m thankful daily that I’m

at Fort Lewis, blessed with this opportunity, fellow students

who care and wonderful advisors and professors. I wish

this experience for each of you and I encourage you all to

find a place here at FLC to make your mark. Happy Spring

Skyhawks!

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t doesn’t take much to make a disruption in

class with your cell phone, and with some calling

plans as low as $39 a month, it makes sense that

almost every student carries one around.

It can be nonsense to teachers and students alike,

when a professor is in the middle of a lecture, and

someone is texting or their ringer goes off.

With more students using their cell phones to text

as a quick means of communicating, it is an almost

everyday occurrence that a cell phone will go off in a

classroom.

“I turn my cell phone off in class, and it is always

annoying, and students should have some respect,”

Chris Audit, student, said in regards to students in

class who are trying to concentrate.

There is nothing more distracting than when a cell

phone goes off in class.

“If you can hear the buttons pressing it’s hard

to concentrate,” Audit said. Punishments have been

created to deal with the use of cell phones, but it is

common to see students at the back of a classroom

texting anyway.

“In some aspects it can be a good thing, it could

be an emergency,” Adam Bojan, student, said.

It could be a good thing, for example, if someone

is in an accident, Bojan said.

“The bad aspect to it is that it could disrupt other

students as well as contribute to others cheating dur-

ing a test or class assignments,” Bojan said.

With advances in social networking in today’s soci-

ety it should come as no surprise to anyone that those

cell phones open up a world of entertainment as well

as a place for communicating.

With advances in micro-technology, almost ev-

eryone can surf the web and read books, check their

social networks with little effort.

At the same time, these handheld devices have

created new ways of communication that have

changed the concept of a normal conversation.

No longer do people have to get face to face with

others, but can simply just use texting or the internet.

This new kind of communication is making people see

the good and the bad behind all these easier ways to

connect, and unfortunately the cons out way the pros.

“I don’t like it,” Larry Hartsfield, professor at Fort

Lewis College, said.

“No punishment, but I find it distracting for stu-

dents and teachers alike,” Hartsfield said

Whenever Hartsfield does see a student using their

cell phones, he tells them to put it up, he said.

Hartsfield also specifically states in his syllabus

that electronics are not to be used in class, he said.

By Mike Carr

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The Fort Lewis College Men’s Choir has

been selected to perform at the 29th Annual

International Society of Music Education ISME

World Conference 2010, Aug. 1 thru Aug. 6. in

Beijing, China.

The Men’s Choir submitted a recorded

audition of Toto’s, Africa, to perform at the

conference and was selected out of thousands

of applicant’s worldwide, Eric Stramel, a choir

member said.

The Men’s Choir will perform, Salvation is

Created, by Pavel Tchesnovok, Stamel said.

“It’s like tasting the fruits of our labor,” Jake

Padilla, a choir member, said. “Not only is it

another chance to perform for a large crowd,

but a great cultural experience.”

According to the ISME, the 2010 confer-

ence will cover all aspects of music education

and learning. The convention will host classes,

seminars, concerts, and exhibitions taught by

both Chinese and internal instructors.

Members include: Tenors I: Kyle

Cahall, Ben Meckley, Brian Stoneback,

Eric Stamel, Kelly Swartz, Christopher

VanDyck, Tenor II: Steve Blaylock, Chris

Brophy, Sean Mallow, Jake Padilla,

Andrew Tomasi, Bass I: Ryan Baker,

Travis Dalenberg, Sam Kelly, Billy Pinto,

Jamie Olinger, Mike Ziemke, Bass II:

Kevin Bell, Josh Hoffman, Chauncey

Larson, Jeremy Morris, Luke Petrusa,

and Bradley Sharp.

The Indy is currently looking for Reporters, Writers, Photographers, Copy Edi-tors, Art Designers, Programmers, Public Relations, and Advertising Agents for the fall semester. As long as you’re a Fort Lewis student you are eligible to join and work in any position. Benefits include: college credit up to 6 credits (you pick the amount of credits between one and six), involvement in a RSO (club), internship credit, and opportunities for advancement and management positions. The Indy is a great resume and portfolio builder! No experience, no problem, the Indy can train for any position. If you are interested in joining our growing team next semester please register for English 250 Practicum-Newspaper. If you have any questions, please email the Indy at independent@fortlewis.edu.

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t is important to ensure your personal data is protected through

your computer when using or disposing it to avoid identity theft.

It is the individual’s responsibility to protect their personal data

by keeping the computer up-to-date, keeping the virus scan soft-

ware, and having the firewall active, said David Longan, an IT Profes-

sional I of Client Services in the Information Technology Department

of Fort Lewis College.

There are multiple devices out there that a person can pull data

off a hard drive and use it for nefarious reasons, Longan said.

The IT Department uses a USB cord to recover data from hard

drives for professional reasons and anybody can get hold of these

for $14, Longan said.

Another device used, not at Fort Lewis, is XMap, a unique space

application that a data-recovery person uses to retrieve data,

he said.

The IT Department used the XMap for an experiment on a digital

audio tape that was sliced through with a pocket knife, water dam-

aged, stomped on, spooled back up into the tape, and recovered the

data, Longan said.

So if the hard drive ends up in a landfill, an unauthorized person

can reach the personal information and may do something illegal

with it, said Jeff Stockberger, an IT Professional I of the Information

Technology Department of Fort Lewis.

If your information is not properly cleared off the hard drive when

thrown away there is a possibility of identity theft, Longan said.

“The first way we deal with our waste is we reuse it,”

Longan said.

At Fort Lewis, two methods of recycling are used for electronic

equipment which are selling computers from the computer stored in

the basement of Reed Library and sending the equipment to Colo-

rado Correctional Industries, he said.

Fort Lewis’ IT has to be very tight about disposing electronic

equipment properly because of the EPA fines, Longan said.

For institutions or large businesses, when electronic equipment

is improperly disposed the school or business is charged $10,000 a

day until the equipment is properly disposed, Longan said.

The manufacturing of one 17 inch desktop personal computer

uses 528 pounds of fossil fuel, 48.4 pounds of chemicals, 412.5 gal-

lons of water, and tons of mining waste, said Traci Phillips, president

of Natural Evolution, an electronics recycling company located in

Tulsa, Okla.

When the computers are recycled or sold, Fort Lewis’ IT has to

meet the Department of Defense’s (DOD) regulations to properly

clear information off hard drives, Stockberger said.

DOD has a regulation about how and what you have to do in

order to say that the information in the hard drive cannot be recov-

ered, or is unrecoverable, Stockberger said.

“We’re as good as the military as the way we wipe out all the

stuff because your student records could be on there,” Longan said.

Darik’s Boot and Nuke, known as DBAN, is a computer software

program used at Fort Lewis to ensure data security of the campus-

owned computers by writing random information to the hard drive

seven times, after which the information is wiped off seven to nine

times, Stockberger said.

t is important to ensure your personal data is protected through

your computer when using or disposing it to avoid identity theft.

It is the individual’s responsibility to protect their personal data

by keeping the computer up-to-date, keeping the virus scan soft-

ware, and having the firewall active, said David Longan, an IT Profes-

sional I of Client Services in the Information Technology Department

There are multiple devices out there that a person can pull data

off a hard drive and use it for nefarious reasons, Longan said.

The IT Department uses a USB cord to recover data from hard

drives for professional reasons and anybody can get hold of these

Another device used, not at Fort Lewis, is XMap, a unique space

application that a data-recovery person uses to retrieve data,

The IT Department used the XMap for an experiment on a digital

audio tape that was sliced through with a pocket knife, water dam-

aged, stomped on, spooled back up into the tape, and recovered the

So if the hard drive ends up in a landfill, an unauthorized person

can reach the personal information and may do something illegal

with it, said Jeff Stockberger, an IT Professional I of the Information

If your information is not properly cleared off the hard drive when

a possibility of identity theft, Longan said.

“The first way we deal with our waste is we reuse it,”

At Fort Lewis, two methods of recycling are used for electronic

equipment which are selling computers from the computer stored in

Spider is software that runs on computers which looks for

personal information, such as credit card numbers or social security

numbers, so IT has an idea if there is anything on it before using

DBAN, Stockberger said.

“There’s two methods, you can either run a DOD compliant

sweep which actually writes data to the hard drive and writes new

data to the hard drive and writes data to the hard drive,” Longan

said. “It’s like seven copies and it does five, seven, or nine sweeps.”

“So it actually rewrites every piece of data 40 times over for each

spot and that’s the way we protect our data,” he said.

Before selling, disposing, or recycling computers hard drives, the

IT Department of Fort Lewis recommends clearing off the data to

ensure personal security.

If an individual wants to wipe off a hard drive, DBAN is available

to the public at no cost on the Internet. Download it and after run-

ning the program for 8-10 hours, make sure to check it, Longan said.

Although, donation may seem like the right thing to do, it is not

recommended because of the data security issue unless you are

willing to take that risk, Phillips said.

Donation standards are high and it depends on the organization

you’re donating to because they may not be able to use it, and if

that’s the case, who is going to reuse it and is it going to be dealt

with in a responsible manner, Phillips said.

For college students, Phillips recommends bringing the electronic

equipment to one of Natural Evolution’s recycling events where it

can be taken care of properly, Phillips said.

Durango’s Recycling Center holds a semi-annual e-cycling event

in the spring and fall where people can drop off their electronic

equipment and Natural Evolution picks it up and clears the data

themselves, said Mark Williams, the Sustainability Coordinator in the

Department of Sustainable Services of the City of Durango.

They accept central processing units, printers, scanners, fax

machines, laptops, televisions up to 27 inches, large office equip-

ment, keyboards, mouse, power cords, cables, cellular phones, ink-

jet cartridges, laptop and cellular phone batteries, and don’t accept

refrigerators, washers, dryers, and air conditioners, Williams said.

Evaluating your needs before purchasing electronic equipment

can decrease e-waste or buying products with Energy Star ratings

can help the environment, Phillips said.

Data security isn’t the only reason you want to properly dispose

of electronic equipment. There are also environmental concerns.

About 20-50 million tons of e-waste are generated each year

globally, Phillips said.

It is estimated that if you put this amount into containers on a

train that this train could go around the world once, she said.

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n the Regional Championship game on Monday, March

15, Fort Lewis College’s Women’s Basketball team took

on the Golden Bears of Concordia University at home

in Whalen Gymnasium. With the bleachers full, the

Skyhawks defeated the St. Paul, Minn. team in the Sweet

Sixteen game.

The team has been doing well all season and if they

win this they will be one of the final eight teams, said

Kylie Kroneberger, a Fort Lewis student and team host for

the Augustana Vikings in the second round game.

Fort Lewis was seeded first in the regional tournament,

Kroneberger said. The tournament started with eight dif-

ferent teams and Fort Lewis and Concordia are the final

two, she said. Fort Lewis student David Horn said he

hadn’t attended many games this season, but was happy

to cheer on the Skyhawks.

“They’re doing awesome,” Horn said towards the end

of the first half. Even before half time, Horn said the

Skyhawks were definitely going to win and move on to

the next round. Overall, Fort Lewis basketball has really

taken a step up and gotten much better recently, Melissa

Sansoni, a Fort Lewis fan, said.

There have been a lot of improvements each season,

she said.

Sansoni has attended about half the games this sea-

son and expected the team to win and continue on to the

next level, Sansoni said.

Fort Lewis students weren’t the only fans who came to

cheer the Skyhawks to victory.

Jessica Roach and Joyce Roach came from Albuquer-

que, N.M to watch their friend, Fort Lewis player, Mary

By Steph Cook

I Rose Paiz, in the Sweet Sixteen game, Jessica

Roach, an Albuquerque student, said.

Joyce Roach said they were skiing that day and as

soon as we they heard about the game they decided

to attend, she said. Joyce Roach said the Skyhawks

played well with great defense and excellent transi-

tions, and if they win, it will be a good game, she

said during the second half.

After just watching the state basketball games in

Albuquerque, N.M., Joyce Roach said it was great

to continue seeing so much support for women’s

basketball at the Regional Championship game, she

said

The Skyhawks led the game at half time with a

score of 32 - 23, and defeated the Golden Bears with

a final score of 73 - 64.

The Fort Lewis Women’s Basketball team will move

on to the Elite Eight next weekend in Missouri in their

effort to continue a victorious season.

As for the men’s team, they wrapped up the bulk

of their season on March 2, with a loss to New

Mexico Highlands in the Rocky Mountain Athletic

Conference.

Though, they won’t go to the NCAA tournament

this year, the Fort Lewis Men’s Basketball team had

a winning season, with a record of 19 – 9.

The team might be a force to reckon with in the

future, as they will keep most of the team while los-

ing only one senior, Mark Jeranko.

While the men’s basketball season is over, the

women will continue their battle in the Elite Eight.

By Ryan Versaw

A bout 179 Fort Lewis College students

and a few faculties packed into the Vallecito

Room of the College Union Building at 7 p.m.

on March 1 for the weekly LOL Mondays.

LOL Mondays is a weekly comedy perfor-

mance coordinated by Union Programming

Coordinator Kat Kaszpurenko and Student

Programming Council (SPC) members like Ali

Smith, SPC President, Kaszpurenko said.

At 7 p.m. sharp, the halls of the Vallecito

Room were filled with student spectators

who sat in more than ten 13 seat rows as

Arvin Mitchell began to generate applause

and hollering from the crowd.

Mitchell’s animated, theatrical expres-

sions spurred waves of laughter from the

front to rear rows of the audience, and it

continued to break until past 8 p.m.

Mitchell writes his own jokes and speaks

occasionally at schools while in the midst

of writing a more serious book called “No

Laughing Matter,” about health and taking

time for granted, Mitchell said.

“We spend so much time doing things

that are not conducive to who we are,”

Mitchell said.

Mitchell stated that he will work on this

novel over the following year but has no offi-

cial release date yet for the newly acclaimed

comedy author, Mitchell said.

“I would love to have it in by July of next

year but I think I could get it in much quicker

than that,” Mitchell said.

The comedian describes this work in

progress as an opportunity to learn how to

make the transmission from comedian to

author, Mitchell said.

“I am learning how to write,” Mitchell

said.

Mitchell gives his sister, Rita Mitchell, as

an example of a source of inspiration and

encouragement along with his family full of

comedians, Mitchell said.

Listing Eddie Murphy and Michael Jack-

son as a reference all should investigate,

Mitchell moves on to describe other places

in which he has performed, such as Stut-

tgart, Germany, in a concert for the troops

and various college campuses nationwide,

Mitchell said.

Mitchell stated that he did not have to

cater to the troops, though he mentioned

that soldiers appreciated his impersonation

of someone getting shot, Mitchell said in

reference to the type of jokes appreciated

by military personnel.

“I really do appreciate what they are

doing for our country,” Mitchell said after

admitting that some of his jokes do make

humor of the troops.

The comedian of many lands has

adapted to perform in many venues at vari-

ous locations, Mitchell said.

“Sometimes I am performing in the

cafeteria, and one time I performed in the

corridor,” Mitchell said.

Although withheld for that evening,

Mitchell stated that he does possess an

armada of dirty jokes he employs on cam-

puses nationwide, Mitchell said.

Mitchell was chosen at the National As-

sociation of Campus Activities, at a regional

conference in Portland, Ore., Kaszpurenko

said.

Kaszpurenko attended the regional NACA

conference and the national conference in

Boston Mass., Kaszpurenko said.

“First of all, no one responds well to

demands.” Kaszpurenko said, in reference

to student input.

Secondly, there exists SPC student email

at spc_sp1@fortlewis.edu and a weekly

Senate meeting at 7 p.m. in the senate

chambers on the east side of the College

Union Building, Kaszpurenko said.

Ali Smith attended the regional NACA

conference in Oregon alongside Kaszpuren-

ko, Smith, president of the SPC, said.

“It was an amazing experience; I was

amazed to see all of the different colleges,

a lot of them the same size as us,” Smith

said.

Smith said that one goal of the program

is to drive prices down by collaborating with

other schools around Colorado and Utah,

and the Four Corners area, Smith said.

Driving prices down could help get more

programming for free, Smith said.

In the fall of 2009, Smith first involved

herself with LOL Mondays. SPC is sched-

uled to take over this event next and future

years, Smith said.

A survey given at the end of year asks

students to rank from one to five what they

would like to see SPC feature. Ironically,

comedy was one of the last genres picked

but the best attended once scheduled,

Smith said.

`”We love student participation,” Smith

said.

So far the SPC has already booked

comedians for fall 2010 and some for the

winter of the following year.

Students are encouraged to attend

senate meetings and email the SPC with

demands, needs, and ideas.

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By Jordan Squiers

n Durango, CO, where snow is falling fairly consistently for

several months of the year, an effective and consistent snow

removal plan is a necessity.

The accumulating snow creates several problems for the

people of Durango, not only regarding transportation, but

damage to the roads, Durango Public Works Director, Jack

Rogers said.

The city has a written policy entitled, “2009-2010 Snow

Removal Program,” Rogers said.

The document prioritizes the streets of Durango according

to the previous year’s problem areas, explains protocol for

snow plow drivers, rules and regulations for all snow removal

personnel, and procedure for emergency or “Red Alert” situa-

tions, Rogers said.

Despite the city’s established snow removal plan, there

are several problems that stand in the way of snow-free

streets in Durango, Rogers said.

One of these issues is that all of Main Avenue, a main

artery in Durango, is considered the responsibility of the Colo-

rado Department of Transportation rather than the Durango

Public Works Department, he said.

Though there is potential for conflict, the Durango Public

Works Department makes an effort to work with the state’s

crew regarding the clearing of Main Avenue, Rogers said.

Snow Removal EquipmentDurango Public Works Department

12 Large Dump Trucks3 Pick-Up Trucks3 Front-End Loaders1 Motor-grater

Fort Lewis College

8 Plows2 Sanders11 Snow Blowers2 Skid Steers (Bobcats)1 Road Grader1 Backhoe2 Loaders1 Tractor

I Another problem is that although the Durango Police

Department assists the snow removal teams by citing and

removing parked cars from the road during snow removal

hours, there are simply not enough police officers to remove

every car in violation of the parking rules, he said.

The snow removal team at Fort Lewis College has a similar

problem, Fort Lewis Service Center Manager, Ted Gross said.

Two of the most problematic parking lots are those in front

of Noble and the Education-Business Hall, Gross said.

“The challenges we have are when people park in a ‘No

Overnight’ parking lot,” Gross said, “We have to go around that

car and it’s dangerous and hazardous for everybody.”

Not only is it extremely difficult for a plow driver to maneu-

ver around a parked car, but it creates a dangerous icy spot in

an otherwise cleared parking lot, he said.

While the City of Durango and Fort Lewis crews have

similar problems, there are many differences in the rest of their

removal plans, including budget.

The City Council allotted the Public Works Department

$616,000 for snow removal in 2010, Rogers said.

By the end of the year, however, because of the amount of

snow Durango has received and the cost of plowing, roughly

$9,000 per night, they will have spent around $800,000 by the

end of the year, he said.

Fort Lewis’ snow removal budget is different, in that not all

snow removal services are figured in.

The snow removal crew was given $31,504 to cover remov-

ing snow from parking lots and roads, and has already spent

around $30,000 this year, Gross said.

The removal of snow from places like roofs, sidewalks,

and entryways is considered an expense, and therefore not a

part of the budget plan, but has already cost Fort Lewis over

$32,000, he said.

While the budgeted amount at Fort Lewis appears to be a

great deal smaller than that of the city, part of the discrepancy

can be attributed to the fact the school’s budget does not

include the salaries of removal personnel, Gross said.

The city’s budget includes equipment, labor, and contracts,

Rogers said.

A few things that the school and city removal teams do

share are the sand and salt supply and the responsibility of

Goeglein Gulch road, Rogers said.

Both also work throughout the night, aiming for completion

around 7 or 8 a.m., Rogers and Gross said.

THE INSIDE SCOOP ON

COMMUNITY

The Summit is a chance for the students

themselves to bring ideas that they want

changed, not the ideas that faculty and adminis-

tration think should be changed, Michael Kelley,

host of the Summit, said.

The president of the Student Summit, Michelle

Kenney, had the students that attended the

Summit in Fort Lewis College’s Ballroom split into

groups of five to eight people.

She then asked them to discuss ideas they

thought should be addressed and brought up to

the Fort Lewis administration.

Kenney explained that the groups would have

three to eight minutes to come up with their

ideas, and then one person from their group

would present their ideas to all of the attending

students.

Kenney explained that all of the ideas given

should be written down on large pieces of paper

and posted throughout the room.

After all the ideas were submitted, the stu-

dents were given five star-stickers, and asked to

put a star on their favorite ideas.

Kenney gave a brief outline of what the Stu-

dent Opportunity Summit was doing, stating that

any student was free to join the program.

“Benefits of the Summit are being involved in

the process of change, a sense of accomplish-

ment, progress on issues that you find need

attention, achieving presentation skills, and good

networking for the future,” Tiffani Waters said.

The Student Opportunity Summit was there

to be delegates for the students, because the

administration is always open to student ideas,

if they can be brought to them in a presentable

manner, Kenney said

They will take three favorite ideas from the

students, and have a group of the students come

up with an acceptable way to present their idea,

Kenney said

The group will have to be serious about want-

ing to present this idea, because even though

the Summit is there to help, ultimately, it is the

students that must bring their ideas to the admin-

istration, Kelley said.

The group of students will meet over the next

few weeks and practice presenting their idea in

the way they think is best, Kelley said.

Later those groups of students will take their

practiced ideas to the Associated Students of

Fort Lewis College (ASFLC) and give their presen-

tation, Kelley said.

ASFLC, in turn, will take the ideas to the Fort

Lewis administration, Kelley said.

Many ideas were given, such as Bobby

Ashire’s idea about keeping a herd of buffalo at

the old Fort Lewis grounds.

The buffalo herd would be used for studying

biology and agriculture, such as the buffalo’s

impact of the environment, and how to use those

impacts to better the environment, Ashire said.

Buffalos could also be used for food, and buf-

falo burgers could be sold in the Student Union

Building at Fort Lewis, Ashire said.

Scott Sourfs presented the problem of all

the snow being plowed into motorcycle parking

sports, leaving no areas to park, which results in

a fine, he said.

He presented this dilemma by writing an

appeal to the campus police but they dismissed

him, Sourfs said.

Wil John suggested having different quiet

study areas other than Reed Library. Reed Library

isn’t open 24/7, and every other campus he has

visited has a library that is open all the time.

There are not many other places to go that

are devoted to studying, he said.

The five ideas students thought worthy of

presenting were as follows: What to do about

the master lease of the old Fort Lewis grounds,

how to make Fort Lewis more self sustaining and

removal of the current food caterers, a larger

weight room for athletes, more faculty and less

administration, and better advising options.

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STUDENT OPPORTUNITY SUMMITBy Tyrel Karp

The Environmental Center has “positive action”

as one of its core values. Our message is, “Doing

some positive for the planet and other people feels

great and is fun. So, join the party.” Still, we often

get the response, “What’s the point?” And a dispas-

sionate analysis of the state of the world and the

structures of power make this a perfectly reason-

able point of view.

In deciding what to do for this year’s Earth Week

celebration, students at the Center decided to take

up this challenge head on. The theme they chose

was “Take Back Your Future,” and they have consis-

tently reminded me that the note of defiance in the

title is important. Even our positive crew feels that

with the recession, bailouts, debt, climate change,

and the potential for large-scale renewable energy

still unrealized, their future is vaporizing.

This cuts especially deep around the issue of

jobs. Students at Fort Lewis graduate with a good

idea about what the world needs and plenty of pas-

sion to provide it. But it’s rough out there, and the

opportunities to earn a living while doing something

positive for the world are always harder to come

by than entry-level service jobs. Why is this? If the

supply-and-demand curve is the answer to all our

problems, why isn’t there a robust market for jobs

in public service? This question is deeply frustrat-

ing for students, especially when they see CEOs

earning millions for crashing their company and the

economy.

Defiance in the face of the disconnect between

what is and what ought is necessary. But what does

effective defiance look like? EC students have

some ideas. Earth Week starts with a re-localization

fair on March 29th and then continues with events

on public service careers, alternative health care,

and food security, and then ends on April 2nd with

a campus forum on civil disobedience that asks,

“What is the best response to a political system that

defends powerful interests instead of empowering

its citizens?”

The truth is that the impact of one week of

events will be limited. But the impact of a campus

full of students geared up to take charge of their

own future and that of their communities could be

devastating. Take Back Your Future is a call to arms.

Let’s link them together and demand a future we

can all be proud of. Visit http://envcenter.fortlewis.

edu for all the details about Earth Week 2010.

By Marcus Renner

The views and opinions expressed in

this column are that of the authors and

do not represent the views and opinions

of the Independent.

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Horoscopes

Sudoku

HoroscopesAries- March 21 to April 19You will be pleasantly surprised by something a family member does for you.

Take the time to show them your appreciation.

Taurus- April 20 to may 20Spend some of your time cleaning this next week. It will completely change your

attitude for the positive and momentarily rejuvenate your life.

Gemini- May 21 to June 20Watch where you are walking. Keep your head up and your eyes pealed for

danger.

Cancer- June 21 to July 22Wear your sweaters as much as possible this next two weeks. Soon you will miss

wearing them.

Leo- July 23 to August 22Focus on eating heathier this next couple weeks. It will greatly improve your

concentration at school, and your energy level.

Virgo- August 23 to September 22You are really looking forward to a very special event coming up soon. Enjoy the

moments leading up to it, and the time will pass faster.

Libra- September 23 to October 22Follow your intuition. Ignore the doubts you have about a purchase you are

about to make, and just go for it. You’ll be glad you did.

Scorpio- October 23 to November 21Take advice that your wouldn’t normally take this week. You will be surprise and

thrilled by the outcome.

Sagittarius- November 22 to December 21This week is very important for you. Don’t neglect any events or deadlines in

your schedule or you will deeply regret it, however be positively effected if you

stay on task.

Capricorn- December 22 to january 19Spend extra time doing something that satisfies your creative urge. You will have

a new vision and feel more inspired than ever before.

Aquarius- January 20 to February 18Enjoy the gifts of nature this week. Spend some time outside admiring the joys of

springtime and soak up the sun.

Pisces- February 19 to March 20The Copper River Salmon swims 300 miles of rugged river every year. You will

be swimming against the current this week, but do as the salmon, and not be

daunted by the challenge.

Sudoku

Horoscopes

Sudoku Puzzles created by Matt Morrison

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