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RED ZONE: How trigger warnings affect sexual assault victims and sufferers of PTSD

By George [email protected]

Sexual assault is often a traumatic experience, and some schools and universities around the nation are tak-ing the initiative of warning their students about subject matter that may trigger a stressful reaction. For example, the student senate at the University of California, Santa Barbara passed a resolution in 2014 to mandate trigger warnings in all syllabi.

At first glance, this seems like a decent idea. After all, there was an option to opt out of sexual educa-tion back in elementary school, so why shouldn’t there be a way to preview what’s happening now? “If you’re teaching a college level class, you shouldn’t hold back or sugarcoat anything,” Jarett Tucker, a stu-dent of education at UAA, said. “But I feel like if I’m going to take a class, I would want to know what infor-

mation is being offered.”Like many ideas, it sounds good on paper. However,

it may not be the best idea in practice. According to a 2008 study from the Institute of Medicine of the Nation-al Academies, those who suffer trauma from events like a sexual assault are often better off confronting the trau-ma rather than avoiding it.

Dr. Claudia Lampman, a professor of psychology and director of UAA’s Psychology Department, agrees.

“On a basic psychological level, the only way you get over something that’s hard for you is to be exposed to it,” Lampman said. “That is the only way.”

Lampman considers the idea of trigger warnings ludi-crous and counter-intuitive. According to her, they’re better at spreading fear than they are at spreading aware-ness. While it is important to ease victims into discus-sions of that nature, it’s still important for them to face that discussion.

“If someone has a fear of flying, you don’t make them avoid airplanes,” Lampman said. “You systematically make them closer and closer to taking a real flight. It’s exposure in that therapy that’s necessary. Avoidance of those things actually makes you fear them more, not less.”

While trigger warnings, according to psychological study, don’t necessarily work, there are students that agree that there should at least be an alternative.

“Presenters always need to be aware of their audience and how they present their content,” Riley Creed, a biol-ogy student at UAA, said. “It is important to be respect-ful and prevent crude or crass remarks and ideals, and

also understanding that sympathizing with someone else’s situation is not censorship; it’s being respectful.”

There’s not just psychological basis for that argument, however. According to Lampman, the idea that college-level students would need warnings for possibly offen-sive material is almost kind of offensive in its own right.

“I think that we want college students to be prepared to be professionals in the workplace,” Lampman said. “To do that, you need to be a resilient, strong person. Trigger warnings kind of make the assumption that col-lege students are not resilient, strong people. It kind of means you’re a weak and fragile person that can’t be exposed even at an educational level to a conversation about something.”

Thankfully, in a collegiate environment, students have the choice of looking into what they’re studying, they still have the opportunity to know what they’re get-ting into.

“If an individual who has PTSD would like to go to an event, then by all means they can go,” Creed said. “Just as a person who doesn’t have PTSD has the same opportunity. They also have the right not to attend. If [the study’s] findings are true, then this could possibly be integrated into the counseling system.”

It is important for students to know what they’re get-ting into. However, being in college, it’s also important for those students to challenge the ideas that they find offensive. PTSD is a real issue, especially for victims of sexual assault. Trigger warnings may seem like a rea-sonable measure. According to psychologists, though, they’re very, very far from being the ideal solution.

Psychology director Claudia Lampman sheds light on the issue

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It’s recently dawned on me that you humans know just about nothing about the Slug Empire. Sure, I bring it up now and then, but aside from a few snippets of information, I’ve never really talked at length about it. There’s not a whole lot going on that’s worth talking about for me, so while George frets about that “Back to the Future Day” or whatever, I’m going to take that opportunity to tell you what we slugs really are.

To be honest, no one really knows how the Slug Empire began. Many civi-lizations speculate that the first slug was a biological weapon created by another

horrific empire. If that’s the case, it sure backfired spectacularly, didn’t it? Some others believe that we are a plague, sent by the forces-that-be to lay waste to civi-lizations as a punishment for their sins.

I never knew how we started, and I didn’t need to know. Nobody needs to know. I’m not even sure our queen, the original slug from which we all originat-ed, knows. It’s probably been filed under the category of information that nobody really cares about, alongside “the litera-ture of the octopus people of the Cepha-loid system,” or “is PC gaming really bet-ter than console gaming?”

We get the job done, and we never question why. I mean, that’s just good work ethic. If you were stuck at a dead-end job, you wouldn’t bemoan or won-

der how you got there. You would just get more work done so the customers are happy or satisfied. We’re kind of mature like that.

We are feared throughout the universe as a result of that brutal efficiency. Why should civilizations fear us, though? We never completely destroy any civilization. In fact, we gain knowledge from those civilizations and preserve the informa-tion they possess. We’re a flying treasure trove of different cultures, wide open to anyone willing to do whatever work we need them to do.

Often, that work is pretty peaceful and boring in nature, like farming exotic alien foods, or keeping our armada up and run-ning. You don’t have to really fight any-one unless you’re an especially vicious race. Don’t worry, humans — you’re not nearly vicious enough, if George is any-thing to go by.

As for how we slugs get to those civili-zations to enslave them, I’ve talked about it in one of my past commencement arti-cles. It’s a rite of passage for young slugs to go out and explore the universe for new races to enslave. It was just my luck that I landed here, on Earth, atop the loser that I currently call my host.

After that, we would normally use our incredible telepathic power to send a sig-nal back to mother base to show that we found a new planet to invade. Unfortu-nately, Earth is so mind-bogglingly far from the armada — thousands of light years, if my calculations are correct — that even at faster-than-light travel, it’ll still take a really long time to get here.

That’s usually the case. The Empire has conquered such a vast reach of space that it takes a while for us to actually find someone new. It’s rather like how young humans have difficulty finding work after graduation because of the mass influx of them is trying to do the same. Space is infinite, but the Empire conquers at such a rate that we’re starting to get a bit too big for our own good.

Even with that said, however, it’s cra-zy how different you humans seem to me. You’re not the strongest or the smartest (or, at least, George isn’t the strongest or the smartest), but the connection I can share with a human mind is far stron-ger than the usual species we encounter. Everything syncs up just right. It may be because I’m separated from the hive mind of the rest of my species, but I’m starting to become more human-like in terms of the way I think. It kind of scares me. How is the rest of the Empire going to see me once I return, now that I think more like a human?

Anyway, that’s another thing to worry about for another day. The Empire isn’t going to show up for thousands of years anyway, so there’s no sense fretting about that now. I hope you enjoyed this little crash-course in slug culture and hierar-chy. I hope this article survives the thou-sands of years it’ll take for the Empire to arrive, so that it’s actually useful. Until then...

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. EMBRACE THE SEAWOLF SLUG.

By Klax ZlubzeconTranslated by George Hyde

In the year 2013, an alien brain slug from one of the galaxy’s most feared empires crash-landed on Earth and assumed control of a lowly reporter at this newspaper.

These are his stories.

A crash course in Slug culture

On the subject of Anchorage housing

When you’re in your twenties, the places you live tend to be contingent upon low cost and little else. While I could summarize the growing disparity between the wages of millennials and the growing cost of housing to illustrate this, it’s a bit too early to be despondently drinking bourbon with my coffee.

Instead, I’ll highlight this point with anecdotal stories, which are far fun-nier and easier to rationalize as outliers instead of the bleak reality of Anchorage housing.

While I was happy writing tales of my environmentally hazardous and insane experiences with UAA housing, a close friend was living a far worse reality. His first stab at independent living was a shoebox apartment in Spenard, which was partly subterranean and on good days smelled of bad soup. On bad days,

there were stabbings in his parking lot and a couple of meth-cooking tweak-ers who had barricaded themselves in an apartment above him. Realizing his future didn’t include paying post-stab-bing medical bills, he has since relocated to a renovated garage in Muldoon and is much happier.

Another friend had an amazing brand new apartment that unfortunately bor-dered an empty lot containing a decaying boat that housed at least two meth heads at one point. I couldn’t ask for a more fit-ting way to underscore the idea that hous-ing options for my peers are treacherous at best.

Which brings me to my girlfriend’s apartment. As a disclaimer, as I’m sure they’ll be none too happy about my por-trayal of their home, let me assure you that they’re all professional and ambitious people. Those coexisting in that building are pursuing a myriad of professions, from environmental advocacy, filmmak-ing, dentistry, and real estate to an odd assortment of art and small business. A

better writer might highlight these ambi-tions and draw far reaching conclusions about the hope inspired by my genera-tion. However, having never once called myself a great writer this column aims for lower hanging fruit.

From the inside, the place is quite nice for my peer group — hard wood floors, working heat, curtains on the windows, there’s even a shower with reasonable heat and water pressure. However, step-ping out the front door is reminiscent of the scene in Beetlejuice when the ghosts attempt to leave the house only to be con-fronted with an apocalyptic wasteland (though it’s notably lacking the iconic sandworms).

The other day, I went out to my car only to hear a crowd of middle school age children chanting “fight” down the street. I later found out from another resi-dent that he saw one of them brandish-ing a knife when he drove by. Last week, I turned into the neighborhood to see a pile of automotive glass that could have passed for debris from the shooting of Mad Max.

That’s not to mention the frequent car break-ins, the recent tire slashings and the less than peaceful ambiance of sirens singing. It’s actually become a weekly occurrence to see four or more police cars at one of the houses in the neighborhood and I’ve contemplated starting a betting pool to see who can guess the location of the next bust.

Then you’ve got the standard cast of colorful characters. There’s the creepy woman “fondly” referred to as “bag lady” who slowly shuffles up and down the hill in front of the window always carrying at least nine bags. Next door is the enor-mous woman who wanders out at odd times to chain smoke and angrily watch

four Pomeranians relieve themselves on the lawn. Worst of all, the ragged man who decides to have some “personal time” with himself in plain view on the front porch while smoking a cigarette and propping his phone up to presumably watch something unspeakably depraved.

Inside the building is a safer, but no less of a hilarious situation. The kitchen sink often erupts a jet of water if the dish-washer is also running and no one has performed the sacrificial rites. The toilet occasionally uses scalding hot water that actually feels nice on a cold winter morn-ing, but uncomfortably humid any other time of the year. Sometimes, the down-stairs shower backs up with sewage from the building, prompting a bi-annual rapid evacuation.

The residents, though lovable, offer comedy in their own right. All the inhab-itants work at the same restaurant, which contributes to the cult-like atmosphere of the residence. All internal doors are unlocked and it’s expected to come home to find another apartment’s residents in your own. There seems to be one vacu-um that lives a nomadic lifestyle between the different apartments and dishes and game consoles tend to inspire frequent scavenger hunts.

Bottom line: on a good day, the apart-ment resembles the cluttered chaotic cov-er of an early 90’s skate-punk album.

There are those that would judge me for how I live during my college years. These people clearly have substantial financial help, or live in a different city or time period. For those of us stuck in the real world, this is the hysterical real-ity. Forget looking back in ten years, I’m laughing about this now.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I see someone moving in under my car.

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Everything you need to know about smoke free UAA

The Student Health and Counseling Center provides on campus help for quitting or help can be found off campus through Alaska’s

Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-QUIT-NOW)

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Where can’t you smoke?

Areas affected by the smoking ban include the entire UAA main campus, UAA’s residential campus, University Lake Buildings, UAA’s portion of the University Center, the Alaska Airlines Center, as well as internal sidewalks within the UAA campus.

Where can you smoke?

Smoking is still allowed off-campus, on public sidewalks adjacent to the university grounds and within the privacy of their vehicles provided that the vehicles are not parked within a university parking garage. There are no des-ignated smoking areas on campus, nor any plans to create any.

What exactly is ‘smoking’?

It isn’t just cigarettes that are getting the boot, all tobacco products, and smok-ing itself. Board of Regents policy R05.12.102 defines “smoking” as “inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying of any lighted or heated or vaporized tobacco-related product or non-tobacco plant product, or operating an electronic smok-ing or vaping device, instrument or apparatus which can be used to simulate the experience of smoking, or which can be used to house a liquid containing nicotine for delivery in any form to the user.”

What about other nicotine forms?

All forms of tobacco are banned, therefore dip tobacco and snuff will face the same regulation as tobacco. However, according to Board of Regents Policy, FDA approved nicotine products used to assist with quitting smoking are still allowed, provided they are non-combustible and provide no vapor, smoke or fumes. “This includes over-the-counter products (patches, gum, lozenges) and certain prescription products (nasal sprays, personal inhalers),” states current Board of Regents policy.

What does enforcement look like?

Any littering of tobacco products will carry a $50 fine after Nov. 19th. During the first year of the implementation, smokers will be informed of the new policy and informed of resources to assist them quitting smoking. Any staff or student staff member will be directed to speak with their supervisor.

Following the first year of the policy, a series of fines and fees may be enforced.

A full 25 years after UAA first banned smoking indoors, UAA will officially go smoke free on Nov. 19. In the April referendum, 719 students voted for a smoke free campus against 628 who were opposed to the Smoke-Free UAA initia-tive. After the vote was passed it went to the Board of Regents for review. The smoke ban has since been codified into Board of Regents policy, bringing UAA in line with UAF and UAS policies. UAA will officially go smoke free on Nov. 19.


1. Moaning Myrtle This costume is a little strange, but easy to do. Take a toilet seat and put it around your neck like a chain then wear some dinky round Harry Potter glasses. Boom. Done.

2. Robber Put on a black and white stripped shirt, some

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3. LegoNothing gets cheaper or easier than this cos-tume. All you need is a rectangular box, six round Tupperware containers, paint, glue and scissors. Take the box and cut a hole on one of the smaller sides (where your head will go) and holes where your arms will go. Cut the flaps off the other end (where your legs will go). Paint the box in your preferred lego color then paint the Tupperware. Wait for the box and Tupper-ware to dry and then attach the Tupperware to the box on one of the longer sides (where your front will be).

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7. 50 Shades of Gray Pick up gray and white paint swatches at a hardware store and then tape them across your shirt. You’re no Christian Grey, but it will do.

8. Flo from Progressive Wear a blue headband, a cheesy button, white polo and white apron and Flo nametag. Now you can name your own price.

9. Life Just hand people lemons, that’s it, really.

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Few horror movies deliver the scares that “Pulse” does. Over its two hour length, it evolves from a som-ber meditation to a horrifying epic. That kind of trans-formation should feel jarring, but director Kurosawa makes it feel as organic as death. Without firm thematic grounding, the movie wouldn’t hit as hard as it does. As it stands, “Pulse” is an impressive achievement in horror filmmaking.

Driven by the suicide of a close friend, three universi-ty students, Ryosuke (Haruhiko Kato, “A Slit-Mouthed Woman”), Michi (Kimiko Aso, “The Actor”) and Harue (Koyuki, “Persona Non Grata”), investigate a mysteri-ous website that seems to be compelling the suicides.

“Pulse” pulls no punches in telling its story. There aren’t many flashy cinematographic moments, here, but what there is works to full effect. Kurosawa’s strength lies in building. There are no jump scares here, just deft

tension building. Even when the horror is right in front of the viewer, it still manages to be mysterious and ter-rifying.

It helps that the visual style is deliberately murky. However, this doesn’t transfer well to DVD. Perhaps it was clearer in the theater, but on a computer or TV screen, it can be hard to discern certain images. That being said, the numerous scares pack a wallop regard-less. Propelled by a score that’s at once comforting and unsettling, “Pulse” evokes not only the horror of seeing a dead loved one, but the grief as well.

That’s not to say there’s much character building here. There isn’t. The principal cast is mostly a terrified hodgepodge of young adults. Distinguishing between them, while not impossible, is difficult.

So much of the movie feels familiar and strange all at once. Scenes begin like they would in other movies and quickly become something else. Viewers are never comfortable. One of the points of horror movies is to isolate viewers’ worst fears and give them face. “Pulse”

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In this way, there are no easy answers to the movie’s premise. With a narrative shift that should be jarring, and a brusque style, “Pulse” represents the height of J-horror. It’s isolative, terrifying and utterly unknow-able. The paranormal on display here is truly paranor-mal. While the characters are ill-defined and the visual style doesn’t translate to DVD, this Halloween classic still manages to pack a tougher punch than many horror movies of this decade.

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ALBUM“Is There Only One EP”

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Love can be beautiful like a cherry tree in full bloom, but if you’ve come here for an album review inspired by happiness and beauty, I’m afraid you’re in the wrong place. Lena Fayre’s new EP “Is There Only One?” brings up poignant feelings of longing and rejection, and eventually the seren-ity that can be found in the post-rejection recovery.

“Is There Only One?” details Fayre’s struggle with today’s combination of social media and romance. The back of the album speaks to her experience and how it has shaped the album. “This led me to think about the structure of relationships, attachment and how the modern romance is diluted or enhanced by social media.” says Farye. Social media romance is not a subject that music broaches very often, so I welcome this highly per-

sonal foray into digital love stories. The tracks on “Is There

Only One?” are dreamy and pop-py, infused with R&B melodies and relatively barebones drums. Fayre’s voice carries most of the tracks singlehandedly, and the vocal depth that Fayre brings makes her seem like a musical vet-eran, despite being only 19 years old. I practically had flashbacks to the Destiny’s Child mid 2000’s era of female pop, except this is slowed down about 25 percent and percus-sion is far more subtle on this EP.

“Please don’t pretend I can love you like a friend,” is the pervasive attitude on this album. Lena Fayre opens herself and pro-vides almost excruciatingly pain-ful details about her love life and her experience with social media. If you’ve ever had a crush on some-one or talked about your unrequit-ed love on twitter, this album is for you.

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Overall

Volleyball StandingsUpdated Oct. 18

Western Washington

Alaska Anchorage

Northwest Nazerene

Central Washington

Concordia

Simon Fraser

Seattle Pacific

Western Oregon

Montana State Billings

Alaska Fairbanks

Saint Martin’s

Ferris State

Michigan Tech

Alabama Huntsville

Alaska Anchorage

Alaska Fairbanks

Bemidji State

Bowling Green

Lake Superior State

Minnesota State

Nothern Michigan

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10-2

10-2

10-2

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5-7

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3-9

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1-10

1-1-0

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1-1-0

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2-2-0

1-2-1

4-1-1

2-2-0

1-3-1

3-1-1

2-4-0

2-4-0

2-2-2

18-2

16-4

13-7

14-5

15-5

9-11

6-14

7-14

4-17

2-17

2-17

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Seawolves earn first conference victory over defiant Chargers

After two weeks of playing in Alaska, the UAA Hockey team set sail south for their 2015-16 Western Collegiate Hockey Association debut.

Way south.The Seawolves (1-0-1 WCHA, 4-1-1)

traveled to Alabama to take on the Uni-versity of Alabama in Huntsville (0-1-1 WCHA, 1-2-1) last Friday and Saturday at the Von Braun Center.

Neither the Seawolves nor the Char-gers could get the best of their respective opponent on Friday night. The game end-ed in a 3-3 tie, following a scoreless five minute overtime period.

The Seawolves returned to the Von Braun Center the next night and secured their first WCHA win of the season. Fol-lowing last season, in which road victo-ries eluded the Seawolves for all but two games, head coach Matt Thomas was pleased with his team’s performance.

“Anytime you can manage three points in a conference road series you

feel a certain level of satisfaction. It was a great way to start our conference play,” Thomas said by e-mail.

WCHA teams earn two points for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss.

UAA goalie Olivier Mantha did his part in helping the Seawolves gain the upper hand through the first two peri-ods. Mantha stopped 24 of the 25 Hunts-ville shots on goal heading into the final period. Seawolf forward Anthony Conti scored his third goal of the season thanks to a nifty dish from fellow sophomore Matt Anholt at 12:09 in the first.

Seawolf juniors Dylan Hubbs and Connor Wright each had goals in the sec-ond period.

The Chargers put the pressure on the Seawolves to uphold their lead in the third period. Chargers forward Max McHugh redirected a shot from the point to score his third goal of the season. This score made it a 3-2 hockey game with over 10 minutes left to play. The Chargers had several golden opportunities to break even the scoring, but Mantha would not be fazed, and the Seawolves held on to

win the game.Freshman Jeremiah Luedtke broke

open a scoreless hockey game the night before. With 12 minutes gone the first period, the Seawolves scored on their second power play opportunity of the game. Luedtke collected a pass from sophomore Tad Kozun before swiping the puck past the Charger’s goalie Carmine Guerriero. It was the 21-year-old’s first collegiate goal despite having a team-high six assists.

The Seawolves went into the first intermission with a 2-0 lead. The Char-gers asserted themselves with some offense of their own in the second peri-od. The Chargers put three goals on the scoreboard in a 6 minute stretch during second frame. It was the kind of result Alabama-Huntsville thought they would see sooner rather than later – UAH fol-lowed up 15 shots on goal in the first peri-od with 14 in the second. Through two periods, the Seawolves only mustered 16 total shots on goal.

Luedtke would be a difference-maker again in the 3rd period. Luedtke sent a quick shot toward Guerriero immediately

following a face-off in the Chargers end. Guerriero made the save, but the rebound met the tape of senior Blake Tatchell’s stick, who then backhanded the puck in for the game-tying score.

The Seawolves were forced to make a line-up adjustment after freshman Mason Mitchell was ejected from the game on his first shift. Mitchell was called for ‘game misconduct’ after getting slapped with a contact to the head call. Mitchell was also forced to sit out Saturday’s con-test as a result of the infraction.

Coach Thomas says the team will have to rely on a diversity of scorers if they want to continue winning hockey games. Eleven different Seawolves have scored at least one goal through 6 games this season.

“There needs to be a large contingent of contributors if we are going to be suc-cessful,” coach Thomas said. “We were able to find that through our first six games.”

UAA hosts Bowling Green this Sat-urday and Sunday at the Sullivan Arena. Both games begin at 2:00 p.m.

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