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Students still divided on importance of voting

The official student-run newspaper of Sterling College Volume 116, Issue 6

By ASHLEY AULBACH Staff Writer

By BEN WRIGHTStaff Writer

As the presidential e l e c t i o n i s f a s t approaching, some say that the future is in our hands as well as our ballots. Others, however, do not share this sentiment.

Although Sterling C o l l e g e ’ s S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t A s s o c i a t i o n h e l d

w h a t w a s v i e w e d as a very successful v o t e r r e g i s t r a t i o n week, only 60 percent of surveyed students said they intend to vote. Furthermore, the campus seems to be divided on the issue of whether or not casting a vote has any real impact on the results of the election.

T h e m a j o r i t y o f s tudents surveyed

who plan on abstaining from this year’s vote admitted to doing so because they either feel insufficiently informed to cas t the i r vote accurately or that the election has no more effect on them now that they are of voting age than it did before they were allowed to participate. The rest of nonvoting students cited being “too busy”

or utterly uninterested.“Voting in Kansas

really doesn’t matter,” s o p h o m o r e S h a n e Rogers said, although he is registered and plans on voting. “We all know what is going to happen.”

“Not only that, but the electoral college has the freedom to do literally whatever they want to with the vote, even if it is not what

the ballots reflect” said freshman Lexi Rutberg.

Other students, such as sophomore Lucas Knauss and freshman Dixie Carpenter, will not be deterred by the same things that turn others away.

“If you give up your right to vote then you give up your right to complain because you are not doing anything

to fix the problem,” said Knauss.

“I am really excited to vote. I still have to figure out what all I have to do being that I’m from out of state, but I really want to vote,” said Carpenter.

Whatever results the election may reveal, each person makes a decision, even if their dec is ion i s not to decide.

ELECTION 2012

Campbell Kegger, Kahvista and Shark Dissection highlight busy week of campus organization activities

L a s t W e d n e s d a y , Campbell Hall Organi-zation hosted its annual “kegger,” complete with root beer floats, root beer pong, and other miscel-laneous root beer games.

In previous years all Campbell Hall events were hosted exclusively by CHO but always open to the entire campus for participation. This year CHO is doing things dif-ferently. Kilbourn Hall partnered with Campbell to host this event.

CHO President Pat-rick Wright said, “CHO isn’t just partnering with

Kilbourn. This year, in honor of Sterling’s 125th year, CHO is doing what we call the ‘Year of the Dorms.’” Although Wright is acting on the idea, he credits it to se-nior Vance Stegman.

“Campbell Hall has been a compet i t ive dorm, especially in the past couple of years,” Wright said. “This year we want to emphasize what Campbell Hall is really about: brother-hood and community. We are trying to partner with a different dorm on campus for each event to promote goodwill to all of our brothers and sisters.”

Future Science Pro-fessionals of America, or FSPA as it is known on campus, hosted a shark dissection night last Tuesday. Seven stu-dents attended the event held in the Thompson Hall lab. Dogfish sharks were the subjects of dis-section for the evening.

FSPA President Randi Morris said the reason for choosing sharks to dissect was that, “They are cheaper than cats and have been more suc-cessful in the past than eyes. We did eyes one year and it was not suc-cessful.”

As students worked Morris explained that sharks do not have bones but that their body struc-tures are made up en-tirely of cartilage. As students continued to dissect Morris explained the importance of care-ful cuts when trying to examine internal organs.

FSPA officer Priscilla Coronado said, “My fa-vorite part is to take out internal organs - includ-ing the brain and eyes - carefully so that you can see them up close and open them up to see the structures up close. It’s very interesting.”

Kahvista – Campus Activities Board’s “cof-feehouse” event – was held last Thursday in the recently renovated Cornerstone.

Sophomore Tate Stras-ner and junior Taylor Stucky were the emcees for the event. The duo told coffee facts and puns to ease the transitions between performers. Per-formances varied from poetry readings to Poke-mon raps to musical du-ets and solos.

Although issues with the new technology in Cornerstone caused the event to start later than

anticipated, the delay did not bring down the event. Students snacked and socialized as they waited for the perform-ers to begin.

CAB Treasurer Danika Ginther said, “Overall I thought we had a good variety of performers. We had old perform-ers, new performers, po-etry about zombies, and songs about love.”

When asked how the event could have been improved, Ginther said, “We should have had more coffee and less food. It seems that is what people wanted.”

This past weekend a group of current stu-dents and alumni proud-ly represented Sterling College, finishing 9th out of 12 teams at The Manhattan Project – an ultimate frisbee tourna-ment hosted by Kansas State University.

The team performed admirably against the very stiff competition offered by much larg-er schools, ending the weekend with a record of 3-4.

The team went 1-4 in pool play with a win over Kansas State and losses to Kansas City Club, Air Force, Kansas, and Oklahoma State. This record placed the team in the bracket bat-tling for 9th place. Once in the single-elimination bracket play, the team really came into their own. They beat Tulsa handily to advance to the 9th place game against Missouri State,

which they won in a long, hard-fought match that went back and forth.

Despite the relative success of the trip, the players were not fully satisfied with their per-formance. Many felt

that they could have ended with a better re-cord.

The team took a blow early when in only the second game of the weekend, Sterling Team Captain Samuel

Cheyney injured his ankle catching the game winning point. While no permanent damage was done, he was out for the rest of the weekend and his absence was a real loss for the team.

One recurring com-ment from players who went on the trip was the amount of fun that they had at the tournament. The team really focused on enjoying themselves while playing and some

even went out of their way to make the games fun for everyone.

During a few of the games, the Sterling play-ers chose to dress up in silly outfits. Alumni Scott McCaulley played two games wearing a suit and part of another game wearing a clown costume. This went a long way toward help-ing the team accom-plish their priority for the weekend. “We rep-resented Sterling and we had a lot of fun,” sophomore Jacob Black-well said.

Ultimate frisbee has become a bit of a tradi-tion on campus in recent years. The nice thing about trips like this is the opportunity students have to represent Ster-ling College through the competition and sports-manship. Overall, the trip was a real success and the team looks for-ward to building on this success in future tourna-ments.

SC ultimate frisbee team places 9th in Manhattan

Students participate in root-beer pong during the Campbell Kegger. Photo by Megan Walker

The newly renovated Cornerstone was packed with students enjoying the many desserts and hot drinks provided by CAB as they listened the performances of their peers. Photo by Megan Walker

Working together, students dissect a dogfish shark. At the event open to the whole campus, students worked their way through a lab as President Randi Morris explained the process. Photo by Megan WalkerBy MEGAN WALKER

Staff Writer

The Sterling College ultimate frisbee team finished 9th out of twelve teams at the Manhattan Project tournament hosted by Kansas State University. Back row (left to right): Jordan Stineman, Phil Taylor, Mason Houghton, Samuel Cheyney, Nathaniel Boggs, David Spencer, Tyler Brotton, Scott Hicks, Mike Jaderston, Adam Beutler. Front row (left to right): Truyn Mosher, Seth Prochaska, Jacob Blackwell, Nathan Ehresman, Scott McCaulley, Brandon Muehler, Brandon Hoesli. Photo courtesy of Truyn Mosher

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Soccer teams dominate against Bethel, have Ottawa games postponed by rain

Offensive explosion helps Warriors find their first win

On Wednesday Oct. 10, both Warrior soc-cer teams kept up their strong conference play, dominating the Bethel College Thresh-ers. The women won 2-0 and the men won 1-0.

In both cases, the score line is not indica-tive of how much the Warriors dominated the game.

Despite keeping the ball in their attacking end the entire half, the Lady Warriors went into halftime without anything to show for it..

They continued the attacking mind-set in the second half and it paid off only 37 sec-onds in when junior midfielder Mckenzie Porhola scored the first of two goals. Ju-nior defender Adriana Ortiz bookended the half with the second goal on a beautiful vol-ley off an 80th minute corner kick.

The 2-0 victory over

the Threshers brings the Lady Warriors to an impressive 9-2 on the season, 2-1 in KCAC play.

The men came onto the field next set on continuing the offen-sive pressure that the women used so effec-tively in the previous game.

Though the first half ended scoreless, the Warriors were clear-ly dominating play - keeping possession and getting good scor-ing opportunities.

They came out after halftime even more hungry, putting even more pressure on the Thresher defense. The breakthrough came in the 62nd minute when freshman midfielder Jason Prichard made a strong run into the box only to be taken down. The referee called for a penalty kick and junior midfielder Eric Rodri-guez stepped up to the ball, hammering it past the opposing keeper to give the Warriors a 1-0.

Going down a goal was the motivation the

Threshers needed to finally kick their of-fense into gear. They countered the offen-sive attack Sterling had been utilizing, but it ended up be-ing too little too late. They were unable to find the net, giving the Warriors the 1-0.

The victory im-proved the Warriors’ record to 5-5-2 on the season and 2-0-1 in KCAC, putting them in a good position in the conference.

Both Warrior teams were scheduled to play at Ottawa Uni-versity on Saturday, but eventually had the games cancelled by in-clement weather.

The women played off-and-on for 30 min-utes, until the game was finally called. The men began warming up when the weather cleared a little, but the weather picked back up and the men were not given a chance to play.

The games have been rescheduled for Mon-day, Oct. 22 at Ottawa.

For the first time this year the Sterling College football team walked away with a win this past Satur-day. Finding a way to stay positive and hav-ing selfless team unity helped the 0-5 team get a 49-0 win over the Bethel College Thresh-ers on Oct. 13.

The first of many touchdowns came late in the first quarter as ju-nior wide receiver Jor-dan Coleman received a pass from sophomore quarterback John Car-dona for 67 yards. This

was a much needed spark for the Warrior football team.

“It was a break through for us that we haven’t had. We haven’t scored a ton and have had trouble with turning the ball over. It felt like almost a weight was lifted of the offense,” Head Coach Andy Lambert said.

That touchdown proved to lift that weight and open the floodgates as the War-riors scored four times in the second quarter alone. Sophomore run-ning back Ernest Reid ran it in for a one yard

touchdown, junior run-ning back Keith Law-son scored on a 20 yard run, Cardona had a nine yard touchdown run, and freshman Dentton Hudsperth caught a 23 yard touch-down pass from Car-dona.

Then in the third quarter Cardona ran in his second touchdown on a 78 yard run. With time almost running out, Sterling capped off the scoring with senior running back Chase Sperber taking it in on a two yard run. Sterling ended the game with 7 touchdowns and 552 yards of offense on 68

plays. Cardona led the offensive onslaught by throwing for 202 yards and 2 touchdowns as well as rushing for 168 yards and 2 touch-downs.

This year has not been the easiest or most favorable for the War-riors up to this point, but the team has per-severed and remained positive throughout. Coach Lambert cred-ited the leadership on the team for not allow-ing heads to hang and for getting rid of any glimpse of a defeat-ed atmosphere. “Our moral has stayed high and we have made

conscious decisions to stay positive and have hope,” Lambert said.

The Warriors had the benefit of a bye week before coming into the game against the Threshers. The War-riors’ first priority dur-ing the off week was to focus on rest and health, both physical and mental. Also, they wanted to address the turnovers that have plagued the team all season. The hard work paid off because they only turned the ball over once in the game against Bethel.

Next up for the War-riors is the homecom-

ing game as they will take on Ottawa Univer-sity on Saturday Oct. 20 at 1:30 pm. As the week goes on, Coach Lam-bert wants the team to be process-oriented. “I want the team to exhib-it and choose joy in the process and not only in the game,” said Lam-bert.

On Saturday the homecoming parade starts down town at 10:00 am. Coronation of the homecoming royalty is before the game at 1:10 p.m. on the field. Make sure to come out and support the Warriors for home-coming this Saturday.

By SCOTT MCKINNEYStaff Writer

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6-foot junior middle hitter Ciara Ramos goes for one of her 10 kills in the Lady Warriors’ match against the University of Saint Mary Spires. The Lady Warriors dominated the match against the Spires, winning in three straight sets 25-24, 25-19, and 25-14.

The offense against USM was highlighted by senior Adriana Gonzalez who had 41 assists on the match, pulling her within 41 of the all-time re-cord. Gonzalez put up this impressive performance on the heels of being awarded her third KCAC Setter of the Week award.

Coming off the impressive win against USM, the Lady Warriors were faced with the challenge of taking on league-leading Ottawa University on Friday. They were able to take one set, but lost the match 3-1.Photo by Megan Walker

By NATHAN EHRESMANEditor-in-Chief

QUESTION OF THE WEEKWhat are you most looking forward to about Homecoming?

“All of the candy.” -senior Micah Mitchell

“The awesome floats.” -junior Kyle Davis

“The camaraderie.” -junior Kara Stineman

“Godspell.”-junior Shiloh Duff