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SAINT MARTIN’S UNIVERSITY MONTHLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Volume V Issue 8 May 29, 2013
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On April 15, twenty-five students were inducted into the Society of Fellows, Saint Martin’s honorary society, at the spring Colloquium.The ceremony included
recognition of student achievements, presentation of certificates and medal-lions, a keynote address from Dr. Ian Werrett, and a reception for the newly in-ducted members to celebrate with family and friends. The ceremony was well attended with students, faculty, staff, and community members present to support the new members.
“I enjoyed the small intro-ductions of other Fellows,” says Betty Ramirez, a junior and newly inducted mem-ber. “It was interesting and inspiring to listen to the ac-complishments of others.” “Dr. Werrett’s talk was
great,” says Alyssa Han-cock, a sophomore and new-ly inducted member. “He is an extremely smart scholar,
yet he does not come across as stoic or intellectually beyond his audience. He explained the material in a very clear manner, and I re-ally appreciated that.”In his keynote address,
“Societies of Fellows: Coin-cidences, Connections and Collaborations,” Werrett reflected on his academic career, including his under-graduate years at Saint Mar-tin’s, and discussed the con-nections he formed along the way that enabled him to research the Dead Sea Scrolls and, most recently, ancient libraries in Turkey. He congratulated students on their achievements and encouraged them to use the connections they form at Saint Martin’s to learn and grow in their future careers.The Society of Fellows is
the Saint Martin’s honors society, which recognizes students and faculty for their achievements. Founded in 1971 by Father Michael Feeney, the society consists of six academic divisions with five students selected per division. The selection process occurs each semes-ter. “We received more appli-
cations this year than ever before,” says Dr. Richard Langill, Society of Fellows’ Senior Fellow and Profes-sor of History and Political Science. The Society strives to
recognize students not only for their academic achieve-ments, but also for their extracurricular activities on campus and in the lo-cal community. A student’s GPA is just one of many
factors considered in de-termining for a student’s acceptance into the Society. The Society considers a broad spectrum of activities in assessing applications. “It’s a great way to get to
know students,” says Lang-ill. “One of the really nice things about being a profes-sor is working with wonder-ful people who are growing
and developing and going to go off and do wonderful things. It’s very satisfying.”“I feel honored and hum-
bled,” says Hancock. “We all have various and unique skills, and the world needs all of them.”Congratulations to the
newly inducted Society of Fellows members!
Congratulations to the Valedictorian and Salutatorian
of the Class of 2013.
Amy PollardStaff Writer
Honoring Student Achievements – Society of Fellows Colloquium
Joe BergerRebeka Santos
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With fourteen Arab students cur-rently enrolled and numbers ex-pected to increase, the Arab popula-tion is growing at Saint Martin’s. As the Arab population becomes more prevalent on campus, the need for greater awareness of Arab culture also becomes more prevalent. With this need for cultural awareness in mind, the Arab Student Association was established this spring.Founded in April by Hashim
Attar, Mshaal Alfedain and Amr Althagafy, the Arab Student As-sociation (ASA) seeks to introduce the Saint Martin’s community to Arab culture and to provide a sup-port network for Arab students. The ASA also seeks to educate the Saint Martin’s community about Arab
culture. “There is an emphasis of no poli-
tics,” says Attar, ASA president. The cultural component of the club
will focus on exploring how people live in the Middle East and breaking down stereotypes. The ASA hopes to build a support network for Arab students. “We want to help the freshmen
settle in and overcome barriers,” explains Alfedain, the club’s vice president. Possible events envisioned by the
club officers include keynote speak-ers, potlucks and movie nights. Dur-ing his studies at the University of Washington, Attar helped to start a similar club which hosted a variety of cultural events on campus. Attar will use his experiences at UW to strengthen his efforts at Saint Mar-tin’s.
“I believe the ASA will provide a great opportunity to support our growing Arab community on cam-pus, as well as helping us to learn more about Middle Eastern cul-ture,” says David Martin, faculty advisor for ASA and Host Family and Volunteer Service Coordinator in the Office of International Pro-grams and Development (OIPD). “The ASA brings a fresh broaden-ing of diversity to our campus from a historically and culturally rich part of the world that many of us are unfamiliar with.”This semester, the Arab Student
Association plans to form its iden-tity as a club, so it can start strong next year with meetings and events. “Everyone is welcome, not just
Arabs,” says Attar. For more information, email
Every year, Saint Martin’s Uni-versity hosts Scholar’s Day for students to showcase their research for the community. With growing popularity for Scholar’s Day, stu-dents are adamant about presenting their findings. The range of top-ics is endless with each presenter knowledgeable and professional in his or her field. While some of the participants
spent an entire semester, or even year, preparing for the presenta-tions, others decided to apply last minute. After a strong presentation in their
business class about Boeing’s 787, Alexander Boedigheimer, Andy DeLuc, and Ryan Mortenson were asked to present their findings at Scholar’s Day. The group had their presentation and research com-pleted from the fall semester. “Our original presentation was about a half an hour, so cutting back the content was a bit of a challenge. We
were able to cut it down to about 18 minutes to fit into the time slot,” divulged Mortenson. Jesse Mailhot, whose topic was
comparing Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” to the film “Ghost in the Shell,” had not planned on present-ing his research paper at Scholar’s Day. “I really did not have any expecta-
tions for Scholar’s Day. Applying to present was an option, and Father Pratt strongly urged that I do so,” Mailhot explained. Before his presentation, he admit-
ted to being a little nervous but as-sured that he was prepared. Despite the nerves, each student
should be proud of his or her ac-complishments. From the surface reaction between watercolor pig-ment and table salt on watercolor paper to rehearsal for reality and sexual harassment, Scholar’s Day provides a variety of different sub-ject matters to spark everyone’s interest. A congratulations to all of the pre-
senters for the 2013 Scholar’s Day: Kerry Wood, Amber Zawislak,
Stephen Osborne, Elizabeth Wra-zien, Alexander Setuckmarie, E. Lee Brewer, Ben Norton, Ben Price, Mary Ybarra, Crystal Maria, Jesse Mailhot, Janey Schell, Ar-sheena Hussein, Joseph Patti, Amy Pollard, Ebony Utley, Sarah Bunn, Cody Gilomen, Dylan Gaydosh, Beau Neilson, John Smigaj, Benja-min Waters, Kristopher Wells, Mat-thew Huff, Darren Popkins, David Lawrence, HuuQuyen Le, Michael Rogers, Megan Richardson, Chris-topher Henry, Jessica Hegoas, Justin Kover, Cory Bassi, Tetsuya Yonetsu, Daniel Mast, Patrick Carroll, Travis Bleich, Katrina Tu-engel, Rebeka Santos, David Eki, Veronica Martin, Allison Myers, Olivia Baumgartner, Annabel War-nell, Josiah Dailey, Bryden Solonar, Andy DeLuc, Ryan Mortenson, Alexander Boedigheimer, Ashley Llapitan, Rikki Bland, Kesey Win-dust, Tyler Whitworth, Jared Teer, Betty Ramirez, Timothy Templin, Naomi Meckes, Joshua Roblee, Abigail Fulton, Chris Sadac, Clint Hyde.
Scholar’s Day showcases students’ talentsCassaidy Choi
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The end of semester is here again. Final exams and papers may be stressful, but there is a happier event that happens during this time, too, the Saint Martin’s University Annual Spring Festival. This festi-val happens every year on the study day before finals, and features a dif-ferent theme. This year’s theme is Beach Ball Blast.The Beach Ball Blast line-up has
loads to offer, and is a pleasant and free student activity. Instead of stressing out about finals or walk-ing around aimlessly, blinded by the unfamiliar sunshine, head over to Marcus Pavilion on May 3 and check out the array of activities and fun snacks and crafts that the SMU Pros have coordinated. This year there will be a live
performance by the band, Lions Ambition, the sound of which was described as “genre agnostic” by skopemag.com. This local Seattle band knows how to play to a college crowd, and their chilled out sound can be enjoyed for free while enjoy-ing a Sno Kone, which will also be provided for Spring Fest 2013. Beyond Sno Kones there will be
other delicious free treats like a build-your-own beach treat, which was described as an edible beach replica made of sweets that will be both build-your-own art, and build-your-own dessert.There will also be various ‘feats
of strength’, including a bungee run competition area where students can see who can pull bungee cords farthest from a fixed point.An obstacle course will occupy
some pavilion real estate, offer-ing students the chance to climb, tumble and tackle their way out of exam time stress. In addition to an
obstacle course there is the 21st century closed-cell foam version of jousting which promises to provide students with a great way to work out some of those end of semester frustrations. This version of jousting will not require the use of horses, so no need to bring your riding boots.For those interested in some qui-
eter activities, there will be a henna design artist on-site as well. To the unfamiliar, henna is a plant dye that is often used for temporary tattoos and sometimes as a hair dye (which will not be part of the event). Henna has been used for body art since the Bronze Age and in addition to its many fine qualities as a plant sub-stance, for the purposes of body art, it wears off the skin fairly quickly, so no lifelong decisions need to be made about the design. Also avail-able by the same artist will be face painting and glitter tattoos. Besides all the aforementioned ac-
tivities, there will also be tables set up by the various clubs on campus. Students can peruse the club tables, ask questions of the representatives, and in some cases, there could be free giveaways and contests hosted by the clubs.Coordinators of this event say this
will be one campus event not to miss out on. Shalaya Sanders says that students should go to this event because this will be “a day where you can just run around and feel like a kid again.” Crystal Cardona says, “it’s a great
way to unwind and just celebrate the end of semester.” Both Sanders and Cardona have
coordinated the Spring Fest in the past, and agree that this year’s event promises to be exceptional.The Spring Fest Beach Ball Blast
runs from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Fri-day, May 3, and will be located in the Marcus Pavilion.
As the semester comes to a close, finals, last minute projects, and papers are the only things in the way of summer. Most students are pulling all-nighters to write that last page of their paper, cram for that final, or prepare for an 8 a.m. presentation. The term ‘free time’ is almost as rare as music on MTV. However, if the stress is getting to you, and you are able to escape from the things you should have been doing all semester, there are some options to blow off some steam and occupy your time. You might have seen some posters around campus but here is a short list of some of the events that could be worth checking out:
• Wednesday, May 1 o Commuter Student Breakfast. 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in
the TUBo Students vs. The World Softball game. Softball field
at 2 p.m.§Come enjoy the friendly rivalry of students
versus faculty, staff, and THE WORLD
• Thursday, May 2 o Stress Reduction day in the TUB, contact Laurel
Dube for more info at [email protected]
• Friday, May 3o Spring Fest – Beach Ball Blast in the Marcus Pavilion,
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.o Graduation Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Nor-
man Worthington Conference Center. Arrange for graduation gown, cap, get tickets for visitors to the commencement, and sign up for the Alumni Asso-ciation! One-stop shopping for all your graduation needs.
• Saturday, May 4. o Saint Adventures Rafting Trip, go to the TUB for
more info.
• Monday, May 6. o Saints Adventures Climbing Night, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Contact Laurel Dube for more info at [email protected]
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The Saint Martin’s University softball team had a terrific month in April, if not the best month in pro-gram history. The Saints started off the month by traveling to Turlock, California to take part in the Tourna-ment of Champions before return-ing home to face Western Oregon University on April 11. During the
tournament, the Saints made it all the way into the finals. The Saints played an impressive game against Chaminade on April 7, and put on a hitting clinic as the offense for the Saints was on fire. The Saints would bat just under .500 as a team and recorded a triple by Madi Davis as well as four homeruns, one by Joslyn Eugenio, one by Dani Wall, one by Taviah Jenkins and another by Taylor Bakos in just one game. The Saints went on to win the game 9-2 to advance to the championship
game against California State University-Dominguez Hills. The Saints unfortunately faced off against a tough pitcher and could not seem to find their offense, as they lost in the championship game 8-2. The Saints continued GNAC play four days later at home against Western Oregon Univer-sity. The Saints pulled off both wins in the doubleheader, beat-ing the Wolves 8-1 and 12-6.
Next they went on their last road trips of the season. First they played Montana State University-Billings on April 13 and pulled off wins in both high-powered offensive games, 18-15 and 12-3. This gave the Saints a 30-11 record, establish-ing a new program best. A week later, on April 20, the Saints
traveled to Bellingham, WA to play Western Washington University, where they split the games, winning the first 3-1 and losing the second 2-5 to break their five game win streak.
On their last away games of the year, the Saints split another double-header, this time with Simon Frasier University, winning 8-4 in the first game and losing 0-2 in the second. The Saints came home to play in one of the last doubleheaders of the year on April 27. The Saints played Northwest Nazarene and won both games, 9-1 and 5-4. This gave the Saints their first GNAC conference championship in program history! During the month of April the Saints had three players-of-the-week honors. Davis and Bakos each got picked for the first week of April and Eugenio was picked the following week. During the same week Eugenio was named GNAC Conference Player of the Week. She also received the first in program history Louisville Slugger/ NFCA Division 2 Na-tional Player of the Week Honors. Eugenio put together an impres-sive offensive week. She went 10 for 16, held a .625 average with nine runs scored, two doubles, two homeruns, 10 RBIs, and car-ried a 1.125 slugging percentage. The Saints also have another first in program history. Following the tournament earlier in April, they were ranked in the national polls for the first time in school history at 23rd and fourth in the region. They would be ranked as high as 21st and as low as 25th the rest of the season. Be sure to congratulate the wom-en’s softball team for a great season as they set the program on a new level, shattering program records. The Saints will next participate in the GNAC tournament on May 2-5 in Montana.
At the Wigwam Golf Course in Arizona, the women’s team earned 15th place at the end of a two-day tournament on April 1 and 2. Aman-da Wittmier lead the team, achiev-ing her best second round score of 81, combined with her other scores to place her in a tie for 36th. Sarah Salvatori tied for 44th in the tour-nament, shooting a first round best of 79 then finishing with a score of 166. Gracie Dyer placed 50th at 167 followed by Elizabeth Ferry tying for 73rd sitting pretty at 177. At the GNAC championships, the
women placed second, being beaten only by Montana State-Billings. The Saints had a nine stroke lead over Montana until the second day when Montana had the lowest scor-ing round, pushing them over the top to place first. Wittmier placed for the fourth straight tournament and tied her best-ever finish in the GNAC championships, placing fifth with an impressive average of 82.9 shots per round. Ferry finished her golfing career with her best fin-ish at GNAC championships with a total of 162. Salvatori tied Ferry for sixth place in her first GNAC championship. She also earned her third top ten finish of the season. Dyer followed up in 19th place, with teammate Ally Redifer right behind, placing 22nd overall.This season, Wittmier and Ferry
were awarded both academic and athletic honors, While Freshman Salvatori also earned All-GNAC honors along with her teammates.
Great Ending
in Women’s
Golf
Cameron GrossaintColumn Editor
Joey KeetonStaff Writer
Softball gains national spotlight, shattering program records
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Since the Lewis and Clarke Invi-tational, the Saint Martin’s Track & Field team has continued to put high marks on the board, - break-ing personal and school records. The Saints traveled to California to compete in several small meets in-cluding San Francisco State, Stan-ford, and Chabot College. Competing at the meet at Stan-
ford, Kelly Chronic broke her per-sonal school record, placing ninth in the triple jump with a mark of 37’5.75”. This mark automatically qualified Chronic for the GNAC Outdoor Championships and was also the best in the GNAC this out-door season. At Chabot College, four athletes
won their events including Laura Tesch with a mark of 5’4” in the high jump, Edd Brown with a time of 10.96 in the 100m, Alicia Wolf with a time of 59.69 in the 400m, and Michael Davis with a mark of 47’8.5” in the triple jump. Other notable performances in California included Joseph Patti with a second
place finish in the 1500m, finishing at 3:52.31. Patti’s time automati-cally qualified him for the GNAC Outdoor Championships and was also the second best time for the event in the GNAC this outdoor season. Frank Krause won his heat and placed fourth overall at San Francisco State in the 800m with a time of 1:53.15. Sam Washington took second in the shot put and third in discus while Devon DeMoss set a new personal record in the 800m at San Francisco. The Saints then traveled to Salem,
OR to compete in the Willamette Invite where Ali Wick led the Saints with a new school record in the hammer throw. Wick placed sixth overall at the invite with a throw of 143’5.5” breaking the previous school record, set in 2009, by more than four feet. Ami Wick and Jas-mine Watters also had new personal records in the hammer with marks of 135’8.25” and 125’1.5” respec-tively. Despite the poor weather in Salem, Joey Keeton managed to clear a height of 13’5.75” placing first in the pole vault. Michael Da-vis finished third in the 100m with
a time of 11.05, and Renee Hudson placed 12th in 100m with a time of 12.78.The next meet for the Saints was at
Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Leading the men’s track & field team, Joey Keeton won his event, the pole vault, clear-ing 13’11.25” and Michael Holland also placed first in the decathlon, scoring 5104 points. The men also dominated the triple jump as Brian McElroy won the event with a mark of 42’2.75”, and Jameson Fauley finished close behind in second with a mark of 40’7”. For the women, the 4x100 relay
team, including Addie Medina, Renee Hudson, Alicia Wolf, and Stephanie Kellogg, set a new school record with a time of 49.92. Ashley Llapitan finished the 10,000m with a provisional GNAC qualifying time of 40:39.3.The track & field team will con-
clude the outdoor season in the GNAC Championships in Mon-mouth, OR. Good luck and congratulations to
all of the track & field athletes on a stellar outdoor season!
The month of April was a rough month for the baseball team, win-ning two games in a 10 game stretch. The Saints started April los-ing three games to Pacific Lutheran, 4-5, 1-12, and 3-6. Chandler Tracy hit a solo homerun in the first two games against PLU. The next four games for the Saints
were against Montana State Univer-sity-Billings in Billings. The first game for the Saints was a win, 3-2. The Yellowjackets got on the board first scoring in the third inning, but in the sixth inning, Tracy hit a two-run homerun to take the lead from the Yellowjackets. In the seventh inning the game was postponed to the next day due to rain. In the bot-tom of the eighth, the Saints had the bases loaded and Billings walked Spencer Dodd, to score the last run for the Saints. The Yellowjackets won the next
games, 2 -5 and 3-5, while the fourth game scheduled for the se-ries was cancelled. Bobby Twedt finished the first game two for five and Tracy was one for three with two RBIs. In the second game, Tracy was three for five with a RBI; Mario Sanelli was two for four with two RBIs; and Blake Lord was two for three in the game. The Saints then had a four game
series against Central Washington University at home; they won only one of those games. In the first game, Central got on the scoreboard first in the second inning with a run but the Saints took the lead with a
two-RBI single by Lucas Bessel in the fourth. Central scored in the top of the fourth to make it 3-2 but the Saints battled back in the bottom of the fourth, scoring three runs off the bats of Twedt, Tracy, and Josh Sontag, all with one RBI in the in-ning. Travis Shaw hit a RBI single in the sixth to bring the Saints lead to 6 – 3, but the Wildcats prevailed scoring two runs in the seventh and one run each in the eighth and ninth innings. The next game against CWU for
the Saints was a 2-9 loss; the runs scored by the Saints were by Spen-cer Dodd and Jack Freeman, both on unearned runs.SMU won the next game 5-4 in
extra innings. CWU had a 3-0 lead until the seventh inning, when the Saints scored four runs to take a 4-3 lead. Twedt started the scoring with a RBI single, then Tracy hit a two
RBI double, and Shaw scored on an error. CWU tied it up in the eighth on a RBI single, but Alex Bielaski stepped up to the plate in the 10th
inning and hit a walk-off homerun on a 2-1 count with two outs on the board. Bielaski had an impressive game going three for five with a RBI, two doubles, and a homerun. The Saints dropped the next game,
3-10, in another rain delayed game. The Saints started strong, scoring all three of their runs in the first inning of the game. Shaw got it started with a RBI, Bielaski hit his fourth double of the series to bring Tracy around to score, and Sanelli hit a RBI single to finish the in-ning off. CWU scored two runs in the second and three runs in the fourth to take a 5-3 lead, and after the fourth inning, the rain came and delayed the game. After the rain de-lay, the Saints could not put points on the board, and CWU was just too strong, - scoring two runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth.The Saints are (5-35, 3-20 GNAC)
and have just eight games re-maining in the season. The men have been knocked out of the post season.
At the SMU invite the men’s team did well, and ended up placing seventh thanks to seniors Brandon Moore and Mike Jaeger. Both men shot well in the second and third rounds to pull the team up to the top 10. In the third round the men shot the second lowest score to help them during the invite, ending at 872 as a team. Moore shot an amaz-ing 217 which tied for 18th place out of the 81 golfers. Jaeger fol-lowed close behind finishing with a score of 219, tying for 27th place. The men then went down to
California to compete in the Hanny Stanislaus Invite. The men took an-other seventh place finish with a to-tal team score of 929. Ben Fosnick led the team with a 14th place fin-ish. Other Saints placed high, help-ing the team to a strong finish. Kyle Cullen finished 27th in his first col-legiate tournament, shooting a 223. And with a three-way tie for 45th at 239 the men had Brandon Moore, Mike Jaeger and Patrick Whealdon. At the GNAC championships, the
men were led by freshman Ryan Pickthorn and teammate Ben Fos-nick, who helped them easily pass Simon Fraser to place second over-all. Shooting a 290 as a team in the third round, gave them the second best score in the whole champi-onship. Pickthorn placed fourth overall, only being beat out by two Western Washington seniors, and a sophomore from Simon Fraser. Fos-nick, placed seventh overall shoot-ing a 219. Mike Jaeger and Jack Whealdon tied for 11th, shooting their best in the third round, each at 225. Following right behind in 13th was Brandon Moore, shooting a 226. The men also had numerous
awards at the end of the season. Connor Miele was named GNAC Newcomer of the Year for 2013. Moore earned both Academic All-GNAC honors and All-GNAC hon-ors. Jaeger earned Academic All-GNAC honors for the third year in a row and Fosnick also earned All-GNAC honors from the conference after being named to the second team along with teammate Moore.Fosnick and Moore also qualified
to represent the Saints at the 2013 NCAA Division II Men’s Golf West South Central Super Regional as individuals, and will compete on May 6, 7 and 8 at the home course in Dupont, WA as Saint Martin’s University and Western Washington University will co-host the event. Make sure to come support the Saints at the West regionals!
Track & Field athletes continue breaking records
Caley WisemanColumn Editor
Joey KeetonStaff Writer
John HammanStaff Writer
Men’s Golf
Finishing Strong
As softball reaches new heights, baseball stutters
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Hashim Attar is a 20 year old stu-dent with a story that begins in dis-tant Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He be-gan his education at Saint Martin’s University just a couple months ago, but the path leading up to this has not been a predictable one. Attar has studied English since
first grade. In addition to English, he studied French at the urging of his parents. His father is a dentist, and is mother was an interior de-signer until recently when she and Attar’s uncle opened a pastry shop where they make delectably exotic pastries. Along with running the pastry shop, she is a stay-at-home mom and helps run a women’s or-phanage. Attar has two older siblings, both
sisters - one is a doctor, and the other does landscape and design. He also has one younger brother who is in high school and lives at home. Attar laments that his mother is starting to feel empty nest syndrome and enjoys Skyping with him often.Attar’s journey to the United
States began in ninth grade when his junior high school sent a letter to his parents saying that his high school department would be closing in the near future and that they needed to transfer him to a new institution. Attar’s only option at this point was to look for schools in the country of Jordan, north of Saudi Arabia. His school of choice was a recent-
ly opened boarding school, King’s Academy, a replica of Deerfield Academy in Boston, MA. As the name suggests, this school was de-veloped by King Abdullah II of Jor-dan. Attar decided he might as well experience boarding school while he is young, especially because it is close to home. With only a couple hundred stu-
dents, there was a great sense of community similar to that of SMU. While growing up, schooling had been very traditionally Middle East-ern. However, this high school had American style classes with Middle Eastern standards. Some American aspects of the high school included the SAT and AP (Advanced Place-ment) classes, while traditionally Middle Eastern aspects included classes on religion. During his senior year of high
school, Attar served as an assistant coach of the varsity soccer team. He loves soccer and was great at his job, so much so that the varsity players asked the head coach to quit and for Attar to take over! As would
be expected, the head coach was not interested in making such an agreement. Instead, Attar took over the head coach position for the junior varsity team because the previous coach had quit the job. With 24 students, Attar was faced with a difficult decision and had to cut 10 players. Attar
says he needed to “make a team of elites.” Being a young coach tested Attar, but he was able to overcome seemingly insurmountable obsta-cles and unify his young team. In the end his hard work paid off and he was awarded “Best Athlete and Scholar” at his high school gradu-ation. King Abdullah II personally handed Attar his high school di-ploma while surrounded by snipers to protect the king. He says casually, “I had dinner
with him once, and I text his son from time to time to see how it’s going.” He failed to mention earlier that he
coached the prince of Jordan!
Because Attar was so skilled in soccer playing, his coach wanted him to apply for a scholarship at Harvard, but this idea was stopped in its tracks during an unfortunate couple of hours of just-for-fun soc-cer playing time before an AP test. The uneven ground that had so fre-quently landed helicopters caused Attar to trip and tear his ACL. A soccer scholarship was out of the question. However, he continued looking for schools in the U.S. because Saudi Arabia does not pro-vide the prestige he needs for pro-grams in Civil Engineering. Out of 10 to 15 schools, Attar chose to go to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent three years; however, his sponsors in Saudi Ara-bia who are providing his tuition had difficulties with the administra-tion to the point that he could not register for classes each quarter early enough to get into the classes he needed to “pursue [his] dream career,” so UW listed two universi-ties to which he could transfer, and he chose SMU. “It’s not bad,” he says. “It’s a bet-
ter atmosphere than at UW. There are 55,000 people, so imagine find-ing a decent group of people to have friends.” He likes the atmosphere at SMU
much better than at UW be-cause there is a greater sense of
community, much like at King’s Academy. He laughs, saying, “Everyone
around happens to notice me for my moustache.” According to Attar, there are many
cultural and climatic differences between Jeddah and Washington, in addition to misconceptions. Be-cause his home is in the far west of Saudi Arabia, on the coast of the Red Sea, the terrain is flat, but it is not the desert that many Americans think about when they imagine the Middle East. Attar laughs, talk-ing about how many people in the United States ask him if he rides to school on a camel.
He likes to pull their legs, and re-ply, “No, a horse is much faster!” But in all reality, transportation is
not much different from the U.S. At 122 or more degrees Fahren-heit during the summer, with an average of 95 degrees Fahrenheit year-round, the main difference in transportation is that it is too hot to go walking down the streets. Attar explains, “It’s pretty dry
and hot in the afternoons and there are humid nights on summer days, but our winters are not so wintery. Cooler at night, not humid, but has a night sea breeze.” He smiles, “People enjoy the sea.” Because Attar has travelled so
much in his life, he has not ex-perienced much culture shock in the United States, though he says, “Anyone coming from anywhere else in the United States to Wash-ington would have a culture shock.” Jeddah is a more open-minded,
less traditional area of Saudi Arabia as well, so he grew up accustomed to more varying ways of life, espe-cially after going through a more American version of high school. Apparel in Jeddah varies; it is com-mon for people to wear white thobs, which are a lot like button-up shirts that extend to the floor. However, it is normal for men to wear pants and shirts as well. Women must wear a black cover on their heads, but their
faces do not need to be covered. In Jeddah, these covers are a sort of fashion, with varying designs and colors. As far as religion goes, Attar relays
that it is not a big conflict as Ameri-cans tend to think it is. The main religions at King’s Academy were Christianity and Islam, but there is no more animosity between the two than there might be anywhere in the U.S. In answering to stereotypes about
religious conflict, he says, “That’s what I try to change. I try to give them a better perspective of what Saudi Arabia is.” He also described that the people
of Saudi Arabia tend not to revolt. They let the government handle things and are really not the extrem-ists some Americans imagine.Another cultural aspect of Saudi
Arabia that is much different from the United States is dating. The traditional way is a man telling his parents that he would like to be married. They take it into consid-eration, and ask close friends about any single women that they know would make a good fit. However, the untraditional way is more se-cretive. Couples that wish to date one another must find times to get to know each other in private and around close, trusted friends. When they make the decision to get mar-ried, they tell their parents, at which point they date publically at family gatherings to show that they are committed to each other. The wed-ding then follows.After graduating from SMU, Attar
hopes to either work for a while in order to get experience in Civil En-gineering before pursuing his mas-ter’s degree, or he will continue into his master’s degree immediately, so that he can return to Saudi Arabia sooner to work for the employers that are providing his tuition. In the meantime, Attar is enjoying his time abroad and awaits many new exciting experiences.
Dinner With the King, Pursuing a Dream
Rebecca DorseyStaff Writer
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The State Theater in Downtown Olympia hosted yet another won-derful production directed by David Hlavsa. Vaclav Havel’s original production “The Memorandum,” re-enacted by SMU’s Theatre De-partment, was a comedy revolving around a very serious issue: com-munication.The office is running a conspiracy
against the managing director Mr. Gross, played by Joshua Benefield, with a push to leave natural lan-guage behind. Instead of using the language learned from home, the office would communicate in a new synthetic language, Ptydepe. As Deputy Director Ballas, played by Emilie Schnabel, runs Gross out of his position, Gross struggles to ac-cept Ptydepe. While Gross struggles to maintain
a job because of his failure to learn Ptydepe (and because of Ballas’s conspiring to oust him), the office faces troubles of its own. Stroll, Head of the Translating Center who is played by Ryan Miller, along with Savant, a Licensed Ptydepist who is played by Jalen Penn, and Helena, the Chairperson played by Olivia Baumgartner, create a mischievous environment. Ballas falls into the trenches of these three, realizing that Ptydepe does not work. Espe-cially when she is trying to read paperwork she can’t understand!Meanwhile, those more serious
about Ptydepe take classes from Lear, played by Alyssa Melder. Lear is an interactive professor that engages the audience while trying to teach Ptydepe as fast as she can talk. Ironically, the only student
following diligently is Patricia Thumb, played by Grace Caruso, the A+ star of the class.As the office mayhem exacer-
bates, Gross jumps from being fired to working as security specialist, and finally back to his original job. And this is all occurring because of the consuming mess that Ballas, along with her silent assistant Pillar, played by Lauren Hendrickson, cre-ated with Ptydepe. In a moment of desperation, Gross
discovers that office assistant Maria, played by Nicole Fernandez, can translate his Ptydepe memorandum, the cause of his career’s problems. With Georgia, a Security Specialist (played by Mandy Baker, listening in on Maria’s translation, the safety of Maria’s job is now questionable.Pillar is spending a lot of time with
the mischievous trio Stroll, Savant, and Helena. As time progresses in the office, Ballas realizes Pillar has been manipulating the office all along, and shortly after being dis-covered Pillar shoots himself. Col-umn (also played by Hendrickson) then takes Pillar’s place. With the death of Ptydepe, Choru-
kor is born. Unlike Ptydepe, which focused on no word in the language sounding the same, Chorukor fo-cuses on all words being based on similarity. The office had a new synthetic language yet again. And as mentioned before, not only did Maria receive the wrath of the of-fice but was escorted, with knives and forks in their hands, by her co-workers as they prepared to ‘eat her alive’ for her misbehavior.
The room bustled with the musi-cians walking around singing songs of hope, love and positivity - or of praise. The concert focused on the light of hope and helping others, showcasing the talents of student musicians led by Darrell Born, Brad Schrandt, and Phil Lawson. A combined effort of SMU’s Music Department, Campus Ministry, and Service Immersion Programs, this annual concert is a way for Campus Ministry to raise funds by accepting dona-tions and selling coffee to bolster future service trips. Susan Leyster and junior
Shalaya Sanders spoke about the Yakima Service Trip they took this year. The concert gave them the opportunity to spread the word of the work that is done by the service trips which involved large num-bers of student volunteers. The concert lasted two
hours and showed off the talents of the SMU Cho-rale, the SMU Jazz Band, as well as the SMU Pep Band, and a guitar ensemble, not to mention the many solos from different students. Among the unique perfor-mances by student soloists were Sierra Steinbrecher singing “How I Am” from “Little Women,” Grace Ca-ruso singing “You are the
Moon” by Hush Sound, and Jesse Lamp’s rendition of “Shema Israel” (translated title: When the Heart Cries Out) by Sarit Hadad. Other soloists included Sophia Donan, Susannah Faherty, Paul Duncan, Micah Corey, Bailey Cammann, Rachel McCoy, David Ward, Valer-ie Smith, Amy Anderson, Brandon Drye, and Haani Metra. The concert gave a sense of hope
for many of those who came to view the performance.
With fourteen Arab students cur-rently enrolled and numbers ex-pected to increase, the Arab popula-tion is growing at Saint Martin’s. As the Arab population becomes more prevalent on campus, the need for greater awareness of Arab culture also becomes more prevalent. With this need for cultural awareness in mind, the Arab Student Association was established this spring.Founded in April by Hashim
Attar, Mshaal Alfedain and Amr Althagafy, the Arab Student As-sociation (ASA) seeks to introduce the Saint Martin’s community to Arab culture and to provide a sup-port network for Arab students. The ASA also seeks to educate the Saint Martin’s community about Arab culture. “There is an emphasis of no poli-
tics,” says Attar, ASA president. The cultural component of the club
will focus on exploring how people live in the Middle East and breaking down stereotypes. The ASA hopes to build a support network for Arab students. “We want to help the freshmen
settle in and overcome barriers,” explains Alfedain, the club’s vice
president. Possible events envisioned by the
club officers include keynote speak-ers, potlucks and movie nights. Dur-ing his studies at the University of Washington, Attar helped to start a similar club which hosted a variety of cultural events on campus. Attar will use his experiences at UW to strengthen his efforts at Saint Mar-tin’s. “I believe the ASA will provide
a great opportunity to support our growing Arab community on cam-pus, as well as helping us to learn more about Middle Eastern cul-ture,” says David Martin, faculty advisor for ASA and Host Family and Volunteer Service Coordinator in the Office of International Pro-grams and Development (OIPD). “The ASA brings a fresh broaden-ing of diversity to our campus from a historically and culturally rich part of the world that many of us are unfamiliar with.”This semester, the Arab Student
Association plans to form its iden-tity as a club, so it can start strong next year with meetings and events. “Everyone is welcome, not just
Arabs,” says Attar. For more information, email
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The Memorandum: In case you missed it
Showcasing talent and supporting service
Celebrating Culture – Arab Student Association
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Tara Rene Jones is a recent cancer survivor who understands the true emotional and physical struggle of the fight against cancer and how it affects one’s personal life. Wak-ing up each morning wondering whether or not you are going to live or die changes you. Jones knows. She has been there, and she wants to share that insight with the world, and make a difference in the lives of those who are fighting the battle she was able to win. She won her life. She won her second chance. Now she is more inspired than ever to do something with it, something that will impact people in a meaning-ful, life-saving way, so she created a new cancer support organization, Second Chance Warriors. As someone who has experienced
all the turmoil that accompanies cancer, Jones has come to the re-alization that the way people most often support the cancer cause is by donating money. Certainly, this is good for those who are suffering, but only in that it brings money in to the scientists who are looking for a cure. Despite the fact that donat-ing money is helpful, during her own treatment, Jones never person-ally felt any kind of support from it. This money did not impact her, and the cure was not found before she was declared cancer-free. Through-out this time filled with emotional rollercoasters, doubt, loneliness, and wondering whether or not she would make it out of this, the one thing she needed the most was ab-sent. This was community support. Because no one knew her struggle, no one cared. Now that Jones has been declared
a survivor, she wants to give to her fellow warriors the community sup-port she never had. Second Chance Warriors focuses on providing people struggling not only with cancer, but other death sentenc-ing diseases, with the support that they really need. She is doing this
by connecting people who share common ailments, and creating the community she never had herself. In addition to this, Jones wants vol-
unteers to reach out to her in order to find out how they can help. When this happens, she assigns those vol-unteers to those she calls “second chance warriors,” the people fight-ing their personal battles, and gives them random acts of kindness to carry out. For example, she might say, “Okay, Hannah gets out of chemo at 4 o’clock Tues-day, and she needs s o m e -one to
w a t c h her kids so that she can sleep and recover,” or, “Elena has had a re-ally long week and is losing hope and strength. Leave a bouquet of roses at her doorstep, with a note from someone who cares.” It is the little things that matter,
Jones describes, and it is the little things that people forget about. People who have not been there do not really know how much one act of kindness can do to boost the spirit of someone who is fighting for his or her life. So, what is Jones’ personal story?
How can we help her change the community, the city, the district, the country, and the world? This is
what she has to say:“Hello my name is Tara. I am a
second chance warrior. As a little girl I always believed I was put in this planet for a purpose. It felt like constant déjà vu, the universe’s way of putting me in situations or places for a bigger purpose. Sometimes you don’t always see life’s way of sewing together all the little mo-ments experienced until they all come together, and you step back
and view the masterpiece. They say true suc-
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phoma, I was told at my job that
my position was no longer needed. My new optimism I had from my … fight with cancer was now put out with unemployment. I have experienced my share of life-changing moments. I look back understanding that those triumphs in my life were prepar-ing me for something bigger. It was life’s struggles that gave me the strength to [conquer] the big-gest battle in my life, cancer. I think it took unemployment for me to stop and come up with the concept of second chance warriors. While sitting in treatment, I would
sit with other fighters of various cancers. It was at that moment I realized we were all warriors - not defined by ribbons represent-ing our battle. We were united as one, with one common fight to beat this death sentence we were given, to come out as the victor. So I ask you, what would you do differently if you were given a second chance at life? What would you do differently? What would be your new purpose? Someone wise once told me that this life you live is a choice! And I choose to inspire, make a differ-ence, and live this life enjoying each day life gives me as a gift! I welcome all who are in the fight, new to the fight, or have conquered the fight. I welcome all who are the voice of warriors passed. You have a voice with second chance warriors, you have a support group, and you will be given the inspiration to beat this. We are not defined by cancer, we are warriors with a purpose! I invite you to [join] as one, as second chance warriors!”How can you help support her?
The first step is spreading the word. “I can’t help people if they don’t
come to me,” explains Jones. Without that first step, the rest
cannot ensue. Go on Facebook to https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cancer-Second-Chance-W arriors/235434663266908?fref=ts or just type in Second Chance Warriors into the Facebook search engine. Her website, currently un-der construction, is listed on that page, in addition to other ways of getting connected, such as Twitter. Jones lists events, such as spon-sored events like Cure the Kids, which supports what she is work-ing towards. Find her on Facebook, share it, like it, and spread the word because that is how people will get connected with each other in a way that will create a loving community of second chance warriors, all fight-ing for one thing: A second chance at life.
Second Chance Warriors
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All it took was for me to give up an hour of my time for me to attend a career fair last fall and immedi-ately become interested in a future internship. During my Uni-101 class in the
fall, my teacher, Ann Adams, sug-gested that I go to it, but not having any clue about what my purpose was for attending this career fair, I sat and ate lunch with two district managers from Tumwater and Lac-ey Costco. There, the two managers informed me of a great opportunity they offered in the summer that was available for freshman and sopho-mores only. They told me all about the job description and how I would get the chance to work with each department in Costco while getting paid. As interested as I was, I was curious about where this internship was offered. Because I am from Federal Way, I was crossing my fin-gers, hoping the Costco from that area had the same internship. Determined to find out, over
Christmas break I went to the Fed-eral Way Costco and met with the manager who was ecstatic that I came to him with questions about the internship. He told me that not a lot of people were interested last year, and the program wasn’t too successful with the students they had from UW-Tacoma. After talking to him, he told me
the next steps I had to take to get an
interview were to write a resume, a one-page essay about why I was interested, and to send him a copy of my grades. I was able to do those three things in the same week, and he told me he would get back to me in a couple months when it got closer to summer. Just when I thought the Federal
Way Costco manager forgot about me, I got a call from him wondering when I could come in for an inter-view. A couple weeks later, I went in for a three-person interview, and I was granted this internship when I was done. I was so ecstatic with this oppor-
tunity that I went straight to Ann Adams to tell her all about it. Hav-ing this internship is giving me a full-time paid job over the summer. As if that wasn’t great enough, I will be working 40 hours a week for 12 weeks, making $11.30 an hour! When I’m finished with the intern-ship this summer, I will be com-ing back to Saint Martin’s for my sophomore year, but Costco will hold my spot for the next summer. Working in this internship saves
me a spot at Costco if I want to return to work there later down the road. They also told me that every time I return to work for Costco, I will be receiving a raise and a pro-motion. I just can’t believe that I found this
great opportunity just by attend-ing a career fair. I look forward to this summer and to being a future Costco employee.
John Hopkins, along with the Office of Intercultural Initiatives, has been pioneering for the fur-ther implementation of academic service learning at Saint Martin’s University. Being involved in com-munity events to further students’ understanding of their class is one thing, but academic service learning delves even deeper into knowledge. Instead of learning from a textbook, students learn directly from experi-ence outside the classroom that is directly relevant to their discipline. Experience is the best teacher; a medical student following the ropes of a nurse in an emergency ward is far more beneficial than reading a textbook’s definition of what it is a nurse does. Service is a huge,
over-arching concept at Saint Mar-tin’s University. For a student to not only serve in the community, but to become more experienced in their discipline, is truly a priceless opportunity. Of course academic service learning does not need to be limited to the community. Hopkins led an ASL course in Yakima, WA, working from sun-up to sundown to learn firsthand the social issues pertinent to migrants in eastern Washington. While ASL is not a new idea to the leaders of Saint Martin’s University, Hopkins hopes to add many more academic service learning courses in multiple disci-plines at the school. The school’s mission statement promotes faith, service, community, and reason; from service rise faith, community and reason. What can you do today?
A Career at CostcoAbby McFaulGuest Writer
Exploring academic service learning
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