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The first business to claim space in Cardinal View, the mini-mall on Pierce Road, is JR’s All-Star Haircuts for Men, which plans to open by March 1.

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Art and history senior Emily Sovey works in traditional mediums such as painting and printmaking as well as the more innovative medium of recycled clothing.

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The men’s basketball team dropped two games, to Lake Superior State and Wayne State, this weekend.

Class is not the only thing begin-ning on campus this week. Students will also receive application materials for on-campus housing for the 2013-14 academic year.

Dawn Iseler, director of auxiliary op-erations, said the housing sign-up process will remain the same as the past two years. Housing information will be distributed on the first day of classes, and students have four weeks to submit materials and obtain a lottery number.

All second-year students who apply by Friday, Feb. 15, will be guaranteed a space. A separate lottery will take place for third and fourth-year students.

Fifth-year and off-campus students will be eligible to apply on Monday, Feb. 18.

Iseler said the housing application process has morphed during the last five years and no longer allows “squatting” or remaining in a room previously held.

“This is the third year of the process that gives second-year students an op-portunity to stay on campus,” Iseler said. “The process has allowed a critical mass of second-year students to live on campus who might have otherwise been pinched out.”

Iseler assured that in the past two years, all students who have gone through the application process have received bed space.

“Fifth-year students can still petition

For Gwin Simpson, what started as a child-hood interest with her father has now become the path for her college education and career.

Simpson is a social work junior and has re-cently started a volunteer program for Hospice of Michigan patients.

She coordinated the making of tie blankets for terminally ill patients and then distributed them throughout the Mid-Michigan area.

“I wanted to do something out of the box,” Simpson said. “I talked to the volunteer coordina-tor at the hospice and we started advertising. The project exceeded my expectations.”

Simpson started getting involved in volun-teer work in the sixth grade.

She was a 4-H member at the time, and her group encouraged its members to do some form of volunteer work.

“My dad worked at a nursing home then,” Simpson explained. “I went with him to see what he did.”

That experience started an ongoing mission to help those in need.

Simpson has been involved in volunteer work ever since, whether at a nursing home, hos-pice or her 4-H group.

And her work has not gone unappreciated ei-ther.

She recently received a letter that the hospice program emailed to her from one of the patients she helped, thanking her for what she was doing.

“With hospice patients, they have six months or less to live,” Simpson said. “That this person took the time to write me meant so much.”

Theater students took the stage and stole the spotlight at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Re-gion III with four finalists and three national qualifiers.

SVSU hosted the 2012

KCACTF with more than 1,200 theater students from Illinois, In-diana, Michigan, Ohio and Wis-consin attending.

Attendees came to compete for scholarships, attend work-shops, network with peers and professionals and watch produc-tions.

Cameron Thorp was select-

ed as a national finalist for props. Mara Berton was selected

as a national finalist for a third consecutive year for stage man-agement.

While some of students’ knowledge about these areas came from select classes within the department, much of their knowledge comes from experi-

ence from outside the classroom and working on productions.

The festival marked several firsts for the department and SVSU.

“This is the first time any-one has submitted a prop to KCACTF,” said professional and technical writing senior Katrina Robinson. “And it is so great that

he took home the award.”Also a first for the festival,

an SVSU student received one of the two regional Irene Ryan Awards for acting.

Senior Rusty Myers was selected for the award with help

Following a semester of turnover in the Student Life of-fice, the search for a new leader is under way.

“I want someone to really be everything to everybody,” said Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Merry Jo Brandimore. “This person will be identified as one of those individuals with a broad understanding and con-sultation role for all of the de-partments we have under the Student Affairs umbrella.”

Interviews for the Associ-ate Dean for Student Life and Leadership Programs position are slated to take place this week. Four candidates will vie for the helm of Student Life, ac-cording to Brandimore, includ-ing three from outside SVSU and one who is “familiar with the university.”

The interviews will be com-pleted by Friday, Jan. 18, and Brandimore expects a decision to be made by the end of Febru-ary at the earliest.

Student Life has been in a period of continuous change since former Student Life Direc-tor Kim Brandimore resigned last April. The office was then restructured, with Tony Thom-son being appointed Assistant Dean of Student Life and Lead-ership Programs, overseeing three associate directors with specific focuses: Eltaro Hooper (Greek life, commuter pro-grams, consumer corner, graph-ic imaging), Katrina Friedeberg (leadership, service projects, volunteer work) and Jason Schoenmeyer (Program Board, Valley Nights, campus posting).

Thomson then resigned in October, indicating a desire to pursue other opportunities.

The person hired to replace Thomson will be the senior Student Affairs staff member responsible for the administra-tion of programs and services of Student Life, working closely under Brandimore.

The position holds a host of responsibilities, including the management of fiscal re-sources and the promotion of university retention efforts. Brandimore said she has con-sidered the question of whether the position’s responsibilities have played a role in the recent turnover, but feels the job is do-able with the right candidate in place.

“It is a challenging role. We know that students’ expecta-tions for having a rich and dy-namic campus life are always going to increase, and that’s a good thing,” she said. “I think it’s a manageable role for a pro-fessional who has perfected or come close to perfecting the art of juggling their time and ef-forts.”

Brandimore said that can-didates will be evaluated based on how they interact with stu-dents.

“The Student Life Cen-ter staff, including the student staff, need to have a captain at the helm that has tremendously honed leadership skills,” Bran-dimore said. “It’s important to

Vanguard photo | Sean DudleyCollege theater students fill Groening Commons between events during the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region III last week.

Simpson makes childhood interest reality through volunteer project

Feb. housing deadline to guarantee space

Interviews for Student Life Associate Dean position under way

Acting on a scholarship

By Tyler Bradley Vanguard A&E Editor

By Lauren WietchyVanguard Staff Writer

By Justin BrouckaertVanguard Editor-in-Chief

See STUDENT LIFE, A2

See HOUSING, A2

See SIMPSON, A2

See FESTIVAL, A6

Theater students selected to go to nationals after regional festival competition

By Rachael Blaylock Vanguard Staff Writer

Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisApplications for 2013-2014 housing will be due in mid-February.

Courtesy | Catherine Nickell-Simpson From left: Gwin Simpson provides blankets to Debra Chesney, Hospice of Michigan Saginaw volunteer services manager, while SVSU volunteer Samantha Hutchison helps with distribution.

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Police briefs are written according to reports from University Police. These indicate preliminary descriptions of events and not necessarily actual incident

Harrassment• On Thursday, Dec. 6, a 19-year-old

female student reported that her ex-boyfriend, whom she had broken up with in May, showed up at her apart-ment and threw wood chips at her window. Officers made contact with him and told him to stop.

Larceny• At 9:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, a 19-year-

old male student reported that someone stole his cell phone from the fitness center.

Minor in Possession• At 2:13 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, officers

received a call to University Village from residential life, who heard loud noises. Officers found open containers of alcohol, and one female student was written a ticket.

Assault• At 2:15 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, an 18-year-

old female student reported that she was in the lobby talking to one of her friends when another male subject came up from behind her, grabbed her and carried her down the hallway.

Assault and Battery• At 1:33 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, a 21-year-

old male student reported that he witnessed an elderly male yelling and pointing at a student in E-lot. It was later determined that the male was an adjunct faculty member who was upset at the student’s driving. The case is being handled internally.

Soliciting Textbooks• At 12:05 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, a faculty

member reported that while she was in her office, two subjects approached her and asked her if they could buy textbooks off her shelf. The professor felt it was unethical to sell the books and wanted police to be aware it was happening.

Vehicle impound• At 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, officers

impounded a vehicle in University Vil-lage for having several unpaid parking tickets.

• At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, a vehicle parked in University Village was impounded for seven open parking tickets.

Suspicious Situation• At 10:54 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, an

18-year-old female student reported that her roommate had been stealing her clothes throughout the semester. She found some of her clothes with the other girl’s belongings when she moved out, and wanted police to be aware of it. Police will follow up on the situation.

Hit and Run• On Tuesday, Dec. 11, a 19-year-old female

student reported that while she was parked in E-lot from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., someone scraped the back bumper of her car, causing minor damage.

Property damage accident• At 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, an

18-year-old male came out to his car and located a note left on his wind-shield indicating that another car had struck his. There were slight scratches and minor damage on the rear pas-senger door. The student made contact with the student and exchanged information.

Car/deer accident• At 10:10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, a

22-year-old male student reported that while driving on Davis Road., a deer came out and struck his driver-side front window.

Marijuana• At 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, officers were

called over to the Ryder Center because a coach had found a bag of marijuana in a couch near the fitness center.

for bed space and have always re-ceived a bed, as long as they applied in a timely manner,” she said.

The Pine Grove affinity housing promotion will be emailed to all stu-dents in the next week by Michele Gunkelman, director of residential life.

Iseler encouraged students to submit their application materials by the Feb. 15 deadline.

“This is the prime time to get a bed space, as you are only com-peting with other residents,” Iseler said. “After the reapplication pro-cess concludes, you are competing with anyone who walks through the door.”

Iseler also stressed the impor-tance of understanding and adher-ing to the housing contract.

“Just like any lease agreement off campus, once you sign you are committed to filling all contract terms,” she said.

Fine arts senior Eileen Gembo-rys is about to enter her fifth year at SVSU and feels the housing lottery process is beneficial.

“Although, as a fifth year,

I would like the opportunity to squat, I know the lottery is the fair-est way to go about it,” Gemborys said. “I have been here long enough to know how the process works, and now I have to decide whether I would like move off campus or still apply.”

Current residents will be in-formed of their housing assign-ments during finals week, while in-coming freshmen will receive their assignments in July.

The housing rate for the 2013-14 academic year increased by an average of 2.72 percent. The fresh-man room and board rate with the unlimited meal plan had the low-est percentage increase at 2.63 per-cent. The two-person, two bedroom apartment rate had the highest per-centage increase at 2.92 percent.

Ronald Portwine, associate vice president for administration and business affairs, said the average 2.72 percent change is the lowest percentage increase since the 2009-10 academic year.

“The rate increase helps to off-set increased operational costs for utilities and maintenance,” Por-twine said. “It also allows us to plan for and position ourselves to be able to fund the larger deferred mainte-nance needs in the future.”

Portwine said the rates were set by the Board of Control in fall 2011 when housing rates were es-tablished for both the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years.

“In general, our goal is to provide quality, well-maintained housing to as many students as possible,” Por-twine said. “Our challenge is to meet the on-campus residency needs of our incoming freshmen, transfers and in-ternational students while at the same time trying to accommodate our cur-rent residents that wish to remain on campus.”

The on-campus housing stated capacity is 2,722 beds, although the past two fall semesters SVSU has housed 2,734 and 2,736 students, re-spectively.

“This is the creativity of Hous-ing and Residential Life working together to assist our students by modifying living arrangements slightly to accommodate a few more people,” Portwine said.

An informational session will take place at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Residence Housing Asso-ciation (RHA) meeting in the Stu-dent Life Center. Iseler said the ses-sion will be informative especially for students who have never signed up for housing.

In addition to the hospice work, Simpson has been involved in a Mili-tary Canine service project through her 4-H group and the Michigan Search and Rescue effort.

Simpson is also involved on campus

as a residential assistant for freshman housing.

Although not involved with much volunteer efforts on-campus, she contin-ues to help out where she lives.

She is a 4-H instructor in her lo-cal area and continues to volunteer in nursing homes near her home.

Her goal is to focus on the elderly.This is a population that she believes

is often overlooked and she wants to

change that.“I have so many good memories

from my work,” Simpson said. “Volunteer-ing led to my career and gives me hands on experience with those I want to help.”

Whether it’s making a tie blanket or teaching a 4-H class, Simpson is ded-icated to helping others of all ages and bringing relief where there is sadness.

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me that this person connects well to students, that they have an open door, that students can get to know them and appreciate them and feel a sense of spirit from them about doing their work.”

Each candidate will be at SVSU from 8:30 a.m. to around 3:30 p.m. for the interview process, which will include interaction with Brandimore, staff from Student Affairs and Student Life and representatives from offices the Student Life Cen-ter frequently works with, including Dining Ser-vices, Athletics and Enrollment Management.

All of the student groups that spring forth from the Student Life Center, including Valley Nights, Alternative Breaks, Program Board and Greek life, will have representation at the inter-views, in addition to the Residential Housing As-sociation and Student Association.

Student Association President Ted Goodman said he would like to see a candidate with “good character and the ability to relate with the SVSU

student population.”RHA President Bethany Thrun said that hav-

ing student voices in the evaluation process is es-sential.

“By extending the invitation to involve stu-dent leaders in the process of hiring, Student Life shows a priority and importance in the voice of the students,” she said. “It shows that SVSU values a close knit community, with students and faculty working together.”

Both former Student Life Director Kim Bran-dimore and former Associate Dean of Student Life and Leadership Programs Tony Thomson had ties with SVSU: Brandimore received her bachelor’s degree at the university, while Thomson previ-ously served as director of the Student Counseling Center.

Brandimore said that while she believes strongly in hiring from within, she also sees the benefits of hiring someone with experience out-

side the SVSU community.“I feel as though Saginaw Valley does produce

legitimate professionals, but there is some benefit to having someone who has had different expo-sures,” she said. “Sometimes we need to mix it up and bring someone in that’s had a different per-spective because I think that may challenge us … to consider other ways of doing business.”

Regardless, Brandimore said the final decision would not be based whether a candidate comes from within.

“I don’t think that we would be making the decision based on their familiarity of SVSU as much as it would be our attempt to figure out if they could bring something new in but adapt to our strong sense of how much we love this place,” she said. “They need to develop Red Pride pretty darn quickly…and it can happen from someone who doesn’t necessarily earn their degree from here.”

Student Association• At 10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, Student

Association will be having a business

meeting in the Curtiss Hall Alumni Lounge.

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration• From 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16,

award-winning journalist and National Public Radio host Michele Norris will be speaking as part of the 4th Annual Great Lakes Bay Regional Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. The event will be held in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required; for reservations, contact the SVSU Box Office at 989-964-4261.

PTW Welcome Meeting• From 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16,

the Association of Professional and Technical Writers will be holding an open meeting for everyone interested in professional and technical writing. All majors and minors are welcome to find out more about the organization. The meeting will be held in the PTW faculty suite, outside of Zahnow 219.

Living Proud Weekly Meeting• From 8-10 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16,

Living Proud will be holding its first weekly meeting of the semester. The meeting will be held in Science East 204 and Science East 205.

Alternative Breaks• From 10:15-11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan.

16, there will be an Alternative Breaks Info Night in the Student Life Center Program Room. Stop by to learn more about the organization and how to get involved.

Blood Drive• From 12-5 p.m. on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16,

Student Life will be holding a blood drive in the Curtiss Hall Alumni Lounge.

Resume Workshop• From 12-2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, Career

Services will be holding a Resume Work-shop for current students and alumni in Wickes 270. Registration is required; call the Career Services office or visit the Cardinal Career Network to register.

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Vanguard Photo | Alyssa EllisStudents move back into Living Center North to begin the winter semester.


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Club promotes Japanese culture

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Students could be only months away from having a bar, hot dog restaurant and hair salon within walking distance from cam-pus.

The first business in Cardinal View, the mini-mall structure on Pierce Road, will be JR’s All-Star Haircuts for Men, which plans to open no later than March 1.

Investor John Leuenberger confirmed that JR’s, which has locations in Bay City and Shields, is the only business to sign a lease for space in the new building. However, Leuenberger said he is “99 percent sure” that two other businesses will follow suit.

“There’s a lot of interest, but right now we’ve got just one signed lease,” he said. “The other two haven’t signed yet, but I would expect in the next couple of weeks we’d have signed leases.”

One of the businesses expected to sign is an “East coast-style bar” and restaurant. The other, which Leuenberger said is equally

as close to signing, is a restaurant that will feature 50 to 75 differ-ent types of hot dogs.

“You can come in and get just about anything you want on a hot dog,” Leuneberger said.

Construction on the mini-mall began this summer after three years of negotiation between SVSU, Kochville Township and a group of investors. As a part of the Kochville Downtown Devel-opment Authority’s “10 Smart Growth Initiatives,” the project aims to connect both SVSU and the Kochville Township commu-nity.

“The vision for the future is that students would eventually be able to walk across Pierce Road into a district that would take them all the way to Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart,” said Kevin Schul-tz, SVSU director of alumni relations and former chairman of the Kochville Township Development Authority.

Current plans for construction include not only the first building, estimated to be 15,000 square feet, but also a second, 23,000-square foot building to be built when the first space is filled.

In August, Kochville Township Downtown Development Authority Director Steve King confirmed that high demand had

resulted in the first building being full, but later said he had been mistaken. He believes the Cardinal View Shopping Center’s dis-tance from Kochville Township’s main business district may be part of the reason tenants have been slow to sign leases.

“The issue that I think they’re running into is that that’s the first development across the street from SVSU, unless you count 7-Eleven or the Cardinal Deli,” he said. “It’s a little bit out of the way from Tittabawassee Road and even from Bay Road, and be-cause of that you’ve got to go an extra step in selling the property to potential tenants.”

Leuenberger attributed the issue to the economy and the costs of opening a new business.

“There’s a lot of interest, but it costs a fair amount of money for people to open up a business any time, any place,” he said. “Hopefully (the issue) takes care of itself.”

Both King and Leuenberger agreed that while tenants have been slow to sign, there has been no shortage of interest in the property.

“I’ve gotten phone calls about the property every month for about the last year,” King said. “The building is really going to be quite nice, and it’s a great location across from SVSU.”

Students with a special interest in Japan, its culture or films have a chance to learn something new.

The Japanese Culture Club (JJC) started in fall 2011 and has 10 regular members.

“Our goal is to introduce the concepts, ideas and ways of thinking from Japanese culture to students of all levels,” said Madison Smith, JJC president. “We touch on a variety of subjects, from weddings to robots, an-ime to shrines, so you’re guaranteed to learn something new and exciting every meeting.”

For students unfamiliar with Japanese Culture, the JCC can offer context.

Professional & technical writing se-nior Rachel Nadrows-ki, a current member of the JJC, said that she first became inter-ested in the club after interviewing them for her journalism class in fall 2011.

“I was, and still am, very interested in Japan (anime, dramas, the language, culture, and country), so I thought it was per-fect that I had found a group to interview that I would actually be interested in,” she said.

She said that she stayed on af-ter the assignment was completed, because despite the relatively small number of members, everyone shared enthusiasm for Japan and was sup-portive of each other’s interests.

According to Nadrowski, there are numerous forms of media that come out of Japan that anyone can watch and listen to on their own, but this club can offer insight into the his-torical and cultural background of Japan.

During one meeting, the topic was “School in Japan.” The first part of the meeting included a presenta-tion covering the strict dress code, common practices and the amount of pressure on students to do well in school. After the presentation, a few episodes of different anime shows

were shown, each showcasing differ-ent aspects of Japanese school life.

Meetings usually revolve around a student presenter discussing a spe-cific topic, according to Smith. Either a related activity or media viewing fol-lows the presentation. For example, if a student does a presentation on Japa-nese food, then that student might bring in a Japanese snack, and the group would watch a video on Japa-nese cooking.

Smith said that they have a lot of fun at meetings, and students are en-couraged to ask questions and discuss topics. Smith called their meetings “free and open.”

“For students who are looking for a new club to join, the JCC is an alternative for those who are gung-ho about some aspect of Japan, are interested in learning something new

about Japan, want a place to come together with fel-low Otakus, or are merely interested in a group that’s accepting of: nerds, geeks, gamers, art-ists, writers of fan-fiction, fangirls, fanboys, listeners of J-Music, watchers of J-Drama or cine-ma or just the aver-age Joe and Janes,” Nadrowski said.

A c c o r d i n g to Smith, the club hopes to host new

events, like a Japanese Film Festival on campus.

Last semester, the JJC visited the Japanese Culture Center in Saginaw to attend the Japanese Culture Fes-tival. Members had the opportunity to sit in on a traditional tea ceremony, have their name written in Japanese, watch a Kendo demonstration as well as watch and listen to a traditional Japanese percussion performance.

“If you’re interested in Japanese culture even slightly, you will definite-ly fit in and have a place to belong,” Smith said. “We always, always have fun and we’re a super friendly bunch, so you’re bound to make new friends with similar interests.”

The JJC’s first meeting is at 8p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in Science East, room 106. For questions, contact Mad-ison Smith at [email protected].

After a successful 2012 fall semester, the SVSU Program Board looks to expand its horizons by exploring new event options for students in 2013.

Program Board is known for co-organizing larger events, such as Street Fest and Relay for Life, but the group is now looking for more ways to host entertainment at SVSU.

Program Board President Tony Cianciolo said that next semester would feature new events that will be both familiar and new for students.

“Coffee House, of course, will be something we’ll contin-ue to do, as it’s a Program Board classic,” Cianciolo said. “And we’ll be sponsoring some activities at Relay for Life, for sure.”

According to Cianciolo, word of mouth has allowed the Coffee House events to produce a consistent amount of play-ers and attendees. Psychology senior Will Wood is in charge of finding acts to play, as well as promoting the series.

As an extension to this event, Cianciolo has plans for an inti-mate event of his own.

“(Biology sophomore) Molly Starr and I are working to-gether to start a bi-weekly event similar to Coffee House. In-

stead of music and coffee, however, it will be a small knitting circle. The event will be called Knitting at 9,” he said.

Besides those two activities, there has also been reported discussion related to having weekly lectures and films in the Student Life programming room, however, films and speakers have not yet been confirmed. Creative writing junior Aaron Zaremski is the head of this committee.

According to Cianciolo, the fun won’t stop at just small-scale events.

“There has been some brainstorming for a large-scale pic-nic event in the spring and there has also been some talk of having a large scale concert, but we’re still in the early stages of that,” he said.

In previous years, bands and artists such as Ludacris, Dashboard Confessional and Plain White T’s have performed at SVSU.

When looking at what Program Board has immediately slated for the beginning of the semester, Cianciolo says that they have a few tricks up their sleeves to welcome back the student body properly. He suggests that students keep an eye out for a visiting comedian in the coming months.

Comedians such as Jeff Dye and Sam Comroe also have previously performed at SVSU.

Mini-mall aims to give students more optionsBy Justin BrouckaertVanguard Editor-In-Chief

The Great Lakes Bay Region YWCA recently announced the winners of the 2013 Women of Achievement Awards.

2013 will mark the second annual YWCA Women of Achievement Award Dinner and Ceremony. Winners will be honored at a reception at Horizons Conference Center on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

According to the YWCA Great Likes Bay Region, the YWCA Lifetime Achievement Awards seek to honor those who have demonstrated a consistent lifetime of commitment to the well-being of their community, are pioneers in women’s leadership, continue to practice or promote women’s leader-ship in their personal, professional or volunteer careers and have demonstrated their support of the YWCA mission.

Winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards include Dorothy McKandes, community volunteer, Kimberly Prime from Prime Educational Counseling and Mamie Thorns from Saginaw Valley State University.

Other award categories included education, health care, entrepreneurship, business and community leader. Melissa Barnard from Grace A. Memorial Library, Barbara Engelhardt from Farm Bureau Insurance-Engelhardt Agency, Linda Mc-Gee from Wilfire Credit Union, Cheryl Burzynski from Bay Special Care Hospital, Alicia Flynn from Swan Valley Middle School and Jenee Velasquez from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation also won awards this year.

After receiving nominations for women throughout the region, the YWCA assembles a selection committee of commu-nity members to review the nomination forms. The selection committee consisted of 10 people this year.

According to YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region Executive

Director Lisa Grills, close to 30 nominations. The selection committee reads the nominations and scores

the candidates based on significant contributions, accomplish-ments, recognized leadership and service as a role model. The committee tabulates the scores and chooses the winners based on those results.

“When we receive nominations, there are always a few women who have noteworthy accomplishments that have spanned a long period of time and have created signifi-cant impact in the community,” Grills said. “When women have dedicated much of their lifetime to lead and succeed in the region — they are perfect candidates for the lifetime achievement awards.”

Director of Branding & Marketing Support, Jan Poppe, on behalf of the SVSU Public Affairs Council, nominated Thorns for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Thorns, special assistant to the President for Diversity Programs, is responsible for providing leadership and coor-dination for SVSU’s programs related to diversity, equal op-portunity and affirmative action. She serves as the primary advisor to the president and the campus community on mat-ters related to maintaining and enhancing a diverse campus environment.

Thorns came to SVSU in 2003, after holding a similar posi-tion at Central Michigan University. Thorns invites students, faculty and staff to stop by her office to speak with her or borrow some of the resources she has in regards to diversity. Thorns has also served as a Great Lakes Bay Region regional ambassador in 2009.

“Personally, an empowered women mentors those around her, leads by example and supports her colleagues and friends,” Grills said. “She is independent, insightful and an advocate for the advancement of women in the region.”

Thorns honored for achievement

Program Board to offer new events

By Brandy AbrahamVanguard Campus Editor

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Rashad Baiyasi is a physics and chemistry senior and the Vanguard’s cartoonist. Reach him at [email protected].

I have pretty bad Trypano-phobia. No need to rush to that nearby dictionary — it means a fear of needles. This might seem like a pretty common occurrence. There’s just nothing comfortable about someone sticking you with unnaturally sharp objects, but I still feel as if I fear the needle more than the next guy. When I’m about to get a shot, the fright climbs to disastrous levels.

It’s flu season, and that means flu shots. Easily attainable flu shots that are basically free as long as I don’t absentmind-edly forget my Blue Cross card somewhere in my room on the way out.

Unfortunately, once I’m on Bay Road heading towards the clos-est Rite Aid, the nasty pessimist on the other side of my minds starts whispering the dangers of the infamous flu shot. What’s even the chance of getting the flu this year? Let’s be honest, out of my 21 years, I can only remember having the flu twice: once in elementary school and once two years ago on New Years Eve. With those kinds of odds, I felt like turning my Ford Ranger around and grabbing McDonalds on the painless ride back.

But I saw my mother’s stern, murderous look when I told her I hadn’t gotten my shot yet, so I continued to the pharmacy. She tries to drum up current news pertaining to the flu and thinks I’m unable to catch on. When I tell her I forgot, there is auto-matically cases of people from

our area dying of the flu. It’s sort of like whenever you forget to put on your seatbelt around your mother and she suddenly remembers about the four dead teenagers in that weekend’s newspaper who all died because they didn’t wear their seatbelts.

It’s extremely difficult to forget the last time I had the flu. I re-member it like it was yesterday. My family had come over and my grandma brought Blimpie subs. I woke up that night at three in the morning, and my stomach already jumping. All I ate for two days was a couple of pieces of toast that stayed in my stomach for a matter of minutes. Could you have guessed I’ve stayed away from Blimpie’s ever since?

The thought of those two days still haunted my life, so the shot seemed to pale in comparison to another near-death experi-ence. That is until I’m in the Rite Aid, sitting in the uncomfortable waiting seat, expecting a sharp needle with my name on it any moment.

I whipped out my phone in search of some answers but more so reassurance. Typing in “facts about flu shot” into Google was all I had to do to get enough infor-mation to keep me in the plastic seating.

One of my favorite arguments against getting the flu shot is that winter is half over, so what’s the point in going out of my way now? But online I read that the seasonal flu season can last until May.

Another point I always try to make is that my chances of get-ting the flu was small since I had only remembered having it twice in my life. I usually feel as if I’m healthy enough to avoiding catching anything. Once again my views were proven wrong by my simple research. Apparently even super healthy people are at the same risk as us normal folk.

Additionally, the flu shot distributed by pharmacies like Rite Aid and Walgreens protects

against three different influenza viruses. Influenza B, H1N1, and H3N2 are all prevented. Real-izing that there wasn’t just one type of the flu floating around made me nervous, but ironically braver in the face of the needle.

When the 80-year-old phar-macist came out from the back of the store with the weapon in hand, my confidence in my survival shriveled to the size of a pea. I could feel the wooziness beginning to swim in my head but I was too far down the plank to turn around. She smiled at me and asked me to roll up my sleeve. The pressure and pain was clear but short lived. I was rolling back down my sleeve before I could mentally process the event.

Even though my left arm was a little numb and the thought of fluid in a needle being forced into my body made shivers go down my back, I was fine. The ride home consisted of a combination of me talking to myself about how silly I am and me worrying about get-ting the flu before the shot had a chance to kick in.

The pessimist in me will al-ways find a new angle to worry about, but the fact is that the waiting was the worst part of the flu shot. I would advise anyone to go through the short inconve-nience that is driving up to the nearest chain pharmacy and ask-ing for a helpful flu shot. Even if the needle makes you want to run away like a small child.

Campus BeatSurviving the flu shot to survive flu season

By Matt OstranderVanguard Columnist

Matt Ostrander is a secondary education junior. Reach him at [email protected].

Ready or not, the new year is upon us.OK, so maybe it’s been upon us for a few

weeks now, but college students often have a different way of measuring years. With the school year beginning a week later than it normally does, this last section of Christmas break has been a bit of an oddity – a blessing for those of us who needed the extra rest and a frustration for those of us itching to get back into the swing of things. But for many of us, the real new year begins today.

In our first issue of 2013, staff writer Marlin Jenkins offers some sound thoughts on New Year’s resolutions, reminding us of the symbolic power of the act, as well as the importance of following through on our S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, timely) resolutions. It’s good advice, though it can be challenging to follow.

According to a report by the University of Scranton Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. On a college campus, the effects of this are clear to see: The Ryder Center is packed, students come to class more prepared than ever and energy levels are at an all-time high. It’s contagious.

But as the semester drags on, that energy level often starts to drain. It becomes a bit easier to find a treadmill at the Ryder. Those binders we had labeled and lined with section dividers get tossed to the side as we resort to stuffing papers into folders and backpacks. We become a bit lax with our classes, letting off on the gas and setting the stage for frantic all-nighters during final exams.

Jan. 1 may be an arbitrary date to reinvent yourself, but the beginning of the year is important time for all. It’s a chance for us to look at out priorities, use the symbolism of

the new calendar year and school semester to decide on the goals that matter to us most. It’s a high energy time, so why not make use of that energy to have some of your most productive weeks or even months?

It’s important not to treat the symbolism of New Year’s resolutions cheaply and let our too-unattainable goals slip past us. The priorities we set during this time should be those that we value all 12 months, not those that we make riding the high of a new year.

But even so, it’s important to remember that there will be peaks and valleys in any calendar year. It’s difficult to maintain a certain level of energy all year long, and it’s only human to have periods of low productivity near, say, spring or Christmas break. At times like those, it’s important to remember not only the goals you set, but the priorities you had in mind while doing so. If you made good resolutions, those priorities should still be relevant even at the end of a year. Remembering what drives us can keep us motivated, even if we’ve strayed from those resolutions.

Here at the Vanguard, we’re going to do our best to keep our goals and priorities in mind all semester long. We hope one of your resolutions is to stay up to date on campus news, and we hope you’ll be pleased with the work we’re putting in. If you aren’t, we hope you’ll consider sharing your voice and your feedback with us, too.

We wish you luck with the new semester, with remembering not only the resolutions you made, but the priorities and the spirit behind them.

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Rasising Awareness Regarding the “Welfare Awareness Bill”

As part of our Policy II class, we are required to raise

awareness and advocate for a bill that’s in process currently. My group and I would like to raise awareness about House Bills 4409-10, introduced by state Reps. Ken Horn and Sharon Tyler, more commonly known as the “Welfare Cutoff Bill.”

I agree that senior citizens, pregnant mothers, domestic violence victims, adults who are physically or mentally incapacitated and adults with a disabled child at home should be exempted from the time limit. However, there are several points of these bills that I don’t agree with.

First of all, let me point out that the majority of those on welfare truly need the assistance; it’s only a minority that is “working the system.” Also, I do not think it’s fair to have a lifelong time limit (in this case, 48 months) because people can have more than one, even several, times of financial crisis in their lives, no matter how hard they try to succeed.

Instead, I think the Michigan government should put a reasonable time limit on each time someone is on welfare, thus still allowing for the unpredictable and unpreventable events of life. This solution would still portray the idea that welfare’s purpose is to help someone “get back on their feet,” not create dependency on the government.

Furthermore, I think the idea of counting past time on welfare is unfair and unethical. What if, for example, someone has already been on welfare for 48 months? Are they going to be kicked to the curb the moment the bill gets written into law? Everyone deserves a fair adjustment period, particularly since situations like employment are not completely under the welfare recipients’ control, especially in today’s unstable economy. Besides, the government is already doing damage to our futures by kicking fulltime college students off food stamp benefits who aren’t working 20 hours or more a week. We are trying to improve our futures by furthering our education, but if we have to choose between a better future and surviving our financial struggles now, the present problems will always take priority.

It’s these types of situations that raise the poverty rate in this country. Also, they are planning on cutting our college funding. Are we going to let them have this much say in our life after college as well? Financial crisis can happen to anyone, at any time, for a wide array of reasons. If we don’t stand up for the well being of welfare recipients now, we might be the ones suffering for it later. I strongly urge that we raise awareness and protest against this issue.

Sincerely,

Christina Jones SVSU Social Work student


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You might remember my rant about the penny and how it should be taken out of circulation. Not only would it save us money, but many other countries have already abolished the penny and experienced no change to their economy. There was no inflation, and charitable donations did not go down. If you don’t remember this, play along.

If the government were really serious about decreasing the budget, then it would have chosen to get rid of the penny rather than choosing to make it out of cheaper material.

But that’s not the point this time around. This time, I’m after the one-dollar bill.

We, as Americans and as biased human beings, are more likely to spend 100 one-dollar bills rather than just one $100 bill. Around the world, we’re more biased towards spending coins rather than paper money. The smaller the currency, the faster we spend it. This applies to both its size and worth. The exception to this, however, is the American penny, since it’s useless and no one uses it anyway.

So, pennies cost more than a penny to make, right? They don’t work as money because they don’t help the exchange of goods and services in any way. Don’t believe me? Go to the gas station and pay for your gas with a giant bag of 2,000 pennies. Let me know how this works out.

Back to the point. Hopefully, you’ve seen a dollar coin before. It’s about the same size as a quarter, but a little bigger, and it has Sacagawea on it.

Well, more recent coins have the Statue of Liberty, but I haven’t seen one of those in a while. There are more than one billion dollar coins lying around the United States because we prefer to use paper money. In recent years, it was reported to Congress by the Government Accountability Office that eliminating the one-dollar bill and introducing one-dollar and two-dollar coins would save the United States more than $5.5 billion dollars over the course of 30 years.

It costs a lot of money to print paper money just as it costs a lot of money to mint coins. It now costs 9.6 cents to produce one bill, due to a surge in the price of cotton. Added to this, the average one-dollar bill is only in circulation for 40 months. The one-dollar coin, on the other hand, would be in circulation for about 30 years. The government wouldn’t even have to mint new coins for at least 20 years because of the one billion dollar coins already sitting around the United States. All it would take to get them in circulation is the removal of the one-dollar bill.

Sure, it would be weird at first and we might feel a little inconvenienced, but other countries have already done this and have adjusted just fine. Getting rid of the one-dollar bill would mean saving a lot of money, and it’s predicted that people would actually spend more with the one-dollar coin, which is what the government wants. After all, consumer spending is the number one driver of economic growth in America. I think it’s time we said goodbye to the paper George Washington.

As we say in my hometown, don’t forget to be awesome!

With the start of a new year, I’m sure many of us have made a list of New Year’s resolutions to create new and better selves as we announce our presences to 2013.

And now, two weeks in, I’m sure that many of us are still pushing strong, persevering — being persistent, consistent. And some of us by now have already cheated a few times, given themselves some leeway, perhaps given up, or maybe even forgotten about resolutions and decided to move on with their lives without them. Likely, the cycle will repeat next year.

In light of the recent new beginning of buying new wall calendars (for those of us who have wall calendars) and getting used to not writing a “2” at the end of the date, we also have the start of a new semester. For some, this is the second semester of a freshman year — a great opportunity to learn from the first one and finish out a strong first year. For others, this is a last semester of undergraduate school, as students prepare for graduate school and careers.

But no matter what this new semester means for you, the new year and the new semester are just that — “new.” And as such, they carry significant symbolic power.

You never hear about people making July resolutions. At least, I haven’t. Things that are new inspire us to form a newness within ourselves, which can be a great and beautiful thing. But there are limits.

That newness might inspire change, but surely it doesn’t make that change happen.

If you’re one to set New Year’s resolutions, or even to set new goals for a new semester, that’s great as long as there’s some followthrough. If these new goals aren’t actually going to have some impact, then what are they worth? If they die out after a couple of weeks, were they even worth giving the effort? (This is assuming that the effort was not whole-hearted to begin with.)

When I’m setting new goals for myself, I tell myself things such as: Don’t give yourself too much lee-way, and make these new goals be a part of your every day, if at all possible. Consider putting them on sticky notes, writing them in your notebooks, check up on your progress every so often. Also, it’s helpful to make your goals “S.M.A.R.T.” (It stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely/Time-bound.) Make sure you don’t just set goals, but you also set detailed steps of how you’re going to achieve the goal.

While thinking about how to make new goals as meaningful as possible, I encourage you to recognize the role of the symbolism. As I’ve pointed out, it makes things easier. It’s easier to set a new life goal on January 1 than it is at some arbitrary date. In addition to the simple fact of this starting a new year, it’s also the most common time for others to be setting goals, so jumping on the bandwagon of re-invention and self-betterment is much easier than deciding on your own to do those things by yourself. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing; others can help us to make progress more easily and more effectively.

But that also means it’s more difficult to follow through when the hype dies down. When January is done and we’re thinking about

Valentine’s Day and Black History Month and counting down to spring break, it becomes really easy to forgot about resolutions because that’s not what’s going on in the world around us.

We have to push through it; we have to make the change and dedication happen, even when there are other things going on in the world and few are still asking about resolutions or even trying at their own anymore.

In some ways, I see the new year as I see many other events on the calendar, especially the two I already mentioned: Valentine’s Day and Black History Month. Most would argue that both are important (obviously in different ways and for different reasons), and I will mostly agree. But just like we shouldn’t only go out of our way to do more for our significant others only on Valentine’s, and just as we shouldn’t study Black history only during February, setting new goals shouldn’t be confined only to a new calendar year.

There’s nothing wrong with New Year’s resolutions, nothing wrong with using the symbolism of newness to our advantage as an opportunity to better ourselves. But it is a problem if we set these new goals and don’t follow through, if the symbolism is emptily symbolic with no substance or impact. And, further, it’s also problematic if we rely so much on a calendar or events to be the only times we think about where we want to be and what we want to change.

Whenever we decide to resolve something new, let’s make it lasting, meaningful, and not bound only to a time when it’s convenient.

Staff Opinion

Another look at U.S. currency: Killing the dollar to make change

Some thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions:Make your goals reasonable and meaningful

Staff Opinion

By Hannah MeyerVanguard Staff Writer

Hannah Meyer is a history sophomore. Reach her at [email protected].

Marlin Jenkins is a creative writing senior. Reach him at [email protected].

By Marlin JenkinsVanguard Staff Writer

What are you looking forward to most about Thanksgiving?

Future topics:

What do you hope to accomplish in 2013?

“My goal is to be more positive.”

“In 2013, I want to trust myself more.”Mykaela HoppsTheater sophomore

Isaac WoodTheater freshman

“I want to try to meet more deadlines.

Sara BarrySocial work sophomore

“I’d like to fulfill more responsibilities and get stuff done.”

Jordan StaffordTheater junior

“I really want to get a role in my community theater troupe’s production of Fiddler on the Roof.”

Kristen CarterTheater sophomore

“I just want to still be sane!”Evee SampsonPsychology junior


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from his partner Lexee Longwell. Another first was having two SVSU stu-

dents recognized as regional finalists for the Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Scholarship.

Aside from Myers, Isaac Wood, with his partner Mykaela Hopps, made it to the final round auditions for the scholarship.

The scholarship provides recognition, honor and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to further educa-tion.

Nominees for this competition were eligible for a $500 scholarship and could be progressed to one of two $3,500 scholarships at the national festival in Washington, D.C.

Myers, Thorp and Berton will compete at the national festival at the Kennedy Center in April.

Other SVSU nominees for the Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Scholarship included Randall Manetta and Blake Mazur in the per-formance of “Little Shop of Horrors,” Caitlyn Walsh for “Agamemnon” and Cassidy Morey for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

For preliminaries, 250 actors auditioned in a performance limited to three minutes.The number was cut down to 40 actors for a five-minute audition in the semifinals and 16 actors for six minutes at the final round.

SVSU students have not made semifinals since 2010, where only one student became a finalist.

Myers competed in the event each year since he began attending the university, but this was the first time he had made it as far as semifinals.

“My goal for this year was to make semi-finals,” Myers said. “I accomplished what I said to do, and everything else here is icing on the cake.”

The festival held productions open to the public by other colleges such as University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Saginaw’s Temple Theatre.

A year of effort from organizers and help from student volunteers went into putting the event together for students representing 67 universities.

The university hosted the conference twice before, in 2009 and 2010, and will host it again in 2014.

“SVSU has the perfect set-up of schools for the event,” said associate professor of theater Ric Roberts.

He said part of the reason it works is because all events are indoors and there are no classes during the festival.

“If it was during school time, I never would have accepted to host the festival,” he said.

Roberts said he is grateful for the support from the university’s faculty and administra-tion.

Theater professor Dave Rzeszutek and music professor Kevin Simons presented workshops at the festival.

Simons’ workshop “Sing out Louise!: A master-class for musical theater” was well attended by conference-goers.

“You’ll never know who’ll show up at workshops, but the band room was packed,” Roberts said.

Famous faces in the theater community also made appearances at the festival such as Pulitzer Prize finalist and playwright Rebecca Gilman and associate choreographer of an upcoming Broadway production James Gray.

According to Roberts, the six-day festival could have brought $2.8 to $3 million in revenue to the area primarily through costs of the festival such as hotel bookings and meals.

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University Gallery Exhibition• From today to Saturday, Feb. 2, in

the University Art Gallery, works by

Marie Tapert in the exhibition “Wire

Drawings & Constructions” will be on

display. Visit svsu.edu/artgallery/gal-

leryopenhours for open hours.

Sally Cotter Auditions• From 4 to 7p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 15,

and from 7 to 10p.m., Thursday, Jan.

17, auditions will be held for the Harry

Potter parody “Sally Cotter and the

Censored Stone.” For more informa-

tion or to arrange a different time to

audition contact director Katie Rajnay

at [email protected].

“Perks of Being a Wallflower”• At 7 and 10p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17,

and Friday, Jan. 18, in the Thompson

Student Activities Room, Valley Nights

will show the film “Perks of Being a

Wallflower.”

“Goya’s Ghost”• At 7:30p.m., Thursday, Jan. 17, in C100,

Valley Film Society will show the 2007

film “Goya’s Ghosts.” $5 Membership

for SVSU Students.

Brew Ha Ha• At 5p.m., Friday, Jan. 18, and Saturday,

Jan. 19, at the Dow Event Center, the

2nd annual Brew Ha Ha will be held,

featuring 20 Michigan Breweries and

more than 80 styles alongside Michi-

gan comedians. $20 ticket includes

logged pint glass and five sample

tickets. Must be 21 or over to attend.

Hair Show• At 11a.m., Saturday, Jan. 19, in the

Malcolm Field Performing Arts Theatre,

the Organization of Black Unity will

host a hair show.

Sins Submission Deadline• Submissions for literary and fine arts

magazine Cardinal Sins are due by

Monday, Feb. 4.

Vanguard photo | Sean DudleyFrom left, theater students Erin Gassner and Jessie Fanshaw from University of Wisconsin - Lacrosse rehearse for a performance at the festival, which SVSU will host again in 2014.

Vanguard photo | Sean DudleyTheater students navigate campus as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region III. More than 1,200 students from 67 universities competed in events including stage management and props.

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One would think that a piece of historical fiction set in 15th century Holland would be stale and dull, but Jesse Bullington defies all these expec-tations with his darkly humorous nov-el “The Folly of the World.”

Set amongst a backdrop of medi-eval class warfare and a flood that left entire towns and cities underwater, Bullington’s novel plays with elements

of reality and fantasy alike as he shapes the world into something recognizable yet utterly grotesque and bizarre.

Within the novels opening pages, Bullington swiftly introduces Sander, a madman who has committed a crime simply for the thrill of escaping his own hanging. His partner Jan, a con-man with much larger schemes than anything Sander could imagine, finds a wild and strong-spirited girl named Jolanda who has just the swimming talent he needs to reclaim a treasure that could change all their lives for the better.

But what they don’t know is that whatever they find in the murky depths of both the St. Elizabeth Flood and within their own souls may just end one of their lives, as well.

For better or worse, “The Folly of the World” seems to defy all attempts to place it into any single genre.

With a setting in historical fiction, elements of fantasy recurring through-out and a plot that ventures from the intrigue and puzzle of mystery novels to the downright terror associated with horror, it may sound like it has just the right blend of elements to make it ap-peal to everyone. Despite appearances, this is not the case.

Bullington is known for novels that pride themselves upon vulgarity and, “The Folly of the World” is no ex-ception.

Readers should be warned before they ever consider this book that it makes frequent use of strong and of-

fensive language and explicit descrip-tions of violent sex that borders upon the realm of fetishist (such as asphyxi-ation). It truly revels in descriptions of violence that might make any reader’s skin crawl at times.

If one can overlook their trouble they will find themselves dazzled by the descriptive and masterful writing style Bullington has to offer.

Bullington’s novel is very tightly paced, and if readers find themselves able to overcome any initial revulsion they may have, they will find charac-ters so wonderfully developed that they won’t want to put the book down for fear of what may befall them on the very next page.

It also seems that Bullington has created a very accurate depiction of the political and geographic state of Holland and the Saint Elizabeth Flood that befell it. For those who find appeal in the novel’s historical background, a bibliography is offered for any further research one may wish to do.

Ultimately, the novel left me equal-ly repulsed and drawn to Bullington’s style. Despite everything that made me want to put it down, I found the end-ing to be very satisfying. If you aren’t a fantasy reader, I urge you to overlook the genre by which “The Folly of the World” is labeled because it is highly inaccurate.

However, if you are easily offend-ed or grossed out, I recommend you find something else for your late-night reading fix.

In a way, the slasher film “Texas Chainsaw 3D” is emblematic of our re-turn to SVSU for the winter semester.

Winter semester can be thought of as a long-awaited sequel to fall semes-ter. The end of fall classes, the receipt of grades for that term and absence of diploma-in-hand assure us that, indeed, there will be a continuation in the form of winter classes.

But those markers also assure us that for a brief time we can put univer-sity behind us and alight at our respec-tive homesteads to be overtaken by fes-tivities and the moods that accompany them, occasionally clouding our own forethought.

How soon until the arrival of the continuation becomes hazy in light of the holiday season, as anticipation of break’s end and relief at its arrival both compress and stretch a short period of time for which one holds one less re-sponsibility.

One month, a seemingly non-tra-versable gulf, crossed — the sequel not awaited, but expected.

38 years, three months, and three days stand between the 1974 original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and the most recent addition to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, “Texas Chainsaw 3D,” a sequel which picks up where the original left off.

The new film’s plot is simple enough: It begins with a house fire in-tended to kill Jedediah Sawyer (aka Leatherface) along with much of the Sawyer clan. Among the survivors is a baby named Edith who is adopted by a member of the mob who helped start the fire. He and his wife rename her Heather and raise her elsewhere.

Flash-forward to 38 years later. Heather is notified that she was adopted and that she’s inherited the home of her now-deceased biological grandmother. She and some friends travel to Texas to claim it. Hilarity and a moderate amount of gore ensue.

Now, the plot itself is not inherently flawed, though it has its weak points, to put it kindly.

One such weak point results from an attempt to lend a greater sense of con-tinuity between the original and the se-quel. As it has been upwards of 38 years, it is sensible to mirror certain details from the original film in the sequel to provide the necessary nostalgia quotient to satisfy the viewing audience.

However, the mirroring of plot events to feed off the same nostalgia is a trickier matter.

That said, when was the last time any of us picked up a hitchhiker?

One other such weak point, one that lies outside the realm of nostalgia-bait-ing, pertains to a frequent characteriza-tion of officers of the law within slasher flicks as being wholly incompetent.

It’s one thing to depict the occa-sional misjudgment or reckless decision from overconfidence, but to have a lone officer follow an especially large streak of blood into a dimly lit basement in search of someone likely armed with a chainsaw without first calling and wait-ing for backup to arrive makes it very difficult to suspend one’s disbelief.

From there, as they say, the devil lies in the details.

For example, this film marks an ad-ditional notch on the belt of Trey Songz’s acting career and should be noted for his impassioned delivery of “Babe, I’m sorry” and how the film showcases his ability to play pool while listening to his own music.

Also, irritatingly, the Sawyer fam-ily’s attorney gives Heather a letter from her deceased grandmother early on that, if she had bothered to read it, would have circumvented the mass bloodshed that occurs in the film.

And another thing. If this film takes place in the present day, why don’t any of the main characters have cell phones?

Don’t be mistaken: This is only a smattering of the weak plot points and problematic details present in “Texas Chainsaw 3D” and does not fully repre-sent how disastrous this film is.

May your winter semester be better than this movie.

Tim Windy is an English literature and creative writing senior and Vanguard reviewer. Reach him at [email protected].

Gerhardt Schuette is an secondary education junior and Vanguard columnist. Reach him at [email protected].

Courtesy photo | Emily SoveyArt and history senior Emily Sovey plans to be an art historian.

Degas-inspired senior paints her way to a career

Bullington builds historical fiction for all audiences

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D

DIRECTOR: JOHN LUESSENHOPSTARS: ALEXANDRA DADDARIO, DAN YEAGER, TREY SONGZDURATION: 92 MINUTES

THE FOLLY OF THE WORLD

AUTHOR: JESSE BULLINGTONPAGE COUNT: 528PUBLISHER: ORBITREALEASED: DEC. 18, 2012

Art and history senior Emily Sovey wants to spend her life analyzing past art while envi-sioning her future art.

Her preferred medium is painting and printmaking, but one of her contributions has been through recycled clothes. This success in the fashion arena has broadened her artistic opportunities well beyond an art gallery.

For her honors thesis, she focused on recycled clothing for a fashion show in the spring of 2011.

Not many others are attempting making clothes out of recycled materials.

By combining Capri-Sun pouches and some comfortable cotton, a cheap but respect-able line of clothing was created.

She began the practice with bags and then switched to clothes.

Even with her eco-friendly artistic proj-ects, Sovey’s main focus is to become an art historian. In this field, she will study art of all eras, from ancient to modern.

“They look at it, analyze it and compare it

to past works,” Sovey said. “They look at the historical meaning of the work, how it influ-enced artists back then and what it means for us now.”

Sovey’s experience as an artist came from multiple sources in her youth. Her involve-ment in the 4-H youth organization provided her with early access to art projects.

Her advancement in art was bettered by her mother, who majored in art, handing down knowledge to her.

“I’ve definitely become better at coming up with concepts,” Sovey said. “Now I work towards work that has more of a meaning, in-stead of just copying something or creating a piece just to fit the criteria.”

Sovey cites Edgar Degas as one of her biggest influences. Her interest in his work sparked once she first saw his realist paintings of ballerinas. Degas’s signature was painting dancers and roughly half of his pieces depict-ed dance.

“I was a ballerina all throughout my younger years, so I was always fascinated with his painting of ballerinas,” Sovey said. “That pushed me towards the art history field.”

Though she pronounces that Degas is her

main influence, she admits that she takes parts of every painting she’s experienced and incorporates it into her own style.

“From pieces I’ve actually seen to all the ones I’ve learned of through the art history program, I’ve seen everything now,” Sovey said. “So with my art, I draw from every artist that I’ve seen. I try to in-clude all of the elements that I like.”

Sovey is in the process of ap-plying for graduate school to move onto her masters and then her Ph.D.

She hopes to be accepted at ei-ther the University of Michigan or Wayne State University.

From there, she plans on going back to the college level to teach art history.

“I don’t think I could ever stop making art,” Sovey said. “It’s some-thing I’ve been doing for so long. It’s just so relaxing for me. Even if the piece doesn’t sell as much as I’d hoped, I’ll still be happy.”

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Womack’s 17 points not enough against Wayne State

Turnovers lead to 90-56 lossMEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s Basketball

• Thursday, Jan. 17, @ Northern Michigan University, 5:30 p.m., Marquette

• Saturday, Jan. 19, @ Michigan Tech University, 1 p.m., Houghton

• Thursday, Jan. 24, @ Grand Valley State University, 6 p.m., Grand Rapids

Women’s Basketball

• Thursday, Jan. 17, @ Northern Michigan University, 7:30 p.m., Marquette

• Saturday, Jan. 19, @ Michigan Tech University, 3 p.m., Houghton

• Thursday, Jan. 24, @ Grand Valley State University, 8 p.m., Grand Rapids

Men’s Track

• Friday, Jan. 18, SVSU Indoor Classic, University Center

Women’s Track

• Friday, Jan. 18, SVSU Indoor Classic, University Center

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In hoping to grow and gain expe-rience as the season progresses, the women’s basketball team learned some hard lessons on the court to take on its upcoming road trip.

The Lady Cardinals lost to Wayne State University on Saturday, 63-48. The loss brings the SVSU’s record to 6-7, 4-5 in the GLIAC. Kayla Womack led the team with 17 points. Aysha Boston had a team-high three assists while Samantha Zirzow and Emily

Wendling tied for the team lead in re-bounds at ten a piece.

As a team, SVSU’s field goal percent-age was close to Wayne State’s (33.3 percent compared to 35.2 percent), but they were also out rebounded by ten while managing only six assists. The Lady Cards were also outscored in the paint and off the bench, 32-28 and 28-12, respectively.

Despite a strong second-half perfor-mance from the Cardinal women in which they outscored the Warriors 30-28, first-half struggles were too much to overcome. SVSU went into halftime trailing 35-18. They managed to go

6-of-29 from the field, good for 20.7 percent, a telling statistic for their ear-ly struggles when compared to Wayne State’s 44.1 percent field goal percent-age.

Coach Jamie Pewinski pointed out that the team’s early collapse was a big factor to the result, but that hopefully the team consisting of six freshmen can grow from its experience.

“We played a good second half and played with a lot of energy, but we dug too big of a hole in the first half to pull out a win,” she said. “As a whole, it was a game that we were able to learn some lessons and hopefully we won’t make those same mistakes again.”

With practicing and playing games around the holiday season, a young team could find itself distracted by things outside of the game. But coach Pewinski says that her team has found ways to keep itself motivated through-out the break.

“We’ve done a good job of being ready for games during the holiday break,” she said.” “It’s never an easy thing to do, but there is only one rea-son to be back at school while classes aren’t in session and that is basketball.

“It also allows the team a chance to hang out and become closer as a group and in the long run, that will make us a better team.”

On Thursday the Lady Cards de-feated Lake Superior State by a final of 68-52. Wendling and Zirzow tied for the team lead in points scored with 18 apiece. Wendling also pulled down 16 rebounds, leading to her fifth double-double of the season. Katelyn Carriere led the team with five assists.

SVSU allowed a season-best 19 points in the first half while scoring 27 and never trailed in the second half. The Lady Cards’ lead was as big as 23 points at one point.

Despite offensive struggles, prior

to Saturday’s contest SVSU had won three of four in which they averaged over 65 points per game. The offensive explosion has been impressive, but coach Pewinski says that the number of points scored is actually due to the team’s strong defense.

“The biggest key to us scoring points has been our defense,” she said. “We have been doing a great job of forcing tough shots and rebounding, which has allowed us to get out in transition and the more easy baskets we get, the better we play.”

The next game on hand for the Lady Cardinals is a road test against North-ern Michigan. The game will take place Thursday, Jan. 17, and is the sec-ond of a four-game road stretch before the team comes back home for a three-game home stand.

By Chris OliverVanguard SportS Editor

By Joey OliverVanguard Staff WritEr

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Despite a rough start to 2013, the men’s basketball team’s resolution of improving with every game is alive and well.

Saturday the Cardinals fell 90-56 at GLIAC-leading Wayne State University. The loss was the third in four games for SVSU, dropping them to an overall record of 6-6 and 4-5 in the GLIAC. For the Warriors, it was the team’s tenth win on the season and ninth conference victory. According to head coach Randy Baruth, the loss wasn’t from lack of effort on the part of his team.

“The thing about Wayne State is that they’re in first place for a good reason,” Baruth said. “They are an ex-cellent team, but our guys went out and played as hard as they could have.”

While defense has been a focusing point of Baruth’s throughout the season, the Cardinals gave up a season-high 90 points to Wayne State, which shot over 60 percent from the floor on Saturday.

“Despite our guys playing hard, we definitely didn’t play as well or as sound as we could have,” Baruth said. “We definitely didn’t play as well as we could have on defense.”

Offensively, the Cardinals were held to under 40 percent shooting from the floor. Senior guards Chris Webb and Brett Beland led the Cardinals in scoring with 17 and 11, respectively. Senior forward Rob Clark added ten rebounds in the losing effort.

“It’s never fun to lose, but as we keep playing through the season I’m glad to be getting the effort I am from these guys,” Baruth said.

The Cardinals took an early, short-lived advantage over the Warriors before Wayne State got hot offensively and starting rolling, taking a 38-25 lead into the half.

The second half was all about Wayne State. The War-riors outscored SVSU 52-31 as the Cardinals struggled to keep possession of the ball and failed to make defensive plays. On the day, the Cardinals turned the ball over 14 times, leading to 22 Wayne State points.

Thursday, SVSU lost at home to Lake Superior State by a score of 70-60. Beland led the team in scoring with 13 points and senior forward Jay Thames added eight rebounds, but the grind of a game ultimately went to the Lakers. Twenty of Lake Superior State’s 70 points came off SVSU’s 14 turnovers.

The Cardinals came out hot, taking an early lead be-fore missed shots and turnovers gave the Lakers a 35-26 lead going into halftime.

“We definitely had plenty of opportunities through-out the game to capitalize,” Baruth said. “A lot of our guys had good, open shots that just weren’t going in.“In this league, you really have to score and I thought we were good defensively, but we just couldn’t keep up the offense.”

The Cardinals battled back in the second half taking and early lead before being forced to play catch-up for the remainder of the contest. With three minutes left, Webb hit a jump shot that put SVSU within one point of the Lakers, but the defense was unable to stop the scoring.

Baruth said the losses shows more about the quality of the opponents SVSU has faced in 2013 rather than his team in particular.

“The fact of the matter is we’re play-ing really good teams right now,” Ba-ruth said. “The GLIAC is loaded with talent and there are certainly areas in which we need to improve in.”

One of the areas Baruth hopes the team can improve in is playing at home and putting the ball through the hoop.

“We’ve really got to win at home and that involves doing a lot of the little things right,” he said. “When you play the quality opponents we do, the margin of error is very small.

“Offensively, we just need to keep finding ways to score and keep being

creative on offense.”Throughout the holiday break, the men have been

playing and practicing, with a few days off for Christ-mas, yet Baruth said his team has been focused and ready for each game.

“I like the holiday break and I think everyone is ready for it when it comes around in December,” Baruth said. “It’s good for everyone because the players need a break from us and sometimes we need a break from them.

“That being said, we’re not off long enough to really get out of rhythm.”

Going forward, Baruth said his expectations remain the same for his team.

“We just need to work hard and get better,” he said. “When you start really worrying too much about wins and losses, you’ll only give yourself a headache.

“We’ll just keep working and watching film on the next opponent.”

The men’s team will be back in action Thursday, Jan. 17, when they travel to Marquette to take on Northern Michigan.

Vanguard file photoSenior guard Brett Beland led the Cardinals in scoring against Lake Superior State with 13 points.

Vanguard file photoSenior guard Chris Webb leads the Cardinals with 16.8 points per game with 16.8. He sits at fifth in points per game in the GLIAC.

Vanguard file photoFreshman guard Katelyn Carriere brings the ball up court for the Lady Cardinals. Freshmen have played a big role for the Lady Cards this season.

Vanguard file photoThe Lady Cardinals finished strong against the Warriors, out-scoring Wayne State 30-28 in the second half, yet the poor offensive performance in the first-half proved to be too much to overcome. SVSU shot 20.7 percent in the first half and scored 18 points to Wayne State’s 35.

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With the start of the new year, the SVSU dodgeball team is looking to continue their habit of winning. Currently, the Cardinals have a 4-3-1 record and are hoping to get their fifth win against Michigan State come January 27.

Max Siler, an accounting junior and the captain of the dodgeball team, is hopeful his team can pull off the win.

”Michigan State has, over the years, been viewed as being just a couple good players short of being a championship-caliber team,” Siler said. “This year they have a lot of returning players and a very im-pressive group of newcomers that has propelled them into becoming a serious championship contender.”

The Cardinals and the Spartans are not strangers to one another, with Michigan State getting the better of the Cardinals earlier in the season. To Siler, the team he’s lead-ing this time around is much differ-ent.

“We have traditionally done well against Michigan State,” said Siler. “This was a game where we were competing without many of our top players, so it is sure to be a different result come January 27th.

“Our biggest concern is keep-ing our fast pace and forcing them to make quicker decisions, as we sometimes tend to slow down a bit after we build momentum, allow-ing our opponents to get back in the game.”

Siler hopes to carry the momen-tum from previous wins earlier in the season, especially their big win against Grand Valley back in No-

vember, into their match against State.

“Grand Valley is pretty much viewed as a dodgeball ‘power-house,’ so beating them was really a great boost of confidence in the minds of our players,” Siler said.

The Cardinals have had a slow start this season compared to pre-

vious starts, but Siler still has faith his team has a chance at a back-to-back National Champi-onships.

“We do have a lot of great, young talent on this team, but it becomes difficult when these new players are forced into a starting role against some good competition,” Siler said. “We did have all of our key players in our matchup against GVSU, and we came out on top for only the second-ever Battle of the Valleys win for our club.

“We know we have champi-onship potential when we have

all of our top players on the court at the same time.”

The dodgeball team was formed back in 2006 by Bryan Janick and has been a championship contender

ever since. Last season was success-ful for the Cardinals who brought home the National Championship to continue the growing tradition of winning.

“We have been known to be a constant final-four team every sea-son and it is rare to find SVSU not in the national championship con-versation in any season,” Siler said.

The dodgeball team has about 40-50 members, but are always wel-coming new players. Contact Siler at [email protected] for more in-formation or attend a practice in the Cardinal Gym on Monday or Wednesday at 10 p.m.

“We know we have championship potential when we have all of our top players on the court at the same time.”

Max SilerDoDgeball TeaM CapTain

Holiday rankings give club confidence skating into final stretch

Second-half looks promising for reigning dodgeball champsDODGEBALL

HOCKEY

Intramural SportsStudents may begin signing up for intramural sports from Jan, 28

through March 1. People interested in playing must create an account with IMLeagues with their SVSU email address.

From there, students will create or join teams on IMLeagues.Entry fee payments can be made at the Campus Financial Services

Center before submitting a receipt of payment to the Recreation Office by the March 1 deadline.

Teams then will have a captain or team representative attend a captain’s meeting where schedules will be released.

For more information, visit www.svsu.edu/campusrecreation/intramuralsports.



Coming towards the end of the season, the men’s hockey club looks to shake off the rust from break and shake up the rankings.

Going into the holiday break, the men’s hockey club had high expectations for the second half of the season. With an 11-11 record on the season including a win over then third-ranked University of Michigan-Flint, club Presi-dent Scott Walter was excited for conference rankings and getting back on the ice in 2013.

“Really the biggest game we have had up until now was against (University of) Michi-gan-Flint,” Wal-ter said. “They were ranked third and we were out of the top ten, so beat-ing them right before break was huge for us.”

In the Ameri-can Collegiate Hockey Associa-tion (ACHA), the top ten teams from every divi-sion make it to regional playoffs before the winners head to the national tournament. Currently, the Cardinals are ranked ninth in the North Division, and with the three biggest games of the season around the corner, Walter sees his team rising in the rankings moving forward.

“This coming weekend, we’re taking on Davenport for one game,” Walter said. “Davenport is ranked fourth and we’re looking forward to a rematch from our home loss earlier this season.”

In October, the Cardinals lost to Davenport at home 5-0. To Walter, the October loss doesn’t hold much merit as the team has grown and im-proved considerably through-out the season.

“We look at the October game and they beat us pretty good so we’re focused on get-ting a little payback for that,” Walter said. “But now we’re a completely different team”

“We’re more experienced and we’ve changed as the sea-son has gone on.”

Following the Davenport game is a two-game series with Hope College, currently ranked second in the North Division and considered to be SVSU’s biggest hockey rival.

“Playing Hope is always a fun weekend for us,” Walter said. “They always bring in a huge crowd when we travel to their place and our fans al-ways come out to support us when they come here.”

Home-ice advantage is im-portant to the Cardinals, ac-cording to Walter and has proved to be a big edge for the club in recent years against high-ranked opponents such as Hope.

“I’ve always said we’re the luckiest team in the ACHA,” Walter said. “We just have the best fans and they always come out when we’re playing a tough team.

“When Hope comes to town it’s huge for us because it’s a big rivalry and we haven’t lost to them at home in four years.”

Despite not having played since mid-December, the team is ready for the gauntlet of tough opponents ahead, Wal-

ter said. Prac-tices resumed for the club last week and the club presi-dent said the holiday break is something a team just has to get through.

“Last week we practiced Thursday and Friday and it felt good get-ting back out

there with the guys,” he said. “Everyone was a bit rusty, but we’re shaking it off quick be-cause we know we have got to win the next few games to make it to regionals.

“It’s something every team goes through because we all take a month off hockey and coming back ready to go can be tough.”

Going forward, Walter said the team’s expectations have remained the same. Knowing every game is important, win-ning the next three is crucial in making it into the regional tournament and then onto na-tionals. To Walter, both goals are well within reach.

“The fact is we’ve got to take care of business for the next three games, one game at a time,” he said. “The expec-tation is making it to region-als and nationals.”

The men’s hockey club is back in action Friday, Jan. 18, at the Patterson Ice Cen-ter in Grand Rapids to take on fourth-ranked Davenport University.

RacquetballFee: $5 per personLeagues: Singles, Doubles, CoedGame Length: Best two of three games to 15, scheduled in 30-minute slotsEquipment: Players MUST provide their own racket.

Floor HockeyFee: $20 per teamLeagues: Men’s/CoedRoster Maximum: Seven players (three males, three females must be on court)Equipment: Players are recommended to wear matching shirts with numbers. Game Length: Three seven-minute periods

Indoor SoccerFee: $20 per teamLeagues: Coed/MenRoster Maximum: Teams may have up to 12 players on the rosterGame Length: Two 15-minute halves, scheduled in 45-minute time slotsEquipment: Players are recommended to wear matching shirts with numbers.

WallyballFee: $20 per teamLeagues: CoedRoster Maximum: Four starters (two males, two females)Game Length: Best two of three games up to 15 points. Games are scheduled in 30-minute time slotsEquipment: Players are recommended to wear matching shirts with numbers.

Track & FieldFee: $5 per personLeagues: Men’s and Women’s

Events: 60M dash, 60M hurdles, 200M dash, 400M dash, 800M run, shot put,

long jumpSeason: Track Meet will be held on Friday, February 8, starting at 10 am.

5-on-5 BasketballFee: $35 per teamLeagues: Men’s Power, Men’s Recreational, Women’sRoster Maximum: 12 playersGame Length: Two 15-minute halves

Inner Tube Water PoloFee: $15 per teamLeagues: CoedRoster Maximum: Seven startersGame Length: Two 12-minute running clock halvesEquipment: All game equipment will be provided by Campus Recreation.

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