Arabian music filled the stu-dio of Heart & Soul Fitness Cen-ter last Thursday while dancers in exquisite costumes moved across the dance floor. Royal blue tops matching chiffon skirts embedded with silver coin pieces shook and shimmered with every hip movement.

Heart & Soul Fitness Center in downtown Vermillion began offering belly dancing lessons two weeks ago. Twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays from 8-9 p.m., dancers meet and learn the history and techniques of belly dancing.

Heidi Bennett of Vermillion leads the class. This is her first year of teaching belly dancing, but she has been taking classes for several years.

Bennett became interested in belly dancing when she was taking a yoga class at a studio and stayed behind for the belly dancing class. After just one les-son, she knew she wanted to continue learning about the interesting dance technique.

“It doesn’t matter what size you may be, if you are a size two or have belly flab. It is a great way to build self-esteem and have fun,” Bennett said.

Belly dancing is an Oriental dance uniquely designed for the female body with an emphasis on abdominal muscles, hip and chest moves. The dance is tra-ditionally performed barefoot with a smooth, flowing, com-plex and sensual movement of the torso, alternated with shak-

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The idea of renting a home with three-plus females ter-rifies me. It’s hard enough to live with girls in the controlled dorm environment where the only thing there is to bicker about is the thermostat.

I wasn’t about to jump into an estrogen-overloaded house to have my showers timed or electricity intake measured so that bills would be fair.

In a recent attempt to pre-serve my friendships and my sanity, I looked around Vermil-lion for a studio apartment.

Trust me, I know and love Vermillion. There is a cute yet crap-tastic charm to this town. I wasn’t expecting any of the studios I saw to look like they fell out of an IKEA catalog.

At the same time, I really wasn’t expecting to call my mom, in tears, because of what I saw.

While I figured landlords would be my biggest night-mare, I learned the hard way just finding a livable apartment in Vermillion is the nightmare.

If I’m paying the equivalent of two car payments for a sin-gle month’s rent for an apart-ment that is tinier than my car, I don’t think things are going to work out.

Studios are small. I’m well aware of this. However, my arm span is only five and a half feet. I should not be able to spread my arms out and smack oppo-site walls of the room, the only room.

One of the coolest features of Vermillion is the abundance of older homes. One of the scariest things about renting here is the abundance of poorly maintained older homes.

Just because there are walls, (actually, slabs of particle board that are supposed to act like walls) does not make a large house into apartments. Really, that’s like running tape across the floor with “Do Not Cross” signs.

If I’m afraid of obtaining lead poisoning from the obvi-ously original paint, I don’t think I want to move in.

Fixing broken windows with cardboard and duct-tape is not alright with me either. When I lived in North Carolina, that kind of taping meant a hurri-cane was on its way, not that the landlord was too cheap to replace a broken window.

As a potential renter, I did appreciate the honest facts. For instance: informing me that the electricity bill runs a little high in the winter because the unit has electric heat is great. Thanks, no sarcasm intended.

Throwing in that there is basically no insulation and that I might want to invest in a heavier winter jacket isn’t what I want to hear. Thanks.

Luring renters with prom-ises of “great views,” and “large kitchens,” is only a good idea if the apartment fits the require-ment. I don’t consider a great view to be an alley.

On another note, if you’re offering an apartment that comes furnished, make sure the furniture doesn’t belong in a CSI lab. One particularly awful place (the one that made me cry) came furnished with a blood-splattered bed. I don’t care who lived there before: That is not OK. Invest in Oxi-clean before showing the apart-ment.

After seeing what Vermillion has to offer to the solo renter, I’ve decided to get a roommate. At least I won’t have to look at these apartments alone.

Reach columnist Erica Kniggeat Erica.Knigge@usd.edu.

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belly dancing a head-to-toe experience

BRian BRoEKEmEiER / thE VolantEFreshman Caitlin McGrew follows the instruction of belly dance class leader Heidi Bennett at Heart & Soul Fitness. Classes are Monday and Thursday nights.

JEssiCa KoKEsh / thE VolantEA set of five paintings hang in the Main Gallery at the Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts. The Stilwell Art Exhibition features sculpture, pottery, photography and many other media forms.

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Diverse student artwork on display until March 5

F rom the unusual, two-headed sculpture at the front of the gallery to the colorful canvases on the back wall, the treasures of the USD Art Department are on display for the 22nd annual Wilbur Stilwell Art Exhibition.

Three hundred entries were whittled down to more than 70 last week with the help of juror Ken Grizzell. In his juror statement, Grizzell said he

tried to maintain and build on the diversity of the artwork submitted.

USD Art Galleries Director Eddie Welch said the other selections reflect upon the art depart-ment well.

“It’s very contemporary art,” he said. “The entire process was quite overwhelming in the good sense.”

Senior Justin Tobin has a good track record when it comes to the Stilwell exhibition. In his third year of participation with the exhibition, all five of Tobin’s submissions made it to the Main

Gallery and overall, 11 out of 13 stone sculptures have been selected.

“I select what I think will be successful, but I take classmates’ and professors’ reactions into consideration too,” Tobin said. “Some pieces I didn’t want to submit got it. It all depends on what someone else sees in the work.”

Tobin is a double major in history and sculp-ture. He took a sculpture class for fun in 2005 and

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Watch each week in Verve for a new sudoku puzzle! For those who don’t know how to play, finding the solution is tricky, but the rules are simple.The object of sudoku is to fill the empty cells with numbers between one and nine (one number only in each cell). a number should appear only once on each row, column and a region. Remember, there is only one solution for each grid, and you can solve it using logic alone.

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Valentine’s Day is over, finally. If I have to watch one more commercial about how jewelry, flowers and candy are the perfect way to say, “I love you,” a size-8 shoe will crash through my TV screen.

No matter what the media tries to tell us, there is more to love than expensive gifts and empty sentiments.

Telling someone that you love them for the first time can be one of the most stress-ful, yet rewarding, parts of a relationship. Because this is a very important relation-ship moment, I feel the need to advise those less experi-enced in the “L” word.

The first time someone tells you they love you is a very intense moment for you both. If they say it first, it has probably taken quite a lot of courage to utter those three words. It is never, ever okay, in this situation to respond with, “I know.” I don’t care how pimp you think Han Solo is. You’ll be lucky if they ever say it again if you whip this one out.

When faced with adver-sity, your average animal will fight or fly, but very rarely you will come across one who will freeze. It is thought that this response died out

through the process of evo-lution, but there are humans out there still reacting this way. If you tell someone that you love them, hopefully they won’t just stare blankly at you until you walk away.

Should this happen to you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your significant other doesn’t feel anything in return. Yes, it might mean that they’re a bit of a tool,and should work on improving the connection between their brain and mouth. Do not be discouraged. All hope is not lost.

Timing is everything in love. Waiting for more than a year to respond to your part-ner’s declaration is not going to do you any favors. Bitter-ness will inevitably ensue.

The longer you put off the “L” word, the more upset he or she will become. They will wonder if you recipro-

cate their feelings at all, and questioning your feelings will lead to questioning your whole relationship.

This is particularly true for women. Women talk. They love to share stories with their friends about how their boyfriend said “I love you” the first time. If your girl is the odd one out, it is going to leave her in an awk-ward position that she won’t thank you for.

Love is an intense emotion that shouldn’t be expressed lightly. If you are uncomfort-able expressing love early on, then you need to discuss it as soon as it comes up. When a problem is ignored, it tends to fester and rot away at the relationship’s core.

If you run across a per-son who freezes or responds with “I know,” and holds off to the last possible moment to express themselves, you might want to run for the hills. But it doesn’t necessar-ily mean they don’t love you. They could just have difficul-ty opening up. Don’t always expect the worst, but don’t let the problem go unad-dressed.

Reach Melissa Johnsonat Melissa.A.Johnson@usd.edu.

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Austin bred rockers … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, have been on the music scene for a while and released their first studio album in 1998, but they have yet to attain main commercial attention. Now with their sixth studio album released Feb. 17, these guys are ready to claim fame.

Trail of Dead consists of its main creators, Conrad Keely and Jason Reece, who switch between drumming, lead vocals and guitar. The band picked up guitarist Kevin Allen and bass-ist Neil Busch after moving to Austin, Texas. Other members include Jay Phillips, Aaron Ford and Clay Morris.

Trail of Dead’s new album, “The Century of Self,” takes the best of their previous albums and creates a coherent blend of tracks for the band. Although all the songs could be cut a little – most are more than six minutes long each contains instrumental bliss.

The vocals are a little incon-sistent. On certain tracks the vocals mesh perfectly, but other times they are a dull roar that

the instrumentals have to cover up. Since Keely and Reece switch between vocals, this explains the inconsistency of the tracks, but it is not distracting enough to bring down the album as a whole.

“Halcyon Days” is a song of epic proportions that includes a fury of strings and vocals that change pace and pull you into the song.

“Isis Unveiled” has such great guitar that the vocals blend per-fectly with it to create a dreamy, wistful track.

“Bells of Creation” reminds me of a Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”-era track: Toward the end, it picks up the tempo to

a crashing speed which sounds like the end of the track, but then surprises you by slowing down to a smooth vocal ending.

“Insatiable One” has a beau-tiful piano opening that has a haunting and mesmerizing feel throughout the song. “Insatiable One” utilizes its mesmerizing tone to exemplify the lyrics that express the desire to feel and how quickly it’s gone: “Curse the insatiable weakness of ours/does our sensations as deep as they are/are they gone in the blink of an eye?”

“The Century of Self” is an album that should be listened to as a whole. You could describe this album as an experience and one that you cannot fully immerse yourself in unless this is listened to in its entirety. For those with short

attention spans: Trust me, it’s worth it!

Even with a few shortcom-ings, “The Century of Self” is still a genuinely good album. While long at times, the album pulls off the feat of not being tedious.

“The Century of Self” and other new releases as well can be listened to for free at Spin-ner.com.

Reach reviewer Stephanie Simons atStephanie.Simons@usd.edu.

trail of dead ready to claim fame with sixth album

Out of all the time-honored horror classics and the endless number of sequels that followed them, not one deserved a reboot more than “Friday the 13th.”

In this enthralling re-imagin-ing of the franchise, we see a frightening new take on iconic horror legend Jason Voorhees.

After a monotonous 11-movie run throughout the past 20 years, “Friday the 13th” reintroduces a classic into the 21st century in a chilling new vision directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay.

The film opens with an eerie scene at Camp Crystal Lake in 1980, with Jason’s mother Pame-la Voorhees (Nana Visitor) going on a midnight rampage on all the camp counselors respon-sible for Jason’s death. She fails, and Jason’s spirit survives to carry on her mission. We then return to the present to witness the best horror movie opening I have seen in a long time.

After his sister Whitney (Amanda Righetti) and her four friends go missing on a camp-ing trip, Clay (Jared Padalecki) goes on the hunt to find her and

stumbles upon Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), her boyfriend Trent (Travis Van Winkle) and four of their friends going up to Trent’s family cabin.

Jenna, sympathetic to Clay’s cause, accompanies him into the woods and into the aban-doned and foreboding Camp Crystal Lake where they run right into Jason himself (Derek Mears). A horrific and entertain-ing bloodbath ensues while the teens experience the vengeance of Jason Voorhees firsthand.

If I had to sum up this movie in one word, it would be “epic.” “Friday the 13th” transcends a hideously long line of bland and mediocre “slasher films” and accomplishes what they didn’t –

making it actually scary. Director Marcus Nispel takes

the world of Jason to a whole new level. The sets are ominous and creepy, the acting is decent and the story is fresh while retaining all the original elements.

It reaches a new level of sex, nudity and profanity while still being tasteful, but most impor-tant, makes Jason truly frighten-ing.

The teens are good actors for the most part, but their charac-ters are cliché. A few of the guys are stereotypical jerks and a few girls still stick to being as skanky as humanly possible, but oth-erwise there are not too many problems.

While most horror movie teens are idiots, this bunch is relatively smart by not chasing after Jason or investigating mys-terious noises in the dark, which is a plus.

Easily the best part of the movie is the reinvention of Jason and the creative death scenes. Jason is no longer a slow, unin-telligent juggernaut with a machete. He actually runs after his victims, making him more

real and terrifying, which Jason definitely needed. He is what he should be: a vengeful, deformed guy in a hockey mask with a machete.

The executions are original. He doesn’t just use his machete, but instead improvises with a variety of items like a bow and arrow, a screwdriver and some-thing particularly entertaining with a sleeping bag.

While I like the scarier remake of Jason, I still find it a little odd that a 300-pound man is able to move silently and swiftly like a ninja and take out anyone. I find it hard to believe that absolutely no one can hear or see him com-ing; he is just a little hard to miss.

While this movie is not for everyone, including strong lan-guage it includes, lots of nudity, sex and grisly violence – it is truly a great work of horror.

“Friday the 13th” was scary and suspenseful the entire time, and will entertain even the most staunch horror movie hater.

Reach reviewer Gabe Jorgesenat Gabriel.Jorgensen@usd.edu.

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DiRECtoRs: Marcus nispel

WRitERs: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift

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ComPany: Crystal lake entertainment

Cast: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, aaron Yoo

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RumoR has itselma Hayek wed her ex-fiance in Paris on Valentine’s Day. Hayek, 42, and French businessman

Francois-Henri Pinault, 46, first met in Venice in March 2006. Their daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault was born in september 2007, but they called off their engagment last July.

Pinault is the CeO of PPR, a luxury goods firm that owns Gucci, Yves saint Laurent, stella McCart-ney, balenciaga, a french department store and music chain.

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1. “Friday the 13th”2. “He’s Just Not That Into

You”3. “Taken”4. “Coraline”5. “Confessions of a shopaholic”6. “Paul blart: Mall Cop” 7. “The International”8. “The Pink Panther 2”9. “slumdog Millionaire” 10. “Push”

Box O f f i ce Mov ies

1. The Fray, “The Fray”2. bruce springsteen, “Working on a Dream”3. Dierks bently, “Feel That Fire”4. Taylor swift, “Fearless”5. beyonce, “I am ... sasha

Fierce”6. Nickelback, “Dark Horse”7. Kidz bop Kids, “Kidz bop 15”8. Jamie Foxx, “Intuition”9. Kanye West, “808s & Heartbreak” 10. Keyshia Cole, “a Different

Me”

B i l l board a lbums

1. eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, “Crack a bottle”

2. Kanye West, “Heartless” 3. Lady GaGa featuring Colby

O’Donis, “Just Dance”4. Kelly Clarkson, “My Life

Would suck Without You”5. beyonce, “single Ladies

(Put a Ring On It)”6. The all-american Rejects,

“Gives You Hell”7. Taylor swift, “Love story”8. The Fray, “You Found Me”9. T.I. featuring Rihanna,

“Live Your Life” 9. britney spears, “Circus”10. Jason Mraz, “I’m Yours”

B i l l board Songs

F i c t i on Books1. “Plum spooky,” Janet

evanovich2. “The Host,” stephanie Meyer3. “The story of edgar sawtelle,”

David Wroblewski 4. “agincourt,” by bernard Cornwell5. “black Ops,” W. e. b. Griffin6. “scarpetta,” Patricia Cornwell7. “Mounting Fears,” stuart

Woods8. “The Guernesy Literary and

Potato Peel Pie society,” Mary ann shaffer and annie barrows

9. “Cross Country,” James Patterson10. “The Hour I First believed,”

Wally Lamb

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• harry Basil “the movie Guy”March 67:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.• Boys of the loughMarch 197:30 p.m.

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• Winter Jam 2009March 16 p.m.

Omaha , neb .Qwest Center

• Celine DionFeb. 268 p.m.

Minneapo l i sXcel Energy Center

•fleetwood macMarch 38 p.m.

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“the Century of self”

laBEl: Justice Records

lEnGth: 43 minutes, 12 seconds

GEnRE: Pop, Rock, alternative Rock

sonGs: “halcyon Days,” “isis Unveiled”

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“friday the 13th”

mElissa Johnson

• “Years of Refusal,” Morrissey

• “The annie lennox Collection (CD/DVD),” annie lennox

• “Willie and the Wheel - Delux Version,” Willie nelson

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The Sanford School of Medicine is seeking nominations for the Division of Basic Biomedical Science Outstanding Educator Award.

ing and shimmying type moves. Originating in the Middle

East, Africa and the Mediterra-nean, the dance movement also is an excellent way to improve posture, tone muscle, lose weight and reduce stress.

Bennett began offering les-sons after friends and family encouraged her to teach. Ben-nett said her favorite thing about teaching is seeing that “light” shine in the students when they get a dance move right.

Debbie Wyant, a class partici-pant from Sioux City, Iowa, said she thinks belly dancing is a fun way to exercise and stay toned.

Wyant has been belly dancing for three years.

“It’s a great way to tone your body and to find muscles you never thought you had,” Wyant said. “One of the greatest rewards is getting a dance move you have worked on for so long.”

Senior Drina Rezac has also taken part in the class at Heart & Soul. Rezac said she always

wanted to learn how to belly dance and after she saw flyers around campus, she decided now was the time to start.

“We have learned so much in just four lessons. It is so much fun,” Rezac said.

Lynn Doxtad, also from Sioux City, commutes to Vermillion twice a week for the dance les-sons.

Doxtad was first introduced to belly dancing when she was younger, after participating in classes at her local YWCA. In addition to traveling around the United States, Doxtad has also visited Turkey and Australia to bring home beautiful costumes

and pieces to make belly danc-ing even more exciting. Doxtad said her favorite part about belly dancing is the “bling” her cos-tumes have.

Wyant also enjoys sewing the costumes and creating “master-pieces.”

Belly dancing has served as a networking technique for Dox-tad. Recently, she traveled to Australia for a convention where she met another belly dancer sitting at her table. The Austra-lian dancer then invited Doxtad to stay at her house the follow-ing week to enjoy her remaining time in Australia.

Bennett has also enjoyed the networking and relationship-building benefits of belly danc-ing.

“My friends and family said I would have a ball teaching – and since I have been teaching, it has been nothing but a ball,” Bennett said.

Reach reporter Lacey.Hofhenkeat Lacey.Hofhenke@usd.edu.

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BRian BRoEKEmEiER / thE VolantEFreshman Caitlin McGrew performs arm movements during class. Belly dancing uses the torso and hips to create sensual, shimmying moves.

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Summer is just around the corner, and with high expecta-tions of freedom and fun come high piles of applications for jobs and internships. Along with the paperwork, however, comes the need for a perfectly constructed resume.

A good resume broadcasts experience, quality and com-petence to hiring committees at first glance. Done right, a strong resume can be tweaked for individual jobs, serving its writer for years to come. Here’s a step-by-step approach to showcasing qualifications and impressing potential employ-ers with a winning resume.

sTeP ONe: PROFessIONaLIsMThe first impression of an

applicant’s quality is the quality of the resume itself.

The format of a resume is quickly judged. Billie Streufert, director of the Career Develop-ment Center at USD, stressed the importance of the first impression.

“Formatting is key,” she said, “People do not read resumes; they skim them.”

When considering design, keep in mind who will be con-sidering the application. Doug Peterson, associate professor of psychology and director of University Honors, said a group of “stuffy old academics,” for example, might not be quite as impressed with a ritzy design as a committee for a job in the technology sector.

Quality in the resume itself matters, too. It’s always worth the cost to invest in profession-al resume paper, Peterson said. Heavy resume paper shows that the applicant is serious about the job and invests time in doing a good job.

Although a well-designed resume is important, Peterson said, it is the quality of the can-didate that ultimately lands the job or internship.

“You can put a pig in a prom dress, but it’s still a pig,” he said.

sTeP TWO: quaLIFICaTIONsEvery experience can be use-

ful resume material. Streufert said one of the biggest miscon-ceptions students have about resume writing is that “experi-ence” is limited to paid employ-ment.

Everything from athletics to Greek life can be molded to show qualifications.

“Think broadly,” Streufert said, “You can also draw upon service learning, the action component of the IdEA pro-gram.”

While sorting material into the more concrete format of a resume, Streufert said to expand job-specific skills into what she calls “transfer-able skills,” qualifications like working with a team, conflict management and multitasking under pressure.

Gathering qualifications from different areas dem-onstrates well-roundedness. Senior Miranda Vanden Brink said that in her experience,

employers and internship committees, as well as gradu-ate programs, look for broadly successful candidates.

Recently accepted to the MD/PhD program at the San-ford School of Medicine, Van-den Brink said the best appli-cants for the program she chose are well-rounded, not with “solely research or service experience.”

After identifying transferable skills, go one step further.

“Demonstrate you did (things) well,” Streufert said. “Using numbers is good. You organized an event — probably some marketing involved — and it was attended by a large volume of people.”

Streufert said to make every skill in a resume “meet the

needs of the employer.”Mike Traxinger, internship

coordinator for Rep. Stepha-nie Herseth Sandlin, said in an e-mail that interns applying for a position either in-state or in Washington, D.C., should exem-plify interpersonal and written skills within the resume.

“The Congresswoman repre-sents a very diverse and dynam-ic constituency,” he added. “As such, a candidate should dem-onstrate an interest and com-mitment to public service as well as an ability to understand the issues that South Dakotans face on a daily basis.”

sTeP 3: aVOID Faux Pas After the resume is written,

Streufert says to check for com-mon errors.

“You never have a second chance to create that first impression,” she said.

Streufert emphasized the importance of wording, and reminded that submitting a resume is equivalent to submit-ting a writing sample.

She also said unremarkable resumes often use weak words like “helped,” which do not convey competence.

“You don’t get a degree, you earn one,” she said “You set a goal, you set out to achieve it and you did.”

She also recommended edit-ing carefully, avoiding negative language as well as typos. A resume declaring, “Met quota despite the loss of a major account” only highlights that the applicant lost a client.

Additionally, keep profes-sionalism in all communica-tion. Students now realize the risks of being unprofessional on Facebook, but Streufert warned to look out for less obvious risks, like voicemail messages.

Employers calling for an interview do not want to hear the music while their party is reached, Streufert said.

The last piece of advice Streufert gave is positive.

“Be proactive, start early, utilize the vast resources,” she said. “We are excited to help students achieve their goals, whatever they may be.”

Reach reporter Catherine Patrickat Catherine.Patrick@usd.edu.

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Resume 10 REsumE Dos anD Don’ts· DO use a professional profile or qualifications section in your resume.· DON’T confuse your resume with your autobiography. address aspects of life that meet an employer’s needs.· DO give the most weight to your most recent accomplishments.· DON’T use pronouns or articles. They slow down the reader and take up space.· DO pay as much attention to design as you do content.

· DON’T repeat the same action words throughout your resume. · DO edit and proofread mercilessly. Reduce fluff and make every word count.· DON’T make your resume a list of your job duties, make it a list of your accomplishments.· DO quantify your impact on the organizations you have worked for. · DON’T make things up or inflate your skills.

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Entertainment In 2008, 32 of the 45 student or-ganizations that received fund-ing from student fees failed to utilize more than 50% of their budget allocation. These un-spent funds totaled more than $20,000 last fiscal year; we will redirect them towards concerts and entertainment.

Dead Week Simply put, a dead week func-tions to prohibit exams during the week prior to finals. As a senator, Blake worked with Sen. Karl Giuseffi to introduce the is-sue to faculty. Help Blake and Anne make dead week a reality.

Sustainability By supporting SAGE, the Car-bon Task Force, and Recycle-Mania, Blake and Anne will strive to promote environmental sustainability at USD.

Housing We support the University’s cur-rent push to create new apart-ment-style housing options for sophomores and upperclass-men.

stilwell: Competition brings out the best in artistshas loved it ever since. He said he’d like to get accepted into graduate school for sculpture and eventually teach.

“I have fun working with it and I enjoy showing others how to do something. It’s all about problem solving,” Tobin said.

Tobin’s stone sculptures in the exhibit play off the theme of light and shadow. Several of the pieces are lit from below, and Tobin arranged them under the lights in the gallery to get the right effect.

The sculptures aren’t meant to be representational of any-thing, Tobin said, but take on organic shapes like waves.

Of his five pieces in the Stilwell exhibit, Tobin said his strongest is a sculpture called, “Santorini Setting.” Sculpted from orange Colorado Calcite, Tobin has been working on “Setting” for more than a year. All together, “Setting” took 170 hours to create, around 40 of which were spent polishing and sanding the piece.

“I spent entirely too much time on this,” Tobin said.

“Setting” also won the Cen-ter for the Fine Arts Dean’s Pur-chase Award, which came as a surprise to Tobin.

“I didn’t think the dean would select this, but I’m hon-ored to get the Dean’s Award,” he said.

Best of Show was awarded to Dale Aadland for his oil on can-vas piece titled, “Holocaust.” Welch said the prize could not have gone to a more deserving candidate.

“It’s a great piece,” Welch said. “Dale worked his ass off. I’m really happy he won.”

Another award selection which came as a bit of a sur-prise to the artist was graduate student Cody Spiegel’s metal-work sculpture, “Cascade.”

“Cascade” is a welded steel piece designed to look like a

wave, and made from smaller pieces.

“I wanted to capture the movement and energy of a crashing wave,” Spiegel said. “To do that, I used all these tube pieces which added a lot of variety and energy to it.”

Spiegel used more than 1,000 pieces of salvaged metal during the course of a month to craft “Cascade.” He said it’s one of the biggest pieces he’s made.

All of Spiegel’s hard work will be on display for the rest of the student body to see after Stilwell is finished; “Cascade” was purchased by the Muenster University Center.

“They said it’s the first pur-chase award to go into the new university center, so I was very happy about that,” Spiegel said.

Spiegel has another piece in the show, a similar metalwork piece that he crafted within 60 hours. He said he likes working with metal because it’s durable

and malleable.“If you make a mistake, you

can cut it off or melt it off. It’s pretty easily changeable and I have the freedom to work with it.”

This is Spiegel’s first year par-ticipating in the Stilwell exhibi-tion, and he said he enjoyed the experience.

“It’s a lot bigger show than we had at my undergrad school,” he said. “It was a lot of fun. I liked the fact that people other than students came to see it.”

Likewise, graduate student Sara Fakhraie hopes students will come and check out the Stilwell exhibition. She has three paintings in the show, and won Best of Show in 2008. She said receiving the award was “very exciting.”

“It was really surprising,” she said. “It was a great push to do better and keep going at it.”

Fakhraie uses cultural imag-es in her paintings, focusing on her own Japanese and Iranian heritage at the moment.

“I used imageries and pat-terns from those two cultures and they sort of mix together and collide,” she said. “I guess I’m asking how one’s identity is constructed, especially in our society now where you see more and more intermingling of different cultures.”

Fakhraie, who also works in the Main Gallery, said this year’s selections are “just as good” as the previous years” and that there’s more variety in the different mediums.

“I would like for people to come and see because it’s real-ly what our department has to offer. Since we’re so separated from the rest of campus, stu-dents don’t have the chance to come in and look, and we have a lot of really, really good art to look at,” she said.

The Stilwell Art Exhibition runs until March 5 in the Main Gallery.

Reach reporter Jessica Kokeshat Jessica.L.Kokesh@usd.edu.

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JEssiCa KoKEsh / thE VolantEThree of graduate student Sara Fakhraie’s paintings hang in the Main Gallery. Fakhraie uses images from Japanese and Iranian culture.

JEssiCa KoKEsh / thE VolantESenior Justin Tobin carves a piece of stone Tuesday morning in the Sculpture work room. Tobin has five stone pieces on display in the Stilwell exhibition.

JEssiCa KoKEsh / thE VolantEGraduate student Cody Spiegel’s steel work sculpture will be the first piece of student artwork to go in the MUC.