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Lakeland's band and choral fall concert hits a hight note
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Features
Alumni Now, Mark Schowalter and seeing past the setbacks
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Cheese Bowl Champs PAGE 15
What's writers block? PAGE 11
By Becky MeyerStaff [email protected]
Tom Franklin and Linda Aschbrenner visit LC for Great Lakeland Writers Festival
How many students need to be more cautious
Phi Delta Omega Sorority promotes sexual assult awarness this week
The Phi Delta Omega sorority organized Sexual
Assault Awareness Week, and it began on Monday, Nov. 10. Megan Locy, president of the sorority, said this event was organized “because it affects a lot of people…it’s a silent crime….We want to let people know that it’s not their fault….And some of our sisters have been affected by it.”
“We want all our sisters to have a voice,” she said. The sorority put up facts about sexual assault all over Lakeland campus. “One of our friends took a fact off the wall and start-ed wearing it,” said Crystal Peltier, a member of the Phi Delta sorority. On Monday, the soror-ity hosted a “girl’s night” in Kruegar Hall. Information was given to the attendants about sexual assault along with ways to protect oneself and steps to take when one
becomes a victim of sexual assault. On Wednesday, Brenda Powers from Safe Harbor, a sexual violence clinic, spoke in the Laun Center. Sophomore Lorenda Collins does not notice a sig-nificant problem with sexual assault on Lakeland campus. “I never heard anything about it,” she said. Sophomore Amanda Vardell said that it “depends on who’s doing the assault-ing….Sometimes people will screw around and ‘sexually
assault’ each other as a joke.” Vardell said that there are those who joke around and those who actually sexually assault. The sorority is selling t-shirts at a cost of $4, giving away pins, and conducting a 50/50 raffle in the cafeteria. The proceeds from the raffle will go Safe Harbor. Locy said of sexual assault victims at Lakeland, “We want them to learn that they have a voice, and they shouldn’t be afraid to use it…they are not alone.”
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Education Students attend coference in Madison
By Nicole [email protected]
StWEA members converse with veteran teachers for new ideas
Womens volleyball wins conference
Members of the new Student Wis. Education
Association (StWEA) attended the Wis. Education Association Council annual teachers’ con-ference hosted in Madison Wis. on Oct. 31.
Co-Presidents of StWEA,
Tabitha Walsdorf and Rob Pockat, organized the trip. Eight members attended the conference, which held semi-nars on topics such as, “using magic in the classroom, suc-cessful teaching strategies for every classroom, and ev-erything you wanted to know about teaching that you didn’t learn in college.”
“Some of the workshops
we went to we learned how to teach using stories and how to use storytelling to increase student comprehension,” said Pockat.
“The conference was re-ally geared towards all grades, whether you were interested in teaching pre-K all the way through high school,” said Kel-ly Ochalek.
“It gave us as students,
and student teachers a chance to mix with already veteran teachers,” she said.
“It doesn’t matter how much you teach, you still should be looking for new ideas and trying to be innovative in your classroom. The people that were there were there because they’re still trying to
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Sophomore Grace Jairo and protein aggragation
Student presents research at Annual Argonne Symposium
Sophomore, Grace Jairo, presented her protein
research at 19th Annual Argonne Undergraduate Research Symposium on Nov. 7.
“There’s all kinds of top-ics; everything ranging from engineering, to math, to sci-ence, to structural biology,” said Assistant Professor of
Biochemistry, Jeff Schwehm, who was also the Co-chair for the Genomic Genetic Struc-tural Biology Division for the symposium.
Jairo has been working on this protein research since the summer.
Extensive hours were spent in the lab denaturing the protein with a sugar sub-stance and incubation. The presentation was about how the polypeptide models could be stabilized with different
kinds of sugars. “The amyloid beta pep-
tide, it’s just a protein, a cou-ple of polypeptides that we use. We were interested in trying to find out how it be-haves in the presence of oth-er molecules, because some of the proteins behave the same, and they in turn cause disease,” said Jairo.
Chronic wasting disease and diabetes are diseases to which the protein that she studied is related.
“You expect something to happen, and it doesn’t hap-pen. Ninety percent of the time what you expected, nev-er happens,” she said.
Jairo was the first in her section at the symposium to present her research. “I was kind of nervous, because I had to set the standard for everyone else,” she said.
“She did a really good job. She talked about how we kept preventing proteins from ag-gregating,” said Shwehm.
“Apart from my own presentation and my own research I surely learned a lot,” Jairo said. “I went to the symposium and there were several other students from different colleges and univer-sities, and they had amazing projects.
“What was interesting about it was they were us-ing the same machine that we used for our project in a totally different way,” Jairo said. “It was interesting be-cause I didn’t even know the machine could do what they were trying to do.”
A keynote speaker during the banquet presented “The Physics of Music,” which was a highlight of the trip, but Jairo also admired the Ad-vanced Photon Source Labo-ratory.
“It was a good experience. Especially, walking in the lab is totally different from what you do in class.”
Below: Jeff Scwehm dines with Tessa Lulloff and Grace Jairo at the annual Argonne Symposium.
Annual United Way campaignStudents encouraged to contribute this yearBy Erik HyrkasManaging [email protected]
Some Lakeland faculty and staff may have blue
and orange hair on the last day of finals thanks to a United Way Fundraiser next week. The annual fundrais-er, organized with the help of Jack Schoemer, director of human resources, Shikara Beaudoin, accounting and human resources coordi-nator and Jennifer Graff, senior and human resourc-es student worker, and the rest of the United Way team, involves everyone on campus this year.
United Way envelopes were sent out to all Lakeland students and staff. They in-cluded information and con-tribution forms, as well as a letter from Dr. Gould encour-aging all Lakeland affiliates to contribute to the She-boygan and Plymouth Area United Way.
Running from Nov. 17 – 21, the fundraiser allows all faculties, students, and staff
to donate money to the Unit-ed Way in buckets located in the Campus Center, Busi-ness Office, Wehr Center, and Bossard Hall (during lunch hours).
Each donation bucket will correspond to one of seven dif-ferent Lakeland faculty and staff members. Those whose buckets reach $50 will dye their hair orange and blue on Tues., Dec. 2.
All of these Lakeland af-filiates have volunteered to dye their hair blue and orange on the last day of finals for the cause: Rick Gaumer, associate professor of accounting, Rich Christenson, associate profes-sor of religion, Jeff Schwehm, assistant professor of bio-chemistry, Don Francis, pro-fessor of sociology & nonprofit organization management, Charlie Krebs, assistant pro-fessor of theatre & speech,
Germaine Souik, senior ac-counting analyst, and Larry Marcus, associate director of IT operations.
Over 85% of the contri-butions collected during the week will fund United Way programs in the community. Ranging from substance and domestic abuse to positive youth development and el-derly care, the Sheboygan and Plymouth Area United Way supports these programs. The remaining donations will be used to fund the expenses of the fundraiser.
“Fair Share Incentives” are also available for United Way contributors who donate 1% of their salary or one hour of pay each month. Those who become fair share givers will have their name put in a drawing and Dr. Gould will select the winners for prizes.
Twelve winners will re-ceive a month-long parking spot of their choice. Three will receive a $20 Daily Grind gift certificate, three will receive $20 Campus Shop gift cer-tificates, four will receive a
Lakeland College T-shirt, one will receive a Lakeland Col-lege outrigger jacket, and two will receive a Lakeland Col-lege Fleece Blanket.
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EDUCATION FROM FRONT PAGElearn, which is something they teach you in school; you’re nev-er done learning, but it’s nice to see it in practice.”
“Well my goal as a student in the education program at Lakeland College is to become the best teacher I can be. And hopefully this experience that helped me achieve this goal,” Rob Pockat.
Carl Olsen presented, “The Magic of Teaching” at the conference, and he asked to come speak at Lakeland. “He has a personal goal of speak-ing to a million people, before he officially retires. And he is at about 750,000 right now,” said Pockat.
The tentative schedule for Olsen’s appearance is this spring, and it will be open to not only education majors, but faculty and teachers from the surrounding areas as well.
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Lakeland needs new director of security
By Jessica LillieA&E [email protected]
2008 Presidential election recapBarack Obama wins after longest campaign in history
Jason Wilson, the direc-tor of security at
Lakeland College resigned Nov. 5. While Lakeland looks for a replacement, Sam Scharinger, assistant director campus safety/security, will be assuming some of Wilson’s responsi-bilities. “The responsibility is that we need to keep the campus safe and the stu-dents safe. That’s the job of security,” said Sandy Gibbons-Vollbrecht. Security work-study employees have also resigned within the last week. Two of the resig-nations were not related to Wilson’s resignation, while one student refused to comment on the sub-ject. There are 12 students employed for work-study, and Gibbons-Vollbrecht said they are looking to hire more. Security is always on duty. Security can be reached at extension 1126.
Barack Obama told sup-porters on Tuesday, Nov.
4, that “change has come to America.” He celebrated his victory in Chicago’s Grant Park, the city where he launched his political career.
Obama’s words echoed those of Martin Luther King as he gave his acceptance speech. "The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America … I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you … we as a peo-ple will get there. … To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn … I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too."
A massive crowd of sup-porters gathered outside of Grant Park with numbers topping millions. In that crowd, familiar faces could be seen, including talk show host Oprah Winfrey and the tear-ful Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Before the rally/ parade, Senator McCain conceded the race to Barack Obama in
front of supporters in Phoe-nix, Arizona. "Today, I was a candidate for the highest of-fice in the country I love so much, and tonight, I remain her servant," McCain said. Both candidates vowed to work together during the next term to repair the damaged economy and work through America’s wars with Iraq and Afghanistan.
With results pouring in during the closing of polls, many believed Obama cinched the nomination when he won Ohio and Pennsylvania, which were both considered must-
have states for McCain.Across the country, poll
turnouts were high, and CNN showed i-reports of lines that often took hours to get through.
According to the Associ-ated Press, America voted in record numbers, with a 64 percent turnout, the high-est since 1908. Nearly 128.5 million Americans voted, giv-ing the nation a 61.7 percent voter turnout.
The youth were among Obama’s biggest supporters, with nearly 70 percent of the youth vote going to the Demo-
cratic ticket. With 364 elector-al votes and a majority vote of 53 percent, the Democratic ticket won their biggest ma-jority in 15 years.
The 2008 election cam-paign was the longest in his-tory lasting 21 months. The battle between the two par-ties was steeped in advertise-ments, with Obama spending more than any other candi-date in history on election ads. The majority of Obama’s campaign was funded through donors over the internet, with over three million indi-viduals giving money to the
Stem cell presentation at LakelandKathleen Rath Marr discusses national convention and controaversy
Kathleen Rath Marr, pro-fessor of biology and
chair of the Natural Science Division, held a presentation about stem cell research on Tuesday Nov. 11. She attended The World Stem Cell Summit Sept. 21-23 and relayed infor-mation to interested members of the Lakeland community.
Rath Marr, who re-ceived her masters and Ph.D. from Marquette in reproduc-tive biology, presented some complex information about stem cells, in a simple man-ner.
“When an egg cell gets fertilized, you have what they just call a zygote. And a couple hours later that zygote starts to divide into some-thing called cleavage,” she said. “About six days later it starts to form a two-layer em-bryo.”
The common use of the term embryo is that of a fertilized ovum, but Rath Marr explained there are dif-ferent stages of an embryo. The two layer stage consists of the ectoderm cells and the endoderm cells, while the three-layer embryo also has the mesoderm layer.
The key process is gastrolation, which is how each of the three layers will form different anatomical
aspects of the body. The ec-toderm will form nerves and skin. The endoderm will even-tually become bone, tendons, and muscles. The mesoderm will be the digestive track.
“If you can get those cells before they actually started to differentiate, now you have a really powerful tool,” Rath Marr said.
“Our microscopy and our pipetting techniques and our separation techniques are so good; you can separate ectodermal cells from endo-dermal cells. You can actually separate out nerve from skin cells. It’s that good,” said Rath Marr. “It’s not easy to do, but it’s doable.
“Every one of those cells are pluripotent. They have the ability to differenti-ate. So if you can capture the cells at this point you could tissue culture out liver cells, heart cell, lung cells, pancre-ases cells, spinal cells, brain cells. You name it; any type of cells you can derive from these cells.”
These cells which are in the correct differentia-tion stage can potentially be harnessed to create human organs for transplant. Many people who need transplants could be saved by this tech-nology, but using fetal stem cells is not considered to be ethical for some.
“As a biologist I know the scenario, but as a Catholic I’m supposed to believe that
human life begins at concep-tion,” Rath Marr said. “I’ve always been in favor of stem cell research, and to help all those people who could be helped.”
She also mentioned J. Lawrence Merritt, Depart-ment of Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics from the University of Washington. Merritt did a poster presenta-tion at the Stem Cell Summit entitled, “When does human life really begin?”
“Depending when you define when human life be-gins is where this all centers down. Most people don’t have a problem with bone mar-row, cadaver, blood types of things,” She said. “But when we get to the fetal cells from the aborted fetuses or the embryonic stem cells, from the eggs that did not or won’t implant in the mom, that’s where the question is.”
Eight weeks after an ovum is fertilized, it techni-cally becomes a fetus. The rationale behind Merritt’s poster made the point that human life begins not when an embryo is conceived, but when there is recognition of pregnancy. That would mean that life begins after implan-tation of the embryo in the uterus.
Due to the controver-sy, our nation’s politics have put a moratorium on stem cell research. Therefore, we do not have federal funding
for such research in the Unit-ed States. Other countries are studying the uses of stem cells, and have developed some therapies. The Mora-torium on stem cell research may be lifted, as we sign in our new president.
While there is no fed-eral funding now, according to Rath Marr, California is funding research as a state, and there are other private contributions made towards the cause.
Students who attend-ed Tuesday said they liked the information that was pre-sented as well as the delivery of the presentation.
“I thought it was pretty interesting how she got to go and find out about this stuff that is important to science, and how it relates to the classes we have to take like anatomy and physiology,” said Junior Andy Marks.
Junior Emily Agner weighed in on the controver-sy, “I don’t think there should be any religion aspect in the stem cell research. It’s like a government policy, and we live in a free country. So there is freedom of religion, so you can choose to do the stem cell research or you don’t.”
Rath Marr presented what she took away from the World Stem Cell Sum-mit because she said that it will hopefully inform people about the importance of this research.
campaign.Another key to Obama’s
victory came with the mobili-zation of “ground troops,” with many thousands of Obama supporters canvassing neigh-borhoods and making calls to individual voters and fami-lies. These ground troops of-ten carried voter registration forms, which helped increase the amount of voters in key states like Ohio.
Despite this great vic-tory, Obama has much work ahead of him. With America’s economy in turmoil, the hous-ing market in collapse, and two wars draining resources, Obama will be faced with many challenges, which he made clear in his acceptance speech.
“So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of respon-sibility, where each of us re-solves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this fi-nancial crisis taught us any-thing, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”
Obama accepted Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff on Thursday, November 6. Obama will be inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
By Nicole [email protected]
Above: President elect, Barack Obama gives his victory speech in Grant Park of Chicago, ILL. Nov. 4.
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PHOTOOPINIONWith the current economic crisis, do you plan to shop on Black Friday?
If so, are you doing anything differently?
Raina Treviño Junior
Criminal Justice
“I think it’s a lot of chaos on Black Friday, so that’s why I chose not to go. I usually
have someone else go shopping for me.”
Greg Hopkins Director of Dining
Services
“I’m going to Myrtle Beach, SC, with my wife and daughters,
so I won’t be shopping that day. But we are
going to cut way back this year.”
Dominique WhiteFreshman
Fitness Studies
“I plan to shop on Black Friday. I’m
going to spend more money than I did last year, because last year I didn’t spend any. I’ve never done it before.”
Kayann BotanaSophomore
Music Education and Vocal performance
“I might shop on Black Friday. I’ll
spend less this year, because I don’t have
a job right now.”
Jenny Adams Junior
Psychology
“I’ll be working, but I’ll be fighting my way
through the crowds after work. Pretty
much the same thing I always do."
Carlea Liermann Sophomore
Non-Profit Management
“I’m shopping on Black Friday, be-
cause it is a tradition that my mom and I
have done for the last three years.”
Janet Bragg Sophomore
Business Management
“I might. I’m kind of broke, so I’ll spend less
money."
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From Senior Carlos Millan
Like many of my fellow classmates on Tuesday, I
was glued to the television with high anticipation that the candidate I had voted for earlier would win. At about 10:00 PM the election was called and Barack Obama was named the 44th President of the United States.
About twenty minutes later, Senator John McCain made a speech congratulating Senator Obama for his victory and thanked his supporters for making this race a close one. He gave his support to Sena-tor Obama and asked his fol-lowers to do the same to unify this country.
Senaor McCain gave one of his strongest speeches that night, and if he had talked that way more during his cam-
paign, this race would have been even closer. News sta-tions showed some people in disappointment and others in elation.
The Atmosphere here at Lakeland was similar, too. We had people turning off their televisions and others rushing into the street. Too bad secu-rity had to shut them down. There were people crying be-cause of the step America had taken. Even some of those who didn’t vote for him applauded his victory and were happy that America could move on from its tainted past.
The next day was a day of mourning for some and eu-phoria for others. The elec-toral map didn’t express how close this election really was. The popular vote count was 53 percent Obama and 46 percent McCain. We had states so close
that only tens of thousands separated the candidates from victory. In Missouri, Senator McCain was up by only 5,000 votes. So, I can understand why some people don’t want to see an Obama sticker or why people have some anger to-wards others openly celebrat-ing Obama’s victory. But I can’t excuse egocentric prejudice.
On Wednesday, I over-heard several people who were upset about the result going so far as to say that President Obama will eventually be as-sassinated and we should stop our celebration, or at least en-joy it as long as we can; even a girl I thought I knew well said, “I’ll be on the assassination team!” I know all 56 million who voted for John McCain are upset that their candidate of choice did not win, but there is absolutely no excuse to use
the loss to further push this country back to an era of an-ger, hatred, and oppression. I want this campus to see that America has changed. We can no longer believe things are true simply because we have always believed it. We need to leave egocentric thinking to-ward blacks or minorities be-hind. We can no longer believe a successful minority member can be squashed like a bug, be-cause he overcame his stereo-types.
As a minority, I take of-fence when people associate a successful minority with as-sassination. Does this mean if I escape my stereotypes and refuse to mow lawns for a liv-ing, you are going to hold me back because you are comfort-able having me in my “place?” We need to have faith that the America of old won’t show its
ugly face (a face of racism, prejudice, and oppression), and that it has been buried with the past. America of old is a face of ignorance and petty thinking; a new America would abolish the fear of minorities and the prejudices associated with that fear. To do this, we need to eliminate egocentric thinking from this atmosphere and country. Something is never true because you believe it. It is never true because we believe it. It is never true be-cause we want to believe it. It is definitely never true because we have always believed it. It is true because we have expe-rienced it and because we have made it through our drive, de-termination, and most of all, our spirit.
From Offenhiser Professor of History and Political Science Richard Wixon
Many have spoken of the obvious historical signif-
icance of the recent presiden-tial election, an event which has resonated around the world. Whether or not you voted for or against Barack Obama, whether or not he lives up to his promises and solves the problems that our nation faces, the United States of America is again a beacon, a model of how diverse people can, while remaining unique and proud of their diversity, not merely be tolerant and co-exist but come together to face humanity’s many chal-lenges.
Our American nation was founded in hope, optimism and example. In places such as Pennsylvania, there was hope for a place of religious tolerance; in Virginia, the op-
timism of a new-found wealth; and in Massachusetts, an ex-ample of a shining city on the hill. Yet after 1619, the cruel savage institution of slavery blighted the land of the free and tarnished the nobility of our drive for freedom. Our rev-olution did serve as a model to the rest of the world, leading to successful struggles for free-dom and tragic excesses such as the reign of terror in revolu-tionary France.
As our nation evolved and went through the horrific and heroic struggle of the Civil War; we began to realize the dream of the Declaration of Indepen-dence. Yet instead of leading the world, we were in many ways behind in the greatest of human challenges. We surged forward becoming the greatest industrial power on this plan-et, and then led the world in its massive war against Fas-cism and its struggle with op-pressive communism. The end
of World War II led to the real-ization of the dream of Wood-row Wilson’s self determina-tion and Franklin Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter as colonized people won their freedom, a process culminating with the fall of the Soviet empire.
In the midst of our drive to develop a continent and win two World Wars and a Cold War, ideals were at times for-gotten and opportunities lost, but we created one of the most universally prosperous, demo-cratic and free nations the world would ever know.
Yet with every achieve-ment and success comes a new problem a new challenge. As the great and oppressive em-pires of the European nations and the repressive Commu-nist states collapsed, opening freedom’s door to billions, a new threat reared it ominous head. Free people can slip into traditional ethnic and reli-gious animosities that can and
have produced vicious conflicts in many areas of the world. The United States is unique not only in its size, wealth, military power and technical achievement, but also in its great diversity.
The human race faces many great challenges, aids, economic advancement and global warming to mention a few. But NONE is as over-whelming as our need to find a way to live and work together. Our words can inspire, but our actions can lead in the only way possible to lead, by ex-ample. May we live up to the better portion of our past, and may the rest of the world’s na-tions, each in their own way, find a method to bridge differ-ences and compromise on dis-putes. We can learn from and truly honor history without being trapped by its conflicts.
THAT would be a pro-found change that all could embrace.
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MEDIAREVIEWSGreat Lakes Writers FestivalLakeland hosts authors Tom Franklin and Linda AschbrennerBy Dawn HayfordCopy Editor
On Thursday, Nov. 6, students
filled the Bradley auditorium to hear readings by Linda Aschbrenner and Tom Franklin as part of the eleventh annual Great Lakes Writers’ Festival.
A s c h b r e n n e r, a noted publisher and poet, said that poets write about two things, love and death. Thursday morning, she read a number of poems about love, particu-larly the love of fam-ily. Her poems are rhythmic and have a wonderful sense of sound with allitera-tion.
Franklin start-ed off by telling the audience a memory from his childhood triggered by stand-ing behind the po-dium in front of the audience. He read two short stories. During “Naptime,” the audience was eerily quiet as Franklin weaved a shame-lessly honest story about two parents frustrated with their colicky newborn. His descrip-tions were unique and jar-ring.
“I thought it was great that we could have the poet and the author bring their words to life at the convocation. It was awesome,” said senior writing
major Erik Hyrkas.Following the convocation
reading, workshops were held from 2-4 p.m. in Laun. The workshops were open to any-one who wanted to go.
Attendees at Asch-brenner’s poetry workshop were made to write four po-ems: a poem based on a set of words, a poem about snow, a list poem, and a dramatic monologue. Each participant read their work and received feedback from the other at-
tendants and Aschbrenner. Franklin had attendees read a few short stories and dis-cussed what makes a story sappy and what makes a story strong.
Thursday night, Asch-brenner and Franklin read in the Pub following a wine and cheese social hour and were available for book signings.
Aschbrenner read her col-lection of ghost/death poems. Her poetry ranged from som-ber to humorous. Franklin
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read from his novel “Smonk.” After he read the first chapter, I wanted to go buy the book.
On Friday, Aschbrenner and Franklin held workshops again, starting at 2:15 p.m.
Franklin’s workshop went for an hour instead of two, so that he could catch a flight home to Mississippi. During his workshop, he discussed the three things necessary for writing fiction: person, place, and problem. During the Friday workshop, stu-
dents worked with Franklin to write a story on the white-board. Tom focused on vary-ing sentence lengths and not focusing on too much descrip-tion at one time.
The Great Lakes Writers’ Festival is a celebration of the written word and a pleasure to attend. It gives students exposure to current writers they would not experience in a literature class.
Josh J. Davila plays sweet indie-pop tunes, but lacks experienceImagine a friend of yours,
the guy living next door to your house, who sometimes had setbacks but is usually well off. When teen angst sets in, your neighbor friend withdraws and starts playing songs on his out-of-tune gui-tar, and some of them are just God-awful.
Unlike that neighbor who eventually outgrows his mu-sic phase, Josh J. Davila kept playing and grew musically into a striking, but still young, musician, and he still sounds a bit like the boy next door.
Out of Freehold, NJ, Josh J. Davila has a light, nervous voice which plays over his
mainly acoustic guitar with little else in the way of in-struments. Some of his tracks have a few piano riffs to break up the sound. Mostly simple pop guitar and pop lyrics, the tracks have a recognizable feel.
This familiar sound is best heard in his lead track, “Over-cast.” Although the song is a new adaptation of open chord tuning, it’s played in the same vein as Oasis’ “Wonderwall.” For Davila, his own original sound has yet to be fully re-alized instrumentally, but is evident in his lilting vocals.
Although he describes himself as a folk / blues /
minimalist, there is a com-plete lack of blues chords and certainly no true folk sounds. There is a bit of minimalism in his lack of instruments, but in general minimalist artists lend themselves to no more than two instruments, includ-ing vocals; at times, Davila breaks into three. At most, he is a pop-indie musician and nothing much else.
The page layout is a bit sloppy, with a plain black and grey background but banners that stretch beyond the width of the page. His “about me” section is one long, grammati-cal mess of a paragraph which could use some basic editing.
His photos show his age more than his songs. With a few photos of him jamming on his guitar in Abercrombie and Fitch clothes, he looks young right down to his unclear face. The majority of comments on these pictures are from girls declaring how adorable he looks.
It’s clear that Josh J. Da-vila has serious potential. His voice alone could carry his musical career. If he keeps up the music, we might be hear-ing him on the radio in a few years, singing his indie-pop ballads for the next genera-tion of teenage girls to fall in love with.
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Above: Tom Franklin and Linda Asch-brenner read in the pub for the Great Lakes Writers Festival on Thursday, November 6.
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CAMPUSREVIEWS
Sunday, November 9, pre-ceding a song from the
bells the real music began. After, guest conductor,
Becky Marcus a 1996 alumni, lead the combined choirs in the Alma Mater, the Frauen-chor Choir, with readied voices, took the stage.
“Do you fathom why my soul begins a-singing/like a maiden answering her lov-er’s call?”
The single line from the Alma Mater reflects their melody.
Following the Frauen-chor choir, the concert was hijacked by the Lakeland Singers. Professor Janet Herrick, director of the col-lege choirs and handbells, shrugged, played a note on the piano, and the LC Sing-ers did what they do best. The audience’s applause rivaled the enthusiasm of their accapela version of “Java Jive (I Love Coffee, I Love Tea).”
Lakeland’s band & choral fall concertExplosive concert brings vivacious applause from a packed auditoriumBy J.D. Botana IIIStaff Reporter
After the brief musical “hijacking,” the regularly scheduled Concert Choir filled the risers.
“Baba Yetu (The Lord’s Supper)” showcased the choir’s vocal and instrumen-tal abilities. Sung in Swa-hili, the original rendition included drumming. Not deterred by the unavailable scores for the drum portions, the choir improvised. Re-gardless, the bongos, Ghana rattle, piccolo, and rain stick were melded in flawlessly.
With the stage cleared and instruments now sing-ing, Lakeland College’s Con-cert Band was ready to play.
The band fell silent when Dr. Walter Rich, director of bands, walked to the front of the band. Raising his baton, the musicians readied their instruments. With a flick of his wrist, a symphony awak-ened.
One piece called for the entire band to become per-cussionists. In unison they stomped, palms together and feet to the paint, to Mi-chael Sweeny’s “Quad City Stomp.”
Empty seats in the Brad-ley Theater were hard to lo-cate. “You hope each student will have one person in at-tendance, family or friend,” said Professor Herrick.
Applause ending, the seats emptied; but the con-cert had still not reached its crescendo.
Bodies filled the lobby, waiting to hear bells toll once more, not from the Bradley, but from the Schilcutt Hand-bell Ensemble, arranged by Professor Herrick.
Laughter and smiles were chimed into the faces of nearly all who listened to the brass resonate.
“This was one of our best first semester performanc-es,” said Professor Herrick.
“Ninety percent of their performances are for church-es,” said Professor Herrick regarding Lakeland Singers. “They don’t get a lot of ap-plause, so this is a treat.”
“I am proud of the group and how they preformed,” said Dr. Rich. “This was one of the best fall concerts.”
Below: The Lakeland College choir prepares to begin singing in the fall concert in the Bradley Building, Nov. 9.Right: Associate Professor of Music and College Pianist Arthur T. Johnson stands for applause during the fall concert.
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During Homecoming on Oct. 4, a book signing was held for Mark
Schowalter’s work From Eagle to Chicken and Back. Schowalter is a Lakeland alum, class of 1979, and he signed his book with a smile upon his face while conversing with fellow alums and his wife, Sue.
Mark was a Religion and Broad Fields Music major at Lakeland Col-lege and “came close” to a theatre minor.
“Shakespeare and I didn’t get along,” Mark joked.
While attending Lakeland, Mark was involved in numerous organiza-tions.
“Do I have to be honest?” Mark said before naming off his involve-ment during college.
Mark was involved in the Zeta Chi fraternity, concert band, a trav-eling choir, theatre, student govern-ment, Dixieland band, chapel musi-cians, and a gospel folk group. Mark also played the trumpet in Jazz band and was “one of the primary drivers” for the campus center.
“Did I mention I did go to class once in a while?” Mark said.
Mark’s favorite thing about Lakeland was “the friends.”
“We had a group of about 25 to 30 of us…and we’re still in contact with each other.”
In December of 1979, seven months after graduating from Lakeland, Mark lost his eyesight due to diabetes, which he has had since age seven.
“It’s made me a better person,” Mark said. “One of the things I cov-er in my book is…having excellent eyesight, losing my eyesight, and gaining insight.”
Through dealing with his blindness, Mark said, “The biggest foundation was my faith....Family and friends were very important in that…and my sense of humor.”
Mark has been ordained as a minister for 25 years, and in 1992 he was ministering in West Burl-ington, Iowa. Mark met his to-be wife Sue at her church. They at-tended football games together, became friends, and then became more than friends. Nine months af-ter meeting, Mark and Sue were
married, and have now been married for 15 years.
Mark’s book From Eagle to Chick-
en and Back is “a semi-autobio-graphical collection of short stories and scriptural reflections to help people face the daily adversities of life.” Mark doesn’t give people who are dealing with handicaps or dis-abilities advice, but he said, “I’ll tell them what works for me and I’ll walk with them and help them figure it out for themselves.”
In the beginning of chapter one of Mark’s book, he wrote, “A soaring eagle has always been the image representing my dreams and holds me a captive in awe of their creation. The graceful wings powerfully beating the winds and updrafts, gracefully lifting them high above the hills, rocky cliffs, and treelines brings comfort, in-spiration, and reverence. Watch-ing an eagle soar high above the land brings hours of fascination, respect, and dreaming.”
Mark was an eagle before he lost his sense of sight. He became a chicken when he lost his sight and had to learn how to adjust. But
now, Mark is again an eagle, soaring through the skies with power and grace.
“Serving for goods”By Brittney SandbergStaff Reporter
Students collect clothing donations for Goodwill
By Becky MeyerStaff Reporter
Mark Schowalter: Soaring like an eagle
Seniors Joseph Julkowski, Yarixa Cruz, and Jessica Sparling,
students in GEN 443 Core III: Environment and Consumption, are helping serve the Sheboygan com-munity by collecting clothing and other household goods to donate to Goodwill.
They decided to call their service learning project Serving for Goods. “Our group is made up of volleyball players,” said Julkowski, a criminal justice major, “and we were wanted to try and incorporate ‘serving’ or ‘at-tacking’ into the name.”
The group posted a slide on Lake-TV to advertise the boxes that have been placed in Bossard Hall and the Wehr Center, and collection started right before fall break. “We wanted people to be able to go home, get stuff, and bring it back,” said Julkowski.
Sparling, a fitness studies major, said, “The thing that has surprised me the most about this project is the overwhelming donations. Just last week, I brought two very large bags of clothing to Goodwill; tonight [Mon-day] I saw that the boxes are full again.
“It’s nice to see people donating
clothes instead of throwing them away, especially with the winter months approaching. Warm clothes are needed, and there have been nu-merous jackets and sweaters in the boxes.”
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“The main reason why I thought this project would be a good thing to do,” said Cruz, a Spanish major, “is because I know as college students we do find ourselves with things that we don’t use, and it sometimes just
accumulates in our dorm rooms.”
Julkowski said, “The project is a lot about con-venience. People don’t want to drive to Good-will to donate, so we are bringing it here to Lake-land.” The group also plans to set up collection boxes at Howard’s Grove High School and the YMCA.
“When we get a big pile of stuff we look over the items and figure the weight,” Julkowski continued. “We’re prob-ably going to put that into our project- what we collected, how much it weighed.” The group will have to give a pre-sentation to their class at the end of the semes-ter.
Julkowski said, “We didn’t expect such a big turn out so far, but we like the fact that people
are donating. It’s not for us; we aren’t getting graded on how much we col-lect. It’s just good to donate stuff that you have lying around. There’s no need for you to collect it; other people can use it.”
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College student, little brother, and Tetris master
are just a few ways in which I would classify myself. But first and foremost, I am a meat man. There’s just s o m e t h i n g about sinking my teeth into a sizzling, succulent slab of sirloin that reconnects me with the bestial nature of my being.
To my dismay, my daily intake of meat took a three-month hiatus when I spent the summer with my vegetarian sister. Kim first developed her affliction about seven years ago and has gone meatless ever since. Of course, as anyone who’s seen an episode of “The Odd Couple” can guess, our differences produced terrible conflict upon my arrival.
With Tilly, a lovable Chihuahua, running rampant throughout the house and two antisocial black cats who’ll only show their faces if they like you, Kim is a self-proclaimed animal lover.
Don’t get me wrong. I love animals too. But I especially love them between two pieces of bread. Add some lettuce,
a tomato, maybe some pepperjack cheese…
My idea of fine dining is sitting down to a meal that includes a fat, juicy piece of black angus beef—kissed by the grill and surrounded by complimentary parsley on the side (for aesthetical purposes only).
Kim’s dinners, however, utilized the rutabagas, parsnips, and artichokes as the main dish, and the closest I came to eating meat was when she made her version of bacon—facon.
To think that I was subjected to such treatment and malnourishment—ME!—the only other active member of Meat Night. Oh, right. You guys don’t know about Meat Night. Well, it breaks down like this: the first rule of Meat Night is you don’t talk about Meat Night. The second rule is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT MEAT NIGHT!
Let’s just say, if you don’t have three different kinds of meats on your plate, it’s not Meat Night. That’s about all I am at liberty to disclose.
Anyhow, as the days became weeks and the weeks became months, I could feel myself wasting away. I was
in dire need of meat. Kim even took to such drastic measures as grounding me after she saw me chasing after Tilly with a watering mouth and a bottle of A1 sauce.
I feel the grounding was valid, and it gave me time to think; my meatless summer had gone to my head and, I admit, I lost it. After all, a dog is something I would never normally desire to eat. I do have my limits.
I could never eat dog, or cat, or anything else that displays a mental capacity for such emotional profundity.
See, if I punch a cow
in the face, the lame-brain is just going to walk right back into me a few minutes later. They don’t even run when you try tipping them. But don’t try that at home, kids. You might
break the coffee table.My friend, J.D., however,
has informed me that turtles taste delicious. And pigs…well, I’m still on the fence about pigs. I’ve heard they’re rather intelligent animals. But bacon—real bacon—and
pork chops taste too good to pass up. I suppose E.B.
White must be rolling in his grave right now.
Is E.B. White dead?
But moving on, I rejoiced the day I got back to my parents house when my dad
placed a platter of thick, juicy pork chops
in front of me and said, “Eat up, Son. You look as
skimpy as your sister’s dog.”At least I won’t be eating
Tofurkey for Thanksgiving. Have a good holiday, everybody!
MEAT me for ThanksgivingA carnivore’s credo
Straight from the John
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Out of the PockatOut of the Pockat suspended until further noticeBy Rob PockatStaff Reporter
I recently diagnosed myself with a condition that can be quite debilitating if left untreated…writer’s block. Because of this, I will not be including a column in this issue of the Mirror. However, I have submitted a short article regarding my dreaded white page syndrome.
When asked about the most frightening thing he had ever encountered, novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “A blank sheet of paper.” This is a fear that I encounter at least once a day. At least I’m in good company;
although Hemingway did end up killing himself with a shotgun.
As a humor columnist for a prestigious bi-weekly publication, the pressure to meet deadlines while upholding my high standards of journalistic integrity is dizzying. The muse Thaleia would oft visit me in my sleep to inspire my waking thoughts, but my somnambular deficits proved too much for the weary goddess.
I tried to buy my way out of my writer’s block; I purchased a fancy new computer, a comfy leather office chair, a hand-crafted fountain pen, and a 12-guage (just in case).
I even placed inspirational photos of great authors such as Woolf,
Hemingway, Plath, and Sieglaff around my work area, but
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With the deadline for my story passing, my less-than-compassionate editor became increasingly enraged, suggesting that I do something more age appropriate…like greeting customers at Wal-Mart or becoming a full-time poll worker. My not-for-profit job was on the line!
Tirelessly, I sought ideas for my column. I wandered campus aimlessly looking for something humorous. The school nurse told me about an incident where a soccer player needed a beer bong removed from an unusual orifice, and security discussed an honors student who locked herself in her car and couldn’t get out because she left her keys in her dorm room. However,
these were serious situations that I could never make light of.
I looked to my family to do something funny. But really, how funny is it when a seven-year-old accidentally Duck tapes a three-year-old to a pit bull with a flatulence condition or my wife forcefully ejects a Jehovah’s Witness from my porch?
Scanning recent news articles for inspiration, I thought I would be able to find something comical, but there was no way to make Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, or a 90-year-old lady living with her three dead siblings funny.
I came to the dishearten-ing realization that I was a
crotchety old man, void of the comicality that was once an endless fount inside of me. My capriciousness consumed, I understood that I would have no column in this issue of the Mirror, and for that I do apologize.
As I look to the future, I believe my muse will once again present herself and I will perhaps be able to write a humorous column about Christmas, my in-laws, happenings on campus, or retirement. Until then, I leave you with another quote from Hemingway: “Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” I’m not quite sure what it means, but it probably involved a shotgun.
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The Lakeland men’s soc-cer team lost in the first
round of the conference tour-nament, but finished a suc-cessful season.
The team finished with a record of 8-7-2 which is the
first time a Lakeland team has finished .500 or above since the 1995 season, when Lakeland was 6-6-1.
“I think we saw a lot of progress in terms of the chal-lenges we faced and respond-ing to them,” said head coach Dave Madsen.
“Whether it was our op-ponent giving us a challenge
Men kick through new barriersDespite losing in 1st round of NAC tourney, Men’s soccer still has winning seasonBy Brad WilkStaff Reporter
in making us play better, or us trying to play to our best level, I think we were able to achieve that goal, where in the past years we haven’t,” he said.
Madsen said that the 5-0 win at Concordia University Chicago was big because it was a win over a team that had given Lakeland problems
in the past.“That set us off on a good tone for the year,” he said.
The Muskies had big comeback wins over Ripon and Benedictine this sea-son, which Madsen said that showed the team could fight from behind and be success-ful.
Lakeland’s season ended with a 3-1 loss at Aurora in the conference tournament quarterfinals.
“The last game I think our guys came out slow,” Madsen said. “At halftime, I said ‘I don’t understand guys. We’ve lost to this team; the chal-lenge is on them to beat us again.’ Then our guys came out and played the way they should in the second half.
“I told our guys after that game ‘We can’t be satisfied, this can’t be the peak for us. We have to say we want more and want to do more.’ Now, more is going to be expected of us in the offseason in train-ing and getting ready for next fall.”
Next season, the Musk-
ies will return a number of their players. They will lose three seniors including Kevin Fitchett, who was third in the conference in points per game and goals per game.“Losing Kevin this year will take some adjustment,” Madsen said.
The Muskies will look for an attacking player that can help on offense and some more defensive players when they are recruiting.“Defensively, we’re looking to bring in some guys to make some im-provements,” Madsen said. “Starting four freshmen in the back is no coach’s dream, but I think our guys did pret-ty well. With our offensive production this year, if we were able to tighten up our defensive a little bit it could have really had a big impact on our record.
“Considering where we were at and where we’re coming to, it was a big turn-around. It was a good first step in the right direction.”
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Below: Seniors Matt Van Drunen (7), Kevin Fitchett (5), and Takumi Yabara will be surely missed next season.
The Lakeland College wom-en’s soccer team wrapped
up the season with a 10-9 record. In the second to last game against Benedictine on Senior Day, the ladies were able to end the season at home with a 5-0 victory.
Senior defender Megan Andrews from Appleton was able to get her first collegiate goal in the game. Freshman forward Lindsey Rodgers from Sheboygan was able to kick in the first two goals. Freshman midfielder/defender Brittney Smit from St. Cloud and se-nior midfielder Amy Christen-son from Dodgeville scored for the Muskies.
Christenson, Andrews, defender Jacqui Drexler from Appleton, forward Megan Stock from Libertyville, Ill., and midfielder Maggie Short from Green Bay were honored at halftime as part of the Se-nior Day festivities.
“Losing our seniors is diffi-cult because we’re losing that leadership. Maggie Short and Amy Christenson were our captains and they did great for us,” said head coach David Madsen. “Amy was a great leader by example and Mag-gie has always been a really
hard worker. As well as other seniors like Jacqui, who’s very difficult to get around to in the back to attack our net. Megan Stock also did very well and contributed with assists. Me-gan Andrews also did very well and did well in the back and was hard to get past. Los-ing those five will be hard to fill. Our younger players will just have to learn to adjust and step up now.”
In the game against fifth-place Marian University, Amy Christenson kicked the game-winning goal for the upset.
Christenson has been se-lected to the COSIDA's ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America District 5 first team for the 2008 season. While at Lakeland she has main-tained a 3.98 grade point av-erage. She has started in all 19 games and has 15 goals on the season.
"This award speaks to Amy's nature and work ethic, in that she is always demand-ing more of herself," Madsen said. "Amy's always going to push our opponent to the lim-it, and she's not going to back down for any minute of the game," Madsen said. "She's at her best when she can drive at opponents in one-on-one situ-ations. She's very good at be-ing that threat that opponents try and mark out of the game.
Amy has been a good leader for us as a captain as well."
Christenson's game-win-ning goal came off a throw in from freshman midfielder Kristi Borts, which was her second assist of the game. Lindsey Rodgers booted in the first goal to give the Musk-ies the lead. This was the 17th team-leading goal of her freshman season.
This season was an im-provement from 2007, when the ladies went 7-12.
“I think we did better this year than we did last year because our freshman class came in and contributed quite a bit.” said Madsen. “Also, I think our upperclassmen stepped it up as well. I think we underachieved in the re-sults of the season. I think we were happy ending with those two wins though. We really showed our potential in those last two games and we hope to build on that for next sea-son.”
“Overall our seniors put in a lot of time and we managed to have success because of it. I think it’s big for our seniors to go out with wins,” said Mad-sen. “ Especially considering one of the teams we beat made it to the tournament. They lost in the first round and I think we helped put some doubt in their game.”
“I think we just need to keep building.” said Mad-sen. “The freshman group we brought in has done very well. It was great to see they could contribute right away. They adapted very well to level of
play. Our sophomores and ju-niors benefited from it as well, so I think we got a good core to move on. There are defi-nitely a lot to build off with our juniors, sophomores, and freshmen.”
Women’s soccer end with a ‘W’By John WagnerStaff Reporter
Above: Sophomore Maria Santelli dribbles through defenders during the Muskies last game of the season.
Despite losing in 1st round of NAC tourney, Men’s soccer still has winning season
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This weekend’sLineup
125 – Senior David Copp (Oostburg, WI)
133 – Freshman Sam Delain (Sturgeon Bay, WI), a 125 pounder who is moving up
141 – Senior Kory Theil (Crystal Lake, Ill)149 – Sophomore Isaac Roberson (Chi-cago, IL)
157 – Senior Jonas Flok (Egg Harbor, Wis.)
165 – Junior Jake Frias (Oak Lawn, Ill.)
184 – Senior J.D. Syl-vanus (Johnsburg, Ill)
197 – Junior Andrew Aronstam (Waverly, N.Y.)
Hwt. – Adam Sutter (Gladstone, MI)
The Lakeland wrestling team has a great opportunity to get the season off to a big start with the Lakeland Duels this Saturday.
The Muskies will wrestle at 9 a.m. and then at approxi-mately 10:30, 1:45 and 3:15. They will wrestle against North Central, which is ranked seventh in the nation, St. John’s, which is ranked 22nd, UW-Eau Claire and UW-Parkside, which is a Divi-sion II team.
“It’s a big weekend to get us in position while we’re mov-ing up,” said Lakeland head coach Pete Rogers. “We’ve got
It’s show time for WrestlingMuskies get ready for the competitionBy Brad WilkStaff Reporter
some great teams we’ve got to wrestle. Our guys’ goals are to win. We’ve just got to kick it in the butt, wrestle as hard as we can and see what hap-pens.”
Lakeland recently held a wrestle-off to determine the starting lineup. The only spot that is undecided is 174 pounds and freshmen Jon Burkley (Dublin, Ohio) and Josh DeLuca (Ingleside, Ill.) will have a wrestle off later this week.
Roberson is starting at the weight class 149 because junior Ben Chapman (Plym-outh, Wis.) is battling through some injuries, according to Rogers, Chapman may not wrestle until the spring se-mester so he can recuperate.
Below: 141 lbs. Kory Theil inflicts pain on his opponent.
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Above: 157 lbs. Jonas Flok fights for wrist control against his opponent.
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15Sports Issue 3, November 13, 2008The Lakeland College
M I R R O R
“Cheese Bowl! Cheese Bowl!” were the chants
heard from the 620 Lakeland spectators in attendance on Saturday. Nov. 8 as the Muskies took on their bitter rivals, Concordia Wis., on Senior Day with the travel-ing Cheese Bowl trophy on the line.
The Falcons had won it from the Muskies six out of the last seven years, but in order for the Muskies to keep their conference title and NCAA playoff runs alive, they would need to beat the odds in the cold and wet weather conditions.
When the half-working scoreboard hit zero in the rainy haze, the Muskies were the ones who rose to the oc-casion and achieved victory by a score of 37-7.
“The trophy hasn’t been here in a few years,” said head coach Kevin Doherty.
Coach Doherty was also happy that the seniors on the team were able to win their final game at home, espe-cially because it was against their rivals.
The saying ‘offense wins games, defense wins cham-pionships’ proved to be true on this day as the ‘dark side’ of Lakeland’s football team teed off on Concordia, hold-ing them to only 25 rushing yards in the game, and also, only allowing an average of 1.7 yards per play. The stellar ‘D’ also stood their
ground on third downs, as they forced the Falcons to go a dismal 0-17 on third down conversions, which was very remarkable according to Do-herty.
“The defense looked dominating. To hold [Concor-dia] to only 25 yards rush-ing is commendable,” said Doherty, “They pursued to the ball and made big plays when needed.”
Overall, the defense had 12 tackles for loss and four
sacks, which pushed back the Falcons 110 totals yards in the game.
Anchoring the defensive line was Matt Stuebs and Mike Nerat. Stuebs ended the day with four tackles, one forced fumble, and one safety. Nerat led all line-men with six tackles and a blocked field goal.
“We finally saw a glimpse of how good this defensive line can play. The guys were challenged and for the first time all year they stepped up with force. They believed in each other and used their talents to the best of their
abilities,” said defensive line coach Sam Scharinger.
Other notable defensive performances came from: senior linebacker John Wag-ner, who had 13 total tack-les, a fumble recovered for a 16-yard touchdown, and a sack, as well as being named Northern Athletics confer-ence defensive player of the week; senior linebacker Brent Miller who collected ten tackles and a sack, and junior linebacker Jaime Sch-
Cheese Bowl comes back to LC‘Dark side’ of team instills fear and aids in hoisting the trophy By Jacob FriasSports [email protected]
ramm, who had a fumble recovery, a sack, and three tackles, one of which was for a loss of seven yards.
As for the offense, sopho-more Jake Dworak led the troops through battle com-pleting 11 out of 28 comple-tions for 252 yards and three touchdowns, one of which was an 89-yard pass down the sideline to senior Matt Pawlyk.
Doherty believes that the offense, who only went into halftime leading 14-7, strug-gled earlier due to the youth on the offensive side of the ball. However, the receivers made big catches when they needed to be made, and the team utilized other players in different positions as a spark on offense.
With both starting run-ning backs injured for the remainder of the season, the Muskies looked to fresh-man Ben Duenas as a key to their running game. Duenas ended the day with 13 rush attempts, one of which was a 68-yard run, for 83 yards. Also rushing the ball for the Muskies was senior wide out Jacob Heinemeyer, who tal-lied four rush attempts for 77 yards and one touchdown.
Heinemeyer also con-tributed in the receptions department, as he usually does, by reeling in three re-ceptions for 75 yards and one touchdown for the Muskies. Senior wide out Matt Pawlyk was also soaring past Fal-
con defensive backs, as he snatched five receptions from the air for 150 yards and two touchdowns.
As for the special teams, senior Billy Hughes had one of best games of the year kicking and punting the ball. The Florida native had nine punts for 299 yards, with one of the punts being 54 yards and two of them pin-ning the Falcon offense be-hind their own twenty yard line. Hughes was also five for five in PAT attempts.
The Muskies next and final regular season game will be on Saturday, Nov. 15 as they take on Aurora Uni-versity, which is Coach Do-herty’s alma mater. Doherty was also offensive coordina-tor for Aurora University for four years prior to coming to Lakeland.
“A win here means a con-ference title and an opportu-nity to represent Lakeland College in the playoffs,” said Doherty.
Aurora is currently lead-ing the conference in almost every statistical category, and is also ranked fifth in the nation on the defensive side of the ball, which, ac-cording to Doherty, is a sign of a good team.
The game will be in Au-rora, Ill on Saturday, and kick-off will be at noon. Look for the Muskies to be at the top of their game, as it is ‘win or go home’ time for both teams.
JEFF KERNEN PHOTOGRAPHY
Above: Seniors Billy Hughes (14), Matt Pawly (17), Jake Heinemeyer (3), and Brent Miller (back) celebrate after winning the annual game for the Cheese Bowl.
JEFF KERNEN PHOTOGRAPHY
Above: The Muskie defense flexes their muscles and stops the Concordia Wis. runningback.
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Issue 5, November 13, 2008
16 SportsThe Lakeland College
M I R R O R
Issue 2, September 25, 2008
Brittanie Paulus, Captain of Women’s Volleyball Team
The Lakeland women’s vol-leyball team has a chance
to make some history this week.
The Muskies (25-10) will play UW-Oshkosh (37-2) in the NCAA Division III Tour-nament on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in Oshkosh, and will try to become the first team in Lakeland volleyball history to win an NCAA match, which was one of the team’s biggest goals this season.
This is the fifth team that Lakeland coach Chad Schreiber has taken into the NCAA Tournament, and he said achieving that goal would make this trip extra special.
“It could become the most meaningful (NCAA trip) if we win in this first round and do something we haven’t done before,” Schreiber said.
“The first one is always special. This is the second-best feeling in making it because I’m excited to see (seniors) Heidi (Kramer) and Jess (Sparling) get back there, and I’m excited that we have three classes of other girls seeing it
for the first time.” he said.Lakeland will be taking
a fan bus to the match on Thursday. Tickets to the game are $4 for students and $8 for adults and the bus ride is in-cluded. The fan bus will leave the Campus Center at 7 p.m. Students or Lakeland faculty and staff interested can sign up with Director of Student Activities Kaye Martin.
Lakeland earned its NCAA trip on Saturday when the Muskies beat Concordia, Wis., 3-1 to win the Northern Athletics Conference Tourna-ment. After two seasons of not having an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament due to the new conference being formed, the NAC got the au-tomatic bid back this season for all sports. Lakeland last went to the NCAA Tourna-ment in 2005 when Sparling and Kramer were freshmen.
The Muskies have a tough challenge because Oshkosh will be playing on its home court and they are ranked No. 7 in the nation. Lakeland lost to Oshkosh 25-18, 25-20, 25-17 on Oct. 31, but Schreiber said he thinks playing Osh-kosh again will be an advan-
tage for his team.“Our team always does better against a team they’ve seen twice,” he said.
In order to be success-ful, Lakeland will need to do a better job at serve receive, and the Muskies will be mak-ing some other changes, ac-cording to Schreiber.
“We’re going to have to change our offense a little bit,” he said. “Our offensive strat-egy right now plays into their defensive strength. We’re go-ing to have to change and not think that just playing bet-ter offense is going to work against their defense, because it’s not.”
Lakeland and Concordia split the first two sets, and Concordia had three chances to win the third set, but Lake-land pulled it out, 28-26, and then rolled in the fourth set, 25-17.
“I think it was the differ-ence between winning in four and winning in five,” Schreiber said. “It would have been a stressful fourth and fifth set. Our girls haven’t disappoint-ed us in meaningful matches at the end at all. When we played Concordia last time,
we were down 2-1 and won in five. What it did was suck the energy out of Concordia to be able to play the fourth set.”
On their way to OshkoshWomen’s volleyball clinches confernce championship and sets stites on NCAA TournyBy Brad WilkStaff [email protected]
This junior outside hitter from Belgium, Wis. has
been a huge force for the Lakeland College women’s volleyball team this season.
She recently has been named the Northern Athletics Conference Student-Athlete of the Week as she led the team with 33 kills, second most in Lakeland history for a single game, and 57 digs, as the Muskies won their second straight NAC Tournament title with consecutive victo-ries over Maranatha Baptist, Benedictine, and Concordia Wis. For the season, Paulus, a co-captain, leads the team in kills (332), digs (436), and service aces (27).
Brittanie is a Sociology major and hopes to someday work with juvenile delin-quents. Lakeland appealed to her because of the small town atmosphere.
“I really enjoy the freedom you have in college. You get to make your own schedule for the most part,” she said. De-spite Brittanie’s love for in-dependence, her father, John Paulus, had a big influence on
her during her adolescence.“My dad’s my hero. I grew
up working on the farm with him and I know that’s where I get my work ethic. Since I was five I remember feeding calves and doing chores. It taught me to learn to earn things in life. I saw my dad work hard and I learned to work hard.”
Her coach Chad Schreiber has had the biggest influence on her here at Lakeland. “He cares about everything in your life,” Brittanie said. “I feel I could go to him with any problem and he’d be there for me.”
Overall, Brittanie attri-butes the teams’ success these past years to her teammates and coach. “We’re confident in everybody. Instead of having one or two players to make a play, now we have three or four that will attack just as hard. It’s good to have depth and we have two to three ro-tations where we will still be able to win.
“I was trying to be the best person on the court op-posed to the best leader. I put that on myself and I think I managed to handle it as the season went on,” she said. “When I was named a captain
as a sophomore, I still learned from the upperclassman and I understood the role I had to take.”
In Brittanie’s spare time outside of volleyball, you might find her working on homework or working securi-ty here on campus. She is also the President for Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
“We have been fortunate to have a lot of fans at our games this year. I really want to thank the fans because they really have added to the excitement.”
Many people don’t know that Brittanie also would be playing soccer if the volley-ball season did not conflict. She played both sports in high school. Jacob Helgeson, an alumnus of the Lakeland men’s volleyball team, was her volleyball coach. He taught her what she needed to know coming into Lakeland.
Brittanie is looking for-ward to getting a win in the NCAA tournament and get-ting another shot at Oshkosh. Lakeland begins NCAA Divi-sion III Tournament play to-night.
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Don’t miss the fan bus to the game!Game $4 Students $8 Adults
The Fan Bus is FREE!
Leaves the Campus Center at 7pm!