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this IssUe: LIVE WEEKEND
April 1-14, 2011
Issue No.
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HIP-HoP HeAVenFour guys decided Iowa City’s music scene didn’t have enough diversity — so they booked Mike Posner and
Wiz Khalifa. What, like it’s hard?
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8 Motherly loveCelebrate and pay tribute to Mother Earth at the annual Quad Cities Earth Week Fair. Admission is free, so go on and give Mama some sugar.
11 Cooler than youBreakout artist Mike Posner, whose hits include “Cooler Than Me” and “Please Don’t Go,” is com-ing to UNI’s West Gym. All the cool kids will be there.
14 Higher educationIf you’re college-bound and don’t know what the FAFSA is, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Check out the Pulse Guide to College.
20 The plots thickenHanna’s a 16-year-old assassin, Arthur’s a spoiled rich dude and Sydney Prescott comes home to horror. Check out the big-screen buzz in our movie roundup.
22 He’s winningAs Japan rocked and washed away and violence escalated in Egypt and Libya, Charlie Sheen’s personal meltdowns shared top billing in world news.
24 Got game?Fancy yourself a dragon slayer? Maybe you’re more the undercover agent type. But why choose? Be both with this lineup of new video game releases.
PULse mAGAZIneis dedicated to covering the arts, music,
theater, movies and all other entertainment in Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Pulse is published every other
week and is a product of Courier Communica-tions, P.O. Box 540, 501 Commercial St.,
Waterloo, IA 50704.
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PAST EVENTS
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I f you ask Tanki Nyane, live music wasn’t a priority in his town just a few years ago.
He should know. The 26-year-old did some club promoting on the side.
“As time went, I started to see there was a huge decline in live mu-sic — especially good hip-hop acts — in Iowa City,” he said.
His brother, Les Nyane, noticed as well. So did University of Iowa graduate Harrison Wheeler.
Together, in the winter of 2009, they decided to change that.So began Live Weekend, an event promotions company in Iowa
City that last year brought in Mike Posner, Wiz Khalifa and Bamboo Shoots for Dance Marathon.
It was pretty good for four 20-somethings (including Alex Dean) starting their first company.
“We literally started with zero dollars in our pocket,” Tanki Nyane said.
But each started with experience. Live Weekend CEO Wheeler was good at the social media and online aspects of promotion, as well as print design. Les Nyane had experience with the legal aspects of the business.
None of it negated the risk. And when it came to booking Posner — who was right on the verge of becoming a Top 40 artist — the guys were nervous.
“We really didn’t have the $7,000 to pay for him,” Wheeler re-members. “We had to sell our butts off.”
They got to work posting billboards, handing out flyers, blowing up their Facebook and Twitter feeds and held contests at University of Iowa sororities and fraternities.
“Ticket sales were slow, but it was a testament — we sold out the show in three-and-a-half weeks,” Wheeler said. “To break even on your first show is definitely a big step.”
That was in April, right before Posner’s “Cooler Than Me” hit ra-
dio airwaves.“That ‘Cooler Than Me,’ music video, the beginning segment was
at the Blue Moose,” Les Nyane said. “Really, that boosted our popu-larity. It put us on the map.”
The company started receiving offers from artists then, he said.“It was a snowball effect,” Les Nyane said. “It got larger and larg-
er.”By the time Wiz Khalifa got to town in October, Live Weekend
had learned a lot from the Posner show. Though Khalifa’s single “Black and Yellow” wasn’t yet popular, tickets sold out a month in advance.
That doesn’t mean the process has gotten any easier for the guys.“You’ve got to have a lot of nerves,” Wheeler said. “You also have
to have a strong will. It’s filled with a lot of ups and downs and can be very stressful at times. It’s one of those things where a lot of things are out of your hands.”
That’s also because they’re booking acts that are right on the cusp of popularity — a gamble that has so far paid off.
In March, Like Weekend brought in both Big Sean to The Union and Macklemore to Gabe’s. Wheeler and company sell a lot of the tickets themselves on their website, livewknd.com, and constantly post new videos and songs from the artists to gain momentum.
Eventually, the foursome wants to branch outside of Iowa City, hoping to infiltrate Des Moines and the Cedar Valley.
And they’re already seeing the effects their company has had on the live music scene in Iowa City.
“For one, the competition level in Iowa City has definitely gone up — you can see how many shows are coming to Iowa City,” Wheeler said, citing Big Boi and The Roots. “That wasn’t the case last year.”
But Live Weekend is ready to compete.“It’s been a beautiful ride, actually,” Les Nyane said. “Things took
off a little bit faster than we expected.”
We’ve done what many said was impossible.
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Since our inception in 2010 we have been fortunate enough to bring some of the hottest acts to Iowa City. Every show has brought an unprecedented level of energy and excitement that we hope to build on for years to come.
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Bluff Country art tour features local, regional artistsThe 11th annual Bluff Country Studio Art Tour of southeast Minnesota will take place Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The wide variety of arts on the tour offers something for everyone and a chance to buy directly from area artists.
Art on the tour includes functional pottery, ceramic sculpture, rattan baskets, fiber art, turned wood, reed baskets, wooden furniture, func-tional glass vessels, handmade jewelry, fountains, photography of the Mississippi River Valley, original oils and pastels and more.
The tour stretches from studios in Northern Iowa to Winona, Minn., and from Chatfield, Minn., to Dakota, Minn.
For a list of artists and locations on the tour, visit www.bluffcoun-trystudioarttour.com or call the Historic Bluff Country office at 800.428.2030.
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The art of farmingWHO: Marion artist Charles Freitag and Cedar Rapids artist Julia Kulish.
WHAT: Freitag and Kulish are in the exhibition “Beau-ty and Bounty of the Land,” an exhibition that features more than 45 works.
WHEN: Now through April 29.
WHERE: Lowe Arts Center, 4500 N. 10th St., Marion.
ABOUT: Freitag will show paintings that capture the Iowa farmscape and its people in a nostalgic illustrative style. Kulish will have 15 vibrant floral paintings on dis-play. To complement the exhibition, the National Farm Toy Museum has loaned toy tractors to be displayed.
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H undreds of participants will solve clues and complete challenges for the 2011 Alzheimer’s Association Campus
QUASH events this month.QUASH is the Quest to Unravel Alzheimer’s
Scavenger Hunt, a high-energy fundraising and awareness event benefiting the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation. The event began in 2009 on the University of Iowa campus and was launched at the Univer-sity of Northern Iowa campus last spring. This year, both universities are gearing up for a bigger and better QUASH than ever before.
QUASH guides participants to various land-marks and hidden hotspots around the respec-tive campuses and dares them to perform both physical and mental challenges in an effort to earn points and beat the clock. Both events will feature an awards ceremony and lunch following the scavenger hunt and an official QUASH after-party.
The Alzheimer’s Association East Central Iowa
Chapter works closely with student organizations at both universities to plan and promote these campus-wide events. The student organizations involved include UNI Advocates for Alzheimer’s and Hawkeyes Fighting Alzheimer’s.
QUASH at UNI: Check-in begins at 10 a.m. Sat-urday, April 16, in the West Gym, and the scaven-ger hunt kicks off at 11 a.m.
QUASH at U of I: Check-in starts at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, April 30, at College Green Park, followed by a noon kickoff.
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Saturday, April 16, at the QCCA Expo Center, 2621 Fourth Ave., Rock Island, Ill. Admission is free.
The fair is a celebration of Earth Day (April 22) and educates attendees on a variety of envi-ronmental issues and ways they can be better stewards of the environment. The 2011 Fair of-fers more than 50 booths from various envi-ronmental organizations, businesses and local governments. Each booth provides hands-on ac-tivities for children, information and education for adults. Attendees will find native plants, seed packets, an ink cartridge recycling game, hybrid cars, junk sculpture creations and water conser-
vation ideas.
In addition, there will be three adult work-shops:
• Beautiful Body, Beautiful Earth — Lisa Mar-tin will present this workshop about body prod-ucts that are safe for humans and the earth. 11 a.m.
• Edible Landscapes — Todd Weibenga of Aunt Rhodies Landscaping will take about incorporat-ing edible plants into residential landscapes. 12:30 p.m.
• The Carbon Paw Print of Your Pet — Radish magazine presents this workshop about environ-mentally friendly pet care. 2 p.m.
For more information: www.qcearthweek.org, 563.386.9575.
TO REGISTER FOR QUASH:Visit www.QUASHnow.org; $10 per partici-pant. All QUASHers compete in teams of two to four members and are asked to raise at least $100 per person to benefit the care, support, research and advocacy efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Each participant receives an official QUASH T-shirt.
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As part of the ongoing Music in the Mud live performance series, Campbell Steele Gallery in Marion’s historic uptown district will host several events on Friday eve-nings in April and May. For each performance, doors open at 6 p.m. and the music starts at 7 p.m. There is a $5 cover charge.
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APRIL 15: THE BLUE BAND
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APRIL 8: FUNK STOP
Eclectic, electric, roots-based and bump-drafting, gas-’n’-go, high-octane blues driven by Marion’s own master of the genre.
APRIL 1: THE BILLYLEE JANEY BLUES BAND
This six-piece, hard-bop group consists of some of the area’s finest musicians playing music written and inspired by the great jazz legend, Thelonious Monk.
APRIL 22: THELONIOUS ASSAULT
Like his celebrated dad, Bryce Janey digs deep into the legendary lexicon of traditional American blues to create his own brand of artistic expression.
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Joey Chicago, Jeff James, John Falls and Blake Allison, a four-some from Memphis, Tenn., make up rock group Egypt Cen-tral. After finding success with a self-titled album, which includ-ed “Taking You Down,” “You Make Me Sick” and “Over and Under,” the group hit the studio in October.
The result of those sessions, “White Rabbit,” is set for re-lease in May. The title track is steadily gaining airplay on rock radio stations around the country.
Egypt Central will be joined in concert by Cold and Kopek.
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S inger, songwriter Jason Derülo will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in
the Regents Center on the Luther College campus in Decorah.
Derülo, with three hit singles, “Whatcha Say,” “In My Head” and “Ridin’ Solo,” became the first male solo artist to have his first two en-tries be consecutive No. 1 hits on the Billboard’s Pop Songs radio air-play chart in the chart’s 17-year his-tory.
The 20-year-old artist has sold more than 11 million singles and 750,000 albums worldwide.
Derülo has toured with artists
such as Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas and has performed on “American Idol,” “Dancing With the Stars,” “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and several other programs and award shows.
He won the 2010 Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Album, R&B and was nominated for two 2010 MTV Video Music Awards for “Best Male Video” and Best New Art-ist.
Opening act for the Derülo con-cert is Nikki & Rich.
Tickets: $27 | 563.387.1357www.boxofficeluther.edu.
The Ready Set is 21-year-old Indiana-born drummer, singer, songwriter and keyboardist Jordan Witzigreuter, who creates infectious, danceable pop. He’s currently charting with his lead single, “Love Like Woe,” off his first album, “I’m Alive, I’m Dreaming.”
Witzigreuter spent the summer on the MTV VMA tour with Never Shout Never, performed live on the finale of the TJ competition and was selected for MTV’s coveted “PUSH” and “POSTED” artist programs. The video for fan-favorite “More Than Alive” premiered during prime time as a part of MTV’s “premiere week” alongside Bruno Mars, B.O.B. and My Chemical Romance.
The Ready SetFriday, April 15 | 7 PM Tickets: $12-$15
S inger, songwriter and pro-ducer Mike Posner is set to perform at the University
of Northern Iowa’s West Gym at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 21.
The breakout artist’s recent hits from his debut album, “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” include “Cooler Than Me” and “Please Don’t Go.”
Tickets: UNItix outlets $15 for UNI students (limit two)$25 for the general public319.273.4849 www.unitix.uni.edu
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The result of those sessions, “White Rabbit,” is set for re-lease in May. The title track is steadily gaining airplay on rock radio stations around the country.
Egypt Central will be joined in concert by Cold and Kopek.
Egypt CentralSunday, April 10 | 7:30 PMTickets: $12-$14
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your favorite bands in your favorite venues
Chris Brooks Band 9 p.m., WildwoodMission Creek Music Festival Dennis McMurrin and the Demolition Band and The Ragbirds 9:30 p.m., Iowa City Yacht ClubDevotchka 8 p.m., First MethodistGuided by Voices 7 p.m., Blue MooseMeth and Goats, Mayor Daley and CaCaw, 10:30 p.m., White Lightning Wherehouse
WaTeRlooeleventh Hour 9 p.m., Jameson’sHairball with Battery 7:30 p.m., Pepsi PavilionJim Kinney 8:30 p.m., Masonic Event CenterMick Staebell 7 p.m., Black’s Piano BarMushroomhead with eddie Buzzard and Bleedchain 9 p.m., Spicoli’sNucorp 8 p.m., The Isle Fling LoungePerry Barton and Steve Mancuso 9 p.m., Black’s Piano Bar
CeDaR FallSBlue Suede Cruze 9 p.m., Blue RoomThe Hoodads, 6 p.m., The HubKarel Keldermans noon, UNI CampanileSoul Fusion, 9 p.m., Wheelhouse
DuBuqueartie and the Pink Cadillacs 8 p.m., Dubuque Driving RangeBuzz Berries 9:30 p.m., MystiqueChuck Bregman 6 p.m., MystiqueJohnnie Walker, 9 p.m., Spiritslonely Goats, 9 p.m., JumpersZero 2 Sixty, 8 p.m., The Yardarm
CeDaR RaPiDSBilly Heller, 7 p.m., Java Creeklarge Midgets 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloon
ioWa CiTyandre Williams with Hex Breakers and Sarah Cram and the Derelicts 9 p.m., The Mill
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WaTeRlooBill eastep Band 8 p.m., The Isle Fling LoungeDean Madonia and Mark Kuiper 9 p.m., Black’s Piano BarThe Diz Diz 9 p.m., Jameson’sMick Staebell 7 p.m., Black’s Piano BarThe Snozzberries 9 p.m., Spicoli’sSmokin’ Guns 8:30 p.m., Masonic Event Center
CeDaR FallSBob Dorr and the Blue Band 6 p.m., The HubCedar Valley F.O.O.L.S. fundraiser featuring elev8 9 p.m., The HubJake McVey 9 p.m., Wheelhouse
DuBuqueBellinia Duo, 8 p.m., MystiqueChuck Bregman 6 p.m., MystiqueHalf-Fast, 8 p.m., The YardarmJill Duggan, 7 p.m., Stone CliffJohnny Kilowatt and the Grizz 9 p.m., The BankMassey Road 8 p.m., Dubuque Driving RangePashNBrew, 9 p.m., NorthsideTony Walker and Shock Johnson 8 p.m., Spirits
CeDaR RaPiDSBlack the Sun 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloonlem Genovese 7 p.m., Java Creek
ioWa CiTylick it Ticket with The Workshy 8 p.m., Gabe’sMission Creek Music Festival Here We Go Magic, Dark Dark Dark, Pillars and Tongues and Skye Carrasco 9 p.m., The MillHigh and lonesome and Shame Train 9:30 p.m., Iowa City Yacht ClubThe olympics, Brass Bed, Smokestack and the Foothill Fury and The Wheelers 9 p.m., Public Space One
Poison Control Center, Birth Rites, land of Blood and Sunshine and Mumfords 9 p.m., Blue MooseJohn Waters 7 p.m., Englert Theatre
Sam adams 5 and 9 p.m., Blue Moose
WaTeRlooBeaker Brothers 9 p.m., Screaming EagleBill eastep Band 8 p.m., The Isle Fling LoungeDaylight Savings account 9 p.m., Spicoli’sDean Madonia and Mark Kuiper 9 p.m., Black’s Piano BarloC, 9 p.m., Jameson’sMick Staebell 7 p.m., Black’s Piano Bar
CeDaR FallSabandon Kansas with Mike Mains and the Branches and Grinning Match 6 p.m., The HubBlue Suede Cruze 9 p.m., Mr. G’sNappy Roots with laws, anamul House and ill Convoy 7 p.m., WheelhousePork Tornadoes 10 p.m., The Hub
DuBuqueBlack the Sun, 9 p.m., JumpersBryan Popp and Corey Jenny 8 p.m., SpiritsChuck Bregman 6 p.m., MystiqueHalf-Fast, 9 p.m., Diamond JoJohn Moran, 7 p.m., Stone CliffMighty Short Bus, 9 p.m., MystiqueNutsy Turtle Band 8 p.m., Dubuque Driving RangeRosalie Morgan 7 p.m., TaikoTantrym, 8 p.m., Diamond JoThe Tornadoes 9 p.m., The Bank
CeDaR RaPiDSFunk Daddies 9 p.m., Chrome Horse SaloonJasmine, 7 p.m., Java Creek
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WaTeRlooThe Goodyear Pimps with Failure of Progress, illegal Smile and The Grande Machine 9 p.m., Spicoli’sMick Staebell 7 p.m., Black’s Piano BarNucorp 8 p.m., The Isle Fling LoungePerry Barton and Steve Mancuso 9 p.m., Black’s Piano BarStranded in iowa 9 p.m., Screaming EagleWaGG, 9 p.m., Jameson’s
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CeDaR FallSarch allies, 9 p.m., The HubDakota, 9 p.m., Blue RoomThe Ready Set 7 p.m., Wheelhouse
DuBuqueChuck Bregman 6 p.m., MystiqueKevin Beck and Johnnie Walker 8 p.m., Mystiquelarry Michael 8 p.m., Dubuque Driving Rangelaura McDonald and Jeff Weydert 8 p.m., SpiritsMississippi Band 9 p.m., Northside
CeDaR RaPiDSBetween Monsters 9 p.m., Chrome Horse SaloonShawn Ster, 7 p.m., Java Creek
ioWa CiTyMidwest explosion 7 p.m., Gabe’sandy Carlson and Casey Cook with Big Wooden Radio 9 p.m., The MillThe Diplomats of Solid Sound with The Revelations featuring Tre Williams and The Right Now 8 p.m., Blue MooseJazz After Five featuring eric Thompson and the Talented Tenth 5:30 p.m., The Mill
Johnson County landmark 7:30 p.m., Englert TheatreRoster McCabe with Messy Blend and uV Hippo 9 p.m., Iowa City Yacht Club
WaTeRlooBecca Dougherty 9 p.m., Black’s Piano BarBob and the Beachcombers 8 p.m., The Isle Fling Loungelanger’s Ball, 9 p.m., Jameson’sRock and Roll Dance Party featuring Richie lee 7 p.m., Electric Park BallroomSkeeter lewis 9 p.m., Screaming Eagle
CeDaR FallSDakota, 9 p.m., Blue RoomThe Damnwells with Harper Blynn and Howard Jennings 8 p.m., The Hub
DuBuqueThe Boy’s Night out 9 p.m., Pit StopChuck Bregman 6 p.m., MystiqueJabberbox 9 p.m., Denny’s Lux ClubJust Cuz, 8 p.m., Eagles ClubKevin Beck and Johnnie Walker 8 p.m., Mystiqueliberty Valance 9 p.m., The YardarmRosalie Morgan 7 p.m., TaikoTaste like Chicken 9 p.m., NorthsideZero to Sixty 9 p.m., Bulldogs
CeDaR RaPiDSBad Girl No Biscuit 7 p.m., Java CreekFlock of Funk 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloon
ioWa CiTyamarillo Band 9 p.m., WildwoodThe Civil Wars with Nat Baldwin and White Dress 9 p.m., The MillRooney with Skybombers and Voxhaul Broadcast 6 p.m., Blue MooseThis Must Be the Band with illphonics 9 p.m., Iowa City Yacht Club
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A pplying for financial aid is more important than ever in Iowa, a state that is posting some of the highest student loan debts in the nation.
The good news: The process to apply is easier than you think, starting with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
The standardized federal form is used to determine eligibility for federal, state and, in some cases, institutional aid.
For the first year, a direct link to the Iowa Financial Aid Applica-tion is accessible to Iowa residents on the FAFSA confirmation page. The online state application, which covers six state programs, uses smart technology that points out eligible programs based on how a person answers the questions.
All are encouraged to apply “even if they think they make too much money and they wouldn’t qualify,” said Heather Doe, associ-ate director of marketing and communications with the Iowa Col-lege Student Aid Commission in Des Moines.
During the 2007-2008 year, 66 percent of undergraduate students received some type of financial aid, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. About 52 percent received grants, 38 percent took out student loans, 7 percent earned aid through work-study jobs and 2 percent got veterans benefits.
Only 4 percent of those students had parents who took out a fed-eral PLUS loan, which offers a fixed-interest rate of 7.9 percent and deferment and forbearance options to postpone payments. Parents borrow the money in their name and are responsible for paying it back.
Federal parent PLUS loans are recommended over students bur-dening themselves with both federal and private education loans, Doe said.
Many experts believe students can comfortably manage pay-ments of no more than 8 percent of their income, she added. Iowa’s average student loan debt upon graduation is nearing $30,000. At that amount, a newly graduated student would need to make more than $50,000.
A tight economy and limited resources may be contributing to heavy student debt loads. During the 2009-10 school year, more than 35 percent of Iowa resident FAFSA filers indicated a zero for their expected family contribution, according to Doe.
With tuitions on the rise, any free money helps. Jen Sassman, di-rector of financial aid at Wartburg College in Waverly, said cuts in federal and state funding can create challenges but are something her team is accustomed to working with. Wartburg’s financial aid budget increases annually.
Prospective students shouldn’t be turned off by the idea of a pri-vate college’s tuition. Wartburg annually administers more than $46 million of federal, state and institutional aid as well as outside scholarships. More than $24 million is invested by Wartburg alone.
Sassman has seen an increase in the number of families with “special circumstances.”
A FAFSA is based off one’s financial information from the previ-ous year, but the sudden loss of a job or a pay cut can affect financial stability and require further review to factor in updated informa-tion.
Wartburg awarded 15 more scholarships this year than last, for a total of more than 500. Orange Opportunity is a campaign to get 100 more funded and endowed scholarships over the next several years. Some students also earn merit scholarships, like the regents, presidential and transfer scholarships.
During the 2009-10 school year, 1,113 of nearly 1,800 enrolled stu-dents were employed on campus. The federal government allocates $300,000 for that program. Wartburg chips in $1.5 million. Also, most Wartburg students graduate in four years or fewer.
“More and more people are understanding the difference be-tween sticker shock and actual cost,” Sassman said.
But the affordability of community colleges seems to remain an enticing option and may be linked to soaring enrollment. Hawkeye Community College saw record numbers, including a 5 to 6 percent enrollment increase in the fall and a 2 percent increase this spring.
Dave Ball, director of admissions and student life at Hawkeye, at-tributes much of that to nontraditional students, or people seeking a new skill.
“They’d perhaps been in a job that’s been downsized, or they’re even underemployed,” he said.
More and more FAFSA filers are older than 25. In 2004-05, 75 per-cent of college students were of traditional age, compared to 66 per-cent this year, Doe said.
Two-year transfer programs like those offered at Hawkeye pro-vide a lower-cost alternative to four years at a university. Iowa’s three regent universities and 15 community colleges have created www.transferiniowa.org to ensure a seamless transfer.
Hawkeye students also are assigned to an academic adviser at Iowa State University in Ames, the University of Iowa in Iowa City or the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. About 38 percent of the student body at UNI are transfers, and Hawkeye is its largest feeder school, Ball said.
In early March, a group of sophomores from Hudson High School was introduced to financial aid terminology as part of a visit to the college.
“We think we’ve probably more proactive than ever before,” Ball said. “Students need to understand the process. Don’t just leave it to Mom and Dad.”
Boosting awareness statewide seems to be working. During the last six years, the number of FAFSAs filed by Iowa residents increased 47 percent, Doe said. That is significant, as Iowa’s population increased only 5 percent and enrollment at Iowa’s colleges and universities went up 13 percent during the same time period.
Larger pools of applicants may toughen the competition. Depend-ing on the state program, the award either is reduced across the board to help more students, or less of the eligible population is funded.
About 14 percent of all Iowa resident FAFSA filers received some sort of state aid last year, said Todd Brown, director of state-adminis-tered aid with the Iowa College Student Aid Commission.
Despite challenges of securing aid, college remains a good invest-ment, officials say.
According to Doe, data show those without a college education are more likely to earn lower wages and experience unemploy-ment.
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the unemployment rate for iowans 25 to 64 is 2 percent for those with a bachelor’s degree and 10 percent for those
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A s you prepare to start your college career, think back on your life and the firsts you have experienced thus far. Do you remember starting your first day of elementary school? How about your first middle school dance? Remember how great it felt to drive a car for the first time? Good memories, right?
Time away from homeThis fall may be the first time you move away from your family. You’re probably both excited and a little scared about
leaving, and that’s normal.“Missing what’s familiar is natural — but pretty soon new places and people will become familiar, too,” said D’Arcy
Lyness, medical editor for the Nemours Foundation and an adolescent psychologist. Lyness explains how you can adjust if you are struggling with being away from home:
Get comfortable in your new environment by getting involved and participating in activities you like.
Stick around on the weekends so you can get to know people and have new experiences.
Don’t concentrate on being away from home. Find out what you like about your campus. Focus on those things.
Keep in contact with your loved ones from home, but make sure you’re not giving them most of your attention.
Decorate your dorm room in ways that remind you of home.
Seek out friendships.
Part-time jobOnce you start paying for things on your own, you’ll realize it isn’t cheap to buy groceries or to go out on Friday
night. Although many students start working in high school, you may never have felt the need to get a job until now.Emily Strader, the Student Employment Coordinator for University Career Services at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, has tips to snag a good part-time job:
When you first go to apply, make sure you dress appropriately, and ask to see the manager.
If you do not hear from the business within seven to 10 days after returning the application, go back and speak with the manager.
Restrict yourself to 12 to 15 hours of work a week, or only three shifts a week.
Consider working in the restaurant or baby-sitting/care-giving businesses. Servers tend to make good money in tips, and baby-sitters and care-givers are paid higher hourly amounts.
Avoid office jobs that require you to work all day, every day.
Credit CardsYou probably should get your first part-time job before you apply for your first credit card, or you could find your-
self in a precarious credit situation. Opening lines of credit can affect your credit score — positively or negatively. Similar to a GPA, a credit score is a cumulative rating of your credit performance. Your score affects everything from the interest rates you are offered to whether or not you can buy a car or a home. Suffice to say, it’s important. Beth Kobliner, author of “Get a Financial Life,” provides some tips on what you need to know before getting your first card:
Research different credit card companies’ offers.
Look for a card with low interest rates (also known as low APR) and no annual fees.
Make credit card payments on time. If you don’t, your credit score will suffer.
Only use your card for emergencies, or for things you could pay for in cash.
Avoid office jobs that require you to work all day, every day.
Need for a budgetIn high school you may have had a lot more money to spend on whatever you wanted, but in college you may
find you need money every month for things like your credit card bill. That’s why creating a budget is extremely important.
“If you don’t budget, you will likely get into deep credit card debt. Unfortunately, it’s just too easy to get in over your head fast,” Kobliner said. Some information to help you get started on creating a budget:
Keep track of all the things you purchase or put money toward for one month. This will help you realize where your money is going.
After you do the above, try out the budget exercises in the “Helpful Calculators” section on Kobliner’s site, www.kobliner.com. It will help you to determine what exactly you are doing with your money.
H ave you considered earning your college degree in two years instead of four? Many careers in Northeast Iowa require ad-ditional education after high school, but not necessarily a
four-year degree from a college or university.For a quality educational investment in a shorter span of time, con-
sider enrolling in one of more than 75 academic programs at North-east Iowa Community College. NICC has great programs and service learning opportunities on campus, off campus and online. Enrollment remains at historically high levels. More than 5,250 students are choos-ing the cost-effective solution to their college degree plans.
NICC offers a variety of associate in arts and science transfer degree programs, career and technical degrees and programs in nursing and allied health, industrial technology, business and computer science, the humanities and agriculture. The college’s two-year degrees pre-pare graduates to enter careers that offer competitive wages with great local employers.
Two-year degrees from NICC offer so many opportunities to train for a career. Computer technology, computer networking and ad-ministration and other allied health fields such as dental assisting and health information technology, are rising on the state’s list of hot jobs. Skilled graduates in these fields command high wages locally, working for employers who need talented, prepared and knowledgeable profes-sionals.
A four-year degree has great value, but two years at NICC may be a faster return on your educational investment. There are also many opportunities outside of the standard classroom, such as taking course-work online or participating in service learning events.
The NICC Student Life, Diversity and Leadership offices at the Calm-ar and Peosta campuses offer an annual spring break trip for students to expand their knowledge and learning through service. For the past two years, students have participated in weeklong service learning pro-grams in Chicago and Denver. This year’s destination is San Francis-co. NICC students have shared that these trips outside of the campus comfort zone proved to be some of the most memorable and reward-ing learning experiences that they have had.
There are also new opportunities to work in green energy fields, such as the new NICC Wind Energy Turbine Technician program at the Calmar campus.
This program focuses on the renewable energy field and teaches students to build, repair and manufacture one of the fastest-growing environmentally friendly sectors of the Iowa economy. As the second largest wind-energy-generating state in the U.S., this Iowa job sector needs skilled technicians.
For the student who looks for flexibility, NICC offers 13 programs completely online. Online degrees in psychology, business specialist, agriculture business, allied health and others give students the space to work on their studies independently and conveniently, which is espe-cially important for students with part- or full-time job schedules.
Whether you enroll in an online program, live near one of the col-lege’s campuses in Calmar and Peosta — or centers in Dubuque, Oel-wein, New Hampton, Cresco or Waukon — NICC is the better invest-ment to build your future career. Arrange a campus visit.
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biolifeA fictional donor characterizes a typical Biolife donor expe-
rience:I couldn’t wait to get to college. The freedom to make
my own decisions and all the new things I was about to discover. I just couldn’t wait.
One of the things I “discovered” was how expensive things are. Somehow my daily lattes meant no movie on Saturday night and only ramen noodles for dinner all month.
To help out with the budget, some friends of mine suggested that I try BioLife Plasma Services. It’s a plasma donation center where you receive compensation for donating plasma. I was a little skeptical at first, but I decided to try it.
On my first visit, I was required to have a physical —- right there at the donation center. A nurse checked me over and asked questions about my medical history. They had to determine if I was healthy enough to donate and that my plasma was healthy enough for someone else to get.
After my physical, I “scanned in” via my fingerprint and an-swered a few more questions on a computer. I have to answer these on every visit so the center can see if I have any changes in my health.
I was weighed and my protein levels were checked along with other vital signs like blood pressure. Once it was determined that I was healthy enough to donate, they took me back to a donor bed that looks like a cross between a recliner and a bed. They effortlessly inserted a needle and hooked me up to a machine.
The machine spun my blood sending it through tubes that sepa-rate the plasma from other elements of my blood. The plasma, pale yellow in color, carries my proteins and hormones throughout my body. Since it’s mostly water, my body replenishes it very quickly so I can safely donate two times a week.
That’s it — except for wiggling my fingers, which I did for an hour with my feet up, while I did my homework and listened to my favorite music.
I also got a debit card on my first visit. Every time I donate, mon-ey is placed on my card. By donating two times a week, I can receive up to $200 in a month. The card is so convenient and I can keep getting my daily lattes.
While I started donating for the money, I discovered something really cool. My plasma can be found in a variety of medical thera-pies that help thousands of people around the world each day. My plasma helps trauma patients, people with hemophilia and people with primary immune deficiency — all who need plasma-based therapies just to lead normal lives. Quite a discovery for someone just looking to not eat ramen noodles for a month.
Allen CollegeP erspective. It’s not always something that can be taught in
a classroom, but it’s an important concept for everyone in health care to understand.
And it’s one of the biggest things Rebecca Flesburg got out of her participation in Allen College’s service honors program. Flesburg is one of the first five graduates of the new program, which began in fall 2009 and graduated its first class in December 2010.
Each student of the first class completed three, one-credit-hour classes and partnered with a community agency for a service proj-ect. Flesburg worked with the Boys & Girls Club of Waterloo to im-plement a healthy lifestyles program to combat childhood obesity.
“This project benefited me because it helped me gain perspective of the opportunities that I have had in my life,” Flesburg said. Since she’s interested in cardiac nursing care, Flesburg hopes her work with the Boys & Girls Club children will not only improve their lives, but also help her in the future.
“This experience will benefit my career as I will be able to proac-tively help the childhood obesity epidemic within the clinical set-ting, “she said.
Other service honors students worked with the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, Allen Women’s Health and the Salvation Army, said associate professor Anna Weepie, who leads the program. Each stu-dent graduated with a better awareness of community needs and gained other valuable skills, she said.
“They’ve learned a lot of leadership skills,” Weepie said. “How to resolve conflict, work with others, collaborate and how to solve problems.”
The service honors program is evolving as it grows, Weepie said. Since it’s only a one-credit class, managing the scope of individual projects was a challenge for the first group of graduates. And since projects lasted for three semesters, staff turnover at partner agen-cies also was challenging.
Now, classes are working on service projects as a group.“The groups will meet together and have that camaraderie, and
I think that will allow our senior students to be better role models and leaders,” Weepie said. “They’ll have more student leadership roles and develop some of that mentoring.”
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Y ou rock the whole social media thing. Facebook. Twitter. You-Tube.
Big deal. So do several billion others. And a lot of them are applying to college too.
What college applicants need to realize is that social media is a “liv-ing and breathing” extension of your application and resume, so it has to work for — not against — you.
“Students have grown up with the Internet, with this open forum kind of communication, and I don’t think they understand that their Facebook page is now their online resume,” said Nora Ganim Barnes, director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Mas-sachusetts Dartmouth. “They could include a lot of the public service that they do. Those things instead of birthday parties on their Face-book pages — I think they could get a lot of mileage out of that.”
Halley Shefler would probably agree.“Your website, Facebook is your new resume. It’s the living and
breathing resume,” said Shefler, who heads The Arts Edge, an educa-tional consultancy for students in the visual and performing arts with offices in Boston and New York.
Students, she says, should “post art portfolios online or links to vid-eos or photo galleries from their performances. I like students to con-sider creating their own websites on which to showcase what they do. Help your case. Show schools who you are.”
“Students need to think a little bit more strategically about their on-line presence and take control of it,” said Ganim Barnes, who tracks college admissions’ use of social media. “It really makes it easier for the person on the other end to go there, rather than to snoop around and see what they can find out about you.”
Don’t think they do? Guess again. Colleges aren’t scrutinizing every applicant’s Facebook page, but when it comes down to scarce resources and scholarships, financial aid or the last availability in a popular pro-gram, well ...
“(Admissions directors) continue to say they’ll use any publicly available source of information to make a good decision,” said Barnes. “When they have to make a decision that’s important to the school … they certainly want to make sure that they’re not on the front page of the paper the next day with some bad publicity.”
Shefler, who was dean of admissions at Boston Conservatory before starting The Arts Edge, added, “We all expect kids to be kids, and post-ing summer vacation photos and having fun is fine, but there’s a cer-tain presence that you want to portray out there.
“Social media can enable students to give admissions staff a valuable perspective on themselves,” Shefler said. “Use it!”
Untag that photo!chicago tribune
Facebook strategyBe careful of copyright issues when posting portfolios, clips of performances, etc.
Consider how a teacher or aunt might feel if they saw something you posted.
Delete coarse language, risky or offensive photos, bad grammar.
Review your friends’ lists.
Avoid cute or suggestive e-mail or website addresses.
How social media can affect admissions
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YOUR HIGHNESS
Starring: Danny McBride, Zooey Deschanel, James Franco
the plot: Thadeous (McBride) has spent his life watching his perfect older brother Fabious (Franco) embark upon valiant journeys and win the hearts of his people. Tired of being passed over for adventure, adoration and the throne, he’s settled for a life of wizard’s weed, hard booze and easy maidens. But when Fabious’ bride-to-be, Belladon-na (Deschanel), gets kidnapped by an evil wizard, the king gives his deadbeat son an ultimatum: Man up and help rescue her or be cut off.
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ARTHUR
Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner
the plot: Arthur (Brand), the immature heir to a billion-dollar empire, finds himself cut off from the family fortune after reject-ing his arranged marriage to a nouveau riche social-ite (Garner) and instead falling for a shoplifting waitress in this remake of the sentimental 1981 comedy starring Dudley Moore. Arthur was raised in the lap of luxury. His family is wealthy beyond compare, and ever since he was a child his every whim has been catered to by his nanny, Hobson (Mirren), and his chauffeur, Bitterman (Luis Guzman).
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HANNAStarring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana
the plot: Sixteen-year-old Hanna’s (Ronan) training by her father (Bana), a former CIA agent, have made her the perfect assassin. Dispatched on a mission across Europe, she’s tracked by a ruthless intelligence operative (Blanchett) with secrets of her own. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.
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BORN TO BE WILD
Starring: Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick, Morgan Freeman
the plot: Narrated by Os-car-winning actor Freeman, this documentary observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day lives with the individuals who rescue them. Half of the film takes place in the rainforests of Borneo, where celebrated primatologist Galdikas assists baby orang-utans; the other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Sheldrick works with baby elephant calves. The goal, in each case, is to return these animals to the wild, where it is hoped they will function freely and independently.
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Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
the plot: In this fol-low-up thriller directed by Wes Craven, 10 years have passed and Sidney Prescott (Campbell), now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey (Arquette) and Gale (Cox), who are now married. Unfortunately, Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting the whole town in danger.
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T his is white-knuckle television. For sev-eral weeks (though it seems like forever) a crush of news has left us slack-jawed in
astonishment, horrified, heartsick and alarmed at what might come next.
There are uprisings across the Mideast, with bloody consequences. There’s the wrath of Mother Nature wrought in dreadful terms upon Japan, where the cruel aftermath includes an en-gineering nightmare whose scale no one can pre-dict. We’re whipsawed between grief for distant people we don’t know and concern for our own personal welfare, as we wonder how the world’s trouble spots will affect U.S. security, and as we worry about our own vulnerability to tsunamis, earthquakes and radiation poisoning.
And there’s also Charlie Sheen.Charlie Sheen?!During his latest spell of erratic behavior, he had
been fired by the studio behind his show, “Two and a Half Men.” Then he sued the producers for $100 million, by which time he had clinched his identity (at least in his own mind) as a fire-breath-ing “warlock” out to punish the assorted “trolls” against which he was nursing epic grudges.
For a while, Sheen drove the national conversa-tion. Was he crazy or cool? Did tiger blood really course through his veins? Was peace achievable be-tween him and his bosses? If not, could “Two and a Half Men” survive without him — and vice versa?
He had been in the news many times before. But this go-around, he WAS the news.
Heck, Charlie Sheen was bigger than the Mideast.“A little bizarre,” he acknowledged during
a Feb. 28 interview on “Piers Morgan Tonight,” when his host observed that Sheen was upstaging the turmoil in Libya.
“You turn on the 11 o’clock news and I’m the lead story, and then they get to THAT,” Sheen marveled, “and I’m thinking, the world is upside down.”
For once, he had a point. He had hijacked our attention from the Mideast during one of its most turbulent periods in memory.
Before Sheen stole the show, all eyes had been on Egypt. Crowds jammed Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which was first a prime staging ground for rage against Pres-ident Hosni Mubarak, then the site of mass celebra-tion when he stepped down after 29 years.
Unrest spread to other Arab nations as TV news scrambled to keep up. There were protests in Mo-rocco and Iran. Yemen was heating up. So was the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, a country pre-viously unknown to many Americans.
In Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi has ruled for nearly 42 years, protesters in Benghazi claimed control of the country’s second largest city after days of bloody fighting, and anti-government turmoil spread to the capital city of Tripoli. As events unfolded, the images were limited but compelling: fuzzy video of demonstrating multi-tudes; ragged footage of people being ambushed in the streets.
Until the U.S. became directly involved, the story seemed to lose its hold on the audience. Maybe the story was too volatile, sprawling across too many countries, with too many lead-ers to keep straight.
Egypt could rejoice in its liberation — and did,
on a grand scale. It made for unforgettable TV.But after that feel-good apparent finale, view-
ers seemed ready for the next thing. It often seems as though the public consciousness is able (or willing) to embrace only one big story at a time. In deference to Sheen, the Mideast was shoved into the background. Despite the high security stakes it represents, it was relegated in many people’s minds to second-tier, “in other news” status, even as the conflict in Libya and Bahrain intensified.
By contrast, l’affaire Sheen was something every-one could follow and talk about, all the better that its outcome made no material difference in the life of anyone who isn’t drawing a paycheck from “Two and a Half Men” or a major stockholder in Time Warner.
Then Japan claimed the top spot from Sheen, who for the moment lurks off-camera gearing up for his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour this month.
As every viewer knows too well, the images from Japan have been relentless and haunting. Among them: the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, a fore-boding spectacle that hints forcefully at miseries to come.
During TV’s coverage, nuclear-energy experts are speculating on what might happen next at the plant, four of whose six reactor units have had fires, explosions or partial meltdowns. The ex-perts lay out their best- and worst-case scenarios — different versions of awful.
Meanwhile, the crippled plant is a vision of our fear of what’s ahead. It’s been as disturbing as any sight, in a catastrophe full of them.
Charlie casts dark sheen on world newsFRAZIER MOORE | AP TELEVISION WRITER
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Ah, the 1980s. Those carefree years spent spinning the gears of Rubik’s Cubes, pop-
ping Pac-Man cartridges into Atari consoles, slipping on legwarmers or parachute pants and checking out the latest episodes of “Family Ties,” “Diff’rent Strokes” or “Knight Rider.”
That’s one remembrance.Here’s David Sirota’s: Those care-
free years spent sitting idly and naive-ly by as a cabal of ill-willed corporate leviathans and backward-looking governmental decision-makers put their stamp on a society whose seem-ingly innocuous, kitschy pop culture masked a me-first, militaristic out-look that is having negative ramifica-tions in the 21st century.
It’s an oversimplification of Sirota’s thesis, but the journalist and radio host’s book, “Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now — Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything,” is in-deed about what he sees as a return
to 1980s-style themes and mindset in today’s society.
“Back to Our Future” is thought-provoking and worth reading — if, that is, you’re willing to suspend a little disbelief. Let’s say for the sake of argument that the 1980s are making a comeback. How, then, is that any different than the 1970s channeling their inner ‘50s in the form of “Happy Days,” “Grease” or Richard Nixon?
American culture is cyclical, and history tends to repeat itself regard-less of place. The same could be said about the 1960s, 1970s or 1990s, for that matter.
Still, Sirota’s book is a fun, engag-ing read if not taken too seriously.
As the noted ‘80s historian Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Or, in Sirota’s worldview, even if you missed the 1980s the first time around, you’ll see them now virtu-ally everywhere you look.
T o many, Bob Siddens is known as wrestling legend Dan Ga-ble’s high school coach. But
Bob Siddens is much more than that.Dan Gable knows that. Anyone
who’s experienced Siddens as a coun-selor, educator, mentor, coach and friend — and yes, as an adversary — knows that.
No one knows that better than Don Huff, who suc-ceeded Siddens as wrestling coach at Water-loo’s West High School. That’s why Huff, Wa-t e r l o o - b o r n wrestling his-torian-author Mike Chapman and a host of Siddens disciples, includ-ing Gable, pitched in on a new book.
The title — “Siddens! Win with Hu-mility, Lose with Dignity — But Don’t Lose!” was one of the catchphrases Siddens’ wrestlers heard through-out his coaching career from 1950-77, when the Wahawks won 11 state titles and more than 90 percent of their dual meets.
The book is a testimonial by those who wrestled for Siddens and came to respect and love him.
Siddens ran intense practices and focused on each and every young wrestler as if he were the most im-
portant member of the squad. He pre-pared them for life as well as wrestling. They gave him their best, and he stood by them.
“Many times after an important meet,” Huff and Chapman wrote, “the wrestler who received the most praise from Coach Siddens was the wrestler who kept from getting pinned by an obviously superior opponent,” deny-
ing that foe ex-tra team points earned for a fall.
“He would use that wres-tler as an exam-ple of ‘why we won that meet’ and then tell all of the team-
mates that they better thank that one courageous athlete for playing an im-portant role in that victory.”
He was tough, but no bully. He seldom yelled, and never cursed. He didn’t have to. Nor did he tolerate it.
Siddens, by his teaching technique and personal example, defined noble manhood. He is the kind of coach ev-ery student-athlete should experience in his or her life, and the kind of coach every parent would want his or her son or daughter to have.
The authors have done us a great service in capturing the essence of a man to be emulated.
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Back to Our FutureDavid SirotaRandom House (2011)Pages: 224
Siddens! Don Huff & Mike ChapmanDWH Enterprises (2011)217 pages
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Karaoke revolution Glee: vol. 2Belt out more songs from the first season of the hit TV show “Glee.” Comes as software only or in a bundle with required microphone.Wii; April 5.
tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 3dSam Fisher must solve interactive puzzles to open locks as he investi-gates the sink-ing of a U.S. cruiser by infiltrating an enemy camp in Korea — all in 3-D.3DS; April 10.
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new 3dS technology could identify eye problems in kidsU .S. eye specialists are welcoming the Nintendo 3DS game de-
vice, saying it could help catch vision disorders that must be found early to be fixed.
If a child doesn’t see the 3-D effect on the 3DS, that’s a sign that she may have a vision disorder such as amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” or subtler problems that can cause problems with reading, said Michael Duenas, associate director for health sciences and policy for the American Opto-metric Association.
“The 3DS could be a godsend for identifying kids under 6 who need vision therapy,” said Duenas. Kids who experience dizziness or discom-
fort should also be checked, he said. Many eye specialists are dismissing the manufacturer’s warnings
that its 3-D screen shouldn’t be used by children 6 or younger because it may harm their immature vision. On the contrary,
the optometrists say, it’s a good idea to get your kids to try the 3-D screen, especially if they’re younger than 6.
The new handheld game device has two screens like the DS machines it is designed to replace. The top screen can show 3-D images, without the need
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