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Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18

Someone will need your logi-cal mind before the weekend is through. Be alert. Emotions may get out of hand but if you main-tain composure life will settle. Hide your potato peeler.

Pisces 2/19 - 3/20

Karma is like a corporation — it favors the biggest shareholders. Continue to invest in others’ lives, and your life will change for the better. The universe isn’t fickle. It will reward you if you don’t focus on your own problems. Avoid lad-ders, mirrors and black cats.

Aries 3/21 - 4/19

Your intelligence has taken you a long way. Be careful — you’re about to meet your match. An investment in anti-robot weaponry could prove helpful. Weekend movie: “Termina-tor 2: Judgment Day.”

Taurus 4/20 - 5/20

The usual crowd will be gone this weekend. Jump in and liven things up. The new people will react more favorably to self-deprecating humor. Mention the episode with the mannequin.

horoscopesLibra 9/23 - 10/22

This will not be your weekend. That special guy or girl across the bar isn’t who you think they are. Be wary of tattoos in weird places.

Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21

That person isn’t like the insects you used to squish when you were little. Restrain yourself this time and it will turn out better than you think. Show them your collection of “House” DVDs.

Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21

You’ve helped others all your life. That charity is going to circle back to you this weekend. Relatives you never call will call you. Your great aunt wants you to book that trip to the Spanish Riviera.

Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19

You’ve had something on your mind for a while. Spend a little money and do something different. The eggs and toilet paper all over their car will help break the ice.

Gemini 5/21 - 6/20

That reservation you’re feeling is significant, so listen to it. Some-times it’s best not to say some-thing. Las Vegas wouldn’t have been appropriate anyway.

Cancer 6/21 -7/22

Your instinct to protect yourself can be a detriment. It won’t take much to open up to someone this weekend. Check out that coffee shop you’ve never tried. Look for the heart that dots the “i.” Pigtails aren’t an indicator of immaturity.

Leo 7/23 - 8/22

Babies don’t usually learn better when you shout at them. Try a new approach. Positive reinforce-ment can garner fantastic results. Experiment with placing candy by the sink when it’s “time,” or give applause when the toilet flushes.

Virgo 8/23 - 9/22

The idea that’s been bouncing around your head will become grounded soon. Keep reading William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost. Avoid E.E. Cummings — he will only distract you.

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event briefsGraduate art exhibit at the Prichard

A reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Prichard Art Gallery, to showcase the work of fine arts graduate students. The exhibit will feature art projects from the following students: Rachel Smith, Nathan Myatt, Aaron Johnson, Angelique Abare, Abi-gal Tjaden and David Herbold. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibit will run April 14 to May 15.

University of Idaho Clothesline Project

From April 18 to April 22, an exhibit called The Clothesline Project will be featured in the University of Idaho Commons Rotunda. The exhibit serves to speak out about violence enacted toward women and children through a display of T-shirts designed by survivors or family and friends of survivors.

“The Good Person of Szechuan”

The University of Idaho Department of Theatre Arts presents “The Good Person of Szechuan,” a play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The play is directed by David Lee-Painter and features Chinese costumes and set design. The play will run at 7:30 p.m. April 14 to 16 and April 21 to 23, and at 2 p.m. April 17 and 23 in the Hartung Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, children and UI faculty. Students can attend the show for free with presentation of a Vandal ID card.

Breakdance competition

Non-profit organization Wash their Worries Away is hosting a break dance compe-tition with the Breakdancing Club at Washington State Uni-versity. Some revenue from the event will be used to purchase a new washing machine for an all-boys orphanage in Egypt. The event will go from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Compton Union Building in Butch’s Den. Tickets are $6 pre-sale and $8 at the door. For every ticket sold, $1 will be donated to the orphanage.

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Sergey Urlapov was born in Voronezh, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. when he was 15. He graduated from Caldwell High School and went on to earn a degree in art at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. Sergey has attended the University of Idaho for the last two years and graduates this spring with a bachelor of fine arts in stu-dio arts. He said he plans to work as a concept artist and game designer.

“Cannon” was made entirely in Photoshop CS3 using Wacom tablet and custom brushes. He said the piece was originally a concept illustration for a 3D modeling final, a sort of science fiction anti aircraft defense cannon.

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In the wake of the YouTube revolution, our culture is being exposed to more garbage than ever. How long has it been since you has sat down to experience the glory that is the epic rock song? Here’s a list of throwback tunes to refresh those rock hungry eardrums.

“Running With The Devil” — Van HalenWith the stroke of that introductory bass line all you’ll visualize is Mark Stone, Van Halen’s

original bass player, plucking notes with his teeth. David Lee Roth gets the crowd into the music by using his charisma. Eddie Van Halen conjures magic on guitar, his fingers like flames licking up and down the fret board.

“Lazy” — Deep PurpleThe full-length version of this song features a sweet organ intro played by the band’s original

keyboardist Jon Lord. This rockin’ song picks up with some light taps on the high hat before filling the entire spectrum of sound. Long live the organ solo.

“You Shook Me All Night Long” — AC/DCArguably one of AC/DC’s best songs off their best album Back In Black, the song title is suspected

to have ties to a blues track called “You Shook Me” by Muddy Waters. This album didn’t feature the late Bon Scott but his predecessor Brian Johnson made the songs his own with respect to Scott.

“Riders on the Storm” — The DoorsThis eerie track by rock’s spookiest fellows, Jim Morrison and bandmates changed the spectrum

of rock music. With the fantastic chant-like drum beat and the key-tickling fingers of Manzarek this track exercises and relaxes the mind at the same time.

“Welcome to the Jungle” — Guns N’ RosesOne of the brattiest songs on the list, GNR had potential to be one of the largest bands to

emerge from the ‘80s — had Axl Rose not been so di!cult to work with. Rose was supposed to be rock’s golden child but fizzled out with Chinese Democracy. Fortunately, the band cut this record long before Rose went nuts.

“Paint It Black” — The Rolling StonesSome may not know that this is the first rock record to feature a sitar. The song is credited to

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards but the Stones’ original bassist Brian Jones also contributed to the formulation. The trance-style trudge of the song is hypnotizing but not overwhelming. Jagger’s articulation is forced but that is what makes it fun to imitate at karaoke.

“Hotel California” — The EaglesOriginally titled “Mexican Reggae” this tune has some of the most interesting lyrics. Some people

have interpreted the lyrics to correlate with the Camarillo State Mental Hospital but the band has always denied this. It seems like the story sucks the listener in and is hard to ignore.

“Revolution” — The BeatlesWritten by notorious John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the song was inspired by political pro-

tests during the late ‘60s. Lennon’s lyrics express doubt about some political tactics. There is an in-tense political charge to the song but the loud guitar and edginess to Lennon’s typically calm vocals makes this song one of the best.

“Stairway to Heaven” — Led ZeppelinComposed by legendary rock guitarist Jimmy Page the song starts with soft pan flutes and is

comprised of many different sections. As the song progresses it fills sonic crevasses and features a face melting guitar solo.

“Comfortably Numb” — Pink FloydFor a rock song so mellow, it is surprising David Gilmour said during the writing process the

band fought about the song like crazy. Waters penned the lyrics, while the crescendo of the synthe-sizers and horns balance with the intense guitar solo.

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Le Vintage: Rockin’ SocksIt’s that time of year

again.With three weeks of

classes left and finals lurk-ing in the shadows, many students may feel overwhelmed, sleep deprived and burnt out. At the close of a long semester the body and mind are overworked and students haven’t seen a good night of sleep in about a month. Even when it doesn’t seem like there is an end in sight, there are three simple steps students can take to ensure they are up to the challenge.

Take care of yourself

Taking care of physical and emotional needs should be second nature, but most college students sacrifice personal health and pull all-nighters in hopes of com-pleting major assignments or projects. Sometimes projects are due the next morning but haven’t been started. Attending a party Friday and Saturday nights for three straight week-ends might sound fun, but students should sit one out and catch up on sleep. Your body will thank you later.

Take the 10 to 20 minutes in the morning usually spent in the long line at Einstein’s and opt for breakfast at home. Studies show that eating breakfast leads to increased energy and boosted metabolism, so

Laugh it offdon’t skimp out.

Another way to cut down on stress and live a healthier lifestyle is to replace coffee,

soda and energy drinks with water. The benefits are too many to name.

When you treat your body right it will treat you right, and you’ll find your-self more relaxed dur-ing the final weeks of the semester.

Take a breakBetween school,

work, extracur-ricular activities and late-night study sessions it is easy to be overwhelmed. As nice as it would be, more hours cannot be added to the day. The best thing to do when feeling pres-sure and stress building is to take a break.

Seriously, just take a break. It doesn’t have to be long. Turn

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Eric Conte and Jonelle Yaca-pin, co-owners of new down-town restaurant Gnosh: Steaks, Sips, Small Plates, said they want to provide customers with a personalized dining experience during every visit.

“We decided to do the small plate focus,” Conte said. “With that we do steaks a la carte … you’re breaking up the sides and the sauces. It’s up to the people to decide what they put together.”

The restaurant opened earlier this month at the Red Door’s old location on Main Street.

The concept at Gnosh, named for a Yiddish term meaning “small meal,” is to offer patrons the opportunity to create a dish of their own choosing. Conte said the small plate idea facili-tates the satisfaction of his cus-tomers, both in taste and cost.

“That way people can come in

and get exactly what they want and (don’t) have to pay for what they don’t want,” Conte said.

Conte said featuring small plates and steaks a la carte isn’t the only way he is keeping the menu fresh. Gnosh will offer a rotating menu during the year.

“To keep everything interest-ing we’re deciding to rotate seasonally,” Conte said. “It actu-ally solves a lot of the problems we have in restaurants where certain produce isn’t available certain times of the year.”

Conte uses locally grown produce in his dishes – one ele-ment that determines the type of cuisine offered each season. Using produce in the sides rather than pairing it with the protein will make it easier to use what is available locally, Conte said.

“Instead of a composed plate where we only go for so much side, it’s all kind of broken up, so we go through as much of the local produce as possible,” Conte

said. “It makes a lot more sense.”Conte said the desire for

creative freedom is what inspired him to open Gnosh.

“It’s a better way to express yourself, with no kind of restric-tion,” Conte said. “(The menu) doesn’t necessarily have to (come) from me — it can (come) from ev-eryone … so it’s an expression of everyone that’s here at that time. It’s much more fluid.”

Bethany Vivian said she looks for items full of flavor when choosing from a menu, and was happy with her experience at Gnosh April 5.

“Gnosh met all of my criteria — the combinations of flavors, the sizes of portions, the quality and the atmosphere,” Vivian said.

Conte said he hopes Gnosh appeals to both college students and community members.

“We definitely want the younger, more vibrant crowd,” Conte said.

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amrah canul | rawrArlene Falcon, owner of Tye Dye Everything on Main Street, tye-dyes pieces for Mosocow Hemp Fest on Monday.

Arlene Falcon said Moscow Hemp Fest is a day filled with music, arts and crafts. The event also features educational speakers devoted to industrial hemp and medical marijuana-related issues.

Falcon owns local boutique Tye Dye Everything and has organized the event since 2006. She said there will be around 50 booths with hemp clothing, jewelry and crafts. Moscow Hemp Fest 2011 will go from 10 a.m. to dusk Saturday at East City Park.

“There are also food venders and I know for fact that one of the food venders is really trying to have hemp burgers and maybe have hemp milkshakes,” Falcon said. “We also have a couple of fire dance troupes … they’re going to do their dance theater and after that we have some fire dance hula hoopsters.”

Megan Prusynski has designed Hemp Fest T-shirts and posters since 2006 and will perform Satur-day night.

“I’m actually going to be doing a (fire) hula hooping performance

and then at the end of the night at about 8:30 or 9, I’m in a fire spin-ning troupe, so that will be really cool to see,” Prusynski said. “I don’t know how to explain it. If you haven’t seen it before you definitely want to check it out. It looks a lot scarier than it is.”

Prusynski said the fact that there is a hemp festival in Idaho is awesome.

“This year they are showing the petition for the Compassion-ate Choice Act (Idaho Medical Choice Act) … which is trying to get medical marijuana passed in Idaho, which is pretty monumental because it doesn’t happen every day in Idaho,” Prusynski said.

Falcon said along with booths there is live music including Buf-falo Death Beam, Grateful Live, Smokin’ Bill and Not Quite Punk. There will also be speakers such as Rep. Tom Trail.

“It’s not just a party. You can learn more about the movement, about the medical marijuana move-ment and industrial hemp,” Falcon said. “It’s relevant because espe-cially in the state of Idaho … there’s no medical protection for people who use pot medicinally, so it’s really time to change and stop this

marijuana prohibition.” Adam Assenberg, who will

speak at the event, said he got involved because he is a medicinal cannabis user.

Assenberg worked as a security o!cer in 1985 and during a theft he was hit in the back with a baseball bat and thrown off a bridge onto boulders. He said he was paralyzed from the waist down for more than six months and it took him seven years to relearn how to walk. The doctors prescribed morphine and Percocet to help with pain.

“Even with those heavy opiates, I was going through anywhere between 30 … to 70 pain seizures a day which are like … epileptic … seizures, and this is the only thing that stops it,” Assenberg said.

Assenberg owns a dispensary in Washington and said there needs to be more compassion and understanding for medicinal mari-juana users.

“I think it’s a big deal because people that have cancer, glaucoma, AIDS and other medical issues do not get healed just by crossing a state line … there are people suf-fering in Idaho that could really benefit from this medicine,” As-senberg said.

Prusynski said she enjoys Hemp Fest because it’s a good time and is educational.

“There’s live music and fun in the park and a lot of interesting issues that are presented,” Prusyn-ski said.

Falcon said the festival is about hemp awareness and she is glad Moscow gets to be part of it.

“Let’s pray for sun — it happens rain or shine, and when it’s a nice day it’s a wonderful event and we do draw in people from the whole region,” Falcon said. “It’s a good way to celebrate spring too.”

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If the concept of art therapy is brought up in conversation, what might come to mind is movies about troubled children in asy-lums who draw corpses or fill pages with black hole circles they draw so furiously that it breaks the tip of the pencil. And then they might go off in a crazy tantrum and scream “trees” or something until they’re sedated.

Anyway. This con-notation is far from what art therapy is most often used for, and there’s more than one demographic to which it can be applied. It’s not just for children, or those struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder or any other mental illness. It’s not just for coping with grief or trauma, although it is proven ef-fective in those areas.

In fact, forms of art therapy can be helpful to college stu-dents. The amount of stress some students place on themselves semester after semester can take a

toll, and some form of relief must be utilized in order to make it to the end of each year. Outlets like music, sports, writing or other

hobbies can relieve stress as well, but sometimes going back to the simplest form of the psyche can be more therapeutic than you might guess.

So follow this advice: Go to the Dollar Store, find the children’s sec-tion and pick a coloring book of your choice. If you visit at the right time and sift through the lame ones, you can find quality coloring books for $1, like Bambi or Care Bears. But

if you’re willing to spend a little more, try Walmart for a bigger se-lection. Then make sure you pick up a pack of 36 Crayola colored pencils for about $8, maybe less. Plop yourself on the couch or bed and turn on something mindless you don’t really need to pay atten-tion to, and just color.

Yeah, it’s something your 10-year-old sister doesn’t even do anymore because, “It’s for babies.”

It’s something you probably haven’t done for years, and it will feel silly at first. You might even have to do it in secret for fear of being ridiculed by roommates who have yet to discover the power it holds.

But think about it — how many times in the last two to four years have you thought, “I really wish I could just go back to elementary school?” For those who have no talent for mediums like drawing, painting or sculpting, coloring of-fers a chance to be creative with-out needing any talent for art.

But there are other benefits, too. Some schools of thought exist that say color therapy is beneficial to health, possibly stimulating the nervous system and increasing blood flow to the brain. So not only is it beneficial from a mental standpoint, but physical as well.

Every once in a while, your brain needs a break. Go back to basics and reduce stress — it’s worth the teasing you might get from friends until they dis-cover it themselves and eat their words.

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All coloring devices will be accepted so use your imagination.Hand the page in on the third floor of the Student Union Building at the Argonaut o!ce.

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Serafina Harney and several of her peers moved about in the fashion design studio at the Niccols Hall April 7.

Some girls sat at a tall table covered in butcher paper and hand-sewed skirts, others hunched over sewing machines, wrinkling up their noses to focus on tiny stitch-ing on their garments. The de-signers worked in preparation for the First annual Shimmer Nights Fashion show from 5 to 6 p.m. tonight in the Borah Theater.

Harney, a Clothing, Textiles and Design major, said she feels the program has grown a lot and has evolved in the past two years.

“They are doing so much more stuff now (because) they know what we need and … a lot of that wasn’t being ad-dressed properly. Even talking to people who graduated last year, they are like, ‘We never did stuff like this for our class, you guys are so lucky,’” Har-ney said.

Harney’s creation is called “Fan-cy Dress,” a mini-dress covered in hand-sewn fans in shades of gray, blue and olive green. The base of the dress was re-used but everything else about the design changed.

“My design was time-con-suming because I hand-sewed all of those fans. I don’t even know how much time I have spent on it,” Harney said. “The last time I worked on it, it was for six hours, and I had

already worked on it a ton before that.”

Maria Cabalo has also spent hours on her design. She will showcase a teal evening dress made of crepe-back satin. The dress features accents of color-ful peacock feathers at the left hip and the right shoul-der. The hemline of the dress features another set of the most brilliant peacock feath-ers, of which peacocks only produce two in one lifetime, Cabalo said. The feathers were attached to the dress with jewelry attaches.

“My inspiration, originally, I am obsessed with peacock feathers. I always thought, when I was a kid, that my animal inside was a peacock, so I always wanted to make something with peacocks,” Cabalo said.

Two lavender children’s needlepoint boards were at-tached to the garment.

“Originally, I had (these) in the drawing but was going to take it out because I didn’t think I needed it, and then when the model put it on, all the feathers were in her face, so it was perfect because it pushes them both out just right,” Cabalo said.

Susan Torntore discussed de-tails over Skype with instructor Lori Wahl, in the CTD studio.

“It has really nice swing, the body,” Torntore said, about one student designer’s piece.

Torntore is one of three faculty members that work in CTD as an instructor of fash-ion design.

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Every once in awhile we long to change ourselves. The lure of what could be is powerful. Some-times it’s as easy as getting a tattoo, and sometimes you have to jump a few hurdles. Although such deci-sions can be fulfilling, the reactions from other people are often rewarding enough.

Check out these chameleons. They may inspire you to new heights of intrepid soul-searching.

Heart on your sleeveCollege students who want to

go crazy in a socially conformable way might get a tattoo on their lower backs, a shoulder blade or an ankle. Most wouldn’t give their whole bodies to the artwork.

Rick Genest did just that. His tattoos aren’t of butterflies or barbed wire however. They depict a skeleton and muscle tis-sue, along with other images of death and decay. Tattoos cover 80 percent of his body. The pro-cess started 10 years ago with the bones on his hands, and the ink has recently garnered him

significant spotlight.In January, he ap-

peared in Paris for a debut of French de-signer Thierry Mugler’s autumn and winter fashion line. Mugler’s creative director Nicola Formichetti discovered Genest through a Face-book page intended to ridicule him. Formi-chetti also works with Lady Gaga, and Genest made an appearance

in the pop artist’s music video for the song “Born this Way.” Genest has been offered a role in the upcoming Keanu Reeves film “Ronin 47,” and spots in other fashion shows.

“It’s proof of the power of the Internet,” Genest said. “You (have to) do what you love or else you’ll be doing something you hate. I wish everyone would do what they love.”

Although he doesn’t consider himself much of a role model, Genest continued with one last bit of sage advice.

“But don’t do drugs,” he said.

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“The three faculty (members) right now, are all working incred-ibly hard. We’re all working really long hours, we’re all temporary faculty, to get the show ready and to implement the new curricu-lum,” Torntore said.

She said the new curriculum in-volves ways to make the designer appeal to a target market.

“A lot of what we teach is … applied and with our industry per-spective, we really try to get them ready to go into the work world and run, (and) not get stalled be-cause they can’t find a job, because they don’t have the right skills,” Torntore said.

The fashion show is hosted by the student chapter of the International Textile and Apparel Association. All proceeds from the event go to the ITAA, and Torn-tore said this is to provide fashion design students with more profes-sional opportunities. Students and members of the community can also get alterations to their gar-ments by members of the ITAA.

The ITAA was asked to par-ticipate in the event by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, who wanted to pair it with a wine and cheese event they host annu-ally for Mom’s weekend. Several other groups are involved with the fashion show — the ambassadors at CALS, the photography club and the public relations club, to name a few.

“I think it’s really kind of im-

portant to keep all of that in mind, that yes, the faculty is working very hard, but it really is ... collab-orative and that they’re working with these other groups on cam-pus as well to get things done. It’s a really great thing,” Torntore said.

Harney said she hopes there will be a crowd at the event tonight because most people don’t know about her major and don’t understand the importance of fashion design.

“Every human is concerned with dress in some way, and whether you are wearing beads or lace, you are wearing something,” Harney said.

Torntore said people should attend to see the creativity of the students.

“We have a very diverse range of pieces this year, all the way from students who have never sewn before up to the sophomore who is an experienced knitter and designing and making hand-knitted garments,” she said. “You have to come see the range and see the exciting pieces. I think people will just love it.”

amrah canul | rawrMaria Cabalo works on one of her pieces for the Shimmer Nights Fashion Show on April 7. The show will take place tonight at the Borah Theater from 5 to 6 p.m.

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Keri Cederquist said volunteerism is rewarding.

“There’s always a challenge to it, both physically and mentally,” Cederquist said.

Cederquist has been an active volun-teer in the community through several organizations, including Vandal Volun-teers and Backyard Harvest. She has also been active in the international com-munity. Vandal Volunteers is a group that was started by students who went abroad in winter 2009 for an Alternative Service Break.

“I went with the group to the Do-minican Republic, so we felt the earth-quake in Haiti.” Cederquist said, “When we got back we realized that there was a huge need here for support.”

She said the group felt compelled to raise immediate support for Haiti.

“We held a vigil and fundraisers to raise money for local doctors from Washington who were going down for relief in Haiti,” Cederquist said.

She said the group raised a couple thousand dollars to help send the doc-tors to Haiti.

“We also held a shoe drive to donate to the Dominican Republic, and (lent support to) a relief organization in Boise that helps refugees,” she said.

Cederquist is an activist, a person that tries to enact change and/or im-prove situations for others.

Jacob Bryan, an intern at the ASUI Center for Volunteerism and Social Ac-tion, said he has worked at the center for about a year and has enjoyed it.

“We work to coordinate groups with the right (resources), rather than orga-nize groups and events ourselves. We also put people in touch with volunteer opportunities, whether they’re looking

to join an organization or to fulfill a requirement for a class,” Bryan said.

The center seeks to encourage leader-ship and to educate students through service and civic action.

Michael Bonham, another intern for the ASUI volunteer center, said there is always an event going on or an organi-zation that needs help.

“Sometimes we help with large events like Days of Service, blood drives and Alternative Service Breaks,” Bonham said. “A lot of the time though, there are smaller events going on around the community that need help. They’re not as well-advertised so the center helps spread the word and point people towards the right group (with

which) to get involved.”Vandal Volunteers is another student

organization that participates in civic action. Last Saturday, members went to Spokane to hand out sack lunches to the homeless. They also worked in a community kitchen and garden that supports the homeless.

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Tim Kunz said a classmate sit-ting behind him noticed an odd bulge on the left side of his head.

“At first (doctors) thought it was some sort of infection or inflammation,” he said.

Kunz, an engineering major, was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosar-coma in 2006. ERMS is a rare form of aggres-sive muscle cancer detected in approximately 200 people worldwide each year. He said an ensuing battle with cancer was a synopsis of his senior year in high school.

Kunz said radiation therapy re-sulted in a hearing loss of 50 per-cent in his left ear, his sense of taste and his left salivary gland. At one point, he said his diet con-sisted of dry cereal crushed into powder because that was the only food that tasted good. Prior to being diagnosed, Kunz was an active soccer player who led a healthy lifestyle.

“One day I looked in the mirror, and you could see my ribs and my stomach (were) all sunken in,” he said. “That was the realization, I had cancer.”

He said the support of his family as well as the abil-ity to look toward the end, when he would be finished with treatment, helped him endure

the hardships of cancer. Seeing other people struggle with the disease also inspired him to have a positive attitude.

“You spend all this time in the hospital feeling like crap and you think you are at the bottom,” he said. “Then you look at the person in the bed next to you, and they barely have control over their bodily functions and you

think, ‘Wow, I’m lucky. Every day that I’m alive is a day I’m not dead,’ because it could have very well happened.”

Exactly one year to the day from his first doctor’s ap-

pointment, Kunz won his battle with cancer.

“Ten months of chemotherapy, 20 sessions of radiation, and I’m cancer free as of May 25, 2007,” he said.

Kunz continues to fight cancer as the Latah County Relay for Life Luminaria chair. The Lumi-naria ceremony features white bags that line the relay track decorated with the names of cancer survivors and a video put together by

Kunz. The ceremony is intended to honor cancer survivors as well as lives lost to the disease.

“It’s a way to honor them, and (get) the word out so they didn’t die for nothing,” he said.

Kunz said students should take a proactive approach to learning about cancer. Although cancer may not have personal impact on students right now, it will happen at some point, Kunz said. Kunz said preventa-tive techniques such as mammograms and colonoscopies are important steps.

“You don’t want to live your life in fear, but it’s better to be preventative than dumb,” Kunz said.

Monica Washburn described watching her mother endure the effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

“We were at my aunt’s house when she started losing her hair and she started crying,” she said.

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Ten months of chemotherapy, 20 sessions of radiation, and I’m cancer free as of May 25, 2007.”

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tim kunz | courtesyConquering cancer is a daunting task for anyone, but Tim Kunz proved it was possible to beat and climbed Mt. Borah three months after finishing chemotherapy in 2007.

Gnosh server Skyler Patterson said he hopes students won’t shy away from Gnosh because of their initial reaction when they hear the term “fine dining.”

“I think that Gnosh could be very big with the college crowd because it’s not only a bar, it’s a restaurant,” Patterson said. “It’s not going to run a student’s wallet dry. I think people will be surprised by their reaction to the restaurant.”

Gnosh offers a selection of signature cocktails in addition to the standard drink menu.

“It’s one of the only estab-lishments in the area that is trying to do new and exciting

things with cocktail culture,” Patterson said.

Vivian, a senior in music at the University of Idaho, said she will dine again at the restau-rant, and hopes other students will discover what Gnosh has to offer.

“I think sometimes people forget that there are those op-tions nearby,” Vivian said. “It’s important that we know.”

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horse from page 9Picture imperfect

Drugs often cause people to hallucinate. Two young, vibrant Japanese women might turn into two old, decidedly-less-vibrant Japanese men before your eyes. This can happen even without drugs, as seen in this YouTube video.

Two young ladies ap-proach random folks with a camera. They smile and convince the person to take a photo of them. The girls walk some distance away, pose for the photo and are soon eclipsed by a passing van. As the van passes, two

old Japanese men in the same outfits appear and walk toward the hapless pic-ture-taker. The person hands the camera back to them and does their best to ignore the existential eggbeater whipping of their brains into pancake batter.

Simple tricks of the eye can provide hours of amusement.

‘Moo’ve over, Mr. EdTeenager Regina Mayer

has created another way to provide hours of enjoyment that’s equally di!cult to wrap the mind around. She has trained one of her fam-ily’s farm cows to ride and jump like a horse.

Mayer’s parents denied

her request for a horse, so she worked with what she had. For two years the girl worked with her cow Luna, leading it through the forests near their farm in Laufen, Germany and getting it used to carrying her. Now, she jumps Luna through home-made hurdles of logs and beer crates and roams the German landscape.

Luna gets along with horses better than cows these days.

“Cows don’t really like her ... they’re jealous be-cause she always gets good-ies,” Mayer said.

I’d bet my half-gallon of vitamin D milk that this Ger-man bovine is happier than all the cows in California.

laugh from page 3off Facebook (and the computer for that matter), put your favorite music on and dance. Take a walk in the arboretum and smell the flowers. Bring a camera and a best friend. Take a hot bath and watch an episode of your favorite TV show, or a favorite childhood TV show and reminisce.

Finally, call home. Your parents will be glad to hear from you, and siblings won’t miss an opportunity to rekindle the sibling rivalry, or pick bonding time back up from where it was left. Hearing the familiar, comforting sounds and stories from home can be just what you need to power through the last few weeks of school.

Laugh yourself sillyLaughter really is the best medicine,

especially when it comes from deep down inside. Try this: Whenever you feel like crying, take a deep breath and laugh. Then think about how good you really do have it. Try it sometime, it works. Laughter always makes things seem better.

Can’t find anything to make you smile? Blasphemy. There are plenty of silly people and things to laugh at, enough for a life-time. Try watching an outrageous YouTube video or ask a friend to suggest one. Spend some time with a child — they’re full of laughter. They’re also notoriously bad (but funny) joke tellers. Children always see the bright side of life.

Cederquist said she has a theory about why people choose not to volunteer.

“In our culture we’re really absorbed in ourselves for the majority of the time,” she said. “That’s a mentality that’s supported by culture and media. We’re meant to be very independent and individualistic rather than communal and cooperative. It’s all about self-esteem and ego. It’s inherent in our capi-talistic system to just take and take.”

She said on one level, it is

self-gratifying to help those in need.

“To be totally honest, it feels good to say that I, with my hands, helped build this house for somebody who was living in a shed with concrete blocks and corru-gated tin. It feels good — you feel like you accomplished something,” Cederquist said.

Cederquist said she has been involved with several organizations and now works with Backyard Harvest, a local group that provides fresh foods to low-income families.

“I feel really passion-ate about this,” Cederquist said. “That’s what I found in

Backyard Harvest and that’s where I feel like I can really make a difference. I feel that I can make more meaning-ful, sustainable and lasting change by picking one pas-sion or one venue and really throwing myself into it. That may not work for everyone in volunteering but that has worked best for me.”

Cederquist graduates this year but said she will con-tinue volunteering.

“The need in the world is so great and overwhelming that it almost drives people to inaction,” Cederquist said. “There’s more out there than just one’s self.”

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unite from page 12“There was nothing she could do. It wasn’t her fault.”

Washburn is the team leader for McNair and Friends, a group of UI staff, students and their friends and family who partici-pate in Relay for Life. Washburn said the event is special to her because her mother is a breast-cancer survivor.

“I think (cancer survivors) are the strongest people I know. They take every day as if it is their last and do whatever it takes to be happy. For that they are my heroes,” she said.

Washburn said cancer runs in her family.

“I’m hoping there is a cure by the time I, or anyone else gets it,” she said.

Tori Cook said the fundraiser is a victory celebration.

“It’s a celebration of com-ing together as a community to fight cancer,” she said.

Relay for Life is a posi-tive way to unite the Moscow community and UI in the fight against cancer, Cook said.

“Every year someone in the community has been diagnosed or passed away from cancer,” she said. “It’s a reminder of why we are doing it.

more information

215 S. Main St.Open 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Mon-day through Saturday.www.gnoshmoscow.com/

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