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PAGE 3 google privacy issues PAGE 4 poetry slam at the boon BEACON PAGE 7 Volume 82 Number 15 February 26, 2010 Dance team Spring break is on its way finishes season with showcase Students prepare for service, BY JENNA VAN OORT CONTRIBUTING WRITER singing, sports and more The Northwestern dance team BY LINDEN FIGGIE & CAMERON and clean-up in New is going to take advice from the CARLOW Orleans, Bible camps and musician Lady Gaga and “Just CONTRIBUTING WRITER & EDITOR after-school activities in Dance.” Even though the iconic new As students anticipate Arkansas, Kentucky and pop artist’s music is not on the play family trips to sunny beaches, Louisiana, and teaching in list, the dancers will be dancing to warm weather and relaxation, Minnesota and Mississippi. the songs of , David Guetta, many Northwestern students Many of these destinations Black Eyed Peas and others on Feb. are preparing for a different have been on NW’s SSP 27 at noon as part of the annual kind of getaway; one of cultural itinerary for several years; dance showcase. experience, spiritual service and however, students going to At the showcase, the dance team further education. Cary, Miss., will be the first will be performing all five of the But one fact holds true for both to tell of its experiences. dances they learned this year. The groups: they are excited for the The group will partner Sioux Center and Hartley-Melvin- upcoming week of life-changing with Cary Christian Center Sanborn high school dance teams opportunities and involvement in a number of fields, such PHOTO COURTESY OF HEIDI HILDEBRANDT will contribute to the showcase in new realms of communities, as tutoring, health care Students will travel to Bluefields, Nicaragua, to lead a Bible school, work on a construction project and with their own performances. lifestyles and perspectives. As the and Bible studies. help at a health and feeding center during one of Northwestern’s Spring Service Projects. Team co-captain junior Karla countdown continues for anxious Steph Wilcox, a junior going to forward to the many potential affairs in the Netherlands and Houk said, “This is the final event travelers, excitement regarding Opelousas, La., is most excited for projects the group will be involved Nicaragua, and the A Cappella of the dance team season where we Spring Service Projects (SSPs) and the night when “a bunch of high in and also getting to see Louisiana, choir will tour in the Czech get to show all of our hard work. organized class trips permeates the school students will sleep outside somewhere she has never been. Republic, Poland and Austria. It’s just a time for the dance team atmosphere on campus. in boxes.” The U.S. is not the only country The Nicaragua group will to shine!” Groups will focus on community “We will be helping with setting hosting NW students for the participate in general community The other co-captain, junior involvement and interaction in it up and passing out t-shirts and week, however. Two groups will outreach through construction Hannah Reinders, said everyone projects such as hurricane relief stuff,” Wilcox said. She is looking be participating in international See “NW Springs” on pg. 5 should attend the showcase “to support the girls on the dance team. The majority of the girls on the team are freshmen, so it would Relating pop culture to Christianity be great for them to feel the support BY MEAGAN MCDOUGALL For the last two years, students “This year we kicked the Day of Christianity. of this community. It’s also free STAFF WRITER and faculty have been given a day Learning off with faculty dressed Pop culture is something that entertainment on a Saturday!” “Teenage Mutant Ninja off from classes and activities to as characters from pop culture to students and faculty alike can Freshman Morgan Stahl is Turtles” in chapel. Professors participate in the Day of Learning. gain attention for our Facebook fan relate to, and both students and also really looking forward to the replacing sweater vests and This year, on March 24, the campus page,” Day of Learning coordinator staff have been working to make showcase to show off the dances pleated pants with “Star Wars” will learn about Christianity and Jill Haarsma said. this year’s theme very relatable and for the last time. Stahl said her costumes. These are just a few of Pop Culture through a variety of With the help of the Student exciting. first year on the dance team was the ways the campus has already speakers and workshops. Every Activities Council, students can “It can be really fun to think unforgettable. gotten involved in the Day of year, Day of Learning looks participate in the “Sodexo World and talk about the familiar things “I couldn’t have imagined a Learning. different due to the new theme. Series of Pop Culture,” and the we surround ourselves with every better year,” Stahl said. “The team finals will be emceed by this year’s day, like TV shows, video games, was definitely formed by God, as keynote speaker, Jeffrey Keuss, a social networking sites, etc.,” each member brought to the team a professor of Christian Ministry at student coordinator junior Rachel needed strength and ability. It was Seattle Pacific University. Rager said. “Then when you try and challenging to learn how to balance Keuss’s colleagues have called relate those things to Christianity, different components of him “an engaging interpreter of it can make for a very intriguing See “Team” on pg. 2 theology in pop culture.” discussion.” According to Northwestern’s Students can get involved in Web site, “Keuss’s work with discussion before the day comes youth and scholarly research by taking part in a faculty-led on Christ and culture has led to discussion of current pop culture books, articles and presentations trends on the Day of Learning’s on diverse subjects like the Facebook fan page. Columbine killings, Dr. Seuss, “I think the topic for this Stanley Kubrick, Cormac year will definitely get more McCarthy, “Narnia,” Bruce people involved, both from the Springsteen, “Star Wars,” Donald community and campus,” senior Trump and U2.” Brittany Moore, who will be Aside from Keuss’s discussions, hosting a session, said. “As college students will also be leading students, I think that this year’s PHOTO BY EMILY GOWING PHOTO COURTESY OF NWCIOWA.EDU At the showcase, the dance team will Christianity and Pop Culture is the theme of this year’s Day of Learning and will feature the workshops relating different topic will be something that in perform the five dances they learned this speaker Jeffrey Keuss. aspects of pop culture to some way interests everyone.” year. 2 NEWS February 26, 2010 Band to take audience on musical journey Biometric passports: convenience or danger? BY LEANN JOHNSON with the band,” Hielkema said. BY SHELBY VANDER MOLEN accomplished for a mere $100 off- recalled her January experience NEWS EDITOR “It comes with its own unique CONTRIBUTING WRITER the-shelf equipment investment. of filling out registration forms, From a song inspired by challenges, but it has been a With a biometric passport in In their Elvis Presley example, taking headshots and going to the Columbus’ exploration of the New great learning experience for both hand, a traveler was approved Laurie and Van Beek actually courthouse for more forms, fees World to a song honoring Paris, my fellow band members and and slipped through a self-serve created fake security signatures and photos. the Symphonic Band’s repertoire me. At first it was a little nerve- passport machine. A supposedly for a non-existent country. They By the end of the process, Landis will represent a variety of styles wracking to play with the whole matched picture flitted across the say the problem is that there had provided her driver’s license and composers at its concert on band accompanying me, but as screen showing none other than is no international system that and voter registration to verify Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Christ the parts have been put together, Elvis Presley. According to cnn. distributes and shares the various her permanent address, her birth Chapel. it has become a very enjoyable com, by using an altered biometric security signatures from other certificate and social security Director Timothy McGarvey, experience.” chip at Amsterdam’s Schiphol countries. card to prove her citizenship, professor of music, said, “I am airport in September 2008, Adam two identical photos and several looking forward to this concert “It is a wonderful Laurie and Jeroen Van Beek were signatures, including her own. because it is a wonderful collection collection of pieces that able to clear a passport through an Despite the many steps in the of pieces that takes the listener on takes the listener on a automated scanning system under verification process, however, a spectacular journey.” spectacular journey,” the name of rock-and-roll king of fraud still occurs. Landis pointed The 57-member band will open late, Elvis Presley. out, “I thought the verification its performance with “Variations - Timothy McGarvey Thankfully, however, Laurie process was pretty average. I think on a Shaker Theme” from Aaron The concert will continue with and Van Beek call themselves there could have been more security, Copland’s “Appalachian Spring.” Dana Wilson’s “Dance of the New “ethical hackers” and performed like if I had brought in all my sister’s Next will be “Concertino for World,” which was written in this procedure only to prove a information, no one probably Flute and Wind Ensemble” by celebration of the 500th anniversary point. But that is not to say that would have known.” Keith Gates, which features soloist of Columbus’ voyage and captures hackers of their same caliber are On the other hand, freshman Katie Hielkema, a junior music the spirit of the awakening of the not at work. This “ethical hacking” Erica Bauserman, another NW major, on the flute. Hielkema New World. They will also perform research has been underway in student traveling in Europe over received the Ritsema scholarship, Martin Ellerby’s “Paris Sketches,” various stages since 2008 with the spring break, felt the process was an award open to any wind a four-movement piece that pays goal of demonstrating just how very “thorough.” Having received instrumentalist or percussionist. homage to different parts of the easily a real hacker can slip by PHOTO COURTESY OF WORDPRESS her passport in the summer of Winners of the scholarship are French capital. The band will close unnoticed. 2009, Bauserman remembered, “the required to perform a solo through with “Wedding Dance” by Jacques Laurie and Van Beek experiment They also relate that borders paper asked me a lot of questions,” a competitive audition. Press, a high-energy piece that has with the biometric passports may be weakening because of yet she said she “felt the process “I am really excited to be soloing a Jewish feel to it. standard throughout the U.S. and over-inflated trust in automated was reasonable.” Having completed Europe along with many other scanning. By corresponding fake the verification process and feeling Team shares love for dance countries. These passports contain photos and chips, a hacker can prepared for travel, Bauserman feels Cont. from pg. 1 In addition to half-time data including fingerprint and successfully rig the system. confident that “it was a process that my life with the time commitment entertainment, the team competed eye scans and digital photos While Northwestern students prevented fraud.” of dance team, but it proved well- at the Iowa State Dance embedded on an attached clip. may not be looking to pass for Elvis While students’ sentiments worth the effort.” Competition with their hip-hop According to Laurie and Van Presley or become world-class toward the reliability of the system The dance showcase is an routine , placing second in their Beek, the weakness of biometric hackers, many are hoping to travel may vary as they head into spring opportunity for the dance team division. They also attended the passports lies mostly in the process overseas during spring break. break, most anyone can relate with to take the stage for the whole Remsen-Union high school dance of each country verifying security Sophia Landis, a freshman Landis’ statement: “As far as people afternoon. Prior to this, they have showcase and performed three of signatures. As long as the hacker member of the choir, had to obtain using Elvis’s information, that’s been entertaining fans at halftime their routines. produces fake biometrics signed off a passport recently in order to really scary that it worked.” of the home basketball games. After the final showcase, the by a country besides the one they travel throughout Europe during With a team of very gifted girls look forward to tryouts for hope to enter, the process can be the spring break tour. Landis dancers, Houk said, “We have a next year, which will take place group of talented girls and each during the first week of March. have brought their own strength to They encourage students to check Campus encouraged to ‘Spring clean’ early the team. We have become a close it out and ask the captains or BY SARAH LUPKES March. group of girls who all share a love any of the team members for more STAFF WRITER “We did a lounge sale six for dance and a love for God.” information. The residents of Heemstra years ago after the Tsunami are turning students’ trash into and raised around $1,500,” Northwestern College treasure—and supporting a local said Heemstra’s Resident ministry in the process. Fittingly Director, Brian Moriarty. “This hosted in the Heemstra lounge, lounge sale inspired other sales BEACON the Heemstra Lounge Sale will like this, including the sale in THE BEACON is the stu- Editor Cameron Carlow take place on Friday, Feb. 26, and the RSC after the Hurricane dent newspaper serving News Editor LeAnn Johnson Saturday, Feb. 27. Heemstra will Katrina disaster.” PHOTO BY KATIE BUNTSMA the campus community of Northwestern College. Assistant News Editor Andrew Lovgren be opening its lounge to the entire This year, the Heemstra RAs Anyone with items to donate can drop their items off at Heemstra. Published weekly and dis- A & E Editor Greg White campus for a garage sale to benefit talked about it and decided to tributed Friday noon, The Beacon encourages com- Features Editor Anne Eberline the Bridge, a local transitional do it again, this time focusing the you still have items you would ments from readers. All Sports Editor Heidi Hildebrandt living program for women and money on a local need in the Orange like to donate, you may bring letters must be 300 words or less, signed with a phone Photo Editor Emily Gowing children. City community. your donations to the Heemstra number, and turned in to Assistant Photo Editor Katie Bunstma For several months, Heemstra “The sale is a great way for lounge by 6:00 p.m. on Friday. the Beacon office located in the basement of Granberg Web and Design Editor Caleb Kester residents have gone door-to-door people to downsize and simplify After that, no more donations Hall by Wednesday at 6 Copy Editor Emily Brewer collecting items for the sale. The by donating items they don’t use will be accepted, but everyone is p.m. The Beacon reserves the right to edit letters. Advertising Manager Sarah Lichter sale will be held on Friday from or don’t need. It is also a great way encouraged to participate by buying To obtain a subscription, Adviser Weston Cutter noon to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday to raise money by buying items items at the sale. please send $10 to address below. from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All you will use or do need,” Moriarty Senior Jacob Parsons, a proceeds from the sale will be said. Heemstra resident, said, “From CONTACT US: donated to The Bridge and all Heemstra residents have already our excess possessions, we can 101 7th St. SW leftover items will be given to collected many items, including help our local community. So come Orange City, IA 51041 Trinity Reformed Church for clothing, a few X-Boxes, TVs, support a good cause and maybe [email protected] a clothing drive it is hosting in some furniture, and games. If find a treasure.” OPINION 3 The Right to Reason: Getting Married Before Graduation ‘Plenty of time to hang out naked with your From the Strip spouse later’ BY HOLLY LAWRENCE BY KEVIN FREEBIRD WALLACE out on that; however, the generally context. So here it is: 1 Corinthians STAFF WRITER accepted age is 25. The average age 7:1 says, “Now, to deal with the A bit different Last Friday, Jeff Beekhuizen, a of a NW graduate is 22. That means matters you wrote about. A man member of the alumni board, spoke that your brain chemistry hasn’t set does well not to marry,” (TEV). There Having never been to Iowa as my own throughout my life. at chapel and mentioned the fact that on a final way of interpreting you have it; biblical prohibitions before I came to school here, I I graduated with over 800 people, he was still unmarried. He related the things you come in contact against marriage. didn’t know what to expect. I knew and my high school was split in two, his anecdote of asking for a refund with—like a spouse. But the heart of the matter I was going to be different, but I with the ninth and tenth graders since he didn’t leave NW married. Then let’s talk stats. The is community. When you get had no idea just how different. in one large school in the center My question: “Why did you want to US Census Bureau estimates married your ties to this I felt like I was on the set of neighborhood, and the eleventh be married?” He’s now a successful the world population to community become so A Simple Life, and I was Paris and twelfth graders in an even doctor working with a Native be 6.8 billion people. Let’s much more tenuous. Hilton. Phrases like “home- bigger building on the south side. American tribe; why would he want assume that when it comes I am not saying that cooked dinner,” “large family” When I was a junior, I had no someone tagging along nagging to gender, the world is you can’t remain an and “strict household” were not way of meeting the new freshmen about taking out the trash? split down the middle integral part of the in my vocabulary. I still don’t even because I didn’t go to school with Don’t get me wrong; I love 50/50. That’s 3.4 billion community (there are know how to operate an oven, them. It was your stereotypical marriage, I love the idea of one day people to choose from. a few couples who do it a dishwasher, a lawnmower or high school that you see in the finding that right girl or guy— Let’s assume only one half very well), but in general, even microwave presets. I get movies: the big stupid football thank Iowa for that option—who is age appropriate: 1.7 instead of hanging out nervous when I know I have players and the hot blonde I will want to spend the rest of my billion people. Then let’s naked with your brothers/ to add bleach to my laundry. miniskirt-wearing cheerleaders, life with. But I do not think that look at the rounded-up sisters, you’re going to be Some may call me privileged, the outcast band geek gamers, you should try to marry that person number of eligible people much more interested in but I just call myself stupid. Don’t the artsy scene kids with fake hair before you’re out of college. There at Northwestern: 1,700 hanging out naked with even bother and tight are serious concerns with getting people (for easy math). your spouse. Most people talking to me “I felt like I was on the set of jeans, you married before graduating from You’re looking at .0001% only get four short years about farm A Simple Life, and I was Paris name it. NW and they cover a wide range of the eligible population here and they love every equipment. Hilton.” And if you of disciplines. for that one right person. second of it; why would you S o m e t i m e s didn’t fit Perhaps the most interesting (Yes I understand that this truncate your time? I feel like the most in to any of those groups, then (and unsubstantiated) fact is NW’s is totally absurd statistical So this is my plea: wait useless person on earth. you had nowhere to sit at lunch. divorce rate. While not strictly logic and I’m ignoring some to get married until you’ve Sometimes I wonder what Although I may not fit in with accurate, the national average of huge variables. However, graduated and moved it’s like to live in a married the lifestyle here in northwest marriages that end in divorce is I’m trying to get a point across.) away—and preferably don’t even household, in the same house all Iowa, I feel more at home here 50%. Now yes, I know the glass It’s ridiculous to think that you will get engaged while at school. my life, with the same friends, than I have in any neighborhood is still half full, but when the NW find your intended spouse here at Because let’s be honest, when and graduating with the same I lived in when I was growing up. divorce rate is 55% the glass is NW. you’re watching the end of the thirty-or-so people I’ve known I still love my big-city high school more empty than full no matter Because almost all of the opinion second season of Supernatural you since childhood. I’m not going friends, but I know that the ones how you look at it. articles from this semester have really don’t want to be interrupted to mention how many house I make here are the ones that I For all the biologists out there: at included the religious argument, I just because someone got engaged. addresses I’ve had to memorize will keep for the rest of my life. what age does the human brain, in should probably give in and take Just don’t do it: do not get married effect, stop developing? The jury’s my own biblical passage out of while at NW. ‘Marriage does not mean the end of community’ Talk Around Campus BY STEVEN DEVRIES and shut out the world, but a temporary cash crunch, it does Some people deal with the With Northwestern’s Clas- I do not think that is healthy. save money long term. Rent, change just fine; more power to sic printing an article about Red Getting married in college isn’t Since Katlyn and I utilities, groceries. There are lots of them! But we have a wonderful Raider Romance, one would for everyone. In fact, marriage have been dating, we new expenses, but tuition expense group of friends here in an think Northwestern is in favor itself isn’t for everyone. However, have tried to have a takes a turn in the married couple’s environment that we know and of the love that seems to con- for those who must wed, as Paul “weekend-set-aside” favor. You need cash flow to pay love. We want to make all those sume this campus. Students said, getting married while still in day. Either Friday for everything in the present, but first-year adjustments to getting and professors take up differ- college isn’t a terrible option. If or Saturday night you significantly decrease your married with the support of loved ent sides of the story. Fresh- you and your significant other is not spent future debt. I’m Dutch enough ones just a walk or bike ride away. man Hannah Biernacki makes are praying about when to exclusively with to see that as a great advantage One evening of the weekend being a valid point when she says, take the plunge, I’d like to each other, but in getting married in college. spent with close friends is part of “We can’t overgeneralize and offer three points to consider: with the people (And yes, I love my fiancé too.) healthy social support as we build say the same thing is going to Marriage does not mean on our wings When it comes down to it, our marriage, and this is where be right for everyone. Getting the end of community, it is or other friends though, the very community that we want to spend that first year. married young works for some a temporary cash crunch on campus. We Katlyn and I try to stay involved while waiting is best for others. but saves money long have maintained in is the reason we want to spend It’s up to you and up to God.” term, and it gives a healthy this throughout our first year of marriage here supportive environment our engagement at Northwestern. The more life in which to experience thus far and changes you make at one time, Want to write for the the first year of marriage. seek to apply it the greater the stress level. If Marriage, engagement, or next year when we waited until we graduated to even dating in college does we become those get married we would move to a BEACON? not have to mean the death “anti-communal” new city in a different part of the of community. This is one married students. country, I’d start a new school, The Northwestern College Beacon CONTACT US WITH IDEAS OR OPINIONS: of the most frequent jokes Break a stereotype; Katlyn would start a new job, takes pride in being a student run have friends while we’d be finding a new church, newspaper. Anyone interested in 101 7th St. SW among my friends since I got writing an article for the Beacon is Orange City, IA 51041 engaged. “Steve, why do you in a relationship! establishing new friendships encouraged to attend the staff meet- [email protected] Another upside and getting used to married ings and contribute their writing. To hate community?” They jest, contribute please contact the editor at of course, because they know to tying the knot life all at the same time. Short [email protected]. All students Or visit us online: beacon.nwciowa.edu I have not disappeared. while in college is of having children or getting a are welcome to become a part of the long standing tradition. Some couples do become money. Yes, it’s puppy, how many more drastic mutually exclusive true. Though it’s life changes can you make? 4 FEATURES February 26, 2010 Privacy terminated one click at a time BY BRETT MEYER the world, is able to do almost scanning to collecting information site owned by Google, including able to form a relatively accurate STAFF WRITER everything that the imaginary for advertisements. Google makes YouTube. depiction of a person’s personality. In the “Terminator” movie Skynet could (apart from the whole it clear in the privacy statement, Normally, most of this wouldn’t Of course, it’s highly unlikely series, machines take over the world being self-aware thing, of course). however, that the system is the be legal. However, all this changes that Google is going to use all and nearly exterminate humanity. The Google network uses a only thing to ever read through the when a person clicks the little “I of this information to conquer They are led by Skynet, a computer program called GoogleBot, which e-mails, and human employees are accept” button at the bottom of the world and kill everyone, as in program that was once used to tracks a person’s searches and never allowed to see them. the screen, indicating that they “Terminator.” In reality, the most coordinate the American military’s G m a i l s a n d But it doesn’t just stop have read the terms of service they use the information for is to put nuclear weapons. c o m p i l e s there. If you use a Gmail address (which, usually, up those advertisements that seem During its development, them in they have not). And tailored to where you are and what Skynet became self-aware. It o r d e r t o Google doesn’t just you’re doing. realized the complete control it had determine spy on those with Google isn’t the only site over the military, and it took action, w h o t h a t Gmail. They also that tracks your activity in this sending the planet into a nuclear p e r s o n i s , keep records of the manner. Nearly every other major war. In the movie, Skynet is a near what they are IMAGE COURTESY OF GOOGLE.COM searches done by every networking site on the Internet omniscient system – it has eyes and involved with, and what they computer, based on the IP addresses follows a similar policy. In fact, ears everywhere. With this near- like. that are being used. you’d be hard-pressed to find an unlimited supply of resources, it is Google’s privacy policy states to log into Facebook, or another Kevin Bankston of the e-mail service that didn’t check able to learn at an incredible rate. that their network reads its clients’ similar social networking site, then Electronic Frontier Foundation through your e-mail. Perhaps we As farfetched as this sounds, e-mails on a regular basis. It also Google is also allowed to search was quoted as saying, “Google don’t need to be worrying about it isn’t that different from today’s puts all sent and received messages through your profile and use that knows more about you than your Google becoming Skynet, but there’s technology. Google, one of the into a large archive. It does this for information as well. It also keeps mother.” The network’s databases still all those other sites to worry most-used search engines in various reasons, ranging from virus track of anything you do on any are extensive enough that they are about… Dorm Beat: Competition Hospers-style BY SARA CURRY creative costumes. Last year’s Feb. 26 (tonight), Hospers will STAFF WRITER theme was “Best Couples” and be hosting the first all-campus, Besides victimizing people included the traditional pairs of salt open four-square tournament who are currently without and pepper, Bert and Ernie, rock, in the lounge. All students are significant others by accentuating paper and scissors, wind, fire and invited to come and relive the the wonderful world of love and water, cut and paste and Brad Pitt joys of elementary school while romance they aren’t a part of, and Angelina Jolie. competing for a cake as the grand Valentine’s Day is also criticized For this year’s theme of prize. There is a $1 entrance fee for being a holiday obsessed with “Obsession,” Hospers girls sported and all proceeds will be going to extortion—some say it shouldn’t costumes representing kittens, support The Bridge. be a holiday at all because love Dr. Pepper, Lady Gaga, Sound If you’re wondering what should be celebrated every day of Music, Star Wars, sleep, sports, you’ll be up against, Hospers instead of once a year. magazines, princesses and all has some pretty legit four-square By hosting an all-hall V-Day kinds of random infatuations. competitors. dinner on Tuesday, Feb. 23, Now the Hospers V-Day dinner “I might be the queen of four- Hospers Hall made a statement isn’t just about frilly love, gifts, square,” DuMez said. “They can saying the season of love did not chocolate and confetti hearts; there’s try to dethrone me, but they can die with the passing of February also a hardcore competition. just go home cause it’s not gonna 14. Each girl who dressed up happen.” Hospers RD Annabell DuMez participated in a walk-off as they Fighting words anyone? first introduced the V-Day dinner competed to gain the six years ago when she first set up favor of the audience. shop in Hospers Hall. After the magnitude of “I wanted to do something applause selected the special for the girls around finalists from each floor, Valentine’s Day together as hall,” this year’s clear winner she said. was freshman Amber What makes this event so Amundson modeling special is the surprise that every her obsession with freshman receives each year. the Joker’s crazy jester DuMez contacts the parents of girlfriend Harley Quinn. every resident of Hospers several After dominating weeks prior to the event and asks the runway, Amundson them to send a gift and keep it secret was excited but mostly from their daughters. The freshmen shocked by her success. are then completely surprised as “I figured that people they receive a belated Valentine’s would be super creeped Day treat from their families. out,” she said. “Sadistic “One of my favorite parts of clowns have that effect the event is seeing the faces of the on people, I guess.” girls who don’t know the gifts are The competitive side coming,” she said. of Hospers residents isn’t Each year the event also has a confined to the fashion different theme that encourages runway. PHOTO BY SARA CURRY the girls to get dressed up in At 8 p.m. on Friday, Freshman Amber Amundson struts her stuff. FEATURES 5 Dirty jobs: The sweet smell of Pondering from Across the Pond From the Precocious Mind of Emily Muilenburg bringing home the bacon FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FROM THE ESTEEMED OXFORD UNIVERSITY BY JORDAN VERMEER STAFF WRITER I learned a couple important things last weekend about Irish Imagine this: you wake up at people and Oxford people. This began with an awesome four-day 4 a.m. Slipping on your boots and trip to Dublin and everything within a 40-mile radius of Dublin. overalls, you head out the door I saw this with London, too-- European cities are different from to the pig farm. Upon arriving, American ones. Okay, duh. I guess I mean that in addition to a scruffy truck driver is waiting being thousands of years old instead of hundreds of years, Dublin impatiently for your arrival. But it and London both have a quieter pace than New York City and isn’t all bad, you get to unload pigs Chicago. Dublin also has a 390-foot-tall metal spire in the middle this morning, and it is your favorite of the city, which was a huge help for my complete inability to job, not to mention the easiest. know where I am. Ever. The trucker leaves, but your This metal spire was my north star in Dublin as I blindly job isn’t done. It is time to vaccinate followed my two travel buddies around the city. I took in the the piglets. This job is the worst general splendor without ever being able to tell which way was part of pig farming. The 15-pound North. At one point I asked my friends, “Hey, have we been here piglets struggle as you pick them before?” and found out that we were on the road we’d walked down up to give them their shots. Every three times that day. Another time we were looking for a certain piglet is its own challenge, its own road, and we had been walking down it for ten minutes before I footrace. There are about seven PHOTO BY KATIE BUNTSMA proclaimed “hey! That sign says the name of the road!” thousand piglets to vaccinate. This Senior Edwin (Adonis) Meran checks the pigs to ensure their healthy and have enough I realized last weekend that busses are my favorite places feed and water. will take a few hours. for thinking about things. Those things did not include French After skipping lunch to finish does while pig farming, jobs that vaccinating piglets with runny poo grammar, however, which exposed me to the dark side of the vaccinating, you begin sorting pigs are now typical for senior Edwin down their legs. After handling Oxford tutorial system and an intense pulverization by my that are ready for market into a (Adonis) Meran. What words fail seven thousand piglets, gloves are French tutor. In the Oxford school system, there are no classes, separate bin. All the ready pigs to do, however, is explain the extent your only protection against the but time is divided into lectures and tutorials. Lectures aren’t have been marked with spray of filth that accumulates from a slimy mess. as relational as our classes in the States, but consist of a lecturer paint earlier that day, so it isn’t hard day on the job. Here are a few Finally, keep your mouth (not necessarily a professor; the vocabulary is different here, too) picking out the pigs. The challenge dirty facts that Meran has learned shut. This is especially true while addressing any number of students. The Shakespeare lectures lies in getting the three-hundred- so far during his eight months on in buildings with a trough for the usually have at least 60 students, sometimes over a hundred. pound pigs to move. But you have the job. manure run-off, buildings that let Then there are tutorials, in which one student meets with a your ways, and eventually they are First of all, dust is bad. “It’s the sludge run down and build up. tutor, usually reading out loud his or her essay and receiving in their pin. usually pretty dusty,” said Meran, As you sort the market-ready pigs, feedback. This is pretty terrifying, but the one-on-one assistance The day ends with another “and by the time you go home, it’s that same sludge will get airborne is also really helpful. The only bad situation is if the tutor is under truck coming to take away those all the way down your nostrils.” The in all the ruckus. Just close your the impression that the tutee (that’s me) frolicked around the pigs you just sorted. At about five, remedy for this is the unpleasant mouth. Irish countryside all weekend without doing any French, and that you head home, famished and experience of wearing a mask. All this being said, it’s a said tutee has some kind of attention span problem and is unable smelly. Secondly, always, always wear necessary job that allows Meran to to conjugate verbs into all the two million French tenses. This is an extreme scenario, but gloves. If you do not wear gloves, bring home the bacon. This is not the most fun classroom experience, but facing this it displays the types of jobs one you will regret it, especially while form of mini-rejection is somehow okay. Our program director told us the first week of a recent addition to the Oxford University motto: “Oxford: where your best is not good enough.” But not NW springs into spring break good enough is an okay emotion to experience sometimes; this Cont. from pg. 1 means the students here never reach perfection, but are always Mo., for the National basketball sophomore Dustin Van Beek is going striving for it. That reminds me of Christianity, in a way—we are work, Bible teachings and health tournament,” said senior Jerome to relax in a different way. never going to live sinless lives, but that should always be our clinics. Two Christian youth hostels Hoegh. “I am just going to sit around goal, to imitate Christ in all we do. will experience spiritual formation as If the team wins the GPAC with my family, maybe hangout in the Netherlands group evangelizes tournament, they will be playing Omaha or Kansas City for a couple and shares its faith with the students in the National tournament on days,” said Van Beek. “Whatever I a week,” said and guests. The A Cappella choir will March 10. feel motivated enough to do.” Cleveland. “It perform and minister to youth and The wrestling team will be Spending time with friends and will be alright adults alike as they reach out with starting their National tournament family is one of the most important though, at least their musical abilities. on March 4. parts of breaks. But some students I don’t have “I am hoping to be in Branson, “We will be in Oklahoma work while spending time with class.” City wrestling for their loved ones W h e t h e r the first weekend “I’m just going to go home embarking on of break,” said and be with my family,” said junior an SSP, playing freshmen Angelo Krystina Smith. “I may work a little, sports, taking a Quintana. but I will mainly just kick back and vacation or just Other students relax.” sitting back and are spending break Freshman Caitlyn DeCock has relaxing, spring by relaxing and the same plans. break is a time to taking a vacation. “I’m going to be working while get away from the “I am heading enjoying Minnesota and my family,” homework and to Arizona to play said DeCock. studying, and golf with my dad For the students that are focus on getting and brother-in-law,” from out of state, like freshman rested back up said sophomore Raymond Cleveland from Compton, to complete the Spencer Gort. Calif., staying on campus is the only school year.

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makes for a very dull image. Nearly every song is muddied with a Take a step Into the Mud range of incompatible sounds— BY LISA WALTERS attention. bleeds springy cartoon sounds, Eastern CONTRIBUTING WRITER This book is a compilation of percussion, 80’s sentimentalism When I was approached by my several stories written by former unoriginal and discothèque groove. It’s all editor to write a book review, I was microfinance development worker, very lively in a short sort of way. The a bit hesitant. Did I really have Christine Jeske, on behalf of trouble is that there’s no negative time to read a book and write a several Africans she has come sound color, there’s no movement or review in a week? Was this book to know. Jeske and her husband BY JORDAN LANGER climax, there’s nowhere to grow. even going to be interesting? No originally moved to South Africa CONTRIBUTING WRITER And growth is a key word here. doubt I was a bit ignorant, and to direct microfinance projects, First, let’s look at the ’s It’s obvious they’re imitating a somewhat unwilling. However, I however she is now a lecturer at cover art. Yes, you’ll have to growing strand of musicians that trusted his judgment and decided Evangelical Seminary of Southern rectify that initial impression: our try to capture innocent, child- to take on this task. Africa. PHOTO COURTESY OF MPN NEWSROOM.COM character appears to have emerged like optimism. But they’re not When I was handed the book, Jeske summarizes the purpose Jeske tells stories of African poverty. from a rectum. Give it time. Second intelligent in the way they do it. A my first interest, besides my relief of of her book by saying, “In real life with. She opens the eyes of the interpretation: a clay-like shell line like “stick up for your self, son the small size of the book, was the we do not come to understand ignorant and unwilling reader to appears to be decaying, revealing / never mind what anybody else engaging cover. If people really do a culture by seeing only its best a world that is more truth than we the flesh and blood underneath. does” is not an admirable simplicity. judge books by their covers, which and worse—its superstars and tend to believe. It opens the heart to Unfortunately, this is the exact I’m not a lyrically-minded critic, of course they always do, this book tsunamis. We come to know a see God’s purpose for all people. opposite of what happens on this but I hope these many clichés are would be appealing to many. culture or an issue one person at I agree with Shane Claiborne record. something very different from their On the front cover there is an a time, one interaction at a time. as he describes “Into the Mud,” by After a sort-of good debut— pumping, bloody hearts. “Odd” is image of two feet standing in the Each time I tell a story of another saying that, “Jeske has felt the mud genred somewhere near “world no excuse for creative expression. mud. I know, what doesn’t sound African person, my intention is between her toes and has seen God folk”—Yeasayer’s sophomore I can’t fight the impression that appealing about that? The image is to reveal another piece of the real at work in the dirt. This is a book record is a placeless shell over I get that this is all pretty fake. placed behind the title that reads, Africa today.” of dirty theology. It is about a God their organic past. The title, They’re following trends, part of “Into the Mud.” The alluring cover Jeske does a fascinating job of who is not scared of getting dirty, “Odd Blood,” tries to deceive the same saucy, child-like energy only draws in the prospective truly delivering the stories that and invite us to join him in the mud. us into trusting these musical as Passion Pit or . reader. However the content of have affected her through the May we have the courage to roll up shifts as something compellingly Unfortunately, they better resemble this book is what truly keeps their Africans she has come in contact our pant-legs and follow.” internal, personal. Another false the careless and overrated MGMT. introduction. And the last is first And, also unfortunately, they’ll Fiction: Northwestern mystery continues track, “The Children,” which also receive attention from washed- Please send your plot twists and characters to [email protected] is abrasively anti-humane, and up critics. BY KEVIN WALLACE & JOSH James’ shirt, asking him: “How did open to Joshua 2, with the whole perhaps the strangest thing you’ll Maybe it’s hard to detect DOORENBOS you know?” James pushed them chapter highlighted, about Rahab, ever hear. has called the line between good and bad STAFF WRITERS off, grabbed her Bible, putting his the prostitute of Jericho who hid the track “post-apocalyptic.” That’s “experimentation.” But I think “How did you know?” James finger in the page it was open to, and the spies from Israel. close to the right category, maybe an it’s clear enough—there must was getting sick of that question. It ran out just as fast as he entered. Joshua, sometimes shortened era too early—it sounds mutated, be authenticity and warm- was the first thing they asked him The cop didn’t ask as kindly. to Jsa. II, the Roman numeral for post-human. bloodedness. “Odd Blood” is a when the screaming and crying “How’d you know she’d off two. The connection made James’s And then everything goes 40-minute ballyhoo of spirited died down, the first question asked herself?” “Off herself,” he thought. head spin. So when the cop’s emotional and “happy,” even if it musical stupidity. It reminds me when Bon Jorgan and Rick Pummell “Is that what they’re saying sleeve slid off to reveal a tattoo on remains end-of-the-world chaotic of “prayer language”—intense, met with him about the possibility happened? She took out her screen, his wrist, James’s hands quaked and disorganized. don’t feel like anything was said of his receiving a contract. threw her water glass against the uncontrollably. JSAII. It supposes that its audio in the ten minutes it took. Like “I don’t know,” James rubbed wall, and then hung herself?” Without thinking, James spectrum makes it bright. But look religion, whitewashing is the his weary eyes. He hadn’t slept “I didn’t know,” James said, “It whispered, “Tell Rahab I want to at the cover art and you’re reminded intolerable crime within the worlds well in the three days between was just a prank, I didn’t know see her.” that caked-on colors everywhere of weird music. that Friday and the meeting on she’d actually be in there.” “What?” The cop sat forward, Monday morning. “I just did….” “Yeah,” the cop frowned, “I “How do you know that James struggled with every word. bet.” phrase?” He wasn’t just accidentally in the She apparently had a boyfriend James couldn’t move. His lower dorm past open hours, he ran in at that everyone but the RA knew jaw quaked as the cop reached his full speed. At 3 a.m., James hadn’t about. He would come over in right hand across the table. James thought about what would happen the middle of the night when her saw the tattoo in the corner of his if he was wrong. He didn’t even roommate was gone. They figure eye as the cop grabbed a huge think about what would happen if he dumped her. handful of hair from the back of his he was right. The Bible was ripped on the head and, in one swift movement, In Audra’s room he didn’t corner, like it was marked or slammed his head on the table. even react when he saw her hastily opened. The page was Then everything went black. hanging there. When her RA started screaming in horror James Feb. 26 – Mar. 4 We Have The Only Theatre immediately began searching the Loyalty Program in Northwest Iowa!

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Glass Dear John PG13 Fri (4:15) 7:20, 9:35, Sat & Sun (1:45, 4:15) Fri (4:15) 7:20, 9:35, Sat & Sun (1:45, 4:15) shards were embedded in the wall 7:20, 9:35, Mon-Thurs 7:20, 9:35 7:20, 9:35, Mon-Thurs 7:20, 9:35 Thanks and water was dripping onto the PHOTO COURTESY OF SECRETLYCANADIAN.COM floor. The RA was yelling to call 717 8th Street SE Movie-Line 737-8866 MainStreetTheatres.com Yeasayer’s Odd Blood has an astonishingly disturbingly visceral cover.Any questions regarding this ad Tuesday is $1 Day...Popcorn & Soft Drinks Only $1! can be directed to 911,Bill at while other girls tugged at (800) 496-2347 A & E 7 OC Arts Council is slammin’ BY SARAH KUGLER about injustice, love and pain – those quickly scribbled, brash CONTRIBUTING WRITER topics that catch audience interest words bragging about your Aggressive, impassioned tear- and make bold statements. mathematical prowess, never jerking, heart-wrenching, gut- Slam may not be the venue fear! Stand up and read with busting, awe-inspiring words. for your sweet, end-rhymed confidence; it’s about you as Slam Poetry. It’s simple: couplets (not to discourage much as the words. (1)Write three poems. They fans of form or structure): not On March 20 at 8 p.m., there must be original but do not need because they’re bad, but because will be a poetry slam at De Koffee to be “new”. (2)Attend a poetry slam, as a preformative art form Boon in Orange City. It’s co- slam. (3)Read your poems aloud constrained by time, generally sponsored by the Orange City Arts to fellow poetry lovers. works best when it immediately Council and the Northwestern Well, admittedly, it’s slightly grabs the audience. Whether College English Department, and more complex than that. There spouting furious spondees on Professor Bob Hubbard of the NW are scores and rounds as well as worker’s rights or threading tight Theatre Department will emcee. points involved, but those are quatrains both tight and tender, Following the slam (around 10 not the important parts of slam a poetry slam really lends itself p.m.), indie folk band Bella Ruse poetry. What matters in slam are to any form of poetry. As long as of Minneapolis will perform. All the words and the people. the words are coupled with an are welcome to attend and to PHOTO COURTESY OF S3.COM Slam poems grow from energetic, impassioned reading, slam. Slammers, a few notices: The OC Arts Council is hosting a Poetry Slam at De Koffee Boon March 20 at 8 p.m. passion. Often expressing that is. Slam is (arguably) just as -Poems must be rated PG. the author’s intense emotions much about the person saying -Poems must not exceed three rounds. World). about a subject, slams lend the words as it is about the minutes in length. Winning poets will receive Questions? Suggestions? Call themselves to direct language, stanzas themselves; a poor poem -Everyone is eligible and prizes (potentially from local Janine Calsbeek at (712) 707–2910 complex metaphor and personal paired with a charismatic reader welcome for the first round. establishments like The Dutch or Sarah Kugler at (712) 360- experience. Many poets write can still shine. So if you doubt Elimination begins in subsequent Bakery and Hands Around the 0016. Over the river and into the woods campus Into the Woods stems from lack of commitment to character. Many QUOTES actors were emotionally engaged, but the few in each scene who weren’t distracted me. I needed “Not all college students drink coffee, but they all eat Ramen.” everyone fully engaged in order to - Professor of Art Phil Scorza contemplating a gigantic mug. trust the magical world before me. Believing the fantastical aspects “I expect these books to shank me.” (the witch’s magic, the off-stage - Junior Anne Philo, on reading literature with an agenda. giant and the personified animals) required work, and having honest, “If I’d known that I could’ve been a stripper, I would’ve consistent narrators would have changed my major to sociology.” helped me trust that strange world. - Senior Keisha Diephuis, in one of Professor Monsma’s classes. Please don’t misunderstand me, though; I don’t mean that the Send your Campus Quotes, with context, to [email protected]. acting was bad. But because Into PHOTO BY KATIE BUNTSMA the Woods takes place in a world Renee Ausborn and Karen Barker, Rapunzel and the Witch, act immaculately. so different than mine, I needed BY SARAH KUGLER branches. Stark white trees painted the actors to believe in it so that CONTRIBUTING WRITER on the black floor mirror those I could too. Instead, some acted “Once upon a time!” begins painted on the backdrop, and the like people from our world talking Into the Woods, the theatre floor branches seem to crawl across about a fairy tale: distant and department’s first spring the stage toward the audience. imaginary, beautiful but far from semester production. This musical, Deep reds, yellows and greens in their experience. set in a fairy-tale world of curses, the lighting design contrast the None of this means that the witches and adventures, primarily black and white tonality. These show failed to strike strong follows the path of a poor baker bold colors silhouette the trees emotional chords. I love this and his wife. In their journey to on the backdrop and compliment show, and I love this production. have a child and later to protect the stage lighting, adding greater I have seen the last four songs of that child, the pair encounters depth to the more realistic light Into the Woods four times (three wolves, argue with witches and on the actors. here on stage, once in the film pursue a rather reluctant cow. Costuming also attracts the version), and I have cried every They build strong friendships eye. In many ways similar to our single time because the writing, with classic fairy-tale characters classic views of princes, witches songs and acting are beautiful. like Little Red Riding Hood and and peasants, these characters wear I wish the whole production, as Cinderella, and together they earth tones along with metallic impractical a hope as this is, had struggle through moral dilemmas colors, and these contribute to the that quality. Right now we have and life-threatening situations. play’s mechanical tone. a good play; a fun, and in many Incorporating steampunk Though the set, costumes, and ways a beautiful play. I want a aesthetics – quasi-Victorian lighting designs are wonderful, I great play, one that strikes deep attributes that also nod toward don’t think I need to further detail emotional and humorous chords industry and steam power – Into their beauty. Seeing the show – throughout. To ask for something the Woods creates a distinct which you should certainly do entirely beautiful is unrealistic. world. Abstract trees populate the – celebrates these attributes more But that doesn’t stop me from set, their pillar-like bases topped fully than I can. wishing. with ornately carved, suspended My only major problem with 8 SPORTS February 26, 2010 Women’s basketball Red Raider Sports Shorts: by Heidi Hildebrandt moves up to third Men’s basketball begins playoff run with a win in NAIA rankings The Northwestern men’s 12. Freshman Mike Vorwald added basketball team lost by one four assists. The Red Raider women’s point to USF on Saturday, Feb. 20, NW opened the playoffs with basketball team moved up to third dropping to an even 14-14 record. a 67-64 win over Mount Marty on place in the final NAIA poll this The 73-74 loss also brought them to Tuesday night. Miller netted 15 week after a 68-47 win over USF an even 9-9 in the GPAC. points to lead the offense while to finish the regular season. Their The Red Raiders shot 50 percent Van Kalsbeek added 14 points record improved to 24-4, 15-3 in from the field and 55 percent from and eight rebounds. Hoogeveen the GPAC. behind the arc. Freshman Ben and sophomore Ryan Stock each Sophomore Kami Kuhlman Miller scored 19 points and pulled scored eight points as well. The scored 18 points, closely followed down ten rebounds for his second Raiders shot 46 percent in the by junior Becca Hurley, who netted double-double. Sophomore Walker game. 16. Junior Allison Hulst scored Seim added 18 points, while senior NW was scheduled for a rematch eight points and pulled down eight Ryan Hoogeveen and freshman with USF Thursday night. Results rebounds off the bench. Senior Daniel Van Kalsbeek each scored were not available at press time. Randa Hulstein also added eight rebounds. Track claims ten all-conference entries Northwestern shot 45 percent Seven individual Red Raider team ended in seventh place with from the field (39 percent from track and field athletes and three 4:06.63. Team members included behind the arc) and held USF to 28 relays earned All-GPAC honors Fautsh, Dietrich, freshman Ana percent. at the conference championship Morgan, and Smith. The Raiders were scheduled meet in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, Senior Kyle Sauter led the men to open the GPAC Tournament Feb. 20. The top eight individuals with sixth place in the 60-meter on Thursday night against Mount and relay teams were named all- hurdles (8.37). Freshman Marty. Results were not available conference. Brandon Hammack ran 7.12 in at press time. Junior Corrie Fautsch turned the 60-meter dash to add in the top finish for Northwestern, a seventh-place finish. capturing second place in the Sauter and Hammack

PHOTO BY EMILY GOWING 600-meter run with 1:40.18. Fellow joined freshmen Rick Te Ryan Hoogeveen burns his Cougar defenders in the game against USF last Saturday. junior Charity Miles placed fifth in Grootenhuis and Taylor the 3000-meter run with a time of Hoekstra to run the Raider Wrestlers finish regular season 10:30.37. 4x400 in 3:25.3 and place The Northwestern wrestling Quintana finished in fifth place in the Sophomore Shannon Bowar seventh. team competed in the North Central 125-pound class, and junior David earned sixth place in the pentathlon, Next up is the national Qualifier on Saturday, Feb. 20. The Carter also finished fifth at 174. which took place the night before. meet in Johnson City, Tenn, Red Raiders earned fourth place, Nine Raider wrestlers have Junior Stacey Dietrich finished next Thursday, March 4. scoring 92.5 points. Sophomore Nic qualified for the NAIA National seventh in the 60-meter hurdles National qualifiers are Leither led the Raiders with a second Tournament, including Quintana with 9.66, while senior Ingrid Miles in the 3000- and place in the 197-pound weight class. (125-pounds), Dowell (141), Carlson placed eighth in the 5000-meter runs, Fautsch Sophomore Matt Dowell and senior freshman Jerod Flores (141), Price 5000-meter run with 18:59.7. The in the 600-meters, junior Levi Price added third place finishes (149), senior Brian Heiberger 4x800 relay team of sophomore Kara Den Herder in the at 141 and 149, respectively. Fourth (157), Evjen (165), Carter (174), Teresa Scholten, freshman Leslie weight throw, Dietrich in places were awarded to freshman Leither (197) and Hughes (285). The Stover, senior Mary Maasen and the 60-meter hurdles and PHOTO BY EMILY GOWING Luke Evjen at 165 and junior Brad tournament will start on Thursday, junior Krystina Smith earned fifth Sauter in the 60-meter Senior Andrea Wedel plans her move in the USF game Hughes at 285. Freshman Diego March 4, in Oklahoma City. place with a time of 9:54.67. The 4x400 hurdles. last Saturday.

“I think that your faith can be seen through PLAYER PROFILE how you handle yourself and through Luke Vermeer following the rules on the course.”

BY KRISTIN KOOIMA says that how he handles himself on the course can be in a team sport. STAFF WRITER attributed to his faith. “I lose my temper sometimes but “I’ve played as an From the moment Luke Vermeer could walk, he who doesn’t? I think that your faith can be seen through individual before was also holding a golf club. A club made of plastic how you handle yourself and through following the rules and it is much and shorter than an actual golf club, but a golf club on the course.” more fun playing nonetheless. Golf is, and always has been, a large part of Vermeer loves the competitive nature of golf. No for the other guys on your team.” He says the worst part the Vermeer family. matter if you play in a team or just as an individual you would be working through your struggles and slumps. Golf has taught Vermeer that although you may can always be competitive. “You can always get better Vermeer has advice for those athletes coming behind want to play your best every time you go out there on the at your game.” His favorite golf memory would be his him. “Enjoy it while you still can. Before we know it, we’ll course, you aren’t going to play at your peak performance team qualifying for the state tournament his senior year all be old and not be able to do the things we can do now. every time. This is something that made him more able of high school. He knew they would be good, but wasn’t Just enjoy it all!” to keep his emotions in check. Also, golf is very much expecting qualifying for state. It was a goal his team got Vermeer is a business administration major with a a game of etiquette, and penalties have to be called on to accomplish together and “it was a lot of fun.” finance option. As for future plans, he isn’t sure yet. “I yourself instead of a referee calling them on you, which There are pros and cons to being an athlete. One pro, take things as they come and am not too worried about it. Vermeer said helped him grow as a person. He also for Vermeer, would be just the opportunity to compete I will just say I’ll be playing a lot of golf in the future.”