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What Makes Halloween So Fun? Comet of the Century? Student Government... Did You Know? November 2013 Student government... Comet of the century? did you know? By Sarah Frances Tuttle Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) has gar- nered a lot of attention lately. Discov- ered in September of 2012 by Russian scientists, the comet was nicknamed ISON for the International Scientific Optical Network, a group of observa- tories in ten countries that helped to de- tect, track, and monitor objects in space. Observations suggest that its nucleus is a little more than 3 miles wide. Comet ISON was quick to be noticed because it was much brighter than comets nor- mally are for being so very far from the Sun. If this comet is so bright when it’s into the inner Solar System, and never still in the outer Solar System, it’s sure before has it been exposed to the heat to be a truly amazing sight when it gets of the Sun. Comet ISON, like other closer to the Sun. comets, comes from the Oort cloud An important thing to know about far in the outer Solar System, where comet ISON is that it is a new comet. the Sun is a small speck, much like Never before has this icy dirt-ball come the other (continued on page 2) By Denise Reeve works together to accomplish amazing things on campus. Welcome new students, faculty, and So how does one learn more staff to Mat-Su College! As a senator about MSC SGC? We meet each What makes Halloween with MSC Student Government week in FSM 105 from 11:50 am Council (MSC SGC), I offer fall to 12:50 pm. Feel free to attend a greetings. MSC SGC is a student-run, meeting and see what is up! If you so fun? student-focused government council would like to be a guest speaker at that offers opportunities to improve By Melissa Austin SGC please call by Friday the week the heavy bag of candy they will campus life here in the Mat-Su Valley. before the meeting you would like The carnival-like atmosphere These opportunities are available to all of Halloween, with its motifs of receive for their efforts. Meanwhile, to attend. President Mike DiBattista, parents discuss safety concerns and faculty, staff, and students. Vice-President Keelan Mangus, and agriculture and death, is especially Faculty and Staff: would you like enchanting for children and also accompany their children on the after- Secretary Andrea Bennett can be dark adventure. Other adults may host to be more involved in Campus Life? reached at 907-745-9759 or in the appealing to adults. Why? Sure, there There are roles available to mentor/ are all the fun activities associated or attend Halloween parties (at which it SGC office in JKB 129. is popular for women to wear sexually advise student initiated clubs, groups, Did you know MSC SGC with the holiday, like carving unique and events. pumpkins and watching scary movies, provocative costumes) or simply stay sponsors clubs, groups, and events home and greet trick-or-treaters with a Students: do you have ideas for a new requested by students? The holidays but what makes it so much fun to dress group, club, or event you would like to up and go trick-or-treating? Children bowl of candy. are coming up, so we need students It is not every day of the year that see on our campus? MSC SGC is here who are willing to create more fun eagerly don their costumes—perhaps a these types of creative expressions to help you make these happen. Our here at MSC. Come one, come all to superhero, a princess, or even a more local student government actually MSC SGC this fall! traditional witch or ghost—envisioning (continued on page 2) 02 COLLEGE NEWS Comet Halloween Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 stars in the night sky. It’s so cold by the Sun. It could just as likely and play are acceptable, much less children are encouraged to dress there that gases here on Earth, like survive the pass-by and produce a encouraged; therein lies much of the as adults, women are free to reveal hydrogen, helium, and oxygen, will wonderful, bright, beautiful sight in fun we derive from the Halloween their bodies, and the theme of death be frozen as ice. As a new comet the early morning sky. experience. The excitement achieved embraced, our culture is effectively travels in towards the Sun it will heat Comet ISON will get brighter through various role reversals communicating that these things are up, and certain materials will vapor- the closer it gets to the Sun, and in (children dressing as adult figures, not appropriate in daily life, further ize off of it. This is what happened October it should be visible with a women openly dressing provocatively, perpetuating our collective norms. If to comet ISON. When it was in the small telescope or binoculars. You etc.) and the open celebration we wish to feel truly free to dress how outer solar system the carbon dioxide can find it in the constellation Leo, of themes related to death make we want, not how we think we should, and other materials that vaporize at close to the star Regulus, and next to apparent the encouraged inversion of the first step is acknowledging this low temperatures were heated up and Mars. ISON’s perihelion happens on certain norms on Halloween. On this process of norm formation. Wouldn’t left a bright trail. However, as it trav- November 28th, and this is when it one day we are “allowed” to dress the it be great to know that if we wanted els into the inner Solar System we are will be the brightest, but its light will way we want, rather than feeling like to, we could show up to class in the finding that it’s not getting as bright be obstructed by the Sun and it will we have to dress so that we will fit in spring dressed as a zombie? The as we originally hoped. So does this be quite invisible. The best viewing with our social group. The question truth is, once we free our minds mean comet ISON will be nothing dates will be in early December, from then shifts from “why is Halloween from the socially-defined constraints more than a dim blur? the 1st through the 17th. Earlier in so fun” to “why is this sort of non- of “functionality,” “fashion,” and The brightness of comets in general the month the comet will be brighter, conformist fun sanctioned to one day “order,” we can achieve that child- is notoriously difficult to predict, but if it survives the pass-by with the of the year?” Why is there only one like thrill of being ourselves every new comets are almost impossible. Sun. In Mid-January comet ISON day set aside for children to parade as day of the year. As ISON gets closer to the Sun it will will pass near the orbit of Earth, and adults and adults to embrace what is get brighter. It will be heated up more it is possible that it will leave a trail culturally determined as taboo? Advertisers sought! and more, and larger quantities of behind that will be viewable as a Our society’s definition and The Mat-Su Monitor is ices will vaporize off until it reaches meteor shower. perpetuation of cultural norms is the student newspaper of its perihelion (closest point to the All in all there are many things we thought by many to act as a functional Matanuska-Susitna College. Sun). This is the tricky part. At its don’t know about how comet ISON mechanism, in that this definition With a circulation of about perihelion comet ISON will be so will react in the upcoming months. of appropriate behavior serves to 7,000, an educated readership, close to the Sun that the temperatures That’s half the fun! ISON could maintain a sense of order. Through and affordable rates, it is the on the surface of the comet will be hot be the comet of the century, or be this perspective, interestingly enough, perfect place to adevertise your enough to melt metal. We don’t know destroyed by the Sun. The world will it seems as though Halloween, the day business, cause, or event. For the composition of ISON’s nucleus, be watching to see if this new visitor set aside for the inversion of certain details, call 745-9740, email nor its rotation, so it’s possible that to our sector of space will sizzle or norms, has become a norm in and of [email protected], it could break apart or evaporate and fizzle. Take part in the excitement itself. By establishing a day where or visit http://bit.ly/1d1nLwR leave nothing to show after it passes and look up! and their surroundings, but what of ourselves—is molded and shaped by The Joy of Letting Go – Breaking Out this social organizational tool we every event and experience into the today refer to as “the self?” In order to fragile amalgamations of “I ams” begin to answer these questions, it is and “I am nots” that we regard to of the Ego Prison important we understand what we’re be “us.” When considered from By Jake Magoon talking about—and the treasure we all the evolutionary perspective of the “The greatest con he ever pulled have possessed strong ego boundaries have without even knowing it. replication of useful adaptations, was making you believe that he is in the same way that we do today, via The ego, then, to put it simply, is the idea of the ego as a social you.” – Revolver (2005).
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