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Volume 85 - Issue 8 November 2, 2012 Superstorm Sandy affects NW students’ families BY JULIA LANTZ America’s most populated urban stretch is slowly recovering after fierce blows from Superstorm Sandy earlier this week. Before making an appearance in the U.S. around 8 p.m. on Monday night five miles southwest of Atlantic City, N.J., the storm claimed 67 lives in the Caribbean as it traveled across Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. The current death toll in the U.S. has risen to 81 and has left millions in New York City and other cities and towns along the nation’s northeastern coast mourning the loss of their loved ones. Although the storm is not likely to set records for being the most costly or deadly, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Sandy, “a storm of unprecedented proportions.” PHOTO BY EMILEE BERRY At the peak of the superstorm, 7.5 million businesses (From left) Senior Sarah Kugler, professor Emily Stokes and sophomore Samantha Rohda discuss Timmon’s work at the opening of her exhibit, “Light in the Dark.” and households across 15 different states and the District of Columbia were without electric power. In addition, Sandy has presented commuters, homeowners and businesses with the challenge of navigating a damaged infrastructure of roads, bridges and mass transit Art exhibit explores systems. Work and schools were called off in some of the hardest hit areas. Northwestern senior Hansol Park from northeast New Jersey said his entire family had been home from work and school up until Wednesday, with the exception of his aquatic life forms little brother. BY KALI WOLKOW By doing this, she creates an “I always loved going to of trees and large bodies of “My parents have been pretty laid back about the whole What do light bulbs, artistic entanglement that the aquarium,” Timmons water, Timmons sought to thing,” Park said. electrical cords and the speaks volumes. said. “I wanted this exhibit create her own ocean of sorts. Park’s family has lived in Tenafly, N.J., for thirteen years ocean floor all have in In Timmons’ artist to have the feel of one.” Ironically enough, she did and knows the routine for hurricanes and tropical storms, common? According to statement, she wrote, “My After growing up in although some of his friends were not as prepared in time. Olivia Timmons, the artist work underscores the South Dakota, a land devoid See “Timmons” on Pg 2 “We always have plenty of food around the house,” of the new exhibit which danger of failing to take Park said.“But by the time my friend went to buy food, opened Oct. 26 at Te Paske responsibility for the planet most of the store and supermarket were empty. People Gallery, these seemingly in the pursuit of progress.” tend to really stock up.” unrelated objects have This idea of progress- Senior Jon Holm’s brother and his family moved to many connections. induced consequences Maryland a few months ago. Timmons’ exhibit, “Light comes through her sea- “They got a lot of heavy winds and heavy rains,” Holm in the Dark,” highlights the inspired chaos, in which said. “The street behind them was completely flooded.” effects of humans on the her controlled lines and According to Holm, his brother and sister-in-law bought environment. It challenges attention to details are a house right before the storm came up, but luckily the the viewers to contemplate hard to miss. The light house did not sustain any major damage. the mistakes of the past and bulbs in jelly fish and the “My family’s was a much more minor case, which we gives them a glimpse into power cords in exotic sea are glad for,” Holm said. what the future holds. life starkly contrast the Freshman Emily Stricklin, from Forest Hill, Md., said “The more that humans smooth elegance of the sea her family was kept safe from the storm. strive to advance technology world. Technology may “The area I live in is at a high enough elevation and at the expense of the natural be progress in human far enough away from the water that there wasn’t any world, the more we lose standards, but by this flooding,” Stricklin said. “Of course trees fell down and familiarity with that world, exhibit, its presence as a some main and back roads were closed, but none of my disrupting an awareness hindrance to nature is much loved ones were hurt or injured. God definitely answered of the environment and more apparent. our prayers.” severing connections with Despite the undertones, Campus Ministries is considering ways for NW to get the past,” Timmons said. the exhibit has an ethereal- involved as the nation moves forward into recovery from In a murky haze of meets-whimsical appeal. Superstorm Sandy. Stay tuned for ways you can get layered hues, Timmons Timmons’ love of aquatic life involved through NW or other nonprofit organizations. metaphorically and literally and nature sparkles on every To learn more about Superstorm Sandy visit http:// wraps human technological print—and it is not just due www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/us/tropical-weather-sandy/ PHOTO BY EMILEE BERRY progress around deep-sea to her use of glittery metallic Olivia Timmons (left) discusses her art with senior Jennifer Rat- index.html?hpt=hp_t1. life in her delicate prints. ink color. zlaff (center) and junior Kayla Vetter. 2 Timmons exhibit promotes environmental awareness FROM PAGE 1 image is transferred to a microorganisms. Above all, have plunged into the so in the deserts of Arizona surface that is bonded to this technique emphasizes seas and have reached the while she attended Arizona a heavier support in the the presence of light in a unknown creatures that live State University. printing process, and a world of darkness. there. However, on the ocean Her thesis piece, “Light in la poupée, in which the “I wanted to emphasize floor that “light” of human the Dark,” is a series of prints colored ink is applied light as a commodity—as progress morphs into a that have undergone varying directly to a plate’s surface a greed,” Timmons said. disconcerting strobe of printmaking processes. a n d w o r k e d i n t o t h e “Everyone wants the light environmental destruction. In this exhibit, Timmons appropriate area of the in the dark.” “I hope to generate an executed the practices of d e s i g n u s i n g c o t t o n Human life runs on open dialogue about issues intaglio, the process of daubs called dollies; batteries, electrical outlets that concern all of humanity, etching the design in waxed both processes assist in and power cords. Lights line especially in the effort to copper, covering it up with color layering. the streets, the movie theater inspire changes in the ink, wiping it off and using Timmons’ time- aisle and construction signs. w a y p e o p l e i n t e r a c t the remaining residue for consuming methodology of Little kids wear light up with the natural world,” the print; and monoprints, different techniques allows shoes. Nail polish can glow Timmons said. which are essentially printed her work to acquire the sense in the dark. The gallery exhibit, paintings (they have a of depth and create the sort Our world depends on located in Korver Visual Arts variable quality to them of smoky ambiance that is a chaotic web of light. Center, will be open to the that makes that unable to so characteristic of the ocean Our world almost glows public until Nov. 30. It is an be identically reproduced). floor. The differing colors with human progress. This aquarium of printmaking, PHOTO BY EMILEE BERRY Timmons also practices allow for a realistic depiction “light” has permeated the but more importantly, it is Students examine Olivia Timmons’ art exhibit. The artwork has a chine collé, in which the of floating seaweed and depths of nature. The rays an exhibit of awareness. strong environmental message. Kendrick Lamar creates an instant classic Harris releases ALBUM REVIEWW Dre track. 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