The Sun Star Vol 35 No 20 ( March 1st, 2016)

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THEThe VOICE OF THE N ANOOKSun, YOUR SOURCE Star FOR STUDENT NEWS This month in history: Alien hunter drops by UAF for lecture pg. 2 Legislature Faculty senate threatens UAF proposes Police cuts new core Erin McGroarty requirements Sun Star Zach Sherman In the struggle to address Sun Star the University of Alaska’s fiscal crisis, the Alaska House finance Faculty Senate released the sub-committee has recently proposed list of courses for the new proposed cutting the UAF Police undergraduate General Education Department’s budget by one-third. Requirements (GER) beginning According to UAF Police at UAF in the fall of 2016. The Chief Keith Mallard, that means lists are part of what the Senate a cut of approximately $527,000. has deemed the “Bucket System.” At the moment, 67 percent of the The new program allows for police department’s budget is spent students to choose from a total of on commissioned police officers, 24 69 classes among three required percent is spent on dispatchers, and subsections to complete the same 15 8 percent is spent on community credit hours. By contrast the current service officers. A cut of this size is GER program, Perspectives on the disconcerting to Chief Mallard, as this Human Condition, consists of 15 means significant cuts to personnel credit hours of coursework, with and staffing spending, which could only a handful of choices among its result in lost positions at the station. 12 required classes. Both programs This is not the first time the police require students to select one ethics department has faced budget cuts. class from a list of six choices. “We’ve been cutting for years “That’s pretty awesome,” Angela now. We essentially trimmed out Norville, a 25-year-old sophomore everything we could,” Mallard said. studying American Sign Language, “Right now the vast majority of our Nanooks’ Autumn Childers drives to the hoop on Feb. 25 against Clan’s Elisa Homer. Childers said about the new list of GER classes. budget is personnel costs or staffing. scored 9 points for the Nanooks against Simon Fraser. The Nanooks lost 68-83. - Max Under the new requirements, People. With cuts at that rate it McKernan / Sun Star students will need to complete creates some huge challenges for us. at least three credits from the 12 “We’ve been through three Nanooks end disappointing season approved arts classes, at least three years of reductions already,” Vice credits from the nine approved that dropped 12 threes during their Chancellor of Administrative Services, Aaron Walling humanities courses or 22 languages Kari Burrell said. “And we’re getting match. Elisa Homer had 25 points classes, and six or more credits from to the point where the things we have Sun Star and Alisha Roberts brought 24 points. the 22 approved social sciences left are the things we really want.” They exposed the Nanooks from both Coming into the 2015-2016 courses from at least two different Chief Mallard’s biggest concern mid-range and the three-point line season, the women’s basketball disciplines. These requirements is safety on campus. Burrell also as they kept pouring in baskets. The team had been excited for a possible fall directly in line with the UA feels that the police department is third quarter was a beatdown, with berth in the GNAC tournament for Board of Regents’ policy regarding a great addition to campus safety. Simon Fraser outscoring the Nanooks post-season play. Then adversity hit general education requirements. “It’s my belief that when we are 24-15 to pull away and win 68-83. when senior Stephanie Toumson “The Board of Regents’ intent is good at what we do, which I believe “You know, it was unfortunate went down with a season-ending to homogenize the GERs,” Professor we are, we end up preventing a lot because I felt like we forced them to injury to her knee. Then the NCAA Rainer Newberry said, regarding the of the escalation of behavior so you take a lot of tough shots in the first and upheld their ruling, excluding the board’s move to align the GERs among don’t see as many of the bigger crimes second quarters,” Head Coach Cody Nanooks from the tournament. the three UA campuses in May 2015. on campus,” Mallard said. “With Bench said. “We knew they were good, The last two games of the season A comparison of the current UAA reductions in staffing it makes it harder and I was hoping we would have done epitomize the overall season for the GER course list and the new UAF to maintain that presence on campus.” a better job at contesting their shots.” Nanooks. Alaska couldn’t answer the list shows a distinct difference in how Continued “Police budget cuts” each campus identifies history courses. offensive firepower of Simon Fraser, Continued “Basketball” pg. 3 pg. 3 a three-point trigger-happy team Continued “Core requirements” pg. 3 Opinion: Students skeptical of 'tobacco-free' campus Max Erickson / Sun Star UAF’s tobacco-free policy came covered in tobacco products. into effect Dec. 31, 2015, but two Perhaps in the future the tobacco months later evidence of smoking ban could allow for proper receptacles can still be seen around campus. on campus, so people who do not listen Judging from the cigarette butts to the policy have a location to discard littering the ground in front of the their cigarettes other than the ground. MBS, behind Bartlett, and in the “Smoking isn’t illegal and pathways between buildings, the because it has always been a thing policy doesn’t seem to be working. on campus it is difficult to take it When the tobacco ban took away,” student Kelly Wilson said. effect and the cigarette receptacle “The ban really shouldn’t even be a bins went away, the result was not thing... I mean people aren’t going to a total halt in smoking as intended. stop simply because a ban is placed.” While some smokers leave campus, “There just isn’t a real pressure remaining smokers are left to to stop,” said student Rebecca discard their butts onto the ground. Balasek. “Of course if someone “There’s... been a decrease in tells them to stop they will, but smoking especially in like the main otherwise people don’t feel a sense public areas, but I’ve definitely seen of worry about getting caught.” cigarette butts lying around and Balasek said she has several smokers in more secluded areas,” friends who smoke on campus. student Bryant Klug said. “It’s gross, In terms of enforcement, there is all this trash everywhere the policy relies on the public and it doesn’t look that nice.” to act as enforcers and politely Fellow student Serena ask those who smoke to stop. McCormick said she would But of the students interviewed rather have the tobacco bins Continued “Tobacco-free” pg. 3 With the removal of cigarette receptacles on campus and smokers ignoring the ban, snow on campus than see the ground berms and parking lots have become the new ashtray. - Max Erickson / Sun Star

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The public safety report is compiled from police blotter information and interviews with UAF police officers. Individuals named as arrested and / or charged with crimes in this report are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. place. They believe it is a clashing wallet contained credit cards and called police to say his car had been Heather Penn of personalities. The complaint was IDs. Officers provided the student stolen. The police informed him Sun Star forwarded to the dean of students. with a free lock. Police encourage his car was parked in the Taku Lot. students to lock up their stuff. Warrant Arrest 2/18/2016 10:13 p.m. - A Criminal Trespass complaint was made to police 2/17/2016 5:02 p.m. - A UAF 2/15/2016 3:56 p.m. - A driver involving three men yelling derogatory employee reported her purse stolen 2/20/2016 11:11 p.m. - A pulled over for speeding was found to comments at a women. The men from her office on the seventh floor of drunken man previously thrown have a $150 warrant out for his arrest. referenced the woman’s body and the Gruening Building. The employee out of the Pub was spotted by the Nicholas G. Guy, 30, of Fairbanks, made various catcalling comments. reports her office door is open all Fine Arts Building harassing people. was caught on Ballaine Road doing The female was observed outside day. She did not want to make a Officers responded and banned 57 MPH in a 40 MPH zone. Officers MBS when the harassment took statement, but did call and cancel him from campus for six months. discovered Guy had a warrant place. The men then left in a vehicle are her credit cards. The employee issued when he failed to appear in whereupon officers pulled them said the purse may have been lost. MVA court for a possession of marijuana over. Two of the men were students charge. Guy was taken into custody, who lived in the dorms. The other 2/22/2016 10:52 a.m. - A Polar 2/21/2016 1:58 a.m. - What remanded to Fairbanks Correctional was not affiliated with UAF and was Express card was stolen from an initially appeared to be a hit and run Center and ticketed for speeding. subsequently banned from campus for unlocked locker at SRC from 2:15- in the MBS Front Lot turned out to six months. A report was forwarded 3:15 p.m. Officers provided the victim be relatively benign. The victim came Harassing Communications on to the Office of Diversity & Equal with a lock. Investigation ongoing. out to see the back light and panel Opportunity for further investigation. on their car had been scraped and 2/16/2016 6:34 p.m. - A female Parking Complaint caved in. the victim then called police student from the UAF Career and Theft to report the accident. Police arrived Technical College called police 2/20/2016 10:52 p.m. - A report discovered the person who caused the because she felt she was being 2/16/2016 6:53 p.m. - A came in to police about a car parked damage left their information thereby harassed or bullied by another complaint came into the police at Harwood Hall in a resident spot. changing the hit and run to an student. Officers investigated and about a wallet being stolen from an The car was towed to the Taku accident. Police aided the victim and discovered no criminal activity took unlocked locker at the SRC. The Lot. The owner of the car later honest soul with required paperwork. This month in history... are hopeful. We prepare for success.” Alien hunter drops by UAF for lecture In the Milky Way alone, there are 100 billion stars similar to ours, she said. March 9, 1999 / Vol. 18 No. 20 were consistent. “The narrowest thing “There are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way.” Mandy Strohl / Sun Star was given one of the world’s first we could find oscillated at 3000 hertz.” So they focused theirs search While she feels confident Last Monday, the University microcomputers, the PDP8/s to between 1000 and 3000 hertz. What life does exist elsewhere, the big was visited by Jill Cornell Tarter, program. “It had 11 instructions and they were looking for was a carrier question is how developed that life is. upon whom Foster’s character in the all the code was in octal - zeroes and signal, the signal that takes up and exact “We’re left wondering if intelligence is movie “Contact” was loosely based. ones,” she said. “I programmed it frequency, and not any informational something so useful that it may have been Tarter is the director of the to run a spectrometer program on a transmission that may be attached. invented… several times,” Tarter said. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence telescope used for student training.” “We built detectors that can find “Maybe intelligence is a very god thing Institute’s Project Phoenix. Project Years later, she was contracted by narrow bands of frequency,” Tarter said. and would have evolved independently.” Phoenix systematically searches Stu Bowyer, now a major player in the “We found lots of those types of signals, but Later, she said that the only possibility outer space for radio signals field of astrophysics with Berkeley, to unfortunately they’re our own technology.” of finding foreign lifeforms is to look. “If we generated by intelligent lifeforms. help with programming the PDP8/s To work around the problem of don’t search, we don’t succeed,” she said. Tarter received the Women in for broader observations. He was picking up earthly transmissions, Phoenix Because Project Phoenix is funded Aerospace Lifetime Achievement Award beginning what would become Project uses two telescopes thousands of miles entirely by private donations, the publicity for her work in exobiology, or, as she puts SERENDIP, the first large-scale program apart. Currently, they are observing raised by “Contact” has benefited the it, “life as we don’t yet know it. You don’t focused on extraterrestrial intelligence. at the Arecibo Radio Telescope in group greatly. The organization’s wen want to exclude something new and novel.” He got Tarter interested in the Puerto Rico - the world’s largest - site, www.seti.org, currently receives “Exobiology is often derisively referred project by giving her a copy of the and at the Jodrell Bank Telescope at around 50,000 hits a day, which Tarter to as the science without a subject,” Tarter “Cyclops Report” by Barney Oliver, England’s University of Manchester. estimates as five to six thousand people. said. Basically, she said, it’s trying to now research vice-president for “We require both telescopes to Using grants from the National determine how life could be recognized Hewlett Packard. Cyclops examined hear [a signal],” Tarter said. “There Science Foundation, the SETI Institute is from and astronomical distance. the technology and science involved should be a Doppler shift. We can developing interdisciplinary educational Tarter began her scientific career with in any search for extraterrestrial life. predict the difference in frequency.” programs. “The challenge we’re working a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics “We’re the first generation who After four years, Project Phoenix on now is a year-long high school from Cornell University. I realized I had can try to answer this question that’s has not found any promising signals. curriculum, ‘Voyages through time: The really food problem solving skills, so I went been asked for millennia,” she said Phoenix targeted approximately Evolution of Everything’,” Tarter said. looking for problems to solve,” she said. of the search for extraterrestrial life. 1,000 Sun-like stars within a 200 light Because the CD-ROM-delivered text She did her graduate and Begun in 1995, Project Phoenix year radius at its outset. Thus far, only would deal with evolution, there have been doctoral work at Berkeley, getting uses radio-telescopes to examine roughly one-third have been scanned protests from religious groups over the both degrees in astrophysics. nearby stars similar to the Sun. and researchers remain optimistic. representation of human origins. Tarter During the years she spent in “The first thing it was “I think the probability is greater hopes these difficulties can be overcome. grad school, necessary to do was take a look than zero,” Tarter said. “Nobody “It’s such a big story,” she said. Tarter at the natural sky,” Tarter said. The researchers then started looking would work on such a project if they “Students like it because they see for naturally transmitted signals that didn’t think it would succeed. We themselves as part of a process.”

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Courses will be designated that there are currently no plans in future catalogs to indicate if to increase enrollment limits for Core requirements they satisfy arts, humanities, or any of the new required courses. social science requirements. Arts “Only Students entering in Continued from page 1 the (UA) policies, we couldn’t courses must concern a visual for the new catalog year would wait on Anchorage to agree.” Anchorage lists all of the or performing art and must lack be eligible for this,” Carroll said. The Curricular Affairs qualifying GER history courses emphasis on skills acquisition. She noted that current students Committee, or CAC, provided within humanities, while Fairbanks “I wish they could have released wishing to switch to the new GERs guidelines for courses to be considered places the courses within the social this list sooner,” Skyla Powers, would need to change their catalog within each of the three groupings. sciences. The differences are what a sophomore studying social year with the Registrar’s Office. To be included courses must be 100 derailed the original committee work, said. “I could have taken “If I can work with my adviser or 200-level, may not contain any assembled to unify the core. something I would have enjoyed.” to make it fit, I would make prerequisites besides English 111X “This has been a three-year While members of the faculty the change,” James Gilchrest, (excluding foreign language courses), work in progress,” Faculty Senate did raise concerns during the a 21-year-old junior, said about should not discourage non-majors, and President Debu Misra said. “We meeting about class sizes, Jennie changing to the 2016-2017 catalog. must be offered at least once per year. had to do something to align with Carroll, Chair of the CAC, indicated

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department has been a huge partner They’re here,” she said. “So to me it in that. We try to focus on preventing would be a big loss if we didn’t have Police budget cuts things from starting in the first place.” an on campus police department who Continued from page 1 After years of budget can be responsive and can approach reductions across campus, Burrell complaints in a way that is sensitive.” The UAF Police Department actual class. That’s why we’re here.” said the police department Until the university hears back currently has nine commissioned On top of regular campus does not have a lot left to trim. on the decisions of the legislature, police officers, typically having patrol, the police department also “I think it’s tough at this these budget cuts are best guesses. only one on duty at a time, with runs personal safety programs such point,” Burrell said. “There are “Nothing’s set in the exception of times of the week as Green Dot and Violent Intruder smaller cuts like maybe reducing stone,” Mallard said. that Chief Mallard refers to as trainings. Mallard says with budget equipment purchases. But they’re Burrell encourages students to be “peak times” such as weekends. cuts of this size, programs such as not going to be enough to get us to active regarding potential changes “We’re constantly walking around, these will be out of the question. the point in budget reductions that at UAF, and to shape the agenda. whether it’s the CSOs or the Officers. “All those proactive things that the legislature is talking about.” “Folks tend to think they And when people see that, even if it’s we’ve been able to do, we won’t Burrell feels that having a campus know what students want, courses just subconsciously, they feel safer,” be able to do anymore,” Mallard police department is important for the and professors, etc. Of course Mallard said. “Instead of worrying said. “Those programs will be cut.” purposes of student specific responses. there’s that, but there are also about how you’re going to get from “We are trying to be responsive but “I think the value of having those other pieces as well, which your classroom to your dorm in the we’re also trying to change a culture police on campus is they know the includes a safe campus,” she said. dark, you can worry about your on campus,” Burrell said. “The police community, they know the students. 4 The Sun Star March 1, 2016 www.uafsunstar.com COMMUNITY Lil’ music reviews A bi-weekly column by Alan Fearns, KSUA Music Director

(“INTRO”) with the slow guitars, 2000s post-grunge when I hear the if you’re into that sort of thing. but the pummeling drums make it singer (3 Doors Down, Three Days In “CELLAR” the vocals are quickly cathartic. The bass is very Grace, etc.). Harmonies help, but just toned down enough from excess present and zipping guitar lines also aid them in sounding generic. without being stale. It’s a really fine occasionally recall Mogwai (these They get real mathy in “SPIN,” balance they’ve managed. The bass TRAU CHOI post-rock giants from Scotland). and the tone on the distorted guitar is laden melodies are heavenly and the “TRAU CHOI” “SHADE” is like if Tiger’s Jaw crispy. The lyrics are heartfelt, saying guitar lines are fine. TRAU CHOI’s Genre: Emo grunge added a three somewhere in their “vertigo-never let you go,” or maybe drummer (Joe?) is also skilled and name and became really husky they’re crazy, I can’t tell anymore. subtle electronics are a nice touch. Cool emo band from in their vox and low frequencies. There is one f-bomb, thus would not Massachusetts. Dabbles in post- TRAU CHOI is definitely passionate, be safe outside of safe harbor hours. rock territory during the opener but I can’t help but think of early There a whole lot of “whoa-ohs” too

Fifth album and the first that is a nor future. The “uh” vocal followed with synthesizer chords. Mid free download. “Yr So Wet” kicks in by the “yeah” is impossible to disagree way through is a monologue at 140 bpm exchanging vocal samples with. Clap ya hands now y’all. that sounds like (the) RZA. and piano chords in its pattern “Bahrain” is a really fun track. “1996” is a re-release from sequences. Chimes, bubbles and It winds up into a drop around the Ultrademon’s debut album mists spray their way into the mix to 1:11 mark. We get taken under a “Seapunk.” Instead of the dance in tropical synchronization. watery marimba medley, with some call and refrain duet sample, Waterfall piano rolls and healthy brisk screams. Lush harmonies he inserts much more subtle panning make it an excellent way to glide across in a building nascar vocal samples that say “you” say seapunk has not gone anywhere sample and bass flatulence drop. and a Rustie-like arp. Which is in the last three years but forward. “Just Fine” is a track that escalates interesting given that Rustie’s latest “Encore” treats us the same way. continuously. Very bubbly and layered. “EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE” Ultrademon Intricate dance lines and morphing “Weedtangclan” has a sped features dolphin samples. “Redux” synths make us feel neither in past up Amen break and club vocals Genre: Footwork

must hear. Finally, Chance the Rapper saying how I feel at the wrong time./ Money “Highlights” talking about using appears… and damn. The man come when you want, but I’m on time.” a go-pro on his pelvis and stirs up switches flow over piano swells. Lastly, This one is about Kanye waking nonsense surrounding wife’s former Kirk Franklin enters and preaches. up to himself, he is always addressing partner. He goes full wolf-mode, “Famous” and “Father Stretch himself from an outward perspective. and talks about a bunch of sex. My Hands Pt.1 & 2” feature some It has a lot of remnant of “Yeezus” “I Love Kanye” plays of Kanye’s worst lyrics. Guy has (West’s last album) such as the overall a second time during this got to stop being misogynistic in feedbacking of the instrumentation particular live stream. The his lyrics if he wants to be taken and the sudden changes in the song. crowd goes wild all over again. serious about addressing any social This particular time however, it is Conscious Kanye returns with issue. Thankfully Rihanna and like a show of Oprah where he is “FML”, a really beautiful song Desiigner* save the song vocally. dishing out fur coats, jets, and booties. about how he would give up his life Much like the album art, Kanye Then the flute starts to blow out. for his kids. It features the Weeknd, Kanye West is constantly switching his focus A string slings its way in with Kanye and a better climax than on “Fade” “The Life of Pablo” @ YEEZY between family embrace and self- making growls along a bass thud. (from the final album version). SEASON 3 indulgence. The Lyrics from Pt. The seemingly lack of infrastructure “Real Friends” was a single, along Genre: Kanye West 2 address being too busy to make makes it feel far in avant-garde with “Facts”, “30 Hours,” and a time for his wife, Kim Kardashian, field. Hi-hats trigger with a hooting snippet of “No More Parties in TLOP is off to really great start and how he acts like his father. chant to bring it back into full swing. LA”. Trust issues are never fun, with “Ultra Light Beams.“ It has “Feedback” opens with a tweaked Finally, it peters out and then comes and especially true when they lie in Samoria and Natalie Green with flute that sounds like a mad dial tone. one of Kanye’s best rants, because its family (#fam). “Wolves” has some a gospel verse, followed by Kanye His flow is actually quite flawless not really a rant. Its actually a speech. Cashmere Cat production and Vic and The-Dream singing about a here. He bends to the will of the About himself, but tongue-in-cheek. Mensa is replaced by Frank Ocean. “God Dream” (-_-). Kelly Price has a beat, but has his spine in tact. “I After a nice testimony in “Low really momentous section that is a been out of my mind, a long time./ I be Lights,” we get bitter Kanye in

Letter from the (acting) Editor: Shifting deckchairs on the sinking 'Ship of State' the taxpayer dime on trips around the where it’s due. Though Governor world or studies rationalizing their Bill Walker will be remembered for shiny new Anchorage clubhouse. The the budget collapse, he inherited it Alaska House of Representatives, from his predecessor and has stated to their credit, has agreed to address without hesitation that addressing the the budget first. But the Senate, shortfall is his number one priority. meanwhile, has become a legion UA President Jim Johnsen is of Neros, fiddling pointlessly as the in a similar boat, and while the halls of government burn to the Strategic Pathways Initiative is ground—and collecting extra pay as unpopular and potentially dangerous they force their session into overtime. to the UA system, it is at least a The lead fiddler is easily Pete genuine attempt to address our Mason Schoemaker / Sun Star Kelly, who has been wasting time and budgetary issues—issues which bounce everything must be fine, right? money trying to push his pet agenda, previous President Pat Gamble Spencer Tordoff But times are changing. The price attempting to allow concealed decided to flee rather than fix. Acting Editor-in-Chief of oil has hit the floor and shows no carry of firearms on UA campuses. I’ll even throw state signs of getting up, and many Alaskan Whether or not you agree with the Representative Tammy Wilson a Let me start by being perfectly voices are saying that the days of issue at hand, the timing is inarguably bone for her attemp at slashing blunt: our school and our state carefree energy revenue are over. laughable. It fails to address the state the UA budget. Her proposal does are both in deep trouble. Despite The state faces a deficit of about $3.6 and UA budgets, while attempting to seek to address the state’s fiscal this, much of our leadership billion—that’s right, with a ‘b’—and twist the arms of university leadership. solvency, but like most of her ideas can’t seem to get their heads unless the state brings in more revenue, The reappearance of this bill shows it’s brutish, poorly-conceived, and out of their collective asses. cuts services deeply, or (most likely) that Kelly has little tact at best and no deeply out of touch with the needs Politics in Alaska have long both, that deficit is projected to widen regard for our state’s future at worst. of Alaskans now and in the future. been a parade of the absurd. Our next fiscal year. This shortfall trickles UAF leadership doesn’t have Given our history, I see no previous three governors were a down to the University of Alaska direct control over budgets or funding, reason to believe this issue will be man who bought himself a jet, system as well, which faces at least a but they haven’t been doing much to resolved after this session. The a nationally-known trainwreck, $65 million cut compared to last year. curb student fears either. While it’s legislature will scrape together and a literal oil company lawyer, While I typically favor a broad believable that the Faculty Senate was a temporary agreement, tap respectively. Our legislature has social safety net and a focus on public genuinely striving for inclusiveness accounts where necessary, and put never been much better, with some services, I am a pragmatist first and when they resolved to find a new off making harder choices (like of our state and national lawmakers foremost. Like it or not, the practical word for first-year students, the timing enacting taxes, or using a portion of choosing to name themselves approach to our state’s impending definitely gives the impression that the Permanent Fund) to next year. the “Corrupt Bastards Club.” armageddon involves giving serious they are concerned with minutiae Here in Alaska, shifting Embarrassing behavior has consideration to every source of in the midst of an oncoming storm. deckchairs is a time-honored been a mainstay of Alaska’s revenue and every potential cut, with Although it predates the crisis, tradition and although the listing political system for the last 30 years nothing off limits. The budget should the “Tobacco-Free Campus” “Ship of State” has us all up to our at least—but, as the operations of be taken care of to the exclusion initiative seems similarly misguided, ankles in seawater, our leadership government were funded by oil of every other topic, with other as UAF spends money to replace seems quite content to hem and tax revenue, the average citizen legislation handled if time permits. ashtrays with impotent signage, haw over seating arrangements. didn’t have much cause to care. Our state legislature disagrees, leaving our still-threatened campus As long as your PFD check doesn’t finding it much more relevant to spend littered with cigarette butts. There is a need to give credit 5 March 1, 2016 The Sun Star ENTERTAINMENT www.uafsunstar.com ‘Nook on the Street This week we asked students: The UAFPD faces a possible 20% decrease in funding next semester. What effect do you think this might have?

Dakota Wilcher Sage Tixier Sarah HoBack Mary Beth Perreault “I think it could have an effect on “There’s probably going to be a “Well they won’t be able to patrol “It will make the officers more the way our police force is [run], loss in employees and I know that as much, they probably wouldn’t be stressed, it might make the campus it could [increase] response times, in the current budget situation a lot able to respond as well if they didn’t less safe. I mean, if you don’t have it could have problems with staff, of things are getting severely gutted have the funding. It limits their people to call when things are they won’t have enough money to and cut. I think that could be a abilities to respond to emergencies.” going on we might lose the safety.” pay their employees. The UAFPD really big problem if we don’t have supports more than just the more representation for community university, they support an entire service and safety.” jurisdiction. This could have a major impact on the campus and as a whole.” This week’s ‘Nook on the street was compiled by Max Erickson / Sun Star

Last week on UAF and community events Yik Yak Sun Star Picks: Yik Yak is a social media app that The Sun Star Picks calendar is compiled weekly from our editorial staff’s selections. allows people anonymously to create and view “Yaks” within a 5-mile radius. These Yaks are selected and compiled this weekend at the Westmark by Molly Putman / Layout Editor Tuesday / 1 Thursday / 3 Hotel. Admission is free. There will be door prizes, refreshments and Life hack: instead of having a crush Ever wanted to learn how to kick Do you like food? Tired of “49” fashion shows by Orainda Bridal on a living human being, punch people in the face? The UAF food? Then head over to the Boutique and Anderson’s Bride. The yourself right in the face for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club is Hutchinson Institute of showcase will start at 11 a.m. same effect. holding a class, and I figure they Technology at 11:30 a.m. to get and continue to 4 p.m. and will can probably hook that up for you. some great food from the UAF bring together some of the interior’s How many UAF girls like bad boys? Head to the SRC Fitness Studio Culinary. Experience dishes from best wedding related services incuding Because I’m bad at everything. at 6:45 p.m. and they will teach tomorrow’s next bright chefs. It costs jewelers, caterers, photographers, you how! Probably. That might be a $12 and the event ends at 1 p.m. The DJs, florists and much more. - Sarah If you don’t put away your little more advanced. Consider asking theme for this meal is Italian. - Aaron Manriquez / Photo Editor equipment at the gym, so help me, I an instructor when exactly the face Walling / Advertising Manager will glare at you passive aggressively kicking starts. - Spencer Tordoff / Acting while I put it away. Editor-in-Chief Monday / 7 Saturday / 5 *goes to gym* *parks as close as On the theme of alien hunting, possible so I don’t have to walk cause I’m still lazy* Wednesday / 2 This Saturday the band Sand celebrate NASA’s Kepler Castle is playing at McCafferty’s Mission, a space photometer for I don’t always get offended but It’s Open Mic Night from 7-9 from 8:30-10:30 p.m. Actually, searching for extrasolar planets in when I do it’s not by overreacting p.m. at Arctic Java. Come from they play there every Friday and the Milky Way galaxy. This device singing, poetry, dancing and God Saturday so if you have a good time was launched from Cape Canaveral to the name freshmen. knows what else. Arctic Java will still it’s an easy thing to go do again. They Air Force Station, Florida this day in be open too, if you just want to swing perform contemporary folk, rock, and 2009. I’m so glad I’m graduation and by for some coffee. Or you could retro pop. There should also be coffee For all Tyson fans, take today leaving this University before preform if you like—as the name and stuff if you’re into that. - Molly to celebrate the day Mike the s*** hits the fan. Good luck suggests, it’s open to anyone. If you Putman / Layout Editor Tyson became the youngest freshmen or should I say 1st year can get on the stage, then whatever heavyweight titleholder when he student. you want to do can happen. Just beat James Smith in a 12-round fight make sure you don’t mic drop at the Sunday / 6 in Las Vegas in 1987. Police officer: Is this bed where the end of your sick freestyle. Apparently If none of these interest you, there murder happened? Me: No I’m on is always . my period. The murder happened that’s frowned upon. - Kyrie Long / Getting married? Planning a Monopoly in the Pub The classic board game was invented upstairs. Copy Editor wedding? Be sure to check out this day in 1933. - Lida Zakurdaew / Paradise Found KTVF 2016 Distribution Manager The moment when your a** Interior Wedding Showcase touches the shower wall and your soul leaves your body

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