Volume 84 - Issue 6 October 14, 2011 Stray feline adopts NW family BY BRIAN BRANDAU FEATURES EDITOR A new tenant recently took up residence in the Courtyard Village for a few weeks. An orange-white, stray cat first appeared around Northwestern’s campus about three weeks ago. Senior Krystina Bouchard and her PHOTO BY BOB LATCHAW husband, Ty, were the first Senior Isaac Hendricks wears justice clothing, clothes whose prof- students to interact with the its benefit charities. cat when it showed up at their apartment off campus. Clothes that change lives “I had just come back from BY KAMERON TOEWS grocery shopping, and there Just a few years ago, justice clothing began to appear on was this poor little kitty,” Northwestern students’ backs and feet. Bouchard said. TOMS, To Write Love On Her Arms, Clothe Your Neighbor It didn’t take long for as Yourself and Hope for Haiti clothing were spotted around Kyrstina Bouchard and her campus. Even today, these same types of clothing are still a husband to let the cat into popular choice. their apartment, but the As the trend continues to grow, more students are arrangements were not ideal questioning whether or not buying a justice organization’s for a cat to live there. Ty has PHOTO SUBMITTED clothing is a healthy way of supporting that charity. Junior allergies, and the couple Senior Natalia Mueller holds an outdoor cat that has been cared for by residents of the Courtyard Villages before finding a new home with junior Tyler McKenney’s family in Inwood. Jeremy Bork thinks purchasing justice clothing is a good way has a large dog named Dré. to help those in need. Although the Bouchards known as the plexes. Mueller said. “That’s why I bed for the cat, and Mueller “I have had numerous people ask me about the shirt, and kept the animals separated “He just kind of trotted started feeding him.” bought a collar. But they are it’s a sweet way to spread the word of the ministry,” Bork said. for a while, tensions arose up one day, back when it Although initially Mueller not the only plex which took Senior Isaac Hendricks feels like giving money directly to when they eventually did was kind of cold out,” said and Leikvoll were feeding a personal interest in the an organization would go further. come together. senior Kristen Menchaca, the cat leftovers from the hog cat’s welfare. “I like the idea of ‘free advertising’ for the company,” “Dré is just so much bigger who lives in the north roast and dog food, it wasn’t Senior Heather Pagelkopf Hendricks said. than him,” Bouchard said. building of the plexes. long before they started also took her part in caring Take the perspective of the charity organization, and things “It wasn’t working out.” Fortunately for the cat, buying food from the grocery for the cat. When the cat might look different. After the cat attacked Dré the plexes and apartments store specifically for the cat. first started appearing, she “Organizations probably make more money by using the and Ty, Krystina made the had just recently held a hog According to Mueller, some of decided to put milk out in a trendy item to aesthetically spark interest in consumers,” decision to evict it from their roast and much of the meat the foods they tried originally saucer for him. said sophomore Bradley Smith. “I feel it’s a brilliant strategy apartment. However, the cat’s was left over from the event. were unpopular. “I had an unfortunate on their part.” normally friendly demeanor Seniors Natalia Mueller and “He’s very picky,” incident with the little guy the Smith compared charity organizations to other businesses. quickly endeared it to another Brittany Leikvoll decided to Mueller said. first time he came around,” group of students living in feed it to the cat. Eventually, Mueller and See “TOMS” on Page 4 the Courtyard Villages, also “Brittany loves cats,” Leikvoll had even put out a See “Cat” on Page 5 Rick Perry visits Orange City PHOTO BY ANDREW LOVGREN PHOTO BY ANDREW LOVGREN Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds up a Sharpie that he would use to revoke Obamacare if he were elected Sophomores Jack Johnson and Josh Hollinger listen to Perry from the back of a filled room. Perry is president. Perry paid a visit to Orange City on Saturday, Oct. 8 as a part of his Iowa tour. currently ranked third in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal Republican presidential candidate poll. 2 Six friends command imaginary spaceship BY MICHAEL GUTSCHE around for another pass— the science officer. The crew works together “A r t e m i s B r i d g e without permission from The captain isn’t actually to make this starship zoom Simulator” is probably the the captain. in control of anything. He or about and blow up other nerdiest thing you could Captain screamed at him she just yells at everyone to starships and occasionally ever do. Or won’t do. to stop, and he immediately get things done. complete specific missions At any rate, a few dropped out of warp, which The weapons officer or take part in certain clarifications are in order. left us in front of the nuke we controls the various weapon scenarios, like sieges on Despite how its name may had just fired and parallel to systems of the starship, star systems or defense of make it sound, “Artemis the enemy ships. which include mines, lasers multiple fronts in a nebula. B r i d g e S i m u l a t o r ” “Never mind, don’t stop of varying frequency and It’s more fun than it has nothing to do with warping, just keep firing,” the aforementioned nuclear sounds, and usually involves architecture or those big the captain said. missiles, among other things. a good deal of screaming and connecting things that let It was too late. The Engineering is in charge hollering at one another to get people drive over rivers and nuke hit the enemy ships, of power monitoring for the each others’ stations in order. chasms. “Artemis Bridge destroying them and almost weapons, engines, shields Some of the positions Simulator” has everything to tearing our ship in half. and various other parts of are somewhat lacking in do with Star Trek. Engineering reported fires the ship, such as the cooling interaction from time to time. Mannequins and People With each player on his across the whole ship, mostly systems, and also directs the For example, the science BY BRITTANY LEIKVOLL or her own screen, a group in the center. The main emergency team to fix any officer often finds himself “People and Things” will definitely satisfy fans eager to of six controls every part of engine had taken the blow damaged areas of the ship. simply waiting for new hear more of the band Jack’s Mannequin’s signature sound. a starship. Here’s a peek into to the side at a time when The science crewman targets to arrive, which means The new album is polished, has a cohesive tone and is the action. our shields were focused to is in charge of providing that sometimes there are driven by upbeat, pop-rock tempos. “Okay, here’s the plan,” the front. directional headings to the slightly-too-long pauses The band’s lead singer, Andrew McMahon, who also said the captain. “We drive Then we flew into a helmsman, who controls between one interesting thing serves as the group’s songwriter, went through a battle right into them, and then we singularity for fun and to see the ship direction and drive and the next. with cancer in 2005. McMahon has said that the experience nuke them, and then we run what it would do. It didn’t do speeds. The helmsman can There also isn’t much taught him to slow down and appreciate life—an inspiration away before we die.” anything besides blow us up. also scan down other ships in the way of graphics— for much of the album. It didn’t work exactly No fancy space-teleporting for the weapons crew to fight the visual representations “People and Things” focuses on relationships, but not at like that. Our science officer or reality-bending good more effectively. of the ships are a bit all in the typical, cliché way. While in the midst of his battle couldn’t get a proper reading times—just explosive death. Communications is underwhelming, and the with leukemia, McMahon let a lot of people slip out of his on the enemy ships’ shield It takes a group of six kind of an odd duck. They players spend most of the life, so this album served as a way to “make up for lost time.” frequencies, so our lasers spaceship-loving friends to spend most of their time game staring at charts Instead of building around Andrew’s piano and lyrics, as were useless—not that we play the game. Each person talking to various allied and and navigational maps. the band often relies on for their sound, Jack’s Mannequin were even close enough gets a computer, which all enemy ships, giving orders However, once the yelling decided to get out of the city scene to escape all of their to use them. Instead, the connect to a server that hosts from the captain or taunting starts, you’re in for a time possible distractions. They believe it gives the album a freer gunnery officer fired the the main program.