Northwestern College, Iowa NWCommons The Beacon, 2011-2012 The Beacon 9-9-2011 The Beacon, September 9, 2011 Beacon staff Follow this and additional works at: https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/beacon2011 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Beacon at NWCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Beacon, 2011-2012 by an authorized administrator of NWCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 84 - Issue 1 September 9, 2011 When flying whales became torpedoes A personal look at post-9/11 worldviews By Steve Mahr Photo by Brian Moriarty PHOTO BY KATI HENG Junior Hannah Biernacki holds an autographed program and bumper sticker from Tea Party speaker Sarah Palin. Several students hear Palin speak at Tea Party rally BY GILLIAN ANDERSON “Run, Sarah, run” were the words that could be heard coming from the crowd in Indianola, last Saturday, Sept. 3. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spoke at a Tea Party rally to a generally positive audience that included several Northwestern students. If people don’t remember her from the election three years ago, they may recognize her from the satire of Saturday Night Live or the notable amount of criticism she has received from the media. “She has done very well considering all the criticism she has taken,” said junior attendee Hannah Biernacki. Some at the rally expected Palin to announce her candidacy for the 2012 election and were surprised when she did not. While Palin did not announce whether she is going to run, there is still time for her to enter the race. Some speculate that she will announce her campaign in the near future. Junior Kati Heng also attended the convention and was surprised and disappointed by Palin’s lack of political involvement in the current campaign. “We thought Palin was going to announce something, but she didn’t announce anything,” Heng said. “There was this Smushing my face against the moment when she stopped talking and people were cheering window of the taxi cab didn’t make it any easier to see the top of the See “Tea Party” on Page 8 Sears Tower. “I…can’t…see.” Each whining syllable pushed my eye and nose harder Where were you into the glass. Imagine! A tower that can scrape the sky! These ginormous closed door of the jetway. I would all colors, ethnicities and religious structures stand as a reminder of smush my face into the glass terminal beliefs. But students who were black, on September 11? America’s ability to adapt. No more windows. I did a lot of smushing as a Polish or Hindi all played Oregon BY LINDSEY GEELS room to build out? kid. I would watch as planes the size Trail and swung on swings and played On a typical day, the average person would likely have Fine, let’s go up. On the 35th floor of a whale would effortlessly sail line tag in P.E. There was nothing so great difficulty remembering where they were 10 years ago. out the window of my grandma’s into the sky. Since my first flight in different about us that could keep us However, 9/11 left an impact on people from all across the apartment building we could see third grade, I have loved watching the from being friends. world. Almost everyone can recall some sort of strange detail Navy Pier’s colorful explosion of runway grow smaller, knowing I am At 8:03 a.m. on a Tuesday morning about where they were when they first heard of the attacks fireworks at eye level. My grandma flying, and humans don’t fly, which in September sitting in a desk on the on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. lived in the sky. Incredible! makes the experience super cool. third floor of my small town Iowan Do you remember where you were or what you were We used to go to the airport to Growing up outside Chicago high school. I was sitting, staring at the doing when you first heard the news? Check out what some pick up friends or relatives and stand seemed normal enough. My school students, professors and faculty remember: waiting in anticipation outside the had a diverse array of students of See “Shattering” on Page 4 See “Memories” on Page 5 2 Summing up the Summer CRAZY, STUPID, HARRY POTTER TALLY HALL ‘GOOD LOVE AND THE DEATHLY & EVIL’ BY REBEKAH WICKS HALLOWS PART 2 BY MICHAEL GUTSCHE The romantic dramadies BY MICHAEL GUTSCHE It’s Tally Hall. They’re this summer featured a slew Picking up immediately great. More importantly, this of disappointments and where the previous movie time they have a far more washed out pre-teen dramas. left off, there’s an action consistent and smoothed- All hope seemed to be lost sequence, a few jokes and out feel to their album. The for the genre, until “Crazy, some plot thickening before songwriting is excellent, and Stupid, Love” entered the Voldemort hugs Malfoy in an the music feels coherent with scene. The film revolves awkward way after blowing nothing terribly out of place. around Cal (Steve Carell), up a bunch of Hogwarts and The best word to describe whose marriage seems like then, here comes the spoiler this album is haunting. It has perfection, until his wife alert, dramatically dies. plenty of juxtaposition and Emily (Julianne Moore) The last Harry Potter movie harmonizing, giving a lot of suddenly requests a divorce. looked good, the direction weight to the initially playful- Newly single and struggling was solid, but ultimately, it sounding vocals. The whole to find solace in the bottom of was kind of underwhelming. style is cheer and happiness, girly alcoholic drinks, Cal is Most people who would see wrapped up in just the right approached by ladies’ man, this movie and get anything amount of vocal distortion Jake Palmer (Ryan Gosling) out of it are the folks who and abstraction of content. who offers to reignite Cal’s have either read all the books, love life again. and thus know what’s going OH LAND ‘OH LAND’ The screenplay gives on anyway, or seen all the BY REBEKAH WICKS cynicism a newly comedic previous movies. Or both. Making the transition from approach, but the characters They’re already HP Groupies. “upbeat and free” summer to refrain from any hateful So, I suppose the most the “wind-down and focus” PHOTO BY BOB LATCHAW actions or words against thorough and concise review school year can be tough, Spend too much time outside this summer and not enough keeping up with pop culture? We can help. one another. Emma Stone I could give of this is “Oh. especially with all the catchy and Kevin Bacon give life to Ok. Well that was what I summer anthems you heard WILFRED THE GLEE PROJECT BIG BROTHER characters that could have expected.” It was really good, on the radio still ringing in BY TYLER ZEUTENHORST BY BRITTANY LEIKVOIL BY EMILY BROUWER been left in the shadows but in an endearingly “I just your ears. Oh Land’s newest Complete with a talking “The Glee Project” “Big Brother,” has become but instead shone through want to be acceptable” way. self-titled album is a perfect dog, FX’s “Wilfred” was one doubles as a show and an an annual tradition for many. alongside the leading roles. aide to the transition. Their of the hottest shows released audition for a role in the next Every summer, a new The movie does contain some BON IVER newest CD features tracks during this year’s summer season of the singing sitcom season starts out with a slew sexually crude humor and ‘BON IVER’ that range from get-up-and- TV season. “Glee.” Twelve contestants of new Houseguests, new themes of adultery, but ends BY LISA WALTERS dance tunes to remembrance This comedy depicts the were in the competition, challenges and best of all, in favor of love and marriage. Justin Vernon has returned ballads. There’s a splash of life of an awkward young man showcasing their talents of new evictions. from the woods. Since the jungle beats and sounds of the named Ryan (Elijah Wood) singing, dancing and acting If you aren’t familiar WIN WIN release of his first album city, mixed in with amazing whose life changes when he to inspire a character for w i t h “ B i g B r o t h e r , ” BY KAMERON TOEWS “For Emma, Forever Ago,” vocals that have no trace of develops a friendship with “Glee” executive producer Houseguests are locked Thomas McCarthy’s film, which he recorded alone in that horrendous invention his neighbor’s dog Wilfred Ryan Murphy. in a house with cameras “Win Win,” revolves around the woods of Wisconsin back called “auto-tune.” Oh Land’s (voiced by Jason Gann). The twelve recorded in everywhere. This season, a financially strapped lawyer in 2008, Vernon has found sound is only beginning with Though seen as a simple a professional sound studio the Houseguests consist of and high school wrestling success with both listeners this self-titled hit. canine to the outside world, and learned choreography, both new and old guests. coach who happens to stumble and critics. Ryan finds in Wilfred a blunt all in preparation to make The contestants fight through upon an opportunity to make However, to say that BASTION companion with an Australian a music video at the end of a variety of competitions, money, help a runaway Vernon has “hit the mark,” BY MICHAEL GUTSCHE accent.