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NEWS PAGE 2 • EAGLE LIFE PAGE 3 • COMMUNITY PAGE 5 • OPINION PAGE 6 • SPORTS PAGE 7 INSIDE:Upcoming Events: May 30: 2015 EWU Alumni

Awards Gala: The EWU Alum-ni Association and Numerica Credit Union present the Alumni Awards Gala at Spo-kane Convention Center at 5 p.m. Music, dinner and a recep-tion will follow. To purchase tickets, please visit http://ti-nyurl.com/k26r7gx

May 21: Wind Enseble and Symphonic Band concert: Starting at 7:30 p.m. in Show-alter Auditorium, the EWU Music Department Spring 2015 series wraps up the quarter with numerous concerts. For more information, visit ewu.edu/music.

May 25: Memorial Day Holi-day. No classes. EWU is closed.

MayMay 20: EWU Athletics Career Fair: The EWU Athletic depart-ment is hiring for numerous jobs on the Cheney campus. All students are encouraged to at-tend. Make sure to bring copies of your résumé. The event is from 6-8 p.m. at Reese Court. For more information, contact Kyle Bruce at kbruce2@ewu.edu.

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EWU World Cup tradition continues

Photo by Anna MillsVarious students at Eastern Washington University participated in the EWU World Cup soccer tournament on May 15.

World Cup intramural event thrives, students represent different countries

For a fourth consecu-tive year, EWU intramu-rals hosted a world-cup-style soccer tournament on May 15.

The tournament allows students to formulate teams and select a country to represent. While many students select teams based on their home coun-tries or heritages, others simply choose a country at random.

Former ASEWU Presi-dent Oscar Ocana pitched the idea for the event to Campus Recreation four years ago to coincide with EWU’s diversity week. The concept was simple: Give students a reason to come together

and the opportunity to represent countries that are important to them.

According to Camp-itelli, The tournament has been a success start-ing with 11 teams in 2012, 16 in 2013, 13 in 2014 and 10 in 2015, with over 90 competitors. It is a co-ed event that requires at least two females per team to be on the field at all times.

Like previous years, participants received a free T-shirt.

This year, the Nether-lands captured the tour-nament championship by defeating Columbia, 5-3. Africa United and Dji-bouti each took a share of third place, according to Mike Campitelli, director for Campus Recreation.

Four days of tightly con-tested and entertaining ac-tion came to an end on May 16, as the track and field Big Sky Outdoor Championships wrapped up at Roos Field. Both the men’s and women’s team for EWU fin-ished tied for fifth in the confer-ence, with the men outperforming their preseason ranking of seventh place.

Northern Arizona Uni-versity and Sacramento State University tied for the men’s title with 157 points each. Sac-ramento State narrowly took home the title for the women, edging out Montana State Uni-versity by just 4.2 points.

The most productive day for the Eagles was on Friday, May 15, where the day was highlighted by a pair of senior throwers.

Jordan Arakawa capped off a successful Big Sky career by winning the hammer throw with a toss of 218-1, a season-best. Finishing second the past two years, Arakawa was not to be denied this time, with no other athlete coming within six feet of his mark.

“I was relaxed and ready to go. We peaked for this com-petition, so I knew that the big throw was going to come, I just didn’t know when,” said

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EWU Track and Field finish fifth at Big Sky

Photo by Anna MillsEach student who played in the soccer game represented a different country.

Andy Grammer, a platinum-selling re-cording artist, and o p e n i n g act Lavoy will be the EWU spring con-cert artists on June 1 at Reese Court.

At least 1,000 re-sponses to surveys and polls collected last year were fac-tored into the 2015 spring concert artist decision, according to EWU Adviser for Campus Programs Sundi Musnicki. Two

main types of sur-veys were polled: the type of genre students wanted and specific artists wanted.

Eagle Entertain-ment concerts coor-dinator Madi Casto worked with Gram-mer’s agent to put the concert together.

Student Haley Heitzman said she learned about the con-cert through the Eagle Entertainment Face-book event. “I think I’ve only heard him sing one song,” she said.

“I’m familiar with a couple of his songs,” said student Marci LaChapelle. She said she learned about the

event through Face-book as well.

The spring con-cert is not an annual event. Eagle Enter-tainment chair Mikey Cardenas said the Macklemore concert two years ago was the last concert host-ed at Eastern.

Because the event is paid for with Stu-dent and Activities Fee funds, the con-cert is closed to the public. This allows the 2,700-max-capac-ity venue to host as many EWU students as possible.

By Nathan Petersmanaging editor

Andy Grammer performing at Eastern in June

Graphic by Lauren Campbell

Who is Andy Grammer?

• Singer/songwriter signed to S-Curves Records.• His debut album is titled “Andy Grammer” with his hit single, “Keep Your Head Up,” which premiered in 2010.• He is currently on tour in North America.• He is married to Aijia Lisa, a singer. • In the music video for “Keep Your Head Up,” Andy Grammer walks into an elevator with Rainn Wilson, star of “The Office.”

Information on AndyGrammer.com

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EWU’s location ranked as its No. 1 strength and weakness in the Spokane County section of the per-ception survey.

The end results of the October 2014 - March 2015 EWU perception survey was presented to the board of trustees during their last open meeting of the 2014-15 academic school year on May 14.

When EWU began re-viewing the strategic plan-ning process, that started in 2012 and will continue to 2017, there were questions on how to measure the univer-sity’s success or failures, ac-cording to Michael Westfall, University Advancement ex-ecutive director.

Westfall said EWU teamed up with Desautel Hege Communications to look at EWU’s impact on

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Musnicki said bring-ing Grammer to campus cost $40,000 and the en-tire event will cost around $60,000. The additional $20,000 is for covering all of the added logistics of the event.

Students who volun-teer for the event have the potential opportu-nity for a meet and greet with the artist. The sign-up form is available on Eagle Entertainment’s EagleSync page.

The concert is hosted by Eagle Entertainment, ASEWU and the Student Activities, Involvement and Leadership. Free concert tickets are now available for students with valid student ID at the EWU Bookstore.

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the community and how it relates to the university’s image.

Desautel Hege is a company out of Spokane that focuses on advertising, public relations, research and design to help with marketing strategies.

According to Emily Easley, Desautel Hege senior account executive, the survey had three main targets: statewide, Spokane County and alumni. The alumni were surveyed online and the other two categories by phone.

Across all audiences, the EWU athletic department was the first to come to mind, and only five percent of people thought about education.

This was more than likely be-cause of the way people get their news, said Easley. The media, like

newspapers and news stations, will have more opportunities to report on sports events than events focused on education.

Chair member Jo Ann Kauffman questioned the seven percent of alumni who found EWU unfavor-able, saying it seemed odd.

“It wasn’t unusual,” said Easely. “Really, I think that none of the results that we got really surprised us. That is in-credibly low amongst alumni, so we were pleased with the re-sults we got here. ”

There were areas for im-provement.

The survey results showed EWU is not as well known state-wide and 56 percent of the 500 statewide participants said they either had no opinion or they had never heard of the university.

“It’s just an opportunity to ex-pand, no bad news,” said Easley.

The overall results showed EWU has a strong image that has plenty of room to be built upon, said Christine Varela, a part-ner with Desautel Hege. EWU lacks a presence outside of eastern Wash-ington, which can be improved.

“So the good news through all this, and we were very happy to see the results, is that we’re coming on six years of record enrollment,” said Westfall. “We have strong perception survey results, which is great, and so we have a really strong foundation or platform to build on and do a little more.”

Westfall said the current

marketing process is more tacti-cal than strategic because of the issue of budget.

“Departments or programs that have mar-keting budgets, they market; and those that don’t, can’t,” said West-fall. “So our vi-sion going for-ward is that we want to use data, which now we’ve got a great foun-dation of data to build upon and evaluate to de-termine our pri-orities and to ef-

ficiently invest our resources.”Westfall presented three

primary goals from a market-ing standpoint for the years to come: enrollment, academic po-

sitioning and fundraising. Enrollment includes the

types of students EWU wants, whether they be from a com-munity college, transfers, in-coming freshmen or interna-tional students, said Westfall. Fundraising includes projects like the sustainability centers, Eastern arts alliances and schol-arship efforts.

Academic positioning is the area where EWU wants to be known.

According to the survey, EWU is most well known for its education program followed by its business program.

Westfall said it will be a goal to promote more of the STEM programs.

“We’re really excited about the survey and about the di-rection of how things are run-ning,” said Westfall.

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Photo by Justin HiguchiAndy Grammer plays his guitar at an event.

Free tickets currently available in the EWU bookstore for EWU

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“So our vision going forward is that we want to use data ... to determine our priorities and to efficiently invest our resources.”

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Cokie Roberts — author of New York Times Best-seller “Capital Dames” — spoke at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane on May 14. Roberts is the daughter of two politicians and was r a i s e d s a t u -rated in political culture.

R o b -erts has w r i t t e n books on women’s r o l e s throughout history — no-tably “Ladies of Liberty” and “Founding Mothers.” Her newest book, which came out April 15, is no ex-ception. “Capital Dames” focuses on the role of women during the Civil War era: their power, po-tential and persuasion.

The evening began with a musical performance by

Jodie Graves. She sang three songs including “John Brown’s Body” and set the tone of the evening. The performances pref-aced the tone of Roberts’ lecture. Graves concluded with a recital of “Blue Tail Fly,” where Roberts came from behind the curtain and joined her to finish the chorus.

Roberts said at the start of her presentation, “I nev-er intended to write a Civil War book.” She said all her ancestors were on the los-ing side. However, after the wild success of “Ladies of Liberty,” her publish-ers requested another book covering the women of the Civil War.

World War II was a turning point for women’s rights; during the war, women took the men’s jobs and began standing up for themselves. Many, including Roberts, won-dered whether the Civil War had a similar effect on the rights of women. The

men went off to war and so the women assimilated themselves into the “male” job market.

Many women were in-tegrated into multiple sects of government — positions ranging from governors to senators. Female jour-nalists emerged to docu-ment the war. The first women’s newspaper, “The Lily,” bloomed in 1849 by Amelia Bloomer. As a result of the Civil War, multiple suffragist icons emerged, including Susan B. An-thony, Lucy Stone and the Grimke sisters. The Civil War inspired women who worked behind the scenes to decide for themselves that it was time to stand and speak up.

To capture a complete picture of the events and proceedings of the Civil War from a feminist per-spective, Roberts had to read letters written in the early 1800s.

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By Zachary Ellistoncontributing writer

A night of history with Cokie Roberts

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•“I’m Out, Proud and Over Fifty … Now What?”12-1 p.m. | Monroe 205

•Paintball6 p.m. | JFK Lawn

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•Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert7:30 p.m. | Showalter Auditorium

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•Outdoor movie night: “Jurassic Park”8:30 p.m. | LA/URC courtyard

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Post-apocalyptic thriller leaves a lasting impressionreview

Chris Mudd

If you have not seen “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the plan you had for the rest of your day is irrelevant. This is a movie

that harkens back to the age when movies were fun and invigo-rating. The world may seem foreign to some but after quickly strap-ping yourself in for the ride, “Max” will guide you through a cin-ematic experience like no other.

Director and writer George Miller has revived the somewhat stale action genre and made something

truly timeless. There’s so much about this film that screams 80s, but it’s shot in a very 2015 style. There are beautiful, wide sweeping shots of the most intense car scenes I’ve ever seen, just to reveal a flame-guitar-wielding psychopath shred-ding tunes as everything around him explodes. This is, by far, the most metal movie of the decade so far.

Many parts of the film would seem ridiculous if read aloud from a script, like the guitar guy mentioned earlier. But when I sat and watched the film, I was so enraptured by it that I naturally accept it. It almost seems inevitable.

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When “Wolfenstein: The New Order” was released in 2014, the entire first-person-

s h o o t e r genre felt a distur-bance. For days, even weeks, after beating it, I couldn’t shake this f e e l i n g that new ground had

been broken. Something had changed, and it was about time. Gone were the stale annual re-lease titles like that of “Call of Duty” or “Battlefield,” replaced by something truly innovative and refreshing. Now, a year later, Machine Games has built upon the foundation they cre-ated a year ago with the down-loadable prologue, “Wolfen-stein: The Old Blood.”

B.J. Blaskowitz, our hero, is tasked by the allied forces to acquire a Nazi document detailing the location of the major villain’s base of opera-tions near the closing hours of World War II. It’s an obvi-ous MacGuffin, just a throw-away item to serve the plot, but it doesn’t detract from the story. In fact, it only adds to the B-movie cheese that, when you accept it, makes the game an altogether more fun experience.

The mission, although a silly one, requires the player to infiltrate the stronghold of Nazi researcher Helga Von Schabbs, which happens to be in the famous Castle Wolfenstein. It’s good to be back in the archaic and stony halls of the famous castle, even if only for a portion of the DLC.

While the mission starts off easy enough, it’s soon botched by giant robots and the play-er is forced to fight their way through the castle. It’s a glori-ous free-for-all Nazi fest with giant action set-piece mo-ments, new enemies and sev-eral new items to play with. Granted, the initial stealth sec-tion of the game loses its ap-peal fairly early on, but it does serve to give our villains a little bit of weight. Like “The New Order,” “The Old Blood” does what it can to make the player

feel that Nazis are actually imposing and not just bullet-sponges like so many movies and games have turned them into. That being said, it would have been nicer to come out guns blazing just a bit earlier.

The feel of Wolfenstein is so addictive and unique that I could almost care less about the moment-to-moment game-play, as I like just existing in that world. Feeling completely lost in a hostile, Nazi-ruled war feels like the kind of thing I would run around imagining

as a kid after watching “Indi-ana Jones.” “The Old Blood” builds upon this feeling by ex-ploring a bit more of the occult, which “New Order” more or less avoided. Giant robots are replaced with giant monsters. It’s a nice change that keeps me glued to the screen.

The run time of the game is about five or six hours after defeating the rather cool and unique final boss, which is rather good considering it’s a

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Avengers Rebuttal

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Dear Mr. Mudd,

I read your review of “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” and I respectfully disagree with your analysis. I watched “Avengers: Age of Ultron” opening weekend and felt the exact opposite of how you felt.

As a huge comic book nerd, I feel it is my duty to explain why “Ultron” was exactly what we needed as a comic book movie and how it was executed perfectly.

You’re right, there are parts that seem slightly off or small issues with the plot, this wasn’t completely unexpected.

Comics, as many know, have a rich and extended history, but director Joss Whedon, while amazing, doesn’t have all the rights to the entire Marvel universe. This key fact makes it difficult to stick to the actual storyline written years ago.

Examples of this break from the canon storyline include the twins, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. In “Ultron,” they are classified as “enhanced” humans, but in the true storyline, they are mutant offspring of Magneto from the X-Men. Whedon doesn’t have access to the X-Men universe and, as such, has to fudge the storyline, which in turn creates difficult plot developments and holes in which some of the movie’s concepts stumble across.

Besides all that, let us actually get down to the brass tacks of the movie re-view. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” brought the comic-book world to a new level. We as an audience are starting to delve into the superhero psyche: This movie proved that the Avengers, even with all their strength, intelligence and tech, are still human and still flawed. The movie does exactly what the first “Avengers” movie did: great fight scenes with intense ac-tion, a villain that needs defeating and a plot so evil and large that only the world’s greatest defenders could stop it. Yes, we have seen this movie device before, but if it didn’t work so well, then we wouldn’t see it in every action movie. I love a losing battle, I want the heroes to struggle; if they don’t, the movie ends up being linear with nothing of interest.

You bring up Ultron himself as one of the weaker points of the movie. You state: “Ultron himself seems cookie-cutter movie villain, whose motivation ... has been copied and pasted from every major robotic bad guy ever” and con-tinue, “He’s nothing more than a filler villain to fill the gap until Thanos.”

I saw Ultron as something completely different; he comes across as devilish and cunning, with the force to back up his plans of wiping out most of the planet. He even goes as far as to turn the Aveng-ers worst fears on them, breaking up the team with his dastardly mind games. He knows our heroes’ weaknesses and exploits them brilliantly. But of course, the heroes win and good triumphs over evil. Or does it?

You have to remember Ultron was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner; he is their greatest creation and the ulti-mate solution to a never-ending problem.

Theater capstone class pumps out plays

Since fall quarter, the se-nior theater capstone students were planning an abundance of shows that have only re-cently become unveiled.

To pass and graduate with a theater degree, each student involved must participate in a significant portion of the pro-duction and then be critiqued on their performance. Each stu-dent has an option to act, stage manage, direct or participate as a member of the technical crew

in areas such as sound, light-ing, set design and costume.

While many students have already had the opportunity to enjoy the antics of “Fuddy Meers,” others await capstone shows including the one-woman show by Sharron Da-vis, a staged reading of “Pass-ing” and a stage production of “Steel Magnolias.”

“Steel Magnolias” takes place in the 1980’s and follows Shelby, a diabetic battling with her condition in a time when mankind was not medi-cally capable of normalizing

such an ailment. Viewers wit-ness Shelby’s bonds with her mother, her friends, her hus-band and the new girl in town as she handles the struggles of marriage and childbirth. A majority of the play’s action takes place inside a hair salon. The salon is like confessional for the women who frequent the shop, the shop’s employ-ees and Shelby; this is where the audience sees the charac-ters’ rawest emotions.

Two of the seniors vital in the creation of these produc-tions also have significant

roles in the play: Christie Buckley, who plays the part of Clairee Belcher, and Michelle Pyles, who plays the part of Annelle Desoto. Both have pivotal parts in the play, and both, according to Buckley, in-tend to put on a show that is incapable of leaving a dry eye in the audience.

Buckley said performance is all about “living the character.”

As seniors of the theater capstone, it is the job of Buck-ley and Pyles to orchestrate

By Zachary Ellistoncontributing writer

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Instead of laughing at it, we say, “Yeah, that should be there. Awesome.” That is, perhaps, where Miller’s genius lies. He dances the line between ridiculous, and awesome, and the final product is something that will stand the test of time.

Violence-wise, the film is able to straddle the line between P-13 and R. It never feels as though the film is holding back blood from us, but we don’t real-ly need it. There are a few scenes in the film where it could have gone much

bloodier than it did, and I respect that. Miller was never going for the gore factor, an uncommon thing in today’s cinema world.

Max, played by Tom Hardy, is perhaps the most level-headed person in the world of George Miller’s creation. We see through his eyes just how terrible the world has gotten after an international energy crisis, leaving the world crippled and dry. His jour-ney through the waste-land leads him to Charlize Theron’s character, Impera-tor Furiosa. Together they drive, shoot and fight their way from one end of the

wasteland to the other, and then back again, in a com-pletely nonstop thrill ride.

The acting is adequate, considering the relatively small amount that is actual-ly required to pull off such a film, and Tom Hardy fits Mel Gibson’s shoes quite well. While some have ar-gued that the character of Max is two-dimensional, and really isn’t all that in-teresting, I would assert that Max is the strong, si-lent hero, which is some-thing we don’t see very often these days. Instead, it is through Max that we experience the world, and in many ways, it is Furio-

sa who has the spotlight through much of the film.

This is the only film I’ve watched to my memory where I actively welcomed the quieter moments of the film, since I needed to catch my breath. The action is so well choreographed and shot, I was on the edge of my seat for almost the entirety of the two-hour runtime. I cannot stress enough how awesome this movie is. Whether or not you have time to spare in the coming weeks in the midst of finals and gradu-ation, do yourself a favor and carve out a few hours to see this film.

rather good considering it’s a DLC. Yet, I wanted it to be lon-ger. The pacing of the game was just fine, but I never quite felt like the story was done.

The controls, like in “The New Order,” are respon-sive and carry weight. Every weapon feels unique, and Blaskowitz feels like an abso-lute hero. The music harkens back to the original “Wolfen-stein 3D” from time to time, and it continues the style from “New Order” of the in-tense guitar riffs and drum beats to emphasize just how cool you are. It’s fantastic, and makes for a great work-out album.

“Wolfenstein” has firmly planted itself as a frontrun-ner in the greatest shooter games to exist, and to not play it at some point is a dis-service to yourself and to your country. If you play video games, why are you not playing this right now?

Roberts said, “Letters written by men were so stuffy and formal. … [They were] heavily edited.” However, “letters written by women had person-ality. They were fun to read.”

“Writing women’s history is detec-tive work,” said Roberts.

It was Roberts’ job to reach into those cracks and identify what was really going on during the 1800s from the women’s point of view. These were patriotic women who were dedicated

to their country and political engage-ments despite being considered the property of their husbands.

As to Roberts’ writing process, she said, “I write when I can.” This process proved rather painful as her publishers gave her a deadline of April 14 — that was the 150th anni-versary of President Lincoln’s assas-sination. Roberts explained, “In or-der to finish the book on time, I had to wake up at three in the morning on the 12th and write until six in the morning the next day. Then I dived into a bottle of wine.”

the entire event from start to finish. This includes planning, fundraising, casting, finding a director and acting, all without the direct aide of their profes-sors. It is the job of the pro-fessor to simply evaluate and guide each student’s performance. This means that for 20 hours a week, these seniors are actively building a production from the ground up; this entire process takes about three quarters. The seniors begin brainstorming ideas in fall quarter to decide on productions, contact out-side help during winter quarter and begin rehears-als in the spring.

Outside help was brought in to help achieve the vision of “Steel Mag-nolias.” The part of Shelby will be played by Joni Elizabeth — a local actress who appeared in the pilot episode of “Mr. Dark” and played a principal role in “The Breakdown.” Addi-tionally, a couple of guest directors were brought in: Molly Tage, an Eastern alumna, and her husband Phoenix Tage, a graduate of

the University of Idaho.“Steel Magnolias” is

not the only production Buckley and Pyles are ex-cited for. The staged read-ing of “Passing” is another emotionally packed play. Rather than dressing up and creating settings to es-tablish the mood, the ac-tors of “Passing” are sim-ply going on stage and quoting lines. “Passing” is an autobiographical, origi-nal play that focuses on a gentleman in a coma dying from AIDS. The action of the play revolves around the multiple relationships with others that this man has had throughout his life and their acceptance of his passing. “Passing” is se-nior capstone student Ryan Hartwell’s senior project.

“Steel Magnolias” will be playing May 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. The other pro-ductions are one night only, with “Passing” taking place on June 8, Sharron Davis’ one-woman show occur-ring on June 9 and “The Complete Works of Wil-liam Shakespeare” showing on June 14.

All of these productions will be shown in the EWU theater and are free for any-one who would like to attend.

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Who is Cokie Roberts?

• For over 10 years, Cokie Roberts was the NPR congressional correspondent.• She co-anchored “This Week” with Sam Donaldson from 1996-2002.• She was a broadcasting personality for over 40 years.• Attained the rare honor of being named a Library of Congress “Living Legend.”• She has been awarded 3 Emmys.• Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.

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I’ll be the first to admit the second the sun comes out and the weather hits 60 degrees, my brain jumps straight out my ears and decides it’s time to start vacationing.

S p r i n g quarter is no-toriously dif-ficult for many students, and staying on track and motivated through the allure of the out-doors and the general exhaus-tion from the last six months of school is one of the harder tasks of the year. But it’s doable, as we know, because we’ve made it through at least 12 other spring semesters or spring quarters pri-or to this one.

For me, keeping my eyes on the prize (that is, my last fi-nal) can keep me motivated and prevent me from running out of steam completely. Although it seems like it could be more dis-tracting than helpful, it is sur-prisingly useful to remind myself how little time is actually left in the quarter until my break from academia begins. Regardless of how much I enjoy my classes, af-ter a certain point my mantra of “only five/four/three/two more weeks,” becomes a necessity to survive and keep my focus.

It also helps me to give into my spring fever every once in a while. No one ever got better grades by locking themselves in a tower of books and study guides, ignoring their need for time to just lie in the sun — or at least walk to the nearest cof-fee shop and get some much-needed caffeine. Everyone needs a break, and forcing yourself to

power through the urge to go for a hike, lounge at the mall or whatever it is you want to do isn’t going to improve your grades. Taking the time to de-compress and chill out by get-ting a tan is an undebatable ne-cessity if you want to make it through spring quarter without your brain leaking everywhere.

Spring quarter is not an un-

beatable beast — it is possible to make it through with only minor injuries, but it can be hard for all of us. This spring quarter has been especially rough on me; my motivation to do just about any-thing has more or less flown di-rectly out the window. For those of you who are right there with me on this, it’s not an un-

reasonable response. We just need to buckle down and get our brains back in their assigned seats and make it through the next four weeks.

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Yet with all those good inten-tions, Ultron comes out corrupt, realizing that the ultimate solu-tion to the problem is to elimi-nate the problem at its source: humans.

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” was an excellent movie that does

exactly what a movie should: entertain. But not only does it en-tertain as a movie, it does what a comic book should do. It tells the never ending comic book story of good triumphing over insur-mountable evil, knowing that tomorrow there will be another even more powerful and more sinister evil ready to take the helm to fight back. I don’t think superhero movies are slowing

down, I think they are gaining momentum. They are building to a universe built upon years of history, waiting to explode into a million more stories with new heroes and new revisions. Oh, what an exciting time to be a nerd and a cinema buff rolled into one.

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While scrolling through my Facebook, I saw friends commenting on buying months worth of tanning.

“Forget spraytan, I just wanna bake,” said one friend.

“Just bought a month worth of tanning for half the price, yay tan skin,” said another.

After my cancer scare last summer, my feelings have changed about tanning.

Since high school, I bought a month of tanning every April so I could get a sun-kissed look before I stepped out to the near-est body of water. My skin looked so white that it glowed all winter long.

Skin cancer runs in my family, so I felt uneasy when a mole on my body started to grow. I had to get it checked before I went into another tanning salon. Unharmed, my doctor let me know people are nine times more likely to get skin cancer even if they tan a few weeks out of the year. I will always accept the skin I was born with.

My life is more valu-able than a few months of beauty. Who says pale skin isn’t beautiful? Look at Anne Hathaway and Emma Stone; both these women are beautiful and successful in their acting careers.

To the public, the sight of tan skin evokes health and vitality. However, doctors fight to get the message across – tan skin is a walk-ing advertisement for skin cancer. It’s time we rethink the standards of beauty.

With 3.5 million new cas-es of skin cancer diagnosed annually, we should be tak-ing sun protection seriously. More than 90 percent of all skin cancers are associated with sun exposure.

To prevent skin cancer, take care of your skin. Using a daily moisturizer is one of the easiest changes you can make, for men and women. I use Neutrogena Daily Moisturizer, with SPF 15, after I shower every day.

The Food and Drug Ad-ministration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest avoid-ing tanning beds to prevent developing skin cancer. In addition, exposure to UV rays causes skin to age pre-maturely.

Getting a direct sunburn can be just as bad. The risk of developing melanoma – a type of skin cancer that forms from melanocytes – is increased after one blister-ing sunburn.

My advice? Buy some Jergens Natural Glow mois-turizer and get a fake tan that looks like the real thing, but still keeps you alive.

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Arakawa finished his final Big Sky Conference tournament by winning the hammer throw, after placing second the past two years. He was named the male most outstanding performer for the tournament. The senior from Olympia, Washington was selected to the 2014 spring Big Sky All-Academic team. Arakawa’s PR in the hammer stands second in school history. He qualified for the 2014 Division 1 national championships finishing 23rd in the hammer throw. He is currently EWU Scholar-Athlete of the month sporting a 3.93 GPA.

Top Eastern Track and Field Athletes

Name: Jordan Arakawa Class standing: SeniorMajor: BiologyPosition: ThrowsPR’s: 219-3 in the Ham-mer, 156-2 Discus, 66-1 ½ weight throw

Name: Emma Murillo Class standing: SeniorMajor: Spanish EducationPosition: ThrowsPR’s: Javelin - 169-0, Discuss-169-0, Ham-mer-186-3, Weight throw - 62-3 ¾

A senior from Kennewick, Washington, Murillo claimed her second Big Sky Championship with a Javelin throw of 168-0 over the weekend. The back-to-back Champion also finished ninth in the discuss and 10th in the hammer. Murillo made a PR in the javelin in April with a throw of 169-0. She is currently the EWU Scholar-Athlete of the month with 3.6 GPA. She also finished second at the 2015 Big Sky indoor championships in the weight throw, with a throw of 62 - 3 ¾.

Name: Paula Gil-Echevarria Class standing: SophomorePosition: DistancePR’s: 1,500 - 4:33.11, 5,000m - 16:36.28, 10,000m - 34:38.42, 800m - 2:17.35, Mile - 4:52.87

The sophomore from Madrid, Spain came to EWU in 2013 and has put together a very successful young career. She finished third in the mile at the 2015 Big Sky Indoor Championships and teamed with Katie Mahoney, Katie Lynch and Janessa Day to finish third in the women’s distance medley. She currently holds the school record for third all-time in the steeplechase after setting a time of 10:22.16 earlier this month. At the outdoor conference championship, she finished third in the steeplechase with a time of 10:28.17, while also tying a personal record in the 1,500 –meter in 4:33.11 finishing seventh overall.

Name: Phil PuccinoClass standing: Senior Major: Criminal JusticePosition: JumpsPR’s: High Jump 6-11, Triple Jump 48-5 ¼, Long Jump 23-5 1/2

Puccino capped off his senior season with a second place finish in the high jump and a third place finish in the triple jump. His second place high jump of 6-11 was also a PR. Hailing from Tacoma, Washington, Puccino transferred to EWU from Coffeyville Community College in 2011. While at Coffeyville, Puccino received junior college All-American honors in the heptathlon.

Name: Morena MannucciClass standing: Senior Major: MarketingPosition: JumpsPR’s: Triple Jump 41-1 ¾, Long Jump 17-11 ¾

Mannucci finished her season winning the triple jump by setting a new school record with a mark of 41-1 ¾. The native of Rome, Italy, captured her first Big Sky Championship winning by almost 2 feet. Her previous high finish was third place earlier this year at the Big Sky Indoor Championships. “What a great way to end Morena's last Big Sky Conference Championship,” said head women's coach Marcia Mecklenburg. “Nobody even came close to her in that event, it was a storybook ending.”

Name: Sarah Reiter Class standing: SophomoreMajor: Pre LawPosition: DistancePR’s: 1,500 - 4:38.67, 5,000m - 16:36.28, 10,000m - 34:38.42

Reiter placed second in the 10,000 – meter run finishing with a time of 36:16.55, a jump from last season’s third place finish in the same event. Reiter dominated Big Sky cross country in the fall saw her success continue by finishing thirteenth in the 1,500 – meter. Reiter graduated from Renton’s Lindbergh High School in 2012 and spent one year at Big Sky rival Montana State University before transferring to EWU in 2013. Only two MSU athletes finished ahead of Reiter during the entire tournament.

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Arakawa, who received the most outstanding male performer award.

Including the indoor sea-son where he won back-to-back

titles in the weight throw, Arakawa finished his college career with three conference titles and with

three second place finishes. EWU’s other conference champion of the day

came from Emma Murillo in the javelin; her throw of 168-0 was a 10-foot personal best. Jayd Eggert of

the University of North Dakota finished three and a half feet behind Murillo’s mark. The throw ranked

third all time in program history. “It was hard to stay focused but I man-

aged to do so and I was just in the zone. I wanted to fight, I was hungry

for it and just getting to that last throw I knew that

this was it. I’ve got to do it. It felt good

and it’s nice that it’s over,” said Murillo.

Four other Eagles had all-conference performances

(top-three performer) on Friday, including Phil Puccino finishing second in the high jump with a jump of 6-11, a personal best that ranked seventh all time in school history. Reigning indoor long jump champion Trenton Osborn fin-ished second in the event with a personal best of 24-3, which is the ninth furthest in school history.

The Eagles’ women distance runners nabbed two all-conference marks as well, with Sarah Reiter placing sec-ond in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 36:16.55. Paula Gil-Echevarria’s time of 10:28.17 in the 3,000-meter stee-plechase gave her a comfortable third place finish. With just a few track events being scored on Friday, the EWU men’s team sat in second and the women’s team sat in third with one day left in the championships.

Four more all-conference marks were set by Eagle ath-letes on the final day, three of which came in field events. Senior Morena Mannucci won the triple jump and set a school record in the process with a distance of 41-1 3/4.

“I’m a senior and this is my home, I just want to pro-tect it,” said Mannucci. “I owe it to my teammates, to my coach, to my family that came here. That was definitely the biggest motivation today.” Women’s head coach Marcia Mecklenburg called it a “storybook ending.”

Mannucci’s victory on Saturday was the third and last for EWU during the weekend. All three came in field events, as did seven of the 10 all-conference marks for the Eagles.

One of the Eagles’ all-conference marks in running events came in the women’s 4x100-meter relay. The team of Paige Hammock, Erika Lombardo, Brooke Monson and Rebecca Tarbert took third place in the event and narrowly took second, finishing .002 seconds behind the University of Northern Colorado relay team.

Puccino added his second all-conference mark of the championships, finishing third in the triple jump with a distance of 48-3 1/2. In the women’s discus, Kelsie Forcier finished third with a throw of 156-3, the first all-conference performance of her career.

The Eagles had many athletes that finished fourth in their respective events and just shy of earning all-con-

ference honors. Tierra White in the high jump, Katie Mahoney in the 1,500-meter run, Olivia Midles in

the hammer throw, Jeremy VanAssche in the 100-meter dash and the men’s 4x100-meter

relay team all finished a spot off of fin-ishing inside the top three.

“With so many highlights, it will take some time to really appreciate

how will this team performed," said men’s head coach Stan

Kerr. “I'm particular-ly proud of our se-niors whose lead-ership sparked the whole squad to higher, faster, and stronger performances throughout the championships.

The Big Sky Outdoor Championships began on May 13 at Roos Field as the Big Sky crowned its champions in the Men’s Decathlon and Women’s Heptathlon after two days and 12 differ-ent events.

Idaho State University’s Logan Hen-derson won the decathlon with 6,904 points, while Montana State University’s Carley Mc-Cutchen took first in the h e p t a t h l o n , scoring 5,273 points. Jozie Kimes was the only EWU athlete to compete in ei-ther event, finishing 10th in the heptathlon with a score of 4,448.

Henderson finished strong in the decathlon, winning the javelin and the 1,500-meter run to close out the meet.

His javelin toss of 160-07 was 13 feet longer than the second place finisher, and his time of 4:15.75 in the

1,500-meter run was nearly 17 seconds faster than his teammate Dyllan James, who finished second in the event.

Henderson never fin-ished worse than seventh in an event in the ten-per-son field and finished in the top five in nine of the 10 events; although, he

a d m i t t e d that he did not get off to the start he would have liked.

“I didn’t have my best per-f o r m a n c e overall, so I was just kind of try-ing to keep going after each event and just try to move f o r w a r d b e c a u s e each event

ended up less than what I would have hoped for,” said Henderson. “I had really good performanc-es in the javelin and the 1,500-meters, which was enough to put me on top. It was a kind of cool ex-perience being behind the whole time. It was just ex-citing to compete and end up with the win.”

McCutchen’s path to the hardware was nearly opposite of Anderson’s, as she won two of the four events on the first day of the championships.

She won the 100-me-ter hurdles with a time of 14.95 seconds and the 200-meter dash in 25.30 seconds.

On day two, McCutchen finished in the top three in every event and nearly won her third event of the cham-p i o n s h i p s , f i n i s h i n g second in the 800-me-ter run by o n e - t e n t h of a second. McCutchen narrowly fin-ished second in the long jump and finished in third in the javelin throw.

McCutchen won with ease in this year’s cham-pionship, after finishing second by just ten points in last year’s conference championships to Lindsey Hall of the University of Montana. Teammate Dani-elle Muri finished second behind McCutchen, scor-ing 5,052 points.

The windy conditions were a problem for the

athletes, and McCutchen said the key for her to do well was to focus on one event at a time.

“The windy condi-tions made it really hard to compete at the ideal level I wanted to, so it was just getting through every-thing,” said McCutchen. “Being mentally tough was a huge battle, making sure I didn’t get fatigued

or mentally out of it.”

T h e best perfor-mances for Kimes—East-ern’s only athlete in ei-ther event—came on the first day of the competi-tion. She fin-ished sixth in the 100-me-ter hurdles

and seventh in the high jump. Her 5-2 1/4 jump was a season best, as was her 200-meter dash in which she placed 15th with a time of 27.53 seconds.

Kimes placed highest in the javelin on day two, where she finished ninth with a throw of 99-06. Kimes scored 737 points and finished 11th in the 800-meter run, the high-est scoring event of the day for the junior.

ISU and MSU athletes take first in decathlon and heptathlon championships

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By Brandon clinEstaff reporter

Photos contributed by Runner SpaceIdaho State University’s Logan Henderson won the decathlon (bottom) with 6,904 points, while Montana State University’s Carley McCutchen (top) took first in the heptathlon, scoring 5,273 points.

Photo by Anna MillsThe EWU Track and Field Big Sky Championship took place at Roos Field on May 16.

Running events conquer the Inferno

“I didn’t have my best performance overall, so I was just kind of trying to keep going

after each event and just try to move

forward because each event ended up less than what I would have hoped for.”

Logan HendersonIdaho State University

decathlon winner

“Being mentally tough was a huge

battle, making sure I didn’t get fatigued or mentally out of it.”

Carley McCutchen

Montana State University heptathlon winner

May 28 - Track and Field, NCAA Championships Preliminary Rounds

@ Austin, Texas

May 29 - Track and Field, NCAA Championships Preliminary Rounds

@ Austin, Texas

May 30 - Track and Field, NCAA Championships Preliminary Rounds

@ Austin, Texas

June 10 - Track and Field, NCAA Division Champion-ships @ Eugene, Oregon,

Hayward Field

June 11 - Track and Field, NCAA Division 1 Outdoor

Championships @ Eugene, Oregon, Hayward Field

June 12 - Track and Field, NCAA Division 1 Outdoor

Championships @ Eugene, Oregon, Hayward Field