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Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18

You will be suddenly struck with empathy for all fish stuck under frozen lakes. Stay away from frozen beds of water to avoid the onset of depression.

Pisces 2/19 - 3/20

Forces will try to make someone put salt instead of sugar in your coffee this week. The best way to deal with this will be to secretly video record every person brew-ing your French roast.

Aries 3/21 - 4/19

That guy or girl you have been stalking daily on Facebook will notice you from a second floor to-day. Make sure to wash your hair.

Taurus 4/20 - 5/20

The twitches in your right eye are trying to tell you something. Try-ing to stop them will only attract intensive questioning from your grandmother as to your weekend activities.

horoscopesLibra 9/23 - 10/22

Your oven, hair straightener, toaster or iron may be left on this week. Worry about nothing else but this threat, and turn around multiple times after leaving your room to check every single ap-pliance and the battery of your smoke alarm.

Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21

Everything is a conspiracy. Even your parents are secretly plotting against you, and your best friends have hidden and malevolent agendas. You are probably best to wear sunglasses and a wig the entire week.

Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21

An identity crisis is looming. It has been said that nearly every Sagittarian was born the wrong gender, and you will wake up feeling the urge to create a Mo-hawk with super-strength glue to impress your roommate.

Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19

Snowmen may turn out to be your only true friends this week. It will be worth using organic carrots for their noses – using carrots from Winco could have disastrous consequences for your self-esteem.

Gemini 5/21 - 6/20

The predictable schizophrenic side of Gemini will make appear-ances later this week. Deal with this early by talking to yourself on every possible occasion, especially when in the shower or kitchen.

Cancer 6/21 -7/22

Everybody you run in to wants your philosophical and spiritual advice this week. Examine their every move, and advise them about celestial forces heading their way. This may involve shout-ing your prophecies across streets at pedestrians.

Leo 7/23 - 8/22

Barney the dinosaur, a famous Leo, will make a dramatic re-entrance into your life this week. He is partial to purple candy so stay away from it at all costs, if you have a phobia of the dinosaur.

Virgo 8/23 - 9/22

It’s time to change your tooth-brush. Your obsessive-compulsive tendencies when it comes to your daily teeth routine are starting to overwhelm other aspects of your life. Beware of the electric brushes and instead reach for the warmer shades of yellow and pink.

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Juliana Ward is a senior from Alaska, graduating with a degree in advertising and art. Ward us also an illustrator for the Argonaut. She said she came up with the blob cartoon during a middle school biology class, and has been developing the idea ever since. She recently copyrighted the blob designs and started a website where people can request their own personal-ized blob. She draws each one by hand, scans them into her computer and uses Photoshop to edit and color them.

‘Joe Vandal Blob’

Her work can be found at www.blob-world.com.

“Nod 2 Bob”The Kenworthy Performing

Arts Centre is hosting “Mos-cow’s Nod 2 Bob,” an evening featuring the music of Bob Dy-lan. The event will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday April 9 at the Kenworthy. Local musicians, Tom Drake, Jon Anderson, Brian Gill, Dan Maher, Steptoe, Moscow High School Glee Club, Bare Wires, Gypsy Dawgs and more will perform the art-ist’s work, in honor of his 70th birthday. Tickets are $10 and are available at BookPeople of Moscow and Deadbeat Records.

Annual stream clean-upThe Palouse-Clearwater

Environmental Institute and the City of Pullman are host-ing the 7th annual Pullman Stream Clean-Up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday April 9. The event will begin at Spring Street Park located at the corner of Spring Street and College Street in Pull-man. Volunteers will clean the banks of Paradise Creek. Free food and drinks will be offered by local businesses at the close of the event.

Shawn McDonald in concert

Touring artist, Shawn McDonald is playing at 7 p.m. tonight at the Nuart Theater. McDonald is touring in promo-tion of his new rock album, “Closer.” Tickets can be pur-chased at the door for $13.

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If the future is anything like my vision, everyone will own a teleportation device, live on a space colony and swordfight with teleki-nesis in virtual simulation rooms. Whether or not the trilogy-writing soothsayers have lied to me, the future will have its troubles. Children in the future will face environmental concerns, technological quandaries and questions of hu-man identity.

Idealistic farm children don’t have to be ignorant. Open their minds and let them peer into the matrix.

Forecast, enlightenmentFossil fuels were last century. The dawn of

the new age of progress will shine with solar power. Prepare your progeny for the pun-filled world of sun-driven spaceships and time ma-chines with a toy from Kiddly Winks. The store specializes in children’s toys and educational materials that “inspire as well as entertain.”

One item is the “6-in-1 Educational Solar Kit.” Created by the robotics company OWI, the kit’s 21 pieces snap together to make six different motorized gizmos. Children can harness galactic energy to create an airboat, airplane, windmill and more. Kiddly Winks also stocks finger paint sets, workbenches with wooden tools, guides for drawing cartoons and other items.

With such creative illumination, the sun-pow-ered world of the future looks bright indeed.

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All backed upIt’s important to instruct children in today’s

realities as well as tomorrow’s dreams and artis-tic subtlety. Poop metaphors can be useful.

Japan is airing a cartoon on TV to explain to children what’s happening at a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture. Workers are trying to restore power and lower temperatures at the re-actor, damaged during the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Radiation leaks led to evacuations, and shipment of some produce from within 20 km. of the plant has been stopped.

The cartoon morphs the message into a tale of Nuclear Boy and his upset stomach. The earthquake gurgled Nuclear Boy’s guts like a toddler with a bottle of root beer and Alka-Seltzer. He needed to go “No. 2,” but the people didn’t want to smell his irradiated stink-moun-tain. Everyone heard a noise and thought he dropped the deuce, but “stinky-level” measure-ments only yielded proof of gaseous emissions. The narrator then describes the “doctors,” who gave Nuclear Boy treatment to cool him off and relieve his internal conflict. The video ends with anticipation of normalcy, when the broc-coli smell coming from someone’s seismic bum activity won’t turn people into zombies.

When he’s finished with the trials of nuclear management, I’d like to see Nuclear Boy explain coordinating conjunctions.

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Many schools of thought and religions of the world are based on the premise that the natural state of hu-manity is “asleep.” In daily lives people are unaware – walking blind and unable to see “truth.”

Christianity has its own words for this. One may be “lost,” not saved or worldly. People are oblivious, pagan or asleep. Buddhists claim they are sen-tient beings await-ing a possible state of enlightenment and true awareness.

Religion does not need to be involved to feel a need to wake up from the daily routine. There is not a specific need of a savior in order to wake up. We are capable, as individuals, to be inspired on our own.

Spending a week on the slopes of the Rocky Moun-tains during spring break led to many encounters with individuals who seek the feeling of being awake. I was forced to drop my ini-tial prejudices of the skiing and snowboarding commu-nity as I talked to countless people on chairlifts and in the communities, all with individual stories and a pas-sion for the adrenaline of carving fresh snow and cold air whipping their faces.

There is an element of physical danger in adrena-line. Climbers of Mount Everest, seeking the ulti-mate “awake” feeling, put their lives in imminent dan-ger. And it’s the same with

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many athletes. Rock climbing wouldn’t be the same without feeling the occasional twinge of fear.

Of course, getting a rush from something can be nega-

tive too. Alcohol can also give us the illu-sion of being awake. Although a form of escapism, we are able to part from our everyday, concrete reality and feel more in tune with our surroundings. As educated college students we know these temporary fixes never last, and can be detrimental when they wear off.

Times when I have felt most awake have been when there has been some form of what we consider discomfort. We strive for comfort, yet when in comfort people are often not even aware of it, and are not

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Kyle Rothwell is rich in multiple countries.

“My grandfather started his cur-rency collection in the 1950s, and it was passed on to me after he passed away,” Rothwell said.

Rothwell’s collection consists of 15 types of paper cash and 23 types of coins.

“He passed it to my mom and aunt, they contributed to the collection and now it’s my turn,” Rothwell said. “Later, it will be passed to my children.”

Rothwell doesn’t know when or from which countries each piece was added to the collection.

“You can tell that some come from Spanish speaking countries and some are from Asian speaking countries because of the words or symbols on them,” Rothwell said.

He said multiple currencies are from France, Japan and Spain, but from dif-ferent time eras.

“There are five, or ‘cinco pestas,’ from Spain in 1951 and there is a 5 cent bill from the U.S., but it doesn’t say from when,” he said.

Like Rothwell, Holly Clark has

also spent much of her life accu-mulating items that have been sent around the world.

Clark began her stamp and postcard collection in the first grade. Her 40 postcards and stamps have been mailed to her from traveling friends.

“My friends have sent me some from Europe, Ecuador, New York and Canada,” Clark said.

Clark does not plan to end her collection anytime soon.

“I’d like to share the post cards with my kids some day, just kind of show them,” Clark said.

She said the collection is very organized.

“I’m not fancy at all. I keep my stamps and postcards in a sheet protec-tor pinned to a wall at home,” Clark said.

Clark said she receives on average two postcards a year, but more if she travels. Clark plans to study abroad next year and said she hopes to purchase more postcards and stamps. Ten years ago, Clark’s grandfather send her a post-

card from Ecuador with a blue-footed boobie on it. Clark said the postcard is her favorite because it’s unique. Stamps and postcards are not all Clark collects, she also has an assortment of sweat-shirts from various colleges and univer-sities. Her 15-shirt collection includes

sweatshirts from Fresno State University, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Idaho.

“I began the summer before junior year of high school when it was cool in high school to wear college sweatshirts,” Clark said.

The collection is now stored in her dresser, but some are loaned out.

“I gave some of my sweatshirts to my younger brother, who’s look-ing at colleges,” Clark said. “I don’t guard them or I’m not all paranoid, just responsible. I have loaned out sweatshirts, but I keep track of who and when.”

Clark said she receives new college sweatshirts every six months or so.

“I’ll wear them forever,” Clark said.

Chris Dean’s collection involves a current controversial issue. He began his gun collection in September 2010.

“I only have four right now. I have a Weatherby, a Ruger, a Benelli and a Sav-age,” Dean said.

Each of Dean’s guns costs more than $400 and includes accessories such as a scope lock, ammo or a case.

“I worked all last summer for the guns I have. I plan on getting more this summer, when I have money again,” Dean said.

Dean said he wants to get a Beretta, a Glock, a Taurus Judge and a .243 rifle when he turns 21 in April. Dean said his favorite gun is his rifle because of its versatility, look and the amount of power behind it.

Dean said after he earns his license, he will start hunting.

He said everyone should have a gun. Dean said he keeps his collection locked away for safety.

“It’s their second amendment right,” Dean said. “If everyone owned a gun, I don’t believe many people will be a victim of armed robberies, or any other crimes for that matter.”

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katherine brown | rawrBiological and agricultural engineering junior Holly Clark lays out part of her collection of sweatshirts in the Student Union Building March 11. Clark collects sweatshirts and displays them, but she also wears every one of them.

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I’d like to share the post cards with my kids some day.”

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Normal wear and tear doesn’t reduce a deposit refund, but a few common mistakes can cost tenants serious cash. Following a few simple cleaning steps could keep green in your pocket.

Let the light shineOften overlooked, light

fixtures can run up a hefty fine if left unattended. Many property companies charge expensive rates for dead light

bulbs. Bulbs tenants could have replaced for a fraction of the price, the rental company will charge to do

it themselves. Also make sure to clean light fixtures of

dust. It may seem like unnec-essary, extra work but rental companies will charge for dusty fixtures.

Sweat the small stuff Cleaning the walls of dust

build up seems like overload but some property compa-nies in the Palouse have been known to charge up to a $100 for dirty walls and baseboards. Make sure to wipe down all baseboards for dust in addition to wiping walls. Use a clean mop with a rag to make wall cleaning a much faster process.

Up and under appli-ances

Even though it seems like no one has cleaned behind the fridge since Clinton was in

o!ce, make sure it’s spotless before moving day or expect to lose a large chunk of change. The same goes for behind and under the washer and dryer. The job isn’t glamorous. It requires teamwork to move appliances and tons of paper towels to collect what seems like years of dust, but your pocketbook will thank you.

Get everything outIt may not seem like a big

deal to leave a few items or even trash behind, but prop-erty companies do not take this lightly and charge large fees for leftovers. These fees increase if the item is large or heavy, for example a mattress. Rental companies may charge more if it takes two or more employees to throw away your trash. Check all closets, cabi-nets and bathroom drawers before turning in keys.

Holes be goneAll the tiny holes poked in

walls from hanging pictures and posters can add up to dol-lars out of your deposit. Invest-ing in a small carton of spackle can save big bucks in the long run. Using spackle is simple. For flat walls using a plastic card, like a student ID card, helps smooth out the spackle to hide holes. For textured walls, using fingers helps blend the new spackle with the look of the current walls.

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The rings in the toilet won’t go away with elbow grease alone. Pumice stones like this scrape rings away at an alarming rate.

Fantastik with Bleach This spray is tough on grime and ensures the mildew in the bathroom is a thing of the past.

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Community artistson display

Director of University of Idaho galleries Roger Rowley said artists contribute much to the way we think about life and the world around us.

“Overall, I think our society is too dismissive of the impor-tance of creative thinking,” Rowley said. “If you’re memo-rizing facts and figures, but not learning how to think openly about the world and translate it into important ideas and thoughts … you aren’t going to leap to something else that really gives you the answers. Artists provide an important key to (that process).”

Rowley has worked as over-seer for the Prichard, Reflec-tions and Ridenbaugh Hall art galleries since 2004. He said chances to experience impor-tant artwork are limited in Moscow and the three galler-ies help meet that need, with everything from local student work to international pieces.

Rowley said the community feels a sense of ownership with the Prichard Art Gallery, and it serves as an important link between UI and the Moscow community.

The gallery was in a differ-ent building on Third Street be-fore it acquired its current resi-dence on the corners of Fifth and Main streets. The Prichard was initially set up by faculty members from the university and a number of community members, who sanded the floors, painted walls, and did other interior work. They made a deal to move to the current building a year later, Rowley said, which was part Christian Reading Room and part Radio Shack. He said the beginning renovations were done during the summer as a credited class and involved many students from the College of Art and Architecture.

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current exhibits:The Reflections gallery

is located in the Idaho Commons and has a cur-rent exhibit entitled “Futile Repetitions” will run from April 15 to April 21.

The Prichard is located on Main Street and the ex-hibit called “On The Edge of Clear Meaning.” The tour-ing exhibit focuses on the visual multimedia medium of collage and features works by John Wood, who focuses on social concerns through his art.

The Third Street Gallery is hosting “Art Collection,” with featured works from local artists Garfield and Vieth. The artists will speak at an open house from 3 to 4 p.m. April 12.

more information:

City of Moscow: http://www.moscow.id.us/art/gallery.aspx

UI Galleries page: http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/about/galleries

“There is a tremendous sense within the community that they really helped make this happen,” he said. “It wasn’t just given to them … It really was driven by the arts commu-nity and the campus (because they felt they needed) this gal-lery, and made it happen.”

City of Moscow art direc-tor, Kathleen Burns, oversees the Third Street Gallery on the second and third floors Moscow City Hall building. The gallery is about 17 years old, and displays different exhibits every year, primarily from local

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file photo by jake barber | rawrKevin Krasslet dumps a load of mixed paper into a baling machine at the Moscow Recycling center in 2010.

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Joe Nichols said there are people who would walk on hot coals to recycle, but not enough of them.

“Some people will walk from the Kibbie Dome to the Commons for the compost pro-gram. Others will walk right past the compost program and throw recyclables into the garbage,” Nichols, an assistant at the University of Idaho Sus-tainability Center, said.

Nicole Johnson, who lives in the Wallace Residence Center, said she and her roommate do not recycle because there are not enough areas to dispose of recyclable items.

“We use our recycle bin as a trash can because it has more room,” Johnson said.

Johnson said a designated person should pick up recycla-bles from specific halls rather than students taking it outside.

David Stokes lives off cam-pus and said he only recycles cans and glass.

“When we moved into our house, there weren’t any recy-cling bins and we don’t know how to get more,” Stokes said.

Stokes said he and his roommates have attempted to buy more bins, but the recy-cling center did not help.

Andy Boyd of the Moscow Recycling Center said every household is provided with two recycling bins to sort.

“Most apartment complexes and businesses have to drop their trash off at the recycling center,” Boyd said.

The UISC conducted recycling surveys in classrooms and resi-dent halls. The recycling survey was completed by 10 percent of UI students Jan. 27. Of those sur-veyed, 681 said they would use the composting bin in the Idaho Commons, 150 would walk from another part of the building to use the bins, and 46 would walk from another part of campus to use the bins.

Stokes said he uses com-

posting bins in the Commons, but only if he is in the area.

“If I just finished eating there then of course I will use the bins. You don’t really have an option,” Stokes said.

Survey results showed 56 percent of respondents wanted to receive information about recycling on campus.

Stokes said if the campus had composting systems simi-lar to the one implemented in the Commons, recycling on campus would improve.

“I wouldn’t call our recycling on campus terrible. They are making an effort toward it, but it could be better,” Stokes said.

Stokes said a $2 student fee increase for recycling wouldn’t be a big deal.

“I would hope people would have a passion for recycling,” Stokes said.

In fall 2010, about 230 resi-dent hall members completed the recycling survey. Almost all of the respondents said they felt recycling on campus was important and three-quarters said they were unhappy with the current system. But despite the displeasure, a little more than half said they would not volunteer to improve recycling on campus.

Forty-nine percent said recycling in residence halls was terrible, and 74 percent said it was due to the lack of bins. But, of those surveyed, 56 percent said they would not volunteer to improve the recycling and 61 percent said they would not attend a short workshop to increase aware-ness of recyclable items.

Nintey percent said recycling is an important part of the cam-pus community and 77 percent reported they weren’t satisfied with the current system.

In the resident halls, 65 percent reported they would support a $2 or less student fee increase to enhance UI’s recycle system.

UISC event planner Adria Mead said improving UI’s cam-pus recycling system is harder than it looks.

“People want more recycling centers around campus but it’s just not that easy,” Mead said.

To expand the compost pro-gram, which is now only in the Commons, Mead said it takes more people than money.

“You need people to set up the program, you need some-one to donate the bins, people to volunteer to sort the trash,” Mead said. “The list goes on.”

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Journalist Steven Smith said he is a caffeine addict.

“As with all addiction, it defies real explanation. You know the taste isn’t great but I love the taste,” said Smith, temporary faculty lecturer of the School of Journalism and Mass Media. “It’s not always the best thing to consume, sometimes you get jit-tery and its keeps you from going to sleep, but its just become so much a part of my daily routine and my life that I can’t imagine being without it. I am an addict.”

Smith said he started drinking coffee as a junior in high school and he probably drinks about three quarts of coffee a day — a consump-tion that has been consistent for the last 30 or 40 years.

“I am a coffee slut,” Smith said. “I like good coffee, so obviously I like a good Starbucks. Some of the smaller local coffee outlets … serve really good coffee, but I’m so addicted that I don’t hesitate to drink bad instant coffee if that’s all that’s available. I often go home and take the coffee that’s left in the pot from the morn-ing and microwave it and re-drink it.”

Smith said he’s been known to drink day old coffee, but only remembers a few times when he’s gone more than two days without making a new pot.

“Part of it is cer-tainly chemical. Caf-feine’s an addiction and I did try to go cold turkey some years back, and so as with all chemi-cal addictions I had serious withdrawal — headaches, a little shaky, I had a hard time sleeping,” Smith said. “I managed about two or three weeks and decided it wasn’t worth the agony.”

Smith said the other part of his addiction is the social aspect, and as a journalist he would meet sources for coffee.

“Part of it, it’s just like a smok-er needs a cigarette in their hands,

I need the cup, it’s almost like a security blanket,” Smith said, hold-ing his almost empty cup. “I will hold it and yield it for, really the rest of the afternoon, until I get it filled up again.”

Smith said if he doesn’t have cof-fee it feels like a form of depression and he is unmotivated. Coffee is his pick-me-up. He starts his caffeine routine with three or four cups in the morning, a 24-ounce travel cup for his car, a 24-ounce cup from the Idaho Commons in the morning and another between 11 a.m. or noon.

“Each of these kind of picks me up from where I’ve fallen and carries for the next couple hours until I get the next cup,” Smith said.

Smith said this is typical for a journalist in the newsroom since coffee is how journalists take a break or interact with others.

“As an editor, the most important decision I ever made in managing my staff was making sure we had good coffee in the newsroom,” Smith said. “It’s like parking on campus — nobody’s ever satisfied with the parking on a university campus (and) in a newsroom, nobody’s ever satis-fied with the quality of coffee that’s

available.” Kimberly Westrick

smiled and sipped on a café mocha blender. She said she isn’t addicted to coffee.

“Lately, like for the past month, I have been having something caffeinated everyday

whether its soda or coffee,” Westrick said. “Well, where I live, it’s a small town so there’s not really coffee shops around

within walking distance where I live, and there are here and they take

flex which is awesome.” Westrick, a freshman in chemis-

try, said her daily caffeine fix gives her more energy.

“I guess it could put me in a bet-ter mood, it just depends on what I’m doing that day,” Westrick said. “Like, if I’m going to class, it’s not go-ing to help at all.”

Westrick said she has something

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photo illustrations by steven devine | rawrCa!eine addiction can be a sneaky thing and many people drink numerous cups of co!ee or tea daily. While not thought of as a drug, a morning cup of co!ee most people must have, can have the same kind of withdrawl a!ects as nicotine and alcohol, and can cause weight loss and high blood pressure.

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We grew up in a coffee culture and we bring it with us.”

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caffeinated to help her stay awake but is careful not to drink before trying to sleep or she’s wired for the night. She said she often doesn’t get coffee alone, but with friends.

“Sometimes it’s like, ‘Woohoo, my friends are going out for coffee,’” Westrick said. “I have a couple of friends who introduced me to Red Star, that’s really good … their coffee’s really good.”

Kellie Gilbert said her body is addicted to caf-feine and coffee is her guilty pleasure — she loves the taste.

“I generally only drink one cup while I’m here at col-lege a day…the volume varies,” Gilbert said. “So

when I’m here I drink less, but when I’m at home I drink more. My mom makes it a lot weaker than they make here so I’m able to get the same effect and able to drink more.”

Gilbert said she will have something caffeinated everyday whether it’s coffee, tea or soda.

“Well, for me it’s kind of easier to wake up if I have

coffee,” Gilbert said. “It’s just easier to go with

coffee, like even if I get the perfect amount

of sleep, I’ll wake up and I’m not tired, I know that I’m probably going to feel tired later if I don’t have coffee. So then I have to have coffee so

I can stay awake.” Gilbert said she notices a differ-

ence in herself and her body feels like it’s missing something if she doesn’t have coffee.

“I think I feel like my brain doesn’t function well,” Gilbert said. “I mean I’m awake and I’m alert, but I might not be able to make coherent sentences without coffee.”

Gilbert, a junior in jour-nalism, said the change in routine from high school to college causes college stu-dents to become dependent on caffeine.

“Your habits change, you stay up a lot later, you get up a lot earlier or it could be a combi-nation of the two,” Gilbert said. “You get less sleep in general so you feel like you have to have that caffeine or some-thing like it to function.”

Smith said he couldn’t have imagined

getting through college without caffeine. “Most college students, in my

experience, both (with) myself and my children, become hooked on it, be-cause it does help you stay alert and awake,” Smith said. “It helps fuel your study session and your all nighters, so

the caffeine becomes part of your college routine and you also become addicted chemically and so it sort of builds on itself.”

Smith said with JAMM faculty, the caffeine addic-tion comes from working in the industry.

“We grew up in a coffee culture and we bring it with us,” Smith said. “The other

thing is…that grading papers is the same as studying for a test, a professor needs a lot of coffee to get through 40 freshmen essays.”

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The only thing worse than watch-ing a stupid YouTube video or reading articles on basement-dweller’s tech blogs is sifting through comments people post online, turning a simple video or article into a war of mis-spelled words and arguments, with as much backbone as a worm.

The idea of websites allowing users to comment on everything from a pair of shoes to a video game is a great idea. In the end, the goal is to get feedback on a product or idea. The problem is that too many comment sections turn into an Internet battlefield where even the best point loses validity.

Due to this explosion of moronic hobby, sites have started to block comments on certain posts or remove the ability to comment altogether. The problem is, most sites thrive due to these comment/review sections. Is there a way to filter out the crap?

Unfortunately the answer is no, leaving it up to the consumer to pos-sibly have to dig through thousands of comments to actually find some valuable nugget.

This is not to say sites should not allow comments. Most news organiza-tions take comments seriously, and prefer feedback from their readers.

Sure, some people or videos deserve all the bad reviews they can get. Look-ing through the comments on the song “Friday,” by Rebecca Black is almost as funny as the video itself, but lines do need to be drawn, and not by individual sites, but the viewers.

As humans, we know the dis-tinct difference between right and wrong, dumb and smart. For some reason, people get a boosted sense of confidence online when they can

give themselves an alias, and that is when stupidity curdles at the top like spoiled cream.

The next time you go to make a comment online, think before you

type. Just because you have a cool screen name and people with the intelligence level of a grape may think you are funny doesn’t mean you should place a rude comment

on somebody’s hard work. Make an intelligent comment and use proper grammar, or don’t comment at all.

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Animation has long been a tool for education. Subject matter can range from his-tory to science, to literature and beyond. One particular short film brings the spirit of Mark Twain to life. It’s called “The Adventures of Mark Twain,” and is filmed entirely

in clay animation.The tale chronicles three of

Twain’s literary figures — Huck-leberry Finn, Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer — as they travel with Twain in an airship through space toward Halley’s Comet. The events carry sym-bolic meaning and provide an overview of Twain’s character and beliefs. The children expe-rience sequences from some of Twain’s stories along the way.

The movie is a fantastic exposure to literature and

ends with a hopeful message. Its treatment of “The Mysteri-ous Stranger” is disturbing, however. A door opens to a black room and a character materializes from the air in front of Finn and his friends. The figure holds a theatrical mask on a stick to represent his face and says he’s an angel. When they ask him his name, he says it is Satan. Like any rational children would, they follow the alleged ruler of all demons to his floating island

in the black void of space. He gives them their favorite fruit to eat. He makes a sand castle appear for them and gives them clay to make “people.” They eagerly get to work and create a small village. Satan gives life to the little clay folk and monologues about the irritating greed of human-ity. He becomes annoyed and squishes a pair of clay men, then conjures a storm and an earthquake to destroy the whole village. When the chil-

dren complain that he killed everybody, Satan responds with gems of existential hope. He tells them nothing exists but the void and humans are just meaningless thoughts in a dream. They make tracks and nearly get knifed by a madman at the next doorway.

Bright colors, bleak phi-losophy and near-death ex-periences are sure to prepare your children for life on the Mars colony.

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Here’s some in your face music to get you through the toughest day. Whether it is a heavy class load, a cheating boy-friend, backstabbing friend or an irritating boss, these tunes will put them in their place, even if you can’t. “What The Hell” — Avril Lavigne

This upbeat, rebellious single on Lavigne’s new CD “Goodbye Lullaby,” is the perfect song for when you’ve had enough of the B.S. “Girl With One Eye” — Florence + The Machine

Indie-rock with the soulful voice of the band’s front woman Florence Welch, puts a new spin on some of the twisted re-venges acted out by girls. “Backstabber” — Ke$ha

Turn the stereo up and dance around your room to this bouncy song covering the dirty subjects of rumors and malice. “Jar of Hearts” — Christina Perri

Perri’s powerful voice combines with dark music to bring up the touchy subject of rude, jerk boyfriends through beauti-ful song. “Cheers (Drink to That)” — Rihanna

Rihanna’s pop song off her newest album “Loud,” will get you pumped up for the upcoming weekend after a hellish work week. “Misery Business” — Paramore

Just because she’s the size zero, Barbie doll clone, doesn’t mean you can’t get what you want. “Misery Business” brags about how good victory feels — especially when well deserved. “Before He Cheats”—Carrie Underwood

So you find out he cheated and you think you’re going to sit at home with a box of tissues and a carton of ice cream? Not when he has a pretty little truck to trash. Well, at least you can sing about it. He’s not worth going to jail. “Call Me When You’re Sober” — Evanescence

Front woman Amy Lee’s powerful voice will send shivers down the spine of any guy who dares to mistreat you. “Lucky Girl” — Kellie Pickler

You’re better off without his cheating butt. Pickler’s coun-try-pop sound will perk up your mood and remind you that you’re the “lucky girl,” not his new fling. “Circle the Drain” — Katy Perry

Call your ex and leave this chorus on his voicemail. Perry’s harsh lyrics will get your message across that he’s an idiot.

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The memories from spring break that come back first are not of time spent laz-ing around. Instead, the best memories are jumping into piles of snow from the hot tub, black snowboard runs that al-most ended with crashing into trees, and sledding down steep slopes in ridiculous St. Patrick’s Day hats.

It is easy to view enlight-enment as a state of being, as a spiritual concept that can-not be obtained. However, it is a simple concept we tend to add our complications,

rules and habits on top of. The concept of enlighten-ment is not an achieve-ment to work toward, it is an understanding there is nothing we have to achieve and nowhere we have to go.

There are little things we can do each day to make us feel more awake. Aside from getting enough sleep, I’m an advocate for cold showers, and doing at least one activity a day outside of your comfort zone. Doing something that ignites a little fear will challenge you, and make you appreciate times of relative comfort.

artists, but also from across the country she said.

Last February, the gallery hosted the Idaho Center for the Book “Booker’s Dozen” exhibit, a juried travelling showcase of artists’ books. The gallery is currently featuring the works of local artists Tom Garfield and Ellen Vieth.

Burns said it’s important for galleries to display artists’ work, and it’s vital for com-munity members to see each other’s pieces.

“Artists are some of the most creative people on Earth,” Burns said, “and it’s fascinating to see what they can create with vari-ous mediums.”

Willy Nussbaum had an exhibit in the Reflections Gallery in the Idaho Commons that ran from mid-November through December of 2010.

“It’s a really accessible place,” he said. “It’s easy for students to interact with art because of its location.”

Nussbaum said the exhibit was a good experience, and the size wasn’t overwhelming, as a full gallery might have been. He said it’s a nice starting gallery for a first-timer to get a feel for technical processes like hanging artwork. The installation of the artwork is significant, he said, because it can effect how the art is perceived.

“A technically proficient gal-lery setup will dictate the flow of an experience and how it’s appreciated,” he said.

Nussbaum is displaying more of his work from 4 to 6 p.m. tonight at the Ridenbaugh Hall Gallery at his senior class thesis exhibition. He said the display is multi-faceted as it explores the interplay between visual and tex-tual representations, meanings and relationships.

Rowley said students should take advantage of any chance to broaden their horizons at UI, whether through the Prichard or events like the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.

“I think it’s important for students to … engage in some of the … opportunities that are (on campus),” Rowley said. “While you’re here, just let yourself be open to the opportunities.”

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