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VOLUME Spring, ISSUE 2 WWW.LAKELANDMIRROR.COM THURSDAY, February 10, 2011 SINCE 1936 The Lakeland College The Mirror is an award winning member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Collegiate Press, Wisconsin Newspaper Association and College Media Advisers. Lakeland theatre group put on "Alice in Americaland." PAGE 3 A & E Isaac Roberson has sights set on national tournament birth. PAGE 11 Issue Highlights Everyone wanted to be at Sunday's Super Bowl, but one Wisconsin fan deserved to be there. PAGE 5 Features INDEX OPINIONS FEATURES A & E STUDENT LIFE FUN HOUSE SPORTS Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 7 Page 9 Page 10 Sports Lakeland fixes wastewater problems Disposable plates, cups, and silverware were a temporary solution BY BRITTNEY SANDBERG Editor-in-Chief [email protected] W ho knew that a simple change in dish deter- gent could set off an investigation into all of the po- tentially hazardous materials on campus? During the last several months, Lakeland’s wastewater treatment plant went through a period of toxic shock. A new chemical had been introduced that was killing off bacteria which help process the sludge before the efflu- ent (waste matter) is discharged into the Sheboygan River. If such a situation is left unchecked, it can become a public health issue. Tony Fessler, general counsel for the college, was not about to let that happen. In fact, a whole team of people were working to- gether to identify the cause and fix the problem. Bruce Neerhof, who is respon- sible for the Village of Kohler’s wastewater treatment plant, is Lakeland’s wastewater treatment plant consultant. Fessler said Neerhof contacted him in early January to express concern about Storm forces cancellations on Feb. 2 Many Lakeland students spend Groundhog's Day outdoors BY DANNY SPATCHEK Managing Editor [email protected] T he storm that pummeled the Midwest with record- nearing amounts of snow- fall dropped over nine inches of snow in Sheboygan County Feb. 1 and 2 and gave Lakeland students Groundhog’s Day off. But not all of them spent it inside. A group of freshmen met near Grosshuesch Hall for a snowball fight planned on Facebook. “It’s fun. It’s just something to do on the day off,” freshman Lisa Franzen said. “This all happened because we had no class today and we’re bored,” freshman Jacob Steppe said before tackling a friend on a snow pile. Freshman Ashelie Lunde walked with her mom, House- keeping Staff Member, Paula Wilkinson, on her round through Krueger Hall. Lunde said her dad went into the ditch Wednesday morning after trying to evade a drift in the middle of the road, and Wilkinson said she was thank- ful to live close enough to walk to work from her house on Prof. Drive. “When I was walking over I said, ‘Dude, where’s my car?’ It was completely buried in snow this morning,” Wilkinson said. Senior Amanda Wilfert and her boyfriend, senior Clayton Sattler, snowshoed in Grether Woods, watched movies, and did homework on their day off. While brushing snow off Wilfert’s vehicle, they offered their opinions on the snow. “I love snow,” Sattler said. “I like snow- shoeing—but I hate the cold,” Wilfert said. Junior educa- tion students Ad- ams Disi and Vin- cent Paseli snapped pictures of each other standing in front of snow mounds by the Wehr Center for their friends and family in Malawi, where at the lowest temperatures drop to about 50 degrees. “When they see the pictures, they’ll be amazed,” Disi said. “’What if you don’t have heaters, are you dead?’” he asked sarcasti- cally. “The storm yesterday worked to my advantage because we had no classes. I’m hoping for another snowstorm,” said Disi. Paseli seconded Disi’s light- hearted anti-academic sentiments. “Snowstorms on the weekend do no good because on the weekend there’s no class. I like it when it storms during the week. It works!” Paseli said. Another education student from Malawi, senior Frackson Liteleko, said the cold weather doesn’t bother him anymore after experiencing five Wisconsin win- ters at Lakeland. “My first year [experiencing the] cold was bad, but now I’m comfortable in the cold weather and can go outside with only a sweatshirt on,” he said, but added that he spent the day off working on papers. SEE WATER/PAGE 2 BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected] test data from the effluent being processed out of Lakeland’s plant. The data indicated that the bacteria were dying off and the function of the plant was degrad- ing,” said Fessler. “We reported that to the DNR, so they had their laboratory facilities in Madison looking at it. We were also work- ing with an independent group of water treatment plant operators. We were utilizing all of that ex- pertise to understand the prob- lem.” The heads of facilities, house- keeping, grounds, and dining ser- vices, Chemical Hygiene Officer Greg Bierman, Neerhof, and Fessler met to evaluate all of the possible causes. “We were looking for something that had changed in re- cent months because that is when the problem started,” said Fessler. In addition to the aforementioned departments, the science and art divisions were asked to look for changes in their curriculum which might have caused this change in the bacteria’s effectivness The big change that was dis- covered was a switch in vendors in dining services during October. The new vendor marketed U.S. Chemical products for use in the college’s dishwasher, while the old vendor marketed Ecolab prod- ucts for the dishwasher. Every potentially hazardous material that is used on campus— cleaning products, chemicals in the science labs, supplies in the art department—has what is called a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Fessler said, “The manu- facturers must produce these and give them to us, and we are re- quired by the DNR and the EPA to keep them on record here. “We looked at the MSDS sheets of the U.S. Chemical mate- rials, and we compared them with MSDS sheets we had on the Eco- lab materials,” continued Fessler. “We did find some chemicals that we thought would explain the toxic shock that was going on in the plant.” The U.S. Chemical products contained a larger amount of sur- factants. Dictionary.com states surfactants “help remove organic compounds [food particles] from substances [dishes] by making BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected] Betty Hirte, dishroom supervisor, refills the Ecolab rinse agent on the dishwasher. Switching back to Ecolab products in dishroom solved the problem that the college was having with its wastewater. Above: Drifting snow has buried Paula Wilkinson's car on Prof. Drive. Lower left: Kim DeJong makes an impromptu snow angel on her way to a snowball fight. BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected]

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VOLUME Spring, ISSUE 2 WWW.LAKELANDMIRROR.COM THURSDAY, February 10, 2011

SINCE 1936

The Lakeland College

The Mirror is an award winning member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated

Collegiate Press, Wisconsin Newspaper Association and

College Media Advisers.

Lakeland theatre group put on "Alice in Americaland."

PAGE 3

A & E

Isaac Roberson has sights set on national tournament birth.

PAGE 11

Issue Highlights

Everyone wanted to be at Sunday's Super Bowl, but one Wisconsin fan deserved to be there.

PAGE 5

Features

IndexOpInIOns

Features

a & e

student LIFe

Fun HOuse

spOrts

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 7

page 9

page 10

Sports

Lakeland fixes wastewater problemsDisposable plates, cups, and silverware were a temporary solutionBy Brittney [email protected]

Who knew that a simple change in dish deter-gent could set off an

investigation into all of the po-tentially hazardous materials on campus?

During the last several months, Lakeland’s wastewater treatment plant went through a period of toxic shock. A new chemical had been introduced that was killing off bacteria which help process the sludge before the efflu-ent (waste matter) is discharged into the Sheboygan River. If such a situation is left unchecked, it can become a public health issue.

Tony Fessler, general counsel for the college, was not about to let that happen. In fact, a whole team of people were working to-gether to identify the cause and fix the problem.

Bruce Neerhof, who is respon-sible for the Village of Kohler’s wastewater treatment plant, is Lakeland’s wastewater treatment plant consultant. Fessler said Neerhof contacted him in early January to express concern about

Storm forces cancellations on Feb. 2Many Lakeland students spend Groundhog's Day outdoorsBy danny SpatchekManaging [email protected]

The storm that pummeled the Midwest with record-nearing amounts of snow-

fall dropped over nine inches of snow in Sheboygan County Feb. 1 and 2 and gave Lakeland students Groundhog’s Day off.

But not all of them spent it inside.

A group of freshmen met near Grosshuesch Hall for a snowball fight planned on Facebook.

“It’s fun. It’s just something to do on the day off,” freshman Lisa Franzen said.

“This all happened because we had no class today and we’re bored,” freshman Jacob Steppe said before tackling a friend on a

snow pile.Freshman Ashelie Lunde

walked with her mom, House-keeping Staff Member, Paula Wilkinson, on her round through Krueger Hall. Lunde said her dad went into the ditch Wednesday morning after trying to evade a drift in the middle of the road, and Wilkinson said she was thank-ful to live close enough to walk to work from her house on Prof. Drive.

“When I was walking over I said, ‘Dude, where’s my car?’ It was completely buried in snow this morning,” Wilkinson said.

Senior Amanda Wilfert and her boyfriend, senior Clayton Sattler, snowshoed in Grether Woods, watched movies, and did homework on their day off. While

brushing snow off Wilfert’s vehicle, they offered their opinions on the snow.

“I love snow,” Sattler said.

“I like snow-shoeing—but I hate the cold,” Wilfert said.

Junior educa-tion students Ad-ams Disi and Vin-cent Paseli snapped pictures of each

other standing in front of snow mounds by the Wehr Center for their friends and family in Malawi, where at the lowest temperatures drop to about 50 degrees.

“When they see the pictures, they’ll be amazed,” Disi said. “’What if you don’t have heaters, are you dead?’” he asked sarcasti-cally.

“The storm yesterday worked to my advantage because we had no classes. I’m hoping for another snowstorm,” said Disi.

Paseli seconded Disi’s light-hearted anti-academic sentiments. “Snowstorms on the weekend do

no good because on the weekend there’s no class. I like it when it storms during the week. It works!” Paseli said.

Another education student from Malawi, senior Frackson Liteleko, said the cold weather doesn’t bother him anymore after experiencing five Wisconsin win-ters at Lakeland.

“My first year [experiencing the] cold was bad, but now I’m comfortable in the cold weather and can go outside with only a sweatshirt on,” he said, but added that he spent the day off working on papers.

SEE WATER/PAGE 2

BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected]

test data from the effluent being processed out of Lakeland’s plant.

The data indicated that the bacteria were dying off and the function of the plant was degrad-ing,” said Fessler. “We reported that to the DNR, so they had their laboratory facilities in Madison looking at it. We were also work-ing with an independent group of water treatment plant operators. We were utilizing all of that ex-pertise to understand the prob-lem.”

The heads of facilities, house-keeping, grounds, and dining ser-vices, Chemical Hygiene Officer Greg Bierman, Neerhof, and Fessler met to evaluate all of the possible causes. “We were looking for something that had changed in re-cent months because that is when the problem started,” said Fessler. In addition to the aforementioned departments, the science and art divisions were asked to look for changes in their curriculum which might have caused this change in the bacteria’s effectivness

The big change that was dis-covered was a switch in vendors in dining services during October. The new vendor marketed U.S. Chemical products for use in the

college’s dishwasher, while the old vendor marketed Ecolab prod-ucts for the dishwasher.

Every potentially hazardous material that is used on campus—cleaning products, chemicals in the science labs, supplies in the art department—has what is called a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Fessler said, “The manu-facturers must produce these and give them to us, and we are re-quired by the DNR and the EPA to keep them on record here.

“We looked at the MSDS

sheets of the U.S. Chemical mate-rials, and we compared them with MSDS sheets we had on the Eco-lab materials,” continued Fessler. “We did find some chemicals that we thought would explain the toxic shock that was going on in the plant.”

The U.S. Chemical products contained a larger amount of sur-factants. Dictionary.com states surfactants “help remove organic compounds [food particles] from substances [dishes] by making

BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected]

Betty Hirte, dishroom supervisor, refills the Ecolab rinse agent on the dishwasher. Switching back to Ecolab products in dishroom solved the problem that the college was having with its wastewater.

Above: Drifting snow has buried Paula Wilkinson's car on Prof. Drive. Lower left: Kim DeJong makes an impromptu snow angel on her way to a snowball fight.

BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected]

STAFFLIST

Brittney SandbergEditor-in-Chief

Danny SpatchekManaging Editor

Michael KnaakCopy Editor

Nicole GeurtsFeatures Editor

Jenni HeinrichFun House Editor

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Advertising Manager

Amanda ConroyChristine Deitte

Amanda DillmanAl Fairchild

Josh GraminskeTerceira Molnar

Abigail OrtegaDanielle Rammer

Justin RukaJuleya TuckerJulia Williams

Hyun Dong YeoStaff Reporters

Brittney SandbergDanny SpatchekMichael KnaakJenni HeinrichNicole Geurts

Layout Staff

Martha SchottFaculty Advisor

The Lakeland College Mirror is printed by Port Publications Inc.

The Mirror is published every two weeks during the first and second semesters while classes are in ses-sion and is distributed free of charge to students, faculty, and staff on the Lakeland College campus.

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LC hosts middle/high school science fair By Julia WilliamsStaff [email protected]

Lakeland held its annual Lakeland College Science and Engineering Fair for high

school and middle school students Feb. 5 in the Chase building.

Alli Gephart won the grand prize along with an all expenses paid trip to the Intel Internation-al Science and Engineering Fair which will be held from May 8 to 13 in Los Angeles. Her winning project monitored seichs and cur-rents in Lake Michigan.

Students fielded questions that judges asked about their exhibits, participated in fun ac-tivities like making ice cream, and spent the time they were not working on their projects to joke around with each other and have a good time. There was a strong sense of friendship between the kids of both schools. The students were all very happy to talk about what a good time they had at the fair.

One judge, Assistant Pro-fessor of Exercise Science, Kelly Quick, said, “The whole point of

this is to make it fun. If they have fun, they'll keep making science.”

Despite the fun and mellow atmosphere, a lot of hard work went on behind the scenes in or-der to make these experiments. Before meeting the kids, the judg-es read over experiment abstracts, and thought of questions to ask students to help fill in the blanks

of information.Judges then talked with every

student, marking down how close he or she followed the scientific method, measured and interpreted their data, and judged their pro-fessionalism in answering those questions. Quick enjoyed the stu-dents’ enthusiasm, and made sure to ask questions relating to their

project that were not directly re-quired for students to know the answers to.

“If they can answer a question they hadn't thought of, then that means they understand,” Quick said.

Even though there were posi-tive responses in the students that came, Jeff Schwehm, assistant professor of biochemistry and di-rector of the Lakeland science fair, said it is hard to get students to attend.

“It’s a scheduling thing. There are just so many things [going on]. It sometimes gets forgotten.”

This was echoed by two high school students, Justin Jagodin-ski and Tom Jessesskey, who said that last year they were unable to attend because the science fair conflicted with Solo and Ensem-ble, despite the fact they enjoyed working on their project a lot.

Schwehm said that to get more kids to come, there needs to be a strong tradition of science fairs which Wisconsin does not have. Even so, Schwehm is trying hard to build one, as this is the fourth science fair that Lakeland has held.

Aviation minor to commence next fallBy amanda dillmanStaff [email protected]

Lakeland’s new aviation mi-nor is ready for takeoff this coming fall. An information

session entitled “Let your Dreams FLY with Lakeland” will be held on Feb. 15 in Laun 109.

Kathleen Rath Marr, natural sciences division chair, and Joe Saunders, director of operations at Frontline Aviation, will present a short overview of the program and will be available to answer any questions about the program.

The main flight training will take place at the Sheboygan County Airport, which is only six miles from the Lakeland College campus. It will be taught by high-ly skilled instructors who have a great deal of experience in both private and commercial settings.

Students will begin their training in the Sheboygan air-space, where not a substantial amount of plane traffic occurs. As the students advance, they will move north and south of Sheboy-

gan into the somewhat busier class “C” airspaces of Green Bay and Milwaukee. As they progress further, they will then be able to fly into the much busier class “B” airspace of Chicago.

According to Marr, who is in the process of completing her aviation certificates herself, She-boygan is the optimal place to learn how to fly an airplane. The variety of weather throughout the year allows students to learn how to fly in unpredictable conditions and provides a training environ-ment that is preferred by airline and charter companies.

Marr worked with the Front-line Aviation and Advisory Board, Lakeland’s Vice Presidents of Development, and the Federal Aviation Administration to do the marketing research and develop the program. She wrote the curric-ulum, the syllabi, the assessment plan, and the minor’s proposal.

After all of the documents were approved by the Major Mi-nor Committee, the Curriculum Committee, the Assessment Com-

mittee, and the Academic Council, everything went to a full faculty vote and it was approved.

The 31 credit program is set up to take four years, but it can be completed in two years if the stu-dent desires by putting in some flying time over summer. It meets all FAA requirements, so upon graduation students will be able to receive employment in the com-mercial aviation industry.

Students who complete the program will receive their private pilot certificate, instrument rat-ings certificates, and their com-mercial and multi-engine cer-tificates. If they participate in an internship, they can also receive their Certified Flight Instructor Certificate.

On top of tuition costs, stu-dents will need to pay for “lab fees” for the flight lessons that they are required to take. The lessons cost $104 per hour and to receive the license, students need to take a minimum of 40 hours. This comes out to a little over $4,000 per cer-tificate. If students would like to

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From left: Jeff Schwehm, Musko, and Alli Gephart pose for a picture at the Lakeland Science Fair

them dissolve more readily in the water in which the substance is washed.”

Fessler said, “The problem with surfactants is that they seemed to be having the effect of attaching to and coating the bac-teria in the plant, and as a result of that, the bacteria were not able to breath and were not able to at-tack the sludge.” Surfactants were filtering through the water treat-ment plant long before the college started using U.S. Chemical prod-ucts since most shampoos, deter-gents, and a lot of other cleaning materials contain surfactants; the quantity in which they were now being introduced was the cause of the problem explained Fessler.

“I made the decision to shut down all U.S. Chemical com-

pounds to get them out of the system, said Fessler. “We were, at that point, clearly in violation of our license with the state in terms of effluent being discharged from the plant. The DNR knew it; we knew it. But the DNR also knew we were working very hard on it; they said, ‘Just stay with it, and get this plant regenerating the way it should be.’”

The first change that occurred on campus once the use of U.S. Chemical products was stopped was the temporary switch to pa-per plates and plastic silverware in the dining hall. Dining services had to minimize the number of dirty dishes because, as Fessler stated, “There was no replacement detergent ready to go from Eco-lab, but we just couldn’t wait any longer. It [using paper plates] is

receive certification in multi-en-gine, the price per hour would be a little higher.

Marr said that they are work-ing on scholarship opportunities for students enrolled in the avia-tion program. There will also be potential grant and financial aid opportunities.

When asked if she thought the minor would eventually be-come a major, Marr said, “[It is] not likely in the near future. We started it as a minor as we need to be prudent with respect to the level we can take things. The value of having it as a minor allows the student to major in something else as the airlines and corporations state they want a four-year degree with a liberal arts type major.”

The new aviation minor will be the first four-year liberal arts aviation program in Wisconsin. The only other schools that offer it in Wisconsin are technical col-leges.

For more information about the aviation minor, contact Marr at [email protected].

WATER FROM PAGE 1

The winner of the event is set to compete in Los Angeles this May

Informational meeting scheduled for next week

not very environmentally friendly either because it creates a landfill problem, so Ecolab was told to get their material back in as quickly as they could.”

The second change that oc-curred once the U.S. Chemical products had been removed was more important, but most people on campus probably didn’t even realize it happened. Fessler said that the bacteria in the plant started to show signs of improve-ment about one week after dining services stopped the U.S. Chemi-cal products.

The plant’s data readings over the past few weeks have been in-creasingly positive according to Fessler. “The bacteria are regen-erating,” he said. “In order to ac-celerate that process, we actually introduced sludge from Howards

Grove into our plant.”On Feb. 9, a team from the

DNR visited Lakeland to meet with Fessler and the others who help run and evaluate the waste-water treatment plant. “They asked to come in, and we wanted to meet with them,” said Fessler. “We want to do this right; we want to be good citizens. Lakeland prides itself with being a good cit-izen which means we have to be environmentally conscious, as we have been in this situation.”

He said that Lakeland may eventually try to introduce dif-ferent product lines from U.S. Chemical on a measured basis, but the college will wait at least six months to do so because they want to be sure that a situation similar to the one that just trans-pired doesn’t occur again.

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Issue 2, February 10, 2011

EDITORIALSThe Mirror’s staff editorial topics are agreed upon by the entire staff. The editorial board collaborates ideas and writes the editorials.

All individual columns, cartoons, and letters are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of the editorial board, The Mirror, or Lakeland’s adminis-tration, faculty, or student body.

LETTER POLICYLakeland’s students, faculty, and staff are welcomed to write letters to the editor to express their opin-ions on public issues or in response to articles printed in The Mirror.

Letters should be typed and limited to 700 words. Letters will be signed by the author. Names will not be withheld unless circumstances or issues of safety demand it.

The Mirror reserves the right to edit all submissions for length and to format them according to As-sociated Press style. Expletives will be deleted.

Submissions will be printed as space allows. They may be held for publication at a later date.

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Learning civility through the liberal artsLakeland students have a unique opportunity to shape societyBy Al FAirchildStaff [email protected]

The words “civility” and “in-civility” have been bandied about in the media a great

deal since the shootings in Tuc-son. Maybe too much. Overuse could render them ineffective.

That would be a shame.Civility is a worthwhile con-

cept and should not be ignored simply because opinionated peo-ple try to turn it into a political football. We need, it seems, to get our terms straight and then use them correctly to effect useful change in our interactions with each other.

Incivility, while not a good thing, probably falls short of mur-der and mayhem. I’d say it’s more a matter of discourteousness and rudeness.

Outrage, on the other hand, is something else.

For years, I’ve listened as political pundits like Rush Lim-baugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity have—like drug pushers hawking pills in a schoolyard—

peddled outrage to a public that increasingly sees issues in limited, black-and-white terms.

I’ve watched as that outrage was intensified by labeling those who disagreed as “communists, traitors and Nazis,” then I’ve seen ambitious politicians like Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle try to cash in on the outrage by placing pictures of gun sights over images representing their opponents and suggesting “Second-Amendment remedies” to deal with them.

Such actions can escalate from outrage to hatred—then from hatred to something much more serious; unforeseen actions by others, some of whom the orig-inal outrage-mongers might not even have been addressing.

The bottom line is this: De-monizing people can beget hatred and tragedy. Claiming that the peddling of outrage doesn’t lead to violence by stirring up hatred is just plain ludicrous—or maybe naïve.

Civility, by definition, con-cerns our interactions with one another, and its practice begins

with a basic concept: Empathy. We can’t ignore the feelings of others and still call ourselves “civ-il.” Those who spend their lives wondering only, “What’s in it for me?” become shallow and two-di-mensional, regarding life in terms of their own narrow opinions concerning earning power and personal taxes while conveniently forgetting the effects those priori-ties might have on others.

So what does this all have to do with Lakeland College?

Institutions like Lakeland—liberal arts schools—teach us more than to simply perform tasks and make money. While such things are valuable, and preparation to enter the job market is indeed an important part of the institution’s mission, the school offers more eclectic areas of study too, like re-ligious and societal studies, social-science programs and interdisci-plinary courses.

As civility in our society de-clines, such skills seem to be in-creasingly regarded as useless endeavors that waste potentially profitable time. Much of the cur-

rent rhetoric seems to be aimed at labeling those who value other peoples’ points of view as “elitists” or “politically correct.”

But there’s value in under-standing others and their perspec-tives. The Core series of classes, especially, encourages us to un-derstand ourselves, then apply that understanding to our social interactions.

The required fine-arts and lecture convocations push us fur-ther to expand our appreciation of societal ideas we may not under-stand, or might not even have been exposed to before. Great literature describes examples of civility and incivility, the latter being lessons we might not wish to learn first-hand.

As students at Lakeland Col-lege—a school that ranks high in both the diversity of its people and the variety of its academic of-ferings—we have the opportunity during this short period of our lives to assimilate—and ultimate-ly implement—the foundational values of a truly civil society.

That can’t be all bad.

I am a senior here at Lake-land and have worked for the grounds department for three

years. Every year I have partaken in the cleanup of campus during the winter months and I believe the article was very unfair and writ-ten without a clear understanding for what it takes to maintain the Lakeland College campus.

Lakeland College has two-and-a-half miles of sidewalks, and over ten acres of roads and parking located on campus. Please keep in mind that there are three full-time grounds crew employees and for those three to keep up with cam-pus is extremely overwhelming. The only help they receive is from a few student workers that are called in to assist in the removal. The help is very limited and when the snow falls are heavy, it requires even more time for us to clean up. As a rule of thumb, four inches of snow requires at least six hours of removal time to clean up the entire campus providing no extra winds or snow persist after original clean up. It is a major task just to keep up with the campus and adding more staff would only increase our tuition.

Lakeland is located in Wis-consin, where the winters can be pretty treacherous and over-whelming. Just because the school has a grounds department, doesn’t mean that the school is exempt

It is clear from the article that those who are frustrated with the snow removal on campus

have rarely been anywhere else. In large cities, such as Milwaukee, the roads may be plowed hours if not days after the snow storm. If a car in one of these cities is left on the side of the road, it will be plowed in or towed.

The Lakeland students that get plowed in may call for a shovel and assistance from Campus Se-curity, not the case if he/she lived off campus in the real world. I have been to other campuses and these are by far the best walking and driving conditions that I have found.

The sidewalks on campus are plowed and salted as best as the weather may allow. Many of the students on this campus also don’t understand what proper winter footwear is. Winter boots DO NOT include a two-to three-inch heel. Ballet flats and sandals of any kind are also not appropriate footwear for walking on sidewalks in the winter. Even when wearing proper clothing for the weather, it is important to remember that walking in snow is much like driving in the snow, it takes more time to get from point A to point B, leave earlier and move slow.

I feel it is also important to note that the groundskeeping staff of Lakeland College is down two

from bad sidewalk and road con-ditions. Like many people joke, we are basically located in a corn-field, meaning there is little cover to protect us from the elements. In the past few weeks, sidewalks have been blown shut after a half hour from being cleared.

The school spends $9,000 annually on salt, rock salt for the roads and a blend for the side-walks. The road salt will melt at 16 F and above, while the sidewalk salt allows for melting at a tem-perature above minus 15 F. We do our best to get everything salted as soon as possible, but until most of the snow can be removed, it would just be a waste of tuition money to salt early into clean up. All side-walks are plowed beginning at 5 a.m. at the latest, after a snowfall and are continued until the work is done to ensure that walkways are cleared by the 8 a.m. classes.

With the unpredictable Wis-consin weather changing continu-ally, there is no reason everyone shouldn’t be prepared for all con-ditions. To maintain the grounds properly we need everyone’s co-operation when it comes to mov-ing vehicles when requested. This would eliminate plowing twice and thus eliminating the “horror stories.”

In all seriousness, there should be no reason why any stu-dent should complain for the ef-forts which we put forth.

From ryAn lAwrence

Responses to “Roads and sidewalks frustrate some at Lakeland” from the Jan. 27 issueFrom A memBer oF housekeeping full-time employees, so the three

full-time guys and student work-ers start early, sometimes 2 a.m., and work extremely long days. These workers are overworked and underpaid and only allowed a certain number of hours to do their work, especially since the cut backs made on campus for the recession. I find it disgusting that this article was allowed to run without any call being made to the head of grounds.

I also find it hilarious that people on campus are frustrated with the amazing job these guys do, because the people who are frustrated are also the last ones to ever even think about picking up a shovel and attempting to help. This article would have been bet-ter if some ideas for change would

have been made. If students feel the sidewalks are too dangerous, maybe some student organiza-tions should “Adopt-a-sidewalk” during the winter months to help out during snow storms. A sug-gestion also could have been made to put into effect some sort of parking and moving cars plan, but this article’s main purpose was to whine, not to come up with a way to fix anything.

Maybe this letter will shed some light on difficulties the grounds staff has to deal with and maybe, just maybe some of the stu-dents on this campus will actually volunteer to help.

I want to thank the grounds staff for the excellent job they do when the odds are so stacked against them.

At 5:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, many cars are still in the Brotz/Suites parking lot despite the notices which were posted asking all cars be moved to the Chapel lot by 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. Photo provided by Ryan Lawrence.

LETTERS to the EDITOR

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Issue 2, February 10, 2011Features

Lakeland College is steeped in history. With the col-lege’s sesquicentennial fast

approaching, now is a better time than ever to dive into Lakeland’s cradled past.

What may surprise you, how-ever, is just how truly unique—and at times peculiar—the history of this college can be. Lakeland holds many secrets and legends, and if you dig deep enough, facts may reveal themselves from with-in the depths of mystery.

Please journey with us now into the weird, odd, and some-what bizarre domain that is Lake-land College. In the process, you too may walk into a realm that seems to border reality—a realm that, with some imagination, may resemble Lakeland’s very own epi-sode of “The Twilight Zone.”

“The Steve Barton Story” oc-curred over the span of a few years

Will the real Stephen Barton please step forwardOne stolen identity plus several jobs as a college professor equals six months in prisonBy Justin RukaStaff [email protected]

in the mid 1980s, culminating in the year 1985 with the arrest of Lakeland Accounting and Com-puter Science Teacher, Mr. Wil-liam Andrews-Schein.

The story, and what turned out to be the fiasco that was “Steve Barton,” is still in the minds of some Lakeland employees. Dr. Lucretia Crawford, an associate professor of English, stated that the story is still a bit embarrassing to the college.

“[Barton] didn’t like to have his picture taken. When photog-raphers were taking pictures at graduation, he would duck away, and he didn’t want to be in the line where they [took] pictures of professors. I remember that we all just thought he was camera shy,” stated Crawford.

Everything seemed to change, however, when something out of the ordinary took place. Crawford remembers, “A transfer student said, ‘You know what, I’ve seen this guy before. I think I know

this guy, and he wasn’t Steve Bar-ton when I knew him at the other university.’”

Sure enough, something was wrong. Steve Barton was not who he claimed to be. But who was this mysterious man, and why was he teaching here at Lakeland?

According to the Jan. 18, 1986 issue of The Sheboygan Press, “Barton, previously known as William Andrews, used the iden-tity of an actual Stephen Marshall Barton of Meriden, Conn., over a period of about ten years to obtain employment in a number of small colleges throughout the country.” One of the other colleges he taught at was UW-Eau Clair.

Another She-boygan Press article stated that he taught accounting and com-puter courses at Lake-land from Feb. 4, 1984 until Jan. 16, 1985.

Finally caught in 1985, An-drews was arrested by the FBI on charges of sending fraudulent ma-terials (his résumé and stolen cre-dentials) through the mail.

But why wasn’t he caught sooner? Wouldn’t his teaching skills have given away the fact that he was not who he claimed to be?

Oddly enough, Andrews seemed to perform his job fairly well in the classroom. Former Lakeland College President, Rich-ard Hill, was quoted in the afore-mentioned Jan. 18 issue of the Sheboygan Press as saying, “Our

position is that he has not de-frauded us, he has misled us. Had he been a poor teacher, had he failed to successfully teach what we had hired him to teach, then we would feel otherwise.”

In the end, however, Andrews was sentenced to a six month term in prison—thus concluding this intriguing story.

If you would like to learn more about William Andrews, aka Steve Barton, you can visit the John Esch Library. There you can access a folder dedicated specifi-cally to this episode.

The underground secrets of Lakeland’s campusSeparate the myths from the reality in the history of the old steam tunnelsBy amanda ConRoyStaff [email protected]

A cow in Old Main? Chick-ens in classrooms? Most colleges have pranks like

these at some point or another, but few have the history that Lake-land College does. Under our main campus is a set of creepy dark tun-nels that are just waiting to scare the pants off of anyone who dares enter them.

Alright, that may be a bit too dramatic; but Lakeland’s tunnels do exist. Steam was used to gen-erate heat in the oldest buildings on campus—WAK, Krueger Hall,

Esch Library, and Old Main—via the tunnels. A large boiler was used to generate the steam to be pushed throughout the tunnel system.

Students (and some adven-turous faculty members) have ventured into the tunnels. Lucre-tia Crawford, associate professor of English, says, “There’s history of students being officially al-lowed into the tunnels. And then of course there’s all that unofficial history.”

Crawford goes on to say that in the 1950s and early 1960s the tunnels would be opened up for severe weather, as the cafeteria

was on the bottom floor of WAK. Students would be let into the tunnel via a door in the basement of Krueger Hall.

She says, “It’s just pretty ugly. It’s all tile because it’s so wet down there. I don’t know what color it is now; it used to be this awful yel-low color.”

Crawford also told a story of the old boiler that heated the tunnels. At one point in time, the school thought it would relocate its campus closer to Sheboygan, so the boiler was not going to be replaced. This meant that the boiler was in very bad shape, and someone had to keep watch over

it around the clock.At the time, the fraternities on

campus volunteered to watch over the old boiler until it was replaced or the college was relocated. The frat boys helped give the tunnels a reputation as something of a party place.

There are many rumors circu-lating about tragedies and horrors having taken place in the tunnels, but as far as Crawford knows, none of these are true.

“Aside from the partying, there are no stories that I know of. It’s not like any student got murdered down there. If you hear those stories, just let that go.”

Urpanil tells how she admires her grandfather’s dedication to the gameBy danny spatChekManaging [email protected]

When Bob Cook, Wis-consin’s representa-tive in the “Never

Miss a Super Bowl Club,” was asked last year when he thought the Packers would make it to a Super Bowl with him, he said, “Next year. I guarantee it.”

Three days before the kick-off of the Steelers vs. Packers in Super Bowl XLV, Cook had to admit he’d been wrong.

Cook, the 79-year-old Brown Deer, Wis. native, took ill last Thursday morning and watched the game from a hospital bed, not only breaking the guarantee he’d made the year before but also his perfect attendance streak at Su-per Bowls.

Cook’s granddaughter, Lake-land freshman Mali Urpanil, said he has been in and out of hos-

These may be the only photos taken of “Steve Barton” while he worked at Lakeland. They were printed with the accompanying paragraph in the 1985 Spectrum.

Student’s grandfather misses the Super Bowlpitals lately with heart and lung problems.

“He’s just really falling apart,” Urpanil said. “They were all about to leave for the airport and he just couldn’t go. He’s just really ill and has a lot wrong with him that they can’t do very much with anymore.”

Cook’s wife, Sarah, told the Associated Press before the game that being bedridden for a Super Bowl featuring the Packers was particularly depressing for her husband.

“To have the Packers go to the Super Bowl, we were just over the moon about it,” she said.

But some who heard a mem-ber of the “NMSBC” would miss the game thought it was good for him to come down to earth.

When ESPN.com posted a story Saturday on Cook’s hospi-talization, many readers com-mented scathingly, posting ex-

pletive-laced rants about how spoiled the members of the club must be.

Urpanil said she knows dif-ferently.

“On the websites people would say, ‘Oh, he’s just some rich guy who goes to every Super Bowl and they need to let some-one else go.’ He’s not this huge rich guy because if he was he wouldn’t live in the normal town that I live in,” she said.

In fact, no one in the club made it to games because he was a “huge rich guy.” A recent ESPN.com article paints pictures of men scrambling into stadiums fresh out of jail, hospital beds, or near-crashes in friends’ airplanes: they’re antitheses of the corpo-rate types sipping champagne in a skybox.

Sarah Cook recalled a Su-per Bowl her husband nearly missed in Pasadena, Cali. They

“It was creepy, but also ad-venturous,” Crawford says of her adventures in the tunnels.

One student in particular, who wishes to remain anony-mous, says, “They aren’t fun. They are creepy and weird—and kind of stinky. I like the fact that I think I’m one of the few that have been in there recently, but I don’t think I’ll be going back any time soon.”

As far as the tunnels being opened for regular use in the near future, it doesn’t seem likely that a reopening is going to happen. So, it seems Lakeland’s tunnels will have to remain a mystery to most for now.

were outside the stadium forty minutes before kickoff and still didn’t have tickets.

“A scalper said, ‘I have a ticket but you have to follow me to the parking lot. We were afraid but we went with him and he said. ‘As much money as you have in your pocket, that’s what I want.’ Bob had $900 in his pock-et and that’s how much he gave him,” she said.

But even though Cook’s per-sistence in situations like the one in Pasadena led to his fame, Ur-panil said supporting the Packers is his true passion.

“He taught us the ‘Packer Fight Song.’ Literally, once we were all able to talk, we were not exactly forced to sing the ‘Packer Fight Song,’ but every touch-down and every win the Packers had we’d have Packer parties and we’d sing it,” Urpanil said.

Urpanil said she admires

her grandpa’s dedication to the game.

“Now, knowing that it’s such a big deal, it’s really cool to say that my blood, my family, has been to every Super Bowl,” she said. “I’m proud of him that he could do that and that he’s fought it out so many times.”

And not everyone who read about Cook’s hospitalization re-sponded with such bitterness. Scattered throughout the com-ments are calls for the Packers to bring the Lombardi Trophy to Cook’s hospital.

One reader, ‘The-Triple-R,’ commented, “After the game, it is my desire that BOTH teams come to visit you…You are such a devoted and loyal fan of the Super Bowl, they should show their appreciation to you by do-ing this.”

You have to admit, it would be right.

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“No Strings Attached” is a movie that questions whether a strictly

sexual relationship can work. The movie’s star couple of Emma (Nat-alie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher) first met when they were six, and meet again when they’re in their 20s and become “friends with benefits.”

He is a movie producer and she is a medical student. Adam has a girlfriend, while Emma is fo-cused on school.

Adam’s girlfriend breaks up with him and begins dating his fa-ther, leading him to start drinking

as a way to cope. This eventually lands him in Emma’s apartment, naked. Emma then has sober sex with Adam, leading the two of them to want sex at times under the premise that there will be “no strings attached.”

The movie unravels with great acts of affection which leave the viewer expecting nothing less than love to result. If not, the mov-ie would seem immoral.

In the end, love conquers all; the inevitable strings are what hold it all together.

Portman has an edge and ad-mirable ability for sexual romping. About Kutcher, it can only be said that his character is easy to fall in love with. As easy as he is on the eyes, it almost made him seem like

Friends with benefits? Try benefits in friendshipLoving the benefits of heart strings in “No Strings Attached”By ABigAil OrtegAStaff [email protected]

The blogosphere blew up after Warner Bros. an-nounced July 2012 as the

release date of director Christo-pher Nolan’s Batman series’ third installment entitled, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Warner Bros. also tabbed

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Tom Hardy as Batman’s nem-esis Bane.

After hearing the news, I threw open my window in unbridled enthusiasm. “YEEEEEEUUUUUUS!!!!!” I cried, with less rationale than the mak-ers of the “Afternoon Delight” mu-sic video in the deleted scenes of “Anchorman.” Since leaving the theater after seeing “The Dark Knight,” I do little else but ponder the next chapter of Nolan’s saga. It was like getting to the last chapter of a novel and having my mom tell me to mow the lawn. And I have a big lawn. Still, all this waiting is making me appreciate the story even more.

And what will the additions of Hathaway and Hardy mean to that story? Evidence indicates more than a few people are pondering just that. According to Yahoo.com reporter Mike Krumboltz, web

By DAnny SpAtchekManaging [email protected]

Warner Bros. announces“The Dark Knight Rises” Fans of Christopher Nolan’s Batman series go mental at news of triology finale

the vulnerable one in the lovemak-ing scenes.

The pleasures of “No Strings Attached” are found in the humor-ous dialogue and the talented peo-ple scattered around Portman and Kutcher. Kevin Kline is Adam’s mischievous father. Chris Bridges, who plays the owner of Adam’s favorite bar, could have done more in the film. A favorite character is Mindy Kalin as Emma’s friend and roommate, Shira, who complies with the role of the funny, quirky single friend.

This film makes the sex scenes seem like action scenes, and asks the viewer to work at determining the sweet scenes, which make up the strings that will pull this mov-ie and relationship together.

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searches on Hathaway have gone up a mindboggling 3,693% since her role as Catwoman was an-nounced, which would probably make your brain fall out of your skull if not for the mindbottling 17,662% increase in Hardy search-es in the same time frame.

It seems that after Heath Led-ger’s mentally disturbing portray-al of the Joker in “TDK,” the onus is on Hardy to play an equally dis-turbing villain in this finale. After Ledger died, fans have speculated about which character would re-place him as Christian Bale’s vil-lainous opposite, with the Riddler and, most recently, psychopathic DC Comics villain Dr. Hugo Strange.

The only place fair weather Batman fans will remember Bane from is Joel Schumacher’s “Batman and Robin” film, where he acted as Poisen Ivy’s brainless henchman. But no Nolan characters have been

It is now over. Super Bowl XLV has ended with a Green Bay Packers victory. But not before

Christina Aguilera and the Black Eyed Peas had some not-so-stellar performances.

Aguilera forgot some of the words to “The Star-Spangled Ban-ner.” She seemed to forget the fourth line, and instead repeated part of the second line and added the word “watched” instead of “hail’d.”

Here is a section of our na-tional anthem: “What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the peril-ous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly stream-ing? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air...”

Instead, Aguilera sang this:

“What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, What so proudly we watched, at the twi-light’s last gleaming. And the rock-ets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air...”

This isn’t the first time a ce-lebrity has botched the national anthem.

In 2009, Jesse McCartney skipped several lines, but apolo-gized afterwards.

Michael Bolton also forgot parts of the national anthem when he performed it at Fenway Park, but instead of substituting words, he started reading the words off of his hand.

A personal favorite was the awful, off-pitch, ear-splitting ren-dition performed by Roseanne Barr at a San Diego Padres base-ball game in 1990.

As far as Super Bowl fiascos

go, who can forget “Nipplegate”? Janet Jackson’s wardrobe mal-function during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 may not have been during the na-tional anthem, but it definitely de-serves an honorable mention.

But Aguilera’s performance was special. Aguilera’s perfor-mance was very over-the-top. She seemed so focused on hitting the high notes and over-using vibrato that she fumbled the words.

Aguilera apologized for the incident after the show, saying “I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.”

Super Bowl XLV’s halftime show, which included the Black Eyed Peas, Slash, and Usher, was great—except for the Black Eyed Peas. The special effects with the

flat, and there’s no risk of Bane breaking that trend as the comic book Bane seems just as cerebral and hardened as Ledger’s Joker.

As for Hathaway…well, this trilogy must be due for a sex scene, right? Only joking. To me, inject-ing an actor like Hathaway into this production—one that has set the bar for superhero movies and, frankly, embarrassed its compe-tition—will wind up being yet another stroke of casting genius. I thought the choice of Ledger a little dubious before I saw “TDK,” too. Other than “A Knight’s Tale”, he had only gotten roles in chick flicks up to that point, and he had never played a villain.

But I barely recognized the man I saw in the film. Certainly this sadist’s messed-up mind wasn’t the same one that once ser-enaded Julia Stiles with an Aus-tralian accent and a bundle of Joey Donner’s cash? He was a virtuoso,

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lit-up dancers on the field was really cool, Usher’s jump-splits looked painful, and Slash’s fingers can still get the job done, even though he’s about 104 years old (give or take).

The Black Eyed Peas perfor-mance, on the other hand, was not so cool. There was some sort of problem with the audio be-ing broadcasted, and Auto-Tune didn’t seem to be helping their voices much. Fergie screamed each song at the top of her lungs, which was brought to the audience’s at-tention even further due to the fact that the background music was almost non-existent.

Despite these mishaps, Super Bowl XLV was the most watched TV show of all time. According to the Nielson ratings, Super Bowl XLV surpassed last year’s Super Bowl by 4.5 million viewers. Who knows what next year’s mishap will be?

Emma and Adam’s constant back and forth kindness and stu-pidity clearly expose the fact that this relationship started back-wards. The viewer is constantly

hoping throughout the film—for the sake of traditional love—that a romantic ending would occur to satisfy the effective need to hope for love near Valentine’s Day.

edging Bale as the best actor in the movie. Hathaway’s only starred in chick flicks, too, but she has no choice but to raise her game for this movie. She’ll have to if she’s going to keep up with Bale, who’s been known to lose and gain mas-sive amounts of weight in short periods of time for roles.

That’s the thing everyone forgot after the Hathaway/Hardy announcement. The last sentence in every “TDKR” story read some-thing like, “Oh, and Christian Bale’s back as Batman.” It was like this summer when everyone was hyperventilating because LeBron James and Chris Bosh signed with the Heat. Oh, that’s right. Dwayne Wade plays for the Heat.

And because the rest of the ingredients that made the past two movies so great will be back, there’s no reason for me to con-sider a return to rationality for at least another summer.

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“Alice in Americaland” comes to Lakeland CollegeA long time in the making, this student directed show comes to lifeBy Danielle RammeR

Staff [email protected]

“Alice In Americaland” is an updated version of “Alice In Wonderland”

where the character Alice walks through her TV set into a mod-ern day land filled with corporate professional characters with their own agendas.

On her journey, Alice en-counters characters such as the White Rabbit, Mock Turtle, Cat-erpillar, Duke, Duchess, Humpty Dumpty, Dodo Bird, Eagle, March Hare, Mad hatter, Mouse, Red and White Queen, and the Cheshire cat, among others. Each character portrays traits of the original char-acters.

According to mvtimes.com, “Alice In Americaland,” is a play written by Dennis Snee, a former gag writer for Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, and Rodney Dangerfield. And, as one could imagine, it is full of one-liners. The whole play is about Alice confronting things

in the adult world, such as mate-rialism, and trying to make sense of it all.

The show was put on by a group of theatre students on campus who call themselves The Theatricians. Though each of the students enjoy theatre, there were different levels of theatre experi-ence. This was a first time direct-ing experience of a full length show for student Emma Drake, who has stage managed several productions.

“The idea of a student produc-tion was something that they had always wanted to do at Lakeland, they just never had anyone who wanted to direct it,” said Drake. “With my background in stage managing and how much I had loved doing it, I was more than willing to direct. Having worked with Charlie Krebs last year on ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird,’ it was something that really inspired me and I wanted to try doing it.”

The role of Alice was played by Kheidi Davis, a freshman psy-

chology major, who had no previous acting experience.

“So far this experience has been very fun and very enter-taining. It’s helped me grow a lot and helped me learn how to get over my fears,” said Davis. “I have never been on a stage before, and you have to learn how to get over your nervous-ness and just put yourself out there.”

With this in mind, it was clear that Davis was a natural. Her lines were delivered fluidly and timely, and her acting was nothing less than transpar-ent—it seemed as though she actually was Alice. For some-one with so little acting experi-ence, this was a job well done.

Having the pleasure to attend both a rehearsal and a performance, it was easy to see tremendous growth in the cast. It seemed obvious that everyone involved worked very hard on this production, and it showed in the results.

Above from left: Kayann Botana, Laurine Achieng, and Kheidi Davis.Below: Davis and Lenora Stuckman.

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Sapphire will be on campus tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Bradley Building. It is free

and open to the public, and stu-dents will receive a convocation credit for their attendance.

Sapphire is a poet and award winning author of the novel “Push” which was made into the 2009 Academy Award winning Ameri-can screenplay “Precious.”

“Push” is a provocative story of a 16-year-old girl who is a victim of circumstance, to say the least. The main character, an obese and illiterate Claireece Precious Jones,

grows up in poverty and bears two children from her own father.

But, Sapphire is not only a provocative writer; she is an edgy speaker as well. Lakeland’s Fessler Professor of Creative Writing Karl Elder, can vouch for that.

“I heard Sapphire read in Denver last April from her new manuscript—the work is graphic, disturbing. I can’t imagine any-one else on the planet exploring the murky depths of the human psyche with such steel-like resolve and finely-tuned ear for language,” said Elder.

Surely, this is an event not to be missed.

Sapphire will readConvocation tonight in the BradleyBy Terceira MolnarStaff [email protected]

The Broadway musical “Wicked” is touring in the Fox Cities Performing Arts

Center until Feb. 20. The cast of the musical has traveled to many different cities throughout the United States.

The musical has won 35 ma-jor awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards. The New York Times declared “Wicked” to be “the defining musical of the de-cade.”

Joe Mantello, director of “Wicked” is known for his many plays and musicals including “Take Me Out,” “The Ritz,” and “The Assassins.”

“Wicked” is based on the nov-el by Winnie Holzman. The musi-cal “Wicked” is a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz.”

The musical tells the story of

two friends Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (Glinda the Good). They share a friendship that leads to struggles along the way. The struggles are based on their differing viewpoints about love, corrupt government, and their different personalities.

The plot takes place long be-fore “The Wizard of Oz.” The story follows two girls who meet in the land of Oz. According to the web-site, wickedthemusical.com, “One [girl], born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunder-stood. The other is beautiful, am-bitious, and popular.”

Some students on campus were interviewed to see if they had seen “The Wizard of Oz” and whether they knew it was a sequel to the musical “Wicked.”

Shqipron Qunaj, senior inter-national business major, said that he got to see the original “Wick-

ed” on Broadway with the original cast. He then stated that he got to go up on stage after the musical was over, and said that it was re-ally cool to see all of the musical’s scenery.

Mali Urpanil, a freshman majoring in non-profit organiza-tion management, said she liked a number of things about the mu-sical “Wicked.” Urpanil said she liked the costumes, stage crafts, scene changes, the actors’ voices, the band, and the acting. She also said that, overall, the musical “Wicked” was good.

If anyone is in love with musi-cals, “Wicked” is the one to go to. “Wicked” is an exceptional play to see with family and friends for a night out.

Anyone interested in seeing “Wicked” can go to foxcitiespac.com/events/wicked for more in-formation and for ticket prices.

An original Broadway showSomething “Wicked” comes to the Fox Cities areaBy chrisTine DeiTTeStaff [email protected]

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It’s that time of year again; all the stores are packed full of red and pink. That’s right—

it’s Valentine’s Day!This holiday usually pressures

you to spend a lot of money, but you shouldn’t have to. One way to save money is to pick a restaurant that’s close to home. The shorter the travel, the more money you’ll save on gas.

Let’s say, however, that you don’t have the extra cash to ac-tually go out for Valentine’s Day at all. In that case, it might be worth trying some of the follow-ing ideas:

Cooking dinner as a couple. This not only allows you to bond, but will also save you some mon-ey.

Here are a few dinner ideas; prices may vary depending on brands, where you shop, ingre-dients you may already have, and sales that may be going on.

Dinner number one: grilled cheese and soup.

Things you’ll need: Bread, cheese, butter (for sandwiches); as for the soup, Bear Creek makes very good soup that tastes home-made—all you are required to do is add water.

You can expect the price to be under $10; the meal’s prep-time is about 10 to 15 minutes.

Dinner number two: Spaghet-ti and meatballs with salad and garlic bread—

Things you’ll need: noodles, sauce (Prego is a really good op-tion for a fair price), meatballs (ones in the frozen food section will do), lettuce, salad dressing, and bread (garlic bread is an easy-to-prepare, delicious choice).

This time, expect the price to be a little over $15. Prep-time for the meal is about 15 to 20 min-utes.

If you’re thinking of mak-ing plans to go out to eat, think about the long wait and noisy restaurant—not to mention the expenses.

Valentine’s Day is supposed

to be about spending time with that special someone, so does it really matter what you do as long as you’re together?

There aren’t a lot of Valen-tine’s Day movies out in theaters this year. Instead of taking the usual trip to the cinema, perhaps this year you can cuddle up on the couch after dinner and watch a movie you rented—isn’t that more comfortable than rubbing elbows with strangers at the theater?

There are thousands of Val-entine’s Day-themed movies, from romantic dramas to romantic comedies. Let’s say, however, you don’t like the romantic-type mov-ies. In that case, you have millions of other movie choices.

The cheapest movie date would be for you to just watch a movie you already own, or even to borrow a movie you haven’t seen from a friend.

Netflix subscribers will have access to plenty of movies either to be shipped to you or available in your Instant Queue—only a few clicks away.

Renting movies is way cheap-er than going to a movie theater. The most expensive movie rentals will only cost you around $4 from Blockbuster, the cheapest around a dollar at a Redbox located at stores like Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and Piggly Wiggly. You can find

one nearest you at redbox.com.You could even buy a new

movie for less than $20 (depend-ing how new and popular the movie is).

A final option is to find a mov-ie on hulu.com. The best part? It’s free.

Now for what some would ar-gue is the most important part of Valentine’s Day…The gift.

Finding the right gift can be very stressful for some people, so hopefully this can help:

One great option—and this is the cheapest kind of gift—would be to make something. Here you can try to think of an inside joke you and your significant other share.

You can make a card filled with coupons redeemable for kiss-es, hugs, massages, et cetera. Yes, it’s cheesy, but it’s from the heart, and that’s what Valentine’s Day is really all about.

Go to a craft store or a thrift store and find an old picture frame you can decorate and put a picture of the two of you in it.

If you really feel like you need to actually buy something but don’t have a lot to spend, Wal-Mart is a really good choice. You can get flowers, candy, and a small stuffed animal for about $20. To top it off, the Dollar Tree has stur-dy balloons that last a long time.

Ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day on a budgetSo many ideas, so little money. Ways to cheat the high costs of Valentine’s DayBy Jenni HeinricHFun House [email protected]

It’s February, and that means there won’t be any warm weather for months. That

means you will probably find yourself stuck inside, looking for something to do other than sitting around and watching late night infomercials. What to do? Well, I always turn to my faithful friend, the Internet. So, here is my list of the five websites to check out when you have nothing to do.

BuzzFeed.com- This is a web-site where you are never sure

what you will come across. With content that is pulled from sister sites or is user generated, it cov-ers a lot of topics and is constantly updated with strange new things to read and watch.

One week’s top most viral things were a look at the newest PETA Super Bowl ad, 40 pictures of the Midwest blizzard, and the top ten crazy texts from parents. While BuzzFeed is not always safe for work, it can always be counted on for strange viral content.

EcHoBazaar.com- Echo Ba-zaar is a very difficult game

to sum up. It is a Facebook game which gives you a set amount of actions per day. It lets you try to increase your level and complete new quests, which in turn raise your level and allow you to com-plete more new quests. This is not what sets the game apart from others, however.

It is a game set in a strange version of Victorian London, called “Fallen London,” and it allows you to slowly explore the expansive stories that take place in it. With a very cool—almost Lovecraftian—vibe and a lot of humor, it always keeps you wanting to find out more about the world.

Regretsy.com- Titled “Where DIY meets WTF,” Regretsy is

a blog focused on the strange and fascinating things that people put up for sale on Etsy, a site for sell-ing arts and crafts. Again, it is not the most safe-for-work site, with one post featuring a photograph of a naked woman pretending to be Eve, complete with a blank stare and a poorly photoshopped-in snake.

Still, it is a great site to page through just to see the very odd things that people put up for sale. Like one recent post—a uterus

piñata (and it’s yours for only 40 dollars).

StumBleupon.com- Like Buzz-Feed, you are never sure what

you will get with StumbleUpon. This site will let you find new websites with a click of a button, and can also factor in your likes and dislikes.

When you start it up, it allows you to choose from a list of inter-ests, and will continue to update that list as you put in feedback from the sites it shows you. It is a great way to find everything from beautiful digital art to cake recipes to time wasting Flash games.

SavagecHickens.com- There are many web comics out there

on the Internet, so it was very hard to choose just one to add to this list. In the end, I had to choose Savage Chickens.

The strange and silly cartoon features chickens drawn on yel-low sticky notes. It is a gag-a-day series, with topics ranging from workplace humor (one charac-ter is a boss who carries around a board fixed with a nail to “encour-age” employees) to zombies. The art is simple and effective, making for a fun and light read.

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You’ll hate it, but you’ll love it: the P90X workoutFrom the machine that is Tony Horton: “Do your best and forget the rest”By Michael KnaaKCopy [email protected]

Over the past summer, I made a commitment to myself to get back into

shape. I hadn’t consistently lift-ed weights in almost five years. Since then, I tried joining a couple gyms—the YMCA and Anytime Fitness—but I found myself fall-ing through with my plans to be-come fit.

Shortly before the beginning of the fall semester I ordered and received P90X. What I got was better than what I had expected.

For those who haven’t heard about P90X (Power 90 Extreme), it is an at-home fitness program that aims to get its users “From regular to ripped in 90 days.” The workouts range from traditional weightlifting exercises, to plyo-metrics training, to extreme yoga, and beyond. The program consists of three one-month phases and it is coupled with a nutritional guide, fitness plan, calendar, and a set of DVDs that contain video of the workouts. The cost of the pro-gram is $119.85.

To do P90X you will need some equipment. You can choose between using free weights or resistance bands—the bands are usually a good starting point if you are just starting to build muscle.

Another item is a pull-up bar—that can be remedied by search-ing YouTube for “P90X pull-ups with bands,” and a slew of videos will show you how to do modified pull-ups with resistance bands. Finally, you will also need a yoga mat and a decent pair of athletic shoes (cross trainers are likely the best choice).

So, what was my impression of P90X after a full round (90days)? In a word… Wow. It seems no matter how far into the program you are—whether it’s your first

round or your fifteenth—you will be able to find another level of intensity. Achieving those new levels of intensity can usually be accomplished by modifying moves (like using push-up bars to in-crease your range of motion) or by adding more weight when lifting.

I have had a skinny build my whole life, so I wasn’t expecting to look like Hulk Hogan after my first round, but yet my first time through P90X didn’t deliver the results I wanted. Of course, it wasn’t the program shouldering

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the blame, but my own workout habits. I concentrated only on the parts of the workout I felt were “most necessary,” and repeated those exercises while skipping over the rest of the workouts—big mistake.

A great aspect of P90X is the personality that comes packaged with it—of course I’m talking about Tony Horton. There have been many occasions where I will be pushing myself to the brink of exhaustion, and Horton will still somehow get me to crack a laugh.

To be able to put together such an intense program and be able to couple it with good old-fashioned fun makes P90X exceptional in my eyes.

After a week-long break after my less-than-stellar first round, I revisited Horton (who created P90X and is your personal trainer throughout the program) with every intention to complete all of the workouts in sequential order without skipping or repeating some workouts in a given week. I am currently about half way through my second round, and I feel like I am seeing faster results than I was during my unstruc-tured first round.

What it really comes down to in the end is what you’re looking for in an exercise program. P90X is very versatile, whether you’re aiming to lose weight or gain mus-cle or just to get fit. Some of the workouts are advanced, however, especially if you’re new to fitness, so I can’t recommend P90X to those who lack at least a moder-ate amount of mobility and may be suffering from any moderately se-rious joint, back, or other workout related issues.

If you can commit yourself to keep pressing “Play” and push yourself to do your best, you will see awesome results using the P90X workout plan.BRITTNEY SANDBERG/[email protected]

The Lakeland CollegeM I R R O R

Issue 2, February 10, 20119Fun House

Thumbs up

Polar Bears: well done Hyundai for putting one in your commercial.

Snow days: It’s always nice to have a day off.

Doritos commercials during the Super Bowl: CHEESE!

Thumbs Down

Pouring coffee down the bubbler and not cleaning it up: It’s disgusting.

Listening to headphones so loud the person next to you can hear them:

necessary? I think not.

Making your own parking spaces: The lines are there for a reason.

Stupid Cupid By Terceira MolnarStaff [email protected]

Po’s “Po”-ems

All burger and no nutrition make Po a fat boy,But yellow bread and red meat make America a rich boy.Therefore, America a rich boy makes you a happy boy.

Po got a new friend from North Korea,Wearing old school glasses like RUN DMC, And his hair looked like bombed bush.One day, Po and Kim went to McDonalds together,And they ordered Big Mac meals,And sat and started eating.One bite,Two bites,Done.And Kim cried out, “I love America.”All of a sudden his face turned blue,And he hardly breathed,And Po said, “You’re choking,”And he tucked a cup of Coke into Kim’s mouth,And Kim swallowed harshly,And his face turned normal,And Po shouted that Coke is greater than Amontillado.Then Po and Kim hugged and sang a song together,“Po is Kim as Kim is Po and we are all together.”

As the dark smell spreads all over the classroom Laughs are in full bloom

Hamburger

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Issue 2, February 10, 2011Sports10

Women’s basketall loses three straight in NACConsecutive setbacks stack odds against women to make postseason

In a game with 12 lead changes, Lakeland’s women’s basket-ball team suffered a tremen-

dous 71-61 setback against Con-cordia-Wisconsin Tuesday night.

The defeat damages the Muskie’s hopes for a spot in the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) tournament as the loss was the team’s tenth this in con-ference. Although the loss was painful and hurts the team in the standings, it isn’t fatal to the team’s NAC tournament dreams.

Junior guard Becca Paulson recorded a career-high 17 points to lead Lakeland in scoring. Junior forward Allison Davis and sopho-more forward Becky Mayo added 13 and 10 points, respectively. Paulson led the team with seven rebounds. This defeat was disap-pointing after dropping a pair of NAC contests last week.

Last Thursday the Muskies came up painfully short of upset-ting NAC North Division Leaders Wisconsin Lutheran in a 60-58 loss.

After trailing by nine midway through the second half, senior guard Mary Dennewitz spear-

headed a run by making six free throws and got Lakeland within

two with 48 seconds left in the game, but the Warriors came up

with a clutch bucket to hold on. Dennewitz finished with 12

Junior guard Becca Tilleman brings the ball up in a game this season. Tilleman and the Muskies have lost three straight.

points, and junior Allison Davis led the team with 14 points, and Erin Cepa had an outstanding night on the glass recording 7 rebounds.

Head Coach Teri Johnson ac-knowledged that free throws were clutch in the second half rally.

“I thought we did a great job of getting to the line and I’m proud of how this group played tonight,” she said.

On Saturday the Muskies came out of the blocks slow and fell to Benedictine University 76-54.

Sophomore Becky Mayo had a career high 15 points and also led the team with 5 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough for Lakeland.

The Muskie’s only shot 29% for the game and had 19 turnovers, which turned out to be a fatal equation.

To stay in the race to reach the NAC tournament the Musk-ies must win home today versus Maranantha Baptist and against Marian on Saturday. The entire season could come down to an in-tra-division showdown on Feb. 16 at the Moose and Dona Woltzen Gymnasium versus Edgewood College.

Wrestling drops home dual against NWA rival MSOE DeRoehn’s team goes down 23-21 despite six-win night

Despite winning in six-of-ten weight classes, the Lakeland wrestling team

fell 23-21 to Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Feb. 4 in a Northern Wrestling Association dual meet at the Todd Wehr Cen-ter Fieldhouse. The dual victory was MSOE’s first over the Musk-ies in five years.

“The difference was a couple guys getting pinned,” wrestling coach Mike DeRoehn said. “I can’t honestly say I’m not disappointed in a few of the guys. I don’t think that they fought as hard as they could have while some other guys were really giving it their all. You need to have all ten guys fighting. If they fight for seven minutes, win or lose you can’t fail. We didn’t have that tonight.”

At 149, freshman Jacob Bu-gajski picked up the team’s only pin of the evening in 1:38 over Josh Wengerter and junior Rob For-gette scored an 18-2 technical fall over Kyle Perea at 197.

Senior 157-pounder Isaac Roberson breezed past MSOE’s David Swanson for a 17-8 major decision heading into the back half of the night’s matchups.

Tom Phalin, Miguel Luis, and Brandon Garcia each won by deci-sion at 285, 174, and 165, respec-tively.

DeRoehn highlighted efforts like the one given by Bugajski in his pin as “huge” and applauded his wrestlers who “gave it their

all.”“I think the five guys that

won did their job for sure. But then you also had guys like Grant Franzen who just fought. That’s victory right there, where he just continued to fight for ten minutes. As long as guys fight, we’re going to be proud of them.

“This is some motivation for the conference tournament. We lost this dual meet but we still

have the conference champion-ship tournament in two weeks. MSOE does have a really nice team this year. They’ve knocked off UW-Oshkosh who’s nationally ranked; they’ve knocked off UW-Platteville and UW-Eau Claire…so they’ve got a nice program, and they’ve got some really good coaches, and they’re doing a great job there, but it’s two weeks for us to try to turn things around in our

favor. It was two points. We can turn that thing around.”

Jan. 28 and29, Roberson and sophomore 165-pounder Ryan Renon took fourth and seventh place, respectively, at the highly-competitive Pete Wilson Invita-tional in Wheaton, Ill.

Roberson wrestled his way into the semi-finals only to lose 10-0 to eventual champion Elias Larson of Trine.

Renon earned three victories, including two pins, before an 8-4 loss to Augustana’s Jordan Gra-ham sent him to the seventh place match, which Renon won with a 7-5 decision over Wabash’s Jake Moore.

The team will travel to UW-Lacrosse for a dual meet scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

www.lakeland.edu

By Danny SpatchekManaging [email protected]

Freshman 285-pounder Tom Phalin against MSOE. Phalin got the decision but the Muskies lost 23-21 to their Northern Wrestling Association rivals at home.

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Women’s basketall loses three straight in NACConsecutive setbacks stack odds against women to make postseason

DeRoehn’s team goes down 23-21 despite six-win night

Freshman forward Tim Rotruck and junior guard Josh Regal both scored a

game-high 28 points to lead the Lakeland men’s basketball team to a convincing 92-83 win over Edgewood in a makeup game at home Feb. 3.

The Muskies used a second half run to wear down the Eagles, who at the time were ranked fourth in all of NCAA Division III.

In the first half the Musk-ies came out slow and were out-rebounded 19-10; however, they shot an impressive 51.9 percent which kept them in the game. Re-gal hit a buzzer-beater just before the half to give Lakeland the lead heading into the locker room.

The whole game was an up and down battle, with the lead changing ten times throughout before the Muskies went on a run to secure the conference win. The Muskies took the lead when Rotruck hit a jumper with 15:06 left in the game. Edgewood would cut Lakeland’s lead to one, but the hot-shooting Muskies would prove to be too much for the Ea-gles.

Junior Jack Ridgway posted 13 points and two rebounds. On the defensive end he shut out Edgewood’s leading scorer, Ben Wisniewski. Junior guard Bobby Komorowski added ten points and had four steals. Junior Ger-mell Heard made his presence known in the second half, add-ing eight points—including a two handed slam dunk—and a team-high of five rebounds.

While both teams shot over 50 percent from the field, the Musk-ies shot 62.5 percent from behind the arc and 81.5 percent from the free throw line, which gave them the edge over the Eagles.

Regal finished the game shooting a perfect 5-of-5 from 3-point range and had a team high of six assists.

Feb. 5 the Muskies took on the Eagles of Benedictine Univer-sity. Komorowski scored a team-high of 21 points, but Lakeland came up short as the team lost 87-82.

The Muskies trailed begin-

ning with the opening tip and con-tinued to trail for the majority of the game in which they shot only 9.1 percent from 3-point range.

Regal hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 33 with 18:54 left, but the Muskies couldn’t maximize on opportunities to take the lead in

the second half.The Eagles went up by as

many as 14 points throughout the game en route to eventually secur-

ing their conference win.Head coach Aaron Aanonsen

was disappointed with the loss, but thought his team overall had played well.

“We lost the rebounding war again, and we didn’t make the de-fensive stops that we needed to take the lead when it mattered. We had some nice looks, but we just couldn’t convert,” said Aan-onsen.

The Muskies allowed too many second chance shots to the Eagles, getting out-rebounded 42-31. This would allow the Eagles to score 18 points from these second chance shots.

Rotruck barely missed record-ing a double-double, scoring 14 points and adding eight rebounds. Freshman Justin Ward added 19 points and had six rebounds.

Regal and Ridgway added nine points each and Komorows-ki ended the night with two re-bounds and two steals to add to his 21 points.

The Muskies hosted confer-ence power Concordia-Wisconsin Feb. 9 and will be back in action when they take on Marian Feb. 12 in Fond du lac.

By Nicole GeurtsFeatures [email protected]

Men’s goes 1-1 against conference opponentsBig scoring nights from Regal and Rotruck propel team past Edgewood

Above: Freshman Tim Rotruck kicks the ball to the perimeter Feb. 3 against Edgewood. Rotruck and Josh Regal (below) each scored 28 points to lead the Muskies.

Collective Bargaining Agreement Looms over NFLNFL’s future uncertain on the heels of history’s most-watched Super BowlBy GreG HeiNeNAdvertising [email protected]

The Super Bowl is complete. Now what? There is plenty of uncertainty surrounding

next year’s football season. There is question if there will be foot-ball next season. What would we do without football? The game is wildly popular, and it is America’s sport.

Why would there be no foot-ball you ask? Good question.

The answer is the Collective

Bargaining Agreement is expiring on March 4. If you don’t know, the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is a labor issue in the NFL. It deals with distribution of rev-enue amongst organization mem-bers. The owners of the franchises feel that players get to big of a por-tion of the “revenue pie.” Thus, if they do not reach an agreement by the beginning of the season, the owners will lockout the players.

The owners also want to ex-tend the season to eighteen games instead of sixteen. If this would

go through, two preseason games will be eliminated. The owners say that the added two games will in-crease revenues.

The reaction of the players is clear on extending the season. They say two extra games will increase injury risk. For instance, Brian Dawkins, Broncos safety, noted, “The safety of the players should be the No. 1 thing. And I don’t think two more games are going to help guys have longer ca-reers. I just don’t see it.”

Mike Vrabel, Kansas City

Chiefs linebacker, has an oppos-ing view, as well. He noted, “Right now there’s just not enough return on our investment to play another two games.”

In retrospect, most owners like the idea. For example, accord-ing to The New York Times, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jer-ry Jones, said, “It’s something we certainly have had the ability to do. We’ve had the ability to go to 22 games, had we wanted to as own-ers without anybody’s approval. We haven’t done that without the

approval of players. Certainly, we want players to buy into what we do on a going-forward basis.”

Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross said that an 18-game regular season would not put NFL players at greater risk for injury.

Here is some statistics op-posing his view. Following is the amount of players placed on injured reserve during the year from each team. I researched this through each team’s website.

SEE NFL/PAGE 12

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Issue 2, February 10, 2011Sports12

MVP of the Issue: wrestler Isaac Roberson157-pounder prepares for a run at the national tournament By Danny SpatchekManaging [email protected]

NFL FROM PAGE 11

Leading the league with the most injuries, with seventeen on injured reserve were the Lions, Colts, Jaguars, and Bengals. Next, the Packers had sixteen IR players. Two teams had fifteen IR players: the Redskins and Texans.

The Patriots had fourteen IR players. Five teams followed with thirteen injured reserves: the Ti-tans, Bills, Seahawks, Dolphins, and Panthers.

Three teams lost twelve play-ers for the season: the Chargers, Saints, and Browns. Ten players were placed on IR for the Broncos, Rams, and Eagles.

The Cowboys had nine in-jured reserves. There were eight players injured for the year on the 49ers and Vikings.

Next, the Chiefs followed with seven players. The Steelers and Ravens had six injured re-serves, and the Jets had five.

Finally, the Falcons, Raiders and Bears had four, three, and two respectively.

This research shows that 349 players were injured for the year overall. On average, that acquaints to almost eleven players per team. According to the law of averages, if two games were added to the season, forty-two more players would be lost each year. The play-ers, not the owners, were right! The violence of the NFL will take its brutal toll if the season is ex-tended.

In his senior year of high school, Isaac Roberson didn’t qualify for the state wrestling

tournament.Four years later in his senior

year as a college wrestler, Rober-son has his eyes not only on wres-tling in the Division III national tournament, but on becoming an All-American.

With the near-walk in the park major decision he scored last Friday against MSOE’s Da-vid Swanson, Roberson improved to 18-2 on the season and raised the team’s hopes for him heading toward the last postseason of his collegiate wrestling career.

But it will be tough to top Roberson’s hopes for himself.

“This year, I want to be an All-American. I never made it to high school state, never been on the big stage, and this year I had the big breakout,” he said.

Even last Friday night against MSOE when he was fresh off his first speed bump of the year—two losses at the Pete Wilson Invita-tional, the Wheaton, Ill.-based tournament regarded as a warm-up for the national tournament—Roberson was a picture of ambi-tion.

Against the gangly Swanson, Lakeland’s 157-pounder played the constant aggressor, seemingly

wrestling the match on the balls of his feet while Swanson couldn’t shift off his heels. Lakeland wres-tling coach Mike DeRoehn con-stantly reminded him, “You’re the offensive wrestler.”

Roberson said he had no rea-son to be discouraged by his show-ing at Wheaton.

“I never made it to a second day [at Wheaton]. I wrestled there two years before this. You’ve got to manage your weight all week. You’ve got to put enough fluids in. You’ve got to have enough energy so you can make it to the second day, but you’ve still got to make weight for the next day. And I’m telling myself, ‘How am I gonna do it?’” Roberson said. “But

the coaches believed in me, and I ended up beating [MSOE wrestler Virgil] Pope and making it to the second day.”

He credited his faith in God, and the encouragement given to him by his teammates and coach-es, including team mentor and Associate Business Professor Jim Kudek, for his success in a career during which he’s been a North-ern Wrestling Association Cham-pion and, recently, passed assis-tant wrestling coach Jake Frias for second on the program’s all-time career takedowns list.

“Jim is just someone you can always go to and talk to, and Mike is so passionate about wrestling. Every time I step on the mat he

makes me feel like I can beat any-one, no matter what singlet they got on or who they are. It just helps to know that Mike cares about each and every one of us, and he puts so much time into us watching film, setting goals, mak-ing it possible,” Roberson said.

DeRoehn said Roberson’s work ethic and coachability “keep him on the screen to be an All-American.”

“He’s extremely coachable,” DeRoehn said. “It’s probably hard to tell from a fan perspective, but I can literally tell him ‘pass his left elbow and attack his left leg’ and he will do it. He’s very much in tune with what we’re trying to do, and I think he’s pretty special.”

Kudek said Roberson demon-strated how special he was in the 2010 conference tournament when he defeated Virgil Pope for the first time in a 5-3 overtime victory.

“Isaac dug deep into his tech-nique arsenal, as well as his inner being, and in doing so not only won the respect of his team mem-bers and his opponent, who was gracious in defeat, but also helped propel Lakeland to its third con-secutive conference title,” Kudek said.

Kudek said he believes in Roberson’s post-undergraduate potential, and so does Roberson, who wants to be a probation offi-cer or a disciplinary dean of a high school. While his exploits on the mat have been great this season—he was 16-0 before Wheaton—Roberson said he’s equally proud of his academic accomplishments, and he hopes other Lakeland stu-dent-athletes will take pride in their abilities as well.

“I’m probably having my most successful year of school ever in my life.

“If you’re in this sport make it fun while it lasts,” he said. “Some-times we complain that we have practices and different things like that but there’s other kids who can’t do what you can do, so don’t take that for granted. Everything in life is going to come to an end, so while you’re living it, just make the most of it. Seize the day.”

PHOTOOPINIONWill Aaron Rodgers have a better career than Brett Favre?

Josh DeLucaJunior, Majoring in Criminal Justice

Jessie FallsLakeland Line Cook

Ma Bruggink Pantry Cook

Katie JohnsonFreshman, Majoring in Criminal Justice

“It really depends. Favre was an icon for so long. Rogers will have to be around as long as Favre was - if not longer. Rodgers

is catching up fast, though.”

“Yes. He’s a better player. He should have been starting all the time. He has more common sense.”

“Yes. The Muskies are better than Brett Favre.”“Yes. Rodgers’ stats are way better than Favre’s when he started and Aaron Rodgers is overall a

better player than Brett Favre.”

Isaac Roberson holds on to MSOE’s David Swanson last Friday in the Wehr Center Fieldhouse. Roberson is 18-2 this season.DANNY SPATCHEK/[email protected]