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JR StarnsFinancial Advisor

The Durango Dilemmaby: James Addoms

Can You Hear Me Now?by: Zoey Strum

Trash Talkby: Steph Cook

Small Groups Tackling Big Projectsby: John MIller

Dear Skyhawk Nation,

I hope everyone is well rested, reju-venated, and returned safely after a much needed spring break! With less than two months remaining in the winter semes-ter, there’s light at the end of the tunnel

and that beautiful April sunshine is enough to motivate even the most recessed spring break mind to grind on. On that note, I’d like to compliment my fellow Indy staffers. My first semes-ter with the organization has opened my eyes to the amount of work and dedication that goes into crafting our bi-monthly pub-lication. You’d be hard pressed, no pun intended, to find a more motivated and passionate group. But enough about us, let’s talk about you.

If you’re reading this, thank you. As financial manager for our club, I witness firsthand the amount of funds and resources that go into printing each issue. Alongside content and report-ing, our advertising and public relations team works hard plan-ning fundraisers, selling ad space, and collecting donations to ensure we deliver 1000 copies, twice a month. The Independent serves you, Fort Lewis. Being students like you, our staff strives to deliver news and information relevant to our everyday lives on campus and within the community. Last issue’s “Caught With Pot” and “Friending the Fort” come to mind, showcasing poten-tial implications students face but may otherwise be unaware of. Yes Fort Lewis, the Indy’s got your back!

Hats off to Dylan Leigh, Steph Cook and company for their stories, and our awesome Graphic design team for delivering them in fashion. And again, thank you Skyhawk Nation. We appreciate your time and attention in making our efforts con-tinuously rewarding. A huge thanks to everyone who came out and made our Fundraising Week a success, and remember to check out our first annual Duck Race in April. Ideas for upcom-ing issues? We value your contributions in the form of artwork, reader columns, and of course, taking the time to check out our latest in print or online. The voice of students, for students, by students; The Independent.

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In 2009, the city of Durango, as well as La Plata County, signed their commitment to an environmen-tally conscious document that is gaining steam among U.S. states with the signatures of 1,049 mayors nation-wide, entitled “Th e U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.”

Th e intent of this document is for participating regions to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets in their own communities despite a lack of support from the U.S. government, taking on the responsibility of improving climate change fi rsthand.

“It’s awesome that the U.S. doesn’t have to be on board for other countries to be concerned and take action,” said Heidi Steltzer, an assistant professor in the biology and agriculture departments. “Similarly, there are regions of the U.S. where communities are willing to say, ‘you know what, it doesn’t matter what our gov-ernment says, we can make a diff erence with our local activities, and plan for a way that benefi ts us.”

As of October 2010, 191 countries have signed their approval of the United Nation’s Kyoto Agreement, assenting to reduce the benchmark emission levels of greenhouse gases from 1990 by 5.2 percent.

Nearly 15 years after the document’s adoption by the United Nations, the United States is still withhold-ing cooperation in improving the carbon footprint that a large industrialized nation may impose on the rest of the globe.

Th ough drastic changes in our daily life may not be perceivable to the average citizen, Julie Korb, associate professor in the biology and agriculture departments, insists that without improvement, changes are inevitable.

“There’s all different types of changes that could occur,” Korb said. “And one of the main issues with cli-mate change is that the predictability of when climac-tic events are going to occur, shifts. Some places will experience warmer weather, and in other places it may get colder.”

“A lot of people think ‘Oh, it’s going to be drier,’ but at the same time, in the Southwest we might get bigger snow-storms that will actually stay around longer,” Korb said.

Th ere is a lot more going on than people originally anticipated, Steltzer said.

“Human activities are an important component of the reason why climate is changing, and those activities focus on ways that we are changing greenhouse gas con-centrations in the atmosphere,” she said.

Non-greenhouse gases, such as dinitrogen, which is 78 percent of the earth’s atmosphere, allow both energy from the sun and energy from the planet to pass through the atmosphere.

On the other hand, greenhouse gases—such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxide—allow energy into the earth’s atmosphere, but trap heat radiat-ing off the planet that would normally be released.

Th e concern for climate change biologists is not that the climate will simply get warmer or cooler, but that these increases and decreases in temperature, when combined with the other ways climate is chang-ing, may have large-scale detrimental eff ects that are entirely unpredictable.

“When issues such as drought and heat are coupled, that’s when you have the synergistic eff ects of climate change,” Korb said.

According to Korb, the 2000-02 drought that According to Korb, the 2000-02 drought that

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plagued the San Juan region, when combined with an increase in temperature, had immediate repercussions of a caliber that no one could have expected, she said.

“In the 2000-02 draught we saw a huge decline in about 10 percent of our aspen cover in Southwest Colorado that went from being alive to basically dead,” Korb said.

Th e drought itself is not the concern, she said.“Using dendrochronology records, the study of dat-

ing tree rings, we know the Southwest periods of drought going back 600-8500 years, and so the main issue is not so much that the drought in the early 2000’s was drier, it is that it was warmer,” she said.

Th ese conditions resulting from global climate change interact with regional environments and give birth to even more worries, Korb said.

In ponderosa pine and warm-dry mixed conifer forests, a drought combined with warmer temperatures basically sets things up to burn, she said.

“If those forests have been altered historically through logging or grazing, then there is a buildup of fuel just waiting for a fi re to come through,” Korb said.

The negative effects of climate change can also encompass the agricultural sustainability of an area like Durango.

“Th e biggest thing for agriculture in the Southwest is water, and all of our water comes from the high coun-try,” Korb said. “If you have early snowmelt occurring with rapid runoff , and the reservoirs don’t fi ll up, that’s defi nitely a direct eff ect of climate change.”

Steltzer said that it is not just that the c l i-mate is warming, but other env ironmental changes are happening.

It is diffi cult to anticipate the end result, given that many changes are happening concurrently, she said.

Jeff Polak, a senior environmental studies major at Fort Lewis, predicts that continued climate change could possibly have a negative effect on Durango tourism attractions.

“Th ings like thunderstorms during winter, or rain in February all hint at a changing climate, and could directly aff ect the income of Durango in the long run due

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to a decrease in tourism,” he said.Polak said that many skeptics might not believe in

the term ‘global warming’ simply because climate change aff ects regions in diverse ways.

Some of the factors that are changing climate are local and regional issues, Steltzer said.

“If we do a better job in our region of managing dust, or nitrogen, or water and water resources so that we have plenty of water in our region, then climate change won’t have as drastic eff ects,” she said.

“Personal choices concerning the improvement of our everyday energy use really can make a diff erence too.”

It all comes down to data collection, education, and involvement by citizens in citizen science pro-grams, she said.

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By John Miller

Three campus organizations are work-ing with people across the globe with the sole purpose of helping communities in other nations.

These groups—The East Africa Service Project, Engineers Without Borders and Teachers Without Borders—are actively seeking students to assist them with a variety of projects that range anywhere from building irrigation systems, utilizing water purification techniques, and educat-ing children abroad.

The East Africa Service ProjectThe EASP is a non-profit humani-

tarian organization that is directed at crisis prevention, said Conrad Wright, co-founder of the organization.

The projects that the EASP undertakes are based around a triple-bottom-line inclusive development technique, which is based on the foundational pillars of a com-munity, Wright said. This technique is also known as the ‘three-legged stool’.

The three legs or foundational pillars of a community are its economy, ecology, and society, Wright said.

When all three legs are functioning properly, the community is able to sustain itself, but if one of these pillars is not func-tioning, the community is out of balance, Wright said.

The EASP also uses permaculture and micro-financing in order to develop their projects, and it specifically targets the ecological and economic pillars of the community to apply them in such a way that encourages desired social change, Wright said.

This summer, Wright along with other members of the EASP will be heading to Tanzania to do research and assess-ment analysis from last year’s project to improve the three pillars of the community and to improve the proj-ects themselves.

After their work in Tanzania, the EASP will travel to Uganda to facilitate the con-struction of a compost and latrine project, which will be aimed at mitigating water shed contamination.

The EASP was founded in 2009 when student Colter Boita returned from an inno-vative month in Tanzania, led by Professor David Kozak.

Boita shared his vision with Wright, the current leader of the organization.

Engineers Without BordersEWB aims to provide sustainable

technologies to underdeveloped coun-tries, said Max Bohana, president of the Fort Lewis branch.

“We start with a water system which is designed throughout the school year by our members,” Bohana said. “Then we also do sanitation projects, which involve composting and latrines.”

There currently are about 50 members from a variety of majors, Bohana said, includ-ing some professional members from the com-munity who help with funding.

Some of the community members also travel to the project site and help with the labor, he said.

This summer, EWB has four different projects—two in Laos and two in Ecuador.

“Our main gateway is water,” Bohana said, “Like one of the projects in Laos, we will be building an eight mile transmission line, which is a water pipeline from high on the water shed in the mountains.”

The pipeline wil l run from the

source down into the v i l lage, where EWB wil l a lso be building a distr ibution tank, Bohana said.

The goal is to set up a healthy, sustainable water system for the community and also to teach members of the community to build and repair the pipe line, he said.

“Educating the community plays a very big role in what we are trying to accomplish,” Bohana said.

Teachers Without BordersTWB, an internationally recognized orga-

nization, is a fairly new group on campus and was formed last semester, said Renee Mend-ieta, president of the campus chapter.

“Our main goal is to promote global edu-cation and the quality of schools,” Mendieta said. “We work with students on campus and provide them information to help impact the educational gaps of the world.”

Mendieta said TWB was approved for a travel grant and did their first field study over spring break in Sonora, Mexico.

TWB observed secondary schools, pri-vate schools, and a college, Mendieta said.

Mendieta said she feels the main goal for TWB is to recognize other schools around the world and see if it can learn and benefit from what other countries are doing as far as education goes.

Professor Cathie Turek, the faculty advi-sor for the organization, wanted to see the program start and Mendieta was a student of hers in global perspectives, Mendieta said. The two of them collaborated and began the organization.

Turek, also a professor in the teacher education department, will be speaking to the TWB group on March 23 about a confer-ence she recently attended with the national

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Some classes at Fort Lewis College have more than one person at the front of the room conveying a lesson.

Sign-language interpretation is one of the services the Disability Center at Fort Lewis off ers.

Dian Jenkins, Coordinator of Disability Services at Fort Lewis, is the only sign language interpreter in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico.

“It is just amazing to be a catalyst between a deaf and a hearing person,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins job gives students who are deaf the ability to communicate with their professors and classmates, and yet Durango has only one sign-language interpreter for the area.

“I gave up a lot coming to Durango,” Jenkins said. “I am the only certifi ed interpreter here.”

Jenkins likes interpreting for the Durango area because without her, she fears there may not be a sign-language interpreter at all.

Durango is behind the times as far as accommodating the deaf, Jen-kins said.

It is vital for students who are deaf to have access to an interpreter because access gives them equal access to an education, said Diana Lynn, a sign-language interpreter from the Sign-Language Net-work in Colorado Springs.

“It is a disservice to the deaf to not have a qualifi ed or certifi ed inter-preter accessible. Equal communication access is absolutely critical—it is actually the law,” Lynn said.

According to the Bureau of Labor, in order to provide an equal educa-tion for the deaf, a sign-language interpreter works in the classroom as a link between deaf students, teachers, peers, and school personnel.

“Interpreting sign language requires the interpreter to be able to go from auditory, spoken language, and convert it into visual, conceptual lan-guage at the same time,” Lynn said. “Sign language isn’t just English on the hands. It is a language in its own right.”

Sign language interpreters do not just translate word for word—they relay concepts, ideas, and emotions between languages while using their whole entire body to speak, while being invisible in the conversa-tion, Jenkins said.

In Professor Alane Brown’s psychology class at Fort Lewis, Jenkins was

practically unseen while interpreting sign language for a student. “You’re used to being yourself with your students, and now there is

going to be this other person, and you’ve got this extra audience that you’re not used to having,” Brown said. “But after time passed, the interpreter became invisible.”

Being unobtrusive in any situation is a skill any professional sign-lan-guage interpreter has learned through their training, Lynn said.

A professional sign-language interpreter is fl uent in American Sign Lan-guage and has an associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degree along with certifi ca-tion from the National Association of the Deaf according to the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

Th ere are then three levels of certifi cation: National Interpreter Certi-fi cation, National Interpreter Certifi cation

Advanced, and National Interpreter Certifi -cation Master.

“Anything legal requires a legally certified interpreter. And how you know if a legally certified interpreter is needed is if anything in that set-ting could be used in a court of law,” Lynn said.

Every assignment has its own challenges for an interpreter which is

why an interpreter should go through a training program, Lynn said.“Even if you’re a child of deaf parents and

are fluent in American Sign Language, you still need the training,” she said. “You get to observe other interpreters working and learn how to handle difficult situations.”

A good program teaches participants how to handle situations and exposes them to a professional, who demonstrates how to deal with various scenarios, Lynn said.

Jenkins once interpreted for a man who was being prosecuted for inap-propriate interaction with a younger girl.

“It was diffi cult because the attorney didn’t understand deaf culture and was making the man who was deaf seem like a dirty old man when he wasn’t,” Jenkins said.

She said she felt like she was stuck in a bad position because she is not allowed to add her own opinion—even when she knows something underly-ing is going on.

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s she contemplated exactly how to articulate for students what a provost does, Fort Lewis President Dene K. Th omas pulled a massive dictionary from her book-shelf and explained that the word provost originated as a term for a prison warden, and that the word can be traced back to the Latin term, prōpositus, which means one placed before.

Th e provost is the Chief Academic Offi cer, President Th omas said, and the fi rst among equals, meaning that in Th omas’ absence, the provost will make the presidential decisions.

It’s not such a stretch going from prison warden to provost, Thomas said, if one thinks of the provost as the keeper of order.

Dr. Steven Roderick, who has been keeping order as Fort Lewis’ standing pro-vost since 1995, will be retiring at the end of the year, ending a career at Fort Lewis that has spanned more than three decades.

“I have to tell you that I just adore this man,” Th omas said. “I have known him a little over a year now.”

While their relationship has been brief in comparison to Roderick’s time at

Fort Lewis, Th omas was instrumental in keeping Roderick at the school for an extra year, as Roderick had plans to retire last winter, Th omas said.

Th e two fi rst met when Th omas was staying in a hotel in Denver, after fl ying in for her interview with the search commit-tee during the last Fort Lewis presidential search, she said.

When Th omas had her chance to ask questions to the committee who had been interviewing her, she asked Roderick why he had already retired once, and then returned to Fort Lewis, she said.

“He said, ‘I came back to serve the col-lege in its time of need because I love this place.’ And he actually, and I’m not kid-ding, had tears in his eyes,” Th omas said.

Th omas followed up on her fi rst ques-tion by asking Roderick if he would agree to stay one more year if she got the job as president, she said. Th ough Th omas was only a candidate at the time, he said yes on the spot.

“It was clear to me how much this man meant to Fort Lewis College, how much his service had meant, how important he has been for a long period of time,” she said. “So I’m thinking, if I’m going to be a brand-new president, I don’t want to be a brand-new president without this man for at least another year.”

While Fort Lewis is not everything to everyone, an emphasis on teaching,

making the liberal arts available as a pub-lic institution, and strong undergraduate majors are the factors that have kept me here for so long, Roderick said.

In a year of ups and downs, ranging from the student body president scandal, to possible tuition waver changes and major budget cuts, Roderick has been a rock and a stable infl uence when things seemed all over, Th omas said.

When dealing with new ideas and situations, Roderick’s experience and knowledge has been invaluable, said Maureen Brandon, the dean of natural and behavioral sciences.

Roderick knows what Fort Lewis has tried to do in the past, what has been suc-cessful, and what has been unsuccessful, Brandon said.

Indeed, Roderick has been inextrica-bly involved in many recent events at Fort Lewis, from discussing the Native Ameri-can Tuition Waver with Th omas and Ben Nighthorse Campbell last September in Washington D.C., to infl uencing the recent department cuts, Th omas said.

“Steve Roderick gave me perspective on all of the events that were unfolding as they unfolded, and that perspective was very important,” she said. “I don’t want to think of what this fi rst year would have been like without Steve.”

A major part of the provost’s position entails overseeing the deans and help-

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ing to shape the faculty within each school, Th omas said.

Roderick’s background in teacher edu-cation has been particularly helpful in his role at Fort Lewis, as he has a good knowl-edge of the faculty. Good teaching is of par-amount importance to him, she said. Being at Fort Lewis for so long, Roderick has truly built the faculty to what it is.

Along with building the faculty Roder-ick has worked on various programs, one of his favorite being the Navajo Outreach Pro-gram, Roderick said.

Brandon accredits Roderick with being a valuable supporter of grants, which are mas-sively important to the School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Brandon said.

“One of the first things that he told me when I came here was, ‘It’s my job to help you,’ and I’d never felt that kind of support before, so from my perspective it’s been fabulous to work with him,” Brandon said.

One of the important things Brandon learned from Roderick is that she needs more contact with the students, Brandon said.

Roderick is a great model, as he can often be found eating in the Student Union building, and has a close relationship with the student government, along with many student athletes, she said. He is always down there talking to people.

“Th e Student Union dining room is open to the public, keep eating there,” she said.

Brandon, who is somewhat nervous about Roderick ’s retirement, hopes that the new provost will share Roderick ’s traits of having a good sense of humor, a good sense of what Fort Lewis is all about, and strong leadership and collaborative qualities, she said.

She hopes that like Roderick, the next provost will be someone who the students, faculty, and administration can feel comfort-able with and trust, she said.

Th e search for the next provost is already underway, with Fort Lewis sending out a campus-wide email announcing the four fi nalists on Th ursday, Feb. 17.

The candidates include Dr. Dale Ostlie, the dean of the college of science at Web-ber State University, Dr. Manuel Avalos, the associate vice chancellor for faculty support and development at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Dr. Bar-bara Morris, the dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Redlands, and Dr. Russell Meyer, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Th e candidates visited Fort Lewis’ cam-pus for two days each the past two weeks with opportunities to tour campus, have din-ner with President Th omas, and meet with

various Fort Lewis administrators, faculty members, and students.

Roderick will be involved with the pro-cess, meeting with candidates and off ering support and insight to whoever is chosen, Th omas said.

Some advice for the next provost would be to trust their instincts and to learn as much as they can about Fort Lewis over time, Roderick said. Some of the processes here may seem unusual or less tightly regu-lated than at other facilities, but there are usually reasons for this, so one piece of advice is to give things a chance instead of micro-managing.

Roderick’s involvement and presence during this process should help to ensure a smooth transition and decrease the impact on students, Th omas said.

Th e student body may feel some impact as a new provost will likely look at Fort Lewis’ current policies and assess whether or not some of them should be updated, Bran-don said. In this case the faculty will feel the majority of the impact, with the students being aff ected mainly through a trickle-down eff ect.

While the search for the new provost is on, Fort Lewis can still look forward to a few more months with Roderick at the helm, and as the administration, faculty and community welcome the new candi-dates, many may find themselves looking back on Roderick’s legacy.

“Steve Roderick is a good man, bless his heart,” Th omas said.

Th omas chose this sentiment to honor Roderick, as that is the last thing he always says after dealing with a person, she said. Whether the nature of an issue is good or bad he always leaves things on a positive note.

“I came back to serve the college in its time of need because I love this place” -Dr. Steven Roderick

Dr. Dale OstlieDean, Weber State

University of Science

Dr. Manuel AvalosAssociate Vice Chancellor

for Faculty Support & Development, University

of North Carolina, Wilmington

Dr. Barbara MorrisDean, University of

Redlands College of Art & Science

Dr. Russell MeyerProvost & Vice President

for Academic Affairs, Colorado State University

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Reader’s Perspective columns need to be sub-mitted to kmmartinez@fortlewis.edu for the next issue by March 18th.

Everyone wants to change the world, and this time next month, a group of empowered Fort Lewis students will be travel-ing to Washington, DC and fi nding what they can do.

Th ese students will be attending Power Shift 2011, sponsored by the Energy Action Coalition. Th e goal of Power Shift is to empower youth with the skills they need in order to take back their democracy from big businesses and corrupt politicians.

Over the course of four days, over 10,000 college stu-dents will take over Capitol Hill, including attending work-shops and meeting with their congress representatives. Th e skills that students take away from Power Shift are those of peaceful-yet-political protest, public speaking, and self-empowerment.

Fort Lewis senior Alex Pullen, who works at the Environmental Center, is responsible for bringing Power Shift to Fort Lewis. Pullen last attended Power Shift two years ago.

“I want to bring people to D.C. this April so that I can share the same great experience that I

� e views and opinions expressed in this column are that of the author’s and do not represent the views and opinions of � e Independent.

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had two years ago with other students. A good friend of mine set up everything for me to go last time, and now I am paying it

forward with interest,” said Pullen when asked why he wanted students to attend Power Shift.

Th e students attending Power Shift this year have been working hard on making sure the campus com-

munity knows that they are fi ghting for a greener future. As one of the students attending Power Shift, I am excited to meet people from all over the country who have the same hopes and dreams that I do.

Power Shift, for me, represents hope for the future and new ways to change the world around you.

In reality, we have all been hearing ‘turn off the water when you brush your teeth,’ and ‘change your light

bulbs!’ for years, and at some point these helpful hints are going to start falling on deaf ears.

When we reach a point in our society where cries for advancements are being ignored, it’s time

to change the way that we ask for them. Th at is what Power Shift is doing: providing the youth of

today with the instruments of change they need.

hat do you think best represents Fort Lewis College, or any institution of learning? I believe that student orga-nizations can be one of the best ways to defi ne who makes up the student body.

Student organizations are groups of students that feel passionate about a particular hobby, craft, common-ality, philosophy, or anything else.

On almost all campuses, there are many diff erent groups of recognized student organizations. Th ese groups form from students who believe in student expression and do what it takes to make something happen.

Fort Lewis College has new organizations that form each semester as well as some that continue on year after year. But the best thing is that all types of organizations can form, regardless of the area of interest. Th is is why I believe that student organizations represent the fl uid cul-ture of this college.

Whether it be students who are interested in playing Yahtzee every Th ursday night, or students getting together to play ping pong, all varieties of student organizations are

eligible to apply as an organization and the school must take a neutral perspective when evaluating them.

Th is neutral evaluation is a really great way to defend your idea because it is impossible to say what is best for everybody. As long as the organizations are responsible and they make things happen, the content of the club shouldn’t matter. At Fort Lewis, we have many diff erent clubs and organizations that serve many segments of the student body, which I fi nd extremely impressive.

Th is is my fi nal semester at Fort Lewis College, and I regret not being more active in pursuing resources that are available to all students to work towards any passion of their choosing. My recommendation is to either join a current organization or possibly get together a small group of students to propose a new idea, because again, it could be anything you want.

We all pay an abundance of student fees, and one of the areas it goes to is student organizations, so get out there and utilize what the students choose to pay for!

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