haunts in Amarillo,” Patton said.Their haunt does just that,

as it provides many different angles and ways in which to be scared.

“It’s already eerie being in the corn at night because you can’t see where you are going and having people jumping out at you from every angle just makes it that much more thrilling,” Ca-leb James, personal assistant to

Patton, said. “It’s not like every other haunted house.”

Another haunted house in Amarillo, The Sixth Street Mas-sacre, takes a different year-long approach to making their haunt stand out.

“We are the only haunted house who has a person work-ing here all year round,” Mike Fisher, owner of Sixth Street Massacre said. “On Nov. 1,

somebody will be here working. We go to haunted house conven-tions during the off season and we use what we learn there and our own ideas to improve our haunt all year long.”

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Every year, locals stand in line and await their fate, as the night creatures call for

a thriller night in haunted houses across Amarillo. This year proves to be no different as haunted houses are stepping up their game. This includes one haunt that is going above and beyond to make the experience of their haunt more interactive and thrill-ing.

“The customers get on a hay-ride that has paintball guns at-tached to it and they travel to the end of the field shoot zombies on their way out, and all the zombies that they made mad chase them through the corn maze,” Derinda Patton, owner of the Amazingly Fun Farm and Farmageddon, said.

Other than to give people a night to remember, Patton want-ed to make sure people are get-ting what they paid for.

“We want to give people their money’s worth, haunted houses are expensive and what I wanted to do was to have something that was over and above that would stand out from all the other

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Impact Futures holds town hall meeting

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Jacob Warrin, local artist and Amarillo Independent School District employee,

was a guest speaker at the Im-pact Futures town hall meeting on prescription drug abuse.

The meeting started at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25 and opened with War-rin’s speech. He spoke on how he was shot in the neck because of drugs and how this made him turn to sobriety. He also shared his plans to raise awareness about drug abuse through his artwork.

Warrin was addicted to al-cohol and drugs and shows this through his paintings of an-gels holding bottles. He aims to share his story with the school districts to make kids aware of what addiction to prescription drugs can lead to.

“The bottle that the angel is holding is a bottle of hope to ev-ery person that needs a symbol,” Warrin said. “I want to donate a painting to every school I went to. I want more than that. I want it to be in every school in the nation so everyone can see the bottle of hope.”

After Warrin spoke, the meeting transitioned into an open discussion between an expert panel and the attendees. The panel consisted of law en-forcement, Panhandle Poison Center, Pavilion representatives, a chemical dependency coun-selor, and high school students.

“A lot of times prescription drug abuse is not reported,” Jeanie Jaramillo, managing di-rector of the Panhandle Poison Center, said. “We hear more about synthetic drugs. Teens think prescription drugs are safe. If mom and dad keep them in the house, then they don’t think it’s bad.”

The Panhandle Poison Center sponsors a medication clean out where residences can turn in their old prescriptions and the Amarillo Police Department dis-poses of them by incineration.

“29 percent of kids [who use] start with prescription drugs because they are safe,” Laviza Matthews, program director of Impact Futures, said.

The Pavilion is also involved in making patients aware of how to take care of their medication when they are released. They have a counselor meet with the

kids before they are discharged and go over proper doses. They started an adolescence program in early October, which educates kids on how to handle their pre-scriptions so they will be more educated when they return to school.

“In our school, the only awareness we have is from Red Ribbon Week. We mostly are learning about them [prescrip-tion drugs] from our peers and the people that are selling them,” Hannah Johnson, Tas-cosa High School senior, said.

“They are super open about it. You know where to get it and how much it costs.”

The panel discussed options on making drug abuse and avail-ability more recognizable in the Amarillo school district. They also talked about educating par-ents and raising awareness in all schools, not just high schools. Vern Wilson, corporal from the Amarillo Police Department, said that kids begin selling in middle school and will sell ciga-rettes for a dollar and a pinch of snuff for fifty cents.

Impact Futures’ next event will be on Feb 2. They will place large canvases in the schools so that the kids can write what keeps them above the influence on it.

“It will be very colorful so the students will engage their gray matter and remember their goals. It’s been proven to be re-ally effective,” Matthews said.

There will also be an assem-bly where Warrin and a victim of a drunk driving accident will speak.

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together the best of technology and scares to put together a haunt that will not disappoint.

“It starts with the haunt the haunt,” Fisher said. “However, I enjoy the technological side of it. It’s my thing, so if you take the technology and wrap that in with the haunt than you can make a pretty awesome place.”

However, to get to the thrilling haunted house they have now, The Sixth Street Massacre had humble garage beginnings.

“We started this because we would go around to the other haunted houses and they didn’t change,” Fisher said. “So we started with scaring people in our garage and people would come to the house and say this is better than what we are paying for and so we started doing it for money.”

“Fast forward 10 years and we are where we are now in a 10,000 square foot old movie theater from the 1920’s,” Fisher said. “The building is a historical landmark.”

However, in this theater, people want to see the movies that have scared them to come to life.

“We use movies for inspiration because it is familiar and that familiar aspect that the movies bring allows the customer the opportunity to be scared,” Fisher said.

However, what locals are looking for in a haunt might be different. Local DJ For 96.9 Kiss FM, Tommy the Hacker, is leaving it up to the listeners to decide what they like the best.

“I have my own prospective on who I think has a good haunt, but we leave it up to the listener,” Tommy said. “There is a handful of great haunted houses this year, so we put a poll on our Kiss FM website and let the listeners have at it and by the end of Halloween, we will see who is the big dog in town.”

It takes a great haunt to make Tommy the Hacker scared.

“What makes the hair on my arms stand up and my toes cringe is a haunted house that has good actors, good special effects, it has to be dark and very well put together,” Tommy said. “Of course you have to have the Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy.”

As for all the local haunted houses, Tommy supports them all.

“We promote all of the haunted houses here in town and all of them that advertise here on Kiss FM,” Tommy said. “I’m a huge haunted house fan as it is, so as soon as Halloween comes around, I start celebrating on Oct. 1 and I celebrate it till the end of the month. I celebrate it and I tour around and go to all the haunts in town.”

Tommy the Hacker advises all who are going to a haunt to do two things.

“Don’t wear flip-flops cause you will be running and get ready to get scared; they definitely stepped up this year on the haunted houses,” Tommy said.

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The Pre-Veterinary Club at WTAMU is volunteering time and hard work to

help animals in need. They are now spending their days at the Panhandle Safe Hayven Equine Rescue.

The rescue is a safe place for abused or neglected horses, or horses whose owners can no longer care for them for differ-ent reasons. They are fed back to health, if possible, and are placed in good homes. The hors-es are well taken care of and loved until they are adopted.

Club students are able to go out to the rescue center during their spare time to groom the horses, clean the pens, and even bond with them. It is very im-portant not only that the horses get the love and attention they need, but also that the students get the chance to help with the animals and gain knowledge and experience they may not re-ceive in the classroom.

“It is an opportunity for us to get to see how a business is run that isn’t a vet clinic,” said Brit-

tany Lasak, a senior Pre-Veteri-nary major.

For Lasak, this is a time when she is able to learn more about horses and spend more time around them. She has not been around horses much and is us-ing this experience to benefit

her practice down the road.“I’ve never had much expe-

rience and want to gain knowl-edge from [Head of the Panhan-dle Safe Hayven Equine Rescue] Terri Gammage” said Lasak.

Unlike Lasak, there are few students who have spent

their whole lives around horses and have a strong pas-

sion for the animals. For these few, it isn’t about what they take away from it.

“I would rather the hors-es take away more than I do. They’re the ones that need it, not me,” said Ryan McGilvray, a freshman Pre-Veterinary major.

Stephanie Troutman, a fresh-man Animal Science major, has been riding horses since she

was about four years old. This opportunity gives her a sense of accomplishment. She loves to help out any way she can. Volun-teering for the rescue is fueling her dream of someday work-ing with the mentally disabled through riding therapy.

“I feel like every horse has a story to tell,” said Kevin Ruiz, a freshman pre-veterinary major.

Ruiz feels that every time a person is out with horses people learn from them. They not only learn about the individual horse, but also a lot about them-selves. It is also a way for him to learn all the differ-ent ways of working with the horses and the different fields that he can explore in the equine industry.

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Ability Awareness Week

Ability Week educated some stu-dents on how difficult it can be to have a disability.

“People haven’t realized how to deal with it [hearing disabilities] until they have to lip read,” Morgan Grazier, a senior General Business major said as she worked the hearing booth.

Students were introduced to visual, hearing and learning disabilities by go-ing to different booths that simulated the disabilities. Lisa Sharp and Tanya Wash-ington, counselors for the Division of Blind Services, ran the visual booth. They brought goggles that imitated complete blindness, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and cataracts. The students were lead by others and put puzzles together in order to show them how to interact with people with a visual impairment.

Tiffany Benson, a freshman Special Ed-

ucation major, went to the booths with her class and started her learning experience with the learning disability booth.

“[I] didn’t realize how difficult it would be,” said Benson after she finished her first activity looking at the dyslexia and learn-ing comprehension exercises.

Tana Gunter, instructor of Education, took her class to Ability Week. She said her IDS class focused on Education majors and due to inclusion in the classroom, most of the students will have to work with stu-dents who have disabilities. She heard of Ability Week through flyers and emails.

“This is one I bring my students to ev-ery time,” said Gunter as she watched her students attempt to do all of the tasks. “To actually participate is very helpful to stu-dents because people don’t really know about how difficult tasks are that are com-mon to a student without disabilities until people experience the disability.”

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There is a specific triangle of living when it comes to college life: social, sleep,

and academics. It has been said that a college student can only do two and it’s quite obvious which one many students have decided to pass on - sleep. Ac-cording to an article in The Cali-fornia Aggie, 70 percent of col-lege students receive less than the eight recommended hours of sleep and 68 percent have trouble falling asleep due to academic and emotional stress, resulting in later bedtimes. This leads many to think about how this affects their daily lives.

“I notice my 9 a.m. class is a lot quieter than my 1 p.m. class, and I also notice that in my 9 a.m. class it looks like some just jumped out of bed and went straight to class.” Dr. Trudy Han-son, head of the Department of Communication, said.

Hanson explained some ob-servations she had on her stu-dent’s sleeping patterns.

“In the morning class, they have to turn in their writing submissions through WTClass before class, and I see a lot of the submissions are made at 1:00 to 3:30 in the morning.”

There are many reasons stu-dents lose sleep. Some have chaotic schedules trying to bal-ance homework, class and of-

ten jobs. Others have late night study groups because the eve-nings are sometimes the only time when they have free time, but the study groups often go well off into the early hours of the morning. Anxiety over the stresses that college brings also keeps students awake during the night. Worrying about up-coming midterms or financial deadlines can frequently lead students to sleepless nights.

A lot of students’ education also suffers due to lack of insuf-ficient sleep.

“I find myself drinking more and more caffeine and Monsters to even stay fully aware dur-ing class,” said Nancy Vega, a sophomore Nursing major who

attends Lamar Community Col-lege in Lamar, Colo. “I try to study, hang out with my friends and I have a job, but sleep is al-ways the last thing I do, but one of the first on my mind.”

Vega said her education has suffered as she spends time studying extremely late and when it comes down to exam time, she often blanks out.

“I need to learn a balance, to try something else, because what I’m doing isn’t working,” Vega said. Lack of sleep has re-ally affected Vega’s academics and she failed her pharmacol-ogy class this semester.

“Everyone has busy sched-ules, and there are days when I stay up really late, but I always

make sure to do one night where I make sure I put in at least nine hours of sleep,” Martha Alvarez, a freshman Mass Communica-tion – Electronic Media major, said.

Hanson said new students coming into college have ad-ditional issues to learn how to manage.

“When students make the transition from high school to college, their time management skill haven’t really fully devel-oped and many students put off deadlines until the day it’s due; spending the entire night doing homework, losing sleep they should be getting,” Hanson said.

Horse team prepsThe WTAMU Stock Horse team is

preparing to compete at their first show of the season in Abilene, Texas

at the World Championship Stock Horse Show of Texas. The collegiate competition will begin on Nov. 1 and continue through the weekend until Nov. 3.

The WT Stock Horse team is a club on campus that is open for anyone with a horse and an interest in showing ranch horse versatility. They have practices three times a week and currently consist of 15 team members. At their competitions, they have the opportunity to participate in four different events: Working Cowhorse, Rein-ing, Ranch Trail and Ranch Pleasure.

“The cow work portion of the Working Cowhorse event is my favorite out of the four events that we compete in,” Jeremy Levi, senior Agriculture Education major, said. “I really enjoy having to deal with the unpredictability of the cattle while keeping myself and my horse focused. It makes things more interesting.”

The WT Stock Horse team gives stu-dents on campus an opportunity to show their own horses at a collegiate level and

work with professionals, coaches and teammates on their horsemanship abili-ties.

“I started these ranch versatility com-petitions and stock horse team while I was attending Laramie County Community College and competed there for two years,” Keylee Sayler, President of the WT Stock Horse team and senior Equine Industry and Business major, said. “This will be my fourth year competing at this level, and it has helped me tremendously with my horsemanship skills and also helped me to communicate better with my horse.”

The team of fifteen members has the chance to travel to Abilene, as long as they go to the scheduled practices, their horses are ready and they get their sponsorships in. Once in Abilene, they will have the op-portunity to compete against schools such as Texas Tech University, Tarleton State University and Clarendon Community College.

“I am really excited about the talent that we have on the team this year and I look forward to testing our abilities in Abilene and in the rest of this upcoming season,” Hillary Finck, senior Animal Sci-ence major, said.

The WTAMU Women’s Soc-cer team concluded their regular season on Oct. 26,

defeating the ENMU Zias in Por-tales, New Mexico, 1-0. An early score by senior striker Lindsay McHorse and a relentless offen-sive attack propelled the Lady Buffs to victory.

“It’s always hard going to Eastern and winning because their field is thick and changes the game,” senior striker Leslie Briggs said. “I was really proud of the team this weekend; we fought really hard and got a goal

in the first three minutes. We had some scary, rough moments but we held on strong. With this win and an Incarnate Word loss, we are the conference champs and get first seeding. We are all pretty excited to be hosting the tournament and can’t wait to get the tournament started.” Briggs recorded the lone assist during the game.

With the win, the Lady Buffs finish the regular season with an impressive 10-4 LSC record and 11-6-1 overall in their 2012 cam-paign while Eastern New Mexico concludes with a 4-10 LSC tally with a 5-13 overall record.

As WT celebrated its win over ENMU, it proved sweeter when Angelo State scored an upset of Incarnate Word in San Antonio. This enables the Lady Buffs to capture their fifth Lone Star Con-ference regular season champion-ship and host the LSC Champion-ship tournament at The Pitch this weekend.

The Lady Buffs earned them-selves a first round bye in the tournament and will return to defend The Pitch on Friday at 7:30 p.m. to face the winner of the Midwestern State vs. Abilene Christian game that will take place on Thursday at 2:30 p.m.

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Lady Buffs soccer advances

I was combing through sports headlines the other day and I came across one

about Tim Tebow. Not surpris-ing, Tebow is everywhere. Then I kept reading the article and I suddenly felt like my frustra-tions that have been built-up over the last two years had been validated.

Sports Illustrated ran a sur-vey recently in which 180 NFL players participated. On the survey, there was the question of which player is the most overrated player. With 34 per-cent of the vote, the players se-lected Tim Tebow.

It’s about freakin’ time. In 2010, Tebow, the former

Heisman Trophy winner was selected by the Denver Bron-cos in the first round of the NFL draft. After two terrible, and I do mean awful, seasons in Denver, Tebow was traded to the New York Jets so Denver could make room for Peyton

Manning. Some time during those two years, “Tebowmania” exploded and Tebow became more polarizing than LeBron James.

So far this season, Tebow has thrown for a whopping 32 yards and run for an eye-pop-ping 76 in his first seven games with the Jets. Sarcasm aside, Tebow still gets as much media attention as some of the game’s elites like Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady. The attention that Tebow gets continues to leave me scratching my head, consid-ering he is a backup quarter-back.

I know what some of you are saying: “Tebow still won games in Denver and took them to the playoffs.” True, a miracle over-time win against a banged-up Steelers team was pretty im-pressive, but let’s look into the numbers. Tebow played in 14 games last year for the Broncos and averaged only 123 yards per game and completed only 46 percent of his passes. It

sounds like he really gets the job done. Don’t get me wrong, Tebow is an incredible athlete and his work ethic is unbeat-able.

Whether or not you agree with me, Tim Tebow’s numbers don’t justify his hype. Yet, the curious thing about Tebow-mania is that no matter what Tebow does (or doesn’t do), we in the media can’t seem to shut up about him. When I write about Tebow, it adds to the Tebowmania. When this story is a headline on the front page of a major sports organization’s website, it adds to Tebowma-nia. Could it be because we hate Tebowmania, yet we can’t stop talking about it?

That could be one answer, but there is no sure answer as Tebowmania is difficult to ex-plain. Perhaps if we quit talk-ing about it, then Tebow won’t be the most overrated player in the NFL. Or he could play bet-ter; then the hype will be justi-fied.

The Eastern New Mexico Grey-hounds held off a late rally to defeat the WTAMU Buffaloes

2-1 on Oct. 26 at The Pitch. “We didn’t play worth a damn.

I’m just disappointed in our perfor-mance, and our energy in the first half, and our lack of concentration. It’s just a lot of things – poor is all I can say,” Coach Butch Lauffer said.

The Greyhounds struck first with a header from Eishu Kane-mitsu and a Cantu Palombo assist at the 33rd minute, before Palombo scored his own goal with a Michael Stewart assist to give Eastern New Mexico a 2-0 advantage going into the half.

In the second half, the Buffs got onto the scoreboard with a senior midfielder Abel Olivas goal, as se-nior striker Dominic Furness re-corded the assist. Olivas earned his third goal of the season while Furness registered his seventh as-sist of the 2012 campaign. Despite dominating the Greyhounds in the second half in shots and corner kicks, the Buffaloes failed to strike

the equalizer and send the game into overtime.

While the game proved to be close, it also brought on some physicality between the two sides. While ENMU was dealt three yel-low cards: two to Diego Santos and one to Christopher Marrone, WT’s Olivas was given the match’s only red card on the 55th minute of the game.

The Buffs stumble to an 11-3-2 overall record and 2-3 in the LSC while ENMU earns their first LSC win of the season at 1-2-1 and 10-5-1 overall. WT concludes its season with a road trip to Wichita Falls to battle Midwestern State this Friday.

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1. Name the only French- born pitcher to toss a no- hitter in the major leagues.2. In the 12 World Series from 2000 through 2011, how many have included at least one team from Texas, California or New York?3. How many times have the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers met in the playoffs?4. What school has been to the most NCAA Tourna- ments in men’s basketball without winning a champi- onship?5. When was the last time the NHL regular-season conference champions met in the Stanley Cup Finals?

1. Charlie Lea of the Mon- treal Expos did it in 1981.2. Eight of the 12.3. Twice — 1941 and 2010.4. Notre Dame, with 32 appearances.5. It was 2001 (New Jer- sey and Colorado).

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Buffs football extends winning streakThe Buffs traveled to Car-

rollton, Georgia on Sat-urday, Oct. 28 to beat

the University of West Georgia Wolves 52-28 for their eighth straight win in inter-conference play.

“[It’s the] first game for WT against a Gulf South opponent,” Buffs Head Coach Don Carthel said. “They are very talented and they look very impressive. The Buffs did not bat an eye and commenced to playing the type of ball they do and went on to a convincing win”

Junior quarterback Dustin

Vaughan tossed five touch-downs in the rout and had 331 yards passing. This included a 62-yard TD bomb to freshmen wide receiver Word Hudson to answer a nine-play, 64-yard drive that gave the Wolves an early lead, making the score 7-7. Three other WRs would have a TD, including junior WR Tor-rence Allen, who finished with 97 yards on four receptions.

“He [Vaughan] is having an outstanding season. Under-stands the offense and directs the offensive players through-out the game,” Carthel said. “We are very deep in [wide receiver]

talent as we have had to play without four of our top receiv-ers. Someone seems to step up each week and take up the slack.”

The UWG Wolves first drive went nine plays and 64 yards capped off by a touchdown from freshman QB Dallas Dickey to senior running back David Bai-ley. WTAMU answered with the previously-mentioned bomb from Vaughan to Hudson, and UWG answered WT’s scoring drive with another TD from Bailey, this time on the ground making the score 14-7. Vaughan nailed Senior Aarrhon Flores

with a TD, making the game 14-14. From that point WT would score 17 unanswered points on a TD from Vaughan to fresh-man Jarrian Rhone and a TD on a fake field goal pass reception by senior RB Khiry Robinson. The score was 31-14 going into halftime.

Khiry Robinson padded his average per game of 108 yards with another 89 Saturday Night.

“He has great work ethic in practice and it carries over to the way he and his teammates play on Saturdays,” Carthel said.

The Wolves would return from halftime to score on a 16-

play, 78-yard drive making the score 31-21. After an exchange of turnovers, the Buffs would score on a TD from Vaughan to Allen for a 46-yard TD, making the score 38-21. The Wolves would score their final points on a pass from Dickey to fellow freshman Joey Eliezer, making the score 38-28. The final for the game was 52-38.

The Buffs return to action on Saturday, Nov. 3 in Lone Star Conference action against the 7-1 Midwestern State Univer-sity. MSU won their previous game Saturday against Eastern New Mexico University 51-28.

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Game Preview: Assassin’s Creed III

Hastings in Canyon advertising Assassins Creed III.

Fans of the highly popular Assassin’s Creed franchise are in for treat today, with

the highly anticipated release of Assassin’s Creed III. The game was developed by Ubisoft Mon-treal, and is the eighth install-ment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, being preceded by games Assassin’s Creed, Assas-sin’s Creed: Altaïr ’s Chronicles, Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines, Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and Assas-sin’s Creed: Revelations.

The franchise is famous for giving players the ability to ex-perience a compelling story through tight gameplay, as well as introducing players to an ar-ray of interactive and rich his-torical environments. According to the Assassin’s Creed III web-site, the game does not stray from this path, and invites play-ers to “experience the untold story of the American Revolu-tion through the eyes of a new

assassin, Connor.” Previous games featured

protagonists Altaïr ibn-La’Ahad, a disgraced assassin on a quest to redeem himself amidst the Third Crusade, and Ezio Audi-tore da Firenze, a charismatic assassin in Italy during the late 15th and early 16th centu-ries of the Renaissance. The focus of the story in the series is the experiences of “modern” protagonist Desmond Miles. Desmond was captured by the Knight Templars, the antago-nist force of the series bent on world domination, and forced to enter a machine known as “The Animus”, which allows the person inside to re-live the ex-periences of their ancestors by accessing their genetic memory sequences.

Desmond has re-lived the memories of both Altaïr and Ezio, learning vital information regarding how to save the world from impending doom, but his journey has yet to be completed, and Assassin’s Creed III will fin-ish his expansive story. In this installment, Desmond must use

the Animus to experience the memories of his ancestor Con-nor Kenway, otherwise known as Ratohnhaké:ton, a half-Mo-hawk, half-English Assassin during the American Revolution to find the final answers that he seeks. Although the story can be difficult for new fans to fully understand, IGN.com assures gamers that players new to the series will still be able to enjoy everything the game has to of-fer.

“With the impending launch upon us, it can be tempting to go back and play through all the other games before stepping up to Assassin’s Creed III. But if you managed to make it this far without playing any of the others, it might not be worth your time. Assassin’s Creed III has expanded upon the success-ful formula and is undoubtedly the biggest game in the series to date, making it the perfect entry

point for players new to the se-ries.”

So if you haven’t been able to play through an Assassin’s Creed game just yet, it seems that today is a great time to get acquainted with one.

“Assassin’s Creed has always placed a heavy emphasis on nar-rative, but despite that, it hasn’t really pulled the threads to-gether in a coherent way... yet,” Alex Rubens of IGN.com said in an article. “Thankfully there’s a ‘previously on Assassin’s Creed’ wrap-up at the beginning that summarizes the story so far. It doesn’t cover everything, but it summarizes enough to get the main point across for new play-ers. It also helps that each game in the series works as an inde-pendent experience. Sure, they might be better as a whole, but they can stand alone, both in terms of story and mechanics.”

Aside from the focus of the

story of the franchise, Assas-sin’s Creed III will also feature stunning new visuals created by the all-new game engine An-vil Next, which was exclusively designed for Assassin’s Creed III, and is capable of delivering astonishingly realistic detail to the game. The Anvil Next team spent three years perfecting the new engine, and gamers can fi-nally experience everything it has to offer today.

Another feature of the game will be its multiplayer. Assas-sin’s Creed III will offer seven new multiplayer modes, known as Wanted, Manhunt, Death-match, Artifact Assault, Domi-nation, Assassinate, and Wolf-pack modes.

Assassin’s Creed III seems to be the most anticipated title in the series, as well as something special that all gamers should look into.

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There is always something in the darkness. Around this time of year,

everyone’s personal monster comes out to play, but out there, steadily making his presence known is a relatively new horror amongst the old ranks of demons and ghouls. He stalks you, usually starting in childhood and never relenting. There is some connection to the woods and the trees, and being in a forest when he is around is a terrible mistake. Video cameras and other electronics malfunction when he is around, producing eerie distortions and eventually revealing the malevolent force hunting you. Paranoia, relentless pursuit,

unexplained memory loss, disappearing without a trace or reappearing dismembered in the woods; these traits belong to the tall, faceless and mysterious entity known as the Slenderman.

While many mythos sources list sightings of Slenderman as far back as 16th century Germany, in reality, he began his life in 2009 as an urban legend on the Internet forum Something Awful in a thread dedicated to creating spooky or paranormal images in Photoshop. A user created and uploaded two pictures, one of a crowd of children walking down a road and the other of a playground, both with a tall and faceless figure in the background. From there, other users began to

upload more pictures and begin to attach stories to Slenderman, and his form began to emerge. Because of the many creators adding stories to the mythos, there are many differing traits and actions that have been attributed to Slenderman but at the core is the idea of this unknowable entity appearing and tormenting its victims. In many early stories, he was a much more violent creature, with the pursued vanishing before turning up days later in a forest with their internal organs rearranged. Oftentimes animals would turn up mutilated in areas stalked by him, and his targets were primarily young children. Those that tried to investigate or compile evidence would also gain his attention, and many unexplained fires would destroy evidence of his existence.

Over his evolution, Slenderman has become more of a silent manipulator. Marble Hornets, the first video series that took off in popularity upon its arrival, introduced the concept of Proxies, people somehow controlled or directed by him. The series also introduced the now iconic distortions, which coincide with the presence of Slenderman, and set the stage for other video series such as Tribe Twelve and EverymanHYBRID. Also created in Marble Hornets was the Operator Symbol, a circle with an X through it which is now ubiquitous throughout much of the mythos. While the video series are a staple of the series, it still finds life in the form of various blogs and websites written in-character by their creators who usually find themselves targets of Slenderman’s attention.

Slenderman’s influence has spread from blogs and videos to the world of videogames recently. “Slender” was the first to hit the scene, and it has spread knowledge of Slenderman to a wider audience. Quite literally it is a walk in the park, and the player must wander the woods while collecting pages, all under the watchful eye of the titular entity. Several other games and mods have begun development in the wake of Slender’s popularity, and the original developer has teamed up with another group to create an

improved sequel titled “Slender: The Arrival.”

Whether he is chasing malevolently or simply standing there watching silently, the Slenderman is a terrifying entity that embodies the eldritch unknown. One of the most terrifying aspects of the mythos is knowledge. The more one knows about the Slender Man, the more likely it is that they will find themselves pursued by a faceless man, unnaturally tall and thin, dressed in a plain suit and always just out of sight.

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Question of the Week

The Prairie will be asking a Question of the Week every Tuesday through Facebook and Twitter. Reply to our Question of the Week post on Facebook or use the hashtag #thePrairieAsks on Twitter to respond. Student responses will be printed in the next edition of The Prairie.

“How do you get your news?”

“Reddit. Tumblr. Just... the Internet.” -- Tessa Johnson

“Also Reddit. I find it to be one of the best sources for breaking news on the web.” -- Alex Roder “I get mine mostly online and via Twitter!” -- Julia Grief

A recent survey by security protection company AVG reported that one in

four young adults are friends with their bosses on Facebook, according to a recent article in Mashable. AVG surveyed 4,400 people in 11 countries, with the U.S. and Italy topping the list of users most likely to friend their bosses.

Not only that, but on average, about 59 percent of U.S. Facebook users in the 18-25 age bracket do not restrict content from their co-workers.

The world is in an era of

over-share. With the Internet and social media, nothing seems to be off-limits and employers are well aware of that. It’s not unusual for employers to run a quick social media search on potential employees as part of a background check. A picture of a keg-stand at a wild party is not the sort of image anyone serious about his or her career would want their boss to see.

Yet, the Millenial generation (i.e. most students at WTAMU) does not seem to share the same concerns about Internet privacy with their older counterparts.

We grew up with social media, so it makes sense to not see “friending the boss” as a big deal. We work differently than “Generation-Xers” and “Baby Boomers” and we even have different expectations in the workplace in regards to advancement and how we prefer to communicate.

Older generations are having trouble communicating with “Millenials” because of this generation gap, according to a study by Speakeasy, a communications development and coaching firm. To bridge

this gap, your boss may even friend you.

Being friends with the boss may help foster a positive work environment…until the boss ticks you off. AVG’s findings reveal that one in eight Millenial Facebook users have posted abusive content about their employers.

In an effort to “be open and real,” Millenial users are opening a can of worms with every Facebook post. Keep in mind that even deleted posts on Facebook stay on their servers for years. It wouldn’t be ideal

for a Facebook post you made in college come back to haunt you twenty years from now.

We’re in the formative years of our lives right now. We’re in school so we can get a good job. Yes, social media is becoming more intertwined with real life, but be smart about it. If you want to friend your boss, more power to you, but you had better make sure that your Facebook profile is completely sanitized of questionable photos, expletives, and kegger mentions.

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This Week in Photos: Haunted Houses

@The_Prairiefacebook.com/theprairiewtMany arcade games are incorporated in haunted houses. Glowing water fountain helps add extra light during the night time. Ghouls greet patrons as they walk through 6th Street Massacre.

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A coffin buried in the ground adds to the scary atmosphere.Unidentifiable and scary creatures are a staple in haunted houses.