the student compass issue one

7/30/2019 The Student Compass Issue One

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Week One,Spring 2013

TABLE of CONTENTS

A Message to Students page 2

NEWS/UPCOMING EVENTS page 3

Video Game Review page 7CLUB INFORMATION page 8

JOB POSTINGS Page 10

Housing at the Lenora Page 11

PHOTO GALLERY page 12

CLASSIFIEDS page 13

Dear AIS Community,

Student Council is proud to present the first issue of The Student Compass, a newsletter focused ocreating a student network and community at our school! Inside, you will find helpful informatiabout current and upcoming events, student news, clubs and employment. There is evenClassifieds section!

Our goal is to create a newsletter that highlights student achievements, both inside and outside the school; creates and builds a student network; as well as provides current and importainformation. We want this newsletter to be a powerful resource for us all to use.

Since this is our first issue, we are still in our development phase. We welcome all questioncomments, suggestions and general thoughts. We need your help! Submit classified ads, picturegame/music/film reviews, comics, and posters. Keep us updated about what youre doing at schoand in the community! You can contact us via email: [email protected] or via our Facebopage: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-Institute-of-Seattle-Student-Council/284777144686

Kind regards,Student Council


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The life of a student is a challenging Especially today when the majoritstudents are working, balancing faand friends and managing diffcommutes. This reality makes it even m

important for you, as a student, to focumaking school a priority and making sdifficult choices in order to be succeand reach graduation. In my many yeaThe Art Institute of Seattle I have serv

a variety of roles and have observed, first-hand, a pattern of behavthat make for a successful student. Ensure youre doing these tthings and youll be most of the way to reaching your goal!

Go to class. Most students laugh when I say this becauseems so obvious, but missing class is the #1 predictor of a studeultimate failure. Many students allot themselves a skip buddetermining the amount of time they believe they can miss class still do well. Think about it, though: missing one class equatemissing nearly 10% of the course content. Doesnt sound like a Would you be willing to take a 10% decrease in your income? 10

meaningful and can be the difference between success and faiMissing more than one class exacerbates the problem and neensures poor performance in a class.

Get to know your faculty. Beyond what they teach you inclassroom, your faculty are professionals in the industry you want ta part of. They can be excellent mentors who can help guide through school and beyond, into your first foray into the workpCome to class early. Hang out after class. Go to club meetings. Atworkshops. These are all excellent ways to get to know your teacbetter and foster a relationship that can enhance your stuexperience both in and out of the classroom.

Take charge of your own education. For students coming rout of high school, it can be a shock that there is no one looking overreminding you to do your homework, go to class, when things are etc. For students returning to school as adults it can be a struggle tothe rhythm and cycles of being in school again. While the facultystaff are certainly here to help, this is your education and youresponsible to make it a success. Schedule time for homework, as as for class (about two hours for every hour of class). Ask for help wyou need it. Know the expectations and policies of the college. Bumulti-quarter plan for your courses so you stay on track in ycurriculum.

Being a student isnt easy, but neither is working in any oindustries we teach at The Art Institute. By making school a prioand putting in a little hard work you can make real the dreams thatyou to enroll here. After all, thats why were all here, to make dreams come true.

Scott Carnz, Ed.D.

page 2 A Message to Student

I wanted to extend my personal thanks toeach of you on campus who completed theannual Noel Levitz Student Satisfactionsurvey. This year we achieved a 57%completion rate which was our highest

ever return as a campus community. Yourfeedback in regards to support servicesand institutional climate is essential tothe success of our campus. The results ofthe survey will be used by theadministration to focus on the areas that

you as valued student feel are in need of expansion or improvement.Our Dean of Student Affairs, Megan Kijewski is currently compilingand analyzing the data results gathered from your responses. TheStudent Affairs staff will be scheduling open student feedback sessionsto discuss the data results in early May. You will receive an emailannouncement and posters will be placed around campus in regards totime and location of these feedback sessions.

Some of the highest satisfaction results from the Noel LevitzStudent Satisfaction survey are:

-The course content in my major is valuable

-Faculty are knowledgeable in the field

-Labs are services and technology are adequate

-Staff are caring and helpful

Some areas of dissatisfaction and/or improvement neededfrom the Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction survey are:

-I am able to register for classes I need with few conflicts

-This school does whatever it can to help me reach myeducational goals

-Tuition paid is a worthwhile investment

-Internships or practical experiences are provided in mydegree/certificate program

These are very good results, and I look forward to continuingto build on our strengths, while simultaneously seeking ways toimprove the areas of challenge that remain for our campus. The staffand faculty of The Art Institute of Seattle are focused on thecontinuous improvement of your collegiate experience, and supportingyou toward your graduation. Once again, thank you for your honestfeedback and participation in this important survey. Best of luck to youall in your Spring 2013 courses.

President Elden Monday


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News/upcoming event

Heres your chance to leave a lasting impression on our schooby creating our MASCOT!

The competition is open to all students and faculty. The rules asimple: come up with an idea, create a physical example of thidea using any media you choose, and then submit it to tStudent Affairs Office by the end of Week Eight of Spring Qua

ter, 2013. Each submission will be put on display in the magallery and will be voted on by students and staff! The desiwith the most votes will be AISs new mascot!

A Collection of Photographs by Mike Monaghan and Easton Richmond

Mike Monaghan and Easton Richmond are photographers with two contrastic styles of capturinimages of people. Easto emphasizes the details of the human body, all in beautiful black and whitimages. While Mike captures emotion in different light media.

Opening night reception will be on April 6th, at 6pm at the Art/Not Terminal Gallery in SeattlThe exhibition will run through April 28th.

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News/upcoming eventpage 4

To request accommodations in connection with this event, contactStudent

Aairs/Disability Services in advance at 206-239-2308 or [email protected]

South Campus, Burnley Gallery

Wed, April 17th from 11:30am to 1:30pmTHE SEASON IS HERE, NOW!

EMPLOYERS WILL BE HIRINGPLAN AHEAD TO ATTEND

DONT MISS OUT!


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Arts Madness: Call for entries by April 14th!

You could win Adobe Creative Suite 6 and an IPadMini in The Art Institutes first bracket-stylestudent network contest - Arts Madness. Submityour artwork to us by April 14, 2013, and youcould be entered into our official contest playing

out on Facebook.


Screening Submissions for Quarterly screening April 18th

The deadline to submit work for the next screening is Friday, April 12th.

The videos should be uploaded to t he Network Share.

FilmMaker Forum Screening

Wednesday April 17th, 5:00-7:30 PM

Suth Campus Room 601


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Each quarter, students and faculty will nominate students they think

deserve to be recognized for their eorts.

Nominees could be selected if they exhibit one or more of the following:

Improvement in class

Good work ethic

Volunteer work

Being a valuable team member

Any other reason a student should be celebrated!(Keep it appropriate! anything inappropriate will not be considered)

Winners will receive a Portfolio dinner hosted by Student Council and the Executive Administrative

sta, their biography featured in the newsletter and the schools website, a certicate of

achievement, and their picture on the Wall of Fame at the school.

LOOK for the nomination boxes

on both campuses. There are

nomination forms that you can

take and ll out.

STUDENToftheQUARTER



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Game Reviewpage 7

Bioshock Innite like the two games before it, is an emotional

rollercoaster. I found myself loving it one minute and cursing it the next.

The game has some very heavy themes from religion to racism, so ifyoure faint of heart, or youre the type to take things personally, this

game might not be for you. Innite starts you o somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

There is a light house waiting for you. Youre being rowed to the light

house this time rather than being in a plane crash. Strange man andwomen are rowing you and talking to one another. They hand you a box

with a picture and a gun and tell you to bring them a girl and in returnthey will wipe away your debt. This is the main goal of the game is to

rescue a girl named Elizabeth.When you get to the light house you make you way up this time

rather than getting in a pod that takes you to the bottom of the ocean.

You get rocketed in to the sky and see before you a ying city. The site ofseeing Colombia for the rst time is breath-taking, as the whole city is

beautifully designed and colorful. The city feels alive and inviting andmore complete than almost any other game worlds I have been in, except

for the original game. As you walk around the city, you can walk around

the shops and listen to the citizens of the city talk. You get a real feel forwhat Columbia is all about and a sense that it is lived in rather than just a

place for you to walk around and shoot some stu.You eventfully make your way to the fairgrounds where there is

a celebration going on. You can walk around and see some sights and

sounds. Some game play tutorials have even been very cleverly hidden ascarnival games. After walking around for a bit you will make your way to a

rae, this is where you will get your rst taste of those heavy themes I wastalking about. You are given a baseball with a number on it. When they

call the winning number, youre told to come collect your prize, which isan interracial couple that is tied up. Youre given the option to throw the

ball at them or the announcer. I chose to throw it at the announcer.

This is where the game begins and Columbia quickly turns frompeaceful city to chaos. You will see many more scenes like this throughout

the campaign which is about 10 to 15 hours, depending on howthorough of a player you are; it took me 12 hours and I found most of the

hidden content meant to ush more details about the game. You event-

fully nd Elizabeth and together run around shooting the place up.This is where I had some conicting issues with the game.

Elizabeth is easily the best AI character ever made, she is helpful andsmart and at times I forgot that she was not another player. She never gets

in your way and is not always getting in to trouble that you need to rescue

her from. In fact it was her who was getting me out of trouble most o

time, throwing me ammo or health at the perfect time. But she neve

too helpful.The game play to me, however, felt vastly dierent, while

bad in the sense of controls or how they function. Rather the game ron old mechanics that have become all too familiar. Go here pre

button. Go there press a switch then ght waves of enemies until

clear them all, rinse and repeat. The one bright spot on the combat are the sky rails which can provide a great change of pace to some o

combat. I just wish there had been more areas that used them.Now Im going to get in to spoiler area so please skip ahea

the end if you dont want to hear them. After running around and shing bad guys for a while you come to the nale confrontation

Comstock, the main antagonist. After he tells you his secret you kill

and Elizabeth gets full control of her powers. This is where my bigissue with the game is... if you have read many books or watched far

many movies - as I have - the plot is very easy to guess. I found Igured out 90% of the plot in the rst hour of the game and I was righ

all accounts, except for the nal twist. This nal twist is the part that u

me. Oh, also last chance to stop reading...You nd out that Booker, your player, was also Comstock

bad guy but from a dierent reality. He made a choice you didnt sowhere in your past. You tell Elizabeth you want to go back and

Comstock before he was born. At which point youre taken to that poi

time where you didnt make the choice that the other Booker did. Mdierent versions of Elizabeth appear and then drowns you. This is w

my two problems come in to play. One, if there are multiple Bookers fmultiple realities then killing just one would not change or aect

other realities. And two, killing me at the end undoes or stops allevents that transpired in the game from ever happening. This made

feel that everything I had just played was pointless as none of it

happened within the reality of the game. That it is a game so none happened technically speaking. However, dont let this discourage

from playing the game, as this is just my opinion.As an overall package it is a fantastic experience and takes s

big steps forward in game making with only a few small missteps. D

keep away from it just because I didnt like some of it.

Bioshock Infinite Review

By Dorian Chamorro

An excellent game with good innovation, but beware of the end.


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Club Informatiopage 8

A network connecting designers, models, and events within the walls of th e Art Institute and outside in the Seattle comm

you would like to join our network, or would like further information about the club, contact: Blake McCa

[email protected]. You can also visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/165052673633176/

A network connecting designers, models, and events within the walls of the Art Institute and ou

in the Seattle community! If you would like to join our network, or would like further inform

about the club, contact: Blake McCabe at: [email protected]. You can also visit o ur Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/165052673633176/


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Club Informatiopage 9

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Apply your knowledge and learn more with your peers

Join us on Facebook! [email protected]

Club AudioThursday

4:45pm

Room633

Feel free to email us.

Michelle Arkush [email protected]

orTim Hatch

[email protected]

ADD YOUR CLUBS POSTER TO OUR

NEWSLETTER AND CONNECT WITH

THE AIS COMMUNITY!

EMAIL US YOUR POSTER OR SEND

US THE LINK TO THE ART INSTITUTE

OF SEATTLES STUDENT COUNCIL

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Job Postingpage 10

Prep/Line Cook/Support StaApplebeesSt Johns Bar and Eatery

Stopskys DeliMioPosto Cae E PizzeriaSpecialtys Cafe & BakeryCactus Restaurants

W Hotel Seattle

Family/Personal ChefMadison Park

Baker/Pastry ChefNorth Hill Bakery

Sandwish ArtistSubwayJimmy Johns

Current Part-Time Job Postings:

ServerDinetteSpiros Greek Island

W Hotel Seattle

DishwasherRuths Chris Steakhouse

Barista/CashierTeavanaBon AppetitThe Dutch Bike Cafe

Metropology

Cafe NordstromMichaels Arts and Crafts

BartenderSeatown Seabar and RotisserieW Hotel Seattle

TutorYMCA

Custodian/JanitorialNorthwest CenterExtended Stay America

Customer ServiceQualstar Credit Union

Fashion Retail Sales/SalesMacysToys R Us

For more information abou

part-time employment listed o

this page or at the school, or if yo

need help with your resum

contact Brian Dugan, AIS Studen

Employment Advisor: (206

239-2345 / bdugan@aii.


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HOUSING at the LENORpage 11

Upcoming Events in Housing

April 19: Self Defense and Safety WorkshopApril 30: Priority Registration Fair (Housing students get priority registration)May 2: Campus Canines - therapy dogs will bevisiting campus to alleviate stress from midterms.

May 4: EMP Music trip - tickets will be pro-vided to residents to see the new Art of VideoGames and Fantasy exhibits!!!

Meet Your RAs

Nathaniel HarnaschNathaniel is in the Media Arts and Animation program. Hes 20 yearsold and is from Olympia, Washington. He loves rock music and thecolor blue. His favorite thing about housing in the ongoingprograms that occur every quarter.

Paija ContestablePaija is a very talented Fashion Designstudents who is at AIS on a scholarship! Sheis originally from California and is the oldestof four siblings. Not only is she a talenteddesigner, but she is also fluent in signlanguage. Her favorite thing about housing

is being able to meet and make friends withfellow students, as well as form a close-knitgroup of friends that feels like family!

Ashley WassonAshley is a Photography student who is inlast quarter at AIS. She loves taking pictuespecially of food and unique sets in studio. Ashley is very well traveled, andbeen all over the United States. She loves aabout student housing, but her favorite of the housing at Lenora is that she is in cproximity to the school, fun programs anatmosphere that you get when you together a building full of art students!

Tyler GarciaTyler studies Game Art and Design and is an avid gamer. He really enjoys playing Diablo, Lengends of Zelda andMorrowind. Not only are these his favorite games to play, but they were also a major inspiration for him to come toAIS and study Game Art and Design. Before he got into playing video games, Tyler wanted to be an Archeologist,looking up to famed adventurists like Indiana Jones. Tyler is from Burlington, Washington.


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Photo Gallerpage 12

Portrait of a Man (above):This was created with uorescentlighting and a very shallow depth ofeld. It was submitted to a VeteranArt Exhibit contest and will bedisplayed in the Pentagon inWashington, D.C., as part of a selectfew photographs from all over thecountry.

The Dumanis Series (right):This series captures myrepresentation of classic sculpture bysculpting the make gure with light.The subjects have sculptedthemselves despite personalhardships and tragedies; creating abeautiful facade, encapsulating very

fragile or broken interiors.*Photographs by Carlos Paradinha


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Classified

FASHION INDUSTRIALDESIGN

INTERIOR DESIGAUDIO CULINARY GRAPHIC DESIGN

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am looking to collaboratewith others on a

ortfolio-quality piece thatwill reach signicant

ompletion by the end ofhis quarter. Contact me forudio post-production work,

ncluding:

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Classified

PHOTOGRAPHYEDIA ARTS &ANIMATION

VIDEO FOR SALE/WANTEDWEB DESIGN

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ADDITIONAL INFO:I originally bought it for theSound Design class (ADT 265)

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