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Last Thursday, after a NATO airstrike on a convoy in Sirte, Libya, ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed after nearly nine months of fighting.

Though the events there have been often confusing, this victory for the Libyan rebels gives time for an American audience to learn what really has been happening in Africa.

Dr. James Lutz, IPFW professor of political science, gave his expertise and knowledge about the civil war, Ghadhafi’s death and what’s next for Libya.

Protests for reform began in Libya in February 2011, which were soon met with violence from Libyan security forces. NATO forces became involved in March after the movement had already escalated to the level of civil war. According to Lutz, this is why NATO thought it necessary to intervene rather than in other countries facing similar movements.

“In Egypt and Tunisia, the opposition never reached the level of civil war,” he said.

However, no foreign troops were ever on the ground. All military support was done in the air, such as creating a no-fly zone or air striking bases and compounds.

For this reason, now that the war there is

essentially over, “there are no troops to withdraw,” said Lutz.

“There will be no departure in a diplomatic sense,” said Lutz. The other countries involved in Libya, such as the United States and France, will provide “civilian advice” and other such support to help the people in their new regime.

As for what the regime will be, Lutz said nothing is certain. “Right now it’s been a very collective leadership,” he said. No one leader has appeared during this movement or even in the interim government that could be considered the definitive new political head.

Unlike in Iran, which had a similar coup in 1979, radical Islamic groups will not likely rise to power in Libya. Though Libya is predominantly Muslim, extremist religious sects were not at the forefront of the rebellion. So though people such as the foreign minister of Australia expressed fear that Libya might become another Iran, Lutz said, “There is a limited possibility that Libya could fall under extremist

Making Sense of Libya after Gadhafi’s Death

One big day. One big thanks. One Big Event. That is the message the Student Life Office

is sending to student leaders throughout campus in preparation for The Big Event, a nationwide day of college community service. Though the actual event doesn’t happen until March 2012, organization and informational meetings are beginning now.

“It’s not just the fact that we couldn’t come up with a really good name,” said Krissy Mieszcanski, associate director of the Student Life Office. The Big Event is thus named because of – of course – how big the event is.

75 colleges are participating, with a goal of 85 total around the country. At Texas A&M, where the Big Event began 30 years ago, over 15,000 students and staff volunteered last year.

At IPFW, the goal is lofty, though not as large. The organizers hope for over 300 students and 100 staff and agencies to make it work.

“It’s gonna be huge,” Mieszcanski said. “It will probably be one of the biggest events at IPFW.”

In addition to the incredible amount of volunteers planners hope for, the kickoff celebration March 24 also looks to size up. There will be a concert and visits from some “very large names,” Mieszcanski said. The mayor as well as Colts cheerleaders were mentioned among them, with Coca Cola as a potential sponsor. However, the guest list is not finalized and Mieszcanski did not want to speculate, but she said it will be a chance to rub elbows.

Of course, the event isn’t about the party; it’s about giving back to the community.

“This is the biggest student volunteering event in the country,” said Mieszcanski. What’s different about the average community service work is the places students will be sent.

“They’re not going to be your Red Cross, your United Way,” Mieszcanski said. Instead, the service will be in “elderly homes, working with children … and anywhere in between,” she said. The point is to help out at places that don’t get the national attention or as many volunteers.

To make the Big Event happen, organizers are currently looking for 20 to 30 student leaders.

“I’m looking for some IPFW commitment,” said Mieszcanski about the leaders. Other qualifications for candidates include “what you could instill in students” and leadership experience.

Being a student leader will also be a chance to “leave a huge mark on this institution,” she added.

Abigail Schnelker, a senior biology major interested in being one of the student leaders, has already been a service leader as vice president of the Big Heart Club and for Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow. However, she believes the overall giving back to the community is much more important than the leadership aspect.

“When it comes down to it, it will be 300 people acting as volunteers, not 20 people acting as a leader,” she said.

Applications to be a student leader can be found at the Student Life Office and are due Nov. 5. An interview process will shortly follow.

“I promise you lots of food and all those things, but I also promise you it will be hard work,” Mieszcanski said.

Jessica Geyer

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A new voter ID law in South Carolina has some politicians and many voters fuming. After studies showed that the law would affect precincts with a large African American population, the law has been called racist and unconstitutional by some. Supporters, on the other hand, claim it is necessary to prevent voter fraud in the state.

Currently, the Department of Justice is reviewing the law to see whether it violates the Voting Rights Act. However, Indiana has already sported a similar law since 2005.

Only three states, including Indiana, require citizens to show a photo ID before filling out a ballot. Some of the typical forms allowed are a driver's license, passport or military ID. Only forms issued in the state are accepted, and if they are expired at a date before the last election, they will not be accepted.

The largest question looming over these debates is whether or not the laws violate the Voting Rights Act. In 2008, Indiana's ID law even went to the Supreme Court, where it was upheld. This seems to have set a precedent for numerous other states in their endeavors to pass similar laws through Congress.

"So far it has checked out," said Dr. Andrew Downs, professor of political science and chair of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics.

But people who find themselves without ID at the polls will realize there is "no fail-safe" for them, said Downs. He gave the example of a person

who just moved from out of state and registered to vote but then who was robbed and had their identification stolen on voting day. If they had no way to return to their home state to receive a birth certificate, which is required to receive ID, and get those documents completed, they would be out of luck.

"If you can't produce identification, you can't vote," said Downs. "That's exactly the type of person who is in danger of being disenfranchised."

In Indiana, a person who lacks that identification can still fill a provisional ballot. However, they have a certain amount of time to produce ID before that ballot can be counted.

Some of the people that would be less likely to have identification making them eligible to vote, according to Downs, are the elderly and low-income people who don't have access to reliable transportation. This leads to another objection to voter ID laws. This is the idea that it invariably will cost money for people to get that identification.

"It becomes the equivalent of poll tax," said Downs, which is unconstitutional. State ID in Indiana costs $13 every six years, though the state does offer the option of free identification. Even so, people who are transportation dependent, said Downs, will have to find a way to get to those offices.

"They will be paying a fee, even if it is not a direct cash transaction," he said.

For supporters of voter ID laws, Downs said,

"It's a minor inconvenience when you look at potential fraud."

In 2008, community activist group ACORN was accused of voter fraud, for example. There was also a great amount of debate before the 2008 elections that voter fraud would contributed to then-Senator Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential race. Also, because free identification is offered to those who need it, it is only a small proportion of the population that would be potentially disenfranchised.

"When people were pressed for examples ... there was never a compelling body of evidence there was widespread voter fraud in Indiana," said Downs. However, "the logic was logic that appealed to many people," he added.

The last UC2 event of the year deals with the issue of voting rights. It will be held twice, once at noon on Oct. 26 in the Walb Union Ballroom and again on Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. in the Rhinehart Center.

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Islamic groups … [they’re] not really in a position to immediately take control.”

However, “anything’s possible down the road,” he added.

As for Gadhafi, he has been the first leader to be killed in the Arab Spring movements, though not the first to be replaced.

“Gadhafi chose to fight the effort to change leadership,” said Lutz, and this is why peaceful reform became impossible.

According to Lutz, Gadhafi’s death suggests to leaders that if they fight reform they could possibly meet the same fate.

For protesters in places like Syria, where reform movements are currently taking place, the result of Libya and Egypt “gives encouragement that change could actually take place,” Lutz said.

The United Nations has called for an investigation into Gadhafi’s death amid ambiguous circumstances surrounding the moments before he died. Several cell phone videos show him alive but wounded among the rebels.

Lutz said it was unlikely any major consequences would arise, either from the UN or even terrorist groups.

“It’s hard to envision anyone being upset enough about Gadhafi’s death to have any backlash,” he said.

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Over the last month, Americans have become aware of and formed cautious opinions about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests and the offshoot protests in other cities. What the electorate lacks, however, is clarity. What exactly are these people protesting again?

The participants of the event are mainly protesting against social and economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government. To be certain, Occupy Wall Street’s chief complaints center on the corruption within the financial sector that is seen to have triggered the economic collapse of late 2008. They are pro-regulation reformers, opposed to the corruption on Wall Street, and by extension, opposed to the undue influence of K Street lobbyists in government.

We can best understand OWS as people giving voice to their grievances, as our forefathers did to good King George all those years ago or, more recently, as we saw in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. In the beginning of such democratic social movements, the masses generally awaken to the fact that a narrow faction of interests has somehow acquired a disproportionate portion of power, but they come to this realization in a decentralized and unfocused fashion – much as we have seen occur over the past month with OWS. The people, having realized they are not alone in their beliefs, begin to organize, evolve and grow. Only then do they formulate remedies, solutions and calls to specific action.

This type of process seems especially foreign

to many conservatives who are familiar with the Tea Party movement, which was promoted as grassroots and democratic while in fact being something quite different. There were localized grassroots responses to the Tea Party movement, but they were reactions to top-down calls to action, with specific goals predetermined by lobbying groups like Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks and the Koch brothers’ many groups, like Americans for Prosperity. These are two very different approaches: one being handed down from corporate-funded think tanks, the other rising up from an idea first proposed by a tiny little activist website from Canada. The contrast of these top-down vs. bottom-up social movements – one artificially democratic, one genuine, but both powered by the vast sense that the elites have acquired too much influence and the system has been corrupted – can be jarring.

Some voice disdain for the decentralized nature of the demonstrations, not realizing that this is not an entirely uncommon aspect of American protest. Gary Gerstle, professor of American History at Vanderbilt and a scholar of social movements, says “One can find precedents for decentralized movements in the New Left of the 1960s, which promoted participatory democracy and critiqued bureaucracy and centralization. But in developing a historical perspective, it may be useful to alter the frame we use to analyze the present moment by asking these questions: Did past insurgent movements happen in unexpected ways and at unexpected moments? Did they take

established structures by surprise? And were those established structures slow to adapt, resist or incorporate these insurgent movements? I think the answer to those questions is yes.”

By focusing attention to their complaints, the protesters created a national discussion. As Americans formed their opinions, many discovered that they shared the same complaints, and the Occupy Together movement began. Organizing began in almost 1,000 cities. The conversation that OWS started has leapt into the local arenas, and individual communities are deciding for themselves how best to express their own sentiments. The specific “demands” that will be formulated by Occupiers in Boston, for example, will necessarily differ from those in Los Angeles. This is good. This is what democracy looks like, when it wakes up.

What happens next is anyone’s guess. Occupy Fort Wayne for example, is scrambling to find legal avenues to facilitate their peaceful protests. Things could go sour quickly here, and elsewhere. Counter-protesters have organized. The potential for good or bad seems great, and that is true of the national movement as well.

Let us pause and remember our fiery patriotic marches against the Vietnam War; our bloody struggle against race discrimination; and the battles between workers and bosses. Marches, sit-ins and fearless fighting against injustices always have played an important part in American history.

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National Career Development Month is celebrated in November. What a great month to take time and evaluate your career direction, interests and past employment. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and it’s a natural time to look at blessings and develop yourself, so why not do the same for your career?

IPFW Career Services has been celebrating National Career Development Month for four years now and every year we try something different in effort to reach many majors, career interests and student demographics. This year we have a host of workshops and panels to aid students with families, seniors, business majors and go-getters. We even have a fun event for anyone just wanting more information about our office and of course, free food.

Here’s the lineup for this November 2011, National Career Development Month:

• Career Services Open House, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., KT 109

• Turning Your Major into a Career (CWRA Students with Families night),

Friday, Nov. 11, 7-8 p.m., Walb Union Ballroom

• How to Manage Your Finances: Student loans to 401k’s, Thursday, Nov. 17, 12-1:15 p.m., Webinar – www.ipfw.edu/offices/career/students/mastodon-career-calls.html

• Getting Involved to Get Ahead, Thursday, Nov. 17, 12-1:15 p.m., LA 159

• MBA Panel, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 5:30-7 p.m., KT 227

Join us for the kick-off event of the Open House on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Not only will we be offering donuts, apple cider, cookies and delicious apples, but you will also have fun with a scavenger hunt and celebrity careers quiz game. Career Services is proud to introduce every major to their very own Career Liaison, who focuses their knowledge on specific majors so to better serve each student. Come meet your Career Liaison, learn more about career options for your major and strategies on being successful.

Check out other National Career Development Month activities and competitions which you could enter to win national recognition and prizes at www.ncda.org.

The college life can be defined by many students with the party life within their reach, and by extension the amount of alcohol they can get their hands on. IPFW Student Housing curbs this problem by maintaining a dry campus – a no tolerance policy that affects legal aged students just as much as the under 21 set.

This policy has a tendency to create contention with housing students. A poll of 39 students found that 21 students, or 53.8 percent, believe that if a student is of legal drinking age, they should be allowed to store and consume alcohol in their dorm rooms. Conversely, 38.4 percent of the individuals polled believed that alcohol had no place in campus housing regardless of age.

What many students who feel this way don’t seem to realize is that the policy is not a personal vendetta against those who decide to drink alcohol, and that if it bothers them to such an extent, they don’t have to put up with it.

Student housing is a privately run set of dorms that is responsible for about 1,300 students. Housing employees must be sure that students are safe and that they follow the law. For this reason, it isn’t possible for them to allow legal aged students to possess alcohol on campus.

“The rule isn’t really there for people who are of age. It’s more of a deterrent against people who are underage abusing the ease to get alcohol if older people made it available,” said English major Gentry Trimble.

If a 21-year-old student has alcohol in a room that they share with an underage student, housing officials would have no way of making sure that the legal drinker is the only one consuming it.

Those students who are living in housing and choose to drink are free to continue doing so – in bars or in the homes of others off-campus. If they don’t like forfeiting their right to possess alcohol in their rooms, then they should remember that

they don’t have to live in campus housing. They are completely free to choose a living arrangement that doesn’t bar their ability to own alcohol.

Some might cite the point that underage students who are truly determined to drink will do so regardless of the housing policy. Student Housing is aware of this, and takes care of it on an individual basis. Changing their policy and opening themselves up to an onslaught of this behavior, however, can not be justified by the few who break the rules.

No Tolerance Policy is Nothing Personal

I am fed up with the discrimination that I have not only heard around campus but also experienced. One of the most recent things is something which happened to my friend. An elected member of a student organization treated my friend quite poorly because he's gay. The Student Body President was there and did nothing about it.

What makes matters worse was this individual was allowed to retain his position and only go through what one could consider a remedial tolerance course. I do not fault my friend for not pursuing the matter further albeit my disappointment and frustration. To date, I know of nothing further coming from this incident.

On various occasions people have felt like

they had an open invite in my personal business. Whatever may have led them to believe that is incorrect. No one has the right to question another person just because they do not fit into society’s or that own individual’s mold. With that being said I have decided to release one particular incident of something that happened to me.

This particular thing happened after I was getting ready to cross the second bridge to walk past the Clubhouse. To get to the bridge I had to pass two girls. It was after I passed these two girls that they started laughing. I knew it was directed at me because they had not been laughing prior. I know that instead of turning around and confronting them I just went to my apartment.

It has become my personal opinion that far too often things happen and we do not do anything

about it. Well the time has come I believe that we need to stop and do two things. First, we need to stop going after people no matter the reason. Second, when we see discrimination we need to stop and do something about it.

I do not know how aware the IPFW Community is but IPFW has a Zero Tolerance Policy concerning discrimination in any form. I would invite Students to read the “Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct” contained with the Student Planner. Similar policies exist as Purdue Memorandums affecting IPFW Staff.

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1.Get PreParedTo start, have face paints ready — white and black are essential, but accents can be any color — a cup of water, sponges for each color used and a flat-tipped paintbrush. Clean the face and thoroughly dry for best results.

2.aPPly the BaseDab a sponge in water and wring out until damp. Swab in white paint and cover the entire face. If too much water is on the sponge, it will work better to dab the paint on instead of swiping. “This makes it harder to blend colors though,” said Caylie Morsches, a face painter for the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. “Sometimes if the sponge is too saturated, I dry it off by swiping it on my arm multiple times.”

3.ContourWith black paint, create circles around the eyes, being careful to get into all creases below and in the corners. To make the lips look like teeth, take a flat paintbrush and hold it on its side. Slowly, draw vertical lines on the lips that curve into each other at the bottom. Repeat on the bottom lip, but be sure to keep them as even as possible. Shading can be done along the cheek bones and edges of the face to acquire the skeletal look as well.

4.aCCentUsing the paintbrush again for precision, outline any accent features you prefer. Typical accents are hearts, swirls and dots, flowers on the chin and even spider webs extending from the forehead, but they’re entirely up to the individual — sugar skulls commemorate different loved ones with different personalities. “I would suggest a lot of elaborate swirls, small dots and different colors,” Morsches said. “The more elaborate and elegant it is, the cooler it looks.” After the outlining is finished, fill in with the preferred colors and you’re done.

Ghosts. Psychics. Telekinesis. Sound like the makings of your typical sci-fi

thriller? Despite the skepticism, there are those that believe these phenomena could be real – and they aren’t just average Joes.

They’re scientists.Paranormal activities have believers the world

over. Whether it be religion, personal experience or a general feeling that something is going on which humanity can’t explain, people across the globe have a views on either side of the spectrum, and scientists are no exception.

Known as the fringe or pseudo sciences, study of the paranormal has been present in at least some degree since the 19th century when the activities of spirit mediums had everyone wondering what was real and what were just neat parlor tricks. Many individuals involved in the initial upsurge of American psychic phenomena in the 1800s were debunked or came forward to announce their own trickery, but that hasn’t stopped the world from wondering if those who never retracted their claims were telling the truth.

Most dictionaries would define paranormal as any activity or phenomena that can’t be explained by science. IPFW physics professor Timothy Grove is likely to agree with this statement.

“I would find it fascinating if science could probe the paranormal, but that brings up a significant issue,” he said.

While studies have been done claiming to prove the existence of ghosts, the validity of precognition and the ability of the mind to move objects, the scientific community requires that experiments be repeatable – a problem the fringe sciences have struggled with for decades.

“The evidence available is not repeatable, it often lacks consistency and much of the available evidence is based upon psychic sensations which has issues with independent verification. Scientists have yet

to see repeatable phenomena, such as consistent psychic readings, under controlled conditions,” said Grove.

These problems have proven to be a downfall for many paranormal studies departments at universities. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR) worked on studies dealing with extrasensory perception (ESP) and telekinesis for 28 years before closing down in 2007. The laboratory’s founder cited aging equipment, dwindling funds and a lack of acceptance of their data by their contemporaries.

Despite this snag, scientists, like Dr. Daryl Bem of Cornell University, continue to create experiments testing paranormal claims. Bem’s findings were run in a 2011 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology claiming that the human mind is capable of predicting the location of random images projected onto a screen mere moments before they appear.

Other scientists have tried to explain the existence of ghosts using theories about electromagnetic fields or the ability of humans to influence physical objects with just their minds.

“To understand why scientists continue to explore the paranormal despite the issues of reliability and repeatability, you need to understand scientific culture,” Groves said. “The way to really make a name for yourself in science is to be different. That is, you need to discover or explain something that was unknown or not well understood. Obviously, if someone could demonstrate enough evidence to support a paranormal explanation, they would be on the ground floor of a huge new avenue of research.”

The results are inconclusive. But despite skepticism, it is clear that scientists – whether for fame and prestige or because they truly want to convince the world of what they believe – will continue to pursue the paranormal.

The Science of the Paranomal

Spirit possessions link to the be-ginning of civilization in Meso-potamia, Babylonia and Assyria.

Religious leader Zoroaster performs first exor-

cism.

Jesus becomes premier exor-cist of his time.

Middle Ages spike revival of an-cient superstition and demonol-

ogy.

Roman Catholic Church completes Section 13 of Rituale Romanum, detailing rite of exorcism; still used

today with revisions.

Robbie Mannheim supposedly pos-sessed after using Ouija board in Maryland. Account inspired The

Exorcist.

The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley details epidemic of nuns possessed by demons during 17th

century.

Anneliese Michel, who Emily Rose was based on, undergoes a10-month long exorcism in Germany that takes

her life.

Catholic Church confirms over 600 exorcisms.

Pope John Paul II reportedly per-forms exorcism on a 19-year-old

girl at the Vatican.

Fort Wayne resident, Latisha Lawson believes 3-year-old son is possessed by demons and chokes him to death by forcing ingestion of oil and vin-

egar mixture.

In An Exorcist Tells His Story Father Gabriele Amorth claims to have

performed 70,000 exorcisms at a rate of 8 per day since 1986.

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Sugar skulls, which derive from the Latin holiday, The Day of the Dead, have become somewhat of a popular icon in America.

“[The Day of the Dead] is a celebration of welcome for the spirits of the dead, who return each year for a 24-hour period to enjoy the

pleasures they once knew in life. … The holiday also inspired a rich tradition of popular folk art featuring grinning skulls and dancing skeletons,” wrote Kitty Williams and Stevie Mack in their book, “Day of the Dead.”

The holiday, celebrated Nov. 1 and 2, is close

enough to Halloween that many have taken to painting their own faces like those of sugar skulls. In this step-by-step, you’ll be able to achieve the look as well.

When the face paint has been applied, you can wear an elegant dress clothes, maybe accessorize

with lacey gloves or don a miniature hat. Clean up at the end of the night should be relatively easy: “[Face paint] comes off easily with soap and warm water, and maybe some scrubbing,” Morsches said.

How to: Sugared Skull Makeup

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Full-time tattoo artist Ricco Diamante speaks slowly, with a casual, focused tone, to his personal secretary-turned-client, Danielle Carroll, an IPFW student, age 23. She is, in one sense, the canvas that will soon contain a permanent – by most means – work of art, to be worn for the rest of her life.

In the basement of Revolution Tattoo Gallery, located on the southeast corner of Fort Wayne's Broadway and W. Jefferson Blvd., Diamante touches his hand to his chin and leans back in a black leather swivel chair.

“So, stand up. Let's get one more look at this piece,” Diamante says, referring to a stenciled portrait of what appears to be a futuristic pin-up girl – with long eye lashes, intricately waving, multicolored hair, an orchid in the layers of hair and feathers dangling from looped earrings in the form of dream-catchers – that was set to the side of Carroll's torso, spanning from low on her hip to the middle of her ribcage.

He considers the stencil, which will act as a guide when the actual tattoo machine is applied, with a notable amount of concentration. He examines the feathers and points out that they should appear to have some lift to them, as if being brushed by the wind, so that they will correlate with the implied motion of the hair.

He is the classic personification of an artist at work.

Diamante wasn't always the co-owner of Revolution Tattoo Gallery. In fact, a few years ago, he wasn't yet a tattoo artist, but corporate sales manager of luxury lifestyles, in Sedona, AZ. – what he calls the “mecca of fine arts galleries.” There, he undertook secondary employment – an apprenticeship at the first tattoo shop to have opened in the city of Sedona – in order to access an environment where he could draw and create at a regular pace. Having observed signs of collapse within the corporation he'd worked for, Diamante eventually resigned altogether, which happened to be a mere four days before the company went bankrupt.

“All I had at that point was my money, belongings and my tattoo apprenticeship,” he reflects. “When I started, I did not see [tattooing] as what I was going to be doing full time.”

He had begun the apprenticeship just as the recession began marching the nation into economic crisis, and felt as though he needed to create his own success, rather than depending on another corporation.

In the studio, he takes his time, careful to know

the image thoroughly – to consider possibilities while extinguishing others, before leading Carroll upstairs to a corner of the art gallery where there sits a body-sized, leather table beside a chair and desk. On the desk, the tools are already in place. The colors of ink, paper-towels, mats, a tattoo machine, gloves and lighting are set up. A laptop is set nearby, opened to display a reference image for the piece – a plastic sheet covers the keyboard.

Carroll says, as Diamante washes his hands in a nearby sink, “I'm scared,” displaying a common uneasiness toward the task ahead.

But the music playing is that of a soft voice, singing, and a lightly strummed a guitar. And Diamante's confidence is ever-prevalent and calming.

Carroll asks, “Are you going to make the feathers like you made that one feather?” referring to a previous, heavily detailed piece Diamante had made.

His reply provides some perspective, as he reminds her that that particular feather had taken him five hours to create. There are three feathers drawn in marker on Carroll's side, presenting an effort that, if rendered in equivalent detail, would

likely take approximately 15 total hours to complete.

Even further before becoming a fine artist, Diamante was a graduate of Homestead high school, which he credits for having introduced him to the idea of pursuing a career in arts in the first place. He became a student at Bowling Green State University,

studying graphic design and working in the university gallery, where he first learned to hang and install art shows. While at BGSU, his academic adviser encouraged him to focus on fine art, and after two years there, he enrolled to study abroad

in Italy. After spending some time visiting many major museums and galleries there, he returned to Fort Wayne to attend the University of Saint Francis, where he graduated with concentrations in drawing, painting and print-making.

Carroll says, quietly, “I don't like that,” as Diamante begins outlining an area around the hip.

In the first 10 minutes of receiving a tattoo, the brain is in the process of producing endorphins that act to counter the discomfort of a solid needle injecting ink into the skin at the rate of 50 to 3,000 punctures per minute – and Diamante calls it the most difficult portion of the process for a client to get through. From there, the artist charges ahead, trudging onward with

a constantly held amount of concentration and devotion to the art-form.

According to Diamante, his worst experience as a tattoo artist occurred when an image of his drawing work had been taken from his profile on MySpace, given minor alterations – merely by adding red coloring and removing his signature – and was then used as another shop's logo. He was later contacted and threatened by the shop owner with legal action unless he agreed to remove the image from the site after it had been copyrighted.

Viewing his work in both painting and tattoo as a source for exploiting art is an appalling notion. Particularly where credit is not given. However, others are able to find something else in his art – people such as IPFW art student, Jordan Lindsay, 18, a client from two weeks prior to Carroll's own session.

“He's a super-entertaining, and friendly guy,” she said.

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In the studio, he takes his time, careful

to know the image thoroughly – to

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A webcam is mounted above the TV. Another is posted on the fridge and two are in the basement. No, this isn't a man paranoid of being robbed. It's a man paranoid of ghosts.

“I think my house is haunted,” said Chancellor Michael Wartell. “There are always these weird noises, so I decided to constantly film myself.”

So far, the chancellor has recored 86 hours of footage after being inspired by the latest installment of Paranormal Activity. He recently took his film to a local ghost hunting society for close examination of what he is calling “definitive evidence of haunting.”

“Look. Look at that!” Wartell said to the investigators, pointing frantically at the screen

as a ball rolled into the frame. It was shortly followed by his dog and

then Wartell himself, in the middle of a game of fetch.

Donald Kootz, head of the Specter Seeking League of Fort Wayne, told The Communicator he doubts there is any ghostly activity in the chancellor's home.

“He never witnessed anything strange before seeing that movie. He'll get over this in a few days,” said Kootz.

Wartell, however, is adamant that something supernatural is happening.

“Yesterday, I put a camera on one of my ceiling fan blades so it could get a view of the whole room,” he said. “When I got home, the camera was broken on the floor. Explain that, science!”

Wartell has also set up surveillance throughout campus, just in case it's not his house being haunted, but him.

After Watching Paranormal Activity, Chancellor Films Home


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The MusTards

Ketch Ashum is a senior at IPFW. He has only one more semester to complete and then he can graduate, majoring in mathematics.

However, he has another dream in mind: Be a Pokémon master. In order to do that successfully, he has to catch every single Pokémon known in existence.

“I can’t do [my dream] while I’m in college. It’s distracting from my goal,” Ketch Ashum said. “I should’ve started when I was ten, like everyone else. But issues were raised, and I had to stay home.”

Normally, everyone leaves home at age ten to go on a Pokémon journey. Whatever they want to do with their lives, they can. Some kids don’t want to do that and just stay home to take on other professions.

“You’ll see. Everyone will. I’ll be a master, and my dreams will come true. This is all about redemption for me and my name,” said Ashum. “It might seem a little odd to others, but this is what I want. Isn’t that what we were always told as children? Do what we want?”

Student Drops Out of School to be a Pokémon Master

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Where Are They Now? An Interview with Teen Wolf

“It’s been a rough couple of decades,” recounted Scott Howard, or as he is better known, Teen Wolf. “When you’re a kid, you got no idea what the future is going to look like―it’s all unicorns and rainbows.”

Though once a star high school basketball player and werewolf heartthrob, the years have not been kind to Howard: “I got into Penn State on a basketball scholarship, but after I accidentally mauled the mascot, my dreams of stardom came crashing down.” Howard was charged with involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison.

“See, I used to be able to control it―wolfing out was as easy as getting an erection or flexing

my biceps,” Howard lamented. “But these days I’ll wake up cold and alone in the middle of a cornfield, covered in god knows whose blood...I don’t know who I am anymore!”

At the height of his “wolfmania” grandeur, Howard was widely popular and respected. Now he has confined himself to a single room apartment with steel reinforced doors and thick chains to keep from escaping on full moon nights.

“Being a werewolf was so cool when I was a teenager. I had the chicks and the friends,” said with a deflated sigh as Howard lifts a warm can of Natural Ice to his lips. “Now I’m 43, obese and on disability. I can’t even keep cats around for fear I will devour them on a wolfed out rampage.”

Vegetable Rights Group Protests Pumpkin Mutilation

Amid the upswing in protests following the creation of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, members of the vegetable rights group Humans Offering Plant Empowerment (HOPE) have begun to protest plant mistreatment in and around campus.

According to the groups spokesman Vinny Travis the group formed in early October when they sensed that their help would be most needed by the disenfranchised plant community.

“It’s really quite horrific what people do to plants, especially pumpkins. Severing body parts, stabbing them with Mr. Potato Head noses and eyes. The violence needs to stop, and we plan to

give the plants a voice,” said Travis.The group has been trying to convince people

to use non-violent decorating methods, such as painting, if they must display pumpkins for Halloween. They would also like to branch out to advocate plant-less diets and the correct care procedures for flower gardens.

“We only eat meat. Have you not seen ‘The Happening’? Plants should definitely be treated with respect and if we don‘t start soon it might be too late for us to get on their good side,” said Travis.

HOPE is planning to protest on Monday during the IPSGA pumpkin carving contest.


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