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N O R T H E R N A R I Z O N A U N I V E R S I T Y lumberjack The Independent Student Voice £ * Lady lacks tennis team plays hard against Sac State. • P ag e 10 Students take pride in good dental health. • Page 11 Issue 6, Volume 97 Fell. 21, 2 0 0 8 - Feb. 27' 2 0 0 8 www. JackCent ral.com Poet shares his art inside arid outside the classroom. N A U J U N I O R B R I T T N E Y Walsh, h u m an itie s major, p ours a draft b e e r V a le n tin e 's Day evening. Walsh is a b a rte n d e r for C h a rly ’s Pub & G rill. C h a rly ’s is o n e of the bars review ed in th is w eek's A rts and E n te rta in m e n t.se c tio n . The review p rovides an in-dep th surve y of th e v a rio u s b a rs lo cated in dow ntow n Flag staff. In a d d itio n to C harly's, part o n e of th e review, w hich is lo ca te d on page 15, co vers th e M o n te V ista lo un g e and M a lo n e y ’s. The second half of the review w ill run in next w eek's sectio n . • Page 15 Snow- Jack gives free ride ROB E R T O T S U BO T he L u m ber jack An ASNAU financially- secured project has been realized in the form of NAU’s Snowjack Express, a free ride for students from campus to Arizona’s Snow bowl. Andy Bourget, coordinator of NAU O utdoors, said the club had been work ing to have the project realized for a significant am ount of time. “We have been talking about it in the past but it was never developed,” Bourget said. Bourget said due to inadequate snow conditions in previous years, Snowjack Express was never brought to life. “Last year we tried, but the season was bad,” Bourget said. With 55 inches of snow at Snowbowl this winter, the conditions were adequate to begin the project. The Snowjack Express made its maiden voyage Feb. 1. “It has been selling S e e SNOW JACK P a q e 4 Spring numbers increase C HRIS C O P L A N T he L u m b e rja c k W ith the beginning of the spring 2008 sem ester, NAU marks its highest spring enrollm ent m the university’s history. Spring 2008 enrollment totaled at 20,224 students at the M ountain Campus and other sites in cluding NAU-Yuma and NAU-North Valley. This was nearly 6 percent higher than spring 2007s 19,095 students, with 12,859 at the Flagstaff campus, and an additional 4,418 enrolled throughout the state. In the interim of fall and spring semesters e n rollment num bers usually decrease, but the spring semester continued fall 2007 s increased enrollm ent where the university saw a record-breaking 21352 students. Graduate student e n rollment increased by 7.9 percent, up to 14,513 from spring 2007 s 13,453 students. NAU President John D. Haeger said this increase proves NAU is successfully interacting with students. “This indicates we’ve been successful in getting the word out,” Haeger said. “Student enrollm ent has just been doing a spectacular job’ David Bousquet, vice president for enrollm ent management and student P a t * 5 D ow ntow n Flagstaff bars hopping with weekend student activity Bryan Kinkade/The Lum berjack Homophobia strikes Reilly in form of threats S A S H A S O L O M O N O V T he L u m b e r ja c k On Monday, Feb. 4, after two weeks of coming home to homophobic phrases scribbled onto his whiteboard. Ash Arp returned to his 2”*1 floor Reilly cform room to find a death threat.T he words “The dyke will die” were written in black marker in all capitalized letters over an old note Arp, a sophomore sociology major, had on the whiteboard. Arp, who identifies as transgendered and prefers the pronoun he,’ quickly called his roomm ate Laura Bjork, a freshman English m ajor who identifies as a lesbian, and the police to docum ent the hate crime. Bjork said she did not find the threat viable at first, but quickly realized the severity of the situation after speaking with the police. “I startedgettingspooked because the cop told us to lock our doors, even when we were going to the bathroom,” Bjork said. “Then I started realizing the seriousness o f the situation.” Four days later Arp received an even scarier threat that underm ined the safety of both his room m ate and him self. O n Feb. 8, the death threat left on Arp and Bjork’s whiteboard, “The dykes will burn, I will find the dyks,” ultimately prom pted them to move out of Reilly. “1 was terrified,” Arp said. “1 have known people that have been killed by hate crimes before and it scares me that for a while you think that you’re so safe on campus, you think that you’re so safe where you are living and then this comes up and it brings back these old fears.” Arp, who serves as panels manager for PRISM the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) club at NAU, said the person who wrote the homophobic threat on his whiteboard did so out of ignorance. “They try to make people feel uncomfortable to try and scare them back into the closet and scare them into a life that is socially accept able,” Arp said. Arp said his fearlessness to be out of the closet and serve on the executive board of PRISM made him a visible target for bigotry. Bjork is also an active m em ber o f PRISM and works as secretary to the club. Aside from anonymously written death threats, Arp experiences discrim ination just by walking to classes. “I’ll be walking around campus and people will yell SOPHOMORE SOCIOLOGY M A JO R Ash A rp (left) and Laura Bjork, Sophom ore English major, chat in their new dorm room. In a hateful gesture "Die D yke” was w ritten on the door of th e ir previous room. out, that f-ing dyke should die.m Arp said. Arp and Bjork are not the only LGBT students to be subject to sexual discrimination in the residence halls. Earlier this year Amanda Pixley a freshman hotel and restaurant m anagement m ajor who lives in McConnell Hall, got both her door and car defaced because of her expression of her sexuality. *1 had a rainbow sticker that said celebrate diversity,1” Pixley said about her car. "One day I went to my car and it was gone.” Pixley had rainbow pictures and photographs of lesbian icons ripped or otherwise damaged on her dorm room door. “I was angry because I didn’t think I should go through this because 1 didn’t do anybody any harm ” Pixley said. “I’m just being myself” Pixley said her friend Helen Kennedy, a fellow McConnell resident, also had lesbian iconography tom from her room d o o r about those threats m aterializing. educational program ming and rallying around the victims to provide support. Following the meet: ing, Reilly resident assistants provided passive program ming to the residents in the hall to inform them of the dangers of hate. “Often times the students that need the events most won't attend them, but they’ll read a bulletin; they’ll read a sign in the bathroom stall,” Wesbrock said. In addition, Residence Life holds campus-wide anti-discrim ination events throughout the year such as Sechrist s “Take My Voice,” where participants remain silent for a day to experience what it is like to be part of m inority group without a voice, and Tinsley’s “Hunger Project,” which tackles so cio- economic class issues. The programs aim to Sh H OM O PHO BIA, Paqe 5 Gretchen Wesbrock, freshman connection coordinator for Residence Life, personally called Arp after hearing he was the victim of a hate crime. Wesbrock said her initial reaction was to com fort and console Arp. Ash Arp “Then there was anger because this is the kind of stuff that I absolutely do not toler ate happening in our residence halls,” Wesbrock said. The death threats in Reilly lead to an all-staff meeting in the hall to discuss concerns
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Oral history transcripts | N O R T H E R N A R I Z O N A U N I V E R S I T Y lumberjack The Independent Student Voice £ * Lady lacks tennis team plays hard against Sac State. • P ag e 10 Students take pride in good dental health. • Page 11 Issue 6, Volume 97 Fell. 21, 2 0 0 8 - Feb. 27' 2 0 0 8 www. JackCent ral.com Poet shares his art inside arid outside the classroom. N A U J U N I O R B R I T T N E Y Walsh, h u m an itie s major, p ours a draft b e e r V a le n tin e 's Day evening. Walsh is a b a rte n d e r for C h a rly ’s Pub & G rill. C h a rly ’s is o n e of the bars review ed in th is w eek's A rts and E n te rta in m e n t.se c tio n . The review p rovides an in-dep th surve y of th e v a rio u s b a rs lo cated in dow ntow n Flag staff. In a d d itio n to C harly's, part o n e of th e review, w hich is lo ca te d on page 15, co vers th e M o n te V ista lo un g e and M a lo n e y ’s. The second half of the review w ill run in next w eek's sectio n . • Page 15 Snow- Jack gives free ride ROB E R T O T S U BO T he L u m ber jack An ASNAU financially- secured project has been realized in the form of NAU’s Snowjack Express, a free ride for students from campus to Arizona’s Snow bowl. Andy Bourget, coordinator of NAU O utdoors, said the club had been work ing to have the project realized for a significant am ount of time. “We have been talking about it in the past but it was never developed,” Bourget said. Bourget said due to inadequate snow conditions in previous years, Snowjack Express was never brought to life. “Last year we tried, but the season was bad,” Bourget said. With 55 inches of snow at Snowbowl this winter, the conditions were adequate to begin the project. The Snowjack Express made its maiden voyage Feb. 1. “It has been selling S e e SNOW JACK P a q e 4 Spring numbers increase C HRIS C O P L A N T he L u m b e rja c k W ith the beginning of the spring 2008 sem ester, NAU marks its highest spring enrollm ent m the university’s history. Spring 2008 enrollment totaled at 20,224 students at the M ountain Campus and other sites in cluding NAU-Yuma and NAU-North Valley. This was nearly 6 percent higher than spring 2007s 19,095 students, with 12,859 at the Flagstaff campus, and an additional 4,418 enrolled throughout the state. In the interim of fall and spring semesters e n rollment num bers usually decrease, but the spring semester continued fall 2007 s increased enrollm ent where the university saw a record-breaking 21352 students. Graduate student e n rollment increased by 7.9 percent, up to 14,513 from spring 2007 s 13,453 students. NAU President John D. Haeger said this increase proves NAU is successfully interacting with students. “This indicates we’ve been successful in getting the word out,” Haeger said. “Student enrollm ent has just been doing a spectacular job’ David Bousquet, vice president for enrollm ent management and student P a t * 5 D ow ntow n Flagstaff bars hopping with weekend student activity Bryan Kinkade/The Lum berjack Homophobia strikes Reilly in form of threats S A S H A S O L O M O N O V T he L u m b e r ja c k On Monday, Feb. 4, after two weeks of coming home to homophobic phrases scribbled onto his whiteboard. Ash Arp returned to his 2”*1 floor Reilly cform room to find a death threat.T he words “The dyke will die” were written in black marker in all capitalized letters over an old note Arp, a sophomore sociology major, had on the whiteboard. Arp, who identifies as transgendered and prefers the pronoun he,’ quickly called his roomm ate Laura Bjork, a freshman English m ajor who identifies as a lesbian, and the police to docum ent the hate crime. Bjork said she did not find the threat viable at first, but quickly realized the severity of the situation after speaking with the police. “I startedgettingspooked because the cop told us to lock our doors, even when we were going to the bathroom,” Bjork said. “Then I started realizing the seriousness o f the situation.” Four days later Arp received an even scarier threat that underm ined the safety of both his room m ate and him self. O n Feb. 8, the death threat left on Arp and Bjork’s whiteboard, “The dykes will burn, I will find the dyks,” ultimately prom pted them to move out of Reilly. “1 was terrified,” Arp said. “1 have known people that have been killed by hate crimes before and it scares me that for a while you think that you’re so safe on campus, you think that you’re so safe where you are living and then this comes up and it brings back these old fears.” Arp, who serves as panels manager for PRISM the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) club at NAU, said the person who wrote the homophobic threat on his whiteboard did so out of ignorance. “They try to make people feel uncomfortable to try and scare them back into the closet and scare them into a life that is socially accept able,” Arp said. Arp said his fearlessness to be out of the closet and serve on the executive board of PRISM made him a visible target for bigotry. Bjork is also an active m em ber o f PRISM and works as secretary to the club. Aside from anonymously written death threats, Arp experiences discrim ination just by walking to classes. “I’ll be walking around campus and people will yell SOPHOMORE SOCIOLOGY M A JO R Ash A rp (left) and Laura Bjork, Sophom ore English major, chat in their new dorm room. In a hateful gesture "Die D yke” was w ritten on the door of th e ir previous room. out, that f-ing dyke should die.m Arp said. Arp and Bjork are not the only LGBT students to be subject to sexual discrimination in the residence halls. Earlier this year Amanda Pixley a freshman hotel and restaurant m anagement m ajor who lives in McConnell Hall, got both her door and car defaced because of her expression of her sexuality. *1 had a rainbow sticker that said celebrate diversity,1” Pixley said about her car. "One day I went to my car and it was gone.” Pixley had rainbow pictures and photographs of lesbian icons ripped or otherwise damaged on her dorm room door. “I was angry because I didn’t think I should go through this because 1 didn’t do anybody any harm ” Pixley said. “I’m just being myself” Pixley said her friend Helen Kennedy, a fellow McConnell resident, also had lesbian iconography tom from her room d o o r about those threats m aterializing. educational program ming and rallying around the victims to provide support. Following the meet: ing, Reilly resident assistants provided passive program ming to the residents in the hall to inform them of the dangers of hate. “Often times the students that need the events most won't attend them, but they’ll read a bulletin; they’ll read a sign in the bathroom stall,” Wesbrock said. In addition, Residence Life holds campus-wide anti-discrim ination events throughout the year such as Sechrist s “Take My Voice,” where participants remain silent for a day to experience what it is like to be part of m inority group without a voice, and Tinsley’s “Hunger Project,” which tackles so cio- economic class issues. The programs aim to Sh H OM O PHO BIA, Paqe 5 Gretchen Wesbrock, freshman connection coordinator for Residence Life, personally called Arp after hearing he was the victim of a hate crime. Wesbrock said her initial reaction was to com fort and console Arp. Ash Arp “Then there was anger because this is the kind of stuff that I absolutely do not toler ate happening in our residence halls,” Wesbrock said. The death threats in Reilly lead to an all-staff meeting in the hall to discuss concerns |
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