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Nick Wolf is currently study-ing graphic design. Wolf’s cover art is a copperplate intaglio print representing the not too distant future. A future full of highly radi-ated mutant “catzillas” that have destroyed much of the globe. He has created the art as a warning to the people of this time to fight against the governments “nuke the kitties” program. If they aren’t stopped meow, then the future has no hope.

If you’ve ever heard a song with a sick beat, yet just can’t quite clap along, it’s probably because of a shift in meters or time signatures. Without getting too specific, the following songs took a lot of technical talent to perform and are not the normal head-bangin’ radio songs. As you listen, try to clap along — it’s practically impossible.

“The First Circle”Pat Metheny

This 1984 song begins with a challenging clapping pattern that is then joined by a single

guitar, and then a single voice. The song slowly builds with the addition of an orchestra, a tambourine and other band instruments. “Consoler Of The Lonely”The Raconteurs

The Racon-teurs sound like

a good ole’ American rock band with a contemporary twist, and features lead singer Jack White of the White Stripes. Drummer Patrick Keeler takes this song to a new extreme as he counts off a contrasting beat from the rest of the band within the first 10 seconds of the song’s beginning. “Broken Toy”Keane

“Broken Toy” is the longest recorded song on any of Keane’s

releases and departs from their stylistic norm with contrasting time signatures. “Happiness is a Warm Gun”John Lennon and Paul McCartney

It’s a surprising fact this Beatles song (or some from Beatles members) strayed away from the normal key and time signature that was The Beatles’ forte. Other Beatles songs that differ from their compositional norm with shifting meters are “Here Comes The Sun” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.” “Bastard”Ben Folds

This song is the opening track for Ben Fold’s album, Songs for Silverman. The piano rhythm keeps this piece chugging along throughout the entire piece. “Hey ya!”OutKast

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. There’s no wonder this song was named the 20th most

successful song of the 2000s by Billboard. Not only is this song funky, but its meters can get pretty technical, too.

“Times Like These” Foo Fighters

Ahh, the early 2000s. Listen to how the chorus changes beat from the rest of the song.

“Chutzpan”Avishai Cohen Trio

Who knew the sounds of a bass, piano and a drum set could be so advanced?

“Blue Rondo A Turk” Dave Brubeck

Jazz with a Turkish twist.

“The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders”Sufjan Stevens

As the song begins, a triangle and piano clash rhythms, and then hands join along with the rest of the band. Much like other Sufjan Stevens pieces, the song slowly builds to a crescen-do where voices join in too.

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Scorpio 10/23 – 11/21It’s been a week and you’re still finding leftover candy corn spread across your apartment. Time to break out the dust mop before the next holiday.

Sagittarius 11/22 – 12-21It’s going to be a long week but never fear, a nap and a Big-Gulp sized Starbucks coffee can fix that.

Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19You’ve been a little stressed out lately, but before you fly off the handle try an evening-long bubble bath and a “True Blood” marathon. Sexy vampires and lavender bath salts can improve on just about anything you’ve got going on.

Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18Face the facts: The giant, hairy spi-der that moved into the corner of your bedroom for the winter isn’t going to move back out without a little encouragement. Go find your least favorite shoe and carpe diem.

Pisces 2/19 -3/20Getting into a noise war with the neighbors who insist on playing wall-shaking country music until 2 a.m. might not make you feel more mature, but it will be the most gratifying thing you do this week. Crank up the bass.

Aries 3/21-4/19Your garbage is overflowing, every dish in the house is dirty and you can’t see your living room floor. If the sight of your house is making you a little crazy, it’s OK. That’s why your overhead lights have an off switch.

Taurus 4/20 – 5/20A leftover cheeseburger, a package of Top Ramen, Gumi bears and a half slice of pizza — there’s a reason it’s called hobo stew. If the ingredi-ent list for Monday night’s chili sounded more like the contents of a dumpster, it’s probably time to hit the grocery store.

Gemini 5/21 – 6/21If you looked through your hamper this morning and just couldn’t find

a pair of pants that smelled clean enough, you should probably just go back to bed.

Cancer 6/22-7/22I know it’s a whole pie, but you need to come to terms with reality. You’re going to eat it all eventually anyway, so it might as well be today. Dig in.

Leo 7/23 – 8/22You did a lot of involuntary run-ning Saturday night and realized that being a couch potato might have its drawbacks. This week could be a good time to start hit-ting the gym. Virgo 8/23 – 9/22If you can see your breath, then it’s probably time to turn on the heater.

Libra 9/23- 10/22Walking in to the store for a new pair of socks and walking out with five hoodies, three T-shirts and a pair of jeans doesn’t mean you’re impul-sive, but it does mean you’ll avoid doing laundry for another week. P.S. Don’t forget to go back for the socks you forgot.

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The University of Idaho’s Hemingway Festival celebrated a man as dynamic as any fic-tional character last weekend.

UI English professor Ron McFarland said there’s a “mystique” about Ernest Hemingway that continues to allure people. Found in everything from his “man’s man” outdoorsman lifestyle, to his often-quoted ideas of “courage as grace under pressure” to his suicide in Ketchum, Idaho.

Hemingway’s life was full of fast moving occurrences and relationships.

“It’s like when you’re writ-ing a novel or a story and you want to make it rich with detail to give it texture — Hemingway’s life is that way,” McFarland said. “He just did all these things. He got into WWI just in time to get himself wounded … he was active in the Spanish Civil War, he covered WWII after D-Day, he went to Africa, he went to the bullfights … He lived big, he lived broad.”

McFarland said there used to be a Hemingway Festival in Ket-chum where UI Master’s of Fine Arts creative writing students and lecturers shared a meal, pre-sented papers and lectures, and taught high school workshops.

Several years ago funding was pulled and the festival was moved to Moscow. He said the event has grown every year, adding more speakers, a fancier dinner and a more elaborate silent auction.

This year’s Hemingway Foundation PEN Award winner Brandon Skyhorse said he ap-preciates the festival because it connects writers and book-lovers in Moscow with the UI MFA writing program.

He said the PEN Award gives aspiring authors an op-portunity to fall in love with Hemingway all over again.

“It gives one new writer every year a chance to shine,

a chance to be exposed in a unique way, and I think that’s fantastic,” Skyhorse said.

Ann Stebner Steele, UI graduate student in creative writing and a reader at the festival, said the elements of “place,” landscape and setting are important in her writing, and Hemingway’s frequent use of hunting, fishing and similar aspects resonate with her. She wants to explore stories about herself, her family and their identities as defined by place.

“It moves beyond just my family … (to) the stories that all people tell in order to make sense (and) shape out of their lives,” Steele said. “I

hope that when I write some-thing the reader walks away knowing more about them-selves as a result of having read it than they know about me or any of the characters on the page.”

Stebner Steele said Heming-way’s stories connect with people in a similar way because they discuss issues that will always be significant, such as mortality, the meaning of life and the importance of moving forward.

Skyhorse said one reason Hemingway continues to be popular is the depth of his work hidden beneath simple language.

“You can read a Hemingway story at 20 and know all of the words that are used, but you can read it at 40 and know all of the emotions behind those words,” he said. “I think Hemingway endures because he appeals to people as they evolve … He just had an incred-ibly intuitive sense of what it is to be human.”

McFarland said Hemingway had a popular and “literary” following, and has stylistically influenced many writers be-fore and after his death, such as Michael Shaara — author of “The Killer Angels,” which was adapted to film in “Get-tysburg,” — Raymond Carver,

William Faulkner and others.“He’s one of the few writ-

ers who blended the two … remarkably well,” McFarland said. “Usually you go into a bookstore and you see there’s literature over here and here’s general fiction over there … He would always have fit very comfortable in either zone, and still does.”

Skyhorse said Heming-way’s career was impressive and unique.

“The amount of good work that he produced is remark-able (and) it’s a testament, I think,” he said. “There’s only one Hemingway — he comes around once in a lifetime.”

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kyndall elliott | rawrBrando Skyhorse, winner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award, signs his book, “The Madonna’s of Echo Park,” for Jennifer Hawk. Skyhorse was the guest of honor at the University of Idaho’s Hemingway Festival this year.

Hemingway Festival continues to grow after moving to Moscow

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Throughout the semester,

the University of Idaho’s MFA

Writer’s Studio class stages its

student playwrights during New Play

Wednesday. Quinn Hatch, coor-

dinator, said the ongo-ing event is in its third

year and all the pieces are original.

“New Play Wednesday features staged readings of

plays still in their infancy,” Hatch said. “This will be the first time many of these have been shown to an audience.”

The fate of Idaho’s theater program rests on non-theater students, said Robert Caisley, associate professor of theater, head of performance area and dramatic writing.

“There are nine MFA play-wrights in the program and each one has to do one of these New Play Wednesdays on one of the nine Wednesdays of the semester,” Caisley said.

Caisley said the only require-ment is to write a play.

“That is what they are get-ting their degree in. It’s a part of the Master’s of Fine Arts degree in playwriting,” Caisley said.

The three-year graduate degree programs require each student to write at least one full-length play each semester they are in the program. By the time they are done, they will have six full-length scripts that have been workshopped. In ad-dition, students write multiple 10-minute plays.

“Other than being a full-length play, there are no pa-rameters I put on the writers,” Caisley said. “They sort of write what they are inspired to write.”

Students are graded like any

other class, but Caisley said he doesn’t give exams.

“It’s very subjective, obvious-ly,” Caisley said. “Whenever I’m evaluating a student’s writing, I have to keep in the back of my mind that I have my own taste as a writer and that can’t be a part of the equation.”

Caisley will only comment on where he thinks the writers need to develop, such as altering the plot or language. He said the workshop provides helpful criti-cism to improve the script.

“For me, it’s mostly about progress,” he said. “Has the person made significant progress on this draft of the play since the start of the semester to the end?”

Caisley said a single play could be revised 40 to 100 times.

“Writing is really rewriting,” Caisley said. “Writing a good play requires you to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite.”

After a play is read on Wednesday, a feedback session with the author gives audience members a chance to voice their opinions.

Caisley said the students develop “thick skin” when it comes to criticism, which is the point of the workshop.

“Your play-writing teacher will tell you if you don’t have the right dialogue, or your char-acters are flat (or if) the plot is not working,” Caisley said.

Students learn the skill of commenting on the work of other writers. Caisley said the theater is a collaborative art form.

“If you want a life of solitary, you should be a novelist, not a playwright,” Caisley said.

He said about 40 to 50 people usually work on the production of a play.

“It will be your script, but you are going to work with the director, the cast of actors, lighting, scenic designer, makeup designer, hair designer, sound designer, carpenter, stage man-ager, the list goes on and on,” Caisley said.

New Play Wednesday is an

opportu-nity for writers to see a bud-ding play in front of an audience for the first time. Prior to New Play Wednesday, students read scripts in a class-room and everyone analyzes the work together. The writer then goes away to revise, Caisley said.

Lauren “LoJo” Simon, a third-year graduate student in dramatic writing, said writers need people, even if they know nothing about theater, because they are their average audience.

“We want to know things like: Did you like it? Was it confusing? Were you interested? What characters did you like best? Or who do you want to know more about?” Simon said. “Just the kinds of things you would think about when you go to a movie or read a book.”

Simon and Caisley said the feedback helps playwrights understand what works and doesn’t in their plays.

“Their insight and response is even more important or valu-able than our own opinions,” Caisley said.

So far this semester, New Play Wednesday is attracting little attention from students outside the department, Simon said.

“It’s been a small audience so far because people don’t know about it. We are only getting about 10 people. Students here are smart and they have some-thing to say. And they have no grades and they can say what-ever they want,” Simon said.

Caisley said each play stands alone.

“They’ve each got a very differ-ent take on things and a very dif-ferent approach to style,” Caisley said. “They all write very different dialogue and they are interested

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mon’s playwright will be staged Nov. 9.

Each reading will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9, 16 and 30 in the Kiva Theater. Admission is free.

From conception to executionThe process of New Play Wednesdays

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Depending on the source, “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare is a comedy, a “problem play” or a romance. It is a play with two faces, the first three acts are dramatic and the last two comedic.

Director Chris DuVal said the dif-ferent tones between acts can cause difficulties.

“It’s one of the big challenges of the play to make it seem like one play as opposed to two separate plays,” DuVal said. “We’ve been working hard to make it seem like one play.”

He chose to set the play during the Cold War era of the 1950s and 60s. The setting will ideally provide the audience with a familiar backdrop of conflict and social change.

Although the original

Shakespearean lines remain the same, Duval said he chose to update it to make it more accessible and identifi-able to contemporary audiences. To that end, the play now includes songs and dance from the same time period.

The play centers around the kings of Sicilia and Bohemia. When Leontes, King of Sicilia, suspects that his wife Hermione is having an affair with the King of Bohemia, he attempts to have the Bohemian king poisoned, and then tries his wife as an adulterer.

In the second half of the play, Prince Florizel, the son of the Bohe-mian King falls in love with a shep-herd’s daughter Perdita. Florizel is played by University of Idaho senior Phoenix Tage.

Tage describes his character as young, headstrong and hopelessly in love with a woman whom he is forbid-

den to marry because of her heritage.“It’s a bit of my personality taken

to the extreme,” Tage said. “He does not care who gets in his way. He is going to get what he wants.”

Charlie Herzog, senior, is the light-ing designer for the play. Herzog said the most crucial part of his job is to help differentiate between the two halves of the play.

The first half of the play set in Sicilia is characterized by stark, arti-ficial white and red lighting, where as Bohemia is a warmer, airier, more natural setting.

Herzog said the play won’t look much like a traditional play by the Bard.

“It’s not going to be your grand-mother’s Shakespeare,” Herzog said. “It’s going to be a bold, muscular show that is visually stunning and emotionally evoking.”

DuVal said he is really impressed at how well that the 21-person cast has come together in the course of the production.

“Shakespeare is always challeng-ing,” DuVal said. “It’s the Olympics of acting — it requires the most out of any actor, emotionally, physically and mentally. They are all telling the story with such commitment and vigor and such muscularity, it is a really exciting production.”

Event infoEvent: “The Winter’s Tale”Location: Hartung TheaterDate: Nov. 4-5 and 10-12Time: 7:30 p.m.Additional performances will be held Nov. 6 and 13 at 2 p.m.

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kyndall elliot | rawrThe University of Idaho Department of Theatre Arts will put on a preformance of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” The show opened at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Tickets are free for UI students and $8 for faculty and sta!.

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Creative therapy

They can be seen around every corner — music majors carrying bulky instrument cases, art students sitting in the grass with pads of paper and spandex-clad dancers sprinting across campus to the Physical Education Building. Every day, students campus-wide engage in some form of art, from dancing to drawing to playing music.

These students are undoubt-edly talented, but could they

also be healthier?Jamie Nekich, an associate

professor of psychology at the Univeristy of Idaho, said yes.

Nekich taught a Core Dis-covery class for five years at UI using creative expression as a way to explore concepts about psychological theory and research. She said in her experience, students who were able to engage in artistic ex-pression as a therapeutic tool to explore and assess emotions and stressful situations are more relaxed than those with-out an outlet.

“I think it’s very beneficial

and it’s in a lot of different ways,” Nekich said.“A lot of this comes from my experi-ence working with students in art and expressive art. The benefits were really apparent and they’re written about and talked about a lot in literature, about the therapeutic uses of art, but one of the things I no-ticed in the process of creating art is that it’s stress reducing.”

She said art is stress reducing because it’s a large part of who a person is. It also allows a break in the normal routine and pres-sures of school.

Belle Baggs, dance teacher

at UI, said engaging in all art forms, including dance, is ex-ceptionally therapeutic because it not only gives students the opportunity to relieve stress, but to unleash creativity and re-solve problems through thought and action.

“I think that the arts are re-ally powerful,” Baggs said. “It’s those moments that we can reflect about life. The reflection moments basically allow us to see things in a very tangible way. Whether that’s in a paint-ing, a moving body or poetry, it allows us to sense our humanity on a deep level. It allows us to

learn how to be in this world to-gether and to share experiences and be creative.”

Baggs said this is espe-cially true of dance. She said it provides an example for life, because students are allowed to be expressive and active while making creative decisions.

“I think the training you get in dance goes beyond the studio, you know, it’s not something that’s left behind,” Baggs said. “It funnels into the everyday life, whether that’s making healthier choices in their life or how to communi-cate, socialize with others, be-

ing creative — it all translates into life.”

Jennelle Brunner, an art student, said she feels that art is not only a way for many artists to express and resolve issues that they might be having, but a way for the artist to translate the essence of their humanity into a visual representation that can be shared.

“I think that learning about and studying art really gets you in touch with your humanity and puts you in a good mindset … ” Brunner said.“I think my life has not only been enriched by painting, but also by learning

about painting philosophy along with the history.”

While technical art skills can be beneficial for students, Nekich said unstructured, free expression is easily the most therapeutic.

“I think self-expression is very beneficial … because it creates balance, emotional, psychological balance and that is going to support success in lots of ways, academic success and success with relation-ships,” Nekich said. “We’re just better people when we’re taking care of ourselves in a holistic way.”

Nekich also said it’s impor-tant for students to share their art, and thereby the story and reflection of humanity that they’ve created with others in a supportive environment that encourages connections between people. These relation-ships, she said, are psychologi-cally beneficial.

“There’s all these ways we’re the same. We face similar chal-lenges, you know, each story is slightly different but the chal-lenges are similar so it makes a connection with other people in ways that we relate,” Nekich said. “It’s a way of connecting

and connecting is really benefi-cial psychologically.”

Taking an art class can be intimidating for students who don’t believe they have enough talent or experience with a spe-cific medium, but Brunner said students — especially those look-ing for a creative outlet — have nothing to fear.

“There’s no real mathemati-cal procedure of creating work, Brunner said. “It’s kind of like a sport, you just have to practice and the more you do it, the more you get better at it, and the more awesome it is.”

Baggs said it’s most impor-

tant to give art of every variety a try despite preconceived no-tions about one form or another.

“You need to try them all, but I think often we have these preconceptions that were not going to be good at dance, or that non-majors think that they have to be ‘good’ to expe-rience dance when dance is re-ally just about experiencing the art of movement,” Baggs said. “It’s not necessarily requiring anything specific, so I would encourage everybody to just go out there and try all different kinds of art fields and see what you value.”

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WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON STARBUCKS COMING INTO THE VANDALSTORE?SPEAK

OUT

Brittany BlouchSenior | Architecture

“I think it’s actually going to be good for the university itself because there (are) a lot of individual corporations that are on campus that are all run by Sodexo ... I know that a lot of people think that Einstein (Bros.’ ) co!ee isn’t as good as Starbucks’, so it’s going to provide them with some compe-tition, and make sure that Einstein’s will keep up their game.”

JD MorrowSophomore | General Studies

“I think it’s great. I love Starbucks.”

In the midst of Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Moscow and “the 99 percent” protesting the influence of major corporations, Starbucks has en-tered the University of Idaho campus again.

Some Vandals are upset the uni-versity chose Star-bucks instead of a local coffee shop.

Everyone hates the best. Starbucks claimed revenues of $10.7 billion last year and has 16,850 shops in 40 countries.

Starbucks is a comfy, cozy Internet café, and its goal, just like any other business, is to become a third major gathering place beside work and home.

I am one to support local anything, I am. But I’m not complaining about the van-dalstore’s new addition. Why? Because no one is making me go there or anyone else

It’s understandable people are tired of corporations dimin-ishing cultural values for profit.

If you think Starbucks is too expensive, go get your 99-cent mocha at the Vandal

Express in the Idaho Com-mons. If you don’t want to go to Starbucks because it’s not

local, then there are several other options on campus. Or you can walk three blocks to Sisters’ Brew, One World Cafe or Bucers.

If you don’t like Starbucks because it is known to put lo-cal coffee shops out of business, then you don’t know business. The only reason a Starbucks would damage

the position of local coffee houses is because people prefer Starbucks.

If you think Starbucks is unhealthy, then stop drink-ing coffee altogether and go somewhere else.

If you claim you don’t like any of the drinks, then you haven’t tried them all. There are more then 87,000 pos-sible drink combinations at Starbucks.

If you don’t like the music, rethink your priorities. You are just trying to hate Starbucks.

If you don’t like Starbucks because it is on every corner, you need to re-evaluate. This is only the second Starbucks

building in town. I have yet to hear a complaint about McDonalds or Subway.

It is the law of sup-ply and demand. The only reason there are so many Starbucks in the world is because consumers demand them. If you think Starbucks is pretentious and don’t like the names it gives their sizes, remember there are other options.

There have been rumors regarding the labor behind the coffee beans, and claims that Starbucks hasn’t been coopera-tive in the effort to implement fair trade policies. I’m not arguing this. Like I said, I’m all for fair trade and buying local.

But no one likes complainers. Starbucks is still annu-

ally rated as one of the best companies to work for in the world. Starbucks had 137,000 employees last year and spent $300 million on health care insurance for its employees.

They’re not selling coffee so much as the “Starbucks Experience.” But the Star-bucks experience isn’t about complaining and uptight people who are against anything that succeeds. If you don’t like Starbucks — go somewhere else.

Why we love to hate Starbucks

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David BurpeeSenior | Mechanical Engineering

“I think it could be good. I think Starbucks brings an excellent amount of quality to the area and I’m not sure that other businesses on campus can compete with the quality.”

Adam KesslerSenior | Anthropology

“I hadn’t really thought about it a whole lot because I don’t drink co!ee. I guess it’s not ideal, but I’d certainly rather see maybe a couple outlets like Starbucks here. We used to have a Burger King in the (Idaho) Commons. I’d rather see that than up tuition prices or something like that, or other in"uences inside the classrooms ... “

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It was a $10 million wed-ding, easily one of the most glamorous — and most pub-licized — events of the year. But here’s a twist, neither the bride or groom paid a single cent. Traditionally, the bride and her family foots the cost of the ceremony, but that rule has a much different meaning when you’re Kim Kardashian.

For their wed-ding Aug. 20, Kardashian and fiancée, NBA player Kris Humphries, were gifted a reported $10,000 in custom invitations, a $6,000 cake, free Perrier Jouet champagne and a selection of Vera Wang wed-ding gowns. The couple was also paid to host his-and-hers bachelor and bachelorette par-ties at a Las Vegas nightclub.

Celebrity tabloid magazines, including People, Us and OK!, paid big bucks for the rights to publish their photos before any other publication. Kar-dashian scored $1.5 million for wedding photos, making her wedding an extremely profit-able event.

The “Hollywood marriage” is a moniker for a media-grabbing tactic to increase the popularity of the couple. Jennifer Lopez, for example, has had many high-profile relationships with celebrities such as Sean Combs, Ben Affleck and most recently, Marc Anthony. Pamela Ander-son was hitched to Kid Rock for a whopping six months, whereas Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney hit four months before annulment.

Are these weddings simply publicity stunts? Or are some celebs actually searching for a soul mate and happen to get the wrong answer?

Comedian Rita Rudner once said, “In Hollywood, a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”

That may be an exaggeration,

but it leads to some clues to the dynamics of a celebrity marriage.

A relationship goes through many stages, all leading up to a wedding, a breakup or a life content with being together minus the legal binding. In these stages, a celeb-rity may be excited about the idea of commitment, but misinterpret the meaning of truly

being committed. A married lifestyle is

much different than that of a single person, and requires dedication and time — qualities which flourishing young celebrities may lack.

But never fear, there is hope for celebrity mar-riages. The “Fresh Prince” Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith have been married since 1997, while Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker have had a strong marriage for nearly 15 years running. Yes, the “Hollywood marriage” garners a lot of nega-tive media attention, but doesn’t affect all celebrities.

For some, wed-dings bells truly do lead to life-long bliss. For others, it won’t be long until they’re back on the market.

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Hollywood marriages more like publicity stunts then happily ever after

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Leaves: The Administration Building Lawn

of year. Spicy and sweet, fallen leaves smell like yardwork,

and the post-yardwork pile that used to be so much fun to jump in.

Ah yes, nothing smells like early morning as much as

VandalStore and the Idaho

environments.

Wet pavement: Actually, that lovely smell of rain after a long dry spell has a name.

Petrichor (wet pavement smell) is caused by natural oils and compounds

within the pavement that become active and start smelling when wet.

Smoke: Field burning season can often leave campus in a haze.

Pine: Fresh air is glorious. No air smells quite so fresh as when it is laced with a hint of pine. There are ample opportunities on campus to stop and smell the trees, but by far the most pleasant smells are to be had in the Shattuck Arboretum.

Eau de bovine: This ever-present funk has been known to assault nostrils as far north as WinCo. Nothing says “welcome home” quite so well as a nice, manure-scented methane cloud.

cigarrette smoke are also common. The jury is still out on just how pleasant these smells actually are.

An olfactory tour of UI: Both the stinky and the savory

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The dance studio was filled with music of different genres as dancers let the rhythms guide their bodies move-ment. Dance Off Hand was organized by the ASUI Dance Major and Minors Club on Oct. 27.

Karissa Jacobs, vice presi-dent of the club, said Dance Off Hand is an opportunity for students involved with dance.

“It’s an informal concert that anyone can submit their own piece just to give them a chance to show their work or dancers an opportunity to perform,” Jacobs said.

Dance groups were made up of dance and non-dance majors, and Jacobs said the event was open to everyone.

“Any choreographer can put their piece into it and choose whoever their dancers are,” Jacobs said.

Gin Robinson, University of Idaho dance major and choreographer of progressive dance, said several classes took part in choreographing and performing pieces for the show.

Robinson said she had been working on the piece she performed since the be-ginning of the semester.

Dance Off Hand included dances ranging from modern contemporary to tap, hip-hop and ballet. Nicola Elliott, who

attended the performance, said the variety was the best part of the event.

“I thought it was really good and there was a lot of variety,” Elliot said. “I liked the music, it was good and it was different for everything.”

Dance Off Hand has no particular theme, Jacobs said, and is an informal venue.

“It’s a combination of what you’ve worked on in class so it’s a chance for those dancers to perform it,” Jacobs said.

Dance Off Hand has been put on for many years by the dance department and club members. Apart from enter-tainment, this year’s show also aimed to raise funds and collect canned food.

People who came with a food donation paid $1 for admission instead of $2. Jacobs said all food collected would be donated to a local food bank while the money raised would be used by the club to fund other events and activities.

Taylor O’Neal, dance major who performed in modern contemporary and Jazz rou-tines said she appreciated the experience.

“I have taught and cho-reographed before, and it’s always nice to choreograph a piece,” O’Neal said. “Every experience makes you better and stronger.”

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zach edwards | rawr Junior diatetics major Anna Hein practices during an advanced ballet class Monday in the Physical Education Building.