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By Megan MaschoffScroll Staff Writer

After long exhausting hours of practice, the

lights finally went down in Lee Theater last Friday night as the cast of Peter Pan took the stage in front of a sold-out (and very anxious) audience.

“The first show with an audience is always the most incredible. We get to see what they’ll react to, whether it’s laughing, crying or in Friday night’s case, yelling out ‘Peter Pan is REAL!’. It’s been wonder-ful to finally perform for an audience,” said sophomore Olivia Lee, who plays the part of Peter Pan.

Christina Asburry, the narrator throughout the show, noticed that one age group really seemed to be taken by the magic behind Peter Pan – the children.

“Kid reactions are the best - whether they’re seeing Tinkerbell for the first time, excited about the sword-fight or when the crocodile’s snout is inches from their face. They’re unabashedly joyful about it, and that was undoubtedly one of the best parts of this entire week-end,” said Asburry.

While the children seemed to get the most entertainment out of the play, it was clear from the reactions on the audiences’ faces that they left that they too were taken away by the magic of Neverland.

“I thought Peter was a perfect replica of his youth and exuberance. Hook also had a very enthusiastic air about him. I thought the whole play was very well

put together, and that all the actors did a great job. The different sets and lighting was also stellar,” said fresh-man Nick Erdman.

Although it was the actors and actresses that brought the story to life, it was the crew behind the scenes that helped make everything have the appearance of the magical world of Neverland.

“Speaking of me person-ally, it was a crazy rush

to see everything come together and know that a lot of it was because of my efforts. It was amazing to see everything simply fit together. It makes me so happy whenever the audi-ence laughs, claps or reacts to a change of lighting or sound because it tells me that I am doing my job well. The cast, designers, crew, director and definitely my assistant stage manager

helped me so much though. Even though I am the one calling the cues, there would be nothing to call if it was not for every single other person. I can’t thank them enough,” said stage manager Kaitlyn Bryant.

When it all comes down to it , a smile on the direc-tor’s face is sometimes the most rewarding on opening weekend.

“The line memorization from the actors was perfect and one of the most daunt-ing technical parts of the show, all of the huge scene changes, went off quickly and without a hitch. Open-ing night on Friday had a few small technical bumps in the road, but certainly nothing major happened and probably the majority of the glitches were prob-ably only noticeable to us. All in all it was a fantastic first weekend,” said direc-tor Benji Inniger.

Peter Pan will have its final showings tomorrow, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17th at 7:30 p.m.. If the showing is already sold out, there is a waiting list in case seats open up. To check for seat availability, call the box office at (507) 344-7374.


As Lutherans, the Refor-mation is a crucial part

of our history. During this time, Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses, translated the New Testament into common German and wrote hymns people still sing today. There was another man that goes unnoticed, however – the man that gave us a visual picture of what Luther looked liked – Lucas Cranach.

Cranach was not an every-day artist. Before becom-ing good friends with Luther, Cranach was the painter for the Electors of Saxony. When he was not busy with this, however, Cranach filled his free time by running a drug store (which was open for 300 years), a print shop, and for

a short period of time acted as mayor of Wittenberg. In the end, it is still the art that Cranach is known for.

“To me personally, I look at him as a historian.

Because they didn’t have photography back then, [he] could give us nice portraits of a lot of people involved in the Reformation – [it] helps us feel as though we knew

them to see their picture. He also did some of the famous early altar pieces in the Lutheran church. His style of art in these altar pieces had an impact on the future

Lutheran artists to come,” said Chaplain Don Moldstad.

The studio in which Cran-ach created his master-pieces was something to admire during this time. Contrary to what one might think, Cranach’s art studio was much more than a room, some paints, and an easel.

“The art studio in the time of Cranach had many employees that were skill-ful at presenting the ‘brand’ of Cranach. Even though he signed the paintings, he had a production team to complete many of his works of art. He also had his team doing multiple copies of his own paintings. So it was a big collaboration of skilled workers, much like a modern production studio,” said art professor Bill Bukowski.

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Lucas Cranach, historical Reformation artist

Photo by ELISA MAYER

The pope was one of Luther Cranach’s most common subjects, often pictured as the antichrist, as Professor Bill Bukowski showed during the Reformation Art Lecture.

Peter Pan opening pleases sold-out house

Photo by DAVID NORRIS

The cast of Peter Pan poses dramatically in a scene from their recent sell-out production in the Lee Theatre.

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Although Cranach was actually found to be more famous for the numer-ous nude paintings that he did throughout his career, as Lutherans, it was his paintings of bibli-cal stories and portraits of Luther that stand out.

“Cranach stood out to me because he had first-hand experience with Martin Luther. Luther actually sat for drawings and paintings. They were close friends and he really gives us the local artist’s version of the Refor-mation,” said Bukowski.

“I liked that he wasn’t afraid to stylize his portraits and make them unique in a way that hadn’t been done before. I also liked how his portraits of Luther were designed to bring out his best qualities - it just goes to show you that propaganda

can also be used for the good of the people instead of to harm them,” said student Elisa Mayer.

The ironic thing is that when Luther first started out, he was not a fan of the arts because he thought it was bad for the church.

“Luther, at f irst, thought art in the church was a bad thing. People had the idea that if they bought a painting for the church that it will help get them out of purgatory – to buy their way into heaven. So Luther hated

the arts because it f it that way of buying your way into heaven. Then he realized, ‘Wait a minute. Maybe we can use the art to try to teach what the faith is about ’, and that is where Cranach stepped in,” said Moldstad.

Cranach set a standard in his own way for the artists that were to come later during the Refor-mation, but it is through the work of Cranach that others will receive very important visual insight into the Reformation.

I recently went and saw a William Shakespeare

play, King Lear, at the Park Square Theatre in the Twin Cities with classmates from my Shakespeare class. Being the Shakespeare fan I am, I was hoping to see sword fighting, dazzling old-fashioned costumes and actors who portrayed their characters well. Instead, I found the complete opposite.

I had read the play prior to watching it in the theatre. I knew how the play went, so I didn’t think there would be any new expectations. Boy, was I wrong. They even used a different Shakespearean language, so it was hard to

follow throughout the play, even though I was supposed to know what was going on and what they were saying.

To start off, back in the Elizabethan era, it was very bloody when it came to sword fighting. When asked to a dual, one could not decline. Because the play was modernized, there were not swords, but knives. However, these knives looked like butter knives or even blades used for shaving back in the day that flipped open.

What happened to the good ‘ol sword? It is not like they had to be 100 percent real; that could potentially become dangerous. But a knife? Really? This was pretty pathetic. The fight-ing looked staged, to begin with. Not that the actors have to be professionals, but they should put some more effort into it.

The actors also used pistols in this play. Every time a pistol shot, a very loud

popping sound came out, causing me to jump every time they fired it. I know that they used a 20th century setting, but they should have tried to be as old fashioned as possible where guns were not needed.

To make matters worse, one of the characters killed the Fool, which does not happen in the original play. I’ve heard that some directors like this tactic because it gets the Fool to leave the stage and not have the audience question where he went.

But the audience should not know what every charac-ter is doing at every second. Maybe the Fool left to read or go on a walk. Why kill him when he did nothing wrong? Pointless.

The costumes in the play were not very appeal-ing. The main women protagonists had some pretty dresses, but they were too modern. The

director had not even tried to make them appear in an older setting. They had these sparkly dresses with long trains on them, which the women kept tripping on. Obviously a poor costume choice.

Now, I do not want to say the play was a complete wreck. It was not the best Shakespeare play I had seen, but it could have been better. I mean, people even left during the intermission and did not come back because they did not like it. See? I’m not the only one.

Although I have not been to many Shakespeare plays, I wish the director would not modernized and it just stick to the way Shakespeare had written it, whether it was the word choice, props or costume choices. These small issues make up a big part of the play.

I understand why a direc-tor might want to make the play modern: more people

can understand what is going on in the play and not be confused. Yes, the language can be difficult. Yes, it can be easy to get lost in while following the play, which is why I recom-mend reading the play before seeing it. Or, seeing the play more than once, but that can be costly.

But is that not the fun of seeing a Shakespeare play: trying to understand the language or figuring out what Shakespeare meant when he put that soliloquy in the play? Also, to see what people wore in that time period or how they fought instead of just using guns?

In my opinion, modern-izing a Shakespeare play ruins it because it is not original in what Shake-speare had wanted. It may be a hard task to do, but I think it is worth it.

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CRANACH: Artist of the Reforma-tion as an impor-tant historian

By Georgia GarveyChicago Tribune (MCT)

Forget the Incredible Hulk or Superman, it's Abra-

ham Lincoln who's quickly turning into pop culture's favorite superhero.

"He is already the Ameri-can with perhaps the most astounding, almost mytho-logical, life story," said James Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presi-dential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. Born in a log cabin with a dirt floor, Lincoln reached the nation's highest office. "I don't know why you'd need to fiction-alize the great American story, but it's because it's already so astounding that he has our attention."

Yet fictionalize we do,

as with the new "Lincoln," which opened in some theaters this past weekend, and with the "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" book-turned-film earlier this year. Filming also has reportedly started on a movie about Lincoln's early years called "The Green Blade Rises."

What's driving the cool-ification of a president who to some represents a dusty character from a high-school history book? Maybe, some experts say, it's because he was a fascinating man, one who had a humble frontier childhood but who went on to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

"It's interesting why it's taken so long to create this new version of an actual

American hero,” says Mark Pohlad, associate professor of art history and architec-ture at DePaul University and expert on Lincoln. Pohlad said the 16th presi-dent was strong, both politi-cally and physically. "He really did have this repu-tation for being kind of a (butt-kicker)."

Pohlad guesses that while we deal with economic instability and international strife, perhaps that's an ideal kind of hero.

"People think, 'We really need a man of action to lift us out of the doldrums,'" he said. Lincoln's greatness, partly as a communica-tor and political negotiator, came at one of the darkest periods in American history. "He was living in the most

violent time our country has known."

The Steven Spielberg movie "Lincoln," which promises to be at least slightly more authentic than the vampire-slaying portrayal, raises historians' hopes for more attention to the man who often tops lists of the greatest U.S. presidents.

"At least people are start-ing to think of this history as just not engraved in stone," Pohlad said, adding that the 200-year anniversary of Lincoln's birth sort of "came and went quietly in 2009." The renewed interest is totally welcome, he said. "It takes a minute for the coun-try to say, 'Oh, yeah. Right. It's about time we re-exam-ined Lincoln.'"

President Abraham Lincoln: Superhero?

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By Shawn LogingScroll Staff Writer

Everyone can think of their favorite teacher

and the profound impact they had.

For Benjamin Petzel, being a teacher has been a dream for a long time.

“I am a broad Field Social Studies major with a second-ary education license. I would like to become a high school social studies and history teacher. I chose that career path because I have always had a passion for social studies and history. When I came to Bethany, being a teacher felt like the right fit,” Petzel said.

Petzel grew up in Arling-ton, Minn.; his mom, Judy, is a teacher at St. Paul’s Lutheran School and his father, Randy, is a farmer. He also has two younger broth-ers. Zach is a freshman at Minnesota State University – Mankato and Jordan is a high school sophomore.

Sports have played a large part in Petzel’s life and are something he shares with his brothers.

“We have always been pretty competitive with each other, no matter what we are playing. At a young age, we always played soccer and basketball, and then as

we got older, all three of us started playing golf (a sport he played at Bethany for two years),” said Petzel.

That competitive nature helped Petzel with a child-hood achievement.

Petzel said, “I still remem-ber it vividly. My eighth grade year when I was still at St. Paul’s. I was one of the oldest kids on the basketball team and we won the MLC (Martin Luther College) championship tournament. That was a pretty big deal at the time.”

That competiveness has followed him to Bethany, from playing ping-pong in Teigen Hall to watching the Minne-sota Vikings play football.

One of the biggest influ-ences on Petzel’s life is his mother, especially when it

comes to his future profession. “She has been a teacher

her whole adult life, some 25 years. She has been some-one that I look up to and aspire to be like, whether it is in her job or elsewhere. She is someone who I feel comfortable talking to about anything; we always have conversations every time I am home,” said Petzel.

At Bethany, Petzel has been involved with Science Club the last four years. Even though he is not a science major, he has been an officer of the club for three years and has served the last two as Treasurer. In addition, since his sopho-more year, he has been a member of the Scholastic Leadership Society.

Furthermore, he is one of

the founding members of the Red Sea.

“The Red Sea is a student organization started on campus to try to get more people at Bethany excited about the basketball season and teams. It really took off last year. I was in a class with Coach [David] Balza, and he encouraged me to start it. So, with Coach Balza, myself and a couple of other students, we got the Red Sea up and running and it has been successful ever since. I am looking forward to the basketball season this year,” Petzel said.

Petzel’s advice to under-classmen is to work hard but also to spend some time enjoying Bethany.

Bethany has also provided him with one very good memory.

Petzel said, “The best memory is meeting my girlfriend Allison [Homan] freshman year, and just getting to know her. To pick one fun memory I have had with her is when we went to the [Minnesota] Gophers and [Wisconsin] Badgers basketball game during my freshman year. We both thought the Badgers would win but the Gophers won. It was awesome.”

Campus Q&A

“If you could choose to have any food in the cafeteria, what

would it be?”

By Grace Stromer

Sarah DamianoSophomore“I would choose crab, because it’s my favorite food.”

Elisa MayerFreshman“Avocados, because they’re yummy and green.”

Kate RuschmeyerFreshman“Breakfast foods at night.”

Jordyn WendtFreshman“Garlic grilled shrimp... on a kabob!”

Sarah RehbeinFreshman“Hmong eggrolls because they’re my favorite food.”

Jenny Pfeil

Hometown:Louisville, MinnesotaIf you could be any animal, what would it be and why?A cat, because they can be lazy all day.What is your intended major?Media Arts

Describe yourself in three words.Goofy, carefree, and a good listener.If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose?Companion for the Doctor.

Katy Faugstad

Hometown:Belview, Minnesota

If you could be any animal, what would it be and why?

I would be an alligator, because they are intimidating and I’m not very

intimidating.

What is your intended major?

I want to do something in healthcare; I’m not sure what. But I love helping

people.Describe yourself in three words.

Friendly, fun-loving, and indecisive.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose?

Jane Bennet from Pride and Prejudice because she always thinks well of

everyone.

Freshmen Files

Senior Spotlight: Ben Petzel

Photo by CASSIE WIERSCHKE



Different. Different is the best way to describe

the art and styles of Andrew Judkins and Tim Wirth. Yes, they have different names and they grew up in differ-ent towns, but it is their art styles that really separate them from one another.

With both being born and raised in the Midwest, Judkins and Wirth had pretty similar childhoods. Judkins was born and raised in Wisconsin (but later moved to North Mankato), and Wirth made his child-hood memories in Iowa. Like any young children, they began to pay close attention to what was surrounding them – the arts.

Judkins was exposed to art at a young age by his mom and his grandmother’s. Art just seemed to click with him, so while attending Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Judkins focused on art and decided after four years he wanted to take his art to the next level and go to graduate school in Savan-nah, Georgia at the Savan-nah College of Art and Design.

In Iowa, Wirth was exposed to a “different” kind of art – not painting so much, but watching his dad and his uncles make things and mend things around the farm. It was not until college that Wirth realized that art was his passion.

“I remember taking an art survey course my first year in college. It was a crash course in culture, religion, historic events, geogra-phy, politics and humanity. I realized then that art was this pathway to investi-gating the world in every direction. I thought it may be a good idea to study it further,” said Wirth.

It was at the Savannah College of Art and Design that Judkins and Wirth would finally meet.

“I met Tim in orientation, but I can’t remember much from that. We had a class early on about color in paint-ing and I think we started connecting after that. I would go peek my head in his studio and see what he was up to all the time. Right before Tim finished school, which was before me, we had a printmaking class together. He did some inter-esting prints of found objects in that class that I got a kick out of,” said Judkins.

Aside from the back-ground stories, it is the art that makes the pairing of these two artists so unusual.

While Wirth has land-scapes here and there too, he also has a car, a Skippy peanut butter jar and a water tower. Judkins’ art revolves around landscapes. Whether it be waterfalls, fields or forests, all of his scenes show nature at its best.

For Judkins, painting things in nature just seems

second nature to him. Through his method of drying, stroking and layer-ing, Judkins’ paintings seems lifelike.

“Everything landscape is a joy to paint, but water is probably the thing that most excites me, both as a hiker and an artist. Waterfalls are spiritual places full of energy and delight. Making something that I think is worthwhile is my favorite thing about painting,” said Judkins.

Wirth, on the other hand, does not necessarily follow the “rules” of the average painter. Just about every painting he does is on a square piece of plywood, and then features an object. However, Wirth prefers to start right away with paint, and skip the sketching phase.

“I prefer spontaneity. When I do make a mistake

or decide to change direc-tion in the painting, it actu-ally makes the work more interesting. So it’s impor-tant to make mistakes. Mistakes are required. Sometimes I know what I want to do before I begin, but even then I try to throw out my preconceived ideas or I’ll sabotage my idea to allow for new directions to open up,” said Wirth.

Wirth does not stick to the normal pallet of paints that an artist would use either.

“I have used tractor paint, sawdust, coffee, wood glue, water putty. I like to use materials that have a unique quality about them. But I am also care-ful about getting too reck-less. There are certain materials that just don’t work together. And there are some materials that just can’t be managed very well. I don’t want to

make things that fall apart, so there’s been a lot of trial and error,” said Wirth.

“It was unique that two friends who were both paint-ers and came from relatively the same region had such different styles; Judkins’ breathtakingly realistic landscapes and Wirth’s eye-catching abstractions,” said freshman Ivy Heintz.

With all differences aside, Judkins and Wirth share one thing – a passion for the arts – something they wish that others would become passionate about too.

“I just encourage people to explore their talent to find out what is there. If you don’t explore enough you won’t find your strengths and you’ll be left on the sidelines, or doing something best left to some-one else,” said Judkins.

Judkins and Wirth show diversity in art exhibit

Photo by ELISA MAYER

The stark, contrasting styles of Andrew Judkins and Tim Wirth intrigued many BLC students, including Triah Meyer.

Black Friday likely to claim more victims than savingsBy Megan MaschoffScroll Staff Writer

With Thanksgiving right around the corner,

it is time to get everything prepared. No, not the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pumpkin pie, but the shopping list and route to take for Black Friday 2012.

While most people steer clear of the hustle and bustle of Black Friday, others find this more enjoyable than the actual Thanksgiving Day. Whether it is to get that super cheap television at Best Buy or just to get good deals in general, it truly has become a holiday all on its own.

According to BlackFri-day.com, the hot toy for the season is actually an old clas-sic that seems like it is the toy to make a comeback –

Furby. With a couple tweaks to the toy that was a hit 14 years ago, Hasbro is hoping to have another hit on their hands. Since Furby is “new and improved” and can even hook up with an iPhone app and translate what “Furbish” Furby is saying, Hasbro is asking a pretty $60 for their hot Black Friday item. Toy stores like Wal-Mart, Target and Toys “R” Us are likely to have a Black Friday sale on it, along with other hot toys like tablets for children, One Direction dolls and others.

On the college student end of things, the item to most likely be popular is the Wii U. The Wii U is very simi-lar to the Wii, but has some new, high-tech additions to it. The Wii U will have handheld game controls

and classic controls as well as a touchscreen to sync with the game on the televi-sion. According to Nintendo, it will be the first game system to have high defini-tion graphics with 20 times more memory than the Wii. It will be backwards compat-ible with the old Wii, which will most likely be cheaper on Black Friday with the unveiling of the U and other devices.

Other electronics are on track to be just as popular. With the new iPad mini out, it is sure to be another hit for Apple. The Kindle Fire HD and Google Nexus expect to be some tough competition as well.

Black Friday always seems like a good time to upgrade to a HDTV (high definition

television) too. Gottadeal.com estimates a 32” LCD screen should only cost a customer around $140 this holiday season, and they are right on track, as Wal-Mart released an advertisement selling them for $179.

There is good news for those consumers who still have the “older” iPods and iPhones. With Apple chang-ing the connectors with their latest editions of the redesigned iPod and iPhone 5, accessories for the later models are expected to be much cheaper on Black Friday.

While the deals will be great this year, do not forget about the great opportunity to people-watch too.

“A few years ago we were in Target by the movies and

next to them were the new Xbox 360’s, or what I should say is where they would have been. They had just sold the last one and there was a lady trying to get one. She ran down the person who got the last one and said she would do anything to get one. She was trying to give a big sad story about how her son was in the hospital and the Xbox was all he wanted but then her son came running up to her and said that he found another one. The look on her face was priceless,” said junior Lauran Johnson.

So whether it is the deals or the people that Black Friday is about, be safe out there – it is dangerous.


By Halla Henderson Scroll Staff Writer

Every year the Salvation Army hosts a number

of programs over the holi-day season that are aimed at bettering and making the year ahead easier for those who are in need. This year, the organization has been working hard to not only expand on their annual projects, but find ways to meet the growing demands locally.

According to Heather Spann, the volunteer and program coordinator for the Mankato Salvation Army, numbers and projections for the programs are up across the board – ranging from the Bundle Me Warm program to the Christmas baskets and dinners.

Bundle Me Warm, which is a five-week program aimed at doling out free outerwear items to those in need, gave 5,564 items to 1,058 families in the 2011 season. However, in contrast to 2011; on the first day of the program this year over 1,500 pieces were given out.

Spann said, “Need is esca-lating on an alarming scale. We’re well-supplied, but we still find ourselves running thin on both items and staff.”

The program, which allows any person in the community to choose three items over the five week

period, is for those who may not qualify for government vouchers or programs, or are simply too embarrassed to take a handout, yet still need help staying warm this winter.

Similar to this program is Santa Anonymous, another volunteer-run program, which hands out Christmas presents to families who cannot afford to buy presents for their children. The volunteers set up the program with a store-like atmosphere so parents can come in and shop for their children without feeling as if they are digging for handouts.

“Last year, we gave out 6,160 toys for 1,162 children and we are predicting that we will be surpassing that number this year,” said Spann.

There is also the Holiday Sharing Tree, which helps clothe, care for and provide the homeless and mentally ill with presents in hopes of not only lifting their spirits, but giving them some much needed help in obtaining practical items for every day use. Volunteers work to not only meet the demands, but feed and shelter any home-less or needy person that they can throughout the winter months.

“There is an annual Christ-mas Dinner that serves 155 people and I’m sure we’ll

fill the center,” said Andrew Kerr, a volunteer who works in the kitchen and also works to run the Sharing Tree, Bundle Me Warm and Bell Ringing programs.

Christmas baskets are put together and handed out on Dec. 17-18 each year to hand out to over 800 fami-lies in the local area. Over a hundred volunteers work to organize and put the baskets together while taking into account allergies and dietary needs.

“We are, of course, a Christian-based organiza-tion, but we work to help anyone we can regardless

of their religious beliefs,” said Spann when discuss-ing the organization’s Christian roots.

One of the ways the Salvation Army does this is through bell ringing. There are 16 locations throughout Mankato with the funds going towards aiding the various programs and Men’s Shelter – typically the funds contribute to 25 percent of the organizations funding for the year, so donations are crucial.

Spann said, “We know we will be able to provide for everyone this season, but with the increase in demand

and the lull in volunteers, it will be difficult and we need all the help we can get.”

This year, the Salvation Army, like many non-profit organizations, is experienc-ing an increase in people who are relying on donations and programs to make it through this holiday season. They contribute the impact of the economy and cutbacks as the main reasons for the increase in demand, but they are confident they will find a way to meet the needs of everyone who needs a little more this holiday season.

High holiday turnout at Salvation Army

Photo by HALLA HENDERSON

Through many generous donations, the Salvation Army was able to donate over 1,500 outerwear pieces on the first day of the Bundle Me Warm program.

San Francisco Giants win the World SeriesBy Lexi Titeca Scroll Staff Writer

For most people, October is a time when people get

excited for fall and Hallow-een, but for baseball fans, it is time for post season play-offs and the World Series. This year, the American League Champions are the Detroit Tigers, and the National League Champi-ons are the San Francisco Giants. These two teams battled it out in four games, with the Giants sweeping the Tigers in four games and coming out on top as World Series Champions.

In the World Series, the post season champions play against each other in a series of the best of seven games. The team with home field advantage is deter-mined by the league that wins the All-Star game in July. This year, the national league won, which gave the

Giants the upper hand in the World Series.

According to Fox Sports, in the first game, the Giants won 8-3, thanks to third base-man Pablo Sandoval hitting three home runs off Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.

After the first victory, Sandoval said, “Man, I still can’t believe it,” in refer-ence to his perfor-mance. Because of his performance, Sandoval was named series Most Valu-able Player (MVP).

In the second and last game played at AT&T Park in San Francisco, the Giants won 2-0. Giants pitcher Madison Bumgar-

ner said, “Every pitch felt good [that night]. It felt a lot better than it [had] the last few games.”

In the third game, played in Comerica Park

in Detroit, the

Giants won 2-0. After losing again,

the Tigers were facing elimi-nation, and had to win.

“I [didn’t] go home imag-ining being down 0-3 in the World Series, but it [was] what it [was then],” said Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder.

In the final game, the Giants won the title of World Series Champions

with a score of 4-3, thanks to an infield

hit by second baseman Marco

Scutaro. Needless to say, the Bay Area

was ecstatic with having the title of World Champi-ons back, after being cham-pions in 2010 as well.

“Since I was a kid, I wanted to play on the Giants

and win a World Series. So it’s been fun to be

here,” said short-stop Brandon

Crawford, who grew up in the Bay Area.

According to the Giants official website, the celebration parade was held on Halloween and began on Market Street in San Francisco. Tens of

thousands of people packed the street with orange and black, the official colors of the Giants.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said, “Congratulations to the team that does not know how to quit, never gives up and defied the odds at every opportunity. Here’s to showing the world what it means to play for each other.”

Giants closing pitcher Sergio Romo said, “We are a great example of this city. You look at the diversity of personalities, where we all come from, the different faces from different places, the different folks with different strokes. You look at my teammates, and we have a different story. But we all had one goal in mind, we all had [a] job in mind, all had one dream in mind, and that was to become World Series Champions as a group.”


Gleason at loss for words to describe theatre projectBy Shawn LogingScroll Staff Writer

The journey from a teenager to adulthood

is full of many trials, but for most, the transition does not occur in an alter-nate reality.

Rachel Gleason’s Senior Theater Project mixes reality with elements of science fiction; this has been leading to some problems in explaining “Insularity.”

“People keep asking me [about the plot] and I wish I had a nice convenient response. It is an abstract plot; I have been calling it science fiction because I have been dealing with some alternant realities and what some people will interpret as time travel,” said Gleason.

Gleason said, “The plot centers around Ashland, who is a regular Ameri-can teenager until she f inds she is taking a trip without drugs, and it turns out that she is going to some kind of alternate reality. She f inds out that if she does nothing, she will become trapped there. So, the main conf lict is her trying to escape from this alternant reality. She also meets some other people that are also trapped and

they all try to get out together.”

The title “Insular-ity” may not ease the confusion about the plot because it is not a common word.

Gleason said, ““Insu-larity” is the noun form of the adjective ‘insular’, meaning ‘pertaining to an island, isolated or narrow-minded.’ So it pertains to my show in that there is a nebulous island-like location, and the story deals with isolation and narrow-mindedness.”

Junior Janeen Leisses is the stage manager, who Gleason asked personally, and for her first time in

the role, she is enjoying the experience.

Leisses said the play “is closer to lighthearted. There are moments when it is depressing, but it is not too lighthearted that it is comical. I think there is a good balance of both.”

Adding to this, fresh-man Jaakob Maunula said one of the enjoyable aspects is “the bizarre-ness of [the play]; it has some funny moments, but it is not a comedy, but some of the moments are funny in themselves. The overall character develop-ment is good, as well.”

Jaakob Maunula plays a character in the alter-nate reality, which moves around in a strange fashion.

The original idea for the play came to Gleason several years ago through a recurring dream that always occurred in the same place. This led her to think about if it moves from a dream to real-ity. She first examined the concept through the movies “The Matrix” and “Inception,” and the book “The Chronicles of Narnia.” After this, Glea-son had some decisions to make.

“First, I had to decide if the place was in fact real

or if it was some sort of psychological f igment of [the character’s] imagi-nation. I decided that it would be more interest-ing if it was somewhere; nobody knows where but it [was] out there. I had to deal with what brought my protagonist there and how to get back. I have inner conf licts with her because she is a teenager and it is a coming of age story,” Gleason said.

Senior Tarja Maunula plays the mother of the main character, who is a helicopter parent. She explained that the mother is very controlling and wants things to happen in a certain way.

“I get to raise my voice, which I do not do much in real life, so it is fun to be someone completely opposite of what I hope I am. It is going to be inter-esting. I also really like the rest of that cast that I am working with, so, it is going to be fun,” said Tarja Maunula.

Another cast member is sophomore Rebecca Smith, who plays the nurse to the main char-acter, treating her narcolepsy.

“The audience will like the story and charac-ters of the play the most

I think, and that it is off-beat and random,” said Smith.

Sophomore Alexander Sina has several roles in the play. He is playing a supporting character and background charac-ters. He is also the move-ment coach because of his martial arts background, teaching the cast how to fall, f ight and die.

“My character is a Polish man. He is a middle aged man and his wife is, without spoiling things, sick and he is taking care of her. I like that he is a loyal devoted husband, even though his wife has been sick for a while,” said Sina.

“Insularity” will hit the stage on Nov. 30 in the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center.

Gleason said, “I want the audience to think about how this can be applied to their own life. I just want them to enjoy the show because it is not a typical stage play; we are doing some interesting things, and I just want them to come away thinking that it was a cool show. So if I can get both of those things that will great, but if I can get one, I will be happy with that.”

Sigma Tau Delta hosts English major meeting to recruit new membersBy Brittany Titus Scroll Staff Writer

Being a member of any club or organization on

campus might have restric-tions on who can and cannot join, but Sigma Tau Delta is an English honor society any Bethany student can be a part of.

To join, students must be a sophomore who has taken three semesters of classes at Bethany and has taken at least two literature courses and has a GPA of 3.0 in English.

On Oct. 24, the club hosted an event where experienced English major professors talked about life after college. This gave insight on how English majors can be active after college and how to get a job. This event also brought attention to the honor soci-ety, for new students poten-tially interested in joining.

“Our goal was to promote the English department around campus and to get people interested. We also wanted to recruit new members for the club,” said junior and President of STD Gena Chester.

Speakers Rachael Hanel

and Bethany English profes-sor Angie Johnson spoke on subjects such as freelance writing and teaching.

By being connected online and socially, an English major can start looking for a job. Even if it is starting out as an intern, every little bit helps. The more experience a student has, the better the chance of landing a job in the future. But it is not as simple as that. Hard work and dedica-tion are needed for one to be successful after college.

Besides teaching at Beth-any, Johnson teaches at Mankato State University-Mankato. She has been teaching for the past five years and has also been a freelance writer. For English majors, difficulties will always appear no matter how much experience some-one has in Englsih.

“Time is a challenge. You have to sit your tookis down in a chair and read. It fuels my writing to see how other people think,” said Johnson. “Writer’s block is always hard, but once you sit down and are focused, you can usually work through it.”

For students, advice as such was much appreci-ated. It gave them a real-ization of what life after college was like and how to face challenges and rewards.

“I appreciated how they were down to earth about freelance writing. It was known to be okay to take a break from writing and focus on family like Angie. It made it more realistic and seem achievable,” said

senior and treasurer of STD Baylee Amy.

Students, especially English majors, liked the chance to meet others in the major and the chance to talk with them on their likes and dislikes.

“I wanted to be an English major because I love to read. It’s one of my favorite things. I have always read a lot. Getting paid to read sounds good to me,” said senior Dorothee Sullivan.

“I like reading. I’ve always had an infinitive for writing. It’s always been a focus of mine. I want to do this for a living,” said Chester.

“My advice for English majors is to do what you love. If it’s reading or writ-ing, do it, even if you fail, fail with pride. Don’t be afraid to fail. In fact, go for it. It’s how you become better. It’s how I became a better writer,” said Johnson.

Photo by TIM WILDUAER

Angie Johnson and Rachael Hanel spoke about the first steps they went through to launch their careers and gave advice about where to start.

Photo by DENICE WOLLER

Senior Theatre major Rachel Gleason continues to plan for the release of her upcoming production.


Duo Zeno performs energetic duet in chapelBy Lexi Titeca Scroll Staff Writer

In music, a spicy but beautiful duet is the

saxophone and marimba, which is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars and resonators. Bethany enjoyed this combo when Duo Zeno played at Trinity Chapel. Preston Duncan played the alto saxophone and Scotty Horey played the marimba.

The performance started out with four songs from “Song Book for Alto Saxophone in Eb and Marimba,” composed by David Maslanka.

After these songs, Duncan said to the audi-ence, “This is what we call a ‘change of charac-ter.’” The duet then played “Valse Vanite,” an electric song composed by Rudy Wiedoeft.

Horey then performed a solo, with Duncan performing one after him. Horey’s solo was a love

song, while Duncan’s was a Japanese song about a Samauri general going into war.

The duo played three more songs before closing out the performance with “Divertimento.”

Duncan said, “This song is the most famous marimba [and] saxophone song. It is a Japanese song that is extremely enjoyable to listen to.”

In review of the show, Director of Fine Arts Lois

Jaeger said, “I didn’t have any idea what to expect from a saxophone [and] marimba combination, but I was blown away. The sound was so rich and beautiful – almost ‘liquid’ or like the richest silk.”

Senior Heather Hewitt said, “I thought [Duncan and Horey] had an excel-lent performance. It was a unique twist having a saxo-phone and marimba concert. As a saxophone player, it was especially exciting because there aren’t that many saxophone performances around here. My favorite piece was [Divertimento] because it had an awesome rhythm and great melodies.” Duncan performs and teaches in the Twin Cities and is on the faculty at the University of Minnesota- Morris, Minnesota State University-Mankato and Bethany.

Horey is a music teacher in the Twin Cities and is a faculty member of the University of Minnesota as a percussion teacher and principal percussionist of the Ohio Light Opera and the Mankato Symphony Orchestra.

By Timothy Wildauer Scroll Staff Writer

Not so long ago, in a state not so far away, George

Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney Corporation for $4 billion. As a result, Disney plans to produce an addi-tional Star Wars movie slated for 2015.

Even though only one company was purchased, Disney acquired much more than just the Star Wars fran-chise. They also received Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound and the rights to various movie franchises.

Industrial Light and Magic is one of the most renowned computer graphics effects companies in the world. They recently did work for “The Hunger Games” and “The Avengers.” The company was founded by George Lucas in 1975 for the first Star Wars movie he directed.

Skywalker Sound was also founded in 1975 and has won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing every year since 1977. Some of their more notable works include sounds for “The Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Toy Story” and the “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy.

In addition to these nota-ble companies, Disney also

received the rights to THX, the high tech audio and video equipment manufacturers used by majority of theaters.

George Lucas is proud to sell Lucasfilm to Disney. In an interview about the tran-sition, he said, “It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers.”

Despite Lucas’s optimism, there has been no shortage of criticism about the next installmentof the Star Wars movie franchise and how Disney will produce it. Many people are skeptical about a Disney twist into the movie such as putting Mickey Mouse in it somewhere. Others doubt the presence of a story line after Episode VI.

“There is no story after Darth Vader dies. George Lucas said it himself,” said freshman Luke Hahn. “You can make something before the first episode, but not after the last one.”

In many different inter-views, Lucas said that the story was over after Episode VI.

“There is no more story after that. What happens to Luke [Skywalker] after that, isn’t relevant to the story of what happens to Darth Vader because he’s gone,” said Lucas in a 2008 interview

with the Herald Sun.However, Lucas had a

change of heart in 2012 and revealed plans for a sequel trilogy in August 2012. He would not be producing these films due to his retire-ment, but would instead serve the position of creative consultant.

The Star Wars series is not the first franchise Disney has bought out. They own Marvel, Pirates of the Carib-bean and Pixar. These companies have produced many films under the direc-tion of Disney, and most of them have been successful. This is a huge encourage-ment to some people.

“[Disney] hasn’t screwed up any of the other fran-chises they bought. Marvel is still good and so is the Pirates of the Caribbean,” said sophomore Matthew Lange. “George Lucas is staying on as an advisor for the new movie, so I doubt it will be worse than the other movies.”

Regardless of their view, Star Wars fans of all ages will likely go out to see the movie when it opens in 2015. Hahn said, “I’m still going to see it because I’m a Star Wars fan.”

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Sandy’s Path of Decimation

House on Massachusetts Ave. in D.C. Photo courtesy of Sarah Jacques.

Rosell Park, Union County, New Jersey. Photo courtesy of Nicole Vergara.

Washington D.C. Photo courtesy of Jan Kolva.

House on Massachusetts Ave. in D.C. Photo courtesy of Sarah Jacques.

Being noted as one of the worst hurricane of the century, Hurricane Sandy has affected millions of people throughout the east coast. From house flooding, to power loss, to damaged housing and greenery, this hurricane has been dangerous.

The storm had force winds as fast as 80 miles or more per hour and 13 flood tides. The death toll from Sandy had reached 193 people in seven countries that were in its path.

According to the Wash-ington Post, “Sandy was classified a post-tropical cyclone. Meteorologists said Sandy lost some charac-teristics of a tropical storm because of its collision with arctic air. But that collision also created an unusually large and dangerous storm system spanning nearly 1,000 miles. Fierce snow-storms dumped as much as 2 feet of snow across moun-tainous areas in southern Virginia, West Virginia and western Maryland.”

Also in those areas were massive amounts of power lossage. Schools and colleges had to cancel classes and even evacuate students to safer areas.

“I had classes canceled for two days. Students that stayed on campus and didn’t go home were evacu-ated to our gym for two nights, which was about 700 students. A huge tree blocked one of our main parking lots so they had to remove it one morning. Leaves were everywhere

on campus and on the roads and smaller trees were knocked down,” said sopho-more Chelsea Titus, who attends Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.

This was not uncommon among other schools. Some were worse than others; it depended on where the student lived and the states requirements in case of severe weather.

“My classes were cancelled for a few days. My school wasn’t really affected otherwise; there was some

rain, but it wasn’t heavy, and the Internet went down in one building for a couple of hours. There were a few water leaks around campus, but nothing major. But a lot of the student population is from New Jersey, so some of their homes were more affected. I had actually gone home to Wolfsville, Mary-land during much of the storm, and the lights flick-ered a couple of times, but otherwise we were lucky and not hit too hard,” said sopho-more Sarah Jacques, who


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attends American University in Washington D.C.

Like Jacques, other students tried to go home instead of staying on campus where it was not that safe, because they would be evac-uated. They left to be with their families, hoping it was safer there, but that was not always the case.

“I was impacted by the storm in many ways. My family and I had to bring everything from our deck inside, and tie down our grill to prepare for the winds. All

of our Halloween decora-tions were taken down and put away. During the storm, our power flickered a few times, but never completely went out. We had two bad leaks in our ceiling and some roof damage outside that will be very costly to fix. My classes were cancelled too, and were all set back very much now. There was a lot of debris everywhere, and several trees were down,” said soph-omore Angelica Flowers, who attends Towson Univer-

sity in Towson, Maryland. According to MSNBC,

mandatory evacuation took place in lower New York, where 375,000 people had to leave their homes. They had 65 shelters open in public schools for them to go to.

Hurricane Sandy has also affected airports, which had to cancel 6,800 flights so far. Interstates and bridges had to close down as well.

In addition, politics also changed. President Obama had to cancel some campaigns, mostly in

Virginia. States on the east had canceled early voting polls because of the storm.

This hurricane has left $50 billion in damages that is estimated in the United States. Sandy was smaller than Hurricane Katrina, which left $108 billion in damages, but bigger than Hurricane Irene, which occurred in August of 2011, which left $4 billion in damages.

According to Yahoo, 18,648 people have donated over $1 million so far,

and the number has been increasing. Not only citi-zens are donating though. Celebrities and big compa-nies are also raising money and donating to the cause. For example, the Minnesota Vikings donated $1 million to victims.

One way to help donate is to the Red Cross. They provide food, shelter, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by the hurricane. Visit redcross.org to learn more.


By Brittany Titus Scroll Staff Writer

Halloween has always been a fun way for adults

and children to dress up in their favorite costumes: witches, cowboys, fairies and firefighters. On Halloween night at Bethany, students celebrated as well, but with an event known as Fright Night Madness, instead of its usual late night madness title.

Students were to come in costume for the big event, which featured the men’s and women’s basketball teams, a student versus faculty game and a dunking contest against the men’s basketball players, which sophomore Miles Kelson won.

The student and faculty game was tied 19-19. This close game was entertaining for both parties, who are in support of Bethany’s teams.

“It was fun to play against the faculty and staff. This event is like our homecom-ing since we don’t have one. I always jump at the chance to play basketball, and I like to be silly and goofy,” said junior Shelby Latusek.

Senior Rachel Gleason dressed up as a pirate for the event and loved attending to see the teams play.

“My costume was easy to put together and fun. I also enjoyed the game. It’s nice to see the players in a pre-season event,” said Gleason.

The basketball teams love the support from the audience, who raised the enjoyment and excitement of the event.

“For our student body, seeing their enthusiasm is my favorite part. It makes

it about them as much as the team. It pumps up our guys when the students are excited, which is key,” said men’s basketball head coach Dave Balza.

The first home game for the women’s team is on Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. against Waldrof and the men’s on Nov. 15 against St. Olaf at 7 p.m.

“We’re excited about the returning veterans and the newcomers. We also love the tremendous support from the student body and the faculty and staff. We don’t take them for granted,” said Balza.

One worry of the teams is the possibility of injuries and defining the roles of the players. They are trying hard to prevent injuries from happening this year.

“I hope they do well and play hard this year, espe-cially without injuring them-selves,” said Gleason.


On your mark… Get set… Write. The challenge is on to write 400 words a day for the next 21 days.

The 21 Day Writing Chal-lenge is back with about 30 Bethany students participat-ing this semester, running from Oct. 31 through Nov. 20. The Inkwell Literary Magazine sponsors the challenge.

Junior Janessa Beyer said, “The 21 Day Writing Chal-lenge is a free writing chal-lenge. For 21 consecutive days, participants receive a prompt [from Inkwell] and the prompt could be a completely random thing, such as poodles or create a story with the name Sara something.”

“Each day, participants respond to that prompt and they can go on a tangent, write about a memory or any which way. It is the partici-pants free writing. That way, participants are stimulating their creative writing ability [which helps] participants grow to be a better writer,” Beyer said.

Senior Rachel Gleason said, “The purpose is to spur creativity and to encourage people to write more. A lot of people, I think, are a little afraid of writing; they sit down to their laptop or note-pad and think about what

they are going to write.” “They worry that it is

going to be bad. They would rather not try then to come up with something that is subpar. So, this is just to encourage tham to flex their writing muscle and come up with ideas,” said Gleason.

It is also a low stress event and can even be relaxing, said Gleason.

Once participants finish the free write, they email it to Inkwell to be checked to ensure that they meet the guidelines. Inkwell does not read the submission like they do for the magazine.

After the 21 days, partici-pants can then earn rewards. Those who completed 15 days of the challenge could win a $10 gift card. Anyone who completed all 21 days will be entered to win an even larger prize.

Beyer restarted the event five semesters ago as a way to provide students with more creative free writing opportunities.

Beyer said, “It [restarted] because we are starting to see a lot more creative writ-ers at Bethany. So many of us are used to just having the academic writings, with essays and research papers. Now, we are starting to see people coming from high school that have teachers that give creative writing prompts that led them to

becoming creative writers.”“We saw the connections

and decided that we should maybe bring this back because it got lost over the years. So it is slowly making a comeback and it is becom-ing popular,” said Beyer.

Senior Tarja Maunula has been taking part in the 21 Day Writing Challenge for three years.

Maunula said, “I really enjoy having the motivation to write, outside of me enjoy-ing writing. I also appreciate the gift cards; I won one my second year, which was fun. It is nice that [Inkwell] are promoting writing.”

She also incorporates the propmpts in her novel writing.

“[I write] a scene of stories and short stories.

I vary between realist and fantasy, depending on the prompt. I also do NaNoW-riMo (National Novel Writ-ing Month), so sometimes I incorporate the prompts into my novel, so that is fun and interesting. It takes my novel in directions I don’t antici-pate,” said Maunula.

For Beyer, she enjoys seeing the ways people imagine the prompts and that it involves a lot of people from around campus.

Gleason said, “We expect to continue putting out the challenge at least once a semester as long as we have people to keep it up. So, tell your friends it’s fun, it’s chal-lenging and you can win stuff.”

Word block remedied by word vomit

Photo by MEGAN GRUNKE

For 21 consecutive days, students are given a prompt to write about. It needs to be at least 400 words long. For the writers, the best part is that it doesn’t necessarily have to make sense and, could win one of several gift cards.

Fright Night Madness thrills many


Miles Kelson leaps to the basketball hoop during the dunking contest held between members of the Men’s Basketball team on Halloween Night.

By Timothy Wildauer Scroll Staff Writer

Protesters rage in ArgentinaBetween 250,000 and 500,000

people are protesting in Buenos Aries against their president, Cristina Fernández de Kirch-ner. According to The Guard-ian, the protesters are chanting and holding signs that say, “Stop corruption,” and “No Re-election.” There have been rumors that President Fernán-dez de Kirchner will try to amend the constitution to allow her to run for a third term as president. So far, the protests have been peaceful. Not only poor people are participating in these protests, reports The Guardian. Inflation is esti-mated to be at 25 percent each year, resulting in the slowest economic growth rates in all of Latin America. This has dropped President Fernández de Kirchner approval rating to below 40 percent, according to a recent poll.

President Fernández de Kirchner took office in 2007 after her husband, Néstor Kirchner, finished two terms as president. After becoming president, she pursued poli-cies of redistributing wealth, investing in education and nationalizing oil companies.

According to The Guard-ian, one middle-aged marcher said, “I voted for Cristina, but now I feel let down. We need more security, more jobs. The government needs to stop lying to us.”

(Source: The Guardian)

Iranian jets fire on U.S. droneA U.S. Air Force Preda-

tor Drone was carrying out a surveillance mission over the Persian Gulf on Nov. 1, when it was fired upon by Iranian fighter jets. According to a press release by the Pentagon, the drone flew 16 miles off the coast of Iran, when two Su-25 fighter jets approached the drone. The two planes made two passes while firing at the drone, but failed to hit it.

CNN reports that intelli-gence analysts still are not sure if the jets were trying to hit the drone or just scare it away, but one official said, “It doesn’t matter, they fired at us.” Pentagon Press Secre-tary George Little did not call the incident an act of war, but noted that the Pentagon is very concerned. The United States has protested to Iran, but so far, they have not responded.

Source: CNN

News & Notes


Career fields in demand for years to comeBy Brittany Titus Scroll Staff Writer

With the semester half way over and regis-

tration underway for next semester, students cannot help but think of their career path and what is available nowadays. With the econ-omy as it is, jobs are already hard to find.

The unemployment rate is at 7.9 percent. People could think that there are not any jobs available today or that there will be any in the future. However, with the right career field and major in college, some jobs are in higher demand and can be more achievable.

According to Huffington-Post.com, “This year, the first baby boomers turned 65. As this generation greys, their needs will change. Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require more health-care professionals to care for them. In particular, doctors, nurses and dental hygienists will all be in much greater demand. These new retirees will also increasingly look for help from personal finan-

cial advisors to navigate their investments.”

Because of the baby boomer generation, the medical field is in high demand. This mostly includes occupational and physical therapists to help the elderly perform simple tasks that may be more diffi-cult for them as they age. Nursing is also an option for jobs available.

A major in Biology or Exer-cise Science can help those on this career track. Gradu-ate school is needed in order to get a master’s degree and

a certification in this field. Sometimes more schooling is needed, depending on the job title.

For those interested in the business world, accoun-tants and auditors are jobs available for a future college graduate.

According to Colleg-eCareerLife.net, “Accoun-tants prepare and maintain financial records, report on financial conditions to management, and estab-lish and modify accounting systems. Auditors collect and analyze data in order

to ensure the accuracy of reported financial informa-tion. Most accountants and auditors have a bachelor’s degree or higher in account-ing, business administration or finance. Several certifica-tions are available for profes-sionals in the accounting field, including Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Accoun-tants and auditors earned an average annual wage of $60,340 in 2009.”

Engineering is also popu-lar in the career world.

There are many different types that go along with this field, including biomedi-cal engineering, which is in high demand for the future. The job growth is 72 percent and the salary is $82,550.

According to the New York Times, “This relatively new specialty bridges the medical and engineering disciplines, with emphasis on engineering. Biomedi-cal engineers design and build innovative devices (artificial limbs and organs, new-generation imaging machines) and improve processes (for genomic test-ing, or making and adminis-tering drugs).”

These are just a few of many career fields that are in demand today and in the future. By researching jobs in demand, one can get familiar with the popularity of jobs and what is needed.

For more information, websites such as Career-Cast.com and CareerOne-Stop.org are places to start a job search.


The fields of computer science and the medical industry are only two of the job options that are in high demand today.

By Richard MeryhewStar Tribune (Minneapolis)(MCT)

Gov. Mark Dayton wrote a stern letter Tuesday to

the owners of the Minnesota Vikings threatening to undo the stadium deal if they pass on the cost of building the $975 million project to the fans.

"The project's strong support came from many regular Minnesotans, not just rich Minnesotans, because they believed the Vikings are also their team," Dayton wrote. "If a new stadium were to betray that trust, it would be better that it not be built."

Dayton sent the letter to Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf.

The letter came less than a week after the team sent out an e-mail survey to season ticket holders to gauge their willingness to pay thousands of dollars more for personal seat licenses or "stadium builder's licenses" to secure the best seats. The fee, most likely a one-time payment if imposed, would be on top of the annual cost of season tickets.

The stadium financing legislation approved last spring stipulates that reve-nue generated from the seat licenses would go toward the Vikings' share of the construction cost. The state and city of Minneapolis are contributing $498 million to stadium construction, with the team picking up the remainder through an NFL loan, stadium naming rights, sponsorships and possibly, licensing fees.

The stadium legisla-tion gives the Minnesota Sports Facilities Author-ity, which is working with the team to oversee devel-opment of the project, the right to own and sell the seat licenses, although the revenue then goes to the Vikings construction costs. The Vikings have consis-tently expressed interest in the seat license concept, but have never said that they would commit to it. The team did not make the e-mail survey available last week, saying it was proprietary.

Several season-ticket hold-ers who responded to it, however, have said that it was clear from the survey

questions that the team was serious about establish-ing a one-time, seat license fee, similar to that in place at many NFL venues. They said the survey did not list license fees, which typically sell for several thousand dollars on average, but vary depending on the market and the location of the seats in the stadium.

One season-ticket holder said it could cost her as much as $20,000 to buy the license to her two 50-yard-line seats.

Vikings Vice President Lester Bagley said last week that the team has made no decisions on seat licenses or established any fees. He said the survey was simply to evaluate the option and the market.

He added, however, that with the team responsible for $477 million in construc-tion costs, "we're looking at all avenues" for construction financing.

Michele Kelm-Helgen, chairwoman of the Minne-sota Sports Facilities Authority, said Tuesday that she had not seen the survey, even though the

team's e-mail to ticket hold-ers stated that the authority and team were conducting research.

She said that while seat licensing fees were "always an option" for the team under the legisla-tion approved last spring, "there never was a specific dollar amount or example that was discussed" during discussions over the stadium financing bill at the Capitol.

Kelm-Helgen said she'd been contacted by Minne-apolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and other "elected officials" Tuesday who expressed support for Dayton's stance.

In his letter to the Wilfs, Dayton also expressed frus-tration with recent reports that the team verbally committed to play a 2013 "home game" in London and was interested in playing a second game overseas in the near future.

The Vikings announced last week that they will play one game in London next year.

At the time, Bagley denied a report that the team had made any commitment for more than one game.

"After the first game is played [in London], we will see how it goes and then we'll decide if another game is scheduled," he told the Star Tribune last week.

Dayton told the Wilfs in his letter that "I am greatly distressed by these develop-ments and the future they portend. We negotiated in good faith. Not surprisingly, given the project's magni-tude and complexity, some details were not fully under-stood and some differences still remain. They must be resolved consistent with Minnesota standards and values."

Kelm-Helgen said that the stadium legislation stipu-lates that the team can play three games overseas in 15 years. She also said that Dayton "was never support-ive" of that language, saying consistently that he thought the Vikings should "stay here and play here. The economic impact to the state is all about the games played here.”

Dayton to Vikings: ‘Not a Rich People’s Stadium’


Students join together to Rake the Town

Photo By ELISA MAYER

Breathing a sigh of relief, Brittany Titus and Ashley Stahl play in the leaves after finishing the yards of two houses during Rake the Town.

By NANCY A. YOUSSEFMcClatchy Newspaper (MTC)

BENGHAZI, Libya

Two months after the American ambassador

to Libya and three other Americans were killed in assaults on U.S. facilities here there have been no arrests of suspected attack-ers, and Libyan officials say it is unlikely any will be made anytime soon.

Libyan officials here and in the country’s capital, Trip-oli, said the nation’s police and court systems are so disorganized and power-less that there is virtually no investigation into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate that left Ambassa-dor Christopher Stevens and State Department computer expert Sean Stevens dead.

Two CIA security contrac-tors, ex-Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, died in a separate attack hours later when the CIA station in Benghazi came under attack.

Officials in Benghazi said the first problem with pursuing those responsible for the attacks is that police officers are afraid to move against the Islamist extrem-ist suspects, who, like many in this country, are members of militias that are better armed than state security forces. And that is just the beginning.

Officials say it’s uncertain who is in charge of investi-gating the case and who has the authority to issue arrest

warrants, should it come to that. Even if charges were to be brought, there is no proper court system for prosecuting anyone.

In Benghazi, the deputy interior minister said the prosecutor is in charge. The head of the Supreme Security Council, which has responsibility for organizing an army, believes the police are in charge.

The prosecutor said he has no idea who is in charge. Some brigades created during last year’s uprising and used to the security void here don’t recognize the Tripoli authorities as being in charge of matters in Benghazi.

Last week, Libyan officials had to name a new pros-ecutor and judge and moved the case from Benghazi to Tripoli, reportedly because the judge in Benghazi had no means to investigate the case. The official described as the Libyan liaison to the FBI for the case said the investigation essentially is just beginning.

“We are not at the point of arresting. We are correcting procedures,” said Col. Abdel Salem Ashour of the Interior Ministry’s criminal investi-gations department.

Ashour said the Libyans are looking for roughly 70 people who were involved in the attack but that images of the potential suspects captured by consulate secu-rity cameras and delivered to the Libyan government

last week by the United States are blurry.

The description of the investigation given by Libyan officials is far differ-ent from the promise Presi-dent Barack Obama made during an Oct. 16 presiden-tial debate to “hunt down” the attackers.

Security officials said they fear arrests in this case could lead to more violence. The few people who have been detained in connection with the case were either witnesses or looters, Ashour said. Security officials here call those kinds of arrests easier, as they are people who likely don’t have an armed group behind them.

“It’s no secret that most institutions here are in a weak position. There are many competing factors of security. It makes it diffi-cult,” said Ahmed Langhi, who represents Benghazi in Libya’s national legisla-ture, the General National Congress. The case “will not be solved until this secu-rity problem is solved. The legal system needs power to implement orders.”

Indeed, the crime scene itself remains unsecured. While the compound owner has spray-painted his name all over the front gate to let looters know it is not Ameri-can property, Libyans can walk through the charred buildings unimpeded.

Stevens’ clothes still hang in the closet, and American documents are strewn on

the floor. Because Libya is a sovereign state, American officials must depend on Libyans to make arrests in accordance with local law. But how such a case can be handled when there is no structured legal system and no law enforcement agency is unclear.

Perhaps the most infa-mous suspect, Ahmed Abu Khattala, remains at large even after witnesses put him at the consulate during the attack, directing fighters.

A commander in Beng-hazi’s largest revolutionary brigade acknowledged that everyone is frustrated that Khattala is still allowed to operate openly in Benghazi, boasting about his freedom of movement even as he has denied participating in the attack.

“Who is going to arrest him? Who is going to ques-tion him? It’s the conse-quences that we fear,” the commander said. “If we arrest someone, a member of his forces will get him out.”

The commander did not want to be named after being publicly identified with helping the Ameri-cans recruit members for a counterterrorism unit. Within hours of his name surfacing, he said, extremist groups operating in Beng-hazi threatened to kill him. Among the factors limit-ing an investigation, said Omar al-Khadrawry, Libya’s deputy interior minister, is

that local officials do not recognize the authority of the central government in Tripoli.

He said officials who have been fired simply refuse to leave their jobs and cited as examples the city’s police chief and the deputy interior minister for Benghazi, who refuse to step down despite having been fired and replaced by the country’s new prime minister.

Saleh Daghman, the newly named deputy interior minister for Benghazi, said he cannot even get to his office because his predeces-sor is still there.

In addition, some of Dagh-man’s officers have charged that he is a member of Ansar al-Shariah, the group suspected in the consulate attack. Daghman denies the charge.

The ultimate result, al-Khadrawry said, “is a security problem. It is weak in Benghazi.” In addition, many of those in charge of security have no previous experience.

“We are starting from zero. We are building from scratch,” said Langhi of the General National Congress. “The Americans know the situation very well, and they will not let the killer of the ambassador go. But they know they have to move slowly and carefully. The Libyan people want to help.”

(Special correspondent Ayman al Kekly contributed from Tripoli, Libya.)

Dozens of suspects, but no arrests

By Brittany Titus Scroll Staff Writer

Raking leaves might not seem like a hard task,

but as one becomes older with age, these simple tasks become difficult. Rake the Town was started to help the elderly and those who can no longer do the raking themselves.

On the morning of Oct. 27, clubs and organizations such as Anderson Hall, the Equestrian Club, the Scho-lastic Leadership Society Club, the Science Club and the COMM122 class were involved. The annual event was started by VINE Faith in Action, who hoped to rake over 300 yards in the Blue Earth and Nicollet counties this year.

VINE provided a chili

lunch afterwards and had drawings for prizes amongst the different organizations that were involved. They also gave out free pumpkins for Halloween.

The Paul Ylvisaker Center will give out prizes to the organization that raked the best. The top prize was $150.

Residential Manager Heidi Harland has been involved with this volunteer project for three years. She was a part of Anderson Hall and worked with four girls on their team.

“The best part is the time I get to spend with the small amount of students. I get to see their personality and them promoting community service. It’s four hours with them that I wouldn’t trade,” said Harland.

“I loved seeing [the elder-ly’s] faces. It was neat to see them happy about it,” said freshman Elisa Mayer.

“I’m blessed to have the opportunity to give back, even if it’s a small contribu-tion,” said freshman Ashley Stahl.

But, there were also diffi-culties with having this event. There were small numbers of students for some of the organizations, making the total number of yards raked smaller.

Normally, the Anderson Hall group rakes five yards. This year it was only two because of the small amount of people. The past few years there were between 10-12 girls.

“The low participation number was the most diffi-

cult part,” said Harland. Although the numbers

were small, the students still enjoyed themselves and had a good time helping out the

community members.“I had fun. It was a great

experience and it was nice to help people out,” said Stahl.


By Lexi Titeca Scroll Staff Writer

In the world of English, there are many career

paths available. However, many college students are unaware of these possi-bilities. Sigma Tau Delta is trying to change that by inviting speakers to talk about possible jobs for college graduates with an English degree.

On Nov. 6, Gina Krammer, the editor of the Henderson Independent, came to Beth-any to talk about working for a small newspaper.

The Henderson Indepen-dent only has two full time employees, so there are many jobs to be completed for the weekly paper. Between these two employees, all of the reporting, photography, edit-ing, and layout for the paper is completed. The paper also does small printing jobs for people or business, such as

business cards and advertis-ing posters.

English Professor Lars Johnson said, “[The Hender-son Independent] is like an early American newspaper. [The employees] are like Ben Franklin because of how much [they] have to do on [their] own.”

Because there are so

many jobs that need to be filled, not all of them can be enjoyable for the individual interests of the employees.

“I began as a creative writer; I like the research-ing part [of writing arti-cles]. It ’s not hard; it ’s just bare bone facts. It takes me not very long to write the articles, but I don’t enjoy

it. I like the layout aspect of it, though. I definitely enjoy putting the paper together,” said Krammer.

Krammer suggests that i f someone wants to run a small newspaper, a back-ground in web design, journalism and photogra-phy helps.

“Time management and

organization skills are important, along with proof reading skills,” said Krammer.

Freshman Patrick Ernst said, “Concerning the speaker, she laid out real-istically the creativity newspapers, especially small ones, use to survive. Much of her encourage-ment was to gain experi-ence in as many forms of writing, software and design at Bethany as possible, and I will be keeping that advice in mind. She also spoke about the conventions of news writing, which is good for us to hear who usually write academic or creative pieces. Overall, I think her presentation of a lesser-known career option in writing was very applicable.

By Lexi Titeca Scroll Staff Writer

In today’s world in search for equality, even

Bible publishers and theo-logians are considering gender neutrality. This year’s topic of discussion was Bible Translations for the 21st Century.

The history of the lectures dates back to 1965. At the time, the number one Lutheran scholar was Dr. Herman Sasse, a German theologian who had stood up against Hitler during his reign over Germany.

Dr. Bjarne Wollan Teigen found out that Dr. Sasse was in the area, so he asked him to speak at Beth-any. Dr. Sasse accepted and gave a lecture to Bethany on the impact of Bultmann-ism (a form of Deism) on American Lutheranism.

Two years after Dr. Sasse’s lecture, Reverend Kurt Marquart from Toowoomba, Australia came to give a lecture on The Word as Truth and Life, thanks again to Dr. Teigen. Since then, it has been an annual event. Because Dr. Teigen was instrumental in the start of the lectures, this year the title was officially changed to the Bjarne Wollen Teigen

Reformation Lectures.This year, Dr. Cameron

MacKenzie of Concor-dia Lutheran Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Ind. and President Paul Wendland of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisc. were the guest speakers.

Dr. MacKenzie’s lecture was titled “Episodes in the History of Translating the Scriptures” and Presi-

dent Wendland’s lecture was titled “Formal and Functional Equivalence in Bible Translation.”

At the end of each lecture, there was a discussion held with a moderator. Chaplain Don Moldstad served as one of the moderators.

“They were very well-received. I think the topic was so relevant because of the challenges coming out

with the new NIV translation. The role of the moderator is simply to keep the question and answer session moving, and to introduce the speaker. There were some wonderful exchanges back and forth between the two speakers, who essentially agreed, but have slightly different ‘takes’ on things,” said Moldstad.

The real issue presented was not so much about Bible translations but about

using the new gender-neutral New International Version (NIV) 2011 Bible.

Professor Erling Teigen said, “President Wendland took the side of translat-ing the Bible in a ‘sense for sense’ form, which is func-tional. Dr. MacKenzie took the side of translating the Bible in a ‘word for word’ form, which is formal. I personally agree with Dr. MacKenzie’s side, but there is no such thing as a pure word for word translation”

In the Wisconsin Evan-gelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), the Evangeli-cal Lutheran Synod (ELS) and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), the current discussion is whether to use the new gender-neutral translation or to use a more formal trans-lation like the New King James Version.

Sophomore Zach Rine-hart said, “After doing some research on the revisions made, I do not like the new NIV. One of the big things I noticed was that [the transla-tions] made a lot of the texts gender neutral, which [in my opinion] is not right. I am a fan of the King James Version and New King James Version.”

Lee Theatre hosts Reformation Lectures

Photo by TIM WILDAUER

Dr. Cameron MacKenzie was the first of two lecturers who spoke during a presentation regarding the history of the modern English Bible beginning in 1521.

Working in the world of a small newspaper

Photo by GRACE STROMER

Last week, English honor society Sigma Tau Delta hosted an event to promote Bethany’s English department.

FREE Thanksgiving Dinner at Mount Olive Lutheran ChurchThursday, November 22nd - 10 a.m. Church Service / 11 a.m. Meal

R.S.V.P. 345-4966 - [email protected]


National Election continues direction By Timothy Wildauer Scroll Staff Writer

Despite the fact that nearly $6 billion was

spent nationwide on various elections , according to the Center for Responsible Poli-tics, not much has changed. Barack Obama is still the President, Republicans still hold the House of Represen-tatives and the Democrats still hold the Senate.

Elected officials were not the only topics on the ballots. There were 178 ballot measures in 38 differ-ent states beneath the candi-dates. The topics ranged from changing the state sales tax to starting new charter schools. Florida topped the list with 12 prop-ositions with California right behind with 11.

Three different states

passed a measure to allow same-sex marriages and give those couples the same rights as other marriages. Minnesota tried and failed to restrict marriage to one man and one woman.

California passed a law to raise the income tax on wealthy individuals to 10.3 percent, and increase the state sales tax. Voters also failed to pass a measure to prevent public unions from spending money for political purposes.

Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana and allow it to be regulated along with the sale of alco-hol. Oregon proposed a simi-lar amendment but it failed to pass.

Montana passed an amendment that would require people to prove that

they are U.S. citizens when filing for state aid, such as unemployment benefits and education grants.

Three states voted to make parts of the Affordable Care Act illegal. The amend-ments guarantee that each adult has the right to make their own healthcare deci-sions. Florida failed to pass such laws.

Eleven different gover-nors were up for reelection this past Nov. Among those, Republicans were either re-elected or replaced by a fellow Republican in three different states and won one more state that was previ-ously held by a Democratic governor. Democratic gover-nors won their elections and retained control in seven other states. Thirty states currently have Republican

governors and Democrats are in control of 19 states. The governor of Rhode Island is an independant.

In the United States House of Representatives, the Republican party held 240 before the election but lost eight of those seats. Demo-crats gained two seats in the House but are still 23 seats shy of having the majority of 218 seats.

The Democratic party still holds a majority in the United States Senate after taking two seats from Republicans. There are also two independent candidates who won seats in the Senate. At the beginning of the 113th Congress next Janu-ary, Democrats will have 53 seats in the Senate, and Republicans will have 45.

Despite the billions of

dollars that were spent on these elections, almost noth-ing has changed as far as who has control in Washing-ton D.C. Republican seats still hold the House, and the Democrats still have control of the Senate and Presi-dent Obama is still in the White House. Some of the members have changed, but none of these changes will make a difference in policy.

For the next two years, the U.S. will have essentially the same Congress that it had for the last two. This is the same Congress that has been given a 21 percent job approval rating, and some of the hardest decisions are yet to be made.

Minnesota resultsBy Halla Henderson Scroll Staff Writer

Though there was last minute hope for the

Republican Party that Minnesota would defy the status quo and go “red,” endorsing Governor Mitt Romney for President, the state did not go against its 40 year history of voting democratic.

Amy Klobuchar won re-election to the Senate by 65.3 percent of the vote to her opponent Kurt Bill’s 30.6 percent.

“I’m looking forward to addressing some of our major challenges, including bringing the debt down in a balanced way and moving forward with the economy,” Klobuchar said during her acceptance speech on Nov. 6.

Klobuchar, who easily won her senate seat by outspend-ing and using the advantage of her name against the less well-known and financially adept Bill, quickly gained the upper hand, which led to her win.

Republicans conceded

control of the Minnesota House and Senate after holding both chambers at for the last two years. This-returns control of the full Legislature to Democrats and gives Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton a free hand to push legislation to increase taxes on the wealthy, after Republican opposition led to a government shutdown last year.

Rick Nolan, who served in the House from 1971 to 1985 upset Republican Repre-sentative Chip Cravaak, a first-term rep. who beat Democratic Rep. Jim Ober-star in 2010, returned the primarily democratic seat back to its usual party lines. “I guess Yogi Berra would say it feels like déjà vu all over again,» said Nolan to a Brainerd crowd after winning the House seat.

Nolan’s win gave the Democrats a 5-3 margin in Minnesota’s House, which had previously been tied 4-4.

The other big (and close) House race was GOP and

incumbent Representative Michelle Bachman, who vastly outspent, but enjoyed a close and contentious race with Democratic contender Jim Graves. The district, which was made more conservative due to redis-tricting, led to Bachmann’s confimation as the winner of her district the morning after the election.

There were more issues on the ballot than votes for state officials and the presiden-tial seat – there were ballot issues as well. Two issues on the Minnesota ballot deal with the redefinition of marriage and voter ID laws.

“I think what the elector-ate was telling the Legisla-ture is, ‘Don’t go pass[ing] Constitutional Amendments to get around a governor,’” said Tom Bakk, the newly elected Democratic Farmer Labor Party Senate Majority Leader, as he explained the reason for the results of the redefinition of marriage law.

After a grueling electoral race for all seats in conten-

tion, it seemed that in many ways Minnesota stayed the same. The state remained “blue” and backed President Obama, despite speculation that it might not. Democrats regained momentum and the seats they lost during the 2010 midterm elections. In many ways, barring a few

exceptions, it would not be far-fetched to say that for the moment “blue” in Minnesota is here to stay.

Information and quotes from various campaign and victory rallies following the Nov. 6 election came from candidates’s individual websites and political blogs.

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When networks cover national elections like

the one on Nov. 6, exit polls can end up playing a more prominent role than actual vote turn out and can lend to declaring a state before many of the precincts are reporting.

Exit polls are polls voters conduct right after they leave a polling station, said Edison Research. Edison has been the sole provider of the service of exit polls since 2003. Exit polls detail infor-mation on politics, demo-graphics and geographic, and cover the presidential, Congressional and guber-natorial elections along with ballot issues.

Edison then provides this information to the National Election Pool, which is the collection of news organiza-tions like CNN, CBS, the Associated Press and the other major networks.

President Barack Obama (D) and former Governor Mitt Romney (R) split the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent, respectively, according to CBS News.

The exit polls continue to show a close split, with 45 percent of males voting for Obama and 52 percent for Romney. Among females, it was 55 percent for Obama and 44 percent for Romney.

One key demographic polled by the exit polls was religion. Protestants and other Christians made up 53 percent of the elector-ate polled, and 57 percent voted for Romney and 42 percent for Obama. Catho-lics are considered a differ-ent demographic.

Comparing this group to 2008, results shows little has changed. Then Republican

presidential candidate John McCain carried the Prot-estant vote with 54 percent compared to Obama who had 45 percent.

Obama carried all other religious groups. The next largest group, Catholics – which make up 25 percent of the electorate polled – went to Obama with a percentage of 50 to 48. Obama sweeps all other groups (Jewish,

some other religion and no religious affiliation) with 70 percent of the vote.

This fits right along with 2008 exit poll results, even though Obama carried a larger margin of the groups in 2008.

Among Romney’s own religious faith, Mormon-ism – part of the Protestant or other Christians – polled voted 78 percent in favor of Romney and 21 percent in favor of Obama.

When looking at voters’ attendance to religious services, 42 percent said they attend service weekly, 40 percent occasionally and 17 percent answered never, and again, there is little change from the 2008 exit poll numbers.

Of those who said they attend services weekly, 59 percent voted for Romney compared to 39 percent for Obama. For those who answered occasionally and never, Obama won by 12 percent and 28 percent, respectively.

When looking solely at Minnesota in this category, 34 percent of Minneso-tans said they attend reli-gious services weekly, 49 percent occasionally and 15 percent never. The spread to the candidate follows the national results.

When looking at the exit poll results for Minnesota’s

Senate race, Amy Klobu-char (D) carried all three. Of those that said weekly, 58 percent voted for Klobu-char, 70 percent of those answering occasionally and 74 percent of never.

Another religious subdivi-sion was white evangelical or white born-again Chris-tians and all others. Evan-gelical is used in the political sense of being part of the Religious Right, according to U.S. News, even though, no specific definition exists. Of those polled, 26 percent of the electorate consider themselves white evangeli-cals or white born-again Christians and Romney carried this with 78 percent of the vote. Obama carried all others, which made up 74 percent of the electorate, with 60 percent of the vote.

Comparing this to 2008, Romney carried a larger margin of those identify-ing themselves as white evangelical or white born-again Christians than McCain. Obama carried a larger margin of the all other religions in 2008 compared to 2012.

Overall, exit polls show that very little has changed, especially with in the reli-gious demographic.

(Source: CBS News and CNN)

Exit polls show little change of religious vote

Photo by KATHRYN WOLF

Among other things, exit polls link a person’s religious views to what candidate they voted for.

Recreational use of marijuana: is it really legal?By Lexi TitecaScroll Staff Writer

For many years, the topic of legalizing the use of

marijuana for recreational use has been debated. This year, Washington, Colorado and Oregon put the issue on their election ballot, and it passed in Washington and Colorado for adults 21 and older. However, the ques-tion is: Even though these measures passed, is mari-juana actually legal?

According to CNN, this might not be as simple as it seems. The Drug Enforce-ment Administration (DEA), a federal organization, reminded Washington and Colorado residents that the Controlled Substances Act is still in place, which states that using, selling and possessing marijuana is ille-gal. Federal law overrules states’ rights.

“This is a complicated process, but we intend to

follow through. That said, federal law says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don’t break out the Cheetos or goldfish too quickly,” said Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

In a press statement, the DEA said, “The Drug Enforcement Administra-tion’s enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged. In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I control[led] substance. The Department of Justice is reviewing the ballot initiatives and we have no additional comment at this time.”

Another theory with the legalization of marijuana has also been discussed recently: If marijuana is legal, will it help end the drug war in Mexico? If more states pass measures like Colorado and Washington

and can get past the battles with the federal govern-ment, some people think so. According to Alaska Dispatch, much of the money that supports drug cartels in Mexico comes from smuggling marijuana.

“It seems to me that we should move to authorize exports. We could therefore propose organizing produc-tion for export, and with it no longer being illegal, we would have control over a business which today is run by criminals and which finances criminals,” said Chihuahua, Mexico Governor Cesar Duarte.

It would seem as though it would help stop the prob-lems with the drug cartels, but it could make it worse. The Zetas, a powerful cartel in Mexico, have limited connections to Columbian cocaine dealers and therefore rely

heavily on the profits from marijuana smuggling. With marijuana legal, the Zetas would have no choice but to push more deeply into extortion, kidnapping, human smuggling and piracy of movies, music and oil to stay

alive.

The legalization of mari-juana is definitely stirring America up, as well as neigh-boring countries. Is it right or wrong? That decision will be left to the American people in the future.


Thanksgiving

Content Compilation: Alexis TitecaIllustration and Design: David Zarrett and Lea Wilmes

Each year, the average American eats somewhere between 16 - 18 pounds of turkey.

In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanks-giving celebrations.

On the West Coast of the US, Dungeness crab is common as an alternate main dish instead of turkey, as crab season starts in early November.

91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiv-ing Day.

The Worlds largest turkey sits just o� Route 10 in Frazee, MN. It is known as the turkey capi-tal of the world.

The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog.

Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.

Turkey has more protein than chicken or beef.

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