The men’s basketball team made histo-ry by becoming the first Carroll basketball team to reach NAIA finals before losing to Georgetown 68-48 in Kansas City, Mis-souri on March 26.

“[We’re] disappointed we didn’t get one more game for the championship,” said Kurt Paulson, men’s basketball head coach. “Looking back, now that the dust is settled, [I am] really excited for our four senior guys to make it to the cham-pionship. They had made it to the quarter finals before and now they had made it to the championship.”

Paulson made a significant impact by making it to the national championships in his first year as men’s basketball head coach. This was the last opportunity for the four graduating seniors to make it to the national championship game.

“A lot of people are really happy to see it,” said Gary Turcott, former head basket-ball coach from 1990-2009. “The expec-tations were high with the team that he had returning. He was a first-year coach, and it’s really hard with a team like that, picked to win the conference.”

Turcott, who, in his 19 years as head coach, had only made it to the final four, was particularly proud of Paulson who was a point guard for Turcott.

“A lot of people who have known Kurt since he played here were happy to see him succeed with his class and his calmness,” said Turcott. “It’s good to see a really nice person succeed and do it in a good way.”

The combined work of Paulson and the team led to great success.

“It was unbelievable,” said Carroll President John Cech, who was courtside for the national championship game in Kansas City.

“I was so proud of our boys and just everything they represented about the col-lege and the character of this institution," said Cech. "It doesn’t matter whether

they won the National Championship or not, it’s how they conducted themselves, how professional they were and how they represented this institution that will never be forgotten. I’m just so proud of them.”

The road to making Carroll history wasn’t easy.

“We’ve had to face a lot of adversity, so I would say overcoming that and becom-ing closer as a team is something I will always remember,” said Match Burnham, a senior forward.

Throughout the season, the men’s team suffered six significant injuries that led to two players being out for the season and others missing important games.

“Despite all the injuries that we had this season, our perseverance was a constant theme throughout this season and staying together to eventually get to this moment,” said Ife Kalejaiye, senior guard, when asked about qualifying for the national tournament.

“These guys are fighters,” said the Rev. Marc Lenneman. “They persevered when other teams would have folded. They played a beautiful style of smart, tough, unselfish basketball, and they did it while excelling in the classroom. I am blessed to serve as chaplain to the team, and the whole Carroll community has every rea-son to be very proud of them."

This determination was shown through-out the season by setting Carroll’s record for the highest scoring game against Salish Kootenai College 151-72.

“They had a great year,” said Turcott. The men’s team finished with an overall

record of 29-8 with a conference record of 13-5, the second most wins in the pro-gram’s history.

Of course, the most talked about games were the last two games of the season.

“Beating Lewis-Clark State in final four to get to championship was very reward-ing,” said Paulson. “They beat us in the [Frontier Conference] championship so it was good to have that rematch and beat them to get into this championship.”

The game against Lewis-Clark State only led up to the real nail-bitter.

“The final game, that was equally special because I also had a chance to go into the locker room before they left, and Patrick Harris sent a video of the students in Simperman Auditorium,” said Cech. “There was just tons of students in there and they just said, ‘thank you Carroll men’s basketball team. We are so proud of you.’ I ended up playing it three times and they were so cool. I think they were so happy about that because I think it really helped connect them with the students back here.”

Back in Helena, students, faculty, and staff packed in to Simperman 101/102 to watch the game live, courtesy of Carroll Student Activities Programming Board, Sodexo, and Student Activities.

“The environment was electric,” said Marshall Dumas, a senior in health sci-ence from Elko, Nevada. “Filling the big-gest lecture hall on campus with students who cheered every time something good happened was so cool to be a part of. Al-most felt like we were sitting courtside.”

Everyone cheered when the Saints scored a point; the students were positive and upbeat, cheering on and supporting the team, said Alex Dickey, a junior health

sciences major from Phoenix, Arizona. Despite not winning the championship

game, there were many personal victories. Burnham scored the most points of any

player left in the tournament at 25 points per game.

Dane Warp made an astonishing achievement by having Carroll’s first known triple-double game. A triple-dou-ble is when a player accumulates a double-digit number in three of the five statistical categories including points, re-bounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots in a single game.

Burnham made first team All-American as well as Frontier Conference Player of the Year. Matt Wyman earned third team All-American. Kalejaiye and Warp were both named honorable mention All-Amer-ican.

While happy with the success of this year, the hope is to build off this year’s success and do better next year.

“Our goal is to get further for next year,” said Paulson. “We got a lot of good experience for our guys returning and they set the bar high to work towards from now until next year.”

The ProspectorStudent Newspaper

Volume 118Edition 6

April 4, 2019

StudentprofilesPages 6 - 7

Women's Basketball Page 12

Headlights service tripsPages 8 - 9

Men's basketball program makes history at NAIA

Two Carroll College public relations majors have defeated nearly 100 teams from universities throughout the country to advance to the national finals in the Washington Media Scholars Foundation’s Media Plan Case Competition. Other finalists include Temple University, Ithaca College, Iowa State, BYU-Idaho, An-derson University and the University of South Carolina.

Junior Peri Dropping of Redmond, Washington, and junior Kelsie Watkins, from Snohomish, Washington, both PR and Communication majors, received word on Friday, March 29 that they had

reached the finals.This recognition was the second in five

days. Watkins and Dropping reached the semi-finals of the Western United States BP debate championship on Monday.

It had already been a good week, when the phone call came Friday morning.

“We had just walked out of a stats exam,” said Watkins. “And the good news was the pick-me-up we both needed.”

All six final teams receive all-expense paid trips to a seven-day media education-al workshop and competition in the D.C. area in June that includes networking with top media companies, tours of the Wash-ington Post and other D.C. media outlets, five days of academic and professional training in media planning and marketing, and the promise of ongoing mentoring after the conference for all six final teams.

The Washington Media Scholars Foun-dation was founded by Robin Roberts, President of National Media Group, with support from major media companies including the Washington Post, Politico, Scripps Howard and ABC. The finals are held at the Newseum, a museum of jour-nalism in Washington D.C., located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol

and the White House.The winning team will receive $10,000

in scholarship funds, with $6,000 for the runner up. The foundation has awarded more than $500,000 in funds in the 10 years since it began in 2009.

The competition required teams to de-velop a media plan and marketing strategy for the fictional opening of a new baseball park, including a campaign to win com-munity support in an election to support the new ballpark.

Watkins and Dropping developed a 10-page proposal including seven spreadsheets to show a month-by-month media spending plan that showed how many people in each demographic would be reached. They were not finished when Spring Break arrived.

“One day in break, we worked 12 hours to finish developing and then honing our media plan,” said Dropping. “We had to learn the language of media buying and the math equations that help generate outreach numbers. We targeted frequent voters and likely supporters of the base-ball team to increase the odds of gaining voter approval in the election.”

They also decided that coming in under

budget would set their proposal apart.“We had a $4 million budget, and we

left 11 percent unspent,” said Watkins. “We thought it was important to try to get the same impact with less money.”

Watkins and Dropping sought out advice from media professionals, me-dia buyers and PR consultants to learn everything they could about developing a media campaign. Recent Carroll PR grad-uates who work for top PR firms in the country have sent their congratulations.

Both Dropping and Watkins see this conference as a chance to jumpstart their post-Carroll professional lives. They cred-it this success to their Carroll education.

“Our com and PR courses gave us the knowledge and skills that served as our foundation,” said Watkins. “We talked to professionals, too, to learn how to develop a sophisticated media campaign.”

The competition, now in its 10th year, is designed to jumpstart the careers of fu-ture PR and marketing professionals. The letter to the Carroll finalists said that the foundation was established “to help you succeed in this very competitive industry by continuing to mentor all finalists long after June 14th.”Peri Dropping (Left) and Kelsie Watkins (Right)

Photo courtesy of Brent Northup

Shamrock Cambell dribbles his way down the court. Photo courtesy of bmgphotos.com

Press Release

Emma Lawver and Ashley Stead

Staff Writers

Carroll public relations students earn spot in national media competition

It’s April! This typically comes with melting snow, Easter, SURF, the final stretch of the semester and the Search retreat.

This spring, however, Search isn’t hap-pening. For the first time in as many years as campus minister Deidre Casey can remember, Search has been cancelled.

WHAT?! Search is usually the biggest retreat

campus ministry offers and the decline in attendance for this retreat is worrisome.

I’ve attended this retreat. It’s really good. It offers many opportunities to feel the love of God and the love of others in the community. So much hard work goes into all of the surprises that make up Search, so if no one tells you what it’s about, it is because they don’t want to ruin the great surprise.

Many who have gone on Search will agree that it is a great time, so why has attendance gone down?

This Spring Search being cancelled was probably impacted a lot by the conflicting Halo Awards. Typically, Spring Search has many senior athletes who haven’t been able to go before because of practice, so I understand why it was low because of that.

Was it a lack of advertising and know-ing about it? Maybe.

What it might really come down to is a lack of effort from the Carroll community to participate in the Carroll community.

Carroll offers a great many fun and entertaining things to do; how much of it do you actually attend?

Not saying that you have to go to every CSA, Campus Ministry, psych club, and

Saints4Life event put on, but the more people don’t go, the less able these clubs, and others, are able to put on events. It may just be this semester but if the trend continues, it might impact future genera-tions and the events you choose to not go to, they won’t have a chance to go.

It is getting out there with our friends that make these events fun and make the Carroll community, a community. So, Carroll community, go out and get involved!

Hello! My name is Patrick Oster from Boise Idaho, and I am currently a senior studying environmental policy and project management, a minor in history, and a certificate in geographical information systems (GIS).

I am writing today to express my opin-ions and concerns with the cutting of the certain programs. Now I must be honest, I agree with the elimination of the programs as it will help with the survival of Carroll and the environmental majors really need-ed to be retooled to better serve us.

My first main issue with the “program prioritization” is the way it was discov-ered by the students. It was February 22 at 10 p.m. and I was lying in bed trying to sleep and recover from a cold. I get a text message with a link to a Helena Indepen-dent Record article talking about the cut-ting of programs. After I read the article I was slightly miffed. Again, not at the fact that they had cut my programs, but that Carroll did not even tell us. What is the first thing that Dr. Cech does to release the information? Goes [to] the news. I had to find out about this from the IR. No email, no text, nothing; not even a twitter DM. Does Dr. Cech really find it professional to tell the news before telling the students affected? I find this very disrespectful as a student as I think that students should be

number one priority. My second issue is with the future of

the school. It seems that with the cutting of certain majors, we are adding quite a few graduate programs. While these pro-grams are going to attract students, I am worried because they will take a couple of years to implement. It just seems that we are shooting too far ahead and not dealing with the current issues like Simperman getting flooded (again).

My last issue resides with the news-paper article published in the last edition (Volume 118, Edition 5). While I think the article was well written and somewhat in-formative, I must ask why no one effected besides Dr. Meyer was interviewed? Why interview a history major who is hardly affected but not someone, say I or Jacob Stahlberg, or someone from another of the majors being cut? I find that a bit short sighted.

To end, Carroll is changing and not for the better. When I came to Carroll, I came for the student focused atmosphere, the programs, and I felt like Carroll was not like other state schools. Unfortunately, that is not the same anymore and to that end, I did not donate to Grateful Saints.

Sincerely, Patrick Henry Oster

Carroll students flocked to Helena’s local IHOP for Free Pancake Day, an event from which proceeds went directly to support Shodair Children’s Hospital.

Shodair has worked with IHOP and the Children’s Miracle Network for several years to put on the event. But this year, a group of Carroll students helped to coor-dinate the event as part of the Introduction to Public Relations course.

“Our group’s role in planning the event was being in charge of writing press releases, assisting in media coverage, creating advertisements, and organizing the football pancake eating contest,” said Madison Fernandez, a junior public rela-tions and communication studies major from Newport Beach, California, who was part of the group that helped make the event happen.

“It all went smoothly for us, but Sho-dair has several years under their belt in coordinating the Free Pancake Day with IHOP and Children's Miracle Network,” said Theresa Wadsworth, a junior commu-nication studies and public relations major from Helena and another member of the group working with Shodair. “[Shodair] was super in guiding us through the pro-cess, along with the news releases, ads for

the newspaper, timelines, et cetera.” The event drew many Helena commu-

nity members, including Carroll students. The Fighting Saints football team even came for a pancake eating contest that benefited Shodair.

“The football team wanted to do an eating competition [at IHOP] so I volun-teered for the cause,” said Seamus Tully, a junior communication studies major from Bellows Falls, Vermont. “Going to IHOP, I planned on just going and eating a couple pancakes and donating for the kids. But my competitive instincts took over and I ate almost 16 pancakes, with the help of my real Vermont maple syrup, because I wanted my team to win. And we did win.”

Participants enjoyed their pancakes even more knowing that the proceeds were supporting a good cause.

“Shodair is an important organization to Montana,” said Fernandez. “They are the only Children's Miracle Network hospital, and about 75 percent of their patients are on Medicaid. Shodair helps children and their families who need acute psychiatric care and genetics testing. It was really heartwarming to know that the Helena and Carroll community care about Shodair and are willing to support such a wonder-ful and important organization.”

On March 11, the first half of the new library renovation was officially com-pleted as the Stacks were completed and ready for student use.

This is the first half of a plan to reno-vate the entire library into a better tool for students to use. The bottom of the Corette Library had been under construction for the better part of the school year and the opening has been anticipated by students and faculty alike.

Karla Hokit, interim library director and electronic resources librarian, discussed the original vision.

“We’ve been working on a plan for quite a while to develop a learning commons concept which will bring in a writing and communications center,” said Hokit. “They’ve been working on a vision and a plan for that for quite a while. We initially had money for a small-scale remodel. Then we had a wonderful donor come through and was willing to support a much grander vision of what the library could be.”

The technology that will be present in the new space will be educational tools that will bring Carroll into the future.

“One room will be a light board studio and a one button studio,” said Dan Case, associate director of academic technology. “It will be for faculty, students, and staff so that they can make a video recording. There’d be green screens, LED lighting,

and it has a video camera in there.” Have you ever wanted to make those

awesome educational videos that look like the person is writing in thin air? Well, now that will be possible for Carroll stu-dents and faculty alike.

“We will also put a light board in that space which is a big huge piece of glass and you can stand behind it and write on it and it flips it and it looks like you’re writing in air and describing something,” said Case. “Faculty will be able to chunk content online and students will be able to go in to practice presentations. The presentation room will be a place where you can record yourself and it will be up-loaded onto an online site. You can access it online and then can upload it to your teacher for assessment.”

Carroll College President John Cech had the opportunity to check out the new space and was enthusiastic of how the space will be utilized to its full potential.

“I have enjoyed visiting the Simperman Learning Commons many times over the past month and visiting with students who are already using it,” said Cech. “In fact, most of the rooms have been used during the times I have visited. Students will use the center as a place to access all the tools and guidance they need to create profes-sional, cutting-edge media as significant coursework and as portfolio material to share with future employers. Proficiency in contemporary communication and fluency in digital media are essential for 21st century leadership, and projects centered in the center will be specifically designed to impart these skills in multiple

disciplines. Rather than simply teaching basic skills in their major areas of study, the center will equip Carroll students to be leaders and innovators, enhancing their competitive advantage in the modern workforce.”

Students will have a better quiet space in the downstairs portion of the library that is more open and lit by natural light that flows through the large windows that look out over Nelson Stadium and the Sleeping Giant. There are little rooms downstairs as well that boast white boards and large charging stations complete with outlets and USB ports. Students so far have enjoyed the space.

“It’s awesome,” said Noah Gaudreau, a sophomore biology major from Billings. “I love the individual rooms and I’m also a huge fan of the white board space and the walls with the whiteboard paint. I’m excited to see what the top floor is going to look like once that’s finished.”

In addition to the new space, there will be regular classes held in the new Simper-man Learning Commons that will better utilize the space.

“For this reason, Carroll plans to host classes for regularly scheduled sessions and for specific projects within the learn-ing commons, putting these tools at the disposal of students and teachers while they are working with one another,” said Cech. “Rather than a center that students must visit on their own, we envision this space as an integral part of the classes themselves, so that the advanced oppor-tunities for growth discussed here grow naturally out of students' engagement with

their regularly scheduled classes.” The library is only half done as the

upstairs will also be renovated beginning near the end of this school year. It will be complete with new study spaces, a coffee/sandwich shop, and new tables, couches, and chairs for comfort.

“We have a four-phase renovation project for the entire building,” said Hokit “The lower floor was the first phase, [and] we’ve realized that to completion. The second phase is when the café would be built and that would be that place to get something to drink, eat, talk with friends, and then seamlessly flex back into an environment where you can work on whatever school task you have.”

The Corette Library gets transformed into a state-of-the-art learning facility that will be renamed the Simperman Learning Commons

“The other thing we wanted to focus on was that we want to make sure that the student is nurtured and celebrated as they are going about their scholarly tasks,” said Hokit. “We want to make sure the students have a place that is flexible so that they can do school but if needed, they can take a break and flex back into a space that would allow you just to relax, hang, and take a break."

This new library space has been entire-ly donation driven, thanks to a donation from Roy and Frances Simperman.

The Carroll community had the opportu-nity to thank the Simpermans at a reception Monday, April 1, celebrating the comple-tion of the first phase of renovations.

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Carroll’s program prioritization process has resulted in changes at Carroll. Some academic programs are being discontin-ued, some have been revised. The college has attempted to contact students who may be affected by program changes.

In general, students who have already declared a major or minor will be able to complete the degree. Students who have not declared a major that is slated for discontinuation but have made substan-tial progress towards that credential can declare until April 5, said Cathy Day, academic dean. Cassie Hall and Annette Walstad can clarify that further on a case-by-case basis.

Some students have contacted the Prospector with questions, so we reached out to appropriate persons in six affected programs to get answer to four questions:

1. Will students currently enrolled in a program/major/minor that’s being discontinued be able to graduate with that credential?

2. Will students who were intending to declare a major/minor in a discontinued major still be able to do so?

3. Where should a student with questions go to get answers about the changes in your department?

4. What else do students need to know?Send additional questions to The

Prospector and we will run another FAQ column in the next issue.

Environmental Science, Environmen-tal Policy, Environmental Outreach

Patricia Heiser1. Current students can finish? Yes, we

will be 'teaching out' the courses students need to complete these degrees, or arrang-ing appropriate substitutions. Although two degree options are ending, Environ-mental Science is continuing and most of the ES classes will continue to be offered. The two majors being discontinued (Env Policy; Project Management and Env Outreach) depended heavily on courses outside the department so were subject to schedule changes anyway....and a main reason they were selected for discontinu-ance as separate majors.

2. Still declare? Yes, until April 5, if substantial progress has been made.

3. Contact? Patricia Heiser, Environ-mental Program Director

4. What else? The Environmental Sci-ence major has always had the most num-ber of students and is still going strong with field-based courses and experiential curriculum. Students will still have the opportunity to pursue 'concentrations' in Policy, Outreach, and a number of other fields, but the options will be more flexible and the program as a whole more resilient to changes across campus.

Music MinorLynn Petersen1. Current students finish? Students

who have made significant progress toward the Music Minor will be given the opportunity to complete it. Some of the required classes will be eliminated effective Fall 2019, so we will work with those students to find course substitutions. Students who have taken only one or two courses for the Music Minor are advised to switch to a combined Fine Arts Minor, to which they may still apply Music credits.

2. Still declare? April 5 is the deadline for declaring a major/minor that will be discontinued, if the student has made significant progress in completing require-ments for that program.

3. Contact? Dr. Lynn Petersen, Profes-sor of Music.

4. What else? Students who have declared the combined Fine Arts Minor may also be affected by the elimination of some music classes and are encouraged to work with the department to find course substitutions.

EducationBob Stansberry1. Current students finish? Yes. Stu-

dents who are currently enrolled in major/minor will be able to complete.

2. Still declare? If students declare in a discontinued major/minor prior to end of this school year, they will be able to complete that major/minor. However, we would recommend students who are freshmen or sophomores and who have

not been admitted to the Teacher Educa-tion Program consider majoring in one of the new broadfield majors (Social Studies or Science), English Education, or Mathe-matics Education

3. Contact? Dr. Robert Stansberry, Dept. Chair or faculty in the Teacher Edu-cation Department.

4. What else? The new Social Studies Broadfield and Science Broadfield majors will not limit the areas where students can teach. The Social Studies Broadfield major will include study in History and Political Science (Government), as well as, other social sciences (Economics, Geography, Psychology, etc.). With this degree, students will be eligible for a Montana Teaching License to teach in any of the social science areas in grades 5-12. And, likewise, the Science Broadfield ma-jor will include study in Biology, Chem-istry, Physics, and Earth Science. With this degree, students will be eligible for a Montana Teaching License to teach in any of the science areas in grades 5-12.

Engineering ScienceMary Keeffe1. Current students finish? Those

students that are currently enrolled in En-gineering Science will be able to graduate with a BS in Engineering Science.

2. Still declare? There is not a minor in Engineering Science. Students wishing to graduate in Engineering Science must declare this spring.

3. Contact? Mr. Gary Fischer, or Dr. Mary Keeffe

4. What else? The College is working with the accrediting agency for engineer-ing, ABET, to maintain accreditation of the Engineering Science program until the last student graduates. We do not antic-ipate a change in curriculum during the teach out period. Engineering faculty have met with the currently enrolled Engineer-ing Science majors to answer questions about the termination of the program.

Public Relations major and minor, Social Media Minor, TV production

Brent Northup1. Yes, a student who has a PR major

or minor, or who has declared the Social

Media minor or who has declared TV production as a degree will be able to graduate with that degree. If a course is removed, a substitution will be possible, with approval.

2. Still declare? By April 5 if substantial progress towards that credential already.

3. Brent Northup, or other departmental professors.

4. The PR major is not slated for discontinuation until August 2020. The program will not be discontinued if the department gains approval for a “restruc-turing” of the PR degree during the next school year. The social media minor is slated to be discontinued at the close of this year, but the departmental plan is for the social media course to continue to be offered.

Lauri TravisAnthropology1. Current students finish? Carroll

will honor the Anthropology minor for students currently listed as Anthropology minors. Next year (my final year) I will be offering required classes for the minor as well as a few electives. After I leave, the department will approve a suitable sub-stitution for any course that’s no longer offered. That could vary from student to student, to meet individual needs.

2. Still declare? Students with sig-nificant progress toward the minor can declare until Friday, April 5.

3. Contact? Lauri Travis or Jamie Dolan.

4. What else? The Anthropology minor has been a growing program. It increased from 2 students to 20 students in three years. The program is a leader in un-dergraduate research bringing in over $130,000 in the last five years, leading to numerous undergraduate student publi-cations in professional journals. We also have numerous collaborations with other institutions, including the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado School of Mines, Montana State Univer-sity.

On Saturday, March 23, more than 275 juniors and seniors gathered at the Delta Hotel here in Helena for the Junior Senior Banquet, hosted by Carroll Student Activ-ities, to pass the torch of leadership from the senior class to the junior class.

"I think it was a gift to gather together as juniors and seniors, to come together and to really pass on the gift that Carroll has given me for the last five years now; the gift of faith and community and the light of Christ.,” said Nicole Kraut, a senior nursing student from Spokane, Washington. “To be able to share that with the juniors and call them into that is a beautiful thing to know that I’ve given my time at Carroll and it's time for others to rise up and to carry the torch and to be that beacon to the church in the North-west.”

Students arrived and socialized while enjoying appetizers for a while before sitting down for speeches from seniors Gavin Cummings and Katie Buckner.

“I was super stoked to be able to talk at Junior Senior,” said Cummings, a marketing major from San Diego, Cali-fornia. “Getting sentimental and telling my friends how I feel about them is

something I do on a regular basis, so the chance to do that with a microphone was pretty cool.”

After speeches was dinner. Food was served buffet style with the option of London broil steak, lemon thyme chick-en, baked potatoes, asparagus, spaghetti squash, and rolls. For dessert, chocolate cake.

“It was a treat to get off campus and have food I don’t normally get to have,” said Josie Anhorn, a junior from Walla Walla, Washington studying health sci-ences. “The cake was also really good.”

The big change in this event from last year to this year was the change in leadership.

“This is the first year that CSA has taken on Junior Senior Banquet in the his-tory of the event,” said Jordan Bowman, a senior from San Diego, California, major-ing in computer information systems and theatre technology and co-director of the CSA Programming Board. “It went spec-tacularly and was a complete turn-around from last year’s event. We have taken notes from this year and will be working to make an even better event next year.”

It seemed a general consensus that this year’s banquet ran smoother.

“The banquet this year couldn’t have gone better for it being the first year we ran it,” agreed Mary Smith, a junior

from Spokane majoring in elementary education, the other co-director of the CSA Programming Board. “We are happy that we were able to give the juniors and seniors this kind of event to thank them for carrying on the Carroll family and to help them celebrate their time at Carroll. We can’t wait to make it even better next year.”

CSA Programming Board put in a lot of work.

“Mary Smith really made it happen down to the last minute of the event,” said Bowman. “I was out of town most of that week at a conference and she really

handled absolutely everything the day of the event.”

It couldn’t be decided though who worked harder.

“Jordan did so much work on it, too,” said Smith. “And we could not have done without Pat Harris and Brad Maddock.”

Whoever worked the hardest, the event was a good time.

“This was such a fun event, to be able to gather and hang out with friends,” said Mariah Stoltz, a senior accounting major from Valier, Montana. “It was a really good time.”

On Friday, March 15, there was a presentation that focused on the increase of fake service dogs and the lack of laws surrounding this issue.

“The main goal of our talk was to educate business owners and employees, community members and Carroll faculty, staff and students about the difference between service dogs, ESAs (emotional support animals), and therapy dogs,” said speaker Ali Hance, a senior in anthrozo-ology from San Francisco. “We mainly talked about the rise in fake service dogs and how they damage real service dog reputations. We also educated people about service dog laws from the ADA and state laws.”

Hance, Madie Sanford and DeeDe Baker, the founder of Dog Tag Buddies, all have experience working with service dogs.

Hance and Sanford, a senior anthro-zoology major from Sandpoint, Idaho, are currently training a service dog for a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder as an independent study through Carroll.

Dog Tag Buddies, the organization who put on the event, is a local nonprofit that helps veterans train service dogs.

One of the core topics covered in this talk was the rise of fake service dogs, happening on a national level.

“Fake service dogs cause issues for ser-

vice dog teams, businesses, and the com-munity,” Sanford said. “Since they have not undergone the necessary training, public places cause stress, which leads to unacceptable behavior. This behavior may include lunging, barking, or even biting, which causes real service dog teams to be in a constant state of worry.”

Hance, Sanford, and Baker are all currently in communication with the leg-islation trying to increase the penalty for having a fake service dog in public, where only service dogs legally have access.

“These ill-mannered dogs give a bad rap to real service dogs and can even in-jure members of the community,” Sanford said.

Too many people are getting away with “certifying” their fake service dog.

“There is no governing body that certi-fies service dogs,” said Hance. “I imme-diately know a service dog is fake if their handler claims the dog is certified.”

Despite what is commonly believed by the public, the Americans with Disabili-ties Act (ADA) does not require a service dog to be certified.

“This talk was very educational and even being an anthrozoology major, I learned so much, including more about service dog laws,” said Kailey Kleinjan, a junior in anthrozoology from Chinook, Montana. “The most interesting thing I learned was that the staff of a business cannot require an identification card for the service dog.”

On March 20, Carroll hosted a debate between three professors asking a critical question: What does it mean to be human?

“Overall, the debate was a fun and thought-provoking event,” said John Cooney, a junior theology and philoso-phy major from Spokane, Washington. “Honzel, Cline, and Roncalli all gave their unique takes about the essence of humanity, and while no account of the human person presented was completely compelling in itself, when taken together, they illuminated much about the complex, beautiful, and multifaceted reality of being human.”

The room was packed wall to wall with students, faculty and community mem-bers. There were people on the floors and on the stairs of Simperman 101/102.

Nikki Honzel, assistant professor of psychology; Kelly Cline, associate professor of mathematics, physics, and astronomy; and Elvira Roncalli, associate professor of philosophy each presented

their own explanation about what it means to be human.

Honzel explained how the ability to use language is what makes us human, even discussing how our own and memory can betray us and is truly unique to human-kind. Honzel added her own twist on the human language by finishing her presen-tation with “Honzel Wins!” in a variety of different languages and statements on her final slide.

Next on the debate was Cline. Cline was representing the natural sciences and stated that although he did not disagree with Honzel, he felt it was more than just language that made us human. Cline argued that we have a specific place in the order of the world. One of his key points is that we are all connected with the world but it is our history’s involvement in the history of the world is what makes us human.

“To be human is to be small, rare, and precious...” Cline had written on a slide. He said, “These atoms and particles outside and inside us move according to mathematical laws.”

Many students found these first two

speeches to be interesting and intriguing as they did the third and final speech by Roncalli. The philosophy professor explored how labeled people as human and sub-human in our history of discrim-ination. She talked about our ability to question and our ability to feel empathy as what makes us human.

“The questions we ask and the answers we give are not indifferent to the world we live in, the world we inhabit,” said Roncalli, recognizing how far we get to choose and decide who is a person.

At the end of the debate, attendees were

asked to vote online and, although all of the professors made interesting claims and debates, Cline won the debate overall.

“I thought this debate was an awe-some idea and I hope they continue to do them,” said Mary Smith, a junior ele-mentary education major from Spokane, Washington. “It was interesting hearing professors discuss a topic that many have touched on. It was really fun to see three completely different fields take on human-ity. I can’t wait to see what topic they pick next.”

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Students eagerly await the start of the debate. Photo courtesy of Kristina McGee

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Madie Sanford and Major show off for the service dog presentation Photos courtesy of Dog Tag Buddies

Carroll Student Activities hosts "Captain Marvel" movie night

Passing the torch to the next class; thank you seniors!

Ashley Stead

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Kelly Armstrong

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The Carroll Student Activities (CSA) program hosted a movie night on March 12 at Cinemark where almost 130 Carroll College students and faculty members took advantage of the fully paid-for event and watched “Captain Marvel” in their own rented out theater.

CSA typically hosts movie nights on

campus, either in the Simperman Audito-rium, on Guadalupe Hill, or in the FLEX Theatre, said Jordan Bowman, a senior in computer information systems from San Diego, California. This year, however, the CSA advisers, Brad Maddock and Patrick Harris, came up with the idea of hosting the movie night at Cinemark.

“We bought out the entire theater,” said Bowman. “You could say that we rented it out as we purchased 100 percent of the

tickets for that showing.” It turned out to be more cost effective

buying out a whole theater instead of having to personally purchase the movie rights, said Bowman.

Halfway through the semester, students are becoming more stressed from the pressure of school and having to study for midterm exams. While focusing on classes is important, it is also important to take a break from studying and create fun

memories. “Going to the movie let me take my

mind off of school and just relax for a bit,” said Terry Cox, a senior in math and data science from Spokane, Washington.

Overall, this movie is only one of many events that CSA hosts throughout the year. The next opportunity to take a break from classes and enjoy a CSA activity is the bowling night at Sleeping Giant Lanes on April 12 at 9 p.m.

Student teams from both Carroll and Helena College competed in the first Crosstown 3-on-3 basketball tournament on March 29 and March 30, where the men’s league champions were the Blue Ballers and the coed league champions were BBQ Chicken.

Teams from the two leagues, the coed league and the men’s league, faced off on the basketball courts of the Hunthausen Activity Center until only four teams remained.

Kareem of the Crop and Blue Ballers played in the championship game for the men’s league. The Blue Ballers won on a 3-point shot by Joseph Potkonjak, beating Kareem of the Crop 20-15.

BBQ Chicken took on the Mystery Machine in the coed championship game where BBQ Chicken prevailed, 20-10.

“It was a fun couple days of basketball and they did a good job of putting the tournament on,” said Joseph Potkonjak, a junior business administration major from Bigfork, Montana. “They had great food, snacks and drinks; it was a good time.”

Pool play took place in the afternoon on March 29 and in the morning on March 30. The outcome of pool play determined the seeding of the tournament that fol-lowed in the afternoon. Michael Mona-co and Ary Ekola built the tournament brackets. The first championship game commenced at 3 p.m.

“It’s nice that we played against people from Helena College; it’s fun to play against some new faces,” said Rayna Pilgeram, a senior health science and public health major from Helena. “And the competitiveness of [the tournament] was fun.”

The tournament had a turnout of eight men’s teams, three coed teams, and one women’s team, which played as part of the coed league, said Ary Ekola, student director of the Carroll intramural program and a sophomore business administration major from Belgrade, Montana.

“We only ended up with one team from Helena College, but we are excited to get all of the teams a lot of games,” said Ekola. “Plus, it’s a fun way to promote Carroll intramurals while including other members of the Helena community.”

The tournament guaranteed four games to each participating team—three games in the pool play and at least one tourna-ment game, said Ekola. The tournament was a single elimination tournament, which quickly whittled the brackets down to the top four teams.

The tournament consisted of teams from both schools and all of the games were played in the Hunthausen Activity Center gymnasium. This is the first time a Carroll intramural sports program is being hosted with Helena College. The winning teams were awarded a plaque that will be displayed in the trophy cases in the Hunthausen Activity Center.

Carroll intramurals hosts first Crosstown 3-on-3 tourney

Rachel Prevost

Staff writer

The men's league champions (L to R): Joseph Potkonjak, Stephen Santora and Jace Davis Photo courtesy of Michael Monaco

Students enjoying the banquet, from left to right: Rose Ramos, Carter Anderson, Riley Helgoe, Jamie Severson, Nicole Kraut Photo courtesy of CSA

The coed league champions (L to R): Rayna Pilgeram, Joseph Potkonjak, Jace Davis and Sienna Swannack Photo courtesy of Michael Monaco

Royalty lives on our campus. Who knew?

When we think of royalty we may think of tiaras, ball gowns and castles, but that is not the case for this queen. Queen Sydney Jones of the Pendleton Round-Up spends her time in the rodeo arena with her horse and a cowboy hat on her head, preparing for the Grand Entry of the 109th Pendleton Round-Up.

The Pendleton Round-Up is one of the most well-known annual large outdoor rodeos in the country.

When she is not being a queen, Jones, a third-year senior biology major from Pendleton, Oregon, can be found study-ing. Jones is on the pre-med track, hoping to someday be a physician.

While there are many aspiring pre-med students at Carroll, few have the experi-ence of training horses for rodeo run-ins and traveling around the nation as an ambassador for rodeo.

Late last semester, after a series of horse-jumping trials and interviews, Jones was selected to be the Queen of the Pendleton Round-Up for the 2019 rodeo season.

Jones was in elementary school when she first met members of the Pendleton Court.

“Growing up in Pendleton, the girls on the Pendleton Round-Up Court are your biggest role models,” Jones said. “You grow up seeing them everywhere. They come visit your school and their poster

is up in every establishment, so even if you have never even touched a horse, you think, ‘I want to be on that Court.’”

Partaking in pageant events for rodeo is the stereotype that surrounds a rodeo queen position. However, this is not the case for the Pendleton Round-Up, Jones said. Sometimes at other large outdoor rodeos, rodeo contestants dismiss their riding ability, which is frustrating because the Round- Up requires—and is proud of—their Court’s skilled horsemanship.

“The difference between the Pendleton Round-Up Court and other rodeo courts is that Pendleton only judges and selects you to be on the Court for your ability to communicate your passion for the sport and community, along with your horse-

manship and riding ability,” said Jones. Other rodeos may run their courts

differently, which may include giving out appearance awards or having a pageant show, Jones added.

As the rodeo queen, Jones has the opportunity to network with many prom-inent professionals that she hopes will help her in the future as a physician, and help her be an effective representative for Pendleton.

“The rodeo queen is the bridge between the Western rodeo world and the public,” said Jones. “A rodeo queen talks to people and answers questions about rodeo, all while acting as an ambassador for the sport.”

Jones knew that her dream was to be on the Round-Up Court, so she got involved volunteering and spent many years culti-vating her skills and preparing to try out. Preparing for the tryouts takes determi-nation and patience—all skills that Jones will need in her future as a physician.

“Working with and training horses tries your patience,” said Jones. “But you just keep working at it and you bond and become a great team through it.”

This isn’t Jones’ first rodeo. Jones start-ed out her royalty journey by first being crowned a princess for the 2017 rodeo season. After that, Jones knew that she wanted to try out for queen.

“Sydney knew that her experience of being a princess on the Court was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, as well as being a big part of our community,” said Kim Jones, Sydney’s mother.

Jones decided to take time off in be-tween her royalty years. Jones spent the time training her horse, being a positive member of her community and honing her public speaking abilities.

“Sydney was so excited when she got the call,” said Delaney Burrows, a junior in biology from Cle Elum, Washington. “Sydney isn't someone to brag about all the remarkable things she has accom-plished, and I think that says a lot about her humble character.”

Preparing for the Round-Up requires rigorous training that focuses on horse-manship.

“There are riding practices several times a week leading up to Round-Up, as well as practice run-ins in a small arena,” said Jones. “It can be difficult because

some of these horses have never jumped before and you have to teach them how to jump. You almost can’t prepare for the exact event. Every horse jumps differently and runs at different speeds, so coor-dinating the entrances and negotiating your horse with the loudspeakers and the [opening] bomb going off, plus around 17,600 or so people sitting in the arena creates a high-energy environment for the horses and our Court to perform in.”

The most prestigious duty of the Court is the Grand Entry jump that starts the entire Pendleton Round-Up. Jones will be entering from the north gate of the arena.

“There are just some people in the world that are going to go far,” said Elizabeth Hodgson, a junior in chemistry from Chinook, Montana. “She is the type of person who will always rise to the chal-lenge and do great things.”

Leading up to this year’s Pendleton Round-Up, Jones will travel around the U.S. on a rodeo tour, partaking in parades and meet and greets at other large outdoor rodeos.

“It’s always been a big dream of mine,” Jones said. “And for me, it wasn’t likely that I was going to get on [the Court] because I really hadn’t had any involvement with Round-Up when I was little.”

Jones now has the opportunity to be a role model for the young women in her community and spark interest in rodeo around the nation.

“I am excited to get this year’s Round-Up under way and having an important role is an honor,” said Jones. “I hope to represent Pendleton well!”

Irish music, combined with precise and quick footwork, add the Celtic-inspired designed dresses, and traditional Irish dancing is what you have.

“I love the feeling I get when I am dancing, I can be having the worst day and then go to dance and come out feeling

great,” said Emily Franke, a Carroll Col-lege junior and Irish dancer.

Franke discovered her passion after Irish dancers visited her school on St. Patrick’s Day when she was 7 years old.

Franke is an education major, attending school full time. She has dance practice and competitions throughout the year, but still manages to make the Dean’s list at Carroll College.

“I have loved watching Emily dance over the past few years because of how exciting the different routines and steps are and because of the amount of love that all the dancers have for it,” said her friend, Mattea Erickson, Carroll junior from Great Falls majoring in education and special education.

What motivates Franke to keep lacing up her Ghillies?

“My dance friends continue to inspire me. They work hard, and they never fail to help others,” said Franke.

She has competed in Irish dance com-petitions, called Feiseanna, all over the country and in Canada. Some of her most memorable competitions have been in Iowa and Calgary, Alberta.

“Irish dancing takes a lot of energy, strength, and mental energy. It’s a lot of fun,” said Franke. “As I have competed, I have progressed to the highest level of competition which is Open Champion-ships. I also get to compete at Oireachtas (Regionals) and Nationals.”

Franke belongs to and practices at Tiernan studio in Helena. But she is also practicing at home, while walking through stores and pretty much anywhere else in between.

Not surprising, Franke uses her free time teaching kids to dance.

“There are about 60 dancers,” she said.

“I teach them all.” Her passion for the art is obvious. “I am always impressed with Emily’s

dedication, not only for Irish dancing as a sport, but also the kids she teaches dance to,” said Erickson. “She puts so much effort into their success and her own, which really shows her great work ethic and caring spirit.”

After graduation Franke plans to stay in Helena to teach elementary school, as well as to continue dancing and teaching dance.

“I am working on becoming a certified Irish dance instructor and I am close to certification,” said Franke.

Irish dancing has been a very important part of the heritage and culture of Ireland. It was a regular extra-curricular activity of many Irish children and continues to be popular not only here in Helena, but all over the country.

“I do three to five competitions each year and several performances, especially during St. Patrick’s season,” said Franke.

Franke will be performing April 13 at 1 p.m. in Montana City for the St. Bal-drick’s fundraiser; May 18 at 11 a.m. at JFK park in East Helena; the afternoon of June 8 in historic Virginia City, Montana; as well as June 11 at the Myrna Loy Theater here in Helena for the Rhythm Dancers Show.

Ali Hance is seldom alone. She is either accompanied by a sleek black lab or a scruffy black labradoodle. The black lab is, in fact, a medical alert service dog who helps her handler, Ali, to put a halt to migraines before they even begin.

Hance is a senior in anthrozoology from San Francisco. She has a deep passion for dogs, but an even greater passion for service dogs. Hance hopes to one day relocate back to San Francisco to work for Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) as a senior mobility evaluator.

When Hance was 7 years old, her family received their first dog from GDB. Comet was an 18-month-old yellow labra-dor. Comet’s job was to be a breeder for the GDB breeding program.

“Ever since we got Comet, I wanted to be a puppy raiser,” said Hance. “When I was 16, my parents finally let me.”

Since then, she has raised seven puppies for GDB.

“I fell in love with being a puppy raiser and the benefits these service dogs provide to their handlers,” Hance said.

The black labrador retriev-er that accompanies Ali is her service dog, Raime.

“I received Raime at 8 weeks old and was her puppy raiser until she was 15 months old,” Hance said. “At 15 months, Raime was sent to formal training.

There are eight phases of formal train-ing the dogs have to pass in order to be placed as a service dog. Raime was cut at phase seven.”

The Hance family then had to decide if they wanted to keep Raime as a pet or send her to be a service dog through another organization.

“My mom called me one day and told me Raime was cut from formal training,” Hance said. “I was filled with so many emotions. I was sad she was cut, but even happier that I might get to keep her.”

The Hance family decided to keep Raime.

Medical alert service dogs, like Raime, can be specifically trained to detect things such as cancer or dropping blood sugar. Some dogs can also learn to naturally

alert to conditions like migraines com-pletely on their own.

“I was bored one day and was teaching Raime to nudge my leg when I bounced it,” Hance said. “About a week later, she started nudging my leg without it bouncing and about an hour later I got a migraine. I thought it was a coincidence, but another week later she did it again.”

A “natural alert” is when there is no previous training to get the dogs to alert to some change in the body. The dog senses something in the body is “off” and tries alert their human with some type of behavior. For Raime, it was nudging Hance’s leg.

“I started freezing saliva samples when I would get migraines and reinforced Raime when she nudged my leg,” Hance said. “Raime now alerts to my migraines

with 99 percent accuracy.”

Raime is not the only service dog currently in Hance’s life.

Hance is paving a new path in the anthrozoology department.

Hance, along with Madie San-ford, a senior in anthrozoology from Sandpoint, Idaho, is training Major, who will be the first service dog to be trained through the anthrozoology program.

Major is part of Hance’s independent study and is being trained for a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“We originally wanted to support a vet-eran from the VA here in Helena,” Hance said. “The VA didn’t end up working out, but we were offered a great opportunity with a judge involved in veteran’s affairs in Great Falls.”

Hance and Sanford are partnered with a service dog organization called Dog Tag Buddies. Along with training Major, the three parties are also fighting to change service dog laws in Montana.

Since Hance has Raime full-time, Ma-jor lives with Sanford. The two meet up for multiple training sessions daily.

“When you’re training a service dog, every moment is an opportunity for train-ing,” Sanford said. “When I walk upstairs,

I need to ensure that the dog is by my side and not leading me. Getting out of the car, I have to ensure Major waits until he is released. Even if we don’t look like it, we are constantly working on something.”

Hance and Sanford are hoping to place Major with his handler the same weekend as graduation.

“After he gets placed he will continue training with an organization called Dog Tag Buddies for four weeks,” Hance said.

Hance will be graduating in May. Her plan moving forward is to move back to San Francisco in order to grow her con-

nections and reputation with GDB. “Ali works hard, and is dedicated to

the time and effort it takes to train service dogs,” said Taylor Ehl, a senior in psy-chology from Happy Valley, Oregon.

Training dogs is clearly Hance’s pas-sion.

“There is always this feeling you get when you see a service dog truly making a difference in someone’s life and all of your hard work pays off,” said Hance. “I knew I wanted to make a difference for people with disabilities and this career path will help me achieve my goals.”

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Theresa Wadsworth

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Hannah Decker

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I fell in love with being a puppy raiser, and the benefits these service dogs provide to their

handlers- Ali Hance

Campus royalty; the queen from Pendleton, Oregon

Emily Franke dances her way through life, Irish style

Meet dog trainer and puppy raiser, Ali Hance

Sydney Jones and her horse Tilly jump the ceremonial rail. Photo courtesy of Robert McLean

Ali Hance and Raime pose by the Golden Gate Bridge. Photo courtesy of Ali Hance Emily Frank, left of Halo, and other Irish dancers pose for picture after a performance Photo courtesy of Emily Franke

Sydney Jones, queen of the Pendleton Round-Up Photo courtesy of Walters Photography

Since a canine nose is equipped with thousands of olfactory receptors, dogs are often used to detect many different scents.

But can a dog truly smell the past? Hannah Decker thinks so, and she

spends hours every week in the field teaching her dog Dax to be the first known archeological detection dog.

“When the snow is melted, I hide bones or bone dust in an open area and then walk with Dax until she indicates on them,” said Decker. “Currently she is indicating on 3,500-year-old bones.”

Decker is a senior in the anthrozoology program. She moved to Montana from Boise, Idaho to follow her dream of work-ing with dogs. She knew growing up that she was interested in working with ani-mals but training her first dog convinced her that her real passion was specifically for dogs.

“I look up to her because her natural ability to understand dogs and overcome

training challenges,” said Alexis Egan, a junior in anthrozoology from Billings. “She is always willing to go out of her way to help everyone, including animals.”

Decker’s dog Dax is an 8-month-old border collie, Australian shepherd mix which she has raised and trained since it was a puppy. After it is trained, it will eventually go into the field with Lauri Travis, an anthropology professor, on archeological digs.

“We are allowed three one-meter by one-meter dig sites and we are lucky if we hit something in the field,” said Travis. “If we could get Dax out there, that might improve our odds.”

Decker trains six days a week dedi-cating 30 minutes each day to training, as well as attending her normal classes. In addition to finding bones, Decker is currently training Dax to do agility, herd sheep, and be a well-mannered family dog.

“Overall, I like crazy dogs and giving them a specific job is something I would like to ultimately do,” said Decker.

After graduation, Decker hopes to train high-energy dogs in fields such as search

and rescue, narcotics and explosives detection, or police canine.

“She will succeed in being a train-er because she is fearless; she will try anything,” said Travis. “She is also very confident because she has done so much work with the animals, and because she can communicate well. She is a great orator.”

With the experience Decker has gained from working with Dax and Travis, she has the foundation to go far in her chosen field, wherever that might take her.

“I grew up with a passion, or as some would call an obsession, for dogs,” said Decker. “For whatever reason I have always been drawn to them. Over the past few years, I have really started to learn about what they can do and how they can help people.

In the coming years, Decker hopes to instill the same kind of passion that she has for dogs in others and grow the human-animal bond.

“Humans drastically underestimate what a dog can do," said Decker, "so I want to spend the rest of my life training dogs to their full potential.”

Emma Lawver

Staff Writer

An unbreakable canine bond: Hannah and Dax

Hannah Decker holds Dax when she is still a lil pup. Photo courtesy of Hannah Decker

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Headlights Spring 2019

East Los Angeles

Eleven students drove to east Los An-geles to immerse themselves in a different community and give back to people in need.

“The purpose of this trip was to serve the people of east Los Angeles that have been subject to gang violence and

poverty,” said Lane Buus, a freshman in nursing from Harrison, Montana.

Carroll College takes great pride in its Catholic values. By creating this Head-lights trip to Los Angeles, the students were able to fulfill the mission of Campus Ministry, which is “to share the love of God with all people through worship, evangelization, and service.”

While on this trip, students were able to immerse themselves into the Boyle Heights community that was predom-inantly Latino, said Anthony Olmes, a sophomore in business marketing from Benicia, California. While in this commu-nity, the students were able to meet with the Rev. Greg Boyle, who is the founder of Homeboy Industries.

“Boyle founded a bakery that would hire ex-gang members and felons, and while they worked there, they would receive the healing they needed after spending years in gang life,” said Olmes.

The students were able to see the signif-icant impact that Boyle had made on the community and speak with ex-gangsters whose lives had been positively changed.

“When we visited east LA, we went to Homeboy industries and we were given a tour, on the tour, one of the men, told us about his story,” started Alex Zhai, a junior from Shanghai, majoring in English for secondary education. “He got involved in gangs when he was a teenager, and this caused him to get sent to jail repeatedly. He was frustrated with the way that his dad left the family. Eventually he had a kid of his own, and his involvement with

the gang had stopped [and] he was sent into jail for 9 years. When he served his time, he came out and saw his son for the first time in a long time, and he realized that his son was just like him. Filled with guilt and sorrow, he started coming to Homeboy industries as a friend had recommended to go there in order to pick himself back up and get himself right, and now he is working on himself and making sure that everything he does is a benefit to his family and himself.”

Not only were the students able to experience a different type of culture, but they were able to give back and serve people that were living on Skid Row.

“Skid Row is a section of about 50 blocks with an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 homeless people living there,” said Olmes. “We walked through a part of Skid Row on Ash Wednesday with peanut

butter and jelly sandwiches, water bottles, feminine hygiene products, and ponchos for the rain that was coming down.”

This experience gave students the ability to see the world from a different perspective.

“This trip was meant to immerse us into a completely different culture with differ-ent realities, which opened us up to a lot of hurt but also a lot of hope,” said Buus.

Overall, this Headlights trip allowed the students to create unforgettable memories and experiences that will last a lifetime.

“I loved being able to get to know new Carroll students on this trip, but maybe even more importantly, taking the time to get to know some of the homeless people and hear their stories,” said Buus. “It shows that even a simple act can make a difference.”

Denver

Carroll students turned on their head-lights and drove the 12 hours to Denver with Campus Ministry to serve the poor and the homeless with Christ in the City.

“I accompanied 11 Carroll students to Denver over spring break to join with 27 missionaries of Christ in the City in their daily mission to know, love, and serve the poor of Denver,” said Deidre Casey women’s campus minister.

Christ in the City is a group of mission-aries who live together and go out to walk the streets and interact with those living there. The group had the opportunity to walk the streets of Denver with them in their street ministry.

“We got an introduction to hardships of the homeless people in Denver, Colora-do,” said Kayla Oliver-Connelly, a junior psychology major form Boise Idaho. “It is applicable to homeless in other places as well. We got to see firsthand some of the problems they face. We got to interact and

meet and talk with some of them and hear their stories.”

While talking with strangers is hard, it’s harder when you are talking to people when you don’t know how they will react because of the differences.

I was a little nervous,” said Oliver-Con-nelly, “just because I didn’t know how the people would react with us, either being angry or being hostile. They don’t know us, who we are, what our intentions are. A lot of the people were very accepting to us, though. They wanted to talk to us and learn more about us. They were also telling us their stories they heard.”

Their new friends on the street turned out to be just interested in conversation.

“For me, the part that impacted me the most, was the conversation with this woman,” said Oliver-Connelly. “Just being able to hear her story and how ap-preciative she is of all that she has, even if it isn’t very much. She had just gone through so many bad and unfortunate situ-ations. Later, she was telling us that while she is homeless, she is grateful because she has so many friends and people who are willing to step up and help her with whatever she needs. She was also very aware of other people on the streets who

had to have been there longer and had to face the harsh conditions longer than she had and maybe didn’t have the support she does.”

Students did more than just street ministry and have conversations. They went to the Samaritan house, a shelter for many different people. They give hous-ing to some families for long-term, some veterans, and some people who would like to and prefer to live in a shelter. Most are regular men and women who were just in bad situations, as long as they were drug and alcohol free. They also went on a hike with all the missionaries and other schools that were there to serve as well. They toured the chapel at the seminary down in Denver and meet seminarians that had graduated from Carroll and other Montana colleges and go to dinner with them as well.

The favorite part, though, was really meeting and interacting with people who are often forgotten.

“One guy a group of us talked to had been homeless for a while, but he is incredibly well-educated,” said Mariah Stoltz, a senior in accounting from Valier, Montana. “This shocked me since most homeless people are stereotyped as un-

educated. It was an eye-opening experi-ence for me that really broke through the stereotypes I had created, both in my head and from what society tells me.”

Each day started and ended with prayer. “All of this was encompassed by morn-

ing and evening prayer and daily Mass, as well as lessons in Christian community life as the 80 of us shared a home and a heart for the poor,” said Casey.

For some, the trip was transformative. “I wanted the opportunity to serve a

community I do not see a lot of,” said Stoltz. “For college students, it’s an eye-opening trip.”

Students agree that these trips impact what the world looks like and plan to con-tinue the work they started in Denver.

“I’ve learned to be a lot more open to people and what they might be go-ing through,” said Oliver-Connelly. “I definitely want to take the opportunity to embrace and acknowledge the people liv-ing on the streets in Helena as well. The group of us that went to Denver are going to take the opportunity to go serve dinner at God’s Love and share the time with the homeless that are here as well.”

Chicago

On this Headlights trip, students lived with the Franciscans of the Eucharist and helped out in their mission around Chicago.

"It's always a blessing to roll up our sleeves with our friends in Chicago and do some great work for the Kingdom,” said the Rev. Marc Lenneman. “The Franciscans there and the good people

they share life with are a huge blessing. In a time when truckloads of ink [have] been spilt over what's wrong with the Church, it's a tremendous gift to be immersed in what is very right with the Church, name-ly, receiving Jesus' love in prayer and sacrament, and then generously sharing that love in real and concrete ways with His people. Headlights is a particular way of being reminded of those fundamental truths."

Students helped clean, cook, paint, and organize the food pantry. They served at the YMCA after school program, help-ing with the little kids’ homework and

playing with them. They also served at the senior citizen program and played bingo. Students also helped organize and hand out food at a food pantry. They also spent a day at a day at two different Catholic schools where the sisters teach, to volun-teer in their classrooms.

“Headlights to Chicago was an amazing and eye-opening experience,” said Patrick McGowan, a freshman biology major from Sioux City, Iowa. “It felt great to serve the people of this community with the Sisters. I hope for the opportunity to serve the needs of that community which has suffered so much more in the future."

Many students were overwhelmed with the blessings and self-realizations on this Headlights trip and now feel inspired to do more to help their local communities and fellow neighbors.

“This trip has inspired me to do more to help others, but it also made me realize that I don’t have to physically ‘fix’ all the problems I see because quite frankly, I can’t,” said Julia Malmo, a math major from Idaho Falls. “But I can make an effort to treat each person I meet as the person God created them to be and not only serve them but love them as my brothers and sisters in Christ.”

Over spring break in March, Campus Ministry took 32 students on Headlights trips to serve in east Los Angeles, Chicago, and Denver. “Headlights trips are week-long immersion experiences that provide opportunities for Carroll students to encounter and stand with a particular population

that exist on the diverse margins of society,” said Campus Minister Dan Thies. “Our hope is that our students will encounter Jesus in the people they meet, en-gage the challenges that these populations live within daily, and through this experience, alter their understanding of God, themselves, and others so that they live differently. We hope to inspire students to live the greatest commandment: ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your

mind and with all your strength’ and to ‘love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30-31). As such, the Headlights formation and experience integrates Catho-lic social teaching, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, daily Mass, work, and prayer to immerse students in a culture of loving God and the other.”

These trips are offered every spring to these three cities as well as during the last week of winter break in Browning, Montana.

Simi Gill

Staff Writer

Emma Lawver

Staff Writer

Ashley Stead

Staff Writer

LA Headlights students in the canyons along the Utah-Arizona border Photo courtesy of Dan Thies

LA service attendees enjoy the sunset off the Santa Monica pier. Photo courtesy of Dan Thies

Chicago Headlights students pose with the Franciscans of the Eucharist. Photo courtesy of the Rev. Marc Lenneman

The Rev. Marc Lenneman and students converse with Chicago Police. Photo courtesy of Laura Vance

Denver group posing while visting the seminarians at the seminary in Denver Photo courtesy of Deidre Casey

Denver Headlights student Deidre Casey hiking Photo courtesy of Deidre Casey

Denver Headlights students gathering before going out into the streets of Denver Photo courtesy of Deidre Casey

Chicago students serving by painting walls Photo courtesy of Sandra Parda

LA students hiking Angel's Landing in Zion National Park Photo courtesy of Dan Thies

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Beer is good for you. For Carroll students over the age of 21,

Helena is blessed with five local brewer-ies. Each of them gives back to the com-munity in their great products, live music venues and charitable giving.

So, for those looking for the real taste of Helena, look no further.

Let’s start with the oldest brewery in Helena: Blackfoot River Brewing Company (BRBC). This brewery was established in 1998 and is located not far from downtown at 66 S Park Ave. It has 251 different recipes for their high-quality beers. Blackfoot is community-minded and has Community Mondays where they donate one dollar from every pint to the organization of the day. Each Monday a different group is supported. The lucky group is able to get its word out and bring donations in.

Blackfoot River Brewing also offers Board Games & Beer on selected Satur-days; fun for the whole family. Sundays are popular for live music. There is some-thing for everyone each day of the week.

St Patrick's Day brought another community pairing between Blackfoot and Big Dipper Ice Cream limited edition flavor: BRBC Tartanic Scottish Ale Ice Cream. Every day the popcorn is fresh and free right when you walk through the front door. To top it all off, Bridge Pizza is right next door.

The next oldest brewery, founded 2002, is the Small Brewing Company of the Year, Lewis & Clark Brewing Company on 1517 Dodge Ave. They are also the largest brewery in Helena for production and square footage. Prior to 2011, L&C brewed in the lower level of "The Brewhouse Pub & Grille" but was known as Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. Their current space boasts a large stage inside and out for a great local music venue. They also have an Art Gallery that features local artists, as well as a game room. "Ales for Charity Nights" are on Tuesdays. April 30 from 5-8 p.m. is of special interest: Montana Outreach Clinic, a nonprofit organization that provides free medical care to the children of Santa Maria Children’s Home in Colon, Mexico. Physicians who are alumni of Carroll College and Montana residents take six Carroll College students to the rural area and put on a free clinic for the children of the orphanage as well as the poor of nearby Colon, Mexico.

Lewis & Clark Brewing has recipes

for 94 beers, among them Halo, a Huck-leberry Hefeweizen named after Carroll’s mascot. A portion of the profits shared with the Carroll College Athletic Depart-ment. They offer live music at least every Thursday and Saturday night, as well as pizza from their snack bar. If need be, a room in the tap room is available for rent for parties and gatherings.

Ten Mile Creek Brewery, founded in 2015, is found on the historic Last Chance Gulch walking mall. "The Creek is in the beer." They are next door to The Parrot Confectionery, known to most of us as Helena’s candy store.

Ten Mile has 90 recipes for their brews. "Brew a Better Community" is their com-munity fundraising night on Sundays 5-8 p.m., with $1 of each beer sold going to the charity of the evening.

A special hosting night will be Sat-urday, April 13, 5-8 p.m.: "Drafting Hope" hosted by Carroll College Engi-neers Without Borders. Join them for a family friendly evening of beer, food, music, and fundraising. Learn about the work the students are doing in Uganda, Mexico, Guatemala, and St. Lucia.

Ten Mile Creek Brewery offers a great location for live music Thursdays, net-working nights. Walk around the pedestri-an area and scoop up the Big Dipper Ice Cream, just steps away.

Last year brought two new breweries to Helena: Crooked Furrow Brewing and Snow Hop Brewery. Crooked Furrow is located at 2801 N. Roberts. They have created 23 beer recipes. On St. Patrick's Day, Crooked Furrow joined with Bad Betty's BBQ for a festive family day with a smoked corned beef dinner on their patio.

Snow Hop Brewery is named for their love of snow and beer/hops, including 15 beer recipes. Local Wednesdays are the community evenings for fundraising. They offer Trivia Mondays and on Thurs-days they feature live music.

Carroll prides itself on service. So, sup-port local charities by tipping a brew. Fun brew bits: 1. By law, breweries can only sell 48 ounces of beer per person, and only until 8 p.m. 2. Because of their taproom, Lewis & Clark can stay open a bit later. 3. Most popular beers? At Lewis & Clark it’s Miners Gold; at Ten Mile it’s Wood Knocker; at Snow Hop it’s Vanilla Stout and Stellar IPA; at Furrow it’s Stout Wheat and the Mexican Lager. 4. Ten Mile cut down four trees from the Helena area to make the bar top and tables!

There are two types of students at Carroll College: those who can study anywhere and anytime, and those who prefer the perfect atmosphere before they dive into their textbooks. If you fall into the second of these categories, then grab your caramel macchiato, take a seat by the fireplace, and play some classical piano through your Bluetooth headphones because this column is for you. We are going to find out which coffee shops are Carroll favorites.

Among the many hidden treasures in the treasure state are the coffee shops in Helena. For starters, they offer magical bean juice that single-handedly fuels just about every college kid in town. Additionally, they offer an ambiance that gives five-star restaurants a run for their money. There is the background chatter of espresso machines, middle-aged women gossiping about their rebellious teenage sons, the aroma of freshly ground coffee beans and steamed milk, the inevitable Bible study consisting of a handful of old men with warm smiles, and of course, tons of fellow college students to flirt with when you want to avoid your homework.

There is no doubt that coffee shops have a lot to offer for the studious (and not-so-studious) college students. So, the question comes down to this: Which coffee shop offers the best all-around ex-perience? We are going to dig into which coffee shop takes the cake for a Carroll students’ favorite place to study for their exams.

Carroll College students were inter-viewed about their favorite coffee shops. They were asked which one was their favorite and why.

“There’s a lot of options for students and it’s easy for students to find one that fits their liking,” said Taylor Ehl, a senior psychology major from Happy Valley, Oregon. “My personal favorites are the Red Atlas and Fire Tower. I like the Red Atlas because of their quiet atmosphere. I like the Fire Tower because they have good Wi-Fi, a quirky environment, and they have awesome Beatles decorations,” said Ehl.

Whatever the shop, the atmosphere is crucial.

“I love Fire Tower because the pep-permint patty is the best drink ever and I love the funky vibe. Plus, Norm rocks,” said Hannah Sylvester, a senior biology and health science major from Spokane, Washington.

Norm is the owner of Fire Tower and has decided that Carroll students get a 10 percent discount on all purchases at Fire Tower. Perhaps this will set Fire Tower apart amongst other shops.

Fire Tower is a classic in Helena, but there may be some good competition with the new coffee shop in town.

“My favorite right now is the newest coffee shop, 1889, because the owner and the workers are so friendly,” said Solenn Jacobsen, a senior nursing major from Baker, Montana. “They obviously love what they are doing. I love that they love it.”

The atmosphere and staff are import-ant components when Carroll students decide which coffee shop they want to go to. Carter Anderson, a senior biology and French major from Great Falls, offers a perspective from a more sophisticated point of view as a frequenter of the many coffee shops in town.

“As a coffee connoisseur, I thoroughly enjoy Fire Tower's espresso for its bold, aromatic flavor, but the ambiance of the General Mercantile is ideal. For a great macchiato and hours spent studying with friends or alone, Scenic Brew is my go-to,” said Anderson.

To add to Anderson’s love of coffee being his reason for where he goes, Katie Foster, a senior nursing major from Upland, California, shares that the coffee is also her reason for choosing a coffee shop, but not the only reason.

“My favorite coffee shop is the Gen-eral Mercantile. Aside from having amazing coffee, they have an unreal atmosphere. I love all the fun trinkets and it’s the perfect place to cozy up and study while watching people walk by,” said Foster.

Sometimes, it’s the timing that matters most when it comes to fulfilling coffee cravings.

“Hands down, the best coffee shop is McDonald's,” said Brett Rotz, a ju-nior international relations major from Rathdrum, Idaho. “I love waking up hella early and snagging a black coffee with two creams and two sugars and realizing the prospects of the good that comes from a fresh day ahead of me.”

Helena offers a wide variety of coffee shops that tend to people searching for atmosphere, ambiance, coffee variety, and friendly staff. There may not be a clear winner for the best coffee shop in town, but Helena certainly has a coffee shop for everyone.

Students spill the beans on favorite coffee hangouts

What you didn't know about Helena breweries

Jamie Severson

Staff Writer

Seamus Tully

Staff Writer

Will Noce-Sheldon is not waiting for graduation in May to start to plan for his future. He has already started his own business and made his own brand: WILL-NOCEFITNESS.

“I wanted to share the passion I have for fitness and health with others and to help others reach their goals as they help me to reach mine,” said Noce-Sheldon.

Noce-Sheldon just wants to make a dif-ference in some people’s lives by helping them. But once he realized he had the tools to make an impact on a larger scale, he started to push his brand.

Noce-Sheldon is a senior international business student here at Carroll College, who grew up in of Camas, Washington, a town of 23,000 in southwestern Wash-ington. Noce-Sheldon was a very active child. He spent his days skateboarding in his neighborhood, building tree forts, drawing, reading and listening to music.

“I was just a super curious kid who loved to make memories,” he said.

His knowledge for making a brand started very early. Noce-Sheldon helped promote a brand with a friend called Lead the Followers, a clothing brand.

Noce-Sheldon chose Carroll College because one of his high school teachers attended Carroll and played for the foot-ball team. His teacher had a “work hard, play harder” attitude that Will admired.

“He was one of the most influential people in my life,” said Noce-Sheldon. “Not because of his coaching or his ath-letic abilities, but because of his passion for life. He demonstrated an incredible intensity and had a true admiration for hard work, consistency, efficiency, and being perfect.”

Noce-Sheldon has always been looked at as a person who knows his fitness. He is one of those guys who is always doing the right thing for his body, whether it’s his diet, stretching or getting his adequate rest, and people noticed. People started asking him for help on how they can better themselves. So naturally he thought that there was an easier way to go about this and started his brand.

“He is just a great dude,” said team-mate and classmate Payton Sexe, from Great Falls. “If I could be anyone I know, it would be him. When my dad asks me what I want for Christmas, I will ask if I can be William Noce-Sheldon.”

Noce-Sheldon has high hopes for his business, but that is not all that motivates him.

“I also find an abundance of joy in see-ing others learning and implementing the steps that it takes to reach their goal,” said Noce-Sheldon.

He started out as a fitness guru making custom meal plans and fitness programs for every individual that asked for his services. He got his brand jumpstarted through Instagram.

“You don’t have to enjoy lifting heavy weights,” Noce-Sheldon said when asked about his clients and followers. “I enjoy all forms of personal development and support them all on my page. Everything from meditational practices to build-ing surf boards. I just hope to find that through my writings and work that you can learn something new or find some-thing that really moves you because moti-vation comes from all over the place.”

Noce-Sheldon has turned that passion into his own personal brand, WILL-NOCEFITNESS. He is a fitness and health coach for anyone willing to put in the hard work, all while excelling in the classroom at Carroll.

He believes in personal development, whether this is art, music, teaching or whatever makes his clients and followers happy.

Noce-Sheldon's long-term goals are to keep developing and to land a job being part of a much bigger brand: Nike. His

plan is to work in the Marketing Depart-ment at Nike Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, working specifically with the Nike-Football Department as well as working in Commercial Real Estate in the Pacific Northwest.

Life for a college student can be a tough and stressful. And sometimes all you can do is the best you can. Noce-Sheldon’s life motto is the same as his brand.

“Be great,” Noce-Sheldon said. “I will follow all of your journeys as you follow mine, and together we will all be great. We all need help from each other to make it in this life.”

Seamus Tully

Staff Writer

Carroll student athlete shares his passion for fitness

Will Noce-Sheldon founder of WILLNOCEFITNESS Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

You know what’s crazy about George Washington? He was just a dude. That’s right, despite the heroics, despite the legends, despite being one of the main, establishing forces behind the best try at freedom and liberty mankind has ever made, he was a pretty average guy. He lived in a decent house, had a loving wife, and enjoyed working his farm and hanging out with his dogs. So, what was it that spurred him on to ac-complish the great things he did? Why is he considered one of the greatest Amer-icans ever to live? And why are there probably a few pictures of him folded up in the pocket of your pants right now? The answer is pretty simple. Early in his life, George Washington created the five second rule. No, not the one you have to invoke when one of your buffalo wings rolls off the table. It’s a different ver-sion. And it can absolutely change your life. So how does it work? I’m glad you asked.

Toward the beginning of Washington’s career, he had a profound realization about life and humanity: the obliga-tions and duties we have as people and the tasks we have to accomplish on an everyday basis, most of them kind of suck. And because of the way we are, we’ll usually find a way to talk ourselves out of them for as long as possible. This was certainly true of Washington’s life. Believe it or not, waking up at the crack of dawn, crawling out of an itchy wool sleeping bag, and jumping up to face another frigid day of commanding a rag-tag group of farmers in a consistently losing fight against the most powerful army in the world was not his idea of the optimum way to live life.

Sure, somebody needed to do it if America was ever going to become the great country it had the potential to be. But if we’re being honest, people are usually pretty okay with the idea of forfeiting greatness for ease and comfort. It’s a tendency we all have. Washington recognized it in himself, and he came up with a technique to fight against it. Every morning, when he woke up, George Washington would lay there for a brief moment. He would collect his thoughts,

take in a deep breath of the morning air, and then count backwards from five. When he got to one? He would stand up. No complexities, no hesitations, and no exceptions. Then, he would walk outside and start the day.

Once held started this habit, Washing-ton used it for the rest of his life. Because no, of course he didn’t want to bundle up with a bunch of smelly guys and cross a frozen lake in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve to take over a British camp. But he knew he needed to. So, he counted down from five, and he did it. And no, I’m sure he wasn’t too excited to spend days on end in a sweltering room in the Philadelphia summertime arguing with a bunch of nerds about what needed to be said in the most famous country-to-country breakup letter of all time. But he knew he needed to. So, he counted down from five, and he did it.

In one of the last speeches of his life, Washington had this to say: “Listen, man. A lot of the time, you have to do stuff that’s just pretty lame. And some of it is probably gonna be a little scary, too. But all of it’s important, and all of it’s good for you. So, at the end of the day, you kinda just gotta do it, you know? Cause, when you do, that’s when the stuff that’s really awesome starts to happen.” Or something similar to it.

And while most of us don’t have the eloquence and wisdom of George Wash-ington, all of us can certainly put his five second rule to work. Because at the end of the day, there’s a grand design for our lives, and each one of us is equipped to do great things. But there’s always going to be a variety of challenges that stand in the way. And the only way to hit them is head-on.

So, the next time your alarm goes off much earlier than you’d like it to? The next time you’re staring down a blank sheet of paper with less than no idea what to put on it? The next time you realize there’s a task to be done, but you’re not sure you’ve got what it takes to do it? Don’t fall into a panic, don’t find a reason to push it off, and don’t worry about everything that could go wrong if you fail. Just count down from five and get started. There’s no need to motivate yourself to get something done if you’re already doing it. You’ll be fine. Just make sure to brush your teeth before you do. George Washington had a tendency to forget that step.

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Pablo Salamanca Vivas has been play-ing rough and tumble on the soccer field in his home town of Bogota, Colombia, since he was 3 years old.

“I’ve loved soccer since before I can remember,” said Salamanca. “Being able to run around on the soccer field made me feel free.”

Salamanca is now junior majoring in fi-nance, business administration with a con-centration in international business, and minoring in marketing. And, of course, he’s playing on the Carroll soccer team.

Salamanca was born in Bogota, Colom-bia, where he lived until he moved to the United States in 2017 to attend Carroll. He attended San Carlos School, which he says is the most prestigious high school in Bogota.

Although Salamanca cares a great deal about academics, his main love is soccer. He said he has always been pretty good at

soccer and admitted that, at times, he can be a little bit of a showoff.

“During our freshman season we were scrimmaging a team and Pablo had a wide-open shot,” said teammate Leonardo Georgiades, a sophomore in finance from Johannesburg, South Africa. “Instead of just kicking it in he tried a rabona shot (a behind-the-leg kick) and missed. Our coach made him run laps after the game.”

Toward the end of high school, Sala-manca started playing professional soccer in Colombia. Although he loved this, he explained that in Colombia you cannot both play a sport and go to school after high school.

Salamanca wanted to pursue both academics and athletics, so he decided to come to school in the United States. He had offers from more than 30 colleges, but he said he chose Carroll because of its tremendous academic programs and the scholarships that were available to him.

Salamanca kicked off his career at Carroll in the spring of 2017. On top of his majors and minors, he is also in the

process of getting his entrepreneurship certificate.

“Pablo is very chill, confident and down to earth,” said teammate Park-er Bedard, sophomore in finance from Whitefish, Montana. “He can have fun in any situation.”

Salamanca loves big cities because his hometown has a population of more than 9 million people. He loves the culture of dancing, music, and just having a good time.

“The biggest culture shock had to be how small Helena is,” said Salamanca. “I am used to big cities and having a lot going on. I traveled all over for soccer, so I got to experience many different places. I love to always have something to do.”

Salamanca loves to dance. He would go out to different parties and concerts with his friends to dance and have a good time.

“Pablo is a good guy and is very confi-dent,” said teammate Paolo Georgiades, a sophomore in political science and international relations from Johannesburg,

South Africa. “He knows what he wants and is fun to hang out with.”

Although Salamanca thinks that Helena is very small, he really loves the atmosphere and availability of people at Carroll. He said that teachers are always willing to help their students and sit down with them.

“That’s just not something you would not find at a big university,” said Sala-manca.

Salamanca is hoping to stay a fifth year at Carroll to play soccer before he goes on to pursue his career. He does not know exactly what he wants to do, but he said he is sure that he will find something he loves.

“I’d love to play soccer, but soccer was not the only reason I came to the United States,” said Salamanca. “I came to get an education as well. I could have just stayed in Colombia if I wanted to play professional soccer. So, moving forward I am planning on pursuing a career in the business field, most likely here in the United States.”

Carter Wald

Staff Writer

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Merlin Symposium discusses environmental challenges

Theresa Wadsworth

Staff Writer

Part three of the Merlin Philosophy Symposium featured speakers discussing the environment and ways to provide moral ground on social policies, held on March 14 at Simperman Wiegand Amphi-theater.

A distinguished panel of speakers from a variety of disciplines discussed climate change, water and air pollution, the depletion of natural resources, and the destruction of the ecosystems and how the choices and actions humans make, does and will affect others and the environment for generations to come.

“The effects of climate change [are] an immediate problem with a profound chal-lenge to our environment, and the scope is enormous. This is a perfect moral storm,” said Nick Gevock, conservation director of the Montana Wildlife Federation. “For decades, sportsmen and sportswomen have been at the forefront of wildlife con-servation. It was hunters who worked the most in the early 20th century to restore depleted species.”

The symposium set the stage for the philosophical obligations society has to

the environment while providing in-spiration for the moral motivation for a sustainable future.

“Every human needs nature for clean water and outdoor peace and quiet, and nature needs every human,” said Mary Hollow, executive director of the Prickly Pear Land Trust. “Give whatever you can, your time volunteering, your financial support, and your help motivating others to act now and make a positive difference in our communities.”

Additional panelists were Edward Glowienka, associate professor of philosophy at Carroll College; Patrick Burke, philosophy instructor and affili-ate instructor of Wildlands Restoration Program at the University of Montana; and Ben Gabriel, executive director of the Montana Wilderness Association.

For more information, visit the Merlin Website at merlinccc.org or Facebook page @merlinccc.

Some future events in Helena include the Philosophy Think and Drink on April 11 and May 9, 7 p.m. at the Sapphire Bar; the Philosophy Mini-Drive-in on May 16, 6:30 p.m. at Reeder’s Alley Inter-pretive and Convention Center; and the Philosophy Walk on May 19, 9:30 a.m. at Reeder’s Alley.

Softball is a family affair in the Brewer household, so it was no surprise when the sisters decided to play at the collegiate level. The curve ball came when the sis-ters both chose Carroll College, a school 1,140 miles from home in Peoria, Arizona

Brooke Brewer is a sophomore out-fielder for Carroll’s softball team. With the experience she gained last year, she is expected to help the Fighting Saints both at the plate and in the field.

Amber Brewer is a freshman outfielder who came in ready to play. She isn’t go-ing to let being a newcomer keep her from fighting for time on the field.

Being a student-athlete is an important part of being an athlete at Carroll and the sisters take their studies very seriously. Brooke is a health science major who in-

tends to continue her education by going to physical therapy school after gradua-tion. Amber is a psychology major who is leaning towards a career in forensic psychology.

Brooke and Amber have been playing softball their whole lives and they always knew softball was their passion.

The adjustment to Helena’s climate has been rougher than expected for the sisters.

“The temperature change was probably the hardest part about moving to Mon-tana,” said Brooke. “We were so used to playing all year round. Freshman year was the first time experiencing the snow.”

Brooke and Amber have been playing softball together for as long as they can remember.

“One of the best memories I have play-ing with Amber is when I hit my first high school home run, because she was the first one at home plate to give me a high five and a hug,” said Brooke.

“When we both used to play infield, she was playing second and I was at short[stop] and we turned a double play together to end the inning and it was just awesome,” said Amber. “We have always been the best dynamic duo wherever we play, and I can always trust her to have my back and I will always have hers.”

The Brewer sisters share a bond that they will cherish forever.

“It’s basically like having a constant best friend who pushes you to do better,” said Amber. “We hype each other up and just have the best energy when we play together. I couldn’t imagine playing col-lege softball without her.”

The two are inseparable and the choice to take the same path to Carroll is a deci-sion neither of them regret.

“We will always have each other and the game we share and love,” said Brooke. “We are always there when the other has a bad game or is struggling with

other things. I will always be grateful I have a best friend who is so understand-ing and loving.”

Megan McCormick

Staff Writer

The Brewer sisters: softball act from Arizona

Men’s and women’s golf competed at the Minot State Invitational in Las Vegas on March 8, with the women taking fifth place overall in the tournament, and men finishing lower in ranks but showing marked improvement.

With high snow fall and low tempera-tures, preparing for the tournament was a challenge.

“While this season has had a slow start due to the snow and cold weather, we have been able to spend time on inside simulators and make a trip down to Las Vegas for a tournament,” said Madison Robischon, a senior nursing major from

Townsend, Montana. Despite the challenges the teams faced

in preparing for these tournaments they have still had a good season so far.

“Our fall season went really well,” said Stephen Santora, a senior public rela-tions major from Napa, California. “We finished second in our conference behind a really good Rocky Mountain College team that is highly ranked nationally.”

Golf coach Bennet MacIntyre also noted that the men’s golf team is ranked 20th by Golfstat, 22nd in the Bushnell Golfweek Coaches poll and 24th by the NAIA. This is the first time ever the team has been ranked in three polls all at the same time.

Carroll golfers are now preparing for the Frontier Conference Championship, taking place this April in Phoenix, Ari-zona. Due to the continued cold weather, most of the teams will be practicing using golf simulators at Bill Roberts Golf Course in Helena.

“We will definitely be hitting the simulator at Bill Roberts and praying that this snow melts away so we can get in some practice,” said Cailin Spencer, a junior biochemistry major from Spokane, Washington. “The Arizona trip is always

a fun one, because we get to escape the snow for a while and play some really nice courses.”

MacIntyre agrees that getting course practice would be nothing but beneficial.

"We are eager for the snow to melt and the courses to open so we can get out there and get as many reps possible as we prepare for the Conference Champi-onships in mid-April,” said MacIntyre. “It's nice to be able to be on a simulator and swing indoors, but nothing beats the real thing and seeing the ball fly. It will be critical for us to have good short game feel and confidence as we get ready to battle in Arizona for the Conference Championships."

With the 2018-2019 season winding down, some team members are already looking forward to future seasons.

“Coming out of high school I knew this season was going to be hard just because I was adjusting to a higher level of compe-tition,” said Caroline Hobson, a freshman psychology major from Hillsboro, Ore-gon. “I’ve had some really good rounds and some not so great ones, but all in all I am improving significantly. For next year, I am very excited to begin competing after training all summer.”

HELENA, Mont. -- The Carroll College Fighting Saints track team recorded seven first place finishes in their first track meet of the outdoor season at the Yellowjack-ets/Battlin' Bears Open on Saturday in Laurel, Montana.

Carroll women's 4x100 relay team -- made up of Brooke Endy, Shae Helter-bran, Keely Ehmann and Monica White, won the event in a time of 49.69, narrowly missing the NAIA B-Standard of 48.32 in the group's first race together this season.

Nikki Krueger secured a pair of top finishes, winning both the shot put (12.25 meters) and discus (42.31 meters). Her marks put her very close to qualifying for nationals.

Freshman Noah Majerus won the 800-meter race in a time of 1:55.01.

John Cooney and Spencer Swaim fin-ished in second and third, respectively, in the 5,000-meter run. Cooney ran a time of 15:59.65, while Swaim went for 16:03.39.

Bryce Green, Keven Kailey and Bryan Brensdal went 1-2-3 in the 110-meter hurdles. Green won the event with a time of 15.66.

Green also secured a win in the 400-meter hurdles, edging out teammate Daniel Pendergast with a time of 56.73.

Garrett Kocab won the discus throw with a toss of 45.87 meters.

The Saints head to Spokane next week-end for the WAR meet.

For complete results from how the Saints preformed, check out the Carroll Athletics page.

After having a tough road series, the Fighting Saints softball program returned back to Montana and came out victorious against the Eastern Oregon University (EOU) Mountaineers on April 1.

The Saints took the series with three conference wins, 7-3, 6-5 and 4-3.

During the first game junior pitcher Ali Williams owned the mound and mowed down the Mountaineers with eight strike-outs on the day.

At the plate the Saints had eight hits, while junior second baseman Anna ApRoberts led the team with three hits for three runs batted in (RBI). Saints won 7-3.

For the second game on the day, senior pitcher Tess Eaton kept EOU to five hits.

Carroll Softball came in with five hits with junior first baseman Megan Mc-Cormick leading the game with 2 RBIs. Sophomore utility player Natalie Gaber stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh to RBI single to left field for the walk-off win, 6-5.

After securing the series win over EOU,

the Saints weren’t done. Carroll Softball wins the third game of the day 4-3.

Junior pitcher Brooke Brown was able to keep the Mounties to five hits to secure the win.

Carroll Softball was able to rope together nine hits and was led by Gaber and junior third baseman Kendall Mooney with two hits apiece.

The Fighting Saints were excited to be back in their home state fresh off their home series sweep are ready for the road they have ahead. Senior catcher Tianna Sell has an interesting perspective on the second half of the season.

“Our record may not show it, but our team is starting to come together,” said Sell. “Last year at this time we were on a high note because we had faced some weaker teams early on and this year because the schedule was rearranged, we faced the best of the Cascade Conference right out of the gate. We are ready to at-tack the second half of the season with the goal of going into the conference tourna-ment at our peak.”

The Saints take on Northwest Christian University April 5 and 6 for another home series.

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Carroll track athletes make their hurdles. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

The starting gun is fired and runners start the race. Photo courtesy of Alexander Olmes

Carroll sotball member waits for action. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

Pitcher Michaela Boyette winds up a pitch. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

Catcher Tianna Sell looks for a catch at home plate. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

Brooke Brewer (left) and Amber Brewer (right) Photo courtesy of Megan McCormick

Carroll golfer lines up a shot. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

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Carroll Athletics

Carroll golfers have success at tournament in Las Vegas

Softball team sweeps Eastern Oregon University

Track and field: Laurel meet

Women's basketball wins Frontier championship and goes to Nats

HELENA, Mont. -- Four Carroll College Saints became All-Americans on Day Two of the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Brookings, South Dakota.

Five of the Saints' seven qualifiers could become All-Americans by the end of the day Saturday.

"That's a worthwhile trip right there," Saints coach Harry Clark said.

Sophomore Josh Malone placed seventh

in the heptathlon, finishing with a person-al record of 4,903 points. Malone entered the day in first place while battling a sore knee. Malone gutted out the meet and be-came an All-American. He PR'ed in four of the seven events.

"You can't ask for anything better than to come to nationals and PR," Clark said.

Senior Hannah Porch earned All-Amer-ican status in the long jump. She finished sixth with a leap of 5.71 meters. The mark was just shy of her PR of 5.81 meters. It's Porch's fourth All-American honor in the long jump.

Porch also ran the 60-meter prelims, missing the finals by a little over a tenth of a second as she ran a 7.76, narrowly missing her PR in the event.

Freshman middle distance runner Noah Majerus crushed his PR by three seconds in the 800-meter run, posting a 1:53.67. The mark qualified him for the eight-man final and also ensured him an All-Ameri-can designation.

"That's a smokin' PR for Noah," Clark said. "You rarely see three-second im-provements. I'm so happy for him."

Majerus will run in the finals on Satur-day at 1:15 p.m.

Freshman pole vaulter Kelsey Bassett became the Saints' fourth All-American by placing fifth in the pole vault. Bassett vaulted over 3.67 meters to earn the spot.

Alongside Majerus on Saturday, senior Keaton Brady will have a chance to earn his third All-American honor in the pole vault. Brady is seeded 13th coming into the event.

Kuda Nyahuma in race mode Photo courtesy of Alexander Olmes

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Indoor track nationals

Danielle Wagner makes her way to a shot. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

The Fighting Saints women’s basketball team finished its own great season ending in the second round of the NAIA tourna-ment, having lost in a thriller to Oklaho-ma City, 59-60 on March 15.

The women’s team finished the season with an overall record of 26-8 and a con-ference record of 14-4.

The Saints may not have the national crown, but they took the Frontier Confer-ence Champion title from the University of Montana Western Bulldogs, 54-50.

“I think the biggest achievement is the conference championship,” said Hannah Dean, senior center. “I don’t think a lot of people expected us to beat Montana Western, but we showed our resiliency that game and really proved what this team was about.”

The best win, they agreed, was the upset over the Bulldogs.

“Winning the conference tournament for the second straight year was extremely exciting and it was equally exciting to make it back to the national tournament,” said Brittney Johnson, senior shooting guard.

While making it to nationals was great, it wasn’t the highlight.

“We did upset Western Montana, the favorite to win, and winner of the confer-ence, in Dillon at the Conference Cham-pionships,” said assistant coach Gary Turcott. “That was the highlight of the year. It was a packed house, the funnest basketball game that had the best atmo-sphere. Both teams played really well. We pulled it off.”

By any standard the Carroll women's basketball team had a great year.

“We finished with 26 wins, which is the most since, I believe, 2010,” said Rachelle Sayers, women’s basketball head coach. “And 14 conference wins, which ties the highest conference wins in the history of the program.”

The victories weren’t the work of indi-viduals but of a team.

“It sounds cliché but those girls are the best people and getting to know each of them on such an intimate level is really special,” said Cassidy Hashley, senior forward.

The hard work of Sayers with her team really paid off.

“It was an exceptional job that Rachelle Sayers did,” said Turcott. “I think this was

her eighth year and, in my view, her best year as a coach. We played four perimeter players around Hannah Dean when Cassie was out. Hannah Dean really showed

her greatness. I refer to her as ‘the great Hannah Dean’. We had girls that really stepped up and played around her. They played exceptionally well.”

Hannah Dean dodges opponents to make her way down the court. Photo courtesy of Carroll Athletics

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Happy Spring! Hope the last few weeks have been good! The month of March brought us "Captain Marvel" at Cine-mark, the throwback dance, NCAA March Madness bracketing, two Saints NAIA Tournament basketball games that kept us all on the edge of our seats and topped it off with a Junior Senior Banquet that was one for the books! Thank you to everyone who helped execute and also those who attended these events!

The semester is not over yet and neither are our events! The closing of NCAA March Madness is right around the corner with the Final Four on Saturday April 6th at 4 p.m. and the National Championship on Monday April 8 at 7 p.m. We will be showing all three of these games in St. Charles lobby with snacks provided by Sodexo.

Next, we have another one of our infamous Bingo nights, but with a twist, instead of normal prizes we will have 50 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies that can be won with a simple “BINGO!” Join us for Girl Scout Cookie Bingo on Wednesday April 10 at 9 p.m. in Simperman 101.

Later that we week we are doing an-other takeover of Sleeping Giant Lanes

for a night of Carroll bowling! Come out to Sleeping Giant Lanes on Friday night, April 12 9 p.m.-11:30 p.m. when we have all 24 lanes just for Carroll.

Last but not least, the Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Tuesday April 23 on the St. Charles front lawn. This is the first year CSA is running the event and we are very excited to make it happen.

More information on all of these events is available online on our social media pages and on the Carroll College calendar.

If you want to come help us plan events, brainstorm new ideas, or learn about how events on campus work come to our meetings Sunday nights at 7:07 p.m. in the CSA/ASCC office in the Up-per Cube! Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events: Sat. April 6 - NCAA March Madness Final Four - St. Charles lobby Mon. April 8 - NCAA March Madness Nat’l Championship - St. Charles lobby Wed. April 10 - 9 p.m. - Girl Scout Cookie Bingo in SIMP 101 Fri. April 12 9 p.m. - CSA Night at Sleeping Giant Lanes Tues. April 23 - The Annual Easter Egg Hunt on St. Charles front lawn

Mary Smith and Jordan Bowman

cSa Programming co-directors

Carroll Student ActivitiesFunding Update from Treasurer Hope Welhaven:

As ASCC, this Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 school year has been one for the books. Some highlights of our year have consisted of: funding the solar panels placed on the roof of the CUBE alongside multiple professors here at Carroll, class projects, and funding of multiple clubs. This year, clubs have been active in many ways whether that is in the Carroll com-munity and the Helena community and as ASCC we are proud of everyone's work in making this year unforgettable. From President Kennedy Bahm:

I have really enjoyed serving as your ASCC President for the 2018-2019 Ac-ademic Year. Alongside a talented group of Senators and Executive Officers, we have succeeded in starting new traditions at Carroll, like First Thursday’s and our ASCC Corner in The Prospector, to give students more opportunities to get to know their student leadership. If you are interested in serving your peers as a class senator or ASCC President, I encourage you to run for a position for next year! From Communications Director Kylee Bailey:

April marks the induction of a brand new ASCC Executive Board and ASCC Senate for the 2019-2020 School Year! Elections begin with the voting of the ASCC Executive Board positions of Pres-ident, Vice President, Treasurer, and Di-rector of Communications. The Executive Board members sit on various campus

committees including Academic Policy, Curriculum, Technology, Library, and Sexual Assault Prevention. The Executive Board oversees the ASCC Senate; which will be elected the week of April 22nd. The ASCC Senate is comprised of four senators from each class and two senators from the non-traditional student popula-tion. ASCC Senators are the voting body of the ASCC and use their elected voice to advocate for the needs of the Carroll stu-dent body. If you are interested in being a student leader and serving your fellow peers, be on the lookout for applications in the All Student Email from Patrick Har-ris! If you have any questions regarding the elections or the positions open, email Kylee Bailey at kbailey@carroll.edu.

The ASCC Election schedule is as follows: ASCC Executive Election

Applications available: April 1Applications Due: April 8 (by midnight)

Mandatory Meeting for all candidates: April 9 at 8 p.m.

Campaign: April 9-14 (ends at midnight)

Elections: April 15 (online) ASCC Senate Election

Applications available: April 8Applications Due: April 15 (by midnight)

Mandatory Meeting for all candidates: April 15 at 8 p.m. Campaign: April 16-21 (ends at midnight) Elections: April 22 (online)

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11 a.m. BWW Fundraiser for St. Jude4:30 p.m. Simperman Learning Commons Reception4:45 p.m. Discipleship and Evangelization 8 p.m. CCF Ignite

7 a.m. Sodexo PB&J Drive 5:45 p.m. Cor and Via Formation groups 7 p.m. Trivia Night

11 a.m. JCCS Accounting Firm Info Booth and Session

12:45 p.m. What the Church Really Teaches and Why 6:30 p.m. Film: No Impact Man7 p.m. Philosophy Now: Dr. Cavanaugh

Spring Search12 p.m. Softball vs. NW Christian (DH) 2 p.m. Softball vs. NW Christian (DH) 7:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Spring Search 7:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Spring Search 2:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe8 p.m. Sunday Night Mass

9 a.m. Admitted Student Open House4 p.m. Salary Negotiation Workshop7 p.m. Fromherz: The Live of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen

12:30 p.m. Federal Loan Exit Counseling 12:30 p.m. Faculty Dept Chairs Meeting 5:45 p.m. Cor and Via Formation groups

11 a.m. Study Abroad: Germany Info TableNoon Federal Loan Exit CounselingNoon Softball Weekend Captains meeting2 p.m. Study Abroad: Germany Info Session9 p.m. Girl Scout Cookie Bingo

Last day to withdraw 12:30 p.m. Federal LoanExit Counseling12:45 p.m. What the Church Really Teaches and Why 7 p.m. Michael McFaul: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia

8 a.m. Federal Loan Exit Counseling Noon Federal Loan Exit Counseling 7:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe9 p.m. CSA Night @ Sleeping Giant Lanes

8 a.m. & 4 p.m. Federal Loan Exit Counseling 8:30 a.m. Service Saturday5 p.m. EWB Fundraiser7:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe9 p.m. CSA Night @ Sleeping Giant Lanes

2:30 p.m. Theatre: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe8 p.m. Sunday Night Mass

5:30 p.m. Language Exchange 8 p.m. CCF Ignite

12:30 p.m. Faculty Assembly 5:45 p.m. Cor and Via Formation Groups 7:30 p.m. Jazz Band Concert

12: 45 p.m. What the Church Really Teaches and Why

Good Friday 2 p.m. Softball vs. BC (DH) 12 p.m. Softball vs. BC (DH)

Easter Sunday Easter Monday 8 p.m. CCF Ignite

Classes Resume (TW) 5:45 p.m. Cor and Via Formation groups 7 p.m. Faith and Reason: Dr. Warren S. Brown

5 p.m. Sung Evening Prayer7 p.m. SURF Keynote: Copper, the Capitol, and Carroll

No Classes 8:30 a.m. Student Undergraduate Research Festival (SURF)12: 45 p.m. What the Church Teaches and Why 7 p.m. Keck Observatory Presentation

No Classes 9:30 p.m. Presidential Inauguration Mass 1 p.m. Honors Convocation3:30 p.m. Presidential Inauguration Ceremony

Softball Weekend

Softball Weekend

7 p.m. Night of the Talking Saints 8 p.m. Sunday Night

8 p.m. CCF 5: 45 p.m. Cor and Via Formation Groups

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Students get groovy at the CSA decade dance

Students get their groove on at the Carroll Student Activities sponsored Decade Dance. Photo courtesy of Kelly Armstrong

Carroll Student Activities (CSA) hosted a de-cades-themed dance on March 15 in the Lower Campus Center. Carroll College’s FLEX Theatre

doubled as a dance hall for about three hours while 60 students came to enjoy music, dancing, and many laughs.

This free dance encouraged students to dress in their favorite decade from the 1970s to the 2000s. Along with the wild outfits, students also got to enjoy having a fellow student DJ. The music ranged from country line dance all the way to current pop music, allowing for students to dance altogether in the center or split off into pairs.

“My favorite part of the night was seeing all the good and bad dance moves that brought so much joy to everyone,”

said Rose Ramos, a junior in public health from Olympia, Washington. “I also loved the oldies music, dancing, and seeing how funny everyone looked in their retro gear.”

The FLEX Theatre was mostly dark except for multiple, bright, flashing lights running across the room. Each end of the theater also displayed a colorful light show that matched the beat and energy of the music.

“I am so grateful for this campus and the people on it,” said Maija Hadwin, a junior in elementary education from Ka-lispell. “It was amazing to see people just let loose and genuinely have fun. During the ‘YMCA’ I needed to take a break from dancing, and I had the opportunity to just watch the laughter, the costumes, and the made-up dance moves. I couldn't help but giggle at the dance battles that occurred. The environment itself was my favorite part.”

These CSA events, along with many more, allow students to unwind after a stressful week of classes and build strong connections with other students. The next chance for students to enjoys one of these special events is on April 12 at the Sleeping Giant Lanes for an evening full of bowling.

Emma Lawver

Staff Writer

Jamie Severson jamming out at the dance Photo courtesy of Kelly ArmstrongSavannah Fischer boogying at the dance

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Students enjoying the dance Photo courtesy of Kelly Armstrong

Students dancing their hearts out Photo courtesy of Kelly Armstrong