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FEATURESOctober 8, 2010 The Wheel | 5

Listen local: Out o thegarage orCitizen Sage

By Claire Davidson

music columnist

For local rock darlings Citizen Sage, the rise rom obscurity to considerable recognitionhas been a process o hard work and true artistic commitment. Brothers Greg and MichaelTambornino assembled the rock group in early 2006 along with guitarist Paul Dong anddrummer Malcolm Browne. The group got o the ground and out o their Minneapolisbasement by the next year, when they began garnering accolades rom local music ans andearning comparisons to some o rock’s greatest legends. They then spent much o 2008playing local venues and recording tracks or the growing number o supporters who wereeager or the release o their debut album.

I was lucky enough to attend their CD release show at The Fine Line in April 2009 whentheir rst ull-length album ocially dropped. I was blown away by the magnitude o thislocal music revolution. The sel-titled “Citizen Sage” is a combination o Zeppel in-esque

psych-rock and delicately composed olk tracks, and has been gaining steady radio play since its release. The group is also reminiscent o late Jimi Hendrix or the currently popularBlack Keys in its creation o accessible but complex blues ballads. Citizen Sage possesses analmost indescribable sound and a reshly unique presence in the Minneapolis music scene.

What sets Citizen Sage apart the most rom other groups is lead singer Greg Tambornino’sull-throttle vocals which range rom the harmonious on “Faces in the Night” to animpassioned howl on “No, Love.” Combined with the roar o Dong’s guitar and theborderline-melancholy bass, a Citizen Sage experience is nothing short o psychedelic. Evena brie listen will leave you wondering i Citizen Sage isn’t rom another time altogether;that someone rom this age could write with such transcendence or sing with the convictiono rock prodigies is truly remarkable.

One o the group’s most exemplary tracks, “Not Enough,” takes on the ambivalenceo young love with a slow-building screech and steady percussion. Similarly, “Cold Lady”oers up poetic ultimatums paired with a threatening guitar ri in true rock orm. “I youwant me to s tay, just one thing you should know/I you say you will and you don’t, I won’thang around, I won’t.”

As ar as their soter side, the poetic track “You’ll Never Know” is as close to quiet asthese boys get, but it’s a much needed moment o refection and easily one o my avorites.

“It was really good to love you, i only or a while,” sings Tambornino. “How quickly the year’s gone/Who can you count on to always make you smile?” As ar as I’m concerned, I’llbe smiling as long as they continue churning out new tracks like this.

Citizen Sage’s ull-length album is available or purchase on iTunes or Amazon.com.

Claire can be reached at [email protected]

“What are you wearing?”

Compiled by Jessica Jones

• A look at St. Kate’s most fearless and fashionable

Think your department or major has some exceptionally stylish students or

professors? Let us know and your department may be featured in a future

fashion article. Contact [email protected] with suggestions.

Janelle TaggartJunior

Major: Psychology

Tell me about your outft: The skirt I gotrom Everyday People, shirt was $4 at Target,shoes also Target in the kids isle, and thewatch is a hand-me-down rom my step dad.

Where’s your avorite place to shop: Allthe stores in St. Paul’s vintage loop.

Tell me about your hair: I got bored oneday and told my mom, who’s a hair dresser,

that I wanted to go red.

Tell me about your style: My style changesevery day, today I just woke up and decided

to be girly, so I picked a foral skirt.

What is one thing you will never wear:Sweat pants in public.

What most excites you about ashionand style: It changes every day; you can be

someone dierent every day.

Tell me about your piercings: I got my nose ring to spite my mother, but now she

loves it, so it didn’t work out.

Mell GreenFirst-year

Major: Psychology

Tell me about your outft: All thrit, romthe shoes to the shades. Shirt rom Price by the Pound or a nickel, pants or a dime and

a grip o belts or a nickel.

Where do you shop: Everyday People,Unique, and Price by the Pound.

What inspires your ashion sense: Just

simple things.

What is one thing you will never wear:That’s a hard one because I would wear mosteverything, but I would never mix a bad

print, and neon/metallic things.

What most excites you about ashionand style: The act that’s it’s mine, becauseno one can nd it anywhere else, even theabric. Clothes now are so modern and my

style is all my own and so unique.

Withhonors• Gayle Gaskill new director of honors program

By Rachel Armstrongsections editor

Since 1986 the Antionian Scholars HonorsProgram at St. Catherine University (SCU)has provided academic challenges or SCUstudents. Last year, Proessor Gayle Gaskilltook over as director o the Antonian HonorsProgram. Gaskill has been teaching at SCUsince 1987 and hopes students participatingin the program “enjoy exercising theirintellect and imagination as all athletesenjoy exercising their bodies and minds.”

Antionian Honors students work hard toqualiy and remain eligible or the programthroughout their college years. “To graduateas an Antonian Scholar, a student mustmaintain a 3.5 GPA,” Gaskill said.

Ater a student is accepted into the programshe also must complete ve other components.“Two o these components must be HonorsSeminars. Honors students ulill twoadditional components with two additionalHonors Seminars or by completing HonorsTRW, Honors GSJ, or study abroad,” Gaskillsaid.

“My avorite piece o the Honors programthus ar was my Honors Seminar, [entitled]Living in the Age o Evil. I enjoy the seminarsetting, it’s a discussion-based class, whichgiven the right group o people can bepretty enjoyable; and I elt we had a goodgroup o people,” junior Honors studentEvan Gaydos said.

“I absolutely loved the Honors RefectiveWoman class because it put me with a group

o people I could relate to. My closest riends

are those rom my Honors TRW class. I alsolike the Honors Seminars because o thecreativity and distinctness o the classes.Rarely do you get taught by two proessorsin two diciplines,” junior Honors studentTeresa Hermodson-Olsen said.

Lastly, students in the program complete aSenior Honors project. “The Senior Honorsproject [is] completed with the mentorship o a aculty director and two additional aculty

committee members. At the culminationo her senior project, each honors studentmakes a public presentation o her work,”Gaskill said.

For many students, this is the mostchallenging and exciting aspect o the program.“I’ve bounced a lot o ideas around in my head. It’s one o the things I’m looking mostorward to,” Gaydos said. “It’s a little stressul,but I’m looking orward to working withthe Honors board, I think they’ll have somegreat insights.”

“My newest idea [or my Honors project]is putting on a benet or Common Hope, anorganization based in Guatemala,” Hermodson-Olsen said.

Senior Honors projects represent years o academic curiosity, ocused on a single interest.

“[I’ve] directed Senior Honors projects sincethe early years o the program,” Gaskill said.“[My] avorite Honors project was Englishmajor Shannon Scott’s examination o ghoststories by Charles Dickens, which includeda staged reading o an original ghost story that represented Dickens as a character.”

Though Antonian Scholars work hard inthe academic setting, the program providesa ew perks as well. “As Antonian Scholars,students have the pleasure o enjoying theiracademic pursuits with the encouragemento aculty and ellow Antonians. They havean Honors Hub, a center or study, and socialactivities in the [Cour de Catherine], and planormal and inormal activities that enrichthe University as a whole. At graduationceremonies, Honors students wear a white

braid,” Gaskill said.

In her new position, Gaskill takes onchallenges as well. “[My] responsibilitiesinclude recruiting aculty to participate inthe program as Seminar instructors andcommittee members or Senior projects.More important, [I] encourage qualiyingstudents to accept the challenge o takingtheir degrees with honors,” Gaskill said.

In her time as director o the program,Gaskill would like to see “the program [grow]as it draws promising potential students thatchoose to enroll in the women’s [university].”

Additionally, Gaskill hopes to expand theprogram’s reach v ia the Internet. “This yearthe SCU library begins to digitize research

by aculty and students. Honors projects

will be published online to scholars intheir elds o expertise. This carries SCU’sAntonian scholarship and creative workto an international audience,” Gaskill said.

Though the program does put ocus onstudents’ GPA and academics, Gaskill hopesto expand other pieces o the programas well. “The Antonian Scholars HonorsProgram recognizes, rewards, and valuesintellectual inquiry, not simply as a number,a grade point, but as a woman’s pleasure indeveloping her intellect and creativity totheir ullest potential,” Gaskill said.

Rachel can be reached [email protected]



FEATURES6 | The Wheel October 8, 2010

Remember that time we saw the Social Network?

I remember that.

Wasn’t that just a couple of hours ago?

I feel like it was days ago.

The social network. What did you think of it?

Well. Mark Zuckerberg...is such a jerk.

The lm opens with Mark Zuckerberg [played by Jesse Eisenberg] ourantagonist, getting the beatdown from his girlfriend, played by Rooney

Mara. Basically, he gets dumped. That’s our introduction to MarkZuckerberg.

There’s not much of a character arc, except that he goes from being

pouty to a little more pouty, [to] being rich and a little more pouty.

I’ve seen [Eisenberg] in a couple of things...I can tell you from previ-

ous experience that he is an incredibly likable actor. I hated him for

this entire lm and there was not a second that I liked his presenceon screen. He took his wonderful personality and twisted it into this

monstrosity that is Mark Zuckerberg and for that I commend him.

Andrew Gareld: Go.

First of all, let me preface by saying that Andrew Gareld’s name hasalready been thrown around for an Academy Award [for playing Edu-ardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook and Zuckerberg’s former best

friend].

I thought that on top of being gorgeous, he also had some really great

emotional scenes. He had that thing where his eyes tear up but theydon’t spill over! And you could just tell that he knew he was losing his

best friend through all of this, l ike the money and the business was just getting in the way.

I felt like every time he showed up on the screen, I sat up a little

straighter.

You did, actually.

I felt like he was really compelling. [According to my notebook], I also

apparently felt “Andrew Gareld = INTENSE LOVE.” The scenes with

him and Jesse were so intense.

So, Justin Timberlake is in this lm, playing Sean Parker who founded

Napster...What did you think of Justin?

When I saw him on the screen, I was like JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE andas he continued with his performance, I forgot he was Justin Timber-

lake and paid more attention to the character he was playing. A lotof times with big names like that, you get so distracted with who they

are; you’re not paying attention to the present.

Yeah, at rst I have to say I was really distracted because

He was shirtless?

Yes because he was shirtless and gorgeous.

So what did you think of the conclusion? Where are we at with Face-

book and Mark?

I feel a little bit guilty going on Facebook now--just because, from the

movie portrayal, I feel like I am participating in a system of male domi-nance and oppression and objectication.

The Social Network: A flm review in Facebook chat

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I think that probably draws us into our biggest critique of the lm. They

didn’t have to portray women the way they did. They could have leftperipheral female characters out rather than making them such vapidobjects of the male gaze.

There’s this one scene in the beginning where the movie cuts to groups

of white guys, basically, ranking these girls. And then it cuts to the

women who get these links and see these links and they are all justshaking their heads...It’s this online world where you rank women but

you’re never actually going to speak to them in real life.

Women were objectied for the entire lm...it just beat you over thehead. It all comes to a head when a woman actually serves as a table

for cocaine. She actually is an object; she’s not just objectied any-

more.

The [female] lawyer at the end said, “You know, you’re not an assholeMark; you’re just trying really hard to be.”

He says in the nal scene with the lawyer, “I was drunk, angry, stupid,and blogging.” But what he’s getting punished for is not his objectica-

tion of women. He’s slammed for intellectual property theft.

The scene where [Saverin] realized that his shares had been diluted

(the technical term) from 34% down to .03% in the company...I felt like there was an audible intake of breath and then an exhalation of “Oh

my God” by the audience. That’s what he did to his best friend.

Sean Parker...says, “Private behavior is a relic of a time gone

by.” That’s really something that Mark Zuckerberg goes on to liveby. He only adapts Facebook security settings because he gets so

much ak when he loosens them. The man in charge of keeping all

our secrets essentially thinks that privacy is completely worthless.

And when you think of the things people put on Facebook. And evennow with the settings the way they are, the ads that pop up on my wall

are creepily relevant to my life. I get Doctor Who ads on my prole!

It’s all about that power. Sean Parker says at one point to Mark

Zuckerberg, “They’re scared of me--and they’re gonna be scared of

you. He’s a nerd in college; he didn’t have any friends--he had onefriend in real life and of course he ends up losing him.

It’s fascinating that the digitalization of college life really comes down

to...sex. His shining moment is when he realizes that people want to know other people’s relationship statuses. Are you having sex or

not? If you are, with whom? And that, that is his grand philosophy for

Facebook. There’s nothing idealistic or meaningful about it.

Well what does that say about people our age though? we ock toit. That’s what we want.

When I rst saw previews for this movie...the preview was so pompous

and it was so over the top...the preview just seemed so outrageous for the content. I was like, ok, it’s Facebook--it’s not Vietnam. Let’s get

over ourselves.

I thought it was going to be dull. How could you make Facebook

interesting? I don’t even think the site is that interesting. Why would I

think the making of the site is that interesting? But then it was. And I think a lot of it had to do with the actors.

I agree. The most interesting part for me was the interaction between

Mark and his best friend and how that just went to...crap by the end of the lm. The relationships were what was most interesting to me--the

concept, I get it--it’s great. Power made you crazy. But that’s not reallywhat I cared about. What I cared about was their interactions. I thinkAndrew Gareld was the only sympathetic character for me.

I completely agree.

So the Social Network. How many Wheels would we give it, out of four?

I would give it 3.

I would probably give it 3 wheels too. Helped along mightily by Andrew

Gareld.

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HEALTHOctober 8, 2010 The Wheel | 7

“The most commonly known consequence o sleepdeprivation is insomnia, whichis characterized by the inability to all into a restul sleep orrequently waking up...”

Over the summer, Lady Gaga made the news again. I know...I know...she is always making

the news somehow, someway. What makes this time any dierent than any o the other

times? This time, Gaga came out with some serious news regarding her health. On Larry

King, Gaga announced that she was border-line positive or lupus, an auto-immune disease.

So, what is lupus? What does “border-line” positive mean? How does this aect a women’s

university?

The Lupus Foundation o America (LFA) describes lupus as an auto-immune disease in

which the body’s immune system cannot dierentiate between the healthy and unhealthy

cells and tissues o the body. This causes the immune system to create anti-bodies that

attack the healthy tissue, essentially causing the body to attack itsel. When anti-bodies are

present, they cause what is called an infammation or a fare o the disease. Infammation

o the disease can cause pain and damage to the aected parts o the body. Lupus can aect

various body parts including the skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, and the brain.

Medical proessionals do not know what causes lupus, but it does seem that both

environmental and genetic actors contribute to the development o the disease. Triggers

o lupus in a person’s surrounding environment can include extreme amounts o stress,

inections, and ultraviolet light. It is also believed that the disease may be genetic, as the

disease oten occurs in amilies. 10 percent o lupus patients do have someone in their

immediate amily who has or will develop the disease.

Diagnosis o the disease can be very diicult. Lupus can present itsel with many

symptoms, but not every person with lupus will have the same symptoms. These can

include achy joints, skin rashes, extreme atigue, anemia, a “butterfy” rash across the nose

and cheeks, abnormal blood clotting, and sun and light sensitivity. Some people can go

or years suering the symptoms beore their doctors can give them a denite diagnosis

o lupus. Once the disease has been diagnosed, treatment is still just as dicult. As lupus

is a disease without a known cause, it is only possible to treat the symptoms o lupus and

not the disease itsel. As a result, treatment also varies rom patient to patient; no two

treatment plans are alike.

So, how does a disease like lupus aect a women’s university? According to the LFA,

between 1.5 million and 2 mil lion people in America have lupus; more than 90 percent o

all these patients are women. It is oten reerred to as a “woman’s disease” despite the act

that men can develop the disease as well. This is believed to occur due to the hormonal

changes that take place in a woman’s body. However, again, there is no denite answer as

to why this happens to more women than men.

So how does all o this inormation aect Lady Gaga? The act that she tested borderline

positive means that she is predisposed to the disease: she could potentially develop the

disease later in lie. In order to prevent hersel rom becoming ill, she needs to take care

o hersel. As she doesn’t have lupus yet, there is nothing anyone can do or her. Again,

you can’t treat lupus; you can only treat the symptoms o the disease.

So why am I so knowledgeable about this disease? One simple reason:

I have it too.

Lydia can be reached at [email protected]

A picture o health: The woman’s disease

By Lydia Fasteland

health columnist

Thescience o sleep• Side effects of too little sleep

By Courtney Hampton

staff writer

For the entirety o my collegiate career Ihad successully maneuvered my way aroundclasses that began any earlier than 9:55a.m.—until now. Trudging up the stairs o Whitby at 7:55 a.m., ghting against every instinct to turn and run back to the saety o my twin sized comorter and sheet set is ableak reminder that, apart rom my dashed,I am not a morning person. A brie glancearound a classroom suggests that I’m not

alone.Sleep is one o themost coveted, yetelusive, elements inmany college students’lives. Between classes,work, and varioussocial activities, thereseems to be no time oradequate slumber. It iseasy to agree that a goodnight’s rest is essentialto proper unctioning,but college students area demographic notorious or lacking therecommended six to eight hours a night.

Sophomore Heather Johnson is onestudent who nds it nearly impossible to

get a healthy night’s rest.“I only get about three to our hours onaverage o decent sleep. Ater those hourspass, I wake up and either can’t go backto sleep, wake up every hour, or have hal-conscious sleep,” Johnson said. “The only thing I really try as a remedy is trying to getto bed sooner.”

While long-term eects o sleep deprivationcan be dangerous and lead to other seriousmedical problems such as heart attacks andseizures, the majority o people suer romthe short-term symptoms that are easily

recognizable but not oten treated properly.The aorementioned concerns could be

precursors to a more dire condition i nottreated properly. The most commonly knownconsequence o sleep deprivation is insomnia,which is characterized by the inability to allinto a restul sleep, or requently waking up,and thus interrupting the sleep cycle.

Similarly, suerers o sleep apnea areexcessively tired during the day. Snoring,gasping, and snorting when sleeping are all

signs o sleep apnea.Yet another consequence o sleep deprivation,narcolepsy, is also characterized by eelingtired during waking hours. Dreams anddream-like hallucinations have also beenlinked to narcolepsy.

Lastly, Restless Leg Syndrome is also acommon side eect o sleep deprivationthough it does not include the daytimesleepiness the others do. The symptoms o this syndrome include the insatiable urge tomove one’s legs while asleep and doing soater awakening. Sometimes “creepy-crawly”sensations will be present in the legs andtwitching o the limbs may occur duringsleep and at times while awake.

According to Amy Kelly, Director o the Health and Wellness Center, “Many

students struggle withsleep issues, some thatare temporary and somewith more chronic sleepissues. I don’t have a rm“percentage”, but sleepissues are common,” Dr.Kelly said,

Sleep deprivation,also known as sleepdebt , i s known tocause irritability andexhaust ion whichcould lead to problems

in studying, being attentive in class, andretaining inormation.

On top o hectic and demanding schedules,sleep deprivation can also be brought on by

stress stemming rom a variety o actors suchas anxiety over getting a job post-graduationor getting a good grade on a nal.

The only real way to combat sleep deprivationis to get more sleep. While this is ideal, attimes is it not a reality.

But, should the opportunity present itsel,gather all the “zzzs” you can. Your body willthank you or it.

Courtney can be reached [email protected]

Don’t let the bedbugsbite• College campuses not immune to epidemic sweeping thenation

Compiled by Courtney Hampton and Milan Wilson-Robinson

An epidemic o bedbugs has led to serious concerns in major metropolitan areas aboutthe swit spread and prolieration o the parasites. Although the Twin Cities have avoidedthe level o inestation experienced by New York City, Detroit, and Philadelphia, bedbugshave made their way to the Twin Cities. According to a list o the worst metropolitaninestations in the country, Minneapolis ranked teenth. Here are a ew things studentsshould watch out or:

• Bedbugs range in colors o nearly white ater molting to tan, reddish brown, or burntorange. Ater eeding rom blood, they will appear black or dark red.

• An adult is about the size o an apple seed and the emale can lay up to 400 eggs ina lietime, which is roughly ten months.

• Bedbugs hide in the smallest o nooks, the most common being the head o the baseboard, mattress creases, upholstery, behind peeled paint and wall paper, suitcases,and sometimes back packs.

• They “eat” or roughly ve to ten minutes on the exposed parts o a slumberinghuman, usually the ace, neck, and arms.

• Though they do eed on humans, only about 40% o people who have encountereda bedbugs’ bite have reported any serious reactions. Generally there is none, or thereaction is mild as to a mosquito bite.

• According to the United States Pest Management Association there has been aninestation increase o 71% since 2001. Most reported cases have stemmed rom hotelsand apartment buildings, though there have been reports rom college campuses

Keep the

momentumgoing.

The Wheel can’t write itsel.

Write or The Wheel.

Contact Tréza Rosado at [email protected] more inormation.



SPORTS8 | The Wheel October 8, 2010

By Hannah France

staff writer

• Golf program indevelopment

By Maggie Weiss

staff writer

I you have ever wanted to pick up a nine-iron, wedge, or putter and play a back ninewith some like-minded riends, your timeis coming very soon.

Kristine Wessinger, a resh ace on theSt. Catherine University (SCU) campus, isslated to begin coaching a varsity women’sgol league starting next all.

“I was at the University o Minnesota orthe past eight seasons as their gol coachand have now come over to SCUto start thewomen’s gol team,” Wessinger said. “It was just a really great opportunity or me to startmy own program.”

She clearly has a love o the sport, havingcompeted with the University o St. Thomas(UST) team in the MIAC (Minnesote

Intercollegiate Athletic Conerence) duringher college years.Wessinger, along with Athletic Director

Eric Stacey, will begin tryouts and practicesduring the all 2011 school year. Both arehoping or an amazing season, complete withmany tournaments and, most importantly,players.

“The addition o gol will dramatically enhance our varsity athletic program,”Stacey said. “I am also very excited to have

Kris Wessinger as our team’s irst coach.Her experience and enthusiasm will helpus to quickly build a competitive program.”

Wessinger is eagerly looking or participants,and encourages the entire campus to givegol a try.

“I would love to have people contact meon campus,” Wessinger said. “It’d be greatto nd some current St. Kate’s players who’dbe interested in competing on the teamand going through tryouts. We’re starting

competition in the all o 2011.”As or some o our classmates, many couldn’t be happier.

“It sounds like a great opportunity orstudents who like to play gol,” sophomoreSara Quint said. Rebecca Doucette, a ellowsophomore, agrees.

“Gol is a wonderul sport. It takes skill,strategy, and concentration,” Doucette said.

So i your eld o choice is an open airway or a putting green, with good riends andquiet aternoons, get those clubs out andbroken in.

Wessinger’s advice to uture players andavid golers in general?

“Gol is a sport you can play orever. It’sa sport you can play with a good goler ora bad goler, it doesn’t matter. It’s a neat

social game.”

Maggie can be reached [email protected]

Tee up

Fall strikes the sports season once again,bringing the volleyball team back onto thecourt. With a team o dedicated returningathletes, this season is one no one will wantto miss.

However, due to the tough schedule, theseason isn’t going as well as the team hadhoped, with only our wins thus ar. Butwith the team learning rom each deeat,they are growing to become better equipped

or uture matches.“Our team has an incredible amount o heart,” coach Corey Phelps said. “They haveshown great strength in the ace o adversity this year and our record does not refect thetalent o our team or the improvementswe’ve made since mid-August.”

Through the losses, the team has managedto keep very close. They sit down as a teamand talk through what went wrong duringeach match and how to improve theirperormance. With all returning athletesthis season, the girls are well acquaintedwith each other, both personally and outon the court.

“Our team philosophy would be to workas hard as we can, do the best we can, give110% to win each individual point,” senior

team member Nicole Neumann said. “Wework as a team or one goal: to be successul.”With that kind o team mentality, the girls

are motivated to play the best match they can to get each point. The team’s intensepractice schedule means two-hour practicesour times a week; hopeully the outcomeso upcoming matches will start to show o all that hard work.

As the season continues, keep an eye outor matches at home: supportive students,aculty and sta are always a welcome sightor the team.

Hannah can be reached [email protected]

Kristine Wessinger plans to assemble a varsity golf team on campus.Photo by Dana Bloomquist

Serve, set,

spike• Catching up with the volleyball team

This year, Shannon Houlihan joins theSt. Catherine University (SCU) AthleticDepartment as assistant track and eld coachand assistant Sports Inormation Director.

Houlihan, who grew up on the East Coast,ran track in high school and college beorebeginning her coaching career. “I startedcoaching right out o college and I actually worked at a [Division] I school or a year. Ireally enjoyed the coaching aspect o it; therewere certain other aspects along with beinga [Division] I school that I didn’t like so I

kind o moved on rom there and went toa [Division] III school in Pennsylvania,”Houlihan said.

Working at Washington & Jeerson Collegein Pennsylvania, Houlihan was able to ocusher attention on jumpers and hurdlers, twoevents she had participated in duting college.

“I was getting to work with the eventgroups that I really wanted to work with. Therst year I worked with sprinters, but I wasalways a jumper and a hurdler so those were just really un events to work with. Gettingto be able to do that, and getting to keepworking with sprinters ... was really what Iwanted to do or had the most un doing,”Houlihan said.

Following her season at Washington &Jeerson, Houlihan coached at Smith College

while studying or her Masters degree in

Exercise and Sports Studies. She said,“Iwanted to go back and get my Master’s. Idid Art History in undergrad so I neverreally took a lot o science classes in collegeand I knew a lot o stu rom just what youpick up coaching. But I wanted to kind o get more in the background and science o biomechanics and that sort o thing. So Idecided to go to Smith.”

Like SCU, Smith College is a private, liberalarts college or women. “When I was lookingat undergrad schools, I did the same thing a

lot o people do. I was like, all women’s? Iactually looked at Smith and I was like, Idon’t know...that might be kind o weird,”Houlihan said. I’d always worked with co-ed[track athletes]. But when I got to Smith, Ireally liked it. It was a little bit dierent but you can really ocus on one thing.

Fortunately, the all-women’s aspect issomething Houlihan enjoys. “I eel like youtend to get a really good team atmospherewith just an all-women’s school. Here it’s[like] everyone’s kind o pulling or eachother and that’s really nice to have becausewomen’s athletics does not always get that,”Houlihan said. “It’s nice to be part o thatatmosphere and that was ... one o the reasonsI looked halway around the country andwas like, oh all women’s, I like that. It’s a

nice place to work.”

In addition to the all-women’s aspect o SCU, Houlihan is also excited about the trackand eld team’s record. She said, “One o thereasons I wanted to come here was becausethe team’s really been doing some great thingsthe last couple years. They’re breaking schoolrecords and it just sounds like a really goodteam atmosphere and they’re excited to bebuilding a program which sounds like a loto un and denitely moving in the rightdirection.”

Senior Jennier Ampe, one o the captains

o the SCU track team, agrees. “There wasso much talent in all aspects o our teamand everyone was really close. Everyonesupported each other, whether on or o thetrack,” Ampe said. “I’m excited about all o the potential. Knowing what new teammatescan bring and what I know the returnersare capable o, means a great season ahead.”

In regards to the upcoming season, Houlihanhas high hopes. “I’d love to be able to see acouple o the school records all: triple jumpis one that is denitely get-able,” she said.“We should have a pretty good relay, a 4x4,so hopeully [the team] can maybe make anal push or nationals, that’s always un.”

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On therighttrack

By Rachel Armstrong

sections editor

SCU’s new track and eld coach Shannon Houlihan. Photo by Dana Bloomquist

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