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THE CRESTIAD
Vol.90 No. 5
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
From Wall
Street to CCC
October 9, 2008
Coming home to Cedar Crest
Creating a financial
crisis and how it
will effect students
Ibolya Balog
CRESTIAD SPECIAL
What is going on? How did
we get here? What can we expect?
These are the questions that students are asking not just in the accounting classes but around
campus in conversation.
A little more than a year ago
business news media started reporting that mortgage repayments
were not keeping track with the
payment schedules. It was also reported that many of the mortgages
and home equity loans issued in
the prior five years or so had variable interest rates that allowed for
lower initial payments but that required higher payments as benchmark interest rates increased and
re-set in later periods. Borrowers
signed up for these loans because
the low initial payments allowed
them to buy more expensive
houses or take out equity loans for
the appreciation in the value of
their homes. House prices were increasing by double digit percentages year over year for several
years. So borrowers thought they
can either refinance at low rates
again when their payments were
scheduled to increase or they can
sell their houses, pay off the mortgage and keep a bit of money as
down payment for the next house.
For many people things did
not turn out as planned. The economy as measured by GDP (gross
domestic product) slowed. Interest rates had increased, so the refinancing at lower rates was not an
option and house prices stopped increasing. Gasoline prices reached
unprecedented levels and the
higher energy costs lead to higher
prices for necessities like food.
Consumers’ incomes did not keep
pace with the increasing prices and
that resulted in more of them paying mortgages late or not at all.
Most mortgages are no longer
held by banks until repaid, as in the
past. Rather they are packaged and
sold as investments to institutions
in the global economy. The selling
price of these investments was calculated based on the expected
higher interest that would be paid
by borrowers in the future. Since
some borrowers were not paying
the scheduled amounts, the related
securities lost value.
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Accounting rules require that
certain investments need to be reported at “Fair Value”. If there is a
publicly traded market in the securities then Fair Value is determined
by the price a willing buyer pays a
willing seller when neither is compelled by other circumstances to
buy or sell. The alternative is to
calculate an estimate of Fair Value
based on expected future receipt of
money. Investment banks and brokerages recorded large losses as
the market for mortgage backed securities dried up and no one
wanted to buy them any more.
That is how the downward spiral
started.
In each reporting quarterly period these reported losses increased
since September of 2007. Since the
securities used as collateral decreased in value, the stockholders’
equity of the financial institutions
decreased, so other institutions
were less willing to lend them additional money which led to the
“credit crunch” and the current
credit freeze. Modern economies
function on credit, which acts as a
bridge connecting one transaction
to the next. If credit becomes unavailable, which is the current situation in the financial market; it
acts as if an emergency brake were
applied in a moving car, leading to
a slowing and eventual stop. The
Secretary of the US Treasury and
the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank met with leaders of
Congress to ask them to pass legislation so this slowing and stop can
be controlled and hopefully
avoided.
At this point many economists believe that the United States
economic slowdown may have already reached the point where it
becomes a recession, which is a
negative growth rate of GDP.
What central bankers are doing is
to take steps to make credit available to mitigate the situation. What
can we expect? Students graduating in May 2009 may need to work
harder to find the jobs they would
like than graduates of recent years,
because the slowing economy
makes companies more cautious in
adding employees if they are looking to cut costs. Students looking
for part time work in retail over the
holidays may find fewer positions
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Courtesy | Cressman Library staff
Last year, students brought back the homecoming tradition at Cedar Crest. What was once a favorite annual event at Cedar
Crest, was a big success in its 2007 return and is back for another year. The 2008 homecoming events will take place on Saturday, Oct. 18.
Ambar plans for future
with entire community
Leann Pettit
SENIOR EDITOR
A new era for Cedar Crest
College will culminate with the
Strategic Planning.
This will begin with Marie
Wilde. Last year, Marie was named
Director of Institutional Research.
Her role this year has changed to
Director of Institutional Research
and Planning as the College moves
into the future.
Discussion about Strategic
Planning began over the summer
and the planning began in Sept.
Strategic Planning for Cedar
Crest will be positioning the College for current and future students.
Today, there are fewer students attending colleges and they have different demands than students of the
past.
President Carmen Twillie
Ambar is excited about planning
for the future of the College; however, she said that Strategic Planning is not only about the results,
but also about the journey.
Strategic Planning for Cedar
Crest involves the entire College
community: faculty, staff, alumnae,
current and future students. But it
also includes the community
around Cedar Crest. Our plan for
the future must also include what
the Lehigh Valley, and the world,
thinks about Cedar Crest. Because
of this, everyone’s input is valued
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as Cedar Crest plans for its future.
The President’s Cabinet for
Strategic Planning is a way to get
the whole campus involved in planning for the College’s future, but
also a way to get the information
that is discussed at planning meetings efficiently back to the departments. It is also a way for
departments to have their say in the
future of Cedar Crest.
To get everyone from the
Cedar Crest Community involved,
the Strategic Planning Committee
is planning for focus groups for
faculty and students. They are also
looking at departmental plans for
the next five to seven years to advance and enhance within departments.
There are also plans to have a
Strategic Planning Summit. A summit is planned for early Jan. for faculty and staff and another for
students that is currently planned
for Jan. 21.
“When you start to talk to the
world about who you are…when
you talk about who you are and
what you aspire to be, you need to
have an open voice,” said Ambar
about Strategic Planning for Cedar
Crest College.
To be able to accept new ideas
and apply them to the College, the
school must first be aware of itself.
You have to have a good sense of
self so new ideas can add to yourself, not add to what you don’t
know. “You can no longer drift in
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traditions
between,” Ambar said. “Fundamentally, this College knows who
it is.”
In the end, the Strategic Planning Committee will produce a finalized document for the future of
the College. However, Ambar explains that the document will be a
guidepost for the College, “a chart,
a map for the College.” The College will be able to look back on
the finished document, the finished
plan and ask ‘Did we complete all
of this?’
The Committee has held two
meetings thus far and has yet to
send any information out to the
larger community of what has been
produced from these meetings, said
Wilde.
Both Ambar and Wilde have
suggested that students should email Student Government Association (SGA) or Wilde herself with
any concerns or suggestions for the
Strategic Planning Committee.
People on campus have been
energized by the process of Strategic Planning. There is a deep interest in making sure that voices are
heard. A new leader is inspiring for
everyone, Wilde commented.
“There’s nothing more fun
than dreaming about what you
want to be,” said Ambar.
Wilde looks forward to students getting involved in planning
for the College, “I hope that students will contribute to that dream,
too.”
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SPORTS
Fire and Rain
Mane event
A night with Dave Binder
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October 9, 2008
Poet on campus after a
year of anticipation
Megan Ammons
JUNIOR EDITOR
With vast gestures and facial
expressions, Mark Doty read with
a vibrancy of a performance rather
than a poetry reading on Thursday,
Oct. 2.
Doty was born in 1953 in
Maryville, Tenn. He received his
B.A. at Drake University in Des
Moines, Iowa and his M.F.A. at
Goddard College in Vermont. Doty
teaches at the University of Houston, and frequents Hunter College,
NYU and Columbia. He lives both
in Houston and in New York City.
Doty is a noted poet and nonfiction writer. He has published six
books of poetry, three memoirs and
an essay in book length. He is also
the only American poet who won
the T.S. Eliot Prize (1995). He has
received two NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships,
a Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
the National Book Critics Circle
Award, and many more.
Dr. Carolyn Segal, associate
professor of English, was the brains
behind bringing this talented writer
to our campus. It was her choice to
bring Doty, “I knew for over a year
that I wanted him and this fall he
was free,” she said.
The event was part of the 2008
Visiting Writers Series, sponsored
by Cedar Crest College’s Humanities Department & Cultural Programs Committee. The Humanities
Department brings different writers
to campus throughout the year,
“My task and pleasure has been to
find the poet, since 1996,” said
Segal.
Doty read a total of eight
poems and one work of prose from
his published works. His topics varied and included his southern
Mamaw, children, a cockatiel
named Omar, the gym, death, fish,
a sassy senor called Lola, and a
near death experience.
When reading his last poem of
the evening, “Heaven for Paul,”
these comedic lines ensued laughter from the audience, “At this
point it seemed plain: if God intervenes/in history, it’s either to torment us/or to make us laugh, or
both, which is how/we faced the
imminence of our deaths the second time.”
From comedic to serious and
endearing, Doty’s work had something for everyone. After the reading a question and answer session,
Biden, Palin target
the middle class
Elizabeth Saleb
COLUMNIST
In the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, at Washington University in
St. Louis, Republican Governor
Sarah Palin and Democratic Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., debated familiar issues such as energy, oil,
Iraq, the economy, same-sex marriage and taxes.
Particularly interesting about
this debate is the fact that it was
Governor Palin’s first appearance
in a nationally televised debate.
The former mayor of Wasilla,
Alaska, was unique compared to
other recent running mates using
language like “doggone it” “darn
right” “heck of a lot” and “I’ll
betcha.”
Six- term Senator Biden
stayed composed throughout the
debate. Senator Biden often focused his attacks on the Republican presidential nominee Senator
John McCain. Senator Biden criticized Senator McCain’s record and
position on the issues. Senator
Biden, also pointed out the differences between McCain and
Obama, suggesting Obama is more
in touch with the American people.
“Yes, well, you know, until
two weeks ago -- it was two Mondays ago John McCain said at 9 o'clock in the morning that the
fundamentals of the economy were
strong… Eleven o'clock that same
day, two Mondays ago, John McCain said that we have an economic crisis. That doesn't make
John McCain a bad guy, but it does
point out he's out of touch. Those
folks on the sidelines knew that
two months ago.”
Governor Palin defended McCain’s statement. “John McCain,
in referring to the fundamental of
our economy being strong, he was
talking to and he was talking about
the American workforce. And the
American workforce is the greatest
in this world, with the ingenuity
and the work ethic that is just entrenched in our workforce. That's a
positive. That's encouragement.
And that's what John McCain
meant.”
Governor Palin often stressed
and repeated talking points, such
as referring to the Republican
ticket as a “team of mavericks.”
Senator Biden refused to acknowledge Senator McCain as a maverick on issues important to the
American people. Claiming,
“Look, the maverick -- let's talk
about the maverick John McCain
is. And, again, I love him. He's
been a maverick on some issues,
but he has been no maverick on the
things that matter to people's
lives.”
Senator Biden often criticized
the Bush administration and porcontinued | page 5
THE
CRESTIAD
Fall 2008
Megan Ammons
Arts and Entertainment Editor
Thersia Ault
Sports Editor
Brea Barski
Front Page Editor
Lifestyles Editor
Study Break Editor
Asst. Sports Editor
Lizz Nagle
Corresponding Editor
Opinions Editor
Leann Pettit
News Editor
Gadget Manager
Online Editor
Liz Skoczylas
Managing Editor
Circulation Editor
Features Editor
Faculty Adviser
Elizabeth Ortiz
Staff
Megan Ammons | Junior Editor
reception and book a signing took
place.
During the question and answer portion of the evening Doty
gave some advice to those who
wish to become writers. Firstly,
read what you really want to read
and let it influence you. Secondly,
find a balance between taking crit-
icism and being stubborn when it
comes to your work. He said that
his work can take anywhere from a
day to three or four years. Doty admitted the pop culture that inspires
him is Project Runway, music and
films.
Walk the walk and
light the night
Jessica Korpics
STAFF WRITER
Every five minutes someone
new, somewhere in the world is diagnosed with a form of blood cancer. Every ten minutes, blood
cancer is the cause of a death.
The Light the Night Walk,
started by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, LSS, is a nationwide night event that is held to
raise awareness about different
forms of blood cancers and to raise
money in the hope of finding a
cure. One thing that sets this walk
apart is that volunteers will carry
different color balloons as they
walk- white for survivors, red for
supporters and gold for those who
have lost their fight against blood
cancer. They started this tradition
to celebrate and remember the
lives that have been touched,
changed and lost to cancer.
“This was my first year attending the event and I had a lot of
fun. I definitely want to participate
in the walk again in the future,”
said Andrea Walters, a freshman at
Northampton Area Community
College.
“We had two college clubs
sign up to walk as a group. We
also had about fifty people register
on line to walk,” said Mary Lou
Collis, student at Northampton
Area Community College and
Captain of Team Spartan. “Our
mascot, Sammy the Spartan, led
off the crowd and our award winning softball team was right behind
him.”
On Saturday Oct. 4,
Northampton Area Community
College hosted their own Light the
Night Walk. People of all ages
were invited to attend this event.
Volunteers walked an approximate
distance of two miles around the
school. This is the tenth year that
this walk has been held nationwide
and the theme for the year was “A
Decade of Difference.”
“We are still collecting funds,
but our goal was $2,000, and we
are very close to hitting it. We still
have people turning in money,”
said Mary Lou Collis, Captain of
Team Spartan.
Some different forms of blood
cancers that the LSS raise money
for are Lymphoma, Leukemia,
Hodgkin’s disease and Myeloma.
Lymphoma is a type of cancer that
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Stephanie Bennett
Hauna Colista
Alex Edgington-Giordano
Dannah Hartman
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Lindsey Jancay
Elizabeth Kern
Jessica Korpics
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Jocelyn Ludwig
Sara Messner
Cathy Meyett
Kathryn Jessica Monro
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Elizabeth Saleb
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Allie Scott
Tori White
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
A student-friendly
student center
Hauna Colista
STAFF WRITER
The Student Government
Association, SGA, meeting on
Oct. 1 was very productive.
They covered many different issues from petitions, to the campus website, to what time meals
can be used in the Bistro.
The highlighted discussion
of the meeting was the TCC.
President Ambar had raised
the question at an earlier meeting, is the TCC really a student
center? SGA President Kristen
Allard opened the discussion
asking for suggestions from students on how the TCC can be
more student friendly.
Some suggestions included
making Alcove A or the area
outside the dinning hall more of
lounge.
Some students feared that
having a lounge there could
cause even more congestion in
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begins as a tumor in your lymph
nodes. Some forms of this disease
will not affect a person’s lifestyle
and the person can continue to live
a long and healthy life, even without any form of treatment. Other
forms however are severely aggressive and can rapid failure of a
person’s health and will cause
death. Leukemia is a cancer of
one’s blood or their bone marrow.
It is often diagnosed by an abnormal formation of white blood cells.
Hodgkin’s disease is another form
of Lymphoma, but is often diagnosed by the very orderly spread of
the disease from one lymph node
group to another. Myeloma is a
type of cancer that attacks the
plasma cells, which are the immune systems cells in bone marrow, which helps to produce
antibodies.
“I think that it was an awesome decision to participate in this
walk,” said Stephanie Holzer, junior at Cedar Crest College. “I think
that it supports a really good cause
and I hope that all the money they
raise can go towards helping a lot
of different people with cancer.
Leukemia and other blood
cancers in general affect people of
all ages. However for each different disease, there are many different forms of that disease. Most
cases of Leukemia and Myeloma
an already heavy trafficked
area.
What seemed to be the
most popular suggestion was remodeling the Bistro. Sara
Schopf, sophomore nursing
major, mentioned modeling it
more after the Red Door at
Muhlenberg College.
The Red Door has a more
relaxed, open feeling, something that students seemed to
feel the bistro lacks.
Schopf thought it would be
nice to see sofas, and fewer tables, replacing the seating the
tables gave with more booths.
Rachael Diffenderfer, Social Vice President, mentioned
making the bistro more “school
spirited” by having a falcon
logo somewhere in the bistro or
more school colors. SGA is still
taking suggestions.
SGA meets every Wed. in
the 1867 Room from 6 p.m. to 7
p.m. All guests are welcome to
attend.
affect adults, while Hodgkin’s Disease is found either between the
ages of fifteen to thirty five, or in
those over the age of fifty five.
Lymphoma can be found in patients of all ages.
Eighty two percent of all
money raised at this walk goes directly to research for a cure for
blood cancers and also to programs
that help out patients.
“Our students really rallied
around this cause. We had other
various fundraisers such as a two
day bake sale and blue-jean Friday.
We also sold paper balloons that
displayed the donor’s name on it,”
said Collis. “We pretty much had
the whole college involved in this
year’s event. Dr. Arthur Scott, our
college president, was even appointed the Corporate Sponsor for
this year.”
“I chose to participate in this
event because I liked that fact that
I was helping to raise money for an
awesome cause,” said Walters.
“Cancer affects too many people,
and I don’t want to see any more
people have to deal with this awful
disease.”
“I do not have any relatives or
friends with this disease, thankfully, but I have a high opinion of
this fundraiser, due to their dedicated volunteers and coordinators,” said Collis. “They have not
failed to impress me, and my business colleagues at this college.
How awesome is the sight of 3,500
red lighted balloons at dusk!”
CORRECTION
In the October 2, 2007 issue of The Crestiad, the photo accompanying the story, “‘Obiden’ wives speak at Cedar Crest” 17-month-old
Tula Sobrinski was identified. However, her mother, Kristen Sobrinski
was not identified as the woman holding the baby.
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Panel discusses
ethics in politics and
the elections
Elizabeth Saleb
COLUMNIST
This question dominated the
Ethics Institute panel discussion on
Oct 1. On the panel was Pamela
Varkony, a nationally recognized
writer, commentator and speaker.
She is a member of the Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association and
is an advocate for empowering
women.
Also, on the panel was Dr.
John Reynolds, Ph.D. Dr. Reynolds
is a professor of Political Science
at Moravian College. He is a frequent speaker on the American political system, Political parties and
Elections.
The Ethics Institute is developed from a collaboration of Cedar
Crest College and Lehigh valley
Hospital and Health Network. It
presents lectures, discussions and
workshops throughout the Lehigh
valley on a host of topics. Some of
the topics include genetics, stem
cell research, cloning, social work
and ethics and many more.
Wednesday’s night discussion
began with Varkony’s perspective
of ethics. She explained that society views ethics through multidimensional prisms.
For example, we could look
through social, financial, and personal prisms. Two prisms she
stressed from a political perspective were that of time and the
greater good.
Both Varkony and Dr.
Reynolds noted that in ethics there
are many grey areas and very little
is black and white.
Varkony explained that when
she was a child she could remember when a handshake could be
taken to the bank, literally.
Today she says that level of
trust no longer exists. Varkony personally believes as does Dr.
Reynolds, that that level of trust diminished beginning with the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy and continued through
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available as retailers try to control
costs when consumers are cautious
with their spending.
Bank consolidation through
merger of troubled institutions
with stronger ones, will result in
fewer banks competing for business, leading to higher fees and
less available credit for all of us.
Student loans may be harder to get
as less money is available because
of the restricted credit markets and
difficulties of the banking institutions.
Purchase of large ticket items
such as cars will become harder
and more expensive to finance as
larger down payments and higher
interest rates are charged. This
may apply to popular electronics
the Vietnam War, Watergate and
still continues today.
Varkony primarily blames the
“24/7 cycle of the media that has
been fostered by the Internet.” For
example, she says, people are
afraid to think out loud now because within a matter of minutes
that statement would be on
YouTube.
She explains that people don’t
have the time anymore to think for
themselves because they are constantly bombarded by the media
and a fast paced lifestyle. “We
don’t even have the time anymore
to think what can I do for someone
else…for my community.”
“
Ethics
is not about
what is illegal…rather it
is the unwritten rule of decency
”
Varkony believes, that first,
ethics in politics has to start with
the people- voters and citizens. And
second she believes that “we need
to hold people accountable.”
Dr. Reynolds followed by outlining what he calls “structural values.” The first of the three
structural values is found in the
First amendment.
While Dr. Reynolds believes
strongly in the importance of the
First Amendment he also believes
that it can lead to unethical and vile
actions. He says, “Ethics is not
about what is illegal…rather it is
the unwritten rule of decency.”
He continued that ethics is attached to roles. That is, “What is a
candidate supposed to do to win? Is
the consultant’s ethical role to help
such as computers, large screen
TVs and other similar items. Future home buying will become
similar to more long ago practices
where 20% will have to be paid
down instead of getting 100% financing.
We can expect the near future
to be a challenging time. On the
positive side, we should become
more cautious spenders and revive
saving habits. For future first time
home buyers house prices will be
more affordable as prices level off
at a lower level and increase at a
lesser pace in the next few years.
In a market based economy lower
prices mean buying opportunities
for future investors. We need to
exercise good judgment in our near
term decisions and look for a return to more favorable economic
conditions.
the candidate win or are there other
considerations?”
These he claims, are the gray
areas that most of us intuitively recognize. In other words, you know
it when you see it.
Second, is the structural bias
of the media. He states that the
media does not separate itself from
ideology. For example, he said to
compare Keith Olbermann from
MSNBC to Bill O’Reilly from Fox
News, at which point there were
some giggles.
Dr. Reynolds explains that in
a free market the media’s job is to
make money. The media is primarily used for entertainment. So,
news divisions have to justify programs that attempt to capture large
audiences. With this in mind programs are crafted with protagonists
and antagonists that make for entertainment.
Third, is negative campaigning, which is primarily accomplished
through
crafting
information in such a way to persuade the public. On this point Dr.
Reynolds explains that the period
leading up to 1968 the selection of
nominees was made by party leaders.
Since then we have shifted to
using primaries to choose our nominees. He claims that given this
shift candidates now have to please
the voters, which means more
fundraising, more media and more
pollsters and their roles are primarily to win. These factors invite unethical behavior.
Dr. Reynolds believes that this
issue comes back to us. “What are
we going to do about it?” He suggests that we vote against the politicians that display unethical
behavior. Although he thinks that
will be unlikely because of ideological beliefs.
The panel discussion was followed by questions and answers
from the audiences regarding the
issue of ethics in political campaigns.
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Not
Your
Typical
Female
Lizz Nagle | Senior Editor
...And that’s why I am never
leaving. Seriously. This is my fifth
year at Cedar Crest. Because I
started off as a Chemistry major
and later switched to an English
major, and then even later added a
Communication major, I couldn’t
exactly finish everything in just
four short years.
And I am okay with that. And
so are my parents, who graciously
allow my daughter and me to continue living in their house while I
am being educated. I have now
stretched this to five years, living at
home, rent free.
And with recent talk of graduate school after I have out-stayed
my welcome here at Cedar Crest, I
may be able to stay at home with
mom and dad a few years longer.
Because of their loving support and desire for me to be educated, they are alright with this
set-up. I do help out around the
house with cleaning and organizing
and driving my younger brothers to
work and appointments.
But I will not help out with the
cooking. This happens to lead me
to another reason why I never plan
on moving out of my parent’s
house.
I would make a terrible housewife. With the steady decline of our
stock market and our economy taking a crap on itself recently, I
highly doubt that I will be able to
afford car insurance, student loans,
electric cable and phone bills as
well as a mortgage on top of all
that.
And for the purpose of this
column, I think renting is a waste
of money and would only move out
of my parent’s house if I were to
buy my own home in which to live
with my daughter Erin and her
puppy-brother, Elliot. Now, I realize I do need to get back to the
cooking thing…
With all of that being said,
since I highly, highly doubt I will
be able to afford living on my own
upon graduating Cedar Crest, that
leaves me the option of buying a
There’s no
place like
home...
home and living with someone
else, in order to split the expenses.
Now, I don’t exactly have very
many friends. All of my best
friends graduated last year, when I
was supposed to. So that leaves
close friends out of the running for
people I might be able to buy a
home with.
So this leads me to my next
option which is that my boyfriend
could propose to me and we could
get married and buy a home together, mortgage it, and live there
happily ever after. This would be
an excellent plan.
Except one detail is missing. I
don’t have a boyfriend. And this
might have a little something to do
with the fact that (here it comes) I
don’t cook.
Alright, I understand that this
might not make very much sense to
you, my faithful reader. But it’s not
that I can’t cook. It’s that I don’t
cook.
I mentioned a few paragraphs
earlier that I would make a terrible
housewife. And that is due to the
fact that I do not want to be a
housewife. I don’t want to graduate
college, get married, have more
kids, put a halt to my career and be
a housewife.
There are some women born
to be mothers, home-makers and
housewives. That is not me. I am a
mother, and a damn good one at
that, but I am not a housewife.
These are two completely different
roles that sometimes one takes on
responsibility for both at the same
time.
I know plenty of women who
have kids and stay at home with
them. I also know a few dads who
stay at home with their kids. That
life is not for me. I want to seek
further education, I want a career.
And I understand that I can do all
of that and have more kids and all
of that.
But that’s not what I want.
And since that’s not what I want, I
don’t even have a boyfriend right
now. I am so un-interested in rela-
tionships that I couldn’t even imagine myself in one, much less imagine getting married within the next
couple of years.
Isn’t this funny- I’m twentytwo years old and single. My sister
is eighteen and engaged to be married July 12th of next year. I’m sure
she’ll be married before I can make
it on a first date with someone.
Now, I don’t want you thinking that I think my sister is throwing her life away to get married and
have kids and stay at home to be a
housewife.
She will have four semesters
worth of credits from community
college before she is married and
will continue her education in
Maryland, where she will live with
her husband-to-be.
This is a good plan for her. It’s
what she wants. It’s what he wants.
It’s what I want because if she
moves out of the house, my parents
won’t mind so much that I’m still
around next year after I graduate.
After my sister, I have two
younger brothers. A sixteen-yearold a fourteen-year-old. One year
after I graduate from Cedar Crest,
one of them will be graduating high
school.
Hopefully he will enlist in the
Marines and get out of the house.
And then a year after that, the other
one will graduate and hopefully attend a four-year university in Oklahoma.
Then I will be the only one left
with my parents. They will be so
happy to have gotten rid of everyone else, they couldn’t possibly
care that I will be almost thirty and
still living at home.
And then if I can just wait it
out a few more years after that, my
parents will probably need to move
into an assisted living facility or
something and then the house will
be mine.
So what am I even trying to
say in these nine-hundred words of
my column this week? I’m not really sure, but if you can make some
sense of it, please notify me.
Evening eavesdropping
Allie Scott
STAFF WRITER
I always wondered what it
would be like to live above a busy
city street where I could open up
my windows and hear the chatting
and conversing of the city people
down below. Well, this past
Wednesday night, I got a little taste
of what I imagined that to be like.
At about midnight, I was lying
in my bed about to go to sleep and
my dorm room was so hot that I
decided to open up the windows
because it was a cool and chilly
night.
The breeze felt magnificent., I
laid back down onto my pillow to
finally get some rest. Then, as I was
lying in my bed, I could hear footsteps stomping down towards the
doors of the dorm hall. I swear, it
sounded like a stampede was running down the walkway.
So I figured, okay, I’m sure
that was just some people coming
back to the dorm for the evening, it
will get quiet, right? I mean it is
midnight. Well, apparently I was
wrong because this stampede was
the beginning of my late night
eaves dropping on the ladies of the
hall.
Shortly after the flock went inside the building, my ears were
then graced with the shrieking of a
girl yelling at her boyfriend on the
phone. The rant went on for a good
fifteen minutes; sobbing and begging proceeded after the yelling
and cursing.
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Topless double
standards
Cathy Meyett
STAFF WRITER
I was sitting in bed talking to
a friend the other night trying to
decide what to write about this
week. I asked her for her suggestions and she jokingly replied,
“Whether or not I can walk around
with my shirt off.”
After the impending giggles
subsided I asked her to explain.
She said to think about it: guys can
walk around shirtless and no one
thinks twice of it but if a woman
was to do the same, she’d be
slapped with an indecent exposure
citation. So I did stop and think and
it made me realize that here are a
lot of inequalities in society between the sexes.
Take, for example, the age old
standby of sex. If a woman was to
cheat on her long term lover as an
act of revenge or even by mistake,
she is given negative labels and
called nasty things. Look them up
in a dictionary and they are defined
as “a woman who engages in
promiscuous sexual intercourse
usually for money. Harlot, prostitute, strumpet” and “a dirty
slovenly woman.”
Neither definition ends at a
promiscuous woman. Yet, a man
will be called “player”, “pimp” and
other such names if he were to do
the same thing.
It’s like Christina Aguilera
said in her song, Can’t Hold Us
Down: “If you look back in history/ It’s a double standard in society/ The guy gets all the glory/The
more he can score/ While a girl can
do the same/ And yet you call her a
whore/ I don’t understand/ Why
it’s okay/The guy can get away
with it/ The girl gets named.”
It makes no sense at all why
the same actions lead to different
consequences.
Another example is if a
woman comes off as strong individual who will speak her mind,
she gets called a bitch. A strong
man who speaks his mind in the
same way is looked at a strong person, and that’s it. For example, I
was in one of my classes and my
opinion on seatbelt and smoking
laws differed from everyone else in
the room.
Now, I am not a quiet person
in the least, so those opinions were
voiced. Big time. And as I am
going to talk to the professor about
something,, another student called
me a bitch. I asked her why she
had called me this, since I had
clearly heard her, and she simply
replied that my opinions were
wrong and that I shouldn’t have
voiced them.
But I am willing to bet the
rest of my journalistic career that if
a guy had brought up the points I
did, that he would have been seen
in a different light and that nobody
would have called him a bitch.
Lastly, look at sports. There
are more sports scholarships out
there for men than women. More
men than women in my high
school graduating class back home
got sports scholarships. There are
also fewer and fewer scholarships
for sports that aren’t football or
men’s basketball.
I am not saying that they
aren’t there, they are just harder to
find and most of them end up
going to men. Why? Because they
are perceived as better athletes.
Take a look at how little coverage
the WNBA gets when compared to
the NBA.
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What happened to
MUSIC television?
Dannah Hartman
STAFF WRITER
Music Television. That’s what
MTV stands for, although these
days it could be quite confusing
due to the lack of music on the network. At age 19, I shouldn’t feel
old when I watch MTV, however I
do. I remember the days of TRL
actually playing the entire music
video on the countdown not just a
ten second tease like they do now.
I also remember when music dominated the network, not these “reality shows” that MTV now plays
24/7.
One of MTV’s new reality
shows is Sex with Mom and Dad.
Yes, you read correctly. It’s actually called Sex with Mom and Dad.
The show, hosted by Dr. Drew
(VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Drew) claims to help teens and
their parents deal with their problems about sex, dating and rela-
tionships. I’m all about safe-sex
education, but I don’t find it necessary to be educated about my
parent’s personal sex life. In one
episode, a daughter actually asked
her father how many women have
given him oral sex.
Does anybody else find that
totally disgusting? Can someone
explain to me how knowing the
number of women who have given
your dad oral sex helps you get educated about safe sex practices, because honestly I think that’s what
we call TMI.
And how could I forget about
the absolutely annoying show My
Super Sweet 16? Come on MTV, a
show about a bunch of bratty,
spoiled sixteen-year-old teens who
demand their parents spend tens of
thousands of dollars on a birthday
party and also purchase them a
brand new BMW.
This glimpse of “reality”
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OPINIONS
Going Hungry:A family’s journey
This article is part two
of a four part series written by
Hauna Colista about her family’s struggle through the diagnosis, treatment and recovery
process of her brother.
Hauna Colista
STAFF WRITER
The day my brother admitted
that he was sick, the skies were a
dirty grey and the air was cold.
There was a light mist sticking to
everything, distorting my world. Or
at least that is how I remember it.
Admitting he had an eating disorder, an ED, was his first step to recovery, like any other addiction.
That is truly what an ED is, an addiction that needs to be controlled.
Before he admitted his problem, my parents had taken him to
our family doctor to address their
concerns with his eating habits and
loss of weight. The three of them
were escorted to a small, sterile
room and told that the doctor would
be there shortly. So, they waited,
patiently, for his arrival.
You would think that my
brother’s protruding collar bone
EAVESDROPPING
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I was now sitting upward in
bed, propped up against the wall. I
thought to myself, “Where is popcorn when you need it?” because
this was getting good. My little
ears then wandered to the next conversation between two people
smoking on a bench. I heard all
about their day and what not,
which was fine, except for the fact
that they had mouths worse then a
pair of truck drivers. Ladies,
please…you’re better than that.
After some more wandering, I
overheard the mean cattiness of
two girls tearing another girl apart
which made me so sad, but hey, no
one is perfect and we all have our
MUSIC TELEVISION
continued | page 4
gives young teens unrealistic expectations, not to mention wastes
time when instead, MTV could be
playing music.
Of course, there’s MTV’s
popular reality show, The Hills. As
a viewer of The Hills, I often find
myself wondering why I’m so addicted to a show about absolutely
nothing. I get so frustrated with
Heidi’s belief that she actually has
talent, and I absolutely do not care
about Spencer and his creepy flesh
colored beard yet I tune in every
week to see the drama unfold. I
wish MTV would just save all of
us the headache and put on a video
countdown or something.
Then there’s MTV’s newest
reality show featuring Paris Hilton,
called My New BFF. The show,
which premiered Tuesday, September 30th, is a competition between fourteen girls and two guys
vying for Paris Hilton’s attention.
First of all, why MTV, why?
Paris Hilton could buy a new best
friend if she wanted, but instead
and sunken cheeks would have
been a dead give away. But not for
an MD. The doctor said, “He needs
protein,” and that was the end of the
story. Protein…the miracle cure!
I apologize for my sarcasm,
but you must understand my bitterness. I knew my brother was sick,
my parents knew he was sick and
so did the rest of the world. There
are a number of factors that may
have played a part in the doctor’s
response to my parents concerns.
However, it still proves that EDs in
males are over looked.
For decades, many clinics didn’t even admit males for treatment.
Remuda Ranch, one of the nations
leading ED clinics, established itself in 1990. It wasn’t until this year
that the clinic opened its door to
boys 17 and under. Of course this is
not the only place in the country to
admit boys, but it shows that treatment for them is just now making it
to the surface.
Even if more organizations are
developing programs for men, it is
still inadequate. Because EDs are
typically considered a female disease, most programs are designed
for women. Not only that, but these
days when we have to just let it all
out.
Well girls, I have to say, thank
you so much for letting it all out
below my open window, because it
was extremely entertaining and the
popcorn hit the spot for my late
night munchies. I then heard silence, which was followed by rain
trickling down my window panes.
For the safety of my blankets,
I shut the windows so nothing got
soaked. I lay down in my bed and
drifted off to sleep.
What a wonderful way to end
my night, it was almost like I
watched the movie Mean Girls
which is like my most favorite
movie ever. So girls I have something to say, be careful what you
say and where you say it because
you never know who is listening.
she was given a show that I’m sure
we’ll all get sucked into watching.
Secondly, is it cool to go on
national television and beg for
someone to be your friend? Last
time I checked, it was sort of pathetic.
Anyway, the winner of the
show gets the “exclusive” title of
being “Paris Hilton’s New BFF”.
Well, if I remember correctly, both
Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan
were once considered Paris’s bestie
and that lasted about three daystops. Hopefully the winner of this
new show will last five days, but
don’t count on it.
So please MTV, bring back
the music! And no, featuring artists
in the eight seconds between
shows when the credits roll is not
what I consider playing music. I
don’t want to see celebrity
wannabees fight over Paris Hilton
or watch sixteen year old girls cry
when their parents buy them the
black BMW and not the red one.
MTV, you’re called music television for a reason! Remind us why,
because I’m sure I’m not the only
one who has forgotten.
programs are often crowded by
women and even if there are several
men who want to seek help, walk-
“
You
would think
that my
brother’s
protruding
collar bone
and sunken
cheeks would
have been a
dead giveaway.
”
ing into that situation can be very
difficult. How many men do you
know that want to discuss missed
periods?
Writing this makes me want to
scream. I just don’t see the logic in
VP DEBATE
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trayed McCain as a friend of Bush.
At one point Governor Palin
responded saying “Say it ain't so,
Joe, there you go again pointing
backwards again. You preferenced
your whole comment with the Bush
administration. Now doggone it,
let's look ahead and tell Americans
what we have to plan to do for
them in the future.”
The governor used her tone,
body language and sense of humor
to emphasize her down to earth
qualities and her connection with
the middle class. At one point she
gave a “shout-out to all those thirdgraders at Gladys elementary
School, you get extra credit for
watching the debate.” She continued to speak to the middle class
caring for one particular person and
not another. This disease does not
have a gender. This disease does
not discriminate and neither should
treatments for it. There are thousands of boys and men suffering
from EDs but do not feel comfortable looking for help because their
gender goes disregarded.
Putting gender differences
aside, treatment is necessary for females and males. EDs are not just a
physical illness but a mental one as
well. People with eating disorders,
females and males, often, if not always, suffer from severe depression. My brother was not an
exception.
When a person first faces their
disorder, there can be a great deal
of resistance. The first day my
brother went to see a specialist, he
was shaking. I could read the
nerves all over his face. If I could
have seen myself at the time, I am
sure I would have looked the same.
When a person with an ED
first seeks help there are a couple
different options: in-patient and
out-patient treatment. When out-patient treatment isn’t working for
someone, they move onto in-pa-
tient. Regardless of which option is
used, physical and psychological
treatment is necessary.
The National Institute of Mental Health describes that treatments
can be designed specifically for one
particular patient. It is important to
understand that no person is the
same and neither are EDs. They are
all unique.
My parents thought that my
brother desperately needed to be
home. His doctors had laid out a
specific plan of treatment for him
so that he could remain at home and
my parents could implement a lot
of steps on their own. This wasn’t
the first attempt at treatment, but
my parents were hopeful.
I made that sound so easy.
Easy? If I needed to find one word
that did not fit with this topic it
would be easy.
What you don’t know, is that
this is only half the story. Many,
many things went wrong with my
brother when we first sought treatment. We almost lost him. So if you
think he just started talking to
someone about it and ate some
“protein”, you have something else
coming.
throughout the debate.
“One thing that Americans do
at this time, also, though, is let's
commit ourselves just every day
American people, Joe Six Pack,
hockey moms across the nation, I
think we need to band together and
say never again. Never will we be
exploited and taken advantage of
again by those who are managing
our money and loaning us these
dollars.”
Senator Biden also emphasized his connection with the middle class. “I understand what it's
like to sit around the kitchen table
with a father who says, "I've got to
leave, champ, because there's no
jobs here. I got to head down to
Wilmington. And when we get
enough money, honey, we'll bring
you down."
When asked about her com-
ment regarding that she needed
someone to explain to her what the
vice president does, Governor Palin
responded, “In my comment there,
it was a lame attempt at a joke and
yours [Senator Biden] was a lame
attempt at a joke, too, I guess, because nobody got it. Of course we
know what a vice president does.”
Polls show that Senator Biden
won the debate but that Governor
Palin exceeded expectations. The
entire transcript of the debate can
be found at http://www.cnn.com.
The next debate between Senator McCain and Senator Obama
will be on Tuesday, October 7th,
with Tom Brokaw at Belmont University in Nashville. The following
on October 15th at Hofstra University in New York, with Bob Schieffer.
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Outside of the
Your air fresheners could be killing you
But they smell good
Cathy Meyett
STAFF WRITER
Air Fresheners. We all use
them in various places: dorm
rooms, bedrooms at home, bathrooms, all through our apartments
and homes. But could they be
slowly killing us? According to research done in Canada and by a
professor at the University of
Washington, they could be.
Dr. Anne Steinemann from the
University Of Washington recently
published results from her study on
three air fresheners in different
mediums: gels, time dispensed, and
a liquid spray. She used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
to determine her results. She tested
these things and laundry products
to determine the concentrations of
volatile
organic
compounds
(VOC’s).
The findings were astounding
to say the least: the six products
testes emitted around one hundred
different VOC’s; ten of them are
regulated under United States laws
due to their toxicity.
Of these are ethanol, ethyl acetate and butanone. None of the
VOC’s on the list are required to be
listed on the labels of the products
that they are found in.
There has also been research
on the occurrence of allergies to
chemical fragrances. The research
shows that twenty percent of the
population is in some way allergic
or sensitive to chemical fragrances.
This number jumps to thirty
percent in people who are already
known to have allergies.
However, Dr. Liz Hanna argues that more testing needs to be
done as well. Ninety percent of the
products we use for personal care
have never been tested to see if they
are safe for human consumption.
Hanna attributes this fact to
most of the chemicals in these
products have been around for at
least a hundred years and we have
just recently started testing chemi-
cals for effects on human health.
She also calls for better packaging
and labeling of the products, such
as listing the chemicals on the
package or including fact sheets
from the manufacturer with the
product. The suggestion of placing
“green tick marks” for non-toxic
products was also made.
In 2007, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
that found more than a dozen air
fresheners contain chemicals that
cause hormonal and reproductive
abnormalities did a study during
development, especially in babies
and young children. These chemicals can also cause genital abnormalities and reduce sperm count as
well.
Of the brands tested, only
Febreeze Air Effects and Renuzit
Subtle Effects contained no phthalates.
Phthalates are used to make
perfumes scent last longer. Walgreens Air Freshener, Walgreens
Floral Bouquet, and Ozium Glycol-
ized Air Sanitizer were found to
have the highest levels of the chemicals.
Walgreens removed these
brands and more brands of air
fresheners from their shelves in
September of 2007 after this research came out. The NRDC filed
a petition to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Consumer
Product
Safety
Commission
(CPSC), calling for them to test the
air fresheners more before they are
released to the public.
Two months ago, Congress approved a bill that cuts allowable
levels of six types of phthalates.
This was enough for twelve
European countries to ban their use
in children’s toys. Canada also imposed a voluntary ban on some of
these chemicals in children’s toys.
Seventh Generation, Mrs.
Meyers and Method are three natural products that contain no phthalates and are safer for human use.
FRESH OFF THE SHELF
Loving your luscious lashes
Allie Scott
STAFF WRITER
I have been on excursion after
excursion searching aimlessly for
the most perfect mascara. I have
been to every drugstore, department store and beauty store under
the sun, and unfortunately I have
been let down by every tube of
mascara I have brushed onto my
fluffy little lashes. At this point I
am almost one hundred percent
positive that I have tried at least
twenty different kinds of eye lash
cosmetic out there.
One day on one of my shop-
ping adventures to Target, I decided
to take a little stroll down the makeup aisle, and as I was walking down
the aisle my eye was drawn to a little
bright
orange
tube.
Hmmm…what is this? Covergirl’s
Lashblast volumizing mascara is
what I found. This mascara has a
very unique extra-large, rubberbristled brush and patented volumizing formula that is supposedly
going to give you “big bold lookat-me lashes,” but pssshh isn’t that
what all mascaras are supposed to
do?
Well I decided to give it a shot,
the tube of Lashblast was $6.99
which I thought was very reasonable. When I got home I tried on the
product and SHA-BAM! I looked
like a movie star...just kidding, but
I did look fabulous. I was absolutely floored by how fantastic
my lashes looked; they were longer,
separated and extremely full from
just one coat! I usually wear two
coats of mascara and that is the deal
breaker most of the time because
once I put on more than one coat
the mascara starts to flake and its
gross.
So I added on another coat of
the Lashblast and what do ya know,
still perfect, except for now I had
even thicker lashes. Well I was just
so amazed I added on coat number
three and still no clumping or flaking. So I continued going about my
day, I went to classes and what not
and then went to work, and when it
was time to take off this lovely little treasure I found, I was even
more impressed at what I saw! I
had zero smudges what so ever on
my eye lids and the mascara came
right off without using any eye
make up remover! I used a plain old
bar of soap, and that’s it, it was very
easy to remove!
This stuff is awesome ladies,
for $6.99 you can not beat it, and
the quality is better than Dior!
Being a college student I really
don’t have a ton of money to spend
on beauty products, so I think that
Covergirl definitely did a great job
with this volumizing mascara that
is budget friendly and a great quality. They also sell Lashblast in waterproof mascara, which is ideal for
summertime so you can still look
great when you are waterlogged.
So if you are like me and are
waiting to find that perfect mascara, I suggest that you journey
your way to Target or a drugstore to
pick up Covergirl’s Lashblast volumizing mascara.
If you want to try some other
great finds, these mascaras will
blow you away:
Lancome DÉFINICILS High
Definition Mascara, $24
Too Faced Lash Injection
Mascara, $19.50
Sephora Atomic Volume Mascara, $16
Lehigh Valley
Hughes Library
by Gabrielle Augustine
With the gas prices rising because of the latest hurricane, Ike,
and gas shortages in the southeastern United States, it’s hard to
see yourself traveling an hour off
campus to a library. I mean, come
on – it’s a library! But, it isn’t just
a place for any bibliophile to love
and spend their day there.
Hughes Library (HL) in eastern Monroe County is perhaps
one of the biggest libraries in the
area – and believe me, I’ve been
to a lot.
Talk about a great opportunity to make use of Cressman Library’s Interlibrary Loan system!
Obviously, no one library – except the Library of Congress –
can carry all the books in the
world, but HL has no shortage of
fiction, non-fiction, movies,
music CD’s and magazines.
It is an excellent source for
research with schoolwork as well
as having extensive collections of
fiction for when there is time to
read it.
They have subscriptions to at
least five dozen magazines, from
A-Z, from children to teens to
adults. And not only that, the back
issues are kept – especially for
your studies.
I was homeschooled for most
of my life. Because my mom didn’t follow any set program, she
discovered an excellent resource
in HL in their education section.
Anyone who is an education
major will find a wealth of information on how to create various
unit studies and design curriculums.
If you get a chance to visit
this awesome place, you’ll find
the atmosphere at the library is
very open with space but also
very comfy – very much like the
way Cressman is set up.
There are lots of armchairs,
but also stations with computers
to work, etc.
HL is part of a system called
Eastern Monroe Public Library
(EMPL) along with the Smithfield and Pocono Township
branches.
I probably start comparing
every library I visit to this huge
bundle of resources.
You can see the Eastern
Monroe Public Library catalog
yourself online and you can save
gas… but still explore Outside the
Lehigh Valley (and help with research while you’re at it!)
HL is open Mon-Thurs 9a.m.
– 9p.m., Friday 9a.m. – 6p.m., Sat
9 a.m. – 5p.m., and Sun 1 – 5 p.m.
Their catalog can be reached at
any time at their website
www.monroepl.org.
The Hughes Library is located at 1002 North Ninth Street,
Stroudsburg, Pa. It is approximately 53 minutes from Cedar
Crest College.
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The spookiest places you did
not know existed around the Valley
Cathy Meyett
STAFF WRITER
Not many people believe in
ghosts. I happen to be one of them
and have researched, just in time
for Halloween of course, some of
the most haunted places in Pennsylvania, mostly in and around the
Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia.
At Cedar Crest College there
are three buildings on campus that
boast a haunting. Hartzel Hall supposedly has various ghosts in the
attic. Strange noises are heard and
a creepy feeling tends to emanate
from the building.
The Cressman Library is also
reportedly haunted, especially the
second and third floors. These two
floors are constantly cold and there
have been reports of eerie feelings,
unexplained noises such as footsteps and books flying off shelves
when no one else is seen to be on
the floor.
But the most well-known
ghost on campus haunts Butz Hall.
Wanda, as she is known, was supposedly a student here in the 1950’s
who killed herself. She is also reported to not have a face if she is
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Also, there is a woman’s football league, which has three more
teams than the NFL but gets less
coverage. Baltimore has a team,
The Burn, which I was going to try
out for. There are teams from Erie,
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. But until reading this article, I am willing to bet few people
have ever heard of them. This is
because they receive little to no
recognition or media coverage.
seen. She killed herself in the attic
and that is where her ghost resides
mostly. She causes posters to fall,
locks people out of their rooms,
slams doors and takes things.
Moving away from Cedar
Crest but staying in the Lehigh Valley for now is Moravian College in
Bethlehem. There are several
places that are haunted there too,
just as on our very own campus.
According to Shadowlands,
the Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority
House is haunted by the ghost of a
maid from when the property was
an estate named Alicia. She apparently became pregnant by the master of the house and she was killed
by him upon discovery of the pregnancy. The stairway she was
thrown down is now a closet but
lights are known to be turned on
and off in the attic and bedrooms.
Pictures of men are known to be
covered or turned around.
Also at Moravian is Comenius
Hall, which is haunted by the man
the hall is named for. A light is
known to shine when the hall is
closed. Also, there was a Halloween party there one year and
one of the students tried to turn off
the lights in the basement and he
watched them turn themselves back
on. Another student’s guide dog refused to go down into the basement,
perceiving a threat.
The Music building is also
known to be haunted. It housed
nurses during the Revolutionary
War. The spirits are known to open
and close doors. You can also feel
cold spots and hear footsteps when
there is no one else there but you.
Two of the dorms are supposedly haunted as well, Rau and Wilhelm Halls are both haunted. Rau is
haunted by students who hung
themselves in the basement in the
1960’s.
Weird noises are known to
come from both dorms, like
scratching. Only there is one problem: the walls are cement, so you
wouldn’t hear scratching coming
from your neighbors on the walls.
Also in the valley is Lehigh
University, where the library is
haunted. This time it’s by an old
man who doesn’t seem to do much.
Leaving the valley, we come to
Jim Thorpe where the old jail is
haunted by a ghost who was accused of being a Molly Maguire in
the 1870’s. The night before his
death by hanging, he ran his hand
on the floor and put his hand on the
white wall of the jail. He said that
the print would remain there as
proof of his innocence. The print is
still there and has been painted over
many times, but still returns, clear
as day. The jail hasn’t been used
since 1995 and can be toured but
the cell with the print is closed to
the public but you can see the print
through the cell door.
Next is Erie and Axe Murder
Hollow. It is said that a man murdered his entire family here and that
he haunts the place. There is even a
story of how he murdered a teen
couple that’s car stalled and
stranded them, slitting their throats
with the very same axe he hacked
his family to pieces with.
At Muhlenberg High School,
a boy that collapsed after gym of
heart failure still roams the hall and
has been seen many times at night
by both faculty and students.
But one of the places that is
most interesting and haunted other
than the Gettysburg battlefields is
Byberry Mental Institution in
Philadelphia, a half an hour drive
from campus. According to an article about Byberry on WEIRD
USA, it was built in 1907 to help
The LPGA gets less coverage than
the PGA does as well. It goes for
almost any sport. Except in the
WWE, but that’s a story for another editorial dedicated to the subjugation of women in that
organization.
No doubt that those women
are very talented, but they way
they are portrayed compared to the
men by the commentators and
even fellow wrestlers belittles their
abilities. But as previously stated,
that is an issue for another time.
with the overcrowding at the
Philadelphia Almhouse, after the
fire at Blockley destroyed the building there and killed many of the inmates of the asylum. They were
taken to Byberry in hopes that the
fresh air and country scenery would
help. But instead the patients were
treated cruelly instead. Especially
once it became overcrowded. They
were beaten, raped, punished in unusual ways and killed. There was an
article about the conditions at Byberry and other state mental hospitals released in Life in 1946
describing the conditions. The asylum changed hands again and was
shut down in 1990. About 30 buildings were abandoned and it is said
that the patients still “live” there,
more than 15 years after the institution closed. There was also a satanic cult that was chased out of
Byberry by the people who live
near it. Creepy huh? However, in
June of 2008, the buildings were
torn down and made into a retirement community. Hopefully the
residents don’t end up with unexpected visitors!
So there you have it, a sojourn
into the unknown., just in time for a
little Halloween fun.
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Submitted by Allie Scott
Supply the requested words in the top section and then
place them into the puzzle below where indicated to reveal a funny Halloween story.
Halloween
Adjective: _____________________________________
Place: _________________________________________
Animal: _______________________________________
Superhero: ____________________________________
Celebrity: _____________________________________
Interjection: ___________________________________
Adjective: _____________________________________
Place: _________________________________________
Kind of candy: _________________________________
Snack food: ____________________________________
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In the column on the left are unique laws that apply to all Pennsylvanians or citizens of some Pennsylvania towns. Fill in the
blank by drawing a straight line from the dash at the end of the law to the one before the word that fills in the blank. The
center law that is not crossed out in an interesting law that needs to be followed in public in Allentown, Pa.
You cannot sleep on top of a ___________
- Women: Brush your hair
outside.
Housewives cannot hide ____________ under
a rug in a home.
You cannot sing in a _____________.
You cannot catch a fish with your
- Create porn
____________.
You cannot catch a fish with any body part
except your ____________.
If you have been convicted of a felony, you
cannot operate a ______________.
You cannot tie a ___________ to a string and
then pull it away when a person reaches for it.
A man cannot buy ____________ without his
wife’s written permission.
Wear one shoe
There is a special permit for women to purchase __________________.
You cannot use a ___________ at a wedding.
Mr. Chemist’s Neighborhood
Make-out
Men: Become
sexually aroused
Kick a mailbox
- Alcohol
- Bathtub
- Cannon
- Dirt
- Dollar
- Game of Bingo
- Hands
- Make-up
- Mouth
- Refrigerator
By David Raker
On a __________ (Adjective) Halloween in the town of
__________ (Place), I was going to go trick-or-treating. I
decided to dress up as a(n) __________ (Animal) but
everyone thought I would scare people, so I decide to
dress up as a(n) __________ (Superhero) instead. My
__________ (Superhero) costume was done to perfection
and I looked great. The first door I knocked on turned out
to be the home of __________ (Celebrity). __________
(Celebrity) opened the door and said, “__________” (Interjection). I tried to utter the words, “trick-or-treat” but I
was very __________ (Adjective). __________
(Celebrity) said, “Come in.” I said, “No way,” and ran as
fast as I could for the __________ (Place). I didn't get any
__________ (Kind of candy) or __________ (Snack food)
for Halloween that year.
Historical Happenings
October: National Popcorn Poppin’ Month
Facts of the Week:
Oct. 9
Washington Monument officially opened, 1888
Los Angeles received first electricity from Boulder
Dam, 1936
Wishbone TV show premieres, 1995
Hey Arnold! TV show debuts, 1996
Oct. 10
U.S. Naval Academy founded, 1845
Tuxedo worn for the first time, 1886
Panama Canal opened, 1913
Oct. 11
Apollo 7, began an 11-day Earth orbit, 1968
Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC, 1975
Kathryn Sullivan becomes first American woman to
walk in space, 1984
Discovery STS-92 becomes the 100th shuttle flight,
2000
Oct. 12
Subways flooded when a water main in NYC broke,
1988
Oct. 13
The cornerstone for the White House was laid, 1792
Oct. 14
Candidate Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning. He went on with his speech, 1912
Winnie the Pooh was published in London, 1926
Sound barrier broken, 1947
Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
Oct. 15
National Grouch Day
First manned flight – hot air balloon, 1783
Birthdays:
Oct. 9
Johanna Hurwitz (71), author
John Lennon (b. 1940), member of the Beatles
Mike Sigletary (50), Hall of Fame football player
Oct. 10
Giuseppi Verdi, (b. 1813) opera composer
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (34), racecar driver
Oct. 11
Eleanor Roosevelt (b. 1884) wife of President FDR
Orlando Hernandez (39), MLB player
Michelle Trachtenberg (23), actress
Oct. 12
Ronald E. McNair (b. 1950), ill-fated astronaut of the
Challenger
Kirk Cameron (38), actor
Marion Jones (33), track runner
Oct. 13
Mary McCauley (Molly Pitcher) (b. 1754), American
Revolution heroine
Summer Sanders (36), Olympic Gold medal swimmer
Oct. 14
William Penn (b. 1644), Founder of Pennsylvania
Francis Lightfoot Lee (b. 1734) Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Dwight D. Eisenhower (b. 1890) 34th President of the
U.S.
e.e. Cummings (b. 1894), poet
Oct. 15
Barry Moser (68), illustrator
Submitted by Gabrielle Augustine
Astrological
editations
Fall Break Edition
LIBRA: (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) An old hang-out awaits new
discovery. Enjoy some time with the old favorites.
SCORPIO: (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Even pretty bubbles only
last a minute. Enjoy the break while it’s here.
SAGITTARIUS: (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Use your time
wisely. The break should be relaxing, but it’s only two extra
days.
CAPRICORN: (Dec. 22 - Jan 19) Petting black cats with
white stripes is not a good way to spend the break.
AQUARIUS: (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Don’t lick a safety pin,
you’ll definitely get hurt.
PISCES: (Feb. 19 - March 20) Baked goods are tasty and
fun to make. Make lots now and freeze them for the winter.
ARIES: (March 21 - April 19) Take a break to dance over
the break. Just stay away from staircases.
TAURUS: (April 20 - May 20) The clock is counting down
- Tick tock! Play some Tic Tac Toe to make the most of it.
GEMINI: (May 21 - June 21) It’s too cold to go swimming. Think twice about your plans for the break -- you aren’t
being practical.
CANCER: (June 22 - July 22) Recharge your batteries
now. You never know when they’ll die.
LEO: (July 23 - Aug. 22) “Titanic” is three hours. “Scary
Movie” is only one and a half.
VIRGO: (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Speeding is only illegal if you
get clocked.
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Exploring CCC traditions
through the years
Leslie Savadge
STAFF WRITER
Cedar Crest College is rich in
traditions, which have been bringing the students, faculty and staff
together over the course of the college’s existence. The College has
many traditions for students as a
whole as well as some just for the
incoming freshman.
A few of the traditions that
Cedar Crest currently has include
having a big or lil sis, the open door
ceremony, dink donut night, and
the strawberry festival. Big sis lil
sis is a tradition that was created
about 50 years ago. When students
are accepted to Cedar Crest as a
freshman, they are notified about
the program.
With joining the program, students are matched up with an
upper-classman. This enables
freshmen to get to know someone
that is in a different class than them,
and that already knows the ropes of
the college. Students have a lot of
fun having a big sis to hang out
with and do things with, as well as
always knowing that they have
someone that they can talk to even
if they have not yet met anyone.
Dink donut night is one of the
main attractions of having a big sis.
This night is all about being silly
and having fun with bigs, while littles wear a ridiculous-looking hat
that they have to strut on the runway to compete with the other
freshman on who has the best dink.
Afterwards, there are donuts
served which give students time to
hang out with their classmates as
well as their big sis, which is why it
is called dink donut night.
The open door ceremony is the
biggest tradition which is the introduction of the entire freshman
class. This event is held during
freshmen orientation. The ceremony is held at the Blaney Hall Administration Building, and students
have to proceed through the front
doors of the hall which signifies the
Courtesy | Cressman Library Staff
Students participate in the song contest in the year 1980. The song contest was once a big part of Cedar Crest College tradition,
but is no longer practiced.
next step of life, starting college,
and announcing their name and
major.
Dink donut night and the open
door ceremony were even traditions of Cedar Crest in the 1920’s;
although instead of walking
through the doors of Blaney Hall
being called open door ceremony,
in the 20’s it was referred to as the
How-de-doo.
This is a very good way to
meet new people, as well as finding
people to hang out with just in a
specific major.
Another event for freshman is
the strawberry festival, which is
known to be a favorite event among
Cedar Crest students. This is a festival that is held on the President’s
lawn, and usually takes place directly after the Open door ceremony. There is an overflow of
strawberries, chocolate, apple crisp,
and angel food cake. This event
gives freshman a chance to meet
professors before they even step
foot into the classroom.
Along with all of the freshman
traditions, there are many other traditions that the whole college can
partake in.
There is the winter formal that
is held annually in February. In the
1920’s they had a mid-year dance
for all the women where they could
bring their at the time future husbands.
For juniors there is the ring
ceremony, which is one tradition
that started way back in 1943. This
ceremony is the one in which all
the junior women go to receive
their Cedar Crest College rings
which are the traditional gold with
black onyx engraved with the college’s initials.
In the earlier years the rings
were given to the juniors by their
little sisters from the big sis lil sis
program.
This event was “the most important event of the year,” stated
Hedy Moosman in the 1950 Cedar
Crest yearbook. This is one tradition that has been going on for
many years and is a huge achievement of juniors that they can share
with their family and friends. Even
if students do not want to receive
the traditional college ring they can
have another ring given to them in
place of it.
“We swelled with pride as we
received our rings of onyx and gold
and we realized that now we had a
constant tie to Cedar Crest,” The
class of 61’ stated in the yearbook.
The only difference from then to
now is that the ring is no longer
given to juniors by their little sisters.
Communication
professor
Elizabeth Ortiz had a story about
how she wasn’t sure if she would
be able to get the ring for the ceremony.
But while at the mall one day,
she saw the ring at a jewelry store
and thought that it was fate and
meant to be. Ortiz is an alumna of
Cedar Crest College and said that
many of the traditions such as big
and lil sis and open door ceremony
were also done while she attended
Cedar Crest.
One tradition that they had
while she was attending Cedar
Crest that she loved but is no longer
held was the song contest. She said
that this tradition was the one of the
most fun and looked forward to
events of the year.
The song contest was established around the 1940’s and was a
huge event at Cedar Crest where all
the different classes would get together and make songs about the
college with their own lyrics, dance
to perform, and costumes to compete to see which class came up
with the best song. Elizabeth Ortiz
said everyone got very into the contest, even the professors, and everyone had a great time.
Cedar Crest is very good about
creating events and activities for
the students to bond as one and create a strong-knit community.
Courtesy | Cressman Library staff
From left to right, Cedar Crest traditions: Song Contest leaders accept first and second place trophies from Dean Nellie Manges, with the class of 1962 winning first place; Junior women participate in the tradition of ring
ceremony; students participate in Dink Donut night before Dinks became what we know them as today.
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“Fire and Rain”
A night with Dave Binder
Lindsey Jancay
STAFF WRITER
The black and white sign hung
around Cedar Crest campus, it
boasted “Fire and Rain- a night with
James Taylor” with a photo in the
center of a man with a guitar. Naturally, I expected an intimate concert
with the legend himself.
I grew up listening to James
Taylor, whose music has a very nostalgic feel for me. I remember dancing with my mother to “Sweet Baby
James” when I was hardly more
than a baby myself. I was so excited
to have the chance to see James
Taylor on Cedar Crest’s campus!
So you can imagine my disappointment when I watched a man
who was not James Taylor take to
the stage. He humbly introduced
himself as Dave Binder. Perhaps he
was the opening act.
However, instead of singing,
Binder told a story about Taylor,
who observed an old man walk past
his house every day. Just as I found
myself wondering what the relevance could possibly be, Binder
launched into “Walking Man” one
of Taylor’s biggest hits. Binder did
not disappoint.
His voice was eerily similar to
Taylor’s, and he executed the difficult chords with ease. Although I
was still disappointed, I could not
help but be impressed.
“Everybody loves James Taylor if they know him,” Binder explained as he spoke about Taylor’s
diverse group of fans from many
generations. The universality of his
music is what made it the perfect
topic of a concert for Cedar Crest’s
Fall Family Weekend.
As Binder played Taylor’s
songs, he inserted biographical information about “James.” Binder
focused on the first forty years of
Taylor’s life, and the first twenty
years of his musical career.
Binder kept the audience entertained with the introduction of his
music equipment, including a drum
machine named “Fred” and a vocal
harmonizer. With these machines,
Binder accurately performed Taylor’s difficult music.
Even when “Fred” malfunctioned during “Copper Line” Binder
continued on with what turned into
a unique acoustic rendition that
sounded even purer than the original version.
Binder told the audience about
Taylor’s life which hopped from
love to drugs to music just like Taylor hopped from New York to London to the ever famous Mexico.
Dave had the audience of all
ages clapping and singing and
swaying and snapping. And boy, did
he get them laughing! Binder had
the audience rolling with his explanation of “Mexico.” The interpretation can be assumed accurate as it
formed two of his songs which
were surprisingly unique and
separate from the Taylor style
he recreates so well. Binder’s
music had a much more soulful characteristic to it, and sat
lower in his vocal range.
However, one thing that
stayed the same was the complex but never overwhelming
guitar parts, which he executed
flawlessly.
Binder left the audience
with a medley he had compiled
known as “Songs You Thought
James Taylor Wrote But he
Really Didn’t,” which included “On the Roof,” “A
www.davebinder.com Love Like Yours,” and the always heart-warming, “You’ve
Got a Friend.”
came straight from Livingston TayI entered the concert expecting
lor, James’s brother who Binder acJames Taylor, and I left knowing
tually toured with.
Dave, himself, as it turns out is that although it was Binder on that
quite the accomplished musician. stage, his respect for Taylor as a perHe began playing guitar at the age son and musician had opened my
of 7, and at 10, he wrote his first eyes to more than I would have ever
song; “Happy Song” which was seen in a James Taylor performance.
Binder was able to deliver a
performed upon request.
Binder received his bachelor’s bibliographic, comedic, and truly
degree from the University Of Low- beautiful performance that would
ell School Of Music and an Hon- make James Taylor proud.
Don’t worry if you missed
orary Doctorate in Musical
Binder’s
performance at Cedar
Philosophy from St. Lawrence University. Binder has been performing Crest. You can check out his webat college campuses for almost 30 site for his tour schedule and for
videos and music from his third
years.
Before leaving, Binder per- album, “Plum Summer.”
Rumors Are Dangerous
Emmalee Lesko
STAFF WRITER
Scandals, backstabbers, lies,
and love: four words that can make
you or break you. For eighteen year
old Elizabeth Holland and her sister
Diana, that is all they are known for,
besides being the princesses of
Manhattan.
In Anna Godbersen’s latest
novel, Rumors: A Luxe Novel, and
sequel to The Luxe, it is all you read
and more. The books based in Manhattan upper society in 1899, are
just like reading Gossip Girl, but a
little more “old-school.”
Still as much of an on-theedge-of-your-seat read, the books
show a different society than what
modern girls are used to. While we
have a strange idea that the “old
days” consisted of classy, boring
women, these novels give a whole
new name to scandalous bad girls.
In Godbersen’s first book, The
Luxe, we meet Elizabeth, who fakes
her own death to be with her families coachman Will Keller, who she
is unbelievably in love with--a
“Romeo and Juliet” fairytale story.
It starts with her mother giving her the ultimatum, after her
father dies, of
love or fortune.
Elizabeth is engaged to a young
man
named
Henry Schoonmaker, the most
notable bachelor
in
Manhattan,
and fabulously
wealthy.
It is an
arranged marriage and she
does not love
him. What do you
think she will
choose? A life of
luxury and riches
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or a life with the man she loves? It is
definitely clear as to her decision, as
it would be to most girls: love.
The novel gives way to set up
for the sequel, Rumors: A Luxe
Novel. In the second of the two,
even more fun resides with the return of Manhattan’s notable women.
With Elizabeth gone, it is up to her
sister, Diana to rule as Manhattan’s
princess, and biggest mischief
maker.
Diana falls in love with Henry
Schoonmaker, and while he still has
a flame for Elizabeth, gets himself
into trouble with Diana. While
everything could be perfect, a life of
wealth, society greatness, and
beauty, things don’t go the way they
should.
No story is complete without
the perfect villain. This villain being
Elizabeth’s “frenemy” Penelope
Hayes. Penelope hates Elizabeth,
and her sister as well, and has a secret that she could let slip and be the
downfall to both Henry and Diana.
I’m not going to give away the
entire book, but with rumors, betraying friends, and other societal
no-no’s, things get pretty interesting
for New York’s most prominent females.
For all the girls out there who
enjoy good gossip and scandal,
these are the novels to read. So pick
up the books and get into the classy
life of lies and rumors.
TINSELTOWN
“Betsy Skotch”
So, just in case you aren’t sick
of Yankees pitcher Alex Rodriguez
yet, after this past summer’s nonsense with him and Madonna that
was all over the news every day,
here’s more.
Apparently, he felt the need to
flaunt his money over lunch the
other day, when he used a 100 dollar bill to wipe his face. Which is
awesome, because, I mean, why
wouldn’t you use a 100 dollar bill?
While Angelina Jolie and
Brad Pitt are donating millions of
dollars to various third world countries, Drew Barrymore is donating
and helping out in Africa, and my
personal favorite power-couple
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are
donating millions to starving kids,
good ole’ A-Rod is using his cash to
wipe his face. Way to be a humanitarian, buddy.
Alright Hills fans! For anyone
out there that is absolutely in love
with Brody Jenner - and why
wouldn’t you be? - I’m notsosorry
to say that he his off the market!
According to In Touch Weekly,
the best source in the world, Jenner
has found “the one!” And, are you
ready for this?, “the one” is none
other than 22-year-old Playboy
Playmate Jayde Nicole.
Really, what is better than
Playboy Brody Jenner dating a
Playmate? I have a feeling that there
are going to be some good times
ahead... and maybe even a sex tape
to rival that of Jenner’s bud, Lauren Conrad!
Good news for Amy Winehouse fans. Apparently, she has
been approached by the Church of
Scientology who have offered to
help her become… not a trainwreck
anymore.
Amy would be treated through
the Church's Narconon rehabilitation program, which utilizes the
methods put forth by L. Ron Hubbard.
Which is all well and good and
everything, but if Amy goes and
gets healed by Tom Cruise and
friends, who the heck am I going to
write about? Cuz, Britney Spears
has been cleaning up her act, since
becoming a lesbian LiLo’s been a
good girl, and really, there are only
so many trainwrecks out there! Oh
well, I guess I’ll have to begin relying on Miley Cyrus to really run
wild.
Or, maybe I’ll just have to turn
this into a political gossip column
and begin ripping on Sarah Palin,
Tina Fey style… because that is always an option. That woman and
her anecdotes are enough to keep
any gossip columnist in business…
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Pass it around:
Donavon Frankenreiter
Dannah Hartman
STAFF WRITER
His songs are often featured in
commercials, both “Life Love &
Laughter” and “Free” are featured
in Hilton Hotel commercials and
“Free” is also used in a Zappos
Shoes commercial, however Donavon Frankenreiter remains a somewhat unknown musician.
With a laid-back yet vibrant
style similar to musician and longtime friend Jack Johnson, Frankenreiter’s music can be considered
alternative rock. His lyrics are
thoughtful and optimistic, accompanied by his soulful, upbeat sound.
Frankenreiter has released
three albums so far, his first being
2004’s
self-titled
Donavon
Frankenreiter. The album was produced with the help of Johnson, and
released by Universal Records. Popular songs on the album include “It
Don’t Matter,” “Free,” “Our
Love,”,and “What’cha Know
About.”
His second album, the self-produced Move By Yourself was released in 2006 by Lost Highway
Records. Frankenreiter has said of
his sophomore album, “The second
one I did myself and it definitely
had direction I felt great about.”
His newest CD, was released
Aug. 19 of this year is entitled Pass
It Around. On his website, donavonf.com, Frankenreiter explains
that “on Pass It Around, I definitely
had a lot of ideas and it was fun putting trust in other people.” One of
those people was Grammy Award
winning producer Joe Chiccarelli,
who has in the past worked with
several musicians from Frank
Zappa to My Morning Jacket.
In addition to enlisting a new
producer, Frankenreiter has two of
his friends and fellow musicians,
Ben Harper and G.Love appear on
the album. Certainly pleased with
the new CD, Frankenreiter calls it
“the best body of work I’ve done.”
Not only is Frankenreiter an
accomplished musician, he is also a
professional surfer who has traveled
and continues to travel to some of
the most remote places on the globe.
Sponsored by several companies including Surf Rx, Billabong, Sanuk
and Von Zipper, Frankenreiter is
well-known in the surfing world
from his appearances in the Drive
Thru surf videos.
In addition to his music and
surfing careers, Donavon Frankenreiter is also a husband to his wife
Petra and father to his two sons,
Hendrix and Ozzy. In an interview
with The San Diego Union Tribune,
Frankenreiter explains that his wife
Petra was the one who encouraged
Living a
Pirate’s Life
Jocelyn Ludwig
STAFF WRITER
Yo ho, yo ho a pirate’s life for
me! Right now until Nov. 2 the
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
has the special exhibit “Real Pirates.” This special exhibit tells the
tale of the Whydah Pirate ship of
1717 that was sunk off of Cape Cod.
This is the only verified pirate
ship that has been found. It was
Barry Clifford who played out his
dream in 1984 from tales that his
grandfather had told him.
The exhibit is vast and has over
200 artifacts that were recovered
and takes about forty five minutes
to walk through. The concept of this
exhibit is a great one considering all
the hype with pirates these days.
However, it was slightly disappointing. Most things about pirates
are fabricated through media and
movies, but it was definitely apparent in this exhibit that these things
were a myth because they told you
the real truth to all the hype about
pirates.
Although, there were 200 artifacts in the exhibit it was not
enough to fill the large space. They
did a very good job though of setting the exhibit up, at times they recreated parts of the ship so you
could feel what it was like to be on
a pirate ship back in the day.
There are a lot of hands on activities that even further your experience of being a pirate. It is very
educational and it really shows you
the truth about pirates.
They should be congratulated
on the fact that they included
women in their pirate history! You
will learn about actual women pirates and what their duties were.
This was a good exhibit do not get
me wrong. It felt like something
was missing or that there could have
been more.
It is the Franklin Institute so
there is still a lot to do and see other
than this exhibit! Either way, you
should still check it out, because it is
a great opportunity to learn the truth
about history.
him to pursue a career in music.
He explains, “I’d sit around the
living room here and play her songs
on acoustic guitar and she’d say,
“You gotta get out there and sing!”
His eternal love for his family
is obvious through several of his
songs, especially “Call Me Papa.”
The chorus of the slow, emotional
song is directed to his children exclaiming “You can call me papa/and
I’ll call you baby/don’t forget your
mama’s my, baby too/wherever you
go, whatever you do/I will be there,
be there for you.”
From his touching, positive
lyrics to his cheerful sound, Donavon Frankenreiter’s zealous attitude toward life is best captured
through his music. All three of his
albums are available on iTunes, as
well as his website donavonf.com.
Donavon Frankenreiter is currently on a world tour and will be
performing at the Theater of Living
Arts in Philadelphia on Oct.24th.
www.starpulse.com
THE SOUND
BOOTH
Gavin Degraw: An anthem
for young love
Allie Scott
STAFF WRITER
It’s been five years since we
have heard from Gavin Degraw and
quietly released this year, Gavin Degraw’s second album simply titled,
Gavin Degraw, is nothing short of
simple.
From songs about falling in
love with a girl from the minute he
met her, to realizing he is being
cheated on, Degraw’s songs are
easy and enjoyable listening and are
extremely relatable.
The first single off the album
I’m in Love with a Girl, is a pianoguitar-pop-infested tune that will
be sure to have you singing along in
no time. The video was released a
few months ago as well with MTV’s
Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari
who plays Degraw’s love interest as
they run around in a department
store dodging the security cameras
and guards.
The song titled, “We Belong
Together,” was on the soundtrack
for the movie Tristan and Isolde
which was released in 2006. This
love ballad is filled with complicated lyrics surely lets us know that,
“What
good
is
a
life, with no one to share it with.”
The song, “Cheated on Me”
simply stated, is for all you cheat
victims out there. The tune is about
not being able to trust someone after
you have been cheated on.
The lyrics, say “And maybe I
suspect too much/ but this is hard
for me to trust/ When I'm all wound
up inside/ I just drive you often into
someone else's eyes/ someone else's
arms, someone else's obvious
moves/ I'm a jealous guy.” Wow…
need I say more?
A personal favorite, “Young
love” is about tough teenage romance and all its glories. All the I
love you’s that you wish you never
said were because you never knew
what those words meant in the first
place. Yes, this song is about that
lovely little chapter in your life.
Not only is this album enjoyable, is it just as amazing as his first
album. Gavin Degraw sure knows
how to lay it on the line and tell you
relatable tales that will wonder your
ears.
Calendar
Thursday, October 9
Secret Universe, photographs by
Mary Allessio Leck. Ambre studio 310 W. Broad St., Bethlehem. Time: Wed-Fri 10am-5pm
The exhibit runs until Nov. 14,
2008.
Haunted Mini Glow Golf,
golf in the dark with glow balls
and creatures of the night.
Dorney Square Miniature Golf
3120 Hamilton Boulevard,
Allentown. Times: Fri. and Sat.:
7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. (ends Nov.
2), Sun.: 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
(ends Nov. 2); $7, $6 children
(Fri. and Sat.); $6, $5 children
(Sun.)
Friday, October 10
A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen
Diamond Theater, Zoellner Arts
Center, Lehigh University 420
East Packer Avenue, Bethlehem.
Time: 8 p.m.; $12/ $5 LU Students.
Mike Birbiglia Zellerbach
Theatre, Philadelphia. Time: 8
p.m.; buy tickets online or call
(215) 898-3900.
Left Spine Down with Bella
Morte. Cyber-Punk quintet performs. The Sterling Hotel 343
Hamilton St, Allentown. Time:
7 p.m.
Saturday, October 11
Just Desserts Festival
Stroll along enjoying live entertainment and sampling over 30
desserts.Third and Fourth
streets, Bethlehem. www.bethlehempa.org. Time: 6 p.m. - 9
p.m.; $10 for unlimited desserts
or $1 per sample.
Sunday, October 12
Halloween Cabaret
Dress in costume for an evening
of singing and dancing of songs
of the season by the Broadway
Rhythms Dance Company.
www.broadwayrhythmsdanceco.com. Third Street Alliance 41 N. Third St., Easton.
Time: 7 p.m.; $15
Friday, October 17
Graeme Base, Author Visit
Graeme Base, author/illustrator
of award-winning picture books,
will do a Q&A presentation and
a book signing of his newest
book, "Enigma: a Magical Mystery." Parkland Community Library 4422 Walbert Avenue,
Allentown. Time: 3:30-4:30
p.m.; Free.
Saturday, October 18
Rock The Fall featuring
Cracker, Everclear & Soul Asylum at Blue Mountain Ski Area,
1660 Blue Mountain Drive,
Palmerton, PA. 610-826-7700
Time: 7:00 p.m.; $30
Real Pirates: The Untold
Story of the Whydah from Slave
Ship to Pirate Ship. Tells the
story of the Whydah, the first
fully authenticated pirate ship to
be discovered in American waters. www.piratesexhibit.com or
www.fi.edu. Franklin Institute
Science Museum 222 N. 20th
St., Philadelphia. Open daily
(ends November 2); $23.25
Tuesday, October 21
Swing Jam. Godfrey Daniels
7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem
Time: 8 p.m.; Free.
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12SPORTS
www.cedarcrest.edu/crestiad
The Mane Event
Elizabeth Kern
STAFF WRITER
The Equestrian Team works
hard at what they do because they
love what they do. But what’s different about Equestrian from other
sports is that their other “teammate” is large, hairy, and has a
mind of its own.
Sometimes their horses don’t
always do what they want them to
do which results in a number of injuries.
“Last year alone I dislocated
my shoulder, tore both calf muscles
in one leg and fractured my leg,”
said sophomore co-captain Sarah
Worden.
However some injuries have a
much more entertaining factor,
such as Jackie Tuttle’s experience
when she forgot to tighten the girth,
which is a piece of equipment that
helps keep the saddle in place, and
got up and fell right off the other
side. “It was hilarious!” said junior
social work major Tuttle.
Both riders mentioned that
they have never hesitated to get
back on a horse, no matter the
severity of the injury.
Equestrian isn’t just about in-
jury it’s about “having fun, getting
and staying in shape, and showing,” says Worden. She adds, “We
have a great team this year with a
lot of different personalities including two life long learners.”
The team has lessons “at ‘the
Barn’.” mentioned Linda Syers.
The Barn Equestrian Center is located in Wind Gap, PA. “Personally
I ride once a week. Some of the
other girls ride two times a week.”
Riding schedules are different
for everyone due to class schedules. Lessons run “about two hours
total, half hour to tack up (get your
horse groomed and saddled and
bridled) an hour actually riding,
and another ½ hour to 45 minutes
to cool our horse down and untack,” Tuttle said.
Their first show was on September 27 and everyone placed.
Co-captains Worden and Amanda
Anderson placed 1st and 2nd, respectfully, while Tuttle placed 5th
and Syers placed 6th. To see the
full results visit the teams page
through the athletics page.
The team competes against
other schools in the area such as,
Rutgers, Lehigh, Bloomsburg, East
Stroudsburg, Wilkes and Kutz-
October 9, 2008
Photo of the week.
town.
Although these girls love their
horses most of them do not own
their own horses, except Worden
who is currently looking for someone to buy one of them, Sandy.
Everyone’s responses as to
why they started riding were the
same; they all love horses. For
Syers, “I just always loved horses
and luckily my parents allowed me
to pursue it.”
The experience was a little different for Worden. “Riding is a big
sport in my hometown and from
the time I saw a horse I was
hooked. My best friend owned
thirty some odd horses and ponies
and her mom owned a pony ride
business. We have been riding ever
since we could walk.”
As for Tuttle, “It is such an
amazing feeling when you know
you and your horse are in sync and
your ride is so smooth and you just
know you look great and you feel
amazing.”
The Equestrian team isn’t just
about braiding tails and horsing
around; they are about hard work
and dedication to something they
love. Come out to support the team
at their next show on October 12.
Alexandria Kuebler
Courtesy| Kelly Gonzalez
Sophomore tennis player Alexandria Kuebler, was named the Colonial States
Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week for her outstanding play in the week
ending September 28. Kuebler went 4-0 on the week with two wins at the No. 2
singles spot and two wins at the No. 1 doubles slot.
April Johnson
Athlete of the Week
Hauna Colista
STAFF WRITER
Courtesy | Jackie Tuttle
The Equestrian team gets together for a group photo after a victorious horse show.
Protect the nest by supporting our Falcon athletes!
Thursday, October 9
Saturday, October 18
Monday, October 20
Tennis
vs. Rosemont College
3:30 p.m.
Cross Country
Women’s 5K Classic
9 a.m.
Field Hockey
vs. College of Notre Dame
4 p.m.
Volleyball
vs. FDU Madison
7 p.m.
Tennis
vs. Rosemont College
3:30 p.m.
Soccer
vs. Gwynedd-Mercy College
4 p.m.
Saturday, October 11
Volleyball
vs. Immaculata University
1 p.m.
Volleyball
vs. Valley Fordge Christian
College
7 p.m.
Soccer
vs. Immaculata University
1 p.m.
Tennis
vs. College of Notre Dame
3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 15
Soccer
vs. Keystone College
4 p.m.
Field Hockey
vs. Cabrini College
1 p.m.
Soccer
vs. College of Notre Dame
3 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22
Soccer
vs. Valley Fordge Christian
College
4 p.m.
April Johnson, Freshman
Forensic Science major, is Cedar
Crest College’s only soccer goalie
and the Athlete of the Week, AOW,
for the week ending Sept. 30th.
April Johnson was ranked
fifth in the country as of Sept. 30th
with an average of 18.6 saves per
game. It was her exceptional goalkeeping in the game against Marywood University, with a total of 25
saves, which got her AOW. “I was
mentally prepared for the game,”
says Johnson. She explains that
the saves she made that day were
not typical saves so she had to
work really hard to keep the ball
out of the goal.
Current as of Oct. 1st, she was
ranked third in the country with a
total of 127 saves. In addition to
moving up two more ranks, she
went to an average of 18.6 saves to
and outstanding 19.2 saves a game.
Johnson, who has been playing soccer for thirteen years, was
not even expecting to play goalie
when she initially decided to join
the team. “Coach just walked up to
me one day and asked ‘Hey April,
want to be in goal’ and I have been
there ever since.” It was the first
time she had been in goal for two
years and she was a little apprehensive but it has turned out for the
best.
Johnson expresses that “soccer is my life” but when she came
to Cedar Crest College she was a
little more than intimidated. “College soccer is a lot more hardcore.
The skill level is night and day. I
was really intimidated at first. It
was one of the scariest things I’ve
done.”
“Since she came in as a freshman she has stepped up and made
a name for herself at the college
level,” despite her initial fears says
Tatiana Ballreich, Sophomore Biochemistry major and Mid-fielder
for the team. “April has a really
positive attitude in all her games.
She’s a team player and since we
have such a small team, it’s really
important.”
The soccer team has had a
rough season. With an almost nonexistent team earlier this semester
to a nationally ranked goalie, the
team has had many up and downs.
“We have overcome a lot. We
have had no subs all year and
everyone gives their all, it’s all we
can really do.”
She says that receiving AOW
will not make her slack off but
only work harder. “Being AOW
has made me really step it up. I fell
like I have something to live up
to.” She has lived up to her promise. It was in a game against DeSales after she received AOW that
she made 35 saves and, as she puts
it, “Played the game of my life”.
To support the team and
watch Johnson’s intense skills in
the net, come watch the team’s
next game. The soccer team’s next
match is Saturday at home against
Immaculata University.