UHS ups efficiency

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UHS ups efficiency

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Volume 136, Number 7
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Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Age of Obama
invites discussion
By Rebecca Leber
Managing Editor
Last Thursday, Kalilah
Brown-Dean, the Peter
Strauss family assistant professor of political science and
African-American studies at
Yale University, addressed
the salience of identity in
the 2008 elections at the inaugural “Two Icons” lecture.
The lecture was sponsored
by the Frederick Douglass
Institute and the Susan B.
Anthony Institute for gender
and women’s studies.
Professor of Political
Science Valeria Sinclair
Chapman said when she
introduced Brown-Dean at
the start of the lecture that
Rochester — famous for suffragist Frederick Douglass
and women’s rights activist
Susan B. Anthony — is not
unfamiliar with the issues of
race and gender.
Brown-Dean began by
placing the 2008 elections
into a historical framework
of gender and racial inequality in a year that celebrated
the 55th anniversary of
Brown vs. Board of Education.
“It is a premature argument that we are post identity politics,” Brown-Dean
said. “Obama can’t change
in eight years what the country has cultivated in [over a
century].”
Instead, she argued that
intersections of identity and
their cleavages still exist
today. Brown-Dean spoke
of two cleavages: linked
fate — a notion that the
fate of an individual is tied
to the group’s — and party
capture — the idea that the
Democrats are a party of
minorities. However, BrownDean challenged the validity
of both conceptions. Linked
fate would imply that African
Americans vote as a block,
an assumption Brown-Dean
questioned, citing that early
during the primary race, the
black community was split
between Hillary Clinton and
Barack Obama.
“We don’t live in neat,
separate categories,” BrownDean said.
Both parties were affected by party capture in
the past, the Democrats have
See RACE, Page 5 to
Campus Times File Photo
Following the injuryof Senior Lab engineer Sam Roberts,
the Labratory of Laser Energetics underwent investigation.
UR lab fined for
safety violations
By Dana Hilfinger
Editor-in-Chief
Less than a month after
the initial violations were
issued, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration and the University
have come to a potential
agreement over the University’s liability regarding an
accident in the Laboratory
for Laser Energetics in August of last year.
UR expects to receive
four citations and a fine of
$25,200, barring approval of
the agreement by an OSHA
review committee in the next
60 days.
“The University went to
great lengths to determine
the cause of accident and
help with our investigation,”
OSHA Assistant Regional
Director Mike Scime said.
“They are continuing to
work hard to make sure this
doesn’t happen in the future,
which is not something we
can say of all the companies
we work with.”
The most substantial violation was from the general
duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act
of 1970, which faults the
employer for not furnishing
the workplace free of hazards
that could cause serious
harm or death.
Last August, senior lab engineer Sam Roberts was seriously injured when, while he
was servicing the pressurized diagnostic device of the
Laser Lab’s OMEGA laser,
the part exploded. Roberts
See ACCIDENT, Page 5
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The River Campus is reaping the benefits of the University Health Service building. Many
UR undergraduates no longer have to travel to Strong Memorial Hospital for treatment.
UHS ups efficiency
Services consolidated at new location
By erin philbrick
Senior Staff Writer
After approximately six
months of student use, the
newly constructed University Health Service building
is bringing in a multitude of
benefits for the UR community. As a result of the new
building, more services are
available to students on the
River Campus, and UHS now
has a lower operating cost.
The University Counseling
Center in particular has
proved more accessible to
students, resulting in higher
volumes of patients.
While the new building
has provided many advantages, UHS still has a few
problems, most notably, it is
currently short two primary
care physicians.
Benefits of new building
According to Director of
UHS Ralph Manchester,
M.D., everyone at UHS is
very happy with the new
building and the collaborative nature that the space
facilitates.
“Before the new building,
we were providing services
from five different sites that
are now consolidated here,”
Manchester said. “That gives
us a much better chance to
interact with the Counseling
Center staff and Counseling
Center staff with medical
staff. If we’re seeing a student on the first floor who’s
really upset about what’s
happening, we can just take
them upstairs, and they can
be seen.”
He also noted that there
is much greater opportunity
for staff from both UCC and
UHS to interact with the
Health Promotions Office,
previously located in Anderson Tower.
In addition to increased
collaboration between staff,
the new building provides
greater convenience to undergraduates.
“It’s put us in a much
better position to serve the
needs of River Campus-based
students and faculty and
staff,” Manchester said.
Previously, approximately
50 percent of students traveled to the Medical Center
for appointments.
In addition to the greater
number of appointments
on the River Campus, UHS
is able to provide additional
medical services in the new
building.
While the office in Susan
B. Anthony Residence Halls
provided limited ability to
draw blood, there is now
a laboratory technician on
the River Campus from
Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. There is also
an on-site electrocardiogram, which has the ability
See UHS, Page 4
Bradley Halpern • Photography Editor
Homeless for the homeless
Members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity bundled up in the cold behind boxes in front of
Wilson Commons last weekend and managed to raise over $1,000 for the homeless.
By soaiful Islam
Staff Writer
UR is introducing ePAY,
an online payment option,
for the first time to all
full-time and part-time UR
undergraduate and graduate
students at the College of
Arts, Sciences and Engineering, the Warner School of
Education, Eastman School
of Music, School of Nursing
and the School of Medicine
and Dentistry.
“We are hopeful that with
the implementation of UR
ePAY, the Bursar Office will
be able to streamline their
day-to-day business services
yet improve customer satisfaction and services to the
UR community,” Bursar’s
Office staff member Karen
Gorton said.
Through the online payment option, students will be
able to see their monthly bill
at all times from any Internet connection. Unlimited
copies of the information
that is viewed online can
be printed, and students
can save the copies of their
statement or send portable
document format copies to
their e-mails.
An additional feature of
the payment option includes
viewing up to one year’s
worth of monthly student
financial statements. Students will be able to see the
payments posted in their
student accounts within 24
hours of the transaction.
Students will also receive a
reminder to pay their bills on
time so that they can avoid
late fees. Only authorized
personnel have access to the
account information, and the
documents are made secure
and will remain confidential.
The ePAY program will also
avoid the issues of costly
mail delays.
Measures were taken to
ensure that ePAY was made
secure. In light of the recent
apprehension of 450 student’s social security numbers, the University pressed
for computer safety efforts.
University Information
Technology corroborated
with Blackboard personnel
to ensure a safe link to the
vendor’s Web site.
To make access easier,
ePAY has been added to the
Blackboard portal. Students
can now view their ePAY by
logging on to Blackboard
without having to go to another Web page to log in.
Authorized persons such
as parents, guardians, employers and other specified
See ONLINE, Page 5
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Five-Day Forecast
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Warming up, with partly cloudy
skies throughout the day.
High 44, Low 36.
Showers throughout the day.
Chance of precipitation: 50%.
High 51, Low 36.
Light rain turning into freezing
rain later in the day.
High 45, Low 32.
Rain.
High 50, Low 37.
Rain, turning into snow.
High 39, Low 30.
This Week on Campus
FRIDAY
MARCH 6
harvard historian on douglass and lincoln
4:30 P.M. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
John Stauffer is a professor of English and African-American studies as well as
the chair of the history of American civilization department at Harvard University. He is an award-winning author for his book “The Black Hearts of men:
Radical Abolitionists and Transformation of Race,” published in 2002.
saturday
MARCH 7
¡Soy Única! ¡Soy Latina! Rally
Bradley Halpern • Photography Editor
8:30 a.M. River Campus
UR and Latinas Unidas sponsors this program created for Latinas ages seven to
18 to boost self-esteem, encourage education and career options, and promote
healthy life choices. Transportation is provided from City Hall to the River Campus starting at 7:45 a.m. and looping every half hour.
RAAS Show Rocks Hirst Lounge
The Rochester Community and UR students came together to spend Saturday evening at “Tundraas,” a
program sponsored by Raas and ADITI that taught members of the community Indian styles of dance.
WEdnesday
Security Update
Dramatic altercation breaks out
following a party at the Drama House
11:30 A.m - 1 p.m. Hirst Lounge, Wilson Commons
Enjoy Indian cuisine at this monthly celebration for students, faculty and staff,
sponsored by the Student Activities Office. Lunch is either $7.41 in cash, URos or
Declining or one Club meal plus $1.49 Declining, Flex or Cash.
By Jerome Nathaniel
News Editor
According to Director of Security
Walter Mauldin, the two people got
into an altercation at the Drama
House on early Sunday morning
March 1.
Two separate Security reports
were filed following the a party at
the Drama House.
The first report was filed by
a non-UR student. The visitor
claimed that a UR student approached her and began to yell at
her without reason. The argument
resumed outside of the Drama
House. According to the visitor,
when she got into her car to drive
away, the student broke her passenger mirror.
Minutes later, UR Security responded to a report outside of the
Riverview complex. The student
who was accused of breaking the
visitor’s passenger mirror claimed
that the visitor drove on the sidewalk and struck the side of her body,
leading to the car’s damages.
The student filed Security and
police reports and requested to be
transported to the emergency room
by Security.
Security reviewed UR’s Closed
Circuit Television surveillance
cameras and spotted the car involved in the incident, but did not
see the car drive away from the
sidewalk at any point.
Internally, the issue is being
dealt by the Dean of Students
Office. The UR student and her
friends were involved in incidents
last semester.
The theft took place around the
area between Hutchison Road and
Trustee Road.
A CCTV camera spotted a pickup truck in the premises around the
time of the theft. However, Mauldin
said that Security is still unsure as
to whether or not the truck has
anything to do with the crime.
The dispatcher was able to
capture the license plate of the
pick-up truck. The Rochester Police
Department has since been notified
and given the plate numbers.
Credit card thief charges
$1,000 to UR student’s card
A UR undergraduate reported
an unauthorized $1,000 charge to
his credit card at a Macy’s outside
the Rochester area.
According to Mauldin, the student’s credit card information was
obtained by an unknown suspect
by unknown means.
Following knowledge of the
charges, the student contacted his
Suspicious man claims to be
a “Jersey Boy” cast member
An unknown suspect told an
Eastman desk worker that he was
a “Jersey Boy” cast member before
abruptly leaving the premises when
he spotted security cameras in the
building.
The suspect attempted to enter
the locked Eastman Common
building before being let in by the
desk worker. He was told to sign a
sheet and provide ID.
According to Mauldin, the suspect quickly left the scene upon
noticing surveillance cameras.
The suspect left the scene before
police or Security arrived.
Nathaniel is a member of
the class of 2011.
Information provided
by UR Security.
WIlson COmmons Wednesdays
Friday
MARCH 20
Club Rochester
4 p.m.- 6 P.M. Salon D, Meliora
Eat, relax and meet up with faculty, staff and students at this monthly happy hour.
Low cost sodas and alcohol for those 21 and over will be provided, in addition
to other free appetizers.
23rd-annual Viennese Ball
9 p.m.- 12 A.m. Off Campus
A UR tradition, this evening formal will take place at the Harro East Ballroom
on 155 North Chestnut Street. The evening will feature dancing and live music
in an elegant setting. Tickets go on sale today in the Common Market in Wilson
Commons and cost $15 for UR undergraduates, $18 for UR community and $20
at the door.
Saturday
MARCH 21
Celtic’s Annual Post Patty’s Day Show
8 - 10 P.M. May Room, Wilson Commons
Celtic spirit is the hallmarks of this celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Tickets are available at Wilson Commons and are $3 for undergraduates and $5 at the door.
Please e-mail calendar submissions to
[email protected].
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Features Editors marley schneier nandini venkateswaran
A&E editors willie clark
Meg Healy
Riverview Complex
Parking lot meter heads a
constant target
In what appears to be a repeating
occurrence, three parking meter
heads were decapitated on Saturday, Feb. 28 between 3:20 a.m. and
10:20 a.m. This is the third instance
in the past two months.
According to Mauldin, each meter head is worth $1,000.
credit card company and canceled
his card. With the help of his credit
card company, the student plans on
filing a report with the police.
MARCH 18
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CORRECTIONS:
In last week’s article about Senator Charles Schumer’s presentation, his taxing policies were misinterpreted.
Families making $180,000 will receive a progressive tax credit, rather than a flat $2,500 credit.
NEWS
This Week on Campus
United Way announces fund-raising
UR joins rally for
Fair Share Tax reform
With UR President Joel Seligman
and other community leaders in attendance, President of the Greater
Rochester United Way Peter Carpino announced the kick-off of the
annual United Way fund-raising
campaign Tuesday at a press conference in the May Room of Wilson
Commons.
The annual campaign is expected
to target advocacy and volunteer
work and fund-raising.
According to Director of the
Rochester Center for Community Leadership Glen Cerosaletti,
280,000 hours of volunteer work
and a fund-raising goal of $28 million were objectives outlined by
Carpino in the press conference.
The campaign will conclude roughly
at the end of the school year.
Human resources will work
closely with the United Way Campaign to help reach fund-raising
targets.
Faculty and staff at UR have the
opportunity to deduct money from
their pay checks to go directly to
the United Way.
Conor Willis is a member of
the class of 2011.
UR students will join members
of the Rochester community today
in support of Rally for Fair Share
Tax Reform, an initiative created
in protest of New York State Governor David Paterson’s budget cuts
and taxes.
Paterson’s new budget will cut
monetary spending on education,
child health, human services and
criminal defense. Outraged New
Yorkers started the Fair Share Tax
Reform, which calls for higher New
York State personal income taxes
on those who make more than
$250,000 a year.
During the weeks leading up
to the event, senior Mariam Mull
encouraged UR students to sign
an oath not to use iTunes or Coke
on March 5. The oath was made
in light of Governor Paterson’s
inclusion of a tax on soft drinks and
iTunes in his new budget.
The 5 - 6 p.m. protest at the
intersection of East Avenue and
East Main Street is one of several
rallies in support of the initiative
from Long Island to Buffalo.
Jerome Nathaniel is a member of
the class of 2011.
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Students for a Democratic Society
host panel on Palestine conflict
by Maya dukmasova
Staff Writer
Students and Rochester community members gathered in a
Dewey lecture hall for a panel
hosted by Students for a Democratic Society.
On Friday, Feb. 27, the UR branch
of SDS organized a discussion
panel called “Student Activism:
Peace and Justice for Palestine.”
Members of UR SDS, sophomore
Mara Chinelli and graduate student Ryan Acuff, teamed up with
socialist activist and writer Sherry
Wolf to talk about the ongoing
military occupation of Gaza and
the University’s reaction to the
conflict. SDS member and graduate
student Maynor Gonzalez moderated the talk.
Wolf was the first to talk. She
presented her strong views on the
history of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, the situation in Gaza
as it stands today, as well as her
experiences as a student activist
at Northwestern University in
the 1980s. “The ethnic cleansing
of Palestine is a logical ramification of a colonial settler state,”
Wolf said.
She proceeded to make parallels
between the Israeli actions in Gaza
and the apartheid policy practiced
by the South African government
in her days as a student. Some of
the actions called for by SDS have
included a divestment by the University from companies that profit
from the military occupation of
Gaza as well as the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
However, Wolf stressed that the
actions of the Israeli government
are not reflective of the views of
the larger Jewish population in
the world or in the United States.
Wolf argued that, coming from a
Jewish-American background, this
Maya dukmasova • Contributing Photographer
Graduate student Ryan Acuff, sophomore Mara Chinelli and socialist
activist Sherry Wolf discussed Palestinian peace initiatives in panel.
separation between Israeli govern- with veto power over the investment and Jewish people in general ment decisions made by the board
is crucial to her.
of trustees. The group has also
“The project of Zionism was al- requested for the University to
ways a minoritarian project inside contribute to humanitarian aid in
of the world’s Jewries,” she said.
Gaza, as well as provide scholar“Movements inspire other people ships for students from the affected
to do things,” Acuff added. He went Islamic University in Gaza.
on to explain the goals of SDS as
The remainder of the discussion
well as several collaborating or- was carried out as a questionganizations on campus and in the and-answer session between the
city of Rochester for developing panelists and audience. Several
a socially responsible investment questions were asked in regard
policy at the University.
to Wolf’s view of Israeli action as
Chinelli then went on to talk apartheid and ethnic cleansing to
about the meetings the group which she diligently and energetihad with Dean of Students Mat- cally responded. Wolf stood strong
thew Burns and Douglas Phillips, by her views and argued that Issenior vice president for institu- rael’s actions are unjustified.
tional resources at the University
Her overall advice for those in
Investment Office. According to the student body unsatisfied with
Chinelli, the administration has the action (or inaction) of the U.S.
thus far been hesitant in meeting government or of the University
the demands of the group put forth was to engage in active educational
at last month’s Goergen atrium campaigns in order to promote
Gaza sit-in.
solidarity.
SDS expressed their envisions
“Facts are stubborn things,” Wolf
of the creation of an investment said. “You cannot deny history.”
oversight committee made up of
Dukmasova is a member of
students and community members
the class of 2011.
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UHS: Health Services faces PCP shortage
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to do pulmonary function for
testing— a breathing test used
to diagnose and manage asthma
— and a physical therapist in the
building.
Beginning after spring break,
students who wish to work as
volunteers at Strong Memorial
Hospital will be able to receive
their required physical on the
River Campus instead of at the
Medical Center.
The new building has provided
financial benefits to UHS.
“The building didn’t cost quite as
much as the final budget suggested
it would,” Manchester said.
The building is also a “green
building,” which means its energy
efficiency allows for lower operating costs.
“Additionally, the counseling
center no longer needs two separate reception areas and record
rooms, and space on the River Campus is less expensive than space
in the Medical Center, and we’re
decreasing our space in the Medical
Center,” Manchester said.
UCC sees increase
in patients
The new visibility of the UHS
building has caused an increase
in student usage of individual and
couples counseling services.
Manchester noted that though
there hasn’t been a significant
change in the number of medical
visits, there has been an increase in
visits to the Counseling Center.
In fact, the center hired an
extra part-time staff member in
November in order to meet the
increased demand, and UHS is
looking to continue the higher
level of staffing next year but has
not yet determined how it is going
to do so.
In addition to the increased
convenience and privacy of UCC’s
new location in the UHS building,
patient volume has increased due
to increased awareness efforts
on campus. Broader canvassing
of students to do mental health
screenings in public locations,
such as tables at Wilson Commons,
has encouraged students to take
advantage of the services.
UCC has offered two screenings
so far this year, and both have
drawn many more students than
in previous years.
In October, UCC sponsored a
depression and other mood disorders screening in recognition of
National Depression Screening day,
when 130 students were screened
as opposed to 18 the previous year.
Therapists were available on site to
speak with students directly after
completing the screening.
Similarly, Active Minds and the
UHS Health Promotion Office
conducted a stress, self-care, body
image and eating screening in
February. Sixty-six students chose
to be screened, up from less than
10 last year.
“By getting as many students as
possible to participate in our mental
health screenings, we’re saying, as
a campus community, mental health
is an important issue and we are all
responsible for being informed and
for making it safe to acknowledge
mental health problems and to get
help,” UCC Outreach Coordinator
Dagmar Kaufmann said.
“[If] you are someone wondering
if you or a loved one has depression
or an eating disorder and you want
to find out, it might be really hard
to walk up to our UCC table all by
yourself to get screened — but if
there are lots of other people getting screened too, it will be easier
and a lot safer.”
In addition to an increase in use
of individual and couples counseling
services, there has been a rise in
the availability of group counseling services.
This year, there are two groups
designed for anyone who is an
undergraduate instead of the one
group previously offered. In addition, there is a new Gay Lesbian
Bisexual Trans gender group and
a grief group.
“Group is a very powerful, effective mode of treatment, especially
for students, because it is an opportunity to learn that they are not
alone in their struggles, to find a safe
space to talk to peers, to learn from
each other and to get support and
feedback,” Kaufmann said.
Primary care physician
Shortage
While the Counseling Center has
been able to increase staffing, the
medical staff is currently experienc-
An electrocardiogram, which monitors heart rates in time intervals, is
one of the newest pieces of equipment keeping UR students on campus.
ing a shortage. In August, one of
UHS’s primary care physicians left
to start her own private practice,
and, in January, another physician
retired, bringing the physician total
down from six to four among the
three patient sites — the River
Campus, the Medical Center and
the Eastman School of Music.
“There really hasn’t been much
change in waiting time for appointments because the remaining four
physicians increase their time, and
some of the nurse practitioners
increased their time, as well,”
Manchester said.
Waiting time has also remained
low because some of the nonstudent
patients decided to go elsewhere for
primary care after their physicians
left UHS.
Additionally, only physicians take
call duties for student emergencies
not during regular appointment
hours.
As a result, the remaining physicians are on call one-and-a-half
times more often than they were
with a full staff.
While a few applicants have interviewed for a position on UHS’s staff,
those who were offered spots chose
to take positions elsewhere.
“There are a couple of applicants
coming in for interviews this month,
and we’re hopeful one of them will
turn out to be a good fit for us,”
Manchester said.
Manchester believes that the
shortage UHS is experiencing is a
reflection of the national primary
care crisis.
“Now, not many medical students
are interested in going into the
primary care field,” Manchester
said. “Most of the ones who do go
into internal medicine decide to
specialize, so they don’t end up
doing primary care. There are so
many places looking for primary
care physicians that it’s not easy
for any one place to find the physicians it needs.”
Manchester doesn’t believe that
the lower salary UHS practitioners
receive has been a factor in deterring physicians from accepting the
position.
“The physician salaries here
are somewhat lower,” Manchester
said. “But the trade off is that
there is a guaranteed salary, there
is the opportunity to do teaching
and it is a less hectic patient care
schedule than in a private practice
setting.”
Currently, UHS also staffs six
nurse practitioners at the equivalent of three to four full-time
NPs.
However, Manchester is really
looking for physician replacements
rather than mid-level practitioners
— physician assistants and nurse
practitioners.
One reason is that, under New
York State law, nurse practitioners
need to have a collaborating physician agreement with a clear expectation that it’s a working partnership
between the physician and the nurse
practitioner.
“We want to have the right level of
physician staffing so that can exist
in reality and not just on a piece of
paper,” said Manchester.
“It’s also finding a balance between having more nurse practitioners who do get a lower salary and
therefore are more cost effective
versus having more physicians
who have significantly more years
of training and are in a better
position to be able to diagnose and
treat some of the more complicated
or less obvious things that even
college students do get from time
to time.”
Philbrick is a member of
the class of 2009.
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Along with the application, students must
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Applications are available in the Office of
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Laser: Safety assessed at Lab Race: Election transcends race, gender
was paralyzed as a result of the
accident and has spent the last six
months in an intensive rehabilitation program in New Jersey. On Feb.
23, after showing signs of improvement, he returned to Rochester to
continue his rehab at the Highlands
in Brighton, a University facility.
Following the accident, the Laser
Lab shut down for three weeks in
order to review its safety, reopening only after Laboratory Director
Robert McCrory recommended that
it was safe for operations to resume.
The facility’s 300 employees spent
a combined 35,000 hours inspecting the Laser Lab’s equipment
and examining safety procedures.
On Jan. 22, after conducting a
thorough inspection of the laboratory, OSHA cited the Laser Lab
for nine alleged serious safety
violations and proposed a fine of
$56,700.
A violation qualifies as “serious”
when death or extreme physical
harm is likely to result from hazards that the employer should be
aware of.
UR contested the violations on
Feb. 6. Two weeks later, OSHA
received a University-signed copy
of the resolution reached through
negotiations between the two entities that included only the four
citations and the $25,200 fine.
“These situations are always
negotiated and discussed,” Associate Vice President of Communications Larry Arbeiter said.
“It’s not unusual for things to be
recalibrated.”
Scime emphasized that it is not
necessarily the amount of the fine
that is important.
“The penalty portion is secondary,” he said. “What we’re really
looking for is to make sure that
there is corrective action.”
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the class of 2010.
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tried to weaken the image that
they are the party of minorities,
as Republicans have recently responded to this effect. For example
Republican National Committee
Chairman Michael Steele has created a new brand for the GOP with
a “hip-hop” makeover to appeal to
a younger urban base.
Another trend Brown-Dean
discussed was Obama’s raceneutral campaign. She said this
tactic is popular among black
candidates who are attempting to
appeal to a broader group. There
are consequences, though, such
as the alienation of the original
base — this even led some black
voters to support Clinton. However, she said a second, positive
consequence was Obama’s appeal
to the public, which transcended
identity cleavages.
Later, when Brown-Dean opened
to questions, she was asked her
opinion on whether Obama’s
mixed background affected Americans’ perception of his race. Her
answer: No, it didn’t.
To illustrate Obama’s ability to
cross races, Brown-Dean shared
her favorite photograph from the
elections: a picture of Obama with
a group, “Rednecks for Obama.”
She cited their support as a sign
of progress that policy issues rank
before traditional identity loyalties. She also compared Obama’s
de-emphasis of race to John F.
Kennedy’s speech on his religion,
Catholicism. Both may have been
part of their respective racial or
religious minority group, but they
claimed to recognize the challenges
facing the country.
Brown-Dean also discussed
successful women in politics who
have chosen not to act as victims
of gender inequality. Both Clinton
and Sarah Palin recognized and
confronted gender stereotypes
with aggressive rhetoric. She
praised the women for their ability
to avoid acting as victims of gender
inequality, a strategy Brown-Dean
Yale Professor Brown-Dean praised Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin for
not playing the gender card in the recent 2008 presidential election.
claimed would have only exacerbated the situation and would have
failed to address the intersection of
an identity’s many categories.
“It’s easy to focus on the obvious,” Brown-Dean said. “The challenge is to create space for reason
— it’s not about finger pointing.”
Near the end of her speech,
Brown-Dean looked to the future
by explaining policy implications
of the recent election. The future
of voting rights protection, she
argued, lies in the hands of the
Supreme Court justices, who will
hear a case on the preclearance
provisions of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 this year. The law currently has the Justice Department
review any changes to election law
in nine states with a history of
discrimination.
Brown-Dean acknowledged that
the election of Obama and the vice
presidential candidacy of Palin
shattered tradition. Yet she also
reminded the room that democratic
equality remains far from perfect,
even in the “Age of Obama.”
For example, last year, fliers
in Milwaukee discouraged black
voters from going to the polls,
threatening 10 years of prison for
voting.
“The strategy employed in the
2008 elections reminds us of the
need to have [Voting Rights Act]
protections,” Brown-Dean said.
At the conclusion of the lecture,
a mixed audience of students and
professors engaged Brown-Dean in
a discussion about the presentation.
"I thought it was really interesting how she discussed how race
and gender issues are still affecting
us, even after this past election,"
freshman Gina Gerhardt said. "I
also thought it was interesting how
she detailed the history of identity
politics in the US, and how they
have always shaped and influenced
our political system."
Leber is a member of
the class of 2011.
Online: Electronic bill exclusive in April
third parties can view the statement in order to make payments.
In order to give the authorization
for others to make the payments,
students need to sign up under the
“authorize payers” option.
E-mails will be sent to the authorized payers regarding eBill
announcements.
Further instructions to grant
access to the account to authorize
payers have been posted on the
Bursar Web site.
The process will enable students
and their parents to pay their bill
online using credit cards. Discover
Card, MasterCard and American
Express payments are subject to
a 2.75 percent convenience fee.
Students or the authorized payer
can also pay using eCheck.
By mid-March, when students
and parents are allowed to pay
online using the two-payment options (credit card and Echecks) the
Bursar’s Office will no longer accept
credit card payments on student
accounts at the office.
Staff members at the Bursar’s
office think that this will be a very
helpful initiative for both students
and parents, who will be able to pay
their bills more quickly.
“[ePAY is] flexible enough to fit
the busy daily schedules of both
parents,” Gorton said.
Even though there will be paper
and electronic bills for February
and March, starting in April only
electronic bills will be available for
students online.
Parents and students have been
requesting for the Bursar’s Office
to convert the payment option
from paper to online for the past
few years and this prompted the
change.
“We reviewed our current billing
and payment process and agreed
that we need to improve and enhance it by offering students and
parents an electronic billing and
payment system,” Gorton said.
Praising the service of ePAY,
Gorton expressed optimism for the
new program.
“UR ePAY will provide a ‘green’
solution to the way the UR Bursar
Offices provide student billing services to students and parents.”
Islam is a member of
the class of 2012.
OPINIONS
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DANA HILFINGER • REBECCA LEBER • ANDREW OTIS
WILLIE CLARK • MARLEY SCHNEIER
Political attention
Senator Charles Schumer’s recent press conference at UR on
financial aid brings to the forefront the intricate relationship
between universities and politicians. The Office of Government
and Community Relations has already built strong relationships
with many politicians, but it should make this communication
more visible to students.
The Office serves an important purpose for the University
community. Interaction with politicians is how, in part, the University acquires federal money. Its commendable relationship
with Louise Slaughter has recently helped secure her funding
for over $7.25 million for the University’s Nanosytems Initiative and the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. To this end, the
Office would be well served by better visibility on campus so that
students are informed of political visits. First of all, it needs a
Web page. Additionally, integration into the events section of
the University homepage would be a welcome and informative
accessory.
In the future, the Office should try to ensure that when politicians do visit UR, they allow students and staff to be involved,
even it is just a small selective group. In the past three weeks,
they have hosted notables such as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand,
Governor David Paterson, Slaughter and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Yet, a majority of the student body was unaware of
their presences. UR is an economic powerhouse in Slaughter’s
congressional district. Even though she spoke at URMC on Jan.
29, it was disappointing that the event was not well publicized
to undergraduate students.
As an employer of 19,000 workers, the University community
spans parts of the New York 25th, 26th and 29th congressional
districts. These congressmen: Dan Maffei, Chris Lee, who is a
UR alumnus and Eric Massa should visit Rochester’s largest
employer.
There have been politicians who have entreated with UR
students. Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy spoke at a Town Hall
meeting. The Office publicized this event well, and Duffy’s
open interaction with students should be encouraged for other
political visits.
While it is the University’s prerogative to bring political leaders
to campus, it is incumbent upon politicians to open themselves
to UR’s student body in a frequent and forthright manner.
End land lines
With the ubiquity of cell phones, the use of a hard wired land
line has become relatively obsolete — across the University the
telephones in dormitory rooms often sit covered with cobwebs.
Seventy-five percent of students have never even set up their
land line voicemails, showing just how little this service is actually used. Regardless of whether or not the phones are used,
the University still has to shell out an estimated hundreds of
thousands of dollars each year for these dormant telephones.
The University is currently evaluating whether land lines are
still valuable assets to students. Land lines are useful in some
cases — such as when a student doesn’t have a cell phone or on
the occasion that the room phone is more convenient — but it
isn’t necessary for each dorm room to have one. The University is
currently evaluating room phone usage, and it should go forward
with a plan to remove these superfluous commodities.
Land lines are becoming a thing of the past and should not be
in all student rooms. Resident Advisers, who use their phones
while they are on duty, should still be required to have their
phones. Also, UR could provide its students with one service
phone or a phone similar to a Blue Light phone on each floor,
thus fulfilling the necessary security requirement.
Not all students have cell phones, so the University should
also provide an “opt-in” policy that would allow students who
needed a land line to still have one in their dorm rooms — thus
making it the student’s choice to decide what he or she will use,
rather than having the University sustain this financial burden.
Having a barely used land line as the standard in each room is
unnecessary, and by changing this policy, tuition dollars can be
put to more productive uses.
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Editorial Observer
Photos show the ¢o$t of war
Truth be told, I rarely find myself
reading the news and being like,
“Wow, they actually got something
right for once” or “Holy shit,
common sense actually prevailed
today.” It just doesn’t happen very
often, even more so when politics
are concerned.
So I was surprised to see that
the Obama administration last
week lifted an 18-year ban on
press coverage of ceremonies at
Dover Air Base, which is the entry
point in the States for the flagged,
draped coffins of deceased military
members. Up until now, the press
has been completely barred from
these events. The long-held argument against the ban has been one
often raised against the secrecy
of the Bush administration — a
secrecy spawned from the fear that
press coverage would only fuel the
anti-war effort.
While this fear may have been
justified, I cannot say that either
the action or the original ban
were.
Of course, images of dead American soldiers are not going to go
far in promoting any war effort,
but to completely block press was
not only a slap in the face to the
press’s freedom, but also a complete trumping of a family’s own
personal right to choose to allow
the press into the funeral.
Willie
Clark
•
A&E
Editor
Kudos Obama, for actually letting people think for themselves
for a change.
Currently, the cost of the Iraq
war is unfortunately too often
measured only in dollars and cents,
and now it seems the Iraq is framed
as simply an economic drain. However, no matter if you support the
war or are against it, people need to
recognize the very human cost that
is associated with it. Press should
be allowed to cover these events,
and even with a phaseout plan
announced, the American public
cannot forget that the real toll of
this war can never be measured in
any form of monetary value.
Hate to break it to you, but that
is the true cost of war. Why would
we want to shame ourselves, and
these soldiers, by hiding the brave
price they paid? Why shouldn’t
people be allowed to see the reverent ceremony honoring these
men and women who sacrificed for
the very freedom that we take for
granted every day? So my hat’s off
to President Obama, Press Secre-
tary Robert Gates and the rest of
each of their teams that were able
to finally look past (oh no, the evil
word) partisan politics and actually
do something right for the American people. I’m happy as a journalist to see this token of journalistic
freedom being extended, but also
as an American citizen.
It takes one kind of person to sit
here and complain about what is
going right and wrong, but it takes
another person of much stronger
character than I will ever have to
fight and defend my freedom to
bitch. I am glad that these people
can again be remembered and
honored as they should be. It is a
great day for both press freedom,
and the freedom of the American
people to know, and to be able to
see, the truth and real cost of the
Iraq War.
As I said, it isn’t often that politicians get it right. But this time
they seem to have found a way to
balance the press’s freedom and a
family’s personal privacy, and that
is, in true Johnny Cash fashion, a
tight line to walk and something
that is definitely commendable.
Don’t think this gets you off the
hook for everything else Obama.
Now get back to fixing that here
economy of ours.
Clark is a member of
the class of 2012.
Editorial Observer
The Eastman connection
I would bet that all UR students
on the River Campus are familiar
with Eastman, the music campus
downtown — but how much interaction do these two campuses
really share? While my musical
talent would not have even granted
me a second look by Eastman’s admissions committee, its affiliation
with UR strongly influenced my
decision to attend the College. In
my first semester at UR, I probably
attended close to a dozen events
in Kilbourn Hall and Eastman
Theatre, ranging from student
recitals, to performances by the
Rochester Philharmonic, to a talk
by Charles Strouse. As much as I
enjoyed the performances, I wasn’t
a part of them, and I did not feel
like a part of the Eastman school.
I never really figured that I would
have the opportunity to play at
Eastman, but I remained hopeful
that I could get involved on more
than a spectator’s level.
In the middle of the semester, an
idea hit me. I was in Strong Auditorium when an Eastman student
came into the building hoping to
practice. The practice rooms had
already closed, but somebody else
suggested that she go to Spurrier.
Bradley
Halpern
•
Photography
Editor
I offered to walk her down there,
since she had never been anywhere
other than Strong, and I had a key
to the old gym’s practice facilities.
On the way, we talked about the
differences between Eastman and
the River Campus, and the lack of
collaboration between students.
She explained how many Eastman
students would enjoy the opportunity to participate in River Campus
extracurricular activities and social
events. Contrary to a common
River Campus misconception that
Eastman students do not value a
relationship with the rest of UR,
she had never been given the information or chance to get involved.
I found this troublesome but, in a
way, reassuring to hear.
Weeks later, my friends and
I were shivering outside of the
Eastman Living Center as we
played the game of waiting for the
Red Line bus to show up. One of
them joked about how we needed
to meet some Eastman kids who
would let us warm up in their
rooms. I remembered that conversation from my walk to Spurrier.
The College has about eight
times the students of Eastman and
a wonderfully diverse set of interests. Eastman has an incredibly
vast array of musical talents, and
an urban culture all its own. What
lacks tremendously is a structure
to unite the two, making it not only
possible, but also easy for students
from the two campuses to get to
know one another. The mutual
interest for more cooperation exists, but the dedication to recruit
students from the other campus to
join activities does not.
It is nice that the University offers cross-campus courses, but few
classes offer a chance to truly get to
know one’s classmates. Hopefully
in the near future, not only will
we see the two Students’ Associations working closely as a whole
to bridge this gap, but maybe we
can see more unified campus social
events and student activities fairs
at both campuses.
Halpern is a member of
the class of 2012.
Josh Hatcher
Staff Illustrator
OPINIONS
Page 7
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” — Bertrand Russell
“Feminist:” a distorted and tortured term
BY Jess King
You’ve seen our new president proudly
wearing a T-shirt proclaiming that he is what
a feminist looks like, and you’ve seen fellow
students on flyers around campus that have
said they are what feminists look like. Men
and women both have taken the initiative to
help redefine, what I call, the f-word.
When I think of the word “feminist,” I
cringe. When I hear feminists are in the
neighborhood, I fear for my razor and all of
my bras. I think that they are going to make
sure that I don’t bathe or wear deodorant.
And I fear that one day, we’re going to all sit
in a circle around Gloria Steinem braiding
each other’s leg hair. I can see my parents
crying in a corner because their daughter
has turned into an un-groomed, hairy beast
who hates men. Then I look at these people
who are now saying they are feminists — I’m
friends with them; they come to my house
on a regular basis, and I still have a razor
and all of my bras.
So why do I have such a horrible and
wrong view of feminists and feminism? I and not worry as much about reproducing
honestly have no clue. My only guess is that with them. My guess is that they probably
our patriarchal society decided to depict the liked men a lot.
As for the crazy aspect of my definition,
feminists of the 60s (who fought for things
like birth control) as crazy, man-hating bra they weren’t crazy — they were total ballers.
burners. The funny thing about this whole They were normal human beings who got
misconception is that it makes absolutely pissed off when someone said “no” and then
did something about it. They were the ones
no sense.
For starters, while there was probably who believed in and were working for hope
and change before Obama even
someone who burned a bra
knew how to walk.
once (ladies — who doesn’t
So why do I still have a
want to burn the uncomfortPeople all over
problem
with the f-word?
able ones with straps that fall
the country are
Because, while I hang out
down and an underwire that
reclaiming the
with feminists and am on the
digs into your ribs?), it never
word
“feminist” e-board of Women’s Caucus,
happened at a demonstration.
and changing
I don’t think that I’m conThere was never some big gloit into what it
stitutionally lacking rights.
rious moment when a woman
should be...
And when it comes down to
stood on a stage and lit her bra
it, constitutionally, there are
on fire in front of hundreds of
very few rights I don’t have
people.
because I am a woman. I’m
Secondly, the women who
“started” this misconception were fighting allowed to work and earn money, and I’m
for reproductive rights. For those of you who even allowed to be paid if I can’t go to work
haven’t taken any biology classes or learned because I’m pregnant. I can vote and own
about “the birds and the bees,” reproduction property and drive a car. I’m allowed to
requires both a man and a woman. These walk around topless in any place a man
women wanted to be able to sleep with men can (at least in New York). I am free to do
whatever I want according to law.
Feminism still matters today because the
rights that women have aren’t always enforced, and there are still some inequalities
that need to be fixed. For example, women
are still paid less than men. Women can’t
be drafted, and they can’t go as far in the
armed forces. Men are given very little paternity leave and courts, more often than
not, rule in favor of the mother in virtually
all custody cases.
People all over the country are reclaiming the word “feminist” and changing it
into what it should be, because they are
learning about what feminism really is.
By writing this article, and learning about
the importance of feminism, I’ve managed
to talk myself out of considering feminism
the queen mother of all swear words. And,
since I believe in equal rights for women,
men and all those that fall in-between, I
call myself a feminist. For those who are
still unsure about the f-word, I urge you to
take advantage of all the learning experiences Women’s History Month (March)
has to offer.
King is a member of
the class of 2010.
Fairness Doctrine will damage First Amendment
BY Eloise Rogers
Former President and Democratic statesman Bill Clinton has recently publicized
his support for the “Fairness Doctrine,” a
bill that was abandoned under President
Reagan in 1987, and is quite controversial
to begin with. Clinton, however, is throwing his full support behind the ridiculous
attempt at government-regulated media
coverage.
The bill forces media, specifically radio
and television, to broadcast multiple perspectives on issues of public importance.
Basically, for every conservative talk show,
you must have a liberal one to counter it.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator
John Kerry are also informally backing
the reinstatement of this bill to even out
the playing field for their side. In 1987, the
FCC panel repealed the Fairness Doctrine
altogether with a 4-0 vote.
The facts are simple. Yes, the media is
biased. Welcome to America. But if you
know where to look, you can find any side
of any story. Just because every side is
not broadcasted in the same place means
nothing. America has freedom of speech
and freedom of the press. The Fairness
Doctrine is the very opposite of our First
Amendment rights. It is the government’s
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way of impeding on the American media to abridge free speech. Anyone who supports
and forcing their broadcasts to be govern- this type of legislation restricting speech
ment regulated. Ever since its repeal in ’87, is following the true path to tyranny,” one
Congress has regularly tried to re-spark comment said. Another said, “I have no
interest in this bill. TIME Magazine’s Dan problem with more balance. Just do not
Fletcher noted, “Now, with Democrats in legislate it... What could be more fair?”
It may be true that, in radio talk shows,
control of Congress and the White House
and with conservative talk radio hosts — conservatives have the upper hand. But an
long a thorn in liberal sides — taking to overall look at the media will show to anyone willing to look that liberal
the airwaves to blast President
media is just as, if not sigObama’s stimulus package, inmore, propagated.
terest in the Fairness Doctrine
Yes, the media is nificantly
Obama has mentioned several
is peaking once again.”
Conservatives are already biased. Welcome times that he has no interest in
striking back against the new to America. But if reviving this bill, but his party
push for the Fairness Doctrine. you know where as a whole thinks otherwise.
White House spokesman RobRush Limbaugh has promised to look, you can
that he is “not going down
find any side of ert Gibbs and Obama adviser
David Axelrod have both menwithout a fight” and continues,
any story.
tioned that the administration
calling the Fairness Doctrine
will leave ideas of revival to
just “the tip of the iceberg” of
the FCC, but that is the last
a futile attempt by the government to expand its power. Newt Gingrich thing America needs to hear.
We need to hear that the White House
called the Fairness Doctrine “Affirmative
Action for liberals” and Sean Hannity called will actively oppose any and all attempts to
impose federal regulations on free speech.
it “an assault on the First Amendment.”
Michael Calderone of Politico.com opened Political content on broadcast airwaves is
up a forum to allow the American people to included in free speech, and the Democrats
discuss this issue. “For all the tirades about in Congress have no issue in demolishing
Bush as a ‘dictator,’ he never did anything our rights to watch and hear what we want
Definitely a Phillycheese steak after
Willie Clark’s mouthwatering article.
I’m a cannibal. Human meat is tender
and tastes like chicken.
Vote Online at
30%
I’m too pretentious
for Pit food. The Mel/
off campus or bust.
by imposing this bill on us.
“I’m glad President Obama finally confirmed his opposition to the Fairness Doctrine... but many Democrats in Congress
are still pushing it... Now is the time for
Congress to take a stand against this kind
of censorship,” Senator Jim DeMint said.
The FCC has not had hearings on the
issue in several years; all past attempts in
Congress have been squashed by either a
Republican-led Senate or the threat of veto
from President Bush. Though no hearings are scheduled yet, the Democrats in
Congress are slowly but surely building
up a contingency to bring this issue back
onto the floor. The mere thought of this is
frightening, but the fact that this may well
soon have a good chance of jumping into the
forefront of legislative debate is downright
distressing.
America needs to push its senators to take
a stand! Do not let the government turn
into Big Brother. Putting the government
in a role that would allow it to dictate what
our news sources say is not only terrifying,
but anti-American.
Speak now, or forever be forced to hold
your peace.
Rogers is a member of
the class of 2012.
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Letters to the Editor
Regarding your coverage of campus protests over Gaza organized by Students for a
Democratic Society: Protestors made a litany
of demands, including that the University
change its investment policies and provide
computers, books and scholarships to Gaza
college students. You reported that Dean of
Students Matthew Burns signed a “plan of
action” leading protestors to “declare victory” and that Jewish student leaders have
questioned SDS tactics but not yet reported
any university concessions.
Dean Burns and other University adminis-
trators owe our community a full and immediate accounting of what, if any, concessions
were made or are under consideration. Any
concessions beyond facilitating educational
dialogue about the circumstances which precipitated the Gaza unrest would be wrong.
Even if met, none of the concessions the
protestors seek would better educate them
about the real causes of continued unrest in
that region or expedite lasting peace. Rather,
they would encourage students, here and at
other universities, to continue to scapegoat
Israel as the obstacle to peace. Besides, with
the international community expected this
week to announce over $1 billion in aid to
Gaza, Palestinian needs are already being
met, though at risk of rewarding violence.
The protestors’ demands mask their real
goal, which is to project Israel alone as the
continued cause of Palestinian suffering
when, in fact, Palestinians themselves
are to blame. In 2007, Gazans elected
as their leaders Hamas, best known for
gruesome suicide bombings which have
killed hundreds of Israelis and more than
a dozen Americans, including University
students on study-abroad.
Many of the protestors, I suspect, likely
aspire as much, if not more, to be part of
some modern-day campus protest movement
rather than be of any meaningful assistance
to Palestinians. Rather than reward them,
UR administrators should seek to educate
them by facilitating a discussion of policies
likely to bring Palestinians accountable
leaders who reject violence and seek accommodation with Israel.
—Jess Sadick
Class of 2009
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The sun is shining outside the IT Center, but inside, all Hell has broken loose.
Some students don’t see it, and some pay only minor attention. But they don’t understand
the enormity of what is happening.
World War II has erupted, nearly 64 years after V-E day. No blood will be lost
this day — the soldiers are made of plastic — but time is winding down until certain
doom.
Senior Jon Noble, sighing just a bit, reclines in his chair. The Allied Forces lie
strewn over a green felt cloth, awaiting the hand of God to direct them. But God’s not
entirely in the mood. While attempting to recreate the trailer to “Saving Private Ryan”
on a miniature scale, Noble discovered the shortcomings of his camera.
“I can’t get a close up on something so small.”
His effort began approximately seven hours before, at the onset of UR’s First
Annual Low-Tech 24-Hour Film Festival. Noble, as the head of the competition,
can’t compete, but he’s not about to let himself be consumed by boredom. Hence the
miniature army men.
His sole companion for most of the day is UR Simulated Gaming Association Vice
President and senior Hannah Weiss, the URSGA representative who’s helping oversee
the event’s execution, including making posters and reserving space on campus.
“Also, I’m apparently ideas for Jon,” she noted wryly.
Weiss brought the idea to Noble on URSGA’s behalf. With SIMCON XXXI —
the annual simulated gaming convention hosted at UR — approaching on March 27,
the group set out with grand ambitions to create publicity.
“We’ve been trying to change our image on campus and build up a name for
ourselves,” Weiss said.
After discussions with the Film Interest Floor, a group with some overlapping
members, the two organizations dreamed up a film festival, but needed to find someone
who would run it. Noble, a film and media studies major, a prior Little Theater film
festival contestant and the director of a campus-wide zombie movie last year, seemed
like a natural fit. He agreed to tackle the challenge, hoping the contest would inspire
students.
“Everybody could ideally participate. The technology’s so pervasive; everybody’s
got a digital camera,” Noble said.
After waging a fierce advertising campaign (while tabling next to “The Vagina
Monologues” in Wilson Commons, Noble scrawled “Better than vaginas” over one of
his posters), he gathered the interested parties together to go over the process and rules.
In order to weed out pre-taping, at the beginning of the festival, each group would
receive a line and a prop to use; little content restrictions applied.
“As long as PETA doesn’t come after me, I don’t care,” Noble said.
Teams made good use of the provisions. “Team Quickstan,” consisting of
sophomores Frank Colaruotolo, Stanley Monu, Maura Rapkin and Tyler Scowcroft,
combined three cameras to shoot the epic “Bite Outta Crime,” about a student scouring
campus in search of a fiend taking one bite out of all unattended food. Senior Rachel
Hock, meanwhile, actually turned her camera into an experimental film, called “[dot],”
about an irritating spec on her camera lens.
As Noble knocks back a Nos Powershot in the IT Center (“disgusting”), he
receives a visit from the team making “The Soldier Within,” about a super-soldier
serum being sought after by a sinister biotech syndicate. Seniors Jonathan Brand, Chris
Hautman and Henry Garcia were debating what color to make the serum. With 17
hours left, and only two left until IT kicks him out, Noble returns his attention to
Normandy.
A full 24 hours later, everyone has rested and come prepared to watch the projects.
The three judges, Professors Joanne Bernardi, Jason Middleton and Greta Niu, have
already determined the winner after a few minutes of polite debate, but the contestants
won’t find out the champion team’s identity for at least an hour.
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Teacher Feature: Alice Quillen
by Nandini Venkateswaran
Features Editor
An associate professor of astronomy
at UR since 2002, Dr. Alice Quillen
attended Harvard University as an
undergraduate, California Institute of
Technology for her graduate studies
completed her post-doctoral work at
Ohio State University and University of
Arizona. An avid observational astronomer, musician and professor, Quillen
combines all of her interests into her
day-to-day work.
What is your favorite class to
teach?
Physics 103: Physics and Music, is
one of my favorite classes to teach. I
like it because it’s for non-science majors so I get to work with new students.
It doesn’t really matter what we do
since we are not concerned with fulfilling strict course or major requirements.
The huge freedom in the class allows us
or coe
o p
to just have fun. The point of this class is
to be an interesting experience and so we
spend time in the lab trying to measure
and build things.
DIVA POLYNESIA
Aries (March 21–April 19) —
Straight, but fun, is the new straight.
Wouldn’t want to go out of style this
spring break now would you?
What is your research about?
I study galaxy dynamics and solar system dynamics. I try to figure out where
planets are, how they move, how our galaxy works and how the stars move.
There has been a lot of talk about
how you contributed to research
about the discovery of a new planet?
Yes, I predicted where a new planet,
called Fomalhaut-B, was. I never expected
to be right but I was pretty close. There
was a lot of press on it in November.
What are your favorite hobbies?
I love to play music in my free time. I
play the flute and the piano. That’s how I
wound up teaching the Physics and Music
class. It’s a whole lot of fun.
Taurus (April 20–May 20) — Your
habits of drinking alone are seen as
increasingly sketchy to others.
If there was one thing you would
change about your career, what
would it be?
I would like to have more time and
money to do research with undergraduate students.
Venkateswaran is a member of
the class of 2011.
Want some? Well, then go get some
by kaz sakamoto
Senior Staff Writer
As we move into the month of
March, I hope you have recovered
from Singles Awareness Day (also
known as Valentine’s Day in other
parallel college universes). I’ve recently noticed the rumblings of how
hard it is to find a suitable mate at
UR, and I can’t stand this whining.
When I chose the UR as my college
destination, I was thoroughly excited
for the hybrid medium-sized school
experience. Even with my limited
high school mind, I understood the
consequence of a smaller selection,
more specifically a little over 2,000
undergraduates (that is half the
school for you non-natural science
majors) to potentially shack up with.
I think I have made the most of my
time at the UR and really don’t have
much to complain about, if you know
what I mean.
Let me give you a little lesson
about the world. Ho’kay so here’s the
earth… There are almost 7 billion
people inhabiting this celestial orb we
call home. Now let’s divide this number by two, so that we can account for
the two genders. If you are an equal
opportunity employer, this step is unnecessary.
If the Chinese or Indian populations are what you are into, they
account for roughly 2.5 billion people,
so I’d start by learning “ni hao and
namaste” if you haven’t already gotten
not start your relationships on Faceon or in on that.
book?
You should note that there are tons
So I hope you are thoroughly
of people out there! Do we really have
creeped out, because I think our
anything to be complaining about? We
beloved Facebook is already disturbspend a mere four years of our lives in
ingly stalkerish. I mean take this as
this small community. You have the rest
an example: you must have heard
of your lives to explore.
they might be selling our informaSome of you may be quite content
tion and that even after we cancel
with continuously
our accounts they can
tapping the same used
claim ownership of the
pool we call our Greek
information we have
system. For those of us
added.
who want to meet new
I think that for stuLet Sex & the CT help you
people, I have a soludents who religiously
through your most awktion.
overload every semeswardly sexual years.
What is everyone’s
ter, join every campus
favorite dirty addicclub possible and work
tion? No, it’s not your hand or the late
on the side, we are unfathomably
Juicy Campus, but our old and faithful
lazy with our love lives. If we could
Facebook.
take half the fervor we have for acaOur Web site of choice already recomdemics and put it toward our social
mends people we may know… although
lives, we could really change ourto be honest, I really don’t want to
selves around.
know these people, which is beside the
I don’t want to beat a dead horse,
point.
but take the time to put on jeans
The point is that if Facebook could
instead of the sweats, stop wearing
match up our interests, or favorite
free T-shirts you got from Wilson
books and favorite movies, there must
Commons Wednesdays, jump in the
be someone in a 10-mile radius that you
shower before classes and step out of
might get along with. They could even
your shell and meet some new kids.
take it a step further and match profile
Next time I hear anyone complainpictures of people and create elaborate
ing about being single on campus,
albums, even create hypothetical babies
I’m going to politely point you in the
you could have together.
direction of China or India.
You can already declare your relationSakamoto is a member of
ships, engagements and marriages. Why
the class of 2009.
“Sex&the
CT”
UR Opinion
Gemini (May 21–June 21) — Maybe
you’ve been putting a little too much
dressing on your salad... tummy tuck,
anyone?
Cancer (June 22–July 22) — A latenight adventure just may do you good
this week. A walk of shame does not
count.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) — Better safe
than sorry... stop buying the big ones.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) — Be sure to
notify your partners of any and all STDs
before sex. You wouldn’t want them to
pull a Chris Brown on you.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) — Beer
Pong on your iPhone means you have a
problem.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) — If you
seek Amy, look no further. She will
come.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) —
Study for your midterms. Pledges can
be hazed via text, anyway.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) — A
good attitude turns you from good looking to hawt! Be nice.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) — “You
spin me right ’round baby, right
’round.” Particularly, if I’ve been drinking vodka.
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) — You, sir,
throw wicked cool parties.
Top Spring Break Destinations:
1. Cancun, Mexico
2. Baghdad, Iraq
3. Kauba, Afganistan
4. Ethiopia...all of it
5. South Padre Island, Texas
(If you actually believe this, then you still think
it was him , not you .)
by kaz Sakamoto
What are your spring break plans?
Chelsea McGuire ’09
Bryan Brown ’11
Liz Baker ’11
Dan Carson ’09
Danielle Parkes ’11
George Wang ’10
“Visting family in Raleigh
and Myrtle Beach, then
Hilton Head with UR
friends.”
“I’m going home and
performing at The Cup in
Wantagh.”
“I’m going to California to
study rocks.”
“Playing Murse (male
nurse) to a guy with a
broken leg.”
“I’m going to Cancun,
but I’m a little worried
about their government.”
“I’m going to New York City
for financial firm interviews.”
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Pink versus purple: Michelle and Hillary’s political fashion
BY rebecca leber
Managing Editor
If there was ever a political
equivalent for a fashion faux
pas, Hillary Clinton’s hot pink
pantsuit at Obama’s address to
the nation on Feb. 24, might just
qualify.
Admittedly, political style
might sound like a bore, but
there’s no reason why we can’t
learn a little something from a
fine leader’s poor fashion choices. Officially, Clinton may have
made her peace with her failed
Democratic bid for president, but
she certainly was channeling her
old attention-seeking self circa
2008 more than Secretary of
State that Tuesday night.
Whatever her personal reasons for this attire, the result
was clear: When news cameras
panned the room throughout
Obama’s speech and hundreds of
politicians shrank into tiny, blurry figures, Clinton stubbornly
stood out like a bright ink stain.
C-span might not be equivalent to the Oscars’ red carpet,
but that’s only because black
suits so often dominate the political pulpit. The leading men
of American politics unvaryingly
turn to the stale combination
of the dark suit and patriotic
tie. If anything, Clinton’s color
scheme wasn’t wholly bad — it
at least added a little spice to the
drab, dreary attire at these state
events.
Earlier this month, Heidi
Klum donned a striking and
rather frighteningly similar hot
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At state event, Clinton donned a hard to miss hot pink suit, while Obama dared to wear a sleeveless dress, showing off toned arms.
pink pantsuit. Maybe Clinton
shouldn’t dress like a supermodel if she’s the Secretary of
State. It’s probably for the best
if the red carpet and Capitol Hill
remained two separate worlds.
There’s a lesson to learn from
Clinton’s color scheme. There is
a tradeoff between standing out
and appearing ridiculous. This is
not an attempt to hold Clinton
to any female double standard
— it was a little ridiculous that
Clinton’s showing a little skin on
the campaign trail (some cleavage peaked out from her usually
conservative attire last spring)
caused the uproar it did. But her
color choice for a rather somber
event gives the American public
just enough pause to think twice
next time we’re choosing the
image we want to project to the
world, whether that applies to a
job interview or meeting a boyfriend’s parents.
Color might be an innocuousenough detail, but at such a scrutinized, widely watched occasion,
even color choices can make big
differences in the end. Normally,
Clinton’s clothes wouldn’t attract a second glance, but given
the stateliness of the event, hot
pink just wasn’t the best way to
go. It’s a good idea at an official
occasion to consider who will
be attending and who ought to
be the main focus, which in this
case was Obama.
Put in a more relatable way:
You wouldn’t try upstaging the
birthday girl at her 21st birthday
party. Clinton probably could
have achieved the same amount
of extra camera attention if she
had chosen a demure red, a blue
or even a riskier deep purple.
Also, it’s not a novel concept
to consider the cut of the clothes.
The best example here is Michelle Obama. Michelle, who
may be the most scantily clad
figure in Washington, looked
striking as always in her purple,
sleeveless dress. In a crowd that
averages around 50 years old,
sleeveless is the closest to bare
we’re ever going to get.
Still, the sleeveless cut was
unique and noticeable in the
crowd of suits, and this choice
certainly got Michelle some attention. Using this advice, it’s a
good idea to guess what the attendants are wearing wherever
you will be, and see whether
you’d be comfortable with that
extra attention of showing a
little more skin. But go for it if
you can handle it. As long as it’s
done tastefully, a modern cut is
a less in-your-face way of standing out.
So tuck away these humble
observations: You may not be
trying to make a statement with
your choice of color and cut, but
it can still end up getting political. Fashion is part self-expression, but still a good part of it
is others’ perceptions. Clinton
probably got what she wanted
— some attention — but in this
case, it might not have been the
best setting to receive it in.
Leber is a member of
the class of 2011.
Notes’ authors found Radical socialist speaks her mind
In response to last week’s published thank you notes to Dining
Services staff, Students’ Association Senator and sophomore Dale
Levine has written a response to
the inquiry as to who the authors
of the notes were on behalf of the
SA:
The Projects and Services Committee of Student Government
has been working extremely hard
this year with Dining Services to
improve communication and Dining in general. This semester, the
committee decided to develop an
employee appreciation program
for the employees of each dining
location. The students got togeth-
er and made thank you cards for
all of the campus Dining employees. The cards were addressed to
a specific employee and signed by
the “Students of the University of
Rochester.”
Student government felt
strongly about doing this, because
we all felt that it was important
for the employees who work long
hours and may often feel underappreciated to be recognized for
their hard work. We really do appreciate all that they do and hope
that even a gesture as small as
this one made someone’s day!
Levine is a member of
the class of 2011.
BY amelia titus
Staff Writer
Sherry Wolf is no granola
activist. Armed with a forthcoming book manuscript, a candor
unmatched by even the most
adamantly honest politicians and
enough silver-tongued wisdom
to satisfy even the most dubious
crowd, Wolf impresses with her
bold declarations, many of which
were heard last Thursday, Feb. 26,
when she made a lecture stop here
at UR. The lecture promoted her
upcoming work, “Sexuality and Socialism: The History, Politics, and
Theory of LGBT Liberation” and
was arranged by the International
Socialist Organization. Wolf noted
the mere title of her book often
incites conversations in a nation
still debating over everything from
same-sex marriage to economic
rights — two issues she stressed
are more pressing than ever. “Even
the first questions you are asked
on application forms, namely ‘Are
you male or female? Have you ever
been married?,’ are ones which
define you and your economic possibilities,” she emphasized.
Wolf related this argument
specifically to the struggle of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
minorities to overturn Proposition
8, a measure enacted in California that confines marriage laws
strictly to heterosexual couples.
Since its implementation in November of last year, Proposition
8 has garnered both widespread
support for upholding traditional
marriage definitions and intense
criticism from demonstrators who
considered it a form of legislative
discrimination.
In one of Wolf’s most recent articles, “The Unapologetic Case for
Gay Marriage,” she wrote in characteristic irony, “In short, same-sex
partners would be denied the same
rights our government bestows on
married heterosexual couples who
tie the knot in a drunken night out
in Vegas.”
Wolf dotted her lecture with
allusions to pop culture, discussing
the impact of television shows like
“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”
and recent films like the critically
acclaimed movie “Milk.”
Where many would shy away
from subjects not fit for dinner
conversation, Wolf sees discussion
of these issues as inimical to progressing rights for all individuals.
In trademark wit, she declared,
“We need a society in which
decisions who to have sex with,
whether to have sex at all, with
how many people or with which
singular person, are not roadblocks
to getting the health care and economic support all deserve.”
Maybe her politics aren’t so
radical.
Titus is a member of
the class of 2011.
Over 30 students cram into Gleason Theater, several of them without seats, to watch the debuts.
Noble’s faux trailer, “Sweding
Private Ryan,” debuts first in all its
glory, shown alongside the actual
real trailer. In its wake follows
what is essentially a five-minute
shot of a “Dungeons and Dragons”
game called “What Gamers Are
Really Like,” a superhero duo
movie called “Mustard Man and
Ketchup Girl,” a mockumentary
about a perpetual sleeper named
“Sleepmaster,” the aforementioned
“Bite Outta Crime,” “dot” and
“The Soldier Within.”
The final film, a Christopher
Guest-inspired mockumentary
called “The League of Magicians,”
becomes a hit with the crowd until
halfway through, when the projec-
tor stops working. Despite the best
attempts of Noble, an IT worker
and Hautman attempting to reset
the high-up projector with a crutch,
nothing seems to work.
“Every first thing — inaugural, as we said — has its problems,” Noble said.
After an epic struggle with
technology, the last film finally
finishes its premiere, with everyone crammed around a computer.
Unfortunately for the magicians, they just couldn’t conjure
up a win. The tiny experimental
film “[dot]” won out the day,
much to the surprise of its creator.
“I’d never done anything like
this before. I haven’t made a
movie since my siblings and I
made a Spice Girls music video
when I was 10,” Hock said. “I
am so honored to have won. I
thought the festival was great.
I really hope [it] continues and
becomes an annual event.”
Colaruotolo echoes the sentiment.
“I’m not taking an editing
class this semester, so it was an
opportunity to get something
done within a very short period
of time.”
Even with technical gaffes,
everyone seems to be having fun,
which, to Noble, is the point.
“My ultimate goal is that
someone takes it up afterwards,”
he said.
Considering the enthusiasm in
the room, perhaps the idea has
stuck — what a difference a day
makes.
Brenneman is a member of
the class of 2009.
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Vaginas rock UR with
great monologues
by Nancy Weng
Copy Editor
When I got to the entrance of
the May Room last Friday night
for “The Vagina Monologues,”
it was so crowded that I wasn’t
able to find a seat at first. Yes,
that’s how sold out this show
was.
“The Vagina Monologues”
was written by Eve Ensler, who
is also the creator of V-Day,
the global movement to stop
violence against women and
girls. The play is divided into
episodes, each with a title of its
own.
The monologues balanced
seriousness and humor well,
knowing exactly when to be
solemn and when to be funny.
Some were downright somber
throughout, while others evoked
nonstop laughter from the audience.
My favorite monologue was
“My Angry Vagina,” performed
by junior Emma Dwyer Reynolds, UR alumna Stephanie
Paredes and freshman Julieta
Gruszko. Not only was the
monologue hilarious, but the
performers used physical humor
as well, such as pretending to
adjust the uncomfortable thong
that always “gets stuck in the
back of your crusty butt.”
The funniest part was about
the smell of a vagina: “My vagina doesn’t need to be cleaned
up. It smells good already…
Don’t believe him when he tells
you it smells like rose petals
when it’s supposed to smell like
pussy. That’s what they’re do-
ing, trying to clean it up, make
it smell like bathroom spray or a
garden. All those douche sprays
— floral, berry, rain. I don’t want
my pussy to smell like rain.”
Following that monologue was
the very gloomy “My Vagina Was
My Village,” performed by junior
Tessa Garrow and sophomore
Amy Roth. It started off by introducing the fact that tens of
thousands of women were raped
in the middle of Europe during
the war in Yugoslavia and was
based on the story of a Bosnian
woman from a refugee camp.
But not all facts offered from
the play are that depressing. For
example, did you know that the
clitoris is the only organ in the
body that is designed simply for
pleasure? It is a bundle of 8,000
nerve fibers, which is twice the
number in the penis. So, like
sophomore performer Jenny
Mosier said, “Who needs a hand
gun when you’ve got a semiautomatic?”
Here’s another interesting
fact. It is illegal to sell vibrators
in Alabama, Texas, Mississippi,
Georgia, Louisiana and Indiana.
However, it’s legal to sell guns
in all of these states. Mosier
concluded this by saying that we
are still waiting to hear of a mass
murder caused by vibrators.
Toward the end of the show,
sophomore Adrienne Walcer
included some audience participation at the conclusion of her
monologue, “Reclaiming Cunt,”
by getting everyone to shout the
word “cunt” several times.
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Kira Carlin • Photography Editor
Friday’s performance of “The Vagina Monologues” examined
both the humorous and dangerous sides of being a woman.
Michelle Ku • Staff Photographer
Sophomores Andrew Polec and John Amir-Fazli and senior Patricia Morse star in “Curse
of the Starving Class,” which is playing at Todd Theater this week until Saturday, March 7.
“Curse” offers realism and humor
by Sam Miller
Staff Writer
“Do you know what this is?
It’s a curse. I can feel it. It’s invisible, but it’s there. It’s always
there.”
So says one of the characters
of “Curse of the Starving Class,”
now playing at Todd Theatre, referring to the state of perpetual
disarray and chaos that is swallowing her family whole. The
aforementioned quote embodies
the essence of the play, which is
playing until Saturday, March 7.
“Curse of The Starving
Class,” written by Sam Shepherd, connects people to people;
it is a dark comedy that approaches an acute awareness of
the depths and intricacies of an
American family and of people’s
bleak lives.
“Curse” tells the story of a
dysfunctional family. In a way,
it tells the story of every family.
Nine characters come together
in the kitchen of an American
home, with a breakfast table in
the center and a refrigerator
(that seems to take on a life of
its own) in the front left corner.
With a dim golden hue lightly
illuminating the red-checked
curtains and metal chairs, the
audience is introduced to Ella,
the mother of the household,
and Wesley, her son. Ella is
played by senior Patricia Morse
and Wesley by sophomore Andrew Polec.
Morse and Polec exhibit an
indescribable consistency in
their performances; their deliveries remain captivatingly real
and incredibly believable for the
entire duration of the show.
“The most challenging part
is getting into the bleak mindset of Wesley,” Polec said. “Just
realizing that you’ve dropped
out of school, have no plans for
the future and are fighting for
some inchoate idea to save your
family is a really stark contrast
to the way I am living at the U
of R right now. This kid is poor,
works on a farm, and lives with
one of the most dysfunctional
families in America. The challenge is to make this unfathomable lifestyle into a reality that
the audience can relate to.”
Soon after, sophomore John
Amir-Fazil appears as Weston.
Ami-Fazil’s ability to completely
immerse himself in the harsh
denial that his character possesses is astonishing. His performance is riveting — the shift
of his tone, volume and facial
expressions leaves goosebumps
running down the spine.
Freshman Mel Balzano takes
the role of Emma, Ella’s daughter. As the baby of the family,
Emma’s free spirit yearns for
liberation, adventure and escape. Balzano captivates the
essence of Emma and expresses
her desires with immaculate
delivery.
The family struggles to
separate — some with visions of
escaping to Europe, others retreating to Mexico, and Emma is
ready to hop on a horse trotting
anywhere. In the end, none of
these fantasies become realities;
instead, no matter how hard the
family tries to change their fate,
they are unable to alter what
came before them.
The family must work
through the struggle and
through the curse. They must
deal with what they’ve been
given — they must sift through
their limitations and come to
terms with their given circumstances.
The show was directed by
Von Stuelpnagel, who helped to
break down the characters to
the very precise and meticulous
details of their beings. He also
helped to bring this bizarre play
to life by having the cast watch
episodes of “Intervention.”
Stuelpnagel even brought in
a member of Alcoholics Anonymous to share his experiences
with the cast. The AA member
talked about his family life and
what it was like growing up with
an alcoholic as a father. The
AA member’s story had an uncanny relation to the situation
in which “Curse of the Starving
Class” takes place.
The play is the closest thing
to an autobiography of Shepherd’s early life, and his dad
demonstrates many of the typical alcoholic qualities.
“Overall, the director pushed
us, helped us grow, allowed us
to see the characters’ different viewpoints in ways I never
dreamed of,” Polec said.
Sophomores Renato Rengifo
and Alexander Cox, senior Martin Cozens and juniors Phillip
Dumouchel and Zachary Kimball make cameo-like appearances. These characters provide
a new dynamic, bring a fresh,
creative energy to the show and
link the chaotic storyline in the
play to the outside world.
They act, essentially, as outside entities that work to tear
the family apart.
“This production demands
the generation of a grand range
of rich and dark emotions — in
fact, the show depends on it,”
sophomore James Eles said.
“This cast delivers with utmost
competence the obscure emotive
domains that ‘Curse’ explores.”
With all the hype about
Polec’s nudity in the show, he
added his thoughts about the
‘costume” change.”
When placed into the mind
of Wesley, it seems unavoidable
and necessary,” Polec said. “It
is an emotionally powerful moment rather than a ‘Hey, he’s
naked on the stage.’ I guess in
another way, being naked is just
like another costume change.
Aren’t our bodies just costumes
for our souls?”
Beautiful. Bravo!
Miller is a member of
the class of 2011.
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Joint improv show
was awesome-appella
Dan Wasserman • Publisher
Bill Tiberio conducted both the UR Wind Symphony and UR Jazz Ensemble last weekend in Strong .
Two ensembles, one great show
By Victoria Massie
Copy Editor
While UR prides itself on the
large musical community at the
Eastman School of Music, it
cannot be forgotten that many
great musical concerts take place
outside of Kilbourn Hall, right
on the River Campus. One such
concert took place on Friday, Feb.
27, in Strong Auditorium by the
Wind Symphony and the Jazz
Ensemble. Directed by Bill Tiberio, both ensembles presented
the audience with a night of
musical magnificence.
The first half of the night was
devoted to the Wind Symphony.
However, their repertoire did not
only include the typical classical pieces. Rather, the ensemble
decided to push their musical
boundaries, incorporating more
contemporary classical pieces
that were inspired by and fused
with aspects of jazz rhythm, harmony and improvisation.
Audience members were introduced to the ensemble through
“Beyond Whistler,” the fourth
movement from the musical
suite “SEA to SKY” by Ralph
Ford. The piece was explosive,
capturing the attention of the
eager audience. It was also quite
intriguing for its varying musical
styles.
At times, the song highlighted
crisp percussion only to transition to a softer, more legato style
accentuated by the use of chimes.
The piece was well played and let
the people in the audience know
that they were in for a musical
treat.
After their pronounced introduction, the Wind Symphony
performed “Bandancing,” a four-
movement piece by Jack Stamp.
According to Tiberio, “Bandancing” incorporated the syncopation associated with Latin music
and aspects of swing, a byproduct
of jazz.
The second movement, “Tango,” was smooth and followed by
“Waltz,” a movement that featured what seemed to be a melodic musical canon, beginning
with the low brass instruments
and incorporating higher pitched
instruments until they reached a
full symphonic sound.
Though the ensemble played
other pieces, one of my favorites
of the night had to be “Metroplex,” composed by Robert Sheldon. One of three movements of
“Three Postcards from Manhattan,” this piece really embodied
the darker and edgier aspect of
jazz that had been so lacking in
previous pieces.
Much of this had to do with
Sheldon’s inspiration for composing it. According to Tiberio,
the piece was to serve as a depiction of life in an urban setting.
Besides the slightly darker tone
of the piece, it was infused with
16th note runs that only emphasized the busy nature of city life.
However, as the popular idiom
goes, the best was saved for last.
To pay respects to the great work
of Gerry Niewood, the Rochester
native and saxophonist lost in
the Continental Airlines crash
in Buffalo, N.Y., the Wind Symphony performed “Land of Make
Believe.” The recording of the
piece that the ensemble played
featured Niewood’s own soprano
saxophone solo. The members of
the Wind Symphony had a lot of
pressure added because they had
a duty to perform the piece well;
however, these instrumentalists would have made Niewood
proud. Highlighted performers
included junior Laura Holtzmann on the flugelhorn, senior
Greg Rose on the tenor saxophone and senior Kazuki Sakamoto on the soprano saxophone.
The latter half of the concert
served to highlight the Jazz Ensemble. A favorite of its program
included the song “Tenor Madness,” composed by Sonny Rollins and arranged by Mark Taylor.
It seemed like a battle between
saxophones, highlighting the musical device of call-and-response
between two tenor saxophones
followed by a call-and-response
between a tenor and alto saxophone.
The constant battle added a
bit of madness to the piece, yet it
made it all the more enjoyable.
Like the Wind Symphony before them, the Jazz Ensemble
wanted to question convention
by including French horns in two
of their pieces, an atypical move
on their part.
However, the risk was a success, as was clearly heard in “The
Chicken.” Composed by Alfred
James “Pee Wee” Ellis, who
worked with the great James
Brown, the song’s use of the
French Horn and the bass guitar
brought a jazz-funk feel that left
people in the audience nodding
their heads.
Overall, both ensembles
showed the campus their musical capabilities, and I am looking
forward to their performances to
come.
Massie is a member of
the class of 2011.
By Chris Schmitt
Staff Writer
What better way to celebrate
the end of a hard week than with
an awesome show? Thankfully,
last Friday was Improv-appella,
a performance put on by the
combined efforts of In Between
the Lines and the Midnight
Ramblers.
The promise of a joint event
from two of the best performing
groups on campus resulted in
the Drama House being packed
beyond capacity.
It started with quite the
entrance as, person by person,
the casts entered, each engaging
in a different repetitive motion
reminiscent of clockwork figures.
The first bit carried out by
IBTL was “Sound Effects.”
The rusty slinkie and home
improvement antics were not
the most exciting to watch.
However, their next game, “Say
It,” more than made up for their
first one. With the catchphrases
being “tap that,” “I’m Skeletor”
and “heavens to Betsy,” it was
definitely entertaining. It led to
a singing skeleton, which is even
funnier if any of you can recall
this character from your cartoonwatching days.
Then the Ramblers came out.
The first song performed was
“Shake It,” in which freshman
Jared Suresky really engaged
the crowd. In their second song,
junior Matt Myers showed off
superior singing skills and
dazzling dance moves.
Next, IBTL presented a poem
in a gibberish, fake African
language, complete with an
interpreter and two interpretive
dancers that performed their
zany dances to a Ramblerprovided soundtrack.
Then, they played “Random
Musical,” a game in which any
line can be suggested as a song
for which the Ramblers provided
musical backup.
For the most part, the songs
could barely be called songs.
Despite these initial flops, the
last song, “Jizzed in my pants”
was well worth waiting for. A
recently popular YouTube hit,
the two groups performed it in
amazing fashion, delivering in
both the musical and comedic
departments.
Then the Ramblers and
IBTL joined together to tell
a story. Rapid changes in the
narration put performers on
the spot, resulting in mistakes
and chances for the audience to
participate in the game by yelling
“die” at the offending speaker.
“A Small Cruise Ship,”
another skit, was funny and
random, with just a little bit of
grossness thrown in for balance.
The first location was the poop
deck, which was literally a poop
deck, with the only rules being
(1) no bike riding and (2) lots of
pooping. This resulted in a poopcovered hand making its way
across the room (yuck).
The following game, “Precious
Moments,” wasn’t the funniest,
though it had a nice twist of a
love triangle in the end. The
Ramblers performed some more
songs and showed off with a
synchronized line dance. Then,
IBTL did a skit with one of the
improvers acting as all the props.
There were several more
performances by both the
Ramblers and IBTL, which were
all an audience could ask for.
It was great to see such
cooperation with the groups,
though more standalone songs
from the Ramblers would have
been nice. Hopefully, the two
groups will join together again
soon.
Schmitt is a member of
the class of 2012.
Sam sadler • Staff Photographer
IBTL and the Ramblers joined together to perform for a full house.
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Friday, March 20
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Waltz With Bashir
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
The Wrestler
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Get to know the band: Interview with the Felice Brothers
By Lily Dickerson
Staff Writer
Before interviewing The Felice
Brothers, my first glimpse into
the personality of James, the
band’s accordionist, was, well…
unexpected.
After a first attempt to contact
the musician, I reached his voicemail. As the recording picked up,
mellow keyboards faded in and
a voice calmly said, “Hey, this is
James Felice, wanna spend the
night?” Well, James, my friends
know my hot guy sensors immediately go berserk when I hear
a man play piano, but really, we
haven’t even met yet! But, I
digress.
Needless to say, this voicemail gave me insight into the
informal tone James, and a few
band members I heard in the
background, adopted during the
interview.
They were not afraid to throw
profanity in the dialogue where
they felt necessary and gave a
true depiction of what the band
seems to be all about: having a
good time.
He even asked me about myself, asking me questions like
what I do for Campus Times.
In fact, he was quite interested
when I told him I planned to
double major in English and music. Hey, maybe we have a future
after all.
like that. We’ve always enjoyed
music and had a couple lucky
breaks, and here we are.
Do you have any musical influences or inspirations?
Oh hell, musical influences?
Well there’s Lil Wayne, let’s see,
[voice in the background saying
“Beethoven!”], yeah, Beethoven,
Haydn, Texas Playboys, Ray
Charles, Neil Young. There’s a
lot. We’re mostly influenced by
writers though, like Hemmingway, Faulkner, Melville.
Courtesy of The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers will be playing a show over spring break at
Water Street Music Hall downtown, on Friday, March 13, at 7 p.m.
So, who are all the Band
members and what instruments do they play?
Well, I’m James, I play the
accordion, the organ, stuff like
that, and I sing. Then there’s
Ian. He’s the lead singer and
he plays guitar. And Christmas
plays the bass.
I’m sorry, did you say Christmas?
Yup, like the holiday. And then
there’s Greg Farley, and he plays
the fiddle and the washboard.
And where are all the members from?
We’re all from Palenville, N.Y.,
just a couple hours south of you
guys.
When and how did you guys
get started?
We started by just playing
music in the streets about three
years ago in the spring of 2005, I
guess, in New York City and stuff
How do you approach writing a song?
Well, everyone has a different way really. I mean for me, I
guess it starts out with an idea
that’s interesting. You know, a
story that interests you and you
write about it. Like a movie or a
poem or something.
And it has a sort of feel to it.
And then you take music that
you like and it just comes together.
Could you tell me about your
new album coming out?
Yeah, it’s coming out April 7,
it’s called “Yonder is the Clock,”
that’s by Mark Twain. And yeah,
it’s pretty good. It’s the hot shit!
You can say that — it’s the hot
shit. It’s real dark and deep and
we’re very proud of it.
Do you have a favorite band
memory?
Well, we’re making new memories everyday. Like ripping out
the fridge and the water heater
from the van. Fun things happen
all the time, really. And as you
get older, you know, you just try
and make new, better memories.
What do you do to get ready
for a show?
I take a little bit of scotch,
smoke a cigarette or two, maybe
take a nap. But, yeah, there’s
not much we do to prepare for a
show really. It’s not like we have
a football coach or have a huddle.
What can people expect from
show in Rochester?
We’re gonna try really hard
to make sure you have a good
time. Because there’s nothing
worse than spending $15, $20 on
a show and then it really sucks.
So we’re going to do our best to
make sure you have a good time.
We’re gonna sweat, bleed, jump
on shit, sing our asses off. It’s
gonna be fun.
Do you have any parting
words?
Come to the show, we’re really
excited to come to Rochester.
It’ll be a great time.
Dickerson is a member of
the class of 2012.
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All the monologues were wonderfully presented, but the one that
stirred up the most laughter from
the audience was “The Woman
Who Loved to Make Vaginas
Happy,” performed by senior
Alyssa Waddill.
This monologue is based on a
woman who was a sex worker but
only did sex work with women.
She described her experiences
with moaning, and then
launched into a series of different kinds of moans, which was
the part that had the audience
laughing the most.
Not only were there many
types of moans, but Waddill also
acts out each one.
Some of these include the
Irish Catholic Moan (“Forgive
me, for I have sinned”), the
doggy moan (“I’m sure you can
imagine the position of that”),
the college moan (“I should be
studying, I should be studying”) and the finale, the surprise
triple-orgasm moan.
At the very end of the show,
the directors, junior Nora Peters
and senior Kara Zabelny, asked
those who have been emotionally, sexually or physically abused
to stand up if they felt comfortable doing so.
Several people in the audience
stood up.
Then Peters and Zabelny
asked for those who knew someone who has been abused to
stand up. Nearly everyone in the
audience stood.
Though “The Vagina Monologues” can be humorous at
times, the most important aspect
is that it brings to our attention
the violence against women that
is still going on, even at our own
school.
Maybe we don’t pay much attention to it because we think it
doesn’t happen very often to the
people around us. But this is the
harsh reality.
Weng is a member of
the class of 2011.
SPORTS
Page 17
Women fall to D1 foe Bristow wins first two matches,
By Erin Philbrick
Senior Staff Writer
Facing off against a Division I
competitor, the women’s tennis
team played a difficult match,
coming away with just two wins in
their 7-2 loss against the Colgate
University Red Raiders.
“[Knowing Colgate is a Division I team] forced us to come
in playing aggressively from the
start,” senior Mel Beckmann said.
“It’s difficult knowing you are
considered the underdog team,
yet I think it inspired us to prove
ourselves to them.”
UR’s two wins came in singles
play. Sophomore Lia Weiner
fought out her opponent in the
first singles position to come away
with a win. After losing the first
set, 4-6, she came back to take
the second, 6-4. In the tiebreaker,
Weiner went to battle, taking the
win, 12-10.
Beckmann played a similar
match at No. 6 singles. After wining her first set, 6-3, the Colgate
competitor bounced back and defeated Beckmann in the second set,
1-6. She also took the tiebreaker
in a hard-fought 12-10 win.
“During my first set, I tried to
put everything out on the court
and take advantage of any easy
balls she gave me,” Beckmann
said. “In the second set, [she
targeted] my weaknesses. When I
hit my third set tiebreaker, I just
kept reminding myself to fight it
out to the end. I kept thinking,
‘I’ve come this far. I have to finish
it with a win.’”
Although none of the three
doubles teams were victorious,
the players learned a great deal
from the D1 team.
“I learned a lot from watching how aggressively they play
doubles,” Beckmann said. “I
think it re-enforced everything
our coaches say in practice, about
finishing points before the other
team has the opportunity.”
Next week, the ’Jackets will
travel to Orlando, Fla. for six
matches.
“I think back-to-back matches
will improve our ability to perform
during long tournament weekends, such as the upcoming UAA
tournament,” Beckmann said.
the class of 2009.
Split: UR pulls out nightcap
bring the advantage to two. Freshman outfielder M.C. Wagner then
doubled, scoring Clark. Capital
could only muster one base runner
in the final two innings. McLean
led the ’Jackets with two hits on
the day, scoring once.
In the game the following day,
Alma started off with three runs
and five hits in the first inning
and never looked back. Going into
the sixth inning, the Yellowjackets
trailed, 0-8, and lost by the mercy
rule. They could only pull together
three hits in the game.
In the nightcap, Alma took a
1-0 lead in the top of the fifth.
UR responded in the bottom of
the inning with a double from
senior first baseman Brittany
Celeste. After two UR players got
out, sophomore shortstop Lindsay
Macaluso hit a long home run to
left field, driving in one runner
and clinching the win. Macaluso
paced the ’Jackets with two hits,
two RBIs and one run.
Overall, the team was pleased
with the outcome of their opening
weekend.
“I think that our team played
very well for our first weekend
together,” Slupinski said. “I’m
really excited for the upcoming
games.”
Hilliard is a member of
the class of 2010.
falls short against Crimson rival
round of the championships. Fischer went on to win the Consolation bracket, earning four-straight
victories, each by 3-0 tallies.
Three other Yellowjackets competed in the second tier — the
Malloy Cup — of the Individual
Championships this weekend.
Sophomore Will Newnham advanced to the finals of the Malloy
Cup, but fell just short of taking
the being crowned champion,
losing to Chris Hanebury from
Western Ontario University in
four games.
Hilfinger is a member of
the class of 2010.
By Dana Hilfinger
Editor-in-Chief
Junior Jim Bristow advanced
the furthest of any Yellowjacket
player in this past weekend’s
Collegiate Squash Association
Individual Championships in
Williamstown, Mass. The No. 6
seed entering the tournament,
Bristow topped opponents from
Harvard University and Princeton University before falling in
the quarterfinals to Harvard’s
Colin West.
It was the third time this season that West has matched up
against Bristow and each time
West has walked away victorious.
Last year, Bristow also made it to
the quarterfinals and fell to the
eventual national champion, Baset
Chaudhry of Trinity College.
Sophomore Hameed Ahmed was
the only other ’Jacket to advance
out of the first round of play.
Ahmed beat Trinity’s Supreet
Singh in a four-game match in the
opening round, then went on to
drop a second-round matchup to
Chaudhry, who again came away as
this year’s national champion.
Sophomore Fred Reid and
freshmen Beni Fischer and Matt
Domenick each lost in the first
Kaplan, a Chicago native, has
dished 374 assists and amassed
110 steals in four years. Never
in his career did Kaplan average
more than five points per game
in a season, a true testament to
his selfless, pass-first style of play.
He leaves UR seventh all-time in
assists.
Kaplan’s counterpart Chmielowiec departs from UR with a slightly
different legacy, balancing the 1-2
punch of this year’s senior class.
Chmielowiec — the UAA’s leading scorer this year by more than
a three-point margin — played
in 93 games in his career and has
started in 71 of them. Following
his freshman season, Chmielowiec
has started every game that he
has played.
Hailing from Batavia, N.Y.,
Chmielowiec finished his career as
the 13th highest scorer in school
history with 1154 points. He is
eighth all-time in 3-pointers with
144. This season, Chmielowiec
completed one of the most prolific
scoring seasons in school history,
averaging 21.3 points per game.
UR’s seniors will surely be
missed, but the team has a strong
base, returning 13 players for next
season.
Next year’s team will be built
around the tandem of sophomore
forward Marcus Roberson and
freshman center Nate Novosel,
both of whom started all 25 games
this season. On Saturday, Roberson had 10 points and eight re-
Seniors forward Mike Chmielowiec and guard Max Kaplan were
honored on Saturday before the final game of their college careers.
bounds, while Novosel scored nine
UR will welcome the return of
and pulled down four boards.
sophomore shooting guard Mike
Another bright spot for the Labanowski back in the lineup
’Jackets was the recent play of ju- next season. Labanowski showed
nior guard Colin Cubit. Cubit was signs of being a promising scorer
forced into the starting lineup late before missing the second half of
in the season because of injuries the season due to injury.
and played very well for UR down
“It would’ve been nice to end the
the stretch.
season with a win,” Chmielowiec
The team got solid minutes off said after the game. “However, the
the bench from freshman forward young guys have a really bright
Bill Serle, sophomore guard Matt future. Max and I are really going
Murphy and juniors guard John to miss playing for UR.”
Charlesworth and forward DerStarr is a member of
rick Fetzer this season.
the class of 2009.
Seniors: Pair recognized at the Palestra
Host: Yellowjackets look to capture crown
Guard Jess Mastronardi scored 13 points in 16 minutes on Saturday.
polished off the win.
On Monday, the ’Jackets secured
a playoff berth and home-court advantage for rounds one and two.
The berth marks the
Yellowjackets’ fourth-consecutive
NCAA playoff bid, and UR has
reached the Sweet Sixteen round
each year for the past three
years.
The ’Jackets will kick off the
postseason this weekend, when
they host the first and second
rounds of the playoffs.
The team will face off against
the Widener University Pride in
the second game of the night on
Friday at 8 p.m.
The first game of the night
will showcase a battle between
the Cougers of Kean University
and the Marymount University
Saints.
Friday’s winners will then play
at 7 p.m. on Saturday in the Palestra. The winner of that game will
advance to the third round of the
NCAA postseason.
Belonga is a member of
the class of 2010.
SPORTS
Page 18
Sports Snapshot
Men’s Basketball
• Lost to Carnegie Mellon, 50-59, on Saturday
•Mike Chmielowiec led all scorers with 20 points
•Marcus Roberson had 10 points and eight rebounds
•Final regular-season record: 16-9
• Final UAA standing: No. 4
Women’s Basketball
• Defeated Carnegie Mellon, 103-52, on Saturday
•Johanna McNelis led all scorers with a career-high 22 points
•Alex Porter had a double-double, logging 11 points and 13 steals
•Jodie Luther scored 17 points
•Porter moved into first on UR’s all-time steals list
•Final regular-season record: 22-3
• Final UAA standing: No. 2
• d3hoops.com national poll: No. 6
Softball
CMU’s stifling defense held UAA’s leading point scorer Mike Chmielowiec to 0-7 from behind the arc.
UR falls short of NCAA tourney
BY mAtt Starr
Senior Staff Writer
The Tartans of Carnegie Mellon University were more than
the UR men’s basketball team
could handle this past Saturday,
dealing the Yellowjackets a 59-50
defeat in their final game of the
regular season.
UR was in the NCAA tournament bubble for most of the season, but the team never quite got
over the hump, failing to advance
to postseason play for the first time
in three years.
Last year, the team lost to the
Coast Guard Academy in the
Sweet Sixteen round of the tournament.
Although this season did not
turn out quite as the team had
hoped, the ’Jackets had a successful campaign nonetheless.
UR turned in 16-9 overall record,
including an even 7-7 in one of
the nation’s toughest conferences — the University Athletic
Association.
The Tartans received an AtLarge bid to the tournament this
past Monday. They will be joined
in the tournament by fellow UAA
teams Brandeis University and
Washington University in St.
Louis.
One week removed from their
upset victory on the road against
Wash U — the No. 2 team in the
country — the ’Jackets returned to
the Palestra confident about their
game on Saturday. But CMU was
confident, too, and fighting for a
tournament berth. The Tartans
scored the first seven points of
the game and held UR to just 28
percent shooting from the field.
The Tartans totaled eight blocks
in the game and limited the ’Jackets to 1-16 from behind the arc.
After gaining a small advantage
at 13:20 in the first half, UR trailed
for the remainder of the game.
Senior swingman Mike
Chmielowiec led the ’Jackets in
the scoring department with 20
points.
For CMU, it was a combination
of guards Jack Anderson, Corey
O’Rourke and forward Ryan
Einwag who guided the team to
victory.
UR has been led by senior cocaptains Chmielowiec and point
guard Max Kaplan throughout
the season.
The six-foot Kaplan leaves UR
as one of the most efficient point
guards in school history. Over
the past four years, head coach
Mike Neer’s squad has played 104
games — Kaplan has played in all
of them, starting in 42. In total,
he has run the point for UR for an
astonishing 2,025 minutes.
See SENIORS, Page 17
By Stacy Kravitz
Sports Editor
Rarely do you see a sports team
voluntarily compete out of its
league — but the men’s tennis
team likes the challenge.
Though UR fell to the Colgate
University Raiders — a Division
I team currently in third place in
the Patriot League — on Sunday
at home, the 7-2 loss motivated
the ’Jackets.
“Knowing that Colgate was
a Division I team, we expected
them to be a more talented team
than others we have played,”
sophomore Daniel Barbash said.
“However, our mindset, going
into the match, never changed. We
knew we could be competitive with
[the Raiders], and we made them
work for every point. We made
them earn that victory.”
Barbash and freshman Brian
Schmeer battled through an 8-8 tie
at No. 3 doubles. With their backs
against the wall at double match
point, they fought back, broke the
tiebreaker and won the set.
Sophomore Jeff Zink defeated
his opponent, 6-1, 6-4, at No. 6
singles, and sophomore Bennett
Peterson fell just short of winning No. 2 singles by a score of
6-4, 6-4.
“Given that we were playing a
Division I team, we actually performed very well,” Zink said. “We
hope to take that momentum into
our spring break matches.”
The Yellowjackets — who will
travel to Orlando, Fla. and play
six different teams in three days
— must bring the same mental
and physical endurance to the
courts they have been bringing
in the past three games.
“The team needs to stay focused
on playing aggressively, especially
in doubles,” head coach Matt Nielson said. “We will have to come
prepared for each match because
we will be facing tough competition in Florida.”
UR will compete against five
non-University Athletic Association teams and kick off their
conference play against the
Eagles of Emory University on
Wednesday.
With the recent loss in the back
of each ’Jacket’s mind, the team
will constantly be reminded of its
determination and skill.
“We left the match not just
wondering, but knowing we have
the talent to compete with every
team on our schedule,” Barbash
said. “Playing well against Colgate
really got [us] pumped for the rest
of the season, starting with spring
break.”
Kravitz is a member of
the class of 2012.
Men drop match to D1 school
ELOISE ROGERS • Staff Photographer
Freshman Brian Schmeer is 2-0 at No. 3 doubles so far this season.
• Defeated Capitol University, 3-0, on Friday
•Split a doubleheader with Alma, losing, 0-8, then winning, 2-1, on Saturday
•Defeated Clark, 10-0, on Sunday
•Beth Ameno pitched two two-hitters and led UR to a win over Alma on
Saturday in the second half of the doubleheader, striking out 12 batters
Squash
• Jim Bristow advanced into the quarterfinals of the top division this past
weekend at CSA Individual Nationals
•Beni Fischer won the consolation bracket
Men’s Tennis
• Lost to Colgate, 2-7, on Sunday
• Brian Schmeer and Dan Barbash won at the No. 3 doubles position
•Jeff Zink won at the No. 6 singles position
Women’s Tennis
•Lost to Colgate, 2-7, on Sunday
•Lia Weiner won at the No. 1 singles position
•Mel Beckmann won at the No. 6 singles position
Men’s Track and Field
• Finished fifth out of nine teams at the NYSCTC Championships
at RIT this weekend
•Dan Chebot, Dan Wolfganger, James Vavra, A.J. Lee, Travis Buttaccio,
David Cobb and Jake Gardner each qualified for ECAC
Championships this coming weekend
Women’s Track and Field
• Finished second out of nine teams at the NYSCTC
Championships at RIT this weekend
• UR broke two school records: Jonelle Redhead broke the 20 lb. weight
throw record with an NCAA provisional time of 15.67 meters, and Yaneve
Fonge broke the shot put record with a distance of 12.26 meters
•Prashanti Chodagiri won the 400 meter dash
•Both the 4-by-200 and the 4-by-400 meter relay teams won
•Jacqui Cinella won the 500 meter dash
This Week in Sports
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
•Women’s Lacrosse at Nazareth College, 4 p.m.
•Women’s Basketball vs. Widener College in the first round of
NCAA Tournament, 8 p.m.*
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
• Baseball vs. Skidmore College in St. Petersburg, Fla., noon
•Track at Eastern Collegiate Association Conference Championships hosted
by Tufts University, 2 p.m.
•Softball vs. Moravian College at National Training Center Tournament
in Clermont, Fla., 3:30 p.m.
•Softball vs. SUNY Plattsburgh at NTC Tournament
in Clermont, Fla., 5:30 p.m.
•Women’s basketball in the second round of NCAA Tournament, 7 p.m.*
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
• Women’s Tennis vs. St. Francis College (Indiana) in Orlando, Fla., 8 a.m.
•Softball vs. Emerson College at NTC Tournament in Clermont, Fla., 9 a.m.
•Track at ECAC Championships hosted by Tufts, 10 a.m.
•Baseball vs. Skidmore in St. Petersburg, Fla., 11 a.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 9
• Men’s Tennis vs. Bentley College in Orlando, Fla., 8 a.m.
•Women’s Tennis vs. Bentley College in Orlando, Fla., 8 a.m.
•Men’s Tennis vs. St. Francis in Orlando, Fla., 3 p.m.
•Women’s Tennis vs. Haverford College in Orlando, Fla., 4 p.m.
*indicates home game
Editor’s Pick
•Women’s basketball hosting the NCAA tournament this weekend
The women just logged one of the most successful seasons in UR history.
Not only has this experienced ’Jacket team proven it deserves to be ranked
amongst the nation’s best, but last Saturday, they also proved they can do
something else: score. One hundred three points in one game... are you kidding me? And against a UAA school at that. That’s pretty damn impressive.
SPORTS
View from a St rr By Matt Starr
As winter gradually turns to
spring, sports fans come out of
hibernation and are awash with
anticipation for what lies ahead.
Bracket-mania is just around
the corner, with March Madness
beginning two weeks from today.
The second-ever World Baseball
Classic begins this weekend, and
with Spring Training in full force,
the MLB season is less than a
month away. The NBA and NHL
are in the final quarter of their
season and the playoffs are rapidly
approaching. Golf fans are ecstatic
with — as the cover of last week’s
Sports Illustrated put it — “The
Return of Tiger.”
The NFL season doesn’t begin
for roughly six months and the
draft is still about 50 days away. So
with all that’s going on in sports,
it only makes sense to talk about
football…
The NFL free agency period has
been underway for a week now
and many big-name players have
already found new homes.
With the country in a financial
crisis and serious layoffs affecting
almost every vocation, professional sports teams haphazardly spend
staggering amounts to pay their
players’ exorbitant salaries.
It’s an unbreakable cycle: On
one hand you see the terrible
economic challenges our country faces and how your favorite
sports teams are acting irresponsibly, yet on the other hand, you
still want your team to be the
best — at whatever price that
may cost.
As salaries continue to rise,
someone eventually has to
ask, when will this bubble
burst?
In the very same “winter of
our hardship” that saw “bailout”
become one of the most popular
words in our lexicon, the New
York Yankees spent $423,500,000
on three free agents.
On Feb. 8 in the New York
Post, Kevin Kernan wrote an article titled, “Burnett, Teixeira &
Sabathia Will Prove to be Smart
Money.” Does anybody see any-
athlete of the week
Johanna McNelis
By Erin PHilbrick
Senior Staff Writer
Senior guard Johanna McNelis,
a health & society major from
Mamaroneck,
N.Y., has proven
she’s a tough
defender on
the court. She
frequently can
be heard yelling
and screaming
at her opponents to intimidate
them into making a play or getting
rid of the ball.
This weekend, McNelis’s intensity translated into a career
performance in the senior’s final
regular season game Carnegie
Mellon University. In the team’s
103-52 win over the Tartans, she
scored a game-high 22 points in
just 17 minutes, going 6-6 from
behind the arc.
What was your motivation to
play well on Saturday?
It was senior day, and I was just
really excited to play. I don’t think
I really had a special motivation
to play well. I always go with the
same mentality for every game,
and this game all my shots went
in for some reason.
What’s your favorite thing
about playing basketball?
I guess my favorite thing about
basketball is the team dynamics,
like how one team shares one goal
to do well. It’s nice when you have
a good group of girls that you get
to know and progress with through
the years. Basketball’s great. I
love playing, I love watching and
it’s always great when you’re on
a successful team that’s looking
forward to making some pretty big
statements in the tournament.
What goes through your mind
when you’re defending?
I kind of just pump myself up
sometimes. Like, if she scores on
me once, I’ll get upset about it and
then I’ll work hard not to let it happen again. I think talking is a really
big thing, too — communicating
on the court. I’m always yelling
and screaming about something. I
think that helps me stay in it and
stay alert. When I stop talking and
stop moving is when I get beat. I
definitely like to communicate on
the court.
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baseball players. Yes, they will
certainly help the Yankees try to
reclaim the American League East
crown. But smart money — is this
guy serious?
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello
told Sports Illustrated, “All of us
understand that it will continue
to take collective sacrifice to get
through this challenging economic environment, but these
and other steps by our office
and clubs will enable us to
be more efficient and better positioned for future
growth.”
This was the sentiment
in the NFL, at least until the
free agency period opened last
week. You don’t even need to
leave the nation’s capital to find
its most egregious offense.
Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins spent $100 million
to sign defensive tackle Albert
Haynesworth to a seven-year
contract that guaranteed a recordbreaking $41 million.
And the list does not stop in
Washington.
The Tennessee Titans offered
36-year-old quarterback Kerry
Collins a two-year, $15 million
contract. The Seattle Seahawks
gave T.J. Houshmandzadeh a $40
million offer spread over five years.
The Houston Texans signed de-
fensive end Antonio Smith — who
was next-to unheard of before last
year’s playoff run with Arizona —
to a $35 million deal.
It’s not just the blockbuster
deals that have been outrageous;
take Domonique Foxworth. The
Ravens signed the cornerback
to a four-year, $28 million offer
— that’s $7 million a year for a
guy who has four interceptions
and has defended 38 passes in his
four-year career.
When is enough, enough? Will
fans ever stop supporting their
teams and paying high prices for
tickets to games? The 1985 Bears
were one of the greatest teams in
NFL history and much of that was
due to one of the greatest running
backs in NFL history: Walter
Payton. In 1985, Payton was the
highest paid player on the Bears.
Can you guess his salary? A whopping $685,000. Let’s hope Manny
can survive off of his $45 million
for the next two years.
Starr is a member of
the class of 2009.
BY Stacy KRavitz
Sports Editor
At age 12, it was time for me
to choose between dance and
soccer.
I was too busy to balance both
activities — going directly from
soccer games to acrobatic practices
and changing from my uniform to
my leotard during the seemingly
short car ride were embarrassing
experiences. At dance, I would
spend each practice dodging the
countless glares from the other
girls in my class who couldn’t take
their eyes off of my sweaty shinguard lines and dirty knees. Their
stares only reinforced the decision
that I had recently come to.
Not only did I choose sports, but
I also joined a club soccer team.
The South Coast Scorpions
met on Tuesday and Thursday
for practice at the Bridgewater
State College, and games were on
Sundays all over the south shore of
Massachusetts. The team played
outdoors in the fall and spring, as
well as indoors in the winter.
I became a stronger player by
enduring long-distance runs, mastering uphill sprints and changing
my diet.
I was excited to know that I
could juggle a ball in 30 taps until
I turned to my teammates and saw
them keeping the ball up in the air
with nearly a hundred touches.
But together, we perfected the
various plays that our coach urged
us to use every game — the nonverbal, inner satisfaction produced by
a well-put-together 1-2, overlap or
dummy was a contributing factor to our success on and, more
significantly, off the field.
Of the 18 girls on the team,
only one lived in the same town
that I did — we often took trips
to Dairy Queen after practices and
McDonald’s after games.
She became my friend and role
model. The most important lesson
she taught me involved worrying
less and simply enjoying life.
I’ll never forget the day she stole
my homework and ran around the
BSC library with it. I tirelessly
chased her and only received the
assignment upon agreement that
I’d spend less time working and
more time relaxing.
She continued to tease me about
my miniscule handwriting and
overall dedication to academics,
yet I am a better person today
because of her influence.
The team, though from different backgrounds, bonded through
tragedy and joy. We became close
after one of our teammates’ father
died in a motorcycle accident. Our
friendships also grew during the
anxiously awaited tournaments
— our favorites took place in
Nashua, N.H. on Memorial Day
and Columbus Day weekends.
Perhaps the most memorable
match occurred in the middle of
October, when a teammate who
is now playing Division I soccer
at Northeastern University scored
the winning goal.
After 90 minutes of regulation,
two halves of overtime and two
rounds of penalty kicks in the
pouring rain, she shot the ball
through the diving goalkeeper’s
hands and into the net.
As one of the funniest, most
outgoing and most optimistic
people I know, she deserved the
glory more than anybody else on
our team that day.
We celebrated the victory by going to the mall, swimming in the
hotel’s pool, ordering pizza and
staying up late. It was a middleschooler’s dream come true.
Another dream came true when
I was given the opportunity to get
autographs from members of the
Boston Breakers and Paul Keegen
of the New England Revolution.
I also achieved other goals,
though more subtle and longlasting — I was a more motivated
athlete and laid-back student.
The outcome of hours of practices and games proved that joining
the Scorpions soccer club was one
of the best risks that I ever took.
Kravitz is a member of
the class of 2012.
thing wrong with this?
Yes, Mr. Kernan, we understand
that those are three extraordinary
Josh Hatcher
Staff Illustrator
From the Pressbox
Who would you say is your
celebrity crush?
I really like Johnny Depp, to
be honest, but not Johnny Depp
in conventional things. “Edward
Scissorhands” is my favorite movie
ever — so, creepy Johnny Depp.
What’s one thing about you
that people would be surprised to know?
I really like to sing, and I was
in high school plays and chorus
in high school. I did the musical
every year, and I even had one of
the leads senior year. I’ve been
singing for a long time, and I like
to play a little guitar sometimes,
when I get the chance.
the class of 2009.
Dan wasserman • Publisher
SEnior Day A memorable OCCASION for all
In the Yellowjackets’ last game of the regular season, the team’s five seniors combined for 59 points.
The home game was also the last regular-season contest for grad student Jessica Waddell.
S p o rt s
C a mp u s T i m e s
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Yellowjackets knock out Carnegie Mellon in 102-53 win
By KatIe Belonga
Staff Writer
The UR women’s basketball team could not have
finished its regular season
on a sweeter note than it
did this past Saturday afternoon against the Carnegie
Mellon University Tartans
at home.
The ’Jackets dominated
the Tartans, winning 103-52.
It was the first time since
2000 that UR scored more
than a hundred points in
a game.
With the victory, the
team’s University Athletic
Association record moves
to 11-3. The record reflects
the most wins that UR has
ever tallied in conference
play. It also landed UR in
second place, close behind
Washington University in
St. Louis, in the final UAA
standings.
The team shot 50 percent
from the field, 83.3 percent
from the charity stripe and
39.1 percent from 3-point
land.
UR had four players score
in double figures and had
points from every player on
the team.
The five seniors — guards
Against CMU, UR shot 50 percent from the field and 39.1 percent from behind the arc, putting 103 points on the board.
Johanna McNelis and Rachel game-high and career-high keeping the Tartans from throw line for the night. In
Stern, forwards Alex Porter 22 points.
ever coming close to taking addition to playing solidly,
and Marlena Fisher and
she broke the career steals
McNelis was also respon- the lead.
forward/center Julie Mar- sible for 13 of UR’s first 16
Porter had a strong per- mark during the game.
riot — shined against the points during the game. formance on the court by
Mariott contributed six
Tartans.
Her hot shooting hand gave scoring 11 points and grab- rebounds and eight points
McNelis led the team in UR a 16-2 advantage only bing 13 rebounds for yet to the victory.
points. She went six for about four minutes into the another double-double of
Stern had seven assists —
six from behind the arc game.
she led the team with three
the season.
and ended the game with a
She went 3-3 at the free- steals to help the ’Jackets
UR never looked back,
snag the win.
Junior guard Jessica Mastronardi also entered the
double figures category by
scoring 13 points during
the game.
Freshman center Jodie
Luther pitched into the effort and, like Mastronardi,
was one of the many players
who reached double figures.
She scored 17 points and
grabbed six rebounds.
Over half of UR’s points
came from players off the
bench. The Yellowjackets
had 19 second-chance points,
too.
Not only did the
Yellowjackets explode offensively, but they also capitalized on the defensive end.
They held the Tartans to just
23 second-half points.
Carnegie Mellon only
managed to shoot 35.2
percent from the field and
21.1 percent from behind
the arc.
The Yellowjackets finished
the first half with a 25-point
lead and ended the second
with a 51-point lead.
UR was dominant in
the second half and went
on a nine-point run that
See HOST, Page 17
UR breaks records, qualifies at RIT
By Eloise Rogers
Staff Writer
The track and field teams
traveled to Rochester Institute of Technology this past
weekend to run in the State
Championships, where the
men placed fifth and the
women placed second of
nine teams.
The men began the meet
with two points from the previous weekend’s state champions pentathlon events, and
the women started with 12.
The men’s team produced
seven Eastern College Athletic Conference-qualifying
times.
Senior Dan Chebot qualified in both the 3K and 5K
run, but decided to only run
in the 3K for ECACs.
“It’s my favorite indoor
event, and I want one more
shot at it before I graduate,”
he said.
Other qualifiers were
Senior Dan Chebot qualified for ECACs in the 5K and 3K.
freshmen Jamie Vavra in
the 3K and Dan Wolfanger
in the 800. Wolfanger’s time,
1:56.40, gave him the state
title in that event.
Sophomore A.J. Lee qualified for ECACs in the 500.
The 4-by-400 relay team
of Lee, Wolfanger, senior
Travis Buttaccio and freshman David Cobb made the
cut, too.
In the 55-meter dash,
sophomore Justin Lyttleton
missed the ECAC-qualifying
time by one one-hundreth of
a second. Lyttleton placed
fifth in the 200 meter. Both
were personal records.
“It was a great experience
competing at the state meet,”
Lyttleton said. “I’m sure that
all of us will perform well in
our races, relays and field
events when we depart for
ECACs on Thursday.”
In the field events, junior
Jake Gardner qualified
for ECACs in the weight
throw with a throw of 15.21
meters.
“This is by far the most
well-rounded team I have
been a part of in my four
years here,” Gardner said.
“From the distances to the
throws, jumps and sprints,
we really had somebody going for the top spots in every
event.”
On the women’s side,
junior Prashanti Chodagiri
won the 400-meter dash. She
ran on the 4-by-200 and 4-by400 teams — both champion
relay teams. She was joined
in the relays by freshman
Sarah Hutchinson, sophomore Jacqueline Cinella,
senior Jamie Landry and
freshman Nikita Bourque.
Cinella won the 500-meter
dash with Bourque close
behind her, finishing in second place.
In the field, the women
had three scorers in both the
20-pound weight throw and
the shot put. Senior Jonelle
Redhead was the runnerup in the 20-pound weight
throw — she set a school
record distance of 15.67
meters. Sophomore Yaneve
Fonge finished second in
the shot put with a school
record-breaking throw of
12.26 meters.
UR runners will travel
to Tufts University for the
ECAC Championships this
weekend.
“We are looking for this
momentum to carry through
to ECACs,” Wolfanger said.
“We hope to be able to bring
home a few national berths.
This is our time to shine.”
Rogers is a member of
the class of 2012.
Sophomore Lindsay Macaluso homered against Alma.
Ameno leads UR to
3-1 start in Florida
By Caitlin Hilliard
Staff Writer
The UR softball team
kicked off its opening weekend by taking three of four
games in the National Training Center tournament in
Clermont, Fla.
The big story was senior
pitcher Beth Ameno, who
pitched a two-hitter and
struck out 10 in a 3-0 win
over Capitol University on
Friday. The next day, she
pitched a two-hitter and
fanned 12, walking only one.
Ameno went 3-0 in the three
games she pitched.
UR followed up the win
on Friday with a doubleheader against Alma Col-
lege. The result was a split,
with UR losing the first,
0-8, but scraping by, 2-1, in
the nightcap. The ’Jackets
wrapped up the weekend
with a convincing 10-0 win
over Clark University of
Massachusetts.
Friday’s game was scoreless for the first five innings.
Finally, in the sixth, UR got
on the board. After freshman
outfielder Kim Grimes flew
out, Ameno doubled and
scored freshman outfielder
Katie McLean.
With Ameno on second,
sophomore second baseman
Erin Clark connected with a
single, driving in Ameno to
See SPLIT, Page 17
Men’s Basketball
Squash
On senior day, UR fell to Carnegie Mellon, 50-59.
The Yellowjackets ended their season in fourth place
in the UAA with a record of 16-9. Though the ’Jackets
fell just short of a playoff berth, their hopes for next
season are high.
Eight Yellowjackets competed at the Collegiate Squash
Association Individual Championships in Williamstown, Mass. this past weekend. Jim Bristow, who
made it to the quarterfinals, advanced further than
any other ’Jacket.
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